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Year: 1879

THE Presidential canvass Of 1910, in
i which Gen. Harrison and President
Van Buren, were opposing candidates,
was distinguished by an intense popular
enthusiasm. 1t was an oratorial and
musical campaign. Every village had
its dozen of speakers and its score Of
vocalists. An amusing anecdote of that
election gives modern illustration of
the old fable of the lion put to flight by
the braying of jackass.


A speaker was discoursing at mass
meeting in Western Virginia upon the
merits of Gen. Harrison as military
Year: 1879

There is considerable misapprehension
abroad as to the object of the Arrears of
Pensions bill, just signed by the President.
1t has already been called a raid on the
Treasury, bill for the benefit of claim
agents, and other bad names. The truth
is that the bill proposes to date-and con-
sequently to pay-all pensions from the
date of the death or disability for which
they were granted, whereas the majority of
the pensioners created by the late civil war
were paid only from date of application for
pension, which was from one to fifteen or
more years after cause for application had
occurred.
Year: 1879

DANGEROUS WEATHER.-The New York
Ledger throws out this timely suggestion
Now, when, in the middle of the day, we
experience the warm influence Of the sun,
the season most dangerous to health COM
mences. In the extreme cold we are
never beguiled to stop on street corner
and chat few minutes with friend. The
low temperature compels US to keep mov-
ing. But there is less actual danger in
standing ten minutes ir the street when
the air is dry and the mercury at zero, than
there is at noon-day now when it is thaw-
ing and the air is moist with snow.water.
Year: 1879

\ sum of one hundred and forty thou
sand dollars, consisting of remittances to
Europe from merchants in Mexico, has been
captured by fifteen brigands on the railroad
between Puebla and Vera Cruz About a
dozen Of brigands took third class tickets,
seated themselves in a carriage next to the
baggage car, and about half an hour after
starting, severed ali the cars behind them.
Leaving these on the track, they forced the
engineer to continue at full speed up to a
point where twenty-five armed men, on
horseback, ordered halt, whereupon the
whole party carried off the money on mules,
killing the conductor and seriously wound
ing an inspector of the line.
Year: 1879

From recently compiled statistics we learn
that the unemployed labor in the city of
New York at present is less than one half
the number there four or five years ago.
In 1873 the total number of unemployed
in the city reached twenty-five thousand
and in the latter part Of "A this had in
creased to about sixty thousand. The mum.
her at present is only little over twelve
thousand and is reported to be decreasing
every day.
Year: 1879

The Connecticut Assembly and the Mis-.
sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church-two bodies of excellent intelli-
gence, if not Of equal sanctity-join in most
emphatic protests against the consumation
of the law known as the Chinese Exclusion
bill. The rumor of the possibility of veto
has aroused intense excitement on the
Pacific Slope, and it is already evident that
the President will be subjected to a good
deal Of pressure to the square inch.
Year: 1879

WIND AND SNOw.-The wind has been
blowing across the top Of Mount Washing,
ton lately at the rate of II miles an hour,
the snow is so deep that the buildings are
buried to their caves, and the temperature
frequently falls to twenty degrees below
zero,
Year: 1879

The American Consul, at Geneva, in dis
patch to the Department of State, notes the
continually growing popularity of our Anth-
racite coal, the private residents of Geneva
having begun to purchase it as well as the
manufacturers. The Consul thinks that the
future demand for this coal need only be
limited by the means and facilities for its
transportation.
Year: 1879

That girl who sent us valentine COM
mencing dear" will please take back the
hear that she offered US. Cur father opened
that tender missive and when he handed it
to US we felt "cheap."
Year: 1879

Although Time is said to fly, he does not
entirely escape the hard knocks Of life.
Miss Brainerd beats him very earnestly
with her baton at her singing cass-no
pupil has yet felt its weight
Year: 1879

He was sitting by the fire
With Marier;
And towards her every moment, he
Drew higher
Till her chair did interpose,
And he kissed her on the nose
They'll be married when this sloppy
Weather's dryer.


-UheeliRg Leader
Year: 1879

He who is starving does not look to
see if the proffered loaf be fresh or stale.


Those who have made mistakes and
suffered for them are the ones to help
others to show that any error can be
atoned for.


You may mand a rent in o damaged
reputation so that it may not show, but
you can never make the ereputation quite
whole again.


Beauty may attract love at first, but
it alone cannot retain affection, It is
the sterling qualities of the heart and
mind that win in the long run.


Ne love our friends all the time
when we are 80 absorbed in working for
them that we seldom think of them, as
we'll as when telling them of our regards.


We do not, in our own minds, have a
secret contempt for the work of the
great man we do not know intimately,
but we have for the work of the one we
do know.


How beautiful is youth Alittle moon
shine, few musical water-drops, the
strain Of song, and the. young heart
experiences poetry as it never could be
entrusted to paper.


1t is dreary sensation to find ones
self wholly forgotten by mere acquaint-
ances; but to find that we have no place
in the thoughts of those we love, seems
in a certain sense like being annihilatsd.


The profoundest calm always seems
to come just after the most terrific
storm. The exaltation of spiritual rap
ture follows fast after far descent into
the gloomy Hades of the soul. Life ia
series of alterations at best and he
who mounts highest to-day sinks deep.
| est tomorrow,
Year: 1879

The city of Marseilles in France was
once afflicted with the plague. So ter
rible was it that it caused parents to
desert children, and children to forget
the obligations to their own parents,
The city became as desert, and funerals
were constantly passing through its
streets. Everybody was sad, for nobody
could stop the ravages of the plague.
The physicians could do nothing, and as
they met one day to talk over the mat.
ter and see if something could not be
done to prevent this great destruction
of life, it was decided that nothing
could be effected without opening q
corpse in order TO find out the mysteri-
GUS character of the disease. All agreed
upon the plan, but who should be the
victim? it being certain that he would
die soon after. There was dead pause.
Suddenly one of the moot celebrated
physicians, a man in the prime of life,
rose from his seat and said:


"Be it 80; devote myself to the safe
ty of my country. Before this numerous
assembly swear, in the name of hH-
manity and religion, that tomorrow at
the break of day will dissect corpse,
and write down as proceed what OBJ
serve"


He Immediately left the room, and as
he was rich he made a will, and spent
the night in religious exercises. During
the day a man DIED in his house of the
plague, and at daybreak the following
morning the physician, whose name wat
Guyon, entered the room and critically
made the examination. He then left the
room, threw the papers into vase of vim
egar that they mightnot convey the dis
ease TO another, and retired to a con
venient place where he died in twelve
hours.
Year: 1879

This comes from Charleston, Ind.
Mrs. Brandon tells it. She says: "My
husband had a dog which he brought
from Kentucky, which seemed to me to
have more sense than any animal l ever
knew. She would look up when order
ed to do anything, as intelligently as
child, and if she understood what was
said, would give pleasant bark, and
start off to fulfill the order. have often
made her shut the door after the chill
dren, and she would come in at the
kitchen door, opening the latch with her
foot, and always shut it after her. One
time she had half dozen puppies in the
barn, which were her glory and her
pride, but one morning when my hus,
band awakened he heard great row at
the barn, and went out with his gun,
expecting to find horsethief AS he
opened the door Flora went by him like
an arrow, and though he called her loud
and long she kept right on toward the
village. In looking around the barn for
the tramp he expected to find, he dis
covered that everything was all right,
except Flora's nest, The puppies were
ell gone.


"We did not see Flora for thfte lnzs
when she came back bringing q string oI
about three pounds of sausage, which
she kept in her nest until they spoiled,
and she died of grief that summer. One
of our neighbors saw her, while she was
missing, hanging around a butchers
shop in Louisville. She had followed
those puppies fifteen miles-and re-
covered them."
Year: 1879

The Peruvian government, having be-
come somewhat alarmed at the rapid
destruction of the cinchona trees in
gathering the bark for expectation, has
passed laws to repress the evil. Here
after the gathering Of bark will be re-
stricted to certain seasons, and in no
case will the cutting down of trees be
permitted. This is q matter in which
the whole world is interested, because
cinchonia and quinia are remedies OF
such Importance that the source of sup
ply ought not in any way to be endan-
gered.
Year: 1879

l have used all the following appli-
ances in my own house, and can COM
mend them tU others:


If the covers of sofas and chairs are
dirty they may be cleansed without
being removed, by first washing them
over with flannel, then, before they
are dry, sponge them over with a strong
solution of salt and water, in which
small quantity of gall has been mixed.
The windows of the room should be
opened so as to secure perfect drying,
and the cOlors and freshness of the arti-
cles will in this way be restored. Floor
cloths may be cleaned with a mixture
of magnesia, only milk-warm, followed
/ by warm water, in the same manner
that carpets are cleansed. They should
be rubbed with dry flannel until nearly
dried, then again wet over with sponge
dipped in milk, and Immediately dried
and rubbed with flannel till the polish
is restored. This is a process much to
be preferred to that of rubbing the cloth
with wax, which leaves it sticky and
! liable to retain dust and dirt for long
time. Very hot water should never be
used in cleaning floor cloths, as it brings
off the paint. Cleaning mirrors and pol,
ished steel articles is an easy operation,
when rightly understood. The greatest
care should be taken in cleaning I
mirror, to use only the softest articles
lest the glass should be scratched.


should first be busted with feath
brush, then washed over with a spon
dipped in spirits to remove the fly spo
after this it should be busted with


powder blue in thin muslin bag,


finely polished with an old silk ha


kerchief. Polished steel articles


rubbed every morning with lea


will not become dull or rusty; b


rust has been suffered to gather it


be Immediately removed by coy


the steel with sweet oil, and allow


to remain for two days; then spri


over with finely powdered u1


lime, and rub it with polishing
! --GerB,GretoOn 7eIegrdph.
Year: 1879

Many boys and girls may have heard these
words applied in II dcr'sive way to raw recruits
who were making beginning in their mill
tary education by learning to march but
very few young people-Or old ones, either
know how the terms originated.


During the war of 1872, there was a great
deal of drilling and training among the militia
men all over the country, especially in the
larger cities and towns, where the principal
recruiting stations were situated. In New
York City, much of the drilling of newly en-
listed men was done in what is now City Hall
Park, in front of a tavern, which stood where
the Sun newspaper building is located.
Many of these would-be soldiers were from
the country and these, Of course, knew moth
ing ut all about marching in military fashion
They could walk far enough, some of them,
and work as hard and bear as much fatigue
AS any soldier in regular army but they
walked as they pleased, and had no ideas
about such things as keeping step" 1t is
even said that there were fellows among
them who did not know their right foot from
their left, and who were therefore continually
getting themselves and their companions into
disorder by mixing up their legs, that is,
moving out their right leg when the officer
who was drilling them called out Left, and
the other leg when he called out Right II
they could have put both legs forward at
once, it is probable that they would some
times have done So


To make these men understand exactly
which leg was meant when the officer gave
his orders, a curious plan was devised.
Around the right leg of each man, just be-
low the knee, was tied wisp of hay, while
a wisp of straw was tied around his left leg.
Now, these country fellows knew very well
the difference between hay and straw, and so,
when they We're ranged in line and the officer
gave the word to march, and called out,
"Hay-foot! straw-foot hay-foot straw
foot !" each one of them understood exactly
which was the foot he must put forward


1t sometimes happened, however, that a
man would be so busy observing his cOmpan-
ions, and perhaps making fun, at the same
time, of their attempts to walk like soldiers,
that he would forget his own business, and
put forward his ''straw-foot," when "hay-
foot" was called for,


1t must have been very funny to see these
raw reoruits-here country hostler in high
Year: 1879

The Case Of VIM. F. Taylor, OF Green.


brIer.


In regard to the case OF this man, who
has recently suffered severe loss from in
cendiary fires, and who has lodged iur-
NAL complaint in relation thereto with
the law officer of the Government at
Washington, Judge and ex-Auditor ]. N.
McWhorter (well known here in Wheel
ing) writes as follows to the Cincinnati
Commercial:


l am sure injustice is done the people
OF this county in the attempt to create the
impression that this wanton destruction
OF his property was the result OF preju-
dice against him on account OF his nativity
or his politics, ond also in the assertion
that those in authority refused to cooper
ate with him in making an arrest. There
may have been some persons in the vicin-
ity who did not like Mr.. T., but he was
generally regarded as a benefactor to his
community.


AS TO his politics, he took no part in
elections, and although he had been in
the county ior several years, l had not
heard, until about one year ego, to what
political party he adhered. It Is deplor.
ably true that this county is largely Demo.
cratic, yet Republicans are free to discuss
and advocate their political principles with.
out fear OF molestation. We have quite a
number OF Northern States citizens, re-.
sidents with US, who are Republicans poll.
tically, and take part, land wish we had
more OF them,) and who are undisturbed
and have no fears OF 1t on account OF either
their nativity or political affiliations.


Every good citizen of West Virginia
will rejoice to know that Taylor has prob.
ably misconceived the animus Of those
who have done him great injury. 1t Ger.
tainly is not encouraging to those who
wish to sec immigrants coming into the
State to bc under the apprehension that
there is any part Of the soil Of West Vir.
ginia where settler would be dealt with
as Taylor affirms that he has been, for
opinions sake. 1t is too late in the history
Of the country for such an occurrence to
take place on our soil. 1t would not only
be a great disgrace, but a great injury to
us in every point Of view. We are Of the
opinion that Judge McWhorter under.
stands the case and has given correct
version OF it.
Year: 1879

Especial Correspondence of The S'drl


MARREEToN JUNCTION, Feb. This morning
as the section hands on the Virginia Midland
road were going out TO work on the track they
lCund on the track the body OF man, which on
examination proved TO be that OF Mr. Howard
ionZclaW, the telegraph operator at this point
An examination or the body showed that he
mad received load OF SlugS I'm the forehead
which must have been fired at a very short dis
lance from him, as there was some of the brown
paper Waddlng from the gun in the wounds It
Is supposed That the deed was c0mIaltted about
10 O'Clock on the previous night, when deceased
was on his way from the station 10 Mr. Shu-
mates house, where he lodged, a distance of
ABOUT halr mile. When his room was exam
lIed IL was found that IL had been entered
his trunk broken open and the bureau ran
acked. ON an examination OF the surroundings
OF The place where the body was found foot
prints were discovered behind pile of railroad
les, indicating that the assassin had been
ramplng around in the snow there TO keep him
sel1 warm. III was suspected that a colored man
named John Richmond, alias Williams who had
peeh IN The hablt OF sleeping in the Office, was
he gully party, as he was not TO be found
ABOUT the place this morning.


ihE ALLEGED MURDERER TRACKED AND CAP


TURED.


Accordingly, search was made for him and
MS tracks carefully followed. They led from
the place where the deed was committed 10
Mt. ShumateS, and from there TO the house OF
cCloled man, from whom he had borrowed
ne gun. San old army musket loaded with
SlugS, Win Drown paper wadding, which he
returned freshly loaded with shot and rag
Waddlng,) ana pair OF boots. From thence he
was tracked up the road TO Melrose, about
three miles from here, where he was arrested
ana brought back. In the lining OF the coat OF
richmond the knife OF deceased was found, as
also small amount or money. The watch Mr.
ID. wore has not yet been found. The coroners
jury yesterday returned a verdict that de-
ceased came TO his death at the hands OF Rich
jail. W
Year: 1879

In THE RENO INQUIRY at Chicago, yeSter-
day, Major Reno gave his testimony. He said
that in the battle of Little Big Horn, the In
on the defensive instead OF offensive. He used
his best judgement In moving from the timber
and in all the movements OF his troops,
Year: 1879

MUTTON FOR THE SOLDIERs.-The Secretary
OF War directs that 'mutton may be issued as
part OF the ration, in lieu of and at the same
rate as fresh beef, when the cost of the former
would not exceed that Of the latter"
Year: 1879

THE DEMOCRATS IN NEXT YEARS CAMPAIGN.-
In response to an invitation of Senator Wallace
CT Pennsylvania, Senator Barnum and num-
ber OF other members Of the national and Con
greSS1oDal democratic committees met at VII
lardS hotel last evening for consultation thei
purpose being to arrange preliminaries pertain
Ing to the organization of a campaign commit
tee for 1850. After an interchange OF views O
the question Of procedure and the most pracu-
cal method to be adopted the subject of furthe
organization was postponed for future action.
a subcommittee to consider and report on the
SalLe.
Year: 1879

Boys AND HeME.-Make home pleasant
place for your boys. Do not be so afraid or
your best parlor that they may not use i.
Let them have plenty Of warmth and Light,
and entertaining books to read, and musical
instruments, and any parlor games they
like. Girls will stay at home if home be
the dullest place under the moon. but boys
will not If their young companions are
banished, if they are checked when they
not have the innocent freedom that they
need, under their parents roof, then they
will have freedom Of some sort elsewhere.
And there are always enough ready to beck
on them to places where the bloom is brush
ed from youths round cheek. "A young man
will squeeze little '.fun' out of his
life, and, if you want him to be q credit To
you and himself, make it possible for him
to enjoy himself in his home. Let the home
be placefor him to live and breathe III,
not merely roof under which he may cat
and sleep.
Year: 1879

TIE advocates of the new Con-
stltution claim q thousand merits
for their bantling where it pos
sesses ono, or perhaps the shadow Of
one. 1t is almost enough to say Of
this precious documentthat, in the
largest meeting of business men
ever held In San Francisco, there
was but one dissenting voice to the
sentiment that the new instrument
would affect disastrously the inter-
ests Of the whole State. Wellock


boldly advocates its adoption on
the ground that it will ruin Cali
fornia. or course it is easy to say
that the judgment of business men
amounts to nothing, and to claim
that every loud voiced Solon who
hangs around the street corners
knows better than the men who
make the prosperity of the State
what is good for US. But there is
just little bit of demagogism in
this assumption, and those who
heed it recall the Scriptural para
BILE OF the blind people who sub.
mitted to being led by the blind
and who fell, In common, into the
pit. 1t is easy to proclaim, from
the housetops, the merits of the
new Constitution, but the man who
should apply himself to denounc.
ing its demerits, which are mani
fold, would be doing a work ac-
csptable to those who love God and
Liberty.
Year: 1879

think | should encourage you or even


stand by the bedside OF any one learn


lug to use tobacco and encourage him to


pcrscverc" Laughing heartily. 81
never thought Of the ridiculous, absurd
figure a man makes in learning to use
tobacco In fact, men never acquire
the habit, or very rarely, and then
under exceptional circumstances. It's
boys who learn, because they think it
smart and manly to use tobacco. They
steal away into secret places; they hide
behind the barn or creep under the
wood shed, out of sight, because they're
ashamed, aud there they smoke and
vomit That's the way ninety-nine of
every hundred tobacco users have ac-
auired the habit"


"But, to come back to myself, | do
not nauseate now, or but very little. I've
conquered that, but | have no desire
whatever for a cigar. l can smoke one
without being sick, but | would not
touch one but for the example of others,
Isn't that exactly what would happen P


"Yes, that was precisely my case"


"But | persist in smoking, and by and
by 1t becomes u necessity, because if |
omit my customary cigar should suffer
After year or two of the tobacco habit
I should suffer very much if / could
not have my cigar. Is that not pre-
ciseiy where I should be, where you are
nowP


"Yes, that is exactly the case; that'sa
fair statement of it.


"Then, in short, | have suffered all
this dreadful pain in learning to use
tobacco, only to fasten upon myself q
most expensive and offensive habit,
which l must crafty under penalty of
inexpressible suffering, which | cannot
throw off except at the cost of torture
almost uncomfortable. continue the
tobacco habit only to avoid the intense
suffering which would otherwise torment
me. The pleasure the comfort COM
ing from the tobacco habit is this, only
this, and nothing more, it wards off
pain"


~ have never heard the matter put
in that way before, but | must confess
that that is the whole of it. If cannot
have my cigar / suffer; while | am
smoking the pain is relieved, is gone, and
in fact that is all the pleasure that comes
from smoke"


"Upon the whole, then, do not
think l shall learn to use tobacco; to
acquire a habit which is very costly;
which makes one offensive to many
"a habit which unmans man so far
that he feels himself under bondage
which he cannot throw off without an
effort that few men who ere subject to
it find themselves equal to. New York
Witness.
Year: 1879

a YOUNG man went into a barber
shop the other day and demanded
shave. The tonsorial artist sub
merged his customers countenance il
bed Of lather, aud then went down
to the window, sat down and began
reading newspaper Fifteen MIN
utes passed by.


Here" demanded the impatient
man in the big char, "why amt you
shaving me2 What in thunder are
yon doing?7


waiting for the beard to grow ,
calmly spoke the barber, not looking
up from his paper


Then a white faced unshaven youth
rose up and leaned over the wash ba-
sin, while cautious barber arose and
went hastily into the street