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Year: 1878

THE FLAG OF THE COMMUNE.


NEW YORK. Feb % At a meeting of the
Socialistic Labor Party in Germania in the
Assembly Rooms yesterday, the red flag of
commune was displayed. Resolutions were
adopted denouncing the standing army,
and the existence OF armories in cities. and
setting forth that more protection should be
given TO free speech. Zone speaker said,
'Only let the army be abolished and labor
would m axe such a move as would insure its
rights and render it equal with capital.
NO INSULT TO THE UNITED STATES INTENDED.


New YORK. Feb. 25.-The Star and Herald
OF Panama, of Feb. IL. just received, says
Messrs. Contreras and Rodas, two members
of the party who took possession OF the
AmeI lean schooner, Sunb am, at Port Lii
mon, on the the 14th, and states hat
their action was solely prompted by the
instinct of self-preservation, and was not in
any manner intended as an act of piracy.
They state that they were pursued by a
superior force, and that it was matter OF
life and death under these circumstances.
They assert that they offered the Captain
of the schooner money to take them away,
which he refused. They then took posses
sion of the vessel by show of force but did
no violence to person or property by so
doing and meant no insult to the United
States.
Year: 1878

Length other and important facts learned in
TINS connection, and leaving behind us the
ievity that has characterized the preceding
part OF this report and addressing ourselves
TO the important matter entrusted TO u.s. and in
full view of the magnitude of the interest
In olved in this consideration, your commit
tee In all earnestness, asks to submit the three
following ideas, as containing the result of
our tabors in this behalf:


FIRST. recognition of the fact of punish
ment for wrong-doing. is estential to just and
stable government, alike human and divine !;
and all our ideas Of punishment, as well as of
reward, are predicated upon Determinations
of character and conduct


second. The nature and duration of pun
ishment, are and of right ought to be, estab,
lished by the government having jurisdiction
in the emises; and the Holy Scriptures
which alone contain authentic utterances
VI on the subject under consideration, ex-
pressly declare that '.the wicked shall be
turned into hell"


Third. The terms used in giving expression
to the intent of the law, are TO be construed as
uniform in their meaning, whenever the SUBJ
Ject-matter is the same; and therefore we are
of opinion, and declare it the sense of this
House, that with both analogy and revelation
teach the doctrine of punishment IN HE'LL,
AND FOREVER


Respectfully submitted,


COMMITTEE
Year: 1878

long it would be before the explosion.
There probably never was goat who
swelled so tremendously as did that
particular goat. At the end of an hour
he was-as Mr.. Babcock is prepared to
assert-at least fifteen feet in circumfer-
ence. Nevertheless, the looked-for ex-
plosion did not occur, neither
did the goat seem to feel
uneasy. He roamed around the
room, knocking down the furniture, and
occasionally butting the piano. The
disguised MIR. Babcock would have tried
to drive him out, but had the door or
the windows been twice as large as they
were, the expanded goat could not have
passed through either of them. In his
desperation, the disappointed man tried
to shoot the animal, but the shot re-
bounded from his elastic sides and shat
tered the mirror. There was nothing
to be done but to wait until the goat
should regain his usual proportions, and
then try to drive him out of the room.


That swelled goat never collapsed.
He is still Is feet in circumference, and
he can not be got out of the parlor with
out previously tearing down the wall.
People come from all parts of the coun-
try to look at that goat, and Mr.. Bah
cock has been sued by an Irishman for
feloniously taking possession of his goat
and refusing to return it.-Neo York
Times.
Year: 1878

She was a young lady from Duck
water and had enjoyed her visit to the
Base Range metropolis immensely. She
was pretty and piquant, and one Of our
well known gallants had done his level
best to make it pleasant for her during
her stay. The exciting cause of the fol-
lowing was an attempt on his part to
snatch a kiss from her pouting lips.
Then she rose in all the dignity of Of
Tended maidenhood and said: "See
here, mister, jest don't set 'em too fresh.
You've done the handsome thing in cir
cuses, ice cream, candy and sich, but
you can't take no liberties. My Jake,
out to the creek, he's got a quit-claim
deed to the premises, and don't you for
get it. You can't squat on bis location,
and you'd better hunt for quarter sec
ton in some other direction, where you
can get better title and gather your
own crop" The young man recognized
the force of her argument and hunted
Eureka (Nev.) Sentinel. ea a'
Year: 1878

fore the Vermont Dairymen's Associa-
ton on the philosophy of curing and


improving cheese. The more important
points in it may be CLEANED from this
summary:


/. That but little advance can be
made in the quality of our best fancy
cheese without any especial care in cur
ing.


2: That the proper temperature for
curing cheese to get the best result in
quality has been determined by expert
ment to be from 20 to IS degrees Fab
renheit.


That the temperature above named
must be uniform, and that uneven tenn
peratures, by alternately checking and
unduly increasing fermentation, cause
bitterness and other Objectionable taint
in cheese.


4. That moisture is an important ele-
ment In cheese; that it should be prop
erly distributed through the solids and
so assimilated as to form one homoge-
neous mass, mellow and plastic, giving
the cheese the appearance of great rich
| ness.


5. That at least from 80 to 33 per
cent. OF moisture should be retained in
curing cheese; that as we decrease the
percentage of moisture from this point,
the percentage of butter must be in
creased to obtain mellowness of texture;
that the cheese is not improved in taste
by this substitution, which is often seri-
Gus loss.


8. That by proper temperature and
attention in retaining a right proper
ton OF moisture, the cheese is not only
of better flavor and quality, but saw
ing in weight of from 3 to per cent. is
made to the producer over the ordinary
methods of curing.


Z. That by the use of refrigerator
rooms cheese may be kept at any de-
sirable point of flavor, and thus by hold
ing when the markets are dull or the
weather unsuitable for shipping, the in
tervening space of time may be bridged
over by the factories without detriment
to the flavor or quality of the cheese.
8. That with our present knowledge
of cheese-making, certain amount of
fat in the milk is needed to make a good,
palatable cheese. Hence excessive
skimming, or reduction of the fat in
milk below one and a half or two per
cent, is not to be recommended where
the skinned milk is to be made into
cheese, unless other fat be substituted
to supply the deficiency.
Year: 1878

Seat yourself at a table. Attach
a piece of metal say a shilling) to
a thread. Having your elbow on
a table, hold the thread between the
points of the thumb and forefinger,
and allow the shilling TO hang in
a glass tumbler; the pulse will i'm
mediately cause the shilling to vi
brate like pendulum, and the vi
brations will increase until it strikes
the side of the glass, and suppose
the time of experiment to be the
hour of seven, or half past seven,
the pendulum will strike the glass
seven times, and then lose its mo
mentum and return to the centre.
If you hold the thread sufficient
length of time you will be con-
vinced that the experiment is com
plete. We need not add that the
thread must be held in steady
hand, otherwise the vibrating mo-
tion would be counteracted. At
whatever hour of the day OF night
the experiment is made, the coin
cidence will be the same.
Year: 1878

To retainsor recover health, per-
sons should be relieved from ankle
ty concerning disease. The mind
has power over the body-for per-
son to think he has a disease will
often produce that disease. This
we see effected when the mind is in
tensely concentrated upon the dis
ease of another. We.have seen a
person seasick, in anticipation of a
voyage, before reaching the vessel.
We have known people to die of can
Ger in the stomach, when they had
no cancer or any other disease. A
blindfolded man, slightly pierced in
the arm, has tainted and died from
believing he was being bled to
death. Therefore persons should
have their minds diverted as much
as possible from themselves. 1t is
by their faith that they die. As a
man thinketh, so is he. If he wills
not to die, he can often live in spite
of disease; and, if he has little or
no attachments to life, he will slip
away as easily as a child will fall
asleep. Men live by their minds
as well as by their bodies. Their
bodies have no life of themselves;
they are only receptacles of life
tenements for their minds, and the
will has much to do in continuing
the physical occupancy or giving
Ii M
Year: 1878

/


Did you ever pause and contem
plate that particular and peculiar
phase of human nature developed
by the existent school boy, when
released from study and discipline
when "school is OUT and he is
on lis-way home.


Ordinary humanity, when Ie-
leased from the tolls of the day, is
prone to seek rest and relaxation.
The boy scorns all such effeminate
ideas. He is composed of but three
parts-legs arms and yell, and the
yell is the biggest part of him. His
legs and arms have been kept in
irksome compulsory quietude all
day, and must now be exercised.
His voice has been seething and
swelling in him for hours, and must
now have vent.


AS soon as he is clear of the
school house he stops and deliber-
ately yells yell that is ear split
ting, but which has no more object.
meaning or direction than the mid
night vociferations Of a mule, and
yet it appears at full run with his
arms flying about like the scintilla-
tions of a pin-wheel. He is no re-
spector of persons, and is utterly
Indifferent as to whether he runs
down a smaller boy, spins an aged
citizen three times around or mash
es girls hat over her eyes in his
headlong career.


Nervous ladies hug the sides of
the houses as he rushes by in u
drove like whirlwind and screams
like a steam whistle.


"Mercy on US! If that boy was
OILY mine Pd-" but just then her
own boy flies past, falls over a dry
goods box, bounces up, kicks an
other boy, and is chased across the
street and around the corner before
she can get the "You Robertr' with
which she intends to annihilate
him, out of her astonished throat.


There is but one thing that has the
slightest soothing effect on the boy
when he is on his way home from
school. He can see his old man
further than Prof. Hall can see a
haystack with telescope, and the
moment that parent dawns upon his
vision he becomes as proper as
model letter writer, and the neatly
modulated voice with which he
wheedles the author of his being out
of five cents on the spot, is a lesson
for future ambitious savings bank
presidents.


The amount of racing, jumping,
pulling, hauling and howling that
school boy can concentrate into a
transit of two squares is positively
astonishing. and the preternatural
GOODNESS and quietude with which
he takes his red face and painting
breath into the kitchen and asks if
supper amt most ready, is human
conundrum that calls for unquai
fed admiratiop.-Eaton Free Press.
Year: 1878

When the head of a Bulgarian
family perceives that he is about to
die he sends for the priest and be-
gins to bargain with him about the
cost Of his funeral The moment
he dies all the pots, pans and ket
ties are turned upside down to pre-
vent his soul taking refuge In any
one Of them, and great care is taken
10 prevent either man or animal
especially cat or dog-from step
ping across his body, as otherwise,
in the opinion Of his family, he
would turn into a vampire, aud be q
continual nuisance to them and %
their neighbors. The body is buried
without any coffin, in q shallow
grave, and left there for three years,
during which time many offerings
oi food and wine are placed upon
it. At the end Of the third year the
bones of the dead man are dug up
and carefully washed, put into q
linen bag, laid before the altar in
the village church, and after receiy-
iag the blessings Of the priest are
finally buried for good.
Year: 1878

The Holy Spirit is able to make
the Word as successful now as in
the days of the Apostles. He can
bring in the hundreds and thous-
ands as easily as by ones and twos.
The reason why we are not more
prosperous is, that we have not the
Holy Spirit with US in might and
power as in early times. If we had
the Spirit sealing our ministry with
power, 1t would signify very little
about our talent. Men might be
poor and uneducated; their words
might be broken and ungrammatic-
al; there might be none of the pol
ished periods of Hall, or glorious
thunders of Chalmers; out if the
Spirit attended them, the humblest
evangelist would be more success
full than the most eloquent of
preachers. 1t is extraordinary
spiritual powers that we need. Oh!
we know some before whom we
shrink into nothing as to talent, but
who have not the spiritual power,
and when they speak have not the
Holy Spirit with them; but we know
others, simple hearted men, who
speak their country dialect, and who
stand up to preach in their country
place, and the Spirit of God clothes
every word with power. Hearts are
broken, souls are saved, and sinners
are born again. o! Spirit of the
living God, we want Thee! Thou
art the life, the soul, the source of
Thy peoples success. Without
Thee they can do nothing; with
Thee they can do everything.-
Spurgeon.
Year: 1878

From the official tables it appears
that more than four hundred and
sixty six millions of passengers
have been carried by the railroads
in nineteen years, and that of this
number two hundred and seventy
six have been killed, and forty-one
of these were killed without fault of
their own. Twenty-nine deaths of
passengers were caused by the ac-
cident in 1871, at Revere. What
was the average length of railroad
journey does not appear from the
above figures, but if 1t were no
more than five miles, the whole
number of miles travelled by passen
gers would be more than twenty
three hundred millions, or two hun
dred and eighty millions to every
death Of passenger from causes
wholly beyond his control. This is
to say, if person should spend all
his time in a railroad car in constant
motion, the probability is that he
would travel two hundred and
eighty million miles before he
would meet with fatal accident.
At the rate of six hundred miles a
day about one hundred and thirty
years would be occupied in travel
ing that distance. Therefore, a
person who should adopt that mode
of life and make himself living IL
lustratlon of perpetual motion,
would die of old age before he would
have a chance to die by accident.
1t appears from these facts that a
railroad car is the safest place in
the world.
Year: 1878

The way to get credit is to be
punctual. The way to preserve it
is not to use it too much. Settle
often; have short accounts. Trust
to no mans appearance-it is de-
ceptive-perhaps assumed for the
purpose OF obtaining credit. Be
ware of gaudy exterior. Rogues
usually dress well. TIE rich are
plain men. Trust him, if any one,
who carries but little on his back.
Never trust him who flies into a
passion on being dunned; make him
pay quickly, if there be any virtue
in the law. Be satisfied, before you
give credit, that those you give it
to are sale men TO be trusted. Sell
your goods at small adv,ince. and
never misrepresent them, or those
whom YOU once deceive viii beware
OF you the second time Deal up
rightly with all men and they will
repose confidence in you, and soon
become your permanent customers.
Trust no stranger. Your goods are
better than doubtful charges. What
is character worth, if you make 1t
cheap, erediting all alike? Agree
beforehand about to do job. and
if large, put it into writing. If any
decline then, quit-or be cheated.
Though you want a job ever so
much, make all sure at the onset;
and in all cases at all doubtful make
sure OF a guarantee. Be not afraid
to ask it; it is the best of response
bility, for, if ofense De taken, you
have escaped a loss.
Year: 1878

Two things that we don't under
stand-why a young lady can not
sharpen a pencil when a young man
is within hailing distance, nor why
a person will deliberately tell q
falsehood when the simple truth
would answer his purpose as well.
Year: 1878

That graced so gracefully an alabaster
neck, and in waves of majestic beauty
encircled her delicate form, she was
solely indebted to few bottles of that
delightful fragrant hair dressing known
as Newton Smiths Hair Restorative. 1t
is not a dye does not contain sugar of
lead or any other poison; checks the
thick and long growth on bald heads.


feb2S-lm
Year: 1878

A temperance speaker In Paducah
said that the greatest drunkard in
the place was a knave. He meant
nobody in particular; but one of the
county officials, taking the remark
as personal insult, challenged
him TO fight on the spot.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you sec around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up ut once. We
would take great pleasure In extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will way our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere TO q strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such .
course, and irenew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


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

A young man of New Albany,
Ind, made an arrangement with a
married lady to meet him secretly.
The lady agreed and brought her
husband with her, who busted the
young mans clothes with a rawhide.
Year: 1878

A country fellow went one night
to see his sweetheart, and for a
,ong time could think of nothing to
say. At last, snow beinning to fall
heavily he told her that his father
sheep would be lost. "Well," said
she, kindly taking him by the hand,
"Pll take care of one of them"
Year: 1878

An enthusiast is q man who tries
TO make himself believe what he
knows is not true; and a bigot is a
man who will set you on fire II
you will not let him make bis opin-
ions Sog yea.
Year: 1878

As my wife and at the window one day
Stood watching man with a monkey,
a cart came by with a broth Of u boy
Who was driving a stout little donkey.
TO my wife then spoke. by way Ofa Joke,
There's = relation of yours in that carriage ,
To which she replied, as the donkey shs


spied,


"Ah, yes, relatiOn-by marriage
Year: 1878

Detroit Free Press.


| noticed q recipe for making cheap
telephone, given by Prof. Barrett In q
recent lecture on that instrument. In
making his instrument you use q bar
magnet, and have to 60 TO considerable
trouble, for all of which you can only
talk q distance OF about q hundred
yards. Now ] eau give q recipe much
more simple, and when the instrument
is finished, you can converse al q dis.
lance of nearly Eve hundred yards.
Take two half-galion (or quart) tin
fruit-cans, and take The bottoms out OF
them. Now take a couple Of half cigar
boxes, take down the lids, and cut a
hole through the bottom and lid oi
each, 90 you can flt In your cans, first
bringing the ends level with the lid or
bottom. Now stretch wet rawhlde,
parchment or bladder over the other
end, and lie tight, and let It dry, and
your speakingtubes are finished. Now
take two-ply OF shoethread and wax
It we'll, making It as long 90 you wish
It. Punch hole in the center Of the
parchment head, poke the end Of the
string through, aud put q knot on It to
keep Il from pulling back. Then put
up your string like q telegraph wire,
but don't let II touch wood. Where
you wish 10 support II, or make turn,
run It through loop Of the same kind
of string It is, but don't put the sup
porting loops closer together than ID
necessary to keep II up, aud leave the
string pretty loose, to allow for con.
traction when wet. Fasten up your
speaking tubes at each end of the route,
aud you are ready to gabble away.
You can bore large gimlet holes In
your window-sash to run the line out
through, keeping 1t from touching the
sash with q loop as described. The
signal.call is to drum on the parchment
end of the can with your fingers, OF
better pick the string like Q harp about
9 foot from the head. They are very
useful aud interesting. I'm. HUTTON.
Year: 1878

SluCiunhu dR@ettes ApIh


The Earl Of Leitrim, who was mur.


dered by his tenants yesterday, was


one Of those typical Irish landlords


whose tyranny is set forth In such


ballads as the "Wearin' Of the Green"
He was hated by bis neighbors with an
intense bitterness, engendered by bis
many acts Of cruelty aud oppression,
of which the deed for which he was
shot was a counterpart. He was an
elderly man, either bachelor or q wild.
over, and lived without having any
social communication with bis neigh.
bors, whom be scAndalized by bringing
among them his mistresses and INSTALL
ing them In one or other OF his houses,
of which he had several. He bore a
charmed life. Time after time has be
been waylaid by bands of desperate,
tenants, and several of his coachmen
have been shot on the box as they were
driving their master. He never return.
ed to his house by the same road by
which he departed, and ell his move
ments were yelled Ia secrecy to hide
his tracks from his pursuers. His life
must have become 9 burden TO him, 90
no was constantly in fear Of meeting
the fate which yesterday overlook him,
The "driver" mentioned In the dispatch
may have been his coaChmaD, but In the
County Leitrim the term is used 10
designate the individual whose duty II
ls drive from their homes the tenants
who have been evicted. The death of
the Earl Of Leitrim will not be regret.
ted by bis neighbors, who never bad
any word from him unless 1t was q
command, and while the manner of bis
taking Off should be condemned, yet
It must be confessed that he met with
no better fate than be deserved, and
that his end was In entire keeping with
his career as q landlord.
Year: 1878

Do not buy yeast powder or baking
powder Of short weight. A manufac.
turer tnat defrauds by short weight will
net hesitate to make adulterated goods.
You can always rely on DooLEY's
YEAST POWDER being full weight aud
strictly pure.
Year: 1878

A FATAL accident occurred In an En-
Rlish football field the other day. A lad


was run into violently by q man who
jumped ct him with prOtruding knee
and struck him In the stomach. The lad
died soon after, and at the inquest the
man was committed for trial for mau.
slaughter, the jury also expressing the
opInion that the game sought to be
erased from the pastimes Of England"
Year: 1878

EEOm tue mart county Three Springs.


We have here in Hart county, Ken.
lucky, man by the name of William
Bowman, who was thrown away in the
Apalche mountains, North Carolina,
when an infant, and was found by an
old bear and adopted as a cub. AT the
age Of about ten years be was captured
tied hand and foot, and then his cap.
tors found that he could not talk, moi
could he be persuaded to take any food
but milk, which he sucked from bot.
tie, showing that he had lived solely
by the nursing Of the bear. Bowman
is now farmer near Omega, and any
one doubling the truth of this state.
ment can have 1t verified by seeing
Year: 1878

TIE medicines of J. c. Aver & Co.
have been go long before the public
and are go firmly fixed In popularity,
that they need no commendalion, but
we take pleasure in calling attention to
their advertisement Of the famous
Cherry PectOral.
Year: 1878

a POOR woman, coming from a
Wretched garret in an inland manufac.
turing town for the first time to see the
seashore, gazing ct the ocean, said -
was glad for once In her life
something which there was enol