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Year: 1877

On Sunday last the schooner Ida
Schnauer,-o outward bound and lumber
laden, made An effort to obtain harbor
from adverse winds inside Dungeness spit,
and while so doing grounded. and was
obliged to discharge her deck load on board
the schooner Page in order to tighten the
vessel sufficiently to get off. When
LAST heard from ION Wednesday she had
not accomplished her object although it
was thought she would on the next flood
tide,
Year: 1877

THERE were over thirty ladies In at
tendance at the lasT meeting Of the Sewing
Circle of the Presbyterian Church, and
the interest and perfect unity of feeling is
more and more manifest.
Year: 1877

nOme ana raIlleI'l


The French butcher separates
the bones from his steaks, and
places them where they will do the
most good, The housewife orders
just enough for each person and no
more, even to the coffee. If a
chance visitor drops in, somebody
quietly retires and the extra cup is
provided, but nothing extra by
oarelessness of intention, when the
little range is extinguished, and
waits for another time, No roaring
cook stoves and red-hot covers all
day long for no purpose but waste,
Tie egg laid to-day costs little
more than one laid last week. Val
ues are nicely estimated, and tho
smallest surplus is carefully saved,
A thousand little economies are
practiced, and it is respectable to
practice them, Cooking is an
economical as well as sanitary and
gustatory science. A French cook
will make a franc so as far as an
American heusewife will make
three. We should probably be
greatly astonished, could the COM
putation be made, how much OF
the financial, reouperative powers
Of France is owing to her soups
and cheap foods-better living, after
all, than the heavy bread and grassy


failures of our culinary ignorance
Year: 1877

and fifty feet long, moving with
great velocity ON the surface of the
water, their heads raised ten and
twelve feet above. Bay of Fundy
fishermen, in speaking of them, say
they are the greatest Of sea villains.
Twenty-odd years ago one of these
monsters got caught on a sand-bar,
where he was left by the rapid fall
ing of the tide in the Cumberland
branch of the Bay of Fundy, and
was killed by the people on shore
after an exciting struggle. He
measured forty-six feet in length.
AS Captain Memo says, the head is
fiat and serpent-like, the eyes al
most red, with ugly white circles
over them, Indeed, nothing could
be more repulsive than the head of
this sea monster. The only other
sea villain they are known to frat
ernie with is the swordfsh. Both
are well known to old coasters and
fishermen as the deadly enemy of
the whale; and it is the common
belief that they hunt in couples,
and on finding the whale make i'm
mediate war, the swordfsh attack
ing beneath and the thrasher on
top.


The common belief is that the
thrasher has a huge weapon, very
like Il sledge hammer, protruding
from his mouth, with which he ad-
ministers on the whales back those
terrible blows you can hear ten CT
twelve miles distant. l have my
self stood on a bluff overlooking
the Bay of Fundy, and witnessed
three of these terrible battles be-
tween a whale and his enemies, the
swordlish and the thrasher. The
swordfsh did his deadly work un-
derneath, while, as Captain Memo
says, the thrasher half coiled him
self over the whale, and applied the
blows with his ponderous tail. In
the distance, however, the thrashel
seems to raise and let his weapon
fall very much as a blacksmith's
helper handles his sledge. You
could see the weapon rise and fall;
you could hear the blows distinct
ly, although the distance was be-
leved to be not less than ten miles
from shore, and you could also hear
the whale below and see him
blow. On one of these occasions
the terrible contest lasted nearly
three HOurs, the water in the vicin-
ity being red with blood. About
every fifteen or twenty minutes the
whale would disappear in an at
tempt to escape from his enemies,
but they would quickly pursue him
and force him to the surface, where
the combat would be renewed.


These two sea villains, the sword
fish and the thrasher, invariably
kill the whale when they get him
into close quarters; and as soon as
the combat ceases, which can be
clearly seen by the whales body
floating motionless, the thraShel
will proceed to clear water, where,
raising his serpent.like head in tri'
umph, ten, twelve and fifteen fee
above the surface, he will continue
for fifteen and sometimes twenty
minutes lashing the sea into foam
Year: 1877

4 correspondent Of ll5 Cl.gar-


Tines gives the following graphic
account Of Col Ioger-Oli's capture
BY the rebel Gen. Forest The
real facts Of the case are curio4, and
Characteristic Iuger-0ll was recon
noitering with q small detachment
Before they we're aware cf anv dan
ger they came upon a nest Of sharp
shooters greatly Outnumberiue hem.
To fight OF retreat was alike impossi-
bic. The first intimation Of danger
was that IngersOll noticed q butter
nut drawing a bead on him. With a
readiness that had saved him from
defeat in sny a lawsuit, be cried
out: What Go you want TO shoot me
for I've been waiting t0 acknowl
ledge your old CO0federacT for the
last two seconds The fellow heard
1t and appreciated the joke: OF course
be didn't shoot The squad was led
to headquarters. The joke was soon
circulated through the camp. and the
rebs would flock about the prison
tent curious to catch q glimpse Of the
1ank Forrest treated him verv
kindly, Offering him especially good
accommodations; bat the Colonel de-
clined on the ground that what vas
good enough for the rest Of the boys
was good enough for him. The mex.
day they were all exchanged. At
parting Gen. Forest returned to In
gersol his horse with q note address
ed 80 the man who saved his life bv
a Joke in the face OF death"
Year: 1877

Messrs. Rhodes & Server, produce CON-
mission merchants, twenty-slx Whitehall
st., New York, send the following. AS
they do very extensive business in butter
and cheese, and are thoroughly posted on
the market and the future prospects, we
think dairymen will do well to act prompt
ly on the advice they give:


The low price of cheese during the fall
and the favorable prospects of butter in
duced many to take their milk from the fac
tories and make II into butter. 1t was i'm
possible for any person at that time to real
ize the full extent to which this was being
carried on, and II is only now when We find
the crop of butter 30 very excessive and the
crop OF cheese short, that this united but
foolish move of dairymen of the country
begin to be fully appreciated. What is to
be done to work of this large stock of but
teri We answer, open the factories just as
soon as there are new milch COWS enough
TO make a cheese day. Don't make a
pound of butter for this market until the
old stock Is thoroughly exhausted. New
cheese will be in demand this spring at re-
muneratve prices. We urge factorymen
TO open early. We learn that II is the in-
tention of many to open by the first Of
March; this is a good move; the earlier the
better. Keep good warm fires in your cur
ing rooms, and market your chetse as fast
as cured Dairymen, be as united in this
as you were in making butter last fall, and
you will help the commission merchants 10
work off the surplus butter, and will your
selves be benefited by the prices you will
receive tor your cheese. The fret thai
reaches the market will pay the largest
profit to the owners. Let us see who will
be first.
Year: 1877

We once before called attention to the
condition of some Of the fire plugs. We
cgain remind the Water Committee that
the following plugs should be at once re-
paired, as in their present condition they
are useless, in case of a fire. Those we
refer to are at Water and French and
Eighth and King streets.
Year: 1877

One of our machine shops, 1t is said, is
30 crowded with work, that the managers
have had to refuse quite good order that


they could not fill in the time desired, ow ,
ing to the great amount of work on hand.
A great deal of Wilmington work is now
being shipped to Europe, especially paper
machinery and car wheels. All trades are
brisking up. Ship joiners are quite busy.
Year: 1877

John Bonner, . machinist, while doing
some work on machinery at the Diamond
State Rolling Mill, on Monday afternoon,
fell from ladder and broke his left wrist.
The fracture was Immediately reduced and
he is now doing well.
Year: 1877

boiled, calrs or bect's heart boiled hard and


grated liver Of any kind except hogs liver,
chopped or grated so fine as to become of
the consstenCe of thick blood, mixed with a
htle sweet cream, IS the practice at our state
fishery. Now, under proper care and feed.


ing, the fish viii come on rapidly, so that in
few days or weeks they are in condition
suitable 10 be removed from their Matching
trougns and IN those lakes and rivers. there
10 grow and to bear testimony that fish cul.
ture is neither myth nor IA phantasm, but
an peculiar, tangible, and gustable reality


Such, In general outline, Is practical fish
culture. The limits of this report will not
permit statement OF all the methods and
processes If the art that Obtain in the treat
ment of different species, differing as they do
in different countries, and even with different
establishments Of our own country. They
are. however, mainly differences of detail


md not If principle or essence. Nor can l
enter upon description, nor even an enum
Grafton of the Inventions contrivanccs and
appliances made and in use TO secure what
are thought to be more certain and better re-
suits many of which have been and are used
to great advantage, and TO them fish culture
is indebted largely for its advanced position
among the arts ana sciences.
Year: 1877

Mr. and Mrs McGann, it Will be remember
ed, were found wounded, the former in the
arm ana the other III the breast, on the floor
of their room in Market street lodging
house about two weeks ago. Mrs. McGann
plaInlivtly explained that McGann had shot
her because he wes jealous; and he declared
that she had wanted him out of the way and
had attempted to kill him. The puzzled po.
lice officer who had undertaken the arrest
put one under either arm and took them both
to prison, where they have since occupied
ent rooms, and, not having an opportunity to
call each other names, they contided in the
sympathetic hospital steward, Henry, TO
whom they told their troubles Henry piled
them both with healthful story books, and
with amusing shrewdness chose love stories
IN which the principal characters wele hus-
bands and wives, who adj justed their differ
enccs with surprising case, and ever after


ward lived in great happiness. The stories
had soothing effect on the man and wife,
and as the days went on they softened toward
each other. They began to think that each
other was not quite as bad as the other
thought at first, and the busy Henry was
pleased TO perceive an inclination on the part
of both to bury the hatchet McGann's arn
improved rapidly, and after lurking for some
uayS arOunu Tue uooI vi lhe apaitheht WHY
his wife was confined TO bed he mustered suf.
tlclent courage to solicit an introduction from
Henry. The latter performed the duty very
gracefully, and retired in hurry. Since
that time the husband and wife have spent
their evenings together, making plans for
the settlement of the matter before the court.
There was no witness to the shooting except
themselves, and if they were both under the
influence of liquor at the time as it will very
probably be developed that they were, neith-
er will be able to remember Who fired the
first shot, and the case will have TO be dis.
missed. FranciSO Chronicle, Jan. 3.
Year: 1877

All Livingston county was fearfully exer.
cised last week over stories that a general
bulldosing and massacre of the negroes of
Pontiac was in progress on the part of the
whites, and that dozen at least had been
chopped up with cleavers in single evening
and converted into rump roasts and sirloin
steaks. All the foundation the story had was
tina, young rough named Marks and col
ored youth named Miller got into a row, dur
ing which unhappily there was more shoot
ing done than killing.
Year: 1877

UTICA, February Isl, 1877.


have been twenty-five years in America,
and last Friday night for the first time enter
ed protestant meeting house. l confess
went with the ex pectation of seeing something
novel, and hearing something curious and
laughable, more than for the sake of being
edited. Although alone, mustered courage
and effected an entrance. Contrary to my ex
pectations found very little OF the laughable
or ridiculous, while, on the contrary, the nov
ell and edifying presented themselves at vari-
GUS times and in various ways.


The walls OF the interior of the church
were entirely devoid of pictures and paint
|Ings Did person not know before entering
that it was a church, 1t would be difficult for
him to decide after entering, unless he read
it in the countenances Of the congregation
Few members of the same congregation but
have the picture of George Washington hung
up in some room at home, and when they
look upon 1t are reminded of the glorious
achievements of Americas liberator. Why
not then have the picture Of the Savior Of
mankind suspended from the walls?


SO felt lost to see no artificial manifesto
ton of what place was in, but was not long
left in bewildcrment, for Mrs. Lewis, in a
very stirring sermon on "Confdence in God"
soon convinced me was in a place of wor.
ship and in good company. Many of the
members arose and publicly confessed that
they had been converted to God, aud meant
henceforth to walk in the footsteps Of their
Creator. The preacher (whose name do not
remember) spoke very edifyingly and encour-
aged his people to 60 on with the good work
which they had so successfully begun. The
congregation prayed for the people of Utica,
at which place the revival meetings are being
held every night of this week. After many
beautiful hymns had been sung the meeting
adjourned. AS soon as it was over every
member arose, began to talk, and put on their
hats. This last astonished me more than any.
thing else, for l always thought, and think
yet, that of all other places men should at
least be reverent enough to keep their heads
uncovered in the house of prayer. With a
few such exceptions the meeting was edfyng,
Interesting ana DenenciaI. l recommend ev-
erybody, especially sinners, to attend the
meetings, feeling satisfied with my own visit,
although had to travel five miles without
the society of a female cousin, or the company
of cigar, TO put in an appearance at the


wonder working Utica revival.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Jan. :, 1871
PRESIDENT GRANT AGAIN sPEAKs-AN ORIG


INAL VIEW ON THE GENEVA AWARD QUEs-


TIoN-HIs REASONS FOR pIsMIssINo THE


POLICE CoMMIssIoNERs-THE REMOVAL OF


oRDNANCE-THE DEMOCRATIC INTIMIDATION


MEETINGS.


The President says that contrary to recently pub
lshed statement he has no intention Of sending
sage to Congress the subject Of the Geneva award
He thought, however, that Congress ought to extend
the class Of cases for which damages arc claimed;
that of the awards ought TO go back Great
Britain because the entire amount was less than the
value Of the ships destroyed, and that IL there
any surplus 1t would be good thing to expend 1t
toward restoring merchant marine TO what II was
before the dcpredations OF the rebel crusers


The reason given by the President for asking the
members OF the Board Of Polico Commissioners Of
this District for their designations was that,
reading the testimony taken in the recent investi-
CATION concerning gambling houses he surprised
TO learn that ther suppression had bcen neglected.
He had boon In Washington long t,me he said but
had until recently learned OF the actual existence
OF many places OF that character which carried
contrary law and should, therefore, bo closed.
He knew nothing Of the alleged police conspiracy
against Representative whtthorno except what two
detectives related to him.


The President in reply TO = question concerning the
removal Of ordnance and ordnance storcs said
the forcc at Jefferson being small they to
Rock Island, where .hey could be properly guarded,
but he had knowledge Of recent movement Of like
material from Baton Rouge to New York, although
tho report might be true.


In regard the recent publications to the result
OF Interviews with him the President said that, ko
others, he had freely expressed his views tho eec-
toral question, but had rot said what he would or
would not do further than recognize successor SO
legally declared


The President, on beng asked what no thought Of
the democratic meetings be ned tomorrow in varI.
Gus places said they seemed TO be ntonded TO ntmi.
date tho opposite party and make capital The effect
on the public mind OF the North would depend ON the
character OF the proceedings Tho people were not 10
be brought to submission bv attempted intimidation.
II the speeches delivered at these meetings are tom.
perae or moderate, advising conformity 10 law and
order and acquiosconcc In the decision bo reached
by Congress- as TO which Presidential candidate re.
ceved tho majority Of tho electoral votes tho demo-
Gratis might strengthen their positions otherwise con-
trary effect might be the result
Year: 1877

Tho storm Of wind, rain and snow which swept over
New York State and tho eastern coast on Saturday
night and yesterday morning has been productive OF
a shcaf OF disasters which sadly supplement those OF
last wook. special despatch to the HERALD from
Long Branch gives the particulars OF the strandng of
steamer which has twice already experienced
the terrors OF the deep
Year: 1877

and that he had to support him the opinions Of his own
courts and those Of other States 1t is possible that
tho knowledge OF this may havo led TO the at
tempt Of the republican Senators to develope
Of fraud and bribery against the Governor.
Year: 1877




ground for saying that they would grant immunity to
the guilty parties for making restitution nor had any
idea been entertained OF allowing them to throw them.
selves upon the clemcncy OF tho department No such
consideration would be entertained because II would
bc sorry pass IT. after money had been and could bc
distracted IRON he cash OF Treasury Depart
mcnt, when the guilty person had been detected IL
would be strange II all they had TO do
was to throw themselves upon the consideration
OF the department to be let OF, perhaps
to encourage others to do the samc thing


From a diagram aud such hypothetical explanations
as Secretary Morrill, willing to make II is thought
the theft accom- the couson OF some
OF the clerks who handle the money packages Sccrc-
tary Morrill, Is not at liberty say at this stage
OF the investigation he Is pursuing to whether tho
money has been recovered In whole or part but hc
intmated that tho measures no taking would lead
to such q result


II is reported tonight that the thief who stolo tho
money from the Treasury has made restitution Of the
money to Treasurer wyman by sending IL
through q third person, and asking q con.
DINING OF his offence. Tho conscience
stricken thief. whose name is withheld Tor
tho present. is said to have boon familiar with tho bus-
ness OF the Chicago bank, to which the package was
addressed, and hence tho facility with which he was
enabled to plan the abstraction Of the money package
In ITS progress through tho cash 10 the
company.


THE WANTS OF THE CROW INDIANS NOT SUP


PLIED-NEaLrGENCE OF CONTRACTOR.
Letters and petitions have been received here from
citizens OF Bozsman, NJ T., and from officers stationed
At Fort Ellis, representing that the wants OF shc Crow
indiana with whom tho government 10 so anxious TO
maintain psacssbls reaisn are aoS supplied In 10.
Year: 1877

It is a marked lecture of social life in England, and certainly one of its es- pecial charms, that mothers and daughters are so uniformly seen to- gether at their own home. Not only is the mother the first lady to whom you are introduced at the house where you visit, but mistress of the ceremonies throughout; not only does she preside at the dinner table, but in the evening party she sits as queen. Whatever may be your first impression of such an arrangement-if it happens that your sympathies are with the younger ladies-you will very 5000 learn to think that the mothers absence would be very sincerely regretted by the daughters. As a picture all must ad- init the arrangement to be perfect. The portly form and matronly dignity of the mother are an exquisite foil to the youthful beauty and maiden coy ness of the daughters. And you will find nothing to mar, but everything to enhance the interest of the picture. The mothers presence never seems to operate as an unwelcOme restraint. Between her and the daughters you will mark the most joyous, playful, loving freedom, without the sacrifices of little parental dignity and author ity on the one hand, or of sweet grace full filial duty on the other. It may be said of English families generally, that these two things are eminently characteristic, to wit, uniform parental authority, and the most charming free- dom of intercourse between parents and their children.
Year: 1877

No wonder if half the world knows how pleasant it is to take an after din- ner nap, and what relief it is to the overburdened brain-Or stomach. We used to know lawyer who took his nap every day after dinner on three chairs, and that lawyer, if he continues the practice, will die an old man. If there is any one time when man is forced to exert himself, whether in muscular or brain labor, to work, it is after the monday meal. If all men could only rest, not one hour but two closing hours of the day, what an im- provement would be made in their health. Whether he be farmer or a mechanic, or a professional man, a good rest after dinner leaves the man in a better condition for hard labor than even in the morning. We once worked for a farmer in harvest, who always made an agreement with his workmen to work ten hours day, and from twelve o'clock to two no work was to

 

 threatened rain or something that re- Quired extra exertion. Didn't we have glorious times sleeping under trees after dinner! We always used up three quarters of an hour at the table and then slept one hour and quarter during the heat of the day. The result was the men were never overworked, and the farmer got more labor from his men than any of his neighbers, though their men often worked twelve bours a day. When two o'clock came the hands were all in good trim, completely rested out, and they could do double the work with more ease than if they had com menced work at one o'clock. A single hours rest at the proper time worked wonders with them.
Year: 1877

Even in Beerland there are different kinds of beer, like the federal union, one in many and many in one. Be- tween them are irreconcilable differ ences, as for example, between the white and Actiens beer of Berlin. The former is made of wheat, and is excIu- sively 8 summer beverage, and a glass of it is fondly termed 'kleine Weisse' Ca little white one), perhaps in irony for it is served in eccentric mammoth tumblers, which require both hands to lift.

 Then there is the Vienna Beer, the antipOdes of the Bavarian. The latter must be drunk soon after it is made while the former must lie many months n the cellar before it is ready for use In Austria, that forcible union of States of clashing interests and nation alities, which is not a nation, but only a government reposing on bayopets the population is divided between King Gambrinus and those of Bacchus.

 As little as an artist could maintain that he was familiar with the works o the great masters when he had no visited Italy, so little could 8 bee thinker assert that he had seen bee rightly drunk when he had not beer in Munich it is the elixir of life, tn, fountain of youth and happiness, It il looked upon as nourishment by thu lower classes, who drink for dime l two masses of it, with soup and blacl