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Year: 1877




Colonel Kyd Douglas in the Philadelphia


Weekly Times.


The General formed his brigade
along the crest of the hill near the
Henry House, the men lying down
behind the brow of it, in support of
the two pieces of artillery placed in
position to play upon the advancing
foe.


General Bee, his brigade being
crushed and scattered, rode up to
General Jackson, and with the ex-
citement and modification of an un-
tried but heroic soldier, reported
that the enemy were beating him
back.


Very well, General, it can't be
helped" replied Jackson.


"But how do you expect to stop
them ?"


Well give them the bayonet !"
was the answer, briefly.


Gen. Bee wheeled his horse and
galloped back to his command. As
he did so, General Jackson said to
Lieutenant Lee of his staff:


"Tell the Colonel of this brigade
that the enemy are advancing; that
when their heads are seen above the
hill, let the whole line rise, move
forward with a shout, and trust to
the bayOnet. lam tired Of this long
range york."


In the storm which followed Bees
return to his command, he was on
foot, his horse shot from under him.
With the fury of despair he strobe
among his men, tried to hold them
against the torrent which beat upon
them and finally, in voice which
rival the roar of battle, he cried out
"Oh, men, there are Jackson and
his Virginians standing behind
you like stone lCaUg" Uttering
these words of martial baptism, Bee
fell dead upon the field, and left be-
hind him fame which will follow
that of Jackson as shadow.
Year: 1877

tiny of usurpation and fraud, these
disturbances, which are the logical
consequence of the policy Of his
party, have come upon the country
and upon his Administration That
is the long and the short of it, and
the intelligent workpeople of Louis
vile, who heard the debates last
fall, comprehend the case and the
issue. Relief will not come until
there is radical change of party
and policy. 1t can never come un-
der man like John Sherman.
Meanwhile we must get on as we
may, doing what we can to help
one another, bearing and forbearing,
and hoping steadily, persistently for
the best.


1t is a long lane that has no turn
ing. Maybe, after all, the darkest
hour is just before day. Anyhow,
rioting and fretting will help no one,
and must be abandoned by every
body who has not made up his mind
to go to the devil in a hand-basket.
Year: 1877

Mr.. John McDonnugh, the New
Orleans millionaire, has engraved
on his tomb a series Of maxims,
which hehad prescribed as the rules
for his guidance through life, and to
which his success was mainly at-
tributable: Remember always that
labor is one of the conditions OF our
existence. Time is gold; throw
not minute away, but place each
to account. DO unto all men as you
would be done by. Never cOvet
what is not your own. Never think
any matter 50 trifiing as not to de
serve notice. Never give out that
which does not first come in Never
spend but to produce. Let the great
est order regulate the transactions Of
your life. Study i'm the course of
fife to do the egreatestamOunto ofgood.
Deprive yourself of nothing neces-
sary to your comfort, but live in an
honorable simplicity and frugality.
Labor, then, to the last moment OF
your existence"
Year: 1877

In these pinching times, when ev-
cry industry is trammeled and dis
tressed, when every chord of the ma
ton is stretched tOits sutmOsttensiOn,
there is need of mutual fOrbearance
and confidence and the display of
our best manhood. There can be no
hard lines laid down between en-
plOyer and the employed if we
would tide over today and hasten the
morrow of brighter and better things.
Everybody must yield something
of desire, or even rtght-fOr the COM
mon good. We had reached, as we
thought and hoped, the bottom of
our troubles, and the country was
looking for the speedy coming of a
great relief. The great railroad strike
has upset all calculations and thrown
us back-it is impossible to say how
far. Every industry will feel the
iron hand of lawlessness upon it, and
the poor man, who has not stock in
store, will suffer most. Such state
of affairs is without parallel in the
history of this country. We have
had strikes and riots, but never has
anything been known Of the com
pass and violence of this outbreak.
The situation is lamentable and alar-
ming, but it is not without hope.
We must make what allowance we
can for OrthewOrkingrnen who feel that
they have been denied the means of
support for their families, and we
must not lose our faith in the good
sense of the American people. The
judiciOus will grieve, but they will
also bear themselves discreetly, and
exert their influence toward tOning
down the excitement and re-adjuSt-
ing the differences between labor and
capital. Above all things, we i'm
plOre the honest WOrkingmen to be-
ware of the sharperS who prey on
them and and make use of them to
the serious disadvantage of labor.
This is not a time for alarming SEN
satiOns. 1t IS time for calmneas
and manhood. The truth is bad en-
ough. Let us not eXaggerate it, nor
fan the flames that are already bur-
ming. a great nation must exert it
self to restore its WOnted calm, and
return to its customary peaceful aV-
cations baltimore Gazette.
Year: 1877

A Washington special says there is
a general feeling there that ''thepres-
ent strike will convince Secretary
Sherman that his ruinous policy of
contraction and forced resumption
which has been sOwn to the wind is
reaping a whirlwind. If the trouble
now upon greatrailway corporations,
and which threatens all diversified
channels of skill and labor, is not
sufficient to convince Mr.. Hayes
that Sherman's policy is ruinous
one, nothing certainly can. The
impression is that the only good
thing which the strike has brought
about is the demand of the people
for the repeal of the resumption act
in October. 1t is regarded as a wise
lesson, but bought with sad and
bloody experience.
Year: 1877




TiIden on the Future of Parties.


Just before the departure of the
steamer which carried Mr.. Tilden
to Europe, the late candidate for the
Presidency expressed his views
pretty freely and forcibly in. regard
to the future of parties. We quote
from the New York Tribune of Fri
day:


All members of the press were re-
ceived with courtesy, but he begged
that politics should not tbementiOned
to him. He said he was going abroad
for rest and recreation, and wished
to relieve his mind of everything re-
lating to the campaign through
which he had passed. In spite of
this request, however, the conversa-
ton soon took on. political COM
pleXiOn, and Mr.. 1ilden was very
decided in the expression of his
views,


"The people know as well as any
thing can be known that gross
wrong has been inflicted upon them,
and for once they have suffered
themselves to be deprived of their
rights" he said. ''In the future the
American people will see that the
wrong is not repeated. There is no
doubt of the ultimate triumph of
right, and the people will punish the
perpetrators Of this outrage. The
prospects of the Democratic party
never were so brilliant. The people
never were so enthusiastic and de-
termined in anything as they are to
right this wrong. The tide of victory
is already rising. 1t will be seen in
the fall elections, but that will only
be a step in the great fight to be
made three years later. | don't
know that / ought to have anything
to say about the prosecution Of the
Louisiana Returning Board. Their
friends were never more mistaken
than in supposing that / have been
at the bottom of it. They have done
well in this prosecution. Without
outside interference there can be a
fair trial, and if that can be had JUS
tice will take its course. Hayes
Southern policy will have no effect
upon the party in that section. The
Democrats will stand firm, as they
have always done. They have with
stood defeat and endured unparal-
leled wrong, and cannot now be
bribed to desert their standard. The
Republican party has no future. Its
career for a few years will be bemarked
with defeat and disaster, and in 1880
the organization, or what remains
of it, will be completely Overthrown
and defeated"


Mr.. Tilden asserted that at the fall
elections this State would be carried
by the Democrats by an increased
majority, and that the Democratic
Legislature was assured. He con-
sidered it doubtful whether he should
return in time to take part in the
campaign. He had no idea Of be
coming a candidate for United States
Senator
Year: 1877

A hen made nest in box in the
baggage-car and in course OF time had
fifteen eggs and stuck to them through
thick and thin, night and day, except to
step off the train occasionally to get food
and water, and last Tuesday hatched
thirteen chickens, Notwithstanding the
rumbling, rolling process'the eggs pass
ed through. Mr.. Shriver (baggage-
MASTERY says that after the setting pro
cess began she would frequently, when
off the nest in search of food and water,
get left by the train at Shelbyville3 ana
sometimes at Wartrace, and on such oc-
casions she would quietly wait for the
train to return, and sometimes meet 1t
when it came in sight and fly into the
baggage-car and get on the nest imme-
diately. When the train stopped for
wood she would sometimes fly out to get
something to eat, and when the car-bel
rang she would fly back Immediately.
She would sometimes manifest her Joy
at the appearance of the train by cack-
ling at high rate. Mother and chick
ems are all doing WE'LL SheIbyottIe( (hy)
Gazette.
Year: 1877

To Preserve AppleS.-Pack in boxes
or barrels elevated from the cellar floor,
with layer of dry sawdust at the bot
tom of each box or barrel; then a layer
of apples, placed out of contact with
each other, then layer of sawdust, and
so on till all are full. Sound apples
packed in this manner will keep fresh a
long time.
Year: 1877

A SCENE with a genuine Puritan-day
flavor was witnessed at Wareham, Mass,
recently when, as punishment for in
subordination, a gigantic woman pau
per was marched a mile through the
streets on Sunday morning, with her
arms pinioned to her sides.
Year: 1877

MarTying for home Gently, gently, if
you please you who curl the lip Of virtu-
Gus Indignation and laugh derisively 1t
the thought; you who denomce it as IN
womanly, heaTtleSs, and even sacraligious
in the woman who could demean herself
by marrying for so miserable a considera-
ton. Gently, gently remember how
strong We all are, until tempted, and then
alas how weak We do not care to drink
until the fragrant cup is pressed to the
lip then, too often, We drain it to the
very dregs.


Gently, gently-your feet are strong in
the ideal path now every hope of your
heart is fresh and sweet with vigorous


life but the time may come when you
NAV totter and tremble in the way
Heaven help you that you may not fail !
Many hands viii beckon you forward
but few viii hold you back.


Gently. gently-now while the woman
" pride shines out from your eyes, and
the crimson color leaps to your cheeks,
let me ask you how strongly you have
been tempted from the true and beautiful
wayl Let me ask if you have ever grown
weary with battling with the harsh, cruel
world-Weary with waiting for the tender
ness and care Tor which every woman's
heart yearns If you have seen your
dreams die away before your eyes-the
roses of your lie crumble into ashes in
your hands, and darkness settle down up
on you while you prayed for light If,
while you have momned for the love of a
mother lost to you in your ehIldhood-for
the hcme that has not been yours fer the
many weary yyears-when your hands have
fallen helplessly down mutely asking for
q respite from the labor which yol have
performed so long and so weh-wh
your feet staggered IN the wearysome way,
and the noisome hum and hustle OF the
great stifed city nearly maddened you-
If, az such time, there were words OF
tenderness and love whispered in your
ear If afar of IL the cool, delicious
country, where the birds and the brooks,
and the fragrant air, sing, their anthems
ali through the day-where the trees fling
their shadows, and the blue sky presses
Its bosom lovingly down upon the green
brows of the hills, and the blessed free
sunshine writes Its stories upon the en-
eral6 pages Of the meadow, you have been
told there was home waiting for you
A home-a homel


Yours was a brave, true heart, indeed,
If you did not waver-yours strong soul,
if you did not turn lovingly to the pronlis-
ed ''heaven of rest


Did You not say TO yourself, that for the
home, the kindness and tenderness tha.
was gwen you, you might be at least an
c5edieat wife-perhaps IN the years to
come, loving onel Did you not shut
your eyes again and aeain IN the face OF
the dead lqSe, lying away in the past, with /
the weight Cd years-perchance only of 1
it, and say that you could I
not love aGain as you had once loved
that ME frs strength of your heart had ,
been wasted-the truest hope blasted!
Year: 1877

To TRAIN BoYS.-0wirg TO their home


education, and the fondness and often un-


wise indulgence of doting female relatives


nineteen youths out of twenty enter life


with a surplusage of self-conceit. The
sooner they are relieved the better. If.
in measuring themselves with wiser and
older men than themselves, they discover


that 1t is unwarranted, and get nd % 1t
gracefully and of their own accord. well
and good if not, it is desirable. for their
own sakes, that 1t should by Knocked out
OF them 4 boy who is sent to large
school soon finds his level His will NAV
have been paramount at home but school
boys are democratic in their ideas. and if
arrogrant, he is sure 10 be thrashed into
. recognition OF the golden rule. Ii wor


thy of being leader, he VIII soon be in
stalled into the position OF leader: if not
whatever his opinion of his abilities. he
viii be compelled to fall back into the
rank and file. BY the time he has found
his legitimate position, the probability is
that some disagreeable traits of character
VIII be softened down and worn away.
most likely the process of abrasion viii be
rough, very rough, but when il is all over
and he begins TO see himself as Others see
him, and not as reflected in the mirror of
he viii be thankful that he
has run the gauntlet, and arrived through
BY rough road of knowledge.
Year: 1877

SHoEING OF HORSES. - For whatever
purpose the horse is used, the shoe should
not be too light because it is liable to be
bent and becomes an insufficient covering
20 the foot. The web of the shoe should
be broad, and continue through the whole
shoe to the heels TO give increased cover
ing to the sole of the foot The outside
of the shoe should exactly tit the crust OF
the hoof, thereby giving the entire hoof
an equal bearing ON all It's parts from the
toe 20 the heel. The usual practice is to
have portion of the shoe projecting out
wards, along both the outer and inner
quarters of the hoof and when this form
OF a shoe is connected with narrowing
Of the web at the heel, the effect is to
place the heel upon the inside line of the
web, thereby producing an unequal bear
ing upon the ground surface Of the foot.
The setting off of the shoe at the heels is a
great inconvenience to the horse when his
foot sinks to the ground, and it is in this
way the most of the shoes are pulled off
and lost in the ground or trodden off with
other feet. 1t is evident when the shoe
lptt vi Nilt nbISS
when the foot is pulled up through the
ground after sinking, the shoe must follow
the foot without detriment or difficulty.
1t should be made sufficiently long to sup
port the entire structure of the heels. 1t
should be of equal thickness throughout
and should be carefully adapted to the
foot this We cannot urge too strongly
Ii the shoe does not sit perfectly level all
round, and If il extends SO far outside the
hoof that the nails are prevented from
entering the crust at the exact spot and
in every direction which they should,
there viii be a constant straining on the
nails, which is injurious to the foot. and
will he liable to chip pieces off the hoof
The shoe ought TO be made wide across
the foot, and at the point where the two
front nails are situated. The greatest
mistake frequently lies here
Year: 1877

The ways of life are hard to know.
Bear gently with those who falter when
the temptation comes.


You and | have little right to Judge
To-day we are Strong tomorrow We stag
GER forward, and care but little what hand
is stretched out to lead, so that it shelters
and protects us.
Year: 1877

RAISING TURKEYS. The turkey is the
most tender when young, and most dltti-
cult to raise of all the domesticated fowls,
yet with proper care in setting the eggs
under game hens, (whyunder game hens y
and cooping the brood at night, regularly,
while the turkeys are young, they may be
easily reared in great abundance Never
feed the young turkeys boiled eggs or corn
meal dough, or wheat-bread crumbs:
They need very little food OF any kind
under seven days Of age, and should have
nothing but sour milk set IN pans At
about week or ten days old, give them
wheat screenings or crumbs soaked in
sour milk. Let this be their only food
til they began 10 feather, then give them
grain OF any kind Tie the hen (Which
has the young turkeys To a peg on 10 her
self, with a coop near by her, so that she
can enter at night for shelter. At two
weeks old let the hen loose TO roam, and


if she be game hen she viii do the work
of rearing the brood-Prairie Farmer.
Year: 1877

A series of temperance meetings intended
to last for same time will be iaaugurated
in the City Hall this evening. 1t is the
intention of the leaders of this movement
to make q lively campaign against tangle-
foot and rum. Several eminent speakers
from Philadelphia and other parts of the
country have been engaged to speak at
these reviyals. Those who are interested
in the cause of temperance and the desire
to promote it are expected to be on hand.
Year: 1877

The Juvenile Temple which was formed
some time ago, at Gilbert Chapel, met on
Saturday afternoon, in the lodge room,
third story of the McClary building and
fourteen new members were initiated, after
which the Temple, numbering about sew
enty-fiye members, marched in line to the
City Hall, to see how it was being fitted up
for the holding of temperance meetings this
week. The Temple has not yet received a
name.
Year: 1877

room enough enough for them will
bc decided in the negative.


The young physicians and young
lawyers who ST idly in their Offices
and smoke and lounge away the time,
" waiting for something to turn up"
are by that course fastening them
selves for life to the low stratum,
where their struggle for bare livlihood
is to be perpetual. The first ten
years are golden years, that should
he filed with systematic reading and
observation. Everything that tends
to professional and personal excel
lsnce should be an object of daily
pursuit. To such men the doors OF
success open of themselves at last
Work seeks the best hands, as na.
tura! Y as water runs down hill; and
it never seeks the hands of a triher
or of one whose only recommends
tion fer work is that he needs it.


In the realm of eminent acquire
ments and eminent integrity there is
always room enough. Let no young
man Of industry and honesty despair
because his profession or calling i.
crowded. Let him always remem
ber that there is room enough at the
top, aud that the question whether he
is ever to reach the top, or rise above
the crowd at the base Of the pyramid
will be decided bv the way in which
he improves the first ten years of his
active life in securing to himself a
thorough knowledge of his profes
sion and IL sound moral and intellect,
ual culture.
Year: 1877

The telephone is a success, and as
such entitled to public favor as tri-
umph of science. Recent experiments
at or near Boston, carried on by per-
sons six miles apart, under the super
vision Of Prof Bell, the inventor, fully
demonstrate the fecility with which
the human voice in ordinary conversa-
tion or in song, or instrumental music
may be transported over intervening
space for long distances by means of
wires. The following is a description
of this Improvement in telegraphy:


THE telephone in its present form
consists of powerful, compound, per-
maoent magnet, to the poles Of which
are attached ordinary telegraph coils
OF insulated wire. In front of the
poles, surrounded by these coils of
wire, is placed diaphragm Of iron. A
mouthpece to converge the sound upon
this diaphragm substantially completes
the arrangement. AS is we'll known,
the motion Of steel or iron in front of
lhe pores OF magnet, and the duration
of this current Of electricity comedies
with the duration of the motion of the
steel or iron moved or vibrated in the
proximity of the magnet. When the
human voice causes the diaphragm to
vlbrate, electrical undulations are in
duced in the coils environing the mag
pets precisely analogous to the undula-
tons OF the air produced by that voice.
These coils are connected with the line
wire, which may be of any length, pro
vided the insulation be good. The
unduIations which are induced in these
coils travel through the line wire, and
passing though the coils of an instru
ment Of precisely similar construction
at the distant station, are again resolved
into air undulations by the diaphragm
of this instrument"
Year: 1877

-lhe washington Onl0n says: "By
about the middle of next May the pub
lie will have seen the last of the pres
ent tbree-cent postage stamps, and
begin to get accustomed to one that is
red, or possibly a new tint. This
change has been rendered necessary,
as stamp washers take off the oily can
collation. without acid or alkali and
use the stamp again. A series of ex-
periments just completed convinces the
postal department that green is the
poorest color to be found. With
the change of color there will be a
change of design. The medallion head
of Washington will be retained, but ii
will be relieved by an open scroll Of
white, and the scroll work will have
a different picture"
Year: 1877

Last Sunday citizen Of Lowell.
Dodge County, started for Columbus
with load of wood; when about half
way there, some kind, pious friend
censured him for violating the Sabbath
After being convinced as to the day of
the week he left the wood, mounted
one of the horses and returned home,
finding his better halt no less surprised
than himself in thus tampering with
divine customs.
Year: 1877

unhitched his horses, leaving the
wagon in the way and commanding
that it should not be touched. There
being considerable feeling that it was
done out OF ''pure cussedness," on Err
day Ca!kins was arrested under tht
statute for obstructing the road.