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Year: 1877

A Brooklin man writes to the New
York Sun: ~ drank more intoxica-
ting liquor from the year 1857 to the
last day of 1878 than any other person
| ever knew or heard Of; and in the
mean time knowing this sure cure,
did not practice IL on myself, but, for
fun, did practice it on many others,
aud effected permanent cures. The
remedy of the cure is this; When
person finds he must have a drink,
let him take a drink of water, say
two or three swallows, as often as the
thirst or craving may desire. Let him
continue his practice. His old chums
will laugh, but let him persevcre and
IL will not be week before the appe-
lite for any kind of stimulant will en-
tirely disappear altogether, and water
be taken to quench the natural thirst.
III AT any time the victim should feel a
craving, let him take the opportunity
and obtain a swallow Of water, anu he
can pass and ropass all saloons. When
he goes homo at night he will feel
satisfied and be sober and have money
in his pocket. commenced this
practice the FIRST day of 1874, and new
er think Of taking a drink OF stimu'
lants.h
Year: 1877

Mr., Vanderbllt's order, directing
the division OF 100000 among the
employees OF the New York Central
and Hudson River railroad, is a hand
some recognition of their fidelity du-
ring the recent strikes. Even the
men who still believe i'm the policy of
striking and rioting will probably ad-
NIT that il is better TO share in this
money and the kindly compliments
that go with it, than to be in Jail
awaiting trlal.-NetV York Tribune.
Year: 1877

Leonainie-angels named her;
And they took the light
or the laughing stars and framed her
In smile Of white;


And they made her hair of gloomy


Midnight, and her eyes Of bloomy


Moonshine, and they brought her to me
In the solemn night.
In a solemn night Of summer,
When my heart Of gloom
Blossomed up to meet the conner,
Like a rose in bloom;


All forebodings that distress me


forgot as JOY caressed me-


dying joy that caught and pressed me
In the arms of doomO
Only spake the little lisper
In the angel-tongue;
Yet |, listening, heard her Whisper
"Songs are only sung


Tales are told you to deceive you


Here below that they may grieve you
So must Leonainie leave you
While her loyeis young"
Then God smiled and it was morning,
Matchless and supreme:
Heavens glory seemed adorning
Earth with its esteem:


Every heart but mine seemed gifted


With the voice of prayer, and lifted


Where my Leonainie drifted
From me like dream. f. A. p.
Year: 1877

a HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED POEM OF


LAMENTED EDGAR ALLEN POE--


WRITTEN ON THE FLY-LEAF OF AN


OLD BOOK NOW IN POSSESSION OF A


GENTLEMAN IN THIS CITY.


tKokomo Qndianna) DispatchJ


The following beautiful posthumous
poetry from the gifted pen of the er.
ratio poet, Edgar Allen Poe, we be-
lieve has never before been published
in any form, either in any published
collections Of Poe'S poems now ex>
tant or in any magazine or newspa-
per of any description ; and, until the
critics shall show conclusively to the
contrary, the Despatch shall claim the
honor of giving it to the world.


That the poem has never before
been published, and that it is a gems
uine production of the poet who we
claim to be its author, we are salts
fed from the circumstances under
which it came into our possession af-
ter a thorough investigation. Calls
ing at the house of gentleman of
this city the other day on business
errand, our attention was called to a
poem written on the blank fy-leaf of
an old book, Handing us the book
lie observed that it (the poem) might
be good enough to publish, and that
if we thought so to take it along.
Noticing the initials Z. A. p. at the
bottom of the poem, it struck us that
possibly we had run across "bonan-
"a" so to speak, and after reading
it we asked who its author was, when
be related the following bit of inter
esting reminiscence He said he did
not know who the anthor was, only
that he was a young man-that is, he
was young man when he wrote the
lines referred to. He had never seen
him himself, but heard his grandfa-
ther, who gave him the book contain
ing the verses, tell of the circum-
stance and the occasion by which he
(the grandfather) came into possess
sion of tho book. His grand parents
kept country hotel, a sort of ways
side inn, in small village called
Chesterfield, near Richmond, Va.
One night, just before beJ>time, a
young man, who showed plainly the
marks of dissipation, raped at the
door and asked if he could stay all
night, and was shown to a ROOM
That was last they saw of him. When
they went to his room next morning
to call him to breakfast he had gone
away and left the book, on the fly
leaf of which he had written the lines
given below.


Further than this our informant
knew nothing, and being an unedu>
Gated, illiterate man. it was quito
natural that he should allow the great
literary treasure to 60 for so many
years unpublished.


That the above statement is true,
and our discovery no canard, we will
take pleasure in satisfying any who
cares 10 investigate the matter. The
poem is written in Roman characters,
and is almost as legible as print itself,
although somewhat faded by the lapse
of time. Another popularity in the
manuscript which we notice is that
it contains not the least sign or era
sure or single interlineated word.
We give the poem VerbatIm--just as
it appears in the original. Here it
is
Year: 1877

mo man can prosper who has the
curse of ruined woman upon him.
The murderer of the body can be tried
and executed by the worlds laws, but
the murderer of the soul is tried by
heavens laws, and the execution is as
sure as divine justice. Aunt Betsey
said this as she folded the white hands
of beautiful girl, and put white flow
ers and green leaves about the marble
cold forehead, There was tiny babe
beside the girl-mother. The house
was hushed and there was mourning
such as few people know. Half glad
that the mother and child were dead,
the rest of the family must perform
the last sad office of burial and bear
the family shame. A haunted house!
A ruined home! God the architect
and man the spoiler. The curse is
there, and the destroyer cannot es-
cape.
Year: 1877

DISCOVERY OF GAs.-Gre7t was the
amszement of all England when. at the
close of the last century, VIM. Murdoch
discovered the use Of combustibie air or
gas. So little was the invention under
stood and believed In by those who had
seen it in use that even great and wise men
laughed at the idea. How could there
be light withoa5 wick ~ asked a member
of Parliament when the suhjest was
brought before the House. Even Sir Hum
Phrey Davy ridicuied the idea of lighting
towns with gas,, and asked one of the pro-
jeetoTs if they meant to take the Gome of
ST. Paufs gas metre. Sir Walter
Scott, too, mad himself merry over the
idea of Illuminating London by emoke,
though he was glad euough not so long
after To make kis own house at Abbotsford d
light and chee3ful on winter nights By the
use of that very smoke. When the House
of Commons was lighted by gas, the ar
cbirect imagined that the gas ran on fire
through the pipes, and insisted on their
being placed several iaches from the wall
for fear of tie building taking Ere, and


members might be observed carefully
touching the pipe with their gloved hands,
and wondering that they did not feel warm.
The first shop lighted by the new method
was Mr.. Ackermann's of the Strand, in
1910, and orc lady Of rank was so delighted
with the briliancy of the gas lamp on tie
| counter that she asked to be allowed to
! take it home in her carriage.
Year: 1877

THE Sonora orange crop is holding on longer this Spring than we ever noticed before. There was a large quantity re ceived last week, and probably the finest Of the season. The oranges grown in So- nora, are obtaining considerable notoriety. and are pronounced by every one lar su- perior in flavor and sweetness to the best grown in California. Many declare them fully equal tO the Havana orange.
Year: 1877

No more horseback mails. Henceforth, daily stages will run between Tucson and Yuma, and eastward a blackboard will take the place of the horse and the stages run as usual each alternate day.
Year: 1877

WE have received the particulars Of the conduct Of the Miner correspondent which led to his arrest and punishment bv Agent Clum, but too late for publication this week. It Is evident hiS main labor down this way has been in abusing public men and also to misrepresent every interest Of this section.
Year: 1877

AS general rule, you cannot give a
bird too much fresh air. Even in the
winter time, although it is never safe or
expedient to hang the cage in the window,
it is advisable to throw open the window
once or twice day and let in the air.
Canaries are tender creatures, but they
will stand low temperature-as low as
80 degrees-providing they be out of the
reach of draughts. A temperature not
lower than 60 degrees is perhaps more
desirable, and this should be maintained
day and night if possible. More birds
sicken and die ftSm diseases contracted
by exposure to night chiIiness than from
any other causes. Again, the air of the
room should not be over heated or sutfused
with gas. If of morning you should
chance to observe the same tinge gather
ing on the wings of your canary that is
constantly noticeable on silver plate in
winter, the chances are that coal gas has
much to do with it. On the other hand,
the odor of tobacco smoke, instead of in
juring, seems TO have the tendency to
improve the brightness of the plumage,
and at the same time to put more vigor
into the canary's song. Were I writing
without some experience, l should un-
hesitatingly say, never subject your birds
at all to tobacco smoke. But facts ap-.
pear to convert any counsel of the order;
for my own birds, whenever tobacco is
lighted, will, if the cage doors are open,
Immediately fly toward the smoker, and
vie with each other in getting into the
densest cloud. Having shifted the aro-
ma, they will light upon the shoulder,
or the back of the chair, and pour forth
the sweetest harmonies of the day. Per
nit me to suggest, then, plenty of fresh
air, and even moderate temperature and
occasionally tobacco smoke. Be sure,
however, that during and after smoking
a current of fresh air is allowed TO pass
through and to ventilate the room,-Ap-
pLetonS' Journal.
Year: 1877

If man wishes to get rid of dyspepsia
he must give his stomach and brain less to
do. 1t will be of no service for him to
follow any particular regimen--to live on
chaff bread, or any such stuff-to weigh
his food, ETC. so long as the brain is in
a constant state of excitement. Let that
have proper rest, and the stomach will
perform its functions. But if he pass
fourteen or fifteen hours day in his
office or counting room, and take no ex-
ercise, his stomach will inevitably become
paralyzed, and if he puts nothing into it
but cracker day it will not digest it.


Iu many cases it is the brain that is the
primary cause. Give that delicate organ
some rest. Leave your business behind
you when you go to your home. Do not
SIT to your dinner with your brows knit,
and your mind absorbed in casting up
interest accounts. Never sbridge the
usual hours of sleep. Take more or less
exercise in the open air every day. AL
low yourself some innocent recreation
Eat moderately, slowly, and of what you
please, provided it should not be the
shovel and tongs. If any particular
dish disagrees with you, however, never
touch it or look at it. Do not imagine
that you must live on rye bread or oat
meal porridge; a reasonable quantity of
nutritious food is essential to the mind as
well as the body. Above all. bafish all
thoughts upon the subject If you have
any treatises on dyspepsia, domestic
medicine, etc. put them directly into the
fire. If you are constantly talking and
thinking about dyspepsia, you will surely
haveit. Endeavor to forget that you have
stomach. Keep clear conscience;
live temperateIy, regularly, cleanly; be
industrious, too, but be temperate.-Ap-
plet0ns' Journal.
Year: 1877

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams
and fables.


The ornament of home is the friends
who frequent it.


Every man passes his life in search
after friendship.


Better be nettle in the side of your
friend than his echo.


To most of us society shows not its
face and eye, but its side and back.


The fountain of beauty is the heart,
and every generous thought illustrates
the walls of the chamber


A house should bear witness in all its
economy that human culture is the end
to which it is built and garnished.


do with my friends as do with my
books--I would have them where could
find them, but seldom use them.


Bashfulness and apathy are II tough
husk, in which delicate organization is
protected from premature ripening.


Love is the dawn of civiity and grace
in the coarse and rustic. 1t makes the
clown gentle and gives the coward
heart.


We see the heads that turn on the pivot
Of the spine-no more; and we see heads
that seem to turn on pivot as deep as
the axle of the world-so slow and lazi-
ly, and great they move.


The poor are only they who feel poor,
and poverty consists in feeling poor. The
rich, as we reckon them, and among them
the very rich, in true search would be
found very INDECENT and ragged.


Whose shall teach ME how TO eat my
meat and take my repOse, and deal with
men, without any shame following, will
restore the life Of man to splendor, and
make his own name dear TO history.
Year: 1877

A. SMALL colored boy at Chatham, Can
ada, held one end of whip-stock in his
mouth while musing, and, falling, the
stick was driven through the back OF his
neck, requiring the strength of power
full man to pull it out. The spinal col
umn was not hit and the child is again
quite well.
Year: 1877

whose daughters had fallen under
the evil eye of tho collector, tren-,
blingly declined to lodge him, as is
the custom, until the village taxes.
were gathered. The enraged Turk
saddled and bridled the man, and
rode him back and forth until he
sank with exhaustion. But he who
would write the doeds of tl1e Turk
must dip his pom in tho springs
of Gehenna.
Year: 1877

New York, March 6.-The World says
of the Inaugural: The tone throughout
is that Of sermon or of the political
summary in a monthly magazine, rather
than the statesmanlike expression of polit-
ical principles and purposes. In regard
to the question of policy to be pursued
towards the southern states not one word
is said which cannot be twisted as easily
tn countenance the actions of President
Grant towards Louisiana two years ago as
to endorse the words Of President Grant
about Louisiana two days ago.
Year: 1877

IFTOU DIS ounday-mornlng oermOnJ


II was we'll at one time that there
should be a spirit raised up against
drinking, and that parties should form a
society and stand up and declare "we
will not touch one drop of anything"
first, because it is not necessary, and sec
ondly, because if drinking make my
brother to offend will have none of it !;
but then when the cause of temperance
las been established land the conscience
of the nation aroused and food Of light
thrown on the subject, to carry it to
fanatlcsm and denounce every body who
claims The liberty to drink, to carry it
into dogmatical fanaticism, oppressive
fanaticism, taking away mans liberty
that is not according to the spirit of
Christianity.
Year: 1877

SENATOR SARGENT is the author
of the scheme to lay head-tax upon
every Chinaman coming into this
country. The plan is worthy of it's
author. The first thing for the Uni
ted States to do is to treat the people
OF China with as much consideration
as is required for citizens of the Uni
ted States who go to China or stay
there.
Year: 1877

To-day is the second day for registration
in this city. The number registered on the
first day this year showed very great fall
ing off from 1876, and was considerably
smaller than in the preceding year. 1t is
to be hoped that there will be more liberal
attendance at the registration places to-day,
since it is very desirable that there should
be pretty full vote in the Ecxt election.
There are no very valuable local offices to
be filled, it is true, and the interest felt in
the election by the politicians is therefore
moderate. But the people arc concerned in
the selection Of good men for the positions
Of legislators and Aldermen, and the better
class of citizens should not by their indif-
ference or neglect suffer these important
offices to fall into bad hands. While we have
machine politicians and men Of no position
or responsibility in the Board Of Aldermen
it is impossible to hold any salutary check
Year: 1877

him an absolute power of removal
at his pleasure. From n democratic
point of view it would be attended
with the advantage Of permitting the dem
ocratic President, if democrat should be
elected in 1880, to make clean sweep of
the republican employees of the government
and fill their places with democrats. But
we doubt whether the democratic members
will be controlled by this consideration. A
repeal OF the Tenure of Office law would
make the President Independent, not only
of his own party, but independent of the
democrats. They will probably prefer to
retain such control over him as they
possess. Under the Tenure of Office law
he can only suspend officers, but cannot
remove them without the consent Of the
Senate. The democrats are strong enough
in the Senate to insure such consentin every
case when they approve of the action Of the
President, and they will probably prefer to
keep him in q condition Of dependence on
their votes instead Of giving him a carte
blanche power to remove officers at his
pleasure. They do not expect any serious
differences between a democratic President
and democratic Senate and will prefer to
keep the hold they have on President Hayes
in his dependence on them for the success
of his removals.
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF hERALD:-


Please allow me to infringe upon your columns to
say few words knowing that the people Of this great
metropolis very good in lending helping hand to
those in need do not think II would be saying too
much il should ask them to look back to years gone
by when talented aud gentlcmanly looking man
stood before the stage oil some oil our theatres,
doing his utmost TO make them happy Now that this
gentleman is IN embarrassed circumstances and on ms
deatb bed would II proper tor all or 10 do our
Ut most to make him happy? His last appearance was
on the stage Booths Theatre, where MS queer ac-
tons soon con vnced his physician that he insane
Something should be done immediately to help him
and his family. The gentleman l refer TO y the
NGreat Grimald.n George l.. Fox Yours, truly


FRIEND TO THE STAGE.
Year: 1877

on the municipal departments. There is
but little power now left in the Common
Council'of the city, but the Aldermen can
yet be useful in investigating and correcting
departmental abuses, and the President Of
the Board is a member of the Board of Ap-
portionment
Year: 1877

The Republican Majority 1m FRANCE
Some disposition to put interpretations
on the results Of elections is to be found
wherever tho national will consulted in that
way disappoints any ones expectations; and
the endeavor of the French administration
to soften it's fall by reference to the dimin-
ished number of members returned by the
republicans is only natural in the circum-
stances, and what is usually seen. 1t will
be very satisfactory effect of this kind of
small vanity if in the case before MS it af-
fords a sufficient salve to the damaged dig
nifty of the reactionary coalition to induce
the Ministry to pretend to be satisfied with
the result. 1t is as good tactics now as it
ever was to build golden bridge for the
retreat of dangerous enemy and if the
enemies of the Republic are inspired to
begin their retreat by creeping through so
small hole as this it will be o great ad-
vantage practically and morally. 1t how
ever. delusion to count the gains against
the republicans as they are counted by the
adherents Of the coalition. The republi-
cans have lost certain number of arron-
dissements which they previously held,
and have gained some others, but they have
lost.a larger number than they have gained


These seats are the ones whose ten
ure was made somewhat uncertain by
the changed relations between Marshal
MacMahon and the republican party. The
former republican majority was somewhat
deceptive on account Of those relations
Certain districts, not strictly republican on
fair vote for or against the Republic, were
represented by republicans who were under
stood to be in sympathy with the Marshal
and disposed to support his policy. This, Of
course, was before his policy appeared in
the light in which it has been seen since
the 10th Of May. In the elections of 1876
many republican candidates commended
themselves to voters by declaring them
selves favorable to the Marshal, and thus
obtained the prestige almost of official candi-
great degree this fact invalidated
the supposition that France was really re-
publican. Undoubtedly the faith that a
large number Of districts had sent repub-
lican Deputies, not from their love of the
Republic, but because the Deputies had
been covered with the prestige of the Mar
shal's name, was an important factor in
MacMahon's delusion MS to the state of opin-
ion. He was encouraged by his fatterers to
believe that the use of his name had elected
about three hundred members. But with
the Marshal's name fairly set on one side
and the Republic on the other it is found
that there are changes both ways, and that
as a net result there are about forty districts
less for the Republic than previously ap-
peared. That is the simple explanation Of
the reduction in the republican majority,
which is still amply large.
Year: 1877

THE News FROM SITTING BULL is cncourag-
ing. 1t will be seen by our special dispatches
that he has gone into Canadian fort to await
the arrival OF the commission, which is march
ing rapidly as possible to meet him. The
prospects OF u satisfactory settlement arc cx-
cellcnt.
Year: 1877

The CLOSING OF the Fall River Print Works,
the largest in the country, and the reported
financial embarrassment Of similar establish
mcnt in Philadelphia. look rather bad for that
branch Of business.
Year: 1877

THE LEATHER TRADE, ut least in the Eastern
States, shares in the general business depression
Reciprocity with Canada is one OF the measures
Of relief suggested by the Convention now in
vessiou
Year: 1877

Honors in England with Gen. Grant
rest easy, and this gallant gentleman
accepts them as one to the manner born
and accustomed to them all his life
time. The Senior United Service club
of London, the club par excellence of
European establishments Of that kind,
representing as it does among its men,
bers the chivalry of England in both
its army and navy, that black-balled
King William, the sailor prince, and
would none of George the Third, the
finest gentleman in Europe, is about to
give the ex-President of the United
States grand dinner in recognition of
his ability as a soldier. This honor is
only rendered to officers of the highest
military distinction. The last grand
dinner of this kind rendered to a mill
tary leader of distinction was given to
the Duke of Wellington. AS matter
of course all the other clubs, military
and political, of any distinction, have
initiated this king Of clubs, and Gen.
Grant is, in all probability, the most
honored honorary member in this res
pect than any other citizen of n country
the world over.