Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1877, Page 7

ur yesterviay or i And all is f ng angel sw! resh and fair again. MORNING, nae Ob word and thing most beautiful! wa ing mig c has run, Ob word and thing most beautiful! ‘The hearts whic! “Phe tired hands, So glad of nigh Where are the The world i were the th are giad of nets 0 of cares so full, dd feet morn! esterday? ool. the world is sweet, And life ts new and hope reborn! Oh word and thing most beautiful! Oh coward soul and sorrow fal, hich sighs to n Give pias What are these thi note the el a ing's shadowy gray! vgs but parables— ‘That darkness heals the wrongs of day, And dawning clears: mists of night? Ob word and thing most beautiful! The litte sleep our pain to lull, ‘The long, soft di ask, then full sunrise. ‘Te waken fresh and angel fair, Life ali Susan Coolidge and grits fo “wield su ti nt. be 5 + Sunday afternoon.** ot, ere A MARK TWAIN STORY. Cats in Bermuda, According to That | erac Chroa: le sociable. a small donk at hi purported to passed al Well, she is our next there's another on the ot i Hess al these thre * families ve lived hy nelly ra Why erful ehough to break up so old a friendship?” Well, it was te oth of without know how it is wi Jess, and sure en Mrs. Jones’ prin finished him up. comes here with tal idin could to do but I warn't investing in cats now as much as and with that she walked off in a huff. ing the remains with her. tercourse with the Ji another chureh She said she wo assassins. Weil, Such was “The same. names that w wife), what was th: of ratsbane by nus c out ich was t fami) igh © pal tom In the morni for D ONE gy ere side by bad, but it couldn't be | ved like this: About @ year | got to pest these th p joneses. the one. st en Dece ne n't look this way, Y side and b tering my pl t up @ steel trap in th into camp and i Mrs. Jones her arms and It was with S aria (to That's the one that eat up an entire box of se: and then hadn't matter about the na claim 7 shill agreat stir. Yards around—trien es. Mrs. her up to going » law she wen ngs and 6 pe ‘All the neighbors Went to cou Everybody took sides. ter, and broke up all the friendships for 300 got ndships Fensrations and generations. Rendon Witnesses that the eat wa character apd very ornery,and warn’ age stamp, ‘anyway. ats here : Dut canceled post average of could I expe: and is beund to m shed some trate sult? the case—never once. Swag in currence’ “Currency? reney?” “ Yes—onions. d Saved a world of by she had named it dry the sigt a seven shilling la it seemed to “siz At this point we - building 10 yards. were busy int au i whose deat nen could comm ed to one avd the overnor his ritish Adm At this moment Mr. Smith noticed the flag. He said, with em “That's on a b a boarder de = A dozen b hast. “ But would they a Mr. Sm dead. That see: rain, turned te clouds. —A mothe nearly asiee not better go to bed. only shut my eyes to —A dear Hit t say RLS s - You see, t a poor /ittle starvatior turn him loose on the and costs to live on. What is the natural re- Why, he never looks into the justice of ‘Ail he looks at is which etient has got the money. So this piled the fees and costs and everything on to me. pay, spiece. don't you see? and he knew mighty well that if he put the verdict on to Mrs. Brown, where it belonged, he would have to take his ‘Why, has Bermuda a eur- And they were 40 per cent. discount, too, then, because the season had been over as much as three mouths. So I lost ud to pay for that eat. But the he case made was the worst Broke up so much good feeling. ! ch other now. But . She is a Bap- in the course of baptizing it is dr It's a boarder, sur h ith? certainly they would, if he was | but I lost mu bl uestion. suit abe the ‘sa ay hat this was honest all this destruct ¥ of the beneh on yore judgement than xo and take a drink. He was considered to be & great loss, but [ could never see it. Well, Brown hotter and 4 3 t hisname, but it will Us about ourselves and s Weavers for 10 years till about z what calamity could have been pow- z ‘suse their cats were pretty soci- here nights, and they might get t my intending it. W y shut up their eats f wi tions, until s glad to rest upon hisshoi tout sak | from'sheer exhaustion. The effect of dai . + Baw | in. this respect y be altogether diff ap took when practiced the home circle between ry That closed our in- Mrs. Jones joined i took her tribe with her. net hold fellowship with and by comes Mrs. Brown's nt by here a minute ago. She id yellow cat that she h of as if he was twins, and one | 1 that trap on his neck, i nd was so sortof satisi: jown and curled up and sta the end of Sir John Bald- There's eats around here with id Surprise you. cat's name that eat a keg cover at Hooper's, and | ot struck by lightning and ers and fell in the weil and most drowned before they could fish him That wax that colored De ‘on Jackson's T only remember th of his name, Jr-Not-To-Be-That-is-The- | ad had the | It made | that had lasied for | AMERICAN SOCIAL LIFE. home of Its Sins \cainet Health and rails. THE POR OF AMERICAN soctar, LIFE is in the tendeney to luxury and effer,;Uaey among the well-to-do young women of o.” American cities and large towns. They do not realize how this dreadful mania for expensive Pleasures, and a life of alternate idleness and amusement is destroying their health : abolish- ing true marriage ; feeding the flame of gross sensuality and intemperance among young men, and saddening the hopes of the best | parent of the land. Some of them never will | Know it in this world. But most of them have | Bo real purpose to waste their lives in this wretched way. And it is a high crime in | mothers, teachers, ministers of religion and the public press to pander to this insanity. Thousands of good-hearted young girls are sacri every year when a little wise and loving guidance could save them. But we feel that .' should be told that unless they change this life they will | en away like the flowers of June, and a more hardy and resolute class oceupy their places. American society will shed every class of triflers, male or female. that do not do its work, as the forests shed their withered leaves. Let them awake from their dream of social indulgences; iearn to live out of doors; to build up their health; to cultivate more simple tastes in dress, and re moderation in pimsure: study domestic economy ; study social skill and t set; fit them. selves for the noblest positions ever yet offered | to their sex, and learn that woman is the soul | of American life, not the tinsel on its gar- Iv, | ment.—[ Universalist Quarterly. | DANCING A STIMULANT OF THE PASSIONS. One unhygienie result of dancing is the pre- | mature development of the passions. These | are latent ~ to a certain age, and are designed to take their proper place in the regular order of development. In this nature is often frus- trated by the intervention of artificial means to hasten the P nce when irreparable dam. age isdone. Dancing is not one of the least of the means that are employed to accomplish | this end. There are enough things that tend | in this direction without any assistance from a passion-provoking practice like dane’ In fa ball-room there is a promiscuous crowd. | Many are strangers to each other. The “seis” | are formed, the music strikes upand the dance | beg The pantomime that now commenc: t + to express the emotion Again, that would be re MpFOpET Un me series of rapid ev members of the be ly, buteven here there ‘med in the young that amounts to an absorbing fatuation, w soon seeks gratifieation in a more publie pla No greater misfortune can befall a boy or girl than to be subjected to such a fous pore It causes them to become developed in a vanee of their age, and, being naturally pulsive, they are easily led beyond the bounds of propriety and into sin.—[Dr. Mank fank. THE SURROUNDINGS OF BILLIARDS are anything but satisfactory. A public bil- liard-room fs invariably a stifling, ill-ventilated place, and frequenied by individuals of an: thing but EP econ pr type. Stale rakes, wi having been tleeced themselves, are longing to prey upon others, and a vagabonds of »w origin and low tastes, find their way to i and they soon rub the gilt off the more inno. cent beings who come in immediate contact with them. He must be a very strong-natured man who can frequent a billiard-room of the worst kind and escape more or less contami nation. If there is greed within him the place will bring it out, and in time he will learn todo things without hesitation which at the outset he performs With a sense of the deepest shai He is taught by its influence to look after him- | self, and to care not a jot who else goes to the bad ; lessons which, though very valuable from one point of view, are not likely to conduce to his permanent benefit in the highest sen: When all this ean be written with truth— | it can be confidently stated that billiards arc surrounded by a mass of vagabondage, Knave- ry, dissipation, and other influences which tend to men’s moral deterioration, and are ‘ ealeulated to place people in the greatest | Peril, we cannot be surprised that there are , | purists who hold up their hands in disgust and | condemn the game altogether.—[ Libera! Re- | view. } PARALYSIS CAUSED BY COSMETICS. One cause of acquired deformity is the slow pe le may a taste ming of the system by certain inetallic sons. Chief among these are the salts o' ad, and one of the most characteristic ¢ formities, produced in consequence of poison- ing by these salts, is what is commonly kno | as “wrist-drop,” eaused by the use of Laird’s ) | * Bloom of Youth." and other villainous cos- h meties. The use of cosmetics has within a Well, F proved ears become so very common, even of alow | among the better class of society, and as worth @ | most, if not all of them,are equally’ as dan- = — Lo Tous to use asthe particular one described case. Wha fter me. m of ‘stem is all wrong here, revolution and bioud » the magis- ry, and then » gouge for fees Teould er . J was hoping we might ily again Some time or other, ning the child knock It would have rt-break and ill-blood if ry. observed that an English had just been placed at half-mast in this report, have deemed it my duty to ee ce these cases before the ——— that, nowing their injurious effects, they may guard their patients against thus voluntarily poisoning themselves through ignorance. his deformity, incompletely developed, ean be seen every day — the streets of this city, for there is many a fashionable lady who suf- fers from it in consequence of her own folly. Her hands are held in a peculiar, yet fashior able position, a sort of kangaroo style, an pooy 4 of them 7 hat they are imitating the fashion admirably, while they are feel obliged to carry their hands in this position because the extensor muscles are not are enough to hold them up. The polish Ln Nah on their faces has manifested itself in produe- ing partial paralysis of the extensor muscles of the forearm, and the fashion has been intro- duced to accommodate the deformity.—[Dr. Curbaily. THE YOUNG MAN AND HIS SOCIETY. ung man, just launching into business, id make it a point not to mix with those he would be ashamed of in years to There are many who start in life with ood prospects, and intended to act in good faith and lead honest and upright lives, and would undoubtedly have done so had they as- sociated with men of unsullied character, whose names were above reproach ; but no, the pleasures and frivolities of the other picture they were unable to- understand. Society can be appropriately termed temptation. If a per- son's intentions are good, and he should un- fortunately fall into bad society, he would eventually, from being thrown continuall into sueb Company, acquire like habits, and finally tint himself in a position from which it “ rir * | would be impossible for him to extricate him- away. I and my friends | Sif, Such eases as these are daily occurring instant trying to imagine | within our midst. How many of us know ol ng the island dignitaries same oe ‘ding-house, I judge there’s small 0 guess the weather's so Warm it's melting the | seeing her little fe in her chair, ask cep the “said Mr. mast the flag plution. ~* y. While watching the her and said: “ Ma, I nelusion: “ to England; it is for t mit dust out.” ad such a mark of respect as this. ‘Then a shudder shook them and Same moment, and I knew that we had jump- me at the r flags within view went to ith ss here for not mach r-year old if she had “Oh, no, mamma; I ear-old girl, in her deep reverence for the Almighty, could never be God; it was always “Mr. mamma, it isn’t “spectful to Mr. Dod, of course.” men who have aad golden opportunities; men who lost wealth, position and honor through the influence of immo society. Look at the numbers of well-educated men, traveling from door to door in search of food—men who Jost their name and standing in the and have fallen so low that they have Ishame. We think we have drawn this pict enough to satisfy the young man that now is the time—now is their harves: ; and if they fail to take these advantages, they will rue the day when they did not take the warning in time and become a credit to their families and to the community. But if im- moral society is a temptation to evil courses, | the influence of proper associates is equall: st x in the opposite direction, Society may bea temptation for good as well asevil. Toa | young man, who, from circumstances, may be momentarily inclined to turn aside from paths of honor and rectitude, the pres- | ence of an upright person will act as a rebuke and save him from falling, while the very at- | mosphere of society of this kind will keep his mora!s uncorrupted, keep his thoughts far away from Teg channels, and be a moral fenee around him, gy tremam 8 preventing him, unless obstinately deter d, from going astray. INJURIOUSNESS OF HIGH-HEELED SHOES. In —— stairs or steep declivities while wearing high-heeled shoes, which throws the weight of the bedy upon the front part of the foot, the extra effort made for the purpose of retaining the body within the center of vity produces a direct strain upon these ma. Where Go the cows get the fendons, causing rupture or stretching of the asked Willie, looking up from the | Signa: argh em By aE foaming pan of milk which he had beea in- } dis laced. It is no wonder, then, that fashion. tently regarding. “Where do you get your | ShpIAer l date Ina mest an fal man- tears? " was the answer. After a bone tful ner when they attempt to walk hey destroy silence he again broke out? “Mamma, do the | esr" comfort to follow. a ridiculous tashion, eee ene =e 2 3 «i acquire an ambiii d undignified move- —“Come. pa,” said a youngster Just home | Tene Yeonie do things to follow fashion that ul se Toolish | their good sense wi cause them to be wou don't | ashamed of under any other cire ees. Ladies wearing such shoes are for safety, to go down stairs backward ; an they can be seen wr, day descending the stoops of our fashionable residences in this manner, making pretense of talking to some | imagit person in the front door as an ex- | Fated their awkward movements.—{ Dr. | Carbatly. vest suppose fight THE DEADESING DEPLTRRCS OF PAREN. eee ee lake Ghent csid Jamess | aud unpettied fe that we must look for stony: a: jones and rtedness—not world of busi: 3 1 am mad at 1 Want te | Derieethn paar evened te teeearth oy oxiee —_ the nursery sewing, with tons and sufferings. hardens the char- Mamma sat in Low was there, baby May playing yp gy at her f nding That - -old acter, but often leaves the heart soft. Iffyou ae yond aii te'nnes what ollownene amd hearttess tel OS ness are, you must seek for them in the world picazure vi being Kit an . pe fn nes farmed heart into a rock-bed eanuete bec os = of se Say what men will of heartless- Se cceesty :, A! eyes grew Phebe | ‘of tradi oi - pared ‘the PRuRe al pretty, and there was ie Ty would | Of the atheism of sclence, itis the Little gir! coming along the sidewalk, I would | of) oem of that round of pleasure in the ee Sees | heart Hves dead while fe lives —[iee. 2 We binet ire ts age — t vig foreign | ¢al circles, man can’ . ission ¥ unless he can hen we az-The Gazette that the Feflect that this. iron elad rule excludes Fitz- | arrest of Richard Granger, colored, hugh of Texas, Beauchamp, Josh Billings and | with to commit a rape on ® several other good citizens, the of | Rittie on last —. the proscription stands out in its true c0.0rs.— TAMED BY EUXCERICIZG, [From the San Fronciseo Cai. oe onaer trostanest Yesterday by was anew x his new trainer Professor Tapp. fae pode hg spectators assem! in py Tea” of the Record stables on Mar- cet stv2et, near Tea, (0.826 how an animal pos. ~ridiosynerasies would sessing Cognae’s pecmne.” UMSENS conduct himself under the oe hae ee of a galvanie pesery. nave, ~*~ upon periment and the fame of the sibjye.. * Which it was to be tried attracted severa: dies, who accompanied their husbands to wi hess the exhibition. The ring enelosure is about seven feet high, and the seats for spec- tators elevated still above this, so that they are presumably out of the reach of Cognae. Not- withstanding this he came very near making a Square meal of a wholesome-looking citizen who was unwarily leaning over the temporary rail that surmounts the ring enclosure. The horse was running at his freedom in the ring, and charged with a wild fury upon ‘coon 4 = son who approached the railing, although they were above his head. He sei. the gentle- man in question by the coat Pere. ing also his vest, shirt and undershirt in his teeth, and, being an Immensety powerful animal, it was with the greatest difficulty that the man was kept from being dra; into the ring and killed. As it was, the horse got away with a large piece of a broadcloth coat and a h nouthful of vest, shirt and red flannel rment, and the man’s breast was dis- as if he had received avery heavy blow. This was before the audience had as sembled or the Professor had come in. At 2o'elock the work of securing Cognac be- gan, and by a little maneeuvring two topes were made fast to the headstall he wore. This was accomplished by the Professor and an as- sistant who stood on the outside of the en- trance door, Which was opened sufficiently to admit a man’s arm; Cognac keeping his nose thrust close to the opening in the apparent hope of getting a nip at somebody. One of the ropes was then passed up along the corri- dor in front of the seats and made fast to an u coast Ps . Then the trainer entered the ring and secured the other rope to the tent pole. Thus Cognac found himself unable to lollow the bent of his inclination any further. Professor T a history of the animal. Ci pttled gray thorough- bred Norm: stallion, of symmetrical, but powerful mould. At his native home he was nd was worked in the plough. He was unported to the United States two years ago, being then five y old. He beeame the property of a » in Mlinois. One day his ster put a halter on him, the style of which he took as a mortal affront, and he beeame re- All attempts to subdue him were He was so terribly beaten about the ad that for some weeks he was but litt it horse. re has ever since exhibited a dead}, hough perfeetly mals of his own species. y from the ri armed, as he it. an overeoat and fl side pockets of the ove! he had two small electro-galvanie bat one on each side. These were nected by an insulated wire that passed behind his back. A wire ran from each battery, one being posi- tive and the other negative, passing down jn- side of the s} to his gloves and connected siyall metallic plate covering the ball of He had also a bridie bit, with ne ed. The bit was wound with a co! of copper wire, which extended along each strap toa small’button. With a little ditfieulty he got the bit in the horse’s mouth, the bridle being put over his head by piecemeal. During this process py or fought with his mouth and fore feet as it he could, but he i yn Whatever now to use his e. Prof. Tapp then took eineach hari. He keptthe thumb of his left hand constantly on the button of that strap. His right thumb he held over the other button, but not in contact with it, except when he wanted to give the horse a dose of lightning. When all was ready he dropped his right thumb on the positive button, giving at first but alight charge. Cognae started as if he had been struck by a bullet. As the shocks were increased in strength the animal plunged “i reared as much as his strong fastenings would permit. At length the side rope was loosened, and he had the full cireuit of the ring. Tapp let on the electric fluid, and Cog- nae reared high in the air, endeavoring to piu age at his tormentor, but Tapp kept his eye on him, and_ by the slig! movement of his thumb created a wall which the horse could not cross. It was a magnifie with foam, fret the reins, © sight. The ped coy- ri n pte - upon ti Pore fessor, but the brute strength and ceness paled before the be- hest of seience, and Cognae was powerless to do harm. The Re any ae continued about twenty minutes, when the professor concluded to test the docility of the animal. He said th the principal thing to be overcome was nac’s disposition to bite. Tapp approached him, stroked him on the body, then on the i, and took hold of his nose. Cognac, either from exhaustion or good nature, mitted this,and even showed the same docility toward Tapp’s assistant Tapp thinks he has made gi mt in Cognac. He thinks the gal atment isa Success, and in this he was concurred with by a number of horsemen in the audience, although others thought differently, as the snimal exhibited his usual vieiousness toward any otbers who approached him. Before Cognac was taken from the ring he would come and go back at his trainer's command, and in many respects act like an inte:ligent horse. At the close of the exhibi- tion Professor Tapp hitched Cognac up ina buggy, and the gates that lead into McAllister street having been thrown open, he drove sev- eral blocks and returned. There were a great many vehicles passing and repassing, and hun- dreds of lé on foot watching to see how Cognae would acquit himself in harness. He behaved just like any other horse, and but for the fact that the “man eater” was followed by a large crowd, no one would have suspected that he was the distingulshed animal that all the world had heard so much about. lelody ityle. STARR KING ON THE RHYTHM OF SOME NOTED POETS. One of the strangest things which a deep student of Shakspeare learns is the variety of his music and rhythm in the same ten-syllable blank verse. No other writer of his age com- manded such music, and the movement and measure of his Macbeth and Komeo, Hamlet and Antony, Lear and Tempest, are as differ- ent as if diiferent writers—on the bagi el—had given each the training of a life to f these pla: fement of me And in each case the dy is a subtle accompani- ent to the passion or the law that informs and ensouls the ce. why Goethe cannot be translated dering Goethe or Berangerintoanother tongue is that which a German, not over-familiar with our phrases, uses to describe translation; he rman book has been “upset into Dglish.” A reader with an ear for melody has a feast spread for him in Saxon poetry fit for Apollo. Many a person imagines thit a poet's office is akin to that of wood sawyers— that itis their business to saw 2 language into measure, and pile it even and gracefully, rhymed at the end. But with the ear for rhythm, Milton and Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelly, Keats and Tennyson, are richer than an organ in the house. Charles Mackay’s verses seem as though they were composed on an even, hard trotting horse upon a macadamized road. Whittier writes as though a trumpet was continually sounding through his Quaker soul. What an advance in melody in Longfellow from the * Voices of the Night,” with its “sweet sixteen” poetry and sentiment, to some of the chapters of *Hia- watha,” and his last lyrie in the Atlantic Monthly, ** Paul Revere’s Ride!” What ex- quisite meditative imagination in the slow, sinuous harmony of Bryant's “Tha: a" Colerid: ud in this respect Edgar Poe was like him—seemed to write fragments only to show how superior is the suggestion of sqund to Clg agen A — in verse. elley’s words, in many o! songs, ap) tosta inelody nd there simply to prevent the from melting into utter ip And Tenny- son’s “Idyls of the King,” the crowning wor! of his genius, needs the rarest voices that we been attuned on t be to read it, and set free the melody, hy and delicate, as a which his own busie song de- sei 5 © hear, how thin and clear, farther gol O'sweet and lar, frou clifl and scar ‘The horns of Elland faintly blowing.** How Coneressen Live.—Says “Gath,” in a recent hington letter to the Cincinnati Bogue eee epereie li company, no pe me habits, secretiveness ; hese are la- | THIRTY MILLIOYs QK GOLD, Wealth * The That ee Been Extract. Way eastward they encountered Indians, were driven back across the spur west of the Madison into the valley of the Stin! Water. Foltowing down this s towards its june. tion with the Jefferson,they camped over hight at LBgon 3 2 a ay AO coming in ™ east. As usual, ‘ted its POE anc to their intense = ieadon - vrospects. mulated suc. exceeding posed explorations next mornin, and before thé day was over Sacisfied themselves that the new creek was rich’? than red = found in the territory. This w.as Alder Guileh, whick Proved eae “Ve Mount lor ch that mets" iy ever been found in auy part of ad eee ater, if geen Reg ‘ould resent, perhaps, wildes Ses disstp.tion and lawlessness that could be found. The Fairweather pan; the discoverers, im. mediately Yocated and stax ¢d out the richest ground they could find, and e<#n washing, meeting with unprecedented succ?sS, For a time the discovery was kept a secret, CUtulti- rovisious had to be bought, ana fhe to Bannack for these resulted in the Instantly there was to Alder. The guleh f the wildest and was invaded by thou: pst untamed of the pioneers Prospecting diselosed the fact th from end to end, from the Bal tits head far down into the yal nking Water. Every foot of gro maken up, and much was claimed twice and three times, a circumstance which in- stantly necessitated a large gravey: coroner, With hardly an exe claim in the canon bes highly p I lation of 15,000 tive miniature cit es ‘ During the summer of 1563. over $6,000,000 in dust, a yield almost incredible, had been from the bed of the creek, and in the % the following year the "population creased, through emigration from all_ parts of the United States, both East and West, to nearly 20,00. Many claims yielded to their owners #]00,0%, and several doubled that amount. It can be easily imagined how wild must have been the days on that rugged stream, where f » plentiful, an where every att call for was placed within the miners so suddenly raised to afft flush times at these Alder Of the five prominent t is pleasantly locate and for a number of. tal of the territory sueceeding its discovery enormous amount of $35,000.00 The geology of Alder Guleh is interesting in the extreme. At itshead stands a ragged - ite mountain, so steep that th seanty foothold on its slopes. seamed in every direciion with gold veins, whose outerop may be it eye for long distances. Following down the canon the formation gradually passes into gneiss, and from that into the quartzites, slates, — finally the more recent and unaltered sedimentary rocks. The gneiss, like the gran- ite of Old Baldy, and strong gold vi whieh cross the gulch dia — from s side. Through these highly auriferous formations the waters of Alder creek have been cutting their way for ages, and the frosts of winter have been at work on the steep slopes of the upper gulch, hurling down huge fragments of quartz for the stream below to grind to powder. Thus a process of disinteg- ration and concentration has gone on through the centuries, resulting finally in a vast deposi- tion of the precious metal to an extent far be- yond any precedent. . Of course, the fame of Alder declined in time. Confederate, Last Chanee, Blackfeet, Ophir and other new discoveries, drew away thousands. Its best days ended with 1867, and when the first attempts at quartz mini) proved, through mismanagement and incom- peteney, to be abortive, the towns in the val- ley shrank rapidly in size. With this decrease ot population came an era of law and order, and Virginia City, losing the palm to Helena, became the town we find it to-day, a mode: eee B living mountain =, of 3,000 oF 4,000 inhabitants, depending for its daily support on the crumbs of former days, vainly striving to sustain the dignity of the past, and anx- iously awaiting for the capitalists who will have the means to collect the hundreds and thousands of small and now worked separately) claims into a few large properties, and to bring in the much-needed supply, of wat he thirty come from id millions of dust which — bed The op ortunity for successful ad- ventures in wor! ing the abandoned claims is very great, and has already been setzed upon to some extent. Numerous attempts have been made also to work the gold veins so abundant in the gulch, and a moderate amount of success has been attained. The revival of the active production in Alder is now only the question of a few years. The enormous fig- ures of the early day will hardly be repeated, but as a mining district, presenting favorable and attractive inducements for capital, it is hardly to be su |. The great veins whose debris lined the bottom of the canon with gold in the past contain still many times more than they have given up, and only wait to be work- ed th an intelligent manner to begin pouring out once more their treasures. The Fairweather party, who discovered the gulch, realized immensely from their claims and threw away their gold in all forms of ex- cess and dissipation, as was customary among the pioneers. William Fairweather, the leader of the party, a character in our national his. tory not unlike Comstock, the discoverer of the famous mines in Nevada, died, like the latter, in abject poverty, with few friends, and with scarce a shelter over his head. In both cases the discoverer was forgotten or lost in the fame of his discovery. Faith in Her Preacher. MR. MURRAY TELLS A LITTLE STORY OF HIS PREDECESSOR. If you should see me and my horse on the Brighton Road on Sunday afternoon * * * ee would not believe me when I prayed “O ord. may we abstain from all appearance of evil,” said the present Pastor [Rev. Dr. With- row] of the Park street church in his sermon last night, and the good deacons and the old members exchanged knowing looks, and smiled si; oem | as their thoughts took a y = in the almost forgotten past.—{ Monday's lobe. This reminds of a little story of Rev. Dr. Stone, a pastor of Park street ehureh back in the “almost forgotten past,” which may have furnished the traditional basis for Dr. With- row’s allusions. Dr. Stone owned a very pretty natched pair of horses, rather given to speed, which he drove into church on Sunday from his home in Roy congre} bury district. In his tion was a dear, saintly old lady—a veritable mother in Israel—who loved her pas- tor and would not tolerate the thought that he could do anything wrong. As she was being jogged along the Mill Dam road in the family carriage one Sunday morning, on her way to chureh, accompanied by her son, the pastor’s team bore down upon them at a 2.50 gait—it being a little late—and passed them like a flash, the doctor — the reins. “That reckless man!” exclaimed the dimsighted old ly—to be so unmindful of the Lord's da: “WwW by. mother,” answered the son, Dr. Stone.” “It is,"’ she said, in momenta confusion ; but added, as her faith reasse1 jiself: ‘The dear man—I snppose he couldn't hold them!"—[Golden Rule. MONKEYS IN THEIR “CuPs."—The ape fam- ily resembles man. Their vices are human. y love liquor, and fall. In Darfour and Sear the natives make a fermented beer, of which the monkeys are passionately fond. Aware of oe natives go to e he liquor. As soon as the monkey it he utters loud cries of joy, his comrades. or; fe ABOUT OBELISKS. Tt was said that a Yankee country for exhibition, or put it te some central spot for a permanent show. Per. haps some other Yankee wiil bethink him of the plain of Marathon, and digging up a ship- ful of earth, will bring it over the ocean, and oacet it _on some accessibie and convenient site as a ground for patriotic emotion—admis- sion, twenty-five cents. The transfer of the Ss Was thought by many persons t but a form of barbarism. For although itis not to be denied that noble and beautiful figures are noble and beautiful everywhere, yet when placed as parts of a building in a cerfam country, monuments of a unique ari and of a great civilization, they have a fitness and beauty and charm there that cannot be carried away with them nor renewed iq we Te is something of the same incon, in erecithg an Eeyprian obelick in New York. Of course, if the King of Siam politely offers us “a team” of white elephants, we cannot po- litely refuse, and if the Khedive of Egypt offers us an ‘obelisk, we must courteously re- . With unique generosity, some cour- teous American has generously proposed to pay for the ftansport, and there has been speculation as to the per site for the white ele—that is, the obelis rifty-seven years ago | Mehemet Ali gave an obelisk to George the | Fourth, of England. But only within two or three months did the illustrious gift leave the shores of pt for England. On the way a storm arose, ‘the vessel which carried the obe- lisk was cut loose, and. by a singular good for. tune it was recovered and towed inio Ferral under a el for as a tragedy at the time of e death of the Eugli r the crew of th ity Pro) harbor, where it now lies salvage. the loss in ntil the Eng in London. c famous gift h inser ging it te Placing it, for it was intended ¢ not in commeme Shepherd King, Abercromby and other sailors wh l died in E nm et the known lang not seem to be indispensable. Obelisks are a small family, but it must be owned that they i travelers. Only forty-two are now known, of which twelve are in Kome. Florence has two, and Paris, Ark and Constantin y one each. In Eng! there are alre wr; and the fifth, 1 nd wintering at Trol, i ‘om Heliopolis it is Known to . That two of nded to set off, imultaneously is an story of obelisks. Should the American voyage be n landin he impos Unt it will comme! Ralph | h soldiers and | and to their ording in an un andevents did a have rested them should have set of story of the country, It sting relic of an re from all t or climate. It probably disappoint ‘ral expectation, ‘ause of its moderate height and simplicity of form Itis a singular fact that while, as we under- stand, but little money has been collecied for the Bartholdi statue, the sum necessary to bring the obelisk was pledged at once by an individual. Whatever may be said of the Frenchiness of the proposed statue in th bor, it would undoubtedly have a ci torie significance, for the relations o! and the Unit es Were most friendly dur. ing the great contest for our independence. Astatue of America made by a Frenchman, and in some sense a gift from France to Amer- ica, would have interest and a “reason for being.” But an oa obelisk in a square of the city would be but a curious estray. It would, indeed, be full of interest. The lofterer would find himself floating aw. he gazed, to arealm of awe and mystery. Palm-trees would hang by a river-brink and Sakias sigh. Camels would plod heavily along, and dusky- faced figures in bright drapery inove slowly 1 by. Old kings and mum araohs would turn to him weirdly, like the ghosts of Hud- son's men to Rip Van Winkle, and unknown irds spread ‘8 Basy or January. pus views, either i yea is a confide friend, Rev. Dr. Stearns of Newark. . The belief this youthful letter expresses was perhaps little modified in his riper age, as re- gards the creed of the churches and the na- ture of Christ, but he grew into a sense of God which he had not attained at the writing of this letter, It is an illustraticn of the supreme honesty of the maw the could not pretend to the eae which he did not have. After ing to his frierd that ne had been studying the evidences of Christianity, he proceeds: — “Tremained and still remain unconvinced that Christ was commissioned to preach a revelation to men, and that he was entrusted with Koa pnd of working miracles. But when I make this declaration, I do not mean todeny that such a being as Christ lived and wen about doing good, or that the body uf precepts which have come down to_us as delivered by Him, were so delivered. I believe that Christ lived when and where as the gospel says He was more than man, namely, above all men who had as yet lived and yet less than God; full of the strongest sense and knowl- edge, and of a virtue superior to any which we call Roman or Grecian or Stoic, and which we best donate when, borrowing His name, we call it Christian. I pray you do not believe that Lam insensible to the ons and great- ness of his character. My idea of human na- ture is exalted when I think that such a bein; lived and went as a man among men. And perhaps, the conscientious unbeliever good cause for giorifying his God: ot because He sent His into the world to artake of its troubles and be the herald of vlad-tidings, but becauss He suffered a man to be born in Whom the world should see but one of themselves, endowed with qualities caleu- lated to elevate the standard of attainable ex- cellence. I do not know that I ean s without betraying you into a contro which I should be foath to en; which Lam convinced no go will result to either party. Ido not think I have a basis for faith to build upon. I am without religious feeling. I seldom refer my happiness or acqui- sitions to the Great Father from whose me sf they are derived. Of the first great command- ment, then, upon which so much hanes. 1 live perpetual unconsciousness—I will not say s would imply that ym believe, though, that my love to my heighbor—namely, my anx- iety that my fell reatures should be hap and disposition to serve them in their hones endeavors—is pure and strong. Certainly Ido feel an affection for everything that’ God created ; and this feeling is iny religion. college Evin Bcrrttt proposes, in a letter of char- acteristic vigor, a remedy for the existing dis- tress in manufacturing regions. The problem is to draw away from the manufactories some a of the ‘at over-supply of labor. As the government lands in th too far off to be reached, and allow eens on which they are placed. It would ‘take much capital to set on foot a movement of this kind, which might turn a tide of emigration Moers Is there nobody to make the experiment?—{[N. ¥. = UNDOMESTICATED Eprror of the New- | us expe- too. Deen tell you GES ta Este rE 2 i i ial ist, Fl . Captain Wa, OF OUR REDUCTION PLAN be ranas follows: MAS BEEN CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED. | PAY: os Tet Hea MoKN INS. Pe 4 OUR IMMENSE STOCK on TUESDA Tiare & 18 RAPIDLY DIMINISHING. oping at rk ‘on SUNDA: oe Seal Ofhoes, LS aad OUR POPULAR HOLIDAY PRICE List TAKES WITH THE PEOPLE, a ___ WMH. KILLAMON, Agent, WEEE ARRANGEMENT, FOR NORFOLK, oarEnee MONROE AND y The ew iron Tarmry-THree Per Cent. Discount TRE 1 At ae . Turse Harp Tinks 1s Not To Bg Lavemep Ar. When $35 Overceats are reduced to $35 and #25 Overcoats are redaced to $18 and $20 Overeoats are reduced to $14 — and . m = THURSDAYS, at . Currioman and Leonardtown: SATURDAYS. Oe $10 Overcoats are reduced to $7 o'clock a. m.. for Currioman and Laonardiowa or further information, appiy at the fen, Oar Metropolitan Rank. Knox's be the Companys W bart $16 Overcoats are reduced to $10 and street. The House p called for on MERE es at Rex's Bee That Makes Such Reductions ee ACCINELE TY acne BACON, Prost. 1s Bound To Sell Goods. ss — STEAMERS POR NEW YORK steamers Jub GIBSON T wil keve New Yorn at 6 pee m. every SATURDAY. very SATURDAY at &, wf Alexandria same day. ‘© at jowest rates, For information er Metrepeittan Rank, 1th street, PA. DENHAM, Agent, Water street, ° BACON, President These Are Precisely | ‘The Inducements We Offer. | KN Just The Same i Knock Down, Bottom Prices, Applies To AU Our Suits, And Other Goods, SAMU ‘LYDE’S NEW EXPRESS LINE BETWreN PHILADELPHIA. ALEXAND! ING ANL As For the Item Of BOYS’ CLOTHING, We Simply Oger Bargains That Cannot Be Resisted. ca These Are Special Holiday Attractions, SAILIN From Philadelphia Sai a From W 40 HABLE BROTHERS, MEN AND BOYS’ CLOTHIERS, Corner of Seventh and D sta. full Informat F stree neton, THE INDICATIONS ARE THAT SILK HANDKERCHIEFS Y ORTH GERMAN 1 Lory, > 1 PTUN AND . bx. ARE COMING IN s ‘company wil! sail A ~w mot Third . ates 3 FASHION » Southampton, Lop: . cabin, id: SW cut FOR oe ORLRICHS @ GOee oF passage, apply to. “. S78 Gin Ys Rowling Green. New Yor. MERICAN LINE OF STEAMS Al Sitevey THURSDAY dint n ty Liverpoo, GENTLEMEN, from Philadelphia to touching at Qu ustown. ‘abin, intermediate and steerage u can behad at HD. COOKE. Jn 8 COM, Beaks ers, F street, Fceae rns Als, Ageuis forthe ete YUNARD LINE. y NOTICE, ith the view of diminishing the chances of oal- ision, the Steamers of this fine lake a spectiie course for all seasons of the year. On the outward mm stown to New York or Hoston, crossing The Ynertdina ot oe 1 HAVE A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF THEM. Bordered, solid grounds; Bandana, old styles; Tonge, white, natural and coloredand hemstitched, lat.. or nothing to the north of 43, And ‘On the homeward p crossing the meridiam of Oat 4a Madras, Oriental patterns. - Fine Silk Muftiers, brocade and other designs, RTH AMERICAN 7 ss Ps, Black Silk Square Cravats; ND LIVERPOOL, Black Silk Spring and Napoleon Cravats:; AT CORK HARBOR. RK. From New Silk Scarfs, indigo, myrtie, seal brown and black; Fine folded Sik Ties, in blacks and colors; Black Silk Bows and Cravat Bows; ‘Silk-lined Kid Gloves and Mittens; Silk-faced Smoking Jackets; Fine Silk Umbrellas; Silk Undershirts; Silk Cords and Tassels, ev ing marked * donot carry KATE OF PASSAGE. —Cabin, gold, according to accommodation. secre Sage is & special low for winter mou! Tickets to Parts, $15, widitivnal, Retara “Gloerage ticketsto and from all parts of Europe at oa — 0 and from n ONE PRICE ONLY. Feu Jom fates. Through bills o lading given for Belfast, Glasgow, Havre, An aud other ports on the Continent and for Mediterranean ports. Per Omics, No.4 Howling Greeks oe. both steerage Ga ice, No. 2 Ore iS BiGk 606 71 LOW. street. CHAS. G. FRANCKLYN, Agent, RAILROADS. Bea CRAT DOChLe TRAC ee NATIONAL LIXE AXD SHORT ROUTE NORTH AND WEST. NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST. GEO. C. HENNING, dec2i-tr 410 Seventh street. MERBY CHRISTMAS NOVEMBER 1877. 70 45m AM. LEAVE WASHINGTON, 8:60~"Baltimore and Way 5 650— and” Way Stations, oe Gotrasburg.” Winchester aud Way Stations, tee 8:10—Piedmont, Strasburg, , Hagers- “Merry Christmas to alt the suow-bindsaid, | 9 5 tn, Point of Rocks Sot Way AS he heagily Sepel erent; more Express, Parlor Car wo New York an “If L were wanting a suit of clothes I'd tell you the place I've found. I'd get my clothes of Mr. A. Straus For these days of December frost; So strong and stout they will hardly wear out, And it’s strange how little they cost. "> Phil 8:40—*nt. Louis, Cincinnati, burg Express. Connecis except Sui T Parlor Car to Grafton, and ‘Louisville, Cincinnati, “Merry Christmas to all!"* the gentleman said, As he looked on his little boys, ‘Who were getting ready for Christmas time And making a jolly noise. “I°ll get them an overcoat apiece And a suit of clothes to boot, There's no place at all like that of A. Straus To purchase a nice new sult.** 12:10—Baltimore, Ellicott City, Annapolis an@ ‘ay Stations. 1:30— New York and Philadel Baltimore Ex- ‘0 culy, stop “Merry Christinas to all!** the school-boy said, With a bouncing giad hurrah? *:Just think of the bargains of Mr, A, Straus, The biggest you ever saw. ‘To make this Christmas merry for me, press, rs cars directly to boat at Canton, No counes- r for Norfolk. ‘And merry for all school boys, oe Tee cates, Just buy, if you please, such presents as these Sie— ago and Columbus Express, Sleeping That you get of Mr, A. Straus.”* hicago. ‘Baltimore Express, matt, 7:30 —"St. Louis, Cineim Pit one outs and itaung: fi Care to Bt o Goumeetion tor Fi Philade: and Hatitmong Buy your Presents for the Boy, Express. ng Car to New York, - special Sleeping Car to Pl Buy your Presents for the Boy’s Father, + age pe ry. o 2 Buy your Presents for the Boy*s Big Brother, Day. Bay your Presents for all your Male Friends, 1877 «I 1877 TO THE NORTH, WEsT, AND SOUTHWEST. Double Track. Steel Rails, Splendid Scenery, Magnisicent Equipment. NOVEMBER 18th, REMEMBER NAME AND NUMBER, 1877. TRAINS LEAVE WASHINGTON, y UN. from Depot, For Vitisourg and the: West, 2o'10 a. tn. daly, pcs “EES Sie ert ream Pitist : a — Chicago; 7:40 p.m. dally, with Palace Car ee a2i-tr Three doors east of 11th street. G : =e = | BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD. For, Canandaigua, DRY GOODS. GELLING orr 1 SELLING OFF: FOR THIRTY DAYs J. W. COLLEY’S, 7g; 801, Cor. of 8th st. and Market Space. yan cease SALE OF CHEAP GOODS STILL CONTINUES. i Tn 28 an