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Year: 1877




UTICA, N. Y, Aug. 6.


AT Oriskany at one o'clock, in the pres
ence of vast multitude, Ex-Governor Sey-
mour delivered an address of welcome. He
said "All who are for the glory of our
country, all who love to study the history
of events which have shaped our civiliza-
tion, government and laws, all who seek
to lift up the virtues of our people by filling
up their minds with lofty standards of pat
riotism, will rejoice that we meet here
to-day on this battle field to honor the
courage and devotion displayed here one
hundred years ago. The sacred duty in
which we are engaged does not merely
concern the memories of the dead. 1t
teaches duties and elevates the character of
the living. We are bringing out events of
our country in their true light. Historians
have done much, but their recitals have
not yet become as they should be,
part of the general intelligence of
our people. This is mainly due to the
neglect of its history by New York. There
is dimness in the popular vision about
this great center, source and theater of
events, which have shaped the civilization,
usages and government of this continent.
This is not only wrong to our state but to
our union. Let us who live along the
course of the Mohawk now enter upon ouI
duty of making its history as familiar as
hNt1 hnlI ynv1o af hat hr
graves of the dead patriots are marked by
monuments. Let all this be done in a way
that shall stir our hearts and educate oul
minds. Let it not be done by virtue of an
act Of the legislature, but by virtue of oui
own efforts and patriotism. Let us not look
elsewhere for aid when we would honor the
memories of those heroes who served theil
country.


All other movements in war or in peace
are insignificant in comparison with thu
vast numbers that passed along the border
of this battle field, to find homes in tn,
great plains of the west, to organize eocia
systems, and to build great states.


The histories of cur country, which fai
to set forth clearly the events of this grea
central point, are as obscure and defectiy,
as would have been to attempt TO to de
scribe the physical aspects of the countr,
and yet omit mention of the great stream
of our land or great bays.


1t is with no ordinary feelings we meet
descendants cf those who fought at tn
battle of Oriskany, one of the most ferc
and bloody of the revolution. AS we saw
them coming along the course OF the Nc
hawk, the past seemed to be recalled
When we look at the array from the uppe
valley and those who sailed from For
Stanwi1 to join US here, we feel re-en
forced by friends, as our fathers wer
from the same quarters. We welcome a
to this celebration of patriotic service an
sacrifice. When it is closed we shall bi
you God speed to your several homes
with the prayer, that in your differen
walks of life you will do your duty q
manfully, and serve your country as faith
fully as the men who battled 80 bravely o
this ground one hundred years ago.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Moodys sermon at the Boston Taber-
nacle on Wednesday evening is described
as the greatest pulpit effort which he has
made during the present revival. The
main topic was Heaven" and the eulogy
of st. Pauls life and martyrdom was GER
tainly a remarkable burst of eloquence.
The vast audience was strangely stirred,
and the emotion of worthy Methodist
brother found voice in a vigorous "Glory
Amen!" Mr.. Moody did not like the in
terruption. young woman" said he, point.
ing to a young lady Immediately in front
of him; ''young woman, never mind that
man shouting out there; just see that you
don't lose your crown, that's all. That:
more important than anything else. Don't
lose your crown. See that you get into the
kingdom of heaven. A good many of yor
will get there, if you get there at all, as
job says, just by the skin of your teeth
The Evangelist's transitions in style are al
remarkable in their way as his earnestnes
and eloquence.
Year: 1877

The missionaries in the North of China
report the famine there to be terrible. In
many parts of the country both crops have
failed, and the people are living upon tree
bark and roots. 1t is feared that some dis
tricts will be entirely depopulated.
Year: 1877

The Swiss, whose matchmaking industry
is in danger of terrible annihilation by
American competition, and the Russians,
whose grain growing districts are suffering
grievously from the same cause, are display
ing great shrewdness and sense. They
have resolved to resort to invention and
the use of machinery, or, in other words,
adopt the American plan. In other parts
of Europe relief is sought by a concerted
effort to break down the economical system
under which American industry has made
such remarkable strides. 1t is not denied
by British and other trade papers that the
success of the democratic party in the elec-
ton has been awaited with eager interest
as probably meaning a speedy diversion OF
legislation here into free trade channels.
Some of them say so plainly; and the Euro
pean manufacturers have all been ardent
democrats. 1t is an interesting coinci-
dence with the free-trade-in- America cam
paisn which European trade papers
are fighting, that a little band OF free
traders in this country led by David A.
Wells, are at work in the West lecturing
and organizing little free trade clubs, as
though preparing the ground for great
demonstration in Congress, in the event OF
Democratic victory in our politics. These
efforts and hopes are probably all in vain
The United States needs all its resources
now if it never did before, and there will
be no breaking down of the central prop oi
our industry. commerce and the national
treasury by free trade legislation for many
wears to come.
Year: 1877

Group comos as a thief in the night--the
great, good and sure weapon of defence, is
Shriner's Balsamic Cough Syrup; keep it in
the house and it will save the life of your
dear little one.
Year: 1877

The Home journal objects to
the wearing of diamonds when trav-
elling because it is vulgar. 1t is a
position which we assumed years
ago, and we are glad to say that
no one connected with this paper
has ever been guilty of such vnl-
garity. We have occasionally
taken ride with a lawyer, bu,
there are some depths to which We
cannot sink.
Year: 1877




GROWING OLD.-It is the solemn
:hought connected with middle life
that lifc's last business is begun in
earnest; and it is then midway be
tween the cradle and the grave,
that man begins to marvel that he
let the day of youth 60 by so halt
unioyed. 1t is the pensive antum
feeling; it is the sensation of halt
that we experience when the long
est day of the year is past, aud every
day that follows is shorter, aud the
light fainter and the feeble shadows
tell the nature is Fastening with
gigantic footsteps to her winter.


So does man look back upon his
youth. When the first gray hairs
become visible, when the unwel-
come truth fastens itself upon the
mind that man is no longer go
ing up hill but down, and that the
sun is always westering, he look.
back on things behind. When W.
were children we thought as chill
dren. But now there lies before III
manhood, with its earnest work
and then old age, and then tn,
grave, and home. There is a secon,
youth for man, better and holie
than the first, if he will look on
and net look back.
Year: 1877

1t is the cry of the infant just from
the cradle; it is the only balm which
will heal the wounded heart in youth
full days. Mother, Pm hurt )" ''Moth-
er, Pm tired )" ''mother, sing to me,
rock me, tell me stories." 1t is always
mother with the child and the lad. No
one like mother. No hand falls on the
fevered brow so softly as hers; no
words as sympathetic as those that pass
her lips. The house would be a grave
without her. Life would be dreary,
thorny road without her warning voice
and guiding hand. A father may be
kind, may love not less, but the weary
child wants the mothers arms, her soft
lullaby songs, the caresses of her gentle
hand. All childhood is a mixture of
tears and joys. A kind word brings a
smile, harsh word a sigh, fall is a
pain, toss is Joy. The first footsteps,
weak and trembling, grow stronger by
the guidance of mothers love.


The little wounds, the torn clothes,
the headaches, heartaches, the trials,
all vanish at the words of mother, and
there is built up in the heart of every
man an edifce of love and respect that
no crime of his can tOpple dOwn-nO
dungeon cell affect.


And lad grows to be man only to
find that ''mother" is the same. If he
errs, she weeps if he is good and man
ly, she rejoices. Hers is the only love
that lasts-endures forever.


The wolf of starvation may enter the
door, but her love is only tried to shine
the brighter. All the world may call
her son criminal, but the mother
alone believes it not.


Trials may beset you, storms may
gather over you, vexations come, ruin
drag you down, but there is one who is
ever firm in your cause, who will never
leave you. The criminal on the scaffold
has suffered in feeling because his bad
deeds would cause pang in his moth
er's heart. The low and wretched, dy-
ing in some dark abode of sin, have
died with that name upon their lips.
There is no praise like her praise, there
are no sad tears that pain us so much
as hers.
Year: 1877

BY H. C. HAYDEN.
1 lay the table as did last year,


place the chairs around it as before,
Oh if could only hold back the tear
And they not see it-three instead of four!
They now are coming in their youthful glee;
I'll hide my face little by the door;
They may not notice any change in me


When they are passing-three instead of four,
For me they're waiting. I am standing here,
With one hand resting on his empty chair.
How my poor heart beats Why, almost fear
That shall weep when father says the prayer
looked around, but did not see them all,
AS on Thanksgiving Day one year agoj-
One loving, struggling tear, let it fall,
Then a sweet spirit voice came whispering low
listened needless of the others near,


Thanking our Father for all mercies given,
Hoping that Harry did not see that tear
1t is not very far from earth to heaven.
1 would not call him from the other Shore
To sit beside me at our feast tonight;
1t only seemed but three instead of four


When for moment God had hid the light.
Year: 1877

all through your aunt's good graces."


''We shall never forget her kindness,
SIR" said we, both together.


And 1 trust we never shall. She is
only an aunt-by marriage, but she has
behaved like sister to my wife, and
like mother to our child. If she really
had been Montmorenci, she could not
have shown more nobility of nature
and it is even just possible that she
might have shown little less.
Year: 1877

Those Of our citizens who are fortunate enough
to be able to seek respite from the labors Of the
business season just closed. and to recuperate
their energies at some OF the many delightful
summer resorts to be found in the Northern
States and Canada, will be glad to learn that the
old favorite Jackson route, under vigorous and
efficient management. has become one of the
very best travelling thoroughfares in the country.


Hundreds of thousands Of dollars have been
expended, as we are credibly informed, during
the past twelve months for new iron and steel
rails, new cross-ties and new bridges, and day
it may bs safely said that no road south Of the
Ohio river surpasses the great Jackson route in
smoothness and perfect safety. We have had
occasion, during The past few weeks, TO travel
quite extensively over that road, and we can thus,
from actual experience, bear witness to its ex-
cellence in every particular which goes to consti-
tute good road.
Year: 1877

suppose, laying none at all. Mr.. Young
has neighbors and witnesses who are
willing to swear to every one OF these
eggs, should any one doubt them, which
we hardly believe.


We think the Young egg story shows
that our country exchanges have not
lost their cunning, and that this years
crop OF wonders will far exceed those OF
any previous year, unless the newspapers
weaken their mental and imaginative
powers In seeking to pun on the battle
fields in the East. Three sea serpents
have already been seen, and one even
landed at Oban, Scotland, and 30 many
wonderful and impossible things have
been discovered-in the newspapers
that we can claim with just pride that
the power OF the press Is not yet extinct.
To encourage this enterprise, however,
we hope the leading papers OF the coup-
try will get up an organization to award
q prize to the papers getting off the
meanest pun and hoax OF the season.
This should be encouraged.
Year: 1877

The New Iberia. Sugar Bopl argues
with much reasonin favor OF the system
of central sugar factories. This system,
it shows. is the usual one in every other
sugar country but this. It is in Louisi-
ana alone that the two branches OF agri-
culture and manufacture are 80 abso-
lutely united. The qualities that make
q good agriculturist are seldom those
that make a good machinist, and the
consequence is that the planter has to
turn his sugar house over to some assist
ant, or try to run two ill-united busi-
nesses-a farm and a mandatory. A
Western farmer might, with just as
much reason, grind his own wheat into
flour.


There are many other arguments that
the Sugar Bo,el might have used, but
which 1t does not. The expense, the
amount OF capital needed In sugar Gull
ture has been one of the great draw
backs to our complete success, and is
the reason why so many acres OF our
sugar lands are unoccupied. Central
manufactures would obviate this; they
would enable small farmers to cultivate
sugar with success as well as large ones,
and thus incite immigration. They
would also tend to improve the quality
and value Of Louisiana sugar, since
some of the smaller planters are unable
to use any but very Indifferent mills,
turning out an inferior quality. By
using fewer and better mills, we might do
away, almost altogether, with the neces-
sity OF having Louisiana sugar refined
In st. Louis or Baltimore.


The question has been discussed often
before, but it may we'll be gone over
again. The matter is not one Of expert
ment as one might suppose, since many
planters. in the past few years, have
tried it to limited extent by purchas-
ing the crop Of neighboring places and
grinding it--a work that owed profit
able to both planter and grinder.
Year: 1877

One Of the best illustrations OF the
moral Of Esop's fable Of the ass play
ing the part of the lap-dog has been
afforded by Pierrepont, Grants minis
ter to England. A laborious and
not over-scrupulous lawyer, who had
made a fortune by sharp practice, he
very shrewdly eased himself Of the bur-
den Of odium ana responsibility attach
ing to Grants Administration towards
the close by wriggling into the Office OF
Minister to England. On his introduc-
ton to the notabilities OF that
rank and dinner loving people, he
developed In violent manner
two qualities which he imag-
ined were the most prominent
characteristics of all true Britons. to
wit: an intense respect for aristocratic
rank, blood and lineage, and great
appetite for heavy dinners and, as indis-
pensable accomplishments, for those
heavier after dinner speeches, in which
Britons delight. Without scintilla
of wit or humor, Pierrepont, by labor,
preparation and careful memorizing,
discovered that he could qualify him
self for this duty, and on avery small
capital make a very effective splurge In
post prandial oratory before an assem-
blage heavily loaded with beef and
Burgundy, Several achievements in
this line secured him a very high place
In the regards Of the Lord Mayor and
livery men Of London.


Pierrepont thus cheaply acquiring the
reputation Of wit and orator, next
fixed his ambition upon the noble OBJ
iect OF proving his descent from the Nor
man aristocracy and his just title to a
coat Of arms, with some high sounding
law motto and a confused assemblage OF
lions and unicorns couchant and ram
pant, spears, shields and long tailed
dragons, which he had painted on his
carriage and engraved on his private
and official seals.


Thus Pierrepont became great man
In his own and, perhaps, in the estima-
ton of the Mayor and Aldermen OF
London, whilst every honest and manly
American regarded him as an upstart
and humbug, whose toadyism and blar-
neyism and feeble efforts to reproduce
the superior art and elocution OF
American speakers on the london
stage were simply ridiculous, and thus
Pierrepont sunk in the popular regard
in this country as rapidly as he arose in
the (perhaps imagined admiration OF
the Londoners. He appears to have
been conscious of this decline OF
his fame and political fortunes
in his native land and in
consequence thereof to have Withdrawn
from r,uhlic observation and disnlav ri
Year: 1877

Nash's Weber proves not to be the in
digenous Weber, the one known to
fame az the boss OF the Radical ring at
Bayou Sara, and he can't get the post
office. This was sly, devilish SLY job,
Messrs. Nash and Dula put up on the
postmaster General.
Year: 1877

his proud genealogy and and luxuriant
wit and oratory. But with the arrival
and lionizing Of his old master. Grant,
in England, this ambition for oratorical
prandial display which had become 80
deeply fixed In his constitution has
broken out anew, to the intense enjoy
ment OF the partakers OF the Lord
Mayors sumptuous spreads.
Year: 1877

How TO PACK RIPE PEAcHEs.-Quite
as much pleasure has been felt upon be-
ing informed Of the satisfactory condition
of such soft fruits as ripe peaches and
nectarines after a journey of 800 miles as
in winning well. contested prize at a
flower show. The plan which has proved
perfectly successful, and which is now in
variably followed whenever fruit is sent
by rail, is to wrap each bunch Of grapes
or fruit of other kinds in soft tissue paper,
surrounding it with slight padding OF
sweet bran as the fruit is placed side by
side in box. The paper is put upon
the fruit in plain folds, and not twisted
into hard corners, which may press into
the next fruit and spoil it. Much care is
taken to have each fruit thoroughly en-
yeloped in bran, which is also settled
into as compact mass as possible by
slightly jarriDg each box upon the pack
ing bench after the top layer is put in,
and when it is quite full sheet of paper
isput upon the bran and the hinged lid
closed by hooks and eyelets of copper
wire, and securely corded. If this excel
lent old method is only done correctly all
risks of failure is avoided. London
Journal Of Horticulture.
Year: 1877

II is hopeless TO attempt to fatten
chickens while they are al liberty. They
must be put in proper coop, and this,
like most poultry appurtenance', need not
be expensive. To fatten twelve fowls, a
coop must be three feet long, eighteen
inches high, and eighteen inches deep,
msde entirely Of bars. No part Of il
solid, neither top, side nor bottom. Dis.
cretion must be used according TO the
sizes Of the chickens put up. They do
not want room indeed, the closer they
are the better-provided they can all
stand up at the same time. Care must
be taken to put up such as have been ac-
customed TO he together, or they will
fight. II one is quarrelsome 1t is better
10 remove it at once, "a, like other bad
examples 1t soon finds imitators. A dis
eased chicken should not be put up. The
food should be ground oats, and may
either be put in a trough or on nat
board running along the front of the coop
IL may be mixed with water or milk the
latter is better. Itshoud be well slaked,
forming pulp as loose as can be, pro-
yided it does not run of the board. They
must be we'll fed three or four times
day-the first time as soon after day
break as possible or convenient, and then
at intervals of four hours. Each meal
should be as much and no more than they
can eat up clean. When they have done
feeding, the board should be wiped and
some gravel should be spread. 1t causes
them to feed and thrive. After fort
night of this treatment, you will have
good fat fowls. If, however, there are
but four to six to be fattened, they must
not have so much room as though there
were twelve. Nothing is easier than to
allot them the proper space; 1t Is only
necessary to have two or thr pieces OF
wood to pass between the bars and form
a partition. This may also serve when
fowls are put up at different degrees OF
fatness. This requires attention, or fowls
will not keep fat and healthy. AS soon
as the fowl is sufficiently fattened it must
be killed, or otherwise it will still get fat
but it will lose flesh. If fowls are In
tended for the market, of course they are
or may be all fattened at once; but If fol-
home consumption, it is better to put
them up at such intervals as will suit the
time when they are required for the table
When the time arrives for killing,whether
they are meant for market or otherwise
they should be tasted without food OF
water, for twelve or fifteen hours. This
enables them to be kept some time after
0 being killed, even in hot weather.-Lon'
don Cottage Gardener.
Year: 1877

The necessity of adding department for
the accommodation OF ladies visiting the
United States Restaurant has been met by
fitting up one of the most tasty and conven-
lent parlors for that purpose in the city.
Cleanliness being the first and most pleasing
invitation to the appetite no labor shall be
spared In that direction. The most polite
and attentive walters shall always be in at.
tendance. We shall serve the choicest the
season and market afford, in a manner tc
please the most exacting, at prices enabling
all TO crafty their wishes. An invitation Ii
extended to the ladies and it is hoped they
will avail themselves OF the pleasant quarters
fitted to their convenience. J. NJ. Fixes U
streets, San Francisco.
Year: 1877

EIGHTEEN women from the Treasury
department have been sent on to New
York to perform the nice little job Of
counting 176,O0000O postage stamps re-
ported to be stored in the vaults at the
agency in that city.
Year: 1877

MEET Me IN HEAvEN.--One of the
most affecting incidents of the Pittsburg
riot was that in connection with the death
of little boy. He was shot in the abdo-
men and was carried into saloon near by.
A physician was summoned, while the little
sufferer lay upon piece of oil-cloth
spread upon the floor. The life-blood
was ebbing from him and covering the
cloth with gore, but he was conscious and
able to talk little at intervals. He kept
calling for "water, water" and eagerly
drank the precious liquid handed him.
Just after one of his paroxysms Of pain
he seemed to become conscious of the
fact that things earthly would soon fade
from his view. He was boy of more
than ordinary intelligence, and as the
fact of his approaching dissolution be-
came impressed upon him, he asked that
his mother be called. They told him
that she had been sent for but might moi
reach him in time. "Then,' said he, iii
l die, tell mother to meet me in heaven ,
He died soon afterward
Year: 1877

A GENTLEMAN who had left his opera
glasses in box at West End Theatre,
and had been unable to recover them,
concluded an indignant letter to the
manager as follows; apart from the
moral oalue of those glasses, they cost
me five pounds.