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Year: 1876

Superintendent Wootten, of the
Philadelphia ~ Reading Railroad, re.
Gently invented appliances for locono-
tivos, by which they were enabled to
use as fuel the the coal dust which has
hitherto been considered as useless
The Reading EdgLe says:


"Test after test has been made with
the greatest satisfaction and itisalmost
impossible to form an ACCURATE idea of
the value of this invention. There are
mountains of this coal dirt lying in
the anthracite regions thas have been
heretofore considered useless and
valueless. Thousands upon thousands
of tons of this material have been
heaped up by coal operators who were
greatly exercised because they could
not get it out of the way. In many
instances it cloggcd trade. One of the
reasons for abandoning a portion of
the canal above Port Clinton was be-
cause it was being continually clogged
up with coal dirt. The small streams
washed it down by the ton.


What has heretofore been consider
ed nuisance is brought into life and
value by this invention. 1t is the
simplist of all methods of burning it.
About twenty different parties have
been engaged in making fuel out of
coal dirt by pasting it together with
various substances. All these are re-
ported failures. Mr.. Wootten takes
the bare coal dirt, throws it in the 10,
comotive or stationary engine furnace
and it burns the same as anv other
coal. The furnace has no bars, but a
perforated plate through which blast
is introduced when required. The
various tests made have acted very
satisfactorily.


AT stationary engine furnace al
the lower shops in this city, there is
an automatic attachment which puts
on the blast itself, when required
and shuts it off also when necessary
as the register on the steam gauge re
quircs. If the gauge wishes a steady
pressure of so pounds it can have il
automatically by the use oe the sell
acting attachment. The invention il
one of the most valuable ever brough
into use in this section of the coun
trV
Year: 1876

What would l do for you my dear.


If l to-day could be lord of my life:
Suppose that we both We're sitting here.


Mere man and woman, not husband wife,
Would your faded face be fair, and your


brow


What but the wrinkles there would see?
Would love you then as do now >


But you shall answer, dear, for me
love not easily, love but few;


Light come, light go, is not my way;
No one has known my heart but you,


And you not its deeps, as you shall to-day.
Put your hand on ii and feel it beat


Where is the other impossible she
Can quicken it. kneeing at my feet?-


But you shall answer, sweet, for me.
Love is forever, and only one;


For when 1t enters surrended hears
1t is as the supreme master-none


Can dispossess him till life departs.
And none succeed him of royal line:
Vacant and darkened throne must be
If desolation should fall on mine


But you shall answer, love for me.
If l were king of the world. my dear.


You could not be more my queen than
now
You would have the same old lover here,
Except that his crown would be on youl
brow
Can anything be too good for you
That king can give you? Ask and sec
Name me the thing that l will not do
For you shall answer, wife for me.
r. II. Syot,iaId in H0per'S
Year: 1876

except those based upon the recommenda-
ton of q Democratic coroner or forced by
a committing magistrate. To attempt to
disarm the people would be to raise an in
surrection and step on White League corns,
aud so numbering goes on in the old way.


Human life here has no fixed value, and it
must be made much cheaper in order to
carry the State for the shotgun party.
Year: 1876

The regular monthly meeting Of the New
Orleans Chamber Of Commerce will be held
Monday evening. An interesting matter
which will come before the meeting will be
the amendment of Mr.. West to the Senate
river and harbor BILL and it's probable effect
upon the commerce of the city. A large at
tendance is expected, Is this is matter in
winch everybody takes an interest.
Year: 1876

See the Democratic testimony as to the
social standing of the Baton Rouge bull
dozers. They steal hogs. lay the oliense to
colored men, and then beat or
murder them to cover their own misdeeds.
Year: 1876

A book agent, who has retired from active
labor upon the hard-earned accumulation of a
life of Industrious cheek, says that the great
secret of his success was when he went to a
house where the female head of the family
presented herself, he always opened by saying,
Il beg you pardon, miss, but it was your
mother / wanted to see.'


That always used to get 'em. They not only
subscribed for my books themselves, but told me
where could find more customers.
Year: 1876

Scribner's Monthly says: INo


man now standing on an emf
inence of influence and power,


and doing great work, has arrived


at his position by going up in an
elevator. He took the stair way,
step by step. He climbed the


rocks; often with bleeding hands.
He prepared himself by the work
Of climbing for the work he is now
doing. He never accomplished
an inch of his elevation by stand
ing at the foot Of the stairway
with his mouth open and longing.
There is no "royal road" to any
thing good, not even to wealth.
Money that has not been paid for
in life is not wealth. 1t goes as IL
comes. There is no element Of
permanence in it. The lnan who
reaches his money in an elevator
does not know how to enjoy it so
it is not wealth to him. TO get a
high position without climbing to
it; to win wealth without earning
it; to do fine work without the dis
cipline necessary to its perform
ance; to be famous, or useful, or
ornamental, without preliminary
cost seems TO be the universal de-
sire Of the young. The children
would begin where their fathers
left off.


What exactly is the secret OF
true success in life9 1t is to do,
without flinching and with utter
faithfulness, the duty that stands
next 10 one. When a man has
mastered the duties around him
he is ready for those of a higher
grade, and he takes naturally ono
step upward. When he has mas.
tered the duties of the new grade,
he goes on climbing There are no
surprises to the man who arrives
at eminence legitimately. 1t is
entirely natural that ho should
be there, and he is as much Mt
home there, and as little eIated,
as when he was working patient
ly at the foot Of the stairs.
Year: 1876

During the campaign we have
been issuing and sending out sew
cral hundred extra 2copics, AZ.
ter this iRue n great many will
be cut off. We ask all whose
hands this issue may fall into, that
are not regular subscribers, tc
send in their money and names
at once, Every family should
have a good reliable news paper
just such as The HERALD. Every
intelligent man and woman
knows the worth Of a good paper
so we will not argue that point
We hope our friends will think
fayombly Of the matter and sub.
scribe at once.
Year: 1876

Next Tuesday the people OF
Tennessee will vote as to who
shall control them for the next
two years. Whether or net the
corrupt administration Of JAS. ID
Porter will be endorsed or wheth-
er Geo. Nancy shall administer
affairs honestly. Let every citi-
zen who has the good Of his State
at heart rally to the support Of
honest Geo. Nancy and all will be
well.
Year: 1876

Republicans, you want to rid
the State of Porter, Thomas, and
all other such men, 60 to the polls
early next Tuesday and work
hard to accomplish that end.
Nothing less than a United effort
will do it.
Year: 1876

for a month! Come, now,I offer
YOU ever chance TO win"


She gave him two solid kicks,
and was designing and drafting u
third, when he made a bolt 'nnd
left a coat-tail in her grasp.
While an officer was looking for
him around the market he was
placidly surveying the Soldiers
monument and picking his teeth
with a straw.
Year: 1876

The Rim Eared Jack of the
Chattanooga Times don't want TO
believe our Denial in the Chatta-
nooga Commercial. Just let him do
the best he can about it. No one
cares whether he believes it or
not.
Year: 1876

Tho effect Of air poisoning is much
worse than that Of improper food or i'm.
pure water.v, The vitiated air which is the
staple lung foo in our schools and many
Of our homes, poisons the whole system
through the vital channels Of the lungs,
where it directly enters the blood, and
the result most comments that dread dis
ease, consumption. ...
Year: 1876

CREDIT must be given Albert Edward
for having long head. In case his
mother, the queen, is crowned Empress Of
India it will be but q short time before he
will step into her shoes and under her
crowns.
Year: 1876

BY consulting this table it will be seen that
by multiplying S57. 1893 10y y a reduction OF
S7j0, 600 per year three quarters ofa million
has been effected in the pay roll alone. To
this add what has been saved in the various
departments, and it will be seen also that the
road Is being operated to-day at full mil
lion of dollars less expense per annum than
it was four years ago. These facts and fig
ures are given at a time when


THE AFFAIRS OF TIE CENTRAL yEBMoST ARE
Year: 1876

revealed to us a tombstone fully six feet
plainly chiselled letters, an inscription sur
mounted by carved heraldic shield with
its proper quarterings and devices.


Our group at this moment would have
quiet landscape around US garnished with
the beauty of May; there were the rustic
tombs, the old negro, with countenance
surcharged with the expression of solemn
satisfaction at his employment, bending his
aged figure over the broad, carved stone,
and scraping from it the grass which had
not been disturbed perhaps for a quarter of
a century; and there was our own party
looking on with eager interest, as the in
scrption every moment became more leg
ible. That interest may be imagined, on
reading the inscription, which, when
brought to the full light of day, revealed
these wordS:-


"Here lyeth the body Of Nphr Rousbie
Esquire, who was taken ont of this world
by violent death received on board his
Maiesty's ship The Quaker Ketch, Capt.
Thos. Allen Commander, the last day of
October 1854. And also of Mr.. John Rous-
bic, his brother, who departed this natur-
all life on board the Ship Baltimore, being
arrived in Patuxen the first day of Febru-
ary 1886"


This u,S a picturaSuue incident in ifs
scenic character, but a still more engaging
one as an occurrence in the path of discov-
cry. Here was most unexpectedly brought
to view new link in the chain of our story.
1t was pleasant surprise to have such
fact as this breaking upon us from an
ambuscade, to help out a half formed mar
rative which had feared was hopeless of
completion. The inscription is a necessary
supplement to the marginal notes. AS an
insulated mon nument, it is meagre in its
detail, and stands in need of explanation.
1t does not describe Christopher Rousby
as the Collector of the Customs; it does
not affirm that he was murdered; it makes
no alusion to Talbot: but it gives the
name of the ship and it's commander, along
with the date of the death. "The Land
holders Assistant supplies all the facts
that are wanting in this brief statement.
These two memorials help each other and
enlarge the common current OF testimony,
like two continent streams coming from
opposite sources. From the two together
we learn that Colonel Talbot, the Surveyor
General in 1854, killed Mr.. Christopher
Rousby on board of a ship of war; and we
are apprised that Rousby was gentleman
of rank and authority in the Province,
holding an important commission from the
King. The place at which the tomb is
found shows also that he was the owner of
a considerable landed estate and near
neighbor of the Lord Proprietary.


The story, however, requires much more
circumstance to give it the interest which
we hope yet to find in it,


TO BE CONTINUED.
Year: 1876

WE would like to know whether that
fellow who ran for Congress in the South
ern District is Wigginton or " Wig
gington." Either is bad enough. About
half our Democratic friends spell it one
away and half the other, and none Of them
know which is right.
Year: 1876

TIE Atlanta Constitution tells Of a ne
gro snoring so loudly behind a fence that
two other negroes, hearing the noise aud
seeing his massive feet indstinctly out
lined, thought he was bear growing.
They got gun and filled bis feet with
bHchshot before the mistake was dis
covered
Year: 1876

HARD UP For A llUsBAND.-Snn
Francisco has had sensation lately in
the form Of a marriage between a China
man and an American girl from the
State of Maine We believe this is the
first marriage on record between Chinese
and Americans although we see it stated
that there are several eases in which
Chinamen have been married to white
women. As the girl claims that She
took her heathern spouse because she
"loycd him" we will dismiss the subject,
with the remark that it is not at all prob
able that the now departure viii lie very
extensively followed. "Eyery one to
their taste" ms the old woman i. reported
to have said when she kissed the COW.
Year: 1876

A concurrent resolution to re-
scind the resolution to adjourn si,.c
die on Thursday, March 20, was
concurrcd in.


A number of joint resolutions
were introduced and properly
referred.


a concurrent resolution was
adopted, and sent to the house,
authorizing the state treasurer to
borrow X25,000 for the pay of mem
bers and employees of the general
assembly.


A Joint resolution requiring the
repair Of the palmetto tree in front
Of the State House and II bill to
amend an act emitted can act to
provide for the settlement an
payment of certain claims against
the state" were passed.
a concurrent resolution directing
the attorney general to institute
civil and criminal proceedings in
behalf Of the state in tho case of the
failure of the South Carolina Bank
and Trust Company was laid on tho
table. .'n
Adjourned.


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
A resolution was adopted, direct.
ing the state treasurer to report
Year: 1876

doubtless will occupy the attention
of the world of science for some
time to come.


Prof. j. Lawrence Smith, tho
scientist, says in his analysis of
specimens examined: "In my mind


this matter gives every indication


of being the dried spawn of the
Batrachinn reptiles, doubtless that
of the frog. They have been trans
ported from the ponds and sw,mpy
grounds by currents Of wind, and
have ultimately fallen ON tho spot
where they were found. This is no
isolated occurrence of tho kind, l


having come across tho mention of


several III the course of my reading.
The only way. can now fix the date
is by MI instance recorded by
MushchOnbrocck as occurring in
ireland in 1915 The matter is do
scriled by him as being glutinous
and fatty, which softcned whom held
in the. hand, and emitted an I'm
pleasant smell when exposed to the
action Of fire. The oyum or egg of
the Batrachian roptilos is u round
mass Of transparent nutritive jelly,
in the contre of which appears ~
small, black globule. In the present
case the passage through tho ,ir
would have dried up moro or less
this golntinous mass, 30 that the
exterior would become hard md tho
interior as found it-still soft and
gelatinous. I have desired more
Of the matter to be sent to me when,
if there be any notifications Of these
views. I will make them known
Year: 1876

The second night after her hus-
band died sho sat by the open
window fvo hours, waiting for tho
cuts to begin fighting in tho back
yard. Said she, "This thing OF
going to sleep without q qudrrel OF
some kind is 40 now to mo that J.
can't stand it ! Lot mo alono until
they begin, then I can doze off
gently !"
Year: 1876

1t is thought by some persons that it is
the duty of every one to live within his in.
come, SO far as to lay by something for the
future support of his family. To consume
all in present qualifications or necessities,
when one is liable to be called away by the
sudden and irresistible attacks of disease or
accident, and leave wife and children penni-
less aud destitute, is to neglect a duty inCul-
Gated by the Bible, by the instincts and
habits of animals, and by the moral sense of
almost every considerate and thoughtful per.
s,n whose heart is in the right place. If his
income is thousand dollars, he may save a
hundred if it is FIVE hundred he may save
fifty; if four hundred, forty; if three hun.
dred, thirty. Whatever it is he should save
something. And if he is young minister,
the twenty or forty dollars saved can not te
used in any way 80 advantsgeOusly to his
Year: 1876

GAS A FATHER CoRREcTETH HIS SON.
Suppose you see company of children play
ing together awhile, and soon they fall to
fighting. And then you see man come and
carry away one of those children and begin
to chastise him, but he leaves the other chill
dren alone. Which of these children will
you say the man is father Of!
Year: 1876



 the veto power, the Governor was 1 fortunate enough to secure a re- duction of the State tax--the first year of his administration, about IT per cent, ,--and to inau-

 rate financial policy by which the State tax which was ' mills on the dollar of the assessed yalu- ation when he came into office, will be reduced to mills at least

 at the expiration of his term of two years. and at the expiration of the next succeeding year to not exceeding 3 mills.

 These are facts. There is no twisting or distorting them. Re

 pubiicans do not dare to deny them. The State Treasurer's and Comptroller's offices attest them

 in g thousand ways. No matter

 what his object was. That's etherial at best or worst. Valiant acts IS what commonwealth de

 Mands of it's guardians and rul- CTS, and it will prize them be the

 motives selfish or generous. Nor dc we imagine the people-many of them unemployed and discon- tented, and nearly all feeling the stress of poverty with a firmer clasp than ever before, are going to dicker about any question of causistry but on the other hand they are pretty sure to recognize and act on those solid substantial

 facts which touch the pocket and

 influence the judgment of every citizen of every community of every State, for one way if not another every man is tax g-paver. We point with pride to them. They justly entitle the man who hammered them out with brawny arm and never twitching nerve to the cog nomen Of Reformer. Many have aspired to that title but nearly all

 have failed, for their aspirations have ended with words without the performance of sterling deeds. This great aggressive character who has shown more positive boldness than any man in our history for twenty years did not win these substantial triumphs by the simple stroke of the pen or lolling in an easy chair in the Executive Chamber. He went from one end of the State to the other. He pleaded with people. He tore the masks from the ene- mics of decent government. As his progress was blocked he drew his sword mp on the great and small. He was leered at, taunted and all the armament of falsehood and calumny were concentrated and aimed fol L.s destruction. It was all i'd vain, for his canse was the cause Of the people and that arbitrer in ali this worlds contro- versies interveued when darkness was overshadowing him and de

 feat seemed all but imminent. The summons is now brought to him for a grayer task but no- bier mission. Jaded in body and spirits he yet generously responds. He will prove all the country hopes for and demands, and We feel the greatest confidence that long before he retires from the nations highest office peace will prevail in all the land and pros perity in every home and at every freside.
Year: 1876

We offer one of these fine engrav- ings to any friend who will make us up club of fifteen new subscribers for one year; or will give pair of them for club of twenty-five new names accompanied by the money. our rate is $l, 50 per year. Clubs for these premiums must be made up and reported on or before the first day of September.

 Commence at once and secure one of these handsome pictures.
Year: 1876

There arrived here on Friday evenings
Kansas Pacific train party of three persons,
direct from Deadwoed City, the new mining
town in the Black Hills. Learning that one of
the party, Heman Ganzio of Milwaukee, had
been shot and scalped by Indians, we took from
his lips the story of his experiences, as follows:
'You see we were coming down into the val
ley of Hut creek, on our way to Fort Laramie.
had gone on ahead of the wagons, when look
ing down a rayine to the right, saw fiv-
mounted Indians ride across the valley. l
started to go back to the train, when at least
dozen Indians ran at me out OF the brush, and
yeu bet ran and hollered for help. In a min
ute two or three of them shot at me. l fell
sharp, singing pain in my left leg and another
in my left shoulder, and l fell. Then they
were upon me in a minute, and one of them
put his knee in my back, while another hit me
a clip with a club or butt OF a gun. L don't
know which, as l had no time to think. All
L knew was L was being scalped; my hair
was held tight. felt a hot, red hot, stlnging
sort of pain all around the top of my head, as
if my hair was being tOrn out by the roots. 1t
was too much; l couldn't stand it. / died
at least thought did. But my scalp was saved
Just as it was being torn Off The boys at the
wagons had seen me running; saw the Indians,
and came on thirteen of them, and got up lust in
time to prevent the red devils finishing their
work. The Indians, as we'll as my friends
thought was dead. But came to again, and
my scalp was laid back again. 1t was only half
torn OFT, as you will see, and is growing again
nicely" The poor fellow was taken to Fort
Laramie and received every attention, and as
soon as he was able, started fer his parents home
IN Milwaukee. lie is the first white man who
year, who has lived to come home and tell how
ID feels,
Year: 1876

IT is difficult to see what reason the Demo-
Gratis of the House judiciary committee have
for chuckling over the discovery that the
Caldwell despatch was suggested in this
country. 1t is a common thing enough for
one person to write out statement for an
other, but the signature of the latter makes
1t no less his document than if he had writ
ten every word of it himself unbeknown to
every one else. If the Caldwell telegram
was signed by him knowing its contents, it is
his despatch, no matter who may have sug-
gested it. And if its statements are true, it
is an acquittal of Mr.. Blaine by the man who
has the best opportunity of knowing all the
facts in the case. This ransacking of tele-
graph offices by the judiciary committee is
simply for the purpose of raising side ques-
ton, and binding the people as to the main
issue which is simply the truth or fasity of
CaldwelPs statement, and it is virtual con-
fession that the Democrats dare not touch
this issue.
Year: 1876

THE decision of Judge Westbrook of the
New York Supreme Court in the case of
suit against two contractors to recover exces-
sive amounts paid to them on canal con.
tracts puts Gov. Tilden in rather uncomfort-
able position for a reformer. 1t finds that
whatever amount was paid was authorized by
former legislature and hence the people
have no claim to recover it back. Gov. Til
den was member of the legislature which
made the appropriation and though it was
just as evident then as now that it was exces-
sive he never raised one word of protest. He
was member of the New York ring then
and had not put himself in training for the
presidency.