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Year: 1877

A Bill for tho Prevention of Polygamy.
Washington, Dec. 25.-In further


ance Of the movement to suppress Nor


monism by making more stringent the


penalties for polygamy, a bill will be in


troduced in Congress shortly to prevent


and punish the practice Of polygamy in


the territories generally and in all other


places subject to the exclusive jurisdic-
tion of the United States. 1t provides
as follows:


BE it enacted that every person hav-
ing husband or wife living, who shall
marry any other person, whether Tar-
ried or single, in. Il Territory Of the
United States or other place over which
the United States have exclusive juris.
diction shall he guilty of polygamy, and
upon conviction thereof shall be pun
ished by a fine Of not exceeding $500
and 10y imprisonment for term not
exceeding five years, and if any person
who has u husband OF wife living shall
continue to cOlabit with such other
persons after the passage of this act lie
or she 50 cohabiting shall lie deemed
guilty of polygamy, and shall he pun
isiled us aforesaid. And it shall not be
necessary to prove either of said mar
riages by the register and certificate
thereof or other record evidence, but
the same may be proved by such evil
dence as is admissible to prove mar
riage in other cases, and proof of CO.
habitation under either of said mar
riages shall be held sufficient proof of
each of said marriages, and the prose-
cution may be had either where the al
legged illegal marriage was solemnized
or the cohabitation may be shown to
have taken place. But this section
shall not extend to any person by rea-
son of any former marriage whose hus-
band or wife by such marriage has
been absent for five successive years
and is not known to such person to be
living, nor to any former marriage
which has been dissolved by decree of "a
competent court, nor to any person by
reason of any former marriage which
has been pronounced void by decree of
competent court on the ground of
nullity of the marriage contract, and
provided that this act shall not affect
any prosecution for offences committed
under the act of Congress of July, 1862,
for the crime of bigamy.n
Year: 1877

The London Examiner relates
the following anecdote of the late
James Merry, the English sports
man, iron master, millionaire and
member Of parliament:


A fayorito pastime of our hero,
in his early days, was the pitting of
q dog against q badger. He and
his cham in sport, who became his
partner in business, procured a
celebrated badger that had meyer
been drawn by any dog, Some
Edinburgh sportsmen, however,
sent challenge and backed their
dog against the badger for what in
those days was esteemed a heavy
amount, the sum of $500.


The owners Of the badger ac-
oepted the bet, and the fight was 10
come off at Linlithgow, halfway
between Glasgow and Edinburgh,
on certain day. TO the horror Of
our sportsman and his chum, the
badger died, and on the day Just
before the day on which the affair
was to come of. To one of them
the $500 was a dead loss; but to the
other, who knew that there was
hope even when the signs Of life
were gone, there was something
yet to be done, as we know well
enough there always is 10 them
Year: 1877

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2.


A Boise City dispatch says another week
must elapse before troops from the south
can reach Baker City, from whence to Sal
mon river wagons can travel, but from
there to the scene of hostilities pack ami
mails will have to be used at great expense |;
and it is not probable that the troops can
reach the locality of the Indians under a
fortnight. The Indians around Baker
City are quiet, but no dependence can be
put on their friendly pretensiuns.
Year: 1877

The Roumanian army has lost fully one
fourth of its whole strength since it crossed the
Danube. Certain districts in Moldavia have
hardly one family unbereaved. Most of the
men who have fallen were married and the
heads of families. There is, consequently,
great distress throughout the country
Year: 1877

An act was passed by the last Legislature
making il misdeineanor 10 sell whisky 10 a
minor The saloon men had better be- careful
that they do not violate this law. We hope
/, may he rigidIy enforced.-Homer Had.


We have no boys of onr own to be en'iced
into those dispensatories Of liquid fire and de-
suoyed by the demon of in'emperancc: but
We join IN The demand for the rigid enforce
meut Of this law for the protection OF those
who have boys whom they do MOI with 10 see
debarched, dI-gracea and ruined. Ii man
wishe. to poison his blood, blun, his moral
senslbilities and debase himself by pouring
the poisonous liquid into his stomach, we do
not propose to restrain him by force from do
ing so but parent has right to protection by
the State in this respect as much as in that OF
abduction, while the good of the State and
society demands that such laws should be
enacted and rigidly enforced.
Year: 1877

A Washington special Of the ! ith inst,
says: The friends Of the Mississippi levees
and Of the Texas and Paci6c railroad appear
resolved to press these issues home at the
next session Of Congress. Canddates for the
Speakership will have an opportunity TO define
their position in regard to these subjects.
am authorized 10 state that the Hon. Randall
Gibson, of Louisiana, will offer resolution IL
the House Democratic caucus, declaring in
the completion Of the Texas and Pacific rail
road by the aid Of the National Government"


We hope that this may be true. and that not
only this distinguished Louisianian but all the
Congressmeu Of The Mississippi Valley will
take a decided stand in favor of these two
important measures, and demand action there
on, not as favor but as a simple act of
justice TO our section; and not rs local sectional
measures but as measures of national i'm
portancc, for they are such. The whole
country is directly interested in the reclaim alton
of our swamp lands and the completion Of the
Texas Pacific Railroad.


We wish the progressive Democrats Of the
age to give the old fossils Of ;he party to I'M
derstand that they will not be lasheJ TO the
old fogy idea of opposition to internal i'm
prov ement; for if that is democracy then we
are no Democrat.
Year: 1877

Under Ills heading the New Orleans Demo
crat finds great fault with X. B. Hayes, dc
facfo, for retaining in Federal offices in this
State men who participated in the election
frauds. To expect consistency from such
source strikes us as a little absurd, while TO com
plain 50 bitterly of him for not chopping off the
official head of every man i'll this State to whom
he is indebted for his own official position. is
absolutely ridiculous. If those election frauds
had only involved Packard title to the Excu
tive Chair of this State, we might reasonably
expect Mr.. Hayes TO dismiss those who par
ticipa.ed in them from the Offices they thus
lisgraced. but the Democrat must remember
that they also involve Mr.. Hayes title TO the
Executive Chair of the United States; and to
ask the creature TO destroy his creator is asking
Just a little too much 1t was enough that he
refused to force the Packard Government on
us.


As to consistency, we think Mr.. Hayes is
more consistent than the Democrat Is when il
argues that, if it is right for him to retain
these parties in office, il would have been
proper for him to have supported the Packard
fraud, for we think that it, with the rest Of us,
con,ended that the President had no authority
to decide who should be Governor of State.
But he certainly has the right to decide who
shall hold the offices which the law gives him
the right to fill by appointment.
Year: 1877

He's mighty convenient the ass, my dear,
And proper, and safe-and now
You hold by the tail. while hold by the ear,
And we'll rideto the kirk in time, never fear,
II the wind and the weather allow"
The wind and the weather were not to be blamed,
But the ass had adopted the whim
That two at a time was load never framed
For the back of one ass and he seemed quite


ashamed


That two should stick fast upon him. =
Year: 1877

By A tutor Of one of the Oxford col
leges who limped in his walk was some
years after accosted by Il well known
politician, who asked him If he was not
the chaplain of the college ut such a
time, naming the year. The doctor re-
piled that he was. The interrogator
observed, II knew you by your limp"
swell, - said the doctor, sit seems my
limping made deeper impression than
my preaching 'Ah, Doctor was the
reply, with ready wit, sit is the highest
compliment we can pay a minister to
say that he is known by his walk rather
than by his conversation.


ca The man who is disgusted with
all the world is seldom satisfied with
Year: 1877



 Advice is a first-rate thing when the person giving it knows what he or she is talking about. But there are volumes of advice and counsel which are utterly

 useless, because it is simply the result of an uncomfortable desire to say something-what, makes no difference. Advice, to be worth anything, needs to be matured in the mind before it is uttered. It is altogether better, how ever, as rule, to attend to your busi- ness and let other peoples alone unless you are invited to interfere. Public men are especially the victims of the advice given. All men and women in the world think themselves called upon to give man who happens to be in public life sort of advice, seeming entirely to lose sight of the very i'm portant fact that any one who has mind enough to attract any considerable share of public attention probably has enough to manage his own affairs. Get your own affairs in good shape and keep them in it, and do not waste so much of life in looking after other people. ,7a
Year: 1877

Music essesitself almost indelibly upon the memory. Two children were once stolen by the Indians. Years after number of white children were recaptured from the Indians, and the mother of these two was requested to come and see if she could indentify them from among all this number. She found two of them whom she thought were her long lost children. She talked to them about old times, relating incident after incident of their early childhood, but they remembered none of these things. About to leave in despair, she sang one of the sweet songs that she used to sing to them in the evening hours, and their faces immediately kindlcd with vague renembrances of childhood's hours, and they cried mother.' The song was remembered when all else was forgotten. Some of the early legislators wrote their laws in verse and the people learned to sing them.
Year: 1877

Melody to ancient air ! Has touched my soul o hand so fair

 That hynned it forth, In the golden sunset there,

 Of noble worth. Feeble, poor, and old am l. What is this life? Alas, how nigh

 Seemed it to fate When the song used to try

 Came whispering late. Tears are guage of purest mind, Drop cen few the maimed and blind. loved that song Mother sang it, and the wind Swept soft along. As think of saintly face, The touch of tender loving grace,

 I silent turn Where the sunbeams leapt-no trace

 To find no bourne. So leave the sunset song, And hie me home to where long

 To bow my head Blesse the hand that struck among

 Chords long since dead Bringing back the golden time Of love and hope in it's familiar rhyme,

 The corn in ear Breath to the bee-swarmed murmuring lime To cottage dear.

 Chambers Journal.
Year: 1877

Old Prince GOrtschakoff is not par ticularly edifying spectacle, and does not give the stranger q high idea of dig nity. In his black coat and stiffiy starched white cravat, with his cold, unimpassioned face, and eXpressionless eyes, which put one in mind of Levers comparison of Ca sick codtish or an oyster with the measles" he realizes pretty we'll the traditional type of the high comedy statesman. But if there is a woman present, the metamorphosis is as sudden as it is completes; his fea- lures light up, and the dull, fish-like glare gives place to an ogle worthy of bagman in the society of a barmaid in some English provincial tap room. The Prince fairly worships womankind; whether she be Duchess or cocotte he cares but little, but is it from simple adoration of the sex or because it's mem bers are skillful if sometimes uncon- cious spies, is not certain, although we do know that he keeps up a regular cor respondence with a phalanx of pretty women, cleverly disseminated in the fashionable drawing-rooms of Paris, Vienn, London, and Berlin. Some of his enemies reproach him for the oceans of Cliquot quaffed in company with some of the Princesses of the Bucharest stage, but may his orgies not have been rather prompted by his wish to drown dull care and shut out for the moment his poignant regrets at the massacres of Bulgaria and the butcheries of Plev- ma, and all the other horrors of this war, to which he has always been so persis- tent an adversary .-Buchdrest.
Year: 1877

During the intensely hot summer of
1925 Says philosopher), | experienced
an attack of day-mare. Immediately
after dining, threw myself on my back
upon a sofa, and before | was aware,
was seized with difficult respiration,
extreme dread, and utter incapability
of motion or speech. | could neither
move nor cry, while the breath came
from nv chest i'm broken and suffoca-
ting paroxysms. During all this time
| was perfectly awake; / saw the light
glaring in at the windows in broad
sultry streams: | felt the intense heat
of the day pervading my frame: and
heard distinctly the different noises in
che street, and even the ticking of my
own watch, which had placed on the
cushion beside me. / had, at the same
time, the consciousness of flies buzzing
around, and settling with annoying
pertinacity upon my face. During the
whole fit, Judgment was never for a
moment suspended. / felt assured that
labored under species of incubus.
| even endeavored to reason myself out
of the feeling of dread which filled my
mind. and longed with an insufferable
ardor for some one TO open the door,
and dissolve the spell which bound me
in its fetters. The fit did not continue
above five minutes; by degrees l re-
covered the use of speech and motion;
and as soon as they were so far restored
as to enable me to call out and move my
limbs, il wore insensibly away.
Year: 1877




Money which goes TO buy a picture,
statuette, or tasteful bracket for adorn-
ment, is all wisely spent. If young
people just starting in life, after having
secured the few articles of furniture
that must be had, and made sure that
they are what they ought 10 have, and
if they have some money left to get a
picture, an engraving, or cast, they
ought TO work TO get this cast, they
ought to work to supply this want as
seriously as the other, which seems
more necessary, but which Ia in reality
not bit more necessary. The general
character of a home will make a great
difference to the children who grow up
in it, and to all whose experience is as
sociated with it, whether il be beauti-
full and 4 cheerful one, or a merely
formal and conventional one. The re-
lation of these things to education is all
that gives dignity or poetry 10 the sub
ject, or makes ii allowable for a reason
able man to give much thought TO it.
But it has a real relation TO life, and
plays an important part In education,
and deserves 10 be thought about a
good deal more than 1t is. Seeming
trifies like this make life either happy
or miserable.
Year: 1877

According TO the author of Ia PolitsSss
Frdncdise, work recently published in
Paris, gentleman, when he gives his
hand TO a friend, must press his friends
hand but not shake it. If he is about
10 shake hands with a peasant he must
present his hand ungloved or the
peasant will consider himself insulted.
If he is about to shake hands with
lady he must keep his gloves on. When
he offers to conduct a lady to the piano
he must, in taking her hand, half close
his own. In dancing with lady he
must mot permit himself" to squeeze
her hand; and he must, if he wishes to
show himself true gentleman-or, at
least, Gun veritable gentleman"-spend
is, ,O00f., or So 500, year on his gloves.
A gentleman who spent this much a
year on his gloves, of various kinds and
colors, would probably, if only for the
sake of consistency, treat himself every
day to at least one new hat. All, how
ever, that we are told on the subject is
that gentleman's hat should always
be "bright and brilliant" A gentle
man never altogether separates himself
from his hat, though it is not etiquette
to wear 1t in room. In the street, on
meeting an equal of his own sex, he
takes it off for moment. On meeting
lady, or superior of his own sex, he
remains uncovered until he Is told to
put his hat on. Do not eat in the street,
do not smoke pipe in the street, do
not smoke cigar in the street If you
are walking with lady-"not even if
you happen TO be this lady's husband"
1t seems odd to tell gentleman who is
supposed to spend $500 year on his
gloves not TO smoke pipe in the street,
but we have reproduced this caution as
we find it. When you bow, bow
properly, but not so deeply that your
vertebral column will make a right
angle with your legs. If an officer in
uniform salutes you, do not make yeur-
self ridiculous by returning his salute
in military fashion. A lawyer will not
only think you silly, but will be greatly
irritated if, visiting him on a matter OF
business, you ask him how he is, in
quire after the healh of his wife, ex-
press "A hope that the children are all
well, and so on. This sort of talk should
be reserved for friends whose time is
not valuable or who have no right to
charge for 1t.
Year: 1877

each about the size of rat hole. On
looking into such of these as l was tall
enough to see into, found in all of
them swallows in the same dormant
state. | was able with my finger and
thumb 10 pull out swallows from sew
eral of these holes, and in each case
found that the hole, which penetrated
horizontally a considerable way into
the bank. contained more swallows in
the same condition. In no case did i
see one lying on anOther-they were
all lying singly with their heads in
ward, each head touching the tail OF
the bird before it, How far these holes
penetrated into the bank, or what num-
Der of swallows each contained. | did
not ascertain, but it is plain that the
original entrance To those dOrmitOries
must have been in the external face of
of the portion that had slipped, which.
as have stated, was, in the middle,
from ten TO twelve feet thick. The
holes in the undisturbed portion may
probably have been of equal or greater
length. and if so the number of swal-
lows hibernating there must have
amounted To many hundreds"
Year: 1877

Cuvier tells Us the trunk of the ele-
phant is composed of forty thousand or
more small muscles, interlaced in all
directions, the contraction and relaXa-
ton of which enable the animal to
shorten or lengthen its trunk, and
render it so flexible. Ii is perforated
through its entire length by double
tube, through which the animal
breathes and drinks. At the end of the
trunk is little finger-like sppendage
which serves to pick up small objects,
and also acts as feeder. With this
wonderful instrument, As with hand,
the elephant can pick up needle or
tear up tree, twist the herbage from
the ground, or strip the young branches
or leaves from the trees upon which he
feeds.
Year: 1877

A Western school master, says the
Printers Circular, in order to sharpen
the wits of his pupils. set them to work
for half an hour each day to search for
errors in the newspapers which the
pedagogue habitually read himself.
There is no fault to be found with this
method of developing the youthful
mind. Not a few errors were discover
ed, and the teacher jumped to the con-
clusion that editors and printers were
ignorant of the very rudiments of their
callings; and be was not by any means
the first individual who pronounced
similar verdict on the same slender
evidence. 1t is a thousand pities that
some of the people who pass such sharp
and sweeping snap judgements could
not be induced TO take charge of daily
or weekly journal, just for one issue;
they would have no desire to try their
hands at second number. for they
would discover that the making of
newspaper is about the most difficult
and complicated work in the world.
They would be brought face TO face
with formidable mass of matter to be
cleaned in as many minutes as they
would desire days; they would be COM
pelled to write on topics as widely dis
similar as possible: at a moments no
tice; consult the best authorities. and
with an unerring certainty to know
where to find them. Diffiuse accounts
of important intelligence would come
streaming in upon them for condensa-
ton at the last moments. Their hand
writing would become hurried and IL
legiable, to the despair of the compost
tors. who are frequently compelled TO
put into type SO few lines of copy at a
time having not the remotest idea what
they are thus translating, and depend
ing for accuracy solely on their trained
power to decipher iilegible writing
with their eyes, while mechanically
picking up types with their fingers.


That the critical typo would become
utterly bewildered, and in despair
abandon his task before it was halt COM
pleted, is reasonably certain. And we
NAV also rest assured that one and all
of the captious critics that undertook
the labor of setting journals to rights
would arrive at the sensible conclusion
that the wonder is not that there are SO
many, but SO very few mistakes In the
newspapers
Year: 1877

Always speak the truth.


Make few promises.


Keep good company or none
Live up to your engagements
Never gamble.


Drink no intoxicating liquors.


Never speak lightlp of religion.
Be just before you are generous.
Never be idle.


If your hands cannot be usefully rlu-
plOyed, attend to the cultivation of the
mind.


When you speak to any person look
him in the face.


Goodcompany and good conversation
are the very sinews of virtue.


Good character is above all things
else.


Never listen TO idle or loose eonyer-
satiOn.


Your character cannot be essentially
injured except by your own acts.


If any one speaks evil of you let your
life be so virtuous that no one will be
lieve him.


Ever live (misfortune excepted) with
in your income.


When you retire to bed think over
what you have done during the day.
Make no haste to be rich if you would
prosper


Never run in debt unless you see a
way to get out again.


Never borrow if it is possible 10
avoid it.


Keep yourself innocent if you would
be happy.


Save when you are young and spend
when your are old.


Never think that which you do for
religion is time or money misspent.
There are two hundred and nifty
Prnre-rant churches iu the Holy Land,
Year: 1877

The Golden Rule is not an iron rod. 1t
is not to be laid on another. 1t is to be
worn by myself, and worn as beautiful or
nament.


Am | member of the Church? / must
not look at my pastor and say in my heart,
if do not utter it to him with my lips, "Sir,
wish you would put yourself in my place,
and then do as you would be done by
Suppose you were rich man, whose soul
almost everybody neglected, while everybody
fawns on him for favor; how would you like
to be treated? That is the way you must
treat me. Suppose you were poor man
absolutely devoid of the luxuries of life,
scarcely, indeed, able to procure the neceS-
saries, and l were in your place, having what
you possess, while you had my poverty. How
would you wish me to treat your Treat me
3d." That is not the way. Neither the
rich member nor the poor member has any
right to Icy down the law to his pastor
Now Let US come round on the other side
and take the pastors position. He has no
right to look at his parishiOner and say
"'Do as you would be done by You have
several horses and carriages, some of which
you seldom use, and you see me plodding
through snow and wet at night visiting the
rich and poor, just where l think my divine
Master would have me 60. You should al
least one day in the week put a carriage al
my disposal for my pastoral visitations. -
No; the pastor has no right to say these
things; he would be binding the rule upon bis
pariahioner instead of laying it upon his own
heart. Frank Leshe's Sunday Magazine.