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Year: 1877

sands, of children, set down sullen


dogged. obstinate, and treated with


harshness, who live lives of dull


wretchedness because they do not know


what is wrong with them, and no one
takes pains enough to try to set things
straight for them and make them
happier. Again, there are clever chill
dren weighed down by utterly unintel-
lectnal surroundings, forbidden to read
because reading is "a waste of time, -
kept to mere mechanical work, and
never allowed to indulge fully their love
of study. At one period of her child
hood Mrs. Somerville seems to have
suffered good deal from this.


Of course, nothing could be more un-
wise than to allow all the whims and
fancies of children to have their way
unrepresse6. Such a course of action
would merely add the misery Of undi-
sciplined will to the others which chill
dren suffer. But that childhood is often
time great, even of morbid unhappi-
ness, is statement that no rejecting
persons, especially those who have had
much to do with children can deny.


We have been led to the consideration
of this subject by the recent sad occur
renee OF the suicide of a young boy
one of the pupils of a great public
school. He complained of having been
badly treated by boy older than him
self; he ran away twice from school he
had been punished and fiogged for mis-
behavior, and the poor child found
refuge from what seemed to him an
unavoidable accumulation of miseries
in death by hanging. He was said to
have been. obstinate; it was also de-
clared that no terrorism could have been
exercised over him without the know
ledge Of the superior authorities of the
school. But the fact remains, that to
the poor lad life had become so miser-
able that he could endure it no longer.
The jury gave verdict of temporary
insanity" but what a revelation of un-
happy childhood does this bring before
US! Cases of the commission of suicide
by children are, after all, not very un-
common. How sad must have been the
condition of these poor sufferers Child
hood to them was all unhappiness.


The lessons for parents, and for all
who have to do with children are obvi-
Gus. Children are as different in their
natures and temperaments as grown up
people are, and they are infinitely more
sensitive, making them easier both to
manage and to mismanage. Children
cannot be governed by any stern, I'M
varying rule; they must be treated
according TO the difference in their
characters. Above all, children who
appear morOse, obstinate, unhappy,
should not be made more so by punish
ment-they are wretched enough al
ready. To alleviate, not to.inerease, the
unhappiness of childhood should be the
aim of all who have the welfare of chill
dren at heart.-The Queen.
Year: 1877

The physicist classifies substances a:
gases, liquids and solids. A very ac.
curate analogy may be instituted by
saving that thoughts are gases, word:
are liquids and actions solids.


They all have an effect upon hin
with whom they originate and upon
him to whom they are communicated.
In this view of the case the tongue
becomes a peculiarly dangerous mem.
Der. Most people are willing to grant
this, so far as it has to do with Others
than with him who uses it, but few
people seem to understand that it ha:
an influence upon him who owns it
The truth in the case is not affected
by their not knowing it. Words 60 out
from us but they leave an impres:
behind them. The mind is affected by
them. 1t is plausible to suppose that
no speech however jocular or howeves
serious was without effect on the mind
of the speaker.


A man in half determined state OF
mind can forever settle question by
talking on the subject even though he
talk to himself only.


Not only so, but the idea is more fully
illustrated i'm many other cases i'm life.


The man who habitually uses slang,
thinks slang and acts slang.


He who constantly engages in light,
frivolous conversation gets to be very
accurately described by the common
phrases frivolous fellow" light
headed" &c.


Life becomes farce to him who con-
tinually seeks the ludierous in CONVEX
sation.


To him who is given to excessive hy-
perbole it becomes lie.


A man may speak falsely until he
can no longer distinguish between the
false and true.


The great sin of profanity consists
not so much in using certain combina-
tions of articulate sounds, which men
call profanity as in the fact that by this
utterance, men destroy their capability
or faculty of reverence.


He who uses indelicate expressions
becomes vulgar at heart.


''If any man offend not in words, the
same is perfect man, and able also to
bride the whole body. Behold we put
bits i'm the horses mouths, that they
may obey us, and we turn about their
whole body.


Behold also the ships which though
they be so great and are driven of fierce
winds, yet are they turned about with
a very small helm, whittier sOever the
governor listeth. Even SO the tongue is
Year: 1877

l. bankAof- En9tann Inntess ARE mana
from new white linen cuttings, never
from anything that has been worn. So
carefully is the paper prepared that
even the number of dips into the pulp
made by each workman is registered
on dial by machinery and the sh eets
are counted and booked to each pei
son through whose hands they pass,
They are made at Laverstoke, on the
river Whit, in Hampshire, bya family
named Portal. descended from French
Huguenot refugee, and have been
made by the same family more than
$50 years. Some fifteen years ago a
quantity of bank note paper was stolen
by the completely of an employee,
and this occasioned great trouble, as
the printing is comparatively easy
matter-the great difficulty with for
gers being the paper. The notes are
printed within the bank building, and
there is an elaborate arrangement for
securing that no note shall be exactly
like another.
Year: 1877

The New York Sun wants Americans
to take a lesson from Germany substitute
lager beer for whiskey, and take their
families along when they go out to get a
drink. We should like to hear from
Mrs. President Hayes upon this matter
Year: 1877

The straight Republican demonstra-
ton in favor of Grant for President in
1880 is rather early in the day; yet there
is no doubt Grant is the strongest candi-
date the party of Fraud can set up,-N.
Y. Sum
Year: 1877

The Supreme Court of New
York recently made a decision i'm
portant alike to the public, express
companies and common carriers.
A hdy received what she supposed
was a receipt from the New York
Transfer Company for trunk,
which was to be taken from the
New Haven depot to Brooklyn.
Instead of being a receipt it was a
contract by which the company
was not to be held liable in case Of
loss for more than 500. The
trunk was lost and its contents
we're worth more than the sum
named. A,suit was brought to
recover the value of the trunk, the
company refusing to pay more than
$100, and the Court held that while
a common carrier may make a con-
tract limiting his liability, yet as
the lady asked for receipt and had
the rightto decline any contract
and compel the company to take
the property under the common
law responsibility of a common
carrier, she was not bound by the
phraleology appearing on the re-
oeipt as she had not perceived it,
The decision was for the plaintiff.
Year: 1877

EDS. CDARIoN IL notice in your last
issue, call upon me from "Workingmen'
to become a candidate for Senator. Whilst
| nave no reason TO suppose that any cum
siderable number of the voters of the county
outside of this city, desire my services in
this or any other position, or that the call
would be seconded from any other quarter
| hasten to respond, that | may not, by my
silence, encourage the use of my name in
that connection. l pom my admission 10
the Bar in this city, at nineteen years "f
age, resolved never to be a candidate for
auy political position, under any possible
circam stances. | have strictly adhered 10
that resolution to my present time OF life.
and expect to do so to its close. Thi, Will
be A matter Of surprise, doubtless, to many
who observing the partisan zeal displayed
by me in every political contest State or
National during the last twenty-five years,
had naturally supposed | would at some
tine be aspirlnt for political honors.


have only TO say, in conclusion, that l
have not the remotest idea or suspicion As To
the authorship of the call Accepting It AS
true that it proceeds from, and reflects the
sentiments Of of"Workingmen," feel highly
hattered by it, ami will only add that it
anything could tempt me to depart from the
resolution have expressed, it would be To
crafty the wishes and promote the interests
of that class of my fellow-ctizens.


II 4 WHARTON
Year: 1877

The names of the Democratic nomi-
nees for the Legislature will be found
under the appropriate head. The Alb
erdeen Examiner says that the ticket is
composed of gentlemen well known to
" all of our readers as good and true
g men, and they will be elected by large
" majorities" Hon. w. W. Troup and
Hon. A. j. Sykes both positively de
olined to go before the Convention for
denomination. The Convention adopt
ed the following, among other resolu-
tions, offered by Gen. Gholson. They
have the right ring:


Resolved, That the thanks of the people
of Monroe county, regardless of race or
color, are due to our delegation in the last
Legislature for the manly stand that they
tonk upon the question of impeachment
and their general ell :ency in carrying out
the great principles for which we fought
in 1875; and that there is no more fitting
time or occasion than this for an EXPIRES
sion OF appreciation from the people,
through tLeir delegates, OF their official
course as well aS of the bold, energetic aud
able canvass that they made OF the county
in the ever memo orable campaign that gave
Us the opportunity and the power to re-
ward the patriotic and the deserving


Resolved, That We heartily endorse the
ticket put in nomination by the State Con-
ventiOn on the lsG OF August, from first to
last, and pledge it our firm and enthusiastic
support.
Year: 1877

Probably there is not more abject
funkey alive than Postmaster General
Key He is being exhibited around in
the Presidential parry as a ''repentant
rebel" At one of the meetings in New
England he asked forgiveness for his Ger
ring Southern brethren" and on an
other occasion, he permitted himself to
be introduced to gaping crowd by Mr..
Hayes, the head keeper Of the menage-
rie, as person who chad been once
greatly wrong. but was now greatly
"right'" And to crown the whole dis
gusting performance of this man who
was put into the Cabinet "to represent
d" the intelligence and wealth of the
g South" the miserable recreant deliv-
cred himself Of the following speech to
one of his New England audiences:


Mr.. Key said:


LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: 1 have not
been accustomed to New England or its
people, and NV education has not been
such as to lead me to form the best opinion
of them; but | have brea here several days
and have been so genel OuSly fed, and met
so many generous meg and women. that
am almost ready to call my self New
EnStauuer.


When Mr.. Hayes is done with him he
ought to be turned over to Barnum and
put in a cage, labelled "The Champion
Dirt and Toad Eater"
Year: 1877

In selecting Hon. w. II. n. Tison to
represent them in the Legislature from
list of worthy competitors, the people of
Lee county have shown their appreeia-
ton of one whose patriotism has been
tried aud approved in long career of
usefulness in many trying scenes of ac-
ton, in war as well as in peace. His
competitors may well feel that it Is no
to be beaten by veteran with
such a record.
Year: 1877

IT used TO be s)rt OF joke that
slave owners who believed in the perpe


tuity of the peculiar institution" kept
their eyes upon their former slaves for
some time after they were freed but no
man having claims to common sense ever
put forward the statement in earnest
until il was made by Senator Morton in
his recent deliverance to the Oregonians.
Year: 1877

DTOOkhaVen comet.


Our next State Senate will be one of the
ablest and best since the DAYS of ante bel
lum. Moses Jackson, a splendid man, will
90 there from Amite. West, regular tow
er of Conservative and practical good sense
and craftsmanship will come down from
Marshall. King. a man of breadth and
depth will be there from Copiah. There
will be other men Of the grand old school
Of experience, bnt not of the non-progres-
sive "old school Of thought - They will be
teligence to see what is needed. and the
courage to do what ought to be done.
Year: 1877

WE apprehend that Judge Stafford is
slightly mistaken in saying that the Re
publican party is "dead." 1t is whipt
but not dead" It's leaders are only
playing possum, studying now best they
may produce disorder and division in the
Democratic party, and edging slyly up
to disaffected and disappointed Demo
Gratis like toad at the ear of Eve" and
whispering all manner of deceitful prom
ises. But a party whose leaders are
driven to this extremity, is not fit to live,
and that is the next step to dying.
Year: 1877

AFTER a career as brilliant as it was
brief, our young friend w. w. Hoskins
withdraws from the management Of the
Lexington Advertiser, and is succeeded
by his father J S. Hoskins. We hope
that the lines of the one may fall in more
pleasant places than the treadmill toll of
newspaper life; and that prosperity may
continue to attend the other, who has
just been re-nominated for sheriff of his
county
Year: 1877

IF the colored people should now go
off with few sore,headed, disafected
malcontents under the psuedo name of
"Tndependent Democrats. their last
condition will be worse than the first. 1t
will show that they did not vote the
Democratic ticket in the last two elec-
tions in good faith, and are now willing
to resort any expedient to destroy the
party they joined. If the colored
people are going with the white people,
let them turn deaf ear to disorganizers
and vote the regular ticket. Read what
Judge Stafford SAYS
Year: 1877

ANTE COUNTY REPREsENTIVE.- In
the recent primary election, w. f. Love,
Esq, was selected as the candidate of the
Democratic and Conservative party to
represent them in the lower branch of
the Legislature. The fact reminds us
that in 1856, the Senatorial District of
Amite and Pike elected the late Hon.
Franklin Love, the father of this gentle
man, to serve them in the State Senate.
The former served his day and genera
ton faithfully and well, and we have no
doubt the mantle of the sire will be wor-
thily worn by the son.
Year: 1877

The lady Of a Cottage Hill house,
the nurse-girl and cook, held a
brief consultation, and concluded
that an old man whose toes stuck q
rod out of his boots, and the
crown Of whose summer hat was
held by a single hinge Of straw and
tapped up and down in the wind,
disclosing the fact that the aged
wearer was bald, very bald, must
be really worthy, and they invited
him to n seat in the kitchen while
bis breakfast was being prepared.


The frsgrances Of the frying pan
Year: 1877

Lay it down as a foundation rule
that you will be faithful in that
which is least Pick up the loose
nails, bits of twine, clean wrapping
paper, and put them in their places.
Be ready to throw in an odd half
hour or hours time, and don't seem
to make merit of it. Do it
heartily though not word be said,
be sure your employer makes note
of it. Make yourself indespensi-
bic to him, and he viii loose many
of the opposite kind before he
will part with you. Those young
men who watch to see the very
second their working hour is up;
who leave, no matter what state
the work is in, at precisely the in
stant who calculate the amount
OF work they can slight yet not
get reproved, and who are lavish
of their employers goods will al
ways be first to receive notice,
when times are dull, that their SER
vices are no longer required. Re-
member you are not slave, then
serve your employer as a friend
in due time he will be a friend to
you. had d I
Year: 1877

Whom shall we call our heroesl
To whom our praises sing
The pampered child of fortune
The titled lord or kinel
They live by others labor
Take all and nothing give,
The noblest types of manhood
Are those who work to live.
Who spans the earth with iron,
And rears the palace dome
Who creates for the rich man
The comforts of home
1t is the patient toiler


All honor to him then
The true wealth of the nation
Is in her working men.
For many barren ages


Earth hid her treaures deep,
And all her giant forces


Seemed bound rs If in sleep.
Then labor's 'anvil chorus"
Broke on the startled air,
And 10 ! the earth in rapture
Laid all her riches bare.
'Tis toll that over nature
Gives man his proud control,
And purities and hallows


The tempers of his soul.
1t scatters foul diseases,


With all the CHASTITY train
Puts iron in the muscle,


And crystal In the brain.
The grand Almighty Builder,
Who fashioned out the earth,
Has stamped his seal of honor
On labor from the birth.
In every angel flower


That blossoms from the sod
Behold the Master touches
The handiwork of God
Then honor 20 our workmen,
The hardy sons of toll
The heroes of the workshops
And tnonarchs of the soil
Year: 1877

Now while the flies are so bad loosen
the check-rein Or take it off altogether
which would be better. We see horses
stretching their necks vainly endeavoring
to reach the little tormentors biting their
legs. What right has man to tie horses
head back so tight he cannot protect him
self? 1t has been proved that the check
rein does not prevent a horse from
stumbling, therefore it is nothing but
pride makes a man use one. IL is a
useless and siHy-contrivance and we
always think man has not good sense
who uses one. 4.- E.. w.
Year: 1877

A woman has lately been found


in a secluded cave near Udino, in


Italy, who had been imprisoned
there thirty-three years. In 1874
she became attached to an Austrian


officer, but her father, violent
hater of the Austrians, who, at the
time, were in possession OF that part
of Italy where he resided, refused
his consent to a marriage. The
girl stated that she would then
marry without his permission. He
dissimulated his anger, and, during
a walk in which he accompanied
her, he induced her to descend into
the cave with him by means of a
rope ladder, with view of examin-
ing it. He was the first to ascend
to the surface, and, withdrawing
the ladder, left her. She was kept
regularly supplied with food and
clothing. AT her fathers death,
her sister, whose hatred toward the
Austrians was equally great, con-
tinued the imprisonment. The
unfortunate woman, on her liberia
ton, had a complexion Of death
like pallor, caused by the darkness
in which she had long lived, and
her voice had departed, through
constant cries during the early part
of her sequeStration for help. She
could only speak in a hoarse whisper,
Year: 1877

rid Of me so easily; l shall GER
tainly see you to your quarters "


And thus continuing to amuse
himself, he drove him to them,
after promising to forgive the SER
geant for having made poaching
meal at imperial expense.
Year: 1877

1t is significant of the low rate at which
money is procurable in England on good
security that at a recent meeting of the
Birmingham Town Bouncil the Finance
Committee reported that arrangements
had been made for an advance to the
corporation by the Bank of England of a
further loan of f5OO, coo 81 per cent. in.
t,rest, upon the security of the borough
rates, for the purchase of lands for the
purpose of the Improvement scheme
about to be effected in the town undei
the Artisans Dwelling act.
Year: 1877

We give the City Council credit for
the adoption of the contract system OF
cleaning the streets. 1t Is better late
than never. We have been advocating
this through the GAZETTE for at least
twenty years. Occasionally it was adopt
ed. Sometimes observed but always re-
suited in saving to the city. 1t originates
now on the Democratic C side of the Cham
ber, but the other side is all the more en-
titled to credit for adopting unanimously
the resolution that led to it. In all the
cities where it has b,en returned to the
bids show a difference of a third to half
in amount, and the highest much less
than the cost of the work when done by
the day has been. In the last three years
the cost averaged this city about $25,
The bids last night for the work number
ed twenty-four and the highest bid was
$l6,979 20, and the lowest S6, 800. These
bids will prove interesting to our city
readers, and we invite their attention to
them in another column. Wilmington
is doing better, We have now hope for
reform here in our midst and with it will
come reduction of taxation and an in
crease in the value of real estate, which
be will beneficial in inviting capitalists to
make our city home where investments
will be safe and likely to pay handsome
ly in the future.
Year: 1877

Among recent innovations in the
British army are new helmets. The ma
terial is of felt, with brass spike on the
top, and brass plaque in front, consist
ing of star surmounted by a crown,
win the royal motto surrounding the
regimental number. There is a brass
scale chin strap, and small brass scale
chain above the peak, which gives the
helmet light and handsome appearance
There is neck piece behind, and the
peak is of the Prussian shape.
Year: 1877

The poorest girls in the world are those
who have never been taught to work.
There are thousands of them. Rich parents
have petted them they have been taught
to despise labor and depend upon others for
C living, and are perfectly helpless. If
misfortune comes upon their friends, as it
often does, their case is hopeless. The
most forlorn and miserable women upon
earth belong to this class. 1t belongs to
parents to protect their daughters from this
derlorable condition. They do them
great wrong if they neglect it. Every
daughter should be taught to earn her own
living. The rich as well as the poor require
this training. The wheel of Fortune rolls
swiftly round; the rich are very likely to
become poor and the poor rich. Still to
labor is no disadvantage to the rich and is
indispensable to the poor. Well-to-do
parents must educate their children to
work. No reform is more imperative than
this.-h.
Year: 1877

naddened speed and stf sting tho saw in a
yet wilder race, its sharp teeth invisible in
its rapid revolutions. The stupid savage,
now thoroughly aroused by the deep thud
Of the wheel and the buzz of the advancing
saw, sprang up in bewilderment, but tho
saw had already caught the nearest one,
and in al instant his body was cut in two
pieces, and lay one on either side of the
relentless blade. Tho surviving savage,
horror-stricken, attempted to spring away,
but in his blind terror he tottered and fell
npon the saw. A breath of space only, the
revolving blade was burdened with this
mass of flesh and bone, and then it bounded
on with no foe in front of It'll


Amy saw no more-was conscious of
nothing more until she found herself in the
arms of Harry at their own home. She
attempted to speak of that awful occur
renee at the mill, but hs hushed her with
kiss.


"Don't think of it, darling" he said
shuddering. ''You are brave little
heroine, and saved my life; but I will
never again let you be exposed to such
terrors."


He kept his promise. That night they
rested in safety in tho nearest mining vii
!age, and as Harry had no difficulty in
finding purchaser ct q large sum for his
mill, they were soon on their way to Amys
native village. Travelling eastward from
Omaha in the same car with this loy-
ing couple l drew from them o. modest
recital of the facts which 1 have nar-
rated.
Year: 1877

In some instances an iron pattera is
placed in the sand mould when the mould
board is to be cast, and the contact Of the
molten iron with this iron mould renders
the cnsting very hard. Ia other in
stances different kinds of iron ave melt cd