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Year: 1877

Last evening, about four o'clock, the
eyes of hundreds of persons on the streets
were directed toward the top of the
spire of the new Catholic church, where
was seen fountain spouting numerous
jets high in the air.


A large iron pipe is carried up through
the steePle and up the large cro,s sur
mounting the same. The pipe then
takes the form of the cross, behind which
it is hidden, and from holes perforated at
proper intervals the Jets are sent up.
From the top of the cross and from the
end Of each arm large streams ascend to
the height ofabout twenty. five feet, and
between these are thrown up great
number of smaller jets.


The height of the top of the cross from
the ground is one hundred and seventy
feet, and last evening. the air being
calm, the numerous Jets spread out in
shape of a fan. The rays Of the declin-
ing sun fel upon the jets and spray at
just the proper angle to light up and
bring out the whole in beautiful rose
ate glow, which surrounded the top OF
the cross like glory.


This novel fountain was not construct
ed for mere ornament. il is intended
for use in case of breaking out of large
fire as a protection to the spire and roof
of the church. 1t is but the work of q
moment to turn on the water and drench
the spire. The height to which the
water is thrown above the cross shows
the great force of the waterworks of the
city.


II has been suggested that other large
buildings in the town might be cheaply
protected from fire by having large per,
iorated pipes laid along the apex OF
their roofs, as, by simply turning cock
on the ground floor, a perfect sheet OF
water might be poured down both sides OF
4 roof - EirninLn [ M. EuLcrurisc
Year: 1877

The new secretary OF the navy having
been informed that there were buoys be.
longing to his department in New York
harbor, Immediately issued an order com
manding them to report to their ships with.
out delay, "Discipline is discipline, says
the old salt, if have to skin every boy in
the navy HnlrLrnc
Year: 1877

When a rattlespake is disturbed it
sounds an alarm, and then, if compelled,
it will fight. When the victim is within
reach the jaws of the snake are separated
and the head thrown back so as to bring
the fangs into a favorable position to
penetrate the object. The head is then
darted rapidly forward, the unsheathed
tooth penetrates the body of the victim,
and the poison is injected into the flesh.
The same muscular acts which open the
wound inject the venom through the
duct, and into the part penetrated by
the tooth. The divergence of the fang
points when the snake bites often causes
q considerable distance between the two
wounds. The power with which the
venom is elected from the tooth depends
somewhat upon the amount contained in
the gland and it's ducts. If the snake
fails to strike the object aimed at, the
poison is sometimes projected several
feet; and q case is on record where it
was thrown into the eyes OF a man who
was SIX feet from the snake, when it
struck upward at stick held above its
coil.
Year: 1877

An interesting account of an engage
ment between party OF red and OF black
ants is related by correspondent OF the
Forest and Stream: Last week, as !
was coming in the gate, says the writer,
"my attention was attracted by seeing a
stream of ants moving across the walk,
going in different directions. They were
travelling in a belt about four inches
wide, and moving very rapidly. OF
those going in one direction, each had
large ant egg in its mouth. 1 followed
the empty mouthed ones and found they
were robbing a nest of red ants. The
nest was about one foot across, and was
covered with red and black ants engaged
in a most desperate battle-the reds try
ing to defend their home from their
thievish enemies. At times the ants
would form in their little hills, sliding
and rolling over the ground. 1 observed
that the black ants that we're engaged in
stealing took no part in the fight, but
would sieze the eggs and make for their
own hill, leaving the fighting to be done
by the rest of the band. The black ants
in making these depredations had to cross
one carriage drive, two plank walks, and
climb up terrace two feet in height
the distance between the two hills being
152 feet through the grass of an ordinary
lawn. Out of curiosity I killed one OF
the black ants, and took it to jeweler
and had it put on the balance with the
egg it was carrying, when the egg was
the heaviest which shows the remarka-
BILE strength and endurance of these
interesting insects. I once noticed a
small red ant trying to carry worm,
several times as heavy as itself, up a
small mound on the top of which was its
nest. After trying several times without
success, it ran up the hill and disap-
peared in its hole, and presently returned
with quite number of companions, who
easily carried their captive into the nest
in spite of his struggles. "
Year: 1877

Better avoid bIame than seek praise.
A beaten soldier fears reed.


Great men are spoken of for seventy
five days.
The lower part of the candlestick is
black. (The nearer the church the farther
from God).


There are people who have read Con-
fucius and still have not read him.


The skill of o poor man is not much
believed in.


When there are too many boatmen the
boat Climbs mountains.


Until polished she precious stone is
not brilltpnt
Year: 1877

By MARY D. BRINE.
Well, Tom, my boy, must say goodbye.
I've had wonderful visit here;
Enjoyed it, too, as well as could


Away from all that my heart holds dear.
Maybe I've been a tride rough


A little awkward, your wife would say
And very likely I've missed the hint


OF your city polish day by day.
But somehow, Tom, though the same old roo
Sheltered US both when We were boys,
And the same dear mother-love watched u


both,


Sharing our childish griefs and joys,
Yet You are almost stranger now;
Your ways and mine are as far apart
As though we had never thrown an arm
About each other with loving heart.
Your city home is a palace, Tom;


Yourw wife and children are fair to see;
You couldn't breathe in the little cot,
The little home, that belongs to me.
And am lost in your grand large house,
And dazed with the wealth on every side,
And hardly know my brother, Tom,
In the midst of 80 much stately pride.
Yes, the concert was grand last night,
The singing splendid; but, do You know,
My heart kept longing, the evening through,
For another concert, so sweet and low
That maybe it wouldn't please the ear
OF one so cultured and grand as you;
But to its music-lsugh if you will
My heart and thoughts must ever be true.
/ shut my eyes in the hall last night
(For the clash Of the music wearied me),
And close to my heart this vision came
The same sweet picture always see:
In the vine-clad porch of cottage home,
Half in shadow and half in sun,
A mother chanting her lullaby,


Rocking to rest her little one.
And soft and sweet as the music fell
From the mothers lips, heard the COO
OF my baby girl, as with drowsy tongue
She echoed the song with "Goo-a-goo.'
Together they sang, the mother and babe,
My wife and child, by the cottage door,
All! that is the concert, brother Tom,
My ears are aching to hear once more.
So now goodbye. And wish you well,
And many year of wealth and gain
You were born to be rich and gay;


lam content to be poor and plain.
And go back to my country home


With love that absence has strengthened


too


Back to the concert all my own


Mothers singing and baby's coo.
Year: 1877

THERE was grandiose air in the refusal
of the Democracy to make the ordinary
appropriations for the maintenance of the
army before the adjournment Of the last
House, because Of their professed devotion
TO State rights, but little in accord with
their contemporaneous action in denying
the right Of the States to control their own
elections. And now that the President has
shown q more honest conviction of the
dangerous practice Of maintaining State
governments in time Of peace with the
troops of the nation, 1t is to be hoped that
the Democracy will make haste to acknowl-
edge that they were wholly wrong in their
position as to the power of the State In re-
spect Of the exercise Of Its suffrages, SO
that the country may be secure in com.
mon Interpretation Of the Constitution on
these vital points. This concession Of the
President on behalf OF the Republican
party should inspire an equL candor in
the Democracy.
Year: 1877

A new BULLOCK press, of the latest and
most improved pattern, which was manu-.
factured expressly for US, at . cost Of
sas.50O, and capable of printing 5000
copies per hour, has arrived at THE RKPUB-
LIoAx ofIloe, and will. in few days. super
cede our present four cylinder Hoe press.
The BULLOCK is acknowledged as the
most perfect printing press ever in
vented, and Is now used by the
leading newspapers Of the United
States. Our increasing circulation and
hstterisg prospects made this purchase q
necessity. and we trust that the Washing
ton public, upon whose kind and generous
patronage We in the main rely for our
success, will not be insensible to our
many efforts to publish a newspaper
OF which no citizen Of the Capital need be
ashsmed. And in this connection we may
be INDUCED reference to the fact that we
have spared no effort or expense to recipro-
cate in grateful, as well as In substantial
manner, for the publc's liberal treatment
Of our Journal during the seventeen years
Of its existence. This was the feeling that
actuated the proprietor Of THE RRpUBLI-
CAN in erecting the costly and magnia.
cent structure which is today the home
Of bis paper and is his contribution
toward the establishment of the city.
Upon the same day that our BULLOCK
shall be ready for use The REPUBLICAN
will appear in new dress of clear and
neat type, and will be printed upon paper
equal In quality to that of any daily jour.
nal In the country.
Year: 1877

A NEW prophet has arisen to warn the
world Of what Is to come. He speaks
through his pen In the New York Graphic,
and says that Europe, during the coming
year, will be sorely afflicted that crops
will be light, and that many mercantile
failures will occur. But he says that the
mighty powers Of fate have reserved for the
Old World other and greater misfortunes.
He says that war is coming, widespread aud
devastating war that Turkey shall be at
first successful In repelling the Russian
hosts, loosely organized and undisciplined
as they are but the giant of the north will
make up in strength what he lacks in skill
and agility, and will overrun Turkey, both
in Europe and Asia. Then the fear and
jealousy Of Great Britain will be aroused
By the close Of the summer the English
army will occupy Constantinople, and Its
fleet will have taken possession of the 18th.
mus of Suez. An army Of Sepoys, mum.
bering hundreds Of thousands, will march
northward throughout Afghanistan to the
Russian possessions unopposed. Austria
will sympathize with the general alarm,
and resent the presence OF the Russian
troops in the Danubian principslities, and
in conjunction with England will try to
stay the progress Of the Russian armies
BISMARCK out of the way, the military arm
of Prussia will be raised to take part In the
combat, King WILLIAM will join the Car of
the North in bargain to take possession Of
central Europe and reconstruct the empire
Of CHARLEMAGNE, while Russia seizes its
own upon the Bosphorus.
Year: 1877

THERE are over three hundred appli.
cants for the special agencies Of the Post
Office Department. As there are but forty
four agents at present, and four of these
sre to be discharged the 1st of May for the
want of funds to pay them, 1t looks as
though the noble three hundred would be
counted out,
Year: 1877

A RAILROAD will be built to the Black
Hills within the next eighteen months.
Contracts for the construction of it have
already been entered into. and the road
will reach o'Niel City by the 1st of octo.
her
Year: 1877

The Democrat, of last evening, said:


As in a former instance, the REPUBLICAN
says that one of these merchants went to
Kellogg and said that his partner had
signed the list icithout reading It, "be-
cause we have to do these Things, you
know"


We must premise by saying that, in our
opinion, whether it is Kellogg or the editor
of the REPUBLICAN who says so, it is si ifs lse-
hood. FAlsehoOd though as it is, it re-
mains, as long as the name of the psrticu.
lar merchant referred to is not made pub
lie, an AspersiUn upon the character of
all the gentlemen who have signed the list,
because il they signed without reading,
they must have very little respect tor their
signatures, and if they signed after having
read, which is to be supposedly and have
no intention of acting up to their promise,
then they have committed o dishonOrable
act. The REPUBLICAN, therefore, is amena-
BILE to all the gentlemen who have signed
the list for the name of the man who be'ied
himself to Kellogg. We suspect, however,
that that man is myth, the Ottspring OF
Radical imaginings. Kellogg dare not name
him, and we believe the editor OF the RE
PUBLICAN can not,


The writer of the paragraph in the RE.
PUBLICAN was present, and heard the state
ment in question made by the party con
cerned. The Democrat will have to take
the statement for what it is worth, We art
supremely Indifferent what its opinion il
on the subject. The gentleman stands il
the front rank of New Orleans merchants
and we don't propose to give the Demo
orats an opportunity to ostracise or bull
doze him by publishing his name.
Year: 1877

INTHE DISTRICT COURT OF Tee SEC


Judicial District of the of Nevada in and
the county of Ormsby Roger Grow, plaintiff, J. L.
Cegg and Florence Clegg and A. w Pray, defendants.
Action brought in the District Court of the Second Judicial
District of the of Nevada in and for the county
Or1nsby and the complaint filed in said county of Onsby


in the office of the Clerk of said District CourThe State
of Nevada sends greeting to j. L. Ceg and Florence Ceg
and A w Pray defendants: You hereby required
appear in action brought against you by the above
named plaintiff in the District Court of the Second Judicial
District of the State Nevada and for the county of
Ormsby and the complaint filed therein "a copy
of which accompanies this smmons within ten days lex
elusive of the day of serce) after the service of
this summons-f served within this county, if served
of this county, but in this district within twenty days.
otherwise within forty daysor Judgment by default will
be taken against you The said action Is brought fore
close certain mortgage executed by defendants j. L.
and Florence Clegg to said plaintiff, lot No O in
block No six (6 in Rice Peters addition to the city of
Carson, in Ormsby county, Nevada which said mortgage
given to secure the payment OF promssory note


made by defendants j. L. and Florence Clegg the goth
day of May A D. 1875, to plaintiff for the of six
hundred dollars and interest thereon at three )
Der month all in gold coin of the United States. And
plaintiff asks decree of foreclosure of said mortgage and
that the moraged premises be decreed to be sold and the
proceeds applied the payment of COSTS attorneys fees
taxes insurance and the principal and interest
said note gold coin of the United States and if found
insufficient that judgment be docketed against the prop
erty OF defendants L. and Florence Clegg for any bal
ance found remaining due plaintiff All of which is more
fully set forth in plaintiffs complaint file in my office
And you hereby notified that if you fail to appear
the said complaint, above required the said
plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded


49, Given under my hand and the seal of the District
& Court of the Second Judicial District of the State


Lo of Nevada in and for the county of Ormsby, this
49, oath day of August, in the year of Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventyseven


au25-1aw6w ALFRED HELM, Clerk
Year: 1877

IMPORTANT DECISION IN BASKRUPTCY-
JUDGMENTS, DEEDS OF TRUST, AND HOME
sTEAD.-Judge Hughes on Saturday filed an
opinion in the matter OF 3. D. Cogbill,
bankrupt. He said substantially: All the
real estate surrendered by the bankrupt
was bound by iudgment-lien for about
S1,35O, which contained no waiver OF
homestead. A portion OF the land was
subject to a deed Of trust junior in
priority to the judgment for about
$1,000, and this land was sold for
sS4O. BY the law OF Virginia the right Of
homestead has priority over a judgment,
and a deed of trust has priority over
a right OF homestead as to the specific
land covered by it. The first question
is whether or not the homestead right may
be set up against the judgment, and in de-
feating that defeat also the deed Of trust.
This proposition cannot be entertained.
The second proposition is that the deed Of
trust, by defeating the homestead, lets in
the Judgment; which I concede. The third
proposition is that the deed-of-trust creditor
is entitled to have his debt made good out
OF the proceeds of the land which was not
covered by the deed, by virtue Of the prin-
ciple governing courts OF equity in mar
shallins assets-that is to say, the principle
of subrogation. This last proposition 1
must reject. II the bond, for securing
which the deed OF trust was given, con-
tanned on its face waiver OF the home
stead in writing, / would think the
proposition worthy OF some conSldera-
ton, for then there would be waiver as to
the debt as well as a waiver as to the
land; but rs there was not such express
waiver on the bond, and the waiver in the
form of the deed Of trust applied only to
the land, must reject this proposition.


The learned Judge argues the several
questions at considerable length, and con-
cludes as follows:


"It seems to me that it would be a sub
version Of the objects Of the law OF home
stead, a perversion Of it's aim and ayiolation
-of it's spirit, to apply the doctrines govern
ing in the marshalling Of assets in equity to
the destruction of the homestead rights in
favor OF other debts and against other pro-
perty than those in regard to which the
right OF homestead has been expressly
waved. The courts have already gone very
far in judclally legislating the homestead
right out OF existence. But l know OF no
case in which they have carried the power
of judicial legislation so far as to resort to
the expedient OF constructive aoaiUer in at
tacking the homestead right. At all events,
l will wait to he overruled before employing
the expedient myself. will give decree
declaring that the right Of homestead does
not exist as to the proceeds Of the land coy-
cred by the bankrupt's deed Of trust; but
recognizing its superiority to the claim OF
the judgment-creditor in respect to the pro-
cceds Of the land not so covered"
Year: 1877

A SAIL UP THE PoToMAc.-One OF the
most charming trips person can take in
the spring or summer season is to spend a
day in making an excursion to Alexandria
or Washington by the boat line of the Fred
ericksburg railroad. During the winter
travel was necessarily suspended on the
Potomac, but in short time the boats will
be put upon the line again, and this de-
lightful route will be again we'll patronized.
Year: 1877

The Temperance Cause.-There is not
single white or colored temperance organi-
zation in Manchester. Now that the Friends
of Temperance have given UP, the Sons"
will try to institute division OF their orders
Year: 1877

Having determined TO discontinue the dry-good
business shall from this DAY offer my entire stock of
SEASONABLE AND WELL-AsSORTED GOODS


AT COST FOR CASH.
And IN order speedily TO dispose OF the entire
WITHOUT REGARD TO COST OR VALUE,
can be had. CHARLES HUTZLER,


fe2s-2m GIL Broad street.
Year: 1877

Louise Chandler Moulton says that to
be properly dressed in London woman
must wear tiny bonnet hanging on u
knot of hair, an immense crinoline, heel
less boots, black lace shawl, and her
trout hair pasted down over her checks
like horses binders
Year: 1877

y Partisan paper says that one of most
aggr;Vatiug circumstances in social lie
is when YOU have said rather good
thing 10 an acquaintance to have it re-
ported back to you week after as ex-
cellcnt, and credited to the man You hate.
Year: 1877

II Is the solemn thought connected


with middle life that life's last busines.


is begun in earnest; and it is then,


midway between the cradle and the
grave, that man begins to marvel


that he let the days Of youth go by 90


halienioyed. It is the pensive au.
tumn feeling; il is the sensation of
half sadness that we experience when
the longest day Of the year is past,
and that every day that follows is
shorter, and the light fainter, and the
feeble shadows tell that nature is hast.
ening with gigantic footsteps to her
winter grave. So does man look back
upon his youth. When the first gray
hairs become visible, when the unwel-
come truth fastens itself upon the
mind that man is no longer going up
hill, but down, and that the sun is al
ways westering, he looks back on
things behind. When we were chill.
dren, we thought as children. But
now there lies before us manhood,
with its earnest work, and then old
age, and then the grave, and then
home. There is a second youth for
man, better and holier than his first,
il he will look on, and not look back.
IF. W. Robertson.
Year: 1877

A Miss Murphy, Of New York, af


ter dressing for a party was seen Ia
totter and fall. Before she could be
liite'l from the floor she died. The
examining physician reported her
death to have been caused by hear,
disease, Induced by tight lacing. A
lady prominent in society but not a


frivolous butterfly" said on hearing
the verdict: "Women used to only
lace above the waist, but now they
must repress any inclination to flesh
proportions below that, aud the hips
and stomach are encascd in stout
strong corsets. Pullback and prin-
cesses robes have done this, and add
to the old folly Of tight corsets the
new one Of equally tight underwear
and NJ longer under.boded sitfiened
with wire or whalebore aud You have
the instrument of torture of the nine.
teenth century" To illustrate what
she meant, she simply stood before
the party. and every muscle of her
body, as she had declared, vas more
or less contracted.
Year: 1877

When anybody dies, gets married,
runs away, steals anything, builds a
house. makes big sale or whips his
man or his wife-breaks his leg, or
gets his house or barn destroyed by
fire, or anything that is in any way
remarkable, and you believe that you
know as much about the Occurrence as
anybody else. don't wait for some 9th.
er person To report it, or trust us 10
find it out by instinct, but write and
send us AN account Of il at once your
self. This is the way that news is le-
Ultimately supplied, and it takes a
good supply of that most necessary
article. See that you improve every
opportunity this year and give us all
the news OF your neighborhood.
Year: 1877

Manageable New York young la
dies are accused by their home journals
of not knowing whether icicles should
be cooked with their jackets on or of.
The icicle should be permitted to shed
its own jacket--say in June. Then
cook with mint, flavor with brandy,
and garnish with the vermeil straw
berry and a golden straw. They
should be consumed with a look of
oily abstraction in the eye, and moth
ing should be remarked except what
the unsophisticated Quaker said !;
Keep fetching EN-"
Year: 1877

OF all the pursuits a man can en-
gage in, farming is the most noble
and independent. The lawyer, the
physician, the newspaper man, the
mechanic. the merchant, and all 9th.
er pursuits in which man can possibly
engage, are all directly interested and
dependent upon the success of the
farmer; and the farmer has received
a promise that his labors shall Ne
crowned with success-with seed time
and harvest. What an independent
business What noble occupation
Through faith he sows his seeds and
cultivates them, with a direct prom
ise from God that his labors shall he
rewarded.