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Year: 1878

There is little doubt that growing inclination
exists at the East to make investments in gold and
silver mining enterprises. But this desire is checked
by lack of facilities for obtaining accurate and
trustworthy information In regard TO the character
and value of the different properties offered on TINS
market The present Mining Stock Exchange en-
tirely fails in enlisting confidence IN the shares
dealt in there because many OF the properties hat
have been placed upon its list have proved 70
be worthless and consequently the few stocks
like Hukill Plumas and one or two others caliea
regularly at the Mining Board suffer IN pu0iS conn.,
dence from their association with Gold Placer
- BERTHA and Edith" ." La Crosse" etc. As a par
lial remedy for this evil movement has been
started in the Stock Exchange to turn the COD Room
into Mining Department Of the Stock EXchange,
and TO admit TO the dealings therein only STOCKS
representing real mining properties. pettloh 70
this effect has been signed by over 6Oo hen1e,o p
of the Stock Exchange and presented TO tne uos-
ornors who it Is expected, Will take action upon
the subject in few days. The only obstacle
fo the consummatlOn OF the scheme Is taelt under
Standing which a committee of the Stock Exchange
had with the present Mining Board at the time or
the consolidation of the New-Iork Mining Ex-
change and the American Mining and Stock Board,
that tho Stock Exchange would not sell mining
stocks. But we are informed that this understands
ing was never authorized by the Stock Exchange,
nor even reported by the committee TO the oo'-
ernors of the Exchange.


Ian FRANCISCO CLOSING PRICES OF MIsING STOCKS
Year: 1878

An English paper says that a very
unpleasant discovery was made at Mines
short time ago by the wife Of a mason
who, while looking for some linen in one
of her husbands boxes, camo upon q
woman'a skull. She at once requested
her husband to inform her how be came
into the possession of such a sinister
object, and when be told her that it was
a souvenir of his first wife, she begged
him to get rid Of it, which, after some
hesitation, he consented to do. The
story got bruited abroad in the village,
and, on its coming to the cars Of the
police, tie mason was prosecuted for
"violating burial place" The case
was tried before the local tribunal, and
from the evidence given it appeared that
the accused, hearing that the remains Of
his wife, who died in 1871, were to be
disintered, induced the Mayor of his
village to allow the grave digger to give
him part of the body that he might
preserve it as a souvenir. The grave
digger brought him the skull rolled up
in piece of cloth. and this the mason
Risqil551 s}9 a51as aR5sseEzsa i9 boz The sriBss
been guilty of any sacrilegious' act, ac>
Quilted him, and this decision has been
confirmed by the Court of Appeals at





Nimes.-PaH Mall Gazette.
Year: 1878

Never marry man who has only his
love for you TO recommend him. It is
very fascinating, but it does not make
the man. If,he is not othsrwiss what
he should be, you will never be happy.
The most perfect man who did not love
you, should never be your husband.
But though marriage without love is
terrible, love only will not do. IF the
man is dishonorable to other men, or
mean. or given TO any vice, the time
will come when you will either loathe
him or sink to his level. It is hard to
remember, amidst kisses and praises.
that there is any thing else in the
world to be done or thought Of but love
making; but the days of life are many,
and the husband rust be a guide to. be
trusted--a companion, a friend, as we'll
as lover. Many girl married a man
whom she knew to be anything but
good, because be loved her so.' And
the flame has died on the hearth.stone
of home before long, and beside it there
has been sitting one that she could
never hope would lead her heavenward
-or who if she followed him as.a wife
should, would guide her steps to per-
dition. Marriage is solemn thing-a
Year: 1878

An old but vigorous looking gentle
man, seemingly from the rural districts,
got into a car and walked its full length
without receiving IN invitation to sit
down. Approaching one gentleman
who had whole bench to himself, ho
asked rs this seat occupied p Yes,
sir, it is,' impertiuently replied the
other. WELL replied the broad shoul-
dered agriculturaliss, i will keep this
seat until the gentleman comes The
original proprietor withdrew himself
baughtily to one end and looked insul-
ted. After awhile the train got in mo-
ton, and still nobody came to claim the
seat, whereupou the deep-chested agri-
culturalist turned and said Sir when
you told that this seat was occupied you
told me lie'-such was his plain Ian
gusge 4 never sit near a liar if I can
avoid it; I would rather stand up
Then appealing to another party he
said {: 'Sir, may sit next to you ?
You don't look like liar We need
hardly to say that he got his seat, and
that the original proprietor thought that
there was something wrong about our
social system.-Baltimore Gazette.
Year: 1878

The editor eat in his arm chair in mu.
sings deep, and weary and worn he fell
asleep; his thoughts had been running
on the promise made, "when cotton
comes in you will surely be paid" The
days of the spring and the summers as
we'll, were pulled through as editors only
can tell; but buoyed by'hops and living
on air survived he, and now the cotton
is here. The tale is sad one, the subs
seem all fed, or fly as they sell, and he
sees not red Asleep! while the
breezes play through his locks, and at
the door some one impatiently knocks,
and not only one but many another,
creditors all, ah ! there is the bother.
But what is that sound that breaka on
tina air, and makes his heart throb
while he dreams in his chair, subscribers
are tramping who cotton have sold, they
are coming, yes, coming, withgrsenbacks
and gold. He wakes from his dream
and looks all around, no subscriber is
seen, not greenback is found, and, alas,
this poor editor falsprone on the ground,
and but for seme kind friend who
helped him to rise and springfield water
In his face he might have died in the
swopn.


There is more truth than poetry in
this, reader, and if you owe us anything
please bring it in without further notice,
and oblige yours truly.
Year: 1878

The demand Of the Nationals for
agricultural and mechanical schools, is
one that will have to be met sooner or
later by the dominant party. Our pub
lie schools have been too closely CON-
fined to the branches that are most
necessary to the professional man. We
must educate youth for the farm and
the work shop just as we do for the
store, the bar, and the pulpit. It is
idle for us to wonder at tho boys desert
ing country homes to seek occupations
in the city as long as their schooling
leads in that direction only. Some of
the States have agricultural colleges,
but that is not enough; there should be
agricultural and industrial schools as
we'll. Only in this way can the young
men of this country be brought to ap-
preciate the real dignity of labor, to
realize that there is no more honor on
the bench than in the feld.-Mam-
pion.
Year: 1878

The GROWERS assert that the recent
rise in silver stocks does not make the
times any better. As fast as lucky
operators clean up they rush of to San
Francisco or the lakes to spend their
money, and some are in such hurry
that they do not even settle their small
bills. A good many Comstockers who
assert that Sierra Nevada was going to
5000 share could not resist the tempta-
tion to realize at s35 and $40, and got
out with handsome profit.


A couple of Italian vegetable dealers
on G., street realized $11 900 on a lot
of this stock, which they had bought
ut s475a share. They gave their
store away to friend, and will start
for sunny Italy next week.


A man who was dealing faro over the
Ell Dorado saloon bought some of the
stock at IS. and induced every body
around the game to 60 in except one
man, who said that faro was good enough
for him All had sold out last Satur-
day at $37, and are going off to have
good time. The man who didn't buy
was q case.keeper, who says that he
hasn't called the turn right in five years.


Numbers Of people who passed for
poor folks, aud were always ranked as
such, are now coming to the front and
pulling money out of old stockings to
invest. Capital is coming out of its
holo with vengeance, and 500 pieces
are swarming like flies who rush to fiji
joyously in the warm sunshine, or stick
in the seductive molasses jug, may be-
Virginia City (NeU.) Chronicle.
Year: 1878

The grand house in New York is ten
anted by its owners, and Hiram goes to
sea no more; but in the summer time
two happy people come for o quiet
month to the little white cottage at
Monkton, and have always to listen to
Davy's tale of the evening when he was
cutting Hiram Goldby's tombstone, and
ended by smashing it into atoms.


'For,' it is the invariable ending Of the
tale, Pearl was right, and we were
wrong, all of US; for Hiram Goldby vas
lost at sea. sure enough, but he was not
dead, and be came to her faithful love
as she always said he would.
Year: 1878

He was whistling over his work, care
less, from long custom, of the solemn
significance of the letters he was cutting
in the white marble. A June sun was
nearly at the end of the days journey
sinking slowly to rest upon the bosom
of the broad Atlantic, whose waves
washed the shores Of the little seaport
town of Monktou. A stranger, hand
somely dressed 10 gray, with large lus>
trous brown eyes, came to the fence
that was around the yard where the
stone>cutter worked, and read the let
teriDg, almost completed, upon the
tombstone:
Year: 1878

Thank God for every slight and injury
you have to bear. An injury borne in
meekness and silence is a true victory. 1t
is the proof that we are good soldiers of
Jesus Christ, disciples of that heavenly
wisdom which is first pure, then peaceable.
Year: 1878

The Naughty Girl Who EiIked a NIerch mt


and a Doctor.


They have tuned their voices and do sing
aloud, "Whoa Emma, Emma you have put
me in such dilemma And this is the
way she has done it. Not long ago Miss
Emma Wells, blonde fair to see by the
generosity of nature and the prodigalty of
art, located in this city. She wanted to sur
round herself with few home comforts, etc.
She was recommended to S. L. Bailey & Co. s
furniture store Oh Third street. She went
there and completed a bargain. She didn't
have the money to pay down, so she gave q
mortgage on the etceteras with the partial
payment in cash. Yesterday it was learned
that she had disposed of the mortgaged
chairs, etc., to second hand dealer, Good
man, on Third street, for $50. The first
rumor was confirmed to the extent
of finding etc. and chairs;
at the secondhand store on Third street.
But where was Emma? A conundrum
which the police were asked to answer
While the city hall authorities were tak1r e
measures to guess the conundrum, the case
came up in conundrum form again at the
municipal court. good place to inquire,
for 1t was of legal turn this time. Dr.. Roy
wanted to know whether he could prosecute
her for obtaining money under false pre-.
lenses, if the cry Whoa Emma, by telegraph,
brought her to rest. When it was learned
that the money was obtained in the Shape of
medical attendance to the sum of $17, the
information was given that talents were not
coin of the realm. This is the way Emma
played it to win, won and run.
Year: 1878

I,s I,,tervieso IVith the Intinitis,nal States


ama~ from Georgia.


Washington Special (Dec. 26) to Chicago


Times.


Mr.. Alexander n. Stephens is still of the
opinion that the country is going to the
demnition bow-wows. He says the present
is one of the severest monetary crises the
country has ever been called to pass through.
AS to the matter of resumption he says he
has nothing to say against it. "Let it come,
but unless something is done to relieve the
distress of the people there will be terrible
suffering" When asked what measures of
relief he would suggest, Mr.. Stephens an
swered: "1 would relieve the stringency by
the issuance of silver dollars, silver bullion
and gold bullion bars, and silver certificates
and gold certificates to an equal amount. /
have already embodied my views in bill
which is now in the possession of the COM
mittee on coinage, weights and measures, and
which at the earliest opportunity stall pre-
sent to the House. This bill provides for
the unlimited issue of bullion: that is to
say. they are never to exceed the amount of
bullion, but they may exceed the amount
of coined money at any one time in exist
nee hundredfold.


The trouble with The country is not in the
quality of it's money, but in it's quantity
People may talk as they will about the desi-
rability of paper dollar which shall be at
par with gold or silver. / want dollars to be
at par with each other, but I also want
enough of them to do the business of the
country with. There are not nearly enough
of them now, and hence the terrible strin-
gency in the labor markets of the world


MY plan will entitle the holder of bullion,
gold or silver, to carry it to the mint and
have 1t stamped and get his certificate there
for, which certificates I would have legal
tender money of value. It takes no longer
to stamp on bar of silver the figures de-
scriptive of its weight, and therefore value,
than it does to stamp dollar, and not so
long. These certificates I would make full
legal tender, receivable for public and prl-
vate debts. The beauty of my plan is that
it will act quickly.


Large blocks of bullion can at once be
stamped and the certificates issued in null
tiples of $1,000, say, or smaller, even down
to fractions of dollar. In this way we
should not have to wait for the slow and
wearisome process of coming the standard
dollars. Two or three hundred million dol
lars worth Of certificates could be issued in
a very little while, and that amount of legal
tender injected into the great arteries of
trade will revive business as by a galvanic
shock, and the reaction will be entirely
healthy, too" Mr.. Stephens says, in regard
to the course the Democrats ought to pursue
as to the cipher telegrams: II am in favor
of the fullest and freest investigation of it
that is desired or thought necessary by any
body. l must confess, however, that know
little about those kilograms, as I never read
them; but if there has been wrong done. let
it be critically looked into. If there is any
thing there probe down to the bottom facts.
Year: 1878

After Mr.. spurgeon's congregation had sung
the first verse of a hymn recently, he asked
them to sing more rapidly, and added: .Tbis
is not funeral


An Episcopalian has offered prize of $500
to the theological student sswho is adjudged
the most correct intelligent, and impressive
reader of the bible and prayer book in the
service of the Protestant Episcopal church."


The Congregational society at Saratoga
Springs allowed a New Haven organ-builder to
put up an organ in their church on trial, which
they decline to purchase. They want him to
remove it, but he refuses and they fear claim
for damages if other parties undertake it,
They have presented bill for storage. and
have the prospect of q troublesome lawsuit.
Year: 1878

Don't fail to visit the SO Cent Store to select
your New Year gifts. You can be better pleased
there than elsewhere. The stock is complete
in every branch, and very mauy new articles
suitable for gifts have been added during the
loek
Year: 1878

Whenever the greenback deluge
comes again the price Of money will
go down and the price of everything
else will have to 60 up in proportion
last Of all, labor. The miseries
which now beset us are largely due to
speculations engendered by the belief
that when we have great quantities Of
paper notes afioat we are very rich.
The paper notes are the flags that pow
erty puts out, and are the heralds OF
bankruptcy. They are the worst en-
emies of the country who desire to
drag it into another FOOLS paradise OF
high prices, only to be caught again
in the Inevitable relapse Of insolvency
and ruin. Philadelphia Record. ai9s
Year: 1878

There are several strawswhichs show
which way the wind Is blowing in
the South. In Texas there is not a
man on the Democratic State ticket
who did not serve in the Confederate
army. Gov. Vance in North Carroll
ma is making his canvass for the Unit
ed States Senate on the strength Of
his adhesion to the doctrine of seces-
sion. And when Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston was nominated for Congress
the other day, he referred "with hon.
est pride to the duty discharged in
other and distant fields, = meaning the
Confederate army, of course. The
bloody shirt is thus kept tapping on
the line In every Southern State among
the Democracy. aY 85rste.as
Year: 1878

Said Weaver the other day to a
prominent Democrat Of this city /:
t"What will the Democrats of this


county do for me?" Democrat-'sI


don't know 1T depends on whether
| the Greenbackers nominate ticket or
not" Weaver.-4aWhat are the intii-
cations now?' DemOcrat.--stWell,
the appearances are that they will re-
fuse to endorse the Democratic nomi-
nees and nominate a ticket of their


own. If they do that you may bid
goodbye to Democratic support in


this county" Weaver.-'sWell, l am
sorry my friends are 80 indiscreet. /


had hoped they would see the neces-
sity of unity and harmony, and that
there is really not much difference be-
tween the two parties" Democrat
"Perhaps little quiet talk would do
the business" Weaver-"Well, /
will see to it; am now on my way to
fill an appointment in Keokuk cOun-
/ ty, and havn't time to attend to it,
but will send few faithful friends
up to look the field over, and see If
we can harmonic the boys This is
the substance of the conversation, as
told us by the Democrat himself,
whose word is good anywhere he is
known. 7a gai 8ss f; 6a
This bargain and sale business has
worked in this county SO far as our


nationals are concerned. No demo-


cratic nomination for congress was


made, and on the other hand no ma


tional county ticket has been nomina-
ted. In Jasper county -urre sugfl AZ


rangement between the nationals and


democrats has been made. In Marion


county the fix up failed, whereat Me-


COrmack who introduced into the


congressional convention the resolu-
ton not to nominate is mad. In
Keokuk county we have heard of


nothing but q democratic county tick
ct. In Monroe county there is we be-


lieve only a partial and unsatisfactory


fusion. In Appanoose county there


has been a fusion. In Davis county
there is no fusion, but "a straight out
fight. We want to give Weaver the


benefit of our circulation to say, that
if anybody has got any sort of trade


to offer him; any kind Of a fix up;--it


don't matter a bit what it is let them
not hesitate to offer it to him; he will


not stop at any kind of a game, if it


will pay. Had he been gratifled with
Office according to his demands, what


man in the sixth district is there,


who don't know, he would to-day


have lauded the republican party to


the skies. In his own county he has


by his unreliable course SO completely
Ishipwrecked the confidence of every


body in him, that they will not trust


him politically, and financially he has


no standing. He is one of those who


has by extravaganza literally COM


PEELED his people to lose all confidence


in him. Were he known throughout


the, district, as well as he is known


about his own home, the vote he may


get would be reduced by thousands.
Year: 1878

THE physicians who attended the
late Congressman Williams say his
illness was entirely owing to the poi
sonous condition cf the atmosphere Of
the House of Representatives, which
he breathed constantly during the day,
and to the malaria to which he was
exposed at night, his private room be-
Ing on the south side of an avenue di-
recuy over the water sewer of the city.
Year: 1878

AN ex-member of Congress, who
has studied the Southern question
with some care says; The best way
would be to let them stuff all the bal
lot boxes to bursting, and ram in tis~
sue ballots by the million, and live
under that sort of fraud ss long as
they found 1t pleasant" They would
find it pleasant In some sections for a
long time. They have found it pleas
ant in some sections for a long time.
They have found il pleasant in
Louisiana nearly half century.
Year: 1878

THE letter published in our dis
patches of Sunday morning, from
Senator Blaine, addressed to the COM
mIttee of the Senate raised on his
motion, is like all his uttersnces, Wig
orous and pointed. i is not probable
that he will shirk any responsibility
growing out of remarks made in his
speech. The committee have at last
received funds to pay expenses of the
investigation, and will proceed at once.
Year: 1878

NEW ORLEANS, March lo.-Ihe Su-
preme Court this morning was crowded
with members CT the bar, politicians and
others anxious TO hear the decision IN the
case of the State VS.. Thomas q. Ander-
SOD, convicted in the Superior Criminal
Court for publishing as true, forged and
counterfeit election returns from the
parish Of Vernon. Chief Justice Man
ming read a very long opinion on the
case. After reviewing the charge, YER
dict and sentence, the court took up two
OF the exceptions as being the only ones
necessary to consider in rendering a
judgment. These were, that there
had been no preliminary exanins-
tion, and it is not the practice
to prosecute by information. Both
exceptions were dismissed. The first
on the ground that a preliminary
examination is not essential, and second,
that prosecution by information had
been q common rule in criminal prose-
cutions for many years, except to the
drawing of jury, also dismissed on the
ground that violation Of the spirit is
not pre,ened. Relative to the otiense
itself, the Court gave an abstract OF the
election law, detailing It's require
ments. The exact method presented IN
claw was fully described, and the record
offered in evidence did not conform with
that mentioned In the information. The
document was consolidated statement
certified by the Register of Votes,
and not the original returns,
and the statute Of our State does
attach much value TO this consoli-
dated statement. The original returns
not being altered would not change the
result OF the election and interfere with
the interests of the people the paper Of
tered IN evidence is no paper charged as
being forged. In order to be forgery an
instrument which it is alleged is tslsited,
must if true, be legally capable OF COM
mltting q fraud now. Here IN the law is
a consolidated return required as deciA-
ration of the result, and its alteration or
modification can in no way affect the
election. Ii every consolidated return
we're forged and the Returning Board
had complied with the law and made
their statement from the Commissioners
returns no injury could result, 1t does
not appear thst any paper has been
forged that is calculated, with compli-
snce with the law, to change the result.
1t Is the essence of this crime that it
should be committed by a public officer
and on a document which would change
the result of tho election. This WAS
no: done. The letter Of John Sherman,
Stanley Mathews and others, which ap.
peared in the Record, was alluded to by
the Chief Justice, who stated that it
should be trested by the public in like
manner as that OF the member of the
House of Commons who attempted to
influence the decision Of the court in the
Tichborne csse. 1t was ordered that the
verdict of the jury be set aside and re-
versed, and the prisoner discharged from
custody.