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Year: 1877

At a recent meeting of the Scottish Society of Arts, Dr. Maccadam read paper on butterine from oxen, in which he claimed tbat it was quite as pure as butter. He said the original or raw material now used was the best OK suet, which was taken in a thor oughly fresh state. and the membran- ous parts being cut away, was gently heated in steam pan until the finer and purer parts of the fat was liquefed. This was then run off, and while still warm, was skinned repeatedly, and thereafter allowed to cook. The semi solid fat thus obtained was pressed through bags for further purification, after which it was churned with some milk, and kneaded and salted in the usual way. In chemical properties, the butterine which was thus obtained, was almost identical with ordinary but. ter, the only difference being few per cent. of volatile fatty acids form ing butyrine in the true butter. Fully 90 per cent. of both butter and but. terine consisted of the more liquid fats, which were common to both; in fact, the butter was practically the animal lat which the COW had passed through the udder in the milk, from which it was manufactured, and the butterine was the finer part of the animal fat, which the OK had stored up in the suet from which it was manufactured.
Year: 1877

We hear great deal about the

 river Pruth in these days, and shall

 hear more of it when the Russians be.

 gin to cross over it into Roumania.

 My attention has been called to TO-

 nance connected with it, just published

 in a Bucharest journal. In the month of January last a peasant living upon

 the Pruth started for the market town

 with his sledge, having with him his wife and four children. In the alter noon the party was pursued by pack of wolves. The horse was put into a galop at once, but was to heavily weighted to do much running, and the beasts were soon tapping their jaws within a few paces of the party. See ing that escape by flight was out of the question, the father seized one of his children and threw it out to the pack. The poor victim was soon de- voured, and before the sledge had gone half mile the wolves were again upon it. Another child was sacrificed, and then another and the fourth and last had just been thrown out when relief came in sight. In her despair the mother went to the author ities and denounced her husband as an assassin. He was arrested, kept two months in prison, and brought up for trial last week. There was great excitement in the court when he re. lated the story of the shocking sacri. flee. The judges said at the end that if he had not resigned himself to be he would have lost his children all the same, and with them his wife and his ,wn life. He was acquitted. -N r. Times Cor.
Year: 1877




We had the pleasure of inspecting,
the other day, at the establishment Of
Messrs. Golay-Leresche & Sons, Place
des Bergues, most handsome and in
genious silver clock. This clock, which
is of the sort known as chronometer q
faesee, tells the hours and the half sec
onds. To the left of the large dial is a
plate whereon are placed the signs of the
zodiac; lower down are two smaller dials
on which are indicated the days of the
month and the days of the week respec-
lively. To the right is an enameled
plate which is connected with an anerc'
barometer and acts as weather-gauge;
another gives the temperature.


The casket in which the clock is en-
shrlned is Ornamented at its exterior
angles with four figures symbolic of the
four seasons. The interior is adapted for
the reception of jewelry and other oh
Jects of price, and the whole is surmount-
ed with beautifully-carved group in
frosted silver. Nor is it a silent group.


On a spring being touched there
emerges from the hollow trunk of tree
little bird of exquisite plumage that
whistles the first bars of lively meas
ure. A shepherd, seated on a rock, con-
tinues the tune with his pipe; the little
bird answers, and the concert continues
until each has whistled and piped three
times. Whilst this is going on a cat
comes from a corner and creeps softly
towards the bird and bounds on his prey.
At this moment both disappear and the
music stops. The attitudes Of all are
thoroughly natural The fingers of the
shepherd move to the tune, when play
ing to the bird his head turns in that
direction, the latter futters its wings
and opens its mouth in the most correct
way Imaginable, and the way puss darts
on her prey is true to life.
Year: 1877

A GOOD beginning: CA fact.) Youth
full aspirant to manager-And what line
of business do you think l am best suit
ed for? Manager-Ch, think you had
better go in for general utility at first.
Y. A.-General Utility! Oh, then, will
you let me know where l can get a regi-
mental uniform to play the part in
Funny Folks.
Year: 1877

Tonight, William Morrow clio ses out bis
Clothing Store, at the corner of Third and
Market streets. If you want to save very
heavy percentage on Fall and Winter Cloth
ing, call on him to-day or tonight.
Year: 1877

you to follow me further. In nv
Judgment can no longer serve you by
further resistance to the impending
calamity.


With gratitude to God for the meas.
ure OF endurance with which he has
hitherto inspired mo; with gratitude to
you for your boundless confidence in
me; with profound admiration for your
matchless fidelity to the cause in which
we have struggled now announce to
you and to the people of the State that
l shall no longer actively assert my
right to the Office of Governor of South
Carolina.


The motives and purposes of the
President of tho United States in the
policy which compels me to pursue my
present course are unquestionably
honorable and patriotic. l devoutly
pray that events may vindicate the
wisdom of his action and that peace,
Justice, freedom and prosperity may
hereafter be the portion of every
citizen of South carolina.


(Stgned,j D. H. CHAMBERLAIN, --~


Governor of South Carolina.


The other Republican State officials
unite in card declaring Chamberlain
to be the legal Governor, but endors.
ing his course in declining to continue
the contest without the aid of the gen.
eral government.


A correspondence between Hampton
and Chamberlain is also published ,
wherein Chamberlain consents to meet
such official as Hampton may desig.
nate, and turns over the executive
office.
Year: 1877

A nice question of taste Jeweller
what kind of a chain would you
like! Young Maxwell, I don't
know, hardly. What kind of chain
would you think ought to have that
is, what style would you think would
be the most becoming for a young man
that carries groceries to some Of the
best families III town.
Year: 1877

A Chinese printing Office is great
er curiosity than one would think.
The alphabet numbers way into thous-
ands, and cap and lower case goes all
the way round the inside of a two
story building and half way up the
roof. 1t takes an apprentice twenty
years to learn the case, and then he has
to use step.ladder to get at the high
er branches. A case was once pied in
Canton, land it took five days to remove
the type from the form Of the fore.
man. They punctuate wherever they
can drop a dot, without regard to the
prospective. When the editor coins
word the printer whittles out new
character with his jack-knife. The
journeymen set by the square foot, and
never belong to a union. They do
their press-work by hand, and use box
ing gloves to ink the type. They have
one paper in the empire thousand
years old, and the bound volumes half
fill pagoda. 1t is rumored that Ben
nett has started to edit that venerable
paper. The editors head is response.
bic for all items published in the paper.
and is taken off whenever an article of
news is published. Not an editor has
been beheaded in China for. the last
five hundred years. The Chinese have
just invented a twenty-five cylinder
press for printing tea chests, with
which they are able to print one a
week,-San Francisco Monitor.
Year: 1877

THE Silver Bill is an act that will not
be defeated. It will go into the political
arena until silver is again made legal>
tender, no matter who opposes 1.-THE
people will not have one money to pay
wages and another and dearer one to pay
bondholders and mortgages with.
Year: 1877

IT was in Boston. a low, musical
sound came from the closet under the
stairs, and the mother listened. 1t was
her little son softly singing to himself,
81 need thee every hour" "How glad
am that | took my boy to hear that
sermon on CLOSET Devotions' at the Tab
ernacle last evening," said she. Then
she could not forbear stepping quietly to
the closet door TO catch glimpse at the
"dear child" the "precious lam b.
"bless his heart :" So she did. And
she saw him-saw him devoutly engaged
in humming that revival hymn, and also
running his finger around in the pre-
serve jar And there the devotions
broke up-brolle up amid groans Of re-
pentence for sin found out.-PecA.
Year: 1877

PEOPLE have been talking a good deal
lately about middle-aged young lady
who has held for long while that it is
better to remain unmarried, as single
people are less trammelled in their efforts
to do good in the world, and there was
some thought of inviting her to go out
TO Burmah as a missionary but last
week she married bald headed widow
er, with seven children, who chewed to-
bacco and was addicted to drink.-Nor-
Utch bulletin.
Year: 1877

The Inflated Brooklyn Theatre was con-
structed on ;he site of St. Johns church,
which had been surrounded with cemetery
Mrs. Conway felt nervous about the place
from the first day it was proposed. She was
superstilous, and feared the dcsecration OF
hallowed ground. From the first the place
failed to pay. She lived on the floor above
the main entrance, and often her superstitious
dread of the place WAS so great that she would
go and pass the night at some hotel. What
ADDED to her terror and dislike was the fact
that she began sinking money from the first,
and little by little her small fortune went
away from her. Then her husband died and
among his last words was recommendation
to leave the fatal place Two years later MIS-
Conway herself was stricken with sickness
When first placed on her bed she said
she would die unless removed to some
other place, Bat she was persuaded TO remain
In her hallucination she hncied she heal I'd
bones of the dead beneath The theatre rattle in
their boxes.
Year: 1877

The Republicans are still squirming. The
latest dodge to defeat TiIden is that Grant is
Of the opinion that an outgoing President is
not empowered with the right to call session
Of the new House of Representatives in case
there is no Presidential election by the 4th of


arch. Ii is simply the custom, he says, Of
the outgoing President TO invite the Senate to
assemble at the Inauguration Of the incoming
President. Undoubtedly Grant wishes the
election may not be made lie disregards and
regards law and justice to suit his own pur-
poses.
Year: 1877

The avidiiy with which the Radical press
grasp at straws is evidenced by the Baltimore
american, which comments at length upon a
few lines written by Mr.. Hayes TO a friend
while in the army, which is remarkable for
not hing, and only evinces IA little natural feel
ing by that gentleman for his opposing broth
ers IN arms.
Year: 1877

MISTAKEN IDENTITY Several instances havc
lately been nofcd Of mistaken Identification Of
bodies, and the subsequent return of the sup
posed dead men. The case of one Martin
Monohan is exceptionally odd lie dsap-
peared from Louisville, and few days after
ward The remains of a murdered man were
identified and buried rs his His love affairs
were overhaued by the police, and the theory
as to why he had been killed was worked out
Recently he returned alive, and was so elaled
in finding that he had not been murdered that
he went on spree and nearly killed himself
with whisky.
Year: 1877

THEY were sitting together, he and
she, and he was arduously thinking
what to say. Finally he burst out
with SIN this land OF noble achieve
ments land undying glory, why Is 1t
that women do not come more to the
front; Iwhy is it that they do not
climb the ladder Of fame?" Il sup
pose" said she, putting her finger in
her mouth, "it is all on account OF
their pull backs" And then she
sighed and be sighed, side by side.
Year: 1877

In a meeting of the Cincinnati Chamber Of
Commerce on Saturday, after a speech by Mr.
Smith. the persons present passed resolutions
urging a postponement of resumption. 1t was
claimed that it was "utterly lmpracticable
for the Government to resume at the date
fixed in the act of 1875, and ex-SeCrptary
Bristow was named by Mr.. Smith as authority
for the assertion. So it seems that Mr. Smith,
of The Gazette, and ex-Sacretary Brstow have
arrived at the precise position occupied by the
repudiating Democracy in the last Presidential
campaign; they want to repeal a solemn pledge OF
the United States to do aceTtain thing at fixed
time, because in their opinion, it "cannot be
done without great loss to the business COM
"munity" But the difference between these
persons who demand the indefinite postpone
"ment' of pledge of the public faith, and
those others who, on the very same pretcxts,
spent last Fall in clamOTing for the repeal of
that pledge, is one which we cannot discover.


We cannot cheer defenders of the public
faith by saying that this meeting is of no conse-
quence. 1t demands reputation of pledge of
the United States, but the Democrats of Ohio,
who demanded the same thing III 1870, and
again in 1876, seem now to be reinforced by
men who then thought it exceedingly improper
TO propose anything so dishonorahle. 1t is not
mite clear that the old repudiatOrs, with the
new advocates of indefinite pOStpOnement,
NAV not be majority in the State
of Ohio. and, as the East helped with might
and main to drag Ohio out of the ruin Of re-
pudiation in 1875, and to elect as Governor
the candidate of the hard-mOney men, so it
NAV be necessary hereafter for Eastern in
tIncnce to defend President and his financial
policy against the repudatOrs and the timid
and tricky politicians of the State from which he
came. Any repeal OF postponement of the act of
1875 is simply reputation of pledge of the
public faith. All over the country, citizens
have made or refused contracts relying upon
that pledge; the banks and insurance and other
financial companies have adjusted their busi-
ness to meet the change thus promised; and
the repeal of that pledge would be an act OF
the most bold and bare faced reputation.


1t cannot be honestly said that resumption is
impossible at the date now fixed. Impossible
without loss and Inconvenience to some people,
it certainly is at this time, and as certainly
will be at any other time. But precisely the
arguments which are urged to excuse it now
will be urged, after one postponement, or two,
or three, to excuse it yet again. There will
always be loss to somebody in the return to
specie values, but the loss will be less at this
time, if the Government moves fearlessly for
ward, than at any future day.
Year: 1877




1t is difficult to believe that Grover of Ore
gon is fraud" or that he has ever done
anything inconsistent with his attitude of un-
selfish devotion to the cause of Reform. We
can hardly bring ourselves to entertain for Il
moment the suspicion that Grover bought his
election as Senator from Oregon. But they
seem not only to be suspecting it up there
in Oregon, but actually proving it, Members
of the Legislature who had been pledged
to vote for Mr. Nesmith. familiarly known
as "Old Nes," and who repudiated the
pledge and voted for Grover without any
visible cause, were subsequently found to
be taking up mortgages in a surprising man
ner; purchasing saw-mIls in such abrupt and
unexpected fashion as To excite remarks from
their neighbOrs, who never supposed that IL
steamboats, were selling for a cent apiece, they
had money enough to buy gangplank; show
ing up twenty dollar gold pieces and doing
all the other ridiculous things that men drop
into with the possession of unusual and doubt
fnl ducats. Then there were impecunl0us mem
hers seen coming from Growers room counting
up sums of money, and one fellow who cap
"proached" Nesmth with corrupt PROPOSE
ton, and said at the same time that he could
get money for his vote and thought it was
right TO take it. has skipped into the noun
tain Businesses, "a hundred miles from
"homen, to elude the vigilance of a United
States Marshal who wants him as witness
All these things have bad look for Grover.
Year: 1877

II Is a grave public misfortune that the
Board of Health finds ITSELF at tins season of
the year, unable to put into operation its or
dinary machinery for checking the heavy NOR
tality among the poorer classes. Within the
last two weeks the figures of the mortality list
have mounted up swiftly and steadily until
they exceeded those of the exceptionally hot
season of last year. More than half the deaths
are among the tenement-hOuse population
Just where the Board of Health wishes to work
and cannot, just where it is easy to believe that
their work would be effective in saving per
baps many scores of lives. 1t is not always
easy to fix the responsibility of such compl-
cations where there are two departments III
the case, but the Board of ApportiOnment may
rest assured that, If it proposes to take at any
time the action of which the Board of Health
is desirous, the public would be glad to see 1t
take it at once. If there is red tape in the
way, the red tape ought to be cut, when lives
are in question.
Year: 1877

We have already shown to what extortiOn and
outrage prisoners for debt are subjected when
in the She1iii's hands; we show this morning
something of what they suffer before they get
there. The tender mercies of deputy-sherifi'
may, it seems, make man glad to get into
iail-eyen into LudlOw-st. jail.
Year: 1877

Another tornado has wrought its work of de-
struction on promising Western village. The
loss of life at Pensaukee, Wis, is happily much
less than that at Mount Carmel, but the dam
age to property is very great for so small a
town. That, with the loss of life. makes a
shocking record for a storm that lasted but two
minutes.
Year: 1877

Evidently the half has not been told us OF insur-
ance frauds in general, and of the frauds of the
American Popular Life in particular. Elsewhere
are narrated some ofthe discoveries which the
Receiver has already made in the books OF that
Company. 1t argues poorly for human nature
that any number of men should have been
willing to continue year after year such sys-
TEN of false swearing, falsifying of accounts.
fraudulent aad deceptive issues of stock, &c.,
as the Receiver asserts he has discovered from
the Companv's accounts, and his figures may
be fairly said to prove. 1t argues poorly
for our system of superintendent that
it should have been possible for the officers OF
the Company to cover up the gaps in their ac-
counts just before the period for the annual
examination by issues of bogus stock and 10y fiat
perjury about the condition of their surplus
The story of the inside operations of this Com
pany is evidently still incomplete, but the
glimpse Of it which we get this morning Will
arouse a general desire to see the whole truth
land bare, and the full vigor of the law invoked
against the men who have violated it.
Year: 1877

to show an instance in which the Society has
unjusti6ably invaded a home or infrlnged upon
the rights of parents before they condemn an
association which is certainly doing good An
instance of its work is told to-day in which two
young children were rescued from drunken and
neglectful parents, too late, perhaps to save
one from death by starvation, but not too late
to save the other. In this great city there are
many helpless and suffering little creatures, and
n Society that makes them its only care deserves
the sympathy and aid of the community.
Year: 1877

1t is always a good time to make short
work of the makers of vile literature. 1t is
difficult to understand why these men, of all
others. should be able to fight off the day of
trial so long as the five men have been who
were arraigned in court yesterday. If Assistant
District Attorney Russell will put the cases
through now at railroad speed, as he seems
likely to do, he will render the public a
penuine service.
Year: 1877

ISMEMoRY OF rHE SERGEAST.-A Brit
ish color sergeant, shot down and over
rlu by tho enemy, once seized in his
mouth corner Of the flag, And his teeth
locked upon it in the rigidity Of death.
The enemy cut itaway from him, leaving
a bit OF it between his fixed teeth.
Subsequently the standard was retaken,
and ever since the flag Of that regiment
is made with that little piece carefully
cut out, in memory Of the sergeant who
was buried with the fragment in his
mouth. .. .....'
Year: 1877

says Custer and all his men were prob
ably dead when he joined forces with
Captain Benton on the north bank OF the
creek. He does not consider himself
any more responsible for the killing Of
Custer and his men than a man in New
York would have been. On the other
hand he thinks that either the want OF a
definite plan OF battle or mistake OF
Gen. Custer placed the attacking detach-
ment In serious and to some extent un-
necessary jeopardy. He is grieved that
certain papers should charge him with
enmlty towards SO brave a man as Gus
ter.


They were personal friends, he says,
were on the best Of terms, having been
in the military academy at West Point
together, and known each other tor many
years. Major Reno had very little oon-
hdence in the truthfIlness of Sitting
Bull or any other lnuian. He wants no
further vindica ion his character as a
soldier as regards The Little Big Horn
fight, than official reports Of Generals
Sherman, Crook and Terry, and the
statements of the survivors Of The battle.
Subsequent examinations led Major
Reno o believe this to be
the course pursued By Gus
ter, but why Custer should have
e ne on down the creek after finding his
crossing checked, when ne finally made
the creek instead of returning in the
direction OF the remainder OF the com
mand, is IA question Reno is unable 70
determine. His hypothesis is That he
wished 10 make for the mouth of the
creek a few miles away where steam
boat with Gent GibUoD's command
aboard was supposed to be, but that he
soon encountered more Indians, was
overpowered and lost his OVID life and
those Of the Two hundred and sixty
eight men with him.
Year: 1877

to discontinue lighting gas-lamps Oh the
entrance OF Lincoln Park, and Kenner.
opposite DenmAn.


The superintendent OF the Wafer
works was directed to employ the reqnL
site force to repair the streets damaged
by the laying OF branch pipes aud bursts
OF water mains.


The Clerk was directed to advertise
for ten days In the Commercial aud En-
quirer for proposals for cleaning thD
streets, &c by contract.


The Engineer was directed to prepare
an ordinance to establish the grade Of
Linden street, from the New Baltimore
Pike to Spring street; also, Hawthorn
Place from Price avenue TO Warsaw
Pike.


Bills to the amount of $SlS Go were Or
dered paid.
Year: 1877

The Board met in regular session,
all the members present, and President t
Bell in the chair.


The report Of the committee was
adopted, to whom was referred the reso-
luton TO dispense with the services Of
the Assistant Supervisors. They re-
ported in favor of retaining them.


The Clerk was directed to notify the
Cincinnati Gas-light and Coke Company