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Year: 1877

that the various military organizations, or teams
therefrom, will attend the ranges to day and con-
and as an especial attraction at the Crescent City
range some of the iveliest of the squib shooters-
members of the city press-including couple of
dozen of the crack shots of the profession, will
engage in friendly contest at the 200 Tor 1000)
yard range for thlrty-sx pound turkey gobbler,
the winner to carry him home on his shoulder.
Year: 1877

Not willing to yield the honors to the parish
team, another match was arranged, and took
place the next day, with the following result aud
one Of the stipulations being that no sighting
shota be allowed
Year: 1877

WADE were wafted eastward to them from
the State of Ohio, they threw up thor
hands with pride and screeched, "Dldn't I
tell you sor' Aud 1t now turns out that
Mr.. WADE Is not one tenth as foolish a.
they were in hopes he wa, for he has re.
Gently said that BY proper management
and by standing by President HAYES the
Republican party will secure the ascend.
ancv for the next two decades Of years.
Talk about blowing your own trumpet |
Why, when these dough.faced prognosti.
Gators heard the false report that MARTIN
I. TOWNSEND had declared against the
Administration they seemed by the noise
they made to have whole band Of music,
big drum, cymbsls and all but whom the
rumor was contradicted they were s still


As church mice. and did not peep. Alto
gether the Northern Democracy has cut
sorry figure In Its attempt to work up Q
panic In the Republican party by prophe.
sying dissolution, dislntesrstion aud gen.
eral smash up. The truth Is the Republi-
can party was never more powerful than Ii
is to day, and the deeds that arc being done
at The present will serve to make It's glory
and achievements brighter In the future,
and when the next contest comes those
principles and that party which saved the
nation and gave US civil liberty will find .
powerful support 10 the people, and secure
an easy triumph At the polls.
Year: 1877




The art Of stretching is becoming very
general nowadays, aud especially the art Of
stretching the truth. Vivid imaginations
are as plentiful In the ranks Of Democracy
as mosquitoes on the marsh lands OF Jer.
sey In summer time. 1t Is an age when
strawberries are so1arge that many Of them
weigh . pound. and gnats so gross that
they climb upon our shade trees and bark,
mole hills are mountains, and the rattling
ofa dray cart across the stony streets is put
down as an eartL quake. The multiplica-
ton table has become the haudmaid of the
imagination, and exaggeratIon the execu.
i've officer of thought. The Democracy
North are looking through microscopic
eyes. Everything appears to them hun.
dred times as large as 1t really is, especi.
ally all things concerning politics and the
new Administration. Every time they
hear the shrill note of some old fossilized
political stick crying out against the policy
Of reconciliation and peace they imagine it
to be the bugle blasts OF myriad hosts sound
ing the wild alarm and preparing to wage a
relentless war against the Administration.
Everything grows with them as fast AZ a
mushroom or a town IN the gold regions.
They are continually gadding around in
search of wonders, and II they fail to flnd
them they invent them, and chin chm
psbulate so much about them that they
oegin to believe that they are really
genuine. A tempes! In teapot Is to them
what raging storm is to the timid mari
ner. But in tn, 50 wild rawlings OF the
wilder imagin ,tion the Democracy over.
leaps itself and falls on the other side.
These Democratic exsggerators paint their
graphic pictures with . broom and buttsr
their biscuits with trowel, and they have
continued their braggadocia about that
great split in the Republican party until
they must have Dragged themselves blind
or they would see that everybody, even
their Southern friends. are laughing at
them. They have goi themselves into this
contemplate way of stretching things so
badly that they open their mouths like
barn doors in Boosting of the terrible disco
luton Of tho Republican party which is
about to take place according to their es,i'
nation, based, of course, upon their NOR
bid Imagination.


When the piping notes of Brother BEN
Year: 1877

While large number of our Demo.
cratic contemporaries poh.pooh at the idea Of
the possibility Of the election OF Repub.
licau as Speaker of the next House of Rep.
resentatives, they certainly devote q great
deal of space, and seem to be very seriously
concerned about a matter which they pre-.
tend to regard so lightly aud as 80 absurd.
According to some OF them 1t was part
of the Presidents programme. and was TO
be result Of the settlement OF the Louis
lana question. 10 fact some OF them, be.
coming impatient because the President
did not act promptly in the Louisiana case


charged duplicity, and declared he would
try to secure the organisation Of the House
before he would put his policy and pledges
into practical operation. and that he was
holding his good intentions in abeyanoe
until they would command the highest
price. Now we do not believe that Presi,
dent HAYES was party to any bargain In
this case any more than he was to what
was called the FosTER-MATTHKws bar.


gain. 1t was natural that he should hope
that Republican might be elected
Speaker. but that he made any bargain
about 1t or made such election a
condition to the settlement Of tho Louisiana
question no sane man believes. His action


in both the South Carolina and Louisiana
cases shows that his honest desire was the
pacihcation Of these States. But, like q
Year: 1877

An AxERIcAN VESSEL has been sent to
the Golden Horn for the use of Minister
NAruARD during the struggle between the
Rass sAd the Turk. Should Constantine
pie be bombsrded and our plenipo attempt
- ssoape between two fires. 1t is hoped he
will be careful not to como out at the little
end Of the Horn,
Year: 1877

IT Il SAID that hundreds Of our school
narns are wearing themselves out trying
to csntrol vicious. inoorrigble and unruly
boys. This is all wrong. They might
wear pieces of birch out with much more
comfort to themselves and benefit to the
community.
Year: 1877

at ten o'clock this morning the Senate
met and went into executive session, sno
when the doors were opened at 1l:lO
adjourned.


At noon the regular session was begun,
and Messrs. Anthony and Whyte were
appointed 8 committee to join similar
committee on the part of the House to
wait on the President and inform him
that quorum of both houses were ready
to receive any communication no may be
pleased TO make. The Senate then TOOK
q recess.


Upon reassembling the Vice Presi-
dent presented the annual report of the
Secretary Of War, also the annual report
of the Secretary of the Senate, and the
Sergeant-at-Arms. Ordered printed.


Soon thereafter, MIR. Rogers, Private
Secretary of the President appeared with
the message, and it was at once read and
ordered printed.


The department and other reports
were then presented and the Senate 3D.
iourned till Thursday next.
Year: 1877

Fstioto Citizens Of the Senate and House or


Representatives:


With devout gratitude to the bounti-
ful Giver of sll Good, congratulate you
that at the beginning of your first regu-
lar session you find our country blessed
with health aad peace and abundant
hsrveets, and with encouraging prospects
of an early return of general prosperity.
Year: 1877

Men and women, masters and servants,
all inhabit the same room, while cleani-
ness is not much attended to but poor
as they are, and accustomed to great pri-
vations, they set IN example OF cheerful
contentment. The beauty of the young
girls is remarkable their fair hair falls
in long. plaits, partially covered by
black cloth coil, daintily worn on one
side of the head, and finished at tho top
with tassel of colored silk run through
silver Or steel buckle, which floats on
the shoulder. Itreminds the traveller OF
the Greek head-dress; but the blue eyes,
with their sweet, benevolent expression,
soon recall to his mind their Danish
origin. The dress is made Of the cloth
woven in the country, and on festival
days the bodice is gaily adorned with
silver braid and velvet, while the belt
and sleeves are ornamented with silver
devices. On wet and cold days the
shawl becomes useful mantilla, COM
pletely enveloping the head and defend
ing the wearer from the effects OF the
frequent storms.
Year: 1877

A Scottish traveller, who stopped for
a few hours in city in the interior OF
India, caught a glimpse of a white
woman in a native dress. She was in
palki, borne on the shoulders of slaves,
which indicated that her rank was high.
On the following day she sent message
to him that he was the first European
she had seen since her childhood; that
she remembered being dragged away
from her family while their house was
burning, when she was five years old;
that her name was Lucy; that she had
grown up among the natives, had for
gotten the English language, and was
the wife of an Indian prince, and that
she desired to inquire of the traveller
about her parentage. The messenger
implored him to see the woman, who
was weeping at home but before he
could do 80 she was removed from the
neighborhood, presumably as a conse-
quence of her communication with the
stranger. The inference is that Lucy
is a survivor of the mutiny massacres OF
1877
Year: 1877

There is more fatigue in laziness than
in labor.


Actions that express good will to man
kind in the highest degree, have the
highest merit.


It is the heart that makes the home,
whether the eye rests on potato patch
or flower garden.


The vain abhor the vain, but the
gentle and unassuming love one another.
It is the effect of sympathy in the latter,
the want of it by the former.


Honest and courageous people have
very little to say about courage OF
honesty. The sun has no reason to
boast of his brightness, nor the moon OF
her effulgence.


Men often appear to lie when most
truthful, and often seem to tell the truth
when most false; the most terrible OF
lies is not that which is uttered, but
that which is believed.


Coerced innocence is like an i'm
prisoned lark-open the door and it is
off forever. The bird that roams
through the sky and the groves unre-
strained knows how to dodge the hawk
and to protect itself; but the Gagged one,
the moment it leaves its bars and bolts
behind, is pounced upon by the fowler
or vulture.
Year: 1877

Needles are made Of steel wire. The
wire is first cut by shears from coils,
into the length of the needles to be
made. After batch of such bits OF


wire have been cut off, they are placed
in hot furnace, and then taken out and
rolled backward and forward on a table
till they are straight. They are now to
be ground. The needle pointer then
takes up two dozen or so of the wires
and rolls them between his thumb and
fingers, with their ends on the grind
stone, first one end and then the other.
Next is machine which fattens and
cutters the heads of ten thousand
needles in an hour. Next comes the
punching of the eyes by boy, SO fast
that the eye can hardly keep pace with
him.. The splitting follows, which is
running a fine wire through a dozen,
perhaps, of these twin needles. A
woman with a little anvil before her,
files between the heads, and separates
them. They are now complete needles;
but they are rough and rusty, and easily
bent. The hardening comes next. They
are heated in patches in furnace, and
when red hot are thrown into pan of
cold water. Next they must be tempered,
and this is done by rolling them backward
and forward on hot metal plate. The
polishing still remains to be done. On
very coarse cloth, needles are spread
to the number of forty or fifty thousand.
Emery dust is strewed over them, oil is
sprinkled, and soft soap is daubed over;
the cloth is rolled hard up, thrown into
a sort of wash pot, to roll to and fro
twelve hours or more. They come ont
dirty enough, but after rinsing in clean,
hot water, and tossing in sawdust they
become bright, and are ready to be
sorted and put up for sale.
Year: 1877

The manner of saying or doing any
thing goes a great way in the value Of
the thing itself. 1t was we'll said of him
that called a good Office that was done
harshly and with an i'll will q stony
piece of bread, it is necessary for him
that is hungry to receive it, but it almost
chokes a man in the going down.
Year: 1877

Of course nobody ever heard of a
physician prescribing mirth as a medi-
cine, yet we strongly doubt whether
there is doctors drug extant that has
greater curative properties. Mirth and
disease are sworn foes, and when one of
them makes its appearance 1t Is sure
sign that the other is preparing for its
departure. If sick man can be in
duced to indulge in laugh there is
hope for him, and if his laughter is
hearty it may be taken for granted that
his illness is on the wane. All ex-
perienced nurses agree that cheerfulness
is the best thing that can be brought
into an invalid's chamber, and they are
right, but if mirth can be introduced
and the patient made to share in it,
cheerfulness becomes a permanent resi-
dent and not mere chance visitor.


1t is well-known fact that the state
of the mind influences the state of the
health. Hence, it follows that mirth,
including in the first place contented
spirit, and in the second place release
from fear, tends to strengthen the mind
and rouse its dormant functions into
full action. This state of affairs naturally
shakes the patient out of his apathy,
and produces the will to recover health.
For this reason it is safe to say that, in
almost every instance, mirth has a
beneficial effect in the sick chamber.
We do not mean that it should be
thoughtlessly introduced by inconsider-
ate persons, but that it should be
gradually and cautiously inspired in the
invalid by every possible method. We
hold firmly to the opinion that gloom
settling upon the patient has in reality
caused more deaths than disease itself.


But let us drop the invalid out of the
question altogether, and consider mirth
in the light Of a preventive of sickness
Observation and experience teach US
that the essentially jolly rarely fall i'll


and that when they do their maladies
are usually of short duration. Thii
effect may be traced directly to menta


cause. The mirthful temperament hal


induced healthful and cheerful cast O


mind that holds disease at distance


and when it does come promptly sub


dues it, of course with the necessar.


medical aid. Mirth, however, is tn


main medicine in the premises, and tn
doctors drugs are simply auxiliaries
With these facts in view, the element o
humor in the human composition
! assumes a new Importance, and, at an
rate, it will be conceded that mirth is
. . medicine neither hard to take nc
: likely to produce the least injury.
Year: 1877

BURLINGTON Hawb-Ege: A West
Hill man paid one hundred and forty
dollars the other day for little mule
only three feet and eight inches high,
saying that he wanted him small so that
he couldn't kick so far. Ten minutes
afterward his purchase stood in the
street and kicked woman sitting at
second-story window, and now his owner
drives him with whole section of tele-
graph wire.
Year: 1877

CHICAGO Tribune Big Horn letter:
Prairie dogs are nuisances pure aid
simple, and they are capable of doing
an immense deal of damage in any
country where they permanently locate
themselves. They eat off all the grass
roots, and made desert in every place
where their towns are located. l never
saw so many as l did while on my way
hither; and, in my opinion, it is a most
fortunate thing that the rattlesnakeseat
so many of the young ones, or they
would in few years overrun the whole
country. They may do this in any
event. They are pests of the worst
order, and have already done great
deal of damage near several of the
water courses.
Year: 1877

Governor Hampton has addressed a
note to the chamberlain officials in
South Carolina. requesting them to
turn ever their office TO their successors,
subject to the decision of the Su-
preme Court. when it shall be filled by
the election of Chief Justice, after
the meeting of the Legislature on the
oath inst. IL Is understood that the Off
cials addressed will decline TO yield
their offices, on the grounds that they
hold them by declaration of the State
Canvassers; that thev were commits
stoned by Governor Chamberlain while
his title was uudisquted; that Governor
Hampton has no right to anticipate the
judgment of the Supreme Court, and
that his action is violation of his
pledges to leave disputed questions to
legal settlement.
Year: 1877




The EFFECT OF AN EASTERN WAR
ON THE UNITED STATEs.-The effect
that war between Russia and Turkey
would have on the United States may
be conjectured by studying our market
reports. The hsstile rumors which
have been flying between the capitals
of Europe for the past few days have
led to sharp rice in American wheat
and all breadstuifs. Other causes
have operated to stiffen the market for
these products for the past six months;
bat it is noticeable that American
wheat has been steadily advancing
since the early part of last fall, when
the Eastern question began to be most
threatening. Since then the rise in
wheat has been nearly 60 cents a
bushel. The prevalent belief that the
spring would see the opening of a
great war in the Easthas certainy done
its part in this improvement of prices.
From these facts we may conclude
that such war would be materially a
benefit to trade and commerce in the
United States. 1t would create large
European demand for American grain
and flour and provision of all kinds,
and the effect of this would be to
stimulate manufactures and business
TO- neary every branch of industry.
Ocean freight would partake of the
improvement, and if England were
dragged by circumstances into the vor-
tex of the war. American commerce,
having the preference for the carrying
trade, would get a start which it has
not enjoyed tor nearly twenty years.
American with these thoughts in their
minds, to say nothing of the concern
which they feel in the promotion of
Christianity and civilization in Tur-
key, will eagerly watch every days
development of the Eastern question.
Year: 1877

POULTRY RAIsINe'-Many farmers and
poultry raisers do not raise their Spring
chickens as early as they might do.
with little trouble and loss of fowlss
Some, however, understand that early
Spring chickens are valuable for mar
ket and raise them very early in the
Spring. Mr. Arch Kilsatrick. living
mere Dowpingtown. has as fine brood
of Spring chickens as it is possible to
raise having three hundred or more in
number of the White Cochin breed,
ready for market. He may therfor be
said to be first-class poultry raiser
West Chester NelcS.
Year: 1877

A sad story is related of lady at
party in London whose dress and form
were faultness. just before dinner an
admirer offered her a flower from his but
tonhole, which she fastened to her dress
with a pin. AS they went down to din
ner, the gentleman thought he heard a
noise as though wind were escaping from
a bellows. The lady soon lost her fair
proportions. and the tightly fitting dress
was most baggy. 1t appears Il 1T the
latest fashion for thin ladies dresses is an
air. tight lining blown out to the proper
size. The pin put to keep the flower in
had penetrated the air tight lining and
caused grand collapse.
Year: 1877

the title decd 10 large property may be veil 10 walk
over The properly from END 20 end and make al inven;
persons are ours, whether IL be Paul. or Apollos or
Cephas. Tho whole world, brethren is yours all tho
experience Of the past Is at your SERVICE and may
profit by It, You know encouraged BY example
very greatly. when you read tho lives OF those who
have climbed high, the climbing instinct grows hot
within US. look back TO The great men Of the past,
and, measuring myself by them rs criterion
sir al ease in my home, when mon, and women too.
have given their lives their ALL for the good OF their
fellow men Why ). that you, who arc rich, can be
dollar when the Lord wants tY We build high wall
around narrow lives and sit at ease, not lis
tcnug TO the OF those who are begging that
know not what 10 do with.


Christ says all persons are yours, and from their


lives you can learn how build your own lives Look


INTO their hearts and nd tho secret OF their strength
and use IL 10 make yourself strong You have
artist building with his cunning instrument
He looks through tho pile Of stones before him and
hnds piece OF the right szo to III, and he goes on
lifting piece by piece I'LL hls picture is finished. Well
brethren, may not do this spiritualyy lf want
perfection and know that all persons arc ours look


Into one mans heart and find why II Is he happy
"Su " son, ,Ss ora,n OF his low Son ro h ny
add TO myself Tho high experience OF all the saints
oi the past can bc transferred into yours aud mine I'll
our ives are transformed by the influence. Not
only are all persons yours. but all things too; you
have right titlc to everything you sec ana
not half grateful enough TO God Tor tho mere physical
cpjoymen.s He givcs US day by day. would that
your religion made you happier; would cover the
rsS eoua s h Tho the .odssex ,See Of
tho scriptures is iii above tho
poisonous ior the ground up above where the air is
clear and bracing. And Death is yours Is that not
stranger We have looked upon Death as the grim
monster who ovcrcomcs all Death Is tho conqueror
all and Christ Is the victor Death. When Jesus
came Death died, and now he walks like man who
casts no shadow and who speaks gently instead Of
harshly. What Death do to us? Let hiin do his
best--what Is his bestY To takc me from my troubles
10 where I havc no more. He can do that; lot him
do IL when he will. Who OF us is AFRAID OF him? He
carries simply up to our Fathers home; he can do
nothing more Is II not o wonderful promise God has
gwen uss All Is yours; ana then He says, And you
Christs and Christ is Gods" Sec the logic oi IT,
God has all things and Christ has all thlnes and the
promise that they who love Christ have all that Ho
possesses SO we have all things and and Christ
and folded up in the arms OF the same omnpo
tpnC