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Year: 1879

SERENITY IN DEATH.-Perfect serenity
in regard to death is not to be attained by
any reasoning; it is rather the result of u
happy combination of bodily and mental
conditions. The chief of these conditions,
the assured hope of future beyond the
grave. in comparison with which the
brightest earthly visions fade like candle
before the dawn, is not given to all; and
in these days especially, it is for many
overshadowed, if not altogether blotted
out, by doubts and questionings which can
no longer be hidden from the multitude


Even to those who most earnestly cling to
the hope of immortality. it would seem
that our troublous inheritance of sympathy
must cast many distressing side light
upon prospects in which of old the faithful
were able 10 take undisturbed delight.
However this may be, the mere prospect
OF prolonged existence beyond the grave.
apart from other reasons for joyful conf


dence, must be taken rather as enlarging
the scope of our hopes and of our fears
than us necessarily altering the balance
between them. Habitual hopefulness may
color the prospect beyond the grave with
the same glowing tints which it throws
over this world, so that in some cases the
same cause which makes life delightful
makes death not unweoome. Such n
state of mind, though rare, is not un-
known. But perhaps perfect balance of
feeling is more readily found at lower
level of expectation --CorahtH Magazine.
Year: 1879

A child ran laughing along the beach,
The sun shone warm and bright
Upon her waving golden hair,


Her tiny form so Sigh,
wonder why the world SO fair,
So full OF sun AMI song;
wonder why big folks don't laugh
And play the whole day long"
A maid was walking on the strand,
She gazed far out to see
Where o'er the sunlit waters rode
A bark SO calamity,
Ah, love is com ng DER the waves,
Is coming soon to me;
wonder how, in this sweet world,
Old folks such shadows see."
A woman stood upon the shore,
Her eyes with weeping red,
Looking sadly on the cruel sea
That ne'er gives up the dead.
Wonder why the world was made
So dark and full of care;
No wonder that lfe's burden seems
Too great for one to bear"
Near by the windows ledge there sat
A grand-dame old and gray
The window look ing out to sea
Where ships at anchor lay.
wonder when mine eyes shall see
Life's ship at anchor lie
Within Gods harbor peacefully,
For all eteinity.
Year: 1879

| stand on the brink OF a river,
The river of Life to me.
Where the pillows OF Memory culver,
And rise and fall like the sea.
read in their tremulous motion
The records of many year,
And like voices that come from the ocean
Are the mutied words hear.
Down under the waters cleaning
Are visions of long ago;
There are forms of beauty beaming
There are shadows dark and low.
These are scenes from lfe's fair morning
That comes like the break of day,
Or a beautiful landscapes dawning
When the mists have passed away.
gaze on the sight elysian


With earnest and longing eyes,
Till my soul is stirred by the vision,
With raptures from Paradise.
see the chain of friendship
Death never had power to part
One link is under the waters,
The other is round my heart.
hear that the depths of the river
Sweet words that my spirit thrill,
We are parted, but not foreverl
We are living and loving still
And my soul is no more lonely,
Nor throbs with q sense of pain,
For the loved who we're once niue only,
know viii be mine again.
Dark waves may close DER the vision,
Storms drive me away from the shore,
But Hope. like the lamp of a vestal,
Dies out in my soul no more.
Flow on, mysterious riveri
Flow on TO Eternity's sea,
By faith and holy endeaver
The future hath bliss for me,


II NJ. EIg.0,
Year: 1879

chair, made from the wood of the Village Black
smiths chestnut tree This approp rate tribute ha
Drawn from the venerable poet the following ex
quisite response:


FROM MT ARMCHAIR.
Am king, that l should call my own


This splendid ebon throne?
or by what reason, or what right divine.


Can proclaim it miner
Only, perhaps, by divine right of song


1t may to me belong;
Only because the spreading chestnut tree


or old was sung by me.
Well remember it in all its prime,


When in the summer time
The affluent foliage of its branches made


cavern OF cool shade
There by the blacksmith's forge beside the street


Its blossoms white and sweet
Enticed the bees until it seemed alive.


And murmured like Il hive.
And when the winds of autumn. with a shout,


Tossed its great arms about,
The shining chestnuts, bursting from the sheath


Dropped TO the ground beneath.
And now some fragmentI ofits branches bare,


Shaped as stately chair,
Have by my hearthstone found home at last,


And whisper of the Past.
The Danish king couId not in all his pride


Repel the ocean tide,
But seated in this, can in rhyme


Roll back the tide of Time.
see again, as one in vision sees.


The blossoms and the bees,
And hear the children's voices shout and call,


And the brown chestnuts fall.
see the smithy with its fires agow,


hear The bellows blow,
And the shrill hammers on the anvil beat


The iron white with heatl
And thus, dear children have ye made for me


This day jubilee,
And to my more than threescore years and ten,


Brought back my youth again.
The heart hath its own memory, like the mind,


And in it are enshrined
The precious keepsakes into which are Wrought,


The give's loving thought.
Only your love and your remembrance could


Give life TO this dead wood
And make these bran ches, leafess now so long,


Blossom again in song.
Year: 1879

The name Of Lent is derived from a
Saxon word signilying spring, the season
OF The year when it occurs. The Ienoth
OF time of the observance has varied. first
having been forty hours and then thirty
six days. Four days were added in the
ninth century, making as at present forty
days.
Year: 1879

A number of desirable rooms to
let at No. 7 Third street. The loca-
tion is accessible and desirable
from every standpoint. The neigh
borhood is good and the house is
barely five minutes walk from the
Court House.
Year: 1879

A young gentleman who is good look
ing and witty and has means OF his own
would like to correspond with q young
lady of from Is to "a, with view to mat
rimony. All communications strictly
confidential. Address 10. L." this Of
fee. MOST
Year: 1879

The hope that the yellow fever
down south might not be as destruc-
tive this year as it was last, has been
entirely given up since the telegraph
wires have been so burdened with
news of its awful ravages.
Year: 1879

ested. The parts can not be better
than the whole. The people are the
parts, the State is the whole. Loss
of credit to the State loses credit
to the individual who helps to make
the State. The people are the State,
and if we would prosper and develop
the great natural resources of our
State, our citizens and corporations
must have credit. The State, as a
sovereignty does not need it and
could not use it. The Constitution
practically inhibits it. But our
State as representative Of our COM
mercial and business enterprises,
our manufacturing and agricultural
interests must have it. With it
comes progressto to all industries of the
country. Without it every branch
of industry languishes and droops,
until stagnation ensues. That we
will settle the debt we do not doubt.
That we will do all we can do to res
store our credit we regard equally
certain.
Year: 1879

Many who admire the beautiful star
which now adorns the western sky un-
til more than three hours after the COM
mencement of twilight may not be aware
that its splendor is derived from the sun;
that in it, like on the earth, night cur
tains the landscape, morning dawns, and
seasons in quick succession come and go
Lofty mountains show that forces SINH
lar to those which upheaved the Alps
and lifted the SUBMITS of the Andes a.
bove the regions of eternal snow have
ridged its surface and covered it with
hills and wales. Variable spots prove
that clouds float in its atmosphere, and
CLEANS of light, which dart across its
sky, afford evidence that in it lightning
seams the sky and the thunder's roll re-
verberates through the valleys.


But three hundred miles less in dame
ter than the earth and revolving on it's
axis in nearly the same time, Venus
makes thirteen revolutions around the
sun while the former makes eight. AS
the inclination of the planet to the plane
of its orbit is at least fifty-four degrees,
its torrid zone is double that extent, OF
one hundred and eight degrees, and its
polar circles 81 degrees from the poles.
1t therefore has two frigid and a torrid,
but no temperate zone. Since the sun
must arrive at the equator and depart
from it to the distance of 54 degrees twice
in each of its years, there must be two
summers and two winters annually in
the torrid zone and q winter and sum.
mer in each of the frigid.


Venus becomes the morning star aftel
its superior conjunction, when it ap
pears, through the telescope, crescent
shaped like the new moon. The orbits
of this planet and of Mercury are within
the orbit of the earth and consequently
they are never seen in opposition to thu
sun, that is in the east when the sun Ii
in the west, or in the west and the sur
in the east. At its inferior conjunction
Venus is nearer to the earth than any
other planet except the moon, and some
times when approaching the creates
distance, which it seems to recede from
the sun, casts shadow and is visible ii
the full light of day.


Ii at the period when 1t is nearest t.
the earth the enlightened part were full!
Year: 1879

their daily avocation Of murder, ne.


glect to pass the small apprO-


priation due the Uncompahgre


ULes who inhabit another por-
tion of the State, and only few of
whom are in the outbreak. But this
sum is not one-tenth or one~twentieth
of what is due the Government from
the unlimited and unrestricted destruc-


truction of property by the Utes on


the public domain. The story that
there have been encroachments on the


reservation is a Il at falsehood. On the


contrary, the fact is just the reverse.
The Utes have been on the public do


main all summer, and dispatches on
file in the War Department will show


that the trouble began, not by trying
/ to keep the whites off the reservation.


but by trying to keep the Indians off


the public domain.


There never was more gross, GRIM
inal, unprOvoked and inexcusable out
break than this of the Utes. For


months and months they have been
burning timber and grass and destroy
ins the property of The settlers. For
| weeks it has been almost impossible to
see the sun by reason of the smoke
from these forest fires. They have
done the State an incslculable injury,
aud they had done this injury without


molestation. The Government did not
make q move to stop their outrsges


until few days ago. It allowed this


destruction to go on all summer up to


the present time. and then, when the
climax came, it sent a few undis-
cipilned soldiers to be ambushed and
shot down like dogs.


There has not been a white settler
on the Indian reservation. There are
none there now. Father Meeker, in
the appeal which he sent to the De-
partment over a month ago, correctly


asserted that the trouble with the Utes
grew out of their aversion to have
eighty acres of land at the Agency. out
OF the 1000 900 which a stupid Gov
| ernment allows them TO control, to be


cultivated. It was because of this cul-


tivation they shot at one of the Agency
| employees and assaulted Meeker. And
it was because of these assaults and
| their outrages upon settlers upon the
! public domain that troops were sent.
| If the dispatch alluded TO conveys an
idea of the way in which the Wash


ington authorities intend to proceed in


this matter, Colorado will take it intC


her own hands. The White River


Utes must be killed off. Ifthe soldier


Can not do it, the State whose citizeni


have been foully outraged and muir


dered can. And it will.
Year: 1879

AN article in another column gives
the lie to the Democratic assertion in
regard to the causes Of the recent In
dian outbreak. It is taken fro the
Denver (Col.) Tribune, from paper
published in a place where The fats
are known. We commend it to the
perusal Of the public.
Year: 1879

We are pleased to inform our readers that the efforts of the committee on fire works proved a success: that with few exceptions, those who were asked to con- tribute for this purpose, responded promptly, and we can assure our young people that they may expect on the even ing of Fourth, (if pleasant, if not, on Sat urday evening", as fine u display of Fire Works as ever seen in this place. They will be exhibited OH the green near the flag pole.
Year: 1879

The brethren will now sing, " happy are they Who eachsnight can say I've sleep on tue Branchv He Spring Bed" They tuck their dear ses Beneath the bed clothes, And rest both the heart and the head. Then stop all your grumbling, And kicking and tumbling. And throw your hard slats in the fire; You ne'cr will regret it, Now don't you forget it, But let. this your courage inspire. Take 6ye-dollar bill Right out of the till, All shining and crispy and green. But don't pinch it to death, And crush out it's breath, Your coyetous fingers between. But hail the spring Bed man, Who comes with his pet plan, Which is to have you just try them; Sleep on them month, And-and-and-aud-w Why then, you will certainly buy them. MANUFACTUREDO ONLY BY THE SPRING BED co.

 BRANCHVILLE, CONN.
Year: 1879

A bill which was recently introduced in
the Connecticut Legislature provides for
secret voting at state elections, the state
furnishing the town with as many properly
stamped envelopes as there are voters in the
town, into which envelopes the votes shall
be placed by the voter, and sealed before
being placed in the ballot box, no voter be-
ing allowed more than one envelope. The
object of the measure is to prevent ssbull-
dozing' and the ballot box stuffing, and to
do away with an army of ticket peddlers,
tickets of every party to be furnished by
the registrar along with the envelopes.
The expense entailed by such law would
be small. compared with the benefits derived
and the honest people of Connecticut hope
to see the bill become law.
Year: 1879

sTwlNKLE twinkle. little Starr'-We
have forgotten the remainder of the poem;
but the explanation of the quotation is in
the fact that another Starr has been dis
covered in the Port Townsend constella-
ton. The startling announcement was
made on Saturday last that this new lumi-
nary had just put in an appearance.
Strang to say, the astronomers interested
declare it to be MALE Starr, and aver
that according to their calculations it
weighs only about ten pounds. Poplar
belief is that it will remain in the ''milky
way'' about a year, after which nothing
definite can be predicted about it. Re-
port says that the pastor OF the M. E.
Church delights in lunar observations.
We venture to predict that when the new
ly discovered heavenly body comes in con-
junction with the proverbial slipper OF an
irate parent there will be an abrupt
change in the weather--a kind of perihel-
ion squall, so to speak.


j. A. KUHN. Esq, Of this place, has
been paying Portland visit, according
to the papers in that city. He is now in
eastern Washington performing the duties
of Grand Lecturer Of the Order Of Free
Masons in this Territory.


THERE will be no sham about our cele-
bration oil the Fourth.
Year: 1879

There is an Italian in Nevada City
who owes fortune to 4 drink of water.
AS the Transcript relates the incident,
he arrived at the Golden Gate in quest of
Il fortune and found his way to the
Sierra Butte mine. where he failed to get
employment. After receiving numerous
rebuffs, he started to return to the lower
country again. He became. so weary,
footsore and disheartened that he began
to wish himself back to sunny Italy once
more, among the vines and olives. He
grew fcverish thinking of his trials and
tribulations, and stopped at spring to
moisten his parched throat. Cattle had
been that way q short time before, and
with their feet stirred up the limpid
water until it became thick with mud.
The italian scoopcd out the basin and
waited until the sand should settle to
the bottom, that he might slake his
thirst and bathe his brow. By-and-by
the water became clear as crystal, and
he stopped to drink. An astonishing
sight met his eyes. The bottom of the
spring was strewn with bright yellow
PARTICLES that glittered in their watery
bed. With all his ignorance of mining
he knew he had found gold. He rushed
cxcitedly to camp where lived some of
his countrymen, and told the story OF his
discovery, but they were incredulous,
saying that some miner had stopped at
the spring to drink and lost what was
found from his purse. One of them,
however, volunteered to help prospect
the claim, although lie had no confidence
in developing Il permanent or profitable
one. The first day panned out $500.
Since then they have worked it con-
stantly and on an extensive scale. 1t
has paid handsomely from the first:
Last year they took out $40, 900, and sold
nne-alartl L interest for S20.0OO more.
Year: 1879

Nobody can tell who has not watched
it what an effect q physical detormity
has upon the mind and character of q
growing child, especially one which de-
tracts in so marked manner from its
personal appearance. 1t exposes the
child to the taunts and cruel appella-
tions Of its comrades, which in sensitive
children often drive them into solitude,
and make them shy and suspicious of
strangers, in whom, on the other hand,
they excite suspicion. The turn in the
eye gives either a wandering, doubling
air to the face, or, ifthe gaze is fixed, 4
too intense expression, which is disturb
ing and perpleXing, if not downright
painful, to the beholder.


l have known young boys ofeight and
ten years of age beg their parents to let
them undergo the pain of IN operation
to rid themselves of deformity which
subjects them so often to the unfeeling
remarks of their elders, usually friends
of the family, us well as the uneuphoni-
Gus but expressive titles bestowed upon
them by their own contemporaries, of
soogle-eye and cock-eye. Nor does this
md with childhood. The deformity is
Il disadvantage to him through life. 1t
pursues him in his business and in his
profession. Cheated of feature by dis
sembling nature, he is often thought to
be assembling himself when nothing is
further from his thoughts. How often
do we hear people say of another, whom
we know to be perfectly upright and
trustworthy, that they do not like him
because he never looks them squarely in
the face. And it is little curious that
precisely hereit is that the lesser degrees
Of the trouble produce the most effect.
That peculiar expression which. people
complain SO much of is generally due to
Il deviation in the axes of the eyes-a
slight convergence which is never very
conspicuous, and at times only to be de-
tected by trained eye, but which. new
ertheiess, produces in all avery disagree
able impression, although not marked
enough to betray its cause.-Dr. E. G.
Loring, IN Harper's Magazine.
Year: 1879

Of the habits and characteristics of the
Zulu race, mentioned by the correspond
ent of the Paris Figaro, some OF the most
notable are to be seer in their matri


monial relations. The juvenile male
Zulu is obliged to work for his father
until lie is about eighteen years old, when
he goes out on u sort Of grand tour to
make his fortune in the world. Although
he is not much OF workman where in
dustry or activity is needed he is, never
theless, very keen in pursuit Of filthy
lucer, and is not above practicing a strict
economy, while he employs every means,
fur or foul. of scraping together q hoard
of money. Thieving is his especial forte,
and what with this and an occasional
spell of more honest labor he acquires
sooner or later sufficient pocket money
to enable him to purchase a wife. The
price of a helpmeet in Zululand seems to
be from ten to twenty lead of cattle,
according to the rank Of the woman, and
us soon as the first wife is secured the
bridegroom begins to enjoy for the first
time some degree of leisure and ease. He
makes the unfortunate woman work in
the fields and earn fresh hoard, with
which he procures :, second wife, and
then is enabled to begin life of COM
parative luxury. Children are born to
him, and the males are made to do the
work, while the daughters are sold, so
that the father has nothing to interfere
with his natural tastes for beer, tobacco
and idleness. The Zulu mother-in-law
appears in a strange light in the account
given by the Figaro. Her name is never
mentioned by the son-in-law, and if the
two happen by i'll luck to meet, the wo-
man hides with all speed behind the
nearest bush, while the man turns his
head away and pretends not to see.
Year: 1879

Adversity is the balance to weigh
friends.


Ignorance is subject for pity; not
laughter.


A knowledge of mankind is necessary
to acquire prudence.


Choose those companions who admin
lister to your improvement.


Truth is hid by great depths, and the
way to it does not appear to all the
world.


Conversational powers are susceptible
of great improvement by assiduous cul-
tivation.


The frienships of youth are founded
on sentiment; the dissensions of age re.
suit from opinion.


Flowers sweeten the air, rejoice the
eye, link US with nature and innocence
and are something to love.


The business of life is to 90 forward ;
he who sees evil in prospect meets it on
the way; but he who catches it by retro
spection turns back to find it.


Affections, like spring flowers, break
through the frozen ground at last, and
the heart, which seeks but for another
heart to make it happy, will never seek
in vain
Year: 1879

All accounts agree that the Zulus have
health and strength in perfection-7tbat
their soldiers can march, or, rather, run
fifty miles in a day with ease, whilst
white soldiers rarely march more than
fifteen or twenty. Their strength and
agility and bravery are the admiration
of all those who by some great blunder
have been sent to fight them. Now,
what are the modes of life which have
produced this extraordinary muscular
perfection. a condition bv no means un-
common amongst other savage tribes?
The South Sea Islanders, when first dis
covered, were models of strength. SYM
metry and activity; and so with some
of our North American Indians. So are
the bearers, or coolies, Of India and
China, and the porters and water car.
riers Of Mohammedan people. In all
these cases of almost perfect physical
health and strength, there are two great
points in which the way Of living differs
from that of the great majority of civil
lized people. Their food is exceedingly
plain and simple, and they are most. of
the time in the open air: The varied
arts of cookery and confectionery may be
called arts for overlooking the stomach,
and the contrivances for conveyance are
contrivances for diminishing physical
strength, which can only come from
exercise.


The indoor industries of civilized life
are the means of shutting multitudes up
from the open air; and the various stim-
ulants resorted to are just the way to
make bad worse. The nearer we come
to the simplicity of primitive life in eat.
ing and outdoor exercise, the less need
will there be for medicines or works on
York Witness.