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Year: 1879

The year 1879 opened with brighter pros
poets for the Greenback panic shriekers than
they ever will have again. Even as late as the
opening of the present campaign, they IN
dulged high hopes and were loud in their
boasting.


But a few short weeks of honest and earnes
discussion have totally changed the aspect.
Never at this stage of the campaign in tins
State have we been able to discern so muci,
determination and confidence in success as tho
Republicans now fairly indulge, while tho
Greenback chieftans are correSpondingly down.
cast.


From every quarter we have good reports
They convey the cheering intelligence that tho
leaders are more earnest than for years, that
those who were lukewarm last year are work
ers this wear, that many of last years Green.
hackers have seen the fraudulent character OF
their leaders since resumption, and that many
Democrats are repudiating the truck and dlcker
by which the firm of Smith and Pillsbury pro-
pose to trade off every principle that elther
ever professed to get twist on the olnces.
The columns of the Honest Truth conlallt
many evidences of these facts; but we caln0S
print one-tenth of the cheering news IN detall.


We are justified in saying to our friends that
the Republican vote this year will be many
thousands greater than it was last year; that



half by the defections and the loss Of hard
money Democratic votes that will go directly
to Davis; that Smiths vote, even with the alu
of the ''soft' Democrats who pretend TO De ioc
Garcelon, but will swallow the coalition at the
last moment, will be greatly reduced; and that
general disgust and apathy are creeping IN
among the men who went from the Republ-
can ranks to the Greenbackers last year. In
fact the bottom is tumbling out of the truck
and dicker coalition, and many days before
election we may look back upon the Greenbaek-
Communistic party as we did at the same time
in 1872 upon the incoherent and crumbnnG
acknowledgements coalition then set up. The
bubble this year is less substantial even than
the one of 1872. That had able management
and assistance from abroad; this is forced at
home by corrupting traffic in perspective
plunder, and inspired from abroad by the most
irresponsible and characterless horde OF COM
munistic tramps that ever invaded an unofiend-
ing State. ..


The skies are bright and united, strong
and steady effort on the part OF honest men
will place Maine once more at the head Oh the
ID l. nr1rt
Year: 1879

Our readers will remember that the day of
the fusion county convention in this city, Trial
Justice D. S. Flanders, of Monroe, made
most energetic protest, in a brief speech,
against being sold out and delivered to the
Greenback party He claimed that he was
Democrat, as were many others sympathizing
with him in his vicinity, that they were in no
sense Greenbackers, and would resist the at
tempt to commit them to the support OF the
Greenback ticket The Judge says:


am Democrat, and opposed to trade and dlcker
do not intend to ride the mule this year. or vote
the Greenback ticket do not like the idea OF one
set of running two political parties III their
own private interest.


This is straightforward and honest ttih, AN
such as might be expected from man ilHe
Judge Flanders. He told the fusionlstS plilllly
in the convention that he and his $, associates
would not be sold, and he is SIMPLY maklng
Gratis who think with him and will act with
him is large and daily growing larger.
Year: 1879

THE Hon. G. A. Grow in his telling speech
at Cape Elizabeth Thursday evening, said
that the combination of Democrats and
Greenbackers here reminded him of the
story of the young man who responded to
his fathers suggestion that he should get
married, by saying, ''But, father, you mar
ried mother, and I've got to marry strange
gal.'' AS the Democratic party has always
fought for hard money, it seemed to the
speaker that in taking Greenback bride, it
must feel that it had got "a strange gal,
and he could conceive of no reason for the
match except the one given by the young
man, who said that he didn't marry his wife
for love of money, but did it to disgrace her
family. There can be no reasonable doubt
but what the argus is doing its best to dis
grace the Greenback party by advocating her
marriage to the battered old rake, Democ-
r.nn
Year: 1879

THE A1qus has not yet availed itself of
our offer to furnish it with Justice Clifford S
opinion on greenbacks. The offer and the
type are both standing. But why does the
argus decline? Does it think the opinion
is not Democratic? Or is that opinion one
of the principles that were thrown away
when the Democrats made their trade with
the Greenbackers? An immediate answer
is respectfully solicited.
Year: 1879

THIS from the Calais Adrertiser: An i'm
pecunious Democrat in this city recently
said he guessed he should vote the Green
back ticket. Being asked if he knew what
the term ''Greenbacker" meant, he said he
thought he knew, and the party would just
suit him, and added this definition: "A
Greenbacker is a man who never means to
pay anything to-day"
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. he and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publica-
ton but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return preserve COM
munlcatlons that are not used.
Year: 1879

IT is little strange that the Leader
which can say bright things should fill up its
columns with the bosh signed Obadiah, and
taken from the ArJus. Does it do that as a
personal compliment to the editor OF the
A9uuS?
Year: 1879

The VALUE or LEAvxs.-The time has come
when the value CT fallen leaves for littering
stables, mulching the ground and protecting
tender plants is better understood. For litter
ing stables they have one great advantage over
straw Their broad surface and the stratlfied
position in which they always arrange them
selves not only exclude cold currents Of air,
but render them more perfect non conductors,
substances. They make fine soft bedding for
horses and as a component part of manure
are not so coarse as straw and soon decay, Civ
ing fine texture to the compost they form.
They impart similar advantages when used as
q mulch, namely, lightness OF covering and
perfect protection. For covering tender plants
they are peculiarly fitted, being always go dry
as not to suffoeate or rot the plant, and the
thin plates OF air interposed between them
entirely exclude the frost il sufficient depth is
given.


A gardener has had remarkable success with
roses, the tender kind, which he keeps through
the winter in open ground by thorough cover
ing with leaves. When q foot In thickness,
with few branches OF evergreens on the top
to prevent them blowing away, no frost can
penetrate them. Many farmers have large
supply OF leaves In their woods and hollow
places the wind will sometimes sweep them
into heaps two or three feet in thickness, and
they may be scooped up with large baskets and
drawn in wagon boxes with great facility. In
any woods they are easily and rapidly rsked
into heaps for the same purpose. 1t often
happens that when there is no snow upon the
ground IN winter farmers can draw leaves bet
ter than any other time. In portions OF the
country where snow does not fall and where
forest leaves are abundant, the work should
not be omitted


The scarcity Of fodder and the consequent
value OF straw renders 1t especially desirable at
the present time to saws and use to the bsst
advantage everything OF the kind, There is
nothing better than leaves for protecting straw
! berry and flower beds, for covering asparagus
aad for mulcbing all kinds OF plants.
Year: 1879

The Chicago News says the defalcatioi Of
Frank +. Boynton, receiving teller Of the North
National Bank Of Boston, is the latest bank
embezzlement The amount is S24,O00. At
last accounts the Bank Examiner was going
through the bank books in order to find out
how the thing was done. La the meantime the
Boston journals are already sympathizing with
the thief in his afiction, and giving HIM as
good character as is possible under the pecu-
liar circumstances of the case. II is stated
that he lost the principal part OF the money In
California mining stocks.
Year: 1879

The tramp law seems to be working well in
Connecticut. This time Last year there were
23O prisoner in New Haven jail, now there are
only $50. The stringent tramp law has driven
the regular jail visitsnts out of the State. On
the other hand New York is overrun with
tramps. The Connecticut sheriffs say that as
soon as the tramps get out Of jail there they
at once ask the way to York State, and make
tracks speedily for that tramps paradise.
Year: 1879

Our Sheriff informs Us that upwards Of 100
fat sheep have been stolen during the past
ninety days in this county and near by, and
that robberies OF various kinds are almost
daily reported to him. He is of the opinion
that there will be great deal OF thievlng at
tempted T. 8 fall and v inter IN town and coun-
try-Kalamazoo Telegraph.
Year: 1879

The greatest wonder in the State of
Iowa, and perhaps any other State, is
what is called the /" Walled Lake." in
Wright county, twelve miles north of
the Dubuque and Pacific Railroad, and
15Omiles west of Dubuque City. The
lake is from two to three feet higher
than the earth's surface. In some
places the wall is ten feet high, fifteen
feet wide at the bottom and five feet
wide on top. Another fact is the size
of the stones used in construction, the
whole of them varying in weight from
three tons down to 100 pounds. There
is an abundance of stones in Wright
county, but surrounding the lake to
the extent of five or ten miles there are
none. No one can form an idea as to
the means employed to bring them to
the spot or who Constructed it. Around
the entire lake is a belt of woodland
half a mile in length composed of oak.
With this exception the country is
rolling prairie. The trees must have
been planted there at the time the wall
was built. In the spring of the year
1856 there was a great storm, and the
ice on the lake broke the wall in sew
eral places, and the farmers in the vi
cinity were obliged to repair the dam
ages to prevent inundation. The lake
occupies ground surface of $500
acres, depth of water rs great as twenty
five feet. The water is clear and cold,
soil sandy and lOamy. 1t is singular
that no one has been able to ascertain
where the water comes from nor where
it goes, yet it is always clear and fresh.
Year: 1879

The heather Jap's idea Of a practical
joke is Of ridiculously childish sort,
Judged by the Anglo-Saxon standard.
A reporter of the Toxic Times gives
some illustrations of the fun that can
be had any evening in the streets by a
waggishly inclined individual. He is
to 90 out and look around till he sees
-ss he is very apt to-a poor man
kneeling before booksellers store
reading cheap book, and steal up be-
hind him as the poor book-hunter or
student asks the price. 1t is too high !;
he sadly shakes his head, and the Wis.,
itor is then to 'hold up the stated
amount in clear view of the merchant
If he be quick witted, he will say to
the poor man: well, truly, you
want it very much take it. I will
give it you for nothing and may it be
of service to you.' The poor fellow
suspects jest. is at length convinced
that the merchant means what he says
takes his book and moves away slowly
for while, but presently scooting
with great rapidity, lest the donor re-
pent of his purpose and call him back.
The fun of the thing is obtained by
watching him scoot, not by scootins
yourself and then enjoying the per
pIexity of the merchant, who will be
undecided which to pursue. One OF
-
not Fused to enjoy this sort of prac-
teal joking, aud would give beggar
8 sovereign to zee the mendicant pause
stupefied, and then take to his heels
for fear the donor might discover his
mistake. A number of other practical
jokes are described by the reporter.
The mad wag is to drop coins on the
clothes of sleeping children, buy dolls
for little girls who have broken theirs
and are crying over the fragments, and
then look for q dealer in cake, who
has sour countenance, and has evil
IDENTIFY had a bad nights business.
Now says the reporter, you have
an opportunity of upsetting all his
calculations and knocking his notions
of destiny endwise. There is nothing
more amusing than upsetting cake
dealers calculations and knocking his
notions of destiny endwise. You call
. couple of -urchins who have been
looking at his stock with hungry eyes
and direct them to fall to. The dealers
face is study. He is compelled to
readjust all his convictions respecting
fate and fortune in moment And
this is the heather Jap's idea of a prac-
tical jokei
Year: 1879

This complaint is the result Of eat
ing too much and exercising too lit
tie. Nine times in ten the cause is in
the fact that the stomach was not able
to digest the food last introduced into
it, either from it's having been insult
able, or excessive in quantity. A diet
of bread and butter, with ripe fruit or
berries, with moderate and continuous
exercise in the open air, sufficient to
keep up gentle perspiration, would
cure almost every case in q short time.
Two teaspoonsful of powdered char
coal in a half a glass of water and
drank, gives instant relief. We are
inclined to think that the above reno
dies may do in some, but not in all
cases. A sovereign remedy for this
distressing disease is not easily found.
A new correspondent from Connect
cut contributes the following on this
subject: Sick headache is periodical,
comes on at regular intervals, and is
the signal of distress which the stOm-
ach puts out to inform us that there is
an over-alkaline condition of its fluids
that it needs natural acid to restore
battery to its normal working condi-
ton. When the first symptoms OF
headache appear, take tablespoonful
of lemon juice clear, fifteen minutes
before each meal, and the same dose
at bedtime. Follow this up until all
symptoms are passed, taking no other
remedies, and you will soon be able
to go free from this UNIV elcOme nuis-
ance. Many will object to this be


cause the remedy is too simple; but
haye made many cures in this way.
Year: 1879

Few men die of old age. Almost
all die of disappointment, passion,
mental or bodily toll, or accident. The
common expression, 'choked with pas
sion,' has little exaggeration in it,even
though not suddenly fatal strong pas
sions shorten life. Strong-bodied men
often die young weak men often live
longer than the strong, fol the strong
use their strength and the weak have
none to use. The latter take care of
themselves !; the former do not. AS it
is with the body,so it is with the mind
and temper. The strong are apt to
break, or, like a candle, to run; the
weak to run out. The inferior ami
mails that live temperate lives have
generally their prescribed number of
years. The herse lives twenty-five; !;
the OK fifteen or twenty; the dog ten
or twelve the rabbit eight the guinea
pig six or seven years. These num-
bers all bear a similar proportion to
the time the animal takes to grow to
it's full size. But man, of all the ami
mails, is one that seldom lives this
average, He ought to live hundred
years according to physical law, for
FIVE time twenty is a hundred; but
instead of that, he scarcely reaches on
an average four times his growing Pc
riod; the cat six times, and the rabbit
even eight times the standard of meas
urement. The reason is obvious-
man is not only the most irregular and
Incorporate, but the most laborous
and hard-worked of all the animals.
He is also the most irritable. and there
is reason to believe, though we can
not tell what an animal secretely feels,
that more than any other animal, man
cherishes wrath to keep it warm, and
consumes himself with fire of his own
secret reflections.
Year: 1879

M. de Lesseps has just returned from
q trip to Tunis, whittier he went to in
vestigate the possibility and the ad-
visibility of letting the waters Of the
Mediterranean into the desert of Sa-
hara, so as TO convert . great portion
of that desolate expanse into an inland
sea. NJ. de Lesseps says that the Arab
chieftains of the south of the Aures
keep up the tradition of there having
existed in former times a sea in that
neighborhood from five to six hundred
leagues in circumference. He also has
been enabled to disprove the idea that
q formation of new lake would do
away with the oases, for he has dis
covered that these are all from fifteen
to forty metres above the level of the
sea, whereas the desert itself is below
the level. Traces of Roman civiliza-
ton have been found in the desert,
and among them the remains Of an
amphitheater like that in Rome.
Year: 1879




During the seventeen years confine-
ment of this strange prisoner at Sainte
Marguerite, st. Mars, who brought
him to the fortress, was replaced by
Monsieur de Bonpart, as governor.
The daughter of the latter, just emerg-
ing from childhood to womanhood,
grew up with this mystery about her.
She had seen the graceful figure Of
the masked prisoner promenading at
night upon the terrace aud at worship
in the chapel, where he was forbidden
to speak or uncover his face, the SOL
diers in attendance always having their
pieces pointed toward him if he should
attempt to do either. She discovered
that her father always treated him
with respect, serving him bareheaded
and standing. His table service was
of massive silver, his dress of the rich
est velvet, and he wore the finest lin
en- and the most costly lace. She had
heard her father accidentally'speak of
him as 'the Prince No wonder that
his sad fate occupied her thoughts by
day, and his noble figure haunted her
dreams by night.


She, tco, was very young and beau.
tiful, and their eyes occasionally met
IN chapel. He sang beautifully, and
was a very skillful performer on the
guitar. 1t is said she climbed the
rocks under the castle terrace and sang
sweet songs to the poor captive. Thus
romantic love sprang up between
them, and as it gained strength the
young girl dared to purloin the keys
from her father, and SO obtained access
to the prisoner.


When the governor discovered his
child's treachery he was struck with
the greatest dismay. His oath was
binding upon him TO put 10 death i'm
medlately any ohe who had spoken to
the prisoner. But she confessed her
love for him, and pleaded piteously
for her young life. The captive, also
to whom the governor was much at
tached, Joined his prayers to hers, and
implored that they might be made man
and wife, and then the secret would
be safe. The governor was not stern
enough to immediate his child, and per.
haps CLEAN of ambition may have
flashed across his mind as in the event
Year: 1879

A fast man on a fast day took his
horse and went TO the end of the fast
land, and there tied him fast. Then
he rose and took off his hose, and went
with his hose along the rows, and put
the rose on the end OF his hose-which
as everyone knows, is sort of nose.
So his hose waters every rose in all
the rows. Now say who knows how
a foreign wight could learn very fast
the meaning of hose and rows or
knows and nose, Or TO perform any
rite right, or even to write wright
right, il his living depended on get
ting some right which involved the
right writing of wright right, write,
and rite?
Year: 1879

COARSE clothes and humble fare
honestly earned are not inconsistent
with the manhood of men. 1t is wear
ing linen duster all winter and lean
ing over free lunch table that crushes
humanity.
Year: 1879

A London correspondent of the Ma
Great Britain, makes these Observa-
tiOns:


after all statements are made, the
monarchy has a great hold upon the
affections of the people. The people
take great comfort in its Royal family.
The love of social greatness is extra
ordinarily strong in England, and the
Royal family appeals very convenient
ly to this sentiment. People in the inn
mense obscurity of that middle class
which constitutes the bulk of the Eng
lish world like to feel that they are re-
lated in some degree to something that
is socially great. They cannot pretend
that they are related to Dukes and
Earls and people of that sort but they
are able to cultivate a certain sense of
being related to the Royal family.
They may talk of "our" Princes and
Princesses- the most exalted MEM
ber of the Peerage may do no more
than that; they may possess photo
graphs of the Queens children, and
read of their daily comings and goings,
with an agreeable sense of propriety,
and without incurring that reproach of
snobbishness which sometimes attach
es to too eager an interest in the doings
of the great nobility. There is NO rea-
son to suppose that the Queen takes the
humorous view of this situation her
majesty is indeed credited with q COM
Portable, motherly confidence in the
salutary effect of the court circles upon
the mind of the middle class; ard
there is a kind of general feeling that
socially speaking, the Queen and the
middle class understand each other.
Year: 1879

DURING THE EXAMINATION OF MR.. VANDKR-
BILT before the railroad investigating commit
tee at Saratoga yesterday in relation to the
effect OF freight discrimination in favor of
western farmers and its effect upon the east,
Mr.. Vanderbilt stated that he was farmer and
that he worked on his farm just like any other
laboring man. His farm cost him $3.50 per acre
but he would sell 1t for 800. The only thing
successfully raised on the farm was fever and
ague. In regard TO the terminal facilities of
the rival roads at Philadelphia and Baltimore,
he thought the accommodations greatly ex-
ceeded those OF his roads at New York; that the
people OF those cities take interest In their
roads, held stock In them and grant many "a
cflfftaa - ~
Year: 1879

SHOCKING DEATH OF A CHILD-On Wednes-
day four-year- old Child OF Mr.. Webb Hartle,
met with shocking death. The family had
been boiling apple butter, and after the kettle
had been removed from over the fire the child
backed into 1t, and was scalded In such man
ner as to cause its death
Year: 1879

A PALPABLE SLUR.-From BLOCK Island Mr.
Watterson writes OF ga gentleman who ran for
Vice President of the United States and was
elected but didn't take his seat, trying to see
whether wave can be straddled as easily as
fence VI Chicd0Q Times
Year: 1879

Expressions which are apparently
fanciful and illogical are sometimes
more telling than others in which no
criticism could find a flaw. For in
stance, the curious and rather awkward
phrase, s'giying the cold shoulder"
has acquired by usage force which
could scarcely be equalled by the most
faultless English. We can not pretend
to account for the popularity of this
idiom, which has long been exalted
from the de radiation Of slang TO the re-
spectability of conventional English.
1t may be more interesting to consider
the uses and abuses of the thing than
to speculate on the history of the word.
Precedents of great antiquity may be
Year: 1879

Do you know you have asked for the costlest thing
Ever made by the Hand above
woman's heart and a womans life,


And woman,s wonderful love?
Do you know yen have asked for this priceless thing
AS a child might ask for toy?
Demanding what others have died to win,


With the reckless dash of a boy.
You have written my lesson of duty out,


Man-like you have questioned me
Now stand at the bar of my woman S soul,
Until shall question thee.
You require your mutton shall always be hot,
Your socks and your shirts shall be whole;
1 require your heart to be true as Gods stars,
And pure as heaven your soul.
You require a cook for your mutton and beef;
l require a far better thing
seamstress you're wanting for stockings and


SHIRTS


1 look for man and a king.
A king for beautiful realm called home,
And man that the maker, God,
Shall look upon as he did the first,


And say, 1T is very good.''
am fair and young but the rose Will fade
From my soft, young cheek one day
viii you love me then, mid the falling leaves,
AS you did mid the bloom Of May?
Is your heart ocean so strong and deep
l may launch my all on its tide?
A loving woman finds heaven or hell
On the day she is made bride.
require all things that are grand and true,
All things thata man should be;
If You give this all. would stake my life
To be all you demand of me.
If you cannot do this-a iaundress and'cook
You can hire, with little topay F.;
But woman IS heart and woman's life
Are not to be won that way.