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Year: 1879

Washington, May 23.-A few demo-
Gratis in the house are endeavoring to
work up sentiment in favor of con-
gress adjournmg without passing the
army bill. They propose to pass the
Legislative bill, but make no appropria-
tion for the army, and to leave it in the
same condition as two years ago, when
no appropriation was made. 1t is not
probable that the scheme will succeed,
but if 1t does the president will call
congress together in another extra ses-
sion in July. This much is absolutely
certain; the president intends that the
necessary appropriations shall be made
for the army, and he will call congress
here in mid summer unless they are
made ut the present session.
Year: 1879

Washington, May 23.-The house
committee on the state of the law re-
specting the ascertainment and declar-
alton of the result of the election of
president and yice-president, yesterday
agreed upon bill and authorized
Representative Bicknell, chairman, to
report it to the house with the approval
of the committee
Year: 1879

New York, May 23.-Two thousand
underground conductors will be laid by
the Western Union company in this
city by September, doing away with all
of about $1,000 poles. The wires will
be insulated in oiled pipes, according
to Brooks method, to test how long
the line will work with this system.
Jersey City and Elizabeth City will be
the next connected with pipes full of
wires
Year: 1879

Leadville, May 23.-Michael Cuddy,
formerly of Michigan, was instantly
killed to-day by bucket falling down
the shaft of the Little Silver mine, and
fracturing his skull. The rope parted
when the bucket was about fifty feet
from the bottom Of the shaft. Cuddy
leaves family in Michigan.
Year: 1879

was able 10 again enter into active llte
and concerns. Since the event Just De-
scribed. MI. - has thoroughly recovered,
but has no remembrance whatever OF the
intervening days between his supposed
death and resuscitation.


The practical application Of the fore.
going cases is that every one should


learn to know how to distinguish actual
from supposed death and that where ~
certain cases there fingers doubt as to
the final release from life, the apparently
dead should have the benefit OF the
doubt.


The following are the chief signs OF
actual death:


The arrest Of the pulse and the stop
page of breathing. No movement OF the
chest-no moist breath to dim looking
glass placed before the mouth. These
stoppages of pulse and breath may,
however. under certain conditions be
reduced to SO low an ebb that it is by no
means easy 10 decide whether or not
they are completely annih1lated. Cases
too have been known ir which the
patient had the power Of voluntarily sus-
pending these functions for consider
able time. The loss Of irritability in the
muscles "a fact which may be readily
ascertained by galyanic current1 is .
sign Of still greater importance than even
the apparent stoppage of the heart or the
breath.


The contractile power Of the skin is
also lost after death. When cut IS
made through the skin of a dead body,
the edges of the wound close; while
similar cut made during the life presents
an open or gaping appearance.


An important change termed the rlgor
nortis takes place after death, at varying
periods. The pliability Of the body
ceases, and general stiffness ensaes.
This change may appear within half an
hour, or it may be delayed for twenty or
thirty hours, according to the nature Of
the disease. It must, however, be borne
in mind that rigor mortis is not a con-
tinuous condition it lasts from twenty
four to thirty-six hours, and then passes
away. It commences at the head and
trunk, and then in the lower extremetes,
and disappears in the same order.


One Of the most important OF the
various changes that indicate death IS
the altered color Of the surface OF the
body; Liyid spots of various sizes occur
from local congestions during life; but
the appearance Of green tint or the
skin Of the abdomen, accompanied BY q
separation Of the cuticle or skin, is q
certain sign that life is extinct. 10 these
symptoms may be added the half-cfosed
eyelids and dilated pupils and the half
closed fingers. These facts, which We
have cleaned from the best authorities,
may perhaps be at some time or other q
practical use to our readers Ell.
-ChQm6es.. ]o,aHaz.
Year: 1879

RENARKS


The supply is quite full this week and
considerably in excess Of the demand,
which is reported very slow in nearly
all the wards. The quality IL generally
fully as good as it was last week. Prices
Year: 1879

wn.LraMsPoRr Pa. March IL, 1879


The Tidcwater Pipe Company. which is now lay
ing pipe from tho Bradford oil regions to this
place. applied to the Common Pleas Court OF Ly-
coming county for a preliminary injunction to re-
strain the Elmira and williamsport Railroad Com.
pany lessee from interfering with the laying of pipe
In the bed OF u stream running under bridge of
the railroad company The injunction granted
to-day to be in force until q final hearing or the
further order OF tho Court. The Pipe has already
been laid through tho stream in question, but was
Year: 1879

BosroS, Mass, March IL, 1879.


The Committee on street Railways. after two pro-
longcd conferences have decided to report leave to
withdraw upon several petitions for elevated street
railways in Boston. 1t is probable that the report
which will embrace o review Of the hearings and the
result Of the made by the committee.
will DO presented to the Senate on Wednesday. The
committee anxious to keep their action rot.
but IL Is understood that they stand six to ve In
favor OF the report Of leave to with withdraw and
that khe minority have decided to report no bill
Year: 1879

The following record will show the changes in tho
temperature for the past twentyfour hours. in
parison with the corresponding date of last year.
indicated by the thermometer ut Hudnuts pharmacy.
HERALD Building No. 2ls Broadway
Year: 1879

The Greenback State Convention to-day
will doubtless be large assemblage The
leaders have for weeks past been preparing
for demonstration in force, believing that
the Chinese method of gong-beating is not
without its use in modern warefare.


The action of the Convention cannot be
indicated with as much certainty as it's size.
The nomination will probably go to Mr..
Smith, though there are many Greenbakers
who severely condemn him, believing he
bowed the knee to Mammom after the cleo
ton last Fall and gave in his adhesion to a
currency based on coin. These men say
they will not vote for him unless he comes
before the Convention and declares that the
expressions of sentiment attributed to him
in the celebrated interview held with him by
a reporter of the Lewiston Journal were not
his but were pure inventions OF The rcpnrtar
This denial it is safe to say, Mr.. Smith will
never make. Nor is it probable that the
majority of the Convention will require him
to formally disown the sentiments he ut
tered last Fall. They will not care to offer
such affront to his pride, but will quietly
ignore his inconsistency, and nominate him
without question.


Over the formation of the platform there
will be struggle. Many delegates desire
that the declarations of the Convention shall
be confined to the currency question alone.
Others wish to give voice to all complaints
from every quarter, and make of the party
cave of Adullam, refuge for malcontents
of all shades of opinion. The Adullamites
will probably carry the Convention, though
it is believed that cold shoulder will be
turned to the advocates of license law.
Upon the financial question itself there are
differences of opinion. A few wish to drop
the fiat-money heresy, accept resumption of
specie payments as an irreversible fact, and
make the fight against the national bank
currency and for the legal-tender greenback
1t is with men holding these opinions that
some of the leading Democrats are coquet-
ting. 1t is understood that, at the confer
ence last night, some of the Democrats init
mated that if this modified platform were
adopted Governor Garcelon would be thrown
overheard and the nominee of to-day be sup
ported by the Democracy in September 1t
cannot, however, be learned that this propo-
sition is favorably received by many Green
hackers. The general disposition is to stand
up to the extreme declarations of the most
advanced advocates of fiat-money.


Considerable curiosity is felt as to the atti-
tude the Convention will take in regard to
the legislation attempted by the present Con-
gress. The Democrats who are lowering
about the delegates are anxious to get a
plank into the platform condemning the We
toes and upholding the Congressional ma
jority. This, they say, will carry the whole
Democratic party east of the Kennebec into
the Greenback ranks. The more prominent
of the Greenbackers, however, outside of
Waldo, receive this proposition with little
favor, though some of them are willing to
admit into the platform declaration to
which no one can object, that the army
should not be used for the purpose of intim-
idation at the polls.
Year: 1879

WENDELL PHILLIPS is receiving eulogies
on all hands for his great Grafton on Garri-
son. The New York Tribune says that the
occasion ''inspired him to produce what will
be regarded as not only one of the best ex-
hibitions of his own powers as a speaker,
but as one of the finest specimens of eulogis-
tic eloquence yet given to the world. Those
who were fortunate enough to hear his eulo-
gy say that he never spoke with greater
force, with better effect, with more evident
emotion and conviction, and his pictures of
the great leader of the abolitionists cannot
fail to rank among the first of his own pro-
ductions. Everything conspired to make
the occasion great and to lift Mr.. Phillips up
to the plane of his greatness
Year: 1879

IT should not be hastily assumed that the
Montreal watchman lost his life in defense
of his charge. Let us wait until we hear
from Dexter. We may then learn that the
watchman knocked himself senseless,
stabbed himself in three places, and tore his
scalp off. His object was, probably, to con-
ceal the fact that he pocketed three dollars
paid by a customer for the use of a horse
one afternoon. A statement from the own
ers of the livery stable may be expected. 1t
is understood detectives are working up the
material.
Year: 1879

THE Bangor Commercial virtually recedes
from its charge that the sheriffs in Cumber-
land county have taken bribes for neglect
ing to enforce the liquor law That is just
and discreet; for the charge cannot be sus-
tained Everybody about here knows that
the sheriffs who have charge of the enforce
ment of the liquor law are men who cannot
be bribed.
Year: 1879

THERE is apparently no way for the DEM
ocrats IN Congress to avoid complete back
down. They may call it by some other
name, but the people will see what it is.
The appropriation bills will be passed with
out the political riders, though it was de-
clared at the beginning of the session that
they should not be. But the Democrats
shave made record" record of bluster
and inefficiency.
Year: 1879

THE general belief of the financial paper
is that the tone of the markets is strengthen
ing, and that ''hard tines will soon be of
the past. The Public, which has hitherto
been doubtful, now says ''there is yet to
come volume of purchasing, both for
investment and for speculation, which will
overshadow anything visible thus far.'
Year: 1879




really uttered this pitiful nonsense and bosh.
| no doubt he had heard it; but l cannot con-
ceive OF a man being such a tremendous ninny
as to believe it. There is not word of it true
about the "impossbility' (difficulty) of get
ting the real stuff is quite true. But then
the Governor has before said-or is reported to
have said-that the law is not enforced and
cannot be. Throughout the whole reported in
terview the Governor is represented as fire.
quently uttering these manifest and absurd
contradictions.


g. SIS the Maine Law then a failure?"


Il cannot say that, and yet it has certainly
not diminished its absolute successfulness''l
CHere 1t is quite evident some one had taken
too much-"powder. y "After the thirty years
of trial it is still considered an open expert
ment. As for myself of course, all my sympa-
thies are with the cause of temperance, but
am unable to say whether or not believe in
the Maine Liquor Law. L mean in its efficien-
cy." Now it is not true that in Maine prohibi-
ton is considered an open experiment There
is no principle of government, no public policv
more thoroughly settled in Maine than this. It
is as firmly fixed here as the vote by ballot; as
the registry law and the voting list and the
Tree vote IN order to secure an honest election,
that the true will of the people may find ex-
preston. The Republican party has always
boldly and unanimously supported it, and the
democratic party has as openly and boldly re-
fused to favor license. The Legislature of
Maine In 1877 without dissenting vote passed
an additional act of greater stringency than
any which had preceded it; and the last Legis-
lature by vote of 127 to II re-affirmed the
whole policy of the Maine Law, and anew gave
in its adhesion to it. After all this, the Cover
nor is reported as saying that it is yet an open
question.


And so the Governor is now unable to say
one way or the other, whether he believes in
the Maine Law, that is in its efficiency, at the
same time he is reported as having stated
many things which demonstrate its wonderful
efficiency. The Governor lives in Lewiston.
the largest manufacturing town in the State,
the population largely made up of such foreign
ers as usually crowd such places. An English
gentleman told me that he was there some
time ago ON business, and at the largest hotel,
brandy. The landlord assured him that he
Year: 1879

at this season, or of migrating to sum
mer quarters in the highlands or at
the seaside. There is a falling off in
the demand for summer residences on
the coast Many houses which used
to be filled at this season are standing
empty. Rents, which used to be,
perhaps, exorbitantly high, are un-
precedentedly low; and hotels, which
formerly took pride in turning away
travellers from their doors are fain to
reduce their staff of walters and their
stud of horses. All this, it is true
has little to do with depressed farm.
ing. Yet it is important, as showing
that farmers are not the only traders
who are entitled to grumble at the bad
times, and that if they have a fair
plea for a reduction Of rents. hotel
keepers and lodging house spectators,
not to mention other caterers for the
army of tourists, may be able to make
out for themselves quite as good a
case.


As regards farming, it may be taken
for granted that the season, in respect
both of tubers and of cereal crops
will be unusually, if not unprecedent.
edly late.
Year: 1879

knoxville Chronicle, l6thl


A man named Pennyouf was
brought from Fentress county to this
city by Captain Millsaps, on the X. q
y. train, yesterday, and lodged with
sheriff Reeder in the Knox county
Jail for safe keeping. The charge
against him is murder About three
weeks ago he had difficulty with a
neighbOr of his named Tudor. and in
the fracas shot him (Tudor), from the
effects Of which he died in about four
days. The difficulty grew out of a
disagreement between the two men
about some land, as we understand,
they both having been renters from
the same man. The Pentress county
Jail was considered unsafe, hence the
reason Of his being brought here.
Year: 1879

The subscription price of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is S5 per annum and
boO per month fOrless than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free.


Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at SOC pei
month in advance, with the privilege .oi
changing pOstOtioe.
Year: 1879

Our authorities at home and abroad
must be supported and indorsed. Il
will not do to take their medicine il
half-doses, norwill it answer to swallow
more than they choose to portion out
to us, under the impression that be.
cause little is good more is better
People can go home at six o'clock in
the evening just as easy as others can
save themselves from an attack of vel.
low fever by passing through Chelsea
with written pass from the board Of
health. 1t makes no difference what
habits have heretofore been practiced
A night hawk, accustomed to prowl
and prey in the dark hours between
sunset and sunrise should teach him
self better ways and submit grace
fully, not try to cripple the powers by
talking of arbitrary rules. And it is
mistake to say such rules meet with





universal disapprobation. 1t is very
true that many persons believe
the night time to be the
healthiest for locomotion. The
dew-laden air after dusk has long been
taken advantage of by many as the
most delightful for promenades, often
for business purposes and frequently
for travelling from place to place with
no harmful results. The dark, damp
hours before dawn are likewise popu-
lar with many, especially so with the
chicken forager and COW hunter. The
humidity of the early morning hours
imparts elasticity to his limbs and
causes him to move with a quiet,
noiseless and confidential stride that
he cannot feel in the day time when
solar rays illuminate the armament
and makes perspiration exude copi-
oosly from the pores Of exercising hu-
manity. There are many learned men
of medicine who believe the yellow
malady now With us to be fever of the
heat that it cannot germinate and
flourish except through the influence
Of the sunshine, but the astute men
of science who sit in their high chairs
at Nashville indicate by their man
dates that such theories are wild
and visionary, and they further
make it mandatory that implicit
obedience to their behests is
requisite to secure a favorable con-
Bideration Of our application for fnan-
cial assistance through the half mill
lon now in the treasury of the Nation
al board Of health at Washington.
They have set their foot down upon
1t and will brook no resistance or
contrary argument, SO DR.. Porter says,
and he would not say it unless it were
so. People can so home at six ia the
evening and stay there until sunrise
next morning just as easy as they can
get along without riding in the street
cars, through Chelsea, or Of stopping
their ice supply by refusing delivery
wagons permission to pass through its
sacred and untainted precincts. What
is sauce for night owl is also sauce
for daylight buzzard, therefore keep
the police on hunt for every outdoor
toiler and unless he is armed with
proper passports land him in the Gala
boOse.
Year: 1879

SUBSCRIBERS who wish to re-
new will do us a favor by SEND
ING MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail list is very
large, and our force to do the
work small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS WITHOUT the MONEY,
Year: 1879

The opening lecture at the London


Institution for the season, was delivered


by Professor Huxley, F. r. S., to very


crowded audience, his subject being
sSnakes," than which, he said, there


were in the popular apprehension, few


animals more symbolical of degradation


and horror. Quoting the primeval curse
in Genesis, he remarked that no creatures
seemed more easily destroyed by man


and few less able to defend themselves.


Few wounds would be less harmful than
a snakes bite were it nothing more than
the sudden closing of the teeth. Yet
there were not many animals gifted with
so many faculties. 1t can stand up
erect, climb as we'll as any ape, swim
like a fish, dart forward, and do all but
fly in seizing its prey. The destructive
ness of snakes to man was illustrated by
the fact that 10000 human lives are
yearly lost in India by their poison, and
it might safely be said that they are a
more deadly enemy to our race than any
other beasts of the field. Professor
Huxley spoke first of the three classes
Indigenous to our own elimate-the
! ringed snake, the coronelia and the vip-
er. Of these the viper alone was ven-
omous, which the differences between its
structure and that of the harmless Brit
ish snakes helped to explain. 1t might
be that the reason there were no snakes
In Ireland was the multiplicity of its
other plaques. Everybody must be
struck with the beauty of the harmless
snakes. which formed the overwhelming
majority especially the grace with
which they wreathed their bodies into
circles and their fine eyes. The venom
Year: 1879

The recent discussion in regard to the
immediate effects of Lincoln Gettysburg
speech has renewed the public interest in
this greatest of commemorative orations.
Several of our readers have expressed
desire see it, and have inquired as to
where it can be found. AS it is not
much longer than the Lords Prayer, we
give it below, in full, as follows:


Four score and seven years ago fathers
brought forth on this continent new
nation, conceived in liberty, and dedica
ted to the proposition that all men are
created equal.


Now we are engaged in great civil
war, testing whether that nation, or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated, can
long endure. We are met on great
battle field of that war. We are met to
dedicate portion of it as the final resting
pace of those who here gave their lives
that nation might live. 1t is altogether
fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in larger sense we cannot dedicate,
we cannot consccrate, we cannot hallow,
this ground. The brave men, living and
dead, who struggled here have consecra-
ted it far above our power to add or
detract The world will little note nor
long remember what we say here, but it
can never forget what they did here.
1t is for US, the living, rather to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work that
they have thus far so nobly carried on.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated
to the great task remaining before US
that from those honored dead we take
increased devotion to the cause for which
they gave the last full measure Of devo-
tion-that we here highly resolve that
the dead shall not have died in vain,
that the nation shall, under God, have
new birth of freedom, and that the gov
ernment of the people, and for the people,
shall not perish from the earth.
Year: 1879

It is always safe to learn, even from
our enemies; seldom safe to venture to
instruct even friends.


A quarrel, nine times out of ten, is
merely the fermentation of a misunder-
standing.


Every man throws on to his surround
ings the sunshine or the shadow that ex-
lists in his own soul.


1t is extraordinary how long man
may look among crowd without discov-
ering the face of friend.


There is a great deal of unmapped
country within US which would have to
be taken into account in explanation of
our gusts and storms.


Honorable age is not that which stand
eth in length of time, nor that is meas
ured by number of years. But wisdom
the gray hair unto men, and an unspot-
ted life Is old age.


Good intentions are at least the seed
of good actions and every man ought to
sow them, and leave it to the soil and
seasons whether they come up or no, or
whether he or any other gathers the fruit.


Nature seems to exist for the excellent.
The world is upheld by the veracity of
good men; they make the earth whole
some. Life sweet and tolerable in our
belief in such society; and actually or
ideally, we manage to live without supe-
riors.