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Year: 1878

New YORK, July pa Wilkes
barre letter in the New York Tribune
gives the conversation Of a gentleman
engaged in manufacturing business
in one of the northern counties of
Pennsylvania. He says the chances
are that we shall have much more
serious trouble within the next two
months than that which came upon us
so unexpectedly last summer. Prepar-
ations are being made for simultaneous
strike all over the country-on the
railroads, at the mines, and in many
of the largest manufacturing establish
ments. and nothing but the utmost
vigilance on the part Of the State au-
thorities, and such preparations as will
make it possible to crush out such
movement instantly, will prevent one
of the worst calamities that has ever
befallen this country.


The 18th Of June had been origi-
nally fixed for the strike. and the out
break would certainly heve taken place
then of soon after, but for the prepar-
ations made to preserve the peace by
Governor Hartranft. When he called
out the militia and made arrangements
to obtain uniforms and equipments for
them at Frankford arsenal, those who
were to have managed the strike called
a committee meeting in Philadelphia,
and voted to postpone the attack to the
ID of August, when it was hoped the
country might be taken by surprise.


A Chicago representative of ..th 2
strikers, on his way to New York,
stopped over at Hornellsvile, and said
to his friends: "They ought to take
the property of the rich, and they
ought especially to break open the
banks, take all the money and divide
it,"
Year: 1878




General Meyer, the head of the
Government Signal Service, gives an
explanation of the fatality of the heat
in St. Louis. 1t is simply this: The
city is situated upon lime rock and
densely built. The rock and the
blieks get heated and make the air
hot. Now in dry air the perspiration
from the skin will evaporate. But at
ST.. Louis the air is continually moist,
and therefore does not carry off the
surplus heat which comes as perspira-
ton from the body. Besides, hot,
damp air is very unhealthy to breathe.
Then, again, St. Louis is situated
where there is very Little wind to carry
away the fatal atmosphere.
Year: 1878

From time immemorial love has been
the theme of all novels, romances, and
many other writings. No matter how
the story might be otherwise arranged,
through all its endless combinations
there has run one thread-that of love /;
and almost always there has been one
consummation-that of marriage. Bow
Bells, itself-your peerless and beautiful
queens framed on this model, and its
every story has for its burden-1oVel


Now, why is it that this is ever the
theme; that It so interests; that it will
bear such endless repetition; that it
never tires; and this all through epic,
song, story, drama, and the romantic
tale? Is it because of the intrinsic no
bleness of the passion itself-is it from
ruling bias in our nature towards that
PASSIONS it because of the ascending
degree of the story, and its climax, as be-
ing writing of the most artistic kind
or is it because of the sensibility of fair
readers, especially, and that they are
made up in great degree of affection?
This were a most interesting analysis,
and the abundance of such writing and
reading makes it also a most important
one. l think its main points have here
been limited at; perhaps they all come
in play in their several degrees. 1t is
certain that this passion affords ground
for fine and skillful writing; that it ex-
cites the curiosity that it engages the
heart. Hence it has always lived hence
it always will live; for every such tale
gives little epitome of the life of man.


We then certainly cannot call such
writing unnatural. Nor need it, of ne
cessity, be dangerous. 1t is true that too
fiery and immoral writers may kindle
fame that may destroy, and taste that
will corrupt. 1t is no less true that the
imagination of the reader, his or her not
pnspotted heart, may taint and turn to
death the intense, yet pure and lofty
words of Milton, Keats, Swinburne, and
other masters of Loves language and of
love. Let writers consider, and take
heed how they write; and let readers
guard their hearts and their thoughts
when they read.


The passion itself, of love, when pure,
is most noble, and most worthy of the
highest descriptive art. This it is that is
the burden of Gods message to man of
His Book; of the visit of our Savior to |
the earth; of His ever blessed and glo-
rious Gospel. Here is Loves climax
here its intensest fame; here its deepest |
and its purest story here are none of |
its dangers, and all of its sweets. Touch |
ed by so pure fame, following so divine |
a light, no writer or no reader can 60 as
traV
Year: 1878

Quad Box" writes in the ADlericGa
Newspaper Reporter:


There are but few printers throughout
the country but what have seen or heard
of George Washington Matchett, proba-
bly, the oldest tramp printer on the road.
He says he has tramped across the contl-
nent seven times, and has visited almost
every printing Office in the union. The
following is a story related by him on
his last trip through this place;


He was on one of his long walks, and
had got as far west as Kansas, and had
found little work during his journey ;
but one day he struck small town with
one printing Office in it. He went up to
the Office, and found the editor scratch
ing away with his pen, and the "devil'
seated upon a stool. He asked the editor
how work was, and what was the chance
for a "sit," and upon being told that he
might have job for few days, and that
he could go to work at once, he asked
where he could find the type and cases,
and was told that the type was up stairs
in a sack, and that he would have to
chalk his case out on the floor. He went
to work and marked out his case and laid
the type. He worked all that week, and
when Saturday night came he went to
the boss for his money, whereupon the
latter went up stairs and threw down two
coon skins, and explained to g, W, that
thew were currency in that country.
George had TO make the best Of Il 30 he
threw the coon skins over his shoulder
and started down town to store. he
got some tobacco, paper OF pins, and
Some thread, and threw down q coon
skin to pay for it. The storekeeper took
tbe coon skin and handed him back two
souirrel skins and one opossum skin in
change. 90,


and after taking up collection, departed
on his weary way.
Year: 1878

The Chinese probably illustrate In the


most extreme manner the length to


which loose views concerning currency


can be carried. The history of their cur


rency presents that mingling of the gro


tesque with the tragic which most of
their actions have when viewed through


Western eyes. Coin money was known
among them as early as the eleventh
century before Christ, but their inability
to comprehend the principles upon which
a currency should be based, has led them
into all sorts of eXtravagances, which
have been attended with disorder, fam
inc and blOOdshed. Coins came at last
to be made so thin that 1000 of them
piled together were only three inches
high then gold and silver were aban-
doned; and copper, tin, shells, skins,
stones and paper were given a fixed val
ne, and used until, by abuse, all the ad-
vantages to be derived from the use Of
money were lost and there was nothing
left for the people to do but to 60 back
to barter, which they did more than
once. They cannot be said now to have
a coinage; 2,90O years ago they made
round coins with a square hole in the
middle, and they have made no advance
beyond that yet. The well known cash
is cast-brass coin of that description,
and, although it is valued at about one
mill and half Of our money, and has to
be strung in lots of thousand to be COM
puted with any ease, it is the sole mea-
sure of value and legal tender of the
country. Spanish, Mexican, and our new
trade dollars, are employed in China
they pass because they are necessary for
larger operations, and because faith in
their standard value has become estab-
Hshed; but they are current simply as
ingots, with their weight and
fneness indicated
Year: 1878

The greyhound runs by eyesight only.


and this we observe as a fact. The car


rier-pigeon flies his two hundred and


fifty miles homeward by eyesight-name-


Iv. from point to point of objects which


he has marked; but this is only our con-


lecture. The fierce dragon-f1y, with


twelve thousand lenses in his eye, darts


from angle to angle with the rapidity of
a flashing sword, and as rapidly darts


back, not turning in the air, but with
clash reversing the action of his four
wings, and instantaneously calculating
the distance of the objects, or he would
dash himself to pieces. But in what con-
formation of the eye does this consist
No one can answer.


A cloud of ten thousand gnats dance
up and down in the sun, the minutest
interval between them, yet no one
knocks another headlong upon the grass,
or breaks leg or a wing, long and deli
cate as these are. Suddenly, amidst your
admiration of this matchless dance, pc
culiarlv high-shouldeTed, vicious gnat,
with long, pendant nose, darts out of the
rising and falling cloud, and settling on
your cheek, inserts a poisonous sting.
What possessed the little wretch to do
this? Did he smell your blood in the
may dance? No one knows.


A carriage comes suddenly upon flock
of geese on a narrow road, and drives
straight through the middle of them. A
goose was never yet fairly run over, nor
a duck They are under the very wheels
and hoofs, and yet somehow they con-
trive to flap and waddle safely off. Ha-
bitually stupid, heavy and indolent, they
are nevertheless equal to any emergency.


Why does the lonely woodpecker,
when he descends his tree and goes to
drink, stop several times on his way, lis
ten and look round, before he takes his
draught? No one knows. How is it
that the species of ant, which is taken In
battle by other ants to be made slaves,
should be black, or negro ant? No one
knows.


The power of judging of actual danger,
and the free and easy boldness which re-
suits from it, are by no means uncom-
mon. Many birds seem to have a most
correct notion of guns range, and while
scrupulously careful to keep beyond it,
confine their care to this caution, though
the most obvious resource would be to
fly right away out of sight, and hearing,
which they do not choose to do. And
they sometimes appear to make even an
use of their power, fairly
putting their wit and cleyerness in an
tagonism to that of man, for the benefit
of their fellows. We lately read an ac-
count, by a naturalist in Brazil, of an ex-
pedition he made to one of the islands
of the Amazon to shoot spoon-bills, ibis
es, and other of the magnificent gralla-
torial birds, which were most abundant
there. His design was completely baf-
fed, however, by wretched little sand
piper that preceded him, continually ut
tering his tell-tale cry, which at once
aroused all the birds within hearing.
Throughoutthe day did this individual
bird continue his self-imposed duty of
sentinel to others, effectually preventing
the approach of the fowler to the game,
and yet managing to keep out Ofthe
range of his gun.
Year: 1878

81 dove once in Mobile bay, where 1
put over three hundred chains under an
iron-clad. The greatest annoyance we
had there was sharks. They didn't hard
" dare tackle us, because with our armor
we looked more like scarecrows than
anything else. They would come sailing
along, and gradually swim towards us
with their great big mouths wide open,
but when within a few feet of us they
would stop and lay there fappin' their
fins and looking, it seemed to me, like
the very devil himself. Finally we de-
vised way to scare them off that never
failed to frighten them so that they
would stay away an hour or longer before
they dare to come back. The armor that
we wear is air-tight, you know. Our
Jacket sleeves were fastened around our
wrists with an elastic, so that the air
could not escape. By running my finger
under the sleeve of my jaeketll could let
the air out, and as it rushed into the
water it would make a sort of kissing
noise and a volume of bubbles shoot up.
so whenever those Internal sharks would
come prowling around me, would hold
out my arm toward them and, putting
my finger under the elastic of my jacket
sleeve, 1 would let lot of air out and
send q stream of bubbles into the. sharks
face with a kissing noise Ike steam from
a pJ1age-cock. The way that those sharks
would GO scooting off was funny to be-
hold
Year: 1878

Ladies, before marrying, had best de-
stroy all old love-letters.


The world is all uphill when we would
do, all doWn-hill when we suffer.


How many an enamored pair have
courted in poetry and lived in prosel


Infancy is lovable, Notwithstanding
tretulness and the whOOping-cough.


AFFECTED lover sometimes escapes a
great disappointment by means of small
one.


A pin has as much head as a good
many authors, and a great deal more
point.


Ingratitude is so deadly a poison that
it destroys the very bosom in which it is
harbored.


Riches are given to make life pass COM
fortably; but life is not given only to
amass riches.
Profusion restores to the public the
wealth which aYarice has detained from
it for time.


Envy is fixed only on merit, and, like
a sore eye, is offended with everything
that is bright.


Few men are driven to desperation,
without having had themselves a hand
in the driving.


The discovery Of what is true, and the
practice of what is good, are the two
most impor Mt objects of life.


1t is generally true that we Judge too
bitterly and harshly the faults Of every
Office which we do not ourselves hold.
A young girl generally loses her fresh
ness by mingling with fashionable socie-
ty, as bright stream does by mingling
with the sea.


A hypocrite may spin so fair a thread
as to deceive his own eye. He may ad-
mire the cobweb, and not know himself
to be the spider.


The single effort by which we stop
short in the downward path to perdition
is itself greater exertion of virtue than
a hundred acts of justice.


1t is a great blunder, in the pursuit Of
happiness, not to know when we have
got it; that is, not to be content with a
reasonable and possible measure of it.


The influence of men is not to be con-
fined to the circle of their acquaintance.
1t spreads on every side of them, like the
undulations of the smitten water, and
will reach those whom they never saw.


Of little human flowers, Death gathers
many. He places them upon his bosom,
and he is transformed into something
less terrific than before. We learn to
gaze and shudder not, for he carries In
his arms the sweet blossoms Of our earth.
ly hopes.
Year: 1878

The prime minister of the kingdom of
Sung consulted Mencius, and told him
that being convinced of the oppressive
character of tax that bore heavily upon
the people, he thought he should dimin-
ish it, and at the end of the year abolish
it altogether. Mencius answered, There
was man who was accustomed to steal
every day the poultry of his neighbors,
and was reproached for his dishonesty.
WELL he answered, 4 will amend little
by little. I will only steal one fowl a
month for a year to come, and then l
will abstain altogether No. said Men
cius, no, when you know that what you
do is unjust, cease at once to do it. Why
wait year?"


Men talk idly about empire, nation,
family. The foundation of the empire is
in the nation, of the nation in the fami-
ly, of the family in the individual in
fine, government is founded On the peO-
pie, the people on the family, the family
on its chief.


Win the people, and the empire is
won; win their hearts and their atfec-
tons, and you win the people; you win
their hearts by meeting their wishes, by
providing for their wants, and imposing
upon them nothing that they detest.


As the fish hurries away from the OF
ter to the protection of the deep waters
as the little bird flies to the thick for
est from the hawk-so do subjects fly
from wicked kings.


You cannot reason with the passionate
you cannot act with the feeble or the
capricious.
Year: 1878

Has anybody ever written upon the
responsibility which rests upon hus-
band with regard to the education Of his
wife? -? Of course We know what you viii
say about her being supposed to have


finished her education" before marriage,
and all that; and yet you and we know
that she begins as new an education with
him as if she had never seen the alpha
bet. His views, his feelings, his ideas,
are they nothing to her if she loves him2
Years after, when they who "kneW her
as a girl" come to talk with the matron,
do they not find her husband reflected
in every sentence either for good or eYlIf
Of course, the more strongly 8 woman
loves, the more completely is her own
identity absorbed in her husbands; ms
is a point which is too much neglected
by married men. A good husband IS
almost certain to have a good wife and
if she be "not so good as he could wish
at the commencement of their married
life. he can soon educate her up to the
proper mark; and, on the other hand,
he can so educate her down as to render
his home a purgatory, and perhaps bring
upon. himself and his family the greatest
agony and keenest pangs OF disgrace
which a husband and children can feel,
Year: 1878

A CURE FOR CAKED UDDERs.-A cores
pondent writes from Canada that when,
as is often the case, one Of the cows
teats becomes hard and difficult to milk
it may be cured as follows: Take pint
basin, put into it a small handful of corn
meal, add to it a teacup of hot water.
Stir it until it is cool enough for you to
hold your hand in; then bathe the teats
by dipping them into the dish until the
inflammation is out of them; milk gently,
for the udders are tender, and put a lit
tie lard or inseed oil on the udder after
milking. think trial of a few days
will convince the most skeptical. Battle
the bunch with it, and, in addition, bathe
with beef brine twice day, and give lib
eral doses of garget and saltpeter. This
is the best remedy for swollen bag after
the COW comes in that I know of.
Year: 1878

When bent on matrimony, look more
than skin deep for beauty, dive further
than the pocket for worth, and search for
temper beyond good humor for the mo-
ment, remembering it is not always the
most agreeable partner at a ball who
forms the most smiable partner for life.
Virtue, like some flowers, bloom often
alrest in the shade.
Year: 1878

At mandatory in Harrisburg, Pa7
recently, William Murphy was engaged
in tightening belt when his sleeves
caught in the shafting. He was carried
upward against arapidly revolving pully,
but braced himself so as not to be car
ried through the machinery, and beinga
powerful man, he stood the strain until
his right arm was torn off above the
elbow, which released him and he fell to
the floor. The stump of the arm Was
afterward amputated.
Year: 1878

Farmers OF Van Buren County will take no
tsce that the Old, Reliable. and Rver Ready
fhosntz Mills has been lately thuruughly over
nauisd aud repaired, and by the addition of
Sepa<ators, Purifiers and other improvements.
10 now prepared to do all kinds OF Custom and
Merchant Milling on short notice and in first
class style and guarantee good satisfaction.
remember our motto Forty Pounds of
A No. Flour to the Bushel."


Our facilities for grinding coarse grains are
complete, and as we have Power Corn Shelter
70 shell your corn Free OF Charge, we would be
glad to have you bring along your grain and
give US trial, and we think you will be con,
vinced that We can give you larger and better
yield OF Hour than any mill in the county.


Then come along. come right along.


At what they say don't be alarmed,


For when you see the yield of Flour


We know You cannot help be charmed.


For every one will get the same


When with good grain his bags he fills;


They never will keep the grist tor toll
116itf MYRON WELLS.


Paw Paw. June 20. 1877.
Year: 1878

Duncan's Liver and Kidney Medicine is
cure for all diseases having their origin in a
diseased state of the Kidney, or Liver, such as
sick headache, dyspepsia, swimming in the
head, loss of appetite, bad taste in the mouth,
heartburn, tenderness or fullness over the
region of the stomach, cramp collie, costive-
ness, palpitation of the heart, pain in the
back, sides and limbs, and all diseases pecu-
liar to females We can say to our friends
that the above medicine is just what it is rep
resented to be- and is pronounced by every
one who has used it, far superior to any Liver
Medicine they have ever used. We know that
it gives better satisfaction than any we have
ever sold. Knowing it to be purly vegetable,
we can recommend it to suffering friends.
Price IS cents For sale by NJ. F. Ash, Jack
son, Miss.
Year: 1878

NOClCeS Of the Press:


This vete. Magazine, which long ago out
grew its original title of the NeW Monthly
Na9dzi has not in the least abated The popu-
larity it won at the outset, but has added to it
in many ways, and has kept fairly abreast of
the times, thanks to the enterprise of The pub
fishers and the tact and wisdom of its editors.
For whatever is best and most readable in the
literature of travel, discovery and fiction, the
average reader of to-day looks TO Harper's
Magazine, just as expectantly as did the read
er of quarter of a century ago; there is the
same admirable variety of contents and the
same freshness and suggestiveness in it's edi-
torial departments now as then.-Boston Jour
nal.
Year: 1878

M. RonEN occupied second-story
of house on the Boulevard des Capu-
cines; on the first story lady, before
going to church, put her vase of gold
fish on the balcony TO enjoy the sun;
Romien took line, caught all the
fish, fried them beautifully, covered
them with parsley, placed them on
a sheet of paper, and let them down
on the balcony with the note: Com
sequence of being exposed to the sun"
Year: 1878

Capt. Merryman, of the Revenue Ma
rine Service, having been ordered by
the Secretary of the Treasury to inyesti-
gate the wreck of the Metropolis, re-
ports that fragments of the wreck are
unusually small, and her rottenness is
so apparent that there was but one
opinion as to her unseaworthiness.
Year: 1878

At Iron Hill, in New Castle county
near Newark, an old man named God
freid Harkenstein and his wife, kept a
groggery and grocery store which was
much frequented bv the miners and rough
classes of that community. On Satur-
day night two men. disguised by means
OF handkerchiefs tied around their faces,
forcibly entered the house, and nearly
beat the old man and his wife to death,
LII the assault they evidently used black
jacks or some heavy instrument, as both
the unfortunate people were terribly cut
and bruised about the head and face.
The burglars commenced TO plunder the
house, but had only secured gold watch
belonging to the old couples daughter,
when they were frightdned off by the
timely arrival OF young man living in
the neighborhood.


The alarm was promptly given and
The affrighted people of the vicinity hsr-
rled TO The assistance of the unfortunate
victims OF the burglars yilliany. DR..
Mitchell, of Elkton, was summoned, and
attended TO the injuries of the old people
which he pronounced of very serious
nature.


The motive of this grave outrage was
undoubtedly desire for gain as
Harkenstein had the reputation among
the frequenters Of his store of being
being worth considerable money. Con-
stable Whlteman, of White Clay Gre.
Hundred, at once started to work up the
case, but thus far no clue to the mur-
derous assailants had been obtained.


Late last night Harkenstein and his
wife were still living, but their condition
is very precarious, and their recovery is
scarcely expected. The town of Newark
and the surrounding neighborhood is
greatly excited over the affair and every
exertion will be made to bring the bur-
glars to justice.
Year: 1878

Golden Medical Discovery
Is alternative, or blood-cleansing.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Pectoral.
Golden Medical Discovery
Is Cholagogue, or Liver Stimulant
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Tonic.
Golden Medical Discovery
Year: 1878

Postot1ice Department Is wholly careless
and deaf to complaints, and subscribers will
have to be satisfied In getting papers of the
sixth on the eighth, and Of the fifth on the
ninth, and feel thankful for having received
LhniI nnllNiR ut all