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Year: 1878

Mir. Blaine would be astonished if he knew how many opponents his devotion to Jay Gould has made him. This is in the nature of cumu- lative evidence to great many who have thought previous testimony against him made uuate-B0stOn Herald.
Year: 1878

The prospects frem the wheat region are very tiattering. The acreage of spring wheat is 50 per cent greater than last year, and a quarter of last years crop is in the hands of the farmers
Year: 1878

The Republican Congressmanis less inclined than formerly to butt against Hayes. AS the Springfield Republican tersely puts it:

 The fact that the people are pretty we'll sat isfed with Hayes is at last beginning to get into the head of the average congressman, and 1t is the sort of fact that makes good deal of impression when it has once effected an en- trance. At the same time he is beginning to after all, for an administration which has giv- en peace for the first time to South Carolina and Louisiana, elevated the official tone throughout the country, and adopted a finan- cial policy that is already its own ample vindi- cation
Year: 1878

Worn out with the arduous work
of exhorting impecunious young
men to marry Immediately, the
popular divine with fat salary is
fastening off to the water side or
to the mountains to recruit his ex-
hausted intellects. Meanwhile,
impecunious young man fingers in
the roasting town to hunt for a
fifty-cent job, and wonders where
the money for that paregoric is to
come from.
Year: 1878

In speaking Of children he said that,
in his opinion, they have all the rights
we have, and one more, the right to be
protected. If women have been slaves,
what shall | say of the little children;
of ia little children in the alleys aud
sub-cellars; the little children who turn
pale when they hear their fathers foot
steps, the children of poverty, the chill
dren of crime, the children of brutality,
wherever you are, my heart goes out to
you, one and all. tell you that they
have the same rights that we have, and
We ought to treat them as though they
were human beings; they should be
reared by love, by kindness, by tender
ness, and not by brutality. When your
little child tells a lie, don't rush at him or
her as though the whole solar system was
going into bankruptcy. Be honest with
the child; tell it you have told hundreds
of them yourself, and it don't pay. A
tyrant will always have liars for chill
dren. l thank Mother Nature that she
had put ingenuity enough in the breast
OF child, when attacked by q brutal
parent, to throw up little breastwork
IN the shape of lie. Suppose a man as
much larger than you are as YOU are
than five-year-Old child should rush at
you with liberty pole in his hand, aud
ask you in voice of thunder, "WhO
broke that plate ?" there is not man or
woman of you but what would swear
that you never saw the plate, or that it
was cracked when you got it. So, say
to you, be honest with them, aud you
will succeed in bringing up children
who will be an honor to themselves and
to you.


When your child commits a wrong,
take it in your arms; let it feel your
heart beat against its heart; let the
child know that you really aud truly
and sincerely love it. Yet some Chris
tians, good Christians, when a child
commits fault, drive il from the door
and say, "Never do you darken this
house again" Think of that Aud
then these same people will get down
on their knees aud ask God to take care
Of the child they have driven from


home. / will never ask God to take
care of my children unless / am doing


my level best in the same direction.
But l will tell you what | say to my
children: "Go where you will, commit
what crime you may, fall TO what depth
Of degradation you may, you eau never
do anything that will shut my JOor, nv
arms, my heart to you. As long as 1
/ live, you shall have no more siucere
[ friend"
Year: 1878

NARIETY.-Variety is a necessity of
life. The man that lives upon one kind
of food must deteriorate in body; the
student who gives all bis thought TO
one idea will become crOchety; while
the devOtee to a single phase of religion
will in time be a bigOt, which is but
another name for monomaniac. Same
ness is the border-lsnd Of insanity.
There is many man living a life of ex-
cessive toll or Of idleness, of so fixed a
routine that be is partially insane. II
should be the aim of every man TO 50
arrange his life as to bring into it q
good degree of variety, if he would Sc
cure physical, mental, and moral health.
In this particular, division of labor often
works mischief to the individual, how
ever advantageous it may be to the
community. Imagine the stupidity
that must creep over the mind Of Il man
who spends year after year pointing
pins! It may be well to inquire as tC
whether OF not the social and business
/ framework OF society is not doing much
to reduce some Of its members to a state
l little better than mOnOmania.-JOhH "
Saxon, IN Popular Science Monthly.
Year: 1878

A BOYS 5 AFFECTION FOR HIS MOTHER.
Next to the love OF her husband, Moth
ing so crowns a woman's life with
honor as this second love, the devotion
of the son to her And | never yet
knew a boy to "turu out' badly who
began by falling in love with his
mother. Any man may fall in love
with fresh-faced girl, aud the man who
is gallant to the girl may cruelty neg
lect the poor and weary wife. But the
big boy who is lover of his mother at
a middle age is a true knight, who will
love his wife as much in the sere-leai
autumn as he lid in the daisied spring.
There is nothing so beautifully chival-
rous as the love Of a big boy for bis
mOther-Bcridh Green.
Year: 1878

A London special says: "Give no
credence to rumors of early peace on
any terms short of the extinction Of
the Ottoman power. The indications
continue abundant that Russia intends
to gain this point. even mt the risk of
war with England herself. That is
the meaning of the Cars call for an
other quarter of million of men. If
Lord Derby. in his attempt at medita-
ton, is able to offer such terms as
please Russia the Car may possibly
yield his purpose to negotiate directly
with Turkey, but this is only among
the possibilities. The organizing by
the Gar OF an army Of the Baltic in
dicates his Intention to be ready to
guard the coast in the event of war
with England. This is significant ev-
idence of the possible contingency he
anticipates, and his ulterior purposes
and resolution. Meantime private in
formation is that active operations are
to be pressed as rapidly as the wealth
er permits There will be no new
cam paign, but n prolongation of the
present one until Turkey falls ire
trievably."
Year: 1878

Really, we are afraid that Paddock
would make better clown than sen-
ator.--Lincoin Globe.


We are not particularly a Paddock
man, but we do like to see fair play
and decent gentlemanly treatment
toward our Senators. Nebraska has
but three representatives In the Ma
tional Congress, and whatever bene-
fits she receives or is to receive from
that source must come through those
three gentlemen. Therefore for the
good of the State they should receive
all the encouragement and moral sup
port from the people and newspapers
Ct the State in any way consistent
and reasonable. We know very well
they are not the smartest men in the
world, but we do know they are at
least ordinarily intelligent and hon.
est. and while they may sometimes do
things which all cannot indorse, in
the main their efforts for their con-
stituents are prompted by good mo-
tives and an honest desire to repre-
cent them fairly and the people of
the state, so long as such is the case.
should approve and uphold, rather
than indulge in or approve of such
exceedingly low filings as are found in
the Lincoln Globe. We are naturally
inclined to look into and investigate
the cause Of thiags, and this inclins-
tion leads US to ask why the Globe is
''afraid that Paddock would make a
better clown than Senator ?" That
paper does not give any reason for its
venom and why it stoops into the
dirtlest kind OF dirt in order to be-
spatter Senator Paddock. While it
Is usually shameless, it would be
ashamed to print its real reason for so
doing. It would be ashamed to say
that its editor went to Washington
for an appointment to a fat office. and
wanted Senator Paddock's support.
ond that Senator Paddock, k,aocCi':9
.be man. refused to help him. and he
had to return to his den In Lincoln
d;sanpointed, sore and full OF malice.
II ia important sometimes to know
the motives which move men 70 act
end speak. When they are moved by
hIob honorable, and noble impulses,
,he reonIe applaud and approve, but
Year: 1878

approached any member of the cabin
Ell or officer of the government for that
or any other position. In regard TO
the charge that my career in tne Sem
ate was disgrace TO Nebraska" /
have to say that had and still have
the respect and friendship of every
senator-demOcratic or republican
with whom | served. | leave it to
Others 10 decide whether they-serv-
ing with me day by day for six years
or this professional maligner--
would be more competent to know,
and more honest TO decide, whether |
disgraced them and my state.


Decent men may wonder that / no.
tice. even briefly. so vile an attack.


My apology is that for nearly a year
that have been in private life Saying
nothing of attacks when | was a Sen
atnr) this man has followed me even
in the very shadow of the sorest do
mestic sffliction-with the ferocity of
bloodhound the malignity of fiend
and the amiable manners of cut
throat. The mangiest cur may by
continuous yelping, sometimes ruffie
the temper of the most amicable.


p. w. HITCHCOCK.
Year: 1878

Says Hamburger Butler In his
South Carolina speech:


Hope they will not repeat 1t. If
they do repeat 1t, take my word for it
| will give them as good as they send.
| will add that l can never consent to
degrade myself to the level of brutal
ity, cowardice and blackguardism
which characterized their conduct to-
ward me.


1t is interesting to hear a man who
organized a mob to commit one of the
most barbarous acts of modern times
talk about "cowardly attack" upon
himself when he was "disarmed. AS
for peer. Hamburg Butler has none,
and should wait until some fiend like
Thomassen. with an Internal machine
is elected to the Senate. before he talks
about being peer. In the meantime
he should remember that the north
won't scare worth a cent" and that
his threats won't go so far as they did
In the days when Bully Brooks"
staggered about the capitol bearing a
cane red with better blood than flows
in the veins OF his successor. The
north Is taking note of the kind of
conciliation which Ham burgh Butler
represents.-BOSton Traveller.
Year: 1878

The chemists of Berlin have been
occupied lately in analyzing the wares
OF the wine merchants. and no little
excitement has been caused by the
discovery that the entire stock of one
of the largest houses dealing in wines
for medical purposes consisted entirely
of artificially prepared mixtures OF
spirit and sugar solutions, favored
with various herbs. Mature.


An investigation of the same kind
here would astonish the lovers of Old
Port and Madeira and Of the fine inn
ported stock generally over which we
are accustomed to smack our lips. We
doubt whether there is a genuine cask
Of pure imported vat wine in the city.
Inter Ocean.
Year: 1878

The gold bulls have formed anoth-
er nice little scheme to delude the peo-
pie. They have formed big pool to
corner gold as soon as the Matthews
resolution passes. Then, as they can
very easily do, by locking ten millions
or so of gold, they will force its price
up, and shout aloud: See what the
reconciliation of silver would do
The Bland bill must he beaten" 1t is
an old trick and will deceive no one.
Times.
Year: 1878

The Health Commissioner of Chi
cago last week made a raid OH the
meat shops of that city to stop the
selling tc the poor of spoiled meats.
The day after Christmas 1000 pounds
of spoiled poultry was captured.
Year: 1878

Some people have hard work to ind US
they say.


1t is one of the easiest places TO find In
town, when you know how.


We are on Main street-north side-frst
stairway EAST of Hannaford's furniture
store-fyst stairway WEST OF Huddart's sa-
loon.


When you are at the foot of the stairway,
If you will look right sharp you viii see our
sign. Then read it carefully, and walk right
up-open the first door you come to on the
RIGHT hand side-without knocking-and
walk in where we print THE ADVERTIS-
Err at


$500 a Year,
and do the best and neatest JOB PRINTING
Of all kinds. promptly, and at the lowest
prices.


Find that stairway-come up and see US
and subscribe. or renew your subscription,
or have a friendly chat-anything to make
it tinteresting-but be sure you find us
Year: 1878

now THE "sOLID SOUTH" TREATS SOUTHERN


REPUBLICANS IS 1T TINE TOR THE RE


PUBLICAN PARTY TO DIsBAND?


A correspondent of the Now York Times
writing from Huntsville, Alabama, Aug.
7th, thus describes the outrageous manner
in which the State election in that State,
which took place on the 5th inst, wos con-
Quoted:


Having no opposition to their State ticket
it would appear that there was no need Tor
the perpetration of fraud and injustice by
the Democratic managers, and yet IN all the
history of Southern reconstruction and Dem
ocratic outlawry, no parallel can he found
for tho gigantic frauds which the Democratic
managers pcrpctrated in Alabama on Mon
day. They were determined to prevent the
negroes from ever again taking any part IN
elections in this State, and by their system
of open, undisguiscd fraud, they have sue
ceeded in accomplishing their design. With
the exception OF the "black belt. the color
ed voters took no part whatever IN the cleo
tions, not even going to the polls, because
they knew that Democrats had control of all
the election machinery of the State, and that
it would be useless to deposit ballots which
would never be counted. No white or col
ored citizen of Alabama who votes the Re-
publican ticket is treated with any sort of
respect or consideration by the Democracy.
The white man who docs 50 is openly treated
as Il public enemy, and is 80 ostracised and
prosecuted that it is equal to a"hell on earth. "
The Democratic press and leaders in this
State held during the late canvass that every
white man who opposed the Democratic
Year: 1878

EN IQHN GlsEkNLEAh
a friends with whom my feet have trod
The quiet aisles OF prayer,
Glad witness to your zeal Tor uod


And love OF man Dear.
Itrace your lines of argument;


Your logic linked and strong
Iweiyh as one who breads dissent,
And fears doubt as wrong
But still my human hands are weak
To hold your iron creeds
Against the words ye bid me sPe"A
My heart within me PLEADS
Who f,tboms the Eternal Thought
Who talks of scheme and pl An
The Lord is God He needeth mol
The poor device OF man.
Iwalk with bare, hushed feet the ground
Ne tread with boldness shod;
dare not fix with mete and bound
The love and power OF God.
Ye praise His justice; even such
Hls plying love deem i;
Ye seek king | iain would touch
The robe that hath no seam.
Ye see the curse which overbroeds
world OF pain and loss
heard our Lords beatitudes


And prayer upon the cross.
More than your schoolmen te lch, within
Myself, alas l know;
Too dark ye cannot paint the sin


Too small tue merit show.
bow my forehead to the dust,


veil mine eyes Tor shame.
And urge. in Trembling seli-distrust,
A prayer without n claim.
| see the wrong that round me lies,
feel the guilt within;
hear, with groan and travail cries,
The world confess its SIN.
Yet. 10 the maddening maze of things,
And tossed by storm and flood,
To one fixed state my spirit clinss
know that God is geod!
Not mine to look where cherubm
And seraphs may not see,
But nothing can be good in Him
Which evil is in me.
The wrong that pains my soul below
dare not throne above;
know not OF His hate,-l know


His goodness and His love.
dimIy guess from blessings known
OF greater out OF sight,
And, with the chastened psalmist, own
His judgments too are right.
Hong for hou sehold voices gone,
For van shed smiles | long
But God hath led my dear ones on,
And lie can do no wrong.
| know not what the future hath
Of marvel or surprise,
Assured lone that life and death
His mercy uncerlies.
And if my heart and flesh are weak
To bear an untried pain,
Tne bruised reed He will not break,
But strengthen and sustain.
No Offering of my own have.
Nor works my faith TO prove;
can but give the gifts He gave,
And plead His love for lov"i
And so beside the Silent Sea
/ wait the mutled oar;
No harm ,r0E Him can come TO me
On ocean or ON shore.
| know not where His islands lift
Their ironced palms in air;
only know | cannot DRIFT
Beyond His love and care.
o brothers if my faith is vain,
/. hopes like these betray,
Pray for me that my Feet may gain
The sure and safer way.
And Thou. O Lord by whom are seen
Thy creatures a they be,
Forgive me il TOO close lean
MY human heart on Thee
Year: 1878

This is catch phrase with the lrredeem-
able party. They have invented it as n
campaign cry, and are shouting it vigorous
ly all along their lines. We believe it orig
mated with Brick Pomeroy, who was too
much of a rebel to fight in the Union army
and too much of a coward to fight in the
rebel army, and so contented himself with
singing filth and blasphemy at President
Lincoln and all patriotic Americans


Nnw
Year: 1878

On the whole. We can sec hardly enough
in the call to urge Us to bolt, hut II can
yass is to he made on the financial question,
our sympathics. II not our judgment. lean
us toward the conservative Gccenhackers.
Year: 1878

The advocates of "thc new American
system of finance" sometimes complain that
their opponents do not treat them with pro-
per respect, and are too apt to express con-
tempt for their arguments as lacking either
in common sense or common honesty. No
doubt there is considerable ground for this
complaint, for many of the arguments put
forth by them are such self-cyident iallacies
that it is somewhat difficult te answer them
with respect or patience. When it is, for
instance, gravely urged that the Govern
ment has the constitutional power to issue
unlimited amounts of paper "dollars" be-
cause the constitution says Congress shall
have power to "coin money" the concu-
sion seems inevitable that the "deep rea-
soncr' has parted with either his wits or his
sincerity, and there is strong temptation to
say as much.


There arc some arguments that possess
hardly substance enough to bear dissection
and ANALYSIS. But the widest and most un-
reasonable scheme, whether relating to NOR
ais, politics, or business affairs, never yet
lacked followers if it was only pressed with
some considerable persistence and audacity.
Ii is not safe, therefore, to conclude that the
most absurd financial fallacy may not have
it weight in misleading the unwary. We
have faith to believe that


THE COMMON SENSE OF THE PEOPLE


will in the end assert itself, and enable ev-
ery honest voter to sec the baseless charac =
ter of a scheme that necessarily sets ont by
assuming that the lessons taught by the ex-
perience of the world are of no value, and
that this country can profitably pursue a
line of action that has always resulted in
disaster when followed by the most enlight-
ened and most powerful nations Of the earth.
But in the meantime it may be well enough
at times to expose some of the fallacies by
which the advocates of paper imitation seek
mislead their followers.


In late issue OF the Smithport Miner
We find letter in which teacher of "the
new American system" undertakes to en-
tighten the puhlic as to
Year: 1878

nifty would be left us for doing
anything else; and even then, if
we had no confidence in human


testimony, we should never ar
rive at settled conclusion upon
any subject. Fortunately, the


unpcrverted instincts of man
kind impel them to tell the truth
rather than to lie, and the gen
eral obedience to these instincts
has begotten a habit of conf
deree in mems words. 1t is on
ly when some selfish interest in
tervenes that deviation from
the truth is liable to occur; and
to check the influence of such
interests, religion denounces ly-
ing as a sin, and human opinion
brands it as a social offence,
which, when sufficiently aggra-
waited, becomes a crime. Men
like Mr.. Buckley, therefore, in
practicing and apologlzing for
lying, run counter both to divine
and human laws, and strike a
blow at the bond which holds
society together. They are like
the Arab who captured a valua-
BILE horse by pretending to be
sick and dying by the roadside.
The owner of the horse came
riding along, and dismounted to
relieve the apparent sufferer,
who proited by the opportunity
to spring into the empty saddle
and make off. AS he went, how
ever, the victim of the deception
called out, "Tell no man by
what trick thou didst get my
hcrse, lest hereafter no one will
dismount to succor the really
sick and dying" Mr.. Buckley
has succeeded in his immediate
purpose, and he may convince a
few people that he has done no
wrong, but since he justifes ly-
ing on religious principles, he
ought not to be surprised if
henceforth he Is not believed
eve1fwhen he speaks the truth.
Year: 1878

Fresh flowers are daily plant
ed around the tomb of Napoleon
IIl.,at Chiselhurst, by direction
OF his widow Eugene. It is
next in order to transfer his
ashes from the island of England
to the banks Of the Seine to be
buried among the people who
were dearest to him when alive.
The Hotel des Invalides is wait
ing to receive the nephew of his
uncle.
Year: 1878

TIE New York Tribune says that
eight thousand signatures to temper
ance pledges are what Mr.. Murphy
has to chow for three weeks work in
New Y ork-Or nearly 400 pledges a
day. With this week he moves to
fresh field OF labor in another thickly
portion of the city, and his
success is likely to be as striking there.
Year: 1878

"Butler cOnfesses that he was de-
ceived in Kear1ey. He accepted him
because San Francisco had indOTsed
him and the endorsement only proved
to be a deiusiou and a snare. Once
Butler glOried in the thought that no
body had ever called him "a id
fool Now he feels as il such q re-
mark might be truthfully made of
him by almost any prOfAne person.
Year: 1878

Russian diplomatists, as a body, are
persistent, devoted, and keen, but they
are trained in the old way, they have a
difficulty in comprehending nations, and
they impede the success of themselves a
great deal too much for US to credit
them with magical iar-sightedness. What
is the value in our day of a diplomatic
service which gives an impression that
it is not to be trusted We do not know
that the Russian diplomatists are a bit
more tricky than all the diplomatists OF
the old world, the diplomatists trained
to deal with individuals, always were.
Napoleon's diplomatists would say any
thing. and Prince Bismarck has admit
ted over and over again, with cynical
frankness, that part of his business was
to fnesse. Their defect is that they do
not see how their age is going, and apply
their notion of management " in its old
sense to nations who are not influenced
like individuals, but in a totally different
wav. The adroit chess player is not
wounded because his adversary looks
stolidly at the section of the board where
the mate does not lie, but the hall
ignorant on-looker thinks it deceit, and
is ready in his wrath TO knock the chess
board over.
Year: 1878

The Audubon Journal tells story OF
a little three-year old girl who ran three
quarters OF mile to summon neighbor
to the assistance OF her mother, who was
seized with sickness suddenly. This was
in the dusk in the evening. When the
neIghbor and little Angel came the
mother was worse, and little Angel," F"
as the child was called, started off on a
tramp OF a mile and quarter in another
direction, to get a man to go for the
doctor. 1t was quite dark when she got
he man started, and turned to go home.
A heavy thunderstorm came up, and
between the flashes of lightning it was
pitch darkness. And that little girl
weathered the storm and reached heme
drenched to the skin, and was not fright
ened, either. She is baby heroine, and
ever since she performed these feats her
mother has been distressed for fear che
will become a little angel above. All
she has to do to keep her here Is to give
her plenty TO eat and let her run around
pretty much as she pleases and take her
chances