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Year: 1879

THE BELL TELEIa0SE COAFANIs


125 LaSaile street, have received what is called
IA battery transmitter''-the invention OF Prof.
Bell, which will enable one to hear whisper
over the wire. A voltaic current IS passed
through conductors which are connected with
the diaphragm. These conductors of1er a Ger
tain resistance to the current, aud are SO ar
ranged that the vibrations Of the diaphragm
caused BY the sound waves vary this resistance
with every wave, thus producing fluctuations in
the current which correspond to and reproduce
the articulation. a mngneto-te lephone, how
ever. is required as receiver 1hls transmIter
acts more powerfully, for the reason that voltalc
electricity is force much stronger than tie
megneto-elcctric current ordinarily produced BY
the telephone, and on that account the 1aintcst
articulation can be transmitted WITH the utmost
distioctness. The battery telephone, though
possessing the advantage OF louder articulation,
and not being liable to get out OF order under
ordinary circumstances, is more delicate and
complicated in its construction, requires the
maintenance Of battery in connection with it,
aud, occasionally, the attention Of AL electrical
exuert It Will doubtless be used principally in
the larger cities where the induced cur
rents from telegraph and other wires interfere
materially with the weaker currents OF the
Neutrality-suspicious., also in the Transmission OF
special reasons, greater volume of sound is
necessary. It has been used successfully be-
tween Milwaukee and Chicago, and experiments
will be made in day or two with a more distant
point.
mouth close to the diaphragm. The speaker can
stand off four feet and talk in an ordinary tone,
or turn his back to the instrument. Both the
sender and the receiver were in the latter po-
sition Yesterday, and ret each could understand
the other perfectly. Only Two are now 10 use in
this city, but when their working is understood
there will doubtless BE- great demand for them.
Year: 1879

A bad cold, says Ha1rs Journal of Health, like measels or humps, or other similar ailments, will run it's course of about ten days, in spite of what may be done for it, unless remedial means are employed within forty-eight hours of its inception. Many useful life may be spared to be increasingly useful, by cutting cold short off in the following safe and simple manner On the first day of taking cold, there is a very unpleasant sensation of chilIiness. The moment you observe this, go to your room and stay there; keep it at such temperature as will entirely pre- vent this chilly feeling, even if it re- quires hundred degrees of Fahrenheit. In addition, put your feet in water hali leg deep, as hot as you can bear it, ad- ding hotter water from time to time fo, quarter of an hour, so that the water shall be hotter when you take your feet out than it was when you put them in

 then dry them thoroughly, and put or warm, thick, woolen stockings, even il it be summer, for summer colds are the most dangerous; and for twenty-foul hours eat not an atom of food; bu drink as largely as you please of an, kind of warm teas, and at the end of tha time, if not sooner, the cold will be eff fectually broken, without any medicin whatever. Efficient as the above mean are, not one in thousand will attend t them, led on as men are by the hop that cold will pass off of itself never theless, this article will now and thel pass under the eye of wise man, wh does not choose to run the double risl oa taxing physic and dying too,
Year: 1879

"Ain't this just terrible weather Did you sec Hattie Jones' new hat It is seldom, might say, hardly ever Well. I'd teach her more manners as that hear old Sog's drinking awful Did you see that poor family to-day I'd show Mrs. Malouey what's lawful Now never repeat what say How much are you payin' for butter I've got bad boil on my back They took him home on a shutter .t I think I'll try new tack -.s They say she is brazen and giddY- Well, ta, ta; good morning, so long .t Is it truth ye are telliu me, Biddy-. Ha, ha! you don't say so. What! Strong s' And thus in a crowded street car May be thrown those pebbles "they say, Which may cause more than ripples by out

 spreading far

 In the ocean of the talk of the day. ...
Year: 1879

A soldier just returned from the theatre of war had gone to the village of Karnau chowka, in Russia. While there he was asked to be godfather to child. The Pope who performed the rite was a venerable man of about sixty years of age, and the soldier was so impressed with his devotional demeanor that at the conclusion of the ceremony he presented to him a gold piece as an honororiun,. The unusual value of the gift attracted he attention of the priest. He asked the soldier if he had many more similar pieces. The latter answered without reserve that he had been able to save h1s pay, and had been otherwise fortu- nate, and that he had turned all into gold, which he carried with him. The cupidity of the priest was aroused. The better to secure his object, he took his deacon into his confidence, and then re- solved to watch for an opportunity to rob the soldier. A few days later, the latter set out upon his journey home. He had to pass through thick wood. This the conspirators had learned before hand. They lay in wait for him, at- tackled him, felled him to the earth and literally gnawed his throat in the ab- sence of weapons sufficiently homicidal. Having robbed him, they left him by the wayside convinced that he was dead or dying, and could tell no tales. But some peasants coming up shortly after ward found the unfortunate man stiI living. They were so prompt and skill full in their attentions that he recovered consciousness, and was able before hi death to indicate clearly who were hi assassins. Theyare now in the hands O the police.
Year: 1879

A SINGULAR INCIDENT happened at a store in Brockton the other day. A gentleman trying on pair of buckskin gloves found gold ring inside, on which was inscribed the owners name, that person having tried on the gloves previously and the ring having slipped from his finger in withdrawing his hand. It is said that this is the third time the thing has happened at that store,
Year: 1879

A woman who comes into church half


an hour late in order to show off her


good clothes, should be looked upon


mildly. She is simply making room


in Heaven for two women in calico.
There is something passing strange


about human nature. If man had to


support his family by playing billiards


at two dollars day, he'd swear he had
to work awful hard.-MiddletO,on Tran
| script.


There was never yet boy so good
that he didn't have an overweening de-


sire to look for lump sugar if he came


home and found that his mother had


gone to a neighbor's to "borry flat
irons"


There is Norristown in Pennsylva-
mia and Morristown in New Jersey,


and when you are sending money by


mail to pay an old debt of twenty


years standing you cannot be too care
fnl of the address.


Beware of the landlord who wants


you to make his hotel your home. He
invariably arrives at the opinion that
when you are home you cut your beef


steak with hatchet and mastieate it
with corn-sheller.


Lightning struck tree in Georgia


to which mule was tied, splintered it


to kindlings and melted the buckles on
the halter, and yet that mule was


browsing on the fallen limbs when
hunted up. Are mules non n-conductors :?
Year: 1879

Next time you go out on the Michi-
gan Central Road, take seat on the
right-hand side Of the car, so that you
may notice, about ten miles down the
road, little, old, red farm house. The
curtains will be down, the doors shut.
and rank weeds and tall grasses will
meet the flying glance in the front
yard. A month ago old Nan Rogers
lived there !; to day the place is in the
keeping of rats and mice and desola-
tion. The old woman was a widow and
childless. If she had q relative any
where in this great world, those who
She lived all alone, having only bit of
land, and being aided by kind neigh
bors to raise enough to supply her
wants. Seven or eight years ago, when
her last child left home to meet vio-
lent death on this same road, the men
of the rails became interested in that
quaint old farmhouse. One night
they saw bright light in one of the
windows. Its rays streamed out over
the flowers and fell upon the rails along
which the wheels thundered, and the
engineer wondered over the signal.
The lamp was there ths next night and
the next, and it was never missed for a
single night until one evening a month
ago. Old Nan, deprived of husband
and children, made friends with the
rushing trains and their burdens. The
train-men soon found that the lamp
was for them, and they watched for it.
During the early evening hours they
saw old Nanny's face behind the light
or at the door, and thousand times
conductors, engineers and brakemen
have called cheerily through the dark
ness:


Good night, old Nanny-God bless
you !"


Winter and summer the light was
there. Winter and summer the train
men looked for it, and the more
thoughtful ones often left bit of
money with the station men beyond, to
help the old woman keep the bright
rays shining. The lamp was not there
for one train, but for all, and all men
understood the sentiment and appreci-
ated it.


One dark night, not long ago, when
the wind howled and the raindrops
beat fiercely against the headlight and
cab, the engineers missed the signal
light. They looked for it again and
again, as one suddenly misses an old
landmark in city, and when they
failed to find it, the hand instinctively
went to the throttle, as if danger lurked
on the curve beloV. Each train abroad
that night looked for the signal, became
anxious at its absence, and made in
quiry at the stations above and below.
Next day men went down to the little
old house, fearing old Nanny might be
ill. There sat the lamp on the window
sill, but the oil was exhausted. In her
bed, seeming to have only fallen asleep,
was the poor old woman, cold and dead.
Life and the lamp had gone out to-
gether, and men of rough look and
hardened heart replied as they heard
the news:


Poor old woman! May her spirit
rest in Heaven !-Detron Free Press.
Year: 1879

Several of the leading farmers in

 the Salt River Valley, will this year

 experiment with sugar cane and up.

 land rice, the latter growing very

 luxuriantly in other sections of coun-

 try whose climate is similar to that of

 ours. In Texas it is being cultivated

 to large extent on lands where but

 little irrigation is necessary. We

 are glad that some of our agricultur-

 ists will depart from the custom of

 planting nothing but wheat, barley

 and corn for a change or rotation of crops is just as important and beni-

 ncial as that of change of officials

 in the political world. To make

 farming successful, there must bc

 a mixed agriculture Until our

 farmers have tried it, they have no

 idea of the recuperative power there ia in 1and ,pni1hich a succession of different crops are raised. While one crop exhausts the soil of that particular element which enters largely into its composition, there aae..aecanalziing in inc seil, ele- 5nenEs needed by other crops of different character. Change of rota- ton is one of natures laws. Con tinued sunshine and pleasant weather would not answer Dew brings :aaeHmaBi1Fogcn from the air and sun shine liberates the acids and grows Is followed by the frosts of winter In short the earth rOtates that it may bring forth, and the farmer, to pro- duce the largest amount of crops, and at the same time keep up the ferIil- it7 of his soil must have a rotation of crops. It is fallacy to think that nothing but cereals will grow here and that it is the most productive crop raised. This valley can raise all i kinds of fruit, with but ordinary care. On lands similar to this valley | in Texas, the cot on, fax, rice and i other productive crops are raised and with profit Upland rice, it is said needs but little irrigation and can be grown in this valley as we'll as wheat or barley. It is to be hoped that it will be tried, as well as others we have mentioned. To the farmers oi this valley, this section of our Territory looks forward for success, as it Hes in their hands more than all other professions As Swift says, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow upon spot of, ground where only one grew before, would deserve bet ter of mankind than all the politi- cans put together"
Year: 1879

BEDFORD BASIN. N. S., Sept. IA light
breeze is blowing to-day from the northeast
and the water is in better condition, now for
rowing than it has been for several days
past. The prospects for the Smith Ross
contest are therefore bright Both men are
at present out for spin.
Year: 1879

The information was brought to this city
on Thursday afternoon that the body of a
man had been discovered that morning on
the high road, near what is known as the
Widow Meek's place, which 10 situated on
the ridge between Black river and Cache
bottom, ard about seven miles from Corn
ing Justice Gilbert, as eX-officiO coroner
as soon as possible gathered jnry togeth
er and proceeded 10 the point indicated
and there found the body as stated, and
identified it as that of Elias Henson. The
face of t e deceased was terribly distigured
by horrible looking hole made by bullet
and buck-shot in the left cheek, a little
above the mouth, and which were found
lodged in the back Of the neck. He was
also shot through the breast Before the
coroner and his jury had reached them,
Mrs MeekS and her family had left, and
started for the West bat Deputy Sheriff
Mcneil was sent after them with sub
poena, and they arrived here yesterday and
testified in the matter Mr.. Lindsey aid
his family have been only few days ia
the heighborhOOd, and from them were
cleaned all the particulars that up to this
time could be obtained in relation to the
matter. Their story is briefly this: That
Henson was stopping for the past few days
at the house of Mrs. Meeks, which is under
the same roof with that of the Lindseys,
and that on the evening of Wednesday a
party of five or six disguised aud armed
men called at the house, and on Henson see
them. and attempting 10 escape through the
front door, he vas seized by two OF them
who stood guard there. They then demand
ed a rope from one of the ladies Of the house,
and on procuring it bound their victim
around the arms, aud putting. a moose
around his ne. k led him away. In about
ten or fifteen minutes after three shots. were
heard-and these were Henson's death
knells.


As the coroners jury-not only one but
two of them--are ivestigating This --latest
deed of deviltry, we forbear any comment
whatever in relation to the atfair.--Clay
County Courier, 18th.
Year: 1879

A man whose life had been spent ex-
clusively within the boI ders of his native
county of Sussex and the greater part Of
in the widest and most remote region of
that part Of the State, came up to Will
ming on day or two ago to visit some
friends living in the Eighth Ward. Upon
reaching the house, he was about to
,ock for admittance when he observed
the door-bell, thing he never seen be-
fore. The door stood ajar and he OPEN
ed it cautiously and peeped inside to see
it after having satisfied himself as TO
its use, he gave the knob pull and set
the bell jingling at great rate.


The look of astonishment and pleased
surprise that spread over the face of the
Sussex county citizen as soon as the
sound Of the door bell reached his ears,
is said, by parties who were watching
him, to have been Of the completest ma.
ture. lie commenced pulling the bell
every half minute, and with every pull
would utter an exclamation like this :
"Well, now, If that aint scandalOus! 1t
beats the fog horn down at Indian River"


The lady of the house, who had been
watching him all this time, came forward
and admitted him at length, but bad to
make a great effort TO conceal her merri-
ment.
Year: 1879

The regatta that is to take place ON
Saturday was noticed in the GAZETTE
several days ago, and the different classes,
the prizes, the course and other particu-
lars were given at that time. Mr.. Sam
uel Moore proprietor of the hotel at Sew
enth street and Railroad Avenue is at the
head of the matter, and he stated last
evening that he thought it would be a
decided success. If the wind is good,
there will be some fine sailing done, as
the fastest yachts and skiffs in Wilmington
will participate.
Year: 1879

James Trusty, colored lad of abom
eighteen years, was before the Mayor this
morning on the charge of vagrancy.


Frank Grubb, watchman at the Cool
Spring Reservoir, testified that the priso-
ner was continually loafing around the
Reservoir at nights, and whenever he
saw an opprtunity he would slip into
one of The large empty water pipes, and
sleep there during the night.


His Honor informed James, he would
give him place at New Castle 10 sleep
for ten days.
Year: 1879

The members of the Water Witch
Fire Company are very indignant this
morning over severe beating their
horses received last night from the
hands of II member of the company. The
whipping occurred during the run to the
fire. while the engine was being driven
up Eighth street hill. The horses had
been driven long I, i tance before that,
owing to difficulty in finding where the
fire was, and when the foot of the hill
was reached they were exhausted, and
in reality unable to pull the engine until
they rested. As horses will, they re-
fused to pull, when a member of the
Water Witch Company, who is also one
of the directors, ordered James M.
Josephs, The driver, to give him the
whip. This was done. and he at once
fell upon one of the horses, the pentlrI
of the two, and belabored him in ami ia
human manner.


lnnumerable whelts were raised all
over his back and launches, and in
many places, the skin was lacerated and
the blood flowed out coplously. This
morning, the horse could not bear the
harness on his back. The other horse
was also severely hurt. The members of
the company asked the reporter to re
commend that the s. =. c. A. prosecute
the man who has SO badly treated the
horses. but be told them that it was their
place TO prosecute.
Year: 1879

TIE VALUE OF AN EGG.-The white Of
an egg is said to be a specific for fish
bones sticking in the throat 1t is to be
sw. llowed raw, and will carry down a
bone easily and certainly. There is an.
other fact touching eggs which it will be
we'll to remember. When, as sometimes
by accident. corrosive sublinste is swal-
lowed. the white of one or two egg taken
will neutralize the poison, and change
the effect to that OF dose of calomel
The skin ofan egg is also and excellent
poultice for boiis, etc, possessing great
drawing properties.
Year: 1879

lion. Then the white inhabitants of the
South, sullen at the failure of their attempt
to oyorturn the Government of which the
Fourth of July was the birthday, no longer
observed it. The negroes, to whom it had
not given freedom, adopted the day and
with the Union men of the South kept up
the custom. But they too have
but for two reasons. One Is that such
celebrations are distasteful to their masters,
for now the negroes have masters to whom
LEGREE was saint that should be canon
lied for his kindness, his patience, aud his
virtues Another reason is that even if the
masters permitted it the negroes have no
longer the means to celebrate the Fourth OF
July In the first few years of their free
dom the negroes made good wages, and, the
Republican party being in power, they were
enabled in most instances to secure the
money they had earned All this is changed
now "our bravest and best rule the South
from the Potomac to the Rio Grandc, and from
the Ohio River to the Gulf Of Mexico, and
negroes have no rights except the rights
to labor and suffer- The law 10 longer conf
| pels the white man to he honest in his deal
ings with his former slaves, and the result
| is, in nineteen cases out of twenty, after n
years labor at the most profitable indus
tries in the world, the raising of cotton,
tobacco, and sugar, the negro lnborer has
earned less than subsistence and is in
debt TO his employer. Every one who
knows anything, even enough to
edit Democratic paper or act
| as dOorlieeper for Democratic
House, knows that the negroes engaged in
this labor earn more than they receive, and
are deliberately and Systematically SWIM
died out of the results of their labor
Hence the negroes have no money TO ex-
pend in that way, and the result is that the
Fourth of July is not celebrated i'll the
South by any class.


OF course there are q few exceptions, where
there are small gatherings or where some
crack rifle club wishes to display its drill
uniform, and Secession flag, but the rule il
no celebration" We 10 longer hear o


grand barbecucs, of gun-fring, of speecle


made, as in former days. Children are 10


taught that the Fourth of July was tn


birthday of liberty on the contrary, it j


brought into rdicule ms the principle


which were cnunciated on that day are de


ridcd and scofied at. We hope once NOR


TO see the time when the day Will all owe


this land be regarded as it was in the past
Year: 1879

demnation in the fact that the responsible
parties are accepting General GRANT as a
possibility, if not n necessity, for 1880. 1t
was to "kill Off GRANT for q third term
that the Republican party was permitted to
be slaughtered in those States, and it is u
very easy matter to put your fingers on the
Northern leaders who did t.
Year: 1879

Now the marshnls are to be hiittlozed.
II they dare to arrest Democrat who mgy
be in the exercise of his peculiar partisan
prerogative of ballot-box stuffing or cor
rupting elections he will not be included in
the benefits of the next winters deficiency
hill
Year: 1879

Ir has come to pass once more in the his


tory of our Government that the term Solid


North, politically applied, is again synono-
NOUS with concentration Of all the loyal
elements ofour citizenship. five were given
TO crying over spilled milk much might
DE said IN this connection regarding thesnp-
preston Of loyalty, and the dispersion Of
the Republican party in the Southern
States through the selfish jealousies, OF the
cowardice aui imbeeility Of some of our
own Republican leaders. But the criminal
hlundels, and worse, which wrought this
suppression Of loyal parliaanslhp in the
South, are now receiving sufficient con