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Year: 1877

The following sad case is held up as
a solemn example of the mournful re-
suits sure to follow undue enterprise,


and attendant upon all ill-adjudged at
tempts to let the world know of ones
existence:


Some time ago, two young mechanics
in a Maryland town entered into CO.
partnership as wheelwrights and car
riage-builders. Both gentlemen were
possessed of shrewdness and industry,
and were getting along in very happy
and contented way until they deter
mined to venture upon rash UNDER
taking. Up to that time they had been
able to. take things easy. They had
been coming to their shop in the morn
ing just when they felt like it, and quit
ting in the evening just when they
pleased. There was no hurry, no rush,
no worry. Things went on in smooth,
sober and comfortable manner. But,
as was intimated above, they one day
decided upon a change of tactics. They
concluded to insert a conspicuous adj
vertisement in the local paper. Then,
with recklessness that was truly as
tonishing, they managed to get them
selves frequently mentioned in the local
columns of the newspapers. They
might have known that everybody
would read these notices, but, with
singular fatality, they continued the
same desperate management until they
got themselves in a most awkward fix.
The first intimation they had of coming
trouble was when they realized that adj
ditional help must be employed. They
employed additional help, but still their
vexations were not over. Only last
week they discovered that their shop
was entirely too small. Then they
bought lumber, employed workmen,
and will have just about finished to-day
another shop in the rear somewhat
larger than their original one. Strange
infatuation! Both these clever Young
men might have been enjoying nap
this very afternoon if it had not been
for their unguarded conduct. But there
is no further rest for them except on
Sundays and few short hours after tea
each day. We cannot say where it will
all end. Deluded creatures! Wewarn
them in time. If they don't mind,
they will be compelled to employ still
othor eooietents and mako still othnr
additions to their shop. But advice
seems to be thrown away on such ven-
turesome people. At all events, they
should consider the example they are
setting. They should remember that
other mechanics and businessmen may
90 and do likewise. Then what ca
lamity will they have to contemplate.
A town that was once quiet and sedate,
rendered bustling and noisy with the
hum of business, the buzz of factories
and the rush of accelerated commerce.
We turn from the picture with fear and
trembling. g.-Furntare Trade.
Year: 1877

We are all hunters in the field Of
life. Some of us bring down our
game; but most of us end in a wild
goose chase.


Were it not for the clouds that
darkcn them there would be no rain
bow in our lives.


When you read, read the books; it
costs you no more; and what you get
will correct and help to build you up.
A good book is like a voice from ma
turo or from God. Do not confound
this voice with the utterances of
falsehood.


A child is often the hyphon conncc-
ting uncongenial husband and wife.


1t is not in placing the words that
the effect of the good writer consists
it is in the thought bringing its own
word, that leaps to it like the parti.
Gle to the magnet.


We are SHINING when We think VIC
are.


Perhaps the greatest good next to
to doing good to your "neighbor," ," is
to benefit your enemy. But some
people heap Goals of fire on the enc
my's head to scorch him, thus max,
ing use of a Christian proccpt to dc
evil,


Idlcnoss is the great slough into
which the vices of the world drift
and settle, to rise again in miasma


1t should not discourage us 4 oul
kindness is unacknowlcdged; it has
its influence still.


We govern our rpassions but in gen
cral we let the passions first have Q
trial.
Year: 1877

A good woman never grows DID,
Years may go over head, but if be-
nevolence and virtue dwells in her
heart, she is as cheerful as when the
spring-life first opened to her view.
When we look upon a good woman,
we never think Of her age-sho looks
as charming as when the rose of
youth first bloomed upon her check.
That rose has not faded yeti will
never fade. In her neighborhood
she is the friend and bencfactor, in
the church the dovout worshipper
and exemplary Christian. Who
does not love and respect the woman
who has passed her days in acts OF
kindness and mercy, who has been
a friend to man and God, whose life
has been scene Of kindness and
love, a devotion of love and religion?
We repeat, such woman cannot
grow old. She will always be fresh
and buoyant in spirits, and active
in humble deeds of mercy and be-
nevolcncc. If the young lady de-
sirCs to retain the bloom and beauty
of youth, let her not yield 10 the
sway of fashion and folly; let her
love truth and virtue; and to the
close of life she will retain those
feelings which now make life appear
a garden Of sweets, ever fresh and
ever new.
Year: 1877

What to do with our daughters;
Teach them self-reliance.


Teach them to make bread.
Teach them to make shirts.
Teach them not to wear false hair,
Teach them not to paint and pow
der


Teach them to wear thick warm
shoes,


Teach them how to wash and iron
clothes.


Teach them how to mako their
own dresses,


Teach them to cook a good meal.
Teach them to wear calico dresses
and do it like queen.


Teach them to say no, and mean
it.


Teach them how to darn stockings
and sew on buttons.


Teach them to regard the morals,
not the money of boauxs.


Give them a good substantial com
mon school education.


Teach them that n good round rosy
romp is worth fifty delicate consump'
tiycs.


Teach them to have nothing to dc
with dissolutc young men,


Teach them accomplishments
music, painting, drawing-if you
have time and money TO do IL with
Teach them TO cultivate a garden,
Teach them that God made them
IN hisown image, and that no amount
OF tight lacing will improve the mod
Toach them that good steady me
ghonic without . cent, is worth q
'o'on oil'patcd loarcro in broadcloth
Year: 1877

A husband and wife were having
one of those arguments which occa-
sionally interrupt the harmony of a
married life. He grumbled because
there was not better fire in the
room, and declared that she always
was just so stingy in regard to the
use of fuel. She rather admitted her
general partiality foreconomy in the
direction referred to, but at the same
time asserted that sho was the sub.
ject of great improvement in the
specific point under discussion. For
proof on her part, she went on to
state that when her first husband
was very sick Che did not recovery
she really felt some reluctance to
having a fire of sufficient capacity
to make things entirely comfortable.
"But," said she, "when my second
dear departed was in his last sick
ness, I had such a tire as no reasona-
BILE man could find fault with
"And," she continued, sRhen your
time comes to lie in that bed, with
no Shopc OF ever rising from it. I
shallhaye frst-rate fire, as hot as
why, so hot that you will hardly
know the difference when you're
deadn
Year: 1877

Thanks, and n thousand of them,
to that unknown genius who cntrust'
ed n truk, with a hive of bees in it.
to the tender mcrcios of n Syracuse
baggage master, the other day The
company will pay for the bees ant
the doctor thinks his patient will be
around again in fortnight or so.
Year: 1877

THE TERRIBLE ASSAULT UPON GEM


ETERY HEIGHTS AND THE CRUSH


ING REPULSE-A SKELETON DIYI-


SION.


[Col. W. W. Wood in Phla. Weekly Times ]


The combat between the artillery
of the two armies must have been
two hours in duration. Throughout
all of the officers and men Of that pOr-
ton of the line where | was stretched
fiat upon the ground, with their heads
toward the firing. The water in our
canteens had long been exhausted, i,
and 40 more could be had until the
battle vas over. Not breath of
air was in motion, and the sun shone
down on us intensely hot. The burst
ing of innumerable shells added to
the heat. My company, numbering
about fifty men present, lost four
Year: 1877

The situation now was indeed APP
palling, though it did not seem to APP
pail. The idea of retreat did not seem
20 occurr to any one Having obtain
ed view of the enemy's position, the
men now advanced at the double
quick, and for the first time since the
charge began they gave utterance to
the famous Confederate battle-yell.- -
The batteries to the right and lef, Of
Cemetery Heights now began to rain
grape-shot and canister upon u, and
the enemy's infantry at the base of
the Heights poured volley after volley
into our ranks. The carnage was in
deed terrible, but still the division,
staggering and bleeding, pressed on
toward the Heights they had been or
deTed to take. or course such terri
BILE slaughter could not last long. The
brave little division did not number
men enough to make material for
prolonged slaughter. In a few brief
moments more the left Of Armistead's y
Brigade, led by himself on foot, had
passed beyond the'stOne wall aud were
among the guns of the enemy posted
in rear of 1t. General Garnett had


before then been instantly killed, and
General Kemper had been severely
wounded, The survivors of their
brigades had become amalgamated
with Armistead's, The line of battle
was now not one third of its length
when the crest of the hill was passed.


Our line of battle was not parallel to
the Heights, aud the left of the di-
minished limo reached the Heights
first. The right of the line never
reached them, The men of the right,
however, We're near enough TO see
General AmistCad shot Gown near a
captured gun as he was waving his
swOred above his head, and they
could ses the men surrendering them
selves us prisoners. Just then a de-
tachment of Federal Infantry came
out, thanking out right, and shouting
10 us to surrender. There was moth
ing else to do except to take the
chance, which was an extremely good
one, OF being killed on the retreat
back over the hill. There was gem
eTal laying down of arms; but few,
myself among the number, rightly
concluding that the enemy were wea-
~ of ca mage, determined to run the
rsk of getting back TO the Coufoder-
Year: 1877

off the clover heads by Que sides.
The fire was so terrific that when
man sang out 'wounded - the ans
bulance corps would not 90 to his
relief. 70 have taken any one to
the rear while that firing was in
progress would have been almost
certain death. At last the Federal
batteries began to slacken their
fire. and not long afterward
they ceased entirely. Soon the Con-
fcderate guns ceased firing, too. and
then all knew that the supreme mos
ment had come. Each surviving
commandant Of company sprang to
his feet and ordered his men into
line. All who could got into line,
but there were many dead and wound
ed and supstrickcn poor fellows left
upon the ground.


The order to go forward was given
and obeyed with alaCrity and cheer
fulnesS, for we believed then that the
battle was practically over, and that
we had nothing to do but to march
unoppoSed to Cemetery Heights and
occupy them. The ascent to the
crest of the hill. which had hitherto
concealed US from the enemy's view,
was made speedily and in good order.
while making the ascent it was seen
that the supports to our right and
left fanks we're not coming forward,
as we had been told they would -
Mounted officers were seen dashing
frantically up and down the line, ap,
parently endeavoring to get them to
move forward, but we could see that
they would not move. Their failure
to support us was discouraging, but it
did not dishearten us. Some of our
men cursed them for being towards
but still our charge was kept up, and
no man fell out. Soon we were past
the crest of the hill and out of sight
of them. Before us stood Cemetery
Heights, of which we could get an
occasional glimpse through riffs in
the cloud of powder smoke which
enveloped them. We could not see
whether or not there were troops
there to defend them against us.


Somewhat further on, perhaps
hundred and 60 yards beyond the
crest of the hill We had inst passed,
a post and-rail fence, some five feet
in height. was encountered. This
fence was qnickly mounted, and at a
little distance beyond it my regiment.
and l supposed the whole line of bat
tie, was halted for the purpose of
rectifying the alignment. From the
time the charge began up to this mo
ment not shot had been fired at us,
nor had we beer able TO see, because
OF the density Of the smoke which
hung over the battle-fic like a pail
that there was any enemy in front Of
us. But directly aftrrward. just : S
the line started forward again, a shot,
fired from somewhere to our left.
struck the centre company of my
regiment, and, enfilading its right
wing as it did, killed and wounded
large number Of men and officers.


The smoke now lifted from our
front, and there right before US,
scarcely 200 yards away, stood Gene,
terry Heights in awful grandeur. At
their base was double line of Fed
ernl infantry and several pieces of
artillery posted behind stone walls,
and to the right and left of them
both artillery and infantry supports
were hurried up. We fully realized
that Pickett's three little brigades,
already greatly reduced by heavy
casualties, was making, alone and
without possibility of succor, a des>
perate charge against the whole pow>
er of the Federal army.
Year: 1877

The contest over the vacant Ohio seat in
the United States Senate has been settled
by the caucus nomination Of Judge Stanley
Matthews as Mr. Sherman $ successor. This.
of course, insures Judge Matthews election.
The principal opponent of the successful
candidate throughout the canvass was
Father Taft, although on the ballot the votes
Of the opposition were mainly cast for Con-
gressman Rowland. The nomination was
made on the third ballot The significant
point Of the result of the contest is to be
found in the fact that the fight against Judge
Matthews was made on his letter to Packard,
advising the latter to resign his pretensions
to the Governorship of Louisiana while
Father Taft had been urged on the ground
that he was opposed to the abandonment of
Chamberlain and Packard and the colored
republicans of the South. The issue was
accepted by Judge Matthews friends, and
his election is, therefore, very significant
Endorsement Of President Hayes Southern
policy by the republicans of Ohio The
election of Judge Matthews to the United
States Senate will remove the threatened
contest over Mr.. Bannings seat in the
House of Representatives.
Year: 1877

Question.


The views presented by the Moscow
Gazette are important in virtue of their
source for in q time like the present
statement of the relations to Germany and
Russia that seems to rest on the knowledge
of declarations made would scarcely be pub
lished ut random where the press is only
free under sufferance. This statement de-
fines in both directions the limit of Ger
many's activity--where it will commence
and beyond what point it will not go; and
we have not hitherto had any declaration SO
clear on this subject from any source even
apparently authorized to make it. Eng
lands proposition to give Turkey year
is said to have failed because it seems
to involve action at the end of the
year if Turkey does not improve the
time as required, and because Ger
many will not in any circumstances now
conceivable oblige herself to take part in
warlike operations in that direction. This
resolute disposition of Germany to keep her
hands free, and which becomes more per-
ceptible as some nations of Europe seem
more likely to have their hands full, might
more justly disturb people in France than
the pretended diplomatic communications
over which they recently became excited.
On the other hand, though Germany will
not agree to anything that might even con-
structively require her to fight Turkey, she
will do great deal to persuade Austria
to help Russia and will ''endeavor" to keep
the peace in Europe should Russia actually
invade Turkey. All of which looks as if
Germany would rather prefer that there
should be little war on the Danube. These
views have made their way in Russia since
Ignatieff was in Berlin.
Year: 1877

In another column will be found an in
structive and altogether piquant letter
addressed to the President of the American
Geographical Society by DR.. John Rae, Of
London, the distinguished explorer. DR.. Rae
writes in the anticipation that another Ameri-
can Polar expedition is to be organized; but
he will be disappointed to learn that the bill
making an appropriation of money for this
purpose, though favorably reported, was not
reached, owing to the delay caused by the
Presidential complication, and therefore did
not pass. But DR.. Rae's letter is of interest
in virtue of it's free and capable criticism of
Sir George Mares dashing fiasco With the
authority Of q man of experience and the
distinct conceptions of man of capacity the
Doctor points out that nearly every act
of any consequence to the success
of an expedition was done wrongly
on the Mares expedition, including the
choice of the men, the feeding and clothing
them, the distribution of labor, the con-
struction of sledges, the arrangements for
sleeping on sledge journeys, &c. In fact,
it may be said that only one part Of this
expedition was q complete success, and that
was the final rush on reaching home Of all
hands for honors and q recognition which
presumed that the service had been i'm
portant to science. They all got some
honors except DR.. Colan, who was left out in
the cold because he had made himself disa-
greeable by protesting against that act Of
Captain Mares which directly induced the
failure namely, the exclusion of lime juice
from the sledge supplies.
Year: 1877

tain season when the eggs of the migratory
or winged insects are deposited. The fumi-
cation or even burning of the earth SO
removed may at least check the plague by
destroying the eggs. Coal tar spread over
the surface Immediately around the stem
may also have the effect of saving the vines
by preventing the deposit of the eggs But
perhaps the best remedy of all would be to
plant the varieties of American vine
which are known to resist the phylloxera
If the ravaged vineyards of France,
which now embrace an area of about
one million acres, were replanted with
American vines, on which the French
varieties could be grated if necessary,
great change would be effected in the pres
ent condition Of the wine-growing interests
Of France. AS it is from the soil and the
influences of climate that the quality and
excellence of the wine are derived, it is cer-
tain that even our least cultivated varieties
Of vine would prove productive in French
vineyards.
Year: 1877

That every dog will have his day has been
known this long while; but that every dog
shall also have his knight is discovery of
the philanthropy of our own times and is
n result of the emotional and combative
characteristics of the age which express them
selves in the organization of societies for
the prevention of all those acts to which man
is prone when left to the ''cussedness" of
his primary impulses. But it appears that
MIR. Bergh's knight-errantry in the
cause of the inexorable dog and
other minor members of society is
inspired less by tender heart for
these creatures than by an oppugnant
spirit toward those whom he can regard in
the light Of oppressors. 1t is the love of
wretched prize Of war which may be only
some poor ours comfort. AS the Puritans
were said to have suppressed bear-baiting.
not because it was cruel to the bear, but
only because it afforded some pleasure to
the people, SO it may be said that Mr..
Bergh's objection is not to cruelty per Sc, but
only to other mems indulgence in cruelty.
It seems he is willing that all the dogs of
this city, as we'll as ''the harmless. necessary
cat" may be condemned and slaughtered
forthwith if only he may slaughter them
himself. No doubt the authorities and the
whole people will readily accord this mo-
nopoly to the distinguished reformer of our
dog laws and objector to oil reforms not in
troduced by himself. As Mr.. Bergh has
shown an epistolary interest in the many
observations we have made on the subject OF
Spitz dogs, and, like some other pedan-
tically ignorant cavillers, has declared that
our remarks had no other ground than
desire to be sensational, we beg
to call his attention to what is said
in another column by DIR. Hammond
on the subject of hydrophobia, particularly
in relation to this breed of dogs. There
are great many doctors who know no more
about hydrophobia than mole does about
the integral calculus-and even the most
learned doctor in the world does not know
oil about it-but the most intelligent view
of what is known is given by the liberal
minded physician seen by our reporter,
who has probably seen more cases of the
malady than any other one of our city prac-
titioners
Year: 1877




There is an old story of certain Meddle-
some Mattey, who, like a magpie, insisted on
investigating everything, and at last came
to grief by too close an examination of her
grandmother's snuffbox. The experience
cured her curiosity Some of the men,
bers of our Legislature are likely
to profit by like punishment. A
bill was introduced the other day
providing for an investigation of the
normal schools of the State, with the absurd
pretext that children of other States, and
especially those of the West, received their
education at the expense of this Common
wealth. This awful calamity was gravely
discussed in the Legislature, and an attempt
was made to drag the school question into
politics. The democracy were accused of
being hostile to the schools, and other follies
were perpetratcd with the utmost soberness
1t is our opinion that the Legislature should
leave the normal schools alone. They are
the nurseries of our best teachers, and have
deservedly obtained the confidence and re-
spect of the intelligent public. The debate
about investigation is simply buncombe, and
we would be glad to see the statesmen who
INDUCED in it employ their eloquence
on better subjects. Let them condemn the
crimes Of the aristocrucy of England, adj
wise the German Emperor or warn the
Gar of Russia for the last time, but let them
not mcddle without reason with the public
Year: 1877

lived to our time, if they had now their
original task put upon them Of making
constitution suited to the present state Of
the country, they would repeat the second
defective article which they framed
in ignorance of the future2 Would
they retain the cumbrous. useless,
preposterous machinery of Presiden-
tial electors? Nobody can believe it.
Would they throw the final choice of
people, into moribund House of Represen-
tatives, elected two years and half previ-
Gus and removed by that long interval from
the existing public sentiment of the coun-
try? Nobody can believe it. In the case of
a disputed election would they leave any
thing at loose ends and expose the country
to such perils as it has recently escaped by
doubtful makeshift? No rational creature can
believe it. Would they make it possible for
President to re-elect himself by his control
of an enormous and corrupting patronage?
This is the most incredible of all. The time
having fully come for thorough amendment
of the second article of the constitution, we
insist that this task shall be undertaken in
the bold, free, sagacious spirit of our early
statesmen, who scorned slavish adherence to
the past and decided every question in the
light of present experience. They teach MS
to profit by our experience rs they profited
by theirs, and if the framing of the second
article of the constitution were an entirely
new task no rational human being can sup
pose that the existing model would be fol-
lowed.
Year: 1877

A SYMPATHETIC PUBLIC will read with sincere
sorrow of the impending famine in some of the
Pennsylvania coal regions. To devise suffi-
cicnt system of relief for so largo % number of
people seems almost impossible, yet little effort
on the part of few leading men would prevent
considerable suffering and create among the des-
ttute sentiment which is not to be despiscd by
the richest and most influential
Year: 1877

ANOTHER BAD PENNY comes to view again
to wit, the County. Court House and its cost If
the consideration OF the Kcllum case by the ST.
prcmc Court will lead to the satisfaction of pub
lie curiosity as to the cost of that ediice the tax
payers will have received little something for
their money