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Year: 1879

from the Evening Mail of Sept. 3O.l


The Jeannette has "bettered expectation" arrv
ing at St. Michaes six days ahead of the accompany
ing schooner. which expected to reach that
place her. and having been able to proceed
st. Lawrence Bay under the most favorable auspices.
Her first selfappointed duty has been to learn all
that could be learned concerning Professor Nor
denskj0ld. and Captain De Long so fortunate
to fall in with o native chief who had boarded
vessel in Kolintchin Bay, where it frozen in,
and afterward in st. Lawrence Bay, and said that
this vessel finally sailed off homeward along the
Kamschatka coast The inference is that the vessel
was the Vega.


AS for the Jeannette's own work. the prospect is
pleasing almost beyond the sangune hopes Of her
enthusiastic officers and crew. They have not yet
been obliged to don their fur garments and have
far enjoyed temperature above IS degrees. Tho
outlook is inviting. everything indicates the
approach Of open winter, and oil the experienced
navigators who have expressed opinion on the
subject have been unanimous in commenting on the
good sense and good luck of the explorers. We may
look for some encouraging news Of progress before
long, as the scientists busy board the staunch
yacht.
Year: 1879

FoREsEE SERIES OF AGRARIAN MURDERs-


POSSIBILITY OF A MILITARY OCCUPATION


PARNELL's POLICY.


lBY CABLE TO THE HERALD.


LONDON, Sept. 80, 1879.


The Pail Mall Gazette, in the leading article
briefly summarized last evening" comedies that
the complaints of the Irish tenant farmers arc
mostly genuine; that they for the moment
unable to pay their rent, and that they believe
in their right to remain on the land in every
event. They are fresh from the ex-
hortations of the most popular politician
in Ireland, meaning Mr.. Parnell, to stick
to their homesteads at whatever consequence
Ii the general refusal to pay rent is followed by
wholesale eviction, this again will almost GER
tainly be followed by q series of agrarian Mur-
ders; and unless tho Irish Executive is prepared
to support the landlords by measures amounting
to little less than military occupation of large
part OF the country the landlords will have to
choose between virtually conccding the tenants
claim to tixity of tenure and giving the signal
for an outbreak of something hardly distin-
guishable from civil war. The anti-rent agita-
ton is only one among the other symptoms
of the general unrest of Ireland For the
moment it is the most urgent; but even
if the worst pinch of the agrarian dis
tress were relieved by universal reduction
of rent, there would still be much to dis
quiet us in the condition Of the country.
The enthusiasm by which Mr.. Parnells progress
has been attended has infinitely weakened the
hands of the more moderate home rulers and
cinbodened the ultras, and among its first re-
suits was somewhat to precipitate the proposal
to assemble in national convention. The fate
Of this particular project is ut present UNI
certain, but the agitation upon which the more
violent section of the home rulers have entered
will, in shape or another, produce
its inevitable result upon the party generally.
The troublous prospect in Ireland is not really
affected by the success or failure of any given
scheme for organizing pressure upon the
government The present temper of the
Irish people and their leaders con-
Germs us much more seriously than any
particular proposal for its manifestation,
and while this temper remains what it is.-senli-
seditious among the people and recklessly in
cendiary among tho leaders-the situation must
be grave one, whether the convention ever
meets or not. 1t should be noted that the old
statute, which prohibited conventions in Ireland,
has been repealed.


The Times, in d leading editorial article on
the discouraging effects of Mr. Parnclps policy,
says it would become really formidable only if
it should extend all over Ireland. The Times
does not believe that it will do SO. Nothing, it
says, will tend to paralyze the anti-rcnt projects
more etfectually than the Improvement in the
harvest prospects which is reported from the
greater part Of Ireland
Year: 1879

Reports of the adventure Of Gen. Bou-
ton with highwaymen near San Jaclnto
have been coming in for some days, but
the General himself has now arrived.
Gen. Bouton was chief Of artillery under
General Sherman, who speaks of him as
having a record as an artillery officer un-
surpassed in the world He was engaged
in ~ battles and never lost gun. He
tells of his thrilling experience On the
mountain top at San Gorgonia in the fol-
lowing way:


The General and j. c. Collins, his part
ner started from San Gorgonia for their
ranch at San Jacinto in a light wagon.
About three miles out, and when at the
top of the grade on the new road leading
to San Jacinto, three men suddenly rose
out of the brush, which at that place
grows close to the roadside, and two pre-
senting revolvers and one a shotgun,
cried Halt" The team was stopped,
and they were ordered to give up their
arms. They both promptly answered
that they had no arms, although each of
them had revolver in his pocket un-
known to the other Upon getting out
of the wagon pieces of chain were pro-
duced, and their hands were chained be-
hind them and six-foot chains were placed
about each of their necks. This jewelry
was made from the chain used about the
straw-carrier of q threShingmachlne.
The links are made of heavy wire bent
into shape but not welded, and when
they were placed upon the prisoners the
links were pressed down with a pair OF
shoemaker pincers. Collins was chained
TO the wheel of his wagon with the chain
about his neck. The man carrying a
shotgun was handed pistol by the other,
who taking hold of the chain about the
generals neck, said, Come on, while
the armed man fell in the rear with his
gun about foot from BoutonS back.
The third man had meanwhile been un-
hitching the horses, and taking them
ahead short distance, tied them to some
bushes.


All this time-and the time was not
Year: 1879

nearly so long as it takes us to tell it
the General had been feeling along the
slack of the chain on his hands trying to
find a link that was not entirely closed.
His touch, which m ust have been inten-
sifed by the tight place in which he was
placed, suddenly found a link partly open.
He dropped the other link down, and
with the slight leverage which this afford
ed pried open the little opening upon
which his life depended. Keeping his
hands in the same position. he then parted
the skirts of his coat and put his hand
upon the pistol, which was self-cocker
of the "bull dog pattern. They had
not yet gone more than thirty PAGES, and
had lust turned out of the road into the
brush when the General accomplished
this, and it was just at this time that the
man in the rear noticed his movements
and cried Halt" At this Gen. Bouton
whipped out his pistol, and, half turning,
fired at the man in the rear, who fell
Quick as thought he whirled and bored
hole through the one IN front. He then
ran to release Collins, when the third man
came running toward the wagon from
where he tied the horses. Bouton think


ing his purpose was to shoot Collins,
waited until he passed the rear of the
wagon, when he blazed away and dropped
him. 1t took but moment TO jerk the
chain apart which was about Collins
neck and to free his hands Then, hitch
ing up their team, they drove like Wild
fire to the office Of Justice Kennedy, some
nine miles distant, with the parted chains
still dangling from their wrists and necks,
where they at once told their story. With
the aid of file they were relieved of
their jewelry, and as soon as day broke a
posse started back to the scene of the
tragedy.


Near by they found where three horses
had been tied, and two masks on the
ground Taking up the trail of the
horses, they found, about half-mile fur
ther on, the body of John Wakefield,
who had dismounted. unsaddled his horse,
turned him loose, and then laid down
and died. He was found TO have been
shot in the right side, the ball lodg-
ing Just beneath the skin Of the back.
On Wednesday a man named Covington
went to his home near FL Casco, Immedl-
atcly after the shooting, with flesh
wound in the thigh, where he stated to
MS friends that they did not intend to
murder Gen. Bouton, but only wanted to
compel him to sign an order on his wife
for $1,000, and intended to keep him as
a hostage until it was paid - cotton
(Cai) l-Iropic.
Year: 1879

tiOn.


LOUISVILLE, May 2.-Dr. Luke Blackburn
has been nominated for Governor by the
Democratic convention by unanimous accla-
nation. J. Z. CantreIl was nominated for
Lieutenant Governor, and b. W. Harden for
Attorney General. The convention ts having
lively time over the nomination for auditor.
ALEX. STEPHENS VIEWS ON THE SITUATION IN


CONGRESS.


NEW YORK, May 2.-The Herdtd's Wash
ington special reports Mr. Stephens, Of
Georgia, as saying last night:


"In my judgment the Democratic party
has never been committed to the position that
supplies should be withheld In case Of veto
OF and the polical measures incorporated as
riders on the appropriation bill. They were
committed only to the incorporation OF these
riders as not in violation of the principle or
custom of legislation from the beginning of
the government. The question of policy and
not one Of right to do 50 was unquestioned,
but the policy was questionable. 1 have no
idea that this Congress will adjourn without
making all the necessary appropriations to
carry on the government False reports
have been made concerning the action In the
caucus on Wednesday. think 1t would have
been much better for the country and the
Democratic cause Ii there had been q full and
accurate report Of all that WAS said.
Year: 1879

Savannah (Ga.) Neps: Certain negroes In
the South just now seem to be In state OF
feverish restlessness. While many Of them
are leaving Louisiana for death in the West,
others are emigrating from West Florida to
Louisiana. We learn from the Madison Re
corder that they go under regular contract,
and are given house and S15 per month,
and In addition furnished with mule and q
piece OF land, should they desire it, to culti-
vate for themselves In the rolling season
they are paid extra, and are compensated for
night work. This is much better than rely
off starvation. Still it will be well for the
citizens OF Florida of African descent to bear
In mind that rolling stone gathers no moss.
Year: 1879

Minister SToUGHToN's casual remark re-
garding the duties of his position Mt st.
Petersburg has been quoted the length and
breadth of the land as an argument in favor
of abolishing our foreign missions and rely
ing on the electric cable as a sole agency
for the transmission of diplomatic contro-
versies between our State Department and
the treaty.making Powers of the world
Many people have been deceived into sup
port of this idea by this specious argument,
because they have not taken the other side
of the question into account But we have
no fear that it will be adopted, even by the
existing reckless Democratic Congress, until
after the matter has been discussed in all
its bearings.


1t is certain that the National honor and
the good repute of the Government would
not be conserved by the sudden Withdrawal
of the officials in question simply because n
partisan TRADE has been launched against
them, or because few thousand or hun
dreds of thousands of dollars might be
saved thereby. Iffor no other reason-and
there are many others-than that it is the
habit and time custom of all the
great nations of the world to maintain this
system of ministerial intercourse, this Gov
ernment, great, powerful and growing as il
is, should not disgrace itself by pleading
niggardly economy as an excuse for this So
called new departure.


But the truth is that so long as we open
| wide the doors of our national hospitality
| and invite the high and low, the poor and
the rich, and the oppressed and the adyen'
turous of every cline to become citizens
under our flag, an imperative necessity will
exist for the presence on the spot, so to
speak, of vicarious power for their pro
lection against the designs and desires o.
the governments of their nativity. This duty
alone, faithfully performed, has in the past
and may in the future, avert war-a fact
which will at once appeal to the better
sense of the public as a sufficient reason
why the system should be retained.


And, again, so long as our people, native
and naturalized, maintain the national
characteristic Of ventursome progress, SC
long as they push American enterprise and
business risks for the development of oul
commerce, and so long as it is desirable tC
encourage foreign trade with our shores
lust so long will similar reasons exist fol
the same protective presence TO guard then
against imposition and injustice wherever
they may go,
Year: 1879

II is violently claimed in some quarters
that the Government is in favor of either
the Nicaragua or Tehuantepec route for
the Darien Canal. Exactly what au-
thority there is for this claim we are not
informed, but we do know that the Gov
ernment has all along acted like dog in
the manger in this matter. And 1t has not
changed its policy, even now that all the
nations of the world are engaged in dis
cussing the subject 1t has done nothing
il is true, in an official way to interfere with
the De Lesseps scheme; but it is ready to
do so on occasion, because that would be
the proper thing. But it has done nothing
more than to make some very expen-
sive surveys of all the proposed routes
and here the matter rests Perhaps the
present Administration or some venture
some spirit in our Democratic Congress will
take the matter in hand next winter. Mean
while, Captain JOHN CowDoN, the inde-
fatigable protector Of various canals at the
mouth of the Mississippi river, is reported
to be organizing company to revive one
of the dnte-bellum franchises granted by
Mexico for this purpose.
Year: 1879

OUR GreenbaclSs are one-fourth of one
per cent premium up in Canada. A little
more than six months ago they were at q
discount. And we are told that Rosump-
tion has not accomplished ANYTHING.
Year: 1879

THEY tolerate KEARNEY rs n political
leader out in California, and at the same
time exalt AIMEE as q social lion. Evil
IDENTIFY the Pacific Slopers are in favor of
high kickers, whether it be on the stump
or behind the footlights, and the higher
and more reckless the kicking the better il
seems to suit them.
Year: 1879

The New England laborers, who, accord
ing to the Southern Democratic press, are
all so badly bull.dozed and intimidated on
election days, never fail to show their
independence in the way of labor strikes,
which seldom result otherwise than in a
compromise favorable to them Somehow
OF another these two statements do not jibe,
Ms 1t were, for the exercise of independence
in one thing would seem TO indicate the use
OF the same quality under other circumstan-
Year: 1879

personnel of the Commission. The decision
of the court convicts the Commissioners Of q
fagrant wrong, and will justify the Presi-
dent in making an early change. The peo-
pie should move at once for the appointment
of Commissioners who have some respect
for the law and the public welfare.
Year: 1879

THE talk about running Attorney-Gen-
eral DEvENs for Governor on the Republic
can ticket, up in Massachusetts,, may yet
amount TO something. If it should event
nate, as the phrase goes, in his nomination
the present Cabinet would lose one of its
truest and ablest members--a true Republi-
can, we mean, who has been educated by
contact with Southern Democratic depreda-
tors against human rights into renewed
allegiance to Republican principles, and an
able as well as a conscientious and prompt
official
Year: 1879

THE boosted chivalry of the American
people in matters wherin q lady is con-
cerned seems to have petered out, now that
the discussion of the Narragansett Pier
scandal has become general. In all the
press of the entire country there seems to
be no defender of Mrs. SPRAGUE, and her
name is banded about as freely as if i,
were that Of some common woman. Stories,
true in part and imaginative in a greater
part, are told and printed regarding her
with freedom and license which are simply
shocking.
Year: 1879

THINGS have reached such a point in
Ohio that the brother oflhe Greenback can
didate for Governor in that State cannot
closet himself for couple Of hours with
the chairman Of the Republican State Cen
trail Committee without having the Incl
dent alluded to as suspicious by the Dem
oeratic newspapers, There are two ways to
explain this jealous watchfulness, one be-
ing that the Democrats are about scared out
oftheir boots and the other being that the
brother aforesaid is as well known in Ohio
Ms he is in Washington.
Year: 1879

To reach the highest standard of health nature
demands the utmost regularity OF the bowels; q
slight deviation brings many inconveniences and
paves the way to more serious dangers. We can
recommend DIR. Bulls Baltimore Z Ills as the best
medicine for the needs of the digestive apparatus
Year: 1879

THE ALARM AT MEMPHIs.-It is gratifying to note
that the alarm produced a few days ago by the ap-
pearance of yellow fever in Memphis is sHbsiding A
telegram from there states that the citizens arc return
ing persons from the adjacent towns are coming in
and the trains going to and from the city are carrying
the usual number of passengers The fevers seems 10
have confined itself to the six sporadic cases first re-
ported as we have the pleasing assurance that there
have been no new since the morning OF the 10th
instant There have been five deaths up to date the
last being that Of Mrs Tobin, who died yesterday
morning Judge Rays son is announced to have raj
lied Yesterday afternoon and hopes now enterAn
I'd Of h.- .rpvcry. He is the only one in the entire
city no" * with the fever


favorable condition Of things is due to the
wise precautionary trken by the other cities
there can be doubt By timely qnaTantines, othel
localities South have thus far escaped the pestilence
and by the exercise of ordinary care II E hoped TO es
cape Il itentrely.
Year: 1879

The following, taken from tho Burling.
ton Hawkeye, is as good for the "young
man" of this community as for that of any
other, and, accordingly We place it in our
local column:


"And then remember, son. that the world is older
than you by several years that for thousands Of
men than yourself that their feet stuck out Of the
dOrmef windOws that when they died the old globe
went whirling on. and not one man In ten million
went to the funeral even heard of his death. Beas
can, of course. Know much as you can, without
blowing the packing out Of your cylinder heads shed
the light Of your wisdom abroad in the world but
don't dazzle people with 1t. And don't imagine
thing is so simple because you say IL is Don't be
sorry foT your father because he knows much less
IMAM you do; remember the reply of DIR. Wayland to
the student of Brown University who said IL
easy enough thlng 70 make proverbs such az Solomon
wrote Make few tersely replied the old man.
And we never heard that the young man made any,
Not more than two or three, anyhow. The world has
great need for young men, but no greater need than
| than your fathers it him: they cost more money
they more stylish, your mauitache is neater the
cut of your hair is better and you prettier OH
gentleman gets the biggest salary, and his Iomsly.
scrambling signature on the business end of a check
will drain more money out of the bank in five min
| utes than you could get out with ream of paper
| and eopperplated signature in six mcnths Young
men are useful son. and they are ornamental and we
| all love Them and couldn't engineer picnic
cessfnly without them. But they are no novelties.
| son. Oh no, nothing Of the kind. Ihey nave been


clear out but don't be so fresh you VIII nave 70 be


put away in the cool To keep from spoiing Don't be


afraid that your merit Will not be discovered Peope


all over the world are hunting Tor you snn ~ ySu aI
so easily found as quartz pebble, but people search
for it al the more intenty."
Year: 1879

Apart from the improved condition of
the atmosphere, last Friday afternoons
storm seems to have had no effect in this
immediate vicinity and very little within a
radius of several miles. In and around
Kenton, there was fall of hail stones,
some Of which were as large as eggs. A
cedar tree on the farm Of Mr.. Thomas
Bailey was struck by Lightning. tree,
standing in front of the residence Of Mr..
John Jewell, on the Middle Alley road,
was also struck, the lightning passing
thence to milk cupboard near by, splinter
ing it considerably. A daughter of Mr..
Jewell, who at the time of the fash was
going from the kitchen door to the cup.
board, was knocked down and stunned
and chicken that had taken shelter near
the door was killed. A full report of the
storm elsewhere will be found among our
County and State items.
Year: 1879

We shall commence in our next issue,


and which will run through several num-
bers of the paper, history Of the rise and
progress of Methodism in this section by
Rev. P. H. Rawlins which must be Of con-
siderable INTEREST," to the most of our readers.
1t will embrace the names and many of
the important incidents in which they
figured, of the prominent men from the
highest to the lowest offices in the church.
Year: 1879

by Law until the expiration of the month dur
ing which the defendant contracted 10 serve
the city; that there was nothing due the
defendant by the city until the whole contract
on the part of the defendant had been fully per-
formed. and that the salary due the defendant for
September not covered by the injunction as
claimed by the Comptroller, there being, as he
claimed no salary due until October /. The Special
Term however. held that the salary was due on the
3Uth of Semptember. ana ordered the money 70 be
paid by the Comptroller to tine bank. Defendant
counsel thereupon obtained stay of proceedings and
appealed to the General Term OF the Supreme Court
The appeal deliberately argued last month, ana
yesterday the General Term reversed the order OF tho
Special Term with costs 10 the appellant.
Year: 1879

Miss Juliet Corson gave lecture last evening In
the Cooper Institute on domestic Economy" She
explained how q very good meal could be produced
with tho smallest amount of provendcr, and
she also explained the little niceties OF the table
that 40 to make up the sum of the meal. Miss Cor.
sons lecture was illustrated with u number OF
stercopti views of roast chickens, boiled hsms
and the ike, anu OF breakfast and dinner tables laid
out as they ought to be.