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Year: 1879

The police officers OF New York are
just now the subject Of some criticism.
They have been doing a great deal oI
severe clubbing lately, one Of the victims
being actually beaten to death, They
have also fallen into disgrace because oI
their omission 10 discover any clew as 10
who murdered Mrs. Hull. The apart.
ments OF this lady had been robbed, and
yet they neglected what would occur to
the ordinary mind as being the first step
in the discharge Of IN ,ir duty, viz, to search
in the pawnbrokers' shops 10 ascertain il
they had come into possession Of the
property and from whom they Obtained
it. A reporter Of the Boston Herald,
with more sagacity, having read descrip-
ton of the articles stolen, instituted the
kind OF search which the New York po-
lice had omitted, found where several
yaluables belonging to Mrs. Hull at the
time Of the murder had been sold, and
through the information thus obtained
was enable to track and coase the arrest
Of the murderer, who had sold or pledged
some Of the stolen jewelry to New York
pawnbroker, which fact the New York
police only ascertained after the arrested
murderer had made a confession.
Year: 1879

If you are going to paint your house,
barn, wagon or machinery, the wonder
full Imperishable Mixed Paint is surely
the best, for it is warranted by their
agents in your own town not to chalk,
crack, peel or blister; to cover better and
work easier than any other paint. The Imper.
ishabe Paint was awarded the first premium,
over oil other paints, at the California State
Fair, 1873 and the Gold Medal at the Oregon
Agent, which explains this wonderful discov.
cry. Try the paint and you certainly would
have no other.
Year: 1879

There is much apprehension beginning to be felt that the yellow fever will again desolate the South next summer and that the cold weather has not been sufficient to kill the fever germs. A steamer left Bos' ton March 18th for cruise to the West ln- dies. When about 300 miles southeast of the Bermudas two cases of yellow fever were developed on board. The steamer came north from the West Indies last Fall with the fever on board and wintered in Boston, where she was frozen out and fu- migated, and as she had not touched at any port from the time she left Boston until ths breaking out of the fever, it is evident that the germs must have remained alive since last Fall,
Year: 1879

General Grant bad an enthusiastic
reception in Sacramento on Wednes-
day. AS the train moved into the de-
pot it was met by great concourse of
people, and salute was fired by the
Sacramento Light Artillery. The Gen.
eral and Mrs. Grant were escorted to
the capitol, where the General made a
reply to an address of welcome. In
the evening reception was held in the
capitol, and there was display of fire.
works. Yesterday General Grant visit
ed several places Of interest and was
entertained with a sham battle.
Year: 1879

CoNEsUs LAKE, in Livingston county,
New York, is famous for its large bull
heads. This summer strange epidem-
ic has broken out among them and the
yellow perch. The bullheads come to
the shore by the hundreds, gasping and
apparently dying. After lying in stu
pid condition in the shallow water, and
partly in the sand, sometimes for day,
they seem to recover, and work their
way back INTO the lake. The perch
come to the shore and act in the same
manner. None of them recover, how
ever, and the shores are strewn with
dead perch, some of them very large.
Year: 1879

The London Neus Indignantly denies
that Prince Napoleon is coward. The
charge was made during the Crimean
war by correspondent who was him
self anything but a brave man; and the
emperor encouraged the report, as the
prince, with reputation for yalor and
military skill, added TO his strong re-
semblance to Napoleon the Great,
would have been formidable rival.
Year: 1879

A ROCHESTER man has wonderful
memory of musical sounds. His speci-
atty is railroad locomotive bells. The
sound of locomotive bell once heard
he distinctly remembers for any length
of time and, as each locomotive has a
number, he can tell that number when
he hears the bell fung. There are more
than five hundred locomotives running
on the New York Central railroad, and
of these he has been able to give the
numbers accurately by the sound of
their bells.
Year: 1879

A BALTIMORE inventor has patent
for suit of flying clothes. By work
ing the arms the man in the clothes
mounts heavenward. Waterproof
pantaloons and jacket are in one piece.
To this is fastened reservoir made'of
oiled silk, aud stretching from shoulder
to waist. To this is attached wing
made OF silk, with steel ribs. Alter the
operator has essayed the flight of bird
and is high in the air, he hoists sail.
A mast four feet long is joined with his
back, and triangular sail is set so as
to be regulated by his feet. When the
When the sail is raised the arms are
motionless, and the man in the air
booms along like a centre-board yacht
under a spanking breeze.
Year: 1879

THE Princess Louise and her friends
got caught in shower the other day,
and took refuge in farm house. There
was no one at home except the farmer,
and he was unable to cook. The Princess
bestirred herself, and, with the old mans
permission, set the table, made tea, and
got supper.
Year: 1879

A PENNSYLVANIA girl waited whole
year before bringing a suit for damages
against man who had kissed her
without warning, and the crushing
verdict of one cent damages took her
breath away.
Year: 1879




but, without the courage TO kill, when
they were ready to strike the blow they
held back their coward hands, fearing to
give the blow. [Applause. They
showed their wicked will, although their
cowardice checked them from executing
it, in the very last days of the session.
You have seen them parade their doc.
trines of state sovereignty, more extreme
than they ever were before, except in the
days just preceding the war. Think of
the spectacle of the vice-presiuent of the
late confederacy and member of the
cabinet of the dead confederacy standing
on the floor of the house of representa-
tives to teach Brother Williams and Bur
roughs and me the true doctrines of the
constitution. Laughter and applause
That is spectacle that confronts you to-
day. They tell you we were mistaken in
supposing that this is a nation, even
spelled with little IN" They say this
is a league, and they tell you that
senators are ambassadors; that members
Year: 1879

active fall shipments commences. We 1 have not lost faith in the Coinpany's l intention to do the fair and handsome thing for Russellyille yet.

 --IMpoRTANT.-Co Surveyor Potts placed a communication before the towsi council at it's last meeting which contained suggestions of so much in- portance that we trust the matter will be neglected no longer. Mr. Potts states that so far as he is able to ascer- tain there is no established or recog- nized beginning point from which any lot, street or parcel of ground may be described in it's metes and bounds, and that there is no plat of the town on file in the County Clerks office. It does seem to us that this is 6 very loose and unsafe way Of doing things. How is any property owner to know when he has the description of his lot fight unless there is some lawfully establish ed starting point from which to take bearings and measurements? Where bull ings and encloseures stand out on

 

 the street so as to make offsets and leave the street narrower at some places than it is at other places how is it to be ascertained who It is that is over his line? Mir. A., owning lot or building on the north side of the street may claim that he is on the line, and that it is Mir. B., his neighbor on the oppo- site side of the street who has encroach- ed upon the street. Now in the ab- sence of any established starting point how is it to be ascertained who is right and who wrong. The fact of the mat ter is, without such an established starting point we are all going by guess, and there is no certainty whether our lots are properly described or not. The town council should at once pro- vide for the establishment of lawful starting point and have reliable sur vey made and an accurate plat of the town recorded. The longer the matter is delayed the more confusion it will cause and the greater inconvenience and discontinue it may cause property owners after while. e4
Year: 1879

gle. With objectionable gaiety they
mount the legislative forum and gyrate
with as much assurance as if the State
had erected buildings at an expense
Of thouqands for their purpose, and
was proud of the privilege of expend-
ing per diem that these cross-road
and fence-corner orators may expose
themselves ridiculously to the gaze Of
intelligent Texans.
Year: 1879

BoSToN, March 11.-All doubts
which may have existed as to the
execution of Devlin on Friday next
on account of the death of the high
sheriff have been removed by the
decision of the Supreme Judicial
Court appointing Deputy Sheriff Fish
high sheriff.
Year: 1879

THE people Of Augusta, Ca, didn't
like Kate Claxton. One great reason
for it is that she imposed a stuffed rag
baby on them instead of real live
one, such as she produced on the stage
in Charleston and Savannah. Augusta
thinks she can tell the difference be-
tween flesh and blood infant and a
dummy as quickly as can any other
city in the country.
Year: 1879

The witty Burlington Hawkeye
says: "The women in Kansas vote at
the school elections. At a recent
election at Usage City one woman
went up to vote, but before she got
through telling the judges whata time
her Willie had with the scarlet fever
when he was only two years old, it
was time to close the polls and she
had forgotten to deposit her ballot. F"
Year: 1879

Burlington Hawkeye.l


Richard Ceur de Lion was the most
stylish man in England Of his time.
When he put on his tin helmet and
cast iron ulsterand pair of laminated
steel boots and picked up a club with
an iron knob and steel spike in the
end, and set forth on crusade, the
fashionable society of that day con.
sidered him just " dressed to Kill. -
And so he was, And one day whom
he was dressed that way fellow killed
him.
Year: 1879

purse and the sword, with an Administra
tion adverse to them, resemble more an
Egypt or an Ireland, than the teeming,
thriving West and South offormer year.
The ssgacious leaders who saved the
money ffom lighttaxation andpurchased
and acquired great regions in the south
and West, never dreamed that they
would ever be subdued to money
power like that which has been seeking
to make them dependencies on Washing
ton and Wall street. In 1890 not bale
Of cotton was exported from this coun-
try; in no country in the world under
an almost equatorial clima'e, has such
energy and teiprise been shown, as
was shown by the Southern people an
terror to 1861. Nor is there another


region in the world, where, in half cen
tury such strides in agriculture, education.
arts and refinement. and all that goes
to make up great people As III tho great


region known As the West in Anne lea.



viii the West and the South allow them


selves TO be held as by bride relus from


Washington and Wall street Tn re is


no child's play before this country. The
near future will determine the destiny OF


these two great regions. They will have


TO determine to govern themselves, with
out the aid of such scoundre as now
rule with the Shermans, or wax up 10
find their once prosperous regions as an
Ireland, an Egypt or an India, subject to
like restrain from the monetary power


and absenteeism. We know that men


will laugh at these remarks but we


have no fear and ask no favor OF such.
TLey laughed and predicted a rise in
gold if silver was rcmonetized and the
silver dollar was coined; and predicted


that gold would go up 10 per cent. and
governments would not sell, but be sent
home from Europe-all this if the dol


lar of the daddies' was coined But
what are the facts ? Let the extensive


sale of the l per cents. answer.
Year: 1879

The DAILY GAZETTE is sent To all parts
of the country, postage paid, for THREE
DOLLARS year, In advance. 1t contains
all the local news and most important
news of the day. II gives in brief just the
news the farmer or the bush e. S man need
at half the cost of the two cent papers
and as much as a man oaeht to read of an
evening or morning. Subscribe for 1t at
cnce by remitting a money order for a
wear or six months.
Year: 1879

The board met yesterday with all members
present and Commissioner Glenn in the
chair.


A budget of bills we're presented and al
lowed.


The salary of the superintendent of the
poor farm was fixed at $l 900.


A communication was received from the
town clerk of Minnetonka notifying the
board that the town had, at the late election,
decided not to grant liquor licenses.


The application of Josiah Thompson for
Year: 1879

II is discovered by Chase's Chronicle that
it is absolutely necessary for the success Of
the Opposition in the next Presidential elec-
ton that the votes of Maine and Massachu-
setts be against the Republicans in the cleo
toral college. The Opposition has an un.
commonly slim chance of success, then.
Year: 1879

IT is suggested that the shortest express
sion of the political change that has come
over Congress is to be found in the Southern
phrase You uns git, we uns are come back
for our places.'
Year: 1879

THE Memphis appeal says there is some
talk in Washington of National Constitu-
tional Convention, to be held in some South
efn city for the purpose of correcting certain
deficiencies in the Federal Constitution relat-
ing to the election of President and other mat
ferc
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communal
cations. The name and address of the writer are In
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

The foreign news this morning an.
uOnnccs that the Imperial faction have
agreed on Prince Jerome Bonaparte Us
the head fthe dynasty. This too, not
withstanding the will Of the late Prince,
which it seems devised the succession to
Prince Jerome's son, young Victor. This
declaration in favor Of the father rather
than the son was regarded as political
necessity, and while it was not only con.
cured in but advised by Rouher, the
managing man Of the Imperial faction,
Cwho was the head Of the late Emperor's
Cabinet, and one Of his most trusted ad.
viscrs,) yet it is personally 80 distastetul
to him that he chooses to retire from any
further active agency in the work Of re-
storing the Imperial dynasty to power.


The whole scheme really has very little
importance in the eyes Of France or Of the
world. The Republic is a fact not only
accomplished but established. Only yes
tCrday we interrogated gentleman OF this
city who has lately spent several months
in France, and who during that time
travelled 5000 miles within its territory, as
to the feeling Of the people, high and low,
with whom he came in contact in reference
to the Republic, and he tells us that public
sentiment is overwhelmingly with the Re
public, and that this is especially true o.
the tax paving classes.
Year: 1879

We ARE requested by the Mayor 70 call
attention to the fact that the ordinance
anins, the discharge OF fire arms, FIRE
crackers and every species Of explosives,
on the Fourth Of July, within the city
limits, will be rigidly enforced this year,
and that all offenders against the ordt.
nance will be promptly arrested and dealt
with according to law.


We are glad to ses the Mayor taking
this step, and we hope that the police
officers will sec that his order is
ri.iLly enforced. The practice Of ex.
ploding gunpowder in any shape on the
streets is an intolerable nuisance, and a
very silly aud dangerous practice, and has
no more connection with patriotism or a
proper observance Of the day than any
other species of disorder. The records Of
the country show that millions of prop.
erty have been destroyed by such carry
inys.on on tic 4th OF July, to say nothing
of the frightful accidents to lie and limb
TINT have happened. Therefore it is not
only proper but Likewise imperative in the
interest Of the public good that the prac-
iice should be broken up. ....,
Year: 1879

Without extending our gaze into the
dazzling visions Of the near future, We
may abundantly content ourselves with
the marvellous prospect Immediately be-
fore us, as a reasonable probability, that
Minnesota will this year harvest a crop Of
nearly fifty million bushels of wheat,
which concurrence OF auspictous condi.
tons may swell to fifty-fye million. This
is by far the biggest wheat crop-if we
raise (which ever burdened the grana-
ries OF any State Of the Union. Its money
value to the farmers OF this State can hard
ly be less than forty million dollars. and
may be much more than this, for all our
European adyices point TO the probability,
rapidly ripening to certainty, that the
wheat crop OF Europe this year will be
short. In n'England there Is no doubt that
the annual deficiency will be largely in
creased by comparative failure Of the
domestic crop, and similar reports come
from the continent-&. Pdd (MMn J Pho.
tecF Press,
Year: 1879

Prof. Duff and his family have gone to
Marietta to spend vacation among old
friends and relatives.


The school Board has finished the new
rules for the government Of the schools,
which they had under consideration one
day last week, The teachers Tor tho on.
suing year will be elected next Monday
night.


A new tramway has been laid across
Indian Run and to limestone quarry on
the side OF the hill, connecting with the
track already in use.


Rev. CASTOR Is at bis tsther's home, and
Is quite sick, being unable TO get out o.
bed Tuesday morning. However, he got
up later in the day and was able to write
saying that he hoped to be able to preach
next Sunday at the installation Of elders
" party q our young folks intend to dl
mihisR the number 9t aSh lr Wallace
dam on the Fourth, r OF
Year: 1879

The gathering at the house Of 5ir. Cyrus w.
Field last night was a remarkable commemo-
ration of a remarkable event. The twenty
fifth anniversary of the formation of the first
ocean cable company was celebrated by
gathering of every member but one of the
original association and of some of their most
prominent cO-Worl,crs IN the enterprise; and
great number of distinguished people came
together to witness this impressive reunion.
The attention of the company, which was one
of the most brilliant ever beheld i'll NewIO IOrl
City, naturally concentrated itself upon the
man who may, with truth, be called tie
father of ocean telegraphy, and who las, IN
other ways likewise, done much work for
mankind. The liberal spirit and the bound
less enterprise of Cyrus W. Field have made
him rich in most honorable fame
The true significance of the commcmOratiOn,
however, was not in the presence of a large
and splendid company, of course, nor yet i'll
the assembage of the smaller group of now
historic characters; but in the vivid reminder
given to the world Of the amazing growth of
~ system which only quarter of a century
ago WAS merely one mans dream the realiza-
ton of which seemed to the mass of mankind
fairly Impossible.


Twenty-Five years have passed, and there
are today, as Mr.. Field stated in his address,
lover 10000 miles Of cable c.Ossing the
seas and oceansn This anniversary itse If
rs he went on to show, is u witness Of new
and great stride forward in ocean telegraphy
Duplex working across the Atlantic was
proved to be an accomplished fact 10y a DIS
patch which the speaker held in his hand
Teegrams may be sent in both directions on
the same cable at.Oncc, and thus the capacity
of all the ocean wires ia doubled. 1t was IN
the highest degree appropriate that the same
untirIng worker to whose genius in pcrse-
vrrapce we owe the Atlantic Gable should be
the main instrument III completing the tele-
l,raUbc circuit Of the earth, as he has been III
making il. There remains only one link more
to be forged in this wonderful chain, and this
work began also yesterday-that day of happy
cojnciienceS. With the laying of the Pacific
cable, connecting the California coast with the
sandwich Islands, and the Islands with the
great Eastern Continent, the globe will have
its girdle of electric fire complete. Seeing to
what this conception has grown in less than
generation, we may well hesitate even to
conjecture what its progress may be IN an
other generation. Its influence upon the arts
of war and peace, the methods of trade and
the manners of nations, upon language and law
and religion, upon all the processes OF diflusing
civilization, is beyond human foresight, and
NAV well serve as Il theme for rcyercnt
thnupht
Year: 1879

An Associated Press dispatch from New
Orleans printed on small type i'll a corner Of
Mondays paper announced that torty-eight
citizens OF Natchitoches who had been cleared
by iuiy Of charges OF conspiracy during the
late election were escorted Saturday evening
TO the steamboat on which they left for their
homes by a volunteer military company with
a band Of music and that salute was fired
in honor Of the event.


These forty eight citizens were all Democrats
and white men. One day last October they
were assembled III the Court House OF the town
of Natcntoches holding Democratic conven-
tion. Word came to the meeting that u body
Year: 1879

Carelcssness in building, which is another
name for corruption and fraud, has had a
shocking sequel. AT town meeting IN North
Berwick, Me-, the floor gave way, and ONE
third of the number of citizens present, OF
$50, were precipitated to the floor below,
distance of fourteen feet Many were injured
so seriously that they cannot recover. The
men who are responsible for this sacrifice OF
human life should be made to suffer to the
full extent of the law.
Year: 1879

The signs increase that the Radical scheme
10 place two French ex-Ministers on trial for
political misdeeds will be rejected by a large
majority in the Chamber of Deputies, where
the Conservative element in the Republican
party will undoubtedly make itself ielt. The
eagerness of the MOnarchists TO have the
Government burdened with Impeachment pro-
ceedings and party dISscnsiOns might Of itself
have warned the Radicals that they were
treading on dangerous ground.
Year: 1879

Railroad companies are interested
in the subject of ties. The scarcity of
timber for the purpose has raised a
question as to Il substitute. Cast-iron
ties cost three times as much as wood,
but the difference is more than made
up in the length of time they wear.
English lines have introduced glass
ties, or sleeper$ BY new process
the glass is toughened, and the cost is
about the same per ton us those of cast
iron, but there are about three times
as many to the ton.
Year: 1879

The Paris Universe asserts that the
Emperor and Crown Prince of Ger
many have seeded from the Free
Masons on account of their resistance
to an inspection into their archives by
DIR. Schiffmann, whom the Crown
Prince wished to inquire into the ORR
gin and secret tendencies of Masonry.
Year: 1879

For the length time have been doing
examped My endeavOrs among
lot has been cast, has with satisfaction, and
l can confidently the citizens of Gibson and


adjoining counties that l will offer greater


bargains than Please


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