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Year: 1879

The Charleston News says: "There is
certainty no reason why the South should
NOT look forward to the time when man
uiacturing capital will largely seek en-
ployment in the Cotton States, where the
raw material can be had at the doors of
the factories. The cotton mills which
nave been started in the South have been
very successful, and the number is increas-
ing every year We repeat the watch
word hrst given, ten years ago, in these
columns-Brine the mills to the c0ttou.n


lhis IS what we have all along been
saying. 1t is waste of time and money
Year: 1879

BArLIFp, James Daley will Of course
be reelected this evening. He has made
a good officer and II a change was made.
We should miss his kindly smile, and
his glass Of ice water on Council nights
Year: 1879

The HEAVY vote that Mr.. Vincent got
yesterday for City Treasurer is an svi-
dence Of the high esteem in which he
is held by his fellow citizens and in any
thug like an honest and fair election
he would have been continued in the
Office he has SO ably filed for the last
six years. During that time over three
millions of dollars have passed through
Dis hands, aud every dollar Of it has
been honestly accounted for. This is
something Of which Mr.. Vincent can
boast during his enforced but We trust
short retirement from official position,
and when the time comes as come it
will when honest and fair elections are
held, he will no doubt be remembered
by his friends aud placed in position
where honest men are wanted.
Year: 1879

AFTER long and continued public
service as o member of the Board Of
Education, q member Of the City Coun.
Gil, and then as President Of the same,
Mr.. Lichtenstein can we'll afford to re.
tire and rest awhile upon his well
earned laurels. The ability with which
he discharged his duties, his suavity
and politsness, will long be remember.
cd by those with whom he was brought
in business contact. The tlattering vote
he received, which ran him far ahead
of his ticket, is fitting compliment te
him as man and faithful Officer
Such men as Mr.. Lichtens.ei are need
ed in public life, and cannot stay long
il forced retirement.
Year: 1879

the waters you would pass through and the
ports you would make in voyage from
Boston to Calcutta, or New York to st.
Petersburg. What it all amounted to is
another matter. 1t approached terribly
near the old rote methods. Go, to-day, into
the Quincy schools and in a few moments
two or three young children, standing about
an earth board and handling little heap of
moistened clay, will shape out for you a
continent, with its mountains, rivers, de
pressions and coast indentations, designat-
ing upon it the principal cities, and giving
general idea of its geographical peculiar
tiles. do not know whether, so far as
utility is concerned, the result obtained
under this method is very different from
that obtained under the other.


But there is this difference between the
two methods the study under the new
method becomes full of life and interest
while under the old it was as tedious and
as much like arithmetic and grammar as it
could be made.
Year: 1879

"Young teacher" says: al have been
hired to teach in neighboring town but
have no certificate, but the committee tells
me to 'go ahead and teach the school with
out one; it will be all right Can thz
superintendent tnrn me out of school un ,eer
such circumstances If teach without a
certificate can I collect my pay2" The law
Of the state requires you to procure a cert f.
cate, and whatever your committee tells you
does not repeal the law. The supreme court
of Vermont has decided that prudential
committee has no power to waive the RI
quirement of the statute that teacher OBJ
tain certificate of qualification from TIE
superintendent, nor can the committee obi, =
the district to pay teacher whom he nay
have hired to teach without a cert uos.e
If your committee, as private individual,
agrees to pay you certain sum for teaching
the school, we know of no reason why you
cannot collect such sum from him but ne,
in turn, cannot collect it from the distr ct,
since whatever contract he, as the agentto Of
the district, may have made with you, is
legally void upon your failure to get cer
tficate. We do not think the superintend-
ent can turn you out of school under such
circumstances or on any condition whatever,
that power being vested in the committee
alone. See No. Z, under prudential com
mittee,' in supreme court decisions Com
pilad Scbo.J awa nara 40


"Citizen writes ain looking over the
register filled out by our last teacher | find
she did not answer all the questions in the
register for teachers to answer, and her
answer to the question, What was the aver
age attendance of the scholars 2 is forty
one and one-ninth. Now we had but eighteen
scholars in all, and they, in nine weeks
term, had total attendance of seven hun
dred aud forty. ~ How could the teacher
make the average forty-one and one-ninth 7"
Answer-The teacher evidently divided the
total attendance by the number of scholars
instead of the number of days of school,
hence the error. The average attendance
for the number of scholars and length OF
term you give should have been sixteen and
four-ninths. (2) "Would such an error pre-.
vent our drawing public money!" Answer
We think not, since public money is ap-
portioned among the districts, not according
to the average attendance, but in proportion
as the total attendance of one school is to
the total attendance of all the schools of-the
town. If the district should fail TO draw
public money because of failure on the
part of the teacher to answer the statistical
questions in the register, the teacher would
be liable for whatever loss the district sus
tained. The easiest way out of the diff
Guilty would be to send the register to the
teacher for correction.
Year: 1879

The study of the counties should be fol-
lowed by general exercises on all the coun-
ties learned. These exercises may consist
of the relative location of the important
towns of the state in respect to each other;
the location, direction and connection of the
most important railroads, and the position
of the most prominent towns and villages on
the line of each. These exercises may
occupy a short time at each recitation, and
the end sought may be the most readily at
tanned by having the pupils take imaginary
railway journeys to various parts of the
state Commencing with short journeys,
extend them as the class becomes more
familiar with the map A system should be
study of counties. Let the class first learn
the roads running north and south through
the eastern part of the state; then those
running in the same direction through the
western part, and lastly, those running across
the state, and connecting the lines before
mentioned. Ask member of the class how
he would go by rail from one town to some
other named He should tell in his answer
over what road, in what direction and
through what counties he would go.


Ask another to name in their order the i'm.
portant towns he would pass through also
require him to state in what particular each
town is important. Another may be called
upon to name the railroad functions on the
route and the connections that can be made
at each. In this way the class will soon be.
come familiar with the points OF interest on
all the important lines of travel in the state


The relative location of towns, regardless
of the railroads, is also important. This
can be secured by asking the class at each
recitation few such questions as, Which
is farther north, st. Johnsbury or Montpe.
lier? Which is farther east, Irasburgh or
Newport ? The exercises to be extended at
the discretion of the teacher. 1t is also well
to have the class learn, in the order of their
size, five or six of the most populous towns
This and the preceding papers embrace
the outline Of system which has been sue
cessfully followed in teaching this subject
for several years. 1t contains enough to
give every pupil of our common schools a
fair knowledge of the geography of his own
state.
Year: 1879

him. The Presidents sphere of action is
defined by the constitution. and any at
tempt to influence legislation by sug-
gestion of what he may or may not do is
an observation deserving rebuke. 1t will
be time enough to criticize an act of the
President when he shall have exercised bis
constitutional right, and any discussion of
his supposed course before then is wholly
out of place. Let US hope, Mr.. President,
when this bill has passed from our hands,
that the angry debate which has attended
1t will operate as electricity in purifying
the atmosphere, and we will all come to-
gether better disposed to give to the coun-
try what has been given to party in a
united effort to provide relief for the pre-
Vaiilng distress in every pursuit of life.


Senator Logan said he understood his
colleague to remark that the laws we're
obeyed alike in the North and South.


Senator Davis-l meant federal laws.


Senator Logan differed With his col
league, and then referred to the annual re-
port of the Commissioner Of Internal Rev
enua for 1873 to show very large number
of violations of the internal revenue laws
in the South as compared with the North.
and that five murders in that connection
were committed in the South and none in
the North.


Senator Davis said he had no doubt but
that violations of the internal revenue laws
were taking place all over the country.


Senator Logan asked his colleague if he
could show solitary bluuder committed
by the North. or men wounded 10 the ex-
ecution of the law.


Senator Davis said his colleague was de.
termined to have the last word. He (Da-
vis) did not know whether the criminal
laws were obeyed in the South as we'll as
in the North, but he adhered to what he
had already said, that the federal laws as
a system are obeyed with as much alegi-
ance in the South as in the North.
Year: 1879

No man can do a good job of work
preach good sermon, try lawsuit we'll,
doctor patient, or write good article
when he feels miserable and dull, with
sluggish brain and unsteady nerves, and
none should make the attempt in such a
condition when it can be SO easily and
cheaply removed by little Hop Bitters
See Truths" and Proverbs" other
column.
Year: 1879

INDIANAPOLIS, April pa special to
the Daily News from South Bend, Ind,
says the college building at Notre Dame
is on fire ant. .burniog rapidly, and there is
but little chance of saving It. The i'm
mense dome and the large image of the
Virgin Mary has fallen in. The building
is six stories high and out of reach Of the
South Bend water supply, being two miles
from South Bend.
Year: 1879

A New York correspondent says Ru-
NOR has it that Mrs. Alexander Il. Stew
art has decided to dispose of her money
while she is living, and to do it in
person. This resolution being known,
has opened Pandora's box. We have
at least one thousand persons in this city
who have little schemes Of their own for
benefting the race. They are sure if
Mrs. Stewart would only know what
they were about, and look into their
little schemes, she wouldn't hesitate a
moment to help them along. All the
avenues of her home have to be guarded.
Her steps are tracked everywhere, even
on her way to church. Mrs. Oommo-
dore Vanderbilt was annoyed in the
same manner. When she married the
Commodore she had no more money
than was absolutely essential to her
comfort. She felt keenly the RESPONSE
bility of being the custodian of money,
and knew hardly when to give and when
to withhold. She was run down day and
night by applications, and spoke often
to her friends of the impositions she
had practiced upon her, and the great
difficulty she had in discriminating.
Year: 1879

Fair lady, shouldst thou deem my heart ha


erred


In making thee its only earthly shrine,
Forbear, nor speak to me one censuring word
The fault, il fault there be, is wholly thine.
Through all the long and weary vanished


years,


Which my rejoicing heart shall know no


more,
vsinly piled my quest in varied spheres.
And found no fair one whom might adore;
But now yield my thanks to kindly fate,
Which grants to me love so fair and dear.
will not murmur that the boon comes late,
But rather dream that thou vert always


near
And crowned with true loves blessed light at


last,
Forget the desolation OF the past.
Year: 1879

An Indian carried the dead body of
his sister to the top of hill at Rosebud,
Neb., and stationed himself by it with
a rife in his hands, intending to kill
the first white man who came within
range, so that a white spirit might &C
company her to the happy hunting
grounds. He stood there six hours,
firing occasional but harmless shots at
distant persons. Then a white man
who had lived many years among the
Indians, and whose wife was squaw,
walked unsuspiciously that way. The
Indian shot him in the breast, and was
satisfied. But the wounded man re
covered, and accepted thirteen horses,
forty blankets, and an apology in settle
ment.
Year: 1879

The steamer City Of Nec York, which made
her appearance off the harbor of Honolulu, on
Tuesday the 23d inst, gave the go-by to the
people, by passing direct to San Francisco,
without delivering the mails or taking the pas
sengers in waiting for transmission. This was
bitter disappointment to the business men
and sojourners on these islands. We learn
that there were in the city awaiting the arri-
val of the steamer about IS passengers, who
expected to take passage to San Francisco and
the east, who were sorely disappointed and put
to serious Inconvenience. Besides the above
number Of passengers, we learn that some
three or four hundred tons of sugar and large
quantity of bananas, were ready to be put
aboard, but these had also to remain, to the Sc
rious loss and inconvenience of owners and
shippers. We admit that it was blowing very
freshly at the time when the steamer made
the mouth of the harbor, but we do not think
that the Captain acted with any regard for the
interests and convenience Of the people, in not
remaining till the afternoon or even night,
when his ship could have come in with safety
and thus prevent that which amounts to an
almost irreparable loss to many persons who
were depending upon the certainty Of The P.
Year: 1879

here, but have acquired data for future use,
which regard ss valuable. have endeayored
to possess myself of correct information in re-
gard to both men and things, which shall
use at a more convenient season, promising
" that l will nothing extenuate nor set down
ought in malice" If spared life and health
for this purpose, it will be found that


There chiel amang ye takn notes, and faith hen


prent them"


l retire from the GAZETTE voluntarily,
without single regret, feeling that have
discharged my whole duty to the Government,
and the people. 1 shall carry away with me
to my home in the east (ttank God am not
afraid 10 90 back honie) many pleasant recol-
lections OF my residence in Honolulu, and shall
always look back with pleasure upon the time
spent in this lovely climate.


In conclusion, commend to all my friends,
my successor in the management of the GA
zErrE, Mr. Robert Grieve, who is worthy of a
generous support as an excellent printer, and
an upright, honest men.


IT CRAWPOPD MACDOwFTI
Year: 1879

Tomorrow will be New Years Day, 1880.
With the close of to-day passes into history


1879, with all its incidents, facts and occur
rences. The year 1879 will occupy no incon-
siderable place in history, for during that
year, many very mighty events have happened


which the faithful historian will record with
emphasis. Among the most prominent of
those events, will be the wars that have DESC
lated Afghanistan, in Asia, and Zululand, in
Africa, whose results have changed the map
of the world, politically speaking. What with
the cunning of Diplomats, Kingcraft and the
grasping ambition of great Rulers of nations,
the marshaling of mighty armies on many a
bloody battlefield, and the power of money I;
sorrow and suffering. widowhood and orphan
age, have been increased to fearful extent,
and whole nations have had to lament ruin,
pillage and despoliation; reminding us that
although we live in the Nineteenth century,
we are no better off than the people who lived


in ages of the world anterior to the present.
Thus we find in retrospecting the past, we may
if we will, read the horoscope of the future,
in the same doleful language of the past event
full year. But there is sill a silver lining to
this dark cloud, in the many peaceful events
which have transpired during the year 1879
that gilds with light the somber hues of the
worst side of human affairs. Prominent
among the latter We may enumerate the pro-
gress in the arts of peace which have signal
lied the year 1879: Such as the canal project
across the Isthmus of Panama, which when
completed, will change both the map and COM
merce of the world, the discoveries in electro
magnetic science, the progress in the worlds
commerce through the efforts of far-seeing
and philanthropic men of all natio nalites. to
realize the dreams of enthusiastic but thought
ful men, for bettering the condition of human
ity. Who can foresee the mighty results that
will be accomplished through the laying of
Trans-Paciic cable from China to the western
coast of North America, and yet it is fact
that the author of that mighty project, which
is destined to complete the circuit of the globe
by cable, is actually here in Honolulu, Mr..
Celso Caesar Moreno, an Italo-American,
endeavoring to persuade the Hawaiian Gov
eminent to acquiesce in arranging the prelim-
naries for the establishment of direct COM
mercial and postal communication between the
mighty Empire of China and these Islands,
which if accomplished, will be the sure har-
binger of the laying and maintaining of the
Trans-Paciic cable as above stated. Our last
advice to the government of Hawaii nei is to
avail itself of this golden opportunity 10 be-
come prominent factor in this mighty project,
and in this connection we will add, that the
best service we can render this Kingdom is to
publish, as we have done in the GAzETTE of
this week, the mastery speech of Mr.. Moreno,
before the Committee on Foreign Relations Of
the United States Senate, on behalf Of his
Trans-Pacifc project, to which we invite a
careful perusal.
Year: 1879



 On the 12th inst, our neighborhood was called to assemble at the house of Mir. R. O. Morton for the purpose of searching tor his little child about two years of age, who in company with a little shepherd dog had rambled into the woods. The north, east and west was almost an entire wilderness for miles. The child had been missing about one hour when the hunt was commenced. The roads, branches, and every imaginary spot was closely in- spected, to see if a track or trace could be found, but in vain. He had chosen course leading him through dense forest, and had he not been checked would have been on the bank of a large lake where he might have hid forever. After search of four hours, the little wanderers were found about Ila miles from home. They appeared to be as well satisfied with their condi- ton, as if they had been at home. The child was placed on horse, in his fathers arms, soon once more to be embraced by his mother. Oh, how the heart of that mother must have leaped for joy when the signal gun was fired .

 t HOLLY BEND.
Year: 1879

Having the CAPITAL the STOREROOM Capacity, and al the FACILITIES for doing extensive business it IS m aim to reduce my PROFITS so LOW to CASH CUSTOMERS my will be largely increased by gaining tn custom of ALL who wish to get the MOST
Year: 1879

Specials to the Star.


INDIANAPOLIS Oct. 1S.-An engagement,
in which the assaiant made valiant at
tack but was finally put to flight by having
her own guns turned upon her, was waged
here last evening.


The wife OF a prominent young Illinois
street business man, accosted woman on
the Circle, accusing her of leading away her
husband and of following him about and
fleeing him out of money which properly
belonged to his family. She held an UNI
brella in her hand which was jerked from
her by the other woman and was pummeed
over the head with it pretty severely. The
women we're parted by colored woman
and man who happened along, and at last
accounts the wrongcd matron was in search
of police officer to arrest the destroyer of
her peace of mind. No arrest, however, is
reported to this hour.
Year: 1879

National Associated Press to the Star


New York. Oct. ia special dispatch
from the bituminous coal regions confirms
the news received yesterday, and says the
situation becomes more unsettled hourly.
DISCONTINUED miners in every part of the
region are rallying round the flag of the
Miners National Association; the general
sentiment being that by thorough organi-
zation and harmonious action they can sue
cessfully carry out the movement planned.
Year: 1879

New York Times.l


The palaces on which Sultan Abdul
Aziz and the ex-khedive expended so
many millions, luxurious as they are,
have been surpassed even in modern
times by the freaks OF rulers still more
eccentric. History has preserved the
memory of the ice palace built by the
Russian Empress Anne, who pun
ished several of her dainty couriers
by compelling them to pass the night
in its great chamber of state, where
they were all but frozen to death.
The Czar Paul, grandfather of the
present sovereign, constructed room
formed entirely of huge mirrors, where
he spent haurs walking to and fro in
full uBiform-s singular taste for the
ugliest man in Russia. One of the
native princes of Java cooled his pal
ace by making a stream fall in a
cascade over the gateway, and the
Indian despot, Tippoo Sahib, placed
beside his dinner table a life size
figure Of a tiger deyouring an English
officer, the roar of the beast and the
shrieks of his victim being initiated
by hidden machinery. The late king
of Dude kept in his country palace a
large collection of pet serpents, which
he is said to have more than once
amused himself by letting loose, with
fatal effect, upon the luckless Hindus
who came within reach.
Year: 1879

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is s5 per annum and
SOC per month fOrlssS than one year, The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage Free


Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at SOC pei
month in advance, with the privilege Of
changing pOstOfiCe.
Year: 1879

SUBSCRIBERS who wish to re-
new will do us q favor by SEND
ING MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail llst is very
large, and our force TO do the
work small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS WITHOUT the MONEY.