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Year: 1877

A lady well known in the Third ward,
and the wife Of prominent manufcur-
er, has been for three years afflicted
with paralysis which deprived her of
the use Of her limbs. In her helpless
state she bad to BE- taken bodily to and
from her chair. Various doctors were
consulted, experiments with electricity
were made, and nothing was left untried
that would afford relief But all efforts
of the medical men were unsvailing,
visits ceased unless specially urged to
call, and while not wholly abandoning
the case, yet they very broadly intimat-
ed that it was hopeless to expect any
permanent benefit from the physicians
skill. So matters stood when the articles
on blue glass appeared in these columns.
Little attention was at first given the
matter, but as reiterated statements
we're made Of the beneficial effects de-
rived from blue glass sunbaths it was
deemed Of sufficient importance to give
the matter a trial. If no good effects
followed, certainly no injury could result
from so harmless experiment, while the
theory of the efficacy of blue glass could
be satisfactorily tested. Accordingly
the husband Of the sick lady had the
lower sash Of the parlor windows glazed
with blue glass in the manner recon-.
mended by General Pleasonton. The
parlor fronts south on Transit streetand
in the morning the sunlight streams
through the south blue glass window.
The other is a side window looking to
the west, and along in the afternoon the
sunlight pOurs through the blue glass
window, 20 that for several hours of the
day the patient can SIT and receive the
sunlight. The husband had not par
ticle of confidence in the blue glass


.heory. but cheerfully acquiesced in the
experiment, being willing to go to any
expense or inconvenience to have his
wifeis health restored. About ten days
ago the blue glass arrangement was com
pleted. and the next succeeding pleasant
day, when the sun was shining, the
experiment commenced. The lady was
carried to the parlor and left sitting on
her chair, the other members Of the
family withdrawing In the course ofan
hour or two the family were startled by
4 noise in the parior fearing the lady
had fallen from her chair. On entering
the parlor, what wss their sstonishment
10 iind that she had actually risen from
her chair and walked across the floor.
Strength had returned to her limbs, and
she WAS able to move her arms, and i'm
mediateIy incredulity in the efficacy Of
blue glass was banished from that house.
This was the first days experience, but
subsequent experiments only confirmed
the confidence Of the household, and the
husband who At first bad pooh -phooh-
cd" the whole thing, Is now one Of the
tirmest believers, Il has done great
good, and while cure has not been by
any means effected, yet very good re-
suits are looked for.-Pprissnee Press.
Year: 1877

burst into laughter, but they suddenly
assumed very grave faces and bowed
profoundly, for the king himself opened
the door of the adjoining rooin-


The King of Prussia, who had play
ed SO conspicuous, but far from enVia
BILE part, in the tremendous events
that had shaken the Old World for the
Year: 1877

ond Judicial District of the State Of Nevada in and
the county of Ormsby. Roger Grow, plaintiff, j. l.
Clegg and Florence Cegg and A w. Pray defendants
Action brought in the District Court OF the Second Judicial
District of the State of Nevada in and for the county
Ormsby and the complaint filed in said county of OrnSby


in the Office of the Clerk Of said ric CourtThe State
of Nevada sends greeting j. L. Ceg and Florence Clegg
and A W Pray, defendant5 You hereby required
appear in an action brought against you by the above
named plaintiff in the District Court OF the Second Judicial
District of the State Nevada in and for the county
OSby and the complaint filed therein "a copy
OF which accompanies this summOns within ten days Tex
elusive the day of servce after the service you
this summons-f served within this county, if served
of this county, but in this district within twenty days
otherwise within forty daysor Judgment by default will
be taken against you The said action is brought fore
close certain mortgage executed by defendants j. L.
and Florence Cegg to said plaintiff, lot No. ~ in
block No six (6 in Rice Peters addition the city of
Carson in Ormsby county, Nevada which said mortgage
given to the payment of promssory note
made by defendants j. L. and Florence Cegg the 2th
day of May, A D. 1875, TO plaintiff for the of six
hundred dollars and interest thereon at three 9 per
per month"; all in gold coin of the United States. And
plaintiff asks decree of foreclosure of said mortgage and


the morgaged premises be decreed be sold the
proceeds applied to the payment of COSTS attorneys fees
taxes insurance and the principal and interest
said note in gold coin of the United States and if found
insufficient that judgment be docketed against prop
erty of defendants L. and Florence Cegg for any bal
ance found remaining due plaintiff. All of which is more
fully set forth in plaintiffs complaint file in my office
And you are hereby notified that if you fail appear and
answer the said complaint, as above required the said
plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded.


Given under my hand and the seal of the District
Court of the Second Judicial District of the State


LID of Nevada, in and for the county Of Ormsby, this
49, oath day Of August in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy.seven.


au25-law6w ALFRED HELM, Clerk
Year: 1877

The Cossack cavalrymen are all COM
paratively young men and have young
wives. Whenever they set out on a
campaign, they buy a white scarf or
handkerchief to take with them. At the
close of their period of service, they re-
turn to their villages and are met by the
whole population. Now wife who has
been unfaithful to her lord, kneels down
before him in the road, puts her face in
the dust, and places her husbands foot
upon her neck. This is confession Of
guilt, and at the same time prayer for
forgiveness. II the husband then covers
his wife's head with the white scarf, it
means that he forgives her and agrees to
forget her fault. If the white handker-
chief is not produced, the woman returns
straight to her fathers house without
again entering her husbands dwelling,
and divorce is pronounced. A war cor
respondent recounts a tragical story
which q soldier told him on the Danube.
A returning Cossack was informed by q
malicious neighbor before he reached
his home that his wife had been unfaith-
full. His comrades perceived that he had
ttll Vi a. puNIuCu uihCll W NAlihh e'hA NAoSA
patton, although he was not man given
to these vices. When he reached his
village his wife, as he feared, came for
ward, knelt down, and put her face in the
dust at his feet The spectators saw him
look at her as she lay in the dust for a
long time. Two or three times he put his
hand in his breast for the white hand
kerchief as if he were going to cover the
repentant woman's head--two or three
times the movement was restrained.
Finally,as if driven by sudden impulse,
he drew his sword, and with one stroke
severed her headf from her body. Thepun-
ishment for the crime was two months
Imprisonment, while the malicious neigh
Dor who had taken the trouble to inform
him beforehand of his wife's misconduct
was sentenced to Siberia for three
years.
Year: 1877

At Belchertown, Mass, an Amherst
couple, named respectively Fry and
Boil, were married under rather exciting
circumstances. The girls father didn't
want her to marry the man. so the latter
took her to place where her sister was
employed till the wedding could be ar
ranged. The sister, however, was also
opposed to the match, because the same
fellow had previously made love to her,
and so she locked the bride expectant in
her room. After nights incarceration
she jumped from the window and joined
her lover at the hotel. The clerk of
the house drove off furiously for clergy
man, and the Methodist pastor was just
beginning the ceremony when the sister
appeared at the window to forbid the
bans. The certificate was all right,
however, and the minister concluded to
go on, but in his excitement he read
most of the baptismal service, begin
ming: Whereas, all men are born in
SIM" and repeated the names of the
couple he last married. The clerk held
the door SO that the sister couldn't come
in. On the following Sunday the girls
father came to the church door and
called the minister from his Sunday
school class to demand of him why he
married his daughter, at the same time
admitting her legal age. Meanwhile the
groom has lost his place at Amherst, and
left for parts unknown.
Year: 1877

The earl of Dudley is British noble
man who, if he were not British noble
man, would be extremely apt to be ad-
judged a lunatic. His eccentricities are
as incompatible as his income, and Lon
don society never has the least idea what
he will do next. Some years ago he
amused himself by sending out invita-
tions to ball at his mansion in three
colors, pink, white and crimson. AS the
guests arrived they were shown into
different parts of the building, and the
result was that before the evening was
far advanced his lordship was discovered
to have sent white cards to all the women
of the world about whom scandal had
never whispered a word, pink cards to all
those about whom scandal had succeeded
in raising doubts, and crimson cards to all
those about whom scandal had left no.
body room to entertain any doubt at all.
1t may be imagined how popular the earl
was made by the ingenious proceeding.
His latest freak was performed the other
day. He determined to give a ball, and
issued invitations ON st gilt cards. A
few days before the festivity a lady who
had been honored with one of these cards
received letter from him informing her
that he had seen her, somewhere, in
dark apparel, and that she must either
lay aside her mourning or deny herself
the pleasure of attending his ball. The
lady in question enthusiastically accepted
the latter alternative. On the morning
of the ball another lady, who had been
the recipient of one Of the gilt cards, re-
ceived letter to the same effect, writ
ten, not by the earl himself, but by his
private secretary.
Year: 1877

When the French finally reduced
Constantine, one of the Algerine cities,
in 1848, the palace of Hadj Ahmed ex-
cited general admiration, and the women
of his large harem caused unusual
curiosity and compassion, from the tales
spread of his cruelty to them. He
sprang from wealthy family of the
place, and had been khalifa under the
Bey Brahamel- Rabbi, but exciting the
jealousy of that ruler, fled to Algiers
There he won the goodwill of the pasha,
and in 1926 became himself bey of Con
stantine.


His cruelties were the theme of every
tongue. A summer-house used to be
shown in his garden where he was ac-
customed to sit and smoke, while his
harem, all attired in their finest array,
passed one by one before him. They
were required to keep their eyes cast
down, their arms folded across their
breast in modest attitude. One day
one of these women, as she passed
through the garden, plucked an orange.
The Hadi Ahmed ordered her hand to be
nailed up to the tree.


One of his four wives was an italian
girl named Aicha, carried off, when q
child, with her brother. She was a
queenly young woman, and, after the
French occupation, was instructed, and
in time married a French officer. Her
influence had been great with the Hadi
Ahmed, yet when her brother, after ris-
ing to high rank in the army, dis
covered finally that his sister was in the
harem, the Hadi Ahmed put him to
death for daring to ask to see her.


One day some of the women found q
pipe, and, to divert themselves, dressed
one of their number in turban and
robes, and set her up to smoke while
they waited upon her. Hadi Ahmed
burst in upon this childish scene, tore
his mock representative from her seat Of
honor, had her mouth sewed up az 9
punishment for daring to place his pipe
within it, and ordered her to be put tc
death.


From time to time, during his rule
two men would be seen at night, one
bearing to the height overlooking the
valley of the Roumel long box open al
each end, the other a white sack from
which smothered means escaped. Halt
ing at three stones, the box was PLACED
on the middle one, the sack slipped in
one end of the box raised, and the sacB
shot out down aprecipice of six hundred
feet. Some hours later men approached
the sack on the rocky bank of the river
opened it, took out woman's corpse
and conveyed it to the grave.


This monster lived many years aftel
his overthrow, and died an object o
| horror.
Year: 1877

One of the most desperate daylight
attacks on record was made in Scranton,
Pa, few weeks ago, by pair of mask
ed robbers, upon Paymaster Bessell, of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad company, and his assistant,
Captain CARING, while on their way to
pay the employees at the Cayuga and
Brisbin collieries. The murderous af-
fair occurred within a stones throw Of
the Brisbin mine, at short distance
from the main road, between Hyde Park
and Providence, almost in the midst of a
thickly populated settlement, and shortly
after one o'clock in the afternoon. Pay
master j. H. Bessell and Captain W. H.
CARING were driving leisurely along, in
buggy in which they had the money
for the men, amountin G to twelve thou
sand dollars, and on arriving at point
of the road which is crossed by the rail-
way, and guarded 10y a gate ON each side
of the track, they halted for the purpose
of Mr.. CARING getting ont and opening
the gates that they might pass through.
The captain was just in the act of re-
moving the lap-robe from his knees,
when he and his companion were startled
by the sudden appearance of two masked
robbers, who had been crouching by the
roadside in wait for them, and now
sprang up and pointed pistols at their
heads. The men were closely masked
with something that completed ly covered
their faces, so that it was impossible to
get even a glimpse of their features.
They were quite close to the buggy,
being no more than two yards from the
horses head, and their appearance fairly
unnerved the paymaster and his assist
ant for a moment. They made no de-
mand, and it was evident from their de-
termined demeanor that it was their in
tention to murder and rob the men in
charge of the miners pay. In less time
than it takes to tell it, one of them dis
charged his revolver at Captain Carvings
head, which, fortunately, was inclined
backward, owing to the position he had
taken to get out of the buggy. The bull
let glanced along his left cheek, and
plowed its way through the skin of the
temple, leaving a CHASTITY mark, but
fortunately going whistling harmlessly
beyond its intended victim. Such a sud-
den shock, thrilling situation and mar
row escape from instant death, fairly
stunned the captain for the moment,
but summoning up his accustomed cool
ness and courage, he was out Of the
buggy in an instant and he cried to his
companion "Shoot them-shoot them
down I" The horse, frightened by the
report of the assassin's pistol, plunged
forward, making it a difficult matter for
Mr.. Bessell, who was still in the carriage,
to take aim at the assassins, but before
the words were shoken his revolver was
leveled at the highwaymen, at whom he
fired. It was a close struggle. The
murderers were now no further off than
five feet from the buggy in which the
money lay, but it required more than
the heroism of even a highwayman to
approach it under the determined guard
of Paymaster Bessell, who held his
ground firmly and kept firing at the
would-be' e'assassins, who now, seeing they
were foiled, turned and fed in the direc-
ton of Church's Corners.
Year: 1877

Expense of time is the most costly of
all expenses.


AS moth gnaws a garment, SO doth
envy consume man.


To some purpose is that man wise who
is wise at another mans expense.


The hen of our neighbor appears to us
goose, says the Oriental proverb.


The man who can be nothing but seri-
GUS or nothing but merry is but half a
man.


People seldom improve when they
have no other model than themselves to
copy after.


Our natures are like oil, compounds
with everything, yet still we try to swim
upon the top.


A hesitating, tardy, or grim yielding
to the wishes of another, always CRATES
upon loving heart.


The woman who is resolved to be re-
spected can make herself to be so even
amidst an army of soldiers.


Many men profess to hate another, but
no man owns envy as being an enmity fol
no cause but goodness or felicity.


We do not know of how much man is
capable, if he has the will, and to what
point he will rise if he feels free.


There is this of good in real evils-they
deliver us while they last from the petty
despotism of all that were imaginary.


The old saying is expressed with deptl
and significance: "On the pinnacle O
fortune man does not long stand firm"


Who shoots at the midday sun, thougl
he be sure he will never hit his mark, ye
as sure is he that he shall shoot highe
than he who aims at brush
We gain nothing by being with sucl
! as ourselves. We encourage one anothe
, in mediocrity. [ am always longing t
be with men more excellent than myself
, Lamb.


God has made no one absolute. Th
rich depend on the poor, as we'll as th
j poor ON the rich. The world is but
mere magnificent building; all the stone
are gradually cemented together. Thel
Q is no one subsists by himself alone.
Q F'eLthGna.
Year: 1877


At night, within my lonely room,
So shelterless and high,
1 dread the storm winds when they come
And sweep the earth and sky;
They seem to shake the feeble wall,
AS with giants arm,
And oft look to see it fall
In desperate alarm.
But if in all the darkened sky
1 see one cleaning star,
1 smile to hear the rough winds try
My confidence to mar;
Or if the moon, so calmly bright,
Between the clouds appears,
Then, though the storm be at its height,
l bid farewell to fears.
Or if by day the storm winds come
And drive the clouds with might,
If for one instant shines the sun,
1 know that all is right.
If still when these are out of sight
1 see the blue of Heaven,
No terror can my soul alright
OF winds and storm clouds driven.
l know then that the storm / dread
Shall have no power to harm,
And that the darkness overspread
Need give me no alarm.
'Tis so Of other storms that come
My spirit to appall,
No evil shall by them be done
While Heaven is seen through all.
Year: 1877

Mind must be the emancipation of the
farmer. Science, intelligence, machin-
ery-these must iberate the white bond
men of the soil from their long slavery.


When [ look back and see what has been
done for the farmer within my brief
memory, am full of hope for the future.


The pillow, under the hand of science, is
become new instrument. The horse
now hoes the corn, digs the potatoes,


mows the grass, rakes the hay, reaps
the wheat and thrashes and winnows it
and every day adds new machinery to
the farmers stock, to supersede the
clumsy implements which once bound
him to his bard and never ending tell.
When farmer begins to use machinery
and study processes of other men, and
to apply his mind TO farming so far as he
can make it take the place Of muscle,
then he illuminates his calling with new
light, and lifts himself into the dignity
of man. If mind once gets the upper
hand it will serve itself and see that the
body is properly cared for. Intelligent
farming is dignifed living. For farm
er who reads and thinks, and studies and
applies, nature will open the storehouses
Of her secrets, and point the way to life
full of dignity and beauty, and grateful
! and improvable leisure, ~ q. Holland
Year: 1877

A STRAY POEM WHICH POE is SUPPOS-
ED TO HAVE WRITTEN. o.
Kokowa (Ind.) Despatch.
In the house of a gentleman in this
city we saw poem written on the blank
| tiy-leat, of an old book. Noticing the
initials, E. A. p, at the bottom of the
poem, it struck us that possibly we had
| run across bonanza. The owner of the
book said he did not know who the au-
thor of the poem was. His grandfather
| who gave him the book containi the
verses, kept an inn in Chesterfield, near
Richmond, Va. One night young man
who showed plainly the marks of dissipa-
ton, raped at the door, asked if he
could stay all night, and was shown to a
room That was the last they saw of him
When they went to the room the next
morning to call him to breakfast he had
gone, but left the book, on the fly-leaf of
which he had written the verses. The
editor of the Despatch believes that Ed
gar A. Poe was the writer of the poem,
and that it has never previously been
yrinted. 1t is as follows:
Leonainie-angels named her:


And they took the light
OF the laughing stars and framed her


In a smile of white;


And they made her hair of gloomy


Midnight, and here eyes of bloomy


Moonshine, and they brought her to me
In the solemn night.
In solemn night of summer.


When my heart'of gloom
Blossomed up to greet the conner


Like rose in bloom;


All forebodings that distressed me


forget as Joy caressed me


Lying joy that caught and pressed me
In the arms of doomi
Only speak the lite lisper


In the angle-tongue;
Yet l, listening, heard her whisper
"Songs are only sung


Here below that they may grieve you


Tales are told you to deceive you


Somust Leonainie leave you


While her love is young"
Then God smiled and it was morning,
Matchless and supreme;
Heavens glory seemed adoring


Earth with It's est eem,


Every heart but mine seemed gifted


With the voice of prayer, and lifted


Where my Leonainie drifted


From me like dream.
Year: 1877

LOSING OUR MkRCASTME Trade
Undoubtedly Wilmington has been los
ing her mercantile retail trade for the
past five years. Her merchants are no
longer the high spirited class of business
men she formerly possessed. In former
times the wilmington newspapers were
the medium through which our citizens
were made acquainted with the goods
our merchants wanted to sell. But now
We look in vain for any show Of q spir-
tied competition in trade. The merchants
now, instead of q sensible and invitingly
written advertisement, giving price and
asking calls, depend upon big show
window and small amount of putty,
paint and gay paper to attract customers
as if they could thus be able to compete
with the inducements offered in the Wig
ocous and senlsntious advertisements Of
the Philadelphia tradesmen. 1t is thus
that the cash buyers are driven off to oul
great sister city and the credit ones lef\
TO make bills al home. The merchant
who does not advertise is bad tenant
and is very likely TO so into the hands o
the Sheriff and. to destroy suy reputation
store may ma