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Year: 1879

Territorial (Nev.) Enterprise1


Bob Howland, the old sagebrusher, who is
spending the winter in New York and Bos-
ton, tells, by letter, of the experience OF a
Nevada man in the latter city few days
since. Of course, the man was not Bob. The
story runs that this Nevadan was forced by
the pitiless weather, which is this winter wor-
rying Eastern people, to purchase an under.
shirt. Having no currency the man put
down twenty-dollar gold piece. The slim
man at the desk threw the coin up, let it drop
on the desk, and listened to its jingle, and
then picked it up and bit 1t. The Nevadan
asked what in the world allied the man, when
he explained that 1t was the first twenty dol
lar piece he had ever handled and he wanted
to be sure that it was genuine. This opened
a conversation, and the sagebrusher finally
inquired if the chances for Western man to
obtain a wife in the East were reasonably
good in case man wanted one, and whether
it would be safe for man from the back
coantry to try to marry one of the girls ''away
East" The merchant assured him that no
better wives could be found in the world than
right in Boston, and volunteered the informa-
ton that he himself had 'the dearest and best
wife in the world" and that he first met her
at church festival. Ibid your courtship
last very long?" asked the Nevada man.
''Oh, no." was the reply, ''we were married
in few weeks after our first meeting" BY
this time Sagebrush had his change in his
pocket and the ndershirt under his arm and
backing away little, he fired this parting
shot at his new acquaintance: ''Dld you dare
to marry her before you threw her down and
bit her to see if she was genuine
Year: 1879

SenasOr WINDOWS Proposition.


New YORK, January Ex-senator Win
doms proposition looking to assisting the
.colored population of the South to migrate
to new homes in the West is favorably
received by representive colored men. A
delegation from six Southern States calling
on the Senators yesterday, including Senator
Bruce and Representatives Cain, Smalls and
Rainey, told them that the colored people are
not satisfied with their condition; that they
would be willing to move, and that local
clubs have already begun to agitate the ques-
ton. The delegation thought that hundred
thousand able-bodied colored laborers could
be induced to leave their homes if they should
have even moderate assurance that they
would improve their condition. Window
assured the delegation that he was thoroughly
in earnest, and had no political purpose to
accomplish by his resolution.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, January 22.-This morning
member of the Potter Committee asked
"Where are those dispatches that were pub
lished in the Trs6une?" Hiscock thereupon
expressed his belief that Gen. Butler had
them. The General then made statement
that certain dispatches had come into his pos
session early last spring. He found them
upon his private table, but has no knowledge
of how they came there. These dispatches,
it was said, we're part of those printed in the
Tribune If so, he had nothing to do with
their publication. They had been furnished
to the Tribune before they came into his
hands. During the summer they were missed
for several weeks, and subsequently they
we're found again, when he had them num-
bered and stamped and put in place of
safety. He was willing to place them at the
service of the committee. In doing so he
contended that they should be printed and
made public or placed within the power of
any member of the committee to make them
public. At the same time he protested
against the whole system of investigating
dispatches, and insisted that it would be wiser
for both parties not to inquire into them.
However, upon proper receipts being given,
the committee could have the dispatches that
were in his possession.


a discussion followed as to whether it
would be advisable to print the dispatches at
once in pamphlet form, but that question also
went over and the committee adjourned till
tomorrow.


Potter says subcommittee will be sent to
New York to take testimony in the cipher
dispatches investigation. The number of
cipher kilograms in the possession of General
Butler is $40.


New YORK, January 23.-Inquiries and
suggestions made by friends of Tilden here
tend to show clearly that an attempt is likely
to be made to prove his innocence of the
cipher kilograms which Potter's committee is
investigating. Pelton is to be assumed to
have kept the whole matter absolutely secret
from his uncle. The attempted frauds,
which are practically confessed, are to be
charged either directly or by implication upon
the actors who exchanged the ciphers. tits
proposed to relieve Tiiden from the suspicion
of a guilty knowledge arising from the pre-
sumption that the frauds could only have
been perpetrated in his personal interest by
creating the impression that the co-partners
in said frauds acted under the inspiration of
persons who expected cabinet positions and
foreign missions and other profitable results
of Tilden's Inauguration. Pelton is to be
made the principal scapegoat The most Sc
rious difficulty with this theory is confessed
to rest in the faith that Tilden did not
promptly denounce the frauds, and only ex-
lied Pelton from his home long after the ex-
posures had satisfied the public at large of
their genuine character. Pelton went first to
Canada, then returned here and went to the
Gilsey House. Recently he took rooms at
the Everett House, the Democratic headquar-
tiers during the Presidential campaign, and in
convenient proximity to Gramercy Park.


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Year: 1879

taken with mature deliberstion and
fall knowledge of the financial con
dition of the people who support
their trade, is proof Of 3 general aad
permanent progress tOWard Cur old
prosperity. The iroR industry not
only suffered more than any other
from the recent monetary distress,
but it has been slower in recovering
itself. It has been harasssd by 3
dread Of going too fast and tumb-
ling into disaster again. TIE dread
Is not yet removed. Mary msa aD-
pear to have been pushing on tbe
manufacture of iron with fear and
trembling, or if not that, with keen
caution. It must be inferred from
the advance Just spoken of that that
hsrassing dread is slowly giving way
TO the conviction that the iron trade
can get on now without coddling,
that it has q chance to live aud let
others live.


And this latter point is one which
should not be overlooked. The iron
workers Of the country are st once
powerful in number and influence.
Their example never fails to make 3
deep impression upon the minds Of
all others who toll with their hands.
It is potent for good or evil as wise
or unWise cOunsels prevail Il can
make or unmake the industrial peace
of thousands. In the advance Of the
wages Of those who make it. None
viii welcome it more heartily. To
none will it cast q more cheerful light
upon the future. So far As our own
city is concerned, employers and en-
ployed in the iron industry, under
stand each other as perhaps they
never did before, and there is no
room to doubt that the fuller knOwl-
edge has been attended by fuller
eonfdenco. Dividing as they do
the advantages from the rise IN ques.
tion, the present good feeling ought
70 be thoroughly established. II it
should, the result would be of GER
tain and lasting good 70 other de-
psrtmehts Of trade IN the single par
tieular Of being on the side of bar-
mOniOus cooperation.


Looking at it from any different
point of view, the advance in the
price of iron can hardly appear other
than cheerful. PiasbtSg Telegraph.
Year: 1879

A man with a Western pap er con-
tanning a story of a suicide which
occurred several months before, and
had been. seen by Mr.. Griggs some
forty odd times. He wanted the pa
per saved aftsr.the article had been
used, and was some time getting
away. owing to numerous iDiunctions
to this end.
Year: 1879

Surely, to prevent and arrest epidemic dis
eases, pestilence and plague, would be the
highest perfection OF science and the most glo-
rious achievement man could aspire to- But
ask our rulers and Lawmakers for an appropri-
alton to help to cleanse the Augean stables,
whose stencil is poisoning the pure air given
by God for man to breathe, and their hearts
grow hard, their purse strings grow rigid, and,
worse than all, their ignorance hides itself un-
der hypocritical mask which sa4s, all men
are born to die, and such matters SHOULD be
left TO the providence of God. This is not so in
other matters pertaining to the ordinary affairs
OF life Tor where dollars and cents and self-inter-
est Is concerned, there Is law enough-law how to
protect self and property law how to cheat, pro-
yided you are not caught at it The LAWYER
and We give them credit for being conservators
and preservators of law and order-will tell
and instruct you that an unsafe crossing In the
city or an insecure bridge, entailing accident
or injury, is just cause for suit for damages ac-
cording to the injury inflicted But for defec-
tive sewer, foul and undrained marsh or pond.
or fostering nuisance at your door, there is lit
tie or no provision made. Now, while this state
OF things continues we can only protest again and
again, and at last say, " God help and save the
commonwealth of Tennessee" But we do not
intend to blame or condemn the lawgivers and
authorities alone. 1t is the people, after all,
who put them in their official places and kept
them there, and 90 like master Hkelman.
Year: 1879

There are seventy-four female members of
school committees in Massachusetts, they are
said to be efficient in their work


Union College is quietly giving the women
the same sort of instruction that has been Of
fered BY Harvard. a class of twenty five young
ladies have recently been studying geology un-
der Tutor Ballart and Professor Webster. The
latter gives pleasant account of their progress,
which compares favorably with the record of
Unions male students The same class, it is
said. intend to take I'D METAPHYSICS
Year: 1879

pItildtii s'tiitiiitl


The CLARION makes very good suggestion
to counties exposed to yellow fever epidemics,
and ii is, that the Democrats should organize
and get their candidates out in time, so that
there should be no wrangling and crosshring
for want of concert, in case the epidemic
should break out this summer. We think the
suggestion a good one. We remember that
there voting last fall here in our dis
trict for representation 10 Congress on account
OF the situation. Let us obviate that by timely
action, now when there is no scare.
Year: 1879

The jury of inquest on the body OF w H.
Andrews have found that he came to his death
by a pistol shot from a party unknown, and
further declared it TO be their deliberate con-
viction that said pistol was not in the hands
of w. f. Fitzgerald"
Year: 1879

The effort of our neighbor, of the indie
pendent, to keep daily paper here in Jackson.
has been. like all the rest-a failure. They
will continue the publication of their Weekly,
which barring its politics, is a sprighty and
able paper; and We wish them an abundant
harvest, pecuniarily.
Year: 1879

We would call the attention OF our readers
to the new card of THE GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL,
Chicago. They have made further reduc-
tion in their prices to suit the times This
Hotel stands at the head for its excellent
cuisine and splendid service. The aceomoda-
tions being unsurpassed and the ventilation is
the finest and most perfect of any Hotel in
this country, which is a recommendation now
a-days that is invaluable.
Year: 1879

JEFFERSON DAVIS autobiography, which
of years and announced at various times for pub
LEGATION, will, we are assured by Mr. Davis, be
ready in August The death of his son and
the yellow fever scourge in the South have
been the immediate causes of delay in the pub
LEGATION of this book
Year: 1879

Our people are hopeful that a bin will be
passed the present session OF Congress for the
erection of the much needed United States
building here. 1t will be economy on the part
of the government which is now renting build
ings for the despatch of its business. We
have no doubt our able Representative will
give the subject attention. 1t would be orna-
mental 1t would be useful. 1t would give
our mechanics employment.
Year: 1879

The Democratic State Executive Committee
recommends that the question of nominating
candidates for district attorney be left with the
counties composing the district In this dis
trict no nomination wiz be necessary.
Year: 1879

THE fear OF the plague which is raging in
Russia has extended pretty much all over
the Turkish provinces and Servia. Along
the entire German border which joins Russia
and throughout Hungary and Austria the
alarm is far from being abated. France,
England, Portugal and Spain are as yet not
much disturbed by the alarm. The degree
of fear which exists in Germany is shown by
the official decree published in Berlin, which
ordains that, until further notice, travellers
from Russia will only be permitted to cross
the frontier on producing passport endorsed
by the German Ambassador at St. Peters
burg, or by some German Consular authority
in Russia, the same only to be granted on
the traveller showing that for twenty days
previously he has not resided in any district
affected or suspected of the pest. In addition
the travelling effects and clothing of those
who belong to affected districts will have to
be subjected to process of disinfection by
the fumes of sulphur before they ar per-
mitted to cross the border into Germany.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and eommuni
cations The name and address OF the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
out as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake TO return or preserve COM
munications chat are not used.
Year: 1879

WE ought to be very grateful for the solicit
tude expressed by the argus. 1t is always
moaning because the PRESS has made some
grievous mistakes in policy, or said some low
thing, and is, just now, in danger of worry
ing itself sick. 1t should be careful how it
lets its sympathies get the better of Its dis
cretion. Above all it should not fatigue it
SELF 1t has not been robust of late years, and
any great exertion is liable to result in
serious con sequences.
Year: 1879

ONE of the sweetest things in literature is
the ardent pursuit of the Greenback vote by
the Argus. In the warmth of its wooing il
displays more than the usual lavishnesss of
lovers, and stoops very low indeed to conquer.
Its unfortunate passion is likely to get it into
trouble, for some of its subscribers who pride
themselves on being Democrats. complain
bitterly of its 'sspooning" and characterize
its course in language which is certainly
forcible if not polite-language indeed which
is 100 broad for the columns even of the
Arqus.
Year: 1879

WHITE women receiving charity from
Cinnamon was the singular spectacle wit
messed in San Francisco the recent Chinese
New Years Day. 1t is custom with the
Cinnamon on that holiday to show their
liberality and win favor with their gods by
wrapping five and ten cent coins in red paper
and giving them to the poor who solicit help.
A number of Italian women, becoming
aware of this custom, made complete tours
of Chinatown on New ears Day, and called
at every Monaghan shop in the quarter.
They reaped bountiful harvest.
Year: 1879

THERE has been no severer indictment of
Tilden's fitness for the high office which he
SO fervently declared before God and the
country he had lost through fraud than the
following from the Utica Herald: "We
cannot escape from the fact that he declared
before the Potter subcommittee, while de-
Ginning to justify the conduct of his nephew
Pelton, that 'his error was excusahIe.' Mr..
Tilden was burning with Indignation over
frauds he imagined and declared to have been
committed on the other side; but when
pressed by the committee to say whether he
had any personal knowledge of the frauds he
alleged, he was compelled to admit that he
had none. Thus denouncing imagined
frauds, he declared in the same breath that
the glaring attempts to buy electors, proved
and confessed and spread before the country
in every naked detail, were excusable."
Year: 1879

sTA most extraordinary death is re-
ported to have occurred at Ii. tie Rock,
Ark, few days since: A farmer living
about ten miles from that city predicted
that he would die on a certain day. His
friends and family demonstrated with
him conccrnining this phantasmatical
idea, which was uppermost in his mind.
He, however, disregarded their cntreat-
les but for time he laid aside his Pc
culiar notion and his friends thought no
moro about the prophesy. The fated day
came at last, and with his acc ustomed
regularity, he went to work as usual
No change had occurred IN his physical
condition to warrant the fultillment of
the fatal prediction. About eleven o'clock
he quit his work and went to his home,
and remarked to his wife that his feet
were cool and that he felt sick. Pulling
Oft his shoes he sat by the fire and held
out his feet. Turning around to his wife
he said, "I am going to die just as told
YOU" A few moments later, he said, 81
am dying now. death has begun at my
feet and Is creeping towards my head"
His wife assist ed him to bed, and while
she was going to get fuel to start q fire,
he died; thus fulfilling a prediction
made many days before the eventful
timC.
Year: 1879

UA San Francisco woman wrote to
the Post of that city: "My husband
knocks me down with a chair or some-
thing every few hours, and last week
locked me up in the cellar while he went
shooting. When he returned after five
days absence, he released me with the
remark, Great Scot, aint you dead yet 2
Yesterday, detected him putting arse
mic in my tea. What shall I do about
it7" To which the Post replied: 'You
must win your husband by Kindness
Hiding behind the door or under the bed
will only make him worse. Plait your
hair like a, trunk handle, so that he can
drag you around the floor more easily,
and work him satin-qnilted club hold
er to hang on the bed post. Tho great
thing is the proud consciousness of hav~'
ing performed your duty. DO this, and
all will he we'll in ten or fftoen years.
Year: 1879

1t may not be generally known
that salt is an excellent rreservative of
timber from dry rot. The props and gal
leres of the great salt mines in Poland
aud Hungary are found to endure for
ages without any apparent decay. Wood
den piles driven into sails marshes last
much longer than those driven into fresh
water mud and experiments have been
made which show that dry rot may even
be checked after it has begun, by INNER
sion of the infected wood in salt water.
In many countries the custom prevails of
soaking logs in the sea before saving
them up, especially logs Of hard timber,
such as oak, elm and ash, with a view to
render the wood mere durable.
Year: 1879

WHY THE WEDD WAS BROKEN OFF.
Some time ago, says the Macon Tele-
graph, prominent business gentleman
of a neighboring town and belonging to
the Hebrew faith lost his wife. Tho dis
consulate husband resolved to take unto
himself another partner. His brother
was in New York, and with due caro- and
diligence selected for the groom lady
whom he thought would be agreeable to
his brother. They were personally strang-
ers, but family connection cxisted.-
The courtship was done by proxy and the
lady's consent obtained. The would-be
bride groom wrote to the lady to come to
Macon and be married. She replied that
she would be here on the day appointed.
On Friday evening she came, accompa-
MED by two relatives. A magistrate was
summoned to tie the knot. The bride,
as the ceremony was about to be COM
menced, asked where her future husband
intended to reside. When told that he
lived in tho country she protested, and
insisted that the man who claimed her
must live in a city. She was begged to
consider tho matter, and the ceremony
was deferred until Saturday evening"
When Saturday evening came the bride
still hest tated, and just as she was about
to consent the groom refused to have the
ceremony performed. The gentleman is
in middle life, and the young lady is in
the bloom of youth and attractive. She
has returned to New York and he to his
home.
Year: 1879

The Democratic or Bourbon party was
born of the Virginia and Kentucky resolu
tions of170S-'99, and has adhered 10 the lOgi-
cal impulses Of its seditious origin with
blind aud unfinching integrity. 1t has
never lost sight Of those resolutions for q
single instant and has waded through the
blood of thousands of loyal citizens to prove
its earnest devotion 10 their alleged princi-
pies. 1t was this pestilent heresy OF the
absolute supremacy Of the States as against
the Union, that shook the country in 1920
in the discussions of the question of admit
ting Missouri into the Union rs State. 1t
was the same fatal dogma that eliminated
in notification in South Carolina in 1882
In all its history from the beginning the
whole Democratic theory of paramount and
absolute State sovereignty has been con-
slant menace and perpetual source of dan
ger to the Government Of the United States,
and will remain so until the end But for
this fatal heresy there would have been no
rebellion and no four years Of frightful civil
war


II was the Democratic doctrine of State
supremacy that organized the rebel govern
ment at Montgomery, Ala, in 1861. 1t was
this accursed political war on the authority
of the Nation that required 100000 troops
to hold Kentucky in the Union during the
war, and half that number to control the
traitorous masses in the State of Missouri
All through the war, as always before, the
entire body of the Democratic party was
constantly, directly and indirectly, oppos-
ing Mr.. LINCOLN and his administration
for converting the American Union into q
consolidated despotism, and tramping down
the rights of the States. Kentucky went so
Year: 1879

JEFF DAVIS is the Ku-Klux candidate for
Senator in Mississippi. He is also accepted
as the beau ideal OF an American statesman
among the more intelligent leaders Of the
Democratic party in that State. II will be
noted that this comprehensive combination
OF support must include all the people of
Mississippi, with the exception of the mig
gers aud Radicals" JEFF is coming, il he
lives
Year: 1879

WHEN the first Of the pending 'series" of
yetoes was promulgated the remark was
truthnllly uttered that the Republican party
was thereby made stronger than it had been
before since 1868. Each subsequent veto
has added to its strength, and if there had
been one more--of the last army bill-it
Year: 1879

1T begins to appear that the sterile wran-
gle of the Democrats over the WARNER sill
ver bill will do them great deal of harm
out in California. Verify, the barren states
manship of the Bourbons serves to turn
anything into ashes as soon as they touch
Year: 1879

THEY are talking Of running TILDEN for
Governor up in New York. OF course he
will resign his present office of President
before he accepts the nomination; but there
is question as to who will accept the resig-
nation.
Year: 1879

THERE is much talk nowadays about
abseDteeism in Congress; but there is a
question whether our truant statesmen are
not serving their country better by rambling
about the world than they would by remain
ing at their posts of duty in Washington.
Year: 1879

MEXICO promised the worldan Exhibition
for next year. She is simply anticipating
that promise few months, and is giving
us an exposition of the chronic revolution
which Oiiiicts her government instead. The
world is probably as well satisfied as it
would have been if the original programme
had been carried out
Year: 1879

The split between the Democrats of the
House and the Senate is practically beyond
caucus control and is growing wider every
day. Even DR.. THURMAN fails to command
obedience from the unruly so-called states
men of his party in the lower branch.
Year: 1879

THE New York Herald is evidently mis-
taken in referring TO Senator VOORHEES, as
the obelisk of the Democratic party
TILDEN is the man to whom that distinc-
ton belongs. He is covered all over with
ciphers!
Year: 1879

How TO avoid another veto is the prob
lem which absorbs the Bourbon intellect in
Congress just now. Every time President
HAYES sends in a message disapproving any
OF their seditious measures another nail is
driven into the Democratic coffin.