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Year: 1878

From the Pottstown pal Ledger, March 81


The United States Senate Committee on Commerce.
has agreed report bill providing for compliance
with the request Of tho proprietor of the HERALD that
his steamship the Pandora, be allowed to sail under
the American dag in the Arctic expedition which
he is fitting 1t Is proposed, also, that the gov
ernment shall detail naval officers for service
vessel during her Polar cruise. II the proprietor o
the HERALD rs as successful in this effort ht
was in piercing the wiids Of Africa with the expedi.
ton under Mr. Stanley he may again astonIsh the
world with discoveries. The endeavor 10 triumph
the difficulties that soem TO bar the way 10
the North Pole. and traverse the regions OF Ice, and
the opcn Polar seas" OF thas unexpiored portion Of
tho globe, has been the dream OF navigators and
scientists tor the past century or more and II tbe In
domitabe enterprise OF the proprietor Of the HERALD
accomplish the great undertaking he Will add
laurois to hs fame ana do tho world service. We
hope tho United States government will render him
every assistance that can tend 10 make his Polar
pedtiOn a
Year: 1878

A German has just discovered process,


which he has patented, and by which he
claims to be able to preserve coffee in all its
perfection, and at the same time to render it
more portable and unalterable for length of
time. To effect his object he subjects the
freshly roasted and ground coffee to press
ure of from 40 to 70 atmospheres (33 pounds
to the square inch each) in suitable cast iron
molds. The coffee is thus made into cakes,
and comes into the market in form resem-
blig chocolate, divided like the latter by lines,
to facilitate breaking into pieces of suitable
size for use. The interior surface of the
mold is highly polished, by which means the
outer crust of the compressed coffee is made
sufficiently smooth and hard to prevent the
tendency of the ethereal oil of the berry to
escape from the interior of the cakes. The
volume of the coffee thus prepared is reduced
to less than one-third of that of the original
The inventor claims that the operation does
not in the least affect the good qualities of
the article, and that it can be packed and
in tin-foil, or otherwise, preserv-
ing its aroma indefinitely.
Year: 1878

The question, ''Is the Moon Dead?" is ably,
thoug gh somewhat elaboratelely, discussed by
Mr. Proctor, of the London Echo. Although
the idea that so vast a surface as that of the
moon should remain forever q scene of abso-
lutte silence and desolation seems almost be-
yond belief, Mr.. Proctor does not consider
that any satisfactory evidence of change (from
her original condition) has ever been given,
while evidence of such systematic changes as
associate with the evidence of life are want
ing altogether. In several regions the crust
has been broken, evidently by explosive action.
In some places mighty slopes can be seen, as
in the Sea of Serenity, which is divided
through the center by sort of ridge line.
Some astronomers have contended that the
darkening of the floor of the great crater,
Plato (some sixty miles in diameter), proved
the existence of vegetation in some from,
while others declared that the supposed dark
ening is only the effect of contrast. The pho
tographs of the moon taken many years ago
exhibit the same outward appearance as now
Year: 1878


Say, is your lamp burning, my brother?
pray you look quickly and gee;
For if it were burning, then surely
Some beams would fall brightly upon me-
Straight, straight is the road but falter,
And oft ehall fall by the way.
Then lift your lamp higher, my brother,
Lest should make fatal delay.
There are many and many around you,
Who follow wherever you go.
If yOu thought that they walked in the shadow,
Your lamp would burn brightly, l know.
Upon the dark mountains they stumble,
They fall on the rocks, and they lie
With their white, pleading faces turned upward
TO the clouds and the pitiful sky.
If once all the lamps that are lighted
Should steadily blaze out in line
Wide DER the earth and the ocean,
What girdle Of glory would shine?
How all the dark places would tighten;
How the mist would rise up and away;
How the earth would laugh out in her gladness,
And hail the millenial day?
Say, is your lamp burning, my brother?
pray you look quickly and see;
For if it were burning, then surely
Some beams would fall bright upon me.
Year: 1878

THERE has been a good deal OF
speculation concerning that part of
the Presidents message in v hich he
will treat Of Southern affairs. The
safes; plan j. to wait until next week,
when it will be read, and then we will
know " hat he save.
Year: 1878

Mrs. Duniway has secured her
rights at last, as will be seen by a
perusal Of the following synopsis Of a
law passed at the recent session of
the Oregon Legislature:


An act relating to property Of mar
ried woman provides that property
owned by aiwomen at the time of
marriage, or acquired thereafter by
gift, devise, 70 inheritance, shall not
be subject to debts or contracts of the
husband, and the wife may manage,
sell, convey and devise the same as
the husband can his property. The
property Of either husband or wife
shall not be liable for debts or con-
tracts of the other. Action may be
maintained by husband or wife against
the other for recovery of property of
which the other has obtained posses
sion, the same as if they were unmar-
ried. For civil injuries committed
by his wife, damages can be recovered
Of her alone, except in cases where he
is jointly responsible. Conveyances
from one to the other shall be valid.
One may constitute the other his or
her attorney in fact. The wife may
recover the wages of her personal la
Dor in her own name. Neither is la-
bic for debts Of the other incurred be-
fore marriage. Expenses of family
and education of children shall be
chargeable upon property of both hus-
band and wife, or of either of them.
We have here an act which seems to
be pretty well up to the advanced
claims of those who have been labor
ing for alaw which would give women
control OF her own property and earn
ings and put her on an equality in
this respect with man.
Year: 1878

Not long since, as the schooner Bay
Leaf was crossing Lake Ontario, James
Ferguson, of this city, who was second
mate Of the craft, was thrown over
board, but as he was the only man on
deck at the time, his absence was not
noticed until too late to bring the ves-
sci about in an effort to rescue him.
When Ferguson fell into the water the
schooner was sailing rapidly before a
fair wind, and the unfortunate man
could only swim for life. One by one
he divested himself of coat, vest and
shoes, and for an hour or more kept
himself ahoat, when he fortunately
came across IA piece of board about
four feet long and foot wide With
this slight assistance Ferguson was able
to secure occasional breathing spells,
and when daylight came he found him
self out of sight OF land and with no
sail in hailing distance. Having kept
his bearings III a great measure, the
swimmer struck out for shore with his
board, being, as he estimated, fifteen
miles ont in the lake All day long
and with hot sun beating down upon
his barred head, Ferguson worked to
shore, and finally, after being in the
water and without food nearly twenty
one hours, he landed safely on shore
neal the village of Niagara, but con-
siderab y exhausted. A few days after,
MIR Ferguson arrived in this city, and
walking into his house, No. 500 Fifth
street, presented himself to his over
joyed wife, who, ever since she first
heard the sad news that her husband
had fallen into the lake and had been
drowned, stoutly maintained that she
could not believe he had been drowned.


LARGE HAWK. -Twyman Abbott,
while hunting prairie chickens near
Patti, shot and killed a large hawk
which measured four feet eight and
half inches from tip to tip of the wings.
OF course his claws and body were
correspondingly large. The former
measured one inch in length Just
before he was shot he swooped down
upon a sheep, two thirds grown and
killed the poor animal ere the young
Nimrod could get within gunshot.


At recent agricultural fair at st.
Paul, the spectacle of pair of elks,
well broken to the harness, and driven
about with the utmost ease, attracted
considerable attention. They can
readily travel l6 miles an hour, hitched
to buggy, and carrying two men.
1t is said to be as easy for them to
travel one hundred miles as for horse
to travel fifty.
Year: 1878

We have removed the Office of the Az
voCATE from Main street to Bridge street,
Canton, opposite Beloit Pending the set
tlement of the Railroad question, as to
where the McGregor road will cross the
Sioux, the business men Of this end of
town and of Beloit rendered us an amount
Of patronage that made it an object to &C.
cept. The members of the newspaper
fraternity we'll understand the necessity of
an advertising support, for the successful
maintenance Of q county newspaper, as
the circulation alone will not Of itself af.
ford sufficient recompense for the time,
labor, and material, devoted and furnish
ed to its publication. The field became
vacant upon the suspe nsion of the Times,
and its former patrons very generously ex-
tended US the offer that induced US to
change to this.locality. We have earnest.
ly endeavored to furnish our patrons with
an acceptable paper, and if not such as
they have desired, it is the misfortune Of
our limited ability, and not for lack of in
tention or labor


Approaching the financial condition Of
this community, depressed as the people
have been through unavoidable causes,
we have continued the publication of the
ADVOCATE without even asking the farm
ers Of Lincoln county for the amount of
their subscription but have left it to their
own will and convenience to pay. The
change now made is therefore greatly to
our interest, and those who are our friends
will kindly appreciate the act, and it is to
them we make this explanation.


What changes to either or both towns
the contemplated railroads may cause as
to villages, no man can tell, but it is the
evident intention of nearly all the business
men to go to the railroad if it does not
come to them. Before another issue we
hope to be able to announce the fact that
will settle this vexed question that agitates
citizens Of both towns.
Year: 1878

The Pantagraph has suggested matter
that we have often thonght of, and that is
the project of the formation of a new Ju-
dlcial District in this Territory. The du-
ties incumbent upon the Judge of this
Dist is double that should be required of
any man. His labor does not cease with
the adjouTnent Of a term of court. Ii not
Immediately resuming work in another
subdivision, business at chambers awaits
and is pressing him, which added to the
many and intricate matters pertaining to
Supreme Court business, not only occu'
pies his entire time but renders his official
task irksome and enervating.
Year: 1878

The Dakota Southern is having SER
ieus time Of it at Vermillion. They have
just finished repairing wash out sixty
feet long at Vermilllon, when word comes
to them that the track Is again washed out
in the very same place. 1t went out on
Saturday night or early Sunday morning,
and Superintendent Merchant went up on
Sunday to lo6k at the thing Arrange
ments were made by which all trains were
transferred there yesterday, and no time
was lost. The late repairs on that road
cost to $400, and now that the dose is
repeated the Dakota Southern people
don't appear very mucnpleased about it
Journal.
Year: 1878

He paid his bill there and left
about the 26th of Februarys OF
late he has been boarding at 112l
Locust, with a lady of respectable
appearance whom he represented to
be bis wife. In the course Of a con-
verSation with Dedson yesterday, a
Times reporter put the question
plumply as to whether the lady was
really his wife, and Dodson replied
that was a question he declined to
answer at present. It's said he has
family in Brandon, Miss.


So far as can be ascertained, there
is nothing to show that Dodson is
putting in a false claim for the
money. The case is one which
battles detective shrewdness. Sew
eral st. Louis houses have sold the
Brandon house goods, and know
nothing to its discredit but the fact
of bankruptcy.
Year: 1878

The card is then torn in aragged
manner lengthwise through the
name; one-half is given to the de-
positor and the other is pasted on
the package. When the receipt is
presented it is compared with the
portion on the package, and if tn e
edges join the genuineness is con-
sidered settled and the package is
delivered.


From what Mr.. Warner states, it
appears that it has been the custom
of late to run a knife in a curved
line through the name,
Year: 1878

Twenty Thousand People
old and young. every week. It is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class Of
community.


We desire our business msRto make note
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
tiSinS; for many good people seeing an a6-
vertissment in a paper, especially their
church paper. take 1t as guarantee of re-
Sponsibility. Such confidence should not to
abused when it can be helped. We want,
therefore,
Year: 1878

That funniest of comedies "Pink Donaf-
noes" was presented last night by tho
Broadway Theater Company for the firxt
time in this city So much has been writ-
ten of the play, and the reading public is 70
familiar with its character, that bare men-
ton is all that is necessary, Those who
saw Baby and enjoyed its quaint hurnOr
and rollicking fun will have an idea of Whist
is in store for them in going to sec Pink
Dominoes." 1t abounds in just such sitla-
tions and sparkles with the same bright dia,
logue, but is really much better play, be-
ing more complete in its plot, and mone
evenly balanced in the importance of all lin
characters.


The Broadway Theater Company plays
the piece elegantly, and such comedy IN
the hands of company like this makes an
entertainment that for fun and genuine Gu
joyment seldom has an equal. Two nights
and Saturday matinee are the only remain
ing opportunities of seeing this splendid
company. Same bill for remainder of TIM
engagement.
Year: 1878

The Board met in regular session. All
the members present, except Mr. Foote, and
President Bell in the chair.


A resolution awarding the contract for
isprinltling the city wharf to Mr.. Charles
Bauer at his bid of 500 per month was
transmitted to Council.


The committee appointed to contract with
A. C. Sands for furnishing paper and the
printing Of one thousand copies of the an
nual report of the Board reported that a
contract had already been entered into with
the Times Office which included the copies
of the report.


A proposition to light the Front-street
Pumping Works with gas from gasoline at a
much less cost than at present was referred.
Year: 1878

w


THE BANKRUPT BILL.


WASHINGTON, May 3.-The Senate Judi
ciary Committee has perfected the phraseo-
logy of the bill to repeal the Bankrupt Law
Existing cases are saved by the bill, and
acts of wrong-doing in respect to pending
cases are to be punished; and finally and
chiefly, the repeal will not take effect till
the lst of January next. This is not salts
factory to many Senators; but the Senate
will probably pass the bill in this shape on
Monday next. The action of the House on
this last amendment is uncertain, but it is
believed that there will be disagreement,
and a committee of conference to settle the
matter finally.


THE LOUISIANA RETURNING BOARD.


Senator Kellogg's attention having been
called to a statement in a Western paper to
the effect that one of the Louisiana Return
ing Board had refused to go on with the
counting of the vote for Hayes, and that he
(Mr. Kellogg had been forced to raise Sc, 900
to induce this member to go on, he declined
to say whether the statement was or was
not true, declaring that the time had not
arrived for him to speak on the subject


THE TOBACCO TAX.


There is a good deal of reluctance among
the Northern members to reduce any tax
that bears on the South. The proposition
to repeal the tobacco tax meets with good
deal of opposition from Republicans. Mr.
Tucker, of Virginia, expects on Monday
next to test the sense of the House both on
this proposition and on that to suspend the
payments of the Sinking Fund.
Year: 1878

Honolulu papers announce the death


in December Of VIM. P. Ragsdale, COVER


nor of the leper settlement on the island


of Molokai, Sandwich Islands, "Bill


Ragsdale," =" as he was popular known, was


a Hawaiian by birth, his mother having


been native and his father an Ameri-


can. He was lawyer, speaking English
as fuently as Hawaiian, and the most


noted orator Of the Hawaiian kingdom.


The manner in which Ragsdale discovered


that he had the leprosy, as told by him
self, is interesting. He resided for
number of years on the island Of Hawaii,
and had an Office at Hilo, the capital Of
the island, One night ne was studying
up law case IN which he was deeply
interested, when the chimney from his
lamp fell on the table. Although the
chimney was hot as fire, BILL" in his
excitement, picked IL up and set it in its
place without experiencing inconyeni-
ence, such as would naturally result
to a really sound person handling a
hot lamp-chimney. He reflected for a
moment, looked at his hand, but could
not discover the least sign that IL
had been burned. He then took off and
put on the chimney repeatedly, and with
the same result This experience con-
WINGED him that he was among the af
fiicted, and he lost no time in communip
eating with the authorities. An exami-
nation was made and medical authority
declared he was afflicted with leprosy.
The police did not arrest him, however,
owing to his exalted position, as was
common with those suspected Of being
lepers, 30 he Voluntarily delivered himself
up as victim of the terrible disease.
He was then cent to Molokai and installed
as governor of the leper settlement,
which position he held up to the time Of
bisdeath. During his administration OF
affairs he was as successful as he was
popular. There were and are about
eight hundred iepeTs on the settlement,
bat by his tact and kind.neartednes''
Rsgsdale made the most extraordinary
snd saddest community on the face of
The earth as cheerful and happy as the
rnfortunates could be. By his advice
tic government made many reforms and
The epeFs recognized him as q father.
Year: 1878

In France condemned criminals never
know the time fixed for their execution
until the moment arrives. Indeed, as a
prisoner condemned usually appeals as
matter Of course to the Cour de Cessation
against his ssentence, he must be uncer-
tain to the last whether the sentence will
be carried out. The order for the exc
cution is only sent to the prison the
evening before it is to take effect, the
criminal is not informed until the uext
morning, and the sentence is carried out
at a very early hour.
Year: 1878

"With this sum specie payments can be
resumed mt once, and the premise that is
written on the face OF the greenback TO pay
the dollar, made good. This would give
Bill n good dollar for his work, aud the
wounded veteran good money for his PEN
sion, which is only justice md fair play 10
Bill and the veteran; that is, Bill Not only
would work for gold wages as he
does now, but would buy his goods
at gold prices, and thereby save
another large item of The S2543i that
is DE- essed out of him annually
SPECIE PAYMENTS IS THE ONE
THING NEEDFUL In OUR PRESENT
AND WILL CURE Us OF
MANY FINANCIAL ILLS. The moment
You have got specie payments, PendletOn's
and Buffers theory of paying the bonds i'm
greenbacks, which means neither more or
less than more and meansr money, be-
comes obsolete. If Congress in its blum
derings, did not agree to pay the principal
of the bonds in gold, il ought to have
agreed TO, and specie payments will make
the agreement what il ought to be. The wit
of man cannot devise any scheme that will
bring abeut specie payments other than re-
deeming greenbncIks with gold; that is, Let
somebody else have some good money be-
sides the bondh dhelders.-SOLON CHASE,s
"POOR MANS TRACT" OF 1871.
Year: 1878

FUNNY remark by the Calais Times: ooh
adollar' fuctuates and how sharply you must
watch the price OF bullion to avoid being
cheated. That IS where the Greenbacker' s
dollar of paper has the advantage, you don't
have to watch the paper market to know
what that dollar is WORTH" Mol but we
have to watch the gold market for the value
of the paper dollar, and as that is what the
most of US have no time to do, being occupied
in making a living, we get continually
cheated. By the way it is not the "dollar
that is dollar" that fucluates in value, but
the paper dollar that the Times advocates.
Year: 1878

THE Democratic nominee for Congress
from this District, in his speech before the
county convention, told his hearers that gov
ernment expenses have greatly increased
since 1860. But he omitted to tell them that
the expense of collecting the revenue was
more than per cent. in 1860, and is less
than Al per cent. today. He also forgot 10
say that the credit of the government had
sunk SO low in the last year of the last DEM
ocratic administration (Buchanan's) that it
was found difficult to borrow money at 121
per cent. while now, under Republican ad-
ministration, the government can borrow at
Al per cent.
Year: 1878

GEN. ANDERSON is complaining about
the national debt as he was in 1862 and
1868, when be was sure it could never be
paid, when be was doing his best to discredit
the issues of the government, and when his
voice was raised against the measures the
government was taking to subdue the Re-
bsllion. Then he was doing all he could to
hamper the country in its efforts to preserve
its unity. Now he is doing what he can to
induce the country to break its faith and de.
stroy its credit. He was laboring then for
the dsunion of the country. He is laboring
now for its dishonor.
Year: 1878

IT is noticeable that Chase's Chronicle has
little to say of late about '.jining drives" Its
own people are going Into the business so
extensively, utterly regardless of the warn
ings of the Chronicle maker, that to longer
demonstrate is but waste of words. But
the Greenbackers who are 'jining drives'
with the Democracy will be likely to find
when the logs are delivered that they are all
marked UDemocratic.'
Year: 1878

The tide has turned. Many who were at
first inclined to the doctrines of the Green
hackers have seen their error and are return
ing to the support of hard money. Every
days discussion makes hard money converts.
People only need to have the facts clearly
presented to them in order to perceive the
errors and sophisms of the Greenbackers.
Year: 1878

In the Contributors Club of the atlantic
Moliere's bourgeois gentilhomnse is trotted
out again to illustrate the difference between
poetry and prose. Why can they not let poor
Monsieur Jourdain alone? He has done
work enough for one man. Besides, another
type would be good for change.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous lstters and comniuni
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable, OF necessarily for publication
but guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return preserve COM
munications that are not used.