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Year: 1878

These Union @Scoundrels" will be
very likely to keep the record made
yesterday by the rebel Democracy
before the country. Why should
such record be made? Why should
General Shields, to whom the Dem
ocracy were under such obligations,
be cast aside for General Field? Why
is it that services in the rebsl army
will weigh more with the ID emocracy
than all other qualifications COM
bined? These are the questions
which the people have right to ask.
and to which they begin to want an
answer. When we say the men who
inaugurated and maintained the re.
bellion are gradually but surely OBJ
tanning the control Of the govern
ment through the aid Of their allies
OF the North, we are told that it is
false, and slander upon the Demo
cratic party; but day by day it be-
comes more evident that there is a
systematic scheme being executed,
and that unless it is checked the day
Is not far distrnt when the men who
rebelled against the government will
have as complete control OF the same
as il they had won in the rebellion.
When protest is made against it the
cry OF bloody shirt" is raised by the
Democratic and about one fourth OF
the Republican press.


We are told that the place Of door
keeper Is an inferior Office, with a
small salary. This fact cuts no figure
In the case. It Is an Office OF suffi-
cient Importance to show the disposi-
ton OF the party In the giving Of it.
A few OF the Democratic papers Of
the North may raise feeble protest,
but they have not influence enough
to control one single solitary vote.


The Democracy OF the Northwest
are responsible for the election Of
Field, and the only way to check this
tidal wave and teach these Demo
cratic politicians some sense and COM
mon decency Is to repudiate them at
the polls.-Indianapolis Journal
Year: 1878

The Washington correspondent OF
the Louisville Courier Journal says:
Republicans, for special opposition
to General Field, say that he served
In the Confederate army, SO that the
old issue of the Acknowledgement Of
rebels Is once more made by these
scoundrels, fourteen years after the
war was over aud the last gun fired.
There are few people here foolish
enough to believe that a majority at
the North would respond favorably to
such a cry OF malice and proscrip-
tion."


Few men can point TO a more var
led or brilliant record than General
Shields. He Is q man OF decided
ability. lifelong Democrat, and he
needed the place which hs sought at
the hands OF the Democracy. They
rejected him and elected instead Gen.
eral G. w. Field. graduate Of West
Point, who deserted the flag to which
he owed allegiance and took up arms
against the government which had
educated him, who fought his gov
ernment as long as the rebellion las
ted, and then fed to Egypt and re-
nounced his citizenship. They were
both Democrats. General Shields
took an active part In the last pres
idential canvass, and made speeches
through this State for Tilden and
Hendricks. He probably did more to
make Democratic votes than any
man who canvassed in the Western
States. II there Is any one man the
Democracy of the West were under
obligations to 1t was 10 General
Shields. He had good reputation
IS Union soldier, and men Of that
class who could be induced to sanvass
for the Democratic ticket were scarce,
All this service, however, was not
sufficient to counterbalance the SER
vices rendered by General Field ln
| behalf OF the rebellion.
Year: 1878

TALKING TO THE TELEPHONE
When we begin to use telephone for


the first time, there is sense of oddity,


almost of foolishness, i'll the experiment.


The dignity of talking consists in hav-


ing listener, and there seems q kind of
absurdity in addressing piece of iron !;


but we must raise our respect for the
metal, for it is anything but deaf. The
diaphragm of the telephone, the thin
iron plate, is as sensitive as the living
tympanum to all the delicate refine


ments of sound. Nor does it depend up
on the thinness of the metallic sheet, for
piece of thick boiler-plate will take up
and transmit the motions Of the air-par-
ticles in all the grades of their subtility.
And not only will it do the same thing
as the tympanum, but it will do vastly
more the gross, dead metal proves, in


fact, to be a hundred times more alive
than the living mechanism CT speech
and addition. This is no exaggeration.


In quickness, in accuracy, and even in


grasp, there is q perfection of sensitive


capacity IN the metal win which the
organic instrument cannot compare
| We speak of the proverbial "quickness
of thought" but the telephone thinks
quicker than the nervous mechanism
Let word be pronounced for person
to repeat, and the telephone will hear
and speak it hundred miles away in a
tenth part Of the time that the listener


would need to utter it. Give man a
series of q half dozen notes to repeat,
and he cannot do it accurately to save
his life; but the iron plate takes them
up, transmits them 10. another plate


hundreds of miles OFF, which sings them


forth inztantaneously with absolute


precision. The human machine can
hear, and reproduce in its poor way, on.


ly a single series Of notes; while the iron


ear of the telephone will take up whole


chords and trains of music, and sending
them by lightning through the wire, its
! iron tongue viii emit them in perfect re-


lations Of AaMneny.-Prof. Yoamadns IN
Popgas1ea2' Scaeace Monthly for March.
Year: 1878

cUFER5TTIOue people at Lowell
Mass were startled the other night bv
the report that large and brilliant bali
of fire was playing rapidly over Dr.
Ayers grave, and about one thousand
people visited the cemetery TO see the
display. 1T proved, however, 10 be
nothing but the light Of a street lamp
reflected by neighboring pond
Year: 1878

What Constitutes an EIector.

 The following is published again for the benefit of those who are .Iot posted in regard to our election laws: Every male citizen of the United States, and every male citizen of Mex ico, who shall have elected to become q citizen of the United States under the treaty of peace exchanged and ratified at Queretaro on the 3Oth of day of May, 1S4S, and the Gadsdcn treaty of 1854; and every male per son who shall have declared on oath before a competent court of record his intention to become q citizen of the United States, and shall have taken an oath to support the consti- tuition and government of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall be a resident of the terri tory one year next preceding the cleo ton, apd the county or precinct in which he claims his vote ten days, and whose name is enrolled on the great register of such county, shall be entitled to vote at all elections which are now or may hereafter be author iZeI by law
Year: 1878

That CoMMUSIsTIc SrEKg.-Tbe
prediction that was made some time
ago, that general strike would take
place all over the country on the 18th
of this month, has just been awakened
from the sleep into which it at once fell
by communistic striker in Fort Wayne.
The insane character OF this new prophet
Of evil is shown in the fact that he says
there will be fully three millions Of
men in the uprising, and that banks,
stores and the houses Of the rich will
not be left unmolested. lie, however,
says that the statement giving the date
when the great strike isto begin is false,
siuce such things are kept profound
aacrat
Year: 1878

Hat FLIRrArIoN.-ln Introducing \
Irritation with the hat it has bcen tho
experience of many OF our most prof
cient flirters that it is ber,er to raise tho
hat perpendicularly from the head few
inches, that the object of your Irritation
may be satisfied OF the absence of bricks
or other cutaneous substances, which
are sometimes fatal 10 the success of
your advances. The following are the
different interpretations.


To wear the hat on the right eye
brow-Please step one side-Im bad.


To wear the hat on the lett eyebrow
Are you there Moriarty!


To wear the hat on the bridge Of tho
nose-We are watched-by the police.


To wear the bat on the right ear
You will find my photograph on sale
with all principal news dealers.


To wear the hat on the lef earl
love you, but livery teams and ice cream,
are up.so that il will be impossible for
me to carry on the acquaintance.


To carry the hat in the hand-Your
fathers financial condition is such that
it will not justify me. You need not
hope.


TO place the hat on the bacl. of the
head am yours--ask mother.
Year: 1878

works lin the human system In perfect harmony
with Natures Laws and while it is pleasant to the
taste, genial to the stomach, and mid in its infu
ence on the bowels 1t is absolute in its action or
disease, and is not vile, nauseous Bitters, purg
ing the invalid into false hope that they being
cured. VRGETIEE is purely Vegetable Medicine
compounded upon scientific principles. 1t is in
dorsed by the best physicians where its virtues hav
been tested, is recommended only where medicine
is needed, and is not mixture OF cheap whisky
sold under the cloak of Bitters.
Year: 1878

CHICAGO, Nov. 26,-On account of the
inconvenience to business men attending
the absence during the holidays, the dele
gation from Chicago will not visit Mexico
until the first week in January.


Publication is made here this morning of
statement from ex-secretary Lot NJ
Morrill,, denying the reports that he was
indicted by the Chicago grand jury for
for completely in the custom house frauds
Trustworthy information is at hand that
the jury never had under consideration the
indictment or even the name of the ex-
secretary, and it is believed that the ru-
mors which misled him were originated by
parties who were indicted and who wished
to shield themselves behind bis good name
and thus belittle the charges and break the
force of the indictment. In reply to the
attempt of some Of the indicted to toquestion
the statement made in these dispatches,
that the evidence before the grand jury
was very damaging, it is only necessary to
say that the information came from mem.
Der of the jury, who says that new testi-
mony was brought out which was unknown
at the time of the preliminary examina'
ton.
Year: 1878

Additional telegraphic particulars of
this disaster at sea, together with the
statements of some of the rescued passen-
gers will be found on the second and
third pages of this paper.
Year: 1878

Ills easy to trace the soul to the hour


That deprives the form of its breath;
But WAC shall follow the spirits fight,


When it seeks the portal Of death?
Who rend the vail that hides from our view
The future, beyond the bright stars?
Who follow the spirits upward flight,


When it breaks through our earthly bars|'
Whae-ah! what is that future state?


And where, oh where is the goal
Which Christians say is the resting place


And home of the deathless soul?
Is it beyond the dark blue sky


Beyond where the stars now shine;
Where the angels sing their songs Of praise
To the Spirit Of God divine?
Can life he the end of all our hopes?


Is the struggle with death all DER ?
Or is there life beyond the tomb,


Where the soul lives evermore?
Does the soul exist when life has flown,


Or sink, like the co1se, into night?
Let US rather believe the brilliant mind


Still continues its upward fight.
Let us think that the soul can never die


That its mission will never end;
That there is a land beyond the sky,


Where friend will still meet friend;
That, freed from the turmoil and ills of life,
From its troubles, wounds and scars,
The soul will worship the God Of Light


In His mansions "beyond the Skies"
Year: 1878

The Augusta sportsman does not want his name
mentioned who wandered all day in the woods
without success and then bought a partridge for
fifty cents from lucky little urchn whom he
chanced to meet sin order that be might keep up
appearances when he retained home, you know"
Year: 1878

A little girl in this city said that she shonldnt t
varnish the autumn leaves that she gathered. Ma
ture didn't varnsh the leaves TO preserve them.
and she was sure she couldn't do any better than
Nature could
Year: 1878

While two young men were racing horses on
State street near the State House Tuesday even
ing, one fthe carriages tipped over and the occu-
pant was thrown to the ground. He picked him
self up uniniured.
Year: 1878

A conductor on the East Broadway horse cars
refused to take trade dollar, and after quite a
row. elected the man who offered it. Both the
passenger and Conductor were arrested, and a
complaint made by the horse car officials
against the passenger, to-day, n the police court,
but Judge Wendoll decided adverse to the horse
railroad. The conductor is under strict orders of
the company
Year: 1878

A laborer named President Gaucha was struck
by brick which fell from the fourth story o.
Bsrtletts new hotel building this morning. He il
now lying in critical condition, his skull being
badly fractured.
Year: 1878

General Sherman, in speaking of the army re-
Gently, said he never knew OF lis coalition being
as satisfactory as now All It's branches are IN ac-
cord the best possible feeling existing among the
officers aod the character of the men being all
that could be desired. The recruiting officers are
careful in selection, not more than one IN five pre-
senting themselves for enlistment being accepted.
In his recent trip to the West, General Shei man
was fairly delighted with the good condition Of
all the posts more attention than heretofore being
paid to their sanitary condition. At one of them,
where there was large command, the hospital
had not had patieut for over two weeks. The
General expressed his astonishmeut at the educs-
tonal standing of the privates generally, some OF
them showing high state of culture
Year: 1878

About thirty-two years ago, Schon-
bein, German chemist, had occasion to
immerse cotton in mixture of concen-
trated and sulphuric acids. To his sur
prise he noticed that the cotton did not
dissolve. Taking it and washing off the
acid he placed it in a drying oven to dry.
On returning the next morning no cot
ton was to De seen. AS the students in
his laboratory affirmed that they had not
meddled, he wondered much as to what
had become of it. He tried the expert
ment again, and this time had the good
fortune to witness the disappearance of
the cotton.


He had discovered gun cotton.


This is very curious substance, al
though it does not differ in appearance
from ordinary cotton. 1t is, however,
trife heavier. Strange to say, the man
ner in which fire is applied to this, causes
it to burn very differently. Touch it
with live coal or lighted cigar, and it
burns away very slowly, much like the
mixtures used to produce the colored
fires of Fourth of July nights; apply
fame to it, and it explodes like gun
powder, but if you fire it by means of
Illuminating cap it explodes with terrific
violence, and a arapidity six or seven times
greater.


But there is another substance which
explodes even more terribly still. 1t Is
nitro glycerine. This is produced some
what similarly to gun cotton, with the
exception that glycerine is used instead
of cotton, these substances being very
much alike in chemical composition.
Nitro-glycerine is dense, oily liquid
which has very safe and hurmless ap-
pearance, but in reality is something ter.
rible. A small quantity placed upon
hugh boulder and fired, will blow it into
thousand pieces, whereas with gun
powder the result would have been mere
ly flash, and great puff of wind and
smoke.


You wonder perhaps, how 1t is that
nitro: :glycerine merely placed upon a
stone and exploded, can possibly break
it. as you think the air will give way so
much sooner than the stone. Now the
rapidity with which the gas formed
by the combustion of nitro-glycerine ex-
pands is a hundred times that of can
non ball, and the atmosphere offers more
resistance to body moving at that rate
than the stone beneath it. Nitro-glycer-
inc in some of its forms is the agent al
most universally smployed in blasting.
Without it many of the great railway
tunnels ana other feats of engineering
would have been impossible.


The compounds ofnitro glycerine are
many. Mixed with tripoi or rotten
stone it becomes dynamite, or "die-in-a-
minute" as some wag has facetiously
termed it; this adulterated with nitrate
of soda or potash is known as giant pow
der. When nitro-glycerine is mixed
with gunpowder, in very finely divided
state, it is called rend-rock powder; with
sawdust, dualin. These ere, however, all
adulterations. and weaken the power of
the explosive.-N0uo York Tribune,
Year: 1878

The trout go up the river in schools of
thousands toward their spawning beds
II unimpeded in their course, they would
separate into numberless crystalline trout
brooks and deposit their spawn far up
the stream, out Of the reach of saWdust or
fishermen. But just at the foot of the
Sierra Nevadas. in the State of Nevada
close to th~ us 'fornia line, is the Verdi
dam. This dam has been constructed to
supply fine saw-mill with water, and
great precaution was taken to arrange a
suitable fishery at one end. The water is
made to flow over sort of apron, or
plank floor, which has such gradual in
cline that any fish can ascend. This fish
way is further improved by means of tine
rocks and earth of the river bank. There
is large pool or eddy just at the foot and
lower side of the apron, and so the trout
find an impossible wall at the place
where they should enter the reservoir
above the dam. Thus the fish are i'm
prisOned.


Such restless impatient, strugglin priso-
ners as are these mountain trout cannot
be found elsewhere. They attempt to
leap over the main dam, only to be hurled
back by the falling water. They spring
fully five feet in the air, and strike the
main apron of the dam with terrific and
sometimes fatal force. They bruise their
bodies and heads until oftentimes they
die. They learn nothing from experience
but continue to jump against the dam
until, worn out and neverless, they
drift, completely exhausted, into the ed
dies formed by the piers of the dam.
One can watch for hours these poor des-
perate things in their brave struggle to
get over the dam, without having a mo-
ment elapse in which some trout is not
leaping through the air and against the
dam. Generally from one to dozen fish
are visible at the same time. tits grand
but pitiful sight to watch the great speck-
led beauties in their vain endeavors to
ct over the q am.


But the pltiful merges into the horri-
BILE when one sees the merciless grab
hooks let down into the struggling, quiv-
ering, exhausted masses Of trout gather
ed in the eddies below the piers. By
means of the short, unyielding rod, a
succession of quick upward jerks is given
to the four hungry points of the grab
hook. The water is full of foam from
the cascade, and circles in binding whirl
around the pool. The fish are crazed
and blinded by their fruitless, frantic
leaps, and readily drift against the sharp
needle-like points of the barbed
hooks. Once impaled, the struggle be-
gins. The hook may have entered un-
derneath the head or the body, or it may
have pierced the side, or the fins or the
tail. At the first moment of its fright the
startled fish darts away with fury OF
strength that is marvellous. A large fish
is almost ungovernable during the first
frenzy of its death struggle. The fisher.
mans only plan is to let The trout weary
itself with Its maddened plunges anc
leaps and struggles, and then by a dex
ferrous twitch land it on the pier. More
then half the time the fish makes some
terrible bounds and tears himself from
the hook, only to float with the current
torn, mangled and dying.
Year: 1878

That artist on the Graphic who has the
handling of pictures of war always has
three or four officers in front of the men
waving their swords and foaming at the
mouth. Some one should tell him that
infantry officers are always in the rear of
the line, and they never forget their po-
sitions, either.
Year: 1878

AS he who breads the loss OF health
Is nearly always ailirg,
So he who is afraid to fail


Is pretty sure of failing
Besbrave, have faith, and try again,
If after one endeavor
You fail to gain the end you seek;
But be despondent never.
The man who meets with sure success
Wastes Lot his hours in pining;
be wisely scorns TO court defeat
BY sitting down and whining.
His hand is at his toll betimes,


With faith and hope to guide it;
While::he who scans his task IN doubt,
Cries him to sleep beside it:
Look DER the world read history g


page.


Where great deeds are recorded;
You find that will and earnestness
Are in the end rewarded
IT'S perseverance constant toll,


That gain the richest prizes
The world bath faith in steadfast


men,


But towards it despises.
Year: 1878

A scREEcH owl took possession of a
box at Lancaster. Pennsylvania, the
other day, in which pair of martins
were building their nest. and when they
returned wonld not let them enter.
The birds soon few away and soon re-
turned with an army of companions,
each bringing in his beak piece of
mud, with which they bermetically
sealed the entrance of the box. When
the box was opened few days later.
the owl was found dead
Year: 1878

travelling in the greatness of His
streDgtb:' And think how such a
soul as Isiaiah's would leap TO hear the
answer, rolling from beyond the sun.
set, ami from beyond the sun: Il that
speak in righteousness. mighty TO
save


have no idea that this sunset i.
more beautiful than those which NAV
be seen In other regions; beautiful it
was, but We have beheld sky of more
varied magniicence elsewhere, even as
We did in otter places of Palestine it.
self But even less brilliant sunset
would have been painted on memory's
walls, if it had been seen in Jeruslem.
To see the evening glory spread upon
the mountains that encircle the shrine
OF all the earth, the hearth-stons of
Jehovah. was glory enough for one
day


AT evening ye say, Fair weather to-
morrow! for the sky is red So said
the Lord Himself. 1t is a good sign in
Palestine or America, either centuries
ago or today. We found the next
day that the sign did not fail us.


WELL, we are lazy in Norfolk,
that's fact says the North Carolina
Economist. but there is no need of
working here. If man has energy
enough to dig worm, he can take a
pin hook and sit down on the wharf and
catch enough fish IN one day to last
him two. If he is too lazy to dig q
worm he can tie piece of flannel rag
oa string and catch enough crabs to
last him day or two; and if he is too
lazy to tie piece of flannel to string
he lays down on his back on the sand
at ebb-tide, opens his mouth. and when
the tide comes in the crabs run into it..
What need is there of working in a
country for which nature has done SO
| much.
Year: 1878

Hayes education, antecedents, and previo IS
ly-eStlmated character, refuse to believe him
deliberately guilty of causing the MISERY ne
has wrought, there is commenced as a fitting
description of him the words which that uIi,
surpassed deIlneator of human character


speak concerning Tito Melema:


There was man to whom was very near.
so that / could see great deal of his life. who
made almost every one fond of him. for he was
young and clever and beautiful, and his man
GerS to all were gentle and kind. | believe
when l first knew him he never Thought OF
doing anything cruel or base. But because he
tried to Slip away from everything that was
unpleasant, and cared for nothing else SO
much as his own safety, he came at last TO com
mis- some OF the baseSt deeds, such as make
men infamous. He denied his father and left
him to misery; he betrayed every trust that
was reposed in him that he might keep himself
safe and get rich and prosperous. Yet calami-
ty overlook him." W. F. CHANDTFR