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Year: 1878

THE wedding of Colonel Russell Hastings and Miss Emily Platt was solemnized at the Executive Mansion on the evening of the 18th instant. The wedding was very quiet, only the immediate friends of the President and his family and of the bride and groom beInr present
Year: 1878

When Freedom from her mountain neigh

 Unfuried her ardHrd to the air, She tore the azure robe Of night,

 And gave the world-MontgOmery Blair

 It was a mean thing for Freedom tC do, and doubtless she is sorry for il now, and bedews the dome of the Capitol with tears of regret. But the country has to pay the accouchement bills all the same, and $20.0O0 is the first call
Year: 1878

ADoLPR SUTRo is of opinion that the header of the Sutro Tunnel is moi over 25O feet away from the face of the east drift on the 1640leyel of the Saw age mine. In that case the two should be connected in about thirty days.
Year: 1878

A clergyman said he once visited
a lady of his parish who had just
lost her husband, in order to otter
her consolation, and upon her earn
est inquiries as to the reunion of
families in heaven, he asserted his
belief in that fact. When she asked
with anxiety whether any time must
elapse before friends would be able
to find each other in the next world
he emphatically said, No, they will
be united at once" He was think
ing of the happiness of being able
to offer the relief of such faith,
when she broke in upon his medita


tions by exclaiming sadly, "Rell, his
first has got him then by this time"
Year: 1878

The gentleman who attracted so
much attention In church last Sun
day by crying out "Holy Lord"
had no intention of disturbing the
congregation. He had been put
ting down carpets, and as he sat
down in the pew he suddenly re
membered that he had left some
tacks in his coat tail pockets. We
make mention of this in justice to
bis family.
Year: 1878

Poverty is no more disgrace now
than in the days when Tubal Cain
in brass and his contempo-
rary across the way played on a
harp of thousand strings; and yet
there are plenty of political idiots
running at large and proclaiming
that the desire for competence is
Of evil origin and wealth a crime
that ought to be punished by stat
utOrV laws
Year: 1878

A Vicksburg writer says, "One
of our physicians had three sons in
places where the fever mad not
planted its black banner. He sent
for them, one at a time, to come
home and be sick, have the fever
and prepare for more useful lives as
They came, and, he
has got all though but one, and he
is waiting as confident his father
will bring him through as he is of
his nama
Year: 1878

If all the things we intended to
do to morrow were, to be actually
done to-day, the seandal-mongers
would haze to go out of business
and the millennium would be pretty
near at hand.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that yon
are requested TO pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons. but
cash alone win way our expenses, ana
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF such q
course, and renew your su scripti"n
without delay. We solicit Jour favor.


eB- We enter no new names on our
hooks wi'hout the money IN sdvsrce
Year: 1878

Do not trifie with the affections of
an innocent young city girl; do not
try to make friends with a mule by
squeezing his hind foot. If you as
plre either way you will find that
life is miserable failure.
Year: 1878

An exchange publishes the start
ling Information that there are no
reserved seats ia heaven. Most
people Tould tanish all uneasiness
on that account IL they could only
make sure OF obtaining standing
room
Year: 1878

A dealer in criminal statistics as
serts that there is a great deal more
crime now than in the days OF our
fathers. lie might have added,
with equal propriety aud truth,
there are, also, great many more
frst class sools.
Year: 1878

bADACAFhD WITH EENfACf TO TIRE OLfO Cnun


OF PULASKI.
He gave me a pretty whit rose
AS together we rOamed in the dell,
While the SiIvery ray = OF the moon
ArouLd us silently tell.
From tins flower | never will part,
But TO it will ever sling,
And treasure il deep IN my heart.
Aud ever OF it will sing.


CHORUS:
Ny pretty white rose. my pretty white rose.
lis toke he gave my pretty white rose
W bile lionel, sigh for days gone by,
III sing of my pretty white rose.
he gave me this rose with u kiss,
Which Lever forgotten will be,
And pressed me close TO his b-east,
And whispered love but thee.
This flower ever will cherish
With tondest hopes of my heart,
Though it decay 4 soon fade away
From its leaves never will part.
Year: 1878

A woman named Mary Noel Gabert,
aged about twenty-four years, and well
known throughout the city as a teacher
OF m"sic, died in her room yesterday morn
ing, in the large two-story frame house at
the northwest corner OF Third and Seneca
streets. The idea Of suicide was first
broached, but her attendant physician, Dr.
Is. W. Thomas, gave it as h.s opinion that
she died from the effects of an overdose OF
morphine, taken with no intent to commit
suicide. The coroner, Capt. J. c. Lynch,
upon being notified, declined to hold an In
quest, as the cause and manner of her
death were both clearly shown. Miss Ga
bert was native OF France, and had for
some time been engaged in teaching music
in this city and at the State penitentiary.
Year: 1878

DEATH IN The DARK
DiIiard Green the Recipient of
Load of Buckshot in the Back.
The Cowardly Assassin Does HE
Work SkiIIfuliy Under Cover


of::DarKness.
A Murder With no Witnesses-A
Tell ale Gun The Dea.h


Clutch Upon the


Pistol.
Joseph Lewis Arrested Upon Sus-
picion of Being the Murderer


His Story.
Year: 1878

Total ..........................S 1900


The TINES is now making offers that
Immediately put hundreds of agents to
work in every locality. The above is one
that is within the reach of all


In order to see the nature of the pre-
miums, read our grand offers on this page,
wherein the Elgin watch and Mammal s
Sunshine for little children, are fully de-
scribed. 1t is in the power of any man :,
woman or child, with little extra labor,
to obtain premiums that cannot be bought
anywhere for less than S19


Send us word if you want to get up a
club.
Year: 1878

town in the morning i went by way
of Ottawa street, and could not
have seen the body where it lay unless
had been looking particularly that way. i
am entirely innocent OF the murder" When
questioned regarding the testimony, given
by his wife and son before the corener's jury
in reference TO the enmity which had ex-
listed between him and the dead man, he
said he did not know why they should testi-
fy to such thing, which was absolutely
false. Lewis seemed TO be entirely cool
and uuconcerned, evidently appearing at
ease and not all fearful OF the result Of the
investigation. A warrant was sworn out
charging him with murder, and his prelimi-
nary examination will take place this morn
ing at the police court.


THE REAL CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE.


In the minds of the chief-of police and his
officers, there seems 20 be no doubt existing
as TO the guilt of Lewis, and certainly every
evidence of a circumstantial nature is
against him. There appears to be a family
trouble at the bottom Of il, more apparent
from the fact that all the members OF his
family swore before the coroners jury most
damagingly against him, especially in the
matter of the enmity between him and
Green. There are several other matters in
connection with the affair, OF family na-
ture, which will undoubtedly be brought
out at the preliminary examination this
morning.


THE MURDERED MAN


was about thirty five years Of age, class
leader IN his church. sober. and industrious,
and who stood well in the opinion OF those
who knew him. He WAS a widower, and
the rumor is that he was paving too strict
attentions to the wife OF the man who is now
under arrest As his murderer. BE it As it
NAV, the officers of the law are determined
10 probe the matter TO the bottom, and
bring to justice, if possible, the perpetrator
of this most cowardly assassination.
Year: 1878

The United States District Court Tor the
District OF Kansas will convene at Topeka
on the Sth of April, Judge Foster presid-
ing. The docket is a small one, and the
probabilities are that the session will be a
comparatively short one. The following is
a list of the iurymen drawn:
Year: 1878

BE severe to yourself, and indulgent
to others; you thus avoid all resentment"


"The wise man makes equity and
Justice the basis of all his conduct; the
right forms the rule of his behavior; def
erence and modesty mark his exterior;
sincerity and fidelity serve him for &C.
complishment." -.


"Love virtue, and the people will be
virtuous; the virtue of a great man is
like the wind; the virtue of the humble
is like the grass; when the wind passes
over it the grass inclines its head"


"Children should practice flial piety
at home, and fraternal Difference abroad;
they should be attentive to their actions,
sincere and true in their words, loving
all with the whole force of their afiec-
tions'


"Return equity and justice for evil
done to you, and pay goodness by good
ness"


Without the virtue of humanity,
one cannot be honest in poverty, nor
contented in abundance


"Real virtue consists in integrity OF
heart and loving your neighbOr as your
self"


"What desire that others should not
do to me, equally desire not to do to
then."


"Think not of faults committed in the
past, when one has reformed his con.
duct"
Year: 1878

The Supreme Court of Georgia has
established ruling that is worthy of the
consideration of the courts and iuries
fnrther north. 1t is to the effect that
nan in order to be too drunk to form
the intent TO kill, must be too drunk to
6Orm the intent to shoot
Year: 1878

MUCH of the "pure olive oil" found


I'm our table casters is made from cotton
seed, the consumption of which for this
purpose is increasing. Forage oil Is also


alsed for the same.
Year: 1878

MARK TwAIN's success on the plat
form is said to be much greater since he
did away with his manuscript. From
the written lectures he came down to
copions notes; from these to little card
With printed heads, which he put in his
waistcoat pocket. He dispensed with
this by substituting few marks on the
oack of his finger nails, and then he
vent it alone.
Year: 1878

AsIMpLE and very striking test may
be made to discover the admixture of
cotton in woolen fabrics, by unraveling
tho goods and placing little of the
hbre into dish and dropping upon it
somc strong nitric acid. The cotton will
- little or not at all affected; the wool,
g The contrary, will be changed to a
hight yellow. The color is due, in the
lseeer instance, to the development of a
nitrate.
Year: 1878

IHE notoriously easy divorces which
can be obtained in Utah are rendered
pebble under carelessly written clause
OF the territorial law, which refers to
those who are residents or wish to be-
come SUCH" The Mormons are said to
Be Strongly averse to the advantage taken
OF 1t, and the law will doubtless be
changed at the meeting of the next
leGislature.
Year: 1878

A correspondent telegraphs that the
Roumanians are becoming very uneasy
about the rumored intention of Russia
to demand the retrocession of the small
strip of Besearabia ceded to Roumania
after the Crimean war. This would
leave Koumania, not exactly without
compensation for the sacrifice of war
beyond the acknowledgment Of her in
dependence, but in fact poorer in terri
tory, since Austria is thought likely
to obtain an extension of Roumanian
territory south of the Danube.
Year: 1878

900 for a few fish that swim in the sea
within Othree miles of the Canadian
shore, which our fisherman catch. When
caught they are not worth more than
100000 year in barrels salted, at the
end of Long Wharf, and she got an
award of over $500, 900 for those very fish
when they were swimming in the sea.
Naughter.) ] said that was wreng and
it ought not to be paid, and did my best
to stop its being paid, and hope | have
done something in that regard. Great
applause) So far report to you.
Year: 1878

In this country Protestants make a
special profession of devotion to the
principle of religious liberty. 1t is their
rallying cry. They are such fast, uncom
promising champions of it's cause that they
are even willing to violate it's own law and
circumscribe its effect 80 as to exclude
Catholics from it's protection, simply by
reason of their suspicion that the Catholic
Church is its enemy. Better, they think
for its friends to main 1t little by cutting
off limb here and there, better to secure
it in safe place even by putting few
chains upon it, than to let those terrible
Papists have a chance of killing it alto
gether.


Still, strange to cay, they set up the
ooldest kind of claim to the advocacy of
freedom of conscience. Every man must
Judge for himself as to the doctrines
worthy of belief, and all that Professionalism
wants, according to them, in order 70
triumph over superstition and error, is an
open field and fair chance. Give them
Year: 1878

The Catholic Church is not entitled in
this country to police protection from
scandals about to be fastened on her by
the improper conduct of her children
even of her clergy,-but an imposter in
any garb ought to be looked after. We, in


common with the whole community, have
been shocked by the blasphemous pro.
|ceedings published in several of our daily
papers as pretended miracle at Maucb
Chunk, in Pennsylvania.


There may have been miracle at Maucb
Chunk, but We de not hesitate to stigma
tize the proceedings as gross imposture
and outrage, if they were such as reported.
The business style in which q newspaper
reporter is posted in the details of the
show about to come off ls rather too much
like the advertising dodge of a professed
Snowman to be coupled with the sacred
and awful mysteries of divine interposi- !
ton. Rev. Mr.. Heinen is represented as
speaking of the coming event with as much
fippancy and confidence as that with which a
slight- t-Of'hand man would expatiate on his
Year: 1878

1t may be of interest to our read ers to
see the official note from the Osseruatort
Ronano concerning the repentance of Vic
tor Emmanuel, especially as we hear that
sit was written by the hand OF the Pope
himself:


Scarcely had the Holy Father known of the
gravity OF the illness of King Victor Emmanuel
Then he sent respectable ecclesiastic to the
Qulrinal, not only TO obtain information con-
oernng the state of the sick, but to care 70,
ehe soul OF the dying man SO that when sum-
moned to appear before his God he might be
made worthy of His mercy. Tho ecclesiastc
was not admitted, but we know otherwise
that the King received the Ssoraments, de-
etar'ng that ne asked pardon Of the Pope for the


Next day the same paper "confirmed cat
legorically all that it had affirmed in that
NOTE"
Year: 1878

3powsr to perform given trick. The exclu-


sion of physicians rs experts in the matter
Of the alleged illness is another mark OF
simposture.
We hope that the newspaper report Of
the affair is q Wholesale slander, but il not,
the miracle is one which ought to be re-
warded with the penitentiary instead Of
Year: 1878

s This performance of the Legislature re-


the mountain in labor which brought forth


mouse. Our Solons have played the
barber instead of the Hercules. lnstI


of Staying the lion they have merely pared


his nails. The monster which has within


a few years deyoured the substance of this
people to the extent of fifty millions in


value, gets off with an odd clipping here
i and there from some official salary. The
vast field of stealage and extortion is left
untouched, while hard working officers
without an opportunity for plunder have
been made to bear the brunt of the econo-


mic storm. The abolition of Parish Courts
sand the biennial feature of Legislative
sessions are certainly good moves and
deserve creditable mention apart from
that there is nothing noticeable. The
Governors salary and two or three othera
sare slightly curtaied, not enough to coun-
aterbalance the plunder of fourth class
tax-collectorship, and feint is made at the
district Judges Legislature may reduceI
their pay and may not.


On the other hand, what has not BEEN
ldone3


The amendments do not touch, even by
implication, the one great, all-ebsorbing,
overshadowing evil of the sge, the curse
of this generation, the nightmare which,
frightens away all prosperity and stagnatesI
the life blood of enterprise. We mean
sDEBr,-State debt, parish debt, municipal
debt. Is it proposed to curtail the powerI
A of the Legislature in this respect NotI
one atom. If it see fit, it may still issue


bonds, bonds, bonds. The cities may still


issue bonds, the parishes may issue bonds.


They may all go in debt and mortgage the


property of citizens according to their ownI


sovereign caprice. They may, like profit


gate heirs, anticipate the revenues of the


future and sell posterity into the slavery
s of abject poverty. The first amendment
bought to have been this


"Neither the State government nor any


political corporation holding from the State
shall incur any debt whatever by contract
Of course, it would be too much to ex-
pect of any Legislature that it should vol
UNFAIRLY propose a Constitutional provision!
sdepriving it's own department of a preror-
ative so dearly cherished, but that is the
very reason why there should be a Conven.
tion from the people as soon as good policy
will permit.


Then, again, among the gravest scandals
of the age have been such monopolies az
the Slaughter House corporation, the Shipl


Island fraud, the Louisiana Lottery, andI
other similar franchises. And what amend


ment is proposed to meet that evil n
Simply this:


"The General Assembly shall not pass
any local or special law creating
any monopoly"


1t may, then, pass general law creating
monOpolies, that is authorizing their form.
alton throughout the State on complyance
with cartain requisites. There may, then.
be, for instance, lottery monopoly law
by which it will be provided that any nan
who bids highest for it shall have the lot
terry monopoly in any parish, or perhaps in
the whole State. Yet this monopoly,
Year: 1878

s In report from the Senate judiciary
HCommittee, upon reference to it of a Sun
Aday labor bill and petition, we find the


following language: "We believe that one


Iof the inalienable rights of man is the God


given right to labor"


This is excellent theoretically why not
i make it practical We admire the whole
report from which we Gull the foregoing sen.


timent. Itdisposes efectually of the over


godly zeal of certain Christians who would


punish Jews and Gentiles for not keeping


Sunday holy. These are certainly not
! bound in conscience to do 80, and why


force them to it by highly penal etatutes
when they are invited to this country


with the assurance of perfect religious
Afreedom7


And we especially admire the fine and


very just sentiment above quoted as to the
a'God-given" right to labor. It is based
lon the right to lire viewed in connection


with the law which says SIN the sweat of
thy brow thou shalt eat bread" Eating is
necessary to life, and by the law of our
present state labor is prerequisite to eat
ling. Therefore if man has q right to
live, he hasa right to labor, as the neces-
|sary condition of living.


Then comes the graver question Can|
labor be justly taxed 2 1t appears to usI
that whatever is necessary to life ought to|
be free from taxation. The air that vel
breathe is necessary to life-would it bel
right to tax the use of air 2 or water 7 al
qulbbler would answer: Yes, if the water
is brought in an adequate, or the air isI
artiHcially heated. But we speak of the
air and water as God gives them-the air
as it blows and the water as it falls from
the clouds. We speak of them not where.
in they are subject to the dominion of
special proprietorship, but wherein they
are free from such dominion and subject to
universal use. And we class the abstract
right to labor in the same rank. That is,
no man can properly be made to-Pay fez
the right to labor, though he may be made
to pay for using another's land on which toF
exert his labor.


But we firi this principle totally ig-
nored in the legislation of Louisiana
Every profession, trade, occupation and
business, is ruthlessly taxed. The mer-
chant, the doctor, the lawyer, the broker,
the manufacturer, even the carpenter, the
painter, the blacksmith, the shoemaker, is
prohibited from laboring for his bread IN
less he shall fret pay license to do 80
Some of these are prohibited directly and
by title others indirectly only, as where
their employers are obliged to pay the tax
before carrying on the work.


What would be thought of law which
should provide: You shall not breathe
until you have paid your license for breath
ing. Every one would say at once: So
ciety has no such power. The right to
breath is inalienable. And whyf Be
cause it is necessary to life. What, then,
Of a law which says: You shall not labor
for bread until you have paid money to the
government for a license to do so9 The
answer ought to be the same. Society has
no such power. The right to labor is
necessary to life. 1t is inalienable. 1t is
God given"
Year: 1878

"Then you don't want a clothes
wringer to-day?" said the man.


"No l DON'T" replied the woman.
"Times are too hard to think of it
Here's the middle of winter and me
with my summer hat yet. think see
myself buying clothes -wringer, and 60
ing bare-headed next summer. Not
much.


''But, l can sell you one on weekly
payments" put in the man. "Give it
to you at wholesale price, and let you
pay dollar a week on it. In that way
you would not feel it, and before you
knew it, you'd have it all paid for, and
be getting the use of it all the time
Amt that fair enough?"


'I'm not finding any fault with your
terms,' said the woman. "But do l
want to hide all that money where it
can't be seen? A clothes-wringer would
not look we'll propped up in front win
dow, would it? Six dollars is right smart
O. money, and l could buy hat that
would just make the plasterer wife wish
she'd staid in the old country"


"But," urged the man persuasively,
"think of the hard work it would save
you, and besides it's dirt cheap at the
price. No more twisting your fingers
out of joint if you have one of them.-
Shall we call it a trader"


"Notif know myself" returned the
woman. "Why, sir, with six dollars |
could almost get a cloak that would
make nearly every woman on the square
catch cold peeping through the door
crack, and l have my mind on piece
of alpaca that could be sent to me for
about that figure, that would take the
peace out of every family within seven
doors each way. don't spend much
money these hard times, but when do,
want to get a little satisfaction. out of
it. So you can move on with your
squeezing machine and sell it to some
woman who hain't got no pride about
her" and she slammed the door in his
| face.
Year: 1878

Maud Muller worked raking hay,


And cleared her forty cents a day.


Her clothes were coarse, but health was fine,
And so she worked in the sweet sunshine.
She often glanced at the far-off town,
And wondered if eggs were up or down.
And the sweet song died of strange disease,
Leaving phantom taste of cheese.


And an appetite and a nameless ache
For soda water and ginger cake.


The Judge rode slowly into view


Stopped his horse in the shade and threw
His fine-cut out, while blushing Maud
Marvelled much at the kind he 'chawed."
"He was dry as a fish," he said with wink,
"And kind O. thought that good drink
Would brace him up" SO the cup was filed
With the crystal wine the old spring spilled;
And she gave it him with sunbrowned hand
"Thanks," said the Judge in accents bland;
"a thousand thanks! for a sweeter draught
From a fairer hand"-but there he laughed.
And the sweet girl stood in the sun that day
And raked the Judge instead of the hay.
Year: 1878

B9~A minister telling a beautiful
young girl, who was about to become a
bride, that she must remember that the
man and wife are one. "Lord - said
she, eff you were under my father and
mothers window when they are quar-
reling, you'd think they were at least
half a dozen.