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Year: 1877

An unhappy and credulous burglar
recently read in the society columns Of
a Sunday paper that q prominent resi-
dent of the South Division had gone to
the seaside with his family, to spend the
heated spell He therefore made his
way to the house, which he found dark
and deserted, gently but firmly broke
in window, and feloniously and bur-
glariously entered the premises, to be
surrounded and captured by the promi-
nent resident and his three stalwart
sons, who were sitting in the back
kitchen in darkness. They hadn't gone
out of town at all, but had only pre-
tended to 60, 50 as to impress people
with an undue sense of their social i'm
portance The unhappy burglar says
that deception may be the better part
of valor, but he will be what-you-may-
call-ited if he believes any thing more
he sees in the papers,-Chtcago Tribune.
Year: 1877

He who turneth away his head when
be punchelh the fire.


She who putteth not on her bridal raj
ment until the bridegroom appnare'h.


lie who smileth not a strange animal,
but first nforneth himself as 10 lis ma
turc


lie who Furnishes refractory mule at
a distance, with poe.


She who does over her old bonnet
when ber husband stoppeth bis whiskey.


He who subduelh his temper when the
provoker of his ire is the biggest fellow.


lie who piedeeih himself 10 abstinence
when ye liquor recoileth from his
stomach


Ye young girl who persuadeth not her
self that ye husband will be much kinder
than ye lover


lie who putteth not up his money on a
horse race, without first having anunder-
standing with ye horses rider.


She whose character being exceeding
ly shaky, doth not seek to injure her
neighbours.


The old maid, who having no one TO
love her, raileth not at the younger folks,
nor whispereth venom against him whom
she would iain have won.


Aad all such have wisdom.
Year: 1877

A. w. Chase, of the United States coast survey, describes, in note to the editor of the Popular Science Monthly, contest which he and a brother officer witnessed in 1867 on the Purissima, a small trout stream about twenty-lour miles south of San Francisco:

 We had been fishing on the stream, and came to high bank which overlook ed transparent pool of water about ten feet in diameter and four feet in depth. This pool was fringed with willows, and had on one side small gravel bank. The trout at first sight was lying in mid water, heading up stream. It was, as afterward ascertained, fully nine inches in length--a very desirable prize for an angler. While studying how to cast our flies to secure him, a new novel fish erman appeared, and so quick was his ac- tions that we suspended our own to wit ness them. This enemy of the trout was large water snake of the common variety, striped black and yellow. He swan up the pool on the surface until over the trout, when he made dive, and by dexterous movement seized the trout in such manner that the jaws of the snake closed its mouth. The fight then commenced. The trout had the use of it's tail and fins. and could drag the snake from the surface when near the bottom, however, the snake made use of its tail by winding it around every stone or root that it could reach. After securing this tail hold it could drag the trout toward tue bank, but, on letting go
Year: 1877

the trout would have q new advantage. The battle was continued for full twenty minutes, when the snake managed to get its tail out of the water and claspcd around the root of one of the willows mentioned as overhanging the pool. The battle was then up, for the snake gradually put coil after coil around the root, with each one dragging the fish toward the land. When half its body was coiled it unloosened it's first hold and stretched the end of its tail out in every direction, and finding another root, made fast. and now, using both, dragged the trout out on the gravel bank. It now had it under control, and, uncoiling, the snake drag ged the fish fully ten feet up on the bank, and suppose would have gorged him. We killed the snake and replaced the trout in the water, as we thought that he deserved liberty. He was ap- parently unhurt, and in few moments darted of. That the water snake of California brooks will prey upon the young of the trout, and also smaller and less active fishes, have noticed, but never have seen an attack on fish So large or one more hotly contested.
Year: 1877

appointed to appraise the property claim ed now by the owners of the buildings, who shall have the privilege of purchase at the assessed price. Any claimant failing to pay she assessed price shall have the privilege of removing his i'm provcment. The commission shall fix the ancant of land to be purchased by each claimant, after having properly platted the ground for suitable arrange ment of streets and alleys. The lands appraised and not taken by claimants shall be sold at auction, at not less than the appraised price. The springswill be under the control of the department of the interior, and all taxes for the use of the water shall go to that depart ment, under the direction of superin- tendent.

 All this means new day for the Hot Springs of Arkansas. Already the hotels there are improving, and you can land at the village by rail, twenty-three hours from St. Louis.-C Cincinnoti Commercial.
Year: 1877

Rebmi,dImE the Victim Alter Poisoning

 by Too Much Rad WhisEy.

 While it is true that there is no absolute cure for dipsomania or the dis eased appetite for ardent spirits, save in the dipsomaniac' strength to resis. temptation, there are valuable assistants to his physical weaknesses in the form of animal and vegetable stimulants, which he should not despise in fighting the bat tic against the insidious foe. All who have been sufferers from the diseased pas. sion for liquor bear testimony..to the fact that the craving for alcoholic stimulants is invariably preceded by depression of the nervous system that is actually in. supportable, accompanied almost invari- ably with distate for solid food. What a man is to resort to at this period of his ailment is most important question. Ammonia in small doses, taken every thirty minutes, has been recommended but ammonia is not nourishment, nor will it restore the desire for food It is the testimony of many who havo tried it under the circumstances stated that ex- tract of beef, made palatable with celery salt and moderate quantity of black or red pepper, will afford the required stimulus, with no bad effects, and at the same time aid in restoring the tone of the stomach. Quassia, calisaya, and iron should all be brought to assist in toning up the system and aiding the digestive and nervous functions, but for diet nutriment, which will certainly be at once digested and assimilated, there is nothing to compare to the beef extract. It is nothing but a solution of Liebig' extract of beef, with celery salt, taken in hot soda water.
Year: 1877

Postmaster Key is enduring the infic- ton of a hot rivalry between various firms to supply the department with postage stamps, of which 700,0OO, 900 are used every year is this country.

 The treasurer of the United States can now supply silver coin in reasonable amounts to bankers and others Tn exchange for legal tenders, fractional currency or national bank notes, the expressage both ways to be paid by the party sending the notes. This notice is intended particularly for the south.
Year: 1877

of April. The claim against Sweeney is that he is liable in the same way that Tweed was rendered liable in the suit that was recently tried against him in which there was . ver> d,t for the people of s6,000,0oO.
Year: 1877

Your representative during last week took
| a tour along the lower coast to inspect some
OF the crops In that section. We found the
| cane crops in lower Orleans, ST. Bernard and
Plaquemines somewhat larger in acreage
lower part Of Orleans and st. Bernard that
crop Is not SO large in size as it was at the
corresponding time last year.
At the lower end of the English Turn, in the
upper part of Plaquemines parish, are several
very fine crops, those Of st. Clair, Searsdale
and Belle Chasse being particularly notice.
able.


Hon. I'll. ?. Kernoehan's crop on Searsdale
Is probably the finest in the State. at least it
was the finest we have seen after travelling In
this month along the coast from the mouth Of
Red river nearly to the mouth of the Missis-
sppi. There are about 800 acres of plant
cane and 300 of stubble on searsdale. All the
first years stubble of this place is magnifi-
cent, and bets are offered that the greater
part of it will yield at least $500 pounds Of
first, second and third sugar to the acre. This
place was fertilized during the early part of
the season with 300 tons Of cot ton seed meal.
The crops Of cane are generally good belw
there That on the Union plantation Of
Messrs. Burbridge and Miller are very fine
and far advanced for the season.


As we Travelled further down our attention
was called to the crop on Myrtle Grove,
which equals that Of Scarsdale in quality,
though not In quantity. There also the stub
BILE is particularly fine, and on the place we
saw a fine field OF third year rattoons. The
cane on all the places below this is good and
the stubble up to high average In stand and
size. The finest crops In the lower part of
Plaquemines are on Pointe Celeste and Mag
nolia plantations.


THE RICE CROP
now being gathered is reduced In area by sev
era1 thousand acres. That being threshed is
yielding heavily. FL. j. Feltus Esq, has just
threshed out 400 barrels of rough rice from
65 acres, which is an immense crop Other
places are yielding from ten to twenty barrels
to the acre. As well as we could Judge the
sugar crop of that section will be q little
larger than last year and the rice crop con-
siderably less.


Your representative returned to the city on
Monday after a speedy and pleasant trip on
the staunch steamer Martha, whose captain
and chief engineer know how to manage her
in their respective departments well enough
to render her peerless in safety and speed.
Year: 1877

finer men than the little tirailleurs; but,
like most of their race whom one meets
here, a retreating forehead and small
Uranium, with wandering eyes, give the
impression of ferocity and cunning.
A few PAGES further on is q cir
Gle of Russians officers and men
gazing, fascinated, at spectacle with
in. There. at last, are the bodies col
leeted together. for examination: all
headless, some cut limb from limb, some
treated in manner which is univer
sally regarded as the deepest insult that
can be paid to the body OF q man alive
or dead. But were these men alive or
dead when they were thus treated?
With regard to some there may be a
doubt, but with regard to others no
doubt. Here was to be seen body with
wounded finger dressed and the rest cut
off ruthlessly, perhaps in struggling
with the knife. There lay what was O
man, In an attitude showing plainly that
he had striven to save his throat; near
him was another with the red
cross on his arm, having, perhaps,
dressed the wounded finger of
exhibition lay with barred belly, slashed
blood had run from the wounds !;
another had been cut limb from limb.
A young and well-shaped form, with
clearer skin than the rest, had been
beheaded and otherwise shamefully
mutilated, but there was not single
wound Of any description on his body
produced by regular warfare. These
are only instances. The proof was all
too plain. There lay men who had been
wounded or unwounded prisoners in the
hands Of the Turkish gentlemen"
who had foully murdered and mutilated
them, showing thus that they are saw
And but few PAGES distant the Russian
medical men were dressing the wounds
of these savages, and soldiers standing
round guarded them from all evil, even
the righteous indignation which filled
their own breasts.
Year: 1877

Among the many changes to take place soon
on the grand boulevard none will be more strik-
ing and more indicative Of the good time to come
than the swayiDg to the breeze the banners Of the
grand "Palais Royal" Our ente-prising friend
Levy, who has for SO msnY years been the popu-


ar proprietor of the dollar store, No. 1877 Canal
street. seems to have had his faith shaken in re-
publican institutions and ideas, and is deter
mined, with one fell swoop, to obliterate the
name Of dollar store forever. He is making prep
arations for the opening of this elegant and gor-
geous establishment, and nothing will be spared
in making it the most attractive place in the
Southern country. Levy's dollar store is known
throughout the whole South, and as it has been
known for it's promptness in filing orders and
the polite attention of the clerks and the place to
get everything, so will the Palais Royal grow
into popular favor, for we will see in the large
and gilded signs that are to adorn the building
evidences of q new era, prosperity which we
have longed for but never expected until the
present time.
Year: 1877

The Indian chief Crazy Horse, and his
band OF 600 warriors formally surrendered to
Gen. Crook, at Camp Robinson, on the 25th.
All the principal men having assembled inside
the agency stockadc, an interval of silence en-
sued while the Indians arranged the order O
precedence in speaking, and the counsel was
then opened by Crazy Horse, who is notably a
man Of few words Seating himself on the
ground in front of the General, he spoke in a
low voice as follows: "You sent tobacco to my
camp to invite me to come in. When the to-
hacco reached me started and kept on mov-
ing until reached here. Ever since my arry-
al here my face has been turned toward the
fort and my heart has been happy. In coming
this way picked out the place where wish
to live hereafter, and put stake in the ground
to mark the spot. There is plenty of game in
that country. All these relatives of mine that
are here approve my choice of place, and I
would like them all to go back there with me
and stay there together
Year: 1877

One day, just after King Solomon had
written column of solid nonpareil wise
and moral proverbs, he took his eldest
son by the elbow, led him down the back
stairs of the palace, through the back
yard, past the woodshed, out into the
alley, backed him up behind Ahitopel's
wood pile, looked warily around to see
that no one was listening, and whispered
into the young mans ear: "My son, a
little office in a spread-eagle life insurance
company is better than CARLOAD of pre-
ferred stock in the Ophir mines." And
then the monarch threw his head on one
side, drew in his chin, shut one eye, and
gazed at his offspring in silence. Three
years afterward, when the Great Hebraic
Consolidated Stormy Jordan Life Assu-
rance Company, of which that intelligent
young Prince was President, went into
bankruptcy, the young man was able to
let his father (who was little short at the
time) have 275,000 shekels for 90 days on
his simple note of hand-Bewlsngton
Haeokeye. " s.'-.
Year: 1877

On the morning of the 22nd. the Sara
toga, Il large iron steamship which was to be
launched at Roach's shipyard Chester, Pa.
started from its blocking sooner than was cx-
pcctcd killing and wounding many. About
forty men were under the Saratoga when she
went off, An order was given for them to
come out, but was not heard The scene dur
jng the time the ship was going off was heart
rcndln@, the men being seen struggling to es-
cape while the huge blocks, rolled by the
ship crushed them to jelly. No assistance
could possibly be rendered by those who were
standing by. Instead Of cheers, as usually
greetS 4 launch, a wall of anguish went up,and
shrlcks Of pain rent the air. As soon as pos
siblc the dead and wounded We're carried to the
yard office and physicians summoned. About
1900 men are employed at the yard, and the
friends of nearly all OF them rushed to enquire
for them. 1t was found after investigation
that seven were killed outright and many
others injured.
Year: 1877

As an engine belonging to the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore road was
standing ON the track OIL Washington avenue
Philadelphia during the absence of both engi
neer and fireman, IN unknown man jumped on
the engine, and started it at full speed towards
the river. The front two freight cars which
were attached to the engine struck the bump
ers at Washingt gton street wharf with such force
that the engine was thrown from the track and
the cars ran into the river. The stranger, who
was evidently insane, pitched into the wa
ter by the shock and drowned
Year: 1877

A deputation Of the United Methodist
and Methodist Protestant churches in session
at Baltimore, has had audience with the Presi-
dent. Rev. Alexander Clark, D. d. of Peters,
burg, chairman, addressed the President and
spoke of the happy reunion in Baltimore, and
the era Of peace and reconciliation. He said
that more than 10000 people represented by
the deputation were interested in the policy of
brotherhood, protection and good will now ap-
parent in the movements of the administration.
The President in response, referring to the
desirability of fellowship in all the walks of
life and duty,spoke at length of other branches
OF the church in former years. of the recent
coming together of divided sects, and of the
moral power Of union in the church, and said
the news from Baltimore and the visit of the
committee had impressed him deeply, and he
was happy to receive such messages from the
people.
Year: 1877

The Graphic has dispatch from Wash
ington to the effect that the postponcment of
the extra session of Congress was due to the
discovery of Il conspiracy on the part of Con-
gressmcn Of both parties, headed by David
Dudley Field, to introduce u resolution declar-
ing Samuel j. Tilden the honest President
elect, and inviting him to take his seat in the
White House.
Year: 1877

At meeting of the Grand Army of the
Republic of Baltimore, Gen. Tyler presiding,
the decoration Of graves of Confcdcrates on
memorial day was brought up and the follow
ing resolution adopted: Resoloed That while
the Grand Army of the Republic accords to all
Its members the sacred right of their opinions,
yet las an organization it cannot be party to
anything political or tending thereto, and un-
der its rules and regulations as members we
cannot as body decorate the graves of any
others but Union dead on memorial day.
Nevertheless we will respect the action of any
members individually decorating the graves o
Confederate dead.
Year: 1877

and ask the judicial officers to take steps to
bring them to trial. The Governor thought it
exceedingly doubtful if any jury in Kempcr
county would convict the rioters, all of whom
were well known, and resided there.
Year: 1877

The Secretary of State, by direction Of
the President, has now under consideration
what measures shall be recommended in the
Cabinet to form the basis of plan of repre-
sentation of the United States government and
people at the Paris Exposition in 1878 1t is
expected that 100000 will be necessary to
make a creditable display.
Year: 1877

Forty years ago there was o man
in Boston who had six or soven very
corpulent daughters. When asked
how many children he had, his
answer was generally something Of
this kind 'I have three boys and
about thirteen hundred weight Of
girls"
Year: 1877

Several of our contemporaries out
of the State have commented upon
the recently published letter Of
Gorcrnor IL Hampton to Governor
Hayes. These comments have all
been kind, and have done full justice
to the patriotism, good sense and
earnest purpose of Governor Hamp-
ton. They attribute to his cXccs-
sive love of his State and anxiety for
its rehabilitation and prosperity, and
to his general good nature, his ad-
mission that Governor Hayes, as q
possible President, may possibly be
instrumental in settling the vexcd
political questions which now agi-
tate the public mind. They diff r
with him upon that point, as we
have differed with him, but it may
a justly formed conclusion Of other
minds that it was his duty to enclose
q copy of his letter to the Repub il
can candidate. 1t WAS prepared and
first transmitted to Governor Til
den, but, upon second thought, and
from sense Of courtesy, and be-
cause of the necessity of constantly
making pl tin and clear the peaceful
disposition and law-abiding temper
Of our people, was likewise forward
cd to his competitor. It's burden,
in other respects than those mon
toned, was that we of the South
should diScOuntenance q resort to
force in settling the Presidential
question that we need peace, and
hope to see it preserved in the most
trying circumstances.


SO much for the letter. If an
error at all, it .yas one which leant
to tho side of patriotism and
peace.


The Columbus (Ohio) correspond
ent of the New York Heruld has
done seri ous injustice to Governor
Hampton, unintentionally, no doubt
anl through misconception of the
statements Of Judge II. j. Mackey
as to his position. 1t must be
known that Governor Hampton hac
not the slightest agency in Judge
NIacloy's visit to Ohio. He did no.
know or inquire what took him there
Having informed Governor Hamp
ton he was going thither on private
business, the Governor availed him
self of the opportunity of transmit
ting by him duplicate Of his lette,
to Governor Tilden.


The correspondent may have ac'
copied Judge Mackey's own views t.
be the same as Governor Hampton's s
But that was q great mistake, Ger
tainly. Judge Mackcy was warn
supporter of Governor Hampto,
and did good service to the cause O
the people of South Carolina in TIN
late campaign. But his opinions ar
very different from Governor Hump
tons. He is a fine talkor, but h
spoke for himself only, and we ar
sure did not claim to give anythin,
moro than the letter to which W
have alluded as coming from him
Governor Hampton, Of course


thinks, as all wcll-informed me
must think, that Governor Tide
was fairly elected President of tn
United States. His opinion to tina
effect is decided and has been III
wavering from tho first. He hope
and means that he shall be peaceful
Fly inaugurated. On the other hand
Year: 1877

In olden days, in England, there
were also curious customs, which
are now passing away. One Of
these was the preparation of a
simnel cake. This cake is yet made
in Shropshire, where it is said to
have originated in the following
manner: An aged couple, living
in their homestead, were visited by
their son Simon and their daughter
Nelly, at Easter. On arriving at
the house, they found that the old
folks had nothing wherewith to
entertain them, save the unleavened
dough left from the Lenten fast.
Nelly proposed to bake this into
cakes for the younger children, and
while preparing it, she came across
the remains of the Christmas plum
pudding. This she proposed to
cover over with the dough, and
bake it hard, so that when the hard
crust was bitten through, the rich in
terror would be a surprise. The cake
was accordingly made, when master
Simon came alone, and said it was
the proper way to boil it. Nelly said
it should be baked. Thereupon
they quarreled, and even came to
blows. Nelly threw the stool
whereon she was sitting at Simon.
Simon took the broom handle to
defend himself, but his sister soon
got it away and beat him with it.
Thus the quarrel went on, when
Nelly said she would boil the cake
first and then bake it. The COM
promise was accepted, and both set
to work to build the fire. The
stool and the broomstick were used
for fuel, and some eggs, which had
been broken in the scufle, were
used to smear over the cake, and
give it a glossy appearance. The
cooking was a great success, and
every year the cake became more
popular and was known as Simon
Nelly's cake. After a while, how
ever, only the first parts of their
names were used, and for short it
was called simnel cake.