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Year: 1879

there or in Dover being able to converse
with her, she was sent to London. The
Japanese consul of that city says that
there is no similarity between her Ian
guage and that of Japan. The girl and
her story remain mysteries. As no one
will support the poor stranger "in a
strange land" the authorities send her
from one city to another.
Year: 1879


Starting from the cradle
Toward the grave below,
Treading in the footprints
Made so long ago;
Do we note the landmarks
All along the way2
Do we stop to gather


Wisdom, day by dayl
Do we see the rivers


Made Of human tears?
Swelled by evil passions
Fed by craven fears?
II so, are we stronger
Battling with the foe2
Are we hourly growing
Wiser as we gol
Do we heed the breakers
With their sullen roar?
Do we see the timbers
Strewn along the shore?
Wrecks of human greatness
Foundered in a night
Do we mind our rudder
Better for the sight?
Beacon lights are shining
From the hills and towers;
Angel voices calling


In the darkest hours!
Let us heed the warning,
All along the way
Let us gather wisdom
While we watch and pray!
Year: 1879

Though
daions Spacious Galleries. commanding
that will give the thousands like the Grand Depot approve
methods O business
The millinery china
the various and desire for all
make delay
The cash the electric bells
more than requisite conduct business by aae sell heap
we
In the stock and the OF the establishment None
heads shall hold
Depot we know By truly serving hope



OF the Grand
The first markets in the world the where goods



ie ne goods TO counters and give them with
Our relations with rapidly
No subteges will be permitted ceiling goods The



sire Though the article silk velvet ecak pattern We
we viii trust to do right by and ask them
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Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.--Stocks
were less active, and early in the day
the market declined heavily. Toward
the close, however, there was . consid-
cradle recovery. Money was generally
to be had at per cent for call loans, al
though it was bid up to per cent and .
slight commission" at times. Bonds
Of all classes were quiet and about firm.
Foreign exchange was heavy at slightly
advanced rates.
Year: 1879

much of the water that we drink with
a deadly although invisible poison.
Atlanta is comparatively new and
not a very compact city, and NJ great
harm has as yet come from this source;
but we are certainly in a way to ac-
cumulate degree of filth that will
sooner or later, not yellow fever per
haps, but other diseases a dangerous
fo0thold. Such will inevitably be the
case unless We call a halt. The city
authorities should forthwith cause
every vault to be filed up. Such a
nuisance and cause Of air and water
poison should not be allowed to exist
within the bounds of the city. In con-
nechon with such a movement the
people should be instructed how to
economically utilize the dry earth sys-
TEN, which is endorsed by the best
sanitarians of all countries. Perhaps
no better document is needed than the
report which we print this morning,
1t comes fresh from city that has no
time for theOry-spinning. 1t is the
outcome of and actual and awful ex-


perience; and we readily adopt the
suggestion of our patriotic and thought
fuI fellow-citizen, Major Campbell
Wallace, that this brief report be put
in cheap circular form and placed in
every hOusehould in the city. The
cost would be but n trife, while the
benefits might be incalculable.
Year: 1879

If should die tonight,
My friends would look upon my quiet face,
Before they laid it in its resting place.
And deem that death had left it almost fair
And lay snOw-white flowers against my hair,
Would smooth it down with fearful tenderness, ~
And fold nay hands with lingering carcss.
Poor hands, SO empty and so Geld tonight!


If I should die tonight,
Ny friends would call to mind, with loving thought
Some kindly deed the icy hand had wrought,
Some gentle word the frozen lips had said;
Errands on which the willing feet had sped
The memory of my selfshness and pride,
My hasty words, would all be put aside,
And so should be loved and mournsd tonight.


If should die tonight
Even hearts estTanged would turn once more to me
Recalling other days remorsefully,
The eyes that chill me with averted glance
Would look upon of yore, perchance,
And soften in the old, familiar way.
For who would war with dumb, unconscious clay
So might rest, forgiven of all tonight.


Oh, friends, pray tonight,
Keep not your kisses for my dead, cold brow,
The way is lonely let me feel them now,
Think gently of me; am travel-wOrn,
My falteriDg feet pierced with many a thorn,
Forgive oh, hearts estrangcd forgive, plead
When dreamless rest is mine shall not need
The tenderness for which long tonight.
Year: 1879

To-day is a crisis in the history of
Tennessee. We believe that the accep-
tance of the 50-4 proposition will do
more to solve and settle the financial
embarrassment in which the State is
involved than will the rejection of the
proposition. But whether the COM
promise be accepted or rejected, still
ms citizens, enjoying n common inher-
itance, we are called upon by the re-
sponsibilities of the present and the
interests of the future, to forget that
we were either the friends or opponents
of the compromise, and stand together
as a brotherhood in our citizenship;
resolved that we will contribute the
might of our personal influence to
strengthen and sustain the State, that
che may not be jostled aside by other
commemorative i'll the great race for
material and intellectual supremacy.
1t is not a personal but a public ques-
tion at issue. No ones personal integ-
rity is affected by opposing the meas
ure as it is only an honest difference
of opinion in II matter of State policy.
Let each man vote as he pleases, and
may the Ruler of nations order the
judgments of men to the best and
wisest results.
Year: 1879

Mr.. Edgar Hcndon, son of our venerable
townsman, Es'i. JnO. r. Hendon, died on
last Thursday night of a most singular and
and distressing disease. At Tuesday noon
he was in his usual very robust health and
so continued until about o'clock that
evening when he began to manifest signs of
mental aberrs ton. His brother, Mr. Geo.
Hcndon, was with him at the time and
thinking that he must be Intoxicated, tried
to control him. Finding this impossible, he
called up his father and other friends who
were compelled to hold him to prevent him
from killing himself, which he vowed that
he was going to do. He next manifested a
most wonderful biting mania and several
of his friends lost greater or less portions of
their clothing from the Use of his teeth.
Not only would he bite them, but the bed
clothes and everything which came in his
way, and when 50 held that he could reach
nothing with his teeth he would gnash his
them together in the icrcest way.


When his friends had held him until
their strength was entirely exhausted, he
was tied to the bed which he broke down
by his violent contortions. The biting
mania was succeeded by violent and terri
bic spasms. During these paroxysms the
utmost cxertions of four or five strong men
were required to keep him still, and the
only method to prevent their continued re-
currence was by giving the most extraordi-
nariIy large doses OF chIoroform and other
sedatiyes. Wnen their effects would wear
off, the spasms would return and this con-
tinued for more than forty hours until tn
vital powers were entirely exhausted when
he fell into comatose condition ending in
death.


He had the very best medical attention
and the most careful nursing, but the vio-
lencc Of the attack deIied all human skill
His symptoms greatly resembled those of
hydrophobia, except that there was no fear
of water; they were also somewhat like
those of tetanus, but exactly it was, the
physicians could not say. There was the
most violent congestion of stomach and
brain, but what cansod it coud not be told


We are requested by his bercaved parents
to return their most heartfelt thanks to the
physicians and other gentlemen for their
kind and patient attention upon their son
during his illness, and also 10 the pastors of
our churches and frien!s generally for the
sympathy and consideration shown to thcm
il their graf sorr0w.-S9me lie ! alcon.
Year: 1879

The following beautiful letter was
written, several years ago, by gen
ticman to a bride. on receiving her
wedding cards. 1t is exquisitely fresh
and original, and full of poetry
Though not intended for publication,
it found lis way into print, and we
think it is too much of a gem to be
lost entirely:


Il am holding some pasteboard in my
hands, Addie Three stately pluck
ings from the bush of ceremony! am
gazing on a card and name-a name
with which your gentle life began-a
name with which your throbbing heart
was lost. There is nothing strange
about the card. The maiden sign
still looks from it, calm and customa-
~, as it looked on many a friendly Wis
it, as it lies in many a formal basket,
am gazing, too, upon card where
the nearer parent tells the world she
will be at home one day, and that is
nothing new But there is another
card whose mingling there puts fiery
tongue into this speechless pastcbcard. D..
enameling fate on common places. It
tells us that feeling is maturing into
destiney and that these cards are but
the pale heralds of coming crisis,
when hand that has pressed friends
hands and plucked flowers, shall close
down on him to whom she shall be
friend and flower forever.


Il have sent you few flowers to
adorn the dying moments of your single
life. They are the gcntlest types of n
delicate and durable friendship. They
spring up by our side when others have
deserted it, and they will be found
watching over our grave when those
who should cherish have forgotten US.
1t seems meet to me that a pastso calm
and pure as yours should expire with
kindred sweetness about it. The
flowers and music, kind friends and
earnest words, should consecrate the
hour, when a sentiment is passing into
a sacrament.


The three great stages of our being
are the birth, the bridal, and burial
To the first we bring only weakness
for the last we have nothing but dust.
But here at the altar, where life Joins
life, the pair come throbbing up to the
holy man, whispering the deep prom
ise that arms each other with the 9th
er's heart, to help OH the life struggle
of care and duty.


The beautiful will be there, bor-
rowing new beauty from the scene;
the gay and the frivolous. they and
their fiounccs, will come to gaze on all
their scattered thoughts pant for; and
age will totter up to hear the old words
repeated that to their own lives have
given the charms.


"Somc will weep over it as if it were
the tomb, and some will laugh over it
as if it were a joke. Two must stand
by it, for it is fate-nOt fun-this
everlasting locking of their lives.


And now can you, who have
queened it over so many bended forms
can you come down at last to the fru-
gal diet Of a single heart?


Hitherto you have been a clock,
giving your time to all the world.
Now you are a watch, buried in one
particular bosom, watching his breast,
marking only his hours, and ticking
only to the beat Of his heart-where
time and feeling shall be in unison,
until these lower ties are lost III that
higher wedlock, where all hearts are
united around the great central heart
Of all.


''Hoping that calm sunshine may
hallow your claSped hands, | sink 81
lently into signature. Temperance
Ensign
Year: 1879

Quite recently we have been enabled through fortui
circumstances make arrangements for procuring


large supply of those beautiful little gems of nicke
rated clocks, with heavy pateglass fronts and stem
winding which now so exceedingly popular in the
East and wherever used (See illustration above) All
the movements of this clock perfect. They manu-
featured Of the best materials with polished steel springs
and a the plates screwed together In short this
clock state, is gen. thoroughly reliable time
keeper and admirably fitted to grace any mantle Shelf
or stand in any parlor, dining sleeping Now,
having related these unquesonabe facts pertaining to this
clock, which designate " The NATIONAL TRIBUNE
Clock, beg leave impress it upon the minds of all
readers that owing to special arrangements
abed to offer to any and all The National Tribune
Clock and " lHe Natiana Tribune Newspaper" for the
unprecedented low price of S75 In clubs Of
subscribers desiring clock and paper we will allow
clock and paper for the getting up of every said
club of ten. The clock and paper will be sod under no
circumstances for less than dollar and seventyve
cents whether in orders for hundred and in all
Of ordering, parties must pay the freight, the
of which will be but trife. No fears need be
entertained of breakage of the clock or disarrangemen
of it's parts by transportation. Thus give YOU
peror clock and excellent newspaper of special interest
the thousands Of soldiers of the country concerning
their patriotism their rights and their pockets while
general it publishes relating to matters Washing
ton social gossip lively sketches choice selections
&c Will render II welcome guest III every fally circle
Now, here is prospectus for good profitable bust
ness which soldiers especially could make great success
Almost every householder would buy of these clocks
he had several hand and those who have none
would surely buy. Go to work then and get up your
clubs Think of it. beautiful family clock entirely
reliable and interesting family newspaper both for
dollar and seventy-ive cents together with ex-
clock and newspaper for every geter up OF club of
Beoen clocks and eleUen newspapers for 8oenteen dol
lars and fifty cents Remit by money ORDERS which
be obtained at almost every T. S Post Office by regis
tered letter, by draft New York, or by express


Specimen of paper sent free


Address at once,


"THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE COMPANY"
Year: 1879

The Americans are a nation of readers. Many ladies
and gentlemen take half dozen newspapers and maga
zines and yet demand Are they fully supplied un
less patron of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, journal spec
iay devoted the interests of the soldiers of the
try their only and immediate organ in the United States
and containing the time general and spicy news
and information which readers will relish.


Now. ia order to accommodate all who desire our paper
we have made arrangements to furnish it and others hav
ing a national reputation at the following rates:
Year: 1879

This is the most economical plan you adopt to
cure valuable and interesting reading,
Send your subscriptions at once, in moneyorder
registered letter.


We furnish any othec leading papers or magazines
in connection with the NATIONAL RIBUNE and when
you think Of subscribing any paper not the above
list Just write to u.s. and you may rely upon securing
upon the very best terms and that it will be forwarded
very promptly No subscriptions received for less than
year.


Now specially call upon the soldiers to help us in
the work of enargng subscription list by the means
here presented 1t can readily be done if they will put
their shoulders the wheel If they regard their
paper-whch it is most emphatically-they will feel
pride in it's success.


The larger subscription list the more money we can
afford to expend in making additionally attractive
sheet.


We would like to hear from any soldiers, North South,
East Vest who would be pleased to labor in the cause
Let us hear from YOU boys


Address at


"THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE COMPANY"


Washington ID. O.
Year: 1879

The following, which appeared in
a recent number of the Era and is
from the pen of one deeply interest
ed in the project, we publish by
request:


cit will be borne in mind that a
meeting Of our citizens was held in
the Opera House some time ago to
take into consideration the feasibil-
ity of establishing Sisters Hospital
i'm Columbus. At that meeting a
committee of five was appointed to
act i'm the premises.


We learn from the members of
that committee that the Sisters are
already assured of the donation of
suitable grounds for the hospital
building, and that the Sisters are
now collecting funds in Lincoln,
Omaha and other parts of the State
for the erection of such building,
and it only needs the hearty support
of our own citizens to hasten the
good work and make the project a
success.


AS yet we are unable to state the
size and cost of the hospital building
as that will depend on the amount
of funds collected for the purpose.
OF course the Institution will be
nOn-sectarian in its character and
management, being open for the
reception of patients of every class
irrespective of creed and nationali-
ty-the inmates being free to receive
the ministrations OF such religious
teachers as they may desire; and
while it will be properly charita-
BILE institution, moderate and reas-
enable compensation will be expect
ed from patients whose means will
warrant the same, yet the INDECENT
will receive equal care and consid-
Grafton without pay and without
price. We are warranted in stating
that the county can make very sat-
isfactOry arrangements with the in
stitution for the care of our county
poor-this alone is matter of much
importance TO our tax payers.


A board of directors is to be
chosen to cooperate with the Sis
tiers in the general management and
control Of the institution.


Subscription lists will soon be
circulated and it is hoped that our
citizens will literally respond"
Year: 1879

According to notice given on the
day of sale on the Goth of Nov. last,
no one will be allowed to enter the
timber lot after the first day OF
March until the first day of Novem-
ber next. Those who wish to get
out any more wood for spring and
summer use should bear this in
mind. HENRY LEUsCHE.
Year: 1879

-Bi.carbonate of soda is said to
be an excellent thing for burns.
Place it thick on the affected part,
tie cloth over it, put a little water
on that to dissolve the soda. Where
it is properly applied, no scar will
be left, even though the flesh has
been burned to a blister. This rem
edy is very valuable because nearly
every household has it at hand.
Year: 1879

A SURE Cure FOR RHEUMATIsM-Itis is
now stated that the water of boiled cele-
ry is q sure cure for rheumatism. The
celery should be cut into bits, boiled in
water until soft, aud the water drank by
the patient. Put new milk, with little
flour and nutmeg, into a saucepan with
the.bolled celery, serve it warm, with a
piece OF toast; eat it with potatoes, and
the painful element will soon yield.
Year: 1879

There was n day when the coal oil
men OF Pennsylvania made fortunes
and when petroleum like shoddy was
the synonym for one who had made q
sudden fortune. These days, however,
are gone, and petroleum now commands
in the New York market only q cents
per gallon. The oil region of Penn
ssvlVanla is no longer gold mine; tile
price OF OIL now scarcely pays for the
digging Of the new Wells.-[N. O. DEM
oeTat
Year: 1879

WEARE REALLY glad to know that the
contract for building the new Court


House has been awarded to Mr. Archi-


bald Given, a competent aud RESPONSE


ble Wilmington builder, and as the
contract calls for it to be finished BY the
first of October 1880, We know of no
contractor more capable of pushing
through the work in less time than Mr..
Given. Giving the contract to Phila-
delphia contractor would have been
unfair to our Wilmington contractors,
and indeed We feel that it was hardly
fair that they should have been com
PEELED to enter into competition with
Philadelphia contractors without some
odds in favor of our own home mechan-
les. However as Mr.. Given has been
able to und-rbid the Philadelphia men
we congratulate him and h~pe that he
may give us a handsome Court house
and make a good profit on it.
Year: 1879

We PUBLISH to-day the tramp law
enacted last winter by the Legisla-
ture of this State. Its provisions are
very severe and we have no doubt that
the law is unconstitutional. No doubt
that many Of the tramps are very bad,
and deserve punishment, but under
this law it would be very easy to arrest
any stranger however respectable who
Year: 1879

in all $4,000, will soon exhaust, and
will require at least $5, 900 more to put
the year through. This added to the
$40 900 deficiency already made out,
will run the amount up to $4, ,OOO.-
Chairman Guthrie says he will have
enough money in the Treasury by the
first Of September without borrowing .


dollar to run the city up to the first OF


April, but We are confident that If MIR.


Guthrie is correct the money will


have to come into the City Treasury
from some ,ther source than the tax
levy OF 81 Is.


One thing more We would call atten-
ton to, aud that is that a,tax levy of
sl.20, the same as last year, would
have only raised 1900 more, and
would still not have been sufficient to
have mt the demands Of the city with
out creating floating debt of about
$4,000. This fact suggests also that
even a tax rate of Sl.25 would not be
sufficient, and no matter what party is
in power in the City Council next year,
we are very much mistaken If in order
to meet this years deficiencies and the
current expenses Of next year, a tax
levy even teyond that of $l.25 will
have to be levied. As q condensation
of the foregoing We close with the
Year: 1879

The YELLOW FEVER in Memphis has


been declared epidemic, and now there


is no hope for its decrease until it falls


before the fall frosts. As precautions


were not taken last winter TO thorough


ly clean up Memphis, it is hoped that


there will be no neglect the coming


winter, and that a system of drainage
and sewering may be commenced that
will protect il from all future attacks of
the plague. Since it is known precise
ly how such a disease can live over a
winter in mild climate, it is hoped
tae people will no longer permit the
value of a few old rags of clothing to
b. weighed in the balance against the
value of lives and property Of the
whole city. If the old clothes of Mem
phs are not cleaned out with fire this
year it is infaIlibly certain that Mem.
phis will have the fever again next
year. Here is y case where the Nation
al Board of Health could very properly
assume some control. 1t should lose no
time in securing the systematic destruc.
ton by fire of all the old clothes of the
people or otherwise they will be sold
and carried to other points to give the
fever to other cities.
Year: 1879

OF the astonishing speed of the ami.
NAL called the jsck-rabbit q writer in q
Colorado paper says: II never saw any
thing that can run as fast as jack rab-
bit. A long-legged greyhound under
took to catch one, and after playing
along for short time aud encouraging
the dog, the rabbit suddenly started of
and distanced his enemy in about three
seconds. The dog gave up the chase at
once and returned to the wagon the
most crestfallen and disappointed and
meanest looking dog ! ever saw"


The inventor of shoes for walking on
the water gave an exhibition at Men,
phis. He stepped boldly off the levee,
but the buoyancy of the shoes was not
equal to expectation, and he Immediately
sank into the river. He was so nesrly
drowned when rescued that they rolled
him on q barrel. No more successful
was the trial Of flying machine at San
Francisco. The inventor started from @
housetop, futtered briefly in the air, and
fell into q stream, where the apparatus
nearly caused his death by sinking him
Year: 1879

This morning about 1890 o'clock q
lad about fonr years ofage, entered the
postotfice and informed several of the
employees in said Office that he was lost.
The boy said his name was Stout, and
that he had come up town with COM
panion by the name Of Alloway. Word
was sent to the police station and officer
Robinson accompanied by Mr.. Daley
the bailitf of City Council, went to the
post Office. Mr.. Daley being resident
of the eastern part of the city, took
charge of the boy and it is hoped that
he has been successful in finding the
parents of the child. While in the
post Office the boy commenced crying
and twas only after giving him sever
al pennies that he could be kept from
weeping. For one of his age he ap.
peared to be exceedingly bright.