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National Republican., 1879-12-23
THE ROMANCE OF III.
General Grants Love Story.
Tphiladelnhia Times December Ia.


With the name of the good woman and
faithful wife who accompanies General Grant
to our city there is some romance connected
While Grant was cadet ut West Point
he had friend, or "bunky," as the "plebes
say for whom he formed q strong attachment.
When leaving the academy in le43 his young
friend invited him to pay visit to his home
and the invitation was accepted. On being
gazetted to his regiment, the Fourth infantry,
Grant took the usual three months leave and
went to see his friend aud classmate, Frederick
Dent, who lived with his father, Judge Dent
at ST. Louis. 1t was here Grant saw for the
first time Julia Dent, his friends sister, she
being then u girl of seventeen, The little
lieutenant land siege TO her grlish heart and
soon won her consent to become his wife The
Dents lived about four miles from Jefferson
barracks, and Grant, to his inexpressblc de-
light, was ordered stationed at the barracks.
War clouds with Mexico were arising aud
Grant was soon ordered off with his regiment,
All then there was Fastening TO and fro with
the little lieutenant and the marriage had to
be postponed. Tho leaving of a sweetheart
behind is about the hardest thing IN all nature,
but it often happens to officers OF the army
How many times we have seen pale Hamlet
stalking through tho camp late at night
with an order in his pocket for the frontier
| Talk of sickness, death In the family the loss
| of u father, brother or sister-what are these
| things when compared with the blow when
tears fond young fellow away from pair OF
! loving arms? If the little lieutenant ever wepl
| il was when he thus parted from his devoted
| Julia to take the chances of getting his head
| knocked of in Mexico. Grant participated IN
sixteen battles in Mexico, aud at the close o.
the war returned to st. Louis with his regi
| ment, and in lSi6 was married TO Miss Dent
Many people will to-day contrast the gray
haired soldier with the hoy and wonder wha
he looked like. An officer who was at the Mill
tary Academy when Grant was a cadet ther
gives the following description of him
remember him we'll He was n small, tiny
lookin little fellow with an independent al
about him aud u good deal of quiet determi
nation. 1t is II long time ago, but when re
call old scenes | can still see Grant with hi
overals strapped down on his boots, standing
In front of the quarters. 1t seems AS though
il were but yesterday that l saw him going b
the riding-hal with his spurs changing ON tn
ground aud bis great cavalry sabre dangling
by his side. 1t is thirty-eight years since, an'
the General and must be growing old, but /
is wonderful what short time it seems sine
was young man aud saw the famous soldie
u mere stripping lad ut the Point"
National Republican., 1879-12-23


Whom a friend corrects fault in you, he
does you the greatest act of friendship.
When u man helps you to be a truer and
better man, he makes you his largest debtor.
Many Il man hus been ruined because his
credit was so good or his popularity so great.
If some folks had their way about this
world, how few people could live comfortably
in il! -a
What are few years of what men call sor
row and burden-bearing to an eternity of
blessedness?
Things are not so unequal as many people
imagine. What is wrong here will be righted
hereafter.
What is it to part with friend whom we
shall meet again to what it is to part with
virtue and honorp
Those who think that all the greatness
there is for man is on this earth have very
narrow. view of life.
b Gods providence may seen. slow in dealing
with men, but 1t is helping them build char
acter for eternity. feq 81. .r Ho.+.
1t would improve some people very much II
they were as careful of their daily lives as
they are of their orthodoxy.
God is MS remindful of the haf-clad newsboy
selling papers on the street as he is of the
banker at the brokers' board
Some people outlive their manhood as well
as their usefulness. 1t would be better for
them and their friends to die earlier
The poorest waif of humanity is in the
thought of God, If circumstances are such
that God cannot help him to high position
here, He may make him king or priest in
Heaven.
The reason why men are so disappointed in
the dealings of God with them is because they
plan their lives by their ignorance, and
doubt God if He does not help them carry out
the plan. U.
A young man cannot recover the loss he suf
fers here in the practice of bad habits though
by pentence and Rodly sorrow lie may regain
the celestial companionship of his mother in
Heaven.
National Republican., 1879-12-23
M1scELLANEoUs.
A Phase OF California Life--A Story of Ups
and Downa.
PC M1vrr AND lMIiIiI1roSArRr.

A Phase Of California Life--A Story of Ups
and Downs.
nf"tI Nevada Transcript
The atmosphere of good luck that hangs
around some men is past understanding. Take
the case of Bob Morrow, the San francisco
manipulator, who owns st. Julien, the fastest
horse in the world, to illustrate by, for In.
stance. The reporter met forty miner, who
used 70 know him In the days when "boiled
shirt" worn among the mountain miners in-
dicated that the possessor was either black
leg or q gospel expounder, the chances being
ninety mine to one that he was the former,
for parsons were then as scarce as copper
pennies almost. He arrived In Nevada City
when tho camp was q mere infant, so TO
speak. The first thing he did after getting
: here was TO skirmish around aud hunt up
shovel pick and rocker With these he be-
gan scratching along Deer creek for gold.
By dint of perseverance and hard work-his
knowledge of mining did not exceed his init
macy with bible passages-and an exercise of
cheek, he got enough to alleviate the pangs Of
hunger to bearable extent. He stayed
around hero till 1859, and by that time his
clothes were SO tattered and torn that he had
TO put his old hat under him to keep his bare
body from coming In contact with the chair
whenever he sat down, and then decided TO
emigrate. George Hearst, Joe Clark. A. T..
Head and number OF the other boys, whose
lines were too hard for comfort, wanted to go
with him, but the whole caboodle of them
were dead broke, and, figure as they could, no
alternative presented whereby they could
scare up enough coin 10 get out of camp with.
Finally Arthur Hsgadorn came to the rescue
He fitted some of them out with a mule
apiece, provisions and coin. They mado a
bee-line for the Comstock. The next time his
old townies heard from Morrow he was on top
of wave of prosperity--that is, had got into
the Savage and some other big mines ut Vir-
ginia City. For several years he reveled In
wealth. After enjoying the rapidly acquired
shekels for a few years, they slipped away
from him, and he was busted once more. His
will and energy didn't peter out when his
money did, and, making little raise, he
sprang boldly into the arena of the stock
market. Since then he hasn't drawn blank
in the lottery of life, so far as heard of. As n
director of the Bank Of California alone, to
say nothing of all the other soft things ho
dropped into through the influence of the de-
ceased Ralstop, he has glory enough to satisfy
any common man. As to the three individuals
named above, who took sail on the mules
with Morrow, they are all In San Francisco,
doing more or less In stocks One or two Of
them have become pretty well fixed in respect
to this worlds goods.
National Republican., 1879-12-23

of bank notes of all countries and all values,
became tho possessor of Bank Of England
hve-pound note to which an unusually strange
story was attached. This note was paid into
Liverpool merchants Office in the ordinary
way OF business sixty.one years ago. and Its
recipient the cashier Of the firm, while hold.
ing II up to the light to test its genuineness,
noticed some faint red marks upon 1t which,
on closer examination, proved TO be semi-ef-
faced words, scrawled In blood between the
printed lines, aud upon the blank margin Of
the note. Extraordinary pains were taken to
decipher these partly obliterated characters
and eventually the following sentence was
made out : IL this note should fall into the
hands ofJohn Dean, of Lopghill, near Carlisle,
he will learn hereby that his brother is Ian
gushing a prisoner in Algiers." MIR. Dean
was promptly communicated with by the
holder Of the note, and he appealed to the gov
ernment of the day for assistance in his en-
deavor to obtain his brothers release from cap
tivity The prisoner, who, as 1t subsequently
appeared, had traced the above sentence upon
the note with splinter of wood dipped in his
own blood, had been slave to the Dcy Of AL
giers for eleven years, when his strange mis-
sive first attracted attention in Liverpool
counting.housc. His family and friends had
long believed him dead. Eventually his
brother, with the aid of the British authori-
ties in the Mediterranean, succeeded in ram
soming him from the Dey, and brought him
home TO England, where however. he did not
long survive his release, his constitution hay
ing been irreparably injured by exposure, pri-
walton and forced labor in the Dey's galleys.
National Republican., 1879-12-23

WHEN "Thad" Stevens was a young lawyer
in the Pennsylvania courts he once lost his
case by what he considered wrong ruling of
the judge. Disguised, he banged his law
books on the table, picked up his hat, aud
tarted for the door with some vigorous words
in his mouth. The Judge feeling that his dig
" Mr.. Stevensw Mr.. Stevens stopped, turned
and bowed deferentially "Mr. Stevens"
said the judge, do you intend by such con
duct to express your contempt for this urt?"
Aud Stevens, with mock seriousness answered ::
Express my contempt Tor this court No, sir |!
| was trying to conceal it, Your Honorw
National Republican., 1879-12-23

the cod hurried back to the family homestead.
Professor Baird believes that the demand for
tunnies, dogfsh, sharks, &C., by the factories
which will turn them into oils and manures,
will have the effect Of increasing the number
of food fishes by lessening that Of their enc
mics. "Grand, gloomy and peculiar" like
other great slaughterers, these predaceous fish
also resemble their human prototypes in being
comparatively few in number. aud in keeping
themselves prominently before the eyes of
those who are eager TO destroy them.
National Republican., 1879-12-23
nUNCANSoN BROTH ERS, Auctioneers,
~ 5. f. corner OF Ninth and streets northwest
TRUSTEES SALE OF FRAME HOUSE AND LOT
ON G ST., BETWEEN FOURTEENTH AND
FIFTEENTH SITS. SOUTH EAST, AT AUCTION.


BY virtue of deed of duly recorded in liber
No. SIS, folio 267 of the lad records OF washing
ton county In the District of Columbia we viii sell
at public ucon In front of the premises on SArUR-
DAY the 27th day of December. A. ID. Is. o, a. 1880
o'clock y. all that certain piece or parcel OF land
situated and being In the city Of Washington District
of Columbia. and known upon the ground plat or
plan of said lily as and being part of lot numbered
four ~, IN square numbered ten hundred and sixty
(i0eOJ. described follows: Reginning for the same
at point south street, dstnut twenty feet ast
from the southwest corner of said lot and running
thence east twenty feet, thence north one hundred
and thrtysix feet thence west twenty feet ana thence
south hundred and thirty six feet to the place OF
beginning together with al and singular the appuren-
ances, rights privileges, improvements and other
he editaments to the same belonging or In anywse
appertaining
Terms: Onethird cash; balance in ana II months,
bear interest at per cent and TO be secured
by deed of trust on tue premises sold; conveyancng
at purchasers cost the terms OF sale are not com
piled with In days the trustees reserve the right
TO resell the property at the risk aud cost OF the de
fluting purchaser, ater giving five days notice OF
such resale in some newspaper publishedin In Washing,
ton city, d. G. deposit OF suO required AT time oil
sale. JOHN a. VAN .DOREN, Trustees
CHARLES NJ FORD,
del0-2tawdds,
National Republican., 1879-12-23
THE SMITH & EGGE MANUFACTURING CO..
LOOK noX l7ol. nRIpGEpoRT, CONN.

LOCk BOA I1Oo, BRIDUEPOKI, CONNn
Manufacturers OF specalties In Light Hardware amt
Metallic Goods generally Government ana Giant Pad
locks, sewing Machine Locks Plano Locks, Organ
Locks, the automatically made Giant Sash Chain, su-
perur 10 every other and very much cheaper. No
special pulley required. The smith n Egge Manuiac'
turing Co also gives special attention 10 the making
estimates for the cost OF the manufacture OF pnt
ented inventions and all the tools and the
manufacturing OF the same on royalty. All commu'
nic atiOns treated oOnidentiay. oclOeO6m
National Republican., 1879-12-23
PROPOSALS.
DRoposALs FOR Plate PRINTERS SUI
II PLIES.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF ENoRANINo AND PRINTING.

BUREAU OF ENoRAvING AND PRINTING,
December IL, l5ie.J
Proposals for supplies, embracing Dry Coors, ls
Chemicals, Textiles, Paper Typographical Inks
Binders Materials, Twinp, Glue, Hardware ana En'
gTavers and ProIers sundries for use of the Bureau
OF Engraving aud Printing, for six months ending
June SO IS o. will be received Mt this office until II
o'clock M, December H. 1879. 49,
Blank forms for pro Osals upon articles IN either
class with alton as to quantity quality ana con-
dtlons will be furnished ON app ication
Proposals will be compai oil on eac em separately
and considering the adipta ility OF qunltles To the
work of the Bnre u, MS well as the price proposed,
orders win be made the low, ST bidder for theartl-
Gle lesi ed. ,
The right waive defects and to reject any or all
bids Is reserved
PaIties requ sting information must specify upon
which rculRr class oil articles they are qualified TO
propose aud should address d. Ill: IRISH,
Ghief Bureau Il gazing q, d Printing, Washington,
IN dels
National Republican., 1879-12-23
IoY DuNcANsoN BROS, Auctioneers.
B '''''O'''''o'' ''''o--' % '''''''''''e9'-'
TRUsTEES' SALE OF FRAME HOUSE AND
LOT. ON SEVENTH STREET. BEfWEEN q
I 2nITrHEASr. All AUCTION,


TRUsTEES SALE OF FRAME HOUSE AND
LOT. ON SEVENTH STREET, BE TWEEN q
AND | STREETS SOUTHEAST, 4, All AUCTION.
BY virtue of Il decd of trust given to us and duly
recorded IN ber No 7S folio ~ et seq one OF tue land
records OF Washington county, In the Dstrict OI
Columbia, we will ell at public auci ion IN iront Of
the premises on MONDAY, December -, A. D.;
1879 $50 o'clock all those ieces or parcels or
ground ing in the District of Columbia. and known
numbered eight (s) in square numbered nine hundred
and 90 }. and aisO, The south fourteen 1il leet
and eleven (il) inches OF lot numbee ed nine (Vl IN
said square numbered nine hundred and four GOD,
beginning for the boundary of the same at the north
west corner said lot numnercd eight (8) and run.
ming thence south along Seventh street enst three l5
feet and four Inches; thence ea one hundred and
nine (lO9) feet and ~ inch 10 S0-foot alley,
thence north along the line OF sad ulley eigh cen b
feet and three 90 Inches thence west one hundred
and nine lO) feet and a. inch 10 SAID -eventh
street east; theuce south with the line of seventh
street east fourteen (l4) feet aud eeveh IN inches,
to the place OF beginning, together with the right a
privilege of using and enjoying forever the north
gable-end OF u certain lralne house. belonging 10
Mary Kelly, granted to Thomas Bayne oy deed, re-
corded liber j. A. g. No. 81, folio 49, toget er WIN
all and singular the appurtenances rights, priv
leges, &c, belonging or in amy wise apperlalning
Terms OF Sne 0ne-lhird In cash aud the Dslnnoe
in six, twelve and eighteen months, notes 10 bear
interest and to be secured by deed OF trust on
cost Terms to be complied with days other
wise the trustees reserve the right 10 resell az
the risk CO.'S of the deaulting purchaser sy-
ing five days notice ol such resale IN some eWspaper
published In Washington deposit OF W required
al the time of sale. .
THOMAS HYDE, ''"
doJ dc
National Republican., 1879-12-23

must see all patients to know their condtion) then
any person can use my remedies themselves Ca.
tarrh cured aud deafness caused by caturrh Loss ot
mental power. yigor and general debility by either
restored. For further Information, and difcul-
ties OF which treat, you must make application al
my offlre No I39 Ninth street northwest, RILBr
BUILpIsG oiiice and residence Consultation free
to ALL de3ly
National Republican., 1879-12-23
Strange History of u Bank Note.

Not long ago well-known collector OF Gu
riosities in Paris who had devoted considera
bic sums of money tS the gathering together
National Republican., 1879-12-23
1DR. CASDEE, OF NEW YORK
SPECIALISl,

treat Hemorrholds or Piles. VIII
give $500 for any case OF Itching.
Bleeding, Blind or Projecting Piles
my remedies will not help AM cure.
1 use only external and internal
remedies; no cAustics. no acids; an i'm
mediate relief; no detention from
business. treat and cure all Female
National Republican., 1879-12-23
PRoPpQDSi4AA,lSS3o Di4A, S3on For ,Ru,, pr,p, rc pprNTtNa

DRoPOSALS FOR ....,.,,,,,.,
L PAPER FOR THE PUBLIC PRINTING.
SEALED PROPOSALS Will be received until
Thursday January s. 1885, at 10 o'clock o. qi for fur,
nishing the PAPER tor the PUBLIC PRINTING
until the 1st OF March, 1881, the said proposals 10 be
opened before anu the award of Contracts to be made
Hg to the lowest and best bidder for the interests of
the Government the Committee reservin8 To lselt
The right reject any and all BIDS az It's Judgment OF
the be interests Of the Government may di tate
Detailed schedules OF the description, quantity ana
quality OF the per required, accompanied by SAM
pies and blank propOs ls and giving me regulation
with which bidders mus comply, can DC obthined Dy
addressing j, ID. Delrees Public Printer, washington
The contracts will be:entered into for such quant
ties OF paper may be needed during the year. ana
more, ,.-,,,- 4, -
sell edule Comprse' -
$4,000 reams OF best machine-hnish printing paper
IN3S.
II 900 reams calendered printing paper, 2iSSs.
7On reenls calendered printing paper dlherent
sizes
o,2OO reams sized and calendered printing paper,
different Size ,
1000 rehms sized and calendered tinted printing
paper Indifferent sizes. -
1900 reims engne-slzed paper for Postonlce
blanks different sizes
$1,000 pounds map paper, dlnerent sizes ana WelglA
5000 pounds plate p per -
1900 reams White writing paper different sizes ana
welg Is.
olOO reanis colored writing paper, dlleront sizes
7olreams cover paper, different sizes and weights.
200 reams manila paper, different sizes,
10 reams tissue paper. -
5000 ,hees imitation parchment different Sizes
R 600 snees banlS-nOte paper.
10000 sheets glazed bond paper.
| l,0aDUOO sheets card board.
| by direction ut the Joint Committee OF ongress ON
| Public Printing. JNo' D. Dtf D iNhlS, is, 80,
| WAsHINGroS, December II, 1879, del0-law5w
National Republican., 1879-12-23
AUCTION SALES.
GOVERNMENT SALE OF QUARTERSfAsTERs
" STORES AND CAMP AND GARRISON
EQUIPAGE.
FUTURE DAYS.
DrrorQrARTrnMAsrrns OFFICE. |

DEPOT Qu uARTERMAsTERs OFFICE.
Washington, ID. o., Dec. Is, 1919.
VIII be sold by public auction, at Quarternaster's s
Corral corner Fourteenth and & ST eeis southwest
December "a 1870 commencing at 10 o'clock. a. M.
condemned Quartermasters Stores and Camp and
Garrison Equipage consisting In part OF the folliw
Ing, viz:
Horses. Stoves. Harness, Wagons Rubber Hose,
Tools Tent, &c, &c. Terms cas For particulars ap
ply to this office A. f. ROCKWELL,
des-8t Depot Quartermaster.
National Republican., 1879-12-23
WHY SEND YOUR MONEY WEST.

IL YOU CAN DO AS WELL AT HOMEH
II yon want the Sweetest and Whilest Bread, buy
our NEW SOUTH; II Is equal TO best Minnesota
II you want the next best Flour, use our HUN
GARIAN PATIENT
IL Won want nlce White and Sweet Bread, buy the
JOHN DAVIDSON FAMILY.
For sale by all the leading Groeerh ana Flour
Dealers,
WHOLESALE DEPOT,
WILLIAM H. TENNET \ SONS,
uOl7-sn Capital Ain5. Georgetown u C.
National Republican., 1879-12-23
IlY LEIGH BROS. & PHELPS, Real Estate Agts.
I'D and General Auctioneers Nc. li2 Main street.
THE DISMAL SWAMP CANAL FOR SALE AT
PUBLIC AUCTION.

Pursuant to two deeds OF trust executed by the Dis
NAL swamp Canal Company ON the lst day of July.
1877 aud on he 10th day of February 1859 respective
y to secure the payment of the bonds issued by the
said company, the undersigned. surviving trustees by
the said deeds appointed Will sell the ABOVE MEN
TONED VALUA LIE PROPERTY on the 18th day
of JANUARY, 1850, at IL o'clock m for cash at the
auction house of Leigh Bros, n Phelps In the city of
Norfolk. Va. ...
WIN, II. c. ELLIS iiu'ee'''
LEIGH BROS. d PHELPS,
AurtiOnaars
National Republican., 1879-12-23
FOR THE LADIES.
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WINTER STYLES.

MRS O. " SMITH,
61S Ninth st. northwest, opp. Patent once,
Having lust returned from the North. has hand
the Latest styles for the Winter and makes speciality
for the holidays Old Ladies' Caps Also Doll-baby
Hats, Bonnets. and Frames
National Republican., 1879-12-23

same person at No 80 BroadWay New YORK.
All our Grand Extraordinary Drawings are under
the supervision and management of GENERALS q.
Il. BEAUREGARD and JUBAL A. EARLY.
National Republican., 1879-12-23

A splendid OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A
"A foRTUNE FIRST GRAND pIsIRi-
DAY. yANuARY Is. 1880 - ii6th MONTHLY
National Republican., 1879-12-23
looooD TICKETs AT TWO DOLLARS EACH.
HALF TICKETS, ONE DOLLAR.
LIST OF PRIZES


Responsible corresponding agents wanted at all
points, to whom lioera compensation Will be paid.
Write clearly stating full address. tor further nior
maIion or send orders by express mail addressed
| only TO
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-07-25
ALIEN ANNumllATED.

Wm. Allen, Ex-Governor Of Ohio
known best as "foghorn Allen" and
''roariag Bill" died suddenly at his
home an Tuesday last. He made con,
siderable stir in his time for politician
possessed of so little ability. Toncor.
rer ". IT, independent
How great minds differ, indeed The
New York Times and other great East.
ern papers spoke of Gov. Allen as a
man of sterling integrity and honesty
and statesman of rare ability one
who stood first among his peers for
half century And now here comes
the Vancouver IHdepeadegit man, with
his elegant rhetoric, his graceful Hour
ishes and his scathing irony. and knocks
these Eastern eulogiums all into smith
Greens
Twas ever thus. We don't suppose
that even the ghost Of poor William
Allen will ever dare to ''rise up" after
the IadeDessdent mans annihilator ha,
been heard in space
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-07-25

A MonEnLY, Mo, paper says: When
a Moberly girl is invited out 70 take ice
cream by her fellow, she smacks her
lips over hor last spoonful aud says
" Isn't it too exquisitely, awfnhy de
licious = A Huntsville girl rolls up
her eyes and remarks in stage whis-
per: What an awful snide little sau-
Ger " A Sturgeon belle, licking the
saucer and spoon, says: Jim, how's
yer bank Couldn't she liquidate an
other gobbleF The Fayette beauty
jahs hers, aud murmurs "Oh,
Chawles the chocolate is 30 much bet
ter than the old vanilla ordah two
more chocolates, aud let the old vanilla
60" The Portland girl swcetly says
81 think it's about time that white
coated duiier joined the Turner's and
took big tumble. He can't gi' me no
yellow paint funny business and call it
ice cream while carry bullion in my
stocking i tell you 50, baby"
An Albany girl, after boiling three
dishes, meditatively balances her little
spoon on her thumb nail, leans her jet
ty ringiets toward the left lapel OF
Brabantios vest, pouts out her ruby
lower lip, and asks him if be couldn't
just ir1igate that with another platter -