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Year: 1879

1t is not enough that the Democratic
Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate should have
bounced n legless soldier without cause aud
in violation of the caucus declarations of
its own party that such thing should not
be done-the Democratic organ here is oc-
cupying its time in trumping up false ex-
cuses for the outrage, and in henping
TRADE of abuse upon the unfortunate soldier
personally. 1t attempts to belittle his SER
vices and merits as soldier by saying:


The fact is to begin with Wilson'S service
In the army, he was wounded in the first bat
tie in which he ever fought. He was raw
recruit when a stray shell at Gettysburg struck
him and tore Off both his legs. He had not
destroyed any rebel regiments in single handed
contest because, rs his friends would have us
believe, he had not had an opportunity.


Because WILSON lost both his legs in his
first battle, this defender of rebellion and
hater of the Union turns the volume of its
dirty ridicule upon him by saying that he
had not destroyed any rebel regiments in
single-handed contest IA ptiful ex-
hibition of heartlessness that borders upon
brutality. Then, rs if this was not sufii-
cent it turns its hose upon him and at
tempts to deluge him with u volume of
shameless traductiOn OF II wounded, legless
soldier. Mr.. WILSON was appointed at the
instance of Senator FENToN, who IL as true
Il friend TO the soldier as walks the earth.
To place him under the especial care OF
Senator CoNKLING now is to draw largely
upon the imagination and invent
i've genius of the soldiers calum-
niator. Not but what Senator CoNK.
LING is good friend to every unfortunate
limbless soldier in the country, and seeks tc
promote the welfare of all such, and no
doubt feels shocked at the treatment this
man has received at the hands Of a heart
less enemy but to charge that he has in
Year: 1879

nuenced WILSON to an improper line Of con-
duct is alike false and contemplate. This
assault on the part of u mouthpiece of De-
mocrncy upon soldier who lost both limbs
in defending the Government Is as coward
ly rs for strong, stalwart man
to withhold his services from his country
when it was in peril, aud to do 50 for
the reason that he sympathized with its
enemies and had not the courage to fight on
either side. That class of courage which
prompts now to an assault upon crippled
soldier is the kind which slSulked the war
and sought protection from the Government
while the war lasted, hoping all the time
that the rebellion would prevail. jour
nal which has never had the boldness to
rebuke the rebellion and those engaged in
it is of the right kind of stun to abuse and
insult q soldier who is hobbling through
life on artificial limbs, having lost those his


Creator had given him in fighting to save


the Republic from overthrow. We canuot
regard the studied insult offered by this


Confederate organ to an unfortunate soldier


of the Union in taunting him that he had


not destroyed any rebel regiments in sim


gle-handed contests" except as Dr. JOHN
son appreciates insult, when he says;


"Of all the griefs that harrass the distressed
| Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest;


Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart
! Than when bloclhead's insult points the dart
Year: 1879

THE amount Of gratuitous advice offered
by the Democratic press to United States
marshals all over the country is very en-
couraging. If the marshals should follow
it, or adopt it, they would each and severally
be guilty of gross neglect of duty and
violation of the laws.
Year: 1879

in and out Of official life. And at the same
time dozen or more paid employees Of our
dearly beloved Democratic Congress, from
JOHN G. THOMPSON down to IKE Hill, are
actively engaged in advancing their parti-
san interests in the pending campaign in
that State. But this is Democratic con-
sistencv
Year: 1879

If NJ. DE LEssEP's Darien Canal project
were as dead in Europe as it is in this coun-
try, it would be long time before cent
would he subscribed to it or spadefull OF
earth turned for its channel. The unani-
nous impulse of the American people is
solid against this innovation of European
power and capital upon American soil. This
is as it should be.
Year: 1879

If any one were inclined to attempt a
defense of Civil Service Order No, /, it could
be made on the ground that this famous re-
striction was intended solely to prohibit
Federal ofiice-holde.s from using the patron
age of the Government to secure their own
personal political advancement But no
one is inclined to defend anything SO abso-
lutely dead, rs it were.
Year: 1879

AN objectionable ignorance, or willful
perversity in misstating the facts, exists
among those Democratic editors who have
recently commented upon the possibility of
the employment of Federal supervisors in
the elections this fall. They one and all
allude to the appointments of those officers
as if the power to make them resided with
the Executive, and is to be done by Pres
ident HAYES himself The truth is the
unrepealed law providing for these APP
pointments vests the power to make them
in the Judiciary upon the application of a
certain number of citizens residing in the
district wherein the election is to be held.
The law makes it mandatory upon the
judge of the proper Federal court to make
these appointments upon such application
Under the circumstances we do not see
how any judge who may be thus properly
applied to can avoid making them. But
the stupid Democratic scribbers referred tC
assume that President HAYES will be i'm
peached if the judge or judges in question
execute their sworn duty by carrying Ou
the law.
Year: 1879

NOTWITHSTANDING the Democrats are
holding up their pure hands and rolling up
their watery eyes in holy horror that any
body connected with the Administration
should contribute voluntarily to the Re-
publican cause it tappeas that they are doing
something in that line themselves The
Washington correspondent of the Boston
Journal, who always understands and has
the means of knowing what he is talking
about, says that the Democratic Congress
sional Campaign Committee is using large
part of the force of clerks and laborers oil
the House of Representatives and Senate
for doing campaign work. Documents are
being folded with Government paper and
paste, and the comniittee-rooms are lighted
with Government gas. The Republican
Committee, on the contrary, have their own
building and furnish their own material
and help. That is the difference. The
Democrats always raise the cry of stop
thief" when they have Il little job of steal
ing of their own ON hand.
Year: 1879

THE Democrats are awfully anxious about
the amount of money subscribed here in
Washington and elsewhere to the Republic
can campaign fund out in Ohio. They
howl about it as though ii were sin of
which they themselves are guiltless. Mean
while they are quietly taking up subscrip-
tions to their own campaign fund, forced
and voluntary, among their own adhereuts
Year: 1879

people; but no single branch or depart
ment of the government has exclusive
authority to speak for the American peO-
pie.


The most authentic and solemn ex-
preston of their willis contained in the
Constitution of the United State. By
that Constitution they have ordained
and established government whose
powers are distributed among co-Ordin-
ate branches which, as far as possible, con-
sistently with harmonious cooperation,
are absolutely independent of each 9TH
er. The people of the country are un-
willing to see the supremacy of the Con-
stitutiOn replaced by the omnipotence of
any department of the government The
enactment of this bill into a law will es-
tablish precedent which will tend to
destroy the equal independence of the
several branches Of the government. Its
principle places not merely the Senate
and Executive, but the Judiciary also,
uuder the coercive direction of the
House. The House alone will be the
judge of what constitutes a grievance,
and also Of the means and measures of
redress, and an act of Congress to pro-
tect elections 10 now the grievance COM
planned of, but the House may, on the
same principle, determine that any 9TH
er act Of Congress, treaty made by the
President with the advice and consent of
the Senate, a nomination or appointment
to office, or that decision or opinion of
the Supreme Court is q grievance, and
that measure or redress is to withhold
the appropriations required for the sup
port of the offending branch of the gov
ernment. Believing that this bill is a
dangerous violation Of the spirit and
the meaning Of the Constitution, / am
compelled to return It to the House,
where it originated, without my appro-
val. The qualified negative with which
the Constitution invests the President is
a trust that involves a duty which /
can not decline to perform. With a firm
and conscientious purpose to do what
can to preserve, unimpaired, the consti-
tntiOnal powers and equal independence,
not merely Of the Executive, but of eve
cry branch Of the government, which
will be imperiled by the adoption of the
principle Of this bill, l desire earnestly to
urge upon the House of Representatives
a return to the wise and wholesome
usage of the earlier days of the republic,
which excluded from appropriation bills
all irrelevant legislation. By this course
you will inagurate an important reform
in the method of Congressional legisla-
tion. Your action will be in harmony
with the fundamental principles of the
Constitution, and the patriotic sentiment
of nationality, which is their firm sup
port, and you will restore to the country
that feeling of confidence and security
and repose which are so essential to the
prosperity of all our fellow citizens.


[Signedl RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.
Year: 1879

The men who unlashed the hounds of
war upon our people in the name Of
union" were traitors, and they must be
branded as traitors before the world, and
damned to the depths with the Benedict
ArnOlds, who opposed secession and Sc
cessionists in the days of the revolu-
Year: 1879

We are taxed to pension Lincoln hire
lings for killing our people, burning our
homes, laying waste our fields, stealing
our property and hurting US headlOng
into ruin, poverty and despair.


We are taxed to pay for the enforce
ment of false and fraudulent laws that
were enacted to cow, humiliate, and put
us utterly to shame.


We are taxed to pay the salary of
criminal who stole the Presidency.


We are taxed to pay the Returning
Board thieves and perjurers and unhung
scoundrels whom he appointed to Office.


Down with the devil born amend
mentsl


Down with centralism and its hints of
crown and scepteri


Down with the pictures of Lincoln
and the scoundrels who surrounded him
in the battle days of '61-'65.


Down with every anti-Democratic
idea and idol!


These be the watchwords for 1880.
Year: 1879

Men of Northland, think not that we
will let dead past bury its dead until di-
vine justice fias done its work.


Lay not the tlattering JUNCTION to your
souls that our people will forget or for
give your damnable crimes.


They would be more or less than hui
man if they did.
Year: 1879

BRlDGEPoRT, CONN, March 20.-Judge San
ford charged the jury 10 the Hoyt case this
morning, after which the jury retired, return
ing after an absence OF fifty minutes, bringing
In verdict Of guilty Of murder In the first de.
gree. A motion In arrest OF sentence was Of
fered, and Will be argued tomorrow. The hear
ing on the motion for a third trial is set down
for March 29th. Sentence will be pronounced
On Friday afternoon. II Is stated the Jury was
unanimous On the first ballot
Year: 1879

STIFLED IN HIS SMOKE HousE-Peter Smith, a
his smoke house on Sunday. and being absent
an unusual length OF time his wife went to see
what was the matter. The door had been closed,
ana on opening 1t Mrs. Smith found her husband
pOseo mat the door OF the smoke house closed
su00enly, ana being unable to open It soon
enough smith was overcome by the dense smoke
ana fell to the floor, where his wife found him
Year: 1879

man living at 1s47 street, died suddenly while
sitting In chair yesterday. The coroner Was
notified, and after making an examination OF
the body deemed an inquest unnecessary, as
she died from natural causes
Year: 1879

A SENSATIONAL MARRIAGE.-There Is much
comment In musical circles In regard TO the re-
cent marriage or Prof. Richter It has been un-
derStood for many years past that the profess
Sof was married man; at any rate, he resided
on street, near 9Th, with a woman by whom
bered that last summer two OF them died OF
scarlet fever. On Tuesday last a marriage
license was Issued for him and Selma Seibert


daughter OF s. Seibert, 124 Maryland avenue


That evening his friends OF the Sasngerbund
were surprised at receiving a note that he had
gone on wedding tour. About the same time
note was sent by the girl to her parents say
and Mrs. Richter Of street also received q note
stating that MI. R. had gone away for q few
days. lt Is stated that Mr. Richter was not
married to the street woman. and that as far
as the law goes this last marriage is legal, and
that the couple made but q short wedding tim
and are now domiciled In a hotel on the Ave.
nue. near Az street. Mr.. Siebert. father OF the
young lady, was at Police headquarters this
morning 10 seek the aid or the detectives In the
case. as he was under the impression that
Richter was married man, and that he had
eloped With his daughter; but after he learned
that Richter was not previously married he ex-
pressed himself satisfied to let the matter drop
The detectives this morning repaired to the
house OF Mrs. Richter {lst} TO ascertain from
her whether or not she was legally married. 30
that In case they were, to arrest Richter at once
for bigamy. Their interview with that lady
must have convinced the officers that there
could be no case OF bigamy, as they said they
could have nothing to do with Richter, there
being nothing against him. Richter and his
new wife were promenading on the Avenue to
gether to-day enjoying their honeymoon with
out the usual northern tour in such cases, and
the probability is that the old folks will recon-
Gle themselves TO the circumstances,
Year: 1879

The London Dd'ly Telegrdph says:-"The bullion
withdrawn from the Bank OF England on balance
yesterday (f25.00O) was all for New York."


special cable despatch from London to the Globe
Of to-day says:"Captain Tyler has written letter
behalf of the Grand Trunk Board in reply to Mr..
Childers proposal. The letter states that the Grand
Trunk Board is disnclined to agree to division Of
the competitive traffic only. They advocate the fusion
of the whole net receipts of the two companies. to
be divided according to agreed percentages.


This settlement could easily be carried out. 1t
would insure the utmost economy aud efficiency
and avoid duplicate management; whereas the other
arrangement would great expense. loss Of
time and constant controversy. The general feeling
is strongly in favor of the Grand Trunk proposal,
which is supported by majority Of the Great West
ern shareholders. and will probably be carried out"


Following is q synopsis of the days business at
the New York Mining Stock Exchange
Year: 1879

A lady sketches her life in Brazil in
Lippincott's. She says the principle dish
at dinner in Pernambuco is fresh beef
and neutrality-suspicious. which come
from Portugal, gumbo, cabbage and two
or three bananas, all boiled together. It
is very nice, and the blacks can make it
and cup Of coffee to perfection. Every
thing fruit, vegetables, fuel and cotton
is brought into town on poor, miserable
horses, who live chiefly on mollasses and
water, preferring it to more solid food.
The owner drives his horse into the yard
early in the morning-for marketing is
over by nine o'clock you twice as
much as you can make him take, and
finishing the bargain, grabs his beast by
the tail, puts his foot upon the animals
hind knee, mounts him and rides. off.
The baker brings at five O'Clock in the
morning bag filled with delicious bread,
made of Triste and American flour mixed.
Milk is sold in quart bottles for sixteen
cents each. The cook goes for the choicer
articles needed during the day; "the
boy" which means negro servant of
any age, betakes himself to the grocery
for the fuel for the day. A breakfast is
eaten at $50, beginning with little
fruit.


The kitchen has door possibly win
dow, but no chimney if the door is too
small to let out the smoke, hole is made
in the roof. There is brick oven in one
corner, table, a chair, a few saucepans,
bowls, plates, knives, and forks no strain
er, gridiron or modern utensil. The brick
oven is built solidly upon the tile floor,
and is used for washing and baking. A
horizontal iron plate is fastened to the
back Of it, with five holes of different siz-
es for saucepans. 1t is very economical
arrangement, because the wood can be
used in accordance with the amount of
heat required. The long sticks are
kindled and pushed forward under the
plate as far as there is need of it, and
pushed in as fast as it is burned. When
charcoal is used, one place is kindled,
or as many more as are required. There
are no towels; the sun does the drying
the tile floors, the dishes and the natives
are washed, but left to dry. Scorpians
and centipedes abound, but they are not
worse than spakes or bees. A little am
monia or carbolic acid destroys all i'll
effects. And as the writer is anxious to
go back to this delightful place, it is evi-
dent that the fact Of her having been
obliged to kill seven centipeeds in one
house does not seem to have left an insur-
| mountable prejudice in her mind
Year: 1879

Under the head Of the s:Garden Lore''
London Florist has the following:
Every child who has gordening tools
Should learn by heart these gardening rules !:
he who owns a gardening spade
Should be able to dig the depth Of its blade.
He who owns gardening rake
Should know what to leave and what to take
He who owns a gardening hoe
Must be sure how he means his strokes to 60
But he who owns a gardening fork
May make it do all the other tools work.
There is another side to the subject
which the Prairie Farmer presents as be.
ing fully as important:


He who owns or borrows tools


Should always heed these honest rules:
Polished tools keep bright and clear,
Day by day and year by year.


After using put them by,


Safely stored and always dry.


When you borrow, safe return,


'IiS a lesson all should learn


When you lend be sure to say,


Keep them bright and safe pray
Year: 1879

A well-dressed young woman entered a
restaurant not far from the terminus OF
the New Orleans railway, and told the
waiter to bring her in all haste a basin of
soup, as she was about to take her depar-
tuge by the next train. This was inn
mediately done, and after having taken it
and paying the waiter she was hurrying
away, saying that she should certainly be
late, when she perceived her passage
barred by large dog, which refused to
let her pass. She attempted by caresses
to put it aside, but the animal held firm
and opposed her way.


II shall certainly be late!' she cried.
s'Do take away that horrible dog"


The waiter and the master cried out,
"Vidocq, Vidocq, give way, sir!''


But the dog never stirred. One Of the
walters here whispered something to the
master, who, coming up to the young
woman said:


"If my dog prevents you from leaving
the premises the reason must be that you
have some Of the property belonging to
the house about you. You had better
give it up at once and go your way


The person thus addressed at first af-
fected great Indignation at being so ac-
cused, but at last drew out a silver spoon
which she handed to the owner of the
restaurant. The dog then allowed her to
pass, and she was hurrying off when she
was seized by her mantelet and forced tc
stop. This time it was a police agent
who had been on the lookout for several
persons suspected of being concerned il
a robbery, and who was thought nigh,
attempt to get off by the railway. Sht
was arrested, and on examination hel
| mantelet was found to be furnished will
immense pockets for receiving pilferec
goods. lis said that this is not the frs
time that the dog belonging to the res
tauranteur has shown himself faithful
guardian of his masters property.
Year: 1879

Vivid pictures are often drawn Of the
stupidity of children, and especially Of
the ignorance which they display of the
meanings Of common English words.
But such pictures are more vivid than
true. A child may understand the mean
ing Of word perfectly without being
able to find synonym for it. To give a
definition Of the commonest word off
hand, is not always easy. An inspector
expressed his surprise that no child could
tell him the meaning of the word "boat, y
and, upon being asked himself to define
it, said:


:'Why, boat is "a boat, you know
Everybody knows what boat is.


The story is too good, perhaps, to be
true; but it points a moral neverthe-
less.
Year: 1879

Some years ago the late Horace Mann, the eminent educator, delivered an ad- dress at the opening of some reformatory institution for boys during which he re- marked that if any one boy was saved from ruin, it would pay for all the cost and care of establishing such an institu- tion as that. After the exercises had closed, in private conversation, a gentle man rallied MT. Mann upon his state. ment and said to him:

 "Did you not color that little, when you said that all expense and labor would be repaid if it only saved one boy ?"

 "Not if it were my boy," was the solemn and convincing reply,

 An 1 there is wonderful value about "my boy" Other boys may be rude and r. ugh other boys may seem to re- quire more pains and labor than they ever will repay; or other boys may be left to drift uncared for to their fuin, which is so near at hand-but "my boy Dit is worth the life time, and the lavish wealth of 8 world to save him from temporal and eternal ruin. We would go the world around to save him from peril, and would bless every hand that was stretched out to give him help and welcome. And yet every poor, wandering outcast, homeless man, is one whom some fond mother called "my boy" Every lost woman, sunken in the depths of sin, was somebody's daughter in her days of childish in- nocenoe. To-day, somebody's son is hungry outcast, pressed to the very verge of crime and sin. To-day, some body's daughter IS 0 weary, helpless wanderer, driven by necessity into paths that lead to death. Shall we shrink from labor, shall we hesitate at cost when the work before us is the salvation of soul?

 Not if it is "my boy," not if we have the love of Him who gave His life to save the lost.
Year: 1879

Mothers, have a care that passion for dress and personal display be not generated in the hearts of your daughters. How many lives have been blighted. how many souls dragged into the depths of sin by craving for dress. Teach your daughters modesty and contentment, Begin when they are little. Don't make your children, who should be all in- nocence, women of the world in a sense before they have got into their teens. What should children know of the fripperies of fashion? Yet how many little miss of eight or nine is, owing to the foolish indulgence of parents, as vain of an elaborately trimmed dress and as alive to the charms of " style" as one twice her years. Teach your little girls the beauty of modesty and the virtue of contentment from their earlier years, and when they grow up they will be nobler women for it and abler to withstand the temptations of the world. It was only the other day that young girl in the West committed suicide because of the dishonor which she had brought upon herself and her family by petty crime into which she had fallen through the love for dress.