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Year: 1878

A girl about twelve years old ha


died, and her relatives had oppcintc'


.hat evening as the beginning Of he


funeral After death takes place in al


Indian village The weeping and wailina


takrs place Immediately, and continue


among the relatives in the widest aut


most administrative manner for many


days. The evening before it hac


reached its highest pitch the family o


the dead girl had given away everything


they possessed and were then engaged


in pulling down the very lodge that
sheltered them, and cutting the buffalo
robes that composed its sides into snail
pieces, while the mother Of tho dead
girl had chopped of some of her fingers
with butcher knife and was being
pounded by sympaihizing friends to
keep from fainting. Everybody had
their faces painted black and were
moa ming as onlr grief-strick"n Indian
can. The woods and fantastic lodges
and weird faccs of the Indians. lit up as
they were by the Pickering glare Of a
large campfire, form"d a picture at
once grotesque and startling. When
our party visited the camp in the morn,
ing the girls family, weak from hung r
and loss Of sleep, were still keeping up
the barharous wake. although tho
cnrpse had been placed upon its burial
platform In some secluded spot on the
nrarie, where it is to be hopei the wild
a,wers and birds will watch it ever
moro. Riding out from the d,zen or 50
t"pecs that comprised the village, Mr.
Hoyt and myself made a snort cut
across a curve in the trail. and discov-
red dead Indian on a platform Of
stakes about ten feet abrvc the prairie.
At first, like all whites out here, we
set out with the determination to
take what trophies might be on the
rack, but upon reading the prayer Of
his friends, written in English and
pinned to one Of the stakes that he
might not be disturbed, as Y1lIowface,


he dead man, had always hslpea The
white man and was a friend Of all who
passed that way, we left the grave uu-
disturbed. The Indian had only been
;herc since April, and had his gun.
omahawk. knife and beaded ornaments
III upon his person.-Montana Let
Year: 1878

When an Afghan is about to sell his
horse he carries on the dicker with the
intending purchaser by pressures of
their fingers concealed by his robe, and
though the animal IS carefully exam
ined, of course, not a word is said.
Each squeeze of the hand means
five rupees. The theory is that the
horse would lose flesh through sorrow if
he thought his master would part with
him.
Year: 1878

prisoner at the bar said the Judge,
lis there anything you wish to say be-
fire the sentence is passed upon you ?
The prisoner looked wistful'y toward
rhe door and remarked that he would
like to say ''good evening"" if it would
be agreeable to the company. But they
wouldn't let him.-Ha,okeye.
Year: 1878

OwNa to the small appropriations
made by Congress to detect and punish
depredations upon the public lands,
Secretary Schurz does not, expect to be
able to do much In this direction this
year. It is thought, however. that the
seizures and arrests heretofore made
will serve to check the operations of
many persons who were engaged in q
Wholesale manner in destroying the
timber upon the public lands.
Year: 1878

OwINa to the pressure Of current
business and the Importance Of the
questions involved, very little progress
has yet been made in the preparation of
Instructions by the General Land Office
to carry into effect the recently enacted
laws providing for the sale of Pacific
coast timber lands, and for the free use
Of timber In Territories for specified
domestic purposes. The delay in the
final preparation and pronunciation Of
the necessary instructions will probably
continue about q fortnight. 2 iillgkl9l
Year: 1878

Clear thought and vigorous action depend
upon that perfect condition of system re-
sulting from pure blood. When symptoms
provocative of dullness and inactivity pre-
sent themselves, then use at once DR.. Bnlrs
Blood Mixture
Year: 1878

A noticeable and long needed improve
ment is under way at the corner of Pearl
and Marion streets, in the erection of a
handsome iron fence to enclose the yard of
the Pearl street Baptist Church. The fence
was made by Cox & Son, of this place.
Year: 1878

Members of Council were desirous of
giving the contract for laying the additional
water pipe on Atlantic street to our own
mechanics, but upon carefully reading the
law they found it must be given to the low
est bidder.-Bridgeton ChrOnicle


If this be the case why was it that Messrs.
Cox d Sons failed to secure the contract for
the erection of the steam pump at the engine
house. They were the lowest bidders. If
must is the law now, it must have been the
law then.
Year: 1878




burst of sunlight over shady landscape, H.
lumined his face, when he saw her sitting in
her old place near his aunt's chair.


Well they soon got to talking together,
and after while everything seemed to be
going on just it had done in the olden time
But there was very palpable difference felt,
though not expressed, by them ALL Helen
had somehow lost her selfpossession, and Vic
tor, in some unaccountable way, had thrown
off his former reserve, and had become vi
vacious, gay, even brilliant He uttered wit
ty little bon mots, and made himself the life
and spirit of the party, while his eyes, through.
out the conversation, seemed scarcely ever to
quit Helen's face, to which they were drawn
by an irresistible fascination. AS to Madame
Preville, she could have wept in the fullness
of her joy. She looked from one to the 9th.
er of the two young people, and told herself
sagely that everything was coming round
right at last.


And everything did come round right, ac-
cording to her desires, after time. Victor,
taking Helen's return as an encouragement
to his ng-stifed hopes, did not long delay
in making the venture to which he had not
trusted himself before; and Helen, having
found that her truest happiness would be en-
sured by marrying him, accepted bis offer,
simply and without coquetry, at once. Their
courtship would no doubt have been more in
teresting, had there been spice of uncer'
tainty about it, in regard to its result. But
Helen was no firt, and when Victor, in his
appeal, told her of his patient waiting,
through all these years, not only of their sep
aration, but dating even farther back, she
thought his fidelity and self:abnegation quite
worthy of q prompt reward.


Mrs. Dashwood's anger, when she heard Of
her niece's engagement, was unbounded, and
very openly expressed in the domestic circle
She could not forgive Allan for the part he
had played-not in regard to Posy, for on her
she did not bestow a thought, except so far as
her having been an obstacle in the way of the
ful6lmeut of her schemes-but for his folly
in not having played his cards 80 as to WIN
the heiress as his prize. Fortunately, her
wrath did not, in the least, affect the bappi.
ness of Helen and Victor, who, after they
were married, continued to live at the cha
teau, which they regarded, and still regard,
as their permanent home. About year
after this event, Allan somewhat consoled his
mother for his past failure in duty, by wooing
and winning young widow, the owner of
fortune large enough not to be despised,
though scarcely comparable with the one she
had coveted for him. Whether it was a love
match or not, no one can decide. The par
lead a gay life, and seem sufficiently we'll
enough satisfied with each other. But Allan
has heart and conscience still left, and it
may not unreasonably be surmised that, not
withstanding his isapparent insousiance, and his
eagerness in his pursuit of the pleasures Of
the world, bis thoughts still turn occasionally
to that episode in his life, of which, the only
trace that remains, is one green spot in Laurel
Hill cemetery, where the cross on Lone Noun
tain looks silently down on Posy's quiet grave.


THE END.
Year: 1878

Loaf bread, once SAID an experienced
,house-keeper to us, "interferes with the saliva
ton of more house.keepers than any other one
thing in the world" This was probably an
extravagant statement, yet to the country
housewife who cannot turn to convenient ba-
kerry, the duty of bread-making is too often
heavy cross-a sort of hit or miss experiment.
Heavy, sour bread is far more general than
the opposite, and this is trying to both the d.
gestions and to the tempers of the family who
eatit Yet there is no reason for this. There
is philosophy of bread-making, as of every.
thing else, and certain causes accomplish cer-
tain results. Therefore, we are glad to be
able to give recipe from a practical house.
keeper whose bread never fails: To make
two quarts of bread or roll, take four or five
nice, large Irish potatoes, peel and cut them
up, and put them to boil in just enough water
to cover them. When done, mash smooth in
the same water, and when cool, not cold, add a
half teacupful of yeast, or ifyou use compress
ed yeast, the sixth part of cake dissolved in
tepid water, dessert spoonful of sugar, a lit
tie salt, tablespoonful of lard, and pint of
-four. Mix together lightly. This should be
very soft and quite sticky. Set by in cover
ed vessel in warm place to rise. In two or
three hours, it will be risen, and should look
almost like yeast, full of bubbles. Now work


in the rest Of your two quarts of -four, and, if
necessary, add little cold water. The dough
should be rather soft, and need not be knead-
ed more than half an hour Set to rise in
moderately warm place for four hours, or
thereabouts. 1t can be baked now if wanted
at once but if not, take spoon and push the
dough down from the top and sides of the YES
sci containing it, and let it rise again. The
oftener the bread rises, the lighter it will be
three times is, however, sufficient. After it
rises the last time, takeit out of the vessel and
knead it with your hands until it is smooth.
If too soft, add little more flour. For rolls,
roll out and cut as if for biscuit. Ifyou pre-
fer doubled rolls, give each touch with the
rolling-pin to make it oblong, and then double
it over. The baking pan must be creased, and
the rolls must not touch each other. Set down
to rise-this will take half or three.quarters
of an hour. Then put in the oven and bake
as you would biscuit. Unless the oven is hot


the rolls will spread and the crust be hard.
Year: 1878

The Warsaw (Wyoming County, West
er'n Neao- Yorker tells the following story
from real life: In December, 1859, On q
cold, stormy day, might have been seen,
in the village and town of Warsaw, a
blind beggar asking for aims, from door
to door. The blind beggar was led By a
little ragged Irish boy, about eight OF
nine years old, whose widow mother
lived in the city of Rochester. The beg
gar was seen to ill. treat and beat this
poor Irish boy from time to time. This
being noticed by one Of our human citi-
zens, he took the little boy to his own
home, providing him with warm clothing
and all the comforts that he and his az
fectionate wife could 90 to render his
life Chat had been one of want from the
cradle) happy. They sent him to the
district school in the winters that follow
ed, he working on the farm in the farm
in the summer months, a faithful and
kind boy. In the district school he was
at all times at the head lf his class. He
was then sent TO our academy, and after a
time he taught school in one of our rural
districts. BY dint Of economy aud the as


sistance OF his kind benefac;or, four wears
ago he entered Cornell University. In


June last he graduated at the head of
his class, having been awarded the high
est prize for scholarship IN the college,
where merit alone succeeds. The once
ragged Irish boy has been spending q
few weeks in our village and vicinity.
but has now returned to take the place
offered him at good salary in the chem.
ical department of this seat of learning
Year: 1878

From to Psris Corresi iondenoe Baltimore Bulletin


The most recent improvement in the
production of lace is the introduction of
shaded tints in the flowers and patterns
giving the... the relief of a picture. The
effect is produced ny varying the appli-
cation of the two stitches used in making
the fowers-the "tolle," which forms the
close tissue and the grille" employed in
the more open part Of the pattern. The
system is so successfully applied to the
laces of France that it has been adopted
with the gratest success.


There is legend regarding the intro
duction OF this manufacture into Flanders
A poverty stricken, but pious young girl
was dying of love for young m an whose
wealth precluded all hopes Of marriage.
One night as she sat weeping at her sad
fate, beautiful lady entered the &C ttage,
and without saying word, placed on
her knees green cloth cushion with its
bobbins filled with fine thread, which on
autumn evenings floats in the air, and
which the people call "fils de la Verge" /"
The lady, though of romantic bearing,
was practical manufacturer. She sat
down in silence, and with her nimule fin
gers taught the unhappy maiden how to
make all sorts Of patterns and complicat-
ed stitches. As daylight appeared the
maiden had learned her art, and the mys-
terions visitor disappeared.


The price Of lace soon made the poor
girl rich. She married the man of her
choice, and surrounded by large family,
lived happy and rich, for she had kept
the secret for herself. One evening. when
the little folks were playing around her
knees by the fireside and her husband
sat fondly watching the happy group, the
lady suddenly made her appearance
among them Her bearing was distant;
she seemed stern and sad, and this time
addressed her portege in a trembling
voice: "Here," she said, "you enjoy peace
and abundance, while without are famine
and trouble. I helped you, you have not
helped your neighbors. The angels weep
for you and tuln awav their faces" So
the next day the woman arose, and going
forth with a green cushion and it's bobbins
in her hands, went from cottage to cot
taee, Offering to all who would be taught
to instruct them in the art she had her
self miraculously learned. So they also
became rich, and Belgium became famous
for this manufacture.
Year: 1878

The trout 60 up the river in schools Of
thousands toward their spawning beds.
II unimpeded in their course, they would
into numberless crystal line trout
brooks and deposit their spawn far up
the stream. out of the reach of sawdust or
fishermen. But just at the foot of the
Sierra Nevadas, in the State of Nevada
close to the California line, is the Verdi
dam. This dam has been constructed to
supply fine saw-mill with water, and
great precaution was taken to arrange a
suitable fishery at one end. The water is
made to flow over sort of apron, or
plank floor, which has such gradual in
cline that any fish can ascend. This fish,
way is further improved by means of the
rocks and earth of the river bank. There
is a large pool or eddy just at the foot and
lower side Of the apron, and so the trout
find an impossible wall at the place
where they should enter the reservoir
above the dam. Thus the fish are i'm
prisoned.


Such restless impatient, strugglin priso-
ners as are these mountain trout cannot
be found elsewhere. They attempt to
leap over the main dam, only to be hurled
back by the falling water. They spring
fully five feet in the air, and strike the
main apron of the dam with terrific and
sometimes fatal force. They bruise their
bodies and heads until oftentimes they
die. They learn nothing from experience
but continue to jump against the dam
until, worn out and neverless, they
drift, completely exhausted, into the ed
dies formed by the piers Of the dam.
One can watch for hours these poor des-
pcrate things in their brave struggle to
get over the dam, without having a mo-
ment elapse in which some trout is not
leaping through the air and against the
dam. Generally from one to dozen fish
are visible at the same time. 1t is grand
but pitiful 81 ght to watch the great speck-
ct over the am.


But the pltiful merges into the horri-
BILE when one sees the merciless grab
hooks let down into the struggling, quiv-
ering, exhausted masses Of trout gather
ed in the eddies below the piers. By
means of the short, unyielding rod, a
succession of quick upward jerks is given
to the four hungry points Of the grab
hook. The water is full of foam from
the cascade, and circles in binding whirl
around the pool. The fish are crazed
and blinded by their fruit.ess, frantic
leaps, and readily drift against the sharp,
needle-!ike points of the barbed
hooks. Once impaled, the struggle be-
gins. The hook may have entered un.
derneath the head or the body, or it may
have pierced the side, or the fins or the
tail. At the first moment of its fright the
startled fish darts away with fury of
strength that is marvellous. A large fish
is almost ungovernable during the first
frenzy Of its death struggle. The fisher
mans only plan is to lit The trout weary
itself with Its maddened plunges and
leaps and struggles. and then by dex-
ferrous twitch land it on the pier More
then half the time the fish makes some
terrible bounds and tears himself from
the hook, only to float with the current
torn, mangled and dying.
Year: 1878

A Missionary just returned, says he regards
Joanson's Anodyne Lininaent as beyond all price,
and efficacious beyond any other medicine


It is adapted to q great variety of special
cases. and is the best pain killer in the world.
Year: 1878

those whose own interests in the removal of
the capital are directly opposed to the inter
ests of the people of the State at large.


The DEMOCRAT on the 10th. in an editorial
criticising the argument of the Senator on
this question, said that "it was the argument
of q Turk or q Russian suddenly transplanted
from those arbitrary governments" but on
that very night disgraceful scene took place
in New Orleans. illustrating the correctness
of Senator Goodies position, and showing that
the New Orleans mObs and roughs which can
tolerable nuisances to a legislative body. And
the DEMOCRAT, the only paper with bOldness
enough to denounce that proceeding, was con
strained the following morning to publish
another editorial on the mob affair which took


place the night before on Canal street. and


called it "the disgrace of New Orleans" On
the 18th it acknowledged that ''lf respectable
, men, and among them several members Of
the Legislature from the country, are not
permitted the poor privilege OF expressing
their opinions on matters of State policy


without molestation from rowdies and bullies
New Orleans is not q fit place for the cap
ital"
The capital was removed from Baton
Rouge by Il Legislative body corrupt and
filled with designing men, whose object in re-


moving it to New Orleans was the better to
conceal their nefarious schemes to accom-


plish bad legislation, to organize rings. to


grant to monopolies new privileges before
the work coulbbe discovered, and receive in


all these frauds the assistance of the press of
New Orleans. How.they succeeded, see the


laws of Louisiana and what the New Orleans


papers say of each other It was to this
New Orleans journalLsm that Senator Goode


referred when he objected to New Orleans on
account of the press
Year: 1878

tBoston Herald


WASHINGTON Feb. N.-Fhe committee re-
vsinR the electoral count will have n meeting
of the full committee tomorrow for the pur-
poseof hearing the reports OF the sub-commit-
tees. A bill has been agreed upon that will
probably be adopted by the full committee.
This does away with the clumsy Electoral
College, but retains the electoral principle by
giving to each State the number of votes that
II has ut present in the Electoral College by
allowing it as many votes as it is entitled to
Senators and members in Congress. The
manner of counting the vote is to have
the State authorities certify to the votes as
east and forward them to Washington for
final count. The votes Of States are divided,
however, instead of being given entirely to the
candidate receiving a majority. For instance,
the State Of Delaware has three votes In the
Electoral College. II Hayes had 100000 votes
in this State and Tilden 100000 then Hayes
would have one-sixth Of the three votes, or
six tenths of vote, and Tilden two and four
tenths. This avoids direct vote by the peo-
pie, while it gives the candidate the full bene-
tit of the popular vote. The rule for Obtaining
the proper proportion of the vote of State Is
to multiply the vote Of each candidate by the
number of electoral votes to which the State
is entitled and then divide each product by
the aggregate of votes east for both, and the
quotient will be the share to which each is to
Le nraJitnd
Year: 1878

The consumption of corn in Europe is now
large, but will be presently enormous when
the means Of carriage are supplied, for from
the centre of the great valley Of the Missis-
sippi to London, Bristol Liverpool and to the
ports Of the Continent the transport may be
by water. Maize cannot afford costly trans
port; but it will pay all concerned when the
advantages offered by the river system Of the
valley are turned to the best account The
London General Omnibus Company feed their
thousands Of horses almost entirely on corn
meal for a tired horse thus gets his food in a
substantial form, easy to digest, and not re-
quiring, as with hay, for the horse to be long
on his legs before he can eat sufficient guam
tity. It is the best means of fattening
animals. The question was how to get it to
market with 8 profitable margin. The open
ing of the mouth of the Mississippi, through
the jetties formed by Eads, solved the pro-
bIem, and now are to be seen the disiointed


efforts Of those who seek first to take advan-
tage Of the change. In one place the anti
quated means of carriage placed difficulty
in the way; in another, the tonnage is not
forthcoming, while ships lie idle in European
ports, that would be glad Of a full cargo at p
reasonable rate. But these obstacles will
soon be smoothed awayas capitalists become
assured OF the fact that a great and pern.a-
Year: 1878

EDITOR HERALD: We are here;
have been here for two months;
have got II good mins or two, and
we expect to stay here; for we are
to have a mill running before the
end of the year, II the San Fran
cisco capitalist keeps his worl who
was here three or four days ago and
left on the last up steamer for tn e
machinery. Times around town
have been little dull for the last
three weeks, but everything is all
life again. The cabbage growers
who infested the diggings at first
have about all gone to their ran
choa to gather their crops, and
their space has been taken up by
old and experienced miners from q
distance, who have folded their
wings in our midst and who expect
to stay with us. The excitement
over the jumping of the Taylor
mine has about died out, and |
believe it has not yet been decided
who are the rightful owners, al.
though shotguns were in possession
of it for while, some being seen
but none used. The Blue Light s
concentrator has not yet arrived,
although it is said to be on the
road. The owners of the Southern
Slope are not working their mine
at present, all their time being oc-
cupied in settling up their affairs
in the valley, 80 as to go into min
ing in ship-shape. Tho Thanks
giving is sacking good galena ore.
MIR. Lake, Of Lake 81 Seare's, took
a flying ride from Santa Ana Sun.
day to see how his mine was get
ting along. The diseoverers of Sill
verado, and what we might now
call the Bonanza Kings, Messrs.
Cassidy and Curry, are working
their Southern Belle mine to q
good advantage by running tun.
mel SO as to strike their vein some
distance below the surface. They
expect in q short time 10 commence
working their Santa Clara coal
mine. Frank Luce is making good
improvements on the Santa Rosa,
and is getting out good milling
ore. Monday he made new and
rich strike, and is now running a
tunnel so as to catch the queer
in the dark. Tho Santa Ana, Santa
Rosa, Southern Belle, Scorpion,
Lake g. Seares, Florentine, Blue
Light and the Flanagan mines are
all supposed to be the game ledge.
All are extensions north and south
of the Southern Belle. Good ore
is shown from the Mayflower,
Rough and Ready, and many 9th.
ers. Every man is working and
everything is lovely and the goose
Is elevated. ECUL.


Silverado, Oct. 3lst.