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Year: 1879




NJ. Theirs had always sincere regard for M. Jules
Simon. and during the days OF his Presidency often
pronounced him to bc his most able lieutenant
There was only one subject on which the pair
could not agree and that was free trade Dur
ing all the time NJ Jules Simon was Minister of
Public Worship and Instruction he kept on the best
terms with the Vatican the Papal Nuncio aud the
clerical party and his Difference toward the church
led Mgr. Dupanloup to exclaim :--'.That man
will be cardinal before mol" Perhaps the success
which attended his tomporzIng policy when ne was
Minister under Al. Thers may have something TO do
with tho opposition Of M. Jules Simon to the Jules
Tssrylbnh
Year: 1879

What is the difference between q
dairy maid and stormy petrol Z
One skins the milk and the other
skins the water.-New Haven Reg
ister. We don't even now, quite
see the difference.-Boston Post.
Year: 1879




TRENTON, N. j., Oct. IA, 1879.


An important decision rendered to-day in the
Mercer County Circuit Court by CHIEF Justice
Beasley which interests railroad travellers Dennis
Roe appeared as plaintiff against George Melick.
conductor and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
defendants, In q suit for $4,000 damages for
trespass The plaintiff alleged that February IL
last he purchased excursion ticket from
Greensburg to Philadelphia, and the following
day he returned from the latter city to Trenton,
where after stopping or he boarded way train for
Creensburg at seven o'clock in the evening. The
conductor along took his ticket aud carried 1t
Off He camo back soon after and talked about it,
and after passing the asylum station he de-
manded a iare Of twenty-five cents, saying the
ticket was not good. Plaintiff refused pay
nient, and thereupon the conductor stopped
the train and put him of between the two
stations about eight hundred yards from the asylum
and three miles from Greensburg lie was COM
PEELED to walk home after the conductor ret used to
run the train back to the station Hence the suit,
which based on the construction of the law that
the ticket good. and that the conductor should
have put him off ut q station. After the plaintiff
closed his case tho counsel for the defendants
moved for IA ronsuit, the ground that
there were printed stipulations on the ticket
which said 1t should be used only on continuous
train and stop off nuliitic the ticket; also that
the plaintiff not put OF az dangerous place;
the law only requiring that when passenger is put
oil near n dwelling house or within short distance of
station no action for damages stand. The Chief
Justice sustained these vicws and granted
suit saying tho plaintiff. IL ho desired, would DO
granted u rule to have the matter reviewed by the
Sliprenle Court.
Year: 1879

T1lden and the Presidency.
A special despatch from Washington


says:


Since the recent publication Of an al


legged interview between Mr.. Samuel J.


Tilden and prominent political mana.


ger regarding the political situation Of


the former and his disapproval of the


blundering policy Of the Southern Dem


ocracy, the most diligent inquiry has


failed to elicit the name of the promi-


nent political manager. However Mr..


Tilden has seen fit to repudiate the al


legged interview. Mr.. Stillson Hutch


ins, the editor of the Washington Post,


the Democrotic organ at the capital, h as


succeeded in having an interview with


Mr.. Tilden on the subject, and will


publish an article tomorrow from which


the following is an extract:


"Have you ever had any such con-
versation with anybody" asked. And
he replied: "With the exception of the
single remark that have not been, and
am not now, doing anything whatever
toward securing the Democratic renomi.
nation for the Presidency; every state
ment therein made is mere fiction and
coinage of the brain. You may say
that if these declarations purport to
have been the result of an interview
with me, they are forgeries. Ifit is in
tended by the article whatever its au-
to make public my express
sions in the way Of criticisms of current
political events, either as expressed TO
me by my intimate friends or to the
author Of this alleged interview, it is
more than ever a forgery. l have in
lulged in no such expressions. I do
not care to 60 into them in detail, for it
would be useless for me to attempt to
ieny all that might be attributed to
me- by ingenious but mendacious cor
I can say that l have
not taken any steps to secure renom-
nation by the Democratic party for the
can say also, that l do
not contemplate taking any measure to
secure such nomination or to reject it
before it is offered. am credited with
having secured agents in every voting
precinct throughout the entire Uni
I'D States, and with many more
equally absurd devices to secure that
which do not seek. So far as the
article referred to is concerned, 1t is q
Fabrication and a forgery, and that
may say" replied Mr.. Tilden with
Year: 1879

A remarkable case of juvenile atroci-
ty recently occurred at Mt. Nebc, Ian
caster Co. A five months old infant
was lying in cradle when three-year
old child approached it, and, by the
vigorous use of a penknife succeeded in
almost severing the infants arm above
the wrist. Tie convulsive cries Of the
sufferer brought help, or there is no tell
ing where the tragedy might have end
d. The lacerated arm bled profusely,
and for time it vas feared the child
would bleed to death. The injury was
promptly attended to but the wound it
is believed will result in permanent
disability. The boy who did the cut
ting seemed to have no motive in it, and
does not appear at all sensible of the
terrible act he has committed.
Year: 1879

is now an inmate of the District Of Co
lumbia Almshouse. She has had q
difficult time to obtain the necessaries
of life since the decision in the breach
of promise suit, having at one
time tried lecturing, with the case in
which she was plaintiff as text. As
no audience could be obtained to listen
to her, however, she gave up the at
tempt, and being unable to obtain
board, she placed herself under the
protection of the Charity commissioners
of the District.
Year: 1879

No Hospital Needed.
No palatial hospital needed for Hop Bit
ters patients, nor large salaried talented puff
ers to tell what Hop Bitters will do or cure, as
they tell their own story by their certain and
absolute cures at home.
Year: 1879

EAST Olympia bridge is haunted.


SUNDAY Schools are filling up and
superintendeats ale hopeful.


VINO wants a young lady school
teacher?


The oyster trade is making rapid
progress.


AN ominous sound to children, the
school bell.


No abatement in the iand.pur-
chasing business.


SNIpE have taken possession of
our city's water front.


How is it that young lady can
remember, accurately, three hundred
pages of the last novel and not page
of useful history.


MIR. Hall, United States Consul
General, at Havana, says that eight
tenths of all the exports of Cuba go
to the United States.


The reason why women can keep
secrets is simply because they band
themselves together to accomplish
the feat. We do not intend this as a
local item, it is one of universal ap-
plication.


The society for prevention of cru
city to animals recently formed in
Portland is doing good work, and
many poor brute would have rea-
son to thank its projectors, had they
the faculty of speech.


TIE Water Company promise that
those who connect their hydrants
with the new system of mains now
going down will suffer no inconven-
ience hereafter by any stoppages of
the pump ut Tum,yater.


AroUr a couple of thousand bush.
els of new wheat, raised in Washing
ton Territory have been ground at
the, Tumwater mills. 4ThessSound
country will very soon produce
large surplus of most of the cereals.


The "bad cold epidemic is af-
fecting both grown people and child
rem to a considerable extent, and
physicians have had a good many
prescriptions to write, within the
last few days. Their business is
looking up.


WE acknowledge call this week
from Mr.. l. Cathcart, an old resident
of Snohomish county, WHO visits this
place on business connected with the
district Land Office. lie represents
business as dull in his county, but
the people hopeful of a revival of
trade in the near future.


ACCORDING to the laws of the An
cient Order of United Workmen, q
young man can arrange SO as to die
very profitably for the girl who re-
jects him, provided he is fool enough
to die at all on her account. He
has only to join the Order of United
Workmen, make his will in favor of
the girl and blow his brains out.


Our unexceptionable weather con-
tinues and everybody who has any
out-of-door work 10 perform should
lose no time in putting everything
to rights. Building is still going on
to q considerable extent all over
town. The improvements in streets
and sidewalks exceed anything in
that line ever done before, in sim
gle year.


AN exchange advertises as found,
an infants embl loidered cloak, neatly
up in newspaper, "to-
gether with some minor articles"
Now why did not that fellow out
with it and say the package con-
tained a nursing bottle, few dia-
pers, safety-pins, etc? We will wa
ger box of hair-pins that he is
batchelor.


We have been asked about the
school facilities of Olympia for the
coming Autumn and Winter. The
information is soon furnished. There
will be two district schools in opera
ton, continuing from three to six
months. The prospectus of Union
Academy is published and will suf-
ticiently set forth the merits of that
institution. Besides these, there will
Year: 1879

NEWSPAPERS AND SHAMS.-One of
the greatest trials of the newspaper pro-
fession is that its members are compelled
to see more of the shams of the world
than any other profession. Through
every newspaper Office day after day,
all the weaknesses of the world; all the
vanities that want to be puffed all the
revenges that want to be reaped all
the mistakes that want to be corrected;
all the dull speakers who want to be
thought eloquent; all the meanness that
wants to get its wares noticed gratis in
the editorial columns; all the men who
want to be set right who are never
right all the crack Drained philosophers,
with stories as long as their hair, and as
gloomy as their finger nails in mourn
ing because bereft of soap; all the bores
who come to stay five minutes, but talk
Ave hours. Through the editorial and
reportOrial rooms all the follies and
shams of the world are seen day after
day, and the temptation is to believe
neither God, man or woman. 1t is no
surprise to me that in this profession
there are skeptical men 1 only wonder
that journalists believe anything.-Par-
son IGImage.
Year: 1879

THE new Democratic County
Committee has entered upon an
energetic plan of campaign. Quite
q formidable list of appointments
has already been made out, the
local candidates being the princI-
pal speakers. We have seen moth
ing calculated to shake our first
impressions that, at the coming
election, the Democrats will rate
first and the Republicans second
with a hard fight between the
Worklngmen and II. B's for the
third place In the race. Nothing
should be left undoue to make the
Democratic canvass thorough and
the victory complete.
Year: 1879

THE typical Farmers and Work
ingmen are too modest when they
say that they "share in the disgust
felt by all honest" persons for Of
fice-seelSers. In fact. they receive
almost all OF it themselves. What
IL left for others is rarely worth
talking about.
Year: 1879

Washington, May 14.-The most
noteworthy feature of yesterdays pro-
ceedings in congress was the refusal of
the senate to strike from the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial appropria-
tion bill the clause directing the secre-
tary of treasury to issue Immediately in
payment of pension arrearage the ten
million dollars of legal tender notes
now held as a special fund for the re-
demption of fractional currency. The
vote of 81 against 20, by which the
senate has united with the house of
representatives in providing for this
large increase of the money circulation
of the country, was rendered especially
significant by the tenor of the running
speeches which preceded it, in the
course of which the opponents of this
provision insisted that its tendency and
effect were wholly in the direction of
imitation. and rs far as possible en-
deavored to draw the lines upon it
strictly between the friends and oppo-
nents of the so-called hard-money sys-
tenn of national finances. Several sem
ators voted for the proposition, who
cannot be justly considered infationists,
or soft-money men. But after making
all allowances of this sort, there seems
to be no doubt that the vote un-
mistakably indicated the existence of
working majority in the senate in favor
of extensive imitation of the currency,
and quite clearly foreshadows the
policy by that body of the silver free
coinage bill, which will in two or three
days. be sent to it from the house of
representatives.
Year: 1879

as the white laborers of California, or
the negroes of Mississippi. To put it
in his own words, They are willing to
work for very small compensation, and
take no interest in politics, religious
or educational matters


Six or seven dollars a month for
wages, with an allowance of twenty-five
or thirty dollars a year for provisions
on the plantations in the south, he
says, would meet their utmost expecta-
tions, and even at these wages they
would live better and save more than
the negroes do.


We are inclined-to think it will re-
quire something more than sentiment
tai objections to prevent the speedy in
PRODUCTION of Cinnamon, in the gulf
states at least.
Year: 1879

when he is on accredited delegate thereto /;
and when, as in the recent case of the
Saratoga Convention, the nominations do
not exactly suit him, he forthwith pro-
ceeds to give aid and comfort to the enemy
in the most emphatic manner. Thus 1t
happens that the Democratic press OF New
York is filling it's columns with quotations
from Harper's Weeklyto show that CORNELL
is weak because of lack of enthusiasm,
and that ROBINSON is strong because of the
Tammany bolt, or, worse yet, because OF the
tendency of the floating vote TO him. II
is pity, great pity, that this person
CURTIS does not muster up courage enough
to go over to the Democracy ut once and be
done with II, as he possibly would were he
brave enough to cut loose from the salary
list of HARPER BROTHERS, whereon none
but Republicaps-many of them merely 80
called, it is true-are said to have their
names
Year: 1879

The Georgia Legislature is pushing on its
work of impeachment vigorously. W. L.
GOLDSMITH, the Comptroler-Generalo of the
State has been successfully convicted under
proceedings of impeachment, and has been
sentenced to removal from Office and dis
qualification. Much has been said hereto
fore by the Democratsabout the corruptions
of the BULLOCK administration, but none
of the officials of that administration have
ever been convicted of malfeasance in office,
aud in view of recent developments there
does not seem as much disposition as here
tofore to discuss the question of official
dereliction on that side. However, the
credit for having pushed the crimes of their
own party friends to conviction and judg-
ment. 1t is decided score in their favor


The case of Treasurer RENFRoE is still
on trial under impeachment, and the pro-
priety of removing JOHN NELMs, princi-
pal keeper of the penitentiary, for NAL
feasance in Office has been under discu ss on.
The feeling against the State administrator II
is running high-so much so that when the
question Of NELMs' dereliction was under
discussion, member made fierce speech
in which he declared that it was not N ELMs
but Governor COLQUITT, who was
guilty for what was going on in NELMs'
office, as he was fully cOgnizant of what
had transpired there. In the midst of great
| excitement on the floor and in the galleries
another member declared his full concur
renee in the sentiment uttered, and offered
resolutions that the Governor is responsible
to the people for this wrong, and express
ing severe condemnation of him on that
account. This created much stir, and the
friends of the Governor succeeded in stavng
the resolutions off by an adjournment.
Senator HILL. who has been regarded as
the moving spirit of this whole proceeding,
was calm spectator throughout. The
Governors friends, it is thought, are stron,
enough to defeat the resolutions of censure
but the temper of the house is decidedly
against the administration, and it is deter.
mined upon a thorough Investigation of tn,


whole matter.
Year: 1879

IT Is question in the minds of many
good Republicans in New York and else
where whether GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS


should ever be permitted TO enter another
Republican nominating convention in any
other capacity than that of looker-on.
He does not pretend to abide by the re-
suits of the nominating action Of such bodies
Year: 1879

The famous "Ln railroad was chartered
by especial legislative enactment while
TILDEN was Governor of New York, and
the charter became law by virtue of his
official approval. Before the irate CYRUS
w. FIELD gets through with his discussion
of this subject he may revert to this fact,
and make use of it as an explanation of his
course in "letting TILDEN in" when the
charter had subsequently become operative.
Year: 1879

TILDEY finds time for everything else
except to pay his delinquent income tax and
thus put himself on the square with the
Government he wants to rule. AS Presi-
Dental candidate he is beauty without
mint
Year: 1879

THE Kentucky bluster about libel suits
arising out Of any charge that may be made
against Governor BLACKBURN, of that State,
in connection with the yellow-fever infec-
ton plot will now subsde. The Louis
vile Commercial, published under his very
nose, has made the charge direct and
unequivocal, and the Infamous scoundrel
rests as quietly under it as if his own honor
and the reputation of great State were
not at stake. Perhaps some of the ohivalry
who denounced the crime and defended the
man before it was known as it now is that
he is the criminal, will come to the front
and explain.
Year: 1879

TILDEN's great hope of carrying New
York for ROBINSON resides in the fact that
he is likely to have the power to thimble-
rig the inspectors of elections in the city of
New York as he had when JOHN I. HoFF-
MAN was counted in under the auspices of
himself and TWEED.
Year: 1879

would accrue to the Club from such action. u
was reckless waste of time and type, and, baa
the writer been posted on ball matters, be xould
have known that there was not the slightest
chance for the Atbanys to get into League conf
paniOUship.
Year: 1879

An extraordinary seene was witnessed yesterday in the New York Post office. Such q scene some sixteen or seventeen years ago would have been incredible. At that time. when the government had hard work to sell its bonds, paying high interest at thirty or forty per centum below par, the idea that time would come when not men only bu' womcn would struggle and fight in competing crowds to get government bonds at their face value: and paying third less of anpu l interest, would have been laughed at as impossible. Yet this is ex- actlY what happened at nipe o'clock in the morning yesterday in the vestibule ut the main entrance on the second floor of the Post office building, where great crowd of women had gathered tp rush ID op the opening ot the doors to buy four per centum certidcat, 8. When the doors finally oprned there was tremendous rush. The four alter dsnt policemen Were swept away like foam on the crest of wave. The eager

 inv; stors tore each others clothes, broke parasols. lost honpets and bags, hair and shawls. and no fe wer than twelve of them were at ene time prostrate. struggling on th' fl or. Fortunately no one was selious-

 y hurt although there WAS danger Tor . few moments that many might be. This morAing Postmaster James had fullequad of officers at hand in order to contIo the crowd and prt vent mischief. We trust that Il g ladies who have so often curls d their pretty lips from the gallery of the Stock Exchange at the ssething roaring crowd ot mnney grsbhers below will under stand TOW that their sex have learned "how it is themselves" Women whe want to make mon=y are very much like men who want 10 make money. after all. We only wish that the fair sex had more ways open to them for such reasonable acquisition than they now have, and that thus one source Of the unrest. the suffering and worse that be- fall women. and especially in great cities, might be tempered or obgiated. Mean while it is satisfactory to know that go many New York women who have little money are intelligent enough to knew how to invest it ". Y. Eoening Post, Mon dGY
Year: 1879

".a We shall feel greatly obliged to any of our friends in the county, or elsewhere, who will send us particulars of any occurrence or interest which may come under their notlce.

 AT CORRESPONDENTS are requested to send in their communications 90 as to reach us on Monday of each week. as we cannot insure the insertion of any correspondence received after that time,
Year: 1879

standing the sunlight sobbingat the turn of the road


hand she by holding high in her loving
hands the child. lc is gone and forever.


We them all they march proudly away under
the Haunting flags keeping time to the Wild grand music
of warmarchng down the streets of the great cities
through the towns and the prares-down TO the
fields of glory, to do and die for the eternal right


We 60 with them one and all. We are by their side
all the goryfeldsn all the hospitals of pain--on all
the weary marches. We with them in ravines
ming with blood-in the burrows of old fields We are
with them between contcnding hosts unable to move
wthered leaves We them percedb by balls and torn
by shells in the trenches by forts and in the whirlwnd
of the charge, where men become iron with of
steel


We are with them in the prison of hatred and famine
but human speech never tell what they endured


We are at home when the comes that they
dead We the maiden in the shadow of her first
row We the siyered hair of the old man bowed with
the last grief


The past before us and we see human
beings governed by the lash them bound hand
and foot hear the strokes of cruel whips the
hou Ids tracking women through tangled swamps we
the babes sold from the breast of mothers Cruelty
speakable Outrage infinite


Four millions in chansfour million souls in letters
All the sacred relations of wife, mother father and child
tamped beneath the brutal feet of might And all this
done under beautiful banner of the free.


The past rises before us. We hear the and the
shrek OF the bursting she'll The broken letters fall
These heroes die? We look Instead Of slavery we see
men. and women and children. The wand of progress
touches the auction block, the slavepen the whipping
post and homes and fire sides, and school houses
and books and where all and crime and cruel.
ty, and fetters, see the faces of the free.


These heroes dead. They died for liberty-they
died for They at rest They sleep in the land
they made free under the flag they rendered Stainless
der the solemn pines and hemocks the fearful willows
and the embracing vines They sleep beneath the shad
of the Clouds careless alike of the sunshine the
storm each in ,e windowess place of rest Earth may
run red with her wars-they at peace. In the
midst of battle in the of conflict they found the
renity of death. have sentiment for the soldiers


living and deadchecrs for the living and tears for the
dead.