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Year: 1878

The Roanoke IN. c. Ne,rs, rampant
Democratic paper, has correspondent at
Scotland Neck, in that State, who signs
himself W. II. KTTCuIN, and who speaks
Of that section of the country in this
wise: "When in after years this South
"land of ours becomes the free and happy
country of the world" We suppose that
these North Carolinians do not regard their
Southland as free and happy while within
the Union and under the old flag but that
when it shall break away from this bond
and this flag 1t will become so. There is n
class in the South who are no more recon-
ciled now and not half rs happy as when
they wore the grey uniform and were en-
gagged in the work Of tearing down the
Government. The war closed too soon for
all such. They were not sufficiently sub
jugatcd to leave them in happy frame OF
mind. They are looking for another strug-
gle to bring them freedom and happiness.
Year: 1878

The New York Times finds its hostility to
Senator CoNKLING irrepressible. 1t crops out
upon the slightest occasion, and is as unrea-
sonable as 1t is unjust in its utterances. The
Senator has abjured the fraud palmed of
upon him and the country by the New
York World, and yet the Times insists that
1t bears internal evidence of accuracy"
Whatever motive may impel the Times to
this malignant line of conduct toward Sena-
tor CosKIING, a due regard for Republican
opinion in New York and elsewhere would
counsel it to a more temperate and just
course toward that statesman.
Year: 1878

The Congressional Republican Cam
paign Committee Is now organized and will
soon be ready to begin the duties assigned
to it by the caucus from which it orig
mated The Executive Committee selected
last night Is composed of gentlemen of wide
experience, earnest convictions and ac-
knowledged ability as political managers.
These PREPARATIONS for the campaign have
been harmonious beyond the expectations
of the most. hopeful Republican partisan
The prospect is, in consequence, encourag-
ing. Let this harmony of action be main
tained in the future by avoiding needless
and useless discussions of subjects that will
not enter directly into the purely Congress
sional contest this fall, and the House will
most assuredly be reclaimed to the cause OF
humanity and progress.
Year: 1878

An unauthorized and repudiated express
sion of Senator CoSKLING's political views
has set the political kettle to boiling away
above fever heat. And his enemies say he
Is not leader! What will they say when
he talks in earnest, with a full sense of
complete and public responsibility
Year: 1878

We are reduced through the unpatriotic
parsimony of Congress to the rank of a
fourth-rate maritime power. A due regard
for the name and fame of the country sug-
gcsts most imperatively that something
shall be done, without delay, to aid in re-
storing our shipping to its former as
cendancy on the oceans of the world.
Year: 1878

WHEN boy throws stone his arm
moves in plane parallel with the plane
of his waistband. When a girl under.
takes like feat. her arm is first held up
right in line with her major axis and
then moved rapidly in downward direc-
tion. The stone thrown by the boy has
an enormous range, and strikes the
windew, the cat, the old gentleman or
other object at which it is aimed, at q
surprisingly long distance. The stone
which the girl attempts to throw descri-
bes brief arc and descends to the
ground few yards in front Of her. What
is the cause OF this difference in the sexes
is mystery. DR.. Watts took The ground
that nature had withheld from girls the
power to throw stones, in order that the
human race might have some little
chance of perpetuity. He argued that
il girls could throw stones, they would
constantly hit the wrong objects, and
that so great would be the fatality from
accidents Of this kind that in com


paratively short time the world would
become depopulated IN. Y. Times.
Year: 1878

AT indianapolis there is a newspaper
which says its mission il the emanc pa.
tion of labor. II labor is go much en-.
shaved in this country it is little sipgu
lar that 20 many poor men become rich
here. There is nothing that will eman-
cipate labor 80 soon as good morals and q
habit of saving. The mechanic who has
learned his trade well who has no pet
vice to feed, and who marries at the age
Of twenty-five or thirty a young woman
40 skilled in household economy that
she can make every cent of his wages
bring to him its full value, is very certain
of becoming a wellto do if not a rich
man. No young man can accumulate
property honestly without great self
denial in the beginning. He needs more
discipline than a soldier, Tor he has a
bigger fight to make. One of the first
things he has to learn is the Importance
o, keeping out of the society of fools and
spendthritts His most dangerous en-.
enies are his companions, Courier.
Journal.
Year: 1878

AT Amity Church, Clark county, Ala,
pine tree groans like human being in
distress or dying. Numbers of persons Of
both colors visit the place to hear the
doleful sounds. With colored people the
interest in the mysterious sound is en-.
HANGED by the fact that the tree stands
kard by large graveyard and Is also
near the place where a man of their color
was killed by lightning year or two
ago.
Year: 1878

Already the gold gamblers and spCcula-
tors are locking up the gold, and a term
of great excitement is beginning in Wall
street and the money centers. The gold
en- god is being confined to the safes and
offers of his devotees and by and by fab
ulous premiums will be demanded for his
use. Another era of merciless specula.
tion, depression OF business and farther
fall Of real estate will take place and the
beginning Of the end in revolution will ap,
pear. Should the government force 4 re,
sumption and turn Q deaf ear to the cry o!
the people it will be engulfed in tht
maelstrom Of ruin that It has itsel
made,
Year: 1878

Now that congress is in session would
it not be wise for that body to agitate the
propriety of II new constitutional amend
ment, one that will allow 1t to enact some
few measures for the general welfare in.
stead oftOrcing it to exhaust its lcgisla.
tive strength and soften its coordinate
brain i'll creating and protecting monopo.
lies and breaking sto2e to mccadamize the
road to then own succession?
Year: 1878

SurgeOn-General Woodwork has issued report
of the mortality from yellow fever computed up to
the evening of the 9th. kilograms received by
THE TRIBUNE bring the record up to date. The
deaths from yellow fever have been as follows
Year: 1878

One by all the comforts OF this life
are taken away from the toiling millions.
II used 10 be great consolation for us
TO think In our poverty that none OF onr
rich neighbors could ever get to heaven.
Now, alas, We are assured that there is
no place else for them to SO F! oh,
woful times ! Oh. wretehed. harsh and
incopsiderate world
Year: 1878

National Associated Press the STAR


New YORK, Feb 16-There was consider
able excitement yesterday in Wall street
owing to the report which was industrious
ly circulated that the British steamships in
this port had been recalled for war service
Upon investigation this report proved to be
unfounded
Year: 1878

A FARMER being poorly provided with
materials Of sustenance for his men, fed
thom with pork with the rind cooked upon
it. a young man Of the company, not
liking that outer portion Of the food, was
observed by the host to be carefully re-
moving the outside covering, whereupon
the latter said Young man, we eat the
lind and all here" To which the youth
replied, All right, I'm cutting it of for
Won.
Year: 1878

APEoDLER in Green Bay, Wis, cheat
ed Il woman, and she discovered the fraud
before he had proceeded far. She tried
to get her money back, but the peregrnot-
ing merchant wouldn't listen to any such
proposal. The woman reported at the
next house that the peddler coming had
the smallpox, and the peddler sold no
more goods in that vicinity
Year: 1878

IT is useless TO try to run away from
fate. A Dallas (TeXas) man, the other
day, thought his house was going to be
struck by lightning in an approaching
thunder storm, and SO started with his
family for more secure retreat, but they
had got only little way when a bolt
killed the father and the child he was
carrying in his arms.
Year: 1878

SCHOOL boys usually doubt the text
books statement that tallow candle
shot from gun would go through n
board. Mr.. Bondell is convinced on
that point. He was acting in border
drama in Baltimore theater. A blank
cartridge was fired at him, ard some tai
low that had adhered to the charge pass
ed through his nose.
Year: 1878

though not hers. While she, still a
prisoner in her own room, did not even
know that her husband was in the
house, her sister, before mentioned as
50 closely resembling her and attired to
increase the Resemblance, was enactinR
in her iiame and voice deception into
which she had been reluctantly per-
suaded by a mistaken sense Of fi1iAl and
sisterly exigent obligation.


Destined never to be undeceiyed, the
young Lieitefai1t started sadly upon
his return TO this city Immediately by
steamboat, having taken leave Ut the
friend whose service as witness had
been SO unnecessary, and accompanied
only by favorite dog. At an early
point in the journey the animal sprang
thrOtigh the rails into the water in pur-
suit Of s6fhe floating object; his master
Immediately sprahg after, as though to
rescue him, and the heavy pillows tf
the Sound were the grave of as manly
an English sailor as ever loved and lost.
Years had their slow but seldom un-
healing effect for the widowed bride,
who, after going neaf to death herself
at the tragedy with which her brief 70.
nance had terminated, lived, almost
beyond the memory of it, to be wife
again, and, perhaps, carry with her to
the grave last week only half-credu-
lous recollection of the piteous story of
her distant girlhood. Orpheus C. Kerr,
in N. Y. Graphic.
Year: 1878




MANY children as they grow older are
obliged to learn the rules of politeness
as they would lesson. The conse-
quence is, when they appear in society
they are awkward and blupdering. On
the other hand, children who have been
accustomed to politeness at home, are
at their ease In the most polished cir
cles, and are saved that confusion and
bitter sef-condemnation which are sure
to follow any breach of the rules of
etiquette.


Some children, learning from their
parents, seem to consider politeness at
home affectation. Brothers who would
jump up with alacrity to give an easy
chair to some dashing miss of their ac-
quaintance. will appropriate it to them
selves when at home, without the
slightest apparent consciousness of the
presence of sister. or perhaps a
mother.


"My brother is as polite to me as
any one else when go out with him, !"
said girl proudly to companion.
What q reflection on his manners at
home! A sister will perhaps accident
ally huuCh ONCI cOihC Vi ouO ooVio vim
which her brother is busy. An Gpol-
ogy intoluntarily rises to her lips, but
she stiles it on considering that it is
only Jack; and all the satisfaction he
is offered for disordered plans is blunt,
"Or' Angry reproaches are sure to
follow. "You are real ugly, Jack, to
talk so about such thing; you know
l didn't mean to,'' Is the equally angry
rejoinder. Why did she not say sop
Two words would have saved all the
trouble. In their plays children are
constantly meeting with little accidents,
for which they should be taught to
apologize. have seen the cheek of a
child flush with anger, his eyes flash,
and a little hand raised to strike the
unfortunate breaker Of a toy, when, as
if by magic, the blow was arrested by
these words: "Excuse me, I did not
mean to-"


Polish is not everything. 1t is, how
ever, something. It is better to have
black kettle that is sound, than a
bright one with hole in the bottom
but there is no reason why the sound
one should not be bright too.


It is Of the first Importance that
children should possess these sterling
qualities which fit them for battle with
them out III the worlsa orbit in % Great eat efJadl
hopper boots. Shine them up, and
both happiness and influence viii be
increased
Year: 1878

Three decisions In city were handed down ycs
.erday in the General Term OF tho Court of Common
Pleas, In each oil which the city is successful In
!he suit Of Bleecker VS. The Mayor the question was
whether the plaintiff, auctioneer who IN 1871 had
appraised all the roaI estate OF the city could
the rate of usual commission appraisals or
should be content with the verdict the jury gave him
OF 0O0 The Court holds that tho verdict bo
disturbed and that his be the limit of his rccov-
cry. The case OF Waterman Vs. The Mayor was an
action TO recover difference oil salary police sur
gcon. The Court holds that the Guy Is liable Tor
The debts OF the Police Department In Devlin Va
Ihe Mayor the order OF reference TO Judge Leonard
reversed.
Year: 1878

Ladies, you cannot make fair skin, rosy
cheeks and sparkling eyes with all the cos
metics of France, or beautifers of the
world, while in poor health, and nothing
will give you such good health. strength and
beauty as Hop Bitters. A trial is certain
proof See another column.
Year: 1878

that climb upon the porch belong to
you. You have planted them and seen
them grow. When you are at work up
on them you are working for your
selves and not for others If children


be there. then there are flowers within
the house and without. Buy a home.
Year: 1878

Horace Greeley said, Go West :
but George Bsrstow gave better adj
vice in speech At Metropolitan


Temple. H. said every man shouln
own bis home. If be can. That phil


osophy which tells q man TO drift on
over the ocean of this uncertain life
without home Of his own, is wrong.
The man who does not own his home
i. like ship out ON the open sea At
the hazards of the storm. The man


who has his home is like . ship that
has arrived IN port and Is moored in u
safe hsrbor. One man should no more be
content to live in another mans house,
il h- can build Que OF hia own, than one
bird should annually take the risk Of
he, ching in another birds nest;snd Tor
my own part would rather be able to
own cottage than hire palace l often
see men eager to effect an insurance on
their lives. aud this 10 well lit II right.
But the man who owns his home has
effected an insurance upGn the hap


pinsss Of his family which is as much
to him, if his mind is right, as his
own. I have seen the homes of the
people in foreign lands; have heard
them talk OF their condition and lot in
life. and this is the main theme If
thought with mankind everywhere. As
| listened to them I discovered why
il 70 that the Switzer in his hut in the
Alps, where the limit Of vegetation is
reached, and the winter storm bowls
and rages around hira. is happier that
the Italian tenant on the beautiful
plais Of Lombardy. amidst the bloom
and the fragrance Of perpetual summer.
Il is tue conciousness Of the ownership
Of home, which. no matter how the
storm ragee, no body can take from
him. and which he can mako happy In
spite OF the storm. I would say to
every man. buy home il you can and
own it. Ifa windfall has come to you.
buy . home with it. If you have laid
up enough BY toll. buy . home. II
Won have made money in stocks. buy .
home. Do not let any body tempt snu
to put all your winnings back into the
POOL. Put the rest hack il you will.
Gamble on it IL you must. bat buy the
home first. Buy il and sell It not


Then the rosea thst hlooO shere are
yours The jesamine and the eie@atia
Year: 1878

MARY ELLEN CHASE is authority for the
statement that women outnnmber the men
three TO one in heaven. Will she dispel
the agonizing doubts in a puzzled brain by
coming forward and explaining how, under
those circumstances, heaven could be
heaven-for the men?
Year: 1878

All bodies attract each other the
power Of the force exerted depending
upon the weight Of the body aud their
distance from each other. The
weight of sny body is in fact the
force with which the earth attracts
that body to itself The celestial
bodies are all chained together by
this force Of attraction The sun and
the moon both exert an attractive in


iuenee on the earth, inducing our
planet 10 approach them; this at
traction being counterbalanced by the
centrifugal force, We describe . curve,
which is the resultant of those two
forces. But the surface Of the ca rth
consists Of fluid and solid the form
er, owing to its mobility, exhibits s
greater tendency to cbey the attract
i've influence, and therefore rises to
meet the sun or the moon. The sun,
on account Of his enormous bulk, ex-
ereises . much greater attractive
force on the earth than the moon,
bat the solar tide is much less than
the lunar tide, for this reason-that
the moon being nesr the earth, a.
tracts the surface Of the sea far more
than its solid bed, and, therefore, the
water rises in q heap underneath the
satellite. The sun, on the other
hand, being so distant, exerts nearly
as much force on the surface ss on
the ocean bed beneath, and, there
fore, lifts up the water but very little
The identicslly same effect il Irodac-
ed upon that part most distant from
the sun or moon. only in this case the
ocean bed is drawn towards those
bodies more rapidly than the water,
which is, in fact, left behind. When
the sun and moon are either in con-
junction or opposition-thst is, when
the line joining them passes in the
neighborhood of, or directly through
the esrth-then, their attractive fore
es being united, the tidalwsve will be
ct the maximum, forming spring
tides" If they be in "quadratare"
that is, if the lines drawn from
their centre to the esrth's centre form
q right angle-tbe the tides will be
at minimum, or ''nesp tidev viii re-
suit. 1t will be evident, then, that if
the earth were o world of waters,
each tidal wave would pass complete
round the earth intwenty-four hours.
The existence of ontinentsmaterially
modi6es its transit and il 10 driven
from its course, and consequently re-
tarded. The grest tidal ware takes
its rise in the deep Antarctic ocean
As it trsverses the ocean the water
is not raised above Q few feet; but
when il enters q shallow sea, or
estuary, where the tide finds itself in
sort Of funnel, then the rise is some
times as much a. seventy ieet, ss is
the case in the Bay Of Fundy The
wave is not q wave Of transmission,
bat one Of motion, and II the particles
Of water were destitute Of sii cohe-
sion or friction among themselves
they would only rise into the same
place after the attraction had passed.
A wave Of this nature is illustrated BY
throwing stone into . pond (; the
wavelets expand from the point Of
disturbance, bat do not carry TO the
shore anything that floats on the sur
face Of the water; such bodies only
rising as it were TO allow the wave 10
pass beneath them; tais proves that
the wsser bad only an upward and
downward movement ~ il formed
the wave.
Year: 1878

Changes come With the seasons
The man who hast year lay in bed
while his wife built the ere. viii this
year let his wife bald the ERE While
be lies in bed. Thus Is married devo-
ton rewarded.
Year: 1878

No machinery being used In their manu-,
fscture and will be of the BEST MATER
IAL, and made by the best workmen, and
under his own supervision. I shall sell
these goods at prices very little higher than
machine made shoes.
Year: 1878

From the Nevada Transcript


Nevada city lady of high social standing presents
singular for the consideration OF scientists.
For many years past she has been afflicted with acute
neuralgic pains in various parts OF the body. and.
some time since hoping 70 find relief, resorted
TO the use OF electrical battery. She used
the apparatus for ak months, but found no re-
lief Al the time nothing was noted OF unusual
character an the result. and although several
months have since elapsed. II only when the re-
cent cold weather commenced that any extraordinary
symptoms followed. One night last week the lady
had occasion to enter dark room and pick up u
wo0llen coat that lying there. As she
did so she was both surprised and fright
ened to observe bright light surrounding
the hand that held the garment. AT the same time
the electric currents passed along the arm shocking
her quite severely. When her husband was inform
ed of the fact he discreded its reality thinking there
was more Imagination than anything else In IL. SO
the next evening. TO convince the ncreduous better
half she turned the gas out IN the room where they
sitting. and letting her hair down began comb
ing IL. A remarkable display of light the result
The sparks hew in every direction, aud there was
sharp cracking sound as the teeth of the comb
passed between the hairs. In laying her hands
upon iron the lady docs not observe the pecuartics
referred to- but the instant she touches woollen
cloth the FIRE begins to fly. and the shocks follow
another in rapid succession.
Year: 1878




former resident of Reno. New. now stopping In
this city. relates incident that came under his
observation in the sage brush State that is worthy of
note. One day. 'canty,' well known character in
the employ of the railroad company, while engaged
in coupling at the Reno yard. had his left hand
severely crushed that amputation was found
cessfuly aud enclosing the dismembcred portion in


box buried 1t underground just back Of his office.
The incident had almost been forgotten, excepting
when '.Canty." who had meantime become noted as
the one handed dcsperado, would cah to mind by
anecdotc the circumstance Some three or four years
elapsed from tho time IL occurred, when day a
man observed dog running past him In the
street. carrying something in its mouth Of unusual
appearance. He picked up a stone and hurled IL at
the canine The latter dropped it load and he picked
il up HIS surprise great at finding the article TO
be well formed human hand. so petrited that IL
retained its natural appearance. The finger nails
even remained. little inquiry convinced him that
il "Cantys hand and he returned 1t to that In
dividual. who in turn gave It to the doctor as a
mo
Year: 1878

Daring the morning Of the GARD of May, the
Holy Father, attended by Cardinals Randi,
Ledochowsky, and Caterini, gave an audience
In the Hsll of the Consistory to o company Of
German pilgrims, numbering about 500 persona.
headed by Count Felix de Loe and Q number
of other distinguished Catholics. In his reply,
which was in Latin, to the Address presented
to him, his Holiness said that he thanked God
for having given his faithful children in Ger
many sufficient strength and vigor worthily to
support the struggle carried on against the
Church, and exhorted thoee present and their
brethren in Germany to maintain in their
hearts, together with the faith. the energy
necessary to defend iS against the attacks of
their enemies, and to overcome and conquer
chem with the same arms of faith. He re-
joiced that this struggle had, as all the world
knew, the effect of increasing their religious
fervor. He encouraged them to continue firm
In the defence Of the Church, assuring them Of
She continuance of that same love and sffso-
fion which Pius TX had felt for them, and of
his help and the exercise of his authority on
behalf of their interests.