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Year: 1879

1t was the old subscriber,


His eyes we're old and dim,
But che want takin' no paper


That was pokin' chaff at him"
For he picked his paper up one day


And it went to his heart like rocket;


Whom the gods love, die young, it said,


But they whose hearts arc dry he read,
GAS summers dust, burn to the socket
Then he looked through the paper with


wrath and doubt.


And his heart with anger burned;
For he found had been left out


And he found an tha: was turned.
and he lifted his voice with mighty shout


AS the sheet with his feet he spurned.
He stopped his paper; he would not read


Such a blundering, villainous sheet;
Of the news it contained he had no need,


He could hear the news on the street.
Only ten days later, he sold his corn,


But he pounded his head full of dents,
When he learned, after selling for twelve


and a-half.
1t was quoted at forty-two cents.
And his farm was sold for taxes, because


He didn't know when they were due,
And he bet on race three days after date,
And he bet on the wrong horse, too.
He was fined nine dollars and seventy cents
For going out shooting on Sunday,
For he didn't know, with no paper to read,


Whether twas Sunday or Monday.
lie came to town to the Fourth of July,
But it had been gone for week,
And he felt so mad, that he wanted to cry,


For he didn't know how to speak.
He thought that Grant was President yet,
And he never had heard Of Hayes;
1t was worry, and blunder, and trouble, and
fret,
All of his weary days.
So he came to town, one summer morn,
And "signed' for his paper again,
And went back home to his wheat and corn,
The heppiest man among men.
Burlington Hawkeye.
Year: 1879

THE PRESS MORE POTENT THAN


EVER.


Is the power Of the press declin-
ing? Every little while some
discontcnted clergyman or extinct
politician declares it is. Quite re-
Gently they have given us very
solemn discourses about it. News
papers are moro read, they admit,
but less needed. With the air of
discoverers they tell US Of the
past generation, and triumphantly
oxclalm But who minds now
what a newspaper says?' There
were giants in those days only
pigmles walk the earth to-day. In
the earlier times the great news
papers stood for great noise. 1t
has become selfish, it wants to
make money, it is on CONNER
cial basis now, it actually supports
itself-how can such press WELD
the old influence? I wish to
speak with due respect; but really
this sort oftalk-and we hear q good
deal of it from unsuccessful quar-
ters-scems to me the Jwaddle OF
mushy sentimentalists. Far wiser
and maulier was the tone taken
by Lord Macaulay, in opening his
great history. Those who COM
pare the age on which their lot
has fallen with q golden age which
exists only in their Imagination,
may talk of degeneracy and decay !;
but no man who is correctly in
formed rs to the past will be dis
posed to take morose or despond-
ing view Of the present.


| It is easy to marshal the great
names of the past; and idle to try
to match them from the living.
We count no man great, anyway,
till he is dead. But great men do
not necessarily make the great
est newspapers. AS well might
you challenge the London Times,
in the zenith Of it's influence, say
in 1855, to prove itself the equal
of the old Public Advertiser of the
century before, and crush it with
the taunt, where have you a
man the equal OF Junius p


1t IS not true that the ability of
the press is declining. The pa
pers of the country are better
written now than they ever were
before. Their average courtesy is
greater their average morality is
purer their average tendency
higher. They better hit the wants
of great, miscellaneous commu-
mites, and so they have more
readers in proportion to popula-
ton. Their power may be more
| difused but it is Enthusiastically
greater. There has been no more
remarkable phenomenon in the
| history Of the profession than the
rapid growth Of the country press
and it's increase in ability, in re-
sources, in self:respect and in in
| huence.
Year: 1879

we publish elsewhere from the Washington
correspondence of the Chicago Times, sum
mary of the evidence given before the Wal
lace committee by Judge Maokey, of South
Carolina. He is q gentleman who is known
all over the country as man of prob
ity and honor, and his statements are, with
out question, the simple truth. It is story
that ought to fill every citizen with shame
and apprehension-shame that such occur
rences could take place in country that is
nominally free, and apprehension lest the
practice should become general and result in
the overthrow of free institutions.


There are other facts, quite as repugnant
to Republican ideas as those that are here
related, that have been brought out in the
course of the investigation, and we have no
doubt there were still others in reserve that
will cause the cheek of every honest citizen
to blush with shame and indignation. On
der the present laws free suffrage is a sham,
1t exists only in imagination; is accorded
only to those who chose to sacrifice their
principles and vote with the party that con.
trolls the supervisors and deputy marshalt
and orders the troops. It is these laws that
Mr.. Hayes has determined to maintain in the
face of the expressed wish of large major
ity of the people and of Congress laws un
der which the most outrageous indignities
can be and have been perpetrated in th'
past. We trust the fact will be remembered
| by every voter in the land till the time arrives


when the people will square accounts.
Year: 1879

ONE of the most cold -blooded murders Of
the generation was that of Tullis, the public
administrator of Sacramento. His murder.
ers were hung on Thursday. One of them
the man who committed the crime pas
sed off peacefully, expressing confidence in
a speedy redemption, and he was ushered
into eternity by prayer and song. Is it not
about time that such a prostitution Of
religion ceased2 Men who have committed
the gravest crimes against the moral law
are brought to believe that they jump from
the gallows into the arms of the Savior
until it has become proverbial that the
surest route to future glory lies through the
murderer's cell and is ended by the hang
mans rope. If such religionists persist il
promising salvation to such wretches, is il
any wonder that honest people express ,
desire to avoid a place inhabited by murder
ers?
Year: 1879

The intelligence is communicated by tele-
graph that the condition Of affairs in Russia
has been exaggerated. It has been reported
that there was reign of terror-a state OF
seige-in st. Petersburg, whereas there is nc
such thing, but simply state of military
law, wherein one half of the population is
set to watch the other. The distinction is
very finely drawn, yet from reports that are
deemed authentic we would rather avoid al


of these states. They are not comfortable


and even if the correspondents have drawn
the long bow in depicting the condition o1
affairs, we prefer to give Russia wide berth
Year: 1879

versalist his rooms will all be taken-but


among other denominations, there might be


q good many moro rooms empty for oil eter-


nifty than those he estimates for the angels,


because of lack of references and other


quail ifcations among some of the people of


all the worlds. With anything like the ex-


clusiveness we are taught to believe
is going to decide the fate of average


mortality, it is depressing to eontemplate the


waste room from any standpoint save the


Universalist. This calculation of the Rev.
Beltzly is partial to one sect in conf rming


their belief and providing apartments for


the people of the worlds, without respect to


fitness, or any of the other Christian con.


siderations of admission. But to major


ity who do not believe they can rush in at


random whore angels fear to tread, the


knowledge that there are 80 many rooms


aloft, will be grievous aggravation, while


the basement regions are likely to be nn-


comfortably crowded and lily ventilated.


! Now a puzzling question is 'sthe two hun


dred and forty quadrillions of mansions re-


manning over unoccupied, to be occupied hy


the angels" Where are they now end what


are they doing? Are they in process of evo-


luton, and why was the supply of rooms SO


much greater than the demand for the


class who had sure thing on the
inside ? that is if the preconceived theory


about angels is at all correct. Well, the
Rev. Beltsly's plan of heaven is ingen-


ious, and W is deep in meditation on


its roominess, and may be calculating on


additions to the original lay out, he is in
} nothing mischievous, or positively contra
band. While he is borne on rushing cur
] rents of air, and scaling heaven, it is
pleasanter to follow him than if he was
t stirring up the social evil, or playing thu
8 tarantula in temptation to the dance o
3 death. He might be censuring the press
. and advertising every infamy in the land il
: sermons. He might be engaged in bite
3 controversy about bubbles, whereas now hi
9 contemplation is fairly Miltonic, and eve,
q better, because the poets deal was q misera
s bic conspiracy and rout, and Beltzly'
! scheme is a peaceful homestead allotment
t It isa regret that more of the order dom
y go beyond the world for inspiration. Brud


der Jasper with his doctrine that the "sul
" do move'' and the uplifted Beltzly with hi
: celestial city plot, are visionary, it is true
+ but they are harmless, and their revelation
: are not noisome with uncleanliness.
Year: 1879

A MEDICAL examination is being made at


Sacramento to determine whether or not
Dye, the murderer of Tullis, was sane. AS
Dye is dead, his neck having been broken by
the fall he endured from the scaffold, it will
be little satisfaction to him if it shall be de-
not responsible for the crime he committed
Year: 1879

THE opinion seems to prevail generally
that the nomination of Foster for governor
of Ohio is decided backset to the Grant
boom. Taft was put up by the friends of
Grant as his especial champion, and his
nomination would have been accepted as a
pledge of the State to Grant in 1880. Sher-
man is reported to be in an ecstacy of de-
light, while Hayes shares his joy, though
more reserved in expressing it. The Sher-
man wave has had a boost forward, and un.
less the return should go too far out at sea be
is reasonably certain of commanding the
strength of the Ohio delegation in the nex1
Republ ican national convention.
Year: 1879

saying such things would not be permitted.
The sheriff, who was Democrat, COM


manded the peace and said that remedy
for interfering with voters would be found


in the law. The troops did not interfere as
body with voters, but one of the soldiers
cursed citizen and threatened to bayonet
him. The only reason given by the citizen
was that he was on his way to the polls.
The troops were at the polling place for an
hour. He in 1873 saw voter shot down in
Charleston, and thought that the shooting
in that case was justifable. Three men
Year: 1879

THE GENERAL CROP PRospECT.-The New York
Times of Saturday last published letters and dispatches
concerning the crops from 100 places covering more
then 900 points in "a States. The conclusion is that
while there is such universal promise of overflow
ing harvests as Yves reported year ago, resulting
from the exceptionally early spring of 1875 there are
satisfactory indications of an average product in most
sections and of most crops while in the of
staples increase is expected. The wheat and corn
crop of TIE Western and Northwestern States will sur
pass that of last year should the later prove
favorable. The condition of the fruit crop in New
England and the Middle States is one of unusual
promise. but in many sections Of the South and West
the trees have been injured by the cold winter late
frOSts. The crop of oats rye and barley will not be
above the average The hay crop will be large except
in some limited areas indicated in the dispatches.
The cotton crop will be larger than usual notwth-
standing the unfavorable weather owing to the effect
OF the recent increase in prices in extending the
acreage in most of the Southern States. Farmers
everywhere have planted more potatoes than usual
and vigorous measures will be taken to protect them
from the ravages of the Colorado beetle, which has
already appeared in threatning numbers in Pennsy-
vania, New Jersey, Kentucky, Ohio, and some other
States. Tobacco is being more largely cultivated by
the farmers of Massachusetts and Connecticut In
massachusetts and New Hampshire the sugar beet
industry is receiving considerable attention, and
sorghum has come into favor in many sections of the
South and West. Many farmers in the Northwestern
States are engaging in stock raising larger extent
than i'll previous years
Year: 1879

PERIoDICAIs.-HarperS Magazine for June begins the
ffty-nine volume and the thirtieth year of that
periodical. TO generation of readers it ap-
pears in new dress-in larger type and with wider
page. This is the third change which has been made
in its type. each being an improvement. The con-
tents of the June number especially attractive
They bring about the reader the atmosphere of sum-
mer days. They are bright, amusing, and restful.


LippincOtfs Magazine for June comes to with an
attractive table of contents and bright and sparkling
pages.


1he Agrcuaurdlist for the month of June is full of
matter TO interest both the farmer and the ladies of
town and country and has much of the attractions of
q magazine. This number has account of Mr.
David w. Judds the Vice President of the company
trip and views of Peninsula and its resources


Hoods Magazine for June is an interesting compiia-
ton of literature, and well fills The place of cheap
magazine.
Year: 1879

A terrific storm accompanied by thunder and light
ming swept Fortress Monroe on Saturday after
noon Lightning struck near the magazine which
narrowly escaped explosion that would have caused
terrible damage Hail stones of large size fell and
considerable injury was done to fruit and crops
Year: 1879

General Grant has left Shanghai to continue his
Journey 1t is said at Washington that he will leave
Yokahama about the last of June and will arrive in
San Francisco on the goth of July The arrangements
for excursion of citizens to meet him on his arrival


have been completed with the leading trunk lines
between the East and Omaha. and from there over
the roads of the Union and Central Pacific Companies.
Year: 1879

Owing to the extreme unpleasantness
Of the weather there was but a small
audience present at Professor CALDWELL =
Illustrated lecture on mesmerislR at the
Masonic Temple, last night. Out Of tn.
audience there were but few who cared
about being put under the influence OF
mesmerism, but boy succumbed At
last, aud performed some queer antics,
turning his coat wrong side ont and
fishing in an imaginary pond. Had the
audience been larger there would no
doubt have been larger number OF
subjects. Several newspaper reporters
submitted themselves as subjects, but
for some canse or other no imprsssi ion
could be made.


This however is not strange, as the
genuine reporter is specimen OF llu-
manity for which great allowances
should be made, and as a concentration
Of thought is necessary in good sub.
jet for a m-smeric state, q reporter who
is required to write up some sublime
aud poetic thought, and the next mo-
ment graphically describe dog fight is
the last person in the world to conc-n-
trate his thoughts, and hence are bad
subjects for mesm-rism. A good house
however is expected to night when
there will no doubt be some good sub
jects and ane evenings entertain
ment.
Year: 1879

1t would do any cook good to call and
spe Powell the great fish man OF the
Third street Market, make the scales
fly off shad and turn out the ohal,
having it ready for the frying pan OF
gridiron, in the space Of minute. Tie
does the work nicely, and everything
about his stall is as clean asa new pin.
He is a real friend to the cook. Call
and see him and get prime Delaware
shsd.
Year: 1879

Complaint having been made as to the ventilation
of Grammar School No. 40. in East Twenty y-third
street. HERALD reporter yesterday made an In
spcction of the premises The upper floor con-
tans large assembly room capable Of accommo-
dating four five classes of from forty five to fifty
boys each. In the rear and separated from it by
movable screens two class rooms, accommodate
ing about fifty children each; in front are other
class rooms. The assembly room appeared to be
well ventilated by steam and hot air. and 1t has four
registers in the ceiling. 1t Is said that at times
ickening odor IL waited in through the windows
the wing the floor from the closets below or
from the sale stables in Twenty fourth street.
Nearly all the class rooms on the second floor
dark that on cloudy days gas has to be lit. These
rooms sometimes become uncomfortably hot
that the windows have to be thrown open and there
IL a sudden change from extreme heat to cold City
Supern tendent Jasper, learning the result OF the
reporters inspection, said that he would personally
visit tho school to-day and take prompt action to
remedy any defects.
Year: 1879

General Grant is to be invited to Brooklyn. Mayor
Howell. of that city. waited upon yesterday
morning by o delegation of the Kings County Club
in reference to proposed reception. Although it
agreed that invitation should be extended the
General to visit the City Of Churches Mayor Howell
did not believe in costly reception. Brooklyn, he
said. was near this city that it would be over
shadowed by it. he proposed that the General be
received at the City Hall and there introduced to
visitors Before the delegation departed 1t de-
cided that the Mayor send General Grant invita-
ton to visit Brooklyn hen he visited this city.
Year: 1879

The Central Committee Of tho socialistic labor
party. Of Brooklyn. has appointed q committee Of
three for the purpose Of comforting with tho Irish
societies and all other civic organizations who are
favorable to the anti-rent movement in Ireland. 1t
Is the intention of the socialstic labor party to
hold large mass meeting at the Brooklyn Academy
of Music ut an early day.
Year: 1879

If somebody should give me diamond
to carry to Europe, can know exactly how
much would be lost to the world were to
drop 1t into the sea but If seed should
be given me, can only regard it with awe
as containing concealed within it the food
of untold generations. That is the differ
snce between looking at the truth as dia.
mond or as "a seed,-as final or germinal.
In all training of character, continuity aud
economy must be supreme. The notion that
character is spontaneous is held by most
people in the earlier portion of their lives,
and is wrong When they discover this,
nine-tenths change TO the other extreme.
This is wrong too. Hosts of young men
think that their character will form Of it.
self, and they will necessarily become bet
ter as they grow older. Hosts of old men
believe that their character is fixed, and
that it is impossible for them to become bet.
ter. Such beliefs are foolish. People are
also wrong in thinking that they can put of
their bad traits and put on good traits. The
old failures cannot be thus transformed
but out of the old habits new can be formed
This is what many poor creature needs to
know. We must make what we are 10 be-
out of what we are already.-Rev. Phalips
Brooks.
Year: 1879

| remember that a certain writer called
prayer COLUMBIA anime that is, the souls
dove. Aud, indeed, prayer is like speedy
flying dove, which every righteous Noah
sends forth out OF the ark of his body that
it may return with an olive branch of peace.
believing prayer never returns empty,
and, therefore, they have the best of it who
are continuing instant in prayer. Oh, let
us improve this noble privilege that we have
allowed us We have freedom of access to
the throne of grace. The Persian kings
took state upon them, aud enacted that none
should come near to them uncalled, on pain
of death. But, oh, sirs, the gates of heaven
are always open You have liberty night
and day of presenting your petition, in the
name of Christ, to the king OF the whole
earth. Oh, how greatly are we privileged
that We may thus speak to the King of kings
himself, and be welcome Ralph Erskine.
Year: 1879

coddling given to children of both sexes,
which does not tend TO make them reli.
ant or brave in attempting or overcoming
diiiiculties-and so nothing great is under
taken and nothing great is achieved. There
can be no great moral courage where there
is an undue regard for the opinions of
others; and II those who have the care Of
children show by precept or practice that
they are governed by what people may say
OF them more than by how they stand be-
fore him to whom alone they are accounta-
ble, they strike at the very foundation of
moral courage. To do right because it is
right and because our creator has com
manded it is the true source of the highest
type of courage.
Year: 1879

In none of these cases can any human aid
be trusted. Friends may be kind and true,
and Providence may make the strokes OF fate
fall lightly; but friends cannot change the
nature Of things. BY the very law Of its be-
ing, the world must either crowd out or use
up its members. Only God cares for all
with an impartial love; only he has an ac-
tive interest in the preservation Of each one ;
and he is accessible to us only through
Jesus Christ. Unless we would make COM
plete shipwreck of life, our trust must be in
"Jesus only" not only in the hour of death,
not only in old age, but all lifes journey
tbrnuuh
Year: 1879

Michael Sorley for corner lounging
and ; lso for being drunk, was given a
hearing at the police court this morn
ing. The charge against Michael being
proven he was fined 81 and cost.


The next prisoner placed in the dock
was Frank Geager. Mary Geager, his
wife, testified to her husband being
very abusive and using profane Ian
guage toward her yesterday. The
witness stated that she had been drink.
ing in the morning hut was not drunk.
The prisoner said that his wife would
not let him go to work yesterday morn
ing unless he purchased a pint of whisky
for her.


Nancy McBrierty testified to being
Mary's mother. Witness stated that
she had come from Chester last Sunday
and was on visit to her daughter.
She did not see her daughter drunk
yesterday. Witness thought the whole
affair was family quarrel.


Archie Davis, who lives next door to
defendent, said he had never seen any
thing wrong with Mrs. Geager until her
mother visited the house. Witness did
not see the prisoner strike or abuse his
wife.


The evidence not being sufficient to
convict His Honor dismissed the case.
Year: 1879

The managers of the Home for Aged
Women desire to express their thanks
to Mr.. J. Pussy for his generous sup,
ply Of ice gratuitously, And also to
the Messrs Walton for their kind offer
to supply them.
Year: 1879

never find out what was going on
there until the act was proclaimed
through the papers. He said the argus
eyed press of New Orleans could send
correspondents up to Baton Rouge and
the proceedings of the Legislature
would be rs fully reported as they are
now. Baton Rouge was not more than
eight hours from New Orleans, even
now. The attractions of Baton Rouge
were not so fascinating as to lead men,
bers astray from their duty. Commit
tees could always get quorums to do
their work when the capital was at
Baton Rouge, which was the reverse
here. He thought the cost of main
tanning the present State House would
not be less than $4O0, 0,OOO within the
next five years. Besides, the building
was totally unfit for a State House,
aud q new building would in the end
have to be built.