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Year: 1879

fashion. 6lase club men, selfish world
lings. grew pale as they watched the un-
happy wretch, SO vivid was their sympa-
thy.


Many persons sat up all night looking
across the seething, roaring waters at
the small dark figure still clinging to
the rock. The morning came; renewed
efforts were made, but they all miscar-
ried. The crowd had increased; it was
immense. Everybody was excited. Tears
were in the women's eyes the pallor
CLEANED through the rouge of some of
their cheeks. Cant something be done !?
Must the poor fellow perish before our
faces Is there no way to rescue him
Such questions were incessantly asked;
but, alas no reply could be given.


strength. He clung to the rock with
the desperation of dying soul. To
lose his hold was to be dashed over the
cataract. Apparatus and contrivances
arrived from Buffalo. New experiments
and new failures. Hoarse shouts still
rang across the rapids to hold on. to be
of good heart. The stoutest heart that
ever throbbed could not gripe that rock
forever. It was wonderful how he had
endured. A fresh idea had come to the
minds of half dozen mechanics. They
were laboring to throw out a hawser !;
every muscle was strained; every eye
was bent upon their work.


Suddenly the man slipped away. He
was exhausted; he threw up his arms !;
he dashed toward the cataract. A low
groan as from one breast quaked through
the thrcng; the thousands shivered with
terror. A black object for moment
longer in the hell of the waters, and
then disappeared forever. There was
an agony of relief. No one moved no
one spoke for a while. All looked in
the direction where the figure had been
swallowed up. 1t was the enchantment
of terror; it was the chill of tragedy
distinctly wrought which froze every
one for the moment to the spot.


The old resident-he has lived here
forty years-says that an average about
six persons are carried over the falls ev.
cry year, and that four out of the siz
are wholly or partly intoxicated and lose
their lives By carelessness or reckless
ness in rowing above the rapids, going
beyond the line Of danger. But for liq
uor. not more than two lives, he says
wonld be lost annually -Nsesa~s Letter
Year: 1879

Oh, he goes away, singing,
Singing over the seal eI
oh. he comes again. bringing
Joy and himself to mel
Down through the rosemary hollow
And up the wet beach ran,
My heart in flutter 70 follow
The flight Of my sailor man.
Fie on husband sitting


Still in the house at homei
Give me mariner, fitting
And flashing over the foam!
Give me voice resounding
The songs of the breezy mainl
Give me free heart bounding
Evermore hither againl
Coming s better than going;
But never was queen SO grand
As /, while watch him blowing
Away from the lazy land.
have welded and ocean-rover,
And with him own the sea;
Yet over the waves come over,
And anchor, my lad, by me.
Hark to his billowy laughter.
Blithe on the homeward tidel
Hark to 1t. heart up and after;
OF to the harbor-side;
Down through the rosemary hollow
And over the sand-hills, light
And swift as a sea-bird. follow;
And no for a sail in sighti


Lacy Larcom, in Harper's Magazine
Year: 1879

We have said that Mr.. HartrIdge lacked
tnat ambition which ooyets place. While this
is true, he did not lack that finer ambition
which makes q patriot OF the average man
and leader OF him who is capable Of leading
In sll the essentials Of intellect and education
MT. Hartridge was leader OF men. He was
2 leader by right OF his great natural R!sts;
right OF the personal magnetism BY which he
swayed Oil who came within sound Of his
voice. and by fight OF the intellectual prowese
with which he met great questions and great
issues. IL will be said Of him hereafter that
he was the most gifted Georgian Of his time.
Year: 1879

LONDON Jan. 1o-The weather for some DAYS
past has been unusually severe and fo-daY the
tenn perature is still lower Ice formed In the
turn Of the tide came floating down the river.
This Is m ost unusual occurrence and one that
exciteS gen eral remark.
Year: 1879

New ORLEANS, LA, August A.
About half past ten o'clock this
morning as General Badger was as
cending one of the side entrance
stairways from the lower floor to
the main Offices of the custom house
he was suddenly met by William
Brown, an ex-metropolitan police
man, who, with the remark, "I'ye
got you now" drew a revolver and
fred at his head. Seeing the mans
movement, Collector Badger caught
his arm and diverted the shot over
his shoulder and then took
the pistol away from Brown
and threw it below. Brown lost q
leg on 18th of September, 1874,
under Badger and was among Bad
gers first appointees as postmaster.
Becoming Collector, Badger left
Brown in the postofice, where he
failed to remain. The Collector
thinks Brown was crazed by power
ty and seems unwilling to prosecute
him. Brown evidently thinks Gen.
Badger should have given him a
place in the Custom House.
Year: 1879

away from home at the time, and,
taking advantage of his absence,
the negro entered the house and
shot Maggie Tinns dead, and the
woman who accompanied him
chopped off the infants head with
spade. The double murder was not
discovered until Roses return Sat
urday evening.
Year: 1879

Expose yourself day and night; eat
hard without rest doctor all the time
take all the vile nostrums advertised,
and then you will want to know


HOW TO GET WELL.


Which is answered in three words
Take Hop Bitters See another col
umn. E
Year: 1879

Section l. The annual election for
city and ward officers shall be held on
the first Tuesday IN April in each year at
such places as the board of aldermen
shall designate: the polls at such election
shall be kept open IN each ward from
nine O'Clock in the forenoon until FIVE
o'clock in the afternoon of the same dav.


Ten dE's notice Of the time and place of
holding annual and special elections
Year: 1879

and Navy which were then used in our de-
fence. Mr.. Hewitt may be right in theory
as to the necessity of guarding against the
possibility of military interference in elections
But it is a little too early for the men VINO
lately undertook to destroy our Government
to create panic by the cry that the Army
which defeated their conspiracy threatens our
Year: 1879

The report of the Railroad Commissioners
of Massachusetts, in describing the methods
by which railroad combinations can be inves-
tigated and scrutinized under the laws OF
that State, suggests that the present cOmbina-
ton of the great trunk lines might. under GER
tain conditions, grow into great railroad
clearing house. The Board believes that such
an organization would be of great use III de-
veloping the business interests OF the country,
but does not cherish lively hope that 1t will
make its appearance very soon.


The gossip occasiOned by the sudden col
Iapse of the Vanderbilt will case continues,
but 1t is only just TO note the fact that
all the persons interested in the case. who
care TO speak upon the matter, continue
their former denials that there was any com
promise between the principals. 1t Is ac-
knowleged that William Ii. Vanderbilt stands
ready to fulfil the promises TO his relatives
made a year ago, but it Is denied that tins
indicates q compromise of any sort, inasnuch
as the proponent had been willing from the
first to do this.


/ Mr. Chittenden's challenge to General But
Ter TO defray the cost of one side of a suit
which shall test the constitutional right OF
the Government to issue legal-tenders in
time of peace. and which shall be
carried up to the Supreme Court, pro-
ceeds from commendable desire to secure
the highest judicial Interpretation of most
important question. General Butler is on the
side of the power of unlimited issue, and
proposes to argue his own case. 1t Will be
great public advantage If a final decision can
be speedily reached.


1t will crafty the whole American people
to learn that the appropriation for Mrs Bayard
Taylor was not among the measures that
failed of passage by Congress. The expendi-
lures made abroad by our late Minister to
Germany in anticipation of heightened
stay at his post were such as TO give
his family a peculiar claim upon the
Government. The appropriation might have
been larger. no doubt, and more nearly equal
70 the occasion, without adding much TO the
public burdens; but it lis satisfaction TO
be able TO record the fact that, such as 1t
vas, it has survived the wreck aud confusion
Year: 1879

The passage by the State Senate OF the Dill
10 reduce the legal rate of interest from seven
to six per cent was made by an almost unani-
nous vote but only after the entire section 10
which so much objection has been made WAS
stricken out. Senator St Johns argu-
ment against the unjust and lmprac-
ticahle features of this section seems 20
have been mainly instrumental IN producing
this effect. The Senate saw the ab>urdlty OF
increasing the striugency of money law
already the most rigid i'll force IN any State
Of the Union. The fate OF the bill III the AS
sembly is necessarily in doubt, but the prac-
teal effect of "A mere reduction in the legal
rate of interest can hardly be great


The desperation of the Ulster County Ring,
which was shown in the violence at the po's
in Kingston, was not resorted to without the
best of reasons. 1t was the last struggle OF
rogucs at bay. The gratifying announcement
is now made that the Anti-Ring movement
WIS completely successful. in spite OF that Vlo-
lencc, overturnng the present majority IN the
Board of Supervisors, making the Board Ke-
publican. and clecting the best set OF men
seen in the body III twenty years. There mas
seldom been a shorter, sharper, and more el-
fective campaign against the rule OF corrupt
polticjans. and the result should encourage
ali municInalities and localities where wlckeu
ana waeteful officials persist in proionSing
their injurious careers.
Year: 1879

A skating rihk, OIL. ring 10000 square
feet of a. tificial ice in one sheet, is in
successful operation in New York. The
protector, Mr.. Ran kin Is widely known
in come, ton with the ice trade, particu-
larly in the West aud South, where his
machines for producing ice are largely
used. His present enterprise is notable
chiefly for its magnitude, the area of zee
produced being very many times larger
tLan any OF tile sort previously attempt
&C. Something like nine miles of gas
piping are required for the circulation of
the refrigerating liquid, which is pump
ed through the pipes after having had its
temperature sufficiently reduced in q
freezing chamber some two hundred and
fifty feet long, in which Ice is liquefied
by means OF salt and other solids. The
principle involved is simply that of the
ice cream freezer. A tight floor was laid
over SUI face 200 feet by 80 feet on th s
floor a network of pipes was laid, and
the whole flooded by two or three inch
Of water. On pumping the refrigerating
fluid through the ppes, the water is
frozen and kept SO cold that the surface
of the ice remains dry, though, the at
moslheI of the rink is warmed by half
dozen large furnaces. The project
might have been car ried out equally as
well and much more profitable at mid
summer, when skating rink would have
been more of novelty. Mr.. Rankin
says that the temperature of the refrigera-
ting liquid is raised but ten degrees
while on its nine mile journey.
Year: 1879

The whereabouts Of John r. Miller,
of Reading, remains as much mystery
as ever. On Friday an investigation
into his business affairs confirmed the
report of his good standing in financial
matt RS. He has $4,000 worth of hats
in commission house in New YORK
city and several thousand dollars in
bank in Reading, with his hat factory
free of debt. He had but fifty dollars
when h. left New York and drew moth
ing from the commission house or bank
since his departure. His father and
brother have gone TO New York ia
work up the case with detectives All
the reports seem to confirm foul play.
Year: 1879

If the plans rumored to be matur- ing in San Francisco are carried out, as foreshadowed by our dispatches of yesterday, our neighbor republic, Mex ico stands in the very greatest danger. Dissatisfaction with President Diaz has always existed, of course, if for no other reason, simply because he and his party were in power and the oppo sition were not. But now it is pro- posed, not simply to unite in an cleo tion against Diaz, but to organize rev olution and seat somebody else, and if the programme is to be fully carried out as indicated, the new incumbent must be both a fool and a knave. It is given out that the revolutionary party will have assistance from citi- zens of the United States, whose head quarters are at San Francisco, and that in return the credit of the Republic is to be drawn upon for subsidies for building railroads and otherwise open ing up the country and stocking it with internal improvements in the highest modern fashion. In this coun- try we understand exactly what this means, namely: an organized raid on the Mexican people by every late de- vice in the way of ring swindles, that the genius of roguery has been able to invent Mexico will be plucked. She may have fine works at the end, as Washington has fine streets and New York has fine parks, but she will be plucked to the quick. It is difficult to see how the government of the Unit ed States could interfere in such d case; but the threatened move is more dangerous to imagine than would be the advance of 25,O0O troops across her border. Now would be good time for Mexican patriots to show their feelings by alarming their people, against the new and most insiduous foe.
Year: 1879

prices are made is 10 enable us to make room fGI our New, Elegant and Large stock of Staple and Fancy Goods which we are NOW RECEIVING. To secure the benefit of these Great Bargains come at once.
Year: 1879

The Titusyille Herald publishes the following:

 A new and improved mode of plant

 ing telegraph poles has recently been discovered and tried with success in thls city. The ground being staked of at distances of about two hundred feet apart, g man starts of with pocket ful of four-Ounce cartridges containing the wonderful new explosive known as |" electric powder" and with a crowbar in his hand A hole is punched from four to five feet with the bar Tn a few minutes, and a cartridge dropped toI the bottom with fuse and lighted with a match. The operator then walks to the next stake, before reach ing which a low, dull thud is heard behind, hole about the diameter of al flour barrel has been blown in the ground to the depth of four or five feet, and the work is followed up by a gang of men who plant the poles in theI holes thus made, fill in with gravel and earth, and the job is complete Itl matters not what soil is perforated with the bar, wet or dry, loam, clay, gravel, slate or boulders, provided the bar can be inserted) the effect is the same A gang of four men, with the poles delivered on the ground-one man to- blast and three to erect the poles and tramp ihem-will put up from one hundred to one hundred and fifty poles ! day of ten hours each. The cost, 1 of this new and improved process is about two-thirds less than he ordinary method of planting tele graph poles as now practiced.
Year: 1879

Last month, in his opening chorus, upon assuming control of the Prescott Enterprise, Paul Weber says:

 We shall, in conclusion, earnestly endeavor to give ous readers what they have had in the Enterprise in the past, a truly progressive, impartial and lib eral territorial newspaper.

 There is evidently typographical omission here. The sentence should read, "what they have not had in the Enterprise in the past" As the para graph stands there is neither meaning nor sense in it, and it can hardly be meant for a sarcasm for the editor doesn'twrite in that tone. Our impres- sion if any on hearing of the new control of the Enterprise was favorable. It was the removal of filthy sore and dis grace from the newspaper body of the Territory. And even if Mir. Weber inadvertently wrote as he was printed in the quoted paragraph, we do not be- lieve he means to attempt an imitation of the Enterprise of the past. It is not in him. He cannot sufficiently diyesi himself of all manhood, decency and selfrespect to successfully copy the late example of the Enterprise.
Year: 1879

Down in field, one day in June,

 Ths flowers all bloomed together, Save one, who tried to hide herself,

 And dropped, that pleasant weather. A robin, who had flown too high

 And felt little lazy, Was resting near this buttercup

 Who wished she was a daisy. For daisies grow so trig and tall,

 She always had a passion For wearing frills around her neck.

 In just the daisies fashion. And buttercups must always be

 The same old tiresome color. While daisies dress in gold and white,

 Although their gold is duller. Dear Robin." said thls sad young flower

 Perhaps you'd not mind trying To Ind a nice white friII for me

 Some day when you are flying" e You silly thing" the robin said;

 "Ithink you must be crazy, I'd rather be my honest self

 Than any made-up daisy" " You're nicer in your own bright gown; The little children love you; Be the best butteroup you can,

 And think no flower above you. " Though swallows leave me out of sight; Wed better keep our places. Perhaps the world would all go wrong

 With one too many daisies. :" Look bravely up into the sky

 And be content with knowing That God wished for buttercup

 Just here. where you are growing"
Year: 1879

The Chicago Tribune, of December 3l, publishes a Washington dispatch which says:

 Opposition to certain features of the Army bill increases, although there are many provisions which meet with general approval. Its enlargement of military power at the cost of civil authority excites wide criticism, and the issues made by General Sherman with Secretaries RawlIns and Belknap are recalled, to the prejudice of the new measure. The abridgement of the power of the President in the assign ment of staff officers, making him de- pendent upon the favor of the General of the army, meets with dIsfavor and is likely to be stricken from the bill. The probabilities are that both the Senate and House, particularly the latter, will be slow to enlarge the pow CTS of the chief military commander Tn the time of peace by limiting the powers of the President, who is the Constitutional Commander-in-C Chief.
Year: 1879

An exchange pauses to remark, be- tween items:

 Why there should be a prejudice against red-headed girls is not wholly apparent. But there is no want of evi- dence that there is such a prejudice. Jennie Collins, who has charge of a Boston institution to secure employ ment for girls, says that nobody wants red headed girls, and yet they are quite as likely to be useful and amiable as those who have hair of another color"

 But we can assure Jennie that if she will send lot of her red-headed girls to Arizona they will find there is no prejudice here to work against that brand of girl. Whether it is that the ruder taste of the frontier delights in high colors, or that being a mining people anything of the color of gold pieases the eye, or that the reflection of a golden Arizona sunset on the head of red-headed girl would ensure her a market. there is no telling: but something within us gives the assur- ance that red-hesded girls would pass here as help and sweethearts and wives It's good place for red-headed girls, and, for that matter any other kind of girls, always provided they are good and virtuous and trim and shapely and sensible.
Year: 1879

THE party ip pursuit of Lewis, the wife murderer, who escaped from the Yuma penItentiary some time since, have returned to Yuma without their man. They tracked Lewis along the Gila and found that he had been at Mission Camp in a very feeble condi- ton. After thoroughly securing the Gila they went into Sonora, but finally returned disappointed in their search
Year: 1879

A NEW dollar is suggested to be called the goloid dollar, to contain half the gold In gold dollar and half the silver in silver dollar and which would make a coin about the size of a silver half dollar. It is suggested as a compromise coin between gold and silver advocates. From their course we don't think there could be any compromise with the gold men. They are stiff-necked and perverse genera tion and had better be left alone with their gold and stubbornness. Silver is one of the most important products of our country and the coin made there from is the principal money handled by the American people and no asso- citation of native or foreign bankers or capitalists can ever permanently sue ceed in de5arring it's circulation or de- basing its value. No one ever sees a gold dollar in circulation. And while US ad- vocates, from the silly Mast to the mas tiest money grabber of them all, have been poking all sorts of fun and rid icule at the buzzard," " clipped " or |" daddy" dollar there isn't more un- handy, impracticable and useless coin in the country than the much vaunted gold dollar
Year: 1879

A WHEELING inventor is getting up new patent chair for dentists. A con cealed spring in it runs a tack up through the seat, and while the patient is bowling, and his attention is divert ed by the attack below, the tooth is ysnked out.-N. '. Tribune.
Year: 1879

PIess


A report received at the Postoi1ice Depart
rneut to-day from New York as to postotlice
business, indicates business boom Of very
great Dimensions. During the past week
over ono million pieces Of mail matter were
received daily at New York, the total for the
week being 7,2OO,000 pieces the greatest
week q work In the history of that Office.
Year: 1879

can sturupers are all too u5y just now to go
to Louisiana and pull the party through. 1t
is their unanimous opinion that Louisiana
can never amount to much without return
ing board.
Year: 1879

The town of Sussex, Penn, has lately
been profoundly stirred by an extraor-
dinary and romantic lawsuit. The case
was an entirely novel one, and no pre-
cedent bearing upon it is to be found in
the common or statute law. While it is
necessarily matter of great interest to
the legal profession, its romantic side
cannot fail to attract the attention of
persons of all ages and every kind of sex.
In fact, it is destined to be one of the
most celebrated cases in the annals OF
American jurisprudence.


Some time last winter lady whom
we call Mrs Smith, who kept boarding G
house in Sussex, took her little girl,
aged 4, with her to make call on Mrs.
Brown, her near neighbor. Mrs. Brown
was busy in her kitchen, where she re-
ceived her visitor with her usual cor
dality. There was a large fire blazing in
the stove, and while the ladies were ex
citedly discussing the new bonnet of the
local Methodist ministers wife, the little
Year: 1879

1t was all we'll enough for the churches
to pray for the editors. They did that,
perhaps, which they understood how to
do best And there was no impropriety,
that we know of, in coupling the names
of the editors with the subject of "tem


perance and reform" There is need
enough of temperance work and of re-
form in all possible directions But we
may as we'll be frank enough to say to
those who are responsible for church
management and church influence, that
the opinion widely prevails that there is
no other organized body of men and wo


men in which there is more pressing
need Of work for reform-and reform
within its own circle-than in that of
our church organizations. 1t is very
generally believed that while the outside
world has been lowering the standard of
morality, our churches have not only
consented but have themselves lowered
the standard of the Cross, to meet the
demands of those who go to church to be
amused rather than instructed and
who join the church because it gives
them a better standing in society, and
tends to give respectability to their busi