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Year: 1877

COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP.


In noting the marriage OF Hiram Ja-
cobs, of Sturgis, Mich, the Journal, OF
that town, comments on a complicated
relationship as follows One OF his
sons had previously married the new
wife's sister; another had married her
daughter, and nephew had done like
wise. By his marriage the old gentle
man becomes brother to his own son,
and therefore his own father ; the son Is
made brother to his own father, and
therefore his own uncle. The sons
wife, being her sisters daughter, is Of
course her own aunt. The sons chill
dren bear the relation of nephews and
nieces to their grandfather. and are
each others cousins. But this is only
one branch of the subject. The son
who married his stepmother's daugh-
ter finds himself the husband of his
sister. while the nephew is made the
sDouse of his aunt. p"
Year: 1877

IT WANTS PRESIDENT FERRY TO BULL


DozE HAYES THROUGH.


From the Ohio.State Journal, Hayes home
organ.


As there was no State authority to which
the custody and counting Of the vote could
be delegated, 1t remained only, as we have
repeatedly attempted to show. TO lodge
this power of receiving the electoral vote,
holding it in custody, opening it and
counting it, d, the Vice President, with
the two houses Of Congress to witness the
opening and counting. He is the custodian
OF the electoral vote and the opener and
counter Of the vote, ministerially, not as
the presiding officer of one branch of the
legislative department, but as the only of
ficer of the national government who
stands in the relation of having no pres
ent estate in the government, but only a
contingent remainder, dependent upon
the possible event of vacancy in the of
flee of Chief Executive. If the election
OF President is to be decided by any such
gambling device, we cannot for the life of
lis see any necessity for all this ponderous
machinery. A much simpler plan would
be to commission some Republican and
John Morrissey to settle the business by
a game of draw-psker.
Year: 1877

Two shall be born the whole wide world


apart.
And speak in different tongues and have no


thought
Each of others being; and no heed.
And these Ger unknown seas to unknown


lands
snail cross. escaping wreck, defying death;
And all unconsciously, scape every act


end
That. one day, out OF darkness they shall
And read iiie's meaning in each others


eyes.
And two shah walk some narrow way OF


life,


so nearly side by side that should one turn
Ever so little space TO left or right,
Ihey needs must stand acknowledged face


to face;
And yet. with wistful eyes that never meet
With cropping hands that never clasp, and


lips
Calling In vain to ears that never hear.
They seek each other all their weary days
And die unsatisfied; and this is Fate.
Year: 1877

From, the Philadelphia North American.


To-day it was asserted by a journalist,
Just from New Orleans, that the entire
programme of last November, to March
Inclusive, was in writing, and would be
published in short time by New York
paper, the publisher of which had agreed
to pay the parties a large sum for the
copy Of the expose, the said publisher to
hold the original papers until the indig-
nant denials were made by the accused
parties, and then the originals to be pro-
duced. Be this as it may, it is certainly
evident that scheme is on foot looking
to the development of facts, already well
suspected, that will make as interesting
reading as Tweed's confession. In the
mean time the strength of Senator Blaine
and his allies in the Senate is growing
stronger each and every day, especially
as the Executive develops his decided
preference for few of the Western and
Northwestern States, for as yet he has ig
nored the Middle and Eastern States
completely.
Year: 1877

As a rule. a sneeze is the warning ma
ture gives that some part of the body is
exposed to cooler temperature than the
other parts, andtthat the sneezer is about
to i'catch cold.r Next to the warning,
what is the use of the sneeze? 1t throws
open the pores of the whole body and in
duces a gentle perspiration; in a word,
it throws off the cold. A child rarely
sneezes more than twice-perspiration is
readily induced in youth; an old man,
ON the contrary, sneezes half dozen to
dozen times, with a loudly explosive
''catchogue." 1t is harder to set him per-
spring. When one is sitting by an open
window, and finds himself sneezing, ma
ture tells him he is taking cold. He
should get up instantly, walk about, and
take full tumbler of cold water to keep
up the gentle perspiration that the sneeze
set in motion. If he does this he will
not be telling an hour after that he has a
"cold in his head" or chest or lungs.
Year: 1877

indispensable to tie farmers Of the
Northwest. The Agricultural Depart
ment, greatly enlarged and improved,
has been placed under the supervision
Of w. j. Abernethy, an agricultural
editor of a large experience, assisted
by corps of correspondents trained in
agricultural pursuits And to this
will be added a Household Depart
ment, which will be especially attrac-
tive 10 the ladies.


The Weekly edition will contain the
general news Of the week. political,
literary, National and State news up
the hour of going to press.
It should be specially remembered
that Eastern publications arc several
days old before reaching subscribers in
this vicinity. and that much Of the
matter, especially that part Of it Of
most interest to the public here, is al
ready fully given in The Pioneer Press;
and that by reason Of the telegraphic
facilities for obtaining important news,
The Pioneer Press is fully on level
with the best Eastern publications and
fully twenty -four hours fresher than
that furnished by the best Chicago
newspapers.


Desiring to place this valuable pa.
per in the hands Of every farmer in
che. Northwest, tho publishers have
had prepared, especially for their sub
seribers,
Year: 1877

Mr.. Shearman, of Martin county,
writes to the Sentinel Is follows:
Field peas are another crop that can
be probably grown, Notwithstanding
the grasshoppers, rs they do it no
harm. Those who have grown this
crop for many years advise their being
sown with oats in April or early in
May; II bushels of peas and the same
amount Of oats to the acre. Both can
be drilled in or sown broadcast by hand
Or machine. The yield is then given
at from thirty to forty bushels Of peas
to the acre and about the same of oats


When sown together they should be
harvested BY moving with q scythe,
hand labor) and after lying in winrows
three or four good dry days, threshed
with an ordinary wheat machine,
when the peas and oats readily sepa.
rate. In this way We might get crops
cf oats that would otherwise be des.
troyed.


When peas are sown alone, from
two to three bushels of seed to the acre
would be required, and they would be
more cheaply harvested by taking
them off with an old fashioned wood en-
horse rake. (no cutting being required)
Our farmers need some crop which
they can sell for cash and have hereto.
fore for that purpose relied principal
y upon wheat and there is mistaken
notion that peas cannot be readily sold
for money, but must be ground up for
use upon the farm. Peas sell readily
at wholesale the same as wheat, and
the price in Detroit and Chicago
range from 80 cents to $50 per bush
el BY the car loar; and as the yield is
on an average more than double that
Of wheat and the expense and labor of
growing considerable less, We shall
probably find it to our advantage to
pay more attention to it.


Sorghum is another crop that the
grasshoppers do not injure, and has
been and can be made a most profta.
BILE crop here. Last weeks issue Of
the jackson Republic has communi.
cation about sorghum, and as it is SO
we'll known to many Of our farmers, It
is hardly worth while for me, at pres.
ent, to draw further attention to it.
If our crops are not to be much in.
jured BY the grasshoppcrs Matching
out here, We could probably do we'll
with barley, for if planted 10 April it
would be ready for harvest before
large flights from elsewhere could
reach us.
Year: 1877

Three hundred men will cover and
cut section Of about three miles
square taking off over $4,000 logs,
which would measure, about 10000,
000 feet, each season. Work begins
at daylight and ends at dark; and
when the days lengthen or the moon
favors longer twilight or earlier morn
the men get the benefit in longer work.
ing hours The meals consist of pork
aud beans, corn bread, molasses cake
and tea or coffee. A cook is provided
for every fifty men. The beans are
generally the large white bush, par
boiled in pots holding half bushel
Ten pounds of pork is set in the mid
die Of the beans in the pot, a quarter
of a pint Of molasses poured in, and
then the pot is set in a hole surround
ed with hot ashes and burning char.
coal, the top covered with a stone,
over which heavy wood fire is built,
and here they stay from i've to eight
hours, coming out most palatable
dish. A camp Of three hundred men
will consume daily four barrels of
beans, half a barrel Of pork, one barrel
Of flour, half barrel Of meal, one
quarter Of barrel Of sugar, and five
gallons of molasses. The men are en-
camped in tents, making their beds of
boughs, while their extra clothing, q
pair OF duck overalls, woolen shirt and
two pair Of woolen socks. is kept in an
old grain sack and used as a pillow at
night. Sunday in the woods is always
day for sharpening axes, mending
sleds, repairing boots and clothes, set.
ting out new tenting spot handler to
the cutting in the words, and all the
odd chores which would grow out Of
the congregation Of so large = body Of
men. All we'll regulated camps ex.
clude liquor. Being usually fifty to
two hundred miles from aud settle
meut, and the men not paid until the
end Of the season, there is little induce.
ment for any speculator to peddle
rum through the woods, or for the
men to straggls off in search of it.
Tho consumption of ares and handles
is enormous. an axe lasting month
and handle about three weeks. The
axes are sharpened daily, some camps
having regular sharpeners, while 9th
ers require each man to keep his own
axe in order. The old axes are never
collected for the junk dealer. the dis


tance to ship them being almost toe
great to make it fan economical meas.
lure. Woodsmen generally consider
spruce harder on axes than eithe]
birch or pine. The. gum which run.
out Of . sprace tree il found hare
enough to chip the edge Of the AZ,
when striking through it, North


western Lumberman.
Year: 1877

Our Legislature is considering bill
for the reduction Of the test on illum.
mating oils from 1902 to 11O0. It
would not make any appreciable reduc-
ton in the price Of oil aud would
greatly increase the risk to life and
property. The passage Of the bill
xould be culpable folly.
Year: 1877

nossionotrIy and on it's merits. Ii is regarded
also "a n remarkable fact and one perhaps
not without some significance, that New-liaVen'
the seat of Yale College, and in some sort a
Puritan headquarters and stronghold, should DC
the first New England town to take such acUon'
one of the professors of Yale being memoer
of the Board of Education, and voting Tor the
measure. II is said, moreover, that while some
members of the college faculty are very siren
nous in their opposition to the lhho-
walton. there are several, ana among
them ex-Presdent WoOlsey and President
Porter. who, if not in sympathy with the dlSeS-
toblisbment movement, are very far from actiVe
hostility to it. Both the gentlemen named
would. we presume, differ from Mr. Spcrrys )
extreme view of the parental relation OF the
State. and its duty to make religious lnstruc-
tion q part of its system of compulsory euu-
cation. though they might upon other grounds
odvocote the retention of the Bible IN the
schools. as a thing in itself very desirable.


If should be said that the action OF the
School Board does not, if we rightly under
stand if. prohibit devotional exercises or Bloie
reading; it merely removes the opllga-
tion which has heretofore been supposed 10
rest upon the teacher in that regard Inc
Board leave it optional with the teachers 10
omen the schools with devotional exercises, or
dispense with them entirely. and ~ matter
of fact we presume there will be no change IN
the practice for the present, ut least, or uhlil
there is a change Of teachers.
Year: 1877

At this always popular place of entertainment tho
programme for tho present week Is one OF unusual
excellence to those who enjoy the variety species of
entertainment Tho selections are unusually rich
rare and racy, the performers are we'll up
in their work, the transitions of interest
are rapid, the curtain goes down
until the end OF the performance, and tho perorm-
itself is one that may be witnessed without q
blush the face Of tho most modest OF women 1t is
described IN the bills srhe home OF comedy, and
the management are certainly not lacking their
deavor afford to tho public the utmost pleasure
Year: 1877




its bow in the air, was dragged down, down,
down, until thought my chest would
burst, then we were shot out into daylight
again and took some breath.


LOST IN THE WHIRLPOOL.


'Ihe little master and two of our people
were not to be seen, but shortly saw the
little master face upward. but insensible.
instantly struck out for him to save him,
but we were both taken down again, and
the water seemed to be tearing my legs
away but would not give in. held my
breath hard then, and came to the surface,
but the little master was gone. forever
This is my story, master" The boats crew.
separately examined by me, indorsed
Uledi's statement in all main points.


This is scarcely the place to say much of
Uledi, but cannot refrain from giving this
young African, who was the coxswain Of the





is young fellow twenty-seven or twenty
eight years old, 1.-the and active as q leopard
and brave as lion. He is one Of hun
dred thousand. l doubt whether there is
another in the island of Zanzibar equal to
him. There are few in this expedition who
nre not indebted to him for life or timely
rescue or brave service. He was the
first in war and the most modest
in peace. He was the best soldier,
the best swimmer, the best carrier,
the best sailor, the best workman
in wood or iron, and the most faithful of
the black faithfuls. He was certainly the
last man in the world who should have been
dared into doing desperate act, such as
shooting cataract. But Frank was too
brave also, and had a strange contempt for
the terrors Of q river, having been Midway
waterman from his boyhood. It is first to
sheer rashness, and second to his acciden-





he endeavored to rise to the surface. that I
attributed the loss of such an expert SWIM
mer as Frank Pocock.


IN MEMoRIAM.


As look at his empty tent this evening
and at his detected servants, and recall to
mind his many inestimable qualities, his ex-
traordinary gentleness. his patient temper,
his industry, his cheerfulness and tender
love of me, feel myself utterly unable to
express my feelings or describe the vast
ness Of my loss. Every instance Of his faith
full services that is recalled only intensifies
my grief The long copartnership in perils
thus abruptly severed, his piety and cheer
full trust in gracious Providence, fills my
heart with misery to think that he has de-
parted this life so suddenly and unrewarded
for his many manly virtues.


HENRY M. STANLEY.
Year: 1877

The Great Lor don Circus s said to be playing very
successful season at Gilmors's Garden, and
to be presenting equestrian and gymnastic
features that are entirely to New York
audiences The managers Of this institution
appear have q peculiar knack IN catering TO the
public appetite, and the adroit employ mt OF their
several artists are able from night TO night 10 main.
the peculiar interest that attaches 10 this species
OF performance
Year: 1877

which was whirling round and round with
its bow in the air, was dragged down, down,
down, until thought my chest would
burst, then we were shot out into daylight
again and took some breath.
Year: 1877

We all know the origin Of the Ulster
overcoat now so much in vogue-how it
was the happy thought of an English
swell, who, suffering from the cold on
the top of stage-coach, hired from the
guard his storm-wrapper, called an
" Ulster - how he insisted on being
driven, encased in this, to the door of
his club, where, being recognized
leader of fashion, his appearance in
such garment created great sensa-
tion, the result of which was its imme-
diate adoption by all the swells even
they, however, only wore it in driving
during cold and stormy weather, and
never as q walking garment, except
when travelling. 1t was only when
adopted by the sports and that class of
snobs who always follow in the wake Of
the recognized swells that it came into
daily use, as it now is here. Why it is
that it is so generally affected by every
little man who can sport a new over
coat, and why it is that the length of
the skirts is always exactly in inverse
ratio to the height OF the wearer, and
why it is that it has got to be SO much
the mode among our jeunesse dore, par
ticularly in their dress parade on pleas
ant Sundays, is one of those things no
fellow cares to know anything about.
Year: 1877

In the last number some Of the more
general aspects Of the poisonous nature
Of this weed was presented, but in this
il is intended to be a little more specific,
since the importance Of the subject de-
mands a careful examination. And here
il may be remarked that when first seen
by Columbus, about 375 years since, as
used by both sexes Of the heather on the
new continent, il naturally excited only
disgust IL was perfectly reasonable that
the crowned heads of the more enlight-
ened parts Of the world should issue an
earnest protest against the introduction
Of such a vile habit among the higher
classes; in preferring that IL should re-
main among its originators, ht habit
for those in the darkness OF heathenism.
The Russian government, incensed at the
foul habit, threatened its subjects with
death if found smoking the second cigar,
and even the Sultan Of Turkey declared
the habit a sin against the religion OF the
Prophet. Pope Urban the XIII issued a
bull against il, while in fact the civil and
religious powers Of the whole enlight-
ened world then declared against il as a
wicked practice. As a specimen Of the
denunciations Of that day, the Counter
blast TO Tobacco" by King James, may
De UEE1tnAtnt hNh0AhNNa nAAte-
ing as a custom loathesome to the eye,
hateful to the nose, harmful TO the brain.
dangerous to the lungs, and in the black,
sinking fume thereof, nearest resem-
bling the horrible stygian smoke Of the
pit that Is boltomless"


And why should such crowned heads.
men who are supposed to have the good
of their people and Of humanity in mind.
be so bitter in their attacks on the weedi
Science affords the answer Tobacco be
longs to q very poisonous order Of plants
the solanoce or deadly night shade
a plant that impoverishes the soil more
than any known plants, or fourteen
times as much as does wheat. If pound
of fresh leaves of the common tobacco is
/ put in a pint Of water, with peat. a yola
tile floats on the surface. having a pun


gent odor which contains an important
element Of the plant. Applied to the
Year: 1877

The people of the North have but
faint conception OF the lawlessness exist
ing in certain sections of Louisiana. If
the facts were known men of all parties
would rise up and say with emphasis,
this reign of terror must cease. The
question is asked. Why does the Gov
ernor permit these outrages-why do not
the courts punish the offenders7 The
answer is a simple one The Governor
has the white element of the State ar
rayed against him, and this element toll
crates the commission of these crimes.
The courts in certain parishes are over
awed by armed desperadoes and have no
power to execute their DEGREES. Justice
is but a mockery, and officers of the law
are defied or shot down. To kill a negro
or a Republican, white or black, is no
crime in the eyes of the Democrats in
some Of the parishes of the State. Think
of it, citizens of this boasted land Of lib
erty Citizens of a State outraged be-
cause they are Republicans; driven to
seek refuge in woods and swamps because
they are Republicans; murdered in the
presence of their wives and children be
cause they are Republicans; treated
worse than wild beasts for no other cause
than that of their loyalty to the Union
ana the hepuDliCdu party. Le hcVO-
ton shown by the colored people Of the
South to the Republican party is little
less than martyrdom.


The Republican party has had control
of the nation, but through mistaken
policy it has stood with folded arms and
witnessed the persecution of its friends
in the South without any effort to pro-
tect them. They have been left to the
mercy of their enemies. and yet they are
true to the party that represents liberty
Peace, work, money, have been held out
to them If they would but vote the Dem
ocratic ticket. In some cases they have
yielded to save home and life, but in
many instances they have gone to their
death, sublimely heroic, rather than de
ny their political birthright. To show a
single instance, taken from a volume OF
testimony in the same direction. and
published by Congress in the shape of a
report on Louisiana affairs, we append
the following statement. 1t shows clear
ly the cold-blooded character Of the law.
less Democrats in Louisiana. who to-day
are savage with rage that the retur min Q
board had the nerve to reject the votes
that were cast under the shadow Of the
rife and knife. Riley Norfliss, a colored
man, "a years old, a farmer at West Fe-
liciana, testified before-the board as fol-
lows:


THE llth of July last past, about mid.
Year: 1877

A traveller through dusty road strewed acorns
And one took root and sprouted up, and grew


into a tree.
Love sought its shade, at evening time, to


breathe his early vows -


birds sweet music bore;
1t stood glory in its place, blessing ever


more.
A little spring had lost its way amid the grass


and fern,
A passing stranger scooped a well, where weary


men might turn;
He walled i in, and hung with care ladle at


the brink,
He thought not of the deed he did, but judged


that foil might drink.
He passed again, and 10 the well, by summers
Had cooled ten thousand parched tongues, and


saved a life beside.
A dreamer dropped a random thought; twas


old, and yet twas new,
simple fancy Of the brain, but strSng in being


true.
It shone upon a genial mind, and loi its light


became
A lamp OF life, a beacon ray a monitory fame.
The thought was small its issue great; watch
1t sheds its radiance far adown, and cheers the


valley still.
A nameless man, amid a crowd that thronged
Let fail a word of hope and love, unstudied
whisper on the tumult thrown-a transitory


BREATH
1t raised brother from the dust; 1t saved


soul from death.
o germ o founti word OF lovei o thought OF
Ye were but little at the irst, but mighty at the


last.