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Year: 1879

COLONEL JOHN d. WAsHBURNE, Of
Worcester, Mass, was evidently not
cut out for a public man. Some news
paper criticism on his connections with
the Worcester Insane Asylum so
preyed upon his mind that it worried
him sick, and at last affected his rea-
Year: 1879

SENATOR CoNKLINa develops his
muscles by dumbbell exercise, and
looks after his health as carefully as a
prize fighter in training. An anxious
country will be glad to hear that the
gentleman from New York takes such
good care of his valuable health.
Year: 1879

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6.-By parties
who profess to be on the inside of the
movement,i in this city,it is asserted that a
very large proportion of the population
of Mexico is dissatisfied with the govern
ment of Diaz; that this dissatisfaction
has taken the shape of an organized re-
volutionary government, which included
many of the most distinguished Mexican
soldiers and politicians, and that the out
break which will include several of the
most important Mexican States is immi-
nent. An agent of the government of
restoration of the republic of Mexico" of
which Gen. Angel Maria Corrills De
Abornoz is president is in this city en-
deavoring to negotiate for material aid to
further their schemes for the overthrow
of Diaz, president of Mexico. The agent
invites capitalists who are now consider
ing the scheme to supply the revolution
ary government with certain arms and
military supplies in return for which they
are to be granted the first authority to
organize the national bank of Mexico,
notes of which are to be legal tender for
all debts, public and private, and to be
receivable in payment for public lands at
the rate of dollar per acre. All the
public lands of Mexico to be set apart
for this purpose.


Second-Franchise for the railroads
and telegraphs throughout Mexico, and
subsidies on bonds and national bank
notes sufficient for construction.


Third-The abolition of all duties on
importation of goods from the United
States into Mexico by land. Rights of
immigrants are guaranteed. Taxation
and service in the Mexican army for
stated period is to be remitted and reli-
gious liberation assured. There seems to
be no doubt that very ambitious men in
Mexico are concerned m the movement
and some of the heaviest capitalists of
the Pacific coast are reported to be exam
lining it, with view to engaging in the en-
terprise if it promises success. By private
letter from a gentleman in Boston it is
learned that soAne scheme has been sub
mitted to the capitalists who own the At
Gibson, Topeka and Santa Fe r. r.
These gentlemen have already sent an
agent to Mexico to endeavor to obtain
from Diaz some franchises, so far as their
company is concerned and failing in that
it is said, promised to give to the scheme
their earnest attention.
Year: 1879

Give boy a market basket Of gro
ceries to carry home and he will
swing it across his spine, bend half
"ay to the ground and groan with
agony, bat give him that weight Of
baseball bats and he will skip along
as merry as potato bug in d ten acre
lot.
Year: 1879

A woman quarreling with her hns.
band, told him she believed that If
she should die he would marry the
devils daughter.


The tender husband replied


The law does not allow man to
marry two sisters.
Year: 1879

DO you mean to say positively,
madam, said a lawyer to a witness,
that the person referred to never lcit
his native village a fter the day of his
marriage ? ! do. How do you
know he never did, Because | saw
him buried in the village graveyard
the same afteruoon.
Year: 1879

AsrTIIy s.ng the erisLss 'Ss'h OHs fair oesOes'
and the stars looked down and the Northern


crown gave its fantastic light.
A nipping frost was in the air, on flowers and


grass IL fell,
And she leaves were still on the Eastern bin as


htOuched By fairy spell.
To the very top Of fhe taIl nut tree the frost


king seemed 10 ride,
With his wand be stirs the chestnut burs aad


aznai9ht tbey open wlan. ii
And squirrels and chiIdren together dream ofthe


coming Winters hoard,
And many ] ween are the ehestnnts seen i'm hole


o. in garret stored.
The children are sleeping In feather beds, poor


bun in his NOISY pest;
He courts repose with his tail on his nose-on


the others warm blankets rest.
Late in the morning the sun gets up from behind


the village spife,
And the children dream that the frost red CLEAN


is the chestnut trees on FIRE.
The squirrel had on when Grst he awoke all the


clothing he eocId command,
And his breakfast was light, be just took q bite


Of an acorn that lay at hand.
And then be was of to the trees to work while


the children sometime IL takes,
To dress a. toeat what they think meet Of coffee


and buckwheat cakes.
The sparkling frost when they first 60 out lies


thick upon all around,
And earth and grass rs they onward pass give


pleasing cracking sound.
O there is a heap OF chsstnuts, see, cried the


youngest OF the train
For they came TO a stone where the squirrel had


thrown what he meant to pick up again.
And two bright eyes from the tree DER head


looked down at the open bag,
When the nuts went in ard so to begin almost


made his courage flag.
Away on the hill outside the wood three giant


trees there stand,
And the chestnuts bright that hang in sight are


eyed BY fhe youthful band.
And one Of their number climbs the tree and


passes from bough TO bough,
And children run for with pelting f1n the nuts


fall thickly now.
Some Of the burs are still shut tight, some open


with chestnuts three,
And some nuts fall with no burs at all, smooth


shining rs nuts should be.
o who can tell what fun il was to see the prickly
showers,
To feel what q whack on head or back was within
a chestnuts power.
To run beneath the shaking tree and then to


scamper away,
And with laughing shout TO dance about the


grass where the chestnuts lay.
With flowing dress and blowing hair and eyes


that no shadow knew,
Like the growing light Of q morning bright the


dawn Of the Summer blue.
The work was ended, the trees were stripped. the


children were tired OF play,
And they forgot, but the squirrels did not the


wrong they had done that day.
Year: 1879




u The wife Of IL Eiiucr in Hopcwc}I,
Pa, had yellow hair of wonderful
length and abunAauce.It was so heavy as
to be a bother, but her husband would
!:ot let her cnt it OF, even when offered Il
good price by dealers in hair. Lately
work became scarce with him, and he
did not know how to make Il payment
soon coming due on his little house. The
loss of his home seemed probable. Then
a stranger came along and offered $500
for the treasured yellow hair. That
amount of money would raise the mort
gage on the homestead, and the husband
reluctantly made the sale. He could not
help shedding tears wher he saw the
strangers shears dcspoiling his wife 5
head Of its beauty, ard she wept when
she looked at herself in the glass; but
they consoled themselves with the crisp
bank notes, and the buyer went q way
with the hair. A few Gays afterward
the miner went to pay the debt, and
learned that tho bills were all counter
felt.
Year: 1879

"Never leave what you undertake
untilyou can reach yourarms around
it and clench your hand on the other
side" says book recently published
for Young men. Very good advice,
but what if she screams2
Year: 1879

-F>f~N- --~-----e
proaeh of q person. Their treatment
should be such as that they will actual
" learn to entertain an affection for
their keeper, and if they do, they will
naturally be tame and docile. A flock
of wild sheep is about the most un-
profitable investment that afarmer can
make. They are continually getting
themselves into some trouble, and Csaus-
ing great annoyance, if not loss, to
their owner.


We have seen some f1ockmen jrmp
into flock and pull and haul the sh eep
by the wool until the animals were not
only half frightened to death, but guf-
fered great injury otherwise. A 81 leep
should never be caught or lifted by the
wool. Some one has said that if ny
one doubts the improperly of lfftin 8 q
sheep by the wool, just let him per nit
himself TO be lifted by the hair, and it
is a good suggestion. When sheep are
thus caught or lifted, the skin in so me
instances is actually torn from the
flesh, and if the injury is not to that
extent it cannot but affect the flesh to
some degree.


A sheep should be lifted by placing
the arms around the body and near the
forelegs. This is the easiest way to do.
especially with large sheep. To catch
the animal, the hands should be thrown
about the neck, or else the sheep should
be caught by the hind leg Immediately
above the hook. This latter may bo
done with the hand or the crook, and
when this way is adopted the utmost
gentleness should be observed, and the
sheep gently drawn back until the other
hand can reach the neck. 1t is scarce
ly necessary to remind the keeper that
when the crook is used upon a sheep
which is closely surrounded by other
sheep, that great care must be exer-
cised lest the other sheep Jump against
the one caught or against the crook, in
which case severe damage may be done
-WeStern RsIral
Year: 1879

substances known to be compound
yield changed spectra under changed
conditions. Other substances, hereto
fore supposed to be elementary, act in
tie same way when subjected to the
same treatment. There is the fact
which chemists must explain. And we
may add that it IS the only fact that
requires explanation, for the previous
announcement that the spectrum of one
metal has been obtained by the
spectrum of another metal was
wholly incorrect. Nothing at all
resembling a transmutation of met
ais has been accomplished, even if
it should prove that they are more
nearly related to each other than mod
ern science has taught. But Mr.. Lock
yer's discoveries have opened highly
interesting field for research, and the
future is full of possibilities.-BOstOn
advertiser.
Year: 1879

We wonder if it Is true that ye fierce
man Of the Okolona States is furnishing
thunder for the Lamars Qowa) Sentinel.
From the extract below, 1t will be seen that
there is a striking similarity in the epigram
attic terseness and electric dashness of OK
preston between the two noble organs.
Does the Iowa Sentinel copy after the
States, or does the States get its vigorous
style from the Sentinel2 Will anybody
tell us how this is?


Lamars Qowa) Sentinel.


While the amiable idiocy that prevailed
in Congress during the reconstruction days
was at its height; the nik ger was enfran-
chised.


lie was invested with the ballot on the
pretty theory that he was man and broth
er, with an infusion of sand in his makeup.


1t was given him on the schoolgirl notion
that affection for the party that gave him
his freedom would make him its perpetual
instrument.


But the niger is less serviceable to the
Republican party as voter than he was as
a slave.


lie needs too much coddling-too much
protection.


He can only vote the Republican ticket
when surrounded by Gordon of Republi-
can bayonets.


There is no grit in him.


There is more voting energy and party
strength in q dozen raw Irishmen, than in
q thousand well fed niggers.


There is not an ounce of stalwartism in
o ton of niger.


The more niger the less strength
As slave the picturesque misery of the
niger was an unfailing armory of party
weapons; as freeman, there is no romance
in him-cowardice is not romantic


ALI over the South he Is throwing his
ballot for rebels and traitors, when he
votes at ALL


He is too cowardly to vote his convictions,
'r too stupid to have convictions.


When the stalwarts get into power in
$50, he must either de disfranchised or
to vote right.


The free niger is fraud.
Year: 1879

There is fair counterpart of the Oko'


Iona States published in Lamars, Iowa


called the Lamars Sentinel. The Okoloni


States would drive Southern Democratic sen


timent into iconoclastic zeal to destroy the
statues and pull down the portraits of Lin
coin and his oompeers at the Capitol, and
here is fitting trump to such orazed and
revolving desecration


From the Lsmars Sentinel.


But by the eternal, this thing shall end,
so soon as the stalwarts come into power.
Stalwartism is the avenging Nemesis of this
outraged republic, and when it lays its iron
grip ON the sceptre of power, jeff Davis
and every other accursed traitor will be
hung like dogs.


The Southerner can no more help being q
savage than the South can help producing
rattle snakes and yellow fever At his birth
nature stamps barbarism on his brow, liar
on his lips, bluster on his tongue and cow
ardice in his heart. Political equality and
fellowship between the North and South
would be burlesque on government and
must always end in tragedy. The South
must be disfranchised and converted into
a province government by the enlightened
and progressive North or continue to be
political and industrial rat-pit, dominated
by clustering barbaric chiefs, and doomed
TO political and industrial ruin.


We apologize to Northern gentlemen for
printing such miserable stuff as this Of
course we know that even in Republican
Iowa they have the same contempt
or such brutal and vulgar utterances
Is we of the South have for the raw
ngs of the Okolona States. These
wo papers are on a par with oaoh
,ther-par mobile tratrum-and only ex-
st to feed sentiment distorted and be. |
hriveled to the utmost limits of bigoted |
contraction and spiteful venom. Hence
orth the Lamars Sentinel should be re-
arded as the true foeman worthy of the |
teel of the Okolona States. And we turn
hese two fierce organs over to each other
nd commend to them the splendid example
the Kilkennv cafa
Year: 1879

Hon. John r. Lynch. of TINS Congress


sional District, has been appointed Superiu-
tondent of the census for this State Ilr


will receive an annual salary Of $500


Mr.. Lynch is a representative colorci mm


and very popular with the blacks. Ha Is


entirely capable Of filing the position, and


We doubt not viii give satisfaction Weare
Gratitiod that he has been selected ny the
President in preference to one Of the class
of men who came to this StatemerCly to get
office. We are out-and-out, tlat-footedly in
favor of the appointment to office of men
in this State who live here, and who will
continue to live here whOter in Office or not
We have no use for that class of men who
scoot as soon as they fail to get office
We had thousand times prefer Intelligent
capable, colorcd men TO that class. The
carpet-baggor claRs have been n bone of
contention in this State, and since thy are
removed, we can afford TO giyo good
colorcd men representation in office
Keep the political middle men away.
make it absolutely certain good local gov
ornment will not he endangered, aud the
whites and blacks in this State viii soon
get along well together, all Will he fully
protected in their rights. and every man,
white or black, will vote for Just whom be
pleases. .-Nicksburg Herald.
Year: 1879

AUGUSTA, November ls.-A large mum.
ber OF Republican Senators and Republi.
cans supposed TO have been elected at the
last election, applied to Council TO- day for
permission to examine the returns, but
that body being engaged, took the ap.
plicaton into consideration. The impres.
sion is gaining ground that a majority Of
the Council will prevent the Republicans
from seeing the returns until at least part
Of the twenty days has passed.. Ii Is
known that the returns have all been tabu.
lated, and that these tables have been
submitted with the report and accepted,
but the tables themselves are not on file
but in possession Of the committee, who do
not consider them as part of the record
stated. The committee will submit their
tinal conclusion after the twenty DAYS have
elapsed for correcting errors in the returns


There Is very little excitement, and tht
Republicans claim that aconspiracy will


yet be attempted. It Is thought that I
temporary halt in the operations have
been ordered. u
Year: 1879

A Close SHAvE.-A minister in n ew
Cum berand, Ohio, came near making a
bad tangle Of wedding one night last
week. The first bridesmaid and her
escort entered the room, and the lattor
handed him the license. The minister,
supposing that this was the couple to be
jeined, began the ceremony, and before
the young people fairly knew what he
vas about came to the words, II pre-
nounce you" A physician hastily in
terrupted the proceedings by believing
in the mans ear that he was marrying
the wrong couple. The bridesmaid fell
in swoon, and the escort remarked
grimly that it was almost too close a
shave to be pleasant.
Year: 1879

Fun WITH SPIDER.-Spiders, in
many respects, are just like other snimals,
and can be tanned and petted and taught
agrest many lessons which they will learn
ms rapidly as dog or cat. But you must
take the trouble 10 study their ways and
get on the good side them.


One day i had been reading in book
hsw spiders managed to get their webs
across streams and roads, from the top of
one small tree to another. l went out and
caught large garden spider, one of those
bluc'gray sprawling fellows, and fixed
him up for my experiment.


took a stick sbou: eighteen inches in
length, and fastened piece Of iron to one
end of it, so that the stick would stand up
on that end itself. Then I put this stick
in the center Of a large tCb halffull Of wa
ter, and placed the spider on top OF the
stick. wanted TO see if he could get to
the land" which was the edge of the tub,
without any help. He ran down first one
side Of the stick and then the other I;
each time he would stop when he touched
the water, and shaking his feet as a cat
does, he would run up again. At last he
came TO the conclusion that he was entire-
surrounded by water on an island in
fact. After remaining perfectly quiet for
Il long time, during which have no doubt
he was arranging his plans, be began run
ming around the top of the stick and throw
ing out great coils of web with his hind
feet. In few minutes little fine strings Of
web were floating away in the slight breeze
that was blowing. After a little one Of
these touched the edge ofthe tub and stuck
fast, AS all spider webs will. This was Just
what Mr.. Spider was looking for, and the
next minute he took hold Of this web and
gave it jerk as a sailor does rope, when
he wishes 20 see how strong i. is, or make it
fast.


Having satisfied himselfthati it was fast
at the other end, he gathered il in till it wa.
tight and straight, and ther ran on it quick
TO the shore; a rescued castaway, saved
by his own ingenuity. Spiders are not
fools, if they are ugly, and He who makes
all things, has thought and care for all
The earth is full ofthe knowledge of God
C0n1regdh0nditst.
Year: 1879

1t Is a common practice in many parts
OF India to oblige persons suspected of
crimes to chew dry rice in the presence Of
the officers of the law. Curious as it may
appear, such is the intense inHrance of
fear on the salivaiy glands, that il they
are actually guilty there is no secretion of
saliva in the mouth. and chewing is i'm
possible. Such culprits generally confess
without further efforts. On the contrary,
a consciousness of innocence alcw
proper flow of fluid for softening the
rice.


Many of our readers are familiar with
the case Of the thief to whom, in ccmmon
with other suspected persons, a stick Of a
certain length was given, with the assur-
ance that the stick of the thief would
grow by supernatural power. The cul-
prit, imagining that his stick had actually
increased in length, broke piece off and
was thus detected.


A similar anecdote is told Of farmer
who detected depredations on his corn bin
by calling his men together and making
them mix up quantity of feathers in a
sieve, assuring them at the time that the
feathers would stick to the hair Of the
thief. After a short time one of the men
raised his hand repeatedly to his head,
and thus betrayed himself.


A Partisan physician, during his visits
made in hired fly, had received bottle
Of real Jamaica rum MS sample, but
found, after returning home, that he had
left it in the carriage. He went to the
office and informed the manager that he
had left virulent poison in one Of the
carriages, and desired him to prevent any
coachman from drinking it. Hardly had
he got back when he was summoned in
great haste 20 three of these worthes,
who were suffering from the most horri-
BILE collie, and great was his difficulty in
persuadng them thatthey had only stolen
some most excellent rur1.


One of the most singular examples on
record of the effects Of fear acting through
the imagine ton is given by Breschet,
French author of the sixteenth century,
who informed us that the physicians at
Montpelier, which was then great
school Of medicine, had every year two
criminals, the one living, the other dead,
delivered to them for dissection. On one
occasion they determined to try what eff
feet the mere expectation of fear would !
produce upon a subject in perfect health
and in order to carry out the experiment |
they told the gentleman (for such was his
rank) who was placed at their discretion,
that, as the easiest mode Of taking away |
life, they would employ the means which |
Seneca had chosen for himself, and would |
therefore open his veins in warm water.
Accordingly they covered his face, pinch
ed his feet, without lancing them, and set
them in foot bath, and then spoke to
each other as if they saw the blood flow
ing freely, and life departing with it.
The man remained motioness, and when,
after awhile, they uncovered his face, they
found him dead.
Year: 1879

NATURES REMEDY.- People who
without knowing that they were apply
ing natures remedy, have drawn in their
breath hard when they have cut finger
or barked shin Oh coal scuttle, will bs
pleased to learn that they have employed
respiratory analgesia in its simplest form.
If any man will draw breath deeply and
quickly for the space of three minutes OF
less, he will thereby lose acute sensibihty
to pain, so that he can endure minor
surgical operation without Inconvenience
Eminent surgeons have found the process
OF great advantage when used clone, not
only, but when an@stbotics also were
employed, in which latter case the quan,
tity OF the drug to be used ia greatly di.
minished.
Year: 1879

THE New York Home Journal SAYS
that tho amount Of luxurious tenderness
bestow ed upon pet dog in that city is
almost Incredible. 1t is not at all un-
common TO see n carriage with two live
ly men upon the box, driving through
Central Park on a pleasant morn ing
with only a dog, or perhaps pair Of
them, inside taxing a sniff of fresh air.
They have had their bath, their locks
have been dressed and fresh ribbons
sdorn their necks. while short haired
dog is carefully hlanketed.
Year: 1879

WHERE IGNoRANCK WAS Bliss
When Fulton father came home the
other evening and stepped into the parlor
to I'll up the coal stove, he was startled to
see when the fame of his hand lamp
dissipated that darkness, that his aaugh-
ter and her duclly doodle Adolphus were
sojourning in the shadow Of tho lowered
gas jet. But they were in separate chairs.
and were engrossed in box OF fgs. He
felt compelled to ask {: Something the
matter with tho gas ?" And tho time
tired youth, grasping one Of the golden
thoughts that overwhelm us in the time
OF emergency, answered, as he mechani~
c4lly picked up another Jig mo, si- :.
we turned it down so as not to notice
when we bit into worm Fulton Times.