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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-01-11
GENERAL GOSSIP.

lion. AlcXanOcr IL. stephens has
efficiently recovered from bis late
illn ess to resume his scat in tho House.
The Arizona Legislature organized
Oh Tuesday. The Council consists Of
five Republicans and fourteen Demo-
Gratis, and tho House OF len Demo-
Gratis and eight Republicans.
Tho yellow fever commission has
concluded its labors at New Orleans,
and Mcssrs. Lamar, Gibson and
Hooker and the members Of the board
of experts have left for Washington.
Prof. Henry Dcrk, while attempt
ing a balloon ascension ut Joncsboro,
Ark, Oh Wednesday, fell from Il
trapeZe distance Of one thousand
feet and was instantly killed.
1t is avcrred that five cent nickel
costs only q cent and quarter, and
that they were legaliZed for the benefit
of the owners of New Jersey nickel
mine.
The Turkish Government, by ad-
vice of Bakor PAsha, is to erect a
dozen forts between the Black Sea
and the Sea Of Marnora, which will
connect with chain to Gallipoli,
which is to be strongly fortified.
Belief in cremation grows apacc in
Europe. At Il recent incineratioa in
Gotha the whole clergy Of the town
were present, as a public and solemn
assent Oh their part to the process.
Cyrus w. Field and Samuel J.
Tilden arc believed to have greatly
increased their large fortunes by the
extraordinary rise in the mortgage
bonds and stock of tho New York
Elevated Railroad.
Mr.. Theodore Thomas SUCCESS in
Cincinnati is reported to be all that
can be wis he'd for tho favorite musi-
clan. lie is constantly occupied, and
the College of Music is in most
tlourishing state.
On the 9th inst, the anniversary of
the death Of Victor Emanuel, funer-
al service for the repose Of his soul
was celebrated in all the churches. of
Rome, except the four great basilicas,
by express authorization of PoDe
Leo XIII.
| Switzerland has been admonishod
by the great powers not to allow itself
to become a refuge for Communists i;
and tho Berne authorities have replied
that they will Danish any refugee try
ing to conspirc on Swiss soil against
ncighboring countries and sovcrcigns.
Geo. Alfred Townsend thinks that
Grant will bc nominated for President
"with whirl," with Southern man,
probably General Joe Johnston, for
Vice-Prcsidcnt, and that the Demo.
cratic ticket will be Thurman and
Bayard.
The President is much interested
in tho next election in Ohio, and is
anxious only that tho Republicans
pick ont their best man to run for
governor. Hc makes no secret of his
opinion that General Garfield is the
man, though hc does not wish to ap.
pear to dictate in any way.
cover the Hills to tho Poorhouse'
was tho title Of now play to bt
produced in Battle Creek, Mich, by {
travelling theatre company. Th,
! leading actor got SO drunk that h,
could not perform, creditors scizct
the baggage, and one of the unpait
employees actually did 20 over th,
hills to tho poorhousc.
Brazil and the South American Re
publics receive, oighty-tlve per cont
p Of their foreign goods from wcster
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-01-11
HYMENEdL.

"And the Lord God said, It is not
good that man shall be alonc;" was,
therefore,
NAItRIED-On the 9th of January
by the Rev. A. p. Pugh, assisted by
the Rev. w. W. Mills, MAJ. r.. W.
WOODWARD to MISS REBECCA v.
LiLEs, daughter Of Capt. Il. NJ. Lyles
All of Fairfield. No cards.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-01-11
Re. MFANS DAr'IS, EDITOR.
JNO. 8. REYNOLDS. ASSOCIATE EDTToR.

NEW YoRK Republicans say that
Tilden is preparing to run for COVER
nor Of New York in the fall. If so
he will put up rattling little fight.
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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-04
Cost of the 'sKnOW How"
Harper For Decemher

Harper For December
There was much gumption evinced
by that particular darkey whose master
was surgeon, who had performed on
another darkey an operation requiring
a high degree of skill. The latter
darkey was well-to-do, and the surgeon
charged him twenty-five dollars for the
operation. Meeting the doctors SER
Want afterward, this dialogue occurred:
dat was a mighty steep charge of
the doctors for cutting on me tudder
day."
How much did de boss charger"
"Well, Julius, he charged me twenty
five dollars"
"Go long, niggah, dat amt much
CHARGE"
'Well he wasn't more dan three or
four minutes dom it and I tink FIVE
dollars was all he oughter took"
Look a~heah, Sam; you don't un-
derstand bout dat ting. You see de
boss have to spend great many years
I1r'aan' hoa0 to use dat knife, an it cost
him heaps O. money. Now de fact dat
he only charge you five dollars for de
opeation? de tudder twenty he charge
for de k,aoav how.
That's 1.-THE time and money to
LEARN the know hon."
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-04
Mullein Cures CONSUMPTION.

A correspondent of the Lexington
(Ky.) Press writes as follows about the
flowers of a well-known plant: "Ihave
discovered a remedy for consumption.
1t has cured q number of cases after
they had commenced bleeding at the
lungs and the hectic flush was already
on the cheek. After trying this rem edy
to my own satisfaction, I have thought
philanthropy required that should let
it be known to the world. It is the
common mullen stepped strongly and
sweetened with coffee sugar, and drank
freely. Young or old plants are good,
dried in the shade and kept in clean
bags. The medicine must be continued
from three to six months, according
to the nature of the disease. It is very
good for the blood vessels also. It
strengthens and builds up the system
instead of taking away the strength; it
makes good blood and takes inhamma-
ton away from the lungs. It is the
wish of the writer that every periodical
in the United States, Canada and Europe
should publish this recipe for the bene-
fit of the human family. Lay this by
and keep it in the house ready for use.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-04
POPOCATAPETL.
Not Worth While to go up the Mexican
Volcan0-Fine View From q Distance.
From tho Noup Vorl> T;roos

Not Worth While to go up the Mexican
Volcano-Fine View From q Distance.
From the New York Times
There are good many reasons why it
is not worth the while to climb Popo-
catapetl. The first and foremost is,
several women have already climbed it
and where women can climb, it is no
feat for an American young man to 20.
In the second place, it is sixty miles
from the capital, which in Mexico,
means two days travel over bad roads
and in uncomfortable stages, On the
upper part Of the mountain the atmos-
is so rare that weak persons have fire.
quently been attacked with hemorrhage
of the lungs, and some have died. The
journey is laborious one, and a good
mile of the way is straight up hill,
through ashes and cinders foot deep.
Last but not least the journey is very
expensive for stages, board, guides, and
costumes. Postscript game is
not worth the powder. 1t is a great sat-
isfaction to see this mountain from a
distance; to sit on the upper piazza of a
hotel, with your feet on the railing, and
a good cigar, thinking: $50 that is Po-
pocatapetl, is it? That is the mountain
my old country school-master used to
say was the highest in America, with
pronunciation eighteen degrees from
the mark. And now there she is. Who'd
have thought it in those old days of
schoolhonse benches and wandering
school aliases. While you are looking
at it, if you choose the right time of day
after the sun goes down and in a
very few minutes it is dark. The noun
tain grows dim and disappears like the
school day memories of its unpro-
nounceable name. There is no fire and
birthstone coming out of any genuine
volcano; there is nothing but dim
spot in the distance, to be seen only
when the moon gets behind it and lights
up its outlines. Almost any stranger
looking at the mountain from any ele-
walton in the capital, will estimate that
it is four or five miles away, unless he
knows better. for it is sixty. The air is
SO very clear there you can see long
distance It is so clear Mexican will
see five cent piece two miles ..off, and
20 for it.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-04
The EclipseS of 1880.

In the year 1880 there will be six
eclipses, four ofthe sun and two of the
moon.
A total eclipse of the sun, January
II, invisible in the eastern portion OF
the United States. The partial and
total phases may be visible, though
under unfavorable conditions, through
portions of Itch, Nevada and Cali
fornia.
A total eclipse of the moon, June %,
invisible in the eastern portion of the
United States. Observers on the Pa
cihc coast may see the eclipse for about
half an hour before the moon sets.
An annular eclipse of the sun, JULY Z,
invisible throughout North America. It
will be visible in South America and
the southern part of Africa.
A partial eclipse of the sun, Decem-
Der l, visible only in the southern hem
isphere.
A total eclipse of the moon, Decem-
Der Is, invisible in the eastern portions
of the United States, but some of its
phases visible on the Pacific coast.
A partial eclipse of the sun, Deem
Der 81, visible in the eastern portion of
the United States and at Chicago, from
6:15 to IA in the morning.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-04

meet this unexpected demand, COM
missioner Payne will probably ask of
congress special appropriation. In
addition to this, he will call the atten-
ton of congress to the fact that legisla-
ton upon this subject is of vital i'm
portance to business interests, and if
necessary an amendment should be
made to the constitution. In the mean.
time, however, those who have been
using trademarks have acquired COM
mon-law right to them. Under the ex-
listing rules of the patent Office trade
mark was granted for thirty years, and
on payment of the fee, $25, at the ex-
piratlon of this period, was renewed
for thirty years longer.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-04

a given ticket drawing any prize at all,
and as to the prizes over ten dollars in
amount, laying aside the probability of
fraud, the same authority estimates
that man might purchase a ticket or
ten tickets at every monthly drawing
for fifty years in succession without
ever getting one. Into such bottom
less pit are thrown the earnings of the
small storekeepers, clerks, statesmen,
saleswOmen, domestic servants, men
and women with and without trades,
making in all a vast aggregate which is
diverted from the legitimate channels
of trade and in most cases resulting IN
hardship to, if not impoverishment of
individuals and those dependent upon
them. Meanwhile, as we have seen,
the lottery kings ride in their coaches,
reckless of the wretchedncss of their
victims.
OF the principle involved in the ques-
ion we say nothing at present. These
remarks are addressed to the pocket,
which is, after all-poor humanity
more sensitive than the conscience.
The war against lottery companies is
the war of the honest poor against the
dishonest rich; it is the cause of the
poor which Anthony Comstock has
espoused, and which an honest press
and an honest pulpit have been fighting
for years. 1t is also the cause of hon
est labor everywhere, for so long as
men may grow rich by swindling, hon.
est labor is at an immense disadvant-
age in the race for the prizes which, in
the order of Providence, are the re-
wards of patience, industry and fru-
gality. Mr.. Comstock's offensive war
fare is justified, because the growth of
the evil shows that the day for mere
preaching on this subject has passed.
If swindlers will continue to defy the
law, they must be taught that the law
is not dead letter. If the swindled
persist in paying tribute to organized
robbery, the law must step in and save
them from. the consequences of their
folly, not in the same wav, but on the
same principles which govern the l1mi-
tation of a lunatic's capacity for mis-
chief, or prevent an infant from SQUAT
dering his patrimony.-Phila. Times.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-04
Those Wives.

In San Francisco and other large
towns of California it is said that many
OF the married women past the middle
age, have been the wives of two, three,
and sometimes four or five different
men, owing to the freedom of divorce
which used to exist, and still exists in q
modified form, in the state. Women
were in plentiful lack in the days of the
Argonauts,a and for some time after; and
when one appeared in the community
with good looks, intelligence and mag
netism to recommend her, she was we'll
nigh fought for. AS rule, the women
who migrated to Ell. Dorado were not of
the finest. Many of them were more
or less adventuresses, and seeing their
extreme marketableness, enhanced
their value by very broad coquetry,
and disposed of themselves to the high
est bidders. After securing one hus-
band, they entertained proposals for
another, and not unfrequently slipped
away from No. to No. 2, through some
legal trick, before No. 1 had any idea
that he had proved maritally unsatis-
factory. It is related that about 1853 four
members of a San Francisco firm had
each in turn the same wife in the space
of twenty-four months. Some of the
most matrimonia!ly enterprising wo-
men in the country journeyed thither
twenty to twenty-five years ago, and
made their marriages remuneratlve by
getting settlements cash down before
the tying Of the nuptial knot. The
lives of not a few of them would, if
faithfully chronicled, read like the most
sensational of sensational novels.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-04
A Hard Ride with Hooker.

Soon after Fighting Joe" Hooker
was installed as commanding general
of the army of the Potomac, vice Gen.
eral Burnside, he was visited at his
quarters, near Falmouth. Va, by Presi-
dent Lincoln, whom General Hooker,
accompanied by several members of
his staff, met at Aqua Greek. Now
General Hooker was not only hard
fighter but hard rider. A horse had
been provided for the president, and
when everybody was mounted away
went the cavalcade led by General
Hooker, at q full gallop, plunging
through the mud and darkness toward
Falmouth, some ten or twelve miles
away. Several times during the ride
Mr.. Lincoln minated that an easier
pace would suit him better, but
" Fighting Joe kept forging ahead I'M
til headquarters were reached. Every
body, including Mr.. Lincoln, was cover.
ed with mud from head to foot, and, on
dismounting, General Hooker, who
seemed to have enjoyed his ride. ad-
vanced to Mr.. Lincoln, and, extending
a pair of gauntlets, said, in jocular
way: Mr.. President, keep these to re-
mind you of our ride. tonight" "No,"
replied the president, grimly surveying
his mud-covered person, "keep your
gauntlets; shall need nothing to re-
mind me of our ride tonight" Ball.
more Gazette.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-04
The Training that Girls Need.

Mrs. Abba Good Woolson has been
giving Boston some common-sense no.
tons about "The Training that Girls
Need" In paper read before the
Moral Education Society she pronounce
ed lll.health luxury that enormously
increased the cost Of living. She ad-
vised mothers to keep their girls from
their own fate, and she asserted that
girls should be made to lead quiet
life On a simple diet until they are fully
grown, that they should exercise freely
in the open air, that house-work should
be done by them in carefully ventilated
rooms, that their dress should be radi-
cally changed 50 that no longer shall
their vital organs be compressed or
their hips weighed down with mass OF
cloth that no man would willingly carry.
Compliance with these rules, she be-
lieved, would give to the world a nobler,
healthier race of women. The object
of a girls mental training should be,
she said, to enable her to reason, not to
fill her brain with superficial IDEAS. The
processes applied to women's minds that
are now devoted to the education OF
men, she considered, would bring the
same results. She advised that girls
pursue with thoroughness the disciplin-
airy studies. Next to this she would
place the perceptive faculties, in which
woman is now much more proficient
than man. Woman should also be &C.
quainted more or less Intimately with
physiology, natural philosophy, the laws
OF mechanics, chemistry, political econ
omy, the characteristics of arepublican
form of government, rhetoric and nat
ural sciences, all OF which are far more
important to the girl than the modern
languages. First of all parental duties,
Mrs. Woolson placed that of fitting
children, and especially girls, to earn an
honorable living, no matter how wealthy
their family may be since no one is be.
yon1..the reach of possible poverty.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-04

THE duke of Beaufort, who recently
returned to England from this country,
has written letter, in which he warns
the English farmers that they must not
expect the present competition from
America to cease. On the contrary he
anticipates continually increasing ex-
port of American grain and he thinks
the English farmers had better give up
the unequal struggle and devote them.
selves to cattle and sheep.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-04
The Spoil Of the Lottery Kings.

1t is Dives who runs the lottery COM
panles and Lazarus who buys the lottery
tickets. Dives gets richer day by day,
leeds on the fat Of the land and is
clothed in purple and fine linen. Laz-
arus grows poorer as the other grows
richer and subsists on the crumbs that
fall from the rich mans table, if any
happen to fall, either by accident or de-
sign, within his reach. The case is not
"ver-stated. To learn who are the peo-
PIE who make money out of lottery
companies we have only to read what
the reporters have to say of the dealers
now under arrest in New York, thanks
to Anthony Comstock, for violation of
the postal laws in furtherance of their
nefarious business. The persons REFER
red to are not the millionaires who con-
troll the legislatures and even the Judi
ciary of certain states under whose
sanction the American lotteries have
grown up; nor are they the Honorahles
and Generals whose names lend respec-
liability to these gambling associations.
OF the profits of these great men we
can only form an indefinite opinion by
looking at the vast machinery they are
enabled to keep in motion and their
great army of wellpaid employees. The
information is given, however, that the
underlings who put the tickets on the
markets in their capacity as general
agents divide among themselves from
1886, 900 to $40, 900 month, thus deriv-
ing an income of nearly 500, 900 year
apiece. No wonder they can pay encr-
nous rents for desk room or a window
in Broadway stores, wear diamonds and
bestow diamonds on fast women, live at
fas hionable hotels, drive the fastest
teams on the road and indulge in every
form of extravaganza that will crafty
and stimulate luxurious tastes.
Money so easily made is spent with a
lavish hand and with no thought of the
source whence it IS derived. And what
is that source? Who are the buyers of
lottery tickets? People who, unlike the
sellers, are honest and mean no harm.
They are poor people. AS rule men
who have capital at command have
too much hard sense, tempered by con-
tact with the world in the process of
money.making, to indulge in the vain
hope of increasing their fortune by in
vesting in soap bubbles. If such men
wish to gamble they play a game in
which the chances are now and then in
favor of the man who occasionally risks
his money as against the professional
gambling. A faro bank is broken now
and then; but lottery company never,
unless the managers run away with the
money, without even going through the
form of paying out prizes. All gamb-
ling is wrong, but there is gambling and
gambling, and of all forms of gambling
buying lottery tickets is the most unre-
mune:ative to the average player. It
is estimated that in the case of a lottery
selling one hundred thousand tickets,
and distributing, or protesting to- distrib-
nte eighteen hundred and fifty prizes,
the chances are ffty-three to one against
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-12-04
Humorous,

Twas in Arabias sunny land
He wooed his bonny bride;
His lumber Ella, rain or shine,
Was ever by his side;
But now he does not Kafir her;
No love tale does he tell her:
He'd fam BedOuin something else
Alas! poor Arab-Ella.
-Yacob Strauss.
The End of all things. Mistress Ito
her late servant): "Well, Mary, how
have you been since you left me, and
where are you living now?" Ye ser
want: "Piease, ma'am, I don't live any,
where, a'am, I'm married, ma'am."-
Judy.
A New Yorker was robbed the other
day of $4,000 in broad daylight, and
he didn't discover the theft until few
hours afterwards. We should like to
see any one rob us of $4,000 in broad
daylight-or in narrow nightlight,
either. 1t can't be done.-Nmristoavn
Herald.
Conjugal affection.-Mrs. Foozle Jim
proving the occasion): SIS it not sad,
my dear, about your friend, Mr.. Buffles
drinking 80 lately? Pm told his only
excuse is the loss of his wife," "Only
excuse only excuse, madam! And a
very SOOu excuse, TOO. 1nere are many
men who would be glad to have the
same excuse."-F'un.
This is the latest telephone story: A
proud grandmamma, who has only Just
been promoted to the honors of that
happy relationship, is awakened in the
dead of night by the memorable bell.
mamma, DEAR" comes to her the fright
ened voice of her beloved but inexperi-
enced daughter, II am sure baby has
the Group. What shall I do with it?'
Grandmamma replies that she will call
the family doctor, and be with her anx-
ious daughter ia moment. She awak.
ems the doctor and tells him the terri
bic news she has learned from her
daughter. He in his turn requests to
be put in telephone communication
with the too anxious mamma. lift
the child to the telephone and let me
hear it cough" he commands. The
child is lifted and it coughs. ''That's
not the Group" he declares, and de-
clines to leave his house on such small
matters. He advises grandmamma also
to stay in bed, and all Eanxiety quieted,
the trio settle down happily for the
night.