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Year: 1879

A Savanna negro had narrow escape last
Monday. He was in his coffin, having died
as his friends thought, two days before, the
preacher was talking away about life on the
other side of Jordan, when the corpse sat
up, stared around him and deliberately
crawled out. This irregular proceeding
caused the congregation, preacher, relatives
and all to make for the street, with the man iu
grave clothes after them. Getting over their
fright the colored people shook hands with
the restored man, who had been only in q
trance.
Year: 1879

The Earl of Derby recently deliv
cred speech at ROchdale. England,
in which he said


Though | do not hold that there is
much OF an opening for workingmen
on the land at home, | do not say the
same of land elsewhere. | think it is
very fair question whether in this
little island of ours we are not getting
packed little too closely, and whether
we have not suffered from the COM
parative stoppage of emigration in the
last few years. Emigration is for a
people like ours a natural and even
necessary outlet. You may pass what
laws you please, you may tighten the
burden of taxation, until the working
men are practically exempt; but as
long as there are more OF them than
get work, and as long as two men are
looking after one employer, neither
votes nor freedom from taxes, nor any
thing else that politicians can do.
nor yet any expcdient of their
own for producing artificial scarcity
OF labor in special employments, will
in the long run prevent them from
being badly off, | am not contending
that any of yon should start off for
the New World without inquiry as to
the chances when you get there. just
now the Americans have their troubles
as well as ourselves; but with their
boundless soil they are rapidly aecu-
mulating capital, and with their ex-
ceptional energy they are sure TO rally
before long, indeed, | believe the rail-,
has already begun. There are chill
dren living who will probably see the
United States numbering two hundred
millions Of inhabitants, and | do not
think there is any subject to which
eaders of working men can more use
fully turn their attention than the
supplying to those who want it here
accurate and trustworthy intelligence
as to their chances beyond the Allan
tic, either north or south of the Ca
madam boundary line. We shall al
ways have men enough left at home.
and even if emigration were to 90 to
tho length of checking the increase
here, which it almost certainty will. il
is better to have thirty-fve millions of
human beings leading useful and in
telligent lives than forty millions
struggling painfully for a bare subsist-
ence Here here and cheers. J
There are many persons, | know, who
will object on the ground that though
emigration may be good for the indi-
vidual it weakens the State. | can
not take that view. A contented peo-
| PIE goes long way toward making a
State powerful, and have always
been convinced that great deal Of
our freedom from international trou-
BILE in this country, which we some
times ascribe to national character and
sometimes to our political constitu-
ton, is really due to the various out
let's which both in past and present
times we have created for ourselves
beyond the sea. They are our safety.
valves, and if they get choked
should expect the result to be un-
comfortable.
Year: 1879

Washington Special to Gin. Commercial.l


The cabinet meeting to-day was
quite lengty and important. The pen
sion bill was freely discussed, and
statements were presented from the
treasury and interior departments as
to the probable cost, should the bill
become law. The commissioner Of
pensions, through Secretary Schurz,
made an estimate, based on a hasty
examination of the books, and striking
an average, that fifty millions would be
required. Secretary Schur1 says it
will be at least that, if not more. Sec
retary Sherman estimates that one
hundred millions will be required
The cabinet was unit in re-
GREETING that the bill was passed
just now, in the peculiar condition
Of the finances, with resumption to be
made permanent and the revenue con-
tinuallN decreasing. The President
does not feel at liberty, however, to
veto the bill, as there are no consti-
tutional objections to it, and he be-
lieyes that such course would be
futile, as congress would undoubtedly
pass it over his veto. The President
and every member of the Cabinet,
however, believe that it will be i'm
possible to provide for these in
creased pensions, except by large in
crease of taxation or an addition of
many millions to the bonded debt. 1t
was suggested that had congress
provided means inthe same act TO meet
its requirements, they would have
been less anxious to pass the meas
ure. To meet the heavy drain
either the income tax will have
to be restored, or the tax on
tea and coffee, both of which,
like an increase of the bonded debt,
would be extremely unpopular. Pri-
vately, even amongmany who voted for
the bill, it is regarded as a political
movement to seek to influence the
vote of ex-soldiers. Neither party
has the courage to antagonize the bill


When the means are required to meet
its provisions, congress will be put into
an embarrassing situation.


Mr.. Rice, of Ohio, who esteems
himself the father of the pension bill,
by which from fifty to one hundred
millions of dollars are to be yanked
out of the treasury, is the recipient of
many congratulations from those who
will be pecuniarily benefited by it.
To-day his desk was covered with
flowers. There is some interest to
know how Mr.. Rice will vote when
the proposition comes up to tax tea
and coffee to raise funds to meet the
enormous drain which the pension
bill will cause.
Year: 1879

indianapolis News,I


Yes, said Father Ressonies vicar
general of the diocese of Vincennes as
he sat in his study this morning in
easy conversation with three visitors.
one OF them News reporter, " | have
been in Indiana forty years. | came
here direct from France unable to
speak any English. waited to do
missionary work with the Indians, and
desired to go to Logansport, in the
neighborhOod of which there were
large numbers of them. Father Fran
co.'s, most excellent priest was
there. desired to assist him, but |
was sent to little place called Derby
in Perry county. You should have
seen my first church-a rude log cabin
built fifteen years before, and badly
damaged by wear aud weather. l was
visited there in 1912 by Bishop Fla
get, the first bishop of Bardstown.
He came from the Kentuck,
side in a skiff, the river was higi
and the banks muddy. He fell dow
several times as he tried to climl
the slippery clay bank, aided by a
staff, and when he got to the church
he sadly needed ablution. There was
a little water in the vestry, a small
cupboard-like place behind the
altar, but no towel, and the good
bishop had to await the arrival of a
boy with an empty corn sack before he
could wipe his hands and face.
Father Neirinck was a noted man in
the Catholic church in its early days
He lived in Bardstown in 1S24-5. and
told his parishoners thar, when bitten
by rattlesnakes, they should come to
him to be cured. He gave no medi-
cins-merely blessed them, and they
departed cured. After he had left
there and gone to the far West. it is
said the bells chimed one midnight
without tho help of mortal hands, and
it was found that he had died at that
very hour in his new location, All,
he was a saint,
Year: 1879

COLUMBUS, January 24.-In the
senate bill was introduced giving the
the officers of agricultural societies
the power to arrest persons for selling
liquor on the fair grounds. In the
house bill were introduced to abolish
the Office of city marshal in cities OF
second-class and third grade and to
transfer the duties to the chief of po-
lice
Year: 1879

Phoebe New Rocordl


Bronco Pat" finding that he could
not get married at Phoebe, secured the
services of a Mormon bishop, by the
name of Allen, who lives down in the
valley, and proceeded to the Utah
llne, some five miles distant. On ar
irving at the line the good bishop pro.
ceedod to business and married the
couple. Pat stood on the east side of
the line in the Territory of Utah, and
the charming and blusbing bride
stood on the west side, in the Stato of
Nevada, while Bishop Allen straddled
the line, standing ON both Utah and
Nevada soil, and in this position the
young couple were united. This is
probably the first couple ever united
In the bonds of matrimouy with the
groom standing in a Territory and the
bride in State, while the old fellow
who tied the knot stood in both,
Year: 1879

The residents in the neighborhood
of the Nashville depot, in Louisville,
say that the epidemic that prevailed
in that locality last summer will be
repeated if more effective sanitary
measures are not adopted. They say
that the accumulation in the neigh
boring streets and alleys is something
fearful
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YESTERDAY There
was a marked increase In this volume OF
business at tho Stock Exchange aud
general aevapce was made in prices
Money, which opened at 6 to per cent
on call, because active In the afternoon
and comm issions ranging az high as
per cent per day were paid in addition
to I eer cent. Exchange was dull and
weak. Bonds of all kinds weree in good
demand and prices were higher.
Year: 1879

Attorney General DEvENs' absence from
the campaign in Massachusetts, has not
only been the occasion of unlayorable
comment in the Opposition press, but of
some Misrepresentation Of his motives by
the same agency. The explanation Of this
absence, given in our news columns few
days ago, is now supplement- d by per-
sonal letter written by General DEvENs to
Chairman HASKELL, of the Republican
State Committee, in which the writer re-
cites in detail the important character of
the large number of Cove rnment cases soon
Year: 1879

A CONCERTED Democratic movement is
to be made at the next session of Congress
for reduction of the tax on whisky. The
Bourbon cry is, very naturally, for cheap
spirits, regardless of the fact that the gov
ernment receipts from internal revenue
sources have been largely reduced by the
reduction of the tax on tobacco In short,
it appears to be part OF Democratic states
manship to cripple the government by TAX
ing the tax off from luxuries and permit
ting it to remain or increasing it on neces-
sites.
Year: 1879

THE New York JfaH is catechising JOHN
KELLY on his political orthodoxy. 1t al
ludes to his remark that he believes in New
York city first last and all the time"
and responds, 80 do we"-and adds:


Our faith and our aspiration seek ono flag
to defend, QUO Nation to protect; one equal
Constitution to revere, and one freedom to
cherish equal for and common TO all. Does
JOHN KELLY desire the same?


KELLY has not yet replied to this cate
Ghetto assault, and may not have time until
after the election.
Year: 1879

SIX years ago the entire country was
shocked and financial panic ensucd from
the failure of the banking house of Jay
Cooke Il Co. The month of October, 1873,
marked the beginning of the commercial de-
preston which added so much subsequent
ly to the difficulties and embarrassments
attendant upon specie resumption. Money
then commanded u per cent. per day, and
was not plenty at that. But the country
has outlved or lived down all this trouble,
and comes out of it with renewed strength
for the enjoyment of the most unexampled
prosperity Money Is now loaned as low
as 4 i! per cent per ann um, and within the
past five or six weeks twenty-five or thirty
millions of specie have been received from
abroad in return for our manifold over
products. But the greatest benefit to be
derived from this return TO prosperity re-
sides in the fact that it insures the death of
Greenbac<ism. The Rag Baby, born of
misery aud general business stagnation, is
now being choked TO death by the plethoric
success of the times. Six years has been
long period for the brat 10 live; but they
are about ended. Funeral one week from
next Tuesday.
Year: 1879

that win tend to the public good. The
physical, intellectual and financial resources
of our people can be utilized to better ad-
vantage in other paths, so far as the public
welfare is involved.
Year: 1879

ONE year ago the Democrats were assail.
ing GEORGE C. GoRHAM with the yilest
weapons they could draw from laboratories
of abuse and misrepresentation Now they
are feeding him taify and patting him fondly
on the back as good fellow, because for
reasons sufficient to himself he supported
of California. There is nothing endears a
Republican to the Democracy so soon or so
strongly as for him to show the slightest de-
fecton toward his own party, Then comes
tho palaver and the tafly; but in this case
it will be wasted. If GEORGE should paddle
his own canoe in future, it will not be in
Bourbon waters. His political affections do
not centre there.
Year: 1879

The recent fire at Kansas City illustrates
two things; The fac. that powdered starch
contains explosive qualities, and the cordl-
tons under which a starch explosion NAV
occur. 1t is not essential to an explosion
Of tbs kind that the puivcrized dust be dis
tribUted in explosive proportions through
the whole Of the air All that is necessary
is that a sufficient body Of the dust be ig-
nitcd to produce u volume OF flame. This
flame once started will fire tine remaining
dust scattered through ,he room. even ii
the quantity he small. The starch dust.
which created an explosion in the Wash
burn mill, was small in quantity, but when
once kiudicd, flashed through the dust Of
tina. entire portion of the mill Emyloycs
in all three instances, describe sudden
flash of light preceding the explosion. An
experiment in the matter may be easily
made. \ handful Of finely powdered
starch thrown bodily on the lire will not
produce an explosion: there will be only
ordinary combustion. But If similar
handful of starch powder be thrown up
ward and allowed to descend H ciObd,
on an intensely heated furnace, there will
be an instantaneous explosion; and if the
whole ROOM where the explosion occurs b.
filed with even very light cloud OF starch
dust, the explosion occurring at the furnace
will he extended throughout tie room, and if
there I've other adjoining roons in ike man
Ter charged with starch or -four dust ami
the doors be open, the explosion will ex-
tend through The whole building. These
facts are quite Sufficient 10 account for the
explosion in Kansas City, and now that the
matter is understood it only requires little
precaution to prevent the recurrence Of
such catastrophies. But il should be rc-
mcn.bcred that there is in 4 flour mill
danger similar to that which exists in Il
candy factory. H. each case there is likely
jo be q cloud OF starch dust which upon
the cJnCJ~rcncc Of the proper conditions
will produce disastrous explosion. Pull
veriled starch and Hour therefore need 10
be guarded against, as well rs puiverized
saitpetrc. sulphur and charcoal.
Year: 1879

The town elections in New York and
Maine the past week indicate the early col
Apse of the greenback party. In nearly
every city and town the greenback vote fell
OF largely compared with that of last fall,
and in some places it almost entirely dis
appeared. A noticeable fact is that at
several points the democrats and republ-
cal cans united N giving the greenbackers a
black eye.
Year: 1879

If the Sheriff Of New Castle County
desired to sacrifice the property ordered
to be sold by him, he could not hit on
a method better calculated to keep
the sale from the knowledge ofthe pub
lie than the one he has adopted. lie
should remember tina. creditors as well
as unfortunate debtors have some
rights which the executors OF the Law
are bound to respect.
Year: 1879

Senator Plumb, of Kansas, is disposed
to look with disfavor upon the tide OF
Southern negroes setting toward his State.
He thinks that the climate Is unsuited to
the cotton-raising negroes and that they
will suffer much before they can obtain q
foothold there. He suggests that Texas
or the Indian Territory are far more in.
vitlng than Kansas. Unfortunately, the
Indian Territory is practically closed to
the colored immigrant and the Demo
cratic majority in Texas is standing
intimidation.
Year: 1879

San Francisco, Aug. 2s-The physi-
clans still report Mr.. Kalloch improv-
ing, but as yet he cannot be considered
out of danger. The medical gentlemen
say that more or less pus has formed
and is still forming around the bullet,
and there is no no way for its escape as
the hole from the surface is already
blocked. 1t is feared that if no outlet
is found for it by natural other chan
nels, inflammation and blood pois-
oning will ensue. AT present the most
unfavorable symptom in the case is a
feeling of sickness at the stomach every
evening about o'clock. Mr.. Kalloch
fears it is produced by agitation to his
nerves caused by the presence of the
physicians at that time, and they have
accordingly decided to see HIM only in
the forenoon. 1t is also thought it may
result from over nourishment.
Year: 1879

San Francisco, Aug. 2s.-The strong
er feeling in the northern mines of the
Comstock lode is attributed to the fact
that the water has been practically
mastered by the assistance of the Sutro
tunnel. The new north drift of the
tunnel is being vigorously pushed.
Year: 1879

In 1860 the Republican party was in
the buoyancy of youth, in the hope and
pride of sanguine ambition, and in
the meekness of a good behavior, like
that of a stranger seeking to make
friends. Like most boys, it was full of
good resolutions. Without patronage,
it was compelled to make an appeal to
conscience, to the sense of justice, to
the judgment and reason, and it was
forced to base this appeal upon the
constitution, the fundamental law of
the land. It dared not then openly and
fagrantly defy the constitution, for it
was humbly knocking at the gates of
power. The constitution, even 80 short
time ago, was held in some respect
and reverence. There was something
fine in the spectacle of a young and
lusty party, in melancholy minority,
without money to disburse or offices to
dispense, pleading with millions of
men to vote for it because it claimed to
represent an idea within the constitu-
ton that hovered about freedom. The
Republican party never before and never
after occupied a position so eminent.
It was not yet corrupted by power, and
was, in some sense, made lofty with
hope. 1t seemed to try to stand upon
the constitution, and plead for liberty
for all men. In that convention of
1860 were some of the men who have
lent luster to the Republican party, and
have been identified with its only
Year: 1879

The secret of the steadiness of large
compass is the longness of its vibra-
tional period, and small card would
have the same steadiness as large one


if its vibrational period were the same.
How little this is known is illustrated
by the methods of procuring steadiness
in common use. In some (as in the
Admiralty "J" card, provided for use in
stormy weather. there is swelling in
the middle of each of the steel needles
to make them heavier; in others heavy
brass weights are attached to the COM
pass cards as near the center as may be,
being sometimes, for instance, in the
form of a small brass ring of about al
inch and half in diameter. Another
method, scarcely less scientific, is to
blunt the bearing-pointi by grinding it,
or striking it with hammer, as has not
infrequently been done, to render the
compass "less lively" or to ELL the cup
with brick dust. as is reported by the
Liverpool Compass Committee to have
been done at sea by Captain who was
surprised to find afterward that his
compass could not be trusted within a
couple of points. All these methods
are founded on the idea that friction
on the bearing point is the cure for un-
steadiness. In reality fretion intro
duces peculiar unsteadiness of very
serious kind, and is very ineffective in
remedying the proper unsteadiness of
which something is essential and inevi-
table in compass on board ship roll
ing in a heavy sea and steering on any
other course than due east or due west.
Sir ". Thompson, in Good Words.
Year: 1879

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.1


The Republican party has lost its
hold and its hope in the South. With
the removal of the Federal bayonets
from the control of the State, Govern
ments in that sunny, unhappy section,
the Governments of the people re-
bounded in day, like compressed,
elastic things. Senator Blaine could
easily show that three years ago there
were only very, very few Federal
muskets in Louisiana, not enough to
hurt much; but, few as they were, they
we're the State Government, for they
were the symbols of the entire Federal
authority, and, when they were taken
away, the Nichols Government nt-help-
less before-instantly and noiselessly
moved into power. It is not yet for
gotten that the withdrawal of the Fed
eral troops was SO eminently just a thing
that it was at the bidding Of Republi-
can President that the last of the Fed
eral forces were removed from their
places of tyranny over the State Gov
ernments in the South. 1t was after
more than ten years of peace that the
last of the subjugated Southern States
emerged from beneath the authority Of
the Washington bayonet-a bayonet
that had turned out and installed Gov
ernors and Legislatures at the imperial
pleasure, the historic will of the sword.


Power in the South gone, the leaders
of the Republican party, the few in
possession of the political spoils-the
masses have nothing to do in the mat.
ter-have seen the necessity of desper.
ate measures to retain power in the
North. The people of the Northern
States are really not aware of the ma
ture and extent of the plans for power
which the few MEN in control of the
/ machine at Washington have made and
to which they cling with the energy Of
despair. Since the South can no longer
be spbjugated the North must be over.
come by processes from Washington
that is, the North must be subjugated


The Federal Election laws, known as
the Deputy Marshal laws, authorize the
Federal Governments to move into cities
of 10000 inhabitants and over, and take
charge of elections. In cities of AZ
many as 10000 people an unlimited
number of United States Deputy Mar
shals may be appointed, all Republicans
each to receive IS day for as many as
ten days, all clothed with power of ar
rest without warrant, all given authority
to suppress all State authority, eacf
one a political tyrant, paid from the
Federal treasury, and rendering nc
service save to the Republican party
What does this power mean?


This is not power to be exercised
in the South, though it is doubtful j
Year: 1879

,Cith the gloss and freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thickened, falling hair
checked, and badness often, though
not always, cured by its use. Moth
ing can restore the hair where the
follicles are destroyed, or the glands
atrophied and decayed. But such as
remain can be saved for usefulness
by this application. Instead of foul
ing the hair with pasty sediment, it
will keep it clean and vigorous. It's
occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling of, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances
which make some preparations dan
gerous, and injurious to the hair, the
Vigor can only benefit but not harm
it. If wanted merely for a