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Year: 1879

The Republican leaders of the Legislature
have done the State great service III resolv-
ing to submit the whole question of taxing
corporations to commission. Quite as much
discretion has been shown in the details OF
this decision as in the main determination itself.
The commission is to be composed, 1t Is
understood, largely of business men, who are
best qualified perhaps to judge fairly between
the corporations and the present tax paying
classes; the commissioners are to be
we'll paid, and will, of course, have at
least one lawyer among their number.
The Ielegation of this question to a
really delibcrative body will probably
save the State. from a great blunder. IT is
eminently desirable that the corporations
should pay their proper share of the taxes
but it is quite as desirable that the matter
should not be approached in a spirit of hos
tllity to the corporations; and there Is
every probability that an ill-digested bill,
hurried through Legislature new to the
whole discussion, would have perpetrated some
injustice upon which the corporations might
have based demand for the overthrow of
the entire system. The decision of the Re-
publican leaders, which the Legislature will
undoubtedly Iatify, is Therefore in the interest
of the mass OF taxpayers.
Year: 1879

Stealing q State is the latest manifestation
of enterprise in the Far West. The scheme
seems to be fully organized. The State to be
captured is the Indian Territory; the thieves
are various citizens Of Kansas who are acting
as the agents of several railroads which Will
be greatly benefited by the destruction and
partition of the Indian Territory. Between
one and two thousand of these persons have
already passed from Kansas into the Terri
tory and are continuing to invade a region
where they have no right to settle, in spite
of the proclamation of the President. 1t Is
said that the Capital Of the new Territory, or
State, as these robbers hope soon TO make It,
has been chosen, and that they have even
gone out with full outfit for a newspaper


Further emigration is stimulated by the dis
trbution of lying circulars, assuring the public
that the lands Of the Indian Territory are
open to settlement, thus tending to draw
many ignorant persons into the movement !;
and some of these circulars, as our Washing
ton dispatches show, are distributed by COM
mittee clerk of the House of Representatives,
directly from the committee room. Thus a
part of the machinery of the House OF Repre-
sentatives is used to forward a scheme which
tn6 IIeSlutnU mas ucHOuHCeu ny pIoCldlndlloh'
To appreciate the full enormity Of this plot,
it must be remembered that the Indian Terri
tory is sacredly reserved to the Indian tribes
by the most solemn engagements, of treaty
and of statute, on the part of the United
States. This forcible raid upon 1t by these
railroads is simply an attempt to seize by
violence what Congress has repeatedly refused
to grant. If this outrage succeeds, the name
of our Government will be made infamous.
Year: 1879

tremendous statement He announced that
the wOrkingmen from one end of the country
to the other would declare on the Fourth of
July, 1879, that eight hours must constitute
days work; and then, as if afraid that the
House might think at once of possible July
riots, he added that no one need be alarmed,
for the declaration would be made peaceably
The country will compose its nerves accord
ingly. If the workngman can contemplate
with pleasure the prospect of getting only
eight hours pay after the Fourth of July, the
rest of the population will try not to be
"alarmed" because he proposes to do only
eight hours work.
Year: 1879

After this, ID must be conceded that Legislatures
have no souls. The British House has adopted
most unfeeng resolution declaring in favor Of the
abolition of action for breach of promise Of mar
rage, except where there has been actual pecuniay
loss by reason Of the breach Of promise. The wear
and tear of the emotions is 20 go for nothing and
broken hearts must cease TO have market value.
For the credit Of tn. sex. 1t should be added tAst
all THE was done IN rather thin House
Year: 1879

The chairman of the Judiciary Committee IN the
National House of Representatives ought to make
some pretence of confluence if he is altogether
under the domination of his predaceous instincts.
But the Hon. Proctor Knott can't hold himself in a
minute He already scents plumber in the
Government Printing House, and, sagacious
of his quarry from so far, he doesn't
wait for the regular session before he sticks
in his bill And an abominable bill it is. There is
no one in the country with the possible exception Of
the late Finley, who isn't willing to admit that
under the present Administration the Public Print
ing is conducted economically, promptly and etii-
ciently. Thousands of reams of good paper are
doubtless wasted by being converted into useless
documents but that is the fault of the Congress
which orders the work, and not of the printer who
does it, This abuse is not liable to be abaed under
the Knott system, when the entire business Is
turned over TO a committee of hungry ConfedeT-
ates The more work the more pay, and COnfeGer-
ates are not the kind of intides who
fail to provide for their own household.
More printing will be ordered by the majority
caucus as a matter of course. And when it is con-
sdered that the committee is to hand over the Gov
ernment machinery and the Government building,
without rent to orthodox Democrats who need
lob and then fix the tariff which the Government
will he compelled to pay it needs no power Of pro-
phecy to forete whether the rates will go up or
down. The job Is too seductive for Democratic viz
tue If Knott and those behind him can fix it up to
su their spacious necessities there will be millions
in it.
Year: 1879

A SINGULAR CAUSE OF DEATH was developed
by an inquest on the remains OF a young man OF
Long Island named James Fleming, the other
day. pin bent in the form of a hook was
found, which had lacerated an intestine and
caused peritonitis and consequent death
Year: 1879

TIE GENEVA AWARD BIIL-Thc action OF the
House to-day on setting aside the consideration
of tie Geneva award bill and taking up the
Mexican pension bill is considered by the
friends Of the former bill 10 De a black eve for
il. Representative Mcmahon, who has charge
OF the Geneva award bin. thinks thar the ma
Iority repOIt OF the judiciary committee will be
adopted with the Frye amendment The latter
amendment excludes the insurance companies
from appealing to the courts.
Year: 1879

The CHARGES AGAINST THE HAMPTON SOL
DIERS HOME MANAGEHENT.-The House mill
tary committee met this morning and discussed
at considerable length the question as to
whether the charges preferred against the man
agement OF the Soldiers Home at Hampton,
Va, warranted an Investigation. The sub
committee to whom the matter was referred
reIOrted that in their Judgment the facts con
tanned in the communication laid before them
were insufficient to warrant COngreSSiOn in
Qulfy On motion OF Representative White the
subcommittee We're instructed to examine the
matter more fully. and submit their conclusion
to The full committee at their meeting on Thurs
day next.
Year: 1879

THERE WAS GREAT EXCITEMENT
IN tne town when the news of the reprieye was
made known. The friends of the prisoners took
charge OF the bodies, which were put INTO cOf-
ms inside the jail. The sheriff said he had no
ldea That reprieye would be granted by the
governor, nor did any OF the authorities here
anticipate such contingency
Year: 1879

Superintendent Wright of the
Massachusetts Bureau of Labor
Statistics has prepared a report for
The next Legislature of that State.
He says that the number of con-
victs in 1873 in all the State pris-
ons of the Union was 90, 1877, of
whom 13, 1856 were employed in
mechanical industries. The great
est number was in New York and
the smallest in Rhode Island.
Three systems of labor were found
to be in practice. The first is the
contract system, which is adopted
in Massachusetts, and generally in
the Northern States, and which
consists in selling the labor of the
prisoners for a stipulated time and
at fixed price per day to the
highest bidder, the work usually
being done within the walls of the
prison, under the supervision of an
agent Of the purchaser. The Sec
oud is the lessee system, which
consists in leasing convicts to q
party for a specified sum per year,
with the provision that the lessee
shall feed, clothe, and discipline
the convicts, and, indeed, attend 10
the entire work of their care and
maintenance. This system is
adopted in some of the Southern
States. The third is the "public
ACCOUNT system, according to
which the officers of the prison
purchase all the raw materials,
manufacture the goods, and sell
them in the open market for the
best price they can get, the same
as any manufacturing establish
ment. AT the rate of forty cents
per day, which was the average,
the wage-earnings for the whole
year amounted to S 1924 SIS, AT So
per day which is the average price
of similar labor outside of prisons,
these same men would have earned
So, 122, ,576. The products of prison
labor, if we take the labor at So
per day, did not exceed $20,000,00C
in 1878, while the products of all
the mechanical industries of the
United States amounted to five
thousand millions.
Year: 1879

The pleading of the statute of limitation
left but one side of the case presented in
court, but it was the bank which excluded
its own testimony. Mr.. Strong accordingly
sends the following epitome of the other
side for publication.


To the Editor of the Globe.


In your,issue of the 21st inst. you give an
account of the partial trial of the suit Of Will
liam L. Anderson against The First National
Bank of st. Paul. Had the case been fully
tried out, and the evidence on both sides
been laid before the public, would not have
had anything to complain Of; but as it took
sa!turn this morning which sent it over the
term without the defendant having anoppor-
tunity to present its side Of the case, feel as
if an injustice would be done to myself and
the officers of the bank if it remains without
further explanation. desire therefore to
make statement of the facts in the case as
the defendant would have proved them to be-,
Year: 1879

The Business Union went at the Market
House question without knowing much
about the subject. When man don't know
a great deal about given topic he is very
apt to be profuse in wisdom. The Business
Union proved no exception and for two
weeks INDUCED in an immense amount of
talk, nine-tenths of which could have been
avoided if information had been obtained
previous to the gasconade. Finally, wheu a
committee was appointed to investigate, it
was learned that the Market House was q good
scheme and now the Business Union is not
only in favor of it but wants the first floor
to be twenty feet in the clear.
Year: 1879

WESTON wins at last. He was the first
pedestrian in this country to attract public
attention, and he uniformly failed in every
match or walk against time which he under
took. His career has been so marked by
failures that when odds were offered upon
his opponent no one was anxious to back
Weston. He seems to have been imbued
with a sudden determination to win, and he
carried out the ign splendidly. He
brings back to this country the Ashley belt
so recently taken away from O'Leary, and
altogether has made a creditable effort.
,Rah for Weston.
Year: 1879




Much of the success of the Christian
church depends upon it's aggressiveness. 1t
must of necessity reach out in all directions
or else it must subside. Its only power is
found in its aggressiveness. The fact was
long ago fully understood by the leading
spirits in the cause, and in obedience to that
knowledge the plan of foreign missions was
Instituted. It will be surprise to the pub
lie at large, and more especially to the men,
bers of the churches, to learn that after
more than seventy years of effort the foreign
missionary labors of the evangelical churches
are at a low ebb. During the past five years
the statistics of the various foreign boards
show that the contributors for the main
tenance of missions in heathen countries
have dwindled down to the very m eagre
sum of less than two millions year. Pre-
suming that the com municants of the
churches number four millions in the Unit
ed States-a worry liberal estimate-it will be
seen that the small sum of only one-half
dollar has been contributed by church mem
bers.


Such showing ought to be humiliating
to every Christian in the land. When it
comes to such pass that men who believe
that the salvation of the soul depends upon
the acceptance of Christianity can find it
in their heart to contribute no more than an
eighth of a cent day for the spread
of the gospel, what conclusion will
the ungodly arrive at? Either that religion
has the effect of making men mean, or that
professors of religion do not believe what
they say. Supposing that a man saw fel-
low being perlshing before his eyes, and
knew that dollar, or two, or five dollars
would save bis life. Would he not give it
with alacrity, even though it was the last b.
had in the world? Yet we find men and
women who profess to believe that the
heather are perishing by thousands for all
eternity through lack of knowledge of the
gospel and yet they have contributed the
beggarly 1oittance of less than cent a dav
to assist in the spread'of the glad tidings o.
salvation. .'.-''' a. ..s' ~ 8


The showing Of the foreign mission boards
is disgrace to, the Christian church o1
America. There is no person so poor tha
he cannot afford to contribute small sun
for the rescue of a fellow mortal from wha
is esteemed to be eternal perdition. Yet w
find that there has been woful lack ot
Year: 1879

sympathy with the work among those who
ought to take the iveliest interest in the
cause. It is time that Christians bestirred
themselves in this matter. They must either
follow up the advantage they have gained in
the past, or consent to being overrun by the
hordes of heathenism in the future. A lit
tie more iberality-a few more evidences OF
sincerity in the professions that are SO freely
made-would do much for the cause OF
christianity throughout the world.
Year: 1879

TIE NEW YORK COTTON TRADE.-In the New
York assembly yesterday, during the debate on
Brooks said he had q remonstrance against the
bill, signed BY ninety per cent: OF the people
engaged in the cotton trade. The bill requires
bales. The bill was ordered to q third reading.
The opposition declared that the effect OF the
bin would be TO drive the cotton business from
New York,
Year: 1879

Believing it to be to the best interest Of both buyer
and seller determined to sell for cash from this
date. We would respectfully ask the customers of the
old firm of Coulter & Harper and all to give trial
We have marked down goods to CASH PRICES, and
we think you will save money by calling or lis for
Year: 1879

TIE Republican is fearful that re


duetion Of the tariff on the materials
that are required to build ships and
shsapen their construction and rigging
and equipment, will shut up the ship
yards Of Wilmington. We do not think
%. On the contrary, we believe the
ship build rs of Wilmington would then
- able to build ships that are needed ft r
foreign ocean traffic, Of which this city
now builds none. In the next year 1t is
anticipated that our exports of grain
and other farm produce will exceed the
pest year, and it has been said by some
n our commercial contemporaries that
Year: 1879

THOSE who went TO the City Council


on Monday night expe ting to see


display Of passion and hear the bandying


Of angry words, between Democrats, must


have been agreeably disappointed, and


lsft the Council chamber with higher |
opinion of the members than they held |
when they entered it. We confess that |
the majority had to go through one of
the most trying ordeals they ever expe-
risncsd In their legislative duties. If
We admit that neither party Of the
Democrats were clearly right, or that
either party was wrong, We still indulge
. higher opinion of them than before,
because of the creditable manner in
which they conducted their difference to
Anal settlement by the ballot. We
doubt If any legislative body could have
elected what they did with more pro-
Dristy and decorum. In the first place
he President was not required to use
his gavel once during the whole evening,
and although he ruled against the ma
lerity, and the majority appealed from
hts decision and sustained their appeal
By their votes they did it in such a way
that . compliment rather than an affron,
Wa conferred upon that very considerats
and accomplished presiding officer
In the next place the department of Mr.
Lynch was admirable, and his persona
explanation was made in such a candle
IN excellent spirit that it could not fai
70 do him credit. The brief speech O
Hr. Taylor bearing upon Rule XIV. wa
we'll placed, while the steady careful
manner in which the balloting was con
Quoted up to this point and to the thi
tssnth ballot could scarcely be excelle
In any parliamentary body. The cal
ing Of the ayes and nays on the IA
ballot resulting in Mr.. Lynch voting f
himself and being elected by one m
jority, gave pleasure even to his opp


aants who voted against him. The fir


and quiet bearing of his opponer


merits . like commendation. T


scsns could not have been witness


without their aid. The report of I


meeting is pleasant reading and the


ponents of the Democrats derive no


and comfort from its perusal.
Year: 1879

THE Executive order withdrawing lands in Salt River Valley from sale and settlement, for the use of the Pima and Maricopa Indians, is published in full today. It covers the same land Inspector Hammond said he would recommend to be included in the new order, save perhaps the temporary withdrawal of the land in townships one and two north, ranges five and six east. The taxpayers of Arizona have been made to pay $2OOO for no service and no influence whatever in this mat ter.
Year: 1879

THE people of Charleston and Tombstone want the San Pedro river bridged at Charleston. All the lum- Der and some of the wood for the mines and mills have to be taken across the river, and in rainy seasons. the river cannot he forded. NIT. w. B. Scott, Charleston merchant, is in town to-day, and he thinks the county ought to assist in the work. We have no doubt but the Supervisors will give the matter as favorable consideration as they can lawfully do. That section will from now forward pay large amount revenue into the county Treas ury, and Is entitled to the benefits of a fair share of county aid in necessary public work,
Year: 1879




The Captain of the Santa Cruz
reports the trip from San Francisco
as being one of the toughest he has
experienced in long time. The
wind blew gale and there was
tremendous sea on. Off Point Sur
he picked up the Constantine, dis
abled by the carrying away of her
rudder. He at once began to make
preparations for taking her in tow,
as she was only able to keep off
shore by backing against the sea,
and the waves were sweeping over
her decks fore and aft. The Santa
Cruz came up under the lee of the
Constantine, but the force of the
wind was so great that it was i'm
possible to throw ltne against 1t,
and the Constantine had no cast
ing line long enough, and the first
attempt was a failure. Backing
out, the Santa Cruz again came
alongside, when a tremendous sea
lifted her and set her over against
the other ship, smashing a quarter
boat and the rail of the rescuing
steamer. A line was at length
got on board and the dis.
abled ship towed back to Monterey.
A tempory steering apparatus made
of spars was got out astern of the
Constantine, which worked we'll
after her head was once got around
to the sea, but before the wind it
was of no use. Had not the Santa
Cruz come along when she did, the
Constantine might have laid her
bones alongside of the Ventura's
which was wrecked at this point q
few years ago.
Year: 1879

DEEP AND SHALLOW PLoUGHING.-
Few subjects attract more attention and
give rise to more discussion and want Of
agreement than that of the depth of plough
ing. Many do not consider the very i'm.
portant fact that deep or shallow ploushing
depends upon the nature of the soil. The
truth is, there are many soils in which if
one piougbs deep he may find great profit
in SO doing but, on the other hand, there
are thousands and thousands of acres of land
where it is sheer madness to plough deep.
On fiat clay land, where water cannot drain
rapidly away, and whore the lack of drain
age is the bane of the caltivator, it is found
by experience that shallow but rich sur
lace soil is much better than deeply STIR
| red one. And the reason is obvious IF
| water be an injury, and it cannot get imtn
the soil by reason Of the hardness of the
subsoil, the rain will pass over the surface
TO the open bitches, which always have to
be made in q fiat country. If We loosen
such soil deeply we only harbor moro of
our, liquid enemy, and this counterbalances
what otherwise might be good thing in o
deep soil. Besides these, there arc other
considerations. II the surface soil be poor,
and we turn this down into still poorer
subsoil We bury what little good there nigh,
have been in the surface soil far below the
reach of the roots.


| A little learning is undoubtedly dan
gerous thing in farming. There is no de-
partment Of industry where circumstances
alter cases more than 10 this. While deer
ploughins is an excellent thing when cir
cumstances suit, there are innumerable case.
when It is wise to 90 on the other way


Ge,mantopn Telegraph.


This ends this column. Look above.
Year: 1879

SEC. /. The right of citizens of the United
States to vote shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or any State on account
of race, color. or previous condition Of servi-
tude.


SEC. 9. The Congress shall have power to en-
force this article by appropriate legislation.


This is the full text of the fifteenth
amendment to the Constitution. But, re-
cent of adoption as it is, the people and the
political parties of this country seem to
have strayed far, very far, away from any
policy designed to enforce its original in
tent. When it was adopted the idea was to
secure free and equal suffrage throughout
the entire country--North, South, East, and
West-and to invest Congress with the
power to enforce the secure exercise of that
right by all classes, especially by the freed
blacks of the South. But with the re-
turn of the ex-slave-holding clement
of that section into the control of
national affairs, and the advent OF
the horde of Confederate Brigadiers into
Congress, where they now practically shape
the purely political policy Of the country,
these wise, patriotic, and humane provisions
have become in effect dead letters upon the
statute book. Two-thirds of the American
people, it is safe to say, have forgotten their
purport, and the Republican party itself has
partially lost, or its leaders have the in
spiration of AbOlitionism and equal rights
which secured their adoption as part OF
the organic law of the land. The
sworn officers of the Government, in
Congress and out of it, whose duty it if
to faithfully execute them, are lax in its
performance, and by the gradual though
determined process Of Confederate encrOach-
ment the South, wherein they were origi-
nally designed TO be of the most direct eff
feet, has electually nulliaed their influence
and bearing. 1t is true that the Union has
been restored, but the Southern States are
held within its bounds by a rope Of sand
and this much-talked.of fifteenth
amendment which was to have served to
encourage and perpetuate Unionism in the
South by protecting loyal citizens in their
right to vote against the insidious sedition
of the Bourbon Democracy, is no longer re-
garded as n restraining power on the one
side, or a shield against oppression on tho
other.


These are facts, deplorable facts, but facts
nevertheless, and they cannot fail to address
| themselves as words of solemn warning tC
the minds of reasonable or reasoning Re,
| pubicns who know that party which is