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Year: 1879

Pennington, Me-, Dec. 3o.-In an
swer to the statement by Councillor
Brown, in his remarks at Fairfield that
Pennington was thrown out because
the returns were not sealed up in open
town meeting, two of the selectmen of
this town, both greenbackers, (the
third has not been seen) will make affi-
davit in substance that the returns
were made and sealed in open town
meeting, and in presence of the town
clerk and a full board of selectmen,
and that each signed his own name to
each return, and in the presence of the
board, after the returns had been made
up; that the returns were then attested
by the town clerk and sealed up in open
town meeting in. presence of the full
board The town clerk will make affi-
davit in confirmation of the same
Year: 1879

New York, Dec. 30.-The Heralds 5
Salt Lake special says:


Delegate Cannon's hasty visit from


Washington is commented on here as
having been dictated by the anxiety of
the mormon leaders on the proposed
measures to be taken by congress for
the extinction of polygamy. There is
no apprehension among the mormons
of any violent MEASURES being adopted
or enforced against them on account
of polygamy of the past, but it is fully
expected by the intelligent men among
them that after congress shall have
adopted the new measures, the saints
must no longer take more than one
wife each, and shall henceforward live
like civilized people.


Cannon admitted to your corre-
spondent that unless there was some
special divine interposition to protect
it, polygamy was doomed as an insti-
tuition. He very consistently looks for
that interposition, but up to the pres
ent time the signs do not foreshadow
its coming at an early day. He re-
turns to Washington on Wednesday to
court democratic assistance in staving
off the new legislation. The recent
quiet departure of an apostle to the
City of Mexico is looked upon as an eff
fort to get foothold beyond the SOUTH
ern boundary of the United States
where it would be very convenient for
the leading men to take shelter, if at
any time this country should become
unpleasantly warm.


Reliable informants tell me that the
Mexican minister of foreign affairs, in
communicating with the mormon au-
thorities, said that while there was
plenty Of land in the northern states
of Mexico which the mormons could
occupy, the government would, under
no circumstances, permit the practice
of polygamy on Mexican soil, but
would punish with the utmost rigor
any attempt to introduce it there.


Governor Emery left for Washing
ton this morning, taking with him a
number OF. letters addressed to Presi-
dent Hayes by leading business men,
lawyers, bankers and merchants, COM
mending him as faithful and efficient
executive officer. To the petition he
has also the signatures of nearly all the
leading gentiles of this and other places,
asking his reappointment.
Year: 1879

Springfield, Dec. 30.-This morning
boiler explosion at the Etna Touring
mills in this city filled the neighbor-
hood for two blocks around with splin-
ters, bricks and fragments Of iron. The
buildings in the vicinity were consider
ably shattered, and glass in the win
dows was destroyed for several blocks.
The damage is about s25, 900 in all.
The dome of the boiler fell on the roof
of the Western Union telegraph Office
and passed down to the third floor.


None of the men in the mill were
injured, but the engineer is missing.
His hat was found ON top of a building
two blocks away. and it is thought his
body will be found on some other build
ing.


The cause of the explosion is not yet
known.
Year: 1879




mand for Justice.
Augusta, Dec. 30.-It is the general
opinion that Gov. Garcelon will not
submit to the supreme court the ques-
tions propounded by Gov. Morrill,. The
republicans will be prepared for this
and present the question through the
majority Of the members of the last
senate, as it is thought such proceed
ings would conform to the law. The
disposition is to exhaust every legal
means before the others are tried.


Mayor Nash, Of this city, will to-day
address letter to the governor urging
him not to call out the militia on the
assembling of the legislature, as that
would provoke the bringing out of a
force on the other side. He will state
that the extra police provided by the
city will be ample protection to preserve
peace.


.. s. Baker applied this forenoon at
the Office of the secretary of the state
for authority to examine the returns
from Pennington. He was answered
by Councillor Fogg in the negative
which was accompanied by a profane
epithet.


Augusta. Dec. 80. The committee
on public safety, of this city. called
upon Gov. Garcelon this forenoon, and
had lengthy interview. They in
formed the governor that they repre-
sented the people of the town, and
would cordially join with the mayor in
his recommendations and suggestions.
They trusted that no arrangements
would be made to bring the military
here, and said that the augmented
police force would be amply able to
quell all disturbances.


The governor replied that he had
already given orders to Gen. White, of
Bangor, and Mayor Folsom, of Old
town, to take 100 stands of arms and
ammunition from the state arsenal at
Bangor, and ship them by express to
Augusta. He did this to test the sim
cerity of the citizens of Bangor, as to
whether they would obey the civil
authorities He had never ordered any
troops to Augusta and should not un-
less there was an outbreak. The vari-
GUS rumors and stories which are now
rife, he said, were made of whole cloth.


He was urged not to take the arms
from Bangor, but he steadfastly assert
ed that he would, in order to test the
sincerity of the people. One of the
committee suggested that portion of
the extra police provided by the city
could be detailed for duty under direc-
tion Of the governor.


The governor replied emphatically:
81 have force enough now," and also
Informed the committee, that they
might be aware of the fact that he had
full power to call the legislature when
ever he pleased and on the slightest dis
turbance he could take the legislature
away from Augusta.
Year: 1879

By the arrival of the German bark Iphigenia
on Sunday last, from Whompoa, we learn
that she brings TO these islands about 2l6
Chinese passengers, who destined for the sugar
plantations and that there is another vessel the
way, which is isexpected TO arrive in short time,
having on board 500 more of the same sort. The
exodus of Chinese from China and California,
which seems TO have set in in earnest, will soon
populate these islands to their fullest capacity, and
solve the problem of the labor supply without the
least effort the part of anybody interfering This
seems TO be the inevitable result OF necessity
aud cannot be stopped by any hostile movements on
the part of those who regard the advent of the Chi
nese as a calamity. We admit that the influx OF
Chinese into these islands, in such large quantities,
is subject that occupies the thoughts of quite a
respectable number OF folks here, and that many
are exercised over it, but at a loss to know
what such people going to do about it. or one
thing feel certain, aud that is that as history al
ways repeats itself, these islands are destined to
realize iu a few years the condition of things now
existing in Sumatra TO which latter history We beg
10 point those who pondering the question ol
how to prevent Chinese immigration. In the history
OF Sumatra will be found the Illustration eluci
dation of the problem involved in the future oi
these Islands. The only difference being, tnat IL
has taken hundreds of years to effect that in Suma
ira which will be accomplished here within the
next decade because of the difference in the size oi
the two countries, and the superior facilities for
transportation. That these predictions will be fully
realized within the time allotted 10 its accomplish
ment by us, We have not the slightest doubt from


careful survey of the subject aud our observations
the condition OF things In this little Kingdom.
1t is needless TO add that had larger intelligence
governed these islands by those charged with tue
conduct of affairs the might have been differ
ent, aud herein lies the whole difficulty, in part al
least. While on this subject We may mention o
fact that perhaps does not occur to every one
namely, that there is class of productions common
10 tropical countries, and sugar is one OF tbem that
nothing but seryie labor produce proitably
This is fixed law OF trade, which will demand and
must have the lowest class of human beings to dc
the labor and therefore must be submitted TO- which
may as well be done without murmer. Ii sugar
is TO be grown these Islands, to be profita-
bic there must be cheap labor 10 produce ii, and
sugar cane is the leading product, We no reason
why Chinese cheap labor should not be encouraged
till the labor demand is fully supplied abandon
the cultivation altogether. The same remarks may
be applied 10 the cultivation of rice, cotton and to
baccO.
Year: 1879

TIE adherents Of straightOut Democracy
in South Carolina, which meant extermina-
ton, if necessary, of everything that OPP
been fattered into the belief as well as the
hope that straightout Democracy meant not
only peace, but Office and position to every
soldier that fought under its flag, are begin
ming to appreciate that the bankrupt lead
ers for whose exaltation they sacrificed not
only time, but principle, have no more pat
ronage TO bestOw than can conveniently
be spared from hungry relatives and friends
The occupation of official position by Radi-
calls was assigned as the cause for the eXclu-
sion Of the vast army of office-seekers from
places of public trust and profit, and which
CHAMBERLAIN would bestow upon ignor-
"ant blacks" and corrupt carpet -baggers." ="
An Utopia of place and power was promised
to every angel and archangel in the COM
pany of the elect, and the panacea for all
the woes, financial and otherwise, was to be
found in the overthrow of the carpet-bag
Governments. What sad disappointment
and discontinue there has been is only TO
be appreciated when contemplating how
purely personal government becomes
when the machinery by which men attain
the highest positions in the gift of whole
State are manipulated by the chicanery OF
q few instead of las it should be in re-
publican form of goyernment) by the ex-
pressed will of a popular majority TO give
force and spirit to its validity.
Year: 1879

The danger of the recurrence Of yellow
fever during the coming summer will be
greater than it has been for many yeas, II
is n we'll recognized medical principle that
the contagious element, if confined in places
that have not been freely subjected to the
low temperature that is generally destruot-
i've to it, develops anew ON the return OF
warm weather. On account of the great ex-
tent of country visited by the epidemic Of
the past year, and the active aud yirulent
Year: 1879

THE admission Of the Hon. d. T, CoRBIN
TO his seat in the Senate, now wrongfully
held by the Butcher of Hamburg, would be
an important step in the direction of Re-
publican restoration in that body in 1881.
Let any Senator figure it up, and he will
find that, counting the elections already
held and those to come, the Senate of the
Forty-seventh Congress will be tied politi-
cally If BUTLER remains wrongfully in his
scat, or, with CoRBGN legally seated it will
he Republican by one majority. A failure
10 take heed of these warning facts will be
criminal. Let the CoRBIN case be disposed


VI non, this present week, before the press
Year: 1879

So many years have elapsed since the war
that the South seems to have forgotten the
drubbing it received in that contest, and to
have reverted to the ante-bellum belief that
the Federal Government is myth.
Year: 1879

THE BANNING army bill rears its puny
head in the House again, strengthened,
however, by the agency of the gag law,
which has been invoked to enable its friends
to hitch it as "rider" to the regular army
appropriation bill. Independent of such
maneuyres it would have no support worth
mentioning; but engineered as it now is
by inscriptions parliamentarians, there is
a possible danger of its enactment by the
House.
Year: 1879

THE breach between General BRAGG and
the Southern braggarts in the House is not
healed by any means. The ieud is liable to
break out anew at any moment. 1t hangs
like pail over the Democratic majority in
that body--a very skeleton in the closet
Year: 1879

If the Republican majority in the Senate
really appreciated the widespread and deep
public interest which exists in the CoRBIN-
BUTLER contest, there would be no hesta-
tion about taking il up and disposing of it
at once. BUTLER is an unsavory subject TO
the view of a large majority of the Ameri-
can people, and the general impression is
that he is an unnecessary disgrace to that
body--an unwelcome inteiloper.
Year: 1879

ONE OF the remarkable things about the
New York custom-house row was the sanguiue
way each side claimed with confidence The
Administration was certain of victory and so
was the mi.administration.-C Clereldnd Her.
AID


Both sides to this controversy were taught
in the result what the Indian learned soon
after the whites landed on the continent
that white man is mighty uncertain"
Year: 1879

THE New York Tribune suggests that the
POTTER Committee may possibly, by travel
ing between Washington and New York, be
able to spend its appropriation by the 4th
of March, when the committee ceases to
exist If II does this much ii is about all
that il will do.
Year: 1879

THE Potter investigation was begun for
the purpose of proving that the election of
President HAYES was not legal. After al
most two years of its existence it is well to
revert to this, simply for the purpose OF
refreshing the public mind regarding n
ncarly-forgotten fact.
Year: 1879

THE correspondent of the Girl and Military
Gazette, of Lahore, telegraphs from Khela't-i-
Ghiizai, January 25, that supplies there are OBJ
tanned with great difficulty. The arrange
ments Of the commissariat in the rear of the
army are in deplorable state. The commits
sary officers appear unable to forward stores
to the front.


The foregoing extract from recent foreign
dispatch is of especial and pertinent interest
to the pending situation in the House. The
attempt was made in that body yesterday
to galvanize the BANNING army bill into
new life, the success of which would foist
upon our military service new staff sys-
TEN exactly like the one which is RESPONSE
ble for the condition of aflaifs described
above. This, too, in the face of the fact
that our present staff system, nurtured, ex-
perienced, and disciplined during our late
war, is efficient beyond all comparison.
Year: 1879

WHEN the Washington REPUBLICAN is full.
some in its praise of a Democrat ii Is some
thing of which he ought not to brag although
he may be a General BRAGG.-Portsalolah Va
Times.


The fulsome praise herein alluded to is
undoubtedly found in the remarks we have
frequently made regarding General BRACES
distinguished services in the Union army.
If he had served on the other side during
the war, or was now willing to be led by
the nose by the Bourbons no amount of
praise of him would be considered fulsome
by the Times.
Year: 1879

THE Baltimore Gazette has found its prop
or gage of warfare. 1t marches with in
fantry, artillery, and cavalry upon an of
Tending woman in dire array, because she
presumed TO celebrate her admiration of
Senator CARPENTER in verse, That is very
bad But after all it affords the Gazette nm
opportunity to develop its manly instincts
by kicking at q woman. Heroic chap |!
Why don't he furnish his promised list of
Republican plunderers from the records of
the Treasury Department? Why not?
Year: 1879

The record of deaths of venerable Chris
tian men and women, which we have been
making for few years with increasing sor-
row, and which has been lengthening 50
rapidly during the present Winter, recalls
the tenor of an address made four or five
years ago by the Rev. DR.. William Adams
in South Brooklyn, at the funeral of an
aged believer. He said that the rank of
veterans standing between us and the ar
rows of death was rapidly falling. He de-
scribed with great simplicity of language,
but most impressvely, what gaps had been
made in that line, and that now another had
fallen. To the men and women in middle
life before him he said, in words they can
never forget, "There is now no one between
you and death you stand face to face with
the grave, and the judgment, and eternity"
Such thought should more than ever ar
rest the attention of the men aud women of
middle age. Very, very few are left of the
grey-haired matrons and sires who only a
few years ago were the crown and glory of
our homes, where they also were throned in
honor as the oracles of wisdom and the foun


tains of comfort and contentment. Nearly
all are gone of that generation. Now, no
one intervening, we face the shafts of the
destroyer, and right before us is the throne
of judgment guarding the portals of the un


seen, but, thanks be to God, not the un


known world Equally true is it that a
great burden of duties and responsibilities.
now rests upon our hearts. May grace be
given to us TO bear them as faithfully as did
those who have just laid them down i


Christian Inieliigencer.
Year: 1879

have in my eye at present the hour before
you go to church on the Sabbath forenoon.
am anxious about it, The note struck
then is likely to give tone to your spirits all
the day. Redeem it, Redeem it as much
as you can from family duties. Redeem it
wholly from "plaiting of hair and putting
on of apparel" Redeem it wholly from
vain conversation. How very much the
power of the minister's preaching depends
on the preparing of the hearers heart If
you come up to the church with your mind
crowded with trihes and puffed up with
vanty-what can ministers do They can
do nothing but beat the air. What else can
they do if there be nothing before them but
air to beat at 1t will make a sound, and
that is ALL ! fear that many of my dear
people spend more time on the Sabbath
morning in putting wells on their faces than
in taking the veil off their hearts-more
time in trying to make themselves appear
before men what they are not, than in try.
ing to make themselves appear before God
what they are.-Rev. W. Arnot.
Year: 1879

The following eloquent passage on walk
ing by faith is from criticism in Mr.. Spur
geou's "Pulpit" on Canon FarraI's book,
" Eternal Hope" "When are the everlast.
ing arms underneath us The only answer
is, now and forever more. Now, at this mo-
ment, beloved, the everlasting arms are un-
derneath US. The life of Christian is de-
scribed as walking by faith, and to my mind
walking by faith is the most extraordinary
miracle ever beheld beneath the sun. Walk
ing on the waves, as Peter did, is a type of
the life of every Christian. | have some
times likened it to ascending an invisible
staircase far up into the clouds. You cam
not see step before you, but you wind up
towards the light. When you look down
ward all is dark, and before you lies nothing
visible but cloud, while beneath you yawns
a fathomless abyss. Yet we have climbed,
some Of us, now for years, up this perpet-
ually ascending STAIR never seeing an inch
before us. We have often paused, almost
in horror, and asked in wonder, What next
and what next ? Yet what we thought to
be cloud has proved to be solid rock dark
ness has been light before us, and slippery
places have been safe. Every now and then,
when the darkness has been denser than
usual, darkness which might be felt, when
all the past Denlnd us mas vanished ana
nothing has been seen but the one step we
stood on, we have said, How did / come
here What strange, mysterious life mine
has been + We have almost wished our
selves down on the level among the world
lings, who can always see their way and
know what is underneath them. But faith
has come to our help again. We have be-
lleved, and believing, we have seen the in
visible and grasped the eternal; and then


we have gone on, have put our foot down
again, and anon have run with Joy up the
shining way. What an ascent we have
sometimes made on that ladder of light, so
that we have companied with angels, and


left the world far down beneath our feet |


Now and then we have enjoyed a glimpse


through the thick darkness of the jewelled


walls of the eternal city, whicn needeth no


candle, neither light of the SUM- we have


seen, say, its brightness, and determined


still TO climb the mysterious way. Well,


believer, at this moment, though thou canst


not see thy way, yet since thou art walk


ing by faith, underneath are the everlasting


arms"
Year: 1879

Retired and uneventful lives are not to be
lightly esteemed. The flower which blooms
in the sheltered valley may have as fair a
growth and as sweet a perfume as that which
stars the edge Of precipice. Lives which
are not lifted by any sharp tragedy out of the
common level of existence may still in their
appointed ways reach and partake of the
highest experiences of the human soul.
They may have childhood's happy protec-
tion loves young dream, the crowning bliss
of reciprocal affection, the delights of equal
friendship, the hope of the parental heart
and the Gethsemane shadow of bereavement
and pain. They may have leisure for intro
spection and for the hallowed solitude in
which the loving spirit communes with its
Redeemer. Forty, fifty, seventy quiet years
may have very much more of heaven begun
in their onward passing than as many spent
in the rush and sweep and the turbulent stir
of the worlds forefront of battle.


have sometimes heard mothers at home
with their little children lament that they
had no special endowment of genius or talent.
With half-sorrow they would sigh for the
artists pencil, the poets pen, or the singers
silvery voice. These other spheres seemed
wilder than their own, and the vocations
nobler. No mistake could be greater than
this. The quiet life in the household gives
scope to the highest ambition and calls forth
the steadiest energy There is room in it
for self.sacrifce, for dignity, and for con-
slant cultivation of all that is good. The
first years of family life, when the boys and
girls are still little ones, obedent to the
mothers eye aud tones, running to her in
their gladness and their griefs, are the most
important in their influence on character.
The home is then determining the future
standard Of society and the future prosperity
of the state. Neither social nor civil pro-
gress can ever rise higher than the ideal it
furnishes. The mothers quiet line upon
line, precept upon precept, are imperceptible
in their molding, but they are not lost Not
single little lesson by the fire, not hymn
nor verse taught, nor prayer at morning
or evening, is in vain. Even when mother
is early removed from her children, if they
have had her faithful teaching, impressions
have been made which will never be lost.


Retired lives are useful in another way.
Nobody, in however obscure station, can
be uniformly sincere, patient, gentle and
conscientious without exerting a positive
influence on friends aud neighbors. The
modest, unobtrusive girl, timid to fault,
but loyal to her convictions, and therefore,
brave, wields a scepter stronger than she
dreams. The self-questioning, humble
minded matron who thinks that she is not
so much as known beyond her own hearth,
is often a comfort and source of strength
to others who have taken notice of her con-
sistency, and rested upon her straightfor-
ward, unerring perceptions of right. 1t is
not possible for any one of us TO measure
the extent of our personal influence but OF
one thing we may be sure, that what we are
is of more consequence than what we do.
There is always grace bestowed on those
who sit at the Saviour's feet.-Mdrgaret E.


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