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Year: 1878

CONSIDERING the fact that the fractional
currency has not all been destroyed it is un-
wise and an act Of bad faith to dissipate the
sum set aside for its resumption. The bank
ing and currency committte should 60 slow.
Year: 1878

WHAT a SCARED people we should be If the
practice which obtains in France of challeng-
ing and wounding men who call the action
of the electoral committee fraud should
prevail in this country.
Year: 1878

THE friendship of the Administration
would seem to be disastrous. So long as we
refused to recognize Diaz he got along SWIM
mingly. Now we have begun to patronize
him he is in danger of losing his seat. The
followers of Lerdo it was that crossed the
Rio Grande and raided Texas, and we did all
in our power to weaken their natural enemy
Diaz. But our sympathy does the Mexican
President more harm than our hostility did.
Year: 1878

ANOTHER LECTURE FROM JUDGE FARRAR.
Our Church Hill friends are TO have treat
from Judge Farrar on Tuesday night next,
when he will lecture at the Leigh-Street
Baptist church His humorous lectures are
generally we'll attended, and rs the cause Is
a worthy one the Judge will no doubt be
greeted by very full house.
Year: 1878

give their cheerful =acquiescence to a mea-
sure that will not only prove to be harmless
TO them bur Of Immense and lasting benefit
to the State. Ring your. bell, then. cheer.
fully,gentlemen, and to avoid any difficulty
with the officers OF the law, have posted on


the walls OF your establishments the follow
Year: 1878


ARE DOING A LARGE BUSINESS.
THE ATTRACTION TO THEIR STORE
AT THIS TIME
is GREATER THAN 1T EVER WAS.
They have received
LARGE QUANTITIES OF NEW GOODS,


AND. on!
HOW Low THEY ARE SELLING THEM


Go to t, ~
LEVY BROTHERS


by all means
MAKE YOUR PURCHASES,
AND YOU WILL SAVE MONEY.
Year: 1878

CHARGE 1T TO BUSTER .-WliITLocKs renu-
tatio1 as THE cigar manufacturer OF the celebrated
Model Peach Key West, and other brands, mas neeh
honestly won by fair dealing and uniform courtesy,
by giving good article for reasonable price.
Year: 1878

Stimulated by the bad counsels of his


needy henchmen and prompted by his
| own Unsuitable greed for office, petty


Bone has thrown away his first, last and
only opportunity of getting into Con-
| gTess from this District. Had he not
| have interferred in matters that did not


concern him for the interest of some of


his bucklewashers, and were he not the
| beneficiary Of notorious, undeniable and
| indefensible fraud, falsehood, misrcpre


sentation and moral perjury, and had
he kept ont of the saloons and not dis.
| tribnted a flood of iqnor on the day of
| the Unapproachable Fraud, the opposi-
| ton in his own Party would he less for


midable, although there arc numbers of
Republicans who wonld not support
him under any circumstances. Still,
had he have been nominated fairly and
and squarely, he would have stood q


good chance of election. Beyond all
dispute not the Peoples choice, with no


hold on the popular affections and no


magnetism to attract strong personal


following handicapped with all the dis


honest and shameful instrumentalities


employed to foist him on a repelling


Party, the authorization of his canda


DIZZY of a foul and insulting lie, and


himself as vile an imposter as was ever


vomited from the corruptions of ma
| COnYenBlOn,


revulsion of public sentiment, of which


the prospect continually Garkens in


stead of growing brighter, his defeat is


as certain as the dawn of the morrow's


sun. Were the opposition composed of
the floating and unstable elements of
the Republican Party, they might be
reconciled and brought in by few tilts
of the bloody shirt, but unfortunately
for the gifted champion of the Rings,
very large number of the staid, reflect
ing, determined and unflinching Repub


licans have withdrawn their support
from him forever. An average loss of
fifty Republicans in each county will
defeat him, and in some of the counties
the falling off will be four or five times
this loss


1t may be ga great evil to be avoided,
an evil which would amount to crime
on the part of Republicans" to send a
Democrat to Congress from this Dis
trict, but this crime will rest upon that |
faction, headed by pettyBone, that posi- |
lively and absolutely refused to submit |
the Congressional question to the Re-
publican masses in primary election,
and who employed every villainous de- |
vice to defraud the Party out of its |
choice and bnTden it with an obnoxious |
man, who in the tenacity of his vice |
like grip on the public pap, illustrates |
the story of the Old Man of the Sea and |
Sinbad, the sailor. The Ring Vulture,
by the ides of November, viii ind that |
the way of political dishOnor and cor |
ruptiOn is thorny path to travel. Fraud |
first triumphant in this District will |
then be buried, without the hope of |
beneath the curses and ex-
ecrations of an outraged People and |
Party.
Year: 1878

It is said that the only charge against
petty Bone is that he is a carpet-bagger.
This misstatement is in keeping with
the unlimited multitude of audacious
misrepresentations that bolster up and
fortify the petty-Bone scandal and out
rage. This fraudulent nominee has
proved himself a carpet-bagger of the
very worst type. What one of his now
most ardent supporters, who expects to
share largely in the profits of his igno-
BILE triumph If elected, has repeatedly
said, that she came South for no other
purpose but to get office" is clearly de-
monstrated fact. He had been here
hardly long enough to become citizen
when he was up for Attorney General.
Good men, born and raised here as 10y
al and as brave soldiers as he, were set
aside to give the Northern harpy this
fat berth. The adoption of the New
Constitution displaced him, and from
that time to this he has been engaged in
prosecuting and prosecuting as Assis.
tant u. S. Attorney our unsophiscated
mountain people under the oppressive
and iniquitous methods with which the
Revenue system has been managed in
East Tennessee. True, in the mean
time, he has regularly appeared as
candidate for Congress but he was in
variably shelved and rebuked, until his
foul conspiracy against the will of the
people culminated in his stolen nomina-
ton at Jonesboro.


In the eternal fitness of things, it has
been reserved for the Vampire from
Michigan to be the head, representa-
tive, champion and the product of Fraud
first triumphant in the First Congress
sional District of Tennessee. Only one
charge against petty-Bone, indeed He
and his diSreDutabIe crew of rinUsterS
are staggering under a constantly ac-
cumulating load of exposed infamy and
villainy, and they will be so utterly
by the First Thursday in
November that they will feel like fee
Year: 1878

oe wonderfully convenient, and will


make use of the mails in sending
thousands of packages which are
now carried at high prices by the
various express companies. The
latter will undoubtedly object to this
interference with their business. but
the only result will be an immense
increase in the bulk of the mails and
the employment OF additional forces
in the department to handle it. You
can send just as many packages as
you please, and register each of
them, the only restriction being that
each must weigh but -four pounds.
Year: 1878

platform of the third party, and also


in the platform of the Republicans


party aiHow lw asa sssao.l re of
The National Greenbacka Party


and the Democratic partya unite in


declaring that all debts. public and


private, shall be discharged in legal


tender money of the United States,


''strictly according to the stipnla-


tion of the laws under which they


were contracted" The platform of


the third party make no such de-


mand, but on the contrary;it simply


demands that greenbacks be made


equal to gold and silver, in the pay


ment of public debts, public and pri-


vate. and there is not demand in its


platform, nor in the platform Of the


Republican party, that the bonds or


any part of them shall be called in


and discharged in greenbacks. Take
out of the platform of the third par


ty the demand for the abolition of


national banks, and Mr.. Sherman
can stand on it without qualification.


He declares that he does not want
to destroy the greenback, that all he


wants to do is to make it equal in
every office to coin. He proposes to
do it by forcible resumption The ]
third party does not say how it
wants to accomplish it. but it is all
solutely certain that il does not in
innate it is opposed to the resump-
tion law. ar a. .. sa.B


The National Greenback party
and the Democratic party of Ten
nessee both unite in demanding that
the volume of greenbacks and silver
shall be enlarged in every legitimate
mode, until the country has plenty
of money to meet the needs and |
wants of the people. The platform
of the third party nor that of the
Republican party make any such |
demand. but. on the contrary the
simple demands of the third party
is that the greenback be made equal
in its functions as money with gold
and silver, but there is not hint in
the platform of that party that the
people need more money, or that
they shall have more money. s1Ja5


The National Greenbaclzl party
and the Democratic party both unite
in demanding that bonds and money
shall be equally taxed with property
and production. But there is no
such demand in the platform of the
third or the Republican party. 7t.v
Year: 1878

Oct. 16, 1878.


To the Editor of The Morristown Gazette:


AS see you have not had letter
from "old Loyl Blount" of late l
think few items from here would


interest your many readers.


Well, politically, things are un
dergoing a considerable change. Old
party ties are being broke up and
many who were welded to the old
party are cutting loose and are seek
ing new leaders. For instance the
Radical party men say they cannot
longer follow their leaders-that it
is ''all talk and no cider"


Messrs. Watkins and Houk were
here last week and had a meeting
the result of which was, many were
added to Col. Watkins list. 1t is a
little strange how the party are
leaving the old ship, Judge Houk
who has been decidedly popular with
his party is losing ground. After
the two men had spoken here many
of the true and faithful - said they
would vote for the old man. The
people are beginning to open their
eyes. Col. Watkins made one of
the ablest speeches here that has
been made for years. He showed
how the people had been catching at
shadows, when the substance was in
their reach. The Colonel led off
and held the people perfectly spell
bound for one hour and half, when
Judge Houk came forward with his
ring performances. Spent his hour
and half in lOa0 jokes, failing to tell
the people of single thing they |
expected to hear. He told them
there was plenty of money in the
country. but the people could not |
see it. It would have been better |
for the Judge if he had not been
here. He made a glorious failure,
My prediction is Col. Watkins will
carry the county by an overwhelm-
ing majority. hear he is adding
votes everywhere he goes, and there
is no doubt of his election the 5th
of November next. The people say
the way Houk obtained his nomina-
tion ought to defeat him. His party
have concluded to let him kill him
self and if he is let alone he will do
it in a few days longer.


Judge A. S. Marks, candidate for
Governor, addressed large crowd
mere on the 4th inst. Judge Marks
received the hearty applause Of all
parties. Many Republicans said they
would vote for him. Capt. Rule, of
attempted a reply to
Judge Marks. He told few jokes,
WHICH amused the people, "but no.
body got hurt on our side" We
have a four handed reel in our Leg.
islative race. They are paired off.
Messrs. Brickell and Rowan are try
ing to adjust the State debt but can't
come to terms what to pay on the
dollar, Messrs. Love and Scott are
trying to get an additional issue of
in circulation, but the
near approach of resumption and the
daily contraction initiates decided
ly against them. At times all four
of the candidates profess to be green
hackers.


Rowan is running on the Republi-
can ticket. Brickell is on the Re-
publican, Democratic, Greenback,
Nondescript ticket. Love is on the
State Democratic platform. Scott
is on the Independent ticket. Each
one is sure he will be the man.


Don't forget my prediction--Col.
Watkins is our next Representative.


WILL WRIGHT AGAIN.
Year: 1878

Below we publish an extract from
the speech of Hon. A. S. Marks,
made at Franklin on the 10Th ult.


The money power has not surren-
dered the struggle. If it can carry
the Lower House of Congress in this
campaign, it will be unavailing for
the people to elect-a President. He
never will be inaugurated. Grant,
the military dictator, is now in Eu-
rope in training for the campaign of
1880. The money power all over
the land is demanding his nomina-
tion. Gen. Sherman, tool of the
money power, is Commander-in-C
of the Army and even now be takes
occasion to go upon the stump and
in public harangues and threatens
the laboring man with the strong
arm Of the military power. John
Sherman, the head and front. of the
money power, holds the purse of the
government. With the sword in one
hand and the purse in the other,
Grant. the military dictator will not
hesitate to stride into power and
crush beneath the heel of the mill
tary despot the liberties of the
American people. a7as


Whoever loves equal laws, equal
rights and equal privileges, let him
rally under the standard of that
grand old party which has fought
hundreds of battles for the people
and never one against them. In the
next canvass the standard will be
borne by the statesman, Thurman,
the patriot Hendricks. or the gallant
glorious, eloquent Voorhees,. To-
day, on other fields, their clarion
voices are inspiring the old guard
of Democracy in the desperate as
sualt upon the citadel of the money
power. To-day we raise the banner
Of the old guard of the Volunteer
State and, standing shoulder to
shoulder, we will nail it to the top
most pinnacle Of glorious victory.
Year: 1878

ing to the mountains to hide themselves
from the execration of a people they
have swindled and outraged. For. this
people will not link their fortunes to
Party that has robbed them of their viii
and choice, much less fall at the feet of
the ruthless robbers aad condone their
crime. yetty-Bone may toll when awake
and dream when asleep how to foist
himself upon this unwilling District,
but he is doomed to a Waterloo defeat
Year: 1878

One Of the most interesting lectures in DIR.
Lords course will be delivered this evening.
The life, character, and career of Madame de
Maintenon are as interesting as she herself
must have been. She regncd queen of un.
limited power in circle of brilliant men and
attractive women. She rose to her position by
her beauty and wonderful mental power Her
influence over Louis XIV. was remarkable.
She has been accused Of sustaining improper
relations TO him, but discriminating critic
will ubsOlve her of all blame.
Year: 1878

TIE prominent capitalist to whom
we referred yesterday disclaims hav-
ing used the language which we at
tributed to him. Upon investigation,
we are satisfied that there was some
misunderstanding about the matter,
and his denial is entirely satisfactory
fr NJ
Year: 1878

IF he (the editor of the CHRoNICLE)
chooses to smuse himself by playing
with this dead issue until the new
Republican paper appears and gives
him something intere e,ting TO talk
about we have no desire to prevent
the Tribune, yesterday.


Bah
Year: 1878

bands head. It is such reciprocity of feeling that renders marriad life q success.

 We like that church best which toleratcs sin, and does rot interfere With cur prejudices. We rcsemblc the little girl who wanted to visit her grandma because she made lots of ginger snaps, and always kept them or the lower shelf.

 2 S--As the night air is so unwhole- some, do not sit on the front stoop without putting something around your glrl.-[ Hackensack Republi- can. That's so. We always go armed for an emergency of that kinA. But let's leave the painful subject.
Year: 1878

The Street Railway directors, at their
meeting Saturday night declared a diyi'
dsud Of four per cent, payable on the
2lst, their first dividend for year. The
receipts of the company were some eight
thousand dollars less than the year pre-
vious, and they had extraordinary ex'
penses in the way OF street improvements
and new cars to encounter. But for the
decline in feed stuff they would have
had harder time still.
Year: 1878

The bar iron men are to hold meet
ing in Pittsburgh in a few days with
view to advancing the card rates to :
cents. 1t Ia possible that they will follow
the example Of the nail men and agree OF
stop Of several weeks.
Year: 1878

It is quite natural for us to look up
on some member of our profession az
lucky, and to bewail our own misfor-
tunes. Have you ever observed the
farmers load Of potatoes when it reach.
es the market after being driven several
miles over rough and stony road?
When he started with it, there were
various sizes mixed together promiscu-
ously in the wagon, but the jolting pro-
cess has worked a marvellous change.
Now only the largest are seen on the
top, while all the smallest are found in
the lower strata, if they have not indeed
been sifted clear out. Though this is
homely illustration, it will be sufficient
for our purpose. The law which brings
some teachers to the surface and sinks
others to the lowest stratum, is very
similar. It is simply the jolting pro-
cess. The small potatoes may have
been lucky" in being on the top at the
start, but it is certainly not luck that
puts them. at the bottom when they
reach the market. The road over which
the pedagogic cart is driven is none of
the smoothest, and every rut will tell.
The teacher who commences his work
with scanty literary and less profession
al preparation, need not be surprised if
he soon finds himself jolted and jos.led
to the bottom. There is no luck about
it; it is only the survival of the fttest.
If you would rise in the profession, it
can only be through this law; your on
ly way is to fit yourself for the work.
Do this, and every jolt will help you;
neglect it and you will surely settle to
the bottom.-IO,ca Normal Monthlv.
Year: 1878

l. Any person aggrieved by the ac-
tion Of the County Superintendent, in
refusing to grant certificate, or in re-
voking the same, may apply to him for
a rehearing, the proceedings to conform
to the rule in case of appeal from the
board. From this decision an appeal
may be taken to the State Superintend-
ent.


2. Without special mention in the
contract only the common branches are
intended to be taught, by the contract
with teacher.


3. 1t is the intention of the amend
ment to Section 1881 of the Code, only
to provide for the instruction of pauper
children on the basis of the actual cost
OF their instruction, in the schools they
attend. They will be enumerated in the
district where they reside at the time
the enumeration is taken, and the
amount Of semi-annual apportionment
for the following year will be received
by the district. If, at the time of the
enumeration, they have acquired resi-
dence at the poor house, they will be
enumerated in that district. But Chap
ter 116 still requires the payment Of
tuition.


4. At sub-district election, at least
two electors must be present to make
an election possible.


5. At the annual meeting of the in
dependent district, the President, Sec
retary and one Director must be pres
ent.


6. Scholars are entitled to all school
privileges at once upon actual removal
into district, although they may be
enumerated elsewhere. u


Z. The employment of an assistant
teacher without valid certificate, by
the Principal or the Board, does not
fulfill the meaning of the law.
Year: 1878

The cars are crowded and everybody
is wishing everybody else out of the
way. The woman in front of me has
dropped her shawl on the floor. She is
not young or handsome, but she is a
woman. Her face has harsh, forbid
ding expression, but withal, [ think I
can see tender lines about the mouth.
1t is face that has seen trouble. Poor
woman, perhaps she has raised eleven
children, and now she has them all, with
their husbands and wives, to support.
No wonder she looks tired and worn and
repellant. If she was as young and
pretty as she was thirty years ago, a
dozen men would spring forward to
snatch her shawl from the dusty floor,
and bow themselves crooked handing it
to her. Now we look at it, and feel too
dusty even to tell her where it is. A
commercial traveller walks down the
aisle and steps carefully over it. A
woman goes down the other way and
thoughtlessly steps ON it. l feel asha-
med Of myself and pity the poor, home
ly woman. With an effort I rise from
my seat, | stoop to pick up the neglect
ed shawl.


Madam" say, and-oh, if my sons
mother could see that smile, Madam
permit me; your shawl"


l stopped right there. For as pick
ed up the neglected shawl, out Of its
voluminous folds fell humping and rat
Ting to the floor, a paper bag badly
fractured, full Of crackers, tin can,
some remnants of an ancient lunch, a
six inch bologna, bit off at one end, and
bottle of milk, the latter uncorking
itself as it fell. The poor, neglected
woman did not seem to be transported
with gratitude for my attention. She
snatched the shawl away from me and
said, with apparent vexation:


There, now, drat ye! looky at ye,
what ye'ye done. Why can't ye mind
yer own business and leave other peo-
pies things alone?'


A ripple of subdued hilarity passed
through the car, and l resumed my
seat, fully resolved that if the most ex-
travagantly lovely and loving girl that
ever blessed this world of ugly men,
should come into that car and her head
should fall off her shoulders and drop
into my lap, | would kick it savagely
out of the window and snarl:


Keep your lumpy old woodeny pun
kin head out of the way if you don't
want it tromped onto"
Year: 1878

them TO DE out grazing. Some distance
beyond Cimerron we saw away ON the
rise to the north some antelope, and
further on we saw some more near the
track. The grass here is thin on the
ground, and we here saw some rough
growing stuff that we called sage grass.
1t was not the. sage bush and it was not
grass, yet it looked like sage. We fail
ed to find any one here who could tell
us what it was.


The country here looked as though
there had not been any rain for long
time. The buffalo grass looked dry
and yellow, and the soil showed among
it, looking poor and thin. Perhaps by
irrigation this valley could be made to
raise good crops.


There is very little change in the
looks of the land along the Arkansas
from Dodge to Los Animas. A short
distance west of Sergeant a limestone
set up north Of the track tells you that
east of that is Kansas and west of it is
Colorado. Near Los Animas we saw
what cattle men call round up, in
which there were Several thousand head
OF cattle, and as many as ten different
herds. At Los Animas comes in a
branch of the X. 4 P. r. r. from Kit
Karson.


At La Junta we saw to our right
Pixies Peak, and to our left what are
called the Green Horn Mountains,
capped with snow. These were the alb
ssccrbing objects of the passengers from
this tina on until we reached Pueblo.
We arrived al Pueblo 2:25 P. NJ, Kan
sas City time, and after after staying there
80 minutes left at P. NJ, Denver time.


JED LAKE.