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Year: 1878

BY Telegraph to the Sentinel.l


ATTIoA, Sept Notwithstanding the un-
favorable condition of the weather, large
crowd assembled at the opera house tonight
telling speech, thoroughly upsetting the
work of General Harrison. Gooding has
done a good work here. Fountain county
is safe
Year: 1878

The Israelite, a Cincinnati pubh-
cation, is assailing the yellow fever
States for appealing to other mem
bers Of the Union instead OF help
ing themselves, and a Cincinnati
daily journal is kind enough to
say: at is not the first time the
doctrine of states rights has been
set at naught in the house of those
who professed to hold it most sa-
cred" Nothing could be more
praiseworthy than the efforts Of a
town, city, or State to help itself;
but the States, cities and towns of
the South where the plague has
been raging are not rolling in
wealth. The whole South is poor,
and her policy of buying freely in
the North and West is not enrich
ing her. Sending to other commu-
mites for aid ig the very last
thing, perhaps, that any city
should do, but in the midst
of a raging epidemic, immediate
relief is the necessity, and it is
hardly to be expected that the
authorities of of a stricken city,
with so great a responsibility resting
upon them, will be over-nice in
seeking relief. Boston is the only
city of the Union that is perfectly
independent in distress, but we car


not all be Bostons-at least not all


all once. 1t would be well fol


Southern cities and towns to estab.


lish a system Of relief by which


they could help each other prompt
ly, and cease to look for anything


more costly than advice from oul


wealthy Northern brethren. ThO


habit Of accepting aid is a bad on,
for an individual or a community
and whatever can be done towar,
preventing the necessity of receiy
ing it is seemly. To be fed ant


euffed at the same time is alway


confusing, aud often deyilish un
pleasant. Courier -JOarnd.
Year: 1878

go. But they went promptly
at the first call, and the world
knows how nObly they devoted
themselves to dying people. Both,
at last, were stricken down with the
fever. General Smith came home
and is slowly recovering. Butler
Anderson remained too long, and
died at his post as noble a martyr
as our times have produced, BE
was nnrsed by his devoted wife, who
went to his bedside with scarcely a
hope Of saving him or herself. She
was approaching the period of ma
ternity and in a delicate condition
This morning tits telegraphed that
she is down with the fever at Her
nando. The prayers of all praying
people will go up that she may b.
spared to her little family; butofol
them she would no doubt desire ant
prefer to shut her eyes forever on
this world of sin, suffering anC
sorrow, and join her husband il


that better world, where his spiri


no doubt winged its flight.
Year: 1878

The young ladies who form the
lovely half Of archery clubs will be
interested TO know how Indian
sauaws shoot, The noble red man
lives on Venison which be secures
with the bow and arrow, of course,
and therefore his wife must be good
shot. A Nevada newspaper tells
how q Piute squaw shoots "She
will throw herself on her back,
clap both feet to the bow, draw the
arrow with both hands, and, let
ting drive, send it clean through
the body of the deer" If this
were tho fashion is this neighbor-
hood the membership of archery
clubs would increase amazingly
Year: 1878

DOR SALE at the Wagon and Carriage
i Paint Shop of W. E. Jones, FIRST St.
The Centennial tops are adjustable to any
kind of vehicle and make perfect sun
shade and storm protector at moderate
price. Clarkes Carriage umbrella can be
used on every kind of vehicle with an open
seat, and is easily changed to any angle
They supply want long felt. Come and
examine my large and complete stock of
these goods. Prices low.


w. E. JONES, lst Street.
Year: 1878

SCHOOL BoARD.-The regular meeting OF
the City School Board was to have been
held yesterday, but there was no quorum.


The following report from the Superin-
tendent OF Schools for the past two weeks
would have been presented had quorum
been present. 1t is merely report Of the
organization OF the schools to date, and out
side of his regular monthly report due 5he
18th Of October next:
Year: 1878

The Methodist Reuiual.-The attendance
on divine service at the Methodist church
on Wednesday and last nights was very
large. There were number OF penltents
and several conversions. The meeting IS
exnected to continue for some time yet. :.
Year: 1878

The number repor.ed unaccommodated is
much less than the real number, as many
persons who desired to enter their children
did not apply because they were informed
that they could not gain admission.
Year: 1878

THE superiority -eL the methods of
journalists in obtaining important news,
over the red tape and circumlocution of
the government agencies in Great
Britain, was strikingly shown in the Gaze
of the assault and capture of Ali Musjid
the news of which reached Fleet street
many hours before it was received in
Downing street. The government Off.
cials and the ministers went into council
without having any tidings of the
capture of the fort, although the news
papers were alleady in possession of the
news; and a country correspondent was
sctually the first to bring it to the India
Office.
Year: 1878

The investigating committee of the West
of England and South Wales District Bank
shows that the whole capital and reserve
funds have been lost, and there is further
deficiency of 81 10000 for which the share.
holders are liable. There is no possibility
of the reconstruction of the bank.
Year: 1878

The bill introduced by Senator Plum to
provide the temporary increase of the army
in an emergency authorizes the president,
whenever in his judgment, the exigencies
of the frontier service requires it, to cause
q, 600 enlisted men to be added to the army
to serve during such an emergency.
Year: 1878




Sances some people go through when in
the presence of greatness are amusing
No place in this country, or probably in
the world, witnesses 80 many of these as
the reception rooms of the White House.
Most of the presidents time is taken up
in receiving the calls of people who
come to see him for no other purpose
than to shake hands and thus crafty
their curiosity. There are many others,
however, who visit the White House for
thousand and one reasons, and as d
general rule the never-ending throng
that seek the presence of the president
are well-mannered, intelligent and easy
appearing people.


Embarrassment and nervousness are
generally the predominating weaknesses
to which the callers find themselves sub.
ject, and the marks of this can be seen
on the furniture in the ante-rooms.
This is of dingy green velvet uphols-
terry, ornamentcd with heavy tassels and
fringe The pendant cords of these ap-
pear to be about the only things that
can give relief to the palpitating breth.
ren, whose knees tremble while their
names are being sent to his excellency,
and they twist, pull and pick at the
loops so energetically that the uphol-
sterer has to be engaged to repair dam
ages every month or 90. To the attaches
of the president the pranks of these peo
pie afford a constant study of the human
character. One of them told me this
week that embarrassment seemed at
times to bring out peoples true nature
as readily as liquor does in other in
stances. He said he had seen big, stout
men come to the white house to see the
president, who, after they had lashed
themselves up to the point of sending in
their cards, the prospect of an encounter
with the personality of so much power,
after half an hours Rdgeting in their
seats, would leave precipitately. Again,
others would come to the house, and
upon entering would salaam to every
person they saw behind a desk, suppos-
inng each time that they were saluting
the president of the United States.


Among others who 60 to see the presi-
dent are many fond mammas and crow
ing babies, the latter of whom are inva-
riably put forward as candidates for
presidential kisses. From old maids who
visit Mr.. Hayes there always comes a
request for a flower to remember him
by, and as there are many of these, the |
president manages to pull two or three
bouquets to pieces every crowded day.
A crowded day means six or eight hun
dred callers. There have been as many
as four thousand people at the executive
mansion in one day; but it was during
the centennial. In the olden time, that
hard swearing, heavy-drinking social
pirate, Andrew Jackson, used to keep a
punch bowl standing during the winter
for the patriotic tramps who swarmed
through the miry streets to see him at
his court; but now thirsty pilgrims who
invade the sublimated moral atmosphere
of Mr.. and Mrs. Hayes, if they expect
refreshments, will find nothing of the
kind. Perhaps if they specially request
it they will probably be served with
water and pumpkin pie, q
diet which, it is said, has sent several
diplomats away from the
state dinners doubled up with colic.-
Wash. Cor. C1eue. Leader.
Year: 1878

The failure of Congress to take any
action on the silver bill Immediately on its
reassembling, and the reported shipments
of gold from London for New York caused
further decline in the gold premium. As
regards the silver bill, the feeling in New
York, under advices from Washington, is
quite positive Of its defeat. A decided
change of sentiment has taken place under
the vigorous expressions of public opinion
from the business centres, and even those
who have been confident of the passage of
the bill begin to consider the situation as
doubtful
Year: 1878

The Maryland papers have brought for
ward again for consideration the project of
a railroad from Middletown to Elkton.
This is a matter that particularly interests
Baltimoreans. That city claims now to be
a better grain and grocery market than
Philadelphia, and if the road should ever
be built, much of the heavy trade might be
diverted from the latter city.
Year: 1878

LET Us HAVE PEAoE.-The country is sick
and tired of political quarrels. VIM E.
Chandler, who claimed so much of the
attention Of the editors throughout the
length and breadth Of the land two weeks
since, is quietly laid on the shelf, where
long may he repose. New Hampshire did
it. He thought he was "big man." and
could carry his State with him in a quarrel
with the President. But when his State
spoke, it was for peace, and he was left to
ruminate on his own barren hills, on the
fall of empires and men. There are others
who would do well to consider what is
thought and said of Mr.. Chandler, and will
refrain from putting themselves in his posi-
ton. What the country wants, and de-
sires to have, is faithful attention to bust
ness. The man who makes unnecessary
trouble is its enemy. Mr.. Hayes means
well, but has made mistakes. Certain of
his opponents mean not well and medi-
tate crimes. The plain people have a clear
understanding that his mistakes do not
justify, in those who oppose him, the great
crime of plunging the country into another
interminable wrangle about his title to the
Presidency.


New Hampshire represents the average
republican feeling of the New England
States, and the effort of Mr.. Chandler is
not likely to be repeated by any more of
her politicians, and Montgomery Blairs
effort to have the electoral count re,opened
is likely to prove as great an abortion and
leave him as deep in the shade as Chandler.
Year: 1878

I'll. r. 2166.-Introduced by Mr. RICE.


BILL TO regulate the adjustment of pension cases to
authorize the appointment of pension surgeons TO re-
peal sections forty-sev hundred and forty-our forty
seven hundred and seventy one forty-seven hundred
and seventy wo fortyseven hundred and seventy three


rtyseven hundred and seventy -four forty-seven hun
dred and seventyve forty hundred and seventy
seven, and forty-seven hundred and eighty-fve; to
amend section forty hundred and seventy-sx and
TO limit the application of sections fortyseven hundred
and sixtyeght forty hundred and sixty and
Iorty hundred and eghtysix of the Revised Stat
utes


BE az 6Racte 6y the Senate and House of REPRESENTATIVES
9Tne United States OF Anerca IN Congress assembled That
the Commissioner Of Pensions shall divide the Uniteo
states and the Territories into such number of pension
districts as he shall deem necessary not exceeding sixty
and designate posts in each of said districts where the
the commission provided for by this shall attend 10
make medical and surgical examinations, and to collect
testimony IN pension Such posts shall be establish
ed at convenient places in each districts having regard to
The distribution OF population and the
e and the commission shall attend each of said posts
at least once in each year. and wherever practicable
more frequent attendance shall be provided for, The
designation OF posts for each district with the time of at
tendance OF the commission each shall be embodied in
order orders OF the Commissioner of Pensions and
published in newspaper having general circulation in
Year: 1878

We continue in this number the publication of an
alphabetical list of the Battles of the War of the Re
belion from authentic sources to be continued here
after II will be pleasant hope, for the old sol
ders to again the and dates of battles in
which they their friends took part
Year: 1878

The centennial anniversary of the
battle of Rhode Island was observed
Thursday on the battlefield near the
northern end Of the Island of Rhode
Island, under the auspices of the First
light infantry veteron association Of
Providence.
Year: 1878

When the Cars declaration of war was sent
out to be read in all the churches of Russia,
there was ore Catholic priest in Warsaw who
could not speak Russian, go be read the pro.
clamation to his flock in Polish. This being
against the law, he has been sent to expiate
his fault in Siberia.
Year: 1878

FARMINGToN, Aug. Z, 1873.


Mr.. EDITOR Not being prophet
nor the son of q prophet, still ! think
can see as far into mill stone as
the man that picks it, and with your
permission l wish to say to the readers
of the COURIER that am q Southern
man, born and raised in the sunny
South, and l love the South and
love the people; but God knows do
not like their actions. They are too
much like a hound pup. Give them
the door and they will take the house.
l heard man drink toast when
Grant was elected first, said he:


"Here is to America, as good q
country as ever laid out doors and
Americans enough in it to take care
of it and all that dom. like it."


Now, where are they all? Have
they gone to Europe or are they
dead? And is the country left to
the tender mercies of disloyalists,
scalawags, communists, greenback-
ers, and the like? If so good bye to
the much boasted home of the free.


But do hope that we have all seen
enough to open our eyes.


love good democrat but he il
not found with the modern democrat.
ic party. The Keokuk Consultation
says to Weaver, "Come out of your
hole and explain" but think he has
explained too much now, and the
best thing for him is to crawl further
in and draw the hole in after him
and etay there; and l think that all
greenbackers might as well save
their breath to cool their broth
Greenback bait is too thin. Look out
or the gars will steal it. Now, boys,
there are too many pusillanimoui
deniagogues at work trying all they
can, by any means, to get q nip q
Uncle Sans crib. They stop at moth
ing. Why, some of them are meau
enough to lick the butter off of a sicl
nigger's filter if no one was ookiuQ
Look at Potter's jug-handle investi
CATION it reminds me of the fellow
shearing the hog, heap Of fuss fo
little wool. OLD DICK.
Year: 1878




IA number of prominent Tennes-
seeans have been in Washington fol
several days, and it develops that their
mission here is to consult Judge Key
in regard to an independent party
movement in their State. The DEM
ocrats, it is claimed, are badly broken
up over republican issues, and it Is
probable that an independent conven-
tion will be held to nominate opposi-
tion candidates for a State ticket. The
gentlemen who are here say that II
the Postmaster General will accept an
independent nomination for Governor
the Republican Convention will en-
dorse him; and his election will be
certain. Judge Key is now holding
the matter under advisement, and the
chances are very favorable that he
will give the movement his approval.
He will not seek the nomination, but
if awarded him with any great degree
of unanimity, and if the republicans
are disposed to accept him, there is
no doubt he will consent to run. The
President, it is said, encourages him
to do so, although he will regret to
have him leave the Cabinet, but the
President thinks with Judge Key as
q leading candidate on an Independ-
ent- Democratic ticket, his Southern
policy could be subjected to very ia
vorable test"


That is all well enough, perhaps;
let the trial be made made, but ifany-
thing can be made out of the ex-rebel
element of Tennessee, but so-called
democrats, we shall be most agreea-
bly, surprised.
Year: 1878

THE Irish Leader and Pilot, Chica
go, speaking of the currency agitation
by a certain class of politicians, says


But learned disquisitions on the
nature of money will not help the
present unprecedented stringency o.
finance. What the country wants il
not money, but business something
to start the accumulated money into
circulation. Nothing else can heir
trade. No matter what may be the
currency Of the land, whether gold,
silver or paper; no matter what may
be the policy of the government-re.
sumption, contraction or imitation
those who have nothing to give in
exchange reap no benefit from an in.
crease in the circulating medium Of
the land.
Year: 1878

you become q public enemy, and you
are liable to be shot down by any one.


Now while we will not advise any
one to shoot you, we are free to say
that if you continue In your present
course, and it is done, we shall shed
no tears over your demise. We un-
derstand that you were supplied by
the Radical Executive Committee
with funds to return to this district
and whoop ,em up in the style we
have alluded to. If this is so, you
had better use your unexpended bal
ance in getting away from this coun-
ty and section. Your incendiary
speeches must be stopped somehow


or somehow else. Do you understand?
Year: 1878

THE congress of the Great Powers
at Berlin turns out just as everybody
foresaw. 1t was merely an admins.
tratiOn of the estate of deceased Tur-
key. It was distribution of tha car
cass among the envious eagles that
sat perched upon the crags overlook
Ing the valley of death. The Aus
trians are finding lively corpse in
the Bosnians on coming to take pos
session Of Its part of the game.
Year: 1878

Yesterday, the 18th inst, with a
grand flourish of trumpets, the de-
mocracy assembled in this city upon
the errand ostensibly of nominating
a candidate for Congress. Great prep
aration was made. Each delegate
bore about upon the lapel Of his coat
a silk badge bearing a spread-eagle
democratic inscription, and in the
CITY Hall were set up guide boards
bearing aloft the names of the eight
counties and placed to indicate the
position of each county. All the style
and airs of a national convention for
the nomination of a President were
indulged in, and yet all would not do;
the grooming process was Of no avail
and the whole thing flattened out
amid the clash of angry tongues and
fnexplicable and irreconcilable noise
and confusion. Literally nothing
was done save to provide for future
assemblage Of democracy next year
parturition proved an impossibility,
for II the majority undertook to nom-
mate outside the party the minority
would leave the convention, and so
they agreed to disagree, stuck their
tails between their legs and put for
home. The majority however, cram
med two things down the throats of
the minority, to-wit: the changing
of the call for the convention, SO as to
give Wapello county 9 votes instead
of 6. They did this though the rep
resentation of Wapello county this
year In the State convention was only
8, and confirmed by that convention.
She also had only in the district ju-
dicial convention few days ago.
The State democratic convention set
tied the matter, but here the democ-
racy claimed they should be repre-
sented for the Stubbs votes and got it.


The other dose forced on to the mi
nority was that Col. H. H. Trimble, a
proxy, was allowed to disobey the in
structions of the Davis county con-
yention. I. Kiester, Esq, resident
Of q quarter of century in Davis
county and lifelong democrat, told
Judge Timble to his face that he could
not have been elected a delegate to
the convention, because he favored
Weaver and because the democrats o1
Davis county did not favor him. This
occurred outside the convention. II
was abundantly apparent from the
representation Of Davis county as del.
ega4es and those notdelegates that Da-
Wis county democracy at the home o1
Year: 1878

THE Chicago Journal and some 9th.
er republican papers complain of the
republicans of South Carolina for not
putting ticket in the field, and charge
that it evinces lack of pluck. We
are of the opinion that the .Jo,amo,
folk would have turned tail and fled
from South Carolina long ago had
they been through the scenes of the
last three years there, and had they
remained there they would not have
had the pluck to even enter the man.
ly protest that the republicans OF
South Carolina have done recently in
convention. Ifany man has had ex-
perience South with the democratic
party, and when we say the democrat
ic party we mean more particularly
the E4Qe clubs sand kuklux who control
that party, and in the light of that
experience talks like the Journal, the
heart is wrong-but when such talk
is indulged in by those who have had
none of the experience we speak Of
land this we suppose to be the Jour-
.s'aps standpoint) the head is wrong
and the critic on Southern republicans
don't know the first principles ofwhat
he is talking about.
Year: 1878

"Let the time begin now when eve
ry mother dare to take her daughter
from the company OF reckless immor-
q young men whose influence 10 NOR


al death" writes Z mother to the Wi.


mona (1inn.l Republican.
Year: 1878

The Secretary of War has made q
favorable response to the petition
from Memphis for supply Of tents
to shelter poor people in the country,
although, as he states, there is no law
for such proceeding, other than the
law Of humanity. The telegram of
Postmaster Thompson, of Memphis,
Qiycs great satisfaction,
Year: 1878

Bird stories are in order. As far
mer was get ing in his hay, hs noticed
IN unusuil commotion sm,ng the swal-
lows, which had built long row of
nests under the caves of his barn. They
appearei greatly excited. flying rapid y
about, and filing the air with their cries
Of distress As the load passed into
the bara. he saw that young swallow,
IN a nest directly over the door, had
caught its neck between Two shingles,
and was unable to liberate itself He
stopped his team, and set the young
bird fro. restoring it to the nest. Upon
his return to the barn with his next
bad Of hay, noticing that the swallows
were quict, he examined the crack, and
found that they had completely filled
it with mud, so that, no matter how en-
terprisiug or how foolish the young
swallow might be, he could no: again
sndauger his life, or the peace Of tha:
community, by any experiments on the
crack. Instinct is wonderful sense.
Year: 1878

1t is scarcely necessary to remind rea-
sonable men that If they wish to be sad
and sour, to grumble and complain,
there is always chance. Reasons for
being cast down and detected are as
plenty as blackberrics in the height Of
harvest. If one thing goes right, you
may be sure there is always something
else going wrong and if ono thing is in
order something elso is out Of joint, or
at any rate soon will be. The chief diff
ference in the feelings and dispositions
of people results from the different way
of looking at things. Few nights are
so dark that no stars are to be seen.
the thing is to look them out and keep
your eyes on them, and make the most
of what you can discover.