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Year: 1879

Marshal's Office, given in our Washington dls-
matches this morning, for fresh material Tor
their crusade against the infamous election
laws. They will there discover that United
States Marshal Payn actually spent at the
last election in this city less than either he or
anv of his predecessors had spent at any time
since 1868 and that under his administration
the expenses have been steadily decreasing.
The officer who will serve the Democrats III
This way must have bad heart. Can't MI
Fernando Wood head movement to nave
him turned out


If an honest confession has henehclal
effect upon the soul, it is not difficult to guess
the psychological result of the false comics
sions which seem to be growing so pienlluI'
The latest instance is one where an Engllsh-
man who has not so far been proved TO oe
ANYTHING worse than thief has voluntarily
laden himself with the guilt Of murder,
but has framed his penitent confession win 50
little regard TO chronology that it is believed
to be mere fiction. The design is Obvious
TOO much so to allow this ambitious fellow to
have his way and be considered the worst OF
criminals. The moral Of the incidcnt--ior all
incidents have mCral-seems to be that there
is but one way to attain undisputed rank as
murderer: First kill your man.
Year: 1879

Howard Kretchmar's statue "The Stricken South"
has been put into marble and is highly praised in
St. Louis.


Preston Powers. the sculptor. is to return to
Florence in December. and possibly may come back
soon. there is talk of his starting a school OF
sculpture in Cincinnati.


The probability. which we made mention of some
time ago. that the Metropolitan Museum OF Art
would not be opened in November. is now a fact.
and is thought that it will be possible
the collections in place until the spring. Tie labor
of installation Is an immense one which only those
who have witnessed it can understand fully.


Local art feature at the Utica Loan Exhibition.
open.


In Boston there is talk Of holding q public exhi-
the Museum OF Fine Arts 1t is an admirable idea.
which should be carried out.


From Saratoga paper we learn that remains or
interesting stonework, executed by the Indians,
have been discovered i'll swamp, on the shores OF
Fish Creek, Saratoga Springs. 1t is solid wall
OF cobbestones, which extends in semicircular
form, i'll the swamp, out from q high slate bank 1t
encoses about half varies in width from six
to eight feet and. to judge from the evidences
tends downward for some distance. There seems
be little doubt that the wall the work OF aborigi-
MES for stumps OF white oak, bearing evidence of
age found top it different
trap for there is opening of twenty five feet
in tho sencirclc and the OF the creek over
flow the swamp by several foet in the spring. At
this season large schools of shad herring were
once in the habit OF running up the Hudson into
Fish Crock.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HRRALD:-


have nothing to say to your comments upon the
opinion which gave upon the duties and powers
of the Police Board in the appointment of in
spectors. 1 may DO wrong and you may bo
right upon . question relating to the legal
construction and operation of statute. But
in the of my profession protest against
your assertion statement that all lawyers feel
bound to make the best possible for their client
when asked for an opinion on . question OF law;
and beg leave to inform you that "rammany" is
not my CLIENT and that have received IRE
tainer'' from ''rammsny" from any repre-
senting that body. Your remarks. to which take
exception, are these:-


feels Bound to make the best possible for his
client There is nothing in the morals Of the pro-
fession which forbids Mr. Curtis to take retainer
from Tammany. Even the most desperate criminals
entitled to the best professional services which
they can pay for"


According to my understanding of the ''morals Of
the profession" when lawyer IN applied TO Tor
opinion on question OF law he is to examine 1t and
give his conscientious judgment upon II, whether
that judgment helps hurts tho party who asks tor
the opinion. never gave an opinion in my lite in
any other way. When an opinion has been given it
is for the party applying for 1t to make such of
1t he ft Ordinarily IL IL s adverse to his in
is In accordance with his wishes he generally
It in any way that he thinks will promote his Oh
jocts.


On the other hand. what you call retainer" by
which you say that "thc most desperate criminal
is entitled engage the best professional services
ho pay for, means that the counsel is to make
the best possible case he can for his client before
the COURT that is to try him. This Ia entirely
different situation from that OF counsel who is
applied to for u professional opinion on question
OF law. In the latter case ho is not bound 10 make
the best possible for his client. and he is bound
to say nothing but what he conscientio believes
to be the law. You may not know IL, but 1t is
very common thing for lawyers to give opinions
adverse to the wishes of those who ASK for them.
have done IL many times. Two gentlemen
OF the Bar. Messrs. whitney and Emott.
Year: 1879

Hon. Alexander Ramsey was sworn
in as Secretary of War last Friday.
When his name was sent by the
President to the Senate as his nomi-
nee for the position he now occupies,
It received the high compliment of
being at once confirmed by that
body, without any reference to a
committee as is usual in such eases.
This was sincere expression of
the kind feeling held by the leading
statesmen of the Nation, regardless
of party affiliations, for Minnesota's S
representative in the cabinet. Secre-
taer Ramsey's lifelong experience
with public men and measures will
make him most valuable member
of the present administration.
Year: 1879

All parties who are indebted to us for
Binder wire and other cash goods, will
please bear in mind that it is much
plcasanter to call and pay up, than it is
to wait and be dnned by. Please
call at once without fail and oblige.


Yours Rest


Laird s. Dornberg.
Year: 1879

NINE. CHRISTINE NILSSON Nine. Rau-
zeaud) and her husband were defend
ants in suit which came before the
civil tribunal of Paris recently. In 1868
they bought from the city of Paris a
piece of ground at the corner of the Rue
de Morny and the Avenue de PEmper-
eur, subject to the condition that they
should build mansion thereon. As
they have not yet fulfilled that part of
the contract, and the plot of ground re-
mains vacant, the municipal authority
instituted proceedings to compel them
to execute that condition. Mr.. and
Nine. Rouzeaud did not appear either
in person or by counsel, and judgment
was given against them.
Year: 1879

From fifty thousand to sixty thousand
camels are used in the transportation
of ten thousand troops in Northern In
dia and the service has occasioned great
mortality among the animals.
Year: 1879

repeat Perhaps you know well enough alrcafr
why hat victory not more complete. To ~
the story short. it was proposed that some one
should vist General Hooker and urge him 20 appear
the fed-to GO in a earring If he could not
mount his horse but 20 gO--and 10 assure him that
the troops perfectly ready to follow him :;
were, IN fact. only waiting for somebody IN whom
they had faith to lead them. That message. as
have the best reason for knowing, was actually
taken To General Hooker, but his wound by that
time was in state which made il impossible for
him to stir.


When next saw General Hooker he had beer
beaten at Chancellorsville had been sent down to
see what the condition Of the army-reported to be
demoralized by that defeat-really My ac-
count. with such notifications editorial pru-
dence required, was published at the time, and
don't wish revive unpleasant subject but as
for G neral Hooker personally. it remains to be
said that he was the same man in defeat that
he had been in victory After Chancelors-
Vile, rs Mt Antietam, lie showed the
same splendid confidence in himself, his
canse, and his army. But the army, unhappily. no
longer returned it. Hooker, perhaps, had IT III HIM
to he the Grant of the great conflict; but destiny
ordered otherwise. He was, in any case,
soldier of brilliant abilities and perhaps still more
brilliant courage utterly in earnest about his
fighting and full of fine qualities which nobody
who cane into contact with him, though ever so
briefly, could mistake. Gw.s.
Year: 1879

The New York "Times" says that at
the close of the term prescribed by law
for the appointment of Election Inspec-
tors and Poll Clerks-that is, at II
o'clock last night-the Police Board had
succeeded in agreeing on but three
fourths Of the required number of In
spectors and one-ha!f the number of
Poll Clerks. What result may be
reached in the course oc the all-night
session, in which the board seemed
likely to indulge, it is at this writing
impossible to say. But by mid night
the Republican Commissioners had
secured the appointment of the Inspec-
tors of their own party, while their
Democratic associates were still resist
ing every attempt to appoint Inspec-
tors on their side who would not pledge
themselves to the support of the State
ticket nominated by the Syracuse con-
vention. There was, accordingly, a
failure to appoint one of the four In
spectors in each election district.
Year: 1879

The entertainment to be given by the
Moral Suasion Reform Association on
Thursday evening nert, promises to
excel anything of the kind yet given
by the club. In addition to an excel
lent programme already mentioned, a
quartette from the GeneraHlie Glee
Club will be present and render some
selections. Admission ten cents.
Year: 1879

No one needs to be told that cyanide
Of potassium, a drug largely used in
photography, is a poison Of the most
deadly character. Its active ingredient
IS prussiC acid. Prussic acid in its pure
or, as chemists would term it, 'anhy-
drOUs" form, is substance too dangerous
to be kept, or even manufactured If a
glass capsule containing a wine-glassful
Of pure pTussiC acid were broken in the
pit Of a theater, those among the
audience who were nearest to the doors
might escape, but the great majority
would bekilled on the spot. The prussic
acid ordinarily sold, and occasionally
used for killing dogs and cats, contains
about a drop Of the pure acid to a
quarter Of a pint Of water. Pure prussic
acid no druggist dare keep. He might
as well compress a ton of dynamite into
a single cartridge, suPposing such pack
age to be possible, and then leave the
deadly parcel lying on the table. Cyanide
of potassium is not, like prussic acid,
volatile. 1t is a white powder, rather
resembling -four or chalk. 1t is, how
ever, so poisonous that a mere pinch of
It, sprinkled over an open wound or sore,
will cause almost instantaneous death /;
that a fragment almost imperceptible to
the eye will, if swallowed, prove equally
fatal and that its mere smell has before
now produced immediate death,
Year: 1879

An ingenious fraud was recently com
mitted upon a wealthy merchant resi-
ding in Paris. He received a letter in
forming him that the writer had ascer-
tanned that a box containing treasure
was buriedlin his garden, and offering to
indicate the exact spot if he would agree
to divide the spoil The merchant was
at first inclined to treat the matter as a
hoax, but upon receiving a second and
more pressing offer he sent an answer
agreeing to the proposal The next day
he was waited upon by a gentleman of
agreeable manners, and it was arranged
that the search should be made at night,
in order to prevent the neighbOrs talk
ing. The bOx-a very weighty One-Was
duly Unearthed, and, when taken into
the house and opened, was found to con-
tain 5000 francs Isl ,600) in silver pieces
Of five francs each. The merchant,
much pleased at the result of the search,
at once handed over the half which he
had promised to his infOrmer, who re-
marked that it was rather a heavy lump
to carry to the railway station, distant
about mile, and that perhaps the mer-
chant could obligs him with notes or
gold instead. This the merchant was
very happy to do; but he regretted it
bitterly the next morning, as he saw
that the five franc pieces were all coun-
terfeit.
Year: 1879

he breakneck run that good horses take
when pressed by their drivers, and the
white horse came as rapidly after.


Almost IN sight of home, and the
strange man within q rod or two of Fan
and her precious lOadI 'MOtherl Moth
er| shreked Huldah in her extremity,
but no mother was near, and the white
horse gained steadily on Fan. She could
hear the heavy breathing of the over
driven horse, and feel the 1ecks Of foam
that fell from her own horses mouth,
and, faint and sick, she almost. fell from
the saddle, as the pUrsuer grasped her
in his arms and screamed in her ear.
Don't you know your father"


The war was over, and never rode
father and daughter into a door yard as
proudly and happily as did HuIdah and
her papa on that starlit evening in
FTye5urg.
Year: 1879

DR.. Brown SeqUard once gave the fol-
lowing directions to a person afflicted
with a nervous cough: Coughing can be
stopped by pressing on the nerves of the
lips in the neighborhOOd Of the nose.
A pressure there may prevent q cough
when it is beginning. Sneezing may be
stopped by the same means. Pressing
also. in the neiyhborhood of the ear
may stop coughing. Pressing very hard
on the top of the mouth inside, may
have a good effect, And I may say the
will has immense power, too. There
was a French surgeon who used to say,
whenever he entered the walls of his
hospital, 'The first patient who coughs
viii be deprived of food to-day" twas
exceedingly rare that a patient cOughed
then
Year: 1879

One OF the principal reasons for the sue
cess of American manufactures abroad,
says an English exchange, is the adapta-
bility of American mechanics. They are
not only competent to make anything
that is required, but they can also de-
sign tools for any conceivable purpose.
They can make machinery for any work
whatever, and they are always ready to
learn. They do not think that theirs is
the only way in which a thing can be
done, and they are ready at any time to
make any sort of tools or machines that
their customers caH for. 1t Is the YER
satility of American mechanics that
pushes their products on the foreign
marketsD
Year: 1879

DR.. Kane, finding flower under the
Humboldt glacier, was more affected by
it because it grew beneath the lip and
cold bosom Of the ice, than he would
have been by the most gorgeous garden
bloom. So some single struggling grace
in the heart of one far removed from
divine influences may be dearer to God
than a whole catalogue Of virtues in the
life of one more favored by heaven.
Year: 1879

AT the center of a whirlwind there
exists a calm. A ship may be in that
tranquil center and be safe when every
thing that liesin the rotating CircUmfer-
ence of the storm is swept away and
utterly destroyed So God may keep his
people IN safety, and grant them sud-
den deliyeranCe, when men can see no
possibility of escape. He stands at the
center Of all storms and trials, and If
He hides US in the secret of His pavilion.
no harm shall be done to US.
Year: 1879

1t Is not so generally known as It
should be that belladOnna, or its active
principle, atrOpia, is the most efficient
antidOte in case Of opening poison; but
it must not be administered in too large
quantities, else it produces poisonous
effects Of its own.
Year: 1879

People have a greater respect for the
sun than they do for the moon. 1t
pleases a giVI to tell her that she has a
sunny disposition, but tell her that she
has p luny one, and then see.
Year: 1879

I Ivenerate old age; and I love not the
man who can look without emotion
upon the sunset Of life, when the dusk
Of evening begins to gather over the
watery eye, and the shadows Of twilight
grow broader and deeper upon the un-
derstanding.
Year: 1879




In a country like ours the press is
the great conservative power, the
bulwark of democratic institutions,
the final defence of liberty and jus
tice. Our forefathers understood
this, and the Constitution provides
that Congress shall make no law
abridging the freedom of the press.
This provision is even more impor-
tant now than it was then; for with
the progress of Capitalization in gov
ernment, with the ideas of personal
rule which have come to be enter
tanned in so many quarters among us,
and with the alarming development
of corruption and fraud in the high
est places of administration, the right
of the press to speak loudly and with
out hesitation, to brand the criminal
executive officer, and to denonuce
every conspiracy against self-govern-
ment, has now become not merely
wholesome and precious, but abso-
lutely Indispensable, M4e only sure
corner stone of the Constitution and
of the republic.
Year: 1879

EDITOR LEDGER: We are having
good, snug winter weather, the ther-
mometer vibrating below zero, with
plenty of snow to make it interesting.
Hard times is the almost universal
cry. 1 thought, before I left Mexi-
CO, that it was hard times with US,
but the people here are worse off, es-
pecially the farming and laboring
part of the community, than we are.
1 will quote from speech made in
the State Senate by Hon. Samuel 5.
Edick, member from this district, on
a piii reduce the rate OF interest
lie says tnat a.. least 80 per cent.
of all the lands OF this State are un-
der mortgage, bearing sevon, .per
cent. interest; that so per cent. OF
all the business in the commercial
centres is done or borrowed capital,
and the farmer pays so per cent.
more taxes in proportion to the true
valuation than does the capitalist"
Failures are of every day occurrence
here. Very many that were a few years
ago well eff, are now destitute and
depending on their daily labor for
bread and they cannot get much work
at any price. The merchants are
complaining that goods they sold to
the farmers last season, expecting to
get pay when the crops were sold are
generally unpaied for and the very
low price of produce has put them
behind. So they cannot pay this
year at least, and no better prospects
ahead. A general panic is greatly
feared this spring. If such shoulq
be the case, not one man in twenty
could meet the demands Of his credE-
tors. A bill reducing the rate of in
terest is meeting with great favor,
even among capitalists, for they be-
gin to see that they will have to make
some concession or do worse. There
are thousands here that would like to
60 west, but they are involved to
such an extent that they can't get out
with enough to get there with. Real
estate cannot be sold here at any
price, unless for debt, then the credi-
tor is the buyer. A person in pass
ing through many of our towns and
villages would think from the appear
ance that all was peace and plenty,
but investigation will develop the
fact that generally where there is
bay window in front,a mortgage COW
ers the roof. In my next l will try
and give my views as to the cause OF
the excessive hard times here.


| G. H. H.
Year: 1879

A IL the type now in this Office is entlre-
n " new. We have oil the late styles
card and poster type, and flatter ourself
that we can do as good work as any Office
In tho State. Give us n trial.
Year: 1879

While the home rule need not be
made Of iron, it should be sufficient.
ly firm to make itself known and
recognized. 1t would be as well for
parents to bear in mind that their
children are to be the future men
and women, who will give tone to
politics and society; and that they
are now planting the seeds which
may spring up for the good or ruin
of this great empire.


Humility is virtue that all
preach, few practice, and yet every
body is content to hear. The mas.
ter thinks it good doctrine for his
servant, the laity for the clergy, and
the clergy for the laityt
Year: 1879

heart, and being madelof the quality
of material all real, true men are
made Of, he stood up beneath this
terrible reverse, and faced itslike a
hero. 0fcourse hs could not marry
then. What hadhe to offerhis bride?
Not even roof to shelter her, or o
dollar he could call his own. So he
went to her like a man and told her
his story-how the financial wave
that swept over him had carried
away all his possessions, and he was
unable to fulfill his engagement Of
marriage with her. He told her he
could not bear the thought Of relin-
gushing her hand, and yet he felt
that he had no right toclaimit with.
out making her his wife. So he Of.
fered her freedom from her betrothal,
and told her that she had perfect
right 10 accept it. He was going
away, he said, to retrieve his lost for
tunes, and would never return to the
city until he had. lie gave his be-
trothed back the promise she had
made him, and he bade her be free.


What did she do? bid she whim-
per like child and upbraid him for
what he was not to blame? Did she
take back the promise she had given
him, and scorn his very presence?-
mol she did neither, but like the true,
sensible woman that she was, she
bade him go, and take her love and
confidence and her prayers with him,
in his efforts to build up his shatter-
ed fortune. She showed him what a
real gomanzzoaeof the gopdnld Spar,
tan kind.can do for the man she
loves. She taught how much the
confidence and sympathy of a true
woman is worth to man, when the
clouds of adversely gather over him,
and the way seems dark and hope.
less. She gave him what only good
noble woman can give a man-thc
pure, unseltish love that comes from
a generous heart.


So he bade her farewell and went
out into the world with u firm pur-
dose and strong and happy heart.
He followed the course of the sun,
crossed the Western plains and ar
rived in the GoldenStatc. He stuck
his stakes and went to work. Sue
cess crowned his efforts. He toiled
with one object in view, and that OBJ.
ject was to win back his lost fortune.
His solace and comfort in matiy, On
hour of WEAKNESS, was the thought
Of the noble woman who had bid him
go with her love and confidence as
his companions, and the kind and
sympathetic letters that came to him
from Dubuque in this far off western
home, cheered him and spurred him
on to renewed activity.


He drew a Fortunate ticket in life's
lottery. He made an excellent in
vestmentt and suddenly found him.
self a rich man. Once more his for
tune was in his hand, and he was
himself again. He returned to Du-
buque to claim his bride. He found
her the same true, loving woman
that he had left few years before.
Her love had not diminished by alb,
sence, and she received him with all
the ardor and affection other nature,
He returned to the city a few days
ago, and is soon 10 be united to
the woman he loves, and who has
waited for him all through these long
years with q devotion that is worthy
of praise and emulation.


1t is hardly necessary to mention
the names Of the couple. Both ofthe
are well known here. We refrain
from printing their names, not know
ing whether or not it would be agree
able to them. But almost every one
Year: 1879

4 Doc BITE Fatal AFTER TWENTY
YEARS. Thursday afternoon Samuel j.
Culver died at his residence, aged fifty years.
Twenty years ago, while in Hartford, he was
bitten in the leg by a dog, and for ten years
the wound remained a running sore, causing
him considerable trouble and anxiety At
the end Of that time the sore was allowed to
heal up, but the leg remained purple color
up to the time Of his death Recently tho
limb swelled until it burst Two weeks ago
to-day he was in his usual good health and
worked all day. The Sunday following he
was taken with a severe fainting fit. and
being put to bed did not leave it again.
Year: 1879

A farmer complains to the Commissioner
that he has not made ''more than 20 Bushels
of wheat per acre." A few years ago the
farmer who could have produced that much
would have been greatly pleased But this
is but another proof that Agriculture is
looking up in our State. The Commissioner
calls for statements of large yields. Let us
have them We would be glad to publish
them.