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Year: 1879

THE FACE.-Take q large-sized watch
KEY, place the stem directly over the
black spot, and press firmly on it.


INsoMNIA.-To procure sleep, take
bromide of potassium. Furnished by
chemists.


To CURE CoRNs.-Apply, morning
and evening, one drop of solution of per-
chloride of iron.


To ALLAY CRAWLING OF THE FLESH
OR NERVOUSNESS q Tablespoonful
of bi-carbonate of soda-ordinary cook
ing soda-in one quart of water. Battle
the entire person.


ST1NGs AND BITEs.-Carbonate Of soda
wet and applied externally to the bite
of spider, or any venom ous creature,
will neutralize the poisonous effect al
most instantly. 1t acts like charm in
the case of snake bite.


TooTHACHE.--For toothache, take equal
parts of camphor, sulphuric ether, am
monia, laudanum, tincture of cayenne
and one-eighth part of oil of cloves: Mix
well together. Saturate with the liquid
a small piece of cotton, and apply to the
cavity Of the decayed tooth.


For CHOLERA lNFANTUM. - Inc
whites Of two eggs, well beaten; then
mix with pure water, add one tea
spoonful of orange-four water and
little sugar; a tablespoonful every hour.
1t will cure the worst case of cholera
infantum, the eggs coating the bowels


Fleas on Dogs.


4 correspondent of the Forest and
Stream gives new remedy for killing
fleas on dogs. If you try it, give our
readers the benefit of your experience.
The following is his letter: Some years
ago / learned from druggist in New
York that the managers Of an orphan
asylum freed the heads of the unfortu-
nate waits from parasites by applying
tincture of fishberries to the scalp. l
tried the same thing on my setter pup
for feas, with the same success. Since
then / secured another setter which was
also troubled with feas, and one applica-
ton cured him. / did not use in either
case more than a few drops, rubbing
them in on the nape Of the neck and at
the end of the back where the dog would
be in no danger of licking the place to
which the tincture had been applied.
My care in this regard may have been ex-
ccssive, but as the stuff is poisonous,
preferred to run no risks. This is n sure
cure, and can be obtained from druggists
anywhere for few cents"
Year: 1879

Hiram Oldham lives Mt Lockport when
home, but if he doesn't appear there this
summer his friends may rest assured
that what is his loss is their gain, and
the biggest kind O. gain. He wandered
this way because he heard that day
laborers in Detroit were paid six dollars
per day and had free tickets to the opera,
house every night. He thought he would
come here and earn few thousand dol
lars this summer and return to LockpoTt
in the fall and buy him residence with
walnut trees in the front yard. lie
arrived here on the trucks of a freight
car, and after sleeping one night in
coal-shed he was open to engagements.
lie didn't find any jobs at six dollars
per day, and when he went around to
the opera house the man ut the door
shook club at him and cried out:


"Ye., I'll give you kingdom for
horse-oh. yesr'


The police finally gathered the Lock
porter in. They have Il way of linking
arms with q stranger who doesn't seem
loaded down with good clothes and cash.
The prisoners face wore blank look as
he stood before the bar. He seemed to
feel that he was booked for 4 watering
place.


"You see, it doesn't look exactly right
for full-grown man to be free-lunchinlg
around and sleeping in dry goods
boxes" observed the court, as he wiped
off his pen.


II want to light right out of this
town. replied the prisoner.


"Y ou would only light down on some
other. This is the headquarters here,
and you can be sent up far cheaper than
from the interior. | permitted pris-
oncr to start for the interior n few days
ago. and yesterday he came to the House
Of Correction from one of the western
counties Mt 4 cost of $50. shall book
YOU for sixty days"


"Can l send my poor mother check
on the bank before | go up?' asked the
man.


"You can, sir. Bijah will furnish you
all kinds of blank checks and pen and
ink. Write your name plainly"


The prisoner finally concluded not to
forward check at all. He sent a boy
out to find him four good lawyers who
would carry his case to the Supreme
Court, but the boy was gone so long that
the police wagon backed up and removed
the tourist to another and more useful
sphere. e.-DetroH Free Press.
Year: 1879

MEY VINO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER


-E1 | haven't been III these here parts,


observed a grizzly old gentleman AT our
shoulder in car 124, 81 Tor nighon To
twenty years TIL nov. and i love to ride
up and down III these ere cars to See II L
can set my eyes on the face of an old
friend. 1t does me good to see human
faces for | believe there is something good
behind EN-. I'm forty miner. | re-
member the time when | was fye-thcus-
and miles from home, straight as the crow
flies, without red cent L was hungry,
thirsty, tired, miserable and moneyiesS-
Hello said voice Hello back, said |,
and then a young fellow came down the
land, and he sad 'Old boss, how are
We Hearty said |, and dead broke.


Then the Young fellow plunged his hand
into his pocket and drew out as much as
three hundred dollars in bright gold
Help yourself, he said, and turned his
head away. Il knew you when | saw yoG
only a dusty speck on the road You
gave lie q drink and got me a doctor
when I was threatened with the tremens,
and there Is nothing IN the world TOO
good for yon.' Il love to hive my he
over continued the old Californian, 'pe-
cause | see the noble IN human nature all
along the line Let EN- say what they
please, there is such thing as principle
among men, and there are lots O1 US that
live up to it. As the car stopped on
switch, he stepped OF and stretched him
self under an elm in numerous daisy
field, beaming upon the world at large
approving!y over his gold-bowed specta-
cies. .
Year: 1879

NEW LIGHT UPON THE ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION


or JAFFRAY NEAR TORONTO


[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD


TORONTO, Sept. 0, 1879.


The Ecen,ng Telegram tomorrow will publish
further developments Of the attempted abduction Of
Jaffray. A dug into the solid clay has been
discovered up the bank of the Don River. about
hundred and fifty yards from the spot where the
struggle took place. The is about fifteen
feet long, five feet high and four feet WIDE There
inner door. and this Telegram reporter and
the HERALD correspondent brought to the city to-
night, they being lucky enough to find clew the
time when this was cut out of the clay. 1t is
artfully concealed that people living within a
short distance oe the place dreamed OF its
isence. Tho late storm laid bare the boards of the
roofing of the outer passage. 1t not di.fc ut
be found, the cew being that two boys had
two men carrying up the river a door, and having
followed them got of with a story that the
place was to be used preserving fruit. There is
no doubt that it intended torture room.
Year: 1879

The editor of the EAGLE has often
been accused of being Grcenbacker.
At the risk Of again being consigned TO
that badly -played-out-party, we must
add our protest against that section Of
President Hayes message which takes
the ground that the Greenback being
purely the offspring of the ..rebellion-a
war necessity should be retired. His
position will surprise aud disappoint the
West. The Republican party as par
~ will not endorse the policy and il
should not, but the message of its ad-
ministratiOn may result in distraction
or even rupture. Paper money the
American people deem necessity. and
no paper money ever tested has given
the satisfaction and retained the conf
slcncc Of the people like the Republican
grccnback, and the proposition to retire
il will no. be conuntermanded. Al
ready Congress has shown by its first
steps that will oppose the idea and we
are glad to note the fact that Senator
Ingalls, took the first opportunity to in
troducc a resolution declaring the poll
cy incxpedient.


The finances should be let alone. Pres
idcnt Hayes acknowledges il himself. in
another portion of his message, and
Congress will SO declare within week
or so and that without regard 10 party.
Because all Europe is just now pouring
her bullion into our Golfers. is no reason
for contracting our present volume of
grcenbacks, for with returning pros
pcrity and flush times that same stream
will be turned back across the waters
for all those things that prosperity de-
mands over and above those produced
in our own country.


The Republican party is now solidly
and firmly united with every prospect
Of sweeping the country next year, but
the policy indicated by the President. if
carried out. would result, first, in rup-
fure and then disaster.


Let the financial question alone.
Year: 1879

DE La Matyr, the Greenback member
from Indiana, in an interview with the


Inter- Ocean correspondent, announces
a programme that may be accepted as
the opposite Of that suggested in the
message. 1t is that the coinage of silver
be placed OH precisely the same basis as
Of gold, without restriction; that the
national bank circulation be replaced by
greenbacks. and the volume of these in
creased. lie is emphatic to the effect
that fiat, irredeemable currency is not
what the Greenbackers want.
Year: 1879

death of the President with all his Cab
met thrown in. That such PROPOSE
tion will be sneercd at, affects us not a
whit nor the truth Of the assertion. No
man. nor set Of men could accurately
calculate tho disastrous results that
would Just now follow even the failure
Of this man Gould.


VIC hold our breath for another week.
Year: 1879

An attempt was made last week to
blow up the Car of all the Russias, by
placing nitro-glycerine under the rail-
road track over which the imperial car
riagc was to pass. The Emperor es-
capped unhurt, but his royal baggage was
blown skv high.
Year: 1879

There are some deliuqnent- on our rceors
now wherein equitable virtue iorbids tas,
an adjustment shall be longer delayed. This
can be effected by prompt payment Of due
arrears. voluntary equitable conveyance OF
property, or suit ut foreclosure. THIS last
II ffaught with peril aud distress to the bor-
rover, leaving him usually liable under y
Judgment to the borrower for such arrears -
the sale OF the property by the sheriff leaves
against him unsatisfied. which may remain y
menace sor the term Of his life.
Year: 1879

crat.


In pur.uance Of our determination to place the
Weekly issue Of the GLOBE -DKN0cRAT Within the
reach Of every voter In the West for the cam
,aign Of isS0 We have reduced Its price to dol
lar per annum. postage prepaid by Us. This makes
it, CO. sdering Its size and quality, the cheapest
newspaper In the country We are confident that
this liberality on our part will be met by gen
erous response from the people of the whole
Year: 1879

An exchange says :" ladies should
not be mingled with the rowdy ism
and drunkenness that too often Oc-
ours around the ballot box" OF
course not, but would it not be better
for sthe country to drive rowdyism
and drunkenness from the polls and
admit the ladies l-Richland Beacon.
Year: 1879

AS far as it has gone the National
board Of health has done no percep.
bible good to the country except to
keep twenty or thirty doctors run
ning about from place to place at ten
dollars a day each, with their ex-
penses thrown in. 1t has already
become an open question at Washing
ton whether III not a perfectly use
less institution. So far it seems like
l a fifth wheel to a wagon, neither use
ful or ornamental. 1t has not pro
mulgated any new method for fighting
yellow fever, nor has single case
been cured or prevented. Not one
good result has as yet been
reached, and the half million Of
money it will annually expend
under the vain delusion that synod
ofdoctors, located at Washington City
can deal with the fever better than car
those where it prevails, it is generally
conceded, will be that much of the
public money totally wasted. The
same may apply to our own and Other
IState boards of health. The whole
arrangement is first class humbug, tC
be paid for by the people in round
sums, and the enly persons likely tc
enjoy it are those who draw salaries
and present bills of expense None
lnow better how valueless they are
than do those who have observed and
noted the perfunctory character Of
their workings, and when congress anc
legislatures find them out they doubt


less will abolish the whole business, a,
they ought to do.
Year: 1879

st. Louis Globe-Democrat.l


The Memphis negroes who refuse ia
60 into camp outside the city, and in
sist on being fed at government ex-
pense inside the city, should be taught
that beggars cannot be choosers. 1t
is evidently great point in favor Of
the diminution fthe disease to reduce
the city's population as low as posi-
bic. If the negroes are allowed to
stay in the city they will be so much
additional food for the fever. OF
course, those who are able to take
care Of themselves cannot be com-
PEELED to remove, but the government
can certainly order removal as one of
the conditions of receiving its food
and shelter.
Year: 1879

Now lork Express,


Minister Stoughton is reveling in
the delights and honors of his posi-
ton in the diplomatic service Of the
country. He is the alleged minister
to Russia, but as he did not agree with
the climate of the country, nor the
language and customs of the people,
and was of no sort of consequence at
st. Petersburg, and had no influence
when he happened to be there, he has
come home to spend his money and
the summer. This model reform civil
service Republican administration evi-
IDENTIFY has a corner in ministers and
Consuls and such things.
Year: 1879




THE Mormons at Salt Lake City
are preparing to make martyr out Of
Reynolds, the convicted bigamist, and
to prevent this the Gentiles are re-
ported as asking the President to
pardon Reynolds if the punishment
cannot be made adequate. Reynolds
is to be sumptuously 4" set up" in jail
and escorted home at the end of his
term in carriage drawn by six milk
white steeds. If he could be CON-
PEELED to wear striped clothing and
work in shoe factory the situation
would be more promising from a
standpoint of orthodoxy.
Year: 1879

THE members ofthe Orleans family
are about to hold meeting at Geneva
in order to ascertain if there has been
any improvement of their chances Of
regaining the throne of France by the
removal of the Bonaparte pretender
If they comprehend the feeling of the
French people as clearly as it is un.
derstood by other persons, they will
be likely to reach the conclusion that
France has had enough Of them, and
is far mare likely to take up any odd
Bonaparte who may happen to be lying
around loose than to put an Orleans
on the throne.
Year: 1879

How awful it is for nearly all our
population to be in serious dread for
nearly the entire year. Did we not
have cases of this fever terminating in
death during all of last November,
and did not some transpire in Decem-
Der?


How can we be a prosperous and
happy people under such circumstan-
ces? How can it be otherwise if this
state of things is perpetuated; shall We
not dwindle into nonentity?


1t will most assuredly come. We
shall be ruined. Respectfully,


III w
Year: 1879

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is IS per annum and
l5of per month fOrless than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free.


Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at SOC per
month in advance, with the privilege of
changing postoffioe.
Year: 1879

SUBSCRIBERS who wish 10 re-
new will d" us a favor by SEND
ANG MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail list is very
Barge, and our force TO do the
york small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS WITHOUT the MONEY.
Year: 1879

Brooklyn Eagle.l
lfGeneral Butler wants to earn the
everlasting gratitude of Massachusetts,,
let him arm his yacht and 60 and clean
out the Kanucks who dare to dispute
the right of the Yankees to catch fish
In Canadian waters. The hero of Fort
Fisher ought to be able to settle the
fishery question.
Year: 1879

a GENTLEMAN from Mississippi


ays that Jefferson Davis will make a
hint of money out Of his book, which


to be published this fall by the Ap-
letons. The general expectation is
bat it will have a tremendous sale,
md bring the author a handsome in
Year: 1879

The New York "Tribune" says that
all the Democratic statesmen, from Bay
ard down to Springer, agree that the
extra session accomplished great things
for human liberty. If this is 80 the
production of Illicit whisKey and the
bulldozing Of negroes are Important
branches OF "human liberty" for the
only SUCCESS Of the session was the stop.
ping of the payment of the officers who
interfere with these promising Southern
industries. The Democrats will 90 to
the country with this for an issue, and
they will receive an answer which will
teach them that the maJoritysof this
people does not agree with them in
license for liberty.
Year: 1879

No paper has been more blatantin Its


pretended sympathy with the laboring


classes Of the country, than the Boston


"Post," Democratic. 1t almost wep'


tears of grief over the wrongs inflicted


upon the poor workingmen, by bloated


Republican monopolies, and these Ia


boring people had looked upon the


"Post" as their special friend and Or


gan, so long, that it had almost become


canonized as something superior to


any thing else that moved upon this
mundane sphere. These same people


however must have been surprised


when they found that tn. "Post" in


stead Of being a sincere friend Of the


working classes, was nothing more than
hypocritical pretender--that indeed
it was arbitrary and tyrraaical and
that instead of being touched by the
Rner feelings which usually touch the
heart of humanity, the "Pcst" had no
heart to be- touched. On Saturday
morning last the proprietors saw a
chance whereby penny could be
saved, oven if it would operate like
drawing life blood out Of the poor al
ready half paid and half starved work
men, and the manner in which the
change was made showed that the
"Post" not only had no feeling for
their employees, but that it took de-
light in adding insult to injury. MOL
had ever been made against
the managing foreman or the lands, nor
we're there any indications Of discon-
tent on the part of the proprie.
tors or the compositors. But a
grinding monopoly was in waiting to
take possession Of the place, and the
seeing a penny gained in
The distance opened their doors to it
and drove out their old and trusted en-
ployees to make place for the new
without word of warning. The fore
man was on hand as usual but stepping
)ut few moments hs found the door
ocked against him on his return, and
about 80 new hands occupying the
places of the old employees. The work
ng men have not quite so much conf
lence in their employers now as they
lad before. OF course no firm, no mat
er what business is carried on will
ever succeed in business after rractic-
ng such meanness and We predict that
Ae post" will yet be sorry for its &C
ions.
Year: 1879

The DEMOCRATS of Philadelphia have
become about weak enough to divide
into two parties at the approaching fall
campaign. A tiercer factional fight was
never known to be carried on than Is
now being waged. Sam. Randall, it
seems, is determined to rule in Phila-
delphia or ruin his party. However it
is none of our fight, but we cannot but
think of the great majority the Repub
licans will have.
Year: 1879

WHgS the ague stricken citizen of the
boundless West, after clamoring for
"fres quinine, finds not only tina. re-
moval of the duty has failed to bring
the retail price down more than about
two per cent. but has enabled foreign
ers to palm off on him sugar coated
pills in which there is no more quinine
than there is in a national bank note,
possibly he may conclude that free
trade Is not a perfect remedy for chillJ.
Year: 1879

AAyBoDY who says the people Of Men-
phis are not enterprising has not stud
led the case with profit. The energy
displayed in stampeding from the ysl-
low fever when the cry was first raised
was tremendous, and their exit from
their own city only showed that there
were rare cases that were capable Of
calling their energy into action. They
lost no time in putting miles between
them and the unfortunate Judge Ray
for whom grave was being dug before
he was yet dead. The Memphians are
energetic. ..aa eggs


THE ONO Republicans are now conf
dent that they can not only elect Foster
Governor, but that they can carry a
good round majority Of the Legislature.
Such news as this must send cold
shiver down Thurman's back, as the
Legislature to be chosen at the ap-
preaching election will have the choice
Of his successor. To lose the Senator.
ship Oh top of his Presidential aspira-
tions will indeed be a grievous blow.
But then Thurman ought to have
known better than to have allowed his
back bone to become SO weak.
Year: 1879

The opal Mall Gazette" declares
that the income of the British Govern
m7nt is apparently decreasing at the
rate Of about 100000 a year, and
that the deficit of 1S77-S and 1883
will be increased by fresh deficit in
le19-S0." This is an extremely pleas
ing prospect for the British tax payer,
who might possibly be willing to pay
for real glory for England, but who
must find the cost of the kind of glory
that Beaconsfeld has been supplying
little dear at the price.
Year: 1879

SENATOR LAMAR tells the country
that the people of Mississippi are very
eager for imitation and will strongly
urge it upon Congress next winter. We
are not at all surprised that Mississippi
wants more money, but her people
should 20 to work and earn it for
themselves, and get capital and labor
to enigrate to the State instead of car.
rying on system of general cussedness
that has driven 5000 colored laborers
away from the State. No matter how
many greenbacks are ground out by
the Government, pros perity will remain


only with ths regions where the masses
toll and where the enforcement OF law
mak-s the toi!er and the investor safe.
Year: 1879

EDITOR 1SrELLIoESCER:-The patriarchs were
promised n land flowing with milk and honey,
and from their age to the present this sweet has


formed an important Item In nourishing the hu-


man family but 1t Is only within the last twenty
dive or thirty years that this branch OF Industry
has taken such giant strides. This wonderful
advance has been produced almost entirely by
the introduction OF the movable iarm hives, and
the introduction and wide dissemination OF the
italian or Lisuran bee. Thirty years ago If the
Apiarian averaged fifteen pounds of honey 10
the hive We thought he was doing remarkably
well, but now 1t is not uncommon for them to
average from one hundred TO one hundred and
sixty pounds to the hive. In the old way OF
doing. d man Tor farmer. more especially J
would get hive or two of bees auo keep them


I've or ten years breeding and In al! the W hile
| until the first thing he world know he would
| nave streak OF bad luck. rs he would call it,
and his bees would be about played out


The Italian bee is generally acknowledged TO
be more prolific and better honey gatherer
! than the common or black bee; SO is the half
blood or hybrid superior TO the common or black


bee thence Curing the last fifteen or twenty wears
many bee men in the United States and in Europe
have made II business OF raising Italian uueens
| and disseminating them all over the United
States and Europe, selling them at from one to
| nVe dollars per queen. Thus thousands of
queens have been annually distributed all over
| sie country. comminglIng their blood with the


natlVes and Italians from distant parts thus
| avoiding in and In breeding.


lne products OF bees, honey and wax In the
| United States are estimated at about fifteen


million dollars annually, and this is rapidly IN
| ereasing every year. OF this amount over two
| mi'ion dollars worth IL annually exported to
e0rslgn eountries. The forslgn trade ia inst IN
Year: 1879

New York, July u Bishop Sey-
mour says that the treatment he and
his sister particularly received at the
hands Of the police, after the body Of
his brother-in-law had been dis
covered in the seminary grounds,
was such as would only be shown
to savages. The officers, not
withstanding the many protests
that we lived on the place, insisted we
should be removed to the police sta
tion immediately. They even refused
to allow my sister to enter the house
for her garments"