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Year: 1877

Wan, shriyeled and worn, foul, ragged and old,
He sat by the lamp he counted his gold,
And he laughed In his glee like reckless boy,
For TO count 1t DER was his fullness OF Joy.
Small, squalid and filthy, and base was the room,
All poisonous the air and chilling tn gloom,
Where safely, alone he might gloat Ger his hoards
Now, glittering and good, he piled them on high,
First ifties and then twenties then tens and yet
fves,


Poured out from each recess like bees from their


hives.


One hali-broken window and rickety door,,
A bed of old blankets thrown loose on the hoor,
While curtains OF cobwebs hung down every where,
But his gold was still SAFE and what ala ne care
Ay what did he care, for his rents were all sure,
And the money must come; the starving and poor
Might spk down and Gle In the sleet and the cold,
But the rent must be paid In silver and gold'
Not 80 was II once, in the years that have fed,
When up with the proudest he lifted his head,
With beauty AZ, und him and heaven above,
And his heart al aglow with visionsoi ioVe'
Then.a a heart-brokOn mother, mid tempest and


rain,


For brief shelter and food had besought him In
And shuddering, looked in his cold, cruel eye,
That saw with smile her weak little one die.
"Gsd help me I" she cried, with throe OF despair
As she covered il oer with her wet streaming hair
"This fair land is filled with demon-like brood,
That laugh in my face while perish Tor food"
Then wildly she cast her dead babe at his feet, -,
As a snowflake might fall with the rain and th'


sleet,


And uplifting her hand, go tiny and cold,
She called forth shadow on him and his gold.
He laughed as he looked on her frenzy and rage,
Yet II followed him ever from manhood to age,
And his heart to earths joys no more would unfold
While stronger Its longings TO gather In gold.
And thus they had found him, unshaven unshorn
So pallid and stffened, starved, frozen and worn,
For death had looked in on what no eye might be


hold,
And caught him at last with his hands full OF gold
And borne him away DER the river SO cold.
Year: 1877

(From Official Report of Capt. Nares's Expedition.l


The long arctic winter with its un-
paralleled intensity aud duration OF
darkness produced by an absence OF sun
light for one hundred and forty-two days,
was passed on board with much cheer
fulness and contentment; the time, in
reality, passed with great rapidity; and
i'm January, when the first glimmering
increase in the midday twilight began
to lengthen sensibly day by day, the want
of light was scarcely noticed by any one |;
and not until the sun actually returned
on the 1st of March did we in any way
realize the intense darkness we must have
experienced for so long period. On
five evenings in the week a school formed
on the lower deck under Commander
Markham and several of the officers, was
we'll attended; each Thursday being de.
voted to lectures, songs in character, and
readings, with occasional theatrical rep
resentations; the whole so admirably ar
ranged and conducted by Commander
Markham as to keep the pleased interest
of all for the whole period. The health
of the officers and crew, with only one
exception, was excellent; and the habita-
BILE dock rs dry as possible in these
regions in a ship without an extraOrdi-
nary expenditure of coal. Although we
had frequent evidence of strong winds
prevailing in Robson Channel, the
weather at our winter quarters was re,
nlarkably calm; indeed, we May be said
to have wintered on the border OF
Pacific Sea. The prevailing wind was
from the westward; it always blew of
the land. Had it not been for interven
ing calms, the persistent westerly winds
might have been well called a trade
wind. On only two days were we pre-
vented by the wind and accompanying
snowdrift from taking exercise outside
the ship. This quiet state of the atmos
phere was productive of the sevelestc COLI
ever experienced in the Arctic regions
During February mercury remaine'
frozen for fifteen consecutive days;


southwesterly gale, lasting four days
then brought warmer weather then i'm
mediately the wind fell, cold weather re
turned, and the mercury rename
frozen for further period OF hftee
days.
Year: 1877

cents for every person entering the
grounds, except players policeman In
uniform, and ten othor persons.


A clause has also been added author
izing the deduction of thirty dollars from
each players salary for uniform, and
fifty cents day to be stopped from
each one while they are absent on tour.
Year: 1877

DETROIT Free Press A chap who had,
perhaps, read newspaper item about
how a streetcar was cleared of passen-
gers in short order, when man in the
center of the car announced that he had
the smallpox, tried the game on q
Gratiot Avenue car. Getting aboard
the car on Monroe Avenue, he sat down
beside a big-fsted man and remarked
"T suppose you don't object to riding be-
side a smallpox patientp "Not in
the least" replied the big man, but a.
some of the other passengers may, shall
heaye YOU outp' Thereupon he took the
Joker by the collar and leg, carried him
to the platform, and shot him far out
into big snow-drift.
Year: 1877

the raw material. In order to ascertain tho
amount Of drawback to be allowed in each case
regulations and rules for computation were estab-
lished two three years ago. but it is now discov-
cred that in most cases the amount refunded is
considerably greater than the amount of duty
originally paid. A special investigation of the
matter was at once ordered and is now being made
at ali the principal ports through which sugar comes
into the country to be refined. No formal report
has yet been made on this subject but 1t is under
stood that the Secretary of the Treasury has already
determined TO reduce the drawback, and that new
regulations in regard to it will soon be promulgated
II has been suggested that the sugars imported to
be refined shall be placed in bond during manufac-
tory and the whole system of drawbacks be
abolished.
Year: 1877

TRIBUNE OFFICE, July 10 The barometer De-
gan TO fall during the first Of the morning yester-
day and continued TO dccrc until the coming OF the
thunderhOwer late in the afternoon, when temporary
rise FOLLOWED the strong winds which preceded ana ac-
cOmpanied The ran after this rise the barometer again e
In rho level reached before the ran and then continued
almost steady until the close OF the day Although the
thermometer fell considerably during and after the rain,
the average temperature yesterday two degrees
higher than sunday The amount OF moisture III the
air has been increased


For this city, partly cloudy weather aGd occasional
rains be expected to-day.
Year: 1877

A dispatch received at the War Office to-day,
reports that Gen Sherman left Bismarck this afternoon
on the steamer Rosebud for the purpose ofnspecng the
now military posts now building at the mouth OF
Tongue River and the Little Big Horn. When these posts
are completed and properly garrsoned it is thought that
the effect will be prevent any future serious Indian
troubles in that locality. II is believed that had Congress
promptly made appropriations for the construction OF
these posts when they first recommended the war


with Sitting Bull would have occurred at least
would never assumed the proportions that 1t did
Year: 1877

set this fall should have mound Of earth.
a foot or more in hight. raised around the
foot OF the stem. to steady them during
heavy winds and prevent their being thrown
by frost. This is .ess troIole and better
than stakes.
Year: 1877




War between Russia and Turkey
seems to be inevitable, and If it once
commences it will be q long bloody
semi-rcligious war between the Cross
and the Crescent, which will proba-
bly, involve Austria and ncighboring
governments, and may extend to .
general European conflict.


1t will make great demand for
our surplus military munitions, and
for pork, flour, and beef, and perhaps
other American products.


It is deplorablc to contemplate the
human suffering which must cnsue,
and at tho same time somewhat Diff
cult to comprehend the cause Of
tho difficulty, but nevertheless we
may be justified in the consoling fact
that we are isolated from their for
eign complication, and that what is
their loss will be our gain.


LATER.-Sincc this was written our
dispatches inform us that actual hos
tilitics have begun.
Year: 1877

New YORK, April 1.-The General
Term Supreme Court has just de-
liyered an elaborate opinion deciding
that the Surrogate cannot allow costs


to the defeated party in willscontests.


The practice OF allowing costs, the


opinion declares, virtually offers


bribe to reckless contestants and their


counsel to prevent a settlement of


estates by promoting litigation and


cngendering strife when every In
terest of the public calls for their
speedy adjustment, and might lead to
great abuses to the injury of widows
and orphans and creditors Of deceased
persons, whom all courts should be
sedulous to protect. 1t would be a
hazardous experiment for q wealthy
man to attempt to dispose Of his
estate by his own will if 1t could be
distributed ut the mere will OF the
Surrogate among counsel Of all who
choose to set up whatever pretense of
contest they by ingenuity or avarico
can devise.
Year: 1877

There is prevailing tendency on
the part of the readers of Republican
journals to think because the latter
express dissent in respectful, but at
the same time earnest, strong language
to some things done by the admin
istration that therefore they assume
hostility to the President. This is q
mistake. The public in large
measure speak through the press, or
in other words the press is the index
topublic opinion, and it is a duty which
tho press owes to the governed and
he governing, to give expression to
approval of or dissent from the acts
of the administration. The action of
the government is naturally in
faenced by such expressions of public
opinion. 1t is only when the press
ing giving its views descends to
abuse and invective in making its
criticisms that it loses its influence
upon the powers that be for good.
Year: 1877

GovERNoR.-The principal occupa-
ton in the average county town is
that of setting up candidates for Gov
crnor and Lieutenant Governor. Re-
Gently an Ottumwa wholesale mer-
chant visited a town west of here OH
the c., b. & q. railroad to secure o
claim that was a little shaky. OF
course the arrival of a distinguislr-
ed looking stranger created furore
in that county seat, and all wits were
set to work to find out who and
what he was. The gentleman, by
the way, is somewhat of a politician,
and, per consequence, little close
mouthed, and nothing could really
be found out as to what his business
was. Two days after the village
newspaper came out in a flaming cd
itorial announcing that the Ottumwa
man was up there setting up the pins
to secure a nomination for Governor
How are you, Governor?
Year: 1877

The coolest thing of the season is
to hear the New York IriOMne--just
back into camp, -lecturing the Re-
publican party as to the causes which
made Returning Board necessary.
The Tribune had better tarry in Jcri-
cho until its beard be grown.
Year: 1877

We are not convcrsant with the


state Of affairs in South Carolina as


fully as Gov. Chamberlain is, nor can


we expect to be. We are therefore


not prepared to say that his decision


to no longer contend for the Govern
orship is erroneous. We had hoped,
however, that the simple removal, for
o short distance, of the troops from
the State House would not 80 with
draw their aid from the maintainance
OF peace as to call for this action on
the part of Chamberlain. We con-
fess, that in his address, the Governor
makes a strong case. We do not see
how his positions can be successfully
rcfuted. In the light we have, we
believe the President has made a
serious mistake in not deciding which
was the lawful State authority, and
the simple declaration Of such decision
would have settled all difficulty, as
we think, long ago, and peace would
have been established. That decisions
to our mind, ought clearly to have
mndc Chamberlain Governor. In
voluntarily we arc led to exclaim, as
we consider Chambcrlain's address,
that he uttcrs therein noble, true
words which find responsive COM
mcndation in the great republican
heart Of the country. We believe he
can we'll afford to look to the future
for a verdict upon his course. We
shall only be too happy in finding the
policy of the administration cfiicacious
for the great good anticipated by its
to follow, though such a re-
suit be entirely at variance with our
prediction.
Year: 1877

Very extensive revenue frauds in
the manufacture of tobacco in North
Carolina have recently been discover
ed. Some thirty manufactures in
the county of Surrey, charged with
participation in these fraudulent
transactions, have been indicted. The
frauds discovered are estimated by
revenue agents to exceed a third of
the total amount of internal revenue
taxes collected in that State.
Year: 1877

A COLORADO SEAT CONTESTED.


WASHINGTON, April lO.-The Clerk
of the House of Representatives to-
day received a brief from Patterson,
of Colorado, who denies the right of
Belford to seat in the next Con-
gress, on the ground that he could
not be elected at the same time to fill
a fragment of term in the forty
fourth and full term in the forty
fifth Congress, the Convention pro-
viding that one Representative from
the State at large should be elected
at the first election under the Consti-
tuition, and thereafter at such times
and places as may be prescribed by
law. Patterson concludes that as
such provision has not been made by
the State his own election is valid un-
der the general law of Congress,
which establishes the Tuesday next
after the first Monday in November
IS tho day for election of representa-
tivcs and delegate. The Clerk is in
vestigating the law and facts.
Year: 1877

A Washington special says: 1t
is understood that the President and
members of the Cabinet are a unit in
favor of travelling over railroads
hereafter as private citizens, instead
of using palace cars, which have
been found to be the cause of much
complaint on the part of officials,
and in this show much sympathy
for the cause of the laborers.
Year: 1877

Debility aud health are rreconc liable con.
diiions. Weakly people, that is to say, peo-
Pile who lack the vitality requisite for viv-
orous discharge of each and all Of the bodi-
ly functions, are invariably afflicted with
some, though it may be atrifling, disorder OF
the system. Atony or want Of nervous and
muscular vigor, is accompsniet by poverty Of
the blood and .eanness. A certain way to
overcome it and prevent the aggravated
maladies to which il must ultimately lead is
to used Hostetter's Stomach Bltters, which
promote digestion and assimilation Of the
food, aud thus are the means Of furnishing
the body with supply Of blood of aqualit,
essential to its proper punishment. lnvig-
oration through the instrumentality OF the
matchless tonic protects the feeble from a
host of bodily ills shich lurk in ambush for
the debiitated. The Bitters are an article
which it is most desirable to keep constantly
on hand.
Year: 1877

Lieutenant Clark, of General Crook $
staff received from one OF the fifteen
Indians who have arrived at the Spotted
Tail agency, the seal ring Of Lieutenant
Van W. Riley OF the Seventh cavalry,
who was killed in the Custer massacre.
It is not positively known whether or
not Crazy Horse, with his band proper,
will come in. His reply to the commits.
sion, sent to them by runner, was that
he would come in aud hold a council.
Since then nothing'has been heard from
him, and to ascertain his ,whereabout at
present and his intentions as regards his
surrender, new envoy under the CON
mand of old Red.Cloud has departed.
The party who arrived at the spotted Tail
agency consists principally of northern
Cheyennes, while forty of the same tribe
are m route for the cantonment on Tongue
river, and will surrender to General
Miles.
Year: 1877

The other day delegation from the
amalgamated society OF tailors waited
upon the British government in the per-
son of Under-Secretsry Cross. The OBJ
iect was to lay before him some facts in
connection with what was called the
sweating system" One of the delega-
tion said he had seen instances in which
garments were lying on bed in which
fever patients were suffering. There
were great many instances in which
things had taken place. They considered
that II an employer got people TO take
work home, he should be bound TO get
the place to which it was taken registered,
and hoped Mr.. Cross could see his way
clear to make 1t imperative that every
house used as tailor's workshop should
be NO arranged by the employer. A del
egate from Manchester gave the results
OF visits to one thousand homes where
this work was carried on, and stated that
the condition of thing, was something
deplorable. In some cses four or FIVE
persons were at work in room nine feet
by twelve feet. Sometimes people were
making these garments in tn, midst OF
their domestic arrangements From the
facts that had come under his knowledge,
he had no hesitation in saving that the
state of things required alteration, and
the people engaged were in most un-
healthy condition. They found some
where near one hundred and thirty
thousand people engaged in this way,
and all the surroundings Of the place
were such as would foster and spread
disease. Another delegate said in some
instances in London man and woman
would be at work in small room, at the
top of the house, in which they lived
and slept. The people occupied in this
work were 50 crowded together that the
place could not fail to foster and spread
disease. While people went to large
shops with snowy frontp they did not
know that the clothes they purchased
were made in close aud unhealthy rooms.
He knew case in which, while the
body of a child who had died from small
pox lay dead on the table. and two other
children were sick with the disease, the
man and wife were at work in the same
room, and twelve fashionable coats were
in the room, which would be sent all
over the town. Mr.. Cross said he would
introduce bill after Easter TO cover the
case.
Year: 1877

GREAT reliance ha. been placed on the
use of the tungstate OF soda TO render
scenery in theaters non-inhammable. 1t
appears that there is considerable un-
certainty in the action of this salt, and
hence danger of being lulled into a
false security in its use In lectures at
the royal institution its supposed aft
cacy had been demonstrated before au-
diences and DR.. Wright caused one Of
his assistants, clothed in a muslin dress
that had been prepared with the tung
state, TO walk about in the midst of
flames. The experiment was repeated
by DR.. Wright at South kensington and
then, much TO his astonishment, the dress
took fire and was entirely consumed
By what seems something more than
mere good fortune, a dummy had been
substituted for the man in this last ex-
pertinent. Why the tungstate failed to
prevent the clothes fion taking FIRE, is
not known. 1t is believed that no mis-
take was made in applying it.
Year: 1877

tai card, sample of which has been fur
nished to bidders, has heretofore been
described. They ave peculiar in one
particular, being Of light green color on
one side and buff on the other. As they
are net colored after the pasteboard
from which they are cut is made, it will
be necessary ior them to be manufactured
in the mill Of two layers of different
colored pulp,
Year: 1877

RAISING CUcUMBERs.-To make Gu
cumber vices grow and set freely with
fruit, the hill should be well watered
every evening except in wet time. The
cucumber plant needs a great deal OF
moisture, and only when it is plentitully
supplied will it yield fair percentage OF
fruit in healthy condition. BY observa-
ton l found this plant to yield most
abundantly in wet seasons, and taking
such fact for a cue, resolved to test the
practice of watering the vines freely to
insure full crop, and find such practice
resulting in all one could wish to estab-
lish its efficacy.


A Marylander tells me it is the custom
at the South to plant vines along the
banks of ravine or water course, so that
an abundance of water can be obtained
at all times to water the plants In no
other way do they expect full crop.
Year: 1877

Few farmers realize the care needed
in the proper preservation of leather, and
the lack of knowledge of its require
.ments causes the loss Of many dollars to
the owners of horses. The practice OF
washing harness in warm water is very
damaging, unless coat of oil is applied
Immediately after washing. No harness
is ever so soiled that damp sponge
will not remove the dirt, yet, even
when the sponge is applied, it is
important to apply slight coat Of
oil by the use of second sponge. All
varnishes and blacking that contain the
properties of varnish should be avoided.
When harness loses its lustre and turns
brown, as almost any leather will do after
long exposure to the air, the harness
should be given new coat ofgrain black
first washing the grain surface thorough
ly with potash water, to kill the grease,
and after the grain black, applying oil
and tallow to the surface. This will fast
en- the color and make the leather flexi-
BILE.


Meats foot oil only should be used on
harnesses, and no more should be applied
to the leather than it will absorb, as many
harnesses are injured by applying too
much oil. A superabundance so applied
works out to the surface in hot weather,
absorbing dust and dirt and soon looking
very slovenly.


An excellent harness polish may be
made by breaking in small pieces four
ounces of glue, pouring over 1t in basin
about a pint of vinegar, and letting it
stand until it becomes soft. Take two
ounces of gum in another vessel and pour
in half a pint of black ink, letting it
stand until it is perfectly dissolved. Melt
twoIdrachms of isinglass in cup, with as
much water as will cover it. To mix the
whole, turn the softened glue into sauce
pan over a gentle fire, adding another
half.pint of vinegar, stirring until per
fectly dissolved, being careful not to let
it burn at the bottom nor reach the boil
ing point. Next add the gum, and, after
arriving at about the same heat, add the
isinglass; then pour it out for use. APP
ply thin coat, sufficiently heated to be
fluid, with piece of dry sponge, and II
the article is dried quickly, either in the
sun or by the fire, it will have better
polish. This answers equally well for
boots and shoes.-Colemdns Rural W0rId.