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Year: 1879

The jealousies of friendship are IN
this more exhaustions than those Of
love; there are only phantoms to fight,
and the price Of peace is merely a
chimera.


A woman who takes a woman to her
friend, introduces her into her life as
they do the bearer of a flag of truce into
the enemy's Camp-unarmed and blind
Tolded.


A woman's fall is something like that
of a child. The first intimation the
child has that it has tumbled is conveyed
in the fact that it is being picked up.


Friendship is a picnic TO which all
parties contribute, and therefore is some
thing women cannot understand. With
them one party or the other must stand
treat


Some coniugsl fdelities can be ex-
planned on the hypothesis that many a
woman is satisfied to be nothing in a
husbands heart so that she is everything
in his life.


Prudery is often the mantle chosen to
conceal triumphant vice. Where in
ward remorse prevails, there will always
be a corresponding absurdity in the
afeCtation of a genuine virtue.


At twenty a woman searches for trail
ing arbutus; at twenty-five she is after
horse-radish at thirty she digs roots
for her blood. Such is gentle spring in
the various stages of the feminine life.


Women who would hesitate about cry
ing before a husband or a lover, have no
scTuple about shedding tears before an
audience. It is with their emotions as
with their shoulders-they are displayed
only in public.
Year: 1879

It is an interesting sight to take a seat
on the top of a street car at an early
hour in the morning and witness the
cleaning process that every thing is un-
peTgoing. The hOUsekeepers bring out
all their rubbish and pile it up in the
street, one pile for every four or five
houses. 1t is no sooner emptied than
the rag-piCkeTs, who swarm the streets
with their bags and buckets and hand
carts, pounce upon it and gather up all
the fragments of paper, rags, or metal to
be found in the piles. They are so nu-
meTous that there is a scramble on every
street, and they move from pile to pile
as if their lives depended on their ac-
tivity. They seem to take away one
third of the rubbish. Servants are
everywhere to be seen with broom and
bucket in hand cleaning off the fronts.
The streets are being sprinkIed with
hose, and an army Of men and women
with birch bTooms are sweeping the
streets. On the bOulevards horse brush
ing machines are in melton, and the
garbage carts are removing the piles
thrown out by the housekeepers. Water
is turned on III all the cutters, and
women with broOms are engaged wash
ing them down. Men with hose are
watering all the roots Of all the hum
dreds Of thousands of trees on the bOule-
wards, and taking up the gratings so as
to loosen the earth around them. All,
or nearly all, this work is being done by
the city authorities, and by nine o'clock
the city is as clean as broom and brush
and Ystsr can make it.
Year: 1879

We know there are a felo, and we
we hope there are many, who can
understand that a man may advo-
cate a principle without being per
sonally interested, and who believe
that there are still a few men who
will advocate the right for its own
sake. But the best of men often
make mistakes, and we never laid any
claims to infallibility; 50, if, in our
letter to the Probate Judge, you
think we we're advocating the wrong,
we ask you to consider US honest
and under charity, or commiseration,
ifneed be, but we feel that we do not
deserve your censUre,
Year: 1879

Ten years ago a Piute boy of twelve
years was captured by General Crook
west of Stein Mountain, Nevada. he
saw the dead bodies Of his chieftaiH
father and Of his mother lying near the
wigwam and it was with a heavy heart
that he went to work in a San Francisco
store when taken thither. Nevertheless
he learned the English tongue, adopted
san Francisco manners, became a
scholar and Joined hands with the peace
making brethren Of the church. Not
long since General Mcdowell told him
to 90 among the Indians and counsel
them to bury the tOmahawk. He visited
the warriors of Chief NatChez and there
found both father and mother, who had
feigned death and thus escaped the
soldiers.
Year: 1879

an aid to the civil power, because it
is potent to enforce the laws which
they do not want enforced. This
view Of the case rather astonished
some Of the Northern Democrats,
who want it to appear that the object
Of the Republicans is to preserve mill
tary despotism, as they call it, and
that Of the Democrats to restore
civil authority.


There can be no mistake about it
what the Democrats fear is civil au-
thority, and the bugaboo of the
'troOps at the polls" is a mere pre-
tense. Following the able speeches
Of Garfield, Frye and BeIford, this
speech Of Robson will have a grand
effect. All these speeches should be
read by every man in the land, and
| it is probable that the Republican
Congressional Committee will take
measures to send them broadcast.
They ought to be sent in connection
with the fire eating harangues Of
Chalmers, Blackburn, and other ram
pant rebels, who have done even
more for the exposure of their own
nefarious designs than the Republi-
cans could do.


In fact, all the Confederate Brga-
diers in the Senate and House an
nounce grandiIoquently that they
have come to take their o10n-the
power which was wrenched from
them in 1861. They remind us fore
IDLY of the ante-war days, when loyal
men were insulted by Secession
braggarts, and threatened with an
initiation if they did not bend the
knee. Fortunately the Republicans
are united and earnest in resisting
the new method of rebellion, and al
though the Brigadiers threaten, it is
probable that they viii yet have to
surrender or suffer defeat.


Several important meetings were
held here last night, to take into
consideration the new COlored Emf
grafton movement, resulting from
the proposal of Senator Window.
Thousands of letters have been re-
ceived from all parts of the South,
asking for aid and advice in this
movement, and it was thought best
to organize in some way, to direct
the emigration so that it should not
fail of good through lack Of intelli-
gence. Senator Window is doing
all he can to promote the interests
of the colored people in their efforts
to improve their condition, and at
his suggestion a National Committee
has been formed, composed of emi |
nent citizens selected from all the /
States, to promote the object. There
are signs that the Confederate Dem
ocrats are getting frightened at the
of the movement.


The appointment, Of D. T. Corbin
to be Chief Justice Of Utah, is tar
dy act of justice to a deserving man.
He ought to have been appointed
U. S. Attorney for South Carolina,
where be has stood up nObly for Re
publican principles at the risk Of his
life and fortune.


Speaker Randall viii probably re-
port his Committees some time next
week. It is unsafe to predict when,
since he has postponed the day sew
eral times in order to prevent his
untamable colleagues from rushing
into general Legislation, as they are
expected to do as soon as the or
ganization is completed.


DEWITT.
Year: 1879

Governor Rice was asked to pardon
one O'DOnell, Of AIilbuTy, from Charles
town, and a gentleman who recently
visited the state prison thus tells his
story: Gentlemen" said the warden,


l want to bring before YOU one of the


most remarkable cases we have in prison.
We call him the man who never smiles,


and I wish before he comes in TO tell
YOU his story. He seems to be a man Of
more than ordinary ability, one Of the
better class of substantial, frugal Irish
citizens. who owned a small place IN
manufacturing village, where he re-
sided with his family of grown up sons
and daughters, all permanently en-


ploved and IN comfortable circumstances.
The old man had tine garden on which
he bestowed his leisure hours, in part


of which was a fine lot Of Cabbages. IJ
seems that the boys in the neighbOThOOd
had habit of trespassIng on the old


mans Garden, until he had determined
of getting rid of them by firing his gun
10 frighten them away. One night hear
ing some one in his garden, he took
down his gun, and, getting behind the
hedge, fired into the garden, as he
claims, without aim, or seeing anyone
to aim at, but the report Of the gun
alarmed the neighbors, who, on rush
ing into the garden, found the hfeless
body of a young girl shot through the
heart. Tie old man, when told what
he had done was struck dumb. He was
arrested and sentenced to impusOn-
ment for life. He has now been here
for ten years, and his face has become
as marble; there is no hope; nothing
but the remembrance of that dreadful
night. In Ireland they have a supersl-
ton among the young girls that VINO
ever on Halloween shall place cab
bage over the door viii marry the first
young man that enters the door after
wards. And this, it was proved, was the
errand Of the young girl in the old mans
garden. But instead of q wedding she
found a grave"
Year: 1879

Will some one please give the
correct statement of the the follow
ing problem, copied yerb1tiD1 from
the printed report Of the last High
land Co. Teachers Examination !
The italics are our own.


a What is the length of a rope
extending from the top of a pole 40
it. high, to the top of stake Ii #,
high, standing 35 IT high from the
top OF the pole ? Ans. 1896 #.
Year: 1879

Whenever you see anything grand
and colossal, whenever anything tiny
and beautiful, the laborer has been
there. He has stamped it with his sign
manual. He is its creator. All that
nature has given rs proceeds from the
Most High. All that art has bestowed
on us is the gift of the labOrer. All
artificial capital is the work of his
hands.
Year: 1879

In the town, says German letter, we
noticed numberless peasants attired in
funny costumes Many wore scarfs
twisted in turban-like fashion, around
their heads, and long calico double man
ties or capes, gathered in full around the
neck and hanging loose from the shOul-
ders; the under one extended nearly to
the bottom of the dress, while the up
per one, Ornamented with a wide rufhe
Of the same material, was a foot or so
shorter. Some of these under-capes are
arranged in a sort of bag in front, in
which it is convenient for a mother to
carry her child. might here add that
the style of dressing German babies
might not be heartily approved by every
American mother. Until the child is
three or four months old it is carried
around in sWaddling clothes. 1t is only
allowed to have the free use of its hands
and arms, its lower limbs and waist be-
ing wrapped around by what is styled
"wickle band" If the baby was con-
suited in regard to this mode of dress it
might inform us that it did very well for
winter, but that it was a little warm for
summer, and also that it would really
like to exercise its lower limbs freely.


I counted thirty-siX market women
Just coming into town: all wore short
dresses and carried long, willow baskets
strapped on their backs; many were
bareheaded, a few wearing long straw
bonnets with only a mere shadow of
cape.
Year: 1879

Precedence in England extends even
into the servants hall and kitchen.
This is manifested every morning. At
family prayers oil the house servants
attend. Just as they used to do here in
families in which that domestic discip-
line was kept up. A row of chairs is
placed for them in the breakfast room,
and they enter and take their seats.
The head of the house reads prayers aud
the lesson Of the day. or some other
part Of the Bible. l observed that the
servants in each house always entered
in the same order, the housekeeper
marching in at the head OF the line and
taking the scat farthtst from the door.
And it was. am sorry to say. rather
funny to see some dozen or more OF
them pound solemAly in and plump
stolidly down upon their seats. After
prayers are over, they Of course rise
and 60 out. But saw that they did not
60 out in reverse order. the one nearest
the door going out first, as would have
been natural and Convenient. They
rose. stood in line. and then the house
keeper went out first, followed by the
servant next her: and thus the line
doubled upon itself. the file thus telling
itself oil. so tha. the one who entered
the room last left it last The order Of
entering and leaving WAS the same. On
speaking Of this. was told with smiles
that precedence was strictly observed
among them; that in the servants
hall the housekeeper took the head OF
the table, the butler the foot, and that
the servants. upper and under. had
places assigned to them according to the
dignity Of their positions. What is the
order Of their sitting or Of their going.
the lord of precedence only knows: but
l suppose that my Lady's maid sits Oh
the right hand Of the butler. and my
Lords own man on that OF the house
keeper. At dinner they sit together at
the common tablc down to cheese; and
the upper servants only rise and 60 in
state 10 dessert in the honsekeeper's
room. The upper servants are those
who have servants under them; An up
per servant never wears livery. When
visitors of great house bring servant.
with them. the guests cf the servants


hall are formally assigned places strictly
according to the rank Of their master
or mistress. I learned slsO that ser.
wants do call each other by the t:tles Of
their masters and mistresses, and that
this incident of high life below s:airs


is no fiction. RICHARD GRANT WHITE
Year: 1879

E. Smalls Trade Palace has this day
Been opening goods both fresh and gay,
They have received near every kind
That you in any store can find,
And as he purchased by the bale
He is determined to retail


For ready cash little lower
Than ever have been had before.
He, like his neighbOrs, means to live,
But as for credit will not give;
His friends and buyers, one and all,
Twill pay you well to make a call;
You'll always find him by his sign,
Next door to George & John nj. Kline.
Year: 1879

The HERALD, hav-
ing more than DOUBLE
the circulation i'm Ohio
county over any paper
published anywhere,
it is by far the best
Advertising Medium
through which to
reach the people of
Ohio county.


Business men should
make a note of this.
Year: 1879

The council committee on streets and
alleys held long meeting last night During
the afternoon the committee as whole had
visited several streets in the Fifth ward. to
take in view their condition relative to the
improvements petitioned for.


At the meeting last night the committee
considered the matter of Strengthening Ark
wright street and the condemnation of GER
tain property therefor. The conclusion
reached was that the benefits arisiug ere
not sufficient to compensate for the cost of
same.


The grading of Fifth street, between
Broadway and Kittson street, was mex;
considered. 1t was concluded to recon- mend
the grading from Olive street to Kit,son
leaving the grade between Broadway and
Olive street for future alterations.


Olmsted street will be left unchanged.


The change of grade on Fourth street. be.
tween Hoffman and Maria avenues, All oil,
affair, was next considered. Mr.. c. D
O'Brien spoke for those protesting agains
the change. The recommendation viii
likely be made to the council to leave the
grade as established in 1875. Adjourned
Year: 1879

citizenship, for the reason that such assaults
tend TO strengthen tho Government and its
institutions in the confidence Of capital.
Such reasoning and such conclusions are
unbecoming any man who has intelligence
enough to hit the ground with his hat IT
is the conception of incarnate stupidity.
The patriotism Of the people, coupled with
the timidity of capital, have no doubt led
to the late heavy investment in bonds ut
low rate of interest Capitalists see the
tendency of the present Democratic war
upon the integrity of the Government, the
laws Of protection, and the rights of citizen
ship, toward direct and certain revolution.
They scent the dangers that impend over
the Constitution and the laws, and they are
under that patriotic impulse which during
the rebellion, when the national life hung
| in the balance, brought forth individual aid
under the impression that unless the ma
tional life was saved there was nothing
worth living for in the American Republic
1t was the danger Of the hour that prompt
ed individual aid TO the Government then,
and the same sense of insidious peril
leads the patriotic now to intronch the Ma
tional Treasury A determination to sus-
tain the Government in tho midst of the
assaults now being made upon it by mem
nced starvation, and by those, too, who
sought to shoot il to death eighteen years
ago, has led heavy capitalists TO promptly
and efficiently fortify the National Ex-
chequer with material aid and confidence by
taking largely of its lowest priced bonds.
Then, again, the revolutionary policy OF
Congress has weakened, if it has not
crushed out the struggling hope Of re-
vival of business, until the existing perils
which destroy confidence and hope in trade,
commerce, and manufactures, and bring
encouragement to all private enterprises,
shall have passed.


If capital believed that the Democratic
policy of revolution would bring renewed
energy to private enterprise and business, it
would not seek investment in per cents.
II seeks this investment for the same reason
that the ship in storm seeks refuge in n
safe harbor. IT has confidence in the loyal





the national integrity in this crisis as it did
during the rebellion, and that confidence
leads to an investment in Government Sc
curities rather than in real estate or in the
speculative industries of the people. The
want Of confidence in the Democracy and
its revolutionary schemes leads capital to
rally around the Government in this hour
of peril.


/ We should like to ask these wiseacres oI
the Democratic school what amount of these
Government bonds are taken by the Demo
cratic capitalists OF the South, or even Of the
} North, as an earnest of their confidence in
the permanence and success of this Govern
ment under the prospect Of Democratic
, rule? How many millions Of dollars of
per cents has TILDEN OF any other Demo.
cratic millionaire taken in these low-priced
5 securities, rs an evidence of his confidence
in the stability of this Government' We
l pause for a reply.
Year: 1879




A FREE PRESS,


A FREE BALLOT,


HONEST JURlES,


And an


We clip the above from the Democratic
organ at the National Capital, and If it is
intended rs n trayesty of Democratic pol
icy, usage, and history, it is success; but,
if it pretends to represent any platform
upon which the Democratic party ever has
prnctced or is ever likely to practice in pol
itics, it is gross and palpable fraud upon
history, observation, and common sense.
The Democratic party does not maintain one
OF the above propositions in its practice of
politics in the Southern States, which now
embody all the effective power of the DEM
ocratc party. "Free speech has not been
tolerated in the South for more than three
years, unless that speech has been in the
Democratic interest There is no free
speech y for Republicanism there. There
is no " free press" at the South, unless it
consents to advocate the dogmas Of the
Democratic party, or disclaims the advocacy
of all politics. There is scarcely single
free, fearless, outspoken Republican press in
all the South, owing to the Bourbon spirit
of intolerance that rules that section of our
common country. The idea Of free bal
lot" in the South is fraud and deception,
unless it is cast in tho Democratic interest.
| The freedom of ballot is denied to the Re-
publicans, for they are bull-dozed and
/ "A Iaa 1,Ny al
forces, and thus despoiled of their
right of suffrage. There is no such
thing as "a free ballot in the South where
Democracy bears sway, and for that matter
in several of the Southern States where the
Republicans have large numerical majori-
ties the rifle clubs and intimidators wrest
from the masses of the people "a free bal
lot.n Such thing is not tolerated in the
South unless it is made free by subjectinG
itself to Bourbon dictation. This is the
free ballot enumerated in the Democratic
platform.


As for honest iuries, where Democracy
sits the most strongly enthroned, they are
very scarce when called upon to adjudicate
and adjudge ofienses of political charac-
]


ter 1t is to be hoped, therefore, that the
Democrats in future will cultivate crop OF
honest jurors all over the country within
their own party, and harvest them into the
courts, that honest verdicts, stripped ofpreju'
dice, hate, and intolerance may character
ize the cause of justice in the South in the
future. To accomplish this end u great ref
ormation must occur.


The last plank of this new-fangled plat
form is such rs TO bring ridicule upon the
whole. For the Democratic party to declare
for an honest count" in view of their past
record all over the country is mere mock
cry. Their strongest element of politica
success heretofore has been their dishOnes
counting of votes. The Democratic major
ity of the present House has been createt
by the dishonest counting Of votes, ant
when an "honest count ;" is secured in on
political contests the Democratic party vii
be boreft of all power. 1t will become tn
minority party in every State in the Union
Year: 1879

The more obtuse Of the Democratic or
gans are now contending that the late sale
of forty-nine millions of dollars Of A per
cents in a single day is attributable to the
pending assaults of the Democracy upon
the Constitution, the laws, and the rights Of
Year: 1879

Mr.. SINGLETON says ho is not one of
those who believe that "the late war had
swallowed upall the powers of the States"
or something to that effect. We add, then,
by way of further explanation, that he is
one of those who believe that the late war
didn't accomplish anything, The idea that
any one believes the legitimate rights of the
States were wiped out OF existence by the
war is simply an exaggerotion Of the facts,
which are, if the war settled anything, that
the nation is to be controlled by the ma
tonal Government and that when any con-
1ict of jurisdiction occurs between the
States and the General Government arising
out of national affairs the former shall give
way to the latter.
Year: 1879

TIE Kansas City Journal says the de-
bate now going on in the House of Repre-
sontatives at Washington is rousing the
old loyal spirit Of the country. The peo-
pie will not suffer the destruction of the
" Government any more by starvation than
"by shot and SHELF
Year: 1879

WE desire, officially" to call the atten-
tion of the chairman of the Democratic
caucus, and the chairman of the executive
committee Of the Democratic caucus, and
the chairman Of the subcommittee of the


executive committee of the Democratic
caucus" to the fact that the Democratic
members from the Northern States are at
their old tricks. Having led their Southern
ooparceners into this desperate attempt to
deprive the President Of his constitutional
right to place his veto upon legislation that
he does not approve, they remain signiG-
cantly quiet, and, as heretofore, leave the
Solid South to do all the talking and-if it
come to tLat-all the fighting They un-
Year: 1879

Tue logic of Mr.. CHALMERS position in
the House is that he deserves To be hung by
The neck until he is dead, and may Old
Scratch have mercy, SC. He says the first
gun of the rebellion was fired by JOHN
BROWN, and the world knows that Brown
was hung for treason. Mr.. CHALMERS and
his friends fired the last gun. Why shouldnt t
they have been hung also?
Year: 1879

A RIGID examination into the FGTZ-JoHN
PORTER case is demanded Of Congress in the
interests of justice and economy before
further steps are taken in the direction of
restoring him TO the army.
Year: 1879

THE original court martial before which
FITZ-JouN PoRTaE was tried in 1868, is ar
raigned by the report of the board of inquiry
recently invoked to rchear his case us q body
of niucompoops or willful partisans who
were recreant to their duty aud false to
their oNths of Office. How long will they
rest quietly under such imputations against
their honor and respectabiily?