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Year: 1878

dence. The charge against Minister Moves
is said to rest mainly on a letter which it
now appears those holding it do not feel sure
about, and they themselves are inquiring as
to the genuineness Of the signature. There
is general admission among the Democrats,
say the best informed correspondents, that if
the alleged Sherman letter proves a forgery
their case will receive blow from which il can
scarcely recover. The story they had worked
up at considerable trouble in regard to the
preparation by Republicans of duplicate
electoral returns from Louisiana has also
been overthrown in advance. This charge
has been to the effect that Governor Ander-
son brought electoral returns to Washington
and allowed the Republicans to inspect them,
and it being feared by some that they were
not in exact form, Anderson was sent back
to New Orleans to obtain a new set Of re-
turns; that upon arriving there he was un-
able to assemble the electors to sign this
second set, and that the names Of two elect
ors were forged to the amended return, and


these latter being brought back were used as
If they were the original papers. This is so
far true that the envelope of the returns
brought did not indicate, as required, that all
the votes for President and all the votes for


Vice-President were contained therein: !:
though as matter of fact they we're. At
first it was thought best to have this tech
nicality corrected, but as matter of fact the
first return brought by Anderson, in the ex-


act shape in which he delivered it-this being
precisely as it came from the hands of the
electors themselves at the meeting when they
cast their votes was the one afterward laid


before the electoral commission and the two
Houses, and was the return actually counted.
So that the whole Democratic case upon this


point falls to the ground in advance.


The fact is the Democrats have made a
great blunder, and they are becoming con-
scious of it. The only evidence they have
is evidence that has been repeatedly sub


mitted to the public judgment and rejected
as trivial or untrustworthy. But they have
gone so far they cannot retreat. Some case,


however fimsy, must be made out, and there
is great reason to fear that the violent and


revolutionary spirits OF the party will insist
| upon a reversal! OF the decision made by the
| electoral commission.
Year: 1878

IT is said that the Democratic national
committee was divided in opinion as to the
treatment of the Potter resolution, and there
was prolonged and angry discussion. Ssna-
tor Mcdonald of Indiana took strong
ground in favor of the resolution declaring
that it was not the purpose of the party to
attempt revolution by unseating the Presi-
dent. But the violent men triumphed and
the resolution was rejected, the official repre-
sentatives of the party declining to commit
the organization to declaration that the
legally ascertained results. of an election
shall be accepted by the defeated party.
Year: 1878

we 90 not read anonymous letters and communi
c1tions. The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


we cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

Dealers in leaf tobacco, except retail deal
ers in leaf tobacco, as hereinafter defined,
shall pay S25 Every person shall be regard
ed as dealer in leaf tobacco whose business
ii is, for himself or on commission, TO sell, or
offer for sale, or consign for sale on commits
sion, leaf tobacco; and payment of a special
tax as dealer in tobacco manufacturer of ci-
gars, or any other special tax, shall not ex-
from the payment of the special tax therefor
hereby required. But no farmer or planter
shall be required to pay special tax as
dealer in leaf tobacco, for selling tobacco of
his own production, or tobacco received by
him as rent from tenants who have produced
the same on his land; PrOpided-
Year: 1878

Ex Gov. Seymour, in private letter
to friend in Omaha. Neb., says:


In regard to political matters there
is great confusion now. l do not think
any harm will come out Of this state of
things. The American people have
gone into o committee of the whole on
the state of the union where every man
can have his say, and whore every one
can bring out his plans. These will
knock each other in the head, and when
we get through all will go back to the
rules of common sense. The men who
work will thrive. Those who are idle
will starve. There is no fear that God s
wise and kind law that men must earn
their bread by the sweat of their brow
will be set aside. l think you will
gai:. much in your state. for you need
some kind Of storm to clear the air of
all kinds of false ideas. Nonsense al
ways dies when 1t reaches its full re-
suits
Year: 1878

DO You know. remarked a rather
fast youth the other day toa suffering
friend to whom he was slightly indebt-
ed, DO you know that intend to
marry and settle down. L don't
know anything about it. was the re
ply. b. b but think you had better
stay single and settle up.
Year: 1878

No wonder if half the world knows
how pleasant it is to take an after din.
ner nap, aud what relief it is to the
overburdened brain or stomach. We
used TO know lawyer who took his
nap every day, after dinner, on three
chairs; ard that lawyer, il he continues
the practis, will die an old man. II
there is any one time when a man is
forced to exert himself, whether in
muscle or in brain labor, TO worke Is
after the monday meal. Ii all men
could only rest. not one holr, bu. two
hours, and could put the extra time Oh
the closing hours Of the day. what All
Improvement would be made in their
health Whether he be farmer or a
mechanic. or professional man, good
rest after dinner leaves the man in a
better condition for his labor than ever
in the morning. 1t vas Il sensi Die
farmer. who i'll harvest, always made
an agreement with his men to work
ten hours DAY; and from twelve o.
clock to two o'clock no work was done.
unless in cases OF emergency-a threat
cning rain, or something that requires
extra exertion. The men had glorious
times sleeping under the trees after
dinner They always used up three
quarters OF an hour at the table. and
then slept one hour and quarter dur
ing the heat of the day The result
was they were never overworked, ant
the farmer got more labor from his
men than did any of his neighbors


from theirs, though their men often
WORKED twelve hours dsv. When
two o'clock came the hands were in
good trim. completely rested, and
could do double the work with more
ease than if they had commenced work
at one o'clock. A single hour's rest at
the proper time works wonders.
Year: 1878

A YOUNG fellow from the country
solicited the hand of city belle. and
was refused. As he was leaving the
house, he thrust his head into the open
window, with this inquiry Would
the toner of Europe be any induce
mentY' The tomer did not induce.
Year: 1878

The woman who is always falling to
pieces came to the station little late
and had to make a rush for the train.
When she reached her seat her hat fell
off. She got it on, but it toppled over
to one side, and when she tried to
straighten it up her hair came tumbling
down. She lost her ticket twice before
the conductor reached her, and would
have lost it again if he hadn't taken it
away from her. She reached up to put
a bundle in a rack above her head and
burst the collar off her duster, and stuck
her fingers on four pins in her dress be-
fore she found one that she dared take
cut to repair the damage. Then just as
she thought she had got comfortably
settled, her little hand valise, packed to
bursting with enough things to load a
Saratoga trunk to the muzzle, exploded,
and she nearly worked herself into frag-
ments getting it together again. Then
by the time she got the valise shut up
her hat tumbled off again, and by the
time she got her hat Strengthened back
into its place, her hair tumbled down
again, and as soon as she got her hair
twisted up, and harpooned in with a
couple of hair-pins, the valise went of,
and when she got of at New Prague
she tucked the gasping valise under her
arm, and tried to corral her toppling hat
and wandering hair with one hand, and
as she went futtering and strangling
into the depot, one couldn't help think
ing that it would be safer and more
convenient to run her in sections and
flag her against everything. 1 have
seen this woman on several other trains,
and she has never been able to keep her
self together. She keeps you in state
of agonizing suspense, for you never
know where she is going to give way
next.
Year: 1878

An engineer on the New York Cen
tral and Hudson River Railroad has
introduced a new feature by placing
looking glasses outside on the engine, at
an angle from the cab. These enable
him to see the rear part of the train at
all times without putting his head out
to watch for conductors signals when
making up trains. The custom of using
such glasses on private residences has
been in vogue for some time. Two
glasses are placed on window-sill and SO
arranged that person sitting in room
can watch all passers-by from either
direction on the street, or in case any
one calls and rings the door-bell while
madame happens to be dishabille,
all that is necessary is to give the glass
turn, and the caller is rapidly dis.
cernable.
Year: 1878

There is good deal of kind of
flirting done, which / am inclined to
think is more dangerous to the gentle
man than the lady in the case. Jolly
good fellows, some of the husbands are,
secure in possession and consciousness
of the alteration of their stylish wives,
quite willing that they should be occu-
pied!by anything that comes along during
their week of absence, and infinitely
amused at the "spoons. some young
fellow makes of himself over married
woman, perhaps with romping boy and
a baby. 4" Pm leaving a 'feller' with
my wife," remarked one of those good
natured husbands, as he took seat in
the hotel stage on his return to town.
"See thereP Sure enough, sailing
along the wide piazza with his pretty
wife, and trying to dodge her trailing
as if he had been whittled down to a
fine point. The husband caught her
eye and kissed his hand. She kissed
hers sweetly in return. The young
gentleman glared. You're not afraid?"
remarked, laughingly and interroga-
lively, the gentleman to whom he had
spoken before. "Afraid-of WHAT" he
repeated, with contempt, 80 supreme
that neither doubt nor suspicion could
harbor there. These youthful cavaliers
are not, however, often left in attend
ance. They "drop down during the
week, when the comparative rarity of
masculine presence makes them more
welcome, when the obsticles in the
shape of husbands are not in the
way, and when whatever affords diver
sion is looked upon as somewhat of a
godsend.


"Do you think that such woman
can care anything for that great vulgar
brute of husband of hersT' came in a
burst of confidence from one of these
sentimental admirers of a handsome and
brilliant married woman. "Not when
you're round, my dear fellow" replied
the man whom he addressed; lust
propose yourself as a substitute, and
see how quick she'll take you at your
word. T" "Ah, yes," lisped the other; ssbut
you see, then there would be divorce
and all that sort of thing, and I'm not
marrying man." "Ain't your was
the reply. Well, no, suppose not;
except for your clothes no, one would
ever suspect you were man at all"
The speaker whistled and walked off
with his hands in his pockets, while the
other was trying to get the meaning of
the last remark through his head.
The present period seems to be fertile
in the production of a lot of sappy
youths, who are devoted to neckties !;
who have not strength, honor. or manli-
ness enough to make love to young
girl; who would not dare to take the
responsibility of supporting a wife, but
who consider that they gain some re-
Aected glory by making one of the trail
of worshipers that dog the steps of any
woman who attains distinction or noto-
| riety.
Year: 1878

AMERICA is land of grand possibil-
tiles. There is, perhaps, no other country
on the globe where it is possible for a
young man to commence so low down in
the scale of life and rise so high. Brigham
Young commenced life as teamster,
and left over a dozen wives when he
died.
Year: 1878

WHEN woman combs her back hair
with two ropes, holds one in her mouth
until she winds the other upon her tuck
comb, and then finds that she has lost
her last hair pin, she feels that the sex
needs two mouths-one to hold her hair
in, and the other to make remarks with.
Year: 1878

Tax incomes. Reduce the tax on Nhiskey.
Could anything be more expressive OF the
spjrit of Democracy Never was the anirnat-
ing purpose of political party 50 clearly
disclosed in so brief PLATFORM These
are two measures which do not need, for
persons of ordinary intelligence, any defin-
ton or description. They carry their
own comment. There is 10 need 10
write under them, "This is demagogism.
Every syllable Is full of it; every letter grins
with it. And this is what the Democratic
majority in Congress are seriously considering t:
what there is possibility. perhaps probabiil-
ity, of their doing. 1t is yet an open ques-
ton whether or not there is enough OF good
sense and political sagacity in that party i'll
Congress to make head against ihe hare
Drained leaders who want to build up Dem
0cratic system OF taxation upon the funda-


mental idea which these two propositions en-


body. 1t is not possible, we rejoice to believe,
that any such scheme can pass both branches
of Congress and receive the Executive ap-
provaI, even if the Democrats in the House
should succeed in obtaining the sanction of
their own chamber. But it j. such q scheme


as cOmmends itself at once to the minds OF
men who are seeking to influence the peO-
pie and gain power by such sophlStrles
Year: 1878

home, either as paupers or prisoners If in
telligent mechanics would cooperate, they
would obtain the respect and aid of capital
lists. The undertaking would pay both in the
end. If anything of the kind is to be done,
February is the time to organize. A man
cannot begin farming in the middle OF Sum
mer. 1t is not easy work, but it is work, and
the chance for life. We confess we see very
little chance elsewhere.
Year: 1878

The startling report that the Russians are
in Constantinople will cause renewed agitation
in England and probably add several Liberal
votes to the Conservative majority when the
House divides on an application for a supple
mentary credit Although the source of the
news is obscure, it is not improbable that
the Turks agreed secretly 10 crafty Russian
pride, in exchange for a mere substantial con-
cessiOn.
Year: 1878

The Congressman who is willing TO father
bill for the enlargement OF Agricultural Com
missioner lie Due into full-sized Cabinet
officer, has been found. He has the pastoral
name of Muldrow, and he comes from the
peaceful state of Mississippi, where the shotgun
is looked upon as an agricultural implement.
Year: 1878

Senator ST. John has introduced bill IN the
Senate which is designed to afford the RAPID
transit on the canals which has been the aim
o. so many inventors. The bill practically puts
the whole business of towing boats into the
hands of a new railway company, which pro-
poses to build a narrow-gauge road on both
banks and realize the dreams of steam on the
canal by steam on the tovpath. The company
is to be allowed 70 charge % cents per mile
for each boat, and is to pay into the treasury
of the State annually the sum of 100000,
retaining the balance of It's receipts. 1t Is a
curious project, but is SAID to have enlisted
the favorable attention of intelligent students
of the canal problem.
Year: 1878

The announcement of large defalcation in
the Bank of North America is not so startling
as the disclosure that the thefts on the part OF
one of its tellers began SO far back as Black
Friday, or more than eight years ago, and
have remained undiscovered UP to this time.
Indeed there is no reason TO suppose that they
would have been discovered now, if the Bank
Department had not concluded that an exam
nation of the bank was proper, none having
been had during all that period. Inc pub
lie will be the more surprised that the
bookkeeping of an old and cOnserva-
tive bank could be made to conceal q
crime of such proportions for such length
of years, when they see that the begin
ming of this defalcatiOn was almost as bad az
the end. The teller stole, in all, 100000 !;
there has been recovered $4,000, making the
total loss probably $4,000; the amount which
the defaulter took eight years ago was
S85. 1000. While the capital of the bank
mas been considerably impaired by this
and other causes, pleasant assurances are
given that its dcpositors will not suffer and
i,s business will not be interrupted.
Year: 1878

Police Justice Duffy is handsomely acquitted.
on every charge presented against him, by n
unanimous vote of the court. Impeachment
seldom does impeach, though it is often be-
cause of considerations not at all connected
Year: 1878

One of the most prominent business houses
in the city appeals to the State Government
to know whether some redress cannot be had
for the recent outrageous determinations
against this city by the railroads Messrs. IL.
Il. Clahin g. Co. submit the whole case to
Governor Robinson, with the request that he
consider the propriety of calling upon the
Legislature for action. The terms of the char
ters of the different roads which were CONSOLE
dated into the New-York Central are such as
to put it into the power of the Legislature to
make it unpleasant for that corporation, II the
Legislature is so disposed.
Year: 1878




How many of the readers of the
Journal are aware that one of the won
ders of nature may be seen four miles
west of Swar's prairie and one mile in
the Indian territory? Here you will
find cave that is perfect wonder to
the brave adventurer who will provide
himself with the necessary outfit for ex-
ploring the subterranean cavern of dark
ness, inhabited by wild animals and bats
in countless thousands. The necessary
outfit consists of good lights and boat
in which TO navigate subterranean
river. which, so far as we know of has
never been traced to its source. The
entrance to the cave is in grove OF tall
trees growing under the jutting rocks OF
a small mountain. Long before you
enter the wood you can hear the roaring
OF the falling waters, which rush forth
in crystal pureness, far excelling the
noted springs of Neosho. A short dis
tance from the cave stands a single
Indian cabin, inhabited by Alexander
Zane, Of the Wyandet.s tribs Of Indians
Year: 1878

The match box, the wall and the car
pet are the three substances upon which
the average woman will consent to light
a match, and it should be noticed, as a
curious and as yet unexplained fact, that
no woman, in any circumstances, dreams
of lighting matches on the under side of
a marble mantel-piece. Man, on the
other hand, regards the mantel-piece as
the natural complement of the match,
and if he happens to be near one, when
about to light match, uniformly
scratches it on the under side of the
marble. Some men prefer to light
matches on the soles of their boots, ex-
cept. of course, when the soles in question
are damp. The vast majority of male
human beings, whether men, boys or adj
vocates of female dress reform, light
their matches on their trousers.-New


York Times.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, April 2S.-The sub-commit-
tee of the Committee on Foreign Affairs has
submitted report on the Venezuelan awards.
which the House has rccommtted to that COM
lhittee and ordered to be printed. They ex-
press the opinion that there was irregularty in
the selection Of the umpire and manifest in
competency on the part Of the commission ;that
some Of the claims allowed were. to say the
least. very questionable in character; that the
entire proceedings are so tainted with fraud
and corruption that the objections urged there
to by the Government OF Venezuela are well
founded. and its request for q rehearing is en-
titled to favorable consideration; and that JUS
tice to American citizens who have been
wronged and defrauded by the commission, as
well as n proper regard for the honor and char
acter Of this Government. requires that there
should bo reGxaminaton Of all the claims
passed upon by that commission.


The bill which accompanies the report pro-
poses that the President be empowered in his
discretion to enter into negotiations with the
Government Of Venezuela for an extension Of
the time Of the former convention. or negotiate
a new treaty to examine and adjudicate all in
ternational claims of citizens of the United
States against the Republic OF Venezuela. in
Guiding those passed. upon by the former COM
mission. and such other questions Of difference
between the two Governments as may be mu-
tually agreed upon. and to include. If the Pres
ident shall deem proper. in tie conditions OF
such new treaty or extension OF the time OF said
convention of 1866. that in either case the new
commission shall meet in the cit y OF Washing
ton. and that the monthly payments now being
made by the Government of Venezuela shall be
continued pending the sittings Of said commits
Year: 1878

Up to the period when a colt
full set of teeth the peculiar ch
of them is a good indication oft
of the animal. After that the agt
horse is indicated by the wearini
of the teeth. When a colt is J
he has cut y nippers and l6 g
During the second year the per
teeth begin to appear and the
become worn. During the thiI
the milk or first teeth fall out a
replaced by permanent teeth, wi
larger than the first ones. The
ers are also increased to six in ca
At 3 years the mouth is complei
ter 6 years no precise reliance
placed on the teeth as an indle'
age, as it is obvious much depe
the manner of feeding the horse
is pastured to any extent the te
come worn down sooner than Il
been fed on soft food.
Year: 1878

The undersigned takes this occasion his thanks
to the people Of Yankton particularly and his many


friends Dakota and Nebraska for the generous
patronage which has been bestowed upon the late firm Of
DUDLEY & HAWLEY through the many years in which
that firm has carried business in this city, and he
desires to call the attention Of these friends and that of
the people generally to the enlarged facilities extern
sve assortment and coodous rooms which the late
firm had provided and which Dudley
Hawley, now possesses


In the line Of the Hardware trade
Of Tn Copper and Sheet Ware
equal in all respects anything in the north
west occupying three grand each 25xlOO feet in
tent.


In the uture by constant application business he hopes
to the Hardware trade of the region which naturally b
utary to to this point conferred here and shall spare
make for the interest people within this region
chase their Hardware Tnwae Copper Sheet
Stoves, and all other articles in this line from


Yours gratefully and respectfully,
GEO. e. HAWLEY,
Union Block Third ST.
Year: 1878

At q cabinet session to-day no mention was
made of the German mission.


WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID.


The president to-day said he was giving
no attention to the collection Of official re-
ports showing intimidation and fraud in the
recent elections in the southern states for the
use Of the Teller committee, as he had
learned the committee formally refused to
call upon him for such information.
Year: 1878

The following is q mparatire statement


of the increase or decrease in the number


Of capitation taxes assessed. and the value


of real and personal property, as assessed in


the Commonwealth Of Virginia for the years
1877 and 1878: