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Year: 1878

We regret that want of space and the late
hour at which we received the following ad-
dress from the committee appointed by the
Assembly, in reply to the opening speech of
His Majesty, prevented us from publishing it
in our issue of last week.


To Hrs MAJESTY, THE KING:


Strive the undersigned, committee appoin-
ted by the honorable Legislative Assembly to tender
the loyal respects of that body to your Majesty
person. and 10 reply 10 the address from the Throne,
IN the opening of the present session. beg leave TO
say:


That We sincerely coudoIe with your Majesty in
the loss OF an illustrious member OF your Royal
household. of one who was great hope of the Ha-
wHian Nation, the late Prince William Pitt LIleiO-
hoku, and at the same time We rejoice that the
cesson is established in the person OF the beloved
and esteemed Princess Lydia kamakaeha Liliuoka-
lADi.


We concur with your MsjesIy's anticipations in
respect TO the prosperity that must accrue to the
Kingdom In consequence of your Majestys treaty
OF Reciprocity with the great Republic of America
snd wesincerey regret If its operation has intringed
upon any rights of other friendly Powers. But We
trust that The harmony Of your Majestys relations
with Great Britain and other Powers will not be
affected thereby.


We rejoice with your Majesty at the satisfactory
assurances of the prosperous financial condition of
the Kingdom, and are pleased to be assured that
Justice is administered with ability aud impartaiity.


We join with your Majesty in giving foremost
consideration 10 the health of the people nd we
regret that notwithstanding very liberal expendi-
tures in It's behalf che subject still calls for the
greatest consideration.


Iu view Of the deep interest entertained by your
Majesty conjontly with your loyal people in the
increase OF the numbers of the Nation shall re-
joice to the fruits OF efforts further this OBJ
ject made in ludia, the Western Islands and Poly
nesia.


We receive with much satisfaction your Majesty;
enlightened views in respect TO ielegraphie CON-
munieatlon and railroads Tor our Islands.


We heartily concur with your Majesty in the i'm
pOrtsnce Of wise legislation and deprecate anything
calculated TO impugn the character Of cur laws.


And now, praying for health and prosperity tC
your Majesty's person and Royal family, We art
your Msiesty's very loyal subjects
Year: 1878

The most important measure of many years has probably already como to decisive vote in the United States Senate. It is bill report ed by the Judiciary committee compelling the Pacific railroads to make some suitable provis- ion for payment of the government bonds when they come due in 1898.

 People are generally aware of the trick practiced on Congress by the railroad lobby, by which the payment of any interest on the government bonds is postponed till they are due, twenty years hence. They know, too, that the so-called stock of those companies rep resents no cash capital, but that the roads were entirely built and equipped with the proceeds of the first mortgage bonds and of the govern ment loans and grants. They are probably aware, too, that Mir. Huntington, controlling the Central Pacific, and Jay Gould, controlling the Union Pacific, have been straining every nerve to defeat the Thurman bill, by offering delusive funding measures in it's place, and by using that style of influence over legislative bodies for which Gould was so notorious in the days when the Ring was supreme in New York, and corruption rampant at Albany Gould has the support of Mr. Blaine, of Mr. Conkling, of every Senatorial Carpet Bagger, and of few Senators for whom we have high respect. On the other side are Edmunds, Thurman, Bayard, and we profoundly hope a majority of the whole Senate.

 The amount that will be saved the govern ment by the passage of this bill is probably not less than fifty million dollars, and may be twice that sum-an amount of money the over-taxed people of the country can i'll spare to pile yet higher Jay Goulds enormous hoard of robbers plunder.
Year: 1878

The Temperance movement which has been

 sweeping over the country and through other

 parts of Litchfeld county has finally reached

 Litchfeld. On Thursday evening last, MT.

 Geo. B. Graves, of Waterbury, began series

 of addreses at.Armery Hall. At first his audi

 ences were small, but on Sunday evening

 there was really fine meeting which filled

 the Hall to it's utmost capacity, about one

 hundred and fifty persons signing the pledge

 Mir. Graves is very effective temperance

 worker. Himself mechanic, and for more

 than twenty years man of incorporate hab-

 it's he appeals more effectively to the great

 majority of those who are now the slaves of

 the alcoholic appetite than speakers of

 more culture and oratorical power who have

 never themselves suffered from this awful

 curse. There is. moreover, most grateful ab-

 sence in his case of the faults of taste and

 manner which so often mar the efforts of men

 of his class. There in none of that hateful vul-

 garity, that envy of wealth, culture and po- sition, and that denunciatory hatred and un- charitableness, which so often disfgure the public addresses of the reformed working man." His whole manner indicates the deep

 lypenitent, thoroughly earnest man, the sincere christian, and the reformer 90 completely bound up in his reform as to have no thought of self

 Of the effects of the movement started among us it is too early to speak intelligently, except to congratulate the friends of the cause on having made . most suspicious beginning. The meeting of Sunday evening was the lar gest temperance meeting held in Litchfsld since the old temperance times thirty or forty years ago. Near four hundred persons were present; their interest was thoroughly aroused, and at times most intense and there was great joy over the number of the signers and in the hope that the work of reformation had at last begun among us.

 The meeting of Monday evening was even more encouraging than that of the evening be- fore. The Congregational Chapel was filled, both the main audience room, and the parlors above and below. After the reelection of the old officers of the Centennial Total Abstinence Society, a stirring address was made by Mir. Graves, and large number of signatures were obtained. The total number now exceeds three hundred, an excellent showing consider ing that general interest was not aroused till the meeting of Sunday evening Mir. Graves has other appointments for this week, but re- turns on Sunday next, when women's organ ization will be effected, and an address deliver ed at Armory Hall in the evening. Let us have a full turn out of every Blue Ribbon and of all others interested in the subject of Temper ance.

 It really looks, in short, as if the people of old Litchield were taking long onward and upward step in this grand reform; and as if we were at last perceptibly approaching the safe ground of total abstinence from the use of all intoxicating liquors.

 Mir. J. E. Cushman, of Hartford, requests l us to call the attention of our readers to his | Fashionable Furniture, advertised in another l column.
Year: 1878

AN ASTONISHING FAcr.-A large propor- tion of the American people are to-day dying from the effects of Dyspepsia or disordered liver The result of these diseases upon the masses of intelligent and valuable people is most alarming, making life actually burden instead of a pleasant existence of enjoyment and usefulness as it ought to be. There is no good reason for this, if you will only throw aside prejudice and skepticisn, take the ad- one bottle of Greens August Flower. Your speedy relief is certain. Millions of bottles of this medicine have been given away to try It's virtues, with satisfactory results in every case. You can buy sample bottle for ten cents to try. Three doses will relieve the worst ease. Sold by all A. S.. Wright & Co.,, of Lttchfield
Year: 1878

On Saturday morning serious accident
happened to Harry O'Tools, an eight year
old SOD Of Chief Of Police O'Toole. The
little fellow with Rose his ton year old Sis
tor were playing In closet at their fathers
residence on West street above Thirteenth
street, when the little girl, seeing revola
yer picked 1t up cooked 1t and not knowing
It was loaded, pointed the weapon towards
her little brother when 1t went of. The
little fellow fell to the floor with bullet
in his body. The little girl was so frigh.
tened that she left the house and ran to
the police station for her father. DR..
Grimshaw attended to his injuries which
are OF an ugly character.
Year: 1878

A respectable farmer In Brandywine
Hundred wrote 10 Coroner Rose recently
stating that certain young woman died
lately from the spells of sorcerer. As
she was attended by awell-known pbysician
of this city, who gave the usual death GER
tifcate, the Coroner paid no attention to
the letter.
Year: 1878

ART GALLERY public at large and
The ladies in psrticular, are invitcd to
COME up and see the grand display in art
made by the valentines rec ived at this
oflice, which the foremao has proudly
pasted on the wall and designated the
first and only art gallery in Snohomish.
Sew Your blttous on tight before you
venture to inspect it-thats all.
Year: 1878

Opium is the dried juice Of the poppy.
It is prepared in Asia Minor. Turkey,
Egypt and India, in which country the
poppy is cultivated for the exclusive
purpose of making opium. 1t forms q
staple commodity of many provinces In
India, in which the following is the
mode of treatment commonly used. 1t
is an object of careful attention to keep
the plants at due distance from each
other. If the seed happens to be thick
Iy sown, some OF the young plants are
pulled up and used as pot-herbs, the
leaves of which when boiled have fla.
vor of peas ; but when they have attain
ed eighteen inches in height, they are
unfit for that use from their intoxicating
nature. The plant flowers in February
and the opium is extracted in March
or April, according to the period of SOW.
ing. When the flowers have fallen and
the capsules assume whitish color,
four or five incisions are made in them
with three-toothed instrument which
is drawn from the top to the bottom,
The incisions are always made in the
evening, as the night-dews, by their
moisture, favor the exhalation OF the
juice, and the opium is gathered Ene1t
morning. The wounds in each capsule
are repeated for three successive days,
and in general, fifteen days suffice to
gather all the opium in field. From
the incisions milky juice e1udes, which
thickens upon exposure to the air, end
is carefully scraped off with a shell, or
a small iron instrument previously dip
ped in oil. It is afterward worked IN
an iron pot in the heat of the sun, until
it is of consistency to be formed into
thick cakes of about four pounds weight.
They are then covered with the leaves
of the poppy or some other vegetable to
prevent them sticking together, and In
this condition they are dried and packed
away for expectation.
Year: 1878

A writer in the Country Gentleman,
says: "My practice for years is this :
Roll fresh lemon so the juice will e1-
press freely ; dampen the spot with the
lemon Juice, then spread thin coating
of fine salt over it, and lay it aside for
twenty -four hours then riEse off in
lukewarm soft water. This always
moves the rust, but it is rather lengthy
process. A friend told me another
method, that I have tried successfully
this summer, and it is less work and
care. Dampen the spot with cold rain
or spring water, and spread thin coat
ing of oxalic acid over the spot ; use
either a penknife or teaspoon handle
to spread it on let it lie either in the
sun or in warm place by the stove fif-
teen or twenty minutes then rinse in
pure water and the stain will be gone.
It will also remove the stains from
tablecloths and napkins, or ink spots
from clothing. It is always convenient,
and an ounce kept in a tightly-corked
vial will do a great amount in the clean
ing line. It is an important item to
have it carefully labeled and kept where
children cannot possibly reach it. Spir-
its of turpentine will remove ink from
thick fulled cloth and broadcloth, with
out damaging the goods, For removing
wheel-grease or paint, either kerosene
oil or spirits of turpentine rubbed on
the spot and left few minutes, then
washed off with hot soapsuds, will take
off the substance entirely. On goods
that will wash, apply lye soap to the
spots, after soaking few minutes in
the kerosene or turpentine, and it will
rub out without any trouble. For paint
stains, clear boiling water, poured on
the spot, will, with slight rinsing, re-
move them entirely. For grass stains,
warm sweet milk to soak in few min
utes, will take it all out; rinse in pure
water. For leather stains on hosiery,
spirits Of ammonia will be found very
efectual,"
Year: 1878

We become familiar with the outsides
of men as with the outsides OF houses,
and think We know them, while we are
really ignorant of all that passes within
them.


As when we are in prosperity we are
ready to think our mountain will never
be brought low, 80 when we are In ad-
yersity we are ready to think our valley
will never be filed up.


Honest and courageous people have
very little to say about either their cour-
age or their honesty. The sun has no
need to boast of his brightness, nor the
moon of her effulgence.


It is when our budding hopes are
nipped beyond recovery by some rough
wind, that We are the most disposed to
picture to ourselves what flowers they
might have borneif they had fourishad.


Every man takes care that his neigh
Dor shall not cheat him. But day
comes when he begins to care that he
does not cheat his neighbor or himself.
Then all goes well. he has changed
his market.cart into chariot OF the
sun.


The recognition of virtue is not less
valuable from the lips of the man who
hates it, since truth forces him to &C.
knowledge it; and though he may be
unwilling to take it into his inmost soul,
he at least decks himself out in its trap.
pings.


Gratitude is the fairest blossom which
springs from the soul, and the heart OF
man knoweth none more fragrant.
While its opponent, ingratitude, is q
deadly weed, NOT only poisonous in it.
self, but impregnating the very atmo.
Year: 1878

The long winter evenings are here,
and the question of family amusement
and recreation is therefore practical
one. There are many ideas and opinions
what games it is wise and morally right
for children to play and on these and
kindred points, people of equal intelli-
gence and goodness will differ. But
upon one point there need be no differ
ence, and that in each family there
should be some sort of an entertainment
provided for the children. Books,
music, cards, checkers, puzzles, not to
forget nut:cracking and apple-eating /;
take your pick, friends, according to
your conscience and the degree of ig-
norance God has left you in but pick
some of them or invent something
equally good as duty you owe to your
children.


One of the very best games that can
be introduced into family of children
is chess playing. As source of mental
discipline it belongs to the higher
branches of mathematics. The slowness
with which it must needs be played, If
it is played we'll, makes it a game that
lasts the evening out, and often several
evenings. The chess-board and chess
men are comparatively inexpensive.
Nearly every family can afford them.
And the best of all, perhaps, is the fact
that it can be played in concert in
family of four children; father and two
of the children taking one side, mother
and the other two children taking the
other side. After the tea things are
cleared away they can gather to the
table feeling that before them is whole
evenings entertainment, of the highest
order. We have known a single game
played thus between six people-three
against three where both sides were
equally matched, and as result the
game was played cautiously, to last three
successive evenings, and the excitement
and pleasure to grow stronger and keen
er still, to the eliminating checkmate.


One of the good things in connection
with chess playing is, that it must be
played with the help of all the delibera-
tive faculties. Haste, impatience, reck-
less smartness will easily be brought to
recognize themselves in their true light
at the chess-table. The reckless and
hot-headed player will soon be taught
to realize what fool his impatience
makes of him. If there is anything that
can put the brakes on feverishness, and
teach wagging tongue the admirable
art of reticenco, it is the discipline of
this magnificent game. The game is
readily understood iR it's rudiments, and
has this further excellent quality about
it, that it never "wears out" as the
saying is.-GOlde7a Rule.
Year: 1878

friend to pray with us Oh this dear day
that Christ was born.


Then there came into the room a man
with brown skin and lusty growth-hls
hair was almost white, but his eyes had
familiar loving glow dear to the olden
time. I did not care to question who
he was or whence be came, but knelt
silently at the bedside while he prayed.


Bob's lips moved, but only with some
boyish memory, and hour after hour
went by. Tue day was at last waning
I was alone with my brother. 1 heard
the light breathing Of his children, and
mine now, in the room close by ; the low
voices OF David and Hulda reached me
once in while from the lower floor. 1
might have been hard and bitter
woman, but as at last the day went out
and took Bob with it, felt grim de-.
light in my sore and aching heart that
he was beyond the reach of the Marleys.
-,Harper's Magazine.
Year: 1878

a pink and gray leaf to suit him or her.
self, with pictures of animals, birds,
people, fowers-anything and every
thing that will be likely to please the
eye of the household pet. Sew them
together when completed, and fasten
them inside cover made OF three
thicknesses of the cambria pasted neat
ly together. Tie it at the back with q
bit Of pink ribbon, and you have a
book that the most destructive baby
that ever lived will find it next to i'm
possible to destroy. y.-Golden Hours.
Year: 1878

A unique and thorough rascal has
lately been on trial in Brussels court.
His name is Eugene TKindt Roode'
becke, o young man who few years
ago started in life as clerk in the Bank
of Belgium. The crime he is charged
with is having embezzled or stolen nc
less than 81, ,600,00 He had not been
long in the bank before he found weak
spot in it's system. When securities
were deposited there no accurate note
was taken so as to enable them in each
case to be exactly identified with the
names OF the owners. It is related II
the Telegraph (Londop) that this young
man, with salary of $500 year, had
sole charge of these securities, amount
ing in value to many million pounds
sterling. When he wanted money, he
merely took scrip or any valuable secur
ity deposited in the bank. When de-
positor asked for the delivery OF scrip.
he blandly handed him scrip similar ir
kind and amount that had been deposit
ed by somebody else. As nobody took
note of the Numbers OF their shares, and
as the bank kept no record OF anything
but their amounts, nobody knew on
withdrawing his property that what ne
cot was not identical with what he had
lodged. One day tho bank was startled
by an eminent financier who complained
that 1858 shares of railroad stock be-
longing to bin, the numbers Of which
he had noted, had, without his knowl-
edge. been taken from the bank and de.
posted in another establishment OF
which he was director. But the young
clerk managed to recover the shares and
return them to the fnancier as If moth.
ing had been wrong in the transaction.
So we'll did he defend himself before the
directors and 80 artfully dwell on the
record of the bank, that instead of hav-
ing his accounts examined he was &C.
corded q vote OF thanks. But ne did
not deem it wise to remain in the bank,
and took fight, intending to come to
New York. At Liverpool he was cap.
tured with 81, 500, 900 of other peoples
money in his carpet bag. It never oc-
cnrred to his worthy chief, remarks the
Telegraph, as odd that a clerk with
$500 q year could live like lord and
enjoy life with tie prodigality OF a
prince: that he could have town house,
a rural villa, picture gallery, box at
the opera, racing stable, and all sorts
of expensive luxnries. Belgium is q q
cheap place to live in, and his chief
seems to have thought that his clerk had
a genius for thrift, aud could make the
income of a beggar goas far as the reve-
nue. of q king.
Year: 1878

CaSHiou kNoSVbs


Slate-colored blue is the new shade
for gloves, ribbons and silks.


New fans are painted with figures
only; flowers are out of style.


New walls are of black thread net, and
look as if they had been dipped in gold
dust.


Square silk tandkerchiefs are worn
around the neck outside the cloak this
winter.


Plain satin is in great demand for
dresses, and when used with striped
velvet is very handsome.


Velvet and silk are no longer combin-
ed in one costume satin is used with
the silk, and worsted material with
velvet.


The fashionable street glove is OF
brown undressed kid. Embroidery on
gloves is pronounced to be in bad taste.
Dogskin, which has long been in favor
in England, is gradually coming into
use here.


The newest slippers have one broad
strap crossing the instep and buttoning
on the outer side of the foot with one
button. Other slippers have duchesse
bows of ribbon which entirely cover the
instep.


Keys and snakes are just now the
favorite designs for jewelry it would be
rather hard to tell why. A fan chate.
laine is a snake which coils around the
waist, and being pliable, hangs down at
the side in very unpleasantly sugges:
tive twists while earrings in plain dull
gold represent look with the tiny key
of gold.


Amber is very fashionable. Amber
balls are used as earrings, or several cut
amber beads are strung together to form
pendent earrings. Out glass beads in
amber color are used to form network
to trim white evening bonnets, for orna-
ments in the shape of butterflies or
flowers to be used with pheasant breasts
on white bonnets.
Year: 1878

and all the family can club together,


and find rare fun in the making of it
Procure of thick undressed cam.
brio yard each of pink and gray. Gut
out the leaves for your book of the size
that you wish them to be, and work the
edges on three sides, in button hole
Year: 1878

Something worth noting has taken
place in the city of Baltimore. The
proper authorities have dismissed a mag
istrate from Office for ignorance of the
law. This was good thing for the
public; but if the rule is followed up, it
will prove disastrous to the fraternity
elsewhere.
Year: 1878

A S this l. the time of the year at which
n most persons subscribe for their Pa
pers and Magazines, l respectfully call
YOUR attention to the fact that you can get
any Paper or Magazine published, from
me at the PUBLISHER price. Don't send
your money away from your own town
when you can get just what you want and
at the same prices you have to pay else
where. Hoping you will favor me, and
thus encourage home institution, l am


Yours, &C.,


JAMES e. BARNHART.
January 8, 1873. u
Year: 1878

Now brethren dear long FAREWELL
Nav you in peace together dwell,
And when your pilgrimage is Ger,
May all reach the celestial shore.
But finish with a Temperance song,
Which you l hope will learn to sing,
That it may 10 remembrance bring
One by misfortune sorely struck
Your absent brother


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