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Year: 1878

EDIsoN's ELECTRIC LIGHT.-Ihe Scientific
American is sanguine about the Of Pro-
fessor Edisons latest reported discovery in electric
lighting. In answer to the question. "What Is Mr.
Edison's discovery g. II says: 1t is based the we'll
known fact that wire may be heated by an electric
current the basis OF many attempts to accomplish what
Mr.. Edison claims TO have done. The reader may have
seen the gas Jets Of she dome OF the Capitol at Washing
ton lighted by similar means Over each burner is
placed a coil Of platinum wire, which. when heated by
the electric current, ignes the Mr. Edison the
coil itself the Of light the current through
It being strong enough TO make the coil white hot
self-luminous The difficulty to be overcome at this
point the liability Of the wire TO fuse and spoil the
light difficulty which Mr.. Edison claims to have OBJ
waited by the introduction OF simple device which, by
the expansion OF a small bar the instant the heat Of the
coil approaches the fusg point OF platinum interposes
a check TO the flow OF the current through the coil This
automatic arrangement, in connection with auxiliary
resistance coil secures IL is said flow Of ecc
tricity through the COLL aud consequently steady glow
pure light II this Is done economically, IL IS obvious
marked advance has been made in artificial IL
Illumination"
Year: 1878

NOVEL APPLICATION OF THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.
The electric light has been successfully applied TO the
bicycle by an enthusiastic EngliShman The motor is
the hind wheel of the bicycle, and the apparatus Is
small ordinary mameto-olectric machine with rotary
magnet aided by small pocket battery. The carbons
are regulated by train OF wheels, worked by the front
wheel OF the bicycle, the consumption being about one
inch per hour. The apparatus takes up the room ot
small valise and costs III all about $50. The light II
steady and equal TO 100 candles, its great advantage
being that II lights mp the road thoroughly for 200 Yards
ahead on dark night Carriage makers and owners
may find useful hint here.
Year: 1878

Too MUCH CHLoRAL-Mrs. Jane Sears. wife
OF a druggist corner of Franklin and Gilmor
streets, Baltimore, was found dead on a lot
about square away from her home yesterday
morning from the results of an overdose OF
chloral Her family had supposed her to be at
her sisters house.
Year: 1878

JUICE KELLEY, OF Pa, was in the city last
night. He is in very bad health, and for this
reason has not taken an active part in the cam
paign in his state. He is the nominee of the
republican and national parties for Congress.
and is confident OF his election. The Judge has
rot changed his views as to the inadviSablity of
resumption in 1879, and still thinks that resump-
ton, if attempted, will entail additional distress
upon the country.
Year: 1878

CONGRESSMAN FORT, of ILL.,, a re-
publican, introduced into the House,
some days ago, a bill which passed that
body, the substance of which is as
follows:


That it shall not be lawful to cancel
or retire any more United States legal
tender notes, and when any of said
notes may be redeemed or received
into the Treasury under any law from
any source whatever, and shall belong
to the United States, they shall not be
retired, cancelled or destroyed, but
they shall be reissued and paid out
again, and kept in circulation; pro-
vided that nothing herein shall pro-
hibit the cancellation and destruction
of mutilated notes, and the issuance
of like denominations in their stead
as now provided by law.


The Finance committee of the SEN
ate have reported favorably and Secre-
tary Sherman for more than a month
has favoredit, Itwilldoubtless pass the
Senate. Now that resumption is vir-
tually accomplished there is no need
of any further retirement Of these
notes. Doubtless the day will come
soon when either these notes or bank
notes, whichever shall he found to be
the best course to pursue, will be
nearly all the circulating medium OF
the country, save the subsidiary coin
The use of coin will be to lie in the
vaults Of the Treasury or In bank
vaults ready to redeem the paper i
called for. Coin, of course, is the on.
ly true measure Of values, but fol
convenience sake the paper is USED
rs its representative. Secretary Sher


man now sees that there Is coin enough
to do this and so there, can be no OBJ
lection in the world to the issuance O
paper upon a specie basis, 1t is ne
Year: 1878

SINCE Missouri is hopelessly demo-
cratic and we cannot expect repub-
lican Senator from that state, it would
afford us great pleasure to see one at
least of the two U. S. Senators taken
from the list of men who were for the
Union in the great rebellion. AS her
Senatorial representation now stands
they are both ex-rebels. Upon this
subject the Globe-Democrat says:


The defeat i'm the Senate yesterday
of the bill to empower the President
to place Gen. Shields on the retired
list with the rank of Brigadier-Gen-
eral, brings the democratic party of
this State face to face with a duty
which it will, doubtless, perform with
pleasure. 1t has the power and the
opportunity to send the veteran of
two wars to the United States Senate
next winter. The agitation recently
shown by some of the hungry place.
hunters of the party shows how much
they fear the man who was never
beaten on the battlefield. The recep-
ton given him by the knights of st.
Patrick, and the speeches made on
that occasion, prove his popularity
with the strongest wing of the party
in this section of the state. And the
Irish element have u proud right to
recognition at the hands of the de-
mOcracy Of Missouri. They have
plowed and sowed while others have
reaped the harvests. With Gen.
Shields as their candidate they can
enter the lists fearlessly. He is still
in full possession of all hismental fac
ulties, and would reflect honor in the
Senate on the state. Let the Demo
cratic State Convention declare in his
favor and the question will be settled
Year: 1878

whenever you see a peddler COM
ing into county, claiming to dis
count the prices of our merchants and
other bu'iness men, who are doing q
Legitimate, honest, and but living
business, set him down as fraud and
a swindler and that before you have
done with him, if you give HIM an
order, he will beat you in some way
or an other Oskdloosa Herald.


There is much truth concentrated
in the above paragraph. The only
security from being swindled is to
give travelling dealers a wide berth,
and stand by your home merchants
They are your fellow citizens, and
help build up your com unity
You know them and you have q rem
edy il they were so disposed as to at
tempt any swindle upon you. But in
these days of competition il is every
merchants object to sell you no shod-
dy goods, and he well knows that
he must be down to bottom figures IL
he desires to hold the trade. With an
observation of several yesrs we have
noticed that in nine cases out of ten,
patronizing foreign dealers in expec-
tation of striking some big bonanza,
was failure. Our home merchants
these days are selling goods at q very
low margin, and no travelling ped dler
unless he is fraud, can nndersell
them.-Cedar Falls Gazette.
Year: 1878

A dry goods clerk on Main street
was showing q woman come parasols
yesterday. This clerk has q good
command of language, and knows
how to expatiate on the good quail
ties of and show the best points of
goods. AS he picked up q parasol
from the pile on the counter, he
struck an attitude of admiration and
holding it up SO the best light would
be had, said:


"Now there. Isn't it lovely I? Laok
at that elk !! Particularly observe
the quality, the finish, the general eff
feet. Feel of 1t. Pass your hand
over it. No foolishness about that
parasol, is there 2" he said as he
handed it over to the lady: saint il
q beautyT


eyes" said the lady, stuffing her
handkerchief into her mouth, "yes,
that's my old one, l just laid it down
there"


The clerk was Immediately seized
with . severe attack Of quickened
conscience and passed right off the
subject OF parasols on to the weather.
-Keokuk Constitution.
Year: 1878

THE Missouri Republican is very
able, considerate and astute democrat
ic journal. 1t criticizes the action OF
the democrats in their investigation
move and gives its reasons as follows:


"In our political campaigns the ad-
ministratiOn is formidable power.
1t can nearly always decide a close
contest by throwing its influence in
favor of one side. A few weeks ago
it was understood that Mr.. Hayes had
decided to stand aloof from politics
in the states and leave the parties to
fight out their contests without the
federal interference. Nay, more than
this; there was some reason for the
hope on the part of democrats, that if,
in 1880, the republicans should seek
to condemn the Hayes policy by NOM
mating Grant, the influence of the adj
ministration would be thrown direct.
ly against them. But all this is prob
ably dissipated by the investigation
resolution. That measure is aimed al
both Mr.. Hayes and the republican
leaders; it makes them common OBJ.
jects of attack and it presents to them
a common ground of defense. In
short it reunites the divided party
and assures the employment of all
the influence and authority of the adj
ministration against the democrats in
the congressional elections of this
year and the presidential election two
years hence. The folly of driving
Mr.. Hayes over to the party from
which he was standing aloof is tOt
plain for dispute"


There is no doubt wisdom in thu
view taken by the Republican, ant
there can be no accounting for tn.
democratic House taking the cours,
it did except that upon the theory o.
belief on their part that the republic
an party had become so lukewarm to
ward the administration thatit woul(
not oppose them in their nefariou
plan. Here they erred greatly, ant
if we mistake not it will have the ef
feet Of correcting another error which
lies at the door of the President, viz
too much confidence i'm Southern dem
ocrats.


I
Year: 1878

The bill for placing Gen. Shields
upon the retired list has been defeat
ed as it should have been. He has
not performed the continuous service
which, under the law, entitled him to
such consideration, and if his case
was to be made an exception thereare
agreat many soldiers, from generals
all the way down to privates that
ought also to be made exceptions,
The democracy did q mean thing by
defeating him for q respectable posi-.
tiOp whereby he could earn for him.
self good living, and SO they under,
took to do an injudicious and excep,
ti0aal thing to get themselves out o.
their dilemma.


Now there probably will he move
to increase the Generals pension, and
this we regard as proper and just
thing to do.
Year: 1878

HAVING seen the entire proceedings
of the Davis county democratic con-
vention we find that the delegates to
the State and Judicial conventions
were given the same instruction that
the Congressional delegates We're, viz:
to vote for none but democrats and to
leave no vacancy on the ticket for
greenbackers to make hay with. The
Davis County Republican says:


"The Knapp-Weaver combination
does not seem to prosper. The first
democratic gun in this part of the
state unhorsed Weaver and distinctly
repudiated Knapp. The sentiment
here seems to be that since Knapp
went to bed with the greenbackers he
must continue to sleep with them.
While this is true of Davis county,
we do not believe it will be of the
state. Wethink the Democratic State
Convention will endorse Knapp, even
against the protest of Davis county,
but we consider the action of this
county as an evidence of the willing
ness Of the democracy to turn Weav-
er's political toes up to the daisies.
Year: 1878




In the Ottumwa Courier we find the
following resolution reported passed
by the Davis county democratic con-
ventiOn:


Resolred, That the delegation from
Davis county to the Democratic State,
Congressional and Judicial conven-
tions, are hereby instructed to vote
for the nomination of straight demo-
cratic candidates, and none Others,
and to vote against all propositions
tending either to pledge the support
of democrats to the candidates of 9TH
er parties or to leave the tickets va
cant.


This is General Weaver's own coun-
ty and it shows that he is not in any
great favor at home. The General
has not had the fortune to make him
self popular at home with any party.
For years he has sought favor with
republicans and this he thought he
could do best by abusing his oppo-
nents. Democrats have evidently not
forgotten this and hence their conclu-
sion when assembled in council. The
LEADER has doubted from the begin
ming whether the General could win
the affections and cooperation of the
democrats of the Sixth district, but it
was disposed to let the democrats of
the district settle upon their own poll
cy, especially, inasmuch as the repub-
licans seemed to show SO many signs
of alarm at the possible prospects that
their opposition might be united. The
union would doubtless have been eff
fected had more conservative man
been chosen by the greenbackers. As
it is there is little prospect that the
democratic congressional convention
will run counter to the protest of Gen
eral Weaver'S own home representa-
tives, and if the convention should
disregard this protest his election can
hardly be expected.


The State Leader, the capital organ
of the democracy, has at last snuffed
the real situation in the Sixth district
as to the Weaver democratic misce-
genation. We would correct the
Leader, however, i'm one of its state
ments, and that is that the republic
cans of the district have seemed
alarmed at the danger Of a union.
We will not say we did not expect
this from the Leader, for we did; but
of course the Leader did not expect
anybody to believe it. We want the
democracy to endorse Weaver SO that
the gentleman may have a chance to
ascertain just how much the people
take him for. when he has all the mo-
litical wires arranged just to suit his
liking. The common people have a
good fair share of common sense and
that article is very damaging to the
Generals aspirations.
Year: 1878

The New York Graphic, under the


head of ''Indications," notes five facts
showing the revival Of prosperity.


These are, the revival of foreign inn


migration for the first time in five OF


six years; steadily increasing for
eign commerce; buoyant undercur-


rent of the stock exchange, with no


"bear" movement since the silver bill


became law; the resumption of rail-


road building, especially in the Far


West, reacting favorably on Eastern


iron industries; and finally, the 'phe-


nomenal" prosperity of the Far West.


Nothing similar has been known


heretofore; the harvest promises great


abundance, and the tide of settlement


is flowing in rapidly. New lands are


being brought under cultivation,
feeders to the great trunk lines of


railroads are being constructed and
the demand for manufactured articles
is sure to be large"


The Graphic is very sensible paper
and continues to show it from day to
day. We have no doubt that the
country has commenced upon tide
of prosperity which we shall soon
sensibly appreciate. The democracy
in Congress appear to be afraid that
good times may set i'm and they no
longer have this leverage to hoist
them into power, and so they go to
work to frighten the country by
threatening revolution. 1t won't do
to pooh this matter down the wind.
If the people of this country have not
had a lesson which they will heed in
the great rebellion, as to what the
democracy will do land they
are the soul and director Of the party)
then we confess experience is not
much of a teacher or ourpeople or they
are poor pupils. If man is shown
to be a deliberate thief we must say
Nutt Iildl 10 a lOOi WIN lS cit<tlu IlS
will not steal again, and the same
rule is even more applicable in the
case of the traitor. We want to be
we want to place all the
possible in our fellow-men;
but a decent regard for the good of
society, for the national welfare, pre-
cludes that we. should be assured that
the man once traitor in behalf of
slavery will always be a patriot.
The fear. arising from the recent ac-
tion of Congress will alone retard re-
turning prosperity at present, and
there is no other way to remedy this
but to place securely in power those
men who have not committed trea-
son or sympathized with it. 1t is no
idle remark for us to make, that there
are great and vital interests at stake
in the determination this fall of which
party shall control the next House of
r. Representatives. From the moment
it should fall into the hands of the
if it should, from that
time there will be distrust among the
business and commercial men of the
land, for they will be justified i'm fear
ing bad reSllltS-eyen revolution.
Year: 1878

If the democrats yesterday in the
House did not intend their investiga-
ton to work out the unseating of
President Hayes, if possible, why did
they not pass Harrison's resolution
which declared that such was not the
intention. This resolution was intro
duced by a democrat and the repub-
licans waited to see the democrats say
what they meant by their resolution,
and the democracy did not come to
time. After this who can be deceiv-
ed about the intention Of the conspir-
atOrS?
Year: 1878

The Buffalo Express says of the adj
dress of the Congressional Campaign
Committee: "All division of party
growing out of differences regarding
this or that line of policy, is ignored
in it, and it will serve as a rallying
cry for the concentration ofrepublican
strength throughout the country. II
is timely stroke, appearing as itdoes
at the same moment of the announce
ment Of the crowning infamy ofdem-
ocratic rule in the popular branch OF
Congress, and cannot fail to attract at
tention and command respect"
Year: 1878

In the senate or the United states,
March ii, 1878, Mr. Kirkwood asked,
and by unanimous consent, obtained
leave to bring in the following bill !;
which was read twice and referred
to the committee on judiciary. May
IA, 1878. Reported by Mr.. Davis of
Illinois.


A Bill providing the times and places


of holding the Circuit Court Of the


United States in the District of


Iowa, and the appointment of an


additional judge In said district.


Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives Of the Unit
ed States of America in Congress as
sembled, That the Circuit Court of
the United States in and for the dis
trict of Iowa shall hereafter be held
at the times and places provided by
law for holding the United States
District Court in and for said dis
trict; and one grand and one petit
jury shall be Summoned and serve in
both Of said courts at each term there
of. Causes removed from any court
of the State of Iowa into said Circuit
Court within said district shall be re-
moved to tho Cirouit in the division
in which such State Court is held,
unless the parties thereto shall other
wise agree, or the court, for good
cause, shall otherwise order; Provid-
cd, all causes that may be removed
from tho District to the Circuit Court,
either by appeal or . writ of error,
shall be taken to the Circuit Court at
Des Moines.


Sec. 2. The President by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate,
shall appoint an additional district
judge In and for the district of Iowa,
who shall have the same salary as the
present judge of said district. Either
Of the district judges Of said district,
separately or together, may exercise
any Of the powers or jurisdiction con-
ferred by law ON the district Judge
for said district, and may hold any
term Of the District and Circuit
Courts OF said district % provided by
law; and said courts may sit 1T the
same time In different divisions of
said district. But the district Judge
Oldest In commission shall have the
right to appoint the clerks Of all dis
trict courts, and shall, from time to
time, designate what court shall be
held by the junior district Judge.
Year: 1878

THE National Greenbackers held a
State Convention for Indiana Mt In
dianapolis yesterday, and nominated
a full ticket. The resolutions passed
are base surrender to the commu-
nistic elements of the country and
present financial system such alone
as either rascals or idiots would adopt.
The adoption of the financial theory
recommended for the nation would
make us the laughing stock of the
civilized world and be totally destruc-
tive to every business, social and NOR
al interest in the land,
Year: 1878

THE superintendent of the Mount
Pleasant Insane Asylum gives notice
that the asylum is overcrowded, and
large numbers of the inmates will be
returned to the proper counties, which
must prepare to receive them before
November 1.
Year: 1878

As THE next step following the at
tempt to unseat President Hayes, the
democratic House want to reduce our
handful of an army. Specials from
Washington give some hopeful signs
that there will be few democrats
who will oppose the extreme menu
bers among the democrats and, unit
ing with the republicans, will yet de-
feat the measure. We do most sim
cerely hope SO. We shall see how the
party lash may bring opposing demo-
Gratis into line.
Year: 1878

will have war. Meanwhile let the
people persevere in organizing green
back clubs, and in a short time, when
this army of intelligence Is perfected,
we will prove to the bondholding ar
istocracy of the United States, and to
that combination that makes laws for
its benefit, that aCe, the people, acil1
haze bread or blood; that we will have
money in abundance or war, even as
Moses proposed to have water out of
the rock, or break it to pieces"


We recollect this bowling demon in
the days ofthe rebellion. He does not
seem to have improved much of late.
Any man who countenances him is
either very ignorant or a knave.
Year: 1878

THE Albany Journal, referring to
the electoral commission and the re-
cent action of the democrats in the
House, says: "The final declaration
was invested with as high legal sane
tity as ever surroundedany title. And
when the democrats of the House
now move against it they are tramp
ling upon the established settlements
of law and playing with the fire of
revolution"
Year: 1878

In the light of the recent strikes
among operatives in England the pro
prietors undertake to defend them
selves for reduction of wages by
showing that they are obliged to do
SO. Among other things they say
that the American manufacturers are
successfully competing with them and
obtaining their trade from them. An
article in the Liverpool Post takes the
proprietors' side of the case and
among other things makes the follow
ing important showing in regard to
cotton fabrics:


The facts relating to the United
States, however, present a much more
serious appearance than those belong
ing to the Continent; for Lancashire
has not only lost the progressive in
crease in the demand for her fabrics
which was experienced before the
war, but she has also lost three-fourths
of the business established up to 1860.
while she has also to contend against
the products of American looms at
her own door, and in outside markets
in which she was thought to be invul-
nerable. Here are the particulars of
Year: 1878

Uncle Daniel Drew isn't dead yet.
He is said to have made $500, 600 late
ly in coal stock, and it is refreshing
to hear him quote scripture and
chuckle at the thought of getting
even with the bows.