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Year: 1879

Our neighbor, the Times, this morn
ing published a lengthy special tele-
graphic dispatch containing the sub
stance of an editorial from the New
Orleans Democrat, which, with its
usual vigor, denounces the majority
report of the Committee on the State
Debt, and calls its provisions by all
the hard names we have been accus-
toned to see in the columns of those
city papers which, according to the
Democrat, are run in the interest of
the rings, monopolies and bondhold-
ers which infest the city of New Or
laans. A private dispatch informs us
that the Natchitoches Vindicator will
do the same thing. When it is re-
membered that these two papers have
done more than any others in the
State to "whoop up" public opinion
in opposition to the payment of the
fraudulent debit" as they first chris
tened it, it is rather cool in them to
expect to divert the opinion of either
the people or the members of the
Convention into a different channel.
But we are always slow to accuse
men Of regeneration or to denounce
them for changing their opinions, as
all men certainly have Il right to do
The papers, for all we know, may
lave changed hands. The New Or
leans papers have recently been dis.
cussing the question Of "impersonal
journalism and have come to the
conclusion that it makes no difference
to the people who writes articles for q
paper or who is responsible for them
We accept their decision SO far as
they arc concerned, and hope that the
responsibility for their present absurd
position on vital subject rests only
with SO much paper and ink as il
takes to print it, and not with any
intelligent citizens whose opinions the
people have been accustomed to re.
spcct.


TO the members of the Convention
we say that, whether or not the press
may be on both sides of this question
on one side, or on neither side, the
people arc with the majority of the
Committee and expect the Convention
to stand firm. The New Orleans
press invited the delegates to 60 tc
New Orleans to get informed as to the
wishes of the holders of the fraudulent
debt. While some who soundly de,
nounced the suggestion at first, have
fallen in with the bOndhOlders' ideas
the people do not expect any Of theil
delegates to betray their constituents
Oh the most important question they
have to pass upon.
Year: 1879

Rev. Mr.. Talmage devoted his ser
mon Sunday morning to his scritics. He
declared "a war of twenty-five years
against inqui,y for Christ's sake and
said between the tabernacle and low
bed in Green wood Cemetery there should
not bs au inch OF retreat, indifference
or compromise. He had been criticised
by some of his clerical brethren as a
sensational mountebank, but he "would
not retort on the dear souls, but wished
them all good luck with large audiences,
Sl5, 900 salaries a house full,of children
and Heaven to boot" He was 80 busy
in assaulting The power Of darkness
that hs had no time to stop and stab
any one of his own regiment i'll the
back. When fellow minister threw
an ecclesiastical brick at him he would
pour holy oil on that ministers head
until it runs down OH his collar. He
thanked the secular press for tho dis.
semination of his sermons. Mr.. Tai
mage emphatically denied falsehood
which had invaded the sanctity of his
house. He said it had been stated in
private circles and Newspapers that
many years ago he wentfaling on the
Schuykill river with his wife and her
sister, when suddenly the boat capsiz-
ed, and that, having an opportunity
Of saving either his wife or her sister,
he saved her sister, marrying her
sixty days after. He said he proposed
''to nail that infamous lie on the fore
head Of the william, man or woman, and
to invoke the law to help him. He
then explained the calamity; 1t was not
his wifes sister, but his own sister
His present wife was not within one
hundred miles of the place, and so TAR
from being sisters, they were entire
strangers, and had never heard Of each
other.
Year: 1879

The Hartford Post, tells the remark
able story Of man in Canterbury, in
that State, who, sick with some kind Of
fever, was pronounced by the local
physician to be- beyond hope of recov-
cry. A neighbor was called in to watch
with the sick man; and, as the Q SEEM
ed no possibility Of the patient living
through the night, the watcher insist
ed that the family should all retire
early, promising to call them immsdi-
stely il any unfavorable change occur
red. As soon as he was left alone with
the presumably dying man, the attend
ant commenced feeding the patient
with cold water, a teaspoonful at a
time, continuing the process until an
ordinary WATERFALL full had actually
been administered. The fever thus
drowned out, the sick man fell asleep,
awaking late in the morning to call for
food. He WAS allowed to eat what he
wanted, continued to improve, and in
two or three days was up and about
his business. This remarkable case is
we'll attested, and there seems to be no
doubt Of its substantial accuracy, as
recorded above.
Year: 1879

Benz. Fowler and George Leck start
cd last week at Flushing, l.. l., on a
six days walking match. On the last
day Leck kept about two miles ahead.
In the last three hours Fowler began to
show sighs VI failing. He fell three
times on the track. but would notquit
1t in spite Of the advice of his trainers.
Fowler continued to lose time up to the
finish, and Leck came in the winner
He had only sslight swelling in his left
ankle. Fowler was carried from the
track in critical condition, and it is
feared he will die,
Year: 1879

to see the museum and get present.
This is positively the last week the
museum will be on exhibition in Della.
ware. Over 100 presents were given
away last night. Many got from one
to two dollars worth for 16 cents.
Year: 1879

W. H. Wright will remove on the
25th inst, his carriage factory from the
corner of Water and Market streets, to
No. LOG Orange street. He has large
stock Of carriages on hand which he
will sell at a low figure up to that time.
Give him q call.
Year: 1879

There will be series of thrse matches at
archery shot between the Highland Park archers
and the Chicago Archery Association. The first
of these matches will occur at Highland PARK on
the afternoon OF Friday, June n. The match
will consist OF the American rounds Of thirty
arrows at forty, thirty at fifty, and thirty as
sixty yards. There will he four archers in each
team. Each archie, will shoot the entire round,
and the match will be determined By the acgre-
gate score of each team. The dates and places
of the second and third matchce are not ycr ar
ranged
Year: 1879

ST. LOUIS, Aug GA very strong
disposition to strike for higher wages has
manifested itself among mechanics and
some classes of laborers here during the
past few weeks. The cooper's strike of
more than month ago is not yet arrang-
ed. Several bosses are still holding against
the demands of the men. The lumber
teamsters' strike did not amount to any
thing worthy of notice, but the action oi
the cigar makers two or three days age
has become SO general that nearly al


members Of that craft have stopped work
and quite a number of manufacturers have
agreed to pay the advance asked. Yester


day there was movement among th'
stove moulders for an increase of htteel
Year: 1879

per cent on piece work and the restoration
of what they call the board prices. This
has been refused by most of the foundry
proprietors and nearly all the stove mould
ers of the city stopped work to-day. The
street car conductors and drivers have
now got the fever to some extent, but they
have determined upon no plan of action as
yet. They do not want more pay but a
less number of working hours. They now
average about fifteen hours.
Year: 1879

No use of having the chills, no use of
headache, ,or any of the ills that come from
disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn case-will
relieve the system and make you feel like
a new person. Try it and be satisfied.
Year: 1879

When the Bowels are Disordered,


No time should be lost ID resoytipg to a
suitable remedy. Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters is the most reliable and widely es-
teemed medicine Of its class. 1t removes
the causes Of constipation, or of undue re-
taxation Of the intestines, which are usual
ly indigestion or a misdirection Of the
bile. When it acts as a cathartic, it does
not gripe aDd violently evacuate, but pro.
duces gradual and natural effects, very un-
like those of a drastic purgative; and Its
power of assisting digestion nulliies those
irritating conditions of the mucous mem
brane of the Stomach and intestinal cana
which produce first diarrhoea, and event
ually dysentery. The medicine is. more.
over. an agreeable one. and eminently pure
and wholesome, Appetite and Tranquil


nightly slumber are both promoted by it
Year: 1879

BY this new method every sick per-
son can get a package of Kidney-Wort
and prepare for themselves six quarts
Of medicine. 1t is specific cure for
kidney Diseases. Liver Complaint,
Constipation and Piles, and grand
tonic for Females,
Year: 1879

Certain organs of the oracuiar sort are
pleased to notify their contemporaries that
they have said quite enough about the
Conkling-Sprague affair This notifca-
ton, we suppose, is to be accepted with
all proper respect; but at the same time
tors that they would do as well to admon-
ish their client, Mrs Sprague, that she has
already made quite as many statements as
is necessary to ruin whatever reputation
Mr.. Conkling may have left her. As
suredly her worst enemy could not have
written book about iher that would have
wrought her so much harm as she has
done herself with her ill-timed and ILL
tempered Statements
Year: 1879

Call at our Drug Store and get trial
bottle of DR.. Kings New Discovery
free of charge, it you are suffering with
Cough. Cold, Asthma, Bronchitis,
Hav Fever. Consumption. loss Of voice
tickling in the throat or Lungs. Ghis
is the great remedy that is causing SO
much excitement by its many wonder.
full cures, curing thousands OF hopeless
cases. Over one million bottles ofDr.
Kings New Discovery have been used
within tbs last year, and have given
perfect satisfaction in every instance.
We can unhesitatingly say that this is
is really the only sure cure for throat
and lung affections. and can cheerfully
recommend it to all, Call and get {
trial bottle free Of charge, or a regular
size for $l,O0.
Year: 1879

is A FIx.--A man who had gone
out fishing caught several splendid
bass which he promptly threw back
into tho river. Being demonstrated
with for this apparently foolish act, he
replied: u take no interest in bass !
came out to catch catfish, and when ]
come out Tor catfish want catfish"
Year: 1879

It is no more complaint Of farm
ers that of men in other avocations
that their business has been overdone,
or that, as one of them recently said
to us, ePrices Of farm produce VII
never reach paying rates again until
q great many engaged in farming find
work at something else" We believe
that this is . serious mistake, and that
it leads to other mistakes quite - 60
rious. The idea 10 that there are too
many farmers because there is too
much produce grown. Obvioualy,
then, the world would be benifited If
every farmer would produce less. A
step farther, and we should all be
more prosperous, if our soil was
poorer. Fertility, ther, is found to
be q curse and barrenness blessing.
About here q clear-headed thinker
will see that there must be q fallacy
in this logic. Let us briefly poiut
out wherein the fallacy consists.


The trouble of this country is, not
that there are too many farmers, or
too many producers Of any kind, k;E3t:
that there are too many producers
who cannot sell in the markets of
the world because they produce too
extensively. So we see that, after
ali, it is because our land is too poor
rather than to rich, and produces too
little rather than too much, that
American farmers are suffering.
We cannot have to much production
of anything, provided it is produced
cheaply. There are not too many
farmers but too many poor farmers
and too much poor farming. When
we get the cost of production here
down below that of other countries
we can always undersell them, and
there will never be any glutted mar
ket. ~ 81.


Despite the large areas of new
lands brought under cultivation at
the west, the number of men en-
ployed in farming rather decreases.
Every year a larger proportion of
our citizens live in cities and villag-
es. 1t would be strange, indeed, if
too many farmers were the cause of
hard times, when there are undoubt


ly fewer farmers in proportion to
the whole population than there was
twenty yeasr ago.-Ru-a5 Neao


Yorker. atsa
Year: 1879

/ have driven and watered horses
ever since l was large enough, and /
never sponged one and never expect
to, and have always given all the
water they would drink, and never
hurt q horse by watering as yet.
Horses should never be worked or
driven until to hot to drink all they
will, except in cases of emergency,
such as going for a doctor, or get
ting out of the way of the sheriff. A
horse suffers as much from being
thirsty IS man, and to deprive him
of all the fresh water he can drink
is simply cruel when it is so cheap,
and, when not abused by oyerdriv-
ing or overwork, he will not drink
enough to hurt him. Some people
are continually pottering with their
horses, giving medicine when not
sick, and watering when not dry,
and keeping it from them when they
most need it. In taking care Of
horses little common sense should
be brought into play, the same as in
any other business -[Cor. Western
Rural.
Year: 1879

The Supreme Court of Iowa has
decided that the law, prohibiting the
sale of liquor within two miles of
any municipality where such sale
has been prohibited by a vote of the
people, q within two miles of any
voting place at any election, is con-
Stitusioual and valid.
Year: 1879

There Is . proposition IN Congress
to repeal certain sections of the PEN
sion Laws, which require all pension
crs to be examined every two years.
The provision is considered useless
and expensive, now, AZ any soldiers
who have remained disabled fourteen
years will probably never get well.
The proposition is incorporated in
the appropriation bill
Year: 1879




1t was woman's rights meeting.
The speaker was saying: "Iet us take
our stand right here, and firmly resolve
mat neither the votes nor arguments OF
@e opposite sex nor any power on this
earth, shall turn US aside or move us one
inch from the positi-" Just here
wicked bat flew into the room, and the
meeting adjourned with so much quick
ness that some of the members lost their
1ack hair. The speaker, who could not
y turned aside" was seventeenth from
sst in getting out Of the front door.
and it is not certain that the bat was
T9s OF the Opposite SEX" either. Nor.
A thoroughbred horse is the flower Of
Year: 1879

ONE of the couyicts on the Narrow
Gauge says he was sent up for getting
married. The record was examined
and showed he was convicted of big
amy. Well, said he, my wife she
went and tucked up wild another man
and I jst went and got married,
Year: 1879

There is nothing better for farmer or out
door man than good rubber boot ,and nothing
SO exasperating as a bad one. Competition
among manufacturers has lead to such cheap


ening of quality that until lately it was hard
thing to find rubber boot really worth the
money asked for it. The Candee Rubber Co.,
of New HAVEN, CT, however, has lately put on
the market a boot designed to meet the call
for real good, substantial article, and 10 de-
note its freedom from adultcrative mixtures
it is called the '95 Per Cent Sterling Boot"
1t is made, on honor, as pure as can be made,
and is warranted three months. By an inge-
nious cOntrivance aspace is provided at the
top OF the leg for recording the date of the
sale, Uy punching holes in the spaces pro-
yided-like a railroad ticket-so that there
may be no trouble about the warrant. The
upper and leg of the ''95' Boots are doubled,
and the soles are one-half inch thick, of solid
rubber from toe 10 heel. Ordinary rubber
boots are barely quarter inch thick in the
thirkest part,and only one-eighth at the shank
A descriptive circular can be obtained by send.
ing postal directed to t. G company; or the
"95" Ioots can be found at most of the stores
Year: 1879

b elieved that the fire was caused by an over
h sated box. in some of the machinery on the
upper floor where the fire originated, The
owners of the mill had put in two new run Of
stone and three crushers during the season,
and the mill had a capacity of 2OO barrels a
day, at the lime of its total destruction The
insurance on the same is about one-ihird of
the property destroyed.


On the morning of Nov. 25, shortly
before O'Clock fire was discovered in the
street car stables on Eight avenue, New York,
and Notwithstanding forty streams of water
were turned upon the blazing buildings, it
was only when there was nothing further for
the flames to feed upon, that the firemen OBJ
tanned the mastery. The stables were in the
four story brick building fronting 200 feet on
Eight avenue and 400 feet ON Forty ninth and
Fiftieth streets. In the rear of the Ninth ave-
nue. side there was wilderness of carpenter
and wagon shops, and mountains of old bar
rels many thousands stacked to height of
thirty or forty feet. They were saved by the
efforts of the tiremen, who from the beginning
specially directed their attention to this point
to prevent general confagration among the
tenement houses on Ninth avenue. Almost
before movement to save the stock in the
stables could be made, the flames burst stimuli
taneously from the windows in Fiftieth and
Forty ninth streets Sides and it became clear
that the building was doomed to destruction.
The cars stored on the ground floor were run
out and saved, while the horses stabbed on the
upper floor were united and run down the in
clined plane to the ground. There were near
iy 500 horses and the work of getting them
out was one of great difficulty and danger.
Blinded by the smoke and frightened by the
flames they kicked and reared. and over 100
had to be abandoned to destruction. Their
piteous whining could be heard above the
roar of the flames. By falling walls four fire.
men were badly injured, two of whom fatally.
Loss S25O,OOO. The fire Is supposed to have
originated from spontaneous combustion in
damp hay.
Year: 1879

A Scotch clergyman by the name OF
Watty Morrison was a man of most ir-
repressible humor. Gu one occasion q
young officer scoffed at the idea that it
required SO much time and study to
write sermon as ministers pretend,
and offered bet that he would preach
half an hour on any passage in the Old
Testament without the slightest prepara-
ton. Mr. Morrison took the bet and he
gave for text, "And the ass opened his
mouth and he spake." The parson won
the wager, the officer being rather dis
inclined to employ his eloquence upon
that text.


On another occasion Mr.. Morrison
entreated an officer to pardon q poor
soldier for some offense he had COM
mitted. The officer agreed to do SO if
he would in turn grant him the first
favor he should ask.


Mr.. Morrison agreed to this. In q
day or two the officer demanded that
the ceremony of baptism should be
performed on puppy. The clergyman
agreed to it; and party of many gen.
tlemen assembled to witness the novel
baptism.


Mr.. Morrison desired the officer to
hold up the puppy, as was customary
in the baptism of children, and said:


"As am minister of the Church of
Scotland, I must proceed according to
the ceremonies of the church"


Certainly" said the Major; II
expect all the ceremony"


well, then, Major; begin by the
usual question, 'You acknowledge
yourself the father o this patppy2'"


A roar of laughter burst from the
crowd; the officer threw the candidate
for baptism away, and thus the witty
minister turned the laugh against the
in6dei, who intended to deride the
sacred ordinance.
Year: 1879

BLACKBERRY CoRD1AL.-Ripest ber-
ries; mash; put in linen bag; squeeze
ont juice; pound of best loaf sugar to
every quart of juice; put in preserving
saucepan, and when melted set on the
fire, ana boil to thin jelly; when cold, to
every quart of juice allow quart of
brandy; stir well and bottle. Ready for
use at once.
Year: 1879

GROWN SoME.-Just prior to election
an intimate friend of ours, gass;ng with Il
fellow citizen fiom the Emerald Isle,
was accused of doing certain things in
order to secure the Irish vote sometime
IN the future, whenever he might be a
candidate. The friend jocularly retorted
that he didn't anticipate becoming a
candidate but if he did and an Irishman
voted for HIM he wouldn't have the Office.
This travelled nine miles and got back in
two days in this shape: "If ever run
for office in Trinity county don't want
any Cd id Dutchman or any other
Kind efa foreigner to vote for me !'-
This We take it is a fair sample of the
way political capital is manufactured and
n mole-hill made to do service as a noun
tain. Politics is indeed dirty business
and blessed Is he who has nothing to do
with it.
Year: 1879

CARELEss.-A Workingmen's ticket
was voted in this precinct on election day
which was considerably scratched and
other names written in with yellow PEN
Gil. 1t may be al! right, but our impress
Sian Is that in contested case this BIZ Hot
would be thrown out, the yellow writing
being distinctive festura which certain
~ makes that ballot distinguishable from
all others. The object of the law is to
make the ballots so nearly uniform that
no voter can select his own from the whole
number cast. If you must scratch. use a
common black pencil or black ink for
that purpose.
Year: 1879

NEARLY SOLID.-So far Ms announced
the vote in Trinity County has been cast
almost solid " Against Chinese Immigra-
ton - and such is the case all over the
State. In Weaverville there was not a
single vote in favor, all being against ex-
cept two who did not vote on the question
at all. We learn that one vote was cast
" For Chinese immigration " on New
River-probably the only one in the
county-and that this was done for II
Joke.
Year: 1879

STRUCK 1T RIcH.-We were shown a
letter last Thursday from an experienced
quartz miner who has been prospecting
in this county for the past few months
He writes that he has struck one Of the
biggest things on the coast, about which
we hope to hear more in the near future.
Year: 1879




An infidel passing through the shad-
ows that hang around the close of life
and finding himself adrift amid the
dark surges Of doubt and uncertainty
without anchorage or harbor in view,
Was urged by his friends to "hold on :"
He answered, II have no objections to
-rfa7st
to hold on by?" Here is a question
which men do we'll to consider before
they reach the closing scene. If they
are to hold on what are they to hold on
by? Where Is their trust? Where is
their confidence? What certainty have
they as they go down into tho shadows:
Surely a man who comes to his dying
hour needs something better than inf
deity can give him; he needs the guild.
ing hand of Him who is the resurrec.
tion and the life, who has conquered
death and triumphed over the grave,
and who is able to bring us safely off a,
last. He needs that hope which is "as
an anchor to the soul. both sure and
steadfast, and which entereth into that
within the VEIL"
Year: 1879

A writer tells us that Scottish moth
ers used, when their children disagreed
ard we're unhappy, to say to them,
"Ye'll a agree better when ye ha' to
gang in a different kirk~doors;" that
is, when this hearthstone is cold and
the lamp of a mothers love is quench~
ed, when you are scattered far and vide.
you'll forget little difference, and look
back lovingly to those days when you
might have been 20 happy. and wish
them back again. No love then will be
like the love of brothers and sisters.
which you now esteem SO lightly. Let
those of us who are sheltered in happy
homes cherish our blessings, for the
days must come when we shall be seats
tered, and Ego in at different kirk
DOORS" never again to be q united
band.