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Year: 1879

Bob White, Of the Mexico LEDGER,
is occupying the most of his first
page each week with sermons. Just
wait until the matrimonial yoke gets
little old and Bob will lose all taste
for long sermons.-Clarksville Sen
tinel


The very next sermon we publish
will be one Of our wife's.
Year: 1879

CINCINNATI, March pa meeting OF
priests Of this diocese was held last night,
Tor the purpose of taking further action tn
the work Of relieving Archbishop Purcell and
saving the church property. At a previous
meeting, a committee had been appointed to
commence work. While this meeting was In
progress an article from the Cdtisottc 1ete-
graph was read, stating that a committee OF
three business men had been appointed for
the same purpose and would In q few days
open an office and commence busines: 1his
announcement created great Indignation, es-
pecially among the German priests, and after
a heated discussion the meeting adjourned,
with the understanding that the priests OF
the diocese have no part or concern In the
work OF relieving the archbishop.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, March 2S.-At the Cabinet
meeting to-day the situation on the Canadian
border relative to the probable crossing OF
Sitting Bull and his force into the territory OF
the United States, without first accepting the
terms OF surrender offered by this govern
ment, was fully discussed. In view OF the
facts presented by the Secretaries of War
and OF the Interior 1t was not thought that
any immediate complications would occur.


Sitting Bull and his people are regarded by
this government as inhabitants OF the
Dominion Of Canada, and it is believed that
the Canadian government will do what 1t can
to prevent hostile invasion of this country
commanding the Canadian police force Of OBJ
servation, Is largely reinforced, it is not be-
leved that he can accomplish much beyond
observing and reporting upon the movements
OF the Indians. He certainly would be power
less to prevent the Indians from crossing
into the United States in case they SO de-
sire. The United States forces on the
border have been SO placed as to be
able to keep a strict watch upon the move
ments OF the Indians on this side, and also of
the movements of any from the other side
who may come near the border The opinion
Is entertained in official circles here that IL
the Indians contemplate hostile movement
to prevent them from becoming an object OF
suspicion to either the Canadian or United
States forces. Every effort will, however, be
made by both sides to ascertain the secrets OF
the Indian camp.


Gen. Miles, commanding the United States
forces on the American side of the Canadian
border, will leave here about the first of April
to join his command at army headquarters.
The opinion Is entertained that he will, at the
proper time and place, have sufficient force to
make a final settlement with Sitting Bull in
case he shall conclude to pay us visit.
Year: 1879

NEW YORK, March 28.-Wednesday night,
q haggard woman, dressed in rags and COW
cred with filth. tottered into the station house
and begged for nights lodging. She was
shown an apartment reserved for such home
less waits, and sank down on the floor in
seeming exhaustion. Yesterday, when Officer
Laman stopped before the wretched looking
creature, in her wan face, with all the signs
OF dissipation, and under the rags and tatters
that covered her, he recognizeda woman who
ten years ago figured in one OF the most SEN
sational tragedies of the day. She was Fan
ME Wright, then notorious woman, who, on
the nineteenth Of October, 1867, stabbed and
instantly killed Officer McChesney. The
trial attracted considerable interest at the
time and revealed the secrets OF life
time, which were of very peculiar
character. Fannie Wright was tnen twenty
stx years old. She was the daughter of a
respectable Poughkeepsie family, which she
had fed from when quite young to abandon
herself to career of vice. When the news of
her arrest reached her family they made
strong effort In her behalf. The jury found
q verdict of murder in the first degree and
Fanny was condemned to the State prison
Tor life. Her counsel, however, by vigorous
exertions, succeeded in securing new trial.


This time, by the introduction OF new evil
oence and legal technicalities, a verdict of
Year: 1879

LONDON, March 28.-Hawdon, OF Delval,
has commenced active practice work for the
coming match with Hanlan. The weather is
very unpropitious for outdoor exercise. Haw-
dons exercise Is taken on land, owing to the
river being SO full Of broken water that scull-
ing ia impossible. The climate has affected
Hanlan to a rather unfortunate degree. He
caught bad cold, which confined him to the
house for four days. Hanlan has also been
greatly troubled with deep-seated carbuncle
on the back OF his neck, but is now recover
ing slowly and will probably be all right In a
few days. There is no doubt that the period
of his recovery will depend much on the con-
tinuance OF the east winds. from which the
Newcastle district is suffering at present.
Severe weather prevails in the north, and
until that takes a favorable turn, the Ameri-
can champion will scarcely venture out to
take rowing exercise.
Year: 1879

MONTREAL, March 28.-The changes which
Finance Minister Filley has made In sugar
duties have induced Americans interested in
that trade to consider the advsability of
erecting rehneries here. representative
Of q leading New York house being now here.
endeavOred to secure promises for Immediate
action. The 10 per cent preferential duty
against the United States on tea and coffee is
now In force, the necessary order In council
duty will be collected on all importatlons of
tea and coffee from New York, Boston or other
American cities,
Year: 1879

murder In minor degree was found and the
defendant sent to the State prison for short
er period. After two years confinement her
family induced the Governor to sign her par
don. Nothing had been heard OF her for years
till yesterday. In addition to sickness and
debility her mind was found to be wandering


She was given in charge OF the Commission
ers OF Charities and Correction and sent to
the hospital.
Year: 1879

LONDON, March 2S.-The advance in the
price of silver to 501s per ounce is regarded as
favorable symptom In the money market,
and In some quarters 1t is thought a further
advance will take place. The recent resolu-
tion Of the Chamber of Commerce In Liver
pool recommending an international conven-
tion for the reconciliation OF silver has been
received with some favor In financial and
commercial circles.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, Marcta 2s.-The opinion OF
the court OF inquiry In the case OF Gen. Fftz
John Porter, which was sent to the President
under seal several days since, has not re-
ceived attention In consequence Of the nOn-
arrival of the records Of the court 1t is
stated officially that the case will not be
ready for publication for some days yet. As
soon as the President reviews the findings of
the court the case will be given to the press.
Year: 1879

People are dying every day of throat and lung
complaints who might be saved by timely aas.s
perseyering use OF the New Louisiana Remedy
rhas IN Gsn remarkable I product OF or & &sWamps y
Year: 1879

Wilfred, with all the courtesy habitual to
him, drew forward comfortable chair, and
invited the visitor, who stood silent and spell,
bound just within the door, to take seat.


"Mr. Courtaine is not in, Madam; he has
left town for few days. he replied, to a
faltering inquiry relative to that gentleman,
which she managed to PROFOUND. She was
too confused to know what she was doing, for
she had not meant to ask for him, and had he
been at hand to respond to her inquiry,
would certainly not have known what to say
next, as she had no business with him whatev-
ever. "Can 1 do anything for your" he
continued, seeing her agitated look.
Year: 1879

But the postman bringing him letters just
then, among which was one from Daisy, he
soon ceased to wonder, or indeed to think
about the matter all.


Mrs. Barstow, as she got herself out of the
building and into the binding glare of the
street again, felt that she had acted queerly
but that consciousness did not trouble her
She was too much absorbed in other thoughts
to care what impression she had made on this
Young man, to whom she had so unexpected
ly presented herself. Ralph's son !-Ralph's
son she kept repeating below her breath, as
she hurried along. Yes, the fact was estab
lished now established beyond doubt. She
had been so engrossed with this one idea that
she had neglected finding out what she had
wished to know-the date of her husband's s
death. She had fully meant to ask Wilfred
that but had forgotten. No matter. 1t could
affect her but little now to learn when and
where he had ended his dishonored life
Enough that the grave had closed over it
He was beyond all earthly retribution, beyond
her reproaches now. 1t could not now awaken
one pang of remorse within him, to know
that on her heart still deeper shadow than
before had fallen. And had he been living
and conscious of this fact, would he have felt
such pang? Alas! not was little like
ly. 1t had needed but short experience to
assure her that she had ever been an object
of indifference to him; nay, was not the ex'
istence of this boy-this offspring of an un,
holy union-proof of feeling worse than
indifference, which has led to his desertion OF
her, and the forming of new ties? What
those ties had been-whether sanctioned by
Year: 1879

To REMOVE DANDRUFF-To remove
dandruff tako an ounce of powdered borax,
piece of unslakcd lime the size of chest
nut, and tablespoonful of spirits Of am
monia put them iu a quart bottle and fill
it up with boiled or pump water After
twelve hours apply this wash to the scalp.
Ladies can apply it best with fuc sponge
Rinse with tepid water. After a few APP
plications the scales will disappear, the hair
becomes soft and brilliant, and the young
hair be seen to start out. Dandruff should
be cured gradually, so as not to pro.
duce sick headache or dizziness by its
sudden suppression. - E;cchaage.
Year: 1879




Bone dust, like barnyard manure, does
not Immediately yield up its nitrogen
and phosphoric acid to plants, The bone
phosphate of lime is insolublc in water
containing carbolic acid. The gelatlne
of the bones would soon decomposc in a
moist, porous, warm soil, provided it was
not protected by the oil and the hard mat
ter Of the bones. Steaming removes the
oil, and reducing the bones to as fine a
condition as possible in another means of
increasing their availability. Another
good method is to mix the bone dust with
barn-yard manure and let them both fire.
ment together, and am inclined to think
this is the best, simplest and most econ
omical means Of rendering bones avail.
able. The bone dust causes the heap OF
manure to frement more rapidly, and the
fermentation of the manure sottens the
bones. Both the manure and the bones
are improved and rendered richer and
more available by the process. One ton
of good bone dust contains about as mnch
nitrogen as eight and half tons of fresh
stable manure, and as much phosphorlC
acid as ITO tons OF fresh stable manure
But one ton of manure contains more pot
ash than five tons Of bone dust.
Year: 1879

DoUDElNG the value Of money at the
expense of the people is not by any means
the ugliest feature of our present financial
engineering. Its accumulation in tie
hands ola few controls the value of every
thing that the farmer brings 10 market.
Year: 1879

mon stock Of which remarkably active and
strong, went up on the official statement that the
immense published earnings of saOO0 900 for June
and sl54 900 for July net. and that the esti-
mated traffic for the coming months would swell
the earnings on the common stock to 13h per cent.
ST. Louis and San Francisco stock advanced upon
the published earnings of the company and the
favorable reports concerning the management of the
road and the rapid pushing of work its new lines.


The following table showo the extreme huctua-
tians fur tha week in the leading shares:-
Year: 1879

case which not in the freescape line, but
which may. like the in that line. be considered
OF the spasmodc order, recently disposed OF by
the granting OF patent. 1t to a Boston lady.
and was "a novel mechanism for holding back the
ears OF children and preventing them from standing
obtrusivey to the prejudice of good appearance
This device is peculiarly applicable to children with
abnormaliy large or Zap ears. The inventress does
not specify whether not the demand for her in
yention il peculiar to Boston.
Year: 1879

The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Daily News says: AS might be ex
pected, there have been Enoch Ardens
among the returned Communists, but
happily very few. When their wives
read their names in the lists published
in the journals, they disappeared A
case of an opposite nature has been re-
ported to me 10y a friend of the family in
which it happened. The wife in this in
stance was heroic in her constant atfec,
tion, and accomplished prodigies of en-
ergy in putting her children to trades,
setting Lerself up in business and send
ing money to her husband, who was laid
low with a chronic malady. He was so
altered by illness and hardship that at
the railway neither she nor her children
recognized him. The latter went back
to distant parts of the city where they
are employed, and the wife returned
home in a despairing mood, which tbs
spectacle of the rejoicing people around
her intensified. The amnestied husband
first lost time seeking for her in crowd
and then waiting to see if she would
hunt him up. He remained until 6
o'clock, waiting in the hope that she
would arrive, and then went to look af-
ter some baggage in which he had col
lection of curious shells and stuffed ami
mails, which he thought would please
her. When at last he got to her domi-
Gle lie was shown to her room and found
the door bolted inside. Nobody answer
ed to the loud knocking, and the police
commissary was sent for Upon his ar
rival a letter, freshly written, was found,
in which the unfortunate woman said
that she had only loved once in her life,
and that the object of her love was her
husband. 1t was evident that he was
dead, and death only could relieve her
from her heart wound. Her dead body
lay on the floor. She had committed
suicide.
Year: 1879

IL lB uOuDtIul II tDe Judge WOuiC
have felt as much surprise to hear hi:
wife say sbe was going to make 8
voyage to Europe, as to hear her say
she was going to make soap! They
bad not been very long married then,
and the Judge was not yet conversanr
with the full catalogue Of that thor.
oughly homemade womsn's accom-.
plishments. She had been one of the
Eve daughters of q widow, left while
her children were wee bit girls, in
very strsitened circumstances. The
way the mother reared them up to
true and useful womsnhood was q
marvel of perseverance, industry and
economy. She managed to have
them we'll educated for the times, and
saw them all married into the best
circles, and occupying positions Of
responsibility and influence. Judge
Manotte's wife was the youngest of
the widows daughters, and it was
thought she had made the best match
of the Eve. The Judges home was
one OF the pleasantest in the thrifty
village, which has since assumed the
more ambitious name of city. He
bad been gently born and raised,
went esrly to college, and from
thence to bis profession as a lawyer.
Manual toll was q stranger to him,
yet be was man of industry, 10 no
sense given to profuseness Of expend-
iture. He approved and admired his
wife's general prudence in house
keeping. and spoke with pride to bis
guests of the excellent food with
which his board was spread, as the
work of her own hands. Mrs. Man
otte might have kept servants. /
think the Judge would have been
better satisfied if she would have had
q girl-sll the ladies of her position
bad one or more-but she declared
with decision, pretty early in their
welded lite, that she would not be
bothered with servants as long as she
had health to do her own work. The
exercise was no more than she need.
ed for her own health


Mrs. Manotte had will and way
Of her own, as the tale will bear
abundant evidence. The Judge
made the discovery pretty early. He
could doubtless make moving plea
in q court room, but be was aware
be could make no plea to move his
wife when she was bent on a certain
course.


Bot yet when Mrs. Manotte, over
the breakfast table on a fair April
morning, announced her intention Of
making 9 barrel of soft soap, the
Judge looked as if stricken with q
sudden palsy. l doubt if he would
have worn . more rueful face had
bis best Law suit gone against him.


"And hope you will help me all
you csn," added the earnest woman,
on thoughts of economy, ashes and
grease intent.


Indeed, can render ycu no as.
sistance whatever ~ returned the
Judge, in sharper tones than bis wife
had ever heard him speak before.
Her calm blue eyes surveyed him
with unruffied composure. but there
wac not 10 look or bearing one symp.
tom wsvering from her purpose.


Then / must 60 to the job alone,
she said.


II beg you will do thing Of the
kind" continued the Judge, some
thing very like frown contracting
his brow Il am perfectly willing to
buy oil tie soap we need, and VIVA,
use should We have for a vile, sloppy
stof the rough-scuff use 7"


"Soft soap was good enough for
my mother. and it is good enough fol
her daughter returned Mrs Man
otte, with q dignity approaching
sternness.
Year: 1879




The San Francisco Daily Stock Re-
port, the oldest financial paper on the
Pacific coast, in urging that a monster
mass meeting be held in San Francisco
to demand of Hayes that he sign the
Chinese bill, uses the following extra
ordinary language.


This is most critical time in the
history of California. Whether there
is to be bloodshed and anarchy in our
fair State, riot, incendiarism and mur-
der; whether our green fields are to
be blackened and our garden spot laid
waste; or whether. rather than incur
those dreadful evils, we shall calmly
in the end, all other resorts having
failed, meet and sever our connection
with the national confederation, max
ing laws for our preservation and the
preservation of our children s heritage.
the events of the next two DAYS may
determine. Already such a dread
possibility as secession from the Union,
in the event of our failure to obtain
the relief we demand from the Chi
nese evil, is broadly talked of in high
circles. The East has utterly failed
to understand our situation, and to
extend the aid and sympathy we have
the right to expect from the sisterhood
Of States. Leading men say that we
have pleaded, have exhausted argu-
ments, have cried aloud for relief, but
our most earnest appeals have been
treated with indignity, and our suffer
ings been made mockery. As last
resort we will take advantage of the
geographical lines that surround us,
the vast extent of soil within our
boundaries, the exhaustless resources
of wealth that are ours, and will set
up an Occidental republic, which, if
it cannot rival the old republic in its
glory of the past, will at least be a
magnificent empire of white freemen,
whose heritage shall be preserved to
their children and their children s
children forever.
Year: 1879

The seven Cheyenne braves who
were not shot down at Camp Robinson,
or in the last ditch " to which they
reSorted, not far away, were conducted
through the streets of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, one day last week. Wild Hog
was suffering from three painful
wounds, inflicted with pair of broken
scissors Big Head had a wound in
the thigh Buffalo Calf had a badly
mangled knee, and Old Crow, Fast
Whirlwind, Porcupine and Left Hand
were rather the worse for wear. The
bucks were accompanied by fourteen
women and children. The journey
from Sidney was made by rail, it being
the first time that any of the Indians
had ever been on a train. They were
frightened at first, but soon found
themselves enjoying the journey, The
children stared out of the windows
and were happy occasionally an ex-
preston Of sadness would fit across
the faces Of the squaws and the bucks
wore look of stolid indifference


They were convinced that they would
either be hanged outright for the
Kansas murders, or be taken back to
the reservation and slowly starved to
death. Aaa tt hA.I
Year: 1879

THE New York Times thinks that
the reform which is steadily making
its way in the matter of expensive,
useless and vulgar funeral pageantry
might well be introduced to the mod
ification of the custom of making we'd
ding presents. A gross abuse has
here taken root and fourished. The
business is entirely overdone and has
lost whatever of significance it ever
possessed, The custom has degener-
ated into actual trade and barter, and
most sensible people will ssympathize
with that courageous Boston girl, who
being about to be married to "a man
Of limited ineome," as they say in
Boston, requested her dear friends
not to send any wedding presents.
She was afraid she would not be able
to reciprocate in kind. This wise girl
of Boston struck the keynote of the
bridal present movement
Year: 1879

The cause Of religion has been ad
vanced in Philadelphia. William
Bradshaw was a singer in the choir of
the First Baptist church. A week
ago he engaged himself to Manager
Ford to sing in Pinaforc " chorus at
the Broad Street Theater. Last Sat
urday night he received note from
Mr.. j. S. Moore, director of the choir,
in which the following lines occurred:
A person who for six nights of the
week sings as an adjunct to theatrical
performances can scarcely, on Sunday
be In a proper spirit to aid in leading
the worship Of the sanctuary" Mr..
Bradshaw is an old choir-singor, hay
ing been singing for twenty-five years.
BY trade he is machinist, but has
been out Of work for several weeks,
the choir salary being the only source
Ofsupport for himself and family until
he got employment at the Broad Street
Theater. He is a member Of the
Episcopal church.
Year: 1879

The BFeathitt County Prisoners


Wake a Desperate Attempt 10


Escape.


CINCINNATI, February 25.-A dis
patch says Jason Little, and other
convicted prisoners of Breathitt
county, KY, made a desperate attempt
to escape from Jail the night before
their departure for the penitentiary.
They had cut through the floor of
their cell to a room below, from which
they could have easily effected their
escape had their plan worked to suit
them. They had arranged with
friends outside to engage in sham
fight on the opposite side of the Jail
from which they were to escape, but
the prisoners were discovered in the
lower room, and Judge Jackson or
dered them to be put in irons.
Year: 1879

WHAT does it profit man to have a
good business and to be making money if
he does not have health to enjoy it. Many
q mans life is made burden to him by
fever and ague when, if he would only
use Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic he would find
speedy relief 1t restores the appetite,
stimulates the digestion and corrects and
gives tone to the stomach, and is whole
some invigorating and unfailing remedy
in bilious and malarial fevers and fever
and apue.
Year: 1879

If man looks for fresh eggs every
morning at this season of the year he
is on the wrong lay New Orleans
Picayuno. And if a man loafs on the
corners every day in the year he is on
the wrong stand. - Detroit Free
Press. You bet. And if he goes to
bed on a horse railroad he will bo
found on the wrong track New
Orleans Picayune. And if he be a
sehoolmaster and neglects to examine
the chair he is liable to be on the
wrong tack. Boston Globe. And
II, instead Of tack, he sits down on a
crooked pin he is on the wrong bent
New York Herald,
Year: 1879

The following record will show the changes in the
temperature for the past twenty hours. in
parison with the corresponding date of last year.
indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy,
Herald Building, No. 2ls Broadway