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Year: 1877

ut the headquarters of Company D, 1st c. @
| Regiment, one of those incidents which elevate
humanity and call forth all that is good, gen.
erous and noble in mems hearts. It was the
presentation of a sword to Captain Archibald
Mitchell. The weapon is a magnificent speci-
men of artistic workmanship. On the blade is
engraved:


Presented to
Capt. ARCHIBALD MITCHELL.
BY Company Com %lyy D, Eirst In. c; c. + Regiment. GIN!


As a token Of his ds.iRPuished ssrvie.s in the


restoration of Louisiana to self


government.


The pre- sentation address was delivered by
Lieutenant NJ. A. AlIeyn, who with grace and
feeling spoke as follows:


Captain Aitchell-It becomes my pleasing
duty in behalf of Company D to present you
this token of their appreciation of your dis
tinguished services during the dark days when
oppressed Lou uisiana borne down by corruption
and fraud, was struggling to free herself from
the hands of the usurper. In these times
which tried mems souls, your utmost euerRiea,
both with the pen and ~ord were devoted TO
the best interests of the State, and to your
untiring exertions in the workshop, in the
council and in the field, are to be attributed in
no small degree the success which has at
length attended our efforts. The members of
Company D shall ever treasure it as one of
their proudest boasts that they bad for their
Captain one 80 prominent in the late struggle
for local selfgovernment. We present. you this
sword with the full confidence that in your
hands it will fly from it's scabbard whenever
the rights of the people invaded or their
freedom threatened.


With evident surprise and great emotion
Captain Mitchell replied some that after this
manner:


Gentlemen, I most earnestly assure you that
this present was very unexpected on my part.
In fact, had not the remotest conception
of such an honor being conferred upon me at
your hands. And, moreover, have done
nothing deserving of it but my duty. To
yourselves more than to me is all credit due foc
whatever services have been rendered Louisi-
ana ON the 14th day of September, 1874, and on
the 95h day of January last. The compliment
paid me is therefore the more appreciated Gen
tlemen, thank you most kindly for this gem
erons gift. This is all that can flud to ssy in
this moment of surprise. Had any of my
friends informed me of this intended affair 1
should have prepared something that might
have been worthy of the occasion. In conclu-
sion let me again thank you and say that
should it be necessary in the defence of our
State and our rights to draw 1t, shall never
sheathe it until the day of deliverance shall
have arrived"


Captain Mitchell buckled on his beautiful
present, the company took up the line of march
to the rendezvous and ell was over,-sll bat
the recollection of the event which shall not
soon fade from the memory of participants and
spectators.
Year: 1877

LIrE's BATTLE OF twcnty-thrco
young men who recently stepped across
the threshold of life from an Eastern
college, and went forth upon the
trackless ocean Of life to battle with re-
lentless fate, and win renown or a grori-
Gus death in the arena eleven are clerking
in auction stores at $l4 month, one is
running fshboat, two are learning the
housepainling trade, one starved to death
before he was out Of college u week, one
is driving team on street contract, two
are tramps and the others are living with
widowed mothers, who are their Only
support Fact is, brethren, when old
life grappes its hooks into a mans collar,
it shakes all his arena and ocean and
battle business out Of him 80 quick that
in six weeks, if he is alive, he knows
more in minute about the price Of pork
and -four than he can tell you about a
Greek root in six months. Huntington
H1ukeyc.
Year: 1877

II is proposed in Germany to mako
wall paper which will adapt itself to the
degree Of illumination 10 the room, be-
coming darker as the room grows lighter,
and Uise Uersa. 1t is believed that very
curious and novel effects Of color and
shade may be produced by printing or
coating paper with oxalate Of copper.
Year: 1877

All the myriads of the Israelites had to
go round Jericho and Join in the general
shout And in the apostolic days was there
not general enthusiasm throughout the
entire church of God? Every man, woman
and child-for out of the mouths of babes
and sucklings is perfected praise-must do
the work of God. Ministers to-day may
cause much mischief if they think that their
wisdom can supersede the ancient methods
Let us not try to put down Christian workers
because they were ignorant and unpublished
Anything in the world is better than leth-
argy. Fire is wanted. The truth will make
its way in spite of feeble advocacy. People
sometimes say, God has infinite leisure and
we may be cold and calm. But ne are not
God We have great deal to do, and little
time to do it in. Pokers and axes must be
fought with if no Toledo blade is at hand
1t was Gods design that the lsraelites should
be one people and not two. And we are
most one when we get to work. Societies
that do not work come to an end. God
meant all to practically strive against the
sin that is in the world. Gentlemen who
sit at home and write essays are always un-
sound in the faith. Oh, what an education
it would be for them TO go into the sums of
London and preach the gospel, even as it
would be an education for some landlords
to spend night in an agricultural labor
ers cottage. We have a commission that
must be obeyed. Give man nothing to do,
and he becomes morbid and interpretive.
A tree that bears no fruit has an axe pre-
pared for it. If men are satisfied with sub
scribing so much, or rather SO little, what
success can be expected 1t is worth gun
on our side, the enemy will say, to have an
enemy on the other side doing nothing


Mr.. Spuqeon.
Year: 1877

present, covering while we hear the birds OF
prey happing their wings and screaming
with premature Joy as IL about to feast on
the dead body Of Christianity, or timid as
we cast a glance toward the dubious future,
there rises the figure of our Lord in calm
majesty, who sits as King upon the floods,
and master of all the wild forces that are
abroad, and his quiet voice is heard saying
to us out of his peaceful greatness, Chill
dren, let not your heart be troubled, neither
let il be afraid" No: o Lord we will moi
fear, for thou art with us and greater than
all. With him is the burden of empire and
the issues of the war with us is the service
of obedient love. 1t is his to see that the
purposes do not fail it is ours to go forth
without worry TO our labor from morning
until evening. We have only this one thing
to do, to mind our spirit and our work Let
us renew our strength aud refresh ourselves
once more for toll by the sight of him 40
come, magnify the Lord with me, and let us
exalt his name together" Let us rejoice in
hope, for 10 in the distance we see " all the
people praisiug hun, and the whole earth
filed with his glory" Amen and Amen.--
Rev. j. r. BrO,cns Address before The English
Baptist Union.
Year: 1877

An Ill. ID. was dining at the table of a
lady vino never furnishes wine, no matter
who is her guest, at whose house General
Grant spent nearly two days, during which
time not one drop Of wine, ale or spirits,
would she present to him or his staff. This
gentleman was at her dinner table, and he
said "Now | think | cannot understand
your position in reference TO this matter
Mrs. Soand-so Now enjoy glass of wine
at my dinner; it is my habit to use it. You
say to me, Doctor, shall give you no wine
because So-and-so makes bad use of it,
Here is one person who cannot drink with
impunity, and here is another who makes a
fool OF himself. By-and-by you will take
from us all our luxuries ! enjoy cheese.
! like it with cup of coffee and cracker
it promotes digestion. Would you say, Doc
tor, here is man who cannot eat cheese
with impunity, and | shall give you no
cheese 2" Is that lair way OF putting it
Did you ever hear of man standing on the
gallows-tree saying 10 those who came to wit
ness his execution Now, my friends, take
warning by me; never eat any cheese p
Did you ever hear of a man numbering his
wife, and giving as reason, or as an ex.
cuse, that he had been eating cheese Did
you ever hear OF a row in the streets, where
one man is murdered or several ribs broken
the papers say "Ihose men have been eat.
ing freely of cheese ~ Now Just show me
that cheese produces -eight-tenths of the
crime, seven-eights OF the pauperism, and
half the lunacy show 10 me that cheese pro
duces the result that drink does, and by tn,
grace of God will battle the cheese while


live.- Exchange.
Year: 1877

The Bible is the poor mans book and
the rich mans book, the ignorant mans
book and the wise mans book There
is in it plenty which wayfaring man can
read, and there is plenty which the pro-
foundest philosopher can study. Those
truths which are essential to right life are
also simple and easily comprehended, but
philosophy has not fathomed, and never will
fathom, the whole truth concerning the
character and government of God. 1t is
the glory of the Bible not only that it has
contained much which is simple but also
that it has contained much which is diff.
cult, and thus has been the most stimulat-
ing book of all literature to the most able
and the most cultured intellects. There is
light enough flowing from the sun to enable
the most ignorant to go about his daily bus
mess These is mystery enough in the con.
stitution of the sun to afford theories for
study to the most advanced astronomer.
Christian Union.
Year: 1877

II only the talented and the great could
be employed in the vineyard of the Lord,
most OF us might despair of being of any
service. But it is not always by the mighty
or the noble that God works. 1t is an en-
couraging feature in the Divine economy
that some of the greatest gifts in the church
have been converted by the agency of OBJ
scure individuals. Saul was led to saliva
ton by Ananias. The great Thomas Chal-
mers was taught in the crisis hour of his
history by minister who was hardly known
beyond his parish and Spurgeon found the
way of salvation in humble chapel of the
Primitive Methodists.-ZiOn's Herald
Year: 1877

TO N. d.


You viii not forget me,
When you remember vanished joys-the past
And tender mem'ries cluster fondly and fast


Too fond 10 perish;
Mem'ries sweet, too sweet for sad regret,
You will think of me and not forget,


But fondly cherish.


You will not forget me,
Tho in the midst of loved ones fond and
true,
You win think of one that loves to think Of


Who viii happy be,
II the light OF love viii finger in thy path,
To brighten every joy the future hath


Reserved for thee.


You win not forget me,
when you think oft the friends that no longer
are near,
And sigh for the presence of those you hold
dear,


To remembrance give
One place in thy bosom, one dear beloved
spot,
Where win bloom the sweet aower-Forget-
And there let me live.


You will not forget me,
w hen prisons you raise to the God of love,
That, like breath of incense, rise sweetly





Then remember me;
II am forgotten, at least let me share,
In thy hours of devotion, one heartfelt
prayer,


petition from thee.


You will not fol get me,
Tho the sunbeams ofjoy shine bright on thy
way.
To gladden. thy life wherever you stray,


When the past you review,
You'll call to remembrance the friend you
once loved,
Who, by death or by distance, will soon be
removed


From enjoyment and you.


You will not forget me,
Perhaps, hereafter, when these lines you
ponder DER,
And others that have been penned before,
A tear will dim your eye;
All that desire, and all that request,
ls-a tribute OF affection from thy breast,
loves tribute sigh.


LLEwELLYN.
Year: 1877

Don't sap the foundations OF the
town you live in by sending away
for everything you want.


Don't think that what comes
from abroad is necessarily better
than what you can find at home.


Don't starve out your home me
chanics by sending elsewhere for
what they would give at as small a
nrice.
Year: 1877

Rhubarb pies grow best in loamy
land.


Lettuce and other fruit should
be watere6 regularly.


1t is grave mistake to SOW wild
oats. The crop doesn't pay.


Dried apple trees, when young,
should be carefully guarded from
moths.


If your onions stop growing dose
them with medical discovery.


In planting potatoes do not for
get to purchase a supply of poles
for the vines to run up.


This climate is not well adapted
for the growth of peanuts or other
cereals of that description.


If you wish a heavy yield of
peaches do not fail to cut the buds
off the trees as soon as they appear.


In raising sugar use plenty of
sand. 1t adds materially to the
weight when the vegetable is
ground up.


In cultivating pickles use plenty
of vinegar mixed with cloves. 1t
improves their flavor wonderfully.


Every city agriculturist should
nav careful attention to sub-soil
ploughing, especially under the fin
ger-nails.


Wheat, corn and oats are raised
most extensively by elevators, and
the Board of Trade reports are. the
best works to read on that subject.


Do not expect to get rich on
your crop the first year, and if your
harvest is one turnip donate half
of it to the poor, they like turnips.


The mustaches raised by young
agriculturists frequently grow on
the same principle as potato vines
the best part of 'em underground.


After you've cut your strawber-
ries, gather up the straws very
carefully They are excellent
things to use with mint juleps and
cold lemonades.


Don't shoot the birds, the pretty
birds; but if they attack your
squashes you are perfectly justified
in beginning legal proceedings
against them.


The most vulnerable place to
shoot potato bugs is over the ght
eye. Dynamite is also a good thing
to exterIninate them-a pound TO
each bug.


Heavy boots will be found the
best fertilizers for beats. An agri-
culturist who understands his bust
ness can raise beats several feet
high by this plan.


Rye should always be raised IN q
glass, not big glass but a medium
sized one, holding about half pint.
A little water is good after crop is
down.


II is unnecessary to give any
hints about raising debts. Tailor
shops and boarding houses
are usually considered as the best
adapted for their cultivation. i


Plant cucumbers in straight rows
so that they can be moved easily in
the fall. Inexperienced agricultur
lists lose much of their crop by neg
lecting this precaution.
Year: 1877




All miasmatic complaints, in other
words, all disorders generated by un-
wholesome exhalations from the earth
or water, are prevalent at this season.
In every section subject to the visitation
of fever and ague, or other forms of in
termittent disease, the causes which
produce these maladies are now actively
at work. This, therefore, is period of
the year when the inhabitants of such
districts should prepare their systems to
meet the unwholesome condition of the
atmosphere by a course of tonic and
Alternative treatment. Foremost among
the invigorants, recommended by time
and experience as means of fortifying
the system against all endemic and
epidemic maladies, stands Hostetter's
Stomach Bites. By a timely use of
the Bitters, the feeblest resident of an
unhealthy soil may escape the sickness
which, without the aid of this potent ally
of nature, will be apt to overtake the
strongest. oct4-4t
Year: 1877

Just sol The New York Graph


ic gives it up sorIowfully yet grace
fully. It says: In truth the mis-
sion of the Republican party ended
with the conquest of the South, the
passage of the three last amend


ments to the Constitution, and the
reconstruction of the Union. A
party cannot live without ideas or
without mission. Called in ex-
istence to perform a most benefi-
cent work, after a record of which
it need not be ashamed, the Repnb-
lican party is now somewhat storm
lily passing out of the public view.
Year: 1877

If farmers have scrub stock they
had better fatten it and sell it, and
with the proceeds Buy improved
stock. They can't buy as much
with the money as they had before,
but if they will keep it better,
it will bring better returns. 1t is
Just as wise for the farmer to stick
to the old bull tongue plow of fifty
years ago, as to hold on to scrub
stock, on which there has been no
improvement for fifty years. The
world moves. There has been
progress in breeds as well as in i'm


plements and machines, and it is
the part of wisdom in farmers to
avail themselves Of the great i'm
provements that have been made.
Year: 1877

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scrlption Is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested TO pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit TO our friends and patrons, but
cash alone win yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, aud renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


~ We enter no new names on our
books without the money In advance.
Year: 1877




Matters were quiet at the Gravel Pit
this morning-mOst Of the men who went
TO work yesterday not going down, as
they were subpGnaed 10 appear at the
trial at the Mayors office this morning
A large force Of miners' wives were
present, however, and did some lively
talking-intimating that they proposed
TO make il lively for anybody who would
attempt to go down. There will probably
be more fun at the Gravel Pit to morrow
morning.


The miners this afternoon held a meet.
ing on the river bank near the Market
street wharf. Quite number Of speeches
were made, but no special business was
transacted.


From tie GIIelie.


The action OF the miners wives in 20.
ing to the Gravel Shaft this morning to
stop men from going to work there is not
calculated to create ior them that feeling
OF public sympathy which will be to their
interest. The cause Of the strikers will
not be improved by such conduct on the
part Of the women, and the men should
use their influence to prevent n recur.
renee oil such action az took place ,hi.
morning.
Year: 1877

Nix. NJ. l.. Hill informI US that the
acreage soWn in wheat in Oaio county


this fall will exceed that Of last year by
at least thirty per cent. The great ne.
cssHily at the present time for the wheat
Is good rain. It suiltring very much
for rain. Indeed the crop is beginning
already TO be threatened for the lack oil It.
Year: 1877

BE KIND TO THE BOYS. Some lads.
particularly If they belong to large fam


dies, have absolutely no. peace in the
Aomestead-not a corner of it in which
they feel themselves indisputably at
home. If they make little noise. bow
like, thu, mother exclaims. "Stop that
outlandish noisel Don't you know bet
ter than to whistle in the house? You
are always in the road. Go away, and
don't let me see you again to-day. !"
Now, Jim, John or Pete-whateyer his
name may he-will withdraw. and boy
like will say nothing but boy.likea again.
will keep up a big thinking. II we
could reach his thoughts it is more than
likely they would run in this channel:
Now why can't mother give fellow
kind word once in while? I don't be-
heve I'm always in the way, or why does
she call me for when she wants a pailful
OF water or an armful of wood I? Why
amt IN her road then? 1t must be a
disgrace to be boy, for she and sisters
are always snubbing me because 1 am a
boy. wish I was away from home,
then could have few minutes peace.
If he goes down with view of finding
place where he is not in the road. it is
very likely that he will not find the best
company in the world, and ten chances
to lone, will contract vile habits.
Md0hers and sisters, treat your bows
well and you will never pass any sleep
less nights on their account,
Year: 1877

OPIUM AND THE CHINESE OFFICIALS
The Chinese officials at Nanking have
been endeavoring to suppress the Opt
um dens. Not long ago a Toa-t,ai with
a detachment of soldiers was out at a
late hour on tour of inspection, and
halted in front of an opium den kept by
a Hupeh man. When the soldiers
broke open the door the keeper asserted
that, although hewas a smoker himself,
he was violating no law. No other per-
sons were found, but they had ample
time to escape by a back door. The
keeper was SO insolent that the soldiers
were compelled to beat him three times,
and he died the next day. The Hupeh
magistrate promptly entered a COM
plant against the Mandarin, but the
Che-hsien went to inspect the body,
and declared that the wounds on the
mans feet could not have caused his
death, and that he must have poisoned
himself. The Hupeh faction were in SO
great a rage that they destroyed two
cofins which the Che-hsien had fur
nished, and thereupon he retaliated by
ordering the arrest of the three ring
leaders. No sooner had the order been
given than the chair in which he had
been sitting was mashed to atoms, and
he was compelled to run for his life.
On the next day the three men were
arrested, and one Of them was behead


ed. OF such is the Empire of China.
Year: 1877

THE last issue of the Shoe and Leather
Reporter contains an article on the financial
situation, in which suggestion is made of the
possibility of resuming specie payments at an
earlier period than that designated by law.
The balance of trade in our favor and the
accumulation Of gold in our bank vaults are
very encouraging. If the production of our
mines can be retained here there will be no
occasion to wait two years for resumption.
The Reporter holds to the necessity of
Strengthening the exchequer, and comments
with some severity upon Secretary Bristow's
course in depicting the Treasury of its gold.
On the first of March, 1875, Mr.. Bristow
found the net coin strength of the Treasury
little above nineteen million dollars. In
the face of this scant balance he appropriat-
ed $30,000,000 of gold to the redemption of
bonds not yet due, payable three months
thereafter, to be applied to the sinking fund.
In other words, says the Reporter, he not
only depleted the Treasury of every dollar OF
coin owned by the government, but borrowed
of his depositors $11 100000 tor the purchase
of unmatured obligations. The drain occa-
stoned by this proceeding was gradual, but
its effect was to leave the Treasury without
any gold of its own for year after June,
1875. The actual deficit on the first of JAN
uary, 1875, was over twenty seven millions.
After giving these figures the Reporter goes
on to say:


1t will be seen that the Secretary had so
crippled the department by the redemption of
the thirty millions of bonds that he could only
pay at the beginning of last year about 66 cents
on the dollar of the Indebtedness then due, or,
leaving out the certificates, which he might
have been warranted in treating as perma
nent deposit, he had barely sufficient means to
make both ends meet. The law of Congress
providing for return to specie payments on
the 1st Of January, 1879, was passed on the
14th January, 1876 1t will be seen, therefore, ,
that the policy of the Treasury Department in
ordering disbursement of all the coin in its
Golfers. and 81, ,000, 900 additional, nine weeks
afterwards, practically, though perhaps not
Intentionally, contravened the spirit of the
resumption act. If business had been at full
tide, it might have operated very disastr usly.
Happily there was little disposition to revive
the speculation in gold, which during the war
threatened to turn the people ints nation of
gamblers. The gold premium advanced two or
three per cent. over the rates of the preceding
year, but that was much less than might
reasonably have been anticipated. Looking
back upon these operations after the lapse of
twelve month, it seems strange in the first
place that they should have ELECTED so little
notice or criticism, aud in the second place
that the danger OF which they were provocative
was so happily averted. If at any time during
that critical period deliberate and concerted
raid upon the Treasury had been made, the
revelation of its financial embarrassment
would have impaired the national credit and
wrought grave injury to the honor and welfare
of the country.