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Year: 1877

The New York correspondent Of the
Boston Journal gives the following salut-
ary advice


The short run of players, riflemen,
billiard champions, and men of sporting
life generally, is remarkable feature Of
New York life. Drink is at the bottom
of this. Men who indulge in the cup
can't control their nerves, and men who
can't do this 60 to the wall The bad
shooting of some men, of whom so much
was expected, resulted from their cup
indulgence. One of the best marksnen
in the city said yesterday that Gin rife
shooting the variance Of hairs breadth
made the difference at the muzzIe of one
foot in one hundred yards; and a man
must have absolute command of his
nerves. A man who would win must
SS6f steam" Dan Mace, when he was in
his his min, ii;e on the ford, drank only lemon
aJe heor1 him say: " A single glass
Of whisky effects inIyy nerves nerves @ Men VINO
drink on the road would nj. trust tnelf
valuable teams to me if l was not ". ,n tne
driving 1ason a teetotaler." When the
billiard congress was in session the cham
pion player said "We can't drink and
Do anything. We have to abstain totally
from all stimulating beverages while we
play. We have season of preparation.
We have to be clear and keep cool or we
fail. The reason that 80 many eminent
players pass out of sight is--they will
drink. Then the nerves grow unsteady
and the eye fails, and all is up with the
player. The drinking goes deeper and
the PLAYING worse.
Year: 1877

There are now one hundred and sixteen
women regularly employed in India as mis-
sionaries. Besides these the wives and
daughters of missionaries do a great deal of
excellent service,


A writer in the Independent makes a
startling exhibit of the cost of teaching the
ology to Presbyterian aspirants for the min,
istry. He demonstrates that the annual cost
Of teaching for the term OF seven months is
$56267 for each student. There are fourteen
Presbyterian seminaries, which this writer
says could wisely be reduced to three. He
insists that the surplus seminarics ought to
be sold, or given away TO any body who can
make good use of them. The worst of it is
that these costly Semiuaries are hike those of
most other denominations, crowding young
men into \ greatly oyerstocked profession.
Year: 1877

Cameron's "Across Africa says that
on the death OF a Urna chief it is the
custom to divert the course Of stream,
and in its he'd to dig an enormous pit, the
bottom Of which is then cOverd with
living women At one end woman is
placed ON her hands and knees, aud upon
her back the dead chiei, covered with his
beads and treasures, is seated, being sup
ported on either side by one of his wives,
while his second wife sits at his feet.
The earth is then sheveled in on them,
and all the women are buried alive, with
the exception ofthe second wife. TOher
custom is more merciful than to her
companions, and grants her the privilege
of being killed before the huge grave is
filled in This being completed, mum.
her OF male slaves sometimes forty or
fifty-are slaughtered and their blood
poured over the grave, after which the
river is allowed to resume its course.
Year: 1877

A PERSON in the course of some re-.
marks in prayer meeting, having sew.
eral times observed that he should never
forget the dying words Of his brother,
the pastor suggested that it might be
well for him to repeat them whereupon,
with some hesitation and scratching Of
his head, he said that they had slipped
his mind.
Year: 1877

The best remedy for borers is to dis
troy the eggs by W Iishing the trees with
strong lye, or thih ihnish soft soap. The
last days of June, after they get into the
tree, cut them out with sharp knife.


CANKER WORM.
Year: 1877

A LINE TO BUSINESS MEN.-Don't wait
for business to wake up, but wake it up.


Don't sit down to wait for business, bust
ness will sit down to wait for you.


Don't wait for brisk times to advertise,
for then you will not need the help of ad-
vertising


Don't think your last years advertising
sufficient, for your customers may conclude
you expired with the old year.


Don't become disguised with business or
business may become disgustcd with you.


Don't think because you know where you
do business, and what you keep to sell, that
all the world knows it as we'll


Don't go out to see what your advertising
ncighbor is doing for if you do you may
conclude to spend a little money in adver-
tisng yourself.


Don't advertise, for if you do you might
have TO employ another clerk, and that
would be an additional expense and an in
jury to the community.
Year: 1877

CkoUiJ Odutk-COuIhcTu W Ite COCe.
True, VIC have hosts of friends at the North,
but we. have more enemies, and as many Of
either can be found among the Democrats
as among the Republicans. None of them
believe that we have accepted in good faith
the Amendments to the Constitution, and
they have a mistrust as to our loyalty to the
Uhion, Which can never be obliterated but
by time.


I have ever found more congeniality
amongst Northern Republicans than with
Northern Democrats, and believe an aver
age representative of the Republican party
North is more nearly akin in feelings, sen
timent and thought to Southern Democrat
than similar representative Northern DEM
ocrat Carpet-baggers, scallawags and ne
gro politicians belong to neither party by
any kind Of political right. They are mere
barnacles that have betouled the Republican
party. Once rubbed off, they will sink in
the slough of contempt, to be forgotten but
not forgiven.


No honest man, unless. totally ignorant
Gas most Northern men arc) of Southern
affairs, can for moment believe that, upon
principle, Mr.. Hayes can maintain himself
in Office and recognize the Nichols govern
AhOho III iLpuiSiaha. hC SCIJ SdllC lIduu
that placed him in the Presidential chair
would install Packard Governor And yet
we know that the very political existence
of that State depends upon the installation
of General Nichols as Governor. Sooner
or later Mr. Hayes must see this, and must
inevitably recognize the Nichols govern
ment. When this is done, the South will
be political unit. If, then, the Southern
States so legislate as to convince the colored
population that the laws recognize no dis.
tinction on account Of color or race, there
will in my judgment, be u political revo-
luton throughout the North in less than
four years as potent for good to the South
as was that between 1861 and 1866 for evil
to our distressed country.


Not that there will be war again-far
from it ; for the recent presidential election
proved that Northern Democrats will not
fight Northern Republicans, however will
ing either party might be to fight Southern
ers. But in that event parties at the North
will be so divided, and so clamorous for
Southern patronage, that the South need
only stand firm and united and she will
hold balance Of power that will be cffec-
tive in restoring this Government to it's
wonted purity, and the people to prosper
ity.


Prior to the war the leaders at the North
both civil and military, were Democratic,
and every Confederate soldier knows that
the Southern armies met no reverscs until
the ranks of the Federal army were recruit
ed with Democrats. Floating upon the
tide Of military success tho Democratic and
Republican leaders embraced each other,
abandoned the distinctive principle sof their
former parties, and amalgamating elements
from both produced party whose shib-
boleth was down with Southern Reb," sup
with the niger and "hurrah for the best
Government the world ever saw" Crush
out these ideas, and the identity Of tic pal
ties North are, in my opinion, destroyed -
There is no principle peculiarly Republi-
Year: 1877

Many u tear of wounded pride,


Many fault of human blindness,
Had been soothed, or turned aside,


BY quiet voice Of kindness
Time to me this truth hath taught,


'Tis truth that's worth revealing;
More offend from want Of thought,
Than from any want of feeling.
Year: 1877

DIARRHEA IN CALvEs-Calves that
suck are not often troubled with diarrhea,
unless there is something wrong about tho
food or drink of the dams. A handful of
powdered corn bread, which has been
barned or scorched brown, fed to each calf,
will stop the diarrhea for the time, but the
originating cause must must be sought for
and removed.
Year: 1877

REMEDY FOR Cows GIVING BLOODY
MILk:-The remedy for the troubles which
cause bloody milk will depend, in each case.
upon its severity and the cause of it. If
there be no other trouble than that the
milk is discolored if.it comes easily, and if
there be no inflammation, the best remedy
will be aconite. Give twenty drops twice
a day, for four days. If the trouble results
from an actual injury, as appears to be tie
case with your cow, it will be best to trust to
nature for remedy. The diet should be-
OF laxative character. Give no grain
while the trouble exists.


If there is fever existing, the udder be-
ing hot and swollen, and the milk not only
bloody but otherwise disorganized it may
be taken as case Of garget. Draw the
milk frequently by means of tube or quill.
Give pound of EPSON salts in quart of
linseed gruel slightly warmed; and give
one teaspoonful Of saltpetre once week.
Prairie Farmer.
Year: 1877

Having determined to discontinue the dry-cood
business shall from this day offer my entire stock of
SEASONABLE AND WELL-ASSORTED GOODS


At COST FOR CASH.


And in order more tpccdy to dispose Of the entire
stock, there are many GOODS which will be sold
WITHOUT REGARD TO COST OR VALUE.
a. the store will be vacated soon another tenant
can be had CHARLES HUTZLER,
fc D3-2m GIL Broad Street.
Year: 1877

TIE Darlington Republican says .
"The temperance people Of that city
are somewhat alarmed at the signal
success which has attended the suits
Of the saloon keepers in the Circuit
Court. Every suit which has been
tried has been decided in their favor,
and the rulings OF Judge Cothren
are such that they have no hopes OF
enforcing the ordinances, or even
controlling the sale of Intoxicating
LIQUORS. IN the case Of the State VS..
John Miller, who has been openly
selling beer by the keg, the count
ruled that the city could not restrict
the sale Of goods in the original
package. The report is current that
upon the strength of this decision
the saloon men have given orders
for beer N bottles, and that all kinds
Of liquors are to be sold in amy de
sired quantity, care being taken to
always sell the article in The ortgiaaJ
package
Year: 1877

My mas been working very hard,


And also very sly,
And keeps her sewing ont of sight


Whenever am nigh.
asked her once what made her stop
Her work when came in;
She SAID she only stopped to get
a needle, thread or pin.
The bureau drawer is next to mine
Is locked both night and day,
And when ma wants to open it


She sends me off to play.
stole peep one afternoon,
Although it was not right.


But oh! the little things saw
Were such pretty sight!
The cutest, incest little clothes
Just big enou yh for doll
But then know they're not for her
She needs them not all.
know they're not not for ma nor pa.
Nor ME nor brother '' Hor,''
For we can't wear such little clothes
wonder who they're for?


~. Y Mail.
Year: 1877

In skating circles a habitual rink
er is called q runkard.-Free Press.
We trust the word is not applied
to any rinker in this place, be-
cause if it is we demand one great
satisfaction.
Year: 1877

A writer in the Psychological
Journal advises young men who
are about choosing a wife "to bo
governed by the chin" A great
many of them will find themselves
governed by her chin music after
marriage.-Boston Bulletin.
Year: 1877

Joaquin Miller is credited by the
Boston Post with an Inauguration
poem from which the following
beautiful stanza is taken:


Pudding and skim-milk and pudding.


Cracked wheat oat meal and mush,


The laureat Of the Sierras


Is charged 10 the muzzle with gush.
Year: 1877

Poor foolieh worm II he had lain
Snug in hil early bed,
That early foul had never made
A breakfast Of his head.
At noon, no d5ubt, the bird had sought
Some distant forest bough;
And if'the worm had slept till then,
lie might have lived till now.
Take warning, early riscrs, all,
And heed the lessen taught;
The worm that lies in hod Is safe
The early worm is caught.
Year: 1877

The Cohoes News says grocer
had a pound of sugar returned
with the following note: "Too
much sand for table use and not
enough for building purposes"
How much sand did the fellow
want for q poundi A whole sand
bank
Year: 1877

A young lady who has suffered
from baggage smashers," has had
her trunks covered with flannel
this season, having heard that
flannel is a good chest protector
Detroit Tribune. You sacrilegious
wretch II is enough to make
every modest young lady in the
country wish she had Thousand
tongues, and that the Tribune man
was within range Of them.
Year: 1877

The following Is from the Colusa Sun
Of Saturday: Whatever else the Amer
lean people have to boast about, they
certainly cannot lay claim to any great
amount of conten,ment. The laboring
man, out of employment. thinks if he
only had plenty of work or good wages,
he would be happy The man who has
this. sighs for a nice little home of his
own, where he could be surrounded BY
the smiling faces of his family. This
would make him happy. The man with
"A nice home thinks if he only had a
shop or place of business of his own, in
stead of being obliged to work for wag-
es. he would be happy. The farmer.
10 debt for his quarter section of land,
thinks he would find contentmert in
being out of debt, but sooner does he
get out. than his happiness lies in the
possession on of whole section, and the
man with a section could just as easily
farm one more. The man able to con-
troll fifty miles of railroad thinks he
would be content if he could add another
nifty to it. so as to make one hundred,
while the mai with the hundred wants
five hundred and then a thousand
Year: 1877

A NEW TIHLE.-For several years it has
been the custom when referring to Governor
Ferry to speak of him as the Pardon Bro
ker." This title was earned by his readiness
to interpose executive clemency whenever
and wherever the culprit or his friends had
the means TO ''pay expenses that is the
mild name for 1t when it comes to bribing
the governor of territory. This title seems
to have annoyed the governor, and so when
an application was made for communication
of the death penalty in the case of Thomp-
son, who was destitute of means, Ferry reso-
lutely refused, declaring that he was tired
of being called 4 pardon broker" 1t thus
turns out that Thompson was hung not be-
cause he was guilty, but for the reason that
the executive was restless under title that
he had well earned Under the changed cir
cumstances a new title is IN order, and hence
we propose that in future Ferry be known
as the territorial Jack ketch " 1t will not
be claimed that the title adds dignity to the
individual, bat then again Ferry never had
any dignity to speak of.
Year: 1877

bRANIlE SfsEEh, W. u, wa.


Mn. JAMES REYNOLDS - Dear Sr: The
sad duty devolves upon me to notify you o.
the death of your boy, Willie, on the might
of the 9TH inst. 1t has bas been his custom
to visit, in the evening, the Monumental
mine and pass an hour or two with the boy:
and then return to the Morning Glory, sit
mated but a short distance from the Monu
mental. On the evening of the 9TH he visited
the Monumental and remained until about
half past eight when he started home. The
night was unusually dark, and in some man
ner he missed his way, OF IN other words
lost the road, and wandered through the
woods until be came to an abandoned shalt,
mart fuii of water, INTO WHICH he tell, and
death was the result.


No blame can be attached to any one for
the sad affair. Everybody liked the boy
and his melancholy death casta shade "i sal
ness over our camp. No one thought OF any
danger Oh the road, he having made the trip
so often, and the shaft beng some distance
from the road, Was never considered trap
The night was so dark, however, that he
could not have seen the yawning shaft into
which he fell. and ere he could realize ms
position was doubtless beyond all human
helm His hat was discovered in the cut con-
Meeting with the shaft, which circumstance
led to the discovery of his body.


1t is sad. sad affair; but, my friend, you
must bear it with fortitude- We, none OF
MS. know what our fate maybe or when death
NAV overtake and cut us down. Every at,
tenition was bestowed upon him and the Last
sad rites to the dead performed by sympa'
thetic friends. The Moore family are almost
prostrated with grief, and the sorrow that
surrounds their poor hearts would touch the
feelings of anything that resembles man,
You must nerve yourself to bear your calam
itv, and remember many unknown friends
sympathize with you in your sore bereave
ment ". p MOUNT.
Year: 1877

UNHEALTHY WATER-A medical friend
expresses the opinion that seven-eighths
of the wells within the city limits are un-
healthy, and the water unfit for domestic
purposes. He attributes the feyers that
are SO prevalent to the use of well water
that has been filtered through night soil
and loaded with all manner of impurities.
He says that if the use of this foul well
water is continued WalIa Walla will soon
gam the reputation of being the most un-
healthy town on the coast, and this too
when with proper care its sanitary condi-
ton Iaight be made so as to challenge COM
parison with neighboring towns. OF late
typhoid, and fevers of similar character,
have prevailed TO a frightful extent, and
the existence of this class of diseases may
fairly be attributed to filthy streets and
the use of impure water. In the early
settlement Of towns, when the inhabit-
ants are few, wells answer ALI excellent
purpose, but whenever the people living
in town rum up into the thousands, the
wells are certain to become foul As
rule the sinks in this town are sunk to the
water level, and of a necessity the water
drawn from the wells is more or less load
ed with impurities 1t is sickening to
think IF using the water that has been fill
tered through thousand receptacles of
filth, and we are only surprised to find
that persons who make pretentions to
cleanliness should continue the Use of well
water Regard for health should lead per
sons wherever possible to abandon the Use
Of filthy well water.
Year: 1877

THE STATESMAN Jon PRESSES are driven
pretty hard by the press of job work, but
sill by liberal expenditure of muscle the
boys manage to fill orders on time. Those
who desire good work at fair prices, are in:
yited To send in their orders
Year: 1877

A DEcIs,oS.-A Rhode Island society
for the prevention OF cruelty to animals
brought suit before one of the courts OF
the state to arrest pigeon-shootins match
es. The Narragansett gun club was the
defendant, and won It's case, the Judge
deciding that "a bird is not an animal OF
the brute species within the meaning OF
the sfatufcs
Year: 1877

STRICTLY BUSINESS NOTICES are charged
for at the rate of 20 cents line. We NELL
ton this fact for the information OF persons
who never patronize paper, and yet are Tree
TO ask the publication OF gratuitous ''puffs
1t costs money to set type and pay for paper
and ink
Year: 1877

ing the other copy with the decla. ration and proof. You will nnm- Der the certificates in the order of their issue. The Register will keep a record of the certificates issued, showing the number, date, amoaht paid, name of applicant, and description of the land applied for in each case and, in addition, be will note the same upon his plats and records as ia case of or dinary entry.

 At any time with in three years after the date of filing the declaration and the issue of certificate the proper party may make satisfactory proof of having conducted water upon the land applied for. This proof must con. sist of the testim my of at least two dIsinterested and credible witnesses, who must appear in person before the Register and Receiver. They must declare that they have personal knowledge of the condition of the land applied for, and of the facts to which they testify; and their testimony must be reduced to writing in the usual

 manner. You wifi also require the party to present and surren- der the duplicate issued when the declaration was filed. When this is done, and the final proof made to your satisfaction. the Receiver

 will receive the additional pay

 ment of one dollar per acre, re- ceipting therefor in duplicate in

 the usual manner, but indorsing upon the face of the receipt a re- ference to this act. The Register

 will also issue final certificate of

 purchase in the ordinary form of

 cash certificates, indorsing also

 upon the face of the certificate a reference to this act.

 X x X x J. A. WILLIAMSON, | Commissioner.
Year: 1877

AS all the farming lands of Yu- ma County require irrigation to render them productive. they came within the scope of the term. "desert land," as used in the Act of Congress given below, together with the instructions issued by the Land office. Ehis matter is of sufficient importance to Yuma county, to justify the space we give it:

 Be if enacted by the senate and House of Representatives Of the United States of America in Con gress assembled. That it shall be lawful for any citizen of the Uni ted States, ,or any person of requI-
Year: 1877

cincinnati Enquirerl


CAN'T on PRIME US,
There was O. young woman named Slater,
And to the eyes Of the young. men she did cater


She kicked up so high


That the ladies cried fe."
But the bald headed boys


down In the parquett9 declared by the
grnning jaws OF the bideou5 hyena they
had never seen such 81 show in their lives,
which fact iDaDeled them to howl and yell
until they cen amost-
Just raised tho roof off the theatre.


CANT OH SECOND US.
SO this dansel, whose name was Slater,
Kept kicking, and would not abate her


High step; and it's said


That there were times begged
When the snoozers sitting low down near the
orchestra who were not near-Sighted nor
over-modest, were ready to swear that
there Is no girl living
Who can successfully initiate her.
Year: 1877

Wire is being nut up on the new branch Of the
Western Union telegraph lue from Royelle in
Lafayette parish to Washington in st. Landry.
The people of Opelousas will now enjoy the un-
wonted advantage of getting their news by tele-
graph. -
Year: 1877

places and in high places, of late, that


some arrangement had been made by


which Packard was not to be recOg.


nized and upheld, that he was to be


allowed 60 slide by, and Nichols was


to be accepted as Governor of Louis


lana. want to know who had the


authority to make any such arrange


ment. 1 wish to know if any Senator


on this floor will state in his place


that any person, speaking for the ad-


ministration that was coming In, or


the one that was going out, had any


right to make any such arrangement.


| deny it; | deny it without being
authorized to speak for the adminis-
tration that now exists, but / deny il
ON the simple broad ground that it is
an impossibility that the administra-
tion of President Hayes could do it !;


deny it on the broad ground that
President Hayes possesses character,
common sense, self-respect. patriotism
ali of which he has in q high meas
nrc and in an eminent degree / deny
it on all the grounds that can inf1tl-
cnce human action, on all the grounds
on which he can be held to personal,
political or official responsibility; l
deny it for him, and I shall find my
self grievously disappointed, wound
ed and hurniliated if my denial is not
not indicated in the policy of the adj
But whether it be In
dicated or whether it be not, care
not. tits not the dnty of a Senator
10 inquire what the policy Of the adj
may be, but what II
ought to be, and l hope a republican
Senate will say that on this point
there is no authority in this land large
enough or adventurous enough to
the honor of the nation-
u administration or the good name
If the great republican party that
'alled that Administration into exist
'nce. Applause.1