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Year: 1877

When children are afflicted with the fever and rash, which has been quite common in Prescott; ant vicinity, for the last eight years. adults suffer at the same time with stiffness in the neck, colds and slight fevers. and it k the opinion uf persons who ought 10 know that it k a climatic fcveraud not courageous We would call attention to the soreness in the neck> of the children, who have been affected which k entirely an external sore ness, whilst scarlet fever causes soreness internally. and to be scarlet fever must be courageous
Year: 1877

A golden opportunity now dawns upon
Southern men. They have the destiny Of
their country In the hollow of their hands.
As they mold their policy in this crisis so
will their people prosper or linger In dis
tress. Practical patriotism and philosophl.
cal craftsmanship should now exert itself
with all Its vigor and force. The time has
come for action. Let the Southern lead.
ers rise above partizanship. Let them cast
aside heir affiliations with the riff.raff ele.
ment which comprise their party in the
North. Let them buckle on the armor of
moral courage, and dare to have lasting
and benign peace which shall make their
unhappy country blossom as rose.


The Northern Democrats have evi.
IDENTIFY determined to impede the work
OF the Commission with all the means
In their power. This proceeding will
open the way for the Southern
Democracy out Of their Red soa of az.
fiction, which they have suffered ever
since they became the allies of the copper.
head element. II they boldly and con.
scientiously sustain the action of the ma.
jority Of the commission, they will lay
foundation stone for the future greatness OF
tho Sou tn. This golden opportunity is
upon them. Will LAMAR and HILL make
q break for freedom, justice and the great
inter ests Of the South2
Year: 1877

1--WE want o compromise" cried the
Democracy last month with bold menace
of hostilities, and the Republican leaders
yielded and complied with the demand.
The compromise was secured, and the first
finding under the electoral bill has been
made; II was 10 favor Of the Republican
pirty. This has driven the Democracy
blind with rage. Their rage has forced
themto political madness, and that madness
Is rapidly hurrying them to political sui
eide. They agreed to accept the decision
Of the Commission In good faith as final
and conclusive. But they enter bitter
protest against the very first finding. Nor
Is this oil. They pouuce upon the three
Supreme Court Judges with malicious
ferocity and hurl avalanche after avalanche
of slander, vituperation and abuse at the
ermine element In the great Tribunal.


We urged upon the Republican leaders
the danger OF drifting away from the pro-
scribed forms Of the Constitution and estab.
lished precedents. We warned them re.
peatedly that the Democracy would break
faith under any compromise plan that
might be adopted, and violently oppose
any decision other than one in favor Of
their cause. Our prophecy has been full.
filled. Our predictions have been realized
In q manner which fills the nation with
amazement, and demonstrates how danger.
Gus II Is to compromise with desperate
and determined foe.


The Democracy mean mischief. At the
first finding In the Florida case they became
enraged. AT the second they became mad.
When Louisiana is declared for Hayes, as
1t will be in justice and by law, they will
become bowling mad. And when Oregon,
their last hope, has been given to the Re.
publican party, as Is the declared will Of
her sovereign people It should be, they will
rave In the agony Of their wild distraction.
But Il will all be in vain.


The moral sentiment of the nation ie
with the decision of the Tribunal. The
people will abide by It's action. Whatever
the Commission decide the people will sus.
tain. If they declare TrLDRN elected,
TTIDEs will be peacefully naugurated,
amid the quiet submission of the entire
people. If HAYES Is declared elected, the
Democracy must submit whether they
will or no. We have passed the retreat
ing point. We must forward march at the
command of the majority of the Tribunal.
The Democracy may curse Judge Bradley
and slander his good name If they will.
They may heap yituperation mountain
high on the Commission. They may
lacerate the Supreme Court with their
psrtizan shafts of spleen. They may toy
with rampant seditiop, and fondle bloody
usurpation. They may agonize in their
agony, and writhe in. their inevitable defeat,
but the fiat has gone forth. They must
submit to the law they incubated by
menance Of hostility, and Matched by
appeals to the patriotism of the nation.
Ifit be TILDEN, well and good. The
country will acquiesce. Ifit be HAYES,
well and good. American patriots will
acquiesce. The Democracy must.
Year: 1877

NoRI abuse was heaped upon Justice Brad
LEY by the Saturday editions Of tho Demo-
cratic press throughout the country than was
ever before heaped upon . single ,man in so
short time. This is the best evidence In the
world that Justice BRADLEY Is right.
Year: 1877

The Democratic House still holds Gov
ernor WELLS In the dungeon. crypt closely
confined. The ventilation of the Capitol
at least is unwholesome, but in this grim
and darksome cell the air Is most foul and
Year: 1877

A few days ago the military and civil
ians at Fort Laramie were astonished at
the sight of huge elk, which ran out Of
the underbrush in the Platte river bot
tom and charged directly through the
parade ground. The antlered monster
was pursued by pack of dogs Of all
sizes, and after clearing the buildings
one canine, bolder than his fellows,
nipped at his heel, when the eld whirled,
threw down his antler, impaled three or
four of his pursuers, then, lifting his
handsome head quickly, he threw them
many yards away. Two dogs were killed
by the goring and fall, while two or
three others were trampled to death.
Not many minutes elapsed before dozen
officers, soldiers and civilians were
mounted and in lively pursuit. Several
hundred cartridges were exploded, with
no perceptible effect except to increase
the speed of the forest monarch, and
after wearing out their horses in q two
hours run, the pursuers gave up the
chase and returned to the fort, leaving
the elk to seek some quiet grazing spot
on the boundless plains.
Year: 1877

He that has no friend and no enemy is
one of the vulgar, and without talents,
powers, or energy.


Conscience, be it ever SO little worm
while we live, grows suddenly to
serpent on our death-bed.


Franklin says, ga poor man must
work to find meat for his stomach,
rich one to find stomach for meat.


The unpleasant sensation that is pro.
duced by modesty, is amply compensat-
ell by the prepossession it creates in
our favor.


He who has guineas for his subjects,
is, unfortunately, the king of most men.


A man may start at impending danger
or vince at the sensation of pain and
yet he may be true philosopher and
not be afraid of death.


A passionate man should be regarded
with the same caution as q loaded
blunderbuss, which may unexpectedly
90 off and do us an injury.


Too much sensibility creates unhappi-
ness and too much insensibility creates
crime.


He who surpasses or subdues man
kind, must look down on the fate Of
those below.


The pitying tears and fond smiles of
women are like the showers and sun
shine of spring.


Knowledge is proud that he has learns
ed so Wisdom is humble that he
knows no more.


If you wish to keep your enemies
from knowing any harm of you, don't
let your friends know any.


The epicure, the drunkard, and the
man of loose morals are equally con-
temptible though the 5rutes obey in
stinct, they never exceed the bounds Of
moderation and besides, it is beneath
the dignity of man to place felicity in
the service of his senses.
Year: 1877

Do the young people ever think that
they will be old; that they will soonfeel
that the grasshopper is burden and
fear is in the way? Only few short
years ago, that aged man and feeble
woman were young, strong and full of
life; their loving hearts were gushing
with tenderness and care for the little
ones, who now stand in their places. Do
not jostle that aged couple out of your
pathway, but rather lift them with
tender care over the rough declining
road. You may have forgotten how
they kept your tender feet from STUN
bling, and with what care they watched
your advancing steps. But they have
not forgotten, and the time will come
when you will be reminded of it by the
love you have for your little ones. Will
they hand you the same bitter cup to
drink that you pour out for that aged
father and stricken mother? Verify,
"with what measure you mete, 1t shall
be measured to you again" Think OF
the anxious days and nights your mother
has watched by your sick bed; remem-
Der her loving care, her patience and long
sufferings with your fretfulness, and
then let the blush of shame dye youl
brow, that you should be inpatient OF
unkind to her, now that she is old. Old
folks are such a trial! Yes, they know
it, and they feel it-and so will you be


just such trial to your children in the
days that will surely come; aye, and you
will remember, too.
Year: 1877

Some sheep belonging to farmer
named Smith having been stolen in the
neighborhood of village, while the
thief was undiscovered, local preacher,
having collection to make, thought he
would turn the event to good account,
SO he said: "We have collection to
make this morning, and, for the glory of
heaven, whichever of you stole Mr..
Smiths sheep, don't put anything ON
the plate" OF course everybody joined
in the collection.
Year: 1877

BY d. p. cRANCH.
An old umbrella in the hall.


Battered and baggy quaint and queer


BY all the rains Of many year
Bent, stained and faded-that is all.
Warped, broken, twisted by the blast
of twenty winters, till at last,
Like some poor close-reefed schooner cast,
All wAter-logged, with half mast
Upon the rocks, it finds a nook
or shelter on an entry hook;
Old battered craft, how came you hereY
All could 1t speak, 'twould tell of one
Old Simon Dowles, who now is gone
Gone where the weary are at rest
or one who locked within his breast
His private sorrows DER his lot,
And in his humble work forgot
That he was but toiling bark
Upon the pillows in the dark,
While the brave newer ships swept by,
Sailing beneath prosperous sky,
And winged with opportunities
Fate had denied TO hands like his.
plain old-fashioned wight was he
As these sport-loving days could STE
He in his youth had loved and lost
His loyal true love. Ever since
His lonely life was fiecked and crossed
By sorrows nameless shadow tints
Yet never murmur from his lips
Told Of his darkened souls eclipse.
often think still can hear
His voice 80 blithe, his tones of cheer,
AS, dropping in to say "good-day,"
He gossiped in his old mans way.
And yet we laughed when he ha6 gone.
We youngsters couldn't understand
No matter if it rained or shone,
He held the umbrella in bis hand,
Or if he set it in the hall,
Where other shedders Of the rain
Stood dripping up against the WALL
His was too shabby and too plain
To tempt exchange all passed it by,
Though showers Of rain were pouring down,
And all the cutters of the town
Were torrents in the darkening sky.
He never left it once behind,
Save the last time he crossed our door,
Oblivious shadows DER his mind
Presaged his failing strength. Before
The morning he Rad passed away
In peaceful sleep from night to day.
Aud here the old brown umbrella still
In its old corner stays TO fill
The place, as best it may be, Of him
Who, on this wild and wintry night,
Ia surely with the saints of light;
For whom my eyes grow moist and dim
While l this simple rhyme indite.
Year: 1877

those always found in the half
breed. He is an excellent CONVEX
sationaliSt, and will talk on every
subject but his plans for the future.


Major Walsh and his associates
are afraid that their guest will grow
restive and move away if the COM
mission from Washington do not
hurry along. Sitting Bull expected
that General Miles, who is in COM
mand at Fort Benton, would have
been sent to him.
Year: 1877

The Settlement OF Brigham YOung's
Estate-Interestfng DeveIOpmeDts ts
Promised NO Successor 90 tbe
Dead AutocrAt Likely 20 be APP
pointed.


Salt Lake Special to the N. Y. Herald, 7thl


Nine of the twelve apostles who
control the destinies of the Church
of Latter Day Saints, and who,
unlike their predecessors of old,
have a very keen eye for temporal
as well as spiritual matters, have
been engaged during the past two
or three days in looking over the
deceased presidents accounts. The
great seer and prophet seemed to
have had much difficulty in max
ing any distinction between the
personal and official character of
Brigham Young, and now that the
important trusts he held have
lapsed by death the apostles want
to know what property is left to the
church.


INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS.


This peculiar weakness of Brig
ham in his lifetime is likely to be
followed, now that he is dead, by
some very interesting developments.
The estate of the prophet will be
sworn under $2,00O,O00. and it is
currently reported that extensive
litlgations are likely to grow out of
its settlement. The duties of the
head Of the church, as interpreted
by himself, were varied and strik-
ing, and among other things in
yolved the holding OF titles to real
estate as such head, while, by some
arrangement or understanding
growing out of the church govern
ment or discipline the real owner.
ship remained elsewhere. Now, un.
fortunately, the law does not know
such person as the head of the
church, and considers the owner
ship to follow the title. Therein
as in many other respects, Mormon
ism has way of its own. Never
theless it is probable Brigham's
heirs will have recourse to the law
in the matter, and lay claim to all
the property the title Of which was
in their father, whether as citizen
or seer.


ENDLESS SUITS.


This is likely to lead to endless
suits by parties thinking themselves
aggrieved, and by the time the
courts get through with them it is
probable the estate will be largely
pared down.


THE PRESIDENCY.


The belief is becoming general
here that there will be no election
Of president of the church at the
conference, which meets on the 9th
Of October next, as has been antic.
ipated. With all Of their profound
respect for and subserviency to
Brigham Young it is evident that
the church authorities have had
enough of the despotism which he
exercised, and have no disposition
to place it in the hands of another
While it is difficult to understand
the theory of the church govern
ment, which Brigham was in the
habit OF interpreting for himself
and for his own purposes, it is GER
tain that the twelve have power to
exercise supreme control; and, with
all their love for the methods OF
ancient times, there remains among
them sufficient of the leaven OF
self-government to prevent entire
submission to another autocrat.


FUTURE OF THE CHURCH.


AS the church has, during all its
past history, been held together by
the concentration of power in the
hands of one man, there are those
who see in this proposed diffusion
of it divisions likely to result in the
downfall of this great modern the
ocraoy, which constitutes so foul a
blot upon the century,


THEIRS.
Year: 1877

Twenty Thousand People
old and young, every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
nETHODIsT belong to the best class of
community.


We desire our business men to make note
oil the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


WO use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adyor-
tisins; for many good people seeing an ad-
Vertisement in a paper, especially their
church paper. take it as guarantee Of re-
spOnsibility. Such confidence should not be-
abused when it can be helped. We want,
therefore,
Year: 1877

This is likely to lead to endless
suits by parties thinking themselves
aggrieved, and by the time the
courts get through with them it is
probable the estate will be largely
pared down.
Year: 1877

The grangers have won another vic
tory. The Supreme Court of the
United States recognizes the truth Of
the doctrine that the legislative power
of state is not only superior to any
and every corporation existing within
the state, but that it cannot ever be
tied up or controlled by the acts ofany
previous legislature. The whole doc
trine of "vested rights as against
the people is thereby exploded. The
sovereignty of free people cannot be
tied, ssneck and HEELS by any trick
of words, or by any corrupt bargain
effected in the past. A legislature
cannot barter away the fights Of its
constituents.


This decision is in the case Of the
Chicago, Burlington 4 Quincy against
Year: 1877

That eminent newspaper, the New
York Journal ofCommerce has this to
say about the recent vote on the bond
question:


THE MINNESOTA SHAME.--The re-
spectacle journals in Minnesota are
sorely smarting under the disgrace of
the reputation which was ratified by
a great majority of her people. These
papers explain to us that the over
whelming vote against good faith and
justice was caused by the ''ignorance"
of the back districts. In the towns
where the populationism is more ''enlight-
ened' the vote was much stronger the
other way. The Minnesota papers
which feel this shame the most acutely
are not without hope that agitation
and education may yet bring the dull
lest of farmers to see that his future
we'll being, like that of the merchants
of st. Paul, depends on the reconsider
alton of that fatal vote. We should
be happy to accept these views Of the
Minnesota press, and to hope that
at some future time the scandalous
verdict of the late election may be re-
versed. But we fear that the trouble
with the Minnesotians is not ignorance
but something far more serious and
invincible-a lack of common honesty.
1t looks as if they wereuvery conscious
that they were deliberately cheating
the creditors of the State and glad of
the opportunity to do it. This is the
opinion which unprejudiced observers
outside of the state have been COM
PEELED to form after watching the
progress of the discussion up to the
result in Minnesota.


The Journal of Commerce does the
people of Minnesota injustice;-they
are us honest as any community on
earth; and they do not mean to be
repudiators. They believe they have
equities of defence against the claim
of the bond-holders and they are in IA


vor of settling upon some basis OF
compromise. They rejected the re


cent proposition because they thought
the line Of compromise was drawn toe


high. The discussion has however


done good and sooner or later thi:


shameful muddle will be cleared up.
Year: 1877

DR.. Oliver Holmes, the poet, author,
scientist, inventor of the popular
stereoscope instrument, recently
delivered an address before the Boston
Microscopical Society. 1t twas mainly
an illustration of the progress of
microscopic the construction of
the instruments and in the discoveries
by their aid. ssTo those of my gen.
eration," he began, ''this modern
world which most of you take as a
matter of course, it being the only
condition of things of which you have
had experience, is perpetual source
of wonder-a standing miracle.
Science and art have in our time so
changed the aspect of everyday life
that one of a certain age might we'll
believe himself on another planet or
in another stage of existence. The
wand of Prometheus is in our match
boxes; the rock of Horeb gushes forth
in our dressing rooms; the carpet of
Year: 1877

tered as they are throughout almost
half the continent, and, for that
reason, standing greatly more IN need
of circulating medium than are the
people Of France


Is it any wonder that all growth,
progress and prosperity are created IN
our unfortunate countrya II it was
not for the foreign demand for our
agricultural productions, the entire
civic population Of the country would
starve to death. Our rulers are not
able to arrest the God-given fertility
of our soil, or they would have done
so long ago. They have done their
best, by their protective tariffs, to de-
stroy our intercourse with the rest OF
the world, and thus deprive us of the
only market which to-day saves us
from universal bankruptcy.


Now can any man give any reason
why old-fashioned, conservative, un'
progressive France should give hel
people $51.4O per head of currency


while the driving, pushing, enterpris'


ing American. engaged in the great


work of settling and developing a con
tinent is limited to $3.50 per head Of
population!


It is simply the result Of a crue


conspiracy to plunder the many fol
the benefit of the few; and both tht
old parties have agreed to shut theil
eyes and mouths lest they might OF
fend the mOneyed-classes.


There is no remedy but new party


based on the financial question alone
Year: 1877

Just one point in all his long address
which the general puplic will notice
and understand and which has already
attracted more attention than would
be bestowed upon years discussion
of convict labor. Il implore you,
gentlemen Of the legislature, said
Mr.. Vaux, 'sto look at our statistics.
They show that our prisonis occupied
to very great extent by unappren-
ticed convicts. Of all the young men
under twenty-five years of age admit-
ted to the prison seventy-tive per
cent. are without trade and ninety
per cent. are educated. The State has
done so much for Intelligent labor and
nothing for trade education. Some
thing should be done to make trade
education as dignifed as intelligent
labor


What a terrible satire upon our
bOasted free school system is convey
ed in this word "educated J" Nine
tenths of the young criminals sent to
the penitentiary have enjoyed its
advantages, but three-fourths of them
have never learned to do an honest
stroke of work. Surely there must be
something very wrong about a system
which thus recruits the great army OF
idlers and criminals.


We boast, in this country, that ply
sical labor is honorable, and yet the
children of this land are taught to
avoid it as curse. We have left the
labor of the country to be performed
by foreigners, until the character OF
American youth, especially in our
eastern cities, has degenerated into a
shiftlesness, idleness and incapacity
for honest work, that must in the long
run have the worst effects upon the
national character.
Year: 1877

The Wabasha County Sentinel says:


There is some progress on the cur
rency question:; the men who only a
year ago were clamerous for an
irredeemable paper currency, and
declared that gold and silver were
relics of barbarous age and should
no longer tolerated, have now so far
changed their views as to demand,
with equal earnestneSS, the remOne-
tiZatiOn of silver.


Inasmuch as silver has intrinsic
value, and therefore is SO much nearer
the monetary standard of the world,
the country is to be congratulated
upon this change among paper money
men. Everything is tending toward
specie resumption, and that is likely
to be realized by the time set; and
then, with our paper amply secured
and worth it's face in gold, we shall
indeed have the best currency in the
world


The man who wrote that must be
grossly ignorant of the plainest facts.


The Independent party, in their
national convention at Indianapolis,
in May 1915, demanded the remoneti-
zing of silver; and they were the only
party that did so last gear. The Dem
ocratic party in it's national convention
at st Louis, was as silent as a grave
stone on the subject. And now one
would think, to read the Wabasha
conuty Sentinel, that the Indepen-
dents had moved forward and occupi-
ed the Democratic platform
| The truth is that the old parties
are now accepting the teachings of the
Independents on the silver question;
and in another year they will accept
our doctrines upon the paper currency
question.


The Sentinel says:


ssAnd then with our paper money
amply secured and worth it's face in
gold, we shall indeed have the best
currency in the world.''


Will the Sentinel particulariZe what
that currency shall consist of! If the
Sherman programme is carried out
there will not be green back left il
the land in year and half; but theil
place will be largely occupied b,
national bank notes on which we viii
be taxed to pay interest. Does th'
Sentinel approve of that policy? L
he in favor of destroying the green
backs ssamply secured" now!


What does this Demonatic editor
mean if he means anything!