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Year: 1879

EDITOR FREEMAN AS resident of the
South for thirteen years before the war
driven out in 1861 for my Union senti-
ments-I don't think am likely to be very
much preiudiced in favor of people who
thus reduced me from comfort to poverty.
The first vote ever threw was for anti
slavery delegates to the Kentucky consti-
tutional convention of 1858. l cannot,
however, sympathize with the prevailing
fear of " southern brigadiers," and am
glad to see the following utterances of one
of the bravest of our Union brigadiers
General and Ex-Governor Chamberlain oi
Maine, now president of Bowdoin college
They are from a Decoration day oration
delivered at Lewiston:


"Local self-government and state rights
are as dear to the north as to the south
and the prestige of the nation as useful tc
the south as to the north. So far rs we
were concerned, the war was an act oi
defence by the people for the people
against the hostile acts of state organiza-
tions pretending TO be supreme In this
country, pretending that it was m the
power of any of them to say that hence
forth there should be no more people OF
the United States. That is what it was
exactly, and we accepted the issue and
settled it. We were not trying to drive Il
foreign foe out of the country. We were
irving to bring back an alienated and mis-
taken friend into an allegiance he had
rashly and blindly repudiatcd. We were
fighting to compel the rebellious states to
do their duty under the constitution, to
come back into congress again and to take
part in making laws and regulating the
course of this people in its grand work in
this broad land and among the nations OF
the earth. Is it not folly, is it not babyish
weakness 10 complain that the states are
back again in congress and that they have
sent there such representatives as they
must naturally chooseP We send our best
minds to congress, of course, to manage
the vital interests OF our country. Why
should not they send their best minds? If,
gentlemen, we did not want the rebel gen
erals there, what did we remove their dis
abilities for? If we did not want the
south to have an increased majority in the
electoral vote or in congress, why did we
not think of that when by giving the en-
franchised slave the ballot, we thereby
added to the southern strength thirty-live
electoral and representative votes? Who
ever did that should not stultfy himself by
whining about it, or setting up pow
WOW over it, and trying to make the peo.
pie think that the great war has not settled
something. There are great questions
that must be met-must be discussed, must
be honorably studied and fairly stated and
wisely adjusted. There will be bad men
and good in Congress and out, bad meas,
ures and good, bad theories and good: 1t
is the task of craftsmanship and manhood
to deal with existing evils, to take things
MS they are and make them what they
ought to be, and this should be done under
the constitution and through the laws and
by all the machinery of government con-
nected, expressly TO avoid the appeal to
brute passion and brute force. That s
what constitutions, and laws, and courts
and congresses, and ballot boxes are for. "
Year: 1879

LIGHTNING RoD MEN IN VERMONT
The southern section of Vermont is under
an excitement of the lightning rod busi-
ness. About one year ago Il company
came through this section of the state with
as much pomp and circumstance as a
caravan or circus. Some Of their carriages
carried the rods and other material, some
the workmen and others the proprietors,
and horses, carriages and paraphernalia
were marshalled, decked and arranged in
an imposing manner SO rs to captivate
the verdant Yankees. In Rutland county
the company had with them II we'll known
auctioneer of Rutland, who said he chap
pened along on his own business
but would take occasion to warn the
people to protect themselves from the
lightning of heaven. The company
took negotiable notes, payable iu one
year. but made n verbal promise to wait
ten years for payment. The promise rs
against note would amount to nothing,
and they also warranted the material, and
agreed to readust and repair the rods if
they should get out of place. Many of
them have done SOFAS they were hurriedly
and carelessly put up. This might be II
defense so far as it would o,but the notes
were negotiated before due, and this, as
every lawyer understands, shuts off all
defense, except perhaps fraud or entire
want of consideration. The probability is
that the dupes will have their notes to
pay My own opinoin is, that the rods are
a genuine article, sold for twice of thrice
what they are worth, and that one-half or
two thirds of those who bought them
were in no condition to undergo such an
expenditure. 1t has been estimated that
the company carried away from Vermont
notes to the amount of one hundred thou
sand dollars. This doubtless was guessed
at; it might not have been one.half that
sum. The company operated in the rural
districts, and so far as l know, did no
work in the larger villages. and, what


may seem strange, they put up rods for a
class of men the most parsimonius to be
found. But such men have blind side,
and the lightning rod men found it,


Correspondence OF Troy Times.
Year: 1879

"GoING A-FIsHING. THE man who
invented the fish hook will some day have
a monument. 1t will be granite column
500 feet high, built by the boys alone. A
boy might possibly get along with mar
bles, tops, stills, balls and kites, yet he
would feel that there was an aching void
somewhere. A kite does we'll enough rs
long as it will outsal all other kites and
the string doesn't break, and pair of stills
are good property until after the first fall !;
but for real solid pleasure the fish hook
can never be beaten. A boy will always
expect more and get less from it than
anything else invented, but he never gets
too discouraged to try again.


The Smith boy was observed trying his
luck yesterday in pond on vacant lot
on Alfred street. AS far back as last
December his mother promised him half a
day out of school as soon as the fish began
to bite, and yesterday was the glorious
day. Where there's water there ought to
be fish, according to everybody's reckoning,
and the youth surrounded" that wee little
pond hole with its barrel of muddy water
with lust as much enthusiasm rs man
would throw line into Lake st. Clair.
lie had ham, sweetcake, potato, dried beef
and boiled egg for bait, and when he had
spit upon the bait and cast in his hook all
the Seth Greens ever born couldn't have
convinced him that he would fail of at
least one good big bite. For two long
hours he fshed for sturgeon and pickerel
and pike changing the bait now and then
and never forgetting to spit on it, and as
he bauled up for the last time he would
simply admit that it wasn't just the right
sort of day to 90 fishing. If he had had a
little one to carry home his triumph would
have been more complete, but yet his eyes
were like two diamonds as he met two
boys on the corner and called out:


"Sayl I've STAYED out of school whole
halliday and been a-fshing. | didn't
catch any fish. COS they were all on their
nests, but you ought to have seen the big
frog which tumbIefoff stone!"-Detrott
Free Press.
Year: 1879

SILENT SIRvICE.-An island of the Paci-
fic had history unnoted in its annals.
Silently beneath the wave built the wise
coral. Their own life cemented the work
to which they freely gave their strength.
Dying, the toll was transmitted to their
successors. Thus epoch after epoch has
the sub-marncl and grown upward towards
the light. At length wavc-wash announced
its birth and the stars of heaven claimed
its coming to their shine. The accretion Of
its surface, the growth of its cities, the
progress of its culture, the power of its
kingdom, the pleasure and the profit of its
inhabitants all prc-suppose the unremem-
bered workmen beneath the sea. Not a
plant nor palace, not form of wonder nor
of wealth, not m expression of taste nor Il
tribute to truth can come from the firm
land begirt by the ocean, which does not
praise and honor the ages of silent service.
Surely he is best remembered who lives
in his work and dying makes it his maui
soleum. The days come when we who
have been bound together in this labor
and reproach of years shall be recognized
as building more wisely than we knew.
However insignificant may seem now our
partnership in its progress, not one tiny
effort shall be without its contribution to
the great result So long as the Father is
honored, the Savior magnilied, the Com
forter, made known by our living, let us
be content. Give thanks that ye have
been permitted to fashion the reef, upon
which multitudes in the future shall found
their home Tying.
Year: 1879

While a man was dashing with all his
might and main down Corlandt street to
catch a train one day last week. gamn
rushed after him and shouted: Hey,
mister, have you got pinP' II have"
replied the man coming to Il sudden halt
and feeling under tho lapel of his vest
"Well then," yelled the boy as he jumped
out of the way you had better fasten your
ears together behind your head so as you
won't smash any swin2in' signs with EN-
The pedestrian passed on unheedful of the
advice given him.
Year: 1879

THE ART OF PATCHING CLoTnES.-1
shall begin with the perhaps original
axiom that a patch must be rectangular.
A rouud or q " crooked one will inevita-
bly, thrust itself into notice, as it is impos-
sible to match the threads. Then patch
should never be " laid on" but always
" set in." To this end cut away carefully
by Il thread all that is in the least worn,
and turn back and baste down an even
seam all around. The corners may be
slashed slightly in diagonal direction, to
keep them square. Then to this opening
fit the patch exactly, with the edges turned
and busted, and sew it in over and over
on the wrong side with thread of the pre-
else shade and very fine. sewing alternate
opposite sides to avoid trouble with the
corners. The extra thickness caused by
the folded corners of the patch itself should
be cut out after sewing. and little fine
darning added to keep them secure. Now
slightly dampen and press on the wrong
side, and you have a neat piece of mend
ing which cannot be seen few feet away
Figures and striped goods must of course
be carefully matched; heavy woolen fab
rcs, such rs men and boys wear, neet
not have seams turned, the clean-cut edge
being strong enough to hold.-N Y. EUen-
ing Post.
Year: 1879

The Utica Herald is responsible for the
following rat and clam story: "a New
Berliner bought two dozen CLAIMS last
week. took them home, and spread meal
on them. The next morning he found
that thirty two rats, in search Of meal, had
been caught by tails and toes bv twenty
three CLAIMS. The unoccupied clam must
have bossed the job. One clam had three
rats.
Year: 1879

A CURIOUS QUESTION is pending before the
missouri supreme court, as to whether IL Is an
attempt to bribe voters for candidates for Office
to oner to serve the public at less than the pre-
vail1ng salaries. At the last election In Gala
way county In that state there was an indepen-
dent party In the field, which nominated and
elected its 01icers On the platform that a col
lector should not be paid over 81, 500, nor the
probate Judge and county and circuit clerks
over 81 200. The regular b0urbons could not
stand having fees cut on more than half in this
fashion. and have brought acJton to oust the
successful candidates, on the ground that their
their election Illegal
Year: 1879

VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE ON THE DEBT QUESTION
Ihe Virginia Legislature met i'm extra session
yesterday. The Governor sent in a brief mes
sage referring TO the important legislation nee
essary to be enacted to promote the peace and
prosperity OF the State. The House adjourned
after brief session. In the Senate, however
the debt question WAS taken up, the bill passed
read twice under suspension OF the rules. and
decision reached to vote on its engrossment
and third reading to-day at O'Clock. The
readlusters VIII endeavor to amend it. but it
is believed the Senate will pass it In its present
shane
Year: 1879

THE EXODUS FROM WASHINGTON. Since the
adjournment yesterday the depots are the most
busy places, and the exodus is almost unprece-
0ented, each train, particularly the through
trains, being fun and the sleeping berths all
taken up for some hours ahead It is probable
that each or the main lines westward Will run
out more sleepers tonight than ever before.
BY noon to-day the berths in over twenty Sleep
efS had all been taken.
Year: 1879

TIE FURLoUGHBD EMPLOYEES OF THE BUREAU
OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.-The act Just
passed by Congress in regard to'the tax on to-
bacco and snuff does not go into effect until the
first OF May. and the persons who were recent
ly furloughed from the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing While this question was pending,
cannot, therefore, be recalled before that time
Year: 1879

SALARIES TO BE REDUCED IN THE SECRET SER
VICE DIvIsIoN.-The suHdry civil bill appro-
PIRATES $4,000 for the secret service division.
This is d reduction Of S25, eco from the amount
appropriated last year. The difference would
have TO be made good either by discharge OF
some men employed under the division or by
leGuc, ion in their salaries. Chief Brooks does
ntt want to curtail the operations OF the bureau
Or diminish its field of labor Therefore he has
dtc.qed mat reduction In pay, instead of q
discharge, will have to be made. His division
as last year conducted for S35 800 less than by
any OF his predecessors
Year: 1879

WILL STAY HERE.-There seems to be
general disposition among such old members as
are reelected to the 18th Congress to remain In
Washington for the two weeks between now
and the called session. The eastern members
have generally gone hCme, but those of the west
say they viii remain now until the Zig Is up.
Year: 1879

STREET-CAR FARE REDsCED.-As will be
seen bv an official announcement OF Super
intendent Walker, the fare on the street.
cars OF the city has been reduced to five
cents, and for children under five years
there will be no charge. Cheap car-fare
has been a need long felt here, and this
move will doubtless be as rcmuneratiVe to
the railway company as advantageous to
the general public.
Year: 1879

TSpringfield Mass. Republican,


Secretary Sherman is giving the silver men
a good handle for criticising his policy as t.
the silver dollar by letting the amount of
silver coinage for the last month fall below
the legal minimum. Silver coinage may be-
a bad thing, disregarding Statute law IN
uuestionably is.
Year: 1879




A New York paper says: The Quakers,
or Friends, are said to have been dimin-
ishing slowly though steadily during the
last twenty years, in consequence of the
secularization of many Of the younger
people born in the society. Their faith
and life are simple, and their ways so
gentle and honest, as to be in sharp
contrast to much of the complicated and
artificial wants and manners of the latter
half of the nineteenth century. Many
members of the society in Philadelphia,
where they are far more numerous than
in any other city in the Union, are anx-
Hious to correct the decreasing tendency OF
the body, and are zealously engaged in a
movement for the formation of settle
ments in the West. The Friends have
been SO scattered and isolated in that
section as to gradually lose interest in
their habits and principles. The inten-
ton is to organize an association which
shall purchase tracts of land, and sell
farms and lots on easy terms, either to
Friends or those in sympathy with
them, and to aid such persons as have
limited means with money to erect
dwellings and develop their scanty re
sources. The association proposes tC
lay out roads, put up school and meet.
ing-houses, and push forward all need
full and worthy enterprises. The West
can have no better or more useful or mere
desirable citizens, for the name o
Quaker has become everywhere a syn
onym ofpurity, order thrift, and benevo
lence. The whole number of Friends j:
estimated at present at 1000, of whom
90, 900 belong to the United States.
Year: 1879

A YOUNG Mexican whose name we are unable to learn, but who goes by the nick name of"Tres FriJoles," was very serious ly stabbed by some one on Saturday night last, in the southern end Of town IL was dark, and there was general row, so that it is a difficult to tell who used the knife; but one Manuel Gales is under arrest on suspicion. The knife entered under the shoulder blade and penetrated to the right lung, making a wound which may be fatal.

 IT is believed Ly some parties In town who are constantly purchasing the gold brought from the Santa Rita placer dig gins, that the production Of those mines is slowly increasing. This Is an encOurag- ing item fbr our gold miners, and we may hope that with the introduction cf dry washers the yield will be much larger still.

 ABOUT six o'clock last evening tho north wall or the old cemetery was made a screen for a com bat of some kind, which served to attract a large part of the popu- latlon in that neighborhood. Some blood was spilled, and dry goods torn to pieces; but what it was all about we could not learn. No arrests.

 |. PRoFEssoR W. T. RICHARD has moved his office 10 the Welisch Block, next door to the Custom House where he Is now prepared to make assays and analyses with the greatest accuracy possible.
Year: 1879

IT is stated that King Alfonso of Spain is to be again married This time he is to wed Princess Marie, aged fourteen. The marriage will take place in about two years. The bride elect is the daughter of the eldest sister of the late Queen Mercedes, and a great granddaughter of the French King Louis Philippe. The family of the Count of Paris has always resided in England, at Twickenham, and Alfon- so XII has not even had an opportu- nifty of seeing the girl he is said to be betrOthed to.
Year: 1879

REPUBLICAN papers are trying to
make capital out of the fact that there
are nineteen Democratic Senators in
the Federal Senate who were in the
Confederate army. but they are sensi-
bly, silent over the fact that only four
Of the Republican Senators were in
the Union army. Two of whom are
Logan and kellogg. of whom there is
certainly no occasion to brag. This
ia pretty fair indication that with all
its talk the Republican party does not
choose tie ex-Union soldiers for its
leaders. Republican.
Year: 1879

newspaper hourishes only where The
people of the county are known abroad
for their intelligence, their prosperity
in all pursuits of life About she best
county TO move from is one which does
not support, or supports in,lifFerently,
its newspaper About the best county
TO move to rs enc which supports. and
supports literally, its local paper"
Year: 1879

The samples each be of the growth of S79 produced
the person competing, o N his premises


These only
Counties who bonafde paup yearly subscribers
Herald become such before the 1st day of June 1870
such the time the Fair which will be held
or December, 1879


Competent and impartial Judges will make the awards.


Remember that all it requires be competitor
be padup subscriber the HERALD before the
Herald local and ought take
worth the subscription We hundred and Ave dollars
1877 Subscribe ime Don't let
The samples that take will be kept placed
the Herald Office all the other will be sold
and the proceeds equally divided between the entering
placed to their credit on subscriptions the Herald


You here have chance g. 90
at $3.50 90 in Premiums besides If the Agricultural
Fairs the Country and for premiums aggregang
would be charged entrance fee of from s5 charge
nothing Do not forget that the Herald
County The that existed six fifth
help helping
staple products improving their quality and increasing their


Respectfully,
Year: 1879

In order to stimulate the Farmers to greater
exertiOns, and induce them to improve the
quality of their two great staples, Corn and
Tobacco, and at the same time increase the
circulation of the HERALD, we offer the fol
lowing very liberal Premiums, amounting in


the aggregate to
Year: 1879

How remarkable it is that whenever
an enthusiast in religion gets new light,
and adopts what he considers advanced
views" he almost invariably begins to
tamper with marriagel In this tam
pering he always betrays the charlatan,
and sufficiently warns all who are
tempted to follow him to beware Of
him. There is no better test of new
system or scheme of life than its rela-
ton to Christian marriage. If it tam
pers with that it is always bad, and can
by no possibility be good. The Shakers
form community built on this rotten
foundation. They destroy the family,
root and branch. They have no place
for love, and enter into determined
and organized fight with the God of
Nature, who, by the strongest passions
and impulses He has ever implanted IN
the human soul, has commanded them
to establish families and homes. Shak-
erism is good for nothing if it is not
good universally-if it ought not to be
adopted universally. But universal
adoption would be- the suicide of race,
and race has no more right to commit
suicide than man. Besides, the
damming of one of the most powerful
streams in human nature only sets the
water back to cover the banks it was
intended to nourish and to drain. tits
too late to talk about the superior sane.
tity of the celibate. We have no faith
in it whatever. The vow of chastity
simply emphasizes in the mind the pas
SION it is intended, for spiritual reasons,
to suppress, and fixes the attention
upon it. The Shaker, in denying love
to himself and all the hallowed inau-
ences that grew out of family and home,
gains nothing in holiness, if he do not
lose irretrievably. He is the victiE


of shocking mistake, and he disgraces
himself and his own father and mother
by his gross views of an institution be


fore whose purity and benefcence he
and his whole system stand condemned


Of course we do not need to allude te
the Mormon. His views of marriage
revealed, of course-are simply beastly
But these new schemes of life, religion
and philosophy are constantly spring
ing up. 1t is very difficult for any sys
tenn of socialism to establish itself with
out tampering with marriage, and ont
| of the best arguments against all sort
of communities and phalansteries an6
what-nots of that sort, is that the fam
ily, as a unit, is unmanageable within
them. They can take in and organize
miscellaneous mass of individuals, ant
provide some sort of dirty substitute


for marriage, but the family bother
them. 1t is government within gov
ernment, that they cannot get alonl
with. So the marriage test is a goo'
one in all cases of the kind.-ScribneI
Year: 1879

THE LOVE OF a MOTHER The
Scranton Republican tells touching
story Of poor old woman who haunts
the depot about the time that the trains
arrive, aud gazes at the faces Of the in
coming passengers as il expecting some
one. During the civil war, her only
son, young man upon whom she fairly
dotted, wss killed in one Of the hottest
engagements, aud the news of his death
so preyed upon her miud as To disturb
the poor woman's reason. Ever since
then she gnes to the depot once or twice
a week 10 meet the incoming trains, ia
the hope that he will come to her. At
other and on all other subjects she seems
entirely sane, bat she sometimes thinks
that her son will come back; and TO sat
isfy the hope that never dies, and in the
depth OF that love which never fades.
the poor mother continues 10 go on her
sad mission with as much earnestness
as though she were performing solemn
religious duty.