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Year: 1878

Golden Medical Discovery
Is alternative. or blood-cleansing.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Pectoral.
Golden Medical Discovery
Is q Cholagogue, or Liver Stimulant.
Golden Medical Discovery


Is Tonic.
Golden Medical Discovery
Year: 1878

We take pleasure IN recommend
ing, and announcing that Prof.
George, will visit you, with the
view of getting up q music school.
An excellent performer and n
thorough master, he is cmlnently
qualified to teach. Now is your
time, if you want your children TO
learn music, to subscribe to bis
class.
Year: 1878

IN the economy of nature, and it is
an undoubted fact that if the birds
were all swept of the face of the
earth man could not live upon it,
vegetation would wither and die !;
insects would become so numerous
that no living being could Withstand
their attacks. The wholes ale de,
struction occasioned by grasShop-
pers which have devastated the
West, is to great extent, perhaps,
caused by the thinning out of the
birds, such rs grouse, prairie hens,
ETC., which feed upon them. The
great anl inestimable service done
to the farmer, gardener and florist
by the birds is only becoming
known by sad experience. Spare
the birds and save the fruit; the
little corn and fruit taken by them
Is more than compensated by the
quantities of noxious insects they
destroy. The long prosecuted crow
has been found by actual expert
ence, to do more good by the vast
quantities of grubs and insects he
devoars than the harm he does in
the grains of corn he pulls up. He
is, after all, rather friend than an
enemy to the farmer.
Year: 1878

MosT people would imagine that
gold mine was more profitable
than silver one, yet the facts do
not justify any such conclusion.
Gold mines, that is, those of the
United States, yield less than twelve
dollars per ton, while the poorest
silver mines yield forty dollars, and
any silver mine that does not yield
fifty dollars per ton is called Glow
grade" Arizona has 10000 mines,
and of all these, there are only one
or two that DO not yield one hun
dred dollars to the ton.
Year: 1878

IT is to be hoped that the terrific
gales which pounded the Atlantic
coast lately with such disastrous
results was the closing act in the
Or ma OF horrors which ha7 mad
the year 1878 a conspicuous period.


Plague, pestllence and famine. de
yonmng and insatiable; hideous
swirls Of roaring winds; mounting
and terrific tidal waves; yawning,
CT edy earthquakes and a summer
Of unparalleled heat-alI these
forces have combined to rob the
world of rest and impart a dark
torethought Of further Ills. Yet the
machinery Of the universe moves on
and We move with it, and the old
earth is yet firm beneath the feet.


The same familiar sun and moon
and stars look down upon us with
the promise of stability. Thus
may we take our bearings again
with the track and trail of disaster.
Year: 1878

the charge was made against her and begged
to be taken to the German saleswoman from
whom she had made the purchase, but this
was refused. No doubt our storekeepers
suffer considerable losses through shop
lifters, and we cannot blame them ior
taking every possible precaution to guard
against such vexatious thefts. But they
are not justified in putting ladies and hon
est women to the annoyance and shame OF
unjUstifiable arrest. The custom OF hurry
ing females of and searching them on u
bare suspicion expressed by some sales
woman or store walker in dry goods store
is getting altogether too common and ought
to be stopped. Any lady falsely charged
does public good by calling her acsusers
to an account before a court Of law.
Year: 1878

Some answers given in the notorious
Vanderbilt trial on Friday present q we'll
known physician as holding theory in re-
gard 10 the sanity of people generally
analogous to the opinion held by certain
man on jury of the obstinacy of his eleven
associates. DR.. Dixon believes that it
would indicate unsoundness Of mind for a
phys to make "a true estimate of his
own worth SO he swears, if he is reported
accurately. Now, in the declarations he
makes in this testimony he takes ground as
an authority Of overwhelming consequence
on all points that relate to insan-
ity. Has he in this assumption Of
the capacity to judge his neishbors made "a
true estimate of his own WORTH" or has he
not? If he has not, if his estimate of his
own worth as an expert is false, palpably
and confessedly false, how ridiculous it is
TO take up the time of the Court with it.
But if it is not false, If his estimate of his
worth is true, then on his own standard he
is man of unsound mind, and what is the
use of the testimony of lunatic on
lunacy? Nearly every great man that ever
lived was insane if we accept the opinions
and theories Of this expert; SO that it would
follow that the great ones who really rule the
world Of men are not to be permitted by the
pigmies who survive them to dispose Of their
own wealth. Experts with opinions pre-.
cisey like this are to be found in eyery
ward Of every lunatic asylum in the known
world for it is one point Of common agree
ment between people with trouble in their
heads that they are locked up because the
world has gone crazy and is in conspiracy
against them. As to the trem endous con-
coction in the form of a question which
Mr.. Lord put to this witness, it needs only
to be said that nothing can be proved by
any answer whatever given to such n rig
marole. There is not one public man in
this city whose life, submitted to the pro-
cess thus employed, could not be tortured
into proving him hopelessly insane.
Year: 1878

Among the commonplaces of the yellow
fever scourge at the South has been the
obliteration of entire families, only the
shade of name remaining. The orphaned
and the widowed of the plague are almost
those of n war, and when the mind is
brought to bear on such wholesale bereaye-
ment it becomes difficult to separate it by
imaginative process into those smaller
groups to any of which the SYM
pathy of the soul would 90 out
instinctiyely. Suffering must be brought
near 10 our own circumstances to be
able TO grasp it. When the sad story
which we print elsewhere is read, and the
poor mother, with her babe, is seen fleeing
from the stricken city where father, brother,
husband and three children have been
hurried to their graves, we can almost pic
ture the gaunt Death stretching its lean arms
to grasp them, no matter how hastily or how
far they would flee. Both are smitten with the
fever, but both survive. See the poor mother,
careless for herself, unsettled in her reason,
still flying from the visible Death. She
feels it overtaking her; she moves the faster,
one object alone pelnB ueHnlte Win ner
amid the wreck Of all that she lived for
few short weeks ago. TO the mother who
has lost all else clings, through the mad
ness that is enclouding her, the one thought,
safety to her child. She leaves her baby at
door she knows will be opened to it-that
but for her whiring brain she might have
known would open to herself She is
mad and she is dying, and still onward
she flies AT last death comes. The great
desire that kept its hold when everything
beside was slipping away had been fulfilled.
SO she went forth in peace. The little waif
of the pestience has found loving care, but
who shall measure its loss in seeking 70 set
any tenderness from others against that
mothers love.
Year: 1878

Nothing could possibly be more imbecile,
more striking as showing how little brains
our precious police bring to the hunting
down Of crime, than the fact that the most
''astute' detectives ON the force spent
whole day directing what the reporters call
1.-THE practised eye" to the other graves IN
st. Marks churchyard to see if Mr.. Stew
arts body had not been put into one OF
them, when the muddy marks all along ex-
listed to show where it had been lifted
over the ratings The discovery Of
the muddy marks was made yesterday
morning and then, on reading the HERALD,
the ''astutes" brought bloodhound; but
the scent was two days old, and it is not
very likely that much will come OF it. We
are not astonished that alter finding the
great merchants remains had actually been
carried out Of the churchyard the detectives
concluded yesterday evening that the ghouls
had used q horse and wagon to remove the
body from the neighborhood. Unless the
thieves have made as bad use of their time
to hide their tracks as the detectives have
in following them they may await the next
extraordinary theory" of the police with
composure


Meanwhile some one has sent an ad-
vertisement to the HERALD which, we
may infer offers for the modest sum
Of one hundred thousand dollars, to
return the body. Another person has
written to the HERALD saying that the
place of concealmcnt will be pointed out if
half million is donated to charitable
institution. We print this communica-
ton, not that we believe our criminal
classes to be philanthropic to this degree,
truth in it worth following. Secrets Of
this nature have come into the
possession of people before now who, not
wishing to profit by them, yet wished to
advance some good interest in divulging
them. Whatever offer is made by the
relatives Of Mr.. Stewart it is to be hoped
that none will include immunity to more
than one of the thieves. The refusal to
make such compromise led, there is little
doubt, to the blank conclusion Of the
search for little Charley Ross but it must
not be forgotten that it put a per-
cmptory stop to criminal practice which
but one successful crime would have made
the common resort of every bold thief in
the United States. The sufferings Of
Christian X. Ross have been long and
bitter, but his heroic determination has
saved like misery perhaps to thousands.
Year: 1878

The first thought that occurs to the FREE
quenter of our seaside summer resorts,
when he reads the story Of the big fire at
Cape May, is how fortunate that it did not
break out when the houses were filed with
men, women and children. These great
hostelries are without doubt very convent
ent for the accommodation of large numbers
Of people seeking fresh air and rest along the
sea shore, but they are te srlully insecure,
being wholly constructed Of infammable
material from cellar to attic. The extent OF
the conhagration at Cape May yesterday
was increased by the prevailing high winds,
which sent the sparks and flames over u
great area, involving all the bnrnable
structures within the track Of the fire.
1t is useless, we suppose. to offer the
opinion that no house constructed for
the accommodation Of more than one
family, should be built wholly or in part Of
wood. No matter what precautions may be
taken by us we can never tell how far the
stupid neglect of our neighbors may involve
large district in calamity Of the nest
fearful character, The danger is, of course,
increased one hundred fold when the build
ings occupied are constructed to burn with
the greatest facility and are SO close to-
gether as to supply fuel ior a fire that
sweeps a thriving town out Of existence in a
few hours. Virginia City, New. furnished
an example of rapid destruction which
should not be forgotten. With strong
northerly wind Long Branch as fashion
able watering place, may be blotted out by
fire any season, just as Cape May has been
devastated. Our dispatches give very
thrilling details that should be treasured
in the memories of those who recklessly
patronize the tinder-box hotels of the New
Jersey coast and inland summer resorts.
II people bent on enjoyment were only to
insist on it's being combined with security
hotel keepers would guarantee the latter by
erecting freproof buildings. The hotel
proprietor is insured and can only suffer
temporary loss in case Of fire, but the
guests, crowded on the upper floors, have
no prospect but one Of horror and death If
ever the cooks neglect the kitchen fire or an
lnebriated boarder throws a lighted match
against the window curtains. Happily, in
the case Of the Cape May fire no lives were
lost This is due, we believe, to the Tor
tunate accident of the fire breaking out
offar fh. close of the season.
Year: 1878

pavements and filthy condition of our
streets. Intelligent citizens have no craze
for m economy which would arrest the
hand Of improvement, whether along the
line of our piers or in the streets OF
the city but they do insist that the
work shall be solidly done and that it shall
cost no more than the real value of the
labor expended npon it. If, therefore,
Mayor Cooper shall prove equal to his po-
sition. he will favor needed improvements
and take good care that they are not brought
into discredit by their excessive cost. AS
the business Of the country and OF the city
is likely to recover from its long stagnation
during his term, he will have great oppor-
tunity to direct the march of local inn
provements if he is wise and courageous
enough to ahjure politics an lend all his
energy to the material welfare of the me-
tropolis.
Year: 1878

The movement started by some Of our
leading citizens about two years ago, with
the object OF encouraging and assisting
females who seek to earn living by the
pursuit Of the decorative art, has expanded
into what promises to be before long one oi
the most useful and fourishing Of oul
many benevolent enterprises. The loan
exhibition at the National Academy of De-
sign last year was very successful and
promises to be even more profitable this
year. This exposition. which is now open,
affords our citizens an opportunity to ex-
anime and study a valuable and classi.
fed collection Of rare articles of art
and virtu, loaned to the society
from many private collections and
grouped together with care, as we'll as with
excellent taste and judgment. The visitors
have the qualification of seeing works Of
great value, that have been brought to New
York by wealthy citizens from all parts Of
the world at enormous cost, and which,
being private property, are not to be seen
at other times except by the personal
friends of the owners The small entrance
fee goes wholly to the charity in behalf OF
which the exhibition is arranged, and
which is the more deserving as it unites in
struction with relief and promotes the self
respect Of the recipients of its favors by
enabling them to earn living by their own
industry and genius Two or three hours
cannot be more agreeably spent than I'm the
six rooms Of the exhibition which sre nov
thrown open to the public.
Year: 1878

A respectable married German woman
was arrested two or three weeks ago at dry
goods store on tho. Bowery charged with
shopliiting. A piece Of embroidery which
was similar to that kept in the store was
seen in her satchel, the accusation was made
that she had taken it from the counter, and
she was arrested, subjected to a search and
committed to the General Sessions on the
affidavit of the proprietor and his assistants.


The accused was tried yesterday, and after
hearing the evidence the Court, on motion
of her counsel, ordered her immediate dis
charge. The piece Of embroidery had been
bought by the lady at the store few days
exchange it, She stated this fact when
Year: 1878

to take back pew in free church.
Nothing is Troublesome TO you that
other people do for you willingly.


Never pay to-day the man you can
put of till tomorrow.


Never trouble yourself to do for an.
other what be can do just as we'll for
himself.


Never buy what you don't want
simply because the man says be Is
just out of it.


DO not poultlce your own elbow for
the boil on another mans neck.


When angry, be sure yon can han.
die your man before you call him .
liar.-Burlingten Hauksye.
Year: 1878

well adapted to raising sheep, which
now is too billy or rocky to plow to
good advantage. There are large
tracts of this land on which one could
pasture sheep for years withou. being
molested. Most spectators would
like to have sheep kept on land of
this sort. ss it would be improved by
their presence. They would prevent
the growth of weeds and bushes, and
would return to the soil more than an
equivalent for what they CONSUME
EE.
Year: 1878

A rather queer story is told, and


can he vOucbed for by over dozen


persons in Springfield. 1t appears,


about three years ago . young man


living in Summit country got married,


and in due time bis wife gave birth


to child. which was q girl. When


the child was about one year old its


mother died. About FIVE months
later the young widower became lone.
ly and took unto himself another


wife. But. before doing SO, be took
all bis first wife's clothing, packed it
in trunk. locked It up and allowed


no one to have charge of the key but


himself. Among the clothing put
away was. her wedding shawl and q
pillow bis wife made for her first born,
and also some toys she bad bought
just before she died. Then be brou ght


home wife n. 2. who, it is said, made
as good a mother as the average step
mothers do. Things went on lively
till one night last week. when there


was a party at the next neighbours


house. So. after putting the bal 10
its little bed. the father and moiber
No. 2 went over to spend the evening
at the party. Shortly after they left
two men came along on their way to
the party also. They saw q wonder
full light 10 the house and thought it
might be on fire. They also heard
the cries of the babe as though in
great pain. They welt to the house,
and, as soon as they reached the door,
the light went out and all was silent
ss the grave within. They fastened
to the house where the party was,
and told the man what they saw and
beard In bis house as they came nv.
Five or six men, including the owner
Of the house, started to investigate
the report. When they arrived. they
found every door and window fast as
they were when the owner left. On
going inside. every thing was found
to be 10 its place, except the child.
which. after long search, was found
upstairs under the bed on which it's
mother died. covered up with its
mothers wedding shawl, and its little
head resting on the pillow its mother
made for it, sound asleep. Alongside
of it lay its little playlhings. On ex.
aiming the trunk it was found to 10
locked, and nothing missing except
tho above mentioned articles. Now,
bow things got out of the trunk and
the key in the owners pocket. and be
half mile from it, and how the child
got upstairs IL q mystery. The above
may sound little dime-novelish, but,
as we said before. the facts 10 the case
can be and are voucbed for BY over .
dozen citizens of Springfield.
Year: 1878

The Post Office Department has
ruled that husband has no control
over tho correspondence Of bis wife.
But this decision will not prevent q
man from carrying bis wife's letter 10
his inside coat pocket three weeks b.
fore mailing it.-Norristoun Herald.
Year: 1878

VEGETIEE-When the blood becomes hfeless and stagnant either from change of weather of climate

 want of exercise, irr gular diet, from other cause, the Vegetine will renew the blood, carry of the putrd humos cleanse the stomach, regulste the bowels and impart tone of vigor to the whole body.
Year: 1878

The Boston Herald thinks the numerous failures in the past month are due to the near approach of the repeal of the bankrupt law We hope so We were afraid that it might be caused by the general desire to visit the ex- position at Paris. -Dan5u,y NetoS
Year: 1878

The late Mark Hopkins having left no will his immense property must goto his wife and his adopted son. It is believed that this one thing will set the legal profession back full twenty years.
Year: 1878

It IS proposed that the Senate meet only once every two hundred years, and then re. main in session only twenty-four hours. The object of this bill is to give Senator Sharon a chance to spend portion of his time in the Senate Chamber
Year: 1878

The Telegraph and Messenger, pub
lished at Macon, in Georgia, is a repre-
sentative paper Of its section and par.
ty. fully as much 80 as any Of the dali
lies Of the smaller Southern cities
Here is one OF its editorials not yet a
month old:


I'VE cannot but indulge the hope
that when We have helped 10 extinguish
the public debt, and time has healed
the gaping wounds Of the past. when
reason and brotherly love shall havo
fully regained the ascendancy over
prejudice and hate, even though ID
shall be in the next generation. brave
and honorable people Of the same
blood and lineage will see TO il that
the value OF our property in slaves
shall be returned 10 those from whom
il was vrongfully vrested. II will do
no harm 10 keep this question before
the people. that they may preserve the
records and proper memoranda Of their
former slaves, IN the event that a re-
tnrning sense OF justice on the part OF
the Federal Government may compen.
safe them, al least in part, for the loss
Of this portion Of their rightful pro.
perty.
Year: 1878

alone could save him and his compan-
ions from the cold arms Of death. The
superstitioss terrors OF the seamen now
hurried the captain away from the
wreck, the log-book alone being
brought away; and from this it appear
ed that the ill-fated vessel was brig.
which had belonged to the port OF
London, and had sailed for the Arctic
more than fourteen years before.
Year: 1878

Are the most
effective and
congeHial pur-
gative ever dis
covered They
are mid, but
enectuhl In
their opera
tion moving
the no we Is
surely an d
without pain.


Although gen
tie in their OPP
Grafton, they
Year: 1878

CAUSE OF THE MINNEAPOLIS EXPLOSION.
MYSTERIOUS explosions accumulate. Soda
fountains, candy factories, and now -four
mill, are proved to explode with violence
beyond the force Of gunpowder. Here is
a field which the chemists ought to explore
aud clear up as soon as possible. The i'm
mense roof of the Washburn mill was sent
up into the air like a basin inverted over
mammoth fire cracker, and the explosion
instantly communicated itself TO the neigh
boring mills, showing that they were filed
with the same infiammable material, what
ever IL was. 1t would appear that it could
have beea nothing else but the impalpable
dust OF flour and the gas it generates. ac-
cordiug to the opinion of eminent German
and English chemists who have studied
similar instances OF explosion. If this be
so the workmen i'm these huge mills are con-
stantly in the midst of a danger almost as
great as that to which the workers in pow
der mills are liable, or that which used to
haunt mines before the Invention Of Sir
Humphrey Davy's salty lamp. Similar
preventives or safeguards viii doubtless
yet be discovered which will preserve mil
lers from such terrible casualties as that
at Minneapolis, as to which it Is a wonder
that the loss Of life was no greater.-l Bos-
ton Journal.
Year: 1878

AN ELOQUENT SPEECH the banque
given by the Commercial club Of Boston.
to their prominent Southern guests, among
the very best speeches made was that OF
Senator Gordon. Following is the closing
portion:


There are laws OF human action as re-
sstless as those of the material world. ou
can no more check the good will in this
country since the causes of difference are
gone, than they can prevent the flow of
your Merrimackjon its way to the sea. In
deed more easily stop the river in its course;
Tor TO do this you have only to build wall
as high as its source-ss high as the sRow-
DRIFT on the White mountains; while to
prevent people inhabiting the same coun-
try, lnheritOrs OF the same memories and
rights and liberties, with the same blood
in their veins, with common interests,
common hopes and common future. from
coming together as friends, you must
build barrier between them as high as
heaven itself. for the law which compels
them 10 the edict Of the God Of humanity
o my countrymen! The causes that divid
ed Us are gone, and gone forever. The
interests which now unite US win unite US
forever.
Year: 1878




Here is shoe shop. One man
in the shop is always busily at
work during the day-always in
dustrious. In the evening he goes
courtlng good, nice girl. There
are five other men in the shop who
don't do any such thing. They
spend half their working hours in
loafing, and their evenings in dis
sipation. This first young man
by and by cuts out from these
Others and gets n boot and shoe
store of his own. Then he marries
the girl. Soon he Is able to take
his wife ont to ride of an evening.
The five Iaborers, his former COM
panions, who see him indulging in
this little luxury, retire TO neigh
boring saloon and pass a resolu-
tion that there is an eternal strug-
gle between capital and labor.