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Year: 1879

NO DOUBT on THAT SUBJECT Now-THg DEM


oCRATs OF THE HOUSE TO GO INTO CAUcrs


WITH FULL MAJoRITY-GOss!P ABOUT OR


GANIZATION


It is announced that the Democrats of the
House will certainly be able to go into
caucus with clear majority, which will en-
able them to organize both branches of Con-
gress without difficulty. The Speakership is yet
in uncertainty. The Democratic Senators have
held a caucus on the subject of the Senate
committees, and will meet again to-day. 1t
is stated that the pension legislation OF the
last Congress has caused great increase IN
the number of pension applications.
Year: 1879

TELEGRAPHlC.
And Now we Have it from the Mouth


of Samuel J. Himself.
He was Entirely Ignorant Of the
Corrupt Transactions at Gram


. srcy Park. r
He is Pure and Innocent as a New
Born Babe, to Hear Him Tell it.
The Naughty Nephew of His Uncle is


the Only Guilty Man,


xiv CONGRESS.
Year: 1879

THE action of the Senate in regard
to Senator Edmunds' resolution de-
claring the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments to be
valid is significant. II was carried, but
by strict party vote, every Democrat
voting against il. This will be q good
thing to remember. If at this late
day, they declare that these amend
ments were Unconstitutional, what
would they do when they have their
own President, as we'll as Congress? ?
Year: 1879

TaE Tribune thinks our answer
"sOft." For about the first time in
his life the editor of that journal is
wholly right. Yes, 1t was soft" Ii
was intended 90 be "sO1t." 1t had to
be soft in order tina. the Tribune
man could comprehend it. "Softs I"


to the soft" you know. About the
softest f" thing we know of is the
soft head Of the "soft editor of
the soft" Tribune We are unable
to express our pleasure that His Soft
ness of that paper is not mad with
US. The idea that he might be angry
is perfectly maddening. We thank
our lucky stars that he is in good
humor. What an escape we have had.
Year: 1879

Cincinnati Enquirer, 1st.l


Last Sunday the undersigned felt it
to be his duty to make a manifesto or
certain explanations to the Cathe dral
congregation and to all who take the
trouble to read them. 1t has been his
fate or good luck, to work hard for his
living since his early years. Since the
age Of a little more than eighteen
years, he supported himself, and helped
his hard-working parents to pay for
his education. At twenty he entered
a seminary in Fredrick county, Md,
where he afterwards became a professor.
There hewas made president, and after
six or seven years was consecrated
bishop of Cincinnati. He had official
ly to contract debts. As professor and
bishop he had no salary to carry on
the work of God. When he left the
college he was so poor as to be obliged
to borrow $500 to pay his way and the
expenses of two or three young stu
dents to Cincinnati, and for grocery
bill for provisions consumed here be-
fore his arrival. Such were his begin
nings here. At that time there was
but one small church in Cincinnati.
For so many others since erected he
had to beg or borrow. He cannot ac-
cuse himself before God of having
expended anything in waste or extrav-
agance. A carriage and a pair of
horses kindly presented to him by the
congregation he found too costly to
retain, so he quickly disposed of them.
So it happens that for building lots,
churches and asylums, in which there
were three hundred orphans, for semi
nary and its support to a great extent,
and for various necessities he is now
pretty heavily in debt, but with Gods
merciful aid he hopes in no long time
to pay all the diocesan debts, and if
he will not be relieved from the heavy
burden of the Episcopate which he
has earnestly entreated the Holy
Father to relieve him from, he trusts
in the charity and goodness of the
clergy and laity to pay all.


j, B. PURCELL.
Year: 1879

Joplin MO- NeWs.l


Such scene as is presented at the
great wild pigeon roost In the Indian
Territory, some fifty miles southwest
of this city, is very uncommon and
has no equal anywhere in America.
The 'roost" includes spac eof about
forty acres in the timber, and when
they return to the roost in the evening
the trees are perfectly black with
them. The Indians who own the land
will not permit other parties to take
advantage of the game, but hire men
who sit at the roots of the trees and
shoot and throw clubs all night, and
the nextmorning the ground is literally
covered with pigeons, and they are
gathered up, loaded into wagons and
hauled to this city, where the Indians
realize from ten TO twenty-five cents
per dozen for them. During the day
only now and then a pigeon can be
seen in the vicinity Of the rOost, but
they invariably return at night Those
who own the land say they have killed
dozens of wagon loads this fall, and
still the number does not seem to
diminish in the least, nor does the
nightly slaughter seem to intimidate
them.
Year: 1879

The Hartford Post advises each of
the candidates for governor in Maine
to prepare message for the legisla-
ture, and so not let the successful one
run the risk of keeping that body
waiting while he writes it, as hap
pened in Connecticut in 1850. Mr..
Thomas H. Seymour was elected by
the legislature, as the result of a trade
between the Democrats and Free
Sellers, the State offices being divided
between the two parties. A committee
sent to notify Colonel Seymour of his
election found him in the back yard
in the act of repairing a dilapidated
barrel, and the military escort had to
waste an hour or more while he pre-
pared the short message which he de-
livered to the assembly on taking the
oath
Year: 1879

THE report that Cyrus w. Field in
tended to erect monument at Tappan
over the remains of Major Andre, the
British spy, who was executed in 1880,
has evoked much bitter comment
Mr.. Field says to-day that he doesn t
intend to build monument, only to
erect simple stone to show where the
body was buried. He says the idea
was suggested during visit to the
spot with Dean Stanley They found
a man of91 years, whose mother wit
messed the execution, and by his aid
they were able to fix the exact spot of
the grave to which the body was re-
moved in 1921. Mr.. Field offered to
put up the stone if the Dean would
write an inscription. The dean has
written the inscription, and Field says
he will not be deferred from putting
up the slab by any clamor the act may
excite
Year: 1879

Washington Cor. New York World


The old story of cutting Texas into
five States, after the next census, in
order to place ten new senator's form
the Southwest is revived. Senator
Maxey emphatically denies the truth
of this rumor. He says that every
nlnety-nine voters out of hundred
in Texas are opposed to a division of
the State, "The aspiration of our
people, said Mr.. Maxey, is to make
Of Texas great commonwealth, bear
ing the same relation to the South
that New York does to the East. We
will have, at the lowest estimate, fit
teen new members of congress after
the next census. There is no object
to be gained by having ten senators.
The Democratic majority in the sen.
ate is assured for a long time to come.
Fifteen or twenty new Democratic
members of the house from one State
will be of value to the party. The
motto of the people of Texas on the
subject Of. dividing the State is, that
in union there is strength. ,"
Year: 1879

CONSUL MosEBY on leaving Wash
ington for his post in China the other
day told his friends that "he would
return to Washington on the 4th of
March, 1881, to be present at the in
auguration Of General Grant as Presi-
dent for the third term"
Year: 1879

WINTERS are SO severe in Wiscon-
sin that this year the sexton of the
village of Kewaunee has prepared, in
advance, six homes for as many per.
sons who are expected to join the ranks
Of the silent majority before spring.
Year: 1879

AAhi'otl


On her retirement from the lecture
Dickinson had Big bank S''ac accounts %rSs
Two hundred dollars night for years
through the lecture season, il was
thought, ought to have secured a snug
sum for the rainy day It's perhaps
nobody's business how the lady man
aged to keep her name off the books
of banking institutions, or why she
was never called upon to discount
large notes. She did so manage, and
that is enough. To her credit be it
said, however, that while she was lee
turing she was generally flush, and
was not by any means stingy. But
once upon a time she lost her wits and
invested all she had in some land
speculation in the West which proved
unfortunate.
Year: 1879

The death of Princess Alice, Of
Hesse, conveys warning which should
not be forgotten. The physicians who
have Investigated the cause of the
peculiar virulence Of the diptheria
which attacked her family with such
fatal results have agreed that the rapid
spread Of the infection was entirely
due TO imprudent kissing. A child
with a sore throat ought not to be per-
mitted to kiss any Of its companions.
Year: 1879

A Letter from California says that
Duke Gwin is not a candidate for sec
rotary of the senate, and that he is in
receipt of an ample revenue from his
gold mine, which he looks after him
aalf
Year: 1879

During the siege of Paris there was
nobody more popular, and afterward
there was nobody more unpopular than
Sergeant Hoff. He with his own hand
slew twenty-seven Germans during the
first six weeks Of the siege. His gal
lantry was rewarded by praise lavished
in his regimental order Of the day and
the Legion Of Honor was bestowed on
him.


The minister OF war told him that it
was very important that dispatch
should reach Marshal Bazaine, and
offered him 81 600 to undertake the
mission. 1t was perilous. He staked
his head on success. 1t was easier for
him than for many Frenchmsn-he was
an Alsaciau and spoke German we'll. He
said to the minister of war: L accept
the mission, but 1 refuse the money


Howl after howl OF indignation went
up when it was found Sergeant Hoff had
disappeared. It was said that he had
always been Prussian spy and was now
a traitor. The government gave the
keynote to these howls to save Hoff's
life il he were discovered as he passed
through the enemy's lines. He safely
reached Bazaine. The war over, he was
made keeper Of Vendome Column. The
keeper of the Triumphal Arch died the
other day, and Sergeant Hoff, to the dc.
light Of Parisians, has been appointed
to the vacant place.
Year: 1879

Yesterday forenoon farmers horse
and wagon were hitched on Congress
street., near Larned, and after the man
had gone into store an individual, who
must know something about human GU
riosity. walked slowly down to the wagon
and carefully examined a hind wheel.
In ten seconds he was joined by two
boys. In minute there was q crowd
of six. The man looked at the wheel
from one side and the other, and the in
creasing crowd did the same. In three
minutes there were twenty people around
the wagon. Some looked over into the
box and some at the wheels, but no one
said anything. The man first mentioned
seized the wheel and shook it and then
measured one of the spokes with q
pocket rule. When he had finished the
crowd numbered forty. No one could
say what had happened or was about to
happen, and the mystery was fast be-
coming intense, when q corpulent citi-
zen bore down on the crowd and cried
out


What's the matter here--any one
been hurtY


No, sir was the quiet reply Of the
man with the pocket rule.


What is it, then p


4 was looking at this hind wheel.


What's the matter with the wheel p
asked the fat man as he seized and
shook it.


Nothing


The fat man soowled, clenched his
hand, looked up and down and then slid
and in thirty seconds no one was left
around the wagon but small boy, who
was trying to hook an old umbrella. -
Hree Press,
Year: 1879

The Rev. John Newton, the hymn


writer, who was minister Of st. Mary
Woolnoth in London, spent the former
part Of his life at sea. He was, as he
tells us himself, great sinner. From
his youth up he had often had eonvic-
tions, but never deeply felt his danger till
on the homeward voyage he was brought
into such condition that his life hung
in doubt before him. From the state in
which the vessel was, every hour SEEM
ed as if it would be the last. The sup
posed nearness OF eternity filled his mind
with solemn dread. To die happily, he
felt he had need, great need, he
knew not Of what. Filled with trouble.
he rememered that his mother was a
great reader of the Bible and that she
often spoke with delight of what she
found in it. He remembered also that
she had given him Bible when he went
to sea, with entreaties that he would Of
ten read it. He thought he must still
have the Bible somewhere, but he could
hardly be certain. Down he went to his
chest, at the very bottom OF it found his
mothers kind but long-neglected gift.
He opened ii with eagerness, and the
first words that caught his eyes were
these: III ye then, being evil, know
how to give good gifts unto your child
ren, how much more shallyour heavenly
Father give the Holy Spirit to them that
ask HimP' 1t came home to his con-
science that it was the Holy Spirit that
he wanted. He resolved to cry earnest
ly for this gift. He did cry, and was
heard, and answered.
Year: 1879

Nothing is more injurious to beauti-
full eye than short sight, The unfortu-
nate victim, taught by instinct to mar
row the aperture and bring the focus
nearer, is always wrinkling the two eye
lids, and neither splsndor nor softness
nor lovely shape avails under such a
habit; the head, besides, is always being
thrust forward to aid the sight, and q
line which, if it is not a frown resem-
bles one, comes upon the forehead be-
tween the eyes, and mars the white,
smooth surface that should be there, to
the destruction of that calm beauty
which it ought to have. This near
sightedness is defect, too, constantly
becoming more frequent wkh us,
whether from habits of study, from life
in narrow streets. from ancestral neg
lect, or from some unexplained cause.
1t is not little singular that those who
have the rearing and instruction of chill
dren do not guard more carefully against
so wretched tendency. In some cases
it is, to be sure, a hereditary disease
that can hardly be treated curatively,
but simply 80 as to become no worse;
but in many other cases it is an accident
that could have been entirely prevented,
or that, having occurred, can be entirely
cured; and one would presume that its
avoidance and treatment should be
among the first active anxieties of pa
rents SO solicitous to prevent other trou-
bles and deformities, since even when
the near-sighted are able, by careful and
sleepless discipline, to escape the de-
formity Of it, it is only through the
really serious trouble of giving up more
than half Of the pleasures of the eye, the
pleasures which most must think those
OF the highest sense Of all.
Year: 1879

An old man named Hu Hirwan was
found murdered in his cabin. He was
a strange creature-half savage, half
idiot, who lived alone, his only compan-
ion an enormous, ill.favored black cat.
He had the appearance of the abjectest
poverty, yet it was generally believed
that he possessed considerable money
concealed somewhere about his premises.
The more ignorant OF his neighhors in
sisted he had dealings with the evil one,
and some went even SO far as to affirm
that he came to his death by no mortal
hand. A belated peasant, going home
from the village tavern alter more than
usually heavy orgie, declared that as he
passed the hut he saw the old man strug-
Cling with his satanic majesty, in the
shape OF gigantic black cat; and as the
cat, his only companion, was seen no
more after the murder, the story gained
considerable credence. The authorities,
however, took somewhat different view
Of the case. An examination of the
body revealed an ugly wound on the
side Of the head, as if inflicted with o
bludgeon. Suspicion rested on worth
less fellow named Dick Wirion dick
the foolieh), who was seen prowling
about the place on the evening of the
tragedy. He was arrested, brought,
according to the custom OF the country,
to the presence of the murdered man,
and made TO stand over-i. According
TO this time-honored test, il the prisoner
is innocent the defunct makes no sign;
il guilty, the wound opens and squirt of
blood flies on his person. Poor Dick
was hit square in the face with thin
stream of gore, fell to the floor in fit
and was carried back to prison. A
bloody club was found back OF his cabin,
several sovereigns were taken from his
pocket, which added TO the accusation
OF the corpse, seemed to make the case
against him clear as day. In those times
il did not take long TO prove a man fit
for tho gallows. Dick was tried, con-
victed and sentenced at single sitting
OF the court, and a week later was COM
fortably and quietly hanged.


Hardly was the poor fellow under
ground, when strange stories began to
be whispered around the peasant fire.
sides. II was said the cabin Of the muir
dered hermit was haunted. Unearthly
noises were heard in the dead Of night,
sounds as Of men struggl.Jg in mortal
conflict; shrieks and eroans suoh as new
or came from human lips; cries for help
and peals Of demoniao laughter were tes-
tilted 10 by reputable witnesses. A
fisherman sworo that, passing by one
Year: 1879

A terrible tragedy was enacted at
Niagara Falls, in the presence Of about
five hundred people, when 'Pi' Walker,
a noted smuggler and river pirate, went
over the falls before their horrihed gaze.
The Erie railroad had gotten up a spe-
cial Sunday excursion from Buffalo.
which was patronized by a large number
OF people, and Goat island, Prospect
park and the shore near the Cataract
House was covered with sightseeTs.
Suddenly some one on the shore oppo.
site the upper end of Goat island raised
the awful cry OF warning: "A man in the
rapids ! and as the people focked to the
edge of the water they saw a small boat
with a single occupant, slowly being
sucked into the white water.


The man was rowing for all he was
worth, but he seemed to be dazed either
with fear or intoxication, and he was
unable TO make much headway. Sud-
denly the oarsmRn Caught a crab,' his
oars flew out of the rowlocks, his head
went down and he lay at length in the
bottom of the boat. The boat then
turned its PROV down stream and began
to descend the rapids of the American
falls, its pace growing more and more
swift, until finally it struck rock about
two inches from thesurlace and stopped,
and began slowly TO twist and turn in
the eddying current.


The crowd screamed TO the man to
jump out and cling to the rock, and the
widest excitement was manifested upon
the shore. But he still lay in the bot
tom of the boat and made no apparent
attemptsto do so. A dozen schemes of
rescue flashed through the minds of the
spectators, and two old guides had al
ready started on run up the stream to
procure rope and another boat, when the
boat swung round and once more felt
the force of the current, and now began
its mad plunge to destruction.


The surging water caught the light
skif in its clutches as though it were a
feather and bore it downward, bow for
ward, on a mad and dizzy race. But
only for few rods, then second rock
obscured the way, and with crash the
light boat struck against it and parted
in twain, the port side going all to
pieces, while the starboard was not so
badly damaged. The body OF the man
was flung headlong into the eddying
maelstrom, sucked under for moment,
and then tossed to the surface just above
the bridge which leads to Goat island.
He threw his arms wildly into the air,
and those who were on the bridge saw
for an instant a white and haggard face set
in the agony of despair; then he was
again drawn below the surface, never to
reappear.


There was something absolutely sub.
lime in the relentless grasp of the hur-
rying waters. They fairly seemed to
rend the man limb from limb, and old
guides who witnessed the catastrophe
say that the body never will be found in
a whole condition; that it was literally
ground to pieces against the jagged
edges Of the bowldors against which it
was tossed.
Year: 1879

The cheap paper fans which are i'm
ported into this country in such vast
quantities are formed from piece Of
bamboo about foot and a.half in
length and half an inch in diameter,
split two.thirds Of tho way down into a
number Of slips, each very thin aud ap.
parently fragile, while really possessed
Of its full share of the strength aud
flexibility Of the parent stem. These
slips are spread out in the same plane,
with their tips slightly bent over, some
what like a mustard-spoon, and then
strong paper is pasted over the whole
as far down as the splits extend, tho re =
naming unsplit half serving as handle.
Year: 1879

Lightning struck the house of J. D.
Barnard, town of Little Valley. N. Y,
doing damage to both pc son and prop
erty. A few Of the people in the neigh.
borhood had assembled at Mr.. Barnard's
to attend the funeral Of child who had
died of diphtheria. The people had
just got together andswere about to open
the services, when tho lightning struck
the house, passing down the chimney,
demolishing the stove-pipe, and dividing
it into two parts. One branch struck
Mrs. j. B. Munger, tearing off both
shoes, burning q hole in the heel OF one
of her stockings, and blistering place
on her foot the size Of o silver dollar,
and emitting the flesh on the bottom Of
the other very badly. She was also
burned on the lower part of her limbs,
and her dress torn to pieces. She was
rendered insensible by the shock, and
was supposed for time to be dead. The
dress Of another lady was torn some
what. and other people shocked by the
bolt, but no one was hurt much except
Mrs. Munger. The other part OF the
bolt passed into tho room in which the
body Of the child lay, and when near
the center of the room shivered the floor
and passed through, killing two dogs
that were under the floor.
Year: 1879

THE attempt on the part of the Demo-
Gratis now TO bull-doze the President into
calling an extra session of Congress in Sep
tember is "love's labor lost" The Plesi-
dent will allow that party to occupy the
last ditch until December
Year: 1879

THE returns are now nearly all in. The
vote ON the question of the adjournment OF
Congress, as cast in the columns of the press
of the country, regardless of politics, is al
most unanimous in favor Of thanking Prov
idence for the dispersion of that useless, vi
cious, and unpopular body.
Year: 1879

If you want to get rid Of an impecunious
or pecunious jobber who seeks to use the
columns of a journal to bolster up job OF
personal advantage, place price on the
space he desires, and he will skedaddle like
a cur with tin pail tied TO his tail We
tried the experiment on GAMGEE, and hence
the yelps that come up from the kennel OF
the most,
Year: 1879

THE three days-at least two-of holiday
devoted to the Fourth of July this year are
required by the adjournment of our Bour-
bon Congress. The feeling of glorious indie.
pendence is too great in the country at large


now that the Bourbon caucus rule has been
interrupted, to be celebrated all in one day
Year: 1879

THE boast of that arront Copperhead,
DAN VOORHEES,, that he was as good
friend to the soldiers as the late Senator
MORTON continues TO attract attention and
consequent denunciation, especially in ln-
diana. His record has accordingly been
overhauled aud his almost direct completely
in the rebellion, showing his personal and
intimately friendly relations with the Con-
federate leaders, have been duly exposed.
But our friends out there seem to have
overlooked one point in his career which
shows that at the very outset of the war he
was as violently opposed to the loyal sol
diers as it was possible for him to be in the
bitterness Of his Bourbon hatred of the
Union. In a speech he made at Terre
Haute, April, 1861, he said


say to you my constituents, that, az your
representative, will never vote one dollar.
one man, or one gun to the administration OF
ABRAHAM lhNCoLN to make war on the South,
Year: 1879

THE most expert cipherers, which of
course, includes TILDEN, WEED, MARBLE q
Co., of the Democratic party, are just now
engaged in calculating the profits derived
to that organization from the extra session.
They will continue to figure we imagine,
only to discover that the footings are the