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Year: 1877

BEWARE OF HAIR WASHES. Ladies,
fair ladies, beware of hair-washes. A
medical friend informs me that it has


lately been discovered that the active
ingredient Of all washes for subduing


gray hair is lead, which, uniting grad


ually with the natural sulphur of the


hair, forms black sulphuret of lead,


which is really the darkening agent.


We all know how deleterious and
even fatal is the application of lead in
any chemical shape to the pores of the
human body; what then, must be the
mischief produced by its being contin-


uously and often daily rubbed into the
delicate skin of a lady's scalp? Here,
however, is practical illustration
vouched for by Mr.. Broomfeld, Of Nor
witch. The wash had been used for
two years, but only very moderately,
and during all that time there was
general malaise and loss of muscular
power. About three months since,
two days after an efcctual applica-
ton Of the wash, slight epileptic fit
occurred, and similar application of
the wash was followed by palsy Of
the extensor muscles of the left hand.
In this case probably another dose
would have produced paralysis; but
by this time suspicion was aroused,
and by the steady application Of anti
dotes the symptoms are now disappear
ing. The profits of selling these
washes are said to be so tempting
that, since the secret Of the darkening
agent has oozed out, numerous hair
dressers, both in town and country,
are manufacturing them and pressing
them upon their customers Ex.
Year: 1877

Yesterday, i'm the Supreme Court Of the
United States. Mr.. Justice Swayne delivered
the opinion of the court in the case Of the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad COMPANY vs.
JoneS-error la the Supreme Court of the Dis
tTlct of COumbia-reyersing the Judgment
below. Ibis Was the reversal Of a Judgment
against the company for personal injuries TO
Jones. alleged to have been i'm consequence of
The negligence Of the employees of the company
The piaintin was a laborer on the railroad-a
hand on the gravel train-and was riding on
the pilot OF the engine. Some cars Of a train
had broken loose in the Navy Hard tunnel and
before their loss was noticed the gravel train
ran INTO the tunnel, and striking the ears
Jones Was badly injured. The courts hold that
he was guilty OF contributory negligence by
taking position ON the engine, and that he
cannot recover, having himself brought about
The result.


LIFE INSURANCE CASE.


Mr.. Justice Hunt delivered the opinion of
the court In the case OF the Mutual Renefit
Life Insurance Company W. Day-error 10 thf,
Supreme Court of the District Of Columbia
Affirming the judgment below In this case H.
is held that life Insurance policy relates back
To the date Of the payment OF the premium
and the delivery of certificates of health by the
insured, and covers the period Intervening
between that date and the delivery OF the
policy. and that il ihe company fail 10 make
inquiry as TO the health of the applicant be-
tween these dates before the delivery OF the
poilcy, II Is It's own laches and does not violate
the policy. aud the insured IL not bound 10
come forward and volunteer information on
point concerning which he Is not asked.
Year: 1877

ADVANCING THE PRICE OF CoAL.-A dis
patch from New York announces that the Del
aware and Hudson canal company have with
drawn their circular prices, and advanced the
they have sold sufficient coal for the present
month. The Pennsylvania Coal Company, il
Is said. are not selling any coal at present. The
fifty cents per ton. The Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal Company advanced thirty TO forty
cents per ion.
Year: 1877

lhere has been an important rise in all
Glasses OF Russian securities ON the London
stock exchange and they maintain great firm
hess. Notwithstanding the fact thar large real
Illng sales have been thrown upon the mar
Year: 1877

INCREASED ATTRACTIONS.-Since the open-
ing last week. an important addition has been
made To the Art Club Loan Collection. now on
exhibition at Vernon Row. in the arrival of
four water color drawings by w. L. Richards
the eminent artist Of Philadelphia. Three OF
them are kindly contributed by Rev. DR. Ma
COON, OF that city. and the other, which was
only finished last week, aud has never been
exhibited TO the public or even been seen by
many of his fliends is sent by the artist him
self as token of his interest in the Club aud
its purposes. The latter, which is as free i'm
handling as IL is true and lovely i'm color rep
fesents Morning on the Eastern Coast" lis
companion piece, in size, is a twilight elect nj
Newport, in which the peculiar greenish- yellow
light OF the sky and the rich red color on the
clouds, which so often follow the setting of the
sun after summer shower along the sea coast
are rendered with unusual strength and vivid
ness. The other two, smaller in size. but TO
many persons scarcely less interesting in char
acter. are carefully finished reproductions of
attractive New England Scenery-One being n
view Of Mount Ch0corua, the other of Lake
Winnipesaukee, from Red Hill. None of Mr.
Richards pictures are owned in Washington
we belieye,-at least none of any Importance
and this opportunity is doubtless the first
many Oh our citizens have had, and possibly
The only one some may have for examining his
work, which often reaches the highest point of
excellence and rarely il ever falls TO the level
VI mediocrity.
Year: 1877

GLIDING THE GODDESS OF LIBERTY.-Gen.
Banks has a resolution which he will offer at
the first opportunity to gild the bronze Goddess
OF Liberty which covers the thOluS of the Capt.
fol hUildinn
Year: 1877

CONGRESSMAN SMALLs, of South Carolina,
who is out of the Jail in Charleston on bail,
las taken his seat in the House of Representa-
tiveS. The judiciary committee has as yet
made no report in his ease.
Year: 1877

THE FIEID-DEAN CONTEST before the elec-
tons committee of the House involves the
constitutionality OF the johnny Davenport
system of registration which il seems was
adopted by the city of Boston. and under its
count Dean, the democrat, has five majority.


SWEEPING GINvEsTIGATIoNs.-Thec committee
on ways and means to-day referred the subject
Of sweeping Investigations to subcOmmit-
tee. 1t appears that there is grave question
of law at issue as to the right of a committee
to begin an investigation upOn mere suspicion
and innuendo.
Year: 1877

THE WRECK OF THE HURON.-The Secretary
of the Navy has received telegram from
Thos. II. LOCKER. at the Huron wreck, in
which he states that those who have had
charge OF the recovery of bodies from the
wreck have done everything i'm their power


and the friends OF the deceased may rest as
sured of duly tenderly and lovingly done. Up
10 Saturday evening ninety bodies had been
recovered; eight officers and seventy-One men
Identified and eleven bodies not identified


The wreck is under water. except a portion OF
the bow. at low water and other parts here
and there. The pivot gun is visible. and can
be saved. Ship hOgged and the whole star
Year: 1877

Every effort has been made to bring
to the attention of the administration
the recent declarations made in Ohio
by Representative Garfield to the effect
that there must be a change in the
course and policy followed by President
Hayes if the support of the Republican
party is to be counted on. A friend
submitted The information to Secretary
Schurz yesterday supposing it was new
and would interest him. lie replied,
"Oh, yes, / know all about it; it was
telegraphed me privately this morning
from Ohio, and delivered at Z o'clock,
before was up" 1t does not seem to
make any serious impression, and tie
friends of the presid ent say be will go
right on as long as he feels that be is
right without werving, regardless of
what is said about him in any qua(9er
" Y Herald
Year: 1877

A young man Of Tennessee, search
ing for place in life 20 fit his frame,
writes to a western paper: II Gave
been teaching school ever since quit
school, about year ago, but do not
like it. Itis time [ had chosen pro


fession, ard 1 think I would rather be
an editor than anything else, for l like
ease and comfort and. plenty Of mon
ey, and do not like to work. 10 be an
editor, to sit in an elegant sanctum, to
have plenty of money and 60 when and
where l please free of cost, and lead the
editors quiet life of ease, without care
or trouble of any sort, is the height OF
my ambition" Why didn't he ask 'or
a place in treadmill? All he would
have to do would be to stand in a,nice:
cool place and move bis feet once inso
Year: 1877

The letter carriers in the United States
seem to be unhappy. In all the princi-
pal cities they are organizing and prepa-
ring for q general assault upon the next
congress for an increase Of pay. They
want twelve hundred dollars per annun.
They are only getting from eight to nine
hundred. Thsre are to-day an hundred
thousand good men in the states who
would gladly take their places 1T SIX
hundred per annum. They had better
let well enough alone.
Year: 1877

There are some meek faced and ten
der hearted nen in the city of Detroit.
There is one IN particular, who owns
house and lot in tho eastern part Of
the city. Another citizen, whose face
doesn't betray meekness, owns = vacant
lot next to him, and few days ago he
wanted to buy the meek faced man out
and build a factory covering both lots.
The figures were too high, apd he went
away feeling mad and revengeful.
Coming across Snowman vhs wanted
to set up his tent and exhibit wild
man and other interesting specimens Of
life and death, he gave him the free use
of his vacant lot. It was stipulated
that hand organ should be kept going,
bells rung new and then, and if the
wild man uttered a yell now and then,
80 much the better. When the meek
faced citizen saw the tent 60 up, ten
der, forgiving smile crossed his face,
and he made for printing office
About the time the Snowman was ready
to open the doors to the anxious pub
cic the meek faced man was ready with
his signs and tackhammer.


"Gentlemen, walk in and see the
great Kickapoo kangaroo from Kalama-
zoo!' said the Snowman.


Tack! tack! and up went a sign on
the fence reading, Look out for small
pox!' second and third followed, and
the meek faced man was putting up
fourth when the Snowman closed q bar
gain with a truck to move him down
town. He wasn't over fifteen minutes
packing and loading, and wheo the lot
was clear again the meek faced citizen
sat on his door step and mused:


"He who wants to sell out let him
sell, and I wonder how much ahead
they aree''-Dstroit Free Press.
Year: 1877

In our issue of Monday in speaking of
the proposed building of a section Of the
Northern Pacific from the mouth OF the
Big Horn to Bozeman, Montana-it ap-
peared in print from the Big Horn to Bis
marck. This was mistake Of the COM
positor or else the stDevil'' had hand in
q : p.
Year: 1877

4 recent traveller in Mexico, who vis'
tied the mines there during his journeys,
says he was much astonished at seeing
the men who carry the ore come out OF
the mine each with one eye shut. The
foreman, seeing his surprise, explained
the matter. He said the candles belong.
ing to the tarateros (who drill and blast)
do not give sufficient light in the drifts
where it is consequently quite dark, but
where, nevertheless, the tardierOs SET
well enough not to run their head:
against the rocks. But on emerging into
daylight they would be blinded did the,
not take precautionary measures. Fol
this reason, as they approach the mouth
o. the shaft at the point where they catcE
the first glimpse of light. they drop the
eyelid OF one eye, aud keep this dowr
while discharging the ore, and until they
have re.descended the shaft. When
they are again in the dark, they open
the eye hitherto kept in reserve, and al
once they see everything distinctly !;
while the other eye, previously open anu
blinded somewhat by the daylight per-
ceives nothing at all.
Year: 1877

Recent inquiry into the distribution
of coal has proved that its stores are
greater than was at one time supposed.
The following table, although incom-
pIete, will serve for purposes of com
parison
Year: 1877

ENGLAND AND THE EASTERN CUES
TIoN.-The British Commons fined the
Eastern war difficult question to man
age. 1t is very easy to talk of the ssick
man" and show how he can be crushed !;
but the disposition Of his effects is the
trouble. Like many other estates, his
would pay well if only divided properly.
Were the Sultan, like Vanderbilt, allow
ed to name his legatees, there would be
better show; but even then outside claim
ants would be apt to break the will. So
England, according to the talk of her
statesmen in the House of Commons,
cares very little for the Turk-he is only
an incumbrance to civilization. But
then who is to succeed him in his beaut-
ful capital and great strongholds? There's
the


So we begin to find that England, that
seemed to be the most disinterested party
in Europe, is beginning to fret and fume,
and prove that she is the most interested
of all the governments aside from Rus
sia, which she fears is to loom up on the
Bosphorous as the greatest of naval as she
is the greatest of land powers. How
long, with Russia at Constantinople, will
England remain mistress of the Seas ?''
Well, with such people, and her dispo-
sition to advance in the arts and sciences,
it certainly could not be expected that
Russia would be long in getting equal
with Great Britain. But this question
and its complications might all again
turn on the disposition of the Turks
However, each days developments prove
that Turkey can hardly be dismembered
without general war.


There is still another question thai
seems to be lost sight of, and we may
call it up by asking who, after the Turl
is put down, is to hold in check the war
ring elements over which she now exer
cises such dreadful sway ? No one cal
suppose that the numerous religious
creeds within her dominlons can liv,
there in peace without some great powe
to oyerawe them. Russia would be abb,
to do this, and perhaps after all the Turl
would find her the most liberal maste
of all the European nations.
Year: 1877

THE government of the u. S. is just
ly indebted to Delaware for $1.000,000,
and if it had not been for the opposition
of the Radical party and Radical papers
and politicians of our own State, this
claim would have been paid when the
government paid other claims of the more
northern States for bounties paid to SOL
diers. We wan5 man sent to Congress
who will not fail to make good this
claim. 1t is nonsense to say that the
other States will be so unjust as to deny
to Delaware what they have themselves
received. When they talk of the want
of "loyalty" in the people of Delaware
they only reiterate what they said of a
majority of their own people when the
ballot was free from bayonets and U. S.
marshafs hired repeaters. While Massa-
chusetts was sending to Europe topurchase
cut-throats and British bummers to do
the fighting for her citizens, the farmers
OF our State were taxed to assist her poor
men who felt in duty bound to take care
of their families, to furnish substitutes.
Delaware is the only State where the whole
people were made to sustain portion
of the difficulties that fell upon a few,
and mostly upon the poor. With the
greatest rascals in the United States as
Provost Marshals to prosecute the drafts,
and under the most unfavorable crcum-
stances we, furnished more men in pro-
portion than any State in the Union, and
yet a party within our own State who
used the States money to buy substitutes
for themselves and their children, foolish
ly opposed the repayment of that money,
while all the other States were being re-
paid money they appropriated as bounties.
We want our Representatives in Con-
gress to look after this interest. If we
have paid fifteen millions of dollars to
the government in the last fifteen years,
and we believe we have,we see no reason
why we should not be treated as fairly
as other States have been.
Year: 1877

The Ballot is said to have produced
an almost incredible effect the women
of Wyoming. 1t is averred that some
of them actually declare themselves
older than they really are in order to
get a chance to vote.
Year: 1877

STARTING IN TIE WoRLD.-Many
an unwise parent labors hard and lives
.aringly all his life for the purpose
OF leaving enough to give his children
n start in the world, as it is called.
Setting young man ahoat with mon
ey left him by bis relatives is like IT,
ing bladders under the arms OF one
who cannot swim ten chances tt
one he will lose his bladders aud &c
TO the bottom. Teach him to swim.
aud he will never need the bladdeS
Give your child a sourd education
aud you have done enough Tor mm
See to ii that his morals are pure
bis mind cultivated, and bis whoi'
nature made slbseryient to laws whicl
govern man, and you have given wha
will be of more value than the weaItl
Of the Indies.
Year: 1877

Every farmer should raise q
quantity of beets for winter feeding
for there is no root more cheaply pro-
duoed Of equal value. Sow the seed
early before dry weather commences,
and the plants will get good hold Of
the soil and penetrate deep enough to
reach the moisture before the heat OF
summer begins.
Year: 1877

lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNg


SARATOGA, July 23.-The excitement over the
strike is rising again this evening at the hotels ow-
ing to the dispatches from Albany, Buffalo and
Rochester forebo ding serious trouble William IL.
Vanderbilt after a day of excessive mental
strain-he having received and replied on the mo-
ment to seventy-ive or 100 dispatches, some
of them very long and requiring decisive
Judgment on critical points-shows the ut
most coolness of mind this evening, amounting
almost to indifference, compared with the excitement
of men having little or nothing at stake. He took
his usual drive behind his fayonte roadster after
dinner. have just left him after long converse
ton on the garden piazza at the States where be
was quietly discussing the days events, surrounded
by members of his family. He talks of the situation
with GOODNESS and fairness, and conveys the i'm
preston that come what WILL he does not intend to
recede from his present position " 1t looks bad to-
night he SAID, "but / am not discouraged. Our
men are doing nobly, mind you, under their circum-
stances See the influence that has been brought 10
bear on them. These Baltimore and Ono men are
all up through here melting our men to
strike. | place considerable trust in them
still. but it looks somewhat as if these
outsiders would stir up trouble. / only
hope my men will not eml lss me in my
actions If they strike and decline to work, that s
thing: Dut IL tney say lnaI nODOuy clSS sldIt
work, then as a matter of principle | can have
nothing moro to do with them. Trains must stop.
We must shut up the property and defend it the
best way we can. Now, as matter of pride
would sacrifice one or two hundred thousand dollars
to know that the New-York Central men had stood
out against this strike, and it is a qualification
10 know that it reaches them last, If at all, and
haven't given up yet. Ii isn't known, but have
lust sent an order not to take any more freight. l
unde erstand the strikers in Jersey City sent over
word to our men in New-York to-day that if we
didn't stop taking freight they would come over
and make us. Well, didn't stop on that account.
These strikers don't realize whose property they
arc destroying. My came up on the evening
train, and overheard a conversation between
brakeman and gentleman The brakeman declared
the strikers would get their dues out Of the property
of the Companies. No You will not, said the gentle
man. every dollars worth of railroad property that
the strikers destroy will come out of the State, and
YOU are the very who will be taxed ~ pay for
It. These men in seeking redress by fire and
pillage are only placing burden on themselves ;
tho people must pay tor it. Well. the braksuSa
Year: 1877

The Indian has little actual and COM
mon experience of many articles of
civilized manufacture, the simplest of
which is as entirely beyond hi, cOmpre-
hension as the most complicated. He
would be a simple exclamation point
did he show surprise at everything new
to him, or which he did not understand.
He goes TO the other extreme, and rare
ly shows or feels surprise at anything.
He visits the states, looks unmoved at
the steamboat and locomotive. People
call it stoicism. They forget that to his
ignorance the production of glass bot
tie Is as inscrutable as the sound OF the
thunder. A piece of gaudy calico is a
marvel: common mirror miracle.
lie knows nothing of the comparative
difficulties of invention and manuiact-
ure. and to him the mechanism of To-
onmntive is not in any way more a
matter of surprise than that OF Il wheel
barrow. When things in their own
daily experience are performed in what
to them is remarkable way, they do
express the most profound astonish-
ment | have seen several hundreds OF
Indians, eager and excited, following
from one telegraph-pole to another q
repairer, whose legs were incased in
climbing boots. When he walked easi.
ly, foot over foot, up the pole, theii
surprise and delight found vent in the
most vociferous eXpressios of applause
and admiration. A white lady mount


ed on side-saddle, in what to the In


dian woman would be almost an inn


possible position, would excite more
surprise and admiration than would :
Hoe printing press in full operation.
Year: 1877

some time ago Amherst Agricultural
College made up its mind that the maple
sap from which sugar was made in the
spring was laid up in the tree the year
before. In order to find out if this was
true, a maple tree, one December, hav-
ing been guyed so as 10 keep il upright
was sawed of near the ground and the
end of the trunk Theoretically sealed
with wax. Thus the tree stood until
spring, when il was tapped and yielded
its average amount of sugar, although
the tree had been severed from It's roofs
upwards of three months. A young
maple was cut in the winter. brought
into the greenhouse and tapped. II
soon began to flow sap, and continued
to do so for thirty-siX hours, when the


flow stopped. The tree was then taken
ont ofdoors and allowed to freeze again
Upon being brought back to the green
house the sap resumed its flow and con-
tinued to do so as long as the alternate
freezing and thawing processes Were
kept up.
Year: 1877

The dead body OF Incorporating
young man with an intellectual cast OF
countenance, was found in the alley in
the rear of the lIawkeye building one
morning. lie was a stranger, and there
were no papers found on his person to
indentily him. The only clue 10 the
terrible mystery is the fact that pinned
to his heart by a long knife that passed
clear through the corpse, was found Il
manuscript original joke on Lent.
Suspicion attaches to the night editor.
The coroner's jury returned verdict OF
justiliable homicide - rHawkeye.
Year: 1877

Mary Paul, of Cincinnati, had an appe-
tite for alcohol that she could not mas
ter. She tried hard to reform, and her
husband told her, finally, that if she
ever got drunk again he would separate
from her. She kept sober while, but
at length, finding that she could not
resist any longer, she drank glass of
brandy. But she put arsenic in the
brandy, and died of the poison.
Year: 1877

The survey for a railroad TO the Black
Hills has already begun, and the festive
Sioux smacks his lips over the prospect
Of fresh prize-package boy for dinner
every day before the close of another
season.