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Year: 1877

South Carolina desires to reorganize
her militia on respectable scale. She
has made an appeal to the Secretary of
War for about six thousaLd arms and
equipments. Governor Wade Hampton
endorses the application. There is no
doubt that the South Carolina militia
would soon become fine body of SOL
diers under experienced and trustworthy
officers, and thus constitute bulwark of
safety in time of trouble. And then it
is just and right that the white people
who have been so long disarmed and
held at the mercy of negroes armed by
the order of Grant and the Radical War
Department, should be supplied with all
the arms they require. Instead of 5000
they should be given 10000.
Year: 1877

The Message sent in yesterday affords |
business-like, and is so strictly confined to |
the few subjects which render the extra ses- |
sion necessary as to raise no questions on
which there can be q reasonable difference
of opinion. Nobody disputes that the ar
my ought to be paid. The ground on which
the appropriation for paying it was with
held by the last House OF Representatives
has entirely disappeared. The army ap-
preparation failed in the last Congress be-
cause the democratic House inserted a pro-
viso which the republican Senate refused
10 accept, forbidding the use of troops to
set up or pull down State governments in
the South. The Southern policy of Presi-
dent Hayes has rendered such precaution
superfiuous, and there can be no further
democratic objection to passing the Army
Appropriation bill when it is in proper
form. Every Southern State has now a
democratic Governor and Democratic
Legislature, and there will be no more bo
gus applications for federal assistance il
suppreSsing domestic violence.


ThePresident recon m ends an imme1iat
appropriation sufficient to pay the army oi
the present scale for the remainder OF tn
fiscal year, without waiting to determin
what the future size of the army shall bt
The President also recommends appropri
ations to supply thedefciencies in the Ns
Wy and the Department of Justice and ais
small appropriations TO enable our citizen
TO take part in the Paris International E.
position and the International Prison Coz
gress at Stockholm. Action on thet la
is recommended now in order to afroI
adequate time for preparation. As the
Is no topic in the Message which is likely
be made a party question we trust Congre


will act promptly without consuming tin
in idle debate. On these non-partisan su


jects, at least, Mr.. Hayes will probab


merit the cordial support of most of h
poll ical opponents.
Year: 1877

FROM the baltimore Gazette.


Senator Bayard says in regard to demo-
cratic policy in the Senate: awe shall not
attempt to accomplish anything by trick.
cry; we shall not lay in wait for absent
MEMBERS we shall not connive at snap
judgments in anything. Our day is Just
ahead of us, and we should be very unwise
to force it," Senator Bayard's views are
always just and sound.
Year: 1877

We should like to have the names of
the members OF Congress who favor clos
ing the extra session just long enough
before the opening of the regular one to
secure their mileage without being under
the necessity of going home. That is not
the sort OF spirit which should govern
the conduct OF the representativ YES Of the
people.-Sdlt. Gazette.
Year: 1877

THE news from Sitting Bull is encoura-
ging. Dispatches say that he has gone into
a Canadian fort 10 await the arrival OF the
commission, which is marching as rapidly
as possible TO meet him. The prospects of
a satisfactory settlement are excellent.
Year: 1877

THE closing of the Fall River Print
Works, the largest in the country, and the
reported financial embarrassment of sim
liar establishment in Philadelphia look
rather bad for that branch of business.
Year: 1877

Some of the papers think that tho Re-
publican defeat in Ohio is explained by
the fact that Hayes cleaned out the Re
publican majority by giving SO many
Ohio men offices away from home.
Year: 1877

FEELING WHEN UNDER FIRE.-As a
contribution toward explaining how one
feels in going under fire for the first time,
| may here record personal experience
at kars, which, though, | believe, COM
mon enough under similar circumstances,
is perhaps not familiar to non-combatant
readers. This was my first exposure to
either musketry or cannon shot, and 81
am free to confess" that, although in eX
,cellent health and well mounted and arm
ed, as the moment of actual conflict ap-
preached felt a growing sense of fear as
much beyond the power of my will as the
involuntary muscles, and which, as it cul-
minated Just before the first shot was fired,
became positively physical in its intensity
\ complex counter-feelng of half shame,
half pride, kept me, however, from at
tempting escape, even if this had been
practicable, through the serried battalions
behind. But hardly half dozen shots
had been exchanged before this emotion
of terror abated as involuntarily as ii had
arisen, and in less than quarter of an
hour it was replaced by an exhiliration
and sense OF positive enjoyment which
more than once during the day carried
me through the thick of the melee with
absolutely unruttied nerve Afterward,
before Sebastopol, a friend, who still car
'ries a glorious scar of Alma and Inker
mann, told me that at Sobraon, where he
had received his own baptism of fire, he
had passed through much the same pro-
cess of sensation, and that he knew it TO
be, as ! have said, common enough In the
experience of others. Mere animal cour
age, therefore, after all, would seem to
have less to do with the moral of those
who felt il than is generally supposed
Fru1er's Magd.iue
Year: 1877

CLASSIFYING EGGs-The millions of
eggs sent weekly to the Paris market are
classified according to size and quality
previous to their exposure for sale. The
first point is determined by their passage
or non-passage through rings of known
diameter, and their comparative freshness
is estimated by ''mirage" or subsection to
reflected light thrown out by powerful
lamps. The difference between an abso-
lutely fresh and decidedly stale egg is
readily settled by this test, but the inter
mediate distinctions are less easily noted
For this purpose the application of the
brine test is recommended, the fact being
well known that if eggs of different ages
are put into a strong solution of salt, they
sink more or less deeply in the liquid ac-
cording rs they are fresh or stale. There
is, however, an obvious source of fallacy
in this method, if roughly applied, since
an egg that would pass muster as tolera-
bly, fresh when immersed in a weak solu-
ton, would rise to The surface as down
right bad one III stronger brine. The
difficulty could be partly met by the inya-
riable use of standard solution of known
strength, and such one is now recon-
mended by Dijon chemist who has paid
much attention to the subject The pro-
portions he advises are 81 OF. of table salt
In quart of pure water. Placed In a
brine of this strength, an egg just laid
will exactly touch the bottom of the YES
sci if twenty-four hours old, it does not
quite reach it, if three days old, 1t floats
midway in the liquid and if more than
five, it rises to the top. Beyond this age,
the shell rises above the surface of the
fluid, protruding further and further,
within certain limits from day to day
Rural Netu Yorker
Year: 1877

LEMONS A CURE FOR CoNSUMPTToN.-
A correspondent of an English medical
journal furnishes the following recipe as
new cure for consumption Put dozen
whole lemocs IN cold water and boil until
sGiu mot too soft, roll and squeeze until
The juice is all extracted, sweeten the
juice enough to be palatable, then drink.
Use as many as dozen day Should
they cause pain or looseness of the bow
els, lessen the quantity and use FIVE or
six day until better BY the time you
have used FIVE or six dozen you will begin
TO gain strength and have an appetite. OF
course as you get better you need not use
so many. Follow these directions and we
know that you viii never regret it if there
IS any help for you. Only keep it up
faithfully. We know of two eases where
both of the patients were given UP by the
physicians, and were in the last STAGES of
consumption, YET beth were cured by
using lemons according to the directions
We have stated One lady in particular
was bedridden and very low; had tried
everything that money could procure. she
was finally persuaded to use the lemons


She began TO use them in February. and
in April she weighed l40 pounds. She is
a well woman to-day, and likely to live as
long as any of us.-Nad,ua Teieaaph.
Year: 1877

GULAR RRTICENCE-


General .Tackscn's troops and hls enc
mics believed he never slept; the fact Is,
he slept a great deal Whenever he had
nothing else to do he went 10 sleep, espe-
ciaIly in church. remember during the
invasion Of Maryland, on Sunday night
he rode three miles IN an ambulance 10
attend church at Frederick, and then iell
asleep as soon as the minister b, gan TO
preach his head fell upon his breast, and
he never awoke until reused by the organ
and choir He could sleep anywhere and
in any position, sitting IL ills char, under
FIRE. or on horseback On a night march
to Richmond, after the battles with Nc
ClelIand, he was riding along with ms
drowsy staff, nodding and sleeping as he
went. We passed by groups OF men SIT
ting along the roadside, and engaged IN
roasting new corn by fires made OF fence
rails. One group took us for cayalrymen,
with an inebriated captain, and one OF the
party, delighted at the sight of man who
had found whisky enough to be drunk,
sprang up from the fire and, brandishing
a roasting ear in his hand, leaped down
iato the road, and seizing the generals
horse, cried out, I" say, old fellow, where
did you get your liquor In an instant,
as the general awoke, the fellow saw has
mistake; and then bounding from the
road he took the fence at single leap,
exclaiming, "Good God, it's old Jack %
and disappeared in the darkness. Yes,
Gen. Jackson slept great deal, but h
was never caught mapping.


He gave to sleep many hours which
Others would have given TO conversation
He was essentially silent man not mo-
rose, but quiet He smiled often, rarely
laughed. He never told a joke, but did
not discourage them in others, and if one
struck his fancy he would smile in mild
approval. He did not live apart from his
staff, but liked to have them about him,
and they were nearly all very young men.
Universally polite in manner, he encour-
aged the liveliest conversation among
them, although he took little part in 1t.
He was not a man of words ; they seemed
to embarass him. When he had ideas he
put them into action, not into language
His military dispatches were as brief as if
studied, like the one after the defeat of
Milroy: "God blessed our arms with vic
tory at Mcdowell yesterday" He never
discussed his plans indeed he never told
them. The next officer under him never
| knew his intentions nor his object. He
never volunteered his opinions TO his SUI
periOr, nor asked advice of his subordi-
mates. He was as self-reliant as he was
silent, and believed che walks with speed
who walks alone" He was reticent to &
fault. "If my coat knew what l intended
to do I'd take it off and throw it away,
was one of his sayings. This reticence
often led to embarrassment and complaint
from the officer next in command, and
might have led to disaster in case of his
death but he evidently thought it better
to run that risk than the risk of having
| his plans discovered.
Year: 1877

A PowDER-MILL-A powder-mill is
not in the least like other mills. Instead
of one great building, it is composed of
many rough-looking littlc sheds-somo-
times as many as seventy or eighty These
are long distances apart, separated by
dense woods and great mounds of earth,
so that if one "house" is blown up, the
others will escape ike fate OF some
the walls are built very strong, and the
roofs very slight, in the hope that if an
explosion happens its force Will be expend-
ed upward only. Other houses have en-
ozmous roofs of masonry covered with
Garth; the roofs of others are tanks kept
always full of water. The constant dan
ger inseparahle from the work would be
greatly increased were there not strict
rules, always enforced No cautious vis-
ltor can be more careful than the work
men themselves for they know, if an ex-
plosion happens, it will be certain, instant
death to them. So no lights are ever al
lowed; no one lives nearer the mills than
can be helped; some of the buildings are
carpeted with skins, and the floors are
kept always flooded with an inch or two
of water; and in front of every door is a
shallow tank of water. Before entering,
every person must put on rubber shoes
and walk through this water for the nails
IN boot-heel might strike spark from a
bit of sand or gravel, which might explode
single grain of gunpowder, and cause
widespread disaster So the rubber shoes
Worn In the mills are never worn else
where. Then, too, every one is expected
to keep his wits about him there is new
er any loud talking or laughter, and no
one ever thinks of shouting. Yet, with
all this extreme care, explosions some
times occur. and then there is seldom any
one left TO tell how it happened.-Er-
Year: 1877

Guidry, who all along had borne HIM
self bravely, as the hour approached be
gan to assume an air of bravado and sur
veyed the crowd from his prison window
jeeringly. His brothers and friends who
visited him advised some sort of confes-
sion, but he was evidently unwilling to do
so. As the friends of the unfortunate
man were still sanguine of reprieve, the
execution was delayed until fifteen min
utes to two in the afternoon, at which
hour, no word having come, the doomed
man was led out of the jail. He came
forth handcuffed, accompanied by Sheriff
Reid, a deputy sheriff and Father Charles,
the Catholic priest who had attended him
throughout. He handed his slouched hat
TO the sheriff, remarking, "The fall Will
not be enough. want a real breakneck
fall, about ten feet. The rope was ac-
cordingly heightened, when he again cody
took it up and said scornfully, "This is a
pretty arrangement to choke a man with,
amt it Z Father Charles began tie say the
prayer for the dying when the condemned
man stepped on the trap.
Year: 1877

Is a caterpillar and If II lived
through the existence intended for IL
would eventually become moth, which
naturalists call a bombyx. 1t was dis
covered a great many years ago that
they produced a fine article of silk
which might be used with advantage in
the manufacture Of different garments; I;
In other words that "there was money
in them" Consequently they have
since been carefully fed and treated.
The caterpillar thrives best upon the
leaves Of the white mulberry. After
Matching from the egg it feeds vOra-
ciously, mOults three or four times, and
attains a length of about three inches,
being of pale green color. it now
ceases eating and prepares the cocoon
in which 1t is to pass the chrysalis state.
If you would know the exact method in
which this cocoon is constructed you
have only to capture a few of the large
green caterpillars so common upon the
willow during summer and watch them
for they both perform the operation in
exactly the same manner They are
near relatives to each other. The sub
stance from which the silk is produced
is contained in two long sacs, one on
either side of the body. A thread from
each sac passes through a tube or duct
in the front of the head, where they are
cemented together by kind of gum
forming one thread. The caterpillar
first forms loose, irregular structure,
inside of which it constructs the firmer
oval cocoon of one continued thread by
moving his head around from point to
point in a zig gag course. If left alone
he would after while complete his
development, make his way through the
end of the cocoon and become a hand.
some moth. But under cultivation, by
steaming or otherwise the greater part
of the chrysalids are killed within the
cocoon. By placing the cocoon in warm
water the gummy cement is sOftened,
so that the silk may be reeled of. The
cocoon of one healthy caterpillar will
produce from 600 to 1000 yards of silk
thread.


Although what have told you has
been in great part only interesting facts
in the life-histOries of insects, you may
have noticed that in the investigation
of the embryology and metamorphosis
of insects, other facts have been dis
covered which in a commercial point of
view are of fincalculable value to us, and
from which we are all of us every day
deriving benefit


The discrimination of nOxious insects
from those we can utilize, the medicinal
properties of certain species and the
finding out of the exact stage at which
time insects are most damaging to our
crops, and the best means of preventing
the same, are all subjects of great i'm
pOrtance to us.
Year: 1877

Oh Wild and dark was the winter night
When the emigrAnt ship went down,
But just outside Of the hsrbor bar,
In the sight Of the startled town
Tbs winds howled, and the sea roAred,
And never a soul could sleep,
Save the little ones on their mothers breasts
Too young TO watch and weep.
No boat could live in the angry surf,
No rope could reach the land;
There we're bold, brave hearts upon the shore
There was many ready hand
Women who prayed, and men who strove
When prayers and work were yain,-
For the sun rose over the awful void
And the silence of the main
All day the watchers paced the sands
All day they scanned the deep;
All night the booming minute-guns
Echoed from steep to steep.
"Giye up thy dead, o cruel sea r
They cried athwart the space
But only babys fragile form


Escaped from its stern embrace
Only one little child Of all


Who with the ship went down.
That night, when the happy babies slept
SO warm in the sheltered town.
Wrapped in the glow OF the morning light,
1t lay on the shifting sand,
As fair as a sculptor's marble dream,
With shell in its dimpled hand
There were none TO tell Of its race or kin,
God knoweth the Pastor said
When the sobbing children crowded to ask
The name of the baby dead.
And go when they laid it away at last
In the church-yards hushed repose,
They raised a stone at the baby's head
With the carved words-"God knowsl"


St Nicholas.
Year: 1877

A promise should be given with eau
tion and kept with care. A promise
should be made with the heart, and re-
membered by the head. A promise is
the offspring Of the intention, and
should be nurtured by recollection. A
promise and its performance should,
like true balance, always present a
mutual adjustment. A promise delayed
is justice deferred. A promise neglected
Is an untruth told. A promise attended
to is a debt settled.
Year: 1877

The Donaldsonville Chit of the twenty
sixth ultimo has the following:


Felix Grow, who was convicted Of man.
slaughter for killing Peter Woodbridge with
brick, and sent 70 the Penitentiary from
this parish in 1876 under sentence Of ten
years, has been pardoned by Governor
Nichols and returned to his home in Port
Barrow. The Governor appeared as
counsel for Grow before the district court
here, andit was doubtless his familiarity
with the circumstances of the killing that
induced him to grant the pardon.


1t is a recognized doctrine that lawyer
should stick to his client as cobbler does
to his last. This instance of faithfulness
is, however, beyond precedent. There
are many eminent judges of Louisiana
before whom have come cases in which
they had previously appeared as counsel
and whose high character and judicial
minds would satisfy the contendiug par
ties that justice would be done if they
were to determine the issue in their new
capacity. But it would be regarded as
great scandal on the ermine if they failed
to recuse themselves.


If there is distinction between Judges
and governors in this matter it would ap-
pear natural that it should be drawn in
favor Of the magistrate who, before the
public and perhaps a jury, hears both
sides. But there should be none. If it
is improper for judge to determine the
merits of the case for which he has been
paid to prosecute or defend, it should be
so considered in Governor on whose
discretion depends the enforcement Of
the laws and the execution of the DEGREES
OF court .....


The facts in the present case are not
given, and it is impossible to comment on
them. Governor Nichols high character
is perfect guarantee that it was one de-
serving of his clemency, and, no doubt, it
has been recommended by the prosecution
and the presiding judge. 1t is not that
which appears incongruous. 1t is the
suggestion in the paragraph quoted that
private considerations have influenced an
official act. Surely there need have been
no haste. The matter could, have been
postponed il opportunity allowed the
Lieutenant Governor the privilege Of act
ing when Governor Nichols took little
relaxation in one of the Gulf cities.


There is, however, another side to the
question. Adopting the theory that a
Governor, who had been lawyer en-
gagged in e criminal case, should give no
consideration to an application for par
don,r it would follow that on the elevation
Of an Attorney General to the executive
chair he should not sign death warrant
for the execution of any one who had
been convicted during his term OF Office.
But between the two there is medium
course which Governor Nichols might
have adopted. and it is to be regretted
that he did not.
Year: 1877

A paper by Captain J. s. Hay, on the
"Horned Men of Africa" was read at
the recent meeting of the British AS
sociatioD. He also exhibited sketches
of two Africans with horns. Mr.. Hyde
Clarke said it was very difficult to as
sign any reason for the appearance of
the horns but there was no doubt that
Captain Hay had seen them. One way
might be that they had been inserted or
inoculated into the face; but Captain
Hay informed them that it was the OBJ
ject of the parents to remove the horns,
which he regarded as natural growth.
One suggestion was that this was class
of malfOrmation of which there was a
memorable example in the case of the
"porcupine man." who had horny plaits
on various parts of his body. He bad
not heard from any body any sufficient
explanation with regard either to its be-
ing artificially produced in the manner
to which he had referred. 1t was re-
markable that the horns were peculiar
to the male sex. The subject was very
obscure, and had not been sufficiently
investigated by anthropologists, because
of the great prejudice against taking
it up.
Year: 1877

Whenever the tongue begins to wag
with gossip it grows hot and burnsevery-
body 1t talks about.


Everybody is ready to help man up
when he is going up, and to give him u
fraternal push when he is going down.


Let him who neglects to raise the
fallen fear, lest when he falls no one
will stretch out his hand TO lift him up
Lddin Sddi.


Many a man thinks it is virtue that
keeps him from turning rascal, when it
is only a full stomach. One should be
careful, and not mistake potatoes for
principles.


No man can make right out of a
wrong, any more than he can paint a
piece of cork so like stone that 1t will
sink to the bottom when it Is thrown
into the water.


A flatterer is simply wasp who con-
ceals his sting until he has got all the
honey he wants. Refuse him once and
you will very soon find out what kind OF
an insect he is.


The best inheritance from your father
is poverty and good name. If you
have both of these you are unusually
fortunate, and your prospects in life are
of the brightest sort.