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Year: 1879

A WAsHINaroa dispatch says: "It is
understood that Secretary Sherman in
his annual report will show the reeult
OF the coinage Of the stangard
silver dollar. and the impossibility Of
getting it into circulation. He will
also state the dangers that may rise
from the confirmed coinage of s.. .000.-
900 per mouth. In this connection is is
stated that he will recommend such
legislation as will discontinue this
coinage until more of the dollars NAV
be needed, or so amend the silver bill
as to give the Secretary of the Treas
ury discretionary power to regulate the
coinage. so that there will be up more
standard silver dollar coined than may
be necessary to supply the demand"
Year: 1879

The grand difficulty is so to feel the
reality of both worlds as to give each
its due place in our thought aud feel
ings--to keep our minds eye and our
hearts eye ever fixed on the land of
promise without looking away from the
road along which we are to travel to-
wBrd IL.
Year: 1879

One OF the strongest levers at the service
of the grange, and which is not made use Of,
we fear, to the extent it is capable of being
used by the advanced thinkers and workers
among the Patrons of Husbandry, is the ag-
ricultural press. The press is acknowledged
to be the most powerful means known to
direct thought and organize men for pnr-
pose. Political parties owe their cohesive
power and force more to the public press
than any other means employed. The poll
ticians have all the daily and large majori-
ty of the weekly press agitating and discuss
ing questions for them; keeping them con-
stantly before the public by reporting their
every utterance and movement. The spc-
cial industries all we'll supported by news
papers and magazines, which compile and
collate all that transpires in their line of
business. In the case OF agriculture there
are numerous papers published, but their
numbers are few and they are most grudg-
ingly patronized if their numbers and sup
port are compared with the multtudes en-
gagged in agriculture, which amounts to
more than half the people of these United
States.


We fear that this great lever of strength
is not made use OF to that extent which its
power warrants, by leading men of the
grange. II you can succeed in having
good agricultural paper read weekly in
farmers family, there will be awakened
train Of thought and a knowledge Of the OBJ
jects and benefits of the grange which will
not fail to add to its membership and in
crease its power and influence. Ii you have
4 slow neighbor who does not take an agri-
cultural Journal, loan or give him or his
family q number when opportunity offers.
Get him interested in knowing what is 60
ing OH in the line of his business. and you
will soon gain his cooperation and inllu-
ence. 1t would be well if the oranges make
it one of the orders Of business to inquire
and ascertain what farmers were doing with
out good agricultural paper, and use prop
er influence to induce him to subscribe for
and read one regularly. Their views of
business would be widened, and an interest
in their own class be excited to which be-
fore they were entire strangers. TO teach
is the underlying power of the grange. by
which it must succeed in it's mission, if at
all, and men cannot be taught much without
they cultivate the habit of reading, and by
reading the ability to think correctly in the
line Of their business. kansas Farmers.
Year: 1879

An audience of Boston's beauty
culture and refinement filled the old
South Church. The hour for the lecture
drew near, fingered trieay on the point
and passed. An inpatient rustic began
to sweep the through the house, as the
speaker of the evening still delayed his
appearance upon the platform. The
committee glanced nervously at each
other, conferred together in short and
hurried whispers and then hastily re-
paired to the ante-room. An elderly
man was standing in the centre of the
room as they entered, clutching wildly
at his flowing hair and muttering in
coherently to himself.


my dear sir" exclaimed the chair
man of the committee, fastening forward,
!" the hour advertised for the lecture to
begin has long since passed, and the
audience is impatient"


"Gentlemen," said the lecturer, 1
have come to this place in accordance
Year: 1879

Johnny Lamb, under sentence of death
for the murder of officer Race at Chicago,
rejoices in the discovery of evidence point.
ing out Sheeny George as the murderer. A
reporter recently ferretted out woman,
Mary Thompson, who saw the whole affair.
Her description of the man who fred the
fatal shot pointed closely to SheeDy George
and on the I'd inst. she was taken to the Jail
and selected him at once from out dozen
prisoners as the murderer. "That is the
man." she said, only he is little thinner
than he was then" Her character is said
to be beyond question, and her main reason
for not coming forward heretofore was fear
of the laws detention and imprisonment as
a witness, which she had once experienced
in New York.
Year: 1879

commend him for his courage and


Independence In promptly resenling what


he deemed an insult. The sott-money


Senators say that while the country, OF


part OF Il, Is crying for the passage Ot the


Warner bill, Or something like 1t, vet II


willnOt do to splitthe party on that av-


count, and especially to arouse Eastern


Democrats In opposition 10 Ewing In Ohio,


which would DO the result were Bayard


thrust ont Of the ChAirmanship Of the


Finance Committee. n fAs


But there is trouble brewing among the
silver and soft money Democrats Of the
House. They claim the Warner Bill pass.
ed the House by q large majority; that q
majority of the Senate favor It, and the
country Is crying for 1t. Therefore they
donot propose 10 drop matters at 80 inter
esting appoint. Mr.. Warner is especially
worked up on the subject, and II the sil.
yer Senators quietly surrender to Bayard
las they have indicated they wOuldl
Warner will introduce another bill in the
House covering the essential features Of
the bill sleeping In tho Senate Committee,
but so modified US 10 engage more support
and go through over the head Of BaYatl
and other misguided Democrats. Mr..
Warner saysit will notdo for Congress 10
adjourn without passing some measure Of
this description for the relief Of the peo-
pie aud effect on the Ohio election. TO
adjourn now with the bill blocked by the
Democratic Senators will cost the OHIO
Democracy, as represented by Ewing, TO-.
O0Ovotes. Warner and the House Democrats
who act with him cay that it will never
do to allow this bill, or ono something
like it, to be blocked by Democrats. They
lllege that il the President vetoes the bill,
all right; this will throw the responsibility
on the Republicans, and can be turned TO
excellent account in Ohio, but that the
chosen bill for the relief Of the people,
upon which they have labored so long for
the double purpose OF relief and political
effect in Ohio, should be blocked by mem
bers Of their own party, fills them with
confusion and dismay.
Year: 1879

The mill owners of Minneapolis arc
greatly perplexed by the volume OF saw
dust they produce. and not n little
alarmed at a threatened law forbidding
the present disposition of such waste by
dumping it into the river. 1t is cal
culated that the sawdust from the sum-
mer cut OF logs converted into boards at
that place amounts to something like
300, 900 cords-enough to furnish con-
slant work for $50 teams to cart away
The millers say they cannot afford so
heavy a burden of expense, and the
river communities can rs i'll afford to
have the river spoiled by the rapidly
accommodating refuse. Even the steam
mills are unable to burn all their waste,
and the owners of them would no doubt
gladly unite with their water-usin g
neighbors in turning over the surplus
sawdust gratis to whoever would agree
to cart it away. Three hundred thou
sand cords year of good fuel is Ger
tainly worth an effort to save. and this
is the product of but one locality.


Who will invent an economical MODE
of making sawdust marketablep And
who will devise new applications Tor
such materials? Most likely there are
hundreds of easy ways in which such
materials, now burden, could be turned
to profit if our inventors would only
take the trouble to think of them and
work up their practical applications
Such simple devices for utilizing waste
products are often the sources OF large
profits.-Scientifc american.
Year: 1879

This touching story was told by East
man johnson to our correspondent in
Nantucket:


On narrow island near the New
England coast, where primitive customs
still obtain, where the crier goes about
TIE streets by day and the watchman by
night, where they dispose OF surplus
meats by auction, and the merry maiden
and the tar 20 junketing together in an
ancient calash, lives an old lady. Auntie
B.. The same roof has sheltered
three generations of her family, and it
would require little less than an earth
quake to dislodge her from her seat by
the old fashioned Fireplace. There she
! sits. a pi icture of peace and contentment.


Haven't you single regret in your
whole life?" we asked her once. She
dropped her knitting, and u dreamy
look crept over her placid eyes.


YES" she said at length, 1 have.
Ten years ago. when my dear dead SIS
ter was alive, man with hand-organ
came to this island by the steamer. Oh
he could play beautifully. He came
near our street, and my sister says to
me, Let us 60 down to the corner and
see him plsy.' Well, do you know, ]
didn't 20 after all, but she said it was
just splendid. and I suppose I shall re.
gret not hearing that hand-organ to my
dying day."


And the dear old soul dropped tear
on the half-heeled stocking-Fditor'
Drawer IN Harper's Magazine for Decen,'
ber.
Year: 1879

A reliable exchange relates a mar
velous dog story. Not long ago Phila-
delphia lady, while doingher marketing
one morning, received the gift OF q
chicken from a friend whom she met:
On returning home she took the fewl
from the basket and gave it to the cook,
remarkina, II wish I had another
chicken; it takes at least two to make a
dinner" Thereupon the family Dog,
which had been stretched upon tho
window-siil. jumped out OF the window
as if something had attracted him. The
dog staid away about lalf IN hour, ana
came back with chicken IN his mouth,
laid the burden down, and retreated TO
his usual seat on the window-silE The
chicken was yet warm, though dead;
the dog had seized it by the throat. 1t
was not known whose poultry-yard had
suffered.


From Portland, Maine, comes n cat
story which compares favorably with
the above. In = village not far from
Portland is a quiet family. consisting OF
an aged gentleman, his housekeeper and
their faithful old cat. Family prayers
are regular exercise every evening in
this household, and the cat fell into
the habit of purctual attendance.
Nothing was allowed to interfere with
tbs duty. At the signal for prayers she
would even leave mouse half caught.
or give a doomed bird longer lease OF
existence, and decorously compose her
self in the lap of the housekeeper, with
an air of attention to the service that
was highly cdifying. At the final
Amen" she went friskily about her
business. But in an evil day there came
a kitten that was deemed supertluous,
and sentence OF death was passed upon
it. The head of the family undertook
the execution of the sentence, and un:
known to him the cat WAS witness OF
the scene. From that day the cat re;
fused to attend the evening service, and
cannot now be induced to listen to the
PRAYERS of one who had so shocked her
sensibilities. She faithfully performs
all other duties as before. and sociably
purrs for the family on all secular oc-
casions, but utterly refuses to Join in any
devotional exel lcises.
Year: 1879


Oh! greenly and fair in the lands OF the sun
The vines OF the gourd and the rich melon


run,
And the rock and the tree and the cottage


enfold,
With broad leaves all sreenness and blossoms


all gold.
Like that which o'cr Ninevah's prophet once


grew
While he waited to know that his warning


was true,
And longed tor the storm cloud, and listened


in vain
For the rush OF the whirlwind and red fire OF


rain.
On the banks of Xerid the dark Spanish


maiden
Comes up with the fruit OF the tangled vine


laden;
And the Creole Of Cuba laughs out to behold
Through orange leaves shining the Nr"hl


spheres of gold;
Yet with dearer delight, from his home in the


North,
On the fields OF his harvest the Yankee looks


forth.
Where crooknecks are coiling and yellow


fruit shines
And the sun of September melts down on his
All. on Thanksgiving day, when from east


and from west,
From north and from south, come the pilgrim


and guest;
When the gray haired New Englander sees


round his board
The old broken links OF affection restored;
When tho care-wearied man seeks his mother


once more,
And he worn matron smiles where the girl


smiled before;
What moistens the lip and what brightens the


eye,
What calls lack the past Like rich pumpkin
a. pie!
Oh! fruit loved OF boyhoood! the old days


recalling,
When the wood grapes were purping, and


brown nuts were falling;
When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin,
Glaring out through the dark, with candle


within;
When we laughed round the corn heap, with


hearts all in tune,
Our chair broad pumpkin, our lantern the


moon,
Telling tales of the fairy who travelled like
steam
In pumpkn-shell coach, with two rats for a
Then thanks for thy present! None sweeter


or better
Fer smoked from IN oven or circled platter.
Fair hands never wrought at pastry more fine,
Brighter Dyes never watched DER its baking
than thine;
And the prayer which my mouth is too full


to express
Swells my heart that thy shadow may never


grow less;
That the daysot thy lot may be heightened
. below
And the fame OF thy worth like the pumpkin
vine grow;
And thy life be as sweet, and its last sunset


sky
Golden tinted and fair as thy own pumpkin
John G. Whttier.
Year: 1879

Be what nature intended you for and
YOU will succeed, say the wise men, but
il seems to take about twenty-five or
thirty years of the average mans lite
before he finds out what it was nature
intended him for.-Des Moines Register.
Year: 1879

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

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

Helmbold's Buchu has long been known
as one of the most valuable medicines at
tainable in certain classes of diseases, such
as dyspepsia chronic rheumatism, dropsyl
cutaneous affections, and especially afiec-
tions of the urinary organs. AS a diuretic,
it issuperior to almost any other medi-
cine in use, and the great care with which
it is prepared, the absolute purity of the
preparation, and the diligence used in the
selection of the crude material, have made
it known far and wide as reliable and
effective preparation, and one that can
alwayo be used with safety and benefit
The great success of Helmbold's Buchu
has led to the production of many spur
ious preparations, which are made cheap
ly and placed upon the market 10 be sold
on the reputation acquired by Helmbold's
original preparation Parties who desire
a really good medicine should be careful
and use Helmbold's only.
Year: 1879

MAT CARPENTER is seeking seat
in the front ranks of the Stalwarts
again. He declares that the Repub-
lican party will not submit to Presi-
dental election in favor of the Dem
ocracy, under the color of law, as did
the Democratic party in 1876. He
says forewarned is forearmed, and that
physical force will be used if the
Democratic candidate claims his seat.
Mat would be almost as dangerous a
man in a bit of row as the warllke
Bob Toombs. OF one thing he may
be assured, if Democratic candidate
is elected he will be likely to claim his
seat with more energy than Mr.. Til
den did in 1877.
Year: 1879

THE startling report got out in
Kentucky the other day that the pre-
cious constitution ofthe state was lost
or mislaid. CONSERVATION filed the
hearts of this noble yeomanry and they
looked at each other blank enough to
inquire: Are we state, or what? Are
we peers or vassals? Married or single?
Is Kentucky a province or territory?
The legal fraternity took lively in
terest in the matter, knowing that the
loss Of the certified and engrossed copy
Of the constitution, as adopted by the
convention Of 1880, would cause
great confusion, and perhaps be the
undoing of both court and legislation
After a few days of anxiety and ludi-
crous uncertainty, the original docu-
ment was found to be in the proper
vault, and the great commonwealth
breaths free again all the way from
Virginia to the Mississippi.
Year: 1879

you must pay for it, my son. Wealth
is an expensive thing. 1t costs all it
is worth. If you want to be worth a
million dollars, it will cost you Just a
million dollars to get it. Broken
friendships, intellectual starvation,
loss of social enjoyment, deprivation
of generous impulses, the smothering
OF manly aspirations, a limited
wardrobe and a scanty table, a
lonely home because you fear a
lovely wife and beautiful
home would be expensive, a
hatred of the heather, dread of the
contribution-box, haunting fear Of
the Woman's Aid Society, a fretful
dislike of poor people because they
won't keep their misery out of your
sight, little sham benevolence that is
worse than none; oh, you can be rich,
young man, if you are willing to pay
the price. Any man can get rich wi o
doesn't think it is too expensive.
True, you may be rich and be a man
among men, noble and Christian and
grand and true, serving God and bless
ing humanity. but that will be in spite
Of your wealth, and not as result Of
it. 1t will be because you always
were that kind Of man. But if you
want to be rich merely to be rich, if
that is the breadth and height of your
ambition, you can be rich if you will
pay the price. And when you are
rich, son, call around at this Office
and pay for this advice. We will let
the interest compound from this dateI
Year: 1879

Hawkeye.l


You can probably be rich, my SON
if you viii be, If you make up your
mind now that you will be a rich man
and stick to il, there is very little
doubt that you will be very wealthy,
tolerably mean, loved little, hated a
great deal, have . big funeral, be
blessed by the relatives 10 whom you
leave the most, reviled by those to
whom you leave less, and yillifed by
those to whom you leave nothing. But
Year: 1879

The undersigned takes this thanks
to the people of Yankton particularly, and his many
friends Dakota and Nebraska for the
patronage which has been bestowed upon late firm of
DUDLEY & HAWLEY through the many years in which
that m has carried business in this city,
desires to call the attention Of these friends
the people generally to the enlarged facilities
sive assortment and conmodous rooms
firm had provided which successor of Dudley
& Hawley, possesses


In the line of the Hardware trade
OF Tn Copper and Sheet Iron Ware he
tabshment equal in all anything north



In the future by constant application business hopes
to see the Hardware trade of the region which
utay to to this point centere here and shall spare
make it for the interest Of the people within this REGION
chase their Hardware Tnware Copper
Stoves, and all other articles in this line from


Yours gratefully and respectfully


GEO. e. HAWLEY


Union Block, Third st.
Year: 1879

ACTION ABOUT TO BE TAKEN FOR THE INCREASE


OF THE CITY POLICE FORCE.


FALL RIVER. Mass, Sept. Is. 1879.


special meeting Of the Board of Aldermen was
called this forenoon to act upon renewed request
of tho City Marshal that immediate action DO taken
for an increase Of the police force to preserve the
peace of the city, which is almost daily violated.
The Mayor seconded the request of the City Mar
shall At the close Of the Mayors remarks a motion
made to add 100 men to the police force. but
two democratic Aldermen. although notified Of the
meeting. were absent, and the third Immediately
LETT the meeting, the Board unable to transact
tho business for which they were called. The Com
mittee Police met this afternoon and will recon-
mend at tho meeting of the Board that the po
lice bo increased from 10 to 100 mon for the
City Marshal brigham tonight announced that,
the Board OF Aldermen having refused to grant him
any extra force, he has deteripin to the
sponsibiity OF increasing the force himself tar
rs he has any power. The entire force will be or
dered on oxtra duty Tomorrow. and in the
Eastern District where all of the recent disturbances
occurred, nineteen day men will be on duty to-
morrow, instead OF four as ut present. All day
aud the night will be Obliged to perform three
days duty every two days. Two or three memhers
OF the Committee on Police viii support the Mar
shall and he Is also sustained by the opinion OF tho
best class OF the community.


GENEROUS OFFER.


Secretary Howard issued . card tonight Offering
the Mayor and Aldermen the whole force of spnners
now ON strike to act special constables. Ho
ays:--''I am satisfied the spinncts will preserve
peace ii they authorized to act, successfully
as either an increased police toice tho military
could. do not believe there is any need to keep
peace but IL there the spinners ready to
the city In any way to preserve order"


The manufacturers held q meeting this afternoon
and accepted the report OF tho committee appointed
on Tuesday to consider the question of wages for
working spinners. The report recon amended that
no change be made at present in the prices paid
committee was also appointed to devise means for
extra protection.
Year: 1879

can only be absent at such critical time be-
cause he has gone to consult the Queen on
some course which the Ministry has decided
upon. Nobody will be surprised if his visit is
followed by the early summoning of Parliament.
Year: 1879

A very common mistake is made and
much fuel wasted in the manner OF
replenishing coal fires, both in furnaces
and CRATES. They should be fed with
little coal at time, and often; but
servants, to save time and trouble, put
on great deal atsohce, the first result
being that almost all the heat is alb
sorbed by the newly-put-on coal, which
does not give out heat until it has be-
come red-hot. Hence, for a while the
room is cold, but when it becomes
fairly aglow the heat is insufferable.
The time to replenish a coal fire is as
soon as the Goals begin to show ashes
on their surface, then put on merely
enough to show layer of black coal
covering the red. This will soon kindle,
and, as there is not much of it, an ex-
cess of heat will not be given
out. Many also put out the fire by
stirring the CRATE as soon as fresh coal
is put on, thus leaving all heat in the
ashes when it should be sent to the new
supply of coal. The time to stir the
fire is just when the new coal laid on is
pretty well kindled. This method of
managing coal fire is troublesome, but
it saves fuel, gives more uniform heat,
and prevents the discomfort of alterna-
tions of heat and cold above referred
to.-Le,ois' Rural.