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Year: 1877

The project of building railroad to
the Black Hills from divers points on
the Union Pacific line is being talked
about by journalists possessed of super
fetal knowledge and impulsive natures,
Just as if all that was necessary to con-
struct such road was simply to re-
solve so to do, ond then proceed with
the work. 1t seems to be taken for
granted that men of wealth like Jay
Gould need but raise their magic wand
and say, "Let it be done," and the
work will go on as a matter of GER
taipty. These omniscient and potent
journalists are respectfully asked,
Have yeu ever counted on the cost of
this little enterprise? And has it oc-
Cured to you that thedifference in
the cost of few miles may overbal-
ance all the desired preferences for any
special locality A careful considera-
tion of this question leads us to the
conclusion that, surprising as it may
seem, a railway from any point on the
| road to the Hills will cost not less than
four millions of dollars. Twenty miles
of distance in the length of such road
may make the snug little difference Of
half million. Other things being
therefore equal as between Sidney and
Cheyenne, it is obvious that Sidney,
the nearest point to the Hills, would
get the preference; but here the ques-
tion arises, first, as to the relative
character of the routes, as to the gra-
dients and cost of grading; and second,
as to the influence and assistance which
can be brought to bear by these locali-
ties. AS to the first proposition, We
are unable at present to speak, the sur
| veys not having been made, but upon
the second much can be said on both
sides. There is much room for careful
consideration. First of all, the bonus
which can be assured to the Union Pa
cific projectors is unquestionably favor
able to Cheyenne. Its citizens are
wide awake and more able than those
of Sidney, and there is no doubt that
Denver, which is also interested in
direct line to the Hills, would give
them material assistance. Then, again,
it would make the Kansas Pacific and
! Union Pacific both vehicles of through
shipment. That the enterprise of
road to the Hills is not a matter of
child's play is evinced by the fact that
the Union Pacific directors at their
last meeting, though favorable to a
road, did not consider themselves able
to complete more than hundred miles
this year. and depend for its further
extension upon part of the returns of
the first one hundred miles. Omaha
| Bee.
Year: 1877

Washington, March 13.-Ex-Secreta-
ry Fish called to pay his respects to
Alexander H. Stephens to-day, and


passed some time in conversation.


Stephens said he was glad President
Hayes was shaping his policy something
after that of Gen. Washington, by call
ing around him good and true men,
without regard to their political or
partisan antecedents. He predicted
lasting benefit to the country
if the policy shall be carried out.
Stephens also said, as to the southern
policy: "All that the people of the
south desire is to be left to themselves
to govern themselves as may seem
best to them-and all Hayes can or
need do is to see that their govern
ments are republican in form, and that
they obey the laws and keepthe peace. y
Year: 1877

2uIdho oBRIDGEPoRT. Conn, June s.


A terrible fire and accident occurred in
this city during last night about u o'clock
fire was discovered in Sanford & Sons
hat factory, in East Bridge street. Part
of the building was entirely destroyed.
During the progress of the fire, a large
number of persons where in the building
when the walls suddenly gave way, bury
ing many in the ruins. Thirteen bodies
have been taken from the debris, and it
is thought many more are still under the
ruins
Year: 1877

owing to an action OF tho Board OF Health great
deal OF trouble will be caused among tue stable owners
in this city. II appears that the learned health off.
Gals at Of their recent meetings, passed tho fol-
loving preamble and resolutions


Whereas the accumulation Of manure any part oi tho


hesolved That no permit wiz be granted 10 dump
store manure st any season Of the year


Resolved, lhat on the 1st OF November the Sanitary
supsrnendent report a,i violations Of the Sanitary Code


Resolved That tns secretary send copies Of these
ons in the city whose names are known 10 the
department


These resolutions naturally caused great excite
mcnt among tho manure Dealers and many OF them
have endeavored to rcscnd their contracts to take the
manure from the large stables. One ana all OF the
contractors and stable keepers denounce tho
action Of The Board OF Health unjust and partial
Some OF the stable keepers ana n few contractors
clam that the action OF the Board Of Health was prop
agated by a certain 'bang company" VINO are en-.
deavorng to get into business ID tins city oae large
stable keeper expressed his opinion to the writer re-
Gently in the following manner


You see, tins baling company would compel US
to pay them 10 take our manure away. they
were 10 business once and failed because they were
Obliged TO pay Tor the manure the anybody
else think they are now trying to get the Board Of
Health drive the contractors OF the business,
and then the held would be clear Tor them. We have
got 10 get our manure out OF the way and cannot
haul II ourselves, they would step by ordcr OF
! the Board and take ". They would be compelled to
have yard the same the contractors, anu do not
sco "ny thcH yhtd would not DC just as much OF
nuisance a. contrac ors. There IS one thing do
know, and that Is that will not let W my
tract one nch and snal INSIST that the contractor
remove my manure every day y


THE SANITARY CODE.


Section 100 oi The SANITARY Code referred In tho
resolutions IL provides that no nuisance shall be
perpctrated wthn the built up portions OF the city
without permit from tho Board oi Heath. Section
liz provides That no person shall Interfere in any way
with the proper anu ree use oi any per sot apart for
| The use OF contractor who is engaged in
removing onal, garoaac rubbish, dirt, &c.
Section 1l3 provides that every contractor who is
engaged In the removal oi offensive substances shall
Year: 1877

The sudden cold snap OF yesterday stimulated the
Fire Department to examine the dre hydrants
throughout the city and prepare them for tho ex-
pccted frost. A thorough inspection will be mado
and Methods arranged prevent freezing this winter
Year: 1877

Ire,urn my sincere thanks to my
cid customers fo- their generous
patronage. and trust they will not
forget to call ON me at my new To-
cation. ! will give three square
meals of the best provender for
One Dollar. First class colored
gentlemen always in attendance to
see stock elegantly entertained


October II.
Year: 1877

The New York Tribune recently gave
a swindling jewelry firm the following
notice: "Coles e. Co., dealers in
watches and jewelry,' and doing business
at No. 1856 Broadway, have lately been
advertising their business, offering goods
represented to be gold and precious
stones at exceedingly low prices, which
would naturally attract unwary persons
The advertisements are confined to pa
pers which have a circulation outside of
the city, and they conclude with the an
nouncement; we have no brass or
Milton jewelry. We sell only sohd gold
and plated The prices quoted by the
firm are so very low that a reporter was
sent yesterday to ascertain if the goods
were genuine and the business legitimate,
On entering the building there was moth
ing to indicate that jewelry business
was carried on by the firm. There was
no display of goods. The proprietor of
the establishment appeared somewhat
surprised at a purchaser from the city
and exhibited TO the reporter a samp e
of his goods. What was sold as a fine
coral pin proved to be made of sealing
wax and some other inferior material
Colored window glass was represented
to be amethyst, topaz, and other costly
stones. The proprietors attention was
called to the fact that this advertisement
represented them to he genuine stones,
TO which he replied that anybody knows
hat they capt be genuine at the prices
we sell them, but we just say that to
make the advertisement more attractive
The reporter purchased what was called
pair of elegant gold-plated, engraved
sleeve buttons" and carried them to a
respectable jeweler, who tested them with
aquafortis, which Immediately showed
the material to be brass. SHIRT studs,
collar buttons, watch chains and other
goods were examined with the same re-.
suit. When the reporter left the es.
tablishment, the proprietor was endeay-
oring to induce him to purchase solid
gold diamond pin for four dollars, war
ranted genuine"
Year: 1877

"I'vE often seen men, said veteran
General, "whO could stand a fire of shell
and canister without showing any sign
of uneasiness, but neveryet saw a man
who could sit in a room where bottle
of soda was about to be opened without
screwing up his eyes and looking nerv-
ousn
Year: 1877

WATER DRINKING Improper drink,
ing of water has killed thousands There
have been instances where thirsty armies,
after long marches, have come to some
river, when the men would lie down on
their faces and quaff an ordinary quantity
of water, with these results some died
almost Instantly, others became crazy and
staggered like drunken men. Avoid drink
ing water as much as possible while
marching. When You feel dry, rinse The
mouth with water, but do not swallow it.
Drink only when resting, or before the
word is given to march. Men, when
heated, should not drink anything cold.
In a high state of presperation ice water
only aggravates thirst. Drink slowly :;
half tumbler of water will suffice the
thirstiest man in the world, if he drinks
by sips, and swallow each time-it will
quench thirst better than quart drank
in the usual manner. Intact, it is almost
impossible to get down a full glass of
water, taken in this manner.
Year: 1877

RIVER OF INK. - The Cumberland
AHeqLanian states that the wa1sr from
the mines above Cumberland isSimpreg-
mated with sulphate of iron, the result OF
the oxidation of sulphuret of iron in the
coal, and flows into Wills creek. The re-
port goes on to say ''The creek is now
very low and but very small body OF
water flows down its bed At the head OF
the city are two extensive tanneries, and
in the tanning of hides large quantities OF
tannic and gailic acids are poured into the
stream. As soon as these acids come IN
contact with the snlphate of iron the water
becomes black, as is now the case IN front
of our city. There are millions OF gallons
of ink now lying in the bed OF the creek,
which needs but bottling and packing to
make salable article for expectation.
Year: 1877

NEVER SPEAK ILL OF WOMAN
The following admoaition should be read
by young men and not few old ones
Never use lady's name in an improper
place at any improper time, or IN mixed
company. Never make assertions about
her that you think to be untrue, or allus-
ions that she herself would blush to hear.
When you meet with men who do not
scruple to use woman's name IN reck-
less manner, shun them they are the
very worst members Of the community !;
men lost to every sense of honor, every
feeling of humanity. Many good and
worthy woman character has been forever
ruined and her heart broken by lie,
manufactured by some villain, and re-
peated when it should not have been, and
in presence Of those whose little judg-
ment could not deter them from circulat-
ing the foul and Dragging report. A
slander is soon propagated, and the
smallest thing derogatory to a woman's
character will fly on the wings Of the
wind, and magnify as it circulates, until
its monstrous weight crushes the poor un-
conscious victim. Respect the name OF
| woman. Your mothers and sisters are
women, and as you would have their fail
| name untarnished and their lives unem


bittered by the slanderer's bitter tongue,
heed the i'll your own words may bring
upon the mother, the sister, or the wife oi


some fellow creature.
Year: 1877

WRINKLE ABOUT THE AGE OF HORSES.
The following information as to ascer-
tanning the age Of horse, after it has
passed the ninth year, is quite new to
us, and will be to most of our readers
After the horse is nine years old, a wrinkle
comes on the eyelid, at the upper corner
of the lower hid, and every year thereafter
he has one well defined wrinkle on each
year of his age over nine. Ii, for instance,
a horse has three wrinkles, he Is twelve.
Add the number of wrinkles to nine, and
you will always get at his age.
Year: 1877

AN enterprising man Of business makes
the following announcement Having
lust returned home from scientific trip
through Europe, and a tour of observation
to Palestine and Egypt, | am now better
prepared than ever for cleaning clothes
and carpets.
Year: 1877

How TO INCREASE THE Flow OF MILK.
A lady correspondent of southern
paper, writing from Arkansas, gives the
following receipt to increase the flow OF
milk in a COW. She says " Tepid water,
slightly salted, given twice day, will in
crease the flow of milk one third if the
COW will not drink it at the first trial, seat
ter a handful of bran over the top of it.
They soon become very fond Of it and will
drink all You give them. l tried this
plan three years ago with perfect success


l have only one COW, and she was of the
common scrub stock of the country, and
after she began to drink the water, pre-
pared as above, she furnished me twice a
day two water bucketsfull of milk, and by
feeding a little corn boiled with cotton
seed, the milk yielded butter enough to
suply my table bountifuliy and leaves me
few pounds to sell every week. l gave
her three gallons of water twice day."
Year: 1877

ALL THE DIEfERENCE.-Ac colored man
to whom meat was rare blessing, one
day found in hio trap plump rabbit He
took him out alive, held him under his
arm, patted him and began to speculate
on his qualities. .Oh, how berry fat
DE latest | ever did see Let US see how
me cook him. Me roast him, no he be
so berry fat, he loose all de grease. Me fry
hun! All, he be very fat, he fry hisself
Cooley how fat he be ! Den me stew
HIM. " The thought of the savoury stew
made the nigger forget himself, and in
spreading out the feast to his Imagination
his arm relaxed, when off hoped the rab-
bit, and squatting at goodly distance,
eyed his last owner with great composure.
The negro knew there was an end of the
matter, so summoning all his philosophy,
he thus addressed the rabbit ''You long
cared, white.WhiSkered, red-eyed rat, you
not SO berry fat after all -
Year: 1877

deem just and for incidental expenses Of said
convention. which amounts shall be certified
to the territorial auditor, by the president
of said convention; and the auditor is here
byrequired to draw a warrant for said amount
certified as aforesaid in favor of such persons
on the territorial treasurer, and the treasurer
is authorized 10 pay the same out OF any
money not otherwise appropriated.


SEC. l. That the counties OF Idaho, Sho-
shone and Nez Perce, in the territory OF
Idaho, are requested to elect delegate to
said convention, who shall be member OF
said convention with the privilege Of the
for, but shall not be entitled to vote, and
the sum Of 500 is hereby appropriated as
the compensation of said delegate.
Year: 1877

There is said to be young man in
the Missouri penitentiary whose pa
rents at their death left him fortune
of $4,000. There is where his parents
made a mistake. If they bad taken
the precaution to invest that sum in q
small dog and shot him, and then had
simply left the young man 3 jack-plane
or a wood saw, with printed instruc-
tons how to use it, the chances arc
that instead OF being in the peniten-
tiary he would to o-day have been gradu-
ally but surely working bis way up to
handsome competency aud an honor
able old age. But ever since the days
of Adam and Eve. parents have made
il a point to toll and struggle all their
lives 10 order to realize a sufficient sum
OF money to purchase, when they are
dead and gone, their sons each inst
class through ticket to the devil. and
il Is not much 10 be wondered al that
20 many OF their sons. reared 10 vice
and idlcuess. az too many Of th-m OF
ten are, have no higher ambition than
to invest their iDberi;snce 10 just that
sort of transportation.
Year: 1877

For twenty-three years old Jake
Willard has cultivated the soil of Bald
win county, and drawn therefrom a
support for himself and wife. He is
child ess. Not long ago Jake left the
house in search of missing COW. His
route led him through an old worn out
patch of clay land, Of about six acres
in extent, in the centre Of which was
we'll twenty. five or thirty feet deep, that
at some time, probably, had furnished
the inmates Of dilapidated house near
by with water. In passing by this spot
n i'll wind lifted Jake's tile from his
head and maliciously waited it to the
edge of the we'll. and in it tumbled.


Now Jake had always practiced the
virtue Of economy, und he Immediately
set about recovering the lost hat. He
IAN to the we'll, and finding it was dry
at the bottom, be uncoiled the rope
which he had brought with him for the
purpose of capturing the COW, and after
several attempts to catch the hat with
moose, he concluded to save time by
going into the Well himself. 10 ac-
complish this he made fast one end OF
the rope to II stump hard by, and was
quickly on his way down the well.


tits a fact, of which Jake was no less
oblivious than the reader hereof, that
Ned Wells was in the dildpidated
building aforesaid, and that an old
blind horse, with bell on his neck,
who had been turped omt to die, was
lazily grazing within short distance
of the we'll.


The devil himself or some other
wicked spirit put it mo Ned's c:aui-
um to have little fun, SO lie quietly
slipped up 20 the old horse and un-
buckled the bell.strap, approaching
with slow, measured ting a...iug' to the
edge of the well.


Dang that old blind horse, said
Jake, he's a,comin' th way sure and
amt got no more sense than to fall 10
here. Whoa, Ball


But the continued approach of the
ting.a ling id just as plainly as WORDS
that Ball wouldn't whoa. Besides
Jake was at the bottom restine, before
trying to shin it up the rope.


Great jerusalem said be, the old
cuss will be top Of me before can
say Jack Robinson. Whoa dang you,
whoap


just then Ned drew up 10 the edge
of tie we'll, and with his foot kicked
little dirt into it.


oh, Lord I exclaimed Jake, falling
upon his knees at the bottom. I'm
gone now, whoa. Now / lay me down
to sleep-w.h-o-a, Ball. pray the
Lord my soul to-w-h-o a, now. Oh,
Lord, have mercy upon me-


Ned could hold in no longer, and
fearful Jake might suffer from his
fright, he revealed himself.


Probably Ned didn't make tracks
with his heels from that well. May be
Jake wasn't up to the top Of itin short
order. and you might think he didn't
try every night for two weeks to get
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, April 25. The mem
bers OF the Commission have left mere
Tor their respective homes. They
had o consultation with the Presi-
dent at which the subject OF Federal
appointments In Louisiana was dis
cussed. but ] could not ascertain that
anything definite was arrived at. A
prominent Democratic candidate for the
Speakership says that he has personal
knowledge that the most Important
Federal appointments In south
Carolina, Georgia and all the
Gulf States are held In abeyance
for Stanley Matthews and Garfield to
trade on In the contest for the Speaker
ship; he says that proposition will be
made to that portion OF Democratic
delegation from those States which are
OF Whig antsoedents, to abandon the
regular Democratic caucus and act In
dependently, the consideration being o
control OF tho Federal patronage in
their respective States. My inform
ant mentioned the names OF several
Democrats who are confidently counted
on to fall In with this programme,
and then showed me letters from every
one OF them pledging their support to
himself as either their first or second
choice. It is certain that the disposal
OF the patronage is being delayed In all
cases where 1t can be done, and recent
events, to say the least, give q strong
color OF probabilityao ths theory OF the
Democratic candidate for Speaker afore-
said. It should be added that the gen.
tleman himself entertains no apprehen-
sion that any OF these Southern Demo
Gratis can be induced to desert the
caucus for any amount OF Federal pa
tronage. BUELL..
Year: 1877

They will and should twine around some
thing as naturally as the vine clings to the
trelis. Yea more-they, too, like the vine,
will reach and feel after support, il haply


they may find one. Failing in this, the
tendrils trail in the trench, burying their
embryo beauty in the soiing blackness
which would have nourished and stimulated
to higher growth had they but something to
hold to, or had they held to what they might.
Right here, you interpose with, =" Love not
the world nor the things OF the world" Nor
would we, overmuch. But we would 4" love
one another" and be content with such
things as we have, which is impossible un-
less we enlist our affections and interest in
people, places, and things about us. Chris.
tian labor goes limping unless we love it,


al don't care for anything" said young
woman. What more melancholy state than
that of supreme indifference Don't care u
is dreadful demon. Whatever he enters
into, be it child, church, or home, will be
destroyed unless he is speedily cast out Bet


ter mount a hobby and ride it to death than
not TO care. Don't care " has killed many
a Sunday school and paralyzed hundreds OF
prayermeetings, We must care. That is what
we are here for, We ought TO thank God that
we have anything to care for, but we never
fully feel the blessedness of this till the object
or the ability to care for it is taken away. Let
us love our homes. Then we will have the
heart to beautify them. What if they are moi
quite to our mind I What if we do have tc
leave them for some other here below, or lol
that Interchangeable one whose preparation
we should have assurance of alreadyY The
vines we have planted will give grateful


shade to other wayfarers; the fruit and
flowers which we have cultured will fulf


their mission of gladness when ours, per
chance, is ended Better care too mucl


than not at all. 1t has been said that 18th,
home we could leave without regret Il
scarcely worth having" Let us love wisely
not too well. When people hate place