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Year: 1878

It seems to me that a railroad is the most potent helper in building up a country, but the business men must do something for themselves and give it an opportunity. Let San Francisco merchants so regulate their prices that goods can be bought there for the same price and the same terms as in New York and then condemn, if nec essary, the railroad managers and not before.
Year: 1878

But this is not the only way in which our commercial supremacy with that flourishIng Territory is threatened. Denver, Colorado, has direct overland communication with St. Louis, New York and other Eastern cities by three lines of railroads From it railroad has been built to and beyond Fort
Year: 1878

MeSSrs, una ArlZOna.

 Gentleman: 1 have the pleasure oi informing you that we have made ar engagements with the $. P. R. k. oi California by which we can lay down goods for you at Yuma at SEC per pound for all classes of goods. With this very cheap rate to offer you, hope you will now be induced to send me a trial order and see for yourselves the great advantages and inducements we can give you in groceries, liquors and cigars. Our house IS headquarters for these goods, and we will save you money over San Francisco prices, as you will be sure to see after you have seen the quality of our goods and cur prices. We now sell many of the largest merchants in Arizona, and would like very much to have you a' a customer and friend Please do me the favor to let me hear from you in answer to these and oblige, Respect fully,
Year: 1878

THE FUCEsIA.-Some time in the first
quarter of the present century, gentle
man from Liverpool, while walking
through street in Mapping, saw in the
window of a humb.e-looking tenement
graceful little shrub, with dark green
leaves and beautifully pendueus carna.
ton blossoms. lie was charmed with
the new floral gem, and when he return
ed TO Liverpool called upon a celebrated
florist, to whom he described the plant.
The curiosity Of the florist, who aid not
know any plant which came up to the
description, was SO greatly excited that
he set off immed lately for London. Hav-
ing found the house, by seeing the plant
in the window, he entered, and ascer-
tanned that its owner was the wife Of a
sailor, and that her husband had brought
the plant home from the West Indies as
love Offering to his young spouse. The
delighted florist made overtures for the
purchase OF the fuchsia, which were at
first sstrenuously refused. After some
little time, however, he got possession of
the much coveted prize. Having given
the soilor's wife handsome sum Of mon
ey in hand, and promise that the first
plant raised from it should be sen to her.
he started for Liverpool, and, after prop
er treatment, he soon had the plant ex
hibited in MS show room, where it instant
ly attracted the attention OF amateurs.
After fulfilling his promise to the sailors
wife at Mapping, he realized some $500
the first year the plant was exhibited
and was thus well repaid for his enter
prise.
Year: 1878

THE Bank of England note is almost
square in form, and is printed in black
ink on piece of pure linen paper, with
uncut edges. The letters are in script and
old English, and the entire plate is as
plain as a pipe stem. TO the casual OBJ
server it seems to be the easiest thing in
the world for tho counterfeiter, but the
great barrier to his success would be the
plain piece of paper, which has water
line impression of the great stamp of the
bank, which it would be impossible to
initiate.
Year: 1878

He was whistling over his work, care
less from long custom tthe solemn sig
nifcance of the letters he was cutting in
white marble. The June sun was nearly
at the end of days journey, sinking
slowly to rest upon the bosom OF The
broad Atlantic, whose waves washed the
shores of the little seaport town of Monk
ton. A stranger handsomely dressed in
gray, with large lustrous brown eyes,
came to the fence that was around the
yard where the stone cutter worked, and
read the lettering almost completed upon
the tombstone.
Year: 1878

BY this time the Democratic State Con
vention, has settled down to work.


This is the kind of weather for whiting.


The reporters were amused at the
Board of Health last evening.


Call at the GAZETTE job Office with
your work.


DIR. Gallagher, the dentist, at No. 1856
Market street, remains the dentist of
Wilmington.


Chapman the great tobacconist at
Fourth and Shipley streets, can supply
every article in his line of business.
Year: 1878

A GEORGIA judge with some odd
notions on the marriage question has de-
cided that sixteen-years-old miss who
Glove to man in defiance of her stern
parents wishes is legally enough mar
ried, but that the old gentleman is en-
titled to her services until she is twenty
one. He therefore dismisses writ of
habeas corpus sued out by the unhappy
husband, and remands the girl to the
custody of her father. The husband is
likely to appeal.
Year: 1878

THE Chinese play a game called tan,
in which small buttons are thrown from
box, like dice, and the players guess
whether the number is odd or even.
Wong All Lee was caught, in San Fran
cisto, using a box that had slot to hold
button, with a string so arranged as to
drop or retain it at will. His compan-
ions cut off his cue.
Year: 1878

A BILL before the Kentucky legisla
ture provides that man convicted of
having beaten his wife shall be sentenced
to work upon the streets or highways not
less than five nor more than sixty days,
and that the usual wages paid for such
work shall be paid to the wife.
Year: 1878

THE copy of the Bible which Martin
Luther used daily, and the leaves of
which are covered with annotations
made with his own hand, is now in the
Brandenburg museum, which gave for it
about $3.50. The Bible was printed in
Basic in 1909, is bound in leather, and is
in good preservation.
Year: 1878

OUR finest dwellings no longer have
their rooms covered with carpets fitted
to them and tackled down As formerly,
but have floors laid of solid oak, or black
walnut, or a mixture of different woods,
or the pine floors are stained to initiate
the dark, rich woods, or they are covered
with parquerie, or wood carpeting.
The middle of such floors as these only
are covered with square carpet or rug,
which can be removed on the occasion
Of dancing party, and in any case
leaves margin on all sides.
Year: 1878

A DRAMATIC author in whose play an
execution was supposed to take place,
asked of a French minister that
criminals, then under sentence of death,
might be actually executed ON the first
three nights of his play. 1t would make
no possible difference to the criminals,
who could have their heads cut off quite
As comfortably at the theatre as any
where else, and would assure long run
to his piece, as every one would 90 to see
it, even after the great attraction was
over. This goes ahead of the modern
sensational drama.
Year: 1878

TUESDAY, April 2.-The report of the
committee on civil service reform In regard to the
case Of Doorkeeper Polk taken UP for cousdera-
tion and Harris made speech In regard thereto,
after which the house adjourned
Year: 1878

One by one all the comforts Of this
life are taken away from tho toiling mil
lions. Il used to be a great consider
alton fer Us TO think In our poverty that
none OF our rich nsighbors could ever
get TO heaven. Now. alas We arc as'
sursd that there Is no place else for them
to GO! oh, woeiul times oh,
wrstched. harsh and inconsiderats
world
Year: 1878

YoU constantly hear sentimental
young ladies' warbling at the piano that
there are no birds in last years nest.
And ID is strange that no practical, CON-
mon sense business man ever comes to
the front to remark that there aren't
any in next years nest. either.
Year: 1878

The following letter, descriptive of the
last hours of William ElIery, one Of the
signers of the Declaration Of Independ-
ence, who died at Newport, r. T.. in
1920, has never before been published. 1t
was written bv an intimate friend of the
family, and has recently come to light:


s'MARcH IA, 1S20.--Old Mr.. Eler,
died like philosopher. In truth, death
in its common form never came near him
His strength wasted gradually tor the
last ear, until he had MT enough LETT to
draw his breath. The day on which he
died he got up as usual and dressed him.
self, took his old flag-bottomed chair
without arms, in which be had sat tor
more than half u century, and was read
ing Tully's Offices in the Latin, without
glasses, though the print was as fine as
that of the smallest pocket Bible. Dr.
W. stopped on his way to the hospital
as he usually did, and on perceivine
that the old gentleman could scarcely
raise his eyelids to look at him, he took
his hand and found that his pulse was
gone. After drinking little wine and
water, DR.. W. told him that his pulse
beat stronger. sOh, yes. Doctor, have a
charm ng pulse. But he continued, it is
idle to talk to me in this way. I am 60
ing off the stage, and it is great bless
ing l 60 free from sickness or pain or
sorrow Sometime after his daughter
finding him becoming extremely weak
wished him to be put into bed, which he
at first object to saying that be felt nc
pain, and there was no occasion for his
going to bed. Presently after. however
fearing that he might possibly fall out Of
his chsir, he told them they might sci
him upright In the bed, so that he could
continue t. read. Tney did so and he
continued reading Cicero very quietly
for sometime. Presently they looked al
him and found him dead, sitting in the
same posture, with the book auder his
chin, as man who becomes drowsy anG
goes to Sleep"
Year: 1878

We know man who isquite particular
about keeping everything in its proper
place. We heard him say, that he &C.
quired this habit through the training of
his mother. When a boy, even as far
back as he could remember, his mother
always made him pick up and put away
his play things after he hal got through
with them. He was often allowed to get
out all the materials he wanted for good
time. In bad weather the kitchen was
often at the disposel of himself and
brother; but they always understood that
every thing was to be cleared up at the
close of the play. No doubt there is =
difference in children. for we have known
boys of the same family, Of nearly the
same age, brought up in all respects
nearly alike as possible. yet one Of them
was ALWAYS careless, and became q care
less easy man, while the other was ex-
tremely particular in all the details of his
dress, sports, and work. Still, granting
this difference which many would call a
natural difference, we believe persistent
training in early childhood would make
an orderly man out of the must careless
child. .,
Year: 1878

Two children were making the most OF the day.
On the sand their castles building;
While out on the harbor, the sunset golo


Was every vessel gliding
But the SEA came over the castle dear,


And the charm of the sunset faded;
o, after labor Is lost, may We


90 happily home a. they did,
ror We build and VIC build in q different way
;r,il our heads grow wise and hoary;
And after It all, the sun goes down,


And the sea-'tis an old, old story.
Year: 1878

Parsons Puygativs Pulls are priceless boon
to the people Of the South and South west:
They effectually prevent fever and ague and
all malarious diseases, and cost only Is cents
q box
Year: 1878

both hands at, and trying to pierce the
roof with his flashing eye. The woman
waa as mad as ham strung mule. There
were no arrests. Wheelinq Leader.


James: ~ have forgotten what part of
my garden has been planted. Can you
give me . good rule by which to find out
where have placed nv SET ds7' If one
forgets whe' her the beds are planted or
not, good way to tell is to turn . stray
cat into the garden. If the beds are
planted. the cat will proceed to race
round and dig into them, and act ~ if
it had relatives in China it was anxious
TO get at; while if they are not. it will sit
down calmly in the bed, and seem to be
meditatiDg on he success of the mission
ary work in Africa. A cats instinct sell
dom decieves in the matter. A hen is
the next best thing.


The following story of an unpardon-
able practical joke on trusting Young
woman is told by the Watertown IN. W
Times: "a young man from this city
visited Carthage photograph gallery.
The artist, whom he knew, was out, and
while waiting his return a girl from
Champion came in to get her picture
taken. The young man told the GUS
TONER to be seated. The young man
pointed the camera at her, and then slid
down stairs. One hour and fifteen min
utes afterward he returned, and to his
astonishment there the girl sat just as
he left her. Supposing everything was
all regular, she inquired how much long
er she would be Obliged to look pretty T.
A man with toothache doesn't care
about ANYTHING else. The glories of the
world pail on his taste. the wonders of
creation seem as naught. The tooth
becomes Volcano of belching fury,
and the rest OF life is hidden in q cloud
Of its billowing smoke You can't bor-
row anything of a man with the toothache.
You can't instruct or improve him. You
tell him that the world travels at the rate
of thousand miles a minute, and it
| doesn't startle him in the least. He
simply groans. You say to him: my
friend, there are stars so far off that their
light has not yet reached this world, }" hut
he don't mind it. He oaly howls. You
tell him that some of the sun spots are
100000 miles in diameter, and that One
of them would take in Jupiter at one
mouthful, but it is nothing to him. He
goes on swearing and weeping. Some
times q mans tooth aches so hard. the
pain is SO agonizine, that several strong
men have to hold him down by main
force while some important scientific fact
is being communicated to ohim.-Danbur


Neos.
Year: 1878

ments closer about him when he
passes one whom the scorehing
breath of suspicion has touched,
and the majority Of the female
are as uHmerciful to any
one whose line of conduct is not in
accordance with their standard of
propriety, as the god of the Japan
ese. In this church the father of
the twin orphans worships. He
pays his pew rent with commend.
able promptitude, and has a voice
in the music occasionally. His
righteousness envelopes him, and
his piety weighs upon him.


One day a brother and sister from
another State met in this city, after
several months travel in different
directions. Both were married and
neither had any children. They
concluded to visit the Orphan Asy-
lum and look for children to adopt.
They saw the twins and immedi-
ately decided to take them. A few
weeks later the matron Of the Asy-
lum received their photographs.
The little waits were dressed in
purple and fine linen, and had eyi.
IDENTIFY fallen into good hands
Their pious father rarely misses di-
vine service, and their unhappy
mother-well, she tries to hide her
grief from an Implying world as
we'll as she can,
Year: 1878

Atlantic. She has one short mast,
with a lateen sail and a square sail.
She is decked over and has two
small hatchways, in one of which
the steersman sits. The provisions
consist in the main of dried and
canned meat and vegetables, with
sixty gallons cf water in kegs,which
will serve as ballast, the kegs being
filled with salt water as fast as emp
tied of fresh water. A large can
vas gloke, with a hundred feet of
rope attached, is carried for the
purpose of an anchorage. This
will be thrown overheard in case of
a storm. The two adventurers are
to be literally paid, if they reach
the other side, by Snowman who
will exhibit them in Paris and else
where.
Year: 1878

indianapolis Herald.I


There is a story floating about in
a hazy way of two beautiful babies
who found shelter for q few months
at the Orphans Home. They were
twins, and so lovely that everybody
who saw them was delighted with
them. How they got there depo-
nent sayeth not; but there they
were, as healthy and as happy as
two babies could be. One day a
woman, deeply yeiled, came to see
them. She caressed them and cried
over them, and conducted herself
in such a manner as only one near
ly related TO or deeply interested in
the waits would be likely to do. She
was questioned on the subject. She
refused to acknowledge any owner
ship in them, but, after some per-
suasion, decided to tell all she knew
about them. She had been present
when they were born, and knew
that their father was a leading
merchant, a married man, and their
mother a young and beautiful lady
of the city. The alleged father
occupies a pew in one Of the strict
est and most fashionable churches.
Indeed, the entire church has uni
ted on more than one occasion in
administering cold shoulder to wo-
men who were the subjects of ma
licious gossip and cruel slander.
Every male member draws his gar
Year: 1878

come to the Kaiser Wilhelm in the
hour when he rides unarmed and
alone through the midst of his peo-
pie, it would be not less a hero's
death than if he had met it at the
head of victorious army.
Year: 1878




A story comes from Middletown,
Connecticut, that eclipses the mar
wells of oleomargarine. The people
of that place have accidentally dis
covered how to utilize bull. frogs by
converting them into churners Of
butter The discovery was thus
reached A farmer in the neigh
borhOod, having placed a pail of
milk in a spring to cool over night,
went there the next morning and
found, it is solemnly asserted, in.
stead of the pail Of milk, large
bull-frog sitting in a contemplatiye
mood upon q large roll of fresh
butter, The sole explanation Il
that the frog had jumped from the
water into the pail, and in trying tc
extricate himself had by diligent
and continued strokes Of his long
legs churned the milk into butter.
Year: 1878

TT is ENTRRPRIsING. FEARLESS, RE-
liable and newsy, and the peer of any weekly
Newspaper published in West Tennessee. con-
tanning all local events Of Importance in the
city of Memphis and Shelby county. No
labor or expense will be spared to maintain it
in every department at the highest possible
standard. and to commend it in al! respects
to the confidence and approval Of the best
classes in the surrounding country, being
strictly
Year: 1878

The Liver is the imperial organ of
the whole human system, as it controls
the life, health and happiness of man.
When it is disturbed in it's proper
action, all kinds of ailments are the
natural result. The digestion of food,
movements of the heart and blood
the action of the brain and nervous
system, are all Immediately connected
with the workings OF the Liver.
1t has been successfully proved that
Green's August Flower is unqualled in
curing all persons afflicted with Dyspe-
psia or Liver Complaint, and all the
numerous symptoms that result from
an unhealthy condition of the Liver
and Stomach. Sample bottles to try
10 cents. Positively sold and in all
towns on the Western Continent.
Three doses will prove that 1t is just
what you want.
Year: 1878

Fixed and immovable as New England
is in many respects, and notably so in con-
sidering its rocky bound territory the
home Of superior intelligence and political
virtue, still there are occasionally changes
within her borders, and at rare intervals
an upheaval of the existing order of things,
which show that there is yet suscepti-.
bility to change, and possibility of being
influenced by what concerns the nation
elsewhere. No other part of the country
could produce Ben Butler. and no one
so we'll as Butler can produce sharp and
sudden effects upon that region of the
country.


Possibly a man like Kearney may for
moment awaken curiosity and attract at
tention by uncommon variety and un-
couthness of exterior and speech, but that
is only such amazement and three days
wonder as any freak of nature or unnatural
monster would produce-once seen and
duly talked about native curiosity properly
grati6ed, and the man is showed aside and
forgotten.


Butitis entirely different with Butler. He
is native production, not an exotic; be is
there among the people, and has q trick OF
making himself seen and heard at most
uncalled for occasions and in manner
that harshly dIsturbs the old fashioned
puritanical ideas and dignity. Butler has
done his state some service; he has rep
resented constituency in congress with
large notoriety TO himself, if with no
special credit to them. His ambition is,
however, of that srernsr stuff which as
pires to rise higher and still higher rather.
than rest upon the laurels Of the past.
Butler aspires to be Governor Of the Old
Bay State, and in this he trenches most
distastefully upon the domain of Massa-
chusetts aristocracy, and family pride.
Butler is not one of the aristocracy. True,
he has been almost everything else, and
perhaps it might be truly said almost
everything by turns and nothing long .


In political life he started out a demo-
crat, became during the war an ardent
republican, for the past year or two has
been disgruntled and sullen. especially to-
wards Hayes and his administration. and
now one fair day last week, away down
in Maine at a greenbaek meet.
ins, he took occasion to formally
Year: 1878

Washington reports state that MIR. |
Hayes has contributed to the republican
party electioneerinQ fund 10 Ohio for the
fall contest the sum of Five Hundred dol
lars The cheering intelligence is also
given that he has always been liberal
giver ever since he entered public life,
As il the foregoing was not sufficiently
flattsriug it is added that he has not yet
got through giving but will furnish still
more money for political purposes,


1t is we'll that the country should be
duly advised of the liberality Of its Chief
Magistrate, though this is the first time in
the history Of the nation that it has been
deemed advisable or proper to herald
forth the amount which the first officer of
the nation de emed it suitable for him to
add to the party purse. If former pres
idents have contributed for such purposes
it has been always considered private
matter, and sense of propriety has al
ways kept information Of the fact within
the limited circle of those receiving and
having such funds in charge. When a
person has reached the exalted position of
Ruler over great nation like the United
States the theory is that he is the repre-
sentative of the whole people, and should
direct his supreme attention to the general
welfare and prosperity of the country over
which he has been made the chief execu-
tive. .....


At least, ifhe deemed it necessary and
proper as are individual to assist with the
contents of his private purse to the cam
paign fund of his party and partizar
friends, there was no such virtue dr merit
in the act as to require it to be blazoned
forth to the nation, either as a matter oI
wondermeDt or admiration.


The army of government officials, some
OF whom may possibly have supposed tha
his professions of purity and reform mean
more than empty yerbiage, will now taxi
notice that contributions are in order, aDt
as the president has set the example al
others in official positions will be expected
to conform to his action. 1t is tn
shameless traffic in office holding, making
the power and patronage of every Office il
the land the prize of success in presidential
elections, which has brought so much dis
credit upon the country in times past, anC
is an evil which is not likely to be in any
degreee abated under tine management o.
the present administration.