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Year: 1879

Captain hodge weknown Western river captain. state
that he Shreveport during the last Of tn
disease that place and knew of several persons who wore
HOLMAN PAD. lie being among the number none Of WHOM
took the disease.
Year: 1879

range Of the Rocky mountains at an eleva-
tion of $500 above the level of the sea and
l,2l5 above the main street of Helena, a
distance from Helena west Of the summit of
the main range of Is milee, thence to the
waters of the Columbia at Little Blackwood
three miles. The board of trade is having
a report of the route prepared and Mr..
Priest, the discoverer, puts on force Of
men to make new wagon road to Deer
Lodge. The pass is about 700 feet lower
than the favored Deer Lodge pass.
Year: 1879

CASTING up the accounts mt the close of
the session yesterday it is discovered that
the North obtained appropriations for pub
lie improvements and internal developments
amounting in round numbers 20 ten times
the sum appropriated to the South for the
same purpose. 1t is to be hoped that the
brotherly love of the sections will not be
turned into jealousy by this simple accident,
for accident it must have been, when it is
conceded (?> that the craftsmanship and
mauaging ability of the House rested with
the Southern Democracy.
Year: 1879

Ex-GovERNoR PALMER, of Illinois,
aspircs to the Democratic nomination for
President in 1880. lie has taken the trouble
to decline the second place on that ticket in
advance of it having been rendered to him,
aud may as well make up his mind now MS
later that he will not be on the ticket at
all. lie served the Union galantly during
the war, and of consequence is among the
top rails in the Democratic party, where
the bottom rails are on top"
Year: 1879

Now the rigidity of the backbone of the
Administration will be severely tested The
extra session of Congress- both Houses be-
ing Democratic, will bring matters to def
longer enjoy the protection of the Senate
rs bulwark against the encroachments of
the House. The struggle of the immediate
future win be of hand-to-hahd character
between the legislative and executive
branches of the Government
Year: 1879

FEARS are expressed, which no doubt have


their origin in Opposition influences, that
the President will eventually succumb to
the dictates Of the Democratic majority in
the coming extra session, and finally sub
init TO n repeal Of the national election laws.
We earnestly hope and firmly believe they
are unfounded. Those laws should remain
ON the statute books forever and day after
as fixed as the laws of the Medes and Per-
Year: 1879

THE Greenbackers in the next House re-
fuse to be utilized rs cats paws in extract
ing chestnuts for the Democratic monkeys
from the hot Goals of political plunder. If
they make any alliance at all, it will be in
combination against the Democracy. And
now the Democrats never did think much
of the Greenbackers anyway
Year: 1879

SOMEBODY is contemplate enough to cir
culate the story that the President is now
engaged in writing apologetic letters to gem
tlemen of the press who were neglected
altogether, or who received invitations to
the vestibule" during the late court affair.
II cannot be possible. The President would
not eat humble pie in this way, He is too
hIgh.toned for that, most certainly,
Year: 1879

slams. They are intended simply and only
to preserve the purity of the ballot box.
The man who strikes at them, be it ever so
indirectly really delivers a blow at the
very foundation of our governmental sys-
tenn
Year: 1879

We have heard of the theft of great
many things, but never before now of an
attempt TO steal nm immense printing Of
flee. The next effort will be to steal the
Treasury, under the preiense Of running it
10 per cent less tlnn now.
Year: 1879

THAT bar'l of TILDEN's proved to be
very useful article. 1t was filled with
money, as all the world knows, for the CAM
paign of 1876, and now that it is empty the
old paralytic whispers fraud as loudly
and as hoarsely as he can into its reverber-
atiug vacancy, whence echoes issue assuring
him OF responsive throb TO his appeal for
vindication. The only trouble is that when
he stufls it full again preparatory to the
campaign of 1880 the assurances of vindica-
! ton will cease
Year: 1879

Now let the Southern States prick up
their ears and point the finger of scorn at
Maine, the great Yankee State of Maine
wherein the free high-schools have been
closed by Legislative enactment for the COM
ing year. Then let them lower ears and
finger when they slearn that this suspension
of educational privileges is the first definite
result we have to record of the new Demo-
cratic administration of Maine, the great
un-Yankeeized State of Mnine
Year: 1879

COUNTRY SOCIAL LIFE.-Country folks
are in general so fully occupied with af-
fairs that they have no time TO discover
how lonesome they really are. 81 far rs
this is concerned we think it misfortune.
We are too busy. We work too hard. We
take too few, or no holidays. We read
and think too little, and do not spend
sufficient time in social culture. There is
no reason who those who plow the soil or
e whose talk is Of bullocks" should not
experience the refnements which are the
results of formal social life. In business,
at bargains, in pursuit of dollars, no man
is seen at his best. He is thorny, spiny,
with his buck up rs q porcupinc might be
at his business. Let one dotf his working
clothes and enter room full of his neigh
bors men, women, young men and maid
ens-and he is man of another kind. lie
naturally falls into the ways of an intultlve
kindness which is really the truest polite
ness; the doing to his companion what he


would that he should do to him. lie
" lets himself OUT to please. and, after an
evening spent in social converse,he retlres
with many rough corners and asperltles
toned down. For few days the influence
remains. 1t would be permanent if ii
could be reinforced now and then, and the
good results would be most agreeable and
useful. There is no difficulty in bringing


these good influences to bear. Two oil


three persons with energy and some mag
netism about them can put them in motior
with ease. Now is the time to begin the


eflort.-Rural Ncw Yorker.
Year: 1879

A TURKEY DRUNK.-A Glenburn farm
or came into Bangor, Me-, recently, and
among other things purchased some rice
and a pint of whisky. Fearing that the
bottle might get broken on the way home,
he placed it in the box containing the rice.
When he reached home and took the box
from the pung he found that the stopple
had cot out of the bottle, and rice and
whiskey were thoroughly mixed. He
dumped the contents OF the box behind the
barn, and in short time huge turkey
came along and, rs he was not ~ particu
lar rs the farmer, gobbled up the medi-
Gated rice. Shortly after this the farmer
was greatly surprised to find the turkey
living cut behind the barn " dead rs y
ioor-nail," and vowing vengeance on the
man who sold him whiskey rank enough
to kill a turkey.h carried the bird into the
house. The farmer was soon alter seen
carving the naked bird-as every feather
was gone with the exception of tho wings
and tnil-out behind the stable, where he
left it on the snow. The next morning
when he entered the stable,it being hardly
light, ne detected what he thought was the
ghost of that incorporate turkey and
could almost feel his hair rise; but he
made up his mind to investigate the mat
ter and boldly advanced. Imagine his
surprise, on getting nearer. to discover
the bird shivering on the roost,and looking
ut him with reproachful eyes for having
stolen his clothes while helplessly drunk.
At last accounts the turkey was doing MS
we'll AS could be expected during this zero
weather.
Year: 1879

ECCENTRIC OLD CovIEs.-There is q
man SO years old who has resided in De-
troit ever since the first street car was
started, and yet has never entered car.
In rain and snow and heat he jogs along
meeting and being passed by cars, but
nothing can drive him into becoming n
passenger. When the present post t-office
building was erected the site displeased
him and he has never yet entered the build
ing. In going up and down Michigan
avenue he always walks on the south side.
There is man living in this city who for
years kept two men and two women SER
wants. and he has always insisted that the
men should be black-haired, and the wom-
en- red haired. 1t is said that years ago he
passed black-haired man and red-hair.
ed girl walking arm in arm, and during
the next ten steps he picked up n wallet
with large sum of money in it which
was never claimed. His good luck brought
with it the whim that he now induges.
On Sixth street lives middle aged man
who will not speak to a man wearing a
stovepipe hat Once, after sending for u
doctor for his wife, he refused to let the
physician enter because he had a silk hat
on.-Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1879

WHAT is CASTLE SoAP?-A subscrb.
er wishes to know how this differs from
other soap. The hard soaps made in this
country are almost exclusively from ami
NAL fats in the south of Europe, where
the olive grows abundantly, the poorer
kinds of olive oil are used for soap max
ing. Common soaps are soda and animal
fat. CASTLE soap is soda and vegetable
OIL In making CASTLE soap, great care is
taken to avoid an excess of alkali (the
soda). only just enough being used to
neutralize the oil. On this account the
soap is so much milder, and may be used
on wounds and other surfaces where COM
mon soap would irritate ami give pan.
The mottled appearance of CASTLE soap is
due to small quantity of solution of cop
peras (sulphate of irony which is stirred
into it before it hardens; this leaves a
blush odor of iron in the soap which.
when exposed to the air, becomes changed
to the red oxide. White CASTLE soap is
also solid, which is the same as the other
without the coloring. Though called
CASTLE. it is by no means exclusively made
in Spain, the largest share coming from
the South of France, and indeed it is gen.
orally known in Europe as Marseilles
soap.--An,erican AgTicutnris'.
Year: 1879

man must have either great men or
great objects before him. Otherwise his
l"wers degenerate. aS the magnet does,
when it has lain for long time without
being turned toward the right corners of
the wOrld.-Richtcr.


Some empOyments may be better than
others but there is no employment SO bad
rs the having none at all The mind will
contract r rust and IN uniilnrss for every
hing, and man must either ill up his
Time with good. or at least innocent
business, or it will run TO The worst of
waste-tO sin and vice


Sume men are honest be cause they dare
not be otherwise The man who Is honest
when honesty is the best policy is not really
IN honest man. Honesty is not swerving
nolicy, but stable principle An honest
man is honest from his soul, nor deigns to
stooP to m"anness, though great results
hang on the petty fraud.


Begin the education Of the heart, not
with the cultivation of noble properties,
hut with the cutting away of those that
Ire evil. When once the noxious herbs
ire withered and rooted ont, then the
will shoot upward. The virtues like the
body, become strong and healthy more by
labor than nourshment. t.-RicLtSr.





- A CORRUPT oFfIcIAL'-I aldermen OF
prookIyh are 10 investigate the action OF
Fred Mossey. when president OF the fire
department, In approprlating lor two years
some sZ0'ooo; also about S9'oOO which he
deianlted upon Tor over a year after he
resigned the treasurysship of the inebri-
a.e's bone. Mossey is an Old ring polti-
cian oil brooklyn, and now, by appoint
meni' Is president OF the board OF city
Year: 1879

A man must have either great men or
great objects before him. Otherwise his
savers degenerate. aS the magnet does,
when it has lain for long time without
being turned toward the right corners of
the wOrld.-Richtcr.
Year: 1879

ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN.-On Satur-
day evening two negro boys attempted to
throw the westward-bound accommodation
train of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway
from the track near Hanover. The switch
at that place had been changed so as to
throw the train from The main track, but
fortunately: the yigilant eye Of the engi:
neer saw the danger, and with the aid OF
the air.brake succeeded in stopping the
train five or six feet from the switch-frog.
The train was going at full speed at the
time, and when it was stopped the boys
were discovered hiding near by, and were
chased and captured By some OF the passen.
gers and employees Of the company.
Year: 1879

THE PEOPLE have been so much imposed upon
by worthless BloOd-Purders that we are glad to be
able to recommend preparation which can be de-
pended on as containing Invaluable medicinal vir-
tues and Is worthy OF the public confidence. AYERS
SARSAPARILLA cures, when anything can cure, the
diseases that require an Alternative medicine
Year: 1879

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and Backing
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade OF
these goods is always standard aud their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere The
firm is one of the oldest in the country and
has the largest trade 10 its line. DIFF
Year: 1879

There is a mine of wealth for the peo-
pie in Warmers Safe Pills: for health is
wealth, and nothing so contributes to the
health of large class of people as these
pills. As a laxative and regulator of
the bowels and cure for bilious troubles
and malaria they surpass all other
remedies
Year: 1879

NEARLY EVERY ONE tsuffers at times
from Costiveness, or arrangement of the
digestive organs, and too often resort to
the use of drastic pills or purges, which
only lrritate and weaken the system.
Always use and keep in the house the
only specific for the above complaint,
LoCtae. so pleasant in taste. mild in action
can be taken by all ages. Price so cents.
Year: 1879

No Cure, no Pay" I've authorize
our Agents to guarantee that our Medi-
clue. if taken according to directions,
will relieve constipation and the diseases
incident to a torpid liver; aud if any one
will show by positive proof that it has not
produced what we guarantee, they are en-
titled to return OF their money, provided
they take the genuine Simmons Liver
Regulator by the directions,
Year: 1879

No use Of having the chills, no use OF
headache or any Of the ills that come from
disordcred or inactive liver. One bot
tie Of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn case-will
relieve the system and make you feel like
a new person. Try it aud be satisfied.
Year: 1879

On the 18th of May, 1867. Peter Gruber made his
will, he then being the of both personal and
real property in this country and of real estate in
Germany all of the value of about $4,000. When
he made this will he had wife, Fredericka and his
love for her. not only before but after DEATH seems
to have been the disturbing element in his otherwise
tranquil will. To his ''beloved wife he gave all his
property in trust, to be used by her during her
natural life, provided she remained unmarried the
remainder to his heirs-alaw. Should she, however,


marry again she to forfeit not only her trust but
also her right of dover She made executrix
of the will A suit brought in the name of
Peter Gruber, infant of the deceased, to OBJ


tain Interpretation OF the will to what property
under it passed to the executrix in trust The case


tried before Judge Van Brunt, in Supreme Court,
Special Term, Mr.. ID. NJ Porter representing the
infant plaintiff as counsel and Mr.. NJ. Compton the
executrix. A decision has just been rendered by
Judge Van Brunt. he holding that under the will
only the property in Now York passed to the execr-
trix in trust and that to the property elsewhere
the trust was passive and Of force This decision
leaves the property outside OF New York to descend
to the heirs of the deceased among whom plaintiff is
Year: 1879

the smallpox. and in spite of the remonstrances of
herself and husband put her in the ambulance and
carried her to Bellevue Hospitals that upon her ar


and decided that she had measles. but as she had
been committed by the Board of Health as small
pox patient said they had no power TO
let her go. although her husband offered
to take her home with him, and that she
then sent to Blackwels Island. where she
was kept for ten days. 1t was contended
that she was thus taken from her home with
out any pretence of an examination by two phy-
scians, the law required. On the part OF the
Board of HEALTH 1t insisted that this formality
had been complied with, and evidence was intro
duced tending to show that Mrs. Tormey's own
physician had reported the smallpox and that
one of the 1.-TWO laboring men" whom Mrs.


Tormey described the late Dr. Watts, who
at that time was detailed to 60 with the
ambulance, and kept q suit Of old clothes
for such service to his ordinary dress from
infection. 1t was, therefore. contended that there
had been only an honest mistake in diagnosing the
disease smallpox. which in its early stages fire.
quently Stimulates measles. Upon the conclusion OF
the testimony for the plaintiff motion was made
the city not responsible for the acts OF the Board
of Health or its employees nor for those in charge
at Bellevue and Blackwelps Island, who were the
servants OF the Commissioners OF Charities and Cor
rection. After brief argument the motion was
granted and the complaint was dismissed Mr..
George W. wingate appeared for plaintiff. Mr.. W.
p. Prentice for the Board of Health. and Messrs.
d. J. Dean and z. Henry Lacombe for the city.
Year: 1879

The aspersions of the military record of
Daniel F. Davis, which had their origin in
that blackguardly sheet the Maine STANDARD,
and have been eagerly copied by the Demo-
cratic press throughout the State, provoke
the profound Indignation of those who knew
him best. His old comrades in arms, the
men who stood by his side when he con-
fronted rebel bullets, are fastening to con-
denim the n alicious mendacity of his assail-
ants, and to bear testimony to his noble and
soldierly qualities. Yesterday we published
letters from some of the members of his reg
iment and company. To-day we publish
more. They effectually do away with the
gross charge made by the Standard and re-
peated by the papers in sympathy with it.


The spectacle that has been presented is
an edifying one and the voters of Maine will
profit by it. They have seen the hero of an
anti-draft riot impugning the record of a
Union soldier and sneering at him because
he contracted grave disease in the service
of his country, and was compelled
to seek the shelter of the hospital
They have seen other papers which
have been engaged for years in
ridiculing or r,arguing against the cause for
which our volunteers fought, taking up the
sneer and gleefully repeating it. And these
are the men, the manufacturers and retail
ers of SANDER, who come before the people
of this State, and ask to be entrusted with
its government. The voters of Maine will
never mark their approval of the authors of
malicious charges against our Union soldiers
by putting them into power. The charges
will recoil upon the heads of those who
made them, and he against whom they were
falsely preferred be placed in the highest of
flee in the gift Of the State.


If the Somerset Reporter should suggest
anything, it says, to make up and round out
the qualifications of Candidate Smith into a
perfect rotundity, it would recommend an
annex for the expansion of his memory. If
he had such a memory and was great and
good in proportion, he would never have
said in his letter of acceptance that the con-
traction policy caused the prostration of
business. The panic came when specie re-
sumption was the last thing thought Of
when the volume of paper money was as
great as it had been for six years. The
thing burst up; and although Secretary
Richardson poured into circulation 5,000,-
900 of greenbacks and the bank circulation
was increased $15,000,0O0, prices went
down, down, down. Wild speculation,
crazy investments, and financial kiting gen.
orally with borrowed money caused the
panic and the depression which followed.
Two years ago, before he got angry about a
little office, Candidate Smith would have
said as much.''
Year: 1879

The result of the Convention is so satisfactory
to the Somerset Republicans that they do not
hesitate to express their pleasure. That man
should be selected outside of the rings"
man of the people and from the people, one
who has filled places of trust, and in a manner
satisfactory to all, is gratifying, and will help
greatly to swell the vote in September


The harmony which existed, in spite of the
crowd, is another indication of the earnestness
of the coming contest, and speaks volumes for
the success of the Republican party.


We have candidate against whom nothing
can be said except that he has never been
ring politician" has never forced himself up
ON the people, but has done his duty faithfully
wherever placed and so is more worthy OF our
cordial support. If the several counties in their
nominations make as judicious selections
the State will be redeemed in September and
good will result to all our people.


So say the Republicans Of Somerset County.
Year: 1879

The Greenbackers will of course attribute
the failure of the wild strawberry crop to re-
sumption. We look to see the failure appear
in the Leader under the heading "Another
Republican Victory
Year: 1879

The suit of tho first wife of Chas C. Hol-
brook of Boston for portion of the estate left
by him at his DEATH has been decided in favor
of the second wife, the court holding that the
divorce settled all claims at the time the di-
vorce was effected.
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 publca-
ton but as guaranty Of good faith.


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

The Commune Of Samnnunc, one OF
the most remarkable, as it is one of
the least known, in all Switzerland, is
situated in q mountain valley, 5000
feet above the level of the sea, and
almost cut Off from the world. The
inhabitants fetch their daily supply of
provisions from Martinsbruck, on the
other side of the Inn and for the greater
part OF the distance, seven hours in all,
they have to carry everything on their


backs up the steep mountain paths.


'Thev get their letters from the Aus.


trian vilInge OF Rauders, which


involves O walk for the pCstman OF ten
hours, four thither and six back.
Fifty years ago the members OF the
commune met together, and, being OF
opinion that German was on the whole
a more desirable language for the
ordinary purposes of life than their
mother tongue, they resolved thence
forth to speak German only, and to
Year: 1879

Two great political truths have
been unearthed in this country within
the past ten years, viz The ex-Reb-
els who vote the Republican ticket can
get Office and honor from tho Federal
Government, and negroes who vote
the Democratic ticket get plenty to
cat
Year: 1879

A bachelor, upon reading that 1.-TWO
lovers will sit up oil night with one
chair in the ROOM" said 1t could not be
done uiless one Of them sat on the floor.
Such ignorance ~ painful.
Year: 1879

lie promised to cleave to her; and they
went to the threatre, and when he came
back between acts with piece Of cork
in his whiskers, she knew by the fra
GRANGE he exhaled that he had Glove.
Year: 1879

In this world man is likely to get
what he gives. Mems hearts are like %
whispering gallery to you. If you speak
softly n gentle whisper comes back, il
you scold you get scoded. With the
measure you mete ont il il measured to
you again.
Year: 1879

A horse in Chicago drank two gallons
of beer in mistake for water, and about
fifteen minutes he danced around the
wagon and wanted to know who run
that town If he didn't. 1t affects every
thing lust that way.
Year: 1879

When city becomes infested with n
band of old and young croakers, they
work more harm than good, active
band of robbers. When thus afflicted,
the greatest boon it can pray for is a
few magnificent funerals.