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Year: 1876

PAYING EBrs.-Paying of debts is,
next to the grace Of God. the best
means in the world to deliver you from
a thousand temptations to sin and van
ity. Pay your debts. and you will not.
have twherewithal to buy costly toy
or q pernicious pleasure. Pay your
debts, and you will not have what to
lose to gamester. In short. pay your
debts. and you win ofnecessity abstain
from many indulgences that war agains,
the spirit and bring you into captivity
to sin, and cannot fail to end in your
utter destruction, both Of soul and
body.
Year: 1876

z Valley Forge was selected for the


winter encampmcnt because from it


Washington could best protect the in


terror Of the State from the incursions


Of the enemy quartered 10 Philadelphia.


The army left Whitemarsh on the 11th


Of December and reached Valley Forge


on the 10Th. The soldiers, many of


them barefooted and in rags, had march


ed thither, leaving their bloody testi-


monials on nearly every foet Of ground
they had traversed. The day before,
on the bofders Of, The dreary region


where they were to pass the long win
ter, was spent in religious services


Congress had directed it to be observed
as day Of thanksgiving and praise.
The ragged. suffering army. weary with
their march over the frozen ground.
were required On this bleak day. with
q prospect full Of gloom before them, to
send up their voice Of thanksgiving and
praise. For what I There seemed need
enough for fasting and prayer, for
Heaven looked frownipgly down upon
them. They could ask-oh, how fer
vently-to be delivered from suffering
and want and destitu,ion. and the
gloomy, remorseless winter before them !;
but to be thankful for them, who was
equal to that? Still. Washington order
ed the brigades to be assembled. With
their chaplaius, and religious services
to be performed. But, alas, three
Thousand of them. or more than quar-
ter Of the whole army. were either sick
or too shoeless aud ragged to appear on
parade. These. in the wagons that
stretched over the dreary fields. lay
suffering and shivering in the straw.
thinking that. to them at least. thanks
giving was mockery. Their enemies
were we'll fed and housed in tho city
near by. while the bleak hillside must
be their home. Indeed. there was
more earnest prayer, that day. than
thanksgiving. by the patriotic chaplains
who were to share with the soldiers the
privations and suHerings Of the coming
winter-beseeching. earnest prayer to
Him who alone could help and pour
light on the all-envelopiug darkness.


1t was solemn. not a joyful day,
and, when it ended. the army Of eleven
thousand strong marched on to the
frozen hills where they were to spend
the next three months, amid scenes and
trials never to be forgotten while sin
gle page in history is left for the record
Of true patriotism. In the orders is
sued BY Washington, directing the
work to be done, be told the soldiers
he would share all their privations.
The whole army was divided into groups
Of twelve. who were to build hut or
pen for themselves. Each one was to
be sixteen by fourteen feet. filled in
with clay, with log fireplace lined
With clay asfoot and half thick. The
height was to be six feet and half
Thus it will be seen they were mere
novels. barely high enough to stand up
in, and. with the fireplace. accoutrs-
Year: 1876

The cold spell last Monday and
Tuesday must undoubtedly have
killed the fruit in this section, not.
wlthstanding the old idea that fruit
is never injured by frost during the
month OF March.
Year: 1876

"llo! for the Black nilIs!" is
the cry Of a number of our young
men. We woald like to see 'om
start, so we might go to work and
calculate the time it would take
them to make the round trip.
Year: 1876

MANY a woman, who is too fee
BILE to peel a dozen potatoes for
dinner, will walk four miles past a
rivals house TO display a new dress,
and prance back home like q thrpc.
scar old fi!!y,
Year: 1876

Hereafter TO Legal Advertise
ments will be inserted in the TINE
unless payment is made when hand
ed an. 1t requires money to carry
on our business and VIC are com
PEELED to adopt the cash principle.
This rule will not be dcvatcd from
in any case.
Year: 1876

'atE3

 The St. Louis RepH6IicGa mentions some of the troubles that will follow the new money: s.sa4 ssal 4aa. .

 When, man walks much, the inside of his legs will be chafed raw. When less than dollar is to go by mail it will have to be converted first into postage stamps. When you run for street ssr money will fly out of your pockets at every jump. When you tell your wife that you have no money, she will say that you lie, for she heard it jingle. It will be difficult to pay man quarter by mistake for half. When you are in hurry, the storekeeper will have to weigh the coin in his hand and sound it twenty-five times on the counter before he can de terrnine whether it is good. The baby will swallow dime a day. 4 boy with quarter will lose it in acrack in two minutes, from which no amount of coaxing with forks and chips can re- cover it. Sleepy men will put buttons and lozenges into contribution boxes, az of yOre.
Year: 1876

WHILE forty millions OF people are
waiting in painful suspense the result ol
tie mgddIe, it is gratifying to know that
q few o: our boys have the vim to wags
an active canvass for the positions OF
page and messenger in the coming Leg
H.s,gra.
Year: 1876

The following fish story comes from the
mining regions of the west, and Is told
in the Territorial. 1t is about most
singular discovery, as the editor truly
saws. that was made in the mines called
the Savage, Hale and NOrcrOss


Living fish were found in water that
is now flooding those mines. The fish
fOuSd were five in number, and we re
hoisted up the incline in the large iron
hoisting tank and dumped into the pump
tank at the bottom of the vertical shaft.
The fish are eyeless, and are only about
three or four inches in length. They are
blood red in color.


The temperature of the water in which
they are found is one hundred and TWEEN
tv-eight degrees Fahrenheit-almOst
scalding hot, When the fish were taken
out of the hot water in which they were
found, and placed in a bucket Of cold
water, for the purpose of being brought
to the surface, they died almost instant
ly. The cold water at once chilled then
life blood.


In appearance these suhterranear
members of the finny tribe somewhat re.
semble gold fish. They seem lively anC
sportive enough while in their native hot
water, Notwithstanding the fact that they



have no eyes nor even the rudiments o.
eyes. The water by which the mines are
flooded broke in at depth of twenty
two hundred feet in drift that was be
ing pushed to the northward in the Sav
age. 1t rose in the mine-alsO in thu
Hale and Norcross, the two mines being
connected-to the height of four hun
dred feet; that is, up to the eighteeI
hundred foot level. This would seem t.
prove that a great subterranean reser
voir or lake had been tapped, and from
this lake, doubtless, came the fish hoistet
/ from the mine.


Eyeless fish are frequently found il
the lakes of large caves, but we hay
never before heard of their existence II
| either surface or subterranean water tn
temperature of which was 50 high as
the water in these mines. The lowe
workings of the Savage mine are far be
low the bed Of the Carson river, belo1
the bottom of the Washee lake-belo7
any water running or standing anywher
within a distance Of ten miles of tn
mine.
Year: 1876

twenty thousand dollars, and is expected to
be a model of beauty, symmetry and speed


The grand jury cannot find any indiet
ment against Secretary Belkhap, in the alb
sence u Marsh, the principal witness. The
assistant district attorney states that the
evidence presented thus far to the grand
jury is insufficient to warrant it IN beginning
an Indictment, and it is more than probable
that until Marsh can be brought back to tes-
tlfy it will be impossible 10 punish BelkhaP
through the medium Of criminal Prosecu-
ton.


Daniel Drew, who, in his days of pros
perity, was the lion of Wall street tbesides
being alternately s,bull and BEAR, has failed
at last, and gone into bankruptcy. Daniel
was worth his millions at one time, being a
formidable rival of Vanderbilt and Jay Gould
in stock speculations. OF late years he has
met with a great many financial re7efses,
and now in his old age (he is between seventy
and eighty he is much worse of than when
he started out in his career of speculation.
Year: 1876

4 MAN ALMOST BURIED ALIvE.-An
incident. published in our local items
Yesterday, should not be suffered to pass


without further notice. A laborer tell
in some form of a fit, grew stiff and cold
and was supposed to be dead. lie was
carried to the shop of an undertaken and
nut Immediately into coffin and the
lid was screwed down, preparatory OF re-
r7ovinp him to his residence. Before ms


removal he recovered from his mt, kicked
the coffin to pieces and returned to ms
york There would seem to have been
in this case, a want of good judgment,
Of common sense, and of consideration
amounting to gross culpability;. II must must
he decidedly unpleasant to ma one
self enclosed in a coffin, and to some per
cons With some diseases, the shock from
This alone might be sufficient to cause
actual death. In this case, II the comm
had been stronger and more perfectly,


or tight the man would soon have died
from sufFocation. So far as our report


shows there was no medical examination


of the case and no cOrOner's Inquest


mon the body. Such an occurrence


should be absolutely impossible IN an!


civilized community.-PrOUidence Jour
Year: 1876

A hundred wears ago when you
called on a girl she kissed you good
/ bye. Now il you suggest anything
of the sort her father calls you into
the library and asks yon what you
are worth. Are we nation? And
is this progress p The Norwich
Bulletin.
Year: 1876

of the head except the eyes, and, having
spied the object of their affection, they slip
up behind her, quickly throw the blanket
over her head also, and holding her tightly
around the waist, compel her to listen to
the soft accents of love. In case of popu-
lar belle they will sometimes range them
selves in a line at the door of her wigwam,
and when she comes out pass her from one
to the other, as each in turn disburdens his
surcharged heart. They have been known
to keep girl this way all day long.


Their simplicity is something wonderful,
and many a maiden has run away in the
greatest confusion upon field glass being
leyeled at her, thinking that it rendered her
clothing diaphanous.


Lastly, the language of the Indian is well
known TO be picturesque, and no one can
appreciate the grace OF their oratory with
out having seen it, and even in ordinary
conversation their gestures are profuse.
1t is the very poverty of their language
which makes it sound poetic thus, for "the
ship sails having neither the word "ship"
nor sails" )" they say "the wind makes the
boat run on the water" thus bringing in
two of the natural elements in that one SEN
tence. 1t is noticeable that when we some
times express age by so MANY summers, they
always say winters, and when we say so
many days since, they say $50 many nights,
or sleeps
Year: 1876

Cg,NrsF HABIrATioNs. Eastern architects
may get some hints of things 20 follow or
avoid from 4 description which the Virginia
CITY Chronicle gives OF the structures erect
cd iv the Chinamen in that city Between
fights the Chinaman Is an industrious ami
mai. Just now he is turning his energies
10 building, and Ike his fighting, some of
il is contrary to law and also shocking to
correct architectural taste. On the north
west corner of and Union streets John has
created a marvellous affair. 1t Is built out
far enough to occupy third of the road
way. The front elevation (height five feet
i composed of odds and ends of stone picked
up in the neighborhood. The one window
is formed of three oil cans-two upright and
the other laid across the top. The roof OF
this edifce-which has a frontage OF about
twenty-five feet and depth OF thirty or
more-would make a handsome play ground
for school, a. it is perfectly Hat and com
posed of earth. The interior, which the re
porter doubled himself up to enter, Il dlvid-
ed into numerous little dens and one spac-
ious saloon, with earthen floor and one oil
can window. The place is shortly to be open
ed as a restaurant. provided the Police don t
interfere, which they should do. The idea
of utilizing Oil-cans for building material
has been eagerly seized by other Celestials,
and the consequence Is numerous hre proof
.hanti,s The cans, filled with earth aud
piled one upon another, make solid wall,
and ,o bullet can penetrate them--not d
slioLf consideration these times. Under
ground residences are also popular. A biz
square hole is dug into the hillside, covered
in with sticks, straw, and an occasional
plank. The door is naturally furnished by
the eastern slope Although such triaes a.
Gcht and air are left out of consideration
the The bomb proof character of the underground
structure has charm for the Chinese in


babitant. The only drawback to such 1
house is the probability that OF some rain,
night an enemy may take it into his sha'el
head to dig trench and direct the water Q


the street down the chimney"
Year: 1876

breathe as little as possible Each time you
breathe too hard. the movement of your
chest and throat will disturb the g lass and
spill the water. When you are able
to sing without spilling drop, | will
take charge of your musical education.
Good day Au revoir ~
Year: 1876

Dr. Linderman. director of the United
States mint, is of the opinion that it Is prae-
ticable to place some of the new silver coin
in circulation Immediately and continue the
issue Of it monthly throughout the year in
redemption of fractional paper. He baI a
store Of SO goo 900 Of dimes, 20-eent
pieces, quarters and halves, and begins to
be bothered for store-room. The difference
in the intrinsic value of this silver coinage
and gold Is so great that the price of gold
would have to 90 up to III before the silver
change became exportable. At the present
time and since the new year, the greenbaek
has been worth about per cent more than
silver, so that with gold steady there would
be no object in boarding the silver. The
government makes enough in coinage to pay
the expense of the operation and the inter
est on the bonds issued in purchase Of sill
yer. OF the S46,0G0,000 of fractional
currency outstanding, it is supposed that
not over $50 600 900 is in circulation. and
by the close Of the year the new coinage
would suffice to replace that amount. DIR.
Linderman thinks the country will readily
absorb double that of silver, and that there
can be no better way of contracting the
greenbacks, without contracting the whole
currency.
Year: 1876

TOUGH CANADIAN AND TOUGHER
SToRY.-AbOut forty yoars ago, young
man named Wilson, residing near the town
of Perth, conceived the lunatic idea OF lead
ing a hermit's life. the youth had from
his early age showed symptoms OF derange-
ment, and this proceeding on his part was
not considered strange by his friends. The
chosen place of his hermitage was three


quarters of mile from his parental home
stead, in the recess of a dense brush, where
he erected small hoyel and furnished it
with an old log canoe. which he used as
couch to sleep in Diyesting himself OF all
clothing. he has ever since remained per-
fectly nude, with the exception OF a latter
ed remnant of shirt which his fancy leads
him to retain. In this nude state for forty
years he has lived, walking in the depth OF
Winter through the snow, and yet he has
never been known to have received frost
bite When he requires drink he walks
deliberately into the river, it mattering
not to him what season of the year
it may be, and wades out till the water
reaches his waist, and then he stoops and
auenches his thirst. His food is brought
to him by his friends, and when given on
him is eaten with the yoraciousness of an
animal. which he now resembles more that
man, his body being as heavily coated with


hair as that of q COW. He never shows a
dangerous disposition, and chatters in mo-
nosyllables When people cross his path
he invariably begs for tobacco, for which he
has an evident Partially, and in chattering
tones will utter "bacca" until his request
is granted. His hair is long. gray, and
unkempt. falling far over his shoulders,
and his beard, which is similar, reaches
down below bis waist. He is now between
60 and 70 years of age, and he is possibly
the only living being ever known to have
lived year after year perfectly naked. and
exposed to all the inclemencies of weather
which mark our Canadian Winters.-Er.
Year: 1876

Having searched in all kinds of science,
we discover the folly of neglecting those
things which concern human life and in
volving ourselves in difficulties about
questions that are but mere notions; we
should confne ourselves to nature and
reason. Fancies beyond the reach of
the understanding, and which have yet
been made the objects of beljef-these
have been the source Of all the disputes,
errors and superstitions that have pre-
vailed in the world; such notional mys-
teries can not be made subservient to the
right uses of humanity.


1t is much easier to think Alright with
out doing right, than to do right without
thinking Alright. Just thoughts may
fail of producing just deeds, but just
deeds always beget just thoughts. For,
when the heart is straight, there is
hardly anything which can mislead the
understanding In matters of immediate
concernment; but the purest understand
ing can do little in purifying an impure
heart, or the strongest in Strengthening
a crooked one.


Most marvellous and enviable that
fecundity of fancy which can adorn what
ever it touches, which can invest naked
fact and dry reasoning with an unlocked
for beauty, make fowerets bloom even
on the brink of the precipice, and when
nothing better can be had, can turn the
very substance of rock itself into moss
and lichen. This faculty is incomparably
the most important for the vivid and at
tractive exhibitions of truth to the minds
of men.


If you want to be miserable, think
about yourself; about what you want,
what you like, what respect people ought
to pay you, what people think of you,
and then to you nothing will be pure.
You will spoil everything you touch !;
you will make sin and misery for yourself
out of everything which God sends you;
you will be as wretched as you choose OH
earth or in heaven either.


The God of "the true, the good, and
the beautiful" is painting everything
that grows in this part of the earth in
colors beyond the power of man to trans
fer to canvas. Flower, grass, tree, sky,
in fact everything that comes from His
creating hand, attest the faultless taste,
the wonderful wisdom of Him who reigns
on high.


Why will people whisper in a sick
room9 Some one has said, 1t is better
to slam stove doors, rattle shovel and
tongs, or make similar noises, than to
whisper in the presence of a sick person."
Quiet ways are preferable, and very
necessary, but inveterate whispering
should be totally banished from the sick
room.
Year: 1876

The miner is continually exposed TO
danger. Besides the ever present posi-
bility of accident, he is compelled to
work in an atmosphere always more or
less loaded with foreign gases, and equal
ing in temperature that of the plains OF
Bengal in the hot season; he is frequently
obliged to WELD his tools in awkward
and constrained postures, inimical to
health; and he must always labor in
darkness that is only relieved by the
feeble flashes of light from the lamp that
he carries with him. So extensive are
some mines that it frequently requires
an hour to reach the surface after the
work is done; and as the mineIs, during
the winter months, often descend the
shaft before sunrise, and do not return to
the surface until after the sun is set, they
sometimes see as little of daylight as the
miserable ponies and other beasts of bur-
den that pass their whole lives in the un-
der world. The descent into the mines
is dangerous, If made by ladder or cage.
Another danger is the accumulation OF
coke-damp, which causes death by suf-
location, and the terrible explosions of
fire-damp. And to these sources of acci-
dent must be added the caving in or fall
ing of any portion of the roof or sides of
the mine. Many accidents are caused by
the carelessness of miners themselves,
grown fool-hardy in the constant pres
ence of terrible danger. They will
sometimes open their safety lamps, to see
better or to light pipe, well knowing
that the consequence of their action may
be an explosion, involving the destruc-
tion of many lives beside their own. In
former times the sufTerings of English
miners we're terrible; but of late their
comfort has received some attention. The
mines are ventilated as thoroughly as
possible; barracks are provided for the
miners to change their underground
clothes, and arrangements are in some
cases made for drying those which have
become wet during work. Owners OF
mines are prohibited from employing
women and children in the underground
work; aud no person under the age ol
eighteen is 10 be employed at the en-
trance of any mine, to have charge OF the
steam-engine, or. windlass, or Other ma
chinery for letting down or bringing up
the men. Inspectors are appointed for
the express purpose of whiting mines and
seeing that the statutes are complied
with. But, notwithstanding all these
precautions, accidents of various kinds
are continually happening, and will hap
pen, so long as mines exist.