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Year: 1879

A Paris correspondent Of the


Boston Courier, referring to bis


recovery from dangerous illness,
says: I mention this illness that


may tell you how easily T was


cured. I was bent double. l


could not breathe. My physician
J ordered me to take a fat-iron and


heat it as hot as I could bear; put


a double fold Of flannel on the pain.


full part, and move the iron to and


fro on tie flannel. l was cured by


enchantment. My doctor told me


that some time since a professor in


one of our colleges, after suffering
some days with neuralgia in the


head which he himself had tried to


cure, sent for the former, who pre-
scribcd hot-iron. The next time


the doctor saw the professor the


latter exclaimed with mock anger:
II really shall not pay you your
fee ! what had no sooner applied


the heated iron tony head than


instantly all pain vanishedl That


is az simple as good day >; surely
you cannot expect a fec for it ~


My physician was summoned re-
Gently 10 the bedside of woman
who had neuralgia in both sides,
and so violently she alarmed the
whole neighborhood by the screams
which her intolerable anguish wrupg
from her. She was taken from her
bed and born near the FIRE. In
such severe cases a heated iron is
not energetic enough. He has an
iron rod fastened in an ivory han
die. He heats the rod TO white
heat (Which causes less pain than
red heaD and applies it very slight
ly to the seat Of pain, first in long
gitudinal then in latitudioal lines. !
The application is so light that no
trace is left but red lines on the ep-
idermis. which are soon effaced. In
twenty minutes the woman walked |
back 10 bed, and the third day al
terwards quilted it entirely freed
from neuralgia. This instrument |
is not to be entrusted to awkward |
hands. Three weeks ago one of
our brilliant artists was invited to
shoot by the owner Of chateau in
whose grounds there are wild fouls !
in abundance. He woke, the morn
ing after arriving at this gentle
mans house, with sciatica in his
thigh. The nearest doctor was
sent for. Il can do nothing which
will give you immediate relief"
The artist is patient of my ply
sician. He told the doctor what
to do. The latter declined taking
the responsibility of any such vior
lent treatment. "But assume all |
responsibility" The doctor ap-
Piled an iron rod heated to white
heat, but so awkwardly that the
artist had scars the size of a five
franc piece on his thigh. he was
nevertheless cured, and enjoyed
weeks sport without cne other
twitch ofpain.
Year: 1879

Spirited Debate In the Senate Upon the
New Army Bill-Coneer In Rage Over
tho Proposition to Prohibit and Punish
Party Assessments Upon Ofaco Holders
Himself and His Radical Associates
Handsomely Scored by Mclean - The
Legislative Bill Passes Muster Under the
Scrutiny of Secretary Shermau-Bayar
to Carry His Point on the Silver Bill
Miscellaneous.
Year: 1879

~ III sr lCnlcagO times. ksafrgi. Es,.ls /


An army officer who arrived in the city
from the Yellowstone valley day or two
ago tells story of what happened to a
herd of buffalo that were migrating south
ward. The herd numbered $500 head
They had been driven out Of the Milk
river country by the Indian hunters be-
longing to Sitting Bulls band. The herd
struck the Missouri near Cow island, and
ventured on the ice with their. customary
confidence. The animals came upon the
river with a solid front, and began the
crossing with closed ranks. The stream
at the point of crossing was very deep.
When the front file, which was stretched
out quarter of mile in length, had
had nearly gained the opposite shore, the
ice suddenly gave way under them. Some
.trappers, who were eye-witnesses of the
scene, said it seemed as if a trench was
opened the whole length of the column.
Some four or five hundred of the animals
tumbled into the opening all of heap.
Others fell in on top of them and sunk
them out of sight in a twinkling. BY this
time the rotten ice was breaking off short
under the still-advancing herd. The trap
ipers say that in less than a minute the
whole body of bufaloes had been precipi-
tated into the river. They were weaged
in so thickly that.they could do nothing
but struggle for second and then disap-
pear, beneath the cakes of ice and the
swift current. Not a beast in that whole
herd turned tail and tried to escape when
the ice began breaking. In solid pha-
lanx they marched to their fatal bath in
the "Big Muddy" In q minute from the
time the first ice broke not a buffalo head
or tail was to- be seen.
Year: 1879

{ The Chicago Tribune says that Certain
Missouri Republicans /, talk too much
about the next Republican candidate for
the Presidency" and that sunless they are
prepared to give the electoral vote OF the
State for Republican they had better let
outthe talking on this subject" We notice
that the Tribune has a good deal to say
about the next Democratic candidate for
the Presidency. Is it willing to take a
dose of its own medicine, and turn the
electoral vote of Illinois over to the DEM
'ocracy If.noti had better let out its talk
ing to somebody else.-St. Paul Globe.
Year: 1879

The letter of our New York correspondent
gives an encouraging account of the political
situation in that State. 1t is confirmatory of
advices received from other intelligent Re
publican sources. The opposition to MIR.
Cornell, at no time really formidable, shows
few, if any, indications of increase. On the
contrary, it will be likely to weaken as cleo
ton day approaches. At the final moment
not many Republicans will be found
who will care to imperil party success
and national supremacy in order to graf
ify personal dislike. 1t will be borne
home to them that the election of Mr.. Rob
inson will be construed as an approval by
New York of the candidacy of the greatest
political trickster who ever solicited the suf-
frages of the American people, OF the only
man in all our history who has attempted to
buy his way into the White House. 1t can
not be denied that Democratic success in
New York will greatly strengthen Mr.. Ill
den, not only in the nominating convention
of the party but in the canvass which fol-
lows, With these considerations facing them
it is not to be believed that many Republi-
cans will scratch the regular and only ticket


The Democratic opposition to Mr.. Robin
son is, on the cuntrary, of very menacing
character. 1t took its rise in the convention,
and is not, like the Republican disaffection,
an afterthought. 1t manifested itself in a
formidable bolt, and is supported by one OF
the most obedient and best-disciplined po-
litical organizations in the land. In the city
Mr.. Kelly is certainly a great political power,
and his friends claim that his strength in
other parts OF the State is considerable. If
he can command half the votes he claims,
the defeat of the regular Democratic candi-
date is assured.


But there are reasons for believing that
the strength of the Kelly movement will
wane The name of Tammany is justly an
offence to the people of New York, and that
organization has little reason to expect nu-
merous or respectable allies in the State at
large. The city vote, too, is an uncer-
tain element, made up largely as it is
of men peculiarly open to those agen
cies which Mr.. Tilden facetiously calls
''moral forces" There is little reason to
doubt that many Of the Tammany men will
be found lying at the spigot and the bung OF
that ''bar'l'' on election day. However that
may be the matter is not one to concern Re-
publicans, all they have to do is to make
their own fight Tammany and anti-Tam-
many are nothing to them. They are fight
ing the Democratic party and all its wings
and sections and factions. If they win the
battle it will be by Republican votes, and
the victory will be due to Republican zeal
and efficiency They have candidate of
whom they have just reason to be proud,
they have cause the nohlest ever fought
for, and their success ought not to be mat
ter of uncertainty. We believe it is not.
Year: 1879

THE Argus, which quotes so freely and SO
approvingly from the Washington Post, has
strangely omitted. to give the following pic
turesque description of the result of the
Ohio election made by the editor of the Post
in an interview held with him by a reporter
of the Democratic Cincinnati Enquirer a
few days ago: ut eliminates Ohio from the
problem, and drives us all into Tilden's
chicken-coop, just like so many young and
beautiful Spring chickens. They say old
Tilden can draw his check any day for 81,
10000 have profound respect for any
man who can draw his check for two mil
lions His arm may be palsied little, and
his eye cooked, but if that hand can sign his
name to a check of such magnitude, with a
reasonable security that will itbe paid on pre-
sent3tion, that man is entitled to the respect
of the American people. Indeed, think if
they would remove my underclothing at this
time, they'd find S. j. I. marked on my per-
son somewhere"
Year: 1879

IL the Republican editors who are trying to
make political capital by exaggerated reports
and inferences of the business boom, would al
so inform their readers how much of this boom
is legitimate and substantial, and how much
speculative and transitory, they would confer
favor on the business men OF the country
Lewiston Gazette.


APRoPos of the business boom we find
the following in the Bangor Commercial con-
cerning Saco and Biddeford:


Business of all kinds is improving, and Bid
deford and Saco are not slow to feel the good
effect. The cotton mills are all running, day
and even into the night, and are turning out
an immense amount of manufactured goods,
which find q ready sale, in foreign markets
chiefly.


The machine shops in Biddeford are unusu-
ally busy places and have plenty Of work


The numbering business will be much better
this winter than last, and all the mills are do
ing well now.


Considerable local building is going on in
the two cities and there are indications that
there will be much more when the Spring
opens


Perhaps the Democratic editor Of the Ban
COR Commercial will tell the Democratic ed
itor of the Lewiston Gazette how much OF
this Biddeford ''boom" is Legitimate and
substantial and how much speculative
and transitory."
Year: 1879

In the opinion of the Tribune 1.-THE surest
way of keeping the g-baby inits grave is to
tumble the Democratic party in on top OF it. y
Should this be done, the proverbial rest OF
the grave would become a hollow mockery.
The Democratic party would turn in its
coffin, be once more hard-money, and pick a
quarrel with the corpse below it.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publica-
ton but as guaranty of good faith


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munlcations that are not used.
Year: 1879

SOME of the Bangor Democrats seem to
think that the Commercial displays unseem-
ly hilarity over the Ohio election, and
the Commercial replies to the complaint by
the plea that it is just as well to laugh as to
cry. Thatpaper is not blind to the signs
Of the times and shows its agility in get
ting over the fence into the hard-money
fold.l
Year: 1879

SEvERAL Pleasant and Convenient Rooms for Or a
y small family in upper part of house 81 Franklin
St. Opposite the Park. To the right parties, rent
low Enquire on the premises. oclSeod2W
Year: 1879

This is the first State gathering since the open
ing of the present contest Congress IL is he hrst
formulated popular response Democratic crusade
against honest elections and National supremacy. lt
inauguratS the campaign Of the year. ana under the
best au pces The Republicans Of ONO confident OF
victory and the Republicans Of the whole country eX-
pec prove that in such struggle as is now De-
lore us the state is not debatable ground
Year: 1879

N. Tirard, Minister OF Commerce, made a
pnbnc address here the OF which he said the
Government would do all IN power TO hasten the set
tlement o the tariff question that the PfOtectonsts
based their calculations on inaccurate uata, ana tua
their agItations often had .tical motive.
Year: 1879

The Seattle Intezifgesaccr has the follow
ing particulars relative to the attempt at
infanticide at Seattle After having the
clothing and little flannel skirt found in
the vault at the time washed and dried
Chief Thordilse took them to Mrs. Post,
who Immediately identified them as be-
longing to her little boy. The revelation
fastened the guilt upon Mary Tucker, a
quadroon girl who had been working in
the family about four months. at first
she stoutly denied all knowledge of the
affair, but finally admitted that she was
the mother of the child, and the attempted
murderer of her own offspring. She had
shown no signs of having become mother,
and went right along doing her work as if
nothing had happened, and when asked
after acknowledging it. why she had not
she was afraid of being discharged from
go. She states that the child was born in
was found in the vault, and she, not wish
ing to be found out. had disposed of it as
heretofore stated. She, at the request of
Mr.. Thorndike, furnished the water to
wash the filth from the babe, and is said to
have acted as indifferent to it as if it had
been cat or a dog instead of a child of her
own. She siguified her Willingness, after
being exposed, To take the child and raise
It, and IS at present nursing the poor little
waif at the hospital, where she is kindly
treated by tltc Sisters of Charity, who will
keep her until size can procure work or a
home elsewhere. She states that n well
known Skagit logger is the father of the
child, and is very positive about it.
Year: 1879

Some good Samaritans at Chicago have
concluded that the only way to get along
peacefully with the red man is to give him
the right of suffrage. He would prize it
Very highly, iio doubt, but it viii never
fill the place in his estimation that the
scalp of his enemy does.
Year: 1879

The roaring demagcgues found no dep
uty marshals or military intimidation y
it the polls In the recent elections, but the
party which howied all through the canvass
about these things was beaten all the
same
Year: 1879

Plenty of land can be bought in the State
of Virginia for $I6 per acre. The Old
Dominion needs more people. and people
who are more Industrious than most OF the
present pnpti,ation. Its sacred soil will
then be more valuable.
Year: 1879

Agent Meeker appears to have been a
warm friend Of the Indian race. His fate
illustrates the folly of sentimental IDEAS in
dealing with Ignorant sayages. Force is
the only thing they respect or comprehend
Year: 1879

The recent immigration to the United
States of some of the most skilled opera
tives OF England will still further increase
the manufacturing competition existing
of American manufactures is steadily inn
proving.
Year: 1879

Cemetery robbers are operating with re-
markable success in the vicinity of New
Orleans. They grind grave stones to pow
der to sell to soda water manufacturers,
dispose of collins in the shape of kindling
wood, and supply the trade with skeletons
at the lowest market price. Cremation
could scarcely be more thorough.
Year: 1879

The Irish local government has made a
special report to the imperial government
respecting the state of affairs in Ireland.
The report says that the potato crop is
everywhere inferior, and this. combined
with the absence of peat fuel owing to
rain, is regarded as the leading cause of the
distress. which is expected to culminate
during the winter and spring. Pauperism
Year: 1879

The Denver Land Co. offer in another
column alternate lots in their addition.
These alternate lots are in fact given away.
though nominal charge OF one dollar is
made for the deed. The company limit
the number purchasable at this price to
five lots. Many of the large cities of the
West have been started in similar man
themselves now in possession of valuable
property. The opportunity does not often
present itself of making an investment in
Real Estate at such prices. The reliabili-
ty of the Company and their title to the
property being well established, there could
be no risk, with a fine prospect for rapid
increase in value. Denver las had such a
wonderfully rapid growth, it is probable
that the land offered will be speedily taken
up.


As yet there is no rliminution in the vol
nne of the coin, principally gold, that has
for several months been flowing into this
country from the other si1s of the Atlantic.
Until the setting Of the golden tide about
the middle of last summer the largest
amount of specie ever imported into the
United States during single month was
81, ,252. 700, in December, 1876. Brit
since July last that amount has been
greatly exceeded every month, and in Sep
Eember It reached tile sum of $27, Asa. 179.
In the same month the exports of mcrch-
andise from the city of New York alone
reached The amount of $36. .712, ,231. the
largest ever shipped from that port in a
similar period. A contemporary says that
the export Of grain and breadstuffs for the
year viii soon be over, and then the
cease. But It must be remembered that
when the export of wheat and produce
snail have ceased that OF cotton will begin.
and in the existing condition of business
abroad and at home It would be premature
TO a x any date for change IN the balance
Of trade.
Year: 1879

-


IL Is very commonly observed that


tne most smart pangs which we meet


Win are IN the beginning of wedlock,
Wnicn proceed from ignorance of each
other humor, and want Of prudence 10


make allowances for a chance from tb.


most careful respect to the most nm
bounded familiarity. Hence il arises
that trifles are commonly occasions of
the greatest anxiety; for contradiction


being thing wholly unusual between
newly married couple, the smallest
instance Of il is taken for the highest in
jury; and il very seldom happens that
the man is slow enough in assuming
the character Of a husband, or the
woman quick enough in condescending
to that of wife. IL Immediately fol-
lows that they think they have all the
time of their cOurtship been talking in
masks to each other, and therefore be-
gin 10 act like disappointed people Phi
lauder finds Della ill-natured and i'm
pertinent, and Della, Philander surly
and incOnstant.


have known a fond couple to quarrel
in the very honeymoon about cutting
up tart; nay, I could name two who,
alter having had several children, fell
out and parted beds, upon the boiling of
leg OF mutton. My very next neigh
Oors nave not spoken to one another
these three days, because they differed
ln tneir opinions whether the clock
should stand by the window. or over
the chimney. II may seem strange to
you, who are not a married man, when [
Ieli you how the least trile can strike a
woman uumb fora week together. But,


you ever enter into this state, YOU
VIII hnd that the soft sex as often ex-
press leeir anger by an obstinate ST.
lehce AS by an ungOVeruable clam0r.


Those, indeed, who begin this coursa
oi life without jars at their setting ont.
arrive within few months at pitch of
benevolence aud affection, of which the
most perfect friendship is but a faint
resemblance. As in the unfortunate
marriage the most minute and iudiffer-
ent things are the object of the sharp
est resentment, 50 in happy one they
are the occasion of the most exquisite
satisfaction. For what does not ObIige
IN one we love? What does not offend
IN one we dislike? For these reasons. L
take II for rule that in marriage the
chief business is TO acquire a proposes
sion IN favor Of each other They should
consider one auother's words and actions
with secret indulgence. There should
be always an Inward fOudness pleading
Tor each other, such as may add new
beauties TO everything that is excellent,
give charms to what is Indifferent. and
cover everything that is defective. For
want OF this kind propensity and bias
mind, the married pair take things i'll
OF each other which no one else would
take notice Of in either of them.


But the most unhappy circumstances
OF all IS where each party is always Law
ing up fuel for dissensiOn, and gathering
together magazine of prOvOcations, to
eXasperate each other with when thev
are out of humOr. These people, in
common discourse, make no seruple to
let those who are by know they are
quaTreling with one another; and think
they are discreet enough if they conceal
from the company the matters which
they are limiting at.
Year: 1879

FRETTINGS.-One fretter can destroy
the peace of a family, can disturb the
harmony Of a neighborhOod, can unset
tie the councils Of cities and hinder the
legislation of nations. He who frets is
never the one who mends, vino heals,
who repairs evils; more, he discourages.
enieehles and too Often disables those
around him, who, but for the gloom and
depression Of his company, would do
good work and keep up brave cheer.
The effect upon sensitive person OF the
mere neighborhood of fretter is iudr-
scribahle. It Il TO the soul what cold
icy mist is to the bOdy-more chilling
than the bitterest storm. Aud wh IN tie
fretter is one who Is beloved, whose
nearness of relation to Us makes his fret
ting at the weather seem like personal
repr0aeh 10 Us. then the misery of it be-
comes indeed insupportable. Most men
call frettiug minor iault-a f0ible and
not a vice. There is no vice except
drunkenness which so utterly destroys
the peace, the happiness of a home.
Year: 1879

The question OF municipal debt il at
tracing considerable attention through
out the country in consequence Of sew
eral cities becoming so far involved as
to become bankrupt, unable to pay the
interest on its bonds. Amongst those
cities which are accumulating heavy
debt is Wilmington. The last legisla-
ture very generously passed a bill to
fund floating debt of some Sl44 600
that had been accumulating, so that
our city was set square upon her inan-
cial feet again, and she could once more
90 aheal without any Of these bother
some negotiable notes to impede her ca.
reer. No sooner however had she got
clear of this incubus, than the City
Council, we are afraid for the purpose
of making party capital, has seen fit to
cut down the rate of taxation, which
must eventual y result in another float
ing debt, and if care is not taken these
debts will be piled up so high upon
each other that Wilmington may YET
become like Elizabeth City in New Jer.
sey, Memphis in tennessee or Mobile il
Alabama.


In the present condition of our city
there is the same demand for water ex
tensions, opening of streets, paving
curbing and grading of the same, a
there ever has been in the past, and {
reduction of the rate Of taxation eitheI
means that these improvements mus
cease, or that another floating debt mus
ensue. We have already stated in ,
former article that the amount of money
raised at the rate of taxation of Sill


will only carry the city through t.
April 1850, leaving three months ur
provided for until the July taxes com
in. If this is done every year for fou
t or FIVE years there will be another float
5 ing debt of probably $4,000, whicI
S the Legislature may not just be in tn
: humor Of funding, and then the cit


will be on the verge Of bankruptcy