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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07
Selling Sovereign States.

The Sonora correspondent of London
financial journal seriously advocates the
sale OF that state by Mexico to the United
States, and the Mexican Flnancier, of the
oath ultmo, treats the proposition as serious
enough to demand reply, although the
editor says he has heretofore expressed his
"disapproyal Of the sale Of single inch of
Mexican territory to any government what.
eycr.n
When this matter was first preached,
as long agoas last June, the REPUBLICAN
took occasion to demonstrate its absolute
absurdity. There is no power lodged In the
federal government OF Mexico, or in any
other federation or republic, to dispose a
state, nor can a state dispose Of itself. The
Financier, pursuing the only line Of argu-
mcnt compatible with common sens e, says:
The states composing the Mexican union are
free ana sovereign communities by the eX-
press terms of the constitution. II II were pos
sble for any state to be sold, every principle of
equity would direct that the money received
should not 20 TO the federal treasury for the
benefit Of the states In common but to the peo-
pie Ofthe state sold. Otherwise the majority
oi the states might speculate on the minority
Of the members OF the union. The whole
theory on which the correspondent bases his
lettcr IL one fatal to the very existence of Il
federal republic II single state could be
sold, It might happen that, under the impulse
Oi Political differences or sectional hOstilitles,
the outlying states might conspire 10 sell the
state In which exists the capital of the nation,
The theory OF the correspondent Is re2ugn IN.
To every patriotic sentiment. MeXico's mani
iut dOtny 10 not TO be shorn of her territory,
Tut rather TO increase her area by peaceful
mans unlil sho Is mighty nation, the
premier among Spanish American republics.
IL IL strange that a reputable newspaper,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

REPRESENTATIVES, sPmSGER and Town
shend predict that there will be "perfcct
harmony among the Democrats in Con
gress in support of the President. That
will depend entirely on the position which
the President takes on two or three leading
questions. We do not suppose there is a
possibility that majority of the Presidents
party in Congress will stand by his silver
policy, as formulated in the letter that
created SO much commotlon in the House
last spring. There are other issues on
which there is equal disagreement.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

Tell me, daisy, ere 60,
Whether my love is true or no.
-lBuilillo News.
Tell me, purple hollyhock,
Is this dicer worth q block?
Tell me. snowy mignonette,
is the pug q proper pet?
Tell me iiity thousand things
Tell me why q house has wings;
Tell me why the rural yop
Fries his steak and mutton.chop
Tell me why the German fails
When he mixes gin cocktails;
Tell me why the "peelcr" crceps
In some areaway and sleeps;
Tell me why the damsel stops
At every window when she shops:
Tell me, golden honeysuckle,
In the breezes softly blowing,
Tell me, oh, you dnrk-blue buckle
berry by the wayside growing,
Tell me what I'd better do,
For Pm feeling rather blue.
Then the flowers In sono;ous
Chorus
Cried, in their light.hcarted sport:
bet q hat on Davenport"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

sONE weeks ago the RErunLICAS gave
the details ~ remarkable decision by the
supreme court Of Texas, setting aside
YeIdiCt ON the ground that the Jury was
"unduly influenced by the hard words
hurled by the lawyer on one side against
the client-a railroad curporation-on tho
other In case recently tried In Georgia
similar objection was raised. This, too,
was suit for damages brought against a
railroad corporation. The plaintiff recoy-
cred verdict, which the defendant moved
10 set aside ON the ground that the plant.
ifI's lawyer In his closing argument 10 the
jury had ''with great cloqucuce aud power
described the agony, the suffering aud the
torture endured by his client" aud Insisted
that "for this ~ well as for every sigh,
every proan, aud every pain that he had
suffered lac should have compensation
equivalent To his agony" The company
complained that "the effect Of this
impGfsiouod appeal was electrical aud
produced verdict founded not upon law
and fact lut upon sympathy aud sorow.n
Hut the Gcorga court did not
follow the Texas precedent II decided
that tie objection was not good ground Tor
9 rev trial aud, In stating the reasons on
which its opinion was based, the court in
Gu'god In tide 81 gush scarcely Inferior q
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

an authority on finance in London, should
have opened It's columns for the discussion
Of thing so preposterous as the PROPOSE
ton Of It's Sonora correspondent.
The federal government Of this republic
could sell New England to Canada just as
readily as Mexico could get up a decker
with our government to I'LL her treasury by
parting with one or more of the border
states
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

that Of the plaintiffs attorney. "impas-
stoned appeal and persuasive eloqucnce,"
said the Judge who delivered the opinion,
care bat the lawful weapons of forensic
conflict, and undoubtedly have been en-
ployed from the time in Greece when Mars
himself was tried for murder by jury Of
twelve men and acquitted by an equality
OF votes in the first trial mentioned In his.
tory by jury Of that number" We think
the Georgia court is right.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07
wifeIy Economy.

Lady Ito grocer)-I notice you keep.
cigars.
Groceries, mum. Only dollar and
half box, mum.
LGdy-Is 1t possibleP Why, my husband
sometimes pays us high as 1ften cents
apiece for cigars, You can send a couple
OF boxes. It's the height Of folly for him
TO buy cigars at retail when they can be
had for so much less by the box.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

long.sufrering people," that vast surplus
has been reduced to a paltry sixty-six
millions
Why are all these things thus, Mr..
Hendricks9 Where is that surplus2 Why
have not all the people received those bar
rels of flour which you told them the sur
plus would buyY
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

TIE Philadelphia Inquirer says at is
understood that several members of the
Cabinet would favor change OF the ma
iicnal capital to New York" But as the
capital cannot 90 to New York compro-
mise has been agreed upon by the terms of
which New York comes to the capital, In
large aud numerous sections, TO run the
government.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07
Uncle Dana Lectures.

INVW lUTh sum
Our Disappeared contemporaries have
been rudely awakened to the primary con-
ditions of newspaper existence. They mis-
took their relation to their masters. They
forgot that the imagined power OF the press
the will and registers the deepest convc-
tions of the people. The people means the
many, not the few. In this American COM
munity the power is lodged where the votes
are-in the hands of the woodworking mil
lions. With them and them alone 1t lies to
determine the usefulness anu authority Of
newspapers and the fate Of public men.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07
Tho ORDINANCE Committee.

Senators llawley aud sewell, Of the select
committee on ordnance, are here on bust.
ness connected with the work. They have
been collecting information concerning the
construction OF steel guns and plate armor.
lney nave been very successful In their
efforts, both here and abroad, and will pre.
sent very satisfactory report in Doeem,
her.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

"WHo will be hurt by the silver dollar :"
psthetically inquiries the New York Herald.
We cannot answer the conundrum, but we
would undertake TO name a number of good
and true men whose feelings are daily hurt
by want Of the silver dollar-Or any other
Kind.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

II is about time for the citizens OF all
the rumsoaked cities in New England to
lie getting up their regular annual memo
rial to Congress. to prohibit the sale of
strong drinks in the most temperate aud
well-orered Of American cities, to wit,
tic national capital.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

Mr.. joins TYNpALL, the English savant,
is out In a severe letter on Mr.. Gladstone,
in which he is guilty Of charging the late
liberal ministry with all the bad results that
flowed inevitably from the foreign policy Of
Beaconsneld.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

IT is announced that the Holman com.
mittee will recommend the organization OF
a territorial government for the Cherokecs,
Creeks, scminoles, Choctaws, and Chick
asaws. This swhat should have been done
long ago.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

THE country is not quite prepared, rs
yet, TO settle calmly down In the undoubt
ing belief that lin would have been de-
feated II whitclaw Reid had not made faces
at George Jones.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

fITz LEE seems to think it was "the
spirit Of the sage OF Monticello" that did
tic work in old Virginia. This theory lifts
tremendous load of responsibility from
iIiritus lumenti.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER :.


AIBAuGH's-"Nlay Blossom"
EATiUNAL-Mr and Mrs. ". J. Florence.
FoEp's-Thc Days.
HERzoG's-JCnnie CHlCf
DINE NusEuM-Gray and stephens.
CoNiQUE-NGTiCtiCs.
WASHINGTON RiNK-Ninth and X. I. avenue.
J. st. RiSR-Fincst skating surface in the city.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

AECHrrAcoS GEORGE DESIsoN, in his
reported in London telegram printed yes
icrday, proves that even n distinguished
clergy man may be blackguard.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07
Heretics at the South.

Macon Telegraph (Dem)l
The growth of the tariff idea among the
young men Of the south has been wonder
full, considering the times, but It has not
been able to find expression at the polls.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

TnE growing industry of getting ap-
pointments to fourth-class postoflices on
forged recommendations could never have
fouiished If the era of reform had not set
g,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

WHEN there is so much idle money in the
world 10 sad 10 have NJ. de Lesseps crying
for a beggarly S4O,OOO,OOO to bury in his
Panama ditch.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

THE Athens Of America is achieving
reputation for sensational naughtiness
which bids fair to eclipse the fame of Chi
CpCO.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07
A Remote Contingency.

Galveston News (Dem.)I
Perhaps we will get to understand the
character, purposes, and methods Of the
present administration by and by.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

REJuvENATIoS Of Mr.. Tilden is the only
undoubted miracle resulting from Mr.. Hills
election
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

WILL Mr.. Curtis please exhibit muster
rolls Of the Mugs who wumped and of
these who staid?
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

TAMMANY rules and ruins alternately.
This is her year for ruling. The other
phase will come in 'ss.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

AlEXANDER's army, awfully arrayed,
boldly by battery besiegcs Belgrade, or
rather, threatens to do so in u few days.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07
Turn the RascnIs Out.n

lAlDHny llhcs'I
Now We have It that our own Mary An
derson has adopted the English trick Of
turning her toes in. This is abomnable.
TuIn the rascals out.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-11-07

THERE always is the deuce to pay when
the Mug goes out wumping.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-30
How French Women Dress.

The chief point to note about the
dress of Partisan woman, observes the
fashionable Philadelphia Telegraph, no
matter what her station in life may be,
is its appropriateness. She does not
wear as costly garments usually as the
American of the same social class, but
they are always thoroughly suitable to
her position and to the occasion on
which they are to be worn. A French
elegante, for instance, will neither go
shopping in a velvet costume nor to q
wedding or official reception in a cloth
jacket and cashmere gown. She never
goes out on foot in superb and snowy
apparel, or appears at ball in dark
silk made high in the neck and with
long sleeves. Etiquette forbids her re-
ceiving even the most intimate of her
gentlemen friends in her morning dress
though this rule has been relaxed of
late in favor of the very suberb morn
ing toilets of brocade and satin and
lace which have been concoeted for
morning wear by the leading Partisan
dressmakers. These, however, are
simply reception toilets for morning in
desires to go out on foot she dons the
simplest CT costumes in dark cloth or
cashmere. Her visiting costume may
be as magnificent as her purse or her
desires may make it, and the same may
be said of the dress IN which she re-
ceives callers on her sat home" day.
Her theater bonnet is much more
snowy and dressy than her visiting
one. For street wear she dons a
bonnet in very dark velvet or felt. In
the matter of gloves and chassure she is
always irreproachable. For evening
dress the satin slippers and silk stock
ings precisely match the toilet with
which they are to be worn. There was
an attempt made at one time TO intro
duce the wearing of scarlet hose and
black slippers with white evening
dresses, but it proved total failure.
Neither were black slippers and stock
ings eyer worn in Paris with white or
pale tinted ball dresses. That fashion
was not French, it was possibly Eng
lish, and unfortunately it was Ameri-
can.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-30
Farming Notes.

Make up your minds that you will
farm a little better this year than ever
before, and begin now. You who do
not need these hints may not think they
mean you, but there are enough who do
need them.
Get your early potatoes up where
they will warm and get ready to sprout
when planting time comes.
A Minnesota farmer raises sunfow-
ers for chicken feed and fuel. An acre
of the plants produces Sc ed enough to
pay the cost of production as food for
his chickens, while the stalks and seed
less heads make abundant fuel for six
months use.
The state of California has about 170,-
900 acres in vineyard. The total wine
product is now about IA, 900, 900 of gal
Ions for the state. This will increase
with the age of vineyards lately planted
in two years to 50,000,000 The soil
and climate are peculiarly adapted to
grape growing and the finer favored
varieties are hardy. Forty thousand
people find employment and the state
received last year for the crop sold near
ly $5,000,000.
March is one of the most important
months of the year for stock farmers.
The effects of the long winter will show
on the weaker animals by this time.
Lice Will breed on cattle and ticks on
sheep very fast these warm days, and
must be killed. Lose no time about
this. 1t costs too much to feed such
pests, beside the suffering of the animals.
Remember that these little jobs are
often neglected because they "can be
done any time, and these same things
make the difference between profit and
loss.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-30
Butter-Making a wasteful Business.

Next to milk butter is by far the
largest product of the dairy, and the
costliest and most wasteful of intrinsic
value in its production. Twenty five
pounds of milk-the average weight ac-
quired for making pound of butter
would sustain mans life well nigh
half month, while the butter weuld
supply bodily waste for hardly half
day. The sustaining matter in the
form of caseine and albumen IN the
milk for pound of butter, would be
just about equal to ten pounds of meat,
all of which is sacrificed as a direct
human food, and is only indirectly util-
lied as a by product, to be fed
to animals and after sacrificing
nine tenths of its ife-supporting abil-
itv, will return one-tenth In new
form fit for human use-all for one
pound of butter which is little else than
a luxury, and not an Indispensable one.
1t is but pound of hydrocarbon, an
effective equivalent for which science
at profit can replace for ten cents.
When thousands of the laboring poor
in our towns and cities, in whose veins
a kindred blood is flowing, are pinched
and suffering for the want of Just snch
food, to keep soul and body together,
is it a Christian work to occasion so
large sacrifice of useful food for a
little luxury? No one will say nay, for
We "all do it"--Professor l.. b. Arnold.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-30
Impure Ouinine.

The action taken by the sanitary au-
thorities in regard to the adulteration
of drugs and other ingredients used by
pharmacists in the compromising of
medicines is meeting with very gen.
eral and hearty approval among the
members of that emi-professiOnal
branch of business. Honest, square
dealing druggists have watched with
intense interest the developments of
the past few weeks, and have become
thoroughly aroused to the necessity of
establishing such regulations as will
secure to the public purity in drugs
and medicines, and to the doctor the
satisfaction of knowing that his pre-
Scriptions are prepared precisely as or
dered by him.
The adulteration of drugs or the use
of inferior articles is universally adj
mitted to be injurious alike to the ply
stefan and the patient. The former
fails to realize the effect desired by the
use of his prescription, and the latter
continues to suffer because by the
adulteration the strength of the medi-
cine is reduced and the doses taken
are insufficient to give the intended re-
lief The physician is puzzled. He
knows there is something wrong, but
can not account for it, and thus often
times valuable time is lost and the life
of patient endangered.
Quinine, the most active preparation
of Peruvian bark, is just now the prin-
cipal subject of investigation by Prof.
Waller, chemist of the board of health.
This drug has several alkaloids, none
of which are so direct in effect, and all
are much cheaper than the pure quiz
nine. These alkaloids are sulphate of
cinchonidia, sulphate of einchOna, and
sulphate of quinidia. These inferior
forms of quinine, it is claimed by many
druggists. are substituted by unscrup-
ulous druggists where quinine Is pre-
Scribed, and with very bad effect, be-
cause if a patient was ordered ten
grains of quinine and got in place ten
grains of cinchonidia, he would have
in reality only eight grains of quinine,
which would fail to produce the desir-
/ ed result. With the other alkaloids
the percentage of difference is much
! greater.
Hospital quinine is also spoken of as
/ not being pure. 1t is said to be COM
| bination of all the alkaloids, and has a
yellow tinge, where the pure article is
| of fieecy whitenesS. The lately dis
covered adulteration of quinine with
SMEAR of milk caused many of
| the druggists to open their eyes in as
constituent, as the difference in their
weight and appearance of the two is
so great as to be Immediately percep-
tibie when placed on the scales. The
/ feeling. too, shows a vast difference,
the sugar being like a coarse flour.
while the auinine feels more Ike soft
cotton. Again, one is easily soluble.
while the other is soluble only in an
acid. Deliberate adulteratlon OF this
kind is denounced as q erlme.-Nsao
! York Telegram. ,.-s-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-30
The Business Gait.

A good walking gait for horse is
of them want the colt to be trotter.
The trotter craze has been an awful
curse to the country. It makes me sick
to think of it. How many young men
have gone to the bad on account of 1t;
and what good does it all do? The
horses of to-day are not the equals in
endurance of those of the fathers. The
horses of earlier days did more and
harder work, lived longer and kept
sounder than ours. They trot faster
now, but what of that? It is virtue, if
it is, which makes vice. Teach the colt
to walk, to start on a walk, aud to keep
on walking till it is hidden to go faster;
such colt will make pleasant driver
and last longer, and will be worth a
great deal more to a sensible man.
Break the colt before it is harnessed
to any vehicle. 1t will make q safer
and more easily managed animal. l
have such a horse, and the other day
he saved the team because he would
not run away with his mate. He walked,
and turned in at home all right, with a
big load of coal. The driver carelessly
left them without tying, and 1t was
cold. A fast-walking horse will go
further and faster than one broken to
go by spurts, and do it easier, and last
longer. When a working horse is
pushed to trot it will walk every
chance it gets and walks slow to get its
breath and rest. A driving horse with
a light draft can trot with more ease,
but good walker on long heat will
make the time much sooner than one
could suppose. Franklin d. Curtis,
Kirkby Homestead, n. Y.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-30
Chicago Journal

CllACdSO 0OuAiin4
The case of Henry Digby, residing
near McLeansboro, in this State, is
peculiar one, and exhibits in striking
manner the hardships which may be en-
dured without a remedy under our laws
as they exist. His sister, named Eliza
Digby, was engaged to be married five
years ago to . theiving merchant named
John Sinkler, of the same town. Two
days before the wedding was to have oc-
Cured, John Sinkler was killed in his
bed at midnight In his statement be-
fore death he said that he believed Henry
Digby was his murderer; that it was ex-
tremely dark when he was attacked, and
that he supposed Digby's motive to
commit the murder was founded on OPP
position to the wedding which was soon
to take place. Digby was tried, con-
victed and sentenced to Imprisonment in
Chester Penitentiary for fourteen years.
Subsequently, Eliza Digby, the girl who
had been engaged to John Sinkler, mar
ried Dick Sinkler, brother of the muir
dered man. Two years ago, Dick Sin
kler killed man in a row at Belle Riv-
er, aud was sentenced to the penitentiary
for life. 1t has since transpired that he
and not Henry Digby killed John Sim
kler, his brother, and that his motive
was violent passion for the girl who
was to become his brothers wife, and
whom he afterward married. These
facts served to get Digby's case before
the Illinois Supreme Court, which de-
cided that the evidence on which he had
been convicted was insufficient. for that
purpose, and he was liberated from pris-
on. His vindication was complete, and
he was welcomed in honor and with re-
joicings by his old neighbors and friends.