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Year: 1877

IRREvOCABLE LAW.-The money
monopoly and usury systems of the
world, in one hundred years, would re-
duce to starvation ninety in every hun
dred of mankind, if it were not that ma
ture fights the legitimate result by Civ
ing to the money-usurer prOhigate sons
to scatter what he has boarded. This
may be demonstrated by calculating
interest at current rates, compounded,
on existing capital and the increase
thereof, for hundred years. But ma
Cure humanely fights the barbarism of
society by cursiug the son with the
fathers sins, and thus mitigates the
evil. Society can never approach order
or decent civilization, until il is regarded
as a sin and a crime for a man to claim
or appropriate to himself that which he
did not produCe-to reap where he did
not sow. This must he understood and
applied literally and practically to life.
There can never be much advancement
among the working classes until all
classes become working classes, and
thus relieve the overWOrked, and give
them leisure for mental culture. AS it
Is, the so-called cultured classes regard
il as both honest aud pleasant, as well
as geuteel, to ride on the backs of the
So-called uncultured classes, which do
the worlds work.
Year: 1877

IMMORTALITY.-NOth can be moro
sad than to see a woman like Harriet
Martineau or a man like Mr.. Ranney
going under the veil with the assurance
that there is nothing in them worthy of
immortality. 1t may he all very well
for person whose instincts are so re-
fined that dishOnOrable act would be
an impOssibility to talk about annihila-
LiOn, but the doctrine of future life is
d restraint which we can't well do with
out. The practical operation of the gen.
eral belief in Immortality on the moral
life of the community is greater than
we think. To die like a dog is an in
centive to live like one. To be nothing
hereafter is to be nothing here.-E1.
Year: 1877

Ex-Presideut Wolsey of Yale College
delivered an address at New Haven,
few days ago, upon the use of the Bible
as a textbook in public schools. While
advocating the right and duty of the
State to educate the children in moral
duties in some form or other, he ques-
toned very strongly whether the formal
reading of the Scriptures did as much
good as to be justly regarded as essen
Lial. He thought the children were not
generally in state of mind to receive
instruction from it, and that "if any of
the Inhabitants of a school district
should object to its use for conscience
sake, he would grant every indulgence
consistent with school order, even to
permitting a lesson from some other
OOOk to be substituted in its placed
Herald.
Year: 1877

Again we are compelled to make the
above announcement. Why the manu-
script does not come to hand more
promptly we do not know; but it is per-
haps not strange, when the distance
which the author is from here is taken
into consideration. We regret, but are
unable to prevent, the break in the story.
Year: 1877

WHAT IS TRUE HEROIsM ?-It is a
radically false notion to look only to
war for heroism. The truest courage,
perhaps, is that which fights the battle
of life under adverse circumstances, day
by day, month by month, year by year,
rather than that which rushes to an as
sault, or defends the imminent breach.
And of such herOism modern times are
full.-PhitadeLphia Ledger.


Nothing could be truer. The hod-
carrier who supports a family of eight
children and two dogs on a dollar a day,
and does it willingly, displays more
true heroism than is required to effect a
conquest on the battlefield. Gen. Bull
lion will face battery without blanch-
ing. Ask Bullion to face an unpaid
creditor four times a week, as TrOwel
the brlck-layer does, and Bullion would
grow low-splrited and take to poison in
a fortnight. The heroism of the battle
field is kept up by the bass drums, clar-
Ionets, and praise from the newspapers.
Such herOism may, or may not be, a
matter of principle, but there is no
questioning the courage required in the
pTosaic duties of life-the bringing up
of family by shedding perspiration al
the rate of 10 cents an hour.-InUesti-
gator.
Year: 1877

A pitiful story is told of the efforts of
a poor Auburn girl to get an education.
She wished to go to the Portland, (Me. J
high school. She was very poor, anu
unable to pay her board in a strange
city, so she made an arrangement with
the proprietor of a clearinghouse to do
what she could to assist her, as payment
for board. Every morning she arose at
three O'Clock, got breakfast, then went
to school, and on her return cleared
away the dinner things, aud then pre-
pared the supper. After supper she
cleared up and did other hOusework.
The result was breakdown with ty-
phOid fever, and she was taken to the
hospital. There the matron discovered
that the poor girls clothing, while very
neat, consisted only of calico dress and
one cotton skirt. The girl, as soon as
she is we'll enough, will go home to an
aunt in Auburn, who will keep her till
she can again eudeavor to support her
self.
Year: 1877

A Journal for the People.


Devoted to the Interests Of Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion.


Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrong
OF the Masses.
Year: 1877

Among the many changes to take place soon
on the grand boulevard bone will be more strik-
ing and more indicative of the good time to come
than the swaying to the breeze the banners Of the
grand "Palais Royal" Our enterprising friend
Levy, who has for 60 many years been the popu-
lar proprietor Of the dollar store, No. 1877 Canal
street, seems to have had his faith shaken in re-
publican institutions and ideas, and is deter
mined, with enc fell swoop, to obliterate the
name of dollar store forever. He is making prep
arstions for the opening of this elegant and gor-
geous establishment, and nothing will be spared


in making it the most attractive place in the
Southern country. Leyy's dollar store is known
throughout the whole South, and as it has been
known for it's promptness in filing orders and
the polite attention Of the clerks and the place to
get everything, so will the Palais Royal grow
into popular favor, for we will see in the large
and gilded signs that are to adorn the building
evidences Of new era, a prosperity which We
have longed for but never expected until the
present lime.
Year: 1877

The proposed exodus OF South Carroll
na negroes to Liberia is said to more and
more enlist the attention of the people
in that state. The negroes arc generally
infatuated W It'll the PROJECT.
Year: 1877

Work has been delayed by the death of John Heaton the boss carpenter and best bridge builder in the company's employ. His place will probably be taken by MT. Seth Green. Cedar piles for the piers are about all on the ground and are being sharpened and shod with iron. Lumber keeps on arriving every few days and a large quantity is already accumulated on the river bank. A side track has been made to facilitate its delivery. Two more piles were driven this week, one on each side the line of the bridge, to make the floating pile-driver fast to. The anchorage is not good at that part of the river. A large force of mechanics is camped there and shops are ready for active work.
Year: 1877

DRUNKEN INDIANS made night hideous on Saturday and Sunday. A few goods were stolen by them from Mrs. Smiths millinery A trunk was being drag ged from one of the little houses in front of Blair's when the Indian thief was hailed and ran Many other trifling thefts were committed, and bowling and shoot ing were indulged in by them. to the great annoyance of citizens. Sheriff Werninger went actively to work to discover the par ties guilty of selling liquor to them, and has now the satisfaction of having one of fender in jail and of being on the track of others. Since the arrest was made the ne- farious traffic has ceased and the town is again quiet. A few years ago rule was enforced here of driving every Indian out of town after sunset. The rule worked well, secured quiet and safety, and should again be put in force.
Year: 1877

You would send for watch for your. self and one for your wife, but you arc afraid that you won't be satisfied as to the style, etc. Now, friend, such talk as that is silly; is it necessary that you should go to the expense of coming to San Francisco when all you have to do is to merely give Uncle Harris plain explanation of what you want, and he will then send you what will more than please you. Send your or ders to Uncle Harris, 702 Kearny street, San Francisco.
Year: 1877

NATIVE GRAPES were brought in this week from Hanlon's Ferry. They were of the Catawba variety, of large size, and of an intense and rich flavor rarely found in grapes. Some of the punches weighed five pounds Hanlon's oldest vines are not yet three years old, but they are loaded with fruit. They were raised within a short distance of the Colorado river, and afford gratifying proof of the SENTINEL's $ constant assertion that this is par excel lence a grape country.
Year: 1877

The main cut from the river along Mad ison avenue will be finished to-day, and the force put to work next week on the spur track that will run along the river bank. So far Chinamen and horses have stood the hot weather very well. At Colorado Station all is very quiet. R. E. Farrington has packed up his goods, proposes to move to Ehrenberg, and wants to sell his building, which is a portable lumber house, put together in sections. Travel and freights have been very light Tester lay but two passengers arrived. There are reported on the way down some 62 tons of freight for some mining outfit in -9lo6e District
Year: 1877

THE transfer boat is now in charge of Capt. Steve Thorn, and is run by an Amer can engineer, Mexican fireman and an Indian crew. Perishable freight chiefly ice, fruit and beer, is brought over on ar rival at Colorado Station, together with mails, express and passengers. Other freight remains till the day following. Up river freight remains at the Station till the steamboat sails.
Year: 1877

BODY FoUND.-Last week corpse was found on the California side of the river, not far from Benino Ruiz's wood camp. The dead mans name is supposed to be Scott, but nothing positive is known about him nor about the circumstances attend ing his death. The body being in an ad- vanced stage of decomposition it was inn possible to recognize any evidence of foul play
Year: 1877




CoLgMBgs, D., April Pa word
about political affairs in Columbus. Ben
Wade's letter on Hayes has fallen like a
hombshell in the Republican camp. The
State Journal admits that Ben is plucky
old fellow, and was useful during the late
rebellion to fire the union heart and raj
ly the nation TO arms; but that pluck is
played out, and that no more Ben Wades
are needed in these times of peace.


But il is evident that old Ben has
struck the key note OF the Republican
heart. Wade says that Hayes is trying
to kill the Republican party. A promi
nent Republican said in my hearing to-
day that it would take more than ons
such man as Hayes to kill the Republi
can party. It is the opinion Of many
Republicans about the capital that before
the close OF the next regular session .
Congress Hayes will not have msjorit,
in either branch of the two Houses, ant
that his following will be composed
wholly of oflice-holders and camp.fol
lowers.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve eommu-
uications that are not used.
Year: 1877

The Economist of London points out the
reasons why the silver market is likely to be
unsteady and is sure to be calculated with
difficulty. 'First," it remarks, ''the uncer-
tain quantity which the German Govern
ment may at any time sell hangs over the


the market; the effect of the increase of
Councils bills on the Indian demand for sill
yer has still to be tested in predetermined
it will require years so to test it; the Ameri-
can production is still an unknown quantity,
though everything seems to show that it will
be much less then it was thought to be; the
'Latin Union is still in an 'expectant atti-
tude' and may possibly resume its old policy.
Till these causes have ceased to operate as


powerfully as they do now, no important
stock of silver will be kept. Since the fu-
ture is too uncertain to justify it, and until it


is kept, the price will probably fuctuate a
good deal, though not as much as during the
past year, when most of the influences that
cause variation have been at maximum,
and most of those which cause stability at
minimum" Under these circumstances, the
Economist remarks, sit will be desirable that
no Government shall involve itself in a cur
rency change depending on the relative rela.
tions of silver and gold, which has not begun
one already" Let Americans take note.
Year: 1877

Mr.. RICHARD Fl. DANA contributes a
paper on Presidential elections to the forth
coming number of the North American Re-
view in which he argues in favor of voting for
the Presidential electors (except the two rep
resenting the state at large) by districts, con-
tending that the system now in practice gives
the decision to a few great centres where the
political machinery of a few great states is in
play. He would have every citizen vote di-
recty for President, the candidate having the
plurality in the state to have two elec-
toral votes, and the candidate having the
plurality in any district to be credited with
one electoral vote for that district. The
President should have longer term and be
ineligible to reelection. As to the ascertain
ing Of the vote Mr.. Dana would restrict the
powers of Congress TO counting and declaring
the votes as returned by the states, deeming
it better to run the risk of fraud in the state
tribunals than to take the chance of failure
ofjustice at the one central tribunal Of last
resort
Year: 1877

One hundred and fifty harvesters and
reapers have been sold in Sioux Falls this
season.


The recent sore throat epidemic which
prevailed among the children in Bon HON
me county so Indignantly has entirely dis
appeared, and all those who were suffering
thererom are now convalescent.


Springfield Times, Goth Grain harvest
is in full blast in this county, and fully one
half of the wheat and oat crop will be cut
this week. Never before in the history of
this county has the crop of cereals promised
such large average yield and farmers
are all in high glee over their abundant
harvest.


Elk Point is to organize juvenile tenn
perance society


There are two thousand healthy shade
trees IN Elk point and they add greatly to
the beauty of the place.


Niobrara Pioneer: Mr.. Jos. III. Steer
whom we mentioned recently as having
oeen discharged from the Santee Agency
Year: 1877

IElmira Special to New York world.l


An accident attended with the most


extraordinary circumstances occurred


on the Northern Central Railway,


near Troy, Pa, on Sunday night. A


tramp named James NJ. Bowers was


walking on the track towards that
place. Being tired and hungry he
sat down by the side OF the railroad
and fell asleep. When he awoke he
attempted to get up, but, as he said
when discovered, found that he could
not use his legs. He had thrown them
across the rail in his sleep. and a train
had run over them One was nearly
severed below the knee and the
other was broken. No train was in
sight, nor had he heard the noise OF
any train passing. He took his knife
from his pocket aud cut the skin and
flesh that still held his one leg, sever
ing 1t entirely. He says he lay here
unable to move, wholly conscious and
suffering intense agony, for at least
an hour. Finally he heard a train
approaching. He had a match i'm his
pocket and a newspaper. He lighted
the paper when the train came In
sight and signaled by waving it. The
engineer saw the light and stopped
the train. Bowers was taken on board
and carried to Troy. He never lost
and when a doctor was
summoned, who pronounced another
amputation Of the severed leg neces-
sary, Bowers refused to take any an
and coolly subjected himself
to that operation and to the setting
Of the broken bones in his broken leg.
He was removed to the county house,
and it is thought he will recover.
Year: 1877

the laying OF the fourth pair Of down stroam strands
OF the bridge commenced yesterday morning.
The strands Of the cables three and four have been
permanently re-regulated with respect to the Grst
strand OF No. cable. Yesterday afternoon tho upper
of the third pair of upstream strands was let on from
the Brooklyn anchorage and in the afternoon both OF
tho strands were lot of from the New York anchor.
age Quay they will DO lowered on the towers from
the rollers to tho saddles below When these strands
are regulated the whole SET Of elk strands will undergo


rereguIation. ON the anchorages work progressing
fast, the stone foundations rising rapidly
Year: 1877

The following record Will show the changes In tho
temperature Tor tho past twenty four hours In
parison with the corresponding datc OF last year, as
Indicated by tho thermometer Hudnut's pharmacy.
Year: 1877

There was curious accident at Philadel-
phia on Sunday. A Mr.. Shoemaker,
about to leave the city for the summer,
got watering pot full of benzine with
which to dampen the carpets and furni-
ture and preserve them from moths. In
less than aD hour the gas generated by the
Genzine exploded with fearful concussion
and the room burst into flames. The
servant girl was fatally injured, her clothes
being burned away and her body baked
10 a crisp. and Mrs, Shoemaker was very
dangerously hurt. An examination of the
parlor after the fire had been extinguished
showed something of the force of the ex-
plosion and the intense heat Of the flames.
The window shutters were blown open,
glass smashed into atoms. walls cracked
aud the register knocked to pieces. The
heat was so great that small bronze
figure was actually melted by it.
Year: 1877

SAN FRANCIsCo, June S.-Bcfore the
board ofinquiry 10 the loss of the steamer
City of San Francisco, James Riddell,
steerage passenger who had been sailor
and ship master, stated in his opinion that
the ship at the time of striking was about
six miles FROM shore. the color of the water
changed iu>t before striking as though
shoaling He said the discipline Of the
ship seemed good. but the Chiuamen were
no sailors and after the accident occurred
did nothing in seamanlike fashion.
Year: 1877

As grand curative and restorative agent is not
equalled by Sny element or medicine in the his
tory of the healing art. Unless the vital spark has


fed the body restoration by means of electricity is
possible 1t is the last resort of all physicians and
surgeons, and has rescued thousands, apparently
dead, from an untimely grave, when no other
human agency could have succeeded, This is the
leading curative element in this Plaster
Year: 1877

There is nothing-no moral or intel
lectual phenomena-m strange than fall
ing in love. What it is whence it origi-
mates how it is brought about these things
are among the hidden mysteries Of our ma
ture.


A girl has reached the age of eighteen
young man that of twenty-one. They
have lived at home travelled little; pur-
sued their studies attended parties, and
been good deal in the society of other
young people /; yet they never took very
deep interest in anything in particular
neither of them ever cared very much for
any other person.


They meet, and 10 ! of sudden, all is
changed Each sees the other in a differ
ent light from what any other was ever
seen in the whole world seems changed.
Life itself is changed their whole being is
changed, to be like what it was, again,
nevermore!


Love is often as sudden as this, but not
always.


Sometimes it is of very slow growth.


Persons have known each other for years,
ana DcGn LnucIl Ill cdCu ObiiCl SpSlCl1,
been intimate all this time, but never think
ing of tie stronger than friendship when
some incident of event-a temporary part
ing. or the Intervention between them of a
third person, friend or stranger-reveals to
them for the first time, the great truth
that they are mutually in love.


Yet this love, spriuging up gradually
and imperceptibly, is no less mysterious
and unfathomable than that which is sud
den and at first sight.


1t is not mere friendship grown strong {:
it is a more absorbing, more violent, more
uncomfortable sentiment


Whether person can fall in love more
than once is mooted question.


Some people appear to fall in love many
times


1t is not unusual to see widowers, who
have been very devoted husbands, marry
again and seem to love the second wife just
as we'll as the first
Year: 1877

There is nothing so sweet as to be loved
except loving. BY love we mean, of course
the true, pure love which is not thing of
the senses but OF the Eoul-love that is the
outgrowth of goodness. What will not one
do to win Or keep such tenderness ? What
will not one risk, or dare, or forsake for it?
Is any journey long that has love-kiss at
the end Of it t?-any duty hard that ce-
ments the bonds between two hearts To
be truly loved is the great reward life has
to offer. And anyone who has heart
and doesn't mind showing it, who can put
aside selEshness aud be true to others, can
win love. TO have people temporarily in
love with you needs only beauty. TO be
beloved, one must have truth, tenderness,
constancy, and responsiveness. Be good
and do good, and despite all that is said
about this worlds ingratitude, some one
will love you.
Year: 1877

Tue Huntingdon Globe says that flag
man on enc of the passenger trains of the
Pennsylvania railroad, during the late cold
spell, had his nose and ears so badly frozen
that they had to be taken off
Year: 1877

Some men are like cats. You may
stroke the fur the right way for years and
hear nothing but purring; but accidentally
tread on the tail, and all memory of former
kindness is obliterated
Year: 1877

The Philadelphia Record thinks that
strikes have had some good results. They
'have compelled the attention of the busy
people of the United States to the condi.
ton of the people who are not busy. They
have also put workingmen in possession
of information in regard to the affairs of
the corporations that employ them that
will mitigate the i!l>wiil and mlsunder-
atanding which have rtsullrd from want of
knowledge. Perhaps the best effect OF all
is the developing tendency to rid the over
burdened cities, manufactures, and mines,
of part of their surplus Labor. Colonies
tion schemes are afoot in several parts of
the country, which promise to be success
fully carried out. In Baltimore, Pittsburg,
Cleveland, and Boston, there are move
ments of this kind in process Of organiza-
ton, the Western and Southern States be-
ing the favorite locations for settlement.
There is no remedy so natural and so Ger
tain for relief Of the over-population of
Cities and States as this migration 10 the
thinly settled regions Of the South and
West. In the States of Mississippi and
louisiana, there is an absolute demand for
the labor that remains idle and dissatisfied
at the North. The crops in the southwest
are large, and likely to suffer for want Of
helpto gather them in. 1t is no little in
ducement to immigrants that they will
find something to do when they arrive in
a strange land. Another advantage pre-
sented by the southwestern States is plenty
of good land at fair prices, in localities
where agricultural products have ready
market AS long as the country has the
invaluable resource of tillable land to fall
back upon it should enjoy immunity from
serious labor troubles. 1t is better to work
on farm than starve in a city. At the
present time the farmers vocation appears
to be the only one not too abuudantly sup
piled with working force.