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Year: 1879

rehect that he who takes down from


the responsibility aud respectability


)f a representative Of the people


strikes at the whole system Of Law


and government? Worse than that,


every blow aimed at the faith OF


whole class of men iS q blow aimed


at virtue and integrity 10 general.


There is q large aud growing class


who recognize in everything the


taint of selishness, and who say that


no one but an illusionist can believe


that there is any real disinterested-


uess in the world. l am ashamed


10 see SO many young men growing


up with this opinion. It is an evil


which grows by that it feeds on, and


it ought to be much more pondered
ON than it has been.


SECTIONAL AND RACE FEELING.


Mr.. Beecher deprecated sectional
dislikes and those due to differences
Of race, This great nation was divi-
ded by an invisible line, morally
visible enough, on both sides of which
he North and South had stood in
bloody antagonism for FIVE terrible
years. In my own ] lAgmeut, when
[ consider human nath.e. when con
slider that a proud people have seen
themselves emptied out Of power,
their political existence almost an
nihilated, their property swept out
Of their hands as by a consuming
flame, the sscendancy of the despis-
ed slave established over them by
what was to him q foreign arm,
should not have wondered if there
had been ten times the resistance
that there has been to reconstructive
measures. Never in history has a
people borne so much with so much
patience, gallantry and patriotism
a spectacle of moral grandeur and
Of substantial good intent and honor
in those who have been so terriical~
ly scourged which is without parallel. |
The spirit which would set the North |
against the South, the East against |
the West, the Germans against the |
old Puritans or the old Puritaus |
against the Germans, the whites
against the blacks or the blacks
against the whites, is not only politi-
cally criminal, but it is absolutely
of the fundamental in.
stincts of humanity. There is yet
the power and the honor in this coun-
try to hold men together in charity |
and unity. When it was the need
Of the untempered North to be Derv-
ed to resist the arrogance of planta~
ion domination l was no: wanting.
What we need now is love, charity,
lnion. l speak again. Though /
hated slavery L did not hate the
l loved him and still |
owe him. I love all mankind, not
'uly for what they are, but for what
hey are going to be.
Year: 1879

Not with a reproof Of that day's
omission or commission. Take any
other time but bed time for that. If
you ever heard little creature sob.
bing in its sleep, you could never do
this. Seal their closing eyelids with
8 kiss and blessing. The time
will come, all too soon, when they
will lay their heads upon their pill
lows lacking both. Let them have
at least this sweet memory of hap
py childhood, Of which no future
sorrow or trouble can rob them.
Give them their rosy youth. Nor
need this involve wild license, The
udiclons parent will not SO mistake
my meaning. If you ever met the
man or the woman whose eyes have
suddenly filed when q little child
has crept trustingly to its mothers
breast, you may have seen one in
whose childhood's home dignity and
severity stood where love and pity
should have been. Too much indul-
gence has ruined thousand of child.
rem; too much love not enc.
Year: 1879

Mr.. Beecher condemned undue
Consciousness in the strongest
terms. It tended to vulgarise what
God had made so sadly grand. he
could not conceive of anything more
adverse to the whole temper of
Christ. How long was the march
upward of humanity How slowly
dH men growl Was that a reason
foF pity or for contempt? Suppose
a ship were laundering upon a rock
and the people on shore were jeering
over each victim that went down to
rise no more. This was what was be.
ing done in o moral sense. When
the sand was strewn with corpses
Year: 1879

THE rear guard of the New York Repub-
hcans will leave here to-day and tomorrow.
If there are any stragglers they must pick
themselves up and get into line tomorrow,
or they will be left.
Year: 1879

employment and spread want and suffering
through every section where manufactures
give employment aud bread and add to the
general wealth of our common country.
This is what these emissaries of free trade
aim at, and it will be sad day for the
United States when such dogmas and de-
signs prevail.
Year: 1879

THE people of the State of New York are
greatly disappointed that BLACKBURN, the
great American wiper" does not come into
that State to help ROBINSON out He
would have made a rare show in the Empire
Gfotn
Year: 1879

SENATOR BECK has been using his slate
and pencil; and comes to the deliberate con-
clusion that New York will elect ROBIN
SON by at least 10000 majority. This should
convince any one that BECK knows just
about as much of New York politics ms
NIcoDEMUs did of the new birth.
Year: 1879

THE National Fair booms along success
fully in spite of the cold comfort bestowed
upon it by vagrant press which seeks to
belittle every effort put forth by its enter
prising and public-spirited managers. 1t
will survive all attacks in that quarter and
thrive under them.
Year: 1879

IT must make it pleasant for Governor
ROBINSON to know that every ward in AL
bany City, where he now resides, has
KELLY club which are holding nightly
meetings, They are boarding the lion in
his den.
Year: 1879

THERE may and there may not be any
foundation for the latest rumOrs relating
10 the appointment of u Commissioner
in the place of Commodore PHELPS but
one thing the President should bear in
mind in making that change-Mr PHELPS
WAS appointed MS a Republican, and the
Republican party is entitled to u representa-
lion on that Board in his place should a
change occur The President, we are con-
Rdent, will not Intentionally make the
mistake of adding another Democrat to that
commission. 1t will be an act Of injustice
10 his party that can scarcely be defended
Year: 1879

THE Rev. Dr. Talmage to his accu sers on the announcement of his ac quittal:

 Some of the brethren have said they do not like my way of preaching. just as much dislike theirs. They dc not sanction mine. 1 cOnld not en dure theirs. Brethren, I preach the best I can. You could not stand it tC hear me preach, and I would not fOr a salary of 5000 year sit and hear some of you preach.
Year: 1879

A Washington special to the New
York Herald of the 23d ult. says
Gen. Walker, the superintendent of
the census, said to day that according
to his plan of operations he would be
able to report to the closing session of
this Congress the result of the enumer-
alton to be made next June, and would
show the tables of population by
States, counties, cities, towns and vii
lages, so that in December of next
year the present Congress may proceed
to determine the apportionment under
which the Forty-eighth Congress shall
be elected. The Importance of this is
that it insures TO Il democratic Con
gress the reapportionment ofthe coun-
try and will enable it to control the
manner in which the basesof represen-
tBtion shall he determined SO that 1t
will be most favorable to the Southern
or democratic States. As the result
of the Presidential election will be
known before the report is made in
Congress, should it be unfavorable to
the democracy this Congress will have
it in its power to make the provisions
Of the apportioning act beneficial to
the defeated party.
Year: 1879

An extraordinary statement is In
circulation in England to the effect
that Cavagnari did not go to Cabul
with the light heart usually supposed.
On the contrary, in private letter to
u friend in this country received with
in the last few weeks, he spoke in Il
despondent tone of the work imposed
upon him. He represented to the
Niceroy the uselessness Of the mission
and the dangers which it was Drawing
He knew that an envoy would either
I've kept 4 close prisoner or would be
in constant fear of his life. If it be
true that Sir Louis Cavagnari made
such representations to the Viceroy it
adds another proof to the many al
ready known of the guilty folly ofthe
men who have entangled England in
a desperate Enterprise.
Year: 1879

That German paper in st. Louis,
in which the name of Secretary Schurz
appears as one of the owners, advises
the Germans of New York to work
for the defeat of the republican state
ticket. This, in connection with the
fac that Secretary Sherman declines
to allow money for the New York
campaign to be raised in his depart
ment, will doubtless make Senator
Conkling feel as though he had finally
stumbled against a sharp corner of
the Administration.
Year: 1879

A railroad engineer tells of the
storm in the Summit Miss Times:
The waves were blown over Manshac
bridge loaded with fish, car loads of
which were picked up, and he could
ba:he his hands in the waters of the
lake from his position on the engine.
Year: 1879

Two boys, one of them eighteen
years old and the other younger, were
recently sent to the penitentiary for
three months, from New York, for
stealing FIVE cents worth of lead from
the roof Of a house. If they had
stolen one hundred thousand dollars
they would probably have been turned
Year: 1879

Onion parties are popular in Tus-
carora. Six young ladies take an
onion into a room with them and one
of the number takes bite of it. Then
a young gentleman is admitted, and
after kissing all of them, if he fails to
tell which one of them bit the 'ingUn.
then the girls are all compelled to kiss
him, or he is compelled to kiss all Of
them, the chronicler forgets which.
Year: 1879

length have been doing business here have with
exampd My endeavor please the people, whom
my lot has been cast has with great satisfaction, and
l confidently the citizens of Gibson and
adjoining counties that will offer greater


than Please


look at the following
Year: 1879

.. L, CONWAY, ESQ, Editor True NoRTHERNEB


DSAa srE-I beg the privilege of publishing
through your paper, the following CONCERNING
the Freedmen's Relief Association:


We 1--we IN exceedingly stirring times. After
bloody civil war OF five years, and fourteen
years OF effort al reconstruction on a basis OF
equal rights to all, We find that the con fedora
ton which was supposed to be destroye ed when
psaoe was declared, is able to defy this govern
ment with its special constitutional amend
msnts, and is still able to deprive four million
OF freedmen OF the dearest privileges OF /.
citizen OF the United States and also place IN
jeopardy the prosperity, peace and safety OF a
whole nation. Political prophets tel ns that
we are about to enter upon one OF The most
exciting political campaigns In the history OF
our country. which. certainly accords with the
anxiety aad unrest found in the heart OF every
lover OF our union. The colored man is the
great factor in our politics Tho God of the
oppressed has an especial care of these people
and will never give us perfect victory over our
enemies til So insure them a protection in
every right that we, ourselves, possess. This
Year: 1879

seemed impossible without another war. But


suddenly divine providence seems to be solv-


ing the question for us, by causing myste terious


uprising OF this people al through the South


and moving them almost az ons man towards


our unoccupied domains in the beautiful State


OF Kansas. | think that 1t will be seen that


this same movement will put an entirely new
phase on the future political contests OF this
nation. 1t is also the means OF bringing this
people within range OF the elevating influences
OF the religious and educational powers OF the
loyal North. Every dollar that is paid into the
society 10 not only we'll invested charitable
8if'' but IS IN part, payment of the debt that a
JUST God holds against this nation, in behalf of
ITS former slaves. Believing that there are
many people in Van Buren, county that would
like to contribute to the wants OF the colored
freedmen OF Kansas, I present this appeal OF
the Relief Association and earnestly urge that
The people contribute literally and speedily 10
the treasury OF this society. Any contributions
sent to me at Paw Paw, will be Immediately
forwarded and acknowledged through the TRUE
ID. w. ABRAMS
Year: 1879

1t Affords us mach pleasure to give place


to the following editorial from the Detroit


News. 1t reflects more OF the public sent-


ment than the managers Of the university care


to have expressed:


We are free to confess that in our opinion
Mr.. Rose OF the university quarrel has made a
ridiculous mistake in bringing libel suits
against the papers and persons who charge him
with malfeasance in Office, While it is pretty
evident that much OF the persstency with
which he is pursued, is to be ascribed to ex-
press personal malice. it is also clear that a
series Of libel cases will do nothing either to
better his reputation, to injure those against
whom they arc brought, or to bring the IN
termlnsble controversy to an end. The public
take very little interest in the merits OF the
case, but are heartily tired and sick of the
whole controversy, which. as il has been car
ried on by both sides is disgrace to the whole
state and an injury to the university. The
people would be very glad to see every one
connec' Led with this exceedingly vulgar squable
ncontinently kicked out Of the institution, and
new set OF men, having no relations and no
sympathes With either side, put In But il
seems inevitable that every institution of the
state must sooner or later fail into the hands
" ring or clique, and in this Ann Arbor fight.
's protrac'ed as the siege OF Troy, and having
less worthy cause, we see the unmistaksble
marks Of two rival and equally greedy rings
'attling for CONTROL
Year: 1879

The Michigan circulation OF the Post and
Tribune already far outstnps that OF any oths,
weekly paper. Every additional copy taken in
the state helps to confirm tho Republican
supremacy
Year: 1879

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE SEC
OND Judicial District of the State of Nevada, in and
for the County of OrmSby.-James Gettys, plaintiff,
Mary Jane GetyS defendant Action brought in the Dis


rict Court Of the Second judicial District of the
Nevada in and for the County Of Ormsby, and the
plant filed in said County Of Ormsby in the office of the
Clerk of said District COurt-The Nevada sends
required to appear action brought against you by the
alb named plaintiff in the District Court of the Second
Judicial District of the State of Nevada in and for the
County of Ormsby, and to the complaint filed
therein "a copy of which accompanies this summons)
within ten days Exclusive of the day Of service)
served within this county; if served of
this county, but in this District, within twenty days
otherwise within forty daysOr judgment by default will
be taken against you The said action brought obtain


decree of divorce dssOving the bonds of matrmOny
isng between plaintiff and yourself the grounds of
your having committed adultery in the latter part of the
year A ID. 1874 and i'll the early part of the year A d.
1872 i'll the Territory (now Sate) of Colorado with
two certain persons, named in complaint, various
and diverse times and places and various and diverse
times and places down to this date with various other
persons that to the times and places of said
various acts of adultery that plaintiff is uniformed he
being at said time in the State Of Nevada and fur
ther grounds that had at the time of marriage
with plaintiff former husband living in Colorado by
of Robert Harris all of which is fully forth in
plaintiffs complaint And you are hereby notified that if
fail to appear and answer the said complaint above
required the said plaintiff will apply to the Court for the
relief demanded in his complaint.


Given under my hand the Seal of the District Court
of the Second Judicial District of the Sta of Nevada in
the year of Lord, thousand eight hundred and
seventy nine.


IsEAI.l J. II. MARSHALL, Clerk.


4. COFFIN, Attorney for Plaintiff je6
Year: 1879

The secretary of the treasury and the
secretary OF state have considered to-day
a necessary enlargement OF the powers
of the treasury department 80 as to
prevent the shipment of diseased cattle
from American ports, and bill for the
purpose will be sent to the proper com.
mittee of congress. o.
Year: 1879

Jefferson City Tribune, 18th III the
present general assembly does not pass
u law to discover all that class OF taxa
ble wealth. which on account OF its be-
ing hid successfully, has paid no part of
the tithes which the law imposes on
lands and other property that cannot be
hid away in side pocket. or in dark
corner of safe. it will not be fo- amt
of an honest effort to do SO. There is a
settled purpose to make notes and bonds
and money come to the front, and face
the assessor with an honest account; and
measures are being perfected which IL
is believed will surely accomplish that
end,
Year: 1879

Is 1t any worse to whip person before
he is sent to the penitentiary than 1t Is
to whip him alter he is sent there /?
Whipping is and always has been re-
sorted to at the state prison where the
inmates do not conform to its rules, and
we have yet to hear OF any legislator
raising his voice against it as '.reiic oil
barbaritv."
Year: 1879

A larger ice crop has been harvested
this year than ever before. On the Hud-
son river alone there are employed in
gathering it twelve thousand men, nine
hundred horses, and one hundred steam
engines. And this is all for f. luxury
that few years ago was bu. little
thought OF, but which is now becoming
q necessary part OF comfortable living
Year: 1879

Every traveller in Swi itzerland is IA
miliar with the tender star.shaped
flower of this curious plant, whose sage
green blossoms are stuck into tho hat
of every guide, and are collected with
rare ingenuity by the importunate
little rascals who race the carriages on
the road, or start out like rabbits from
the brushes as the pedestrian begins his
solitary climb. The plant is scarce and
very partial. 1t is found in engradine,
seldom in the Bernese Oberland, and
has particular corners and mountains
that it loves to affect. This scarcity
and partiality gave to the edelweiss a
somewhat unhealthy notoriety. The rarer
it became the more ambitious were the
excursionists to obtain sprig. Some
years ago every cockney hat was adorned
with the curious bloom, feathered, as
its botanical name implies, like an old
mans beard, and it was no longer sign
Of patience endurance TO wear this pretty
badge that hitherto had denoted long
climb and patient search.


There have been only one or two very
rare and exceptional cases where the
edelyeiss was induced to live and give
forth flowers in England, and then the
result was only obtained by system Of
nursery that would have worn out the
majority OF botanists. At last the Swiss
government determined to put down by
law the Wholesale destruction OF this
popular flower. 1t was rapidly disap-
pearing al ogether from the country
when an enactment made it penal to
take plant up by the roots. The dig.
nifty and Importance OF legislation gave
new impetus to the interest that was
attached to the plant, and going in
search Of the edelweiss became as attrac-
tive source Of danger as any to be
found in Switzerland. Unaooompanied
by guides and straying from the beaten
tracks, more than one tourist has risked
his life, and several have already been
killed, in the quest,
Year: 1879

II a pail of water be placed within sir
inches OF either side Of the stem OF q
pumpkin or vegetable marrow, it will in
the course of a night approach it, and
will be found in the morning with one
of the leaves on the water.


II prop be placed within six inches
Of ayoung cohvolvulus, or scarlet run
ner, it will find it, although the prop
may be shifted daily. II after it has
twined some distance up the prop, it be
unwound and twined in the opposite
direction, it will return to it's original
position, or die in the attempt; yet,
Notwithstanding, if two Of the plants
grow near to each other, and have no
stake around which they can entwinc,
one OF them will alter the direction OF
the spiral, and they will twine around
each other.
Year: 1879

Fashions in Paris proceed in singu-
lar but inVariable manner. As soon as
a novelty makes its appearance, every
one pounces upon it as on his prey, and
contrives to apply it to the most varied
and opposite purposes, and finally for
all purposes without exception. At this
point fashion abandons it's ephemeral
favorite; then when people appear by its
orders to have likewise abandoned and
forgotten it, it exhumes from the debris
certain details, which it seizes and re.
adorns itself Herewith. This has been
the case with jet, from which the whole
toilette is embroidered from head to
foot, and also with Breton lace and
Scotch plaid goods; the same is true as
regards the point d'esprit net, and the
broche cachemire shot with silk or gold
and silk. All kinds Of garments will be
made OF these until people grow weary
of them, when they will be abandoned,
then regretted, and finally restored to
favor and used more soberly than before.
Ladies who are prudent take great care
not to cucumber themselves with nov
city, taking it only in small doses at
the same time avoiding safety and the
feeling OF revulsion, which is always 90
disagreeable. Ladies of this class will
therefore wear broche cachemire, which
is the novelty Of the winter, but they
will conhne themselves to using it for
the trimming and accessories Of a toilette,
such as the revers, vest and cuffs, and
will not make wrappings Of it, which
they wonld probably have TO abandon
N .,1nnkh aftar
Year: 1879

Tha scandal developed in discussions
concerning tho validity of wills might
lead the possessors of wealth to learn
some useful lessons, among which may
be these Gifts to charitable objects,
il made by the donor while living, will
accomplish moro gool than if left to be
distributed by executors aud law
yers, who usually manage 70 get large
slice themselves besides, in the former
case, the donor can have the satisfaction
of seeing the beneficial results of his
charity. Wills should bo made when
in good health, if possible, before dis
case or old age impairs the powers.
The time has gone for even the most
superstitious to indulge the idea that he
will die any sooner for having made his
will,
Year: 1879

Q. S. s. Horne, while fishing recently
in Flint river, Georgia, wRs disturbed
by the continual falling Of some heavy
body in tho water. After listening for
some time ho concluded that something
unusual was going on, and, seizing his
gun, went forward to investigate, On
the opposite side of the river he saw a
white object with large dark one at
tacking it. A boat being handy, he
bailed it, aud expeditiously and quietly
passed over. He struck the bank about
Twelve feet above the cause Of the dis.
turbance, Heized his gun, and, as the
boat swung around with the stream, fred
at the head OF the dark object. He then
dropped his gun, and as the boat drifted
he lifted an immense logger.head turtle
into it, after which he pulled in the
other object, which proved to be a large
sturgeon. Before he could recross the
river, the turtle, which was only stun
ned by the bird shot, recovered and
showed fight. The situation was lively
and interesting. The boat was leaky,
the water deep and swift, the turtle
large, strong and determined on fight.
1t advanced with open mouth, and Cul's
gun was empty, He gave the boat all
the impetus possible, stuck the paddle
in the beasts mouth, drew little pen
knife from his pocket and tried to cut its
throat. AS the turtle kept its hold on
the paddle, he succeeded in this after
several efforts. He then carried his
prize home aud found that it weighed
fifty or sixty pounds. The sturgeon, he
supposed, weighed thirty or forty.