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Year: 1878

It is apparent that Ramsey county
does not propose to tamely submit to
being crowded out of the District Con-
vention. She sends twenty-four Of her
most prominent citizens as delegates,


and although under the call but twelve
were given her, yet twenty-four were
selected and will demand admission.
1t cannot be denied but that Fletcher
game has injured Washburn, and he il
wise will decline to accept a nomina-
tion brought about by such dishonest
means, for if he expects to be elected, he
must go into the campaign with cleaner
garments than he now wears. We
hope the convention will remedy the
evil Of giving one man the power tc
almost control the whole district, and
also establish rules for future guidance.
Year: 1878

Parties who have come to this point
to look for new homes, and finding the
land almost all taken, have invariably
gone to Big Stone and Traverse coun-
ties; all being bound to go west. So
great has been the rush that govern
ment land in these counties has all, or
nearly all, been taken, and parties now
are beginning to think of going still
further west. 1t is very singular that
none have gone east into Pope county,
as the land is just as good, and there
is one reason which should attract
farmers to that vicinity, it is an all inn
portant one, viz: that they will be
close to timber. In this regard, Pope
county has a decided advantage, and
farmers living from ten to twenty miles
from railroad viii not be compelled
to rely upon the railroad company for
their fuel. This is one of the most inn
portant questions that farmers have to
consider, and it is really surprising that
people do not take lands, where they
have equally as good sell, and plenty
of wood. We. from personal observa
tion, can say that there are lands il
Pope county which are equal to any il
the State; and farmers can get fuel fol
a very small price. Therefore, W.
would urge upon parties looking fol
homes, to go out in that county, anc
we can assure them they will be highly
pleased and satisfied.
Year: 1878

There is a prospect Of Gen. Grants
being our next President. We were
inclined to be skeptical ON the subject,
but now that Private Dalzell comes to
the front, and solemnly asserts ''that
Grant will be the next President, " we
as matter of course have no further
doubts on the subject.
Year: 1878

The long-winded Page impeachment
trial has at last drawn to close, and
we all must now wait till we hear from
the Senate. 1t would be premature
to say what the verdict will be, but it
is not probable there will be the neces-
sary two-thirdS vote to convict.
Year: 1878

It's now about time to start Spitz dog
stories, so here goes: Yesterday Spitz dog
bit crippled saw-horse, and in less than
half an hour that horse was writhing in all
the agonies of hydrophobia.


We expectorate our dog among the
s'Salivarian Poodles, as he had to be
joked off the other day to keep him
from biting an Irish bull.
Year: 1878

An attempt was madc shortly after seven o'clock
on Wednesday evening to wreck Boston express train
on the Shore line route, due in this city at quarter
TO eight o'clock When about mile below Mount Yer.
Station the engineer discovered rail laid across
the track. but II then too late to avoid running
against it, The pilot demolished by the col
lison, and some of the machinery of the locomotive
was so badly damaged that the further progress OF
the train was made by the working of one cylinder
only The detention caused by the obstruction was
nearly an hour. Fortunately one was injured. 1t
is believed several persons must have been engaged In
the villanous plot as no one could have carried
aud placed the rail across the track
Year: 1878

special meeting OF the Board Of Education was
held yesterday afternoon, at which report was read
from the Finance Committee. recommending an ap-
preparation Of sao,s5o for erecting new school
building ON East Twenty-eirhth street. In the
Year: 1878

English and Irish cattle raisers are
becoming good deal exercised about
the large shipments of fresh meat
from America. We quote the follow
ing from high British authority:


With the summer now fast ap-
preaching, many considerations press
for some improvement in our internal
meat supply. 1T is time that science
was brought to our assistance. AL
ready arrangements are being made
for the storage Of dead meat from the
continent; American dead meat hav-
ing paved the way; and why should
we then submit to waste our own in
transit and in the shops! Applying
the same system to those country
not be possible to construct dead
meat depOts in conjunction with
them! Why should the sheep sold in
a country market go through so many
stages and so many hands before it
reaches the consumer, and every one
of those stages increasing the ulti-
mate price, and by increasing the
price placing our homegrown meat in
an unfair position in competition with
what is now to come from the conti-
nent! This is question which goes
at once straight to the interest of the
farmer. Why should his product
terests before it reaches the last pur-
chaser! n dead meat depot in a
country town would do away with
half the imposts---if a London butch
er, OF Il suburban meat store. required
two or three hundred weight, tele-
gram would be sufficient to bring it up
by next train. \ cry has been raised
tha. the English farmer is endeavor-
ing to do away with the free trade in
meat; the contrary IS the tact-it is the
English farmer who for SO many
years has been struggling to get free
trade in meat, 4. e.. to go to his Gus
toner. The foreign farmer is now
going straight TO the customer With
dead meat fresher than that from the
shambles. The English farmer is still
compelled to pay toll for the privi-
lege of sending his live cattle inside a
country market, toll to the auctioneer,
toll to the dealer, toll to the statesmen,
toll to the butcher, toll through the
waste, toll because all those have to
be paid somehow, and the inevitable
result is low price obtained by the
producer, the farmer, and high
price given by the consumer. the
householder. What an insult, too,
to common sense, to be told in the
nineteenth century of science that
in summer We must hare our meat
"tough or stiakiugi
Year: 1878

Washburn's convention the other
day adopted the following as one of
the planks of its platform:


To elevate and purify the civil SER
vice of the country, without interfer.
ing with that free and Independent
exercise of political duties and
privileges belonging to every citizen


Here is a specimen of the kind of
civil service reform Hayes has been
giving the country


: Mr.. Dennis. in his testimony before
the Potter committee on Saturday
said that the President told him that
he (Dennisl WAS one of the few men
that this administration could take
care Of. and sent him to Assistant
Secretary Mccormick with a note
asking the latter to appoint him Gus
todian of Plates and Dies in the Prin-
ting Bureau. This place has been
promised, and SO Dennis was given !.
place in what he terms the Depart.
ment of Architecture The follow
ing questions and answers followed:


.. Did you know anything about
architecture y. No, sir; but that
was temporary proviso. Laughter. |
l don't remember that l ever did
anything.


General Butler-Stop a moment.
Let me see if understand this. |
thought was up to all the WAYS of
politicians, but find l am a little be.
hind.


To Witness-Y say the place was
improvised for you in the Supervising
Architects office 4. Yes, sir. There
was vacancy. or they made one: at
any rate, filled one. Laughter.l


z. What was Your compensation
A. Six or seven dollars a day. l
went there several times, but they
never had anything for me to do, and
soon got sick of that. After about
a month l went to Governor McCor.
mick and told him that was put on
there to draw pay; did not think l
should loose my capacity to do so if
he should allow me to 60 to Massa-
chusetts (great laughtsrl, and he
gave me leave of absence.


This sort of business is what the
Inter Ocean calls scanda.ous and dis.
Year: 1878

The Pioneer Press Sagely remarks:


The thing to study is how to resume
easily. without shock or disturbance
to financial or commercial interests.
Certainly there is no better way to do
this than To have the banks resume
before the treasury. so that when the
day fixed upon comes it shall find the
country already in the partial enjoy
ment of a coin currency, and familiar
lied with the fact involved in it.
This result is to be reached BY includ.
ing the national banks to announce
the redemption Of their Issue IN gold.
Year: 1878

voting to give the right TO vote. order that
they might vote the sale OF rum out Of the State
and country. che said that since the time
when orphan girl Of eleven years, in Plaineld "
j., she became the OBJECT OF her payIDates' sDeers
as the Little Methodist sister, because of her religious
faith, IL had always been her fortune TO be the n
popular SIDE For forty years she had abored for The
education of women in medicine she had worked for
the abolition of slavery. and she stood az now
edged advocate OF woman suffrage and OF the temper
ance cause These two were sister reforms, and eIl
peTance could only triumph by the help OF woman
Year: 1878

ezsIn q case tried in the CITcuit Court
in The city Of Chicsgo, the ether day,
after the jury retired. and while the
foreman was taking the vote Of The jury
upon the question whether they should
End for che plaintiff or defendant, one
Of the iurymeD said: 81 don't know
which Is the plaintiff and which is the
defendant, but want 10 vote against
the man that has the gold-headed csEes
I don't ike his looks and be did.
Year: 1878

Chinaman, who has resided in this city since
1878, leaves here tonight for Memphis, to
treat the yellow fever by a remedy which he
claims to be infailible. He proposes to make
a preparation Of opium and some oil, the use
of which, he states is the real cause of the
immunity of the Chinese from the ravages of
the disease. He is perfectly sanguine of the
success Of his experiment..
Year: 1878

referred to the Attorney General he decides
that under the last army bill, which provides
that all officers of the army who served in the
late war as officers in the volunteer forces, or
as enlisted men, regular or volunteer, shall be
credited with the full time they may have
served as such officers and as such enlisted
men in computing their services for longevity
pay and retirement. Cadets at West Point
are not to be regarded rs enlisted men
Year: 1878

lished in q New York paper to-day that John
Ray, of Louisiana, is to be appointed Solicitor
Of the Treasury, vice Bennett Raynor, to be
removed, is authoritatively denied, and the
statement in the newspapers that there has
been an actual decrease In receipts from in
ternal revenue during the month Of August is
G mistake. The receipts during the month of
August show an increase over the correspond
ing month Of 1877 of S555 29O
Year: 1878

In consequence of the quarantine, and not
having any telegraphic communication, we
have received but Ineagre accounts from the
Democratic Conservative convention, held at
Baton Rouge, which is to u.s. in East Carroll,
annoying in the extreme; but sufficient has
come to hand to advise us OF the nomination
Of Major E. A Burke, for the office OF State
Treasurer, by the convention. sNotWithstand-
ing there were a great many aspirants for
State, and some of them warmly supported
by their adherents. Stli the general impress
sion existed that John G. MonGtlrs would be.
the lucky man. This feeling had grown into
almost q certainty for reasons too numerous
to mention, but we'll known tothe people of our
State. Therefore the nomination Of Mr.. Burke
has taken the people Of the country by sur
prise to a considerable extent, and the first
idea that suggested itself, is that the CITY has
again controlled the State in the matter Of
nominations. This Is a. complaint that has
very often been made, and often without
cause; but the nomination OF Mr.. Burke,
whether made by city or country ascendency,
or by the joint and combined votes of both, is
as good one as we possibly could have.


Mr.. Burke has been prominently before the
people OF Louisiana, in positions of trust,
responsibility and great danger during the
past eight years, and in every instance ne has
acquitted himself with true manhood, dignity
and unfiinching integrity. His business Ca
pacity is freely acknowledged on all hands,
having been fully tested by u satisfactory dis
charge OF official duties under the State and
the city government Of New Orleans. ALI
things considered, the nomination Of Mr..
Burke is o desirable one and we SIZE no good
reason why he should not poll the full vote
OF the party, being the right man In the
right place.
Year: 1878

during the whole prevalence Of the epidemic
Of that year.


Noao on the contrary, the streets were
DARK Hnla, deserted @ and silent. At the fea12ody
there were no loungers to relieve the solitude
OF the lonely clerk in the Office A solitary
light shone from the door of saloon In Mon
roe street, and few others twinkled from
drug stores mere and there The only place
that presented q scene f activity was the
office Of


THE HOWARD ASSOCIATION,


where I was greeted by q dozen true and
tried comrades Of q former campaign now
girded with full arn1or tor another. Two or
three have passed away during the lustrunl
that has elapsed since they were last on ac-
tive duty, but most of them still remain and
are at their posts. AS | write, however, fiue
OF them Lie i'll of the fever, brought on most
probably by overwork and exposure, Cen
Smith, first vice president of the association.
was pr0strated in Grenada. Three of them,
including the veteran Mansford, who was one
OF the original five that began the fight in
and now comes to-day the painful news that
the gallant and generous Anderson, who has
been doing such splendid serviee for Grenada,
is lying IL ct that PLACE. ace !, d.
ltis 81 H2.5ingtilar fact that until now only
three or four members Of this association
haveEeyer had yellow fever, although nearly all
passed through it unscathed in 1878.
The accounts OF


THE DISTRESS HERE,
which you have no doubt received from va
rious sources e speak coniecturally, having
scarcely seen any other than the Memphis
papers since my arrivaD, can scarcely have
been exaggerated. The ravages of the fever
have been aggravated by the unprecedented
panic the general destitution, the paralysis
Of business, the lack OF nurses and physicians,
the rapid spread of the epidemic, and the ut
ter decentralization of the negroes.


There is no trade nor intercourse with the
country. Some of the business houses are
open for a few hours of the day, but many Of
them are entirely closed. With the exception
and the negresses, no female figure is seen In
the streets


THE DEPOPUBATION OF THE CITY
by flight and removal has done good iu dimin-


Shng the material for disease, but has been
accompanied by some incidental evils The
scarcity OF physicians is q great evil, but that
OF skilled nurses is q greater. One OF the most
distressing things in daily experience Is the
necessity of turning deaf ear to the piteOus
appeals for doctor, a nurse, or other help,
Several physicians arrived to-day, and others
are expected. Nurses also are coming in
almost daily but far from fast enough to5up-
ply the increasing demand


Very different estimates are made here Of
THE NUMBER OF WHITE PEOPLE REMAINING
IN THE CITY,


some of them as low as 3OOO am not pre-
pared to express any opinion on the subject,
but the number OF sick Of all colors cannot
fall much short Of 1000, and there has thus far
been q rapid and progressive increase.


Pardon this hasty letter, written In the
midst Of innumerabe Interruptions. There is
no likelihood Of an early opportunity for
repetition of the rash experiment W. T. W.


"a
Year: 1878

4 section in the Declaration
of Rights now under considera-
ton in the Constitutional Con
vention, is as follows:


"None but citizens Of the Uni
ted States, or aliens who have
declared their intention TO be
come such, in accordance with
the laws OF Congress, shall be
employed in or about any public
Office in this State, or in any
State institution, or in any pub
lie work prosecuted by the State,
or by any corporation, public or
private, organized after the ad
mission of the State


IF this section is adopted and
the Constitution is ratified, no
Chinaman can thereafter be en-
ployed upon any public work or
by any chartered company. But
that will not prevent their COM
petition with white laborers in
all private employment.
Year: 1878

The Congressional elec.ion
this year are of unusual impor-
tance. They will determine the
question whether the govern
ment is to be substantially under
Democratic control after the 4th
Of March. A Democratic ma
.jority in the Senate after that
date is already assured, and if
the party should hold its present
control of the House the Repub-
lican Executive will be power
less. A Congress Democratic in
both branches has not existed
since 1860, and it will be quite a
novel thing, after the lapse of
nineteen most eventful years, to
find that body again in the hands
of the Democrats, with the Re
publicans powerless except in
the very few measures which
President Hayes may think it
his duty to veto.
Year: 1878

The reverend gentleman who
opened the Ohio Convention with
prayer, was frequently inter
rupted by applause. Out here
on the frontier where people are
not apt to be over particular
about the property of their ac-
tions on all occasions, such a
thing as interrupting a prayer
with three cheers and tiger,
would be denounced as in poor
taste, to say the least.
Year: 1878

When we get the Indians, the
Chinese, the Communists and
the Devilproperly under control,
it would be a good thing to give
a little more energetic attention
to those people who call them
selves the Patriots Of Mexico.
Recent kilograms from the Rio
Grande would indicate that if it
becomes actually necessary for
Uncle Sam to stir up his blood
nth a little more war, it would
not De very hard to get satisfac-
ton down in that quarter pretty
soon.
Year: 1878

It would seem to be our desti-
ny as a nation to be the princi-
pal agents in the material deyel-
opment Of the vast region OF
country drained by the Amazon.
A survey Of that river by one OF
our war vessels is now in pro-
gress, with view to the eXten-
sion Of our commerce.
Year: 1878

government should be exempt
from much censure. Under the
adverse circumstances which
have attended the management
of our city government for the
past two years, we have not been
disposed to hold the Mayor and
Council to as strict an account
as we would otherwise. The
fact that they maintained the
government at all, and kept
up its credit at q standard nearly
as high as it had previously at
tained, was certainly very much
to their credit while acting
under a decision of the Court
that their official acts were with
out legal authority. The report
Of the financial condition of the
city, as made by the Mayor,
when we take into account all
the circumstances of the case, IS
certainly not discreditable to the
administration, and reflects no
dishonor upon the gentlemen
who have conducted the matter.
That the people determined upon
a change is not because they had
not confidence in the honesty
and efficiency of the present
members of the Board, but be-
cause they thought there were
other gentlemen in the city just
as competent, just as honest, and
as efficient, and perpetuation In
office through combination was
adverse to public policy. The
gentlemen composing the new
Board we believe are quite as
capable and as honest as those
composing the old Board who
have already held for two terms.
All the personal feeling engen-
dered and exhibited during the
late contest was Occasioned by
the general impression that the
party in power claimed their po-
sltiOn as vestlture, and did not
hold themselves amenable to
public criticism, and deemed it
an impertinence in any man, es-
pecially one not high on the
property roll, to either question
their acts or suggest their sue
cessors. The people of this city,
like all other communities where
popular rule prevails, are jealous
of special assumptions Of supe-
riority, especially that superlori-
ty based solely upon accumula-
ton of property, and are accus-
toned to regard ability and IN
tegrity as good passport to
public position as the mere pos
session Of property-a sentiment
which the present Board failed
to recognize and seemed disposed
to resent. That the new Board
will administer the affairs of the
city more wisely or honestly
than the old, we are not prepar-
ed to claim; but we do believe
it will avoid lawsuits and fac
tlous opposition to the payment
of taxes by conceding to the
people their rights of sovereign
ty, instead of arrogantly assum-
ing dictatorial powers by virtue
of commanding wealth. For one
we shall labor earnestly to re-
move and avoid all cause of jeal-
ousy and strife and for that
unity among our people which is
essential 10 prosperity.
Year: 1878

London, Feb. 22.-The Times says
the most important business in the
foreign stock market Thursday was
the selling of United States bonds by
the public. 1t is not so much the SELL
ing has been of a large amount as it has
been the selling by actual holders, and
upon market where there are but few
buyers except upon American account.
There is danger, therefore, lest alarm
may be generated by the fall thus
caused, and the bonds get pressed on
dealers faster than they care to have
them. Holders almost always become
more disposed to sell as prices go down,
and very little pressure would cause a
sharp fall. There is not cause for
alarm, and any rush to sell is much to
be deprecated.
Year: 1878

THE LEADER earnestly requests its
friends in all parts of the country to
send in the news. Write often, give
us all the news and keep US posted in
all matters of progress and develop
ment. When in the city our friends
are invited to call at this Office and fur
nish us with any information they may
Year: 1878

An insane woman OF Battle Greek,
Mich, named Mrs. Elihu Warmer,
was recently seized with curious freak,
and subjected a young colored girl to
cruel treatment the facts of which have
just been made public. The girl be-
longs to family in destitute circum-
stances, and one day while out begging,
called at the house of the insane woman,


who was at home alone, for something
to eat. The woman was cooking at the
time, and said she had nothing to give
the little girl, but promised to bake her
nice pie if she would wait awhile.
Not knowing whom she was talking
with, this was an inducement for her to
remain. The lunatic did not fancy the
girls color, and told her that she had n
process for making black folks white ;
also kindly offering to give her the BEN
eft of the same if she would call again.


The next morning, being anxious to un-
dergo such a marvellous transformation,
and believing all that was said to her,
the innocent girl put in an appearance.


She was asked to take off all Of her cloth
ing, and, after Feing placed upon the


floor, face downward, the lunatic took a
scruDbing-brush and covered her body
with strong lye from head to foot,


which produced terrible pain, but re-
suited effectually in eating off the black
skin and making q slight alteration in
the poor creatures color. Her screams
! and cries of distress aroused the neigh
bors, who soon came to her assistance
and took charge of the lunatic. The
unfortunate victim has been in suffer-
ing condition since her inhuman treat
ment, but is slowly recovering.