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Year: 1877

BLACKING COOKING STOVEs.-A lady
correspondent writes: Observation in
duces me to believe that many young
hOusekeepers become discouraged for
the want of proper knowledge of what
true neatness is. Many of my acquain-
tances, in various places, have been,
and are now half insane relative to the
habit of rubbing the blacking- brush
over their cooking stove every day,
throwing the dust in every direction,
and especially upon the floor, where
it cannot be removed without the use
of strong soapsuds, which Injuries the
paint, and wastes money, time and
strength. If there is any kind of USE
less, domestic work it is the unhealth-
full and unreasonable practice of black
ing cooking stoves every time a drop
of water troubles them; and the
sight to a tidy housewife or any
other tidy person, is great an
noyance. A blacking-brush should
never touch cooking-stOve hearth,
for it is convenient place to set sew
eral kinds of dishes while preparing a
meal, also tea and cOtfee-pOt. If any
black lead is there, the article cannot
be caIIied to the table without being
wiped, and a cloth may not always be
near, thereby producing delay and per-
plexity. The sides of a kitchen stove
may be kept bright with good backing,
and if little should be rubbed on the
top once week it would not be amiss !;
but generally the top and hearth should
be washed three times day, and the lat
ter be secured with nice sand, now and
then, and if well washed and kept dry
will look as it did when new. 1t should
be one of the chief studies of every
young house keeper to learn how she
can perform the most domestic labor
and do it well, and in the shortest
length of time, and with the least waste
of strength and patience for her duties
are various and yet characterized with
sameness, from week to week, which
necessarily produces both mental and
physical prOstratiOn.
Year: 1877

One of the firm who run minis
sion house on Woodbridge street is
man of muscle. He can lift barrel of
flour as easily as a common man lifts a
bag of oats, and it scarcely makes his
ears go red as he heaves barrel of salt
into a farmers wagon. For weeks past
he has been bCasting of his strength of
muscle, and wanting to see something
he couldn't lift, and the boys around
the store got their heads together the
other day. They took a salt barrel and
filled it with broken pig iron, old
weights and other things, put two
inches of salt at either head, put the
head back and rolled it to the curb
stone and at a favorable hour dray
backed up in the most innocent manner,
and an order from Il grocer for barrel
of salt was handed out. The drayman
and two of the boys fooled around the
barrel so long that the strong man got
out of his chair in disgust, threw off his
coat and said:


"You fellows had better get porous
plasters for your backs. Get out of the
way and give me chance ~


He seized the barrel by the chimes
and lifted away. 1t didn't move. He
spit on his hands and laid out to pull
the hoops right off. The hoops stayed
right there. So did the barrel


at takes four good men to lift one O.
them barr, ls," said the drayman.


''NOnsense I've lifted a score of
them, and Pll pick this up or break my
back. | guess the salt must be wet"


He got in position, drew a long
breath, and then lifted till his eyes
looked liked two towels left on the
clOthes-line in dark night. The bar
rel didn't lift. Pig-iron was too much
for muscle, and the litter sat down on
the walk. His back used to be plump
up and down, but it hasn't been since
that lift. His eyes are getting back to
their original position, and the red is
leaving tn back of his neck, and he
sees tw men handle bag of dried ap-
pies or a bushel of beans without a
word of comment. Detroit Free Press
Year: 1877

edge with galloOn to match the rep,
using the tiny ornamental taeks, and
tie with AN upholsterer's needle in as
many places as is desirable, leaving a
button on the upper side. When the
back of the chair is 70 be repaired Il
facing must be tackled on the outside.
Year: 1877

The Springfield Republican publishes
editorially the following sensible re-
marks on advertising:


Reforms of all kinds seems to be in
fashion. One of the Out-crOppings of
this new fashion of common sense is in
the business of advertising-a looping
off of the more expensive and sensa-
tiOnal and vulgar modes of putting the
thing to sell before the attention of the
person who buys. The reform was well
voiced at late meeting of the stove
manufacturers of the country at Detroit,
where the president denounced the in
effective and expensive advertising that
had been much indulged in by the
trade, the tawdry litOgraphs and other
sensational machinery, and recommend
ed instead the more exclusive use of the
best newspapers. 'If we would make
the best possible use of our money!" he
continued, "we should patronize ably
conducted and responsible newspapers.
The newspaper is immeasurably the
best medium open to our trade; the
most liberal and expert advertisers tes-
tify to its value, and in the employment
of its columns we would find means
of escape from wasteful, undignified
and ineffective methods, to which so
many resort in their eagerness to secure
attention and patronage" These are
indeed suggestions of experience and
common sense, and there are signs, as
if by common instinct, that they are
being adopted by merchants, manufac-
turers and other classes of the cOmmun-
ity having occasion to engage in either
nurphaSiup or Sallinr


Old and well-established papers, with
constituencies representing the best
classes of society, are undoubtedly the
most available, the cheapest and the
most remunerative avenues for adver-
tising. The constituency of a news
paper, the character, the consuming
quality, the taste and variety of its
readers, their respect for it and the
fidelity with which they and their fam
lilies read it, are facts to be considered
quite as much as the mere amount of
gross circulation. Then, again, as ad-
vertisers cannot use all the newspapers,
there is the question of selection, and
into this enters the extent and COM
pleteness with which any one or more
newspapers occupy a certain field, and
render unnecessary the use of its local
rivals. On all these points there is a
field of discriminating intelligence by
advertisers who would get the worth of
their money, and the conclusions of the
stove men are evidently rejecting the
thought and action of other classes of
advertisers throughout the country.
Year: 1877

A very pretty story is told in the
Pittsburg Commercial. A young lady


from the South was wooed and won by
young California physician. About
the time the wedding was to come off
the young man lost his entire fortune


He wrote the lady letter releasing
her from her engagement. And what
does the dear, good girl do? Why, she
takes lump of pure gold which her
lover had sent her in his prosperity as a
keepsake, and having it manufactured
into ring, forwards it to him with the
following Bible inscription engraved
in distinct characters on the outside
"Entreat me not to leave thee, or to re-
turn from following after thee; for
whittier thou goest will l go, and with
er thou lodgest will lodge; thy peo-
pie will be my people, and thy God my
God where thou diest will die, and
there will be buried the Lord do so
to me, and more also, if aught but
death part me and thee" 'EWe may
add" concludes the Commercial, ''that
fortune soon again smiled upon the
Year: 1877

strengthen the Republicanism of those Germans who
voted for Hayes but will bring back the large num-
Der who went for Mr. Tilden with the idea that his
candidacy represented reform. The selection of Mr..
Schurz Is also held to be proper and wise recogn


On OF the liberal element whose support turned the
scale for the Republican ticket in Ohio and other
close States. These considerations influence not a
few Senators to favor Mr.. Schurz confirmation who
still feel sore from the wounds he gave them in the
hot debates of four years ago. and whose first
inelnations to seek his defeat 1t is reported
on good authority that the President assigned Mr.
Schurz to the Interior Department rather than some
other that might have been more suited to his
tastes, because he believed the German statesman
had entangling alliances with Republican
politicians. and that he was under no personal
or political obligations which might induce him to
deal tenderly with the manifold abuses which have
worked their way into the very structure of that de-
partment. AS a reforner il is predicted Mr. Schurz
will be fearless and merciless.


As to Key the opposition to his confirmation is
wholly political, and in no way personal. All who
made his acquaintance during his short service IN
the Senate praise the ability fairness and dignity
of the man. 1t is only because he voted for MIR.
Tilden that it is proposed to keep him out of the adj
ministration. The Senators who want to do this
believe in building the wall between the two
parties higher, instead of trying to break it
down. They have no faith that Mr.. Key will
cooperate in the future with the Republican party.
and think be will be nothing better than enemy in
the camp. There is not the slightest doubt, how
ever, that he will he confirmed. If the question
to be put to the Republican Senators alone
he would have nothing to fear, although had the
vote been taken two days ago he might have had
close shave. The Democrats, however, intend to
vote for him on the ground that when the President
appoints good man to any position they ought to
lay aside partisan feeling and indorse bis action


Senator Howe received dispatch ftSm Madison,
Wisconsin, tonight, signed by the Governor of the
State and by the presiding officers of the two houses
of the Legislature, stating that it is the unanimous
sentiment of the Republicans there that the whole
Cabinet should be confirmed. The Senator, it may
be added has been of that way of thinking all
along. Dispatches of similar import have been re-
ceived in great numbers during the past two days,
and have caused certain Senators, who were dis
posed to insist on making Cabinet for the Presi-
dent to suit themselves. to change their minds.
Year: 1877

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE 1RiBUSE'l


POUGHKEEPsIE, n. Y, March 9.-JOseph
Coburn passed through here tonight He was in com
partment in Wagner drawing-rOom car, aud heavily
ironed There only two seats in the compartment;
the occupied BY Special Detective James Jack
son OF Sing Sing pIlson Neither knew OF the trip they
were to take until $50 this afternoon, when special
draft was made for COburn 10 to Auburn prison. lie
WAS a,tounded at the intelligence and showed much
anxiety The first Pacific Express Is due at sing sing at
G:O2 D. n and Coburn and his guard stepped on board
almost unobscrved.


When the train reached this station an interview was
had with the travellers Coburn expressed great lndgna
ton over the summary proceedings from the time OF his
arrest till now He seemed To think that lie had nos been


fairly dealt with from the start and that the trip he was
now taking was due the advice OF the DstrctAtor
pey 10 Mr. Psbury, General superintendent OF state
Prisons Detective Jackson stated that he knew nothing
about the order until Sig o'clock this afternoon AT this
station Coburn dictated dispatch TO his friend Edward
Maahan notifying him of the sudden transfer, aud ask
Ing for Interference set him ba 10 Sing Sing He
was attrcd in the striped Uniform Of the prison. was
clean shaved, and his hair cut short HIS face was
pale and full Of anxiety lie is due at Auburn AT a. M
Tomorrow The door at his end OF the car was boted
ana barred
Year: 1877

THE NEW-JERsEY CENTRALs DIFFICULTIES.


When the New-Jersey Central Railroad
Company went into the hands of receiver it owed the
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company large sum OF
money for unpaid rentals. The contract between the
companies the effect that any failure the part
of the railroad company to pay the rentals
when due gave the Navigation Company the
ght to declare the contract forfeited, the leased
property rcVertng to the latter company. note for


$3.50 900 made by the NewJesey Central before its ss
pension to pay these rentals protested on Wednes-
day and notice at given that the contract had
been forfeited At the Office OF the New-JCrsey
Central in this city IL stated yesterday that
the receiver dd not intend give up the lease OF the
Navigation Company. No plan had yet been arranged,
but il would be prepared before March 15 the date on
which an must be returned 10 the Navigation
Company. The latter company has several outlets to
the scaboard, including Morris and Essex and the
Lehgh Valley Railroads
Year: 1877




wASHINGTON-THE PRESIDENTS CIVIL SERVICE


POLICY GENERALLY UNDERSTOOD.


lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSR.l


WASHINGTON March 9-The number of Office
seekers in Washington at the present time is smaller
than has congregated here at the beginning of n
new Administration at any time within the memory
of the oldest politicians. This remark does not, of
course apply TO the beginning of Gen. Grants sec
ond Administration in 1878 nor to the reinaugura-
ton of Mr. Lincoln in 1865. On neither of these
occasions was there real change in the Administra-
ton. Several hundred prominent politicians from
Ohio half as many from New-York City and State,
and score or two from each of several other States
in the East and West came to Washington to wit
ness the Inauguration, and part of them have re-
manned in the hope that lucrative office might
be offered to them. gentleman from ONO re-
marked to-day that a sufficient number of politicians
from his State to fill all the foreign missions of the
United States were here each one expecting, on ac-
count of his personal friendship for President
HAYES. to be sent abroad for the next
four years. considerable proportion of these can
didates are editors of newspapers in various parts
of the State who have supported Gen. Hayes i'll his
campaigns for the GovcrnOrshlp and in the late
Presidential contest. The hopes of very few of
these men will be realized. The changes of public
officers at present will not be numerous, and the
appointments that are made will simply be to fill
vacancies or to improve the public service at points
where it is manfestly weak or incompetent A
majority of the office-seekers who came to Washing
ton last week and the early part of this week have
already discovered what the policy of the Admins
tration is to be in this regard, and many OF them
have already left for home. 1t is a remarkable and
credtable fact that with the incoming of new
Administration, having control of from 10000 TO
$4,000 public Offices, the number of persons who
have come to Washington seeking Government en-
ployment is actually less than that of those who
came here in December, 1875 to compete for the
hundred or two appointments to be made BY the
Democratic House of Representatives.
Year: 1877

There was Il report in this city yesterday
that Gen Grant had been offered the Presidency of the
FIRST National OF this city aud nad accepted IT, and
tlat he would enter upon his duties at once 5. c.
Thompson President of the bank, ststed TO TRIBUNE
reporter last evening that H. had no knowledge what
ever any change In the management OF the bank He
had not heard Of tha pOrt, ani II there ANY truth
Ia II hc wUud undoubtedly nave known something about
the matter He had been President OF the BANK ever
since fits organization about Is years ago. He thought
the report might have grown out OF the lnet that the
bank doing "A large pOrtion oi the work OF the
Syndicate In the negotiation oi the 42 per cent Gov
uI Ilnun
Year: 1877


Several Deputies of the Left have given
notice OF their to question the Government
respecting the publication by Legtuist journals OF the
Count Of Chambords speech at Gortz to deputation
from Marselics.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON. Nov 3.-Congress has su},stan-
italy adjourned until next Thursday. if, indeed
1he whole Of next week will not be fooled away.
Nearly all the Congressmen and Senators from
the States holding elections next Tuesday have
paired off and gone home. so that there will
be no quorum for business until the latter part
of next week.


The bill to reueal the resumption net Is prac-
tieally Mt the mercy of its opponents. although
the latter are in n considerable minority The
trouble is that the repeal got mixed no with a
bill to remonetize silver. and there is so much
difference of opinion as to the details of the
programme of the repeal and the remonetiza-
tion of silver that majority cannot be got to
support both meas ures combined, though each
would go through teuarntely. In the mean
time, opponents Of the repeal are alert to seize
all parliamentary advantages.


Aleck Stephens helped the Republicans lit
tie to-day by getting the silver bill out of the
Banking and Currency Committee and taking
1t over to his Committee on Coinage. and vet so
bull-headed ara the majority OF the Republicans
that they ut first fought stephens motion Wig
orously, and would have defeated 1t had they
not been informed that it was designed to keep
them out of q serape. Stephens, as ] under
stand. favors both the repeal of the resumption
act and the remonetization of silver, and his
action to-day was really stretch Of jurisdiction
Of bis committee to help his fiends out of the
trouble into which they were getting. y
The result Is that Stephens. If his strength
holds out. viii take charge of the silver bill and
will be able to put 1t through.


The repeal bill. which is left in the hands of
Ewing, of Ohio. will probably have a much
harder time.


The army bill will not encounter SO much
difficulty. as oil attempts to reduce or reor-
ganize the army will be postponed until the
regular session.


There is absolutely no movement In Louisi-
ana matters here. and there will be none for
several days. BUELL..
Year: 1877

New YoRK Noy. mo very serious damage
great storm yesterday. beyond the prostratop
OF the tel graph lines, the de ay in the mails
and the postpoaement of business traffic. The
weather is clear bright and cool this morning
Year: 1877

The reports from the Indian country
more and more justify the fears Of a general
Indian uprising. The red men Of Northern,
Montana, whe have TOR some time been
peaceful, are beginning to complain that
the hostiles have received better treatment
than they and therefore it will he bepe-
fit for them toengage with the Nez Perces
in the war, which has thus far been a sue
cessful On 3. The disafscted on the branch.
es Of the Upper Missouri can muster about


two thousand Eve hundred warriors, and
should they begin the work ofdeyastation,
which they are at any moment likely to
do, there is nothing in their way. The
massacre would be general throughout the
thinly settled sections Of that region, and
the whole northwest would be cut off from
the Missouri river, its source Of supplies.
Year: 1877

MARSHALL MCMAHON shows his good
sense and good judgment in giving ma
tional character to the mourning for
Theirs and assuming ON the part Of the
government the direction Of the funeral


This will deprive the Republicans Of any
party capital they might be disposed to
make out of their leaders death, and while
preserving the dignity Of the obsequies
gives just expression to the sense of ma


tional bereavement. .r ... ..
Year: 1877

warn g ri OF the dangers of her course ana
save er ere she is lost, you may be exert
ing power for good that will tell upon the
G Aaracter of your daughter. If you check
the wayward tendencies of some Ignorant,
misguided young woman, you may
be leading your child into paths
of purity and ways OF peace.
Your children, my children, their children,
are part of world where temptations and
vicious influences can not be blown from the
atmosphere by single breath; only the love
for each others families can purify the air
all must breathe. Not alone will any one
stand or fall; each suffers in the degradation
or enjoys the strength of the other. The
street waits, the uneducated, uncared Tor
children of the world may in ten or twenty
years be exerting a power over your chill
dren that if you could only realize to-day
you would certainly interest yourself in
making only power for good
Year: 1877

No language is expressive enough to con-
vey a correct idea Of the rugged grandeur OF
the mountain scenery that surrounds US
here at Sunshine. No pen can picture the
sublime beauty of the broad and varied pan
Drama that presents itself TO the eye Of the
beholder as he stands on the summit of Lee
hill and takes in a full view OF the mountain
ranges, piled one upon the other, with peak
after peak. After feasting our eyes on the
most magnificent mountain scenery we turn
our gaze upon the far reaching
plains which spread out before u.s.
There we can see the Platte winding
its way through the desert with its many
tributaries, dotted with sparse growth OF
willows and cottonwoods, which marks its
course across the broad plain. Many of the
thriving Colombo towns are also brought so
close to the beholder as to be plainly recog
nizable. Among them are Greeley, Evans
Erie, Longmont, Denver and many others.


No American need go abroad to feast up
on famous mountain scenery, for we believe
the Rocky Mountains afford the grandest
and widest scenery the most vivid imagin-
alton can picture. besides the most magnifi-
cent natural curiosities in the world.
Year: 1877

Chicago Times: The ancient mariner of
the navy department Thompson his name
is, had not yet cast anchor at the hour for
beginning business, yesterday, in Washing
ton. He was supposed to be prosecuting
the voyage thither on an iron clad stone
boat and no fears of shipwreck were enter
tanned. The other members of the new cab
met went to the white house, were sworn in.
and then proceeded to move on the works
of their respective departments, where very
much business in the shape of applications
for Office awaited them.
Year: 1877

AN accident occurred on WILDLY
Island few days ago, which resulted
in a serious smash.up of the new
Self Binding Harvester, belonging to
the Jenny Bros. 1t seems that the
team became frightened from some
cause or other, and ran away. The
extent of damage to the machine we
did not learn, but were told that it
included the breaking of woodwork
principally. This is quite unfortu.
nate, both in pecuniary loss to the
owners and the manufacturing firm,
who, had the machine received a
thorough test as was expected before
the end of this years harvest, might
have sold several Others in the coun
ty within the next year.
Year: 1877

AS our increasing columns of read
ing matter continue to encroach upon
advertising space, the contented look
already habitual on the part of our
readers continues to deepen and be-
come more marked.
Year: 1877

Is IT possible for one to consider
the deep modification sportsman
experiences when he misses a spar
row on the wing" and by-stand,
er brings it down with potato? Such
an occurrence did happen on Union
Wharf.
Year: 1877

"No man will ever prosper who
has the curse Of a ruined woman up-
Oh him. The murderer of the BODY
can be tried and executed by the
worlds law, but the murderer of the
soul is tried by heavens laws, and
the execution is sure as divine JUS
hce." Aunt Betsy said this as she
folded the white hands of beautiful
girl, and put white flowers and green
leaves about the marble,cold fore
head There was tiny babe beside
the girl mother. The house was
hushed, and there was mourning such
as few know. Half glad that the
mother and child werel dead, tie
rest OF the family must perform Eho
last Office of burial and bear the FAM
lily shame. A haunted house, A
ruined homel God the architect and
man the spoiler. The curse is there
and the destroyer cannot escape
Woman's Journal.