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Year: 1879

For ten years my wife was confined to
her bed with such a complication Of all
ments that no doctor could tell what was
the matter or cure her. and l used up a
small fortune in humbug stuff. Six months
ago I saw U. s. flag with Hop Bitters on
it, and l thought would be fool once
more. I tried it, but my folly proved to
be wisdom. Two bottles cured her, and
she is now as we'll and strong as any mans
wife, and it only cost me two dollars Be-
ye like foolish" Fl. W., Detroit, Mich.
Year: 1879

Wilson said he had no doubt il would drive
out many druggists and he hoped it
would. All persons who are in that busi-
ness and who cannot pass q reasonable
examination should be driven out Of the
business. The ayes and uays were de-
manded on motion and it showed no
quorum. The house adjourned with the
motion still pending.
Year: 1879

CHICAGO. May 6.-Gray, who attempt
ed to shoot Edwin Booth. recently. plead
guilty in the criminal court this morning
of an assault with intent to kill and was
remanded for sentence until Booth shall
have made his statement, to the court, and
inquiry is made of bis mental condition.


The Custom House cases came up to-
day all the indicted parties being present,
Year: 1879

IMPORTANT TO PERSONS VISITING NEW
YoRK.-One of the best kept and most
convenient Hotels for Merchants and others
to stop at when in New York is the Grand
Union Hotel, nearly opposite the Grand
Central Depot, kept on the European plan
you therefore only pay for what you get.
Everything is first class, and prices mod
crate. adapted to the stringency of the
times. You save the expense of carriage
hire, and By leaving your baggage check
on the counter of the Hotel, your baggage
Year: 1879

SALT LAKE, May 6.-The jury in the
Miles polygamy case, were out five minutes
and gave verdict of guilty. A procession
Of over ten thousand are now marching
through the streets in honor of Miles for
refusing to answer questions concerning
the marriage ceremony.
Year: 1879

THE NEw AIR SHIP.-Two weeks ago
reference was made in the Sunday Jour
ual to the invention by citizen OF In
danapolis Of an aerial car in the con-
struction and working OF which an en-
tlrely new mechanical contrivance had
been introduced. The invention was
then noticed only in general terms, for
the reason that its author was not desirous
of having his name or The fall details
made public until bis application for
patent had been decided upon. Yester-
day moning, however, notice was received
from Washington that patent would be
granted, and the inventor stated to a
reporter that his enlarged working model
was so near completion that be would be
ready to place it upon exhibition during
the present week.


The air-ship with which he proposes tC
make his preliminary test will consist o.
coneshaped balloon, 27 feet in length
and aboutG feet diameter, attached tc
which is a car 90 feet long. This will illus.
trste the general design Of the air-ship
but the size will be regulated entirely by
after considerations, the intention at first
being to have car large enough to carry
from a dozen to twenty people. The in
vention which has been patented, is the
method by which the air.ship is to be
guided along given line Of route, 50 as
10 supply safe, agreeable and useful
means Of aerial travel from place to
place with q certainty Of arriving at the
desired destination equal TO that Of tran
sit by railroad or steamboat. 1t is pro-
posed TO connect the car by tho use Of
stay ropes OF cables with line OF track,
consisting Of a single rail Constructed
elter peculiar design, and laid at the
same height rs the New York elevated
nnmey, from 80 TO 40 feet above the
ground.


BY peculiar but simple contrivance
the air car is to be guided along the
track, and though this may be imposs-
ible in the face Of head wind it ia be-
lieved little difficulty win be experienced
frsm side currents. The inventor be
lieves that his plan Tor travelling through
the air will be absolutely safe, and is OF
the opinion that, with tho various i'm
provements and additional facilities
which will doubtless suggest Themselves
when it comes fairiy into operation, it
may certainly be expected to take rank
as one Of the important discoveries Of the
sge. 1t is his intention to apply to the
Common Council for permission to lay
an experimental track from this city TO
the stockyards, and expects to haye this
in operation next summer, SO that ali
who are desirous ofeXperieucing the sen
saton of ballooning without any Of its
risks may do SO At Il rate Of charge which
considering the novelty Of the tlip, will
be sufficiently reasonable to induce many
TO try the experiment.-LldiaHapo
Journal.
Year: 1879

Some of those chaps who wear
their elbows down thin leaning
on saloon counters, have an arts
ficial fly with a string attached
to the back. and sometimes these
toys can be handled to the amuse
ment of a small crowd. When
an unknown man recently fell
asleep in a saloon on Michigan
avenue the young man with an
artificial fly was there. He took
position behind his victim, who
was lying back on his chair, and
presently the fly alighted on the
strangers nose, walked up the
bridge and down, and settled for
a moment on the tip.end. The
sleeper never moved finger.
The fly went over the old route.
dove into the conner Of the left
eye, galIopesi over to the right,
and came down to the grand
stand On the dead run, but the
sleeper slept on. 1t began 10 APP
pear that he was used to flies,
and so the game was changed.
BY sticking pin through one of
these toys you Can make quite a
bee out Of it, the pin being the
stinger. ....


When the :'bee" descended on
the strangers nose everybody ex
pected to see a sudden start, but
it did not come. After a jab at
the tip>end the "bee' crawled
along up, waiting for develop
ments and getting it an occasion
al sting. but not even a sigh es-
capped the sleeper. The young
man with the insect was getting
tired when the stranger lazily
opened his eyes. 'lowly rose up
from his chair, and cody remark.
ed .-.


"Now, then, if you have got
through foOling with my nose LII
fool with yours for a while !"


1t isn't likely that particular
young man will ever dangle anti
fcial flies any more. He was
doubltd d up, Strengthened out,
choked, mopped and slamed SO
thoroughly that his appetite will
run to chicken broth and arnica
for some days to come. When
the cyclone had passed the stran-
, ger called for gin, drank it, and
said to the white faced crowd on
the bench:


"Gentlemen, if any more of you
see anything peculiar about my
nose please call around and let
me know
Year: 1879

A correspondent of the Philadelphia


Times has been having some experience


and taking ride among the Andes, an
account of which is worth reading. He
says:


the snow-capped peaks of the Andes,
Il, 900 feet above the sea, acclimating
myself for a trip over the mountains,
whose highest point, II $40 feet, I in
tend to scale. Leaving Lima this morn
ing with party Of officers, I came over
the celebrated Oroya railroad to Matu-
cana, and from there by the light express
to this place, the present terminus of the
road. The building of this road was one
of the greatest undertakings the world
has ever known. It is only completed 86
miles. and cost $3O, ,O00, 600. From the
sea coast to the summit Of the Andes we
passed through A tunnels and over
many high bridges, one of them 200 feet
high. The road follows the valley of the
many times. From Matucana to the top
and doublings. Some of the places are
really frightful. As you pass around a
mountain peak you can look for thou
sands of feet and still above you can see
the lofty peaks of the Andes. Even here
at Chicla we are 5000 feet from the top,
and the railroad tunnel on the summit
will be over 1900 feet above the sea.


Chicla is the highest railroad station
and within a few feet of the highest city
IN the world In Lima or Callao the
lightest clothing would be very comfort
able, but up here I would wear suit of
heavy underclothing and large ulster.
With all my clothes I am nearly freez-
ing, and red-hot stove close by at that.
Less than week ago I was in the tropi-
cal seas of the equator-quite a change.
Most people are troubled with what they
call &C scoroche," headache, nausea, and
sometimes bleeding at the nose, mouth
and ears. The air is SO rare it is difficult
to breathe.


AT the invitation of the road d-master I
took ride with him down the road. We
were just ahead of the regular train, and
we started off like streak of lightning.
have been in good many tight places
in my life, but never in position to
make my hair literally stand on end as it
did coming down the Andes on d hand
car. Never till my dying day can for
clouds, down, down we came, disappear
ing like flash in tunnel Of pitchy
darkness and out on to frail-looking
bridge over mighty gorge from 200 to
300 feet deep. We stopped in long
curved tunnel to look at some work that
was going on, and did not hear the train
in our rear until it was in the tunnel.
We could not lift the hand car off, so we
made spring for it, cut loose the brake,
and made dash for our lives. And
ii looked SO, for she came in full view be-
fore we were well across the gorge; and
on she came at the rate of a mile
but we were going by this time
much faster than that, and in short
time we left her far behind. We reached
Matucana, 200 miles from Chicla, in
safety, but since I had to think it all
over I would hardly try to do it again.
Year: 1879

To the Public and Patrons of the % Cent


Store.


Mr.. Dickinson desires to notify all that he
will in few days, probably by Monday next.
open store in the vicinity Of his old stand
with stock of goods Of the usual variety kept
by him. He has complete stock in his Min
neapolis. store and will receive his supplies
from there for the present. Due notice of the
location will be published in the papers at the
earliest day possible.
Year: 1879

posted in three places for twenty days,
and duly brought before the attention Of
the board, who then shall appoint viewers,
and if protest is made against their action,
reviewers to assess damage &c.


The road or highway being obtained,
the County Commissioners may then after
submitting the question of bridge or no
bridge to the people at a regular or sre-
cial election, if bridge be voted for by q
two:third majority, build said brldge in
such manner as may seem to them best


A petition for highway will, we un-
derstand, be duly advertised and brought
shortly to the attenti Of the Board of
Commissioners, and our citizens in all
probability be able to say yea or nay, by
their ballots at an early day for bridge or
no bridge. H.. ..... ..


The bridge ought to be built before
the spring freshet, which according to a
fair estimate based upon the amount OF
snow fall, will be over the average one.
We say, build the bridgc-build it sub.
substsntially-build it for the least amount
ofnoney that coed bridge can be built
fnr-build it as soon as possible-BUlLD
THE BRIDGE.
Year: 1879

.s s9 lmatcer much talked about at present
,1pphgd town, is for and against a bridge
Ssb+idges across the James and Pipestem
streams ... -.


That a bridge on a properly laid out
highway, across either the James River
below the Junction of it and the Pipe
stem, or a bridge across the Pipestem
above the junction, is a necessity, cannot
be fairly disputed, as during the spring
freshcts which occur at the time that the
settlers south and to the northwest of
here must do most of their hauling and
travelling; to deprive, for want of safe
mode of crossing, the people that live on
the other side Of these streams, would
work a hardship.


A route that was looked at by party
of our citizens, of which the Board of
County Commissioners were part, on
Monday last, is in a nearly south direc-
tion from the south end of Fifth Avenue,
through A. Klaus farm on the continue.
tion Of said Fifth Avenue, which Mr..
Klaus has left unbroken, and over which
he will give right Of way. to the quarter
section line, then turning about 100 to the
west, bridge the river, which is at this
point IS feet wide, with approaches of
about as much, or say 1870 feet; thence in
a southwesterly direction about quarter
Of mile to the section line between
sections 35 and sc, or the section line
running south Of the school house.


This road would pass over very smooth
ground and would afford good satisfaction
to all having business both up and down
the river, until the county is sufficiently
we'll off to build another bridge across the
Pipestem, westward from town and north
of the railroad track.
The present bridge across the James
River above the junction, will with little
repair, serve we'll for some years to come,
and when it shall cease to serve our pur-
poses, another can be built further down
the river, either upon the section line
westward of the school house, or upon
some street line. .u. .......


As bridge is, by the Dakota Statutes
part of a highway, the first thing to be
done in order to get a bridge is to get a
highway. Section lines are by law high
ways, but in this case road must deviate
from the section lines at some point to
get q pactical line The code requires
that when road is sought to be laid out
upon private lands, that the petition of IL
freeholders, SIX Of whom live adjacent to
the proposed line of road, to the Board of
County Commissioners, is to be published
three times in the county newspaper, OF
Year: 1879

She clasped her hands on my arms,


She laid her cheek on my shoulder;
The tide Of her tears tell warm
On hands that trembled to hold her.
l whispered plying word,


AS the ship moved slowly apart,
And the grief of the friendless poured
Its choking weight on my heart.
For graves, in the evening shade,


Were green on far-of' hill,
Where the joys of her life were laid


With love that had known no chill:
But, however her heart might yearn,
We were facing the freshening breeze,
And the white wake heightened astern
On the rolling floor of the seas.
She quenched the fire of her tears,
Uplifting her meek, brave head.
''Or dark or bright be the years,
will take courage" she said;
back her lOose-blowing hair,
And her shawl drawing closer the while
So she drank in the strong sea air,
And left the old shore with smile.


University Magazine.
Year: 1879

Dayton Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.


Miss Briggs, living near this city. accom-
panied by her brother-a boy about ten
years Old-went short distance from her
fathers house, to gather ferns. and while
thus engaged she was assaulted by man
who came suddenly upon and tried to take
hold of her arms. She resisted the assault
and was strnck in the face and knocked
down by the rufiian. AT this juncture her
little brother struck her assailant over the
head with club, and showed such pluck
as to compel the villain to leave the girl
and defend himself from the vigorous
blows of the boy. The cries of the girl
soon brought assistance, and the brute
fled, making good his escape.
Year: 1879

A little six year old in this city has been
listening to the remarks OF iegal-minded
uncle in regard to the prospect of an. in
dicted party getting clear by getting !. con-
tinuancc of his ease from time TO time.
Shortly after the little fellow got into a
scrape which secured tor him promise
from his mother of a little dose of slipper
at an early period. He anxously sought
the uncle for legal advice on the subject.
who could only sympathize with him, but
with no prospect OF relief Uncle" said
he, don't you think you could get mother
to continue the case? Ii we get continu-
ance, think l could get off," He got off.
Year: 1879

The Chicago Tribune says that young
wife OF that city who is anxious to keep
her husband at home evenings fiatters him
about the exquisitely dainty proportions
of his feet, and indaces him to wear boots
about two sizes too small for him. He is
on his feet y day long in town, and when
he comes home at night she has soft
chair and pair of loose, cool slippers for
him, and by the time he, with great drops
OF agony peariing on his brow, has got on
his boots, he comes to the conclusion that
there is no place like home after all, and
has no desire to 60 down town to lodge or
to sit up with sick friend.
Year: 1879

When you and We're lad and lass
n fresber hue was on the grass,
And stars were twinkling in the sky,
Because you hit me in the eye;
We quarreled then from first to last,
When you and were lad and lass.
Wien lad and lass were you and II
You stole and ate mas custarl pie,
Then in my coat the crumbs did throw.
And how they licked me you we'll know;
Such were the things that came to pass
When you and were lad and lass.


oil City Derrick.
Year: 1879

Down In "a AEy


MARYvILLE, June 25, 1879.
Mr.. EDITOR; The fire fieDd again


visited our town at 2 o'clock to-day.
laying the large residence of Captain
E. Goddard, Clerk and Master, in
ashes. II was a very large frame build
ing. erected about theyear 1852. and re>
Gently neatly painted and repaired.
A new frame meat house had been
built in the rear, and near the resi-
dence. Capt. Goddard was cut in The
| field. s0ne distance from town, at
work, the family had, only a few
minutes before the alarm, gone on q
visit to another part OF the town, leav-
ing Only Henry Grizzard, the nephew
of Mrs. Goddard, who was few days
ago dashed from horse and still lame.
about the premises, and be was up
stairs in back room, and did not dis
cover the fire uDtf9ft was under head
way. When first discovered, it was in
the meat house, and the first parties
that got to il say the inside of the
meat house next to the residence
was all on fire, and in a
very short time the blazes were
Issuing from under the roof Of the
meat house against the dwelling,
which quickly ignited and burned so
rapidly that it was difficult to approach
near il. The wind was blowing
sharp gale, ard the house being very
dry, it was not over an hour from the
time the fire was discovered until the
hnnSn ToaIHnnco and II ~ o.
house, located in the yard, were all
burned to the ground. Most of his
furniture and household goods were
carried out, hut his loss is very heavy
as the rooms had to be abandoned so
soon after the fire would reach them.
The only theory that can possibly ac.
count f-r its origin is, that his little
girl carried some ashes this morning
from The stove and poured them ia the
garden in rear Of the meat house and
the breeze carried sparks to the build
ing, but this is not very probable, as it
is several feet from the meat house to
the garden, and there was 10 grass to
com municate it, and besides, that side
of the house was the last TO take fire.
No fire had been in this building for
three months, and there was nothing
to start one.


Fortunately no other buildings were
very near in the line Of the wind, for
Goals were carried near 200 years and
set the roof Of another house, occupied
by jane Scott on fire, which was
soon extinguished, and it was reported
that the roof Of the jail, son1e distance
farther, also took fire once, but these
were easily extinguished, as every
body was out and on the QHi Vipe.


Cant (ENI1av2 bea the SvD1 Dathy Of
the entire community, as he is o man
highly respected by everybody, and
popular lin the vicinity. He had
no insurance Oh his property so the
loss falls very heavily upon him in
these hard time.


1t is remarkable that, notwithstand-
ing the frequent fires in our town,
we have no Organization, no means of
the hend, only kind of
mob gathering and veTybody captain
and commanding everybody else.
Year: 1879

All citizens of the 1st Ward are re-
quested to meet a. Main street bridge
by Scales Mill tonight ss business Of
Importance is to be transacted. AS
this is probably the last meeting they
will have, full attendance is desired.
Meet promptly at s O'Clock.
Year: 1879

The gallant sons of East Tennessee MAX
ing preparations to do honor to it in the
City of Knoxville. From Bristol to
Chattanooga they ere thoroughly aroused,
and will pour in from our fertile vallies
and from our mountains. The indications
are that Twenty Thousand Of them will
Of
Year: 1879

the few moments the rooms had been oo-
cupied, than in any other school Of which
he reports. One per cent Of carbonc acid
gas in atmospheric air is extremely dan
gerous to human health. What Is to be
said of twice as much, which was detected
in these rooms when they had been occu-
pied scant half hour. with the polluting
operation to so on for several times as long
before dismissal Another room is in-
dicatcd In which the air space per indi.
vidual is about or not quite that Of the
Black Hole OF Calcutta, yet either by acci-
dent or design has air which is better than
would be expected, although far from fit to
breathe. What is the new Ventilation Com
mittee, OF which so much was promised and
expected, going to do about Dr. Ender-
mans revelations? What it has done
through its chairman, ex-AIayor Wickham, is
to secure the passage OF q resolution direct
ing the teachers to take the temperature of
their respective rooms three times day
and record the same upon the blackboards.
Has somebody told the cx-Mayor that the
purity OF air depends upon its temperature,
or is this only a new illustration Of the
Boards consistency to its dreary, murder.
Gus policy Of show not to do it?"
Year: 1879

School Commissioners Watson should be
on the alert for the eorrupting influences
that are abroad and trying to impose good
air upon the lungs OF bad little boys and
girls. The trouble has broken out in q new
place. DR.. Enderman. who is neither re-
porter nor patent ventilator man, has
been reporting to the Board of Health tho
condition OF tho public schools, and he
finds professional reasons for disliking the
mir of tho rooms as much as the little VIC
Tins and the HEnALp do. His table Of
comparative air space. temperature and
impurity Of air in certain schools is very
suggestive to scientists. parents and under
takers, though whether it will be equally 30
to body Of men who know and care so
little about ventilation as our Board of
Education do IL quite q different mat
ter. Perhaps the Ventilation Committee
of the Board may be interested to learn
that the only school upon which both Dr.


Enderman and the HERALD inspector re-
ported = Grammar School No. 18-stands
equally bad in the estimation of both gem
tlemen. The HEnALp said of it that we're IL
not for occasional changes of classes the air
would be intolerable that the alterations
OF heat and cold were dangerous, somo of
the pupils shivering whilo others were
roasting that 1t was pitiful to see the chill
dren seated near the radiators with their
countenances flushed with the dangerous
rise of temperature, inducing irritation of
the brain and depression of tho nervous
system" DR.. Endcrman says nothing. but
offers some terrible figures from which we
learn that the proportion of the deadly car
bonic acid gas In four of the Ave rooms upon
which he renorts wna greater. considering