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Year: 1879

If all the notions of the reformers
who put forth their panaceas for
the regeneration of the human race
during the Paris commune were EN-
bodied in a document, they would
not appear wilder, more absurd,
more menancing than many Of the
provisions of the constitution which
now regulates the existence of the
dwellers of California. Everybody
is to be punished and restricted in
some way. Those persons only are
excepted who have nothing to lose.
The constitution as n whole is such
an extraordinary instrument that
the people of California may well be
stupetied when they learned that
Kearny has carried his point. We
do not fancy that his exultation
will last long. The mischief which
has been wrought may produce re-
action, and.an effort may be made to
revise the constitution which must
produce widespread ruin.
Year: 1879

A special from Washington says
that Fort Pillow Chalmers of Missis-
sippi, the other day. on hearing a ru-
nor that steamer was to be char
tered to bring away to the north col
ored people who were waiting for
transportation and unable to procure
it, wrote to the Governor of the State
advising him that in case steamer
appeared for any such purpose to ar
rest every one on board of it. Chal-
mers says that general stampede of
negro laborers is attempted, and must
be stopped. 1t appears, therefore, that
the negro is not free, after all. He
can't be allowed to leave the south, but
must remain there as laborer, work
ing on such terms as the old slave
holders see fit to make.
Year: 1879

it was the duty of the people in charge of
the boat to see that they we're removed be-
fore leaving the dock.


Many females and children are always
found on these excursion boats, and they
are entitled to protection. In the first
place liquors ought pot to be sold on such
boats. and in the next some means should
be adopted by which riotous and disreputa-
blepeople can be prevented from forcing
their way on board. The first is under the
control of the people in charge of the boat,
and unfortunately the bar is looked upon
as one of their best sources of profit. But
the sale of liquor on such occasions is dan
gerous to lite, and if it is not forbidden by
the License law it should be prohibited by
special ordinance. II the present Excise
law does forbid the opening of bars on ex-
cursion boats the violation of its provisions
in such cases ought to be punished. No
rufians could force their way on to excur-
sion boats provided sufficient police force
was in attendance on the docks where such
boats stop for passengers. We have Steam
boat Squad which is not overworked and
which ought to be used on Sundays for this
purpose. Such riot as that Of last Sunday
might cause great loss of life, and if drunk
enness and rowdyism are permitted or rem
dered possible on excursions people would
do we'll to seek some other mode of recrea-
fion
Year: 1879

The Baptist preachers struck popular
and practical subject when they dropped
into a discussion upon fishing. Some of
them fish through their summer vacation,
and enjoy and profit by it others hold up
hands in holy horror, while still others are
undecided. For the benefit of the last
named class we would suggest that there is
undoubted apostolic precedent for minis
terial angling, at least four of the original
twelve preachers of the Church having
been fishermen, and it has been shrewdly
argued that they were selected because
the experiences gained in pursuit OF the
fnny tribe are particularly valuable to
fishers of men. 1t stands to reason
that if mems wits are sharpened by
fishing with nets, which was the method
in vogue in Judea nineteen centuries ago,
the modern plan of using hook, line. rod,
reel and infinite variety of bait must be far
more stimulating to the intellectual powers.
Many of the anglers requirements which
are applicable to pulpit and pastoral effort
suggest themselves ut once. No fisherman
is foolish enough to coax all kinds of fish





in the same water. The trout, that favorite
of all anglers, must be sought in cool. clear
water, and the line must be 'cast" by
hand in which delicacy and strength CON-
bine, with judicious brain to support them,
and the better game which is sought by the
pulpit can only be taken by a persistent
use OF the same qualities. The salmon,
large, strong, rich and with decided will
Of his own, is always in hurrying, rough
water, like human game of similar charac-
ter and must not only be allured with SUBJ
stantial bait, but needs gaff as well as
hook to land him, and even then is likely
to be troublesome until he is dead. Any
blunderer can catch cells, but to hold the
slippery customers after they are in hand
demands unceasing exercise of the finest
human abilities. Let all preachers devote
themselves to cells, even il they hire
o revivalist to do the catching Bass are
sometimes so coy that the fishermen declare
there are none within a thousand miles,
Just as some preachers bemoan the spiritual
apathy of their hearers; but let chopped
bait be thrown over the side by the shovel
full and bass are suddenly so numerous
that blind man may catch them with an
empty hook here is q point for preachers
among the lower classes. Our best inter-
viewers have never been able to get lucid
expression of opinion from fish, but
enough has been learned to justify us in
saying that all watery denizens, from min
nows up to sharks. have unspeakable con-
tempt for an angler who offers them stale
bait or muddiss the water to this fact we
Year: 1879

Four of the official wiseacres who con-
cocted the ''inside" theory in the Forty
second street murder case, and who were
ends, burnt matches bandages and sus-
penders home to the harmless and amiable
DR.. Hull, have joined in letter to the
Doctor assuring him that they s'placed no
faith" in the statement alleged to have been
made to them by the ex-convict Purdy, and
graciously adding ''there is nothing what
ever in the history of this crime that sug-
gests the slightest imputation against you. !"


OF course there is not and never was
But the official idiots who undertook to
unravel what they chose to call the
mystery thought otherwise, and instead
Of making an effort to trace the murderer
spent their time in straining and twisting
every clew to make it fit their ''theory" and
lead in the direction of the worthy old
Doctors bedchamber. They held posses
sion of DR.. Hull's house for many days and
placed him under virtual arrest, while the
actual murderer was enjoying himself in
the city, having q good time with his
friends, making trips between New York
and Boston and brushing past the knowing
detectives on the street corners. They
spent days in searching up the chimneys,
under the flooring, in the cracks and
crevices and down the cesspools Of
the Forty-second street house on their
''theory" that the dead lndy's jewels had
not been stolen but secreted by the MUIR
derer to mislead the 'finest force in the
world" and while they were thus employed
the topaz necklace was blazing on tam
colored beauty's neck; the ring most easy
of identification was being nightly sportcd
by negro at sparring exhibitions and
dance houses, and the diamonds we're
pawned without any attempt at conceal
ment. The ex-convict's statement was rolled
as sweet morsel under the official tongues,
and was reserved as the clinching piece of
evidence that was to be brought forward at
the last moment as a stunning proof of the
wonderful genius of the ''inside theory"
wiseacres, four of whom now unite in pre-
senting DR.. Hull with certificate, signed
by themselves, confessing their own stu
pidity and official incapacity.
Year: 1879

POSTMASTER JAMES and President Hayes will
receive the thanks of every veteran of the late
war, whether employed or not, for excepting ex-
soldiers and sailors from the restriction NJ to
age that is imposed upon applicants for employ
ment in the New York Post Office. Men who
have perilled their lives in the government
service deserve all business opportunities that
the nation give them.
Year: 1879

but little protection from the police, and
they are entitled to such as they may find
in the speedy trial and punishment of this
criminal The crime committed by Cox is
clearly defined by the law, its punishment
is death, and there is not single extenuat-
ing circumstance in this brutal murder to
warrant any commutation of the extreme
penalty.
Year: 1879

WHAT have sick men in hospitals done that
Congressman should try to kill theml A box
placed in the House for the reception of reading
matter for the sick was yesterday crammed
with speeches. To give stones where bread is
asked is angelic charity compared with this
Year: 1879

THAT ENGINEER at East Texas whose boiler
exploded last week is charged by a Coroner's
jury with putting extra weight on his safety
valve lever We hope Pennsylvania law takes
cOgnizance of such indefensible crime
Year: 1879

Senator Stanley Matthews, having re-
turned to Cincinnati from his visit to
Memphis as a member of the Yellow Fe-
yer Commission, said to Il reporter last
week:


"Memphis people dread very much
the recurrence of an epidemic of yellow
fever. They are encouraged to believe
that the severity of the winter will de-
stroy the germs of the disease in this
country, and prevent its reappearing
next season. But in the event that it
should break out again next summer in
New Orleans, the feeling is such that the
people of Memphis and along the river
would certainly isolate New Orleans
completely-if not with law, then with
out law. They would not allow boat
to ascend the river, and if necessary
would plant cannons on the bank to
prevent it. They would not allow Il
railroad train to carry a passenger from
that point. That is their present feel
ing and expressed determination, not
confined to any class"
Year: 1879

1t has been profoundly remarked, that
the true way to tell toadstool from a
mushroom is to eat it. If you die it was
toadstool, if you live, it was mush-
room. A similar method is employed
in the selection of husbands; marry
him, if he kills you he was a bad hus-
band; if he makes you happy he is a
good one. There is really no other cri-
terion. AS DIR. Samuel johnson re-
marked the proof of the pudding is in
the eating thereof. Some young men
that seem unexceptionable, indeed very
desirable, as long as they ere single, are
perfectly horrid as soon as. they are
married. All the latent brute there is
in the heart comes out as soon as sem
sitive and delicate being seeks her hap
piness in his companionship. The
honeymoon lasts a very short time, the
receptions and the rounds of parties are
soon over, and then the two sit down
and make home happy. If she has
married a society man, he will soon be-
gin to get bored; he will yawn and go
to sleep on the sofa. Then he will take
his hat and go down to the club to see
the boys, and perhaps not come home
till morning. If she has married a man
engrossed in business he will be tagged
out when he comes home. He may be a
sickly man that she must nurse,
and morose man that she must seek to
cheer, a drunken man that she must
sit up for, and violent man that she fears,
a fool who she soon learns to despise, q
vulgar man for whom she must apollo
gize-in short, there are thousands of
ways of being bad husbands, and very
few ways of being good ones. And the
worst of it is, that the poor silly women
are apt to admire in single men the very
traits that make bad husbands, and look
with contempt or ridicule upon those
quiet virtues that make home happy.
Men with very little personal beauty or
style, often make the wife happy-and
sometimes quite the reverse. The num-
ber of ways of being a bad husband is
almost as great as the number of ways
of being ugly. No one can tell from the
demeanor of single man what sort of a
husband he will be. Meanwhile she
must marry somebody. Eat it; if you
die it was toadstool, if you live it was
a mushroom.-Baltimore Every Satur.
ddu.
Year: 1879

To keep in health, we must obey
the law of our own being-not that of
our neighbor-or of an ideally perfect
organization as laid down by so-called
physiological science. All attempts to
make ourselves over into something
that strikes us as more desirable, re-
suits in disease. What we may do
with profit is to actively cooperate
with the law of evolution that has
brought us to be what we are, and is
carrying us toward higher development
on the same line.-MrS. Read, IN DR..
Foote's Health Monthly.
Year: 1879

A YOUNG WOMAN who had never
learned the gentle art Of cookery, being
desirous of impressing her husband with
her knowledge and diligence, manages
TO have her kitchen door ajar on the
day after their return from the bridal
trip, and just as her lord comes in from
the office exclaims loudly "Hurry up,
Eliza, do Haven't you washed the let
tuce yet :? Here, give it to me where's
the soap ?" .Ti
Year: 1879

The strike in the Office Of the Battle Creek
Journal did no great harm. All the effect Wis
ible to outsiders was that part Of the matter on
the editorial page was put in upside down.
But that's nothing People ouly thought the
editor had changed political front sgain.--De
trolt News.
Year: 1879

The best bed consists Of set OF
springs and a tick we'll filed with oat
straw, and this can always be made with
a gentle slope from head to foot, is
healthier to sleep on, and more easily
aired than any other. A bed should be
trifie higher in the middle than at the
sides, though not perceptibly so. and
should be so made that the occupants
viii not say they dare not sleep in your
house for fear of rolling out OF bed.
Sheets should be ethree-Quarters of a yard
wider than the bed, narrow sheets being
almost as bad as none. The covers
should be light and soft. Tacking them
is much better than wasting time and
energy ON patchwork and quilting. tho
Just now fashion says that we should
initiate our grandmOthers, and make
quilts more puzzling than Chinese patch
Year: 1879

First the stomach. second the liver; es-
pecially the first. so as to perform their
functions perfectly and you will remove
at least ninetsen-twentieths OF all the
ills that mankind is heir to, in this or
any other climate. Hop Bittsrs IS the
only thing that viii give perfectly
healthy action to these two organs,
Year: 1879

My lines have fallen in pleasant pla
ces,' thought the Colonei to himself, ga
zing around the elegantly appointed
room, to which he had been shown by
an obsequious servant. Nice little
servant, that Those little women with
blue eyes and golden hair are so much
more to my taste than these ack-eyed,
Year: 1879

The honey bee is q model of neatness
as well as of industry. The infallible.
instinct of the insect enables it to select
only the most delicious nectar produced
in the grand laboratory of Nature. Bees
are impatient of any disagreeable odor,
and are enraged If impure or decaying
matter is brought in proximity to their
hive. Bees sometimes go three miles
from the apiary in search of honey.
Whenever bee has secured load of
nectar, it at once rises in the air to a
certain altitude, apparently takes its
bearings, and then starts in perfectly
straight direction for the hive. This
constitutes the true and original "bee
line."


Bees are short.lived, their average ex-
istence being about six weeks. This
applies only to the workers. The queens
live much longer, enjoying the preroga-
tives of royalty. The drones are male
insects, and, having fulfilled their mis-
sion, either suffer a violent death or are
driven out of the hive by the workers.
As working bees are necessary, and have
no share in parental duties or obliga-
tions save to provide food for their sue
cessors, and as the bees that gather
honey in the early part of the summer
never live to enjoy it the following
winter, their unwearied industry seems
to be characterized by the purest unsel-
fishness. Bee-keepers apply the term
"Siberian Winter" to the present in
clement season, on account of the un-
usual severity and unfavorable result to
their stock of bees. An unprecedented
number of colonies perished during the
intensely cold weather of January,
many apiaries being entirely depopulat-
ed Trou Times
Year: 1879

The fact that a woolen mill is to be
built in China, under the direction of
two German gentlemen, one an en-
gineer and the other manufacturer
from AK la Chapelle, has lately excited
some discussion in Lancashire. There
is talk also of cotton mill somewhere
in the vast Empire-tre Chinese papers
arguing, from the old exclusive point of
view, that if mills are built and goods
made in the country the foreigner will
no longer have an inducement to come
there, and Western civilization, with its
pushing and aggressive agents, will
cease to trouble them.-BOston AdUer-
ttSer,
Year: 1879

The situation of the Democratic party is one to excite commiseration in the hardest heart. The acknowledged leader, Mir. Thur man, can no longer be depended on for the reason that he has suffered certain defeat in the Ohio election. and will soon be retired to private life by tue election of MT, Gar field as his successor in the United States Senate.

 Besides in following the leadership of MT. Thurman, they have committed blum ders from which as party they cannot hope soon to recover. Their coRsternation is such that they hardly know which way to steer the Democratic ship. They are in waters which have never been charted, and the salvation of the ricke,y old craft is a n. alter of very great uncertainty to the crew itself. If they head in the direction of Bourbon Democracy they find themselves sailing against tide which flows north ward with such turbulence that the rusty machinery is unequal to the strain. If m "PpOsite Couise thcg aio SeAe"'" so A~NN high on the bOach. If midway between they try to reach the open shorelesssea ofun' limited currency inhapon. there stands in their way the adamantine rock of hesump- ton. Verify no mariners ever found them selves so absolutely without harb"r of safety as these political seamen. They seem not only to be without definite course but there is no competent man to put at the wheel. "Give me another star" said boy at the helm who was told by the officer to head for a certain point in the heavens, "I have sailed past this one." So comes out of the political night the cry sf the Demo cratic mariner now.
Year: 1879

Tue Silver Belt in commenting on the MINERS remarks concerning the dry con dition ot the streams ot Arizona aud New Mexico. says:

 The Arkansas river, in Kansas, where the old "Saata Fe ana Independence tIail' threaded its banks, was also dry in 63 Freighters and others were obliged to dig for water in its bed. At the mouth f N ai. nut creek there was q small pool of water. but no where else on the route along the Arkansas. That year Mack Morris, Eugene Leitzendorffer and the writer were travelling rom Las Vegas, N. M., to El Paso, vla the Fort Stanton route and were as dry as a chip, had been so for many weary hours and felt that something must be done or 1" pass in our checks" An earnest consul tation was held and nothing definitely ar- rived at until Leitzendorffer suggested pray. CT, and as that mode of procedure, even in an extremity, was new to the party, it was not immediately accepted as last resort, and when agreed upon, the question as to who was to petition the throne of grace, presented itself. LeitzendUrffvr was wiling, nay, anxious to do anything in his power to relieve us from our dilemma, but unfortun- ately his religious instruction hau been simply confined to making the sign of the cross, therefore, it was concluded that he would not do. Hackney was next suggest ed, but he, though early taught to recog- nize the efficacy of prayer, had a swollen tongue, and could not artIculate, and for that reason, he was not urged to the front. Mack Morris was then appealed to, to save us from dying for want of water, Lut his religious education had not been such as to fit him for the performance of so momen- tous task he had not even been to Sun- day school and all that he had. to recon mend hIm was beng the son of pious mother, and 1t was thus that Ou. fate hung tremblingly in the balance. when Mack re- marked he had heard his mother say ask, and II shall be given you" and if you will but stop the ambulance, we will hold a prayer meeting right here and l will lead, The vehicle was stopped and Mack stepped revel eutly to the ground, when immediate | ly in front of him he discovered the jaw bone of an oY sticking in the ground, on which was hand pointing to the mouth of canyon and the words, Water up this canyon, c. W. Beacn.m Thus ended our | first prayer meeting on that dry route. - Beach's index finger saved us, for we found water up tie canyon as stated, and in sub sequent conversations as to how dry we were then. we have never tailed to recog- nize Beach as our temporal 6aviopr.s The above is neither fiction nor implety, but we'll founoed on facts.
Year: 1879

The Philadelphia Times devotes very large space in its columns recently to an account or General Grants trip around the globe as given by John Russell Young. Il is exceedingly interesting reading even to Democrats who have no love for the dis tinguished American soldier, but who have the good sense to appreciate the attention paid in every cline to the worthy American citizen.
Year: 1879

A man in New York, by the wild, wierd name of Smith, was clubbed by police man because he was in thewsy ofa military procession. If Smith had been an Indian, the military would have mar0aed around kim by order Of tho Indian Bureau,
Year: 1879

Zach. Chandler has come cut boldly and nominated Grant for President he knows that the General is a modest man, will probably decline the honor and ask Zach to take the responsibility of his shoulders. This is a novel Idea that Chandler has of getting tho nomination.
Year: 1879

From all accounts Tombstone (romantic name) is just booming Four towns are be- ing rapidly built in close proximity to each other, the mines are paying, times lively and money in abundance,
Year: 1879

St. Paul Pioneer Press.


If Tom Buford, of Kentucky, were
a candidate for Office, his family
couldn't be painted in blacker colors
than during the trial for murder, in
which his counsel find it necessary to
prove his hereditary insanity. He
appears to have descended from con
tinuous line of lunatics, whose mental
obliquity varied from the eccentricity
Of parading the streets in the dress Of
primeyal innocence, to incest, adultery
and murder. The best disposition to
make of the last scion of such des-
perate and dangerous race is to hang
him and save the next generation from
being inflicted with his progeny.
Year: 1879

Possibly one of the best things for
France that could happen would be to
have serious split in the Bonapartist
faction over the question of success
sor to the young prince who has just
lost his life in South Africa. And
there is distinct promise that this
will happen, for large number of the
prominent adherents of the party have
so bitter a dislike for Prince Napoleon
that they seem disposed to reject his
claims to the succession and to accept
the suggestion made in the will Of the
dead prince, that Jerome Napoleon's
son shall be the fayCEite candidate for
whatever imperial honors may accrue
to the house. When the BopSpartjsts
begin to fight among Themselves they
will cease to be very dangerous enc.
mics of the republic.