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National Republican., 1878-05-25
GEORGETOWN PARAGRAPHS.
Real Estate Transfers.

Our clothing uucXcelled, our prices the lowest
Eiseman Bros., corner Seventh and L streets.
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LOCAL MISCELLANY.

Interest paid oil deposits. Special rates 90 time
deposits. J. II. S9rIEE & Co.,
Bankers 1il6 Pennsylvana avenue.
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ElsEM4ss for clothing. A household word
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PANTS to order, g. Roman 4 Cox,
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THE DISrRICT ~ CONGRESS.
Senator Burnslde's Moral and Social ScIenC
I.lu

Senator Burnside, from the Committee on
Education and Labor, yesterday reported h's
bill 10 introduce moral and social science into
the public schools of the District of Columbia.
1t is amended 50 as to read rs follows:
That the sC!ODl officers shall ntrDducea as part q
the daily exercises Of each sChOO. In their jursdlc
science
SIC . That II shall be the duty Of the teachers tc
give short lesson every day upon some one Of the
social or moral virtues which UhHracterze the
good citizens and 10 require the pupils 10 nIrmisf
from time to time thoughts or other illustrations 0
She same,
SEC. 3. That 1t shall be the duty Of the Commits
siOler Of E,lurHtiOu tD direct the operations uude
the bill, and report upon the result in his mex
annual sulemcui.
tween the pupils in aCCunulating thoughts nIl,
facts In REGARD . the noble trlits possible, and II
illustrating them by their daily conduct.
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he breath, and prevent toothache. Sold By oil
druggists. rs and 30 cents per bottle.
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ers far surpass all others.
HARD times demand economy; practice II by
renovating your soiled gloves with JouyES's 1So-
DERous KID GLOVE CLEANSER. Price - cents per
bottle.
ARE you bilious. troubled with headache. dizzy.
ness sick stomach constipation, &c? Are you dy,-
peptic, nervous, dull, and lnnauid? Avcrse TO all
eSertion. Is your life miserable? You require II
change. Cleanse the system, purify and renew the
blood. Take QrIRKs IRISH TEA, the great mousse
hold remedy. 1t will soon relieve you. Sold by all
drugghts, rs cents per package, which makes 4
quart Of medicine.
Is your hair harsh. dry and stiff Does It refuse
TO curi Dress II with TnoNPsoS's PoNApE OPrrNE.
IN oleaginOus compound OF singular merit. Il
will improve IT. Sold by druggists. &c. Price 2j
aud so cents per bottle.
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YACHT CLOTH sUIrs. Roman d Coz,
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CITY ITEMS.

WHITE VESTS, 81. Roman 4 Cox.
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he breath, and prevent toothache. Sold by oil
druggists. rs and 80 cents per bottle.
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Permits for repairs have been issued as fol-
lows Mills Dean, No. GlO Massachusetts ave-
nue., 500; J. ii. Clarke d Co., No. 1920 Sew
enth street northwest, $780, DR.. p. Gleason,
New Jersey avenue and Boundary street, $50
The receipts at the treasurcrs Office ycster-
day were $i6,307.3l disbursements, SI,3sO 20.
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Rates of Toll For Grinding.

Chapter II, Revised Statutes says:
''The owners or occupiers OF all grlst
mills, moved by water, shall be EMIT
led to one-eight of all wheat, rye or
other grain ground and bolted, OF
ground and not bolted, and no more,
and such owners or occupiers shall
not be permitted to grind their own
grain to the exclusion of other grists,
so long as such mill is used and occu-
pied as grist mill.
The owner or occupier of any grist
mill shall well and sufficiently grind
the grain brought to his mill for that
purpose, in due time, and in the order
in which it shall be received, and shall
be accountable for the safe keeping of
all grain received in such mill for the
| purpose of being ground therein, and
shall deliver the same, when ground,
or ground and bolted. as the case may
be, with the bag or casks in which ii
was brought. when demanded; but nc
owner or occupier of any mill shall be
compelled to grind for distilling, OF
| for sale OF merchant work, to the
exclusion of his own grain.
Nothing contained in the last sec
| ton shall be so construed as TO charge
the owner or occupier of any mill foI
the loss of any grain. bag or eask which
shall happen by robbery, fire or iney.
liable accident, without the fault of
such owner or occupier, his agents or
| servant.
Every miller or owner or occupiel
of grist mill, who shall not well and
sufficiently grind any grain as afore-
said. or not in due turn, as the same
shall be brought, or who shall exact
or take more toll than is herein allow
ed. shall in every such case forfeit not
less than three nor more than twenty
dollars. and shall also be liable to this
party injured in double the actual dam
ages sustained by him.
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TRUTH VS.. FICTION.
Read before the Library association at
Rirer Falls, Nor. 2, 1878, by
LucV l.. Witcor.


While we do not condemn all ficti-
tious works we cannot speak too
strongly against those books in which
fiction is used purely as an end rather
than as Il means. Such works do not
come under the trite old rule: All
things by God created. fulfil some use
full mission, for Satan is the father of
lies.
When, in reading, the plot absorbs
our attention to the exclusion Of i'm
proving topics for meditation; when
no grains of truth are found in the
ehaff of fiction, let us close the book,
no matter how fascinating; its perusal
is at best waste of time and may be
permanent injury to the mental powers.
We must learn to think as well as to
listen. From every germ of truth alb
sorbed, many new ideas should spring;
thus the value of book may be esti
mated by the train of thought which
it arouses.
In the average novel false ideas and
unnatural circumstances predominant,
and their devotees view life through
distorted glasses. That love of the
wonderful so common to all, unduly
fostered by sensational literature, be-
comes, an absorbing passion, and as a
commonplace existence affords little
on which this morbid appetite may
feed, it's unhappy possessor seeks
thrilling story, as the drunkard seeks
his glass. If teacher, he is unskil-
led in his profession and ignorant of
human nature, as one must be whose
mind dwells upon topics so entirely
foreign to his work. Instead Of strlv-
ing to subdue the difficulties encount-
cred in his school work, he worries
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eHA edy

through the Improbable days and at
night, with deadened conscience, for
gets neglected duties in following the
exciting fortunes of some angelic be-
ing, entangled in IA web of mysteriously
adverse circumstances. BY pursuing
this course, all power of concentration
are lost. Show me one whose fayorite
authors are Mrs. Holmes, Augusta Ev-
ans and Marion Harland, and | will
prove TO you that he hates Mathemat-
les and sees no excellence in Shakes
peare. He cannot follow the reason
ing of the most simple argument and
knows not whether he is a Greenbacker
oraRepublican. Let us watch him as he
reads newspaper. Skipping the edi-
torial, he looks through the locals to
to see if any one has been married or
murdered. Seeing a political heading
in large type he attempts the article,
butas it is too much for his enfeebled in
tellect he reads the humorous column
instead. Next he absorbs the love story
and chances at tile first stanza of
piece Of poetry, and having exhausted
the paper, declares there's nothing in
it, and goes back to "Dora Deane.
He hurries breathlessly through the
volume TO discover whom the heroine
marrIes.-though with ordinary dis
cernment he might have guessed be-
fore the close of the first chapter,
and in twenty-four hours has forgot
ten the adventures of heroine number
one in those equally miraculous of her
Dine number two. The following day
being questioned concerning Dora
Deane," he looks bewildered, declares
that it is q charming story, but, al
though the name is familiar, the lead
ing points of the narrative have cscap-
ed his mind. Thus the novel reader
pursues the road to inn
Decility.
ITO be cOutinued
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Educational.
lis. lgAKER. A. is.. Editor.
COUNTY uPERISrEEDEET.
PROGRAMMES FOR COMMON
SCHOOLS.

We submit below the result of our
own and others studies in the line of
programme. The chief general error
at present is the too great number of
arithmetic classes. The time given to
that branch is not, however, proper
tionately in excess. The results of
this policy is. lamentably slow pro-
gress, and not very thorough work in
arithmetic. 1t is hard to convince Il
teacher who has seven classes, sepa-
rated by few pages, that by reducing
the number, every one would be far
ther advanced at the end of the term.
The order of the recitations, in about
one-third of the schools, needs some
change. In some cases. the pupils
have two reeitations ii succession
with no interval for study. The time
given to the various recitations is usu-
ally correct with the exceptions noted.
In case the classes are peTy large or
rery small, the time given can be
changed We ask teachers to conform
to the plan given, as far as practicable.
Be free to make inquiries OF us by let
ter, and we shall be pleased to exam
inc any programme sent in by begin
ners and note any changes that seem
desirable. In that case, give the num-
Der in each class. The time of day
that each recitation should occur, is
important, and has been considered.
There are also some recitations that
should not occur immediately after
recess.
We have worked out this programme
with Pres. Parker, and his suggestions
have been followed, He favors it as a
whole. We will soon speak more at
length in regard to mental arithmetic
as Il separate exercise. There is no
objection to frightening the recita-
tions of some classes, if time permits, |
although the first and second reading |
classes should not have more than |
10 minutes at any recitation. 1t is |
assumed that teachers who have classes |
in higher branches, will not have all |
the lower classes that appear here, so |
that the time given to primary and |
classes will in no case be |
less than this programme indicates.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

IT has been announced that the Or
der of Trappists has bought tract of
land in western Pennsylvania with a
view of establishing a monastery
thereon, to be the fourth of the Order
in this country. The community viii
consist of two hundred monks from
France. Ireland and Turkey. The
Trappists are the most austere of all
the religious orders of the Roman
church: they hold no secular CONVEX
sation, subsist upon water and yegeta-
bles. sleep on board with straw for
pillow. and never updress. Under
these restrictions it is not surprising
that the Order numbers comparatively
but few members.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

Mrs. JUDGE E. HOLMES ELLIS, of Green
Bay, suicided on the 9th inst, by
drinking the contents of bottle con-
tanning corrosive sublimate. Depres-
sion of spirits brought on by sickness
is assigned as the cause of this sad
occurrence which threw a gloom over
a large circle of friends. Judge Ellis
was absent from home holding regu-
lar term of Court at Appleton at the
time,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

The sum of 9,734 was paid out of
the State treasury for bounty on wild
animals during the fiscal year ending
September 30th, being over $4,000 in
excess of the estimate of Secretary
Doyle for this purpose. Grant county,
one of the oldest in the State and from
which we should naturally suppose
that the ravenous wolf, voracious
wild eat andgreedy iynxhad long since
been banished by civilization, receives
$50 or more than one-seventh of
this sum. Pierce county receives Sl43
Dexter Owen, of Hartland, getting
$50, and Frank Lowell S2S.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that 1t w

NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that 1t will
conflict with the ultra doctrine of
States Rights, Southern members of
Congress will support Il bill providing
for national quarantine, admitting
that States cannot act with sufficient
accord to make protection complete ;
besides the expense will be paid by the
general government under national
quarantine law, which is something of
an item
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

The Board of Supervisors of Brown
county is wrestling with the PROPOSE
ton to repudiate the railroad bonded
Indebtedness of that county and failed
to provide at its annual meeting for
the payment of $4,000 of interest
thereon
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

THE famous Potter committee now
appears as an elephant upon the hands
of the Democratic managers. They do
not like to go further without taking
up the celebrated cipher dispatches
and they dread to handle them. The
testimony they already have does not
exactly cover the point they started
out to reach, besides which it is the
testimony of self-confessed perjurers
whose oaths amount to nothing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

ARMY officers are now having a
lively tilt with the head of the Interi-
or Department relative to the propos-
ed transfer of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs from the Interior to the War
Department. 1t is quite plain that a
change of some kind should be made
in the arrangement of the redskins on
the frontier.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

The Republican Senate of Maine will
be forced to elect either a Greenback-
Ell or a Democrat as Governor of that
State to succeed Connor, and it is ex-
pected that the Democrat will reach
the persimmons as he is an honest
money man. However Objectionable
Democrats have heretofore been as a
rule they are preferable to the modern
Green hacker
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

THE Canadian authorities are having
trouble with the Indians Of British
Columbia and there are grave appre
tensions of a general Indian war as
there is great uneasiness among the
warriors on account of real or fancied
wrongs.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

If Republicans do as well two years
hence as they did in 1878 they will
reclaim the United States Senate, and
with both branches of Congress in
the hands of the Democrats during the
next two years we can see no reason
why the Republicans should not do as
v,yon
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

IT is stated that the Milwaukee del
egation will present the name of some
capable honest money German as a
candidate for Chief Clerk of the AS
sembiy; if so, he chould be chosen as
a just recognition of the generous aid
extended to the Republican cause in
Milwaukee 10y that nationality. Mile
tus Knight, of Pepin, and John Cover,
of Grant, are the most prominent can
didates for Sergeant-at-Arms of that
bodV
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

THE monument authorized by the
Wisconsin Legislature of 1878 to be
erected in memory of Ex-Governor L..
P. Harvey was completed and placed
in position last week. 1t is SAID to be
a very neat and appropriate one, the
cost of which was 800.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

FoRrY-ErGHr Agricultural Societies
drew aid from the State to the amount
of 800 each during the present year,
besides which were the usual appro-
priations to the State Agricultural
Society and the Northern Wisconsin
Agricultural and Mechanical Associa-
ton.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

IT is the boast of Delaware that
there is not Republican official with
in her borders who holds his position
by the suffrages of the people. What
few Republicans there may be in that
State draw their pap from the Federal
Government.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

THE sequel has shown the attempt
of philanthropists to coloEize Liberia
with colored people of the South to be
miserable failure. The climate there
is of a malarial nature, savage tribes
harass the outskirts of the country
ana money and food is very scarce.
The emigrants are rapidly dying off
and starvation stares the living in the
face. From these statements we
may reasonably infer that the South
will not soon suffer depopulation of
her colored citizens.
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ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTING

am now prepared to furnish Plans, Speei-
ications and Estimates, Working Details, Ele.
ton the construction Of any building in tie
latest and most approved styles, lat reasonable
prices and satisfaction guaranteed. ANY pei
son will save from s to 10 per cent. on the
cost OF building by proeuringa reliable set
of drawings.
CONTRACTS TAKEN,
for building and furnishing all materials.
2I-35 G. HENRY
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

Hon. III. II. GILES, of Madison, a
member of the State Board of Chari-
ties and Reform, has made the tramp
question the subject Of considerable
thought during the past year and he
assumes that the best minds of the
age are engaged in the discussion and
calculation of this important question.
Passing by the theological tramp, who
has a good stock in trade of diction-
airy words; the political tramp, who
has an expressed love for the "dear
people, and the social tramp who
visits you under the pretence OF friend
ship, Mr.. Giles confines himself more
particularly to the tramp nuisance as
it now exists and in the general accept
ance of that term. He is of the opin-
ion that every tramp has a home-that
is, that his legal status is somewhere,
and to that home he would have him
sent, and he thinks that our laws
should provide for the arrest of va
grants and that they should be compell-
| ed to labor; he would also have the
act of begging a sufficient cause for
| arrest. He advocates the application
| of the lash as means of furnishing
criminals for offences committed as
| being the most salutary in its affects
for the protection of the people, hav-
ing been reluctantly forced by obser-
walton to this conclusion against his
earlier feelings and training. While
this position will shock the finer
sensibilities of humanitarian philan-
thropists it must be confessed that a
thread of physical pain in case of con-
viction would serve as restraining
influence over many who are constrain-
ed to commit crime.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

THERE seems to be no doubt of the
reelection of Chas. E. Bross, of Madi-
son, as Chief Clerk, and of L. j. Bray
ton, of Marquette, as Sargeant-at-
Arms, of the State Senate for 1879.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

Note /. 1t is desirable that the
study in preparation should imme-
diately precede the recitation. Teach
ers will do well to form II study pro-
gramme parallel to the above.
Note 2. During the summer term
at least ten minutes per day should
be given to the study of Botany, in a
general exercise, the time to be taken
from the second reader class.
Note 3. 1t is assumed that the ga
arithmetic has spent some time in
preparation, either during the preced'
ing evening or during the last hou
of the preceding day, SO that the
class can give a part of the first hour
to the study of geography, in prepare.
ton for recitation in the ''A" class.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

WADE HAMPTON will doubtless soon
give another illustration of the magma
nimity of the United States Govern
ment by taking seat in the United
States Senate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

SAMUEL j. TIIDEN is said to have
already commenced operations with a
view of securing the Democratic NOM
nation for the Presidency III 1880,
and convinced that he cannot secure
the solid support of the Gulf States is
at present directing his attention to
Pennsylvania. A paper has been
established at Erie in bis interest and
the support of Pittsburg paper has
also been secured. 1t is further stated
that Speaker Randall favors this
scheme for securing a Tilden delega-
ton in the next Democratic National
Convention, from Pennsylvania, while
it will meet with a determined oppo-
sition at the hands of United States
Senator Wallace. This situation of
affairs indicates lively times inside the
Democratic party of the Keystone
State, as the efforts of the Tildenites
will early be directed to the destruc-
ton of Wallace's influence and the
latter will not be pushed aside with
out a desperate effort to maintain his
standing politically. The nomination
of Tilden by the Democracy in 1880
will afford Republicans throughout the
country abundant cause for con-
graduation, and we trust that such an
event may occur.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

The Milwaukee Sentinel suggests
that by some mistake a defaulting
Democratic county treasurer in Ohio
was sent to the penitentiary.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

We understand that Henry Casson,
Jr., is no longer candidate for the
position of Chief Clerk of the Assem-
bly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

MONTGOMERY BLAIR gives it as his
opinion that Tilden is the only availa-
bic Presidential candidate for the De-
mocracY in 1880.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

In Utah Territory politics are un-
known. Religion is what they divide
on out there, and every member of the
Legislature is Mormon.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

The Madison Democrat seems to take
a lively interest in the Senatorial ques-
ton, even though Howe's successor is
to be Republican.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

The Trust Funds of Wisconsin figure
up to the grand total of $4,2l8, 6l0.5 81.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

A monthly fair will be held at Mar
tel, Pierce county, on the second Tues
day of each month for the purpose of
buying, selling and trading in
horses, cattle, sheep, swine &c. The
farmers of Martel and adjoining towns
are cordially invited to bring their
stock to the fair. Butchers and 9TH
ers desiring to buy fat cattle will do
well to attend.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

The Chinese question is one which
must ere long engage the attention of
Congress.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05
THE RIVER FALLS JOURNAL,
RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN.
RATES 4F ADVERTISING.

Business cards, four lines orless, So
square will be counted the space Of oneinch.
local notices will be charged according 70 their
character. Nothing less than 10 cents line for
the first insertion, and 10 cents for the second.
AIlJob work must be paid for or delivery.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-12-05

The Territory of New Mexico has
Republican Legislature.
SIMON CAMERON, of Pennsylvania, in
sists upon Grant as Hayes successor.