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Year: 1879

A Detroit lawyer, famous for his
wise and candid opinions, was the
other day visited by young attOr.
ney, who explained


"I was admitted to the bar two
years ago, and / think know some
thing about law, yet the minute i
arise to address a jury forget all
my points and can say nothing.
Now, want to ask you if this does
not show lack of confidence in my
self, and how can ] overcome ii ?1


The wise attorney shut his eyes
and studied the case for q moment
before answering:


'My young friend, if it is lack of
confidence in yourself it will some
day vanish, but If it is lack Of brains
you had better sell out your Office
effects and buy a pick axe and a
long-handled shovel"


"But how am / to determine?"
asked the young man.


"I'd buy the pick axe anyhow
and run my chances I" whispered
the aged adviser, as he moved over
to the peg for his overcoat.
Year: 1879




The steady and rapidly advance
in the price of iron has thrown the
whole iron industry of the Ohio
Valley into state of extraordinary
activity. The advance established
within sixty days in nearly all
classes of iron if fully 80 per cent.
Hanging Rock charcoal iron, which
in the early summer sold below $40
per ton, is now held at $29 and can
not be had at that figure. The mills
and furnaces have cleared out their
stocks, and, though they are run
ming to their full capacity, they
cannot supply the demand. Parties
not having engagements ahead for
pig find great difficulty at present
in obtaining a supply. Instances
have occurred during the past two
weeks where rail mills have been
compelled to shut down for several
days, though overrun with orders,
because of their inability TO obtain
supply. Nails advanced recently
to S3 per hundred a few weeks ago
they were sold as low as 81 so. Mill
owners in this vicinity are talking
OF putting bar iron up TO SO. If that
IS done a still further advance i'm
nails must follow. Pig iron ran
up during the excitement In the
recently, and leading
operator gives il as his opinion that
s35 per ton would be reached within
4 short time. The effect of this
revival is to suddenly revolutionize
-he state Of things throughout the
ron districts. Men are finding em-
ployment at advanced wages, and
all classes Of business are feeling
he impetus.
Year: 1879




joaquin Miller in the Independent


To me the grandest poem on earth
is night i'm a deep, half-trOpical for


est. There is nothing so mighty, 80
MiltOnic as this, the myriad voice at


night. When was living in the


Southern Sierras one Of your great


est preachers came that way. / by


chance got to talking to him of the


voices aud noises high up on the


mountains;he was honestly amazed.


He said he thought the world slept


in the wilderness /; but he would ind


the world very much awake If he


would spend a night high up rom


the habitatiOn of man. lie was re-


solved to see. And so, with two


blankets and two pistols, some bread


and a bottle of provisions, we climb
ed up the steep, timbered mountain
a mile above any habitation. we
spread our blankets under mighty
tree. We saw the day fade and die
on the far snow peaks, and its ghost
came down In darkness and covered
US with its wings. The first thing
we heard was great, black bug that
came buzzing along. 1t struck the
tree and fell down on the Doctors
blanket. Nothing dangerous in a
bug. The doctor was delighted. He
caught up and classified IL with
Latin name big enough to kill it;
put pin through il and resolved to
keep il as a specimen and trophy Of
the night. Suddenly, far across on
the other mountain-side, there arose
the howl of one hundred wolves,
then one thousand wolves high up
on the mountain-top made the woods
tremble. The doctor was not a bit
He only sat up a little
closer to me and whispered gently
that he thought il was going 10 rain.
Then a broad-winged bird, a black
owl struck in the boughs above us,
as If he meant tot tear down the tree.
II am subject to rheumatism" said
the doctor, "and / don't want to get
wet" Then there came q crash. A
great grizzly bear thatevidently had
business in somebody's hOg-pen,
ore through the bush and woods on
lis way TO the settlement. Possibly
he doctor wanted the bear for
pecimen also, for he sprang up, for
rot his bug, and started fOrthe near
st house. He should have waited
o see the moon come wheeling Up
md out of the Sierras, white and
'ast as the snow peaks she laid her
road, bare shoulders to the white
louds; to hear the far, faint call Of
he night-birds, the beasts = the
housand notes i'm the poetry and
ong of nature at night
Year: 1879

Kalloch can plead justifiable cause
for Indignation. The first offense
came from DE Young. The brutal
ity of the war in which Kalloch's
indignation manifested itself can
admit of no excuse. So in his turn
De Young can plead good cause for
Indignation. The way In which he
sought to vent his Indignation can
be justified, if it can be justified at
all, by an appeal to that code OF
honor which holds the dishonorable
mention of mother as the greatest
insult that can be offered to a man.
His act was the act Of an assassin.
The question for debating societies
is, "Is assassination everjustifiable?"
We think this presents the matter
in its real nature.
Year: 1879

A MINNESOTA man writes 10 the
Salem (Mass.) Gazette as follows
" A discovery i'm the treatment OF
diptheria has been made here. A
young man whose arm had been
amputated was attacked with dip
liberia before healing took place
and instead Of the matter incident to
that disease being deposited in the
throat the greater portion appeared
ON the wounded arm, and the dip
iberia was very light and easily
managed. His doctor prOfited by
this, and in his next case of dipthe-
ria blistered his patients chest, and
on this blistered part the chief de-
posits appeared. This was also an
easy case of the disease. The theory
Of the doctor is that diptheria usual
ly appears In the throat because of
the thinness of the lining Of the
throat. Hence when the blister
breaks the skin upon any other part
Of the body, the disease appears
there.
Year: 1879

First-Honesty, efficiency and
economy in every department OF
the government.


Second-All property should bear
| its just proportion of taxation, and
we pledge the Democratic party to
reform the laws of assessments to
that end.


Third-Lessening the burdens and
increasing the advantages of the
working people.


Fourth-The equal protection of
the rights of labor and capital under
just laws.


Fifth-The railroads must be pro-
hibited by law from unjust discrim-
inatiQn and from favoring localities
or indlyiduals.


Sixth-The tolls upon the canals
must be kept at the lowest rates
possible consistent with economical
and efficient management.


Seventh-The maintenance of the
public schools is the pride and hope
of a free State,


Eighth-Prisons must be admin
istered for the punishment and
reformation of criminals and not for
the injury of honest labor, which
should be protected as far as posi-
BILE from such competition,


Ninth-We demand municipal
self-government in local affairs.


Tenth-The successful efforts of
our Democratic representatives in
Congress in restoring fair and in
telligent jury system and in protect
ing the freedom Of the ballot and
preventing the unconstitutional in
reference of the Federal adminis-
tratiOn with the State elections are
approved; and the action of the
Executive in vetoing the legislation
designed to prevent the presence of
armed soldiers and the employment
of paid Federal Supervisors and
Marshals at the polls and the use of
the public funds for this purpose is
denounced by the Democracy of the
State of New York.


Eleventh-And as the foundation
of all liberty and prosperity, privi-
leges and rights under our govern
ment, e'shall continue to uphold
a system of untFammeled suffrage,
absolutely free from Federal force
or supervision.


1t is the duty of the State alike i'm
the interest of taxation, Temperance
and equal and exact Justice to the
community, to make such revision
of the excise laws as will better Sc
cure the rights of the citizens to life,
property and public order.
Year: 1879

New York Herald.


SolOyieff was appointed by lot to
shoot the czar /" so he says, and if the
statement is true he is the first of the
men recently supposed to have been
designated to such a duty who has ad
mitted the fact. But the Nihilists
differ from the destructives in the
other countries by the fact of their
bold declaration of a purpose and
their assuption of the responsibility
of their acts. Socialists in Germany,
reds in Italy and internationalists in
Spain pretend to political purposes and
pretend to decry savage processes
but the Nihilists glory in these and
boast the discipline of the system by
which they can force functions of this
nature upon their tools; for, of course.
an order to shoot the czar is equiv
alent in its ultimate effects to a death
warrant, for if the man should not
act his associates would kill him. and
otherwise justice would of course do
as much. Doubtless it was this sort
Of enforced service that saved the
czar, for from the moment the assas-
sin received the fatal order he
was probably more dead than
alive with fright. Unless this
was the case it is impossible
to understand how a man in the
prime of life, and, in all probability.
practised in the use of arms. could
have missed his man, firing four shots
at arms length. Nerves disturbed by
mental agitation can alone account for
such a result. But the Nihilists have
fairly shown the extent of their evil
intentions by this attempt, and have
given the government the fairest pos
sible occasion to take hold of them
with the yigor it so well knows how to
use, and it will be strange if there are
not semi-savage repressions.
Year: 1879

The Helena World, of the 18th
says:


Captain Boyton remarked during
his stay in Helena that his treatment
by the Northern people as compared
to those of the South approached the
narrowest edge imaginable. Upon the
Ohio he was not shown hospitality but
once, and upon that occasion by an
old Scotchman. Frequently he was
charged outrageous rates, and until he
entered Southern territory his voyage
was a dead loss, When Mr.. Ferguson.
Of the ferry-boat Lee, came forward
upon his own motion and handed in
the receipts taken from the excursion,
the captain said that such proceed
ing was without parallel in his ex-
perience down the great waters to the
gulf He expressed himself as de-
termined to lie over in Helena a day,
should he return by a Mississippi
steamer, and present to our people his
wonderful apparatus from practical
standpoint, by free exhibition in the
water.
Year: 1879

Jonesborough Joufnall


Taken all in all there can be but
few who will not say well done for the
legislature which has just closed its
session. Though it may have done
some things that can work but little
good to the State and Others in
manner that is not the most likely to
accomplish the most desirable results.
yet it passed but few acts that can
possibly work a public injury, while
many measures have been adopted
that meet the hearty Endorsement of
our entire people.


The numerous measures of econo-
my adopted must materially lessen
the expenses of the State; the crea-
ton Of the State board of health
should do much to protect the people
against the ravages of epidemics
which have so fearfully afflicted
many sections and cities of the
State for the past several years.


The provision for High Court of
Chancery to aid in clearing up the un-
settled causes in the Supreme Court
must hereafter enable our courts to
bring litigation to more speedy issue
and at once both lessen the cost and
the amount Of litigation. The rigid
enactments against the sale and use of
deadly weapons can but curtail the
numerous manslaughters and murders
that have been so alarmingly on the
Increase Of recent years. The act re.
ending the charters of many incorpo-
rated towns, while in many respects
we think, are justly and greatly to be
deprecated, must circumscribe the
baneful effects of intoxicating LIQUORS.
especially in the districts now most
cursed by them, by giving effect to the
law which prohibits their manufacture
or sale in large or small quantities
within four miles of a chartered insti-
tuition of learning.


The final disposition of the State
debt, though objected to by both the
low and the high tax parties of the
State, strictly oppose or regret it. and
which we now believe is the very best
that could have been done, being as
much as our people are able to pay
and more valuable to the bondholder
than any investment he could make of
his bond unapproyed by the people.
All these, and other acts which we
hope hereafter to notice, should and
do we believe meet with almost uni
versal approval on the part of the
people, and stamp our recent legisla-
ture among the most effective in the
history Of our State. Their record is
made up and they can have no cause
to be ashamed of it. 1t will stand the
test of time and only be the more ap-
proved after investigating thought by
the people and ample trial.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON special Last session
Senator Hamlin went out of his way
in the open Senate to announce that
he had voted against the President on
the New York appointments. The
next day the President sent to the
Senate the name of successor to the
collector of customs at Bangor,
Maine. The act was clearly meant as
punishment to Mr.. Hamlin, as the
official removed was his friend, and
the appointee an enemy. The Senate
committee to which the case was re .
ferred could find no cause for the re-
moval. When the nomination came
up in the Senate TO be acted upon, a
motion was made to reject the new
man by unanimous vote, and, to
make the rebuke more pronounced,
the roll was called Now the Presi-
dent sends in the name of still another
man for the place, hoping that the
Senate, being Democratic, will join
him in fighting the wicked old man
from Maine; but as the Democratic
Senate is carrying out programme of
confirming and rejecting nominations
solely for cause, the President is in a
fair way for another rebuke.
Year: 1879

A WASHINGTON correspondent
says: One Of the arguments which
the Republican orators have played
upon in the debate on the army bill
is that the negro is not protected in
his rights, and it has been cited more
than once that not colored member
now occupies seat in the lower
house This has been charged to the
ingratitude of the Democrats. To
illustrate the gratitude shown by the
Republicans for the negro ex-Con-
gressman Rainey of South Carolina
furnishes an example. Rainey was
an applicant for the position of
third auditor of the treas
ury. He was we'll indorsed
and recommended by the President
Instead of giving him the place
he sought, Sherman gave it to a po-
litical hack, an ex-congressman from
Michigan, named Keightly. Yester-
day, to appeaSe the feelings of the dis
appointed Rainey, he was rendered
the place of assistant appointment
clerk Of the treasury, a place beneath
the dignity Of an ex-congressman, and
which would have been considered an
insult to any other than colored ex-
member. Sherman thought that the
small place was good enough for a
niger but Rainey declined it with
a good deal of Indignation, and plainly
told Sherman that its tender was not
at ali considered in the nature of a
compliment to himself Thus the
only negro congressman who has ap-
piled for any place of honor under the
administration is given the husks to
feed upon.
Year: 1879

meeting of three in back Office, and
have himself appointed a committee
Of one to go North and collect funds
for the down -trodden freedmen who
are signing for the Happy Land of
Canaan-in Kansas Several commit
tees are on their way North, and will
be heard from. They will appeal to
the sympathetic, gushing people of
New England for liberal contributions,
will have good time, and if they col
lect enough, will no doubt spend the
summer on the sea-shore or in the
mountains. But it may be set down
as rule that none of these commit
tees have any idea of immigrating to
Kansas. They are a little too sharp
to go to any country where people have
to make a living by work. Kansas is
no place for the colored ofice-seeker,
or the voter either, ifhe only knew it.
They are bound to go-so we say, let
them go
Year: 1879

Inc Nashville American of yester-
day morning contains the following
special:


NEw YORK, April l9.-The committee
Of citizens Of Tennessee, now in the CITY
Tor the purpose Of urging on the bondhold-
ers the acceptance of the proposition
made BY the legislature of that State, had
a conference to-day with several leading
bankers. Speeches were made by ex-
Governor j. ID. Porter, Ex-Governor John
y. Brown, Hon. r. r. Butler, Hon. John
Z. Burch, secretary Of the United States
senate; General Roger A. Pryor and
Comptroller james J.. Gaines. A resolu-
tion was adopted by the bankers present
recommending TO the creditors of the
State the acceptance of the proposition.


From this it may be assumed that
as many of the bondholders will agree
to take 90 and 4 as formerly offered to
settle at 60 and 6, according to what
was known as the Coe proposition.
When this fact is ascertained it will
become the duty of the governor, un-
der the recent act of the legislature, to
order the holding of an election, and
if majority of the votes cast are for
a settlement on this basis an extra
session of the leiglature will be called.
probably in October or November, for
the purpose Of enacting into a law
the sections of the bill which depend
upon the action of the bondhold
ers and the ratification of the people.
1t remains to be seen whether the
people will vote even for so and 4. A
large number of well-posted citizens
believe this is more than we ought to
pay as matter of equity and justice,
and another class, who have figured on
the question, are clearly of the opinion
that it is more than we can pay any
great length of time; and there are
Others yet who are tired hearing
of the subject and will vote
for anything, as they say and
feel, to get rid of it and get the
question out of politics. The Repub-
licans are committed to the doctrine
Of high State credit and will vote
solidly for anything that the bond
holders will accept or might demand,
and there is a large element of the
Democratic party committed the same
way. This will make altogether a
powerful combination and we shall
not be surprised to see it carry the
State. The people at large under
stand the question better than
they ever did before and will
vote with full understanding of the
issue and the consequences. We hope
when the time comes there will be a
full vote, and that the people will act
from judgment and conscience and not
permit themselves to be influenced by
passion, prejudices or false representa-
tiOns. At the proper time we will
review the State debt question briefly,
impartially and fearlessly as we have
always done, and shall at last abide
cheeriully by the decision of the free,
intelligent and justice-loving people
of the State.
Year: 1879

SINCE Speaker Randall's ruling
that bills can be sent to committees
through the petition box, the Repub-
lieans have very graciously concluded
not to try to prevent the introduction
OF bills in the usual way. This is
very liberal and kind, as they cannot
help themselves.
Year: 1879

WE see it stated, but we do not vouch
for it as fact, that the national ex-
ecutivo committee of the Republican
party has thought it wise and proper
to donate to Harper, the proprietor of
the Okolona States, large press and
subscribe for 10000 copies of his pa
,Nnr
Year: 1879

Systematic vaccination has rarely
had a more complete vindication than
was offered by the health returns of
New York city last year. Out of
twenty-seyen thousand deaths, but
two were due to smallpox. A soli-
tary case last week was the first, or
nearly the first, during the current
year.
Year: 1879

TINS IL the season of the year for
the impecuOiOus colored statesman or
the ex-carpet.bagger stranded in the
South with nothing to doexcept work,
and too lazy for that, to call a mass
Year: 1879

A Few DON'Ts. When you are out
to dinner or tea, and the hostess invites
you to the table, don't wait for the in-
vitatiOn to be repeated, as it is not only
impolite on the part of the guest, but
many Of the dishes lose their relish. |
had company few days since, and they
were called three times before they
made their appearance in the dining
room.


When you are out calling with one Of
your thirsty children-and this is their
usual cOnditiOn-and your friend kindly
oilers to get you a glass, don't say 'the
dipper is good enough don't trouble
yourself" This is no trouble to the
neat hOuse-keeper, for she has strong
preference you use the glass, for various
reasons.


When You have spent a day with a
friend who does her own work, and she
has exerted every nerve for your pleas
uTe, after she has washed her china, and
her work done up, don't expect her to
SIT at tue piano or organ all the evening
aud play until she is ready to fall from
the stool. And during the day unless
Invited by her don't go into her kitchen
and ask a hundred questions. There
are very few whom We welcome In our
kitchen. Old-fashioned house keepers
seldom do this; only those who depend
upon girls know the terrible annoyance
of this intrusion.
Year: 1879

y woman, Notwithstanding she is the
best Of listeners, knows her business,
and IL is a womau's business to please.
don't say that il is not her business to
vote, but | do say that the woman who
does not please is a false note in the
harmOnies Of nature. She may not
have youth or beauty, or even manners,
but she must have something 10 her
voice or expression, or both, which il
makes you feel better disposed toward
your race TO look at or listen to. She
knows that as well as we do; and her
first question after you have been talk
ing your soul into her consciousness is,
did / please? a woman never forgets
her sex. She would rather talk with a
man than an angel an time. WomauIy
women are very kindly critics, except
to themselves and now and then 10
their own sex. The less there is of sex
about a woman, the more she is to be
dreaded. But take a real woman at her
best mOments-well dressed enough to
be pleased with herself, not so resplend-
ent as TO be a show and a sensation,
with the varied outside influences that
set vibrating the harmonic notes Of her
nature stirring in the air about her
and what has social life to compare
with one Of those vital inteSchanges Of
thought and feeling with her that
makes an hour memorable? ? What can
equal her tact, her delicacy, her SUBJ
tlety of apprehension, her quickness to
feel the changes of temperature, as the
warm and cool currents Of thought blow
by turns At one moment she is mic
roseopically intellectual, critical, scru-
pulous in Judgment as an analysts
balance, and the next as sympathetic
as the open rose that sweetens the
wind from whatever quarter it finds its
way to her bosom. It is in the hospit-
able soul Of a woman that a man forgets
he il a stranger, aud so becomes natural
and truthful, at the same time he is
mesmerized by all those divine differ
ences that make her a mystery and
bewilderment.-AtiaHtic Monthly.
Year: 1879

OUTDONE BY A BOY.-A lad in Bos-
ton, rather small for his years, works
in an Office as erranG boy for four gentle
men who do business there. One day
the gentlemen were chatting him about
being so small, aud said to him:


"YOu never will amount TO much;
you never can do much business; you
are too small.n


The little fellow looked at them.


"Well," said he, "as small as am, I
can do something which none OF you
four men can do"


"And what is that ?" said they.


al don't know as ought to tell you, -
he replied. But they were anxious to
know, and urged him to tell what he
could do that none Of them were able to
do.


az can keep from swearing % said the
little fellow. There were some blushes
on four manly faces, and there seemed
TO be very little anxiety for further in
formation on the point.
Year: 1879

There are two things that Boston can
not get along without. These are baked
beans aud Joseph Cook If the bean
crop should fail and Joseph Cook should
he called to occupy the proscenium box
he believes to be reserved for him in
Paradise, the city of Boston would prob
ably surrender her charter aud become
defunct.- Chicago Times.