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Year: 1879

An exciting incident occurred on the Iron Mountain railroad in Missouri on a recent Saturday night. At Belmont, lady of fine personal appearance and handsomely attired purchased a ticket to go north on the train from Belmont at $50. The train had run about mile, and was at full speed when the lady who had taken passage suddenly arose, and walking suddenly to the door, sprang out into the darkness. In due time the lady again appeared at Belmont, having walking back along the track. She had suffered no injury, but was evidently disturbed in mind. She explained that she was from the South, and was under marriage engagement, but that her stern old grandfather interfered, and that the only chance left was to seek some distant place for the performance of the marriage ceremony. A place on the line of the railroad had been selected, where her lover was to meet her. It ap- peared, however, that the grandfather was in close pursuit, and was even on the same train from Belmont with the fleeing lady, although he was not aware of her near proximity. She caught sight of him, and without hesitation left the car and jumped. After the train had run few miles it was found that the lady was missing. The old gentle man having heard of the circumstance at once concluded that the lady was the one of whom he had been in hot pursuit, and he took the first train back to Bel mont. Before he got there the lady had made known the circumstance, and one so determined to carry out her purpose as she was had no trouble in finding friends. The old gentleman made in quiries for her upon his return, but was started off in the wrong direction. Watch was kept for the expected lover, who was easily recognized from the de- scription the lady has given. Soon after his arrival the two were united legally.
Year: 1879

The official report of the board of inquIry In the Eitz-John Porter case has been approved by the President and the Secretary of War and the general will now be restored to his old rank and position in the army. The report of the board, which consisted of Generals Schofield, Terry and Getty, gives naFrative ofthe events which gave rise to the charges against General Porter, emitting unessential details and limit ing themselves to plain statement of essential facts established by positive proof Concerning the charge of which General Porter was found gullty-not having moved his command on the night of August 27, 1862, in obedience to an order from General Pope - the board reports that il was a manifest physcial impossibility to march over that road that night; that nothing would have been gained by the at tempt, and that it would have been wiseri f General Porter had delayed the attempt still longer than he did; that he exercised the very ordinary discretion of corps commander, and that it was his plain duty to exercise it. The report closes as follows: C General Porter was, in effect condemned for not having taken any part in his own battle Such wus the error upon which General Porter was pronounced guilty the most shameful crime known among soldiers. We believe not one among all the gallant soldiers on that bloody field was less deserving of such condemnation than he The evidence of bad animus in Porter's case ceases to be material in view of the evidence of his soldierly and faithful conduct. But it is our duty to say that the indiscreet and unknd terms in which General Porter expressed his distrust of the capacity of his superior com mander General Pope) cannot be defended; and to that indiscretion was due in very great measure the misrepresentation of both his mo- tiyes and his conduct and his consequent con- aemnation. Having thus given the reasons for our conclusions, we have the honor to report, in accordance with the Presidents order, that in our opinion justices requires at his hands such action as may be necessary to annul and set aside the findings and sentence of the court martial in the case of Major General Fitz- John Porter and to restore him to the position of which that sentence deprived him, such re- storation to take effect from the date of his dis mssal from the service"
Year: 1879

The shrewdness and business capacity that have made the Yankee the first of tradersy,and promise to turn this country into the workshop of the world, received striking and happy illustration the other day. The scene was hereabUuts; the characters rising young merchant and pretty woman. He had an affec- tion for her, she a liking for him, so they became betrothed After time she found out that she didn't love him well enough to marry him, and the match was broken off. It was severe blow, and he staggered under it; but he fought well for himself, protested that his life was ruined, asked if she could not learn to love him, and in all ways did the proper thing. She was immovable, however, and he sadly and reluctantly took his leave. While his eyes were full of gathering tears he bade his faltering farewells, then closed the door upon his hopes. A moment later he opened it, stepped back into the room, and, with tears in his voice, brokenly murmured, II hope this will make no difference about your coming to the store, Miss -; and that your mother will con- tinue to trade with us. l shall be happy to give the usual discount. Our stock is large and varied, our aim to please" :" And the door shut finally, leaving him alone with his grief-Portldsd Press.
Year: 1879

Russian baggage-cars do not carry baggagemen. The car is sealed when it leaves, and the seal broken when any thing has to be taken out or put in. At least, that is the explanation of some very ingenious stealing which went on fiourishing month after month on the Kursk, Charkov and Azov railroad, un- til last December, when it was detected. There were several accomplices, who used great trunk or chest. One of them was put in this and shipped in the baggage-car As soon as the car was sealed he crept out, broke open the lest looking trunks of the other passengers, selected the most valuable articles and put them in his own chest until there was only room enough left for himself, when he shut himself in. At the next station his accomplices received the chest, and unpacked the thief and his booty.
Year: 1879

In the bodily mechanism when the liver gets out of order. Constipation, dyspepsia, contami- nation of the blood, imperfect assimilation, are certain to ensuc. But it is easy to prevent these consequences, and remove their cause, by a course of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which stimulates the biliary organ and regulates its action. The direct result is disappearance of the pains beneath the ribs and through the shoulder blade, the nausea, headaches, yellow ness of the skin, furred look of the tongue, and sour odor of the breath, which characterize liver complaint. Sound digestion and a regular habit of body are blessings also secured by the of this celebrated restorative of health which imparts a degree of vigor to the body which is its best guarantee of safety from ma larial epidemics. Nerve weakness and over tension are relieved by it, and it improves both appetite and sleep.
Year: 1879

The finest specimen of Brussels lace is so complicated as to require the labor of seven persons on one piece, and each operative is employed at distinct features of the work. The thread used is of ex- quisite fineness, which is spun in dark underground rooms, where it is suffici- entIy moist to keep the thread from sep arating. It is so delicate as scarcely to be seen, and the room is so arranged that tho light admitted shall fall upon the
Year: 1879



 It has been said that '' the blood is the source of life." It is truly the source of disease and death No life, that is to say, no healthy tis- sue can be generated from impure blood, no organ of the body normally perform its functions when supplied with impure blood. The fluid that should carry life and health to every part carries only weakness and disease. Blood is the source of life only when it is pure. If it has become diseased, it must be cleansed by proper medication, else every pulsation of the human heart sends a wave of disease through the system. To cleanse the blood ot all impurities, use Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets, the most effectual alterative, tonic and cathartic remedies yet discovered. They are especially efficient in scrofulous diseases.

 When neglectful of the duty assigned to it by nature, that of secreting the bile, the liver should be disciplined with Dr. Motts Vegeta- ble Liver Pills, which will speedily remedy its inaction and stimulate 1t to vigorous perform ance of it's secretive function. Constipation, which is an invariable accompaniment of liver disorder, is always overcome by this great anti bilious cathartic, and indigestion, chronic and acute, is completely cured by it. All druggists sell it.
Year: 1879

on THE PROSPERITY OF THf STATE.


lBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUNE.l


WASHINGTON, Nov. 0.-Gentlemen from the North
who have been engaged for some time in develop
ing mining interests III Virginia report that the late
vote IS proving heavy blow TO the STATE. They
have already received notice that capitalists who
have been contemplating early investments there
have abandoned their projects. Some who have
made a start in business ventures in the State are
considering how they best wind up their affairs
and return to the North. While the Debt-payers
have made an earnest fight and while any present
sealing down of the interest is impossible because
the Governor will veto any bills looking in that
direction still the Debt-paycrs much discouraged.
They feel that the vote Of the RepudlatiOnlsts was
so heavy as to nhct an injury uDon the credit OF
the State which cannot be soon repaired
Year: 1879

BUSINESS LOADED UPON 1.-THE risHEMEs-


MINOR NEWS.


inquiry at the Pension Office reveals the
fact that business is behindhand there to
nm extraordinary degree. The Pension Arrears
Act has completely overwhelmed the office.
Secretary Evarts is preparing note TO the
British Government on the subject OF the
fisheries. The suit against the lottery COM
panies Is to be carried into the Supreme
Court of the United States If the Postmaster
General is upheld. he will go on and adopt
more stringent measures.
Year: 1879

Sometimes, my son, you will want to
whistle. Do not entirely repress this
desire to aspirate your feelings in sibi-
liant strains of wheeZy music; merely
modulate and regulate it. Go off into
the woods five or six miles from any
habitation, if the desire comes upon you
during business hours, and whistle there
until tn birds GIake you ashamed of
your poor accomplishment. Do not
yield to the temptation too readily, lest
you become addicted to the habit and
become slave to it, and go whistling
around even as man who has lost n
dog. There are men, my son, who can
whistle musically; once in while you
find men whose whistle is pleasant to
the ear and soothing to the soul, but
you only find one of these men every
three or four thousand years, and they
die young, son; they die very young.
Y on will observe that the best whistler
is he who whist es least, and practices
in solitude. The poor whistler, who
flats on the high notes and gasps on the
lower ones, and wheeZes in the middle
register, is the man who whistles at
all times and in all places. Whistle all
you will in solitary places, son, if it
pleases you, whistle in the night as YOU



tie in the dark is a pleasant sound unto
the listening soul of the belated passen-
ger, but when you come into the assem-
blages and the business haunts of men,
unpucker your musical lips and shut up
your whistle in your heart. And if ever
the temptation comes to you to whistle
against the edge of IA card, crush it out,
if the effort kills you. Whistling is not
a lofty nor yet useful, although it is Il
universal accomplishment. Though
you practice hundred years, and though
you whistle never so whistley, my son,
yet the cOmmOnest switch engine that
ever scared a human being deaf can beat
you at it. The great and good were
never great whistlers, son. George
Washington never sat in friends office
with his foot on the window sill, whist
ling Grandlather's Clock" against the
edge ofa card. Strive to emulate George
Washington, and, although you may
never be first in war, first in peace and
first in the hearts of your countrymen,
yet fame will not forget you if they can
write upon your tombstone that you
never whistled your countrymen into
convulsions of incorporate but fruitless
profanity .-BHrlinlgt0H HaOk6ye.
Year: 1879

For hundreds of miles along the west
ern base of the Sierras are gold-bearing
veins and placers, awaiting development
that will yield a profitable return to the
energy and money of the capitalists who
will yet seek this field as one of the best
and most reliable to be found on the
globe. Here will be found every facility
of kindly climate, accessibility, cheap
and available power, and every con-
comitant that can make the business
profitable above the cost of produc-
tion. The gold mines of California,
Notwithstanding the vast treasures they
have given to the world, are compara-
lively unworked fields. The gold-bear-
ing veins are practically without limit,
and the dead river channels are only
beginning to yield their inexhaustible
stores. This is not an over-drawn esti-
mate of the gold fields of California, and
far-seeing men are beginning to realize
the importance of giving more attention
to them as a source that will be lasting
and reliable in keeping up an equable
production of the metal that is pre-emi-
nently the need wherever the wheels of
industry are in motion or commerce
spreads its saiis.-GrGSS Vailey (CaL }
Union.
Year: 1879

There may be seen daily on Chestnut
street, says the Philadelphia Bulletin, a
man dressed in faultless apparel, with
great diamond on his breast, vainly en-
deavoring to out-glitter the magnificent
solitaire on his finger. In a German
university he learned chemistry, and not
even Liebig knew it better. His bust
ness is the mixing and adulterating OF
liquors. Give him a dozen casks of
deodorized alcohol and the next day
each of them will represent the name of
genuine wine or popular spirit. He
enters wholesale drug store bearing a
large basket upon his arm. Five pounds
of Iceland moss are weighed out to him.
To raw liquors this imparts smooth
ness and oleaginousness that gives to
imitation brandy the glibeness of that
which is matured. An astringent cate
chu that would almost close the mouth
of Il glass ink-staRd, is next in order. A
couple of ounces of strychnine, next
called for, are quickly conveyed to his
vest pocket, and pound of white vitroii
is as silently placed in the bottom of the
basket. The oil Of cognac, the sulphuric
acid, and other articles that give fire and
body to liquid poisons are always kept
in store The mixer buys these from
various quarters. They are staples of
the art.
Year: 1879

A correspondent describes one of the
amusements2 of the Mexicans of New
Mexico, as follows: A number of horse
men assemble, chicken is procured and
placed on the ground with its feet tied
together. Each cavalier in turn rushes
past the fowl at full speed and strives to
pick it up as he passes, until one more
skillful than the rest, succeeds, when he
makes off with the prize hOtly pursued
by his unsuccessful competitors. His
object now is to keep possession of the
bird to do this he must be well mounted
and a daring and fearless rider, as he is
assailed on every hand by merciless con-
testants.


He uses the poor rooster as a weapon
of defence, and whenever too closely
pursued strikes right and left without
respect of person and regardless of con-
sequences. The unfortunate "gallo's"
feathers fly in every direction; its ruth
less executiOners dismember it without
mercy. and its identity is soon among
the things of the past When too badly
demoralized TO afford further sport, a
new victim is procured, and this game
goes on indefinitely.
Year: 1879

Proud hearts and lofty mountains are
always barren.


The trees that are most in theisun bear
the sweetest fruit.


Poverty wants some, luxury many,
and avarice all things.


Every person is sure of at least one
good friend if he will not abuse himself


AS too long retirement weakens the
mind, so too much company dissipates
it.


Have the courage to wear your old
clothes until you can afford to pay for
new ones.


1t is an uncontroverted truth that no
man ever made an i'll figure who under
stood his own tablets, nor a good one
who misto0k them.


If one is rot born with an apprecia-
tiOn, love of the beautiful, then 90 and
learn it as you learn mathematics, Ian
guage or philosophy.


1t is provided in the essence of things
that from any fI'uition of success, no
matter what, shall come forth some
thing to make greater struggle neces-
sary.
Year: 1879

The Turning Leaf.
The elm is turning yellow,
The woodbine rich with stain;
The frost hath fringed the maple
With crimson fire again.
1 hear the crisp corn rustic that's gathered into
sheaves,
And my heart stands still a moment to think
of what it leaves.
I pick the honeyed clover
That blossoms at my feet;
All, me! long years are over
Since first found it sweet
hear the crisp corn rustic that's gathered into
sheaves,
And my heart stands still moment to think
of what it leaves.
The sadness and the sweetness
ponder DER and DER;
Nor signing nor the gladness
Is as it was before.
hear the crisp corn rustic that's gathered into
sheaves,
And my heart stands still moment to think
OF all it leaves.


-.Ne,o York EUening Post.
Year: 1879

A young man from Rutland, Yer


mont. attended seance at Spirit Val
ley recently. He sat in a circle around
a table joined by holding hands IN the
usual manner. The lights were turned
down Presently he felt something
ike human hand playfully fondling
his ears aud nose. He attempted to
withdraw his own hands from those of
his companions FOR the purpose of in
vestigating, but failed in his attempt.
Finally the spirit hand" began caress


ing his knee, and he elevated his foot
with SO much suddenness as to bring
further manifestations TO a close.
When the lights were turned on it was
discovered that the medium was bleed
ing at the nose. which organ had come
in contact with the young mans boot.
Year: 1879

Some years ago at Fort Churchill an
Indian was sitting astride Of field
howitzer rolling a cigarette, when some
wag stole up behind and applied slow
match to the gun. There was ire
mendous report, and the piece, which
was heavily loaded, made such recoil
that it slid from under the savage and
left him sitting on the ground. When
the smoke cleared away he had finished
rolling the cigarette, and pulling out a
match he deliberately lighted it and
went on smoking. A shout OF laughter
went up, but it did not effect the stolid
redskin, who continued sitting on the
spot where he had been landed by the
gun, during the rest OF the afternoon.
A more cool preceding than this is not
on record.
Year: 1879

"What did your mother say, my lit
tie man? Did you give her my card p
asked an inexperienced young gentle
NAV Of little boy waose mother had
given him an invitation TO call on her,
and whose street door was accordingly
opened to his untimely summons, by
the urchin aforesaid " les, 1 gave it
to her, was the innocent reply, "and
she said if you were not a nat raj born
fool, you wouldn't come on Monday
morning, when every body was
wasbin !"
Year: 1879

body, full and complete report
OF all their proceedings had such
report to contain the names of al!
parties ordered out for road duty,
the number of days required Of
them, together with the kind Of
tools required to be brought by
such parties ]; and in case Of carts
and teams. the number of days
worked by said teams, and the
number of days allowed therefor
Said report to also show, the names
Iof parties and number Of days
worked, together with amount Of
monies collected, and from whom
collected, and the disposition
made thereof.


Be it further resolved, that all
Road Oyerseers hereafter appoint
led. as we'll as those whose terms
have just expired, shall be and are
hereby required to furnish said re-
|ports to the Police Jury at its
first session after having caused
work to be done on the roads.


Resolved that a copy of the
above resolution shall be served
on each of the outgoing and in
coming Road Oyerseers Of this
parish.


Art. II Resolved that the Par
lish Treasurer be and he is hereby
authorized to pay Solomon Wise
out Of the Z mill fund assessed and
levied to pay the expenses Of re
pairing the Abbeville Bridge, a.
fast as collected and paid in the
treasury aud until the balance Of
| his claim against the parish shall


be fully reimbursed to him.
Art. l2 Resolved that the Con-


stable Of this body be and he is


thereby authorized to sell at public


auction, to the last and highest


bidder, for cash, after fifteen days


advertisement in the official jour


nal, the fence now around the


courthouse the proceeds of said


sale he shall pay over to the par


ish Treasurer, taking his receipt
therefor, and make due report OF
his doings at the next meeting OF
this body.


Art. Is Resolved that Presi-
dent Of this body appoint a COM
mittee Of three persons whose duty
it shall be to correspond with par


ties in and out of the State Oh the
subject Of having good Jail built;


that said committee report at the
next meeting of this body.


The President appointed on
said committee Messrs. Ambrose


La,our, Alonzo Vanslyke and w.
W. Edwards.


The Jury took a recess until 2


O'Clock p. m, at the appointed


hour the Jury re-assembled-all
| the members present.


The following claims against


the parish were then allowed to


he paid out Of their respective
funds, to wit /:


| C,;u,,I pro, find 1910
Year: 1879

On motion Of Mr.. Trahan.


Art 7th Resolved. that the road
line in the lat road district, lead
ing from Crosse Isle gap to John
Collins residence be and the same
is hereby altered so as run from
said gap to Coulee Willow'point
known as Coulee Jack.


On motion of Mr.. Vanslyke


Whereas, the public road bet.
ween the lands Of Victor Landry
and j A Brook-hier, said road
leading from AbbeviIle to Perry's
Bridge, is in no codition for the
travelling public, and will require
considerable labor and expense to
place the same in good condition.
And whereas, the public are com
PEELED to travel on the land of
the widow and heirs of D. O'Bry.
an.


Art 9Th Therefore be it resolv-
ed that no prescription shall run
against the lands of said widow
and heirs, nor in favor Of the pub.
lie until such time as the road as
laid out by the Commissioners be
repaired and placed in condition
for public travel.


on motion Of Mr.. Vanslyke:


Art 9th Resolved that the la.
diee, Of the town OF Abbeville be
permitted the use Of the Court
House, on the I'd, 3rd L 4tb day Of
August next, for the purpose Of
of holding a Bazaar for the bene-
fit of the Catholic Church.


On motion of Mr.. Vanslyke,


Be it resolved that it is hereby
made the duty Of all outgoing
Road Overseers to Immediately
make out and forward to this