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Year: 1878

est will turn any blessing in q curs'
Under the financial policy or the Re
publican administrations it equire
about one hundred millions to pay
the yearly interest on the nationa'
debt, SO that it requires nothing
more than the merest calculations TO
see that the people under the Re
publican financial policy pay more
than ta0ice as much per year in thf


way of interest alone than the entir'
debt OF the government under for
mer administrations amounted 10.
and as if the debt of the government
now bearing interest was not enough
already, the ComptrOller of the cur
rency. John Jay Knox. in 1875. re-
commends the conversion Of The en-
tire debt into bonds, and states, "In
order to accomplish this most desir-
able end, it will be necessary to en-
list to its support oH the leading
monetary Institutions Of the country"
II this system Of bonded debt is
sound and just and wise why nigh,
not the Comptroller of the currency
have stated. that to accomplish this
end, it is desirable enlist to it's sup
port the great masses of the taxpay-
ing citizens of the government. L
affirm that the entire legislation of
the Republican party from the act
of March 18th, 1869, has been de-
structive to the best and highest in
terests Of the great masses of the
people aud its record from its own
admissions condemn its system. The
emancipation proclamation of Abra-
ham Lincoln made 100000 slaves
free. and the financial policy OF the
succeeding Republican administra
tions have made slaves Of 40, 100000
of freemen. Slaves to the lordly
bondholders.
Year: 1878

A female infant, bern in a New
York town, has her head set on the
wrong side before-her face where
the back of her head ought to be.
Such girl, when she grows up, will
possess some advantages over the
ordinary woman. When she goes
to church her neck will be saved
many a twist, as she will not be OBJ
liged to turn her head to see who
comes in. But unless she walks
sort q backwards, she will be apt to
collide with lamp-posts, store boxes,
and things.
Year: 1878

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There was a prize for the prettiest
girl at ball in Gold City, Montana.
and the delicate question was to be
decided by committee. The choice
was generally conceded TO lie be-
tween Miss MCGOWAN and Miss
Burt, and, one being blonde and
and the other a brunette, the COM
mittee was unable to judge of their
charms by. comparison. The sus-
pense was trying to the tempers of
the rival beauties, and they fell to
criticising each Others looks. Then
they quarrelled. Next, they fought.
When they were parted. Miss Nc
Gowan's face was scratched az
though she had been thrown into a
bramble bush, and one of Miss Burt's
eyes was swollen and nearly shut
That episode relieved the commit
tee Of embarrassment, for neither OF
the two young women was any long
er pretty, and the prize was award
ed to another.
Year: 1878

4 I. Ora"IorQ contributes the fOll0W.
ing to the forthcoming November
number Of the Ladies' Pearl:


Observation-Disclosures literal
ly means "thirst mania'' and is ap.
piled to drunkenness. It is an in.
tense Unsuitable desire for alcoholic
drinks, and when once contracted, is
the most fol midable of all diseases,
wholly beyond the power of the hu.
man will to overcome. 1t is dis
ease, most usually Of a periodic or
paroxysmal form, periods of remis.
sion, lasting one. two and three
weeks, sometimes from two to six
months; the paroxysms lasting a
corresponding period, eliminating,
most usually, in delirium tremens.
Drunkenness is a disease of the
body-a disease usually of long dur
ation--but Of ali forms of disease
there is none more surely fatal in
the end than this. When fully de-
veloped there is no disease more
difficult to cure. OF all bodily and
mental Affections. know of none
more pitiable than the confirmed
drunkard. He has neither the will
nor the power, the physical or moral
appliances at bis command. In the
eyes of society he is an outcast and
leper. and usually has but little
sympathy. Much more might be
done than is done for this uufor.
tunate class. We must recoliect
that the foundation of his moral de-
prayity is laid in the abnormal con.
dition Of his physical nature, brought
about by alcoholic poison. just as
other cases of insanity are brought
about from functional or organic
LESSONS from other causes. But we
cannot here enter into the best meth
cd of treating this disease, for we
know not what would be best. Like
diseases of any other character, what
would cure one would not cure an
other. So it is with drunkenness.
Each case is problem of itself to
be worked out. Sad as it may seem,
yet it is true. that little hope can be
expected in the advanced stages of
drunkenness. Like many plaques
that infest the land. our hope o: es-
Gaping the evil lies in the preven.
tion Of it.


A thirty years observation and
experience from q medical stand
point, has convinced me that no man
is safe who will allow himself to
tamper with alcoholic drinks, in the
most moderate form, and that no
man can habituate himself to the
use of spirits in the most moderate
quantities, without shortening his
Gays, ana most usually dying a
drunkard.


There can he no such thing as q
temperate use OF spirits. If we would
prevent drunkenness we must "touch
not, taste not" If we would cure
or ameliorate the present state of
drunkenness. we must go down into
the gutter and take fallen brother
by the hand and raise him up, sur
round him with sympathy and love.
physical and moral appliances, and
if he fall raise him again, and again,
seventy and seven times. The
Church and all the moral powers
must throw Gordon Sdnitarie around
the rising generation. Our only
hope for the cure aud prevention Of
drunkenness, is in the religion of
Him who went about doing good.
Year: 1878

A servant girl in one of the sum-
mer cottages recently burned IN Le-
nox, Mass. carefully gathered seven
thousand dollars worth Of jewelry in
her apron and started down stairs
Before getting out she remembered
that her own money was in her room
In the attic. and so threw away the
contents Of her apron aud rushed
back to save one hundred dollars.
Year: 1878

The newest earrings represent q
web made OF fac threads OF gold,
in which a fly in iridescent enamel is
lettering. The historical spider is
not visible, but is left to the imagi
nation. The fly itself is very real
looking; one almost expects to see
him give his wings that rubbing pro-
cess in which flies delight.
Year: 1878

"Forget thee?" wrote a young
man to his girl-"fOrget thee? When
the earth forgets to revolve; when
the stars forget to shine; when the
rain forgets to fall; when the flow.
ers forget to bloom then, and not
till then. will / forget thee" Three
months later he was going to see
another girl With a wart on her nose
and forty thousand dollars In bank.
Year: 1878

- The dispute as to the right of the Western
mon executive committee to vote on its
1000 shares of Atlantic and Pacific stock has
been compromised, and il is understood that
the latter company will maint ain its wide
spread organization, the earnings of the two
companies TO be pooled according TO the con
tract made last wear
Year: 1878

DIR. HENRY I. HELMBOLD, the well known
druggist, was found in the streets in New
nofk actlng very strangely yesterday morn
ing He was taken to the Station hOlse and
subsequently sent to Bellevue hospital where
physicians pronounced his case acute luuacy.
put thought he could be brought out of it in a
Year: 1878

You deserve to suffer, and if you lead
miser able, unsatisfactory life in this
beautiful world it is entirely your own
fault and there is only one excuse for
you,-your unreasonable prejudice and
skepticism, which has killed thousands.
Personal knowledge and common sense
reasoning will soon show you that
Green's August Flower will cure you of
Liver complaint. or Dyspepsia, with all
its miserable effects, such as sick head
ache, palpitation of the heart, sour stom-
ach, habitual costivcness, dizziness ol
the head, nervous prostration, low spirits
&c. Its sales now reach every town on
the Western Continent and not Druggist
but will tell you of its wonderful cures,
You can buy Sample Bottle for 10 cents.
Three doses will relieve you.


Sold by Mills s. Purdv.
Year: 1878

Sioux Falls Pantagraph Aug. z,


This season has done more for southeastern
Dakota, in showing its prominence as a
wheat section, than any previous in its
history. From everywhere about us comes
news Of almost total destruction of crops,
where We are blessed with an average of 6f-
teen bushels to the acre. The damage which
the whole country sustained by calamitous
weather will operate to run up the price of
wheat 80 that the amounts realized by our
farmers upon sales Of their surplus will not
be much short Of what they would have re.
ceived had there been full crops everywhere.
Year: 1878

The railroad riot Of last July that was so
far reaching in its operations, is showing
in big array of figures the result of the
hatred of the capitalists.


Colonel Thomas A. Scott furnishes com
mittee of the Pennsylvania Legislature
with striking reminder of the cost of the
riots in that State. The loss to the property
of his company he puts at 100000, and
when merchandise is included, at S5,OOO,.
600. This was the damage done to single
corporation, and yet this was only fraction
of the whole loss by destruction of property,
and the latter total was small amount
compared with the loss to workingmen in
wages and merchants IN business, all over
the country. When any large number of
workingmen are tempted to enter again
into such a criminal demonstration, they
may reflect that it does not pay to diminish
the wages paying power of the men to
whom they look for support.
Year: 1878

WE give an account on our first page of


the execution of Chambers and Collins at


New Castle on Friday last. The incidents


Of the crime which they expiated by their
lives, are familiar to every one, and need


not be repeated in detail. No execution


has occurred for long time that has called
forth so mu3h remark by the papers in and
out of the State as this. This is especially
the case with the papers of Philadelphia
and other cities. There were some circum-
stances connected with the case calculated
to produce this division of sentiment,
notably, the degraded character of the two
principal witnesses, and the fact that the
man subsequently acknowledged he swore
to false name, and that the woman was
not his wife. The fact Of the commitment
OF the crime as substantially brought out in
the trial, has never been denied by either.
The pressure that was brought upon Gov.
Cochran for respite or pardon, in one case
delegation of seventeen of the most in.
tiuential citizens Of Wilmington, would
have brought about this result with per
haps nine out of every ten Governors of the
nation, but his study and examination of
the case so convinced him of their guilt.
that he could not do otherwise than let the
law take its course, in justice to the safety
OF society and his position as chief magis.
trate, whose duty is to uphold the dignity
OF the law and repress crime.


1t was not material to the case that the
woman should be Smiths wife She was a
stranger to the negroes and there is no eyi.
dence they knew anything against her
character, or that the same thing might not
have happened however virtuous the women
might have been. The plot was deliberately
laid to entrap her, and the evidence was
clear and undisputed that violence had
been used on both the man and woman. as
fully proven at Court. Tire affair took
place on the farm of Gov. Cochran, and he
was conversant with all its details. He was
unrelentlng, not so much to avenge the
particular woman in question, but to make
the consequences of such crimes so terrible
that other women may be saved from be.
coming the victims of like brutal passions.
Year: 1878

THE Treaty Of Peace between Russia and
Turkey has been formally ratified at
last at st. Petersburgh, but rumors of war
between other powers again fill the air
England, in her intense jealousy of Russia
refuses to accept anything as settled, and
seems determined to have the strife pro.
longed; but she must have help or she will
not resort to war. Whether Austria will
come to her aid, or will take the advice of
her neighbors on the North and be quiet,
remains to be seen; but the probabilities
are all against her going to war with Russia
to crafty her remote though disinterested
neighbor, Lord Beaconsfield. Thus far
events have moved on grandly toward the
liberation of the oppressed Christian nations
that were under Turkish rule, and we trust
that the same overruling Providence will
complete the work even to the utter ex-
tinctien of that rule. 1t seems impossible
that it should be reformed.
Year: 1878

The Austrian Delegation referred to the
government petition to take steps by in
ternational understanding for disinfecting
the recent battlefield and arresting the
danger which threatens the health Of Eu.
rope.
Year: 1878

NEW QUARTERS FOR THE STATUARY.-The
Ebbitt House brigade of sidewalk statuary
seems to be much pleased at the prospect of
NillaId'S Hotel being reOpened. The shady
north 'front.' OF the Ebbitt House Is lust the
thing for summer time, but for the winter sea-
son warm southern exposure is needed The
Avenue front OF Wizards leaves nothing to be
desired In that respect, and the brigade is
happy, accordingly.
Year: 1878

IT is great mistake to suppose that a
woman with no heart will be an easy
creditor in the change of affection. There
is not on earth more merciless exacter
of love from others than thoroughly
selfish woman, and the more unlovely
she grows the more jealously and unscru-
pulously she eXacts love to the uttermost
farthiug.-Nrs St0De
Year: 1878

The practicability and usefulness of mar
row gau ge railways continue to secure the in
vestigation of those who are mostly concern.
ed in perfecting the railway system in this
country. As feeder to important through
lines, and an imperative necessity to commu.
mites now isolated from the busy marts Of
commerce, the narrow gauge system com.
mands the utmost respect. Not every com.
munity can expect to be penetrated by great
and important lines of railroad, but net
work of less costly highways, sufficient to
transport the productions of the country with
celerity and economy, is within the reach of
almost every State. The millions of dollars
already expended in the construction of rail-
roads in South Carolina, if it were possible to
begin anew, would be amply sufficient to fur
nish greatly superior facilities to the people
generally, by combining the narrow and
broad gauge system as whole, and building
only such lines as would create harmony of
interests and furnish the most complete facil-
tiles for transportation at the most reasona-
BILE cost. But it is manifestly impracticable
to remodel our present disjointed system OF
RAILWAYS; and we must suffer for all time to
come III Lne lOSS VI Ca plIal luFeoIou, 'n0 noosy
expenditure of labor and energy employed in
its maintenance, and the necessarily increased
cost of freight and passenger transportation,
which comes directly out of the pockets Of
the people.


The errors of the past need not be repeat
ed, however. If projected railroads in this
State can as we'll supply the wants of the
public by the construction Of the narrow
gauge, it does seem to US that the plainest de-
mands of the situation would procure its
adoption hereafter. In order that the subject
may receive attention, we propose to state
few facts connected with the progress of the
narrow gauge system in the United States,
which merits careful inspection. The Chi
cago Railway Age has just prepared list of
railroads operated with the narrow gauge,
which shows the mileage of track already
laid, and will convince the most skeptical
that there has been wonderful progress in a
short time in this direction. The list shows
that narrow gauge railroads are already con-
structcd or being built in thirty-two States
and Territories, aggregating the number of
1872, and with completed mileage of 1882
miles. All of the roads named in the list,
except sixteen, have the feet gauge. This
measure may be accepted as the established
Year: 1878

CHARITY FOR THE FALLEN.-Never say
anything damaging to the good name of Il
woman, it matters not how poor she may be
or what her place in society. They have 8
hard enough time at best, and God he p the
man who would give them kick down bill
We are all too free with their names-we
talk too much about them on our street cor.
ner clubs and in public places, to be heard Of
men. We do very wrong. The least little
hint that there is something wrong, that 'she
amt all right" whether spoken in jest or in
earnest, is taken up, and like the rolling stone
gathers moss as it goes from corner to corner
and at last comes home to the prosecuted
creature with crushing weight. She has done
nothing but kept quiet while her idle persecu.
tors have pursued her, and now she is kicked
from door to door, and is fallen so low that
none will do her reverence. Give dog a
bad name and you had as we'll kill him talk
about good woman in the street corner club
and across bar.room counters, and you had
as we'll set her down as social wreck. No
one wants to help her. We don't want SO
much theoretical. dogmatic religion; we want
kind of blue jeans and homespun piety that
will do for the washtub and kitchen as well
as the drawing-room and the parlor-a sort
of universal honesty that will not think q
woman thief because she should happen tc
wear sunbonnet and walk across the street
with string of mackerel in her hand There
is nothing wrong in manual labor, and honest
poverty is a sure passport to heaven.


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DETERMINING THE EARTH's SZE.-It has
been determined within very few miles, in
what appears to US now very simple man
ner In the first place, every section of the
earth is bounded, approximately, by circle
and mathematiciaus divide all circles into
$50 degrees. Hence, if we can measure &C
curately the 1-360th part of this great circle
and if, when we have got the measure of il
in.o miles, We multiply it by $50, we get the
circumference of the earth, that is to say, the
whole distance around it. Then by dividing
this result by something a little over 3 {;
1,4l6 the ratio of the circumference Of th'
circle to its diameter), We find out how far il
is from one side of the earth to the other
This gives the diameter of the earth.


As result of a long series of observations
| it has been found that degree measures So!
miles; and if you take the trouble to multi
ply So! miles, the average length of degree
by $50 degrees, the number of degrees tina
there are all round the earth, you will fine
that the circumference is something like 25,
600 miles, and, therefore, that the diameter
of the earth is something like 5000 miles
Mark we'll the words. ION the average" Ii
truth, the earth is fattened at the poles, 81
that the length of the degree varies from th'
pole to the equator, and hence the diamete
in the equatorial plane is in excess of thu
diameter from pole to pole. These two diam
eters, expressed in feet, are as follows Equa
torial, Al ,S48, $3.50; solar, 4l,708,710.
Year: 1878

INVENTION BY CoLoRED MISSISSIPPI
AN.-Bep Taylor, a colored man living in
this place, has lately returned from Washing
ton, whittier he has been to secure patent
for new steam engine which he had invent
ed, and which, if the judgment of many ex-
perienced and scientific men to whom he has
shown his model is correct, is calculated to
revolutionize the present application of steam.
The engine is rotary, having the steam appli-
ed at the circumference of wheel, giving
this treble the force of ordinary engines, with
no Distinguishing of power at the various
stages of the revolution of the wheel. This


inventor dispenses with all the machinery
except the one wheel, which answers at once
the purpose of cylinder and driving wheel,
and the two steam boxes through which the
steam is applied. 1t is estimated that en-
gines on this plan can be manufactured at one
fourth or less the cost of those now in use, and
their simplicity, and the possibility of making
them of extremely light weight, will extend
the use of steam engines beyond the present
limit. Ben. Taylor, the inventor, is sort
of mechanical genius, having before manites-
ted an insight into mechanics of no ordinary
degree His invention, if nothing fails-and
the probabilities are in his favor-will rank
him among the first inventors of the day
Rosedale (Miss.) Journal.
Year: 1878

would respectfully announce TO my former
clients that / have transferred all of their
claims for Pension, Bounty, &c. TO Captain
viii hereafter take full charge of my claim
business.


Iearnestly hope that claimants viii promptly
respond TO such demands as will be made upon
them, as the occasion may require, and that
hereaftert they correspond with Captain LEMON,
and furnish such evidence as may be required
TO complete their claims


FRANK l. DARLING
Year: 1878

Mr. Minard Lewis. scenic painter OF rare excel
lence whose brush has been actively employed in the
ornamentation of nearly every principal theatre in
the country. has but recently died ut Chicago of
hemorrhage Of the lungs. He had gone 10 the Gar.
den City but a short while ago for the pur.
pose of doing stock scene painting
for Hamblns Theatre, late the Colos-
scum. Il has been put on legitimate
footing. and in appealing to the public for par IN
age the management wisely thought of securing Mr..
Lewis whose face touch age, for he was over sixty
years old had not weakened, and whose artistic
efforts were but spssnodically inserfered with by
life that had not been spent over iudicousiy n
has been fully ten years since he did anything OF
renown Lately he has been heard Of here and there,
but IL was always with the dark suggestion Of q
broken spirit OF painting for a pittsnce his
dreams Of o glorious past Once the king OF
the swinging paint bridge. he has been known
TO do magnificent work in obscure back rooms lie
was rapid and precise In his execution. Many an
order given him for scene an hour before the
curtain roso and II there ia time. the wet colors
plistcning IN the glare Of the footghts. In appear
ance Mr.. Lewis was Of medium size. lithely built
with delicate hands and feet In his best days he was
very dressy. and TO the last he was inyeteratt
smoker of pipes. His collection of mcerschaums would
make o valuable museum for enthusiast in that
direction. lie smoked cigar Among men he
was suaye and courty: M his home he kind
husband and acctonate father He twice married
being separated from his first wife. and leaves two
children. He passed away peacefully amid the family
of his second wife.


Mr. Lewis the of wealthy builder Of this
city, where he born. lie was educated at a New
Jersey seminary, and, after graduating articlcd
to Of the most prominent lawyers who then orna-
mentel the Bar of New York His legal career. how
ever. was brief one. Like barley and very many
other great American artists his scholastic hours
chiefly spent ~ The execution Of sketches tho
office paper. Finally he made the acquaintance of
Duke White then the foremost scenic artist Of this
country. White took fancy to him aud gave him
the snfjte of the stage on whose decoration he was
then employed. IN short time young Lewis was
his most valuable ASSISTANT The 6rst scenic work