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Year: 1878

as Campanini, Foil. Frapolli, Thierry, Del
Puente and Galassi that the opera 'Car-
men" will be produced for the first time in
this country; that Arditi will conduct the
orchestra that an excellent ballet troupe
will form part of the company; that all the
singers are in good voice, and that the
season will constitute a revival OF the
best days of Italian opera in New York.
The occurrence Of great revival in morals
or great revolution in politics would be
no more interesting and important to moral
lists or politicians than is the approaching
event to that class Of our citizens which
makes up the opera-going public.


The selection of season is opportune in
more ways than one, and particularly in
happening just as Theodore Thomas is
porary the Times says:-'It is fair to sup
pose that the numerous and wealthy clientele
which waited on Mr.. Thomas will be eager to
transfer their allegiance to the Italian opera
in case the latter meets with their approval" I"
There is no doubt Of the willingness and
even eagerness of the musical public to
give its approval if the event justifes it.
The whole matter, for success or failure,
seems now tb rest with Mr.. Mapleson and
his artists. The public is eager, the news
papers favorable, the critics well disposed,
the stockholders have subscribed literally
and the season seems in every way pro-
pitious.
Year: 1878

n6S1str0tlOu ana the "Om Year."


The registration of voters for the election
of November 5 commences to-day, and a
prompt attention to that preliminary duty
is advisable. There are four days for reg
istering, but no one can tell what his en-
gagements or condition may be on future
day. and every citizen should avail himself
of the first opportunity to complete his
qualification as an elector. The politicians
in their calculations are accustomed to
count on q light registration OF what is
known as an ''off year"-that is to say, a
year in which there is no Gubernatorial or
Presidential candidate. Unfortunately
they are generally found to be correct.
Yet no election is Of such vital importance
to the people of New York as one which d~-
cides to whose hands the government of
their city shall be conided. The city tax
levy this year is over thirty million
dollars, out of which large sum less than
four million dollars is tor State taxes and
the support of common schools. The in
terest Of the people of the city of New York
in their local government is, therefore,
represented by nearly twenty-seven million
dollars Of taxation, while their interest in
the State government is represented by less
than four millions. There is every reason,
therefore, why our citizens should take q
far more active part in an election for Mayor
than in an election for Governor, and why
there should be q full and complete regis
tration this year. It is to be hoped that to-
days registry lists will prove that the peo-
pie appreciate these facts and are prepared
to bring out their entire forces next month
to fight the battle of good municipal gov
ernment, although it is what the politicians
call an ssoff year."
Year: 1878

men Of this nation In politics. In
learning, in wealth, in invention, at
the bar, in the pulpit, and indeed in
everything, as rule, came from the
very humblest walks of life, while
the sons of the rich, per contra have
failed. Pick out, to-day, in any COM
munity, the men who stand the high
est among their fellows i'm every call
ing in life, and our word for it, nine
tenths of them came from the ranks
of the honest, hard-working, toiling
millions. 1t is the glorious preroga-
tive of every healthy boy in this re-
public to reach the top of the ladder,
if he will, and the way is not at all
ohstructed; it is as essentially free to
all rs the air we breathe. Pick out
the young man who is industriously,
prudently, energetically and hopeful.
ly pursuing an honest calling with a
determination to be frugal and win
and as sure as life and health are
spared him he acM win, and the mag.
nitude of the victory he shall gain
depends only upon the circumstances
surrounding him and the capacity he
may possess to turn them to account
The fact is, health, pluck, ability and
frugality constitute capital in this
grand republic of ours, and not in
herited dollars, broad acres, piles O
brick and mortar, or the emuch-talked
Of bank stock and government bonds
these are as nothing;-we mistake;-
they are largely curse to the youns
man when inherited in any considera
BILE quantity. 1t is indeed the worl
of the demagogue to 60 about tn
country with blatant tongue stirrin,
up enmity and hatred between SC
called labor and capital.
Year: 1878




The $500 Democrats of this Distric,
who clung 10 the ticket last fall, Akt
men, when this very same element
was seeking the disintegration of the
party, will be heard this fall both in
convention and at the polls, and many
of those who fell into the snare and
fooled their votes away, will come
home this fall and cast their votes
with the Democratic party-the party
of the people and the hope of the
country. The men who are seeking
to disrupt the Democratic party have
called their Judicial Convention for
the 3lst of this month. We under
stand from the lunatics here that the
object in so doing is to designate a
couple of gentlemen for the Demo.
cratic convention that meets on the
l4th of August to ratify. If the Dem.
ocrats of this State will only do all
the ratifying these lunatics ask, we
had better change our name, and call
ourselves the great ratifying party
1t may occur to some people that this
ratifying business is getting just q
little stale.


There ls another suggestion thai
we would make for the edification OF
the ratifiers. Is 1t not little strange
that we have to ratify so many sore.
head Republicans-men who stayed
in the Radical camp and voted for all
the infamous class legislation Of the
past twelve years, the outrageous dis.
elimination between capital and la.
Dor, in the shape of banking laws
tariff laws, and laws for the express
benefit of the bondholders, and last
but not least the infamous reconstruc.
ton laws which swindled and cheat
ed the Democratic party out of their
president? We can eat a reasonab BILE
amount of dirt. and are tolerable
good on the confession, but our di.
1estive organs cannot stand every
thing. If the Democrats of this State
are to be constantly fed on such dir,
as Weaver, Gillett, Bereman and 9TH
ers Of the same kidney, it is calcula-
ted to make them dyspeptic, and il
they do "spit up" little you can
hardly blame them.
Year: 1878

per month, from the sale Of milk and
cream.


The raising of flowers, seeds and
plants for sale is another beautiful
and paying industry. But small cap
ital is required but there is required
a genuine love for the work. Flow
ers need to be tended like children,
lovingly and constantly, but to those
who can thus tend them they offer
rich rewards both in money and
pleasure. The work is very light.
and constantly refrcshes and cncour-
ages the worker by the happy, free
conditions under which it is necessa-
rily carried on. The demand for
flowers is one that is constantly in
creasing, and that indicates the rapid
progress of people in the percetion
and love of beauty and refinement.


If the thoughts and energies of
people could only be turned more to
the undertaking and prosecution of
such practical and safe enterprises,
instead of being spent in bew ailing
the hardness of the times and in wait
ing for some sudden great change for
the better, which is not going to come
it would help very materially to
solve the problem Of work for the un.
employed. and lead to the return OF
prosperity, comfort and peace.
Year: 1878

The Register calls attention to the
liability Of the railroads of this state,
under the law, in bringing into lows
thousands of persons whom they
know to be paupera, The railroad
companies could largely stop this
plague, if they would. But some OF
them are carrying them free rather
than be at the little expense OF
arming their employees Oh the trains
and so keep them riding from point
to point. Others of our railroads
like the Burlington, Ce6ar Rapids &
Northern, fight the tramps and keep
them of their trains with shotguns,
when other means fail. Roads of this
class do not aid in the way by which
ten thousand of these vagrants reach
the interior Of the State. The roads
which are culpable in doing so should
be brought to terms under the law, il
it can be done.
Year: 1878

The Iowa National is greenback
paper published at Newton, by Mr.,
Charles f. Neal, and it displays al
the head of its editorial columns a
representation of the legal tender alb.
solute money which the National ad.
vocates. 1t bears the legend: "This
is United States One Dollar Legal
Tender, Lawful Money"


Now our friend Neal may express
his willingness to take such a dollar
on subscription for his paper, but
what would his subscribers say il
friend Neal should send him sheet
of paper with nothing printed on il
except the words: "This is the Iowa
National, Newspaper, Complete
And yet that would be as much of a
newspaper as the piece of paper il
money which brother Neal would
receive on which was printed This Is
a dollar"
Year: 1878




Weaver in his Newton speech (anG
we doubt not he has said the same ii
this county, said, "many ask how are
you going to redeem your legal ten
ders? The main question is not re-
demption, but circulation. Green
backs should be convertible into cOir
at the option of the government"


Here is where Weaver is mistaken
The main question is redemption
Once settle that and the question O
circulation would take care of itself
Greenbacks are now convertible into
coin at the option of the government
and it was this option which opened
the harvest to the sickles of the gold
gamblers, and made the currency 0.
the country the football of the specu'
lators. Make the currency convert.
BILE into coin at the will of the holder
and the occupation of the gold gam.
blers of Wall street is gone. When
ever the holders of government pa
pers can obtain its face in coin, from
that moment the currency is stable
and fixed. Prompt and certain con.
vertibility is as the solid rock; uncer
tain or never-tO-come convertibility
is as the treacherous waters Of the
deep sea.
Year: 1878

It is the principal stock in trade OF
the irredeemables to assert that the
republican party is opposed to the
greenback currency, that notwith-
standing we made them we now dis
own them and denounce them as sly
ing promises to pay" "dishonest
money! etc. Of course this is all
gratuitous assertion. 1t is not the
present greenback that we are opposed
to, but it is the ne,r and inferior arti-
Gle that they propose to make-the
absolute money" paper that they pro-
pose tofiood the country with-that We
objectto as Unconstitutional and ire
deemable trash" The present green.
back we have no objection to onl,
that we would like to improve i
about five-eighths of one per cent. ir
value, that it may become equal ir
value to anybody's dollar. We be
lieve that a paper medium of ex
change is necessary and proper, but
we insist that it shall be redeemable
400 cent money; not worthless, fluctu
ating, irredeemable, never-to-be-paid
cheap trash, the foot ball of polite.
and the dice-box of gamblers and
spectators. We want our greenbacE
to be worth its face value in any mar.
ket of the world. The infationist
wants piece of paper that claims tt
be dollar but that can be bought fol
ten cents, so that they can cheat some
body. We want a dollar that shal
contain the qualities deemed requisite
to good currency by the universal
judgment of every statesman and po
litical economist who has left name
the world respects. They want lab
solute money" as invented by Brick
Pomeroy and Sam Carey thai
neither has value in itself nor prom
ises to pay anything that has value
We want our greenbacks to be a
good as the money of any other ma
ton on the face of the globe. They
want their greenbacks poorer than any
other money, the poorer the better
We want stable, solvent, redeemablt
money, the only kind that lasting
prosperity can be builded on. They
want cheap, speculative, irredeemablt
money, which Daniel Webster declared
to be the most effective contrivanc,
for cheating the laboring classes o
mankind. 1t is between these twt
classes of money that the people viii
be called upon to decide this fall.-
Charlotte Mich.) Republican.
Year: 1878

Brick Pomeroy may now be fairly
called the leader of the Iowa Green
hackers. He is stumping the State
and organizing the party under the
direction and pay of the Chairman OF
the Greenback State Committee.
Year: 1878

A pious French priest recently gave
out an announcement of q procession
to take place next day 40 follows -
tIf it rains in the morning the pro-
Icession will take place in the after
noon, and If it rains in the afternoon
the procession will take place in the
morning"
Year: 1878

THE democrats of the First district
did not even make a shadow of trial
to nominate Bereman, the gfeenback
candidate. He got one stray vote
no more. They took up Hobbs, the
old line democrat, with great una
nimity. There is yet some self
respect left with the democracy oi
that district.
Year: 1878

THE Ottumwa Times devotes a very
long editorial to whining most pite-
ously about our taking a verbatim re-
port of Gen. Weaver's speech at New
ton, Iowa. From the length of the
whine and the peculiar bitterness of
it, one would suppose that the author
of the speech and his friends were
hurt.


1t is indeed very strange if the ut
terances of a candidate for Congress
in public speech are not properly
public property. The General, too,
squeals about the report of his speech,
but fails to point out any material va
rance in it from what he said.


The fact is the speech is very cor
rectly reported; was taken by an able
and experienced reporter and one who
did the gentleman full justice. But
now that it is in print the General
don't want to father it.


Gen. w. has been peregrinating
for some time over the district in the
interest of his congressional prospects,
and having heard of him up in Jasper
county where he was to make some
half dozen speeches, we We're anxious
to find out what he was saying and tC
have him on the record, and ifh he or his
friends don't like itand want to squeal
it is not our fault. The General
made his own record and if it DOM
suit him, let him recant and take il
back and say he made bad exhibi
ton of himself. Is it possible thai
the General wants to go around among
the people stumping, and only wants


he particular audience he may be ad
dressing to know what he sayso How
very, very foolish a man will be wher
he lets his vaulting ambition smother
his better Judgment; the time al
ways comes, sooner or later, when h
would like to unload. n. p. Willis
in his Parrhasius, fifty describes i
when he says:


How like a mountain devil in the heart
Rules this unreined ambition Let il once
/ But play the monarch. and its naughty brow
/ CLOVIS with a beauty that bewilders thought
1 And unthrones peace forever. Putting on
The very pomp Of ucifer, it turns
Tn. heart to ashes and with not spring
Lett in the desert for the spirits lip,
We look upon our splendor, and forget
ha tf.f yp hiah y-ay
Year: 1878

o sweetness that can never more return!
Thou art passed out Of @ife-and whittier


flown!
The hard pruned bough may heal, and sprout


anew,


And some light hearts may all too quickly


learn


To spare the brave and live without the true.
But as some painter that Yet seeks in vain
The long woCed color for his hungry eye,
And dreams it woven ON some forei;n loom,
To wake and tinG it missing meath his sky,
SO We have lost a glory to the tomb.
Spring shall come round, aid all her sounds be


dear,


And sweet her lips with al ambrosial dew,
The wooing sun shall set earth's heart astir,
And she rejoice, and we have rapture too,
But one huShed chord shall no mere answer her.
Out OF life's sunny woof one threat is drawn,
Death face hath bleached for us her iairest


dye,


One Aowe. that bloomed has fa!leE-later flower
Viii never shine as sweet against our sky,
FIJI this blank place, that fragrant scent restore.
Al, painter take thy brush, for life is short,
And use the cuiors left thee-they are fair
But carry still the hunger at thine heart
For that ', hich is not there.
Henceforth, upon thy palette and my life
One untitled place lies bare.
Year: 1878

4 DENTAL ExPKRIMEST.-A half-witted
Partisan has been making an experiment in
dentistry. He had long been suffering from
toothacie, bat obstinately refused to go to a
dentist, and at length, finding the pain un-
endurable. took the following uncommon
method Of extraction. To the -tooth he at
taehed a long string, and to the string a
heavy stone; thus armed he proceeded to
the top-most story of the house he occupied,


opened the window. and hurled the stone
into the air. The weight Of the stone and
the length OF the string produced SO violent
a shock. that not only was the tooth pulled


out. but with it a portion Of the jaw, his
neck being so painfully twisted that he
tainted. Hours ensued ere consciousness re-
turned-and when ne recovered his senses,
it was only TO find himself deprived ol the
faculty of speech.
Year: 1878

\ LITTLE GOOSE. While two young doves
that had been mated only few hours sat
billing and cooling in the waiting room Of
the Michigan Central depot, Detroit, one day
last week, three -year-old child watched
them and finally tottled up to them The
bridegroom,En the innocence Of his heart,
began to play with the little one, and finally
dropped into conversation with the mother,
a nlatronly looking woman who was smiling
complacently. The bride was jealous Her
lips quivered with emotion and her eyes
filed with tears; and she finally turned her
back upon the group, walked out OF the room,
and, with rapid stride, approached the river.
Her husband called after her but she would
not answer, and it was not until she was
within a few feet OF the edge of the wharf
that he caught up with her, seized her shoui-
ders and held her back She acknowledged
that she was bent upon self-destruction, and
justified herself on the ground that he had
been flirting with that horrid woman who
had the brat. They went back To the wait
inr-room and held each others hands until
the train for Toledo came along.
Year: 1878

DISTURBED THE BABY. = Many mothers
are either compelled to stay away from the
church and theatre, or take their babies with
them. \ poor woman took her little one in
her arms to hear. a famous preacher The
loud voice from the platform awoke the child
and made it cry, and the mother got up and
was leaving the hall when the minister stop
pet her by saying: My good woman, don I
60 away. The baby doesn't disturb me- .
:. II isn't for that, sir, leave, she replied
with perfect Inconsistencies OF sarcasm :
Its You disturb the baby"
Year: 1878

A CLERGYMAN says that he once married
a handsome couple, and as he took the
bride by the hand and gave her his warrn-
est congratulations, she tossed her pretty
face and replied: 81 think he is the one
to be congratulated
Year: 1878

IF you are troubled with nervous
ness. are disheartened, tired OF life,
fear death OR feel out Of sorts, as the
saying is, you may safely conclude
that you have the Dyspepsia or
Liver Complaint. The liver is apt
to become torpid at this season of
the year as poisons arising from
stagnant water or decaying vegeta-
tion are more numerous and are
through inhalation taken into the
blood. Unless the liver is strong
and active. and furnishes a supply
of fresh and pure blood to drive out
the impurities, the above mentioned
symptoms surely follow, and if not
needed. end in more terrible dis
eases and death. Whites Prairie
Flower proves itself the Great Liver
Panacea. It's action on the liver is
different from any other medicine
ever compounded. Its cures are
truly wonderful. Try it. Price, 25
and rs cents. m29-3m-d&w
Year: 1878

A conference of colored Methodist mtuis-
ters of his city have ostracized Rev. Thos.
C. Kelly, one of their brethren, who made
an assault on Mr.. Kuncle, Of West Phila-
delphia, shout one month ago. The con-
ference met on the 2sth of March, when
Kelly was suspended from all official stand.
ing In ssii connection until the sitting Of
the Annual Conference, which will meet on
the fourth Wednesday in May, when Kelly
will finally be expelled The motive for his
assault on Mr.. Kuncle is not definitely
known Kelly went to Kuncle's residence and
asked him to read q le ter for him. Kuncle
b ad no sooner taken hold of the letter and
prepared to decipher its contents than Kelly
hit him with slungshos which he had
copcesl led In the sleeve of his coat. In me-
king an attempt to strike Kuncls with the
weapon the string with which tho latter
was fastened to Kelly's wrist broke, and
the two men then clinched and struggled
until Kelly broke from the grasp Of Kun
Gle and fie1. The police have been on the
lookout for him since, but have not as yet
picked him up, and the belief 10 that he left
the city OF once
Year: 1878

A man by the name Of Moore, first name
could rot DO ascertained, met with pain
full accident about noon yesterday, by fall
ing upon stone wall and fracturing his
left shoulder blade. Tho injured man, who
was evidently In destitute circumstances,
was found some time after at the corner Of
Third and Market streets, suffering much
pain. He was taken to the alms- house,
where his ipjnries wore attended to by DR..
Springer.
Year: 1878

A BILL before the Kentucky Legislature
provides that q man convicted OF having
b.aten his wife shall be sentenced to work
upon the streets or highwaye not less than
five nor more than sixty days, and thar
tae wages usually paid for such work shall
be . ,id to the wifa.
Year: 1878




from the effects of the warm weather and are de-
bilitnted, are advised by physicians to take mod
crate amounts Of whisky two or three times during
the day. In little while those who adopt this
advice frequently increase the number of drinks,
and in time become confirmed inebriates. A bey-
erage which will not create thirst for intoxicating
liquors, and which is intended especially for the
benefit Of debilitated persons, whether at home or
abroad, is Dr. Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic Con-
tanning the juices Of many medicinal herbs, this
preparation does not create an appetite for the
intoxicating cup. The nourishing and life sup
porting properties of many valuable natural pro-
ductiOns contained In 1t and we'll known to medical
men have most strengthing influence. A single
bottle Of the Tonic will demonstrate its valuable
qualities. For debility arising from sickness, ove1
exertlon or from any cause whatever, a wineglass-
full of Sea Weed Tonic taken after meals will
strengthen the stomach and create an appetite fol
wholesome food. To all who are about leaving
their homes we desire to say that the excellent ef-
fects OF DR.. Schenck's seasonable remedies, Sea
Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, are particularly
evident when taken by those who are injuriously
affected by change OF water and diet. No person
should leave home without taking supply OF thesC
safeguards along. For sale by all druggists.