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Year: 1879

Congressman Horr of Michigan, Tn

 speech on the Legislative Appropriation bill, took occasion to pitch into most everybody. He ridiculed the bill of MT. De La Matyr for the issue of a billion of greenbacks, and when that gentleman said that he only presented the bill and did not endorse it, replied |: I am glad of it.. The bill would make a horse laugh, if he had any sense of the ridiculous. What the country needs IS rest and quiet. The business interests demand that we should pass the appro- priation bills and go home about our business. Why do we not? How long (moving up toward the Greenbackers, addressing the question to them) do you suppose it would take the Treasury to print the money that these fellows want I figured it up. It would require ten steam presses working day and night for the next six months, Some fellow has figured up statistics about the flood, and has discovered that it must have rained 80O feet of solid rain every day. Now, in order to meet the requirements of these gentlemen, they would have to get their clergyman (meaning MT. De La Matyr) to ask our Father above to open again the doors and windows of heaven, and have 1t rain greenbacks in stead of water for forty days. Laughter. ]

 Of the "Independent" men he said Who are these "Independent men T' As rule they are good for nothing always on both sides of every question and on neither side of any. Renewed laughter. They are half fish and halt woman-political mermaids-too much woman to be good for anything as fish, and too much fish to be good for any thing as woman. Shouts of laughter. It is surprising to me that men of bus mess, men who have material interests at stake, should conceive the idea that money can be made by legal enactment Then, moving over to the Democratic side and addressing Southern members he said: What the country needs ano what the South needs is not more green

 backs. I am not a sectional man, but good feeling man, and I say what yor want down there is to so to work

 TLaughter. You want to raise Gin Mis-

 sissippi) more corn and cotton and les

 cussedness." Laughter. You wan

 more hogs and less humbug. You mus

 raise horses and hogs moro and hell less TLauchter on both sides of the House.
Year: 1879

FATHER VINEYARD, Catholic priest at South Bend, Ind, is the latest victim of the dangerous habit of sleeping with false teeth in the moNth. A gold plate with teeth slipped part way down his throat, and, as surgeons are unable to remove them, he must die.
Year: 1879

THE FoUR-11NE will of a lately deceased resident of Norristown, Pa, bequeathed the entire estate to his wife, desiring her to give to their three children so much as she thought proper and to re- tain the remainder for herself,
Year: 1879

it is not popular. 1t is very difficult
for Us to believe that which we con
ceive to be detrimental to our interests.
Many teachers try to place the trouble
somewhere else They know there i
trouble somewhere, but are loih to
place il where its remedy would pro
duce war. But the time is not far
distant when graded schools must be
established here Our near neighbor.


Union City, has just completed her
pew building learn their school
opened with three hundred pupils
These can be taught at about one half
the expense of school of the same
size clas,ed after our 20 grade system
In union there is strength" i Just as
true here as in moving a load of coru
1t We fall behind the times aud con
tiuue to plod along in the old rutS,
some other teachers will soon fl our
places no will organic. graded schools
aud do double The amount of work ac-
eompli,hed by Us Let the public be.
come convinced that this i the cheap
e-r aud best method IF educating the
young, aud we shall have no further
trouble. The people are willing to
devote their time, their money and
their influence to education. if they
can only come to conclusion a. to
the best means
Year: 1879

My pen is broke, my pen is dry,
But with pencil will-try
What can do to show respect
That's due that mueh-abased insect.
Adieul Good-by
Dear little fy.
We soon shall miss your hum;
But when you go,
We always know


In spring gain you'll come
Your steady buzz
Around us was


TO warn US you was there.
Your little bite,
Though small, was quite,


En- ough to make US swear
God made the fly,
And that is why


This little song we sing.
Again, goodbye,
My gentle fly,


We'll meet again, next spring.
Year: 1879

fiieiutb Ivy OhiNHASAS-


A most remarkable accident hap>
pened at the Hale & Norcross mine
last night. A cage with six men was
coming up the shaft at IL with six
O'Clock the hour for changing shifts.
When about six hundred feet from
the bottom. at a point where there Is
an Irregular place in the guides, the
cage suddenly lurehed to one side
.thEaelng the men e u. eiheEs.uka
rick II oiiaud, VINO was10h sttlskoufsft1e
was crowded off Instead of falling
to the bottom and being dashed tc
pieces, be was safely lodged on a wall
plate The other men on the cage
supposed he had fallen into the sump
of course When they reached the
surface they got their usual sacks and
boxes and started back to the sump to
gather up the fragments of the body
As they approached the place in the
shaft where the man was thrown of
they heard a voice below them telling
them to 90 slow. They did not know
what to make of the strange discovery
never supposing it possible for Hol-
land to be anywhere else than at the
bottom, When they saw him safe OF
his narrow perch they could scarcely
believe their eyes.


Any one who has ascended a shaft
knows how rapidly the wall-plates iii
by when the lantern is held so as tt
bring them to view The cage from
which Holland was thrown was coming
up at the usual rate Of speed How
the man could have possibly been lodg
ed oa one of these pieces of tim Der with.
out being jammed by the cage ol
knocked off as it wentpast him Is 1
wonder The wall plate is a square
timb Der. fourteen by sixteen inches, 81
that there was very little standing room
for Holland while he was waiting for
the cage to come down aud rescue him
If the shaft had been so light that h'
could look down any considerable dis
of the 600 feet between him and tn,
bottom, he would scarcely have hat
the nerve to cling to his narrow foot
ing The darkness of all minin!
shafts is a point in favor of the min
ers preserving their GOODNESS when pla
ced in ticklish positions. \ couple
of pump men will throw foot wid,
plank across a shaft 1000 feet frou
the bottom and work upon il as though
they were not five feet from the bot
tom. The darkness of the shaft pre-
vents the thought of the awful abys
from being constantly present.
Year: 1879

aud only two, will enter into The next


Residential canvass The first is,
Shall the President-elect, whoever he


may be, be inaugurated. The second
Is, Shall sectionalism control its ma
Year: 1879

The controversy between the
Chronicle and Denis Kearney grows
In interest daily, If we can attach
such word to a thing SO nasty.
The San Francisco Workingmen
are sticking to the Lieutenant
General with loyalty which
would do honor to a better cause.
One thing Is indisputable, the
moral position Of Kearney is inf
nitely superior to that of his news
paper assailants. Probably in no
city in the world except San Fran
cisco would Journal dare to be-
SLAYER q man with praise for eight
cen months in succession, holding
him up as the paragon of tribunes OF
the people, and then turn round,
stick its tongue in its cheek and
impudently tell its dupes that it
had been enaoting q hollow and
insulting farce all along. The
journal which should venture to do
20 in the East would find its SUBJ
scrlbers dropping away from it
more thickly and quickly than the
leaves fall in the bleak autumn
days,
Year: 1879

The placid assumption of the
Express that the Convention hold
in this city Saturday was Work
ingmen's and Farmers Convention
is amusing rather than serious.
The farmers who sympathize with
the Workingmen's movement do
so as affiliated Workingmen. There
are immense numbers of the farm
ers who are Democrats and Re
publicans by conviction, and who
will not consent to be thus quietly
appropriated by single one of the
three, perhaps four parties, which
will contest for the supremacy In
Los Angeles county this fall. We
respect the motives of the gentle
men who are organizing as numer-
Gus a force "for this campaign
only" as they can bring to look
upon them as the only persons fit
to hold office, but the body of the
people do not sympathize one whit
with their plous, not to say per-
sonal, projects.
Year: 1879

hl5. ofilcs.seoking plea. We never
saw a defeat accepted with better
grace than was shown by the oppo-
nents of the new Constitution. No
one aims at disturbing the result,
and yet crowd of greedy office
seekers are standing around yelling


'gather the frults"-that is to say,
give us the offices. Should these
worthless fall to get hold of every
office In the State of California,
they would think that a wonderful
amount Of fruit had been left un-
gathered. The people have their
eyes on these pretentious patriots
and we are much mistaken or they
will be left standing as monuments
of selfish and disappointed ambi-
tiOu.
Year: 1879

THE San Francisco Call should
have a care. We are afraid that, in
its elation at being reinstated in
the position of Court Journal to
Denis Kearney, it is becoming
rash and headstrong. We find, in
Its issue of Sunday, the following
almost positive utterance:


1t is understood that California
will have to choose at the Septem.
Der election four representatives to
Congress; and that such an event
may transpiro that these Repre-
sentatives will decide who shall be
the next President of the Uunited
States.


"It is understood" that we shall
have to elect four Congressman this
fall is good. 1t Is flight of the
Imagination and bold but con-
servative achievement of express
sion worthy of the immortal gen.
ius of q Pickering himself.
Year: 1879

THE Republican party through
out the State is organizing with q
great appearance of energy and the
profession of a confident hope of
bringing all Its followers into line
for the fall elections. If the
Gorham- Boruck element can be
kept in the background there is
some possibility of the gathering
together of an enough of the
diGecto membra of the Republican
organization to make it a formida-
BILE competitor for the honors and
offices which are to be bestowed in
such liberal measure next
September. Should Gorham, how
ever, make himself conspicuous in
the party manipulation, or should
the mighty Marcus illuminate in
his peculiarly Olympian manner,
the Republican party would find
itself badly demoralized.
Year: 1879

A smart boy on Prospect street
took it into his head to change the
name of his dog to Infallibility."
The first time his mother heard
him call the animal she exclaimed,
"Why, Jack, what do you mean by
giving the poor beast such name
as that?n "Eh?" returned Jack,
"isn't infallibility dog
Year: 1879

A boys mind looks at everything
from the standpoint of baseball and
marbles. "Why do you suppose"
said a Sunday school teacher to bis
class, "Why do you suppose they
took stephen outside the city wall
when they stoned him?" 1t was
poser, bat one OF the aspiring
youths was equal to the emergency.
He said: 'sIt was 30 they could get
a better crack at him, I guess"
Year: 1879

! met Kennebec farmer this morning who
does not believe in fiat money, washed face
and hands, uncombed hair. or slovenlv drtv
clothes. He declared that Solon's twaddle
about his steers and butter, and his slovenly
appearance, was an insult to the farmers of
our State and their wives. That he found no
difficulty in selling this morning a couple of
boxes of butter for nearly double the price
Solon gets for his, and further that he could
purchase as much with what he got for but
ter this morning as when he sold for forty to
forty-ive cents a pound. Further that he
had been raiser Of stock-of steers-turn-
ing off pair every year, and never sold a
pair Of the same age for greater price than
this year, pair of two year old steers for
500.


He thought that Solon must feed his steers
and cows on fiat hay, and that his dirty,
slovenly appearance alone accounted for the
price his butter commanded, and that the man
who did not keep his face and hands clean,
his hair combed would not be likely to feed
his cattle, or procure the means necessary to
enable his wife to make good, saleable but
ter. A.
Year: 1879

TO the Editor of the Herald:


Your special correspondent at Portland, in
his recent letter upon Maine politics, gave the
first public expression that have seen as yet
to public sentiment which is growing daily
in strength among the democrats of this State.
1t is coming to be understood that it was the
greenback vote, drawing as it did five or six
cans, which defeated the democratic party in
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut last
fall, thus throwing those impoitast states in
to the hands of the republicans, and giving
therein. II is coming to be understood. more
over, that the same thing may happen in the
presidential election of next year, when a
greenback candidate for President. perhaps
Gen. Bntler. if you elect him in Massachu-
setts this fall, will draw from the democrats
in these same "metropolitan states" which
are essential to our success a sufficient num-
Der of votes to give the republican electors
handsome plurality and install another repub-
lican President in Washington without the aid
of an electoral commission. Every vote given
by democrats for the greenback candidate in
this State this fall,


HELPS TO BRING ABOUT THIS RESULT,


and is, therefore, a vote against Democratic
success in the election of 1880. Democrats
are asking themselves whether they can afford
any longer to warm in their bosoms this
Grecnback serpent which has stung them
once severely and which is already draw
ing back its head for fatal blow. The think
ing men of the party, those of them, at
least. who are Democrats from principle
believe that there is something else to
be thought of besides the defeat of the
so-called 'Blaine-IIamlin ring" particularly
if it is to be replaced by the rule of the men
who are the leaders of the Greenback party
vulgar oligarchy, destitute alike of homes
ty, social standing or intellectual capacity
But. although the thinking men of principle
in the Democratic party look upon this mat
ter in the true light, unfortunately the mass
es of the party are still under the domination
of the idea that the only issue in the cam
paign is the defeat of the republican party,
no matter by whatever results upon the fu-
ture of their own party such a Phyrras vic
tory MAJ be won. They have been so de-
bauched by the false guidance of the party
leaders here. that, in the present state of af
fairs, nothing is to be expected but a repeti-
tion of last years performance on more ex-
tended scale, and the practical


oBLITERATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
as an organization in this State. Ifthere was
one democratic newspaper in the State that
had courage and independence and principle
enough to make bold stand against this
shameful betrayal of the party, there would
be some hope, that through the facts which
could be presented in its columns, Demo-
Gratis might be awakened to proper sense Of
the suicidal folly of the course which they are
pursuing. But tits striking evidence of the
party's degradation that any democrat who
wishes to speak throught the columns ofthe press
Year: 1879

The greenbackers see no ssigns of im-
provement in business. There are none so
blind as those who will not see. Every
factory in the State is busy, every man
who wants work can find employment,
the number of tramps perambulating the
State has been reduced to very low fig
ure, the faces of people are Frightening
visibly with the confidence they have in
improving business, but the croaking dem
agogue utters his wall just the same as
before resumption. He can't be made to
see what he has determined not to see.
The clatter of machinery is right under
his nose but he will still declare that every
mill and factory is silent as death.


Among the encouraging evidences OF
the Improvement in business matters is
that which is found in the July report of
Messrs. Damn, Barlow & Co.'S Mercantile
Agency. the most satisfactory which the
agency has been able to make since the
panic of 1873. The number of failures
during ihe last quarter is shown to have
been 30 per cent and the liabilities near
ly 81 per cent. less than during the cor
responding period of last year, while the
business of the country has increased by
20 per cent. The following table gives
the number of failures with liabilities, etc.
for each quarter since 1875:
Year: 1879

I'm regard to resumption, have to
say that by the time the Governors S
message is delivered that will be an
accomplished fact, or the act Of
1869 repealed, and in either event
would appear to me to be entirely
supererogatory, especially as it is
matter wholly in the power and
duty Of Congress. MY PRESENT
OPINION Is SHALL NOT
REFER TO IT IN CASE l HAVE TO
DRAW UP A MESSAGE. In regard
10 buIIdozing, the principle you set
forth is eminently lust and proper,
and would thank you for the sugges-
ton, and shall insert the substance. -
.JOseDh l.. Smiths LETTER.
Year: 1879

We publish communication to the Bos-
ton Herald, from Bangor correspondent
and democrat, which manifests the great
dissatisfaction felt among democrats at
the sale of their party to the greenback-
Year: 1879

cess which has been found to answer
for tie ores Of Eureka district, New
ada, did not succeed in other districts
in that State. Under these circum-
stances, We hope to see capital and
science unite for a thorough investi-
CATION Of this branch of metallurgy.
The stake is most tempting one,
and one which we do not believe to
be beyond the reach Of the ingenuity
cf our poople.-Ne0 York Mining
Rec0r4.
Year: 1879

We hereby notify our
friends and the public
generally that from this
time forth we Will cease to
sell for credit on any
terms whatever. We are
aware that in order to do
this we Will have to sell
cheaper than our neigh
bors, and we are prepared
to do so. AS we are
building we are very much
pressed for cash, and
therefore it Will be better
for us TO sell for cost than
to sell on ever so short q
time, no matter how good
the buyer. The facts in
the case are just these: it
is a necessity with us to
have our goods or to have
the wherewith to buy
more. Of course we do
not expect to do so much
business, but we are de-
termined to do what we
can.


Our Lumber Yard is
now full and nearly com
plete.
Year: 1879




\ letter to the Herald, Silver City,


from Grant county New Mexico, gives


the following interesting information


concerning prehistoric relics found


near Richmond: A resident here


some time ago, while excavating in


an old building for the purpose of


making Il cellar, found two skeletons,


one Of a grown person and the other


Of child. The building is sixty


feet IN length, interior, and eleven in


width, built of box adobes. 1t had


lhree partition walls built of the


same material The wallis are about


two feet thick. The skeleton of the


crown person was found about six


feet below the surlace of the ruins,


almost intact The skull WIS well


shaped, except for 4 small protuber-


ance about where phrenologists To-


cate amativencss. The teeth were


small and sound. Placed near the


skull was found q small ola, contain


ing what seemed to be thigh bones of


q turkey After the skull was taken


from lis place, hair was discovered
which on examination proved to be


brown; but when exposed 4 short
time it became so much dust.
The skeleton of the child was found
in niche in the east wall, which
was securely closed by thin rock
two feet square. The building mad
evidently been burned at some time
as all the timbers used in its struct-
ure were in charred condition. The
timber used was cedar. Who were
the people who must have been so
numerous from the mouth of the
ella river to its source? How many
millions must there have been? We
cannot answer these questions. The
whole valley was at one time
thickly siudded with buildings 1
have read, think, the history of all
The abort g;nal races of the continent,
and I can find nowhere a record of
any race with the pTotuberance afore-
said. At first when I saw this NAL.
formation / believed it was caused
by some accident to the skull, but
since, I have been assured that it was
hereditary to the race. The protub-
erance was about the size of 4 hens
egg. We know this race cultivated
he soil, because we find corn about
he size OF = small sweet, pumpkin
)r SQUASH seed, a seed which is the
,Xact counterpart Of our hemp, and
numerous kinds of seeds resembling
our melon varities. We must believe
hat they had a beast of burden, be-
:ause we find the teeth of some ami
nal that must have been very large
The first European that visited the
lila was Father Nisa, in 1889, who
vas the first to write about the pre-
historic civilization to be found in
Arizona and New Mexico. He says
hat the traditions of the Aztec were
ull OF stories relative to the old civ
llzation and its fabulous wealth.
historians differ in opinion but many
'elieve that this people were extinct
.efore the Aztec race knew anything
bout this country. The tradition of
he Apaches is that they have been
iying here about 900 years, and that
rhen they came they found the ruins
bout as we find them. If such is
he case it may have been several
ehturies previous to the arrival of
be Apache, when this people aban-
oned the country or were destroyed.
Year: 1879

Recently an address was delivered
in Blackburn, England, before an
audience Of two or three hundred
mill managers, overlookers, and their
friends interested in the cotton in
dustry.


The subject under discussion was
the chances of England in the mat
ter of foreign competition. After
speaking Of the natural advantages
Of the United States for producing
cotton and feeding operatives, the
lecturer called attention to a fact Of
infinite importance which is lost
sight of by those who consider the
power Of America to enter into com.
petition with England. "They look
simply to the Northern mills, but
there is cotton industry growing
up in the Southern States. 1t is
only equal at present to one tenth of
the entire United States cotton in
dustry; but the Southern manufao.
furers claim to have advantage over
the Northern manufacturers. They
have an abundant supply Of water,
which is available all the year round,
instead Of being subject to Interrupt
tion in the wintar owing to frost.
They have cotton close to their doors
they have a more favorable climate,
and they have equally good ports of
hipment, and they can compete with
their rivals. If, then, then the
Northern mills are already entering
into competition with us, and the
Southern manufacturers can com
pete successfully with the Northern
manufacturers, what is the prospect
for US? The position likely to be
assumed by the Southern States is y
matter of infinite Importance to US"
Year: 1879

only from day to day


rhr life Of the wise man runs:
What matter II seasons tar away
Have gloom or have double sums.
To climb the unreal path


We stray from the roadway here.
We swim the rivers of wrath


And tunnel the hills Of fear.
Our fee on the torrents brink,


on" eyes on the clouds alar
We fear the things we think


Instead Of the the things that are.
Like n tile our work should rise.


Each lGter wave the best;
To-day is king in disguise,


To-day is TIE special test.
Like Sawyer's work IN life,


The present makes the flaw,
And the only field for strife


Is the inch before the saw.
Year: 1879

A man took his goat to the dairy
show in New York, last week, la
beIed him "Gilt Edge" and was
much disappointed at not receiving
a premium. He was confident that
there was no better butter in the
show.