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Year: 1877

The inquiry has shown a decided improve
ment, although with large supplies pouring
III it is idle to expect that that prices will be
to any extent affected by the enhanced re-
quest. The imports of wheat into London
during the past fortnight have been enor-
mons, Mondays list showing upwards of
100000 quarters, and the returns to Friday
the further arrival of 1920 quarters.


The pressure to sell American wheat on
ships, to avoid the expense OF warehousing,
has tended to a decline of {: shilling per
quarter. OF course, the large imports now
arriving are considerably in excess of our
immediate requirements, but from the re-
cent tone observable in tfade it is evident
that the outlook for holders is not so gloomy
as many might imagine. The course OF pol
itics is being closely watched and this is
undoubtedly weak point as far as sellers
are concerned, as d termination of the war
between Turkey and Russia would set free
the accumulation of grain in the Black Sea
ports, and bring about, for time, state Of
things not unlike a panic in the wheat mar
ket.


Our exports continue fair, as cheap white
wheat is in request to supplement- the def
cient harvest in France. Feedng-corn is
quiet. There is very little alteration in the
value of barley, oats and maize, with fair
arrivals at ports Of call. The floating cargo
trade for wheat has ruled steady at an inn
provement Of about siXpence per quarter.
Maize has advanced to a similar extent.
Barley is firm.
Year: 1877

phide with immediate and absolute success.


| should recommend the sulphide Of carbon
to be put in small medicine walls and hung
When it has about three parts evaporated
the remainder will have acquired yellow
ish tinge, and no longer acts SO completely as
before, but if it be shaken up afresh it will
still suffice to keep the enemy at a distance.
Year: 1877

R. J. Rutherford is erecting a building near the corner of Montezuma and Leroux streets, opposite the upper end of Lindsay's garden, where he is about to start into the dairy business It seems to be a mighty high and dry place to do much in the milk line, though it is possible water may be had by digging deep enough
Year: 1877

Cal. Jackson has built a neat and ,ubstan- tial fence around his premises on Granite St. He Is also pruning his fruit trees, of which he has quite an orchard on the large grounds that surround his house This is one of the most inviting locations in town.
Year: 1877

ME. Luke will commence work on the road from Walnut Grove to Bradshaw, soon. 50 that when his teams arrive with the ma chincry for his new mill, which is to bc put up in the Basin near the Tiger mine, they can drive to the site selected for the miil without any trouhle
Year: 1877

Tub Ayres will g. out to Walnut Grove m a day or two, to look at the property of the Final Company, having been engaged by the owners to examine and report upon ihe prospect of getting sufficient oTc in the district to keep it running in case they con clude to start it up again.
Year: 1877

Several ioads of wood will he taken at inc MINE. office and grcsa5acls paid for the same. Our pep.r is run on money basis and no wood will be taken for subscriptions. Bring on your wood and receive your checks on Uncle Sam fer the same.
Year: 1877

The City Council has acted wisely in
resolving to give the cleansing of the
streets Of the city out by contract. The
city is divided into four districts, by Mar
ket street and Sixth street.
Year: 1877

The early thaw has stopped logging
business throughout the Wisconsin
pineries, and no more work will be
done this winter. Comparatively few
logs are cut, which the lumber men
think will insure higher prices aud
better work next winter.
Year: 1877

A county editor illustrates the pre-
vailing extravaganza of the people Of
the present day by calling attention
to the costly baby carriages in use now,
while when he was baby, they hauled
him around by the hair Of the head.
Year: 1877

"A L. S. naval officer writes from
the coast Of Siberia that his party
caught $50 handsome spotted trout in
four or five hours, and were then
obliged to 60 back to the ship, as the
bait gave out long before the fish.
Year: 1877

Doubling always makes men weaker;


Fear makes towards of us all
But the true and earnest seeker


Knows no failure Or no fall
Life was never meant for dreaming


Asking how or asking when
With faint resolves and mcrcst seeming


Duty calls for earnest men !
Then grid you up with strong cndeavor


Ever onward while you may!
Keep your trust and hope forever!


While Gods finger points the way!
Year: 1877

When a man without cash or credit
attempts to leave a hotel, and lower
his valise out of back window by
means of a rope, ii makes charity
seem cold to hear the voice of The
landlord below yelling up "All
right. I've got the vallse ; let 90 the
rope.'
Year: 1877

1t was the work of scarcely min
ute to unlock the safe, replace the
bank notes and lock it again, and to
Martin it seemed as if q thousand ton
weight was taken off Lis heart with
the simple action.


THANK God ! he muttered huskl-
ly. I am an honest man again.


The temptation had been terrible
the yielding to it was even worse
But now it was all past, like dream
in the night.


Wash it good for your mother to
lend me the money to pay that hate
full bill o said Isidore joyfully. She
wanted to give it to me, but I'll only
take it as loan, until | can pay it oft
by my savings out Of my monthly al
lowance. On, she is so sweet, 50 good
and kind !!


And Mrs. Holt the younger, stopped
to hug and kiss Mrs. Holt, the elder,
in ecstacy of grateful affection.


She's to stay with US, and show me
all about housekeeping! added Isa-
dore And do you know, Martin,
it seems as if it was my own mother
come to lite again.


Mother, I thank God for this, said
Martin in choked voice, as he clasped
her hands in his.


And Isidore Holt dated her newer
and wiser life from the moment III
which she laid her tear wet face upon
the bosom Of her step mother-in.la !,
But Martin never regnlned the self
respect which he lost By his criminal
act In his secret soul he knew that
he had been thief.
Year: 1877

A Detroit man ask, for quail on
trust with such an ingeneons accent
that the waiter mods his head and
trots off to bring. quail on toast.
when the mystery is cleared up the
landlord is powerless.
Year: 1877

We copied from the Dolly Nevs Of last


week a most sensible letter from Mr.. Att


field, Professor Of Chemistry to the Phsr~


maceutioal Society, in which the writer


points out the shameful waste of ''burying


like dogs" three fine bullocks, which had


not even been killed by lightning, but only


by the immense disruption Of air caused by


. powerful fash passing near them. Now,


the prejudice against eating lightning


killed beasts, like all other ignorant super
stitions, dies very hard. In the country


these animals ore regarded as victims of the


wrath of God, and sohsld accursed, though


Of course in reality their meat is as sound
and pure, often better, than those which


which are killed by the pole axe. As .
matter Of fact it was proposed few years
ago that bullocks ana even sheep should be
killed by shock from a powerful battery = =
in other words, q small flash Of lightning.
But there were stropgo objections to this, The M


most formidablel Of all being that the public
would not touch osush meat il they knew
bow it had been killed, or even without
knowingit suspected it. Besides, there wsrs
other and more practical reasons against it
Slaughtermsn know now to use pole a1s,
and are not likely TO kill each other with it
But we are afraid very different things
would result il they were intrusted with
tho manipulation Of powerful battery
capable Of killing the strongest bull in the
fraction Of q second. As a mere matter OF
mercy, and as regards the excellence of the
condition of the meat killed by electricity,
il is in every way to be preferred to the
pole axe. We believe 1t would be univez-
sally adopted but for what we cannot help
calling the superstition Of ignorance against
it. Let any humanitarian go to the sham
bles and watch the sgonies Of terror of the
beasts as they stand in rows, with the cold
sweat dropping from them, and their trem-
blings shaking the pens, against the sides Of
which they creep, waiting their turn to be
killed, and then let him answer-Would it
not be more merciful for man to pass
and touch wire to their noses, and SO all
over in space of time so small that science
has as yet failed to calculate it7-Trade
Review. 'IHH }.'' e.
Year: 1877

We are anxious to know what Mr. Coxx.
LING will have to say Of the nomination Of
Taxoposs Nooaxvx1E to the position OF COL
lectoE Of the BORT OF New York. Mr. Roosx-
WELT is . gentleman Of lArgs private meaus
who has retired from business and devoted
himself to the enjoyment Of the leisure
which be has earned. His social position u
established, and his political experience il
still TO be gained MIR. Cosxlma will
probably feel that the nomination Of such
Year: 1877




Near the site of the new Catholic col
iege on the hill west Of Omaha, well
was dug twenty years ago, aud walled
with brick. The supply of water failed,
and about two weeks ago Mr.. H. W.
Brown undertook to bore in the bottom
to gain a better supply. This was done
and curbing was put in; but a quick
sand was struck, and%ais caused q fall
ing in at the bottom. Accordingly Mr..
EnOch Collins descended into the well
on rope. Soon, however, the bricks
began to cave in around him, and he
cried out to the men above to pull him
up, and began at the same time to as
cend the rope hand over hand. But he
was caught by the general caving in of
the brick wall above him, his hands still
on the rope stretched above his head.
In this attitude he was buried under a
column of brick about 45 feet in depth.


The struggle to save him was then be-
gun by men who were at work near by.
They were able to converse with him
even at the great depth at which he was
buried, and the work was continued
without cessation for four long hours,
until at last 80 feet of wall was taken
off, and at about o'clock, Collins was
brought out alive, and was able to walk
with firm step to a coach.
Year: 1877

VOorhies Trahan, lodged in our parish
jail sometime since, by the Sheriff of
the parish of Vermilion, for murder,
was taken out by said officer, on Thurs
day morning last, and taken back to.
said parish to stand his trial.
Year: 1877

A very amusing incident occurred one
night recently at the residence of III, A.
Bennett, IN New Preston Conn. Mr..
q. y. Kenney and wife, of New York,
were staying there for short time, and
on the night in question they retired to
their room at an early hour. Mr., Ksn~
ney took the precau tion to place large
roll of bills in the heel of his boot. The
outside bill happened to be 10 note.
Accordingly, after arranging his money
carefully in the boot, and thinking that
no burglar could find it, he retired for
the night. What was his astonishment
in the morning to find the $40 bill gone.
Search was made, throughout his apart
ment, but no trace of the missing money
could be found. 1t was certainly very
mysteri ,us. Only one Of the roll of bills
was gone. After spending many hours
In the search Mrs. Kenney removed q
stand and noticed one corner of the lost
bill protruding from small mouse hole.
The little burglar had entered the apart
ment and succeeded indragging the
bill the whole length of the room to its
hole, where it luckily caught on q nail
The mole was SO small that the bill could
only be extracted in small pieces. The
burglar is still at large, and the
wner of the house offers a large reward
for his apprehension,
Year: 1877




The reports of the conference between
Sitting Bull and his chiefs and the Amer.
ican and Canadian Commission, at Fort
Welsh, Canada, are very interesting, and
snow that the noble savage treated his
white brethren with the utmost disdain,
and turned up his painted nose in the
most approved civilized STYLE.


PUTTING IN THEIR PIPES.


Until the finish all the Indians
continued to smoke, smoke, smoke. Then
while Colonel Mcleod sat in his chair
and Major Walsh rested on the corner OF
a table, Sitting Bull, Spotted Eagle and
the rest continued to smoke. They
smoked until the room reeked. They
smoked as If they were smoking for their
lives. Yet while they smoked their Wis
ages were as unreadable as the face ol
the Sphinx, and, although everybody felt
something unpropitious in the air, nc
ons would have yentured prophecy un-
til Sitting Bull arose, in his barbaric
grandeur, and said ., q


SITTING BULLS SPEECH.


"For sixty-four years you have kept
me my people and treated me bad.
What have we done that you should
want us? We have done nothing. 1t is
the people on your side that have started
us to do all these depredations. We
could not go anywhere else, so we took
refuge in this country of the British. Il
was oD this side of the country that we
learned to shoot aud that is the reason
why came back to 1t again. l would
like to know why you came here in the
first placer l did not give you the coun-
try, but you followed me from one place
to another, so l had to leave and come
over TO this country.


A DEFIANT ATTITUDE.


81 did not give you any country bu
you took it away from us. Here the
speakers eyes glanced detia, ce.
was born and raised in this country
with the Red River half breeds, and
intend to stop with them. | was raIs
ec hand in hand with the Red Rive
half breeds, and We are going to tina
part of the country, aud that is thu
reason why l have come over her,
shaking hands with the English. Off
GERS. That is the way was raised IL
the hands of these people here, ant
that is the way intend to be will
them. You have got ears to hear anC
you have got eyes,to see and you SCI
how L live with these people. You
see me here. ami you think l am
fool. You are bigger fools than
am. This house is medicise house
You come here to tell us lies, but WI
don't want to hear them. dom
wish any such language used to me
that Is, to tell me such lies in m.
Great Mothers house (alluding Il
Queen Victoria.) Don't you say two
more words. Go back home wher'
you came from. This country Ii
mine ahd intend to stay here and tt
raise this country full.o1 grown people
See these people here. We were RAISED
with them" (agaIn shaking hands Will
the English offlcers.) 'That is enougt
so no more. You see me shaking
hands with these people. The part o.
the country you gave me you ran mt
out Of. Ihave now come here to stay
with these people, and l intend to stay
here. wish you to go back and tt
take 1t easy going back"


WHAT HE MEANT.
Year: 1877

one we call greenbscss the other we call
bonds. The bond is the promise OF the
government to pay gold many years from
now. with gold interest in the meanwhile.
Ii certainly would not be AS good as the
gold itself and yet could only get 10 cents
premium on that gold, while the bond.
which Is the promise to pay gold twenty
years from now. with per cent. interest,
il worth more than gold itselt-it Is worth
lAl cents on the dollar.
Year: 1877

SCHOOL LANTERN FAMILY LANTERN


PEOPLES LANTERN
Each style being the best of its class in the market
Catalogues Of Lanterns and Slides, with dire1
tions for using. sent application.


Any enterprisng man can maks money with a
Magic Lantern.


nJ- Visitors to the Centennial Exposition will do
wisely to defer purchasing goods in our line until
they come 10 our stores in New York whore they
viii find greater variety and more moderate price.
and can select more at their leisure But we have
concession TO sell some stvles of orr goods in in
building of the Department of Public Comfort and
those not coming to New York invited to call on
our representation there.


8S- full stock of Views OF the Exposition Build.
ing and their contents.


June 20, '76-m6.
Year: 1877

The New Milford Conn., Ray of a
recent date says: Most of our readers
in New Milford will doubtless remember
Mrs. Miranda Ruby, crazy woman who
has lived in this village many years, and
whose insanity was manifested by al
ways wearing letter envelope on her
bonnet or tied 10 her parasOl, or in some
other harmless way; but we doubt if any
one would be likely TO surmise the cause
of her insanity. A few days ago her son
came TO New Milford, and took Mrs.
Ruby TO see physician in New Haven
for his advice. The physician said that
her difficulty was softening of the brain;
that it was absolutely incurable, and
that itwas caused entirely by the use of
hRir-dye.'
Year: 1877

FRIENDLEss AND ALoNE-The sud.
deh death OF Mr.. Mitchell awakens
thoughts in reference to many others who
are situated similarly to what he vos-
The old man lived by himself in a little
cabin on the outskirts of town, and though
his death was entirely unexpected. vet he
had been in rather feeble health for soma
time past. What happened him at the
supper table, in the presence of those
there assembled, might, n few hours H.
ter, have come upon HIM in the solitude
OF his home. AS it is, it is consolation
to his friends to know that assistance
was at hand, that everything was done
for him that could be done even though
1t availed nothing. But had he been
found dead in his own chair at home. ne
he might have been, there could have
been no such thoughts. 1t might have
been three or four days, or week before
he was missed, and the story of his last
struggle for life only guessed at. There
are many, too many, Of the pioneers Of
Trinity who, like Mitch. " lived, STAY
in little world of their own creating.-
Friendless they are not, for all their old
companions stand ready to aid them in


every way, if they happen to know that
assistance is needed. But of intImates
they have few, if any, and they might
be missed from their usual haunts for
days at time, and no thought given Of
their whereabouts except the passing one
that they were probably working some
where. Every little while we see in some
Of our mining exchanges where some
man who lived and worked by himself
had passed away and the manner Of his
going was known only to his God. Our
own county has furnished numerous in
stances of the same nature Of the old mi
ner to live and be by hlmself-the disap-
polntments OF score Of years have Civ
en- shade of melancholy to his thoughts
and he in many cases enjoys his own
ompanionship better than that of any
other. He came here young, in the flush
OF health, strength and hope, and he lives
more in the past than in the present.
now that the dreary years have rolled
their way and left him poor in the land
his labor has made rich and great.
Year: 1877

THE REsULT.-Our private Returning
Board has been busily engaged during
the past week in canvassing the subscrip-
ton books of the JOURNAL. After a
thorough examination of the evidence
principally documentary, and much OF
which tends to show intentional fraud
the names OF many who subscribed for
the paper " to help it along" but never
paid n cent, have been thrown out, and
the final count shows the over-indulgent
proprietors of this paper to be out and
injured to the extent OF several hundred
dollars for the year 1876, on the score oil
delinquent subscriptions. We have re-
luctantly entered final judgment to the
effect that if man can't pay small bill
he will find it more difficult to settle q
larger one, and PEI, contra that we can
better afford to lose small accounts than
larger ones. What we now want is thir-
ty or forty paying subscribers to replace
those whose names have been erased
The JOURNAL only costs Five Dollars
year, and we well know it is worth
more money-Send in your names.
Year: 1877

If a tithe of tho testimonials now on hand
of the value of Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild
Cherry should DO published, no one would stop
to read the bulky volume. Ask any druggist
and he will tell you that this Balsam is real
blessing to all affected with throat or lung
diseases. All kindred affections, including
Bronchitis, Sore Throat, Group, Hoarseness,
Pains in the Chest, and bleeding ofthe Lungs,
yield to its wonderful power We advise any
one tired of experimenting with Physicians
prescriptions or quack medicines to drop them
ut once and uso this Basam of Wild Cherry.
Sold by all druggists
Year: 1877

In BLooM.-Ellis Flowers brought in
some bushes last week on which the flow
ers were as far advanced as in Spring
time. Vanderhoff reported the manzani-
tas in full bloom, on the Hay Fork
mountain nearly month ago.
Year: 1877

MAKING IT PAY.-Henry Burns, Su-
perintendent of the McGillvray Mines,
was in town this week with a nice lot the
precious" the result of Il recent clean
up. Under Burns management the
property of the McGillivray Company
has been made to pay and, we believe,
will continue to do so. Two claims are
run with the same head of water, SO that
not drop is wasted, and all work is car
ried on under his personal supervision
and with the strictest economy. A prom
inent feature of the management Of this
Company is the payment of all bills
monthly, and it is one which would prove


generally advantageous could it be fol-


lowed by other Companies in the county.
Year: 1877

WINTER lingering into the lap of
Spring." is all very nice as a poetical
sentiment but not applicable to this cli-
mate the present season. Spring has
been in Winters lap about all the time
since last Fall.
Year: 1877

SOME EGG.- Occasionally we get a
arge egg which some ambitious hen has
laid in the hope Of out-doing her fellow
fowls, and the achievement is duly re-
corded. But we have received an egg
which the welldisposed hen with an eye
to the dry season and probably high price
of wheat in consequence, had ought to
cackle over. 1t is nearly as round as a
marble and about the same size. 1t was
laid by a tullgrown hen belonging to
Mr.. Brannan, and is not pullet's first
effort
Year: 1877

.hUN Down. The storm of last week
7lle 1t was Of great benefit to the farm-
Z did not help the miners much. The
~ was SO warm that in place of leaving
q" on the high mountains it took off
ene OF that left by the storm of the 10th


~ and with no snow to keen the
cams up they have run rapidly down.
Year: 1877

EDITORS NOT ADMITTED editor
once applied at the door OF Hades for ad
mission.


We'll, sir, replied his sable majesty, we
let one Of your profession in here many
years ago. and he kept up a continual row
with his former delinquent subscribers, and
as we have more OF that class of persons
here than any other, we have passed law
prohibiting the admission of editors
Year: 1877

When Gov Hayes was Junior at
Kenyon College. it being an economical
year, not long after the panic OF 81, he
persuaded the members OF the class to
dress themselves in uniform of blue jeans
at their annual exhibition.
Year: 1877

In the southern portion of Italy goats
milk is very generally used by the poor
er classes, who cannot afford the milk of
COWS. This kind of milk is frequently
required also by wealthy people, as it is
said to be efficacious in the cure of vari-
GUS diseases. Difficulties, however,
often attend even the procuring of goats
milk, although the vendors drive the lit
tie animals about from door to door, and
deliver the article done up in it's original
package. A case in point occurred
where friend of the writer's, desiring
some goats milk for his sick child, d-
rected that goat should be driven up
each morning, three flights of stairs, and
be MIXED at his apartment door, in
order to be safe from fraud.


One morning member of his family
stepped suddenly into the hall when the
process of goat milking was going on,
and her eye caught a glimpse of two
streams of fluid gently flowing
from the natural source and the other
from a syringe partly hidden up the
milkmaid's sleeve. It is hardly neces-
sary to add that one stream was milk and
the other a tolerably fair quality of wa
ter, both of which we're harmoniously
eomminglng.