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Year: 1878

Oh mother. and sister, and wife. e'g
While you grieve o'tr the ills that you bear.
And charge all the woes of your sorrowful life
To him who should Tighten your care;
Think, is he only to blame,


The husband, the brother. the son
For the poverty, misery. sorrow or shame
That have follow ed you, one by onef
Did you always greet with delight


His coming from labor to rest
Did you welcome him home at noon or at night,
As you welcomed the stranger guestf
And when he came home with sigh.


Because there was nothing to do,
And spoke of the season of idleness nigh
Did his heart receive comfort from youf
Did you meet him with coolness and scorni
Did you answer his plaint with n sneerf
Though You knew that his soul was with agony


torn


AT the prospect so gloomy and drearl
How sad. when at close of the day


The homeward- bound hurried fee.
To hear the poor, desolate loiterer say


There's s nobody waiting for me :"
oh think of the perils that wait,


Always wait in ad Yersity's court,
For the husband, the son, or the brother, whom


Fate


Has marked for her pitiless spot!
Be kind to him. then, in the hour


When his soul is with sorrow oppressed.
When clouds'of misfortune and misery low'r,
Make home his sweet haven of rest.
Year: 1878

FAT PEOPLES MIsFoRrUSEs.- Some OF
the savage tribes enter their dwellings
through o hole in the roof, and when a per-
son becomes so fat that he cannot get in, he
is regarded as an outlaw. Had this system
been adopted in the United States, the ''out-
laws" could not have made more active de-
mard for Allan's Anti Fat than now exists
Hundreds who had lived in constant fear OF
sudden death have, by its use, been reduced
to comfortable living weight. The Anti
Fat is purely vegetable and perfectly harm
less. Sold by druggists.
Year: 1878

\ BOY.-One of the best things in the
world To be is a boy.


Boys have always been so plenty that
they are not half appreciated.


a boy is willing to do any amount of
work that is half play.


The feeling Of boy toward pumpkin
pie has never been properly considered.


A boy furnishes half the entertain
ment, and takes two-thirds of the scOld-
ing, Of the family circle.


1t is impossible to say at what age a
boy becomes conscious that his trowser
legs are too short, and is anxious about
the part Of his hair.


In fact, a boy is hard subject to get
a moral from.
Year: 1878

RICE AND TOMATOEs.-BOil one pint
Of rice in three pints Of water for half an
hour. Then mix with one and half
pints Of stewed tomato, and cook gently
another half hour, without stirring.
This recipe will answer as well with
canned tomatoes as with fresh. When
the latter can be had, fully ripe, peel,
slice and place IN alternate layers with
rice in a porcelain-lined kettle, in the
proportion Of four or five parts tomato
TO one of rice, having tomato for the
upper aud lower layers, and adding all
the juice. Stew very gently on the
stove until the rice is tender.
Year: 1878

4 Georgia farmer bought a grand pl-
ano for his daughter. His house Is
small, and TO ecOnomize room, the lower
part Of the partition was cut out and the
long end of the piano stuck through.
Priscilla now sits at the keyboard
singing, "Wbo will care for mother
now ?" and the mother rolls out dough-
nuts on the other end of the piano in
the kitchen.
Year: 1878

A clerical wit, while sitting In his
library one evening, was greatly dis
turbed by a servant girl singing in a
loud, cracked voice:


"There Is mansion In Heaven for me,


A light in the window 1 see"
"Well," exclaimed he, after waiting a
provokingiy long time for her TO stop
for breath, 81 am grateful that in my
Fathers house there are many man
sionsw
Year: 1878

The city election yesterday
was very spirltedly contested,
the ins laboring under the disad-
vantage Of popular prejudice
against a third term in office,
which was sought by the defeat
ed party. The aggregate vote
was never SO large at any prev
ious municipal election, with the
single exception Of two years
ago when the leading candidates
were respectively the same, not
withstanding the fact that on
this last occasion probably one
third Of the resident voters were
ruled out for non-payment Of
taxes, under a clause Of the
amended charter. But for this
exclusion, the aggregate vote
would have been not less than
600 or 700, which would have
shown the strongest contest ever
waged over a city election in
this city. At a general election
the vote cast in the city has
reached 900, but on such occa-
sions this is the usual polling
place Of many voters living out
side the city limits. The majori-
ty of Brown over DR.. Weed for
Mayor is just 100; the majority
Of Weed over Brown two years
ago was II. Following is the
ratrrnc nv wordo.
Year: 1878

A widow in Portland put Grape on
her door. 1t remained there about
a week before the landlord made
bold to interrupt her grief, and
when he entered he found the house
empty. Her grief was So intense
that she had inadvertently removed
all the furniture. The debt of ma
ture which had been paid was sup
positions. The debt for the rent
remains uncanceled. And yet they
say that women are not calculated
for business.


The Tacoma Herald, of the 4th
inst, speaks of the postponement of
a wedding at that place by reason of
the absence of the groom. Disap-
pointments of this nature are be.
coming alsrmingly prevalent of late
and stringent measures should be
adopted to suppress the cold-blood-
ed crime. If we had the name of
the party connected with this affair
we would post him with pleasure.
CHANGED HANDs.-Milt Cook has
disposed of his saloon business to
Mr.. u. Schmidt, who will probably
turn it into beer hall.
Year: 1878

spirit Of the law. The taxpayers of
the country had their rights, one
of which was to pay the bonds in
silver. They would never surrender that
right. The people could not and would
not psy gold slone. He heartily ap-
proved the resolution of the Senator
from Ohio, and it was the imperative
duty of Congress to day, not only to pass
this resolution, but also to restore the
free coinage of SILVER dollars by passing
the silver bill.


Mr.. Randolph spoke in opposition to
the resolution and in favor OF gold as a
single standard of value. he referred at
length to various government bonds, and
argued that the government had the
right to pay the bonds issued prior to
1873, in gold or silver coin at lis option,
while as to the remainder of its bonded
obligation, the payment must absolute
ly be made in gold.


At the end of Mr.. Rsndolph's rems rks
Mr.. Lamar took the floor but yielded to
Mr.. Ransom for motion for executive
session.


Mr.. Conkling said the Senate should
have an understanding as to some time
when vote on the resolution of the
Senator from Ohio Matthew'S could be
taken. The mover Of the resolution
desired to have vote as soon as possible
and he [Conkling] therefore suggested
that some hour tomorrow be fixed for q
vote.


Mr.. Blaine suggested that the Senator
from ONO Matthew'S postpone his res
olutIon until after the silver bill should
be acted upon, and said that this resolu-
tion stood right across the path Of practi-
cal legislation.


Mr.. Matthews declined to postpone his
resolution, and said he was anxious 10
have vote on it, and was willing TO un-
dergo as much personal inconvenience as
any other Senator. He therefore gave
notice that if majority of the Senate
would stand by him, he proposed TO have
the session continued Friday till the reso-
luton and pending amendments should
be disposed of.


The Senate then went into executive
session, and when the doors were re-
opened, adjourned.
Year: 1878

The Senate did no. reach q vote on
the silver resolution yesterday. Mr..
MATHEWS gave notice that ifthe friends
of the measure would stand by him, he
proposed to have the session of the Sem
ate continued Friday until the resolution
should be disposed of.
Year: 1878

A case worthy Of investigation by the
Yellow Fever Commission is that of Tan
gipahoa, little town which has had forty
deaths out of a population eftwo hundred.
What 10 remarkable about it is that every
case, according to a dispatch we published
Yesterday, "has been on the east side o.
the railroad and noae On the west" 1t il
hardly likely that this is mere accident
and visit to the locality may disclose to
Commission some well defined local cause
for 30 remarkable a circumstance. Such q
cause discovered in one instance may serve
as a clue to the causes Of less distinct and
striking phenomena in some of the other
localities. ...t
Year: 1878

the steamboat freight up the Yellowstone for


Eastern Montana, which is only to be esti-
mated by thousands. Probably no business


elsewhere could flourish under such an un-
equal ban, and certainly no country but Mon
tana, whose vitals are ribbed and braced
with native gold and silver, could stand
any such drain and live. If our merchants
and business men succeed and make money
as they do and whose credit, when they
want any, stands A No. in the East, what
would be their condition under the favor
Year: 1878

II cat doth meet a cat upon garden wall.
and if a cat doth greeta cat. o need they both
to squall? Every Tommy has his TabbY wait
ing on the wall, and yet ne welcomes her ap-
prOach with yawl. And if kitten wish to
court upon the garden wall, why don't he sit
and sweetly smile, and not stand up and bawl
lift his precious back up high. and show his
teeth and moan, as if 'twere collie more than
love that made the fellow groan?
Year: 1878

The change tothc present l2page form Of the
paper would have been made some two or three
months ago had it not been for the persistent
mtermedling OF sum half dozen consprators in
the business and domestic affairs of the publish
er last fall, the partial success Of their conspir.
acy last December to break up his family and
permanently RUN his business The change
has been under contemplation Tor about one
year past, numerous Improvements are yet to
be made. A continuance Of the support given
last year is all that is asked to keep the paper
TO its present SIZE,
Year: 1878

Strange it Is that one who might have been
tine next mayor OF San Francisco had he stayed
there, should voluntarily move TO this Terri
tory for the purpose OF being supported by his
father-in-law
Year: 1878

Despite the dull times many improvements
are visible among the merchants Of Seattle.
Although the price of clothing &c in San Fran.
cistois above or fully up to what it was last
year yet Messrs Pnkham 81 Saye are selling
below last years prices all kinds of clothing,
boots shoes and gents furnishing goods, they
keep and excellent stock, many Of their goods
are made to order and they do not wish to be
under sold in goods Of equal grades
Year: 1878

Merchants and business men in Seattle still
complain of dull times; much of this is due to
the non-payment OF wages due the employees
Of the coal companies near that place They
have been the backbone of Seattle, so that no
complaint should be made more than neces
sary. Shaddock has paid mos. of what is due
the employees of the transportation compa
MES, yet much is still due at the mines where
men have waited long time without receiv.
ing any pay
Year: 1878




Committee TO-MOrrOw.


WASHINGTON, March 31.-Secretary Sher-
man will be heard tomorrow by the House
Committee on Banking and Currency, spe-
cial meeting having been appointed for that
the committee will give him searching ex-
animation as to his ability to resume specie
payment on or before the first OF January
next. They have some posers to put to him,
which it will trouble him to answer. They
claim that they will be able to break down
his testimony before the Senate Committee
on Finance and make him show by his own
statements and admissions that resumption
for the present Is hopeless. A number of
New York bankers will also be heard during
the week.


The Banking and Currency Committee expect
be called during the week, and they have
three bills ready to report. The first one to
be reported is Mr. Buckners bill, providing
for the retirement Of all national bank notes
outstanding, and the substituting therefor of
treasury notes The second bill is Mr.. Phil
lips postal savings bank bill; and the third
Mr. Hardenburg's BILL authorizing the ma
tional banks to purchase four per cent bonds
with their reserve fund, and hold the same as
a reserve.


This reserve amounts to about S1OO,OOO,OOO,
and should this bill become q law it will
enable the Secretary of the Treasury to place
this amount of four per cents and retire an
equal amount OF six per cents, and cause a
saving of $2,00O,00O per annum in interest.
The only opposition to this measure which
has thus for been developed comes from the
ultra-inflationists. The present indications
are, however, that it will pass the House by q
respectable majority.
Year: 1878




CHICAGO, March 27-Information Of trust
worthy though unofficial nature, received di-
rect from Fort Walsh, in the Canadian
northwest territory, gives the outlines Of
the line. The intelligence has peculiar sig
nificance, coming as 1t does from O. post IN
the heart Of the Indian country, and where
communication with the tribes under Sitting
Bull and Spotted Eagle is of weekly !, occur cur,
Spotted Eagle have been reinforced by tho
lodges from the Missouri river agencies,
including those from Red Cloud, and it is
estimated that between 5000 and 1000 warriors
are within radius OF 100 miles from Fort
Walsh. Great numbers OF the savages are
reported as having been out after the buffalo
In large and small parties, and have APP
preached close to the boundary line. and have
undoubtedly roved south toward the Missouri
river, and it Is these which have been mem
toned in the recent dispatches from Gen.
Miles as having been seen by his scouts. The
Indians are reported as being very restless,
and under the circumstances members OF the
mounted police were to have kept the NOM
ster village under surveillance since the first
OF the present month. The troops at the
various posts have been advised con staTitly OF
all movements OF the Indians, In order that
the proper precautions. may be taken to pro-
that might happen to occur It is evident
that the Canadians anticipate trouble Of some
nature and which Is contrary to all the re-



winter. 1t was not believed that any of the
Indians north of the line meant trouble, but
that they had sought refuge ON Canadian soil
to escape further hostilities.


A grand council of the head chiefs was held
in the camp OF Sitting Bull during the last
week in February, when it was decided that
the Indians would resist the Buffalo law,
which weHt iHte effect February 15- Some 81
the head chiefs harangued the others for not
rising up and driving the white people out Of
the country. Sitting Bull is reported as
having counseled moderation, and as saying
that the white mother had proved TO be his
friend. He would not fight against the people
of the white mother. He breathed defiance
against the Americans, and said their soldiers
were on the Milk river waiting to attack his
people If they went in search Of food. He
could not keep his people quiet. He wanted
to know where the Long Knife (meaning
Major Walsh, commanding the main body
of the mounted police,) had gone to. He
wanted the Long Knife to come and tell his
people not to go to war. The Long Knife
had been his friend, and had told his people
the truth. Oulette, a half-breed, spoke in the
same strain. The Indians under Sitting Bull,
at the present time, number more than when
he met Custer on the Little Big Horn. He
could probably muster 10000 warriors with
out any great effort If he desired to take the
field, and this army would be splendidly
armed and equipped with all the munitions
OF war,
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, March 2S-Mr Harrison,
chairman of the Committee on Civil Service
Reform, made frantic effort to-day to get up
his report relieving Doorkeeper Polk, but the
Democrats in the House voted almost solidly
against touching it, and Mr.. Harrison was
crowded off the floor In great rage. It looks
very much as ii the Democrats intended to
let Polk stay in for the present and give the
old man chance Or course the committees
report will have to be taken up some time or
other'and disposed of, but there is unques-
tionably good deal Of sympathy for Polk in
the House.
Year: 1878

Cincinnati CommereiaIl


WASHINGTON, March 27.-Enemies of Til
den in the ranks Of his party here are secret
ly rejoicing on account Of the decision in the
income tax case. They want him out of the
way before 1880, and confirmation Of this &C.
cision before higher court, they think, win
have the desired effect.
Year: 1878

against tariff legislation Of any sort From


present indications the contest will be close,


and If any sort of tariff bill passes during


this session it will be after a hard struggle.
Some members predict that no more than 100
votes can be obtained for tariff bill in the
House.
Year: 1878

Without exactly admitting that pre-
sentiments are always verified, 1t is use
less to deny that they are frequently the
shadows cast before the coming events.
A story bearing on this subject is told
of literary man of some note. He had
occasion to remain in strange city fora
few days, and engaged apartments ina
quiet street. On the evening when he
took possession, he was struck with some
thing that appeared to him mysterious in
the manner of the maid-servant, who
looked Ikea man disguised, and he felt
q very unpleasant emotion. This feeling
was strengthened by a similar deport-
ment in the mistress of the house, who
soon after entered his room, and asked
him if he wanted anything before he re-
tired to rest. Dsiking her manner, he
soon dismissed her, and went to bed, but
the disagreeable impression made on his
mind by the maid and mistress kept him
long awake; at length, however, he fell
asleep. During his sleep he dreamed
that the corpse Of gentleman who had
been murdered was deposited in the cell
lar of the house. This dream, co-operat-
ing with the unfavorable, or rather re.
pulsive, countenances aud demeanor OF
the two women, was quite sufficient to
destroy all hope Of sleep for the remain
der of the night. He rose at daylight,
therefore, and proposed to quit the house
To his surprise, as he was leaving it he
met the mistress in the entry, dressed as
if she had never gone to bed. She seemed
to be much agitated, and inquired his
reason for wishing to go out so early IN
the morning. He hesitated moment
with increased alarm, and then told her
that he expected to meet friend. he
was suffered to 60 out of the house, ana
when revived by the open air he felt, as
he afterward declared, as if relieved from
impending destruction. He stated thar
in a few hours after he returned with
friend, to whom he had told his dream,
and the impression made on him oy the
maid and mistress; he, however, only
laughed at him for his superstitious ter
rors, but on entering the house they
found that it was deserted, and calling
in gentleman who was accidentally pas
sing, they all descended to the cellar,
and actually found corpse in the state
which the gentleman's dream had repre-
sented.
Year: 1878

WATCHING A RIFLE BALLS FLIGHT.-
The Rochester Herald says: Three gen
tlemen, members of the Amateur Rifle
Club, yesterday afternoon were in the
town of Brighton, target-shooting. The
distance was 200 yards; all three were
shooting Creedmoor rifles. From the
firing. point to the target the ground
gradually ascended, 80 that small tele-
scope, but good one, firmly fixed in
true bounds on tree, at a distance of
perhaps thirty feet, made fine point for
observation. One of the shooters, while
looking through glass to mark shot
of one of his panions, exclaimed that
he saw the bali as it sped on its mission.
The announcement was receivedswith in
credulity; but one of the other shooters
went to the glass, and he also saw the
ball almost as it left the gun, and through
its whole flight, nearly the whole line of
its trajectory, until it struck the target.
So interesting and beautiful was the sight
that every shot was watched by one or
the other of the gentlemen; and it is an
actual fact that the point at which the
ball would strike the target could be seen
before the ball struck. 1t was even in
sisted upon that the rotary motion of the
ball could be observed.
Year: 1878

AN unregenerate heather lately played
it upon the ladies of three counties in
Western Pennsylvania in q way they de-
spise. II appears that some months ago,
the ladies we're visited by slight, grace
full, and unassuming young woman, who
announced that she was the agent of q
"Women's Dress Reform Benevolent
Association" and that she desired to
call their attention to new invention of
immense hygienic value. The new in.
vention consisted of the application of
the six-button glove principle to hosi-
cry. The cheapness of the article induced
liberal purchases, the agent booking all
the orders and invariably producing a
tape-llne, with which she measured the
customers understandings and noted
down the proportion thereof. Finally at
the last town she visited she went and
got drunk, whipped a barkeeper and was
arrested, acknowledging herself to be a
man "out on lark, with no stockings
to sell and no Philanthropic Association
behind him. Then there was Mysteries
and demand for sal volatile all over
these three counties.
Year: 1878

TURNING AWAY FROM WRATH.-She
lives at Ottawa, Canada, and this is how
she managed it: She thought it would
be just as we'll to commence house keep
ing right away, and begin the new year
with training up husband in the way
he should go; but her father thought diff.
ferently. So sne invited all her friends
to the wedding at certain church at a
given hour. OF course there was big
crowd, including the angry father, who
was prepared to forbid the banns with a
shotgun. Meanwhile, the young lady
and her adored William went to another
church and were quietly married, and as
they left the sacred editice she remarked
that where there was Will there was
way.-DetrOH Free Press.
Year: 1878

BRICK TEA.-A correspondent writing
from Hankon, in China, says: There is
very large trade in brick tea, which is
prepared here for the Russian market,
and is shipped hence by the way Of
Tientsin and Pekin. Nearly half of the
foreign merchants here are Russians, and
they have several factories for the prepa.
ration of the bricks. This morning
visited one of the establishments and
witnessed the process. The dry tea is
weighed out into portions for single
bricks, and each portion is wrapped in a
cloth and placed over steam boiler
When it is thoroughly steamed it is
poured into mold and placed beneath a
machine which presses it into the re-
quired shape. Some of the machines are
worked by hand and others by steam; both
kinds are rapid and efficient, and it did
not appear that the steam had much ad.
vantage. Five men working hand-ma.
chine and receiving twenty cents each
per day, were able to press six bricks q
minute. The steam press worked only O
little faster, and the cost of fuel must be
nearly equal to that of muscle.
Year: 1878

To TAKE RUST OUT OF STEEL.--Plac
the article in a bowl containing kerosene
oil, or wrap the steel up in soft cloth
well saturated with kerosene; let it re-
main twenty-four hours or longer, then
scour the rusty spots with brick.dust, II
badly rusted, use salt with hot vinegar
after securing rinse every particle OF
brickdust or salt off with boiling hot wa.
ter; dry thoroughly, then polish off with
O clean flannel cloth and little sweet oil