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Year: 1879

yeas and nays being demanded on the
Republican side. for the purpose of
considering the morning hour.


The result of the vote to reconsider
the vote was agreed to ; yeas III, nays
97. Consideration was then resumed
Of the Warner silver bill, the question
being on the third section, allowing a
depost Of bullion at any mint and be-
ing coined for the benefit of the
owner.


A resolution was introduced by
Chairman Wood regarding the ad-
adjournment Of the present commit
tee, and then after some discussion
agreed to the following resolution


Resolved, That this committee will
not consider at this session any bills
or joint resolutions affecting the rev.
enue, and that all such measures shall
be laid over until the regular session
in December.


A motion to reconsider was laid on
the table.


The house committee on Indian
affairs has agreed to repeat favorably
to General HOoker's proposition, re,
ferring to the Court Of Claims al

questions Of difference arising out o.
treaty stipulations with the Choctav
nation.
Year: 1879




The steps taken yesterday at the
joint meeting Of the chamber of com
merce and the cotton exchange and
citizens in general indicate the interest
taken in the important subject Of
sanitation. The attendance was large
and the proceedings were marked by
decorum and great earnestness. Per-
tinent speeches were made by Rev.
DR.. Boggs, DR. R. w. Mitchell,
DR.. Porter, DR.. Thornton, Rev
DR.. Landrum and others, and a
committee of five was appointed to
report plan of organization back to
another meeting to be held at the
same place next Thursday afternoon.
1t is to be hoped permanent organi-
cation will be perfected, and that the
earnestness and anxiety of the people
in regard to the sanitary condition of
the city will result in sound practical
measures. We must help ourselves
and not wait for some future epidemic
and then run off and leave the few
who cannot get away to take care of
the city and appeal to the world
for charity Memphis at present
is remarkably healthy and will most
likely remain so all summer. But we
must look to the future. Go to work,
cleanse, pave and sewer the city and
adopt sanitary system which shall
forever prevent the recurrence of cpl
denies. We must begin now and keep
it up all summer and next winter, and
next summer, and so on, until science
and common sense and practical meas
ures can do no more. Let there be a
full attendance Thursday.
Year: 1879

In has been proposed to pave Madi-


son street from the custom house to
Main street with solid, heavy stone.
DR.. Porter thinks that this can be
done if the property owners will sub
scribe reasonably toward the enter.
prise. We hope that all of Madison
street, from the custom house to the
Charleston depot, will at no distant
day be splendidly paved, but it would
be goodbeginning to commence at the
west end and go as far as Main or
down to the postofice if the property
owners will take hold of the
matter at once. We want to
see one frst-class piece of
stone paving in Memphis as a pattern
for imitation in future. We cannot
think of any better place to begin
than at the new custom house in pro
cess Of erection. This part Of the
street is traverSed by pedestrians and
all kinds of vehicles as much as any
piece of street in Memphis, and If
the work were well done and durable,
it would stimulate the people to pave
the street from end to end, and to
pave one street after another until the
last remnant of the old rotten Nicol-
son pavement would disappear for.
eyer. This is good starting point,
and the work depends upon the prop.
erty owners, some of whom have al.
ready signifed their readiness to sub


scribe their share. Let us hear from
all who are interested. tFsF, IL
Year: 1879

The negro exodus seems to be sub.


siding and will no doubt soon become


a thing Of the past, to be wondered
at and to remain unexplained. The
spirit of moving seemed to possess the
negroes like contagion, all at once.
1t swept over the South in wild,
epidemic form, but is already going
down. Some strange psychological
influence affected thousands Of them
at once, and they passively yielded to
it as they would to sleep or the dream
Of an opium eater. The awakening OF
those who reach the promised land Of
Kansas will be no pleasant realization,
butoneo regrets and sickening disgust.
The victims of this delusion cannot be
blamed, but those who encouraged it
out of desire to injure the South and
gain some slight political advantage


have committed a crime upon their
ignorant fellow-man. The negro has
perfect right, legally, to abandon his
crops, sell his little stuff for a song,
and go to Kansas. But no one has
been or can be benefited by such a
change, and those who advise the
deluded negroes To go there know
it, Fred Douglass knows it and
says so. Senator Bruce knows it,
and has the manliness to say so, but
the hypocritical, pretended friends and
special guardians Of the colored race
know all this, and deliberately perpe-
trate falsehood for malicious and
diabohcal purpose. We can spare all
who will go, and have only to en-,
courage the movement to hasten the


reaction which will set in even before
the rigors of winter come on to des-
troy helpless thousands onthe frozen
plains of an inhospitable climate.
Those who return are good missiona-
ries to preach the gospel of stay at
home and work. They will all wish
tdey were at home long before Christ
mas. Social equality in Kansas will
be to them the frozen hell that some
infdel said was preached to the Es-
auimaux. They will wish they were
out of it when it is too
late, and their summer friends,
having accomplished their purposes,
abandon them to their fate. The
worst seems to be over. Tho negroes
arc not such fools that they can al
ways be deceived by pretended friends.
They begin to realize the situation,
and worry few Of them seem disposed "a
leave comfortable homes and fair pay
for their labor to 90 out into the kan-
sas wilderness Of prairies, ,bsw "a
Year: 1879

An UNwELcoME GUEsT.-Among the nu-
merous pests of the South African bush, one
of the most formidable is the puff-adder, SO
called from its habit of initiating its head and
neck just before striking its prey. Its mode
of attack is to throw back its head, and strike
downward with the two hooked teeth that
project from its upper jaw, inficting a wound
which is almost invariably fatal. Its fondness
for preying upon mice, which are its chief
food, frequently leads it into the houses of
the colonists, who find it very Troublesome
guest, inasmuch as its body is so tough and
elastic as to defy almost any weapon except
a charge of shot. On one occasion, the wife
of missionary living in one of the remoter
settlements of Cape Colony, noticed on the
floor of the room in which she was sitting the
empty skin of mouse, out of which the flesh
had been sucked as clean as could have been
the inside of an orange. Detecting at once
the well-knOwn trace of the puf-adder, she
cautiously searched the whole room, and at
length, lifting corner of the mating upon
which her baby was lying asleep, found the
snake coiled up underneath. With great
presence of mind, she refrained from disturb
ing it, and, stepping to the door, called in
one of her Dutch servants, who speedily made
an end of the intruder with his gun.
Year: 1879

Rev j. G.. Wood, the well known Eng
lish naturalist, in lecture the other day said
that there was literally nothing of which he
(the lecturer) was so fond as a rat pie, This
was a dish which frequently made its appear
ance on his table, and was enjoyed by all his
family. He had several friends, too, who as
he had, had overcome their prejudice and
thoroughly enjoyed good helping of rat pie.
Year: 1879

General SHERMAN, who upon most pub
lie questions is highly conservative, has
been brought TO confront one subject in


which his conservatism takes rather stall
wart form. This relates to distinction be-
tween the blue and gray which distin-
guished the contending forces when the
Union soldier who was periling his life to save
the Nation met the gray uniformed rebel
and traitor in battle array. General SHER-
MAN has recently been reminded Of this dis
tinctioD, though it is evident he has never
forgotten it, by the receipt of an invitation
to attend u meeting at Salisbury n. c., Of
the survivors of the Federal and Confed-


crate armies" He promptly declined the
invitation in letter, which must have con-
vinced those who may have fancied that he
would feel himself honored by such a
courtesy that he has not forgotten the
| pent-up hell at Salisbury in which Union
soldiers were starved and tortured during
the Southern attempt to destroy tho Re-
public, and could not consent to honor the
locality and occasion with his presence


He promptly declined the invitation in a
letter which conveys the unmistakable i'm
preston that while he desires reconciliation
and fraternity between the two sections of
our common country, he is not prepared to
admit by word or act that the rebel soldiers
were engaged in defending and sustaining
n cause which he can now. honor by his
presence. His letteris manly and courteous,
and may be studied with profit by those
sentimental gushers whonre ready TO shake
hands across the bloody chasm and cas-


into oblivion recollection of what it cos
in life and treasure to save this Nation from
a cruel and bloody rebellion to take its life
Year: 1879

THE willful exoggerations of tho average
Democratic editor when he writes of the
war are always aud naturally directed to
the purpose of vlifying some prominent
Union general Thus the Democratic organ,
alluding to General GRANTS rebellion SER
vices yesterday, remarked as follows:


We do not expect any mention TO be made
of the thousands Of bravo men slain in
GRANTS experiments in tho Wilderness, at
Cold Harbor, and at a hundred other places
where he sent infantry columns to certain de-
structon in hopeless front assaults on well.
planned, well-constructed and well-manned
lines of oarthworks.


Perhaps it would have been the Demo-
cratic way of conquering the rebellion-it
was MCCLBLLAN's way--to sit down Tin the
wilderness, at Cold Harbor, and at hum
'dred other Places and wait for those won
derlul rebel earthworks to come into camp
and surrender of their own accord. But we
defy any one to enumerate those hundreds
of other places, or even one hundred Of
them. If it had been necessary GRANT
would certainly have charged not only
hundreds, but thousands of these we'll
|
and he did only what was really necessary.
The people had grown weary and heart
sick with loyal yearning for victory, and it
would have been crime TO have continued
the do-nothing policy any longer; would
have been wasteful extravaganza of the
public resources, and would have finally
ended in disaster. But GRANT came East
and began to make war in earnest-so ear
nest that the rebellion was conquered in
less than years time, and blood ceased tC
flow, taxes began to decrease and the Ma
ton ono more stood erect, strong in the
evidence of its own perpetuity. The reel
tai of these truths will never make Gen
eral GRANT unpopular, save with those to
whose disoyal ears they are distasteful
Year: 1879

where the Government has repositories of
the precious metals, The power TO resume
resides in the ability of the Government to
sustain resumption; and wherever and
whenever the Secretary finds that the Gov
ernment is possessed of the means of re-
deeming its legal tenders, it is but the part
of duty for him enlarge the area of redemp-
tion commensurate with the discovered
ability. Those who prefer coin to legal ten
ders, whether they reside in New York or
California, Maine or Louisiana, or any
where else where there is National de-
pository of the precious metals, should be
accommodated, and hence no official act of
Secretary SHERMAN will commend itself
more strongly to popular favor than the one
under consideration
Year: 1879

THURMAN seems to be about the played
outest man in politics just now that there
is lie has neither friends nor views to
speak Of He had but a. handful of follow
ers to listen to him at Columbus recently,
and now his friends say it was EWING who
kept people away THURMAs may as well
hang his political harp on the willows and
dry up.
Year: 1879

position, and which seeks in every possible
way to weaken the National power and to
bring it into disrepute, shall not succeed to
a controlling influence in the Government.
The Gazette discovers this, but it mistakes
some Of the strongest agencies which tend
to bring the impending change in public
sentiment.
Year: 1879

THEdetermination ofSecretary SHERMAN
TO make resumption cover the entire Nation
is heavy blow to croakels, but it is a most
wise and Just conclusion, The enemies of
res,lmption-those who have inveighed
against it from its inception, and who would
have defeated It if they had the power
stand aghast that the Secretary should
have usurped power not definitely ex-
pressed in the resumption act, and author
lied the redemption of legal tenders at all
the sub-treosuries in the Nation, With the
Secretary TO resume is to resume, not
ouly in New York, but at all other points
Year: 1879

HAVING been effectually thrashed in
Maine the Democrats have fallen back for
consolation on their arithmetic, and try to
make out the time when they will get into
power there, calculating on the percentage
This reminds us of the boy we once knew.
When he was ten years of age his father was
thirty, so the boy was only one-thrd the
age of his progenitor. At the end of ten
years more the lad was twenty and the
father forty, or one-half the age of the old
man. "By thunder" exclaimed Johnny
if keep on at this rate I'll catch the gov.
ernor after while as sure as fate"
Year: 1879

THE Republicans of Massachusetts, have
done the wsest and best thing possible
under the circumstances. They have placed
in nomination sterling ticket that no man
can discount. They have placed that tick
upon stalwart platform in which no flaw
can be found. Now the Republican party
will join hands for steady and successful
pull that will relax nothing until victory
perches upon their banner. The meaning
of all this is that Democracy, Greenbackism
and all other isms in that State, together
with BEN BUTLER and his crew, are to be
buried in defeat that will know no resur-
rection,
Year: 1879

JEFF DAVIS last letter declining a return
to the United States Senate will be very
generally accepted as an insidious demon
stration to effect the very object he repudi-
ates. With the cunning of great experience
in political diabolsm, he fires the fuse and
awaits the explosion from congenal bomb
proof He asserts the supremacy Of State
Rights, and then shows that his election
might result in the afront to Mississippi of
denying her the right to choose her repre-
sentatives" This is enough, and just
enough to make the bull-dozers Of Missis-
sippi understand and feel that if they do
not elect their Great Chieltain they will
prove themselves TO be untrue in their deyo-
ton to the Lost Cause.
Year: 1879

OTHERS less interested in the matter than
Governor LUKE p. BLACKBURN may have
denied that he is the DIR, LUKE p. BLACK
BURN who packed up in Bermuda ten
trunks full of bed and body clothes pol
luted with yellow fever black vomit and
sweat, and mixed them with other clothes,
and hired an agent to take some Of the
trunks to New York and have the contents
sold at auction but as yet we have never
seen such n denial from the Governor
These facts came to light in Canada court
of record, and were testified to by several
Kentucl1ians, and yet Governor BLACK
BURN has never taken the trouble to deny
that he is the sellsame DR.. LUKE p. BLACK
BURN, and there the matter stands.
Year: 1879

We had hoped to present in this
issue the views of some of the edu-
Gators Of the county on this subject,
but they do not seem to be forth
coming.


Is it possible that the teachers
are not interested in this important
question? We are inclined to think
|. it more probable that, in the rounds
ofgayetyand feasting coming with the
holiday vacation, the Teachers Col
uni" and County Superintendency'
have been forgotten. Be this as it
may, it is now too late to publish
anything prior to the meeting of the
''Ungraded School Section of the
State Teachers Association" which
.convenes at Columbus, O., on Fri
day, Jan. 10th, at which time the
subject will be fully discussed, and
we wish to put ourselves on record
before action is taken.


We have never advocated the
change, We have thought it was
not well, thus "to fly to ills we know
not Of. We have had some expert
ence under Superintendents, and we
have found nothing to make us favor
it with any enthusiasm. But we
wish to remark that the faults may
have been in the trainers Of the law,
and not in the supervision; this be-
ing the case, a plan may be present
ed which will do away with all our
objections and so meet with our IA
7or. We are open to conviction, and
hope to be very much enlightened
before many weeks elapse, but in
our present unenlightened state, a
bill, to meetour approval, must be so
framed as to make the Office non
political, and provide for competent
support in each township.
Year: 1879

Speaking of courts, reminds US of a
funny instruction said to have been Civ
en- by a Judge to a jury in-weu we
won't say in what State. Itruns in this
way:


off the jury believe, from the evi
dence, that the plaintiff and the defend
ant we're partners in a grocery, and that
the plaintiff bought out the defendant
and gave his note for the interest, and
the defendant paid for the note by de-
livering to the plaintiff a COW, which he
warranted mot breachy, and the war
ranty was broken by reason of the
breachiness of the COW, and the plaintiff
drove the COW back and rendered her to
the defendant, but the defendant re-
fused to receive her, and the plaintiff
took her home again, and put a heavy
yoke Or poke upon her, to prevent her
from jumping the fence, and the COW in
attempting to jump the fence, by reason
Of the poke or yoke, broke her neck and
died, and if the jury further believe that
the defendants interest in the grocery
was not worth any thing, the plaintiffs 5
note was worthless, and the COW good
for nothing, either for milk or beef, or
for green hide, then the jury must find
out for themselves how they viii decide
the case-for the court, if she under
stands herself, and she thinks she do,
don't know how such a cussed case
should be decided"
Year: 1879

Amelia V. Petit, writing in the
chronological Journal, truthfully
says:


"The unfolding of soul is a
gradual process, and all these our
studies are in a great measure lost If
not directed in the main to that pur-
pose. The boarding Of knowledge
is of little more value to the individ-
ual than is the boarding Of money.
The mind should rather be as q fruit
full orchard, bringing forth fruit year
after year, than as the simple store
house wherein it is piled up, decay
ing because of its mass and lack Of
consumers.
Year: 1879

A laboring man leaving a large saloon
saw a costly carriage and pair of horse.
standing in front, occupied by two ladie,
elegantly attired, conversing with the
proprietor. As it rolled away he said t.
the dealer:


Whose establishment is that? "


t is mine" replied the dealer, com.
placently. at cost $1,000. My wife
and daughter cannot do without it. "


The mechanic bowed his head a
moment in deep thought, and looked sad
Then with the energy of a man suddenly
aroused by a startling flash, he said:


"I see it! I see It


See what?" queried the dealer.


See where for years my wages have
gone. 1 helped to pay for that carriage,
for those horses and that gold mounted
harness, for the silk and laces and jewelry
for your family. The money I earned,
that should have given my wife and
family home of their own and good
clothing, I have spent at your bar. My
wages and the wages of others like me
have supported you and your family in
luxury Hereafter my wife and family
shall have the benefit of my wages, and
by the help of God, I will never spend
another dime for drink. I see the mis-
take, and a cure for it. %
Year: 1879

One way to stimulate pupils to
read is this: Every Friday after
noon, in connection with other lit.
erary exercises, call upon each schoI-
ar to tell to the school something
that will be worth listening to and
remembering. In this way a skillful
| teacher will soon have a reading
school. And what is read in this
way will be remembered, as we al
ways remember what we read to tell
to somebody else.


This exercise has nearly all the ar
guments in its favor that can be used
in behalf Cf defamation or recita-
ton, and some important addition
al ones. It encourages general
reading, and it gives the pupils prae-
tice in expressing thoughts i1a their
olcn language, two very important
points. A teacher cannot spend a
part of his time more proftably than
to stimulate his pupils to read. A
young man who makes good books
his friends and companions is on
the high road to generalinteIigence,
and is in little danger from the al
lurements Of vice Elk.
Year: 1879




He was up on the Cass farm, the
other day, selling beautiful sets Of gen
uine coral jewelry for the low sum Of one
dollar" He explained that they were
goods purchased at auction in Paris, lost
by the Yrecking of the steamer, recovered
by divers, and sold by the pound along
with crowbars, pig-lead and other stuff.
That's how they came to be 50 cheap,
and he would guarantee that they were
genuine coral. He made several sales,
and in each case, when ready to depart,
he asked


''NOw, Madame, do you know the
nature of genuine coral p


"No."


''WeH, let me tell you that you should
keep that jewelry in a cool place, handle
it very carefully, and, if attending a
party, or calling on a friend, do not take
a seat near a warm stove. If one Of
your ear-drops begins to melt, you can't
save It. The real coral is very sensitive
to heat, while the imitation won't hardly
melt in an oven.


Lots Of agents wouldn't have been
that honest, but this man. was, and any
pedestrian noticing a set Of coral jewelry
hanging on a tree in the yard will know
that they were placed there to secure d
cold draft and prevent accident.
Year: 1879

We are pleased to learn that
Teachers Associations" have been
. organized in various parts Of the
county, and we hope to hear Of good
work being done by them. We know
that much good may be done in that
way, if we meet as teachers, for mu-
tual improvement, but if they should
degenerate into mere gatherings for
social enjoyment, we think they
should not be dignifed with the
name of Teachers Associations, for
they would become a disgrace to the
profession.
Year: 1879

The REMEDY" What is the best
remedy" asked a preacher of shrewd
observer, for an inattentive audience p
90 Give them something to attend to, :"
was the significant reply. Hungry
sheep will look up to the rack if there is
hay In it.
Year: 1879

How HE GOT HIS CAPITAL.-The
late Wesley Harper, of Harper, &
Brothers, began business on capital
secured for him by the prudence of his
father. About the time when James and
John Harper set up for themselves, a
younger brother, Wisely, also wished to
become a printer. The father removed
from Newton to n. Y, so his sons might
have home with him, and Wesley was
set to work in the office of his brothers,
at first as q compositor, then as a proof
reader. All the time the father charged
him for board, to the boys surprise, for
his father had no special need of the
money. Soon after arriving of age, the
reason Of this apparent harshness appears.
"I think you should 90 into business
soon, said the father; the money you
have been paying US for your board for
six years has been saved you. Its your
capital to start with" With this money
Wesley Harper bought into the firm, be-
coming an equal partner.
Year: 1879

IcaEnot hear thee, for the winds are moaning;
cannot hear thee, for the waves are high;
cannot hear thee, for the good ship grOaning


Seaward doth fly
And yet my fond heart listens to thy singing;
And yet methinks clasp thee once again:
I hear thy voice, rs If I were not winging


Across the main.
50 be it everi If the world torment me,
Happy In thee and in the past I'll rest;
To sleep upon thy memory will content me


As tWere thy breast


-HdTuard Crimson