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Year: 1877

4 WASHINGTON correspondent of the
New York World says the silver bill will
pass the senate; that careful count of
the opponents of the measure shows
that their number does not exceed
twenty-five. The friends of the bill are
elated and assert that they will put it
through the senate by Il handsome ma
Jority as soon rs they can get that body
to come to vote upon it. The presi-
dent, very properly, keeps his views
upon the subject to himself, hence it is
merely conjecture to say that he will
sign the bill or that he will veto it. The
opponents of the measure accept Sec
retary Sherman's well-known hostility
to the bill as proof that the president
will veto it; but the friends of the meas
ure have Matthews and other friends OF
the president from Ohio on their side
and they assert that Hayes Will sign it.
The senate will not likely reach a vote
on the question for some time set.
Year: 1877

ADvIcEs from St. Petersburg say the
minister of war has ordered the prepar
alton of stores for the mobilization OF
the remainder of the army. This does
not seem to indicate 4 feeling that the
Turks are conquered on the part of thi,
official. 1t does, however, indicate de-
termination on the part of Russia to
prosecute the war to the bitter end.


Adyices from Constantinople say that
ut 4 council ut which the sultan was
present, it was agreed that all efforts
should be made to bring about peace
and that Turkey would grant any thing
honorable for the sake of peace. II
was, however, decided that the prosecu-
ton of the war should not be permitted
to stop during peace negotiations.
Year: 1877

TIE savings banks that failed last
week will entail loss upon depositors
Of over three millions of dollars.
These depositors are almost ali poor
people, and their little savings of
which they arc robbed will cause a
great deal of suffering. At Reading,
Pennsylvania, where the loss is two
millions by the breaking of three saw
ing banks, the depositors were largely
miners, and many of them are now
left out of employment and without A
dollar at the beginning of winter.
Surely it is time the government was
taking some action to protect the peo-
pie from such losses.
Year: 1877

IF Russia after the war can obtain
possession of Armenia, or Bulgaria, or
Roumelia, or COnstantinople itself, and
will most assured y not be restrained by
any lack Of a precedent for annexation
after conquest. There is not q great
Power in existence in whose annals she
could not find ample. Justification if
she desired it, and assuredly no reason
able exception could be taken to her
appropriation of the fruits of victory by
the Power which holds Gibralter, Malta
and India Moreover, there is absO-
lutely no reason why the occupation of
Egypt should not be undertaken with
the sanction and consent of Turkey her
self The Turks, to do them justice, care
little or nothing about moral force or
international precedents. What they
want is material aid, and short of armed
assistance, which England is not pre-
pared to give, the service which they
would most value would be peclniary
assistance. AT the present crisis money
is the most urgent need of Turkey, and
there is ground to think that the Porte
would gladly transfer its sllzerain rights
over Egypt to England if they would
purchase the capitalized value of the
reversion of the Egytian tribute. This
tribute in round numbers amounts to
100000 a year, and at thirty years
purchase its value would be Ell, ,000,-
000 As the tribute, however, is al
ready mortgaged for the payment of
the loans Of 1854 and 1871, amounting
to close upon 99,O00,0O0, its salable
value cannot be estimated at more
than e12,000,O0O. For a sum of half
this amount paid down in cash the Porte
would be willing enough to cede to Eng
land the suzerainty Of Egypt.
Year: 1877

A MONUMENT committee has issued an
address to the people Of Indiana in an
effort to erect monument to the mem
ory of Sen Morton Unless this under
taking does better than monument
building generally does in this country
it had better be dropped now. A half
completed monument is not a very
commendable way to perpetuate the
memory of dead statesmen.
Year: 1877

THE good people of Frederick, Maryland,
are making gigantic preparations to receive
the President and the members of the Cabinet
who may accompany him on Thursday next,
on the occasion of his visit to the agricultural
fair to be opened there on that day. This
shows the proper spirit on the part of our
Maryland neighbors, and is one more lesson
added to the many since last March, that 60
to prove the assertion fact that the era OF
good feeling has indeed returned.
Year: 1877

The sure way to miss success is to
miss the opportunity.


Philosophy if rightly defined, is
naught but the love of wisdom.


Hypocrites are beings of darkness dis
guised in the garment of light.


He that keeps his temper is better
than he that can keep carriage.


Though fancy may be the patients
complaint, necessity is often the doctor.


He who will not reason is a bigot,
he who cannot is fool, and he who
dares not is a slave.


If all the year were playing holidays,
to sport would be as tedious as to work !;
but when they seldom come, they are
wished for.


Vanity is our dearest weakness, in
more senses than one q man will sacri-
fee, and starve out all his inclinations to
keep alive that one.


There is nothing evil in life for him
who rightly comphrehends that death is
no evil to know how to die delivers us
from all subjection and constraint.


Like many virtues, hospitality is
practiced in it's perfection by the poor.
If the rich did their share, how would
the woes of this world be lightened


We die every day every moment de-
prives us of a portion of life and advan-
ces us a step toward the grave our
whole life is long and painful sickness.


Death opens the gate of fame, and
shuts the gate of envy after it it un-
looses the chain of the captive, and puts
the bondsman's S task into another mans
hand.


Many an honest Iaan practices upon
himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if
practiced upon another, and in little
different way, to send him to the State
prison.


By what strange law of mind is it
that an idea long overlooked and trod-
den under foot as q useless stone, sud-
denly sparkled out in new light, as a
discovered diamond?


Death alone of the gods loves not
gifts, nor do you need to offar incense
libations. He cares not for altar nor
hymn the goddess of persuasion alone
has no power over him.


Persons who practice deceit and arti-
fee always deceive themselves more
than they deceive others. They may
feel great complacency in view of the
success of their doings ; but they are in
reality casting mist before their own
eyes. Such persons not only make a
false estimate of their own character,
but they estimate falsely the opinions
and conduct of others. No person is
obliged to tell all he thinks but both
duty and self-interest forbid him ever to
make false pretences.
Year: 1877

We are told that a duke of Tuscany
was the first possessor of this pretty
shrub in Europe; and he was so iealously
fearful lest others should enjoy what he
alone wished to possess, that strict
injunctions were given to his gardener
not to give o slip, not so much as a single
flower, to any person. To this command
the gardener would have been faithful,
had not love wounded him by the
sparkling eye of fair but portionless
peasant, whose want of little dowry,
and his poverty, alone kept them from
the hymenial altar. On the birthday of
his mistress he presented her with a
nosegay, and to render the bouquet more
acceptable, ornamented it with branch
of jasmine. The poUer0 fglia, wishing
to preserve the bloom Of this new flower,
put it into fresh earth, and the branch
remained green all the year. In the
following spring it grew, and was
covered with flowers. It fourished and
multiplied so much under the fair
nymph's cultivation, that she was able
to amass little fortune from the sale
of the precious gift which love had made
her; when, with sprig of jasmine in
her breast, she bestowed her hand and
wealth on the happy gardener of her
heart And the Tuscan girls, to this
day, preserve the remembrance of this
adventure, by invariably wearing a nose
gay of jasmine on their wedding day;
and they have proverb which says a
young girl worthy of wearing this nose
gay is rich enough to make the fortune
of a good husband.
Year: 1877

Together we walked in the evening time,
Above us the sky spread golden and clear,
And he bent his head and looked in my eyes,
As if he held me Of all most dear,
Grayer the light grew and grayer still.
The rocks fitted home through the purple


shade
The nightingales sang where the thons stood


high,


AS walked with him in the woodland glade.
And our pathway went through fields of wheat;
Narrow that path and rough the way,
But he was near and the birds sang true,
And the stars came out in the twilight gray.
Softly he spoke of the days long past,
Softly of blessed days to be-
Close to his arm and closer prest-
The cornfeld path was Eden to me.
And the latest CLEANS of daylight died;
My hand in his enfolded lay;
We swept the dew from tie wheat as we passed,
For narrow and narrower wound the way.
He looked in the depths of my eyes and said:
"Sorrow and gladness will come for u.s. sweet ;
But together Wen walk through the fields of


life


Close as we walked through the fields of


wheat"
Year: 1877

Thomas Ballard is now confined i'll the
Albany On. Y penitentiary under sem
tence of thirty years Imprisonment, of
which he has yet over twenty-seven years
to serve. He was convicted of having
in his possession plate from which
counterfeit notes were printed. He now
offers to the government knowledge de.
rived in his business, the application of
which, he says, will render the counter
feiting of its notes impossible in the
future. He says the blue and red fibers
which now mark the paper used are too
easily woven in by hand, and he proposes
to construct machine which will manu-
factrlre paper that cannot be initiated by
any of the ordinary processes. He aims
to supplant the red and blue fibers and
the local strip of color which now marks
the paper used by the government, by
eagles, liberty heads, stars and other
devices which may be selected, to be
struck from some substance having a
metallic appearance and inserted in the
paper in such way as to be ineffaceable.
He processes that his only motive in
urging the adoption of his plan is to
render counterfeiting so difficult that
others will be saved from suffering such
penalties rs have been inflicted upon
him.
Year: 1877

Last Thursday morning rattle was
made up by some of the citizens of Paris
for box of five hundred cigars. There
were twenty-five chances at one dollar a
chance. The plan was that known as
the shotgun plan, in which each man
taking chance puts his mark on the
blank paper surrounding a target. The
target is placed on pivot and whirled,
and while thus whirling is fired at with
gun loaded with small shot. The man
whose mark comes nearest being hit
takes the prize. In this case George
Lefis took chance, but would not put
down his mark until all the other marks
had been placed around the target. He
then went to each of the raffiers and
said A: "You and I have each got a
chance in this cigar rattle let us go in
'cahoot If you get them divide with
me, and if l get them I'll divide with
YOU" This arrangement he made with
eighteen of the chance holders, telling
each to keep their partnership secret.
To prevent any possibility, as he
thought, of winning the cigars himself.
he made his mark as far from the target
as the paper would allow. He then felt
sure of half the cigars, and already, in
imagination, was putting the fragrant
weed, and laughing i'll his sleeve over
the sharp trick and excellent joke he had
played the "other boys" But, alas {!
the joke was soon turned, and visions of
cob pipe foated before his astonished
eyes. The gun was fired, and stray
shot knocked the center out of Georges
mark. Eighteen men stepped up and
said &c I'll take my half now." Lefiis
thus found himself booked for $500
worth of cigars. He compromised, how
ever, after some wrangling, by dividing
the cigars equally among his partners. -
Paris (Tenn.) IntelIigenoer.
Year: 1877

A COSTLY JoKE.-An English farmer
has recently been compelled to pay the
costs of practical joke. He was sitting
in the bar. room of the Greyhound Inn
one night and taking his usual tankard
of ale, when his eye CHANGED to fall on
the sleeping form Of a man with long
beard. He went to the fire, and lighting
a piece of paper, deliberately applied it
to the sleeping mans beard. There was
bright, rushing flame for a second or
two; the man sprang to his feet in agony;
the joke was complete, and the farmer
rosred in ecstacy. The unfortunate suf-
ferer, who happened to be the village tai
lor, knew that the farmer was man of
substantial means, and acted according
ly. He brought an action for $3.50 dam"
ages in the Malmesbury County Court in
due course. According to the plaintiffs
evidence, his beard was eighteen inches
long when he lay down, after having some
ale. The next thing he remembered was
his face being on fire, while man helped
to put out the flame. The defendant sat
in his seat roaring with laughter, and did
not offer any assistance, nor did he offer
any apology for what he had done. His
lips were burned severely, his face was
blistered, his beard, eyebrows, and eye
lashes were burned to the skin, and one
eye and one ear scorChed. The magistrate
awarded him $3.50 and costs.
Year: 1877

THE opium eater may reside in mala-
rious district, but he will not suffer from
miasma; or he may live in the midst of an
epidemic of some contagious fever, but
he will be among those who escape. The
opium eater almost always dies of opium
he survives everything to die Of his ia
vorite drug.
Year: 1877

KEEP BusY.-The man who has moth
ing to do is the most miserable of beings.
If you have no regular work, do chores,
as farmers do when it rains too hard to
work in the field. In occupation we for
get our troubles, and get a respite from
sorrow. The man whose mind and hands
are busy finds no time to weep and wall.
If work is slack, spend the time in read
ing. No man ever knew too much, The
hardest students in the world are the old
men who know the most.
Year: 1877

JOHN BRIGHT on CoBDEN.-John,
Bright, in bis magnificent speech at the
unveiling Pf Cobdens monument the,
other day, 'epeated with new effect the
story of Cobden's coming to him when
his young wife had just died, and saying,
"There are thousands and thousands of
homes in England at this moment where
wives and mothers are dying of hunger.
Now, when your first paroxysm of grief
is passed, I would advise you to come
with me, and we will never rest until the
Corn Laws are repealed" Of Cobden's
work he spoke with almost tender appre-
citation. "There is not homestead in
the country" he said, Gin which there is
not added comfort from his labors, not
house the dwellers in which have not
steadier employment, higher wages, and
a more solid Independence. For gener-
atoms to come, as long as the great men
of England are spoken of in the English
language let it be said of him that Rich
ard Golden gave the labors of life that
he might confer upon his countrymen
perfect freedom of industry, and with it
not that blessing only, but its attendant
blessings of plenty and of peace"
Year: 1877

Science gives us interesting details
about what the human eye has been and
what il may become. The Nedas OF
India, which are the most ancient writ
ten documents, attest that in time the
most remote, but still recorded in his
tory, only two colors were known, black
and red. A very long time elapsed be-
fore the eve arrived at the perception OF
the color yellow, and still longer time
before green was distinguished and IT is
remarkable that in the most ancient
languages the terms which designated
yellow insensibly passed TO the significa-
ton of green. The Greeks had, accor'
ding to the received opinion now, the
perception of colors very well developed
and yet authors of a more recent data
assures us that in the time of Alexander,
Greek painters had for fundamental
colors only white, black, red and yellow.
The words to designate blue and violet
were wanting to the Greeks in the most
ancient times of their history; they
called these colors gray and black. u is
thus that the colors of the rainbow were
only distinguished gradually, and the
great Aristotle only knew four OF them.
1t is well known fact that when the
colors of the prism are photographed
there remains outside the limit OF the
blue and violet in the spectrum dis


tinct impression, which our eyes do not
recognize as color. According to ply


siologists, time will come when the
human eye will be perfect. so as to dis
Germ this color as well as the Others.
Year: 1877

Much Of the happiness of life depends
on our outward demeanor. We have
experienced the charm of gentle and
courteous conduct we have been drawn
irrestibly toward those who are obliging,
afiable and sympathetic in their demeanor


The friendly grasp, the warm welcome,
the CHEEKY tone, the encouraging word,
the respectful manner, bear no small
share in creating the joy of life, while
the austere tone, the stern rebuke, the
sharp and acrid remark, the cold and in.
different manner, the curt and disre-
spectful air, the supercilious and scorDful
bearing, are responsible for more of hu,
man distress, despair and woe than their
transient natures might seem to warrant,
Year: 1877

DoN'T Box Your CHILDREN's EARS.
The drum of the ear is as thin as pa
per, and is stretched like curtain be-
tween the air outside and that within
and thus having nothing to support it,
and being extremely delicate, a slap
with the hand on the side of the face,
made with the force which sudden and
violent anger gives it, has in multitudes
of cases ruptured this delicate men,
brane, resulting in the affection OF deaf.
ness for lite. As the right hand is almost
always used, it is the left ear which is
striken; this aids in accounting for the
fact that the left ear is more frequently
affected with deafness than the right.
Year: 1877

Farming in the west will be pursued
in the future, by very different system
from that now pIacticed, in that there
will be less sold off the Iarm in the crude
state. The result is inevitable for two
reasons, viz: First, that the land will
not stand the steady annual cropping, no
return being made to compensate for the
drain second that men are very ger.
orally convinced that no profit can be
made BY selling grain in the crude state.
II the grain be led in profitable man.
ner; there are two material gains made
not the least, and By far the me, endur.
ing. is found in the maintenance of the
strength OF our land.


The tick we eed and sell is soor, zone
from our sight, and each shipment counts
.ent its own rroit or loss. No indelible
ark is left, except the mark which the
lnure makes, and this mark will be


pre- enduring than most men accredit
with being. Forest lands that are


4, are said By some to be more endur.
than prairie lands, because they have
!. - longer time received vegetable de-
upon the surface, and upon the no
Year: 1877

STURDY old DR.. johnson said it was a
deal better for woman to paint her own
face than TO blscken another woman s
character. And then he passed his cup
to Mrs. Thrale for the thirteenth time,
remarking that tea was like woman be-
cause it cheered but did not inebriate,
though the strong article was very apt to
keep a fellow awake nights. The old
savage!
Year: 1877

Great excitement was caused BY the recent escape
from the OF the Court Of General Sessions
OF Joe Elliott while under Indictment the $64, 900
forgery case. will be remembered that Elliott was
frequently brought before the Court Of habeas
corpus, and the OCCASION in question hs
was there In obedience to such q writ and
IN charge Of O1icer Van Tyne While Van Tyne was
procuring tho sudges signature TO tho remand Elliott
who Is small man. quietly slipped away from the
court room gentleman In the employ OF Pinker.
toms Detective Agency, Who frequently travels
between Troy and tnls city, Elliott on the
tram three weeks ago, and reported to his
principals that the fugitive got of at Fish,
XIII watch was thon act him. He was
again seen last Wednesday, and II was learned that he
stopping with his ws at hotel in Fishkil Vii.
age under the assumed name OF Freeman Assistance
was teegraphed Tor, and another detective arrived
armed with q bench warrant


When Elliott In bed at an early hour yesterday
morning the detectives raped his door stated
that . telegram had arrived for Mr. Freeman His
wife appeared bus tried to close the against
officers. They forced their way through and clasped
the irons on him before he recovered from his sur
prsA He vas then conveyed 10 this city.
Year: 1877

A WESTERN ART CRITIcIsM.-We refrained
the other day from remarks concerning the
painting of tiger on the side of the steamer
stand that it is now completed, and it looks
worse than it did before. The scene is laid on
the Yellowstone. The river is of dark blue
color, the same shade a. the sky. On one side
are some mountains that look like inverted
spinning tops, and on the other is the tiger
and o tree. You can tell the tiger from the
tree by its having tail.
Year: 1877

The new looks can be used In the same classes with
the old Primary and Intermediate and while they
retail at but little hsf the cost of the Old series
their text exuslly full and reliable. The beauty
the maps Is unsurpassed and their fulness and
accuracy exceed even that OF the Oid series.
Year: 1877

young horse, carrying a light rifle. He
rode around the cluster of bushes which
the desperate had passed through, and
as Barnes was in the act of raising his
rifle to shoot, Wireman also drew bead
on the desperate, but his horse was rest
less, and could not be managed. The
murderer fred the fatal shot at Barnes,
wheeled and fired and Wireman. At
that instant Wireman's horse was doing
piroguette; and the leaden messenger
entered the victims head about one
inch to the rearl of and lite below the
left ear, passing through the head and
out of the nose on the right side. The
blood spurted in great Jets from both
ends of the wound and from the mouth.
Wireman still kept his seat in his saddle
and, repeatedly attempted to draws bead
on the desperate, but each time he made
attempt the flow of blood blinded him.
Finally he clinched his gun and attempted
to ride down the assassin, but others of the
party seized his horse and prevented him
from riding to certain death. He was
taken from his horse, placed in spring
wagon, and sent 10 the house of his
brother, John Wireman, in st. Elmo.
While most of the citizens, were engaged
in caring for the wounded Wireman and
dead Barnes, the murderer, by few well
directed shots. moved his way through
the lines. The horse of George Long
and man named Woodwork were shot,
the former in the shoulder the latter in
the neck. One bullet peeled George Side
mars right eyebrow from his frontis-
piece, causing that gentleman to lose all
interest in the case. Having forced
passage way through the ranks of his
enemies the desperate started on run
through an open wood toward deep
rayiHe about one-fourth of mile to the
southwest. This ravine could be entered
from the wood by passing under the
bridge over Sugar Creek, which at this
season is perfectly innocent of water.
On the bridge two men had been sta
toned for the purpose of preventing the
passage of the fugitive. This valiant
pair saw the terrible fellow coming,
waited to get but one glace of that ter
rible face, then fed down the road.
The murderer passed in the ravine and
seen no more by the pursuers.