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Year: 1879

With an almost culpable degree of short slghtedness in the capitalists of the Pa. cific slope, the very important branch oI industry of copper mInmg has suffered to languish and to be almost extinguished with copper field unqualed in its extent by those of any other portion of the world It has been so completely ignored that the vast treasures which it contains are now lylng dormant in the veins and ore beds 1hls inertia exists regardless of the fact that the copper consumed on the coast amounts yearly to several millions dollars 1n value. This sum has to be sent away from our shores to other ports, for the purchase of what is only awaiting the encouragement of capital to De produced here and thereby not only increase our home wealth to that amount, but also to keep for homo circulation the money now expended for it. The shipment which would be made of the surplus pro- duct, would bring us back large amount of coin, thereby augmenting our local wealth.

 Ingot copper has advar ced about 43 per cent in price within the last few months, and is still appreciating in value. This advance will increase our shipments of coin to pay the excess in price and we lose the benefits of it, which would have inured to us if our copper mines had been duly sustained during the past few years.

 Had this been done thousands of work CTS would now be employed. and the wages they would receive would be in circulation among us. New mines would be opened aud wider field would be brought into profitable operation: adding to ,he valne of now almost unnoticed pro- pc ties, and giving. rise to new industries closely assoclated with the copper inter- est. Smelling works would have been erected and rolling mills established in the mining centers of the coast.

 This latter branch of the copper indus try could now be successfully maintained, anG safe field for investment is awaititg such capitalists as may have the spirit to oster this department of labor, which has ever been in other localities, where such works have been put into operation, source of profit to their owners. They would also react to the advantage of the investors. inasmuch as they would incite prospectOrs to discover new veins, and by thus increasing the quantity of copper produced, give an additional impetus to the copper interest and an enlarged scope to the business of the furnaces and mills Nos Press.
Year: 1879

That was regular home base hit by Judge Blake the other day, when he re- quested the lawyers in his court to stand further away from the prisoners box, for fear he should sentence some of them by naiStake-,S. F. Post.
Year: 1879

WINNIPEG May 10-The strike section
fifteen Canadian Pacific Railroad, is practically
ended. Whitehead is now paying off the men,
who arc leaving the works and coming into
Winnipeg. The men complain bitterly of their
treatment by Whitehead. The military will
come back to the city tomorrow. 1t is es-
timated that four-ffths of the men will leave
the works on the line, and great difficulty will
be experienced in replacing them.


woman named Hogaboom, from Ontario,
disappeared from the train on the Pembina
branch, last night. 1t is thought she was
insane and threw herself off with suicidal in
tent. The body is not found yet.
Year: 1879

would like to know what that meant. He
could not understand it. The Senator from
Georgia thought the South had right to be
solid. The North would destroy the Union.
The South was no more solid to-day than in
1857, and even since, and no quarrel with the
North made it solid. 1t was solid because
it was determined to rule or ruin the nation.
1t tried the ruin scheme with arms and failed ),
it comes back to ruin it by withholding sup
plies to carry on the government. Men have
changed since 1857, but not measures. The
other side then fought to overthrow the govern
ment; now they vote and talk for the self-same
purposes. You are to-day as you were then,
concluded Chandler, determined either to ruin
the government, and you can't do it.


Senator Hill said he would only remark that
the testimony referred to by Chandler was
taken in shorthand before the ku klux COM
mittee of Atlanta, and printed without his
revising seeing it. There we're typographical
and verbal errors in it as printed and the term
Union secessionist had certainly never been
used by him in his life.


Senator Window wished to refer to scrap
of history suggested by Senator Hill assertion
that secession was brought about by the ex-
tremists of the North who threatened the
property of the South. In February, 1861, a
Republican House of Representatives. by q
two-thirds vote passed an amendment to the
constitution prohibiting the passage of any
cons stitutional amendments giving Congress
power to interfere with slavery in any State
whose laws recognized it. Senator Wiadom
said he was not here to defend that amend
ment, but it was passed and submitted to the
people. A few days afterward Lincoln, in his
first inaugural alluded to apprehensons among
the Southern people that the accession of
the Republicans to power would
mean danger to their property and
assured them that such apprehensions were
groundiess, and that interference with slave
was late Am
of the correctness of his assurance was open.
That was the manner, said Window, in which
the extremists Of the North compelled the peo-
pie of the South tosccede, because they feared
iSey would lose their property.


Senator Window gave way for a motion to
adjourn by Senator Beck, who suggested that
Window continue his remarks OIL Monday, by
which time it is thought the political provisions
of the bill will be reached. With this under
standing the Senate adjourned.
Year: 1879

treason and traitors.


Continuing, Senator Chandler said the Sena-
tor from Georgia was not the man to talk about
other men saving their own blood. He took
care to put his blood in Fort Lafayette, where
it was out Of the way of both rebel and Union
bullets. He (Chandlerl then now was in
favor Of the government of the United States
and abhorred the idea of State sovereignty over
national sovereignty, and was then now pre-
pared even to shed blood to save blood, but the
Senator from Georgia was, as he testified be-
fore the committee, a Union secessionist. He
Year: 1879

In the case of Gerald Mainwaring, the
dissipated young Englishman who, at
the end of three days debauch, reck-
lessly murdered a policeman arresting
him, the jury is reported to have stood
six to six. According TO the public
statement made by the foreman of the
jury, and which has been severely com
mented upon by Mr.. Cross, the British
home secretary, the question of the YER
dict was decided by ballot. The wretch
was condemned to hang that iurymen
might dine. The jury being six to six,
and wanting to get out of their condne-
ment, took ballot upon the point as to
which of the panel should determine the
verdict. By the secret ballot, no man
being responsible, it was decided that
the casting vote should be given by a
member who was in favor of a verdict OF
guilty Of murder, and it was so deter
mined. The London Standard Justly
says Of such proceedings that they are
utterly indefensible. No privilege of a
jury, it says, can cover such playing
fast and loose with death. The iuryman
who finds verdict of willful murder
otherwise than in obedience to the oath
which he has taken is murderer just
as much as hangman would be who
should hang a man not condemned to
death. From this crime the jury are
in this case eaved by the timely dis
closure which the foreman has made Of
their disgrOceful conduct; for, of course,
upon the result of a verdict so found the
home secretary declines to act. In spite
of their efforts the blood Of the wretched
Mainwaring will not beupop their heads.
What course will now be taken has not
been announced. If the jury are 80 dis
credited that their whole proceedings
are null it would follow that there has
been no finding. But if the verdict,
however tainted, technically stands good,
there remains nothing but to commute
the sentence,
Year: 1879

Nervousness is one of the most anom-
alous of human attributes. The Duke
Of Wellington is reputed to have said,
in psradoIical mood, that he would
prefer leading an army Of towards to any
other, and it is doubtless true that men
OF extremely nervous temperament often
display the most intrepid bravery on an
emergency. 1t is quite conceivablethat
young and timid soldiers may be too
much frightened to run away; end we
are by no means convinced that there is
no foundation Of truth in the Irishsm
that people may be too frightened to be
afraid. 1t is possible for human be-
ing to be so alarmed that he dare not
think about danger, and, rather than
pause for moment to contemplate the
perils which threaten him, will rush
madly into action, if only to Danish the
thoughts which would appall him. Ner-
Vousness and courage frequently go
hand in hand. A horse which will shy
at a sparrow is often bold hunter, and
woman who screams when q gun is
fred will sometimes ride very hard with
the hounds. Those who are childishly
nervous about paying a visit to the den,
list, will perhaps face terrible opera.
tion, or even death itself, with compare
tive calmness; and we once knew won.
derfully fearless man who had child
ish dread of meeting a funeral. Lord
Byron, who was always prepared TO ac-
cept challenges, and practiced for hours
daily with his pistols, was coward on
horseback. To say that a man is ner-
vous, often simply means that he has an
imaginative mind, which, under circum-
stances in which others feel no appre-
hension, sees dangers, copjures up every
evil that could possibly happen, and is
haunted by recollections of accidents
that have occurred under similar con-
ditions,
Year: 1879

A correspondent who has intelligently
studied the question Of polygamy in
Utah, expresses his col eviction in the
speedy downfall OF the institution, and
bases his conclusion as follows:


1 believe that polygamy will be a
short lived institution. The enactment
OF a law which would make every poly.
gamous Mormon, and especially every
apostle and elder and priest and bishop,
feel that he himself was in danger, and
the rigid enforcement, Of it for time,
would soon bring things TO a crisis At
the same time there are other influences
at work to make poiygamy unpopular
among many Of he Mormons them.
selves. When Salt Lake City was q
thousand miles beyond the frontier aud
communication with the e istern centcrs
of trade and fashion was diff cult aud
very expensive, when Gentiles rarely
visited Utah, and fow articles not neces
saries of life we're brought across the
plains from the States, the fashionable
milliner and dressmaker were unknown
here. The female converts brought here
from Europe came generally from the
peasantry, whose style Of dressing never
changed, and was by the very force of
circumstances very plain and inexpen.
siye. The cost of supporting a large
family of wives and daughters was in
those days comparatively small, while
the profits on almost every kind of busi-
ness were much larger than now.


But since completion Of the Pacific
railways all this has changed. Utah is
no longer cut off from the rest of the
world; thousand of Gentiles have come
here to live, and other thousands visit
the Territory every year, bringing with
them the fashions and the customs OF
the great cities of the country. The ef-
feet Of this is already to be seen. Nor
mon women are ambitious TO dress as
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station in life, and to be surrounded in
their homes by the same Injuries. Nor.
mon men find it difficult to support one
family in the style in which they wish
to live, and to provide for more than this
is out Of the question. In short, the
same influences that are at work in the
older portions of the country, making
marriages less frequent and families
smaller among the better class OF Amer
leans than formerly, operate here against
plural marriages. The younger people,
too, are more intelligent and better ed.
ucated than their fathers and mothers
we're, and are less easily led away by
the fanaticism Of the church. At any
rate, believe it to be fact that very
few Of the more intelligent welI-to do
young Mormon men in the cities and
towns OF this Territory have more than
one wife each.
Year: 1879

Hardly less important to the safety OF
the mariner are the buoys that mark the
channels, and point out the dangers OF
the way, than the lighthouses and light
ships which warn the sailor and serve as
his beacon. They are made Of wood or
metal, and are often hollow. They are
Of various shapes aud colors, partly to
render them conspicuous, and partly to
distinguish them one from another
Sometimes they point out the best chan
mel; sometimes they warn the mariner
away from shoals; sometimes they form
continuous double line between which
ships can pass in safety. A hollow con-
ical buoy is called can buoy;' adouble
conical buoy is called nun buoy q
floating wooden spar is called spar
buoy The different colors indicate
upon which side they must be passed.
These colors are fixed by laws of Con.
gress in the United States. Thus red
buoy must be left on the starboard hand
by vessel entering the harbor from
sea, and black buoy must be left on
the port hand; black and white horizon
tai stripes, give wide birth; black and
white vertical stripes, hug close on either
side. Nun buoys are placed on the
starboard side of q channel, and can
buoys on the port side.
Year: 1879

Harry Richmond never played Grim.
wig in our Candidate better than at
the Park theOter, Brooklyn, on Satur-
day night. He entered fully into the
fun of the part and kept the audience
and even the people on the stage laugh
ing uproariously. His spirits were at
high tide, and the merest nothings in his
lines were full of wit and provocative
of laughter. There was change in
store for him, as Little Buttercup'
would say, and the buoyant spirit was
to become weeping and sorrowful one.
At s. 80 o'clock Colonel Sim received a
telegram from Philadelphia, asking him
to tell Richmond that his wife was dead.
For nearly three hours, while the hus-
band was amusing the audience, the
news of the wife's death lay unknown to
him Just behind the scenes When the
curtain fell upon the last act the actor
went into his dressing-room and, after
changing his costume, went to the box
Office, when Colonel Sim broke the sad
news TO him. Richmond was crushed by
the blow and would have fallen had he
not been caught in the arms Of Mr..
John Vile, the treasurer OF the theater.
Year: 1879




THE Nation praises the veto message and
says: "It goes to the merits of the matter in
controversy, and claims for the federal gov
eminent the right to use the army in aid Of
the marshals to protect voters and repress
disorders at federal elections, or, in other
words, to discharge duties which the Demo-
cratic theory reserves TO the state govern
meat exclusively. We think there can be
little doubt that on this issue the Democrats
will in the long run be beaten, though they
will doubtless owe their defeat largely to the
fact that the army is so small. They cannot
make it appear that in its present dimensions
it is dangerous as police force; nor can they
convince people that the federal government
needs no police force to execute the laws"
Year: 1879

THE troubles in Russia are considered by
the New York World as threatening the ex-
istence of the Cars government, unless that
absolute ruler is wise in time. 1t says that
IF we take further into consideration the
fact that all the powerful elements of dlscon-
tent are grasped and bound together and d.
rected to common aim by secret organiza-
tion unprecedented in the history of revolu-
tionary movements and led. by men fanatical-
ly devoted to their cause, men of iron will,
trained intelligence and indomitable purpose,
it will be seen that the chances preponderate
strongly against the decaying machinery OF
czardom. If the Government of Alexander
IL. will not bend in time, it is like 10 break
with shock which will be felt 10 the ends Of
the EARTH"
Year: 1879

MEN AND THINGS of the Herald tells this
story as suggestion 10 the Democratic
leaders: When the water was high on one
of the western ivers, steamboat pilot blun-
dered into false channel and found himself
land-locked. For time he was loath to ad.
init the mysguidance, and kept assuring the
captain that there was ''a way out' At last
the situation became too obvious for denial
The pilot was driven to acknowledge his bad
steering. Captain" he said "there is way
out; but guess We will have to find it by
backippp
Year: 1879

GOVERNOR GARCELoN is quoted as saying
at Washington that there is no doubt that
the next campaign in Maine will be a three
sided one like the campaign of last year, but
he Gays "It is going to be hotter campaign
than that of last year or that the State has
seen for many years. The Republicans are
going to make prodigious efforts to carry the
State.n Correct.
Year: 1879

we DO not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The name and address Of the writer In
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as q guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
mnnications that are not used,
Year: 1879

We are prepared for any business
in the way of receiving and toward
ing which will have our most care
ful attention and on liberal terms
We have a large and commodious
warehouse, and we make this bus
ness a speciality, and solicit share
ofpublic patronage. :,


II. B. Any orders for good
through us will be promptly atte nd
ed to.
Year: 1879

We are in receipt OF q PROPOSE
tion from the Chicago Ledger TO
publish it's prospectus, TO occupy
at regular rates, about sls worth OF
space, for copy OF tho paper o:'c
year. the regular subscription price
of which is $3.50 a year. Circum'
s,anccs over which We don't care to
obtain control compels us to decline
this magnanimous offer for the
present; and should We need the
Ledger as an exchange, we will try
and raise the money.
Year: 1879

DAIN in the right side. under the
| edge of the ribs. increases on pres.
sure; sometimes the pain is in the LEFT
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain
is felt under the shoulder blade, and
it frequently extends to the top OF the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The stom-
ach is affected with loss Of appetite
and sickness; the bowels in general
are costive, sometimes alternative with
lax; the head is troubled with pain.
accompanied with dull. heavy SEN
sation in the back part. There is gen.
orally a considerable loss Of memory.
accompanied with painful sensation
OF having left undone something which
ought to have been done. A slight.
dry cough is sometimes an attendant.
The patient complains OF WEAKNESS
and debility. he is easily startled. his
feet are cold or burning, and he COM
plains of a prickly sensation of the
skin; his spirits are low; and although
he is satisfied that exercise would be
beneficial to him, yet he can scarcely
summon up fortitudc enough to Try it.
In fact. he distrusts every remedy.
Several of the above symptoms attend
the disease, but cases have occurred
where few of them existed. yet exam
nation of the body. after death. has
shown the LIVER to have been exten-
sivcly d.ranscd.
Year: 1879

One Of the Anchor Line passed
down early last week with mail


for this place. and notwithstanding
the fact that Osccola boa.cs three
Landings, for some cause, best
kown to the Offices of that boat,
carried our mai! by and left it at
Fulton, where it lay for week;
and whcrc, no doubt, il would still
have been, had not our post master
accidentally heard of it and sent n
messenger after it. THIS, coupled
with the fact that we don't get but
about one mail in ten days, on an
average, when we are entitled to
six a week, IA calculated TO weaken
the confidence of the people along
this river, in the ability and willing
ness OF this. now powerful, mo.op


oily to accommodate them any lon
ger. AS long as they had rcspccta


bic competition for the carrying
trade these boats were gladly land


ed anywhere along the banks to
get a letter or an order but now
that nearly all competition is with.
drawn, and tho people have turned
all their freithting business into
their hands, aud are totally depen-
dent upon ihco, for their mail iacil.
tiles, they are treated with all the
contempt and indifference that Oh


tains in too much fawning upon the
powerful and opulent. We hope
the Postmaster General will see
to this matter, and If, without dis.
conccrting this favored monopoly,
our mails can be dished ont little
more regularly in the future why,
We shall be ever SO much obliged.
Year: 1879

years ago last Writer, an invalid, with
very little money. He has no team.
and at best is able to do no more
than half a days work in day, while
many days he is not able to do anys
thing, and has never had an hour of
teamwork on his homestead. He
seems to have made the best possible
use OF the material at hand, and has
wasted neither time nor strength to
attain what was beyond his reach.
The result is a good example of max
ing much from little.


We learn that Mr.. Allen, a mile
below on the island, has had equally
good success with the few vines he
has planted, and, in our judgement,
grape culture should be more prom.
inent feature in our agriculture.


WILLIAM p. BROWNE,


Chairman Of Committee.
Year: 1879

Before YOU begin your heavy spring
work after a winter Of relaxation, your
system needs cleansing and strengthen
ing 20 prevent an attack OF Ague, Bill
lious or Spring Fever, or some other
Spring sickness that will unfit YOU Tor a
seasons work. You Will save time,
much sickness and great expense if you
viii use one bottle Of Hop Bitters in
your family this month. Don't wait
See other column.
Year: 1879

This morning while the wife of a we'll
known business man was attending mar
ket, she purchased pair of fine spring
chickens, and gave them to colored bow
to carry for home. The chickens feet
were tied together to prevent them from
escaping


The lady referred to had not proceed
ed far before Emily Webb stopped the
colored boy, and took him to task for
carrying the chickens with their heads
down. The merchants wife stopped, of
course, and demanded how they should
be carried, to which Miss Webb made
reply that they should be carried by the
head, as the way they were being carried
come under the law of cruelty to animals.
The controversy as to how the chick
ems, should be carried soon attracted a
gathering of the passers-by until finally
the lady informed Miss Webb that il
she desired the chickens carried by the
head, that she might carry them herself.
To this invitation Miss Weob declined,
and the colored boy walked off in tri-
umph with the chickens, carrying them
with their heads down.
Year: 1879

Much comment was created among
the people living in the neighborhood OF
Lombard and Taylor streets yester-
day, over the rumor that a man living
near had attemp ed to commit suicide.
On investigation showed that the man,
who has been drinking considerably for
the past few days, went up stairs and


locking the door of his bed room fired
offa revolver three times. Bis wife,
thinking he had killed himself was in a
state of terrible anguish for some time.


as he was very quiet and wou not open
the door for some time. At last he came
out and it was seen that he was unhurt.
Year: 1879

A good joke is told of a certain Will
miDgton newspaper man who hired
horse in Dover a night or two ago, and
started to Leipsic to make cali upon
young lady there. Although well ac-
quainted down the State hedid not know
The road and getting last drove aimlessly
around through the country for the
greater part Of the highland finally drove
into Dover again and did not know
where he was until he passed by the
post office buildin-. The joke got OH
in Dover, and he is much laughed at.