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Year: 1876

The accounts from above are gloomy.
The river is now out of its banks the
whole way down. rising steadily at all
points below Cairo: above the danger
line at Memphis: and yet general and
heavy rains are reported for the past
two days in all the country tributary to
the Mississippi river. 1t behooves then
that our planters and citizens be on the
alert ut every point; that all weak places
be strengthened and closely watched
and guarded, to prevent great disaster,
which seems imminent.


Probabilities reports that there will be
floods below Cairo. ut Vicksburg and
Memphis. The authorities should see
to it ut once that every preparation is
made to meet the food which is coming.
"An ounce of prevention is worth II
mound Of cure" We would especially
commend to the city officials that they
see to it that the levees above and below
the city are i'm thorough condition to
withstand any pressure which may
come upon them. "Verbum sat. sap.
Year: 1876

In the suit OF the Ouarulan Mutudt Iiie III
surance Company against the Atlantic National Bank OF
the City Of NewYor. F. L. Taintor the defauing cash
Ter of the bank was yesterday the chief witness The
whole question in dispute whether or not the transac-
ton was between the plaintiff and tho bank or between
the plaintiff and Taintor individually. Taintor, who was
brought from Prison for the purpose, gave his evil
denee with cearness and exactness He stated the var


ana out OF which the loan clearly and
showed minute knowledge OF the books OF the bank.
he insisted he had insisted on his own trial. that this
transaction and Others by him were under the authority
case Is still on.
Year: 1876

The London Lancet says: There is good reason to believe that disease is oc- casionally disseminated through the medium of funerals. We have at least one fairly authenticated instance in this country of diphtheria being diffused broadcast through the crowding inciden- tai, occasionally, to the last ceremony. In America this question is beginning to receive much attention, and several cases have been reported of late where the transmission of the disease from the corpse seemed highly probable. The Suffolk District Medical Society sent out 400 circulars to medical practitioners with view to ascertain the opinion of the profession on the alleged danger of permitting public funerals of persons who had died from diptheria. Two hundred and thirty nine answers were received; of these 143 writers express @ belief in the possible danger of conta- zion at such funerals, seventeen believe that there is danger from funerals in the houses of the dead, but none in churches, twenty-nine fancy that in the present state of knowledge there is no justification in prohibiting public fune- rals, and eight record circumstances which occurred in their own experience conirmatory of the proposition that peril may ensue,, but the testimony these latter advance is not quite satisfactory. The society after due consideration re- commend that funerals at the houses of those who have died of diphtheria should be private, owing to possible exposure to the poison of the disease.

 Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them, then, or bear with them.
Year: 1876

Ravel out the suspected cotton fiber from the wool and apply flame. Tho cotton will burn with flash, the wool will curl up, carbonize, and emit burnt, disagreeable smell. Even to the naked eye the cotton is noticeably different from tho flaments of wool, aud under the magniier this difference comes out strongly. The cotton is flattened, moro or less twisted band, having very striking resemblance to hair, which, ip reality, it is; since in the condition of elongated cells, it lines the inner sur face of the pod. The wool may be rec ognized at once by the zigzag transverse markings on its fibers. The surface of wool is covered with these furrowcd and twisted fine cross lines, ot which there are 2,OOO to 4,O00 in an inch. On this structure depends it's felting property. Finally, simple and very striking chemical test may be applied. The mixed goods are unraveled, little of the cotton fiber put into one dish and the woolen in another, and drop of strong nitric acid added. Tho cotton will be little or not at all affected; the wool, on the contrary, will be changed to bright yellow. The color is due to the development of Q picrate.
Year: 1876

The air was still OCT Bethlehem's plain, As if the great night held it's breath, When life eternal came to reign

 Over world of death. The pagan at his midnight board

 Let fall his brimming cup of gold He felt the presence of his Lord

 Before His birth was told. The temples trembled to their base, The idols shudder as in pain; A priesthood in it's power of place Knels to ite gods in vain. All nature felt thrill divine

 When burst that meteor on tho night, Which, pointing to the Savior's shrine, ProNlaimed tue newborn light Light to the shepherds and the star Gilded their silent midnight fold Light to the wise men from afar,

 Bearing their gifts of gold Light to realm of sin and grief Light to world in all it's needs The light of life-a new belief

 Rising OCT fallen creeds- Light on tangled path of thornR,

 Though leading to martyrs throne A light to guide till Christ returns In glory to His own. There still it shines, while far abroad The Christmas choir sings now, as then: "Glory, glory unto God!

 Peace and good will to men!'
Year: 1876

bound, was across the room, standing beside superb pianoforte.

 "Oh, Henry, where did this come from9 What 8 perfect beauty Is it really for mel Oh, how can I ever thank you9"

 cone question at a time, my dear; but l will answer your last one first. You have no right to thank me for this Christmas present. Here is the giver, B replied Henry, going up to his mother, who had stood quiet spectator of Mary's pleasure, and putting his arm around her.

 Mother is it possible Oh, you darling9 how can ever thank you9'' cried Mary, throwing her arms, too, around Mrs. Grey, and giving her a rapturous hug.

 "I am we'll surrounded, see," said she, smiling on them proudly.

 "I am glad you are pleased with your piano, Mary, and you shall repay me by getting all the enjoyment from it that you can."

 It is something I have wanted ever since we were married," said Mary, "but Henry could not quite afford it.

 And now you have your hearts de- sire," said Henry, "but at the expense of little shining, I am afraid. Do you remember one evening, about two weeks ago, when you found the parlor door lockeds Mother and I were holding a consultation when you came, and I sent you after the cigar case to give her time to run away. I came very near telling a tib that night"

 "Yes," said his mother, "such plan ming and plotting as we have had. The other day, when the man came to make the final arrangements about bringing the piano, you were down town. and I was so afraid you would return unex- pectedly; and this afternoon they came and put it up while you were out driv- ing; but knew Henry would not bring you home too soon."

 Mary felt herself turning sick and faint. This, then, was the secret which had tormented her so; these innocent plots and plans prompted by loving hearts Y! What @ monster she was to have suspected this noble woman of any wrong She felt like humbling herself in the dust before her.

 "How white you are, child! The excitement has been too much for you, " said Mrs. Grey.

 But Mary knew better. Still, she kept her secret locked in her own breast; not by word would she let this gentle woman know how she had been tempted to doubt her.

 Mary has gradually dropped Miss Susan Skinner's acquaintance, and that worthy spinster often complains how dreadfully uppish some folks have grown" but Mary is only too glad to be able to keep out of the reach of her tongue; and finds her greatest comfort and delight in the society of her mother in-law, than whom she thinks there is no better woman on earth.
Year: 1876

Young men in the country imagine that if they could only manage to get clerkship in New York, or some other large city, their fortunes would be made. The New York clerk does not have so feat cry Q bed to lie in as many imagine. A correspondent writ ing on the subject says. Take, for in- stance, the dry goods clerks on Broad

 way. Some of the establishments like Stewards, Lord & Tay lor'ss Jaffray's, etc., have as many as two hundred clerks in their employ. They are ex- pected to dress we'll, to keep up with the fashions, so as to be in keeping with the general style of things about them. They must be at business prompts, 7, at eight in the morning, @ strict account being kept of any failure to do so, which is reported by the head of the de- partment to the general manager. All the day long they are kept on their feet, under watchful eyes, and with a multi tude of details to attend to; and at noon they must hurry out for nasty lunch and be back as soon as possible, flying the day through until seven or eight o'clock at night. In the busy season they are liable to be worked until eleven or twelve o'clock at night; and in the dull seasons, which come on the city often enough, they are just as liable to be discharged at a weeks notice, even though they have been years in the house, and been faithful in every way, and all this for from $8 to $15 per week. The head bookkeepo1' of prominent Broadway house gets @ salary of thir- teen thousand dollars. while under him are no less than six men, having the brunt of the work to do, who are paid three dollars day. There are men in other houses who enjoy princely in- comes, because they have drawn one of the prizes of trade; they have trade of their own which brings in large sums to their employer; they are paid for their work with unstinted hand. But all around them are men without this spe- cial advantage, though competent, who are barely getting living. A large tea house that employs sixty clerks has only five who receive over $10 per week.

 How city clerks live !-considering the meager condition of the salary mar ket. Living any way, in New York, is expensive, as living i'll a great city al- ways is. Ten, fifteen, twenty dollars a week in some places gives man all the comforts of modest expectation; nay, often gives one trif1e for the saving fund; or the luxurious. Not so here. Decent board will range up to ten and fifteen dollars; decent board-which means a narrow, close room, clean food very plain-and nothing more. And then you come down peg by peg to the horrors and misery and slack and dis comfort of New York boarding house life-the cheapest and meanest being five and six dollars a week.

 Clerks pack themselves away in these holes, making them just sleeping and eating places, cast out from all amuse- ment and society upon the town; or else they hire lodgings in some obscure quarter, and "live by the card" of cheap eating houses. They make all sorts of shifts to keep stylishly clothed.
Year: 1876

the fountains of charity that have been unsealed and the rich tide of benefac- tions that has already begun to flow so freely, and that is destined, we trust, to deepen and gladden. as it runs, until it shall give life and glsdness to many a destitute and darkened household-for these let us be grateful to the Giver of all mercies.

 God grant that our people may'do all they can to heal the hearts of the sor- rowing and the signing. And above all, may He, Himself, vouchsafe the conso- 1ations of His word and grace to all the bruised and broken hearted and lift them up out of their darkness into lis own marvellous light, calming the fear full, cheering the sad, protecting the helpless, and loving and blessing all. What an impressive lesson it'is that we are to take with us as we now go our re- spective ways Silent and still, these forms of the dead lie before us, and peaceful be their slumber while the wintry blasts shall sweep over their rest ing place, or summer breezes shall play over the consecrated spot. Yet with what impressiveness and eloquence and pathos do they preach to us the sermon we need. admonishing us as we go hence to live as knowing that our time is short, to forsake every evil way and cleave to that which is right, to dedicate ourselves to each others veal apd to the serviceof God in Christ Jesus our Lord. What shall turn us from our evil courses and seal us to the life Divine if it be not this tremendous voice that warns us to-day. Oh, by the thought of the holo caust, of the pride and beauty of hun dred homes, be it ours to retire from this scene only to enter more actively than ever before into the great work of life, to comfort the weary, to aid the poor, to heal the sick, to succor the tempted, and to save the young. You who are in the high places of power and trust-you who are n inisters of Christ, citizens of Brooklyn, one and all, hear, let us all hear, the loud and affecting summons of the hour to hasten to the young men who swarm our city, and to keep them from the evil that is in the world. Encompass them as with wall of fire that shall nb harm them, but that shall be effectual to guard and de- fend them against every foe of their purity and peace. What we have to do we must do quickly. In the grave whither We go there Is no work, nor knowledge, nor device, nor wisdom. Behind us is the solemn past; before us the vast eternities. "Be thou faithful unto death, and will give thee crown of ife."
Year: 1876

The work has been begun after long and

 careful preliminary Iabor, and with the most ample resources for carrying it to 8 successful termination. None of the original stereotype plates have been used, but every page has
Year: 1876

Have been made by the int efatigable explorers of Africa. The great political revoiutions of the last decade with the natural result of the lapse of time, have brought into public view 8 multitude of new men, whose names are in every ones mouth, and of whose lives every one is anxious to know the particulars. Great battles have been fought and important sieges maintained, of which the details are as yet preserved only in the newspapers or in the transient publications Of the day, but which ought now to take their place in ...
Year: 1876

Which ate introduced for the first time in the present edition have been added, not for the 1 sake of pictorial effect but to give greater lucidity and force to the explanations in the text They embrace all branches of science and natural history, and depict the most famous and remarkable features of scenery, architec- ture and art. as well as the various process of mechanics and manufactures. Although in tended for instruction rather than embellsh- ment, no pains have been spared to insure A
Year: 1876

There were ninety and nine that safely lay.
In the shelter OF the fold:
But one was out on the hills away.


Far on from the gates Of gold.
Away on the mountains Wild and bare,
Away from the shepherds tender care.
Lord, thou hast here the ninety and nlnei
As they not enough for theei"
But the shepherd made answer; This Of


mine


Has wandered away from me;
And. although the road be rough and steep,
Igo TO the desert TO fnd my sheep"
But none Of the ransomed ever knew
How deep were the waters crossed;
Nor how dark was the night that the Lord


passed through


Ere he found the sheep that was Lost
Out In the desert he heard its cry
Sick and helpless and ready TO die.
"Lord whence are those blood drops all the


way


That marx out the mountains track"
They were shed for one who had gone as


tray


Ere the Shepherd could bring his back"
Lord, whence are thy hands 80 rent aud


tornl"
They are pierced tonight by many thorn. +"
And all through the mountains thunder-rlyen.
And ny from the rocky steep
There rose cry TO the gate Of heaven;
''Rejoice! have found my sheep"
And the angels echoed around the throne:
Rejoice! For the Lord brings back his own
Year: 1876

cessfu in variety of Is change Of climate ana
removal Of residence mountainous region On this
point Dr. wymans researches have been extensive ana
thorough and his report concerning them forms ono OF


the most interesting and valuable portions OF the present
volume AS far as the geographical relations Of the
d,eease are concerned they furnish complete practical
manual for the direction the invalid which he cannot
consult without advantage.
Year: 1876

The anxiety of the Evening Express
to draw attention from the fact that
Its very existence Is due to one of
those peculiar transactions by which
depositors of late bank in this city
have been defrauded of their money,
and the Assignees compelled to report
a large proportion of the paper held by
the bank non-collectable and worth.
less, impels 1t to iterate and reiterate
the charge that the HERALD has been
the recipient of some six thousand
dollars from the Central Pa
cific Railroad Company. This Is
known to be a falsehood by every
body, including the editors of the En-
press. But to pin the lie home to Its
authors we will prove 1t to be lie by
their own statement, though of course
we do not expect any one to accept
such proof except the Express ''fel-
lows" themselves. Like the little boy
who whistled to keep up his courage
while going by graveyard, those
Express "fellowsn are wearing out
their boots trotting around town tell
Ing that the HERALD's influence and
circulation is but fraction greater
than that Of the Erpress. Now let US
admit for moment that this is so.
Why should the railroad people pay
six thousand dollars for the influence
of the HERALD, when, Ii our informa-
ton is correct, they were a few
months ago begged and implored to
accept the allegiance and faithful SER
vices of the self-styled mighty Express
for the trifling consideration Of three
thousand dollars?
Year: 1876

1t is too often the case that news
papers discuss matters of great i'm
portance in what might be termed,
justly, fippant manner. I'M
promptu expressions Of opinion are
easily made, and hasty ideas uttered; /;
and in view Of the fact that the dis
cusson of the legality of the Act con-
shutting the Board of Public Works
Is attracting popular attention, as well


as financial investigation, it may be
we'll to give the matter q serious
thought again. The theory has been


accepted by some that the municipal
ity possesses imperious rights that the
State has no power to interfere with.
The city authorities act in all of their
proceedings under their charter which
they acquire from the Legislature It.
self, which alone has the authority
to give under the Constitution. The
right to operate in the performance of
their functions Is not an unrestricted
exercise of power, but Is subject to the
control of the power that gives the
organization Its being. The Legisla


ture has a right to direct, control and
remodel municipal action when ever
necessity compeis, as the decisions of
the Supreme Courts of New York,
Mc ssacliusetts and several of the
Southern States demonstrate. It is q
we'll established fact that the power
that creates can undo It's own work,
provided that In both cases, as to cre-
ating and anulling it is done within
the limits of the Constitutional pro.
visions. There can be no question as
to the fact that in the creation of the
Board of Public Works the Legisla.
ture exercised power that Constitu-
tionally was its right. Legislative
functions are supervisory as we'll as
mandatory, and their application to
communities are ultimately to be
fixed by the Supreme Court. An un.
constitutional act of the Legislature
or an illegal act of the Governor car
be rectified by the Supreme Court
Former precedent shows, In many in
Year: 1876

stances, that the Board is legally
constituted organization. In forming
opinions upon matters of this charac-
ter we must adhere to precedent, and
in that view of the case there are
overwhelming instances in support of
the present legislation. Whatever
may be the decision of the District
Court, which of course will be consci-
entious, an appeal will probably be
taken to the Supreme Court, and we
do not hesitate to express the opinion
that its decision will sustain the ac-
tion of the Legislature. The argu-
ment that contracts made by the city
government can only be fulfilled by
that authority is an error. The au-
thority to do municipal acts can be
transferred from one body to another
by legislative action.
Year: 1876

THE Associated Press and the West
ern Union Telegraph Company never
experienced Democratic sentiment
and probably never will. The news
of a Democratic majority is always
slow about reaching Associated Press
reporters, and 1t moves so haltIngly
over Western Union wires that we
have known the fact that the Demo-
Gratis had carried State to be week
crossing the continent. Just now Mr..
SIMoNToN, agent Of the Associated
Press, and his boys are actively en-
gagged In manufacturing reports of op-
position to TILDEN, and those reports
travel with the celerity Of the Compa-
ny's best lightning. The Republican
managers appear to dread the nomi-
nation of TILDEN with an earnestness
that indicates the belief that he can
not be beaten.
Year: 1876

Once In a while we come across an
incident which proves the practical
value of religion. A great many peo-
pie have religion In their heads, but
not in their lives. They can argue
about 1t, but they cannot live 1t. A
poor German woman was dying In q
tenement house. She was fairly tired
out with evil fortune, and was look
Ing forward to rest at last In the
grave. When the ministers attempted
to hold out hope of recovery she
shook her head and replied: "Nein,


nein; die welt ist NIGHTS; der himmel
ist alles." (No, no, the world Is moth
ing; heaven is everything That lit
tie episode is worth more than a long
sermon on immortality, and brings
the fact of the future closer home to
the heart.-Cdrson appeal, June 4th
Year: 1876

Jack Smith, formerly well known
resident of this city, met with very
severe accident at Bear Valley few
days ago. He fell about fifteen feet
and broke his arm near The wrist, be-
sides being severely injured by u rock
piercing his thigh. He also received
injuries to his spine. He was brought
to this place last evening. Dr. A.
Thompson Is attending him.


We learn that large shipments of
hay and grain to Arizona have al
ready been made from Mound City
depot, and the chances are that Will
ford will have all he can attend to
there.


Uncle Ben Mathews turned out q
fine lot Of -four yesterday from the
first new wheat Of 1879. He has la
belled It "The Centennial Brsnd,"
and will back 1t against the best and
beth wins.


Judge III. NJ. Willis received to-day
handsomely engraved parchment
from the office of the Secretary Of
State, the same being his commission
as Major and Judge Advocate on the
staff of Brigadier General Stanford,
commanding the First Brigade of the
California National Guard. The
Judge says that he proposes to 60 into
the purchase Of gold lace and military
costumes without delay. Infractors
of Military discipline may we'll look
out, since the Judge will be tor the
prosecution.
Year: 1876

by department order. That such
procedure shows corrupt infu-
ences upon the face of it, cannot be
denied. A few hundred shares of
stock might be distributed among
department employees, and the
chief of the bureau yet be unsmirch-
ed of bribery.


We say it is not a just principle
in which men receive only at dis
count what they disburse at par.
San Francisco sends her silver to
pay off coal mines, logging-camps,
and saw-mills, yet the merchants of
Oregon and Washington Territory
must not only pay her price for
goods when purchased, but submit
to an extortionate discount upon the
only coin that San Francisco dis
burses within their reach. Our city
is large and powerful of its years,
and should incorporate Board OF
Trade to defend our commercial in
terests against such avaricious dis
examinations. A purchase of hun
dred thousand dollal s. worth of
goods in st. Louis, would soon
bring the "soft pork and sour four
fraternity of San Francisco to their
sober senses.