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Year: 1879

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MsssRs. EDIroRs I'm your last issue
there 10 . question that gives rise to
another great question. Justice asks
who killed Perry Demby' The next
question is for what was he killed 7 At
the time he INST with the misfortune
it was announced through your esti-
mable paper that he was . quiet
peaceable citizen--an inoffensive aged
man who would harm no one, going
to his home on the night Of the afore-
said misfortune. As no reason has
been assigned why he should have
been foully dealt with, we think IT
proper to ask the question, it bewilders
US to understand. Had he been cltl-
zea of a different character We should
not have any more to say in regard 10
him. When an inoffensive citizen
meets such a fate, be he black or white,
sorrow fills the heart of all humane
persons of either hue. Can we conclude
that it pays to be respectable and
peaceable we aver at that rate not
near as much as it should. We know
of no great crime that the race, to which
the man alluded to belonged, since
Wilmington was a borough, that M
should be so treated, and as we Wlsh
plainly to be understood, if he was
killed that was the county's business
and not ours. A great deal has been
said concerning the saloons In which
alcoholic liquors are sold, being the
cause of much of the crime committed
in our midst. We believe it is all


true, for we can find youths and adults


in our midst Of evil propensities lurk-


ing within, that have not the bravery


to act until crazed with the intoxica'
ting cup. We entreat them to think


seriously the authority from which


no appeal can be taken hath spoken
( Out of one blood made He all nations
that dwell upon the face of the earth


He it is that knows if Perry DembJ
was killed and who killed him, ant
should the individuals who committed
the crime not repent and receive for
-. piveness in this life, conscience viii
. keep the same ever before them, AM
when arraignef before the aforesal


tribunal they will not be acquitted


Therefore let us beaI it patiently, liv
Z peaceably, live respected and die re
j gretted; in the grave our ashes viii
= mix with those who were once our de
: famers. Il. Il. ANDERSON
Year: 1879

The English steamer Golden Grove
which was multed into heavy damages
for running down the "Brig kremline"
had the misfortune last week to run
into and badly damage a sailing vessel
in Boston Bay. AT this rate she will
prove anything but profitable to her
owner.
Year: 1879

lhe captain of steamb boat gaVea St
Louis reporter the following informa-
ton concerning mosquitoes on the up
per Missouri: "Well, sir, we saw poor
cattle rush down into the water and
wade in until e"erything was covered
but their heads, and then the pests
would alight on their heads I'm swa rms
and bite their noses, and every place
they could settle on, until the poor
things beloved In their agony, and
tossed their heads. If they were hu-
man they would commit suicide. As it
Is they are driven mad. Poor things.
they are nothing but skin and bones :;
mere skeletons, clothed ia swollen and
liberated skins. Some of the BOYS kill
ed few of them, but they were not fit
To bring on board. Same way with all
the animals. Antelope and deer were
reduced TO nothing but skeletons by the
vampires. If you held your hand out
for quarter OF a minute, it would be
covered so thick with mosquitoes that
that IL would look like you had a glove
on. The suffering of the men was aw-
ful. / will tell you how we were able
To get through. took down my stove
pipes and kept smoky fires burning all
the time, | had to have two small hand
furnaces making smoke i'm the pilot
house all the time, so that the pilots
could work. The men were all broke
up. Every limb was sweled and
you could not have recognized the
features OF your own brother. The
smoke was the only protection, and IL
was pretty near as bad as the mosqui-
toes. The eyes Of all men were blood
shot. Life was misery. The mosqui-
to latitude begins about seventy five
miles below Bismarck, and is good for
seventy-five miles above that point.
There never was season like this one
before. For the first time In many
years they had up there what you
would call an open winter. There was
no ice or snow. AT Fort Benton, and
just look at your map aud you will find
it about forty seven degrees latitude.
and that's pretty far north, they didn't
put up ton of Ice. About the first of
March the rainy season set in. There
has not been twelve good days since.
| will venture TO say, and mind you
know all about that country, more rain
has fallen In that latitude than in the
last fifteen years previous. Vegetation
is rank and tropical In its luxuriance.
Weeds of unusually ordinary growth
are higher than mans head, and from
the water mosquitoes are bread by
the million. If you publish what
have been telling you about the pests,
some people will laugh and call it ex-
ageration. Young man couldn't begin
TO give You an idea of their numbers.
They fly in clouds. They obstruct the
light of the sun. They are ravenous.
They are as bad in the day as in the
night. They drive man almost crazy.
Just think Of preferriRg 70 sit i'm "A
binding and sitting smoke rather than
venture outside where the mosquitoes
would get at them. Rather would /
promenade twenty hours day through
the yellow fever district of New Or
leans than 20 through the experience
with the mosquetoes that / had this
summer. II ~ awful. I can give YOU
no idea of the nuisance, the torture 80
and the captain aimed vicious blow
at sleepy fly and walked vigorously
around TO shake off the memory Of this
Missouri mosquito misery.
Year: 1879

4 WRITER for the Boston Post. of April ). speaking of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad says:

 The route from Las Vegas in a southwesterly direction to the Rio Grande river will soon be determined by surveys now being made; but the river will probably be reached at AL 'buquerque, two hundred and forty eight miles from the State line All the money has been raised to complete it to this point Beyond, the location lis still undetermined, though thorough surveys have been made. IL will prob ably strike over into Arizona and reach Tucson, in the southeastern part of that Territory.

 It will cross the Southern-P Pacific, and from here or some other southern point in the Territories connect with .another line of the Atchison roads, yet to be built down the rich valley of the Sonora in Mexico, to the port of .Guavmas, on the Gulf of California. Thus will be completed second rail line to the Pacific coast.

 The importance of the railroad busi- mess in this section of the country is shown by the fact, that although but one railroad, and that recently, has touched Arizona, five are now pointed toward Tucson, its principal city.
Year: 1879

THE Army and Navy Journal of this week republishes in full, from an official copy, the report of the Board of Inquiry in the case of General Fitz John Porter. It is accompanied by a colored map prepared expressly to il- lustrate the operations discussed in this report; without such a map," " says the report at the outset, neither the testimony upon which General Porter was convicted, nor the addi- tional testimony submitted by the board. could have been correctly under stood
Year: 1879

WOMEN IN THE BREAKERs.-A wo-
mans idea Of q bath in the sea is to step
down TO the water aud try the surf with
the tips of her toes to see if il really is
water. Then should bold wave rush
up and wet her ankles she must utter q
shrek and run back where IL is dry.
By and by she gets braver and goes 10
knee deep and catches hold OF the rope.
Then she will sit down in the water,
but must jump up again and say it's
awful cold When she isn't looking q
big wave will break over her, and she
gets thoroughly wet, much against her
will, for she intended to keep her hair
dry. Then she moves along the rope q
little, and strikes her dainty foot against
a clam-shell. She screams, splashes
out of the water, and declares that she
has been bitten by shark, She goes
in again after her fright is over. and
catches hold OF the rope with dozen
other women, and jumps up and down
in the water, Suttering The strangest
sounds, NEST like The growing Of an In
fant. When aawave breaks over her
she puts il down as Of the masculine
gender by saying. Wasn't tha! big
fellow, while a lusty man, getting ready
10 dive under il, excfaims, Here she
comes Fat women seemed TO enjoy
bathing The most. The dear, big crea-
lures in their jackets and PantaloOns and
straw hats come down into water like
rosy, fat monks out for lark. They
always stand and contemplate before
entering the water. How portly they
seem in their outfit Every one an al
derman in size. I never could uRder-
stand why they stand and gaze at the
ocean before intrusting their corpulency
to il, and | wondered il, like good
mothers that they are, they are SGraid
Of displacing SO much water as 70 make
1t rough at sea tOr some poor sailor boy,
as they move about. Very pretty wO-
men will look pretty in the water, but
the ordinary good looks Of a woman de-
terIorate into hideousness when her
cheeks get pale and her nose blue.
Year: 1879

The same respla will be shown at our
Jail by the adoption Of the proposed law


to set petty prisoners confined therein 9t
work. Stone breaking will clear the jail
in a'month of half its inmates. Y
Year: 1879

In order to the greatly increased demand for
Ready Made and Ordered Clothing have not the time to
devote to our FURNISHING G DEPARTMENT. AND SHALL
POSITIVELY CLOSE THE SAME AT ONCE.
Year: 1879

Do you want bargainsq just step in
at Phillips, and see the beautiful goods
he is sacrificing at cost prices to make
room for spring goods. Show yourselves
proyident by securing excellent articles
at prices which defy competition and
which may never occur again. E. Phil
lips is merchantCwho always keeps
abreast of the times, and lie never
charges nickle over the real value of
his excellent goods. Give him a call.
Year: 1879

A communication in the Thibodaux
Sentinel, in regard to the approaching
constitutional convention, says:


Among the men, who have made these
matters their particular study, and who
would, therefore prove most valuable in
the Constitutional Convention, venture
to mention Major S. It. Grisamore of
this Parish, who is undoubtedly the
most thoroughly posted, and whose ser
vices could consequently hardly be
spared in the present jUnctqrc. Every
citizen, who has the interest OF the
country al, heart, must acknowledge this.
| would, therefore, earnestly nrge his
nomination On the Conservative Parish
ticket, which would insure his election.


Maj. Grisamore's numerous friends
and acquaintance here, can heartily
endorse this. But the Major, who is
editor of that paper, says editorially:


We give room for an article in regard
to the selection OF delegates to the Con-
vention. soon to assemble, for the pqr-
pose of framing new Constitution for
this State.


We are irresponsible for the writer's
views, but will only SLY that the candi-
date mentioned by tile writer has no
desire to be a candidate for the honora-
ble position of a delegate, nor has he
any wish to be placed before the people
for nomination.


He does not feel that he is practically
acquainted with Legislation sufficiently
to enable him to fill the role of consti-
tuition maker, whilst the quietude Of his
home and attention to his private bust
ness possess much more charms for his
mind than any public position can
present.


Now this displays more modesty than
we ever expected from any one who
was asked to be q candidate for public
position. If all the Lafonrehe people
are similarly affected or afflicted, We can
send them legion from this parish who
are free from this disease; but we can
not promise that they would fill the bill
as we'll as the Major.
Year: 1879

A young gentleman happening
to sit at Church in a pew adjoin-
ing one which a young lady oc-
cupied for whom he conceived a
sudden passion was dcsirous Of


entering into a courtship on the
spot. The emergency of the
case suggested the following
plan: lie politely handed his fair
neighbor a Bible open with a pin
struck in the following text
second epistle of John, verse s.
"And now | beseech thee, lady,
not as though I wrote a new
commandment unto thee, but
that which We had in the begin
ming, that we love one another" +"
She returned it pointing to the
second chapter of Ruth, verse 10


-'"Then she fell on her face and
bowed herself to the ground and
said unto him, why have / found
grace in thine eyes, seeing that |
am a stranger?" He returned
the book, pointing to the thir-
teenth verse OF the third epistle
of John-"Iaying many things
to write unto you, / would not
write with paper and ink, but /
trust to come unto you and speak
face to face" From this inter-
view a marriage took place.
Year: 1879

Off with your mask and let me see your


face;


.Forego the falsehood Of your shallow art;
am DO fool 10 take your 1ippant grace
For the manly impulse of manly heart
Weak shreds Of sentiment we women are,
Born to adore aud yield and kiss and


cling;
To suffer deeply yet TO show no scar;
To be poor smirking puppets on a string;
To have no mind, no souI, no eyes, no sense;
TO take what's given us and hug the gift;
To pin our faith to every poor pretense,
Nor seek TO dig beneath the social drift.
Stained with the mcanest sins that stain a


man,


Sins too cowardIy TO brave the laws,
Too comely TO receive the social ban
Which passes them as merely moral


flaws;
Foul with the odor of your clubs where vice,
The gcnteel vice that merits no disgrace,
Gives zest 10 pleasure with some bland
49, device;


Where simple virtue dares not show lis
- face;
You offer us the burnt-out ruins of your


youth,


Your world-worn souls stripped of their


better part,
Your languid love devoid of warmth and


truth,


And we must take il 10 our inmost heart.
Justice! Give me justice for my kind!
Does heaven smile on you and frown on


me?
Then heaven should have made me wholly


blind


To mark an angel from debsuchee
o blacker than the goddess crime of Cain,
And less forgiven Of men is woman's sin
Once fallen down she may not rise again,
Once out Of grace no more may she come
Smirch but her garment with hint of vice,
Let scandal taint her with one lying


breath,
And Mercy flies and Charity is ice;
She may not even purge her fame with


death.
man, lleld.scatheless by our social creed,
For what would blast and slay woman's
ID fame;
Look deep inte your arid soul and read
The record of your life and blush for shame
Look deep Tito the shell you call your heart,
Sim gnawed of every purer quality,
Told, dry and calloused thick with worldly


art,


Then dare to offer the foul thing TO me
Year: 1879

There have been strikes from
all manner of ridiculous causes
One that occurred in Central
America recently as narrated
by correspondent Of the New
York Tribune, seems funny, but
it is not more so than many that
arc occurring frequently in this
country. 1t seems that this a.
rose from the introduction of a
watch to regulate the hours of
labor. The men had adopted
the theory that a certain donkey
employed on the work brayed ac-
curately at4 o'clock(t the quitting
timc) each afternoon. So long
as the time piece and the donkey
agreed approximately, no diff
Guilty was encountered; but one
day the watch was half an hour
slow, or the jackass brayed half
an hour ahead of time, and the
men nearly revolted in a body
because the watch was decided
by the foreman to be the more
reliable time piece.
Year: 1879

| Old Judge Gustavius Swan,of
columbus, Ohio, was .charae-


teri Of his day. lie was not a
member of the church, yet he
WAS a constant attendant on the


ministrafions Of the venerable


DIR. Hoge, the distinguished pas


tor Of the Presbyterian Church,


and if he could not be called a


pillar he certainly might, with


his distinguished English proto-


type, claim to be buttress of


the church, supporting it from


without. The Judge was a con-


stant and diligent student of the


Bible and had a decided pen


chant for theological controver-


sy, and it must be confessed


seemed to take a special pleasure


in puzzling the clergy, who fire.
qrRntly called upon him, with
his knotty questions. One day
a missionary called on him for u
contribution. "Now," said the


judge, "1'll tell you what I'll do;
| will ask you simple question
in scripture, and if you will an
swer it correctly, / viii give you
TWENTY-FIVE dollars: if not MOTH
ing" The clergyman brighten
ed up at once and agreed to the
proposition, being quite sure of
his twenty-five dollars.


"Well, now," said the Judge,
"can you tell me why God drove
Adam and Eve out of Paradise?"


Certainly" said the clergy
man, "that is a very simple ques-
ton; it was because they ate the
forbidden fruit contrary to the
command of God"


'There," said the Judge, ''It is
as supposed; | have asked that
question Of a hundred different
clergymen and never got the
correct answer. / see you are
no wiser than the rest. You
ought to give me twenty-five
dollars for being so ignorant of
one of the most important facts
in connection with the fall of
man. But | will send you away
with my simple blessing and the
true answer to the question. If
you will look into your Bible
which you seem to have read so
carefully, you will see it written:
And the Lord said Behold the
man is become as one of us, to
know good and evil; and now,
lest he pat his hand and take al
so Of the tree of life and lice
forerer:, therefore the Lord sent
him forth from the garden of
Eden to till the ground from
which he was taken Think"
added the judge, with a sly twin
lle in his eye, "what a great
mercy it was thus to drive them
)ut, for suppose they had by
some chance got hold of the tree
If life, and thus the race had
,een perpetuated forever on this
.arth. Why, by this time, We
yould have been piled mountains
ligh upon each other, and what
IN awful struggle there would
AVE been for life and happiness"
The clergyman departed, wiser
f not happier man.
Year: 1879

A package in a basket was
left on a door step of a cautious
Newport woman, who, having
10 desire to adopt a foundling,
took the basket to the police
station, and there found that it
contained twenty pound tur-
KEY.
Year: 1879

The Widow Chon, OF Rapid
Creek, No., received an offer Of
marriage from a wealthy but old
and ugly man. She wrote back
to him that within a week she
would choose between becoming
his wife and another disposition
of herself that she had in view.
A little later he heard that she
had attempted to commit sui
eide.
Year: 1879

A lady of experience observes
that a good way to pick out a
husband is to see how patiently


he waits for dinner when it is
behind time. Her husband re-
marks that a good way TO pick
out awife is TO see whether the
woman has dinner ready in time.
Year: 1879

Almost every day the newspapers bring us instances of woman's devotion to man under circumstances that one would scarcely expect. To-day we have two such stories. In St. Louis, ayoung man laboring under temporary aberra- tion of mind, caused by sunstroke, endeavored to kill his wife by shooting. When the poor fellow saw what he had done, he fell upon his knees by the side of the wounded woman, imploring her forgiveness. She threw her arms around his neck, forgave him freely, and told him she loved him only.

 Anything more pathetic than the let ter left by Mrs. Josephine Colton, who shot herself in New York on account of her husbands assertion, cannot we'll be imagined. "May God forgive you for your treatment of your poor wife. I have not the courage to meet the cold world alone. You can never know how lonely I was, and how I have loved you." It is the vail of broken and desolate heart, and this heart man had spurned. But she in her coffin is more to be envied than he in the flush and 7igor of life,
Year: 1879

A conductor who is noted for his great height, about six feet and a half, was accosted by young son of the superin- tendent of the railroad with the remark {: "My father don't want you any longer i; if you don't believe it go up to the office and see him." Thither the alarmed con- ductor immediately went, and, accosting the superintendent, said "What have I done to merit your disapproval?" The superintendent assured him that he had performed his duties satisfactorily, and there were no complaints. The con- ductor then related the statement of the youngster, when the superintendent laughingly assured him that it was true j; he wished him no longer than nature had made him. The conductor felt that he would still punch with care.
Year: 1879

Dr. Huffman, of Iowa City, has been trying new method of attack on the "little Turk" The material used is in- expensive and easily procured. Some of our readers may wish to give it trial. He says:

 "During the summer of 1874 I pro- cured from the gas house several gallons of coal or gas tar. put about quart into long-handled stew-pan, and with few shavings and match, soon had dense, black smoke. This I carried under my plum tree, so that the dense smoke pervaded all parts of the tree. My first efforts were very gratifying, in seeing insects of all sorts hurry out of the tree. Ants came running down the tree, various kinds of worms and spiders let themselves down by their webs, and all winged insects flew out, leaving the tree deserted of all insect life. I spent about half an hour in smoking Az trees and this I repeated three or four times each week, unless rain had washed off the smudge, when again repeated the smoking. After my first efforts I tried the shaking process, but invariably failed to catch or see a single specimen of the CurcuIio. continued this pro- cess until near the time of ripening, and got my first crop of plums, over 30 bushels. The whole cost of coal-tar for those Az trees during the summer was less than g.. I began the smoking little too late, after had tried for some time the iarring into the sheet /; there fore, some of the fruit had been stung !; and had it not been for this, my crop of ripe plums would have been still great CT. During 18751sthe plum crop was an entire failure, and had no opportunity to continue this experiment but the summer of 1876 brought a large plum crop, and I at once resorted to my fav- orite remedy. I commenced smoking my trees as soon as the plums were the size of hazel nut, and continued up to the time of ripening, and not a single Curculio sting was to be seen on my fruit, the trees of which were treated to the coal-tar smoke. I purposely left trees of different varieties unsmoked, and all the plums, excepting one sort, were stung and dropped off before ripening,"
Year: 1879

The Burlington Haa0keye says: "The first time you wear stove pipe hat everybody looks at you. Not, as you may vainly imagine, because you are the first young man who ever wore stove-pipe hat, but because it is appar- ent even to the old blind man who sits in the back pew, without any cushion, away back under the gallery where the poor have the gospel preached at them, that it is the first time you ever wore hat of that description. Your old father claps one on the back of his head, puts his hands into his pockets, holds up his head, and walks off down the street in gale of wind and never thinks of his hat. But you, son, you pull yours on at the most graceful angle it can be posed, and you go teetering along, both hands ready to fly at the hat at the slightest provocation of the ghostliest phantom of puff of wind. You don't look comfortable, son. Your hat is al- ways trying to come off; you bump it against everything you pass; you rub it the wrong way when you try to brush the dust off it; when you carry it in your hand up the aisle, everybody smiles, because you first hold it by the brim and let the crown tip gracefully over your arm, and by the time you have hit three or four worshippers in the head with it, you change and turn | 1t under your arm and trY to carry 1t that way without touching it, and the first thing you do in that pose, you put a woman's eye out with your elbow. Then, when you sit down, you put the hat on the floor, setting it on the brim; fatal mistake. And then, before the sermon is half through, you put your feet on it three times. But never mind; you have to learn some time. Only don't imagine that people never saw any thing of that kind before, because they

 have.