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Year: 1879

There probably isn't a woman in North
America who isn't afraid Of cows, and there
Is not COW in North America which would
harm one hair of any woman's head if it
had the best chance in the world and no
other job on hand. "Wednesday forenoon
stray COW, perhaps from the country for
taste Of baled hay, found a gate open and
entered q yard on Second street. The
woman came TO the front door dressed to
60 out, but seeing the COW she uttered
scream and hurried back. There wasn't a
thing in the yard for the cow to damage or
eat, and being tired she raised her cud, and
lay down and began to chew away as if she
hal just got home from a long visit to
Europe. The woman next appeared at the
side window and called upon the cow to
git OUT dog might have got" but
the cow didn't Then the woman threw a
rag at the cow and called for the dog. The
dog didn't come and the rag didn't scare.
Then the woman shook pillow at the COW
and peremptOrily ordered her off thepr
lses, but the bovine half closed her eyes
and let her thoughts run ahead TO fly time
As the cow didn't 20, and as the woman
couldn't 90 till the COW did, sterner meas.
ures We're resorted to- A tin pan was held
out the window and beaten with spoon
but the COW couldn't be fooled into belev
ing that the Fourth Of July had come. Then
| the woman went into the back yard tC
! throw clubs over the fence and knock
couple OF horns off. The first one hit the
window, and the next banged the blind,
on the next house, and the cows horns
! stuck tighter than ever. Cries Of "gt out
were again rpsorted to without effect, anc
then the woman watched at the front dool
Till she saw a small boy coming along, ano
/ she opened it and cried out:


! "Oh! boy! there's a terrible cow in oul
! yard Prop the gate open and get all tn,
boys and police you can and drive her out
and I'll give you a whole quarter OF ;
dollar! Hurry up, for she looks as if sh'
was getting ready to come right in here :


The boy bumped" the dangerous AMI
NAL out in thirty seconds, received his pay
and the woman gave up going down tow


for fear she might have "nervous spell.
| Detroit Free Press
Year: 1879

A Man AMPUTATEs HIS OwN LEG.-A
short time ago a young Chippewa hunter was
shooting squirrels in the woods that border
Lake Huron, near Penetanguishine. BY
some chance, large blighted pine fell upon
him, knocking him down and crushing his
leg, which was fractured in two places. lie
could not rise--he could not remove the
tree which was lying across his broken leg.
lie was far from the probability of passing
aid. and to lie there and starve to death in
agony seemed all that was left to him. In
this dilemma, with all the fortitude and
prompttude Of romance, he took out his
knife, cut off his own leg, bound it up with
his sash, dragged himself along the ground
to his canoe and padded himself home tc
his wigwam on a distant island. There the
cure Of his wound was completed, and the
man is still alive. Strange as this may seem
it is strictly true.-Idaho World.
Year: 1879

Editorial salntary of the Bryant Literary O,cl
The BRYANT Owl her greeting sends
10 ynu her henrers. patrons. friends;
Long life and health and every JOY
BE yours hencefurth without alloy.
May every breeze EOluS bind,
Except the one that's good and kind,
And every moving wave and tide
BE to YOUR fortunes close allied.
Old Neptune safely bring to shore
Your ships with choicest goods i'll store
Ceres her richest blessings yield
When'erc you touch her glehe or field
May age its shadows long preserve
With heart of oak and iron nerve
And wisdom get and wisdom hold
Better far than mines of gold.
May youth its daily lesson learn
And wish a noble arduur burn
BY useful thoughts to train the mind
And fill the heart with feelings kind.
Then with conscious duty done
For every day beneath the sun.
sweet peace will come and come To stay
Where ere shall turn liieS devious way.
And Ladies fair so good and true,
What shall our wishes be for you:
As sweet AururaS dawnng light
DispelS the lingering gloom OF night,
BriLg life and health To earth 6gain,
Revive the dropping hopes of men;
So thus may you Il blessing prove
BY constant deeds of heart felt love;
pilliusng life and hope around
Where else dispair and death were found,
And gain at last by gift devnc
The land of bliss forever thine.


THE EDITOR
Year: 1879

The improvement in the value of real es-
tate in New York is so marked as to attract
the attention of investors. Large building
operations are projected to be pushed for
ward during the present year.
Year: 1879

CURIOUS CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTIFY.
Not long ago a man was run over and killed
by the cars at Evenston, in the neighbor-
hood of Chicago. The body was identified
as that of Josiah Hill, resident of South
Bend. Ind, who had been at work on a farm
at Winnetka, five miles from Middletown.
The widow and daughter were inconsolable
and quite broken down after the coronprs
inquest (which found that Josiah Hill
came accidentally to his death, ~ and the
burial in the graveyard at South Bend.
Several days later Mrs. Hill mustered up
energy enough to go to Winnetka for her
late husbands effects. Lo and behold


when she approached the farm house there
was her husband quietly at work in the
barnyard. She tainted several times and
could with difficulty be induced to believe
that it was only very strange case of mis-
taken identity. As for Hill himself it wa,
the first he had heard of his own death.
Year: 1879

We don't hesitate to assert that oul
city has better prospects before it than
any town in this or the adjoining States.
We have already populationof between
seven and eight thousand within itslimits
The yellow fever epidemic of 1873 has
demonstrated clearly that no healthicf
location can be found in the South than
ours. Across the river is the rich and
rapidly improving parish Of West Baton
Rouge, which will soon be numbered
among the foremost in the sugar region.
In our rear is an immense country, af-
foraing every advantage to the settler.
Timber Of every species, bottom and high
lands, producing sugar cane, cotton, rice
and vegetables Of every descriptions.
There are beautiful streams and pretty
landscapes to charm the imagination cf
the Tourist, who will ere long land at
the Capital City of Louisiana to make 1t
his base ofoperations.


Soon railway must he constructed
over the forty miles which separate us
from Ponchatoula station on the jack
sou road, the missing link to our connec-
tion with the entire railroad system Of
the United States. Through the Missis-
sippi and its tributaries our city has tho
same facilities that New Orleans possess
scs. Hsaa ess,y ..ie


The State University affording splen-
did opportunities for the education Of
our. youths is also permanently located
here. 3a Atf wa


What then is to prevent Baton Rouge
from becoming, in few years, one of
the most attractive and prosperous in
land cities in the Sonths


All that is necessary at this juncture
is to take advantage Of the opportuni.
ties afforded our inhabitants, and to push
forward with energy all enterprises that
are likely to add to the general welfare.


Let us indefinitely postpone croaking
alld join hands together for the good Of
all. Well quarrel when we can afford
to do it.


Baton Rouge has been sleeping for six
teen years. We now hear the soul in-
spring rereiile bid us all to awaken and
work for its revival and growth! Who
are those who will stand back and op-
pose the forward movement at this au-
spicious l,oarf


We trust that there are none such to
be found amongst US.
Year: 1879

ANDV VAsDDnA~C NNsspf9 hscp WYNN w NS
the picture of life and animation. The
wholesale dealers were filing floats and
drays with large packages for the out
side world, and the boulevard Canal con-
taiued stream Of ofpeople who seemed to
be busy purchasing goods Of all de-
scriptions from the we'll assorted stores
along its sides. And the ladies' good
gracious! never looked handsomer az
they went rapidly by, stopping now and
then to take view Of the handsome dis
plays in the show windows. Were it
not for those hateful Boylan fellows of
the police force. who don't seem to like
it when rustic stays too long at the
same place to gaze at the beauties; why,
we'd be there till yet, even if our heart
had to be smashed into ten thousand
fragments. The Opera and other thea
tres are drawing large crowds. Then
too, the oysters are as fresh as daisies,
beside the traditional white wine OH ice
ready at hand, with which to dissolve
them.


In the face Of such temptations, who
will say that the mantle Of charity ought
not to be thrown over the poor mortal
whose human nature gives way under
these trying circumstancesi The weather
was spring-like and delightful in the
extreme, and when we turned around to
take one long lingering look at the en-
chanting scene from the deck of the
Natchez Oh last Saturday, before leaving,
we felt as if We wouldn't "go home till
morning, when daylight doth appear"
Year: 1879

The intelligent London correspondent of
remarkable paper on the relations of ad-
vanced scientific thinkers to the church.
written for an English periodical by the Rev.
Canon Curties. In this paper the author
puts in plea fos the unbelievers and urges
that in so far as they are not resting content
with their position of denial, but are in reality
longing and reaching out after a new con.
structive theory, they have not only claim
on the sympathy of modern churchmen, but
may be even hailed by the latter as allies.
He who has reached down by analysis TO the
foundation-truth, that in spite of nihilissic
tendencies, something is in fair way to
start on the road toward helping to build I'D
a "fair palace" of belief which shall be ad
justed to modern wants, and recognize and
incorporate in its stheology all the ground won
by contemporary science. This, in the writ
er's opinion, can be best done, where he con-
siders 1t to be already begun, in the church
OF England, that church having retained the
essential doctrines of Christianity in a form
which is not altogether unamenabIe to
changes, and to new interpretations. In
the opinion of the correspondent "That
large section of the Anglican church which is
trying to regain some of its essentials would
scarcely concur in the above opinion, and
would equally claim that the man who will
own that he Knows nothing lis an Agnostic)
is in fair way to acceptiin faith that which
greater than Elias,' greater than John
the Baptist has taught, and which has been
preserved and handed down inviolate by the
True Church,
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON specials say the condition Of
the public business is beginning to trouble
all who wish to avoid the necessity of called
session. Only three bills have passed both
houses-the military academy, consular, and
pensions. Two are in onference-fortifics-
tions and Indian-and the naval Is ready to
be sent to conference. The postal bill is be
fore the House, aud the army and legislative
have been reported, and the sundry civil is
not yet begun in committee. Besides these,
the deficiency and the river and harbor bills
remain to be reported.
Year: 1879

ACCORDING to Catholic journal published
in London an ecumenlcal council is to be
held in Rome this year to consider the rea-
tions between the Papacy and the civil
powers-which ale very uncivil just now.
Year: 1879




Ii was at a woman's rights meet
ing. The speaker was saving:


he1 US take our stand right here
ana hrmly resolve that neither
The votes nor arguments of the Op
posl.e Sex nor any power on this
earth shall turn us aside or move
us one inch frOm the positi-"
just here IA wicked bat flew into
tue room, and the meeting adjourn
ed with so much quIckness that
some OF the members lost their
back hair. The speaker who
could not he "turned aside" was
seventeenth from the last III get
ting out OF the front door. And
IT. Is not certain that the bat was
one OF the "Opposite sex" either.
Year: 1879

"A white man in Maryland
shot at a negro with murderOns
intent, but instead of killing him
killed his grandchild. The Re.
publican papers of this country
declared this to be another Demo
cratic outrage until the discovery
was made that the white mau
was Republican.
Year: 1879

The Best Family Newspaper,
Publishes both the religious and
secular news that is desired in any
family, while all that is likely to
do harm is shut out. 1t devotes
four pages to religious news, and
four to secular.


The New York OBSERVER was
first published in 1923 /; and it is
believed to be the only instance
OF a Religious Newspaper confirm
its even course for .ftty-sir yars,
without change Of name. doc.
trine, intent, purpose, or pledge
from the date of its birth.
Year: 1879

Liverpool yesterday from Boston,
awaits inspection in quarantine in
the present uncertainty. Few or
no contracts are being entered
into. Traders are trying to ar
range for the slaughter of cattle at
the point of. debarkation, and
strong representations will be made
to the Mersy Docks and Harbor
Board to facilitate this. The ten
days grace allowed by the orders in
the Council are said to be sufficient
for trade requirements, and full
guarantees will thus be provided
against infection, without prohibits
ing the Importation of cattle near
the north docks of Liverpool.
There is, it is claimed, ample room
to provide facilities for the slaughter
of cattle on landing.
Year: 1879

Vice President Wheeler for years
past has been accustomed to Give
FIVE hundred dollars to home mis-
sions, but this year, on account of
the debt of the Board, he doubled
the amount, and sent a cheek for a
thousand dollars.-EVening Post.
Year: 1879

On Friday afternoon woman was
noticed begging, at first in Fourteenth
Street, near Macy's, and afterward in
Wall Street. She attracted attention
not because she begged, but because
she begged in silk dress and appear
ed like lady. After a while somebody
suspected that she was insane and caus-
ed her to be arrested, when it was dis
covered that she was the wife of q we'll
known gentleman of Carmansville, and
had taken to begging as means to in
crease her pin money. She had done
the same thing on another occasion.
There was no necessity for her begging.
Her husband and she live in charming
cottage at Carmansville, and attend the
Presbyterian Church at Tenth Avenue
and 155th street. They nave several
pretty children. She is about 80 yeras
of age, and very good looking.-NeU
York Sun.
Year: 1879

The custom of shaving the beard was
| enforced by Alexander of Maccdon, moi
for the sake of fashion but for practical
end. He knew that the soldiers of India,
when they encountered their foes, had the
habit of grasping them by the beard, and
so he ordered his soldiers to shave


Afterward shaving was practiced in the
Macedonian army, and then among Greek
citizens. The Romans initiated the
Greeks in the practice, as they did in
many other things, and spread it into the
other European nations yet barbaric. In
the middle ages, at that time Of the Re
naissance, shaving was introduced, and
the habit was retained, though clas-
sicism gave place to romantieism,
and that in its turn gave place to real
ISM The beard was source, of trouble
to Peter the Great, who, simultaneously
with the introduction Of his great reforms
into Russia, tried to induce his people to
initiate the shaving nations. This inno-
vation was resisted by his subjects with


the utmost persistence, and they prefer
red to pay a heavy fine rather than suffer
dIa6gprement, as they believed Of the


image of God. To the Russians of olden
times the beard was symbol of liberty.
In several countries of Western Europe


and in the United States the beard was
restored to honor only about twenty years
ago, but even yet a majority of men re-
Year: 1879

On his appointment to the head-mas-
telship of Rugby school, Arnold took his


D ID. degree, and from that time he was


chiefly called in public by the name by
which we best know him, Dr. Arnold


The beginning of DR.. Arnold's reign at


Rugby was marked by something OF


gloom and discomfort among the boys and
those connected with them. He looked


much deeper down into the character OF
each individual member of the school than
1t had been the custom of former head


masters to do; and when, on closely


watching a boy, he saw he exercised a bad


influence over his companions he quietly
requested his friends to remove him as un-
fit for public school life; thus, as may


easily be supposed, causing dissatisfaction
in many quarters. Arnold's face had
also, probably, something to do with his


winning his way slowly, at first, with the


boys. When he was very much in earnest
about anything his features would wear a
serious gravity of expression, which the
very young easily mistook for stcrnness,
and when he had his first interview with
ia lad, on his arrival at school, he was al
ways most deeply in earnest at the
thought of the new charge confded to


him, and this made his appearance fright


en- his scholars little on first seeing him.


Gradually, however, these drawbacks to
his popularity faded away; parents found


that he had judged rightly for their sons
in changing their sphere Of education, and


the boys learned that their head-master's
face could twinkle with fun, and soften


with paternal tenderness, and that there


were in hini depths of kindly sympathy


for, their young troubles and difficulties,


and stores of general strength, such as


they had never dreamed of in man. Soon


the common expression in the school


about the head-master came to be, among


the boys, "We would die for him" The


only fault whichhe would never pardon


was lie-that was always punished by


Immediate expulsion from the school.


This severe, respect for truth, however,


increased, on the whole, his ascendency !;


for a lofty sense of honor, manly straight


forwardness, are always essential quail
ties in an, English boys ideal hero.J a.Ial
Year: 1879

Cyirginia City (Nev) Enterprise Feb. Is)


About ten o'clock yesterday morning 9
Gro wbar was dropped down the main yer.
ticai shaft of the Savage from the surface
and went directly through cage at the
hottom, piercing the bonnet and floor
No one was on the cage at the time and
no one vas hurt. yet 1t is unpleasant to
one making a trip into mine to reflect
that such things sometimes occuy. As
the bar fell something over five aundred
yards 1t was travelling with ths rapidity
and vim of q cannon ball when it struck
the cage. A bit of gravel no larger
than filbert sings like bullet toward
the latter part Of such journey. A dog
once fell into shaft at Gold Hill, and
though the shaft was bat 800 feet in
depth, two men upon whom the animal
landed we're killed, as also was the clum.
sy cur that had failed to hop across the
top OF the shaft. A rat once fell down
the Consolidated Virginia shaft in at
tempting to spring across compartment,
from wall plate to wall plate, and 1,100
feet below landed on the bald head of q
miner and exploded like bomb, eau.
sing the minerto think rock had cut
open the top ofhis skull and let out his
brains. A grain of birdshot dropped
into the top OF shaft 1900 feet in depth
would probably bury itself in plank or
anv piece of wood it might happer to
strike at the bottom This being the
case, we repeat that it is not pleasant to
think of such things as crowbars going
down shafts.
Year: 1879

He was twitted of his badness and
retorted quite sharply, "Well, there are
two things you never saw In this world,
a red-hesded negro or bald-headed
fool"


A courteous old gentleman being told
a very tough story said, "Since you were
an eyewitness, suppose must believe
you, but don't think I'd believe it if I'd
seen it myself


The HinGoos have been figuring again
and they now make out that the earth is
4, 100000 years old. Whist we most care
is to know II it is going to stand fifty
years longer.
Year: 1879

with her assassins. The lock on the
door leading to her bedroom was found
to have been tampered with, and the
front door leading to the house had
been found open at six o'clock
a short time before the murder of
Mrs. Hull was brought to light by the
servant girl. There were no marks
found on the massive door, and on
that account the police suppose that
an entrance was effected by means of
false keys. The murder and robbery
was done, it is thought, some time
during the night, for when the body
was found it was quite cold. One of
the ehambermaids who passed the
night in room near the one in
which Mrs. Hull was murdered says
she was awakened during the night
by scream, but was unable to say at
what hour that was, shs paid no
attention to the noise, thinking some
one had the nightmare. When the
people in the neighborhood learned Of
the crime large crowd gathered and
a detachment of police was needed to
preserve order.
Year: 1879

New York, June 1l.-Mrs. J. j..


D. Hull, aged fifty eight years, wife of


DR.. Alonzo j. Hull, was found dead
in her bed at No. 1860 West Forty
second street, this morning. Her
hands and feet were tied. She was
blindfolded, and the gag was in her
mouth. The trunk at the bedside
was open and rihed of its contents


An examination of the premises
showed that an entrance had been
effected through the front door, which
was open, aud all other parts of the
house secure. The fingers were badly
torn, and her friends say that one
large diamond ring and one emerald
has been taken therefrom. The
neighborhood is in a state of wild ex-
citement, and the police are without a
clue.


The colored servant girl who discov.
cred the body said that about z o'clock
this morning she went to her mistress
room to receive her instructions for
the day. She found the door open,
which was something unusual. On
entering the apartment she saw the
body. of Mrs. Hull firmly bound
to the bed by strings of sheeting
Another piece was tied across her eyes,
a gag was firmly tied IN her mouth and
a piece Of shawl was strapped around
her neck. 1t was evident the ladysI
death resulted from strangulation, for
the shawl was tightly drawn around
her neck. On her body we're found
several contusions and slight wounds
which had been received in the scuffle
Year: 1879

A CORRESPONDENT of the New
York Mercury, writing from Syracuse,
says that Miss Mary Andeason, the
well-known actress, is engaged to be
married to young merchant of that
city, and that the day is set, which is
not great while off. Well, it is time
for her to get married. She has dem
onstrated the fact that she is able to
support husband, and the sooner she
follows the example of all successful
actresses the better for that band OF
volunteers who are candidates for the
Office of Mary Anderson's husband. ~
Year: 1879

BosToN, June 11.-Mr. Goldsmith
and wife, who were to cross the At
lantic and make voyage around the
globe in boat eighteen and half
feet long, launched their craft June
LIST, and are missing since.
Year: 1879

Extract from a decision of Secretary Schurz, of date April 9, 1879:

 At the outset it is proper to remark that as Lanig had made satisfactory proof the nOn-mineral character of the tract in question, prior to the com mencement of this investigation, the burden of proof is upon the parties alleging the land to be mineral. inas- much as they have assumed the affirm ative of the issue. Where lands have been withdrawn as mineral the bur den of proof is upon the person alleg- ing them them to be nOn-mineral, and applying to enter them under the laws relating to the disposal of agricultural lands; but when satisfactory non min eral proof has once been made the rule is otherwise.