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Year: 1879

The San Francisco Bulletin says the farmers around Woodbridge, in this State, have given up drilling in their grain. Some SOW broadcast, in the time- honored way. Others, and among them not few of the most progressive farm CTS, rig seed-sower behind their blows in such way that, although they blow from eight to ten inches deep, yet the grains of wheat fall just in time to be caught by about two inches in depth of the lap of the furrows. The writer saw some large fields near Woodbridge which had been treated in this way, and it was the prettiest sight imaginable. The long rows extended in straight lines across the fields, evenly and in fine state of growth. In ordinary seasons it is not considered necessary to harrow after sowing in this way if it is on sum- mer-fallowed land.
Year: 1879

while Rose was almost suffocating with envy at the signal triumph of her sister. MT. Granville came promptly for his waltz.

 He drew her hand through his almost authoritatively.

 Miss Bell, it seems I have always known you, yet you say you never saw me before. Suppose we take walk through the conservatory instead of hay ing this waltz2"

 Into the fragrant semi-dusk they went, where fountains tinkled and rare flowers bloomed, and the music came in yelled sweetness and richness.

 ''I want you to be sure I'm right, Miss Bell, when say have something of yours. Look at me closely. Have you never seen me before?"

 He bent his face near hers. It was gravely smiling-and so tender and good and Bell looked timidly at the smiling yet stern eyes.

 ''I am sure never saw you before, MT. Granville"

 s"Theu have you ever seen this ?''

 He drew from his vest pocket sov- ereign the very one, with tiny bit clipped off it, that Bell had given the tramp.

 "Don't you understand, dear child2 l had taken freak into my head that I would walk from town here, and it was grand walk, although it took three days and ruined my clothes. I stopped at your little cottage to beg glass of water. You know the rest"

 Bells face was marvel al that mo- ment.

 "In your kindness and goodness you gave it to me, Miss Bel, and the little act gave me an insight into your heart that 8 year of ordinary intercourse would never do. I shall keep it until you will buy it back. have set price on. it, and if you are ready to give it you can have it..

 "He put the money reverently away in his breast pocket, and took her out among the crowd again, strangely hap py girl.

 And before the summer roses had faded Bell paid the price for the clipped sovereign-her own heart-that Lionel Granville plead for so earnestly.

 She is mistress of their grand house now, and Rose visits her once a year not oftener, because Bells husband doesn't care much for her. But the in- valid mother has a lifelong home amid the luxuries of Fernley Court, and Bell is happier than the birds that sing in the trees of the big old park.
Year: 1879

The Nevada (Cal.) Herazd has been shown curiosity in the shape of trout which had become petrified in the root of a tree. The fish measures about six inches in length, and shows very plainly the spots on it's sides and back. It is very perfect and looks almost as if ready to glide through the water. It was washed out of a mining claim about two years ago. It must have run into the hole in the root of the tree for hiding place and there have been caught and petrifed.
Year: 1879

IThe following used to be recited by Wen dell Phillips in his lecture on O'Connell with so much perfection of pathetic expression that we have seen vast audience as still as death in the anxiety to catch every word:l Oh Ireland, my country, the hour of thy

 pride and thy splendor hath passed, And thy chain, that was borne in thy moment

 of power. hangs heavy around thee at last There are marks on the faith of each cline i;

 there arc turns in the fortunes of men; But the changes of realms or the chances of

 time, shall never restore thee again. Thou art ehalned to the wheel of the foe, by

 links which the world could not sever. With thy tyrant through storm and through

 calm thou shalt go, and thy sentence is

 Banished for ever.

 Thou art doomed with the vilest to dwell; thou art left for the proud to disdain; And the blood of thy sons and the wealth of

 thy soil shall be lavished, and lavished in

 vain.

 Thy riches with taunts shall be taken. thy

 valor, with gold is repaid, And of millions who see thee sick and for

 saken, not one will stand forth in thine aid In the nations thy place is left void-thou art

 lost in the list of the free; Even realms-by the plague or the earthquake

 destroyed-are revived, but no hope is for

 thee.
Year: 1879

A young man got marriage license at the Court. House few days since, and remarked, as he turned to go: "By George this is the most handiest Court House in the country. You get your marriage license in this room, and then you can step right into the Judges room and get married, and you can go up stairs in the Circnit Court and get di- vorce.
Year: 1879

Ann Eliza Young says: "Women in Utah are but child bearing slaves. Every time they vote they add another rivet to the bonds which already bind, for they vote into office such men as George O. Cannon, who are using all their powers to perpetuate polygamy. The ballot is no protection to these women, for they vote in utter ignorance of what they are doing and for whom they are voting. I voted once-being compelled to do so by Brigham Young-and his coachman was deputized to take me to the polls and show me how to vote. His instruc- tions consisted in telling me to write my name on piece of paper which he handed to me, and to this day I remain in blissful ignorance of whom 1 cast my only vote for"
Year: 1879

MARBlE.-The principal part of the supply of foreign marble is from Carra- ra, small town or village of Tuscany, in Italy. The quarries at this place were celebrated from an early period, and spots are still shown about them whence were dug the marble for the Pantheon. Masses of marble are sometimes pro- cured there nine feet in length, ndfrom four to six in breadth.
Year: 1879

Chattanooga Times.


The body snatching excitement still
continues and is the general topic of
conversation. jackson and his son
are still in the county jail, with a
probability Of remaining there until
their matter is disposed of by the cir
cult court.


In the early part Of the week was
presented one of the most painful
sights ever witnessed in any communi-
ty. The express office was visited
from morning until night and the
clerks piled with questions by mourn
ing friends and relatives rs u tho tiate
of shipments by jackson, and when
ever shipment was found to have
been made near date corresponding
to the death, they at once repaired to
the cemeterysand disinterred the re-
mains. Tuesday many were at the
cemetery, and grave after grave was
opened and coffin after coffin exami-
ned with the most trying and Distress
ing interest. No one felt safe for their
dear ones remains. A feeling of
sadness pervaded the whole communi-
ty.


As far as we have been able to as
certain, two graves have been found
unoccupied. These are as many as
yet have been found empty, but there
is no doubt that if the investigations
are continued, as many as fifty, or
more, will be found to have been rob-
bed. Some feelAa delicacy in disin-
terring the remains, as they prefer the
the doubt to the horrible truth.


The greatest excitement over this
discovery is found among the weaker
sex and the negroes of the city. They
speak nothing else. The most exag~
gerated rumors are circulated and
given credence by the negroes, who
relate them highly colored. instead
of diminishing the Indignation seems
to increase, and at each fresh discov-
cry or new development it receives
an impetus.


1t is perhaps well for Jackson that
he is safely protected in a strong cell
and carefully guarded.
Year: 1879

IT an established fact that Quinine or Gin
chonida will step chill s, and for this purpose
there is no better remedy. But it is also an es
tablished fact that they do not remove the
cause which produces the ctills, for if they did
the chills would not return on the 9TH. 18th.
2Ist or 2Sth day. Then is il not money LOST
TO attempt TO permanently cure the chills with
Quinine or CinchOnidia, when they,dO not re-
move the cause which produces them? for un-
m
Year: 1879

On Smiths creek, in Elko county
there is most remarkable stratum oi
steatite resting horizontally in steep
bluff of volcanic matter which fanks
the eastern side Of Smiths creek valley
The stratum of steatite is from three to
ten feet in diameter. It is easily work
ed and is a veritable soap mine. In
fact the farmers, cattle-men and sheep.
herders In that region all use the nat
ural article for washing purposes.
Chemically considered this peculiar
clay is hydrsted silicate of alumina,
nagnesia, potash, and lime. When the
steatite is first dug from the stratum it
looks precisely like immense masses of
mottled CASTLE soap. the nothing be-
ing q small percentage of iron oxide.
To-day Professor Stewart received a
sample of this natural eoap prepared
by firm in Elko who have undertaken
TO introduce it into market. It is sim
liar in appearance to the CASTLE soap
sold in large bars. Nothing is added
to the mineral but a trifle more alkali
and some scenting extracts. It's de-
tersive qualities are as powerful as
those of any manufactured soap.
Year: 1879

The body of our prayer is the sum Of
duly; and as we must ask of God what
soever we need, We must labor for all
that we ask. ......


Mediate daily on the things of eter-
nifty; and by the grace of God do some>
thing daily which you would wish to
have done when the day of judgment
comE.. Eternity fades quickly from
sigls, amid the mist and clouds of this
world. Heaven is above our heads,
Yet we see it not with eyes fixed on the
earth,
Year: 1879

/ saw parlor clofk few days since


which was cenclosed in a glass case.
Through that case all the mechanism
and motion of the clock we're clearly
vioible. Every adjustment of the
wheels, every click Of the lever, every
stroke of the pendulum. WAS distinctly
seen. But 1t is not necessary that a
clock should have glass case, in order
that it may be trusted to tell me the
time of day. Ordinarily only the hands
and face are seen, but these are enough
to go by. SO an intimate knowledge of
Gods ways is not necessary in order to
command our trust in HIM. need not
understand all the relations and adjust,
ments of Divine Providence before L
can faust the Lord. On the dial-plate
of Scripture see the hands pointing
to the promises and h. commands and
the rewards of discipleship, and. it is
enough. I balisv6 and trasS. -s-.-.--z--
Year: 1879

A few years ago little boy told his
first falsehood. It was little solitary
thistle seed and no eye but Gods saw
him as he planted it in the mellow soil
of his heart. But it sprang up O,how
quicklyl and in little time another
seed dropped from to the ground,
each in its turn bearing more and more
thistles. And now his heart is OVER
grown with bad habit. 1t is as diff
fcult for him to speak the truth as it
for gardener to clear his land of the
ugly thistle after it has once gained a
roofing in the soil.
Year: 1879

To come along 50 that he could get the
land of his hands. What he thinks Of
himself now that the land is worth $50
900, Is problem difficult to solve. Oar
own opinion Is that he thinks there are
;nst as smart men IL the world as he is
or Vas, rather. Our Journey led through
the valley on the stage road, until We
struck the Milton road where we turned
of on to a road that runs through the only
unfenced land in Ills portion of the val
ley This tract WAS bought some years
since bya family at 81 - per acre They
can now get $50 for every acre they have
Of 1t. With this one exception every inch
"f ground was in high state Of cultiva-
ton, and except where summer fallowed
WAS covered with the heaviest crops of all
kinds of grain ever raised in the Walla
Nal!a valley In itself this country is a
complete relnration of the
Year: 1879

efficient appointmont clerk is the one who
never was known to say no 10 an applicant
who was moro popular than General Smith.
| never knew an applicant for place to nny
comptroller, auditor or even tho Commissioner
Of the Land Ofice,when you wero well endorsed,
but that would promise You place. In some
cases, to say Como up tomorrow and | will
put you TO work." but in the meantime some


niorseen"-to.morrow never came So, Mr..
"G.," don't you dispute the fact that some
secretary has failed 10 keep promise they
fail every day and time when they take care
of the enemy. Why, have heard Senators
and members say, "What does promise
amount tot Why, he is as bad rs -, who is
tho champion promiser of his district" think,
could tho heads or appointing power know
how promises arc looked upon as a rule, they
would never again mako q promise-smply
give place when they have II. In that way
the words of men now In places of honor
would soon be at par. How much better IL would
be for the applicant aud honorable for the
giver of places to give or not to give. How
much better would 1t be for the Republican
party If Republicans in power would be as
anxious to take care Of Republicans as they
are to have their support for place. There is
but one way TO stop 1t, and that Is. never vote
for or support any Republican who will indorse
or appoint to power any but tried Republicans.
They would then be REPUBLICAN,.
Year: 1879

1t is an easy matter for one who chances
by accident or otherwise to be connected
with the press to use its columns for the
qualification of malice, jealousy or hate, but
such indulgences usually bring to the actor
more discredit than it reflects upon others.
The gentleman shows his true character as
distinctly in the amenities of journalism as
in the drawing-room and when he does in
journalism what would not be proper on
the street or in the parlor, he lays aside the
character of the real gentleman. 1t is not
manly-rather, tits not only rude but cow
ardly to speak of another in the columns of
q journal with less respect than would be
exercised to his face, were he present in
person. Several rather ill-bred young men
connected with the Sunday press advertise
their want of good breeding by taunting
the editor of THE REPUBLICAN with being
old-as if that is a grave offense. Such in
civiites do not tend to longevity; on the
contrary, they bespeak lease of life that
has run already too long for the credit of
the offender. The character of true man
hood cannot be built upon any such premises.
1t is well enough perhaps, for young
man to speak his mind, for that is the privi-
lege of n free young man in free country;
and this reminds us of brief comment that
STEELE indulges on this subject. He says


Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some
people take in speaking their minds" A
man Of this make will say rude thing for the
mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite
behavior, full as innocent, might have pre-
| served his friend or made his fortune.
The sport that the urchins in charge of
the Sunday Capital essay to make of the age
of the editor of THE REPUBLICAN calls to
mind that episode in the life of ELISHA of
old, when he was journeying unto Bethel,
and as he was going up by the way there
came forth little children out of the city
and Knocked him and said unto him, Go
sup, thou bald head" We do not propose
to emulate his example and turn back and
curse the urchins of the Capital for their
rudeness, but we will remind them of the
tragedy that followed: There came forth
two she-bears out of the woods and tore
forty and two children of them"


Now these modern youngsters have two
chances of escape from the doom of those OF
Bethel-hrst, because the bears may not be
at hand; and secondly, for the reason that
if they were they would require these chaps
to wash up and be clean before they would
enter upon their sacrifice, and that would
afford them an opportunity to get away. II
is TO be hoped these youngsters may never
grow old, and unless they change their hab-
its they probably never will.
Year: 1879

The scandul-mongers had quite feast
yesterday but when the froth and fustian
thrown around tho matter to implicate
Senator CoNKLING are blown away, and the
affair is simmered down to a matter of
fact, it all turns out to be sensational fiction,
except the statement briefly made in the
REPUBLICAN on Saturday morning. 1t
now turns out that all that Senator CoNK-
LING had TO do with the matter was that he
CHANGED to be Mt the SPRAGUE residence on
legal business at the time the difficulty
arose between ex-senator SPRAGUE and n
German teacher engaged in the family, did
what he could to reconcile the difficulty
and left for New York, where he has arrived.
"Much ado about nothing" has been made
by sensationalists and defamers here and
elsewhere to smirch Senator CoNKLING,
and if guilty of all that has been recklessly
imputed to him in the matter lie deserves
the severest censure; but being false and
scandalous, the effect will be to excite
sympathy for him and indignation toward
his traducers.


There is such q ready disposition to sacri-
flee private reputation on the altar Of politi-
cal hate that the public mind should be
slow TO condemn in advance of positive
proof and conviction of guilt. There is a
class of journalists not overburdened with
unsullied regulations themselves, who seem
to fancy that they can be elevated in public
estimation in proportion as they are able to
pull down and debase others There is also
too much morbid and deprayed taste in
society, which greedily foeds upon the car
rion of private reputation, and gluts itself
with public scandals upon every possible
occasion, fact which greatly encourages
the slanderer to ply his vocation. The re-
suit is that many an innocent party is
scandalized, many heart is lacerated and
the peace ofmany happy family is broken
by these fragrant assaults made upon private
character to crafty spirit that only at
taches to the ghoul aud the foulest birds of
prey. 1t is gratifying to learn that this last
malignant assault upon Senator CoNKLINa
has failed to accomplish what its engineers
had hoped, any disruption of his domestic
relations at home.
Year: 1879

lations with insincere and intensely selfish
men. The Chicago Tribune, in treating of
this question of social intermingling be-
tween the North and South, indulgcs the
following sensible line of remark:


Political questions must be settled in Con.
gress and the State Assemblies, not in the
drawing-roOm. II Is of little consequence to
know what BEN HILL and ALEXANDER II.
STEPHENS think and say in the retirement of
Old Orchard Beach what they think and say
ut Atlanta and Washington is of infinite con-
sequence 1t Is easy to play the role Of Jesuit
ism in the social circle II is not so easy IN
legislative and Congressional halls. The
politics of the social circle Is of no moro conse.
quence than its other chit.chat and gossip. 1t
is no sooner uttered than It Is forgotten IL
binds nobody. Not so of the debates and acts
in Congress and the State Assembly. These
constitute the record upon which the intents
aud purposes of politicians and political
parties must be judged. In their social inter.
course with the North the Southrons have en-
tirely changed their tactics.


What the country wants now Is solid
and sincere peace between the two sections
"A peace which will insure permanent
unity and harmony in every part of the
Nation peace that will bring and secure
to every American citizen in any State the
full and uninterrupted enjoyment of all the
rights guaranteed TO him in the Constitu-
ton and laws of his country. This is what
is needed, and this is what must be secured,
before harmony and fraternity can be estab-
lished throughout the differing sections of
the Nation, and these can never be secured
in the drawing-room. They must come
through the harmonious workings of the
political machine, under sincere and hon
est regard for the necessities of the period.
Year: 1879

HEREAFTER, when the South needs yell
low fever donations, it will be among the
proper things to apply to the newly-elected
Governor of Kentucky. He is supposed to
know more about pestilential contributions
than any other man in the country.
Year: 1879

THE saddest and the most truthful thing
yet said of the late CHARLES FIGHTER is
that his best character was Ruy Bias; his
worst his own. Volumes of moralizng
deductions are instantly suggested by this
epigram; the untold possibilities that are
always included in the three words-might
have been.
Year: 1879

Now the anti-Conlslingites have started
story that the senior Senator from New
York has declared that JOHN SHERMAN
cannot and shall not carry New York
if he is nominated next year." But the
antics are capable of starting all kinds of
stories, none of which would be worthy of
contradiction.
Year: 1879

WE publish to-day very interesting
letter from correspondent in Japan, giving
an account of General GRANTS reception
ut Yokohama and Toxic. 1t will be followed
by another tomorrow from the same
correspondent, representing the way in
which the anniversary of our National
Independence was celebrated by the Ameri-
can residents and Others in Japan.
Year: 1879

THERE were 1000 Republicans who did
not vote in Maine last year, all of whom
will be at the polls this fall. The extra
session has had the effect up there as well
as elsewhere to inject some new spirit, or
revive afore-time interest, in political af-
fairs
Year: 1879

EX-GOVERNOR BROwN, of Mississippi, is
out in open letter denouncing the lat e bull
doing of the Independents in Yazoo Coun-
ty, in that State, in such manner as to


indicate that he intends to make it an
" issue in future elections especially in the
choice of successor to Senator BRUCE. lie
calls upon Messrs. SINGLETON, BARKsDALE,
WALTHALL and other "avowed candidates
" for the United States Senate" to explain
where they stand on this question, and
among other things says very bluntly;


Havo mad-caps and do.nothugs stopped to
inquire what is to be tho result of all this2 II
one party may drive another from the field In
Yazoo by force of arms, may not the same
party, with equal justice, bo driven from the
field in some othor county and thus elections
become matters Of physical force and ballots
be dispensed with. Sustain the Yazoo move
ment emphaticaly, or what is worse, silently,
because that lacks the element of courage
which always inspires degree OF respect even
in bad cause, and you insure Republican
triumph in the pending Gubernatorial contest
in Ohio, aud almost o certain triumph for that
party in the Presidential contest in 1880. Is
the defeat Of an Independent candidate for
Sheriff in YaZoo worth more to us than the
election of EWING as Governor Of Ohio2 Is it
worth more than the election Of a Democratic
President in 1892 Is it not better to allow
DIXON to be Sheriff of Yazooo than to swell
the boom " for GRANT as the Radical candi-
date for President next year2


If GOVERNOR Brown had written or
talked in this way in 1s75-6.7, he would
have beeh doing nothing more nor less than
his duty; but his exertions would then have
been directed in behalf of the black
victims of Bourbon hate, and would have
brought upon him the enmity fthe very same
independents whom he now attempts to de-
fend. We shall watch this new develop
mont in Southern politics closely, but be-
lieye that it will amount to nothing, so far
Year: 1879

THERE are stories abroad that two mem-
bers of the present Cabinet will bolt the Re-
publican ticketn next year if General GRANT
is the nominee. The eccentric Washington
correspondent Of the Philadelphia Star,
commenting on them, wants to know what
would become Of the Republican party if
all of the GRANT men in it would pursue
the same course in the event that some one
else is nominated? This impudent conun-
drum should be referred to the Bureau OF
Statistics, or, better yet, to some civil-ser-
vice examining board.