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Year: 1879

TMMEDIATEL after the sale of the above
4 described property, the LOT OF GROUND
adjoining the same on the south will be offered
for sale. This lot is improved with BRICK
and FRAME BUILDING, formerly used as q
wheelwright and blacksmith shop, and large
and substantial FRAME BUILDING, divided
the north SS feet, inches on the south and iii
feet inches in depth.


A plat of the property will be shown on the
day OF sale, and the terms of sale made known.


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Year: 1879




In Chihuahua, woman went into a
shoe-maker's shop, in front of his dwell
ing, and was measured for pair of
shoes. The son of Crispin said to the
WON an, "You have very pretty
foot" Do you think sop said she.
He replied, g Yes; that is the prettiest
foot in Mexico" The woman was to
come back next day and leave one dol
lar, when the shoes were to be COM
.menced. The shoe-maker's wife, hear
ing all, said nothing. The next day the
shoemaker was out when the woman
with the pretty foot called according to
agreement, and the wife got her into the
back room and stabbed her to death.
The woman then cut steak out of the
dead woman's leg and packed the body
under the bed. The shoemaker came
home and ate his dinner. The wife
asked him how he liked the meat. He
answered that " it was the best he had
ever eaten" The wife then told him
that he had eaten part of "the pret-
tiest leg in Mexico" He asked her
what she meant. She showed him the
body under the bed and made dash at
him with knife, but he escaped and
ran to the Palacio and told the Judge
what had happened. The Judge sum-
moneda guard of soldiers and went to
the house. He asked the wife if she
had committed the murder, and when
she answered yes, and attempted to
Justify the act, he ordered her to be shot
on the spot by the soldiers; and his
orders were promptly obeyed.
Year: 1879

The other day Mr.. Mike Moloney,
who, we need hardly say, being work
ingman, is a gentleman of elegant
Milesian leisure, concluded to make an
honest penny by catching rats for Jake
Snyder, Esq.'s great rat hunt. He
accordingly scattered some cheese
around in the cellar of Doolegan's sa-
loon, and when a sufficient time had
elapsed rushed in, stopped up the holes
of exit, and began transferring the
squeaking rodents to an empty barrel
previously provided. The first rat Mike
seized with his tongs was large gray
fellow, which he speedily slipped into
the barrel, quickly covering the top
again with cloth. In few minutes
he caught another, and then another.
The rats were large, game-looking fell
lows, and after shaking them out from
behind the boxes and corners for some
hours, Mike concluded that he must
have about couple of hundred, and
braced himself for square lift to get
the barrel on his shoulder. 1t was SO
light that in amazement the industrious
man raised the cover to look in. In
stead of four or five bushels of dog
bait, he saw nothing but bung-hole he
had forgotten to stop. MIR. Maloney
had been catching the same rat all day.
He has now given up labor permanently
in disgust, and is training to become a
Sand-lot speaker.
Year: 1879

Is a promise to pay after death valid 7
Judge Hanna, of Philadelphia, rules in
the affirmative. In settling the estate
of Frederick Dewald the executors
found this claim against it: Gone year
after my death promise to pay to the
order of Charles Krupp one city bond
of fifteen hundred dollars, without de-
falcation, for value received, and with
out interest. Frederick Dewald." The
note was signed in consideration of
Krupp's moving out of house owned
by testator.. The payment was con.
tested by the executors, but the judg-
ment of the court was against them.
The Judge remarked: If a debtor can
enter into a verbal or written contract
for the payment either of money, goods
or chattels during his lifetime, and
which can be enforced against him be


fore his death, and afterward against
his estate, it is difficult to understand
why he can not enter into similar con


tract to be performed by his legal repre-
sentatives after his death, and which
would be sustained against them"
Year: 1879

The Spanish father is absolute king
and lord by his own hearthstone, but
his sway is so mild that it is hardly felt.
A light word between husband and
wife sometimes goes unexplained, and
the rift between them widens through
life. They cannot be divorced--they
will not incur the scandal of a public
separation-and SO they pass lives of
lonely isolation in adjoining apartments,
both thinking rather better of each other
and of themselves for this devilish per-
sistence.
S If men were never henpecked except
by learned wives, Spain would be the
place of all others for timid men to
marry in. The girls are bright and
yivacious but they have never crossed,
even in school-day excursion, the border
line of the ologies. They have an old
proverb which coarsely conveys this
idea: That ga Christian woman in
good society ought not to know anything
beyond her cookery book and her
missal." ~


An ordinary Spaniard is sick but once
in his life, and the old traditions which
represent the doctor and death as always
hunting in couples still survive in Spain.
In all well-to-do families the house of
death is always deserted Immediately
after the funeral, and the stricken ones
retire and pass eight days in inyiolable
seclusion. Children are buried in tofins
of a gray color, pink or blue, and
carried open to the grave. A luxury
of grief consists in shutting up the
house where death has taken place and
never suffering it to be opened again.
| once saw a beautiful house and wide
garden thus abandoned in one of the
| most fashionable streets Of Madrid


The wife of q certain Duke had died
there many years before. The Duke
lived in Paris, leading rattling life


but he would never sell or let that


Madrid home. Perhaps in his heart


that battered thoroughfare, there was 8
silent spot, where, through the gloom o.
dead days, he could catch glimpse o.


a white hand, the rustic of trailing


robe, and feel sweeping over MIN ths


magic of loves dream, softening hi
! fancy to tender regret.
Year: 1879

WHEN the robin jumps along the
lawn or flies from tree to tree scattering
the dewdrops from the leaves; when the
bee coquets with the opening flower;
when the first golden beams dart from
the sapphire skies, and gild the fImy
clouds; when the clover trembles in the
refreshing breeze, and all nature seems
imbued with the charms of paradise !;
then, ahl then it is sweet to turn over in
bed and take another nap Uncle Sam.
Year: 1879

There has been wide opposition BY
millers at the West to the introduction
Of the improved moving machines
which bind, as we'll as cut the grain, for
the reason that bits of the wire thread
used for the binding unavoidably got
mixed in the wheat and seriously in
iured the grinding machinery. This
objection has now, however, been entire
ly overcome by an ingenious arrange
ment of magnets which take up all the
wire and other bits Of metal as the
wheat passes through the trough to the
mill.
Year: 1879

HALF of the hair and beard of man
in Springfield, Mass, has turned gray,
while the other half retains its natural
dark<eolor. The dividing line of the
beard is in the middle of the chin,
and on the head it is Immediately over
the nose.
Year: 1879

II wish you would give me that
gold ring on your finger" said a viii
Iage dandy to country girl, "tor it
resembles the duration of my love
for you it has ne end" Excuse me
sir, she said, u choose to keep it,
for it IL like my love for you it has
no beginning"
Year: 1879

A clergyman being annoyed by
some of his audience going out while
he was preaching, took for his text,
Thou art weighed and found want
ing" Soon after commencing his
discourse he said you will please
pass out as fast as you are weighed"
Year: 1879

A recent advertiser ant contains
the following: 'Ifthe gentleman VIII }
keeps he shoe store with red head
will return the umorella of young
lady with whalebone ribs and An iron
handle to the slate rooted grocer $
shop, he will hear Of something to his
advantage, as the same is the gift Of a
deceased mother now no more with
the name engraved upon it.


Fire-prooi-A blaze.
Year: 1879

Royal elephants seem to be of doubt
ful advantage to community. One
brought home by the Duke of Edinburgh
accidentally killed her keeper en- route to
London, and now one brought home by
the Prince of Wales has stepped on an
old attendant, who died in consequence.
The animal suddenly moved forward,
probably because some one struck him or
pulled his tail He was quite gentle.
Year: 1879

'Acn, WunQCfScnOn !" SAD voice from
the door, and there was the old German
tailor from the floor below rubbing his
hands in ecstasy. Indeed, as the song
said, they borrowed the notes from the
lark and nightingale, SO full and rich and
sweet were they Since ever these chill
dren had been able to raise note they
had warbled together to the jingling of
this worn out old spindle thread Of an in
strument. 1t was the only amusement,
the one distraction, of the household.
The Balbriggans were musical family
aunty had once a fine contralto of her
own; and though | could not carry
Year: 1879

SPRINGERs fame has been sung as the
Sweet-scented Sucker of Sangamon, and very
likely without any violation of propriety.
He is statesman who has wrestled man
fully with the disadvantages of his political
relations until he has attained some celeb
rity. But after all, SPRINGER is q leaky
vessel which needs caulking up. He obtains
allows to percolate through the interstices
of his vanity at the expense of fidelity. He
visited TLDEN and wormed himself into
the confidence of the oveT-credulous Cipher
Ogre. 1t is strange how, when man has u
Presidential maggot in his head, that greedy
worm devours all discretion and breaks
down all the safeguards of confidence and
all the secretions that usually attend
human cunning.


To depart from SPRINGER and TILDEN q
moment, we desire to say that we have in
our minds eye another victim to the Presi-
dental mania, who has been at some period
of his life thrown entirely from his usual
rigid line of propriety by the promphngs OF
ambition. His ears have been opened TO the
syren song ofevery aatterer, and who, though
usually regarded as of a frigid nature, molts
like ice in the hot rays Of the sun when a
song of his merits and the glowing chances
of success is chanted to his willing ear
The bolts and bars of n carefully-guarded
hospitality are all drawn, and those who
two months before, would scarcely have
met look of recognition, are, under the
promptings of the hour made welcome tC
the candidates couch and fare, and the
savior of Rome is at once elevated We
refer to this simply as an episode of one
who, like THDEN, fancies that the sooth-
sayers have his name as President written
in their mystic books. Most delightful de-
lusion, and one which it is no part of our
purpose to break.


But to return to TILDEN and SPRINGER
When we switched off we were about tC
show how SPRINGER had wOrmed himself
Year: 1879

into the inmost recesses of TILDEN's secret
chamber had sat at the feet of his con6ding
Gamaliel and learned wisdom from his own
lips, and then had gone forth into wicked
world, and had given away the trustful
Cipher Ogre and the champion Internal
Revenue repudiator toan uncharitable pub
lie. It appears that the vain aud conceited
SPRINGER fellan easy prey toa Washington
reporter, who is up to "ways that are dark
"and tricks that are vain" in capturing
noodles and turning them inside out to find
what and how much they contain that is
vitality important. SpRINGERs vanity
and selEconceit rendered him rs leaky as o
fractured pot. The siphon was inserted,
and such wisdom as came rushing through
its aperturel 1t fairly gushed out that Mr..
TILDEN, who Isl yet red-hot for the Presidency,
told the sccretive SPRINGER that il was
of vital Importance that the Democracy
should win at the next Presidential cleo
tion, for the reason that the country is now
approaching to what promises to be long
era of prosperity, and if the Democracy can
ride into power on this wave, to which it
will have contributed so largely, II will re-
main in possession of the Government for
an indefinite period.


How true TILDEN is to his instincts and
habits in this communication TO his leaky
friend SPINGER He discovers that through
the wise administration of public affairs
under Republican rule, the waves Of pros
perity are beginning to roll in upon the Ma
tion, and he is ready to step in and steal
or perhaps we should say appropriate-the
fruits that are to be garnered in the future
from the wise sowing and cultivation of
nineteen years of Republican management
Of public affairs. Nothing could be more
consistent than this suggestion to SPRINGER
when viewed in the light of long life OF
selnshness and careful appropriation of the
fruits of other mems efforts. "The Gov
ernment, for an indefinite period" is
coveted and very properly, by one of Mr..
TILDEN's unbounded ambition. But, poor
man, he will die victim of disappointed
hope and blasted prospects. Neither he nor
any of his kind can steal a ride on the crest
of the impending wave of prosperity, as it
rolls in upon country that has once been
saved from the treachery of his party, and
which will, it is to be hoped, continue in the
hands of its conservers.
Year: 1879

There are class of Republicans who
affect an objection to General GRANT, for
the reason that when he closed his second
term and retired from office there was a
political majority against him in tho lower
House of Congress If these disafIected Re-
publicans will only review history they
will find that such condition of things has
attended the first term of every President,
from the administration of JACKSON down
to that of LINCOLN. JACKSON at one time
had both the Senate and House against
him so strongly that they passed a resolu-
tion against him and the United States
Bank bill which he vetoed-(see BENToN's
Thirty Years.. In the fall of 1862 there
was political revolution in the Northern
States, under which many of them went
Democratic, and there would have
been a Democratic majority in the
lower House if the South had been
represented. JACKSON, VAN BUREN, TY-
LEB, POLK, FILLMORE, PIERCE and
BUCHANAN all had opposition to them in
one House or the other. The difference is,
that what happened to them in their first
four years happened to President GRANT
in the last year of his second term; and
every intelligent man knows that it was
the panic and financial depression that
wrought the change at that time. A little
investigation and candid reflection will
show any Republican that it is nothing
new for Presidents to have Congress against
them and, further, that it was no fault in
the Administration of President GRANT


that it occurred during the last year of his
second term. Partizan and personal preju-
dice may conjure up objections TO the Ad-
ministrations of President GRANT, but his.
tory will do him justice and hold him and
his conduct of public affairs up to public
view as among the most wise, just and
benehcent Administrations that have
marked our National history since the
foundation of the Government This aver


ment is fully justified by stubborn facts
Year: 1879

ONE of the arguments used out in Ten
nessee in favor of repudiating the State debt
is based upon the assumption that one gem
Grafton has no right or power to incur obli-
cations which shall be binding upon its sue
cessors. The answer TO this Is that future
generations are not prohibited from enjoying
the benefits which are derived from the out
lays of the present. Postmaster General
KEY, in an interview with the Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore American,
explains that the State Capital building,
some Of the railroads and many of the Mac
Adamized county roads in the State were
built, In whole or in part, with the funds
raised by incurring this debt. Now let the
repudiators apply the logic Of the argu-
ment alluded to above, and tear down and
destroy these improvements before coming
generations are permitted to enjoy them. 1t
is certain that if they are not to be held ac-
countable for their share of the debt, they
are not entitled to any participation in the
benefits that may accrue from it.
Year: 1879

THE wicked flee when no man pur-
sueth." The Brandon (Miss) misnamed
Republican attempts to justify the late out
rage on Mr.. DIXON, in Yazoo County, by
alluding to the possibility that the honest
white men may be run over, robbed and
plundered by ignorant negroes led by
lawless white men. 1t evidently stands in
fear Of dire retribution, for ii says: When
-" this class of men marched on Vicksburg
and the white men, en mdsse, shouldered
their guns and shot them down, we ap-
proved their action, and so did the whole
press of the State. The people of Yazoo
deserve credit for acting more promptly
than the ViclSsburgers, and putting stop
" to it in time to prevent bloodshed. We
" are sorry the necessity arose, and we know
that political capital will be made out Of it,
but we cannot blame the good people OF
Yazoo for protecting their wives and
children from threatened massacre"


Conscience makes towards of us all
The people of Mississippi, who have for
years been trampling upon the rights and
sacrificing the lives of the negroes
know that just retribution for their
multtudinous outrages upon the colored
race since they were made citizens would
have swept their white prosecutors from the
face of The earth. In Mississippi the colored
race are numerically the strongest, and at
any time have held the power in their own
hands to violently avenge their wrongs, il
they had been so disposed, and the hand ol
justice would have beckoned them to the
work; but respect for the law far above
that evinced by the whites has averted sucf
n cat astrophe. There never has been ris
ing of the blacks in Mississippi or any Other
Southern State to redress their wrongs, though
they have been goaded to desperation by tel
years of cruelty and oppression, and there
probably never will be, for the reason that
their friends at the North and elsewhere
have strongly counseled them to respect
the laws and preserve order. Had there beer
as little regard for law and right ON the par
of colored citizens in the Southern States a
has been evinced by the whites, and they
had resorted to physical force to sustain
their rights and ayenge their wrongs, the
whites would either have fled for safety o
have slept under the sod in company will
the thousands of blacks who have been sac
riced to Democratic hate, That no sucl
fate has yet overcome the whites at tn
hands of the blacks under the dire provo
cations that have been heaped upon them
affords good guarantee that there is not nov
nor ever has been any threatened massacr
of the wives and children of the whites
such as is set up now as pretext for driv
ing the Democratic-Independe into alb
ject retiracy from the political field. Th


Bourbons know that they deserve a fat
which they affect so much to dread. n
other race on the face of the globe woul


have peaceably submitted to the wrong
suffered by the blacks.
Year: 1879

markable about this declaration except that
it Is point-blauk admission Of the in
ability of the Tildenized Democracy to get
q hold upon the people when things are
contented and prosperous. In other words
the old Cipher Ogre admits, like HEN
DRIcK b. WRIGHT, that Democratic sue
cess is the natural outgrowth of calamity
and general depression. We agree to the cor
rcctness of this assumption, and add that
the Democracy is naturally the germ from
which this reproductive outgrowth itseli
proceeds.
Year: 1879

he understood them. Emulating the exam-
pie of the great apostle of Democracy, the
Democrats have no respect for courts, laws
or precedents except when they are in ac-
cord with their own wishes and purposes
In the case presented by Senator RAN
DoLPH, it is evident that he should have q
better knowledge of and more respect fol
the precedents of history, as made by the
Democratic party, that he may become more
consistent Herewith in his political groupings
and meauderings.
Year: 1879

Down South the Democrats have it that
General GRANT has withdrawn from the
contest for the Republican nomination next
year in favor of Secretary SHERMAN. They
don't stop to reason, however, that it would
be impossible for man to withdraw from
o contest into which he has not entered.
Year: 1879

IT is the emphatic opinion of the Massa-
chusetts Democracy that the WIDOW BUT
LER is an improper person. Her raid
against the immoralities, alleged and other
wise, ofthe WIDOW OLIVER did not serve to
change this view on the contrary, it con-
firmed it as another instance of the pot
calling the kettle black.
Year: 1879

ACCORDING to the vivacious, veracious
and eccentric Mr., SPRINGER, Of Illinois,
THDEN proposes to steal march on the
American people and manage things so as
to have the Democracy ride into power on
the wave of prosperity which he thinks
is coming in this scountry, and which every
body else knows has already begun to
surge, as it were. In other words, the great
Cipher Ogre proposes that the material
prosperity of the people, achieved under
Republican management of our financial
affairs as we'll US through the more direct
agency Of good crops at home and hard
times abroad, shall be fraudulently utilized
to the advantage of himself and his fellow
office-seekers. If this is not bold attempt
to steal the livery of Heaven in which tC
serve the Devil, what is 1t?
Year: 1879

THE Georgia legislature is making an
effort 10 do away with the custom of whole
sale murder in that State by enacting law
which provides that courts must drop all
other business to hasten through any muir
der case that comes before them, and if
there is no court in session the judge must
call session and at once try the accused
Such law as this would be of advantage
all over the country. Two-thirds of the
murderers who escape conviction owe their
good fortune to the fact that delays are not
dangerous, but on the contrary, a great safe
guard which they one and all seek rs the
prominent feature of their defense.
Year: 1879

his eminent public career has had some
thing to do with the change in him thai
is now SO painfully observable. Another
evidence of his approaching affection is
the unevenness Of his conversations. At
times he will talk with aueney aud ease,
and then in a few minutes relapse into az
attitude of perfect silence, and only
answer questions by 'Yes,n or a NO"
We most sincerely hope that the great
calamity of "a mind o'erthrowno may
never be visited upon the illustrious
general and statesman whom San Fran.
cisco and all the world has delighted to
honor. It would be national af1iction


were he to become incapaeitated for
future usefulness.-So,s Francisco News
Letter.
Year: 1879

St. Eln's Fire is the name given by
mariners TO a weird glow and lightning
like flames sometimes seen around the
spars and rigging of ships at sea. 1t is in
reality a species of lightning, in the form
of a silent discharge Of electricity from
the loftiest points of the ship into the
atmosphere and it is produced by mass
of electrified clouds or air over the ship,
inducing charge of opposite, electricity
on the sea underneath, and drawing it off
by the masts of the vessel, which in this
case acts as lightning rods. A splendid
instance Of the same phenomenon was
!, lately witnessed in the Jura at St. Ger
CUES, where whole forest of pine trees
was seen to be aglow with light, like a
phosphoreseent sea in the tropics. A
thunderstorm was raging at the time, and
at every fash of lightning the iIumina~
ton suddenly disappeared, but soon
shone forth again until the next fash
came. Before the appearance Of this St
Etno's Fire, heavy rains had fallen and
soaked the forest so as to render it con-
duetiye Of electricity, and the thunder
cloud overhead heavily charged with
electricity had induced an opposite
charge, on the ground below, which dis
charged itself into the air by the pointed
needles of the pine trees.