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Year: 1878

If you are troubled with nervous
ness. are disheartened, tired of life,
fear death or feel out of sorts, as the
saying is, you may safely conclude
that you have the Dyspepsia or
Liver Complaint. The liver is apt
to become torpid at this season of
the year as poisons arising from
stagnant water or decaying vegeta-
ton are more numerous and are
through inhalation taken into the
blood. Unless the liver is strong
and active, and furnishes supply
of fresh and pure blood to drive out
the impurities, the above mentioned
symptoms surely follow, and if not
needed. end in more terrible dis
eases and death. Whites Prairie
Flower proves itself the Great Liver
Panacea. Its action on the liver is
different from any other medicine
ever compounded. Its cures are
truly wonderful. Try it. Price, %
and rs cents. m29-3m-d&w
Year: 1878

The London Times thinks that women
will get their rights when they ask for
them. "The right to vote and sit in Par
Lament will be obtained when it is want
ed Just as new bonnets and pony carriaee es
and other little luxuries are obtained now.
Brothers and husbands will be teased into
granting what their female relatives are
wishing for, and they will be just as able
to refuse one kind of petition as another.
The woman will have her own way, wha,
ever it may be. If they have not got votes
it is because they do not care for them"
Year: 1878

Montana has population of SO, 900
and not one business failure has occur
ed during the past year. This prosper
Gus showing is due to the fact that
when a man is on the verge of bank
ruptcy his accommodating neighbors
take him out and hang him to a tree.
Thus business integrity is encouraged
and thrift is stimulated.
Year: 1878

A candid Kentucky editor advances
the suggestion that a sgecial tax OF q
on each pistol owned in the State,
would beat the bell punch plan for
taxation all hollow. He wants TO
tax'em by the barrel, instead OF oy the
drink,
Year: 1878

a traveller in western Iowa while
riding along came to large sign, which
implored him to Look out for the
locomotive" He accordingly rode
down the track for better view, and
while he was obligiDgly ''looking out"
for it, it came along. He saw it, but
be had to sit In the ditch and wait until
freight trait of thirty-seven cars pass
ed by, before he could get back to the
other piece of his horse.
Year: 1878

original color, agith the gloss and
freshness Of youth. Thin hair is
thickened, falling hair checked, and
badness often, though not always,
cured by its use. Nothing can re-
store the hair where the follicles are
destroyed, or the glands atrophied
and decayed. But such as remain
can be saved for usefulness by this
application. Instead of fouling the
hair with a pasty sediment, it will
keep it clean and vigorous. Its
occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off,
and consequently prevent badness.
Free from those deleterious SUBJ
stances which make some prepara-
tions dangerous and injurious to
the hair, the Vigor can only benefit
but not harm it. If wanted merely
for q
Year: 1878

The Sentinel is authority for the statement that daily mail will soon be running between PheniX and Mar icopa Wells. The same paper also states that the proposition to swing the Southern Pacific Mail line from it present route so that it would pass through Phenix was not feasible one. While we would much prefer to have Phenix on the through route, the Maricopa Wells change would prove d great improvement over pres ent arrangements.
Year: 1878

The boot and shoe manufacturies of Chicago have under consideration a proposal from the six Chinese con- panies of San Francisco to supply them with 15OO Chinese at seventy five cents per day. This would throw all the white shoemakers out of em- ployment, as they receive two dollars 4 day. It would be well if every city throughout the East were supplied with Chinese cheap labor; they would then be better able to appreciate the situation in California.
Year: 1878

The Sentinel devotes in its issue of 10th inst column and a half in prov ing that Campbell bought the Enter prise job office, and that paper replies in this language:

 George has by this time been en- frightened as to why the press was consigned as it was, and we hope his mind is at restn

 Why not enlighten your readers, we should like very much to know.
Year: 1878

There can be but one object in bringing about a conflict with the United States and Mexico. and that is that then the opportunity will be presented of proclaiming annexation to the United States.
Year: 1878

TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT OF A NEGRO FOE A TER


RLBLE CRIME.


icy TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.


LOUISVILLE Nov. II. 1873
On Tuesday last In Oldham county Ky, George
Williams coorcd, aged seventeen assaulted and ont
.raged eight-year-cld daughter of Depaty Sheriff
Jack Barbour, OF Louisville Williams incar-
ceratcd but last night body Of abont thirty masked
rode up to the Jail at Lagrange and took
him from his cell. He was placed in the midst of
the squad and the party Immediately hurried out Of
town by the road toward Buckners Station. The
thing was done in very quiet manner. therc being
but little noise or excitement The mob obcyed the
orders of of their number who seemed to have
been chosen the leader.


HUNG TO TREE.


About four miles west of Lagrange and half a mile
east Of Buckners Station they strung the young
gro up to large tree Mr.. Oyerstrees farm, only
few rods north of the Short Line Railroad track.
After the hanging the mob dispersed and left the body
swinging in the air. The corpse partially hidden
from passers by the railroad By the bushes along
the track but the head of the negro plainly Wis
iblc and by several passengers the Short
Line train this morning. The ringcaders of the mob
still at large attempt to arrest them having
been made. Whether Jailer Russell made any effort
to protect the prisoner is unknown
Year: 1878

1ue 00WSpaRorB~

 There are only two kinds of news papers, good and bad. They are like the fruit in the propet's vision. A newspaper may start with an un- dicided character, but in few years it will be very good or very bad. One newspaper is the ally of virtue and the foe of crime, the delectation of elevated taste, aud the mightiest agency there is for making the world better; anothee is brigand, a beslimer of reputation, the right arm of death and hell. One is the angel of intelligence and mercy-the other is a fiend of darkness. The great battle ofthe world is to be fought, no. with swords, but with steel pens; not with bullets, but with type; not with cannon, but with printing pres ses. Men of the press, you are to decide whether the world is to be saved or not. You have more res possibility than any other class of persons. What long strides your profession has made since the time when cast metal tybe was invented, and because two books were alike they were attributed to the devil! The press and the telegraph have gone down into the harvest field to reap. The man who doesn't take q newspaper would have been, at the Centennial, a greater curiosity than the big engine. What contrast from the time when Woolsey saId either the press must go down or the church must go down, and, now, when the press and the pulpit have formed a combinatlon,sa man may preach on Sunday to 300 people, and on Monday morning, through the press, preach: the same sermon to 3OO,0OO! Yet, men of the press, how many words of npathy do you get during the year? Not ten. How many sermons are preached to you? Not one. How many words of exec riation and hypcrcriticism do you hear? About 10000. You have plenty of abuse but no sympathy.

 One great trial of newspaper men is that they are compelled to see more of the shams of the world than any other profession. From tde ed. itorial rooms all the follies and shams are seen day by day, and the temptation is to believe in neither God, man or woman. l only won der that you believe anything. An other trial is inadequate compensa- ton. Literary toil has never been properly requited. The world has a grudge against the man who gets his living by his wits. God knows that there are no harder worked men than the newspaper men of this country-and it IS not on account of the hard times; it is the same in all times. The vast majority of them have to struggle for livelihood. A third trial is the diseased appetite for unhealthy intelligence. You blame the newspapers for giving prominence to murders, scandals, hut no paper would do this if the people did not demand them. They ask
Year: 1878

If the weather yesterday is to be taken 81
a harbinger of what to-day is to be the
sporting folk at Scheutzen Park will have
beautiful weather on the first day of the
first semi>annual meeting of the Whining,
ton Driving Park Association. Yesterday


afternoon there were already half dozen
or so of the flyers on the ground, and mum.
ber came down on the 8 O'Clock boat to New
Castle from Philadelphia, and drove over
later in the evening. The track was being
put in excellent order yesterday and every
thing will be in good train to-day ready for
the sport. '0
Year: 1878

Heuceforth we will give column daily
to correspondence upon any proper subject
for discussion. 1t Is expected that commu-
nications will be written on one side only
OF the paper, and accompanied with the
name of the writer. The HERALD is not to
De considered as endorsing or being in any
way responsible for the opinion of cores
pondents in this column.
Year: 1878

National Associated Press TO the Star.


SHENANDOAH, Pa, April 1S.-This morn
ing while Mrs. Delany, widow residing on
Oak street, in this place, was walking along
the Lehigh Valley Railroad track from Lost
Creek, She was struck by passenger train
and so badly injured that her recovery is
doubtful
Year: 1878

A few days ago party of hunters in the
vicinity of Simpsons Ferry, Kentucky. diis
covered man and his wife dead in iiicir
home. Their names were Simpson, ana
they lived on what is known as the Bond
land. A little son was the only occupant
of the house, and for two days he had kept
his lonely vigils by the corpscs of hr
parents. The little fellow was half craz1
with grief and terror.
Year: 1878

A woman writes to the New York
Sun, stating that women outnumber
men two to one in the churches, and
her deduction is that there will be the
same disproportion between the sexes
in heaven, and disproportion in hell.
But the question arises whether wo-
men viii consider it much of a heaven
where they only have half man
apiece. ihHHil $3.50
Year: 1878

GEN SHERMAN said at West Point
the other day that the President would
have the nerve to defend his title
against violent attempts at disturbing
it, and would have the support of the
army in SO doing.
Year: 1878




1t is sad commentary upon our prison
system, that under it the rule has been, once
criminal always a criminal, and that the
convict thereby has been confirmed in his
criminal tendencies rather than the reverse
My more intimate connection with and OBJ
servation of its administration during the two
years now closing has but strengthened and
confirmed the views | expressed in my for
mer message, and impressed upon me the
conviction that the further carrying out of
the humane and reformatory measures al
ready so happily begun, will result in good
both to the inmates of the prison and to the
State at large.


In this age when the deaf and dumb are
taught to converse freely, the blind to read
and write, and when the faint glimmering in
tellect of the feeble-minded and idiotic is de-
veloped and strengthened into fair intelli-
gence, it would seem that n sovereign State
with all its resources, might be able to turn
back from vice and restore to virtue, YOUTH
many of whom have been brought to the COM
mission of crime more by evil associates and
untoward circumstances, than by innate Grim
inal disposition. To this end, ought not our
criminal laws TO have most careful revision
Ought not the State to own our county iails,
making them simply houses of detention for
the safe custody of prisoners awaiting exam
ination or trial Z Ought not the State prison
accommodations to be enlarged making it
possible for the cOnyicts to be classified and
more thoroughly disciplined and reformed?


RErBmyE OF JOHN p. PHAIR.


On'the day appointed for the execution of
John p. Phair, April g. 1871 and only an
hour or two before the execution was to take
place, a telegram was received from NJ, G.
Downing, of Boston, sent by advice of the
chief of police, saying that he thought he saw
and conversed with Mr.. Phair on the train
coming from Providence TO Boston on the
next day following the murder of Mrs. Friezs;
and also a telegram from Charles II. Taylor
manager of the Boston Globe, vouching that
Mr.. Downing was a reliable man.


Phair left Rutland by the early train on the
morning of the murder and went to Boston
At the trial, and in a statement which he had
caused to be published, he claimed that he
did not stop in Boston, but went directly
through to Providence, stopped over night
and returned to Boston the next forenoon.


The strong evidence of the trial against him
showed that he under the name of "E. f.
Smith" occupied a room that night at the Ad-
ans House in Boston, in which, after he left
was found part of a shawl, which was denti-
fed as having belonged to the murdered wom-
an, and that under the same name the next
morning he pawued in one place watch and
in another an opera glass and some rings,
which were also identified as having belonged
to her. He could not have done this if he
went to Providence and returned as he claim
ed, and as Mr.. DOwning's testimony tended
TO show. There was no time for investiga-
ton. deemed it my duty to stay the eXecu-
Year: 1878

The last named sum has been increased by
individual donations, so that the sum now
available to the erection Of such a monument
is S32, 800.


Tho directors of the Monument Association
have determined to increase this sum to a
much larger amount through private generos-
ity.


UNITED STATES COAST SURVEY.


Information having come to me that the
appropriation by Congress for carrying on
the Geodetc trianguation of the United States
Coast Survey wouldallow of its extension to
this State, | Immediately communicated with
the superintendent of the United States Coast
Survey at Washington. under whose direction
this work is being done. was informed that
on furnishing satisfactory evidence that the
State had been surveyed geologioaly, the de-
partment would undertake to work in this
State.


The required evidence was furnished, and
on my recommendation. Professor Volnoy g.
Barbour, of the Vermont University and
State Agricultural College, was appointed to
perform the work. by this survey, the loca-
tion Of great number of points in the State
and Lake Champlain will be fixed and deter
mined relatively, not only to each other, but
to many other points in other States, and
along the coast Of the United States


LIGHT HOUSES.


I herewith transmit communication from
Colonel Woodruff, engineer of the third
Light House District, relating to some legisla-
ton necessary to render effective IN act pass
el at the last session of Congress. authorizing
the location and construction Of light houses
ut certain points on Lake Mcmphrcmagog.


You will no doubt give the matter fayorn-
bic consideration.


Tue ASrHTAM NATIONAL CEMETERY.


The title to this property is vested in the
Stlte of Maryland ms trustee for the several
States which contributed towards its estab-
lishment and maintenance. The State of YER
mont made such contribution. The board of
trustees Of the cemetery have become involy-
ed in debt Congress, by act Of March I'd,
1871, authorized the Secretary of War TO pay
this indebtedness on the title to the property
being vested in the United States and made
an appropriation for that purpose.


The War Department of the United States
requests the extinguishment of the right of
this State in the property, by the passage of
the act herewith transmitted, that the appro-
priation may be made eifectual to the pay
ment of such indebtedness
Year: 1878

The democratic members Of the
House have held . caucus and have
resolved to make party measure OF
the Banning army bill, reducing the
military force Of the country. They
seem determined to dragoon all the
democratic members into sustaining
it. This bill has been generally char
acterized by the press Of the country
as an outrage and notably many
leading democratic papers have
strongly denounced it: prominent
among these is the Missouri Republic
an. About the last thing that de.
mocracy did before going into the re.
bellion was to cripple and destroy the
army Of the country. Rush on, gen.
tlemen in your indefensible course,
It is digging your graves rapidly and
with certainty.
Year: 1878

THERE seems to be no doubt but
that the President has continued his
commission business in the sffairs of
Louisiana to the end of obtaining the
recent decision of the Supreme Court
for the release of Col Anderson. Ger
tain it is that he has had an agent
there comforting with the authorities.
Whether this last conference and the
release of Anderson from the clutch
es of . rascally court-the rascals be-
ing on the bench and concerned in
the prosecution, rather than in the
prisoners sseat-involves any bargain,
. part of which is to be consumated
hereafter in Presidential appoint
ments to Office, or some other like
nsideration, remains to be seen.
Year: 1878

"Gentlemen Of the jury" said Tus-
carora lawyer" "What kind of swear
ing has been done In this case Here
we have . physicisn, Q man who,
from his high and noble calling,
should be regarded % one who would
scorn to stain his soul with perjury or
be guilty Of giving utterance to an
untruth. But what did he testify.
gentlemen I put the question to
him plainly, AZ you all heard s.
where was this man stabbed r And
what was his reply? Unblushingly,
his features as cool and placid Is
though cut from marble, he replied
that the man was stabbed about an
inch and . half to the left Of the me-
dian line, and about an inch above
the umbilicus, and yet we have prov
ed by three unimpeachsble witnessea
that he was stabbed Just below the
Young America hoisting works"
Year: 1878

The House committee on Banking
and Currency, have unanimously
agreed to report favorably, bill to
authorize the national banks to invest
their legal tender reserve in United
States bonds. The amount Of legal
tenders now locked up as reserves in
the banks, is about $4,000. Should
this bill pass it will increase the cir
culation that much.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, March 22-The Sem
ate Committee on Elections, to-day,
received report from Wadleigh,
who was directed to consider and re-
port whether the claim Of Corbin, for
a seat in the Senate can properly be
considered by the committee or
whether the vote of tho Senate ad-
hitting Butler to a seat has prcclud-
ed further action by the committee.
Wadleigh reported that the case is
still before the committee for action
upon its merits. A majority of the
committee adopted the report and
will consider the case at next meet
inO
Year: 1878

JUDaE SAMPSON has introduced .
resolution for an amendment to the
federal constitution providing for the
election Of the president and vice.
president by . direct vote Of the peo-
pie. We have never been able to see
why plan upon this basis would not
be a good one,
Year: 1878

The call is made for the Republic


an State Convention. The time fixed


is about the usual date for our State


Conventions and is, perhaps, as favor.
able q time 40 can be found, all things
considered. The Congressional elec-
tions will add zest to this years cam
paign and make it interesting. Iowa
republicanism will no doubt at this
convention, re-assert it's stalwart char
acter Notwithstanding the possible
holding out Of the Davenport Gazette,
until June in its implacability to the
rest of Hawkeye republicans.


It is no time now to abate one jot
or little of backbone perpendicular
The Albany Journal
only utters an old and always appli-
cable truth, but one very much ostra.
cized by the present administration
when it says "true living republican
ism means peace and good will to the
South, but not the abandonment of
rights. 1t means, in short,
the best inspirations of the patriotic
masses Of the land, organized and vi
talized in positive action"
Year: 1878

The Secretary of the Treasury has
authorized the mints at Phiadelphia,
San Francisco and Carson and the
Assay office at New York, to pur-
chase silver bullion in lots not ex
ceeding ten thousand ounces at equiv
alent of London rates, for coinage
into standard silver dollars and pay
ment to be made in silver dollars at
the mints and assay Office so soon as
a sufficient number shall have been
coined for that purpose. In the
meantime payment to be made at the
latter places in gold coin. This is
intended to place the holders of small
amounts of silver on the same footing
with owners of large amounts and to
use the new silver dollars in the pur.
chase of bullion.
Year: 1878

The Senate proposes to investigate
Judge Whitaker, Of the Supreme
court of Louisiana, as to his being
defaulter etc.


II reports are true this man was in
famous before the proceedings in The
Anderson case made him so. We
think it highly proper TO lay the facts
before the public and make known
why it is that Whitaker is upon the
bench instead of in the penitentiary.
Year: 1878

4 lady writes to the Country
Gentleman in 1860 | joined my
husband down in southwestern
Virginia, and was there during
the war, and l was engaged in
raising poultry. | went into the
chicken.house one morning for
eggs, and when | came out had to
make a complete change of ap-
parel. l recollected Of reading in
the Country Gentleman that the
feeding of onions to poultry would
exterminate poultr! lice. | began
at ounce by chopping the oniols
fine, and mixing with corn meal
and hot water. After standing a
short time it was fed to the poul
try, and in less then three weeks
the little pests had entirely dis
appeared I used to take onion
tops and cut them DIP fine and mix
with the meal, wetting it with sour
milk or clabber (when | had it, to
feed to the chickens one or two
days in the week, until they were
large enough to eat grain or small
corn.


never lost a chicken with
gapes during the five years | was
there. I asked a Yankee refugee
from the border in what way lice
on chickens caused the gapes. He
said it weakened them so that
they could not sneeze and throw
out the worms. The feeding of
onions will not cure the gapes,
but is a preventative. My neigh
bors would say that because | was
in a new place was. why | had
such good luck in raising chick.
ems. | told them about feeding
the onions, and they found them
very good. l told them I should
lose many Of my early chickens,
just as they did, if I followed
their example, in giving twenty
two chickens to one hen the lst of
April. There would be half.
dozen or more little chicks on the
outside of the hen that her feathers
could not cover in a cold, frosty
morning. Three feedings a week
in the spring and a part Of the
summer is sufficient. | seldom fed
the onions IN the fall or winter.
One of your correspondents
thought the eggs would taste Of
the onions, but they do not. ]
have noticed their flavor in butter
early in the spring, when the COWS
(down south) ate leeks, which
we're more forward than the grass
but there is not partical OF this
taste in the egge from the hens
ea.ing the onions. My neighbors
have had the same good results in
feeding onions.
Year: 1878

believing that it would be great
" to the interest Of this parish to
establish a Real Estate Agency in
the town Of Abbeville. | have
assumed the position, and inform
all those who have lands, planta.
tons or town lots for sale, OF
those who desire to purchase the
same, to call at my store where
shall always be ready to give full
particulars and make agreements.
Having now communications with
different PARTIES in the United
States who are desirous to locate
in this country there are chances
to effect sales or purchases at early
date and on satisfactory terms.


Respectfully,


A. D. MARTIN.