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Year: 1878

Both Clara Morris and her husband
deny the truth of the alleged statement
Of the former which is printed in the
Dramatic Meas. Harriott has in
structed his attorney to bring suit
against the Ne,rs for libel. 1t is q
question now whether the whole thing
isn't a cheap advertising scheme.
Year: 1878

Self linking Columbian job press,
prints form 6x9 inches. In perfect
order. Used but a short time. Just
the thing for amateur printers or for
use at a military post. A small cabinet
and lot of job type will be sold with it
if desired. Cheap for cash. For fur
ther particulars inquire at LEADER
office. oc20tf
Year: 1878

We extract and commend heartily the
following from the funeral sermon OF
Mamie Stevens, the murdered child-wife,
preached by Rev. DR.. Thomas, Method
ist clergyman at Chicago. There is much
in the religion of the day as taught by
crack Drained ministers that is repulsive,
but nothing is more rcpulsivc than the
idea that the moral man who does not ac
cept all of the teachings of the Bible must
suffer eternal punishment, while tits only
necessary for the murderer to repent just
before execution, in order to enter
into all of the joys of the blessed. 1t is
better to teach that virtue, even. in q
heather, will receive its proper reward
and that the reverse will surely bring dis
tress here, and probably in the hereafter.
DR.. Thomas said:


According to the popular conception
and teaching, there is but little or any
hope in the future for this murdered wife
cut off without moments warning or
time fol- preparation for death. But the
husband-the murderer-can go to Jail,
and after six weeks, die happy ON the gal
lows, and go straight to heaven. There is
something wrong in this teaching. The
atonement is no such thing that a murder
ar can send his victim to hell forever, and
he turn around and walk into heaven. 1t
is sin against good morals to teach such
things If man sins he must suffer. 1
have no faith in saving men without char
acters; and this thing Of sending criminals
to heaven after few weeks Of almost forced
repentance is hurting the morals of the
community; it is almost a premium on
crimc.'
Year: 1878

To young man in debt, Benjamin
Franklin gave the following advice: Make
full estimate of all you owe, and all that
is owing to you. Reduce the same to note.
AS fast as you collect, pay over to those
you owe. If you cannot, renew your note
every year, and get the best security you
can't Go to business diligently and be in
dustrious, waste no idle moments; be very
economical in all. things, discard all pride; !;
be faithful 10 your God. by regular and
hearty prayer morning and night; attend
church and meeting regularly every Sun
day; and do unto all men as you would
they should do unto you. Ifyou are too
needy in circumstances to give tothe poor,
do whatever else is in your power to do
cheerfully. But if you can, help the poor
and unfortunate. Pursue this course dill.
gently and sincerely for seven years, and
If you are not happy, comfortable and in
dependent in your circumstances, como to
me and will pay your debts.
Year: 1878

Elsewhere appears the call for a repub


lican territorial convention. We are moi
informed as to the basis adopted by the
committee in making tbe Gull but believe
they honestly tried to make q just appor.
tionmcnt There were many difficulties
in the way and after all points were con.
sidered the committee was finally forced,
no doubt, to rely on estimates as to the
relative strength of the party in the sever
al portions of the territory. While we are
not entirely satisfied with the result, be-
lieving, aswe do, that 4 majority of the
voters in the territory reside in Northern
Dakota and the Black Hills, we do believe
it to be the duty of every republican to
stand by he'committee, and to abide the
action of the convention.


There are cases, no doubt, where an in
creased representation should be given.
This is probably true of Richland and
Grand Forks counties, in the Red River
valley, and perhaps Of several others, and
Morton county should be given two dele
gates, but these questions should be brought
before the convention and we believe they
will be fairly met and that proper conces-
sions will be made. This course was adopt
ed four years ago, and two years ago, and
the result was satisfactory, and we have
reason to believe the party today is as
honestly disposed as it was then, and that
localities aggrieved will have no just cause
for com plant if this course is adopted.


Though not present with the committee,
as member of the committee the writer
placed his views before them fully, and
though not wholly satisfied with the rep
resentation conceded to Northern Dakota
and the Black Hills az compared with that
allowed Southern Dakota he does not wish
his name withdrawn from the call. Ad-
mitting that the committee aimed TO be
just VIC insist that it seems hard for South
ern Dakota people TO understand the stu
alton in the Hills. They cannot believe
that the Hills will poll more than one
third of the votes cast at the next general
election, nor can they realize that North
ern Dakota is settling even more rapidly
than Sourthern Dakota. They forget that
Cass county, organized only six years ago,
is today the wealthiest county in the ter
ritory. They cannot realize that Richland
and Grand Forks counties have more than
trcbled their population within the past
two years.


But we can meet in convention and claim
whatever in addition we are entitled to.
OF course it is barely possible that we in
Northern Dakota do not fully realize the
rapid development Of Southern Dakota,
therefore We should accept the situation
and make the best of it. 1t won't do to
kick, for kickers never prosper. Boiling
should not be thought of, for though bolt
ing may seem to give success, in the end
it brings disaster to localities as we'll as to
individuals.
Year: 1878

We again call attention to the following, from former
numbers of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE


We use the word Reforms " advisedy. We do not
mean economzewe do not mean reduction OF salaries;
we mean iudcious increase OF pay and positions as
shall secure accuracy more educated TALENT more
efficient work by the officers in Washington and theroca
employees


We mean that the Commissioner shall be placed on an
eouaitv with the Commissioner of Patents that the Med
ica Referee shall have the full pay and emouments of
full army surgeon of ten years standing That the grade
of examiners and be created and main
tanned in the Pension Office in the Patent Office, with
equal pay the examining surgeons shall be paid three
dollars each examination and dollars in obscure and
difficult cases that the board to be ordered by the Com
missioner shall receive each the same pay in short the


time labor and responsibility actually given to the service


We propose demand and require good efficient, sci
entfc work and to pay for it what it is worth and


two Houses as the and proper solution of the
barrassments which alleged to involve the admin
lstsltion of the Pension Office.
Year: 1878

man OF any experience knows that the rule is
that they are scattered all over the country,
and yet there is no provision made for taking
the testimony of witnesses residing in another
district from that in which the claimant resides.
There is no process given by which witnesses
can be compelled to appear and testify No
means are provided BY which an examination
commenced in one district can be continued in
another when it is found that material wit
nesses reside elsewhere


Take the probable progress of affairs in one
district, say that 500 cases are to come before
the commission. In what order are they to
come; how long must No 499 wait before his
turn comes, after he has travelled 100 miles to
the place of meeting. He gets into court at
last in the first years session or the second or
the third puts in his case and finds that he
needs the testimony of comrade or officer a
thousand miles away. How is he to get it
under this bill? The whole scheme is hedged
about with thorny impossbilities, and It's oper
alton can bring nothing but disaster 1t car
only postpone still further the hope deferred
that maketh the heart sick, and bar the door
in the face of honest claimants by the Difficult
, ties it creates.


1t is wrong in principle, wrong in detail. 1
seeks chimerical object and uses fatal means
We do not need to refer to any other section
OF this bill except the 9th, which, in substance
forbi9s any contract for fees in pension cases tC
be made hereafter and thus abolishes ali attor
neys in such cases in Washington or elsewhere
and thus commits the whole right of the claim
ants into the hands of the bureau and its Off
GERS. There is certain degree of clap-tral
about this which is scarcely worthy of serious
comment.


There are attorneys good. bad and indifferent
but as long as the world stands and man can


not personally attend to his own business vii
have the right to employ, and will employ, al
/ attorney to do it for him. If, as the Commis
sioner seems to think it is his duty to watc
attorneys, so it is the duty of attorneys to waite


the Commissioner. If he makes himself, as h
r has, the attorney of the Government as agains


the pensioner, so much greater the need of tn
e pensioner for an attorney to represent his IL
S terest.


q But the whole bill is of one piece, and tha
e is against the rights of individuals, to build u
/ special dominion in the Pension Bureau


What They Say of Us.
Year: 1878

The bill does not state whether such eXaml- (
nation shall be at the post, or at the home of
the pensioner, but the fair inference from sec
tion is that it either must be at the post or
else at the expense Of the pensioner. More
travel fees are thus provided for, to an extent
only limited by the notions of the Commits
soner


This section is careful to make provisions for
reducing pensions on examination, but makes
none for raising where the rate Of disability is
too low


Section is simply an enormity. 1t provides
that if the Commissioner shall suspect that
pension has been procured through fraud or
misrepresentation he may suspend paymeat
and on suspension shall cause it to be examined
by the commission, or some clerk detailed for
that purpose, and that if he shall 'suspect" that
a fraud under the pension laws has been at
tempted or perpetrated, he shall also examine.


Now it unfortunately appears that Mr. Bent
ley suspects " everybody-he suspects exam
ming surgeons he suspects witnesses, he " sus-
poets pensioners he suspects his own pro-
posed pension surgeons, he suspects every one
but the honorable Secretary of the Interior and
himself


1t will not DO to allow nybody on suspicion
merely to take the bread out the mouth Of an
invalid pensioner, or the widow and orphan.
Suspicious are not always true Condemnation
before trial and judgment is outrageous, and it
is far better to let punishment come when the
case is proven than to do great wrong, impose
cruel hardship upon one whose title is appar-
emily good and whose innocence may be finally
established.


No such dangerous power ever ought to be
vested in any man-it is in its nature perilous,
inhuman, and unjust


Section 6 provides that this new force of peri
patetic surgeons and clerks shall be allowed, in
addition to their salaries, their actual and
necessary expenses" on bills to be approved
by the Commissioners.


In this section again the zone man power
looms up.


Actuat and necessary" Who can define
them? Nobody but the Commissioner, and his
decision is final commission which cal
begin anywhere and travel everywhere, to be
appointed, assigned to duty, and expenses al
lowed by the one man.


1t is the neatest, most compact, and best ar
ranged contrivance for favoritism and jobbing
ever yet presented in form of law and as tht
foretaste Of economical administration.
builds up force of official funkies, dominate,
and controlled by single will and. the. .onl,
thing needed to complete the organization
would be to uniform the force in some attract
i've way, buttons to represent deaths hea'
and cross bones, with p 0. in solid letters, he
met after the fashion of a mortar, whose pestl
should be the wand of office, the baton of thes
marshals of the Pension Bureau. TheTmott
of the corps might be" We starve the soldie
to save the bureau" Or this" If we suspect
he starves"


To bring about this result, to establish thi
corps of sixty surgeons, everything vital ito th
Year: 1878

In the atmosphere experienced here during the
summer months, the lethaigy produced by the heat
takes away the desire for wholesome food, and
frequent perspirations reduce bodily energy, par
ticularly those suffering from the effects of debli-
ting diseases. In order to keep natural health
full activity of the system W. must resort to artf-
cia means. For this purpose Schenck's Sea Weed
Tonic is very effectual few doses will create an
appetite and give fresh vigor to the enervated body


For dyspepsia, it is invaluable. Many eminent
physicians have doubted whether dyspepsia can be
permanently cured by the drugs which are gener-
ally employed for that purpose. The Sea Weed
Tonic in its nature is totally different from such
drugs. 1t contairs no corrosive minerals or acids


in fact it assists the regular operations of nature


and supplies her deficiencies. The tonic in its nq-
ture much resembles the gastric juice that it is
almost identical with that fluid. The gastric juice
is the natural solvent which in healthy condition
Of the body causes the food to be digested anC
when this juice is not excreted in sufficient quant


ties indigestion, with all its distressing symptoms


follow. The Sea Weed Tonic performs the dut!
of the gastric juice when the latter is deficient


schenck's Sea Weed Tonic sold by all Druggists.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, July l6.-It is under
stood no formal opinion has been given by
the attorney general to the secretary OF
treasury concerning the exchange of gold
for notes from the l. S, treasury; upon
an exchange of views on the subject the
secretary of treasury and attorney general
agreed this could not be done until the
first of January. The treasury depart
ment has the option however of paying
gold on government account at any time;
smaller gold coins are likely to get into
circulation in this manner. The coin bal
ance still shows a steady increase and to-
day amounts TO $206 $40, 900.
Year: 1878

A minister on his way from Columbus
to New York was feeced out of fifty
dollars yesterday morning, while en-
route to this city on the Panhandle Rail
road. An individual, dressed as o
countryman, came into the car and took
a seat near the minister Entering into
a conversation with the latter he inform
ed him how he had been swindsd at
Columbus by three-card-monte men,
and proceeded to explain the modIs op-
erandi of the operation. A second coun-
tryman put in an appearance st this
juncture and became interested n the
explanation, alleging that he coud not
be cheated by such simple subte'fuges.
The clergyman was thus Induced
to investigate the practical work
ings of the game, which resulted in his
arriving in this city minus The sun above
mentioned. Fer obvious reas.ns he
declined to take any steps toward the
recovery of his money, but proceeded
on his journey rejoicing.-EttSburg
Leader.
Year: 1878

and ride horses sometime his thirst
for display breaks out in. dandyism,
and sometimes in poetry; he wants
sadly to be in love, and takes it for
granted all the ladies are dying for
him.


The young man of twenty-five wants
a wife.


AT thirty he longs to be single
again.


From thirty to forty he wants to
be rich, and thinks more of milking
money than ofspending it.


At fifty he wants excellent dinners
and capital wine, fhd nap in the
afternoon.


The respectable old gentleman OF
sixty wants to retire from business
with snug independence of three OF
| four hundred thousand, to marry his
daughters, set up his sons, and live
in the country; and then for the res
of his life he wants to be young
| ocraiD
Year: 1878

Here is Baltimore tramp's tale: ::
AT Perryville l went to house
with brick in my hand, and asked
the lady if she would please put some
butter on il. The request excited
her curiosity, and she asked: why
10 YOU want to put butter on buck
| told her | was going to eat it.
Surely, she said, you are not so
hungry as to eat a huttered brick
Come into the house and | will give
you food, l bagged a square meal,
for which | had set so slick tray


In the western part of the State
asked for something to eat and was
refused. i then begged for a look
inn- GLASS, which aroused curiosity to
know what l was going TO do Will


the mirror. l replied that L wanted


to see myself starving to death. IheI


thev gave me what | wanted. "
Year: 1878

Attention is called to the notice of the Board
of Health published in another column, which
warns pc sons returning to the city or those
removing from one house to another, not to en-
fer dwelling wherein yellow fever haa reigned
without having previously fumigated it with
sulphur. TIE notice Is deserving Of note and
should be carefully read.
Year: 1878

BALTIMORE Nov. 5.-The election is passing
Off quietly so far, except in the sixth and seven,
teeuth wards. In the seventeenth ward Samuel
Wright, Republican supervisor. was shot In the
abdomen and seriously wounded by 40 un-
known party This ward is the only one IN the
city belonging to the Fifth Congressional Dis
trict, and the strongest fight 's in consequence
being made there against the election OF DR..
Hank la DemOcrat.
Year: 1878

A MASSACHUSETTS man with the Ply
mouth Rockian name of MATT CAFFERTY
came to visit friend in Brooklyn the other
day and was lodged in the guest chamber,
second story front. Utterly regardless Of
the proprieties of life or death, he cut his
throat and bled to death in said chamber,
running things generally. The CAFrEETYs
were prominent at Worcester when BEN
BUTLER was nominated, which may account
for the meanness Of this especial member of
the family in going away from home to do
this furniture-dcstroying decd.
Year: 1878

If Secretary ScnrRz would acquaint him
self more fully with the financial history of
his native land he would find that gold and
silver, when used together rs the coin of u
nation, huctuatc less than when used scpa-
EI;C.y.
Year: 1878

CASEY YoUNG is to be congratulated upon
his recovery from an attack OF yellow fever.
1t is to be hoped that these congratulations
will serve as balm to his wounded soul
after the coming election in his district, for
such things will not be in order then. II
he is reelected at all it will be by a reduced
muiority
Year: 1878

There is story told among sailors of


an old Nantucket skipper, who said that if


he could only taste the soundings any


where on the coast he could tell where he


was the darkest night that was ever known,
The boys that sailed with him determined


to test this, and the next time they were iii


port procured some earth from neigh


bor's garden and secreted it on board the


vessel they sailed in. and of which the old


skipper was master. One night when he


was in his bunk the young rascals woke


him up and said they got soundings and
| wanted him to test and tell where thev


were. Accordingly he deliberately applied
his tongue to some of the mud, and then
sprang from his berth. exclaiming, 'sNan-
tucket's sunk. and here we are right over
Hackett's garden


l once knew German captain who.
when he had brought the reflected sun
down to the waters edge, thought he dis
covered dirt in the horizon glass. He rub
bed it and looked again; yet there it was.
and the harder he rubbed the more obstih-
ate it became. There was an object there
more real than The image of the sun. He
jumped on the ''ronnd house" and looked,
called for his spy-glass, looked again, and
lo.a boat! keep her off, he cried. and
as they drew nearer what sight they
saw! Four CHASTITY beings in an open
boat alive, and one dead. They were the
sole survivors of a ship that had foundered
III the gulf of Martaban five days before,
No comments arn necessary upon this. It
is the simple truth, for saw one Of the
men. Our captain is very fond of seeing
the sun rise and set, and on board the
Sandwich it is one of The rules of the ship
that man shall be sent at those times to
the royal masthead to look around, for
then the objects are more clearly seen.


We used to have astory in the forecastle
about fussy captain who was eterna]ly
jawing the inan at the wheel. At last he
got so far as to say: "Here, let me take
that wheel and show you how she had
ought to be s:eered. You take this spy-
glass and be captain while steer" This
sailor was cheeky fellow and submitted
to this with ready 'aye. aye. SIR" March,
ing up and down the weather side of the
quarter deck with tine spyglass. he, with
ridiculous gravity, looked at some distant
ship. and then with mock authority said.
''Lnffa little there STEADY so, you are
high enough-don't give her too much
wheel, mind" and continued his promen-
ard ~ That ftincffionary ; ii Came IL rtihhfnedp
at once. while our captain of a period Or
dered him to fetch him glass Of grog,"
.and." added he, another for the man at
the Wheel"
Year: 1878

A good story is told of a deacon in Ten
ncssee, who was in the habit of riding a
bucking mulc-that is II mule that can
make .amel's back Of its straight one,
and by a spasmodic movement OF Its four
legs and hump, discharge its rider like a
cannon ball. The other day they came to
the edge of the worst mud hole in the State.
and the mule gave unmistakable indications
Of bucking. The good deacon knew that
he was about to be thrown, and his MIND
scurried about for prayer. His table
grace came easiest: ''Lord, for what we
are about to receive make us humbly thank
full he said, and the mule had bucked and
he was in.
Year: 1878

Yes, encourage him. We wrote poetry


once ourselves, but we We're not encour-


aged. When we submit I'd a fourteen


page poem to publisher, he said the


measure was defective. We offered to write
ten more pages and give him full measure


without extra charge, but he didn't en-
courage US. He said many of the lines
lacked the requisite number of feet, and
we proposed to scratch off seventeen more
feet of the stuff on the spot, so that he
might add foot here and there where it
would do the most good, but he didn't en-
courage me. He made motion to put a
foot where it wouldn't do any good, and
we went away from there without making
propositions. Something told US that it
would be unhealthy to lingcr around there
any longer. But we subsequently sold our
poem. We got two cents pound for it,
and the purchaser didn't grumble about
lack Of measure or ''feet,' either. He
seemed to appreciate the production; but
the careless manner in which he j,mmcd it
into an old bag was not calculated to en-
courage young poct-Norristow Herald.
Year: 1878

It is ststed that the friends of Senator Thurman will insist on bis being the next candidate for Cover nor of Ohio. believing him to be the only man to beat the Republicans, and if successful he will be able to secure the democratic nomination for the Presidency.
Year: 1878

SOUTHERN JrsTICE.-A short time ago
a white lnan was hung in Georgia for the
murder Of colored man, and on the
same day colored man was brought in
70 court to be- sentenced for manslaugh-
Ter. The former master of this colored
man, an old gentleman, besoupht the
judge, till his feelings overcame him, for
a light sentence, as the culprit had been
the faithful nurse and companion of his
children, and the most obedient and in
dustrious slave he had ever owned. There
We're other mitigating circumstances in
the case, and the juuge let the prisoner
OIL with three years imprisonment, avail
ing himself of the occasion to remark
that the old masters plea. taken in con-
nection with the hanging of the white
man for killing colored man the same
day, furnished strong evidence of the
fact that the whites were both kindly
disposed towards the blacks and deter
mined that otfenses against them should
BE- punished with mpartiaity.-Balti-
more Sun.