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Year: 1877

When it wns first announced that Professor
Gray, of Chicago, had invented method
by which sounds could be telegraphcd and
music played in one city be made audible in
another the public was sceptical. The fact
has been demonstrated beyond doubt and
another wonder Of electricity revealed The
Boston experiment has been recently re-
peated successfully in Chicago by Professor
Gray, and airs played on the instrument in
Milwaukee were telegraphcd in sound to the
former city, a distance Of more than
eighty miles. An account of this strange
performance is published in another
column. We are glad to learn that New
listening to this electrical harp. Mr..
Maurice Strakosch announces that the
powers of the telephone, as the instrument
is named, will be tested between Phiadel-
phia and this city, so that persons sitting
in our Academy of Music will hear the sweet
strains played ninety miles away. The
date and the particulars will be soon made
known. The invention is SO recent that its
future uses cannot be predicted, but We
may safely believe that it is something more
than scientific toy. When sounds can be
transmitted by electricity over vast dis
tances there is q basis for the most astound-
ing development The time may come
when we can talk by lightning and swear
by thunder, and even that will not be
stranger than practical telegraphy itself
would have been hundred years ago.
When the voltaic pile was discovered no
one dreamed of what Morse would do with
it, and it may be that in the control of a
Wagner yet unknown the telephone may be
tho instrument by which the music of the
future may be telegraphed simultaneously
around the whole world.
Year: 1877

In every part of the country there will,
no doubt, be made to-day an earnest re-
sponse to the request of the new President
that the people shall join in an appeal for
Divine assistance to him in the discharge
Of his duties. AS this is a simple religious
observance, not only appropriate to the day
but appropriate by traditional usage to any
occasion in the nations history that may be
regarded as critical, and rs the people,
however they vary as to creeds and parties,
are, as whole, possessed Of deep religious
convictions, it is not TO be doubted that this
request. made in sincere and simple spirit.
MS we believe it to be, will have their SYM
pathy. This is ground, therefore. on
which men of the most diverse creeds and
parties may meet to-day in common aspira-
tion. In all countries it Is n common
formality to pray for the ruler Of the land,
and in this country the designation OF days
of public prayer on great occasions has be-
come an institution. 1t is apparently in the
spirit of that designation that this request
has been made, and though it may provoke
a sneer from those who doubt Mr.. Hayes
title to his Office, it will obtain for him the
moral support of that important body of the
people which is always ready to sustain the
man who means to do right.
Year: 1877

The carpet-baggers and their friends at
Washington die hard. Those men who. in
the Senate and the House and in the Cab
met have maintained that the great scheme
of villany on which the Louisiana usurpa-
ton was built up was all virtue and honesty
and Justice cannot contemplate with patience
the sudden recognition by the President
of the true nature of the case,
while his just action in pursuit Of
that recognition fills them with dismay.
because it stamps their past conduct and
endangers their hopes for the future. These
men kept up their game almost till the last
minute with Grant, who threw them over in
time They will begin their assault on Mr..
Hayes very promptly, and the character OF
his administration will be determined very
early by his action toward them.
Year: 1877

country owes MN aS the successful conf
mander Of its armies. His occasional bad
appointments. his favoritism to personal
friends. his long absences from the capital,
Will be thought trivial enough, If thought of
at oil, two generations hence; and even his
gravest fault-too much military interference
in the South-will be attributed rather
to tho spirit of tho party that elected him
and his education as a soldier than to con-
tempt Of constitutional restraints. Among
the things that will be remembered to his
advantage tho most conspicuous are the
Alabama claims treaty, one of the greatest
trinmphs of American diplomacy, and his
courageous veto Of the Imitation bill when
it had passed Congress with a strong popu-
lar support from the country. 1t is chiefly
owing to that veto that he retires with gold
step Of resumption. Tho minor acts of his
administration, like the mere routine of all
administrations. will be lost sight of in the
hurry and hustle of new events but these
two conspicuous things will always be re-
mcmbered to the credit Of President Grants
LII MhlCI uVullulStldtAOA
of his long line of predecessors can more than
two acts be found which transcend these in
real importance?


Mistakes President Grant has certainly
committed, and perhaps no administration
has been more fruitful III mistakes but it
is n solid proof of the great strength of his
character that, in spite of many mistakes
Of inexpericnce and some of waywardness,
he has been the strongest and most influen-
tial man of his party from the day Of his
Inauguration up to this day Of his retire
mcnt. Such mistakes as he has committed
would have ruined and prostrated an ordi-
nary man. The fact that he sur
yived them, that so long as it
was doubted whether he would not
be again candidate for tho Presidency
no republican statesmen dared to come into
tho field as his ayowed rival, Is tho most
remarkable negative testimony ever given
in this country since the time of Washing
ton to the personal ascendancy OF one man.
occasion to analyze and explain the singular
personal endowments which have made
President Grant so potent force in Ameri-
can political life. Two years ago he seemed
too strong for the safety Of our institutions !;
he made ineligible to modern minds the
practice of the ancient Greeks in ostrncizing
public men, when their influence, though
acquired by merit. had become too great.
At twelve o'clock to-day President Grant
becomes nero citizen like the rest of us,
and with the sincere tribute we have now
paid to his great qualities we cordially
wish him tranquil, pleasant and pro-
longcd, as we are certain that he will enjoy
an honored, old age.
Year: 1877

New York's share in the new administra-
ton, if the report that Mr.. Evarts is to be
Secretary of State shall prove true will be
important and honorable. 1t bids fair to
become recognized in the divisions of power
throughout the nation that this Office is
the property of the Empire State. For
eight years under Grant it has been filed
by New Yorker. For the eight years that
preceded Grants accession it was also filled
by New Yorker. II it now falls
again to our share in the per-
son of the distinguished New Yorker who
has been designated rather by events
in the recent conflict of great wits than by
any party favor the country will be well
served. 1t will indeed be that rare event,
n nomination not made by the p,liticians--
not especially palatablc to them which yet
puts in Office profound and capable poll
tician, using the word in its larger and
better sense
Year: 1877

An EFFORT is BENG MADE to secure q pardon
for the r,iffan Caramonti, sent last year to the
Kings County Pententiary for stabbing man.
II the attempt succeeds there will be al imme-
,liatc increase in the demand for arms for self
protection and % further lowering of the small
esteem in which the binding force OF criminal
sentences is held
Year: 1877

COMPTROLLER KELLY shrcwdly demands full
bill of particulars concerning the cost Of the pro-
posed new bridge across the Harlem River. Such
an unusual proceeding seems to Indicate that tho
rity is TO rny only for what it gets and that still
another custom of the good old times is to slip
ont Of sight.
Year: 1877

THE UNION Trust COMPANY shouldercd yes
tcrtlay the loss by the great forgery of New York
Life Insurance paper; but persons who contem-
plate presenting Mt that institution checks which
are in any respect irregular would do we'll to
first reinforce the seats of their trousers.
Year: 1877

A POLICEMAN has at last succeeded in being
on the ground during the perpctration of rob-
berry. lie could not have very well done other
WISE for ne was himself the victim. The case is
so thrilling in its details that the public and per-
hals the Police Commissioners, will be curious to
know more about it.
Year: 1877

NEXT !-Coburn, the prize fighter. has been
found guilty of firing pistol at Officer Tobias
with intent to kill him. The punishment of the
crime is imprisonment in State Prison for
term Of not more than ten years. Now let us in
sist that the uniformed brutcs who have recently
committed needless and murricrous assaults ON
private citizens shall be dealt with as summarily.
Year: 1877

Prof. Chase, Of Brown University,
adds his testimony to that Of the West
em farmers, to the effect that Paris
green is specific for potato bugs. 1t
will kill the bugs. He also believes
that Paris green does not injure the
potato. There may be other prepara-
tions which will answer the purpose,
but none of them have been sufficient
ly tried to afford a satisfactory guar
antee. And the fact is that in the
West, where they have had the bug
longer than we have, nothing is used,
as a rule, save Paris green. They
mix, say one part Of Paris green with
nine parts Of flour, plaster or any inn
palpable powder; place the mixture
in bag of sufficiently loose texture tc
permit the moderate escape ofthe con,
tents, put the bag at the end of a six
foot pole, and shake the article upor
the plants. The one important con
sideration is to prevent the mixture
from coming in contact with the face
or abraded skin. At meeting of the
r. |. horticultural Society, the Presi
dent of the Society expressed th'
opinion that the beetle, in coming East
was fleeing from its enemies, the in
sects that destroy it. He did not be
lieve that we would find it necessar,
to fight the pest more than four or fiv
years.
Year: 1877

The human body is the workman
ship of God, and when our Saviour
was manifest, in the flesh he said ga
body hast thou prepared me-" Not
only is the body the workmanship of
God, but it was designed in some
sense to shadow forth the glory of his
image. God formed man of the dust
of the ground, and when he had been
thus formed this body was inspired by
his own breath. HGod breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life, and man
became living soul" These facts
invest the human form with a most
solemn sanctity. These bodies which
are often degraded to most ignoble
uses, and which are by some regarded
as clods of clay, as prison houses OF
darkness, as fetters Of corruption, ARE,
when rightly viewed, the instruments
Of righteousness" the workmanship OF
God, the means by which he does his
will, and accomplishes his work.


Not only did Christ honor the hui
man form by taking it upon himself,
but with his own hands he labored
year by year to repair and restore
those bodies which had been dilapidat-
ed by sin, by vice, and by the curse
which broods over all the earth. He
healed the sick, he gave sight to the
blind, and caused the lame to leap as
an hart. He said to the impoten
men, "Behold, thou art made whole


sin no more, lest a worse thing come
unto thee. Tile Christian.
Year: 1877

An illustration of Satan's cunning
strategy is seen in the following brief
request for prayer, and presented at
our prayer-meeting: 81 have no hope,
and would give anything for a hope in
Christ. Pray for me; ! am wretch
ed" 1t was signed, ga Distressed
Soul"


Now the subtle enemy had finger
in the composition of that touching
little note. The author seems to be
under the delusion that he (or she) is
intensely anxious to be saved, and
Christ is unwilling to do the infinite
favor. Whereas, Jesus is actually
knocking at the door Of that writer's
heart, and asking to be admitted. The
fault is not with him. All the writer
has to give, is to give up self to Christ.
Satan is misleading you, my friend,
when he persuades you that you are
doing all that God requires, and the
blame of refusing you rests on the
loving Redeemer. 1t is very likely
that the "distressed SOUP who sent
that request is clinging to his favorlte,
all the time that he claims to be will
ing to give up anything for hope in
Christ.


Is there no giving up to be done in
order to be saved? Yes; avast deal.
Repentance is not only sorrow for sin,
but the prompt Abandonment OF sim
When Christ talked with a young in
quirer who asked what he should dc
to inherit eternal life, he commanded
the young man to give up his estate to
the poor, and Ecome and follow him.
The youth was not willing to make the
surrender. His besetting sinwas self
ishness. Christ touched him son the
raw" when he made that demand
Much as the inquirer may have desired
eternal life, he finched from the Sa-
viour's conditions, and went away sor
rowful.
Year: 1877

Just received at the Corner Store large con-
signment Of light


WOOLEN GOODS AND REPELLANTS,
direct from the manufacturer, which are being
sold at lower prices than ever such goods were
offered in Lamoille County. Very desirable for
men and boys summer wear
Year: 1877

The Sixth Court is situated at the
bottom of the great ocean north Of the
Wuchiao rock. 1t is a vast, noisy
Gehenna, many leagues in extent, and
around it are sixteen wards. In the
first ward the souls are made to kneel
for long periods on iron shot. In the
second they are placed up to their
necks in filth. In the third they are
pounded till the blood runs out. In
the fourth their mouths are opened
with iron pincers and filled full Of
needles. In the fifth they are bitten
by rats. In the sixth they are in
closed in net of thorns and nipped
by locusts. In the seventh they are
crushed to jelly. In the eighth their
skin is lacerated, and they are beaten
on the raw. In the ninth their mouths
are filled with fire. In the tenth they
are licked with flames. In the eleventh
they are subjected to noisome smells.
In the twelfth they are butted by oxen
and trampled on by horses. In the
thirteenth their hearts are scratched.
In the fourteenth their heads are rub
bed till their skulls come of. In the
fifteenth they are chopped in two at
the waist. In the sixteenth their skin
is taken off and rolled up into spills.
Year: 1877

IL you desire to know what your
futnre husband will look like, go to
your looking-glass and look at your
self If you see reflected there a
short. plump person. he will probably
be tall and thin. If the eyes that
meet yours are blue, his will very
probably he black or brown. II your
mouth is small, his will be large. II
you have pretty nez retrousse (free
translation, "a turned-up nose his
will be Of the Roman order.


II you have light hair, you may
hope for raven tresses and jetty nous
tache for him. II you are one of the
pale and colorless folk, your future
may he veritable Rufus, sanguine Of
lock and whisker. And il from the
mirror there peeps at you a brunette,
then expect to meet, one day, another
half to your soul whose locks are Of
the palest yellow, and whose eyes are
blue.


You can tell your fortune as To this
without the aid of any sorcerer.


The man whom fate has set apart
for you is. probably, one who is, phys.
ically. at least, complete contrast to
yourself. and If you do not marry
him, it will be because there Is mis-
take somewhere.
Year: 1877

A CURE FOR EARACHE.-There is
scarcely any ache to which children
are subject so hard to bear and SO diff.
fcult to cure as earache. But here is
remedy that never was known to
fail: Take a bit of cotton batting, put
on it pinch Of black pepper; gather
it up and tie, and dip into sweet oil
and insert in the ear. Put flannel
bandage over the head to keep it warm.
II will give immediate relief.
Year: 1877

IL would seem from the circumstan-
ces We are about 10 relate that the age
Of miracles is not yet over. but that
cures are yet effected through Divine
agency as they were in ancient times.
A young married lady living a few
miles from this town named Mrs. Vim
ME Case Formerly Miss Sharpe has
for some months been reported as al.
almost gone with consumption. Eve
ry thing that the best medical skill
could devise has been resorted TO, but
in vain. Finally, when all hope had
nei. when she and all those around
her had given up in despair, and there
seemed to bc but very few weeks of
life remaining at the most, a distant
relative, an aged and devoui man of
-ixty.four years. the most Of whose
life had been spent in religious work,
came here on visit, and while at the
house engaged in earnest prayer with
Mr.. Case, laying his hands upon her
head and praying for her recovery.
Strange rs it may seem to the skepti-
cal. her recovery commenced immedi-
ately. aud she is now a well woman.
She was in our Office Yesterday, and
personally gave every evidence Of
complete recovery. Her face has re-
sumcd it. healthy appearance; she is
able To do a hard days work without
fatigue, and her step is rs elastic and
vigorous and her lungs apparently as
sound as when she was in perfect
health, 1t i. certainly remarkable
case. She is earnest in her thanks
giving for her recovery, and gives all
credit To the Lord for it.-Spring Val
ley (Minn. Progress.
Year: 1877

DO our young readers ever think
how little it takes to stain their char.
acters! A single drop of ink is ve-
ry small thing, yet dropped into a
tumbler of clear water it blackens the
whole; and so the first oath, the first
lie, the first glass. may seem very
trivial, yet they leave dark stain
upon the character. Look out for the
first stain.
Year: 1877

A feverish thirst that refuses TO be
quenched by drinking water may be al.
layed in the following manner: Throw
slice of bread upon burning Goals
and when il is all ahame throw it into
tumbler of water and let the suffer
er drink it freely.
Year: 1877

A girl who can put square patch
on a pair of pantaloons may not be SO
accomplished ID as one who can work a
green worsted dog on yellow ground,
but she is more real value in the com.
nunity.-[Norwich Bulletin.
Year: 1877

As Scotch schoolmaster was teach
ing an urchin to cipher on the slate,
the pupil put the following question
to his instructor; "Whaur diz a the
figures gang till when they're rubbit
out?"
Year: 1877

The Armenian women are veiled
just as closely Us the Turkish females.
and no man Is hardly ever permitted
to SEE their faces. IL keep my wife
for myself. ani not my friends, Was
the reply made by AN Armenian who
was interrogated as to why he did not
introduce his wife.
Year: 1877

All day the white haired woman sits


Beside the open door and knits;


No living thie x her dim eye sees.


As busy with old memories.


She dreams her dreams of what has been,
And knits her old timed fancies in.
She thinks OF those who long ago


Went out across the threshold low.
How many times her listening ear
Has thought familiar footsteps near.
And she started up to find


A dead leaf rustling in the wind.
But never as to those who lie
Beneath the wide and tender sky.
With folded hands on quiet breast.
All wrapped about with peace and rest.
She thinks of them. For here they tread
The green earth with her. None are dead
Though years have fallen like the leaves
About the graves where summer weaves
Her grass fringcd cOverlet to keep
Safe hid from us the ones asleep.
She sees them all. Not grass nor mold
Can hide the ones she loves of old.
She talks with fi,em. when Drowned winged


bee


Makes merry in the locust tree
She thinks he comes and sits with her,
Whose voice was loves interpreter.
Oh. dreamer! young again to day,
What matter if your hair is graye
Sometimes she thinks that roun her knee
Her children play in happy glee,
And when they tired and sleepy grow
She sings some songs of long ago.
And on her loving mother breast
She rocks her little ones to rest
oh, dreamer. knitting all the day
Your dreams in which our stitches gray,
Yours is happy. happy heart
A haunted world from ours apart;
The years that turned your tresses gray
Have given you back your youth to- day.
Year: 1877

An old Scotchman was taking his
grist to mill. in sacks thrown across


he back of horse, when the horse
stumbled, aud the grain fell to the
ground. He had not the strength to
raise it, but he saw horseman riding
along, and thought he would ask him
for help. The horseman proved to be
a nobleman who lived in the castle
hard by, and the farmer could not
muster courage to ask favor of him.
But the nobIeman was gentleman,
also, and not waiting to be asked, he
disinounted, and between them thew
lifted the grain to the horses back.
John-for he was gentleman, too
lifted his cap, and said: My lord, how
shall ever thank you for your kind
nessT 'Very easily, John. replied tie
nobleman Whenever you see anothir
man in the same plight IA you were iii
just now, help him, and that will be
thanking me-
Year: 1877

New York, April 9.-Early yesterday
morning burglars entered the unoccupied
basement under the Sixth National Bank,
1902 Broadway. and, cutting a hole through
the floor of the bank, were soon at work
upon small safe and speedily pried off the
the door with wedges and jimmles. There
were $1,000 in the safe when the bank
closed Saturday night and half of the
amount was taken. The officers say five
or more men were in the job or else they
made two trips with their booty, as $4,000
in silver would make a load for FIVE men
even though they were not endeaVoring to
secret it.
Year: 1877

So ended tho letter. Poor man I
inquired OF my iatller if nothing could be
done to trace him, and get him to return.
He replied that he would do what he
could. We succeeded in trncing him to
New York, mud there the clue was lost.
We tried every means which occurred to
us for discovering his whereabouts, md
inserted advertisements in the New York
aud the Canadian papers, begging him
TO let lis know at least that he was alive
and well; but all our cndeavors were
rain-we never heard OF him again.


We often think Of him with pity and
regret, for, whatever were his faults,
there must hHve been some good III n
man who was capable Of feeling such
profound md sincere contrition for n
guilty intention.-Hiustratcd Weekly.
Year: 1877

4 friend writes us from Dako ta
county asking whether we would adj
wise the nomination of a greenback
county ticket in that county this fall.
Certainly. The old parties respect
nothing but votes.


We received Il big vote there last
\ fall, when we ran for congress on the
gfeenback ticket; and this fall with
three tickets in the field, and a full
canvass, we can carry the county.
But suppose we don't, what harm can
tlefeat bring us equal to the injury
the cause will suffer from failure to
defend our principles at the polls ?


BY all means let us have green
back ticket in every county in the
state. Let us give the enemy the
best shots in the locker; ;-andshe that
is not with us is against us.
Year: 1877

NOW we ask our readers to care
fully scan these figures, and then ask
thepselves whether it is possible to
c3fry on the business of this country
An gold Or silver, with such.a drain
upon us as is herein exhibited. Gold
is simply an article of merchandise
like wheat, produced from the ground
like wheat, and finding its chief mar
ket abroad, like wheat. What would
be the condition of the business of
this country if wheat was our only
currency? There would be times
when it would be abundant, as now.
and business would thrive; then there
would come periods when all the
granaries would be empty and univer-
sal bankruptcy would follow.


We ough. to have standard of val
ues and medium of exchange which