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Year: 1877

A Does ONLY Drunk Here is an


aneedote with a sharp moral that comes


to lis all the way from Australia; Sixty
years ago, when | was teacher in kll


malenm parish, says John Fraser, | was
using whskcy bitters for my stomach 5
sake. One day dipped a piece of cake
in it aad gave it to the dog lie grudg
ineing ate it, curling up his lips to avoid
the taste. Ere long he became tipsy--
he howled most pitcously, and unnatur-
ally looked up in my face as if tor help,
lie began to stagger and fail like drup-
ken man. The appearance OF his face
and eyes was extraordinary. He lay on
the floor and howled until the effects of
the drink wore off The dog never for
got the trick. Whenever afterwards !
went TO the dresser for the bottle he has
tened to the outside of the house. One
day, the door being shut. he sprang at
one bolt through a pane Of glass, to get
outside. So much tor the wisdom ofthe
dog-in6nitely surprising that Of fool
ish drinking men.
Year: 1877

Mayor Siedier, OF Jersey City, did not appear be-
foro tho Hudson County Grand Jury yesterday TO
mako complaint against the places OF business open
on sunday, although he was expected If tho Mayor
does not appear before Friday afternoon tho Grand
Jury It is reported will call for tho report OF the
Chief of Police setting forh the number of places Of
business open and the OF the proprictor
der that prescntment may be made. The Grand
Jury will adjourn next week unless the question Of
Sabbath violation is brought
Year: 1877

William Pastor better known among the theatrical
profession ''B,ly PASTOR died at late hour last
night at tho residence Of his brother Tony, No III
West Seventeenth street. Mr. Pastor In his younger
days connected with the business; but OF
late years hc was manager Of his brothers. variety
theatre on Broadway. For somc time past he
been suffering from u tumor IN the lett breast An
operation was performed yesterday and death, It Is
supposed, resulted from exhaustion following tho
operation
Year: 1877

A Big Rapids woman was recently
arrested for stealing a sack of -four. An
investigation showed that her family
were in almost a starving condition,
with one child very sick. She was let
off under suspended sentence, as she
had previously borne good character,
and the hecitizens Immediately took steps
TO relieve her suffering family.


New settlers are pouring into New
aygo county very rapidly, and farm inn
provements are noticeable in every di-
rection. As rule, these newcomers
are an industrious, energetic class of
people, Just such as are needed TO ef-
feet the grand transformation. Still
there is plenty OF room in this neigh
borhood for those in search Of fertile
acres. Remember, the soil is rich,
timber good and terms for buying land
as easy as any could reasonably wish
for LNewaygo Times.


At Jackson on the oath, Edwin Dan
Ger died suddenly, IL is thought of par
alysis or of apoplexy. He was engaged
in an alteration with a saloOn-keeper
named Gallup, and was thought 10 be-
Drunk, but examination showed no
signs OF drunkenness at the time. The
Coroner's jury exonerates Gallup,
though some striking was done.


The Fremont. Newago Co.. Times
says: Every day develops the fact
more plainly thatthe great temperance
revival is destined TO be lasting in its
effects. There are six hundred less sa-
looms in the State than there were last
year, and that is not all. Hundreds Of
families that last year were pinched
with want, are now living in comfort
and happiness. In our own village n
great change for the better has taken
place, which we trust is but the begin
ming of new era.


In Galesburg lives an ancient maid
en- who during the last Presidential
contest ardently espoused the Tilden
side. The finding Of the Electoral
Commission she pronounced an out
rage and going TO Galesburg's animated
lexicon she asked for a sentiment which
printed on an envelope might exasper-
ate the Hayes postmasters and be a
continual reminder OF the doubtful
character Of their chiefs title TO the Of
fee. The result was: Fraud trium-
phant; eight 90 seven," appeared in
bold type on 800 envelopes. II is need
less 10 say the old thing belonged to
the spit-fre fraternity.


At the Office Of the superintendent OF
public institution in this city a letter
was recently received from township
superintendent OF schools, inquiring II
he would be justified in refusing a
certificate TO a habitual drunkard, al
though he knew that large portion OF
the district were in favor of his teach
ing school2n The inquirer has case
in hand Of n man who gets beastly
drunk. although otherwise he is a good
teacher. The deputy-superintendent,
@. B. Stebbins, answers officially that
il is the opinion Of the department that
mo plea would justify the giving Of
certificate 10 n drunkard, or one who
who gets drunk occasionally. The
most that could be done would 10 grant
certificate on the promise where
confidence is placed, with the distinct
understanding that the the certificate
will be revoked on the first violation Of
the pledge. - Lansing Republican.
Year: 1877

Men are born with two eyes, but
with one tongue, in order that they
should see twice as much as they say.


To no kind Of begging are people so
AYERS as begging pardon; that is when
there Is serious ground for doing so.


Measure not men by Sundays, with
out regarding what they do all the
week after.
Year: 1877

London, Sept. IA correspondent
who witnessed the storming of the
Notifications at I.ovatz, thus describes
the scene at the last redoubt taken by
the Russians: The ground on the in
side was thickly covered with the
corpses of Turks and Russians, but at
the western end, where the Turks had
been jammed in their efforts to escape,
for the space Of fifty feet by twenty the
earth was covered with Turkish dead
and wounded to the depth of five feet.
The living and dead were lying on each
other in a dense mass, steaming with
heat and blood. Around this Moslem
pile was fringe of dead Russians,
showing that there had been fearful
struggle on this fatal space. The Rus
sian soldiers were standing upon this
mass of humanity. l watched them
working manfully to separate the living
from the dead. In half an hour they
had made scarcely any impression upon
that fearful pile. The retreat of the
Turks was marked with dead and
wounded.


London, Sept. Ga correspondent
who was present at the capture of To-
vatz, estimates the actual Russian at
tacking force at 1000, with one divis-
ion OH reserve, and that the capture
was effected partly by surprise.
Year: 1877

ROBERT TooMBs, in his Atlanta
speech, boasted that he owned SOC
negroes before the war, and that there
fore he understood them. He declared
they were savages-were Of the human
race, but not Of his race-were lower
order of human beings, etc. This
speech was made to large crowd OF
Democrats, and was enthusiastically
cheered. AL of which goes to show
that the Southern Democracy are just
as much the friends of the colored peo-
pie as they were before the war.
Year: 1877

GENERAL MCCLELLAN is discoursing
on the Russo-T Turkish war in the North
American Review. The General is
disappointed in the great absence of
masterly retreats upon both sides. If
the Russians had only followed his ex.
ample and advice they would have dug
themselves under ground long ago.
We always acknowledged that there
was one good thing about little Mac.
He knew how to dig.
Year: 1877

ONE Of the American humorists has
said that single hornet when he feels
well can break up camp-meeting, and
now it begins to look as if one naval
officer would be able to disperse about
all there is of civil service reform.
Year: 1877

HORRIBLE news comes from Georgia.
But few days ago it was the reputation
act that shocked us, and now, right on
its heels, comes the prediction that this
years peanut crop will be failure.
Year: 1877

Never deceive for the sake o.
foolish Jest, o. to excite the laugh
ter Of few companions at the ex-
peose of a friend. Be anxious when
you relate anything to tell it just
as it occurred. Never vary in the
least degree. The reason why our
ears are 50 often saluted by false
reports is because people in telling
real things add little to them and
as they pass through dozen mouths
the original stories are turned into
something entirely different. So
when you attemp: to tell anything
that you have seen with your own
eyes rotate it correctly in every
particular, and as you grow older
yoc will reap the advantages Of
this course
Year: 1877

1t would Seem that sufficient has been
written on this subject, but from the
many inquiries l receive, and badly man
aged vineyards, and the great import
ance place on proper pruning, think
still more may profitably be said. 1t is
very easy matter to keep a vine in
proper shape if taken at time of plant.
ing; but not so with an old vine that has
been allowed to fruit out at the extreme
and every year as it is its nature to do,
and has no new wood within ten or fif-
teen feet of the root. | have a vineyard
OF i've hundreds vines, planted ten wears
ago on sandy soil, some of it SO poor it
would not produce fair crop of white
beans: bSt have had good crop Of grapes
every year since old enough to bear, and
OF a quality l have never seen excelled.
They have been pruned in the following
manner: First year after planting, wood
all cut back to two or three buds in the
fall, the following spring only two or
three of these were allowed to grow ac-
cording to strength of vine; the next
spring cut these back to two or three
feet from the ground. The next or third
year, allow two or three canes to grow as
soon as they start out. In the fall cut
off the old wood Tor :that pro luce the
year before. and head back the new
canes to five or six feet. At this age the
vine is old enough to produce full crop,
and from three to five canes may be al.
lowed to grow each year, always encour-
aging their growth from near the ground
and each year pruning off in the fall or
winter the wood that is two years old
and has borne fruit that year. Ny vines
that are ten years old have not more
than from one to two feet Of old God
on. L am fully convinced that this CO.
called renewal system is the best TO Get
grapes of extra quality, and to have
them ripen early and evenly l would
advise bringing old vines back to this
system. Although it may occasion the
loss OF one or two crops, the quality will
richly repay the loss. Some that thought
this system OF pruning not practicable
years ago now wish instruction how tc
get their vines in shape to produce
grapes OF good quality. N. Stearns, IN
Michigan Farmer,
Year: 1877

1cannot too strongly urge farmers
and others to grow all the grapes that
their families can consume, at least,
and as many 10 sell as you please. What
is the use Of having, land and not
making use of it to the best advantage.
II every country family were TO have
all the grapes they could eat from
August to January, many OF the ply
sicians would be driven into the cities,
as it Is an admitted fact that grapes are
powerful curative of many diseases,
when eaten freely as long as they can
be kept fresh. If there be anything IN
this world to delight q family, as its
members walk in their garden, it is the
large. rich clusters of grapes that load
down an extensive arbor. A neglec-
Iedvine or two are of little value. What
you need is an an arbor from so to 100
feet long, over q walk with vines eight
feet apart on both sides or you can
have trellis eight or nine feet high
wherever you please. The posts
should be twelve feet loag and eight
feet apart. Then have stats 16 feet
long, about an inch and half wide.
nailed to the posts, beginning two feet
from the ground, and then placing
them eighteen inches apart to the tcp
Of the posts, or you can use wire in
stead of stats. One OF two years old
Concord vines can be bought for
twenty-five cents each, and from some
grape grow ers at II less price. If you
propose to wait till you can grow some
vines yourself from cuttings, go i'm
mediately to some neighbor who has
good grapes and get some cuttings, if
his vines were not closely pruned last
fall. They should be about foot long
and each should contain two or more
buds. Keep them in moist sand till
wanted to plant, then set them foot
apart, with the upper buds near the
surface of the ground. Set them at an
angle. SO that the earth can be pressed
veryhard around the lower buds. Place
smalls takes by the side OF each cut
ting to show where they are, and as
soon as the grass has grown high en-
ough to cut spread some lightly over
the cutting to protect the buds from
the sun when they begin to grow
freely. The next season these vines
may be transplanted where they are
TO grow. Cuttings clipped in Ncvem-
Der are best, but if cut now before the
sap flows | think they will grow.


LINDEN, n. j. T. B. MINER.
Year: 1877

Yesterday afternoon number of ladies
and gentlemen who had engaged passage
in Pullman car of the north bound
train of the Mobile road, were not a lit
tie surprised to find the car already part
ly occupied by nearly dozen persons
manaclsd and shackled, under the charge
of deputy United States Marshals, and
who, ,.they ascertained, after inquiry, were
convicts under sentence of the United
States Courts, and on their way to the
Moundville, Va, penitentiary, The train
was ON the point of starting, The con
ducter was sought and an explanation
asked. His reply was that there was no
remedy, inasmuch as the passage had
been engaged for the prisoner, and the
best that could be done was to put cur
tain between the convicts and the other
passengers.


After the detention for an hour another
Pullman car was coupled with the train,
and the convicts had the satisfaction of
avoiding the stare and other inconveni-
ences attending the presence of ordinary
passengers.
Year: 1877

'o"e Dteey " t'eo"uoy.


A QUEER SToRY.-We mentioned
the other morning, the arrest of
man named Burton for stealing
boat. The next daT he was sent
back to Tacoma and while on his
way to the Zephyr, he offered to pay
back the money to the fisherman to
whom he had sold the stolen boat.
Subsequently, an old man who had
been found drunk and placed in the
chokee for safekeeping, came and
complained that he had been robbed
of S1lO while in the station house.
A telegram was sent to Tacoma, and
an official answer was received stat
ing that Burton had, when he got
there, 500 in coin in his pocket,
and that he had been discharged on
the boat case: but could probably
be found and arrested. But we do
not know what to make of the old
mans story. 1t seems very strange
to us that the police would lock up
any man without first searching him
for weapons as well as money. We
doubt it.


owNED.-Captain Kyle, of the
schooner Juanita, is authority for
the statement that some men, who
are employed in Shoecraff's logging
camp, on Camano Island, were out
in boat at Port Susan, one day last
week, and found the partially de-
composed remains of man lying on
the beach; but the birds of the air
and fish Of theifood had preyed upon
the remains SO as to destroy all fa-
cial expression, In consequence of
the decomposed condition of the re-
body, it was buried where it was
found.


SUBSCRIPTIONS consequence
of Judge Lewis decision nullifying
the City Charter, the scrip is not
negotiable. Hence the police are
canvassing for subscriptions to aid
in maintaining the force, as a pro-
lection against burglars and incen-
diaries. We notice that most of the
leading business firms have sub
scribed literally towards the project
and believe it to be money we'll in
vested.
Year: 1877

ment.


Since the decision to postpone the
meeting of Congress, it has also been
decided to make all intended changes
in our diplomatic representatives at
once, taking the chance Of their contir-
nation when the Senate meets.


When it was supposed Congress
would meet in June it was proposed to
delay action until the reassembling;
but that date is now so distant it is
believed the country's interests can be
best subseryed by prompt action.


The number included in the band
surrendered by Crazy Horse was about
1900 in all; peni.s nearly $500.
This capture is regarded here as a
severe blow to Sitting Bull, and it is
thought the hostiIes can make but
little effectual resistance.


The latest intelligence from Europe
is interpreted here to mean the early
participation of both Austria and Great
Britain in the momentous struggle
now going on between the Turk and
Russian; and their Intervention can
hardly fail to provoke like action on
the part of other powers.


MAXWELL.
Year: 1877

The report is cabled that the Sui
tan will surely unfurl the banner of
the Prophet, thereby calling upon all
those protesting Islamism to rally to
the standard of the Crescent, and Join
in the war against in6del Russia.
The k-ul-Islam. the head of the
church, will bless the Sultan as the
leader in this hol y war, and the Sul-
tan himself has promised to make a
pilgrimage to Mecca if he is success.
full. This appeal to the faithful, it is
stated, has been contemplated by the
Porte from the beginning of the war,
and has only been delayed through the
earnest efforts of the English Govern
ment.
Year: 1877

The Colusa (Cal.) San of Jan. Goth.
tells the following story: "Last Satur-
day Master John Williams, aged Is,
was out hunting near home, on Elk
creek, when he ran across panther and
gave him the benefit of the contents of
his rife. The panther made off, and
the young man loaded up again and gave
him chase, getting in another shot on
him. This time, however, the panther
got out of his sight, but he could see
from the blood that he had been hit.
He went home and dreamed all night,
of course, of fighting panthers with a
grizzly or two thrown in to make it in
teresting. Next morning, bright and
early, he gathered his gun, determined
on finding that panther. He got on
the blood, which he traced into hollow
log. He fired into the log. and then got
an ak and cut the panther out, finding
him still alive, but he finished him up
and dragged his trophy in triumph
home. An inspection showed that both
balls of the previous evening had gone
through the panther's lungs. He was
an immense fellow, measuring seven
| feet from tip to tip"
Year: 1877

Warm and still is the summer night
As here by the rivers bank wander;
While overhead are the stars and white
The glimmering lamps on the hillside yonder.
Silent are all the sounds of day;
Nothing hear except the chrp of crickets,
And the cry Of the herons wingng their way
Ger the poets house in the Elmwood thckets
Call to him, herons as slowly you pass
To your rOosts in the haunts of the exed thrushes
Sing him the song of the green morass
And the tides that water the weeds and rushes.
Sing him the mystical song of the hern
And the secret that battles our utmost seeking
For only a sound of lament discern,
And cannot interpret the words you are speaking.
Sing Of the air, and the wild delight
OF wings that uplift and winds that uphold you
The joy of freedom, the rapture of fight
Through the drift of the floating msts that enfod you.
OF the landscape lying so far below,
With its towns and rivers and desert places;
And the splendor of night above, and the glow
or the limtess, blue ethereal spaces.
Ask him If songs of the Troubadours,
Or Of Minnesnger in old black-letter,
Sound in his ears more sweet that yours,
And If yours are not sweeter and wilder and better.
Sing to him, say to him, here at his gate
Where the boughs of the stately elms are meeting
Some one hath fingered to mediate,
And send him unseen this friendly greeting
That many another hath done the same
Though not by a sound was the silence broken;
The surest pledge of deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.


-LongtellOU.
Year: 1877

the English sailors on the Alert, in the
Arctic regions, was in March, the ther-
mometer on the fourth going under sew
enty degrees below zero. This was too
much even for the dogs, who were usu-
ally tolerably comfortable out of doors,
and they walked about lifting their feet
like cat on hot bricks, while one of
them was frozen to the foe by his tail.
On February 4th there occurred sud-
den change of forty-fve degrees in a
morning, the thermometer rising to one
degree below zero. The Esquimaux
stand the coldest weather usually as
we'll as the dogs in the days of lowest
temperature they were working outside
the ship with naked hands and said they
felt no cold. 1t would seem rather idle
to attempt to acclimate Americans to
that region, when the Esquimaux are
perfectly able to occupy the country and
eat up all it produces.
Year: 1877




TELL Your WIFE.-If you are in any
trouble or quandary, tell your wife-that
is if you have one-all about it at once.
Ten to one her invention will solve your
difficulty sooner than all your logic. The
wit of women has been praised, but her
instincts are quicker and keener than
her reason. Counsel with your wife, or
your mother, or sister, and be assured
light will flash upon your darkness.
Women are too commonly adjudged ver-
dant in all but purely womanish affairs.
No philosophical students of the sex
thus judge them. Their intuitions, or
insights, are the most subtle, and if they
cannot see cat in the meal, there is no
cat there. I advise man to keep none
of his affairs secret from his wife.
Many home has been happily saved,
and many fortune retrieved, by mans
full confidence in his wife. Woman is
far more seer and prophet than man,
if she be given fair chance. AS
general rule, wives confde the minutest
of their plans and thoughts to their
husbands. Why not reciprocate, if but
for the pleasure of meeting confidence
with confidence? [ an certain no man
succeeds so well in the world as he who,
taking a partner for life, makes her a
partner of his purposes and hopes. What
is wrong of his impulse or judgment she
will check and set right with her almost
universally right instincts. And what
she most Graves and most deserves is
confidence, without which love is never
free from shadow.
Year: 1877


A man in HIS carriage was riding along'


A gayly-dressed wife by his side;
In satin and laces she looked like queen.


And he like king in his pride.
woOd-sawyer stood on the street as they passed;
The carriage and couple he eyed;
And said, as he worked with his saw on a log,
IL wish were rich and could ride"
The man in the carriage remarked to his wife.
"one thing would give if I could
I'd give my wealth for the strength and the health
or the man who is saving the wood"
pretty young maid, with bundle OF work,


Whose face as the morning was fair,
Went tripping along with smile of delight.


While humming love-breathing air.
She looked on the carriage; the lady she saw,


Arrayed in apparel so fine,
And said in a whisper, II wish from my heart


Those satins and laces were mine"
The lady looked out on the maid with her work,


So fair in her calico dress,
And said, "Id relnqulsh my position and wealth.


Her beauty and youth to possess"
Thus it is in the world: whatever our Lot,


Our mind and our time we employ
In longing and signing for what we have not,


Ungrateful for what we enjoy
We welcome the pleasure for which we have sighed,


The heart has a void in it still,
Growing deeper and wider the longer we live,


That nothing but heaven can fill.
Year: 1877

PAY Your BILLs.-If every one who
could pay their bills would do 50, it
would help matters these hard times.
A gentlemen in neighboring city re-
Gently told the writer that he had been
'put off, by debtor as many as twenty
times, and that he had that day been
credibly informed of large deposit in
savings bank, to the credit of the same
obstinate debtor. Every merchant in
town who trusted his fellow-man has on
his books a host of little accounts that
bother him infinitely more than the large
accounts. They send bills to men who
are .swell off, and in few months send
another bill, and then another, without
response. They dislike to urge the
payment as the debtor is a customer
whom they dislike to displease. The
merchant needs his money and is often
times obliged to borrow, and pay inter-
est, because those who can pay, do not
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