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Year: 1879

1t was late on Thursday night when Peter Simpson
came home fuddled and fell to experimenting with
the night key on tho front door. From within Mrs.
Simpson heard tho disturbance, and as Peter bias
phemed in q manner most shocking to o nervous
ganization she slipped out OF the areaway and sped
to the policeman, to whom she revealed her
fears of bodily violence. There only course
to be taken. Peter Simpson must be locked up
But to avoid scene the timorous lady would not
venture In her lord and masters sight. and
with the aid of her glasses, for she was
quito ncar-sighted, she pointed out recum-
bent figure vaguely outlined against tho front
stoop. which she assured Policeman Hennessy was
the delinquent To the station house the latter
summarily conducted, although hc demonstrated
hard, and in his delirium not only denied frghten
ing his wife and his own identity, but fatty de-
cared his bachelorhood all OF which served to
press his captor with the OF simpsons in
fquity and tho enormity of his sin against his con-
fiding partner. The latter meantime had taken
herself to her mothers where she received suitable
coincidence and worked herself into state of ex-
element behtting an appearance In tho Yorkville
Police Court. She was on hand yesterday morning,
was the prisoner, and IL was touching to witness
the cross ignorance Of each others presence these
Christians maintained.


AT last the case was called aud the lady mounted
the stand.


you have been making brute of yourself on
quite an extensive scale" said His Honor. looking
Year: 1879

SAD ACCIDENT TO THE NORTH DURHAM Fox
HouNDs-The Newcastle Chronicle of November 8
says:--"The second meet of the season of North
Durham foxhounds was at Stoney Gate yesterday
on tho top of the hills about o mile eastward OF
Houghton-C-Spring. but unfortunately the days
sport. which promised to be good one. was marred
by an accident to the pack OF o most lamentable
character The meet in question is a favorite one
with the hunt. and no less than one hum
dred and eghty-two horsemen took the field.
while tho assemblsge of foot people who drew
up from Sunderland and from the surrounding vii
lagos was something unprecedented for numbers.
aud every spot that promised to afford the most dis
tant view OF the sport was fully occupied and young
and old swarmed along tho roads and field paths IN
my riads. The place for trial was the excellent
cover ou the borders of Lambton Park. near
North Biddick. known as the new planta-
at home. He boltcd out to the eastward and got
good start. the hounds working TO cold ascent and
as they crossed the railway sheet might have
covered them. AS they worked across tho railway
the express train. which leaves Sunderland about
haifpast one o'clock, came around the curve. and
before anything could be done she dashed right
through the pack just as they about to clear
tho line. The utmost CONSERVATION resulted among
the hunt, nearly the whole of the members being in
sight and witnessing the accident. Mr. Maynard
the worthy master. was on the line at the time and
fully cognizant of tue fact las every ope
ese that 1t was utterly impossible for the strongest
force whips and huntsnen to have whipped the
dogs of in time to have averted the accident. As it
was, on coming TO count tho slatn IL was found
that three the best hounds in the pack had been
killed outright, while fourth had sustained diso-
cation to the shoulder. After the accident pack
drove fox round the base OF Peasner Hill but
the interposition of the foot people caused him to
try ascent but the hounds eventually pulled him
down close to the Earl of Durham's monument.


PRINTERS ArHLKTrc SPORTS.


Notwithstanding that Saturday afternoon last was
bitterly co&d says the sporting LIFE of the 4th ins


over one thousand employees of the various print
ing Offices In London with their friends passed
through the turnsties ut Lille Bridge Grounds,
West lSrompton, to witness and take part in some
athletic sports which had been organized In aid of
the Printers Pension, Almshouses aud Orphan Asy-
lum Corporation and the first venture met with the
success It deserved. The card contained three items
and no less than sixty nine had sent in their names
for tho 100 yards sprint, thirty .hve for the ono
mile walking handicap and twenty y-nne for tho one
mile running handicap Although start was not
made until three O'Clock the programme was got
through before dark. Honorable Secretary, Mr.. J.
Connor; Treasurer. Mr.. q. GlyLn; marksman, Joe
Cow: Jack White oiciatcd as starter in the running
and ran up the numbers, and Mr.. w. H. Leverel was
referee in all three events and starter in the walking
Year: 1879

The Emperor William was greatly
moved when he heard of the recent at
tempt up IN the life Of the Car. He
Immediately sent to his nephew q long
telegraphic message of congratulation
upon his escape. The Car sent to his
uncle full details of the event. He de-
scribed how when taking his usual
morning walk man accosted and then
fred at him. Being without arms he
sprang back and took to flight, where
upon the murderer pursued and con-
tinued to charge at him until seized by
some passers-by.
Year: 1879

"A young lady, who ought to know,
accounts for the disposition of the aver
age young fellow to put his arm around
a girls waisl by the supposition that he
is looking for that rib that was taken
from him so long ago.
Year: 1879

A SEXTON of one of our churches, on


Sabbath morning, picked up a rose
which some young lady had probably
dropped from her bonnet 1t was the
lost rose of some her er.-WhaehaU Times.
Year: 1879

Mothers should not only be the guard
ians of their daughters, but their most
intimate companions and friends. we
have long felt that parents make great
and sometimes ruinous mistakes Oy
sending their daughters away from
home during the latter years OF thelr
education, delegating mothers watch,
full care to strangers or boarding-school
matrons and teachers, who, however
excellent, must of necessity lind 1t I'M
possible to give any special supervision
to each scholar among so many. 1Ils
idea, of course, presupposes that the
mother is what her Maker designed her
to be-the watchful guardian OF ner
daughters health and characters. There
are cases, 10 be sure, and alas 700
many of them, where the motnerS are
so thoroughly devotees of fashion that
their children are a secondary consider
alton. The only hope for the future
usefulness and stability of the daughters
of such mothers is to remove them as
far from maternal influence and exam
pie as possible, and that is indeed a for
lorn hope. ,,


But although "quite the style" to send
our oirls away from good homes and
GOOD mothers watchful care as soon as
they have mastered the rudimentary parts
of their education, it surely can not be
the wisest plan. To suffer our young and
as vet immature children to pass out
from under home care and its formative
influence just as they have reached that
critical period in their lives when they
are the most susceptible to all good or
evil teachings is a fearful experiment.
This is the time when they can be easily
built up into true and noble woman
hood or led into bye or forbidden paths.
Their quick impulses or unregulated
imaginations, at this age, tend to all
kinds of sentimental extravaganceS
which only a mothers watchtul love
and unslumbering care will detect and
iudiciously modify or dispel, =,


We do not mean that mothers should
themselves attempt the education OF
their daughters at home. Under the
wisest regulations, home is not the best
place in Whicn to study, or the mother,
with all her other cares and constant
Interruptions, the most successful teach
er as far as book teaching is concerned
But mothers can not afford to have their
girls far away from them. They should
be their loving companions when the
school hours are over for the day, and
ever ready to join with them in such
amusements as are necessary for health
full change and needful recreations. A
mother should know the habits and
characters of those who are their
daughters chosen companions, or who
may, at times, be desirable escorts on
certain occasions.


But, instead of this, our girls are taken
from home and all its best influences
and placed among strangers. No
mother can hope to secure such hold on
her girls, through their afectionate re,
mem brance of her, as will surely guard
them from many of the dangers that
beset the unwary and inexperienced, OF
save them from the snares that are toe
often concealed to entrap our loveliest
and our best. We surely should be able
to furnish schools of the highest order
so near us that our children can, attel
school hours, have the comforts Of home
and be shielded by paternal love.-NrS
| II ~ Ropcber in thc Christian IInIOn
Year: 1879

We would respectfully state that
we have just had our saw mill over
hauled and thoroughly repaired by
J. B. Green and John Wilkerson,
experienced workmen, and we are
now prepared to furnish lumber of
all kinds, on short notice and atlow
rates for cash. All in need of lumber
will find it to their interest to give
us a call. We would also recommend
Messrs, Green and Wilkerson to
those having machinery to repair,
as competent to perform all such
work in the best manner.


Resp'N 0. HENRY & Sons,
Year: 1879

In the matter Of the guardianship of J. D.


Johns.


Te all whom it may concern:


Notice is hereby given that have on the
Sth day of February. 1870, filed my account
current for final settlement in said guard
ianship. All persons interested are there
fore warned to appear in the probate court
Of Sharp county on or before the I'd day OF
the May term Of the probate court of said
county, and plead, answer or except to the
same, or said account will be confirmed by
said court according to law.


Feb. nth, 1879. W. c. SMITH.


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Year: 1879

1t is generally believed that Jefferson
Davis asrires to a seat in the United
States Senate. The Democratic and
guerilla press in the North hoot at that
idea precisely as they did, before the
Yazoo affair, at the Republican charges
of intimidation and,r violence in the
South; but there is some reason for
believing it to be true. One of the
present Mississippi Senators is mig.
ger," whose presence in Congress is a
continual aggravation to the proud
Caucasians of the State; and that they
should determine to emphasize their dis
gust by giving the succession to man
who will represent the extreme rebel
feeling is not unnatural. Davis himself
refuses to say whether he is trying to
get the place or not, which may b. con
sidered as in some sense an indication
that he is. The fact that he is laboring
under disabilities is of no consequence
in view of the fact that The Democrats
in Congress can make him eligible
whenever they choose to do so. Thus
the Northern people have a pleasing
prospect that the Yazoo method, which
has stamped out all the Republicanisn
in Mississippi, will be used to restore
Jeff Davis to the chamber in which he
once sat to plot rebellion, and from
which he went out perjured traitor to
make war upon his country.
Year: 1879

The Secretary of War, after the per-
tormances of the nephew of Hamburgh
Butler, has framed a list of questions
intended to bring young southerners
up to the mark. They inquire whether
the party was ever engaged in rebel
lion, and whether, if admitted to the
army, he will follow his State, in the
event of its seeding, or obey the orders
of the National authorities. The ques-
ton of State Rights is directly broug ht
in, and the applicant asked his belief
as to it. Altogether it is a most terri


BILE interference with the rights Of con-
science, and we expect general howl
over it. Whether suci questions will
amount to much remains to be seen.
The trouble is, that those who are mean
enough to violate tue obligations of
honor will go anyhow, and any oath
or admission now made will amount to
nothing, if occasion arises for secession.
Year: 1879

The North American says Senator
Wallace can now do good stroke for
civil service reform and an honest bal
lot by. returning to Pennsylvania and
setting up that old coffee-pot. He can
demonstrate the fact that in the hands
Of men entirely great the coffee pot is
mightier than the shotgun. Rio and
Laguayra are cheaper than powder and
Lad
Year: 1879

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe have engineers now in Tucsun. who are carefully collecting data regarding approaches to town. It is given out that decision is made to extend their road to and through Tucson, and while we hope they will, we cannot forge, that but few months since it was published all over the land that the, intended to build directly to Fl Paso and thence across Chihuahua and So nora to Guaymas. Now it is gener ally admitted that this Fl Paso line has been abandoned. We might ask, can it he possible that powerful com pany iS engaged in the small business of giving circulation to reports thai they intend to build here and there and still retain public confidence.

 There is practicable and easy route to Guaymas on Pacific waters via Tucson, and it is in the route for another American overland to reach a desirable Pacific port with the least distance over Mexican Territory. St. Louis dispatches say that private meetings of railroad men have recent ly been held in that city and New York, with a purpose to prnvice for another overland line, and this is part Of the latest dispatch in polnt:

 The most feasible plan seems 10 be - and Is the most in favOr-fur the Pennsylvania, Pan Handle. and Van dalia roads. now forming one line from New York to the Mississippi River. to make permanent connection with the Missouri Pacific and Atchison. To peka and Santa Fe, and thus make through route from ocean to ocean. equal or superior to any now in opera .tion. The matter is understood to he now in the hands of prominent rail road managers and the probabilities indicate that some definite steps will soon be taken in this direction.

 This reads nicely, but does any one suppose inc powerful AtchiSon, To- peka and Santa Fe Company will con sent to be merged into the Pcnnsyl- vania Centraly and the carrying out of this project would involve nothing. less, for the Pennsylvania Central con- trols the Pan Handle and Vandalia line to St. Louis The Pennsylvania Cen tral and Atchlson, Topeka and Santa Fe both feel that they are independent powers in the railroad world, and such a union would involve the entire sub ordination of one of them 10 the other.

 There seems to he but one rational object in view for the A., T. and s. F. to build to Tucson, and that is to have a Pacific Coast connection at Quay mas, and as manifest destiny" iS still a living element in the United States it seems but the part of business wis dom on the part Of railway men to al an early day get first and controlling hold on that fine harbor. With this view, it i> highly probable that the A., T. and s. F. Company really intend 10 build 10 Tucson.
Year: 1879

From the Expositor of the 3d:

 A school has been established iu TOntO Basin.

 Very little corn was planted in this Valley the past summer.

 An unusually large number of hOgS will be killed here this fall.

 The road from Phenix to McMillan via. Globe City is in bad condition and unless work is now done on it, will in short time become impossible for even light wagons

 Now all of the flour and most of the grain used in the mining districts east of us is purchased in California and New Mexico. Maricupa county could easily supply them, and a few thou. sand judiciouSly expended to make safe and easy the way for ireighters, would give the farmers and millers at Salt River Valley market that would insure the sale at a good price of all the surplus grain and four on hand. These mining districts would also fur nish market tor large quantities oi iruit and vegetables, and in less than one year trade could be built Up that would pay ten times over the cost of the road.

 IL is a disgrace to our Territory that Bradshaw, Tiger mine and the country in that vicinity, have not been fur nlshed with a reasonable road before now, particularly since SO much mon ey has been squandered by our differ ent legislatures in abOrtive attempts to build roads.
Year: 1879

WITH all that may be justly said against the general policy Of the San Francisco Chronicle, it must neverthe- less be admitted the management of that journal has displayed most com mendable energy and enterprise. Their report of Grants arrival was d masterly effort. The new building erected for the Chroncle is just com pleted and was opened to visitors last week. The press of that city speak of il as the most complete establishment of the character in America. Eve y modern improvement in the form oi progress, machinery and miscellaneous appointments, has been utilized.
Year: 1879

Some ancient ComSlockerS think they have fortune in Lower Califur- mia. There is a plant growing there profuselS and promiscuOu>ly, q species of dwarf catcuses, which when prop erly reduced, makes the best kind Of material for mattresses. A hundred thousand dollars have been spent in trying to produce machine to do this work. but nothing succeeded until q company, a part of whom are Gem stockcrs, fell upon a genius who for S4uO completed an experimental ma chine. which in the most rapid man ner produces mass of white, elastic fibre. These gentlemen assert that hey can reduce the cost of mattresses 70 per cent and then make profit which will cause every man in the company 10 feel like a thief.
Year: 1879

IT is reported that the Southern Pa citic Railroad Company has purchased a ranche on the San Pedro at the puInt where is line crosses that river, and the natural conclusion is that tLis is the sight of the great city which ha, been luilt in the imagination of many The city on lhe San Pedro can only be to Tombstone what Carson is to Nir tinia City.
Year: 1879

To call at friends house about din
ner-time, and find him absent is sign
yon will be disappointed.


To drop hot-sealing-wax on your fin
gers is sign you will be angry.


To receive advice of your mother-in-
laws projected visit is a sign you are
going to leave home for time.


To meet boiling horse on the pave
ment implies that you are going to run.


To dream of being run over by fire en-
gines is often sign that you have had
pork chops for supper.


To pick up money is lucky.


If man says, 81 hardly like to ask
you, old man, but" it's a sign he wants
to borrow money.


To collide with three consecutive lamp
posts and fall over an apple-stall is u
sign you are not Good Templar.


To lose money or jewelry is unlucky.
Year: 1879

A good old lady gave the best receipt
to her niece, whom she found one day
examining her wardrobe. 1t had been
copied from an Old-fashioned book, and
and was this: Lay not up for your
selves treasures upon earth, where moth
and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves
break through and steal; but lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and
where thieves do not break through nor
steal" The application of this ancient
receipt is very simple: Look over the
wardrobe, and bring out all that can be
spared-blankets and shawls, coats and
cloaks-and send them to the poor in
time; let the widows or the destitute
have them before the moths have begun
their inroads. He that hath two coats
let him impart to him that hath none"
This will do more to keep ont moths
than all the cedar closets, or snuff and
camphor, in the world; and viii be like
ly, il done in Christian. generous spir
it, to secure the blessing of Him that
maketh rich, and doubly sweeten what
is left.
Year: 1879

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly,
or bind so fast, as love can do with but a
single thread.


Children are travellers newly arrived
in steange country; we should there
fore make conscience not to mislead
them.


Nothing is so fierce but love will
soften, nothing so sharp sighted in other
matters but throws a mist before the
eyes ont.


The reason why so few marriages are
happy is because young ladies spend
their times in making nets, not in max
ing cages.


Virtue and vice are not arbitrary
things but there is natural and eternal
reason for goodness and virtue, and
against vice. and wickedness.


Contentment is pearl of great price,
and whoever procures it at the expense
of ten thousand desires takes wise
and happy desire.


There are prating cOxcombs i'll the
world who would rather talk than lis
ten, although Shakespeare were the ora
tor and human nature the theme.


There is not any one vice incident to
the mind of man against which the
world has raised such loud and uni
versal outcry as against ingratitude.
Year: 1879

1t will be pity if Gen. Ewing and
his rag baby do not take possession of
the Democratic and Greenback Conven-
tions of this State. 1t would be a fine
thing to conduct a campaign in favor Of
the Confederate system of finance. The
people with money as good as gold and
silver-the dollar of the laborer being as
good as that of the holder of coin secu-
rities-the bondholders' income being
reduced to four per cent from six, by the
appreciation of the credit of the Govern
ment-under these circumstances the
people, for the sake of Mr.. Ewing, would
desire to re-enter the old confusion for
the profit of the gamblers in money.
That is the calculation.-Cin. Com.
Year: 1879

IT is proposed to stop the emigration
from Mississippi by an act of Congress
prohibiting steamboats, from carrying
more than Is negroes at any one trip. That
might be good law if it provided by
amendment that FIVE hundred white
Mississippians should be carried out at
every trip, with the army for posse
comitatus to make them go.-Cin. Conn.,
Year: 1879

ACCORDING to the Democratic doc
trine, although they havebut bare ma
jority in the legislative branch of the
Government yet they control the entire
administrative functions. The old fogy
theory that it took a twO-thirds vote in
Congress to nullify Presidential veto
has been abolished, and the boys have
adapted an entirely new scheme based
on the broad general principle, "Do as
tell you or get no supplies" This fact
is mentioned in connection with the fact
that, conformity with the Greenbackers
the Democrats in Congress propose to
go Immediately into financial legislation
The wise man will need no hint that he
a;ld better stand from under.
Year: 1879

IT is only simple justice to warn all
capitalists who are inclined to invest
money on the strength of the revival of
business since resumption and to give
them fair notice that the Democrats in
Congress have formally decided to en-
gage in financial legislation this sum-
mer, and to so legislate as to cOnciliate
the favor of the Bedlamites called
Greenbackers This, of course, will not
interfere with the Democratic plan to
establish the doctrines advocated by the
late Confederate States. This is to say,
the Confederate Congress, when it is not
engaged in repeating all the amendments
which were put upon the Constitution
at the cost of hundreds of thousands of
Northern mems lives, will occupy its
leisure time in endeavoring to ruin the
Federal Governments credit.
Year: 1879

PERHAPS the beauties of coalition as
exemplified in the Michigan election
may have somewhat depressing effect
upon the wedding ceremony that it is
understood is to take place in Columbus
on the 4th of June next.
Year: 1879

IT has been generally supposed that
the State sovereignty question was set
tied. At all events there were sew
eral violent expressions of opinion on
the subject in 1861 and few years fol-
lowing, but, it would seem, there is still
more uncertainty on the topic. Let us
appeal to the ballot this time and find
out "for certain" whether we are Ma
ton or Confederate thing.
Year: 1879

SENATOR BARNUM, Chairman of the
National Democratic Committee, wants
Congress to go home. He believes that
the political debates so far have cost his
party million of votes in the country,
and that further talk will be likely to
aggravate the situation. Barnum, with
more sagacity than the rest of his party
friends in Washington, is looking ahead.