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Year: 1878

DoN'T yon wish you knew what you
could get that would cure that fever and
ague which has fastened itself on you and
is almost shaking the life out ofyou2 Just
get bottle of Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic.
Take wine-glass full three times day
and you will find that it will subdue the
most obstinate. 1t is unfailing in its effects,
pleasant wholesome and agreeable, and
its purity is guaranteed.
Year: 1878

THE article in to-day's LEDGER on
municipal corporations contains an
array of legal opinions and decisions
which possesses unusual interest at
this time, when many citizens incline
to the view that repeal Of the city
charter is the only way out of our
financial troubles The article is full
of legal points and information. We
commend it to those who are giving
their attention to this subject.
Year: 1878

San Francisco Letter to New York Times.l


Among those who seem to have
risen on the wave of circumstance
may mention Senator John I. Jones,
with whom, if reports are true, things
had gone somewhat rough latterly. 1t
is stated that he held nearly 5000
shares of Sierra Nevada, acquired long
ago at trifing cost, and, having been
miner himself, knew how it might be,
and sold every share at high prices !;
result, sudden advance in Jones
stock and plethoric bank account 60
the tune Of a million. Then, as if
Dame Fortunes smile extended to
broad grin, a mine the senator once
on time paid a big price for, situated
somewhere in Kern county, which
went wrong, and in which he reversed
the accepted idea of mining by sink
ing money in sinking shafts and run
ming tunnels, has concluded to reward
perseverance and persistent energy by
turning up rich again, far surprising
the most hopeful expectations In his
list of available he had set it down as
the worst-virtually valueless, repre-
sented by six ciphers not Tilden
kind, but round ones. He can now
put the little fguer / before them and
count another million as good as in a
bank, and no man should envy him
his good luck, for the senator is pro-
verbally one of the most liberal, gen
erous, whole-souled men of our coast,
and it does one good to chronicle such
instances Of virtue rewarded In the
expectation that they may continue
and be oxemplifed in the case Of youl
modest correspondent, in view Of
the possibility of such an example
of lightning-rods, and no agent need
therefore. apply.
Year: 1878

The money drawer of the Office of
the GAINESVILLE Recorder was robbed
a Few days ago. 1t is believed the
thief is safe in Canada, or that he took
one cf the outgoing European steam
,ers All the detectives have been
taken from the Stewart remains case,
and put upon the track Of the rob-
her, Peck's Sun.
Year: 1878

Senator Stanley Matthews, of Ohio,
a gentleman, scholar, and friend of
an equitable distribution Of the aid
and influence Of the general govern
ment, is seriously spoken of as a prob
able successor of Attorney-General
Owens, whom rumor has it, will soon
be translated to the United States
circuit bench. Mr.. Matthews would
certainly be q broad improvement
upon the present incumbent in the
department of justice, and the South
could have nothing to lose and much
to hope for by such a consummation.
In Cincinnati where he is best known,
as a lawyer and as a citizen of good
purposes in general, he stands highly
among all classes and conditions of re-
putable society Helena World.
Year: 1878

The work Of conciliat:ng Southern


rebels is not unlike reforming drunk
ards-it has to be done over and
over again. Every temptation they
have to slop over they are sure to do
it. Ben Hill is the latest prominent
Year: 1878

The horses on the Philadelphia
railways are not fed with oats, chop
ped corn and hay being found to be
more desirable fodder. They fatten
more rapidly on this food, which it
is said gives them greater strength
and endurance than any other. The
cost, too, Of corn is much leas than
oats. Fifty years ago the principal
food for work horses was cut straw
and bran, mixed and moistened, with
the addition of corn in the ear.
Year: 1878

Has the Democratic party chang
ed its poicy since it was driven from
power by the command of the people
eighteen years ago? If SO, when
did that change take place? 1t is
not the same to-day as it was under
the lead of Buchanan? And, un-
changed as it is, can the people safe
ly trust it now with the rains of
Government?
Year: 1878

The last great burglary in Balti-
more was remarkably skilful and
successful crime. The burglars
dug through brick wall into a
jewelry store at night. The safe
containing the most valuable part
of the stock was on q platform,
fully exposed to sight from the
street, and with gas burning bright
ly. A screen was placed in front Of
it, and the burglars thus worked
undetected, while confederate in
the street was ready to give warn
ing of danger by jerking o string.
Compact but powerful machinery
afterward abandoned, was used in
breaking the door of the safe
Watches and diamonds worth $780,
600 were carried away.
Year: 1878

bSF0o dn WulG9 Man
Makes O Full Confession.


The Chester Reporter of the Oath
instant contains tho confession of
John Smith, who was sentenced by
Judge Mackey to be hung for the


murder of Bergen Conger, commit
ted on the 28th of December last.
The following are the principal
points Of the confession


"My name is not John Smith, but
Lon Mooring. I am twenty-eight
years old and was born near
Raleigh, N. c., and remained there
until 1870. I came down to Ches-
ter on Christmas day. I walked
through town, until I got to where
the dirt road crosses the railroad
some distance above the depot
(near j. l.. Carroll's store); there I
met the man. He asked me about
Chester whether there was any
work to be had here. He asked me
where was the hotel I told him
thore was hotel up town, that
charged two dollars and half day.
He asked mo if there was cheap
boarding. house in town. I told
him there was one farther down the
railroad. We walked on together
down the railroad, until we got
about two hundred yards below the
depot There I struck him on the
back of the head with heavy stick.
He fell to the ground, and then
made an attempt to riso and said,
'Pleaso don't kill me-. T struck him
again several times, and he never
spoke again did not put his body
on the railroad track ho fell across
tho track. My object was to got
his money. I took his pocket-book
from his pocket I found in the
pocket-!oool eleven dollars and Il
quarter, and q paper of needles. I
also took a razor from one of his
pockets. After I robbed him I
went down the railroad, jumped off
the bank and threw my stick into
little pond. I took the money from
the pocket book and then threw the
pocket-book and the razor over the
fence into the branch. T have
never killed OF tried to kill anybody
before this havo never robbed any
body or tried to rob. I did this
because was tired travelling, and
was hungry and had no money. 7
nm very sorry for what I have done.
l know I deserve death and will
try to spend the fow days I have in
preparing for it"
Year: 1878

Golden Medical Discovery
Is Alternative. or blood cleansing.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Pectoral.
Golden Medical Discovery
Is q Cholagogue, or Liver Stimulant.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Tonic.
Golden Medical Discovery
Year: 1878




Tomorrow never comes to us


We do not live in tomorrow. We


do not find it in any title deed


The man who owns the whole
blocks of real estate and the great
ships on the sea does not own a sin
gle minute of tomorrow! 1t is a
mysterious possibility not yet born.
1t lies under the seal of midnight,
behind the veil of glittering constel
lations.


Enjoy the present, whatever it
may be, and be not solicitous of the
future; if you take your foot from
your present standing, and thrust it
forward to tomorrow event, you
are in restless condition. 1t is
like refusing TO quench your thirst
by fearing you should want, your
sorrow will come time enough,
though you do not hasten it. Let
your trouble tarry till its own day
comes. Enjoy blessings if God
sends them, and the evils of it bear
and sweetly for this day
is ours.


We are dead to yesterday, and
not yet born to to morrow.
Year: 1878

Can anyone, after reading the fol
lowing, plead that he is too poor to
take a paper, that he cannot afford
it; II costs less than half a cent a
day TO take q weekly paper; less
than e diligent hen would earn in a
month at the market price OF eggs
less than a cigar q fortnight and a
very cheap one at that; less than
the barber would charge by the
year to get ones hair trimmed /;
less than good sized Christmas
turkeys; less than an energetic
kitchen girl will waste in a week.
A penny a day can be saved in
many a better way than stopping
your paper.-BGHneT.
Year: 1878

The united Hebrew charities OF
New York expend $4,000 annually
for the support of the poor. Mayor
Ely recently made the statement
that while the Jews form fourteen
per cent, of the population Of that
city shey contribute less than one
per cent, TO the criminal classes.
Out of 5000 persons in the various
public institutions, only thirty
three are Jews. There is a common
opinion that the jew possesses the
magic art of securing wealth, but it
will be found that the only secret of
his prosperity consists in his "geni-
us for patience, courage, diligence,
economy and consecration of earn
lngs to the comfort and elevation OF
his family" 1t is a secret with
which il would be well for the rest
OF us to become more familiar.
Year: 1878

An editor is the happiest being
ON earth. He has little or nothing
to do, and his pay is all that his


heart could wish. His sanctum,


with its Persian rugs and Turkish
carpets, its costly rosewood furni-
ture, its magnificent mirrors, its


beautiful pictures, its complete Ii


orary of splendidly- bound books,
it's silver bell to summon an attend
ant, and, in short, with its every
thing that human ingenuity can de-
wise for his comfort and pleasure, is
perfect little paradise, where he
sits or lounges and reigns a young
lord, with the world of fashion and
pleasure at his feet. And then
anybody can be an editor-no
study, no preparation, no brains,
nothing but a little money to start
with, and once started the money
pours in upon you in a constant
stream, and the chief labor of your
wife is to spend it. AS for the la
Dor of editing q newspaper, that is
mere moonshine. A mere glance at
the columns of a newspaper is
enough to convince you that it re
quires no labor to edit it, and less
brains. 1t is certainly glorious
life, that of an editor; a life OF lux
urious ease and of elegant leisure
life filed, like that of the young
lover in his first dream of requited
love, with flutes and rose leaves and
moonbeams. That all men are not
editors IS one OF the strangest
things beneath the stars. True,
there must be doctors and lawyers
and merchants and shoemakers and
peanut dealers and the like, and all
these callings must be filled by
somebody, but there are enough to
fill them, and why they don't be
come editors and lead the life of
opulent princes is a thing that stag
gers US. But after all, it may be
that is a mere matter of taste. 1t
may be repugnant to some natures
to become editors. The life of
ease and elegance and luxury, and
exemption from all care and tolls
and debts and duns, would soon be-
come a bore to him, and he would
spend his nights in dreaming OF
plOughs and pitchforks and reaping
machines, and squander his days in
devising some plan for swapping
places with a blacksmith's appren-
tice or a street car driver.-IC. j.
Year: 1878

1t is generally believed that we


laugh because we are happy. This


Is, however, not at all the case; and


the error is perhaps thus explained


that we certainly have a feeling of
joy while laughing, but this is more


likely the consequence than the


cause of laughter. One is happy


because one has a reason for laugh


ing: the reason of the laugh itself


lies, however, in the contrast be-


tween our conception OF an event


and the perception of it when it


occurs. The greater the contrast


the more we are invited to laughter.
The simple circumstance of our be


ing happy will never make us laugh.
Let some one receive a sum of
money, upon the receipt of which
much depends, hewIll certainly re-
joice, but not laugh, at that event.


That sad people laugh more rare
ly and are less easily moved to it
than gay ones, lies alone in this.
that the lively places of the intel
lectual powers in the former are ma
terially impaired through that which
is the cause of their sadness, while
the free and untrammeled spirit of
the untroubled condition, are more
inclined to perceive the contrasts
In the well known joke,
where one Of two children who are
about the advantages Of
their respective parents, having ex-
hausted his arguments, cries out at
last, Eyes, but my father has
mortgage on his property" we have
not the least cause for joy; but the
that some one could |
as an advantage the having !
a mortgage on a piece of property |
contrasts so strongly with our con |
;eption OF it that we laugh. In the |
'oIlowing joke we may always be |
moved to sadness-but we still
augh, for here the boy says: "Yes.
O-morrow my Grandmother will be
buried and not yours"


Ii the heartiness and frequency OF
aughter were the proof of frequent
iod great happiness, it would fol
ow from the saying of Jesus Sirach,
"A tool liiteth up his voice with
aughter, but wise man snail scarce
augh secretly" that the fool oltener
ejoices, and therefore in u certain
ense is happier than wise man.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you sec around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scripiion is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up ut once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit TO our friends and patrons. but
cash alone will yay our expenses, ana
we are forced to adhere 70 a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor


ES- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance
Year: 1878

Dallas TEX. Commercial: Those
who saw the play Ingomar'the othe-
evening remember how the fair
Parthenia took from the nerveless
grasp OF the fierce barbarian chief
the sword which he had sworn by
all the gods he would never give up.


That is the way the queen Of the
lobby comes it over the great Amer
lean statesmen at Washington.
She just gets her willowy arms
around them and smiles and speaks
in a soft, sweet voice, and 10, their
strength is all gone. They would
vote away the kingdom If she said SO.
Year: 1878

Some idea Of the enormous ex-
pense of the city government Of
New York may be guessed from the
fact that its judicial department last
year cost three times as much as
did the whole judicial system OF
the United States. The annual cost
of the whole foreign intercourse OF
the nation is but 1929, ,759. SO,
which is about the est of the judi
ciary of New York city.
Year: 1878

1t has been remarked that very few
men who get into journalism start out
with such intentions. They drift in ac-
eidentally and are prompt as they de-
velop capacity. Money, wealthy par
ents and influence are of no sort of SER
vice in getting young man a place on
newspaper. There is no business that
is SO entirely independent of these con-
siderations as this. A wealthy farmer
can easily get his son location to read
law, medicine, or push him forward in
almost any rank of life he may select;
but he is utterly powerless to do any,
thing for him in journalistic way. To
be sure he may buy newspaper, and
set him up in that way, but unless there
is something in him called Journalistic
knack," natural knowledge of what to
write and how to write it, he will be a
failure in that line, and all the money
and influence of wealth and perhaps
powerful relatives will count for moth
ing. Some fond parents educate their
sons with the special view of making
journalists of them; but it is rare that
we hear of these young men after few
years. Meanwhile, some youth born
! among our hills, having nothing more
than a common school education, and
the knowledge scraped up in a country
printing office, will advance to the front
rank in the profession. He has the
journalistic knack, and forces recogni-
ton because he has it. He gets into n
good position not because he has wealthy
parents to influence the proprietors of
leading newspapers, but because he
knows what to write and how to write
it. His articles go in because they
supply demand while perhaps the
elaborate essays of man educated on
the continent are cast into the waste
| basket.
Year: 1878

NEAR Foochow, China, is Buddhist
monastery wherein dwells priest who
probably never heard of the noble Ro-
M an, Mucius Seaevola, and a certain
Lars Porsena, of Clusium. But this.
Buddhist priest has burned one of his
fingers down to the second joint in the
fame of candle, as an act of devotion,
and q report is circulated in Foochow
that be will make yearly sacrifice of a
finger, and finally by the same process
of incline ration destroy both arms as far
as the elbow joint. Somebody from the
Herald (FoOcbow) Office paid the priest a
visit, and came away satisfied that a
ligature had been used in the process,
although not long enough before the
operation to produce gangrene. He was
unable to obtain any direct answer as to
the yearly sacrifice, but understood the
priest to disclaim the honor of such in
tentions. Disease has already taken sight
from one of the poor fellows eyes, and
is likely to take it from the other.
Year: 1878

Rev. DIR. BARToL, of Boston, who
came as near being struck by lightning
as it was possible and escape, has written
an account of the sensation. He says its
suddenness beyond conception is the
marked property. cit gives no time for
fear, or even surprise, and the self-loss
does not sppreciably last. If the blow
be not fatal the restoration may be so
ouick that in less than minutes time
horses and cows and pigs and men, es-
caping or delivered, swarm together,
under the flash and tempest, on the
greensward. A resistless weight, steam
ing and crowding through the frame, is
the consciousness I chiefly remember,
with the idea that had been chosen as
part of the lightningrod for huge and
incompatible discharge. The experience
was, moreover, single moment in won
der-land. All customs and institutions
were abolished for a time. In such a
passage as / was allowed to stand in for
a moment death becomes nothing and
life is all, but wakeful night and a
weeks headache were the result"
Year: 1878

Miss Lucy A. Osborne, of New Mil
ford, Conn.,, whose scalp, right ear, and
part of the right cheek were torn off in
September, 1874, by machinery in which
her hair caught, and who mas since been
at New York hospital, is now at home.
A new scalp has grown upon her head
by the grating thereon of minute bits
of skin. The pieces were contributed
from the arms of the hospital surgeons.
The total number of pieces used in this
operation was twelve thousand. One of
the surgeons contributed from his per-
son one thousand two hundred and two
pieces, and another gave eight hundred
and sixty-fve. The appearance of the
scalp now is similar to that of healed
wound. OF course, there can be no
growth of hair thereon. The eyes still
present slightly drawn appearance,
The wounds of the cheek and ear have
been neatly dressed, the former leaving
| scarcely scar. In the first of the graft
ing process bits of skin the size of nickel
pieces were employed, but not with
| good success, and, at the suggestion OF
an English surgeon, much smaller pieces
were substituted, and with excellent re.
suits. Miss Osborne is now twenty-five
years old.
Year: 1878

EXPERIMENTS are being made by the
Government of New Zealand with a
view TO acclimatizing the English hum
blebee. The object is to assist the New
Zealand agriculturists in cultivating
their fields of clover. Common bees are
not strong enough to force their way into
the petals of the clover flower, and thus
fertilize the plants as they fly from one
to another. For this purpose, therefore,
the humblebee is needed; but so far the
nests sent out have been destroyed. At
tempts to acclimatize the common bee in
some hot climates have so far proved
useless. After short period they quit
the hives and cannot he entiCed back.
Year: 1878

TRAvrLErs complain that since the
Italian Government has occupied Rome
as its capital, the ancient city is losing
picturesque antiquities and is being
transformed into bad imitation of a
modern town. From the new quarter
around the railway station to the royal
family all is in bad taste to artists eyes.
Their treasures are removed and their
views destroyed, and they curse the
white stone and red brick that the new
occupants are building on all sides.
Year: 1878

The Mohammedans are very super
stitious touching the beard. They bury
the hairs which come off in combing it,
and break them FIRST, because they be-
lieve that angels have charge of every
hair, and that they gain them their dis
missal by breaking it. Selim was the
first Sultan who shaved his beard, con-
trary to the law of the Koran. al do
it," said he apologetically to the scan
dalized and orthodox multi, "to prevent
my vizier leading me by it." He cared
less for il than some of our ancestors,
two centuries ago, did for their own.
They used to wear pasteboard covers
over them in the night, lest they should
turn upon them and rumple them in
their sleep.
Year: 1878

WHEN the Scraps last set sail for
India Captain Warren had her bottom
thoroughly coated with paper, applied
by means Of cement OF his own devils
ing. After making the voyage and lying
in the dock for three months the bottom
remained free from marine incrusta-
tions, except in few places where the
paper had been rubbed off. As the ma
terial is very cheap, and the method of
its application is simple, the discovery is
likely 10 revolutionize marine construc-
tion in at least this detail.
Year: 1878

Dark red and marine blue is one of
the odd combinations of colors worn
this season, and old gold and pale pink
is another.


Monograms are in favor again, and are
embroidered on slippers, collars, hand
kerchiefs, mitts and parasols, in the gay
est colors.


A new style of bracelet is made of
delicate flexible spirals of gold in one
continuous piece, and so arranged that
it will fit any arm.


A pretty bracelet for young girl is a
slender band of gold with a small palm
leaf on the top, made of diamonds and
turquoises.


A novelty among underwear for gen.
tlemen is the filet shirt.


Old-fashioned maierita red is to be
the fashionable shade for the new fall
goods.


Ladies' coaching parasols are made of
cardinal satin, and edged off with deep
white lace.


Handkerchiefs for ladies' and gentle
mems wear are plain hemstitched, with
polka-dot centers.


Ostrich feathers will be more used
this winter than they have for years
past, and now is the time for ladies to
invest in them when they are so low
priced.


New chatelaines consist of pieces of
ivory bound with silver, and linked to.
gether.
Year: 1878

The man who invented shoes with
the French heel did it to avenge an
injury done him by a handsome wo-
man. She Tilted him, and since then
his hatred of the sex has really no
bounds.
Year: 1878

tell you what | have seen and felt.
There are plenty of them here in town
who can tell you a worse story than this
One thing more l will say, the pretended
efforts of the police officials to stop
gambling are nothing but sham. l
know how it is and have seen it. The
gamblers have it all their own way"


THIS ended the story. The young man
who told it lives here in the city, and is
well-known both to the gamblers and
the employees of prominent dry goods
house
Year: 1878

The father who has the welfare of
his children completely at heart, will
see to it that his boy does not grow up
to talk through his nose and sell
matches in market. Words of gold are
not scrambled after if they come
loaded down with nasal twang that
makes the tympanum want to put up
| the shutters.