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Year: 1877

The "sick man" isn't so sick as he has
been. The way he went for "bear" meat
north Of the Balkans shows reviving
strength alike startling to Russia and
wonderful to the world The Car is
now trying to "physic" him again in
hopes to regain tic upper hand. "such
are the fortunes OF war.
Year: 1877

The OregOHian safely says; "It affords
cause of regret to observe that in times
of emergency most OF the military talent
OF the country is unavailable Tor actual
service in the field. 1t is now employed
in the arduous duty of criticising Gene.
raj Howard and his officers for their
management Of the Indian war"
Year: 1877

With sorrow we learn that join


Keefe, whom many of our readers will


remember as having been elected


Supervisor from Glencoe township, last


Spring, was found dead upon the plains,


about five miles from OBrien's camp,


north of here, about two week ago.


The corpse was almost entirely ma


ked, and had evidentaly lain there for


several weeks. How the unfortunate


man met his death will perhaps never


be known; although as he was addict


ed to drinking liquor, it is surmised


that he may have been endeavoring to
reach q lumber camp while under in
fiuence of liquor; became exhausted,
and perished from exposure to the in
tense cold of the early Winter. The
fact of his clothing being removed (all
except vest, we understand, may be
accounted for when one who has ever
witnessed wretched being laboring
under the awful touch ofdcliriun trc-
mems, remembers the wild agony en-
hibited.


OF course, we cannot say positively
that unfortunate John Keefe met his
death alone i'm the wilderness while
under the influence of that cursed dcs-
troyer of 50 much human happiness
strong drink; but Judging from the
past habits of the man, we find this
the most reasonable supposition. How
many, who if they could but take this
lesson directly home to their hearts
us would be the case ifa father, brother
or near relative had thus fallen-but |
would curse tho traffic which renders
such things possible? But in many
cases it is some poor friendlcss being
who in fit of drunken frenzy dies by
his own hand, or perhaps, worse still,
is found as poor John Keefe was. A
passing sensation is created;somc snccr
ut the weakness which could not keep
the appetite under control; some eX-
press sorrow for the sad ending of life,
and for the unhappy relatives, if any
there are; and the whole is soon almost
forgotten. Few, if any, who
are travelling, fast or slowly, the same
road with the one passed out of life be-
fore them, ever take the warning to
their very souls, and profit by its sad,
glooming teaching, till they work out
Il beautiful result in transforming their
lives into the peaceful path of sober
ness and virtue.
Year: 1877

It was New Years night at Cole Camp,
sixteen miles from Sedalia, Mo-, and
there was bar in the ballroom. A young
man, while dancingnear the counter, stag
gered, fell to the hoorand broke hisnose. 1t
was so common IN incident that no at
tention was paid to it. The man lay on
the floor for half an hour, and the dance
went on. A physician came in, felt the
mans pulse, and gravely remarked that
he would die in n short time. In twenty
minutes the man was dead. AS the
waltzers whirled by the corpse they chat
ted pleasantly about the cause of death.
SOME thought that it was the bad quality
of the whisky; others attributed it to
undue indulgence in Kimmel ); others
said it was the shock caused by the fall ;
others mentioned heart disease. But the
dance went on at Camp Cole until day
break, although the man under the bar
had increased his distance from Sedalla.
Year: 1877

New Years night al infant child was
found in basket at the Centreville
depot, on the New Jersey Central rail
road, by Edward Marshall, a track walker,
and by him taken home. A card in
scribed "Martha jenkins " fastened to
the child's clothing leil the old folks to
believe that it might be their daughters
child, she having eloped from their home
in Liverpool, England, with man named
jenkins. They were so strongly I'M
pressed with the idea that they requested
the reporters who called in search Of the
facts to mention it in their story, and to
say that their daughter would receive q
welcome home if she would return to
them, she being their only child. Chief
Whitney, of the Bayonne police learned
of probable case of infanticide, and i'll
working it up learned that poor,
miserable woman, living in tenement
house on Avenue D, Bayonne, had had
all infant child until few days ago, but
recently it had not been heard or seen.
He learned that the woman was q Mrs.
Jenkins, and OH questioning her about
the fate of her child learned further that
she had put it out in the snow in basket
on New Years night. She told him her
story, how she hal eloped from Liver
pool, and lived in New York with her
husband until about a year ago, when he
took to drink because he could not obtain
work, and then deserted her She had
four children, but three had tied, and
the last one was born after her husbands
flight. She nearly starved after the
birth of her child, and was kept alive
only by the charity Of her neighbors, as
poor almost as herself, When she could
90 out she could not find employment,
and by reason of i'll health and scant
food she could not nourish her child.
She knew from letter she received from
friends in England where her father was
employed, and knowing his fondness for
children determined to put her child III
his way. She watched him, and knowing
when he would pass the depot Mt Centre
vile she left the child just where he
would see it. She hid to see what be-
came of it, and when he picked it up she
ran away She intended to commit
suicide the following day, but her courage
failed her on seeing the ice on the river,
and she went back to the tenement house.
She would scarcely believe the chief
when he told her that her father wanted
her to come home again, because he had
been so much incensed at her elopement.
Finally she consented to go to her father
and returned home.
Year: 1877

When the conductor of the train that
was wrecked in the Ashtabula ravine was
told that about fifty of the passengers
had been saved, he exclaimed: "My
God have the rest Of the 200 been
burned up?' When he went before the
coroner's Jury he testified that there
were only 131 passengers on the train.
The Cleveland Leaoler very sensibly re-
marks thai the absolute truth ought to
be brought out without misrepresenta-
ton and pettifogging. We do not
charge that the conductors testimony
before the jrry was inspired by his otfi-
cial superiors; we do point out the fact
that it is already impeached by the evi-
dence of another conductor and by other
witnesses, and that it is, therefore, no
only Intellectual but damaging. We have
placed no faith in the absurd story that
the officers Of the company forbade the
use of it's steam pump and hose, which
stood ready on the shore beside the
wreck, to quench the fire that was con-
suming the cars and the wounded within
them, but we want to see that charge
ovcrthrown and buried by testimony
which will convince every one. Plain
language and perfect frankness on the
part of witnesses, and cool, judicial fair
ness on the part of those who hear and
Judge, are essential. Nothing else will
Suffice
Year: 1877

Tie following statement is made by
one of the survivors of the steamer Mont
gomery, of the Havana line, sunk by the
Seminole, Of the Boston and Savannah
line: The watches were set for the night
as usual, and the watch below had turned
in. Shortly after two bells had been


struck I heard sounds of confusion Oil
deck, and cries as if an accident of some
kind had happened or was impending.


Ny berth was III the forward house, and
as soon as awoke 1 jumped from my bunk
and pulled on my trousers. [ was en-
gagged putting on my boots when the
crash came, and the steamer seemed to
stop, as if it had struck a rock. There
was crashing of timber and slight re-
coil. I sprang out upon the deck, and


on looking through the mist discovered
that we had been run into by bark rig
ged steamer. All was confusion. Those
who were below rushed on deck Just ns
they left their hunks, terrified at the
thought that the steamer had struck
something and was about to go down.
while to their number we're added several
men who had jumped from the vessel
they had run into. It was but second,


so it seemed, we had chance to see what
we had struck. When I first saw her she
was settling by the head, and, in another
moment she made Il lunge forward and
sank beneath the waves, carrying NUM-
bers down with her. BY their agonizinS
cries it appeared to me that a large ships
company were struggling for life, but
these voices were soon hushe;l. There
was quite a high sen running at the time,
and the Seminoles boat forward on the
sturboard side was with difficulty cleared
away, launched and manned, and sent TO
aid any that might he floating on any
part of the wreck. But there was little
left to mark the spot where the i'll fated
steamer had gone down. The boat re-
turned with but one man. Presently a
boat belonging to the other steamer
boarded the Seminole, and when all hands
were aftcrward mustered it was found
that only fifteen OF the twenty-eigEt per-
sors who had left New York for Havana
in the steamer Montgomery were alive.
Year: 1877

The postmaster of Spencerfort, N. Y,
is not happy. His last quarters account
showed him indebted to the government,
over and above his salary and disburse-
ments, in the sum of $78.76. This
amount he has on hand and cannot legally
get rid of it. The department ordered
him to pay it over to the agent OF the
Hudson River railroad company, but that
individual declines to receive it, as the
larger portion is composed of silver coin,
and the law is specific that silver coin is
only legal tender in sums of S. or less.


Section 359 of the Postal laws provides
that no postmaster shall "loan, invest,
appropriate or exchange" any money
coming into his hands in his official
capacity, and section 359 makes it a
prima tacie case Of embezzlement If he
neglects or refuses to honor draft, duly
certified, presented by any contractor or
agent for carrying the nails. No excuse
Whatever will be received for non-com-
pliance.


The position of the unfortunate man
is, therefore, this: The government
cannot compel the Hudson River rail
road company to receive more than s.
worth of silver coin. They have ordered
the postmaster to pay over his surplus
to the aforesaid road. That surplus con-
sists principally OF silver, which the law
forbids him to exchange for other money,
and which the department itself is, under
the law, forbidden to receive from him
in nny amount over S.


The unfortunate man has written n
pitiful appeal to Postmaster James, III
New York, but the entire wisdom OF The
department has thus far been inadequate
to suggest any means of relief. Until
the law is changed he stands self-con-
victed of being an involuntary felon.
Year: 1877

Imust say it Human beings, con-
sidcring how talented they are, are very
foolish. If not, why do they make other
living things afraid of them instead OF
teaching love and confidence by. their
own example? Almost all animals who
see men for the first time approach them
without fear. I am told that when the
naturalist, Darwin, went to the Galapa-
gos islands, he there found hawks that
had never seen men, and they were so
tame that he showed some of them gently
off branch with the muzzle of his gun,
while others came to drink from pitcher
he held in his hand. It is only because,
for generations, beasts and birds have
been so often deceived and cruelty treat
ell by men that they have become sus-
picious of them.
Year: 1877

HIS WAy.-The late Commodore Van
derbilt was accustomed to carry his cigars
in his side pocket, and when a well
meaning friend who had observed this
habit presented him with beautiful
cigar case, the commodore declined the
gift, observing: cit will be too ex-
Densive for me. When I take it out full
of cigars everybody around will expect
me to- offer them one, but when I take
one out of my pocket they won't know
that there are any left. ;"
Year: 1877

Prompt payment of newspaper sub
scriDtions will meet with due reward. In
proof of this statement, read and ponder
the following incident: A gentleman lost
his pocketbook at the Centennial. The
other day he received it by express, with
contents intact, from New York lady
who had found it, and identified it from
a receipted subscription to newspaper.
Year: 1877

anything can justify proceedings
outside of the law, here certainly was
provocation enough. We wish that
all crimes could be disposed of by pro-
cess of law, but summary justice seems
to be the rule in such cases throughout
the United States, and we have no fur
ther comment to make.
Year: 1877

sheriff Davis advertises in the Mar
shoH Gd-Cttc that ne viii open and
hold an election on the Goth day of
next month for the purpose of submit
ling to the people the proposition al
voting subscription of So, 600 To ala
in completing the Duck River Valley
Railroad 10 Petersburg.
Year: 1877

THE report of Superintendent HER
vEY to the Board of Education, last even
ing, contains great deal of information
of interest. The portion of it relating
TO his participation in the proceedings Of
the Educational Convention at Wash
ington City, was anticipated by the pub
licstion in the editorial columns of the
REGISTER Tuesday morning of an inter-
view with the Professor.
Year: 1877

The President will wake up to the re-
slitles of the Mexican situation stter q
while, BY vigorous policy on this
subject he could do much to atone for the
general imbecility of his Administration.
st Louis Globe Democrat.


We fear the "imbecility" of the Ad-
mlnistrstion is more marked in its treat.
ment of the Mexican question than in
any other matter. In this respect its
imbecility may be placed in the superls'
tive degree.
Year: 1877

The good nstured and instructive dis
cussion in which Bishop KAHN and Rev
J. d. MoFFAT are engaged through the
columns of the REGISTER, IS continued
this morning by letter from the Bishop
Both these gentlemen are young men OF


siucstion and ability, and they will
msintain the discussion upon an elevated
Year: 1877

The Wheeling and Lake Erie people
got up terrible row, at their meeting
for the election of officers On.N ednesdsy.
Judge COCHRAN, of this city, presided,
but it is evident from our dispatches that
ho WAS not able to keep the brethren as
quite as a Quaker meeting.
Year: 1877

NEW YORK, December 20-An eI-
plosion, immediately followed by fire,
occurred at five minutes past five o'clock
this afternoon in the immense candy
mandatory of Greenfield u Sons. No.
63 Barclay street, which extends in the
shape OF an l. to College Place. The
boiler, which was under the sidewalk on
the Barclay street side, burst tearing
away the entire front and


Scattering the Wreck in All Direc-
A large number of girls OF al ages
were employed at the time IN the build
ing. The walls fell within few min
utes after the explosion.


A policeman who was on duty near the
building says that ne saw the front
five stories high, fall into the street,
Fifty-six wounded and one dead person
were reported at the Chambers street
hospital at Gas O'clock A number were
also sent TO Bellevue and other hospitals
1t Is estimated that the wounded will
reach I25.


BuIFew Escaped Injury.


Mr.. Greenfield, owner Of the factory
could give no idea of how many were IN
the building at the time OF the
explosion, but thought sboht 10
OF these about fifty escaped by
College Place entrance, and n small
number got out through the skylights
walked over the roofs, and got down the
skylghts of other buildings. The book
keeper, who was on the Barclay street
side, WAS


Blown Ont Through n window
to the street, and badly cut on the head.
Several jumped from the second story,
and escaped with slight injuries, their
fall being broken by policemen and citi-
zens on the streets below. No fair esti-
mate of the loss of life can be given to,
night, but it must be large. The parties
employed in the factory were principally
young girls and boys, from eight to
twenty years OF age. Owing to
the approach of holidays, double
force was employed: one working during
the day and the other at night. The
force is changed at o'clock, and the fact
OF the explosion occurring at five minutes
past that hour renders it more difficult to
know how many or who are the victims.
The number IN the building at the time
Of the explosion l. yarlously estimated al
from one hundred 10 three hundred. The
flames spread so rapidly that 1t is feared
that many who were not injured by the
explosion were
Year: 1877

DEATH AND RUIN.
Explosion of the Boiler of


a Candy Factory.
The Front of a FiVe-StOry
Building Torn Away.
The Wreck Scattered in


All Directions.
Death and Mutilation of


the Inmates.
From Forty to Fifty Bodies
Buried in the Ruins.
One Hundred and Twenty
Year: 1877

At the very lowest calculation there
must be forty or fifty bodies IN the ruins
The fremeu will keep streams of water
on the ruins all night, and will have
the street cleared and be ready TO COM
mence digging for bodies tomorrow.


1t is feared that the wall OF the bank
building is damaged, and this will be eI-
amined before the work on the ruins ID
begun
Year: 1877

Uuhs GOIIOhs

 Deer Sir.-I would wish, through your columns, to place before the minds of your readers the subject of Ornithology and oology, or more popnlarly speaking: of Birds and Eggs. Very few spcies of the animal kingdom present themselves to our view more forcibly than do the winged songsters, which fill our woods, gardens and ~door-yards. with the glad dening influence of their presence, and their ever delightful volumes of song. It behoves us, then, to become as familiar with them and their habits as possible. that we may; by knowing. the better appreciate them. To this end would invite the at- tention and cooperation of all lovers of nature and the beautiful. in carefully studying the birds of your locality and rendering the result of your observations to some scientific magazine which makes this branch speciality, or by giving your remarks to the nearest magazine or jour- nal. which will, in most instances, gladly publish them for you.

 If you are no scientist yourself, procure some good book at once and study up the subject; for it will not take smuch time, and will amply repay you in the end. There are many excellent books which will start you on your way. and give you a clue to what yon want to find. As to Birds, there is no better book in the Eng fish language than. "Cones' Key to North American Birds." The subject of nests and eggs is not SO we'll worked up, and here is the place we need help from you. Understand me, do 9aOt urge or counten- anee wholesale slaughter of birds, or destruction of nests and eggs, to aHom- plish this object. Most of you who read this article are men of sense. and can judge for yourselves what is best to be done; but I do urge GU yoesag men. par- |,ticnlarly ~farmerssand their sons, @e0 learn something about tha hasubiect' at once and % to work this spring. There are plenty who will lend you their assistance, and aid you all that they are able

 Find out what birds are in your locality, then when they appear in the spring, when they build their nests, how many eggs they lay, if they remain with you all sum-

 mer. if beneficial to the crops; find out their relative abundance or rarity and | where they most abound, then when they leave in the fall or if they remain all wiu- ter. Learn all about them and their hab. its you can, keep memorandum of al items of interest that. you can think of, for others may not know what you take to be of little or no account, and at the end of the season submit it to some scientific friend or party or publish it as it is. If you live on the sea coast. so much the bet ter. We want all the knowledge of our water birds that we can get. the more the

 better, you cannot give us too much of it: would urge this branch particularly. Do anything and everything to assist hon.

 est. careful research. and you will benefit

 yourselves, your neighbors, and confer a real and lasting favor upon science. l Respectfully Yours, 1 w. A. SrEARNs.
Year: 1877

The work has been begun after long and careful preliminary labor and with the most ample for carrying it on to successful terminations6 as None of the original stereotype plates have been used, but every page has been
Year: 1877

Which introduced for the first time the present edition have been added not for the sake of pictorial efee but to give greater lucy and force to the plantations in the text They embrace all branches of science and of natural history and depict the most famous and remarkable features of scenery architec ture, and art, well the various processes of chanics and manufactures. Although intended for instruction rather than establishment, pains have haan snarad tn insure their
Year: 1877

Forming in fact Cyclopedia, with the same plan and compass its predecessor but with far greater expenditure, and with such improvements in it's composition have been suggested by longer experience and enlarged knowledge.
Year: 1877

Within the last ten years the progress of discovery in every department of knowledge has made a new work of reference an imperative want. The movement of political affairs has kept pace with the discoveries of scence and their fruitful appca ton to the industrial and useful arts the fence and refinement social life. Great wars and consequent revolutions have occurred, involving tonal changes of peculiar moment. The civil war of own country, which was at it's height when the last volume of the old work appeared, has happily been ended. and new course of commercial and in- dustrial activity has been commenced. Large sions to Our
Year: 1877

We have enjoyed comparative peace with the Apache Indians during the past two years. Up to the spring of 1876 constant complaints were made by the authorities and people of Sonora concerning raids made by the Chiricahua Apaches, into that state resulting in the murder of a large number of people and the loss and destruction of a great amount of property. This condition of affairs existed from the time these Indians were placed on the reservation in 1872 until the spring of 1876 and was constant source of modification to me and a disgrace to the nation. At the latter date the Indians mur- dered two men on their reservation and one man on the San Pedro. Upon application from Washington for my advice as to what disposition should be made of them I ad- vised that they should be removed at once either to the Hot Springs reservation in New Mexico or to the San Carlos reservation in Arizona as might be found best The latter place was selected and the removal ordered, under the management of J. F. Cum. A peaceable removal was effected of all the h. dians except two hundred men, women and children including about thirty five able
Year: 1877

REPORT OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL.

 Your attention is directed to the report of the Adjutant General whose suggestions in the main, cordially endorse. As stated in said report the arms heretofore received and issued were distributed among the peo- pie for their protection, and seven years of constant use in rough frontier life has so far depleted the stock of serviceable arms that probably not one-tenth of those originally issued are fit to be used. The necessity for arms at central points in the Territory to be kept on hand for sudden emergency has for some time been appar ent and | therefore addressed communi- cation to the Hon. J. D. Cameron Secre- tary of War, August l5, 1876, making requisition for 600 stand of Springfield mus kets to be used in arming militia com panies and received in reply communica- ton dated Oct. 24, 1876, accompanied with q blank bond for me to sign in behalf of the Territory, which bond pledges the re- turn of said arms on payment for the same at such time as the Secretary of War may designate. Not having the authority of law given me to bind the Territory to this