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Year: 1879

Yesterday, owing to the heavy storm,
the "John Sylvester" was unable te
land her passengers to Lewes, and
on the boat were several parties from
this city. There was party on board
who tried to persuade Captain Post to
continue on the trip, but he told them
that by doing so the boat would be lost


and the passengers also, SO like any
a sensible man he brought the two
hundred and more passengers back to
Chester, and returned each one their
fare. Several parties who were going
to Rehoboth came to this city last night
and started tor Rehoboth this morning.
Year: 1879

The men employed in removing the
old basins at Tenth and Market streets
were sitting about the gate this morn.
ing as though waiting for something tn
turn up. 1t is reported that there is a
doubt as to the contractors being able
to come to time. We await further de-
velOpments.
Year: 1879

We have been shown by J. M. Solo,
mon piece of silver coin bearing the
Japanese marks, and on one side the
date is quite plain 1907. 1t is about
the size of an old levy and is quite
plain.
Year: 1879

Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, the author
ess and anti-slavery agitator, is now
seventy y-seven years old, and lives at
her old home in Wayland, Mass. In
the course ofa recent conversation with
writer in the Boston "Herald" she
spoke of Garrison as a firm believer in
Spiritualism, and added: "Whittier
admits that there is something very
mysterious and unexplained in it. He
told me that there was an old Quaker
whom he saw when he was a lad, who
was renowned for his prophesies. lie
very often spoke under the influence
of the spirit. Whittier sent me copy
of a prophesy made by the old man in
1903. 1t began by foretelling a great
split in the church, which would com
mence with the Presbyterians, and it
would include the Friends.


We hav seen the Presbyterians di-
vided and the Hicksite trouble among
the Quakers. Then the old prophet
said he saw great trouble about the
slavery question, which would end in a
war and emancipation. He foresaw
finally a grand gathering of the church
es into an established church, and ruled
by it. And he saw the Society of
Friends paying tribute to the church.
And he saw, also, military despotism
of the country, though this would only
be for while. Now, this was a re
narkable prophecy, and all but the
last two statements have heen fulfill
ed,p
Year: 1879

From Nature.


have lately seen it stated in a text


book upon electricity and magnetism that
the phenomenon of thunder is not fully
accounted for by any theory as yet brought
forward. Whether this be 20 or not an


not sufficiently acquainted with the sub
Ject to say. believe that the com monty
accepted theory is that vacuum is created
In the path of the electric spark, and that
the subsequent in rush of the air produce
the detonation. II, however, it be allow
ed that the electric spark is not material
substance, but merely natural force or
mode OF motion, the possibility of this
theory is at once disposed Of. Il is well
known TACT that the passage of electricity
10 high state Of tension, through a mix
ture of oxygen and hydrogen, not only
causes an explosion, but also causes the
formation OF water, and it seems to me
that, given the existence Of free oxygen
and hydrogen in the region OF the electric
disturbance, the phenomenon Of thunder
is sufficiently accounted for. Whether
the normal amount of hydrogen in the
al ID sumCleuC 10 cause Lle StupenQOGd
noise of thunder l am not competent 70
Judge, but if not, l would suggest that the
presence of an abnormal amount might b..
accounted for by the process Of the elec-
trolysis, which would probably occur be-
tween the two poles If the thunder>cloud
before the tension became so great as to
cause a rupture Of the circuit and subse-
quent discharge of the electric spark. l
would also draw your attentian.t9 lbs fact
-that every thunder clap il Immediately
followed by an increase in the quantity of
water deposited in the shape of rain
Does not this point to The formation of
water by the explosion'of the gases ? AS
] myself am unable, both from want of
means and time, to investigate the matter
| should be glad to find that some one beta
ter qualified had taken the subject in hand
1t is frequent experiment Of DR.. Tyn-
dail's to show his audience red clouds, |
feel convinced that by following this line
Of inquiry he could give us real thunder
storm.
Year: 1879

INTERESTING RIVER OPERATION.-l lCleVe-
land Leader, July 23d. IA bout two years
AGO The watcr-pipe crossing the river at
Timer Central Way bridge was found to be
leaking vely badly at some point near the
centre Of theriyer. In crossing the stream
il is about eighteen feet below the surface
of the water, and is imbcddcd i'll the sand
about six feet. To stop the waste Of water
the valves on each side OF the river were
Shut off. Last week George H. Brcymann,
the submarine diver, was sent to make an
examination OF the pipe. with view 10
having it repaired without moving 1t, II


possible. To discover the location OF the
leak one Of the valves was opened for
| few moments, when the clear lake
water soon appeared through the river
water. A large ting was then fastened with
lis wheel directly over the leak, and the
wheel started at full speed. In fifteen min
utes a hole was eycavarcd down to the pipe,
and before the sand had filled in again an
impression OF the hole and the surface OF
the laps and rivets near it was taken in
putty. From this putty-impression mould
OF plaster Of Paris was made, in which was
cast 4 lead plate Of the exact form Of the
original putty ty-impression. The hole in the
pipe was found to be about ( by D inches,
and irregular in its margin. a strong bolt,
with plates, washers, and cross.bar, similar
TO the hand hole plate for boilers, was then
made and put in place by Captain Brey.
| mann, the lead plate being between the pipe
and the iron plate. After the whole was
nut together and the lead thoroughly corked
| the water was turned on and the leak found
to be ehectualIy stopped.
Year: 1879

INJURED BY \ RAILROAD TRAlN.-A negro
man who was too near the track was badly
injured by The south-hound train on the
Fredericksburg road last night short dis
tance from The city. The train was stopped
and tue man brought to FichElOn.-
Year: 1879

BRIEFS AND PERSONALS The knights
Templar and large number Of their friends
will this morning leave the city to so into
encampment at Old Point.


4 large number Of colored excnrsionists
from Norfolk were in the city yesterday.


All or nearly all OF the saloon-keepers
closed their places of business on Sunday;
but the clubs were not so unanimous; !;
whereat there is great complaint and dis
satisfaction with the inequality OF the law.
Year: 1879

Ready money makes man sort OF
king, and debt is a kind OF slavery. We
are informed, and believe it to be true.
that quite proportion of respectable
working men and business employees.
who SIMPLY receive tolerable wages,
keep continually more or less IN arrears
with their meat and grocery bills, and
often with their landlords. The class
we have in mind do this with no sinister
purpose. In the course OF a year they
pay for as much as they have received.
1t IS this fact which renders it so foolish
for them to accept credit, because it
proves that there is no necessity that they
should do so. A little management and
some extra economy Tor few DAYS or
weeks, in some cases months, would en-
able them to start even with the stores,
meatshops. landlords, and to pay cash
tor all they buy. He who accepts credit
| with honest purpose, no matter how just
merchant. will inevitably pay extra
when the account is squared. He may
find that his coffee is adulterated, the
sugar little suspicious, his pepper is
mixed with red lead He has ground:
for dissatisfaction. but doesn't go back
on the man who has accommodated
him until he has settled the bill, wher
he opens an account at another store
with similar experience. The mar
who pays cash will get better goods fo
the same money than the man who take
credit. He feels bound to no shop, bu
buys where he pleases. The profits o
cash over credit. if laid by, will, in


few years. be the foundation of re
spectacle fortune.
Year: 1879

A father never thinks his ten-year-
old son is stronger than horse until he
EMPLOYS him to turn the grindstone to
sharpen an old AK that is about as sharp
at one end as at the other. The old
man bears on until the lads eyes hang
out and his trousers buckle flies of and
lust before he bursts blood vessel, his
father encourages him with the remark.
Observation-Disclosures ?' Thousands
of bows have run away from home and
become pirates and greeDbackers IN or
der to escape a second Siege at the


prindStOne.
Year: 1879

There is a 12-yearold youngster on b
street, who never fails in answering any
question put to him. His father tried to
stump him with this problem:


.Mv son. suppose you had kitchen
in the northwest corner of your house,
and a stable IN the southwest corner OF
your yard, so that when the wind blew
from the northwest there was strong
smell OF corned beet and cabbage in the
house and when the wind came from the
southeast there was strong horse odor
about the premises, how would you acl
to prevent the corned-beef odor from
permeating the kitchen and the horses
odor from pertuming the stable"


Why" replied the lad, I'D keep my
horses in the kitchen and cook my corn
ed beef in the stable"
Year: 1879

San Buenaventura has had four days
of bull-ighting. On the second day a
drunken Mexican got into the corral on
foot. and challenged bull. which knock
ed him down and trampled him under
foot. There was great excitement tor
a few minutes. The horsemen rushed
on the bull and drew his attention to the
other side of the corral. when the man,
whom it was thought had been killed,
was removed. He was pretty badly cut
about the head, but was cared for. In
twenty minutes after he had been drag
ged out he was back again, but sober
enough to keep the fence between him


self and the bull. On the third day ;
straw man was tied on the BULBS bacl
and bunch of fire-crackers to his tail
The sport wore out. however, as it was
assuming too much of the circus style
Year: 1879

To the little boys who say the following
two lines for a speech at school we COM
mend the four which succeed them:


Look up there and see that nv,


Look down there and see him die2


s.sce that dog as he trots alone,
Along the busy street;
Before another week is gone
He may be sausage meat
Year: 1879

The Sunday School Times says ::
Many explanations have been attempt
ed of the well-known fact that those
who attend social religious gatherings
are prone to fill up the back seats in the
room, leaving the front ones empty.
Modesty has been suggested as possl-
BILE reason for this, but that idea lost
it's force when it was shown that the
very persons who were so backward at
the devotional services or the general
exercises of a Sunday school convention
or institute would push to the front for
places at the lunch table, or for good
seats in the railroad train, at the close
of the session. And now the Hartford
Courant claims that the real reason is a
desire to observe the back hair of the
ladies in front. How about the mems
back hair n 1t is questionable whether
| the promulgatiOn of this new theory
will encourage ladies who have not ar
ranged their back hair for exhibition to
move to the front in a prayer or con-
ference meeting. But the fact remains
that in no other place is there such an
unwillingness to take front seats as il
gatherings for social worship; and thai
nowhere else could such service to {
good cause be performed by so simple
a means as just there. Whatever elst
you are unable to do to make prayer
meeting a success, you might take {
front seat, and so help along the meet


ing wonderfully.
Year: 1879

l urge you the duty of self-denial for
the sake of others. If you are fond of
drink, abandon it before it be too late
for your own sake if you are not fond
of it, it will cost you nothing to give it
up. We are all face to face with hid
oooe, aoSrauIng,a Il COLOSSAL evil. The
legislature either cannot or will not
help us. Warning, preaching, moral
influence, even extended education,
fails to help us; increased wages, di-
minished hours of work, only deepen
our peril and our loss. There is one
way, and one way only; but that is a
certain and an easy way by which not
merely to check, but even to annihilate,
the cause. 1t is that every one of us
should cease to contribute to this mon
ster evil the penny of a contribution ol
the shadow of an example. The use Of
that deadly, peculiar, and wholly un-
necessary substance is so far insepera-
BILE from the abuse, that where sthe in
dividual use is, there the nationa
abuse will be. Unrestricted LIQUOR
traffic will, to the end of time, mean fol
myriads intense temptation; tempta
tion means drunkenness drunkenness,
means degradation, horror, ruin, crime
You are Christian. Will you give III
a needless luxury to help in saving
others from blasting curse You ar,
patriot. Will you give up poo
tickling of the palate, an unwholesom
tingling of the brain, to rescue your ma
ton from blighting degradation /
you do not help, at least be ashamed t.
hinder. Call not those fanatics VIII
would clear their conscience from ever
faint of so dangerous leaven. Do no
gild self-indulgence with the Ophi
gold of Holy Scripture, or hide the fore
head of a luxury under the phylacter
of scribe.


Not long ago there was in a certai
colliery an explosion by which for
hundred miners were suddenly hurle
amid shattered ruins into horribl
death. 1t was caused by single min;
twho had opened his safety lamp to ligl
Year: 1879

his pipe. To that pipe of tobacco were
sacrificed four hundred precious lives
of fathers, of husbands, and of sons
and, alas on the bodies of not few of
those perished in that fiery blast were
found duplicate keys by which, hitherto
with impunity, they had done the same.
Alas my brethren, England and Scot
land are such mine; they are full of
the explosive fre-damp of intemper-
ance. In all societies it hangs dense
around lis in the perilous and pestilen-
tial air. Do not say that there is none
of this flaming peril around you; that
you may open your safety-lamp and no
harm come of it. 1t may be so it may
not be so. You could not, you would
not, do it if you were sure that there
was danger for that-as you see at
once-would be deadly selfishness and
an atrocious crime. But you cannot be
sure that there is not danger. Is the
gain worth the risk ? Is the transient
and animal indulgence worth the per-
manent and eternal peril ? No harm
may come to you but if harm comes
to others who are reassured by your
example, you, even you, will have
helped to perpetuate frightful curse,
whose effects, in shattering blast after
shattering blast, shall be tapped in
echoes of ruin and of misery, too late
for penitence, amid generations yet un-
born. The fatal and the fatally COM
mon key of that safety lamp is what is
called moderate drinking" If in this
particular struggle you would be patri-
OTIS, if in this matter you would show
your true love for your brother men,
fling it away. Like the Nazarites of
old, like the children of Jonadab the
son of Rechab, drink neither wine nor
strong drink, so long as by it you make
weak or cause to stumble, or tempt into
ruin and misery, the soul-the priceless
soul-of brother the soul of your


brother for whom Christ died.
Year: 1879

OF grateful recognition. Some of the
passages will readily recur to the read
er:


When thou passest through the waters I will be
with theei and through the rivers they shall not
overnow thee. Is. xGii:2


Iner soul is melted because of trouble. Then they
cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth
them out of their distresses Ps. evil: 1928.


At length God lifted his frown from
the sea and visited us with his smile.
HE maketh the storm a calm. So that
the waves thereof are STILL" On the
Sabbath that followed, praise and graf
ltude to God rose in the worship like
incense. There were no dry eyes or
indifferent hearts. Many who had been
the most reckless in their excesses and
profanity, said: "Our prayers and our
trust in Christ, commenced in storm,
shall never cease in calm.n


The experience was of great value.
know now how it will seem to die. 1t
is going home in the light and peace OF
Christ. know the keeping power OF
our Lord in the hour of mortal terror
and fear. l know the might of His arm
to uplift and cheer the soul in its ex-
tIemities. | know the wondrous sweet
pess of His grace and love when human
strength fails. 1 know that the neal
approaches to Him are like sunrise te
the soul, and that the entrance ways
to His presence chamber, through one
of which glanced, are filed with the
brightness of the Kings countenanct
and the gleam of angelic hosts. Whel
the gates of light swing before us, ant
we enter into the joy of our Lord,
will be moment of supreme inspira
ton and gladness. Since that da!
when God hid me in his pavilion ant
taught me, have been, trust, a bet
ter guide to souls in need, in the hous'
of prayer, and in the chambers of pail
and suffering. asked for the redemp
tion of hundred souls that year.


record it to the praise of God that Fl
gave that number and more.


There is a cleft in the rock for refug
from the frenzy of the storm, and hid
den mamma for the soul. We can sa,
with Christ, 81 have meat to eat tha
ye know not CongregatiOnalist.
Year: 1879

Last evening the reporter for the
Advertiser made one Of party who
meet emi-occasionally in the office of
one of our legal lights. Story telling
was the order of the evening, and some
tough yarns had been narrated when IL
solemn faced individual from one of the
back towns of the state, who had been
an attentive listener, was urged to take
his turn and interest the company by
relating some noticeable incident in his
experience.


"Gentlemen," said he, 81 Don't know
as l can entertain you, am plain old
farmer, unused to the ways of the
world, and am in the habit, which in
all honesty can say that fear that
some of you are not, of confning my
self strictly to the truth, and have no
gift of enlargement so to speak, but
gentlemen, there did rather uncom-
thing happen at my place last summer,
that L don't mind telling in my plain
way, though 1 wish some of you knew
the story, so as to tell it, as it ought to
be told. l own an old ram that has got
the hardest kind of head, and is
mighty fond of butting. When bought
him my pasture was full of rocks, that
I'd been thinking of digging out, but
may l not be chosen deacon OF our
church this fall, if that ram didn't in six
weeks butt every rock out of the ground
except one, and he shook that SO that il
came up easy. Well, thunder shower
came on one night, and it rained pref
ty fast. l set in my back door looking
over to neighbOr Smiths place,-he'l
an awful sinner, is Smith, and ther,
isn't any reliance to be put in what h,
says,-and was thinking how the rain
fell alike on the fields of the Just, ant
the unjust, on mine and Smiths abou
the same, when l looked up and saw :
flash of lightning running along prett,
near the ground, and making right fo
the ram, who saw it about the time


did. l expected the critter'd dodge, bu
he didn't, he put down his head, an,
went for it. They met, and couldp'
see either for moment, the dirt fiey
so, but by and by saw the flash turn
and go in three distinct streamers, for
ledge over in Smiths field, and the wa
Year: 1879

An anxious correspondent writes to
inquire (which is the butt end of a
goat 2" In view of the disastrous expe-
rience of debating societies throughout
the land we shall decline to answer, as
a discussion on the subject can butt end
to produce discOrd.-BOStOn Post.
Year: 1879

First. Know that person recently
drowned is not dead, and will not be
for long time. If not lively he is yet
lifeful. Be not then alarmed nor unduly
excited, but let faith hope and chari-
ty" inspire confidence and a cool judg-
ment to aid, with deliberate haste in
taking the drowned person out of the
water and in restoring him.


Secondly. When he is taken out of
the water, turn his face down for a mo-
ment only, to allow any water in his
nose or throat to run out; then place
him, out of currents of air, upon his
back, with his head very slightly raised.
Do not roll him upon barrel, nor do
anything else to "get the water out of
his lungs" since there is none in them ;
nor out of his stomach, since what he
has swallowed will not do any harm.


Thirdly. Quickly determine whether
he must be carried to where heat is, OF
if it can better be brought to or pro-
duced near him. If the former, take him
gently, quickly and as nearly as possi-
bic in the above said posture, to the
place.


Fourthly. If there must be delay in
applying heat, and dry protectives can
be had, take off his wet clothes and
wrap the dry articles about him to pre-
vent loss of heat, covering the head
particularly. The warm underclothing
of bystanders can be contributed. Sew
eral thicknesses of almost anything at
tainable is better than one.


Filthy. AS soon as heat is at hand
apply it as ingenuity and circumstances
suggest to be most likely to quickly and
thoroughly warm the body. When that
is accomplished theory and fact agree
in assuring us that, if life yet exists,
the heart will begin to beat, happily
soon followed by breathing, both feebly
and unfrequently at first, but more
strongly and faster until they become
natural, when conciousness will return
If the heart gives one beat, or the lungs
one gasp, no more need be done; keeI
the person warm, and he will soon bt
'all right"


Sixthly. Suffocation in any othel
manner should be treated in the samf
way, except that in choking and il
strangling the substances causing thest
conditions should be first removed anC
in case of breathing poisonous gas, o
smoke, artificial respiration should frs
be tried until the gas or smoke has beel
changed for good air in the lungs.
Year: 1879

The undersigned this thanks
the people of Yankton particularly and his many
friends throughout Dakota Nebraska
patronage which has been bestowed upon the late firm
DUDLEY & RAWLEY through the many years in which
that firm has carried business in this city, and he
desires to call the attention of these friends and
the people generally to the enlarged facilities
stve assortment commodous rooms which
firm had provided and which the Dudley
& Hawley, possesses.


In the line trade in the manufacture
of Tin Copper and Sheet Iron Ware
tablshment equal in all anything
tent


In the future, by application business he hopes
to the Hardware trade of the naturally trb
utar TO to this point centered here and shall
make 1t for the interest OF the people within this
chase their Hardware nware Copper Sheet ware
Stoves, and all other articles this line from


Yours gratefully and respectfully


GEO. e. HAWLEY


Union Block, Third st.
Year: 1879

Tho penalty of popularity is
envy.


The penalty of thin shoes is a
cold.


The penalty ola tight boot is
corns.


Tho penalty ola baby is sleep
less nights.


The penalty Of marrying is a
mother-in-lw.


Tho penalty of a pretty cook is
IN empty larder.


The penalty Of Il godfather is a
silver knife, fork and spoon.


The penalty Of interfering
between man and wife is abuse,
frequently accompanied with blows
from both.


The penalty of buying poor
clothes is like going to law-the
certainty of loosing your suit and
having 10 pay for it.


Tho penalty Of remaining single
is having no one who cares II but
ton for you, as is abundantly
proved by the state of your shirts.


The penalty of a legacy is tho
sudden discovery of 4 host Of
poor relations YOU never dreainctl
of, and number Of debts you had
quito forgotten. 81,


The penalty of lending is--with
u book or umbrella, the certain
loss oft; with your name to q
bill, the sure payment of it; and
with n horse, the lamest chance Of
ever seeing it back again sound.