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Year: 1879

the planter tries to transmit a share OF the


burden TO the colored laborers by charging


them s1O an acre rent for land that is


worth $5; and, in addition to this, the ne


gro, not having any cash to pay ior the
goods he needs from the neighborhood
store, buys them on credit at so per cent
above the cash price. Like all others who
purchase on running credit he does not
know what he is doing, and at the end of
the year is surprised and disheartcned at
finding that it takes all the crop TO pay
his store blll and he has nothing to begin
the new year with" And year after year
this course OF improvidcnce continues,
both planter and laborer suffering severely
in consequence. The needed change will
be hard to effect. 1t would require, in
deed, suchindustry and self-denial upon the
part of the negro, that il can hardly be
hoped for as one of the consummations of
the present generation.
Year: 1879

house, with his wife and the little corpse
and his guns, and threatened to kill any Of
the authorities who attempted to enter and
interrupt his incantations. There has been
no account of the childs coming to life,
and Freeman will have to render an ac-
count for his act His friends say he is in
sane and not accountable, If he is insane
his wife must be in the same state of dis
eased mentality. His mind is all right for
business. He simply carried his zeal and
faith little too far, that's all.
Year: 1879

THE st. Lonis Republican explains the


hardships OF the Southern negro and the
planter as well, in manner that squares


with the facts as they actually exist As that
paper says while the negro is sufferer by
the vicious credit system that prevails IN the
South more than any where else in this
country, he is not the only one. The plant
er is sufferer equally with him, and til c
whole South exhibits the distressing ef.
feet of the system The southern press
in inviting immigrants to come to that
region, declares that the labor of man on
the Louisiana sugar plantation or in Mis-
sisSippi cotton-feld will bring nearly twice
as much money as on grain farm in Iowa
or Illinois. This is only theoretically true
it ought to do so, but it does not--and the
explanation is that onc-third to onc-halt
the fruits Of mans labor in Louisiana and
MississiTvl is disipatcd and wastct
through the practice of purchasing sup


plies on credit and mortgaging the un
grown crop in advance as security for tn


debt. This is perpetual clog on the plan
ter's capital and on the coorcd mans labor
Neitheran individual nor community, stag
gering under a continual debt, can be pros
porous. In some parts of the South IN,
community is forever one year hehind


hand. The whole product of the country


which is the cotton or sugar crop, is NOR,


gagged before 1t is gathered, and some


times, before it is planted, and the plante


and the laborers work only to pay deb,


Neither the planter or the laborer co
thrive under such condition. The fac,o


charges the planter an enormous pnce &,
furnishing him with supplies in adyane
Year: 1879

THERE never has been time in the his
tory of this government and there never
will be while political parties exist, when
party delegations in congress will abandon
caucuses. By means OF caucuses each party
determines upon the line of action it will
pursue in the consideration OF measures, and
thus prevents confusion, delays and misun-
derstandings But for the work done in
caucuses the sessions Of congress would be
continuous. They are absolutely essential
to party harmony and good government,
There never was time when Republican
congressman did not caucus. They are at
it to-day; but IN the fact that Democrats
do the same thing; in the fact that Demo
cratic representatives hold daily or weekly
outside conferences to decide what is best
to do when the time for action comes,
our wonderfully timid Republican
friends see great danger to the
Republic, 1t is "Jacobin club, that has
fearful designs upon the life ofthc nation


For many years, now, the Republican party
have kept up that style of clectioneering
and it has been losing game from the
start. The people don't scare worth cent
The honest Republican is disgusted at the
pretcnse of his worly representative that
the Democratic party that represents more
than three-ffths Of the white people Of the
country, should invoke ruin upon them
selves, while the average Republican looks
on, doesn't approve, but acqulesces But
what else can the Republican party do?
Long ago bankrupt in principle the "crim-
son neither garment" and the right and
power to render itself miserable and con
temptiblc, are all that are left to it.
Year: 1879

SENATOR GARLAND made speech the
other day in the Senate of the United States
on the constitutional power to pass bill to
prevent the introduction Of contagious dis
eases; and, in the course Of his remarks,
said that it would take the South twenty
years to fully recover from the yellow fever
epidemic of last year.
Year: 1879

It appears as though the millennium were coming sure. For when the Southern Pacific and Texas Pacific lions and lambs begin to lie down to gether there must be a vast change in condition of things. Yet whatever may be the outcome of things the news of the day certainly points that way. Jay Gould, for his own amusement" as he says, is manipulating railroad matters with the Iron Mountain, Mls- souri, Kansas and Texas, St. Louis and San Franciaco, Denver Pacific and other lines which he seems to keep Tn his vest pockets, that there Is great danger that he may be able to secure a through line to the Pacific all to himself, while the other roads are hes itating. Therefore the Atchison, To peka and Santa Fe people are rushing about seeking terminus on this coast without stopping to barter with Mexi- co for land grants and foreign citizen ship and other privileges about which there is litigation, and therefore they may push through from the Rio Grande on any parallel which is most feasible. Therefore, likewise, it is possible that the Texas Pacific and Southern Pacific may rush forward and shake hands over the bloody chasm of their animosities at Fl Paso or any where else where they may be able to meet at the earliest possible moment.

 Gould is the angel who hovers over the pool, troubling it with the the whir of his far-reaching wings, and lending it healing power for his breth- ren of the vast railroad systems. The benefciaries of his good offices must feel truly grateful to Gould, and it would not be surprising if each of them were to erect a monument to his memory, or if MT. Huntington and Mr Scott were to join in setting up at the meeting place of their reconciled in terests Colossal Gould with their own statues in enduring marble, occupying the palm Of either hand. And the gratitude of these gentlemen must be the greater in that NIT. Gould exerts himself in their behalf without any view of making money. This is so far in the words of Boatswain, he him self has said it" as witness his own in response to toast at Leavenw orth {:

 l have invested largely in Western railroads, and have arrived at the time of life when investments are not made for the purpose of making money, but for entertainment and to pass away time.

 Modesty could go TO further. The speaker could not say, "I do and so for philanthropy's sake" though he could make it clear that he did not la Dor for his own sake, and leave the rest to inference. The magnanimous always do that way.
Year: 1879

THE question selling business seems to be in operation in California still. A young lady candidate for a teachers certificate was caught the other day with the proper answers to questions written on her cuff. A young man D from Sacramento furnished them to her
Year: 1879

THE revolutionary movement in Mexico is known as the Plan of Tap otan," and appears to have for one of its principal objects the establishment of the Catholic religion as the sole re- ligion of the country.
Year: 1879

is the title of valuable little pamphlet, sent free to any address for the stamp, Ad- dress, Butter Improvement Co.,, Buffalo, N, Y. It tells you how to increase amount Of butter from given amount of cream per cent improve quality of butter 20 per cent, make 'gilt edge" or golden colored butter the year round Every farmer and dairy man should send stamp for it. gaf
Year: 1879

Some firm in Germany is attempting to substitute paper for wood in the man. nfacturc of lead pencils. The paper is steeped in an adhesive liquid, and rolled round the core of lead to the required thickness After the paper is dry it is colorcd and il resembles, when finished, an ordinary cedar pencil
Year: 1879

A dignitary OF the church was dining
out. OF the two ladies between whom
he was seated the one on his riaht.hand
aide was an intimate acquaintance. and
noticed that her distinguished neighbor
was silent and preoccupisd. said to him,
sotto voce, ~ am afraid you are not
very well this evening. you do not seem
in your usual spirits. "well, said the
dignitary, ~ am in rather nervous
state OF mind about my health, and have
Q sort OF presentiment that a serious i'll.
ness is hanging over me. lam conscious
Of q peculiar numbness all down my
riRht side, which seems to forebode an
attack Of paralysis" His fair companion
expressed her hope that such fears were
ill.founded. "Ah. no" he replied. ''l'm
afraid there's no doubt Of IL for have
been piuching my right leg all dinner
time, and can elicit no responsive feeling
Whatever. The limb seems quite dead
20 all feeling" "Oh." exclaimed the
lady, briskly. and with an expression OF
intense relief on her face, eli that Is all
which troubles you I think can at
once relieve your mind from anxiety. for
toe leg which you have been pinehins
all the evening Is mine"
Year: 1879

Little Billy has been taken to see his
old uncle. who is SO deaf that he cannot
hear single word without recourse to
his ear.trumpet. Billy watches the
movements Of the instrument for some
time with great interest and then
e1claims: "Niamma why does uncle try
all the time to play the horn with his
ear for. when he can't make 1t goF -
French Paper.
Year: 1879

The man that would kick another out
OF his store or office for advising him
how to run his business. can DO seen
after working hours strolling round
toward the printins-ofice filled full oi
suggestions to offer the editor as to the
proper method OF conducting o news.
paper. Herald.
Year: 1879

Into the river they wadcd far.


Over the shadows with laugh and shout
Standing al last on the rocks that lay


Bare when the afternoon tide ont.
Blue OF the seat was in their eyes


Gold of the sun-it vas III their hair,
Fearless they laughed-dd the maidens brave
Why should they tremble, why need they ear
Ragged and rushing as dark as night


Only tuttlng OF foam for crown
Low at the base OF the rocks so bare


Stroye the fierce breakers to pull them down
losses each maiden her sunny head


Proudly as empress her crown Of gold
Laughinglv mocking the breakers rage


Bafed defeated by naldens bold
All. they forgot that the tide had turned


Slyly and softly it quickly ran
Into the river now drained so low.


over the shadows and up the sand
only noiselessly rolling stream


only the turn of the evening tide
Gently it moved as the gentleSt dream


hen the maldeuS saw 1t hope quickly died
Higher and higher it swiftly stole.


Covering lodges and beach OF sand
Deeper and deeper its waters rolled


CARVING sorrow to those on land.
All. there is gold IN the surf tonight


Iwined in the silver Of oceans foam
Clasplng each other two maldenS DRIFT


hIte as the moonlight each face of stone
Rev. Edward A. Rand III CongreganoEahst
Year: 1879

Dissolve four or five pounds of washing
soda in boiling water and throw down
the kitchen sink to prevent the pipes
topping up with grease, etc. DO this
eEcry few weeks.


GREEN CORN PUDDING Take a dozen
ears and CRATE them; add tcacupful OF
milk, a spoonful Of butter, teaspoonful
ot salt and some grated nutmeg; mix well
together; put in a pan, place III a hot
oven, and bake for an hour.


TO KEEP STRING BEANS. Select ten
der beans, break off the ends and strings
at the sides break into inch lengths and
wash well in clear water; in the bottom
of stone jar spread one half inch of salt
on this spread layer Of beans with the
water pretty well drained off, one inch
thick; then salt enough to cover them
again beans, and SO on until the jar is full,
hide the beans completely with salt. Fit
piece Of shingle into the jar, and weigh
down with stone; brine will fill the jaI
IN about two days. When wanted to
cook, wash well in tepid water and soak
over night; boil five or six hours, and
Your beans will be as green and have the
same flavor as in summer. If cold water
IS used when preparing for cooking, the
brine will not be sufficiently extracted
but when the beans first reach the boiling
point, the water may be poured off and d
great deal OF the salt disposed of in this
Way.
Year: 1879

An ICE POCKET. Make a double pocket
Of any kind Of thick WOODEN cloth. with d
space of lWo inches or SO between tile in
ner and outer pockets; fill the outside
one with clean feathers One thus made
and kept closed at the top viii keen ice
for many days.


APPLE PRESERVES. Take some pleas
ant sour apples, remove the core from the
bottom and leave in the stem at the top
Make syrup Of white sugar and water
10 cover them half way up. Bake or boil
until they are Just done through, and
serve up whole with sugar and cream.


TOBACCO ANTIDoTE Gcntan root is
said to be Il tobacco antidotc Buy two
ounces or more of gentian root, coarSel =,
ground. Take as much of il after each
meal, or ottcner, as amounts to d common
qUd of 'tnc-cut." Chew it slowly and
swallow the Juice. Continue this few
weeks and You will conquer the insatia-
bic appetite tor tobacco, which INJURIES
both mind and body and from which
thousands struggle to be free. but give
up in despair.


IHE Sc OF LEMON. There are three
ways Of making lemonade; TO squeeze
the Juice into cold Water-this is the
shortest way; or to cut it in slices and let
it soak in cold water or to cutit in slices
and then boil it, Lemonade is one Of the
best and safest drinks for a person, wheth
er i'll health or not. 1t is suitable to all
stomach diseases; is excellent in sick
ness. The pips, crushed, may also be
mixed with sugar water, and used as a
drink We advise every one to rub the
gums daily with lemon juice to keep them
in health. The hands and nails are also
kept clean, white, soft and supple by the
daily use Of lemon instead of soap. 1t al
so prevents chilblains. Lemon is used in
intermittent fevers, mixed with strong,
hot, black coffee without sugar. Neural
gia may be cured by rubbing the part af-
tected with a cut lemon. 1t is valuable,
also, to cure warts, and to destroy dan
drutf on the head by rubbing the roots OF
the hair with it,
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YKsTERDAY.-ln the
stock market the TRANSACTIONS were on
an enormous scale, pri; "a advanced with
startling rapidiiy and the day was in all
respects one of the most exciting in the
history of the Exchange. Money ruled
at per cent for call loans. Govern
ments were firm, State bonds were quiet
ani railways active and very buoyant
Exchange was dun and unchanged.
Year: 1879

therefore would be accomplished. To othii


the manufacturers reply that this does mol


necessarily tollsw, and one OF them de


MES that Il will follow in this case, while


Others say that be that as 1t may there Is {


point where the decline In nails, rs in n


other articles, will exhaust itself


and that meanwhile the field o.


distribution will widen as 1t /.


cheapened. One Of them said yesterday


that Il we could ship one.ffth Of oul


Wheeling product east OF the mountains
for instance, to Baltimore, which Is q
a natural market during seasons OF low
frelght-and get cost for It, and then get a
smallmargin Of profit on the remainder ol
our product, we could run steadily the
year round aud give all our people con.
slant employment,


The manufacturers here deny that
Eastern operatives have any advantages
over those in the mills here. On the con.
trary, one Of the oldest aud most exper.
fenced OF them contends that the advan.
tages are Overwhelmingly with the men
here. The cost Of livingis less, the hours Of
workare longer, the wages per keg and per
ton are higher, and the nails heavier. Said
he, We want our men to get more for their
work than they get East; we do not ask
urem to come down to Eastern prices, but
the present margin Of difference is too
great,


We inquired as to what mailer here
could make at present prices. The answer
was. about 50 per day. Well, but the men
here say that they do work about their
machines that Is done for them in the East.
As to that, said he ~ would be pleased
in the next adjustment Of prices to see the
same rule adopted here. 1tcould be done
better than tits done now, and at acost not
exceeding one half cent per keg.
would prefer to have it done that way in
Wheeling. A hall cent or less out OF the
five extra cents that we now pay would
meet the cost Of machinist."


We might quote many expressions,
backward and forward, on the two sides
ofthis vexed question, il it were likely to
be profitable to do SO. Our object is to in.
duCe, as far as possible, friendly con-
sideration OF the subject, and to avoid ex.
citing any bad blood. We are deeply i'm
pressed with the difficulties that may sur
rond q satisfactory adjustment OF differ
ences between our manufacturers and
their employees, but SO long as
there is any disposition what
ever evinced to discuss these differ
ences in spirit of justice and forbear-
ance we shall not despair OF solution
that will avoid the closing Of our mills.
To the end Of helping to bring about such
a solution the columns of the INrELLI-
oENcER are open to anyone who may wish
to be heard on this all important subject.
Year: 1879

must have been brave. Captains
Harris and Mcdonald and ex-Mid-
shipman Pipkin, Of the Missouri vol
umteers, and sixty Of their men, side
by side with our brave and trained
soldies, did their whole duty without
fault or fiinchmg on that day. 1t will
not do to claim prominence for Gift
IN this combat of one to thirty, for it
is enough that he behaved Gas / know
that he did, as we'll as the bravest.
and justice to his memory requires
justice to his compeers. To his furthr
honor you might have mentioned his
refusal to be surrendered with his
vessel at Fort jackson some months
previous to the affair, or the Arkansas
when discord of something as effec
tive, gave the lower defences of New
Orleans to the pressing Union forces I;
and still later, Of his daring attempt in
Chattahoochee Bay, defeated by the
desertion of one of his command.
In breaking, for the first time since
the war, his self-imposed silence with
regard to events within his knowledge,
the writer of this is further tempted
to say that there is one person yet
living who could give true history of
the most brilliant achievement in
naval annals. But the way in which
the public has received the writings
of men more distinguished, more ca
pable and more notorious than him
self confirms him in the conviction
that we should leave to the next gem
Grafton the duty of clearing up the
mistakes and softening the crimes of
the present. Nor would the writer
willingly now place upon record any
thing to dim the luster of that flag
once more his Own-which in times
long gone by he carried with honor
twice around the globe and into every
sea known to our naval service. | am,
Mr.. Editor, very truly yours,


KANEMBU.
Year: 1879

The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette says that as
to the employment of troops about
the polls, it is not expected that the
Republicans or the President will
deem it necessary to allow the army
bill to fail on that account. In fact,
there are many who believe that the
real contest in the conference on the
army bill, although its discussion was
carefully avoided, was the concealed
opposition on the part of several mem
bers to the railroad telegraph clause,
and that the political amendment was
largely a cover from which to defeat
the new telegraph legislation"
Year: 1879

lT is given out from the White
House now that, to be consistent with
his Southern policy, Mr.. Hayes would
be willing to allow the repeal of the
test oath and the law allowing him to
order troops at the polls, but that he
will sign no bill that repeals the super
visors law. 1t is, of course, difficult
to tell what the upshot of it all will
be, further than to indicate that the
Democrats are in an aggressive humor,
and are going to stand firm. If the
deadlock should continue until after
the first of July, members of congress
and all the heads Of the government,
together with the United States
Courts, and the clerical forces of the
departments at Washington, would
receive no pay. This might have a
decided influence on congress one way
or the other.
Year: 1879

QUEEN VICTORIA will leave London
on the 25th of the present month for
Paris. The distance between the two
capitals is not very great. 1t has been
done in much less than nine hours,
and can be done readily in ten and
yet it is now a quarter of century
since Queen Victoria crossed the
channel and landed in France. 1t was
not until she had been seventeen
years on the throne that, accompanied
by the Prince Consort and her eldest
son and daughter, she returned in
Paris the visit which Napoleon TIT
had paid to her majesty at Windsor
Castle.
Year: 1879

The Cleveland Leader has been in
teryiewing the prominent Republi-
cans in its vicinity, and finds that
they are all for Garfield for Governor,
but as he is out Of the question the
next best man is Taft. They think
he would unite all the interests. The
oplnion.seemed general that Garfield
would be the next. Senator from
Ohio and formidable candidate for
President.
Year: 1879

senator said: 81 wish, if you make
any mention of me you will be kind
enough to correct the statement
printed originally in the Washington
Star and copied in the Enquirer that
| had shaken the dust of the capitol
from my feet and left in disgust.
That is not true. There was no disgust
about it. | have many warm personal
friends OF both parties in Washington,
and l hope to meet them soon again
and as often as may be.


" And are you glad to get home"


" Yes glad to be at home and at
my old work"
Year: 1879

II Now that the election is over, and Char
ley Burkhalter has "got there" and cannot, &C.
cording to law, have third term, perhaps those
extra nice Republicans who insisted that he was
Democrat, will allow him to still call himself
Republican, and vote the ticket. Men who go
back on the party oftenest, and help to elect
Democrats to Office, are generally the ones who
raise the mad-dog cry against candidate, th at
he in n Democrat
Year: 1879

- "The colored troops fought nobly." When
the Democratic aud sore head workers go to set
ting 'em up to the colored men, and getting
them to whooping against the Republican tick
ct, q week before the election, it is soft thing
for the darkeys, but poor speculation for the
workers The colored men vote the Republican
ticket, on election day, no matter who they yell
for before. About fifty colored men voted here,
and not over three of them scratched their tick
Year: 1879

v One good thing about this County elec-
tion is, the Democrats and Greenbackers have
their forces well in hand and thoroughly organ
lied, ready to go into the Presidential campaign
of l8SOi
Year: 1879

n 1t is an established fact in the science of
political bummerism, that half a dozen sore
heads will make more noise than five hundred
solid men who act from principle. To have
heard these fellows, before the election, one
would have thought that Burkhalter would be
beaten five hundred votes. Bnt noise and blow
do not count in the tally lists.
Year: 1879

GROCERIES.
1t this line certainly stand at the head thou
sands will testify who have taken advantage Of our
liberal prices.


TINWARE.
We also carry full line of Tnware, staple Hard
ware, etc. In fact, in our house you can find any
thing you want