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Year: 1877

LONDON, May 1.-THE passengers and
crew OF the stranded steamer Dakota,
reached Liverpool at midnight The
Dakota got ten miles out OF her course
either through the thickness OF the
weather or some niscalculation. She
was in charge Of the captain, but had a
pilot on board cooperating. The error
OF the position had been discovered be-
lore the vessel struck and land
was distinctly sighted, when the
engines were reversed, and the
vessel simply glided IN upon q smooth
rock. where she lay with her bow
considerably elevated The sea was toll
erably calm at the time, so there was very
little commotion on board. The pas
sengers baggage and the kits OF the crew
we're mostly saved. The captain aud
some of the officers remained by the ship,
but rs the water covered q portion OF the
after part the hope Of saving the vessel
and cargo is not great. As soon as the
Dakota struck distress rockets were fired
ana the coast guard promptly responded
by throwing line TO the vessel. Pres
emily boat was launched from the ship,
when the shreks OF the women and
children were heard. The passengers were
hsnded down one by one from the bow OF
the steamer TO the boat. Coming toward
the shore the current setting around
the projecting lead line was found very
strong and the boat was borne on the
breast OF a huge blllow and dashed
violently against the rocks. The screams
OF the women rs the boat struck were
awful to hear. All the supposed boats
party wsre lost, but the little craft dritted
back tom the shore few moments until
it WAS fnslly flung high and dry from
the crest of wave on the top OF high,
broad and solitary cliff. Meantime the
breeches buoy had been attached to a
line and sent to the ships side. The
women were securely placed In the
uuoy apd safely hauled ashore by
the strong armed coast guards.
Men in the other boats put ctf from
the steamer alter the b1eeches buoy had
made several trips, filed with crew and
male psssen gers, and ia a comparative
~ short time all had been landed, the
Captain and few of the officers and
seaman remaining. With the coming OF
da , light mist which had enveloped-the
steamer cleared away and another large
steamer WAS observed passing close At
hand. Rockets were AZ once Set OF from
toe Dakota, warning her of the coast and
this probably avoided another disaster.
rhe Dakota aud cargo are heavily insur-
ed in Liverpool and London. The ship
is valued u. $4,000 pounds.


The vessel lies in an exposed position
with a list seaward OF 45 degrees. There
are 35 feet OF water over the taft raj and
1T low water one third of the deck is sub
merged. The Salvage Associations
agents are at the wreck with large
pumps and gear for getting out the
cargo There vas heavy sea this morn
ing, but later IN the DAY the weather was
fair
Year: 1877

NEW YORK, Msy ll.-This is the last
day OF the great dog show in Giluore's 5
Garden and the attendance Of visitors is
even greater than Oh any preceding
dsy of the exhibition. The receipts for
the f5st three days were sufficiently
large not only TO cove, the expenses OF
the entire show, but TO leave very large
surplus for the prizes of the next exhibi
tion. The proceeds o! to-dsy's exhibition
will be given to the Society for the Preven.
tion OF Cruelty to Animals and will be
donated to the institution Of home
Tor dogs.
Year: 1877

1t is estimated by our State officials
that since tie census OF 1870, there has
been an increase in the population OF
this State to the extent of 10000, and
that of this increase nearly half is
found in the counties along the Chess.
peake and Ohio railroad. The slgniti-
cance of this Is seen when the form OF
the statement is changed. Itmeans that
the increase durlng the period referred
10 along the line of that rallrosd is equal
to the increase IN ali the balance OF The
State combined. In view o. this fact
there can he but little doubt that IN 4 few
wears Charleston will be in the centre Of
the most populous part OF the State.
Year: 1877

The indications are that A ustria will be
engaged in the Oriental muss before people
expect it. Mobilization has gone on rapidly,
and on much greater scale than outsiders
have been aware of, and it is reported that
the entire Austrian army is almost ready for
active service. The first movement will
doubtless be determined by the action of Ser
via. This Power appears not to have had
quite enough beating, and is eager for anoth-
er brush with the Turks. As the conflict
would take place almost on the borders of
Austria, Francis Joseph would be obliged, or
what is the same thing, would think himself
obliged, to interfere and occupy Bosnia, just
across the Danube, tor his own protection.
The Turks are said to be anxious for this
movement, and would interpose no objec-
tion, but would allow the occupation in the
hope that Austria might thereby become en-
broiled with Russia,
Year: 1877

THE singular inaction of the Turkish feet


at time when it might be of such vast inn
portance to the Ottoman Empire, is exciting
comment in all the capitals of Europe, and
numerous and various are the conjectures Of
fered 10 solve the doubtful question. Before
the war began the world was often enter
tanned by long accounts of the efficiency OF
the Ottoman fleet. 1t was declared to be
large and exceedingly effective, its armaments
well cared for, its defensive armor in the best
possible condition, the machinery of its huge
iron-clads always ready, and the general
efficiency of the vessels was matter of COM
mon notoriety. But in spite of numerous
occasions on which the fleet might have dis
tlngulshed itself, it has done almost nothing.
Ihe Russians laid torpedoes in the harbor OF
odessa and dared the fleet to enter, and in
spite of the promises of the Porte as to the
Year: 1877

IT begins to look as if the real working
man would need all the money ne can earn,
and those who are getting living wages would
do well to turn the cold shoulder to dema-
gogues, agitaters, blatherskites and other Gre
formers" who find it easy to quit work be-
cause they never knew what it was to begin.
Year: 1877

we DO not read anonymous letters and communi-
catons' The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
out as a guaranty of good faith.


we cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

.Ihe guests at recent expected mar


rage IN certain church on the West


Side were treated to a singular and


rather startling sensation at the very


moment when the counubiai knot was


to be tied. The bride and groom were


young couple, and he'd made all. the


necessary preparations for the happy


event that was to unite them as one,


and y was thought by the respective
! friends OF the pair that the course OF


true love had ran quite smoothly with


them, and genuine mutual affection


existed between them. The invited


company had entered the house OF wor


ship, and the attendants on the couple


had taken their places around the altar.


while the minister remained in waiting


to perform the ceremony The bride,
attlred In all the gorgeous finery custom.
airy on such occasions, alighted from
the carriage, aud the groom stepped
blthely and lightly after her and upon
her long trail. As he did 50 the fair
lady uttered low cry, and exclaimed,
sharply: "Oh, dear; how awkward
you are 7" The young mans face color
ed as he stumbled off the rich garment,
and be gave his arm to the lady while
iaboring under a confused mind. The
pair walked into the church and down
the aisle 10 the altar. All eyes rested
upon their movements, aud a murmur
OF voices arose as they came in and took
their position before the minister. The
ceremony proceeded the minister asked
the bride if she would accept the groom
for her welded husband and received
the usual affirmative answer. and was
about to interrogate the young nan
when the latter impulsively and uu-
expectedly said to the bride: Oh,
dear how awkward you are r. and quick.
ly turning on his heel, walked out of
the ediiice without another word of ex.
pianation, leaving the astonished bride
at the altar in mute Dewilder
ment, aud the minister aud guests in
blank amazement. The young man vent
his way IN Il carriage, and the disap.
pointed brtde and the maids who sought
to comfort her left the church for their
homes. The occurrence was an actnal
one, and has created no small amount of
gossip in the vicinity where the church
is situa ed-Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1877

NEURALGIA ASD RHEUNArIsM-A A
very simple relief for neuralgia is to boil
small handful of lobela in BALI pint
of water till the strength is ont of tho
herb, then strain it of and add tea.
spoonful Of fine salt. Wiring cloths
out Of the liquid as hot as possible and
spread over the part affected. 1t acts
like charm. Change the cloths aa
soon as cold till the pain is all gone ;
then cover the place with soft, dry
covering till all perspiration is over, so
as to prevent taking cold. Rheuma-
tism can ofteE be relieved by applica-
ton to the painful parts of cloths wet
in weak solution OF sal.soda in water.
If there is inflammation in the joints the
cure is very quick; the wash needs to
be luke warm. - Cor. Country Gentle
man.
Year: 1877

The conviction and sentence Of Col.
Henry r. Sibley, of Boston, for the
crime of forgery was provocative Of the
production Of his record az a good man.
The worst feature in such cases li,s in
the fact that courts and juries are asked
to attach more value TO such records
than prisoners have given them in their
time of innocence. The Colonel had
been a most admirable citizen, but bis
virtues only made his crime more helm.
Gus. A noble life should be perfect to
death to use it 10 break the force Of
lawful penalties for crimes ought to
avail nothing, unless to teach by con-
trast. The harvest of fallen good men
is great this year. The sermons they
might illustrate are yet to be written
and uttered Chicago Post.
Year: 1877

The Sabbath of the past will not be tho
Sabbath Of the future indeed, it will not
be Sabbath at all; it will be the Lords Day.
Tho current that flows away from the past
is unmistakable. Sabbath committees,
assemblies, conventions, cannot dam it up.
They might better attempt to stop the
flow Of the Mississippi with bulrushes than
to stopa current of public thought with
sermons, tracts and resolutions. If the
church is wise it will study the Lords day
of the future rather than the Sabbath of
the past-the Christian festival of the next
decade, rather than the Puritan fast day
of the past century-and seek to guide the
current which it is, happily, powerless
to check. The only effect of endeavoring
to shut the doors of the public library and
the gates Of the public park is to augment
the moral power Of those. who would open
the theatre and the beer garden. C'1ristian
Union.
Year: 1877

A CROP OF WILD HoGs-In former
years many of the islands in the delta of
the two great rivers Of our State were
devoted to hog raising. The result is
that on many of these islands, not yet
brought under state of cultivation, the
wild hog is found in all his native fierce.
ness. A large number have been seen
on Winters Island, opposite Pittsburg
Landing, and Stockton paper reports
that 500 head roam among the thickets
on the southern end of Roberts Island,
subsisting on roots and tule potatoes.
When brought to bay they are said to be
wild and ferocious. 1t would be rare
sport to go out on boar hunt, il the
place was only India instead of at our
door. 49,. Antioch Ledger.
Year: 1877

INVERTED SOLDIERS. - A regiment
quartered at certain town in Scotland
bad among them an expert gymnast,
who taught his brother subalterns how
to walk across the blrrack room on their
hands. While engaged one evening the
door opened and the Colonel, stern
dlsciplinarian entered the room, looked
attentively at the inverted company,
shook his head gravely, and departed
without uttering n word. An order to
be on parade next morning was the least
punishment expected for this breach of
discipline. Some days passed, however,
and no notice being taken, it was thought
an apology and explanation should be
offered by the prime instigator OF these
unsoldierly movements. A reference
being made to the memorable night, the
Colonel amazed the intended spologist
by exclaiming: Hush. Sergeant, l
would not have anybody know it for the
world! The fact is. l had been dining
out with m old brother officer who had
served with me in India, and pon my
life | had no idea the wine could have
had such an effect upon me, but when l
came to see if you were all right in your
quarters I could have sworn that saw
you all upside down..
Year: 1877

ARREST OF MoLLIE MAGUIREs. early
last spring several detectives from Penn
sylVania arrived in this city in search of
some of the ringleaders of the Mollie
Maguires, who had fed from that State
and were supposed to have come to the
mines in Utah. On the arrival of the
officers here, which was kept very quiet,
they scattered out, going to work ia the
Park, in Bingham, Beaver county and
Leeds in which places i. was supposed
there were to be found same of the refu-
gees from justice. Nothing farther was
heard of the detectives until day or
two ago, when three of the Molhe Ma
guires were arrested by one OF them in
this city. 1t appears that the officer had
succeeded III getting work at the Toledo
mine, in Little Cottonwood, where he
was satisfied that three Of the men he
was looking for were also engaged in
putting up new Bowers air compressor.
lie gained tha acquaintance of these
men, soon became their friend and fin
ally their conidant. On last Wednes-
day they drank freely together and then
started for Salt Lake to have few days
spree. Coming down on the train from
Wasg.ch the officer was the most noisy
OF all the party. which provoked the con-
ductor's attention in demand for less
row. When they arrived in town the
saloons were freely pa.ronized until the
MoiIies became quite drunk. Then the
officer, who had played his part with
consummate skill, slipped his shackles
upon them, and next read to them the
warrants for their arrest. The officer
with the prisoners left the next day for
the East. All had been done very
quietly, and before any one knew what
WAS going on.-[S. l.. Tribune, 18th.
Year: 1877

The President got through the Boston
wine drinking without a shadow OF harm
or suspicion. but the other night. after o
late Cabinet meeting, when he went
home and set tho night-lamp on the
floor, and then sal down and tried to
pare his corns with button hook,
without taking his shoes off, Mrs. Hayes,
who was awakened by gurgling laugh,
said she never would have believed 1t II
she hadn't seen II.
Year: 1877

How often do we hear the terr,
"choice Of a wife," employed to ex-
press the fact of a mans getting
married, and yet how little choice
there really is about it It is not
like the choice of anything one can
buy it is something beyond his
volition. The choice is contingent
on the choice of another, and his
choice would not amount to much
if the other party were not willing.
The fact is, the little matter OF
choice is made for mortals, and he
who prides himself upon his judi
cious taste in choosing wife, has
no more right to the assumption
than he has to claim he might put
in of having chosen to be born oI
certain parents. The man who
pretends to have made such q
choice, we should like TO ask,
"What are the premonitory symp-
toms attending upon your making
it! Weren't you head and ears in
love, and in a condition to render
choice impossible before you bro't
yourself to ask the question, that
the other party was to answer, ere
the meditated choice could be
made I" OF course you were.
There is no more choice about il
than there is to stick floating
down the stream. The lover gets
in the tide of his feelings, and OIL
he goes, Pumping at last into the
basin of matrimony, and he thinks
he has the management of the
whole affair.


There's where he is more stupid
than the stick, for the stick doesn't
do any such ridiculous thing. II
is best to be modest about it, and
if we get good wife be thankful
to the power that sent her; and il
she is bad, perhaps we will moi
wish to claim her as our choice
but impute the acquisicn to an.
other power.
Year: 1877

A few days ago man was de-
tected using money that belonged
to the government People who
had known him for years, supposed
him to be honest, and after dis
cussing the subject, concluded it
was not his fault, but his wife's.
They said she was very stylish and
probably had run up large bills,
and that he had used this money
to pay them, expecting to replace
it before it was found out. 1t was
not long before this became the
popular belief Of nearly every one
in town. Every one was sorry for
him, and many turned cold
shoulder" towards his wife. Final
" one Of this lady's near neigh
bors heard IL, and she said she did
not know where the trouble was,
but she knew where it was not
She said no one need blame his
wife, for more economical woman
never lived. When asked where
all her nice clothes came from she
replied that the lady earned ths
most of them taking boarders snt
sewing for other, and that he
dresses were remodeled and made
over more than anyone else's II
town.


How many times we hear q wifi,
blamed when 1t was not her owl
but her husbands extravsganc'
that ruined him. Some ladies' al
ways look neat and stylish, in yer.
common clothes; and because the,
do, others less fortunate think, Q
course, they spend moro for dres
than they do.


OF course, sometimes it is reall
the wife's fault when man fail'
but in nine cascs out of ten it
through his own mismanagemen
or extravaganza. He spends NOR
for fast horses, fast pleasures, win
Year: 1877

The settled expression Of deter
mination that msntles the face of q
man who is just starting out 10
have tooth pulled is only equsled
by tho subdued look that creeps
over his features as he psuses with
his hand on the door knob Of the
dental room door, turns quietly
around, and tiptoes back through
the hallway, out of doors again.
Fulton Times.
Year: 1877

Men arc now at work on the foun-
dation of the new brick bnilding
that Mr.. Ryeesoa is erecting on the
north side Of the square between
Null i Nelson's and Willie Frosts'
Reading Room.
Year: 1877

IRON SHOT FOR STONE SAwINa.-There
would seem to be no question IS to the
superiority Of iron shot, as substitute for
sand, in stone saving. 1t is found, in
fact, that marble may be cut from three
to four times as fast by this means, in the
same saws, taking about one-half the
power in. proportion to the quantity
sawed, all the power consumed in useless
ly crushing the sand being saved. A
blade I in. thick is found to be worn away
aninch in cutting 4S inches deep in granite,
or25oinches deep in marble. Themudfrom
washing is run into catch pits, and the
fine particles of iron thus saved are used
for smoothing granite, cutting faster and
lasting longer than emery. Hard, sharp
sand, in being ground to finest mud, will,
it is found, wear away about its own
weight of glass; grained emery,
about twice its wei ght; iron shot, passed
through No. 70 sieve, will wear away
fifty times its weight of glass. 1t is nec-
essary, however, that all journals and rub
bing surfaces of the machinery be care
fully protected from the shot, as they cut
and tear far worse than shot. r.. ~
Year: 1877

DISTANCE OF THE EARTH FRox THE SUN.


M. Cornu has lately made valuable
contribution to astronomical knowledge.


1t is well-known that the mean distance
of the earth from the sun was long sup
posed to have been fixed, within very
small limit of,error, at about 95, ,0O0, 900


miles. The accuracy Of this number had
already been called in question on theoreti-
cal grounds by Hansen and Leyerrier,
when Foucault decided the matter by an
experiment. of extraordinary delicacy; that
is, taking advantage Of the revolving mir
ror, with which Wheatstone had some
time before enriched physical science,
Foucault succeeded in measuring the alb
solute velocity of light in space by expert
ments on a beam of light, reflected back
ward and forwards within tube about
thirteen feet in length. Combining the
result thus obtained with what is called
by astronomers the constant of alteration.
Foucault calculated the distance of the
earth from the sun, and found it to be
part, or about three million
miles, less than the commonly received
number. This conclusion has now been
confirmed by'M. Cornu, from new deter
made by him of the velocity of
light, according to the method of Fizeau.
Year: 1877

The Western Rural tells of man
who plants. two or three weeks after
the corn is planted, new hill of corn
every fifteenth row each way. And
this is the reason: If the weather be-
comes dry after tilling-time, the silk
and the tassel both become dry and
dead In this condition, if it become
seasonable, the silk revives, and renews
its growth, but the tasseIs do not re-
cover. Then, for want of pollen, the
new silk is unable to fill the office for
which it was designed. The pollen
from the replanted corn is then ready
to supply the silk, and the filling is
then completed. He says nearly all
the abortive ears, SO common in all cQEn
crops, are caused by the want of polled,
and he had known ears to double their
size in this second filling.
Year: 1877

A schoolboy was asked by his teacher
to give an example of earnestness.
He looked bothered for moment, but
his face frightened like the dewdrops
glistening on the leaves of the rose in
early morning, as he delivered himself
of the following happy thought: ::
" When you see boy engaged on a
inince pie till his nose touches the mid
die plum, and his ears droop on the
outer crusts, you may know he has got
itn
Year: 1877

NEW YORK, Feb. IT, The Herdld's
special has the following points on the
ineligible elector question: In Judge
Bradley's written opinion he lays it down
that if anywhere an elector was Federal
officer and cast his vote for elector while
holding the Federal Office, such vote can
not be counted. The Democrats mean
to produce such a vote in Wisconsin,
where DR.. Downs, one of the electors
was pension surgeon when chosen cleo
tor, did not resign, held the office when
he voted in the Electoral College and
continues to hold it. OF course, as there
is but single return from WisconsinthIs
case will come up only before the two
houses, but it will there have to be voted
for. ...


Among the Democrats there are vari-
Gus shades Of feeling, ranging from deep
disgust and anger to belief that the
Oregon case is now stronger than ever
and cannot be decided for Hayes without.
such complete reversal Of the grounds
of the two decisions made, as can hardly
be expected of lawyers and Supreme
Judges. The party leaders are quiet and
self possessed and will prevent any fool
ish action, if any should be attempted,
unless it be the adjournment, which
appears to be generally determined
on, and which they mean to justify by
speedy action on Monday.