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Year: 1877

New YORK. Nov 23.-At a meeting of the
stockholders of the Tenth National Bank to-
day. to decide on the question of the propriety
OF winding no the business Of the bank at
which four -ffths of the stockholders were
represented. a resolution to go into liquidation
was adopted. 1t was announced that The stock
holders might expect dividend of about 40
per cent January
Year: 1877

quiet revulsion Of feeling which makes in
favor of the President. Some of those who
are turning toward him do not at all give up
their purposes, but hope that he will surren-
der to fair words and adroit management
and that while he will not be moved by threats
he can be wheedled. Others are weary of a
struggle which brings them no fruits. They
ting ready to fall in before It is too late.
Year: 1877

aro proposed to be mado at tho
department.. Tho object is to
learn if we cannot manufacture
sugar to export, and prevent tho
necessity OF any importation. Let
us hold up tho Commissioners hand
in his efforts
Year: 1877

NJ. Thiers, it is well knows, always
took great pains with his speeches.
which were studied even to the last
refinement of phrase and verbal color.
ing. They were long prepared; and
after they were delivered, he used often
to spend entire nights i'm the Office OF
the 80 Moniteur" correcting and amend
ing them for official publication. Yet
in extempore debate he had no superior
perhaps no equal, until Gambetta
arose. A sudden discussion always
found him ready with his facts and his
figures, his ever available power OF
irony, and his inveterate pugnacity.
Nor did extempore debate ever betray
him into flying over, or descending
below, his subject. Sometimes he was
impetuously indignant, and exceeding
ly bitter in his retorts; but he rarely
made use of his temper to lend the
impressiveness of wrath to his eloquence
He was most dexterous in speech; there
were tact and finesse in the wit that
once in while sparkled forth, and he
was almost finically precise in the accu-
racy of his figures and statement OF
facts; but was not master Of the art, in
which Gladstone is .fdcile princeps
among recent statesmen of making


figures eloquent,-Seribner's Monthly.
Year: 1877

A writer in the Scottish Naturalist
tells story Of pigeon, which illus
trates the truth of the saying that God
tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,
and the higher power o: instinct promp-
ted by parental love. Two pigeons had
built their nests in the top story of the
dove-cote, and had Matched their young
which came out of the egg about the
middle of March 1876. On March l6, a
very severe stern of snow and snow
drift set in at dusk. Ii must be noticed
that the door of the dOve-cote looked TO
the northwest from whence the storm
was coming, so that the snow blew
right into the portal where the young
pigeons were lying; only a few days
old. The storm was very severe, so
much so that IL was thought to be the
hardest that had happened for many
years, and the young brood would have
perished but for the happy expedient
that the father of the pigeons adopted.
He stood in the doorway, with his tail
spread out to the storm, and the wings
in a fluttering position, evidently with
the intention of stopping the draught,
so as to shelter his naked offspring, and
there he stood for hours, with the snow
thick upon his back and tail, breaking
the intensity of the cold. But for this
the young must have died.
Year: 1877

About three hundred and fifty years
ago, when Venice was in the height OF
her power and the full flower of her
glory, and when she was engaged in
constant warfare with the Turk, there
was among her senators one named
his fellows and by the Duke or Doge
himelf. The mistress of his household
was his young daughter, Desdenona,
whom he loved the more tenderly
because her mother had died in her
childhood, and the girl had grown to
early wom8nhOod watched over only
by his fatherly eye, and had gradually
come to fill wife's and a daughters
place both in his household and in his
heart. The lack of "a mothers watchful
care and constant cautions had devel-
Oped In DesdemOna an independence OF
character and a self-reliance to which
otherwise she might not have attained;
and this independence her position as
the head of the domestic establishment
of a member of the proudest and most
powerful obligarchy of modern Europe
greatly strengthened and confirmed.
Desdemona's nature was gentle, submis
sive, and self-sacrifieing, but at the
same time passionful; and the result OF
the influence of her circumstances upon
this nature was a union of bOldness, or
rather of openess in thought and action
with a warmth and tenderness of feel
ing and capacity of self devotion
which are found only in women of high
ly and delicately strung organizations


With an imagination which wrought
out for her grand ideals, and soul
finely attuned to all the higher iDfiuen-
ces of life, she was yet careful house
keeper, and gaveherself up loyalty to the
duties imposed upon her by her position
in her fathers house. Notwithstanding
her beauty, her rank, her accomplish
ments, she had suffered herself to be
little wooed, and had not inclined her
ear to the voice of any lover, partly
because of her youth, partly because OF
her preoccupation, but chiefly rather
because she cherished in her heart such
a lofty ideal of manhood that there were
few noble gentlemen even in Venice
who could captivate her eye, or touch
her heart. One young Venetian named
Roderigo had become deeply enamored
of her beauty. He could not love her
as she would be loved, and still less
could not look upon her with an eye of
favor; for he was silly snipe-a COM
pound of self-conceit and folly and
foppery; a coarse but feeble animal,
with an outside fantastically tricked out
by his tailOr.-GdldIg.
Year: 1877

Dear little teacup,


Oh my rare wee cup,
Work Of Celestials you must be divine ;
Tea no one drank in


Porcelain of Nankin


So fit to rank in
Richer ceramic collections than mine.
Those curious blue marks,
Not sham, but true marks,
Prove you are nearly five centuries old;
In your young beauty


Perhaps you did brew tea
For the King Chuty,
Robed, like the sun, in mantle Of gold.
Where is his charmer?
Who would dare harm her.
She who ruled over the ruler Of men,
But in the places


Which knew her grsces
She left no traces
They have forgotten their fair denizen
She was not brittle,


Frail perhaps little
Why is she m ssing, and you here to-day
Say by what token


You are unbroken


Patent to no ken
Is the distinction for both are Of CLAY.
Year: 1877




Who amongst women or who amongst
men first decked the hand with the PHI
ant skin ofan aEimal? Necessity or ele-
gance, which invented the first glove?
And yet we know that gloves have been
made from time immemorial. In au-
cient Rome. as well as Athens, the
wearing of gloves was regarded as a
mark of luxury and elegance. And in
later days history relates that when the
last scion of the dynasty of Suabia was
driven to the scaffold by Charles of An
jou, eonquoror at Champs du Lys, he
justified in loud and naughty tones his
title to the crown, and just before his
death, thinking that he would invest
some of his friends with the dignity
which had been taken from himself, he
threw his glove into the midst Of the
crowd, calling on courageous man TO
pick it up and avenge his fate. In our
days the glove appertains principally to
private life, and is as much matter of
necessity as ones hat or coat.
Year: 1877

There are friends who are friends
only for the hour, friends for the noon
tide and the flood; they have no real
roofing, as you discover if your horizon
gets clouded over, and foul weather
comes in place of fair; ifyOur rushing
waters run dry and your goodly vessels
are stranded on the beach. These are
the parasites of life, and clinging
orowths which twine around the
stronger trees and maybe strangle them
before they die.
Year: 1877

SHEEP HUsBADRY.-There is an old
Spanish proverb, "The hoof of the sheep is
golden" Whether this is true or not, the
universal experience of all who have attcmp-
ted sheep husbandry is that it is the only
or most practical renovator of our worn out
soils and the best test of the profits aris-
ing from it is the tenacty with which flock
owners hold on to their ewes, refusing to
part with them at almost any price, while
they may be borrowing at q high rate of
interest. This in itself should be conclu-
sive to the. doubtful and inexperienced
But we are all we'll aware that the hun
dreds of half starved and worthless ours
that iniest the country are a serious draw
back to successful sheep husbandry.


High taxation is the only remedy; and
should be paid to the interests of the much
abused farmers, the acknowledged backbone
of the country. Candidates for the Lcgis-
lature make great pretensions for the inter.
est of the farmer, but when our votes send
them through rejoicing, 50 much time is
taken up with mileage and per diem that no
time is left to us. Now, as class, We have
some rights, and we should pertinaciously
demand them. Let every farmer resolve to
cast his vote for no candidate that will not
pledge himself to bring this vexcd question
TO an issue, whether farmers flock Of
sheep, hurdled upon his own premises, is
more inject to taxation than vagrant flock
of half dozen worthless, half starved hy-
drophobc brutcs, turned loose upon COM
munity y"-COr. Southern CuhiUator.
Year: 1877

There is story Of two T.ishmen who
bought little barrel of whisky in partner
ship to trade with on Derby day They
agreed that neither should drink without
paying. On the way one drank glass and
paid his partner three pence The other
then had glass and returned the three
pence They kept up this alienation until,
when they reached the Downs, the whisky
was all gone, and they had honestly paid
for every drink, and We're bewildercd to find
that they had only three pence between
them
Year: 1877

HEALING POWER OF CHARCOAL
Charcoal has been discovered to be a sure
cure for burns. On laying small piece of
cold charcoal OH the burn the pain subsidies
Immediately; and if the charcoal is held
on for some time the wound is healed
Year: 1877

RALEIGH, n c., Jan. 1.-The iuaugu-
ration OF Gov. Vance passed off quietly. 4
large crowd was in attendance. His ad-
dress was applauded to the echo. Abiding
to national affairs, lie SAID:


Il conceive cur situation to be critical
in the extreme. Our only reliance now is
upon the moderation and patriotism OF con-
gress II the representatives OF the peo-
pie and the states shall not be able to
make peaceable and constitutional solution
OF the difficulty in which the country now
finds itself, and there should be an attempt,
as threatened, TO inaugurate the. candidates
not fairly elected, one of two things will
happen either the majority Of the Ameri-
can people will quietly submit to a great
wrong, involving the destruction of the
constitution, or there will be resort TO
violence. The circumstances Of North
| Carolina as well as the other southern
states generally, imperatively demand
that she should 10: be forward in this
| matter. More than all things else. except
good government, we need peace. In
common with the constitutional party in
the north, we think we have fairly elected
our candidate for president. Upon that
party aud not upon ourselves .devplves the
propriety and The duty Of taking the
needed steps toward securing the rights
of the majority, but let it net be snip
posed that we are Indifferent to their actor
or decline to come to the front because less
entitled to do so than others. Blasted bJ
the desolatioa of war, purged of rashness
by the fires of revolution, and sobered botl
by public calamity and private sorrow as We
have been. we yet cherish the love ot
liberty in our hearts. As the mouthpiect
of pore than a million people, believe
can with propriety say for them that
North Carolina may confidently be relied
upon to sustain that portion of the peo
PIE of the United States which shall con
vince US that it is the struggling for the
constitution, the laws, and public justice


which are the life aud the soul of tht


American union. On the one hand. VI
do not wish it to be understood that W.
ere ready or willing to em bark in revolution
nor en- the other that we are willing tt
quietly submit to any outrage that physia


force directed by party zeal may see &


to impose, the one course tending Il


provoke violence and the other to invit


oppression. We wish it understood tha


we will follow the lead of the constitutions
men of the north. Show us the law and i
, suficeth US.


He reserves az expression Of his view
on state policy for his message to th


general assembly.
Year: 1877

/ II Christina nilsson were here she


couldn't sit dowa OG the curbstone


and scream 'hOt corn half 80 well "a


the girl who last night posted herself


Immediately beneath the windows Of


this Office and set herself 10 telling
the people ia Camden what she had


got for sale She sat there with her


pail between her knees, a healthy ex.


ample Of what lungs may DO. Maybe


she had read OF slim girls who sang


and who were heard BY Maestro.


who took them to Paris and Rome.


and then hired managers to give them


Il thousand dollars night in gold


and married them of to men with


names longer than a eats tail but


there she sat, and from Just after


dewy eve until just before dawn. and
saog the praises Of hOt-corn without


variation. She was one Of about
three hundred, and the two hundred
and niuety-nintb sat on the corner
diagonally opposite and filed up the
blanks in which the other took breath.


with the same song pitched in a diff
ferent key.


\ very fervent Imagination might
have faneied those two dark priestess-
es of the night singing in alternate
versieles the praises of Ceres-b0iled
and buttered, With pepper and salt.


Worshippers at the shrine ever
and anon appeased the priestess with
an obulus and took from the altar.
represented by the bucket, a cob: and.
as the devOtee walked away, up went
the cry, "hot corn" to indicate the
fact that there was corn in the buck
ct still for those who had oboli to buy
It witbal The Organgrinders 90
home at nine O'Clock, and there are
no cats 10 the neighbOrhood, so the
bad no rival. When
the little telegraph boy brought the
early dispatches be trotted up stairs
to the tune Of "hot corn" when the
last printer was thinking about wash
ing his hands Of work, his last type
clicked in the stick" 10 "hot corn" :"
The air was full Of 1t and "hot corn"
came floating over the roof Of hOus-
es and through alleys like some pene-
tratiDg aroma People went TO bed
and dreamed Of "hot corn and wax
ing early heard it again. il was
first aud last and all the time. Hot
corn has its influence in the world:
il can make weak teeth ache and dis
seminate collie, and make q hungry
.ramp's mouth water, and drives a
sleepless invalid TO the verge Of suici-
ial mania IT might also induce 4
nan to commit murder, or engage in
! riot or even strike-the dark priest
sss Of the night who will SIT 10 one
posture for ten consecutive hours, a
'or. Of sombre patience On a moHu-
ment smiling at the grief Of every one
Hho doesn't take kindly to "hot corn"
screamed in q voice of vengeance by
! persistent woman hour after hour.
Without change Of note to vary the
nonOtoay Of the thing NORTH
fmeI ie0H
Year: 1877

Orice above Caseheer q Fresse's store. Somerset,
Pa. In the last hfieen years have greatly re-
diced The prices ARTIFICIAL teeth In this place
The constant increasing demand for teeth has In
duSed me 10 - enlarge my facilities that can
make good sets OF teeth az lower pricss than you
can get them in any other place In this country
lam now making good set OF teeth Tor -. and II
there should te any person among my thousands
OF customers In this Or the adjoining sOsnties that
have made teeth fOr that is not giving good sat
isfsetion, they call On At any time and get
= new set free OF charge.


maris
Year: 1877

I Hold on to your tongue when you
are just ready to swear, lie or speak
harshly, or to use any improper Ian
gage


Hold on 70 your hand when you
are about to pinch, strike, or do any
improper act.


Hold on to your feet when you are
ou the point Of kicking, running away
from study, or pursuing the path Of
shame or crime


Hold on 10 your temper when you
are angry. excited or imposed upon,
or others are angry with you.


Hold on 10 your heart when evil
associates seek your company, and
invite you 70 join in their games.
mirth and reveiry.


Hold on to your good name at all
times, for it is of more value than
gold or silver, high positions or fash
ionable attire.


Hold on TO truth, for il will serve
you well, and do you through all
time.


Hold en- 20 virtue; il is above all
price to you.


Hold on to your good character,
for it is, and ever will be, your best
wealth.
Year: 1877

The following is the text of bill
lature. 1t is of interest to the owners of
mines producing not more than one ton
of ore per day:


An Ac, providing for the taxation Of


mines that produce one ton or less a


day of ore or mineral bearing material,


and to encourage the prospecting Of


undeveloped mines.


SECTION /. All mining claims produc-
ing not more than one ton OF ore day
mineral bearing material containing gold,
silver, copper, nickel, bismu,h, anti
mony or other valuable metal, shall be
assessed and taxed for State and county
purposes in the following manner
From the gross yield or value of all ores
or mineral material of whatever char
acter, there shall be deducted the actual
cost of extracting said mineral from the
mine; the actual cost of asserting and
transportation to the place of reduction
or sale; the actual cost of reduction OF
sale, and the remainder shall be the net
proceeds, and shall be taxed as provided
for in this Act


Sec. 2. All bullion produced from any
mine that extracts not more than ont
ton of ore or mineral bearing material 9
day, shall be assessed and taxed at its
full market value after deducting the
actual cost OF mining, asserting, hauling
and reducing.


SEC. g. On claims of this class pro
ducing not more than one ton day
there shall be no allowance made for ex
penses incurred prior to the quarter il
which the assessment is made.


SEC. 4. This Act to take effect on ant
after the first day of April, eighteen hun
dsed and seventy seven.
Year: 1877

The description of the Poker Thief,
AZ published in the Utica IN. Y. Herald,
shows that large amount of inventive
genius is expended for the benefit of
criminals and inssS of their wills methods
OF swindllng:


In one of the drawers of the poker
table was found an ingenius and wicked
device attached to vest, which may
properlv be called a thief. The vest is
OF fine cashmere and is we'll made. 1t is
single breasted, with double fly on one
aide. The buttons which hold the vest
together are on the inside, while an
other row on the outside are shams.
The vest buttons nearly to the neck, and
is harmless in itself; but in the middle
of the fly is an opening large enough to
allow small frame to slip out close to
the body Following this frame, by
tearing open the lining of the vest, was
found an ingenious piece of mechanism,
composed of German silver and brass
springs, and attached to this was a long
spring of brass wire, through which was
passed small gut or cord. This was
long enough to reach through the leg OF
the pantaloons OF the wearer, the cord
terminating in a loop, which could be
fastened around the heel. The gambler
wearing this device, could beat hla mas
ter the devil, at poker, provided Mr.
Devi did not have another thief in
his vest. la playing with greenhorn
or Sucker" as verdant victims are
called, the wearer of the thief would
take his chances at getting large hand
by hook or crook, and if he failed out
side and above board he would use the
thief Set in the frame that could be
forced from the machine by extending
the foot attached to the cord, he had
one, two or three aces, kings or queens
cards high enough in rank to beat bis
opponent After receiving his hand
from the shutter, he would hold 1t close
to his body to examine it, and If not
pleased at its size, down would go his
foot, out would pop the frame, and ther
he would exchange his poor cards fol
better ones. Each time the deal came te
him be could pick out large hand ant
slip if into the thief's frame 30 as to b,
ready when needed. An experienced
gambler talking about this device las
evening said that a greenhorn playing
against this machine would not have a.
much chance to win as to recove
handful of bills thrown into fer.
furnace. All sorts of efforts we're mad
to get this machine from the police, bu
all of them failed 1t is the best evidenc
in the world that this was 'sure thing


or "skin" gambling room, in which n


man had show for his money.
Year: 1877

The following is II simple but sure
way to tell good from bad eggs: Put
them in wotcr enough to cover them.
All that lie flat, as they would on u
smoothe surface out Of water, are good.
Those OF which the big end rises aro bad.
The vessel used should have smoothe,
level bottom,
Year: 1877

Mr. Benj Betson, brought to this Office =
few days ago q natural curiosity in the
shape Of stalk Of corn, hearing seventy two
ears. The ears were not arranged long the
stalk, but were clustered in a bunch, making
a bundle as large a. q half bushel. Though
there were really seventy-two ears, yet we
think grangers would prefer the old kind Of
corn
Year: 1877

selves to the duties of the priesthood was SO
universal that it was necessary for them to
wait a day to make any preparation for
their journey. This was a missionary tour,
and the right Of those who labOred in word
and doctrine to support was so generally
acknowledged, that the people enabled them
on their return TO say: I'VE lacked for
nothing"


Subsequently churches were organized,
pastors were placed over them, and chal-
lenge any one to point to one single instance
in which either Of the churches presided
over by the apostles ever refused, when i,
was required, to give their pastors a sup
port


Had the disposition OF modern times
manifested itself it would have been re-
buked in some Of the apostolic epistles.
Upon this matter they are silent. But
they are not silent as regards the law
of support. They abound with references
to this duty, and give directions concerning
it. To the Law and testimony. We turn to
the 9th and lst COrinthisns. Paul had Wis
tied COrinth, and while there he did not re-
quire the Church to support him, as other
Apostles had done. A false teacher came
to Corinth after his departure, and charged
him with being an imPostor or false Apos-
tle-and, in proof of the charge, alluded to
the fact that he did not exercise the rights
Of an Apostle, in requiring the Church to
support him. Paul wrote them a letter, in
which he refutes the charges of his accuser,
and in noticing this he inquiries: Have
We not power TO eat and drink"


Thk form Of expression is equivalent to
an affirmation.


Paul also claimed the right to marry,
and lead about wife, as we'll a. the other
Apostles. On going to Corinth, for some
good reason he refused to receive compen-
sation from the church there. He was IN
part sustained by contributions from other
churches, and il was, perhaps, during the
intervals between the times at which he
received his wages from these churches that
he engaged in making tents. Then the
Corinthians requested him to explain his
angular course When he informed them that
it Vas not from any want Of authority as an
Year: 1877

ACcIDENT.-Yesterday afternoon, an
old colored man, known as "Lew" Bord-
ley met with a severe accident in one OF
the slaughter houses. 1t appears that
one of the butchers threw butcher
knife, which was very sharp, to him, and
failing to catch it the blade penetrated
his hand, making very ugly and deer
cash. He started for his home, the wound
bleeding very freely, and when near 9Th
and Market streets he became so weak
from the loss of blood that he fell to the
pavement DR.. Dunning, who was pass
ing at the time, seeing the condition o
the man, bound up the wound and stop
ped the flow of blood, otherwise lie woult
have died. A wagon was procured ane
he was taken to his home.