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Year: 1879




We had no idea that the case was so bad
until Senator Morgan spoke up. We knew
indeed that the tremendous Davenport had
been stalking about New-YOrk City for some
ten years or so, spreading dismay through
the lower wards, and suppressing "the rights
"of citizenship" with rgOr never paraleed
cxcept under the bcsOtted despOtisms Of efiete
Europe This dreadful and gigantic person,
wearing a huge curling mustache and pair
of becting eyebrows, is understood to
have seized and imprisoned at times
no fewer than ten thousand Irishmen in
a single day because they would not
vote the Republican ticket; and such reign
Of terror has been established by his brutality
that many districts OF the Metropolis, which
used to enjoy the distinction of casting twice
as many ballots for the regular Democratic
candidates as there were men, women and
children alive in the wards, have been obliged
to restrict their patriotic operations to the
limits defined by the registration lists These
shameful facts are familiar to all men. But,
as we have remarked already we had no idea,
until Senator Morgan tore away the veil,
what horrid mass OF crime, Oppres-
sion aud injustice was covered by the
election laws. According to the Alabama
advocate of the rights of man the North is
crushed under q cruel military tyranny. 1t is
not only the bloody Davenport who keeps
down the people. The booted brgadier is
tramplng upon our liberties; drunken dra-
eoons are riding rough-shod over the palla-
dium of American liberty; satraps are de-
spelling our political temples; and the Consti-
tuition is full OF bayOnet-hoes. On election
day election how bitter is the irony of that
word y our streets resOund with the tramp
of armed men and the tang of a tyrant's
tongue. The oppressed North stretches
out its manacled hands to its emancipated
sister States, and prays for relief from the
military despot. And that is why the sympa-
thetic South, having driven away the brutal
sodiery by the moral force of an enlightened
and virtuOus community, is coming to our res
cue.


1t is, OF course, an ineXpTessible comfort to
know that our suiferings are SO severe. and
also that the moral force of an enlightened
and virtuous community is about to put an
end to them. The South has always been
specially strong on moral force, and when its
abilities in that line are once focused
upon an object We may look out for
news. we IehltnlDtI very "cll the last Occa-
sion on which the moral force of the enlight-
ened and virtuOus community of South Caro-
lima exerted itself to emancipate an oppressed
people from the degradation of troops at
the polls" 1t was in 1876. when the Elec-
tora College was about to meet at Columbia
and vote for President of the United States,
and "a formal announcement was also about to
be made of the choice of the people for Gov
emor and members of the Legislature of South
Carolina. The noble conduct of South Caro-
lIna's sons-we mean her white sons; !; the
others don't cOunt-in that memorable crisis
cannot be retold too often. General Wade
Year: 1879

Whenever any edible appears fresh and tempting
in the market, aud people are whetting their APP
petites to enjoy it, somebody is sure to discover
that il hides Certain death. The British Bedical
Journal has just uttered its warning cry against
cucumbers, oa the authority of Doctor Ledy, of
Philadelphia. The cucumber, it now appears r.
the chosen home of the tape-worm, and TO eat one
is TO invite that peculiarly unpleasant guest to
enter in and abide with Us for tho short remnant of
our days This is startling enough, but when We
look little more closely into the matter we find
that our scientific friends long ago discovered that


this death-dealing miniature serpent found its
favorite habitat in beef. pork. veal mutton, in all
vegetables and fruits which grow near human
dwellings, and in water. 1t becomes therefore
simply & matter of choice between accepting a
worm which never dies and starving TO death Let
us eat our cucumbors, therefore. with peace Of
Year: 1879

To-day closes the week distinctyey
known as the religious one of the year
in this city. Most of the services held have
been chiefly interesting to the general public
because they showed what can be done by
Christian sects when they choose to work to-
gether About half OF the force in the re-
ligous bodies of Christendom has always been
spent in fighting and pulling each other back.
Ii was not the Devil, but the Pope or Luther,
who was attacked by Protestant and Catholic
during long centuries and even the Protest
ant sects, that should at least have been bound
together by common enmity if not COM
mon love, turned on each other with virulence
and strenGth-Episcopal dragging back
Dissenter on the heavenly road, Puritan tying
Baptist to cart wheel in this world, with
every encouragement to hope for the bottom
less pit III the next They might ilatter their
souls by calling this sort OF warfare zeal OF
Year: 1879

1t will be a mistake TO consider the effect Of
the new Constitution, which appears to have
been adopted in California, as a practical test
of the Communism which prompted it. Out
rageous as this instrument is, and in some
respects it is undoubtedly the most outrageous
Constitution ever formed for free State, it
is the less likely to produce all the evils which
in the first depression of disappointment some
are inclined to expect from il, because it takes
the place of system In some respects essen
TALLY bad, aud thus cures some evils while it
nhicts others; because it is radically defective
in method, and, like most legislative devices of
ignorant minds, is likely to be easily evaded ;
and because its most violent and vicious fea-
lures create the general impression that it
will, at 10 distant day, be repealed OF modi-
fed.


The vote indicates that this Constitution was
adopted mainly by the overwhelming majority
cast for it in the farming districts. In
this respect it resembles the Granger laws
which were adopted dur1ng fever of excite
ment in States like Wisconsin, Iowa and
Missouri. A short experience has sufiiced to
teach the people Of those States that such
laws do not effect the results desired. They
are taught every day by severe losses that
such legislation causes evils even greater
than it was desired TO remove. Consequently
in Wisconsin the repeal of the Potter law
has marked an entire change of public
opinion, and similar change in other States
is already in progress.


The farmers of California have been in
Year: 1879

There are two kinds of ambition, that
which has specific object-the ambi-
tion OF practical men-and that which is
general-the ambition of dreamers.


What power there is in innocence |
whose very helplessness is its safeguard
in whose presence even passion himself
stands abashed, and stands worshiper
at the very altar he came to despoil.


One who is injured ought not to re-
turn the injury, as the multitude think;
for on no account can it be right to dc
injustice. Therefore, it is not right tc
return an injury, or to do evil to any
man, however we may have suffered
from him.


Let us not listen to those who think
we ought to be angry with our enemies,
and who believe this to be great and
manly. Nothing is more praiseworthy,
and nothing more clearly indicates q
great and noble soul, than clemency anC
readiness to forgive.


No enjoyment, however inconsidera
BILE, is confined to the present moment.
A man is the happier for life from hav.
ing made once an agreeable tour, q
lived for any length of time with pleas.
ant people, or enjoyed any considerable
interval of innocent pleasure.
Year: 1879

Do not work for fame. Work TO do
good, Qualify yourself to do all the
good it is possible for you to do. In
prove the mind. Acquire stores of
knowledge, and use that knowledge to
benefit mankind. Fame will come if
you merit it. II you do not merit it,
you may seek it till you go to your grave,
and never grasp it. Have definite OBJ
ject. Let that be worthy one-a
philanthropic one, If possible. March
steadily forward-not daily, but haurly
toward the object you have in view.
No matter what obstacles are to he
scaled, never yield till you are victori.
GUS. Men who work for fame, never
get it. 1t comes. if at all, because it is
merited; because of superior qualitica-
tions exercised in the discharge Of duty;
because OF noble deeds done FOR human
ity-and, in hundred other ways, be-
cause OF work done meriting it.


The only way to gain fame is to do
something worthy of it--but do not do
that something to win it. If sought for
in that way, it will avoid your grasp
like an apparition. - COleman's Rural
World
Year: 1879

The careful man is scarcely ever full
of care.


OF the most vital importance-The
breath of life.


Boast not of your pedigree. Ten to
one if they did agree.


Far better to hang round sensible
girl than street corner.


You may have troops of friends with
out belonging to the cavalry.


The man who polished the suit of
armor made clean breast of it.


Prudence may be slow coach, but
its running gear is always in the best OF
order.


A bad memory has soothed many a
mans conscience, even if it did fail to
save reputation.


Some men are very fond of wearing
medals and badges, which are often the
only marks OF merit to be found about
them, -NesO York NetOS,
Year: 1879




1t is considered on all sides that the
body does not feel one instant after de.
capitation-fo for the brain being the seat
of sensation to the whole frame through
the nedium OF the spinal marrow, every
part OF the body beneath the point at
which the latter may be divided must
be deprived of feeling. But it by no
means follows that the head is deprived
of sensation Immediately after decapita-
tion, nor that it may not retain its con-
sciousness, and, like the head of the
Iriah knight who was killed by Saladin
in the holy war, get up and declare that
it was never cut off by so sharp cimeter
before-nor, like that of the assassin
Legare, swear roundly at the executioner
for not keeping a keener axe; but it is
quite impossible that it may be troubled
with very serious reflection upon the
irrevocability of its fate, and the awful
ness of its deprivation. In support of
this unpleasant theory many facts are
adduced, with grave vouchers for their
authenticity. Among others is the un-
fortunate Queen of Scots, whose lips
continued to move in prayer for at least
quarter of an hour after the execu.
tioner had performed his duties. Wilt
states that having put his mouth to the
ear of decapitated criminals head and
called by name, the eyes turned to the
side from whence the voice came; and
the fact is attested by Fontanelle, Mo-
gore, GuiIlotine, Nauthe and Aldint.
On the word murder" being called in
the case of a criminal executed for that
crime at Coblentz, the half-closed eyes
opened wide with an expression of re-
proach on those who stood around.
Year: 1879

shooting affair took place between a
farmer named Albanus Saxton and his
tenant Silas Lore at a place called
Andora within six miles Of Elkton on
Saturday evening. A man named Mil
ton Bullock and young woman nam
ed Sarah Hall had their homes with
Saxton. During the )atter's absence
on Saturday somebody had thrown a
stone through a window, and when he
returned home he commenced quarrel
ling with Sarah aboutit. Bullock took
up The quarrel when Saxton drew a
pistol as did also young Bullock. Lore
thinking there was to be serious work
tried to pacify the combatants when
Ssxton snapped his pistol in Lore's face
but it did not go off. Lore then ran to
Bullock and seizing his pistol fred at
Saxton but missed hin, when the lat
ter returned the fire, the bullet strik-
ing Lore above the temple, and cours-
ing around his skull it came out OF the
back of his head.


The parties have been on bad terms
for some time past and it is said that
Saxton has a very violent temper. Lore
lies in very critical condition. Saxton
was arrested and lodged in Elkton Jail
about 8 o'clock on Sunday morning.
The circuit Court for Cecil County met
yesterday, and the case will come up
the present week.
Year: 1879

About A. II. yesterday the mate of the
Isaac Staples discovered the body of man
floating in the water just below the pontoon.
not far from shore. The coroner was called,
who summoned jury and held an inquest.
The body taken from the water presented a
sickening sight, being badly swollen, psrsic-
ulariy the head and neck, which were per-
fectly black. It would have been almost i'm
possible to identity the body were it not for
marks OF bullet wounds On the hand and
right side of the chest, which poor James
Basna is known to have carried upon bis
person since he fought in the Seventeenth


regiment of Michigan cavalry. The jury re-
turned verdict of death by accidental drown
Year: 1879

Louis -Indre,rs Fails From the City Mill


and is Instantly Killed.


Another fatal accident occurred on the
platform at the mills last evening by which
man was instantly killed. At 6 O'Clock as
Louis Andrews, a stone mason, employed bv
Holmes d McCleave, who are building mill
on the ground formerly occupied by the old
City mill, while gathering up his tools pre-
paratory to leaving the building, he leaned
from window on the third story of the
structure to pick chisel which was
lying on the stone sill on the outside of the
building; to steady himself be took hold of a
brace which wss put up to hold the window
frame in position, the brace gave way, pre-
clpitating him to the ground, distance of
sixty feet. In his descent he struck on a
plank which was laid from the first story of
the building to the elevated railroad track of
the Minneapolis Eastern road in the rear of
the mills, and broke the plank in two pieces.
Andrews struck the ground head first
and smashed in the top of his head,
dying about five minutes after he fell. An
drews was German. aud had only been in
the city since May 9th. He has been living
at the house of Henry Rempe, at the corner
of Third street and Fifteenth avenue south,
and was known as steady, sober man and a
hard worker. From letters found in his
pocket it is known that he has wife and
five children, the youngest of which is only
seven months old, living in Waukone,
Iowa. His body was taken to
Wallis undertaking establishment, where
1t will remain until the coroner decides
whether he will hold an inquest. The de-
ceased had no money, having sent all his
wages but enough to pay his board to his
family as soon as he received it. He had
some wages due him, but it is probable that
under the circumstances the money will be
sent to his family, and his funeral expenses
will be paid by the county or the owners of
the building.
Year: 1879




IN NEW ORLEANS.


After his liberation lie went to New Orleans where
no obtained employment agent for insur-
ance company. In this capacity no went to Coum-
bus. Miss. where he again entered on course
of crime. Soon alter his arrival there he
formed the acquaintance of the Rev. Joseph
b. Cottrl and professed to take lively interest in
religious matters. He went SO far as
to announce his intention to study for holy
orders. AT this time there residing at Colum-
bus a very cstimable widow lady, Mrs.
Green T. Hill. who we'll known and respected
b, everyone who knew her. She was woman of
great refinement and prominent member of the
Methodist Church. Mrs. Hill. prior to Cooper's
much. She was a frequent visitor ut tho house Of
her pastor. DR.. Cottr and under his roof she first
inado Cooper's acquaintance. lie was a very
plausible young man, apparently devoted
to religious affairs, and soon won Mrs.
Hills confidence. Their intimacy eventually
resulted in marriage the 3lst OF August. 1871.
They livcd for somo timo apparently happy. but
soon Cooper began to show his truo character and
rapidly squandercd the property left his wfo by her
former husband.


FROM BAD WORSE.


During this time he was In the habit of visiting
that portion of the Bank of Commerce outside the
counter allotted to customers. In this way
he managed to get possession OF a few
sheets OF tho banks letter heads and
some envelopes. lie then visited tho Post once. ut
which place he was well acquainted. and pushed the
hands of the clock twenty minutes
ahead of the right time. Afterward, the Post
master. not being aware Of this act made
up his mail to forward to the depot.
When tho messenger of the bank arrived with his
letters he was informed he was too late for that
Year: 1879

Many of the agricultural jour
mails are sorely troubled to know
whether a hen sits or sets. If
some editor of dignity would set
a hen on a nest, and the little ed
itors would let her set it would
be we'll enough for the world.
Now a man, or a woman either,
can set a hen, although they can
not sit her; neither can they set
on her, although the old hen
might sit on them by the hour
if they would allow it. A man
man cannot set on a washbench;
but he could set a basin on it,
and neither the basin nor tho
grammarians would object. He
could sit on u dogs tail if the
dog was willing; or he might set
his foot on it. But if he should
set his foot on the aforesaid tail,
or sit his foot there, the gramma-
rians as well as the dog would
howl. And yet, strange as it
may seem, the man might set the
tail aside and then set down,
and neither be assailed by the
dog or the grammarians.
Year: 1879

"We ALI Do Fade as q Leaf"
Falling all around,


Floods Of wOndrous glory,
Silent as the snow-flakes,


Breathing each story;
Like shower Of sunbeams


In the autumn mellow,
Fall the leaves Of crimson,


Russet, brown, and yellow.
Sobbing out low music,


When the wind is sighing,
At the thought so mOurnfnl
That the year is dying;
Fen the leaves are fading;


With the thought comes sadness:
Ahl my spirit longs


For the land of gladness,
For the golden pavement,


For the flower immortal;
Fain my feet would press


Toward the pearly portal;
Falling all around


Floods of wOndrous glory
All things here must fade
This the leaflets story.
Year: 1879

It is etiquette that makes a
woman say, when at an evening
review her pet corn Is crushed
by a young Lothario, and dead
ly pangs gallop all through her,
"Oh, there's no harm done, | as
sure you; l shouldn't have noticed
it but for your apology" But
frankness generally gets the bet
ter of etiquette when she reaches
the sacred precincts of home and
her husband joggles the same
foot and she exclaims, Couch
you horrid brute! you'll be the
death of me yet; why don't you
look where you are going"
Year: 1879

wild story is current In Owingsville, Ky.
Of a man floating over the place in the air,
Several persons declare that they saw him.
A woman describes him as making extraya-
CANT gestures awhile, and then rising out Of
sight. One theory is that he was Wise, the
missing aeronaut: that he had left himself
down by rope from his balloon, which the
startled spectators failed to see. in the hope
of efecting landing.
Year: 1879

SERGEANT DoLAN is represented as
saying that he went from poll to poll te
to over see his men and not to assist re
peaters. This is rather thin to those
who know the polls which the Sergeant
visited, some of which lay beyond the
limits Of his district. Then We see by
a report in the "Gazette the paper
which defends the exploits OF the Ser
geant, that he was one Of the two Off
GERS appointed specially to guard the
First Ward polls, in the neighborhood
Of which he kept his unlicensed gin
mill before he received his appoint
msnt. The First Ward however was
too much circumscribed to allow him
room for fair exhibition of his won.
derful tact in carrying on elections and
hence his perambulating around to
other polls.
Year: 1879

THOUGH IT is not definitely known
whether the Republicans have elected
Davis, their candidate Governor,by the
popular vote, enough is known to show
that the State is as thoroughly Repub-
lican now as it ever was and is sure to
throw her vote in with the solid north
in 1880.


It is impossible to forecast the effect
which the Maine election will have on
those that are to follow it, until more
complete analysis of the vote can be
made. 1t cannot fail to be demoraliz-
ing to the Democracy, who have surren
dered everything and gained nothing,
not even a Republican defeat. AS to
the Green back party, its accessions this
year are large, its achievements more
striking than those Of last year. What
ever it may do elsewhere, 1t has prac
tically swallowed the Democratic party
Of Maine.
Year: 1879

In that case there would Of course be
no election, when by virtue of the con-
stitution the President of the Senate
would become President, and that offic-
which will be filed by q. Democrat Of
course there would for the time be a
Democratic President. The Democrats
can no. therefore gain anything by hav'
ing the election thrown into the House,
depending merely upon De La Matyr's
vote, while the Republicans can profit
bv the accession Of the vote Of single
member. This will pat an end to all
Democratic plans for running third
candidate merely to throw the election
into the House. If the simplest act Of
justice was done by the House Of Rep,
r .sentatives, Hull of Florida, would be
in the pepitentiary instead of in Con-
gress, and Bsbee the Republican, who
the Democratic Supreme Court Of Flor
ida says was truly and honestly elect
cd, would be occupying his seat, but
when 80 much is at stake nothing that
looks like Justice eau be expected from
the present Congress. 1t is consola-
tion to know however that solid Re.
publican North now putting on hel
boxing gloves will make all thing


come right in 1888. There will be nj


occas on to count State delegations il
Congress to see how they stand, tn,
people themselves will settle the mat
ter.
Year: 1879

The California election has . very
important bearing upon the next Presi-
election il by any means itshoald
be thrown into the House Of Repressn-
tstives. In securing the whole Of the
Congressman in that State the Republi-
can party has gained a most important
triumph, as they have q majority In
nineteen Of the thirty-eight State dele
cations in Congress. The Democrats


have a majority in eighteen State dele


cations, and in the remaining state
Indiana, the delegation is compos d OF
six Republicans, six Democrats and one
arsenbacker, De La Matyr. Should the
latter vote with the Democrats, which
he would be very likely to do, he would
simply tie the House, in case the cleo
ton for President Is thrswn into the
House which OF course could secure no
election. If he votes with the Repub
li,ans he gives that party majority OF
one, Each Stat. casts one vote, and q
majority of all the States is necessary
for an election. 1t will bs seen from
the foregoing then how important is the
California election - the Republicans.
Had they not carried the State, De La Ma
tyr would have had il in his power to
have elected Democratic President had
he WISHED tn do so, but now the position
is just the reverse and De La Matyr has
it in his power to elect q Republican
Prsside ent if he wishes to do so. While
however De La Matyr cannot elect
President by his direct vote he still has
it In his power to indirectly seat
Democratic President by voting with
the Democrats and making 1t tie in
the House.
Year: 1879

! THE DEAD STATEsMAN.-The obitu-
ary of William Allen, Of Ohio, deceas-
ed, which we publish elsewhere oug lit to
be encouraging reading to the boys OF
this country. 1t is too often the case
that the great and good men OF this
country, and especially the pure and
famous Democrats, are decried and
abused by their opponents until the
younger class are led TO infer that there
is some truth in the silly lies that, like the
heads Of the tabled hydra, are reproduc-
ed as fast as they are contradicted.
Now, that William Allen is dead, even
his Democratic revilers as well as his
political enemies, are lavish Of their
praise Of the purity of his energetic and
useful life. 1t is not in this light, how
ever, that we wish to call the attention
of our youth to the sketch of this once able
man. But that in reading of his unaid
cd efforts and his steady rise in public
estimation, they may see that the way II
still as open to the highest honors Of thu
country as it was when young Allen start


ed on his way to eminence and distinc


ton many years ago, when Ohio wa


still, in great part, an unsettled wilder


ness.