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Year: 1877

Mr Samuel Smith, from the Lower Agua Fria. called at our office and informed u, that farming Is being prosecuted to the ut most this season by the people in his sec ton. Hut for a for few cold nights which set thing> back, they would, in the course of a couple of weeks, have had new potatoes NIT. smith has corn up that is looking fine
Year: 1877

If you would keep from drinking so great quantity of ardent spirits, eat more Eat nutritious food. Eat some thing whenever you take drink. The drunk, in all cases, comes from the stomach full of whisky and no food. There is fact yet to be learned by many, and that is, they do not eat enodgh of real blood, bone, nerve and tissue making food. You may half starve to death on salt fish, potatoes, cabbage, turnips, fried liver, stewed kid ney, and score of other dishes that please the taste, but add little or noth- ing to the body force. Eggs, the best of steak, mutton and bread are what one requires for strength. It is this un- conscious, half starved condition which causes so much of the craving for a temporary increase of strength, and that is quickest gained through glass of whisky; that gives, for few moments, spasmodic impulse to the wheels of life, sending them whizzing and spinning around for 8 few moments; then comes reaction, and they turn more sluggish than ever. The best spirits in the world reside in good blood, and worst in bad. It is that which sends false imaginings, suspicious and dependencies to the brain.
Year: 1877

If husbands were always lovers, says an exchange, life would be pleasanter than it is. But they are not. They never were and they never will be. ..u-.-

 Our advice to young women IS like that of Punch, when asked to say some thing to couple about to we'd "Don't." ,i',

 Don't what ..'.-

 We'll, first and foremost, of all things, don't marry drunkard. Depend upon it, if you cannot keep him sober during those days of the average woman's strongest influence over wayward men, the season of courtship, the chances will be against success. Some women have succeeded in this labor of love, but there are 10,0 900 failures to one success. It is a field of missionary labor that very few gets drunk once 8 month while he is billing and cooing, depend upon it he will require senai-monthly seasons of a Benedict. A man who gets drunk is necessarily a bad. or foolish man when he is under the influence of liquor, and is very apt to soon become a bad man whether drunk or sober. The romantic idea that woman who can reform a drrlnkard is deserving of crown of glory is all the veriest bosh. They would be shocked by the suggestion that man who marries fallen woman and restores her to life of virtue would be deserving the praise of all mankind. The latter would be much easier task than the former, and more likely to succeed. The debasement in one case is generally incurable, and scorns the influence of kindness or affection while in the other the opportunity to escape from life of degradation would in most cases insure hearty cooperation with the missionary in such field.

 But the drunkard, as is generally the case, may be addicted to number of other vices, each one of which ought to be considered as repulsive as that of drinking. Still we find pure, virtuous, refined and delicate women risking their lives and happiness in the delusive hope of rescuing and restoring them. In stances of the terrible failure in this missionary field are to be found in every street and lane of great city, accom- paniment of scores of the dissolute widows and orphans of those who have staggered into drunkard's graves. Still the experiment is tried by new votaries, who. foolishly think they can succeed where others fall. It is & terrible de- fusion. Love and devotion are power less on 8 drunkard. Nothing but an iron will and firmness that few women possess can check the career of 8 man who has once taken hold of strong drink. He must become subject to her will, and he restrained from his evil cOursa bv a power stronger than love or kindness. There are enough men who become drunkards after marriage for all reason able purposes of experiment, without taking them fully trained in career of vice and debauchery. Therefore we say: "Girls, don't do it" s, -
Year: 1877

people did not stay for the promised dance, and to darkened room they car ried the old gentleman, while physician was hastily sent for. No one could ac- count for the strange attack until uncle, after long time, awoke to consciousness.

 Then Deb, the old housekeeper, with strangely working features, came into our room and said:

 Miss Ventnor, may I have the chain and locket you wore tonight p

 Wonderingly Elsie rose and got it for her.

 "Deb, Deb P I exclaimed, "what is the matter ?-how is dear uncle ?-why do you want Elsie's chain p

 Miss Madge," solemnly interrupted Deb, "with that clover dress came mis- fortune to this house, and now it has brought good luck back again, think"

 And without stopping to explain her ambiguous sentence or answer my ques- tion she departed. When Deb came into the room again, it was to say uncle was better and wanted Elsie. When we were alone Deb told me strange story-that my uncle had had 8 child, 8 beautiful daughter, who had married against his will, and whom he had refused to for give until it was too late.

 "Miss Madge, it was at her coming out party she wore that dress-she was always fancifuL-and at that party she met the gentleman she married. With my own eyes saw her father clasp that chain and locket (here light broke in upon my minO around her pretty neck. Wien he refused to let her marry her lover (whom he knew was dissipated) she ran away, Miss Madge, and they went abroad to foreign country. Her hus- band died, we heard. But with all MT. David's trying, we could never get any news of her till this day. At last, through your means, Miss Madge, her daughter, MT. David's own grandchild, has been brought to his very house.

 Here the good woman clasped her arms around me and wept for very joy.

 Elsie told how she, came to be with Mime. Du Pois. When madame had first established her school, she was in her garden one day, and saw young woman passing on her way from the station, carrying 8 child in her arms. She was struck by the weary look in the pale face. And going to the gate, she called her to come in and rest. Madame made her comfortable in her sitting-room, and hastened to bring some refreshment. When she reached the room again, she saw the young woman had tainted, as she supposed But it was not faint-it was death. No inquiries could discover who she was, and she was quietly buried dear, good madame herself erecting a plain monument to her memory. The baby's clothes were marked "Elsie Ventnor," and so madame called her.
Year: 1877

A sorrowful story from the ocean comes to us by the way of the old seaport of Gloucester, Mass, ten vessels being re- ported missing from the fishing fleet. These craft usually carry about ten men each, and the loss of life, if these ten schooners are wrecked, as is probably the case, will be large. It is heavy loss for the hardy little community in Cape Ann to bear. The fishermen of the North Atlantic coast endure many hard ing. This cold and stormy season has witnessed many disasters but this latest is one of the saddest repetitions of the old and tragical story of suffering, danger and death on the sea, and of hope de- ferred, despair and lamentation on the land.
Year: 1877

1uIGcuS A nasty word, proud farewell,

 Brief anger and repentant tears, And life sounds dulled like muff1ed bell Through weary space of years. Oh, foolish tongue that idly spake, Oh, foolish heart so proud to be, .. Oh, foolish lovers who may wake When 'tis too late the truth to see. So it fell out. He went away,

 And she was left alone to grieve, And dinmer shone the sun by day,

 And paler rose the moon at eve. Henceforth for each the sapphire sheen Grew graver in the summer skies; The golden lights upon the green

 All faded into somber dyes. The songs of birds, the ripping hum Of fountainsas it rose and fell, To them all tuneless had become,

 And rang for hope dreary kneel. And so they parted-and the tide

 Of love rolled on it's far-off way Earth stretched desert plain out wide, Where n no fair oasis lay. Yet often in foreign lands did he

 Recall her image as she passed That morn and in her fancy she Beheld him as she saw him last. Until through memory heart to heart Drew nigh, though oceans rolled between Time plucking out the ranking dart, They fingered over what had been, With loving longing for the past.

 Oh, foolish tongue that idly spake, Oh, foolish lovers who at last

 To your own foolshness awake.
Year: 1877

Sporting in Labrador involves roman tic incidents. When deer are not met with except at so great distance from a settlement that the night has, to be passed in the woods, commodious snow house is erected in 8 marvelously brief time by the attendant Esquimaux. They roll small Jumps of snow into heavy, compact heaps, which being shaped into square pieces, are placed one over the other until four walls are raised. If it freezes they throw water upon each layer to render the structure more con- pact. Sled poles are lashed together and laid across the top. Blocks of snow are placed upon these, and the crevices in every direction are filled in with soft snow, thus excluding the air. A narrow door is scooped out in front, and the floor plentifully strewn with snow shoes, skins, and other gear. Rudely patched but cozy furs constitute the covering, and sportsmen who have ventured into that inhospitable region aver that they have slept comfortably and without expe- riencing cold within those unique places of shelter.

 How TO MAKE NICE PICKLE. Take 8 healthy boy when quite young and growing. Send him to private tutor, with strict instructions to indulge him in every possible way. When at home for the holidays let him do exactly what he likes let him pinch his sisters, beat his small brothers, and snub his mamma. By the time he is twelve years of age he will be found to be a very nice pickle.
Year: 1877

The cornerstone of the new 7th Regiment
Aruory al sixtysxh-st and MadisOnaye. Will be laid
IN sepember and an effort will be made then to
funds IL continue tie work Ii Is hoped that number
of wealthy citizens Will subscribe toward this object,
but a member Of the Business Committee said last night
that he did not know that any one III par
ticuar had sgnihcd intention OF doing
so TIE officers Of the Regiment, well as several of
the companies have decided 20 devote 30 the new Arnory
the money them for during the strike IL 10
expected that the OF companies will take the
course when they meet. THIS OF money will amount
10 several thousand dollars.
Year: 1877

The Vice-President of the National Bank
Note Company denied in yesterdays TRIBUNE that the
Company had dismis ssed any employees who were MEM
bcrs of the NATIONAL Guard In nTHE TRIBUsEs first edition
the name OF the American Bank Note Company appeared
By mistake for that OF the National Bank Note Company
The error was corrected IN the later editions, but
doubtless the American Bank Note Company IL entitled
h the further announcement that II mas never Dccn
charged with having disnis ed OF its employs on ao
count of service In the National Guard
Year: 1877

soME Of the Mississippi papers are
abusing Lamar for being present at
the Jackson Congrniion. They think
be should not have gone IS 8 delegate,
nor without . special invitation from
the Democracy OF the State Men will
laer.-lMemptis Appea..


Iftbsy never find aty better cause Of
complaint than the above, they lad
best fnd something else 10 write
about. The people Of his county had
a perfect right 10 elect Col. Lamar 8
delegate to the Stale Convention, aud
he did himself no discredit by attend
ing. We are glad 10 see that the Sen
stor does not think himself above serv-
ing his fellow-citizens in any capacity
and we are sure that vast majority
Of those present agree with us. We
heard it charged that Col. Lamar
attended the Convention to champion
the cause OF some candidate
Tor a State Office. The reverse is true.
He came TO associate with the leaders
of his party, and to prevent, IL he could,
any discord among those who had done
so much for the State. When those
who think that Lamar Is not in accord
with a vast majority of the citizens Of
this State, cross political swords with
him, they will fnd out ;heir mistake.
Mississippians never forget great
services, and they will never ill.use q
man simply because be serves his couu'
ty in q State Convention.
Year: 1877

SENATOR CATCHINGs sent In his res
ignatiou as Senator, TO 6 overnor Stone,
the next day after he received the nom.
inatIon for Attorney-General. We are
glad the Senator took this course, for
it will enable Warren county to elect
his successor at the general election in
November. His nomination is equiv
alent to his election to this important
State Office, and his prompt resignation
of bis senatOrship is in accordance
with his usual foresight.
Year: 1877

Our County Executive Committee
Is 10 meet in this city on next Saturday,
the 18th Of this month, We hope and
trust every member Of the Committee
will be present. The Committee will
doubtless arrange all the details and
adopt all the rules for the holding of
the Primary Election. These should
be so strict and plain, that anything
like fraud will be impossible. This
race in our party for the nominations
should be a friendly and perfectly
fair one. So fair, in fact, that
every defeated candidate will know
that be received just decision, and
was not cheated in the election. It is
easy enough to accomplish this, if the
Committee bestir themselves before the
time for the meeting, and think OF the
duty they owe the party in this respect.
Will the Committee come prepared to
do its full duty in this important mat.
ter2 We hope so.
Year: 1877

As FAR as results are concerned our
Primary Election will be more impor-
tsnt to this county, than the General
Election in November. Nominations
are equivalent to elections, and it be.
hOoves our able and faithful County
Executive Committee to see that the
election is fairly conducted.
Year: 1877

The Northern papers have essed up
on Kemper county recently. The
Communists Of that section receive the
attention that was formerly given to
the bull .dOzers and White Lesguers Of
the South.
Year: 1877

HE la0orers OF the North are ready
and willing 10 work 10 good faith for
good wages, but the trouble has been
that they could not get wages sufficient
for the most important necessities OF
life. None Of the corporations or
capitalists complain that the working
men do not render faithful and efficient
service; It Is not charged that they
do not keep their contracts the claim
Is set up that the condition of affairs In
the North is such, that laborers cannot
be paid living prices, without running
those who pay such prices.


We do not believe this. There may
be trouble from the financial contrac.
lion that has been and is yet the policy
Of the Government, but We do not be.
lievc this is sufficient cause for the
oppression Of the laboring classes to the
extent il Las reached in this country.
The railway and other vast corporations
have been lighting each other and cut
ting down receipts, until they are forced
to lower the price Of labor, This is
bad management, and It is meauncss
to lower the price paid the hard
laborers aud not touch that paid
those who live in ease aud luxury.
We have attempted all along to keep
the HERAI D neutral as TO the claims
of the different candidates in our party,
but the friends Of one of the Senatorial
candidates think that we have not sue.
ceeded. They charge that all the other
candidates received an editorial notice
while we only noticed Col. Furlong''
candidacy in our local columns, and
that this is not placing him on sn equa
footing with the others. We have
certainly not intended 10 mako any
discrimination against the gentleman
and we take this occasion TO say thai
there Ia not one in our party who haI
done more for the party and the people
of this county since he has been in oul
party than Col. Furlong. lie worked


faithfully and gave literally Of hi,


means in the great city election, whlci


was the beginning Of the downfall oI


the Radical party in this State, and Il


10 well.known that Ames could no


have been removed il Furlong had no


remained true TO the interests OF thu


people.
Year: 1877

Economy is the order of the
hour, and every expenditure,
however small, is expected to
give q return in full value. Ev-
cry family requires one good,
readable family newspaper. If
such an article can be procured
for less than one cent for each
working day of the year, we
are not aware of it. A Famils,
Newspaper should contain q
carefully-prepared summary of
all the news of the day, both Re
hgious and Secular; and if ar
ranged so that the two depart
ments may be separated and
read by two individuals at the
same time, so much the better.
The Family Neacspaper should
have attractive reading and In
formation for the various men,
bers of a household. Some
portion of the paper should be
devoted, every week, to reli-
lgious and moral improvement,
to current secular news. to ag-
riculture, commerce, markets,
finance, to general literature,
&C., with a special department
for the young. Above all, the
Fomsily Newspaper should be
perfectly pure, and free from
any communicating influences in
its reading matter Or in its ad-
vertisements. Too much atten-
ton cannot be paid to this fea-
ture, when the press is flooding
the country with SO much that
is vile and pernicious. To crown
all, the Family Newspaper
should be untrammelled by any
affiliation with sect or party,
and should be free TO give all
the good news from and about
all the world. IF such a Fam
ily Newspaper can be had for
one cent a dag, it should be ta-
ken by every family in the land.


Such a Family Newspaper,
in every respect, we find in the
New York OBSERVER, now
commencing its fifty-sixth vol
umc. Progressive, comprehen-
sive, sound, reliable, pure, it is


just what is needed in your
household. Send $3.15 for a
year to the New YORK OBsER-
YER, 81 Park Row, New York.
Sample copies are sent free.
Year: 1877

To those who are waiting for
business activity to revive itself,
the Louisville Courier Journal
gives this timely advice, which is
especially applicable to the mer-
chant that dosen't advertise his
wares: Get up and 60 to work.
If things amt lively enough, put
your shoulder to the wheels of
commerce and trade, and aid in
getting the road wagon of old TO-
gyism out of the mire. Hitch the
mule Of energy in the shafts, take
the whip of enterprise in your
hand, and make dust fly along
the road OF progress. Get up, ad-
vertise your business, let people
throughout the country know who
you are and what you have got to
sell, and our word for it, you'll
have something else to do and
think about this fall than to sit
around and cuss and wait for bus
lness to come to you.
Year: 1877

~ Our judges, in deliver
ing their charges to juries, of
ten lay down important moral
as well as legal principles. A
case recently came up in one
of the New York city courts in
which a defendant attempted to
escape the fulfillment Of engage
ments on the ground that the
promises he made were issued
on postal cards merely as adj
vertlsements. He admitted that
they were not true. Chief JUS
tice Curtis, in charging the ju-
ry, laid down these principles:


"As a matter of law, when a
man presents statements for the
public in the form Of q circular
or advertisement he is bound
by those statements. 1t is not
for him 10 say that it is matter
of business-or when business
is dull, a matter of course-to
issue statements which are un-
true. If, in advertising his
goods, wares, or merchandise, he
makes statements for the public
to act upon, when he comes into
a court of justice he is bound by
those statements. The law
knows no difference between
prctepces that are false, except
in the degree of moral or Grim
inal turpitude and in the punish
ment which attaches to them.
The man who seeks by false
statements in regard to his bus
mess through an advertisement,
to elude the public, when he
does it to reap profits for his
own advantage, is taking the
first step OIL that road which ter
inmates with false pretenses,
with forgery, with crime, and
with those acts which imperil
the interest of all of us, and
which tend to destroy the prop
erty and perhaps the reputation
of every citizen. The jury
found for the plaintiff"
Year: 1877

An Eastern farmer recently saw
two men attempting to drive a
hog by his house, but the animal
WAS obstinate that they finally
told the farmer that if be would
kill it for them they would give
him half of The meat He accepted
the offer with alacrity, and not
only killed the hog but dressed il,
after which the strangers drove
away with their halt When
he went at night to feed his own
he found that he had killed his
own property, receiving half of it
for his trouble.
Year: 1877

A very pathetic description of
the perils Of life in the Black bills
is given in the following extract
from the letter of miner there
to his brother living in Nevada:
I've been spending the last week
in trying to think of a plan which
will enable me to get home. II |
only had $500 | could get to
Cheyenne, and then it would be
easy sailing into civilization. If
you send the money by express
the Indians are sure to get it, as
they split open a Wells Fargo
couch every few days. If you send
it by mail ! wouldn't get it for
months, as the Postmaster is off
on IA big drunk most of the time,
and can't lead, anyhow. Don't
send draft on the bank, as it is
liable to bust. If you have some
friend coming to the Hills, don't
trust him with the cash, as he is
sure to gamble it off at Cheyenne
or get robbed at Custer. II you
can think of some way of sending
the moneythatit il Will be sure to get
here, send it right away; hut un-
less you are sure don't risk it.
Perhaps you had better come
yourself and bring it." The
brother wrote in reply: "Just
borrowed Si2 TO settle a board
BILL"
Year: 1877

The Charleston Courier says;
"From the country press Of this
State comes the almost universal
cry for the re establishment of the
whipping post. Larceny, high.
way robbery and burglary have
become such common crimes that,
in many parts of the country, no
mans property is safe; and in
fact there is hardly any part of


the State where it is safe. The
chickens in the coop, the crops in
the field, the very clothes that a
man pulls of at night in the ex-
pectation of putting on again in
the morning become alike the
prey of the midnight prowler."
Year: 1877

pound Of meat per day that qnantum had TO sufhce
prisoner wnole week in England IN conclusion no
laid the Importance OF their moral reform most
earnestly to their souls parted from them with
heartfelt benedction.


After having spent several hours on the island the
visitors returned TO the city In the happy conscious
ness OF having conferred least transient CLEAN oS
light upon SO many darkened and wretcned lives.
Year: 1877

Glass; He is the reormer. for the latter must battle
against something He is the regenerator-such a
spiritual the imperial Goethe In Germany,
or Ralph Waldo Emerson In America Such men,
pure, even serene, incorruptble are men TO be ap-
preached with bated breath, before whom the best
may don his bonnet and bend tho knee. Such Is the
spiritual man, who overarches with his reason all
crecds and churches earth is overarched by the
sky blue vault OF heaven Selfforgetulness devo-
ton to principle, having severe sense OF justice ana


keen love for human kind-hese are the qualities oil
the spiritual man. Spiritual man Is the comprehen-
sve, broad, noble man one who holds himself ready
with all the manhood In him TO do the universal WILL