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Year: 1877

A new Piano, made by one of the lend
IN ing manufacturers Of tho Unite |
Statos The instrument has compass
seven and one-third octnvos, and Is
finished with oil the latest improvements.
1t can DO bought at great reduction
from retail price.


Apply at the Office of I'VE News AND
HERALD.


june 23-tf
Year: 1877

Mons Auguste Bartholdi, one of the
greatest of modern scul lptors, has been
appointed by the French government to
build grand Statue of Liberty in New
York harbor The statue will combine
the idea of liberty with hint Of the
ocean and an allusion to trade. Bed
loes' Island has been designated as the
site. TIE pedestal upon which the
Statue is to stand will be ! o feet high,
the statue from the feet, to the flame of
the torch will be l45 feet high, which,
allowing 20 feet for the height of the
island, will make the torch, which is to
be held in the upward stretched hand
of the statue, at least 275 feet above
the level Of the bay. The statue is to
represent the Goddess of Liberty, hold
ing aloft a torch to enlighten the world.
At night it is proposed that a halo of
jets OF light shall radiate from the tenn
pies of the enormous Goddess, and per-
haps the flame of the torch may be
fashioned in crystal, in order that it
may catch the light of the sun by day,
and at night form a glowing object il
Illuminated by electricity. This magnif-
icent piece of sculpture and architecture
will, when completed, be the most at
tractive statue in the United States,
and the handsomest ornament in New
York harbor
Year: 1877

SHADY.-The other day big able
bodied man drove a six-horse team
through Main street drawing three
wagons loaded with grain. There
was nothing shady about this. The
shade was under big umbrella held
over the head of the driver by Chi
naman seated behind him. Our
Grangers are getting delicate over
their big crops and good priccs.-
JT0Na H'dNa ynion.
Year: 1877

The essence of the Hindoo religion is
Precipitation. The native mind has a
practical turn, and wishes to attain u def
mite purpose in its sacred rites. 1t is
willing to go through any amount of
trouble in its Observances if some clear
gain is to be got by the process. The
clearest gain that the native mind can
picture to itself is the averting of evil.
And its fertile fancy has been set to work
to imagine all the sources of evil possi-
BILE. Every conceivable calamity is at
tributable to some evil agency, either a
god, or devil, or deceased man.
There are good agents on the other side,
and they may be prOpitiated to fight
against the bad agents. In dim way
they recognize Supreme Being; but they
argue that he is too good TO hurt anyone,
and so he may be lefto of the account.
With this exception, everything that
produces the motion of power is worth
propitiating, the propitiatiOns consisting
in depOsiting little offerings of food or of
anything that the agent, if alive and in
human shape, might be conceived TO like.
Thus, on the tomb of one English Off
cial, who had terrified them during his
life, the natives deposited little offerings
of brandy and cigars, hoping that he will
still like these luxuries as much as he
used to do, and that as long as his spirit
could smoke and drink it would not Oc
cupy itself in annoying them. Again,
offerings were deposited on the tomb OF
another Englishman who had in life
been famed for shooting tigers, in the
hope that his turn for worrying tigers
still survived, and might be somehow pu


to good account.-Ihe Spectator.
Year: 1877

A youth Of six years, on returning from
church, inquired of his father if those who
engaged in silent prayer on entering the
church, all made use of the same Words
His father was unable to inform him, but
asked what led to the inquiry The boy
replied that he overhead the prayer of Mr..
X, who on bowing his head, made use in
an audible voice Of the following words =
II wish to Heaven / had bought barrel
OF flour before this cussed war broke out
Always my luck"
Year: 1877

The DAY We CELEBRATE.--.JohnH Han
cock could not have been very warm whcr
he signed the declaration of Independence
or he would not have had the energy to sling
the ink round in the profusc manner ind
Gated by his signature. But John was ;
younSlsh, vigorous sort of man at that time
and being the first on the list, perhaps he
wanted to let posterity know by his sign
manual that he wasn't afraid. The weather
however, must have told on old Mr.. Hop.
kins, for his pen wabblcd about as if it was
slipping through his fingers, and his sig.
nature looks as if several big beads of per.
spiration might have dropped down upon
the ink. Aside from the weather, it mus,
have been rather warming time Yet the
rest OF them seem to have written off their
names in the utmost coolness


Those were times that tried mems souls
and signatures. These are times that trv
mems paper collars and stomachs. That is
the only difference. Many a patriot will
start out this morning like John Hancock
signature, bold, firm and erect, aud will come
homo this evening like Stephen Hopkins
signature, wabbling and staggering, and not
very certain where he is going to stop. A
decent respect for the opinions of mankind
will fail to deter many men from celebrating
this glorious one hundred and first anniyer.
sary Of the occasion when We assumed a
separate and equal station among the pow,
ers Of the earth, by imbibiug a proGisious
amount Of good lager and mean whisky
N hcu- bot 1ss soAl Il, .t,.~-
visable when both arc bad the conscqucn..
'ccs arc horrible; when the whisky alone is
poor it destroys very good beverage, and
the results cannot be counted upon with any
degree of certainty.


We have nothing to say concerning the
day VIC celebrate We are all patriotic, and
it has all been said. But we have word of
advice for those who celebrate the day, and
it is this : Don't celebrate too much. The
thermometer is floating around in the nine.
ties, the sun is scorching hot, and some
people have already succumbed to excessive
heat. Sometimes Il man puts something irl
his stomach and wants to keen it there, aud
he can't sometimes he puts thing in his
stomach and then wants to gee it out, and he
can't; sometimes, again, he puts something
in his stomach for his stomach's sake, and il
all goes into his head and he feels top. heavy
and then tries to feel all right, and, equally
he can't. None of these conditions arc de-
sirable at any time, and especially on hot
day


These arc all the suggestions we have to
make concerning the appropriate, dccorous
and healthy observance of the nations natal
day. BY noting them there nay be some
ardent brother who will be spared tho regret
that this day is still so near. was so dear, and
seduced him with so much beer, and left
him feeling 80 queer Columbia Register
Year: 1877

ONE of the finest and most elc-
gantly finished rooms IN the city is
that over Messrs. Martin d Toay's
new hardware store, lately rented by
the Reform Club of Mineral Point
for club and reading room. This
apartment is about . Z % feet in
size, Q feet in height, and will COM
fortaby seat from - TO 100 persons.
The walls are finished in pure white
stucco the woodwork is beauti-
fully grained four large arch-top
windows three on the north and
one on the easD give abundant light !;
and on the south, adjoining the large
room, is smaller compartment,
which will be used as library, MAX
ing by far the most convenient and
eligibly located suite of rooms to be
found it the city for the purpose.
The need of a place Of this kind,
where the young men of our city
might pleasurably and prOfitably
spend their hours Of leisure, has long
been felt, and now that the members
Of the Reform Club have taken the
4nitiatory steps in the enterprise, we
would earnestly urge the public to
lend them all the assistance-either
pocuniary or by She contribution Of
books, papers, &e,-in its power, to
Year: 1877

No one whose name does not ap-
pear on the registry after final reyi-
sion will be allowed to vote. The
Importance of the registration being
complete, and the means provided
to inform all interested ought to
make it So
Year: 1877

Is very complete. and to those intending purchase ing can offer great bargains in SPECTASLES and EYE GLASSES. I have full line, and can warrant a perfect fit and satisfaction at prices lower than ever before offered.
Year: 1877

And in accordance with law and order of the Board
Trustees made and entered the 4th day of August


D. 1877 many of such designated shares of stock be-
longing to and standing in the Of the shareholders
aforesaid shall and will be necessary py the assess
upon all shares held and owned by such shareholders
standing in their upon the books OF the company
will be sold public auction the Office said company
the office OF Trennor Coffin, in Carson City, Nevada on
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, February pa tter
the House had taken recess until Mon
day, the Democratic Caucus was an
nounced for tonight at Z: 80 o'clock. AT
that hour about seventy-6ve members
were present. Some who favored dils
tory proceedings in the electoral count
were absent, as they were dissatisfied
with the action of the majority OF their
party to-day in voting to continue the
count, while those IN favor OF
continuing the count did not
come to meet with those of
opposite views. The object of the caucus,
however, had no reference TO the pro.
ceedings of the House regarding the
count, but with regard to the law of
1892, which provides that in the case OF
removal by death, resignation or insbili
ty Of both the President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, the President
of the Senate, or if there is none, the
Speaker of the House shall act as Presi-
dent until the disability is removed, or
q President elected. 1t was intended in
the caucus that should there be no declar-
alton before the 4th of March of the
election OF President based on the cleo
torsl returns, there would be such vacancy
ss was contemplated by law, and
therefore provision should be made for
such contingency.


Representative Field stated that he
had prepared bill to meet the contin-
gency, which he explained.


After some discussion the caucus
adopted the resolution and instructed
the Committee on Powers, Privileges
and Duties of the House to report on
Monday or at the earliest practical mo-
ment.


Mr.. Fields bill provides that in ease
there be no election Of President and
Vice President under the count of the
electoral vote, the President Of the Senate
shall assume the functions of President
and new election is TO be
h I'D at time TO be fixed by
tue committee. A resolution further
instructng the committee to report Mr..
Fields bill providing for quo wsrranto
proceedings before the United States
Supreme Court with reference to final
settlement o. the Presidential question.


There was also some general discus.
sion relative TO the disposal of points Of
order that may arise during the further
count OF the electoral vote, but no rcso
lu;ions on this point were adopted, and
the calcus adjourned
Year: 1877

Judge Durant, a prominent practi-
eioner before the United State Supreme
Court, is engaged in drafting bill to
give the Court of Claims much larger
jurisdiction in the matter of all South.
.ern claims. One purpose of the bill
will be to give the Court jurisdiction
ovt all claims which have been re
jected by the Southern Claims Conn


mission, on the ground either of dis
loyalty or fraud. This measure will
undoubtedly receive the very general
support of Southern members who in
tend to open the dOcrs of the Treasury
to the payments Of Southern Claims in
every manner possible. The bill is be-
ing very carefully drawn, and will be
submitted to the prominent lawyers of
Congress before il is presented for pas
srge. The Southern Claims Commits.
sioners have been Doted hitherto for
the fidelity with which they have dis
charged their duties, and for their per
sistency in refusing to pass many Of
the unworthy claims presented to
them. In many particulars they have
been more severe in their interpreta-
ton of the rules of evidence than the
lawyers have liked.
Year: 1877

The greenback is national promise to pay.
There is NO amount of crude sophistry that
can do away with this one fact. Being
promise to pay, it must be redeemed. There
is then no avoidance of the conclusion that
any increase in the amount of these promises
to pay, increases by just that much the diff
Guilty that We OF. our descendants will have in
paying. These are the naked elementary
facts. They cannot be gotten rid of by theo-
retical schemes any more than the attraction
of gravitation and friction can he schemed
away to permit the construction of perpetu
al motion machine. Toledo Blade.
Year: 1877

IT matters to us in life not 80 much
what part we play, as ii does to play
our part well. In a drama Ii Is not so
much question who played the king
or the peasant, as who played the part
best.
Year: 1877

SENATOR THURMAN takes occasion to say
that the President has adopted the principles
he has himself been fighting for during the
past ten years. Then why is Mr.. Thurman
climbing the stump at the tail end of cam
paign to make speech against the President?
He would be more consistent to speak on the
opposite stump, and then he would not be
forced to so disgraceful a surrender as he has
made to the infiationists.
Year: 1877

Mr.. BISHOP is making himself conspicuous
ct the county fairs. His appeal to the farm.
ers for their votes is personal, and probably
without precedent in Ohio campaigns. While
he is shaking hands with the agriculturists Of
tae State, somebody ought to explain the
statement, which comes to US with too much
force and authenticity to pass unnoticed, that
when Granger stores were started he signed
and circulated on Change in Cincinnati a
paper in which the signers agreed not to sell
goods to such stablishments.-StateJ Journal.
Year: 1877




GrRs Society.


GENTLEMEN l present n subject
worthy OF your attention In this article
Endowed with youth and health, moving
in scenes OF mirth, seldom do you come
in contact with their contrasts-sick mes,
and sorrow. Many Of your hearts are
easily reached and nobly do YOU respond
with your money when privation which
you can relieve Is brought, to your notice
| have heard the expenses Of last Mardi
Gras estimated at between five hundred
and six hundred dollars. That was the
cost OF one days merriment. Would
you be willing to forego the plea.
sure oi this day, and 10 devote ii,
money value to the alleviation Of suffer.
ing among our poor citizens? l have
seen one woman, unable from rheuma.
tisnl to lift her hand. to her head, with
scarcely enough wearing apparel or bed.
ding TO keep her from freezing. Anoth.
er sick woman waS found with no food
aud but thin dress and scant quilt for
covering. Also little children kept in
doors all day long because barefooted,
These and many objects which cannot be
pictured with the pen would plead for
this bestowal OF yonr spare money, could
they be brought before yon.


A LADY WHO GRIEvRs OVERSIZE.


FERING SHE HAS NOT THE Pow,


RR TO kELIEvE.
Year: 1877

Our DAILY BREAD. We claim that
there is greater certainty and uniformity
in the production of good bread, biscuits,
cake, etc., in the use Of DooLEY's YEAST
POWDER, and that the articles made with
it are more wholesome aud digestable thar
if made with any other kind of yeast ol
baking powder. Test it by the only relia
bic aud truthful test, a trial by the oven
We claim also that it is just as represented
and just what the public expect it to be by
the name under which it is sold.
Year: 1877

The faces of the Moline republicans to-
day would be fortune 10 an artist Of a
melancholy turn of mind They realize
the uncertainty of republican conventions,
and can only console themselves with the
remark that, Il knew it. They have done
it to US again. as they always do Rock
Island has plainly SAID. by reluctantly
giving them the coroner, that I'VE will
trust ourselves 10 Moline's hands after
death, but not while we have our senses, "
and this arouses their just indignation.
They think that, inasmuch as the county
has to come to Moline for a republican
majority, they should have a pull at the
teat. But they are slowly learning that
they must take back seat In conventions,
nurse their wrath for few days, aud al
election march up to the polls and vote foI
whoever Rock Island dictates. They have
taken two lessons in this course within tht
past year, and, although many of then
will have the independence to vote for the
best men this fall, some will support the
ticket made outfor them yesterday, merely
because it is the republican ticket. How
longl Oh. Lord! how longI
Year: 1877

A story is told of young Waterville,
Me-, lawyer, who was of convival turn,
who had in his hands number of un-
settled accounts against an old farmer in
the vicinity, who never paid any debts
until he was sued, and then only after
loud outcries against the lawyers for
" grinding the faces of the poor" One
day he came in to settle bill, when the
lawyer offered to discount him dollar
and half if he would go into the street,
mingle with all the groups of people
whom he might meet and lead the con-
versation up to a point where he could
incidentally remark that he (the lawyer)
was sharp and worthy fellow. The
old man wanted the money, but finally
he said impressively esquire ! I'm a
very old man and have done many
wicked things in my life; but with my
views of eternity I can't lie like that for
money" The dollar and half was dis
counted without extorting any recon-
pense therefor. ~ ~
Year: 1877

No man should be Judge in his own
cause.


To man full of questions, make no
answer.


What men are deficient in reason,
they usually make up in rage.


Life is duty, and one ought to desire
it's preservation. Wilfully to letit decay
would be sin.


Solon being asked why, among his
laws, there was not one against personal
affronts, answered that he could not be-
ieye the world so fantastical as to regard
them.


Whoever sincerely endeavors to do all
the good he can, will probably do much
more than he imagines, or will ever
know to the day of Judgment, when the
secrets of all hearts shall be made mani
fest.


Honor and justice, reason and equity,
go great way in procuring prosperity
to those who use them; and, in case of
failure, they secure the best retreat and
the most honorable consolation.


The skill should be, SO to order the
time of recreation that it may relax, and
refresh the part that has been exercised
and is tired, and yet do something which,
besides the present delight and ease,
may produce what will afterwards be
profitable.


A passionate temper renders man
unfit for advice, deprives him of his rea-
son, robs him of all that is great and no.
BILE in his nature, makes him unfit
for conversation, destroys friendship,
changes justice into cruelty, and turns
all order into confusion.


The fountain of content must spring
up in the mind; and he who has so little
knowledge of human nature as to seek
happiness by changing anything but his
own disposition, will waste his life in
fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs
which he purposes to remove.


The governor may be deceived he
beareth thesword, and may strike with it
improperly. But if, to remedy an occa-
sional inconvenience of this sort, you
dissolve government, what will be the
consequence More mischief will be
done by the people, thus let loose, in a
month, than would be done by the gov
ernment in half century.
Year: 1877

One of the firm who run commission
house on Woodbridge street is man of
muscle. He can lift barrel of flour as
easily as common man lifts bag of
oats, and it scarcely makes his ears grow
red as he heaves a barrel of salt into o
farmers wagon. For weeks past he has
been boasting of his strength of muscle,
and wanting to see something he couldn't
lift, and the boys around the store got
their heads together the other day. They
took salt barrel and filed il with broken
pig-iron, old weights and other things,
put two inches of salt at either end, and
rolled it to the curbstone and at O
favorable hour a dray backed up in the
most innocent manner and an order from
grocer for barrel of salt was handed
out. The drayman and two of the boys
fooled around the barrel so long that the
strong man got out of his chair in
disgust, threw off his coat and said


You fellows bad better get porous
plasters for your backs. Get out of the
way and give me a chance !"


He seized the barrel by the chimes
and lifted away. 1t didn't move. He
gritted his teeth and laid out to pull the
hoops right off. The hoops stayed right
there. So did the barrel.


:" 1t takes four good men to lift one o.
them barrels" said the drayman.


Nonsense! I've lifted score of them,
and I'll pick this up or break my back.
/ guess the salt must be wet.


He got in position, drew q long
breath, and then lifted till his eyes
looked like two towels left out ON the
clothes-line in dark night. The barrel
didn't lift. Pig-iron was too much for
muscle, and the litter sat down on the
walk His back used to be plumb up
and down, but it hasn't been since that
lift. His eyes are getting back to their
original positions, and the red is leaving
the back of his neck, and he sees two
men handle bag of dried apples or a
bushel of beans without word of COM
J ment. Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1877




Identified ms the Prussian Samson.


An old man died at the age of eighty
few days ago in the dreary street of
Chateau-Landon, Paris, who for some
years had dwelt there absolutely alone
and unknown. He was stout, folidly
built, not talkative but good hutnored
and friendly. He was. known to he a
Berliner by birth, but he did not care to
talk about himself, and his early history
was shrouded with mystery. Hans
Friech was the name by which he passed
among his neighbors. He only went
out of evenings, and then but for a short
time, exchanging 2 few shakes of the
hand with acquaintances. When he
heard German voice he turned away
or crossed the street to avoid its owner.
He never read the papers and received
letters but rarely, yet he busted himself
most of the time writing ng-what he re-
fused to say. He had no Visitors, paid
his rent punctually, rose and retired
early, and lived well. In fine he was a
perfect type of small bourgeois retired
from business and living on his income.
To women he was always polite, to chill
dren more than kind. Not until his
death did the fact become public that
Hans Friech had been the headsman of
Berlin. -


Headsman in the true significance of
the word, not mere mechanic puller Of
cords and TOUGHER of springs, like San
son or Roch, for during the period he
executed the haetes oe1Ures of the Prus-
sian capital, ending in 1910, the AK and
not the guillotine was employed for the
decapitation of criminals. Hans Freich
was an artist, for not only could he re-
move his subjects head at a single
blow, but he knew and respected that
subjects rights and preferences. He
did not affect the Gothic masquerade of
black doublet and red hose he wore
long black silk stockings, short close-fit-
ting pantaloons of black velvet, black
coat and black gloves. He would not
touch the handle of his ak with his bare
palm; not all the gold in Prussia could
have induced him to such fragrant
breach of scafold etiquette.


| Nevertheless, the Berlners insist
ed on overlooking the fact that he
wore gloves and saw the blood upon
his hands. Friech had no friends
and too many acquaintances. People
all knew him, and shrank from him.
To enable him to leave the hateful town
he worked busily till he had filled one
Of his long black silk stockings with
crown-pieces, and on counting them
found that he had enough money to as
sure his c1mfort for the remainder of his
life. That very day he resigned his
office and set out for Paris, where he
found quiet and unconcern, where the
children did not point him out with tiny
fingers to each other, or the women who
came upon him shrink back in speech.
less horror. So quiet was he indeed
that he became homesick for the scaffold
and set himself to write his memoirs.
His identity and the nature of the work
with which he had occupied his declin-
ing days only came out after his death.