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Year: 1879

Certain London editors do not seem
to fraternize with the utmost affection.
Thus the Whitehall Review. upon the
death Of the Princess Alice, said in ra-
ther a stated y way: 'It is our 1nournful
duty to convey to the sorrowing queen
the respectful and sincere copdolence
of that section of the community more
intimately connected with the court and
its surroundings than any other por-
ton of her majesty's subjects" Upon
this the London Void newspaper, ris-
ing up savagely, says that the proprietor
Of the Whitehall ReuieaU is an egg-mer-
chant, named Peacock, Of the firm of
Merdin d Peacock, Wells street; that
the editor is an ex-reporter of the Nor
ming Post, and was formerly the sub-
sub-editor of a third-rate country news
paper. And he wants to know, does
this sub-acidulous critic, Chow this
.tradesman and his young man are
more Intimately connected with the
court and its surroundings than any
other portion Of her majesty's subjects" !"
unless-mark the fine irony !-"the one
purveys the butter for the royal house
hold, and the other the paper in which
the butter is wrapped P' And so, with a
withering allusion to rampant idiocy
and sickening funkeydom," he leaves
this pin sticking in the side of a con-
temporary and brother
Year: 1879

DAYTON, o., sportsmen are reyiving
the old sport of fox-hunting, with prom
ise Of a good deal Of enjoyment A
good many foxes have grown up in the
neighborhood during the past few years,
and some excellent dogs are now owned
in the city and county. An exciting
chase took place through the country
south of Dayton last Thursday, lasting
Ill day The hunters were numerous
and the dogs strong-scepted, but the
game was a wary old fox that could not
be caught mapping. Just when the
party was sure that he was cornered he
made his escape, and finally, when all
had prepared to come in at the death,
he left them in the lurch, disappearing
with 40 indication of a trail behind
him.
Year: 1879

4 CORRESPONDENT Of the New York
TSaes denies that Jews are prosecuted
in Roumania. He says they increase
in number and wealth from day to day,
and they are all in excellent health, in
far better health than the Roumanians,
because they are better fed, better
clothed, better lodged, and because the
trades by which they earn their living
are less fatiguing and less exposed than


hose exercised by the Roumanians.
Among them mortality IS less frequent
and births are more numerous than
among Roumanians. They arrive in
the greatest want and misery, and in a
few years they succeed in scraping to-
gethera tolerably respectable income.
At this present moment al the capital
is in their hands and the native farmer
and laborer toll only to increase the
wealth of the Jewish spectators.
Year: 1879

If there is any one thing more than
another that convinces man of the
progress of education in our common
schools and the sound practical instruc-
tions communicated to the rising gen
Grafton, it is to have his daughter bring
him a problem something like this: If
s oxen consume 12g times the amount
of food in 5 days required by 1-6 of the
square root of 16 sheep at a cost of 29.-
78 cents, how many oxen will be requir-
ed to consume the amount required by
] of the cube root of an equal number
of sheep in AZ days time at a cost of
4.16 of that amount; and triumphaHly
point to the answer at the foot of
whole slatefuI of figure as being 32,187,-
369 oxen-x.-Boston Commercial BatHs-
tin.
Year: 1879

THE project for the substitution of
special issue of paper money for that
in actual circulation will shortly become
law in Peru, as it has had the approval
of the majority in both. chambers.
Year: 1879

The Marine and Fisheries Department
of Canada is in receipt of an invitation
from Berlin, asking the fishery officers
to send specimens of Canadian fish and
fishing implements to an exhibition un-
der the patronage of the Crown Prince.
Year: 1879

The extraordinary talent of
going to sleep under the most
disadvantageous circumstances
followed him into the field, and
became of the greatest service to
him. He could sleep delightful
ly on horseback during his forced
marches, and / believe tolerably
well OH the battle field; and this
may be the cause Of the remark
able powers Of endurance, for
which he was noted. That his
power for sleeping under preach
ing remained with him, | have
ocular proof.


/ remember being at a preach
ing service held at the door Of
of his headquarters, in East Vir-
ginia, one hot July Sunday
morning, when he performed the
champion sleeping feat of the
war. There was no shade what
ever, and the whole service was
held in the face of the hottest sun
that ever shone in that country.
The preacher stood in front Of
Jackson's tent and Jackson sat
on Il backless camp-stool at his
right hand. The men composing
the congregation kept their caps
on. to avoid sun-stroke, but Jack
sons ideas Of propriety would
not allow him to sit in the door
Of the tent, or to keep his cap on.
The result was he sat in the sun,
held his cap six inches from his
face, and slept sweetly in that
position throughout the entire
service.
Year: 1879

The Washington Post thus dis
poses Of the question of taking
the ballot from the negro:


We are as likely to annex the
moon and use her for a penal
colony as to take the ballot from
the negro. All this is known,
not only to The Massachusetts
Republican committee, but to
all voters of the State. And
when that committee sasserts
that the South is trying to "nn-
dc all that the Republican party
has undone to secure equa
rights and free institutions" il
makes declaration SO meanly
false and so palpably absure
that honest men of all parties
are compelled to regard botl
what is said, and those who sa'
lit, with well merited and unlis
guised contempt.
Year: 1879

I A Boston dentist filled the hole of a
New Yorker's aching tooth with arsenic,
last Monday, to kill the nerve. The nerve
is dead. 1t may be enough to add that
the man is in the same unfortunate con-
dition. ' So
Year: 1879

Benjamin Franklin occasionally Stun
bled upon tho truth. He said: "The
eyes of other people are the eyes that
ruin us. If all but myself were blind,
shouldn't want fine house nor fine fur
nikura
Year: 1879

In this world man is likely to get
what he gives. Mems hearts are like a
whispering gallery to you. Hyou speak
softly gentle whisper comes back, if
you scold you get scolded. With the
measure you mete it is measured to you
again.
Year: 1879

"A Boston preacher said: "The little
good any of us can do must be done with
our hearts humping against tho hearts
of our fellow men," And every young
woman in church looked at every other
young woman and smiled approvingly.
Year: 1879

BRITISH REVIEW OF EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
Sir stafford Northcote, Chancellor OF the Ex-
terday said it was not desirable to either eya~.
gerate or depreciate the unduly severe blow in
south Africa. There exists general admiration
Tor the gallantry Of the troops and universal
sympathy for the sufferers. The cabinet is re-
solved to repair and wipe out the disaster. The
first batch OF the reinforcemen leave before
Thursday next. am happily able to cong rat
ulate the mousse and country upon more Salts
world. There is every reason for satisfaction
with the progress OF the Berlin treaty. The
Russians have already begun to withdraw
from Turkey, and there is every reason to hone
for complete evacuation In due time
Year: 1879

| Charles May and his brother Robert


in the spring Of 1870, offered to pas


$4,000 railroad ties down the Arkansas


from the mountain source. He says


"Onr offer was accepted, when we


started into the upper entrance Of the


canon with large skiff provided with


six days provisions and 1000 feet of rope,


with which, by taking a running turn


around some firmly planted object, we
could lower our boat q hundred feet at
va time. In this way, at the end Of three
days, having set adrift many hundred


ties, we reached the entrance to the
Royal Gorge. Here we discovered that
an attempt to descend the first waterfall
with two in the boat was certain de-
struction, and to return was impossible.
Accordingly determined to lower my
brother down the fall in the boat, a dis
tance Of 200 feet, gave him the rope and
let him take the chance Of the canon
(life seemed more certain in that direc-
tion,) while would risk my physical
ability to climb the canon wall, which
was about 1000 feet high.


"About 10 o'clock in the morning
shook hands with my brother, lowered
him in the boat safely to the foot of the
fall, gave him the rope and saw him no
more. Then throwing aside my coat,
hat and boots and stripping the socks
from my feet, I commenced my climbing
way, often reaching the height of one or
two hundred teet, only to be compelled
to return to try some other way. At
length, about o'clock in the afternoon,
l reached a height upon the smooth
canon wall Of about a thousand feet.
Here my further progress was arrested
by shelving ledge of rock that jutted
out from the canon side a foot or more.
To advance was without hope; to return,
certain death. Reaching upward and
outward grasped the rim Of the ledge
with one hand and then with the other,
my feet feet slipped from the smooth
side Of the canon, and my body hung
suspended in the air q thousand feet
above the roaring waters of the Ark
ansas.


"At that moment looked downward
to measure the distance would have to
fall when the strength Of my arms gave
out. A shrinking sensation crept through
my hair as my eye caught the strong
root Of a cedar bush that projected out
over the ledge, little beyond my reach.
My grasp upon the rim of the ledge was
fast yielding to the weight of my person.
Then l determined to make my best
efforts to raise my body and throw it
sideways toward the root so as to bring
it within my grasp. At the moment of
commencing the effort saw my moth
er's face as she leaned out over the ledge,
reached down her hand and caught me
by the hair. Stranger, my mother died
while yet young woman, when and
my brother were small boys, but l re-
member her face. / was successful in
making the side leap of my arms when l
drew myself upon the ledge and rested
for a time. From here upward my
climbing way was very laborious, but
less dangerous. I reached the top Of
the canon just as the sun was sinking
down behind the snowy range, and hast
ened to our camp at the mouth of the
canon, where found my brother all
safe. Charley said he, have you had
your head in -four. sackP 1t was then
l discovered that my hair was as white
as you see it now.
Year: 1879

We are informed that our handsome
friend, Prot. j. W. Nicholson, of the
University at this place, will spend va
cation at his old home in North Louis
lana. The Professor is one of the most
talented Young men in the State, nd
his classic attainments have given him
conspicuous place among the uterati
of Louisiana. Such genius as he pos
sesses, sustained by energy, will in time
build up a national reputation. We wish
him unbounded success in life, and trust
that he will have pleasant recreation
in his home forests.
Year: 1879

Your attention earnestly and respectfully called to our new
facilities for JOB PRNTG matters not what may be the stye
quality Of work desired Home enterprise sustans home in
teess and preserves the financial equilibrium of community
In view Of this important fact have supplied ourselves with


the necessary material and seriously that we are deter
mined with the aid Of the people, to uphold our part Of this local
obligation Our prices the those Of New Orleans
therefore there be for sending Job Work away from
home The old complaint of unreasonable prices and inferior
workmanship longer be urged for with experienced prn-
the latest styles Of type and handsome assortment Of sta
onery hand prepared to do Job Work with dispatch
and in a satisfactory manner
Year: 1879

District Court opened here on the
day fixed by law with the able and in
defatigable Judge Charles McVea pre-
siding. The Patriot Democrat says he
is the pet of the people of East Feliciana
parish, a title that he won by upright
ness of character and eminent legal
abilities. We feel proud Of the fact that
he has decided to make his future home
in our city. Court will probably last
until some time during next week
Year: 1879

The Louisiana Institution for the
Blind will give its annual entertain
ment next Wednesday, consisting of
vocal and instrumental music. Under
the management of Rev. P. Lane this
institution has done q great deal toward
the education of the Blind, and we trust
it may never cease to flourish and pro-
mote the objects of It's existence.
Year: 1879

We don't recommend advertising as
the best way to get good wife; but
Stewart and Vanderbilt, the two richest
men that ever lived in the United States,
said it was the best way to build up a
good trade.
Year: 1879

The young men Of the West Baton
Rouge C Calathumpian society gave ball
last Monday night, which was pro-
nounced a success by those in attend
ance. These young men know how to
conduct such entertainments.
Year: 1879

Under the present favorable financial
auspices Major Preston and his assis-
tants will soon render this q complete
and thorough educational institution
for the deaf and dumb of our State Our
best wishes go with the institution, it's
officers and pupils.
Year: 1879

Nearly everybody who goes TO the Cap
itol knows Major BUNNELL, and all respect
him. He is candidate for the Office of
pension agent at Cannndiagua, n. Y, and
if ever man deserved recognition, Major
BUNNELL is that man. In this connection
we take the liberty of copying the follow
ing wonderful narrative which we clip from
the Rochester Union, and which is correct
statement of facts:


A correspondent of the Philadelphia Times,
writing from Washington. rehearscs the re-
markable experience of Major MARK J. Bun
NELL, who was Il private in Company b of the
old Thirteenth Regiment, which went from
this city MS one of the first volunteer regiments
in April, 1861. The writer says:


ale is literally shot to pieces, although none
would suspect the constant agony he en-
dures by looking at him. His face is not dis
figured, and fortunately he has both his legs
and arms. At the second battle of Bull Ran
he received u gun.shot wound through both
lungs, and while lying on the field he received
another bullet in his left thigh and shell
wound which fractured his right foot. He
was left ON the field for dead This was on
the 30th Of August, 1862. The fact is almost
Incredible that lie was not removed until
September 8, having laid on the field in total
helplessness for nine days and ten nights.
How he lived during the time he does not
know himself. He was some OF the time un.
conscious. The scenes which he beheld arc
sickening to relate. For nine days he was on
his back on the ground, with n bullet hole
through both lungs and both legs fractured
Much of the time it rainGd and lie was wholly
without shelter. The weather was very warm,
and at times the heat Of the sun made him un-
conscious. Bodies of dead men and horses
restoring in the sun, frequently swelled and
burst around him, aud the stencil was dread
full. He subsisted on the conents of dead
mems haversaCls and canteens crawling n:
best he could from one dead body to another
No imagination can picture the horrors of hi.
situation. furnishing from hunger and thirst
for nine days, breathing when every rcspira
tion occasiOned the acutest agony, suffering un
told pain from two broken legs in whose wounds
the maggots roveled, and enduring mental tor
ture impossible to realze-this was the horrible
lot of this soldier. lie was finally found by
burying party and taken from the field. III,
was in the hospital almost year. wonde
| to the Surgeons, who predicted his death from
one day to another. He, however, recovered
as well as it IS possible to recover with botl
lungs shot to pieces, and In due time was abl,


to go ON court-marlal duty. lie was made
captain in the Veteran Corps, and was on duty
at the War Department until ho was dis
| charged in 1866. He now walks without q can,
aud looks like IL sound aud healthy man. Hi


wounds in his chest have never healed, ant


continue to discharge all the time. Indeed, h


may be said to be walking about with the day


light shining through his lungs. lie married


after his recovery, and has row wife ant


charming family.


| "Mr. BUNNELL was a resident Of Dansville
and since the war has done official duty il


various positions in Washington"
Year: 1879

Who manages the White House? This
is q conundrum which has engaged the at
tention of class of the habitues of the
ing levee for the season. BY strange
oversight, rs they think many who desired
TO attend that atiair were not invited, and
some who were invited received an invita-
tion of n very peculiar character 1t APP
pears that the press was entirely over
looked, except in one or two cases, where
veterans of newspaperdom were recognized
by invitations to the yestibule, that they
might enjoy, in all its iullness, the music of
the Marine Band. Those favored ones ap-
pear to be disgruntlcd in excess of those
who were entirely neglected. No one ap-
pears to understand why any gentleman
from Newspaper Row should be invited TO
the vestibule of the Palace under terms
which seemed to say to the recipient of
that marked favor "Thus far shalt thou go,
"and no farther'-and "here let thy proud
ambition be stayed"


Now, we claim and insist that the presi-
dent of free Republic has perfect and
| full right TO invite or leave uninvited any
other respectable American citizen when
he gathers around him his social jewels
but under what gauge of hospitality one OF
the so-called Bohemans of eminent respec-
liability should be invited exclusively to
the vestibule of the Palace, where the band,
the lacqueys, and the footmen form the
usual congregation, we fail clearly to COM
prehend. However, it is the prerogative
of the President or his most excellent lady
to draw the social line just rs they shal
decide under their sense of propriety. l
the invitations were issued under their die
tation, then all right. But if some sub
ordinate, without their knowledge ant
consent has taken the liberty to make III
vidious distinctions in the way of locating
guests, we deem it matter of simple duty
to advise the President of n proceeding that
in our view Of prOpriety, is not only I'M
usual, but exceedingly strange. 1t is in be
half of the yestibule guests that we indulg,
this remark, with the view simply of ascer
tanning whether these social distinctions ar


to be kept up in the future hospitalities o
the Executive Mansion. On this point
however, we are not disposed to be inter
meddling or oyer-ofiicious, but this much i
due to the fidelity of history to say-the oc
casion in question was purely n court aflhi
and the invitations were confined strictly


within the bounds of official relation to th


Government. This fact should solace an.


one who feels that he has been neglected t
an extent that has established within him


self grief.
Year: 1879

THE delegation of Republican Congress-
men from the Pacific slope, who waited on
the President few days ago to urge him to
sign the anti-C Chinese bill, had barely re-
turned to their seats at the Capitol when q
Democratic delegation of members from the
same section made similar raid upon the
Executive. Both parties were thus enabled
to make record against the further whole
sale importation of non-voting cheap labor
through the Golden Gate, and each will be
equally responsible for the failure of their
respective efforts in the event of veto.
But it seems that Senator GROVER, as the
spokesman of the Democratic delegation ,
went so far rs to say that the bill was 'of
too much importance to all the people of
the Pacific slope to be viewed from party
grounds This disavowal of partisan in
terest i'll the premises undoubtedly pro-
ceeded from the fact that the bill is pract-
cally of Republican origin, as it is also q
measure of Republican adoption, for it could
not have passed either House without the
consent and approval of the Republican
members. In fact, the most effective and
earnest speech made in its favor was deliv-
cred in the House by Mr.. PAGE, Of Cali.
| foTnia.
Year: 1879




The very obnoxious and questionable
policy of attaching irrelevant and objec-
tionablo measures to appropriation bills,
that they may be pulled through, is re-
bukcd by the Richmond (Va.) State, jour
nal of Democratic proclivities, in the follow
ing sensible terms


The repeal of the Federal election laws
should have been presented on its own merits,
and not have been attached as milestone to
in important appropriation bill Persistence
in this sort Of obstructive legislation can only
result in the worst consequences TO the party,
while it cannot possibly be Of any use before
the meeting Of the next Congress, when there
would be no difficulty about the repeal or
amendment of the laws.


This is Il sensible, but decidedly un-Demo-
cratic view to take of this question. This
attempt to repeal the Federal election laws
by attaching the measure upon an appro-
priation bill clearly shows that the Demo-
Gratis doubt its success in any other shape
The sentiment of the country is largely
against n removal of the barriers that have
been placed between the ballot-box and
fraud, outrage, and corruption. II does not
call for, neither will it opprove of, the repeal
of the election law. This the Democrats
must be aware of, or otherwise they would
not attempt TO smuggle it through in a sur
reptitious and questionable manner As
the State suggests, this repeal measure
should stand upon its own merits, if it has
any; and if it is without merit then the at
tempt to foist it upon the statute book sur
reptitiously is the more to be abominated.
This measure is one Of the questions that
the Democrats will find great difficulty in
meeting at the bar of public Judgment.


The attempt even, to disturb this law,
which is one of the wisest and best on the
statute bool; relating to the right of suf-
flage and the purity Of our elections, is a
great outrage, while its full success will
bring down upon the party which accom-
plishes its overthrow storm Of public in
dignation which it cannot withstand. The
people regard the purity Of our elections
above party success in any direction, and
that party which aims blow at it strikes
at the foundations Of good government, and
must answer at the tribunal of public SEN
timent for the outrage.


That the better portion of the Democratic
party who have thus far been loyal TO the
Union and the laws Of government should
at this crisis join hands with those who
have endeavored through the agency of
armed rebellion to take the national life,
Year: 1879

The New York Tribune thinks that of all
the appeals addressed TO the President upon
the Chinese bill, one way or the other, there
Is certainly none more significant and, in a
certain sense, picturesque than that Of the
American Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.
The chief name attached to it is that of a
colored preacher who made his first aboli-
tiOn speech more than forty years ago, and
it represents many men who shave felt the
" iron yoke Of oppression and the bitterness
4" of race prejudice in this country" 1t is
the demand of the negro that the Chinamun
shall have m equal chance.
Year: 1879

THE New York Express thinks the Repub-
licans are the strongest advocates of TIL
DEN's denomination by the Democracy in
1880 1t bases this assumption upon the
mdoubted fact that TILDEN would be very,
very easily beaten. The Express is unusu-
ally correct in its belief; but for the sake
of its abdominal harmony it should re-
press its rising anti-TILDEY gorge. Crow,
like castor oil, is all the harder TO take when
the patient fingers in contemplation of its
nastiness
Year: 1879

EXACTLY why The post Tramp is so
viciously opposed to the Chinese when it
employs 'cheap labor" (?) itself, is one of
those things no respectable person will care
10 inquire into. But ON the surface this op-
position to them seems to be the healthiest
aid the Chinese have had. If they have any
real interest at stake in the premises they
can afford to pay the organ in question n
good round sum to keep il up.