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Year: 1877

A Washington letter has this: A lady
VIII ose husband held one of the highest
places in the government stood in her
magnificent home attired for her weekly
reception. "How gladly would give
up all the finery, show and insincerity
of this public place and go back to the
rooms lived in when we were first
married. would throw my silks and
diamonds away and sit down to my
supper of chip beef and tea at sunset,
and afterwards take long quiet walk
with Will, and rest on the stump in the
moonlight, and tell my little plans for
the future, and what / had done every
hour while he was gone, and know that
wewere alone in the world, living only for
each other. Those days seem like days
in heaven. work harder now than any
slave often three hundred calls to re-
turn in single week, receptions or
parties every night; see the same
people, hear the same talk, eat the same
things, come home disgusted, wonder
what / am living for, where l will go
when l die. Bette, / must have
Hon. - and Secretary - here to-
morrow I must get their influence
you must talk music to the secretary,
and You must ask Hon. --- about mono
lith monolith is his hobby. Do your
best. l need their help So it is
always. Help, influence, power-a
smile in my face, interest in my man.
ner, living q lie; feeding my soul on
husks."
Year: 1877




"A merry Christmas to you all!


Is passing now from mouth to mouth,
From east to west, from north TO south
From lowly cot and stately hall.
ga merry Christmas to us all


Is shouted by the cheerful host
The windows barred against the frost,
We toast the season, great and small.
A merry Christmas Hush-no breath
0frevelry must pierce the gloom
OF fyonder chsmber-from that room
y The spirit has passed out with Death.
The widow clasps her child, kiss


Is spressed upon its rosy face;


A choking sigh-a close embrace
% A merry Christmas2" What is this
"a Christmas party--let us go!'


A wand'rer hopeless drops to die =


His brothers needless pass him by.
Half frozen in the freezing snow.
A merry Christmas What few
Remain of those it welcomed last;
Another year has Ger us pass'd
And left us, wife, the only two
The childish laugh we held so dear,
The toys that made us once more young
The infant arms that round us clung,
Have vanish'd with the passing year.
But Christmas merry is-and those
Who strive to make it so do we'll
For who can ever fitly tell
What comfort from this season flows2
"a merry Christmas ~ let us bless
The season when our Lord was born
And doubly bless the Christmas morn
That gave us "ChriSt our Righteousness. :"
Z" A merry Christmas to you all I"


Let it resound from mouth to mouth,
From east and west to north and south,
To h mble cot to stately hall.
Year: 1877

Leisure, the highest happiness on
earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect
satisfaction except in solitude Indo-
lence and indifference do not always
afford leisure, for true leisure is fre-
quently found in that interval of relax
alton which divides painful duty from
m agreeable relax--recreation q toll
some business from the more agreeable
occupations of literature and philosophy,
Year: 1877

"Fhank God, the days OF the hum pback
are ended said DR.. Sayre, at u recent
meeting of the Cork branch of the British
Medical Association. His mt ethod of treat
meLt of spinal diseases is to give complete
and continued rest day aud night at the
point where the Inflammation exists, per-
feet freedom from compression and at the
same time absolute immobility, so enabling
consolidation to take place. His process
involves the temporary suspension of the
patient in peculiar apparatus by which
the weight of the head and shoulders is
taken off the spine, and the application of
u skin fitting shirt, coated over with plaster
OF Paris. A sufficient vacuum for the pa
tieut's food is secured by laying a cotton
pad or India rubber bag beneath the shirt,
over the stomach, until the outer case is
hardened, after which it may be removed.
DR.. Sayre exhibited a patient, a young man


of nineteen, who had suffered from an an


gular curvature of the spine, the angle of


this curvature being about l30 degrees,


aud was only able to move about by put
ting his hands on his knees or catching at
the furniture. After six weeks treatment
the patient was perfectly erect and had
gained three quarters of an inch in height,
! he had taken, unassisted, walk of four
] miles, and the bone was rapidly developing.
| In the case of another sufferer, little boy


of seven, affected with curvature of the
| lumbar vertebIe, marked benefit had fol-
| lowed a very brief treatment.
Year: 1877

There are already indications of a
change in political tactics in the South
which has long been anticipated BY close
observers of public affairs. There Is a
disposition shown on the part of some OF
the Republican leaders to advocate the
abolition of negro suffrage whenit be-
comes apparent that the colored vote
can no longer be controlled oy then-
selves.


In a recent number of the New Orleans
Republicdn the proposition was distinctly
stated, that if the Republican party
should, from any cause, be brought
to believe s'that the representa-
ton of the colored people can no longer
be directed by them in the manner that
their hearts and conscienceS would die
tater-meaning, if they should refuse 70
vote en- maSse according TO the orders OF
their self-constituted leaders-then the
very object of granting thai, representa-
ton would be best promoted by suppress
ing A power CAPTURED and turned against
its defenders. To this the P,c0y1iRs re-
plies that. though the Democratic party
opposed universal suffrage ten years ago
because the emancipated slaves were not
prepared for il, vet that party has never
couutenanced the disfranchisement Of
citizens already possessing the suffrage,
and is not likely TO countenance II
now.


Thus we see a leading Republican
newspaper in Louisiana suggesting that
il NAV be necessary TO deprive the col
ored citizen OF his right 10 vote, and a
still more prominent Conservative jour
nal declaring that the Democrats Will not
accede TO such change.


That the extension of the night OF suf-
frage TO the African race would ult-
mateiy increase the political strength of
the South, might have been forseen by
every one who is acquainted with the
conditions governing society. in the re-
constructed States. The whites, consti-
iuting the superior class in wealth, in
telhgence, and education, are certain TO
gain an ascendency over the negroes,
sooner or later, sufficient TO influence
very largely the exercise of their voting
mower
Year: 1877

Many horses have the very unpleasant
habit Of striking the toes of the hind
shoes against those on the fore feet. Most
horsemen will agree that it is the fault
attaching 70 some of the best, as well as
the worst of horses. II more frequently
occurs with young horses. and they often


click on the turf or soft ground, and not
on the road. II arises from the too great
activity or length of stride of the hind
legs; the foTefeej are unable 10 gettout of
the way in time; therefore, anything
which detains them, such as soft or
heavy soil, must assist in the habit. The
principle point 10 be remedied is the in
tolerable noise, from which the evil de-
rives the name choking and this is
often effected by making the hind shoes
square at the toe, and leaving the toe OF
the crust somewhat projecting over the
shoe, by which plan the crust receives
the blow instead Of the shoe, and does
not make any noise. l: sometimes hap
pens that, IRON. ,Ae repetition OF these


blows the crust is worn so thin al the toe
as 10 produce or threaten lamene>S, in
which case the plan ofshoeing mentioned
must be desisted from, and we must put
up with the noise TO avoid the greater
evil When a square toed shoe fails in
preventing clicking, 1t will sometimes
happen that shoe pointed At the toe
will succeed, which no doubt arises from


the circumstance that the shoe having so
small a surface TO come in contact with
fails TO stuke the fore shoe and goes


within or 10y the side of lt.-Lr- >'5eE
Year: 1877

COUNTY SEALs.-Every now and
then u county makes application
to the Governor for a new seal, and
now the Inferior Courts require q
seal. and quite a number are want
ed, the Governors Private Secre-
tary requests us to say that all
officers in need of seals to replace
those worn out or defective, will
please send in their orders at once,
as he can purchase them much
cheaper in large quantities. Coun-
ties that ask for new seals must
send a copy of The one worn out or
defective, with the APPLICATION
Razcigh Observer.
Year: 1877

The Olympia Courier of recent
date has the following to say about the
opposition from Portland to San Fran
cisco:


can hour or two before the sailing
of the steamers from Portland last
week, runners went around to the dif-
ferent public places offering free pass
age to San Francisco for whoever desir-
ed to go. Such an opposition as that
can he of no good to anyone, scarcely,
and it is bound to injure Portland,
while it lasts. The steamers carry a
great deal of wheat to San Francisco
ror re-shipment thus keeping deep water
sailing vessels from coming up the
Columbia and hundreds will be attract
cd to the Bay City, and will spend
large sums of moLey there that other
wise would go TO the Portland mer-
chants. Such orpositions are suicides
for the steamship owners and curse to
the public. 1t looks rs though the
present one was fight for the posses
sion of the Northern route, and that
the new company was backed by the
Central Pacific Railroad The latter
company gives it all the freight it can,
and it is also known that the steamers
We're withdrawn from the route down
the coast from San Francisco, so rs to
leave the railroad down the coast, which
is owned by the Central Pacific folks,
4 complete monopoly of the freight and
passenger traffic, which is growing too
large in proportion since the completion
of the railroad to Fort Yuma, on the
Colorado, thus tapping the immense
and growing trade with Arizona.
Year: 1877




MIsspENT EyENISGs.-Th boy who
spends an hour each evening lounging
on the street corners, wastes IN the
course of a year three hundred and six
ty-tive precious hours, which if applied
TO study, would famiharize him with
the rudinents OF almost any of the ia
miiar sciences. Ii, in addition to
wasting an hour each evening, he spends
ten cents for n cigar, which is usually
the case, the amount thus worse than
wasted would pay for ten of the leading
periodicals of the country. Boys, think
Of these things. Think of how much
time and money you are wasting, and
for WHAT The qualification afforded by
the lounge on the corner or cigar is
not only temporary, bat positively hurt
full. You cannot indulge in them with
out seriously lnjuring yourselves. You
acquire idle and wasteful habits which
will cling To YOU with each succeeding
year. You may in after lie shake
them oil, but the probabilities are that
the habits thus formed will remain with
you to your dying day. Older persons
about you furnish examples which at
test this fact They will sanction tins
advice and warn you to turn back from
the subtle pathway before you have be-
come rooted in its pernicious soil. Let
their examples be your beacon from
which you turn TO better ways. BE
warned in time, and resolve that as the
hour spent in idleness has gone forever,
you will improve each passing one, and
thereby tit yourself for usefulness and
happiness. Dailg historian.
Year: 1877

The Historical Society held special
meeting on Saturday afternoon relative to
the celebration of the Centennial Anniver-
sary of the Battle Of the BraEdywine. A
committee was appointed to consider and
report the propriety OF the society attending
III body.
Year: 1877

The citizens of West Chester will not
celebrate the Centennial of the Battle of the
Brandywine on the l1th inst, but will duly
observe it and the massacre of Paol,
together, for which great preparations are
being made.
Year: 1877

SsTrhe st. Paul Pioneer Press had, the
other day, a fierce article against the
usury law, in which it told OF be-
nevolent gentleman in one OF the
frontier counties. who, moved by pity
for the forlorn condition of his grass
hoppered neighbors, made an ar
rangelnent to borrow money at Il per
cent, to lend them to purchase seed,
after adding one on two per cent, for
his own trouble in the premises. He
discovered however that the usury
law would not permit him to take
that one or two per cent, extra; and
so he bought seed wheat and seed
corn and sold it to his neighbours, at
such price that it was equal to % per
cent, interest on the money invested.


The simple question arises why did
not this philanthropist furnisha the
- 4 price that would have nette d
him l3 or IA per cent, on his money
What was there in the nsury law that
compelled him to take % per cent.
when his charitable heart was swelling
with pity for his poor suffering neigh
bors?


It is s.cock and bull story" The
philanthropist was money shark ,and
if there had been no usury law We
would have borrowed money in the
east at II per cent, and loaned it out
at - or 80. But the usury claw com
pelled him to whip the devil around
the stump" by buying wheat at the
market prices and selling it at twice
| the market price; a transaction which
any court in Christeudom would pro


nounce a mere attempt TO avoid the


usury law, and which would render


the whole transaction null and void.
We warn the people that u desper


ate attempt will be made this fall Il


pack the Legislature in the interest o
| the money sharks. SO as TO repeal th'
usury law, and re-establish the goot


old days Of twenty-four and thirty-si,


per cent. per annum.


We have done our duty, and if tn


people are unwilling TO protect them


selves they should suffer, and the.
will suffer. :,
Year: 1877

Editor Anti Monopoiist:


BY your generous permission I pro-
pose to furnish you for publication.in
your widely circulated journal, sew
eral articles on the Rail Road Bond
Question, which question is to come
before the people on the 18th day of
June next. AS it is a matter of great
Importance to the people of the State
| wonder that the public press is not
more alive and devoted TO the subject.
The assumption on the part of a young
and thinly populated State, with most
of the people poor and badly IN debt,
of an obligation to the extentof three
and one-half millions. with nothing
created or established for the outlay.
to return an income. is Il very serious
matter to be considered, and more
especially for the State is badly in
debt for legitimate. though extrava-
giant purposes. Though unnecces-
sarily costly. and built when green
backs were worth 80 cents on the
dollar. yet, we have the Normal
School palaces. the Asylum for the
Insane. and the Deaf and Dumb
also the costly addition to the Peni.
tentiary. all good buildings to be


handed down to posterity. but where,
| ask. is the structure, 10 be handed
down, for the three and one half mil.


lions of principal, and sixty install


ments. of interest amounting in the
aggregate to about ten millions
The State can show nothings Not q
rail not tie,-not a bridge, not an
| embankment! But by some sort of q


hocus pocus trick, slight of hand, leg
| erdemain or legal fiction, tits claimed
| that the State is under a deep mora
Year: 1877

Our readers will perceive, by
reference to another column. that the
State Central Committee of the In
dependent party has issued a call for
State convention, to be held on the
Goth of June next. We trust the
friends of the cause will attend from
all parts of the State and make the
convention success.


There is no question but that there
is universal dissatisfaction among the
adherents of both the old parties; and
the severe financial distress of the
people is setting them TO thinking of
the Independent party. All we need
is earnest and united action and we
win poll vote next fall that will
astonish the old line politicians,


In California the grangers, finding
that nothing is to be obtained from
the mere ritual of their order. are
taking decisive action, and many of
the oranges have adopted strong z
resolutions of which the follwing are
samples:


Recognizing the, necessity OF a
united and immediate action on the
part of all desirous of correcting the
evils which are affecting us SO serious
ly. and believing that individual
prosperity is dependent upon that
which promotes the welfare of the
body polite, we earnestly invite the
cooperation, not only of the Patrons
of Husbandry. but every true citizen
and lover of justice.


ssOm purpose is to secure proper
representation which will bring about
legislative action and reformation,
covering the entire field that has been
and is SO productive of injury rs to
render this action for elf-preservation
imperative. Among the prominent
grievances we seek to correct and
relieve are.


Here follows a long list of govern
mental grievances. concluding as
follows:


1--WE are therefore resolved thai
henceforth our individual and aaifes
efforts shall tend towards correcting
the evils complained OF, by nominating
and supporting for Office such mer
Year: 1877

The Pionesr-Pr of the 4th inst,
devotes column and a half to the
consideration of our views upon the
intrinsic value of gold, in which it
says,


I'VE desire wheat for food, and gold
for ornament, or on a limited scale for
use in the arts, but whether to graf
ify hunger or vanity the desire which
prompts us to search for these CON-
modities and to exchange our own ef-
forts or the products of our labor for
these products of the labor of others.
is what. with their labor, gives them
their value. If gold had no value for
other purposes than as money it would
have no value as money. Mr.. Donnelly
does not think 50.


Wheat is more valuable than all
other articles of human food because
it is richer than all others in the e1e-


ments necessary for civilized man,-it
is brain food as well as body food ;and,
the more cultivated a community be.
comes, the greater is its desire for
and consumption Of wheat. This great
fact does not depend upon legislation


or public opinion: it is inherent in
the nature Of the wheat plant. Meth,
er can wheat be initiated in its effects
or qualities by any other cereal OF
| form of food. Tt is not 50 with gold
Numerous compounds Of the so-called
ssbaser'' metals, can be made that viii
initiate gold 50 perfectly that the eye
of the expert can scarcely detect the
difference; and for purposes Of orna
Year: 1877

only as are competent and honest,
non-partisan, yet loyal to their con-
stituents, men who are pleased III ser
wing rather than deceiving the people
those who recognize the necessity
of guarding safely the elective fran
chise. surrounding it with safeguards
in the way of qualifications whlch
will render it's exercise Impossible by
those not directly interested III the
results they are called upon to
decide"


We do not suppose the grangers OF
Minnesota have the courage to take
any such course, but we hope that the
same spirit will inspire the farmers
of this state and that they will give
their hearty support to the lndepe1l.
dent party.
Year: 1877

Is now in store, with the addition every
week OF such novelties as may be brought
out.


Gentlemen will find in my establishment
everything that is new, stylish or desirable
in material, both of Home and Foreign
make, and at prices to suit the times.
will make up to measure heavy weight
ull wool Suits from $50 90 upwprds, which
in cut, workmanship and trimmings shall
not be Cxcelled.


From my long experience In the business,
doing my own cutting, selling my own
goods and buying exclusively for cash, my
expen es are at the lowest point, and can
and do sell at the lowest figure.


am closing out my entire stock OF FUR.
NlsHTNG GOODS at and below cost, to
discontinue that branch OF business.
Year: 1877

The visitors to the West Point Military
Academy report that the Academy ia edu.
eating officers in thorough and effective
manner, and recommend that Commits.
sion be constituted by Congress to report
such changes in the organization Of the
Academy and its course Of study as shall
promote its usefulness. Among the re.
Communications is that inquiry be made
as to the possibility OF a6olishing mill.
tary pnrades on tho Lords Day.
OHIO CLERKS IN THE INTERIOR DEPART.


MENT.


The Secretary Of the Interior decides
that Ohio voters in the department who
have not exhausted their yearly leave
may go home TO vote, but can not receive
pay during their absence.
Year: 1877

Marshal Courtright, of this town,
thought of joking his wife. Arriving
at home at late hour he entered
the front gate, carefully closing it.
Cautiously cropping his way thither,
what was his surprise to see the
right hand of his wife lying on the
sill of the window. On her finger
she had two gold rings, one Of which
he proceeded to take off. 1t being
rather loose he experienced but little
trouble, and succeeded in the opera
tion without waking her up. The
remaining ring was a much tighter
fit. and in his efforts to extricate it,
his wife awOke, finding her hand
grasped from without by some enc
whom she at once concluded was a
robber. Quickly pulling her hand
away, she was about to scream, but
thinking of convenient six-shooter
under her pillow she again placed





her .Jeweled hand on the sill, which
was grasped by the supposed burg
lar and with the other she quickly
reached for the pistol. and, raising
suddenly. brought it to bear on her
husband; but for his presence of
mind in quickly calling her, she
would have shot him dead. Mrs,
Courtright display ed great presence
of mind, fortitude and courage. and
the Marshal should be proud Of po s.
sessing wife so fearless and brave.
His narrow escape has completely
cured him of any further desire to
play the role of a midnight robber,-
Fort Worth (T'enGS) Democrat,
Year: 1877

Brokers generally arrange these
marriages, though there are some
love-matches in which the parties be-
come attached to each other with
out the Intervention of third party.
When a man has reached the marry
ing age, he is expected to enter the
matrimonial ranks. unless prevented
by poverty or some other impedi-
ment. and it is considered improper
and even dishonorable for him to re-
frain from SO doing. If a marriagea-
BILE youth has mother, she describes
him to the girls of her acquaintance,
and enables him TO decide whom to
take to his house, and. frequently he
engages the services of q woman
marriage broker, who has access to
karems. where there are marriagea-
BILE women, and is employed by them
quite as often as by the men. She re-
ceives fees from one party and fire.
q1ently from them both. In her
visits to the harems she is accom-
panied by the mother or feminine
relatives of the young man; she in
troduced them as ordinary visitors,
but gives a sly hint IS to the object
of their call. If they do not like
the appearance of the maiden, they
many calls to cut short their stay
but if satisfied they come to business
at once. and ask how much proper
ty. personal or otherwise, the young
lady possesses. When these facts
are aseertained they depart. with
the intilnation that they may call
again. IF the young man is satisfied
with the report of fhe broker. he
sends her again to the harem TO
state his own prospects in life, and
if she looks favoarbly on his suit the
match it made. Everything is ar.
by deputy, and the Mohammedan
lover does not see the face of his
mistress until she is his wife.