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Year: 1879

THE use of telegraph wires for messages
from one part of Paris to another ceased
on the first of May. Pneumatic tubes are
In operation. Blank forms for messages
are sold to to the public, and may contain
any number of words. The charge is ten
cents if the form is left open, and fifteen
cents if it is closed.
Year: 1879

ONE hundred guns were fred on the
river bluff in Memphis on the 31st of May
In honor of the Taxing District. Judge
Cooper declared that the acts of the Leg
lslature in abolishing the charter of Mem
phis and creating the Taxing District was
" I'd and constitutional.
Year: 1879

A Boston dispatch of May Both says
there is great excitement and terrible dis
tress at Island Pond, Vermont, over the
poisoning of large number of children,
who drank from brook in which dead
carcasses were thrown
Year: 1879

IheIr Superior education fitted them for
the society of none but themselves. In
flaming words, full of eloquent meaning,
the young man pledged Ais love, and asked
hers IN return. She gave him in return all
ne asked, and in so doing the inimitabIe
ripple OF heryolce made music to The sweet
sentiments of her soul, the harmony of
which fell upon his too welcome eaTs AZ
pure, as soft, as gentle as flakes of feather
ed snow, and completely
Year: 1879

Ho! no! no, toss the snow,
Knee deep, over the land,
And stop the mouths OF the talking brook
Close with my iron hand,


All the tree dress


Up in shining white,


And my lips press


Oh, SO very tight!
To the maiden's cheek as she trips along
And in the chimney tops sing my song
Sing and whistle ho. ho!


Sing and whistle ha! ha.


For q right jolly king am /!
All round, when do sound
My trumpet through the wood,
To see how the tall trees humbly bow,
And cringe, it does mo good.


And when on the beach


riot and play,


And my minions screech


In their roundelay,
While roll and laugh in my hearty glee,
You may hear my voice over land and sec
Loud and hearty no! ho!


Loud and hearty ha! ha!


For a right jolly king am |!
In a trice spread the ice,
Over each window glass,
And rattling ride over every root
AS with my train pass.


Oh woe to the wight


That we catch abroad
On this stormy night,
But we'll pinch him hard!
For short live and must have my sport,
Take lesson from me oil mankind ought,
Gay and merry no! no!
Gay and merry ha! ha!


For right jolly king am 1! s


-Ge0rae CooDer.
Year: 1879

SOME little amusement may be
extracted from the frantic efforts of
the newspapers which support the
new Constitution to produce the
impression that they are backed by
a large majorltyA of the people.
Kearney, with his usual fam nboyAnt
cheek, claims that the new organic
law will be adopted by fifty thou.
sand msjority. The Chronicle,
also, assumes the virtue of conf.
dence though 1t has it not. Upon
q dlspassionate survey of the situa-
sion we look upon the new Consti-
tuition as dead If those who know
and dread Its evil effects work, work
heartily and work till the day of
election and TO the very closing of
the polls on that day. 1t is idle to
deny that the new Constitution
has an especially heavy following
In the counties OF Kern, ,Tulare, Los
Angeles, San Bernardino and San
Diego. But these counties contain
but q very small proportion of the
vote Of California, and this aspect
of the matter is seldom regarded by
those of our own people who hazard
an estimate of the result.
The great change has taken
place in San Francisco. The
Workingmen at the start
confidently relied upon carrying
the metropolis by rousing major
ity. They really do not look for
this now. The genuine terror as to
the effects Of the new Constitution
upon the city and the State which
10 shown by all business men has
had its effect in setting people who
desire better and quieter times to
thinking. Republicans aud Demo-
Gratis who think that politics should
remain in the hands of the respon-
sible and respectable national par
ties, unless they are downright
mad, will vote in large numbers
for the old Constitution. c For them
not to do so would show q degree
Of madness unprecedented in our
history. They haye In this election
Of the 7th of May an opportunity
Of playing the st. George to the
Kearney Dragon, and il they fail
to avail themselves of 1t they will
show rare lack of political wis.,
dom. We learn, on what we deem
good authority, that, in addition to
the revolution in San Francisco,
Sacramento, and most Of the min
ing counties, together with Stanls.
laus, Merced, .Mariposa, San Luis
Obispo, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara
and Ventura may be relied upon
for majorities against the instru.
ment. The great fight will un.
doubtedly be in San Francisco.
There it will be literally battle of
the giants, and 1t remains to be
seen whether, from that center of
capital and energy, a pronuncia.
miento is to go forth which will par
alyze the State and voluntarily in
augurate an era of unprecedented
hard times. But the doubter may
be at rest. San Francisco will give
a handsome majority against the
new Constitution. With proper
energy we can also give splendid
account of Los Angeles county.
Year: 1879

SINGULAR.-On last Sunday


morning IA dead man was found
near Raceland station in this
parish with his head pierced by
a bullet. The man was a strang-
er who had beed seen in the VII
cinity for two or three days pre-


vious. His death is supposed to
have happened by a casual shot
of a pistol in the hands of some
youngmen who we're passing.along
the levee the night previous, and
who were endeavOring to exhibit
their manhood by firing off pistols
Year: 1879

WmKsBARRE, May 7.-At eleven
o'clock last night an explosion of
gas in the Stanton shaft of the
Leigh & Wilksbarre Coal Com
pany severely burned Martin Kerne-
gan. At midnight while the men were
brushing out the accumulation Of
the gas in the lower vein it came in
contact with a blower" caus-
ing a terrific explosion. A large
force of men were driving in the tun-
mel at the time, and eight of them
were badly burned, a majority thought
fatelly. The mine was set on fire and
soon six hundred feet Of sold coal was
burning furiously. To extinguish the
flames the mine had to be flooded.
Year: 1879

A WASHINGTON special says: 1t
used to be the custom for the depart
ment of agriculture to publish semi
monthly crop statements procured
from all over the country. LeDuc,
the present commissioner, has stopped
these publications to invest the money
which their compilation had absorbed
in experiments on tea culture and the
like. AS consequence, there is much
complaint being made, because the
crop reports were of some value, az is
shown by the efforts of newspapers in
collecting the same information.
Members of congress within the past
week have been demonstrating with
LeDuc, and he now promises that he
will shortly revive the former custom
of the department.
Year: 1879

A BILL was introduced in the house
Of congress yesterday to provide for
the admission of Utah into the Union
as a State. At that very hour perhaps
an immense procession paraded the
streets of Salt Lake City in honor Of
a cOntumacious witness who refused
to disclose the peculiar marriage GER
emony of the bigamous Mormon
church. The territory of Utah has
not the population that would entitle
it to admission to the Union and
the case would be all the worse
if it had. The more the population Of
the predominant kind out there the
more obnoxious a petition to be ad-
mitted into the confederacy of States.
The institution of polygamy is obnox-
ious to all our ideas of decency,
morality and civilization. 1t will
have to be wiped from the face of the
earth before Utah can come into the
Union, and then it ought 20 be a pro-
bationary arrangement.
Year: 1879

A GOOD pistol law is sadly needed
in the wicked StateOf Ohio. Itappears
that all the good and great men have
gone to Washington to hold office or
have emigrated or been terrorized
into silence by the lawless elements of
society A reign of terror prevails in
many districts, which if not put down
must soon lead to an exodus more
appalling than that now reported in
the South. Every paper we see from
that State contains accounts of bru-
tal murders and often of other crimes
almost too heinous to be printed in a
decent newspaper Our Democratic
congress ought to inquire into this
state Of affairs and ascertain whether
Ohio has republican form Of govern
,uent, or indeed, any government at
all We of the South, unused to deeds
of violence, read such reports with
pain and surprise. Are we, as a
Christian people, doing our duty in
not sending missionaries and tracts to
the heather of 0hiO2 This is Sc
rious question. They are human
beings and many of them may have
souls, however small, to be lost or
saved.
Year: 1879

TORONTO, May 7.-At a mass-meet
ing last night resolutions were adopted
strongly favoring the establishment Of
national currency for the develop,
ment of public works; such currency
to be legal tender for all debts in the
Dominion.
Year: 1879

revealed, would damage their party, they
would have called for an investigation of
the cipher correspondence long ago To
which we reply that the Dispdtch is either
ignorant of the facts or wilfully misrepre-
sents them. The truth is the fullest cx-
posure has already been made of the cipher
dispatches sent and receiycdby Republicans
in the campaign of 1876. WILLIAM E.
CHANDLER's testimony before the POTTER
Committee last summer formed significant
part Of this exposure; but there was nothing
serious about them TO expose And it is
known that if ex-senator CARPENTER, then
TnDEN's attorney, had not interlered to
prevent the publicity of his clients bank
account, as well as to influence certain Sem
ators to cry quits when the Senate had the
matter in charge, the most complete inquiry
would have been made into every branch
of this subject, In short, the Republicans


to a man, in the committee and out of it,
have all along been autagonized in their de-
sire to make this investigation complete and


searching by the interested opposition OF
the TILDEN Democracy.
Year: 1879

A close analysis of President HAYES adj
ministration now that il is approaching the
end of its second year and has developed so
far as tits possible the line of policy" to be
followed during the remaining two years,
reveals the fact that the Administration has
learned much from experience that it should
have known from intuition. We refer, of
course, 10 its treatment of the Southern
question, which has undergone change
from indecisive Cancellation to sturdy or
stalwari Rcpublicauism. In short, the
President has ceased TO throw administra-
tive pearls before Bourbon Democratic
swine But there still remains within the
inncrmOst inspirations of the Administra-
ton haukering, so to speak, after the
weals-lIneed methods of sO-caled Liberal
ism, which serves TO drive away from its
support many active political agencies the
friendship of which is worth cultvating.


The man Is yet to be found who will deny
that President HAYES is what is ordinarily
called pure man, as politics go; but the
| trouble is a man may he as immaculate as
" the untrodden snown and be of no more
use to the world of politics, and especially
to his own party, than an iecle 1t is be-
cause he is thus pure, and because the Op-
position, including the avalanche Of Demo.
cratic smelling committees that has been
poured upon him, cannot saya word against
the purity of his administration, that many
of his partisan friends are all the more anx
ious that he should come out boldly in firm
alliance with the persistently consistent ell
ements of true Republicauism. The ioc


that such an alliance as this would have
saved him from the unpleasan
and embarrassing antagonisms Will
the Republican majority Of the Senate
which now exist should appeal to his bette
Year: 1879

In n letter explaining a misapprehension of
a critic, Frederick Douglass says: when the
influence of office or any other influence shall
soften my hatred of tyranny and violence, do
not spare me let fall upon me the lash of your
keenest and most wthering censure. But be
fore you put me to the torture be sure am
guilty of the bascness Of which you accuse me.
! never said the negro must suffer and wait
and wait and suffer, nor anything like 1t.
never said that nothing can be done. On the
contrary, have said that something can be
done we can expose fraud, we can donounce
violence, we eau kindle the moral Indignation
of the country against meanness and crime; we
can bring out the facts by investigation 4; we
can exhaust all legal means for the protection
of Republican voters in the Southland If
these shall fail we can adopt such other rome-
dies as the wisdom of our wiscst men will sug-
gest and approve. In all this time is an inn
portant element. The Western New York of
twenty years ago is not the Western New York
of to-day. What time, events and well-diroct-
ed efforts have done for the Empire State,
the same agents will ultimately do for the
whole SOUTH
Year: 1879

GENERAL RICE, of Ohio, who claims the
authorship for himself of Mr.. CUMMINGS
Rrrears-ol-pension bill, understands the
tricks of the dramatic or operatic stage. A
bouquet sent to him at his desk in the
House yesterday was as smilingly received
as recognition Of his service in behalf OF
the Union soldiers as any similar floral
tribute ever was by a primc donna whose
impressaio had few hours before visited q
convenient h0t-house.
Year: 1879

THE New York Times feels called upon to
make wry faces over the unanimous nomi-
nation of Senator CoNKLING TO be his own
successor. 1t is to be regretted that the
Times cannot put itself en- rapport with the
Republican party of its State, for it has the
ability to do great good.
Year: 1879

The Midgets will continue their receptions twice
a day during the remainder of this week. Every
body seems to be interested in these wonderful
little people, and thousands have visited them
every day. Their success here, IN business point
Of view. has been immense. Those who have not
yet seen General Mite and his little companion,
few remaining opportunities of attending one OF
their receptions.
Year: 1879

THE polygamists and their children, who
are so exceedingly anxious about the recent
anti-MOrmon decision Of the Supreme Court,
need have no fear of persecution or prosecu-
tion in the future. Their heretofore oppo-
nents will be among the first to aid in their
protection, now that the blemish of So
called religious harlotry has been wiped out
of existence in this country.
Year: 1879

GENERAL BUTLER, in his yesterday S
speech seems to have forgotten that TILDEN
is a claimant for the Presidential chair now
occupied by President HAYES, and that he
has himself more than once indicated the
opinion that President HAYES holds his po-
sition by very doubtful tenure, when these
cipher dispatches which the General now
regards as Of no consequence to the inn
peaching power, bear with great force upon
the case 1t would seem that General BUT
LER has very convenient memory.
Year: 1879

The managers Of the Comique nre meeting with
great success in their efforts to furnish first class
variety entertainment The bill this week equals
any ever presented here, and the house is crowded
every night. Besides the performances off corps of
specially artists the regular company appear in a
number of very amusing sketches.
Year: 1879

The provision in the California constitution making it a felony in lender to compel the borrower to pay taxes on the money loaned has been met by an increase of intereas anffici- ent to meet taxes.
Year: 1879

The National cotton exchange, which met at New York, last week, reports the increase of the cotton culture in this country as ex- ceding all expectation. Only third of the cotton we raise, however, is manufactured here. The reports of this years crop are favorable
Year: 1879

A new form of proceeding is about to be attempted for forcing States topay their bonds. The federal constitution now allows States to sue other States, but States cannot be sued by individuals. It is proposed by the State of Vermont to take an assignment, of certain State bonds, and then sue them up in the fed eral courts It strikes us that such an evasion of plain provision of the constitution would hardly find favor In our courts. Moreover the irritation that would naturally follow between sister States who should thus buy up claims against each other would be evidently against public policy. ee..
Year: 1879

The Legislative committee which is investi- gating the bribery of the Pennsylvania legisla- ture practiced by the Pennsylvania railroad ring, with view to make the state assume the expense of the Pittsburgh riot, has resulted in the indictment of member of the lower house named Salter, and in the probable prosecution of the notorious Kemble
Year: 1879

Senator Booth comes out squarely in favor of the Republican candidate for governor Of California He originally opposed the Central Pacific monopoly but thinks the war against corporations has been carried far enough.

 The notion that Secretary Evarts intended to forbid the landing of Mormons emigrants to this country is a great mistake He merely warned foreign nations of the dangers their subjects would encounter in attempting to practice poiygamv in this country.
Year: 1879

MILWAUKEE, WIS, Aug. 10, 1873. :

 EDITOR ENQUIRER: Many and numerous are the excellent arguments in favor of both prohibition and license. The old question Of whether it is right to do wrong that good may result, receives usually but the negative res- ponse. There is however another view of it.

 Whatever produces good must itself be good. An evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit, If the fruit is good the tree must be good. What ever conduct brings good results that conduct itself must be good It may not be always in our wisdom to see it but how can It be other- wise. Hence It would seem to be only folly to ask if it is right to do evil that good may come. There will be right and wrong that wrong side to be wrong. Whatever is, is right" There is more truth in thls than at first glance appears. It is right for an apple to be green till it is ripe. The green apple is bitter and injurious, but this is right for it can do no better. While human beings are im- mature and green it is right for them to stum- ble and fall. It is the best they can do.

 According to geology the world was crude many million years before it was perfect, and it is doubted whether nature yet has the work completed, but it was right for this crudeness of nature to be. It was the best nature could then do In the human family there is diff ference in individuals. Some, through vari- ous reasons, are in advance of others. The ways of the most inferior are as nearly right, from natures standpoint, as the better lives of the more just. Improvements result from conflict, thus making the conflicts right.

 To many minds the most stringent temper ance laws alone are right Others again have only got far enough to see that very high i- cense. so high as to reduce the number of sa- looms from ten down to about one is preferable. If this is the best we can do, then why is it not right? Take this step first,- and the next higher step would be more likely to follow. The Neal Dow reform is the exception in na- ture's movements, and not the rule. When John Bright was advocating, in England, the adoption of the American constitution entire, he was asked in private if he really meant it. He said, ''no, but then in order to get little, we must ask for great deal.'' So let the to. tai abstinence class go on asking for prohibi tion there will be no danger of their getting tco much, nor getting it too fast. E. W. B..

 ' M. Lesseps finds it impossible to raise the f..n1 1o e. l. -sra
Year: 1879

where ycu will find assortment of everything need d to supply the wants add to the heah happiness and prosperity of your family, from penny smoked herring to the most elegant parlor marbe.topped Bed Room suits. See what your money will buy when

 you get there.
Year: 1879

tablished telephonic communication at his
famous dining rooms with all parts of the city
and his patrons can avail themselves of its use
at will. His private supper, lunch and ice
cream rooms are completed and are perfect
gems suggestive of quiet enjoyment and real
Year: 1879

NIDWIFE-1e1 West Sixth street, acknowledged


Nl by medical men, as well as the citizens of the
city, to be the most successful and experienced in
her occupation in the northwest. 81.
Year: 1879

San Diego possesses genuine heroine
in young lady names Miss Mary Law
renee. Last Tuesday band of wild cat.
tie were being driven through the streets,
when one of them singled out child at
play and started for it. The vaduero,
who was drunk, tumbled from his horse
as ne attempted to turn the furious
animal. At this moment Miss Lawrence
came along, and, taking in the situation
at a glance, sprang into the vacant sad
die, ran down the wild steer, threw her
shawl over its head just as it was about
to gore the child, and, taking advantage
of the confusion Of the beast, rode up to
the child, and, without leaving her sad.
die, reached to 1t and lifted it into her
lap, and then carried it of in safety.
This was not only an act OF heroism, but
an exhibition of borsemsnsbip such as
few, II any, in this section could equal.
That young lady deserves medal, both
as an expert equestrienne in these parts
and as lady whose courage and presence
of mind are only equaled by her skill as a
rider.
Year: 1879

place with soft dry covering till perspira'
cold. Rheumatism can often be relieved
BY application to the painful parts OF
cloths wet In weak solution Of sal soda
In water. II there IL Inflammation In the
joints the cure is very quick; the wash
needs TO be lukewarm.


DuyF.-Any kind of sweet thing on
board ship is called duff, but there Is
duff and duff mostly 1t is rather sticky
and sickening kind OF thing, and -
heavy as lead, but then. you know, you
can't kill sailor. They do say that
many q good seaman has owed his lie TO
dun, because. when 1t blew hard and he
was furling sail after eating a lot of it,
be was 90 ballasted that the tearin'est
no'-wcster couldn't bulge him. The
story OF the American privateer that
was short of ammunition and loaded the
gun with Dutch cheese is contrary TO
tradition. The true version Ia that the
cook put duf pudding In the mouth of
the gun and that 1t did awful execution,
just raking the enemy's deck and carry
iug away his main-mast. Now, here Is
duff which amt very fancy, but it's real
good. You take ship-biscuit and soak
'em in water and put 'em In towel and
dry 'em, and II they amt soft enough
mash 'em smooth. Quantity, about
pound. II you can get to q butchers
along shore, buy about quarter OF a
pound Of suet and cut 1t up fine mix
that with your soaked biscuit. Take
halt pound of raisins and pick out the
stones. Picking raisirs is blessed job.
II there are any women on board, insist
on their doing that. Mix your raisins
with your stuff add half teaspoonful
of salt; add to that half tumbler of
molassea, and CRATE whole orange peel
into 1t. Stir it all up, and tie in towel
and boil her for two hours Don't for-
get to have your water in the full boil
when you put her in.
Year: 1879

he would seek the Lord then and there,
and kneel down and pray for himself.
As they knelt down the minister turned
the faucet and set the rum to running.
This was too much for the penitent, and
he cried out on his knees, it's wasting,
it's wasting" Let 1t waste" said the
old saint, as be kicked 1t out doors, and
took hatchet and burst In the end of
the cask. at amt measured" said the
man. "Guess at it, and be sure TO
guess enough" said Allen. Thus the
battle was won, and the man became
temperate and religious. Next day
some OF the church members said they
thought brother Allen came to preach
the gospel, not to spend his time kicking
out rum barrels" You can't get the
gospel In till you kick the rum out"
said the preacher.