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Year: 1879




The peculiarly about the fashions Of
to- days, says the New York Herald, is
that they may be made either very costly
or economical. The fine soft wooden
fabrics are no less desirable than the
richest silk and satin. In fact. they
are much more in demand by those who
wish to realize snre conceptions. The
best dressing is not that which costs
the most, but that which is most effec-
tive and best suited to the age, means
and requirments of the wearer. It Is
difficult to make inexperienced persons
believe that the deep Spanish lace coils
lars, for example, have not superseded
the plated ruffie, and the narrow rim of
linen at the throat. All neat, unob-
trusive styles are retained in street
wear, and whatever can lend charm or
add to the picturesque effect, is pressed
into the service of those who can afford
to make themselves beautiful at home.


NEW MODELS.


The polonaise is by no means dis
carded; on the contrary, it is more un-
iversally used than ever as part of the
ordinary every day attire. The adop.
ton of the short dress has somewhat
interfered with its popularity for the
street, but IN sthe present graceful de
signs is considered particularly desirable
rs pant of the indoor dress, as one pol
onaise of good design enables lady to
wear out her old demi-trained skirts
which otherwise she could not employ
to advantage.


The "Remira" furnishes a fine ex-
ample of style in mastic colored wool,
with speckle of darker shade, encircled
with an embroidery in crewels. and
bordered with fringe combining the
different colors.


The basque and overskirt are still in
favor, and one of the very prettiest de-
signs for soft and diaphanous materials
is the ''Eslana.' For evening dresses
in tar)atan game, gasoline or black net
it is particularly adapted. Tho "Ma-
dina" basque, worn with this oversklrt,
is novel method and very pretty, yet
perfectly simple. The collar which
forms long. pointed plastron is very
effective.


A magnificent bridal dress is in the
"Adrienne" princess style; the dress of
white satin and the revers, sashes, col
lar and sleeve trimming OF brocade
Plaitings of satin are used to trim the
edges of the revers and the bottom of
the skirt, and are disposed encascade
up the middle of the back and sur
mounted by a bow of satin ribbon. A
garland of Christmas roses and orange
blossoms commences at the right side
of the waist and is carried across the
revers on the left side and finished at
the middle of the back. A bunch of
similar flowers is to be worn at front OF
the waist, and wreath to match fastens
the long tulle veil on the head.


The Minerva" princess dress is exs
ceedingly graceful and very distingue
in effect 1t is tight fitting, with a
basque in front over a skirt having a
draped apron, and the side ornamented
with panel" trimming, and the back
strictly IN prinesss style, and falling in
long square train. The design is
appropriate for dressy fabrics. and is
very desirable for combination of col-
ors or materials.
Year: 1879

GENERAL BEAUREaARD, the hero of
the first battle Of Manassas, and proba-
bly, as we'll educated and skilled In the
science of war as any soldier in the
South, makes novel suggestion, that
is that hereafter, at period not far
distant in the future all battles will be
fought at night. He suggests the
clothing of sol'iiers in coats the backs
of which will be SO prepared ss to give
out q phosroreoent light so that while
troops so clothed are advancing they
may see each other readily, and be yet
not seen by ths enemy.
Year: 1879

There is no greater fsllacy than the
opinion Of many. particularly tho young
and strong and vigorous, that winter
especially sharp, frosty one, with
plenty of snow-is the most healthy
season of the year. Very few persons
seems to realize the fact that cold is the
condition Of death, and that in both
warm and cold climates it is our un-
conscious effort to MAINTAIN our bodily
heat at temperature of 9S deg. that
wears ont. To this temperature, called
blood heat, every cubic inch of oxy
gen that serves to vitalise our blood
must be raised by our own bodily heat,
or life ceases. Since in cold weather
the maintenance of a sufficiently ele.
waited bodily temperature becomes very
often too great for our strength, the
advent of q severe winter is really NOR. .
to be dreaded than the visitation of a
pestilence. The saying, "Heat is life
cold is DEATH" has a striking illus
tration and conformation in the reports
now regularly submitted by DIR. Russell
to the Glasgow Sanitary Committee.
The death rate rises and falls with the
regularity of the thermometer. SO
many degrees less heat. 50 many more
deaths and vice versa. In one of his
fort nightly reports, DIR. Russell says:
1.-The death>rate in the first week of
the fort>aight was twerty%one, and
in the second week twenty five.
The mean temperature in the former
week was 40 deg Faherenheit, in lat.
ter 80 deg" He attributes the low
rate. of the first week to the high mean
temperature of the proceeding fort
night, which was 47.03 deg.,- and adds:


This is good illustration of a law
which We frequently observes to these
reports of temperature produces a rise
in mortality the week following" In
our climate it wonld probably be diff
cult to find a more frequent cause OF
serious ailments than taking cold.
Whatever weak place we have, whatever
constitutional disorder we be subject to
cold will surely discover. We take cold,
because our vitality is too low to ward
off the effects of the reduced tempera


ture around us. As q matter of first
Importance, then to resist cold and the
various arrangements of the system
consequent, it is necessary by proper
nutrition to MAINTAIN our natural animal
heat; second to retain this heat by a
sufficient quantity of clothing; third, 70
regulate with care the temperature of
the air we breathe. Contrary to the opin


ion current among lovers of cold wealth =
er, fire in bed room in the winter is
cheaper and better than doctors bill;
for owing to our inactive condition dur
ing sleep the circulation of the vitalizipg
blood is both slow and imperfect, and
hence the danger of taking cold air is
greatly increased. A cold is the begin


ing of everything that is bad: If any
one.conscious of having caught one feels
cold chills creeping up the back, let him
apply mustard>plaster to the bottom of
the spine and lower part OF the back at
once; and by 80 doing he may avert a
dangerous illness before it is too late
and medical advice can be procured.
1t should never be forgotten that "heat
is life-cold is DEATH"
Year: 1879

Some people were speaking the other


day of the regularity with which Mrs
Senator Gordon attends the sessions OF
the Senate, and the keen interest with


which she watches the debates. One
of the party said that she is so devoted
to her husband that she always goes
with him every where. During the
war she took her two little boys, one ais
most baby, and lived with her hus-
band in camp. followed him into battle,
in fact, sharing all the danger with
him. She had an ambulance at her
service, and it was in that she used to
follow him. When he was so serinuoly
wounded, she had her ambulance div
en- riRht;into the battle field and had him
pulled out from among the dead and
wounded and placed in the ambulance,
and drove eff with him. All of this was
done under heavy fire, and the cover
of the ambulance was pierced with bull
let holes. Some one SAID to her: "How
could you have the nerve to do it?"
"Who," replied Mrs. Gordon, II did
not think any more of it than l should
of pulling one of my boys out OF tbs
fire If he had fallen in"
Year: 1879

THE China Conference OF the South
ern Methodist Church report gain of
thirty-three per cent. in membership,
at its session in Shanghai in October.
The missionary money contributed was
more than one dollar per member.
Year: 1879

AN association has been formed in
Philadelphia for the purpose of estab>
fishing Home for all disabled clergy
man of the Church in the common
wealth of Pennsylvania unable to sup-
port themselves.
Year: 1879

ses<f IIulduAby


Js there any one who will defend the
practice Of profane swearing? Who
thinks it an accomplishment? ADd yet
but few 7ices are so general. and 30 sel~
dom rebuked. Boys think it brave, and
young men regard it as an expression OF
their Independence, and older men find
the habit fixed upon them, and hard to
overcome. Thus the class of profane
swearers is years by years multiplied.
If there were any solid comfort or
amusement in it, we should not wonder
so much at the habit; but who says
there is? What intelligent man finds
amusement in listening to conversatIon
loaded down with oaths? Who thinks 1t
makes the language stronger Ill
in expression? Afe you, Intelligent
reader, any less likely to be impressed
with the correctness or earnestnefs OF
the answer, 81 do not know" il the
man says Damned if l know?' And
yet you walk the streets, you encounter
men in their trade, boys in their teens.
young men in their prime, and old men
with gray heads, all alike addicted to
this senseless as we'll as wicked habit.
But we are assured that most men are
ashamed of the habit, and regard it as
ungentl4manly from the fact that they
atternrt to rafrain from it in the parlor,
and in the presence Of mother, wife and
daughter. If it were an accomplish
ment,Sand made the language stronger,
and added to the expression, certainly
the profane man should be anxious to
teach his wife and daughters these
choice terms. Show us the man who
will do it, and We Tlil show you one
whom the devil bonors above all his
fellows. Profanity, any form you may
take it, is most unnatural vice, and
pays the poorest of any on the long
list. The man who is addicted to it,


without regard to any other considera-
tion than that of being a gentleman,
might well afford to correct the habit.


When morality and religion are at all
considered, in addition, the obligation
is imperative.
Year: 1879

THE scheme to consolidate all the
surveys under the coast survey and
then transfer that from the naval to
the interior department, is said to be
a huge job. The National academy Of
science is at the bottom of it, and some
of its members desire to fill the places
bow occupied by Lieut.. Wheeler and
Prof. Hayden. Western congressman
will almost solidly oppose this snide
scheme
Year: 1879

of the Missouri river to any place in
Nevada until after the same has been
carried to the terminus Of the road in
California and brought back to the
place Of delivery, exacting regular rates
for unnecessary transportation. The
Central Pacific road, according to the
memorial, also declines to sell tickets
to travellers covering the distance in
tended to be travelled. A traveller
going from Nevada to any point east
of the Missouri river, is compelled to
pay the same fare as if he started from
San Francisco.
Year: 1879

We would most respectfully return
our thanks to our friends and the citi
zens of Wilmington IN general for the
very liberal share of patronage they
have favored us with, our special sale
of stock having exceeded our greatest
expectations. There, however, still
remains moro to be sold yet, as we
have decided to close out At still great
er reduced prices to make room for the
large stock of fall and winter goods
which we are about putting in our store.
We would rather give these bargains
at home than to dealers in the far west
and south, and by manufacturing our
own goods we are enabled to place them
in the markets for much less than store
keepers who have to pay full manufac-
turers prices, (with freight added) and
then put on large living profit, all Of
which the people who buy from them
have to pay. Just think of this and
see If 1t is not reasonable that we are
able to sell cheaper than small retail
stores. We would be pleased to have
you call and examine the low prices fon
good goods before purchasing elsew here,
and you cannot fail to be convinced
Remember the place, the Palace Boot
and Shoe Store, No. 3O2 Market street,
next door to Telegraph Office.
Year: 1879

No use of having the chills, no use OF
headache ,or any of the ills that come from
a disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn ease-will
relieve the systeu and make you feel like
neg ptfson. Try it and be satisfied.
Year: 1879

1t was this: Trust in God and keep
your bowels open" For this purpose
many an old doctor has advised the habit
ually costive to take kidney-W ort-for no
other remedy so effectually overcomes this
condition, and that without the distress
and gripping which other medicines cause.
It is radical cure for piles.
Year: 1879

causes dyspepsia, and poor teeth produce
sour stomach because the food is not prop
erly masticated. Keep the teeth healthy,
and the body at large will be in trim. Use
SOZODONT regularly, for it is pleasant
and heathful. Once in the house it stays
there.
Year: 1879

ISN'T it little strange that when Senator
CHANDLER asserted that there were twelve
Senators on the other side who held their
seats by violence and fraud Senator EATON,
of Connecticut, was the first man to run his
head against the Senator's club?
Year: 1879

THERE is q difference between fencing
and hedging. Secretary SHERMAN never
was much when it came to hedging, but he
is an expert in the aforementioned line of
business. And when he builds II fence it is
of the sharp-pointed picket kind, one that
THURMAN and men of his ilk will find very
uncomfortable to straddle.
Year: 1879

GENERAL LIE DUO is to be investigated.
General LIE FEvRE has said it, and it is
greatly, Sc. But it would have been more
to the credit Of LIE D. if he had asked for
the investigation himself instead of waiting
till LIE F. forced it upon him. The press
latterly has been full of complaints against
his administration of the Agricultural De-
partment, from which he should have
sought or demanded vndication.
Year: 1879

THs sincerity of the Democrats in regard
TO having military at the polls during Fed
eral elections-a thing scarcely known to
history--has been thoroughly tested pend
ing the bill passed by the Senate on Satur-
day, and as thoroughly exploded. When
asked to accept an amendment which would
prohibit the approach Of armed men of any
description within two miles of any polling
place, it was scorned by the Democrats for
the reason that ii would bar out riAe-clubs
and armed banditti, who do the intimidat-
ing down South They desire to expel the
army when it is not in use for such pur-
poses, and refuse to expel armed citizens
who interfere with the elections and shape
their results by menacing force, because
that is n Democratic habit This IS Demo-
cratic sincerity and consistency
Year: 1879

The Reno New Gasette makes the fol
lowing report During the high wind which
prevailed the other day j. NJ. Cutter started
out with half gallon of whskey for his
sick mother, who lives in Virginia street.
he was found some hours afterward lying
behind fence on hill, in an inarticulate
condition. Later in the day he recovered
sufficiently to explain the catastrophe which
had overtaken him. He said that he stopped
around the corner TO fixa cork in the jugrand
while he was taking the measure OF the orr


fee a tremendous zephyr came upon him


1t sucked the liduor out Of the jug, blew il
down his throat, and turned the jug inside
out. He could remember nothing more o


the occurrence. No traces Of any jug oi
liquor were noticed where Cutter was picked
up, which proves that his story is veraeious
Year: 1879

initiating to hear the plea of insolven
cy put in for great State, and the
benefits Of che bankrupt law demand
ed.


l am not now, nor have | ever been
the holder of one of these bonds, nor
do [ know in whose hands they are. l
have no interest except as a citizen
who loves his State, and glories in its
honor and high standing both at home
aud abroad. The record of my public
life is made up, whatever it may be,
and | have no inducement to court
popular favor, as an aid to future as
pirati0ns, by any course I may take
on this or any other question. But if
any considerations I have presented
should contribute in the least to the
success of this measure which is SO big
with Importance to the well being and
future greatness of the glorious State
which has honored me above my de-
serts in the past, [ shall feel that l
have done some service to my coun-
try. God grant that the people may
be wise and decide this all important
question in that way which will save
the honor of the State and result in
the greatest good to the present and
future generations.


ROBERT L. CARUTHERs.
Year: 1879

is abused. By this railroads and fac
tories and the capital even of States
are built, commerce stimulated, agri-
culture promoted, and the poor man
has a chance to become rich. With
out it all their interest must languish,
and none but the rich can prosper
All wise Governments protect their
credit at any price, no matter what
else may suffer. Without it wars, even
of defense, could not be maintained.
The credit and good faith of q State or
nation should be guarded as the apple
of the eye.


If it be true, as alleged, that the
obligations against us are tainted with
fraud, or issued without compliance
with the conditions imposed by the
statute authorizing them, it is required
by the plainest principles Of equity
and justice that if they conld be
avoided and set aside on that ground,
the State would be required to refund
the money received upon them. This
is on the principle that he who seeks
equity will be required to do equity.
Then if the argument is correct that
the bonds are not binding upon the
State for want of power or fraud in
their issuance, we would still be bound
to refund the millions received upon
them, with interest. This is both the
law and justice en- the subject.


So there is no aspect in which the
cause can be presented that will relieve
US from the obligations to pay the
debt we owe. According to the rules
Of law and equity, we owe it all, but a
chance of honorable relief is now pre-
sented by paying one-half, in 30 years,
at low interest. Who can hesitate
on such question But it is said we
are too poor and not able to pay it
0, "tell it not in Gath, nor publish 1t
in the streets of Askalon," that the
people Of Tennessee are not able to
pay 24,000.000 of dollars. 1t is hui
Year: 1879

A remarkable statement has been made to the New York Legislature Banking Committee by James Mclean, one of the trustees of the Manhattan Association for Savings of New York City, which was robbed of large amount of funds. After detailing some of the circumstances of the robbery of the bank he stated that the bank officials had been approached by lawyers "of prominence and respectable standing" in New York City, who assumed to rep resent the robbers and who offered to return the stolen securities for 8 reward named by them. The amount demanded was so large that the bank officers re- fused to epter into the negotiation. He did not name "the lawyers of respectable standing" who represented the robbers, but admitted that it was we'll known to the members of tho Bar of New York who are the legal gentle men who act as the agents of thieves, it having become an extensive business.
Year: 1879

"I thought you would come this morning, ma'am. Yes, Edith at last has gone; To-morrow's a week, aye, just as the sun right into her window shone; Went with the night, the Vicar says, where endeth never the day; But she's left darkness behind her here wish she had taken away. She Is no longer with us, but we seem te be always with her, In the lonely bed where we laid her last, and can't get her to speak or stir. "Yes, I'm at work; 'tis time was. should have begun before; But thls is the room where she lay SO still, ere they carried her past the door. I thought never could let her go where it seems so lonely of nights; But now am scSubbing and dusting down, and setting the place to rights. All have kept are the flowers there, the last that stood by her bed. suppose must throw them away. Shelooked much fairer when she was dead. Thank you, for thinking of her 20 much. Kind thought is the truest friend. wish you had seen how pleased she was with the peaches you used to send. She tired of then, too ere the end, so she did with all we tried; But she liked to look at them all the same, so we set them down by her side. TLeir bloom and the flush upon her cheek were alike, used to say; Both were so smooth and soft, and round, and both have faded away. She never wished to be smart and rich, as so many in these days do, Nor cared to go in on market-days to stare at the gay and new. She liked to remain at home and pluck the white violets down in the wood She said to her sisters before she died, 'TIs so easy to be good She must have found it go, think, and that was the reason why God deemed it needless to leave her here, so took her up to the sky. The Vicar says that he knows ahe Is there, and surely she ought to be; But though I repeat the words, tis hard to believe what one does not see. They did not want me to go to the grave. but could not have kept away, And whatever do can only see coffin and churchyard clay Yes, know it's wrong to keep lingering there, and wicked and weak to fret And that's why I'm hard at work again, for 1t helps one to forget. The young ones don't seem to take to work as their mothers and fathers did. We never were asked we liked or no, but had to obey when bid. There's Bessie won't swill the dairy now, nor Richard call home the COWS, And all of them cry, How cdn you, mother i? when I carry the wash to the sows. Edith would drudge, for always Death the hearth of the helpfulest robs. Bus she was so pretty could not bear to sci her on dirty jobs! "I don't know how it'll be with them when sorrow and loss are theirs, For it isn't likely that they'll escape their pack of worrits and cares. They say it's an age of progress this, and 6 sight of things improves, But sickness, and age, and bereavement seen to work in the same old grooves, Fine they may grow, and that, but Death as lief take the moth as the grub. When their lear ones die, suspect they'r

 wish they'd floor of their own to scrub
Year: 1879

LEGAL TENDER. the papers of the Nebraska State Grange produced in recent lawsuit was resolution ap- pointing committee to urge the Legis- lature to pass an aot to regulate the price of country produce for period ot five years and to make it lsgal tender,
Year: 1879

The Roman Catholics are to bc COM
mended for the efforts they are max
ing to suppress useless extravaganza
at funerals. A year ago the Bishop Of
New Jersey issued some instructions
for the regulation Of funerals, and alb
solutely forbade the Use Of more than
l2 carriages. On a recent Sunday the
doors Of the cathedral in Jersey City
were closed against q cortege Of 40
carriages, and remained closed until
the number had been reduced to the
prescribed limit. Within the last
year several other ecclesiastical bodies
have put on record their disapproval
of costly displays on such occasions,
and it Is to be hoped that some prac-
tical results may follow this general
expression Of opinion. The evil is
wide. spread and real, and is often an
unhappy satire on the monrne's them
selves. The fortunate man who has
found rest from his troubles and is
followed by a troupe Of sorrowing
friends might have put off the day OF
his death had little Of the money de-
voted to his ol,sequies been used for
his benefit while he was yet in tho
body. A Chinaman will die happy If
he has the assurance Of a costly fnDer-
al, but to most Christians it is very
unsatisfactory reward for the trials OF
life. II is no tribute to the character
Of the dead to Cypress and harass the
survivors for useless demonstrations
Of grief, and if people arc able to
spend money for this sort Of display
it is better to help the living gman with
| it rather than make his funeral i'm
posing with unhceded evidences Of
atflnent woe Christian Union.