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Year: 1878

A correspondent of the New York
Herald says that the chloride of lead
is the most efficient and cheapest de-
odorizer and disinfectant known"
AS some neutralizing agent of this
kind should be freely used at this time
in every house, we give the process OF
preparing aud using it, as given in the
Herald:


To prepare a solution of chloride of
lead on a small scale for family use,
take one-eighth of an ounce of nitrate
of lead and dissolve it in one quart of
boiling water; then dissolve one
ounce of common salt in five gallons
of water, pour the two solutions to-
gether, and when settled pour off the
clear mixed solution and keep well
cOrked in demijOhn or jug for use.


A cloth wet with this and suspend
ed in the room will neutraliZe all Of
fensive vapors, and a little dashed in
to privy, sink, drain or sewar will
disinfect and destroy all nOxious gas
es by combining with them. 1t is
said to be in general use in England
for purifying sewers also for destroy
ing the stencil of bilge water IN the
holds of vessels.
Year: 1878

The Globe Journal views with sat-
isfaction the growing strength OF hon.
VIM. Daily, as candidate lor gov
ernor of this prosperous young COM
monwealth. Mr.. Daily is q gentle
man eminently fitted, in every way,
to honorably and satisfactorily dis
charge the duties of the first office in
the State. OF fine executive ability
sound and discriminating judgment,
affable and courteous bearing and
most attractive social qualities, with
the best interest of the State and the
welfare and prosperity of her people
ever in mind, we feel that he would
honor the high Office of governor and
draw great credit to himself and his
many friends and admirers. Among
the many worthy and deserving gen.
tlemen who aspire to his high and
honorable position none seem better
able or more thoroughly fitted to serve
the best interests of all classes of our
citizens than Hon. William Daily
Fails City Journal.


We have been for the past fourteen
years, personally acquainted with Mr..
Daily, and have known him all that
time in the various business relations
of life, to be ever an honorable and
trustworthy gentleman. We have
not exchanged a word with Mr.. Dali
ly, orally or written, since his an
nouncement as a candidate for Gov
ernor, but being a warm friend of his,
for so many years, and know his
worth as we do, we cordially indorse
every word of the above from the
Journal, and would be pleased to see
a like Endorsement all over the State
for one of Nebraska's oldest and best
citizens.
Year: 1878

"The clique which elected him
to congress Is composed, for
the greater part, of the basest ingrates
in the State, and they will not do to
tie to-"


So speaks the Central City Courier
of the Republicans who gave Frank
Welch their votes and elected him by
a large majority. These fellows who
are figting the Republican party seem
concerned to an immodest degree
about what the Republican party
ought to do. Gentleman, attend TO
your own business, and trot out your
man to oppose Frank Welch, and it
will take all your valuable o. time to
find one that he will not distance by
the votes of the "basest ingrates in
the State"
Year: 1878

or some such national paper currency,
when interchangeable at par with the
metallic currency. This is the condi-
ton of the paper currency to-day, as
good condition as is possible, there
fore the people-the sensible green
back people-cannota appreciate all the
noise that is being made about green
backs, and will not abandon their
old parties to follow after an ignisfGtu-
us idea, led by party hacks, fossils
and adventures. We believe within
the lines of the Republican party,
whose chief corner stone is Progress,
lies the remedy for all political evils
and errors.
Year: 1878

The Detroit Free Press on the Sd
published crop reports from every
county in Michigan, in which wheat
is raised to any extent. The entire
yield Is put at thirty million bushels,
and placing Michigan among the fore
most wheat producing States
of the Union. The average yield per
acre will be between nineteen and
twenty bushels. The crop, though
not equal in quality to last seasons, is
fully up to the average.
Year: 1878

Mrs. Tilton threatens to take to the
platform and tell to enraptured audi
ences the manner in which she led
the great preacher astray .-Ecchdnge.


People don't need any posting on
that subject. They know too well
now how to get away with preachers.
Year: 1878

PAY FOR YOUR WTFE.-Wo hoard an


old preacher say few days ago he
had married twelve couples this wins


ter, and had only received one dollar
and fifty cents for making twelve
poopIo of twonty-four. Another
pfoachor says he received thirty dol>
lars for splicing two couples. A young
man that cannot afford to pay at least


five dollars for his wife, ought to stay
single until he is able. We know
that This is thoughtlessness on the
part OF our, young folks, as it has new
or boon customary to. pay for anything
in this county that could be obtained
on !a'credid.. But then you know this
is too long credit, and you might
not mPot in the next world--Speights'
Daily Newspaper. .....
Year: 1878

cerned she has no reason to vail her
face when the names of her sons are
tod, but it must be confessed that
the upper section of our State has
been far more fruitful in great men


than the sea shore. - - =. =
Year: 1878

A few weeks ago a little girl in St.
Albans, who had just recovered from
diphtheria, was taken by her parents to
visit family in neighboring town.
She slept with the children in that fam
lily, and shortly afterward three or four
of them were taken with the malady,
and some have since died. The family
permitted relatives and neighbors to
visit them, and the result is several cases
in the neighborhood. They had public
funerals, even keeping the remains of
one child an unusual time, waiting for
another to die, so as to bury them to-
gether, and this also spread the con-
tagion. The physician was not power
fully impressed-as some physicians are
nOt-with the contagious character of
the disease; therefore, he did not take
the necessary precautions for the pro-
lection of the neighborhood or of his
own family, and the result is that one
of his own children has died and anoth-
er is dangerously i'll. A lady who went
to one of these houses to robe the vic,
tins for the grave has called at houses
in the vicinity where there are chileren,
without any change of her garments
or any attempt at disinfection, and has
fondled the children in those families


apparently in utter ignorance of the


danger to which she was eXposingthem
st. AlJdRs W Messenger.
Year: 1878

Almost every story of shipwreck is
characterized by the display of true he
roism on the part of some one of its
victims. And this last terrible disaster
in the British Channel is no exception
to the rule. Young Clymer, the son of
Mrs. w. B. Clymer of Philadelphia, soon
after the crash made by the bow of the
bark against the side of the Pomerania,
found his sisters, Miss Mary Clymer
and Rose, on the deck of the steamship,
whittier they had hurried from their
stateroom. He placed his Oldest sister
in a lifeboat, and Rose was thrown in
by a sailor. The boat was full, and the
cowardly sailors were endeavoring to
get in it. Clymer thought his mother
and the remaining sister were in the
boat. He did not hesitate. To save
the lives of his sisters he cut the ropes
which held the lifeboat to the steamship
and turned it adrift, standing himself
on the deck of the doomed vessel. He
said good-by to his sisters, realizing
that he would never see them again.


The fact that he first placed the young
girls of his family in safety before think
ing of himself is not so remarkable as
the nerve and courage, the quick pres
ence of mind and ready grasp of the
situation shown by this young man of
20 years. Many men would have dallied
with fate and have hesitated to cut the
ropes in the hope of saving themselves
also. But one moment of hesitation
then would have cost the lives of all in
the lifeboat, for it would have been
swamped by the maddened sailors. 1t
was the noble choice made by Clymer to
give up his young life, full of hope and
promise, rather than to risk the lives of
his sisters by an effort to save himself,
that marks his conduct as heroic.-Ne,o
York Sun
Year: 1878

There are girls who start out in life
with an underlined idea that they will
marry somebody, and then keep look
ing through the matrimonial market
Just as they would look through the
stock of silks on the shopman's coun-
ter. Taking down piece after piece
they find the shade of this too dark, or
of that too light, or of the other not ex-
actly what it ought to be. After put
ting the salesman to much trouble they
say they will call again, and leave the
place not knowing what they want. So
the girl who wants to marry looks
around to see what offers, and finds
that this mans beard is too red, that
ones eyes too blue, and the other ones
ears too long. She will look little
further. She examines all that are
in the market, and concludes to
look farther yet. And when, after hav-
ing almost unconsciously become flirt,
and having broken the hearts of hall
the young men in the neighborhood, ,she
keeps on ''looking little farther" She
finds herself going alone down the hill
on the shady side of the way, still with
an indefinite longing to marry some
body, and wondering who will come
along to propose to her.


1t would be rash to advise the youne
lady to accept the first marrying maj
who offers. 1t is equally rash to advise
her to wait, and wait, and keep on wait
ing, and at last marry nobody. Per
haps it is not necessary that all shoul'
marry. Some of the noblest women il
the world are what the world calls oil,
maids; yet that is lonely way of get
ting along. If the girl wants to marry
the young men will find out, and he
soul will look out of the windows G
her eyes in an unmistakable manne
when the right man comes along. An
all this without any lack of modesty O
breach of perfect decorum on her part
philadelphia Times.
Year: 1878

A most extraordinary sensation has
occurred in the American colony of
London this week. A young lady
from Philadelphia was walking
down Regent Street with the
mother and sister of a young
gentleman of rank, when the attention
of all three was attracted by some pho
tographs of notable people and others
exposed in window, and they drew up
to look at them. Fancy the astonish-
ment of the American girl on seeing
her own photograph exposed there
among the others, but in the most
amazing shape it is possible to conceive:
Her head, her face, the arrangement OF
her hair, the turn of her neck, it was
impossible to mistake; and yet, there
she stood, almost as undraped as the
Venus de Medici-in fact, got up in
tights and feshings, and labeled s" Ma
zeppal" "What can this meanP" she
cried to the elderly lady, her lips
blanched with shame and terror.


81 really can not tell you," replied
Lady Disdain, with steel-hard eye and
icy voice. "You perhaps can tell us
whether on any occasion in America you
were in the habit of appearing in this
dressP'


"Oh, what do you mean to insinu-
ateP" uttered the poor girl. "Do you
think ever stood as Mazeppap Oh, how
cruel of you to speak So"


"It is certainly your portrait, added
the other lady.


By this time one or two bystanders
had drawn up to the window, and no.
ticing the likeness were nudging each
other.


"It is some coincidence-of course it
can not be intended for me-"


"You had better take a cab and go
home and tell your father about it, ="
said the lady, still with her frigid man
ner. "My daughter and l have some
calls to make"


In a half-dazed state of mind the
young Philadelphian drove home and
told her father of what had happened.
To get back to that shop, to have that
photograph out of the window, to de-
mand an explanation of the stationer,
was not the work of many minutes for
the enraged father. But though it was
easy enough to demand an explanation,
it was not so easy to get one. Suspicion
falls upon the servants in the house, one
of whom might easily have distracted a
photo out of a package of them which
has been kept hitherto in an unlocked
drawer of the young lady's writing
desk. OF course it is a " cooked" pic
ture; only the head and neck of the
American lady's photograph, the rest
that of some one else, and together the
picture represents one of the most beau
tiful women it is possible to conceive.
The matter has caused so much indig-
nation and so much comment that it is
not impossible it may check the mania
now so prevalent among society beau.
ties for having themselves photographed
for sale at a shilling carte de visite.-
| London Letter.
Year: 1878

them to be genuine and authentic. / regard lHE
TRIBUNE as far too wise to strike such blow unless
sure of Its facts 1t certainly wonderfully clever
journalistic stroke"


What effect do you think these disclosures VIII nave
upon Mr. Tdens chances Tor the Presidency IN lsSOf


"They have utterly undOne him In that direction
think. No political party afford to run a man 'or
that office upon whom rests the suspicion OF being
priyy TO such hgh-handed crime attempt to buy
the Presidency. Whether true not the mere pubca
tion Of these dispatches will cause the Democratic
leaders ponder earnestly on the policy OF atemptlns
to carry weight So far the political re-
suits This concerned don't believe thar these
disgracciul revelations VIII have effect beyond as
gust ng the people more with Democratic tao
tics But ilroughOu tue country their effect must ne
detrimental to the Democratic parry"
Year: 1878

In the foreclosure suit OF the Exchange
Insurance Company against Martin J. Early Judge
oseph Daily has vacated tha sale on foreclosure he
cause the referee VINO computed the amount due dill not
take the referees oath The Old Chanccry practice pro-
yjde, that every referee before entering judicial
duty must take an oath to perform IL faithfully. and file
the oath with his report This not required by the
Code of ISIS and dropped into dlsuSc. Section 1Ol6 Of
the new Code revived H-a fact probably unknown
10 niuu lawyers out Oi ten
Year: 1878

DEADwooD, April y, 1878.


Thursday night the raft that is used
for transferring passengers and the mail
across the Cheyenne river on the Sid
ney route, capsized when in the middle
of the stream. All the mail and bag
gage was lost and the passengers mar
rowly escaped drowning. The warm
weather for the past few days has caused
the rapid melting of the snow in the
mountains, which has swollen the al
ready dangerously high creeks that run
through Deadwood. This evening a
rain storm set in and great fear is en-
tertained that portion of the business
center of this city will DE seriously dam
aged by the flood. The District court
was adjourned to-day on account Of the
water flowing into the court room. All
deeds and papers are being removed
from the recorders Office, which lies in
the path of the raging waters, to a
place of safety. A large gang of men
are at work tearing down the bridges
and small buildings that obstruct the
free passage of the water.
Year: 1878

IL is the easiest thing in the world


to be happy, If men and women could
only think so. Happiness is only an
other name for love, for where love
exists in household there happiness
must also exist, even though ii has
poverty for its close companion; where
love exists not, even though Il be in a
palace, happiness can never come. He
was a cold and selfish being who orig.
mated the saying that "when poverty
comes in at the door, love flies out at
the window," and his assertion proves
conclusively that he had no knowledge
of love, for unquestionably the re-
verse Of the axiom quoted is nearer
the truth. When poverty comes in
ut the door, love-true love--is more
than ever inclined to tarry, and do
battle with the enemy. Let those who
imagine themselves miserable. before
they find fault with their surround
ings, search in their hearts for the
cause. A few kind words, a little
Forbearance, or a kiss, will often open
lhe way to a food of sunshine in a
house darkened by the clouds of dis
,ord and unamiability.
Year: 1878

Homely girls should never elope OF


commit suicide-in short, should new.


er do any thing which will render


them liable TO get into print. None


but those who have had the sad expe.


rience knows what a wofully irksomo


task il is for reporter to dish up a


readable article about scrawny,


freckle.faccd girl who has jumped into


the river or taken strychnine, or done
some other terrible deed, all for love.


We don't mean to say that scrawney,


freckle.faced girls shouldn't fall in
love, but we emphatically, nay, tear.
fully, maintain that this species Of the
soft sex should so demean themselves
in all their loving and living as to
keep out of the realm which properly
belongs to the sensitive reporter. 1t
is n pleasure, divine pleasure, to
write up the misfortunes Of the beau
tiful. What newspaper reporter in
all our broad land does not hang upon
the suicide with golden hair, and thin,
white hands, and broad, marble fore
head and shell-like ears, and regular,
classic nose, and willowly form and
plump white shoulders. Why, he
fairly gloats over the victim. We
wouldn't have had her live for all the
riches of the world. He presents her
to his readers thousand times fairer
than she is. And yet, put in her
place upon the slab at the morgue,
stoutish or scrawny creature, with a
wart on her cheek, or a glass eye, or
a cork leg, or a false tooth, or red
hair, or bow-legs-the spirit of the
reporter plumps down into his boots
and he either abandons himself to a
chaotic, oblivious debauch, or writes
up the really good item in "half a
stickfull," or inveigles the ingenious
paragraphist of the paper into draw
ing upon his fruitful imagination for
an ideal heroine with which to varnish
his story, so that the homely girls
fate is either not recorded at all or is
recorded under false colors. So we
say, homely girls and homely women
owe it to themselves to religiously
keep out Of print. And by so doing,
they will confer an estimable favor
upon a class that strives without ceas-
ing to please the public. The beauti-
ful alone are born to die. The home
ly and the staid are created for life
and its cold, stern and often bitter re-
alities.
Year: 1878

FOUND OUT.-A man OF exceed
ingly parsimonious habits, who felt
obliged To make a present 10 lady,
entered a crockery store for the pur-
pose Of making purchase. Seeing a
statuette broken into a dozen pieces,
he asked the price. The salesman
said II was worthless, but he could
have il for the cost of packing in u
box. He sent il to the lady with his
card, congratulating himself that she
would imagine that il became ruined
while on its way home. lie dropped
in 10 see the effect The tradesman
had carefully wrapped each piece in a
separate biz Of paper.
Year: 1878

Those newspapers which are too
proud or too obstinate to retract any
unjust or improper language which
they have admitted to their columns,
should profit by the example Of an
exchange, which gives notice as fol.
lows: If any subscriber finds a line in
his paper that he does not like and
cannot agree with, if he will bring
his paper to the Office and point out
the offending line, the editor will take
his scissors and cut it out for him.
Year: 1878

"Old Rosin the Bow" was the favOrite
universal song, all around and about here
forty wears ago, and it now comes up again
and is the most popular Of all songs. The
same may be said Of the first Of the operatic
songs, "Pm Afloat," and Of that sweetest OF
species, if we may so call it, " Listen to the
Mocking Bird. ."-ReUetle.


The name of this song is not cold
Rosin the Bow;" it is {" Old ROssum the
Beau 1t was written by Colonel W.
H. Sparks, formerly of Natchez. We
think he told us he wrote the song while
a resident Of our city. Old dRossum was
somewhat after the Beau Brummel or
der, and was peculiar friend of the
Colonel.


We met the Colonel at Atlanta last
summer u year ago---we had known him
from the days of our earliest childhood
where he was boarding at the Kim
ball House, with his young, beautiful and
devoted wife. He was something over
so years Of age, and seemed as attract
i've and lively as though he were but
40. He met the New York State Press
Convention at the city, and his remark
able store of information, anecdotes,
life and vivacity made him quite lion
with them. We believe the Colonel is
now residing on his plantation in Louis
ana. Colonel J. P. Walworth and some
other of the elder citizens Of the Nat
chez will remember the genial and
agreeable Colonel w. H. Sparks.-Nat-
chez San.
Year: 1878

THE ORIGINAL INTENT.-Just
now, when so much trouble, delay
and inconvenience is being ex-
perienced on account of the break
ing of the telegraphic cable leading
down to Victoria from across the ISL
ands, is an opportune moment to call
attention to the fact that necessity
may yet compel the location Of tha'
cable where it was originally intend
ed to be, viz, from Edith Hook
across the straits to Victoria. The
line could be consolidated with the
P. S. L. Co.'S line, or some arrange
ment effected whereby the latter line
could be used down as far as Chin
acum valley, from which place the
main line could extend around Port
Discovery Bay and down the straits
to the point before mentioned. This.
we believe, was the original design,
and its wisdom over the plan adopted
has been demonstrated in the fact
that the cable was laid where sunken
reefs, ledges Of copper, etc, rendered
it constantly liable to being severed,
while the route, as sounded, across
from Port Angeles Bay is as practi.
cable and feasible to-day as it ever
has been. The channel is quite mar
row, the bottom sandy and free from
reefs of any kind and the water deep
enough to render any surface action
powerless to disturb a cable when
once laid.
Year: 1878

1t is quite unnecessary, in this
initial number of the eighth volume of
the ARGUS, to air any supertluous
sentences setting forth or defining
. our course for the future, or indulg
ing our persona vanity by exten-
sively reviewing the past.


For nearly ten months we have
stood at the helm of this enterprise,
and engineered it through such
storms and circumstances as the fates
were pleased to bring about. Dur
that time the public has had a fair
opportunity to set the bounds and
prophesy for it's future standing and
usefulness. Its aims have never
been concealed, and its efforts for the
accomplishment of any object what
ever have always been of the most
open aud unaffected character, hence
it has been HONEST in every senti.
ment spoken. If a liberal and in
creasing patronage on the part of the
public may be construed into mean
ing an appreciation of merit, then
Indeed would we be ungrateful did
the future not disclose earnest and
continuous efforts at Improvement
on our part. The profession of
journalism we adopted, not in the
hope of immediate pecuniary gain,
or yet because any particularly at,
tractive opening was presented In
that line, but after mature delibera.
ton aad consideration of natural
predictions presupposing greater
likelihood of fitness for the business
than for any other.


To say that we enter upon this
volume with high and sanguine hopes
of success, good resolutions, etc.,
would be to inform the public of
what it already knows if it gives us
credit for having common sense and
ordinary qualifications for success in
the business. We may say, however,
that by the time another year rolls
around If the ARGUS does not pres
ent many Improvements, now merely
in prospect, we will suffer greater
disappointment than any of our read
ers will experience. In the mean
time, while expressing a hope that
increased experience viii! lend great.
er efficiency in serving the best in
terests of our patrons, and in work
ing out full and free pecuniary saliva.
ton, let the word failure" be lost
sight of, or, bereft of its peculiar
significance and force.