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Year: 1878

The powerful force OF the human arm
when propelled by a hale, hearty man,
is almost incredible. The damage it
may infict is simply astounding, and
we have recently had sad but very
striking demonstration of this kind. A
few months since, when man named
Freize hit Andrew Weldner, it is said
that the latter fell as suddenly as if he
had been hit in vital part with an axe.
The bridge of the nose was broken, he
ceased to breathe in less than ten min
utes, and within a quarter of an hour
was dead as though bullet had pene-
trated his heart. 1t is stated that Freize
told an officer that the force of the blow
was SO powerful that he came near fall
ing from the rebound, and when he dis
covered that the man was dead, he could
not realize the fact. We see it stated IN


Virginia paper that one of the cele-
brated Randolph family, near kinsman
of Thomas Jefferson, when in his prime,
could lift thousand pounds. Our
shows and circuses generally exhibit a
man who displays wonderful feats of
strength, but we have rarely OF never
known an instance where single blow
from the human arm SO instantaneously
produced death as that inflicted by
Freize on Weidner. 1t should prove q
sad warning to all possessed of such
muscle, to be extremely guarded as to
when and how they use it.
Year: 1878

Some years ago, as the story goes,
there was great furore raised in the
neighborhood in which the physician
resided about smallpox, which was then
raging fearfully at San Francisco, and
perhaps other places in the State.
Everybody desired to be vaccinated that
had not gone through with the opera
tion, and those who had children we're
desirous to have them vaccinated also.
People applied to the physician in ques-
ton, and he sent to San Francisco for q
quantity of vaccine matter. In the
course of time it came to him inclosed
in wax. He commenced vaccinating,
and in short time hundreds had under
gone the operation. Finally the vaccine
matter was reached, and then the physi-
clan discovered why it was it had not
taken on any of his subjects. He looked
at the matter and smelled it, and then
said "Confound it, the matter is rot
ten ; know now why it didn't take. -
He threw it away. He had vaccinated
all his subjects with wax San Juan
(Cdl.) Times.
Year: 1878

Again, little light Of very early snorn-
ing coming through the shutter revealed
family white figure behind the counter
in the shop, its arms waving to and fro
and its head bending over as though
speaking to a customer. 1 strained my
eyes, but nothing more could 1 make
out than that the head of the figure was
white.


at must be the yeritable Jeuks," l
said to myself !" and that is his night
cap. Where is the carving knife,
thought"


One would have thought the apparition
heard me, for it moved aside, took
something and waved it in the air. 1t
was my shop carving knife.


Presently tne hguAe rose and began 70
ascend the stairs. 1t was hard matter
to stand my ground, but did, and then
1 saw before me Lucy, my wife She
was walking in her sleep. Fearing to
wake her, stood aside to let her pass
and my foot slipped and l fell heavily to
the bottom of the stairs.


Directly all was confusion. Mrs.
Barton, the shopman and our small SER
want ran out of their bedrooms, and
Lucy, awaking, shrieked and tainted.
But I was the worst off. So heavy bad
been my fall that L had actually broken
in the flooring at the foot of the stair
case, and it was with some difficulty that
they extricated me.


Putting my hands behind me, to assist
myself, they touched what seemed to be
a small leather bag. drew it forth.


ga money bag, declare, and full of
coins p


The shopman and the small maid had
retreated, having respect for the pro-
prieties, but my wife and her mother
looked on with astonishment.


"Sure enough, money" I continued,
iingling the contents of the bag. "Why,
there must have been some secret re-
ceptable there, where my venerable pre-
decessor kept his valuables. Here is a
paper. Good gra-. What in the world
is this 2.'


They bent over my shoulder as by the
light of solitary candle read the en-
dorsement, "The Will of Simon jerks. "
it was not in any cover, so we read it at
once. Tt was very short, and was rough
ly drawn and written, as though the
form had been copied. But it was duly
Witnessed AMI was perfectly intelligible.


The testator bequeathed all his proper
ty to Lucy Barton.


When we had drawn breath" very
lucky tumble" I said, and my bruises
are cured already"


The will was proved under coo, ,0OO.-
CaSseUS Magazine.
Year: 1878

The Smithsonian Institute at Wash
ington has just received some Indian
relics from the Florida mounds, among
which is a piece of gold rudely beaten
into representation of the head of a
woodpecker, which is said to be the first
specimen OF gold found among the re-
mains of the aboriginal tribes of Ameri-
ca
Year: 1878

The following is the eloquent conclusion


OF Dean Stanley's sermon preached in New
York and printed in The Tribune: "May
close these remarks by an illustration
which once heard from the lips of rough
seafaring man-one of few survivors of a


great shipwreck which took place some


years ago in the Bay of Biscay As


soon as those who had escaped from the


sinking vessel found themselves in the small


boat in which they had taken refuge, in the


midst of the raging sea, they found their
chief danger came not from the solid mass
i've sweep OF waters, but from the angry


breaking waves which, from time to time
descended upon them, and against which
every eye and hand had to watch with una.


bated attention. As the shades of evening
drew on, so the survivor told me. their
hearts sank at the thought that in the dark
ness of the night it would be impossible to
see those insiduous breakers, aud that sooner
or later they would be caught and ingulfed
by them. But with the darkness there
came corresponding safety. Every one of
these dangerous waves as it rolled towards
them was crested with a phosphorescent
light which showed its coming far off, and
enabled the seamen to guard against it as
carefully as if they had been in the full
light OF day. The spirits of the little crew
revived, and those who, from time to time
the towards and desperadoes among them
were for turning back to the ship, were
guided by these corruscations through the
night, and in the early dawn they caught
view OF distant vessel, by which they were
at last saved. Mark that crest of phosphor-
escent light. On the top of these breaking
pillows is the light of divine grace, the
N IN MOI aata af 1 Al
darkness of this mortal life, and on the
wave Of this troublesome world, our per-
plexities and dangers and grefs bring with
them, or may bring with them, their own
remedy. On each bursting wave of disap-
pointment and vexation there may be the
grace of heavenly light which reveals the
perils, and shows the wave and guides us
through the roaring storm. Out of doubt
may come faith out of grief may come hope,
and to the upright and godly disposed there
rises light from darkness. With each new
temptation there may come way to escape
with each new difficulty there may come
some new explanation As life advances it
does indeed sometimes seem to us as a ves-
sci going to pieces, as though we were only
fragments of a broken ship or of solitary
skitf on the wide waste OF waters, but so long as
our mortal existence lasts we must not give
up the duty of hoping. The sense that kept us
back in youth from all Incorporate gladness
that same good instinct forbids unprofit-
able sadness. We must persevere until the
morning breaks. That speck on the distant
horizon may be the vessel by which we will
shape our course. Forward, not backward,
must we steer. The speck becomes mass
and the mass becomes ship. Have pa
tience and perseverance, and believe that
there is still future before every one, and
so we shall at last reach the haven where
we should meet"
Year: 1878

The plan Of the worlds education lay in tn,


vast mind of the infinite God"


What broad field for thought. When


We walk abroad in the beautiful sunshine


and away over the green fields, everywhere


made lovely with silvery streams and sing


ing birds, words fail TO express our admira


tion of the infinite wisdom of great and
all-wise Creator All the industry of man.
kind is educational both for body and
spirit. This life is only a school-time, and
many are the lessons TO be learned. Every
implement of labor, from the crooked stick
which turned the first furrow TO the latest
improved sewing machine, is an open book
for the education of mankind. Little by
little, step by step, through industrial activ-
ity, great amount of thought growth
and development of mind are produced.
Man asked for bread and cloth, and in get
ting these grew wiser and beAter. The
mills invented to grind the corn, the looms
to weave the cloth, the sewing machines to
make ready for use, do more toward filling
the head than the purse. Man asks only for
the material result. God gives him at the
same time spiritual Development t,-some-
thing he thought not of, Different kinds of
industry have different effects upon the
mind. The phonograph at present, one of
our latest discoveries, yet in its infancy, is
one of the thousand of wonderful things
brous hit to light by great perseverance and
study, from the dark and hidden depths of
natures well-filled chest. The more com
plicated the instrument which the man
learns TO master, the more thought required
therefore the greater power it develops.
We seek after improvements for their ma
terial use, but the all-wise Being uses them
for our spiritual benefit, thus making the
desires and progress of the human mind
serve his infinite designs. 5. NJ. Il.
Year: 1878

SMyTH spent two whole days and nights
in considering an answer to the eonundrum,
Why is an egg underdone like an egg
overdone ?" He would suffer no one 10 tell
him, and at last hit upon the solution--be-
cause both are hardly done.
Year: 1878

GOVERNOR STONE of Mississippi was arrested
recently at Meridian while on his way to the state
capital, and bad to show clean bill OF health be-
fore he could enter hotel proceed on his
journey.
Year: 1878

Having had advices of a COntempla
ted advance OF LUPlN'S FABRICS, es-
pecialiy their Black CashmeIss and
Merinos, we have hastrned 70 make
another very large purchase Of dhese
celebrated goods, so that We may be
able to continue the sale Of them ut our
PAST Low PRICES.


The immense quantities ". handle
give US great facilities in the purchase
of these goods, which leads us to be.
li-ve that there can be 10 successful
competition with us in prices, provi-
ding the goods could be found in this
market.


We have heard much dissatisfaction
expressed Of late by ladies who have
purchased Black Goods in poorly
lighted stores, by finding after they
got them in a strong light that they
were too Blue in color and in
ferior in quality.


Our Black Goods Depart
ment is located in the lightest part
Of our magnifciently.lighted store, so
that ladies may make their selections
with the positive knowledge that the
goods can appear no better in color
or quality at time Of purchase than
when examined with the utmost scru-
tiny at home.
Year: 1878

discount of twenty per cent. will be allowed to clubs of four or more persons Thus four copies of Blackwood of one Review will be sent to one ad- dress for so four copies of the four Reviews and Blackwood for $48, and on.

 To clubs of ten or more, in addition to the above discount copy gratis will be allowed to the getter. up of the club.
Year: 1878

My dear !" she remarked through the tele- phone that ran to her husbands office, s.you ought to be spanked for not changing your shirt this morning" But as her. husband was out at that moment the young book keeper who received the message didn't feel like keeping up the dialogue. # M
Year: 1878

peal the silver bill. This will doubtless be
considered too radical a measure, and &here-
lore It has no prospect of passage; but pro-
position will be made to modify the act so as
TO make all denominations of silver coin sub
sitlary, and 8 legal tender for limited
amount. IL the report which comes here iS
correct, that India is about to adopt the gold
standard, and there seems to be good reason
to believe 1t, the price will decline very much
lower, as then the United States, Mexico
and China would be the only commercial
countries retaining the double standard
1t has been stated here that the Presi-
dent, in his annual message, and the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury, in his report, would re-
commend the repeal absolutely of the silver
bill. But while the President and Secretary
have had but several conferences on this sub
ject, which has also been alluded to In cabinet


meetings. they have come to no such conclu-
sion. But they are agreed upon the point
that there is necessity for further legislation
on the subject and they confidently expect to
mature some plan whereby silver may
be made to facilitate and assist resumption
instead Of embarrassing it, as must be the
case Il the present act remains without modi-
fication. This plan will be submitted to Con
gress at the opening Of the session.
Year: 1878

rock, and though the finder made a
search, he failed to discover any other
portion of the remains. The skull had
probably lain there twelve or fifteen
years, but who it belonged to will proba-
bly, forever remain mystery.
Year: 1878

A TEXAS paper advised its readers to
sell their vacant town lots, and the Gal
weston Nesos hurries in with the sug-
gestion that they may spare themselves
the trouble, as the tax collector will at
tend to all that kind of business in due
season.
Year: 1878

Visitors to the late centennial show,
doubtless remember the hydraulic eleva-
tor that brought them to the upper story
of the buildings to "view the landscape
DER" The same old holster will crawl
up the towers of the rotuuda on the ex.
hibition grounds at Paris, and visitors
can go up by the hundred or two at a
time. The view from the top will take
in the valley of the Seine for miles on
either side, and every prominent build
ing the city will be easily seen.
Year: 1878

THE IMPROTEMENT or OUR COMNERCE


The recently published extracts from the CORE
spondenoe received at the State Department in re-
sponse to AIr. Evartss circular to our Diplomatic
and Consular officers regard to methods of devel-
Oping and enlarging our foreign trade, make
a little collection which is very interesting from
several points of view. The very comprehensive
treatment of various phases of this subject of our
commercial relations by of our ENJOYS and their
discriminating and practical suggestions, prove that
our foreign service might be used to great advantage
in promoting an increased exchange of productions
between this country aud the other nations of the
world, while the empty and pontless dispatches of
other ministers and consuls give mOrtfying
evidence that an American Diplomatist can re-
main quite as ignorant and useless abroad as he
ever was at home. Ii is an instructive study TO
compare the brief paper of Mr.. Osborne, Minister to
Chill. which is hatulent with promises of
what he is going to do, willie containing no sub
stance whatever except an injected stump speech,
with the broad views and exact statements Of q
trained observer like the Hon. Geo. r. Marsh or with
Year: 1878

There seems to be sudden eruption, OF
tidal wave, as it were, of pugilistic State
Senators Out in Ohio, after just sufficient
interval for the mysterious influence to travel
from New-York, worse than Hogan engages
In free fight IN the Senate Chamber itself


The legislative records of Southern frc-eatsrs
will soon be eclipsed at this rate by those Oh
Northern rowdies. The New-York Senate has
NO WAY of furnishing Hogan but as the Ohio
brayl occurred in the very presence OF the
Year: 1878

The revolution in the Board of Directors OF
the Academy of Music is likely to be followed
by a marked innovation upon the morale of
the present management, if the views ex-
pressed in another column by gentleman
who has taken an active part in the move
ment are adopted. Mr.. Musgrave believes
that the stage of the Academy must be thrown
open to other than operate performances, and
indeed. to any proper entertainment which
will help to pay expenses.
Year: 1878

'WouLDs'r it be cad, while We are in
the midst Of all the present talk about
more greenbacks, II the Secretary Of the
Treasury should come out some morning
within the, next month or ak. weeks
and announce the resumption Of specie
payments? he is said TO be contempla.
ting such an announcement. The coin
balance in the Treasury is now about
S2oo0OO0OO and steadily increasing, and
the gold premium hoyers around the
figure as II hesitatins whether or not 10
quite disappear. II we could add the
coin Of the country to the paper would
we not have a volume Of money as fully
adapted 10 the wants Of trade as II we
were to put out a 10. more Of irredeema'
BILE paper2
Year: 1878

We believe THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
was the first newspaper in the country to
divine and map out for publication Ben
BUrLERs more recent political designs.
We predicted several months ago, when
he first began TO make an exhibition
of himself, rs il were, in the POTTER
committee. that he would seek the Gov
ernorship of Massachusetts this year
and the Presidency in lssO and point
ell out as one of his sources of main reliance
the Catholic vote of the country. BY the
Catholic vote we referred to those voters of
the Roman Catholic faith who permit their
devotion to the interests of the Church 10
outweigh all political considerations. BIT
LER was smart enough during and since the
war to become the especial champion of
many Catholic institutions in different Sec
tions of the country, especially in the matter
of obtaining appropriations for them
in Congress. The Boston Pilot, the
leading Catholic organ in Massachusetts,,
now supports him for Governor, aud will,
as matter of course, support him in all Of
his future aspirations.


But we now venture the prediction that
he will fail in his present contest. lie can
not depend upon all of the Catholic vote,
intelligent to be deceived by his demagogi-
cal pretensions of friendship for the Church,
and it is becoming apparent that his candi-
dacy has aroused an unexpected or unusual
interest in political affairs among a class Of
citizens who have never before heen in the
habit of attending the polls The intelli-
gent reader will grasp the situation at once.
KEARNEY's advocacy of BUTLER has
aroused this class of citizens to due sense
of their responsibilities, and the progress
BUTLER has made-or the showing OF pro-
gress-by his petitions has frightened them
with the bare possibility of his success
They have accordingly stepped down from
their positions of exalted and self-suflicient
Indifference to take an active part in the
pending campaign.


Besides this BUTLER has lost much of his
grip upon his former Republican followers
He has declared most emphntically that he
belongs to "no party" and is distinctly
and unequivocally an independent candi-
date in every sense that the word independ-
cnt implies. Ex-Collector SIMMONS is a fair
illustration of the kind of stalwart Repub-
licans who have been driven away from him
by this declaration. At the same time he
has made very little headway with the
Democrats, whose party discipline and strict
adherence to partisan dictalion is more no.
table in Massachusetts, than in any other
State in the Union. In short, BUTLER has
swung himself into the stream with the
current directed Enthusiastically toward the
mouth Of Salt River He has raised the
llag of political piracy over his ship-load of
personal adherents, composed of Kearney
ties and sad mixture of dead-beats aud
political freebooters generally, all of whom
he will land safely and surely on its saline
Year: 1878

II the report be true that BEN BRIsTow
has retired" from public life, the vacuum,
sometimes known by courtesy as the shelf
upon which exhausted statesmen ~ are
supposed to rest in their declining years
will not be crowded to any unusual extent
by the addition to the number of its occu-
pants. grateful and admring country
will DC ready, however, to put up the bars
and prevent his re-entering the walks OF
public life. He has done enough he can
be spared
Year: 1878

DILL, the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor in Pennsylvania is tho son of an
itinemnt Methodist clergyman, and was
known in his youthful days as "thc chee-ild
of the circuit" There Is nothing in this
fact to his discredit on the contrary, it
would commend him to public favor on the
suppositiOn that he has enjoyed careful
moral trimming. 1t seems, however, that he
has gone astray. lie is no longer "the
" chce-ild Of the circuit as aforesaid but
is more of ground and lofty circus man on
the money question than anything else At
any rate he rides both the soft and hard
money horses in the present campaign with
equal facility, and lor a variation occa-
sionally gives flying leap over the rag
money banners, just to illustrate his kindly
regard for the fiat lunatics OF the State.
Seriously, he evidently believes that the
greenbaCk vote is an unknown aud unmeas-
uable quantity in Pennsylvania politics,
II he dared to he would repudiate it and
come out lat-footed for hard-mOney.
Year: 1878

Orr information from the second Con-
gressiOnal district in Virginia is OF the most
gmtiiyiug character. The Republican part y
is being put under thorough and efficient
organization, Our friends are united, har-
monious, and Jealous. Major DEZENDORF,
the Republican nominee, Is very popular
with all classes, and is applying himself
with much energy to the canvass, and
where some detection and lukewarmness
had been anticipated there now appears
TO be the fullest accord of feeling
and concert of action. The Government
officials are IN harmony with the desire for
Republican success, and will do all in their
power consistent with the civil-seryice order
to promote that end. Under such circum-
stances the canvass is exceedingly auspi-
cIOus, and If fair count is secured the de-
feat of GOODE is Inevitable. This point
must be guarded by the most vigilant and
StudiOus care The entire Republican vote
must be rallied in the contest and DEPOSITED
in the ballot-bOX, and then let the enemy,
if he dare, undertake to subvert or stifle
the popular Judgment The Republicans OF
the second district have large legitimate
majority OF the votes, and nothing short OF
the most shameless and bare-iaced frauds
can prevent the election OF Major DEZrN-
DORF The more strenuously the people
contend for their rights the more certain
they are of victory
Year: 1878

CREMATION would not be n reprchensible
custom in any sense in the yellow fever sec
tions of the South. The vapors arising
from consuming bodies might, with proper
chemical preparation be made to serve the
purpose of disinfectnnts in the atmosphere.
Let some Of our scientists look into this
suggestion
Year: 1878

IT is not improbable that the inconve-
nient rainy spell" we are now experience
ing hcreabouts is the immediate ollshoot of
the cold weather early this week west of
the Mississippi which developed itself in
the valley of that river in the form of So
called polar waves, reducing the tempera-
ture of the atmosphere in st. Louis and
other points many degrees. It can do no
harm so long as it brings cooler weather,
and if the humidity of this region is not ex-
tended southwark it may serve to check
the progress of the yellow fever epidemic.
Year: 1878

MORGAN County, Indiana, is cursed with
the presence of an intolerant and BULLDOG
ing gang of Democrats, who furnish on
Northern soil an illuSration of the pro-
scripuye spirit of the Southern White