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Year: 1879

Bishop Asbury, as all good Methodists
remember. lived bachelor, aud was
accustomed to give some pretty good
reasons why, in the early days Of itin-
eracy, celibacy was the proper thing
indeed, a necessity--tor the clergy, if
they would consider simply the pros
perity of the Church. Said he, I'VE
have lost the itinerant labors of two
hundred of the best men in America by
marriage and consequent location"
On one circuit in Virginia the girls
picked of his preachers so fast that he
tried the dodge of sending to the
circuit two decrepid old men, in the be-
lief that nobody woNld try to allure
them into the bonds of wedlock, but to
his surprise, they both married during
the year. Asbury threw up the sponge,
exclaiming, am afraid the women
and the devil will get all my preachers.
Year: 1879

There is quite an increasing interest
in the Union NJ. +. Church Protract-
ed meeting, and the people seem to be
endeavoring to secure success by de
serving it, and are laboring to build up
the Kingdom of God in that place. The
pastor especially urges the meWbers
and friends of the church who will
help in this line to be on hand this
evening, and they should not forget
that a special service is being prepared
for next Sunday.
Year: 1879

tAuHnth COnstftutfOn.I


ot Martin appears to be about the only
ne mas been offered thousands and thousands
OF dollars to recall his recent affidavit. There
is Roman firmness about this man that
almost leads US to suspect that he is the
should be stuffed and hung up in the Smith
sonian Institution. WIZ
Year: 1879

Washington special TO Cincinnati Com


mercial.


The name Of Xenophon Wheeler
will be sent in by the President
this week for District Attorney for
the Eastern District of Tennessee.
This appointment has been fully de-
termined upon. Wheeler lives in
Chattanooga, and is warm friend
of Judge Key. Last fall he was
the Republican candidate for Con-
gress from the Third District. He is
an Ohio man by birth, and a grad
uate of Yale; served in the Union
army through the war, and has
since been citizen of Tennessee
and very popular with all parties.
He is "a cousin of Vice President
Wheeler, but the latter did not
know the appointment was to be
made until it was agreed upon.
Year: 1879

THERE ARB vRRr many persons who
know nothing about a registered letter,
and now it differs from any other let
ter. The difference is, that a registered
letter never goes into the mail pouches,
but is carried in separate box, and is
under the especial care Of the mail
agent. When he receives a letter
marked "Registered," he gives a re-
ceipt for it at tn. Office from wh.nc. it
starts, and evsry agent is compelled to
give receipt for 1t who has the hand
ling thereof. 1t will be seen that if the
letter Is lost or in any other manner
made way with, the mail agents who
hold receipts for it are free from sus-
picion, and the responsibility rests
upon the last agent who receipts. II
is one OF the safest ways Of transferring
valuables or money from one point to
another, and should invariably be
used, as q letter sent through by other
means may be lost, and no means OF
finding where it has gone are left for
the loser.
Year: 1879

THERE is every indication that Tilden
will be the next Democratic candidate
for the Presidency, and the probability
is that he will carry Hendricks along
with him Tor Vice President. The
Democrats OF the South are said to be
almost unanimously for him. and 30
they are in New York, New Jersey and
th- New England States. In stead of
"Tildep and Reform the war cry Of
the Democracy in 1850 will be "Tilden
and success at all hazards, EVEN il
they have to kill every nigger and stuff
every ballot-box. That is the game,
preparatory to which they will stop at
nothing to repeal the present Federal
election laws, which make cheating at
the pells somewhat difficult. We shall
SEE what stuff President Hayes is made
OF in case repeal bill passes the new
Congress. Without his approval no re-
SSvreal bill can pass, as it wenld be i'm
possibl. for the Democrats to muster a
two-third vote In ita favor in either
House of Congress,
Year: 1879

Tx PEOPLE of New Castle county,
should push for the building Of new
Court House in Wilmington, upon its
own merits alone, entirely divested Of
the county division issue. From pres
ent appearances there is some chance
for the first, but no chance for the lat
ter. By no action of the Representa-
tives from Kent and Sussex will New
Castle county be allowed increased re-.
presentation either by county division
or any other plan. Then let there he
general movement for the Court
House removal, and representation will
follow when the people of the county
are determined TO have it.
Year: 1879

we SUPPOSE it is useless to expect
Congress- 30 near its close, to do any.
thing towards redeeming the silver
trade dollar; or to place it at par by
making it legal tender, and in con-
sequence of this failure the trade dollar
has been shifted about from one city to
another, accumulating in the city
where they were still passed at par in
trade. In Wilmington they have all
along been taken at par, but now that
the banks have refused to receive them
on deposit, and our citizens will lose
something on each dollar unless they
are shifted of to some other city where
they are still used at par.
Year: 1879

lr Is reported all over the country
| that the chamber OF commerce of San
Francisco has earnestly demanded that
the President shall sign the Chinese
bill, it really looks as if public senti-
ment out there decidedly favored the
measure. But the matter assumes n
different aspect when we learn, as we
now do, that the meeting which took
this action contained less than forty
members out of a whole number of two
hundred and fifty, and that the resolu
tion was carried by majorisy of only
seven votes.
Year: 1879

WHAT Is KNOWN as the liquor me.!' $
bill was presented in the Legislature
yesterday. In its main features it is
not unlike the bill which the temper
ance men presented and are urging.
Both look to the raising Of the greatest
revenue to the State, but the liquor
mems bill make. no provision for a
county agent or bond Of indemnity
against damages resulting from the il
legal sale OF liquor. 1t il said that the
latter of the two liquor bills is the most
popular and will pass.
Year: 1879

THouGH WINTER is lingering in the
lap Of Spring it 10 time that the street
committee was bestirring itself to have


the streets, alleys and yards cisansed
and put in proper condition. Tho win
ter has been severe and changeable,
and the street cutters having been
tightly frozen nearly all the time, has
prevented proper cleaning and now
~ winter is about breaking up many
Of the streets are very dirty. The
whole world appears to be stirred from
centre to circumference by epidemic dis


eases. In Russia a terrible plague is
ravaging some OF her provinces in


which person in perfect health he
comes fostering corpse in two hours.
The same dist ase exists in Brazil, only
under the name of the Black Plague,
and Diptheria which is ravishing many
portions Of Europe, also exists here and
the typhoid engendered by the same
causes is sweeping of its victims by
the hundreds. Last summer the South
srn States were scourged with the yell
low fsver, which was started by the
authorities of = single town draining
sf some marsh lands in the warm
weather. II the people Of Wilmington
would have hsalthful city during the
approaching summer the street commit
tee should commence cleaning opera
tions early, and every housekeeper
should aid them in a general cleaning
up, so that the fierce March and April
winds may have an opportunity to
wah away the unhealthy effiuvis, while
tina atmosphere is yet crisp and frosty.
Year: 1879

Be it good that VIC do, let us do It,


Giving soul and our strength to the deed:
Let us pierce tho hard rock and PASS through


it.


And compass tho thing that We need
Docs Fate. as dark cloud. hang over,


And cover our heads from the light?
Does hate nook the heart Of tho lover
Must Wrong DO the victim Of Right
Yet In Fate there is freedom for each ono
TO mako or to mar AZ lo will;
And the bolts of i'll fortune that reach ono,
May MAIN, but they never shall kill.
Ever onward and upward pursuing


The aim that is thino for tho day;
Adding strength to thy strength by thy doing,
Thou shalt gain it, nor faint by tho way.
Aud though thou art bruised with small things,
Though menial thy labor may bo.
Do thy utmost in that aud in all things,
Thou still shalt be noble and free.
Dost thou lover let it be with full measure
Nor minBlo with coldness or hato
OF others the Joy of thy pleasure.


The passion that CROWNS thy estate.
BE to every man just; and to woman


BE gentle, and tender, and true;
For thy own do thy bost; but for no man
Do less than a brother shonld do.
So living thy days full to number.


In peace thou shalt pass to the grave;
Thou shalt lie down, and rest there and slum-


ber,
: Beloved by the good and tho brave
Year: 1879

A magnificent trumptcer swan was shot
at the outlet of Buck Pond near Rochester,


New York, recently, the first specimen OF
the kind, it is believed, ever shot in this
part of the country. Tho hunters first saw
the bird sailing over their dccoy. Five
charges from their guns brought him down,


and then they discovered that they had in
deed captured prize. The body was per-
fectly white, and the wings measured six
feet from tip to tip. From the tip Of the
bill to the extremity Of the tail it measured
four feet and three inches 1t Is the in.
tention to have the bird prepared by a tax
idermist.
Year: 1879

Our Mr. Whredge has returned from Philadelphia Roches
New York and Boston with the largest best and cheapest line Of
Boots and Shoes before offered in Salina


We wish call attention the fact that dollars worth Of
Boots and Shoes bought direct from manufactures
low price any obber St Louis Chicago buy them To
say that sell them lower than neighbo drawing it
very mild indeed We sell lines Of them low
neghbors buy the and make nice profit for ourselves


We think by years Of have learned the Of
friends and patrons both the city and country and faer
ourselves that please you both price and quality and at
the time the advantage Of the largest stock Kan
sas to select from. We a few Of our prices
Year: 1879

Black Cashmeres IS per cent below their value.


Black Gros Grain Silks have advanced per cent We own
hem old prices and will customers the benefit We
will beat any Kansas City price silks


Full line Of Scotch and Tartan plaids At low prices


In Dress Trimmings, Frngcs and Buttons have all the
elites made and defy comparison CS prices We invite
animation Of the above goods know have Ill te novel,
ties. and at prices that cannot be beat


We have just opened large assortment of
Year: 1879

Hat stock t-does itself I've have everything
and knobby All have say this have the largest
and cheapest stock the State To need Of hat
and and will you better hat for less money
than buy Of else will hat Tor moth
ing We mean what we say
Year: 1879

Our Mr. Ober has just returned from the east with the largest
fullest best cheapest and complete stock Of Dry Goods
every description before offered the people Of Kansas
Our stock of
Year: 1879

The Methodist complainants against
the management Of the Northern Church
with their missionary fund complain that
of $6O0.OO0 collected $500 go to the sup
port of missions amongst the Indians.
We suppose this is practical applica-
ton of the principle which induced a
contributor to throw a nickel into the
box, wrapped up in dollar bill, with n
line explaining that the nickel was for
the heather and the dollar to get it to
them.-NdShUille american.
Year: 1879

The speaker asked the very pertinent
question. What was done with these
supplies? There was little left of the
redoubtable Christian agent when she
finished him. She described him as hay
ing right arm longer than his left, and
while he was beckoning them to be kind
and good and honest with the one hand
the other was busy grabbing behind
their backs. She wound up her summa-
ry of Mr.. Reinhardt's character with a
bit of mischievuus sarcasm that brought
down the house.


The Bannock war and the causes lead
ing to it were next described. She gave
a graphic account of many incidents of
the campaign, thrilling and enchanting
the interest of her acdience.
Year: 1879




from Curious Kansas.


Mr.. j. HI. Beeson, the we'll
known Central Branch contract
or, gave the Patriot pleasant
call this morning, and from him
we learn the particulars of the
most remarkable snake-story we
have heard. In the extension of
the Central Branch Road from
Beloit to Cawker City, the line
passes through the town Of Glen
Elder. A short distance from
Glen Elder, on the Solomon Riv-
er, is a steep and rocky bluff, a
bout fifty-five high, a large por-
ton of which had to be blasted
away to make room for the road
bed. A few day ago while the
excavation was in progress a
blast of nitro-glycerine caps and
giant powder tore off an unusual
ly large part of the bluff, and
down the dcclivity there came
writhing and rolling a bunch of
snakes, which Mr.. Beeson as
sures us was almost as large as a
barrel. They were of different
varieties, rattlesnakes predomi-
mating, with racers, adders, gar
ters, &c. When first disturbed
from their warm bed they were
active and dangerous, but COM
ing: ont in the severe cold they
were soon comparatively HARM
less, and werd killed by the men
without much trouble, or covered
up in the dump by earth and
stone. But this is a very small
portion of the story. Every day
and every blast, since this first
batch appeared, has brought an
other huge bundle of reptiles.
Every hour moving, writhing
lump comes rolling down the
hills, only to separate at the foot,
and what escape the laborers'
pick and shovel crawl off to get |
covered up in the dump. Thou
sands of them have been unearth-
ed and killed, and every blast
brings thousands more, far rival
ing in number the famous snake
den of Concordia. Not a single
case Of snake bite has vet occurr-
ell, Notwithstanding it is many |
times almost impossible to avoid
stepping on them. Mr.. Beeson
says there are no unusual mon
sters among them, the great ma
jority being as large round as a
mans wrist and about three or
three and a half feet long. He
also says that farmers for five
miles around tell them that this
is the regular winter den of these
venOmouS creatures, n d that
during the fall the snakes in that
country, which are discovered,
are headed in the direction of the
bluffs, and the only way they can
be turned from their course is to
kill them. 1t is said to be one
of the most remarkable sights
ever looked upon, and hundreds
from the surrounding country
visit the quarries to see the
snakes.
Year: 1879

.


There are various reasons why
numbers of Southern people are
lazy. The climate is somewhat
to blame, whisky is cheap, fine
cut, plug and twist tobacco is a.
bundant, and last, though not
least, the whiting AROUND coun-
try stores is as good as it ever
was before. Nobody is afraid
of starving in this country; if We
do not raise everything we need
to eat, and our governors refuse
to call the legislature to ''grant
relief" have we not left the glo-
rious privilege of growing and
cussing?
Year: 1879

The Egyptian pyramids may
be classed under the head Of
'old made"


When a man has no mind OF
his own his wife generally gives
him a piece Of hers.


1t is safe TO indorse the sup
position that Adam expressly
bit the apple because he had no
knife.


The dtiry-ma,d pen lively MIXED the goat,
And pouting she paused to nutter-
Il wish you b. ute,yOa wolld turn to milk -
And the animal turned to butt her.
When a man begins 10 take off
his coat and vest at you it is a
sign that he is resorting to the
courts of peels.


When the contribution box
comes round, if you don't give
a cent you should nod, and nod
ding is assent.


1t is when a woman .rics to
whistle that the great glory Of
her mouth is seen without be-
ing heard very much.


"Do fishes go crazy?" is a
conundrum proposed by Seth
Green. Sometimes they get in
seine.


A hen hawk is a hen hawk


When you know il is She


But when YOU know ii is male,


A Tommy hawk is he.


"Wantel-To exchange, mu-
sic lessons for washing," is an
advertisement in a Chicago pa
per.


Every man is miserable sim
ner in church, but out of there
it is unsafe to say much about
ii, except to small man.


Under the New Hampshire tax
law "two hogs to a family are
exempt" That would exempt
the whole family in some cases.


No matter how hard it is to
find a rocking chair during the
day, a man is sure 10 fall over
one when he is in search of Il
match box after dark.


A St. Louis lady sues an edit
or for breach of promise, put
ting her damages at $4,000.
We millionaircs are never sale
from the rapacious.


a Chicago policeman arrest
ed a boy who had an onion in
the corner OF a hlndkcrchicf
The charge against him was
carrying concealed wcepins.


There are ten shades Of rcd
this season in women's togeery
and 347 shades Of blue about the
husband and father, who foots
the dry goods and millinery bills.


Somebody's Coming When
the Dewdrops Fall" is said to
be very beautiful song. "Some-
body's Coming When the Note
Falls Due" is not SO enchant-
ing.


Nobody seems to know what
becomes of the bumble-bces in
winter, but they are on deck and
ready to be sat down on as soon
us the first barefooted boy APP
pears.


The following is< posted in
front of a grocery store near
Harvard Square: = "W OGDEN
pals, six cents each. Notice
We did not steal these pals,
but we think the man we bought
them of did"
Year: 1879

WADE HAMProN's maiden speech in
the Senate on Thursday was moderate
in tone compared to the wild ebullitions
Of some Of the Northern doughfaces. He
was . friend to the army but he could
never consent to have it used as an in
strumsnt of tyranny in the hands o.
an ctupulous executive. There II
a method in Hampton's opposition tc
the army being used at the polls, for il


1t had been used so as to allow every
body in South Carolina to vote withou,
molesting, he would have been buried
beneath a Republican majority of 25,-
600. He knows that his success is
entirely due to the influence of the rife
clubs that roamed up and down the
State at will at the last election intimi-
dating the negroes into silence, and
shooting those who became in any way
refractory. II Hampton had come hon
estly into the Sen ate, his speech would
have been looked upon with more favor.
His allusion to President Hay es as an un-
scrupulous President was an exhibition
Of the basest ingratitude, when he knows
that it was only through the removal
of the troops from South Carolina that
secured his election. Hampton may be
very cool Senator in some respects,
but If he was a real honest one he
would resign his seat and go home.
Then if after the people have held an
election, and all have been allowed to
vote as they pleased, Hampton has a
majority, he can fill his sea. with honor
and credit. Of course there are twelve
or fourteen other Senators from the
South, that have never been elected
honestly who should also resign with
Hampton.
Year: 1879

THERE BEING three regular tickets
now in the field for the State election
of Onio in October next, and If the
papers are to DE believed the candidates
are all the best and strongest that conli
be got. This must make lively cam
pagn, and as all the biz political guns
in the nation have been engaged to
pour out their political thunders upon
the State, we would advise.the people to
provide o plentiful supply of cotton to
stuff in their ears, and hartshorn for
smelling bottles.
Year: 1879

The silver men will begin to get an
cry If silver keeps on going up at this
rat, The price in London advanced
% 522 pence an ounce, making the bull
ion value of the silver dollar fully five
cents more than it was at the begin
ming Of the year. It would require an
advance of only about five pence more
an ounce to make the silver dollar as
good as gold the world over.
Year: 1879

The Extra Session and its Results.


After sitting three months and half in a
needless extra session, Congress adiourns with
no single public interest bettered by its pres
ence at the capitol. Such thing is without
parallel in the history of this government, and
one must turn to the eventless sittings in which
the continental Congress went outlike gut
tering candle to ind likeness for this utter
failure in every object for which Congress
meets or may be summoned. The appropria-
ton bills have been passed; but so they might
at an earlier stage of this session or before the
close of the last, without putting one of the
two great parties, through whose agency the
government must be carried on into the hu-
initiating attitude in which the Democratic
party stands to-day Its control of the two
chambers has proved fruitless, its prospects of
carrying Ohio which it lost when slavery be-
came q national issue and began to regain
when it ceased to be, are hopeessly gone; in
none of the small Northern States, whose cleo
toral votes must be added..to the great column
from the solid South to win in 1880, has the
Democratic party any sure sign of victory, and
the great state of New York, Democratic for
five years, is now confidently claimed by the
Republicans. 1t is a beggarly summing up of
the work of great party, when one is
forced to tabulate the result of its acts in their
influence on the next election returns, and
can point to no measures which form part OF
the historical legislation of the land. 1t is
something for party majority to pass acts
which affect the future of the country howev-
er voters may condemn or approve; but the
leaders of the Democratic party in Congress
have not even this consolation. They Joined
in policy which had no end but vote-getting,
and they have not even got the votes.


1t is idle to repeat the story of their failure.
The people were long since sick of it. With
nearly every material interest of the country
needing wise legislation, the Democrats chose
to initiate party policy altering the mere ma
chinery of government for Democratic ends
which could not be carried out without the
consent of Republican executive. This con-
sent they did not have, and in the long strug-
gle with the veto power the Democrats so man.
aged their attack as to raise the war issue at
the North, and rouse keenly the popular alb
horrence of the corruptions at the ballot-box
by which the Democrats have carried New
York city in the past. The divergence between
extreme and moderate men in carrying out
this policy has reached pass in the last
ten days which has nearly broken up the DEM
ocratic caucus and opened a broader gap be-
tween the two factions than has been seen in
the Democratic party since the electoral con-
test of 1877. Without crediting the leading
Democrats in Congress with any less than the
usual patriotism of party chiefs, it is fair to
presume that decided party success might
compensate them for the blunders of q session
by which the country had not benefited; but
they have not this satisfaction.
Year: 1879

THE Boston Journal blows kisses after
the retiring Congress in this fashion: ''Thus
has the revolutionary threat to starve the
Government by refusing to vote nearly $780,
100000 of appropriations shrivelled in less
than hundred days into proposition to
nullify the Federal election laws by refusing
to appropriate 100000 without conditions.
1t is not our purpose to exultover this prac-
tical back-down from the position it assumed
upon the adjournment of the last Congress
Neither is it our purpose to accord to the
Democratic leaders the least credit for what
they will hold up as a concession on their
part. They met a superior force. They
were wise enough to see that to carry out
their revolutionary threats would be simply
to invoke the wrath of the people and their
own destruction.