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Year: 1879

THE CITY HOSPITAL we nope
there will be no opposition to the aboli-
tion of the "city hospital" 1t is one OF
the ulcers that belong to the past pollti-
cal regime of the Republican party-ln
this city. and came into existence about
the time the hold of the "Rins" upon
the control of the city was being broken
by the change of political sentiment
from the Republican to the Democratic
side. The Republicans had for long
time entire control of the city and run
1t into all manner Of experiments caus-
no debts that could only be managed
by funding them into permanent loans.
The costly "English Bull" and the more
costly system Of macadamizing the
streets was another relic of the bad
eminence of the late Republican man
aeement. These macadamized streets
are required to be sprinkled with water
at cost of some $l2 to SIS per month
10 the CITY Z; and number of the pro-
perty holders on the streets have with
held the payment for the work on the
plea that the macadamizing makes the
street more dusty than it was before the
work was done. Many more misman-
aged affairs might be mentioned, with
out recurring to the most costly and dis
polling Of all, the planning and misman-
agement OF the new reservoir. Out OF
all these operations "divies" are sup
posed to have been got by the Republi-
can party managers; as well as out OF
the sale and purchase and management
of the "city hospital" the subject under
our immediate notice.


It was to hold on TO these "jobs" Sc
cured from msmanacement, that the
Republican leaders resorted to the use
fist of forged receipts and on which tovote
some seven hundred negroes, and when
this was discovered the collector
ty tax receipts, by an act of the Legisla
ture to prevent these forgeries, then som'
Republican party leaders had the stdml
so successfully counterfcited that it wa'
not detected until it had been used owe
year. The votes of mean whites and o
the seven hundred negroes were used Il
keep the Republicans in power, and tina
party never was defeated efiectually vi
til the counterfeting was detected an
exposed. 1t is true that it was psrtl
broken by union of the Democrat
with the Republicans in the Seyent
Ward and the election of WIN. N
Candy. But it took active vigilance
root out the bad men who lived upon I'll
substance of the people.


We are not arguing in favor Of all
party in urging the adjustment of Il
City Hospital. We are only asking thi
the expense which rests upon all Of OF
citizens shall be abated. We do not ss
the "City Hospital" is nuisance. Y
we believe it has been. as. adverse
health and the interests of .he city
many other things that have been calf
nusances.


In order to show it in the light


which it has existed the GAZETTE h
published all the facts which it cou
gather relating to it. We have withht
nothing that would so to show what I
GAZETTE has always maintained, Il
the Hospital was useless extravagar
and ought to be abolished. With Il


view we have continued to copy into {


columns to-day another batch of b


paid Tor running that cstabllshme


from the books Of the City Auditor.
Year: 1879

rF-In Clearfeld county Pa, the amount of
small game frozen during the winter Is so large
as to excite fear OF an entire eXtermlnation OF
some kinds.


sF-In proportion to population San Francisco
is said to be preeminenti IN suicide which is due,
NO doubt, to its being preeminent In gambling.
Year: 1879

THE CONGRESSIONAL JOINT CoHTITTEE OS IL
BRARY met to-day. y proposition from Mrs.
Fassett TO sell her painting OF the Electoral
CommissCn was received. and the chairman Of
the committee was instructed to move an an-
preparation in the sundry civil bill to by the
picture. All adverse report was made by the
subcommittee To whom was referred Il prO99-
siti0n 10 buy Bradford's picture of the Polaris
in Thank cod harbOr An adverse report was
also made n Il proposition to buy Miss Ran
SoIn'S portrait Of General Thomas MeSSrS.
Howe, cox and Hooker were appointed a sub
committee TO further consider a proposition to
sen TO congress Troye,5 equestrian portrait of
General scott.
Year: 1879

TIE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE held
its annual meeting at the Arlington hotel this
morning. The committee met at ten O'Clock
and 40 6jOUrHcd until eight O'Clock tonight At
tie meeting Of the committee to he held one
Year from 10 day the time and place OF holding
the EcNt democratic national convention VIII
lie nEtd
Year: 1879

CoSexR, Of Michigan, is terribly
shocked at the demand of the people
of the Mississippi Valley for an ap-
preparation for levees to restrain the
destructive advances of the great
river, and yet he and his whole dele
cation in Congress clamor for ma
tional aid to the extent Of IS, 600, ,00O
to cut a canal across his State.


If Michigan obtains single vote
from the States bordering on the
Mississippi river for the improvement
/ of any Of her lines Of communication
or harbors, without agreeing to sup
port the levee appropriation bill, th'
Congressman who gives it should b
assigned to back seat by his con
stituents forever afterwards.
Year: 1879

GERMANY and Austria arc taking
timely precautions against the intro
duction of the plague, which is now
devastating certain districts in Rus
sian Tartary. These measures may
result in the absolute cessation of all
commercial intercourse with Russia
in Asia, and in the event that the
Gear does not use the necessary ef-
forts to check its entry into Europe
before spring, an absolute quarantine
may be adopted by all border nation.
alities, that will practically isolate
Russia.


The experience Of the past was too
dearly bought to admit of any but
the most rigorous and positive meas
ures being adopted, and absolute
non intercourse will be the prevailing
rule on the continent of Europe.
Year: 1879

The annual report of the Illinois
Central Railroad which extends
from Chicago to Cairo-shows the
year 1873 to have been the most
prosperous in it's career. The net
receipts authorize q dividend of nine
per cent,
Year: 1879

There is q prospect of having this great violin
rirtioso in Washington again shortly. Those who
were present at his concerts last fall will remember
the great enthusiasm with which he was received
Professor Widdows Of this city, who was for many
years agent and manager for some of the best con.
cert roupes III this country, has been negotiating
with his manager, and is making arrangements for
two concerts, to be given in about two weeks
Among those who will assist NJ the concert will be
the young New York tenor Mr.. Theo j. Toedt
who made such q favorable impression at the last
Philharmonic concert, and who is engaged for the
next and last Of the season, which will probably
take place the same week.
Year: 1879

1T is now several days since SAM RAN
DALI did anything to attract especial pub
lie attention. He has it is true, been alb
sorbed in his pleasurable duty of carrying
out the will of the Confederate Brigadiers,
which may explain this lapse of vigor in
his Presidential aspirations. 1t is time
however, that he should renew his partisan
antics. He should remember that Mr.. THUR
MAN, the foremost Democratic claimant, is
in the chair in the other wing of the Capt.
tol, ready to take advantage of things gen.
erally
Year: 1879




A WAGON SHED, adjoining the MURTAoH
building, on the Avenue, Is being fitted up for
the reception of such OF the effects Of THE
REPUBLICAN newspaper establishment rs are
not disposed of by the Marshal to satisfy tho
lato execution for rent.-post.


1t is gratifying to know that the wagon
she'd" referred to above, is fast developing,
under the hands of skillful artisans, into one
of the most spacious and commodious pri-
vate printing establishments in the city, and
into which will soon be moved moro than
$4,000 worth of valuable printing ma
chinery and properties upon which there is
no incumbrance in the way of deeds Of
| trust and the like, and in which the Mar
shall will have no interest, except that 1t
shall be wisely used in defending the right.
GOVERNOR STEVENSON, of Kentucky,
made speech at the recent Democratic
convention in that State, from which the
following pertinent extract is made, for the
purpose of enabling our Northern Demo-
cratic friends to get an insight into the
true inwardness of Southern Bourbonism
The only promise l can give you is that rs
in the past, so In the future, shall continue tC
be what have always endeavored, both by
profession and by practice, to prove myself
State Rights Democrat Of The Virginia school
But you have another duty to per
form, and 1t is one of high responsibility, botl
as representatives of the State aud as an In
tegral part of the Coafederdcy.


OF course, the Governor alluded to Ken
tucky as an integral part of the Confed
eracy," meaning thereby that the Stat
Rights Democracy of the Virginia school,
for which the South rcbelled, has been as
serted in principle and effect within th'
United States, and that the United State
has become, practically, what the Southern
Coniederacy was intended TO be. He was
little premature, however, for it does no
yet appear, if it ever will so appear, tha
the Confederacy has seized upon anythin
more than the legislative branch Of th
Government But his outspoken effol
; serves, as we have said, to expose the tru
inwardness of Southern Bourbonism, and {
prove the truth of the oft-repeated charg
that the Southern wing Of the Democrac
is now engaged in trying to win within I'll
Union the victory they lost on the battl'
l fields outside of it. Northern war Dem'
Gratis will please take heed.
Year: 1879

If President HAYES elects to sign the
EAToN-LADD Bourbon caucus bill, he will
the last Congress in concurring with the
House proposition to prohibit the use Of
the army Us posse comitatus. The argu-
ment that the final enactment of this bill
is simply reassertion or renewal of that
blunder does not, however, stand as a suf-
fcient reason why it should be signed.
Two wrongs do notmake right, nor is the
repetition of wrong iustiGable on the
ground that the original evil is beyond
remedy.
Year: 1879

IT is reported that of the thousands of
emigmuts from the South to Kansas 140
have turned back for reasons best known to
themselves. This circumstance IS seized
upon by the South and woven into hallelu-
jahs for their own delectatiOn, Those who
have not the courage to encounter diflicul-
ties bravely and overcome obstacles without
disheartening, should, by all means, return
and place their necks beneath the iron heel
of oppression aud ostracism and endure 1t
as well as they can, for that is their natural
estate.
Year: 1879

WHEN we contemplate the villainous
falsehoods and ISLANDERS heaped upon us by
that free lance in calumuy, the post, we are
led to concur with COTTON, when he says
Islander cannot make the subject of it
"either better or worse; it may represent
aus in false light, or place likeness of us
"in bad one, but we are the same. Not
80 the slanderer; for calumny always
snakes the calumniator worse, but the
"calumniated never.n
Year: 1879

"TBE extravagance and corrupt wasteful-
"ness of the Republican party" about
which the Opposition has 80 much to say,
is fully illustrated by the fact that since the
war the burden of taxation in this country
in the payment OF interest on the national
debt has been reduced at the rate of $780,
1000 year, When the war closed we
Year: 1879

In response to the wagon shed' para
graph of the notorious STEALsoN HUTCH
ms we suggest, at the instance of Demo-
crat, that n room may be partitioned off in
the top of STEALsoN's hat of sufficient ca
pacity to store all his effects not now tight
ly held in the grasp Of a remorseless, if not
fraudulent, deed Of trust
Year: 1879

When the National Government put on the
negro the habiliments of citize nshipby the four.
tecnth amendment, 1t gave him right TO marry
the highest lady In the land matter how red the
blood how blue the veins or white the skin, pro-
yided she gave her consent and there was no other
legal impediment,
Year: 1879

AFTER Senator VOORHEES, crushingly
taunted Senator BLAINE with plantation
manners from Maine, the latter immedi-
ately engaged the services of master in
polite department, and is brushing up his
behavior, so that it will commend him to
the favor of the Tall Sycamore of the Wa
bash, the CHESTERFIELD of the Senate.
Year: 1879

Our Territorial Legislature has very
quietly struck into working gait. Its
organization was apparently effected with
out much strife and the members were not
harassed by thousand and one aspirants
for the position Of spitoon Cleaner, fire.
man, or anything for a nip at Uncle Sans
appor'lonment. Lincoln county through
its delegation secured the ca iet Clcrkship
of the Council in the person of A 0 Hub
bard Of Fairview, a gentleman we'll quail
fled and deserving the position. T. W
Clark of Dayton was also chosen Messe n.
ger Of the lower House and will doubtle IS
fill the position we'll and acceptably to
the members


AS yet no bills Of general interest or i'm.
portance have been presen ted and at this
writing what will be the most important
Of the session can not be suggc sted. Some
Of our exchanges are agitstng the exemp.
ton matter, taking the ground that a
change is not only needed but demanded,
the present law having proved serious
hindrance to the Investment Of capital
from abroad as well as limiting the cred
it of our resident merchants, thus barring
them from attordlng credit to the farmer
1t unquestionably would be advisable to
reduce the amount now made exempt In
justice to all parties. Our impression has
for years been that the most salutatory
"ule to be applied would be to exempt &C.
cording to oalue and not by metes and
bounds. The real object or intent of this hu-
name law is to protect the family against the
i'm providence and misfortunes Of its head,
and the true spirit could be met by placing
reality OF certain reasonable value, as ex
exempt, and also personal property Of a
reasonable amount. Until some change
Is made we cannot expect changes partic-
ularly favorable, as money loaners have
ample fields in other States where such
unf ortunate law does not exist.


The increasing business for Courts and
especially in this District necessitates
either the formation Of new District, and
the appointment OF a judge for the same,
or the comforting of concurren. jurisdict-
ION upon Probate Judges to the amount Of
$500 or 81 900, with that Of the District
Courts 81 that parties can if they choose


bring what constitutes the maJoritics of
business in the agricultural portions of
the I'd District. As the court matters now
are Judge Shannon has more than ought
to be imposed on two judges, with Dis
trict Court, Chambers and Supre ne Court
matters. The Black Hills papers are u,g-
ing the matter of comforting Jurisdictions
upon Probate Courts as they think it
'oubtful about Congress creating new dis
trict or providing for additional Justice.


But Bill has been introduced by Judge
Kidder for that purpose and it may pass


so that our Legislature will not have to
legislae on that matter only to designate


the counties to constitute the 4th District
Our town law needs a general patching.


but we presume our delegation will see
that the necessary changes are made. The
| members have been invited to an excurs.
ion oyer the Dakota Southern, and it may


be that we shall have the pleasure Of see


ing the solons at our doors, they certainly
ously would be welcomed
Year: 1879

sheet OF paper and not drawn on the same scale.
l will now endeavor to convince you that we
can yet receive few more immigrants from
England and not be embarrassed by them. II you
will send the mon to do the work place them
upon the little patch Of the State of Texas by which
Texas exceeds tho present area OF the German EN-
pire square mics We will locate this lot. as
We say in America, the line OF the Texas Pacific
Railroad, south OF the Red River and bordered by it.
Within eighty or q hundred miles each side of
thai line before we come to the grazing country.
We will find good land enough to pro-
duce the entire cotton crop OF the United
Statcs say ave million bales. and the entire wheat
crop OF the United States then about three hundred
and fifty million bushels). aud will have land
enough left inside limit OF $4,000 square miles
to subsist the people who make these two crops. II
this is not sufficient the winter wheat grows too
fast in that section. will pasture two or three
million head OF cattle upon it. to keep the wheat
below the hrst joint until after frosts have closed
and then send them to Market"


My friend said he had before considered me a
modest Yankee. but his confidence was shaken. He
seemed, however. to find some satisfaction in the
further statement which added. THAT the real re-
lief to England from any immediate fear OF our
competition In cotton fabrics other goods
woods might be allayed, because the home demand
upon mills. works and money would soon be-
come so active as to give us all we could do to sup
ply it."


The computation on which the statement In re-
spect to Texas was based estimate that the
fortie land of the section named would yiold one
Year: 1879

JACKSON, TENN, July Z, 1879
Judge John L. T. Sneed-Dear Sir:
Your many friends in this part of
the State very earnestly desire the
benefit Of your mature wisdom and
patriotic counsel in relation to the
proposed compromise of the State
debt. Ifyour personal affairs would
admit of your delivering a public
address upon this vitality important
question, at an early day, that meth
Cd would be preferable.


IF that is impraoticabIe. feel that
I but speak the desire Of your many
friends all over the State, in solicit
ting your views for publication. 1t
would be most natural for you to
prefer the tranquil enjoyment of
private life, free from the disquieting
influences of political discussion,
after your long and faithful public
service, but when dangers threaten
the State the public mind naturally
turns to men of wisdom, honor, cour-
age and patriotism for counsel and
advice. ,eaas aa4g5 l1as


Every man who has brains enough
to inteIligently perform the duties
of citizenship, and heart enough to
feel the emotions of patriotism,
knows that grave crisis is now i'm
pending. which must in a brief peril
cd culminate in the veal or woe of
the State. In this crisis idleness 10
Incompatible with patriotism, while
honor and courage will refuse to
seek arsfnge in silence. SD s


The friends Of the measure must
force the conflict upon the merits of
the question. Facts and reason are
their proper weapons, while those
who oppose must substitute asser.
ton for the one and abuse for the
other,sss og a- laa aie1sa3ss q 1oiEal


The intelligence ofqths State will
look for counsel and advice to those
whom they have honored With public
trust in the past and found them
brave, wise, patriotic and honest,
and they will only heed and respect
the advice of such counSelIors. The
great issue is shall this question be
put at rest? a.a.ss gfssa


s If this opportunity is lost, when
and how will 3 solution GOMEZ Who
10 it that proposes to stand surety
that the State shall suffer no harml
What right have we to put to shame
the bright history the fathers made


u2seE1on go
Year: 1879

Our country butter-makers put too
much salt in their butter. We cannot
imagine why they do it unless it be to
add weight. If this is true we fail to
see where their potts come in, for they
have to buy the salt which they use so
extravagantly in the making of it, and
people will not buy butter soaked with
salt-they detest it. Most of the butter
which comes into town has to be work
ed over before it is fit to eat. Let our
country cousins, if their Judgment is
poor in regard to the required amount
of salting, salt very little. If they do
not understand their business then let
them leave the sailing of the butter
with the town people who, perhaps,
know nothing at all about the making
of it but are we'll qualified to dis
good quality of butter from
q bad quality. Good butter is always
in demand-for bad butter there is no
demand
Year: 1879

Cleveland Banner. It is now thought
that the copper mines, at Ducktown,
will be sold sometime during the com
ing fall, and that New York company
will purchase them and put them into
active operation again. We hope these
surmises may come true.
Year: 1879

Another lie nailed. Some of the Sec


ond AdYentists prophesied that the


werld would come to an end on the 18th


instant No such thing, it didn't; at


least not in Morristown. But if the
prophets had set the 18th instead of the
11th as the day on which the earth was
to wind up its earthly career and had
been in Morristown we doubt not
they would have come to the conclusion
that their utterances were about to be
fulfilled, and would have taken the
short route in order to save them
selves the trouble of finding the long
one. We mean if they had been in the
vicinity of the stable where Maj. Tom |
Gains famous bull, Stonewall Jackson,
was confined and on inspection. 1t was
the strangest cock and bull story we ever
heard. But as the world is still stand |
ing, suffice to say, we have bad
opinion of the AdVentists and their
warns
Year: 1879

The lake in the rear of this office has
dried up at last-the drought was more
than it could stand. The voice of the
festive bull-frOg is no longer heard. He
has either made tracks to the lakes in
the rear of academy hill or has plowed
his way to the bottom through ten foot
mud where he will remain until the
next rain and rise OF the lake, when he
will re-appear and again call forth his
notes of joy to our disgust.
Year: 1879




The following is from the Memphis
Appeal of the 10th inst:


"a gentleman from East Tennessee
gives doleful account of the condition
of hundreds of Memphians who are
refugees in the mountains and valleys
of that section of the State. The little
towns and valleys are crowded; every
house is filled; the fare is not very good
for the price charged chickens, eggs
and vegetables are very scarce, so is
milk and butter. The Memphians win
soon eat out that section, because the
people have but little. The MemphiauS
are dissatisfied and would gladly return
by hundreds were they assured that
they would be safe for the rest of the
summer. AS it is, hundreds will return
next week"


This is a SANDER, and the editor of the
appeal must haYe been imposed upon.
There may be isolated cases where
Memphis refugees have Jared as here
intimated, but they must be few and
far between. 1t is true that the long
continued drought has interfered with
our usual supply of vegetables, and the
grass has been cut down until grazing
for cattle is short and our supply of
milk and butter has been reduced, but
East Tennessee has now and will have
in the next twelve months, if we have
rain in a week, surplus enough to keep
the whole city of Memphis in bread and
meat for a year. We are sure that there
are scores of Memphians In this section
who will stand ready to contradict the
AppeaEs report. .-Knor0t1e Chronicle.
Year: 1879

of Tennessee, said that the farmers wan
ted to get their produce to the coast-a
dream to them for fifty years-and they
rejoice at the propect of its realization.
We want to give you cheap coal from
our unexhaustible mines. Our motto
must be, Onward! onward! onwardl
Year: 1879

also Of Tennessee, was introduced. He


spoke with great earnestness and in the
language of the heart From 1885 down
to the present time he has been streng
advocate of uniting Charleston with the


West. He proved conclusiYely that the
work can be accomplished if the people
only exert themselves. He dealt main
ly in facts and figures