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Year: 1877

TO DESTROY CUCUMBER BUGs.-The Wes-
tern Reformer has the following timely
advice in regard to ridding the garden Of
the bugs, ETC.: "To destroy bugs on
SQUASH and cucumber vines dissolve tea
spoonful Of saltpetre in pail full of water;
put one pint of this around each hill,
shaping the earth so it will not spread
much and the thing is done. Use more
saltpetre If you can afford tit is good for
vegetables but death for animal life. The
bugs burrow in the earth at night and fail
grub in peach trees only use twice as
much. say q quart to each tree. There was
not a yellow or blistered leaf on twelve Oh
fifteen trees to which it was applied last
season. No danger Of killing any vegeta
bic with it.
Year: 1877

A young lady living near Kingston, N.
Y, was recently stung while handling a
l7-year locust. The wound caused intense
Main and a physician was summoned. He
rpronounced it case of blood-poisoning
Entomologists have united in saying that
the sting of this curious insect is not
poisonous.
Year: 1877

It is, first of all, essential to con
vince the poor, misled and free-rid-
den blacks that their interests are
identical with those of the whites
that their lives, property and civil
rights viii be held sacred that,
black or white, rich or poor, a man
/ is a man for all that in Louisiana,
and that all the honor and the pow
er of the State is pledged to the
maintenance of the prerogatives of
his manhood New Orleans Plea
yune, (Dem.)


The Picayune is a leading Demo
cratic paper, and we are glad to see
it take such a decided stand for the
right. If the Democrats of Louisiana
and the South generally, will carry
out the policy thus outlined, then in
deed Will the Iong-wished for era of
''white-winged peace" have begun to
dawn upon the nation, and all the
people, North and South, VIII Join in
rejoicing over the auspicious result.
But there must be something better
than mere promises on the part Of
the Southern people. Words are
cheap. The people Of the North are
waiting anxiously to see whether the
acts of their Southern brethren will
correspond with their professions.


We fervently hope and trust they
will not be disappointed.
Year: 1877

What the Sidney Journal says in
the following of the fruits of the
murphy wave" in that town, is
equally true in all the towns of the
State that the movement has struck:
"The fruit of the Murphy wave can
be seen on our streets every Satur-
day night, or any other night, foI
that matter. Many who have been
in the habit of squandering Their
weekly earnings, for that which
steals away ones brains, can now be
seen cleanly dressed, wearing a hap.
py look, and with firm step vending
their way home, carrying well filed
baskets and a more contented heart
Whisky, at best, is a curse, and none
know this better that those who 'havt
been there, and when a man once
does give up the abominable practic'
of drinking, and remains firm in hi
good resolve, the benefits are Sc
great and multitudinous that they
are apparent to the most thick head
ed.
Year: 1877

lCinCiEnau Enquirer.


The proposed Amendment to the
Constitution in reference to the re
organization of the Judiciary pro
vides, in section Is, that the existing
Probate Court shall be abolished in
each county at the close of the term
for which the Judge was elected.
We doubt whether this change will
be acceptable to the people of the
State. The Probate Court has served
a good purpose, and furnishes a
tribunal where estates may be set
tied without delay. 1t is practically
the Orphans Court. There is no
delay in the administration of JUS
tice. The court is always open for
a hearing. The Probate Court is
popular with the people, and has
demonstrated its efficiency in our
Judicial system. The people will
not readily vote to abolish the court.
Year: 1877

The drought in California is so Sc.
we're that not only will the wheat
crop prove a bad failure, but it is es-
timated that from one-half to two
thirds of the sheep in the State have
persisted from starvation.
Year: 1877

The correspondents Of the Cincin-
natl Commercial and Gazette, accom-
panying the excursion Of Western
business men to. the Southeast, have
been making some political observa-
tiOns and thus they sum up.


The Commercial man says:


Not to put too fine a point on it,
the case is Just this, so far as the
President on one hand and tie poli-
ticians on the other are concerned +:
The party organization is-oyerwhelm-
ingly strong in the State and in
nearly every district. Citizens of all
parties appear sincerely appreciative
of the Presidents disposition to treat
all the States on an equal footing
under the Constitution but the path
to preferment in Virginia lies thro'
the Democratic party, having a flag
inscribed ''Gonservative, and charge
ing on Radicals, negroes and carpet
baggers. a popular, young leader
like Wise, son of the Governor,
could make things rattle aronnd live
ly by coming boldly out under some
Independent name IN support Of the
President.


The Gazette correspondent con
cludes:


So far it may by crystalized thus
The Democrats of the South viii ac-
cept with thanks any favor that
President Hayes viii offer, but they
do not yet agree to join a party to
act fairly in connection with the Re
publicans of the North. But it
should be added that there is no such
manifestation here of enthusiasm on
behalf of Tilden as we had in Ohio,
even as late as the 6th of January.
Year: 1877

The roads and parks were well watered
yesterday, one Of the melancholy days of the
year, and none but the storm steeds raced
around the deserted course at Jerome Park.


The rain disappointed many persons, who
will, however, probably gain by the post
ponement of the races till to-day. The
chances are rather in favor of dry but
cloudy afternoon, with cool winds from the
northwest, and. the result will be much bet
ter driving and racing day than there has
been yet during the meeting The rain
has effectually laid the dust, and the
roads and course will be in hard,


firm condition, as the cool wind will soon
dry up the mud. The Park will look charm
ihgly after the woods have had the refresh
ing rain they needed SO much, and we may
expect to see Harlem lane and Jerome ave.
nue. filed with q gay parade of handsome
wagons and crowded tour-in-hands. The
same programme announced for yesterday
is to be given in the races this
afternoon, and it is brilliant one.
Each Of the four events is attract
i've, and many of the best horses OF
the most famous stables in the country are
entered for the stakes. 1t is, therefore, not
entirely o misfortune that the races were
postponed, for, according to the old proverb
that it is an i'll wind that brings nobody
Year: 1877

Important suggestions in regard to the
public schools of this city were made at
the recent meeting Of the Medico-Legal
Society which deserve the prompt con-
sideration of the Board Of Health and the
Board Of Education, two bodies upon which
the responsibility rests Of providing o
proper hygienic system. The first of these
refers to the want Of ventilation in school
rooms, an evil which is SO palpable that it
is strange it has not been long before this re-
moved. The fact that children cannot study
as they should when confined in crowded
rooms, breathing foul air. should not be
overlooked, but is of small Importance
compared with the injury which is done to
their health. Headaches, nervous affections
and kindred complaints are caused by the
poisonous atmosphere inhaled, and the re-
port of the society attributes the alarming
prevalence of eye diseases among children
largely to the bad ventilation Of schools
These dangers appear to be increased by
the custom Of keeping children under six
years of age too long in school-certainly a
great wrong for infancy should not be con-
fined and restrained, but needs oil the fresh
air and recreation it can get. The worst
uses to which our schools can be put is to
make them places to which thoughtless or
ignorant parents may send their trouble.
some little ones ''to keep them out OF the
way" 1t is hardly astonishing that in view
Of these and othor imperfoctions the Medi-
co-Legal Society should declare that the
enforcement of the Compulsory Education
law is at present an impossibility. The
principle of that measure is sound one,
but its application is defeated by the
absence of proper arrangements in the
schools. There is SO much that is
good and great in our educational system
in respect to the appliances of study and
the training of the youthful mind that 1t is
strange that the body should receive SO
little attention. Health is of the first i'm
portance to the student, and any method
of instruction which has tendency to in
jure it cannot be entirely sound. Intelli-
gent parents would do we'll to look into the
subject themselves, and the Boards of Edu-
cation and Health should join at once to exc
cute these reforms which it seems are so
urgently required
Year: 1877

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was active and strong early in the day, but
during the afternoon there was general decline,
which was most pronounced i'll the coal stocks.
Gold fell from 1O3 to 1929. Government
bonds were lower, States steady and railroads
strong. Money on call lent up to 9 per
cent, closing ut 8 q per cent
Year: 1877

INSTEAD OF DETRIMENT the Gilbert Elevated
Railroad will be really benefit to Sixth avenue
property, 80 that the talk about damages
amounting to millions OF dollars is all nonsense.
When the road is built that avenue will, in all
probability, become the centre Of the retail
trade. Property owners ought to do all they
can to hasten the construction of the line.
Year: 1877

Two BOLD AND INGENIOUS FoRGERs were mr.
rested a couple of days ago by the detectives.
The story Of their operations elsewhere printed
forms novel chapter in the history of crime,
and financial men may well congratulate them
selves that two such skiliul and dangerous per
cons are at last in the hands Of justice.
Year: 1877

IF DISTRICT ATTORNEY PULLS does his duty
there is fair prospect that the low boarding
houses where sailors arc SO cruelty swindlcd will
be cleaned out Their existence is disgrace to
the city
Year: 1877

THE HOLIDAY WIL1. SUIT has at last come
to trial. Owing to the social position of the
litigants, the large amount ut stake and the
knotty legal pointsinvolved the case will attract
wide attention.
Year: 1877

Do Nor FACE THE LIdHT.-Statistic
kept by oculists employed in infrmaries for
eye diseases have shown that the habit of
some persons in facing window from
which the light falls directly on the eyes
as well as on the work, injure their
eyes in the end. The best way is to
work with side light, or If the work
needs strong illuminations, 50 that it is
necessary to have the working table before
the window, the lower portion Of the lat
ter should be covered with screen, so
as to have a toplight alone, which does
not shine in the eyes when the head is
slightly bent over and downward toward
the work. In the schools in Germany
this matter has already been attended to,
and the rule adopted to have all the seats
and tables so arranged that tho pupils
never face the windows but only have the
side lights from the left; and as the light
simultaneously thrown from two sides
gives an inference Of shadows, it has been
strictly forbidden to build school-rooms
with windows on both sides, such illumi-
nation having also proved Injurious to the
eyes Of the pupils. We may add to this
the advice not to place the lamp in front
of you when at work in the evening, but
a little on one side, and never to neglect
the use Of shade so as to prevent the
strong light shining in the eyes. This is
especially to be considered at the present
time when kerosene lamps, with their iu-
tepscly luminous flames, become more
and more common.--M Medical Journal.
Year: 1877

Philip Gilbert Hamerton, in his admi-
rable papers of intellectual Life thus
talks to the man who stopped his paper"


Newspapers are to the civilized world
what the daily house talk is to the men,
bers Of the family-they keep our daily
interest in each other, they save us from
the evils Of isolation To live as men,
Der of the great white race that has filed
Europe and America and colonized or
conquered whatever territory it has been
pleased to occupy; to share from day to
day its thoughts, its cares, its inspirations
it is necessary that every man should read
his paper. Why are the French peasants
so bewildered and at sea 1t is because
they never read newspaper. Aud why
are the inhabitants of the United States
though scattered over territory fourteen
times the area of France, so much more
capable of concerted action, so much more
interested in new discoveries of all kinds,
and capable of selecting and utilizing the
best of them 1t is because the newspa.
pers penetrate everywhere, and even the
lonely dweller on the prairie or in the
forest is not intellectually isolated from
the great currents of public life which
flow through the telegraph and press"
Year: 1877

BE READY.-Be ready to throw in an
odd half hour or an hours time when it
will be an accommodation, and do not
seem to make merit of it. Do it heart
lily. Though not word be said, your
employer will make a note of it. Make
yourself indispensable to him, and he will
lose many of the opposite kind before he
will part with you. Those young men
who watch the clock to see the very see.
ond their working hour is up-who leave,
no matter what state the work be in, at
precisely the instant-wbo calculate the
exact amount they can slight their work,
and yet not get reproved-who are lavish
Of their employers goods-will always be
the first to receive notice, when times are
dull, that their services are no longer
required.
Year: 1877

ION the OnlO State JOhrnh.


The dark horse at Cleveland turns
out to be Judge West, of Logan. 1t is
no disparagement of any other candi-
date who has been mentioned in ability,
while he is stronger than any of them
in availability. Judge West has been
consistent, straigbtout Republican
from the time the Republican party
came into being. He has been in
prominent position by choice of the
people almost continuously during the
whole lifetime of the Republican party,
and has always more than realized the
anticipations of his most sanguine
friends in every position he has ever
held. He Is warm personal and po-
litical friend of President Hayes. He
is law partner of Gen. Kennedy, whe
served first in the 23d Ohio, Hayes
regiment, and has distinguished him
self as a lawyer and political speaker
since. The firm is one of the ablest at
the Ohio bar. Judge West is also q
personal friend of Judge Taft. He
wrote an opinion on the electoral and
collateral questions, which was for
warded to Attorney General Taft, and
was pronounced by Taft "the ablest"
opinion he had read on the subject.
So much impressed was the Attorney
General with the singular clearness and
ability with which the subject was
treated by Judge West that he inter
ested himself personally in procuring
the insertion of the document In the
leading journals of the whole country.
1t is no unwarrAnted presumption to
say that the speeches of Judge West in
the coming canvass will be of such
character and ability as to attract the
attention of the whole nation, and give
a higher tone to political discussion for
the coming year throughout the coun-
try. r. ra.a
Year: 1877

Claiborne +. Jackson, o native Of Kentucky.
was once Governor Of the State of Missouri.
He joined the Southern Confederacy and died
during his term ut D. farmhouse opposite tiis
city Of Little Rock. The most TenarkablG
fact connected with the history of his life is
perhaps the statement that he married five
sisters In one Of the most respectable, wealthy
and distinguished families In the State: that
as soon MS one Wifs would die he would g9
and marry her sister In reasonable time. Uf
course some of them were widows when he
married them. In connection with the mar
riages there was d standing joke told at the
expense Of the Governor which was, that
when he went TO ask the old gentleman's con-
sent to marry the last one the. venerable
father Is reported to have said: Yes, Claib,
you can have her. You have got them oil.
For goodness sake don't ask me fgr the old
vgOmnn.r
Year: 1877

LEVY HAS ARRIvED-The children will be
delighted to know that he has seen Santa Claus.
and brings with him the glad intelligence that
the Jolly old soul is as plump and as lively as
ever. and making every preparation for his
annual visit AS Levy is a personal friend OF
the old gentleman, we have no doub the Palais
Royal will be his headquarters while in New
Orleans.
Year: 1877

reney Committee will proceed at once to the con-
sideratinn of the bill remnnetiziug IF silver,
which they hone tn have renady to report to
the House Immediately after the repeal bill
This will prevent any adjournment Of the extra
ian
Year: 1877

'Your newspapers make great fuss"
said one of the wealthiest men in New
York to Worlds reporter, "about the
sufferings of the poor man during those
hard times, but don't see that any of
them notice particularly the diabolical dis
tress of the rich man."


The reporter wasn't aware that the rich
suffered at all.


THAT" said he of the wealth, "Is be-
Q use you dom i;nCw anything about it.
Why sir, undergo more actual absolute
torture in an hour than any poor wretch in
this city. If hadn't cent in the world,
I'd have some sympathy, some rest, some
assistance. AS it is, am bounded to
death. I'm despised, beset, annoyed,
condemned, back-bitten, waylaid. The
papers write editorials about me. If go
to church | am told that a camel can get
through the eye Of needle slicker than
can get into heaven. If don't dress my
family in an extravagant manner hear
that am an old skinhint-If do, l am
told that all l think of my money is to
make vulgar show of it. l suppose l
worked as hard as any man for more than
two-thirds Of my life to accumulate for
tune, but believe most people think l





again. In winter like this you've no
idea of the hardships OF the rich. If help
all the people who apply to me, might
as well 60 to the poor-house, and yet all Of
them expect it, and most of them dare
say, are worthy. It's out of the question.
So they curse me l suppose. All the be-
tutions and church organizations have
hntr L as,,x fnd tSxy
committees, runners, clergymen, secreta-
ries. They send me half bushel of let
ters day. They drop upon me in the
most unexpected places. They. get into
my private office. They wait in my Ii
brary before | am up. They sit on my
front steps. They follow me into the
them have their way l shall be paraded
as if l wanted to advertise my charities.
| If don't the press will want to know
| what he has ever done for New York.
The other day reporter came to see
about my will. He said the public would
like to be informed as to the proposed
disposition of my property at my decease.
| suppose if were to get cold in my head
there'd be brigade of them quartered
under my windows. l begin to feel that
rich man is disgrace to the communi-
ty-that somehow 1 have committed .
crime. don't like to look man squarely
in the face for fear his hatred of me will
show itself or he will stop and ask me to
lend him thousand dollars to get his
starving family some food to eat. l tell
you, sir, this winter is awful hard on 8
| rich man. He doesn't even eat his din
ner in peace. How can he when there
are 40. 900 who are dinnerless His mon
ey gets to be reproach to him, and he
feels as if he'd like to give the whole OF
1t away in one lump and try the luxury OF
being poor for awhile.
Year: 1877

THE GEORGIA MARsHALsHIP is exciting
a good deal of attention. on account of the
large number Of applicants for the position
and the inability OF a majority of the Ge1r-
gia delegation ~ Congress TO agree upon any
one candidate. Some members OF the dele
gailon have recommended as many as TWEEN
- candidates for the position. The President
IL anxious TO have the question settled, and
will hardly wait a week longer for others 10
decide upon a candidate for the place.
Year: 1877

SEVERAL MEMBERS or CONGRESS have
Teen applied to By some person representing
himself a. connected with the press, ami
soliciting subscriptions for I" Press Club
Room in Washington. He is believe TO be
an imCOSior
Year: 1877

1t is not probable now that an adjournment
of Congress will be reached before next week
and quite possibly there will be little, If any,
recess between the extra and the regular ses-
sion. Members Of Congress from the south
and west, living al distance from WASH
Ipgton, do not care TO go home during the
rt cess, and q considerable proportion OF the
.-o0gressmen from these sections favor secur-
1-g definite legislation upon the silver bill
ard the anti resumption bill before adjourn
s7g. A good many of the Senators. also,
= inclined TO give themselves plenty OF
- ne to consider the Presidential nomina-
J.-Ls before them, and therefore will not be
~ a hurry about adjourning.
Year: 1877

We understand that the statement that the
President had pledged himself 10 veto the
silver bill Is unauthorized. At the same
time there Is no doubt that the friends of the
national credit feel assured that the Presi-
dent will not sign any bill that impairs that
credit or that breaks faith with tie creditors
OF the Union. A silver bill shorn of any
repudiation or speculation features Will
doubtless be signed by the President, and
viii be endorsed by the nation.
Year: 1877

The Citizens Committee had a very pleas
ant and satisfactory interview with the Pres
ident TO day. He evidently has kindly feel.
ing towards the capital city and its people,
and it was very proper that committee OF
the citizens should wait upon him to pay
their respects, and to place before him the
data to afford him an intelligent idea of the
rature OF the needs OF the District, and the
evils to be remedied.