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Year: 1879

''Iil tell you the secret of our hap
py marriage life,'' said a gentleman
of three score and ten. 1--WE have
been married forty years; my bride
was the belle Of New York when |
married her, and though l loved her
for herself, still beautiful flower is
all the lovelier poised in an exquisite
vase. My wife knew this, ard true
to her genuine refinement has never,
in all those forty years, appeared at
the table, or allowed ne to see her
less carefully dressed than during the
days of our honeymoon. Some might
call this foolish vanity l cali it real
womaEllness. l presume | would
not have ceased to love her had she
followed the example of many others,
and considering the every day life OF
home necessarily devoid of beauty
allowed herself TO be careless of such
small matters as dressing for her
husbands eye; bu, love is increased
when we are proud of the object
loved, and to-day | am proud of my
beautiful wife with her silver hair and
gentle face, than of the bride whose
loveliness was the theme of every
tongue. Any young lady can win a
lover how few can keep them such
after years of married life.''


In all the little courtisics of life, in
all that makes one attractive and
charming, in thoughtfulness of others
and forgetfulness of self, every home
should be begun and continued. Men
should be more careful to sympathize
and protect the wife than the bride
more willing to pick up her scissors
hand her the paper, to carry hel
packages, than if she were a young
lady /; and as no lady would for mo
mens think of controlling the moment Is
and engagements of a young gentle
man, neither should she do SO wher
he is her husband. If by making
herself bright and attractive she fail.
to hold him, compulsion will only
drive him farther from her. / do no


believe 1t possible to retain th'
friendship of any one by demandin.
! it. l do not believe it possible Il


lose it by being lovable.
Year: 1879

The bullion yield of Colorado
up to 1879 amounted TO nearly
eighty tons of pisre gold, seven
hundred and seventy tons OF pure
silver, two thousand one hundred
and ten tons of copper and sixteen
thousand one hundred and fifty tons
of lead.
Year: 1879

Political chances and changes


Bring one another on top,
And sometimes the upper dog quickly
Is changed to the undermost pup;
And one Of the great alterations


The fortune of politics grants.
Is broadcloth galore for fellow


Who once wore patch on his pants.
You hardly would think that the weighty
Could rise to the surface 30 soon.
Or that flesh to the average mortal


Would be beniflcent boon;
But there in his pride you behold him.
Attending SO well to the wants
OF his brothers and pephews and uncles
And sisters and cousins and aunts.
Full many gem. says the poet,


The caves OF the ocean know;
Full many Senator Davis


The streets of New York can show;
Full MANY q koscins modern


In Obscurity spouts and rants;
Full many a great party leader


Has once worn q patch on his pants.
If this could be done. and that other,
If something with nothing could mix,
Ii oil could with water but mingle.
If honor could grow out OF tricks,
Let none dare deny that by one of
Dame Fortunes most singular slants,
That man might be greatest among us
Who once wore patch on his pants.


-Nss0 York Son.
Year: 1879

sides alike desire q Government o


almost unlimited power to crafty
their wishes aud foster their schemes.


In word, almost or quite every form


of concentrated wealth, except real es-


tate, desires by construction or other


wise to add new powers to the al


ready tremendous powers possessed


by the National Government. Do not


understand me as saying that every


man of wealth desires the anninila-


ton of the State Governments or their


practical overthrow. There are thous-


ands upon Thousands of such men


who are Intelligent enough to see
that the preservation of the rights of
the States is essential to the mainten-
ance of freedom and prosperity and is
one of the greatest Safeguards that
can be conceived of the Union itself.
But on the other hand fear that there
are thousands and tens of thousands
of men in the country who would
prefer even limited monarchy to the
form of Government under which we
live. They do not believe in unniver-
sal suffrage; they do not believe in
the rights of the States; but they do
believe in strong centralized Gov
ernment, backed by standing army
and presided over or ruled by Chief
Magistrate chosen for long term or
even for life. They are too sagacious
to expect their hopes to be speedily
realized. They know that Govern
ment like ours can not be subyerted
in day, but they also know that,
even If its form be left untouched, its
essential principles may be day by day
weakened or destroyed until in the
end it shall be in substance and in
practice the consolidated Government
they desire. Hence they favor and
applaud every usurpation of Congress
and the President, and regard with
every thing that tends to
weaken or destroy the reserved rights
of the States. ......#.....,.-.
Year: 1879

"Kathleen, is it possible that
you are crying again! Did l not
tell you that would discharge you
il l foundyOu indulging in that fool
ish whimper amy more ?"


Poor Kathleen O'Neil had been
dusting the elegantly furnished
drawing room, and she stood be.
fore an exquisite little painting of
one of the blue, sparkling Irish
lakes, set in gold-green shores with
II sky beyond like liquid amber
stood with her apron to her eyes
Year: 1879

The New York Times is the only
bloody shirt organ which doesn't
see how political capital can be
made for the republican party oat
of the exodus" and it ventures
to suggest that "such movement
is not a fit thing for partisanship TO
play with" Coming from II parti-
san journal, this is significant, but
even bloody shirt editors know that
if they play with edged tools they
will cut their fingers.
Year: 1879

Washington Post


For the first time in twenty five
years u democratic governor in
Maine yesterday paid a visit to the
first democratic senate that has
been in session for nineteen years.
And vet some people think the
democratic party is dead.
Year: 1879

The Best Family Newspaper,
Publishes both the religious and
secular news that is desired in any
iamily, while all that is likely to
do harm is shut out. 1t devotes
four pages to religious news, and
four to secular.


The New York OBSERVER was
FIRST published in 1923 and it is
believed to be the only instance
OF Religious Newspaper cont:,in-
its even course for .ftty-sir gears,
without q change Of name, doc
trine, intent, purpose, or pledge
from the date of its birth.
Year: 1879

Bal of cash on hand s 98 SO


Of the amount of cash ON hand
as above stated, the different funds
are to be credited with the follow.
ing amounts respectively


General fund 5 A 90
Street l. Bridge fund l9 70
Special tax Of 1879 IS l3
Year: 1879

The true way to invigorate feeble system is
to infnse activity into the operations of the
stomach. that wondrous alembic in which the
food is transmitted into the constituents of
blood, the chief element of our vitality Hos
letters Stomach Bittcrs. because it accomplish
es this end is greatly to be preferred to many so
called toncs, useful indeed as appetizers, but
imperative as aids to digestion and assimilation
This sterling cordial, while it inyigorates the
stomach. healthfuny stimulates the liver bow
els and kidneys ensuring the escape through
lie regular channels OF effele and useless matter
thrown OIL by the system, which 10 thus purified
as we'll as invigorated by it. Its tonic Influence
is soon made manifest by an increase Of vital
energy and a more active and regular discharge
Of every physical function, and it has the fur
ther effect OF rendering the system unassailable
by malarial epidemics.
Year: 1879

The undersigned takes this thanks
to the people of Yankton particularly and his
Dakot and Nebraska for the
patronage which has been bestowed upon the late
DUDLEY AAWLEY through the many years in which
that firm has carried business in this city, and b.
to call the attention of these friends and that Of
the people lily the enlarged facilities
sive assortment commodious roos
firm had provided which Eudley
& Aawley, possesses.


In the line of the Hardware trade
Of 1in Copper and Sheet Iron Ware
equal in all anything
west occupying three grand each 25xlOO
tent.


In the future by constant application business hope,
the Hare trade Of the which
utay to TO this point here spare effort 70
make II for the interest Of the pie within this pur
chase their Hardware, Iinware,
Stoves aNd all other articles in his from


Yours gratefully and respectfully


GEO. e. HAWLEY,


Union Block Third ST.
Year: 1879

James Baker. of Castleton avenue West Brighton
Staten Island cleaned and loaded his doublebarrelicd
gun on Wednesday evening and yesterday morning
started for the meadows to shoot snipe He had
left the house but few moments when
his family startled by loud report,
and upon fastening TO. the front yard, found
him lying by the gate dead. The gun had
no doubt been accidentally discharged Baker was
passing out of the gate by the hammer striking
against post The contents of barrel entered
his abdomen. and death must have been instanta-
neous. The deceased, who fifty-hve years Old
was lifelong resident OF Staten Island.
Year: 1879

1t IS a great mistake for a husband
to keep bis wife in ignorance of his
business afaias. In ordinary fami-
lies it is she who regulates the outgo,
and sc ought to know the income.
Not long since | heard a young wife
just in the early experience Of house
keeping, say; How shall / know
whether we are living beyond our
means? | cant get any idea of
what we have to speny; and, while l
try to be very careful, Of course !
might spend less on my table If we
were getting in debt" Surely sle
ought not to be blamed if the debt
and credit accounts are not prosper
ous. A loving and anxious wife suf-
fers untold imaginary fears, If she
sees tired and perpiextd expression
on her husbsnd's face, unless she is
assured Of the truest confidence be-
tween them, and knows that no
great concern Of his is kept a secret
from her.
Year: 1879

What makes life dreary isthe want
of motive.


The reward of one duty is the pow
er to fulfill another.


The wounded heart heal, but the
scar remains forever.


The smallest perfect achievement
is nobler than the grandest failure.
The veil which covers the face of
futurity is woven by the hands of
mercy.


Bind love with duty. for duty is the
love oflaw; and law is the nature of
the Eternal.


1t is said with life as with coffee, he
who drinks it, sure must not drain it
to the dregs.


Whether happiness may come or
not one should try and prepare ones
Sc to do without it.


If misfortune hits you hard, you
hit something else hard;go into some
thing else hard; go into something
with will.


The pain of parting is kcenest to
those who go, but it stays longer with



those who are left behind.


4" Have nothing to do with any man
in passion, for men are not like
iron, to be wrought out when hot, or
moulded into any given form,


Every persons natural weight of
afiiiction is frequently made more
unhappy,by the envy, malice, treach-
cry or injustice of his neighbor.


There is a great deal of mmapped
country within us vhich would haye
to be taken into accounts in an ex-
PLANTATION of Our gusts and storms.


Probabilities are as various as the
faces to be seen at will in fretwork or
paper hangings; every form is there,
from Jupiter to Judy, if you only
look with creative inclination,
Ii thou canSt not obtain kindness
which tho desireth, put % good face
On it, show no discomfort nor sur,i-
ness; an honor may come when tha
request may be granted,


Men and women make sad mist ikes
about their symptoms, taking 4heir
vague uneasy longings sometimes for
genius, sometimes for religion, and
oftener still fora mighty love.


The presence Of a child is a radiant
sunbeam in dark hours, loly war
ming in happiness, but Mt all times
that link which connects us with that
FAR oil Eden of innocence and purity.


1t is easy to say, I'VE will forget
but perhaps the hardest task given us
is to lock upa natural yearning Of
the heart and turn a deaf ear to the
plant, for captive and jailer must in
habit the same CELL


Very few men acquire wealth in
such a manner as to receive substan-
tial pleasure from it. just as long as
there is the enthasi ISM II tlc chase,
they enjoy it; but when they begin
to look around and think of settling
down, they find hat that part by
which joy enters is dead within
I them.


In the struggle Of life the hero and
the coward, the conqueror and the
conquered, need sympathy equally.
Often the mind which uphold others
needs itself to be upheld; the honest
heart that seems so bold and true is
fainting from secret sorrow dying
from som. little wound which sym.
pathy could stauneh.
Year: 1879

l wish that you were by me now,


AS draw the sheet aside, 'ns
To See how pure the look he wore
y Awhile, before he died. 3
Yet the sorrow that you gave him
> Still had left its weary trace,
Aud a meek and sanity sadness


Dwells upon his pallid face.
Year: 1879

MR. EDIToR: I notice in "Norris- town Notes" by Uncle Jesse, some good sensible remarks about correspondents from different neighborhoods writing so much nonsense about the boys and girls, etc. l have often noticed with disgust the blind, nonsensical slang phrases and blagard of correspondents which only two or three individuals understood anything about, while the mass of the intelligent readers of the DEMOCRAT demand something more of intelligence and general news from the different neighborhoods in the county, and care nothing about the Tomfoolery of the boys and girls, and older ones, too, which had better be kept at home where it is understood and enjoyed, and not send it abroad. We really hope that every correspondent will do his very best to give the general news, and that which will be of interest to all of the readers of the DEMOCRAT; and thereby improve the general moral tone or our county paper

 The weather is very fine which makes business very dull in town, except on Saturday. The credit merchant is very busy paying for cotton which is now being scraped. This is all wrong. We thought farmers were generally up with their work, but on close eXamina- ton find that two-thirds of them are nearly year ahead. It is q good plan to push business, but for the farmer to push his business so far ahead is very poor policy. Another sore evil l have seen existing in our midst, which is a great dctrimcnt to the prosperity of many of our farmers; that is, men who have mortgaged all they have to the merchant for their bread, meat and clothes, then if they get few dimes in their pockets will go and spend them for liquor at the saloon; for the saloon does cash business, gives no credit, and takes no mortgages. It is ''pay as you drink or no drink" Now if the merchant should say to them ''pay as you eat or no eat," he would be brand ed as hard-hearted, unkind wretch; but this is exactly what hundreds are doing, and it is a grand imposition and abuse to the man who is furnishing him with the necessaries of life. Men should not complain of hard times who will act Tn that way. Every man in the community helps to make the times just what they are. Oh, that men could sec the evil of some of their ways

 SroCKHoLDRR.
Year: 1879

Some refreshing showers and pretty May flowers.

 Our farmers at work and none arc on the turk.

 No discord in our community.

 Mir. John Cox, one of our worthy highland farmers came to town last Saturday, bringing with him very large wolf scalp. Good news to sheep raiscrs.

 We are indebted to Prof. Phillips for his labor in our midst as music teacher, knowing it to be very beneficial to so- ciety; iudeed were it not for the sweet and melting strains of music many scenes of mirth and festivity would lose all their charm. Music formed one of the prominent amusements of the ancient Hebrews. They sung every where and mingled melody with joy or sorrow. The royal David with his chief musicians made ceaseless song and Solomon, his son, the wisest man of his age, had men singers and women singers, and Josephus tells us that the number of musicians employed by him at the dedication of the Temple was two hundred thousand; the Greeks and Romans had their songs, and frequent ly when they went out to battle it was with the sound of melody, and She poet says,
Year: 1879

| pCOITNlLlb, hay ~, loso'

 MR. EDITOR: Seeing but little news in your valuable paper from this place except from and to MT. J. S., thought | l would give your many readers hint concerning our people and country. Crops are good with but few excep- tions. I presume the farmers are all up with their crops from the number that were seen spending last Saturday evening so pleasantly in Scottville. We heard a very interesting sermon from the preacher in charge of the Dover circuit, A collection was taken for foreign missions.

 We have marble worker in Scott vile who is doing much work and giv- ing universal satisfaction. He has sold some work in and around Dover and intends to work at that place short time and if the people in Russellyille will give him employment he will probably spend few weeks with them. He is doing as good work and selling much cheaper than any one, and as times are hard few dollars is con siderable item.

 A serious accident happened to MT. Jefferson Bullock's youngest son last Tuesday while on his way to the field riding very gentle mule, q singletree dropped off the names and hung on one of lhe bridle reins; this frightened the animal so he began jumping and rum ming, kicking at the searey thing; at last the boy was thrown, his feet being tangled in the chains he was dragged about two hundred yards and tossed against a tree with such force as to break the hame-string ard set him free. But for this he would have been torn to atoms. He was in state of insensibil- ity for four days, but the last news was that he could talk in his right mind and would doubtless recover.

 Fearing that you and your many readers will become disgusted at the length and bad composition of this note l will close for the present. Yours,

 A SUBSCRIBER.
Year: 1879

Heat moisture and vegetable matter are necessary in the production of that subtle poison known as malaria. II sezes the constitution of the exposed produces peculiar effect upon the nervous system, poisons the blood paralyzes the stomach, locks up the liver and bowels, and produces that condition known as chills and fever, which assumes a periodical form re- turning at stated periods. There is but one remedy known that will remedy all these conditions at the samo time and without producing any unpleasant effects, and that article is known as Days Ague Tonic, which never fails to make prompt and permanent cures without the use of any other drug.
Year: 1879

Looking at Congress and viewing it's work in a dispassionate way, the conviction is absolute that what thls country demandsIs q Presidential election every two or three weeks.- Philadelphia Times.
Year: 1879

MY Coop WOMAN, Why are you so out of sorts never able to tell folks that you are well Ten to one it's all caused in the first place by habitual constipation, which has no doubt fin- ally caused deranged Kidneysand Liver. The The sure cure for Constipation is the celebra- ted Kidney Wort. It is. also specific remedy for all Kidney and Liver diseases. Thousands are cured by it every month. Try it at once.
Year: 1879

A Danbury boy was discovered to be ''play- ing hockey" yesterday by an uncle. He was working a volocipede in the suburbs It was supposed by the uncle that the boy had taken advantage of his fathers being out of town for the day. But the young man denied the impeachment, and claimed thathe stayed from school because of sore heel-not sore enough to prevent working velocipede, but too sore for study.
Year: 1879

ing hold of her husbands arm withdrew from the room. This was the offence for which General Jackson afterward threatened to send her husband home

 ''The next scene in the drama was grand dinner, given in the east room of the palace, where it was arranged that Mr. Vaughan was to conduct Mrs Eaton to the table, and place her at the side of the President, who took care by his marked attention to ~admonish all present (about eighty including the principal officers of the government and their ladies) that Mrs. Eaton was one of his favorites, and that he expected her to be treated as such in all places. Dinner being over, the company retired to the coffee room to indulge in the ex- hilarating conversation which wine and good company usnally excite. But all would not do-nothing could move the inf1exible ladies. |"

 As the difficulty admitted of no settlement the President to relieve Major Eaton from his embarrassing situation, gladly embraced an opportunity.to make change in his cabinet, and Lewis Cass was installed Secretary of War. Mir. Eaton himself was soon sent to Madrid as United States Minister, taking his wife with hIm. She travelled for some time and finally settled in Madrid, where she was acknowledged the belle and favorite of the court. Here Mir. Eaton died, and hIs large estate passed into his wife's hands. She soon returned to Washington, where the rest of her family was living.

 This story of Mrs. Eaton's trials m political life is the one given by Parton in his life of Jackson. While in the main 1t is correct, it is only fair to say that Mrs. Eaton in her later years declared that some parts of it were un. true and others exaggerated

 One would naturally think that the excite. ment of her earlier days, with their by no means complimentary colorings, would have rendered the widow desirous of quiet and secluded old 'age.s The result proved the op- posIte. Being present at a ball with her grandchildren one evening after her return from Washington, the latter were struck with the appearance of an Italian dancing. master, Antonio Buchigani by name. At their re- quest he was engaged as their instructor, and he soon won the affection of Emily, a child
Year: 1879

\ dentist, referring to recent feat of a
French surgeon in transplanting teeth,
writes rs follows to the Rochester Demo-
crat and Chronicle:


AT the present day it is quite COM
mon thing to replace tooth that has been
extracted, or to extract Il diseased tooth
and put sound one in its place. The
earliest incident of the kind in my own
practice occurred in ls4j. | met man in
a country town who had Just come from ~
physicians office where he had been to
have tooth extracted. and the physician
had pulled the wrong tooth. Invited him
into the nearest store, telling him /
thought could fix the thing up in good
shape. | washed ont the socket as well as
could with the conveniences at my com
mand and replaced the tooth, and knew
it to be Il good one twenty years afterward.
But that which has interested me most in
my practice is case of boy about eight
years of age, who came into my office with
his mother less than three years ago, hav
ing Just had his two upper front incisors
knocked out, one of them gone entirely,
the other still holding to the jaw but pro-
against the lip. 1t was the work of mo-





mother, Where is the other tooth ?n She
replied, 1T is lost | said to her, go
and find it She went and came back
with the tooth. replaced it in its socket.
The condition of these teeth before the ac-
cident was this: the one which hung in
the gum had grown to about three -fourths
of its proper length, the other had but lit
tie more more than pricked through the
gum. There was no question in my mind
about the teeth becoming firm and solid in
the jaw the only question was whether
they would, after all the nerve connections
being severed, continue to grow and come
down to their proper position in the family
of teeth. \ letter from the mother of the
boy few months ago, informs me that al
ter remaining nearly zone year. they COM
menced to grow. and at the time of her
writing had both grown into place,
and We're as perfect as though nothing had
happened to them.