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Year: 1878

Last Tuesday the Bank of England, think
ing it desirable, evidently, to strengthen it
self in gold, raised the price of American
This drew into the bank in the course of the
day million sterling, and this result was
probably thought OF more importance as
showing that there was no particular de-
mand for gold for export. Since then,
however, some other important failures
have taken place, notably the house Of
Heugh, Balfour & Co.; there are rumors
of weak banks, and our cable de-
spatches Of last evening report very un-
comfortable feeling in Manchester, which
seems to have extended itself to London.
At the same time the Bank of England loses
half a million dollars in American gold,
bought for shipment hither at a slight
advance on the banks raised price of last
Tuesday


The loss at the same time of nearly
million sterling in gold, drawn from the
bank for transmission to Scotland and Ire
land, shows the prevalence Of an uneasy
feeling and the desire Of prudent local
bankers to strengthen themselves against
sudden demands. The heavy failures of the
last two days will increase this feeling of
insecurity, and it is natural that the bank
should guard itself against simultaneous
drain of gold for foreign shipment. The
supply Of American bonds at hand in Lon
don for shipment hither does not appear to
be very great. and it would be reasonable to
expect that they will rise in price whenever
the bank thinks it necessary to prevent
further shipment Of gold this way.
Year: 1878

SOME JUDGMENT CREDITORS of the city hav
ing levied upon the contents of the Governors
Room in the City Hall Judge Barrett has is
sued an order TO show cause why the proceed
ings should not be stayed. IL is to he hoped
that the law may be found to be on the side Of
common decency, so that this particular room
and its contents may no longer be the favorite
point of attack for the cty's importunate cred
Year: 1878

MEMBERS OF THE GRAND JURY which framed
the wonderful "presentment" of the Metropoli
tan Elevated Railroad should not read to-day
the speech of exJudge Porter until after attend
ing religious service. 1t is wrong to 60 angry
inf IN the house of the Lord.
Year: 1878

such as the old road really is. are inexcusa-
BILE in company which is receiving an
enormous return upon its investments. and
they reflect criminality upon their managers
when they are constantly hazarding human
Year: 1878

A FAvoRITE AND HERETOFORE SUCCESSFUL
Trick of the order-ofarrest gang was yesterday
discouraged by Judge Van Worst, who vacated
the order because the defendant, nonresident,
was inveigled into the city that he might be
nrreafed
Year: 1878

THE AMERICAN JOCKEY CLUB closed yester-
day fall meeting which has been satisfactory
and above board in every respect. 1t is pity
that the club cannot now take the Mayoralty
race in hand.
Year: 1878

AT LATEST ACCOUNTS there was little prospect
of verdict in the Billings murder case, SO there
10 reason to suppose that the alibi upon which
the defence depended SO largely has not been
general in its effect upon the jury.
Year: 1878

EVEN FASHION IS READING the signs of the
times and becoming economical. Some Of the
articles of dress alluded to in our fashion notes
to-day are within the reach of people of very
moderate incomes.
Year: 1878

come the muscle, or moving power,


wherever it has been introduced.


More than this, its presence indi-
Gates intelligence, progress and


prosperity, and its absence ignor-
auce, poverty and semi -barbarism.


cannot better illustrate this fact
than by the following brief extract


from letter of Andrew r. Smith at


Fort Sill (Indian Territory dated


March oath and addressed to Capt


Jno. n. Bofinger:


Everybody here is in favor of
the Texas d Pacific road. for in the


absence of such an agency this
grand country, so rich in every


wealth of nature, must remain an


unpeopled desert. At present this
vast region is perfect wilderness
of herbage and flowers, waiting for
the scream OF the iron horse to
transform it into granary that
could feed the Continent"


Not only the Indian Territory,
but Northern Texas and the rich
mineral fields of New Mexico and
Arizona, must remain as useless as
a desert until the advent of the
Texas & Pacific shall transform
them into opulent States peopled by
civilized communities. When shall
this transformation scene come off?
just 50 soon as Congressman rise
to the level of true statesmanshiD.
and legislate for the whole country.
The only thing in the way of the
early passage of the bill to secure
the construction of this great high
way through the Southwest, is the
obstructive opposition of the great
monopoly of the Central Southern
Pacific combination, which has al
ready taxed the Government and
people more than $100,000,O0O; and
is now lavishing a portion of its i'll
gotten treasure to prevent the con-
struction of a competing line of
railway through the Southwest.
But Notwithstanding the sophis-
tries, Establishments and greenbacks
of this powerful corporation, the
public sentiment of the West and
South is unitying and crystalizing
from day to day, and there is every
prospect that the next sixty days
will see a law passed to secure the
of an honest railroad
to the Pacific Coast. j. L. L.
Year: 1878

'Tis meet that love should tell in flowers


What kindred spirits feel;
All words are vain, devoid of powers,


Loves pathos to reveal
The Arbor Vit@ that you gave,


In fond and faithful trust,
Will dwell with me within the grave,


And mingle with my dust.
By your own hands from where it grew
That verdant spray was taken;
I'd cherish it for sake of you,


Tho should be forsaken.
That precious gift my eyes oft seek,


! prize it all above;
For all to me it doth bespeak-


The rich gift of thy love.
Fen as write I view it now,


The emblematic token
Ofplighted love and mutual vow,


That hearts should keep unbroken.
Next to my heart III fondly press


That treasured gift of thine
Entwined with one fair silken tress,


Till l shall life resign.
Tho darkness dim my future skies,
And storms may gather fast,
Believe me, H, I'll fondly prize


This token to the last.
Tho hope before the clouds should fade,
And life be never blest,
Both this and thee, endearing maid,


Will live within my breast.
Thro' ev'ry day and ev'ry hour,


In pleasure or in pain,
Ny heart will beat beneath thy power
While in life remain.
Tho doomed from one love so well
In sadness ofe to part,
Thy image in my breast shall dwell,
And occupy my heart.
When friends and pleasures sweetly fill
Thy life with Joyous glee,
Oh give one thought to him, who will
F0TeUer think of thee.
May sweet endearments fondly bless
Thy life with joys entwined,
Bestowing blissful happiness


In fulness unconfned.
May all that earth has sweet and dear,
And all that heaven has best,
Happily crown your wishes here,
And make you ever blest. l.. N.
Year: 1878

1t has been some time since
have written to you, so L have con
cluded to give you few lines from
this Land of Flowers" We have
had a very mild winter, and as
spring set in early, vegetation is
very far advanced for this time of
the year. Orange trees are all
growing beautifully, and everybody
is cheerful and hopeful. Lands are
increasing in value constantly. To
give you an idea of how rap
idly they increase in price, a
forty acre tract near me, with four
acres cleared and under :ence, sold
for $1s5 cash. The purchaser set
out $50 worth Of three year-old or
ange trees, made no other improve
ments, and in ten days after the
date of the purchase refused $3.50
cash for the place. He now holds
for $4,000.


We have had a number of visitors
with US this fall and winter, seeking
health and looking at the country,
and some have purchased. Among
the visitors was a young doctor
from Tennessee, who came in search
of health and Southern fat" After
remaining here few weeks the
Doctors health improved so that he
concluded to take deer hunt alone.
Before going out he enquired of his
landlord what kind of a deer was
desired-buck or doe-and as to
how he should get it home. The
landlord told him to kill any kind
he could and hang it in a tree, mark
the place and come home and he
would send for it. This was about
8 A. NJ. Dinner time came and
passed and no Doctor or deer in
sight. Supper time came and pass
ed and still neither Doctor or deer
were on hand. The landlord be-
came uneasy. Was sure there was
something the matter, as the Doctor
was always very prompt at meal
times. The entire neighborhood
was aroused, and the men and boys
gathered all the horns to be found
and started in search of the missing
Doctor. After walking and blow
ing for about two hours the report
of a gun was heard in the distance
All hands made in that direction,
and after another hours walk they
at II P. NJ. found the Doctor lying
down between two pine logs. All
of this within two miles of home.
The Doctor says he was not lost;
only too much fatigued from the
foot race he had after deer to get
home that night. He is getting
anxious to leave this low land, and
as he has heard that there is some
thing in or near Columbus, Ga, re,
sembling a Tennessee Hill, he has
decided to visit that city and if pos
sible see that Hill.


We ex-Pulaskians rejoice to hear
of the great improvements going on
with you. We doubt il we would
recognize the place now. Two fine
hotels, fire engine, more street
lamps and the names put on street
corners, part of the town burnt and
rebuilt, all since we left.


We hope Laps. may be elected,
for we have fellow feeling for a
man whose "boys" are all girls.


LAKE c. TROUT.
Year: 1878

Perhaps the following character
will be recognized by most of our
readers. The following is the testi-
mony of our p. E.:


"He is the orfulest liar ever saw.
Why, he told me once that he lived
on a small island in the Pacific
Ocean on which there was a volcano.
And he said there was an active de-
mand out in that region fol water
melons, so he went into the business
of raising them. And he said one
yeaR his whole crop failed except
one melon, and that kept on grow
ing at such q fearful rate that it
crowded him off the lowland and up
the volcano, which generated steam
and caused an explosion which blew
up the whole concern to atoms, and
shot him four hundred miles out
to sea, where he was picked up by
a whaler. He used to tell that the
one great mistake of his lite was
that he didn't drive a peg in the
crater of the volcano so as to max e
it water tight and then slice open
the watermelon and come sailing
home on the half shell.


"He would lie. He said that once
he was cast away on an iceberg
with no baggage but pair of skates
and a fishing pole. But he skated
around until he came across a dead
whale frozen into the ice. So he
took off his shirt-it was night for
six months in the year up there
tore it into strips for a wick, run
the strips through the bamboo fish
ing rod, stuck the rod into the fat
of the whale, and lit the other end.
He said it burned splendidly, and
that iceberg reflected the light SO
strongly that it was bright as day
for forty miles aroun, and one YES
sci ran into the iceberg, thinking it
was a light house. He said he sold
the iceberg to the captain for $15,-
600, and the captain split it up and
took it home, and made 200 per
cent. profit disposing of it to ice
companies.


"Lie? Well, sir, he beat any man
/ ever came across. Told me that
once, out in Nevada, a mountain
lion attacked him, with his mouth
wide open. He had presence of
mind enough to grasp it by the
tongue and pull. The lion roared
with pain, but he did his level best
pulling and pretty soon the tongue
began to give and the tail TO short
en- and directly out they came, the
tail and the tongue Ip one contlnu
Gus string. He said he had 'em at
home and he showed 'em TO me, but
my belief is they were only three or
four cowhides and o bulls tail dove
tailed together.


"He was astonishing as a truth
crusher. Said he served on a gun
boat during the war which was very
small and light, while the mortar on
the deck was very large and heavy,
and he said the first time they tried
to fire a fifteen-inch shell the shell
remained stationary, while the recoil
was so great that it fred the gum
boat four miles up the stream and
landed it in a tree. He is liar,
but when he's dead | reckon he'll
ketch II.


"He had COW once that had no
mother. He had a single cucumber
once that furnished the family all
summer. He'd cut of a mess every
morning and another mess would
grow by the next morning; and
many other things too numerous to
mention. Well, he was just orful.
That is Just the fact about it."
Year: 1878

A poor woman, coming from a
wretched garret in an inland manu-
featuring town for the first time to
see the seashore, gazing at the
ocean. said she was glad for once in
her life to see something which
there was enough of.
Year: 1878




Esq. Billy Jones down in the 4th
district keeps his neighbors well
astir with his jokes. The grape
vine brings us this one which he
tells on a cattle-dealing neighbor-
whom we will call John Smith for
short, partly because nobody else is
named John Smith, and partly be-
cause nobody else wants to be
named John Smith:


Col. Smith went over into the
Alabam last week to buy cattle and
he got into a very fine sage
brush section where cattle were
extra fat and fine. He took a
spring wagon along to haul the dis
abled ones. When he had spent
twelve or fifteen dollars and had
about cleaned out the country of
cattle, he started the drove on home.
He soon saw that their immense
coats of hair and burs were weight
ing them down and he concluded
the second day to trim the flock.
He coruered them all up in lane
and made the boys set fire to the
long hair of the cattle and they had
a terrible blaze and no damage for
some time, until at last it was dis
covered that the burs which had ac-
cumulated in knots in the fianks
and tender places of the cattle were
catching fire and furnishing more
heat than the blaze of hair did.
The cattle began to show life to
such an alarming degree that the
boys concluded they could see bet
ter from the tree tops, and so they
all clim. Pretty soon a stampede
set in, and the old horse in the
spring wagon, that had not been
known to throw off his dignity so
much as to strike a trot in nineteen
years, prieked his ears and joined
in the meelee-and away down the
road and through the black jacks the
flaming herd few, believing. The
boys came down and followed In
the wake, picking up wagon spokes
here and there, dodging sparks, and
anon stopping to listen at the scat
tered refrain that was dying out in
every direction, like the unmusical
howlings of herd of young volca
noes let loose and chased by a roar
ing, snortIng hurricane. Soon the
bows were left alone, and "Col.
Smiths cattle were upon a thous-
and hills" and still rushing on for
other hills to conquer, and his
spring wagon was hanging in frag-
ments to black jack limbs for miles,
and the old horse, with tail up and
ears back, making for Sand Noun
tain. Col. Smith will know his cat
tie when be finds them, for they are
marked. He is going to get out a
patent for his process OF cooking
cattle on foot, and when be collects
them he is going TO drive them
around TO peddle out beefsteaks.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph Cthus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone win Yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you win comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and Grenew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


tB- We enter no new names on our
books without the money In advance.
Year: 1878

Washington special to the Chicago Times.


Nothing more clearly shows the
complete decentralization of the
Republican party machine than yes
terday's senatorial caucus attempt
to devise some means for it to be
saved. 1t is conceded that after
the 4th of March the Senate is to be
Democratic, and the problem is now
to see what can be done to save the
house. Everything that is done by
the machine party men is with the
intent of influencing the next con


gressional campaign. The Con
gress that is to be elected is the
one that has a share in counting
the votes of the next Presidential
canvas. With both branches of
Congress Democratic there are
enough republican presidents estab-
lished to warrant the Democrats in
doing anything they please to gain
entire possession of the government.
Year: 1878

He never NEEDLES with tobacco except to
quarrel with its use. He avoids every kind
Of literary occupation in the evening"


The main entrance of the Evening Post
building and exterior Of the counting-room
in the basement have been draped with
black cloth. Mr.. Bryant's own room in
the editorial offices has been closed, and
black cloth hung in folds above the door.
Everything within the room remains pre-
cisely as he left it. The Evening Express
appeared in mourning having been printed
with turned rules.
Year: 1878

Iceland is an elevated plateau about two
thousand feet high with narrow marginal
habitable region sloping gently to the sea-
The elevated plateau is the seat of every
species of volcanic action, viz, lava-erup-
tions, solfataras, mud volcanoes, hot springs,
and geysers These last exist in great
numbers; more than one hundred are
found in a circle of two miles diameter.
One of these, the Great Geyser, has long
attracted attention.


The Great Geyser is a basin or pool
fifty-six feet in diameter, on the top of a
mound thirty feet high. From the bottom
of the basin descends a funnel-shaped pipe
eighteen feet in diameter at the top, and
seventy eight feet deep. Both the basin
and the tube are lined with silica, evidently
deposited from the water. The natural
inference is, that the mound is built up
by deposits from the water, in somewhat
the same manner as a volcanic cone is built
up by its own elections. In the intervals
between the eruptions the basin is filed to
the brim with perfectly transparent water,
having temperature of about 170 to $50
degrees. The following are its peculiarties:


First. Immediately preceding the erup-
ton sounds like cannonading are heard
beneath, and bubbles rise and break on
the surface of the water. Second A
bulging of surface is then seen, and the
water oyer-fows the basin. Third. I'm
mediately thereafter the whole of the
water in the tube and basin is shot up
ward one hundred feet high, forming a
fountain of dazzling splendor. Fourth.
The eruption of water is Immediately fol-
lowed by the escape of steam with a roar
ing noise. These last two phenomena are
repeated several times, so that the foun-
tain continues to play for several minutes,
until the water is sufficiently cooled, and
then all is again quiet until another
eruption. The eruptiOns occur tolerably
regularly every ninety minutes, and last
six or seven minutes. Throwing large
stones into the tube has the effect Of bring
ing on the eruption more quickly.-Pop-
uIar Science Monthly.
Year: 1878

The process Of making the hollow rub
Der balls used by children for playthings
is quite curious and may be interesting to
those not familiar with it. A Holyoke
writer thus describes 1.-THE upper room
of the mill is prepared to push this branch
of the business for q few months and it
will probably turn ont some 10000 dozen
of those balls between January and June
These balls have solid surface, and made
BY different process from that of making
the soft rubber balls which are perforated
by an opening, and of course are much
more firm, durable and elastic. The sheets
of rubber prepared for the balls are cut
into strips of double convex shape The
edges of the strips are moistened with a
preparation of rubber and naphtha, by
which they are Joined firmly together,
three of the strips being used for one ball.


This part of the work is done by girls,
and a skillful girl can earn about S1.50
per day. When the strips are Joined to-
gether, the ball is very nearly the shape
of Brazil nut Before the last opening
is closed, small quantity of carbonate of
ammonia is put inside, which, when sub
iected to strong heat viii make the rubber
expand and fill out the ball mould The
opening is then closed with the adhesive
mixture, and it is placed in an iron mould
of the size and shape of the ball desired.
The moulds are packed into frames in
which they are subjected to the heat of
the vulcaniZer.


They are kept in place in the frame by
iron rods along the side, and when the
frame is full, iron plates at the ends are
screwed down tightly upon the moulds to
hold them in place These iron plates are
about three-fourths of an inch thick, and
so strong is the expansive force of the
rubber in the moulds that they have bent
this thick iron into curve. If one of
the moulds should work out Of place while
the vulcanization is in process, the moulds
will all fly out with noise like the report
of dozen pistols, and the work is spoiled.
The action Of the heat does the rest.
When the moulds are opened, they con-
tain the perfect round balls with no mark
of the places where the pieces we're joined.
The slight ridge made by the mould is
ground off by stone used for the purpose,
and the ball is done This is but one pro.
cess of rubber work Besides the hollow
balls are made solid balls of rubber, etc.
Year: 1878

The great four-fold waterfall, the Fall
of Garsoppa, on the west side of India,
near Honore, little known as it is, is one
of the wonders Of the world. A writer
says of it: Difficult it is to convey in words
any picture of the stupendous scene.
There is the river, some three hundred
yards in width, flowing through soft wood
land, its waters split into many CLASSY
currents, gliding round worn boulders and
islets, when instantly bed and banks are
gone, and in their place are savage, terrific
walls of gaunt rock plunging to depths
eyes dare not look into, down which the
shuddering waters fall at four points nearly
equidistant on the irregular curve of the
rim of the abyss.


From the lip of the precipice to the
dark pools at its foot is an accurately
measured distance of eight hundred and
thirty feet, and down this prodigious de-
scent pour the four cataracts, each arrayed
in its own special robes Of grandeur and
beauty. First on the western side is the
Great or Rajah fall; branch of the river
runs over projactiug leagasand dnowhere
touching the Titanic wall, which hollows
in, descends in a stately unbroken column,
gradually widening its shining skirts into
black, unfathomable pool eight hundred
and thirty feet below. The precipice runs
backward, curving in an irregular bay, on
whose farther side the fall, named the
Roarer, shoots slanting down a third of
the hight into a rocky basin that shoulders
out, whence it boils out in broad mas
sive cataract, plunging five hundred feet
into the same pool opposite its kingly
neighbor.


Leaving the bay, next on the general
plane of the precipice comes the Rocket
fall, running impetuously over the brim
and down the face of the stupendous wall,
to which it only just clings with a broad
band of glistening foam-white water,
speeding in quick gushes, necessarily dart
ing out myriads of watery rockets and
vaporous arrows, with which all its volume
seems alive, and pouring clear at last in a
dense shining curtain into its own pool
Last and loveliest, La Dame Blanche
glides down the grim colossal rampant in
lapse after lapse of delicate lace-like wells,
now blowing out in bright, misty spray,
and again quickly gathering up the white
folds, and so stealing downward with
whispering murmur, till gently sinking in
a sparkling shower into a pool whose ink
black surface is hardly rufied. The exact
depth scientifically measured is eight
hundred and thirty feet.