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Year: 1879

Government shall not use the only force at
their disposal, unless the Governor or Leglsla-
ture of the State ask for their assistance. lit
repeals at one sweep all laws or parts OF laws
inconsistent with this prohibition. 1t makes
the Federal authority subordinate to that OF
the Statesmen merely distinct, but inferior
and stipulates that, although the President Is
required by the Constitution TO take care that
all the laws OF the United States
are faithfully executed at all times, be shall
not perform that duty save upon the invita-
ton of the State Governments. This is the
most revolutionary assertion of State SOW
ereignty which has been made since the year
OF secession. The purpose of the caucus Dill
doubtless does not go beyond the nulllhcatioh
of the election laws, but its practical elect
wonld extend to all Federal laws whatsoever,
and if it should pass there is no kind OF OIL
fence against the United States which might
not be committed with impunity lat any
"place where general or special election is
being held IN a State"


The authorny of Congress under the Constl-
tuition to pass laws for securing the freedom
and fairness of elections at which members Oh
Congress are to be voted for is clear and un-
disputed. Because free and fair elections can
not be had without the exercise of that all-
thOTity, because there are almost always CIR
cumstaDces under which State and municipal
Governments have IA direct interest in faclll-
tating fraud and permitting violence, because
in cities like NewYork Il fair vote is imposSi-
BILE without Federal supervision, and in States
like South Carolina the dominant white mi
nority has not even the idea of free suffrage,
Congress mas appointed Federal officers to see
that in Federal elections &" every legal voter
shall have full and fair Opportu-
"nlty to vote once, that no one shall
4" be allowed TO vote more than once,
"and that none but legal voters shall
abe allowed and empowered to vote at ALL
and it has armed the President with power to
perform his constitutional duty in the en-
forcement of the provisions OF the statute. Not
daring TO repeal the law itself, the Democrats
in Washington now undertake to disarm the
President, so that their red-shlrts and repeat
ers can defy the law, laughing at the author
ity of supervisors and marshals and hunting
them from the polls. But they propose that
the Rifle Clubs and Ku-Klux bands and armed
White Leaguers shall be allowed to surround
the balot-bOx, and shoot negro voters. They
have no desire to forbid "bayOnets at the
"polls - far from it. They only wish to in
sure that the bayOnets shall be all in the
hands of their own party, and that Federal
soldiers shall never be seen there until they
have a President of their own who will use
soldiers ON the Democratic side.
Year: 1879

The Democracy wishes to butt its head again. All
right.


Organizing for second blunder before the first
one Is cold; well, wellI


The President is in luck for every veto is sure to
make him more popular


New way for making a backdown agreeable-pro-
vide for second backdown to follow 1t.


If the caucus bill is the outcome of Thurman's
leadership mlllstone has been adjusted about his
neck.


Senator Eaton, OF Connecticut, is as ferocious
with his mouth as q menagerie lion on an iluml-
mated poster.


1t seems to be all settled in Ohio that Secretary
Sherman is to be the next Republican candidate for
the Presidency.


That General Logan was " for tho South at first"
is the proposition timidly put forward by the men
who for the South first last, and all the time.


Another drubbng appears TO be necessary TO
teach tho Democrats that tho Republican party is
not alarmed by the old Southern strut and swagger


Having failed to bulldoze the President by rails
ing hulabaloo in his front yard, the red-shirted
Democracy now steals around under tho back WIN
dOws and tries 1t on there.


A judclous Republican programme seems to be
to keep up vigorous prodding of the Democrats
about backing down. for that is o sure stimulus for
fresh crop of retroactive blunders.


Progressive ideas in regard to economy have ex-
tended as far South and West as the capital of
Texas The Governor of that State has just con-
ylnced himself that the only way for his people 20
preserve their credit Is " stop paying the interest
ON their debts.


There isn't morning In the week when the
Democratic party throughout the country can
guess what its principles policy are likely TO be
for the day until it is known what the Congress
Year: 1879

We fear that the Mayor of Boston is not per-
fecy patriotic person. for he has actually suggested
to the City Council that it would be just as well TO
dispense with the customary Grafton on the next
Fourth of July. We would do no man injustice, but
really this seems almost as bad as proposition to
dispense with the Fourth of July itself. For one
hundred years. upon the of that historic
day, there has been an epidemic of elOquence. and
the praises Of the Fathers have been set forth in
sounding sentences the glory of the American Eagle
asserted metaphorically and POLITICALLY We might
give up the crackers and the flags, aud the dinners
and the parades and the professions, but the ora
tious ueverl Some of them have been extremely
good ones by able men. and those not exactly good
were at least funny. But we have fear Ma
tions do not change their customs easily. The
orator may be silent in Boston, but there will be
eloduence as usual elsewhere.
Year: 1879

the Car has lost faith in Liberalism
and plunged the Nation into the abyss
of despotism. On the other hand, rev.
oluti0nists must have creative as well
as destructive instincts, and must regu-
late their work by high moral standards, or
they will drag the people down into
the bottomless pit of anarchy. Nihllism has
method in its madness-but it has no con-
Year: 1879

1t must be said of King Caucus that he does
business with dispatch when he chooses. The
new Amy bill was put IN form on Saturday
was introduced in both houses on Monday,
and was passed in the House of Representa-
tives yesterday under the previous question
and without a word of debate. The bill was
presented just as it was prepared by
the Democratic caucus, and the Repub-
lican bill was presented just as 1t
was prepared in accordance with the views
of the Republican caucus; the Democrats,
moving in solid phAlanX, cut off all debate
and all opportunities for amendment except
that they did allow vote upon the Republi-
can bill as substitute. Thus the singular
spectacle was presented of the two caucuses
doing the actual work of the House of Repre-
sentatiyes and the latter body merely
serving as the registering instrument
of the Democratic caucus. If this were
done after allowing the minority proper
opportunity for debate, and with decent
deliberateness there would be less cause for
complaint Where there are parties there
must be caucuses, and where there are long
debates the previous question must now and
then be ordered. But this conversion of the
popular branch Of Congress into species Of
pneumatic tube, which merely serves to shoot
a most important bill from the caucus
to the Senate, is a disagreeable innO-
walton. We might have inferred, how
ever, that the new King Caucus pro-
posed to be an absolute monarch, from the
recent declaration of one of his chief minis
tiers, Lord BlunderbOre Salisbury, that the
minority in Congress will not be expected
hereafter to have anything to do with legisla-
tinn.
Year: 1879

The scheme TO empower savings banks to
invest in District of Columbia 3-65s met with
a decided defeat yesterday in the Assembly,
probably final one. This bill is opposed by
both the law and banking departments of the
State Government, and would set dangerous
precedent for savings banks.
Year: 1879

The Senate of the United States is capable
of more solemn frivolity within given space
of time than any other Legislative body Oh the
globe. Strong circumstantlal evidence on this
point will be found in our Washington dis
matches,
Year: 1879

For want of single vote, the supplement-
airy chapters of the New Code fail to become
law. An attempt to pass the bill over the
Governors veto was made i'll the Senate yes
terday. and with the aid of one additional
vote would have been successful There Will
be an effort to reconsider, but the right of the
Senate to do so is not clear, and the prospect
is that the New Code will remain i'll its pres
ent tluncated state for another year at least.
The profession will undoubtedly receive this
announcement with much regret. The senti-
ment of the bar throughout the State has
manifested itself as unmiStdkably in favor OF
the passage Of the nine chapters. An enumera-
ton of all the lawyers who chose to express
an opinion upon the matter-and the wishes
of those who would not take the trOuble TO
express an opinion were surely not worth con-
sidering-shOwed that two-thirds of them were
warmly in favor of the completion of the New
Code. The sentiment Of a large majority of
the profession has thus been set at defiance
by n single member OF it. Under the circum-
stances, the respect entertained by the people
of the. State for Governor RObinsons character
will hardly check the feeling that Senator
Edick was justified in declaring this reiterated
veto an exhibition of mere mulishnesS."
Year: 1879

found on another page, is designed to sug-
gest action by which the steady progress of the
United States toward silver mono-metallism,
as this writer believes it to be, can be
checked Mr. Nourse urges that there is no
escape except by bringing about international
bi-metalism, that there is strong feeling
both in England and France for triplrtite
agreement to this end between those coun-
tries and the United States, and that the
proper way to accomplish such union is by
secret and diplomatic negotiation, not by an
international conference.
Year: 1879

In entering upon the new year, with new
resolutions to perform better the various
duties of life, let the farmer also resolve to
be a better farmer; to use every possible
opportunity for Improvement take good
agricultural papers and read them; practice
the best modes Of farming, and experiment
and learn new ones. There is not one out
OF all our list of readers but may make some
valuable addition to his store of knowledge
this year if he will institute proper research,
and who cannot improve vastly upon his
former methods of cultivation?


Farms may be managed like manufacto-
ries or the mercantile business, and as intel
lgent conclusion arriv ed at as to the re-
suits. Only let our farmers, in starting
with the new year, keep an account of their
transactions. Let them keep plain, sim
Pile account if nothing more. Set down
their expenditures for teams, feed, seed,
help, taxes, and interest in one column, and
in another the amount received from the
sale OF products, that at the close of the
year they may be able to tell whether or
not they have made anything. It would be
better to keep an account with each field or
variety of product. In this case, they would
be able to tell which paid best, and would
know how to be governed in the future.
Unless farmers adopt some such system
they cannot tell whether the prices received
are remunerative or not.


The sooner farmer adopts a good sys-
tenn of farming, keeping farm accounts, etc.,
the sooner he will be able to surmount the
many difficulties known to the calling, and
push OH to success. The experience OF
farmers in all countries proves this, and we
trust our readers may heed our timely coun-
sci, and commence with 1879 to be thorough
going, intelligent, systematic farmers.
Year: 1879

unfrequent exaction on many farms. There
are times in the rush Of haying and har-
vesting when this is perhaps necessary, but
such Il necessity does not often exist. We
have known cases when ten hours are all
that was expected of actual field labor.


On the other hand, it sometimes occurs
often when farm labor is scarce and wages
high-men will take advantage of the ne
cessities of the employer, and begin work
or drop it pretty much as they please.


Fair pay for fair days work'' is a mot
to that should please both parties. The re-
lations Of employer and employee should
always be founded on the higher laws Of
justice and right. The hired man is not q
slave to be driven. Neither should he be
thief to steal hours-which are money to
the employer-the moment the employers
back is turned. In hiring men to work on
the farm, the only proper way is to have a
tull understanding at the outset regarding
all the little points that are lik ely to arise
between the contracting parties. and then
let each party regulate his labor and his
conduct in strict accordance Herewith. The
farmer who stoops to abuse his help in ex-
acting too hard and too continuous labor,
in the end gains no time, and loses the good
will Of his help. The hired man who shirks
his duty to the man who pays and feeds
him for honest work, is the man who in the
end loses all employment and graduates as
a tirst-class tramp, to exist solely on the la
Dor of others. When dissatisfaction or dis
pntes arise that can not be amcably and
satisfactorily settled by a free and frank
talk over the matter, it is best to settle and
throw up the contract.


In further reply, we may say that the
hired man has no right to take time out OF
the usual regular hours in which to do eX-
ira work for which he claims extra pay, I'M
less his employer fails to provide labor for
him to do, or gives his consent to the sub
stitution OF the extra tor the regular labor.
Farmers ReviesO.
Year: 1879

The demand tor agricultural information
is constantly increasing. The farmer Of to-
day is far ahead of the last generation in ev-
erything that insnres success and promotes
happiness. yet only the first lesson has been
learned-the initial step taken and the fu-
turc is before us with all it's undiscovered
wealth of Information and its resulting pros
perity. We have only to toll and study,
read and experiment, reflect and invent to
wiring from the bosom Of the earth new
treasurers and greater abundance of the Old
These will add to the wealth, prosperity
and happiness of the whole world and place
us in oar proper position in the social scale.


The time is not tar l1lstant-it is even now
close at hand, when an ignorant farmer
will be a rara avis. He will be so far be-
hind the times that he will lose caste among
his FELLOWSHIP will be black sheep in the
flock and will gradually degenerate to a
condition OF virtual serldom-


The agyicuturist is now rapidly coming
to the front and taking rank with the intel
ligent and educated of other professions.
He will soO, be-yes. even now. he is a
power i'm the land. He holds the balance of
political power and the republic will rejoice
when his rights are asserted. Ehe clodhop-
per OF the past has become the bonored and
respected citizen of to-day. The future, if
rightly improved. will bring nothing but
continued prosperity and happiness. The
farmers dtpties are we'll deiined-he has. on
ly to preserve in the attainment of that es-
pscial knowledge which his profession re
qnires and his moral, social, political and
pecunary prosperity is assured Ralanetta
| Farmer.
Year: 1879

The Maine State Press says: ''There is
not quite so much enthusiasm in AroostODk
over the beet sugar business as would be
justified by the prospect. Nobody expects
that the manufacture Of beet sugar will
body contends that at the price offered Tor the
beets every farmercan raise them with profit
What is claimed however is that if the beet
sugar manufacture proves successful it will
afford to some of the farnaing sections of the
state market that cam be sapplieSf with
fair profit
Year: 1879

CuIcAoo, August 2l.-The Chicago and
State Line Railroad instituted proceedings
in court this morning for the condemna-
ton Of certain lands in Southern Cook
county, looking to an entrance to this city.
It is said that this ls done in behalf OF the
Grand Trunk Railroad, The case win
come up in the October term. -.n
Year: 1879

An Allegheny physician, who, in his way, is great wag, tells story of a North Side gentleman who for years has suffered from periodical attacks O what in medical parlance is Known as super orbital neuralgia. Quinine proved of no effect, and the sufferer was almost crazed with pain. A kind-hearted old lady living in the neighborhood of the patient informed him that if he would cut the affected nerve with pair of scissors or 6 knife it would give him no further trouble. It so happens that the superorbital nerve is the one which con- trols the action of the eyelid, and when a man is in liquor this nerve becomes paralyzed, and it is this that gives drunken person such Q ccmical express sion about the eyes. The neuralgia pa tient no sooner heard what he supposed the welcome news from the old lady than he repaired to closet, and with jack knife parted in twain the offending nerve, and he now greets his friends with his right eye as sober as 6 Quaker in quarterly meeting and the left in highly intoxicated condition. bUTgh (PG.) Leader.
Year: 1879

An Appleton (Wis paper reports the discovery in Wisconsin of a curious plant which produces kind of cotton and flax from tho same stalk. IL has already been woven into fabrics, and as any article that will make as good cloth as can be made from this plant will make good paper, it has been called the paper plant. It can be planted in the spring and cut in the fall and winter. It bleaches itself white as it stands, and will yield at least three or four tons to the acre. From 8 single root that was transplanted last spring grew twenty large stalks, with 365 pods containing the cotton, with at least sixty seeds in each. From this root were obtained seven ounces of pure cotton and over a pound of flax. It is O very heavy plant, and grows from six to seven feet high.
Year: 1879

The fisherman hes harmless, preoc- oupied look. He Is kind of vagrant that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the shadows, all his approaches are gentle and indirect. He times himself to the meandering, solilo- ouizing stream. At the foot of the waterfall he sits, sequestered and hidden in it's volume of sound.

 Then what acquaintance he makes with the stream He addresses himself to it as lover to his mistress ho woos it and stays with it till he knows it's most hidden secrets it runs through his thoughts not less than through it's banks; he feels the fret and thrust of every bar and boulder ; where it deepens his purpose deepens; where 1t is shal- low he is indifferent he knows how to interpret it's every glance and dimple.

 I am sure run no risk of overprais, ing the charm and attractiveness Of well-fed trout stream every drop in it is as bright and pure ss if the nymphs had brought it all the way from its source in crystal goblets. When the heated and soiled and jaded refugee from the city first sees one he feels as if he would like to turn it into his bosom and let it flow through him flow hours. It suggests such healing freshness and newness, could ne ever have an impure or unwholesome wish afterwar1? |? The next best thing he can do is to tramp along it's bank and surrender himself to it's irh1ence.-John Burroughs.
Year: 1879

ed to remedy them. It had been found that, in order to keep all the exiles in prison, it would be necessary to erect a large additional number of prisons, costing not less than fifty millions of roubles. The Government could not spare such sum of money, and so the Czar recently pro mulgated an order al- lowing the exiles to pursue different occupations, upon the recommendation and under the surveillance of the local authorities. The political exiles, how ever, are denied this right of honestly making living.

 Wild beasts made awful havoc among the cattle of some of the Russian provinces. In the province of Novgorod, for example, the horses and COWS of the peasants daily fall victims. The authorities of that province have during the past ten years tried every possible way of roofing out the wolves and bears, but without any noticeable success. In the year 1878 the loss then ran as high as 1,500 head of cattle. At it's last session the Zemstvo decided to offer q reward of five roubles to every person who shall kill a wolf, old or young, and ten roubles for each bear killed during the summer, the money to be paid from the provincial fund. Strychnine pills are recommendedfo for the destruction of the wild beasts.

 Bad luck made George Waterfeld down-hearted, and he frequently threatened to take his own life. So disconsolate was he that, when some- body asked the loungers on the veranda of the tavern at Edge Hill, Pa., to go into the bar-room and drink, and all the rest responded with alacrity, he stayed outside alone. When the others came out again, they found Waterfeld lying dead on the floor, with wound in his breast. They thought he had carried out his suicidal purpose by stabbing himself, but they could not find knife. An examining physician found bullet in the supposed gash, and it was a mystery how the shot had been fired, until it was ascertained that man had been trying rife in that direction from point quarters of @ mile away.

 The Independent Order of Mutual Aid, @ Western secret organization, is said to have been ruined by officers who helped themselves to all the money in the treasury. At Q meeting of the Supreme Council in Cincinnati, it was officially stated that there was heavy debt, instead of the $25, 1000 that should be on hand. One theft of $10,OO0 was hinted at, and it was charged that large sums had been misappropriated for i pretended services. A banquet had cost $700, while the widows and children oi yellow fever victims were unable to get the promised assistance.
Year: 1879

AN ORIGINAL CAsE.-One of the most original and extreme cases of swindling ever recorded was brought to light in 8 San Francisco court the other day, where it was shown that the plaintiff had had the date on his mothers tomb- stone changed, in order to make it ap- pear that she had died year earlier than was the fact, -ss under the law then in force the motter's half of piece of property wepS to the children. The hate gwen s.s to the time of her death was six days prior to the time change in the law was made,
Year: 1879

A MAN with $500 diamond on his shirt bosom leaned over a hen coop in a Cincinnati market, and a hungry hen picked off the jewel and swallowed it. The thief was soon lost among the hun dreds, and there was no way of identify ing her. So the man bargained to have them killed, one after another, until the right crop was found. Tc recover the diamond cost him $2S.
Year: 1879

THIEVES so exasperated Prof. Deham, at Castle Shannon, Pa, by stealing fruit from his garden at night, that be re- solved to shoot the next offender, While watching in grape arbor, gun in hand, he heard a rustling nmong some bushes and fired in that direction. Then he went to ascertain whether he had hit anybody, and while he was searching in the bushes his hired man shot him dead, mistaking him for the thief.