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Year: 1879

Several of our Democratic contemporaries


seem to be rather surprised that General
West should refuse to divide time with


Democratic speakers. But General West


ought not to be pressed too hard on this
point for he has sufficient reasons for de-
| clining the divide. Aside from his notori-


ous precaution in not wanting the on emy


to know whore he is, there ars other solid
| reasons for his refusal.


In the first place, Gen. Vests mission ia
to enlighten the people on the subject of


money, and if he enforces the old Poor


Richard doctrine, that ''time is money"


he transfixes one strong point to start on.


1t aint because he is afraid of the transpa-


rent, ad captondum platitudes of the ene-


my that makes him refuse. Oh, no; of


course not But with him it is purely


question of time.


Gen. West is not only close student of


the Orrery of the heavens, but he has
made the subject of human endurance on
earth also a profound study. He has learn
ed from observation and personal expert
ence, that the capacity of humanity to en-
dure has limit. The average patriot can
enjoy forenzic tournament of two or
three hours if the knights are agile and
expert in the performance, and will throw
in few jokes as they go along to relieve
the strain of thought. But General West
is not man of jokes-few astrologers are
and when he makes speech, it is one
continuous strain of elaborated, heavy
weighted thought, that requires powerful
effort on the part of hearers to keep pace
with. There is one advantage the hearer has,
however. The words come slowly and with |
great dignity, deliberation, and distinct
ness. He don't foam. He don't rant. He |
don't cavort. He prouounoes his sentences
as if he had laid each one out ON the cam |
vassand measured it with yard-stick, and |
then weighed it on Fairbanks' scales to as
certain its exact heft.. He has the voice of
Jupiter, and the commanding appearance
Of Vulcan. He can be heard mile off.
A ten-acre field is his favorite kind of an
auditorium. 1t gives scope and compass
20 his utterances. 1t worries him to have
% perform in an ordinary hall as much as
t does trombone man, and auditors enjoy
lis eloquence and likewise the eloquence of
he trombone more in the open air and at a
distance


Such man would command attention
md respect by the mere power of his voice
md the grandeur of mien, even if there
vas not profundity in the matter, which,
If course, there always is.


But 1t takes time for Gen'l West to make
speech--a great deal of time. He can't
ford to divide it. He is not able to get
Inder full headway short of an hour, and
t he went to dividing time he would be
ut off Just at the time when he had fairly
ntered into the gist Of his argument. 1t
axes from three to five hours for Gen1
Vest to make a speech, and his knowledge
f human endurance teaches him that it
annot stand an intellectual strain longer
han that, and here is the true and satisfac-
Dry reason of his refusal to divide time.
Ie wants all the time himself
Year: 1879

From nine o'clock until midnight last
niylttLis city was visited with what might
l.,rallcl an old fashioned rain fall. We
rslIitolI fashioned because It has been a
rood while since We have had u rain Of the
,or. 1t came down in a way to do an i'm
mpnsc deal Of good, and did not take the
shape Of one Of those frightful Western
storms. The ground was inscondition to
receive and absorb it as 1t fell, and we
doubt not the soil for miles around is as
thoroughly saturated as the most ardent
lulopatlist could desire. Notwithstand.
insal that has been said about the need
Of rain, the condition OF the crops here
aboats has not been distressing by any


means. Vegetation for the most part has
shown deep green color and not q sickly
hue, and the rain will probably put an end
to the many dismal prophecies about a
failure of the grass and oats crops. The
shcats heading out on shorter stalk tn an
usual hut we do not hear that the heads
have bad look, and the chances are that a
very fair crop will be harvested. As for
the corn, it is too early to speculate about
It's outcome, as it is unusually late in COM
inEnp, and has yet to run long length
oithc seasons viciSsitudes. If the season
is long enough there is no reason to de.
spair oi good result. Excellent crops
have followed late season in times past,
and why not so this year? 3 I
Year: 1879

DOMESTIC NEWS.
Prospect Of Arbitration Of the Slid


Ing Scale Difficulty.
The Republican Senatorial Caucus on


the Test Oath.
They Agree to Favor a Repeal


Of the Same.
The New Movements Of the Demo-


Gratis to be Resisted.
The Uncertainty of the Nominee Of
the Columbus Convention.
Col. Ingersoll's Tribute to His
Brothers Memory.
Year: 1879

Now thst the long agony is over there
are better times ahead for Lesvenworth.
The friencs Of the city and county have
not felt more encouraged for many years
than they feel at this time. Tie great oh.
stacle in the way of our prosperity will be
removed. Our public debt will be scaled
down, and our bonds will be compromised
At such figure that they csn be carried
and paid, without running the county.


The enemies of the city and county have
done their utmost TO prevent this consun.
nation, bu; they have failed. They NAV
succeed in annoying our officers to some ex.
tent, and in causing them some little
inconvenience, bot the battle of the bonds
is fought. and the victory is with the peo.
pie. The attempt to force payment in full
is failure. Every reasonable m an among
our creditors knows that it would be no,
only impossible for US TO pay our bonds in
full, but that considering the circumstances
of the csse-the want of consideration re-
ceived by US for the bonds, aud the low
prices At which they we're purchased by
those who now hold them-it would be
grossly unjust 10 expect hundred cents on
the dollar, even if we were able to pay it.
The lew, who, misled by the unwise ccun-
sel OF their attorneys, have not yet consent
ed to . fair andreasonab,e compromise, will
now sse that ii i 70 their interest to change
their policy. and accept the liberal terms
Year: 1879

1t is said upon good authority that
Senator Chandler has made up his mind to
enter the fight rs candidate for Presi.
dent, at the Republican nominating con-
yention next year. A Washington dispatch
says there is no lcrgar doubt that the
Senator's friends will henceforward push
him vigorously. They are actively looking
over the ground, and some work has al
ready been done, both in the National
Committee snG out Of it. il is also under
stood that the Senator ia in the hands Of
his friends for the purpose they have in
view. They declare that they can claim
for him with perfect confidence that he
would have an honest administration, and
that in regard to all pending national is
sues he would give the union-loving peo-
pie as strong government as our Consti-
tuition and laws will allow. Though he
has not yet written the convent onal pri-
vste letter on The subject, it msy be taken
for granted that at an early day Senator
Chandler will appear on the tIacE.
Year: 1879

The talk about appointing Committee
| OF citizens" to assist the Mayor and CJun-


Gil in compromising the bonds, is worse


than useless. 1t is utterly useless because


nothing Of the kind will be done. The


whole responsibility of this work rests with
Mayor F1rtescue and the members Il the


Council, and can be done just as satisfIc-
| torily by them alone, ss II assisted By
committee-which at be.t could only be
advisory, and without power to take any
official action. And the talk about a citi
zeHs' com mmittee is worse than useless, be-
cause it tends TO unsettle the question by
misleading our creditors in regard TO the
proper course for them TO pursue, ard is
liable to work injury to the interests Of all
parties concerned, by delaying the work OF
compromising, which ought TO be going on
now.


The Mayor and Couucil are abundantly
competent TO do all that needs TO be done 10
the premises, and are ready now to treat
with all the creditors OF the city. They in
tend TO transact the business direct with
the bopdholders, without the Intervention
OF any committees or syndicates. Any
holder OF old bords can pre.ent them Hcu,
and receive new bonds in place of them
with interest and principal fully gusrar-
teed. The idea of anything like a syndi-
cate is obuoxious to the whole people, and
has been most positively and emphatically
condemned by them. Our city authorities
are Offering for the bonds the very highest
price that We feel able TO pay, and our
creditors may rest assured that all parties
will be treated alike, and that no higher
figure will ever be offered to anyone. We
desire TO pay all that We
do pay, direct to the holders Of the bonds
giving them the full benefit Of the com
promise, and not requiring them TO spend
any portion of the proceeds in commissions
to agents or syndicstes.


Our city suthorities desire TO have cur
creditors understand distinctly that DO
further machinery of any kind is to be EN-
pioyed. The new bonds-amply guaran-
teed under the stringent law Of last winter
are now ready to be issued as fast as the
old ones are presented. Everything is
ready to 60 on with the work Of refunding.
A considerable number of old bonds have
already been taken up, and new ones given.
The terms are forty Per cent. fat, with in
terest on the new bonds from day of issue.
Thus creditors will see that it is to their
interest to come in at once, since no inter
esI is paid on the old bonds, while the new
securities bear interest from date. Every
thing is now il readiness to go on with the
work OF refundipg.
Year: 1879




A story comes to Csuseur OF : rtsin
Judge in this State, who, at The outset OF
his career as a limb of The Law, established
himself at Abingdon and hung out his
shingle" as lawyer. He was stranger
in the town. and soon after his arrival ask-
ed a man whom he chsnced to meet where
he could tiud the chsirmsn of the Select
men. "Whst do you want with him p was
the Ysnkee-like reply. The young man
explained that he was a stranger in town,
that he was Just starting in his profession,
snd that he thought il might help him TO
know the leading people in town. "Oh,
that's it, is it?' said the party Of ~hom be
sought information. "You are a lawyer,
are you, and don't know anybody? The
oyers.ers Of the poor are the men you want
to know
Year: 1879




1t cannot very we'll be said that business
ia going to the dogs in this tountry, when
about steamer day leaves Boston for
Europe, and full at that. The old country
is drawing largely from us: while what We
import enters but little into competition
with our own produce or manufactures.
The inward cargoes of these steamers CON-
sis; mainly of the raw material that we
reed, and the rates Of freight are 50 low
that il hardly pays the cost OF handling.
In the early history of our European stean,
lines the balance OF trade was almost en-
tirely against us. Now it is reversed and
We are getting rich out OF the traffic.
Year: 1879

Senator David Davis is in progress in the
South, apparently. Southern congressman
sre flooding their districts with copies of
his late speech in the Senate, which il find
ing a warm place in the hearts of the best
men. Perhaps il may lie worth while to
keep an eye on the big Senator from Illin-
ois II he once gets started it Will be q
difficult business 10 stand in his way,
Year: 1879

"DEAR SIR-We will accept your propo-
sition ii it can re incorporated with the fol-
lowing proviso: You are to send Us ) 400
worth of your best machinery, to be selected
by yourselves. This proposition TO be
made by Us TO ali the principal manufac-
rurers in the United States OF the same
class OF agricultural machinery made
by you. Ii they agree, We will submit
the mschiues to a competent committee, TO
be hereafter selected by US, and will send
our check for $500 to the manufacturer of
such machine or implement as shall be
awarded the premium for general or special
ex, ,slleDce, the makers OF the articles not
awarded the premium to make Us a free
gift Of their machines In submitting the
machinery for competition We shall expect
a guaranty that you will take it otf our
hands at the price first named, In case II
should receive the prize.


"P. S-We think you would stand
frst-rate chance OF winning the premium,
a. We know of no firm but yours likely to
stand the test
Year: 1879

In the course of his sermon on Religion
Politics and Business" SUNDAY morning. Mr. Tai
mage said


IL seems to me be subject Of congratulaon that
party lines Brooklyn completely broken up. For
the first time in my memory the lash OF the whip Of
party is ABSENT Our city tickets made up mostly Of
honest men, As between the two candidates for the
Mayoraty you must choose, for both are good men
When say take religion INTO politics do not mean
sectartanism The nation which perrits secJarianism
to be introduced politics on It's TO dissolution.
One of the candidates asks your votes Is Catholic
and while believe MIN BE- well qualified for the pcs
ron he seeks understand that an effort j. TO De made
on account his religion To defeat hiD Professionalism
or Roman Catholicism has no business al the baliotbox
fAupause1 The Constitution gives the righ To every
man 10 worship God according TO the dictates OF his
conscience Nav God help us 10 act patriotic unseli
fsh arf on
Year: 1879

PETERSBURG, Va, Nov. 3.-The greatest in
terest aud anxiety felt here tonight to the result
of the election tomorrow which Will determine how
the much agtated question OF the State debt will be
decided. Both funders and readusters are boldiug
grand meetings tonight. the former at the
Academy OF Music and the latter at the Centre Market


House. In order 10 preserve order at the polls and
throughout the city Tomorrow an extra police force
was put on duty this evening. and all barrooms are
ordered closed. Both factions confident Of victory
Year: 1879

The box Office for the sale of seats for the
Chase concerts will be open at 0 o'clock this
morning at the Opera house,


The annual meeting of the Historical society
will take place at the rooms, capitol, this
evening. As the entire evening will probably
be taken up with Business, the annual address
by Gen. Baker, and addresses by Gen. Sibley
and Col. E. s. Goodrich, have been deferred
until Thursday evening, at the hall of the
House Of Representatives.


Eight, ten, twelve and twenty car loads of
wheat are sold in this market daily from points
in the Northwest, and vet not one mau in ten
OF the residents of st. Paul even, know that
there is a market here for wheat shipments,
the same as there is in Milwaukee, Chicago, or
any other grain center. It should be under
stood that the grain producer or the grain
buyer can ship his wheat to st. Paul, and sell
it on track for cash in hand, just exactly as he
can to any other grain purchasing point, with
certainty of receiving the very highest mar
ket price. 1t stands to the credit of the St.
Paul buyers that party once shipping to St.
Paul, ne becomes steady patron of this mar
ket, as is shown by the rapid growth of the
business the present season,
Year: 1879

Of clothing is offered during the next two
weeks at less thaaa cost at 10s and 10 East Third
street. No such sacrifice has ever before been
made, ana no such opportunity will probably
occur in the next ten years, to procure a com
plete outfit at such low prices. The public
should remember that this is genuine sale, and
everything offered is of first quality both in
material and manufacture. Full dress and
business suits, overcoats for men and boys
and gentlemen's furnishing goods of latest
styles and in rich material. The opportunity
to select from SO large stock is a great adj
vantage to the buyer, and the exceedingly low
prices brings a good suit of clothes within the
reach of any one, however limited their means.
Don't forget the number, and be sure to call
even if you don't buy.
Year: 1879

The Record of Some of the Companies


Doing Business In Minnesota.


The following is the statement of business
done by insurance companies in Minnesota in
1878, as far as they have reported to the COM
Year: 1879

Camille Flammarion, the we'll known
French scientist, thus beautifully ex-
presses himself in La Correspondence
Scientifque, regarding the ultimate
fate of our globe:


The earth was born; she will die.
She will either die of old age, when
her vital elements shall have been
used up, or through the extinction of
the sun, to whose rays her life is sus-
pended. She might die by accident,
through collision with some celestial
body meeting her on her route; but
this end of the world is the most inn
probable of all.


She may, we repeat, die natural
death through the slow ABSORPTION of
her vital elements. In fact, it is prob
able that the air and water are dimin-
ishing. The ocean, like the atmos-
phere, appears to have been formerly
much more considerable than it is in
our day. The terrestrial crust is pen
etrated by waters which combine
chemically with the rocks. 1t is al
most certain that the temperature of
the interior of the globe reaches that
of boiling water at the depth of six
miles, and prevents the water from
descending any lower; but the absorb
tion will continue with the cooling of
the globe. The oxygen, nitrogen and
carbonic acid which compose our at
mosphere also appear to undergo alb
sOrbtion, but slower. The thinker
may foresee, through the mist of ages
to come, the epoch, yet afar off, in
which the earth, deprived of the at
mospheric aqueous vapOr which pro-
tects her from the glacial cold OF space
by preserving the solar rays around
her, will become chilled in the sleep
of death. AS writer says: ''From
the summit of the mountails wind
ing sheet of snow will fall upon the
high plateaus and the valleys, driving
before it life and civilization, and
masking forever the cities and nations
that it meets on its passage Life
and human activity will press insen-
sibly toward the inter-treeieal zone.
st. Petersburg, Berlin, London, Paris,
Vienna, Constantinople and Rome,
will fall asleep in succession under
their eternal shroud. During very
many ages equatorial humanity will
undertake arctic expeditions to find
again under the ice the place of Paris,
Lyons, Bordeaux and Marseilles. The
sea coasts will nave changed, and the
geographical map of the earth will
have been transformed. No one will
live and breathe any more except in
the equasorial zone up to the day
when the last family, nearly dead
with cold and hunger, will sit on the
shore of the last sea, in the rays of the
sun which will hereafter shine below
on an ambulent tomb revolving aim
lessly around a useless light and a
barren heat.
Year: 1879

The year of 1879 is certainly the year
or one of the years of great plenty.
In the Southern States the cotton crop
is larger than ever before known.
The tobacco crop is estimated to be
over twelve million pounds in excess
of what was produced in the tobacco
growing States of the Union during
the year 1879, while the sugar crop is
in excess of all other yields known to
Americans in America. These prod
ucts are raised almost exclusively in
the Southern States. Now let us see
how fares it with the States of the
North. 1t is estimated by reliable
authority that the wheat crop is in
excess this year of any previous year
to the amount of twenty million BUSH
els, and of corn one hundred million
bushels. The number of hogs raised
in 1879 is estimated in round numbers
to be the largest of any previous year.
The root crop is not unusually large,
but the different species seem to have
outgrown themselves. both in quality
and size. The reverse of this may
with safety be given as the estimate
of the material prosperity of the Old
World.
Year: 1879

The fight in New York among the
democrats still continues, the latest
information being conveyed in the
following dispatch, of Dec. l3: The
Star this evening reports Congress-
man Sunset Cox as saying with refer
ence TO the Tammany bolt againt Til
den and Robinson: The democrats
outside of New York have never un-
derstood the movement nor do they
appreciate the necessity that existed
for it. 1t was essential TO party sue
cess next year. Tilden would not get
out of the way and we had to put our
knives into them. We could have
done it with twice as many votes as
were cast against Robinson if it had
been necessary. We had the best men
of the party both in the city and out
side of it to count upon. The star
asserts that it is in possession of facts
showing that Chief Justice Church
and Senator Herman countenanced the
movement, and that the fight between
the two factions still continues. 1t
also states that rilden has within the
last few days directed his party agents
to hold on to the organization and
control the delegation TO the national
convention.
Year: 1879

A correspondent of the Forest and
Stream contributes the following: l
have just tried remedy for fleas on
dogs, which is so efficacious that in
return for the many cures you have
given me for the ills which dog flesh
is heir to, send it you; Liquid pot
ash, half ounce; turpentine, one ounce;
carbolic acid, two drachms; water, one
pint. Apply with sponge, and then
wash the dog putting him in barrel
of water. After this, if you OCCASION
ally apply little of the wash to the
dogs belly and between the fore legs,
not washing it of, you will find one
great objection which ladies have to
dogs has been removed. My dogs
must be where l am, and hitherto I
have tried to pursuade my wife that a
dog is flea trap, so tospeak. and that
IL my dogs We're not i'll the house TO
collect iieas, the suffering caused by
their steeple-chascs would be much
greater, but since the application OF
the wash the race is ended, and with
1t my fiea-trap theory. .1n Aar s..
Year: 1879

The report of the discovery Of rich
mining camp on the north fork of John
Day river, in Umatilla county, ten
miles above Texas bar, is confirmed.
The East Oregonian says: This
stream has been mined more or less
since 1865, and had never thus far
proved remunerative, notwithstand-
ing that gold was worth SIS and $40
per ounce, everyone who had under
taken il had left sooner or later in
disgust. These discoveries had tried
everywhere, and finally concluded as
last resort to go to bedrock in one of
the numerous prospect holes on one of
the bars, that had been abandoned
years ago. They commenced aud
sunk about six feet and struck bed
rock, and better yet, struck gold in
paying quantities. After rocking out
several dollars and satisfying them
selves that the mines were good, they
came into the county seat to record
their claims and get supplies" The
country is said to be alive with pros
spectors from Canyon City, Granite
and Birch creeks, and nearly all the
country on the river is taken up.
Year: 1879

Women, whenever the charge of eX-
travaeance is made against them, love
to taunt men of wholesale addiction to
vicious and immoral habits. In a
large share of the immortality men are
merely partners with the women, and
their other bad habits are largely, if
not wholly, Offset by the secret vices
INDUCED in by the fair sex. rhe use
of liquor, tobacco and cards is not con-
fined TO men. The ladies indulge, es-
pecially in cards and wine, much
more freely than is generally supposed,
while they also make use of arsenic,
chalk. cloves and various drugs 'for
the complexion" which are viciously
injurious to health. The vices of wo-
men are hidden from nearly all save
the keen eye of the family physician,
while those of men are classed in the
catalogue of fmisdemeanors; are neces-
sarily INDUCED in openly, are tried
and punished openly, and their effects
can be hidden from no one, owing TO
the extreme public manner in which
men are compelled to move and do
business. Thus n mans short-com-
ings are the common property of all
not to be suppressed by friends nor
saved from being magnitied by ene-
mics, while woman's secrets are al
most wholly her own, guarded relig-
iously and at every sacrifice by father,
brother, lover, or husband; guarded
not as the destructive sins that they
are, but as little misfortunes which,
however small, are yet too great for
the world to know.