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Year: 1878

An Old holland Gentleman Cuts


Nis Throat With q RAZOR.


A horrible suicide was committed
on last Friday evening about nine
o'clock, two miles east Of Pella, an
old Holland gentleman by the name
of Van Corp cutting his throat with
s'razor. Mr.. F. Van Corp was man
Of about 60 years OF age, having .
wife and five children, and has been
suffering for . year and . half with .
sort Of morbid depression, during
which time he could not be persuaded
to eat with the family. EAtables were
placed where he could find them and
ct night and at such times when
away from the rest Of the family he
would partake of the nourishment
prepared for HIM. About four
months ago he had q tit Of sickness
which had the effect of making his
condition worse. On the evening in
question one Of his sons had sharpen
ed razor for the purpose Of shsving
his father, which he had intended to
do before supper, but being late he
called to him, he being in his room,
telling him he would shave him after
supper. After supper was over the
son went to his fathers room and moi
finding him a search was made, which
resulted in the family finding him in
the garden with his throat cut, the
bloody razor being found near hii
body. The cause Of the act is thought
to be morbid insanity.-Pella Blade
Year: 1878

Sensible words are those to which
the Boston Journal gives utterance for
the benefit of the laborer. If there
is no prospect that the price of labor
can be advanced, it is of the utmost
importance that the money in which
wages are paid should be made to
have the greatest amounto purchas-
ing power possible. Labor cannot be
kept in storehouses. Services must
be sold every day and wages taken in
the money in use on that day. The
wages cannot be retained, but must
be paid out for food and raiment every
day. Thus the wage-receiving class
es can take no advantage of depre-
ciated currency or the markets, as
can the few who have capital.
Year: 1878

A farmer Of experience says that
the feet of a horse require more care
than the body. They need ten times
as much, for in one respect they are
almost the entire horse. All the
grooming that can be done won't
avail anything If the horse 10 forced
to stand where his feet will be filthy.
In this case the feet will become dis
ordered, and then the legs will get
badly out Of fix; and with bad feet
and bad legs there is not much else of
the horse 1T for anything.
Year: 1878

Brazil's experience in an irredeem-
able currency is highly suggestive.
There greenbackism has had fair
trial, and what do we find? Just what
we would naturally expect-a paper
currency deprecated and worthless.
The government recently offered SO
millions of fiat money for millions
of gold-and it is doubtful if even
that much can be realized on it.
Year: 1878

The condition of the ISraelites in
Egypt was one OF comparative ease
and comfort compared to that of the
colored laborers of the South to-day!
1t is utterly impossible that labor in
the North can be fully employed or
receive just compensation while the
4 1000, 900 laboring population in the
South are subjected to the appalling
oppression and grinding extortiOn OF
Southern democracy. There is "a
dearth of ofemplOyment" and "a dearth
of wages" in the North, particularly
in the manufacturing end commercial
States and centres of population.
Must it not be apparent to every rea-
sonable working man in these States
that if the laboring class in the South
were paid wages, even at what would
be considered almost starvation rates
at the North, there would be an in
creased consumption of products of
Northern labor in the South, sufficient
to employ every mill, every engine,
every machine, every laborer in the
North that now remains unemployed.
Laborers in the South do not average
over fifty cents week, about 800 a
year, paid i'm corn meal and goods at
two prices. Must it not be apparent
to that il Southern laborers We're paid
honest wages, such wages as labor is
worth, there would be such an in
creasing consumption of Northern
products in the South as would insure
a permanent prosperity hitherto un-
known in this country; such pros
perity as our best natural resources
entitle us to!


The lab0rer fthe South sCiU achieve
for himself the rights of manhood
and the honest reward of labor il the
laborer of the North will do his duty.
If he will dissolve the unholy bond
that binds him to a party that is as
much the political serf of the South
as the negro is the labor serf of this
section of it; if the Northern laborer
will say, 81 will no longer affiliate
with party that is the slave ofSOuth-
ern democracy that cruel, relentless,
inhuman tyrant of free labor;" if he
will extend a brotherly hand to his
fellOw-tOilsman of the South and say
II will defend your right to protect
your labor by your American citizen
ship, by your ballot, because you are
a man, because you are an American
citizen, because you are an honest fel-
low-toilsman, and because in protect
ing you ! am protecting manhood,
my country, any my labor, and my
self and little ones and all that is dear
to me as q man and as q citizen, and


will do all that is in my power to de.
stroy your oppressOrs, the Southern
democracy, and its serf and minion,


Northern democracy" then will la.


Dor be enthroned in justice and en-.
dowed with its just rights, and moi


before.
Year: 1878

IF our Fiatists will dispatch the
Porte at Constantinople we doubt not
they can obtain o few ship loads ofab-
solute money and save the expense
of printing it. .. It has played out over
there and won't buy bread, hence we
conclude they would consent, upon a
pinch, to pay freight on it to get it
out of the country.
Year: 1878

JAMES G. BLAINE was introduced
to o thousand people at the depot to-
day, and spoke for some ten minutes.
In moment after he commenced he
had that crowd on his side. There is
a magnetic power about him that is
possessed by but very few men in any
one generation. That ten minutes
from Blaine was full of such invinci-
BILE logic and electrical power as to be
of immense value in a campaign like
this. Iowa will never regret, now
that they have seen and heard Blaine,
that they stood SO solidly for him for
President in 1876.
Year: 1878

Trimble is sugar-coating and greas-
ing Jones for the next Circuit Judge
two years hence. OF course it will
be a nauseating dose for the democra-
cy, but if they take Weaver this time
without too many wry faces, Jones
can be fixed up with Trimble'sgroom-
ing SO that he can be gulped. But
pleasant or not he must be gobbled.
This is the price of his treachery to
his party, and Trimble was never
known to 60 back on a bargain of
this kind when it was to his interest
to stick to it. Bloomfield Republican,.
Year: 1878

A young couple Of LIE Roy, New
York, had their wedding day selected
and then got into squabble over
which church the knot should be tied
in. He wanted to 20 to the Presbyte-
rian edifice, because it was the fash
ionable one Of the village, and she
wanted to 60 to the Baptist one, FOR
she used to sing In the choir thoro,
The quarrel snapped the engagement.
Year: 1878

One thing is plain already. The
democratic party is dissolving. An
other thing is equally plain, and that
is, the republican party is the only
one in existence that has any fixed
principles.
Year: 1878

The Democratic Greenback papers
are talking and chuckling over the
defeat of the republican party in
Maine. just stop a moment. The
republican vote was increased in that
state by six thousand at the last elec-
tiOn.
Year: 1878

Duncan's Liver and Kidney Medicine is cure for
ali diseases having their origin in diseased state Of
the kidney liver, such sick headache, dgspep-
sia, swimming in the head. lsss Of appetite, bad
taste in the mouth, heartburn, tenderness or full
ness over the region Of stomach, c1smp colics cos
tivness palpitation Of the heart pain in the back,
sides and limbs and all diseases peculiar to feles
We can say to our friends that the above medicine
Is Just what it is represented to be, and is pro
nouneed by every one who has used it far superior
| to any liver medicine thev have ever used. We
know that it gives better satisfaction than any ws
have ever sold Knowing it % be purely vegetable
we can recommend It to our suffering friends Price
IS cents. For sale by R. n Hammer, druggist.
Year: 1878

Friend Smith, of Van Buren, mis-
conceives the object of our quarantine
regulations. No harm or hardship is
intended our ,neighboring towns, but
merely to place Bolivar beyond the
risk of the scourge. We know that a
loose quarantine will invite the fever,
and once here many valuable lives viii
be lost and large property interests viii
be imperiled. Let us bear with each
other amid the sadness and desolation
of this hour Of deep public affiietion
All other places should be strictly
quarantined and guarded against the
intrusion of persons from sections in
feeted or liable to the spread Of the
disease. The interests of both tn,
town and county demand the exercis'
Of strietest precaution, for should the
fever break out IN town it woulc
spread into the country. Our pickle
posts being guarded by q great mani
different squads Of men, some havi
been strict and others mild in the en-
i forcement of rules, which has brough
about some variations IN action
though no Partially was intended.
Year: 1878

The Liver Is the imperial organ Of the
whole human system, As it controls the life,
health and happiness Of man. When it is
disturbed in its proper action, all kinds Of
ailments are the natural result. The diges-
ton of food, the movements of the heart
and blood, the action of the brain and ner-
vous system, are all Immediately connected
with the workings Of the Liver. 1t has
been successfully proved that Green's Au-
gust Flower is unequalled in curing all per-
sons afflicted with Dyspepsia or Liver Com
plaint, and all the numerous symptoms that
result from an unhealthy condition of the
Liver and Stomach. Sample bottles to try,
10 cents. Positively sold in all town on the
Western Continent. Three doses viii prove
that it is just what you want jly18 If
Year: 1878

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The following NAV be Of some benefit
to our readers whoare cot able 10 sleep
soundly: inability 10 sleep, Is q grows
ing habit, is the 6rsf step toward insanily
In every disease it is an omen of It'll.
Hence. to cultivate sound sleep, do not
Q eep a moment in the daytime. Go 10
bad at regular hour, and never lake a
second nap after waking yourself in the
morsins, Never go to bed cold or very
hungry, nor with wet feet. Read nothing
after, supper of very exciting character.
Let no angry words be spoken OF thought
harbored for asingle instance after tea
time, for death may come before the morn
ing light 7a- 'a sF21C
Year: 1878

The Scotch authorities have not only
put the Glasgow City Bank Directors in
prison, refusing heavy bail offered for one
of them, but have charged them with fraud
and theft in plain English. 1t is a good
sign when such irregularities" as the Di-
rectors have committed do not affect the
language of the ccuntry, and when man
who steals millions is called thief without
any qualification of the term. There is
then prospect that he may be punished
as thief.
Year: 1878

The Picayune thinks that. as moth
ing is heard now Of the Presidents
policy, be may have lost it. IT is
probable that bis policy is to retire to
bis private chamber aud curse Potter
at low breath.
Year: 1878

ALL the agencies for a splendid
resurrection are in full play in CAL
ifornia to-day. 1t is now estab-
lished that the crops will be simply
unprecedentedly large. They will
abound throughout the whole
length and breadth of California
with a volume never before record
ed by that ready accountant of cur
rent events, the newspaperman'
For the present We are experience
ing, not the abundance OF the pres
ent year, but the paucity of the last
Two or three months will work a
change, and we shall pass into the
new era, in which the opulence OF
the present season will vitalize
everything business-like. The loaf
ers will be drawn out of the cities,
shortly, to harvest the burdening
grain. From the metropolis al
round to the sea the State will ben
eft by the new impulse. Money
will be drawn from its capitalist
stocking, and will be distributed
where it will do the most good
The rainbow of promise is spreat
all over the horizon. All we have
to do is to wait little while. The
fuition will surely come.
Year: 1878

SIR GARNET WoLSELEY figures
up the British army available for
service in case of war between Eng
land and Russia at 4l4,000 men.
AS there will he no such war, as
there never has been the slightest
danger of such war, the puissaint
General might just as we'll have
made his figures 4, lilo, 600 men. In
the utterly improbable event of a
warlike collision the one force
would be as readily forthcoming as
the other. 1t seems singular that
it never occurs to John Bull that
the more he busters the more
striking will be his ultimate back
down. The Schleswig- Holstein
episode ought to suffice for single
nation in single century.
Year: 1878

The Herald Steam Printing House Is
not surpassed by any Job Printing office
on the Pacific Coast, outside of San Fran
cisco, in facilities for doing job work
Low prices, good work and expedition
may be relied upon at this office.
Year: 1878

Every male person above the age of
t"cnty-onc years, who shall have been a
resident of the territory, twenty days in
the county, and five days preceding the
election, who is citizen Of the United
States, or has declared upon his oath his
intention to become such, and shall have
taken an oath to support the constitution
of the United States; and persons who
have been declared by law to be citizens
Of the territory, and shall have complied
with the provisions Of any law which is
now, OF may in future be in force, relating
to the registration Of voters, shall be en-.
titled to vote. And all persons possess.
ing the qualifications mentioned in this
section and have resided in this territory
nine months, shall be eligible to any
office in the said territory. Provided,
however, that persons shall vote in the
precincts where they reside. and not else
where. In addition to this citizens of
other governments must declare their in.
tentlons to become citizens Of the United
States tefore they can tilc on a piece of
government land.
Year: 1878

call us pet names, will be fully posted
that our ears are full sized, fully ftedged
but we do not stumble over them, nor 90
we like young lady with long pull
back dress, have to give them kick
behind, make ferocious grab at them,
and daintlly carry them in our hand,
thereby having a good excuse for showing
our pretty feet; nor are they sufficiently
large to enable US to dispense with an
umbrella on hot day.
Year: 1878

We were informed last week that the
railroad company have agreed to furnish
hard wood in Car load lots at Jamestown,
at $3.50 per cord. AT this rate the pro-
duct of two acres of good wheat will paw
for all the wood farmer would need to
carry him over the winter.


The America and Sharon Land Com
pany have contracted for stnwburning
portable engine, with which to do their
threshing. Now if our farmers can be
enabled to burn the straw from their
grain to warm their building, thresh their
grain, and still better cook their food
the question Of fuel is solved; as there is
not grain farmer in the west but has manv
times the amount of carbon stored away
III the straw stacks after threshing, which
many of them have to burn in order to
get them off of the land. We know that
our neighbors in southern Dakota and
Minnesota are largely burning hay for
fuel, and we invite the Sioux Falls Panta-
graph and papers located in that section.
to work up an article on the straw and
hay burning question, that our folks in
this part, by that means may possibly
receive heat next winter, and present
light on the matter.


The man or men who shall invent safe
and good furnace or stove, that will util.
ize straw tor fuel, will make fortunes out
OF their Inventions. These arc spccl.
ally constructed stoves to burn pressed
hay, and many folks on the prairies to
the south make twisted ropes or bundles
of hay which they use we believe in
common stoves, and do not use any other
fuel winter or summer.


We will keep sharp lookout for in
formation in regard to this question and
publish the same for the good of ou,
patrons.
Year: 1878

The DISPATCH is now conducted by four
practical printers and experienced editors and
best IS well as the cheapest newspaper in
Washington Territory 1t gives larger amount
and greater variety of original reading matter
than any other paper now published in tho
Territory, and further improvements will be
made as its circulation increases.
Year: 1878

There is nothing which makes So great
| a difference between one man and another,
rs the practices Of calm aud serious think.
ing. To these who have been accustomed
to it, there is required at first AL effort /;
but it is entirely III their own power to
repeat this effort if they will, and when
they will. 1t becomes every day easier
by perseverance, aud habit-and the habit
so acquired exerts material iutiience
upou their condition Ms responsible and
immortal beings. In that great process,
therefore, in which consists the healthy
condition Of any man MS n moral being,
there is most important step, Of which
he must be conscious as An exercise ot
hi, own mind. You feel that you have
here power, however little you may At
tend to the exercise of it. You Can di-
rect your thoughts to any object you
please; you can contide them to objects
which are before you at the time, or oc
currences which have passed during the
day-or you can send them back to events
which took place many years ago. You
can direct them to persons whom you are
in the habit of meeting from day to day,
or to those who are separated from you
by thousands of miles. You can place
before you persons who lived, aud event,
which occurred long before you came in'
to existence, and you eau anticipate and
realize events which are not likely to oc
cur until you have ceased to exist Study
these wondrous processes of your mind
observe what power you have over them,
and what consequences of eternal import
ance must arise from exercising them
Alright. Ii you can thus think Of any
subject you please, why cannot you think
of God-Of His power, His wisdom, His
holiness, His justice His law which
He has written in your heart, and in Hi
revealed word1 Why cannot you think
Of, and realize the period when you shall
lie down in the grave; and that tremen
douS moment when all that are in their
graves shall hear the voice of the Son O
God, and they that hear shall live, ami
shall arise TO judgment3 Such truths As
these, duly considered, or thought Of,
could not fail, under D viue influence, IT,
exercise powerful effect upon all our
habits of thinking and acting in this
life.
Year: 1878

There is no greater fallacy than the
opinion held by many, particularly the
young and strong and vigorous, that
winter, especially a sharp. frosty one,
with plenty of snow, is the most healthy
season of the year. Very few persons
seem to realize the fact that cold is the
condition of death, and that, in both
warm and cold climates, it is our un-
conscious effort to maintain our bodily
heat at temperature of SO degrees
that wears us out. TO this tempera-
ture, called ''blood heat" every cubic
inch of oxygen that serves to vitalize
our blood, must be raised by our own
bodily heat, or life ceases. Since in
cold weather the maintenance of a suf-
ficiently elevated bodily temperature
becomes very often a difficulty too
great for our strength, the advent of n
severe winter is really more 10 be
dreaded than the visitation of pcsti-
lence.


The saying, "IIeat is life, cold is
death has a striking illustration and
confirmation in the reports now regu-
larly submitted by DR.. Russell TO the
Glasgow Sanitary committee. The
death rate rises and falls with the regu-
larity of the thermometer. So many
degrees less heat, so many more deaths,
and vice versa. In n recent fOrtniohtlv
report DIR. Russell says, "Thc death
rate in the first week of the fortnight
was twcnty-one. and in the second
week twenty-five. The mean tempera-
ture in the former week was 5O.S de-
grces Fahrenheit, in the latter 80 -.
He attributes the low rate of the first
week to the high mean temperature of
the preceding fortnight, which was
IL. 3 degrees, and adds, ''This is good
illustration of Il law which we frequent
ly observe in these reports of tempcra-
lures and death rates-that week of
low temperature produces q rise in NOR
tality the week following"


In our climate it would probably be
difficult to find more frequent cause
of serious ailmcnt than taking cold
Whatever weak place we may have,
whatever constitutional disorder we are
subject to, cold will surely discover.
We take cold because our vitality is too
low TO ward off the effects of the re-
duccd temperature around us. AS a
matter of the first Importance, then, to
resist cold and the various derange-
mcnts of the system consequent, it is
necessary by proper nutrition to main
tain our natural animal heat; second,
to retain this heat by sufficient guam
tity of clothing; third, to regulate with
care the temperature of the air we
breathe. Contrary to the opinion cur
rent among lovers of cold weather, a
fire in bedroom in the winter is
cheaper and better than Doctors bill,
for, owing to our inactive condition
during sleep the circulation of the vital
izing blood is both slow and imperfect
and hence the danger of taking cold by
breathing cold air is greatly increased.
a cold is the beginning of everything
that is bad. If any one conscious of
having caught one feels cold chills
creeping up the back, let him apply a
mustard plaster to the bottom of the
spine and the lower part of the back at
once; and by so doing he may avert q
dangerous illness before il is too late
and medical advice can be procured. 1t
should never be forgotten that cheat is
life, cold is death. - Scientific Ameri-
can.