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Year: 1878

AN ABsCONDING BRIDE.-MOrris Butter, of
u Essex street, New York. Who was securing
Hoboken with Sergeant Riuge in search of a
truant wife, left for home yesterday disconso-
late, having given up all hopes. The man sup
posed She would sail by the Hamburg steamer
on Thursday, but this was not the case But
ter, who was married before and has a large
family, told the following story to Aid Ringe:
He was milkman and had profitable route
in New York. Among his best customers was
hotel Oh 3Sth street, where his present wife
was employed, She was in the habit of re
celving the milk from him every morning and
after an acquaintance of four weeks the Old
m1ikman was enamored of the buXom cook,
was Immediately performed. That was only
about month ago, and his first wife had only
been dead about three months. Mrs. Butter,
as already reported, cleaned out the old gents
home of everything in the line of valuable
and money. She had the able assistance of
the eApreSSman, who aided her to move her
goods and who kept her young step daughter
irom giving any alarm until the pair We're well
out OF reach Butter does not regret his new
bride, but his heart is broken over the loss OF
his money and jewelry.-[J Jersey City Ar
UuS, Sth.
Year: 1878

THESE SENTENCES are from recent ser
mon by SpurgeOn on a great disaster: This
overrulfng hand of God The calamity was
sent with particular purpose 1T is difficult
to understand why God permits evil, seeing
that He is always master of the situation but
it is quite certain that there is much moral
evil and great physical evil which God per
mits, and which He could, if He liked. stop"
He might have lnterfered to avert this diSaS-
as they are, and this plan was carried out un
der the shadow of the FALL .They had to
die some day, and they might as well die one
way as another" IF God were TO lnterpoSe
involve many evilS.''
Year: 1878

ALBASf, jan = he assembly has passed
lnt resolu!ion authorizing inquiry into the re-
cent s9-called coal Ombinafion


The Bland Silver BILL


In the senate to-day, when the resolution de-
nounclng the Bland silver bill was called I'M
senator Sessions offered an amendment re
citing that the good faith of the nation Is
pledged to the redemption of the coin Obliga
tlonS OF the government in gold and silver.
with the unlimited legal tenderclause restored
TO be made in full equivalent of gold that any
violation of the public faith would be iniuri
Gus to the public credit and hurtful 10 the good
name OF our country; that any debasement OF
the currency unsetties business, DISCREPANCIES
the enactment of any law by the Congress of
the United States calculated to prevent re-
sumption ON gold and silver basis within the
time fixed by law, would be great public
calamity After discussion, the whole subject
was laid On the table.
Year: 1878

SINESS.-
AFTER NATURE DELIBERATION
WE HAVE DETERMINED
NOT To CARRY OVER


ANY PART
Of OUR PRESENT STOCK OF


WINTER GOODS.
AND TO CLOSE OUT IMMEDIATELY
ALL OUR OvERCOATs
AND OTHER WINTER CLOTHING
WE WILL SELL AT ABOUT
One HALF OF FORMER PRICES.
Year: 1878

WORK FOR THE UNEMPLoYED-Tbe Pacific
railroad authorities AT San Francisco are Iift
ing the pressure by giving employment al 81
per day 10 The unemployed of that city on
work at Mission Bay. About SpD sci i'm yester
day, and IN few days employment will be
Year: 1878

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY


has ordered that hereafter on all unpaid mes
saees the word collect should be charged
for as portion of the telegram. On San
Francisco dispatch this viii make difference
of thirteen cents.
Year: 1878

of this village, for Governor, by Tuesdays Re- publican Convention. He boiled wonderful

 vote, last year, when he was elected to the and will no doubt run far ahead of his ticket, here, this fall. His legislative ca reer of last winter was marked success As chairman of the Judiciary committee and lead CT of the House he showed such marked abfl- ity, tact and industry, as to win the special commendation of the press and and of allwho were associated with him in the work of legis- lation. That was not his first legislative ex- perience, however, as he had already served two terms in the Senate He has fer some

 years been leader of our county bar, and

 has indeed few equals as lawyer tlle State.
Year: 1878

To your last weeks mention of Connecticut prizes at the Paris Exposition should be added the fact that The Mine Hill Stone Co.,, of Roxbury Station, Conn.,, sent a twelve inch cube of the stone from their last opened quarry to that exhibition which has received h6aaor- able mention" One side was left rock face. The others were allcut, but differently and one was polished. The Cube is to be returned to the Connecticut Museum of Industrial Art at New Haven, as aspecimen of the building stone Of this state.
Year: 1878

A Boston man has vest that Fanny
Fern made with her own hands. And
he will bet 800 that it never did and
never will fit any man in this wide, wide
world; that they can't tell by
its shape whether it was original
ly made for fat woman or a
lean man; for a man with sway
back, or man with hump on his back
like camel. Woman, heaven bless her,
is the light of eur homes, but when she
tries to make mans vest the angels
weep. And when she makes pair OF
pantaloons for him the immortal gods
just hold their sides and run away out
into the woods and roll on the grass and
howl Burlington Hawkeye,
Year: 1878

PROF. BAIRD of the national fish com.
mission expects to stock all the muddy
bottom inland waters OF tho United
states with carp, which is hardy fish,
and always remains in the place where
raised. He put last week $4,000 young
carp into small lake in the District of
Columbia,
Year: 1878

red 10 me; and this was the occasion


One evening about ten o'clock went TO


his rooms. He had agreed / should do
so, and that we would go together and


pass the evening with the Comtesse de
Villiers. The servant of Count Stacho-
witch, knowing l was constantly there.
showed me into the sitting room without
announcing my arrival. The room was
empty. l crossed it without noise, for
there was a very thick carpet on the
floor, and | was about to enter my
friends bed chamber when l was stop
ped upon the threshold by very singu


lar sight.


On the chimney-piece burned two
candelabra, which threw blaze of light
on large looking-glass. Before this
glass stood Stachovitch. making the most
singular faces. He would look ut his
own face with the same look of looking
1t through that remembered when he
gazed so earnestly in the railroad car
rage at the murderer Bechouard. Then
ne would draw back a few steps, still
looking at his own face, but seeming to
desire to view it from a new position.
Then he winked his eyes, and drew
down the corners of his mouth. and
wrinkled up his forehead, so that his
face got an expression of weariness and
age. After looking at it thus for a few
moments, he went back to the glass,
when l saw him to my great astonish
ment pick up little crayon de toilette,
and proceed to draw wrinkles round his
lips and eyes, like an actor getting him
self up for an old mans part.
Year: 1878

yield 20 his general treatment. W.
took leave of him, and at parting HI
said to my friend the Russian


you have so good constitution
monsieur, that 1 know no one more
likely TO live to be hundred. Only
you must not worry yourself OH the
subject of your health"


When we were in the street / saw
Stachovitch shrug his shoulders with q
look of hopeless despair.


"Why, Stachovitchl" / cried, "are you
not satisfied? What can you want more:
Do you wish lease oflife for hundred
and fifty years.


Il knew beforehand" he replied
that our visit to your doctor could do
no good"


And indeed, after that morning, he
fell into n state of more settled melan
choly. l grew more and more uneasy
about him. was several times tempted
to go back and see the doctor again, and
get him to tell ME all he thought of his
patient, when a new event changed the
whole situation.
Year: 1878

ton of brains" She had a very
beautiful sister, and she had doubt
less compared the market value of
her own intellect to that Of the fair
face of her sister. To be pretty,
therefore, would seem to be enough.
There is an irresistible fascination
to man in female beauty, and to
fsscinate men will probably always
remain the deepest and most endur-
ing ambition of women. To say
this is not to belittle them, any
more than it is to belittle men to
say that their universal passion is
to secure the admiration and obedi-
ence Of. their fellow creatures.
Year: 1878

The editor of the Athol (Mass. 7ranscript, veteran editor, evidently has full and thorough knowledge of what he writes when he says: "The weekly paper is incomparably the best medium of advertising. Of the thou sands of readers of the daily paper not one in twenty-five is a regular subscriber to it. He is transient patron and the paper is quickly read and thrown aside, never again to be looked at. The weekly paper is the household treasure. Its coming is eagerly awaited, and on it's arrival it is read and re-read and then read again, advertisements and all. Then the neighbors borrow it, and 50 it goes around from day to day till the next paper comes, only to go through the same thorough inspection. Not 8 line of reading matter or of advertise ment in the weekly paper escapes the readers eye. Its news lasts whole week. With the daily paper, how diff ferent! What is news in that to-day is old tomorrow. It's successor each day drives it out of thought long before the majority of men have time to do more than hastily glance at its leading news. Columns and pages of advertise ments in the daily paper are never mo- ticed by one man in fifty, while scarcely a line of advertising misses the scrutiny of the reader of the weekly paper, whose time is abundant and who may have no other paper for week. The shrewdest advertisers prefer the weekly paper, and many will never put a line in daily, simply because they know that the for mer Is thoroughly read, while the latter is merely glanced at just for the daily news it contains.
Year: 1878

A French traveller among the Kurds states, as the result of his endeavors to ascertain the process employed by them in the manufacture of their sword blades, that the manufactures in which these blades are made are situated at the de- clivity of mountain, near cascades, the water of which, falling from rock to rock, arrives in the most limpid state in the reservoirs in which the blades are tempered, these reservoirs being also located where the air is very pure these conditions of purity of air and water being considered essential to the success of the ope1 ation. Iron of the purest quality is used, and, submitted to very high temperature, the first tempering is commenced when the metal is at white heat it is exposed before fusion, the fuel being placed on each side, and the red hot iron is then cov- cred as quickly as possible with fatty and oily matters, such as paste made from bones, wax, etc. This process is thought to render the blade flexible. The second tempering is similar, except that the heated iron, after having tbrown off considerable quantities of sparks, and having been exposed, is covered with paste composed of powdered bones and purified mutton suet. The third tempering is effected by disposing the metal in such manner that it may be seized by man on horseback who rides at full speed, in order that the blade, which he bears in an elevated position, may receive the impression of the air.
Year: 1878

ANOTHER SToRY.-Lord Leitrim one day saw goat belonging to poor old woman, tenant of his, straying in field where it should not have been he sent one of his men to have the goat killed, which was done. Some time afterward representations were made to him that the old woman was starving in conse- quence of the loss of her goat. He or. dered one of his COWS to be sent to her in exchange. Word was brought back that the old woman could not keep the COW, having no land for it; whereupon Lord Leitrim ordered tenant adjoining the old woman's house to mark two acres Of his grass land for her use, meaning to rent it to her. The tenant declined to do SO; result, tenant served with notice to quit, and evicted.
Year: 1878

The child of colored parents of differ ent time, such as quadroon and mulatto, or mulatto and black, will be nearer the tint of the darker parent. If both par ents are of the same color, says an au- thority in such matters, the child will be shade darker, and, singularly enough, the second child will be darker than the first, the third darker than the senond. and so on to the last. In other words, colored community, left to itself, is fatally destined to return to the original African black after a limited lumber of generations. Thus, while eaeh new al- iance with an individual of pure Cauca- sian blood brings the negro step nearer to the white standard, the reverse is the case the moment the Caucasian element is withheld, and the color retrogades from light to dark.

 A curious proof of this is founding observations made during some time in one of the islands. A mulatto woman had female child by white man this young girl gave birth to quadroon by 8 white father, and this recrossing with the white race was kept up for six gen. erations. An identical process of re- crossing had been simultaneously no- ticed in another plantation. The chil- dren resulting from the seventh crossing in both of these families were of remark able physical beauty; they had blonde hair, their complexion was of such trans parent fairness that they might have been taken for Albinoes, but for the vigor and gracefulness of their limbs and their brilliant intellect. The most experienced eye could not have detected in them the slightest indication of their African origin. They intermarried. Their children were dark complexioned and the children of their children are very dark mulattoes.

 This memorable law of nature is given as one of the principal reasons why the Creoles refuse to intermarry with fam ilies who have the faintest tinge of negro blood in their veins, though their skin may be as fair as that of Europeans. The Creoles wish their posterity to re- main what they themselves are-whites.
Year: 1878

The correspondent of the London Daily News thus describes the costume of the Princess of Wales at Lord Lyons ball at the English Embassy in Paris |: The Princess of Wales wore 8 black gauge dress over a black silk, bright ened with crimson brocade scarf, which wound in folds round the skirt. The gauge was 6ouillonne, and dotted over with diamond studs, and the shoulder bands were formed of rivers of the same gems. Her Royal Highness had her hair drawn up in the style of the last century, off her head, and bound with a string of diamonds. She wore round her neck broad band of crimson velvet, thickly studded with diamond stars, and a necklace. from which were suspended diamond pendants which gave the effect of fringe, and in the centre fell down over the chest. The costume of the Princess, without being showy, was magnificent, and quite unlike anything else in the ballroom.
Year: 1878

do not dread an altered heart,

 Or that long line of land or sea

 Should separate my love from me; I dread that drifting slow apart All unressted, unrestrained- ...s ..,.. Which comes to some when they have gain d The dear endeavor of their soul. "t As two light skiffs that sailed together, 4l Through days and nights of tranquil weather, Adown some inland stream, might be Drifted asunder, each from each .e When floating with the tide, they reach

 The hoped-for end, the promised goal

 The sudden glory of the sea. .-...f
Year: 1878

in the event Of success, the new indus
try would enrich the nation. But, IN
order to avoid possible loss, the tests
in the Central States should be made
on small scale. The experience Of
the present season will determine to
what extent jute culture in the United
States can proftably be carried.


Jute seed and practical instructions
with regard to the time of planting and
the preparation Of the fiber for market
can be obtained from the Agricultural
Commissioner, at Washington. But
the time for active work has already
arrived, and planters who are purpos-
ing to test during the present season
the adaptation Of American soil to jute
culture should make immediate appil-
cation to the commissioner for seed.


An industry fraught with such pos
sibilities Of national wealth deserves
encouragement BY legislative bounties'


1t is hoped that your Excellency
will further the success of this under
taking by official recommendations
and that the Legislature and State
Board Of Agriculture will actively aid
an enterprise whose prosperity would
SO effectively promote the material IN
terest of the nation.


Very respectfully, yours,


SYLVESTER WATERHoUsE
Year: 1878

Long years ago in the history OF ths


world, before. the people were fully


civilized, and before the art Of print
ing newspapers was invented, when


sales OF property were to be adver-
tised it was done by writing notices
and posting them in public places.
But with the advent of our modern
civilization, and the invention OF the
newspaper, and its appearance in


esery intelligent family. the barbar-
ism Of posting written notices, was
abandoned. Strange however as it
may appear, there are yet those who
are SO far behind the intelligence aud
spirit of the American character as to
adhere to the ludicrOus custom to
hch we refer Of piece with this
barbarism is the custom OF posting
advertisements at the court house
door of sales TO be made under deeds
of trust. This is penny wise. One
who il to be sold out had best have
tee sale advertised as extensively as
possible, in order to bring bidders and
aud run up prices. Property posted
for sale generally goes for song and
and leaves debt hanging over the un


fortunate party. The best way is t.
advertise in newspaper, and see
W ben you give q trust deed that this
provision is made in it. Then every


body knows it and comes to bid
RAYMOND Gazette.
Year: 1878

Boys" said a south side school
teacher, knowledge never COMES
without seeking. Stick pin there"
And then as be sbo, up from bis seal
like jack in the box. be offered . re-
ward uf five dollars for the boy who
had stuck a pin there. and one OF the
boys held up bis hand and said the
teacher was wrong. He bad no
knowledge Of that pin in his chair,
had not sought it, aud yet it came.
Year: 1878

Bear us witness, ye poets and actors, ye-
painters and sculptors, ye singers and
players upon instruments, that your arts
have not saved the most of you from be-
coming petty and selfish men and women.
You are jealous OF one another. You are
greedy Of praise and the gold it brings.
You know that there is nothing in your
art that enlargss and libcrates you, that
restraints you from drunkenness and vices
that shall not be ma med, that gives you
sobriety and solidity of character, that en-
larges your social sympathies, that natur-
ally leads you into organizations for help
ing others outside Of your own circle.
Bear US witness, that you are not the men
and women who are relied on for per-
forming the duties of society. If we were
all like yoa,-if all were controlled Ky
the ideas that dominate you,-if. all
shirked the duties of social and civil life
like yOu,-if all were as much untitled bv
their ideas and their emplOyments as you
are for carrying the great burdens of So
ciety, what do you suppose would become
of the country, and what would become
of the world2


Now if there is anything in art that can
take the place of religion, we should like
to see it. II there is anything in culture
that can take the place Of religion, it has
not yet revealed itself. Culture is CEN
tered in self. Self is the god and self is
the model of all culture Why should it
not ultimate in sclfishness? Culture as
sumes that wnat is present in a man
needs only to be developed and harmon
lied to lift character to its highest point.
and life to its highest issues. It carries
mo- idea of self-surrender, which Is the
first fact in practical religion of any val
liable sort, and the first fact in all good
development. Greece and Rome had
plenty Of culture, and are still our teach
ers in art, but the beauty that looked upon
them from every hill and gate and temple
could NOT save them from their vices.
By and by, culture will learn how power
less it is to make man that shall be
worth the making, and what poor lnstru-
ments science and art are for uprooting
the sel6shness that rules the world. 1t
IS slowly learning this, and men who
have bowed lew to her have been touched
with that divine discomfort which moth
ing but religion can allay.--Dr. j. G.
Holland; Scribner for July.
Year: 1878

A fatal case Of yellow fever occurred
in st. Louis, Jnly 3lst. A boy fifteen years OF
age who had been acting second CLARK on
board the steamer Commonwealth being the
victim. The boy contracted the disease on
board West India vessel in New Orleans, but
was not taken Ill until after his arrival in st.
Lonis.
Year: 1878

A meeting of the Cabinet was held
Tuesday, July, 10Th at which there was some
conversation respecting customs affairs in
New York, but nothing is learned definitely as
to what further action the government will
take: The condition Of the national finances
was the subject of attention. Mr.. Sherman
spoke of events Of public character connected
with his recent visit to New York.
Year: 1878

There was an unusual heavy move


ment in United States bonds in New York on
the 10th inst. The sales at one bank alone
amounted to nearly four millions. It was
stated number Of government bond sales
are being made for European accounts and
that bonds amounting to three millions have
been disposed OF in the city in the past week.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, June l5-Governor
Noyes, United States Minister to France.
arrived this evening on the steamship
City of Richmond.


General Noyes was met on the land
ing by General Knapp, who was adjutaut
geDersl OF Ohio during his gubernatorisl
term, and by several other friends. In
conversation with representative OF the
Associated Press touching the matter
that brought him back be SAID: IL went to
Florida for no purpose on earth except
TO ascertain the vote of the State sn1 to
sec whether or not the popular vote had
been cast for the Republican electors.
stated 70 the two Republican members
of the Canvassing Board that al we
wanted was an honest decision.
| never made any promise to
McLin or any other member ofthe Board
nor did l suggest any possible reward or
recognition in case Governor Hayes
should be finally declared elected, and as
far rs McLiu Is concerned l never saw
him alone one moment in my life before
the vote of Florida had been cast. l
am now informed for the first time
that even McLin does not say
that l made him any promises
Had l known that before leaving
Paris, 1 should not have demanded a
subpoena, but should have remained IN
France 10 attend TO my public duties. I
do not care to be more specific, IS it
would perhaps be in bsd taste, consider.
ing that am so soon to give my sworn
statement TO the committee. In the course
of further conversation, the Minister said
that while he did not care st this time TO
be interviewed, he had nothing what
ever to conceal. He also expressed
the hope that every politician in The
North, whether Democratic on Republl.
can, would be ssbpensed, who had visit
ed Florida on this business, as that would
be only fair to all parties interested or
concerned in the matter. 1t was GER
tsiniys due 10 him, hes had been so con-
spicuously named IN the preamble Of
Potter's resolution.


Minister Noyes will leave for Wash
ipgton tomorrow morning. He will
visi. Ohio before returning to France.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, June l5.-The report OF
the committee of conference on the army
appropriation bill, as formally agreed on,
leaves the army at 25 600 men. The sec
tion transferring the Indian burosu from
the Interior to the War Department is
stricken out. The organization OF the
army is to remain for the present as it is,
but d commission is TO be ap-
pointed to consider and report on
this subject to Congress. The clause re.
lating to the use of the army as posse
conetat,ls was amended by emitting the
words except when especially authorized
by law