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Year: 1879

THE Hon. DAVID DAVIS is making
solemn strides in the direction of Ohio.
The colcky yells of the Rag Baby admonish
him that good market for soothing syrup
may be found in that State fortnight
hence
Year: 1879

THE New York Graphic gives currency to
the rumor that THDEN has sent his check
to the ROBINSON Committee for half mil
lion of dollars, to be used in the pending
campaign in the State of New York. 1t
adds:


We are to witness another example of men
being brbed to do their duty, which is, If we
understand the matter right, in strict accord
ance with the ethical principles of walking
matches and close elections.
Year: 1879

injustice, the cruelty, the wrongs inflicted on
this class by the Democratic politicians, by the
landholders--the old negro aIistocracy--
have made their native land and
their homes intolerable 10 them, and
they will leave The South at any
cost, to seek new homes Bull-dozers have
driven out the black mans friends-the car
pet-baggers-and now the black man follows
them to seek home with them in the un-
genial North No power can retain them
they will go or die. 1t Is no use TO pooh.pooh,
or lie about 1t; they are going by Thousands.
| Their indignant tales of wrong and oppression
will be poured into overy listening ear; they
| will show their scars, and will be credited.
What will be the state of the South when
capital refuses to come here--when labor is
afraid to como here2 Who will make cotton,
tobacco, sugar and rice when the black people
are in the West with the carpet-baggers2 IL
is well worth laying aside sectional hate-to
| abate partisan bitterness-to look matters full
in the face. What is TO be the fate OF our
| country II this policy is persisted inH Shall
the people who have character-who are civ
ilized-who believe in God, in this cowardly
way allow few score of rulians and desper-
ADDE'S and the rapacity Of some smaller plant
ers to ruin the whole land2 Cau the Demo.
cratic party, or can men in il, stand up for all
this only that their partisan friends may
plunder the State aud the United States Gov
ernment2


Our North Carolina contemporary puts the
case thus pointedly and forcibly to those
who are responsible for all the ills that
settle down upon and bring mildew to the
interests Of the South 1t should bring TO
their minds food for candid reflection, and
work good to that section before il is too
late
Year: 1879

THE Brigadiers are in quandary. They
hesitate to 90 on with the work of the ses-
sion because they fear the effect of their
peculiar craftsmanship upon the people of
the country at large. And, again, they
know that if they do not 20 on, the charge
Of cowardice will rest against them.
Year: 1879

SENATOR RANSOM, of North Carolina,
is among those distinguished and affable
Southern leaders who almost persuade a be-
lief in the iniallible loyalty of the Bourbon
Democracy. He is just now greatly exer-
cised over the reduction of the Democratic
vote in North Carolina as consequence of
the wholesale exodus of Democratic ne
groes from that State. We say Democratic
negroes because we are assured by Senator
RANSOM and his fellow-plausibles that the
negroes of the South generally are Demo-
Gratis, and that the Bourbon majorities lat
terly attained in the Southern States have
not been the result of bull-dozing and
fraudulent counts, but Of widespread
conversion of the blacks to that party. We
halt right here, however, to remark that
General RANsoM's loss is the gain OF his
Democratic colleagues from Indiana, Messrs.
MCDONALD and VOORHEES,. The Demo-
cratic "niggers" from his State are all
going, nearly ALL TO Hooslerdom, there to
swell the Democratic vote and affix with
tenacious grip the tail-piece of the Solid
South to its accustomed Bourbon hanginSs
Year: 1879

THE people of North Carolina, or the
Democratic portion of them, are badly
frightened at the exodus of black laborers
from that State. And the worst of it is,
the hegira is only in its infancy.
Year: 1879

CALM and dispassionate consideration
of political affairs is required at Richmond
just now. The Republicans may gain
something by aiding in the election of Cen
eral MAHoNE to succeed Senator WITHERs,
but they would gain more by electing a
straight-out nominee of their own party.
Year: 1879

times a flush treasury and an honest sup
port Of the public credit are exhibited, and
the Democratic party, which has been in
the majority in the House long enough to
make an unfavorable impress upon Ma
tional affairs in other respects, cannot lay
claim to any credit for having promoted
those desirable results. The truth is, how
eyor that skillful Republican minority
in that body has always stood asan efficient
check to any reduction of the revenue. To
this fact is due the flourishing and satisfac-
tory condition of the Treasury.
Year: 1879

QUITE number Of wicked Chicagoians
were induced to go to church last Sunday
for the purpose of seeing General CRANE"
The PoPE-that is, the Rev. r. B. Pope
held forth on the occasion in question, and
the Democratic press has widely chronicled
the circumstance as worthy Of especial
notice because of all absence of any political
illusions in the sermon. But with those
here in Washington and elsewhere who
know that General GRANT is an habitual
church-goer, the occurrence attracts little at
tention, except as an accident whereby an
unusual number of chicagoians were in
induced to find sests in the Sanctuary.
Year: 1879

THE short-sightedness Of Bourbon and


Brgadier craftsmanship as illustra ted in


the last Congress when the Government


appropriations were made, served to rob the
Democracy of much political capital that
would otherwise have been at their COM
mand They were idiotlc enough to fail to
make many needed and other public
spirited appropriations for internal inn
proyements whereby the Government
money would have been distributed broad
east the country over, and in consequence
OF which they would now be able to claim
that existing favorable changes in our fnan'
cial condition had resulted from impulses
and direct influences growing out Of II gem
erous internal policy. Again, they failed
to cut down the revenues materially, al
though the reduction Of the tobacco
tax was a step in that direction, and
thereby left in the Treasury large
sums of money to be used in paying of the
public debt. Thus II happens, that good
Year: 1879

THERE are four hundred and eighty
three thousand school children in Virginia,
of whom only one hundred thousand, in
round numbers, were enabled to attend
the public schools this year, or about one
half the number in attendance last year,
These figures show that more than three
hundred and fifty thousand of the youth Of
the Old Dominion are growing up in idle
ness and ignorance, And this result is the
legitimate effect Of Bourbon misrule in the
affairs of the State through which the
school fund has been misappropripted, the
school teachers cheated out Of their sala-
ries, the school-houses closed aud the free
school system practically DESTROYED.
Year: 1879

Mr.. BAYARD has not been removed from
the Craftsmanship of the Senate Finance
Committee, all the stern professions of
enmity to his hard-money principles and
the furious bluster of the soft-money Bour-
bons at the extra session to the contrary
notwithstanding Iu fact he remains at
the head of his party in Congress, and COM
placently enjoys the discontinue of his
enemies. Meanwhile the Democratic press
is attempting to detract atteptiOn from this
disgraceful condition of affairs by assuming
that quarrel over the same question exists
in the Republican party. 1t is another case
of the running rascal shouting stop thief"
Year: 1879

When the party dismounted from the coach they
were surrounded by their friends. anxious to hear
what they thought of the trip. They all appeared
to have opinion, and that expressive of de-
light and pleasure at the time they had passed
Year: 1879

man To bet them anything they liked that Colonel
Kane would not be two minutes of the schedule
time silenced rash spectators They were still
aroning the point when the party came in sight and
Colonel Kane brought the Tally Ho up in front of
the brunswick at $40 p. NJ. to the minute.


The following is the schedule OF time OF the home
Year: 1879

OF the GO vessels of the Gloucester,
Mass, fishing fleet, which were out in
the late storm, twenty one have return
d, more or less damaged. Theirs is
great anxiety for the remainder.
Year: 1879

A young man named Godfried Heider, Of
Johnstown, Pa, met with horrible acci-
dent In the converting department of tho
Cambria Steel Works recently. Mr.. Hell
der was employed on the converting plat
form In the steel works, having charge Of
the metal troughs which lead from the
cupola 70 the converters; and while passing
from one vessel to another, over plank
which was stretched across the pit nnder-
meath the stack, laid there for the convent
ence OF the workmen in repairing tho con-
yerters, mass Of white hot ''skull" metal
about twenty feet long, from three to four
inches thick, and Weighing nearly two TONS


having become detached from the brick work
by cooling came crashing down upon him
from the mouth Of the stack, breaking tho
plank on which he stood, and precipitating
him face downward to the bottom Of the
pit, when the mass separated into two
pieces, one of which, weighing about ton,
fell on him, completely covering him from
his head to his feet. While number of
his fcllow-e employees were collecting about
him with crow-bars, etc., preparatory to
making an effort TO release him from his
frlghtful situation, those who stopped down
and looked undor the mass Of metal could
see that he was enveloped in bright flame,
and witnessed his agonizing efforts to escape
while every movement of his arms, legs,
or body only increased tho horrible torture.


In moment or two, which must have
seemed an age to the Imprisoned man who
was slowly burning up before the eyes Of
his friends, they got their bars underneath
the "skull" and pried 1t up about foot,
and he was dragged forth--a mass Of hiss
Ing, seething flesh. Every vestige OF cloth
ing was burned from his body, with the
exception OF his heavy shoes; the hair Of
his head was scorched Of; his body from
his head to his feet was one huge raw
blister, and bis left thigh had been broken
by the fall, tho bone protruding several
inches. twasA horrible sight, from which
strong men turned away with d shudder.
Year: 1879

TIE BOARD of Health has turned over
new leaf. Instead Of spending the
hot sweltering nights of summer in
jabbering over some filthy cess pool Or
gutter, the work is entrusted more to
the committees, and the meetings of the
Board are merely to confirm the work
of the committees. If last nights $
meeting of the Board is sample of the
short meetings that are to be held, the
reporters at least will be 6evoutly
thankful, but we would most earnestly
impress upon the minds of the com
mitters the fact that there is danger of
the cholera visiting the city during the
summer, and some cleaning up in time
may abate its rigors if it should happen
to pay Ii visit.
Year: 1879

THE DEMOCRATS in Congress seem de-
termined that the work of butting their
brains out against the wall that the
Constitution has erected to check recl.
less legislation shall be complete. They
are already divided in their counsels
and dare not call another caucus for
fear the breach will be made wider and
yet it is a strange paradox, that they
still insist in pushing through the civil
and executive appropriation bill with
its political riders which will most as
suredly meet with the same fate of the
Army appropriation bill and the bill to
prevent, as the Democrats term it, the
use of troops at the polls. Il the Dem
ocrats would act wisely they would
pass the appropriation bills, adjourn
Congress and 60 home or else 60 and
spend the hot sweltering months of
| summer at the seaside or mountain re-
sorts. This would save to them a rem
nant of party around which they
might rally in the future, and unless
they have the basis of party in the
north they can never retain the reins
of government very long at time ever
if the unfortunate time should com.
when they may come into power. Afte1
all it looks as if there was Providence
that overrules their actions and HI
who makes the wrath Of man to prais,
him, has turned the actions of tn
Democratic party to the advantage o
the Republicans.
Year: 1879

nifty.


The Democracy Of New Castle is Won
derfully excited. Never before were
there so many vacant Offices let loose
rolling about at one time as there have
been sine. the death of Mr.. Vandever
on Saturday. The greedy Office seeking
cormorants cannot wait until the de-
ceased is laid quietly away in his grave.
Here is Justice of the Peace, Notary
Public, Trustee of the New Castle
Commons, a Secretary and Treasurer OF
the Gas Company, and Secretary and
Treasurer of the Water Company to be
appointed. 1t is not every day that


five vacant offices are let loose upon the


New Castle people and it is not a mat


ter of surprise that they are excited.


Those who have been for long time


pushed back from the public crib are


now rushing forward even if they should


get nothing but 'nubbin." One
party of Democrats goes around with
their recommendations and has the
thing all "set up,' when another comes


swinging around the circle and knocks


'em all down again. The office of JUS


tice of the Peace, and that of Trustee


of the Commons are the most sought


after, because they are the most lucra-


tive, and then the first lasts five years


and the latter life time. In all prob


ability the one that gets the appoint
ment of Justice of the Peace will have
the Office of Notary Public thrown in
in the bargain. Tie trustee of thu
: commons don't pay much to homes
men and consequently there Ii
! not much of rush for that Office, bu
for the office of tie Justice of thu


Peace, the name of the applicants ii
: legion. A show of modesty will re
e strain the horde of Office seekers unit
e after the funeral of the honest and re-
spected man who has SO ably 1illeC
: them for so many years, but when tina
t is over the rush Of crowd of hal
l starved dogs will be nothing compare'
to it. Let them rush and let them lik
the Kilkenny cats swallow each othe
Year: 1879




svlvania has lost true typical Ameri-
can. He began life as humble eanal
boatman, and when he died he Was not
only one of the wealthiest men in the
country, but great commercial power
and philanthropist grasping the mos'
practical method of helping his genera
.on. In his youth he was shrewd
enough to detect the great sources o.
wealth and bought them completely
under his control. Judge Packer though
really owning the Lehigh Valley rail
road which he built by his indomitable
perseverance always preserved a Won
de- fu, simplicity OF manners. he was
not ashamed nor vain Of his rise from
an humble beginning. The poverty OF
his youth like the wealth of his age,
was but an exterior circumstance to
which he attached no importance At
the celebration Of his golden wedding
in Mauch Chunk, year or two ago,
among the splendid evidences OF his re-
cent fortunes two or three brightly
secured copper pots and pans hung on
the wall: they were those with which
the newly married couple had cooked
their humble meals, when they set up
housekeeping in the cabin OF the canal
boat; and were preserved in no Bound
erby spirit of boastfulness, but simply
as mementoes of pleasant years when
they wandered up and down with youth
hope, and little money.


Judge Packer, as we have said, ,edua'
Ted himself to keep step with his rlst
IA the world. Of this effort also, he
has left memorial in the great Poly
technic School at Bethlehem, PENN
the Lehigh University, built by him al
a cost of over million of dollars, and
supported by him alone, for the benefit
of young men who wish to enter any
practical scientific career. There edu-
cation is given to them absolutely free O.
cost. Judge Packer publicly recogni,
zed, by liberal gifts to the Church, his
debt to religion, but this school ano
the lives of the young men whom it ha
fitted for usefulness in the world wcr'
probably the tittest expression OF hi
humanity, and are the noblest monu
ments which can be raised to the mem
ory of this typical Americana keen
sighted, practical, sympathetic, high
natured old man.


We shall never forget the opportunl
ty that fortune threw in our way Ie'
years ago of meeting the Judge at tn
L-high University located on one of tn
grandest and romantic spots in tn
State of Pennsylvania, and we sha
never forget the pleasure it atforde
Mr.. Packer to speak of the good he eN
pected to resul. from the free education
If all the young men of the nation VIII
chose to avail themselves of the priv
leges offered. He told US of the privatlo
of his earlier life and the struggle h
had to secure an education, and in a
ter years when fortu:e smiled auspi
ciously upon him he thought he woul
do something to help the young men
avoid the difficulties he had to conten
with. The Lehigh University alone


a proud monument to the goodness an
liberality Of Asa Packer. Woul


there " ere more like him.
Year: 1879

The Secretary OF the Treasury has
informed Congress that it will proba-
bly, require about twenty seven mil
lion Of dollars more to pay the ex-
pelses Of the government during the
next fiscal year than he will probably
get unless the deficit Ia provided for
by an increase Of taxation or in some
her way. This Is the result cf the
reforms inaugurated by the Demo
cratic Congress which took poses
sion OF the House OF Representatives
two years ago promising retiench-
ment and reform. 1t has reduced
the revenue and wasted the peoples
money In useless Investigations, and
shown its utter inability to manage
the affairs of the nation. 1t looks q
little like what Dick Oglesby said a
few years ago, is true, that the Dem
oeracy have not the ability TO man
age the affairs OF so great a govern
ment as ours successfully even II
they have the inclinaIion to do right,
wii h they do not seen TO possess to
any great extent.
Year: 1879

The Legislature will fail in ono OF
Its most important duties II it does not
put a check upon the garnisheement
Of laborers' wages, at home and
abroad. The abuse Of this method Of
collecting debts has become an infa-
nous evil, that cries aloud for redress
The creditor always has bis remedy
In his own hands. II he is not sure Of
getting his pay, he need not give the
credit There is no justice or equity
tn placing the additional power OF op
pressing and outraging the debtors
he may toll into his trap, In his hands.
Senator Kahlo understands this mat
ter fully, and will do what he can for
the workingman. Let US hope thai
he may accomplish nuch.-Lo0ans-
port Journal.
Year: 1879

The Democratic editors seem to be
getting scared at the work the Legis-
lature is not doing. and frantically
call on Democrats to 80 to work and
enact some laws that will, at least.
have the appearance OF benefitting
somebody. From lake Michigan to
the Ohio river these papers are de-
elaring that this Legislature is squan-
dering the peoples money at rate
unprecedented in the history Of Law
making in this State, and they think
that as the Legislature is Democratic
the people will hold ti.at party re
sponsibls. And 1t Is not improbable
that they will, but the people ought
10 have known better than to send
Democrats TO Indianapolis TO make
PAWS for the State.
Year: 1879

4 Washington special says: There
Is no doubt Of the passage OF the bill
by the Senate, restricting Chinese


emigration by q majority proportion


stely as large as that given in the
House. The Chinese legation are
very much sgitated on the subject.
A member of the legation said that
they had not anticipated any such
legislation and had taken no thought
a. o acti. in case the bill passed,
which speared very r robsble to them.
They could not allow the bill to be
signed by the President, however,


without entering a protest against
what was plainly violation OF trea-
ties with China. Further than this
they could not anticipate their action.
Year: 1879

We respectfully invite the atten-
ton Of Southern Republican to the
following short extract from a speech
recently delivered by Ex-Governor
Chamberlain, Of Maine, as In strik-
ing contrast with the usual current
from that directions;


"There are some men who will
not have 1t that the war II over un-
til they have their way. From
much of the talk OF late one would
think that all the trial and toll Of
the war was In vain; that these sol
diers and sailors Of yours did moth
ing of lasting value, and that toe
glorious and God-given victory
must count for naught, and that tho
real way to save the country Is TO
keep certain politicians Ia Office, ana
that servile following OF them Is the
only test Of loyalty to the Union.
For one, I resent this perversion OF
our motives and this belittling OF
our achievements. ! am Indignant
1T this insult to the memory of that
great company OF noble souls who
are martyrs In n sacred eause--a
triumphant cause. DO not mistake
the issue. Your sons will not have
died In vain because the rebellious
States are brought back into the
Union, and send their best men 70
represent them In Congress, even
though they had the courage to
WELD the sword instead Of tho pen
in the time of moral struggle. Men
who freely poured out their hearts
blood for their convictions, though
wrong, are less 10 be feared than
they who skulk In this rear and
gl0at over the strife so long ls they
can all their pockets with plunder
snatched alike from foe or friend"
Year: 1879

SO that stomach digestion can be in


all respects initiated in a bottle.


Next comes ab.


sorption, by which the prepared


material is made to enter the blood.


This process was long considered to


be vital" but it is now universally


conceded to depend upon the physi-


cal property of osmose, which de-
/ termines currents of liquids placed


on opposite sides ofa porous septum,


whether of organic or Inorganic


character. The septum in the case


of absorption is the porous wall of
the vessel, and the endosmotic cur


rent is largely Influenced by the
presence of an active flow inside.


The circulation of the
blood is affected in part by the me-
chanical force-pump action of the
heart, and also beyond the COM
mencement of the capillaries) by
the molecular attractions and repul-
sions exerted by the blood and the
tissues upon each other, dependent
upon the changing chemical polari-
ties. The function of respiration
involves the principles of atmos-
pheric pressure, diffusion of gases
and the like, while the great and
important Office of secretion, carried |
on by the glands and membranes, is |
conducted through the agency of
cells, which undoubtedly owe their |
efficiency to the capillary force,
acting in accordance with physical
law, and which is influential in
causing the separation by them of
certain elements of the blood.


Enough has been said (without
going into abstractions) to illustrate
the general point with which we
out. 1t is not pretended
that the subject has been completely
elucidated-but this is certain, that
much in the living body previously
to the vital Is expllcahle
upon physical and chemical princi-
pies. This condition of life is seen
in and through a most
constructed machine,
which in all respects is unstable;
and however beautiful its construc-
ton, like other machines, it does
not create energy, but only directs
that which is applied. 1t is not,
then, an independent power.
Year: 1879

This periodical has always, by its able and
scholarly discussions of the questions OF the
dav as well as by it's illustratiOnS-which
are prepared by the best artists-exerted a
most powerful and beneficial influence upon
the public mind.


The weight ofits influence Will always be
found on the side OF morality. enlightenment,
and refinement.


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