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Year: 1878

a correspondent skillfully and forcibly
urges his right to prin, his objections to the
Democratic congressional candidate and
alleges that he could with much more
|eal' after being permitted to state his
objections, unite in sustaining the nomi-
nation. We acknowledge the force of
his remarks and the apparent correctness
Of his logic; but we prefer to adhere TO
the policy the GAZETTE has pursued for
many years, and therefore insist upon our
right to withhold all articles attacking
candidates after their nomination.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Almond will get nearly the entire
vote of the Ninth Ward During the war
ne rendered great service to the people
of tho vii age in getting substitutes and
securing that section from the drafts.
Year: 1878

/ send you herewith u rem
edy for that horrible disease,
Cancer. which l believe is a
certain cure. A friend Of
mine in Louisiana was cured
by the use Of this remedy,
and a gentleman in South
Mississippi to whom he gave
the receipt has also been cur
ed. Please publish fol the
benefit OF suffering humani-
ty.


Use the extract of sheep
sorrel prepared as follows:


Gather the sheep sorrel
when green, place it in a
mortar, beat it up very fine,
repress the juice and strain
it in order to get rid of the
lint and trash. Place the
juice in a doep plate aud sci
| it in the sun until it evapO-
Year: 1878

If there is any one thing
more beautiful than another,
in a garden of flowers, that
thing is Il beautiful girl, with
Il n-bonnet on her head 81
wide and capacious that you
have to get right square be-
fore her, ard pretty near her,
to see the glowing cheeks
that are sure to be there If
she is at all accustomed to
garden walks and works
Physically, there can be moth


Ing better for daughters, and, ,
indeed, for many wives, than
to take sole charge OF a small
flower garden. The benefits
derived from early rising,
stirring the soil, snuffing the
pure morning air, are fresh>
ness and glow of cheek and
brightness of eye, cheerful
ness of temper, vigor of mind
and purity of heart. Conse-
quently she must be more
cheerful and lovely as a
daughter, more dignified and
womanly as a sister and more
attractive and confiding as a
wife. If you have not the
dooryard ground, then get a
dozen pots and plant the
seeds of flowers to your taste.
The care and attention. re-


quired to rear and train the
growing grass occupies the
mind, to the exclusion, often
time of senseless novel read
ing-a senseless waste of
time. You llstless, pale-fac-
ed, fragile thing of a girl,
thyow Off your mock delica-
ey, put on gloves, if you will,
but work in the flower gar
den, till your cheeks vie in

color with the blush of the
rose you cultivate. -Flora's
Dictionary. f u
Year: 1878

place on the back Of a sieve
that it may drain; press any
remaining water from the
spinach, and pat into a frying
pan with two or three tables
spoonfulls of butter, a little
salt and pepper; keep con-
stantly stirring and cutting
with a knife until dry. Poach
some eggs; lay them on the
spinach and serve at once.


To Sugar or Crystalize Pop
Corn: Put into an iron kettle
one tablespoonful of butter,
three tabiespoonfulls Of water
and one tea cup of white su>
gar. Boil until ready to can
dy, then throw in three quarts
of corn, nicely popped. Stir
triskly until the candy is e.
yenly distributed over the
corn. Set the kettle from
the fire, land stir until it cools
ii little and you have each
grain separate and crystaliz
ed with the sugar. Care sho'ld
be taken not to have too hot
a fire, lest you scorch the corn
when crystalizing. Nuts of
any kind prepared in this
way are delicious.


Cure for Sweeny: i have
used the following many
times in the last forty years,
and never knew it to fail:-
Take Il ounces Of salt pork;
fry the grease from it thor~
oughIy; dissolve three hand
fuls of salt in the hot grease;
take three hens eggs, bruise
them fine, shells and all; stir
thoroughly with the grease
and salt when warm enough
to dissolve the eggs, but not
to cook. Apply to the parts
affected, every other day until
you eean improvement; then
us often us you think BEST
Warm it. in we'll with II red
hot shovel after each applica
ton. Usually two or three
applications will cure.


Country Gentleman.
Year: 1878

| Meridian Alercur,:Sa what
you will, IFS human nature TO
iayor those who favor YOU,
and do it honestly. a liberal
advertiser, in a reputable bu-
sincsS, is always a good fel-
low, as stingy men never ad
vcrtise, When you hear a
man express contempt for the
newspapers, ,saysan exchange.
set him do Nn as "A fool. If
YOU want to test him, and
prove that he lies, puff him
and see how pleased he will
he, and how he will pat you
on the back. There is nothing
that one could do but what
would be forgotten and for
given sooner than Il little all
complimentary sqnib i'll ii pa


per. Nou may 90 on ali you


life saying good things every
day about some pcrSoa with


out one word of credit; but
the first item of reprimand,
and all you have done is for
gotten at once, and you have
Il bitter,,and relentless enemy
from that time. Every person
who wants to purchase any
kind OF merchandise will read
an advertisement of that
whenever it appears before
him. While we believe that
every person engaged in res
spectacle business should adj
vertise, we also believe it to be
the duty of the publisher,ev.
erything else being equal, to
do what he carr whenever the
opportunity offers. to favor
those who favor him.
Year: 1878

How women can manage
to sit bolt upright and not to
change position, looking eth
er to the right or left, during
a sermon in church passes
the underst anaing.. A man
will sit on the picket fence all
the afternoon to see a ball
match, bat put him in the
church pew for an hour and
he will warble all over the
seat.
Year: 1878

A poor woman coming from
IA wretched garret in an in
land manufacturing town for
the first time to the sea shore,
gazing at the ocean, said ''she
was glad for once in her life
to see something which there
was enough of"
Year: 1878

SAD But TRUE.-Says the
Louisville Courier j Journal :
"Dnring the last ten years
billiard and whisky saloon
keepers have increased rear
hundred per cent in this coun
try, while farmers have in
creased but twenty five per
cent. These figures show bet
ter than anything else tue
tendency of the country
Thousands Of able bodied
men enter the tramp class
simply because they are de-


moralized and too lazy to
come down to 'honest toll
A large class OF men 60 at
once into tho whisky business
if they can scrape together a
few hundred dollars. Sons
of farmers turn their backs
on the paternal acres and 60
to the cities where they enter
stores at pitiful salaries, and,
spending their spare hours at
gambling hells and hoases of
shame, soon drift into the
gutter. Repugnance to toni
is the basis Of the tramp svs-
tenn; the basis of the current
outlawry, both Of which arc
distinguishing features of the
northern states. The large
cities are oycrrnn with work
shirkers who would not take
the slightest interest in offers
to work on farms at 500 a
month and board, and yet go
bowling about the streets
complaining of hard times
and talking of the rights of
the poor man.
Year: 1878

Whitewash for Poultry
Houses: Into the whirewash
pail, while the limewater is
still hot, drop a teacupful of
soft boiled rice, land mix thor
oughly. Then pour into a
quart pot of cold water say
ten or twelve drops of crude
carbol;c acid. Mix this into
the rest and swab the interior
of your hen house with it
For outside, use rock salt dis>
solved instead of boiled rice,
and dispense with the carbol-
-ic acid. No other preparation
of whitewash ever equalied'
this for poultry buildings
Farmers Advocate.
Year: 1878

LAwNs.--Blue grass (poa
peatensis) mixed with white
clover forms the choicest of
lawns; two bushels of blue
grass and six pounds of white
clover per acre, Mix Timothy
with it if you please. a mix
ture is better than a single.
kind; SOW at tue rate of three
bushels per acre OF this mixed
seed. The sweet vernal grass
is excellent TO mix with white
clover and blue grass for a
lawn. It's fragrant and beau
tiful when in blossom.
Year: 1878

A statement made by Hiram o. Minick,
of Nemaha County, Nebraska, to whom a
premium was awarded for the cultivation
Of grove of not less than 1000 trees,
gives the following account of his method
of cultivation:


The ground was plowed in the spring,
the same as for crop Of corn, and crossed
out at distances of five feet by seven.
The cottonwood yesrling trees were pro-
cured on a sand-bar in the Missouri River
in the fall previous, and heeled in during
winter. By selecting spot on the sand.
bar where surface Of the sand IS but little
above the water in the river, the yearl1ng
trees can be pulled out with great rapidity,
probably at the rate of thousand IN
twenty minutes, the operation being sim
liar to pulling fax, and the trees can thus
be taken up preserving their rootlets en-
tire, thus securing them in the best pos
sible condition for transplantiDg; and
taken at this age they receive but little
check in their growth by the operation.
Part of my grove was planted with the
spade, the operation being the same as for
a hedge. Another part Of the grove was
planted by drawing deep furrow with
the plow, and dropping the trees at the
crossing f the burrows, the roots in the
furrow and the tops projecting out. and
then cover by throwing another furrow-
slice upon the roots and base of the stock
with plow. This left the trees leaning
at an angle cay Of forty five degrees, and
fearing this position would be injurious
to the trees, took the pains to place
some of them carefully erect; but upon
an examination of the trees after one years
growth no difference wss perceptible in
those left leaning and those Strengthened
up, as they invariably start their growth
from bud near the base Of the stock and
grow erect. The portion Of my grove
com posed of cottonwood contains about
Year: 1878

, AOOuC S-OCiOCh ldSt evening very ulS'
graceful scene occurred between the depot
at the foot Of Jackson street and Bridge
square. A soldier Of the Seventh cavalry,
who for years has been out on the frontier
fighting Indians, and who was with Reno
at the great Custer fight, was yesterday
discharged a: Fort Smelling and paid of,
The amount paid him, and which he had
saved by rigid economy and frugality,
amounted to something over $400. The
soldier, who seems to he an intelligent
man, belongs in New York State, and had
been saving his money for the purpose of
going home. Having obtained his money
and his discharge he left the fort on his
way to New York. Upon arriving in St.
Paul he left the cars with view to going
to the Sherman House to spend the night


No sooner had he left the train than he
was beset by all the hotel runners at the
depot augmented by several railroad run


ners He was surrounded and hauled
back, and in this way prevented from 60.
ing where he desired t" go-to the Sher>
man House. The runners pulled and
hauled him around worse than they could
If he had been dog. There was no pos.
sible way for him to get out of their
clutches They beset him on all sides,
and yanked him around in very rough
manner, and with no small degree of vio.
lence. As soon as the soldier started to
90 one particular way they would head
him off and pull HIM every way, each way
representing hotel. The man finally
managed to reach Third street, but the
crowd was still with him and surrounding
him. The continued to pull and haul
him around till they had almost reached
Minnesota and Third streets, when hc wa.
rescued by police officer. It was Ger
tainly one of the most disgraceful scenes
ever witnessed in this city. It was with
the greatest satisfaction that he saw the
police officer, and he begged him to take
him into custody and put him in safe
place. He was taken to the City Hall
and placed where the sharks will not he
able to reach him at present The soldier
says that he has faced death many times


that he has fought the Indians where there
was good chance to be picked of, and
the slender thread was very slender indeed
but that the sensation of fear came to him
last night in most terrible form. Il
seemed to him to be like pack of wolve.
chasing rabbit. He was very grateful
for the chance of getting into the City
Hall. There can be no doubt the city
ought to stop this disgracefal conduct OF
the part of these hotel runners. They
are very impertinent, persistent and deter


mined. They observe the rule that tht
council lays down for their guidance, anc
fight the council and the police. There
Is no use for the police to arrest them a.
they cannot be convicted. In the mean


time they are plying their vocation by in


sulting people that arrive on the trains
and pulling and hauling them, first ont
way, and then another, as though they
were authorized to lay their dirty paw.
upon any one they see fit to tackle.
Year: 1878

Yes Betsey Ann could never hold her tongue. would "blab out" all she knew. So one day she fell in with old Aunt Polly Baker, who had been sorelv afflicted with chills and fever for several years and could find no relief. Betsey Ann volunteers to say that there WAS q remedy that would cure her sound and well, and that it did not contain any bad med icine, that it did not make thunder in the head, that it falrly "tore up" the chills, root and branch and work ed them out through tue liver and bowels. and that the article was known as Days Ague Tonic. Aunt Polly was cnred very soon thereafter. -Feb14.
Year: 1878

In influential quarters it is believed that
an arrangement with Russia for the settle
ment OF the Central Asia question is on
the tapis, and it is likely to assume the
form OF partition OF Aighanistan.
Year: 1878

MADE TWENTY FORTUNES AND DIED
PooR.-A man named McNulty died
recently in California who had been
rich and poor, it is said, at least
twenty times, dying poor ut last.
He had been very shrewd and en-
terprising, but somehow he could
not keep fortune after he had
acquired it. An example Of his
sudden conception and execution is
mentioned at Sacramento, twenty
five years ago, when the entire
business part Of the town was burn"
ed. He was then wealthy, and
owned many Of the largest stores
there. AS he saw his property
vanishing in flames, instead of
grieving over the disaster, he went
to the nearest livery stable, hired
fast horse, mounted him, rode all
night, and before nine o'clock the
next morning had bought every
foot of lumber and every saw mill
at Grass Valley and Nevada City.
Flo gained another fortune--making
four times as much as he had lost.
by the sale of his lumber so sud-
denly contracted for. It was
ominently like an American to ride
off by the blaze of his burning
houses into the night, and turn his
calamity literally into cash. A man
of such fertility of resource ought
to have staid q millionaire but his
inability to do so is only another
illustration that tho capacity to get
money is entirely different from tho
capacity to retain money after it
has been got. McNulty's character
was one that is not OF all uncommon
in the republic, especially in the
west.
Year: 1878

TnIRsrY.-A "hard case was in
torrogated, tho othor Sunday, by a
friend who had just seen him at
church, but whoa he now found
swallowing glass of brandy and
water at a public bar~roonl 'I saw
you in church this morning listen
ing to discourse upon righteous.
ness and temperance; how comes it
that J. now see you here drinking q
81 always thirst after righteous
ness" was the answer.
Year: 1878


can control it no nation on earth
can control it,


/ begin to think that the Demo>
cratic party can mover be killed. So
ccssion did not kill it, the war has
not killed it, fraud has not killed it,
it has not killed. itself, and it will
not die.


Here is tho point to which L want
to direct the attention of my friends.
It is natural that after this sectional
Republican party has been III power
eighteen years it should have passed
q great many things that bear heavi-
ly on the prosperity Of this country.
You hear of disaster, sorrow, do
rangement, confusion financially and
otherwise all over tho country.
That is true. They are results Of
Republican rule. They arc deep,
widespread, terribly as I consider
it. A sectional, unconstitutional
class leg'islating party cannot domi-
nate over this country eighteen
years without producing misery to
the people, and the Republican party
has produced these results.


We are all anxious to remedy
those results. Wo want to restore
prosperity to the country. But it
is natural in seeking q remedy for
these great evils that wo among
ourselves should differ. Indepond-
cnt honest, thinking men on such
questions as this will differ. Take
this financial question. The Ropub~
lican party deranged it, and the
trouble which sprang out of the
war kept it dcranged. When VIC
como to remedy this, one Democrat
thinks that one means is better than
another. What do we differ about
Not in the belief that the evil exists;
not in the belief that the country is
suffering not in the belief that II
remedy isnecessary. is All that we diff
for about is, what is the remedy.
That being the case, what I wish to
SHY is this. Tho only power in this
country that can give efficiency to
any of these remedies, is the Demo-
cratic party. You cannot expect it
to como from the Republican party,
because it produced tho mischief.
You cannot expect it to come from
the third party, because to have any
strength it must be composed mains
ly Of the Republican party, and what
the Republican party cannot cure in
it's own name, it cannot cure under
any other, ard no party can give
relief to tho country but the Demo-
cratic party. And here is my propo.-
sition II you and L differ rs to
the remedy for these evils, let us
agree in this. that we will stick to
the party. You cannot carry out
any remedy otherwise you cannot
hope to accomplish it otherwise.
If you do not propose 20 do so by
the Democratic party. how will you
do it? You must 10 it by somo
other party. What other party
must you rely on AS I said, you
must go to the dying Republican
party or organize now party, to be
composed largely of the Republican
party, and it's controlling element to
be Of that party.
Year: 1878

LUNA AND IIUNATIos,--In q murder
trial at Raleigh tho defenco was
insanity. The ovidonco was of
occasional fits of insanity with lucid
intervals, but there was no evidence
of insanity at tho timo of the kill
ing. One of the counsel offered to
show that the killing was at the
change of tho moon. The court
interrupted by saying that it would
not go that far back in the history
of tho world rs to the idoa that the
moon affected lunetics; that it
would as soon allow proof of witch-
craft. The jury. however, hold for
the moon against the Judge and
acquitted tho prisoner.
Year: 1878

The rumor Of the probabilities OF the reslg-
nation Count Cor, the italian Prime Minister 10 ue
MED from several sources Tue entire Ministry approve
of ns conduct aud will accept the responsibility there
for before Parliament Fifty meetings in favor OF the
annexation OF Southern Tyrol TO Italy, are organiz-
ing in the principal towns The agtators are EXTREMISTS
and their Is dlsapprOyed OF by the best people
The Government cannot interfere with the meetnRs so
long as they not ate the law though the bad eeet
In Austria of the agitation ls fully reeognized.
Year: 1878

HOGGB GATE CLOOO Or NtuhA 40 S1%DA At'-O


THE EAST RIVER.


James HOgg, the reputed owner of the pier
at the foot Of East Egnyourths visited the dock at
g. m yesterday to the scenes Of the previous
day in keeping passengers from going on board the
steamer OsseO To his great dismay he found that dur
ing the night the residents of YOryille had ended all
trouble by pulling down the gate at the entrance to the
wharf Mr.. Hogg unable to express his indignation
when he saw that his plan keep the passengers on
the pier was completely defeated. He anxiously In
quired for the of the person who damaged MS
property but all his listeners silent as the grave
He then said he would make q dgent search for the
offender and bring him before police magistrate. The
passengers and hands only smiled at his de
feat and their own Among themselves they
entrance. The gate could not even be found u Is
down with the tide Many of the people living IN inc
vicinity hearing of the disturbances visited the pace
yesterday to join in the sport Seeing that everything
was working smoothly, they took their first sail on the
steamer She crowded during every trlp. lhe
clerk of the vessel said that he thought the difference o
tween Mr.. HOgg and Captain Longstreet would oe
amicaby arranged to-day. The Yorkyille people, be
said constantly telling the captain that Hogg mao
right to the pier But AS long as Hogg insisted on
holding the fort the captain would pay him reasonable
He thought the gate would be repaired lass even
ing AMI no further disturbances would take place.
Year: 1878

GEN. BEN. BUTLRR's SPEECH in the
House has startled the bondholders.-
There was no class Of people so unpopu-
lar forty years ago as the brokers and
money-changers and their efforts to con-
troll Congress and destroy the use of sill
yer as money, as the agents of the bond
holders, has resulted in a feeling of dis
gust little short of what it was at the
time we allude to and Butler has not
scrupled to take advantage of this. If
Mr.. Hayes vetoes the Silver bill the feel.
ing will deepen until reputation will be
raised by larger party than men dream
of
Year: 1878

A standing advertisement in n


newspaper. set boldly out, attracts a
good deal of attention and becomes
transfixed in the mind of the reader.


1t may not be noticed at first, but


after awhile the lines grow familiar to


the eye and become stamped upon the


mind. The advantage is made an


parent in this way: The subscriber


III the course of time wants some


thing in the line of goods kept by the


man whose advertisement lie is filmil-


lar with. He naturally visits that


advertisers store and buys. what he


wants, for though he may never have


been inside the place before, he feels


thoroughly acquainted with every.


thing about it, and free from that


embarrassment which no one likes to
show wiieff=out ON a shopping tour.
A good advertisement kept constant.
iy III Il paper is like a finger board in
q cross road-it removes all difficulty
in finding the right place.


To which an exchange adds the
following: The above is all very
true, and We may add a little more.
Some of our patrons say. don't want
u standing advertisement; / will in
vest in locals. But few men in the
hurry of business attend to sending
in locals to a weekly paper regularly,
and much of the time is not repre-
sented. This country is constantly
being peopled with new customers.
They come with money and stop
with acquaintances. The country
paper is the first thing that is asked |
for. Il the iudicious advertiser is
represented with judieious adyer-
tisement, he may profit thereby but |
if his face in the way of type has I
been omitted, and the locals forgot
ten, as they often are, the new conner
when he goes to purchase his outfit |
will look for the sign of the store |
which he saw announced in the
standing ads. They are taken as ali
index to business places just MS much
as the painted sign or goods displayed
in front. locals in connection with
al advertisement frequently changed
are good, but the two sl,olild go to-
gether, and in the end are the most
Year: 1878

Early last week we heard an old
weather prophet say that this wonld
be a dry month, because the moons
horns were pointing upwards, and
we straightway planted bed of
onion sets. The next day there was a
rainfall of twelve inches, and now
We are lying in wait to scalp that
prophetr-Lake Charles Echo.
Year: 1878

pending in Congress, known Us the Bland bill


Second-The unconditional repeal Of the
resumption act.


Ihird-The increase, rather than decrease, of
the issue of treasury notes or greenbacks by
and reliable currency, consisting of gold, silver
and United States treasury notes may be pro-
vided to such extent as is necessary to develop
and supply the business wants of the country.