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Year: 1879

k0r the Republican.


The religious experiences, testimony y
and prayer meeting, at the Holly Tree
Inn, yesterday afternoon, was one OF
great spiritual power. 1t was very evil
dent from the great liberty had, that
the Spirit Of Christ was leading those
who lad assembled to elorify the meek
and lowly Nazarene. We have attend
ed very many experience meetings, but
We believe we have never before seen
such manifestation OF the Spirits pow
er as was witnessed yesterday.


1t seemed almost An utter impossible
ity for many Of those present to keep
their seats, and especially was this SC
with a Mr.. Budd, who seemed to be
filled to overhowing with the Holy
Ghost, and he made no attempt to hold
back the true state of his feelings, but
told out what grand and glorious
thing the religion Of Jesus Christ was,
and urged all unsaved persons to ac-
cept Jesus as their only hope of eternal
lite. During the progress of the meeting
q young man entered and took a seat
we'll up front. In short time he rose
to lis feet and stated that he had again
and again made the attempt to break
away from the power of strong drink,
but thus far he had been unsuccessful.


On the evening before he had parti-
cipated in the fremen's parade and in
order to be in the fashion, he imbibed
pretty freely, and as consequences be-
came drunk. The reason why, said he,
| am at this meeting is wanted =
drink very badly few moments ago,
and l stopped at the National Hotel on
Water street, where l saw quite num-
Der drinking-to get what desired, but
the door was shut in my face, and am
not bitsorry came in here.


Very many said there was yet hope
for the cause of temperance being sue
cessful, and mentioned this matter OF
rum-seller shutting the door in the face
of poor drunkard as another star in
the crown of temperance workers who
are watched over by the Holy Spirit.
Altogether the meeting at the Holly
Tree was a pleasant one, and we hope
to see many more like it. G.
Year: 1879

per that processes to be the embodiment
Of everything that is pure in morals,
and noble in nature. That Ned is poor,
and humble and black, but never guilty
Of a criminal act, is no reason why he
should be debarred from making de-
fence from the accusation Of being a
drunken criminal. The language he
uses,is not the most refined and choice
but fully as much SO as that used
against him, and not whit worse than
the language the " Herald once used
against the paper it now defends. We
are not responsible for everything ap-
pesring under the character Of cores
pondence, neither do We approve OF all
that is said, and this is why our col,
umns are open to tho poorest and hum
blest of the land be he white or be he
black.
Year: 1879




CONTRARY TO EXPECTATIONS, the audi
ence that Assembled to hear Mrs. Wat
son give a sketch Of whether she was
right or whether she was wrong, was
small. one, and rather suggestive of the
little interest that is felt in the affair
by the people OF Wilmington. Mrs.
Watson is evidently literally educa-
ted lady, and is fluent and pleasant
speaker. OF course nobody disputes
her own history Of her past life, and
having abandoned that life as she said
for a nobler and better one, there are
none who will not give her credit for
doing 50. According to her own con.
fession she has everything to gain and
nothing to lose, and though the citizens
owing to other complications, did not
patronize her meeting there are none
who do not wish that her reform may
be permanent. Her pathos of feeling.
her deep contrition, and her gushing
tears of sorrow and grief as she referred
to her past life, gave evidence at least
of sincere desire to reform.


Her reform she attributes entirely tt
the influence of Mr.. butcher in a speech
delivered in Philadelphia last Febru
ary. In regard to Mr.. butchers agen,
cy in the matter and his subsequent &C
tions there are and will still continue
to bs conflicting opinions which cannot
be satisfied by any words of ours and
which will no doubt continue no mat
ter what Mr.. butcher may do.
Year: 1879

Harper's for August.I


Nobody can tell who has not
watched it what effect physical de-
formity has upon the mind and char
acter Of a growing child, especially
one which detracts in SO marked a
manner from it in personal appear
ance. 1t exposes the child to the
taunts and cruel appellatiOns Of its
comrades, which in sensitive children
often drive them into solitude, and
make them shy and suspicious of
strangers, in whom, on the other
hand, they excite suspicion. The
turn in the eye gives either wander
ing, doubling air to the face, or, if
the gaze is fixed, a too intense ex-
preston, which is disturbing and
| perplexing, if not downright painful,
to the beholder.


| have known young boys of eight
and ten years of age beg their parents
to let them undergo the pain Of an
operation to rid themselves of de-
fOrmity which subjects them so often
to the unfeeling remarks of their
elders, usually friends of the family
as we'll as the uneuphonious but ex-
pressive titles bestowed upon them by
their own contemporaries, of google
eye and cock-eye. Nor does this end
with childhood. The deformity is a
disadvantage to him through life. Il
pursues him in his business and in his
profession. Cheated Of feature by
assembling nature, he is Otter
thought to be assembling himsel
when nothing is further from hi
| thoughts. How often do we heal
people say of another, whom we know
to be perfectly upright and trust.
worthy, that they do not like him be
cause he never looks them squarely il
the face And it is little curious
that precisely here it is that the LESSEE
degrees of the trouble produce tn,
most effect. The peculiar expression
which people complain so much of i
| generally due to deviation in tn,
axes of the eyes-a slight conver
gence which is never very conspicu
Gus, and at times only to be detected
by trained eye, but which, never
theless, produces in all a very disa
greeable impression, although no
marked enough to betray its cause.
Year: 1879

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The various secret organizations Of
this city, be it to their credit, have
been prompt in calling their relief
boards into existence, and acting with
zeal which shows to the world their
great secret charity. The Masonsare
atwork in relieving the sick and needy.
The Odd Fellows and the Ancient
Order of Workingmen are at work
also, but to the Knights of Honor the
credit belongs of being first in the
field, for, when the alarm was given
Of the enemy in our midst, their sew
eral lodges appointed relief commit
tees, turning over what funds they had
on hand, bidding them go forward and
attend to the sick and needy of their
order. These several committees met
in joint session and consolidated into
a relief board, and by ballot elected
James b. Cook as president, W. l.
Berlin, vice president, D. L. Good
year, treasurer, and A. H. McCollum
secretary. This board has gone
earnestly to work, giving free
transportation to any of its mem
bers, besides furnishing nurses and
doctors to the sick, in the broad
hours of the day and the dead hours
of the night their footsteps are heard
and with unremitting vigilance they
watch over their members and fami-
lies, carrying aid and comfort wherever
needed; they ask for no charity from
the world at large but their supreme
dictator keeps an ever watchful eye
over them all, and when the cry Of
distress is heard reliet comes,
aud at his dictum funds are
supplied for all necessary relief, and
far more does their charity extend,
for when a member dies his heirs re-
ceiye $4,000. What greater charity
than this2 The Knights of Honor
have in our present afflictiOn been
prompt in their action-frst to the
front-and the board of relief has
done and is doing heroic work. The
president of the board is working
earnestly, ever among the sick and
distressed, day and night. This is
true humanity and to such we say,
"God speed"
Year: 1879

without a jar sufficient to spill glass
of water held in the hand of a gentle
man who went down in it. 1t will be
seen that Chicago is still ahead. I
wish she could furnish genius that
could exterminate the yellow fever
parasite. NAYR.
Year: 1879

Money, rather than, the bloody
shirt" appears to be the main hold
of the Republicans ia Ohio this year.
The former argument is found to be
the more powerful Of the two, as it
would require a reversal Of the esDdi-
dates to make the latter effectual.
Year: 1879

Curious comments by judge, even m the presence of the prisoner, though extremely rare, are not unprecedented. Justice Maule once addressed a phe- nomenon of innocence Tn sm'ck-frnck in the following words: Prisoner al rhe bar. your counsel thinks you in nocent: the counsel for the prosecu- ton thinks you innocent; l think you innocent. But a jury of your own countrvmen, in the exercise of such common sense as they possess, which does not seem 10 be much, have found you gully" and il remains that l should pass upon you the sentence or the law. The sentence IS that you be kept in imprisonment for one day; and as that day was yesterday, you may now go about your business" The unfortunate rustic, rather scared, went about hls business, but thought that law was an uncommonly puzzling thing
Year: 1879

| We don'' want to be irreverent but

 would like to ask what did our fore fathers know? What, for instance, did

 George Washington know? He never saw a steambnat; he never saw fast

 mail train; he never held his ear 10 a telephone; he never sat for his picture ID a photograph gallery; he never re ceived a telegraph dispatch; he never sighted a Krupp gun; he never lislen- eel To lhe " tizZ of an electric pen; he never saw B pretty girl run sewing machine; he never saw selfprOpelling engine go down the street to a fire; he never heard of evolution: he never look laughing gus; he never had a set of store teeth; he never attended an international exposition; he never owned bonanza mine; he never knew "Old Prob" He--but why go on |? No; when he took an excursion. it was on a flat boat When he went off on a train, it was mule train. When he wanted 10 talk to man in Milwaukee he had to go there. When he wanted N4o pitNuiC tdhCllf " was uOQt III pro file with piece of black paper and a pair of shears When he got the re- turns from back counties, they had to be brought by a man with an OK cart. When he took aim at the enemy, he had to trust 10 a crook barrelled old flint-lock When he wrote it was with a gOOSe-quill. When he had anything to mend his grandmother had to do 1t with darning needle When he went to a fire, he stood in a line aai passed buckets When he looked aG clam he never dreamed it was any relation of his. When he went t0 a concert he heard cracked fl .dle and an insane clariOnet When he had a tooth pull ed, he sat down and never stopped yell ing. When he got out or teeth he gummed his victuals. When he want ed an international show, he sent for Lafayette and ordered hIs friend up from Old Virginia with Ihe specimen carefully labeled in bottles. When he once got hold of a nugget of gold from an Indian chief, he felt rich. When he wanted 10 know anything about the weather, he consulted the ground hog or the goose bone. When-but why go on? What did such a man know? Who was he, anyway ?-WashingtOn Chronicle
Year: 1879

UNDER the new school law the fund will be distributed in proportion to the number of children in each dis trict, not, us heretofore according to the attendance for a certain preceding period.
Year: 1879

MARY had little chill,

 Which gave her heaps Of pain, And when she tried 10 shake that chil IL shook her back again. l. followed her 10 school one day,

 Which was against the rule; II made the children laugh 10 see Poor Mary shake in school. And so the teacher sent her home And bade her take some ile, To reconstruct her system and

 To llquidaie the bile.
Year: 1879

An aged woman with feeble step tottered into the
Gregory street police station. in Jersey City, last
evening. She poorly clad and in her hand she
carried few lead pencils. She said she was home
less and was without friends, and asked
that lodging be given her for the night.
She gave her name Catherine Gorman,
o native Of Ireland. and said she was in her Tooth
year, her centennial natal day being in Novem.
ber She came to this country seventy years ago
in company with her husband and two young sons.
When her husband died he left her in comfortable
instances. but her boys were addicted to drink
and absorbed her little property in satisfying their
appetites for liquor. Both were long since
dead, and she thrown the worlds
charity. Too independent to beg enter q charta-
BILE titution, she eked out miserable living by
wandering from place place selling lead pencils.
Yesterday she had i'll luck, and had not made sufi
cient to pay for lodging. She was assigned to the
softest bed in the station. She thanked the Sergeant
who was on duty fervently and retired to her room
where for several minutes could be heard her
est prayers.
Year: 1879

This is the time to arrange your crops
for the next season, and let us suggest, not
so much less corn or wheat as a greater
diversity of products. More dairy, more
potatoes and turnips, a poultry yard which
shall have special care and attention, so
that scores of dozens of eggs may be sent to
market where now only single dozens 90.
The locality of the Delaware Peninsula
gives a special advantage to this branch of
farm produce, because we are so near the
great cities that the eggs go there fresh and
demand the top-most prices. In all pro-
ducts where our locality gives US this ad-
vantage, we should study and strive to
excel. Here circumstances give us an ad-
vantage, and it is to our interest to make
the most of this advantage. In most farm
products the Great West smashes US clean
out of the market, but in peaches, sweet
potatoes, eggs, early apples, and some other
products we have our own chance, and if
we will, we can excel all other sections in
the production and marketing of all these
in which the odds are for, instead of against
US. This is the true principle to be con-
sidered in pitching our crops for the new
year, and sensible farmers will be governed
by it more and more for the future.


In the egg and poultry business it is a
fact that large focks soon become diseased
and this is heavy drawback to producing
eggs on a large scale. For Peninsula farm.
ers the egg business should be the leading
idea, and not the production of the birds
for market. In the latter branch the West
can beat us again, but it is in the former
that we have the advantage. To this
end the best laying varieties of chick
ems should be selected without regard to
their setting qualities. We do not want
them to set but to lay, and it is the laying
qualities that we want. To obviate the
tendency to disease in large focks, it is
essential that their houses should be kept
clean, that they be well supplied with pure,
clean water, so that they will not be com.
peeled to drink from the dirty pound pud-
dies, and a full supply of all necessary and
wholesome food in as large a variety as pos
siblc, oth4t they can have frequent changes.
Gra9. and lime should at all times
be accessible, and wheat, rye and oats used
as food, instead of corn all the time. If
with these, and all other proper precautions,
the fowls begin to droop, new houses and
yards should be made for them on as widely
distant parts of the farm, as circumstances
will allow, and in this way you may have
ten focks instead of one, and a thousand
hens instead of only hundred. That a
flock of a thousand hens will paw more than
all the corn and wheat you now raise, NAV
at first seem to you a startling proposition
but we should not be surprised if you would
find on trial that it did it. Let us see


One thousand hens at one hundred egg.
each per annum, would make 100000 eggs
or. 1894 dozen, which at twenty cents {
dozen makes $l667 This will do to SCI
our readers to thinking about it, so we will
only add, an hundred acre farm would keeI
4.e. A.xok .f L
sides grass, fruits, corn, wheat, rye, oats
Year: 1879

butter, potatoes and all other farm pro-
ducts necessary to feed the chickens and
keep the family, besides having much fruit
to send to market. This business can be
carried on without any great interference
with other branches of farming. The fruit
crop need not be lessened except small
fruits, and corn, wheat and grass may be
grown at the same time
Year: 1879

Another thing, son, you want to re-
member, that wearing twenty-five inch
es of coat propped out across sixteen
inches of shoulders doesn't make GYM
mast of you by any means, any more
than straight back,a measured step, and
a Burnside bat with a cord and acorn
gives YOU a war record. There have
been young men, aye, and old men too,
before your time, who owed the tailor
for their chest and shoulders, and owed
for them precious long time, too. There
have been young men who could waltz
for an hour and sixty eight minutes with
out once sitting down to rest, who
couldn't saw enough wood TO warm a
flannel cake, not if starvation stared
them in the face and tried to drive them
to it. Don't worry about your shape,
son. Men will admire your crooked legs
ifyour trowsers are paid for, and If your
hack is so lopsided that you have 10
keep your helm hard a-port all the time
to keep from walking around the block
to starboard when you want to go
straight ahead, you'll never think of it
YOU don't owe for the coat that lies in
such ungainly, honest wrinkles across
it, The man who doesn't owe dollar
is a rich man, even, if he hasn'ta crust
to eat in the houses. And don't borrow.
If you cant get along without having
more than you've got, don't borrow;
steal. You'll fell better about it. and
as a general thing, you will be more re-
speced and less tormented.
Year: 1879

A PROMISING Young LAW STU
DENT.-A lawyer in Dayton Ohio, had
in his office particularly industrious
student. One of the young clients was
a young and pretty woman, and her
consultations were held in his private
room. behind closed doors. The stu
dent became anxious TO learn about the
case that required so much secret dis
cussion. He peeped and listened at the
KEY hole and was rewerded by the
knowledge that while the legal business
related to the collection Of small debts,
most of the interviews were devoted 10
courtship. The lawyer desired the wo.
man 10 marry him, while she being
wealthy feared.that his motive was mer-
cenary. ON the occasion Of her next
call the lawyer was not in, and the stu
dent politely informed her that although
he had not been admitted to the bar he
was confident that he could deal satis-
factorily with her case. She said no, but
he persisted, urged his suit eloquently,
and was accepted. The lawyer, in re-
yence, tried to whip him, and that was
how the story got out.
Year: 1879

A man was denouncing newspaper
advertising to crowd Of listeners.
Last W eek, said he, L had an unbrel.
la stolen from the vestibule OF the
church. 1t was gift; and valuing it
very highly, l spent double its worth in
advertising, but have not recovered it,


How did you word your ADVERTISE
ment?' asked a merchant.


Here 1t is, said the man, producing a
slip cut from a newspaper.


The merchant took it and read: Lost
in the vestibule Of the-church, last
Sabbath evening, a black silk umbrella.
The gentleman who took it will be
handsomely rewarded by leaving it at
No.-San Fernando street.


Now said the merchant. 4 am a
liberal advertiser and have always found
tpaid me we'll. A great deal depends
upon the manner in which an advertise.
ment is put. Let US try for your UNI
brella again. and if you do not acknowl-
edge then that advertising pays, l will
purchase you a new one.'


The merchant then took a slip Of pa
per from his pocket, and wrote: If the
man who was seen to take an umbrella
from the yestibule of the-church last
Sabbath evening does notwish to get into
trouble, and have a stain cast upon the
Christian character which he values so
highly, he will return 1t to No. San
Fernando street. He is well known


This duly appeared in the paper, and
on the following morning the man was
astonlshed when he opened the front
door of his residence. on the porch
lay at least a dozen umbrellas of all
shades and sizes that had been thrown
in from the sidewalk, while the front
yard was literally paved with umbrellas.
Many of them had notes attached TO
them, saying that they had been taken
by mistake, and begging the loser 10
keep the little affair quiet.
Year: 1879

A young man saw fellow fall pros
trate on the sidewalk in western city
drunk and insensible, and concluded to
make some observations. He accord-
ingly stepped into dark corner, from
which point he could see wthost being
seen. He declared that inside OF fifteen
minutes six different men passing along
and seeirg the drunken man lying on the
sidewalk, stopped over him and went
through bis pockets.
Year: 1879

General Sherman is evidently sound
on the Indian business. Giving his
reasons for not calling the recent kill
ing of Cheyennes massacre, he said:
"a number of subordinate, cunning,
treacherous Indians, who had no more
regard for the lives of our officers and
soldiers than if they had been dogs,
attempted to escape from the custody
of our troops, and used violence to
carry on their rebellious act. They
were treated just as they deserved to
be, and it is folly to attempt to ex-
tenuate such a crime by soft sound
ing words"
Year: 1879

The Inland Empire of the 10th says:
"Last Monday about dark it began to
snow and the storm continued without
cessation until 4 o'clock on Tuesday af-
ternoon, the entire depth being about
l6 inches. At no point above or be-
low here does the storm appear to have
been so violent, for at Wallula there
was piercing cold east wind all the
time, and only three inches of snow
fell there in the same period that 4
inches fell here. The cars made trip
to Cello that day and brought in
nearly all the workmen. The roof of
Moody's warehouse, next door to Kin
nersly's drug store, was crushed in by
the weight of snow, as was also the
awning of Mcfarland Il French's store
on Washington street. We may ex-
pect to hear of great suffering among
the cattle of this county, which have so
far done we'll during the winter, which
has nearly spent it's violence The loss
among sheep has already been heavy,
except in cases of those flocks whose
owners have prudently housed them
up from the storms.


As we GO to press there is an aver
age depth of 27 inches of snow on the
ground, and it is still falling. Rem
dered careless by repeated mild win
ters, our stock growers have neglected
to put up hay and grain for stall feed
ing in weather like this; and now
comes hard times knocking at the
door of more than one comfortable
home. The sheep are dying off by
thousands for want of feed; the cattle
can stand it perhaps for few days
longer; and the horses will dig through
the snow for grass. But unless we
have a Chinook wind before Tuesday
morning, the snow storm will cost
Wasco county more damage than two
Indian wars like that of last summer"