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Year: 1876

Almost every one has seen a spirit
level, yet common as they are, We often
find persons ignorant OF their construc.
ticn, so will briefly describe it.


The spirit level is a small vial neariy
filled with spirit, and scaled up by melt
ing the glass above the spirit, and joining
the parts together. This little vial i4
then enclosed in a case Of wood or metal,
and is used by workmen to adjust thcir
work in horizontal position. The sriri'
by its gravity falls to the bottom aud the
air bubble rises. By different adjust
mont of the little bottle, workmen use it
to set their work upright


Alcohol when taken into the stomach
of the man is also a great levclor but
unlike its action in the bottle, instead Of
at once seeking its lowest level, it FIST
goes upward to the brain, then it goes
downward, but alas it takes the man
down with it. Financially it takes him
down from man of wealth to poverty
and rags; physically, from an erect,
upright position to level with the street
and the gutter, from health to sicknoss
and the drunkards grave mental,
from o ch and wells mind ta
idiocy and insanity Morally, it take
him down from honesty, integrity aud
uprightncss of character to lying ih'it
lighting, murder and the whole calnioerr
Of crimes. o q great ioveler ls 81 .ot.'
But, unlike its action in the hottie &.
man it can never set him upright L.
action is always TO level to bring down.
to corrupt, to debase. Then, let u never
relax our exertions, 80 to confnc III.
alcohol that it shall never be used 60
level man, whom God designed to w4h
upright.


Belshazzar is q fitting example OF lho,o
who Id this our day bow low at tho shIia'
of the Demon Drink. And ike him. ons
and all will bo found wanting, when
weighed in the balance Of God.


The young man quaifs the soeial glA'
and dreams not Of future danger. Bat
he ia daily refusing to fulfil the heaven.
appointed mission for which he was Great.
ed and his maker cxclaims, Thou ar,
weighed 10 the balance and found want.
ing"


The young lady proaers the poisonous
cup to her lover, and after years, as they
como to her fIeighted with misery and
woe. tell the extent Of her m.ioiug. She
failed to meet the requirements Of eternal
Justice. She was found wanting
The drunkard is found wanting since
God declares, mo drunkard shall inherit
the kingdom of heaven


/ In that hour the traiicker Of strong
drink will also be found wanting, and a.
the train of souls ruined through his in
strumentaity rises before him, his con
demnation will be sure
Year: 1876

The villanous character of the rum traf-
fc is seen in the recent attempt in Ben.
ington to frighten those who engage in the
work Of suppression. Such attempts are
among the best arguments for the utter
annihilation of the business Of such ont.
laws. The Baptist Union says so it is
all over the country, The liquor-power
is in rebellion against law, order, and
morals. 1t Is war Of barbarism against
civilization an attempt to reverse the
wheels of progress and make the people
british and sensual. Christians must
face the storm and suppress it, or il will
des0late the land"
Year: 1876

He was telling her of Pelknap's dis
grace, and casually remarked that tbel c
was a woman at the bottom Of it, as there
always was in the troubles Of men. But
after he had crawled out from under the
bed AMI apologized, he gathered the chill
dren around him and told them tat a
woman was hoy and beautiful thing
So it is that trifes change our views of
life. A fat-in n-even an inexpensive
rolling pin may perhaps be the humble
instrument TO teach man that the hay
loft is god enough pace for him to
sleep in.-BrookiW A,gus
Year: 1876

A PHGNIX deacon toak his son to
church, having heard hard stories about
him, but while the deacon prayed the
son persuaded two of the young sisters to
go riding with him, and they went of
with the old mans horse, leaving him
to find his way home on foot.
Year: 1876

AN English writer declares laughter 10
be an absurd and uncomfortable habit.
He would have nothing more hearty than
smile. His opinion of the origin OF
laughter is that it resulted from the prac-
tice of tickling babies, which practice
has made it a confirmed habit on The
part of the human race. Such ideas are
laughable.
Year: 1876

LET us not look for all good in the
same man. The strength Of one may be
wanting in another, who, however, will
have compensating excellence. 1t is in.
tend ID ofProvidence that men shall make
up the human fullness by the average of
Il cir powers, and not that each one shall
b. per Get in the possession Of all good
qualities.
Year: 1876

A LITTLE boy told his father he was a
fool. On being reprmanded by his mother,
and required to say he was sorry, he ran
to the insulted parent and exclaimed
papa, me sorry you's fool I"
Year: 1876

A CHICAGO man has not been bothered
by his wife to get worsted for her since
the morning he appeared pleased to do
such an errand, and incidentally spoke
OF The engaging young lady who tended
the worstcd counter.
Year: 1876

A SOUTHERN book binder bound up
eighteen dime novels between Bible cov-
ers, and a preacher carried the book
seven miles under his arm to read some
consoling passages to a dying woman.
Year: 1876

They 6NdH F0rfeN diid ray Ihrcc ltnits


The 1mount OF The Bet.


"If any person or persons shall
make any bet or wager upon the ro
suit Of any election within this com.
monwealth, or shall offer to make
any such bet or wager, either by
verbal proclamation thereof, or by
any written or printed advertise
ment, challenge or invite any person
or persons to make such bet or wa
ger, tipon conviction thereof he or
they shall forfeit and pay three times
tho amonnt 50 bet or offered to be
bet.


ut shall be. the duty of the in
spectors and Judge of tho electious
to reject the votes Of all persons who
they or any of them shall know. or
who shall be proven to have made,
or are in any manner interested in
any. bet or wsgsf..Cn the result of
said election. and on tie requcst Of
any qualified clector said inspectors
and jndge shall receive proof to
show tho person so Offering TO vote
has or has not made any such bet or
wager, or is or is not interested
therein.


II shall he the duty of tho several
constituted authorities having care
and charge of the poor in the rospoc
tive counties, districts, and town.
ships of this commonwealth, know
ing or being informed, under oath,
of any person or persons having
made any bet or wager of any land.
goods, money, or thing of value, on
the result of any election within this
commonwealth, or deposited the
same in the hands of any person
within their respective counties, dis.
tricts or townships, to bring suit in
the name of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, for the use of the poor
Of such county, district or township,
against such depositor or stakeholdc
er, where said bet is deposited iu
tho hands of third party or
against the party winning said bet
when the same is not so deposited
for tho recovery of the amount sc
bet and il on the trial it shall bC
made to appear that said lands
goods, money or thing of valno was
bet on the result of any election
within this comnonwealth, said
guardians. directors or overseers o
tho poor thall be entitled to recover
the amount or value thereof for the
use of the poor, from ssi1 stakehold
er, or person winning said bet where
there is no stakeholder.


Provided, Said suit is brough
within two years from the time o
making such bet. And tho stak @
holder is hereby prohibited during
said time to pay over the amont Sc
bet to either Of the parties, and shal
Dc liable cor the same whether siicl
BET is paid over or delivered to the
parties, or either OF them, or not
and tho party winning shall in lik
manner be liable to the payment OF
the whole amour. 50 bet, where thu
same is received by him.
Year: 1876

The great cities New York and Brook
lyn Will soon be tied together by that
splendid monument of engineering skill,
the East River Bridge. The tower on
The New York side is nearly completed,
md the labor Of building the temporary
'rldge VIII be commenced August / and
VIII occupy about three months. The
temporary structure will contain 23O 900
pounds OF wire rope, and will cost almost
$4,000 1t will be taken across in one
piece-that is, a single cable will be made
last on the New York anchorage, hoisted
to the tower there by derricks, lowered
On the other side into scow, taken across
TO the Brooklyn tower, hoisted to the top
OF the latter tower and then made fast to
the Brooklyn anchorage The other cab
les will be carried across the river in a


traveller" running on the first cable


there will be seven cables in all, which
VIII be arranged at different spaces across
The top of the towers Across these cab
les three platforms or cradles will rest at
intervals. On these platforms the work
men will regulate and tie the wires of the
main cable when they are thrown across.
here will also be foot-bridge running
irom anchorage to anchorage. three feet
IN width, for the passage of workmen to
the cradles. The wire for the four main
cables will not be prepared until next
year The wire to be used will be one
eight of an inch in diameter, and it will
lake $500 wires to make cable.
Year: 1876

A novel invention which is attracting
the attention Of several capitalists of New
York seems destined to change completely
the method Of creating electricity for the
practical purposes of life The new in
vention is machine in which extraordi-
nary quantities of electricity are generated
by causing a number of magnets to re-
volve rapidly in close proximity to each
other. The idea is not new, but the diff
Guilty in the past has been to create a
steady, even current with these machines,
the electricity being apt to flow from
them like stream OF sparks from an
emery wheel in detached discharges,
whereas a current smooth as beam of
light is alone good for anything. The
new machine has triumphed aud produces
just this result. 1T is the invention of j.
b. Fuller and j. n. Crandall. After hav-
ing been successfully tried over the wires
of the Atlantic and Pacific and Franklin
companies on Union Square, it has been
taken to the great Western Union build
ing on Broadway, and has been set to
work the wires Of the Gold and Stock
Telegraph company. The machine is
small and requires very slight motive pow
er. A few such would furnish all the
electricity now generated by the GO tons
of expensive batteries which now occupy
so large space in the Western Union
building on Broadway. One of these ma
chimes has been made to work an electric
light: and the inventors have contract
to put up ten of their lights in the Ex-
position grounds at Philadelphia. They
talk of displaying one of their electric
lights soon from a tower of the Brooklyn
bridge, where doubtless it would shine to
good advantage, for if there ever was a
community where light is needed, Brook
lyn is the place.
Year: 1876

a market gardener writes to the Even


x Post as follows: Much labor may
'e saved arranging the garden in long.
iarrow beds, running north and south, in
stead OF irregular and dispersed pitches.
he fruit should be placed in rows so dis
p0sed that they as well as other rows can
9e cultivated readily and easily by horse
and hand machines, OF which there are
teveral excellent ones When thus az


anged, the garden can be well ploughed
and narrowed by one horse, without injury
10 the fruit or beds of permanent vegeta-
Dies or herbs. 1t will be found very con-
renlent to have a broad plat OF grass at
each end of the garden, upon which the
horse may be turned. These should be
hept closely shaven with a lawn-mower
Most OF the sowing and planting may be
done with a hand drill, which, with ar
Fangements to enable it to be used as
weeder or a cultivator, can be procured
ior few dollars. These implements are
great relief to the labor of gardening,
and prevent the necessity Of much stoop-
ing They are certainly as necessary to
The wife and daughters of the homestead,
upon whom the gardening mainly falls, as
The horse rake on mower to the bows and
the father
Year: 1876

with laugh at my victory. Imagine. if
wilderment, when saw that he was not
there


There was no one III the car save the
sleeping conductor and myself; and as |
sat staring blankly about me, there came
to me sudden and overwhelming convic-
ton that Jack Everson's return had been
only the return of his spirit


This shock. coming so soon after the ex-
cltement OF the evening, was too much
for me. tried to rise to get out into the
fresh air. but could not; and after mo-
mentary struggle l fell heavily forward.


1t was days before came to myself; |
was wildly delirious all the time and my
life was despaired of; but when recover
ed my health once. devoted myself to
the work Jack had left to me- found the
papers where Jack had told me TO look
for them and. after a tedious time. Allie
was restored to her rights, and Flournov
justly punished


told the story of Jacks return to
Sarah, but she would not credit it. was
"light-headed," she said; ''when people
were half-sick. as | was then, they often
had strange fancies," But Allie and |,
and Grey, the .janitor, believed it.


Allie and | know that dear Jack did
come back for Il little while-that it was
love for his dear ones that brought him
and that knowledge gives us patience to
wait UNI we can go to him
Year: 1876

1H1dv ii.


The State of Maine contributions being in a
condition of readiness, some of us who have not
had immediate charge of the work, have looked at
some of the noted places of the city, pending the
Year: 1876

Mr.. George W. Eyers of Portsmouth N.
H., last season pastured yearling heifer
in Greenland, but when fall came she could
not be caught. The farmer set his shep-
herd dog to catch her. but he only sue
ceeded in driving her from the pasture
and she has wandered about the woods
and pastures between Greenland and
Stratham all winter subsisting mainly
upon browsing trees. For several weeks
she has been known to be in the vicinity
of farm in Stratham. and has been fed


in the woods; but though coming near
the farm several times with the cattle, she
could not be to!ed into the yard or build
ing, and she was only captured finally
last week by the farmer building shed
or trap over the spot where he was accus-
toned to leave her hay in the woods, with
a door to drop by her moving its support


as she fed. when he climbed to the top
and dropped rope down over her horns


She is quite thin in flesh, but surprisingly
tame aud gentle considering her escapade.
Year: 1876

General Kautz has had his scouts and troops out constantly for a month or more running over the old Chiricahua reservation and the whole South Eastern portion of the Territory, and the officers uniformly report that there are no Indians there, or if they are tlicre they cannot be found and there k no fresh Indian sign. The General has about come to the conclusion that the crv of renegades is a false one, and that the recent m murders have all been committed, most likely, by Mexicans.
Year: 1876

The election returns, we are advised, are not opened and counted officially in this Territory until the second Monday after the election consequently we shall have to wait another week before the final result can be definitely determined.
Year: 1876

There comes to us, by way of Fort Whlp- pie, report that there was robbery con- mitted last week somewhere on the Verde road, and that there was some shooting and hanging in it, but we have been unable to ascertain who, where or to what extent.
Year: 1876

Cor. HOHE AT SANTA BtRBtRA.-The Press in noticing Col. Hodges second lec- trre at that place says: The closing part the lecture was devoted to the 3Jth Parallel Railroad, which the speaker explained as being both feasible and practicable, and one which would open up wonderfully rich country, embracing Prescott as a center in Arizona. and which, when completed to the Pacific coast. would pOura wonderful stream of wealth into Santa Barbara if this should become the terminus, and which the Colonel claimed is the natural terminus of the railroad which should cross the Coast Range at the SOledad Pass. We wish our business men and citizens generally could have heard the lecture, and hope they keep up commun- icatiOn with Col. Hodge while he is on his Eastern lecture tour, and render him such assistance as may be needed to further the building of the 35th Parallel Railroad
Year: 1876

Again a horrible crime has been committed within the borders of our county, and again will we be made notorious on account of this bloody decd.

 What shape this deed will be distorted into, and what slurs will be cast upon our people and coun- ty on account of its commission, by the time it IS heralded to the world by hundreds of newspapers, is hard to tell; but if the prompt, active, determined effort which should have been made to ferret out tEe outlaws and cravenly brutes who committed the deed, had been instantly set on foot; and, if together with the report of the commission of the crime, it could have been announced that the authorities and the mass of good citizens where the deed oc- cured were after the murderers and that tue chase would not be abandoned until justice had her clutches upon them, great DOT tion of the stigma which this crime will bring upon our commu- nity would have been removed. But such an assertion cannot be made, and although it will be an injustice to our people, the impu tation will be that their inactivity and seeming indifference in re- gard to the taking of human life, arises from their inclination to- ward barbarism ana unciviliza. tion. More than two weeks have now elapsed since the commission of the murder at Douglass Store, and yet we know not that the foul assassins have ever been molested or arraigned for the deed. We know not whether the true au- thors of the deed are known, but there is a strong suspicion against several parties, and we doubt not had the proper effort been made the guilty ores might have been ascertained and the strong mana cles of the law fastened upon them.

 We can attribute this fatal in disposition on the part of our of ficials and the citizens to nothing else but timidity. There is no loop-holes in our laws to allow crimes like this to be perpetrated, and the guilty ones to go map-
Year: 1876

We continue to receive letters and postal cards every mail al most making enquiries concern ing our country and stating that the writers are thinking of com ing to our state.

 We now say to all these par ties, and to all others who are contemplating looking mp new homes, that the best thing you can do is to get on the cars and come to our state and look at it before you break up where you are. Our country will bear in- spection. We do not believe there is as good country for a poor man on the face of the globe as this. Nor do we believe there is a fairer field for the investment or capital Tn manufacturing mn ing and stock raising. We have everything you need, and if you will come and see for yourself you will find it just as we tell you, that the hundreds and thous- ands who ares rushing headlong to Texas and Kansas, would do much better here. They,,pull up stakes and rush to Texas not knowing where or to what they are going, and consequently do not feel contented when they get there. Our advice is to just make a prospecting tour to our section of Arkansas first, and sec how you like it. You will find all the railroad companies and transportation lines will be ac- commodating and liberal to you | if you wish to come and look at our state, and we rsdict you will not regret having made the trip.
Year: 1876

and our constitution challenges the commendation of all states men. But what do laws amount to if the penalty Tor the violation of the same is not visited upon those who violate them? The terror is not in the law, nor the penalty prescribed for it's viola tion, but solely and alone in the certainty that that penalty will be visited upon the head of him who dares to violate the law. Re move the dread of the penalty. and of what benefit is the law? ? We most earnestly protest against this injurious indifference mani fested in our county, and we warn our cstizens against the fatal con sequences. Why, instead of standing back aghast or retiring quietly to home and merely regretting this deed and doing nothing to appre- bend the devils who did it, the citizens of that community should have turned out in mass and headed by the Sheriff of the coun. ty such Q search should have been made that would have shown the desperadoes and outlaws who did the deed that the peoble of Pope county did not intend to allow such acts within her borders. The moral effect which snch prompt action would have had, even had the authors of the deed not have been apprehended, would have had nest salutary efecct upon lawless iperons; and, too, it would have purged our county of any censure for sympathy or tol- eration of crime. We warn our citizens that the course they are pursuing in reference to the sup pression of crime is most damag- Ing. Many believe that a man would be in far more danger now in Pope county, to steal a horse than he would to take a human life. This is a bad state of feel ing and it must be changed by a more active, prompt, determined and vigorous visitation of the penalty of the law upon criminals, or We will see crime steadily in- crease. Our officials must be more jealous of the honor of the laws which they are elected and sworn to administer and execute. If of. ticers fail the time when crime trenches the land in blood we had as well dispense with them altogether, and each man be his own protector. Then, perhaps. these desperadoes who bring dis grace upon our country, would meet their just dues.

 Let citizens and officers deter mine that henceforth if human life is taken in Pope county, the mur- dcrer shall most certainly not es- cape.
Year: 1876

 country take the lead, and display as much zeal and ability and en- ergy in this more commendable direction, as it has in the grand political contest, just closed.

 Let us at least in Arkansas take up our line of march in this new direction. We have grand, great State, and it needs our labor in this direction to bring out its latent lustre. What say you, fel- low citizens; and, gentlemen of the press, what say you?