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Year: 1879

The people must be educated. As soon
as this occurs the greenback labor party
will succeed, and not till then, and 1t new
er ought, for what would be the use in put.
tingin men to make laws who are igno-
rant of the very vital question at issue.
The fact is we have had our laws made by
men who are densely ignorant, or who will
fully intended to deceive the people, too
long already, so we should only be lump
ing from the frying-pan into the fire" if
we put in men who are uneducated to the
wants of the people. This can only be
done, through the press and on
the platform, and through club organ
izations. Not wait for large mum
Der to organize, but commence with half
a dozen, or even three or four, and meet,
talk, argue, read, get your neighbors to
read, and the organization will grow.
Time and tide waits for no man, and
1880 will soon be here aud another great
battle is to be fought by ballots, and if we
are successful it must be through intelli.
gence. lfyou can, subscribe for paper;
if not buy one, read it, lend it TO your
neighbor and get him interested and the
result will be the triumph OF right over
wrong. The people will govern instead Of
the Sbylockian money power.
Year: 1879

EVERY day we hear of new converts to
the greenback cause. The people are rap
idly opening their eyes to the fact that the
only hope of the country is in the success
of greenback principles.
Year: 1879

The greenbackers and worklngmen of
New York State must stand ready to meet
a charge from the enemy. The battalion
that is to move upon them is already Or
ganized, armed and equipped.
Year: 1879

WHY insist that those who do not be-
lieve in gold and silver as the standard
money, shall swallow a platform that
makes them so? This rule or ruin policy
is not in the peoples interests. If the
party wants to secure the vote and in
fuence of every greenbacker for its state
and county tickets, a majority should not
insist in examining an unpalatable plat
form down the throats of minority.
Year: 1879

WE want something more than silver
and gold coinage to increase the money
in circulation to a volume that will bring
back prosperity. We want greenback
dollars enough to make butter the same
price it was in 1865, and that is two thou.
sand millions more. We want them now
right of, and enough to retire all of our
bonds, set every industry in motion and
every laborer at work. Then laborers will
earn money with which to buy the far
mer's butter, and every thing else that he
or the mechanic has to sell.
Year: 1879

THE battle as it now stands is trian-
gular fight. The greenback position is
opposed to the republican theory of bank
currency standing on a perpetual bonded
debt and specie redemption through legal
tender currency. 1t is equally opposed to
the democratic doctrine of United States
notes redeemable in coin, and the payment
of the bonds in gold for which August
Belmont sold out Seymour and Blair in
1858.
Year: 1879

IT is time for the people, north, south,
east and west, to unite in deprecatlng and
denouncing any and all attempts to get
up sham fights between different sections
of the country IN order to divert public
attention from the schemes and arts of
the money sharks and political shysters
who are plotting their ruin and enslave-
mont
Year: 1879

PORTLAND platform greenbackers say
we must have unlimited coinage of gold
and silver, because it is the money of the
world. This looks Shylockish. Wine is
the beverage of the world but this is no
sign that its use should be unlimited.
Year: 1879

Snow your colors! Hang out your
banner Be what You arel Don't be a
hypocrite! Put out your sign Don't
try to straddle the fence, for if you do
you'll get split clear up to your shoulders.
Year: 1879

NEW YORK, November l0.-Dry goods
cotton goods in good demand and
very firm; several makes OF Atlantic
brown sheetings have been advanced by
agents. Prints in better demand and
firm. Dress goods doing well and stock
light Spring woolens in steady request
and firm; heavy woolens in fair demand.
Shirts and drawers well sold up and firm.
Year: 1879

New YORK, November lO.-All hope
that the missing ones of the steamer
Champion are saved, is not yet abandon
ed. There was a large quantity OF wood
and boxes floating about and some OF
the men at least will be able TO hold on
and be nicked nn hy passing vessels.
Year: 1879

war against Russia, and cordially invited
the Car to visit Berlin on his way to
Cannes. The Car replied that he could
not come himself, but that the Care
witch would visit the Emperor.
Year: 1879

A number of medical students in In
dianapolis recently undertook to make a
victim of professional resurrection
ist" They told him that they had
secured body and asked him to remove
it from its hiding place. The supposed
corpse in the bag was a live medical
student. The students pointed out the
spot where the bag was concealed, and
the man threw the bag over his shoulder
and set out for the college. The corpse,
with no knowledge of his whereabouts,
Strengthened out just as his bearer was
crossing the canal. With rare presence
of mind the intended victim of the joke
heaved his burden over the bridge into
the water and calmly walked on. Had
not the companions of the unfortunate
fellow rushed to the rsscne there would
have been a areal corpse as the result of
the Joke.
Year: 1879

WAsHlNGToN, February 19.-The Legisla-
| tive Appropriation bill was considered in
Committee of the Whole. The point of order
made last night against the amendment Of
fered by Herbert, repeating jurors test oath
and regulating the mode OF drawing and pay
of jurors, was Overruled, chairman Black
burn deciding the amendment in order.
The point of order made on Southard's 8
| amendment, which repeals the law creating
supervisors of elections, was discussed and
Overruled. In the discussion Hale stated that
he would use every parliamentary devise to
defeat it, and the amendment was then dis
cussed.


The Herbert amendment was soon after
wards adopted by 1877 to s..


Southard's amendment, repeating the Sec
tion which authorizes the appointment of
supervisors of elections, then came up.


Hale made the point that it was not in the
interest of economy. 1t was the boldest and
most radical overturn of the whole body of
criminal law guarding elections. 1t had been
determined by Democratic caucus, which,
like the old French Committee of Public
Safety, rendered nugatory all legislation and
assumed power over life and death. He be-
should not succeed. He would resort to every





being embodied in the appropriation bill
which 10 years experience had taught him.


Southard said the amendment was in the
interest Of economy and would save $780,
600. Hale could not intimidate his side.


C0nger said if it were claimed that the
amendment saved the expense of maintaining
in jails the criminals who violated the cleo.
ton laws, it was strong argument that it
was in the interest of economy


The chairman overruled the point of order,
and Southland advocated his amendment.


Durham followed on the same side.


Hale said the Republicans believe that if
this body of the law is struck from the statute
the lawsof several States would afford no pro-
lection to citizen when he seekst to exercise the
right of suffrage. They believe that if these
laws are repealed the safe guard of vote in
a large portion of the Union is wrenched
away from him and he is left exposed to his
prosecutors. This side has thus far simply
contented itself with its minority vote, and so
far as that goes has yielded to revolution of
the jury box and repeal of the test oath. But
if this thing be further insisted on, want
gentlemen on the other side to understand
that we are here in the last days of the ses-
sion, and that this measure is sought to be
projected on an appropriation bill with the
belief that this side will consent to it. We
have sat here night and day and have aided
the other side to pass appropriation bill after
appropriation bill. Last Monday we voted
almost solidly to suspend the rules and pass
the deAclency bnl ~ ~ 70 avoid what 10
sspe NAN y the countIJ wafts &c extra ~ 1
Year: 1879

SAN FRANCISCO, February 19.-About three
o'clock this afternoon the ferry steamers El
Captain and Alameda, plying between this
city and Oakland Point, colided in mid-pass-
age. A dense fog prevailed and the boats
were close to each other before they could be
seen. The bow of the Ell Captain struck the
Alameda on the port quarter, shattering her
guard and rail, but doing her no serious DAM
age. The port bow of the Ell Captain was
crushed in and she filled and sank rapidly.
The greatest horror and confusion prevailed.
Some of the passengers jumped on board the
Alameda, others sprang into the water In a
few moments the steamers drifted apart and
lost sight of each other in the fog. The Ell
Captain sank to the hurricane deck and drift
ed rapidly towards North Point in strong
ebb tide. The Harbor Commissioners tug,
Governor Irwin, which was in the vicinity,
piloted by the cries of the passengers and the
screaming of whistles, steamed at once to
the rescue and picked up those struggling in
the water. Ii is impossible at present to state
the loss of life at present, if any. Many are
of the opinion that all were saved, but others
say it is impossible but that some must have
been lost. The submerged wreck of the Ell
Captain was grappled by tugs of Melggs'
wharf and is now being towed to the city
front There is great excitement in the city
and crowds are gathered on the streets dis
cussing the news. Both steamers were ferry
boats of the first class. The latest report is
that no lives were lost.


SAN FRANCISCO, February 19.-It is not yet
definitely ascertained whether there was any
loss of life by the ferry boat collision, but
the more general opinion is to the contrary.
The boats remained fast to each other several
minutes, during which time most of the pas
sengers of the Ell Captain got on the Alameda,
except few who jumped overheard in the
excitement. The boats of both steamers
were lowered to pick up those in the water
The officers and crews behaved WELL There
were about forty passengers on the Ell Capt.
tan and nearly 200 on the Alameda. One
sailor was injured by a fragment broken off
by the collision. 1t IS now ascertained that
the Alameda, which was lower in the water
than the Ell Captain, drove head on under
the guards of the latter, striking her forward
of the paddle box. Both steamers were con-
stantly blowing their whistles, and double
lookout was maintained. The Ell Captain
sunk to the hurricane deck in twenty minutes
She now lies in the bay behind Black Point |


SAN FRANCISCO, February Cinnamon
state that two of their countrymen were
drowned on the FL Captain yesterday 1t is
the only loss of life known.
Year: 1879

MI. STERLING, KY, February 10, 1879.


Fisk Bros, Publishers Helena Herald:


have had the pleasure of reading one of
your valuable papers sent here by one of your
townsmen, Amos Senieur. 1 assure you it
greatly interested me. have read it to others
and loaned it to some to take home to read to
their families. The result is that quite party
of us have caught the Montana fever, and are
making arrangements to emigrate to that far
away land. The party consists of farmers,
mechanics, laborers and professional men,
Most of them, however, are men sf limited
means, but full of energy and pluck, and a
strong desire to better their fortunes in the
New Ell Dorado, which promises so much to
men who are not afraid to work. wish to
open correspondence with some one or
more in your city who will give me some idea
of the inducements held out by your city to
men seeking homes and business, and the
prospect of finding immediate employment
on their arrival. I speak not only with
reference to your city, but of the surrounding
country also, and its advantages to men who
wish to engage in farming or stock raising.


l send you our county papers. l will fur
nish best of references from our county off,
cials and business men. Where would be a
good location for Touring mill, tannery,
woolen and saw mill, furniture manufactory,
etc I would like to get all the information
possible, and would take pleasure in distribut-
ing any papers or pamphlets that you would
send to me. Enclosed please find 81 for
Year: 1879

Hon. DAVID s. TERRY spoke
last night to an audience whose
size showed the interest our people
take in the Constitutional agitation
which will doubtless go on ipcreas-
ing in intensity until the 7th of
May. The Judge had not appeared
in public life for years until the
other day. He is gentleman of
commanding presence but he does
not possess the magnetic oratory
which we supposed him to have at
will. We failed to discover
that he threw any new light on the
subject, or improved upon the or.
dinary run of the newspaper dis.
cussion, pro or con, which every
body has analyzed for himself dur
ing the past three weeks. 1t Is
hardly fair, however, to gauge q
mans oratorical powers by his
handling of so dry subject.
Year: 1879

Asa humanitarian we would al
most be tempted to hope that the
new Constitution may not be defeat
ed. There are any number OF we'll
meaning people who have an idea
that its adoption would be at once
followed by political millennium.
Should it be adopted the disap-
pointment of these worthy people,
In the face of the result, would be
so poignant that we should like to
spare them the shock of the
disappointment. We force our
opinions upon nobody, but
we recognize and shall
exercise the free-born Americans
right to express his views. The
partizans of the new Constitution,
if they were successful, would ruin
the State of California for years to
come. 1t is pleasing to know that
they won't be successful.
Year: 1879

THE little game OF bluff-a game
which Is as old as the hills-won't
win this time. The Chronicle is
running over the whole gamut OF
brag, but its little constitutional
vessel is dragging its last anchor on
a straight plunge for the breakers
of a lee shore. Whistling in grave
yards to keep ones courage up is
nothing to the lugubrlous roe
which grim circumstance is enforc-
ing upon the olive" paper. Its real
spirit Is that which drew the
poignant exclamation from Cesar,
"Help me, Cassius, or [ sink"
Year: 1879

ALL aspects of the new Constitu
tion possessing some interest, it il
well that we should note one
phase of the practical operation
Of that instrument. There are at
least nine hundred thousand acres
OF land In this county which will
have to be surveyed before they
can be taxed under the new taxa
ton clauses. Such survey of
itself will cost one hundred thou
sand dollars, If not vastly more.
For an instrument whose authors
boast of its spirit of retrench ment
1t involves terrible outlay at every
turn.
Year: 1879

Hunt, the dog catcher was bitten by
a cur in front Of Second street Market,
which he was tying to capture. The
dog inflicted severe wound on his left
hand. The animal escaped. Mr.. Hunt
with two officers are now hunting
around in search Of the vicious brute.
The dog gave no evidence Of being af-
flicted with the rabies.
Year: 1879

A Broken String.
Sing, and to you No-no--with one note


Jared


The harmony of life's long chord is broken;
Your words were light and by light lips


were spoken,
And yet the music that you loved is marred.
One string, my friend, is dumb beneath your


hand,


Strike and it throbs and vibrates at your


will,


Falters upon the verge OF sound, and still
Falls back as sea waves shattered on the


strand.
Touch it no more, tor you shall not regain
The sweet, lost tone. Take what is left, or
let


Lies music sleep to death. Let us forget
The perfect melody we seek in vain
And yet, per chance, some day before we die,
AS halt in dreams we hear the night-wind


sweep


Around our windows when we iain would


sleep,
Laden with one long sobbing, moaning cry,
One faint far tone will waken and will rise
Above the great wave voice of mortal pain
Hand will touch hand and lips touch lips


again,
AS in the darkness it recedes and dies
Or lingering in the summers evening glow,
Then, when the passion Of the crimson


West,


Burning like some great heart that cannot


rest,
Stains as with blood the waters as they flow.
Some old, forgotten tones may rise and wake
Our dying youth, and set our hearts afiame
With their old sweetness-to our lips the


name
OF love steal softly for the old loves sake.


-CornhM Magazine.
Year: 1879

The town of Covington, Iowa, is liter
ally doomed city. Situated on the bend
of the Missouri river, the banks are
gradually being eaten away, and the
ground on which the court house stood
a year ago is now covered by many feet
of fast flowing water. The cutting away
is done by fits and starts. A week ago
Sunday, says the Sioux City Journal, the
current Set inshore and took off strip
of land thirty feet wide in few hours.
No invasions were made for another
week, when another slice was cut off.
Then about half dozen buildings were
moved hack some thirty feet, and the
next day the land on which they stood
was all gone. The citizens have tried to
moor trees and logs to the bank in the
hope of forming barrier for the flood,
but the current is so swift and the water
so deep that these attempts have failed.
To give an idea of what the town OF
Covington has suffered in the past five
years, the case of the ferry house and
principal hotel may be instanced. Two
years ago there were six hundred feet oi
land between the building and the river
bank; now you can toss a stone out oi
the hotel window in the river, and the
buildings are now being put on rollers
for removal.
Year: 1879

"How fast do you think we are travel
ing?" Charley Fraser, one of the Oldest
engineers of the New York, Lake Erie
and Western railway, asked SaIn re-
porter as they were standing together
on the foot board of Locomotive No.
300, rushing over the meadows toward
Rutherford Park.


II should think we were going nearly
mile minute"


"A mile minute!" said Fraser. 81
doubt if you ever rode n mile a minute.
Few locomotives have driving wheels
over five feet, and have my doubts if a
live-foot wheeler can be pushed mile n
minute. People have very erroneous
idea of the speed of railroad trains. We
are not going now more than thirty five
miles an hour, and this is very fast. Few
trains make this speed. The passengers
in the cars would think we were going
mile minute sure, if l was to pull out
the throttle so as to send her forty miles
IN hour. The express trains make no
such time as the local trains. Where we
lose is with so many stops. No man
could stand on platform car and face
the wind going mile minute. and live.
The breath would actually be blown out
of his body. You couldn't count the
telegraph poles going a mile minute
Talk to an old engineer of that rate being
made by q passenger train. and he
would laugh. | made mile minute
once, however. 1t was when was but
eighteen years of age. was an engineer
then, in charge of fine -foot-wheel
locomotive. There were lot of railroad
moguls on board, and the object was to
make the best time we could. They
were to ring the gong when the speed
was a mile minute. thought we were
making it for some time before the bell
rung. At length, on q down grade. with
a full head of steam, when we were spin
ming along rs if we were all going to
destruction, and the motion of the piston
going over the center could no longer
be distinguished, the bell rang. We had
reached the rate of mile minute. 1t
was the fastest l ever rode, before or
since. l tried hard to make mile a
minute on subsequent miles, but lacked
it three or four seconds every time. l
couldn't squeeze another mile inside of
the sixty seconds. When you hear a
man telling about riding in passenger
train than ran mile a minute, don't say
anything, but mentally scratch off a
good allowance. ."-NeV York Sun.
Year: 1879

1t takes the SUMS light about eight and
a quarter minutes to reach the earth,
and we do not see the sun until eight
minutes after it has risen, while we see
it, apparently for the same reason, for
the same time after it has set.
Year: 1879

A NARROW Escape Sunday afternoon
as Deputy-Sergeant Holzinger, with his
wife, was driving buggy near the new
reservoir the horse became frightened, and
making a sudden turn, oyerset the vehicle,
throwing out the occupants. Mrs. Hol-
Finger escaped without injury. but Mr..
Hozinger was not so lucky. In attempt
ing to secure the frightened animal be was
kicked several times Or otherwise injured
about the head and face, receiving three or
four flesh wounds, rs also q slight puncturc
in the back from the end OF n broken Shaft.
The injured gentleman was taken in the
ambulance to his residence, at the southeast
corner Of Clay and Second street.
Year: 1879

THE FIRST REGIMENT AND THE STATE FAIR.
We are requested to state that the compa-
nies OF the First Virginia regiment have
decided not TO take part in the competitive
drill during the State Fair, because Of the
scaling and uncertainty OF the prizes offer
ed and to say also that as the regim0nt
will attend the celebration at Yorktown on
the 23d instant it will not parade at the
En,r
Year: 1879

GEORGIA MILITIA. The Gate City Guard,
Il well-known military organization Of At
lanta. Ga, will pass through the city this
afternoon on their way to Philadelphia
The officers OF the First regiment will
meet them at the Bclle-ISlc junction and
tender such hospitalities as their brief stay
will admit OF. A special car will leave the
Byrd-Street depot for Belle Isle at 4:45 2. n.
Year: 1879

EGYPTIAN NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT "A
pretty fair audience attended General Col
ston's lecture at Mozart Hall last night.
The matter OF 1t was new 10 the majority
OF persons present, and all Of it was vau-
able information concerning country but
little known TO the outside world. The
stereoscopic views were very fine. but AT
times the apparatus refused to do its whole
duty
Year: 1879

now, but will be able to hold it, which its
enhanced value by conversion into yarns
will enable them to do, would effectually
prevent that gambling in cotton by which
the spectators put down the prices when
the farmers are obliged to sell and put
them up after they have sold it, thus caus-
ing the farmers of the cotton States to lose
millions of dollars every year.


But our correspondent is troubled at
the apparent slow progress in manufactu-
ring cotton. In this connection, as an ev-
idence of the economy of the ''new pro-
cess" we state this important fact: In the
''old process" factories the capacity of a
card is from 40 to IS pounds of silver per
day; by the ''new process" the capacity
of the same card is from IS5 to 200 pounds
of silver per day.


Suppose it takes whole year to con-
vert a given amount of cotton into yarns,
does it not take almost as much time to
produce the cotton and get it ready for
market? But the difference is this To
produce the cotton, the farmer himself
does the work, or overlooks it personally,
and bears all the expense Of its produc-
ton, its preparation for market, ETC., and
transportation to the distant factory, for
which he realizes say nine or ten cents
per pound To convert this cotton into
yarns by the ''new process takes say
twelve months. but the labor is performed
by others-if the farmers own the factory,
as they should be, these agents and ope-
ratives would be under their control-and
all the expense attending its conversion
into yarns is paid for by the money which
the farmers save from being relieved of all
the expense of ginning and baling the cot
ton and getting it to the distant factory
in the raw form. When the farmers sell
their cotton as yarns, they realize net
profit fully equal to what they formerly
received for the raw article. Does any
other legitimate business in the country
pay better?