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Year: 1878

THE PANIC IN MINING STOCKS at San Fran
cisco has been quieted by the report of the com
m1ttee of miners after visit to the Sierra Ne.
yada mine. They reported the cross cut at the
2,z0O feet level in rich ore six feet on top and
ten 1eet ON the bottom. The heat was, how
ever, so intense that it was almost impos sbie
TO work. The level above is In mixture OF cap
rock and low grade ore
Year: 1878

THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE OF the two
houses of Congress appointed to inquire into
the feasibility of transferring the Indian bureau
to the War department VIII meet in this city on
Tuesday next. Mr. Flanagan, the secretary
OF tie committee, arrived here last night
Year: 1878

Love aud appreciation are to wo.
man what dew and sunshine arc to c
flower. They refresh and brighten
her whole life. They make her strong
hearted and keen sighted in everything
tho welfare Of her home. They on
able her to cheer her husband when
the cares Of life press heavily upon
him, and 10 be very providence to
her children. To know that her
husband loves her und is proud Of her
and believes in her; that eycn her
faults arc looked upon with tenderness ;
that her face, to Qua at least, is the
GairCst face in all the world T; That tho
heart which to her is the greatest aud
noblcst holds sacred in its inmo:t re-
Gessca above al women. gives her
strength aud courage and sweetness
and viyacity which all tho wealth of
tho world could not bcstow.-Lct o
womaDa lifO be prcvudod w:th such an
influence, and her heart and mind will
never grow old, but will Blossom and
swec;en and brighten in perpetual
youth.
Year: 1878

Thursday evening fire broke out in q
frame building on West Second street
between weeb street and Greenhill avenue
which was entirely destroyed. The house
was occupied by William Campbell and Co.
as q phosphate factory and for the purpose
of making Meats foot oil. The engines did
not 20 into service on account OF the
scarcity Of water the loss will be about
81 900 no insurance.
Year: 1878

~hOne dark night recently three men


living near Oaseyville, on the Indiana


side Of the Ohio, started to 60 over the


river in a skiff which had been lay.


ing against the bank for several days.
They got into the boat and the oarsmen


pulled vigorously for the other shore.


When about sixty yards from the bank
the man 10 tbs bow suddenly cried out
that he heard the hiss Of q rattlesnake
in the boat. This caused q thrill of
horror torun through oil, aud IN fash
the oars were stopped and all sat.listsn-
ing, but not sound was heard. They
concluded that it was false alarm. and
the oars began to rise and fall. Again
tho man in the bow uttered the warning
and again the boat was stopped and all
listened in dire fear, but nO.sound vas
heard. The skiff vas then pulled across
the river to Caseyville, where the, man
at the stern jumped out into tho water,
afraid to go through the boat. PROCURING
q lantern at the hotel they went down
to examine the boat and found o rattle
snake with eleven rattles coiled under
the oarsman's seat. The deadly reptile
was dispatched, to theintense relief Of
his fellow-passengers. II
Year: 1878

A bad daughter seldom makes good


wife. Ifa girl is ill-teupered at home,


snarls al her parents. snaps at brothers


and sisters, and "shirks" her ordinary


duties, the chances are ten to one that


when she gets homo Of her own, she


will make il wretched. There are girls


who fancy themselves so far superior


to their parents that the mere privilege


of enjoying their society in the house,
ought to be all the old people should


have the assurance to ask. While their


mothers are busy With domestic duties,


they sit in the easiest chairs, or lie on


the softest sofas, feeding on cheap and


trashy novels, and cherish the notion


that they are very literary individuals.
The household drudgery is too coarse
for such fine ladies as they. The bust,
ness Of their parents is to provide them
with nice clothes, and to be content
with admiring their handsome appear.
anee in the intervals Of labor. Girls Of
this sort are very anxious to get mar
ried, that they may escape the disagree
ableness Of home where they are held,
more or less, under subsection; there
fore, they. are smiling enough to eleei-
BILE bachelors, smoothing down the
frowns which alone they give to the
members of their own families. A caller
who. doesn't have the chance Of seeing
how they behave as daughters, may be
excused for fancying them loving and
'ovable beings; but one who does see it,
is foolish if he commits himself by suf-
fering marriage to girl Of this sort.
She is not fit to be the wife of a wor.
thy man, If she will not assist her
mother in tho domestic labors. and
the servants, is she not likely to bo
equally slothful and ill.tempered when
she marries 2 Ifshs now thinks her.
self too fine to work, it is safe to expect
that her views as to that matter will not
change if she becomes q wife ?
Year: 1878

Some one gives the following table OF
the order in which men give up their
luxuries under the pressure of hard
times :. Books go first-the book trade
Hattens under panic; illustrated papers
next, and then daily papers. Ii the
pressure, continues, the trade in pianos
and fine furniture falls off; tut the Ia
boring classes begin to contract on the
furniture from the start. Next 1t begins
to cut of fine clothes and jewelry, and
then it's getting pretty tight. Put on
another screw and tea and coffee suffer;
then all the incest kind of produce. If
the screw still tightens, when the worst
comes to worst, and there is no help
from God or man, the whiskey and to"
bacco begin to be cut off. But the dogs''
about dead when it comes to that.
Year: 1878

Idleuess is the mother of vice, and a
boy who is allowed to grow up in idle
ness is pretty sure to be a vicious man.
The parents Of such boys have a fearful
responsibility resting upon them, when
they let their sons run about at late
hours Of the night instead Of keeping
them at home reading good newspapers
and books, and training them in moral
habits so as to become respectable men
instead of loafers, which is sure to be
the case with the night runners and
day idlers, then the responsibility is in
creased. Give the boys plenty to do,
and you will preserve their morals.
Better tired boy than Vitiated mind.
Year: 1878

The undersigned respectfully informs his
friends and the public generally that he
may still be found at his shop, enc door
west of the postofice, where he is prepared
TO execute promptly and in the most stylish
and durable manner all jobs that may be
oiyen him. He will also make or repair
harness. or in fact anything else in his
line. He only solicits call.


A,o. R-tf
Year: 1878

A correspondent Of the New York S,o, notes
the fact that the Howard and other relief
associations at the South have announced
that they do not need more, and then make
al appeal for another class Of sufferers from
the yellow fever-the Southern people who
are away from home and In destitution. AS
an Instance of the suffering among these
enforced exiIes the SUMS correspondent says


A merchant In New Orleans, when the fever
was ut its height. put bis family aboard steam
ship bound tor this city. and gave them oil the
money he could scrape together, Il few hun
dreds Of dollars. H told them he would soon
send them more money. He soon died of the
fever, His family In this city have pledged
their diamonds and the richest. of their wear
ing apparel for the means Of life, and arc now
liable to be turned into the street at any. time
IT one Of the many relief committees would coll
upon some of the we'll known Southerners ut
the Now York Hotel they would learn Of many
more such cases.


But a small fraction Of the widespread
misery the epidemic Of this year hns occa-
stoned will ever be heard Of
Year: 1878

stantinople and it begins to look as II the
promise of peace is to be broken to the hope,


In this emergency the extraordinary session


OF the British Cabinet to-day is meeting Of
the gravest consequence. Cable kilograms


state that nothing less than O. positive


and peremptory demand will be made
upon Russia to fulfill her duty as one Of the
Berlin signatories, failing In which, England


will present the alternative Of war. All Eu-
rope would be drawn into the conflict should
the latter contingency occur. A secret un~
derstanding already seems to exist between
Great Britain France, Austria and Italy.
Russia appears to stand alone, Germany's po-
stion not having been sufficiently defined. 1t
Is hardly possible for that power to keep out OF
the fight, II the answer of the government Of
the Gar to the coming British demands rem
ders war inevitable. and 1t Is almost impos-
sble for her to fail to range herself with
Russia. In the face Of probabilities of this
tremendous character the action of the
British Cabinet will be awaited with anxiety.
Year: 1878

What man Is there In the State of Louisiana
that would not want to raise mob and hang
without benefit of clergy the Legislature that
should propose to dsfranchise him and, by
taking away his right to vote, place him on the
status Of a convicted .felon, and only because
1t was convenient to do SO? Yet, how many
men are there who voluntarily place them on
that level by failure to register and make
citizens of themselves. because they are too
lazy to do so? There are three days left yet
for them to get their papers. Let them avail
them selves of the time.
Year: 1878

The New York Tribune has abandoned the
cipher dispatches and gone to quoting from
Manton Marbles letter, It does not give o
key to the latter, however, and matters are
more mysterious than ever.
Year: 1878

CONDITION OF COLONEL BIGGER.-Colonel
Thomas 3. Bigger was on Saturday night
in very critical condition, and the worst
is feared by his relatives and friends who
have seen him. The Colonel has reached
the ripe age Of eighty-four, and until about
ten days ago was able to discharge fully and
efficiently his duties as clerk in the office OF
the Auditor of Public Accounts. His i'll
ness seems yielding OF the system to age
rather than the result OF special disease.
Year: 1878

The Evangelist, cohtroverting the
doctrines of the rationaIists. says: The
great central and foundation truth that
God created the world remains Un-
shaken. Those who attribute creation
to chance, or evolution, simply cover
up their ignorance with high sound
ing word, and think to get rid of a diff


mlty by putting it a little farther away.
They SET up an idol of their OWE, calling
it Nature, or Matter, or Force, and put
it in the place of the AL seeing One.
Whether creation was consummated IN
six days or In six great geological epOchs
makes no difference. a million ages
are but rs a moment in the calendar Of
Him who from everlasting TO everlast-
ing is God. Development does not get
rid Of divine intention. The power
produces must be equal to the thing
produced, and the steps by which it
works are incident to the end. Science
deals with methods, not with the sub
stance Of things, nor their cause. j.
discovers how, no, why"
Year: 1878

The Washington correspondent Of
the Cincinnati Enquirer says that an
examination of the expense account
of the Democratic Committee sent to
Louisiana to investigate the elector-
al count of that State, goes to show
that deputy sergeants-at-arms, who
accompanied the committee ''were q
shabby lot of adventurers and bum
mers, one of whom forged thename
of the chairman for S375, and that
they were "as detestable a lot otOf-dead
beats as could be seraped together
with a fine tooth comb. We sup
pose this may be set down as another
item to the credit Of Democratic ''re-
form"
Year: 1878

1t makes home attractive, its exter-
iOr more respectable, our lives happier,
our dispositions sweeter, and our social
and domestic intercourse more refined.
BY all means plant some little thing Of
grace to temper the rugged surround
ings Of the front yard. Its silent,
though eloquent language, will speak
to the visitor OF passer-by a word Of
eulogy for you. The least flower OF
shrub will be some attraction; a curved
path winding among trees to the house,
mound Of stones and shells with ivy
trailing over them, the towering shrub
or the turf Of fern-all such things are
attractive and form a pleasing object
for the eye of even the most indiffer
enjbehOlder.
Year: 1878

A lady, head of a household, was
troubled with an excitable temper. She
had a good Christian servant come into
her service. To this Christian girl she
one day excused herself for her bad
temper, and hoped the like would not
occur again. She said, 80, mistress, I
do so pity you. 1 once had just such
temper as you have, and 1 can feel for
you, ''YOu had just such a temper as
1 have! Why, I should have thought
that nothing ever moved you; and you
had such a temper as 1 have! Why,
what did you do with it?'' II swapped
it away for Jesus; I gave it away 10
Him, and took Him rs my Saviour.
took Him and He took my bad tenn
per 30, I wish He would take mine,"
He will, mistress, if you will give it
up to Him. It is too strong for you to
conquer; but He can easily do it, if it
all be given up TO him." The mistress
and maid knelt together, and Jesus
was besought to do That definite and
specific thing; and lie did it, and that
was like another family from that day.
--CbrjStjal W'Orber.
Year: 1878

Original OF selected contributions for the Young
Folks Corner" are solicited from our yOuug read
ers and also from such Of our older readers az
have not forgotten that they were once young pco-
ple The answers must always accompany fruo-
lens Enigmas, Char8des, &C, together with the
real name Of the writer, not for publication but
for the private information Of the editor. q
Year: 1878

Two young men went to California
to better their condition. In two years
one came back covered with rags, and
the other without a rag to his back.
Which was the better off of the two?
Year: 1878

The man who let's his sheep wander
about the pastures without seeing that
thcy are all alive and well at least once
in every two days is pretty sure TO pay
heavily for his shiftlessness. a better
way is to get them Up every night, es-
pecially if they are dropping their
limbs.
Year: 1878

When you hear a country church
choir singing, "ThereU be no More
Sorrow There, you conclude at once
that either the aforesaid choir will not
be there, OF they will not be permitted
To SIM.
Year: 1878

If thou art too lazy to think, thou
wilt be too poor to know.


If thou canst tolerate liar thou art
half liar thyself.


1t takes more than one to get all the
good out of laugh,


The devil will never get to heaven,
because he cannot die aud have a flu
neral sermon.


When a man is too poor to feed his
own feas he gets dog.


Ali men think we'll of themselves,
but some have a queer way of showing
it.
Men boast of their relations when
they have nothing else to boast OF.
Never think of reasoning with mule
whether it has four or only two legs.


When the devil praises thee, remem"
Der he is the father of all lies.


Thou mayest tell truth 50 that it vii
be lie.


A knave cheats others: 1ool-hlm-
self.


Never relate your misfortunes to an
other.


The trial is not fair where affection is
Judge.


Vows made in storms are forgotten in
calms


No mau should be judge in his own
case.


To man full of questions make no
answer.


What men are deficient of in reason
they usually make it up in rage.


The heart is crystal palace--if once
bioken it can never be mended.


70 keep your secret is wisdom. but to
expect others to keep it is folly.


The most dangerous of all fattery is
the most common kind we bestow upon
ourselves.
Year: 1878

Never try to rob any one OF his good
opinion of himself 1t is the most cruel
thing Won can do. Moreover, it is by no
means doing what you would be done
bv. Crush woman's self~esteemand yon
make her cross grained and snappish,
Do the same thing to a man, and yon
make him morose. You may meaa to
create q sweet, humble creature but
You'll never do it. The people who
think best of them selves are apt to be
best Woman grow pretty in belfev-
ing they are SO, aud fine qualities Of
ten crop out after ous has been told he
has them. 1t only giatifes momen
tary spite to force your own unfavora-
BILE opinion of him deep into another's
mind. 1t never did any good. An
if this world, full of ugly people. and
awk ward people, of silly people, and OF
vain people, know their own deficien-
cies, what sitting in sackcloth and
ashe, we would have! The greatest OF
all things that man can possess Is
his satisfactory indentity, II that
which he calls please him, it is we'll
with him; otherwise, he is utterly
,wretched. Let your fellow beings
alone; hold no truthful mirror before
their ewes, unless with pure lnten>


tion to nproot sin. So may mirror
without a flaw never be prepared for
YOU In those things which we cannot


help, may we never blind to our own own


short comings.,, Wevare neither ugly,


nor awkward nor uninteresting to our


selves if we do not know it. A fooi


may hare the wisdom of Solomon ID


his own eonceit. Let him be-, and the


path to the grave may be easier for him


to tread, yon will be no worse, he 20
better. Leave every man as much self
esteem as his conscience will allow hm


to cherish. It may be o pleasure to en-
tighten people as to their faults OF
mind and person. but it is certainly not
duty. - ,'k w,
Year: 1878

more public duty, and with undoubted
probity of intent, he is mnligned and abused
as a partisan-all of which is simply anus
ing to those who know him in the charac-
teristic austerity of. his official habits.
Year: 1878

Mn. BAYARD is another one of that
numerous caravan none of whom will
make any effort to obtain il themselves.
But If it should come his way he will sud-
denly become hunch-backed-so much so
that he can't throw it over his shoulders.
Year: 1878

THE Democrats arc not quite as happy
Rs they were few days ago, now that the
BLAINE Committee has found the WAYS
and means to pursue the southern election
frauds vigorously. Oar only regret in this
connection has been that Senator BLAINE
did no, do himself the justice to prosecute
this investigation in person.
Year: 1878

DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE.


We cannot too frequently call the attcn-
ton of Congress to the question of yielding
to our diplomatic aud consular service
liberal and proper support. The appropria-
ton bill which has passed the House is alike
parsimonious and insufficient, and if ii
should become a law another blow will be
dealt upon our commercial industry that is
already lauguishing through the remissness
OF our Government. There are times and
occasions when private enterprise, be it ever
so vigorous, needs the fostering aid of the
Government, and requires that it shall take
the initiative and unfurl the flag of our
country above consulate that our ships
may successfully follow. In the remote
section OF the Southern seas in the cold
and inhospitable clmes OF the irigid zones,
or ON lonely isles mid ocean, there let a
representative Of this Government he To-
Gated and protected by its authority and
flag, and very soon the ships, barlis hrgs
and schooncrs Of Yankee enterprise will lOl-
low with the productions OF our country
bringing in return the heretofore unknown
wealth OF those isolated and yet important
localities.
Year: 1878

THE SILENT STRANGER.-A stranger sat
in corner of the car hence to New Y ork, {,
in easy attitude, his feet upon large black
trunk. The gentlemanly conductor, going
his rounds, at the first station politely in
formed the stranger that the trunk must be
put in the baggage car. To which the
stranger nothing replied. At the second
station the displeased conductor more
decidedly told the stranger that he must
put the trunk in the baggage car. To
which the stranger nothing replied. At
the third station the vexed conductor more
imperatively told the stranger that Re
must put the trunk in the baggage car CT
it would be put off the train. To which
the stranger nothing replied. At the fourth
station the irate con ductor had the trunk
put eff and left. At the fifth station the
Modified conductor, addressing the stran-
ger, begged him to remember that he but
did what his duty revuired, and that he
had only done 30 after repeated warnings
and that it was solely the strangers fault
To which the stranger laconically replied
s'Don't care faint my trunk"
Year: 1878

Parents in quest OF frstclass school for their
daughters will well to investigate the claims of this
celebrated Academy. For thoroughness in every de-
partm ent femae education Mount de Chantal ranks
preeminenty high Great attention is given to perfect
the pupils writing and speaking FrenchIwith fuency
For those sufficiently advanced it is the language OF
their hours The purity of accent aed cor
rectness pronunciation acquired in this Institution
have subject of surprise to the native Parisian
The renown for the superiority of music is so wide
spread as have made the Academy almost national
one. One feature. in particular, that should recon-
mend Mount CbantA to the sensible parent 10 the
influence exercised form the pupils to views and hab
its of economy render them really practical and
useful of society in after years Simplicity in
dress is enforced by rule.


These facts united the exceedingly oderate rates
Of board and tuition 2cO per annum) will, We trust
secure to this school large and desirable patronage
ia the future as it has enjoyed in the past.


For further particulars apply for prospectus to the
pirectress of Mount de Chanta Academy of the Vista
tion, near Wheeling, West Virginia. aull 3m
Year: 1878

Believe not ill of brother till it is
proved beyond doubt.


Following many vocations has ruined
the life OF many man.


Make yourself necessary, young man
and your success is certain.


There is but one thing that is sure
here on earth, and that is death.


Everybody seems to think himself a
moral half bushel to measure the
worlds frailties.


1t is heaven upon earth to have a
mans mind move in charity, rest in
Providence and turn upon the poles of
truth.


In the cities of the dead the houses
are small and close together and a
thistle is as liable to grow from a rich
mans grave as daisy is from the mound
that covers the dust of beggar.


Those who expect the most are liable
to the greatest disappointments. A
man of numerous desires is of all beings
the most dependent. He who contracts
and simplifes his wants will secure the
greatest amount of happiness.


1t is not worth while to think too
much about doing good. Doing the
best that we know, minute by minute
and hour by hour, we insensibly grow to
goodness as fruit grows to ripeness.


How TO ADMoNIsH. We must consult
the gentlest manner and softest seasons
of address our advice must not fall
like violent storm, bearing down and
making those to droop whom it is
meant to cherish and refresh. 1t must
descend as the dew upon the tender
herb, or like melting fakes of snow
the softer it falls the longer it dwells
upon and the deeper it sinks into the
mind