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Year: 1879

Our Wheeling inventor is getting
up new patent chair for dentists.
A concealed spring in it runs . tack
up through the seat, and while the
patient is bowling and his attention
is dirveted by the attack below. the
tooth Is yanked. out Wheeling
Leader.
Year: 1879

They even go so far now rs to say that
Gen. Grant is, and always has been, q
rigid total abstinence man. Doubt truth
TO be q liar, but never doubt Ulysses
ability TO stand fiat-footed and gulP
down more of the ardent than any man
either in Europe or America.
Year: 1879

1 QUO


Two men destroyed themselves


because their wives we're too fast.


The remainder of the thirty three


cases, under the head Of miscellane-
ous we attribute to various causes,
the most OF which are positively tri-
vial, and some Of q ridiculous ma.
turS, They are ssverally attributed
as follsws: One each to trouble in
deciding how to make hiS will to
over-devotion to study; home-sick-
ness sympathy for = suicide dream
ing OF being arrested for burglary
being sued for his church SubscrIp-
tion q desire to 60 TO Germany; to
having q horses bride cut at a par
ty; disappointment or desire to go
to schools unwillingnsss to go to
school; to having bad daughter
to q newspaper article rejecting
upon his family; to having Opposi-
ton in the livery stable business to
being told by "the spirits" to kill
himself; to being sent to Jail for
selling liquor to minors. One man
committed suicide because the crops
were bad and his aunt had died Of
the fever and another took his own
life by jumping from q very high
tree, because of the bad crops and
the death of his son. One husband
killed himself becSuse hiS wife had
locked the door on him at 2 O'Clock
in the morning and another because
his wife scOlded him for coming
home late TO dinner. One man pub.
licly took his life 10 order to make a
sensation and to hOast of bis Feligi.
Gus infdeIity doctor OF medicine
did the same because he had no
practice. Only one person commit
ted suicide in the spirit Of self.saeri.
aCing love, in order to save the life
Of q friend; and In illustration OF
the truth that there is bat q single
step from the sublime to the ridicu-
lOus, another man preferred to die
and did 40, by his RWa hand, ''rRtA,
or than haul tan.bank in the Big
Sandy region r. The reader will ob.
serve from the preceding statement;
that in the majority of casea, where
the cause is known. the suicides
were the consequences of ungoVerns
ed passion and appetite; that relig.
ion has been slight inducing cause
that education has been equally in.
efficient in the way-only one per.
sons death being oauAed by over.
study, and but one school teacher
put an end TO himself because he
was ''tired of life.'' Moral: It is
wise for one to keep bis animal MS
tprs in subieOtion, to cultivate his
mind, to keep a good conscience, To
be contented, not to think OF him.
self more highly thaA be ought to
think, and at the same tiMe to be-
lieve that he is of enough imaortance
in the world ta live and he useful
to serve God faithfully aud be hapny,
Year: 1879

-


"old Man."


For the Republican.


MEssRs. EDIToRs Suffer an old man
to address few pointed words to that
young man in Wilmington. The old
man was once young, aud knows we'll
what the "way" of the young man is.
Awise and good man once asked the ques-
tion: Wherewithal shall young man
cleanse his wayg A young man
Think yha! possibility is in him.
Think what career of good or evil Is
before him. That career may be bright,
useful, eminently successful and happy;
or it may be dark, wretched, ruinous
and his very existence will prove a
failnre.


The issues OF his life depend not upon
high or low birth, poverty or wealth,
good or bad luck, or accident, but upon
himself alone. Out of the possibilities
Of his being he may shape his own
course upward or downward. He may
rise to be Il blessing to himself, to his
kindred, to his fellow men in general,
and to his country or he may sink
himself until he is curse to society
and become so degraded that every
body will shun and despise him.


How maAy who once were young and
had promising prospects,, are now de-
graded, ruined, lost. Some are in pri-
son paying the penalty of their crimes,
to which their ways when they were
young men led them. 1t is a grand
thing to be a young man, if his possi-
bilities and opportunities are we'll used;
perilous thing if they ara not. Young
man pause now for little while and
think. Turn aside from the pleasure,
study or busisess you are pursuing,
aud spend one hour in serious nedita-
ton. 1t will do you no harm.


None of your worldly interests will
suffer by it, but great good to yourself
and others may result from it. One
whose career in life was grand sue
cess, and whose end was glorious, be-
gan by thinking. He says, ! thought
on my ways. This ia the first step III
the life Of every one who becomes good
or useful, or great. Stop and think !!
There is salvation in thought if i, goes
far enough. Think of your ways. DO
this to-day, and tomorrow you may
hear again from The OLD MAN.
Year: 1879

The pedestrian furor takes some strange shapes.
and there is nearly as great contest to obtain o
pedestrienne with "a record as there some
times is between impressarii to get possession
Of a favorite prima donna. The Withdrawal
of Annie Bartell from the Brewster Hall
track on Wednesday has made additional
attraction necessary, and to-day Nine Franklin. who
has already walked over twenty-five days at the
Adelphi Theatre. Brooklyn. +. D.. will transfer the
scene OF effort to Brewster Hall, where she pro-
poses to extend the tramp to $500 quarter
miles in $500 quarter hours. She will leave
the Adephi at five minutes past one o'clock
to-day. The route will be from Division avenue and
Clymer street to the Grand street ferry, and after
crossing through Grand street and broadway to
Fourteenth street. The journey will be mado
in a carriage. Nine Franklin alighting regularly to
walk her quarters at the timekeeper's call. Her
twenty fifth hundredth quarter will be walked in
Broadway. beginning in front of the Grand Central
platoon of police and brass band to accom-
pany her. and city surveyor will be in advance to
measure the distance


AN UNPLEASANT INCIDENT.


Two ladies' bedecked in sealskin sacques and dia
monds came to grief last evening at the brewster
Dart g she They n
sisted upon getting on the track by way of
experiment to demonstrate how many quarter miles
they could travel in regimentals In corresponding
number of quarter hours. The audience evi-
IDENTIFY in humor to indulge them in their eccentric
enterprise and regarded the proposition as novel
and attractive innovation. The manager Of the
trampng tournament however. put his foot down
and directed hesitating and puzzled officer to take
the ladies' into custody. The officer obeyed the man.
date with great reluctance and conducted the ladies'
with great dignity of department. TO the Fifteenth
precinct station house. where they followed at
q respectful distance by the uncompromising man.
ager. At the desk their pedigree was taken by this
time they had realized their unenviable position
and their late enthusiasm had forsaken them and
given place to feelings of terror and alarm. They
pleaded mercy and to be allowed to return homo
to their husbands. One of them proclaimed that her
father q prominent member Of the police force.
and threatened condign punishment on the head OF
her accuser. They were locked up.





At eleven o'clock last night Peter L. Van Ness had
completed his l5S1st half mile He is walking very
well considering that IL his thirtv-third day OF
walking.
Year: 1879

married in the afternoon. The couple asked to be
allowed to spend their honeymoon in the County
Jail as they feared being killed. Last evening the
police went after the woman's clothes. and were
again attacked by the Chinese. The excitement is
still high.
Year: 1879

THE HEAVY WEIGHT PUGILIsTs EXCHANGE


BLOWS IN A DARRooM-RYAN OBJECTS TO


BEING CALLED ga LOOKING GLASS FIGHTER"


At an early hour yesterday morning Johnny
Dwyer. OF Brooklyn. champion of the heavy weights
of America. and Paddy Ryan. formerly of Troy. but
now of New York, met by chance at . sporting
house on Twenty ninth street. near Broadway. The
pugilists had long been at loggerheads. owing to
Ryan's inability to get OH o match for the cham
pionship in the prize ring with Dwyer. and it
was not long before they began exchanging very
uncomplimentary terms Kach had been imbibing
pretty freely. and ut last Paddy asked Johnny
If he was responsible for the remark that he (Ryan
was ga looking glass fighter" Dwyer said that he
was. when there more harsh words, and the
men went smashing each other in the most approved
STYLE clinch followed, and in the struggle Dwyer
was thrown. At this juncture friends of the
fighters and the proprietor OF the house separated
them. whereupon it was instantly agreed to fight it
out at some road house at daybreak. Efforts were
had not elapsed before the saloon where the brief
struggle took place invaded by Of
inquirers, and though the proprietor is generally
shrewd enough in such matters. he was compelled
to close his place


When the news had reached the street both Dwyer
and Ryan concluded to leave the scene and they de-
parted. going in different directions. but still bent
on tghting ut daylight. How soon they changed
their minds is not known but it is sufficient to say
that had they endeavored to carry their plans into
execution the entire party would have been ar
rested as shortly after the disturbance every pre-
cinct in the city notified of the intentions the
men and q sharp lookout ordered to be kept that
such fight did not take place. The friends of the
pugilists talked the matter quite freely yester
Will lead to genuine match between the men in the
ring for . large stake.
Year: 1879

"quick medicine" for purposes of abortion.
The defence called attention to cherry
the view and also that bush beside tho window had
been trimmed away The matter or seeing the car
proceedine to the alleged point on the roadway
and ende~voring to see the window where
Mrs. Hayden sat. surveyor present
with his instrument. through which the
jurors took sights OF various points the spring.
but further up the roadway. The home OF Mary
stannard found closed and locked. and after
casual survey of it's exterior the party struck up
through the dense woods to the place where the
body was found, following the path taken oy tne
girl on that fatal afternoon.


TRAGIC GROUND. -


The group. which by accessons of residents OF the
little hamlet had now grown to seventy persons
gathered around the stake with its futering white
cloth which marked the spot where the head lay,
and counsel carefully described the POSITION d ~
abandoned road, at one side or which the
stake stood was followed down to its Intersection
with the main road. at the place where woman
heard Mary's death shriek on the tragic september
afternoon. Thence back southward by tho main road
the party went tho Stannard house again, and 1t
still being untenantcd and several jurymen mani
Testing a desire its Interior tho staple
E of the padlocked kitchen door drawn and adj
mission gained. Only hasty survey was made.
covering mainly the location or the rooms and the
lines of sight involved in the testimony OF Marys
half sister, susan Hawley then the door was refast
eued and after passing down the road to the spot
where it is claimed that Hayden was seen crossing
in the direction Of the place Of the murder the party
started halfmil tramp across ploughed
fields and newly cut woodlands to the
Hayden wood lot where the accused represented
that he was work the afternoon of the tragedy
He claims to have been throwing wood into piles ad-
joining the road handy for his wagon but the coun
sci for the prosec pointed out that this work.
if performed at all. unnecessary. From the
wood lot short cut was made across swampy
ground where many went up to their ankles in mud.
to the Hayden house. and the investigation was
ended.


HoMEwARD BOUND.


Two hours had been consumed. and at five O'Clock
the visitors started their return trip. Darkness
came on, and the road was narrow and rocky. but
no mshap occurred other than the breaking down
OF q carriage occupied by the lawyers. Guilford
reached at half-past special train was in
waiting and landed the party here at eight O'Clock.
making fourteen miles of the distance in sixteen
minutes. The jurors were quartered at hotel
for the night. The time given for investigation
being brief necessitated quick movements from
place to place about the scene Of the tragedy but
satisfactory idea of the peculiar topography of
the region given than could have been gathered
from volumes Of testimony. During the trip the
counsel for the prosecution called their sick wit
ness. old Benjamin Stevens. Though weak. he was
confident and said that he would reach Court before
the trial ended il he had to be borne on .
litter.
Year: 1879

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal Dec. 9. 1879.


Relative to the statement made in the East that
the Oakland track, on which st. Julien made his
record is short it is sufficient state that the GER
tincste OF W. H. Boardman. the Alameda County
Surveyor Is file in the Office of the association
owning the track and also in the office Of the Secre
tary of the National Trotting Association and gives
the length Of the track thirty inches over mile
Year: 1879

BURNING BARGE THREATENS ELLIS ISLAND


AND THE CoMMUNIpAw sHIPYARDs WITH DE-


sTRUCrIoN.


A 1re broke out at six o'clock last evening on the
barge Carter. lying at starin's shipyards adjoining
the New Jersey Central Railroad yards at Communi-
paw. The barge loaded with empty boxes, and.
in n few minutes was one of flames. The fire
spread TO the box factory standing on the dock.
which was soon enveoped in flames. The Jersey
City Fire Department answered the alarm promptly.
but when they neared the of the confagration
were prevented from going directly to it by the
railroad cars, which choksd up all the tracks.
This difficulty was finally overcome. and then
it was discovered that no water could
be obtained. While they endeavoring
to devise of qucnching the flames. the wind
was sweeping the flames from the burning barge
and factory to other buildings the premises and
for time 1t looked though the fire would have II
all its own way. The tug boat Mcclellan finally
brought on tho scene, with instructions to tow the
barge away. hempen rope was fastened to
the burning boat. but piece of lighted
timber fell upon 1t and it. Than wire rope
fastened to tho hulk and the big boat started
with the mass of flames into the bay. Then the
officers of the tug encountered difliculty. II
they hauled the burning barge the west the wind
would sweep the flames and sparks over upon the
steamboats, Pomona and d. X. Martin. which
they the chance of going upon Ellis Island. where
10000 tons OF powder are stored aud upon the pow
der ships lying of the coast. so the tug paraded
the burning hulk up and down the intervening
water in the view OF multitude of spectators who
had gathered to witness the beautiful and un
usual sight. At time they ran 40
close to Ellis Island that the garrison there
turned their guns upon them and ordered them
away. Finally the timber which held the wire rope
was burned away, and the flaming barge drifted up
against the Central Railroad lumber docks, setting


Are to the lumber stored there. An attempt was made
to the tugboat into the barge with such force a.
to sink the lattor, but the effort resulted only
in peril TO the tug. party OF nrvmcn
in rowboat afterward went to the burning hulk
and tried to cut hole in her bottom. but the heat
drove them away. The hull was left to burn to the
waters edge and 1t seemed as though the whoiesoi
the contiguous property must be destroyeu-ui
finally the New York Are boat came to the rescue
and soon brought the flames under control. Iht
loss Is about $4,000.
Year: 1879

From tho Cincinnati Gazette Sept 25I


Professor J. w. Graydon. of this city. has for
some time been experimenting with new invention
called the audiphone which is intended to supplant
the old ear trumpet for by the deaf. There has
been audiphonc in Chicago. but Professor
Graydon claims that his instrument Is great im-
provement upon that. The audiphone. constructed
by Professor Graydon, consists of small electro
microphone to centre of ahe diaphragm Of which
is attached cord. which may be of any length. and
to the other end OF which cord is attached q small
piece of wood The manner of working the instru-
ment is very simple aud can be briefly described -
follows:-The deaf person takes iirm hold Of the
piece of wood between his upper and lower
teeth and the party desiring to converse with the
deaf man talks through the ectro-mcrophone
attachment the other end of the cord, holding the
conveyed through the nerves of the teeth ana the
bones the the auditory nerve. which, owing
detection OF the ear caused by disease Is nos
approach liable through the usual channel thence
to the brain The instrument will only WORK.
however, when deafness has been caused
by disease. In OF paralysis OF the audi
tory nerve il is useless. Some very interesting
tests OF the audi phone were made at the Dear anu
Dumb Department attached To the Ihiru Ahterme-
date school yesterday morning.


Amoua others was one of bright looking colorod
girl who was entirely deaf The Professor talked TO
her at a distance of about Twenty-Five feet through
the instrument. and she repeated after him every
thing which ne said. Another was little girl who
had been deaf and dumb from birth. Using tho
mute alphabet she info ormcd the teacher In charge
tbat she ceuld hear that one statement of the Pro-
lessor was made in louder tone OF voice than
another but that she could not understand what ne
said never having been able TO hear such sounds be-
fore In some other cases, however the pupils upon
whom the instrument was tried said In their mute
language that they were unable to distinguish any
sound whatever IL Is fair to presume that the in-
strument WILL as have the telephone and micro
phone be greatly improved. and that ut no distant
day it will 0e of great service to those afflicted "
Year: 1879

and Mower the most complete harvesting
machine constructed throughout Of excellent material
embraces
the farmer The Sell lsakug
nt The
side the machine and ont the OF the team making the next
Of the
te,
small gave the rake be held
This
machine built Mower and arranged before
Rake
added by the farmer and tools required to put on take OF
tool Two





Chamjio Conn and Reaper
Year: 1879

ay the Balm Wagon due to the
all the
,na
skilled free labor {no Convict labor being nsed)
in work
work and PRODUCING strength durability aud shtnes draft
Round Edge
frolnwe with Brass Screw and
baent Sken hnrs be the
Year: 1879

We HAVE NO desire whatever that our
peighbor the Gazette" should become
involved in libel suit, for at the best
they must be very costly and unsatis-
factory luxuries, and when We referred
on Monday to the case Of Mr.. Rile, We
based our remarks upon our knowledge
of the case, having seen his receipt, and
upon the tenor Of the local which ap-
peared in the columns Of the Gazette"
in relation to it, and while no doubt the
editor knew nothing Of the local until
it appeared IN print, the spirit Of it was
sn tficient to rouse the ire Of Mr.. Rile
and to elicit comment. We agree with
the Gazette. ;" in the belief that If the
Grand Jury did find any true bill
against Mr.. Rils, it was through mis-
apprehension Of the merits Of the case,
and we will supplement this by saying
on our responsibility, through an intense
desire by leading Democrats to get off,
sets to the large number of their own
party who are indicted for illegal
voting.
Year: 1879

SENATOR BAYARD, when be arrived at
New York, from Europe, instead OF
applying his smelling bottle to his
nose as he passed through, should
have accepted the Kelly boom that was
awaiting him on his arrival. Now
Kelly is against him, and the little Del
aware boom lost echo before 1t crossed
the two bays which hug his little
State.
Year: 1879

Washington, June 6.-The western
democratic senators very generally ex-
press indignation over to-day's decision
of the senate finance committee to
postpone reporting the Warner silver
bill until the next session. They claim
a sufficient number of votes to secure
the adoption of Coke's resolution to
discharge the committee from further
consideration of the bill, and to bring
it Immediately before the senate for
action, but these calculations will un-
doubtedly prove to be erroneous, as
at least nine democratic senators will
vote against Coke's resolution.


Senators Booth and Hill and several
other friends of the double standard
system, although decidedly in favor Of
the main objects of the Warner silver
bill, believe, nevertheless, that it viii
be highly advisable to defer the action
on this subject until next session, in
order to afford time for unembarrassed
prosecution of the efforts now in pro
gress for the establishment of an inter
national common ratio between silver
and gold, which would place the double
standard upon a firm and lasting basis
Year: 1879

Washington, June 6.-During the
debate on the bill reducing the salaries
of letter carriers, Cox characterized
the bill as the meanest he had ever
seen. There was nothing SO mean, so
parsimonious, SO coarse, so despicable
as to bring in a bill to repeal law
passed at the last session, and to cut
down the pay of men who were worked
fourteen hours a day in New York
city, because the gentleman from Him
ois tCannon) did not want that sort of
work upon the prairie. (Laughter)


Cannon replied that the gentleman
from New York Cox wanted to get
into some despicable, demagogical posi-
tion, and to get some shouts from the
slums of New York city.


Munroe opposed the bill. He was in
favor of the free delivery system as
being an instrument of civilization,
and thought that it should be intro
duced into the young cities of the coun-
try. In regard to the pay of carriers,
he did not believe 81, 900 and $500 toe
much for faithful, honest men, who
gave the best they had to the service
the country.
Year: 1879

New York, June GA dispatch from
Bismarck, D. T., says that President
Billings and other gentlemen who sub
scribed literally to the recent loan of
two millions to the Northern Pacific,
after an inspection of the extenson west
of the Missouri, find that it is progress
ing too slowly and will take steps to
stir it up, and if possible, build the
whole distance to the Yellowstone this
year. The contractors took the grading
at fifteen cents per yard, and it is being
sub let at thirteen cents, which. it is
said, is too low and il the company
want the work completed this summer,
they will have to do it themselves. 1t
is thought that President Stark
will be made general manager. With
the completion of the division of the
Yellowstone and Pendaville, on the
Pacific coast, President Billings pro-
poses to establish stage line between
the terminal points and thus provide
for through travel and mail route.