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Year: 1877

Missouri g per cent bonds are now
quoted in New York at 100. The pre-
MUM on these bonds is now equal to
gold and the fact is an unquestiouab!e
evidence that six per cent interest is
enough for any state, county or munici-
pality to pay upon its Indebtedness
Year: 1877

We ask honest republicans to contrast
the action Of their party in Florida with
that OF the democratic congressional
committee in South Carolina, who, a.
soon as they became satisfied that
Hayes had received g majority in that
state. frankly made the fact known. even
before they made their official report.
Year: 1877

This ls the room where she slept.


Only year ago.
Quiet, and carefully swept,


Blinds and curtains like snow.
There by the bed in the dusky gloom


SHE would kneel with her tiny clasped hands, and pray
Here is the little white Of q room
with the fragrance fled awayl
Nelly grandfather's pet,


with her wise little face
seem to hear her yet


Singing about the place;
But the crowd roll on, and the streets are drear,
And the world seems hard with bitter doom,
And Nelly Is singing elsewhere, and here
Is the little white rose of a room.
Why. II she estood Just there,


As she used 10 do,
with her long, light, yellow hair


And her eyes Of blue
II she stood, say, at the edge Of the bed,
And ran to my side with living touch.
Though know she is quiet, and buried, and dead,
should not wonder much;
For she young, you know
Only years old,
And she loved me, loved me so,


Though was gray aud old;
And her face wise and sweet to see,
And 1t still looked living when she lay dead;
And she used to plead for mother and me
BY the side Of that very bed
wonder, now, u she


Knows am standing here,
Feeling wherever she be-


We hold the place dear9
1t cannot be that she sleeps too sound
still in herlittle nlghtgown drcst,
Not to hear my footsteps sound
In the where she used to rest.
have felt hard fortunes stings,
And battled In doubt and strife,
And never thought much OF things
Beyond this human life;
But cannot think that my darling died
Like great strong men, with their prayers untrue
Nay rather. she sits at Gods own side,
And sings as she used to dot -Chdmbers' Journal.
Year: 1877

need not leave the iostllng world,


Or wait TIL daily tasks are Ger,
To fold my hands in secret prayer


within the cose-shnt closet door.
There Ia viewless cloistered room,


As high as heaven, as fair as day
Where, though my feet may Join the throng,
My soul can enter in and pray.
when have banlshed wayward thoughts,
OF sinful works hefrutful seed;
when folly wins my ear no more,


The closet door Is shut indeed
Nohuman step approaching breaks
The hlissful silence Of the place,
No shadow steals across the light


That fails from my Redeemer's face.
And never through those crystal walls
The clash Of life can pierce It's way,
Nor ever can human ear


Drink in the spirit words | say.
one hearkening even cannot know
When have crossed the threshold Ger,
For he alone who hears my prayer
Has heard the shutting Of the door. Selected.
Year: 1877

AN UPPER SET OF TEETH FOR S.
To those desiring such, we can furnish
"A full upper set of artificial teeth for
eight dollars, accurately adapted to
the palate, and equal in appearance,
quality aud finish To any set of cheap
teeth made i'm or west OF New York
city.


We regret to aid in supplying
low priced teeth-and hitherto have
not dealt in them-regarding it TO he
detrimental to ourselves rs well as to
those desiring dental services. But as
there seems to be an urgent demand
for that class of dentistry, in order to
be obliging, we accept the situation,
and await the censure that will in
evitably follow.


CARRIER Bios, Dentists,


tt City Hall Building.
Year: 1877

The largest business that has been
done In the boot and shoe line in the
past few years has been at the City
Hall Shoe Store within the last year.
The reason is they have kept the kind
Of goods to suit ali and have sold them
at prices which defy competition.
They propose to keep such goods In
the future and sell them ut such low
prices that they will not fail to suit
any one who comes in.
Year: 1877

THE Board of Supervisors, AT last
session, endorsed by resolution the de-
cision of the County Superintendent
not to date back Teachers certificates
to cover time taught without one, and
and also that third-grade certificate
shall not be issued more than three
times to the same person-after that
ii must bc better one or none.
Year: 1877

At the City Hall Shoe Store is the
largest and best stock of boots and
shoes in the county. Their large trade
with discounting their bills enables
house i'm town. They will not sell you
a split-leather boot for kip boot, but
will tell you first what kind of goods
you are buying. Call and see them
and you will find them square men to
deal with.
Year: 1877

WHAT A LADY SAYs.-I am sure
no cooking stove that ever was made
has given so great satisfaction As the
Charter Oak. The arrangements of
the tiaes is such as to always insure good
draft and quick uniform baking which
enables housekeepers to do large
amount of kitchen work with mod
crate quantity of fuel; the reservoir is
unusually large and supplies all the
hot water required.
Year: 1877

Step intokhe City Hall Shoe Store
and see how cheap they are selling
boots and shoes. They don't ask you
to buy until you are satisfied you can't
do better In the same quality Of goods.
If you give them one trial we are sat
isfied that in the future you will do all
your trading i'm the boot and shoe line
with them. 1t il, without any doubt,
the cheapest boot and shoe store in
Upton.
Year: 1877

ADDITIONAL. X. Starrett is build
ing an addition on the north side OF
the Palmer house, coming up to the
street front. The first floor will con-
tain "A commodious hotel office and
the second floor will be divided into
pleasant sleeping apartments.
Year: 1877

Again they have cut down prices on
boots and shoes at City Hall Shoe
Store and are selling them cheap
er than ever to make room for new
goods which will be coming in soon.
Now Is the time to buy boots and
shoes. Don't fail to give IL. l.. Dean
q call while these goods are going OF
30 cheap.
Year: 1877

NEW GooDs. new goods. The first
invoice of new spring goods just ariv-
ed at the City Hall Shoe Store and
lots more coming; now Is the time 10
buy boots and shoes cheap to make
room for the new goods.
Year: 1877

John Safley, Jr., caught n huge


old she wolf the other day with dose
of "cold pzen." Now if he had
caught her three or four days later


there would have been ten of her; and
the question before the house is as to
whether Auditor Carroll should pay


him the bounty on ten wolf scalps, or
one wolf scalp. Respectfully referred
TO the Burr Oak debating society.
Year: 1877

EDITOR ADyEgTISER:-l would
like TO intrude upon your time little,
as | find i'm a late issue of your paper
l have been misrcpresented somewhat
in regard to the sheep business in this
part Of the country, One writer says,
can double my flock nearly every
year III wool and increase, but he is
somewhat mistaken, as | never have
intended to convey such an idea, and
| hardly think ii could he done in any
country; but do say a man can take
flock ofgood ewes say lo)l h cad and,
with good management, can make
them net him over fifty per cent on
the investment. would count II
about in the following manner:
Year: 1877

From the N. Y. Journal Of Commerce


The escape of a man from justice
only by virtue of the statute of limita
tion leaves him morally as black as if
convicted of the offense charged Ex-
Assemblyman Lord has been released
from the penalties fairly his due for
the bribery of which he was convict
ed--a general term of the Supreme
Court at Rochester having nulliHed
the verdict of jary and reversed the
decision of the court below by declar-
ing that his crime was covered by
that convenient statute. 1t may be
said that justice should be content
with this action of the court-that
Lord is still left disgraeed man, and
that should suffice. But Attorney
General Fairchild takes another view
of the affair, and we agree with him.
He thin that the moral of the Lord
bribery business will not be complete
till the criminal is properly punished
by going to prison and doing for the
State five or less years of hard and
useful labor. Therefore he requests
the District Attorney Of Erie county
to appeal to the higher tribunal. The
Supreme Court at Rochester stood
two to one In favor of the decision re.
leasing Lord, but we know enough OF
an elective judiciary not to accept
even those odds as proof conclusive
of the decision. If one judge dissent
ell, that fact warrants the hope tha
the Court of Appeals may yet send
Lord where he belongs-to prison. HI
is under another Indictment, which
ought to be pressed at once, whateve
becomes of the case which has SO ia
failed. AS the Attorney-General fore
bly, remarks. elf such crimes rs Lord'l
cannot be, or are not, punished wneI
the proof is so clear our governmen


is wretched thing and its auminis
tration of Justice contemplate"
Year: 1877

Collector Simmons, OF Boston, IS not a
fool. He dosen't take much stock in the
civil service order himself, but it was not
that order tnat prevented his taking part


In the campaign. 81 have never" he
writes. chad the remotest idea that the


presidential order prevented an office
holder from expressing bis views. Such
construction seems to be very absurd.


know from the lips Of the President him
self snat no such construction was ever
intended, and for that reason am doing
everything which lies in my power, short
OF public speaking, to aid the reelection
of Governor Rice"
Year: 1877

A curious form Of wager was once


hit upon by oldQ---a familiar sobriquet


by which the Duke of Queonabury was


commonly known 10 the sporting world.


The Duke was famous for occentricities


in the betting way. The match he


made 70 drive carriage nineteen miles


In one hour without changing either Of
the thoroughbred horses with which he
started, made a sensation at tho time,
and the actual achievement Of this feat
was perhaps ~ remarkable as anything
Of the kind IN the annals Of coaching.


But the wager to which reference was
made was Of more original character
than this, and IN time when railroads
were not thought Of was certainly MI
indication Of no little inventive talent.
He made bet that he would have y
letter conveyed fifty miles within an
hour In order to do this, he caused
the manuscript to be inclOsed in a crick.
ct ball, stationed expert cricketes at
intervals over certain distance, and
the niissive, being thrown from one to
the other, was delivered at the end Of
the journey within the stipulated time.
A very good story is told Of this noble
man w which he very neatly check.
mated Che vagariea Of certain apecnlators
who secretly offered his grace's jockey
q large srlu Of money to lose a certain
race. The jockey appeared to entertain
the,proposal, but quietly carried infor-
nation Of it to his employer, who at
once told him 70 take the money, and
that be would bear him harmless. The
money was taken, and books werc made
accordingly, hut to the horror Of tho
entorpriSing biacklegs, tho Duke him
self appeared on the scene as the horses
came 70 the post, and quickly divested
himself Of q great coat, was found to be
in riding attire. eThis Il very nice
horse" said his grace. Il think ] will
ride myself" And he did ii, and won
without a struggle
Year: 1877

lMNS. A1icr


judge pitman has 3 habit Of slipping
his wulI under his pillow when he
goes to bed The other night somehow
it slipped down, and as the Judge was
restless it gradually worked its way
downward toward the foot Of the bed.
After bit, while he was lying awake,
his foot touched il, and it felt very cold;
he was surprised and scared and, jump
ing from bed, he said


By gracious, Maria there's toad
Or snake or something under the covers
l touched it with my foot"


Mrs, Pitman gave u loud scream, and
was out on the floor in an instant.


"Now, don't go TO hollering and walk
ing up the neighbors," said the Judge,
+" You go and get me broom or some
thing, and wen fix the thing mighty
quick"


Mrs Pitman got the broom and gave
it to the Judge, with the remark that
she felt as If snakes were creeping all
up and down her legs and back.


80, nonsense, Maria Now you turn
down the covers slowly, while / hold
the broom and bang it. Put a bucket
of water alongside the bed, too, SOS we
can shove it in and drown it."


Mrs. Pitman fixed the bucket and
gently removed the covers. The Judge
held the broom uplifted, and as soon as
the black ribbon Of the watch was re-
vealed he cracked away three or four
times with his broom. Then he pushed
the thing off into the bucket. Then
they took the bucket to the light to in
yestigate the matter. When the Judge
saw what it was, he said.


1 might've known that. Just like
you women, to so screeching and fuss
ing about nothing. Who's going to
pay me for that watchl It's utterly
ruined


" II was you that made the fuss; not
me" said Mrs. Pitm0n. "You needn't
try to put the blame off on me-


90, hush up, and 60 to bed. Tn
tired Of hearing you blather. Blame
me, if amt going to got a divorce
and emigrate."


And the Judge turned in and growled
at Maria until he fell asleep
Year: 1877

New York City, would seem to
make parks for the rich, If the re-
port Is to ho credited that, the park
commissioners, shave established n
style Of dress to be worn by visitors"
when there. The penalty for omit
ting tho uniform is said to he lncar-
ceratlon, as a vagrant in a New York
dungeon, Are New Yorkers trying
to drive away visitors as well as bus
iness.
Year: 1877

son will scarcely reach 5000, 600, while
the cost for repairs and maintenance
will reach 81 100000.


The fact is becoming patent to
New Workers that even the Erie Ca
nal cannot successfully compete with
the railroads without posing upon
the taxpayers the burden of keeping
the ditch in repairs. Our own canal
has done rather better than the Erie
Canal Of late years. The State has
paid the interest on a debt Of some
thing like seven millions Of dollars
contracted in its construction, but it
has not been obliged to make up any
deficiency in the working expenses.
Nevertheless, PRECISELY the same
causes that rendered the. Erie Canal
an Improbable concern are destroy
ing the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
For weeks during the very season
when freighting ought to be at its
best, there has been a strike among
the bcatmen which has prevented the
passage ola single Oal-carrying boat.
The cause of the trouble is 50 plain
that only those who Wilfully shut
their eyes fail to see it. The BaIti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company
can carry coal from the Alleghany
mines to Baltimore as cheaply as it
can be carried by canal to q Gorge
town. The mining companies pre-
fer to ship by rail, unless the boat
men can offer large inducement in
the way of low freights. The sched-
ule now in force affords them a bare
living, but the railroad can still
underbid them. They appeal to the
Canal ROard for a reduction of tolls,
but they are informed that the pres
ent rates with the reduced tonnage
barely suffice to meet current eXpen-
seS. Then they further COmplicate
the situation and increase their own
miserieS by getting up a strike. For
nearly three weeks they have main
tanned blockade, and allowed no
boat laden with coal to pass down.
One of three things must be done {:
The coal companies must pay higher
freights; if they persist in their re-
fusal to do this the Canal Board must
reduce the tolls; or the bOatmen
must succumb and take what they
can get.


No matter what the result of this
struggle may be, the utter inability
ofthe canal to compete with the rail-
road in the coal traffic has been fully
demonstrated. Every year the one
will grow stronger and the other
weaker, until the final solution of
the problem will be the abandon
ment of a ditch that cannot afford
those who navigate it a decent op-
portunity of making a living, nor yet
pay the cost Of keeping itselfin re-
pair, Canals have had their day
Baltimore Amertcdp.
Year: 1877

-'Tis the good reader that makes the
good book.


We respect ourselves more If we have
succeeded.


Health is the condition Of wisdom, and
the sign is cheerfulness.


Each man has an aptitude born with
him TO do easily some feat impossible TO any
other.


Newton was great man without tele-
graph, or gas, or steam-work, or rubber
shoes, or luciIer matches.


DO not hang a dismal picture on the
wall, aud do not deal with sables and
glooms in your conversation.


There Is not joyful boy or an inno-
cent girl buoyant with fine purposes OF du-
ty, in all the street full of eager and rosy
faces, but a cynic can chill and dishearten
With a single word.


The passion for sudden success is rude
and puerile, just as war, cannons and exc
cuIions are used to clear the ground Of bad,
lumpish, irreclaimable savages, but always
to the damage of the conquerors.


I pronounce that young man happy
who is content with having acquired the
skill which he aimed at, and waits willing
ly when the occasion of making it sppre-
ciated shall arrive, knowing we'll that it
will not loiter.


-Self-trust is the first secret of success,
the belief that if you are here, the authori-
ties OF the universe put you here, and for
cause, or with some task strictly appointed
you in your constitution, and so long as
you work at that you are we'll and success.
ful. 1t by no means consists in rushing
prematurely TO snowy feat that shall
catch the eye and satisfy spectators. 1t is
enough if you work in the right direction.


AS nothing astonishes men so much as
common sense and plain dealing, so moth
ing is more rare in any man than an act of
his own. Any work looks wonderful 10
him except that which he can do. We do
not believe our own thought; we must
serve somebody; we must quote some-
body; we dote on the old and distant; we
are tickled by great names; we import the
religion of other nations we quote their
opinions; we cite their laws.
Year: 1877

THE Son OF NAPoLEoN.-Prince Louis
Napoleon is still one of the most indelatiga-
BILE of students. He is now reading hard
with tutor very distinguished in France.
What most occupies the Princes attention
is a subject with which he naturally desir-
es TO be well acqualnted-the political du-
ties OF the provincial projects. His friends
complain that the Prince does not take suf-
ficient exercise, and goes too little into So
ciety, 1t is no secret that the Empress is
very anxious TO see her son married before
he passes his 22d year. The Madrilenes,
according TO Spanish correspondent, have
made up their minds that his Imperial
Highness IS TO marry the daughter of
Queen Isabella. The truth, however, is
that the selection of wife for the heir of
the Bonapartes is very difficult business
indeed, and that, at present at all events,
the Prince deyotes much more time to
reading than to love. making.
Year: 1877

Outward Bound.
Floating, Goatin g, from dawn TO dusk,
Till the pearly twilight dies,
And the mists float up from the sapphire sea
And cloud all the sapphire skies.
Floating floating, while golden stars
Seem TO float in a sea overhead,
And starry Ii ghts from sea below
Glow orange, and purple and red;
Till we seem floating out from the sea Of life,
The tempests Of passion, the storm-wnds Of strife
out into strange, mysterious space,
Till God shall hnd us landing place.
Drifting drifting to lands unknown,
From world Of owe and care,
Drifting away to home untried
And heart that is waiting there.
o shipi sail swiftly-O waters deepl
Bear me to that haven unknown
Safe to the tender love that waits
To be forever my own;
TIL we drift away from the sea Of life,
The tempests Of passions the storm-winds Of strife
out to 4 haven, out to q shore
Where life is love forevermore.


IGood Words.
Year: 1877

TIE SUN AND THE EARTH.-New evil
dences are now quite numerous Of the con-
nection between disturbances in the solar
atmosphere and in the earth's magnetism.
For the last year or two there have been
few remarkable displays of the aurora, and
that period has been also one of singularly
few sun spots. On the morning after the
great auroral display Of last week, Profess
sor G. A. Young made an examination OF
the SUMS surface, and found the protuber-
ances in the ehromospheFe more active
than they had been previously for four
years.
Year: 1877

A young lady in Albany went up stairs
10 her room on Sunday night, and before
locking the door looked under the bed to
see if there was any one there. There was
somebody there. 1t was a man. With re-
markable presence of mind she quietly
walked down stairs to give the alarm and
the intruder was arrested. Ever since the
Garden was planted, gentle woman has
made It a point to look every night for a
man under her bed. Her discretion and
prudence have at last been vlndicated.
Year: 1877

Is prepared from the true Jamaica Ginger, combined
with choice aromatcs and genuine French Brandy
and is vastly superior to every other Extract or
senee Of Ginger before the public all OF which are
prepared with alcohol by the old process It instantly
relieves
Year: 1877

TIE CHORAL REHEARSAL To-NIGHT.-By
invitation OF the managers Il representative
OF this paper attended the last rehearsal Of
the choruses to be sung at the approaching
festival of music, and found gathered in
the English Lutheran church (which" had
been kindly placed at their disposal) a large
number OF our best vocalists. Although it
was the first rehearsal it was astonishing to
observe how smoothly and grandlv the
works Of the great masters were rendered
by them, the building fairly quivering with
the volume Of sound.


Tonight the second rehearsal will be held,
commencing promptly at O'Clock.


The ladies and gentlemen taking part in
this musical ret1nion seem deeply interested
in its success, as they meet without regard
to weather.


1t is expected that this evening q large
number will be present who did not attend
on Monday evening, under the erroneous
impression that the church would not be
lighted. These will swell the chorus to
probably one hundred and fifty.
Year: 1877

THE CONCERT TUESDAY N1GHT.-O Tues
day night next there will be Il grand concert
at Mozart Hall for the benefit OF the orches-
ira OF the Association. The programme
will be rich and varied, and adapted both
to the tastes OF the lovers Of classical music
and also to the general public. The over
ture selected for this occasion is Auber's
Masanielle. This overture contains many
beautiful passages, and is well cacu-
lated to show to its best advantage the
combined strength OF the orchestra as we'll
as the individual performers. Miss Alice
Swain, the wellknown and popular soprano
of the Monumental church, will appear in a
solo; grand aria from the Magic Flute.
Mozart. In addition to this she will appear
in the Miserere chorus, from Troyatore.
Mrs. Reinhardt, one OF our most popular
sopranos, will also appear in beautiful and
appropriate solo. In fact. the best talent to
be found in the city will add their combined
and individual efforts to make the affair the
grand success that it cannot fail to be. The
orchestra will appear in full force.
Year: 1877

The Street Work.--The work Of grading
Twelfth street west from Perry and Balm
bridge street from Sixth street to Bridge
avenue was being rapidly pushed forward
yesterday.


In consequence Of the late rains Twelfth
street from Perry to McDonough was inn
passabe Wednesday night, compelling the
bridal cortsge to move via Bridge avenue,
five squares below. -
Year: 1877

VESSELS DELAYED.-There are good
many vessels in the dock ready to go out to
the lower wharves to load, but owing tothe
large quantity of lumber and mud deposited
against the lock-gates by the recent freshet
it is impossible to open them at present.
The services OF diver have been procured,
and he will set to work to-day to clear away
the distractions.
Year: 1877

A MARKET CAsE.-In the Police Court
Yesterday morning Mr.. Dodd, a merchant
near the Second Market, was reported for


violating the city ordinance in selling fish


within the precincts of the market, but not


at the tish.market. The Court dismissed


the case on the ground that Mr.. Dodd was
merchant and not marketman.