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Year: 1877

Mary, believed thee true,
And was blest In thus believing
But now mourn that e'er knew
A girl so fair and SO decelving.
Few have ever loved like me-
., i have loved thee too sincerely
And few have e'er deceived like thee,
Alas deceived me too severely.


Fare thee we'll
Fare thee well yet think awhile
On one whose bosom seems to doubt thee
Who now would rather trust that smile,
And die with thee than live without thee.
Fare thee well I'll think of thee,
Thou leav'st me many bitter token;
Fors see, distracting woman, see
My peace is gone, my heart is broken.


Fare thee we'll
Year: 1877

-
of the reduction of pension agents,
says:


"The wholesale adjustment of pen
sion agencies, to save the pitiful sum
of $15OO00 year to the Government,
while largely increasing the probable
expenses of the pensioners, is received
with disfavor in many quarters. The
Cincinnati Gazette sums up the OBJ
jections when it says that, upon the
whole, it is not commendable econo-


my that places burdens upon the
needy pensioners, and exposes them
to the ravages of notaries and sharp
crs who will not hesitate to take ad-
vantage of their necessities and their
ignorance


The general reader is very apt to
fall in at once with what may be
bruited abroad as reform, when, in
fact there is a very small measure of
reform in the change that Las been
made. We believe that there can be
a reduction in the number of pension
agents, which will be a saving to the
government without detriment to the
pensioners. We think, however, that
the reduction is too sweeping. This
leakage is q very small thing in
comparison with others belonging
to the pension agencies. We refer
particularly to one leakage now, and
that is the salary, including fees, that
attach to the pension agents. We
see it noted by the press that the PEN
sion agent at Philadelphia, Pa, re-
ceives $4,000 in the way of compcn-
sation. Wo do not know what the
compensation Of the Chicago agent
has been, but we presume it doubled
or treblcd the salary received by the
postmaster of that city. The fact is,
pension agents receive too much for
the amount Of work they do. The
business is the plainest and simplest
in the world, and there is very little
responsibility connected with it. We
venture to say that there is not the
responsibility attached to the pension
agency at Chicago for a whole year
that there is to the postoffice in that
city for a single week. Cut off the
pcrqnisites to the agents, lessen the
frequency of payment and reduce
about one-half the number of agents,
and let This be done, if possible, as
genuine reform, without so much ado
about it. Some of this reform would,
of course, have to be done by Con-
gress, and there is where the Secreta-
ry of the Interior wants to press his
reform in this branch of the service.
Year: 1877

OMAHA, May 1.-THE continued
rains of the past week have flooded
the country in the neighborhood of
Silver Creek Nebraska. to such an
extent that for about a quarter of q
mile the track of the U. p. Road has
been slightly under water for several
days. Yesterday the fill was so soft
that trains could not pass safely, and
Yesterdays passenger trains, east and
west bound, were laid up each side of
the break. The officers say that trains
will be able to cross this bad place in
a few hours as the water is subsiding.
Year: 1877

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, May IS.-
Judge Dillon of the U. S. Circuit
Court in session at Dcs Moines, deci-
ded to-day that the east half Of the
Union Pacific Bridge at this place is
subject to taxation by our local au-
thorities on the same basis as indi-
vidual property. The position of the
Union Pacific Company was that it
was subject only to pro rata taxation
with the remainder of the line of
their road. The taxes amount to over
1000 annually.
Year: 1877

The Gate City asks why it is-since
we hope for, and think it probable
that six months hence the Louisiana
and South Carolina policy differences
in the Republican party will be sup
planted by new and exciting topics,
upon which there will be no disagree
ment-that we should not, therefore,
favor late convention to help along
such approaching harmony? The
Gate certainly would not want to de-
far the convention SIX months, or
even four months, and we have no
hope of any better agreement among
Republicans within any reasonable
time for the sitting of the convention
than now exists, and it seems to us
that the Gate ought to have observed
this from our article. We very clear
ly stated that at about the time a late
convention would be in session there
would be the most danger Of heated
contest. This part of our article the
Gate does not refer to. But it is not
at all probable that we can see as our
neighbor does as to the final outcome.
lie OF the Gate finally expects peace
ana quietude from the combined civil
and military interference which seat.
ed Hampton and Nichols, and so the
Presidents policy be triumphant


while we expect the President to be
obliged, prompted by the honest pur.
poses which we believe actuates him
to interfere in some manner to nut an
end to the assassinations for political
opinions sake in the South, and the
high-handed political outrages tha,
are being committed against law an


justice by the newly installed White
League Governors. In brief we OK.
peet the President to find it necessary
to re-temper his policy, surchargine
1t with a far different material. 1t il
by this road that we expect harmony
and the making obsolete of the pas,
differences. We trust that the Gatt


can now readily observe through wha1


very differently colored spectacles we
] see the final outcome.
Year: 1877




"Miss Chisolm, who displayed SO
much heroism in the defense of her
father when attacked by the mob in
the Kempcr county, MISS, jail, has
died of the wounds received on that
occasion. The utter heartlcssness and
lack of human feeling shown by these
lawless wretches pursued the young
lady to such extremes that il was i'm
possible for her friends to procure
proper surgical attention, and rem
ders this murder one of the most
fiendish in the annals of crime
She will take her place in history as
a true heroine, and the community
which approved Of the murder, and
deprived the poor wounded girl OF
the medical assistance that would
have saved her life, will never recov-
er from the horrid disgrace of her
cruel death and that Of her younger
brother"


Tomorrow's issue, however, may
be relied on to come out in defense oi
the White League cut throats.
Year: 1877

The citizens of Bushnell, Ills, have
just made the startling discovery
that resident of that place for two
years, and who was always supposed
to be woman from dressing in fe
male apparel, and having a very eff
feminate look, is in reality a man.
Year: 1877

New York, May IA special to
the Times from Guirgevo says great
battle is impending and already
heavy cannonading is in progress.
For several days Russians have been
concentrating large force at this
point, preparatory to forcing the
passage of the Danube. The army is
in fine condition and good spirits.
Opposite to us in Rutschuk the Turks
are in strong force, and that they will
resist our advance is certain and to-
morrow or the day after may wit
ness q
Year: 1877

Justice Gilbert, OF the supreme Court. Kings county,
to whom application was recently made tor the ap-
point nent Of commissioners to assess the compensa
ton Tor land be taken Lafayette avenue, Brook
lyn, for the Queens County Railroad, rendered his
opinion yesterday and granted tho motion. The
Court holds that the motion does involve tho
struction Of tho road his was but single step in
tho proceedings which the corporation must take The
obtaining OF the requisite consent TO the construction
OF the road another and distinct matter II
rot necessary that both should be embraced In tho
samo proceeding.
Year: 1877

~ The Troy CAig seems to be displeased be.
cause telegram was sent FROM this city, stating that
the Washington County Republican Convention had
adopted the resolution offered in the New York Con-
venton by Geo. VIM. Cnrtis. As the fact stated was
legitimate news We cannot see what cause there Is
for growing nbont it. If the editor Of the Chief of
fcrs in The DOnipban County Convention, q resolu-
tion disappearing the of the Administration,
and 1t is adopted should telegraph the fact, just
we did in the Washington County Convention.


We simply thought it must he of intense i'm
portance to the people of the United States
what the Republican County Convention Of
Washington County, Kansas, did, to burden the


telegraph with it, as an item of important news,
that could not wait the movement of the mails.
If the editor of the Chief should be delegate to
the Doniphan County Republican Convention,
(Which he does not expect to be- he should not
offer any resolution relative to the Adminiatra-
ton, for against, unless forced to it. We
have been opposed to all such resolutions in
Conventions, as unavoidably calculated to cause
trouble, inasmuch as there is such . decided
tion. The opponents of the Presidents policy
have not sought to bring their dissatisfaction in
to Republican Conventions. In every instance,
without a single exception, the Administration
question has been thrust into Conventions by
the supporters Of the President. During the
whole Of the past Summer, the President has
permitted his so-called Civil Service policy to
lie used by the enemies of Senator Conkling to
injure that gentleman and his friends and even
then, the New York Convention would have
passed it over mildly, had not the Presidents
friends forced it upon the Convention. The
Champion has heaped . column of denunciation
upon Senator Conkling for bis action in the
Convention, yet it knows perfectly we'll that
George William Curtis, an enemy of Conkling's,
went to the Convention for the express purpose
of raising a row on the question of the Presi
dents policy, and to insult Conkling, by de-
manding an endorsement of the war upon him,
in the house of his friends. Conkling would
have shown a lack Of manhood, had he pursued
different course from what he did. The Cham
pion's tone has undergone remarkable change
on this policy question, within a few weeks
past
Year: 1877

y We understand that Mr.. Hampson says
the Bsllsfia hoisted bis name for Sheriff without
his knowledge or consent. But he should not
object. The editor of the Bxlletia has right to
set up or knock down whomsoever he chooses,
or his interests dictate. No mans wishes should
stand in the way of his being used to accomplish
the personal ends of the editor of the Bulletin
Year: 1877

The London Mayfair has story about the manager of an aquarium. His wife induced him to go to church, where he fell asleep. The minister was reading the first lesson of the day which happened to be the frft chapter of the Book of Eze- kiel. As he proceeded in the description of the wonderful beast which the prophet saw in the land of thu Chaldeans, by the river Chebar, the Aquarium manager nov. ed uneasily in his seat. 'sEvery one had four faces, and every one had four wings" The aquarium manager rubbed his eyes. and the preacher went ons ';'And they had the hands of man under their wings on their four sides, and they four had their faces and their wings" The aquarium manager was now wide awake. ''As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man and the face of a lion on the right side, and they four had the face of an OK on the left side They four also had the face of an eagle" Tho aquarium manager was now standing up, his wife vsinly pulling at his. coat tails. Name your own price. he cried; ''T will take the thing. 1.
Year: 1877

rather better than usual, and the
premiere danseuse-some vigorous,
long limbed foreign person,
whose name | have now for
gotten-after executing a series
of astounding whlrls, bounds, and
pirouettes which brought her down
the stage diagonally to the o. P.
corner, where Brignoli stood, fairly
threw herself into his arms. he
had tc catch her to save her from
falling, and his doing SO was simply
an instructive and quite unpremedi-
tated movement. He seemed as
tonished. Then she, still laying
in his arms, gave a dexterous twist,
posing herself on one big toe, and
pointing the other at the gallery,
while her body rested languishingly
in his embrace. Brignoli turned
red, even to the roots of his hair,
aud looked ten times more awkward
than ever before. For one who
pretended to be a signer only, and
to have contempt for acting as a
mere unimportant accessory, to be


thus used as a ballet-master for the
posture of a fgurante, that
evidently was horrible to him.
Year: 1877

Hyrtl, by far the greatest anato-
mist Of the age, used to say that
he could distinguish in the darkest
room, by one stroke Of the scalpel,
the brain of the inebriate from
that of the person who had lived
soberly. Now and then he would
congratulate his class upon thepos-
session of a drunkard's brain, ad-
mirably fitted from its hardness and
more complete preservation for the
purpose of demonstration. When
the anatomist wished to preserve
the human brain for any time he
effected his object by keeping it in
a vessel of alcohol. From a soft
pulpy substance it then becomes
comparatively hard. But the ine-
briale, anticipating the anatomist,
begins the induratlng process before
death = begins it while the brain
remains the consecrated temple of
the soul, while its delicate and gos-
samer tissues still throb with the
pulses of heaven-born life. Strange
infatuation thus to desecrate the
godlike! Terrible enchantment
that dries up all the humanities
and sweet charities of life, leaving
only a brain of lead and a heart of
stone
Year: 1877

The men are encamped in tents,
making their beds of boughs, while
their extra clothing, a pair of duck
oyeralls, woolen shirt and two pairs
of woolen socks, is kept in an old
grain sack and used as pillow at
night.


Sunday in the woods is always a
day for sharpening axes, mending
sleds, repairing boots and clothes,
setting out a new tenting spot han
dier to the cutting in the woods,
and all the odd chores which would
grow out of the congregation Of so
large a body Of men. All we'll
regulated camps exclude liquor.
Being usually fifty to two hundred
miles from any settlement, and the
men not paid until the end of the
season, there is little inducement
for any speculator to peddle rum
through the woods, or for the men
to straggle off in search of it.
The consumption of axes and
handles is enormous, an axe lasting
month and a handle about three
weeks. The axes are sharpened
daily, some camps having regular
sharpeners,' while others require
each man to keep his own axe in
order. The old axes are never col
lected for the junk-dealer, the dis.
tance to ship them being almost
too great to make it an economical
measure. Woodsmen generally
consider spruce harder on axes
than either birch or pine. The
gum which runs out of a spruce
tree is found hard enough to chip
the edge of the axe when striking
through it.
Year: 1877

japanese people are very super
stitious, and have innumerable
signs and tokens by which to
regulate their conduct and beliefs.
They never sweep the room of a
house Immediately after one of the
inmates has set out upon a journey
this would sweep out all the luck
with him. At a marriage cere-
mony neither bride nor bridegroom
wear any clothing of a purple color,
lest their marriage-tie be soon
loosed, as purple is the color most
liable to fade. They have some
curious ideas in regard to finger
nails, which are cut only at certain
times. When a person loses a tooth,
either arti6cially or at the hands of
a dentist-Japanese tooth-carpen-
ter Or by forceps, or by accident,
in order that another may grow in
the empty socket, the tooth, if from
the upper jaw, is buried under the
foundation of the house; if from
the lower jaw, it is thrown upon
the roof a house. OF hundreds Of
their superstitions, here are a few
If a woman steps over an egg-shell
she will 90 mad J.; if over a razor,
it will become dull ; if over whet.
stone, it will be broken. If a man
should set his hair on fire he will
90 mad. Children are told if they
tell a lie an oni or an imp called
the tengu will pull out Their
tongues. Many a Japanese urehin
has spoken the truth from fear O.
an oni supposed to be standing by
ready to run away with his tongue
No such watchman seems to be sci
before the unruly member of th,
scolding wife. OF these "edgeC
tools that grow sharper by constan
use" there is a goodly number il
Japan. When husband and wifi
are quarreling, a devil is believed tt
be standing between them, encour
aging them to go on from bad t,
worse,
Year: 1877




Three hundred men will cover
and cut a section of about three
miles square taking off over 10000
logs, which would measure about
100000 feet, each season. Work
begins at daylight and ends at dark;
and when the days lengthen or the
moon favors a longer twilight or
earlier morn the men get the bene-
fit in longer working hours. On
the river when the drive is started,
work begins at three O'clock in the
morning and ends at nine in the
evening, the men having five meals;
breakfast at six, lunch at nine, din
ner at twelve, supper at five and tea
at nine. The meals consist of pork
and beans, corn bread, molasses
cake and tea and coffee.


No stint is given to a mans ap-
petite. The fare, such as it is, is
abundant, monotonous, nutritious
and cheap. A cook is provided for
every fifty men. The beans are
generally the large white bush, par
boiled in pots holding half a bushel,
then ten pounds of pork is set in
the middle of the beans in the pot,
a quarter Of pint Of molasses
poured in, and then the pot is set
in a hole surrounded with hot ashes
and burning charcoal, the top oov-
cred with a stone, over which a
heavy wsod fire is built, and here
they stay from fiyo to eight hours,
coming out a most palatable dish.
All the baking is done in rudely-
built stone ovens, which are heated
before the dough is mixed, with a
good wood fire. The loaves of bis
cult or cake are set upon the hot
stones and are cooked quickly and
thoroughly.


A camp Of three hundred men
will consume daily four barrels Of
beans, half a barrel Of pork, one
barrel of -four, half a barrel o
sugar, and five gallons Of molasses
Year: 1877

DR.. Holland says the most precious
possession that ever comes to a man in
this world is a womans heart. 1t would
seem that he had never observed the
tender care with which a man handles a
meerscbaum pipe that is just beginning
to have BILIOUS look around the base Of
the bow! Il Worcester Press.
Year: 1877

People residing in the Northern
States are usually impressed with the
idea that living is extremely dear in
the lower South. This is decidedly n
mistake. One eau make his living ex.
pensive here, il lie desires to do so,
Just as he can in almost any other sec
ton OF the world, but there is no rul-
ing necessity for anything of the kind.
Among the greatest advantages claimed
by ms is our cheap living. A few arti-
cles in the provision line are somewhat
higher than at the North, as -four and
pork, for instance, but even these are
not so high rs most OF our Northern
friends are apt TO suppose. At this
writing dec. y, We can buy in Mobile
a very good article of family -four at
six dollars per barrel, while the most
fancy brands known do not cost us
over eight dollars. Side pork is sell
ing at from nine 10 ten cents per pound,
aud all other articles brought from
distance are rating about in proper
tion.


Very few Of these articles need be
bought, IL we are disposed 10 produce
them ourselves. We can always pro-
duce them with profit, and the reason
why we send North fnr rirm lies in the
fact that there Hrr "iir"r crops peculiar
to our climate that al, c.nsidered more
profitable than tnt'-e


To far more than balance of the ex-
ira amount that We pay for our honr
aud pork We may point you to veg
etable garden the year round, 90 the
ease with which we grow our immense
crops of sweet potatoes, To the mild
ness Of our climate calling for very lit
tie fuel during winter; To our stock
running ont aud finding it's own sup
port at all seasons; and 10 hundreds OF
other advantages enjoyed here bat not
known north OF the Ohio river.


In word the Gnlf coast region is
emphatically the lazy mans country. -
People can live easier here than in any
other section Of the world, perhaps. =
And that's what's the matter with Han
nah. Too many Of the men whose
country this region is have found it,
We don't want any more citizens Of
that class. What we want IL n filling
up with industrious men who have n
desire To become rich. Give ms pop
ulatioL with higher aspirations than 10
live merely for the sake of eating, and
we will soon give 10 the country the
most prosperous section within her
boundaries.


The North has n surplus OF just the
kind ~ people we stand in need Of
economical and industrious farmers
who are looking forward To the day
when they shall be in easy circumstan-
ces. but who cannot get start in the
region where they are located. This is
the place for tbem-a region blessed
with the combined advantages Of both
new country aud an old country.
Year: 1877

An effort Is being made 20 institute
a hospital at Big Rapids, TO be placed
under the charge Of the Sisters Of
Charity, the object Of which is 10 pro-
vide home and place OF treatment for
all who ase injured in the lumber
woods AMI mills. who have no home
and are poor.
Year: 1877

Reports from New York say Jay
Gould has obtained control of the
Michigan Central Railroad, aud some
important changes in the higher off,
cials OF the road will soon be made.
As yet there is nothing but rumor to
that effect.
Year: 1877

There is a fair prospect of an entire
change in the management OF the Indian
Bureau. The secret Investigation Of
the charges made against the present
management has already developed
enough to show that lhe investigation
as warranted.
Year: 1877

New YORK, May IA portion of the
northern roof of the new post Office fell
this afternoon. Several persons are re-
ported ipjured-one or two fatally.


LATER. Two men are known to have
been killed by the fall of the roof of the
post office but the full extent of the loss of
life will not be known until the many tons
of rubbish are removed.
Year: 1877

Liver Disease and Indigestion
prevail to a greater extent than
probably any other malady and
relief is always snxiously
sought after. Is the Liver Is
Regulated IN its action, health
health is almost invariably se-
Year: 1877

of the load, stepped aside, and unknown
to Heiser threw himself beneath the
wagon wheels. His neck and jaw were
crushed, and he died instantly The
man was an entire stranger, and one or
two loose buttons were all that was in
his poCketa
Year: 1877

BY French law, architects and con
tractors are held responsible for period
of ten years after the completion OF
structures for the total or partial loss OF
buildings constructed by them, If such
loss is caused by fault either in the
building or foundations. What a heavy
sum they would have had TO pay in this
country in the past ten years had we this
excellent laW
Year: 1877

A story told by a gentleman from
Ashtabula, who was on the ground a
halt hour after the disaster, will be of
interest. A gentleman named Swift,
from North Adams, Mass., was seen
coolly walking out Of the ruins some
time after the accident. He wore silk
hat that looked as though it had just
come out of a bandbox, carried his
oyercoat slung over his arm, and had
his traveling-bag in his hand. He had
been knocked senseless by the tall, and
after lying short time revived, picked
up his baggage, found his hat and put it
on, and started for solid earth, after as
suring himself that his wife and child
had been taken from the wreck. He
found them all right, and as they had
given him up for dead the JOY of the re.
union can he imagined.-Bufalo Cour


fkfs r frti.tf.
Year: 1877

There have been half dozen responses
to our call for wicked boy and the best
of the joke is in the fact that all remind
US that the school superintendent says
the wicked boys always make the best
men, but henry Whitney, very ex-
cellent boy has been taken on trial.