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Year: 1878

A fire was discovered early yesterday morn
ing in the large reestory frame building in Main-st.
East Orange near the junction, owned by Abram Van
Wnkle OF Newark and occupied by three families ~
the upper part The inmates Of the house were aroused
and by energetic work the flames were extinguished
Examination showed that of the weather boards had
of and quantity Of inhammable material sat
uraed with Kerosene had been inserted In the opening
iOnifad.
Year: 1878

The speech no doubt reflects the honest senti-
ments OF Senator Howe. Whether his positions right


or not he taken them from an honest conviction
thar they are right; ana when he is thoroughly con-
vnced OF what is right IL matters little with him
whether others agree with him or not-he will ex-
press his honest views THIS characteristic Ia strong
point with senator Howe, and makes him strong with
the people. They believe In his perfect integrity Of
ehaacter that no acts from the best and tho purest OF
Year: 1878

Rev. w. H. H. Murray began to tell
his New England church people at Bos-
ton, Sunday, about that 100000 church
which he proposes to build for that
society, but he succeeded in only giving
part of his plan and will finish it up
next Sunday. He proposes to have 400
persons give $500 each for the erection
of stone edifice, which shall seat 5000
people and have platform large enough
for one Thousand singers, and the best
organ that can be built. These 400
donors are to have their names carved
in the building as the founders of the
enterprises, and they are TO choose from
themselves eleven trustees to manage
everything pertaining to the church.
The governor of Massachusetts is to be.
by virtue of his Office, the twelfth mem
ber and the chairman of this governing
board, five of the eleven are to be from
Boston and the remaining six are to
represent the New England States.
These trustees are to hold office for life
and are to be self-perpetuating BODY,
filling by their own action vacancies
caused by death or resignation. Mr..
Murray declines to permit the enterprise
to be governed congregationally, and
thinks that twelve persons can be more
safely trusted to do the best and wisest
thing than twelve hundred. The church
Is to have no special local parish and
is not to belong to any denomination.
and its membership is to come "from
every city and village and hamlet on
the face of the earth.n This plan is
substantially the same that Mr.. Murray
has several times before advocated
through his paper of having in large
centers OF population and influence
one large, undenominational Christian
church enterprise, and now that he has
taken it up in earnest there will be no
little interest to see whether he has
correctly interpreted the religious signs
of the times as Indicating that now is
the time to call for the 5000, 900 which
is the first sine qua non of the practical
success of the movement which he has
thus idealised and outlined.
Year: 1878

VENNOR's PREDICTIONS FOR THE SEASON


1t may be of interest to farmers and
others, just now, to learn the 'tproba-
bilities' for the weather of the next two
or three months. These 1 give Just as
L find them in my private note book,
under the heading "Impressions of the
weather." written over the same date
as that on which 1 anticipated the re-
cent "relapse of the weather with snow
fiurries." My impression then is that
the present showery moist term will
continue until close upon the middle OF
June, with, upon the whole, cool
weather, but occasionally couple OF
more days of sultry heat. The latter
half of June will be intensely warm,
with but little rain. July will enter
with intense heat, which will continue
up to the neighborhood of the 18th.
After this date cool and cold change
will set in, with, very probably, frosts
at night. Heat again during last few
days of month.


August will also enter exceedingly
hot and dry, and continue so up to be-
tween the 10th and 18th days; after
which cool weather with northwest
gales, and frosts at night may be ex-
pected to extend through large por-
ton of the remainder of the month.
There may probably be an approach of
snow during this cold blustery period.
This will end the dry term, which will
have lasted from the middle of June.


Rains will again set in with Septem-
Der ands continue through this month
and October, and it is my firm belief
that there will be considera BILE and
very earl y snow fall during the latter
month. This snow, however, will of
course rapidly disappear, and will be
followed by brief period of summer
like weather again. November is not
yet clear to me, therefore will defer
sketching its behavior until a somewhat
later period. At present hold forth
as almost certain a wet autumn. lasting
in all probability through September,
October and November.


In fine, the whole summer will be ex-
ceedingly variable, with sudden changes
from intense burning up heat to cool
and even cold weather. The frosts are
likely to occur along the Ottawa valley,
Year: 1878

w Professor Craig of University
College, Wales, has been walking about
the Welsh Valley, which Shelley visit
ed in 1872. He found there an old we-
man, who, as little girl, had seen
Shelley. She said, "'Oh there was a
very strange gentleman used to come
here, he who put the f5 note on the
boat This made me prick up my ears,
remembering Hogg's tale about the e5
note Shelley set a-sailing on the Ser
pentine, and l asked her what she
meant. 1t came out that this visitor,
who must surely have been Shelley,
used to do great many strange things
He used to go about with a very long
pole to keep out of the rocks and from
the bank his little wooden boat, about
so long that is, about a foot; and that
she herself saw him put a Is note on
it to sail it (Which got lost), but it was
brought to him afterwards by man.
| showed her likeness of Shelley, a
bad one, in that little Dugdale's two
volume Shelley. She said it was some
thing like him, and that he always used
to keep his neck bare and his shirt open
Gust as he is always painted), but not
so open as in the picture"
Year: 1878

Eg Mr.. Edison has made contract
with the Western Union Telegraph
Company, by which all his electrical
and magnetic inventions become the
property of the company. These in
clude his telephone, which the company
considers the most useful telephone in
vented. 1t can be used with wire in
close proximity with other wires with
out picking up confusing sounds coming
from other sources, or giving up the
secrets of messages conveyed by it to
other telephone wires. The company
hopes to establish telephone communi-
cation with at least 1000 towns, too
small to support the expense of teIe-
graph operator. The system will be
such that any one having access to
telephone can, in few minutes time,
be put into communication with any
one else having such access, and the
two can converse in entire confidence
without the intervention of even an
operator. Telephone clubs will bring
the privileges of telephone commune
cation to almost every one.
Year: 1878

WATER IN THE EARs.-A warning to
those about to indulge in sea-bathing
is given in the Medical Record, by DR..
Sexton, OF the n. Y. Ear Infrmary. He
finds salt water to be peculiarly irritat-
ing to the delicate membrane of the
inner ear, while cold fresh water may
be equally injurious. Every year hun
dreds of people are sent to the infirmary
for treatment whose trouble has arisen
from getting water into their ears while
bathing, or from catching cold in the
ears at such times. He recommends, as
pTecaution, the plugging of the ears
with cotton before entering the water,
particularly in surf bathing.
Year: 1878

A girl who makes herself too cheap
is one to be avoided. No young man,
not even the worst, excepting for base
purpose, wants anything to do with a
cheap young lady. For wife, none
but fool or rascal will approach such
a woman. Cheap jewelry nobody will
touch if he can get any better. Cheap
girls are nothing but the refuse; and
the young men know it, and they will
look in every other direction for a life
long friend and companion before they
will give a glance at the pinch beck


stuff that tinkles at every turn for fas-
cinating the "eye of any that will look. !"
You think it quite the correct thing to
talk loudly and coarsely, to be bolster
Gus and hOydenish in all places; to
make yourself so bold and forward and
commonplace everywhere that people
wonder if you ever had a mother, or
home, or anything to do. So be it.
You will probably be taken for what
you are worth, and one of these years.
if you do not make worse than a ship
wreck of yourself, you will begin to
wonder where the charms are that once


you thought yourself possessed of, and
what evil spirit so befooled you. Go


on; but remember, cheap girls attract
nobody but rascals.-Boston transcript.
Year: 1878

g There are not a few who, even in
this life, seem to be preparing them
selves for that smileless eternity to
which they look forward, by banishing
all gayety from their hearts, all joyous
ness from their cOuntenances. l meet
one such in the street not unfreqently /;
a person of intelligence and education,
but who gives me, and all that pass,
such rayless and chilling look of rec
ognItiOn-sOmetimes as if he were one
of heavens assessors, come down to
doom" every acquaintance he met
that | have sometimes begun to sneeze
on the spot, and gone home with vio-
lent cold dating from that instant.-O.
W. Holmes.
Year: 1878

The university of Wisconsin has sent
out professor to study the track of the
recent cyclone in that state. A discov-
cry how to prevent tOrnadoes is grow
ing every year more desirable to the
West.
Year: 1878

q We sometimes meet with men
who seem to think that any indulgence
in an affectiOnate feeling is weakness.
They will return from journey and
greet their families with distant dig
nifty, and move among their children
with the cold and lofty splendor of an
iceberg, surrounded by its broken frag-
ments. There is hardly a more un-
natural sight on earth than one of these
families without heart. A father had
better extinguish boys eyes than to
take away his heart. Who that has ex-
perienced the joys of friendship, and
values sympathy and affection, would
not rather lose all that is beautiful in
natures scenery than be robbed of the
hidden treasurers of the heartq Cher
ish, then, your hearts best affection.
Indulge in the warm and gushing
emotions of the filial, paternal and fra
ternal love.-Miss MuIoch.
Year: 1878

The Inquirer says Rutland farmer
found porato bug on his dinner table,
the other day, and thus to the bug he
calculated "GOod heavensl have you
got to have your potatoes cooked this
wear ?r
Year: 1878

y People in California can recline
at ease in the shade of their own to-
mato-vines. A resident of Los Angeles,
is now gathering ripe tomatoes from
the top of twenty foot ladder. The
vine which is twenty-five feet high, has
been trained on the sunny side of the
house, and shows blossoms and fruit in


every stage of growth. How sweet the
breezes must blow in at those windows
Year: 1878

The Legislative act establishing Normal
school at Gorham is an important event. 1t
will largely forward the cause of education in
the State and particularly in this portion of
the State. The two schools already existing
have done good work in their several spheres
but have failed to attract any considerable
number of pupils from the great counties OF
Cumberland, York and Oxford. A large majori-
ty of those who have availed themselves efth
benefits of the institutions come from their
immediate vicinity, showing conclusively that
locality has a great Influence upon their use
fulness.


Much complaint has been made that Farm
ington and Castine were no. convenient of
access to people in the central and south
western part of The State. These difficulties
are thoroughly obviated by the establishment
of school at Gorham. The place is readily
accessible by many trains each day. The
village is one of the most beautiful in Maine,
of the true New England type, quiet, orderly,
with scholastic habits and traditions, the best
social surroundings and in general, every
thing favorable to the successful management
.. au euucaIlOnal enterprise.


The advantages to the village itself are
manifold and great. The school will be nu-
merously attended aud will conduce coasid-
erably to the material prosperity of the vii
lage. The present schools have ordinarily an
attendance ranging from 100 to 14O. With
Its favorable location in the midst
Of dense population Gorham can
hardly fail to attract a very much greater
number. 1t is not at all extravagant to as
sumo that within three years there will be
regular attendance of 200 pupils at the new
Normal School. This is a very substantial
addition to small community and the class
of students will be much more desirable
than is found in ordinary seminaries and col
leges, inasmuch as they will have greater
sense of responsibility and dignity. They
will be preparing to be teachers and will feel
the necessity of making the most of their
opportunities. In Castlne and Pennington
the Normal students are felt to be very val
liable addition to the community, and their
conduct aud bearing in and out of school
have always been notably irreproachable
There can be no doubt that the Gorham peo-
pie will eagerly avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity afforded them and by complying with
the conditions prescribed in the act secure
the immediate establishment OF the school,.


To Hon. Frederick Robie more than to any
and all others is due the credit for achieving
this very gratifying result. 1t was supposed
at its inception success would be impossible
this year; but Representative Robes skill,
ability, diligence and great influence over
came all obstacles and bestowed this great
benefit not only upon his town but also upon
the State at large and the cause OF education.
The Legislature has done we'll in this matter
aud the trifing expense to the State will be
repaid many fold in the well being of the
rising generation.
Year: 1878

IT sometimes seems that a wicked man is
preferable TO weak man in a great station.
Against wicked man, all good people can
combine and protect themselves; while they
may perceive that the weak but yrtuous man
is letting things drift TO destruction and yet
may hesitate to oppose him lest they seem to
be warning against virtue itself. Aud so
while they halt, destruction comes.
Year: 1878

IF, as stated. the Eng ish were obliged TO
give assurances that they would protect
Turkish interests before the Turks would per-
NIT the passage OF the Dardaneles by the
British fleet, they have certainly been guilty
of greater breach of faith than any they
attribute to the Russians
Year: 1878

WHAT good thing it would be if we had
an effective man in the White House just
now. The break down of conciliation in
Louisiana and the rampant silver fury in
Congress call for something more than vir-
tuors platitudes or weak lamentations over
the wckedness of men who won't be Soon
ciliated" even by the sweetest of smiles.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous etters and communi
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve CON-
munieations that are not used.
Year: 1878

HEWITT and others of the Northern DEM
ocrats say they are greatly discouraged at the
bitter spirit of the Southern men. They
will have far more reason to be discouraged
before the play is played out.
Year: 1878

1t is thought by very many of the most active


lends Of Temperance that the cause could be great
ly advanced in this State, by more judicous con-
centration of purpose and effort on the part of The
various Temperance organizations, the Church and
the public generally, by association in some State


ganzation similar in plan and scope to that of the
Massachusetts State Temperance Alliance" which
organization has existed in that State for upwards of
twenty-five years, and embraces in active member
ship, members of all the various Temperance organ
izations as well the Clergy and Church OF almost
every denomination; receiving and dsbursing from
fourteen to eighteen thousand dollars every year au-
thenticaing and sending out Lecturers into every
portion of the State; arranging public meetings
and supplying speakers, and closely watching the
Temperance pulse, and providing means and meas
ares to keep it in healthy and vigorous state care


uly scrutipizing all legislation, and ready at all
slmes to sound the alarm when encroacbme from
the enemy are attempted. With view to organiz-
ing similar Alliance in Maine, and auxiliary to the
to the National Temperance Alliance, the under
signed invite the friends of Temperance to meet at
Year: 1878

Three OF A KIND.
And Very Bad Kind, Too, as They
are Part Of the KinsIey Gang


of Train Robbers,
But Who Won't Rob Any More rains
or Anything Else for The Next


Five Years,
As They Have Been Sent Up to the
Stale Penitentiary for That


Length Of Time.
Year: 1878

The heavy rains within the last ten days
have materially interfered with harvesting
and have led to some apprehensions as to..the
safety of the crop, especially where cut
with header. Our first experience with
header was during . season very much like
this. Our stacks became heated and We
availed ourselves Of the first dry day to
re-stack the grain. The wettest was scat
out to dry for few hours. When thresh-
ing time came our grain was all right.
There is no doubt but that with diligence
the present magnificent crop can be secured
with but little, if any, damage.
Year: 1878

A stranger who had stayed oyer night at
the Reno House, in Hutchison, started
south on last Monday. He had eaten with
farmer some miles south of town and sub
sequently returned to within about two
miles of town where he was found dead,
apparently drowned, in little pond. The
verdict of the cororner's jury was to this
effect. About seventy-6ve cents was found
on the mans person and he is not supposed
to have had any considerable sum.
Year: 1878

In business life two things are essen
tial to success First, sound judgment;
second, activity. In all departments we
find greater deficiency in judgment
than in other requisites. Long familiar
ity in a given department does not
necessarily produce it, though this will
undoubtedly aid and strengthen it.
Only by reliance on ones self, and feel
ing individually responsible for the re-
sults of action founded on ones own
efforts. can the fact be established OF
good or bad Judgment. Special talent
will not furnish it for a man who may
have capacity for acquiring information,
may be able to enter into learned discus
sions on supply or demand, may have
vast knowledge of productions, their
sources of supply, and their various
uses, and still lack the ability to apply
to practical and everyday use the bene-
| fits of information.


So, also, one may become familiar with
all the details of business through long
! experience in the service OF others, and
as servant, or in an executive capacity,
making himself invaluable without ever
realizing the responsibility attached to
individual discretion or judgment. In
this belief we find an answer to the oft
repeated inquiry why so large a portion
of business men are unsuccessful tc
claim that so many fail to meet fair sue
cess through force of adverse circum
stances, instead of permitting circum
stances to control them. Men who have
the capacity to comprehend the whole
question presented to them, to properly


weigh not only the side of success but o
} failure, and who understand the import
ance of right thinking and the full pen


atty of mistake, are the ones whosucceed


and whether they get credit for havinl
good judgment or not, they certainl


exercise it.
Year: 1878

We stand at life's west windows,


And think Of the days that are gone
Remembering the coming sunset,


We too must remember the morn
But the sun will set, the day will close,
And an end will come to all our woes.
AS we watch the western easements,


Reviewing our happy youth,
We mourn for its vanished promise


OF honor, ambition, and truth
But our hopes will fall and pride decay,
When we think how soon we must pass away.
We stand at life's west windows,


And turn not sadly away,


To watch our childrens faces


The noontide'of sparkling day
But our sun must set, our lips grow dumb
And to look from our windows our children


come.


Still looking from life's west Window


And we know we would not again
Look forth the eastern lattice,


And live over all lfe's pain
Though life's sunlight be brilliant, its sunset is


sweet,
Since it brings longedfor rest to our weary feet.
Year: 1878

A terrible death from phosphorus is
reported. A young man left Paris to
visit his friends at Lyons, and as soon
as he got into the carriage he lit match
by scratching it with his thumb nail,
and piece of the incandescent phospho.
rus penetrated under the nail and made
a slight burn, to which he paid no at
tention. But after an hour the pain be-
came very great, the thumb swelled,
then the hand, and next the forearm.
He was obliged to alight at the first
station and send for a medical man, who
declared that instant amputation OF the
arm was necessary. The patient insisted
on postponing the operation for few
hours until the arrival of his father, for
whom he had telegraphed. But before
the latter could reach the spot, it was
too late; the poisonous matter had gain
ed the arm, then the shoulder, and any
operation henceforth was impossible.
The young man died twenty-seven hours
after the burn, in horrible suffering.
Year: 1878

A New Haven policeman has devised
a new kind of policeman's club. 1t con-
sists of brass covering to an ordinary
club, attached to it by springs, and
colored to resemble rosewood. If man
should seize it he would only get the
brass cover, leaving the policeman ample
opportunity to WELD the club itself.
Year: 1878


Something I've found on my way


Through earth to-day;
Something OF value untold,


Brighter than gold
Something more fair than the tint


or morning CLINT;
Something more sweet than the song
OF feathered throng;
Something that lovelier glows
Than queenly rose;
Something more sparkling by far


Than yon bright star
Something cherish-how we'll


Words cannot tell.
Something-oh, can you not guess?


Then confess.
Some one has said Love is blind :


Yet do find,
Deep in the heart of my love


My treasure trove
Year: 1878

Some of the boys at Carrollville, Wis,
made a midnight parade, wrapped in
sheets, and starting from the village
graveyard. Their idea was to scare who
ever saw them. They succeeded. Three
women went into convulsions at the
sight, one sick man was thrown into a
relapse, and girl broke her arm by a
fall in climbing hastily over fence.
Year: 1878

In the public gardens of Vienna bear
underwent an operation for cataract.
He was blind in both eyes. A strong
leather collar was firmly buckled around
his neck, and the attached chain passed
round bar of the cage. Two powerful
men pulled him up, so that sponge
containing chloroform might be applied
to his nose. The first evidence of the
action of the chloroform was diminu-
tion in his struggles; one paw dropped
and then the other. The door OF the den
was opened, and his head laid upon a
plank outside. The. cataracts were re-
moved, and the bear was drawn back
into his cage. Next morning he came
out of his den staring about him, caring
nothingafor the light, licking his paws.
and evidently glorying in the recovery
of sight.
Year: 1878

A petition is in circulation at Hawrs-
Vile Kentucky, and receiving numer-
Gus signers, for a passage Of law by
the Legislature making ineligible as
jurors and incompetent IS witnesses
all persons who voluntarily sign or
take a pledge of honor and afterward
violate it. This strikes Us as a move
in the right direction 10 correct public
sentiment which became so demOral-
lied during the war, when Oaths were
eXacted of man every time he turned
street corner. until they lost all their
sanctity. A voluntary pledge of hon
or is no light obligation, and society
and law should so teach until it can
be said of every one that his word is
as good as his oath or bond A man
who would violate his own pledge of
honor, can hardly be relied on TO do
justice under oath as 4 juror or wit
hess,