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Year: 1877

L. Bashford X Co, whose two column ad- vertisement ought to have appeared in this issue, but does not for the reasan that we failed to get it in type, have determined not to be undersold, or out-done in the quality of their goods. They propose to sell strictly for cash, and put down goods to the lowest figure for which they can possibly be sold by anybody. They haveon hand. and to arrive, q tremendous stock, bought at the very bottom of the market, in New York and San Francisco, for cash, and, of course, at the low prices now established, cannot af- ford to trust them out to any body, nc matter how responsible, because it is only swapping money for money with small

 margin for brokerage, as it were, and of course if they sold on time. at these prices, the use of the money would oyerbalance the profits. Those who have money to pay down can carry away more and better goods for given sun, than from any store in this Territory. Try il. and see if il isn't so.
Year: 1877

The Peck Mining Company will pay of their workmen at the mine. on Tuesday next Payday was delayed this month on account of some legal complications, but the owners seem to have partially returned to their senses, and it is to he hoped that hereafter however much they may law among themselves, they will not again lock up the bullion and keep the worllmen wait ing for their pay
Year: 1877

]. Goldwater & Bro., have a new "Ad," in this issue. They are neither selling at nor below cost, yet they do not allow any one to sell the same class of goods lower than they will for cash
Year: 1877

At one time she was at q camp meet
ing, and mob of young ruffians were
determined to break up the meeting.
She, at first, hid herself, from fear, but
afterward said to herself


"What ! shall / run away and hide
from the devil-me, a servant of the liv-
ing God? Have / not faith enough to
go out and quell that mob, when know
it is written: 'One shall chase thou
sand, and two put ten thousand to
fight?' I'll go to the rescue, and the
Lord will go with me to protect me.


She went out into the open field.
among the wild and reckless mob, and
commenced to sing in the most fervid
manner and with powerful voice
1t was early in the morning, it was early in the


morning,


Just at the break of day,


When He rose, when He rose, when He rose


And went to Heaven on cloud.


Soon the crowd surrounded her, ann
ed with clubs and sticks. As she ceased,
one spoke up:


,"S,ng on, old woman nobody shall
hurt YOU" Another said: "Talk to us,
old woman !" Another: "Pray, old
woman, and tell us your experience p


So she talked and sung and prayed
until the subdued and convicted mol
quietly dispersed, and the exercises oi
the camp meeting proceeded peacefully
to the close.
Year: 1877

1 was crossing a bridge over a wide
but shallow stream, in a lonely place,
and accidentally fell off. When l say
shallow. mean for such a wide body of
water. saw nobody near me and could
not swim stroke. | knew how deep
the water was, and gave myself up for
lost. The quickness of the senses when
sudden death seems impending has fire.
quently been noted, but still, without
experience, no one can realize it. 1t is
as if ones whole life were spread out in
panorama before him, every portion OF
which was visible at once. Every min
ute detail of things long forgotten, and
which when they happened were so tri-
fling that they apparently made no i'm
preston on the memory, stand out in
sharp and bold outline. remembered,
for instance, games of marbles played
when 1 was boy, and futile attempt |
once made to transmute q {" commoney
into "white alley" by roasting it in
the fire. | remembered how the marble
bursted in the operation, and how piece
of it struck and cut the cheek of the boy
who had beguiled me into the expert
ment, and the satisfaction [ experienced
at the retributive justice. 1t seemed as
if everything ! had ever done, suffered,
or thought, was presented to my memory
at q single flash.


Then | struck the water, when a sound,
which have since learned to liken to
the roar of Niagara, burst on my ears
and stunned me with its overwhelming
volume. remembered brief instant
of struggling and clutching, and then a
sense of sinking - sinking-sinking-
until | had reached depth of thousands
of fathoms. / neither suffered pain nor
/ felt alarmed, but had vague feeling
of being irresistibly borne to some cat
astrophe, the climax to which would be
terrible. Suddenly found myself pos
sessed of the power of floating or watt
ing myself along by mere volition. With
q delicious feeling of languid Incidence |
/ suffered myself to float about--nOt in
/ the water, but in the air-skimming over
the surface of the ground in whatever
direction / chose, hither and thither, as
a wayward fancy led. was conscious
that it was a new power, and / exulted
in its possession and reasoned on its
nature. I found that my body was as
light as the air in which it moved, and
imagined that thistle down would feel
as I did, if possessed Of consciousness.
Then I was in the water again, and
everything around me had roseate hue,
which'speedily changed to green, then
to violet, and finally to utter darkness,
and then all was blank


As [ subsequently learned, some mer
i'll a skitf half n mile away had seen me
: fall into the water and hurried to my
assistance, but L had disappeared long
before they reached the spot. Many
minutes elapsed before they found me
and full half an hour afterward before
the physicians, who had been summoned
arrived. They pronounced me dead, ant
that they made any attempt to resusci
tate me was due solely to the persistence
of an intimate friend OF mine who hNt
accompanied them.
Year: 1877

And now with a tender hearted woman,
and she a queen, on his side, Dubois
luck turned. The queen had the wlsole
story hunted out.


1t was all true


The regimental records attested the
bravery and scrupulous honesty of Fran
eois Dubois.


Old Marshal Martier told how the hus-
sar had ridden first and headlong into the
battery of Bout-de-Lain.


The Duke de Trevise bore witness be-
fore the queen of the hussar's repeated
gallantry and of his services to France as
dispatch carrier, and interceded warmly
for him.


The prefecture of police itself could
only report that the worst offense against
Dubois was his breaking Jail it was for
this that he had been so relentlessly pur-
sued and so often arrested; there was no
reason why he should not be pardoned.


He was, for the next weeks Gazette
des TribunauI contained this an
noumcement


"We have the satisfaction of announ-
cling that this unfortunate prisoner has
been liberated and that her majesty the
queen has presented him with a sum OF
money sufficient to prevent him for the
rest Of his days from again falling into
misery"


We never heard of Dubois after this,
and it is pleasant to think that at last he
found rest, peace and comfort.


That is the story of FRANCOIS Dubois,
hero and galley slave, as it is written in
the police archives, the army records and
the Gazette deS Tribmd'tr, how the
blind fury of the law hunted him fol
forty years, and to the verge of the grave,
for an offense which he never committed
Year: 1877

The Lake Shore railroad company, it
is said, will contest suits for damages ON
account of the Ashtabula disaster, claim
ing that the breaking of the bridge was
can act of God, " for which they cannot
be held responsible. They will endeavor
to prove that the bridge was ordinarily
safe, and that cold weather weakened it,
Should they be defeated, the amount of
Judgments would amount to about half n
million dollars.
Year: 1877

This is a nation of enlightened freemen. Education is the corner stone and foundation of our govern. ment. The people are free to think and act for themselves, and that they may act wisely it is necessary that they be we'll informed. Every indi- vidual gain increases public gain. Upon the health of the people is based the prosperity of nation, by it every value is increased, every joy enhanced. Health is essential to the accomplishment of every pur- pose; while sickness thwarts the best intentions and loftiest aims. Unto us are committed important health trusts, which we hold not merely in our own behalf but for the benefit of others. In order that we may be able to discharge the obliga- tion of our trusteeship and thus prove worthy of our generous com mission, it is necessary that we study the art of preserving health and prolonging life. It is of para mount importance to every person not only to understand the means for the preservation of health, but also to know what remedies should be employed for the alleviation of the common ailments of life. Not that we would advise every man under all circumstances to attempt to be his own physician, but we entreat him to acquire sufficient knowledge of his system and the laws that gov ern it, that he may be prepared to take care of himself properly, and thereby prevent sickness and prolong life. In no text book will the people find the subjects of physiology and hygiene, or the science of life and the art of preserving health, more scientifically discussed or more plainly taught than in ''The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser" by R. V. Pierce, M. D., of Buffalo, N. Y. It is a volume of over nine hundred large pages, illustrated by over two hundred and eighty-two engravings and colored plates, is elegantly bound in cloth and gilt, and is sent, post paid, to any address by the au- thor at the low price of one dollar and fifty cents copy. Nearly one hundred thousand copies have al ready been sold, and the present edition, which is revised and enlarg- ed and more especially adapted to the wants of the family, is selling very rapidly. It treats of all the common diseases and their remedies as well as of anatomy, physiology hygiene human temperaments, and many other topics of great interest to all people, and IS truly what its author styles it, "Medicine Simpli fed"
Year: 1877

ST. LOUIS, July 7, ".

 EDITOR DEMOCRAT: Your special correspondent arrived in this city yes terday morning and finds it as hot as Hot Springs. The city seems to be quite lively, as a great many persons are on their way north to hunt the cool watering places. Went on Change yesterday to see how the grain market was running. Wheat advanced little and the chances are that it will remain at pretty good figures here until the crops from the great wheat growing states of the North-West begin to move and then if there should be turn in foreign affairs loOkiug to peace, the bottom would fall out of the grain mar ket in this country, therefore would advise our people to market their wheat crop as soon as possible.

 met Gen. Jubal A. Barley here to-
Year: 1877

though she was u coloncl's widow,
and descended from an ancient aud
aristocratic lineage, yet did not dis
dain to add to hor slender income BY
the taking of select boarderS.


And she had contrived to win all
hearts while she was tllcrc--a sunny
bright eyed girl, with temper as
sweet as honey, soft, caressing ways,
and u voice like a robins carol.


Even tho Mill Rapids girls could
not hate her, although she woro
dresses that had been designed by
Year: 1877

THIS prescription comes from northern
Doctor, yet we think it peculiarly adapted to
this section;


l. Put up no more buildings than you can
occupy yourselves.


. If You should have an empty building
to rent, demand three times its value


g. Look sorrowful at every newcomer, give
the cold shoulder to every mechanic who de-
sires TO come among you.


l. Go abroad for everything you want. BY
no means purchase from your own merchants
and manufacturers, even at the same price or
less.


8 Don't contribute one cent to the cause Of
religion or education.


Finally put thorough finish 10 your work
by killing your local paper, refusing 70 sub
scribe for or advertise in it, 50 that persons at
a distance will not know that any business is
being done in your town, or they may want 70
come and settle among you, or buy something
from you, and that would put You to extra
trouble.
Year: 1877

A successful business man told me there
were two things which be learned when he
was eighteen, which were ever afterwards OF
great use to him, namely, never to lose any
thing, aud never forget anything" IN old
lawyer sen; him with an important paper,
with certain instructions what to do with 1t.


But inquired theSOung man, suppose
lose it; what shall | do then p


The answer was with the utmost emphasis,
you must not lose it.


al don't mean to," said the young man,
"but suppose should happen to ~


" But say yon must not happen to shall
make no provision for any such occurrence ;
you must not lose 1t


This put new train Of thought into the
young mans mind, ani he found that if he
was determined to do a thing be could do it.
lie made such u aVrOvisiou against every con-
tngeucy that he never lost anything. He
found this equally true about forgetting. II
certain matter Of Importance was to be re-
membercl he pinned it down on his mind,
fastened il there and made il stay. lie used %
say: When a man tells me that he forgot
to DO something, tell him he might as well
have said, did not care enough about your
business to take the trouble to think Of it a.
gain. once bad an intelligent young man
10 my employment, who deemed it a sufficient
excuse for ucgiectng an important task to say,
4 forgot it, tod him that would not au
swcr If he WAS sufficiently interested be
would be careful to remember It was not
because he did not care enough that he forgot.
drilled bin with this truth. lie worked for
me three years aud during the last Of the
three be WAS utterly changed in this respect
He did no; forget anything. His forgetting
he found, was a " and careless habit Of the
mind, which he cured.-X. y. T., in Country
GcuN.nlnn
Year: 1877

Those who have no ice can have sweet milk
for the table Gy dissolviug a small portion Of
carbonate soda when the milk is strained
about one grain per quart.


4 little soda stirred in sour cream will pre-
vent its curdling in coffee, besides correcting
the acid.


To keep butter firm without ice: : stir IN
the cream, when about to churu. a teaspoon
ful Of carbonate soda and one teaspoonfu Of
powdered alum. They DO not affect the taste
Of the butter


In putting up butter for winter use, add a
little saltpetre to the salt.


For table use, add little sugar besides.


know these to be good Do not give my
name, as have 10 ambition to appear in print.
get to 10 cents per pound for my butter
over the price at the stores, and can't supply
the demand. -AmeTicqH Farmer.
Year: 1877

Forbearance is the key note Of married life.
There can be no great discorj, there can be no
large divergences from tunefulness, so long as
the husband forbears and the wife forbears.-
Now this cannot be attained without some la
Dor. Results are approached gradually in
character as they are in making a sand bill.
1t is grain upon grain, shoyeIful upon shovel
fgl, and load upon load, that makes the mound
to rise. So results Of character come gradual
ly An act at this time, deed yesterday, a
word tomorrow morning, a cross word to-day
repeated month hence, and 50 on, till at last
you find there is a ridge between you and
your wife's OF husbands affection.
Year: 1877

Some one has prettily said II We die to-
day the sun will shine as brightly and tho
birds will sing as sweelly tomorrow. II is
nice to know that, because it is .bo assurance
Of a pleasant day for the funeral.
Year: 1877

Cow PEAs.-Messrs. A. A. Greenwood & Co.
advertise in another C lumn reduction in the
price Of their large stock OF mixed and whippoor-
will peas. They offer to sell now at 50 per bushel.
This low price will no doubt enable many to pro-
cure this most valusble vegetable fertilizer.
There are many farms that are positively value
less now that might be restored to their former
value by proper use OF the pea vim.
Year: 1877

Especial to the Democratl


LONDON, July 3.-Concerning the sending
of the fleet to, Besika Bay the supporters of
the government say that the Mediterranean
fleet Is for representation and protection of
British interests, and that it is now properly
stationed where its presence is most needed.
Persons who doubt the pacific declaration of
the Government argue from this movement
that it is it's intention to keep the Russians
out of Constantinope.
Year: 1877

A lady gave to her little boy three
gold-hsh h as a present. Full OF curiosity,
The little fellow fed them and worried
them SO much that two OF them soon
died. A few days after his mother was
shocked to see the other one lying in the
water, cut In halves; and ou asking an
explanation was inuooeAtly informed:
"Oh. ma he was so lonely all by himself,
and tried to make two OF him,n
Year: 1877

The partisan returning board at
Washington has disappointed greatly
the honest patriotism of the whole
country. Whatever its final decree,
the great masses of the people never
dreamed that in transferring to such a
body the ultimate decision of such q
question, they were surrendering a
question of infinite right or wrong to
base-born partisanship. There was a
share of respect for the Federal Su-
preme Court even as reconstructed by
Grants advisers; but this has been
grossly violated and outraged, and not
the least of the crimes of partisanship
is this final overthrow, in the eyes of
the people, of the splendid temple
reared by learning and genius and in
tegrity, in which final justice
and right were supposed to
be conceded with infallible rec
titude of purpose. Even this fair
structure, upreared by Marshall and
Jay and TaneJ, is overthrown, and
there is nothing of federalism left that
is not contemned by decent honesty.
II Hayes be as bad president as the
agencies of his elevation to power, and
if Mortonism that creates be the spirit
that must animate his administration,
within the month Packard, upheld by
black jannissaries, will be Grand Turk
in Louisiana; the government of Mis-
sissippi will be overturned; and all the
hell-born passions of ten years ago
will be reproduced. Everything de-
pends upon the wisdom and modera-
tion and patriotism of Hayes,
and yet we can have little faith
in the virtues or worth of a president
invested with office without the shadow
of right and by means that degrade
and make infamous in the eyes of
honest people the only adjunct of cen
trail authority for which the country
entertains the slightest reverence.
Whether the Democratic judges and
Congressman will withdraw from a
body unworthy of the presence of
honest men remains to be seen. The
Senate and Grant might as well be suf-
fered to give the country its chief mag
istrate. The Supreme Court, or those
of its members who esteem themselves
honest and patriotic, will hardly be
sharers in the discharge OF task so
revo lting to honesty and wisdom and
Year: 1877

THE very great number Of German
readers of the STATESMAN induces US
to collect news paragraphs affecting
the condition OF Europe under the
heading Foreign Notes" From these,
as heretofore given, it is apparent that
uneasiness is confessed IN Paris be-
cause of the tone OF the German Off
cial press and the military activity Of
the German government. A Strasburg
correspondent writes TO Paris journal
that ammunition, provisions and war
material of all sorts are being hurried
into that town and into Metz with q
haste that is positively feverish. The
trains arrive and are loaded in the
night. The correspondent believes
himself to be speaking within bounds
in saying there is enough food stored
in Metz and S.rasburg to-day to subsist
the garrisons and people for two years.
There may be some truth in the rumor
that Bismarck intends to seek foreign
war to strengthen the national feeling
in Germany.
Year: 1877

A WASHINGTON telegram to the New
York Tribune says: "An influential
Democrat, chairman of one of Tho
leading investigating committees Of
the House, remarked tonight that if
the final decision of the electoral
count should be adverse to Governor
Tilden, he will not accept the result
without further testing his rights in
the courts. The last section of the
compromise bill provides that either
of the parties in interest, notwith-
standing the award of the commission,
shall not be deprived of any rights
now possessed under the Constitution
or the laws to try the right of the
presidency by an order in quo s0arrdnto
or otherwise. This chairman says
that MIR. Tilden will certainly begin
the biggest lawsuit OF the century to
obtain the office if he is declared to
have been defeated"
Year: 1877

THE Galveston Ne,os presents a plain
fact and necessity very curtly when it
says that Republicans, like Democrats,
make no pretense Of desire TO repeal
the Fifteenth Amendment, but confess
willingness to prescribe additional
qualifications for voters such as being
able to read and write, the payment Of
taxes, being householders, etc. OF
course color would form no part of
such tests except as one race might
happen to possess more or less Of the
additional qualifications required. The
trouble, the peril and the additional
scandal resulting from the struggle Of
parties for the votes Of seething masses
Of ignorance in Louisiana and South
Carolina have furnished lesson
which will not be forgotten, and the
reform proposed must be consum-
mated.
Year: 1877

fore constable or deputy sheriff com
pels him to abandon his plow in the
furrow to sit upon a jury. Ordinary
jury duty is not very agreeable or con
venient, but this interminable jury SET
vice is a hardship for which the pres
ent jury system is wholly responsible.
Its cyst in dollars is incaiculable, not
only in fees and PR diem and tavern
bills and whisky and idleness; hut the
taxation it engenders is iutolerab,e.
II the money-the o2e per cent
wrenchcd from taxpayers by the city
were applied to the construction of
sewers there would be fewer deadly
stinks swept into our bed-chambers at
night, and no deadly malarial fevers
sinking down health and energy and
hope through spring and summer
months. Can't the mayor and his
court dispense with these costly Incl
dents and paraphernalia of justicel
Why pay jurors six dollars and bailiffS
fees to try bawd for keeping disor-
derly house2 Deadbeats live by rob-
bing taxpayers through the aid of these
dirty little courts that use them as
patented jurymen, swearing and un-
swearing themselves every hour in
each twenty-four if each oath give them
one dollar for jury service. The crime
becomes calamity and next after
whisky is costing Texas more than any
other intolerable public evil.
Year: 1877

THE bill of Mr.. Banning provides
for the convening of Congress on the
fourth of March, instead of on the first
Monday in December. Its object,
outside of assisting Mr.. Tilden, should
he be inaugurated, is to make cure OF
the organization of the next House.
The Democratic majority therein, at
best, Is only five or six, and death or
other accident might intervene before
next December to SO change this ma
jority as to lose the next House to the
party. 1t is hardly probable, how
ever, that the Senate should concur in
such bill; but whatever its fate it is
almost certain that the new president,
whoever he may be, will call al extra
session of Congress Immediately after
his Inauguration, owing to the exigen-
cies of public affairs, and possibly the
failure of the present Congress 10 com
plete the several appropriation bills.
About this latter matter there is much
conjecture, the majority saying it will
be impossible in the ensuing three
weeks, the last remaining of the ses-
sion, TO close up the legislation on the
appropriation bills. There are Others,
however, who believe that, with the
presidential question settled, q week
of steady and hard work, day and
night, would wind up the whole bzsi-
ness.