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Year: 1877

Have you humor or bile
Hanging round all the while,


To bother and sicken?
Piercc's Purgative Pellet
Will surely expel it.
Does miasma invade
And by stealth make raid,


Like an owl on a chicken?
Pierce's Purgative Pellet
Is the right thing to quell it.
For an indolent Ever,
That seldom or never,


Its true function performs,
Pierce's Purgative Pellet
Has raught 10 excel it.
Does dyspepsia's deep gloom
On your horizon loom,


Boding darkness and storms
DR.. Pierce's good Pellet.
If you take it, will tell it,
To "get out" and be seen,
With its imps vile and mean,


In your system no more
Then BUY the nice Pellet,
The druggists all sell it.
Year: 1877

"A Discount OF twenty per cent. will be allowed to
clubs of four or more persons. Thus: four copies
of Blackwood or of one Review will be sent to one
address for sl2.sO four copies of the four Reviews
and Blackwood for sis, and so on.
Year: 1877

The British Quarteres give to the reader well.
digested information upon the great events in con.
temporaneous history and contain mastery criti.
cisms on all that is fresh end valuable in lit rature


as well as summary of the tiiumphs of science
aot art. The wars likely to convulse all Europe
will form topics for discussion that will be treated
with thoroughness and ability nowhere else to be
found. Blackwood's Magazine is famous for stories
essays and sketches Of the highest literary merit
Year: 1877

We quote from the proceedings Of the
Senate Feb. 9th.


Senator Donnelly offered the following
resolution;


WHEREAS, A considerable part of
the onelous burden OF taxation now rest
ing upon the people of this State is due
to the expense of holding protracted
terms of the district court in the several
counties in this State, to enforce the col
lection of petty claims, or to adjust dis
putes where the amount in controversy
IS oftentimes less than the expense inn
posed on the taxpayers in trying the
same; therefore


Resolred, That the committee on the
judiciary is hereby instructed to enquire
into the expediency of so amending tho
statutes OF the State IS to assess, III
hole or in part, the expense of such
litigation upon the party or parties OBJ
tanning judgment therein. and to report
by bill or otherwise


The resolution was adopted after
brief explanation by Senator Donnelly,
and referred to the judiciary commit
tee.a


This resolution tells its own story.


Why should 10000 people in county
be taxed to pay the.expense of allowing
a few fools to squabble over petty quar-
relse ia has claim against B why
should C, D, E, F, and all the rest of ths
alphabet, have TO pay A the expense o
collecting that claim? What have the,
to do with it


ia found that he had to pay the pipe
himself he would hesitate about rushinl
into law; he would compromise with B
+ or he would agree to arbitrate his dis
pute; and thus the taxpayers of tn
county wonld save thousands of dollar
} annually.
/, The long and short Of it is. that v
must reduce taxation within reasonabl
proportions or admit that Republics
institutions are failure.
Year: 1877

We have procured the passage through
the Senate Of q bill which gives tho
township authorities of Dakota county
entire charge of their poor. This we
think is the proper policy. aud will in
time be adopted in all parts OF the
State.


The town authorities will know who
are deserving of help and who are i'm
,postors. We were told, the other day
Year: 1877

= LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.


From this time until the end OF the
ession we shall relinquish good deal
f our space to the proceedings of the
,gislature. They will probably be
lore interesting than our editorial mat


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Year: 1877

the contract void, and the lender loses
both his principal and interest. This
will effectually stop the three per cent.
business.


We have received the following circus
lar to which we would call the attention
of our readers:
Year: 1877

The Wilmington Commercial objects
to the Electoral bill because of the man
ner in which the Supreme Court mem
bers Of the deciding tribunal are to be
seleoted-that is with respect to their
political opinions. It don't ike the
idea Of there being two Democrats on
the committee If they had all been
republicans the Commercial would,
doubtless, have liked it better Or per-
haps it would be better satisfied if such
men as Judge Bond and Judge Durell
and others Of like stripe whose ideas Of
law and justice consist in deciding all
questions in the interests Of the Repub-
liCan party, had been put upon that
committee. Judges who act in accord
ance with law and right "go against
the republicans
Year: 1877

0NE Of the strongest objections made
BY some Of the Republican opponents Of
the Electoral Count bill is that they
fear the Supreme Court will decide
against Hayes, for the Supreme Courts
have all been going against the Repub-
licans on all questions that have been
left to them" in these election cases.
This is certainly a wholesome reason
for cbjeotiDg to the bill, if Mr.. Hayes
supporters expect him to be elected on
unjust and illegal votes. But if they
are sAtisted that their candidate re-
csived a majority Of the electoral votes
in q fair, just and legal manner they
certainly ought not to fear the decision
Of tribunal composed of some of the
best and ablest men of each party and
Of members of the highest judicial tri-
bunal Of the country. If such men as
these viii not act honestly and justly
God help the Republic. for it will be
beyond mans help.
Year: 1877

It's always railroad time by the
clock, according to the women, when
dinner is late. When you are late you
couldn't make them believe that the
clock had anything but sun time In
the shop even IL Old sol himself would
swear on II stack OF DcfrOH
Free Press
Year: 1877

General A. j. Pleasantson has


written long letter to the Chi


cago Tribune on the wonders of


blue glass. The glass which he
uses is of dark blue, the color be-
ing derived from a preparation
OF cobalt which is fused in the
pot with other ingredients. 1t is
imported from France, and costs
lour times as much as American
window glass. He gives in his
letter bis personal experience as
to the curative powers of blue
and sunlight baths. In October
last he met with a very serious
accident in alighting from wag-
on in Philadelphia. The physici
an said there had been no fracture
of the ribs or bones, but that be
would suffer long time from the
effects OF the shock and fall.
Liniments and plasUers afforded
no relief. He resolved to try
blue glass. sin my bath ROOM"





he says, Il have a window with a
southern exposure, arranged with
alternate panes of tlue and plain
transparent glass. Uncovering my
back, set with my back to the
blue and sunlights which were
streaming through the window
into the bath room. As soon as
these lights began TO fall upon
my back the pains began to di-
minish and at the end of half an
an hour they had ceased aItogeth.
er. Towards evening the pains
returned but they were much less
than they had been before | had
taken the blue light bath, and
during the night l Was easier than
| had been before l had taken
the blue light bath. The next
day | took another bath of the
blue and sunlights, which effect.
ually relieved me of every pain,
and since then now about three
months, ! have not had the light.
est pain or sensitiveness in the
parts afected-three consecutive
sun and blue light baths having
completely removed every i'll eff
feet OF my most serious accident.
Year: 1877

There is something refreshing
IN the absolute astonishment that
visitors to printing Office some.
times display at the commouest
things. "What is that blacklooll.
ing thing standing up in that cor
ner7' is sometimes asked by al
unsophisticated observer, and the
nearest typo answers That il
the towel. We always stand it
up in that corner"
Year: 1877

About two weeks ago young
lady broke through the ice of a
deep skating pond near Toron-
to, and a young man rescued
her at the risk Of his own life.
AS the half-drowned girl was
recovering consciousness her ag-
oniZed father arrived ON the
spot. Taking one Of the cold,
white hands in one of his own,
he reached out the other for the
hand Of her rescuer, but the
Young man realizing his danger,
with one frightened glance
broke for the woods, and was
soon lost to view. He has not
been heard OF since, and it is
thought that he is travelling in
the United States under the
false and hollow name Of Smith.
Year: 1877

The dover of beauty is thine, is thine,


FaiIest Of Gods created fair;
Approaching perfection, almost divine,


Scarcely creature of earth or air.
So doth it seem, as we gaze on thee now


With wondering, strange delight;
The charms of an angel encircle that brow
AS star-gems encircle the night.
Delighted indeed might connoisseur dwell
On the beauty that nature gave; .a
As the delicate flush of the pearly shell,


Thrown ashore by the opaline wave.
Is the tint Of cheek so daintily fair,


That zephyr might haply stray,
And the bloom that rests SO etherialIy there
Be swept in moment away.
Borne from our view as the-veil like mist,


By that breath SO lightly given; kissed
As the silyery wreathS by the sunbeams
Ascend to their native heaven,
Approaching perfection, almost divine,


Scarcely creature of earth OF air;
Thine is the dover Of beauty-thine,


Fairest of Gods created fair.
Year: 1877




chance to take my tumble from
the bridge at q point whore a
ferry boat or other craft was
passing below, l might knock d
hole in it or do some other DAM
age. So on the whole I decided
| wouldn't take any trapezc
perio4 nance in mine, preferring
to forego the opportunity of
making a sensation rather than
risk having my career of use
fulness brought to a sudden and
antimelY end.


l must therefore leave your
readers to imagine the thrilling
account they would have had,
If my head had been a little
steadier, the glowing descrip-
tion of the vast panorama spread
out before the aerial pedestrian;
the swaying plank, the wind
whistling among the network
of ropes-all the horrors and
delights of the situation they
can picture to themselves, and,
when the grand work is COM
pleted, can enjoy the latter with
out the former whenever they
happen to be in the city.


A young newsdealer on one
of the steamboat wharves of
the East River has just been
presented with a silver medal
for having during the past year
saved five persons from droN n
ing, who had fallen from the
dock where he plies his calling.
Obscure heroes like this young
man seldom receive due appre-
citation, and it is very satisfac-
tory to see this recognition of
his bravery in five times risk
ing his life 10 save ntter stran-
gers, and that without expecta-
ton or hope of reward.


The latest important addition
to the charms of our Aquarium
is cargo of alligators, hand
some creatures, with fine open
countenances, but somewhat
inclined to both treachery and
contention. On the day oftheir
reception they were placed, 8
dozen of them, IN the mamnoth
tank made vacant by the de-
mise OF the late lamented white
whale. For a while the mon~
sters were partly torpid with
cold, but soon got warmed up,
and then there was O first-class
circus iii that tank. The big
gest Saurian, an unregenerate
looking old reptile over twelve
feet long, happening to tread
on the tale of a little brother,
nine or ten feet in length, the
latter took the accident as an at
tempt to bulldoze him, and de-
the fact that he
want that kind of a croco-
die by turning upon the ag-
5ressor and displaying several
yards Of teeth. The distur-
Dance seemed TO be infectious,
and in a few seconds the tank
ooked like a session OF the
Electoral Commission. It's in
mates could hardly have acted
worse if they had been allega-

.Ors instead of alligators; and
10 heated at last became the de-
pate that it was found neccessa-
y to call the meeting to order
'y a stream of ice water from
he fire hose. This vigorous
reatment eventually restored
Iuiet, and the regular. order of
business eating and slceping)
vas again taken up.


RADIx:
Year: 1877

The law Of Missouri requires
that when a man is to be arres-
ted, the warrant shall be read to
him. While Deputy Marshal
Hughes of jackson county was
reading a warrant to Frank Mil
Ter and Richard Green, whom
he found while they were chop
ping wood in the Little Blue
bottom, Green shot him through
the heart, killing him instantly.
Both men fed, but were cap
tured last week in Lafayette
county.
Year: 1877

The Supreme Court of Mas.
sachusetts has sustained the lower
Court in its decision that Israelites
must be held amenable to the
laws of that State regulating the
observance of the Sabbath. The
case grew ont of an attempt to
keep a store open on that day.
Year: 1877

% eyes, sir" said the brake
Q man, as he stood by the stow
o warming his numbed hands, af
= ter coming in from braking
9 "Peeple think, as they sit here
0 IN their warm seats and only
. hear us call out the different


stations, that We have a nice
0 soft, easy time. But we know
= better. Imagine yourself ouI
D on a fiat car all night with the
D snow dashing into your face,
: your hands on a cold iron brake
} and think if that's easy; or, up
on top of freight car, running
along, the wind cutting like a
knife, dark as pitch, and watch
ing for fear you may rush sud-


denly under a bridge and be


swept of, and perhaps left to


die in the snow. Is that easy ?
! Does that look like a soft Job?
To be sure, when we are trans


ferred to passenger cars, the


work is nice enough, but the


dangers we have to go through


(for generally we have to go on


freight cars first) entitle us for
something better on passen-
ger car, and we amt sorry when


we get orders to take the head
end of such a regular train.


"There are very few brake
men who can't tell some never
to-be-forgOtten incident con-
nected with their life on the
rail. To explain, let me tell
you a story of my own expert
ence. | remember one night it


was fearfully cold, right in the
middle of winter, and showing
hard, / was brakeman in the
middle of a freight train. 1t
was running along on slow time
that night, and we were two or
three miles from the station. 1
was standing by the brake of a
Hat car trying to get warm by
stamping, wishing we were at
the depot, SO that l could go
back to the caboose out of the
bitter cold, when suddenly I
feltthe train humping and jump
| ing as if a wheel had broken. and
[ knew something was wrong.
The whistle blew for brakes,
and i'll a mighty short time we
had the train stopped.


"With the rest of the men I
went back to see what was the
matter, thinking that 1 might
get chance at the stove, for /
was nearly frozen. Going back
about three hundred feet, we
found that one Of the rails had
got loose and was cut of place,
but, as we had been going slow,
we had run over the spot safely.
Our conductor looked up, and
seeing me, said;


"Jim, get back and signal the
passenger train. She will be
along in a short time, now; and
take this he said, handing me
a red light lantern; 'we'll go on.
You can come along with the
other train


"With that all hands got on
board, and soon there was moth
ing but myself and lantern left.


"a cold gust brought me to
myself with a quick turn, and
then / remembered what | had
to do. Holding the lantern up,
l saw the light Pickering, and
shaking it found it almost
empty. Then l began to feel
the responsibility of my posi-
ton. A lamp without oil in it,
the train due in ten minutes,
with the chances of it being
thrown off the track, and no
telling how many people killed
or wounded! In case of this
kind, sir, every brakeman will !
do his hest to save human life.
Year: 1877




A High Highway-The Ribbon


over the Riyer-Why He dom


go Up-Brayery Rewarded-AI


Alligator Commission.


10 the Editor Of the Observer


New York, March 2, 1877.


The completion of a passage


way, albeit rather slender one


between the piers Of the great


Brooklyn bridge, marks an i'm.


portant era in the progress of


this important work. Fol


months past there have been
quite a number of small cables


dropping from one to the other


and lying like graceful spider
threads against the sky; bat
how they have completed foot


bridge the whole distance from
the New York anchorage to
that of Brooklyn. This bridge
is an unencloscd pathway of
oak Stats, in all some three or
four feet wide, and slung along
two thread-like wire ropes,
which serve as hand rails during
the passage. From below, the
bridge with man travelling on
1t has very much the effect of a
fly crawling along narrow
ribbon, and merely to look up
at it and realize the stretch of
vacancy between It's fraiI struc-
ture and the river is enough to
make any ordinary stomach turn
a complete somersault. What
then must be the sensations in
the digestive apparatus of the
human fly away up there as he
glances from his swaying, side
less foothOld, down through the
yawning gulf to the black wa
terS below, is something that /
don't care to imagine.


The foot bridge is of course
intended only for +he use of the
workmen employed upon the
permanent structure, but on its
completion there were the usu-
ual number of reporters and of
the adventurous spirits who are
always fascinated by danger,
lmportuning the authorities for
permission to make the peril
Gus trip. Such applicants were
at first uniformly refused. But
who can permanently withstand
the all-cOnquering newspaper
mar when, i'll full war paint and |
feathers, he gets fairly on the
scent of his prey? The unfor-
tunate superintendent stood the |
strain for a few days and then |
"cayed" with the remark Chat
he supposed some half dozen .
of these blank idiots had got to
kill themselves before the rest
would let him alone" Permits
were therefore issued to several
men, and, | believe, to one wo-
man, who made the passage and
have recorded their impressions
in the various journals to which
they belong.


| myself became somewhat
fired by emulation and a sense
Of my duty to your readers, and
for short time entertained
serious idea of distinguishing
myself in like manner. I even
vent down to the spot to sur
vey the prospect, and see how l
hought | should like the trip.
One glance was sufficient. The
lcrobatic tendencies of my inter-
or, above referred to, were a
Warming reminder of a VOW /
made some years ago, when
20 the stone work at the
Tery apex of the spire Of the :
'trasburg Cathedral, four hun :
lred and odd feet above the
ground, to the effect that if |
we're permitted to get safely to
mother earth once more, never
would leave her again. The t
lnpleasantIy suggestive words
# the superintendent about cid
OTIS" came back to me, and |
rave it up. The world, l felt,
;ould hardly spare me yet, and
wen if the reverse were true, !
Year: 1877

at rest. There is no quarrel, and
there never has been, between Miss
Kellogg and myself, except in the
one insignificant instance that /
have just related. l like Miss Kel-
logg very much. l think her a
bright, talented girl, and worthy of
her high reputation"
Year: 1877

Twenty Thousand People
old and young, every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIsT belong to the best class of
community.


We desire our business men to make nete
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
tising; for many good people seeing an ad-
vertisemsnt in paper, especially their
church paper. take it as guarantee Of re-
spOnsibility. Such confidence should nOtlc
abused when it can be helped. We want. Q.
therefore,
Year: 1877

Dr. Bayliss atthe grave of Senator Nor ton among other things said:

 "He never went a journey of fifty miles without his wife if she was so situated that she could go with him. This was not sim ply because it might gratfy her, but also, because her presence was a necessity to his happiness, and so she was witE him in iar Oregon when the last stroke fell upon him. Such love wins love Recognizing the wealth of both his power and his love, and that the last was equal to the first she gave him in return the richest love she knew. During his long, and for the most part, ago nizing illness, she has devoted herself to him with an abandon of selfforgetting and tire less service which would be an insoluble mystery, only that the world knows some thing of the might of love. go strong was her affection that her immense service seemed to her no service at all. friend said to her the other day, as she came from her husbands side for a moment You are doing too much" She replied with sort of a dazed, bewildercd gaze, as though such proposition was incomprehensible, and then said, Doing too much am doing nothing. would gladly die for him."

 The civilized world knows something about this man, but il does not know these things. Perhaps only few of his neigh

 borS know of the exquisite picture of fami- ly life which they had among them. But those who knew the facts know that what

 say is true l saw no dry eyes about that dying bed when the wife and sons pressed close about 1t, and she again and again call

 ed the dying man her precious one and the two sons who were preseut-grownu men almost-kisSed his hands and cheek over and over, and baptized them with tilial tears. Mrs. Morton Is so prostrated by this event as not to be able to be present at this time. aud do not hesitate now, as l might under other circumstances, to bring these tender things out of the sacred obscurity of private life, because know am speaking l to-day to countless thousands, and l want to call the attention of the world 10 the delicate and beautiful coloring of this great ] life l want men to know that this man had something else in him besides ambition

 and schemes and cold power. l want il known that while he could hate wrong with intensity and could denounce il with the

 vchemence of lightning. could carry the

 affairs of a great State in his iron hand and

 do it easily, and could leap almost in a day 1 to the leadership of a senate, he could also 1 love like a woman, and as matter of fact displayed in his constant family intercourse

 an affection that was as exquisite as it was exceptional.
Year: 1877

We learn that the industrious inhabitants of the Salt River Valley are busily engaged in planting their extensive farms to wheat and barley, and otherwise improving their homes. The town of Phoenix k one of the most thrifty in the Territory, and holds out inducements to persons who may wish to enter into almost any enterprise. The rail read has already found resting place on Arizona soil, and the advent of the iron horse will not be delayed long until il will tap the granary of Arizona, and bring with 1t hundreds of enterprising immigrants, who are watching with close eve the great in ducementS offered in the extended valley of the Salinas, where formerly lived busy people. as evidenced from the great mound cities that dot inc country through length and breadth, and the many leagues of irri- gating canals that traverse the whole face of the country. Changes are taking place annually in this Eden of Arizona, end we predict that within the next decade will there be seen lovely gardens, grand groves and orchards Magnificent plantations stretching away as far as the eye can reach will take the place of mcsquit forests and the wealth of the tropics will be found in this grand dvalley of the Aztccs. Here will be found the orange, lemon, pomegranate and the olive. and that which is now an oasis will be turned into extensive vine yards laden with precious fruit, and the whole Valley will bloom like the lilly. and the tourist or passcr-by will look upon the mammoth garden-spot with awe, wonder and admiration. The alluvial lands are ca pablo of producing almost every species of cereals raised ei,hcr in the Northern, Mid dle or Western States, and, certainly, when railroad communications are opened up with the outside world, our advantages will be great and have a tendency to make the land equally valuable with that of any other section of the United States, while our homes will not be classed as those of the frontier, but as among those of civiliza- ton and comfort