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Year: 1879

At the West Presbyterian church an
all day meeting was held yesterday for
the purpose of liquidating the church
debt. In the morning the pastor an
nounced that the amount to be raised
was $26, 900. This had been divided
into $50 distinct portions, of seventy
five dollars each, and it was designed
that the portion should he given out to


individual subscribers. In the morning
ninety-two shares were subscribed
to. In the afternoon the Sabbath School
subscribed to forty more. In the even
ing there was large congregation
present and at the conclusion of the
sermon eighteen shares more were OBJ
tanned which ran the whole amount
subscribed up to 81 300.


These shares are payable in two
years and can be handed over in
amounts at the will OF the holder. At
the expiration of these two years the
principal of the debt with accrued inter-
est for the year is due. The pastor
stated that the debt had been heavy
burden upon the church, and it had
now become so burdensome that they
were determined to have it lifted. The
money IS it is handed to the trustees
will be used towards buying up the
bonds against the church, and in case
the bonds are not to be obtained then
the meney will be put out at interest,
and thus prove an offset to the interest
due upon the debt. There are one
hundred shares more yet to be taken.
Year: 1879

II you are despondent invalid, is to
grow stronger. This you can do il you will
lake piece of advice which has the weight Of
high medical authority to bach it. That is
to use the standard invigorant, Hostetters
Stomach Bitters specially commended and
indorsed by physicians Among the bodily
troubles which it overcemes are dyspepsia,
irregularity of tha bowels, liver complaint,
general debility and nervous complaints. It
is also found very useful in counteracting
tendency to weakness or disorder of the kid
news and bladder, and persons troubled
with rheumatism strongly indorse it as q
remedy. Its influence upon the entire
system is highly beneficial, promoting as it
does the reta m of sleep and appetite, and
the acquisition of flesh and strength, A
silent reproof Of the folly Of nsuseous
drug medication is conveyed in the success
Of this pleasant and effective botanical medl-
cine.
Year: 1879

David Wingate, night watchman for
for the P. W. & B. R. R. Company, lost
his revolver last Saturday evening. Mr..
Wingate was running after party Of
young men who were stealing wood
from the cars, when the revolver drop
ped out of his pocket. In conversation
with Mr.. Wingate this morning he said
that the tramps were very numerous
in the western part of the city. On
his warning them to leave the railroad
track they use abusive language to
wards him and on several occasions
this GUNNER lie las been obliged ia
drive them away from the csrs with a
club,
Year: 1879

While DR.. Flagg's Liver Pads art
doubtless good thing in their way


the space formerly occupied by him in
the sale of them, on Fourth street,
will bs used on next Thursday by the
kind permission of His Honor, Mayor
Almond, by the Moral Suasion Reform
Association who will inform the peo.
pie how to prevent those diseases that
the Pads are intended to cure, as well
as how to prevent many other ills and
woes. This is no political meeting, and
not denunciatory in its character, hut
the speakers will present arguments
and facts for thought and reflection.
Good singing by select glee of male
voices. Go down about s o'clock.
Year: 1879

There was full attendance of tht
members of the Sumner Republican
Club last evening at the Odd Fellows
Hall corner llth & Orange sire, is, dur.
ing the evening the benefits of the As
sociation were freely discussed by diff.
ferrnt members of the club, there was
committee Of three appointed to pro
cure room for meeting purposes. There
will he general mass meeting Of ali
the colored voters OF this city in few
days. There being no further business
the club adjourned to meet at the call
Of the President.
Year: 1879

lBY TELEGRAPH To THE TRIBUNE.I


WASHINGTON. Jan. 19.-Slany of the gentlemen
who have been watching the Geneva Award bill dur
ing its consideration by the House, and striving to
shape legislation upon it. left Washington last night
after the passage of the minority bill by the House
They expect however. to return little later and
renew their labOrs before the Senate The pros
pcct II that the contest there Will be "A long and
severe one. number Of Senators intend to
present arguments on the law questions involved.
Representatives of the insurance VIII seek
first TO secure an amendment of the House bill as
io include their CLAIMS Failing in that they Will
aim To postpone action upon the bnl. so
as TO carry it over. and defeat it IN that way.
In case the bill passes the Senate without providing
for the claims of the companies, the rep
resentatlves of that interest will follow 1t into con-
ference committee, and make last effort there.
Year: 1879

THE eleventh annual convention o:
the National Women's Suffrage Conven-
ton at Washington, must have been we'll
conducted, as the reporters find nothing
to buriesque. A large audience, good
in quality and quantity, were out in spite
Of heavy storm. Mrs. Stanton remark.
ed that it was very fitting that suffrage
conventions should meet on rainy days,
as probably the heavens were weeping
over the wrongs of woman. A reporter


says if there is still popular delusion
that the suffrage woman is acid, bony
and dowdy, let that delusion hide its
diminutive head before facts, for she is
womanly and refined, seldom going back
on the gospel Of good gowns, and des-
cribes them in dresses fitting and grace
full, adorned with soft laces and bright.
ened by the CLEAN OF diamonds. Their
cause seems to be gaining ground. We
have never felt quite ready to see the
sexes become political equals. When we
are convinced that this movement will
be for the best good of all, we shall be
for it, still we would not oppose it if we
thought the women generally throughout
the country were demanding it. We
have always felt that woman can rule the
world without the ballot. They rule
when they care to, by thousands arts
and charms we'll chosen, and their power
over man is irresistible.
Year: 1879

THE Grand Meadow Ne,cs was "coun.
ty-seat" all over last week. We do not
wish to accuse our dear friends over there
Of entertaining any spite towards Austin
but when they say that Ramsey is the
most accessible point in the county, and
where the county seat should be located"
it certainly looks as though something
was tue matter. You know, friends OF
the Ne,cs, the wants of the people of the
entire county are to be considered; and, as
the railroads now run. there can be no
doubt that Austin is the most convenient
and accessible" place for the county seat
for all the people OF the county. Austin
is in the center of the county north and
south, while Ramsey is three miles north
Of the center, and no more central in any
other direction. What sensible argument
can any man use for removing the county
seat to Ramsey?
Year: 1879

The Legislature should not fail to
abolish the office of Railroad Commis-
sioner. All of his labOrs are of a statis-
tical nature, which can as we'll be per-
formed by the Commissioner of Statistics.
Year: 1879

ENOUGH said, The WASHINGTON REPUBLI-
CAN warmly opposes the Re-Adjusters, warmly
supports the Funders, and warmly exhorts the
coiored voters to stand by the Brokers' Bill.
The Brokers have let slip their dogs in all
directions-and they are barking from North,
South, East and West. None but sheep are
afraid of that breed however.-Richmond Wig.


Our Richmond cotemporary does not
mistake or mistate the position of THE
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN in regard to the
payment of the Virginia State debt. 1t is
opposed to reputation, for that is rank dis
honesty. 1t is opposed to re-adjusting the
debt upon any basis other than its full pay
ment, for that is compounding with
rascality. 1t believes that Virginia honestly
owes its State debt, and should faithfully
pay it, principal and interest at the earliest
practicable moment. Virginia is State of
vast resources and great expectations, and
cannot afford now to evade its honorable
indebtedness Its broad and fertile acres,
its navigable rivers and canals its
commercial interests and advantages, its
extending railroad communications, its
mineral resources, and its manufacturing in
terests are its estate, from which it can
draw the means for paying its State obliga-
tions. If it repudiates it forfeits confidence
and respect, and ruins its individual and
public credit, for they hang upon the event
of this State debt question. If the State
repudiates, it will be because the people so
determine, and an individual is not ex-
pected to be any more honest in his private
enterprises than he is in his relations to the
public integrity. For this reason repudia-
tion will prove death blow to private
credit, and the enterprises of the people
will find no confidence with its fostering
hand to aid and build up enterprise and de-
yelop the resources of the domain.


The people cannot afford to repudiate,
for it will bring general con demnation upon
them, as well as upon succeeding genera
tions and be q blight upon public and pri-
vate credit more disastrous than that which
came of the war, for it will stamp the Com
monwealth and the people with the brand
of Aagrant dishonesty. 1t was an unfortu-
nate day when the thought of reputation
in whole or in part was entertained by the
people of Virginia. 1t has intrinsic wealth
that can be developed by industry and en-
terprise to an extent that will in time pay
its State debt, principal and interest, 1t
should therefore be honest from the word
90, and fund its debt on such time and at
such interest as will float its bonds on the
market, and thus vindicate the honor of
the State and its people Then let it bury
its political hates, put on the harness of
enterprise and industry, secure confidence,
credit and good fellowship for its people,
and sef-respect prosperity and happiness
win lie along the path of the Old Domin-
/
Year: 1879

A CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT" writes to
us from South Carolina to know, you know,
how it is that WADE HAMPTON enjoys the
reputation of having been q great soldier
during the late war? He says HAMPTON
never won victory, never planned cam
paign, and, in short, never amounted to any
thing more than a mere instrument in the
hands of his superior officers. We confess
our inability to give q satisfactory answer
to this query. But we add that HAMPTON
is hero, nevertheless, and q great, very
great, hero at that, for the Yankee Mudsills
and Gushing Conciliators of the North have
so proclaimed it, Joining in the adulation
bestowed upon him by his Southern follow
ers, they have succeeded in canonizing him,
politically speaking, and he is now one of
the most loolied-for and most talked-of men
in the United States Senate. But, for all
this, story comes to us that he once failed
to wipe out in blood" according to the
rules of the Chivalry an insult offered to q
dependant member Of his family. Perhaps
if his life were to be written up in the light
of intimate knowledge of all the details Of
his somewhat varied career, he would moi
be hero after all.
Year: 1879

which have, in thcsl later and so-called
degenerate days, morked General GRANT os
one of the greatest men of his time. After
discussing these traits, Mr. PATTON wan
ders of into speculative vein, using that
as q basis for theory he builds up re-
garding the kind of man that should be
President. In this discursive way he
further discoses the fact that General
GRANT, the savior of his country, presents
in his characteristics every qualification for
the exercise of civil power that WASHING
TON possessed rs well MS those which
should, in his opinion, be possessed by u
successful and satisfactory Chief Magistrate.
He says:


Rarely brilliant, always prudent with mod
crate power TO open his mouth, but mighty to
keep it shut; reasonably benevolent, but
greatly just--he should bo large, sound, we'll
chosen specimen of the solvent and steadfast
men who hold up the world


This, the unprcjudiced reader will admit,
is life-like photograph of the average idea
or conception in this country of the man
before whom all the nations of the world
have stood uncovered to do him homage.
But among those who know him best 1t Will
not be conceded that his brlliancy is Of
that rare quality alluded to. The truth is
that General GRANT among his friends and
intimates is very interesting conversation
alist and, although he is not public
speaker, nor does he presume to essay the
graces of oratory, his flashes of wit and per-
tinont story are not infrequent in the more
private relations of life. Stolid and indif-
ferent, as he generally appears to be to the
current events of the day, there is phase
of his character which enables him
TO appreciate the ludicrous and the
sentimental rs keenly as any one, and to
express that appreciation in terse and forci-
BILE epigram. Where an ordinary statesman
would have dilated interminably upon the
benefits of true conciliation, he contented
himself with the simple appeal: Let us
have peacew And when the Democracy,
elated with victory began few years ago
to show their rapacity for plunder, he told
the now wel-known story of the hogs with
their feet in the feed-trough. But his sto-
lidity, born in part Of inherent modesty, is
also indicative of quiet self-possession and
an integrity of confidence in himself which
has saved him from surprises and preserved
his mental and political equilibrium through
career that would have aroused the mos


INSCRIPTIONS ambition in the breast of
less conscientious man. He has shown thai


he is both mighty to open his mouth and


mighty to keep it shut.
Year: 1879

The original bull-dozers of Mississippi
begin to learn by sad experience that revo-
luton devours its own offspring. They are
now reaping of whirlwind that they had
sown in the storm and while we deeply
regret that any portion of our common
country should indicate such reckless dis
regard of law and right, our sympathies do
not become very lively when the vi ctims
are among the inventors. Captain DIXON,
of Yazoo-an account of whose bull doing
we have already given to our readers-al-
though an original bull-dozer of the most
Stalwart type, has been taught in this ex-
perience that he can hold no political views
of his own, independent of the Bourbon
dynasty. The appearance Of q blood-thirsty
mob in his vicinity, with its representatives
debating terms to him in his own house,
surrounded by his family, was persuader
which he could not resist, and hence he
solemnly declared that he would not be n
candidate for Office at the next election
against the regular Democratic nominee.


This array Of force, and this menace of
violence and DEATH not only to himself but
to his family were interposed upon the oc-
casion to break the back of the Indepen-
" dent Movement" in Mississippi by very
summary and effectual process. 1t sue
ceeded, and Captain DIXON now can while
away his time twirling his thumbs IN
listlessness until the farce of an election
shall be enacted.


In this performance, Captain DIXON has
been forced to taste of cup that he had
been helping to mix for years. lie was
among the original bull-dozers, and so con-
spcuous and valuable had his services proved
in that course that he had been distin-
guished above his fellow-murderers by the
presentation of silver plate properly in
scribed. lie had pursued white Republi-
cans, scallawags and niggers with relent-
ess hand, until none of his peers in crime
were more responsible than he for placing
Year: 1879

THE anything ng-to-beat-GRANT cry ex-
hausted its force in 1872 and 1876. In the
former year it secured his triumphant re-
election, and in the latter it served only to
destroy the Republican party in the South.
Its revival now in view of these facts can
not fail to bring about the same conditions
that existed in '72. The friends of the
General will not seriously object to it, no
matter from what source it may come, nor
how widely it is re-echoed. The libels and
falsehoods with which it is necessarily at
tended are in the nature of indiscreet and
overdone persecution, which always re-
bounds to the advantage of the intended
victim.
Year: 1879

Mr.. TILDEN has received q severe blow
and black eye in the city of New York.
Mayor COOPER had determined upon the re-
moval of Police Commissioner WHEELER
for political reasons, and with the purpose
of recognizing the board in the TILDEN
interest and thus secure an advantage in
the appointment of Inspectors of Election.
A flank movement was started, and an or
der prohibiting the removal of WHEELER
was obtained from Judge VAN BRUNT, and
thus the matter will be deferred until after
the Inspectors shall have been appointed.
This interieres slightly with one of TILDEN's
little games.
Year: 1879

OF course JEFF DAVIS is not candidate
for the Senate, and, of course, the Missis-
sippi Democracy would not do such foolish
thing as to elect him to succeed Senator
BRUCE But the Democratic Convention of
Clark County, in that State, indorsed him
for the position, all the same.
Year: 1879

THE Chickasaw Guards is the name of
the crack militia company in Memphis
but all of its members have refugeed in the
face of Yellow Jack. The city does not
suffer from their absence, however, for the
places of these brave soldiers are now filled,
as all the world knows, by a couple of
"nigger" companies.
Year: 1879

Now the disappointed ofIice-seeker in
Louisiana has abandoned his habit of SLAM
dering and lying about the bestower of
patronage and taken to the plan of assas-
sination. Collector BADGER seems to have
been selected as the first intended victim of
this change of policy, and at time, too,
when he was subjected to charges alleged
against him under the old and accustomed
plan.
Year: 1879

grace may be avoided is to compromise the
debt at fifty per cent, with four per cent
interest This, it will be admitted, is al
most as bad as the original proposition, and
suggests the thought that, at best, the De-
mocracy of Tennessee is determined upon
unfair dealing with the creditors of the
State. But it is all of piece with the pre-
vailing Home Rule policy in the Solid
South.
Year: 1879

MORE than one-half of the interest charge
upon the public debt as it stood at the close
of the war has been swept away by pay
ments and refunding of the principal, and
if the Republican party continues in power
the same bright prospects will continue. But
the Democracy must keep hands off.
Year: 1879

THOSE Cincinnati ward-strikers who tes-
tilted that they were paid by both sides to
do political "worll" " in the campaign of
1878 make frst-class witnesses before the
Democratic Congressional Investigating
Committee now in session in that city, But
there is some cause for suspicion that an
attempt has been made by them to infringe
upon the New Orleans patent.
Year: 1879

THE political gossips have it that Secre-
tary SHERMAN and Senator BLAINE have
entered into combination to "beat
"GRANT" Perhaps they have but if
GRANT does not receive the nomination
next year it will be because the people do
not want him, and not because of any COM
bination for OF against him.
Year: 1879

NERVOUSNESS AND INpIdEsTIoN.-These sad Attic
ions, so destructive both to business and pleasure,
arise from a morbid condition of the body, which
Is relieved by an occasional dose of Dr. Bulls Bal
timore Pills Try them, they will do you good.
Year: 1879

Miss Princeton was the only daugh-
ter of a Pittsburg merchant and two
years ago was welded 10 Mr.. Savage OF
Baltimore. Six hours after the cere-
mony the train upon which they started
on their bridal tour was wrecked and
the husband Of less than day was
killed. The shock of the terrible calnni.
ity robbed the young wife Of her reason.
From this death she recovered to 90
into a slow decline. All the blossoms
Of her life were wlthering, and tie
world once so robed in beauty and de.
light became prison from which her
spirit lOnged to be free. They took 3
voyage across the sea. but the panorama
Of scene and incident had no power to
renew the love Of life and the young
thing faded as a flower fades. At last
they took her to the south of France.
And there amid the bloom Of flowers
on the spot where Petrarch once sang
songs to Elvira-in the home OF
Leonardo da Vinci's exile-this fair
American girl found the peaceful quiet
of the grave. Our correspondent who
relates the incideat draws q vivid
picture of the sorrowing family around
the death.bed. The father overwhelmed
with grief, the mother wild with despair,
while a young sister clasping hand of
the dying girl looks with pallid face and
rigid lips into the glaring eyes.


The anguish is nearly over-my race
of life is done,' came in a feeble ln-
tonation from the lips of the dying"


And you are willing to die?' asked
a minister. bending low to catch the
whispered utterance.


'Oh. so glad. Listen to me: | die,
as many of our sex have done, OF
broken heart. l had put my all OF lie
and hope on the hazard Of an earthly
love, and God has smitten me for my
sim


1t was no sin TO love-


No, not to love-but to build an idol
as I did-and 10 worship the creature
instead of the Creator. l have been
terribly punished. The horror Of these
two brief years no word can tell


There was futter of the feeble
heart. The blue eyes sheathed them
selves meath pearly tinted waxen lids.
and the fair young form, once so full OF
subtitle life. was frozen into death.
Year: 1879

Gentlemen, this horse OF mine was
tough -bitted, and he went so fast that |
had to guide him by electricity-had 10
have wire lines and keep a battery in
the wagon all the time in order to stop
him.


why didn't you stop him by holler.
ing who.a?' inquired.


Stop him by hollering whoa: Why
couldn't holler loud enough to make
that horse hear ne. He travelled so
fast that no sound ever reached him
from behind. He went faster than the
sound, sir. Holler whoa. and he'll be
in the next town before the sound Of
your voice reached the dash board
Travel fast?' l should say he could
Why, once started from Virginia City
for Meadow Greek right in front OF one
of the most dreadful rain storms we ever
had on the Pacific Coast. Wind and
rain p Why, the wind blew eighty miles
an hour, and the rain fell IN sheets. l
drove right before that storm for three
hours-just on the edge OF that hurrI'
cane and rain for forty miles


Did you get drenched?


'Drenched?' No, sir What did |
keep fast morse for? Why, tell you,
1 drove right in front Of that rain storm.
| could lean forward and let the sun
shine on me, or lean backward and feel
rain and catch hail-stones. When the
hurricane Stacked up the horse Stacked
up, too, and when it blew faster just
said Git up!' to the horse and touched
the battery, and away he went. Now,
| don't want to lie about my horse. and
don't ask you 10 believe what say,
but when l got TO Meadow Creek my
linen duster was as dry as powder. Not
a drop Of rain on the wagon seat, eith-
er, while the wagon box was level full
of hail-stones and water
Year: 1879

A man can stroll out into the lots and
woods and stumble over rough ground
for halfa day Sunday and enjoy himself !;
but if his wife had requested his compa-
ny TO church he would have been too
used up to stir out Of the house.