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Year: 1878

rode to the first class hotel; it was o
covered frame on stills, and barely par


titioned off inside with laths. Every
one washed from the same tin dish and
wiped upon the same towel the fare was
tough steak and tougher biscuit; the
beds were mere boxes on legs, and fill
ed with course meadow-hsy. No doors to
the rooms nor nails to hang coat; no
stand nor even chair to put lamp on;
but mine host just dropped some grease
from his dip upon the door, into which
he inserted his candle, and bade me
make myself comfortable. Now I had
hired the "private room at an extra
price, with an understanding that it was
to be all my own for the night, and of
coarse the only safety for money was to
put to bed. So you may imagine my
serenity when at - midnight in bounced
q straggler in long boots; the landlord
had sent him up, he said, as mine was
the only bed with but one in it In
the morning found that forty persons
had been lying right across the long en-
try between the rooms, with here and
there blanket among them, and they
snored as I walked over them. After
breakfast the landlord told US all to
come out and square the house into
place--it had been moved on its bed in
the night by the wind. Leaning long
rail as lever, we all bore our weight
upon it, and the frst-class hotel came
into place again. But now, mark me,
that place is county seat, has court
house and other fine buildings, with
churches, two newspapers. and really
more than one "irst.c1ass" hotel. And
this is sample OF hundreds of places
on the prairies. -Eastp0r! Sentinel.
Year: 1878

MINdIING WITH STRANeRRs.-The ef-
feot of LAingling with new people, who
have new ideas and new methods, is very
salutary. Always to see the same things,
feel the same way, produces a stagnant
condition of the mind and heart that is
distressing to behold. There are thou.
sands Of invalids who might be greatly
benefited by getting away from home,
il only for short time, to lningle with
strangers, and to be touched with the
magnetism OF the great world as it
courses in its accustomed rounds. And
there are mental and moral inyalids,
who need the same change, to get their
minds and hearts enlarged, and let in o
little more OF the great light Of life.
Outside influences are very valuable to
those who ut home have been very well
trained by healthful influences in early
youth, so that they can avoid the snares
and pitfalls into which others 80 blind
ly often fall.
Year: 1878

AN English paper gives the origin of
the word damn" 1t says the oath is
A corruption OF the French exclamation
dame" This may be so, but we al.
ways thought the word damn" origin
ated by o man going out into the yard
an hour after sundown and being alb
ruptIy caught under the chin by a
clothes.line. Norristown Herald.
Year: 1878

II is said that the chinese Ambassa-
dor in London is very strongly in favor
Of preserving the Woosung Railway,
end has even gone so for as to offer to
purchase it himself from his Govern
ment, if they will only consent to not
remove il.
Year: 1878

SITTING BULL never perpetrated but
one joke. That was one day last au-
tumn, when he sat down on cluster
OF clover, in which there fingered tho
humble bee Of all humble bees. The
petulant insect prodded tho warrior
with sting that marked one hundred
and ninety degrees in the coolest place,
and with o mighty howl the chieftian
rose up in the air and felt around for
his tormentor. "Now is the winter OF
our discomfort" he said, holding the
writhing bee up in his thumb and


finger, this is the Indians hummer.
Year: 1878

The honest farmer is now toSsting
his skins at hi cheerful hearth, wading
into the new crop of almanacs, and
thinking till his bones ache about the
extraordinary marvels and wonders Of
the weather predictions, and the patent
IN dicine cures. But for the sacred be-
lief that truth and print are twin sisters
the good man would have q suspicion
that the fellow who got up the pamph.
let couldn't borrow o double-tree in
the neighborhood where he was raised
Year: 1878

A Thief with an Undue Fondncss for Apple


Butter Receives Scare Which May


Prove Wholesome in the Future.


Two weeks ago, Mr.. A. B. Moss, who
keeps grocery store on the corner of Third
and Exchange streets, noticed that certain
articles placed on stand in front of his es-
tablishment, unaccountably disappeared in
the early hours of the evening, and accord
ingly determined to keep sharp lookout
with the view of detecting the thief.


Last evening about 6:3O o'clock, his efforts
IN this direction were rewarded by observing
a man stop in front of his place and deliber-
ately take up pail of apple butter and walk
off with it. Rushing out, lie ran after the
thief and ordered him to halt, but this the
man declined doing, and throwing away the
can, started to run. At this juncture MIR.
Moss slipped and fell, but shortly recovered
himself, and drawing a revolver, fred at the
retreating figure.


ed up Fourth street to Seventh, and down
seventh-Mr. Moss rushing through the
Cosmopolitan Hotel, and coming out not
very far behind the retreating thief, at whom
he fired second time without effect. Here
the hotel hostler joined in the chase. and
pursuit was continued down to the lumber
yard between Fourth and Seventh streets,
where all traces of the fellow
was lost. Moss who is wont to pride him
self on being good shot is disguested with
his bad craftsmanship, but the probabiI-
tiles are, he has administered Wholesale
scare which will hereafter fully protect him
from future depredations.
Year: 1878

The Mower County Fight Transferred to


the Legislature---The Beginning To-


Night.


The chief contestants in the Page i'm
peachment matter, which comes up before
the House Judiciary Committee at 7:3O
o'clock this evening" have already ar
rived, and are diligently preparing for the
battle. Judge Page himself is in the city, as
are Messrs. G. H. Davidson, Ingmundson and
r. l. Smith, three of the leading impeach-
ers. The prevailing spirit among the con-
testants is war-war to the knife-and such
thing as compromise and Cancellation is
not even among the remote possibilities. A
visit to the hotels last night and the most
casual observation were sufficient to convince
the most skeptical of the truth of this,
and it is altogether probable that
the most desperate and earnestly
contested judicial battle, evel waged in the
State, is now near at hand.


The cause of the petitioners will be repre-
sented before the Committee by the eminent
legal firm of Gilman, Clough & Lane, whose
reputation is co-extensive with the limits Of
the State, and who will, it is needless to say,
make the very best showing possible for their
case. Judge Pages attorneys are Messrs.
Stacy d Lovely of Albert Lea, and Gov. G..
K. Davis of this city, who has been retained
within the past day or two. Subpmnas have
been issued by the Committee for sixteen
witnesses on behalf of the petitioners, and
for quite number on the part of Judge
Page.


The friends of the impeachment move
ment earnestly contend that the functions of
the Judiciary Committee in the pending in
vestigation are analogous to those of
grand jury-viz.: merely to inquire
into and report upon the probable
cause as shown in the petition referred
to them. They explicitly and strenuously
deny the right of the accused to appear by
counsel and to produce testimony and cross
examine witnesses for the prosecution, but
as heretofore noticed in HE GLOBE, the
committee have already granted Judge Page
this privilege, thereby emphatically showing
that they do not coincide with the view that
they are merely to play the part of grand
jury to the House, and simply report as to
the probable suficiency or insuffciency of
the charges made in the petition. Whether
the petitioners will further urge this view of
the case tonight with the hope of reversing
the previous action of the committee, is,
of course, not known at this writing.


Altogether it bids fair to be both an inter
esting and hard fought legal contest, and the
GLOBE will endeavor to give its many readers
full reports and keep them thoroughly posted
in all its phases and details.
Year: 1878

[Claremont tAdvocate.-Rep.


The Daily GLOBE is the name of new
paper just started in st. Paul by Mr.. III. P.
Hall. The GLOBE is a perfect model of
beauty in typographical appearance, and is
as full of news and other choice reading as it
can be crowded. The energy, perseverance
and almost unlimited experience of the pro-
prletor in the newspaper business, secures
start. We cannot give our readers better
advice than to subscribe for the Daily or
Weekly GLOBE.
Year: 1878

SecrcChry sherman on RESUMPTION,


Secretary Sherman makes vigorous de-
Tense of the resumption act Apparently he
thinks the time has come for the Admiuistra-
tion to direct and shape party opinion and
action, and the duty his chief neglects or des-
pses he takes upon himself. The condition
of the Treasury as set forth by its head Is GER
tainly eu couraging and justifes his expecta-
tion that the country will, unless prevented
byunwise legislation, resume specie payment
on the first of January next. By that time
there will be over S14O,OOO,0 900 Of gold in the
Treasury against S300,0OO,OOO of greenbacks
in circulation, ,-an ample reserve the Secre-
tary thinks. The premium on gold is practi-
callv done away with now, and less than fifty
millions of legaltender notes must be with
drawn in order to reduce that currency to the
limit set by the Treasury department.. Busi-
ness is now really done on specie basis, all
contracts are made on that presumption, and
whatever suffering resumption causes has al
ready been endured. To go back now would
afford no relief, but only compel US to undergo
again the same distress under which we have
been laboring for the past nine years. If we
are ever going to resume, the sooner we do so
the better. The balance of trade is largely
in our favor, and that may not happen again
very soon. In fact all the conditions are fav-
orable to resumption.


The recommendations and suggestions of
the Secretary will bear thinking upon. The
selling of bonds for legal-tender notes would
enlarge the use of the greenback and so per-
haps slightly appreciate its value, though not
much is to be expected from that. The ex-
change thereby made Of the six per cent.
bonds for the four per cents. would be saw
ing of interest. That exchange could easily
have been made and much gold accumulated
in the Treasury had it not been for the
passage of the silver bill. It is however too
late too repair that mistake. The reissue of
greenbacks and the acceptance OF them in
payment for customs duties are steps not to
be hastily taken, and will seem injudicious to
us of the East. The Secretary is altogether
too optimistic. But if he can persuade Con-
gress to let the resumption act alone, and can
steadily add to his accumulation of coin he
will have done two good things.
Year: 1878

A PROPOSITION has been made in the Do
minion Parliament that no laborer shall be en-
pIoyed on the Canada Pacific railroad whose
hair is more than five inches long. This is
meant to exclude Cinnamon. In practice it
would exclude only the good ones. The
short.haired celestial is always disgraced
man, an outcast from the temples and under
the ban of the State.
Year: 1878

The promised speech of Senator Howe on
the Presidents policy already excites great
interest in political circles. It is said he will
arraiga the President for in6delity to the
Republican party. That arraignment can
hardly fail to provoke general debate in the
Senate.
Year: 1878

The young men of to-day keep pace with the times.
The SHO RT JACKET and LEAT8ER &
PANTS of by-gone days are things of the past.
peculiar and cultivated taste must be the only
quirement which will enable merchant to select
styles and fabrics that will be sure to please the
mass of our young Americans. We claim to have it,
and our Youths Department will speak for u. No
pains have been spared to make this Department a
leading feature of our mammoth wardrobe.


A cordial invitation is now extended to young
gentlemen to call and examine our goods.
Year: 1878

RETURNED. Henry Martin arrived
Monday evening from San Francisco
where he has been visiting for the past
three weeks. Mr.. Martin saw many old
Trinity people in the city and with them
passed the time very pleasantly
Year: 1878

MARX TwA1N's CABN.-The cabin in which Mark Twain lived when he was an "honest mi- ner" is still standing at Aurora in 8 tolerable state of preservation. The back end, which extended into the side of the hill, and was in, but the front and sides, which were of rough lumber, still stand. The door is gone, little Of the roof is left, and what remains of the structure has decided ''dip" to the south west. A grand army of prospectors had taken possession of all there was in sight when Mark arrived at Aurora, therefore he was obliged to go for something that was not to be seen. He located his famous 'sBlind Lode." What this lode might be like no one could tell, as no sign of it could be seen on the surface. As we have never heard of his digging down to look for his vein, it is likely that he thought it jsst as well to camp there and see if it wouldn't one day grow up and crop out on the surface. The new shaft oI the Real del Monte mine is now being sunk just over the place where Mark claimed his "Blind Lode." Should the shaft strike a | second bonanza Mark will be likely to come out here and commence suit for the whole find" claiming that his cabin has held the ground for him all these years.- VIginid Ne Uddd) Enterprise.
Year: 1878

You deserve to suffer if you lead a miser able, unsatisfactory life in this beautiful world, it is entirely your own fault and there is only one excuse for you,-your un. reasonable prejudice and skepticism, which has killed thousands. Personal knowledge and common sense reasoning will soon show you that Greens August Flower will cure you of Liver Complaint or Dyspepsia, with all it's miserable effects, such as sick headache, palpitation of the heart, sour stomach, habitual costiveness, dizziness of the head, nervous prostrstion, low spirits. &c. It's sales now reach every town on the Western Continent and not druggist but will tell you of its wonderful cures. You can buy sample bottle for 10 cents. Three doses will relieve you.
Year: 1878

It took nearly five hundred penny post age stamps to supply the demand on St. Valentine's day. and even th1s number would have been swelled but for the fact that tbe young nen with Elyals delivered would not be the slightest possibility of the lady thinking it came from the other felleH.
Year: 1878

The Suspicion Of repudIation does
not pay. When only the veto of The
Governor Of State stands between
the public creditor and the State,
for the purpose of protecting the
former. it is pretty safe to say that
money-lenders will not be very anx-
iOuS to negotiate lean. The State
Of Virginia is now beginning to
realize this fact. Under the guise
of a "re-adjustment" the Legislature
of Virginia has been not only seri-
ously discussing the reputation Of
a portion Of its honest debt, but has
absolutely voted by considerable
majority to do SO. Now the State
Auditor comes to the front and de-
clares that the supplies are absolute
" exhausted. and that he has not
the funds to run the Government
even for q single day. The "Old
Dominion" the Mother Of Presi-
DENTS" with bare hundred dollars
in the Treasury, and not able 70
borrow a single dollar from either
the banks or capitalists, is not
spectacle calculated to excite emo
tioHs OF satisfaction, but which may
serve to emphasize the truth Of the
old adage, that honesty is the best
policy"
Year: 1878

The following lines from an ex-
change is the daily experience of
printers:


Last week q man stepped up to
US and said he would pay US if he
lived until Saturday night. We
haven't seen him since, and presume
he died on Friday. Another said
he would pay us in a day or two as
sure as he was born. Query-did
the man lie or were he never bornI
Another said he hoped to go to the
devil il he did hot pay US in. three
days. Have not seen him since. but
suppose he's gone. Quite number
said they would see us court day.
These have been stricken blind, or
else court has not come. One man
told US six months ago that he w0uld
pay US as soon rs he got some mon
ey. The man would not lie. and, of
course, hasn't had cent since"
Year: 1878

A poor man on his death bed made his
will. He called his wife to him and told
her of its provisions. have left, he
said, "my horse to my parents, sell 1t
and hand over the money you receive.
I leave to you my dog, take good care
of him, he will serve you faithfully"
The wife promised to obey, and in due
time set out for the neighboring market
with the horse and dog. "How much
do you want for your horser" inquired
the farmer. 81 cannot sell the horse
alone, but you may have both of them
at reasonable rates. Give me one hum
dred dollars for the dog and one dollar
for the horse" Tho farmer laughed,
but as the terms were low he willingly
accepted them. Then the worthy wo-
man gave the husbands parents the dol
lar received for the horse and kept the
hundred dollars for herself. ~
Year: 1878

Wednesday night drummer for
Pittsburg boot and shoe house.
considerably under the influence of
liquor, mistook his route and drove
his team upon the trestle- bridge OF
the Edenburg. Summit and Clarion
Railroad. just this side of the Clarion
river, supposing it to DO the wagon
road The trestle bridge is sixty
feet up from the ground. and about
the same length, but the horses made
the crossing, feeling their way in the
darkness. step by step, every foot
striking tie securely. until the dis
tance was traversed. and they stood
in safety on the ether side; aud
just in the nick Of time. too, as the
night express came laundering by in
Eve minutes after The drummer and
team had left the track. It is easy
to imagine the terrible catastrophe
that would have resulted had the
train overtaken the horses and man
on the bridge The walchman at
the end Of the trestle halted the
drummer as he drove of the track. but
was told TO mind his own business.
EdeRbttrg Herald.
Year: 1878

The Courier learns that during the
great revival, which has been carried
on at Bristol for some time past, and is
still in progress, there have been two
hundred penitents to the seat of prayer
and about one hundred conversions.
There have also been quite a number of
backsliders reclaimed.
Year: 1878

w The labor troubles throughout the country
have opened up old sores that had been healed
for years. In New York, the Anti Rent troubles
which caused so much excitement more than
thirty years ago, are breaking out again. Every
unquet, troublesome element in the land will
be brought to the surface again, by the labor
and communistic disturbances of the present
time.
Year: 1878

For ATTORNEY GESERAL--Among the names men-
toned in connection with the nomination for Attorney
General there is better known or better liked
by the people of Kansas, than Judge Nathan Price,
Of DOniphan, He is of the abest lawyers in this
State and of the best men in any State. He is
man Of splendid abilities, and popular with the people
His name will add strength to the ticket-Learer-
portk Timer
Year: 1878

n We notice that Elder Mitchell, the Green
back candidate for Governor, is announced as
the principal speaker at the Grange Harvest
Home, to be held here, on the 2ad inst. So the
Grange leaders are going to try to transfer it in
bulk to the Greenback party, are theyi If SO,
up goes the little remnant of the Grange left in
Doniphan County; for there are many menu
bers, both Republicans and Democrats, who will
not submit to becoming tributary TO Elder Mitch
ell and his little squad of visionaries. This med
dlling with politics is what has reduced the once
prosperous Grange in Kansas to an Insignificant
handful, who can no longer be got ont to
Grange meeting, except by appeals almost as
loud rs the trump of the Day of Judgment
Year: 1878

- Last spring about this time our
people were lying awake of nights
sOrely perplexed over the grasshopper
question, and as TO how they could
best circumvent the plague. By inde-
fatigable toll they mastered the situs-
ton, and raised respectable crop Of
corn and the biggest crop of hogs ever
shipped from the county. This
spring the farmer is not losing any
sleep about grasshOppers. He sleeps
well, ships his corn and stock at fair
prices, has plenty for his family, is
getting out of debt, and is looking
forward with reasonable hope for an
immense harvest of fruit and grain.
Prosperity seems in hand, and we
can't see anything lacking to make
everybody generally conteuted and
happy.
Year: 1878

The First National Bank Of
Brownville resumed specie pay
mentn first in Nebraska, and was
among the first half dozen in the
United States to pay gold over its
counter for its own paper. Comment
Is unnecessary to impre - the fact that
this bank is most exceIIently officer
ed and conducted.
Year: 1878

A correspondent of the Omaha
Evening Nea0s. over the non de plume
of Money Lender" says that a rep
resentative of Rosewster of the Bee
recently attempted to blackmail him
of the sum of $4,000, and when
Money Lender refused to come down
with the money, the Bee man said
they would make It hot for him.
Rosewater's continual cry of "stop
thief is chronic ruse of his to d.
rect attention from himself. People
who know Rosewater understand this
we'll.
Year: 1878

Special to the Star. -t


WASHINGTON, July 1.-The Potter Com
mittee met at IL a. m. Bowles Baker was
called. He desired to know by what au-
thority he was called before the Committee,
and was handed by the Chairman the reso-
lutions by virtue of which. the Committee
was appointed. After having read these
he declined to be sworn or to answer any
questions and stated that he had no rea-
son to assign at present for his refusal.


Mr.. Baker was then discharged until such
action upon his case.


Chas. Foster appeared and desired to
make an explanation with reference to a
statement made by General Butler, on Sat
urday that portion of certain speech
made by Foster had been prepared by a
prominent Southern Democrat.


He wished to say that if he was called as
witness in reference to an alleged bargain
made during the Forty-fourth Congress, he
desired to testify before going home.
Mr.. Butler said as that particular part OF
the investigation appears to have been left
to him, he wished to say that he did not in
tend to call Mr.. Foster as witness.
Mrs jerks was again called and ques-
toned as to her brother, Adolph R. Muir
dock


She did not know he had been lately ap-
pointed to a position in the New Orleans
Custom-house. Mrs. jerks explained that
at the time Anderson was reluctant to go
back to East Feiciana for fear of personal
| violence at the hands of the Democrats she
went to Colonel Patten, Chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee, and
with him made an arrangement by which a
special train and a guard were furnished
Anderson. She stated that the letters from
Governor Kellogg to her had not yet ar
rived


WASHINGTON, July Without hearing
any further evidence, the Committee at
p. m adjourned. ...
Year: 1878

The parent of insomnia or wakefulness is
in nine eases out OF ten dyspeptic stomach
Good digestion gives sound sleep, indiges-
ton interferes with it. The brain and
stomach sympathze. One of the prominent
symptoms of a weak state of the gastric or
eans Is disturbance OF the great nerve en-
trepot, the brain. Invigsrate the stomach,
and you restore equilibrium To the great
center. A most reliable medicine for the
purpose is Hostener's Stomach Bitters.
which is far preferable TO mineral sedatives
and powerful narcotics which, though they
may for time exert a soporiffc influence
upon the brain, soon cease TO act, and in
variably injure the tone OF the stomach.
The Rifters, on the contrary, restore activi-
w to the operations of that all important
organ, and their benefitcent influence Is re-
fIected in sound sleep and a tranquil state OF
he nervous system. A wholesome inpetus
likewise given to the action OF the liver and


owels by its use. -