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Year: 1875

Representative Spangler has introcuced a bill in the House to change the name of Sarber county to Logan. This will please the people of that county, and if they are pleased others ought to be.
Year: 1875

The authorities of city have
sent a circular TO the authorities of
other cities, requesting them to
meet i'll convention to discuss the
proper treatment Of tramps. Re-
ferring to this an exchange adds:
The evil is SO large and SO univei-
sally diffused, tlmt the action of
town OF State authorities can alone
grapp'e with it successfully, and
the effort now being made to secure
uniform municipal Legislation in tho
matter is Il wise and necessary one.


What is needed is to set tramps
ut work. No doubt, there is occa-
sionally an honest and industrious
man who | o comes a tramp because
he cannot find work. 1t would bo
hard to refuse such man the tenn
polary relief which he sorely needs,
but indiscriminnte private charity
encourages IL score or idle va Grants
Where it relieves one real case OF
sltfe ing. The honest tramp will
gladly p;y for the food and lodging
by work, and the lazy tramp, who
discovers that he can no longer
live.on charity, will find tho cham
of his profession gone. Let us have
III every town, a relief committee Of
the town officials, who will tuln no
man away hungry, but who will re-
quire tramps to work out the full
value of what they receive. In this
way the tramp nuisance can be
speedily abolished, houscholders can
be saved from annoyance and danger
while no injustice will be done to
the deserving poor. Tho expert
ment has been tried in many isolated
towns, and has been entirely SUCCESS
FIJI. The uniform action Of all the
towns in the country, however, is
needed before the tramp nuisance
can be finally and eilectually sup
pressed
Year: 1875

Prof. Swings new church is not
intended to bo nnortlfodox, but only
independent. He says that il viii
he liberal and broad in religious
sentiment, yet evangelical. The
particular creed is not yet deter.
mined upon. If it wcro possible he
would like to have it connected with
some orthodox denominations but
no thinks it impossible that such n
connection would long exist before
be would be tried for heresy.
Year: 1875

moneys are entrusted, npon merely
nominah and straw bonds, for the


faithful discharge of their duties:


Your committee recommend that


these memorials be published with


tho proceedings Of this convention,


Whereas, tho State government,


organized in 1868, his systematically
ignorod tho material interests Of
the tax payers of this State in the
creation of II system uselcssly ex-
sensivc that tho welfare of the
people has thereby been greatly
damaged and almost destroyed by
the highest possible taxation, and
the most lavish and corrupt expendi
ture of tho public money that the
credit OF the State has been almost
nnnlhllatcd and the public securities
brought into general disfavor, that
slnce the inauguration of Governor
Chamberlain thcro has been some
amelioration in our condition but
not at all sufficient to ensure u
healthy condition of affairs and wo
recognize the fact, that tho maiori
ty OF the Legislature has only been
withheld from continuing the illegal
oxactions heretofore imposed, by
exercise of the veto power, that tho
snmo corrupt influences are still at
work to injnre and oppross tho
people, exhibited both in the Stat
and county governments and thut t
therefore, it IL necessary that the
tax payers shall exercise tho utmost
vigilance to protect their rights
therefore,


Resoice0, That this convention
earnestly recommend to the tax pay
crs of this State a thorough re.
organization of the Tax Unions
upon the plan heretofore adopted


Rcso/rcd, That the people should
soc to it that one or more T,A
Unions be organized in each ecity,
town and township in the State, and
from these local Unions that County
Unions and State Union be kept
alive rs the sources from which shall
proceed the vital forces, to be used
as cXlgcncies may arise, for the
reformation and ultimate redemp.
ton OF tho State and that to this
end The President Of this Conven-
ton DC charged with the duty of
securing proper organizations Of
such Tax Unions in a)l places where
they are not now III operation.


Resolved, That this convention
calls upon the young and active
men OF tho state to use the utmost
vigilance in eilccting this organiza
ton OF the people. and employ all
fnir, honorable and legitimate agen-
rica TO accomplish the snmc, and
to rescue the State from herpresent
humiliation and restore her former
dignity and purity
Year: 1875

The clear and drying weather of yester-
day sent hope to the hearts of horsemen.
The fret race of the Jockey Club is sure to
come off on Saturday. The track will be in
fine condition If the roads leading to the
Fair Grounds are not in good condition,
there are left the horse cars for those who
wish to go to the races. The attendance will
prove that where there 10 . will there is Q
horse car way. The jockeys are exercising
their animals and all Is lovely.
Year: 1875

From the wonDHan'syournall sfat e.flI


There are pauper women in. many
places besides the poor house, who feel
as keenly the sense of pauperism as
they would 40 4 they were actually sup.
ported by the public charity. ais u


They are not only the women whose
brutal or drunken husbands spend their
own earnings, and those Of the wife also.
Nor are they those only who, after con.
Year: 1875

value, if it we're paid for as it would be
il it were done by Bridget. the wife too
would have the means and be free to 20
and come occasionally, and so find the
relief and comfort which change gives.


She would be free to spend unques-
toned, and thus escape the bumiliatiug
and depressing sense Of dependence and
bondage. which sooner or later settles
into alienation Of feeling and divided
house.


Itis quite likely that men do not take
this view Of it. Under the old common
law a wife was entitled to " food. clothing
and medicine" and it has become custo.
mary to give her so much, and to sup
pose she would be satisfied with these.


l knew a woman many years ago, who
insisted that her husband should pay her
one dollar week. She had three chill
dren and no servant. But that small de-
mand was the standing joke among other
husbands, who regarded that unfortunate
husband, who paid dollar week to his
wife, as really ,henpecked. If husband,
who holds the purse strings tight from
his wife, would put himself for single
month in her position, so far as the limi-
tatlon in money matters is concerned, be
would learn lesson Of humiliation and
shame Of whose bitterness be had before
no conception.


The dissatisfaction of wives on this
one point is wide spread. Men who mean
to be considered just, or even decent,
should see to it that the cause Of this dis
satisfaction is not allowed to remain as
root of bitterness, to poison and spoil
all the home life.


1t would help the matter if every trou-
bled wife would frankly tell her husband
the wrong she suffers. 1t would at once
put an end to it if husbands could be
subject to the necessity OF asking their
wives for money with which to attend
lectures, conventions or supply their
daily needs, and perhaps be questioned
or fatty refused.
Year: 1875

The English Government has an ele
phant on its hands in the ironclad De
vastation. She was designed as far back
as the early part of 1869, and she hai
never yet been trusted in really rough
ocean waters. There was talk Of send
ing her to Yigo this autumn to see how
Atlantic waves agree with her; but the
visit is postponed, for it has been discov'
cred that ell openings to below, except
from the hurricane deck, would have Ia
be closed for four or FIVE days, and to-
ward the end Of that time the atmosphere
between the decks would become .
poisoned air bath. When this has been
put 70 right the Admiralty will consider
whether she can safely be sent into the
open sea; but not much hope is enter.
tanned Of her ever being ct sor that.
Year: 1875




Next to the skin they wore a coarse
white linen shirt and thick pad under
the right arm to guard the braehial arte-
ries. On the right arm was placed a
thick leather glove and a silk sleeve,
then sleeve Of quilted canvas about an
inch thick, au elbow-psd Of leather
bound on with straps. and a canvas
bandage over all. SO thick were these
bandages that it was impossible to let
tire arm hang BY his side. A tightly
twisted silk handkerchief extended from
teh little finger along the outside of the
wrist to guard it. A large thick leather
apron, slit in the middle so az to be
fastened to each leg with straps, covered
the lower part Of the chest and extended
below the knees. To prevent an acci-
dental wound in the eye pair Of iron
eye-goggles were strapped on. furnished
with glasses for those who were short
sighted. A padded neck. guard completed
the dress. Thus swathed and bandaged
up, the appearance Of the combatants
was rather comical as, with their huge
bandaged arms, supported by friends,
they walked with a slight swagger around
the room, waiting until the umpire had
taken his seat. The seconds were pro-
vided with arm-guards aud feather.peck-
ed caps, with neck-guards like small boil
sters. and with swords. not to protect
their principals, but to prevent foul play
The umpire, watch and notebook in hand,
soon took his seat, and the weapons were
handed TO the swordsmen. The swords
have very large iron.barred hilt, some
thing Of the shape of claymore hilt,
but much larger. They are quite straight,
about three-quarters of an inch wide at
the point. They are very thin and hex.
ible, and low-tempered, in order that
they may not be brittle. and require con.
slant strengthening during the fight.
They are very sharp at the point for
about nine inches; the rest is blunt.
Year: 1875

A drunken woman performed an extra
ordinary surgical operation upon her hus-
band in Cleveland, Ohio, one day about a
week ago. Both were under the influence
of liquor at the time and had been on a
spree all day, which finally resulted in a
terrible fight. The woman received bad
beating, and infuriated beyond reason by
drink, planned and executed most dia-
bolical revenge, She first induced her
spouse to 90 to bed, and then, procuring
some chlorotorm, saturated handkerchief
and held it to his nostrils till he was entire
ly unconscious. She next procured an old
carpenters saw and soon had cut one of the
mans legs off little above the ankle joint.
With grim satisfaction she watched his life
blood ooze away, but was aroused from her
reverics by some neighbors, who, seeing
the situation at glance, tied up the bleed
ing member, the man remaining. uncon-
Scious all the time. The female fend has
been arrested and is lodged in Jail,
Year: 1875

4 curious freak of nature can be seen
near Eureka, California. 1t is in the shape
of tree seventy-fve feet high, one portion
of which is pine and the other fir The
body, from the ground to a distance of
thirty feet, is pine, and then, for distance
of twenty feet, it is fir The remaining
twenty-five feet, like the lower portion, is
pine The fir portion of the tree is in a
fourishing condition, the foliage on that
part being so dense that the trunk or limbs
can hardly be seen through it. On the
pine portion the leaves are rather scarce.
1t is a rare curiosity, and attracts the at
tention of everybody who passes it.
Year: 1875

SOME two years ago a little daughter Of
John b. Searies, of Pottstown, swallowed
pin. Everything that medical skill could
suggest was done to remove the pin, but
without avail At least it was believed
that it still remained, for the reason that
the child soon became i'll, and remained un-
well up to within few days ago, when
during a severe spell of coughing, she raised
the pin and spit it out. The pin was black
as ink, and rusted away until it was scar
cely thicker than hair. The child is now
improving rapidly
Year: 1875

The Wilmington Journal enumer-
ateS, among the good effects of the
M-chlenburg Centennial, says the
Richmond LjtYuircr, that it is direct
lug attention to the early history of
North Carolina, which is too little
Known even by intelligent men within
tie State. The Journal implies what
ali intelligent men are painfully aware
Is correct. Neglect of colonial his
tory has been one of the greatest faults
OF the Southern educational SYSTEM
In neary all the Southern States the
local historian is the rare exception.
and for this reason we are straying
away from many old landmarks which
should serve both to warn and direct
IN the social as we'll as the political
spAere- We are not inclined to be old
logy nevertheless we think there was
good deal of sound sense in the way
our ancestors Thought and acted. and
N revival Of 4 taste for our earlier
history We see at least an opportunity
TO profit by their example. The sui.
!ect Is worthy of the consideration 0.
onr educators.
Year: 1875

| Unharness siX-mule team, place the AMI
mails side by side and fasten their heads
together, and drive them down to water ;
there do not live six animals of another
species that can twistthemselves into such
strange knots. The Gordian knot was
nothing in comparison. Ii seems impos-
sible for them to keep their tails all the
same way. Before you get back you will
find that the outside mules have got into
the middle, and that the heads of two or
three are just where their tails should be.
At the outset the relationship would be
numerically described as follows:


3456


Returning from water the arithmetic
would be


3 19e4


The kickihg and fighting in the disturbed
numeration would terminate seriously if
the teamster did not with his black
snake" hold the balance of power, and
whip the confusion into unanimity. The
fact is, mule has keen zest for giving
surprises. His capability and resource in
this direction are remarkable. Perhaps
Absalom was never more surprised in his
life than when his mule went upder
The thick boughs OF great oak and his
head caught hold of the oak, and he was
taken up between the heaven and the
earth; and the mule that was under him
went away" Whether this instinct for
surprises shows itself in his lead or in his
heels, the mule never fails to make an i'm
preston. Perhaps a morbid love of nOtO-
riety affects him. At all events he is
strongly ambitious. Of al his ventures
and enterprises, know of none more ele-
waited and illustrious that one which Oc-
CURED on the Yellowstone. We had
camped about two O'Clock in the afternoon
in the river va. .ey, and turned the mules
out to Craze near by. Back from the
river was an almost inaccessible bluff, two
hundred and fifty feet high, commanding
a view of the scenery for miles around.
About two hours after pitc ing our tents
we happened to cast glance at the top
of this bluff, and there, to the astonish-
ment of everybody, was solitary mule on
its very highest point, coOlly and calmly
taking a survey of the surrounding coun-
try. The peculiar exaggeration which
the atmosphere in that latitude gives to
objects seen against the sky made him
seem about twelve feet high. There he
stood in calm and lofty serenity, manifest
ing no emotion whatever except of perfect
satisfaction. How the animal got up there
nobody knew. What he went for was still
less evident. There was good grass on
the plain; the bluff was perfectly barren.
The mule had travelled twenty miles that
day, and could not be lacking exercise.
Two cOnjectures offered themselves to the
mind; he had gone up there
on volunteer picket duty, or else to take
view of the scenery. But there was only
one adequate reason: he climed that hill
because he was mule. And so as result
of this effort to fathom and analyze the
mule, we come hack to the very prOpO-
sition with which we started, the simple
of identity. The mule is
mule. What more could be said ?-S. J.
Barroaos, IN atlantic Monthly for May.
Year: 1875

As the report that we are very wealthy
has gone abroad among our subscribers,
and mas made them awful slow about pay
ing up, thinking doubtless we don't want
the money, we hasten TO say that the re-
port of our wealth is false in every par
ticular. If ocean steamers were selling at
q cent dozen, we couldn't make the first
payment on a canoe. The lightning OF
poverty has struck us square, and had Il
not been for an armful of hay our devil
managed TO steal from blind mule. our
large and interesting family would be
without mouthful to eat at this moment.
Is not this a sad picture, and can you de
linquent subscribers look upon it without
feeling the greenbacks rustic with lndlg-
nation in your pocket-bOoksi We do not
like to dun you, bpt we must If you fall
to take the hint.-She7GndoGh (Fa.) Dem
ocrGt.
Year: 1875

A grocer in Ottawa, Canada. was made
the recipient of a valuable present one day
last week. A young woman entered his
store offering butter for sale. He inform
ed her that he had a sufficient quantity
and did not wish to buy any. The woman
asked permission to leave her basket in
the store while she went to see friend.
She left, promising to return in ten min
utes for her property. She did not re-
turn, and few minutes later sounds at
tracted his attention. and, on tracing them
to heir source, he found that they came
from the basket of butter. He raised the
cloth which covered the basket and dis
covered baby. The woman did not re-
turn to claim her property.
Year: 1875

A REPORTER of the New York Tribune
has been inquiring of business men in that
city as to the cause of recent failures. 1t was
generally admitted to him that there had
been numerous failures for small amounts,
the cause of which was attributed to the
panic of 1873. One merchant said: 'sThe
large dealers were the first to feel the effects
Of the panic, but the continued dullness in
trade has finally reached the small operators,
and those who cannot live on.a small business
must succumb. In other words we are now
experiencing the more remote effects of the
troubles of two years ago, and I do not re-
gard it in any other light than an indication
of the return Of more healthy
condition of business affairs. There is no
question but that we have touched bottom.
The sales generally during the present sea-
son have been fully as large and perhaps
larger than they were year ago, and while
we must wait for return to specie basis be-
bility in business that are so much to be de-
sired, 1 believe we shall see some improve
men. next Spring and that business will con-
tinue to improve from this time forward, if
Congress will let the financial question alone.
The merchants are much more generally in
favor OF an early return to specie basis than
they were two years ago. If they had not
raised such great howl against McCulochs
contraction scheme, the panic of 1878 would
never have occurred, and we should have
been back to a gold basis before this time.
The thoughtful portion of them have since
seen their mistake, and would now be glad
to take back what they have done. The
fact is, as they now see, the prompt return to
gold basis by contraction Of the legal
tenders would not affect the commercial in
terests of the country as seriously as one
years fuctuation in the price of gold and the
continual uncertainty that exists in
regard to the action of Congress upon
the subject" Another merchant thought
that ''there is general feeling that
we have touched bottom, and if Congress will
do nothing TO initiate prices we shall stay
there; otherwise we may have to go to the
bottom again. There would be no difficulty
in returning to specie payment if the legal
tenders were not in the way. As it is to-day,
a merchant buying goods in Europe is CON-
PEELED TO receive daily advices from this coun-
try regarding the fluctuations in gold, and
after all Of this expense and annoyance his
profits are liable to be entirely swept away
by slight change in its value-a matter so
foreign to his branch of business that he can
not be expected to have an intimate knowl.
edge of the circumstances controlling the
price. As long as this condition Of things


continues, healthy, legitimate business must
remain comparatively dull"
Year: 1875

THE Maine Democrat has yet to learn the
difference between the greenback and the
national bank bill. 1t cannet be made TO see
that the one is a compulsory note and the
other an optional one. No man is obliged to
take the bank-notes in discharge Of debt,
and so no issue of bank notes can be called a
forced loan. The greenback is legal tender,
and the creditor must accept it or 60 without
his pay. A further issue of greenbacks then
is equivalent to forced loan, for people can.
not refuse them at their face value in pay
ment of debt. 1t is this further issue, this
forced loan, that the Democrat advocates.
Year: 1875

The amendment to the constitution of Ne


braska adopted at the late election does not


provide for the election of United States


Senator by popular vote which would be IN
contrayention of the constitution OF the
United States. What the Nebraska amend


ment provides for is for a popular vote for
Senator, which the legislature may regard or
disregard when it comes to elect The sole


object of this provision seems to have been
to give expression to popular preference, and
it does not in the least modify the powers Of
the legislature as to the election of a senator.
who need not even be chosen from among
Year: 1875

PKUCLAMATIUN.


In accordance with a revered custom, and in con-
formity with the recommendation of the President OF
the United States do hereby, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council, appoint THURS
DAY, the 25th of November, instant, as a day OF
Thanksgiving and Praise to Almighty God for the
mercies and blessings Of another year.


And earnestly request all the people of this
State to abstain from their usual secular employ
ments, and appropriately observe day hallowed by
SO precious memories and set apart for so exalted
purpose Let all the people give thanks in the sane
tuary, rejoice and not withhold praise in their homes
and by cheerful deeds of hospitality and charity,
commemorate the loving kindness which the Heaven
y Father has shown them in all the relations of fe
Given at the Council Chamber, this first day Of
November, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy y-fve, and Of the indie
pendence of the United States of America the
one hundredth.


NELSON DINGLEY, JR.
Ey the Governor.


SIDNEY PERHAM, Secretary of State.
Year: 1875

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
journal
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

SOMEBODY who wanted to know who
wrote sharp article in the Texan 7sle-
qraph has been answered thus: ''The
man who wrote that article, early in life
was a hard working blacksmith later
he was deck hand on a steamboat then
he was a COW boy on the frontier but Of
late years he has followed the profession
of prize-fghter. He only became an
editor to reduce his flesh by starvation
so as to become more successful in his
peculiar line The Telegraph received
no further inquiries.
Year: 1875

FRESH AIR OR DIE.--A good joke is told
of certain Dublin professor--a stickler
for ventilation. Being put in room at
hotel with another guest, he asked the
latter to raise the window at night, as the
air was SO close. :" / can t raise it, = after
working at the window for some time.
Then knock q pane of glass out, = said
the professor. which was done. After
awhile the professor got up and broke
another pane. Then he was able to sleep.
But in the morning he discovered that
they had only broken bookcase.