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Year: 1877

cidents quite unscathed and unmarried be-
fore. L knew that few women would choose
to marry very hideous man, consequently
1 concocted disguise which fancied would
make me repugnant to the least particular #
the fair sex.


Allow me to lay at your feet my crutches,
which l never needed, thank Heaven; my
hump, which was a feather pillow; the skull
cap, which did not hide bald pate, and all
my banaages and patches. The vermilion
which adorned my nose l have removed
with little water and though 1 obtained
my invitation to dinner under false pre-.
tences beg to be allowed to pay my respects
to you in proper person. and to apologize
for my trick, which, after all, dear madam,
was only tit for tat.


At first Elsie was unreasonably angry,
but her anger did not last long.


They met at dinner, and before they
parted it was quite concluded that they
should carry out the wishes of their
parents by agreeing to dine together al
WaYs
Year: 1877

The French papers tell us of won
derful invention, which will enable the
feeblest among us to witch the world
with noble workmanship. The horse of
the future is not to be driven by ordi-
nary reins, but by electricity combined
with them. The coachman is to have
under his seat an electromagnetic appa-
ratus, which he works by little handle.
One wire is carried through the rein to
the bit, and another to the crupper, so
that current once set up goes the en-
tire length of the animal along the spine.
A sudden shock will, we are gravely as
sured, stop the most violent runaway OF
the most obstinate jibber. The creature,
however strong and however vicious, is
at once transformed into a sort of inof
fensive horse of wood, with the feet
firmly nailed to the ground. Curiously
enough, the opposite effect may be pro
duced bya a succession of small shocks
Under the influence of these the veriest
screw can be suddenly endowed with {
vigor and fire indescribable, and eve,
the Rosinante of Don Quixote woult
gallop like Derby winner.
Year: 1877

Tune: "Lochaber No More"
Farewell to bonnie Scotland and banks of the Tay
To her lochs and her mountains and deep sounding


bay;


Farewell to Glen sySh, its birk woods 50 green,
Where oft in ife's morning how happy I've been.
The bark rides at anchor far out in the bay.
Her sails are unfurled, no longer will stay.
To bear me and mine to far distant shore.
Maybe to return to Glen Syon no more
o, dark was the morning. and deep was the woe
When the home of the clansman was sold to the


foe;


When the sword and the spear left idle to rust
And the pride of the chieftain lay low in the dust
Weep, weep for Culloden and mourn for the brave
Who fell in the battle their country to save;
But honor the clansman, the faithful and true,
Arrayed in his tartan and bonnet of blue.
U, deep is the anguish and pain of my heart,
From friends and from country forever to part;
The home of my fathers no more will see,
Nor the old heaththatched cottage so dear unto me-
But time rolls along, like a swift mountain stream
And the past flies away, like night-fitting dream,
And the hopes of my youth time can never restore,
For Tll never return to Glen Syon once more.


Indianapolis Peopk
Year: 1877

AMONG the blessings that brighten as
they take their fight the grasshopper
would now appear to be numbered. A
Minneapolis man has Just discovere that
last years visitation might have yielded
a crop of oil worth millions of dollars,
Year: 1877

Anoble English bridegroom has achiev-
ed the miracle of leJdIng animation aud
the charm Of novelty to a conventional
English wedding in fashionable Eng
l!sh church by simply and suddenly faint
ing dead away in the middle of the cere-
mony. His beautious bride, with her
eleven bridesmaids, of whom no fewer
than hive We're her own sisters, LAID hold
upon the solitary best man, like the sew
Ell in Scripture, and screamed. There


was a pause, a budding forward of usl-
ers and lackeys, and finally "his lord
ship was led out Of the church. The


bride stood alone during the remainder


of the ceremony, but the Earl returned
in time 10 sign the register"


All this proves that this noble youth
had no dishonorable intentions in faint
ing. 1t is clear that he did not faint till
he had made all the proper responses and
been canonically ''tied up" hard and fast
1t is clear, also, that he came TO his sen-
ses again at the proper moment to COM
plete all the formalities of the occasion
in decent and conscientious way. Why
then did he faint? EPglish society no
doubt Will invent hundred stories each
more scandalous than the others to ac-
count for ibis phenomenon. 1t will be
charged that he suddenly caught SIGHT of
a girl in the gallery to whom he had
been privately married six years before
under another name; or that while look
ing on the five fair sisters of the bride #
occurred to him that he would
baye preferred one of them and was maj
rying the wrong woman; or that de-
signing friend had deluded him early in
the morning, into taking dose of medi-
cine disguised in brandy and soda. In
short, there is nothing that will not be
thought or said to the disadvantage of
this poor young nobleman. What would
have drawn the hearts Of all England in
and tenderness to his bride
will move all England to scoffing and
scornful surmisCs concerning him. And
yet it seems to us that he deserves really
TO be classed with the great regenerators
OF society, and that he fell, like Koscius-
ko, for the rights of man.
Year: 1877

AS was some time ago announced in
The WORLD, Mr., Tilden will sail for
Europe tomorrow in the steamer Scythia
on tour mainly of rest and recreation.
lhat ne is IN excellent health and spirits
will appear from the clear and lively way
in which he yesterday expressed himself
on some of the most important subjects
connected with the late Presidential cleo
Ilon to reporter of this journal At Sea-
glrt New Jersey. 1t will be seen that
Mr.. Tilden now states himself TO have
looked upon the probable result of the
plan Tor establishing an Electoral Com
mission with distrust from the hour when
he first heard of it, JVorld
Year: 1877

READING RAILROAD PAYING Irs
DEBTs.-The fact that nearl, three
months wages are due the EMPLOYEES of
the Reading Railroad Company in this
city, has occasioned no little comment
and is subject of general conversation.
Many OF the men have been reduced TO
great straits,and they say chat one month,
pay will not do them much good. The
rumor that some of the grocers. -four
dealers and others, who have been grant
ing credit up to this time have shut down
on continuing to do so any longer IS
however. denied. The EMPLOYEES lool,
to speedy adjustment of their claims
upon the arrival home of President
Gowen, and it is Hoped that the long
delayed pay day may soon arrive
Reading Times.
Year: 1877

THE PASSENGER RAILWAY CoNDuC-
TcR.-Perhaps no employment is more
completely practically identified with the
idea OF drndgery than That of passenger
railway driver or conductor, and vet
there are on file in Boston no less than
six Thousand applications for positions of
that character, and doubtless as many
more i'll each OF the cities of Philadelphia
and New York. Such facts tell more
conclusively than any other the distress
that pervades the country.


We know that on some Of the passen-
ger railways OF this city there are men
employed as conductors and drivers, who
have been educated for the learned pro-
fessions, and who possess all the inteilec-
tual qualifications needed to fit them for
employment better suited to their tastes
But necessity knows no law.-Phird
Star.
Year: 1877

When DR.. Acker's newspaper, the Nor
ristown RegiSter, was sold out BY the
Sheriff, the other day, the enterprising
doctor borrowed some type and necessary
material and issued the Register Just the
same as if the Sheriff had not been around
The parties who purchased of the Sheriff
also went on with the publication of the
Register, and took the matter into court
to see who was entitled to the name.
Judge Ross on Monday decided that the
name of newspaper had value, Great
ed by toll, anxiety, thought and labor. and
that the whole of such value passes by a
Sherif1's sale, and it is ruled ''that when
a newspaper is sold at Sherih's sale the
defendant in execution may not use the
name ofthe paper or any of its combina-
tions for the purpose of competing with
the purchaser" DIR. Acker is thus COM
PEELED to find new name for his weekly
paper. but continuing to publish the Dali
ly Register, while the other party, who
prints the weekly Register, issues also
the Daily Watchman. This is the most
terrible conflict that Norristown has ever
known.-IimeS.
Year: 1877

A frightful and fatal accident was
the falling Of the new Winnebago
County Court House, at Rockford,
Ill, last Friday, while upward OF
twenty-five men were at work upon
1t. There was no notices cloud Of
dust and dull roar as death came on
ly attracting attention.


The style of the building was
French Venetian, of the Renaissance
type. 1t had two pavilions and CEN
ter dome over the front entrance.
The dome was ll9 feet from the
ground. The dome was supported by
the front walls on the north side and
two iron columns from ten to twelve
inches in diameter on the inner side.
These columns rested upon a brick
wall going up from the ground
floor TO the floor of the courtroom.
The walls were about thirty feet high,
and, it appears, were entirely inade-
ouate to hold the immense weight of
the iron pillars and the massive ma
soury of the dome, which rested up
on the pillars. Upon the top of the
iron columns was a wrought-iron
girder, upon which was laid the
veneer and brick of the dome. II APP
pears that the lower brick walls were
crushed by the weight Of the upper
masonry and crumhled like so much
rotten mortar, bringing with them
the entire interior of the building,
taking all the rafters, the corrugated
iron ceiling of every room, with its
concrete filling, and the iron joists.
The scaffolding came down in one
terrific mass bringing with 1t nearly
all the workmen who were operating
upon the top Of the building.


The fall occurred just before noon,
the adjacent streets being crowded
with people, who rushed to the scene
to find men shrieking for aid which
was only rendered at further risk of
life Eleven persons were either kill
ed outright or so badly injured that
they soon died, and a number of 9TH
ers sustained dangerous wounds.
Timothy Flanagan. mason who was
pointing up the very top of the front,
sprans at guy rope of the huge der
rick, and fell over hundred feet to
the ground. The Superintendent and
his assistant jumped upon the west
wall, and were left standing there
safe by the fraction of a second.


The blame for the disaster is not
vet fully awarded. The plans and
specifications of the architect, Mr..
Cav, of Chicago, are said to have been
fully carried out-while he on his
part asks suspension of Judgment
until he can he heard. The founda-
ton for the columns on the sides
which stood were of Joliet limestone
which will safely carry 5000 pounds
to the square inch. The columns sus-
tanning the immense ornamental cor
nice and the dome OH the other sides
were on 30 feet of brick wall between
the basement and the floor of the
court room which il said to have been
able to sustain but 81 pounds per
sauare inch,
Year: 1877

The most important step taken by
Secretary Sherman under the resump-
tion act toward return To specie pay
ments was the sale in New York Sat
urday of $1,000, 900 of IL per cent.
bonds at par for coin, which will form
the basis OF fund for redeeming legal
tenders. He is confident that the
Government will be able to resume
within the time named by law.
Year: 1877

The state Department has replied
ia the formal notification by Turkey
of the existence of a state Of war be-
tween that Government and Russia.
The position taken by our Govern
ment i one of strict neutrality toward
the he,ligerents. Russia will be fur
nished with similar document 10
the one presented to the Porte.
Year: 1877

The Burlington Uaukeye, which
has often been wrongly classified a.
belonging To the brigade of Iowa news
papers which the Des Moines Register
has been tis not now striving to mar
shall for an insensate crusade against
President Hayes Southern policy, in
its issue of the 18th inst, comes to the
front with the following sensible edi-
torial remarks:


We greatly mistake the drift Of Re-
publican sentiment in Iowa If the
number who are thus willing to give
the new policy fair trial is not rap
idly increasing. The signs of this are
seen in the spirit Of the opposition
that shows itself in the newspapers
which were at once arrayed against
the policy with so much yigor, and
also in the tone of the public discus
sion which is heard everywhere
among the people. The keen disap.
pointment felt because Chamberlain
and Packard were not sustained is
wearing away. Had oui
State Convention been held two weeks
ago, undoubtedly the action of the
| President would have been sharply
criticised, and an earnest and excited
if not an angry discussion, would have
| taken place on resolutions which
would have certainly been introduced
denouncing his Southern policy. But
already the leading opponents of tha,
| policy are declaring that it ought not
to be and must not be made test in
reference to candidates. This is right


1t would be exceedingly unjust to dis
criminate against any one because o
his position on this question, and par
ticularly so as il is now a question o
the past. How would it pro
mote the peace and concord which
should prevail in all parts of the coun
try? How would it help the coloreC
men, who must always be the object.
of sympathy and sincere regard OF
the part of Republicans? How, il
short, could it possibly benefit any
body or advance any object whatever


We conclude, then, that it will b,
wise for the Republicans of Iowa {.
keep out OF their convention this ap
pie of discord. That it will be wis


for them still to trust and to sustain
the President of their choice, with tn
conviction that time will, as it did 9,
often In the case of Lincoln, yindicat


his action and illustrate his integrit,
and his faithfulness to the great prin
ciples Of the Republican party.
Year: 1877

4 Salt Lake City dispatch says: In
the Tabernacle week ago sunday
Brigham Young arose at an unexpect-
ed moment and broke forth in an adj
dress To saints and sinners, which
gave the latter to understand that if
they wanted blood they could have
plenty of it, and indeed they were
likely to have more let out OF their
veins than they could spare at an ear
ly period. Many discreet Gentiles are
quietly arranging for the removal of
their families at the first sign of the
outbreak The Nauyoo legion are
drillin. in meeting houses, barns sta
bles and corra's in Salt Lake City and
minor towns. Breech loading rifles
have been shipped in great numbers
during the last fortnight from the
East to this place.
Year: 1877

The latest news from the seat of war
credits the Turks with more successes,
including the capture of an important
post on the Black Sea and the big end
ol several skirmishes on the Danube.
Year: 1877

After three weeks investigation in
To the extent aud condition of the
grasshopper plague in Texas and
Kansas, Professor Riley, Of the ma
tional committee appointed for that
purpose, reports there is no danger in
the main to be feared this season from
the ravages of this insect. Ina large
part of Kansas he thinks the battle
already fought and won. He con-
firms the statement that the grass
hoppers have disappeared soon after
Matching, and attributes this, in part,
TO the cold, rainy weather, and part
ly TO local soils, the warm and sandy
portions being more favorable to
grasshopper growth than the colder
and more tenacious ground. In the
latter, the Matching of eggs is attend
ed with more delay and uncertainty.
In these latter regions the injury to
crops is likely to be greatest.
Year: 1877

We publish above the formal cali
for a Convention of the Republican
voters of Cedar county for the purpose
of selecting their representatives at
the state Convention, which meets in
Des Moines on the 9th of next month.


1T il undoubtedly unnecessary to
urge that at the present iuncture, with
all the important chief offices of our
State to be filed, the action of the ap-
preaching Republican State Conven-
ton will be very important one. Sc
cure in our great Iowa majority AS we
may be, nevertheless injudicious nom
nations or hot-headed partisanship
in this Convention can easily start
breach, the proportions and results of
which will be only less surprising
than disastrous. There is no proba
ability of this, perhaps, and still less
necessity; but it is possibility, at
least, and possibilities as well rs prob
abilities are worthy Of thought. And
therefore Cedar county Republicans,
1t is greatly to be hoped, will rally in
force at their own Convention, and
send to represent them such a del
eeation that Mt least our influ-
ence may certainly be in favor only
of those nominations truly fitting to
he made and of those policies dictated
by coolness and wisdom.
Year: 1877

II is an every week occurrence
tor some one 10 come or send Ia
this office for II copy OF our paper
without sending or bringing the
money to pay for it. Our paper,
and the work on it, costs us money,
and II is not reasonable to expect
ns to give them away. THIS does
not apply TO our subscribers who
occasionally want an extra copy.
hut is intended for those who are
too penuiious 10 take paper and
depend On borrowing and begging
Tor their informati1 n.-Ex.
Year: 1877

to be generally considered as purely judicial in
their nature and therefore, outside of caucus control
PRESIDENT HAYES FIRST JOINT RESOLUTION.


The President this morning signed a joint resolu-
tor OF Congress for the first his accession
the Presidency. 1t was presented by Representa-
tive Rainey OF South Carolina, and after alx king his
signature he presented the gold pen with which he
wrote It to Mr.. Raincy as memento OF the occasion.
Tho resolution one providing for the payment OF
tho salary OF DR.. Poisal, the late chaplain Of the
House.


CONDITION OF THE NATIONAL BANKS


The following is abstract OF reports made to the
Comptroller OF the Currency, showing tho con iition
Of tho national banks In the United Statcs at the
of business Monday, the lst day OF October
1871
Year: 1877

"Brown, l don't know how it is
that your girls all marry of as soon
as they get old enough, while none
of mine can marry"


"Oh, that's simple enough. /
marry my girls of on the buckwheat
straw principle" .


"But what is that principleS /
never heard Of it before"


"Well, | used to raise a good deal
Of buckwheat, and it puzzled me to
know how to get rid Of the straw.
Nothing would eat it, and it was a
great bother to me. At last | thought
Of a plan. stacked my buckwheat
straw nicely and built q high rail
fence around it. Ny cattle, Of course
concluded that it was something
choice, and at once tore down the
fence and began to eat the straw. l
dogged them away and put up the
fence . few times, but the more |
drove them away the more anxious
they became to eat the straw,
and eat it they did, every bit of it.
9As 1 said, l marry my girls off on the
same principle. When young man
that l don't like begins calling on
my girls l encourage him in every
way l can; tell him to come often
and stay as late as be pleases, and |
take pains to hint to the girls that
they had better set their caps for
him. 1t works first rate. He don't
make many calls for the girls treat
him as coolly as they can. But when
. young fellow that like comes
around, q man that l think would
suit me for a son.in-law, l don't let
him make many calls before l give
him to understand that he isn't want
ed around my house. tell the girls
too, that they shall not have any,
thing to do with him, and give them
orders never to speak to him again.
The plan always works first rate.
The young folks them begin to
pitch into each other, and the next
thing ! know they are engaged to be
married. When ! see they are de.
termined to marry always give in,
and pretend to make the best of it.
Now, neighbor, that's the way
manage"
Year: 1877

A ooop little boy who was kicked by
n mule dlj not say naughty words or 20
home crying 10 his mother. lie Just
tied tho mule within five feet Of u bee
hive. backed him round to II and LET
him kick.
Year: 1877

DRIFTED AsHoRE.-On Friday last,
as Mr.. McLoud was coming down the
beach from Trinidad, he noticed por-
tion of the hull Of vessel on the beach.
Upon going to it and making an exam
inaton, he found it to be the wreck of a
schooner. He says she had very large
hatch, and on the inside of the ribbon or
rim of the hatch was marked the tom
mage So So 100 tons. A portion of the
deck was burned, the timbers and knees
looked as if the vessel had been built but
a short time There is story connected
with this remnant of beautiful vessel,
that perhaps will never be told, whether
the vessel was cast ashore on the beach
by the meTcess wind and wave, whether
a stray spark had ignted the timbers,
and the officers and the crew wore foced
to succumb to the fery-element Moth
ing Of cour e is known of the brave men
who named her. We understand that
some parties are going up to the wreck,
and if possible ascertain the name of the
vessel. -Uum6oidt Times.
Year: 1877

WE most sincerely hope that we of the
present generation will live to see the
time when the negro is not the canse o.
our political contentious. The country is
becoming tired of it. The people who
gave to them freedom, cannot perpetu-
ally guard them like other citizens, they
must take care OF themselves. If they
had more pluck to resent insult and out
rage, if they would fight the outlaws who
make game Of them, they would win rec
ognition. As long as they are cowed
down. they invite outrage. Oakland
TrdnscT'iDf
Year: 1877

THE Fresno EIpOsitor states that the
blackboard ia the school room at Fan
cher in that county consists Of a single
cut Of sap wood pine measuring forty-four
inches in width and at least three feet
from The center of the log. The lumber
was cut IL the mountains ten milas from
IL It place.
Year: 1877

COSTLY PoRK.-Noah Thomassen has
been sent to the States Prison for ten
years by the county court of Siskiyou
for stealing hog. If mans punish
ment is graded by the magnitude of his
crime, hog stealing must stand about the
head of the list in Siskiyou.
Year: 1877

AN experimenter in the East finds that
wa'h-bOwl nearly half full Of water
covered with meal catches and kills more
ioice than AL the cats and traps that can
be employed. Easy to try, anyhow.
Year: 1877

BY city ordinance, the retail liquor
dealers OF Oakland are required to pay
fifty dollars fora quarterly license and
they are threatening, unless the license is
reduced, to make liquor party fight for
control Of the city Government at the
Lnunicipal'election in March.
Year: 1877

ACCORDING to the Bulletin general
trade opens very quietly in San Francis
co for the new year. The long spell Of
dry weather during what has hitherto
been considered the wet season admon-
ishe' traders to pursue cautious
Policy with reference to buying and Civ
ing credit, and the result is light busi
less
Year: 1877

z YOUNG girl of Sierra county who
J "a been taking chloroform for the tooth
"che, was made temporarily insane there
bv and leaving her home in the night
started 10 walk TO nownieyile. After
boing out eleven hours in a pitiless storm
she got to Goodyear's Bar. The alarm
at her dh appearance was great and mo
uan two hundred men were out in ear h
.! her.