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Year: 1877

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Tie stock speculation during the week ending to-day
was much characterized by irregularity and no
little fevershness There satisfactory dence that
the leading operators have succeeded in selling large
portion of their stocks. The men who would be bears"
If they dared, wish to hasenthe time when their
judgment may again guide their operations. but they
appear 70 thirk that they help the "bulls in
loading AID interfere al every opportunity 10 pre-
vent the Accomplishment OF that operation There is
doubt that every thing except market ready for the
unloading.


II sill holds that the speculation instead OF extend
ing grows more and local. while the flow OF stocks
inn Wall street does The total transactions
Tor the slightly above those of the preceding
week but void of special features. Tie su9olned
taDle shows the
Year: 1877

Things Bis1arok Cant DO.


Bismarck can't get up . 4th Of July
celebration, unless the hightoned peo-
pie start one and get the crowd excited.


Bismarck can't get up school meet
ing with : corporal's guard in attend
ance for the'purpose Of voting bonds to
build school house, voting taxes for
school purposes, OF for any purpose
whatever, except to abate tax.


Bismarck can do the handsome thing
in almost any line when the people get
interested, but it would take 90 earth
quake to shake them up and waken them
to the importance of providing decent
accommodations for the city schools.
Over eighty pupils in attendance and
not room enough or ventilation enough
to make the players in game Iof draw
poker comfortable The law authorizes
an issue of bonds to build . school
house, but there are not ten men in the
city who care enough for our school
interests to get together, on . call Of
the proper authorities, for the purpose
of providing funds for school house or
school purposes. IL
Year: 1877

MOTH PATCHES ON THE FACE.-Bathe
the face two or three times a day in
borax water teaspoonful of powdered
borax in basin of warm water.


A CURE FOR RHEUMATISM
Juice is recommended as a certain cure
for acute rheumatism. It is given in
quantities of a tablespoonful to twice
the quantity of cold water, with sugar,
every hour.


MUTTON CHoPs.-Buy them nicely
trimmed, comely in shape. Dip them
in egg, roll in bread crumbs and fry
nicely brown. Season with butter, salt
and pepper. Another recipe is to broil
them over a clear fire, saving the juice
as carefully as possible and making a
gravy, in which is stirred a teaspoon of
tomato catsup, or a similar quantity of
Worcestershire sauce.


IRONING iron smoothly purchase
a few cents worth of beeswax, and rub
it over the leaves OF thin pamphlet,
which have been heated through with
the fat-iron; keep it with the ironing
sheet and blanket, and when the fat
irons are to be used, rub them over the
waxed surface, then wipe gently on a
Year: 1877

Brigham Young is described by the
absolutely latest correspondent sent to
interview him as a man without any
thing holy or devout in his address or
manner, and with no calm composure
and dignity, such as might be expected
of one believing in his inspiration as q
leader sent of God. On the contrary,
we are told that his bull-neck and rotund
figure give him an exceedingly animal
appearance, while his furtive, cunning
eye, and restive, uneasy manner, impress
the stranger unfavorably. Brigham
talked freely, and said that he and his
little band of $50 followers did not, as is
popularly supposed, suddenly come
upon the promised land in their wan
derings in 1847. They had sent Orson
Pratt and others ahead to spy out the
country, and they knew just what they
we're going to. AS to the peculiar insti-
tuition of polygamy, he contends that it
is calculated to produce a strong, vigor-
GUS, and pure race OF children, since
each wife can give her individual care
and guidance to her offspring. 1t is not
known that Brigham's father was po-
lygamist
Year: 1877

An accident recently occurred at Berea,
O., the like of which perhaps never be-
fore happened. Some workmen were
raising a block of stone out of quarry
by means ..of derrick, and had got
ten the stone in position to be
dropped, and let go the power, when
a boy named Date Sabin, about II years
of age, got caught in the rope spool, and
was dragged into the coil, head fore
most. The stone-two tons In weight
had just started, and nothing could pre-
vent the calamity. The spool whirled
thirteen times, wrapping the rope as
many times about the boys body, crush
ing every bone in his body except IN one
leg from the knee down. The weight of
the stone was upon each coil, and OF
course death was caused instantly, and
it took some time to get the rope off,
Year: 1877

Before you listen to gossips, remem-
Der that those who talk to you of others
in private, confidential way will do the
same to others OF yourselves. The male
or female sneak has no openness or re-
liability, and is always engaged in the
delightful acrobatic performance of self
raising by boot-straps.
Year: 1877

THE TRIBUNE Office is the only one in the City
run by steam power, and has the largest and
best appointed Job Printing Department. Par
ticular attention paid to orders for fine work
Year: 1877

SOME young men of Front Roy
Virginia, have contracted with tie
fish commissioner Of the state to ca .cn
one thousand black bass from the
Shenandoah river to stock streams
that have none.
Year: 1877

The great want of the age is men.
Men who are not for sale. Men who
will condemn wrong in friend or foe,
in themselves as well as others. Men
whose consciences are as steady as the
needle to the pole. Men who will
stand for right if the heavens totter
and the earth reels. Men who tell
the truth and can look the world and
the devil right in the eye. Men that
ueitLer flag nor finch. Men who can
have courage without shouting to it,
Men in whom the courage of ever
lasting life runs still, deep and strong
Men who do not cry or cause thei1
voices to be heard on the streets, but
will not fail nor be discouraged till
judgment be set in earth. Men who
know their places and can fill them
Men who will not tell lie. Mer
who are not too lazy to W ork, nor toe
proud to be poor.
Year: 1877

Economy is the order of the hour


and every expenditure, however small


is expected to give return in full
value. Every family requires one
good reliable family newspaper. II
such an article can be procured for
less than one cent for each working
day in the year we are not aware of it.
A Family Newspaper should contain
carefully-prepared summary of all
the news of the day, both Religious
and Secular and if arranged so that
the two departments may be separ-
ated and read by two individuals at
the same time, so much the better.
The Fanelly Newspaper should haye
attractive reading and information for
the various members of household.
Some portion should be devoted, every
week, to religious and moral improve
ment, to current secular news, to agri-
culture, commerce, markets, finance,
to general literature, &C., with sps-
cial department for the young. Above
all the Family Newspaper should be
perfectly pure, and free from any con-
taminating influences in its reading
matter or in its advertisements. Too
much attention cannot be paid to this
feature, when the press is flooding
the country with so much that is vile
and pernicious. To crown all, the
Family Newspaper should be antram-
melled by any affilation with sect or
party, and should be free to give all
the good news from and about all the
world. If such a Family Newspaper
can be had for one cent day, it should
be taken by every family in the land


Such a Family Newspaper, in every
respect, we find in the New YORK
OBSERVER, now commencing its fifty


sixth volume. Progressive, compre-
hensive, sound, reliable, pure, it is
just what is needed in your household.
Send 1918 for a year TO The New
YORK OBSERVER, 81 Park Row, New
York. Sample copies are sent free.
Year: 1877

he, too, reaching for poor Floppy,
and not less successfully than the
fat old gourmand on the ground.
The few fes that the spider lures
are scarcely worth mentioning by
the side Of the hosts that are de-
stroyed by Floppy's other enemies,
yet the spider gets the name of q
rapacious murderer, even the
school-books concentrating their
fire upon that really temperate, in
dustrious creature. Poor Floppy,
if he could talk, would perhaps
even speak favorably of his Web
working foe, through comparison.
Considering that his prosecutors
and destroyers are assailing him in
every moment of his life, Floppy
is not half so vicious and reckless
as a man would be under similar
circumstances. Driven by his in
satiablel appetite into all sorts OF
perilous excesses, and meeting death
on every hand, as he does, he is
rather entitled to sympathy than


blame. ~
Year: 1877

Few insects are more generally
detested than Floppy fly. We hardly
ever reflect, however, on the num-
Der of enemies he has out Of doors,
and how the house is not merely
his banquet hall, but his place for
refuge. Watch toad for an hour
some afternoon, and see how many
flies he draws into his capicious in
terror in that time, as he raids
through the grass. Why, a single
toad is looked upon in Aydom as
worse than a whole season of Asiatic
fy-cholera. While the toad in the
grass is making such havoc, there
is the long, green mantis above,
drawing himself stealthily but
rapidly along the climbing vines,
Year: 1877




mon law and under the statute law
Of the State, to be indicted as COM
mon felons. And when they re-
fused to heed the lawful command
Of the sheriff to disperse the offense
was aggravated, and a second in
dictment, viz, for riot, was rem
dered liable. And, again, in forcibly
OBTAINING and virtually holding
possession of the property of the
company and of shippers and con-
signees, they again deliberately and
wiltully violated the criminal code
and rendered themselves liable to
indictment for grand larceny, for
here they We're with the stolen
property in their possession.


Here, then, were men who had
thrice violated the law, who had
repeatedly refused to disperse and
surrender to its rightful owners
the property of which they held
unlawful possession, the recipients
on every hand Of the most etfusive
and encouraging public SYM
pathy; and this, too, net from one
particular set Of men, but from al.
most every class Of men in the
community, aud-to their overlast-
ing disgrace be it recorded-from
none more heartily than from many
Of our citizen soIdiery. These men
had been called ont, when all othor
measures had failed, to maintain
the majesty of the law, which they
had solemnly sworn to uphold and
enforce when called upon so to do
by the constituted authority of the
commonwealth. 1t was not their
place to utter one syllable in regard
to the merits of the controversy,
and to do so was unsoldier-like and
reprehensible in the last degree.


They were there to preserve the
peace and enforce the law, and


their duty first, last and all the


time was to speak to nobody in re-


gard to the strike and to obey or
ders. What many of them did dc


has been written in letters of living


shame, Is it any wonder that all
, this incOmprehelsible folly on the


part of the citizens was followed by
riot, carnage, pillage, anarchy and
, ruin? We think the only cause
for any wonder is that the dreadful
work of murder and devastation
stopped when it did and whore il


did. We owe our escape from ut


ter ruin to a merciful heaven, anC
/, not to any action on our own part
! Will the lesson be needed? Have
: we learned enough of the terrible
' Judgment, swift and sure as the
I. lightning's bolt to visit those whC
! prove false to the plainest princi


Piles Of good government; those who
! not only tolerate but encourage in
/ fractions Of the law, and counter


ance resistance to the execution O
{ its mandates; those who stand BY
+ and see justice mocked and spa
{. upon? If SO, it will be well fol
] this bligbted city. If not, then le
/. it go forth to the world, and let al
4 mankind know, that the onc'
! great, rich and glorious Iron Git,
Of the New Hemisphere is bounC
: hand and foot in the chains of men
q tai and moral slavery, and has beer
I sold and delivered to the devil o
\ agrarian lawlessness for a Thousand
years f"
Year: 1877

Professor Garrod lately held q
reception in the monkey-house at
the Geological Gardens, and dis
coursed to the people about the
anthropoid apes. The professor
made it plain that the anthropoids
are the simial aristocracy, even if
We may not more accurately call
them our poor human relations.
AS prosector of the Geological
Society, the professor stated that
he had dissected seventy apes out
Of the anthropoidal class, and one
of them exhibited the vermiform
appendage OF the cecum, or blind
gut, which is characteristic Of man.
But the anthropoids have it quite
humanity developed. The hands
and feet of an orang recently dead
were exhibited along with those Of
man, and exhibited the same
structure. The manner and customs
OF gorillas were described from
authentic observations, and their
domestic arrangements, their sleep
ing hammocks, and use Of stones
in cracking nuts increased the i'm
preston made that this animal
is very human.like; indeed,
Professor Garrod showed that the
structural resemblances between
the anthropoid apes and man are
so close that the reason for the
mental and moral differences re-
mains still an unsolved problem.
Perhaps the most striking and i'm
portant portion of his discussion
was that in which he proved that
the vocal organs of man are pres
ent also in the anthropoid ape. The
ape does not converse, and yet the
difference between his vocal appa-
ratus and that of man is 80 in6n-
itesimal as to defy observation. 1t
is to this point, however, that phys
iologioal Investigation must Row be
particularly directed.


Professor Huxley declares that,
to his mind, the only thing that
promises to explain the mental diff
ference between the anthrOpoid
ape and man is this phenomenon Of
language. This he said in a lee.
ture at the Royal College of Sur
geons. Language implies consulta-
ton, comparison of experience
necessarily embodies itself in the
written form, becomes the store
house of facts, results in differences,
and in the wisdom which can con-
troll and modify nature where the
dumb creature is controlled and
modified by nature. BY the power
of intelligent and purposed selec-
ton and combination so secured
by the ability to talk, the
animal so endowed might gra-
dually build up better brain
on the same structure as that pos
sessed by an animal that could not
talk, and so could not obtain the
complete cooperation of his fellows
for the work of improvement. Il
it should be ultimately determined
by Psychologists that there is abso,
lutely no difference between the
vocal organs of the anthropoid anG
man, refuge would have to be taker
in the hypothesis that there is some
point in the animal brain CORE


spending to the vocal power, which
does not exactly rhyme with The
latter in the anthropoid, but does
rhyme with it in the man. M. D
Conway's Letter to the Cincinnati
ftot,t m nupiol
Year: 1877

Mary Flood was a comely young Irish
woman, unfaithful to her husband. On
Sunday morning Flood, maddened by
finding his wife in another mans apart
ments, pursued her with the first weapon
he could lay his hands upon, an iron
reamer, and killed her on the threshold
of the home she had dishonored. The wo-
man is dead and the murderer afterward
gave himself up to justice, his own con-
science being his pursuer.


Almost similar history of misery and
crime has Just reached it's elimination in
Philadelphia. -Four years ago beautl-
full girl of respectable parentage was
tempted from her home to q career of
vice. During these four years her
brother, decent, honorable, middle
aged man, has followed her in vain,
striving with tenderness, arguments, ap-
peals of every kind, to bring her back to
q pure life. The woman's nature was
hopelessly corrupted. If she returned
for a season, temptation was waiting
near at hand, and she fell again each
time lower than before. The brother
was driven by grief and shame at last to
drink, and few weeks ago, while crAzed
with rage and liquor he discovered this
poor Alice, who had been SO dear to him
in his childhood, in m Infamous house,
and shot her through the heart. So this
woman also is dead. Another innocent,
happy home is held up to public shame,
stained indelibly with crime and blood.
The brother, "whose load" as the Judge
said while sentencing him, chad been
heavier than many men are called upon
to BEAR" is condemned to wear out the
best years of his life in the penitentiary.
The seducer can read the story at his
ease in the morning paper, quite satisfied
that there is no point where the crude,
cropping fingers of the law can touch him.
Even public opinion has no heavier pun
ishment for him than half amused re-
buke.


The law and society provide prompt
remedies for the injuries inflicted by
blows with iron clubs or pistol shots !;
but of hurts which go down into the soul
and life, corrupting the one and running
the other, they have no cognizance.
Hence it may be in place even for a
merely secular journal to remind its
readers now and then that there is a
reality more mighty and enduring than
crime in tenement houses or it's punish
ment in courts ; q wider, more stable life,
in which the errors of this perplexed
world will be set right in calm and GER
ta;nty.-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1877

Representative Maish, Of Pennsylva-
MIA, introduced in the United States
House n constitutional amendment en-
bodying rather cumbrous but ingenious
plan for dividing the mass vote Of State
for President by the number of electoral
votes possessed by the State, and credit
ing to each candidate his share of the
electoral votes of such State obtained on
the basis of the electoral average reached
by the division of the mass vote. For
example, let the mass vote of New York
be 100000; this divided by thirty
three would, in round numbers, give 3d.
900 as the electoral average. The Hayes
vote divided by this average would have
shown sixteen electoral votes for the Re-
publican candidate, and the Tilden vote
SO divided would have given the remain
ing seventeen votes to the Democrats.
The plan has at least the merit of insur-
ing q certain recognition to minorities.
Year: 1877

Witnesses are still testifying about the
Ashtabula bridge. Expert after expert is
called to add to the evidence that the
bridge was not safe.


What is the use of nil this? Every
body knows the bridge was not safe.
1t could not have been, Or it would not
have broken down. The giving way of
the bridge, rs if it had been made Of
glass, settled that question. Now let
the rich company which carried passen-
gers over this dangerous bridge be made
to pay, in the fullest measure Of dam
ages, 80 far as the poor compensation of
money can 60 to offset the destruction of
priceless human life.


But that is not all. The more inter-
esting and more serious question re-
mains, whether human beings were will
fully permitted to be burned up, after
the bridge fell, for the purpose of saving
the insurance on the cars, and diminish
ing the liability in damages, or for any
other purpose?


It has been proven that engines were
on hand, which could have been used,
and they were not used. It has been
shown that many lives were destroyed
which could have been saved; that from
gross neglect, no matter from what
cause resulting, the flames were per-
mitted to burn on and consume human
lives and human beings, when they
might have been extinguished. A deaf
ear was turned to the dying, when Wa
ter, easily supplied, would have rescued
them.


This is one of the blacklist, apparently
one of the most fendish, occurrences
ever recorded. 1t is to the bottom of
this that the investigation should 60.
As to the dangerous condition of the
bridge, you might as we'll introduce evil
dence to show that it was not dry time
during Noah's food


How about the willful or permissive
destruction by fire? That's the question.
-Nc,o York SWa.
Year: 1877

Lay your finger on your pulse and
know that at every stroke some immortal
passes to his Maker; some fellow being
crosses the river of death ; and if we
think of it we may we'll wonder that it
should be SO long before our turn comes.


Half of all who live die before seven
teen years. -.


Only one person in ten thousand lives
to be hundred years old, and but one
in hundred reaches sixty years.


The married live longer than the
single.


There is one soldier to every eight
persons, and out of every thousand born
ninety-tive weddings take place.
Year: 1877

ga kiss" says writer, els a seal ex-
pressing sincere attachment - the
pledge of future union-a present taking
the impression of an ivory coral press
crimson balsam for love wounded hearts. "
We had no idea, says the Norristown
Herald, that kiss, when dissected,
would prove such simple thing. I'm
agine young man, as he bids his girl
adieu on the front step ut three o'clock
A. NJ. on Monday, darting back, as she is
about to close the door, to snatch some
"crimson balsam for a love wounded
heart" And girl might ask her lover
for some of that balsam right before the
old folks, and they would think it was a
new kind of gum drop.
Year: 1877

"the game is made !" cleared away his
piles of coin and sacks of dust, his
spread and himself, and surrendered the
table to the uses of the election. Then
the polls were held until they closed and
the count was duly proclaimed. But
Carpenter failed of an election.


Charley Shaw was not in condition to
officiate after m early hour of the after
noon. His arduous and very responsible
duty during the Viua vOce voting had
required frequent stifeners, and by the
time he found himself let out by the sub
stitution of the ballot system he was SO
overcome as to need rest, or at least
Year: 1877

GRANT has sailed for Europe. His
departure was characteristic of his whole
Presidential life. From the time of his
first Inauguration until the close of the
eight years on the 4th of March he was
surrounded by crowd of hungry Office
seeking, money-getting people. They
used him and made money out of him,
while he tried to use them, and perhaps
he thought he was using them. They
have had jolly time with him for the
last week. 1t looked like the frolic of a
sophomore during vacation, spending
time and money among the more reck-
less of his school mates. The city of
Philadelphia has been saddled by an ex-
pense in the matter which almost any
gentleman would have refused. The old
offlce-holders added to the frolic by hiring
old steamers and giving their old confed-
crate at wine-drinkings generous send
off in return for the many fat jobs they
had received at his hands. Goodbye
Grant ; you have caused the country the
loss of many lives, and taxed it with
many millions to put in the pockets of
the Whiskey Ring and Custom House
thieves. They will miss you, doubtless,
and swear the country never had so fine
a fellow. But the poor laborer who is
taxed for these scandalous proceedings
will thank his God that we have got out
of the clutches of the rascally crew that
lowered around the White House, of
which Babcock, Belknap, Leet & Stocking,
Mcdonald, ct al were the leaders.
Year: 1877

Gen. Sherman is professional soldier,
the actual commander of the army, with
pay and emolumsnts aggregating eigh-
teen thousand dollars a year. He is
also good deal of politician, and has
no taste for hiding his light under a
bushel. He is troubled with grievance,
and never loses chance to Venhlate it,
as he did the other day at the anniver-
sary dinner of the Chamber of Com
merce, in very bad taste and with glar-
ing disregard of facts.


He undertook to criticise and to sneer
at. the economy which was carried
through by the Democratic House of Re.
presentatives in the last Congress, after
a bitter opposition by the Senate and the
Administration, by way of showing that
the army had been badly treated. 1t il
the habit of a certain class of officers to
make light of every effort at retrench-
ment, especially when it applies to their
own pay and grandeur. They look upon
themselves and the officers of the navy
as belonging to an aristocracy which the
Government is bound to maintain with
out regard to expense.