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Year: 1878

The third article relates to the appointment
of W. T.. Mandeville deputy sheriff, and the
refusal Of Judge Page to allow him to be paid
and seeking to humiliate him.


Senator Smith having come in after the vote
on the first article the remaining votes were
full. On this article Senator Clough alone
voted "guilty' and all the remainder (forty)
voted mot guilty.
Year: 1878

Senator Clough explaining his vote said it
was his intention to ask to be excused in vot-
ing upon this article, for the that he
had expressed an opinion. but as the Senate
have decided that respondent was right in pas
sing Judgment in the Riley case (embraced in
the third article) after prejudging it, he could
see no improperly in him voting upon this
question, He therefore voted guilty
Year: 1878

When boy throws a stone his arm moves in
plane PARALLEL with the plane of his waist
is first held upright in a line with her
major axis and then moved rapidly in q down.
ward direction. The stone thrown by the boy
has an enormous range, and strikes the win
dow, the cat, the old gentleman or auy other
object at which it is eimed, at a surprisin gly
long distance. The stone which the girl at
tempts to throw describes q brief arc and
her. What is The cause of the difference in the
sexes is a mystery DR.. Watts took the gronn
that nature had withheld from girls the po wer
to thro " stones, in order that the human race
might have some little chance of perpetuity.
He argued that if girls could throw ssones,
they would constantly hit the wrong objects,
and 80 great would be the fatality from acci.
dents of this kind that in q comparatively
lated.
Year: 1878

These figures prove that it Las cost one
fourth of the national debt to keep up the
army during the last ten years of peace, and
more than three tunes as much as during the
ten years preceding the civil war. What is
there to chow for this enormous outlay 7
Where has the money gone, and what was it
expended for
Year: 1878

our sympaihies, and we think the sooner
they could be made profitable to the
people amongst whom they reside and
to whom they are an ever present pest,
the better.


All they will have to do to keep from
feeling the penalty of the law is to be-
have themselves. If they don't steal
and don't act the rowdy they won't be
hurt. Therefore we say gentlemen give
US this law. 1t means reform, sound
practical reform. 1t means that thieves
and rogues and rowdies, and not the
honest citizen shall pay the cost of crimi-
nal prosecutions. Our police jury has
requested our Senators and Represen-
tatives to vote for it and We hope they
will do so, all seven of them. 1t would
act like cnarm in this parish.
Year: 1878

A young man fresh from the could
sod" was recently given employment on
aranche in Truckee, California. He was
set to driving yoke of cattle, and at
noon, when he wanted to feed the cattle.
was observed trying to unscrew their
horns in order to get the yoke off from
the animals.
Year: 1878

/ am authorized to forbid the skinnine OF
dead cattle belonging to the stocks that have
In my care. Any person caught skining said
cattle without permission will be prosecuted to
the full extent of the law,


Jan. 19-5t RB sL0ANE
Year: 1878

CHEERFUL WOMEN.-In marrying,
men should seek happy women. They
make terrible mistake when they mar
ry for beauty, or talent, or for style, the
sweetest wives are those who possess the
magic secret of being happy under any
and every circumstance. Rich or poor,
high or low, it makes no difference, the
bright little fountain bubbles up just as
musically in their hearts. Nothing ever
goes wrong with them-ne trouble is too
serious for them to make the best of
it." Was ever the stream of calamity
SO dark and deep, that the sunlight of q
happy face falling across its turbid tides
would not wake an answering beam Z?
Why, then, joyous-tempered people
matter how cross and Grabbed you feel,
no matter if your brain is full of msdi-
tation on affecting dispensations, and
yonr stomach with medicines, pills and
tonics; just set one of these CHEEKY little
women talking to you, and we are net
afraid to wager anything she can cure
you. The long drawn line about the
mouth will relax-the cloud Of settled
gloom will vanish, nobody knows where,
and the first thing you know you will
be laughing. What a blessing these hap
py women are! How often their little
hands guide the ponderous machine of
life, with almost an invisible touch =
How welook forward through the weary
day to their fireside smiles! No one
knows, no one will ever know until the
day of judgment reveals, how much we
owe to these helpful, hopeful, uncom-
planning happy women. 80
Year: 1878

A little boy, coming home from
church, where he had seen a person per-
forming on an organ, said to bis mother:
"Oh, nanny, wish you had been
to church to-day to see the fun; man
was pumping music out of an old cup
board !"
Year: 1878

Russia is beginning to manifest 4 d.
termination to interfere in Afshanistan
before the British forces get too far into
the bowels Of the land. Her first move
ment is to announce that she will help
the Ame.r whenever shA considers tn at
any Of her own territory in Asia shall
be nrnaced by British successes; and ! t
is reported that she will ask England
to guarantee that no changes shall be-
made in the territory or Independent
condition Of Afghanistan. If England
is willing to give such a guarantee, her
act in beginning the present war was
the widest folly. That she will give
any such assurance is Incredible. What
Russia is looking for probably is pre-
text for interference, and if she is anx.
ious to fad one, 1t will not he long be
tore she has an open quarrel with Eu-
gland.
Year: 1878

Information comes to us Of step
mother in the eastern part of the city
who took her little step-son from the
CEildren's Home, and because he could
not say his prayers correctly, she boxed
his ears repeatedly and would keep
him on his knees an hour at a time.
The boy was said TO BE- a good one, but
the step mother seemed to have such
al antipathy to him that he had to be
sent back to the HOme again.
Year: 1878

1t is under consideration to call in
the State per cent. bonds, and issue
others, payable at stated intervals bear
ing from to per cent. interest as may
be agreed upon. The State bonds are
now payable at the option of the State.
The new bonds will more than proba-
bic be payable at stated times.
Year: 1878

The fair of the American Rifles now
being held in the Institute Hall should
be well patronized by our people. 1t
is got up for worthy purpose, Go
and pass an evening at the fair, and
don't forget your pocket book.
Year: 1878

anu HIS OdU DcmOs'ShCus


New York SUM-


Train 36 on the Pennsylvania rail-
road left Philadelphia at 7:35 on
Wednesday morning. Its time
through to Jersey City is one hour
and fifty four minutes, and the pass
engers are due in New York in two
hours. There were five crowded
passenger coaches. Germantown
Junction is the only stop. Leaving
Germantown, the train passed the
small stations in New Jersey and
whirled through Trenton on time


Ed. Osmond, the engineer. sat with
his head on the throttle Of the engine,
steadying it, but keeping it up to its
sixty-flve miles an hour. Elnning
these fast trains is no boys play.
Orly the eldest and most reliable en-
eineers are entrusted with the task.
Osmond has been fifteen years in the
company's service, and has run an
engine for ten years.


He was approaching Milestone juno
ton, about mile west of New
Brunswick, when Osmond felt some
thing strike the cab directly beneath
him, and the next minute he was ly-
ing PROSTATE on the engine In front
OF where the cab had been. 1t was
knocked into pieces and strewn along
the track.


The engine, deprived of its control,
gathered fresh impetus every mo-
mentfrom its open throttle. Osmond.
half stunned, lay for second till he
felt that no bones were broken and
his grip was secure. There was
burn or two and scald or two, but
he did not feel them, so great was the
nervous tension. After be had suf-
ficiently recovered himself he saw
what had happened. The heavy con-
Meeting rod of the driving wheels on
the right side Of the engine had bro
ken, and one end of it swinging
around with tremendous velocity had
hit his cab with the force of a trip
hammer and knocked it skyward.


Slowly and carefully at first, but
with increasing confidence, Osmond
let himself down into his place. 1t
was the work OF a moment to reverse
the engine, and Of another to apply
the air brakes. The train was at a
standstill before New Brunswick was
fairly in sight.


The fireman, who had witnessed it
all, was in his place on the left side
OF the tender, and so out Of
danger of the whirling iron arm; but
when the cab was knocked In pieces
about his ears he thought all was
over with poor Osmond. He caught
the rear edge of the tender, let him.
self quickly down. and took refuge in
the baggage-car.


The passengers on train 36 little
knew Of their narrow escape. 1t is
impossible to say what would have
been the result il Osmond had done
what many engineers would have
done-jumped for his own life, and
left them to their fate. 1t was an act
of quiet heroism in the discharge OF
duty that has not often been equaled
in the fierce heat of battle.


Osmond needed no apology to
Superintendent Baker for being
three. quarters Of an hour late with
train 36 on Wednesday morning.
Year: 1878

We think that the power of money is
on the whole, over.estimated. The
greatest things which were done for the
world have not been accomplished by
rich men, or by subscription lists, Tut
by men generally Of small pecuuiary
means. The greatest thinkers, discov-
erer, inventors, and artists have been
men of moderate wealth, many of them
little raised above the condition of man.
ual laborers in point of worldly circuu,
stances. And it will always be SO.
Riches are oftener an impediment than
a stimulus Of action; and in many cases
they are quite as much a misfortune as
a blessing. The youth who inherits
wealth is apt to have life made too easy
for him, and so grows stated with it be-
cause he has nothing left to desire
Having no special object to struggle for
he finds time too heavy on his hands
remains mentally and morally asleep
and his position in society is often NJ
higher than that of polypus over
which the tide floats -Dispateh.
Year: 1878

The Lewiston TELLER complains be-
cause the press of Eastern Washington
does not discuss the State Constitution,
and intimates as reason Of this neg.
lect that those papers are awaiting to
ascertain the popular feeling Of the
people, then join the multitude in adyo-
eating or denouncing it, as seems best
to gain public favor. We have seen
no reason for discussing the Constitu-
tion; but that we may be plainly un-
derstood, aud not accused Of the de-
spisable principle Of catering approba-
tion, let US inform the TELLER that the
Gazette is anxious for the annexation
Of Northern Idaho to Washington and
the adoption Of the State Constitu-
ton. II the question was as to the i'm
mediate admission of tho Territory into
the Union, we would oppose it. Or il
the adoption of the Constitution was to
hasten it, our better judgement would
be compelled to oppose it.


But Constitution has been framed at
cost of nearly seven thousand dollars
the people can adopt this, and Congress
will judge when Washington has the
necessary population to entitle her te
admission. p Gazette. t
Even the above kind Of support il
far better than total apathy, for it furn
ishes something to consider. No on,
expects admission for two years at least
But the people should be prepared fo
the change in that time in case Con
gress should deem US competent I,


maintain State government, for tina


is the only objection that that body cal
| Oonstitutionally urge.
Year: 1878

Says the Tacoma Times: IF the
present bounds of Washington Territory
remain Intact, with addition of the three
northern counties of idaho, Yakima
City stands very fair chance of being
the capital of the new State Any rail-
road that crosses the mountains north Of
the Columbia must converge to that val
ley and pass through it eastward, 40
difference where it starts and pierces the
Cascades between Whatcom and Olym-
pia. The bulk of inhabitants is to be
east of the mountains, with heavy
population in that valley.


1T you succeed in the early comple
ton of the Northern Pacific direct from
the mouth of Snake river to the Sound
the population will remain more evenly
balanced. But so long as the Sound
country is shut out from the balance Of
the world save by water, and shut ou,
from the products Of the great eastern
basin, what Inducements can the SounC
offer for settlement compared with thu
eastern basin, SO long as they have the
prospect of opening navigation to tht
sea by canals at Cascades and Dalles'
Your hope lies not in defeating Stat,
government but in hurrying up the con
struction of your railway across tn
Cascade mountains and connecting your
selves with this granary of the world.
Year: 1878

If you are troubled with nervousness are
disheatened tired of life, fear death or feel
out of sorts as the saying is, you may safe
ly conclude that you have tie Dyspepsia
or Liver Complaint. The liver is very apt
to become torpid this season of the year as
poisons arising from stagnant water or de-
caying vegetation are more humorous and
are through inhalation taken into the
blood. Unless the liver is strong and ac-
tive, and furnishes supply of fresh and
pure blood to drive out the impurities, the
above mentioned SYMPTOMS surely follow,
and if not needed, end in more terrible dis
eases and death. Whites Prairie Flower
proves itself the Great Liver Panacea. Its
action on the liver is different from any
medicine ever compounded. Its cures are
trueiy wonderful. Try it. Price twenty.
five cents and seveuiy-hye cents. 43.3mo
Year: 1878

After so long time of unavoidable
delay, We have now commenced work
on the descriptive pamphlet Of Whit,
man county. Any aid that may be ex-
tended by those who have not already
contributed to it, will be gladly rsceiv-
ed. Those wishing to advertise in this
pamphlet and thus assist us in defray-
ing the expenses of part, should send in
their "ads.' Immediately as the work
will be pushed to completion as rapidly
as possible, and distributed next month
--Gdzette.


You have the material for No.
pamphlet. Wish it success.
Year: 1878

IL YouR hair Is coming out or turning gray do
not mur1nur over misfortune you can so easily
avert. Ayers Hair vigor will remove the cause OF
your grief by restoring your hair to its natural
color, and herewith your good looks and good ma.
N
Year: 1878

The soft money men are organizing
in Washington, not as a political par
ty, so they claim, but to advance their
ideas through a formal movement.
They claim that they can procure the
assistance of Senator or Represen-
tative from every State in the Union.
The objects are, first, to repeal the re-
sumption act; second, to remonetize
the old silver dollar, and third, to abol-
ish national bankruptcy and have all
currency used by the people hereafter
issued by the Government.
Year: 1878

WOODEN AND IaoN SHlPs.-The Hu'
ron disaster was the leading theme OF
discussion the other day at the Mari
time Exchange, and among the ship
ping people generally. The old ques-
tion as to the comparative superiority
of iron and wooden ships is also re-
vived. Mr.. Roach, whose father built
the Huron, expressed the conviction
that had she been made of wood she
would not have been able to stand so
great a strain as she did, whereas,
Mr.. VIM. II. Webb, an equally expe-
rienced shipbuilder, ventures Il Q opin-
ion that a wooden ship, striking as
the Huron is supposed to have struck,
would have held longer together; for
that matter he goes so far as to say
that iron ships, without q solid back
ing of good oak timber, are not tit for
service. In further support Of this
theory the case is recalled OF a couple
of Italian vessels that recently went
ashore in a gale not far from the same
part of the coast, yet managed to
work off safely.
Year: 1878

HOW DEMOCRATS LOVE GREENBACKS
rGARRkrT DAVIS. DEMOCRAT SENATOR FROM


KENTUCKY, july 2, 1852.


The issue Of this paper is just like that OF
all lrredeemsble paper The effect ls to In
crease the price OF property generally, and to
diminish the value of the paper and il con
sequently takes a larger and still increasing
amount OF the paper TO answer the ordinary
commercial transactions Of the country; and
they who have any property to sell raise cry
for more paper because Of tho enhanced price
of their property, the paper being the medium
by which the value Of the property is meas
ured. The more such paper is augmented the
effectis to increase the appetite which it feeds
The more paper that lie issued the more is re-
quirsd to answer the business trans actions Of
the country until the currency becomes utter
ly Vicious. :. hold that . more bold and
mischievous project was never conceived, than
that the Government should have, wlthou.
Year: 1878




In your paper of the 4th inst, under
the heading of "No Whipping Post in
Ours" you describe very accurately and
pathetically the horrors Of the whipping
post. l contend that in proportion to the
horror and detestation with which the
masses view the whipping post, to that
same extent will its anticipated infliction
deter them from crime; and as to a light
drubbing being more humane than long
confinement in a penitentiary there can
be no doubt.


once knew party in North Carolina
who had propensity for stealing every
thing he could lay his hands on. At
length the law took hold of him and he
was wooded lightly. This appeared to
bring him to his senses, and so far as
known, he forsook his thieving propensi-
ty, and settled down to hard labor on his
little farm and reared family Of inter-
esting children.


Who will now advocate that the con-
dition of that man, his family, or the
community at large, would have been
benefited by depriying him of his liberty
by shutting him up in a penitentiary for
a term of years for the foregoing petty
thefts?


1t is the moral influences of the rod
rather than the pain inflicted thereby that
produces, or should produce, the needed
reformation. Whippings for first ofienses
should therefore always be light; but
should deprive the criminal of the privil-
ege of testifying in courts, or of voting al
public elections until after he shall have
been restored to citizenship by Legislative
enactment.


Ifthe criminal manifest disposition
to reform, let few of his neighbors peti
ton the legislature to remove his disabili
ties. This would, of course, be done ant
ifthere be any pride in that man he woul'
not bring his neighbors into disrepute by
again treading in his former pathway o
crime.


| The foregoing is an important subject
but being opposed to penitentiaries o
long confinement in prison | have give
what believe to be the best substitute


TICKLE-ME-wELL.
Year: 1878

The New York Times has specials from
a large number of important points in the
North and West concerning the damage
done to the crops by the recent frosts
from which it appears that while hardly
any section escaped the visitation, the
loss will be confined chiefly. to small
fruits and early vegetables. The general
effect of the cold snap is to put back the
crops o week or two.
Year: 1878

The MofIett barroom bell-punch works
so satisfactorily in Virginia that the resi-
dents of District of Columbia desire to
test it. Accordingly, bill was intro-
duced in the Senate yesterday for its use,
under title of an act to levy tax on the
sale of spirituous and malt liquors in all
places where they are sold.
Year: 1878

Tho following record will show tho changes in the
temperature for the past twenty -four hours in com
parson with the corresponding date of last year.
Indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's pharmacy
HERALD Building No. 21S Broadway
Year: 1878

The supper of the Reformed Episco-
pal Church, in the Old Western Mar
ket, Front street, bet*ten Jefferson and
Madison, tomorrow NJ fsht, promises to
be very popular affair. The church
will be open all day tomorrow for the
reception of any donation which kind
friends NAV inthe kindness of their
hearts, see pro per to make in aid of the
infant church.
Year: 1878

THE Southern Pacific Railway
are in earnest In their intention to
push across Arizona forthwith.
Large shipments of ties are on
their way to Wilmington to be
used in bridging the distance
which separates Yuma from Tue
son. There is no doubt of the fact
that the Southern Pacific people
intend to build Eastward until
they meet somebody coming west
from that section. Their right to
lay track in Arizona cannot be dis
puted. The concession procured
from the Arizona Legislature near
ly two years ago is now the law of
the land, through the failure OF
Congress to rescind 1t. The laws
Of the United States provide that


where Congress neglects to repeal
law of Territorial Legislature
within one year from its passage
the act becomes valid. STANLEY
Matthews introduced such a re-
pealing act in the Uaited States
Senate, it passed that body but
failed of passage in the House.
There is therefore no legal obstacle
to the progress of the Southern Pa.
cific TO the New Mexico line, aud
the presumption is that, will h the
opening Of October, they will pusl
for Tucson at the rate of mile @
day.
Year: 1878

OUR native California fellow cit
tzeus yesterday celebrated the an.
niversary of Mexican Independence
with fitting eclat. The yearly re-
currenee of this event recalls to
mind the superb and almost bound
less empire lost to Spain through
her own intolerance and tyranny.
The achievement Of Mexican Inde-
pendence showed to the world that
tue blood ofthe old Conquistadores
9 i'll ran in the veins of their
descendants. Taere is nothing
in such demonstrations as that of
yesterday to excite bad blood
amongst any class of our own peo.
pie, In which respect it is
away beyond some Others which
could be mentioned. We suppose
that, in fifty years or so from to-
day, the only national events cele-
brated in the United States will be
those which illustrate the history of
the American Union. By that time
our population will have become
perfectly homogeneous and we
shall know no national pride
which does not cluster around the
stars and stripes.
Year: 1878

perusal of Mr.. Gladstone's Kin
beyond Sea-" might have the
O. feet of causing him to see n little
good in the land whose insignifi-
cance we are weekly obliged to
learn from the editor of the Argo
naut We are quite aware Of the
fact that the United States have
not accomplished all they should
have done in the way of developing
our internal resources and assert
ing our dignity abroad; but we con-
fess that we, unlike the Argonaut,
see here tremendous progress, a
physical development, considering
everything, absolutely unexam-
pied, and an avenue far wider than


we discern in any other nation for
the average citizen to cultivate his
inalienable rights to life, liberty


and the pursuit of happiness. The


Argonaut has lately been travel


ing, in its editorial utterances, very


much In a circle. 1t Is continu-


ally coming out of the hole it went


In at. A libelous arraignment of


the other journals and journalists
of California, a hatred against our
Common school system which


amounts to very rabies, u malevo-


lence towards Denis Kearney Curl


ously at variance with the editors


conduct to that doughty agitator


ct the Platt's Hall meeting, dis


gusting subserviency to England


aud detraction of America and
Americans, with "a variable and
Jump Jim Crow attituds on Gen.
Grant and the third term, have
been the staples OF the Argonauts
editorial stock in trade almost ever
since 1t started. Whether these
tactics are calculated to make a
Journal successful and influential
10 the United States we are not
able to say with any positiveness
but we most decidedly think they
| are not.