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Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-09-25

In another column we print Mr.
Blaine's letter to VIM. Walter Phelps.
in reply to the charges made by the
indianapolis Sentinel, Such letter
ought not TO have been necessary, but
1t is manly, straightforward docu-
ment, and shows that Mr. Blaine is
never afraid to meet his enemies with
the truth.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-09-25

Mr. Wilson Banks, of Maurice River
Township, is mentioned as candidate
for the Republican nomination for As
sembly in the Second District. Mr.
Banks is one of the best and most ac-
tive young Republicans in Cumberland
Co. He would prove q strong candi-
date before the people.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-09-25

The interest shown by the colored
people of New Orleansin the approach
ing Worlds Exposition is a most en-
couraging sign. Spirited public meet
lngs have been held and intelligent eff
forts have been already put forth to
provide characteristic exhibit of their
industrial progress.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-09-25

y Massachusetts, Bay oyster planter
pays boys Il cent for every starfish
caugh on his beds. He saves 81, 900 q
year on the oysters which would be
otherwise destroyed, besides a profit
of two cents on each starfsh, which he
dries and sells.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-09-25

By request We publish in another
column the full text of Mrs. Ellen Is.
Fosters letter ON the question of the
Presidency. Mrs Foster undoubted-
ly voices the sentiment of the great
majority OF the temperance Republi-
cans Of the country.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-09-25

The fearlessness with which Kinc.
Humbert visits the plague-stricken
city OF Naples has created a profound
impression in Italy. The common
people look upon him as bearing a
charmed life, and their innate rever-
enee for royalty has been confirmed.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-09-25

II the whole country goes Demo
cratic in the same way that Vermont
ana Maine did, we don't quite see how
that Is goinS 70 elect Cleveland and
Hendricks.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-09-25

\ Anovel and attractive feature in pro-
cessions has been adopted by the he
publieans in Illinois, being a party Oh
young ladies in white carrying brooms'
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-09-25

MCGOWAN & NICHOLS, Editors.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-06-14

Darwin says there is living princi-
pie in fruit. We suppose he refers to
the worms.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-06-14
The Country Editor.

Somebody has written up the coun-
try editor in about two columns of non
pareil for New York paper. The
subject is not so unpromising as it may
first appear. The country editor has a
hard road to travel. He is the re-
porter, the book-keeper, mechanical
superintendent, business manager, col
lector, mailing machine and soliciting
agent of the establishment. His work
is hard, his receipts small and his cred
itOrs numerous. In small town an
editor has to steer his course so as to
avoid giving offense to different circles
of society, the religious denominations,
the business community and the rural
population. If an influential old farmer
wants three column notice of his new
barn, it must appear, or the editor must
lose a hundred subscribers. Patchwork
quilts, big beets and phenomenal eggs
also clamor for space in the columns of
the country paper. In the course of
time the rural scribe becomes either
jocose or morose, but in either frame he
continues to make friends who de-
mand free advertising, and enemies
who work against him. The country
editor is always getting ready to aban-
don journalism for something else, but
be rarely carries out his threat. He
generally dies in harness. In some
wild communities editors occasionally
meet with rough treatment. Some
times they are driven out of the coun-
try, and when other methods of getting
rid of them fail, they are sent to the
legislature. The city editor gets good
deal of fun out of the country EDITORS
work, but the man who bears the bur-
den regards 1t as serious business. The
little local weeklies scattered all over
the country are all in their way poten-
tial factors of civilization. They de-
velop their localities, bring their re-
sources before the world, and in aman-
ner educate their readers. They are |
always on the side of the churches, the |
school, progress and reform. Men who |
live and die working for such objects
are permanent benefactors and deserve
\ substantial reward.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-06-14
The Country Press.

American Journalist.
There is one thing that strikes us as
being most remarkable in the conduct
of United States journalism, and that is
the pith and strength of expression that
runs throughout the so-called country
press. 1t really is the country press
that thought finds the strongest express
sion. Occasionally a country editor
betrays ignorance or carelesness of the
rule of grammar; sometimes he gets a
''little off, on the matter of propriety ;
but the country editor, like the country
voter, hasa large force of shaping the
destinies of the people for whom we
journalists all write, than the so-called
metropolitan press combined. Indeed,
the facts lead to the following kind of q
formulation of the use of newspapers:
The papers of the great cities supply
current news in the mass, as is their
province to do; the country newspaper
digests the news into the shape of
practical and effective thought. The
man of the couniI y has time to think
he of the city has barely time to record,
and if he attempts to make deductions,
his time is so short and his opportuni-
ties so liable to be tlnctured with bias,
that he frequently comes to grief and
has to eat his own words. 1t is in the
city that the doctrine has grown that a
newspaper has neither conscience nor
memory; such doctrine would ruin
the most successful country newspaper
in the union. The great dailies of the
great cities are magnificent organiza-
tons for the collection and dissemina-
ton of news, but there their functions,
except as to the manipulations of local
political and social affairs, cease. The
country newspaper should be a vehicle
of thought, and generally is so. The
facts are spread before them by the
great city dailies, and they control or
guide public sentiment.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-06-14
POLITICAL.

The republican national committee,
in session at Chicago, passed the following
resolution: That the thanks of this commit
tee are due to the citizens of Chicago gen.
orally, and especially to the committees on
arrangements and finance charged with the
duty Of providing suitable place of meet
Ing and making othor provisions for the as
sembly of the national republican conven-
ton, for the ample and careful arrange
ments perfected by them.
A circular bearing the title, "New
York for Blaine-the Voice of the Empire
State Calling James G.. Blaine to Lead to
Victory was circulated in Chicago on the
first day of the convention.
The Mermaid Qll) county demo-
Gratis, at their recent convention, heartily
endorsed "the old ticket.' .
Complete returns of the Oregon cleo
ton are still wanting. The majority for
Herman (republican), for congress, will
be fully 1, 700. 1t is believed Thayer dem
ocrat) has been elected supreme Judge.
The returns show the legislature will have
a majority Of four on joint ballot. Com
munication from the interior of the state is
so slow that 1t will be probably several days
before the final result is known.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-06-14

The deceased had been drinking heavily Of
late and was recovering from a spree. He
leaves wife and two children.
Edith Platte, a musical prodigy IL
years old, is astonishing the residents OF
Columbia, S. c.. She plays the most diff
cult piano music with accuracy, finish and
vigor.
| Alexander Sullivan, president OF the
Irish National League of America, has re-
| ceiyed q letter from Charles Stuart Parnell,
president Of the Irish National League of
Ireland, thanking Irish Americans on be-
half of himself and colleagues for generous
| donations.
A Guaymas special says: Yellow
fever has broken out again in that place.
Five states have declared war against Pres
| ident Gonzales on account OF the revenue
stamp tax. Troops are being concentrated
| In the interior.
Jesse Carter (colored), convicted as
an accessory to the murder of John Foster
] by Babe Jones, was hanged at Pittsburg on
the I'd. ...
A convention of exposition and fair
managers of the United States convened in
St. Louis for the purpose OF organizing
general association for the United States
and Canada. About forty delegates were
in attendance.
At the Turner's national convention
at Davenport, Iowa, it was decided to con-
tinue the seminary or school for the in
structiOn of turner teachers at milwaukee,,
and appropriate 81, 900 for that purpose.
The authorities at Sydney, Australia,
are taking precautionary measures against
dynamiters.
1t is stated that an application will
soon be made for the appointment of a re-
ceiver for the Texas and Pacific railway.
The glove fight at New York between
Charles LANCE, champion heavy weight Of
Ohio, and Michael Dempsey, was declared
a draw.
The village of Hammonton, on the
Camden and Atlantic road, in New Jersey,
was greatly excited recently over the dis
covery of the bodies Of twenty-one children
buried in small plot of ground attached to
a sanitarium called the "Wineson Home,'
under the supervision Of Miss s. s. Wine
son, middle aged woman. The coroner's
jury found they died from natural causes,
by neglect through Miss Wineson's i'm
proper sanitary arrangements and gross IN
competency Of nurses.
D. B. Howard, auditor for the receiv-
ers of the Wabash, has issued circular
which states that the order Of the court
does not authorize the receivers to pay any
salaries or wages earned prior to December
1, 1888. N -
A searching party on the 9th discov-
cred the remains of John Anderson, the
sixth victim of the Pleasanton, Kas., muir
derer, concealed In deserted coal shaft on
the Missouri side of the state line. He had
been shot in the head and his body thrown
In the pit. Parties are securing the coun-
try in search Of Wampler.
Mrs. Sarah Rowe, of Orangeburg, S.
c., Is dead. She was known as "The Sol
diers' Friend, - and during the war de-
voted her time and fortune to the care Of
soldiers who passed along the South Caro-
lima railways. Almost daily she would
board cars with provisions and medicine
for the soldiers, whether they wore the
gray or blue. Her funeral was attended by
many confederate survivors, and by de-
of local military.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-06-14
The Tomb Of Darius.

One of the most remarkable tombs
of the ancients was that carved out OF
rock by order of Darius for the recep.
ton of his own remains, and which
exists to this day at Persepolis, after q
duration of twenty-three centuries.
The portico is supported by four col
.umns twenty feet in height, and in the
center is the form of doorway, seem
ingly the entrance to the interior, but
it is solid; the entablature is of chaste
design. Above the portico there is
what may be termed an ark, supported
by two rows of figures the size of life,
bearing it on their uplifted hands, and
at each angle grifin-an ornament
which is very frequent at Persepolis.
On this stage stands the king with a
bent bow in his hand, worshiping the
sun, the image of which is seen above
the star that stands before him, while
above his head hovers his feroucher or
disembodied spirit. This is the good
genius that in Persian or Ninevite
sculpture accompanies the king when
performing any important act. On
each side of the ark are nine inches,
each containing staue in bas-relief.
No other portion of the tomb was in
tended to be seen except the sculptured
front, and we must, therefore, con-
clude that the entrance was kept secret
and that the avenues were by subter-
ranean passages, so constructed that
none but the privileged could find the
way. We are told by Theophrastus
that Darius was buried in Golfer of
Egyptian alabaster; also, that the early
Persians preserved the bodies of their
dead in honey or wax.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-06-14
FOREIGN.

Berlin newspapers are indignant over
the London explosions and counsel re-
prisals.
A book entitled "Memoirs of Charles
Reade,o by his spiritual adviser, Rev.
Chas. Graham, tells how Reade, during his
late years, was In great distress OF mind be-
cause Of his connection with the drama. In
1880 Reade declared that he had renounced
the thester, but later, during severe at
tack of bronchitis, he was in great mental
trouble because he had backslided and re-
turned to the world.
Mark Lane Express in its weekly re-
view of the British grain trade says: De-
spite the dry weather and cold east and
northwest wind last week the wheat crop Is
Is excellent and would soon respond to sit
liable weather. II the season Is favorable
there Is the making Of more than an aver
arge crop. The outlook for barley and oats
cause anxiety. The wire worm Is busy
In the off-coast market there is little scope
for business.
The London Standard of the 4th
says: At no time, perhaps. whiting the his
tory of America has it been less possible to
forecast the result at Chicago. The voting
will be simply triumph OF men, not VIC
tory for measures. Whatever the result,
there are no good issues at stake. 1t Is
difficult to say where the democratic and re-
PuOllCdu pidtlOl nC OuiCi ILL
portance Of the present convention con-
sists in deciding how far the choice Of a
candidate can be influenced by the Irish
faction in favor of stirring up i'll blood be-
tween England and America"
The authorities of Sidney, N. S. w.,
are precautioning against dynamiters.
Oscar Wilde and Miss Lloyd were
married in London on the 3rd Of June.
Fourteen of the ice stranded brig
Confederate, who left the vessel May "a, to
endeavor to reach the land, have not been
heard of since.
An unknown man at Vienna satu-
rated himselfwith petroleum and was burn
ed to death in few minutes. There were
ten such suicides in forty eight hours.
The Irish residents of Paris are So
Letting French sympathy for the indepen-
dence of Ireland.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-06-14
Brewster Cameron Attacked.

George Turner, of Alabama, assault
ed Brewster Cameron, ex-chief examiner
of the United States department of justice,
In the rotunda of the Grand Pacific hotel on
the 4th. Cameron turned on him and struck
him severe blow upon the head with a
cane. Hon. Paul Strobach, of Alabama,
seeing that his friend was getting the worst
Of the encounter, began punching Cameron
with his umbrella. The latter, however,
was fully equal to the occasion and came
out drst best In the fight. The occasion for
the assault, Mr.. Cameron says, was the
evidence which he was compelled to give
before the committee on expenditures In
the department Of justice concerning the
conduct of certain Alabama marshsls.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-06-14
Emerson's Hope, Cariyle's Despair.

You will find many earnest preach
ers of our popular religion to be fer
vent in their praise and admiration of
Carlyle. His insistance on labor,
righteousness and veracity pleases
them; his contempt for happiness
pleases them, too. l read the other
day tract against smoking, although
l do not happen to be a smoker my
self. "Smoking," said the tract, sis
liked because it gives agreeable sensa-
tons. Now, it is positive objection
to thing that it gives agreeable sem
sations." Shortly afterwards was in
speeding school, and l found the
children reading piece of poetry on
the common theme that we are here
to-day and gone tomorrow. 1 shall
soon be gone, the speaker in this poem
was made to say
"And 1 shall be glad to go,
For the world at best is a dreary place,
And my life is getting low"
How usual a language of popular re-
ligion that is, on our side of the Allan
tic at any rate! But then our popular
religion, in disparaging happiness here.
below, knows very well what it is after.
1t has its eye on happiness in future
life above the clouds, in the New Jeru-
salem, to be won by disliking and re-
jecting happiness here on earth. And
so long as this ideal stands fast, it is
very well. But for many it stands fast
no longer; for Carlyle, at any rate, it
had failed and vanished. Happiness in
labor, righteousness and veracity-in |
the life of the spirit-here was a
gospel still for Carlyle to preach, and
to help others by preaching. But he
baffied them and himself by choosing
the paradox that we are not born for
happiness at all. Happiness in labor,
righteousness, and veracity; in all the
life of the spirit; happiness and eternal
hope-that was Emerson's gospel. l
hear it said that Emerson was too san
guine; that the actual generation in
America is not turning out so well as he
expected. Very likely he was too SAN
guine as to the near future; in this
country it is difficult not to be too san
guine. Very possibly the present gen.
GRAFTON may prove unworthy of his
high hopes; even several generations
this may prove unworthy of
Them. But by his conviction that In
The life of the spirit is happiness, and
oy his hope that this life OF the spirit
will come more and more to be ssnely
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-06-14
NEWS NOTES.

The public debt statement shows a
decrease in the public debt during May Of
"a, 1853, 241 20; decrease since June 30, 1888,
$91, 1913, ia.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared final dividends Of eleven and one
half per cent. In favor of the Georgetown
creditors Of the Miners National bank Of
Colorado.
Edward F. EgaE, for a number OF
Suicided by taking Trough on Rats"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-06-14

understood, and to prevail, and to work
for happiness-by this conviction and
hope Emerson was great, and he will
surely prove in the end to have been
right in them. In this country it is
difficult, as l said, not to be sanguine.
Many of your writers are over-sanguine,
and on the wrong grounds.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-06-14

W.
The chair then appointed Galusha A.
Grow, OF Pennsylvania, George +. Hoar,
OF Massachusetts, and George B. Williams,
Of Indiana, a committee to conduct the per-
manent chairman to the platform.
Gen. Henderson was received with cheers,
and on taking the chair made a spirited
speech.
The convention at 1920 adjourned until 7
O'Clock p. m.
On reassembling at O'Clock the conven-
ton was called to order by Chairman Hem
derson, and after the transaction Of some
business of minor Importance adjourned
until IL o clock to-morrow.
THIRD DAY.
CHICAGO, June 5.-The convention
was called to order at 1854 and was opened
with prayer by Bishop Fallows, of the Re-
formed Episcopal church. He prayed that
those who might be selected by this con-
vention for the loftiest political positions to
which mortal man can aspire shall possess
every qualification of body, mind and heart
for their high and holy trust. That personal
preference and interests should yield to the
Just demands of a tue and broad patriot
ism, and that agratification of choice should
be made by the people in an unmistakable
The report OF the committee on creden-
tials was then read by Mr.. Ford, of New
Jersey. The report was adopted without
discussion.
The committee on rules was presented
and considered, taking the time of the con-
vention up TO 1890.
Parks, of California, then made report
as to the appointment Of delegates for fu-
ture conventions. 1t directs that each state
shall be entitled to four delegates at large,
with two additional delegates to each mem
Der OF congress at large (if any; that each
territory and the District of Columbia shall
be entitled To two delegates, and that each
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-06-14
FOR MOTHER.

Joseph Carter, Savannah, Missouri,
says: 81 purchased a fifty cent bottle
of Cham berlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhea Remedy from the drug store
here for my mother, and it did her
more good than of all the other medicine
she has ever taken" Sold at 25 and
80 cents per bottle by all druggists.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-05-28
Wonderful AutOmatOns.

Very many Of the tiny screws USED
in this country in watch making are
turned out OH three little automatic
machines in this place. One of them
while turning out perfect screw at a
rate of speed. is considerably improv-
ed on by its companions. The ma.
chine takes up but little room. A
man could carry it under his arm
without much difficulty. A wire is
fed through tube into the machine.
1t is carried forward by revolving
teeth. As it appears knife cuts
away the surplus metal to make the
stem for the thread, just as chisel
operates ut the lathe of wood tur-
ner. AS this is finished q small tube,
in which the thread is formed, ad-
vances and clasps the stem, forms the
thread at lightning speed and falls
back. AS this is done two knives cut
that portion of the wire off and the
completed screw falls down. The
wire again advances and the process
is repeated. The marvel of the ma
chine is best grasped when the size of
the screw formed is understood. This
week the largest size are being made.
They are an eighth of an inch in
length and it would require 200 of
them to weigh an ounce. The thread
on the stem is so small that it is scarce
ly discernible to the naked eye. Each
machine will make 5000 screws n day.
The machines have been at work but
little more than a month and are the
result of years of patient investiga-
tion. Boston Globe.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-05-28

rear falls and the front falls, the Car
dinal Woolsey fall, the fall one across
the other, three in n pile, and so on
There are some of the falls that
would like to be excused from describ
ing. The rear fall is the favorite. II
is more frequently used than any
other. There are two positions in
skating, the perpendicular and hori,
zOntal. Advanced skaters prefer the
perpendicular, while others affect the
horizontal.
Skates are 10 respectors of persons
They will lay out a minister of the
gospel or mayor of the city as readi,
ly as they will short-cOated, one-sus,
pendered boy, or giddy girl. When
one of mans feet starts for Nevada
and the other for Colorado, that does
not separate him from the floor OF
break up his fun. Other portions OF
his body will take the place his feet
have just left, with promptness that
is surprising; and he will find that
the fun has just begun-for the peo,
pie looking on.
The equipments for the rink are a
pair Of skates, a cushion, and u bottle
of liniment.-Bill Nye.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-05-28

Mrs. Limoges is very brick-a. .brac
in her tastes, but is not very ready to
pay her bills. The other day the
groceryman called. "Can / see Mrs.
L.p he said to the servant. "What
do you wantp "I've got a bill here
for some groceries she bought last
month :" "Only a month old I" ask
ed the girl in surprise. "Ain't that
old enoughw "No, sir, it is not.
Mrs. Limoges, I'd have you know, is
a lover of the antique, and should she
see bill only a month old, she would
have fit of nervous prostration."
"Well, that beats the deuce. When
shall / come" "Oh, some time in
the future. The older the bill gets,
the better; but don't you ever dare
to come around with any of those
vulgar new bills, that the stains of
time have never touched, and she
slammed the door in his face.-Mer-
chant Traveller.