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Year: 1879

An English Agricultural Journal makes a
pertinent remark to the effect that, IF q
careful inquiry were made, it would be
found that the farmers who are most sue
ccssful in weathering the storm of adversely
in that country, are those who have kept
their farms up to a high state Of fertility,
aud those who arc sinking, are chiefly the
poor farmers II is so in every industry,
and in all circumstances d" tho best man
wins


What applies TO England will apply
equally as well to the South. You
will find that those farmers who cul-
tivate small tracts of land who ferti-
lie their fields, and cultivate what
they do till thoroughly, are generally
prosperous; while those who scratch
over hundreds Of acres Of old wornout
fields, are always poor, and belong to
the merchant. Some men are sue
cessful at whatever they go at, others
are never successful at anything.
Year: 1879

Young man when you see anything


you want ask Tor 1t like q man, II
you want TO borrow five dollars Of


man, or if you only want TO marry


his daughter, don't siIle up to him
and hang on TO your hat and talk
politics and religion and weather aud
tell old stale jokes whereof you cant
remember the point, until you worry
the old man into a nervous irritation
Go at him with q full head OF steam
on and Your bow ports open, like an
iron-clad pulling for shore battery,
Snort and paw and shake your head
II you feel like II, no matter fit does
make him look astonished. Better
astonish him than bore him. Go into
his heart or his pocket book, or both
IL amounts to the same thing like
a brindle bull with a curl In bis tor.
head charging a red meriOo dress,
eyes on fire, tail up and dust a'hy'ng.
Then you'll fetch him, Or possibly
he may fetch you. But never mind
you'll accomplish something and show
You amt afraid to speak what's on
your mind. And that's great deal
more than you would accomplish BY
tho other method. You needn't be
cheeky, but you ought to be straight
forward, = [Hawkeye.
Year: 1879

The RULE OF THREE.-Three gen.
tlemen were once dining at a tavern
on a brace OF partridges. Now one
of the most difficult things in life is
to equitaoly divide two small birds
among three hungry men. 1t was
done on this occasion, however, with
an all devouring genius which left
nothing to be said. The chiet OF the
party quietly put his fork into one OF
the birds, and removing it tenderly to
his own plate, said: "Gentlemen,
there is one for you two, and here"
pointing to his own bird, ''here is one
for me, too; that's fair That is the
kind of division in which most men
like to indulge, and the rules Of which
arc almost universally known.
Year: 1879

An article IN an exchange is called
ga Woman After ALL Insatiate fe-
male would not ten thousand or so
suffice? She may be after all, but it
Is hardly probable that she will catch
them. = (Norristown Herald.
Year: 1879

MR. WARNER started his two stamp mill day before yesterday. The first run was made on Tombstone ore. Par ties who have seen the mill in operation give favorable reports. This mill is located
Year: 1879

Der all the land the news be spread, That Cheap Jack Is white-eyed bulldogs dead He was the Terror ofthe street, Whipped every cur he ehaneed to meet, And helda most desposic sway Ger boys and dogs for many day, Until at length he met his match; He tore, unwiseiy, quite patch From of the pants of one who fought His master, and with this he caught The flesh of him within his mouth, And wiggled north and wriggled south Until he scrached up all the ground

 And sprinkled blood for yards around. The moral is not hard 10 tell,

 The dog, he died, the man, got well.
Year: 1879

hOUSE.


Washington, April 27-The house went
Into committee Of the whole on the legisla-
tive appropriation bill, under the five min
ute rule, discussion under that rule to close
at two o'clock.


MIR. Ewing continued his speech of last
evening. lie declared that the men who
were insulting the president were not men
on the democratic side, but "stalwar,s" of
the republican party. who now hold the
lash oyer the president, threatening HIM
with party expulsion if he dared TO be gov
erned by his own judgment only, instead of
by the necessity of the sectional issues at
the north. He classified among the "stsl-
warts" Garfld. who has said II the presl-
dent signed the bill he would be violating
his conscience and sense Of duty; Frye,
who had threatened the president by
pledging his veto in advance;
and Conkling in whose opinion the president
would be dog if he signed the bill. Ewing
then lauded the southern representatives.
Since they were here there have been no
more great jobs passed.


The speech was much applauded.


Garfield followed. He declared it had
been in the power of the humblest or great.
est democrats to have ruined him and prov.
ed him to be traitor and slanderer by sim
ply rising and saying, in contravention Of
his assertion as to its being the purpose Of
the democratic party to starve the govern.
ment, I'VE do not propose to refuse to vote
supplies to the government; we wish
to get our legislation through in refer
ence to elections and everything
else if we can constitutionally
but if we cannot get it through under all
constitutional sanctions we will pass the
appropriation bill like loyal representatives
and 60 home. But, though forty Eve
democrats had spoken, that sentence had
not been uttered by single democrat"


Ewing and Garfield each spoke is min
utes by unanimous consent. and each were
loudly applauded by his own side.


Mr.. Horn, oe Michigan, followed. He
begun by helding up to ridicule the green
back representatives., and caused great
amusement by the assertion that if all the
greenback money demanded by the bills
already introduced were to be supplied the
greenback men would have to get their
clergyman, DeLaMatyr) to ask Deity to
vary the miracle Of the delugc and to open
again the doors and windows OF heaven
to rain greenbacks for forty days. He then
told the southern democrats that what their
section wanted was more corn and cotton
and less cussedness and wound up by sug-
gesting that one of the best things that
could happen the country would be the break
ing out of yellow fever in congress, only he
he would want divinity to show great dis
crminatlon in making his selections. Horn
was much applauded on both sides.


When the debate Closed the amendment
offered by Mr.. Weaver striking out all the
proposed legislation except that relating
to the test oath was defeated, without divis-
ion. A vote was then taken by tellers on
Garield's amendment, striking out all the
legislation, and was defeated-l24 TO 130.
The result wa, received with applause by
the democratic side
Year: 1879

branch Of the Ancient Order of Hibernians is at
tached to the Church Of Our Lady Star Of the Sea- at
Long Branch, n. j., of which Rev. Father Walsh is
pastor, and rumor has it that some of the members
have Of late been behaving themselves in any but
truly Christian At all events, Father Walsh
gave them severe excoration from the pulpit
on Sunday, and he threatened to denounce
the entire Order unless some of the
members of his branch .mended their ways.
He said he had formerly upheld the Order. believing
that it was composed Of upright and honorable ci-
zcns but that upon investigation no had discovered
that some Of the greatest roughs in the country
belonged to it. He then told how. after he
had solicited aid from his congregation several
prominent members Of this Order visited him
and had the impudence to question him regarding
the disposition he had made of the funds received
for the purpose OF paying on the church in
debtedness. Ho further remarked that after
requesting the removal of some objection
able members from the society the officers
Of that body positively refused to do so.
He declared that any one who would associate
with Objectionable persons better than
the persons themselves, and that in future
il he should find any member Of the society violating
tho law in any way he would denounce the whole
ciety and every effort to have the guilty party
punished to the full extent of the law.
Year: 1879

will tomorrow. for the first time occupy the seat
to which he was elected four years ago and which
he will vacate two years hence. his term expiring in
1851.


-HE NEW YORK FEDERAL NOMINATIONS.


One of the members OF the Senate Committee on
Commerce says that il there is meeting OF the COM
mittee on Thursday action will be taken upon the
New York federal nominations. and he thinks the
committee will agree to report adversely upon them


CAPTAIN DUNCAN TO BE INVESTIGATED.


The charges against the conduct Of the ofce OF the
Shipping Commissioner at New York will be brought
10 the attention Of Congress. The following reson
ton has been prepared TO be offered at the first op
portunity:--


Resolved. That committee Of three members OF
the House be appointed by the Speaker to investigate
the conduct of the Shipping Commissioners office ut
the port of New York. and that the said committee
is hereby empowered send for persons and papers
necessary to the pursuit OF the inquiry.
Year: 1879

The Chicago Times sent man down
into Mississippi to ascertain the 'true in
Wardness'' Of the Dixon assassination lin
Yazoo City. His report is given in Thurs
days issue of that paper. He declares
that it was a cowardly political murder.
Dixon's offense was his daring to run for


Sheriff in opposition to the Democratic
party. The correspondent describes the
political situation down there as quite as
bad as it has been represented. The
Democracy will permit no opposition, if
ibull-dozing and the shotgun can prevent
Year: 1879

A Providence special to The Sun says:
When the ninety-two rooms in the great
Canonchet mansion had been filled with
their elegant furniture, the receipted bills
were made out in the name of Mrs. Spra-
que. The value of the furniture it is said,
was $25,OO0 to 100000. Mrs Sprague
has just filed a petition in the supreme
court Of Rhode Island representing that
she is possessed in her own right of per-
sOnal and real estate at Canon
chet; that she and ex-Gov. Sprague are
not now living together as man and
wife, and praying that trustees of her pro-
perty be appointed. Nobody here doubts
that claim will be laid by Mrs. Sprague
to all the Cannonchet furniture.
Her lawyers are very reticent. Even
though Mrs. Sprague should produce the
receipted bills made out to her by those
who sold the furniture, she will be oblig-
ed to go further and show that she paid
the bills with her own money, because
it is argued, nothing would be more natu-
raj than that the bills should be made out
to the person who selected and ordered
the furniture This, Mrs. Sprague is
known to have done Lawyers Ssay that
that she can claim the furniture only in
two cases; first, if she purchased the
goods with her own money; and second,
if she received them as a gift from her
husband at a time when he did not know
that he was bankrupt. The furniture
was purchased in 1866 or 1867. At that
time the credit Of the company was good,
and probably it could not be shown that
the ex-governor then knew that he was
virtually bankrupt. A citation was
served on ex-GovSprague on Thursdayno-
tlfying him to appear at Providence last
Saturday to show cause why the petition
should not be granted. The hearing was
adjourned until tomorrow morning, when
it is not unlikely to be adjourned until
next Saturday. Lawyer Clark, Of King
ston, will appear for Gov. Sprague.


The question is mooted here how far
the present proceedings may be the
stepping-stone to divorce suit. Friends
of Mrs Sprague insist that all she desires
is to disentangle herself from any associa-
ton with her husband and to keep her
children. This is precisely the ground
the husband takes, end and hence it is ar
gued that divorce suit is not to be
thought of. The following suggestions
have been made to Mrs. Spragues law
yers by some friends of the family: Let
Mrs. Sprague send the three children to
her husband. He will keep them just
about three months, and then he'll send
them back again. He will get tired of
caring for them, and when he sees her
living quietly he will be only too clad to
send them back to her--At first it would
probably be on a visit, under a strict
agreement that they would be allowed to
return; but such visits would become
more frequent, until in a short time the
little girls would be continuously under
their mothers care
Year: 1879

The Princess Louise at the military re-
view in Toronto was, says a correspon-
dent, ''the plainest dressed woman in
sight. She wore short riding habit, de
cidedly the worse for wear, hole in it
being conspicuous. There was not a bit
of trimming on it anywhere; the only
piece of color was buttonhole bouquet
Of bleeding hearts on green leaf. She
wore plain linen roll collar, fastened
with a stoneless gold brooch. Her ear
ring were large pearl drops. Her face
was shielded by black veil, with large
black spots, and her gloves were OF dog
skin"
Year: 1879

/ did not spend whole Sunday ON the
Thames but as | was going to morning
service at the Abbey aud to evening service
at st. Paul's, chose to make the river my
way from one to the other and doing this
it seemed to me good to go lesurely over
the whole of it within what is called the
metropolitan district. This one is enabled
to do easily and pleasantly by the little
steamers that ply back and forth constantly
within those limits. The day was as beau
tiful as a summer sky, with its bright blue
tempered by lazy clouds smiling with light
and sailing upon a soft, gentle breeze, could
make it; the sense of Sunday seemed TO per-
wade the air, and even the great city sat in
sweet solemnity at rest When science has
taken entire possession of mankind, and we
no more find anything to worship, will the
Sundayless man possess, in virtue of his rule
of pure reason, any element of happiness
that will quite compensate him for that
calm, sweet, eleyating sense--so delicate as
to be indefnable, and yet so strong and pen
etrating as to peryade his whole being and
seem to him TO pervade all nature-of di-
vine serenity in the first day of the Chris.
tian week This sense of Sunday is much
stronger in the country than in the town
strangely, for the current of life is there
much less visbly interrupted and il is al
ways deepened by sky at once bright aud
placid. And such sky has its effect even
in town; felt IL on this day, ps | glided
through sunny hours and over gentle waters
past the solid stateiness and homely grand
eur that are presented on the Thames side
of London.-Richard Grant While, in Jun,
| AHdniic.
Year: 1879

This world is full of sorrow ard grief.
But few hearts will escape sore Affections in
some form or other, II they live for many
years. Surely all this sorrow must have its
use and be designed for some good purpose.
We lose dear child and are downcast and
sad, but has this grief no ministry of good
TO us or TO others Sorrow hath pressed
many sweet songs out Of me-" says Luther
Sometimes chastisement which seems alto
gether grievous aud needless, in the end
yields the peaceable fruits Of righteousness
to them that are exercised thereby. Out Of
the Egyptian prison comes Joseph to be the
saviour of his people; through the casting
of the Hebrews into the fiery furnace, comes
the decree that "no man shall speak any
thing amiss against the God of Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego; aud through the
consigning of Daniel 10 the lions den is
given that royal edict that throughout the
kingdom of Darius men should "tremble
and fear before the God of Daniel" We
are indebted to Bedford Jail for Bunyan's
Pilgrims Progress; and it was while walk
ing through shadows dark and cherries, in
the twilight of departing reason, that Cowper
wrote that hymn which has consoled so
many troubled hearts


God moves in mysterious way,


His wonders TO perform;


He plants his footsteps in the sea,


And rides upon the storm.


Ye fearful souls. fresh courage take,


The clouds ye so much dread


Are big with mercy, and shall break


In blessings on your head


There is need-be for our "heaviness
through manifold temptations;" it may be
for our own sakes, it may be for the sake of
others. The stroke that breaks our own
hearts may be the binding up of the hearts
of many; and we having been stricken and
made desolate, may be able to comfort
those that are in any trouble, by the COM
fort wherewith we ourselves are comforted
of God. Let us have faith in the wisdom
aud grace of our heavenly Father, let us
bear our burdens and endure our crosses,
and trust that he who hath loved us will
cause all things to work together for good
to them that love God" d."-Seiected.
Year: 1879

ABOVE THE WoRLD.-If you will 60 to
the banks of little stream and watch the
flies that come to bathe in it you will notice
that while they plunge their bodies in the
water they keep their wings high out of the
water, and after swimming about a little
while they fly away with their wings unwet
through the sunny air. Now that is lesson
for u.s. Here we are immersed in the cares
and business of the world, but let us keep
the wings of our soul, our faith and our love
out of the world, that, with these unclogged
we may be ready to take our fight to heaven
Rev. James Ingis.
Year: 1879

DEFAULTED RAILRoADs.-The New York
Commercial Bulletin publishes a complete
list of defaulted railroads together with a
brief statement of their present condition
as far as ascertainable. 1t is unable to
state what is the amount of securities on
which default was made, but cites one au-
thority that puts it at SS90y000,000. OF
course many of the roads that have de
faulted are now doing a good business and
will be remunerative to the present owners
The trouble with large number of railway;
in this country is that the original investors
are heavy losers, as many people in our OWL
state can bear ample testimony.
Year: 1879

TO BE CoNsrAST.-Look at yon miller
on the village hill How does he grind his
grist2 Does he bargain that he will only
grind in the west wind, because its gales
are so full of health 7 No, but the east
wind, which searches joints and marrow,
makes the mill-stones revolve, and together
with the north and the south it is yoked to
his service Even so should it be with you
who are true workers for God all your ups
and your downs, your successes and your de-
feats, should be turned 10 the glory of God.
Year: 1879

PIN money is the unknown quantity in
the great problem of life. 1t is very safely
said that the amount required depends on
whether you are accustomed to a diamond
pin or rolling pin.
Year: 1879

The Democratic strike for free fraud reopens at
Washington tomorrow.


Randall denies Tilden in public and dimes WIN
him in private-an able straddie.


With the appearance of Mr.. Cox as a DARK
borsen the Speakership contest at once becomes
irresstibly funny


If the Democratic party is impatient Tor Its own
ruin Senator Beck is the one man to be made the
leader in the Senate.


The Greenbackers seem to be anxious lest they
mako nothing by their strike, after all. They'll
make Joke OF il IL they take i'll MIR. Cox.


All the personal Tilden organs IN this state are
furious in demanding a repeal of the election laws
at any cost. They know that the fate OF reform
hinges on stuffed balot-box in this city.


What troubles the antiTilden Democrats about
Randalrs candidacy is that he has the covert
support of the Eastern Republican press" This Is
n ourions mistake The Eastern Republican press
il in favor of tho further decentralization OF the
Year: 1879

merit. although the difficulty OF lighting the
middle room is not wholly mas cred.


We must not be misunderstood. We have
no quarrel with the Committee. But the
plans which they have accepted as the best
mark no progress whatever in sanitary reform,
inasmuch as they violate fundamental law
of health. The public have manifested keen
interest in this subject. The matter must not
be allowed to rest where it is. How pressing
is the need of reform is shown by the diagram
of the ordinary tenement-housc system "A 1T
is now found in our city. There should be
another competition, conducted under more
comprehensive conditions than the last one.
Two or even four city lots should be taken
into consideration as well as one. and each
prize that is offered should lead to dlf-
fcrent solution of the problem. VIII not
some public-spiritcd citizen offer liberal pre-
miums, and thus enlist the best talent III the
country in this beneficent work. One thing
more: VIII not some of our young architects,
before striving to design model tenement
house, 90 among our wOrklng-people who
live in buildings of this class, and ina out
for themselves what are their habits and ne
cessties? If some of them had to move into
a tenement-hOuse themselves and live there
for six months, they would learn many things
which they do not know at present.
Year: 1879

Democratic party and hence il yearns for the elec
tiOn Of a h0t-head like Blackburn.


The Solid South thinks it ought to be trusted with
the control Of the House. that II can show thai il
is capable of scf-rrstrant but the country thinks
the power Of sel:-rc,traint should be shown in ad.
vance, 4 qualification.


II is given on the distinguished authority Of
Montgomery Blair that Hendricks thinks the old
ticket should be run again IN 1850. This is n new
version. Hendricks usually runs for the second
place on the ticket by declaring that he will not
accept it. Ihurman's manguvrlRg has made him
auXlOuS.


TildeD is q source OF great perplexity 10 the
Southern Democrats. They are repeatedly told
that he carries thcm under his arm and intends to
use them to force his denomination. They want TO
resent this charge, but dare not do it for fear it is
true Two things incline them to cling TO rilden-
the hope of drblets from the barrel and the belief
that he is the only man that can carry New-Y0rk
Both are fallaciOus.


Ex-Governor DennlsOn is another Ohio gentle
man who has great faith in Secretary Sherman as a
q Cd man for the Presidency, but he is inclined to
think that Grant will be the candidate. If the
convention were to he held now he is sure Grant
would be nominated. On the Democratic side he
expects to see Tlden and Hendricks again.
Thurman can give no assurance of ability TO AIRY
New-York, and without that he can have no hone Of
q nomination. That is true enough, but he can give
sufficient of ability TO help carry Ohio TO
entItIe him To the second place. can't hef


Senator Dawes has confdcd to reporter Of The
Boston Traveller a miscellaneous collection Of views
on current political questions. He does not believe
that the Democrats Will succeed in coercing the
President on the repeal of the election laws ex-
poets to see Randall elected Speaker, since the
South can get as much from him as it can from
anybody else does not believe the Green5ackers
have power enough to exert a controlling influence
in the organization is confident the President will
veto another proscrptive Chinese measure, II one
comes To him, and looks upon Thurman as the lead
ing candidate of the Democrats for 1880, since he
is stronger in Washington than any other man in
his party. How that remark will amuse the sage of
Cipher Alley! The question is not, Who is tho
strongest in Washington, but. Who has the biggest
barrel and the strongest grip on New-l0rk State.
Year: 1879

The visible supply of wheat is now about
21,4OO,O00 bushels. Notwithstanding the
enormous exports during the crop year thus
far, the supply at the chief points is over
100000 bushels greater than it was one
year ago at this time. No doubt this fact has
been the most potent cause of the prolonged
depression of prices at Chicago and elsewhere.
In consequence of that depression, unques-
Year: 1879

The ripple of clerical discussion respecting
the relations of the Church and the Stage
reached this city yesterday, and the subject
was discussed III several pulpits. MIR Sweet
ser, speaking as a Universalist, and Mr..
Kramer as an Episcopalian, took strong
ground for all that was good in the Theatre,
and tried to show that the Church might make
an ally, instead of an enemy, of so great a
power.