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Year: 1879

Minister John Welsh had another
testimonial Of the affectionate respect
of his fellow townsmen at Philadelphia
yesterday, at his formal welcome home
by the public in Independence Hall
Few other men have so strong hold
upon the confidence of our people
This was popular demonstration, at.
tended by men and women in all sta.
tions Of life-workmen and employers,
merchants, bankers and professional
men, old and young mothers and faith.
ers, with their children-laboring men
and shop hands just as they left their
work, and others who came dressed for
the occasion. They all gave the re-
turned Minister Plenipotentiary q
CHEEKY welcome, and they wers as
warmly welcomed by Mr.. Welsh bin
self, who was manlfestly as glad as they
were that he was once rsore home again
to grasp their hands.
Year: 1879

This morning about $50 two drunk
en- colored women created consid cradle
excitement on Walnut street between
Fourth and Fifth street. They were
very boisterous and obscene in their
language and occupied the entire side
walk, compelling ladies on their way
TO market to take the middle of the
street. No arrests.
Year: 1879

The citizens are aware that O. peti
ton is going the rounds to get signers
for the purpose of putting an extra DO.
lice on the Seventh Ward as the present
force is not sufficient to keep peace and
order in that district. Now Mr.. Editor,
/ think if the policeman that took q
crowd of roughs in the Logan House, on
Tuesday night for the purpose of "beer.
ing up" had gone about his business
and tried to have earned the money
honestly that he spent, there would
be no need Of this extra expense upon
the city. OBSERVER,
Year: 1879

The Ladies Aid Society Of the Moral
Suasion Reform Association will hold
special business meeting in the Hall Of
the Club, to morrow Thursday even
ing, at s o'clock. All the lady mem
bers are urged to be present, as business
OF vital Importance will be transacted,
Year: 1879

Last Saturday afternoon as officer
Hickman was passing Second and Tat
nall streets, he was called ints house
to quell a disturbance that was going
on at the time. The officer responded
and was entering the house, when he
was met by Howard Hazel who not only
objected to his entrance but assaulted
him. For this Howard was arrested
and last evening had a hearing before
Esquire Cole, who, after hearing the
evidence of several witnesses, imposed
a fine Of five dollars and cost.
Year: 1879

Rehoboth is a broad, gently slopinp
beach, unbroken by curve or inlet. Il
stretches from the lighthouse due south
tor seven miles. When seen At low tide
it looks like wide, graded avenue,
paved with white sand, and washed
clean every day by the swell of the
ocean. To the tread this beach is az
soft and springy as velvet carpet. The
seaside resort is located on the shore
about four miles south Of the light
house. The line of the coast being due
north and south, the hotels and Gotta.
ges have the broad ocean in front.
Year: 1879

Coroner Butz held an inquest in the
eastern part of the city on the body Of
a nine month old infant, which had
died on a train between Baltimore and
this city, on Monday afternoon. A YER
dict of death from oonvulsions was rem.
Year: 1879

Our readers should not fail to note
the fact that Ford's Juvenile Opera
Company, which appears at the Opera
House on Saturday afternoon next, has
already made record for superior
ability and careful. pleasing and PAINS
taking acting. The play in which they
appear on saturday afternoon next,
Fatinitza" is one in which they show
to the best advantage.
Year: 1879

An interesting series Of meetings is
now in progress at Delaware Avenue
Baptist Church. This evening the
meeting will be thrown open to all de.
nominations. The services will be
continued every evening until further
notice.
Year: 1879

The dispatch which attends the Journey
of Ex-Governor Whitealer. of Oregon,
present representative in congress frosa
that state, from his home TO the Federal
Capital, Is without precedent or parallel
In all its incidents it surpasses the famous
lightning drive from New York to this
city, of Jarret and Pilmer, In the CEN
tennial year, when the train sped through
in four days. Governor Wniteaker's
farm is about three miles from the nea
est depot Of the Oregon and California
railroad, at Pleasant Hill, Lane county.
An express train was dispatched for him
from Portland, to reach the depot, one
hundred and thirty miles south, there to
take him aboard and speed with him to
Portland, so as to place him on the stlam-
ship George ", Elder, TO sail the morning
of March 9Th. A buggy was in readiness
Al The depot, for Mr.. Noltner, the editor
of the Portland Standard, who had gone
on the train to bring Governor Whiteaker
A rapid drive was made. The eongress-
man hastily bade his family adieu, was
driven at top speed to the depot, there he
Immediately stepped aboard the train and
the next place his feet touched was the
gans-plank of the steamship Captain
HoIles had steam up, and instantly the
vessel left for San Francisco. The voyage
down was tempestuous. The strong south
erly head winds impeded the Elder prog
ress. Not until yesterday morning did
she reach this harbor. To get to Wash
ington by the 18th, on the regular train.
the start from this city should have been
made Tuesday morning But a special
train had been provided to take the Gov
ernor through. From the steamer IN the
bay he was brought ashore in a small
boat. A carriage was in waiting to drive
him at once to the railroad ferry. Thence
across to Oakland wharf and aboard the
special tram he was taken as fast rs steam
could do it. immediately he was Put
safe aboard the Pullman hotel coach, AMI
away sped the powerful and fast locomo-
tive at forty miles an hour, to overtake
the regular train which left here the morn
ing of the IIth. 1t will be accomplished
this afternoon, it is likely, at Ogden, or
beyond The strange feat Will thus be
among the memorable events of GuVernof
Whiteaker's lie, to tell of hereafter, that,
all the way from his own farm house, to
Portland, Astoria San Francisco, and
through the states of California and Ne
vada, he made the long journey by sea
and land If over one thousand miles with
out ever having placed his foot Oh mother
earth. 1t is an extraordinary perform
ance for statesman, Of one of Whitea-
ker's mould and nature, who has nothing
sensational in his composition He is a
sturdy, solid, practical man, of far more
than ordinary intellectual powers, and
noted for his earnestness in every walk of
life. He will reach the capital in time to
be present at the assembling Of 1he House
next Tuesday This is the all-nnportant
matter, and hence his remarkable trip
overland 1t is not probable that another
Ike it VIII ever be made.-S. F Erdmi-
fIPT
Year: 1879

l. Refuse him your money and sup
port This will set him to thinking OF
something else than sermons and souls.


,. Never ask him to come and see yon
then tell the steward that the preacher
has never been to see yon.


) If he comes, complain to han OF the
preacher preceding him, or of the church
This will make him think that the church
is in bad condition, or is hard to please


f. Complain of him to others or crit
icize his dress and manners.


.. Speak lightly of him before your
children or your neighbors; tell people
that he cannot preach.


6. Go to other meetings when he
breaches, or go visiting, especially to some
other family of the church You Will
thus keep two families away.


Z. If You go to hear him, sleep


8. Take back seats when you go to
church


9. Never pray for himi


10. Talk about his family. Expect
them TO be angels and if they are not,
make it hot for them.


If two or three in church Will do these
things, even thoughtlessly, and without
evil intent, the pastor must be man OF
more than ordinary grace and intellectual
force, or he viii do but little good.-Chris-
tim. WOTn
Year: 1879

You may get through the world, but twill be
very slow
If You listen to all that is said as you go;
You'll be worried and fretted and kept in
stew,
For meddlesome tongues will have something
to DO,


For people will talk.
IF quiet and modest you'll have it presumed
That your humble position is only assumed;
You're Il wolf in Sleeps clothing or else You re
fool,
But don't set excited keep perfectly copl,


For people will talk.
II generous and nCble they'll vent out their
spleen,
You'll hear some loud hints that you're selfish
and mean;
If upright, honest and fair as the day,
They'll! call you rog'le in Il sly, sneakinS way,


For people will talk
And then ii you show the least bo!dness Of
heart,
Or a slight inclination to take your own part,
They viii call You All upstart, conceited and
vain;
But keep straight ahead, don't stop to explain,


For people will talk
If you dress in the fashions don't think to
ESCAPE,
For they criticise them in a different shaEe;
You're ahead of your means, or your tailor Is
unpaid;
But miud Your own business there's GapSht
to be made,


For people will talk.
Now the best way to do is to do AS you please,
For Your mind, ii you have one, will tiien be
at ease
OF course You will meet wi;h all sorts Of abuse,
Bat don't think to stop them it amt any use,


For people will talk.
Year: 1879

One OF the lhcnominal manifestations Of
human nature which is the most diffio iit
for us 10 reconcile with human inteih-
genc,, is the readiness with which nsn
ana women Of good Judgment in matters
of ofSeneral interest will place their lives IN
the hands Of men whose ability or Gualiti-
cations rs physicians they have not tho
slightest assurance except the arrogant as
sumptions Of the individuals themselves.
No man OF average sense would think of
trusting his property in so reckless man
Le- Be ore relo iny tust IN an ind.vit-
uaI, he would ascertain with the greatest
care all aloat his integrity and financial
standing and even then he would require
ample security against possible loss. But
when life and health are at stake, inter
ests of infinitely greater value than any
monetary consideration, men who arc in
all other matters shrewd and cautious
show the most reckless indifference 10 all
precautionary consultations.


The almost ri,ersal prevalence OF this
lack Of caution Is the source of immense
revenue 10 qulclss aud charlataus of every
description. Ii is this which leads people



To place themselves in the Lands of traYei-
ing knaves who are rs ignorant of the
mysteries of the human system rs of the
subtleties Of the different calculus. These
self STYLED doctors are Is UnScrupulous
IS ignorant They have no reputation 10
lose, and care only to enrich their puck-
cts The single fact that they are ''trav-
cling doctors, with no settled residence,
is ample evidence Of their incapacity and
unreliabi!ity


Beware of persons who advertise secret
remedies This fact alone is sufficient ev-
ideace Of their unreliability fcf no hon
orable member of the profession Will with
hold from the public amy means which ho
knows to be of real utility i'll relieving
human suffering Such course is con
tr,.ry to the accepted code Of ethics of the
regular profession and any member of
the regular profession who violates not
only the code of ethics but every princi-
pie Of philanthropy and morality, is i'll 50
doing at once ostracized from the society
OF reputable physicians as man unfit to
bear the grave responsibilities of the phys
ician, and unworthy the confidence Of his
fcllow-men. Again We say, beware of
quacks
Year: 1879

THE placing of Russia under the ter
rorism of martial law may, and it is
is hoped will, result in the extinction
of an Imperialism which has been the
terror of the people and the disgrace OF
civilization. The democracy of the
world will gladly ally itself with the
force which viii eradicate the dynasty
which treats human beings with bru.
tality unparalleled in the darkest rec
ords of any other country.
Year: 1879

In breach of promise law suit,.in
Marshalltown, Iowa, the plaintiff swore
that he broke the engagement with the
defendant because, when he slipped and
fell on the ice, she laughed unfeelingly.
She swore that she laughed because he
would not have fallen if he had not
bowed with superiluous politeness to a
young woman.
Year: 1879

Fred Dunning wants us to announce to our
readers that for the next sixty days he will
sell furniture at lower prices than ever. This
is no advertising scheme simply; he means
business. and you viii find it so i: you call
around and price his stock.
Year: 1879

Two second hand hacks. one Shuttler
and the other platform spring. both are al
most as good as new; for sale cheap. One
viii be sold for cash and the other on time.
Call at this Office if You want . hargain.
Year: 1879

George Mckay, the milk man, who is
supposed to bs attacked with the rabies
remains the same. The physicians
think it possible that the symptoms of
the dread disease were superinduced
by the fear which the sick man has
been laboring under since the occasion
of his being bitten.
Year: 1879

The Creedmoor cutter which has been
chartered at different times by various
associations in this city, and which it
will be remembered nearly foundered
at the mouth of the creek, while bring
ing the st. Mays Sabbath school home
from an excursion up the river three
years ago, began filling with water yes,
terday and had merely time to reach
shore and disembark her 400 passen-
gers before she went down. This cutter
was filled with party of boating meI
who were following the racers in the
ragatta.
Year: 1879

We are glad to inform the public
that Prof. ltalie has made his reap
pearanc4 in our city, where he has per,
manently established himself. We
advise all those in need of glasses tc
give him a call, as it is well known
fact that the Professor has supplied 8
great number OF cur best citizens with
his superior spectacles aud eye glasses
His headquarters are 4OG Market street
Go and see him.
Year: 1879

The earth has once more swung around
the vast circle marking her annual revolu-
ton, and reached the starting point of her
course. The sun this day touches his ex-
treme limit of southern declination, and
the winter solstice of 1879 is safely inaug-
urated. The days are of their minimum
length, nine hours and three minutes. and
the shadow of night no longer enroaches
upon the light of day.


For little while the sun seems to stand
still in his career, his winter path lies low
in the heavens, the short DAYS hasten
mournfully to their close, and darkness
falls over the earth like a sable pail For
seven days, from the 10Th to the 26th the
measure of sunshine is at the minimum.
After this period has passed mighty
change occurs. 1t is but a minute added
to the shortest day, but that minute of sun
light is the precious harbinger of physical
regeneration, the visible sign in the heavens
that the laws which sway the universe will
not fail. the first trophy in the combat be-
tween light and darkness.


Modern nations understand so well the
simple laws that rule the movements of
the worlds in space, that little heed is
paid to this great time-mark. But the ma
tions of the Old World delighted to sur
round the period of the suns return with
every manifestation of religious observ-
ance and social enjoyment The Scandi-
navians drew huge yule logs from the for
est rekindled the yule fires with the last
years half-burned logs and drowned the
memory of feuds in the wassail bowl.
The Druids gathered the mistetoe from
the sacred oak, and sacrificed heeatombs
of human victims to their sanguinary gods.
The Romans revelled in the orgies of the
Saturnalia. The Persians relighted their
sacred fire.


For them the epoch was an annual mir
acle, around which clustered their hold on
life and the blessings that surrounded
their hearthless homes. In the strange
blending of Christian and Pagan ceremo-
nies that resulted in our Christmas and
New Years festivities, it is doubtful if civ
ilization has made great advance upon
the sincerity and heartiness which found
expression in the simple faith of the races
of ancient times, who lived near to nature
and acted according to the light they
possessed. They had the advantage of us
in celebrating great physical epoch as
their season of good cheer, while Christ
mas is Of doubtful chronology, and New
Years is both arbitrary and artificial
Providence Journal
Year: 1879

GT.ovER's alleged report, which is evil
IDENTIFY based upon his own prejudices,
spites, hates, and general vcousncss of dis.
position, has been published to the country
now about one week, and never was pan
cake rs fat as that has fallen upon the pop
ular mind. 1t is too strongly charged with
venom and too poorly sustained by proofs
in justification of its own statements 10
weigh much in popular esteem and favor.
If Mr.. GLOVER had not satisfied himself in
pushing this report upon public notice after
his own party had refused TO stand sponsor
for its publication, that he could rely upon
his own unsustained ipsc dirH in securing
credence for his effort, he might have ac-
complished more, perhaps; but rs it is, his
so-called report is n miserable, illegitimate
abortion. II he had accompanied his asser-
tions with even Il scintilla Of proof to sus-
tain them, the case would be different. The
neglect of that important point brings the
logical inference that the proofs do not exist,
and that this effort is broad, rambling,
and unsupported calumuy of Republican
officials for party effect and advantage in
the coming elections. No one doubts
that the majority of the House of Represen-
tatives, which is intensely Democratic,
would have been only too happy in publish
ing this report broadcast over the country
if they had had any confidence in the JUS
tice and truthfulness of its statements
They would have made haste TO reap every
possible advantage from it for political
effect if they had believed in it, but they
had no confidence in its character, and
hence would not be responsible for its utter.
ances and contraband statements.


We have carefully waded through the
dreary columns Of this report, as it is spread
upon the surface of the New York Star
and are forced to the conclusion that il


is unsupported by competent proof and is {
mere compound Of hate, malice, and cal
umny, unsustained by any forces beyond
those inherent in the author and his OWL
evil disposition. We regard the attack upor
Drs. LINDERMAN and WooDwORTII, botf
now in their graves, as unparalleled i'll bar
barity and diabolism. 1t has for its pur
pose, manifestly, to bring odium upon thu
memories of those two Republican official


without furnishingn any proofbeyond the bar


statement of Mr.. GLOVER to justify tn,
ISLANDERS put forth. This we regard as crue
and cowardly in the extreme, and is Of itsel
sufficient to stamp infamy upon the who'll


repOrt
Year: 1879

We do not pretend TO deny that there vas
rather aggravating in Senator WIN
DoM's challenge to the Democracy the other
day to name one Republican whom their thir-
ty-three investigating committees-which had
cost the Government from u quarter to half q
million dolars-had proved to have stolen a
dollar from the National Treasury.


The truth of the matter is, these gentlemen
are trying to revive stale charges for campaign
purposes. 1t is too late. They have been used
and exhausted. No one denies-at least the
Tribune does not-that there was period dur
ing General GRANTS administration when
continued success and protracted possession
of almost unrestricted power had come to have
upon the Republican party their inevitable
and invarable effect in drawing mercenary
seli-seekcrs and camp-followers into its ranks
at the same time that they induced careless
ness and negligence on the part of its trusted
leaders. That abuses crept In and loose prac-
tces became alariningly prevalent can
not be denied. Republicans saw the
evil tendency. and first protested against and
rebuked it. Thousands emphasized their pro-
test by refusing to support the men in power.
At this point we are free to say the Demo-
cratic party was q boon. Republicans who
never had the remotest thought Of joining 1t,
but who thought they could not conscientious
ly act with their own party, used it as re-
minder to the latter of its responsibility to the





the best purpose it had ever served. The
withdrawal of so many honest men from their
party brought Republican leaders to their
Senses They promised reform within the
party" We do not need to say that they full
filled their promise. 1t is a matter of history
that they set Oh foot the most thorough and
searching Investigations in every direction in
which suspicion pointed, aud that wherever
dishonesty was found it was vigorously pun.
ished The best tribute that could be paid tO
the thOrOughuess of that work and the com
pleteness with which Republican promises
were fulfilled, Is found in the barrenness OF re-
suits attained ty the thirty-three committees
that have since followed. There is no capital
to be made by Democrats on that score now.-
Ne,D York Tribune.


If the thirty-three Congressional com.
mittees who failed TO discover one Repub-
lican who had stolen dollar from the Ma
tionaI Treasury were unable to furnish SEN
ators DAVIS and BECK and SALISBURY
with the ammunitien TO fire of in response
TO Senator WINDOWS challenge, we think
il was altogether unnecessary for the New
York Tribune 10 attempt q vindication ol
President GRANTS administration es'
pecially as Democratic yindication OF his
administration, is more gratifying to the
Republican party and to the millions ol
"honest men" in our party who did not
believe that "reform within the party" was
TO be gained by desertion to and coalition
with the corrupt and dsloyal Democracy
than anything that could be said for it by
the New York Tribune. Indeed many "hon-
est Republicans" will think that the New
Year: 1879

Multiplying that aid. The time had come,
however, when that statute was nothing
more than dead letter The number of
young men in the South who had grown to
the age of complete citizenship since the
war furnished au abundant resource from
which jurors could be drawn, all of whom
could take the test-oath and yet all of
whom sympathized with the rebellion or
against the class of voters in question
The only significance in the repeal was
therefore found in the Democratic desire to
destroy another barrier for the protection
of free suffrage in the South.
Year: 1879

IT is shrewdly suspected that the alleged
dead man who was brought back TO life in
New York the other day by the TRANSMISSION
of sleeps blood into his inanimate veins
is nothing more nor less than one Of JOE
BLACKBURN's dastards. IL is known that
when Congress adjourned nearly all of the
Southern Brgadiers went over to that city
" to see tile elephant" and it seems proba-
BILE that one of them may have strayed into
q charity hospital, where an imaginative
reporter found him, examined him, and
wrote him up, BY the same token the
stone man said to have been exhumed near
Cayuga Lake last week may be one of JoE's
damned
Year: 1879

AN attempt was made to procure thepub-
hcation of GLovER's preposterous report in
the New York San, but its contents were
too disgustingly rotten for the columns of
that delectable sheet.
Year: 1879

SENATOR PENDLETON says the jurors


test-oath statute was passed by fanatics
sand in aid of the colored vote" BY this
he no doubt means that it was passed by
Republicans in aid of the Union vote of the
South. The logical inference is that It was
repealed for the purpose Of abrOgating and
Year: 1879

IT is perhaps n pity that President
HAYES has not taken all of the Democratic
organs into his confidence regarding his Sc
CRARY. ut would from many blunder
"free them," for they are now engaged, one
and all, in pitching into the wrong man.
Year: 1879

THE Republican Congressional Commit
tee is just now occupying large space in
the eye of the Democratic organ here be-
cause it proceeds in perfectly legitimate
way 10 crush out Sedition, Notification, and
State Supremacy during the coming year.
1t is grievous for the Democrats to contem-
plate, but they begin to think how much
more grievous it will be to endure defeat.