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Year: 1877

Why is it that the Boston Square
Dealing sell their goods for less mon
ey than any house in Central Mis-
souri,? Because they are connected
with one of the largest wholesale
houses in the north west.


48-3m
Year: 1877

while we are having our streets
macadamized we suggest that notice
be taken of parts of our sidewalks.
The walk from the Ringo House
across the street to the Savings Bank
during muddy weather is in a desper-
ate condition. "A person cannot cross
without wading, and ladies object TO
this. Several other places need atten-
ton.
Year: 1877

The Planning Mill is now in fine
operation and dressing planks ike a
book. They don't like their engine
which is horse power, so they are
going to send it back and get a Is
horse power, also put up more shaft
ing.


This is creditable undertaking
aad we trust it is only stepping
stone to larger and wider fields of
enterprise.
Year: 1877

NEW YORK, April pa sporting
paper says: We are told that the sup
preston of pool selling will lead to a
more csmorous and offensive style OF
betting; that men will fsunt their green
backs in the eyes OF those who occopy
the grand stand at Jerome Park, and
shout their propositions in the cosrsest
kind of language. They will do
nothing Of the kind. A portion of the
park will, in all probability, be set apart
TOR the use of speculstors. Here they
can initiate the msniacs of the stock ex
change, if such Is there pleasure, but as
for making parade themselves IN front
of the grand stand, that will not, or at
least should not be allowed


Already much interest is taken in the
coming race between Ten Brock and
Aristides, and doubtless q strong eastern
delegation will attend the May meeting
of the Louisville jockey club.
Year: 1877

CLEVELAND, April 2S.-On Friday
last a party OF spor,smen from this city,
while cunning slcng the lake shore at
Eucnde village, ten miles east OF here,
found the dead tody OF a man on the
beach. The body was burned on the
back, one leg was broken and the other
had large flesh wound IN it. The head
was perfect and was covered with black
hair, and the face with whiskers. There
was no clothing on the body. They dug q
grave near by and buried it. After the
burial description of the body was told
on the railroad and it was at once recog-
nized rs the body of z. Z. Bliss, OF
Chicago, who was lost on Friday even
ing, December 20, at Ashtabuia, in the
great railroad accident. The theory is
that the body WAS frozen TO cake OF Ice
and carried up the lake to the point
where It was found. Euclide is fifty
miles west of Ashtabula. The body Will
be taken up to morrow and probably
further investigation will be made.
Year: 1877

DAYTON, April 29.-Thls morning, sn
old lady, the mother of Judge Frank,
of the Probate Court. Of this city. was
burned TO death while attempting to light
a fire with coal coil. She was alone at
the time. and when the accident was dis
covered, she was already dead and
burned in horrible manner, part of her
body beng burned to . crisp.
Year: 1877

I feel constrained to say to our people that
the Abbott Concert Troupe pow playing at
the Theatre combines an amount OF supe-
rior talent which our citizens should not
fail to avail themselves Of enjoying. write
this card in the interest OF the public, and
without even suggestion from any source
whatever. Il. L. WHEAT.
Year: 1877

BACK AGAIS.-Eugene O'Sullivan, who
made pathetic appeal to the Police Justice
yesterday morning by letter and counsel,
and who thus secared his discharge from
Jail, where he was confined for drunken
ness, was on yesterday evening again ar
rested, charged with being drunk, disor-
dcrly, and unable to take care Of himself.
Year: 1877

The Temperance Cause.-It is proposed
by one OF the grand officers Of the Sons OF
Temperance who lives in this city to organ
ize division here at an early day. He
thinks that Manchester ought to be able te
keep up at least one white temperance So
ciety .-H
Year: 1877

THE CITY C0MMTTEE.--The last meeting
of the present City Committee will be held
ON Monday night at the Sheriff q Office to
prepare for the election OF o new committee
and to transact other business.
Year: 1877

DiSturbers of the Peace.-Justice Martin
has had several parties before him this week
for disturbing the peace at Granite. Most
of them were colored women, and they
were bound over to keep the peace.
Year: 1877

and had concealed that fact from
the company; third, that the court
below refused to admit in evidence to go to
the Jury the original application for insu-
rance made and signed by the assured, and
referred to in the policy on which suit was
brought as the consideration thereof, said
application having been offered by the de-
fcndant to show the Jury what representa-
tions the assured had made to the company
in order to procure the policy; and fourth,
that the court below erred in refusing to
hear any witnesses or receive any testimony
respecting the Misrepresentation alleged
to have been made rs to the cancer and the
age Of the deceased.


The action of the Court in awarding the
writ Of error does not preiudge any OF the
foregoing questions. 1t is only declara-
ton that the case is one that ought to be
reviewed.
Year: 1877

Yesterdays rain put stop to all work
on the Cool Spring Reservoir. and will
cause much delay, until the ground be-
comes dryer. The laying of the bricks on
the south bank Of the basin will be CON"
pleted to-day If the weather permits. The
east side is now being bricked, and in about
three weeks the north basin is expected to
DO flushed, should the weather remain
clear,
Year: 1877

Charles Reade's clever and manly
chapter on the woman doctors in Edin-
burgh SO pleased divers students of the
Woman's Medical College, of San Jose,
that last winter they wrote him a
little letter of thanks. He has re-
piled in the following characteristic
note:


MY Dear Young LddieS:-Nothing
in the way of comment on my labors
has given me so much pleasure as the
encouraging words Miss White has been
good enough to pen me, and you have
done me the honor to indorse. 1t is
very generous of you; for in your own
persons you owe me nothing; your bat
tie is won without my help. The wom-
en- students of America have encoun-
tered opposition in every form, but have
conquered, thanks to their own forti-
tude and the character of their nation,
which is too brave, chivalrous and Just
to persist in siding with the strong
against the weak, and with clique
against sex. Here it is not so. Your
English sisters are far fewer in num-
ber, and inferior in ability and courage,
and their foes are pig-headed beyond
belief Our medical women need a
champion. Were L twenty years
younger, [ think l could fight the bat
tie out for them. But my age, and an
Intermittent but chronic and most ex-
hausting cough, have made me less able
to sustain long strife than / used to be
Nevertheless, assure you that on read
ing your kind missive l felt young blOoC
glow in my veins, and that [ could die
like Macbeth, with harness on my
back or, like Samson himself, in tht
very act of pulling down some strong
hold of time-honored iniquity. l now
take the privilege of my age, and senC
you my love, as well as my esteem ant
sympathy, and wish you with all m!
heart, health, happiness and success
and the just respect of your fellow-eiti
zens. 1 am, Miss White and ladies
your very faithful servant"
Year: 1877

A lady says in the Western Stock
Journal: No matter what your work
is, the dust will gather upon the hair.
With house-keepers this can be largely
prevented by wearing something over
the hair while sweeping or working
where there is dust in the atmosphere.
A cap made of cambria is as good as
anything to wear, and may be made i'm
this wise: Take square of cambria of
the usual width (three-quarters of 81
yard cut from it as large circle as
possible, turn hem an inch and half
in width all around, stitch it down, and
outside this make another row of stitch
ing, leaving space of one-fourtb of an
inch between the two; into this space
run a piece of elastic cord, and draw up
until it is the right size for YOUR head.
Such a cap is easily made, looks well,
will fit over your hair in whatever
mannerit is dressed, aud will thoroughly
protect it from dust. However, if dust
does, and it will, collect upon the hair,
it can sometimes be removed by brush
ing, but always by washing, provided
we wash it properly. Never use soap
it leaves the hair stiff and unmanage-
able. The same is true of ammonia.
Use the yolk of an egg in teacup, fill
Iu6 cup Will Geplu water, let DOWN J06
hair, shake it out well, and pour on a
little of the egg and water, rubbing the
head briskly meantime; reIeat the pro-
cess until the whole is used If not
enough to wet the hair thoroughly and
to make good lather, use more water
on the head. After rubbing we'll, rinse
the hair well with tepid water, apply
ing little cold water at the last. Dry
it as well as possible with towels, and
if it is long, let it remain down upon
the shoulders until quite dry. There
is no danger of taking cold from this
process if ordinary care is used. For
children who are in school and often
come home with something in their
heads, which you think is scarcely an
idea, yet is certainly animate, a wash
with ammonia and water will destroy
both parasites and their Larvae. Use ten
or fifteen drops of ammonia in a tum-
bier of water, and apply it in the same
manner as directed for washing with
egg. If anything is cruel, it is to take
little curly head between your knees
upon a pillow and rake it through and
through with fine-toothed comb until
the little scalp is red and bleeding. Try
the ammonia cure. and the children
will rise up and call you blessed.
Year: 1877

The VILLAGE TRUTH-IELLER.-It is
worth while now and then to have what
is called the truth told you about your
self. There are times when such truth
telling is of great and immediate SER
vice. But l have noticed that persons
who plume themselves upon speaking
the truth to their neighbors are persons
who really have no special devotion to
truth, but who have, on the other hand,
a passion for making people uneomfort-
able. They do not love their neighbors;
they hate them, Or are Indifferent to
them. With them so-called truth-tell-
ing is merely form of self-indulgence.
How would it do, the next time the viii
lage truth-teller comes around, for you
to tell the truth to him? "Kind friend,
thank thee for telling me that my
daughters manners are rude, and that
my uncle, the parson, should be spoken
to about his method of public prayer,
and that my Sunday -best-gO- to- meeting
stove-pipe hat is two seasons behind the
times; but let me reciprocate thy kind


ness by informing thee that thou art a
selfish old gossip, without enough brains
to perceive the whole truth about any
situation, but only a silly half-truth, or
a miserable distorted truth, which, from
the best of motives, advise thee to keep
to thyself. ."-Scrjbner for July.
Year: 1877

Everybody knows that mob is a
coarse, fierce, and inscriptions wild
beast, for the time being, and as such
must be dealt with. But how are we to
characterize without doing wild beasts
injustice) the mob at Pittsburg, which
actually carried coffin to the house of
General Pearson, and told Mrs. Pearson
that they intended to kill her husband
and put him into it? She was there
with her children, her mother and her
sister, and with no protection. No
wonder her hair grew white in single
night. 1t is curious that these mob
characteristics should be always the
same.-N Y. Tribune.
Year: 1877

RHEUMATISM AMONG FARMERS.
There is a g cat deal ofcareless-
ness generally among farmers
with regard even to ordinary
precautions for the preservation
of their health, and Yet after all,
there is scarcely any class to
whom sickness or disease is more
irksCmc and inconvenient
Rheumatism is frequent among
them because they wear wet


lothing, heat and suddenly chill
the body, oyer-eat after very
hard work, and bccausc they do
not keep the skin in a healthy
condition. If farmers would
avoid suddenly cooling the Lody
after. great eSertion, if they
would he careful not to go with
wet clothing anu wet feet, and
if they would not over-eat when
in an exhausted condition, and
bathe daily. using much friction,
they would have less rheuma-
tiSm.
Year: 1877

There is a good deal of sar-
casm as we'll as sadness in the
letter which a minister wrote to
the Home Board, after the hint
that if he should happen to find
another field of labor, his con-
gregation would give him a good
send off in the way of a set of
resolutions. He says: 81 have
been guilty Of one thing for
which the church will not for
give me; l have grown old" We
don't treat our superanuated
clergymen as well as we do an
old horse. If the horse has
served us many years, we either
mercifully knock him IN the
head to save him the pain of
knowing he has outllved his USE
fulness, or else take off his shoes
and turn him out to pasture, let
ting him die in clover. But
y-haired ministers become
book agents, work that is
closely allied to suicide, and rem
ders the temptations to get out of
life almost irresistible. The
great shame Of the church is its
neglect of some of its most
faithful servants.
Year: 1877

Charity and also a sound judg-
ment remind us that if the same
temptations which have tripped
our neighbors should assail us,
we also might fail. 1t Is a
greedy appetite which picks the
bone OF q new scandal for an
other 1norsel. 1t is not neces-
sary to extenuate q fault because
you are pitiful toward the man
who commits it. 1t is better to
be blind than to have eyes that
are continually hunting for some
ones weakness, and better to be
dumb than to be constantly ex-
patiating On the moral disaster
which has just befallen a former
friend.
Year: 1877

Of public opin--, -


tive guilt. 1t was harder to
move into a small house and
openly enter upon an incisive
1etrenchment than to run the
risk of forgery. The inevitable
logic Of law overlook him, and
he is now paying the penalty of
mis- weakness. From such a dis.
aster young men ought to re-
ceive a timely warning. 1t is
better to be poor than be guilty;
better to live within your means
and lose, if need be, the friendly
nod Of those who lift their hats
to the capital rather than to the
character you represent, than to
spend money which is not yoar
own, and finally end your career
in disgrace, leaving a b!otted
name to those who love you.
Honesty and manliness are al
ways triumphant in the end.
Year: 1877

If you must form harsh judg-
ments, form them of yourself, not
of others, and in general begin by
attending to your own deficiencies
first. If every one would sweep up
his own walk, we should have very
clean streets.
Year: 1877

A BEAUTIFUL TH)UaHr.-Io1


knows what keys in the human
soul to touch, in order to draw
out its sweeter and more perfect
harmonies. They may be the
minor strains of sadness and sor-
row; they may be the loftier
notes Of joy and gladness. God
knows where the melodies of our
natures are, and what discipline
will bring them forth. Some
with plaintive tongues must walk
in lowly wales Of life's weary
way; others IN loftier hyms sing
Of nothing but joys, as they
tread the mountain tops Of life:
but they all unite without dis
cord OF jar as the ascending an
them of loving and believing
hearts finds it's way into the
chorus Of the redeemed heaven.
Year: 1877

We have adopted the Priu-
ciple Of Large Sales and Small
Profits, the paying Of which
is fully demonstrated by the
fact that we are always busy.
We invite consumers to call
and give us a trial order, and
judge for themselves that
they can save from 90 to 80
per cent.
Year: 1877

THOSE of Commodore Vanderbilt s
heirs who are trying to break his will
are trying to prove in court that the
old man was insane in his later years
Daniel Drew and other heavy stock
operators in Wall street, who were per-
iodically "cleaned out" and "swamped"
by the sharp tactics of the Commodore,
would not be helpful witnesses for the
plaintiffs in this case.
Year: 1877




All the revelations Of science go to
demonstrate the unity Of creation, and


the arrangement Of its various king


doms into an organic whole, with in


termediate gradations, by which one


kingdom passes insensibly to another.
The human frame itself is composed of
organisms of various degrees of fine
ness, from the delicate substances of
the brain down to hard and almost


lifeless bone, and they are interviewer
one with another in the most marvel
Gus manner. All animals are like men
in structure and physiological iunc-
tions. Vegetables resemble animals
in various respects. They have in
modified way an arrangement Of parts,
and digestion, circulation and respi-
ration like that of animals. Minerals
spontaneously crystalline into forms
emulating those Of vegetables. They
make up the substances Of vegetable
matter, and through It help to compose
the animal frame. Nor was II an al-
together unreasonable fancy which
saw in this great globe itself, with its
ceaseless motion and fux and rcfux of
forces, a living animal. The cvapora-
ton OF its waters, their descent in snow
and rain, and their return in countless
brooks and rivers TO the ocean, are the
circulation of It's blood the winds that
sweep over it are its breath of life;
and the silent decay and renewal
which go on upon It's surface its waste
and digestion. The distinction, again,
between solids, liquids and gases is one
of degree, and not Of kind. A little
more or a little less heat is all that
makes the difference between them,
and matter is constantly passing from
one OF these forms into another. The
forces of nature, too, we now know 10
be but notifications of one common
fcrce--hcat, light, electricity, magnet
ism and chemical affinity being mutu-
ally interconvertible. The waves of
air which produce sound are paralleled
on the one side by the circles which a
stone makes when thrown into still
water, and on the other by the vibra.
tions of an invisible medium which
reaches to the stars, and constitutes
the vehicle Of light. The phenomena
of electricity, magnetism and gravita-
ton point 10 the existence Of yet
subtle fluid, the characteristics Of which
are still undiscovered Since, therefore,
the whole universe, as seen by the aid
OF science, reveals common plan, it is
unreasonable to draw the line at par.
ticular point and say that here that
plan ends and something distinctly diff
ferent begins its sway. Is IT not more
philosophical to conclude that the
world beyond the grasp Of the physi.
cal senses resembles that within it,
that the soul is like the body in con.
struction and operation, and that II is
affected by agencies similar to those
by which the body is affected, than TO
suppose everything OF q spiritual na-
turc to be so completely Disseminated
from the rest OF creation that we can
form no conception Of it2-North Amer
iodn ReuieD.
Year: 1877

ther has laid down. The tide of the
nineteenth century will soon sweep
away tho structure Of church and
State that Brigham Young had reared
upon sand and the great Mormon
temple at Salt Lake will soon be q rec.
ord of faith as dead as that Of tho
Sphinx, the Mcmnon or the Parthenon.


But the time must come sooner than
that when those who believed in Brig
ham Young will hook back and won
der at their own blindness and folly !;
they will see blm as he was, no longer
prophet and saint surrounded by a
holy radiance and purity, but a cruel,
grasping, bloody, ldstful tyrant, who
made their lives delusions that he
might feed fat his own pampered per-
sonality. Better, perhaps, the fate of
those who died in their faith than
those who live to see through its cheap
and vulgar imposturc. alQii aiDgsl
Year: 1877

THEY HAVE LOST The UATTLE ....
for the State government, and if
they are friends Of the people they
will Immediately withdraw from q
position that increasingly aggravatos
the misfortunes of that distracted
country. am informed that the
committee that waited upon the
President yesterday urged that if
the Administration would recognize
Chamberlain as governor they could
reorganize the Republican party in
South Carolina and win tho next
election two years hence This is
oil sawtlust and delusion. Reor-
ganize the party-with whom 2
Democrats7 No Democrat of any
influence would dare enter into such
a scheme. And the full Republican
vote was polled at the last election.
A careful examination Of this novel
proposition thrust upon the Presi-
dent would disclose the whole secret
of this committee insisting upon
the recognition of Chamberlain.
There is, s.


ga.,.h.,t ONLY ONE WAY
the Republicans can carry the next
Year: 1877

A most horrible crime was committed
in New Jersey on Tuesday, and yet the
Republican does not call for Federal in
reference; nor is Mr.. Evarts yet expect
ed to write letter upon the subject
whether it will be turned over to Gen.
Devens is not now stated; but if it had
been done to negro citizens in the South
whole regiment of soldiers would have
been called for by our Republican neigh
Dor. And yet the people are of one
blood. Now our neighbors of Newark
N, j., we have no doubt, will deal witt
the rascals as they deserve, and will
scorn any attempt of the Federal power:
to interfere or dictate to them what they
shall do or not do in the matter.
Year: 1877

WHEN the Democrats had control of
the water works they were able to fill
the city basins in seven hours, at any
time, by the use of the Worthington
pump. 1t therefore looks like forcing
matters to be parading before the public
so frequently the number of gallons of
water consumed as an excuse for finish
ing the new city reservoir. The people
can't be made to believe that the Brandy
wine or the River Delaware will dry up ;
and while there is pumping capacity for
filling all the basins with water four
times day, without stopping the consul
mers one moment, these assertions only
amount to words. Our great water sup
ply is in the three streams, while the ba-
sins and pipes contain only about enough
for but two days; which with economy
could be extended to three or four days
whenever an emergency required. To
do this citizens who have water in their
second and third stories might be requir-
ed to desist from using it so copiously for
the time being. No one would be much
injured by living on consumption of a
gallon or two of water per day for a
week once in perhaps life time, should
necessity require it. About 80 gallons


we believe is now the daily average con-
sumption, counting our population at
forty thousand.
Year: 1877

A SUPPLEMENTARY STATEMENT FROM
Boss TwEED.-It is now stated that Boss
Tweed has consented to amend his so.
called confession by supplementing it
with such specifications and details as
will enable the attorney general to pro-
ceed with certainty against the various
public plunder. This supplement il
now in course OF preparation, under the
supervision of his counsel, and the re-
suit nov will be Tweeo's release in the
course of a few days.
Year: 1877

Several mica m nave been discovered
in Nevada within the isst two or three
years, but in consequence "a the low price
of the mineral in commercial circles, they
have not been worked to any extent. Now
the article is in greater demand, particu-
larly by reason Of large orders from China,
and much activity prevails.


The olive tree, like the orange and
lemon, is readily grown in California.
Heretofore it has been cultivated more for
it's foliage than anything else, and its fruit
has been allowed to wither and go to waste.
Within year parties have been utilizing
the fruit by manufacturing it into oil.
Some of this oil has been put into the
market and it has found a ready sale.
It is of bright, rich color, and, if
not equal to the pure imported Lucca
oil, it is superior to most Of the olive oil
sold.