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Year: 1878

FLORENCE has had another gentle show Ter. Early Tuesday morning thunder was heard in the northwest: about eight o'clock the shower reached town. The

 rain lasted fully an hour, and during portion of the time it came down in tor rents. Water-so much needed and so anxiously looked for during the summer was at a discount. About nine o'clock the ditch above town broke, and the mud dy torrent came down Main street with a rush, causing considerable consternatiOn among the owners of adobe walls. MT. CaIisher's residence was again surrounded and a squad Of men were kept very busy for two hours protecting the foundation and walls. The water was running in from the mesa long after the shower had passed town, and the stream down Main street did not abate until about 2 P. 1T. No particular damage was done. but the flood caused considerable extra work and anX- iety. The ditcn owners should arrange a waste gate above town, so that in the event of floods the water can be turned in- to the river before it reaches our streets.
Year: 1878

We may live without poetry, music and


art;
We may live without conscience. and


live without heart;
We may live without frienIs, we may


live without books,
But civilized man cannot live without


cooks.
He may live without books; what Is


knowledge but grievlng?
He may live without hope; what Is hope


but decetving?
He may live without love; what is pas


sion but pining?
But where Is the man that can live with


out dining:


And In order to dine well you
must buy your groceries and wines
at the L store, where you can get
better goods at lower prices than
any store in the city. Remember
the number-48 and SO Spring st.
Year: 1878

knowledge not only confers a
benefit on those that possess it, but
upon all with whom they come in
contact. The owners of the "Tn
store, having o thorough knowl-
edge Of their business, all who deal
with them reap the benefit of their
experience No. 4S and so Spring
street.
Year: 1878

The most difficult province Of
friendship is giving advice. 1t
should. II possible, be 90 contrivsd
that our friend may perceive our
advice is given him, not SO much
to please ourselves as to his own
advantage. Therefore we find no
difficulty In advising our friends to
go to the 7 store to buy their gro
ceries and wines as we are sure 1t
will be to their advantage. 48 and
so Spring street.
Year: 1878

"What are we to gain by inflicting
such losses on our industry and labor!
1t costs this country in loss Of pro-
ductive industry-in the unjust
transfer of wealth from the debtor to
the creditOr--in the loss of wages to
laboring people-more than all the
costs, losses, and wastes of the re-
belliOn combined. and what are we
to gain by adding to the enormous
sacrifice of the rebellion this additional
self inflicted sacrifice so much more
stupendous !''--T. Ewing.


What answer shall we make to
this question? If we should vote
Alright it would put stop to this
stupendous daily sacrifice of three
millions; and not only this, but it
would Danish want and idleness from
the land, and give us prosperity and
good times for all time to come.
All that is necessary is, the Green
back Reform.
Year: 1878

He was at Des Moines, Iowa, on
the Goth ult., and made a speech.
How much Of it has been published
we know not, but the papers contain
a short extract, which we quote:
"A man had better eat cockroaches
for dinner, and plead ignorance as an
excuse than favor fiat money. Satan
never gets caught twice in the same
trap. Now he says pay in money
but make that money out of paper.
They [Greenbackers] may be as
certain that stamping a piece of paper
makes it valuable as the Almighty is
that it don't-when they have tried it
they VIII know BETTER


GreenDackS are fiat money. The
people have been using them for the
last fifteen years. All the value there
is to them is the stamp of the govern.
ment. Mr.. Beecher's present god
may not know that this makes them
valuable. He cannot know negative
for this is impossible. Perhaps the
celebrated Divine had been eating
cockroaches for dinner the day he
uttered the above; but we will not
excuse him on the plea of ignorance.
He knew his statements were false.
He had an object. He was then to
do service to the money power. He
condemns greenback money because
they hire him to. Soul and body
he has sold himself to Satan.


If he really considers greenbacks as
valueless we are willing to relieve
him of whatever pile he may have.
Send them this way.


The quotation above came from the
same heart that said that bread and
water are good enough for the labor
ing man and his family to eat.


Once the name of H. w. BeecheI
was honored by all American citizens.
They looked up to an eloquent divine,
advocating the rights of the oppressed
and downtroden, sympathizing with
the hardy hands of toll, pleading for
the fettered slave. and liberal in his
views as the universal Father, he
stood in the pure light of an angels
garb. and inspired hope But alas
how are the mighty fallen
Year: 1878

a definite opinion as to the quantity of
money the people actually need. 1t
would help keep down exhorbitant
interest. If any person could do bet.
ter with his money by loaning it him.
self, OF investing in business, than to
deposit it,-so much the better for
the country.


THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.


''The liberties of this people imper-
atively demand that the far reaching
and deadly hand of capital as it ap-
pears in the infamous monopoly
known as the Associated Press, must
be torn from the throat of public in
telligence. The telegraph companies
must be forced to sell the daily news
upon equal terms to any paper desir-
ing to purchase the same. Mass.
Plat.


Such monopolies should not be per-
mitted to exist in free land. They
injure the many for the benefit of the
few. It enables them to dictate to the
people what their mental food shall
be. or whether they shall have any OF
not. Down with the Associated
Press mOnOpOly.
Year: 1878

The failure of the city of Glasgow
Bank in Scotland, with liabilities
amounting to fifty million dollars, was
tremendous calamity. Within a
week the shares had sold at 237. 1t
had been in existence about forty
years. 1t furnishes a useful lesson
for study, and conclusive argument
for the Greenback cause. Briefly let
us improve.it.


This bank had metallic basis, only
the basis was not there. 1t was con-
sidered safe and sound till the day it
collapsed. How deceived people may
be! 1t furnishes us evidence on an
enormous scale of the danger of
clothing private corporations with the
privilege of manufacturing a substi-
tute, and passing it out as money.


An exchange remarks that it is a
great misfortune that corporations
have neither bodies to be imprisoned,
nor souls to be damned. If they had, =,
rev or them would be out of jail,
either on the earth level or a pitch
lower down. With gold basis we
are always liable to similar calami-
ties.


But with national money issued by
the government, founded on all the
wealth, real and personal, of the
country, the wants of the people
might dig for its basis and then not be
able to carry it away with them.


Another lesson which should be
learned is the destruction we might
bring on ourselves, by tyeing to Euro
pean banks with a golden chain. All
our gold basis banks have always been
at their mercy, and when they sucked
away the basis from us, down tum-
bled our financial system.
Year: 1878

We really hope so; but our sight
is getting dim. We cannot see them
yet, but the subsidized press as the
autumn wears towards its close, re-
new their old song that the times are
going to be better. They conclude
this from two facts; of which the first
Is, that the gingle of the precious
metals upon resumption, must diSpel
every hardship, for then every poor
starving man can get silver dollar,
II he has Il greenback one to buy it
with; and the silver will insure good
times in poverty and suffering. Wha.
words of supreme wisdom Here is
the proof from the Cleveland Herald:


1.-The good time coming is almost
here. In less than three months the
rage and folly of reputation and rag
money idiots will be futile, for the
business of the country and the
finances of the government will be
anchored on the firm rock Of specie"


So after Jan. lst every poor man
will get two dollars day and roast
beef with lager thrown in. And
their wives will have a new dress.
and their daughters \ gold watch or
piano.


Oh the good times are almost here
they are now boarding gold in New
York in anticipation and called loans
advanced on the 10th instant from 4
Year: 1878

to 7 per cent.


The second reason for good times is
from the fact that the bankrupt law
expired on the last day Of August,
and now there can be no more bank
ruptcies. No more business failures
can take place because there is no
law by which failures can occur.
Now every thing Will be lovely,
whether the poor have bread and
clothing or not. How can any one
fail when there is no law to fail by {?
And how can times be otherwise than
good when resumption accomplished,
the Treasury shall pour out its silver
boards, and every bank will have a
handful to display in its show
window! Oh the good times are
almost here
Year: 1878

1t began in 1885. for we (the editor)
are older than the most of our read.
ers. We have indeed seen years, and
as they rolled by us have gained some
knowledge by the varied experiences
Of life. 1t was in the (at that time)
young State Of Michigan. She had
but recently been born into the fami.
ly of American States, and she still
wore the holiday dress of her first
governor. There were no railroads
in the State at that time, and the only
means of public travel was in the
slow numbering stage coach. In the
interior is a farming town by the name
Of Sandstone. 1t contains many fine
farms at that time but slightly devel-
oped. Other advangages besides good
water it had none. On the main thor.
oughfore through it was small col
lection of houses, but several less
than dozen.


Here our financial education began.
not by election, nor by the study of
books, but by observation. For in
the flowery month of June one day
there unloaded from the stage five or
six well-dressed gentlemen, with a
number of trunks and boxes. They
soon engaged board, and rented the
front room OF the most pretencious
building in the place. Soon they put
out their shingle with the letters in
gilt-''Bank Of Sandstone ;" and the
news ran from neighbor to neighbor,
we are to have bank The eyes of
the children as well as older people
glistened with delight at the announce
ment. They had come up from De.
troit with their bank notes already
printed, and their shingle already
painted, and nothing remained but for
them to write their names on the
crisp. new, shining bills, and with
shears cut them apart, and put them
into circulation.


This bank, with numerous others
that came into existence at that time.
have since been called "WILD CAT -
For how could young State get along
along without banks land they were
wild cat sure enough. Several pack
ages of this Sandstone money were
sent to other similar institutions in
exchange for theirs, and in the win
dow were piles of these different bills
as well as their own, and some $40 or
$50 in gold and silver cyin.


Soon the larger portion Of the men
were generally missing, but they
would come and go. Some two months
after starting, it was announced on
the door of the bank. that it was
closed for week. But week after
week passed, and the banking gentle
men did not return. None knew
where they had gone. Finally the
citizens broke in, and examined the
trunk and box they had left behind:
but 10 (! some dirty linen and a few
brickbats were all the assets they had
left behind. Then the eyes Of the
people begun to open to the fact that
the bills were utterly worthless! AL.
most every famil. had more or less
of them. With them they had paid
for their board. With them they had |
settled for their laundry. With them
they had bought farms, cattle, hogs, !
Year: 1878

they were issued. And there shall be
no more issue of interest-bearing
bonds, at any rate of interest by the
government. Labor league plat
| form.


The second falsehoed of this Repub-
lican platform is that greenbacks are
irredeemable paper. If l sell thing
to-day and buy it back tomorrow, do
not I redeem it? The government
has sold greenbacks to pay the soldier
for risking his life upon the fields of
battle, to pay for the bread to feed
him. and the clothing to protect him
from inclement seasons. It redeems
these greenbacks by taking them for
taxes and all government dues except
customs, and we propose to have this
exception wiped out. Then their re-
deerIable power will be complete.


And more than this--we, the peo-
pie, who design to make greenbacks
our absolute money, are the govern
ment who issues them. and we redeem
them every time we receive one in
pay for anything, and our neighbor
redeems it every time he receives
one from us. Have not greenbacks
always been redeemed Have they
not always answered every purpose of
the people! And do we not purpose
to have them continue to do so!


But perhaps you say cannot buy a
gold dollar with greenback without
paying a difference Of one half of a
cent. Are our silver dollars redeem
able! Can you buy gold dollar with
two silver half dollars without paying
as great a difference? Try it.


The third falshoodS of this platform
is the statement that they are uncon-
stitutional, yet the republican party
has the high honor of issuing them
and of redeeming them with bonds.
If their issue was unconstitutional
than their redemption is--then. all
the bonds given for greenbacks are
unconstitutional-then every act of
Congress in relation to our currency,
since the first greenback was printed
is unconstitutional. Then everybody
who has used them are guilty of
using unlawful money. If green
backs are unconstitutional. then ma
tional banks are, for they are based
on greenbacks, and promise to pay
nothing but greenbacks. But they
are not. The statement is lie. The
highest tribunal in our country, the
supreme court of the United States
has decided the point, and their de-
cisiOn will stand for all time.


Neither of these statements we re.
gard as very important. If green
backs are unconstitutional, then we
have only 20 amend the constitution:
if they were irredeemable perhaps
that would be the best thing for the
prosperity of the country, if their is.
sues were unlimited, congress would
then be at greater liberty to adapt
their volume to the wants and necessl.
tics of the people. We notice these
assertions of the platform simply be-
cause they are falsehoods which the
republican party try to force the peo-
pie to believe by making them a
plank in their platform. And those
who believe them, believe "a lie
that they may be damned" The
'pernicious delusion' is one which
the Republican party has produced.
and they are the very people most
deluded.
Year: 1878

The Greenbackers have everywhere
a superabundance of platform, but we
hope they will not die of indigestion
from over-eating. Many of them
contain gems of wisdom set in words
of diamond truth. We here rescue a
few of such utterances. for the care.
full study of our readers.


TARIFF.


"A tariff prohibiting importation of
all manufactured articles of which
the raw material is produced, and the
labor to manufacture the same is
found in the country. All articles
which We cannot produce or manufac-
ture free. ."-Greeaback Labor League.


I'm the language of Peter Cooper,
Nothing can be bought cheap from
foreign countries which must be
bought at the expense of leaving our
own raw material unused and our own
labor unemployed: therefore we de-
mand . protective tariff on AL arti-
cles Of which the raw material Il prn
Year: 1878

You've all heard ofsealed letters, of course,
and seen some, too, no doubt; but did you
ever hear of the letter-carrier, also being
sealed Well, a bit of news has come saying
that, among the Himalaya Mountains, the
men who carry the mails on horseback are
sealed to their saddles, in such way that
while they can ride easily enough they cannot
get down from their seats; and, what is
more, the mailpackages arc sealed to the
men! Once started on the route, the seals are
not allowed to be broken, except by the post
master at the next station, and, if they bap-
pen to get broken otherwise than by accident,
the carrier is severely punished.


The result of this sealing is that a mail
carrier who wishes to steal letters in his
charge is obliged to steal also the saddle and
horse,-and himself as well, suppose.


Nice places these carriers have to ride
through, at times! Why, in some parts, the
road is so steep that, in going down, the rider
is kept upright by rope passed under his
arms and held in the hands of two men who
are above him on the mountain. If it were
not for this. the rider would fall over the
head of bis horse, or else cause the horse it.
self to 60 over head first
Year: 1878

Lucy Hoopers Paris Letter to Philadelphia Telegraph


Worth tells me that red is to be extremely
fashionable for evening dress wear during the
coming season. Vivid rich hues will, in fact,
replace the dull faded tints that have been In
fashion so long Ladies must look up the
MORE antiques and watered silks of their
mothers, as well as the brocades of their
grandmothers, since those materials are COM
ing into fashion again. Satins and velvets
will be largely used for evening dress, MORE
antique and watered silk, trimmed with velvet
or satin for dinner or reception dresses, and
cloth or cashmere in dark colors, trimmed
with dull tinted brocades, for street wear
Plaids have had their day, and are making
their appearance in the cheap shops Suits
of silk and cashmere are no longer consid.
cred stylish, as street costumes are now to be
composed of one material throughout. Dark
brown will be much worn in the street this
year, as it combines 90 well with the brocades
that are now used for trimming. Kilt plated
skirts and half long, half fitting jackets will
oe fashionable for walking dress.
Year: 1878

Why is it. that people are always so 'tired
out" by twenty minute sermon, and so ere
freshed" by q two hour society drama, lit
tie bad?
That every man who owns horse thinks
he has ''stepper," and firmly believes that
the animal would 60 like the wind if he were
''let out?"


That nobody ever thinks of sitting in q
summer house9


That hunting parties from the city always
kill so many more prairie chickens than they
bring in?


That so many more watch chains are worn
than watches?


That in no matter what direction man
starts pin, the point always ultimates in the
end of his foref1nger?


That no man thinks any other man knows
how to build fire?


That every living man who smokes affects
to be q connoisseur in cigars?


That bankers never have any money to
lOan
Year: 1878

The yield of milk from Northern dairy
COWS is incredible TO the people in re-
gious where the cattle are raised mostly
for beef and hides.


Judge Grant was in Little Rock,
Arkansas. in attendance on the United
States Court. Que morning he saw a
farmer with a slouch hat and genuine
tutteruut suit, trying 20 sell a cow in
the market thore. 1t was large, long
horned animal, and the planter was in
formed by imam that the cow would give
four quarts Of milk day, if fed well.


Up stepped the Judge. what do
you ask for that cows p


About $50. She'll give 4 quarts of
milk, if you feed her WELL


Said the Judge: Il have cows on my
farm, not much more than half as big as
your COW, which give twenty-five quarts
Of milk day


The planter eyed the Judge sharply
for .1oment rs if trying to remember
whether he had ever seen him before or
not, and then asked: Stranger, where
do you live q


My home is in Iowa.


'Yes, stranger, I don't doubt it. There
was some sogOrs from Iowa here during
the war, and they was the biggest liars
IN the Yankee army. Maybe you are
an officer in one of them regiments 2
Year: 1878

It was cold dark night night in
winter. The wind blew, and the snow
was whirled iuriously about, seeking to
hide itself beneath cloaks and hoods,
and in the very hair of those who were
out. A distinguished lecturer was to
speak, and notwithstanding the storm
the villagers very generally ventured
to hear him.


Willrm Annesley buttoned up to
his chin in his thick ovefcoat, ae-
companied his mother. 1t was dlthcult
to walk through the fallen snow against
the piercing wind, and William said to
his mother:


"Couldn't you walk easier if you took
my ?" %,


"Perhaps I could" his mother replied,
as she put her arm through his and
drew up as close as possible to him.
Together they breasted the storm--the
mother and the boy who had once been
carried in her arms, but who had grown
up so tall that she could lean on him.
They had not walked very far before ne
said


81 am very proud to night, mother"


"Pround that you can take care OF
me ?" she said to him with heart
gushing with tenderness.


This is the first time you have
leaned 1pon me-" said the happy boy.


There will be few hours in that
child's life of more exalted pleasure than
he enjoyed that evening, even it he
should live to old age, and should in
his manhood, lovingly provide for her,
who, in mis- helpless infancy, watched
over him.
Year: 1878

An English paper relates the follow
ing unaccountable occurrence 'One Of
the most singular instances in connec-
tion with material things, exists in the
case of young man, who, not very long
ago, visited large iron mandatory.
He stood opposite large hammer, and
n natched with great interest its perfectly
regular strokes. At first it was beating
imlaensc Jumps of crimson metal into
thick black sheets; but the supply be.
coming exhausted, at length it only de,
scended on the polished anvil. Still
the young man gazed intently on its
motion, then he followed its strokes
with a corresponding motion of his
head; then his left arm moved on the
same tune, and finally, he deliberately
placed his fist upon the anvil, and in a
second it was smitten to jelly.


The only explanation he could afford
was, that he felt an impulse to do it;
that he knew he should be disabled;
that ho saw all the Consequences in a
misty manner, but he still felt the pow
er within above sense and reason-a
morbid Impulse, in fact, to which he
succumbed and by which he lost q good
right hand.
Year: 1878

How hard some men strive all their
lives to have it said of them when they
pass hence-"hc died rich p Relatives
and friends who are left behind seem to
consider it sort of compliment to the
dead 10 dwell upon the theme-he died
rich And now comes the question Is
it IN honor to man to die rich q? Is
the world any better for man to die
rich than it would be if the same man
died poor ? Is the Man any happier in
the next life on account of it 2 If the
spirit be conscious after death, is it any
satisfaction to that spirit, in the other
life, to know that he left a hundred
thousand or two for nis relations tc
quarrel over, and break his will over


and on account of which they are to b.


atsword's points with each other through
] all time :?-Register.
Year: 1878

A woman might deprive herself Of
tea and other luxures, but an itemized
bill from and a fuss with her milliner,
ara quarterly necessities. A column Of
figures will arch u woman's spine as
suddenly as dog appearing on the
scene will send up the back of her cat.
Year: 1878

All England is overswept BY a great
surge Of horror and pity and grief,
caused by the terrible collision in the
I hames between the powerful iron screw
steamer, the Bywell Castle, and the