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Year: 1877

When the head of a Bulgarian family
perceives that he is about to die, he
sends for the priest, and begins to bar
gain with him about the cost of his
funeral. The moment he dies, all the
pots, pans and kettles in the house are
turned upside down, to prevent his soul
taking refuge in any one of them, and
great care is taken to prevent man or
animal-especially cat or dog-from
stepping across his body, as otherwise,
in the opinion of his family, he would
turn into vampire, and be continual
nuisance to them and to their neighbors.
The body is buried without any coffin in
shallow grave, and left there for three
years, during which time many offerings
of food and wine are placed upon it. At
the end Of the third year. the bones of
the dead man are dug up, carefully
washed, put into linen bag, laid before
the altar in the village church; and after
receiving the blessing of the priest, are
finally barred for good.
Year: 1877

He that has no friend and no enemy is
one of the vulgar, and without talents,
powers, or energy.


Conscience, be it ever so little a worm
while we live, grows suddenly to a
serpent on our death-bed. ..


Franklin says, ga poor man must
work to find meat for his stomach, a
rich one to find stomach for meat"


The unpleasant sensation that is pro.
duced by modesty, is amply compensat.
ell by the prepossession it creates in
our favor.


He who has guineas for his subjects,
is, unfortunately, the king of most men.


A man may start ut impending danger
or vince at the sensation of pain and
yet he may be true philosopher and
not be afraid of death.


A passionate man should be regarded
with the same caution as a loaded
blunderbuss, which may unexpectedly
go off and do us an injury.


Too much sensibility creates unhappi-
ness and too much insensibility creates
crime. ,.-


He who. surpasses or subdues man
kind, must look down on the fate Of
those below.


The pitying tears and fond smiles Of
women are like the showers and sum
shine of spring.


knowledge is proud that he has learn
ed so much-Wisdom is humble that he
knows no more. ..-


If you wish to keep your enemies
from knowing any harm of you, don't
let your friends know any.


The epicure, the drunkard, and the
man of loose morals are equally con.
temptible though the brutes obey in
stinct, they never exceed the bounds of
moderation and besides, it is beneath
the dignity Of man to place felicity in
the service of his senses.
Year: 1877

Offensive breath can be easily got rid
of, for from six to eight drops of the
concentrated solution Of chloride of soda
in q wineglassful Of pure, fresh water,
taken Immediately after the ablutions of
the morning are completed, will sweeten
the breath by disinfecting the stomach,
which, far from being injured, will be
benefited by the medicine. If necessary,
this may be repeated in the middle OF
the Gay. In some cases, the odor from
carious teeth is combined with that Of
of the stomach. If the mouth is we'll
rinsed with teaspoonful of the solution
of the chloride in a tumbler of water,
the bad odor of the teeth will be re-
moved.
Year: 1877

A correspondent says: 1 have seen a
young Russian couple newly arrived on
their claim. working like beavers in the
fine autumn weather to build their hum
BILE home. They had bought COW, a
yoke of oxen, a wagon. provisions, some
boards, doors and windows, and a pillow
at Yankton. Dakota, on their arrival
from Russia; then hauled the load to
their claim and lived in their wagon till
the house was built. Peter selects a
house-site by low swale where the tall
grass shows the rich black soil below;
cuts the turf off all area of twenty feet
square with his plow, and removes it;
digs a water hole near by, then yokes
his oxen to the wagon and goes around
on the higher swells gathering boulders
OF convenient size for the walls. Mean.
while, Katrina is not idle. She throws
pals of water on the bare turAess spot,
cuts armfuls of long tough grass to
scatter over it, then leads her COW by the
rope around and around and across it
till their feet have made mass of thick
deep mud. Fresh quantities of water
are added, and grass enough to give
tenacity to the mass. Then Peter, as
stone-mason, and Katrina as his
"tender," lay up the walls of stone and
mortar, thick and solid enough to with
stand the storms of the next ten years.
roof, door and windows are added, and
their warm cottage has cost them next
to nothing.


But how about their fuel? Prairie
grass again comes to the rescue. When
Russian family prepares for cold
weather, they provide large supply of
the coarse, rank growth of the swales.
But this would be wretched sort of
fuel to burn loosely in common stove.
It needs Russian stove and special
preparation for burning. Peter and
Katrina do not buy an iron cook stove.
They build in the center of their house
a large sort of stove, oven, and range
combined, Of the same stone work and
mud mortar as before described. This
elifice, in the house of large family,
is about six or eight feet square, and
is fearfully and wonderfully made. 1t
has several compartments. The fire.
box, where the grass is burned, is
capacious, and twice day is stuffed
With grass, twisted into compact twists.
Very little air being supplied, it burns
slowly, and requires renewing at long
intervals; but the stone structure gives
out heat enough to warm the house
abundantly. There are other compart-
ments in the stove for baking and
cooking, and on top of the whole is
capital hot place to sleep in cold
night. Then when the wintry storms
lay IN embargo on all teaming and
travel, the boys have only to 60 to the
convenient hay-ricks for an unfailing
supply of good fuel, which has cost
nothing but laber; and the cost in labor
has been far less to men and teams
than that of cutting and hauling wood,
even when close at hand.
Year: 1877

A traveller writes In the island OF
RHO tho resident assured mo there were
wild men who lived in trees, and had no
language but cries and in Sumatra, the
resident of Palembang said there were
men who lived in the. forests, with
whom not only the Europeans, but
even the Malays, could have no inter.
course. He himself had never seen one.
Yet, strange to say, they have a petty
traffic with the outer world, yet not
through the medium Of speech. They
live in the woods aud live by the chase.
They hunt tigers, not with the gun, but
with arrows, which they blow out Of n
tube with such force, and which are SO
keen Of point, and touched with such
deadly poison, that it is almost immed.
lately fatal. These tigers skins or ele.
phonts tusks they bring for barter-not
for sale-for they never sell anything, for
money is about the most useless thing
they could have. They cannot eat it or
drink it or wear it. But, as they have
wants, they exchange yet they them
selves are never seen. They bring what
they have to the edge Of the forest and
leave it there, and the Malays come and
place what they have to dispose Of and
retire. If the offer is satisfactory, when
they return again they find what they
brought gone, and take what is left and
depart. If not, they add few triaes
more to tempt the eyes of these wild
men Of the woods, and SO at last the
exchange is effected. all the while the
sellers keep themselves invisible.


If the elephants are uncomfortable
neighbors, there are others that are
more so-the reptiles, which abound
here in India. But familiarity breeds
contempt or Indifference. The people
are not afraid of them, and hardly notice
them, but speak of them in an easy sort
OF way, as if they were the most harm
less things in nature-poor innocent
creatures, which might almost be pets
in the family, and allowed to run about
at their will. Soberly, there are certain
domestic snakes which are indulged
with these liberties. Said Mr.. K.


"I was once visiting in Sumatra, and
spending a night ut the house of
friend, 1 heard noise overhead and
asked, What is that


ooh, nothing" they said, "it's only
the serpent. =" . -.,....


What do you keep family snake ?"


eyes," they SAID 1T was q large
black snake which frequented the house,
and as it did no mischief and hunted the
rats they let it roam about wherever it
liked"


Thinking this rather big story, with
which our friend might practice on the
credulity of stranger, turned to the
resident Of Palembang, who confirmed
it. He said this domestication of
serpents was not uncommon.


There was kind of boa that was very
useful as an exterminator of rats, and
for this purpose the good Dutch house.
keepers allowed it to crawl about .or to
lie coiled up in the pantry. Sometimes
this interesting member Of the family
was stretched out on the veranda to
bask in the sun-a pleasant object to
any stranger who might be invited to &C.
cept hospitality.
Year: 1877

An old umbrella In the hall,


Battered and baggy quaint and queer


by all the rains Of many year


Don't, stained and faded-that 10 al.
Warped, broken, twisted by the blast
or twenty winters, TIL at last,


Like some poor close-reefed schooner cast,
All wator-logged, with half mast,
Upon the rocks, II finds . nook


or shelter on an entry hook


Old battered craft, how came you here'
All could 1t speak, twould tell Of ono
Old Simon Dowlcs, who now 10 gone
Gone where the weary are at rest
or one who locked within his breast
His private sorrows oer his lot
And in his humble work forgot
That he was but toiling bark
Upon the pillows in the dark.
While the brave newer ships swept by,
Sailing beneath prosperous sky,
And winged with opportunities
Fate had denied to hands like his.
A plain old-fashioned wight was he
Al these sport-loving days could $40
He in his youth had loved and lost
His loyal true love. Ever since
His lonely life was flecked and crossed
by sorrows nameless shadow tints
Yet never murmur from his lips
Told OF his darkened souls eclipse.
often think still can hear
His voice 80 blthe, his tones Of cheer,
Az. dropping in to say good.day,"
He gossiped in his old mans way.
And yet We laughed when he ha6 gone.
We youngsters couldnt understand
No matter il it rained or shone,
He hold the umbrella in his hand,
Or II he set it in the hall,
Where other sbeddcrs Of the rain
Stood dripping up against the WALL
His was too shabby and too plain
To tempt exchange all passed it by,
Though showers OF rain were pouring down
And all the cutters OF the town
Were torrents in the darkening sky.
He never left it once behind,
Save the last time he crossed our door,
Oblivious shadows Ger his mind
Prcsaged his failing strength. Before
The morning. he lad passed away
In peaceful sleep from night to day.
And here the old brown umbrella still
In its old corner stays to fill
The place. as best it may be, of him
Who, on this wild and wintry night,
Is surely with the saints of light
For whom my eyes grow moist and dim
While I this simple rhyme indite.
Year: 1877

THE SUNDAY PAPER.-Ex- Mayor Fessendeu
says that be did not order Marshal Bridges to
arrest the carrier boys on last Sunday morning
give orders not to allow the boys to sell after 10
o'clock. Since that order was given several
complaints have been made to the marshal and
the arrests were made on the authority then
given by the mayor
Year: 1877

OLD ORcHARD.-The Bay View House at
Old Orchard Beach was built some five years
since at a cost of $4,000 The original pro-
pretor failed by mismanas ement, but last year
it was re-opened, furnished elegantly and made
a splendid reputation ut der the management
of Messrs Post 3, Carr. They have taken
five years lease of this valuable property, and
propose to conduct it as first class house in
every respect.
Year: 1877

SOCIAL GATHERING.-This evening the mem
bars of Bosworth Post and their families are
to eujoy social gathering at their hall. The
first OF the evening there will be select en-
tcrtainment and the following is the order of
Year: 1877

land it came to pass, that he went through
the corn fields on the sabbath day; aud his
disciples began as they went, to pluck the ear
If corn.


And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold,
why do they on the sabbath day that which is
not lawful?


And he said unto them, Have ye never read
what David did, when be had need, and was
a hungered, he, and they that were with him


How he wept into the house of God in the
days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat
the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but
for the priests, and gave also to them which
were with him?


And he said unto them, The sabbath was
made for man, and not man for the sabbath
Mark H-23 to q. See also Luke vi, and
MattheD Kill
Year: 1877

at prices never before quoted in the memory of
Man. Remember we have no job lots of damaged
goods to get rid Of We offer new fresh goods pur
chased for cash from Importers and Manufacturers,
which we will sacrifice notwithstanding it was our
intention to hold them for an advance.
Year: 1877

CHANGES in high officials occur with
great rapidity in Turkey. Midhat Pasha
was not only degraded from his position Of
Grand Vizier, but is believed to be dead.
His successor has now given way to a near
relative of the Sultan, and a policy look
ing to the abrogation Of the Constitution is
hinted at. Should the newly promulgated
Constitution be put aside, an extensive
war is sure to follow. The prevailing be-
lief is that such an event is destined to
occur in the spring in any event.
Year: 1877

The New Hampshire election is draw
ing near, and it will be a test of popular
sentiment with respect to the Presidential
count. 1t will take place on the second
Tuesday in March, and the State is very
close. If the country stands by Tilden,
New Hampshire should be Democratic by
a large majority. 1t is believed it will 60
Republican.
Year: 1877

The official report of Captain
Mares expedition says: The long
arctic winter with its unparalleled
intensity and duration of darkness
produced by an absence of sunlight
for 142 days, was passed on board


with much cheerlulness and con-
tentment; the time, in reality,
passed with great rapidity; and in
January, when the first glimmer-
ing increase in the midday twilight
began to lengthen sensibly day by
day, the want Of light was scarcely
noticed by any one; and not until
the sun actually returned on the
first of March did we in any way
realize the intense darkness we
must have experienced for so long
a period. On five evenings in the
week a school, formed on the lower
deck under commander Markham
and several of the officers, was well
attended; each Thursday being
devoted to lectures, songs in
character, and reading, with occa-
sional theatrical representations;
the whole so admirably arranged
and conducted by commander
Mark ham as to keep the pleased
interest of all for the whole period.
The health of the officers and crew,
with only one exception, was excel
lent; and the habitable dock, as dry
as possible in these regions, in a
ship without an extraordinary ex-
peHdituro Of coal, Although we
had frequent evidence Of strong
winds prevailing in Robespn chau-
pel, the weather at our winter quar-
ters was remarkably calm, indeed
We may be said TO have Wintered
on the border Of a pacific sea. The
prevailing wind was from the west
ward; we never experienced any
easterly winds; it always blew Off
tho lanA, Had it not been for in
teFyeHlng oalms the persistent west
erly winds might have been well
called a trade wind. On only two
days were we prevented from tax
ing exercise outside the ship. This
quiet state Of the atmosphere was
productive Of the seyerest cold ever
experienced in the arctic regions.
During February the mercury re-
Year: 1877

mained frozen for fifteen consecu-
tive days; a southweSterly gale last
ing four days, then brought warmer
weather; then Immediately the wind
fell, cold weather returned and the
mercury remained frozen for a fur
ther period of fourteen days.
Year: 1877

I.-That upon our Annual Carnival visit,
all political strife shall cease. and gsi tie har-
moRy prevail among our subjects


Il.-Thst we will enter and take possession
of our good city of Memphis, at high noon on
Year: 1877

. Gov Brown, a prominent Southern director of the Texas Pacific railway, is due at San Diego if not now there. There is an evident purpose on part of the Southern and some Western States to make a determined effort in the next Congress to procure such legislation

 as will enable the company to build 8 through overland line directly to San

 Diego, and just as evident q purpose

 on the part of the Chicago. New York and Boston interests to prevent such Legislation. The Southern Pacific Is now at Yuma and its managers feel

 the necessity of pushing their road

 eastward a few hundred miles as soon

 as possible, and at latest adviccs of a

 trustworthy character, they were dis cussing the advisabiity of this ad- vance They have the means and

 material, and the question with them seems to be whether or not it would be safe to run over the Texas Pacific

 ground at this time The apparently

 good prospect, which existed six

 months ago, of compromise with the Texas Pacific whereby the Southern

 Pacific could securely build forward to the Rio Grande, has vanished. We surely hope Congress will at its next session decide upon something definite or that the companies will compro- mise so we can have this and other roads st an early day; for now at least one company stands ready to rapidly put the maIn line through without ad- ditional aid

 Arizona needs above all things a railway through her whole length From what we are reliably informed, the Clifton copper mines alone would load a train every day with metal, if. the cars were within a reasonable dis tance, and this is simply one small section of few miles in extent Look ing at the situation from this point, we repeat our hope that whatever action Congress intends to take affecting the g parallel railroad, will be decisively taken the next Congress. or that the rival companies will compromise and give Us the road
Year: 1877

THE Prescott Enterprise seems sur prised that it is not weekly reminded that the Capital was taken to Prescott by the most barefaced fraud ever per petrated under the forms of law, and that it feebly defends the fraud. Since its frank acknowledgment that it has been the medium for the publication of "pure inventions and cowardly islanders" it would be mere waste of time to notice its bad character
Year: 1877

SINGULAR FoRMATIoYs.-The cb.roo.
ter of the bed rock at and near Point
Bar, on Trinity River, is very different
from the general run OF river mines. Tn
a general way deep places in the bed
rock, unless they are regular channels or
crevices pay nothing; the pay dirt rot
extending below the level ofthe surround.
ing rock, but continuing along in the
gravel at that level. At and near Point
Bar the reverse is the case, the best and
richest pay having been always found in
deep depressions of the bed rock. On
Point Bar itself some four or five Of these
deep places have been found. filled with
big powders and blue gravel, rich IN
gold. The deep places are from thirty
to hundred yards long, fifteen to thirty
yards in width and OF varying deptb
One in the river, q short distance below
the old store and garden, was twenty
feet deeper than the water in the channel.
and looked like long, deep hole in the
bed rock, as in fact it was. Hughes &
Wallace have found two such depres-
sions in their claim opposite Garden Bar
one mile below, both OF which prospect
we'll ; and so far as worked have paid
well. 1t is the only place along the riv-
er that we know Of where anything like IA
"pothole" pays anything below the lev
ell Of the surrounding rock.
Year: 1877

LET Us CELEDRATE-Tlis communl-
ty IS becoming pretty we'll aroused on
the School House subject and determi-
nation Is manifested to raise ample means
for the erection of such building with
in the present year. The Dramatic En-
tertainment, mentioned elsewhere, was a
financial success, and others to follow
will undoubtedly be we'll patronized. An,
other means devised is the giving of a
Grand Ball and Supper on the Fourth
of July, the ladies Of Weaverville being
invited to furnish the Supper, which it is
well, known they can and will do. In
order to make a deserving success of this
Ball our citizens should at once take steps
to get up something in the way of a
Fourth Of July celebration attractive
enough to bring people from the outside
to town on that day. Men, women and
children living in the smaller towns OF
the county like to come to the county
seat occasionally and if something inter-
esting could be gotten up for the occasion
we heleve many would visit Weaver on
the Fourth and attend our School Ball,
that would not come under other cir
cGmstances. Let "A few of our prominent
citizens take this matter in hand and see
that we have an appropriate celebration
on the Fourth OF July.
Year: 1877

WILL REsUME.-The Trinity Quick
silver Mining Company which last year
quit work just as they struck into rich
and apparently extensive vein Of CHINA
bar, will now resume work with the in
tention Of proving the extent and rich
ness Of the vein discovered. Hon. W.
j. Tinnin has gone to Cinnabar District
and will personally superintend the work
in the mine.
Year: 1877

UrsET.-We arc credbly informed
that our old friend John How, who car
ries the Trinity Center mail in a little
gig, met with an upset one day this week
while passing freight team on the Rush
Creek grade. No damage done.
Year: 1877

HosED FOR THE SEASON.. G.


.tler informs us that this week will
piping, and work in the Union Hill
N Will be closed for the season. The
" was in a terribly bad condition
Il frotter took hold of it last year,
4 now in @ condition for making a
'ald winters work next year, The
4en top which checked work year
Pas been moved up to solid earth all
4nd and the course of the pay streak
9Ser two hundred feet in width ex-


Trot says the claim now shows
'77er +" wash than ever before and


miner knows that to be a good in
Year: 1877

FouRTH or July BALL.-Our readers
OF ursehave not forgotten the announce
ment made in these columns several


weeks ago to the effect that Grand Ball
would be given here upon the evening
of July 4th, for the benefit of the School
Building Fund of Weavervile District.
The affair will be taken IN charge by
Messrs NJ. f. Griffin, w. |. Hu1p and
II. Clifford, Trustees of the District, and


the hearty operation of the ladies will
be invited for upon their enthusiasm and
good offices will the success of the affair
in great measure depend. Before an
other issue of the JOURNAL the Trustees
will meet and make the preliminary ar
rangements necessary to inaugurate a
Grand Ball and Supper, and next week


we will be enabled to give more particu
lars as to the programme decided upon.
A fair start is all that is needed to insure
the success OF an enterprise of this kind.
a new school house is a positive necessi-
ty, and we are well satisfied that every
individual in the community will. do all
that is possible to assist the laudable en-
terprise of raising means to erect a de
cent, comfortable school building for the
use OF the rising generation in our midst
Year: 1877

shall not work officially in u diocese
without express authority In writing Of
the bishop Of that diocese, nor shall she
exercise her Office among people Of any
parish except with permission and under
overnight Of the minister thereof. A dea.
conesS or sister shall not take any VOW Of
perpetual obligation as regards her Office,
and may at any time resign the same TO
the ecclesiastical authority from which
she received II; but, having once resigned
her Office, she shall not be reappOinted
unless in the judgment Of the bishop such
reSignation was for weighty Caure.


A deaconess or sister may be transfer.
red from one diocese 10 another upon the
request Of the Bishop Of the diocese 10
which she was transferred.


The constitution and rules for home
government Of any institution for train.
ing deNcOnCsses or sisters, or Of any com.
munity In which said deaconesaeS or sis.
ters are associated, shall have the sane.
tiOn in writing Of the Bishop Of the dio.
cese in which such institution or commu.
nifty exists. Books Of devotion and
fOrmularies Of worship used in such in.
stitution or community shall have like
sanction, and shall DO in harmony with
the usages OF this Church and the princi.
plea OF the Book Of Common Prayer. Re.
ferred to the Committee on CanOnS.