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Year: 1877

THIS celebeated organ, from the highest
priced instrument to one of the ordinary
make, can be seen during Centennial week
at the store of +. N, Squire in Nichols block.
Main street, Mr.. squire used one of these
instruments at the special services yester-
day. The following is a comment upon
this organ: Those who have not heard
these organs will be surprised at the sounds
and changes and il is said one cannot tell
by the sound whether it is a wind OF pipe
organ which costs thousands. or one that
cost two hundred dollars, except in the space
it has to fill. A parlor is as perfectly filled
as church with pipe organ, At this time
there are thousands made where formerly


but one; and the time will come when
they. will be acknowledged to be superior to
a strnged instrument. as a piano, 1t is ex-
peeted that not far in the future all families
will have one in tho home as a neees5..y, TO
help educate aud Talse the mind of ehi-
dren. rs the effect Of music has refining
iuHuence, These instruments are all made
with great care, and in such a substantial
manner that they viii last for many years
Year: 1877

Few conditions in life are free
from trouble, with probably the
single exception OF being the hus
band Of cross wife. In that case
yon arc only to do as yon arc told.
But of all others, the most trying
ordeal lie that experienced by the
eI:joyor of single blessedncss. In
the first place, he is acquainted
with everybodys young and lovely
wife. When she meets him in the
stores, Just because he has no ore
else to buy for, she wants him to
bny her new dress. If he dosen't
bny it he is "stingy." If he does.
he has the most brilliant prospect,
at no distant day, of getting shot
by her husband as a reward of
merit.


Should he take stall with a
neighbor's daughter, several of the
men of his neighbcrhood watch to
waylay him, and all the other girls
Of his acquaintance are watching
their opportunity to snub him. If
he remains in the unpleasant enjoy
Dent of his fate, all unite in saying
that he cannot get any one to have
him, aid ifhe marries, all the wicked
men and bad boys of his neighbor-
hood gather together to charivari
hlm.


With the exception of the mar,
ried man, there is no other being
on earth more to be pitied. For
our part We have sympathized with
him tor a long time, but we can do
nothing for him. His good nature,
benevolent disposition, and religious
awe of the girls and women place
him beyond the reach of any kind
but his own.
Year: 1877

Ohh OIOPPED.-W G learn that
work upon the Western Insane
Asylum, in process of construction
at Morganton, has been suspended
for the lack Of funds. At its last
session, the General Assembly an.
propriatcd $4,000 to carry or this
work, but we now hear that the
institution is without silver and
operations must suspend fer the
present. There is said to be good
deal of distress among the mechanics
and laborere, many of whom came
from distance, who were engaged
on the building. They are lett
without employment and without
money. The State has spent too
much money on this property to
now abandon it and let what has
been done go for naught. This
would be not only false economy.
but actually an insane policy
Ealeigh Neacs.
Year: 1877

and therefore out of the reach OF
Mrs. Stoves syrnpethies, and she
could not stir up sectional hate by
weaving their wrongs into a story
founded on fact.


The above is only one of many
instances which the papers here
give OF heartless cruelty to the
weak and defenceless. Another
might be quoted from the same
paper of a horrible beating of a
white servant child, nine years of
age, by boarding house keeper,
who justified his conduct before a
magistrate. II.
Year: 1877

How TO CURL YOUR HAIR.-The
following, which we clip from an
exchange is published without
recommendation, for the informa-
ton of our lady readers


"To keep hair in curls take a
few ounce seeds, boil them in water
and add pcrfnlnery if you like: wet
the hair with this ard it will keep
in curl longer than from tho use Of
any other preparation of which we
know. 1t is also good 10 keep tho
hair in place on the forehead, if you
are going ont in the wind. The
seeds can be bought at the drug
store for few cents al ounce, or
when you make your ounce into
jelly, you can save the seeds yours
self"
Year: 1877

THE FRAUDULENT PRESIDENT
FEELS Ir.-It would seem that the
President is not fully satisfied with
his title to his Office. He has the
air OF Il man who is detected and
uncertain. He is not at all demon
strative. On the contrary, he is sad
and reluctant to consider any of the
doubts and misyivings that arc,
from time to time, presented to
him. With concern he notices that
the heart of the people is not with
him. He saw this plainly when
he visited Philadelphia, and it was
almost as plain on his trip down
East, and he is afraid that he will
not have hearty reception when he
goes South. In sober truth, the
President is an object of commits
Grafton, inasmuch as he does not
possess the confidence of bis own
party, and daily receives stringent
criticism from the Democratic side.
-PhiLadelphia Item.
Year: 1877

The Pope takes small quantity Of wine, and
prefers Bordeaux. He lost the other day his
constant companion at dinner for years, his
aged cat, who sat in chair opposite the Pop-
tiff, and took its portion from his hand when
he had finished. Fear was felt that he would
be affected by the loss of the cat, but he did not
seem to mind it any more than the death of
Cardinal Antonelli.


While Charles Kingsley was in Boston, few
years ago, and the guest of james I. Fields,
the brilliant Oliver Wendell Holmes paid him
brief visit, and did all the talking. No soon
er would Kingsley begin to stammer out some
thing than the irrepressible Holmes would
break in with a flow of wit. This sort of thing
was continued until the Doctor bowed himself
Year: 1877

At the close of the war of the Rebellion the
War Department, impressed with the impor-
tance of preserving the official records of
military operations, sconceived the happy
idea of publishing record history of the
doings in the field. from 1861 to 1866.
The capture OF the archives of the
Confederate government added greatly
to the facilities for the preparation of
such history. Congress was induced to


make the appropriation necessary to carry


out the undertaking. and work was at once


begun. The appropriation was soon ex-


hausted, and another was not made until
1875. Since that date the task has been


steadily prosecuted and it is now quite half
completed.


The work is the most extensive of the kind
that has ever been undertaken by any nation,
for the Government gives not only full his
tory of its own operations in the field during
the four years of great war, but those
of the enemy as well. Only the


most important of the records. Or
ders, dispatches and corr espondence


are to be published, but these will


make hundred volumes, averaging five hum
dred pages each. From report of the Sec


retary of War the following account of the


manner in which these records are being pre-.
pared is extracted: "From the immense
mass of papers on hand, the required docu-


ments are selected and put to press at the
Department; the proof being carefully read
and compared with the original papers, and
each document, letter, report, telegram and
paper is being printed separately. Accuracy
is absolutely required before these printed
copies are placed in the hands of the compil-
er, whose duty it then is to collect and group
the various subjects in order of date, and in
accordance with their relation to each other,
A large mass of material has been collected,


copied, and great portion of it printed, and,


as far as practicable, the printing has been


done from original documents, when the ma


ture Of tbs records admitted, without re-


course to copying by hand. This matter has


not yet received its final arrangement and


classification, owing to the difficulty of select


ing at the same time, papers relating to con-


temporary subjects.


No distinction is made between the treat


Inent Of the Federal and Confederate records,


and the stories Of every campaign and battle


are tod by both the contestants. The Con-


federate presentation of the case is less COM


plete for the reason that the Government did


not secure all the Rebel archives and has


found it impossible in some cases to supply


the information contained in the missing


papers. The importance and historical value
of these records of our civil conflict cannot


be too highly estimated, and the plan of their


publication is wise and liberal, for in their


present condition they are liable at any mo-


ment to be swept out of existence by fire
and other accident.
Year: 1877

That family recently arrested at Alma, Ark,
was not the Bender family and it is now
stated that Bender and his wife and son and
daughter were caught some time ago and
lynched, hile endeayoring to escape from
Kansas.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

Some farmers cut their wheat when they
are ready to get at it, not when the wheat
ought to be cut. We say ought to be cut,
and we say it adviscdly. Every observing
farmer will admit that the risks run in al
lowing their wheat to become dead-ripe are
many, and one or more of them are sure to
turnNp. Rains may come and blac'len it,
and itmay be delayed so long as to shatter
out considerably when the harvesting takes
place. But above all, the rust may interpose
and destroy half the crop. This injury sell
dom ever makes its appearance until the last
Of June. while in ordinary seasons the crop
is fit to be cat by the 25th Of June. That is
to say, when the grain can just be mashed
between the thumb and finger is the best
time to cut it, This carly harvesting not on
ly secures the crop against the risks named,
but it secul es also better flour and more OF
it, while the straw is brighter and contains
more nutrition as food for cattle than when
the cutting is delayed. Again, as most
wheat fields in certain parts of the country
are sown with clover, it gives the young
plants an earlier opportunity to push ahead,
SO that it can be pastured in early autumn.
when it affords an excellent food for mich
cows, without in the least reducing the crop
the ensuing yea:. Gc1Uanto'on Telegraph.
Year: 1877

market for four and five year oltls. In some
portions Of the State they are not worth
near these figures. There is also market
demand for stock cattle. The prospect Of
still more remnneratiye markets than now
exist has stimulated capital to seek this
branch of industry. Thus we may safely
conclude that if the grasshoppers but pass
us l'y Il month or so longer the first SHOWS
OF winter will find the people OF Montana in
a better fix to weather IT'S storms than, amy
previous one has. They will have money
in their pockets, and their granaries will
smile with plenty.
Year: 1877

70 reach the highest success in fruit cnl-
turc, you must give 1t scasonable and 1lnre-
hitting attention. This it particularly true
of small fruit culture, as a few days neglect
in the growing season may make quite a
difference in the results. II you put u cul-
tiyator to work in Il plantation of small fruits
as soon as the grass and weeds appear, or
a little before, you will find no difficulty in
destroying them. Wait u few days, and
perhaps you will not be able to work With Il
cultivator, but will be obliged to take plow
and turn up sods in ridges, which will re-
quire a great Ceal Of subsequent work to
level down and make fine.


So in regard to keeping down the suckers
of raspberries and blackberries. If you
commence with their first appearance, and
cut down all that you do not wish to grow,
with as much persistency as you would
noxious weeds, there will be but little
trouble in keeping them down; but if you
spare them until roots and canes have ex-
panded, it will require double or three-fold
the amount of labor to subdue them.


But we commenced writing moro partic-
ularly about the raspberry plantation, which
needs pruning the early part of this month,
and if it is not attended to promptly, it
will prove losing ra.hor than q paying
enterprise.


There are two ways OF training raspberry
canes. One is to tic them UP to stakes, and
the other is TO pinch them back some so
that they will grow stouter, self-supporting
canes, and their pruning should depend up
on their training. If they are to be trained
up tied to. stakes, which may be the best
and most profitable in the long run. we
should suffer the new canes to grow about
four feet in hight, and then pinch off the
end of the leading shoots so as to stop their
growing.


There are varieties of the red raspberry
that are partially tender and can only he re-
! lied upon to produce full crops when bent
down and covered in winter. These should
be trained up rather slender, and to insure
them from falling down when loaded With
! fruir, should be tied to stalk


Hardy varieties and all varieties of black
caps, may be pruned SO as to he sufficiently
self supporting to bear up the most of their
berries out of the dirt. But you want tc
commence soon, early in June, when the
canes are about two feet high, and pinch
out the terminal buls, which will throw the
Year: 1877

DenOuncIng a Democratic Trick.


HARRISBURG, Pa, January I2-The Sem
ate to-day passed the resolutions agreed
upon in the caucus yesterday denOuncing
the threat of violence as being intended 20
prevent and 10 imperil the declaration and
confirmation of the constitutional action
for President and Vice President.


installation Of Georgia's New Governor.


ATLANTA, January l2-Governor A. H. Col
quit was inaUgurated before an immense
audience, at twelve O'Clock to-day. A large
part of the paper was devoted to urging
ecocomy in the State government and to
relieve the burdens of the people. The part
on Federal matters was enthusiastically
applaudei and is as follows: In the
grand popular majority of the recent
gubernat0rial election is to be read the
overwhelming interest that Georgians feel
in the great issues now cOnvulsing the
country, and their determined purpose to
keep in alignment with the patriotic mil
lions of our Northern friends, who are seek
ing, by the peaceful fundamentally of law
tul suffrage, TO re-establish good govern
ment under the undisputed supremacy of
the Federal constitution. / but speak my
own deep-felt sentiment, and echo the pub
lie voice of Georgia, when l say that in
all the complications of national politics
now so replete with fevered interest,
we stand in immOvable sympathy with
the elected exponent of constitutional lib
erty, retrenchment and reform. We will
adhere to him and his colaborers with the
fidelity due to the champion OF q righteous
cause in every patriOtie endeavor they may
make to secure the honest and unmistaka-
bls will of large majority of the American
people cOnstitutionally expressed at the
polls,
Year: 1877

The statement in Wednesday afternoon
paper that Captain LawlOr said he wished
the boys would go away, and that armed
men would come, that he might give them
warm reception, is not only incorrect, but
has been grossly exaggerated on the street.


What Captain Lawlor did say was this:
When the boys and children and disOrderly
men commenced throwing mud, oyster
shells, etc, at the State House door, ho
closed it and stood outside. He then spoke
to several Democrats there in his usual
tones, and said if they did intend to make
disturbance, to bring armed men there,
that he might know what to do, and not
have a crowd of children around with
whom he could do nothing. He said if an
attack was made by armed men, and an at
tempt made by them to break in the door of
the State House, be would fire on them, and
do his best to defend the State House, un-
less bis orders were changed.
Year: 1877

Nichols Reports all QnIct-AttOrney Gem


eral Taft at Work on the Case.


WAsHIEGToN, January Ex-Governor
Nichols telegraphs Representatives Levy
and Etlis this afternoon that the situation
is unchanged. Everything is quiet, and
likely to remain SO, and that the Republican
Legislature shows unmistakable signs Of
dissolution. The position of the general
government toward the Louisiana State
government remains unchanged. The
opinion Of the Attorney General, upon
which it is expected executive action will
be based in recognizing one or the other of
the claimants for Governor and Legislature
Of Louisiana, is yet delayed, though Judge
Taft does not intimate to what extent.


A RumOr that Senator West DIscredIted.


A report is current at the Capitol this
morning that some action crippliDg to the
Nichols government would be taken be-
fore night. At noon Senator West knew
nothing about it, and did not believe it.
Year: 1877

Especial to the Democrat


pEsTH. June tB-Conilictaag accounts come
from Roumania. Those who regard opera
tions imminent explain the general move
ments Of the Russians during the past week
as preparatory movements for concentrating
forces hitherto scattered in eantonments. The
departure of portion from headquarters, on
the 18th inst. from Ploesti to Alexandria is
regarded as surer indications of imminent
action while the unusual preparations being
taken to prevent anyone from approaching
the Russian lines goes to confirm the impress
sion.


One account states that all the inhabitants
have been ordered to withdraw from the
shores Believers in this speedy commence
ment of operations actually name June Is as
the date when the first attempt to cross the
Danube is to be made From other sources,
usually not less well informed, it is positively
learned that a fortnight or so will elapse
before the crossing will be made.


The Russians are not ready to undertake
operations along the whole line, owing to the
imperfect state of preparations. These were
found SO far backward on the Emperor s
arrival at Ploesti that he is said to have ex-
pressed his displeasure


DESPITE the obstacles caused by the rains,
1t was thought that more might have been
done IL it had not been for the want of har-
mony and cooperation, extending even to
those occupying very high positions Estab-
lishment Of magazines close to the Danube
Year: 1877

from steamboat inspectors strict fidelity TO
true intent and meaning Of the seventy eighth
rule and statute ON which IT Is founded; the
duty Is enioined upon inspectors Of frequent
visits TO excursion steamers In order to have
personal knowledge that their equipments
are kept UP to the original requirements, and
that the hull and boilers are entirely safe
Year: 1877

VERSAILLES, June ia railway accident
this morning delayed the opening Of the
Chamber of Deputies.
The Senate will discuss the question of dis
solution of the Chamber of Deputies to-mor-
Year: 1877

The Bituminous trade is not active
in fact it can barely expect to regain
its old-time activity and buoyancy
while the prices current to Anthracite
are at so low an ebb, as at present
This Glow priced coal appears to be
the cry at all points of sale and ship
ment both at the West and East 1t
is not saying too much, that until the
general manufacturing industries of
the Union are in better shape than
they now are, the prices of all varie-
ties of coal will remain at about the
present range. The fact that manu-
facturers, and all consumers of coal
in quantity, are not actively engag-
ed in manufacturing the various
products, has tenendency to check
the consumption. This, together with
the fact that with present facilities,
we can produce coal much more rapid
ly than it can be consumed under the
most favorable circumstances, is what
keeps the price of coal at the unusual
ly low figures that are now ruling


Let US have anything like return
to good times, with an an actively en-
ployed manufacturing interest, and
the price of coal will proportionately
increase; and it would be a good
thing if prices were advanced the
present rates make the miner suf-
fer, the storekeeper, the railroad
companies do not make enough out
of the carriage of the coal, at present
rates, to pay expenses, and there is a
general stagnation IN all the various
industries connected with, or depend
ent upon the coal trade. Let us have
a higher range of prices, and the val
leys of the coal region will put on a
vastly different aspect the miner will
be once more a happy man the opera
tor and transporter will have an op-
portunity to recuperate from the con-
dition into which many had the i'll
fortune to be placed.-.Saward
Year: 1877

There's something in the parting hour
Will chill the warmest heart
Yet kindred, comrades, lovers, friends,


Are fated all to part.
But this I've seen-and many pang


Has pressed it on my mind
The one who goes is happier


Than those he leaves behind.
No matter what the journey be,


Adventurous dangerous, far,
To the wild deep Or bleak frontier,
To solitude or war
Still something cheers the heart that dares
In all of human kind, 80
And those who go are happier


Than those they leave behind.
The bride goes to the hridegroom's home


With doubtings and with tears,
But does not hope her rainbow spread


Across her cloudy fears?
Alas the mother, who remains,


What comfort can she find
But this, the gone is happier


Than one she leaves behind.
Have you friend-a comrade dear


An old and valued friend?
Be sure your time of sweet concourse


At length will have an end
And when you part-as part you will


Oh, take it not unkind,
If he who goes is happier


Than you he leaves behind.
God wills it so-and so it is;


The pilgrim on the way,
Though weak and worn, more cheerful ii


Than all the rest who stay.
And when at last, poor man, subdued,


Lies down to death resigned,
May he not still be happier far


Than those he leaves behind?
Year: 1877

To seal your letters. To endorse
your drafts.


To pay express charges and ex-
changes. To sign your name Co your
order oea


To keep fish out of the sun. TO
keep your Teas from dust or damp
ness.


To always enclose sample when
you say you do.


That powder can only be shipped
in powder car, and not with other
goods.


Visit the market at which you buy
at least one each year-twice is better.


To examine all goods upon receipt
and if not all right advise the shipper
at once.


That Kerosene Oil can only be
shipped on certain days, in an oil car,
and not with other goods.


To exchange goods only for cash re-
quires nerve but it demonstrates prin-
ciple, and insures safety and success.


To exchange goods for promises to
pay is extremely hazardous, and puts
the merchant in the attitude of beg
gar for what belongs to him.


To think twice, and examine care
fully all goods that at first don't ap-
pear right, before you write and
charge the house you buy from with
an attempt to take advantage of you.


Whenever you open barrel, half
barrel or kit of any description of
Fish, and it is not all right, be sure
to give the name Of the packer of the
fish to the house you bought FROM
Western Retail Grocer.
Year: 1877

LET no man who reads the telegram
from Deadwood printed elsewhere
imagine that becauseso many thousand
dollars worth of gold have been
stamped out of the Black Hills ore in
an incredibly short run the prospect
Of making a fortune there is any
brighter than we have heretofore
stated it to be. The truth is simply
that all the valuable claims have
been already taken up; that most of
these require capital to be made
productive, and finally that nothing
but the hardest sort of work will even
then suffice for their development.
Only young men who are fond of
working in the water up to their
waists, dining on hard taci, and dodc.
ing bullet now and then, should
think of emigrating to Deadwood.


THE constitution of Oregon was so
framed that it has been impossible
for this State to run into debt, as
other States have done, in flush times,
and the whole State is happy in conse-
quence.
Year: 1877

What uneeasing torture arises from in- ternal bleeding, external and itching piles. The vain endeayors to obtain eveu partial relief has discouraged the millions who suffer, and they have borne their agony in silence, thinking there was DO hope for or even prospect of a