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Year: 1878




This life is like game Of cards. We
must play the hands dealt to US, and the
credit is not as much in winning as play
ing pour hand well.


When l hear a man Dragging abou
what be did last year, and what he's go
ing to do next year,I can tell pretty neal
what he's doing now.


The reputation man gets from hii
ancestors wants about as much altering
to fit as their clothes would. d ~
Falling in love is like falling dowr
stairs-irs hard work to find out jus
how the thing was done.
Mice can live anywhere comfortably
but in q church; this proves that they
can't live on religion any more than |
minister can.


The worst tyrant in this world is {
woman who is superior to her HUSBAND
and let's everybody know it.
Love is like the measles; you can
have it but once, and the later in life VI
have it the tougher it goes with US.
Year: 1878

A man who always hangs up his hat,
puts the boot jack away. hangs his coat
on one particular peg, and lays bis socks
on the back of chair on going to bed, is
not "a man who will put in ten bours q day
unless watched,
Year: 1878

THE HORSE TO HIS MASTER. Going
up hill, whip me not; going down
hill, hurry me not on level road.
spare me not; loose in stable, forget
me not; Of hay and corn rob me not;
OF clean water stint me not; of soft
dry bed deprive me not; tired or hot,
wash me not if sick or cold, chill
me not; with sponge and brush, neg
lect me not; with bits and reins, o
jerk me not; and when you are an
CRY, strike me not.
Year: 1878

Au exchange say woman will face
a frowning world and cling to the
man she loves through the most bitter
adversely, but she wculd't wear hat
three weeks behind the style to save
the Government.
Year: 1878

The following, with the spelling corrected, arc culled from couple of columns of his sayings,

 Anger always hurts us moro than the one we get mad at

 What man gets for nothing he is apt to value to just about what it costs,

 Pills will sometimes refuse to net on the liver, but saving wood never will.

 When man ain't good for any thing else, hes just right to sit on | jury.

 About as low down as a man can get and not quite "spile" is to live on his wife's reptation.

 don't bet on prccocious children, the huelebcrry that ripens the soon est is always first to decay.

 Everybody seems to consider him self sort of moral half bushel to measure the worlds frailties in.

 He who has nothing in this world but to amusc himself has got the hardest job on hand l know of.

 When you strike oil stop boring Many man has bored clean through and let the oil run out at the bottom

 I have always said, and believe il still, that the time to be carfullest 1t when you have hand full of trumps.

 If you want to find out just how mean and dishonest you have always been get nominared and run for of l flee.

 Next in point of meanness to doing man an injury is to do him ia yor, and every now and then remind 1 hlm of it.

 Woman has always been more thar match for man. Adam held tho l best cards, but didn't know how tc play them well. l The mcu who is honest from poll
Year: 1878

| UIIidl ttolNiCtCt Nio StibiN iCt a period less than six months from date of entry to time of payment; but this does not interfere with the right to pre- empt.

 The fact that person has had the benefit of the pre-emption act does not, in any case, interfere with his right to q homestead.

 The fact that q person has had the benefit of the homestead act does not prevent him from pre- -empting. But no one can leave his or her own land Tn the same State or Territory to take the benefit of tho pre-emp tion act.

 Insomuch as both homestead and prec cmption require actual residence upon the iard claimed, no person can hold land under both arts at the same time.

 HOW TO ACQUIRE LAND BY HOMESTEAD,

 Any person qualified for pre-emp- tion can acquire, by occupation and the payment of commissions and fees, one hundred and sixty acres of land, held at $l.25 per acre or eighty acres of land within ten miles of q railroad, and helu at $2.50 per acre. Every homestead settler, except sol diers, must in person go to the land office to make the filing, unless he is actually living on the land, and then it is allowable to make the filing be- fore the clerk of the county within which the land is situated. The right of land under homestead law dates from fling (nct from settle ment, as under pre- c-emption,) and then the claimant is allowed six months, within which he must take possession of the land by occupation and improvement. Within seven years thereafter the settler must go to the land office and prove by two witnesses that he has resided upon and cultivated the land for five years immediately succeeding the tune of filing, and thereupon the settler is entitled to a patent.

 Absence from homestead for more than six months at any one tune during the five years, works a forfeiture of all right to the land, if proven to the satisfaction of the |. s. register. Homesteads are not hable for debts contracted prior to settlement.

 There are millions of acres ol United States Lands i'll Arkansas that may be had on these terms.

 No person can brc- ompt more than once.

 No person can homestead more than once.

 No person call make second en. , tly to q homestead unless the frs, was illegal
Year: 1878

The assertions are taken from an exchange and are vouched for as be- ing substantially correct:

 There never was | wood cock seen on the Pacific coast,

 There never was an ocean steamer that eyer burst her boiler.

 There never was dog went mad west of the Rocky Mountains.

 There never was a beech or syca- more tree struck by lightning.

 There never was an eel caught on the Pacific coast.

 There never was locomotive oi steamer struck by lightning.
Year: 1878

cy needs as much watching a hive of bees just getting ready to swarm.

 One of the most reliable prophets l know is an old hen, for she don't propoccy any egg till the egg has happened.
Year: 1878

A fashionably attired young lady, one done up in the night of the style-looks as though she were en- cased in an umbrella sheath.

 The courts of the District of O. lumbia have ruled that pianos are exempt from levy under an execution for debt.

 Guests at hotels in New Jersy arc not permitted to mash mosquitoes on the walls, buff must get 'em down on the floor and choke lem to death and ring for the porter to draw o4 the corpse.
Year: 1878

Senator John Morrissey and wife, and Col
one Ford among the passengers on the steamship
Charleston which arrived here yesterday about 0:3O
D. H. As the steamer had not been expected in until
after p few Of Senator Morrsseys friends were at
the pier TRIBUNE reporter found Mr.. MOrrissey in
the cabin seated by the stove. He spoke with effort
and excused himself from saying much by repeating the
directions his physicians TO avoid unnecessary exer
tIon He showed few traces of his recent Illness. His
face had healthy glow and when he TO leave the
vessel bis step was firm and STEADY.


"My trouble" said he. is all on the inside am toll
erobly strong andI haven't lost any flesh. My pain all
comes from my kidneys heart, and lungs" When asked
ho I'd take his seat in the Senate he
said don't want 10 talk Of that now. am going TO
get into quiet place and take good rest first" He
walked down the gangplank and entered the carriage
without assistance shaking hands and speaking few
words TO some friends who had just come tO him.
Year: 1878

lt WIS tAptCteu IIuV CHc pIISOu HIIuCIItU 10
the jefferson Market Police Court would be formally
opened yesterday by the Commissioners of Charities
and Correction but q large drain pipe became cogged
and oycrnowed filling building with offensive odors
The pipe down through central part OF the prison
and The lower end was inciOsed In masonry. Mas0ns
were busy in the basement yesterday digging AWAY the
brick and mortar get the drain pipe The opening
was deferred until to-day,
Year: 1878

unTecognizable, wOnd be instantly detected here by
his "Yes sirD and "No, sir.D / have even known
an American TO use this formula in replying to ser
want, and never shall forget the look OF intense
amazemcnt and puzzled distress which came over
the countenance of that menial.


Undemonstrative, also, Mr.. Dale pronounces us,
but draws distinction between New-England on
the one hand, and Chicago. New-York and Phila-
delphia on the other. considering the manners of
these latter more free and cordial than those Of the
Sons of the Puritans No donbt the Philadclphian
will think he ought to be classed apart, if IT be
true MS one often hears, that he prides himself
on his department..


He GOES Oh to describe how much trouble his
friends took to satisfy his desire to the common
schools. He was not less struck with the admirable
temper of the people. They bore grievances pa
tiently which would have set Englishmen storning
and threatening piece of railroad laundering for
example, and the vexatious delay winch fell upon a
whole train full of passengers in consequence There
is an excellent remark on the effect which the war
produced on the national manners.


"An immense number Of men went into the army,
and had to learn TO obey the word OF command and
TO submit TO rigid drill. For three or four years
they were under authority While III the army
they had no time for idleness and dissipating
Measures They had TO make long marches and TO do



illness which seem to me to characterize the mass
of the American people may he partly the effect OF
the discipline the serious work and the perils and
sufierings Of those terrible years"


must pass over most of the extremely interesting
papes devoted TO the American farmer-0ne OF the
least understood classes of Americans; farmer IN
England meaning, as rule, tenant-farmer. But MIR.
Dales deduction from his facts is too remarkable to
be omitted Nothing will startle bis English readers
more than TO be told that-for whatever reason-the
prevailing temper in America is conservative. Mr.
Dale finds sufficient explanation Of the fact in the
general ownership of land. but conservatism is not
in his opinion confined to any class:


"To an English Radical the conservatism OF the
people generally is very striking. If couple OF
millions of American voters were suddenly trans
ferred to English constituencies the Conservative
reaction would probably receive great accession OF
vigor. OF course, the Church would be disestab-
iished within few months after ths first general
election; perhaps the House of Lords would be
Year: 1878

The Proprietor would most respectfully an
nounce to his many old friends and also the
travelling public that he has leased this we'll
known brick hotel, and will at all times be
found ready to wait upon all those who may
favor him with the light of their countenances
The TABLE will be supplied with the best
the market affords. The ROOMS are large,
well ventilated and furnished with new Spring
Beds throughout


janl. WILLIAM P. MAYHEM.
Year: 1878

Rich Manure can only be made from rich
food. Animals add nothing to the manure.
If we feed straw, we get back as manure
something less than the straw we feed, and
straw alone is very poor manure. If we
feed OIL cake meal, corn meal, bran, and SIM
liar rich food, to mature animals, they con.
sumo the starchy and fatty portions, while
much of the nitrogen and phosphates 90
into the manure heap along with the straw
or hay,eaten, which gives the needed bulk to
the manure. The more nitrogen the food
contains, the richer will be the manure
1t is thus that the statement made by chem
lists, that the manure made by feeding ton
of bran, or linseed, or cotton seed oil cako,
is for some soils worth more than the food
itself, can be satisfactorily explained.
Year: 1878

Corn Stalks and Straw should be cut up
with fodder cutter if only to be thrown
into the yard, or used for litter. Short
stalks absorb more liquid than long the
manure from them is easier handled, and
they. rot more quickly. A fodder cutter
run by two-horse tread power, will cut
100 pounds of straw, or stalks, in five min
utes, and the cost of the machine and often
labor will be repaid in one season in the
convenience Of handling the short manure.
Year: 1878

Watering Stock is very important part
of the care needed, for them at this season.
Empty and clear the trougbs of ice every
afternoon, so that when filled in the morn
ing there is no ice to chill the water. In
cold weather water should not be drawn
from the we'll until it is needed for the stock.
Covers should be provided for all outside
wator troughs to keep out snow.
Year: 1878

The Manure Heap may be made in q
central place in the yard, and the different
kinds of manure should be wheeled out of
the stables and pens, and mixed together in
the heap. We find it pays to turn over tho
heap once or twice during the winter, mix
it thoroughly, and break up all the Jumps.
This makes it fine, and fit for use early in
spring 80 "aa' ''''' ~
Year: 1878

again heap of stock highly fed furnish heap


OF good manure. Heap of good manure


returned to tho soil again make heap of


crop, and so rotation interminably. All


this good rich food ploughed under for tho


Improvement of the soil. Think of it We


farmers who haven't Got anything for YOUR


poor COWS to cat but cotton stalks I have
only given an unvarnished statement of


what l saw. An inspection of this, the


model farm, is we'll worth the time of any
farmer. La fact one progressive man en-
Enthusiastically remarked that visit to such
farm would place a farmer.a generation
ahead. We cannot exactly say that much,
|.sa,s:. 4 ~ tia4x= sitah = :t...>-l4lA
great benent'to any mafi be he ever SO p6of..


lie would receive ideas that he could turn
to account and be useful to him as long as
ne lives. The Messrs. Satterthwaite de-
serve great credit for the example they have
set. These are the kind of emigrants we
want; men who will discard politics and 90
to work to build up our waste places
MORE ANON, in aiken Journal.


TIE MULE.-A correspondent of the
Rural Sun, in an able letter concerning the
breaking of mules, says: awe have had
quite considerable experience in breaking
mules and our usual practice has been to
gear him and hitch him to the plow at once,
by the side of well-broken borsc or muls
The assistance of an extra hand is some.
times required for = hour or two 1t used
to be thought best 20 break his spirit and
exhaust him physically, to bring him to
true sense Of his condition, but Setter coun.
sells now prevail, and we en.ieavor to pre-.
serve both his streng tn and spirit by not
over,taxing his powers of endurance, and by
kind treatment, to which he is as amenable
as horse or an OK, soon becoming submis-
sive and gentle, when properly handled.
"Mnch of the obloquy which attaches to
his character results from the thoushtless
and injudicious training he receives, and
the cruel treatment meted out to him, more
on account Of his character, however, than
his conduct. We hail it as an indication of
real human progress that his claims to a
high consideration are now being more gen
orally recognized.


"Ihe negro is, however, implacable and
upteelinS in his treatment of the mule, un-
willing to accord to him any of the sensi-
bilities To- inhjsh 6esh is heir. He was his
associate IN The Eang Syne, which IS fast
becoming traditional, ard the negro places
him in the same category with the ash cake,
which he now ignores, because he regards
it as the emblem of his slavery. The ne.
gro, the mule and the ash-cake Even
thus associated they form trio that recalls
the peaceful, prosperous and happier days
of our beloved Southerland rudely severed
and disjointed, they recall the humiliation
and poverty of our sojourn in the land of
Yankee misrule and intolerance. Let us
thank our stars for deliverance and the hope
we have of one day seeing the negro ra-
tional and useful member of our body po-
litic, the mule respected member of the
equine family and the ash. cake restored to
our fireside, for it is dear yet to our memo
ry."
Year: 1878

A ROCHESTER, wife opened . tele-
graphic message addressed TO her hus,
band, and read Jenny will meet You
iT Syracuse this evening" Then she
did everything that q Jealous woman
could do, only to End that Jenny was a
lawyer, and the message was to arrange
Tor consultation in an important case. i
Year: 1878

1st They bought their Blanket and Flannel stock at the
great Summer Auction Sales hey the only retail
store in Cleveland who bought dollars worth at these
saes from ten to twenty cent under present market
value.


I'd. During the past summer their Mr. McGin person.
ally visited the leading markets of Europe believe the
first time Cleveland retail store represented
ther and selected under the favorable
their entire European stock saving all intermediate profits
and permitting them to retail their goods cheap
other merchants them.


I'd. The absence of their principal buyer in Europe


until the end of September kept them from purchasing
largely until October For obvious the South has
ceased to make any purchases This has caused great
many goods to accumulate the market and weak G.e
poo compelled realize price
Entering the market large cash buyers E. M McGiln
Co. were able to buy all classes of goods from ten to
twenty per cent. under September prices.


We now invite the public to examine of the finest
stocks of goods shown by prices unquesonaby
much under those of any house in this section Limited
space will only permit to few prces but we will
cheery forward detailed price lists and samples free
any address.
Year: 1878

WHATEVER happens, never forsake
friend. When enemies gather, when
sickness falls upon the heart, when
the world is dark and cherries, is the
time to try true friendship, They
who turn from the scenes of distress
betray their hypocrisy, and prove that
interest only moves them. If you
have friend who loves you, who has
studied your interests and happiness,
be sure to. sustain him in adversity.
Let him feel that his love was not
thrown away. Real fidelity may be
rare, but it exists-in the heart. They
only deny its worth and power who
| meyer loved friend or labored to
make q friend happy.
Year: 1878

Emperor William, ot Germany, is
kind hearted old man. Two an
ecdotes are told which illustrate his
natural disposition:


An official Of the German civil
service and his wife celebrated re.
Gently their diamond wedding. The
Emperor in his retirement, heard o
this event, and sent medallion por'
trait OF himself in golden setting,
ornamented with the imperial arms,
by way of wedding present, and
at the same time sent his regret that
his inability to write prevented his
appending his autograph, which,
however, he promised as soon as he
was able to do so.


The other incident is as follows:
Two children Of a butcheri in village
few miles from Berlin, having
heard of the Emperor's fondness for
blue corn flowers four bachelors
buttons), gathered a great nosegay
of them in the fields, and without
saying anything to anybody ST rted
off on the Berlin highway, trudged
all the weary miles to the city, found
their way to the palace, and handed
the flowers to the lackey "for the
good Emperor"


Their appearance attracted atten'
ton, and when questioned they told
their simple tale. They were taken
into the palace and given a lunch
con, which was probably the best
thew had ever eaten. and then, as the
Emperor OWNED that the parents
must be by this time in great anxiety
the two little dusty and wayworn
children were sent home in the i'm
perial carriages, an honor which made
them the most distinguished resi-
dents of their little village.
Year: 1878

Nobody shall hurt you Joe" said
Helen, tenderly.


His wandering eyes rested on her
again, softened, and filled with tears.


Nou's the only one that's ever
spoke kind to me in this world" he
said, slowly.


Then the silence about grew deeper ::
bird twittered overhead, and the boy
lay dead ON the grass.


Poor Joe, He hadn't half a chance
i'm this world" said the Squire, turning
away. Your good words seem to have
been kind of help To him, Nelly. A
person never knows how far kindness or
unkindness is going TO act ON human he
ings,' he continued, feeling that he
ought To draw some sort of n moral from
this sudden death


But Will and Harry did not need any
such lesson when they looked upon the
dead face at their feet They had not
Thought TO be cruel; they had not
thought at all They had trampled on
poor Joe's feelings as though he had had
no feeling, aud now the result of their
last cruel act was before them. 1t
seemed to them almost as if they were
murderers


The shadow of that childish dead
face went with these two boys in after
years and could never be forgotten.
Year: 1878

Ignorance is II subject for pity, nor
laughter.


II is good To he deaf when the slandercr
begins to talk.


prOsy man is like the clack of mill
when it is empty.


Anger always hurts us more than the
one we get mad at.


Read not books alone, but men and
be careful to read thyself.


The credit that is got by lie lasts
only Till the truth comes out.


We are only really alive when we en-
JOY the good will of others.


Keep aloof from sadness, for sadnc ~
ia the sickness of the soul.


A cheerful face tx nearly as good for a
patient AZ healthy weather.


Our acts make or mar us; we are the
children Of our own deeds.


Tomorrow il the day on which lazy
folks work and fools reform.


The best sort of revenge is not to be
like him who does the injury.


Applause il the spur of noble minds,
the end and aim of weak ones.


Don't judge n man by the clothes he
wears; for God made one, and the tailor
the other.


scholars are frequently to be met
with who are ignorant Of nothing save
their own ignorance.


To know how to listen is a great art !;
it is TO know how to gain instruction
from every one.


Abuse is the penalty levied on the
bond Of praise, and can be rendered eff
fective only when noticed.


Don't Judge n man by his failure in
life, for many man fails because he is
too honest TO succeed.


He who accustoms himself TO buy su.
perHuities may, before long, be Obliged
to sell his necessaries.
Year: 1878

Why should one suffer for months or
even years with skin diseases when the
use of safe and simple means would
quickly effect cure. DR.. Bulls Blood
Mixture will rapidly cure all skin diseas-
es and prevent their return.
Year: 1878

The 'true inwardness" of the other paper crops out Tn its treatment of the Miller Bros, now that they are ''broke." It never lets slip chance to hit them a sly, mean dig.-[Eterprise.

 Broke! ha-ha! Not much. Forty thou sand dollars worth of honest peoples money don't generally break men. The head of the above firm drew on us for over five thousand dollars, two thousand from poor widow, and many others whcrewith to make himself independent, and has the brazen- ness to get drunk and make his boasts about the amount of money he has on hand It is just as we'll for the Enterprise to drop the wild idea of ofattempting to draw sympa- thy by trying ts create feeling with peo- pie that the Miller Bros. are being per secuted. If the Enterprise had lost one- half what the MINER man has. nothing would have been too low for that paper to have said about them. The people under stand you, old man.
Year: 1878

The Plymouth Rock stopped at the pier al
West Twenty-second street yesterday morning
with 5000 pleasurc-seekers bound for West
Point and Newburgh The big boat was gay
with bunting. While another thousand swarm
cd nbonrl the hand plnyed
Year: 1878

Tho work on tho Chester and
Cheraw railroad is progressing.
Tho iron will DO laid down and tho
cars running to Fishing Creek
within the next two weeks. Presi-
don't Hardin is negotiating for the
building OF a depot at that place.
Year: 1878

A friend killed a tarantula beside his bed on the ground the other morning that measured two inches across. His feet the tarantula's not our friends were covered with nice, soft brown velyety fur.
Year: 1878

4 gentleman reeentiy from Tomb Stone district reEorts three or four good mines there and that the belt IS slnall-formation granite capped with limestone. No water nearer than seven miles
Year: 1878

ment was pried up and q hatchet
holding it open next morning. A
pair of old stairs lay near on tho out
sideside Of the cellar door, and was
used to assist In climbing to the
traneom, which was left open for
ventilation