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Year: 1879




elected President three times. And
we serve notice upon the Office
holders, contractors, and distillers,
who we believe are making this
cry, that while it Is easy enough
for them, holding the party ma
ohinery as they do, to nominate
General Giant fer third time,
when the election comes around
the result will be quite the other
way. He will be defeated, and
what is more they will learn that
In putting up candidate for a
third term they had insured defeat
in advance.


The gentlemen who are busying
themselves in preparing to stultify
the Republican party by the NOM
ination Of Grant for q third term
would do well to recall the "fuss
and feathers military campaign
of General Scott, in 1852, In which
that hero received the votes of only
four States of the Union. They
may be preparing even u more
grlevous experience for their favor.
ite, because Scott was as patriotic
as Grant and was not q candidate
for third term. We are q little
curious to know whether the fac
that 1t is rumored that George G.
Gorham, on his retirement from
the Seoretaryship Of the Senate, i
coming out to California to start |
professed Grant organ, has any
thing to do with the Chronicle
sudden Grant attitude? 1t may b


a little effort intended to forestal


the other Republican "stalwart."
Year: 1879

Irwtll be seen by our Washington dis
patches this morning that big effort ID
going TO be made by Congress to get the
dollar Of the dads into circulation. The
banks are to use specie reserve hereafter.
This is u good movement, All the silver
should be got out, and Just that many
ErrenbackS should be redeemed and can.
,.IlaI
Year: 1879

The hero of " Robin Adair :" was well
known in the London fashionable circles
of the last century by the sobriquet of
the Fortunate Irishman - but his par
entage and the exact place of his birth
are unknown. He was brought up as a
surgeon, but &c his detection in an early
amour drove him precipitately from
Dublin," to push his fortunes in Eng
land. Scarcely had he crossed the
Channel when the chain of lucky events
that ultimately led him to fame and for
tune commenced. Near HOlyhead,
perceiving a carriage overturned, he
ran to render assistance. The sole oc-
cupant of this vehicle was ''lady of
fashion, well known in polite circles,


who received Adair's attentions with
thanks; and, being lightly hurt and
hearing that he was a surgeon, requested
him to travel with her in her carriage to
London. On their arrival at the metrOp-
oils she presented him with fee of one
hundred guineas, and gave him a gen
eral invitation to her house. In after
life Adair used to say that it was not so
much the amount of this fee, but the
time it was given, that was of service to
to him, as he was then almost destitute.
But the invitation to her house was a





person who decided his fate in life.
This was Lady Caroline Keppel, daugh-
ter to the second Earl of Albemarle and
of Lady Anne Lenox daughter of the first
Duke of Richmond. Forgetting her high
lineage, Lady Caroline, at the first sight
of the Irish surgeon, fell desperately in
love with him, and her emotions were 50
sudden and so violent as to attract the
general attention of the company. Adair,
perceiving his advantage, lost no time in
pursuing it; while the Albemarle and
Richmond families were dismayed at the
prospect of such terrible nleSaILjG75ce.
Every means were tried to induce the
young lady to alter her mind, but with
out effect. Adair's biOgrapher tells us
that % amusements,' long journey, an
advantageous offer, and other common
modes of shaking off what was consid-
cred by the family as an improper
match, were already tried, but in vain !;
the health of Lady Caroline was evi-
IDENTIFY impaired, and the family at last
confessed, with a good sense that re-
fleets honor on their understanding as
well as their heart, that it was possible
to prevent, but never to dissolve an at
tachment; and that marriage was the
honorable, and indeed the only alterna-
tive that could secure her happiness and
life.'' When Lady Caroline was taken
by her friends from London to Bath,
that she might be separated from her
lover, she wrote, it is said, the song of
g Robin Adair, - and set it to plaintive
Irish tune that she had heard him sing.
Whether written by Lady Caroline or
not, the song is simply expressive of her
feelings at the time, and as it completely
cOrrObOrates the circumstances just re-
lated, which were the town talk of the
period, though now little more than fam
ily tradition, there can be no doubt that
they were the origin of the song
NeiOcGStLe (E19g.) Coura1st.
Year: 1879

The New York Times says: The
number of people who expect to get rich
by investing a few dollars in lottery
tickets, or in the Wall Street gambling
dens, seems to increase daily. The over
whelming probability against aEy given
tickets drawing a prize in a lottery
ought to deter even the most sangUine
from that form of risk, but experience
proves that probabilities do not enter
into the calculations of the buyer Of lot
tery tickets; were the chances ten times
as unfavorable, the number of buyers
would be nearly as great. The blind,
unreasoning hope of a stroke of luck is
an amply sufficient inducement. Over
and above this consideration, there is
the fact that most lotteries are rank
swindles. Only very silly people are
taken in by the ostentatious announce
ment that this or that lottery is under
the auspices of a State Government,
or is managed by certain " eminent and
well known gentlemen whose names
are constantly paraded in advertise
ments. The facts are that in some
States lotteries are licensed by the State
Government, but the State in nowise
guarantees their honesty or fair deal
ing; as to the - eminent gen
tlemen,' they commonly have
nothing TO do with the lottery save To
loan it their names, which is a purely
financial transaction. One of these
swindling concerns has just been exposed
by a suit at law in Louisville, and if was
clearly shown that the company was or
( ganized and carried on as a scheme of
/ wholesale robbery. The risks in Wall
/ Street speculation are greater yet. Let
tiers frequently come to this office from
distant points, asking if certain Wall
/ Street firms who solicit the faYors of
small country investors are trustworthy.
| These firms scatter their enticingly
/ worded circulars over the whole country


through the mails, and there IS reason


to believe that they reap a considerable


harvest The honesty of these persons


need not be called in question. 1t is


sufficient to say to all inquirers that even


the shrewdest of the outside Wall
Street spectators, living here in the city


and constantly watching with keen and


intelligent eve the fluctuations of stocks,


generally retire from their venture seri-


ously out of pocket. Whathas the rural


investor to hope for when he intrusts


his money to persons he knows nothing


about. 10 be put into a pool - where
the chances are twenty TO one that i


viii be lost2
Year: 1879

How thick is a man? Who will believe
that n man, 20 years old and 115 pounds
in weight, crawled through a hole in
stone wall by II inches in size, % feet
from the ground, and escaped down a
rope? These were the exact circum-
stances under which Charles Crayton,
sentenced on Friday last to one years
imprisonment and 800 fine and costs
on two indictments for assault and bat
terry, escaped from the Venango County
Jail at y O'Clock Monday night. Cray
ton, together with John Murray, con-
victed of the same Offense and sentenced
at the same time, was confined in the
northwest corner cell, second tier, the
one farthest removed from the apart
ments of the Sheriff Using two case
knives, which had been converted into
saws, he first cut through the one-and-
a-half inch upright iron bar dividing the
window, which is six inches wide. He
then, with cold-chisel, cut into the
wall, which is composed of soft free
stone, until he had freed both ends of a
fiat crossbar of half-inch iron, through
a hole in which the upright was passed.
just below the next crOssbar above he
cut into the upright to depth of three
siXteenths of an inch, and, inserting one
end of a long bed-slat, he and
his partner, by applying their
united strength to the slat, broke
off the bar where the nick had been
made. This left space of six inches
wide and II inches high. Previously he
and his partner had torn their blanket
into narrow strips and plated quite
neat rope therefrom. Securing the rope
to what was left of the upright rod, he
thoroughly soaped the sides of the open
ing, soaped his own naked body and
wriggled through this small hole, climbed
down the rope, dressed himself after his
clothes were thrown down by his accom-
plice and escaped through a storm of
rain raging at the time. His companion,
being of larger frame, did not attempt
the hopeless task of getting through the
window, but went quietly to sleep.
There were found in the cell two knives,
one cold-chisel, one pening-hammer and
two bags, converted into sacks from the
sleeves of a shirt, connected by a cord of
sufficient length to bring them, if hung
over his shoulders, down to his hips, and
which may have been used to protect
his sides as he edged his way through
the aperture, although this is scarcely
probable These were filed with soft
bread. Underneath the window were
picked up piece of meat, wrapped in
scrap of newspaper, an old clay pipe,
and a string of about % feet in length,
composed parly of strips from his shirt,
and partly of hempen cord.-OH CITY
Derrick
Year: 1879

A FORTUNE is waiting for the man
who will invent some simple fixture TO
prevent persons from rolling out from
the top beTths in sleeping-cars. Acct
dents of this kind often happen, but are
never reported. Within three weeks
man has died from the effects of a fall
in car, and a child had narrow es-
cape from a similar fate on the same
line, tumbling on its head, but sustain
ing no serious injury. If the statistics
on this point could be collected they
Monld be alarming
Year: 1879

PEACH CULTURE.-DiscussiO on
peach culture in Michigan, as reported
in the Michigan Farmer, furnish some
good suggestions, which may prove use
ful to beginners. A distinction was
made between the treatment of young
trees and larger ones which are bearing
full crops. In order to harden or ripen
the shoots of young and rapidly growing
trees, the cultivation of the soil, 50 i'm
pOrtant during the early part of the sea-
son, should cease in August. Otherwise
they would be likely to keep on growing
till frost, and would be left in a green
and succulent condition, untitled to
withstand the cold of winter. Bearing
trees, on the contrary, should be cUlti-
waited till the fruit is about to ripen, as
the crop continues to consume the
strength of the tree after the cessation
of the growth of the shoots. Some of
the cultivators present stated that they
found it important TO check the growth
of young trees as autumn approaches by
pinching in, and one of them used a
pair of shears for this purpose. In APP
plying all directions of this sort, the
Judgment must be used, for a difference
in soil and treatment would make a diff
ference in the vigOr of the trees and in
the time that growth ceases.
Year: 1879

EDUCATING HORSES.-I7E-DOOT and
ont says: We once saw an aged lady
drive high spirited horse attached to a
carriage down a steep hill, with no hold
back straps upon the harness, and she
assured us that there was no danger, for
her son accustomed his horses to all
kinds of usage and sights that common
ly drive the animal into a frenzy of fear
and excitement If a colt is never al
lowed to get an advantage, it will never
know that it possesses a power that man
can not control; and if made familiar
with strange objects, it will not be skit-
tish and nervous. If a horse is made ac-
customed from his early days to have OBJ


iects hit him on the heels, back and hips,


he will pay no attention to the giving
out of harness or Of a wagon running
against him at an unexpected moment.
A gun can be fired from the back of a
horse, an umbrella held over his head
/ a buffalo robe thrown over his neck, q


railroad engine pass close by, his heels
/ bumped with sticks, and the animal take
/ it all as a natural condition Of things, i
only taught by careful management tina
{ he viii not be injured thereby.
Year: 1879

The Republican Ohio State Convention
which was held in Cincinnati yesterday was
one of the largest and most enthusiastic
spirit of 1SG4 toned by experience and chas-
tened by ydisappOintments and notifications
that have been encountered since the people
have yielded power into Democratic hands
The Republican party Of that noble
State has girded itself up in its fullest
strength for the impending strugglc and
has presented a ticket which the Democratic
party has not the power to defeat with
THURMAN or any other name it may be
pleased to present for popular support The
selection Of Hon, CHARLES FOSTER AZ tbs
Republican standard-bcarcr in this contest
has been induced by Influences which will
render his success dead certainty. Mr.
FOSTER deserves this honorable distinction
for the reason that lie has courageOusly
fought the enemy at great odds-repeatedly
winning victories when 10 other Republi.
can could have achieved triumph. Ills
intrepidity and fidelity to the Republican
cause are now receiving their fitting re-
ward, and we heartily congratulate hin
and the Republicans of Ohio upon thi,
auspicous inauguration of campaign
which must be covered with triumph.
The nomination of General IIICKEN
LooPER, Of Cincinnati, for Lieutcnant-Goy
crnor gives evidence that the convention
did not forget those who braved the tide o
war to crush rebellion and save the natiOna
life when it was mcnaccd with danger Gen.
cral IIICKEYLooPER was General MCPmER'
SONS chief of artillery during the war
and is now sturdy defender of the
Republican faith. This nomination
brings much strength to tho
ticket which was rendered iuyincble in it,
head, aud will make the canvass more easy
and more enlarged in the compass of its
success.


Now let the Democrats place the "Czal
"of the Caucus" ut the front, and the peo
pie OF Ohio will wipe the field with his mu
tilated political anatomy, Aroused as tho
people are under Democratic disloyaty ant
criminal blundering, the affair is all owe
now, save the shouting in honor of II re
corded triumph.
Year: 1879

THE Republicans have played n wild and
desperate, but n losing game since the war.
They havo assumed the several roles of recon.
struCtouists revOlutiOuists, and obstruction.
lists, aud they have failed in all. There seems
to be 10 hope for them. They must 90 to the
wall.-INdHtd Constitution.


The Republicans have played generous
game since the war, and have lost by it,.
They have made mistakes in trusting men
as loyal to the Union, the Constitution, and
the laws, when they were disloyal to the
laws and the Government. They have
given the South an inch and they have
seized an ell, until its people have made the
mistake of supposing that they had cap
tured the Government, and could do as
they please with it. The dclusion that has
misguided the North is broken, and the
people begin to see matters in their true
light. The South have exhibited the clovcn
foot and exposed their diabolism. The
people see it and are undeceived. The tide
has turned and the South will be over
whclmcd in 1850, and will thereafter be
corrallcl in safety under the guard of a
healthy public sentiment which will pre-
serve the Union from further Confederate
revolutionary paroxysms, until the present
is forgotten and forgiven. A Solid SOUTH
will exist, but in safe relation to the
Union.
Year: 1879

SHOULD the bill which proposes to take
from the President the constitutional right
10 nominate a Public Printer and confer il
upon the Senate succeed in Congress, it will
open beautiful little garden spot in which
10 plNnL NnOihcr Neto
Year: 1879

the elect serves as an admonition of the
party policy in any given emergency. Just
now the Car and his immediate advisers
are greatly troubled with the proposition in
sisted upon by some of the hot-heads, that
the appropriation bills shall be incumbered
by sectional prohibitions, so to speak, as to
what the money therein appropriated shall
not be expended for. This idea OF mOnaclng
the Government so that it cannot take adj
vantage of the provisions made for its sup
port amounts to the same thing rs the
starying-out process and will be so .consd.
cred by the general public.
Year: 1879

THE Bourbons are caucusing again in an
indirect way but they go about it with q
coyertncss Of purpose which plainly shows
that they are not wholly insensblc to the
shafts of rdicule that have been fired at
them during the past ttwOmonthson ION account
of their reliance upon star-chamber dicta-
lions They have II general conference COM
mittce, composed Of members Of both
Houses aud led by the Car of the Caucus,
in which they have invested yicarious pow
ers. This mongrel affair meets occasionally
to talk matters over aud this informal talk


being repeated from mouth to mouth among
Year: 1879

THERE are several Democratic measures
and purposes that may as well now be filed
away to become relies of antiquity for the
study Of future generations, and to be Won
dered at if not admired. Prominently
among these we will enumerate the report
Of the POTTER committee, the promised adj
dress to the people from the court Of King
Caucus, and the KNOTT bill for robbing the
Government of the largest printing-ollice in
The world-all in theintcrest of Democratic
honesty, rctrenchment, and reform.
Year: 1879

The Donaldsonvilie CHIEF comes
to the front, too, with an attempt to
defend the Constitutional Convention,
in retaining State Treasurer Burke,
after bouncing all other officials. OF
course the editor of the CHIEF has too
mnch good sense to deny that Burke's
retention iii Office was the result Of
and understanding between that off :
cial and Wiltz, which was: that
Burke was to keep ont of the rae, for
Governolshii.


Major Burke, through his paper,
the New Orleans Democrat, says he
will resign if the Baton Rouge con
ventiDn declares it to be the sense of
the party. No matter hat the State
convention may say about it, or
whether it says anything, the people
will naturally keep thinking who is
running this State-Wiltz aud Burke,
or themselves Webster Tribune.
Year: 1879

A correspondent writes as follows
about the flower of a well known
plant:


/ have discovered a remedy for
consumption. 1t has cured a mum
ber of cases after they had com
menced bleeding at the lungs and
the hectic flush was already on the
cheek. Alter trying this remedy
TO my own satisfaction have
thought philanthropy required that
| should let il be known to the
world. 1t is commoa mullen
stepped strongly and sweetened with
coffee sugar. and drank freely It.
is much more benificIal if allowed
to become cool before using. A
bottle OF the tea should be carried
in the pocket aud used whenever
there is II desire for drink. Young
or old plants are good dried ia the
shade and kept in clean bags. The
medicine must be continued from
three 10 six months, according to
the nature of the disease. 1t is
very good for the bloOd-vessels
also. 1t strengthens and builds up
the system instead of taking away
the strength; 1t makes good blood,
and takes inflammation away from
the lungs. IL is the wish of the
writer that every periodical in the
United States, Canada and Europe
should publish this recipe for the
benefit of the human family. Lay
this by and keep it in the house
ready for use.
Year: 1879

Burlington Hawkeye: Why it is
right to steal from the government


Why Jim Anderson should get of
so much easier than Ananias?


Why 1t is wrong to kill the man
who says lie told you so?


Why people always discuss Euro
pean politics as though they under
stood them?


Why a man should always get
mad ii you frankly and for his own
good tell him he is making an ass
of himself?


Why is it so hard to find a man
when you want to borrow money OF
him?


Why is it so hard to borrow mon
ey after you have found him?


Why somebody doesn't come out
and explain the louisiana muddlei


Why man always wishes he had
chosen some other profession?


Why Mrs. Braddon doesn't write
a book?


What Mrs. Jinks is talking about
and what she means by it?


Why people should consider il
disgraceful to be sent to Congress


Why a man thinks every year
that he won't be as big fool this
year as he was last?


And why he Is, though, all the
same?


Why the tramps don't ask fol
something to eat, if they are hungry


Why a man never tries to beal
down the price of a railroad ticket


Why everybody affects 4 pro-
found knowledge of growing crops
and crop prospects?


Why men ALWAYS lie about the
size of the fish they catch and the
number of ducks they shoot?


What girl ever sees in a great
selfish, deceittul, hulking animal OF
a man to marry for, any how?


Why so many foreigners should
speak German or French, when il
so much easier to speak English


Why it takes FIVE grown people
to take one sleeping infant to the
circus to "see the animals?"


Why a man who doctors himself
with patent medicines, three bottles
for dollar, always. in referring to
his health, speaks of ''his physi-
clans" as though he was constantly
attended by a retinue of fifty or
sixty doctors?


Have you pronounced the name
of the Sho wac cae mette boat clnbf


Why really generous men are al
ways so ready TO admit that you
were in the wrong?


Why President Hayes-but that
stopped me. l have ceased to won
der at anything the President does
or says.


Why the boys who made the
Fourth of July odorous and hide.
Gus with gunpowder from lS40 to
1856 inclusive, are speechless with
indignation at the depraved and
vicious tastes of the boys who want
to enjoy the same kind of celebra.
tion in 1879?
Year: 1879

Detroit Free Press: There proba
bly, isn't a woman in North Americs
who isn't afraid of cows, and there
is not a COW in North Americs
which would harm one hair of any
woman's head il she had the hest
chance in the world and no other
job on hand. Wednesday forenoon
q stray cow, perhaps from the coun
try, for taste OF bailed hay, found
gate open and entered a yard on
Second street. The woman cam,
10 the front door dressed to go out
but seeing the COW she uttered 6
scream and hurried back. Ther,
wasn't a thing in the yard for tn,
cow TO damage or eat, and being
tired she raised her cud, lay dow
and began TO chew away as If sh,
had got home from a long visit =
Europe. The woman next appear
ed at side window and called on
the COW To ''git out" A dog nigh,
have got" but the COW didn't
Then the woman threw a rag al
the COW aud called for the dog.
The dog didn come and the ra
didn't scare. Then the woman
shook a pillow at the COW and per-
emptorIly ordered her of The preu.
ises, but the bovine half closed her
eyes and let her thoughts run
ahead to fly time.


As the COW wouldn't go and as
The woman couldn't go till the COW
I'D, sterner measures were resorteu
TO. A tin pan was held out of the
window and beat with a spoon, but
hat cow couldn't be fooled into be
neving that Fouth of July had
come. Then the woman went int
The back yaId to throw clubs over
the fence and knock a couple Ol
horas OF. The first one hit the
window, and the next one banged
the blinds on the next house, and
the cows horns STUCK tighter than
ever Cries Of "giJ ouJw were
again resorted to without effect,
and then the woman watched at the
front door till she saw a boy come
along, and she opened it and cried
out:


"Oh boyl There's a terrible COW
IN our yard! Prop the gate open
aud get all the boys and police you
can and drive her out, and l Il give
YOU a whole quarter of a dollar
Hurry up for she looks as if sh'
was getting ready to come right il
herep


The boy dumped" the danger
Gus animal out in thirty seconds
received his pay, and the woman
gave out going down town for fea
she might have a nervous spell.