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Year: 1878

An admirable economy seems to
prevail at Krupp's town of Essen.
Every workman is in a sense a
partner, because outside of his wages
a sum ace! ues, and is put aside for
him, according to the profits of the
shop in which. he works. AT the end
of sixteen years it would usually
yield as much per week as his wages.
Single men can live well on twenty
one cents day. The Bread Com
pany of Essen supplies bread pure to
the hands at cost price. A great
secret of the cheapness is that there
are no mjddlemen and no Illicit or
dishonest gains made on anything.
Year: 1878

The parent of insomnia or wakefulness is
in nine cases out OF ten dyspeptic stomach
Good digestion gives sound sleep, indiges-
ton interferes with it. The brain and
stomach sympathze. One of the prominent
symptoms ofaw weak state of the gastric or
gans is disturbance OF the great nerve en-
trepot, the brain. Invigorate the stomach,
and you restore equilibrium to the great
center. A most reliable medicine for the
purpose is Hostetters Stomach Btters,
which is far preferable to mineral sedatives
and powerful narcotics which, though they
may for time exert II soporiffc influence
upon the brain, soon cease To act, and in
variablv injure the tone of the stomach.
The Rtters, on the contrary, restore activi-
Ly to the operations of that all important
organ, and their benefitcent influence is re-
flected in sound sleep and a tranquil state OF
the nervous system. A wholesome impetus
slikewise given to the action of the liver and
bowels by its use.
Year: 1878

Duncans Liver and Kidney Medicine is a
cure for all diseases having their origin in a
diseased state of the Kidney, or Liver, such as
sick headache, dyspepsia, swimming in the
head loss of appetite bad taste in the mouth,
heartburn, tenderness or fullness over the
region of the stomach, cramp collie, costive-
ness, palpitation of the heart, pain in the
back, sides and limbs, and all diseases pecu-
liar to females. We can say to our friends
that the above medicine is just what it is rep
resented to be, and is pronounced by every
one who has used it, far superior to any Liver
Medicine they have ever used. We know that
it gives better satisfaction than any we have
ever sold. Knowing it to be purly vegetable,
we can recommend it to our suffering friends
Price 75 cents. For sale by Nj. F. Ash, Jack
son. Miss.
Year: 1878

1t is an interesting sight to take seat
on the top of street-csr at an early
hour in the morning and witness the
cleaning process that everything is
undergoing. The housekeepers bring
out all their rubbish and pile it up in
the street, one pile for every four or five
houses. 1t is no sooner emptied than
the rag pickers, who swarm the streets
with their bags and buckets and hand
carts, pounce upon it and gather all the
fragments OF paper, rags or metal to be
found in the piles. They arc no numer-
GUS that there is scramble on every
street, and they move from pile TO pile
az if their lives depended on their
activity. They seem to take away one.
third Of the rubbish. Servants are every
where to be seen with broom and bucket
in hand cleaning off the fronts. The
streets are being sprinkled with hose,
and an army of men and women, with
birch brooms, are sweeping the streets.
On the boulevards, horse.brushing ma
chimes are in molten, and the garbage
carts are removing the piles thrown out
by the housekeepers. Water Is turned
on in all the cutters, and women are
engaged in washing them down. Men
with hose are watering all the roots Of
all the hundreds of thousands of trees on
the boulevards. and taking up the graf.
ings 20 as to loosen the earth around
them. All. or nearly all, this work is
being dene by the city authorities, and
by o'clock the city Is as clean as broom
and brush and water can make it
[Paris Letter.
Year: 1878

A YOUNG and comely white girl of
sixteen was publicly whipped at Eliza.
beth City, Va, by a big negro constable,
for stealing pair Of shoes. A crowd of
ioafers assembled to see the girl stripped
to her wait and the twenty-five stripes
laid on. The law authorizing such
punishment went into effect only on the
LIST Of July, and will be repealed at the
next session of the legislature.
Year: 1878

SOME of our best lawyers make a prac.
tice OF never defending a case before
certain justices, because they know the
decision would be for the plaintiff II
they piled up indisputsble evidence on
the otheI side. Tney merely cross.
examine the witnesses so as to lay the
foundation for their defense in higher
court on an appeal, and then allow
judgment to be rendered. Cleveland
Herald.
Year: 1878

Elevated kailrOaO scenes In new 1Orks


Two elevated railroads are now in
running order in New York-one on the
east side and the other on the west side
of the city. The former was the last
one finished and World reporter took
a ride the first day, recording his iul-
presaions. The newspaper man says:


While the reporter was examining the
cars with q critical eye the train was
already on its way through the narrow
down town streets. Through Pearl street
it ran, making a deafening clatter with
the rattle of the road itself, the grinding
of the wheels and the reverberations
from the buildings People in the street
below. however, seemed to pay no at
tention to the engine and the cars and
the horses stood quietly in front of their
trucks and carts, without drivers near,
and munched their fodder. In Third
avenue the horses of the surface cars
and of wagons logged along, people
looked into shop windows and not into
the sky, and the only difference was that
the train, having more room en- each
side, did not make SO much noise. By
this time, after one or two stops, the two
cars hcIb COAnlO4baOA 44AOst1 oOfO41A Va
the passengers being women. The re-
porter, for lack Of anything else to do,
attempted to read the store signs as he
was raridly carried along. Only the
big ones were readable. A woman knit
ting at window was unpleasantly con.
founded with O man pressing hats, and
a barber in the second story of house,
leisurely shaving customer. became,
by a sort Of dissoiving-view arrange.
ment, fat German woman energeti.
cally spanking a child. Cooper Insti.
tute suddenly loomed up--a dark mass.
There was not much left Of the
journey after this. nor much novelty.
There was the same round Of women
sitting at windows. sewing and OCCASION
ally half lazily looking at the cars that
shot past their houses, and of people
quietly walking along the streets. until
the train turned into Forty second street,
frightened team of horses attached to q
brewers dray and then halted at the
Grand Central Depot.
Year: 1878

AN OLo Frog.-We were shown, says
the North Ottago New Zealand) Times,
an illustrious stranger in the shape of q
large tree frog of brillian: emerald green
color with white spots,E which was found
in the interior of lump of coal at Messrs.
Galbralth q Co.'S yard yesterday. The
coal was part ofs cargo from Newcastle,
and the lump in question, failing to the
ground, split, and discovered the reptile
whic must have been concealed within
it for hundreds of years. The body is
between three and four inches in length,
and the creature when shown to us was
still alive, though apparently very slug
gish, as might be expected after such n
Rip Van Wrinkle Sleep as he must have
had.
Year: 1878

HERE is simple cure for corns: Take
lemon and roll ii until SOFT cut thick
slice and bind it on the corn on retiring
mt night. In The morning, if the corn
is white and di>integrated, pull it out with
your finger nail never cuta corn. Some
times several applications of the lemon
slice will be necessary, but the corns nre
bound to succumb. After you remove
The corns wear shoss that fit, and are not
20 stiff in the soles.
Year: 1878

A WOULD BE suicide wrote these fare


well words to his wife. "Deat Mary,
when my body is dragged ont ofthe river
they car identity it by the linen patch
you put in the seat Of my black cloth
trowsers.p !7i io tta-
Year: 1878

THE NEGRO man, VIM. Scott, who
committed the rape upon Miss Hannah
Foreacrc last October, is stlll at large
This negro left the house of Mr.. Fore
acre in company with him; and knowing
the girl had no one with her but the chill
dren, he returned, and overpowered her
and committed the brutal outrage. The
girl is about eighteen and said to be
quite good looking. The negro imme-
diately fled; and although a warrant was
issued for his arrest the next morning
and a reward of $500 offered by the Gov
ernor for his apprehension and covictioI
he is still at large. Three negroes in this
county and one negro in the adjoining
county OF Chester are now liable to th'
penalty of this offence, all within less
than year. And yet the horrible crime
has its eXcuSerS.
Year: 1878

A VERY mysterious dodge is going
on in New York State. Two young
men of gentlemanly bearing travel to-
gether and put up with some good
nstured farmer for dinner. They
tender him coin for their entertainment
and after requesting him TO sign his
name in an innocent looking little
book. SO that they may keep track OF
their expenses The good natured farm
er did so, and in few days Is greatly
a.tonished at the presentation of his
note of hand for hundred dollars OF
so, which the gentlemanly yoong men
have disposed of to other parties
And further 70 increase the farmer
confidence in the honesty OF his kind
the money he has received always
turns out TO be bogus.
Year: 1878

The strawberry season is now drawing 70
q close. Last night no Strawberries were
shipped from the Peninsular to Jersey CITY,
and very few crates went TO PhiladcIphia'
There have passed through this city, for
various parts North, during the season.
about six hundred and thirty cars OF thls
delicious fruit. In another month peaches
will be upon us.
Year: 1878

wherever they settle, but their clannish-
ness never initiates against their active
philanthropy, and as they mix with
other nationalities they become liber-
allied in feeling and practice.
Year: 1878

THE farmer who sent his son to the
city to become a clerk now writes and
asks the merchant if there is any.
thing in the boy?'


Yes replied the merchant. 'jns,
after he has been to a saloon
Year: 1878

20, Scotia my dear, my native soil


For whom my warmest wish to heaven 10 sent,
Long may thy hardy sons OF rustic toll


BE best with health and peace sna SWEET con-


tent, Burns.


THAT garret Of the earth, that knuckle end Of
England. that land of Calvin, oatcakas aud sui
pher.'-SIpsEY SMITH.


1t is estimated that the resident
Scotchmen of San Francisco number in
the neighborhood of 5000. AS q rule
the natives of Scotia can be told by
their finely proportioned physiques and
independent character. In their talk
there is very little OF the Gallo brogue
to specially denote their nativity, but
at the same time there is an lndetnable
accent that places their birthplace be-
yond question. SO far as the point of
number goes, the Scotch in this city
scarcely rise to significance; but in re-
gard TO respectability and influence
they compose an important factor of
business and social existence. In stur-
dy manhood they represent all that is
strong, resolute and persistent. In
honesty of character and integrity of
purpose they compare tavOrably with
any other nationality on the coast. In
force of intellect aud shrewdness of
enterprise they are not excelled. Not
altogether witty like the Irish and
French, they possess Il force of
humor that is perhaps, better than an
Englishman's philosophy or Ger
mans metaphysics; and in mental acu-
men, no matter how exercised. they are
able to challenge the whole human
race. In fact, as n people. the Scotch,
wherever found. are distinct as a type
of humanity ani physically grand as a
specimen of race.
Year: 1878

A new insect pest has appeared, which
promises to make housekeeping as discourage


ing business as the long uffering granger
finds the raising of potatoes IN the face Of
the Colorado beetle. This latest terror OF the
patient housewife is an emigrant from Eu-
rope, with the distinguished title "Anthrenus
scrophntdr1d.n Upon its native heath the
stranger contents itself mainly with an ami
NAL diet, but on its arrival this side the wa
ter 1t develops voracious appetite for every
thing wooden. Hence it has b. en- familiarly
dubbed "the car thug" and in its special
ty it seems to far outrival that old time enc
my of domestic peace the moth. The insects
multiply rapidly, and so destructive are they
that some people who have had particularly
sorrowful experiences are of the opinion that
carpets will have to be given up entirely when
his bugship has pO 'c3sed the land. The bugs
are black, hairy fellows about quarter Of an
inch long. Of oval shape and very quick Of
motion. These in turn produce sluggish bee
ties an eighth Of an inch long. spotted with
white and red. Wherever there is crevice,
that is the home of the carpet-bug, which,
however, does not confine his diet to carpets
alone. but attacks clothing and furs hanging
in closets or packed in drawers. One check
to the ravages of this new pest is liberal
application of benzine, which shall be applied
in every crack and Granny where the bug is
likely to find a lodging pace. Still another
remedy is the "llemiptera powders, invent.
ed and successfully used in England to exter-
inmate the bug, and also in use in Mas
sachusetts. The carpet-bug is comparatively
recent importation. 1t made itself known at
Cambridge in this State in 1873, and almost
simultaneously in portions of New York and
New Jersey. 1t has been detected up in
Franklin county and down in Connecticut,
and will probably ere long be disturbing the
peace of our Springfield housekeepers, and
there is little doubt that the cry of feminine
lamentation will one of these days be heard
the land over because of these unwelcome in
truder
Year: 1878

1t was new to me, says a correspond
ent of the Live Stock Journal, and was
very effective in the one case in which 1
saw it tried, hence | send You a descrip-
ton of an apparatus designed to induce
a balky horse to reform his bad ways. A
light, but strong pole, has one end fast
ened to one end of whiffltree--a steady
horse being worked on the end The
other end of the pole extends to the head
of the troublesome horse, and is fastened
to strap passing around the nose and
through the bit rings. If the horse does
not start promptly and keep abreast with
his mate, he is pulled by the front and
upper part of his mouth. Whenever he
starts forward he is relieved. In the case
in which saw this tried. the horse hung
back for some three hours the first day,
perhaps an hour the next. and gradually
gave up after shorter trial, until after
about month he showed no signs of his
old habit.
Year: 1878

LET JACK WHARTON come to the front
now and explain or prepare to step down
and out" 1t happens once in while that
the very integrity of a government or an
administration rests upon the shoulders of q
single official. In the matter of the Louisi.
ana outrages and the execution of the laws
against the perpetrators thereof WHARTON
happens to bo this man. As o United
States Marshal JACK Is not so much of q sue.
cess in troublous times as he is us pleasant
companion in times of peace. He may in.
terriew reporter Of Democratic paper
from behind a mosquito bar, but no flimsy
sophistry and technical evasion will cover
in the estimation of the pubic, his recent
apparent dereliction of duty.
Year: 1878

THE return OF Major MAGINNIs as dele
gate from the Territory of Montana, though
not partisan victory, is a result that we


are bound to regard with satisfaction in the
absence of any Republican candidate. Mr..


MAdINNIs has not only been conspicu-
ously able member, but he has also been n
very fair one. A personal letter from Re-
publican residing in Montana advises us
that II was his independence and impartial
ity that influenced the Republican convcn.
ton to make no nomination against him
and to indorsc him In their platform. A
rival candidate appeared in the field with
no following except soreheads; but Major
MAoINSIs carried every county in the Ter
ritory, and has a majority approaching 1000
Year: 1878

Where, let us ask, in the Constitution or
the laws can we find the authority for link
ing this Government in any manner 10 the
Clearing House Association of New York
city, which comprises the gold power of
Wall street2 II is now said that by an ar
rangemcnt between the Secretary of the
Treasury and the moncy-lenders Of New
York, the Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury becomes q member Of the Clearing
House Association, thus forming sort OF
ligament, like that which held the Siamese
Twins together, between the national banks
and the Government Of the United States
This may be perfectly harmless expedient,
but it is peculiar. 1t will soon be made ap-
parent whether in this alliance the dog will
wag the tail or the tail will wag the dog,
and which is really the dog and which the
tail.


1t may turn out that this is an alliance
for the persecution of the silver dollar.
There are some symptoms that lead to such
an apprehension, rs the banks and the Gov
crnment have each evinced o marked hos
ulity to silver Should this be made ap-
parent it will not take Congress long to
sever the connecting link, and teach the
banks that they are not above public senti-
mcnt and the law-making power and the
executive departments of the Government
that they cannot wage successful war
fare against the Congress Of the United
Year: 1878

THE charge is made that the prosecutions
by the Federal officers in Louisiana OF tie
blood-thirsty, cut-throat Democratic assas-
sins of that State will prove to be mere
sham; will never amount to anything seri-
Gus, and that these officers will do Just
enough to prevent their removal for not
doing their duty. We regret to hear tins,
and hesitate to accept It rs reliable When
District Attorney LEONARD, the so-called
Reformed Bull-Dozer, was in Washington
last week, he certainly talked and acted
like man who was in earnest-like one,
in fact, who had burned his bridges be.
hind him and gone into active and ag-
gTessive service right in the heart OF the
enemies country Since then, as we are
informed, Judge RAY has been sent to New
Orleans to take charge Of certain Govern
mcnt revenue cases pending in the United
States courts which will relieve LEONARD
Of much pressing duty and enable him to
devote more of his time to the outrage
cases. If he does not do his full duty the
fault will rest with himself alone, and it
will be very easy matter to supplant him
with o more assiduOus man.
Year: 1878

IT Is foreshadowcd that Senator. VooR-
HE'S will, Immediately on the opening Of
the session, move to take up the House bill,
now in the Senate, providing for the repeal
Of the resumption act. This is about the
size of his craftsmanship. 1t is on par
with the wisdom of the gallant and deter.
mined but Infatuated bull which tried to
butt locomotive of the track
Year: 1878

THE South Carolina Moonshiners are
again at work in their habitual manner de-
flying the United States authority in Abbe-
willie. Only few weeks ago large numbers
OF these miscreants were amnestcd un-
der the very foolish agreement that they
would abandon their Illicit trade and abide
by the laws for the collection of the tax on
whisky. This is but another illustration OF
the effectiveness of Cancellation.
Year: 1878

ONE very good reason why the President
should deny that he has changed his
policy" regarding Southern affairs Is to
be found in the fact that he would thereby
admit that he had failed TO do his sworn
duty in the past, for he now says, with
commendable determination, that he will
exert every recourse in the Government for
the execution Of the laws in the turbulent
States. Any change of policy that would
he required to reach this determination
would be equivalent 10 plea of guilty to
the charge, sometimes made by captious
Stalwarts, that he has not so executed
them up TO this time. What he claims is
that he has always intended to execute the
laws with impartiality but then there are
ways and there are means, and we are
heartily glad he has found a new way.
Year: 1878

THE Cincinnati Gazette exhibited its
earnest devotion to the good cause the
other day, and at the same time bit OF
new spaper enterpr's sc, by furnishing to its
patrons with each number Of Its daily and
wcolly issue a fac simas of one of the South
Carolina tissue tickets pudding tickets
printed on tissue paper and calling editorial
attention thereto, with appropriate explana-
Year: 1878

THE HrLI.-COLQuITr trouble, over the
Endorsement of the bonds of the Northeast
ern Railroad Company, of Georgia, is al,
present the sensation in that State, and the
letter Of Senator HILL, said TO have been
written from the United States Senate
Chamber to Governor CoLQuiTT upon the
subject, is being anxlously waited for by a
patient public.
Year: 1878

GENE:AL SHERMAN has expressed the
opinion that either the Indian Bureau must
be transferred to the War Department or
the army to the Indian Bureau before the
Indian question can be successfully solved.
Year: 1878

At low tide at Monterey. CAL, part OF
the wreck Of . vessel, formerly the Natalia,
can be seen, though very few who see it
are aware that she IL or was the ship on
which Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from
Elba 60 years ago. to revive his broken
power by his immense personal magnetism.
and lose il forever ON the memorable field
Of Waterloo. The old vessel, now slowly
going 10 pieces in the Pacific. has local
history. She brought to California in
1884 the colony Of Hias, whose members
intended TO settle in what was then Sono-
ma county. Not liking Sonoma they re-
turned To Monterey aud gradually dwin-
died into indistinction. typified by the
ship that had transported them tither. 1t
Is odd that some enterprising Snowman
like Barnum has not carried Of a portion
or the whole uf the wreck Of the Natalia.
and put it in museum to aid the common
mind in its effort TO understand the char
scter and genius Of the first captain Of
modern. or perhaps Of ancient. times.
Fragment Of the ship in which the great
Napoleon escaped from Elba' would bo To
the many an alluring curiosity and bit OF
material history withal.
Year: 1878

RICHMOND, Nov. 27-Commissioners from
the various States Interested in the erection
of the Lee monument met here tonight and
decided not to award q contract at this time
owing to the insuf1iciency Of funds in the
treasury Of the association. The matter has
been indefinitely postponed. There were only
four models to choose from.
Year: 1878

It is announced that the seat of Godlove s.
Orth in the Forty-SiXth Congress will be con-
tested. We hope not. The old Venezuela
claim shark should be kept in Congress as an
awful specimen of what the Republican party
will do when it gets good chance
Year: 1878

1t is scarcely the fair thing to credit Mr..
Evarts with our recent great purchase Of
mackerel. All the honor of this brilliant
transaction rightfully belongs to Don Hamii-
ton Fish, the main prop, right bower and
chief corner stone Of the Grant .administra-
4iDD
Year: 1878

Senator MerrimoD, Of North Carolina, an
nounces his purpose to abide the action OF the
Democratic legislative ca ucus in the selection
Of his successor, though he acknowledged a
desire to be reelected