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Year: 1877

THE Cleveland Leader is malignant
and like all such, narrow in its view. For
instance


A curious illustration of the vassaIage
in which the Democratic party is held by
the Roman Catholic church has just been
unconsciously given by Governor Robin
son of New York. In that State the Gov
ernor has not only the veto power, but is
authorized to veto any item of an appro-
pfation bill, while approving Others
Exercising this veto power, he last week
deliberately sanctioned an item of $25-
600 for the support and maintenance of
juvenile delinquents at the New York
Catholic Protectory.- Cleveland Leader,
May 24h,


The Leader seems to forget that the
New York General Assembly is strongly
Republican In both branches and this
appropriation bill, and that item, was first
indorsed by Republican Legislature
But the bigoted Leader only censures
Governor Robinson for this naughty lit
tie thing, What next?
Year: 1877

The Repository is entirely mistaken in
charging the Stark County DEMoCRA1
with assailing Congressman Mckinley
either before or after his nomination
last fall as to his marital relationship
We have ever held l


Honor and shame from no condition rise,


Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Year: 1877

The following table gives the number
Of delegates to which each precinct in
the county is entitled in the Senatorial
Convention. Let the Democratic friends
elect the proper number on Saturday:
Year: 1877

We want our friends to do all they
can to spread the circulation of the
among the people;
not for our sake, but for the sake of
the principles it represents. Here is
a correspondent of the Indianapolis
Sun. an intelligent man. who writes:


Nv own experience furnishes an ar
gument in the case: for years | was
accustomed to rely upon the Republi-
can and Democratic papers for all my
information relative to the current
events appertaining TO the money
question. But when l commenced.
last March year ago. at the urgent
solicitation of friend. to read the In
dianapolis Sun. soon learned to my
aStoniShment. that | missed being put
in possession of the most important
facts in the case. and that | never
could become well posted on the SUBJ
Ject by contining my reading to such
papers. and would not now exchange
the information l have derived from
that source for all the knowledge
could gain upon the subject from
reading all the Republican and Dem
ocratic papers in the country.


Now we udertake to say that no pa
per published in this state gives as
much information. lin every issue.
upon the great questions of the dav.
as the ANTI-MoNOPoLIST. The rest
of the Minnesota newspapers. with a
few exceptions. are simply diluted
echoes of the New York Journals.
which simply tell the people what
Belmont and Jay Gould want them to
know, and no more.
Year: 1877

"Gentlempu of the convention.
continued the general, Il have come
here for another purpose: | have
some magnificent plans on hand. |
am going to open several thousand
acres of orange groves along the line
of the Northern Pacific railroad, and
plant forest or date trees and ba-
nanas at Duluth. At the same time
am making arrangements to employ
the United States navy in towing ice
bergs from Labrador to Florida.
This will furnish the Florida people
with cheap ice for home consumption,
while at the same time the passage of
the ice-bergs will so cool the gulf
stream as to moderate the summer
climatt at Washington. which is now
distressing to Mrs. Hayes and the
children.


Il and Ruthy are agreed that the
true policy for the nation is the pro-
tective tariff policy; that is to say, to
cut off all foreign commerce and raise
everything in the country: taxing the
pursuits that will naturally thrive of
themselves to support those that can
not stand alone but need government
help; thus government becomes a
| magnificent machine to transfer the
money of one man into the pockets of
another, for the benefit of the man
from whose pocket it is taken. and
the encouragement of the man to
whom it is given. 1t has been time
and again demonstrated. by the great
leaders of the Republican and Whig
party, that when YOU take money
'.from 4 and give it to b you de-
crease BIS profit and you enrich A
from whom it is taken. A don't al
ways see it, but then the human in
telligence is limited. Now my
position is, that this doctrine being
true of the nation it ought to be true
of every state in the nation: and /
propose therefore to have every state
raise everything its people need with
out regard to the natural character
lsticS of soil or climate. and [ shall
commence with Minnesota. | have
statistics here showing how many
| hundreds of thousands Of dollars go
out of Minnesota annually for the
purchase of tropical fruits. 1t is true
that MlnneSota's s -four is sent south
and more than pays for these fruits.
but then | propose to o.make the gulf
states, by force of law. raise just as
good wheat as Minnesota. [ shall in
troduce tea plantations in Montana,
where wages are three dollars a day,
and thus we will not have to send to
China for tea. where wages fare three
cents day. By keeping out the for
Year: 1877

The indianapolis Sun seems to
think that the act repeating the re-
sumption act will have very slim
chance of even passing the senate.
We are inclined to the same belief.
The Sun says;


"The bill will be referred, of course,
to the senate committee on finance,
upon which there are three Democrats
every one of whom will undoubtedly
vote against it. They are Bayard of
Delaware. Herman of New York, and
Wallace of Pennsylvania. It is too
much to hope that the bill will find an
advocate in any of these. It will
therefore be without Democratic
friend on the finance committee. The
Republican members of the committee
are Herry, Howe, Allison. Jones,
Morrill, and Dawes. Of these Messrs.
Ferry and Jones are the only members
who are understood to be in favor OF
repeal, with Allison and Howe to re-
cruit from. Thus it will be seen that
if the Repeal Bill finds champion at
all in the committee it will be Re-
publican. Senator Ferry has been
classed as Greenback man; but if he
plants himself upon repeal he will an
tagonize the whole delegation Of his
state in the lower house, which did not
furnish single vote for the People S
cause. There is not Democrat in
the senate who is openly committed
to the repeal of the Resumption Act,
except Mr.. Voorhees,, of Indiana, and
Mr.. Beck, Of Kentucky. Events have
conspired to bring Mr.. Vorhes thus
early face to face with a great occa
sion. Hisopportunity has come early,
and the eyes of the suffering people Of
the whole country will be riveted up
on him in the senate contest upon
this all important measure


The senate was the last stronghold of
slavery, long after the popular revolu-
tion had made the House republican.


History is simply repeating itself.
Year: 1877

against the law and to instigate active
opposition in all influential quarters.
Under these discouraging circumstan-
ces Mr.. Merrill, finding he could make
no terms with publishers for any
text books of the highest standard
already published: made arrangements
with the great house already men,
toned for an entirely new series. in
the preparation Of which they engaged
distinguished textbook authors Of
national fame, and the result is
series which is pronounced by dis
tinguished teachers Of high repute,
who have not only inspected but
tried them, the best ever introduced
in the State. And in spite of all the
obstacles which have been thrown in
his way by those whose duty it was
to execute the provisions of the law,
we learn that he has received orders
for the State series Of books from sixty
out of the seventy counties in the
State-the only ones not sending
orders being Aitkin. Big Stone, Carl


ton, Lake, which can scarcely be said
to have any school population and
Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Polk and Rock,
new counties away off in the frontier,
and Wadena and Renville. The pop
ular demand has largely triumphed
over all official opposition, and as the
State text books average less than
half the prices Of the text books now
in general use, while they are said to
be at the same time in all respects
equal, and by many are claimed to be
superior to the best in use, there can
be no longer any reasonable doubt
that the demand will be universal;
and the law will be sustained by the
people. and that all efforts to thwart
OF Obstruct it's execution will fail.
Year: 1877

HL ooHCHCA DOOA ROLo 4 1O-N.


We print the following interesting
article from a recent issue of the
Pioneer Press.


While the Pioneer Press did not
oppose the Merrill book bill, when it
was before the legislature, because it
was certain to have at least one very
desirable effect, in breaking the back
of the school book combination and
relieve the people of the enormous
extortions practised by the publishers,
yet we did not advocate it. partly
because we doubted whether it was
wise for the State to go into the
business of furnishing school books.
but mainly because we feared that
under the centralized machinery of
the bill inferior books would be palmed
off on the public schools; that really
good books would not be furnished at
the exceedingly low prices named in
the bill, and that the experiment would
result in failure. In this respect we
have been agreeably disappointed.
The State series of textbooks which
have been furnished by Mr.. Merrill,
and approved by the State commits
sioners, are admitted on all hands to
be equal to and experienced teachers
do not hesitate to declare that they
are greatly superior to those general


ly in use. They are an entirely new
series, and the best ability in the
| country has been employed in their
preparation, by the two great publish
ing houses of Appleton & Co., and
She ldon and & Co., primarily to fill
Mr.. Merrlll's contract to supply the
public schools of Minnesota, but of
| course looking to the general demand
| for an improved series of textbooks.
We notice in our state exchanges a
good deal of complaint about the de-
lay in furnishing the books, and the
difficulties in getting them now that
they are ready. For these delays
and difficulties. however, Mr.. Mer-
rill explains in a letter to the Faribault
Republican. that he is not responsible.
They arise from obstacles interposed
to the execution of the law, he does
not say by whom, but it is evident
| that he refers to the action of the
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton. who was bitterly opposed to the
passage of the bill. and who. since
it became a law. has felt it his duty to
do all he could to Illustrate its opera
tion, with view to secure its repeal
| this winter. The law made it his duty
to send out blanks for the requisitious
of the district clerks last March.
This he declined or neglected to do.
Ii it had been done Mr.. Merrill claims
that with orders. commensurate with
| the existing popular demand for the
State series, he could have made i'm.
mediate arrangements with Eastern
publishers for an immediate supply of
the best books in vogue. Moreover a
systematic and organized attack was
made on the law throughout the State.
County supreintendents and school
officials were told that the law was a
dead failure, and would be repealed
this winter. and every effort was made
to discourage the school authorities
of the counties from sendiug their
orders for books. The school-book


publishers of course very naturally
did all they could to swell the cri
Year: 1877

During the great famine IN Ireland.
people were surprised to find that
shipload on shipload of grain was be-
ing sent from that country. The con-
dition of the United States is similar
to that of Ireland. While many


thousands of our people are actually
suffering for the necessaries of life
many of them on the brink of starva-
tion-one shipload after the other. of
meat and grain are sent to Europe and
other countries. while all the old
women in the land, pettycoated and
Year: 1877

pantalooned, are eXulting that the
balance of trade is in our favor.-La-
bor Adrdnce


1t is a curious anomaly that the
United States produces more food and
more material for cotton and wooden
goods, to the inhabitant, than any
other land on earth, and yet nowhere
to-day are there so many unemployed
workmen, without sufficient food or
clothing.


God has done his part. The selfish
ness of man has brought his mighty
generosity to nOught.
Year: 1877

In Ohio, a few days ago, saw girl
in span-cleau checked apron that went
around her waist with string; the old
fashioned sort, made Of numbCrlcss and
undivided checker-boards, with the little
blue and white squares alternating with
mathematical precision, The sight OF
that apron would have taken yon back
TO an older wearer Of q similar garment,
who brought apples FROM The orchard IN
it, and white maple chips from the wood
pile, and picked pears IN it upon a pinch,


and gathered eggs in II from The hay
NOV, and spread il smoothly ana deco
rousy oyer her lap when she sat, and her
knitting work reposed in it, aud some
times a cat, marked like her best Sunday
comb, would assay a slumber upon its
checkered existence, and be wbisked OF
in second. You have seen that apron
flung over its owners head like the knit
ted cloud of modern times, when she
went to the next neighbor's. Thatapr
has wiped away the tears OF your child
ish sorrow, when they ran down your
face, and your clamorous tongue ran out
at each corner Of your mouth between


the sylables Of lamentation, and licked
them inl You saw where she laid II
when its work was done. You saw


where they laid her when her work was
done. There is whole system of mne-
monies in those blue and white checks,
Year: 1877

u here any Joy greater than that
which is experienced by one person when
he helps another personf There are
some men 80 low down tbat II IL said
they cannot bear TO have the smell OF
their clover go into the highway for fear
that other folks viii get something that
belong 10 them without payipe for Il,
there are some men who ofe said 20 ba-
grudge bees the honey which they take
from lboir flowers without leaving any
thing behind; but that IL doubtless i'm.
aginary, 4 man whose heart docs not
respond to auaet Of doing good Of giving
happiness i no longer man. lie has
passed the line of manhood, aud should
bU ranked among beasts
Year: 1877

From C. W. Stearns, of the firm of Smith X StearnS, PhGnix, who is paying Prescott a visit. we learn that harvesting is in full blast at Salt River valley; that under the Desert Land Act all available land for twelve miles around has been taken up, and that the people of that section feel confident of the ultimate passage of the railroad through the valley
Year: 1877

Lillian Dixon, who has been confined in the county jail for sometime on charge of an assault with intent 10 do bodily harm was, to-day discharged for want of sufficient evidence before the Grand Jury to find s blll
Year: 1877

Liver Disease and Indigestion
prevail to a greater extent than
probably any other malad Y ,and
relief is always anxiously
sought after. Ii the Liver is
Regulated IN its action, health
health Is almost inYariahlv q
Year: 1877

The Registry law passed by the
Republican Legislature of Ohio, last
winter, is another specimen of the
love Republican politicians have for
poor laboring men! By its proVis-
ions the rich man who owns his own
house is not required to register
but the poor man who rents a home
and moves from one ward of a town
to another, or from one township to
another, must register, or lose his
vote. How long will the poor men
of Ohio continue to vote for a party
whose leaders legislate continually
in favor of the rich and against the
poor!- THillsboro Gazette.


This is a very small piece of dem
agoguery, of which the Gazette
ought to be ashamed. It is no hard
ship for any honest man, rich or poor,
who changes his residence during
the year preceding the election, to
go to the proper place ana register
his name and residence, so that the
trustees will have indisputable eVi-
dence of his right to vote, when he
presents himself on the day of the
election. The chief object of the
law, as the Gazette well knows, is to
prevent men going from ward to
ward in the large cities and voting
again and again-"repeating as
often as they dare-which was done
so effectively in Cincinnati last fall,
by men hired and paid for the pur-
pose, by that great Democratic lead
e,', Eph Holland, the gambler, who
was convicted of the offense by the
U. S. Court q few months ago.
Year: 1877

The Cincinnati and Fayetteville
R. R, marrow gauge seems to be a
fixed fact. An election for nine Di-
rectOrs is to be held this week at
Newtonsville, Clermont county, and
the engineers are about to locate the
line between Milford and Fayette-
vile. The road Will connect at Nil
ford with the Gin. & Eastern, and
go in to the city from that point on
the same track When finished to
Fayetteville, we shall have another
narrow gauge road within Is miles
of Hillsboro, with which we may
conclude to connect some day.
Year: 1877

There is a general feeling that the
business of the country will soon re-
cover from the recent severe shock.
That it was very severe admits Of no
doubt, but the recuperative energies
Of the country are such and the con
ditions for a revival Of business so
favorable that the effects Of the re-
cent outbreaks must soon pass away.
The aggregate loss to the country
has been very great, but sixty OF
ninety days hence men will have
forgotten the past and be thinking
only Of the present and future.
Year: 1877

The militia law of Ohio allows on
ly $50 infantry companies, and that
number have already been organized,
so that no more can be accepted.
There may be as many Independent
companies as choose to organize,
but they are not subject to the State
militia law.
Year: 1877

When the wind is high move youl
tent to the outside of the hedges. e.,
change your side according to circum.
stances.


Never buy a handkerchief or choose
wife by candlelight.


Nice reeds make nice baskets.


It's like kiss, good for nothing un-
less divided between two.


Don't ask for anything when you can
get it.


Ii is always the largest fish that falls
back into the water.


There may be adversely in a large
house as well as in small one.


Keep it a secret in your own heart
and nobody will know 1t,


Clean water never comes from q dirty
place.


Behind bad luck comes good luck.
There is sweet peace at the end of a
long road.


Wait till the moon rises.


An ass that carries you is better than
u horse that throws you of.


- -
Old folks should he serous, Frivolous
talk Is bad-in age.
Year: 1877

A young mans interest and duty
doth dictate that he should make him
self indispensable to his employers. He
should be so industrious, prompt and
careful that the accident of his tempo
rary absence should be noticed by his
being missed. A young man should
make his employer his friend by doing
faithfully and minutely all that is en-
trusted to him. 1t is a great mistake
to be over nice or fastidiOus about work.
Pitch in readily and your willingness
will be readily appreciated, while the
"high toned" young man who bubbles
about what it is and what it Is not his
place to do will get the cold shoulder.
There is a story that George Washing
ton once helped roll log that one of
his corporals would not handle, and the
greatest Emperor of Russia worked as
shipwright in England to learn the
business. That is just what you want
to do. Be energetic, look and act with
alacrity; take an interest in your en-
ployer's success; work as though the
business was your own, and let your
employer know that he may place absO-
Lutte reliance on your word and on your
act. Be mindful; have your mind on
your business, because it is that which
is going to help you, not those outside
attractions which some of the "bOys"
are thinking about. Take pleasure
in your work; do not 90 about in list
less, formal manner, but with alacrity
and cheerfulness, and remember that
while working thus for others you are
laying the foundation of your own sue.
cess in life.- WoOnSoCket Patriot.
Year: 1877

spoke Of the smallness of the trees
in Paris. There is some reason to sus-
pect that dwarfing process has been
going on in the size Of the people.
France has been selecting all her men
of best physique for her army and go
dcpriving them of families, and killing
them off, leaving only the inferior stock
to propagate the species. Napoleon's
wars for whole generation kept weed
ing out and destroying the largest and
strongest men of the empire; and the
results have been what might have
been expected. The standard height
for enlistment has had to be reduced
again and again, until it is now less
than five feet. How this process, long
continued, must tell not only upon the
phySjgue but the mOrdie of a nation, one
can easily see. The strong and the
brave are all killed of, the runts, the
hump-backed and the ellemnaie propa-
gate the species. The only wonder is
that nation so treated can survive.
Year: 1877

Herman Boil merchant doing business
at the corner of Thied and Market streets,
was given hearing yesterday afternoon,
before Esquire Frazer, being charged on the
oath of Henry Bauxbaum OF violation OF
chapter 1s9. Revised Code. 1t appears
from the evidence that Buxbaum allowed
photograph of himself to remain in the pos
Session Of Boil, when he sold to him the
stock and fixtures of the clothing house s. E.
corner of Srd and Market streets, and when
demanded by Buxbaum, he was refused by
Boil, hence the charge. The punishment
if convicted under this chapter, is the al-
most extreme penalty of post and pillory,
and three years imprisonment. During the
trial Boil made use of profane language q
number of times, and being demonstrated
with several times by the magistrate, and
not obeying his injunctions was fined 50
cents and costs, amounting to $l.35 for
contempt of court, and held in the sum OF
5000 for his appearance at the next term of
court, to answer the charge of larceny.
Subsequently Boil appeared upon the streets
in an excited manner and desired to purr
chase revolver, he was finally taken by
one of his frierds and confined in his store.
The impression is that his friend did exact
ly what Boil desired,
Year: 1877

On a trial for an assault, which took
place at the Devonshire Assizes 9 few
months ago, medical witness was called
for the crown and informed the court, that
upon examining the prosecutor he found
him suffering from the severe confusion of
the integuments under the left orbit, with
great extravasation Of blood, and echymosis
In the surrounding rellular tissue which was
in a tumafied state. There was consider
able confusion of the cuticle.


Judgs-You mean,I suppose, the man
had black eye.


Witness-Yes.


Judge-Then why not say so at once and
not make a fool of yourself.
Year: 1877

He was inconsistent in bis political life;
opposed to negro suffrage at first, then a
radical advocate of it; at times hard
money advocate; then the opposite; the
opinions he ADVOCATED today, policy made
him condemn tomorrow, and he wasted
no time in reconciliug his adverse views
held from time to time. His speeches on
reconstruction aud against the withdrawal
of troops from the southern states were the
most bitter ever delivered in any legislative
body, but he always managed TO preserve
his friendship with the very men he de-
nounced as representatives of treason, and
of all who mourn his death none more sim
cereIy regret the end of a career which, if
rightly directed, would have been Of in
caculabIe benefit to the country, than his
political opponents in the senate and house.
With all disposition to speak charitably OF
the dead, we can only characterize him as
strong man, not as good man, nor as a
statesman. To day the grave closes over
him: a nation remembers his great deeds,
and forgets his faults.