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Year: 1879

Our New NeighboF.


We received copy of the North.
western Land Journal purporting to be
printed here; but in reality printed in
Milwaukee. Wisconsin, which isa monthly.
published BY E. P. Wells, who has taken
the ground which has been covered in the
ALERT, and other papers along the line
and condensing it. The above paper is
Qratuously circulated. Still We give it a
kindly greeting, and extract certain words
ut wisdom from its salutatory, which we
give below.


"The publishers wish to disavow any in.
tention Of encroaching upon the domain
or contesting the claims of any of the
journals that are here before US. Probably
in no section of the West is the field 80
we'll occupied by newspapers so ably con-
Quoted ~ is the line of the Northern Pa
ci6c Railroad, whose people should take
IN especial pride in, and literally sustain,
:heir excellent local papers. The prestige
enjoyed by this section of the country,
and the success which it has already at.
tanned, are directly and largely due to the
mastery manner in which its advantages
have been advertised to the world by is
enterprisipg papers. Neither do we claim
to supply long felt want because we
know that in this wide awake country nc
want is allowed to become long felt be-
fore it is supplied But we come to gil a
niche, which We believe is not yet occu-
pied-to devote ourselves exclusively to
advertising to the world this great and
glorious country, and the advantages it
offers to the residents Of other and less
favored localities. We do not propose to
furnish the local news except as it may
pertain to and aid in our chief purpose;-
to become the organ ofany person "r party,
or in any other way to interfere with the le-
gitimate purposes OF your general newspa-
per; neither do We ask the support of the
people to the detrement of your established
papers. What we do ask, is that every
man who has any interest in the growth
and development Of this country, will
after literally sustaining bis local papers,
assist to the extent of his ability in max.
ing The Land Journal merely self fsup.
pOrting. @s -


And again We feel impellcd to ssy to
you oil, do not depricate your local press
do not be small with it; do not sustain
it grudgingly. 1t is the backbone Of your
success, and whatever you may do for it,
will return hundred fold. %
Year: 1879

Public opinion must be arrayed
against the commission of crime, or
else no life is safe. AS soon as an il.
legal act is committed a combination
is effected to defeat the ends of justice.
Ii neighboring city man under tho
influence of liquor killed an unarmed
stranger for no cause. The accused
did not know anything about it. The
stranger appeared to have no friends.
One Jury made mistrial; another
rendered an acquittal. Is this law?
Is this justice? Ought not at least
some punishment be inflicted to deter
men from getting into that condition
in which they uneonsciously destroy
the lives of others? If the plea OF
drunkenness is allowed in extenuation
of homicide, if the perpetrator is to
90 free, what life is safe? What pro
lection has society? If anyone has
good standing or has friends with
money, or can obtain lawyers of abili>
ty to defend him, murder has proved
TO be the safest crime he can commit
the more brutal or the more cowardly
the safer he becomes.
Year: 1879




The streets are so silent that when
one hears footsteps behind, he instinct
lively turns, like a belated traveller at
night, to see who is following him.
Court Square is tenantless, save by the
happy little squirrels and few moody
people looking as if they were sorry
that they came there. No signs OF
former life aud cheerfulness can be
seen, and so dull and lonely are the
surroundings, that the unhappy man
who has stayed to "see it out" can al
most realize the feelings of the traveller
who treads the streets of buried Pom
peii. Anyone who has ever remained
in city stricken by an epidemic, will
say that the loneliness and gloom have
MAJ az trying effect upon the spirit
aS 'he Ter has upon the body.
Year: 1879

A vessel from Palermo arrived at
Boston the other day with cargo OF
six thousand boxes of lemons. The
fruit was found to be for the most part
rotten, aud the Board of Health con-
signed it to the waves, while the little
fishes fairly reveled for while in salt
water lemonade.
Year: 1879




Last week the office of the Circuit
Clerk of Rowan county was broken
into and the book containing the
splotched and altered record, which
Green moations in connection with
his charges, was carried away aud eau
not be found. This is the latest re-
port from the mountains. There is
something very peculiar about this
latest development in the Green Har-
gis case.
Year: 1879

a good deal OF satisfaction is exe
pressed here over the fate of Dr. Spen-
Ger, dentist, recently shot dead TOR
kissing woman in Mississippi while
she was under the influence OF ether.
Women want to know it when they
are kissed, and the fool who does not
appreciate the fact, ought to die.
Year: 1879

Judge Charles Harris, Newport,
KY, was arrested Monday night for an
alleged criminal assault upon a twelve
year old girl at his office on the 28th
day of November last. The girl, her
father aud mother, are the only wit
nesses in the case, and they have kept
it entirely to themselves since that
date, the father affirming that he has
in the meantime received various sums
of money from Judge Harris as hush
money. The irightiul frequency OF
this crime within the past three months
has caused it to be classed in the minds
of many persons as epidemic, and has
given rise to many theories as to the
cause of the usual prevalence of the
crime. This case and that in Harrison
county last week will probably afford
key TO the situation


Jas. w. Garret, Of HarrisqApunty,
was ia all probability in9a { the
hoinous element of the 4 rEed
against him. The case no New
port has many indications p5Ating in
the same direction 4 father or a
mother who would for moment, for
money consideration, conceal such an
offense as this against their child,
would not be entitled 10 belief under
oath That they have, according to
their own statement, thus concealed it
for eight months, ostensibly for the
purpose of saving the reputation Of tho
child, and admitting a money consid
Grafton, and now, in the failure Of
that money consideration, and with the
inevitable loss of the reputation of the
child before them. they begin to make
it public, looks very much like tri
fling with public credu.ity.
Year: 1879

TIE late State election should dem
enstrate to the Greeubackers the utter
uselessness Of going further in their
madness. The only effect of there
being such party, was to slightly
lessen the Democratic vote.
Year: 1879

Don't let the blood stagnate in your veins. You can prevent it's doing 50 by increasing it's volume and purity, by stimulating the diges- tive organs, and encouraging assimilation, with that matchless vitalizing agent, Hostel ter's Stomach Btters. People not afflicted with any organic or inorganic disease, grow th;n ana naggars mpy Iner blood IS and so meager in quantity that the extremities are very imperfectly supplied with it, and the superficial circulation extremely feeble Hence the bloodless appearance of the countenance. But when the Bitters are used to enrich and quicken the blood, the rosy hue of health returns to the cheek, the frame acquires sub stance as well as vigor, the appetite improves, and no digestive qualms interfere either with it's qualification or the subsequent tranquility of the stomach.
Year: 1879

The court convened on the 21st day

 of April 1879, Chief Justice French

 presiding We are advised that the number of cases before this court al this time is unprecedentedly large. The calender at the present time con tains three criminal cases and more than forty civil cases, but most of them are appeals from Justices Courts. In addition to the above the criminal calendar will soon be enlarged by the cases from the Grand Jury now in session, who have already presented nine indictments which will probably go on the calendar for this term. The business of the court is large and will be as usual disposed of with great dis patch by Judge French, and there is no doubt that the whole calendar, civil and criminal will be cleared at the present term.
Year: 1879

THE examination of Freiligrath, the party charged with burning the Bald win mill at Picket Post, ended last Saturday, and resulted in his being bound over in the sum of $l,OO0 to ap- pear and answer to the charge of ar son. The testimony is circumstantial, but 1t Is strong enough to find bill. There are collateral circumstances tending to fix the guilt of the accused, which were not in evidence before the examining court and which, doubtless, will be submitted for the considera- ton of the grand jury.-Silver Belt, April IS.
Year: 1879

THE people of Tombstone are much disappointed that the Supervisors did not make an appropriation for lock up out there. Such an institution is much needed, as there is no place to confine persons convicted of minor offences.
Year: 1879

THE ease of the Territory vs. Al.

 bert Smith for the killing of J. D.

 Boardman was examined before Judge T. J. Bidwell at Tombstone on the 10th inst The evidence was that deceased had frequently made threats against defendant. On the day of the killing defendant stated that he was at his own house, saw deceased coming with a gun. Defendant then got his gun and set it against the house near by. Deceased came near the house and was Go stop, whereupon he fired a shot at defendant missing him. De fendant then fired at deceased. who. turned and run about twenty steps. when he fell and died there. After. hearing the evidence Judge Bidwell decided that the killing was an act of self defense and the defendant was .hereupOn ordered discharged.
Year: 1879

Curran, the eminent Irish barrister,
once met his match in a pert jolly,


keen-eyed son of the sod, who acted as a
hostler at large stable, and who was up
as witness in case of a dispute in the
matter of a horse-trade. Curran much
desired to break down the credibility of


this witness, and thought to do it by
making the man contradict himself-by
tangling him up in a network of adroitly.
framed questions-but all to no avail.
The hostler was a companion of Sam
Weller. His good common sense, and
his equanimity and good nature were
not to be overturned. By-and-by,
Curran, in towering wrath, belched forth,
as not another counsel would have dared
to do in the presence of the court /:
"Sirrah, you are incorrigbilel The truth
is not to be got from you, for it is not in
you. l. see the villain in your facef'
"P faith, yer honor" said the witness,
with the utmost simplicity Of truth and
honesty, "my face must be moighty
clane and shinin' indade, if itoan reflect
like thatl" For once in his life the great
barrister was foored by simple witness.
He could not recover from that repartee
and the case went against him,
Year: 1879

garded with unusual interest by the
physicians of the CITY, owing to its
novelty, and from the fact chat little
opportunity is given to combat the dis
ease, as it is exceedingly rare, and al.
most always fatal, over 10 per cent
dying who have the misfortune to be-
come afflicted. '..... p
Year: 1879

Pittsburg Post, 9Th


The community will doubtless be
startled this morning at the announce
ment of the suicide of Mr.. John [.
House, of Greenfield avenue, above
Four Mile Run, Twenty third ward,
one of the wealthiest and one time
most prominent citizens.


1t seems that Mr.. House has been
very deeply affected for some time
back over the death of his two chill
dren. His dependency has been
marked by members of his family, but
no person for moment imagined that
it would affect his mind Last even
ing he sent his wife out carriage
riding, and when the lady returned,
about 5 o'clock, she was unable to dis.
cover Mr. House. Search was insti-
tuted and was rewarded shortly by
the discovery of Mr.. Houses bruised
and bleeding body lying on the barn
floor. A rope was attached to the
rafter above, from which, with other
facts, it is believed he attempted to
hang himself. The rope was not stout
enough to support the sudden and
heavy strain upon it, and the body was
precipitated to the floor. Mr.. House
received painful bruises, and some
bones were broken. He was taken
into his residence and medical aid was
summoned, but despite the skill Of
the physician death ensued about S
o'clock.


MIR. House was well known in this
community. For many years he wa.
engaged in the wholesale grocery bus.
iness at the corner of Water and
Smithfeld streets. He was a shrewd
business man and carried on a large
and lucrative business. He amassed
a fortune estimated to be worth
over S300,000. He was q member OIL
city councils for some years, and was
also president of the Freehold bank.
He also held several other positions Of
prominence and trust. He was be-
tween fifty and sixty years of age.


The deceased had a high standing
in the community for honesty, and,
indeed, for all those qualities which
go to make up the useful and valuable
citizen, and the community will learn
with regret of his sad death, occurring
as it did, while he was laboring under
mental alteration induced by grief for
the loss of his children.
Year: 1879

The United States Supreme Court
has just decided that the law passed
by Congress against polygamous mar
riages in the territories is constitu-
tional. Itis hardly possible that any
doubt upon this score was entertained
by reasonable people. The objection
to the law is not that it is not consti-
tutiOnal, and not that it is unjust, but
that it is not and can not be enforced,
excepting in isolated cases. A Nor
mon, here and there, may be convicted
under it, but the conviction of all the
Mormons who are living in polygamy
is impossible, and if the practice is ex-
tinguished it will be by the operation
of some other agency than a law which
is openly de6ed by an entire commu-
nifty of people.
Year: 1879

Chicago Journal


LONDON, December 17.-You will
be surprised to hear that the marriage
to take place between the ex-King of
Hanover and the Princess Thyra, of
Denmark, could not be solemnized
without the consent of Queen Victoria
and that such consent has lately been
declared under the great seal of Great
Britain. The ex. king, or more cor
rectly he would have been King of
Hanover if Hanover had not been
wiped off the European slate by Ger.
many, is a member of the royal family
of Great Britain, and is Duke of Cum
berland in the British peerage. To
the marriage of the humblest member
of the royal family the consent of the
reigning monarch must be obtained,
or else such marriage is not legal. and
the issue of itillegitimate. Hence the
children Of the present Duke of Cam
bridge, though their mother is as good
a woman as ever lived, are simply
bastards.


The cruelty of this arrangement has
been brought before the public mind
lately by the announcement that Cap
tain Fitsgeorge, son of the Duke of
Cambridge, had been appointed as
sistant private secretary to the secre-
tary of war. The existence of such a
parsonage was unknown to the major
ity of the present generation. He is
fine fellow, beloved by his mother
and father, who were married years
ago according to the rites Of the church
but which marriage the queen refused
to recognize, because her cousin
Georges wife, the woman he loved
well enough to select above all royal
princesses at his disposal, was an ac-
tress. And so the Captain Fitzgeorge
Of to-day, the idol Of society, and
deemed worthy of occupying so inn
portant post in the government Of
the country, although the church says
he is the honest son of an honest mar
riage, is, according to law, only a bas-
tard, How long, o Lord how long?'
Year: 1879

WHAT his wife said: She said she did
wish John could find something that
would cure his fever and ague. He was
all worn out with it and that nothing that
he had tried had done him any good. He
should take Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic. II
never fails to subdue the most obstinate
cases Of fever and ague, and it is equally
effective in all malaria and bilious fevers
II is an agreeable, wholesome and invig.
Grating tonic.
Year: 1879

The first cargo of wheat ever ship
ped from the United States to Spain
arrived at Barcelona few days ago
A number of steamers are now engaged
in transporting wheat to that port, and
there is a prospect of very large Span
ish orders. But the vessels that carry
it are not American vessels, and the
freight goes to the pockets of foreign
ship-owners.
Year: 1879

The Supreme Court of the State of
Tennessee decided few days since
that a school district, as an incorpora-
ted city or town, cannot exercise the
right to levy and collect taxes, nor can
any school district do so. That part
of the school law granting such privi-
lcge is unconstitutional.
Year: 1879

THE demand for silver dollars is not
keeping up at the rate which prevailed
the first few days Of the year. Treas
urer Gil6llan remarked Thursday, that
lie did not believe the demand would
again be so great for some time, ifever.
He was among those who thought the
brisk demand last week would con
tiuue. but information received the
last few days inclines him to the con.
trary view.
Year: 1879

drumming on the window with
Iii: fingers.


4 woman gets on train, and
says q very warm-hearted good
bye to a great cub of o sixteen
year old boy who sets down her
bundles and turns to leave the
car with gruf' grunt that
may mean goodbye or any
thing else. There is a little CULVER
Oh her lips as she calls after him


BE good boy, write to mo
often, and do as l tell you"


lie never looks around as he
raves the car. He looks just like the
kind of boy who do just as she
tells him, but she must be careful to
tell him to do just as he wants to.
/ have one bright spark Of conso-
lation as the train moves on, and
| sec that boy performing clum-
- satire on a clog g-dance, on the
pI;lltorm. Some of these days he
wiz! treat some man as gruftly and
ruiciy as he treats his mother.
Then the man will climb onto him
and lick him pound the very
saw-dust out of him. Then the
world will feel better and happier
ior tie licking ne gets. 1t may
he long deferred, but it will come
at last. | almost wish [ had
pounded him myself, while he is
young, and | felt able to do it.
lie may grow up a very dis
couragingIy rugged man extreme
Iy difficult to lick, and the world
ma have to wait y very long
time for this act Of JUSTICE. It
frequently happens that these bad
toys grow up into distressingly
Dad men.
Year: 1879

CORRECT SpEAKISG.-We advise
our young people to acquire in
early life, the habit of using good
language, both in speaking and
writing, and also to abandon the
use of slang words and phrases.
The longer they live the more
difficult the acquisition Of good
language will be; and if the gol-
den age Of youth, the proper time
for the acquisition of language be
passed in it's abuse, the unfortu-
nate victim Of neglected education
is very probably doomed 10 talk
slang for life. Money is not ne
cessary to produce this education.
Every man has it in his power.
He has merely to use the language
which be reads, instead of the
slang which be hears to form
his taste from the best speakers
and poets of the country TO treas
ure choice phrases in his memory,
and babituate himself to their use
avoiding at the same time that
pedantic precision and bombast,
which show rather the weakness
of vain ambition tiI&a the polish
of An educated mind.
Year: 1879




CoMPos SURE THE TEST OF
SLRENGTH.-We mistake strong
feeling for strong character. A
man who bears all before him
before whose irown domestics
trembie, and whose bursts of fury
make the children of the house
quake-because he has his will
obeyed, and his own way in all
things, we call him q strong man.
The truth is, that is the weak
man ; it is his passions that are
strong; he, mastered by them, is
weak. You must measure the
strength of q man by the power
Of the feelings he subdues, not by
the power of those which subdue
him. And hence, composure ls
very often the highest result Of
strength. Did we never see a
man receive q fragrant insult, and
only grow a little pale: and then
reply quietly? That was a man
spiritually strong. Or did We
never see man in anguish stand
as if carved out Of solid rock mas.
tering himself? or one bearing q
hopeless daily trial remain silent,
and never tell the world what it
was that cankered his home-peace?
That is strength. He who, with
strong passions, remains chaste-
he who, keenly sensitive, with
manly power Of indignation in
him, can be provoked, yet can re-
strain himself and forgive-these
are strong men, spiritual heroes.
[Obseruer.
Year: 1879




THE CARELESS WORD.
Twas but word, careless word.
As thistle down it seemed as light;
It paused moment in the air,
Then onward winged its flight.
Another lip caught up the word,
Aud breathed it with hearty sneer;
1t gathered weight as on it sped,
That careless word, in its career.
Then rumor caught the flying word,
Aud busy gossip gave it weight,
Until that little word became


A vehicle Of angry hate.
And then that word was winged with FIRE,
Its mission was thing of pain,
For soon it fell like lava drops


Upon wildly tortured brain.
Aad then another page Of life


With burning, scalding tears was blurred
A load of care was heavier made,
Its added weight, that careless word.
That careless word, Oh! how it scorched
A fainting, bleeding, quivering heart!
Twas like a hungry fire, that searched
Through every tender, vital part.
How wildly throbbed that aching heart!
Deep agony its fountains stirred;
1t calmed, but bitter ashes mark
The pathway Of that careless word,
Year: 1879




a PRINTER 5 f'IGuT W!ru DOGS.
"A short time ago Mr.. r. H.
Hawthorn Il job printer of Duane
street, New York, had Il desperate
encounter with two savage dogs
in New Jersey. They attacked
him while iio was on his wav
across the liac!icnsack meadows
after dark. As he was u long dis
t"nco from any house, the dogs
met him on the highway, and
one of them at once sprang at his
throat. lie was entirely unarmed,
and had it not been for a package
Of dry goods that he carried in
his hands be would probably have
been torn to pieces. AS the first
dog jumped for MS throat he
thrust the package into the ami
malls mouth. Hardly had this
dog recolled before the second dog
came on with savage fury, and
was met by Mr.. Hawthorn in a
similar manner. Thus the un-
equalcd contest went on, the dogs
growing more furious as they
were repulsed.


Strange to say, this fight was
kept up for nearly two hours. At
intervals the man shouted at the
top of his voice for help, but mono
came. At last his voice failed
him, and he could only meet the
assaults Of the dogs, with a grim
hope that some one would pass by
and relieve him from his perilous
position, although it was night,
and the road was untrequented at
that hour. At last the dogs, tired
of the useless contest, went away.


Mr.. Hawthorn made his way TO
his home, Two miles distant, and
reached there in an exhausted con-
dltion. 1t Was several days be-
fore ne fully recovered from the
effects of the terrible encounter.