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Year: 1878

Tt is alleged that the Indian Bureau
are turning every point they can to
make case against the transfer of the
Indian Bureau to the War Department.,
that they have sent to all the agencies
to have the question submitted to the
Indians themselves, and at many of
these agencies, Notwithstanding instruc-
tons to the contrary, the agents, are,
and have been, using all the influences
in their power to bias the Indians against
the transfer, and holding their councils
with them as secretly as possible from
the whites in the vicinity, SO as not to
have the Indians enjoy the advantages
of any other than the agents interpre-
tation Of the nature of the transfer, and
thereby getting decision of the Indians
upon question they do not fully un-
derstand. 1t fortunately happened that
the Indians at Lapwai were sufficiently
awake upon the subject to go and make
a request upon Capt. Faux, command
ing at the garrison, that he be present
and witness their vote, and the Indian
request was only made the evening be-


fore, which was the first intimation to
him that any such council was to be
held. This Indian vote at the different
agencies, is matter that will need be


thoroughly sifted to know how it was


obtained at the other agencies. The


Indian ring will die hard, but die it


must if we are to have peace upon our


frontier. The pretended and sickly


sympathy for the poor Indian under


cover OF which the indians are robbed


Of hundreds of thousands of dollars an,


uually, causing so much disatfectior
among them will have to succumb tt


the stern Facts ia the true status of the
Indian. The vigilance Of tao public
eye is turned in that direction and th
, error Of the government in farming Oh
; the Indian reservations to sects of re
ligionists is bound to be seen and check
ed. Let the guilty stand from under
The truth will soon fall with a weigh
$ that will crush them.
Year: 1878

The Waitsburg Times has lengthy
article On the State government ques-
tion. 1t speaks of the delays IN the
press in discussing the question, and
suggests that possibly there may be too
much legislation in the Constitution to
be submitted. But on the whole dis
cusses the question quite fairly and
promises to say more. We quote the
following from the article which we
heartily endorse:


The people will no longer trust dishon-
est man because he proclaims himself a
Democrat. or Republican. With this reform
in public sentiment We hope for a new and
better administration of government, and
that if our Territory is admitted as a State
the public money will not be stolen. II
this view is correct, we can afford to be
free men in the most mercenary view OF the
case. 1t will not directly hurt our pockets
for Judging from arguments used against
| the Constitution the pocket alone must de-
eide this question without any sentiment OF
| freedom or slavery having any considera-
ton. Pockets may be affected by indirect
means rs well as direct. A railroad through
eastern Washington to Puget Sound would
increase the wealth of every citizen east o.
the Cascades more than one hundred pei
cent. Late surveys have demonstrated
that the way for such road is practicable
and comparatively easy. The Oregon State
influence, while we are a Territory, defeats
the building of ench road, while if Wash
ington were a State we could be assured o
its early accomplishment. This is none.
argument of great weight. The publi'
sentiment and the public interest demand I
State government at the. earliest date tha
we can be admitted with good Constitu
| tim
Year: 1878

When the system is run down to that
extent that you pass sleepness nights, are
nervous and irritable, have gloomy fore
bodings, sour stomach, sick headache and
coated tongue, do not enroll yourself as
high private, in the rear rank, under GEN.
eral Debility, but cheer up and try Whites
Prairie Flower, The Great Liver Panacea,
now for sale in every city and town on the
Continent. No medicine ever compounded
is half its equal for the cure of DYSPEP-
STA and LIVER COMPLAINT. It has n
specific power over the liver, and by cnr-
ing the liver, Dyspepsia and all other dis
eases arising from it, vanish as if by mngic.
Sample bottles are sold at the small price
of 25 cents that will convince you of its
merits. Large size bottles rs cents for
sale everywhere. 44-tf.
Year: 1878

1t is the duty of the industrial and tax
paying elements of all parties to choke off
the demagogues and show the people of the
Atlantic coast that the ruling power here,
if aroused, acknowledge the rights Of labor
and security of property. Then, to secure
US credit abroad, we must repudiate the
church-taxing communistic bantIing spew-
ed from the brains of the demagogues who
concocted the Walla Walla Constitution.
We do not speak of that body as such in
the aggregate--only the two or three who
run the concern.-N. p. Times.


Our neighbor of the Times is playing
the demagogue to perfection. With one
stroke Of his pen he is demanding that
railroads and church-property should be
exempt from taxation, and with another
stroke of the same pen he appeals to
tax payers, who now have all the taxes
to pay, to vote against the Constitution,
because it provides that their taxes will
be lcssened by including all this railroad
and church property and legitimately
subject to taxation to support the gov.
ernment that is to protect it. Itappeals
to the laboring classes to vote against
the Constitution, because that instru.
ment provides that all corporators shall
be personally liable Is. pay what they
owe to their laborers. The Times man
is ignorant of what he writes when he
alleges that two or three men run that
Convention, when the facts are that
while two or three men (probably those
to whom the Times refers) did make
the attempt to run that Convention, and
to foist upon it, several communisti'
doctrines, but they were as signally de


feated by the large majority Of the Con


vention, and every communistic princi


pie kept out of the Constitution, save


slightly colored approximation, as fount


in the prohibition of all but Ameri
cans and naturalized citizens from bcin
employed on State works. But this ca
cut 10 figure practically in the State fl
many years. and before that time tha


provision will be expunsed. Both tn
aborer and the taxpayer is well pre-
tected by the provisions of this Const
tuition, and the monopolies of the Stat


are made to stand on an even footin


with the balance of the people and /


on an equality before the law as the
! should be.
Year: 1878

"Mcmphis has many rich men who
own palatial stores along Main street.
There is not one Of these rich men here
to-day, in the hour Of our greatest ca
lamity. These rich men are neither
represented in person nor by their sur.
plus dollars. The majority Of the men
who are standing in the deadly breach,
fighting the most gigantic plague that
ever cursed American soil, are mon who
do not own one dollar in real estate in
Memphis" Where" it asks, SIS this
man and that man" giving their names,
"and score of others that We propose
to mention at future time? Have We
seen the light of their countenanccs or
the color Of their money? Facts are
stubborn things, aud We are now treat.
ing of facts. The men who are to-day
standing in the fore front Of tho battle
have no capital but their manhood. God
bless them."


There may besome reasonable apology
for the wealthy people of that fatal city
going in person away where they will
be removed from that great pestilencc,
the yellow fever. But when they know
there are thousands whose financial con.
dition will not suffer them to remove,
and whose distresses demand large char
tiles from the rich, their hardness Of
heart induces them to desert their poor
friends and neighbors in their hour Of
the greatest extremity, without as much
as one dollar bestowed to relieve them
Of their sufferings. The people Of the
north and the people of the west are ap


pealed to for charity, and charity il


given. But most of it comes from the


common people aud those in moderate


circumstances. The case Of the rict


man and Lazarus is not so bad as this


action of the rich Of Memphis.
Year: 1878

FRITZ OUR COUSIN GERMAN.


Mr.. Emmett last night presented bis orr
ginal character comedy to fair audience,
in the Opera House. We noticed present
many of our most critical and cultivated
citizens who manifested their pleasure at
the acting of Mr.. Emmet. The story, and
plot are exceedingly simple, and the play
derives its whole value from the character
of Fritz. The personation or rather as
sumption of German character of hum
BILE life by Mr.. Emmett, is quite as good
as that of Jefferson's Rip Van Winkle, and
is not open to some Of the Objectionable
features of that character. From the be
ginning to the end of the play, there was
not even an indelicate suggestion all was
pure and its lessons could not fail to im>
prove, the feelings of the audience. We are
quite certain that if Mr.. Emmett comes
again to Wilmington he will be created by
a much larger attendance than that of last
night. ...a .a a..


The concluding act Of the Happy Miller
was exceedingly beautiful, showing a pict.
ure, of contentment, and domestic happiness
to be envied and initiated. The broad fur
was hearty, and honest ana produced gen.
uine peals Of laughter.
Year: 1878




The President returned the Silver Bill to
Congress yesterday with veto message. 1t
was promptly passed by both the House
and Senate by constitutional majority.
This is the beginning of the end--the first
step towards the emancipatioa of the indus
tries Of the country, from the trammels Of
the money lenders of Europe, who, like
leeches, were sucking the bloed of this
country by an illegal and dishonest inter-
probation Of the contract between them and
the people of the Republic. Once
again, as in the days Of Jackson,
the money pover-of all others the most
dangerous to liberty has been smitten by
the overwhelming force of American public
opinion. The peoples representatives have
risen to the stature demanded of them by
equal rights, honesty and fair play ; and by
their vote have censured President, the
fraudulent faint of whose tenure Of Office
should have enforced him to silence, when
the people had spoken ina voice of thunder.
The anomoly of paying an untaxed bond
holder--dehors the condition OF his bond |;
gold for his interest-and paper to the Grip.
pied patriot Or widowed mother, will now
cease.


Let not the Gold Bugs, dream, that she
people will halt here. For eighteen dreary
years monicd monopolies haye been choking
the well spring of American liberty,
and regulating the commerce and industries
of the country in such way, as to profit
themselves primarily but the false sys-
TEN ffas been broken, by the vote Of Con-
gress yesterday, and henceforth legislation
will be in the interest Of industry, and oi
the prosperity of the people.


The mig ht of monopolies has passed into
q glorious tomorrow, and the advocates ol
dishonest Interpretation of the law {; If they
continue to oppose necessary legislation to
unshackle industry--and give food to the
starving Millions will have to answer at the
bar of public opinion, for their mistakes
and plumbers in legislation.
Year: 1878

of his duties, he has not done that
days work well. 1t is enough for one
person to be good teacher; it is i'm
possible to be good teacher and good
at anything else requiring much exer-
ton. So it is an infallible mark of a
good teacher that he is absorbed in his
work that he finds abundant occupa-
ton, and his chief satisfaction there.
school system for that means teaching
with half heart, the treasure, the am
bitiOn, the interest being elsewhere.
The evil is plain the remedy is hard
to find. Young women will teach till
they marry young men till they find
their way into their professions. We
don't grudge the young women their
husbands we need well-trained young
men in all the professions in the
meantime what can we do for the
schools 2 How can we secure for them
the service of men and women who put
their whole mind and heart into teach
ingP know of but one answer. We
must hold out larger inducements, we
must give higher rewards to those who
by devoting time and money to pre-
paration for teaching, show that they
have desire to make teaching their
main and permanent work. We must
put premium on professional teaching
by the respect we pay it, the rank we
accord to it, the emoluments we bestow
upon it. 1t makes one sick to hear that
young women can again be employed
as teachers at the old wages of dollar
and a quarter per week and board,
while the woman who washes for you
or cleans your house, gets her dollar a
day and board. But it is refreshing to
know that the number of schools is in
creasing in which high salaries are paid
for high services. Take this as a fact
and sight is both-that school com
missiOners have more difficulty in find
ing first-class teachers for well-paid
positions than such teachers have to
find positions. The moral, teachers, is
plain-qualify yourselves for the high
positiOns-be first, not third-rate teach
ers and, believe me, the qualifications
of the true teacher are such as to justify
me in saying to you, in order to be
first class teachers, you must be first
class men and women.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Robert Bonner of the New York
Ledger is being put forward as can
didate for mayor in New York city. 1t
is quite needless to state that he would
The remaining portions of this alb
sorbing sentence may be found in the
number of the Bulletin for August %,
for sale at all observation-disclosures
phia Bulletin.


An engineer on the Long Island Rail
road fell asleep Friday morning while
in charge of long train of excursion
cars, and ran his locomotive off an open
switch. He had had only four hours OF
sleeg in bed since Sunday.
Year: 1878

The Public Schoots.-Tbe enrolment at'
the public schools is now as large as at any
time since they were established. Thanks
to the zeal and industry as well as paternal
interest manifested by the teachers, the inn
proverrient OF the pupils Is marked: The
discipline Is mild hut firm. It IS to be hoped
that our schools will be enabled to continue
until the end OF the regular session in June.
To suspend them in February would be mo-
thing less than public calamity. ------ -
Year: 1878

The Metropolitan Association OF Amateur Oarsmen
will tomorrow evening at the Sturtcvant House.
Most OF prominent clubs Of the city and vicinity
arc members of the association. The time when the
annual regatta should take place Will be discussed and
Year: 1878

The only self-discharging Rake operated with
out gearing friction or springs. 1t is simple,
not liable to get out of order, and so easily
operated that any one who can manage a
horse can rake the heaviest meadow. The
driver has free use Of both hands to manage
the horse. The seat is adjustable to suit the
height of driver. The teeth can be lowered
and raised to suit different kinds OF raking
without altering their gathering qualities.
Year: 1878

ed, the struggle broke out afresh, resulting
in the death Of Abdullah Pasha, with sever
al officers Of his escort and the house in
which they took refuge was fred. Mehe-
met Ali succeeded in escaping from the
building and concealing himself in shed
close by, but his hiding place was soon dis
covered and he was mercilessly put to
death.
Year: 1878

Of fair face is fine set of teeth. The
ladies being fully alive to this fact, pa
tronjzc SOZODONT in preference to any
dentifrice, since they know by experience
that it preserves like no other the pris-
tine whitencss and cleanliness of the
teeth, and makes naturally sweet breath
additionally fragrant. 1t is one of the
privileges of the beaux sex to look love-
ly and that proportion OF it which use
SOZODONT, has learned that the article
contributes in no small degree to the
end in view. All druggists sell it.
Year: 1878

Elethants have so much sympathy
with depraved human nature as to think
with Byron, "Sweet Is revenge" An
anecdote of an elephants revenge,
translated from the French, is as fol-
lows: Upon one of the plantations was
an English overseer named Bennett, an
exceedingly cross and disagreeable man,
who was employed by the master be-
cause of his great capability in directing
affairs. Upon the plantation was an
elephant named Dourga, that Bennett
greatly disliked, and upon whom he
often played mean tricks. His employ
er, after reprovirg him several times for
his unkindness to the animal, warned
him that if he carried his tricks too far,
Dourga would pay him back with inter
est. Finally the time came when Dour-
gas patience was tried beyond endur-
ance. He was in the habit of receiving
every morning from his driver huge
corn cake covered with molasses, OF
which he was very fond. One morning,
as this cake was being carried to him on
bamboo hurdle, Bennett, who was
passing with pot full of red pimento,
threw it upon the cake, and then stopped
to watch and mimic the grimaces made by
the elephant when he swallowed it. The
result was easy to see. The poor AMI
NAL, his mouth on fire, passed the day
in marsh trying to calm the thirst that
was devouring him, and to appease the
Inflammation produced by the fiery dose
he had swallowed. When evening came,
the hour when Bennett brought the
coolies from work, the elephant pounced
upon him, picked him up with his
trunk and pitched him headlong in a
large reservoir or pond OF water, which
was thirty or forty feet deep, Bennett,
who knew how to swim, quickly swan
to the edge. Dourga allowed him to
climb up the bank, when he picked him
up again as if he had been e wisp of
straw, and threw him back in the water.
This was repeated as many times as Ben
nett attempted to escape, until he was
compelled to remain in the water, keep
ing his head up az we'll as he could. The
affair would have ended with sure drown
ing for Bennett if one of the coolies had
not come to his rescue and forced Dour.
ga away.


The elephant never forgot the injury
done him, and rarely allowed an oppor-
tunity to escape to still further revenge
himself upon the overseer. Sometimes he
would throw a paw full of sand slap in
Bennett's face; again it would be spout
of water thrown over him; at another
time he would be pitched into a cactus
bush, from which he would get out ecarce-
ly alive, 80 horribly scratched would he
be. 1t was impossible to correct Dour-
ga and make him behave. The upshot
of the whole affair was that Bennett was
obliged to leave the plantation, which
was not large enough for him and Dour-
ga together, and his employer valued the
elephant more than he did his overseer.
Year: 1878

In the "Home and Society" depart
ment of Scribner's Magazine for July,
Joel Benton describes a new experiment
of dairyman as follows:


These glass bottles, which are sent
from Sweet-clover Farm, in Sharon,
Conn, and from nowhere else in the
world, are made of beautiful clear glass,
and, though of daintier proportions, re-
semble somewhat in shape the larger
champagne bottles. They are supplied
with wired rubber cork, similar to that
which is used for sarsaparilla and beer
bottles, and on the side of the hange OF
the wire, which is to be raised before
the cork can be opened, paper label is
pasted overlapping the wire on the glass
neck, whereon is printed the day and
date on which the bottle was filled. On
the base of the bottle is general label
giving the advertisement OF the farm on
which the method originated, and q
little piece of information of which we
shall presently speak. When twenty of
these bottles are filed they are put into
a box Just large enough to hold them,
separated from each other by rack par
tition.


It is easy to see that milk put up in
this way says to the purchaser at once,
and unmistakabIy: clam the genuine
article" For, it would be utterly i'm.
practicable to try to tamper with it. The
label, which cannot be broken without
detection, gives to the buyer the correct
history of the contents of every bottle;
and when he draws the cork, he knows
that the grass his milk was secreted
from was cropped the day before on the
slopes of lovely pastures in Litchtield
county, Conn. There is no fear of chalk,
of chemicals, or of water. 1t is the same
fluid you find in the pail as it comes
from the country barn.


A sentence printed on the bottles tells
us that the bottling of " Milk from one
Cow" is specially; and to young chill
dren and invalids this news becomes q
pleasant proclamation. For ordinary
use the combination of the milk of twen-
ty to hundred COWS sufices, if the
dairy be we'll kept; but, under special
circumstances it is desirable, and in the
case of delicate infants may save life, to
have the milk which is used drawn reg
ularly from one COW. When the bottles
discriminate in this way an extra label
is used to designate "Cow 25," or "Cow
81, and so on.
Year: 1878

OF the many annoyances to which the
travelling public is subject at this par
ticular season sea-sickness is perhaps, the
most distressing. A perfect cure for
this malady would rob ocean travel of
half its terrors. No drug, however,
has been discovered which acts as q
specific. The cause of the sickness is
largely, if not wholly, due to the invol-
untary and unexpected motions to which
the passengers are subjected on board
ship. These cause undue pressure upon
the stomach and liver, and derange the
action of those organs. To prevent this,
attention has recently been called to an
old plan, which is said to be very sue
cessful. 1t consists in regulating the
act of breathing according to the pitch
ing or rolling of the vessel, drawing in
breath as she rises, and breathing out as
she falls into the trough of the waves.
After little experience the practice, it
is said, becomes involuntary. When
sea-sickness has fairly set in, the only
thing to be done is to get rid of the ex-
ira bile thrown into the circulation, aud
to allay the irritation Of the stomach.
Year: 1878

Miss Emma Bartlett, who died in New
York recently, was one of the "queer
creatures of this country. She began
business in New York some years ago,
selling halter-straps which were made
for her by harness maker on the Bow
cry. At first he trusted her with one,
which she told him she could sell.
While standing near livery stable
fronting Union Square, O horse broke
its halter. She asked the stable owner
If he wanted new halter-strap. He
said eyes" Then she asked what he
gave for halter-straps. He told her,
then size ran to harness shop; told the
man she could sell one if she had it.
He trusted her. She sold the strap, re-
turned to the shop with the pay for it.
Then the man trusted her with three
straps to go out and sell. She disposed
of them in one afternoon, and at night
went to his house and paid him for them.
The next day she sold seven halter.
straps, and paid for them as before
The third day she sold nine, and paid
for them. By this time she had made
and saved 81. rs, which sum she invested
in straps, which we're soon sold. She
added to her stock a few halters, and in
time few brides, that she sold at diff
ferent stables she visited. Thus she
worked her way into a good business,
and came to own before her death har-
ness manufactory in which she gave en-
ployment to one hundred persons. She
was a small woman, never weighing to
exceed ninety pounds. Her voice was
neither feminine or masculine, and she
had a light beard, 30 that she shaved
three times week. What was more
singular was the fact that liquor never
affected her brain, though she drank OF
it whenever q customer would drink.
She used to drink with her customers,
and thus drove better bargains with
them.