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Year: 1879

A German physician has started a
new tlie,rs with regard to food He
maintains that both the vegetarians
and the meat eaters are on the wrong
track. Vegetables are net more
Wholesome than n eat nor meat than
vegetables, and nothing is gained by
consuming compound of both.
Whatever nntritive qualities they may
possess, ne says, ale destroyed IN
measure, and often BY the process of
cooking. All food snould be eaten
raw If this practice were adopted
there would be little or no ilhess
among human beings They w9ud
live their apportioned time and sim
ply fade away, like animals in
wild state. from old age. Let those
affected with gont, rheumatism and
indigestion try far a tine the effect Of
a simple uucooked diet, such as oys-
ters and fruit for instance, and they
will find all medicine unnecessary and
such a rapid Improvement Of their
health that they will forswear all
cooked articles of food at once and
forever. lntemperance would also, it
is urged, no longer be the curse of
civilized communities. The yearning
for drink is caused by the unnatural
abstraction from what are termed
'solids' of the aqueous element they
cuntain-uncooke beef, for example,
containing from 10 to 80 per cent and
some vegetables even larger pro-
portion of water. There would be
less thirst, and consequently less de-
sire to drink if our food were con.
sumed in its natural state without
first being subjected to the action of
fire.
Year: 1879

Notwithstanding the dearly bough


experience Of the past, there are many


merchants, manufacturers and other


who advertise their business on th'


gable ends Of houses, and on pieces o


painted board stuck up amongst the


limbs Of trees and on the corners O


fences, and then there are others who
stick their cards about hotel desks and
railway stations, where they are scarcely
ever seen by the persons whose stteu.
ton they strive to attract. As general
thing those who advertise in this man.
nsr do not advertise any where else,
and ten to one in short time their
business goes where thsir advertise.
ments are--up the spout. To an Ell.
terprising person who is OH the look
out for a real wide awake place Of busi-
ness in which to make purchases or
leave orders, these cardboard adver-
tisements appear like some temporary
covering Of an air-hole, and even II
:hers is real merit in the firm and goods
advertised, the good effect is all lost.
These same merchants and nanufactur
ers have horrible antipathy to adver-
tising in newspapers-i. costs too
much. They wonld much rather spend
$40 in the card and boar. nuisance,
which may attract the attention Of a
hundred or two curiously disposed per-
sons, than to put a card costing tho
same smount in live pap.r, like the
REPuBLicAS, with a circulation of five
thousand, where it will appear in sixty
thousand papers in two weeks time,
and each paper read by at least four
persons Oh an average. Such merchants
or husinesss men who carry on their
avocation in tina. kind OF a spirit will
tell us when called upon for an adver
tisement, that it don't pay to advertise
in the nswspa pers, and they will soon
find too that their business won't pay
either. Business men might as well
realize first as last that the newspaper
is the best advertising medium. This
is an age Of newspaper reading, and
the readers expect to find thu cards Of
all enterprising, activ. business n-n
in their papers, and it need not be
thought strange by those who do not
advertise that such enterprising news
paper readers do not dark.n their
doors.
Year: 1879

The first message of President Hayes
to the Forty Sixth Congress is model
for brevi,y aud yet it contains all that
is requisite. He very wisely indicates
his wish that the session ma b. a
short our, and he lays before the i've


houses of Congress no new matter on


which he invites their action. II. sim.


ply asks them to pass the appropriation


bills which were lost at the last s-s.
sion, and expresses his regret at the
emergency which requires special
session when the business of the coun
try requires legislative repose. We
are sure that the whole country shares
the wish of the President that Congress
may speedily pass the appropriation
bills and adjourn. He not only re-
frains from presenting any new sub
jects of legislation, but significantly
conveys his opinion that the country
needs peace and rest. Notwithstanding
the Indifference with which his message
is received, he sets praiscworthy ex-
ample of coming straight to the point,
himself to the point and dis
pensing with all unnecessary words.
1t ia sincerely hoped that Congress
will initiate the worthy example Of
President Hayes, expedite its business
promptly and make haste to 60 home.
1t is true the country needs rest.
Year: 1879

The TANMANy Ring of New York who
before the election said that Mr.. Coop
er the Anti-Tammany candidate for
Mayor was weak and vascillating, has
found out their terrible mistake. For
some time he has watched the Police
Commissioners to see if there was any
prospect of any reform, but when he
found that the hope was futile he rose
equal to the situation and turned them
out of Office. Mayor Cooper has the al
most unanimous approbation Of the
whole body of the best citizens in his
strenuous resolve to put them out Of Of
fee, and those who defed him now
find they have no child to deal with.
Year: 1879

Judge Rives OF the United STATES Dis
trict Court of Virginia is one OF the few
Judges who have the determination to
soc that the laws of the United States
are not violated with impunity, and has
caused the indictment Of five State
Judges for practically annulling the act
of Congress relative to the selection OF
Juniors in the State courts. The SEQ
ton of the aot of Congress which they
have been violating provides that no
citizen otherwise qualified shall be ex-
oluded from the jury lists on account
of color, race, or previous condition.
1t further declares that any officer
charged with the duty of selecting or
summoning jurors who shall exclude o.
fail to summon any citizen for the
cause stated shall be guilty of mis-
,-demeanor, and be fined not more than
5000.


The arrest of the So judges has created
sgreat sensation, and the clamor against
Judge Rives Is very loud and violent.
lie is denounced as usurper by the
Bourbon Democracy, ana terrible things
are threatened in case these judges are
brought into the United States Court
over which the Judge presides. 1t is
only the old quarrel revived. The
State is deemed paramount. In a few
words, part is greater than the whole.
The last sentences of the charge of Judge
Rives comprises the whole matter in
dispute. "You are," said the Judge,
"to take the laws Of Congress as they
literally stand till they are declared un-
constitutional by Federal courts.


.here can be no more doubt that tn e
United States are bound to make its
guarantees good, and Congress has in
pursuance of a provision OF the organic
law enacted that color, race and pre-
vious condition Of ssrvitude shall not
work a forfeiture of any right to W hich
= citizen is entitled except under pen
aaty. The plea is set up that the act
OF Congress il not constitutional. AL
though that Is not the question, it is
proper to say that the meaning Of it is
that all over the South there are
Judges, and lawyers, and Legislators,
who in effect hold and teach that the
~ amendments to tho organic law are hot
constitutional. For ii the amendments
are valid, then the law is certainly val
id; and we risk the prediction that the
issue to be made, and now approaching
is as to the validity of the last amend
ments.


Why should men Of sense shut their
eyes to the evident tendency of south
ern, and perhaps We should say Demo.
cratic, thought, and refuse to see that
there is to be desperate struggle to
eliminate each of those amendments? 1t
matters not how solemnly the public
men Of the south affirm their acceptance
of.those amendments so longas the action
of southern courts and Legislatures is a
practical nullifcation OF the spirit and
purpose of those amendments. And
the man who refuses to see the logic Of
such action is too poor creature to dis
pute with.
Year: 1879

Kearney seems to have lost his power in California He spoke to a large crowd at Salina recently, but the next day the town tory for the Citizens party, and Sacramento has given a Republican majority. {
Year: 1879

There were nine hundred and five English soldiers killed by the Zulus at Isandula. This is greater loss than was sustained by the British at the battle of the Alma added to the combined French and British loss at the battle of Inkermann
Year: 1879

The following is from the Eureka New Senh-
mel: After man came woman.


And she has been after him ever since.


She is a person of free extraction, being made
of mans rib.


don't know why Adam wanted to fool away
his ribs in that way, but suppose he was not ac-
countable for all he did.


1t costs more to keep woman than three dogs
and shotgun.


But she pays you back with interest-by giving
you q houseful of children to keep you awake all
night and smear molasses candy over your Sunday
coat Besides wife is a very convenient article
to have around the house.


She is handy to swear at whenever you cut
yourself with rasor, and don't feel like blaming
yourself


Woman is the superior being in Massachusetts,.
There are about $4,000 more of her sex than
males in that State.


This accounts for the terrified, hunted-dOwn
expression of the single man who has emigrated
from the East.


Woman is not created perfect.


She has her faults-such as false hair, false COM
plexion, and so on.


But she is a great deal better than her neighbor,
and she knows it.


Eve was a woman.


She must have been model wife, too, for it cost
Adam nothing to keep her in clothes.


Still, don't think she was happy.


She couldn't go to sewing circles and air her in
formation about everybody she knew, nor excite
the envy of other ladies by wearing her new win
ter bonnet to church.


Neither could she hang over the back fence and
talk with her near neighbor.


All these blessed privileges were denied her.


Poor Eya she's dead.
Year: 1879

A village dame possessed little son,
And he was spoiled because the only one;
He lied he STOLE he threw away his book,
And what he could not fairly get, be took.
Whene'er she sent the urchin forth to school,
With thumb at nose he scorned her as a fool;
And though she laid him oft across her knees,
Her gentle spanks did not affect his ease
At last the kindly dame asserts her rule,
And tells the youngster he must go to school;
"Unless you promise me this thing to do"
She said, "no breakfast in this house for you"
Quoth he 81 don't feel hungry, anyhow,
And to the river l shall 60 right now;


There will fish and swim, the time to pass,
And you and school alike may go to grass"
He ished and swan till noon, then homeWard came
To meet the growing anger Of the dame.
Said she: "You disobeyed me without fear,
And you shall have no bit Of dinner here"
Quoth he; "Twill surely drive the neighbors wild
If you attempt to starve your only child;
For your demands don't pretend to care,
And now deny me dinner if you dare"
The dame in sorrow wipes her fearful eyes,
Gets out the meal and mournfully replies:
"I grieve to see you growing up Ounce,
But you shall have your dinner for this once;
Yet if this afternoon to school you go not,
You shall not have for supper cen doughnut.
Again the boy, well pleased to disobey,
Goes forth to spend the afternoon in play.
He steals her cord, robs her of her pins,
Wherewith to tackle fishes gills and fms;
But comes up smiling, with joyful yell,
Attracted homeward by the supper bell,
On him the dame then bends her eyes severe,
Though in the left one glistens still a tear,
And says: 'My son, so badly you behave,
That you will bring your mother to the grave;
And, should 1 do as righteous parents do,
No bite of supper would there be for you;
But that my temper you may justly dread,
When Goals of fire heap upon your head,
1 now decide, though you are much to blame,
That you shall have your supper all the same"
Year: 1879

Virtue does not give talents, but it supplies their
place.


There is nothing SO fatal to comfort, as well as
decorum, fuss.


1t is fool who praises himself, and a madman
who speaks of himself.


tits human nature to love to make experiments
at the expense of others.


A mans good breeding is the best security
against other peoples i'll manners


To act upon determination made in anger IS
like embarking on a vessle during storm.


No cord or cable can draw so fOrcibly or bind so
fast as love can do with but a single thread.


We live to learn, but death comes to thousands
ere they have mastered the alphabet of common
sense.


The reason why so few marriages are happy IS
because young ladies spend their time in making
nets, not in making cages.


No man is wiser for his learning; it may ad-
minister matter to workin or objects to work upon,
but wit and wisdom are born with man.


The habi. of resolving and not acting is worse
than not resolving at ALL inasmuch as it gradually
sunders the natural condition between thought and
deed.


Cunning leads to knavery it is but step from
one to the other, and that very slippery. Lying
only makes the difference: add that TO cunning
and it is knavery.


Ideas are the engines that draw men up to the
higher planes Of being. 1t Is from Ideals that
aspirations spring, and it is by them that develop
ment is produced.
Year: 1879

Published By Order Of the County ConHis'ioners


Of said County, IN Pursuance Of Section of


Article 2S Of the Code Of Public General Laos


ichieh proeides


"That the County Commissioners shall make out
and publish annually, in at least two newspapers
published in their respective counties, if there be
two, A DETAILED, MINUTE AND ACCURATE
STATEMENT of the expenses of their said coun-
ties specifying therein each particular item of ex-
pense, and for what and to whom paid, and shall
also deliver to the Sheriff Of their respective cOun
ties as many copies of such Statement as there are
Election Districts of said county, at least ten days
before each general election, and the Sheriff shall
within six days after the receipt of such copies,
set up of them at the place of holding elections
in each District.
Year: 1879

An AsroNIsHED EDIroR.-An exchange says
ave find upon our table one of the newest pictures


1t is beautiful in design, small, but showing great
artistic skill in its makeup. The prevailing col
ors are green and black, the two blending so har-
moniousy that the effect pleasing in the highest
degree. We shall not, of course, presume to give
an exact description of this picture, but some OF
the characters look so noble, so striking that we
cannot refrain from describing them. The head
CENTRE or rather the hero of this picture holds IN
his left hand a banner, in his right sword his
hat is thrown on the ground his head is thrown
back his left foot extended and, taken altogether,
his appearance is that of one challenging another
to mortal cambat. waiting for the other fellow to
knock off the chip. His eyes are cast upward,
resting on the word fv-. Hello what's TINS
Great snakes if it isn't five dollar bill We TOOK
II for some new kind of a Christmas chrome, that
had come in the mail But we see how 1t IS
either our devil has been robbing bank or some
delinquent subscriber has been
Year: 1879

Colonel Clapp made his speech in
the senate yesterday on the State debt.
From the telegraphic accounts it can
notbe known whether Ire defined what
rate Of settlement he would favor He
seems to have made five hours
speech, which was but o repetition of
the complaints made in this State
several years ago by the bondholders
and their agents on this subject 1t
was simply moral lecture to the peo-
pie Of Tennessee, upbraiding them for
not paying debts that he calls honest,
and an attempted defence along the
whole line and in every particular Of
the bondholders' position, and their
demands against the people of
Tennessee. This speech meets
with no favor in this community, and
our people are sorely disappointed in a
public servant whose ability and ex-
perience would naturally have led
them to expect sympathy and repre-
sentation from him. Colonel Clapp
has not been in public life in Tennes-
see, and has doubtless given such lit
tie attention to the political discussions
in the State for the last ten
years that his present very awk-
ward and unsatisfactory position
may be ascribed to this cause. The
battle in favor of what is known as
State credit in Tennessee was ably
fought in 1901, ~ '73, and in 1874,
and it was lost The champions of
that side have long since quit the
field and given up the contest. 1t is
surprising that a man of sense should
now go on this worn out ground. Col.
Clapp, in doing it, is utterly behind
the demands of the times, and does not
appreciate the situation in this State.
Craftsmanship should address itself
solely to the question of accomplish
ing the best settlement for the people
that can be effected in view of all the
equities Of the case. Senator Clapp
thinks that every dollar of the debt Of
Tennessee is valid and legal. What
were his views about the Mississippi
debt? We ask the senator distinctly
whether or not he favored reputation
in that State? Such is the opinion in
this community. Ifhe lives in glass
house he ought not to be throwing
stones at his people.
Year: 1879

A susceptible young man was Tilted
at Charlotte, n. c. He went to a
house where the girl was spending
the evening with a party of her own
sex, and asked to see her. She re-
fused him an interview, and he could
not even get into the house. He de-
clared that he did not desire to live
longer, and Mas going to kill himself,
then and there. The girls came out
on the doorsteps and said they were
ready to witness the suicide. Then
he drew a knife, made a feint of stab
bing himself, fell on the grass, writhed
as though in death agony, and scream
ed at the top af his voice. By thus
frightening the girls he might have
gone away with flying colors had they
not, as a restorative, drenched him
with pals of ice water.
Year: 1879

Some very interesting experiments
were conducted at the New Hamp-
shire Agricultural College during the
winter of 1878 and 1879, the result
of which may be of some value to
western farmers. The experiments,
very carefully and accurately carried
on, were ten in number, hut we will
here only take time to mention few
of them. Three methods of curing
corn were investigated. Weights at
harvesting and in the spring were
taken, and the milk product from
stocked, topped, and corn matured on
the hill, noted. The result was IA
vorable to stocked corn; the poorest
results being obtained from topped
corn.


Of the feeding experiments, cotton
seed meal gave better results than
corn meal, when fed with corn fodder.
When corn meal was fed in compari-
son with bran, the results of a long
series of experiments showed that
corn meal makes slightly more milk
and from fifteen to twenty per cent.
more butter, and of better quality
than that made from bran, the
amount of bran and meal fed having
the same money value. Swedish
turnips proved to have a value of
little over six cents a bushel when fed
to steers. Eastern cob meal was not
found equal to Western clear meal as
food, but Eastern clear meal was found
superior to Western clear meal. East
ern cob meal, seven and a half pounds
daily per COW, was found to give more
milk than Eastern clear meal, six
pounds daily per COW, but less butter.
Middlings were found more valuable
than corn or corn meal for growing
pigs. One hundred pounds of mil
dlings gave 29.2 pounds growth; 100
pounds of corn meal gave only 4.S
pounds growth.
Year: 1879

New YORK, Sept. 8.-That the
business boom in the iron trade is not
a fiction is attested by the fact that
circulars sent to the chief IRON working
firms of this vicinity, asking them to
bid on the work done for the new War,
State and Navy Department build
ings, elected answers to the effect
that the firms have on hand more
work than they can now conveniently
do, and that it will be impossible to
perform the service asked by the Gov
ernment in the allotted time. Inquiry
at the Cornell and the Delamater Iron
Works here, the two largest in the
city, elected the reply that they are
running all the employees that can
work with facility, and most of them
are working extra hours. In other
places the answer was practically the
same-that the iron-working industry
is again in its best, and has all it can
do to fill orders. The Hon. A. S.
Hewitt said that the revival in this
branch was not to be doubted. He
regarded it as a most hopeful sign of
the times; for iron becomes brisk, not
before, but after general increase in
business in other industries. 1t was
a sort of pulse of commerce. He ad-
ded that there had been no fear of
difficulty in getting supplies. Last
year, 100000 tons of pig iron were
produced. If all the mills of the
country were put in operation, 1000,
900 tons might be turned out. The
low price of iron and steel in England
holds prices somewhat in check, Mr..
Hewitt was positive that the business
boom had begun in teal earnest, and
had come to stay. He detected its
approach year ago, and it had been
increasing ever since.
Year: 1879

From the Lexington Press we learn
that company of Eastern capitalists
purchased the Mammoth Cave on
Saturday, and will proceed at once to
put it in the best possible condition to
make.its great wonders accessible, and
to be seen under the best conditions.
The railroad from Glasgow junction
will be completed to the cave, the
hotel and surroundings put in the f.
nest order, the entrance to the cave
made convenient, the routes made easy
and secure, and such other facilities
for thorough exploration as will make
a trip through it matter of pleasure
instead of a pilgrimage of penance as
heretofore. The price paid was 5000,
600; much less than its value to the
purchasers and much more than its
value under the old management.
Year: 1879

1t is now generally conceded that
this second visitation of yellow fever
will ruin Memphis prospects for the
cotton trade, at least that part of it
which comes from West Tennessee.
In view of this fact, Louisville and St
Louis are sparing no pains to induce
such trade to 90 them, and we wonder
at the apathy of the usually live busi-
ness men of Nashville upon this SUBJ
iect. The amount of cotton heretofore
shipped to Memphis from the western
portion of West Tennessee is almost
as much as all that goes to Nashville
from any source, and now that it is
bound to seek another market it is
strange that Nashville does not offer
some inducements for it to come there.
The best plan for her to pursue would
be at once to lend substantial aid to
the construction of the Tennessee
Central Railroad, thus offering di-
rect and convenient route to a good
market. As it is, the millions of dol
lars worth of the staple now raised
here will find a market elsewhere, and
of course enrich the towns where it is
sold. The most Insignificant trades
man in Nashville would be benefited
by the completion of this road,-Hun-
tiIagdon Vihdicator.
Year: 1879

Col. Edwin Lawrence Drake, who
sank the first oil well, is living in a
modest home in Pennsylvania. He is
disabled by muscular neuralgia, and,
as he sits in an invalid's chair at his
doorway, he can see the long tank trains
carrying away the product of his dis
coyery. His illness at an unlucky
time prevented him from making a
fortune; but he has a pension of ST.
500 a year from the state.
Year: 1879

In the street parade of circus at
Mayfeld, Mo-, was a lions cage, out
of which hung the beasts tail. A boy
could not resist the temptation to pull
it, whereupon the lion attacked a man
who was in the cage, and bit him dan
gerously.