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Year: 1878

Charles Moog yesterday ended his life by hanging
himself at his residence. No. AL West Thiry-ninth
street The motive that prompted the suicide is not
known. He was q man of cheerful disposition and
there is nothing in his actions Of late indicate that


he was i'll low spirits. Moog German by BIRTH


lie travelled over great part of Europe visited
of the British dominions and at last to America
Here he began plying his old craft OF baker and
long time he worked in a store his last place
of residence. Later on he sought employment down
town, and was engaged in the packing house of Mil


lcr,nan in Washington street Yesterday he seemed
to be in the best OF spirits. He laid in bed till three
O'Clock. and on going into the kitchen he spoke
to his wife in jocular way. While con-
versng with her he took from drawer
coil of rope and retired to his bedroom. Some mo-


after that Charles Press who boarded with the
family Glanced to pass out and remarked that Moog
was not lying in his bel. Mrs. Moog went into the
bedroom and discovered him hanging against the
wall The suicide deliberate one. The man
had fastened piece OF rope to spike
in the wall and strangled himself with
it. Underneath him u heap of Clothes and the
floor itself he could easily reach at any moment


When discovered life had evidently fed. Moog leaves
five children. His family relations of a kindly
nature, and possible motive for his act is known
Year: 1878

PRESIDENT GowEN, OF THE PHILADELPHIA AND


HEADING ROAD, on THE EFFECT OF TER


MSATISG THE CONDENSATION.


PHILADELPHIA. Dec 30 1878.


The Philadelphia Iaqsirer will tomorrow print an
account OF an interview with President Gowen. of
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company. in
which Mr. Gowen says that he accepts the result of
last Fridays meeting indication that there will
be no combination made for next year. He does not.
however, think this need visit disaster upon the coal
trade OF the State. While admitting that his
pany would doubtless make more money next year
with the combination than without it, he believes it
will do heavy business at fair prices, and that ii
others will follow the example of selling
all the coal they can at the best
prices obtainable there will be little
for dissatisfaction He says his company is about to
enjoy an advantage it has not heretofore had in u
winter outlet for coal to the harbor of New York.
which will be furnished through connections with
the Bound Brook and New Jersey Central roads He
further says his company also be enabled to run
over the Camden and Ainboy road. in which event it
is probable that the company will have the largest
winter coal trafhc it ever had. The prospect is
therefore, quite encouraging.
Year: 1878

those who are going up and those who
are going down.


And is there any better test of char
acter to-day than the one given so long
ago by the sweet singer of Israel: "Who
shall ascend into the hill of the Lord
and who shall stand in his holy placer"
he asks, and answers che that hath
clean hands and pure heart, who hath
not done deceitfully nor lifted up his
soul unto vanity"


How long, how many days and years
and centuries of bitter experiment it
takes to find out that Gods ideal is
better, more beautiful, more sublime
than any craven image we can make
and set up for ourselves


In these days of universal suffrage
and universal politics when every mans
hands are so near the foundations, it
might be worth our while to search for
the true builders of our nations great
ness.


Shall we find them in congress, in the
high places of government | hope so.
Among our cotton kings, our money
kings, our railroad kings? know not,
yet carry the candle bravely, you may
find something royal there.


And what if, at some future day,
when our work is tested as it were by
fire, it should turn out that some teach
er--a woman perhaps, in a country
school house doing her quiet best to
teach the children TO read, to write, to
reckon, to be Obedient and to speak the
truth, had builded more and better than
they all /?


Not alone in titled ranks, nor among
professors of good things, but here and
there, in the blacksmith's shop, in the
kitchen, in the drawing room, on the
farm, we meet brave company.


Here and there from every where,
we need not point them out. "The
Lord knOweth them that are his"
Year: 1878

Pills may sometimes refuse to act on
the liver but saving wood never will.
Make yourself necessary, young man,
and your success is certain.


Anger always hurts us more than the
one we get mad at.


When a man is good for nothing else
he is just right to set on IA jury.


What man gets for nothing he is IL
able to value at just what it cost.


About as low down as a man can get
and not spile, is to live Oh his wife's
reputation.


| don't bet on precOciOus children :
the huckleberry that ripens the quickest
is the quickest to decay.


Everybody seems to think himself a
moral half-bushel to measure the worlds
fIailties in.


He who has nothing to do in this
world but to amuse himself, has the
hardest job on hand that | know of.
| have always said, and | believe il
still, that the time to be carefulest is
when you have hand full of trumps.
When you strike oil, stop boring
Many man has bored clear through
and let the oil run out at the bottom.





mean and dishonest you have always
been, get nominated and run for some
office.


Next in point of meanness to doing
an injury is 70 do man favor anC
every now and then remind him of it.
Woman has always been more than i
match for man. Adam held the best
cards, but didn't know how to play
them well.


The man who is honest from policy
needs as much watching as a hive OF
bees just ready to swarm.


One of the most reliable prophets
know is an old hen, for she don't
prophesyan eggtill the egg has happened
Biographies are delightsome reading
we compare all the virtues of the per
son with our own, and all his failings
with our neighbor's.


There's lots of men in this world like
rooster; take the cockade and spurs
off from them and you couldn't hardly
tell them from a hen.
Year: 1878

A Rupert man has invented new
method of destroying lice on cattle.
The operation is as follows The af-
fiicted COW is tied to the manger and
fed literally with hay. The operator
then takes a shovel full of hot ashes
from the stove and scatters them along
the animals back and Immediately re-
tires. A few Goals in the ashes will roll
off and set the hay on fire and SINCE the
hair from the COW, The only delicate
point in the operation is to return at
precisely the proper time. A few min
utes too late will burn up the barn, and
a moment too soon will fail to destroy
the veImin.
Year: 1878

ACURIoUs CIRCUMSTANCE work
men were cutting and drawing out logs
for E. n. Cotton, of West Bolton, on
the 9th of February, on fiat piece of
timber land on the top of the mountain
that divides the head waters of the So
called mill brook and Lee river, on
telling a spruce tree, three young birds,
with pin feathers just starting, prob
ably about eight or ten days old, fell
from their nest, some thirty or forty
feet from the ground. They were taken
and cared for, but their fall proved too
much for them. The parent birds were
nearly as large as the common blue
bird: the female was of a grayish color ;
and the male bird had a reddish breast,
with dark wings. The question natu-
rally arises, Have we migratory birds
that visit us and breed and rear their
Young in winter2
Year: 1878

One of the large monkeys at the Alexandra
Palace had been for some time suffering from
the decay of the right lower canine, and an
abscess, forming large protuberance on the


juw, had resulted. The pain seemed so great
I was decided to consult dentist as to what
should be done, and as the poor creature was
at times very savage, il was thought that, if
the tooth had to be extracted, the gas should
be used for the safety Of the operator. Pre-
purations were made accordingly, but the be-
havior of the monkey was quite surprise to
all who were concerned. He showed great
fight on being taken out OF his cage, and not
ouly struggled against being put into sack
prepared, with hole cut for his head, but
forced one Of his hands out, and snapped and
screamed and gave promise of being very
troublesome. Directly, however, Mr.. levin
Mosely, who had undertaken the operation,
managed to get his hand on the abscess and
gave relief, the monkeys demeanor changed
entirely. He laid his head down quietly for
examination, and without the use of the gas
submitted to the removal Of stump and
tooth as quietly as possible.
Year: 1878

There are three kinds of headaches
peculiar to women, lady asserts-the
bad husband headache" mo husband
headache and 'do-nothing headache. ,
The wretched, empty, aimless, un-
healthy life led by thousands of wO-
men is = most sOrrOwful subject. We
do not feel inclined to joke about it for
ii is sad feature of our times, and one
on which little light has yet dswned


had times for men mean dOubly bad
times for women. Some women at
tempt loo much, and therefore make
bad failures. A great deal might be
done for health if people in straighten-
ed circumstances would, with good
grace, and without any sense OF
humiliation, give up the little fripperies
with which life has become cucumber.
ed chiefly owing to our late CONNER
cial prosperity. A mere simple, frugal
mode of living would restore health to
many mothers who are now straining
every nerve to keep position among
people as foolish as themselves, but
who would be wise enough to follow
suit if they had the encouragement OF
an example which they could quote to
their friends.-[Lady's Journal.
Year: 1878

They had been engaged about fifteen min
utes and she nestled her head little closer
under the shadow of his monumental shirt
collar, and whispered, sand now what are
you going to call me, Algernon?" "Birdie!''
he whispered rapturously, while his voice
trembled with tender emotion, ''always and
ever, nothing but Birdiei" And she fairly COO
ed with delight. He kept his word, although
with the growing precision of middle age, he
has become specific and does not deal in sweep
ing generalities any more. and so it was that
day before yesterday neighbor going in the
back way to borrow the ak, a..cup of sugar and
the cistern pole, heard him call her an old
'sage hen."-[ Burlington Haokeye
Year: 1878

We have sometimes had no little


difficulty procuring seed corn that


would germinate. Some seasons the
corn is not sufficiently ripened before


the frost. On this subject the Cincin-


natl Grange Bulletin tells why these
failures occur, and adds a few seasona-
BILE hints on the saving of tomato
seeds:


The perfecting of seed is the whole
end and aim of all annual plants; the
whole energies of the plant, from ger
mination of the seed down to the frost
that kills the plant and stops the flow
of sap, are absolutely required to make
perfect seed.


The immature sap of young plant
never could produce mature seed; it
requires all the whole volume from in
fancy to maturity, the weak and the
strong life blood of the plant, to give
the seed its full power of transmission.
Especially is it necessary that the last
remaining flow OF sap from the stalk,
matured by age, the season and the
approach of winter, should enter the
seed. Hence to deprive seed of this
final act is to weaken it; it may have
vitality enough without it to grow and
produce other seed, but 1t Is itself i'm.
mature, and must produce immature
seed.


TO gather corn in the glazed state,
and hang it up in the shade, Is to de-
prive it of all the mature sap of the
plant, and also of the ripening influ.
ence of the sun.


Nature never ripens seed in that
manner. She gives it every chance,
every influence, every particle of
from the SUMS rays, the
nights dews, and the perfecting infiu-
ence of the waning season. This much |
for corn especially, but also for all 9TH
ers.


Tomato seeds requsre different MAN.
agement, because they are more tender. J
In this case leave the earliest, finest, !
largest fruit on the vines
till slight frost admonishes Us of win
ter's approach. Then gather them,
ay them on board in the sun during |
the day, but in the house at night, for |
three or four days; then cut the tOma'
10 in half across the stem way, SCOOP |
scoop out the core, seeds and all throw
hem into u bucket, till they sour and
erment, wash out the seeds, dry per-
ectly In the sun, not ia the oven, and
put away in dry place. ]
Year: 1878

OIAlPlOlIiS VI d dDlSCdSCuA AlfCI.
DAIN in the right side, under the
1 edge of the ribs, increases on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain is
felt under the shoulder blade, and it
frequently extends to the top of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The
stomach is affected with loss of appc-
tite and sickness; the bowels in gen
eral are costive, sometimes alternative
with lax; the head is troubled with
pain, accompanied with a dull, heavy
sensation in the back part. There is
generally considerable loss of mem
ory, accompanied with a painful SEN
sation of having left undone some
thing which ought to have been done.
A slight, dry cough is sometimes an
attendant. The patient complains of
WEAKNESS and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains of prickly sensa-
ton of the skin; his spirits ara low;
and although he is satisfied that exer-
else would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitpde
enough to try it In fact, he distrusts
every remedy. Several of the above
symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred where few of them ex-
listed, yet examination of the body,
after death, has shown the LIVER to
have been extensively deranged.
Year: 1878

A correspondent writes: l was once


afflicted with weak aud sore eyes, i
could not endure the light of a lamp,
evenings and could not read In the
daytime without great pain. The doc
tor did me no good, but some advice
In Il new spaper did. 1t said, "Never
read when your eyes feel uncomfort-
able 10 the least; and neUer after sun
down. "Wash your eyes three times
a day ia pure cold water" l followed
this advice and my eyes improved
rapidly. And now I wish to say, is it
not easier and better to take care of
your eyes when they are strong than
to doctor them after you have hurt
them? Many people read or sew be-
tween sundown and dark, this is as in
furious as any thing you could do to
them. II you have strong eyes you
perhaps think they will stand it with
out being hurt, but if you persist in it
you will some day find your eyes fail
ing you and then you Will realize the
value of strong eyes as compared with
weak ones. When reading at any
time if your eyes feel tired you should
stop and rest them; no matter what
you are reading it is not as valuable as
your eye-sight.
Year: 1878

In q conversation with Hon.
Nicholas Ford, when he was in our
city a few days since, in reply to a
question put TO him, as to how ma
ny greenbackers there were elected
to Congress, who would act indie
pendent OF democratic and republi-
can caucuses, he said; that from
the 5cs. Information he could OBJ
tain, they would all act indcpend-
ent of the old parties that as to
himself, he had made no pledges
whatever, to act Gas had been repor'
eO with the republicans, nor did he
intend to go in to the republican
caucus. He said that there were
at least, sixteen regular greenback
ers elected to congress, who will
hold the balance of power in the
lower House and viii! c2htroi the
organization Of the House.
Year: 1878

% IMAGINE one hundred muscular,
mechanics, with one hum


I'D families depending upon them,


, thought of which gives them un-
ing energy, all hard at work. One
,muld think they could accomplish


;reat,dcal in a day and ought to
receive q considerable sum for their
work. Yet, this large number Of
men cannot earn more in u day, al
present price of skilled labor, than
our City Council has agreed to pay
one man for a days work.
Year: 1878

ANY person, by dropping us postal
card, with his name and address plainly
written thereon, can get this paper three
weeks. And we will put his name upon
our subscription list. At the expiration
of the three weeks If he does not desire
to continue taking the paper, he can no
tify us by card or letter OF the fact, and
we will charge nothing for the three is
sues; but in default of such notice he is
TO be considered a subscriber at the usual
rates and terms. Address,


TIE CRISIS, Chillicothc, Mo.
Year: 1878

To the Editor OF the CRISIS.


Perhaps few locals from this
part of old Livingston will not be
u detriment to your "Advocate" of
the 'rag-baby's CLAIMS.


Generally speaking, the health OF
this community Is good.


Hog cholera is about like some of
the dcfunct political parties Of to.
day about played out.


suppose you have found out by
this time, that we had a slight fall
of snow on last Friday. The snow
on an average, | think, IS about
eighteen inches deep. | have had
a pretty good chance to know ; for
| spent two days after one pitlful
little rabbit, and then did not catch
him; too much snow, he had the
advantage Of me, but l think | will
got him when the snow settles.


Some cruel wretch played rath-
er rough joke on Adam Johns and
Adolphus Andrews. lie told them
on the evening Of the big snow,
that they could catch all the quails
they wanted, by just soaring them
up, and when they lit, they would
sink INTO the snow, and all they
would have to do would be to 60
and pick them up. So they thought
they had as "soft" a thing as they
wanted. They made arrangements
for regular quail harvest, suppos
ing they could secure their winter


meat IN this way, and not be violat


ing the game law; but alas as
} is always the case with soft things,
they were sadly disappointed; the
quails flew as usual, and after they
followed them four or five times


and were almost exhausted running


through the deep snow, they sadly


realized that they were vlctimized
About the only object of attrac
ton in our neigchorhood at present
Is Literary Society at the Potter
school house. 1t meets every Tues


day night. We have just got un
der good headway, and have dis
' cussed Washington and Lafayette


two of the best men that ever lived
On our next night we are TO discuss
4 women and money, two of the mos
= dangerous elements in the world
III don't get swallowed up in
" snow drift, you may hear from m
) again. HELLO.
Year: 1878

IT may be considered new de.
parturc for aparty organ to criticise
the acts of its party's officials;but we
want it understood that this paper
is not so party bound but what it
will condemn any act of an official
that Is against the interest of the
people.
Year: 1878

RESUMPTION will take place. The
lower House of the present Con-
gress is democratic. In the Senate


with the aid of the nlnc republicans
who have placed themselves upon
the record as opposed to rcsump-
ton, the democrats could, if they
would, repeal the resumption act;
Year: 1878

Correspondence of the Courier-Journal.


CLARKsvILLE, Tenn, Sept. H.
AS it has been asserted by some
persons that the yellow fever has
made its appearance at Erin, Tenn,
and that several deaths have oc-
Cured from it's visitation, it may
not be altogether uninteresting to
many of the readers of the Courier
Journal to know something about
this little town.


1t is situated in a narrow valley
at the east base of Tennessee Ridge,
on the Memphis and Louisville
Railroad, ten miles east of Tennes-
see river, and twenty-eight miles
west of .ClarksVille. Before the war
there were only two or three fami-
lies living in what is now embraced
as the town. McWilliams branch
runs through it-a small stream
which empties into the west fork of
Wells creek, short distance below
the place. 1t is indebted to the
railroad for its existence, as it is not
probable that any town would ever
have been built there if the railroad
had been located at another and
more distant crossing of the ridge.


To the energy and enterprise of
some of its leading citizens it owes
its growing prosperity and its inn
portance as a central point of traffic
to the people living in wide extent
of country around it.


Hemmed in by high ridges each
side of it, covered with primitive
timber, a neVer-failing stream run
ming through it, and here and there
a marshy place in the valley and a
luXuriant underground everywhere,
the exclusion Of the rays of the sun
from so great a surface would,
likely, cause its atmosphere to be
damp; and its impurities, arising
from the decomposition of rank
vegetable growth, cause the fevers
which generally prevail to a greater
or lesser extent in this little valley
and its neighbOrhOod, as well as in
the Cane creek valley on the west
side of the ridge.


But we do not believe that Yellow
Jack has ever shown or ever will
show himself at Erin, unless he de-
velOps there in a person coming
from an infected region. He seeks
lower elevations and different at
mOspheric conditions than can be
found there.


l give you the elevations above
mean gulf tide at several places be-
tween the Kentucky State line and
Memphis, and you will see that they
are at an altitude considerablyabove
the points where the yellow fever
has yet appeared in epidemic form:
Year: 1878

Mark Twain tells the following
story related by fellow passenger
who, bantered about his timidity,
said he had never been scared
since he had loaded an old Queen
Annie musket for his father once,
whereupon he told the following:


You see, the old man was trying
to learn me to shoot blackbirds and
beasts that tore up the young corn
and such things, so that / could be
of some use about the farm, be-
cause l wasn't big enough TO do
much. My gun was single bar
relied shot gun, and the old man
carried an old Queen Annie musket
that weighed ton, and made re-
port like thunder clap and kicked
like a mule. The old man wanted
me TO shoot the old musket some
times, but | was afraid. One dny,
though, got her. down and took
her TO the hired man and asked
him to load her up, because IL was
out i'm the field. Hiram said:


"DO you see those marks on the
stOck-an Y and V, on each side Of
the queens crown? Well that



that's her load"


"But how much POWDER"


"Oh," he says, "it don't matter;
put i'm three or four handfuls."


So loaded her up that way, and
it was an awful charge had
sense enough to see that-and start
ed out. | leveled her on n good
many blackbirds, but every time /
went to pull the trigger ! shut my
eyes and winked. / was afraid Of
her kick. Towards sun-down
/ fetched up to the house, and there
was the old man waiting on the
porch.


'aBeen out hunting, have YEP"


"Yes sir" says /


"What did you kill"


"Didn't kill anything, sir--didn't
shoot her Off; was afraid she'd
kick-T knew blamed well she
would"


"Gimme that gun ~ the old man
said, as mad as sin.


And he took aim at sapling on
the other side Of the road, and be-
gan to drop back out Of danger, and
the next moment heard the earth
quake and saw the Queen Annie
whirling end over end in the air,
and the old man spinning around
on one heel, with one leg up and
both hands on his jaw, and the
bark flying from the old sapling
like there was hail storm. The
old mans shoulder was set back
three inches, his jaw turned black
and blue, and he had 10 lay up for
week. Cholera or nothing else
can scare me the way / was scared
that time.