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Year: 1877

Correspondence Kansas City Journal o.
Commerce.


LAKE CITY, COL, Aug. 31.-Our pal
ty has crossed the range and oamped
on the Pacific slope.


The safest way is to rely upon news
paper descriptions of this country
made up by correspondents who
write at long range. L have observed
that the romance OF climbing noun
tains diminishes preceptibly as one
nears the summit, especially if the
trip is made on foot.


THE BURRo.


This country originally belonged to
the Utes and the cinnamon bear, but
the burro has supplanted them,
both in possession of the country and
the affections of the people. "For
men may come and men may go, but
these remain forever"


The burrO is pocket edition Of the
jackass. with ears so diligently revised
and enlarged that be cannot pass
through the eye of a needle nor enter
the kingdom of heaven. His duties
consist OF carrying load four times
greater than himself, and of subsist-
ing on kicksor curses, as occasion may
require.


When he stumbles over precipices
and breaks his neck, and muses. up
his nice long ears, he is expected to
bear it all with Christian fortitude.
Humility Is his best hold l have
known him to lie down upon case of
states" eggs without a murmur. His
food ranges the whole catalogue of
truck he is compelled to pack, from a
spring mattress to a side of bacon :;
therefore, consequently, it will beseen
at glance that his appetite must be
beautifully diversified and his diges-
tive apparatus ready to march at
moments notice. / have never
known a burro to have the dyspepsia.
He can fatten on what the hog repud-
Year: 1877

TALK of intimidation " as much
as YOU please, there was no grosser
outrage committed, in view of lis inn
moral aud destructive effect upon our
republican system, than the forced
and unlawful subscriptions of office
holders throughout the country Tor
elec,ioneering purposes in the late
Presidential campaign
Year: 1877

OF GEORGIA. have used Simmons Liver
Regulator for constipation of my bowels, caused
by temporary dersngement Of the liver for
the last three or four years, and always, when
used according to the directions, with decided
benefit. I think it is q good medicine for the
arrangement of the liver-at least such has beon
my personal experience in the use of it.


HIRAM WARNER,
Year: 1877

If there is a man who cap eat his bread
at peace with heaven and ,man, il is that
man who has brought that 6rcad out of the
earth by his own honest ndustry. 1t is
cankcred by no lraud-it il wet by no tear
it is stained by no blood.
Year: 1877

When the Breton mariner puts to sea his
prayer is, "kccp me, my God my boat is
so small and the ocean so wide" Does not
this beautiful prayer truly express the con
dition Of each of u.s.
Year: 1877

marriage is sustalned, and tho other half
will go to the daughter. If the marriage
should eventually be declared null all the
property will go to the daughter. The es-
tate is valued at about S70,000.- San
Francisco U,Ontclc.
Year: 1877

BRIGHAM YOUNG once ingeniously put
of simple disciple who had lost leg
and wanted him to have him anothersup-
piled by miraculous growth, by saying
that he could command another to grow,
of couse, but begged his petitioner to con-
slider how awkward it would be to walk
around heaven with three legs, while the
other saints would have only two The
crcdulous sufferer went away satisfied.
Year: 1877

A MAINE man went out the other
morning and cut down his apple trees,
and the Lewiston Journal asserts that
when his friends expostulated, he said
that he had INDUCED in so much prolan-
ity at seeing his apples stolen from time
to time, that he found every Sunday
morning that he was unfit to 90 to church.
Year: 1877

THE number Of pieces required to fin
ish camel's hair shawl is from five hun
dred to four thousand. Often twenty
men have worked daily for twenty years
in order TO finish first class camel's
hair shawl, the highest average of wages
being four cents per day to the most
skllful worker.
Year: 1877

1T seems highly probable that the
Mexican border troubles, the Indian
wars and the late strikes will cause the
next congress to increase the standing
army to $4,000 men at least. 1t is near
ly certain that the president will ask
congress in his message for the increase.
At no time since the war has there been
30 much for the army to do as since the
adjournment of the last congress- Of
fetal intelligence from Washington
states that there are not in all the Indian
country three full regiments of soldiers
and since the return to this country of
Sitting Bulls band this force is entirely
inadequate to the duties required oft
The military officers of the government
say that they have not sufficient force
IN the Indian country to cope with chief
Joseph and are at present utterly power
less to prevent union of the bands of
Joseph and Sitting Bull which union it
is believed will soon be made. All
these difficulties will be presented to
congress and that body will be asked
for remedy and the only remedy that
is likely to be effective is that of increas-
ing the army.
Year: 1877

1t appears that the New York Central
and Lake Shore roads have become in
volved in difficulty ina curious way on
account of the orders given bv the
officials at the beginning Of the recent
labor troubles When William H. Van
derbilt learned that the men proposed
to strike, instead of waiting for them
to do so. it is said that he telegraphed
all along the line of the Central and
Lake shore to stop all the trains at mid
night, and would not allow them to run
until the difference between the men
and the corporations had been adjusted.
While the blockade was going on large
quantities of perishable freight was
ruined and great numbers of cattle
either died from hunger and thirst or
became unfit for the market. If the
trains had been stopped by the rioters
1t would have been question whether
the shippers of perishable freight could
have recovered from the companies:
but. as the officials were responsible for
the detention, the lawyers say that the
corporations can be made to pay. Ship
pers have already sent in claims for
damages. s.-NeW York Sun.
Year: 1877

By the death OF Mrs. Caroline NJ.
Street, of this city, which happened last
night, several bequests valued at about
s250,000 go into effect in favor of the
corporation and fellows of Yale college.
Among the pieces of property given by
husband and wife are the five-story
building nearly opposite the college
know as the New Haven House, which
was built by Mr.. Street; the Street build
ing on the corner Chapel street and State;
the building occupied by the Union.
The money derived from the sale of the
New Haven House is to complete the
Yale Art building, that from the Union
building for the encouragement of art
in the college, and that from the Street
building for the founding of the Titus
Street professorship in the Yale Theolo-
gical school. Mrs. Street was the moth
er of the wife of Admiral Foote.-Nep
York ITorld.
Year: 1877

SALT LAKE dispatches say the man
agement Of the Mormon church will
remain for the present in the hands Of
the twelve apostles and that it is doubt
full whether this power will be again
committed to one man. The chances
of breaking up of the church are
twelve times greater on account of this
action of the apostles.
Year: 1877

Mr.. j. S. King, OF the homestead settle.
ment on the west side OF Burt lake, was
in the village Thursday to ascertain
what could be done here TO relieve the
families mentioned in last weeks TRI-
BUNE. While we had previously taken
some pains to ascertain the actual con.
ditiOn of these people, we found that the
statements of Mr.. King only went TO con.
firm the infor@ation already at hand
These Iamiliess swhile not just at the
present time suffering for the necessaries
of life, will. probably, be in that condi-
ton ere long if not relieved. At present
they are at work in Robinson's camp and
obtain enough to keep the wolf from the
door. But this is the time when they
should be preparing and clearing ground
so that they could get in crops in the
spring. If they are not able to do this
they will be nearly as bad off next year
as now. Ii they could go on their places
and work, they could get enough land
cleared, so that the crops they would
raise would place them beyond want
another year. Economy, if no higher
motive, would say they should be assist
ed now. 1t has been proposed by some
that the county aid them by the payment
of a stipulated sum per acre for land
cleared. We learn that these parties
would be glad To receive assistance in
this manner. Our opinion, from a pretty
careful examination of the matter, is that
four families i'm that section are worthy
of assistance and should receive it, the
only question being, what is the best
manner of bestowing it? Should there
be any one who desires to do anything
for their assistance, supplies or money


left ut the TRIBUNE office, will be promp,-
ly forwarded to the proper parties. We
understand that Mr.. Robinson will carry
all supplies contributed, to his camp.
which is near the homes of these parties.
free of charge. We hope our citizens
will take some action about this matter
at once.
Year: 1877

of which, must have been transported
some distance, as they were originally
stored in different parts Of the hOuscse


The articles of value woven into the
structure of this nest were believed to
have been stolen from the men who had
broken into the house for temporary
lodging. Another incident illustrating
the thieving habits of the animal is re-
lated by the author of the above as it
was told him by miner The latter
had at the time obtained employment
in q mining-camp where the men all
slept in the same cabin. Shortly
after his arrival, small articles COM
menced to disappear; if whole plug Of
tobacco were left on the table, it would
be gone in the morning. Finally. q
bag, containing 800 or more in gold
dust, was taken from small table at
the head of a bunk in which one of the
proprietors of the claim slept. Suspi-
cion fell on the newcomer, and he
would perhaps have Jared hardly-for,
with these rough men, punishment is
short and sharp-but, just in time, a
large rats nest was discovered in the
garret of the cabin, and in it was found
the missing money, as well as the to-
bacco and other articles supposed to be
stolen. - Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1877

The late Hoboken millionaire, Mr..
Lewis, whose will is before the New
Jersey Courts, was a singular genius.
Though worth over a million dollars no
forbade his housekeeper using sugar in
her tea on the ground of the unneces-
sary expense, he himself coming to the
table with sugar in his pocket and sur
reptitiously swcetening his own cup
The small boys of the vicinity often
derided him, when he would chase them
through the streets and take away their
hats, of which trophies he constantly
had large collection on hand.
Year: 1877

gan to assail them in the senate.
This action of his was Immediately
followed by the recall of Mr.. Mot
ley. Mr.. Fish always asserted that
Mr.. Motley was recalled because of
a serious blunder he had commit
ted in improper interference with
the delicate negotiations the state
department was then conducting
with the English foreign office with
reference to the settlement of the
Alabama claims. Notwithstanding
this statement of Mr., Fish it was
the general belief that Mr.. Motley
was disgraced that the admiuistra-
ton might revenge itself on Mr..
Sumner. Mr.. Sumner tenaciously
held to this view himself, and he
was very mucR strengthened in it
when his party associates in the
senate deposed him from the chair
manship of the committee on for
eign relations in Difference to the
direct personal solicitation of Mr..
Fish. From that time up to the
hour of his death the extreme ami
mostly which he had entertained
for the South was made secondary
to his intense hatred of everything
and everybody connected with the
Grant administration, and in sea-
son and out of season he dealt his
assaults on the administration. Mr.
Motley was thoroughly a literary
man, and was not possessed Of that
thickness of skin which pertains to
the average American politician.
His removal from his office was a
source of excessive modification tc
him, so much so that he neyel
could bring himself up to the point
of helping Mr.. Sumner to pay back
the Grant administration.
Year: 1877

delightful; neither could we read
the name on the paddle-box, which
adds greatly to our enjoyment of
the voyage. 1t begins to feel as if
we are really in Turkey, a fact that
is not accepted without some COM
Functions of conscience up yonder
in that Frenchiefed, hotel-haunted
Pera. Our steamer, not a bad one
by any means, rapidly fills with the
mixed races Of the earth; the bridge
is crowded from dawn to dark a
thin stream of tourists pours down
the ladder at our boat; / can see on
either side of us other steamers,
with steam up, and they are like
wise being oyerrun with the
strange-looking people, who drop
out OF the dense tide that ebbs to
and fro. The wonder is that you
and they are not swept on and
swallowed up in the strong current
that seems never to decrease in vol
ume or slacken its speed. Our boat
is a double-decker. In the bows the
poorer classes, chiefly natives, travel
at reduced figure. Amidships
there are cushioned seats, a compar-
atively clean deck, and the com
panion-way dropped into cabin
below, which is apparently a kind
of refined black hole, carefully
avoided by everybody. In the
stern there is a pen, hedged in by a
low railing and canvas curtain,
and behind that vail the women of
the harem bury themselves from
the faces Of men. We can see some
of them, as much as we care to see
Of them, as they board us and elbow
their way through the throng of
tirst-class passengers to their sane
tuary, and we are just mean enough
TO look. The yashmach that falls
from the eyes to the waist is rather
formidable it were vain to search
among its Opaque folds for any
shadow of the lips that have fed on
halya and sherbet all their days
but the dark orbs are turned toward
you, and the heavy lids that have
been plastered with white paste that
lies upon them like fish scales, and
darkened with deep, broad lines Of
kohl-those soft but expressionless
eyes look at you with a stupid ami.
NAL curiosity, and the large yelvety
pupils roll, into the corners Of the
sockets aS the houri passes by. Ah
she might sit for q face-card with
those eyes of hers; the cow-likC
coquetry Of the queen of hearts
turks under her sooty lashes. The
harem is so crowded before We
swing off into the stream that the
canvas partition bulges in spots like
q huge dumping.
Year: 1877

Providence (R. l.l Journal.l


One of the oldest freaks of fash
ion is that which dictates making
the hair white by discharging its
color. Partisan ladies of style have
for some time been accustomed to
turn their dark tresses to blonde by
a costly and expensive process,
which ruins the hair, making it dry
and harsh, and which has to be fre-
quently repeated as the hair grows !;
but at present the rage is for silver
white hair, even on ladies who are
hardly middle-aged. l seems pity
that people always wish to exchange
their physical peculiarities for those
of some one else, the short wishing
to be tall, and the tall short; the
stout people envying the thin ones,
and the thin the stout ones; the
brunettes longing to be blondes,
and the blondes lamenting that
they are not brunettes. But it real.
ly seems a crazy whim to anticipate
the certain work Of time in this way.
Most Of us do not rejoice oyermuch
at the sight of our first white hair.
There seems reason to hope that as
women become truly educated, and
fill their thoughts and time with
nobler interests than mere personal
adornments, these ridiculous fash
ions will fall into disuse but they
have so long been taught that the
great aim of their lives should be to
attract men by their personal
charms, that a radical change of
purpose and growth of nobler char
acter must be the work of many
decades. The Partisan beaux do
not disdain the extreme arts of the
toilet in all cases. One instance is
reported in which gentleman past
middle age spends three and a half
hours daily at his toilet. His hair
and mustache are dyed, his face is
softened with cold cream, then
painted and powdered and rejuyen-
ated, he walks abroad prepared to
make havoc with hearts. And the
days Of mans life are but three
score years and ten.
Year: 1877

without the starting post, and, con
sequently, some races that are call
ed a mile are a much longer dis
tance. Again, only one man is
employed at the business, and every
one who has been on a race course
must know that after two or three
false starts it is often impossible 10
tell to a few seconds when the real
start takes place, and horses have
been some time on their way before
the fact is realized at the grand
stand. This is more particularly so
at Newmarket. The way that Mr..
Littlefeld did his business was to


have man at the starting post and
another at the winning post. The
instant that the horses passed the
Rowley Mile starting post his watch
was stopped, and the same as the
winning post was reached. By
these means the time can be taken
accurately, and a fair trial ensured.
At Melbourne, where we are told
that the grand stand and its ap-
pointments are far more complete
than on any race course in England,
France or America, the starter, as
he sends the horses on their way,

touches spring, which communi-
Gates instantaneously with a huge
dial in the front Of the grand stand,
and the Judge doing the same when
the leading horse passes him, the
time" is made apparent to all.
And, from what we can hear, fewer
mistakes are made in trials in Amer
lea and Australia than in England.
Year: 1877

ANANNA EfNAAAhh @AAAe9t -NuJ -'si


Mate and Bay Eagle have been
having a fine time of it of late.
They alternately lead Brown Prince
in his work, and they have been
understood to express the wish that
the Derby were over. 1t is not gem
orally known that Brown Prince
was tried for the two Thousand by
the time test. On the Newmarket
biennial day he was galloped at his
best pace over the Rowley mile, and
the time in which he covered the
distance beat the biennial time hol,
low. Mr.. Little6eld is of opinion
that time in England, if people
could only be made to understand
it, might be utilized as much as it
is in America and Australia. The
way that we take our time is non
sense. A starter may drop his flag
at any moment when the horses are
Year: 1877

The Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Children on Monday tore little
girl from the arms of her mother and sent
her to an asylum. It strikes us, as it will
many others, that the society is either
misnamed or it is engaged in piece Of
business of which it ought to be ashamed.
There has been a long quarrel over the
little Mabel Leonard, in which the society
does not, on the whole, appear to ad-
vantage. The end of it, for the present, is
that Mabel Leonsrd's mother is in Jail for
contempt of court in having got posses
sion Of her little girl after she was taken
away, and the girl is sent in tears to the
House of Mercy. There is no doubt that
she is fondly attached to her mother in
deed, she Wanted to go to Jail with her.
We do not notice any attempt in
court to prove the mother q bad
character, or to show that she would mall
treat her child or endanger her morals.
We suppose the mother must suffer for her
contempt of court but we confess, after
making inquiry into the case, we should
prefer to see the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children take their heavy
hands off; we should even prefer to see the
little girl 60 to Jail with her mother. Pre-
vention Of cruelty to children surely does
not consist in dragging them away from
their mothers, unless these are notoriously
vile or cruel women. 1t looks to us like q
case Of marrying poor woman who prob
ably knows nothing Of law and whose affec-
ton for her child leads her to try to be with
that child ut all hazards.


Are there no other cases for the society
to use its superfuous energies on? Suppose
it should investigate the lives and sufferings
of the numerous little street beggars, many
of whom ask for charity with the dreadful
certainty that they will be cruelty beaten if
they 90 home without theirstint Of pennies
The public is little tired Of the society
energetic persecution of Mabel Leonard.
The little girls tears make the society s
name ridiculous.
Year: 1877

The discovery yesterday morning that
William G. Gilman, one Of the most respect
able and trusted men in business in Wall
street, had been engaged in clumsy but
apparently systematic and extensive series Of
frauds, caused not merely alarm but grief in
banks and banking houses, with many Of
whose managers Gilman had had friendly
relations for many years. Tbs house Of
which he became the head on the death Of
his father some years ago was regarded as
one of the most respectable and trustworthy
on the street; indeed, the forgeries which
have come to light are SO clumsily done that
they could not have deceived their victims
if they had been uttered by any one to
whom suspicion would attach.


The whole extent of the alterations Of GER
tificates is probably not yet known. 1t was
hoped at first that only the scrip certificates
Of the Atlantic Insurance Company had been
tampered with, but it is now known that
bank stock owned by Gilman was also
''raised" to larger amounts, and it is thought
that the sum of the forgeries which reached
over two hundred thousand dollars yester-





figure


When this crime was first discovered there
was natural indisposition to believe that
Gilman could be guilty of it, but several
circumstances seem to leave no doubt that
he alone was the author of the forgeries.
He appears to have acted with remarkable
GOODNESS and delibcration, and there is no
doubt that he was in town yesterday morn
ing, and disappeared only when the crime
became known. Coming SO close upon the
heels Of the Morton frauds in Philadelphia
this event will shock confidence all over the
country. In this case, as in Morton's, the
criminal is man of respectable connections,
OF the highest standing among bankers and
of on apparently blameless life, and this
adds to the painful and irritating impression
which the event produces. Men naturally
ask who can be trusted when such men
break their trusts and take to the most
vulgar Of crimes.
Year: 1877

We print elsewhere communication from
Mr.. Augustus Watson to the african Reposi-
tory, in which he urges that Congress shall
appropriate fifty thousand dollars to make a
preliminary survey for railroad from the
Liberian coast northeastward into the Afri-
can interior. Mr.. Watson reports that sixty
five thousand colored emigrants are now
ready to go to Africa from South Carolina
and sixty-nine thousand more from the in
terror of Louisiana, and he seems to think
that these people would be helped by the
expenditure of fifty thousand dollars on o
railroad reconnaissance.


We are sorry We cannot agree with him.
In the first place, if there are any colored
people here anxious to remove to Africa
they ought to understand that they must go
at their own expense, and it would be only
humane to tell them that they ought not to
60 in great numbers at first. They ought
also to be told that Liberia is an unhealthful
country, and SO far unprosperous that,
though its people would probably be greatly
benefited by considerable emigration to
their country, they do not seem to be able
to offer help to persons ready to join them
from this side. The recent exploration Of
Mr.. Stanley shows the true highway into
the interior Of Africa true highway be-
cause rivers are more available than nil-
ways in the first settlement Of q country.
We agree with much which Mr.. Watson says
about the natural wealth Of the interior of
Africa. But it is now all accessible by the
Congo River; and we advise him and others
interested in the development of Africa to
labor for the establishment Of trading posts
OH the upper Congo, and of steam hotilla to
connect these with this country. When this
is done there will be inducements to cmi-
grants, which Will lead them to 90 out there
as soon rs they can accumulate enough to
pay their passage. But with MI this Con-
gress has nothing to do.