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Year: 1879

With the fire.shovel.
Thou we all set up yell that ia
five minutes about thirty neighbors
had come in to seo what was tbs
matter, and in less than half an hour
all the mouse-traps and cats and
dogs in the neighborhood we're there
to make war on that one little
mouse ; and there was some talk
ab)ut calling in the police force, and
telegraphing tho Governor TO send
us a squad Of militia.


But happily this was not found
necessary,


The mouse was speedily dispatch
by Scotch terrier, aud we finally
got the house cleared, though it took
Mrs. d. the rest Of the day to put
things to rights.


As for me, my bump OF philopro-
genitiveness is so large that il takes
q number nine hat to 60 around it.
Year: 1879

II tho cause for which persons
commit suicide now-a-days increase
in triviality. we shall expect to read
in few years from now suoh .naws-
paper items rs the following ;


De Gopher Go shot himself dead
yesterday with a revolver. A new
pair Of shoe strings which he
bought tho day before didn't! fl.
him.


John Smith stubbed his toe as he
was going into his house last oven-
ing, and the circumstances 80 work
cd upon moro than usually sem
sltive nature that he cut his throat,


81 cannot survive this disgrace,
cried young and handsome strang-
or, on Fourth street, yesterday.
when lady he had never seen be
fore passed him without speaking
Then he won't down and jumped of
tho Suspension Bridge, and was
drowned.


Wives cannot bo too careful. A
woman on Front street, who takes
IN washing to support herself and
nine little children, incautiously re-
quested her husband, who had drop
ped in a moment on his way to GO,
drink, to bring in few kindllus
from the woodshed. He went ou,
without saying a word. but the poor
woman says she we'll never forget
till her dying day, the troubled look
he wore. Rendered uneasy by his
prolonged absence, sho went to the
woodshed only to fnd his bleeding
and lifeless remains on the floor
He had blown his brains out will
tho sawbuck.
Year: 1879

What does your anxiety do? 1t does
not empty to morrow of its sorrows: bat
all it empties to-day of IFS strength.
It does not make you escape the evil,
it makes you unfit to cope with it when
it comes. 1t does not bless to- morrow,
and it robs to day. For every day has
its own burden. Sufficient for each day
is the evil which properly belongs to it.
Dc not all to nIo,row's to to days. Do
not drag the futnre into the present.
The present has enough to do with Its
own proper concerns. We have always
strength to bear the evil when it comes.
We have not strength to bear the fore
bodings of it. As thy day, thy strength
shall be. In strict prop rtion to the
cxigencies will be the God-given pow
er; but if you cram aud condense to-
days SORROWS by experience, and to-
morrow's sorrows by anticipation, into
narrow round OF the one four and twen-
tv hours, there is no promise that as
that day thy strength shall be God
gives us CHS name be praisedD God
gives us power to bear the sorrows Of
power to bear the sorrows of our own
making, which the anticipation of sor-
row most assuredly is.
Year: 1879

Nor long since we received letter
from q mother which tells how people
sometimes do most good in this world
"Baby mas been the busiest of ali, aud
doing most good of ADJUST letting his
little light shine. and frightening our
lives without letting any shadow fail
across the brightness" II father and
mother would do the same, what hap
py homes all would have.
Year: 1879

VIZ observed during ride over the


pike west Of Bridgeport yesterday, as lar
us Kinsey's Mills, that the grading on the


Tnscarawas railroad is in excellent condi-
ton, much OF it being firmly and thor
onghIy settled, and durable looking in its
character. The stone work for the bridges
has solid and substantial look, and we
doubt not is tirst.class in its construction.
Everything is ready for the rails, and the
rails will be laid and the engine running
between this and January LIST, II the
Flushing tunnel was completed the road
could be easily finished this fall. Itseems
pity that track laying and ballasting
could not have progressed from this end,
50 as to meet the track from, Uhrichsville
at the tunnel, inasmuch as 1t would have
given the companya better track for the
winters business. They claim, however,
that the rates Of transportation asked by
the o. & z, road for tho carriage Of
the necessary material for operations on
this end Of the line were prohibitory in
their character, and that this is the expla-
uatiOn Of the delay that will occur after
the opening Of the tunnel. eA f'2
Year: 1879

Ar the Republican jubilee in Portland
the other night Senator Blaine opened his
speech in this fashion: "At a dinner Of
the New England Society Of New York
last December Governor Van Zandt said
that he could give very brief statement
Of what the Puritans did. The Dutch set
tied New York, and the Puritans settled
the Dutch. In this election the Green
backers settled the Democrats, and the
Republicans settled the Greenbackers."
Year: 1879

We hereby notify our
friends and the public
generally that from this
time forth we will cease to
sell for credit on any
terms whatever. We are
aware that in order to do
this we will have to sell
cheaper than our neigh
bors, and we are prepared
to do so. AS We are
building we are very much
pressed for cash, and
therefore it will be better
for us to sell for cost than
to sell on ever so short q
time, no matter how good
the buyer. The facts in
the case are just these: it
is a necessity with us to
have our goods or to have
the \wherewith to buy
more. OF course we do
not expect to do so much
business, but we are de-
termined to do what we
can.


Our Lumber Yard is
now full and nearly com
plete.
Year: 1879

The fifth competitor for the Liienthal cup
was won by Major Arms, of the Washington
Artillery. who scored AZ.


The crossboW shooting, for the possession of
the bow and arrows. was won by Mr.. Kiernan,
who scored 8.


The members Of the New Orleans Gun Club
did not put in an appearance. and therefore
there was no glass ball shooting for the SCOOTER
Year: 1879

The Sons Of Columbus gave their first annual
picnic at Loeper's Park. yesterday. The first
attempt Of this excellent organization at giving
an entertainment was attended with brilliant
success promising eor the future series Of
pientcs which will be with those OF other asso-
Citations.
Year: 1879

KEEP YouH SECRETS. - The whole
world is full Of people craving for cona>
denco- people to whom It secret is like
gold in chid's pocket, burning to be
issued. Those who are high in rank, and
blessed with every advantage, are often
tornentcd for the want Of n true friend
meaning thereby some one TO whom they
can conhde secrets. And on those who
will simply take them and keep them,
they are willing to be,tow friendship. To
those who would be in such confidence,
it is enough that they follow the advice
already given, OF never being directly or
Indirectly the means Of disseminating
gossip of any kind.


In connection with this subject, the
reader may properly be advised against
curiosity. There are people who cannot
see lotter without IA craving to know TO
whom it is addressed, or who cannot find
anything written lying on table. with
out Involuntary picking 1t up. The
Paul Pry is the meanest character OF So
cety, and he who would feel superior in
strength and in integrity should strive
vigorously to have nothing in common
with such type Of baseness. Bear con
tinually in mind the fact that in the art
of con versation the secret or success lies
not so much in knowing what to say as in
what to avoid saying.
Year: 1879

EVEN tho appearance of an alliance with
Tammany Hall will do the Republican party
incalculable damage. MI. CORNELL Is above
that sort of thing.--Nclc York MdiL


The Mdl is quite right. Mr.. CORNELL
cannot desire MS measure ofexpediency or
propriety any alliance with either wing OF
divided Democratic party, when the split,
as in this case, has no significance or bear
ing beyond that party, except incidentally.
The quarrel is purely Democratic. 1t re-
lates to the domestic affairs of that party
and involves no principles except the five
loaves and two fishes which constitute the
basis of all Democratic action in this
period. Let them continue to fight over
the party patronage without the slightest
invasion or interference from the Republi-
cans, for no advantage either to principle OF
success can be reaped from an alliance of
any sort in that direction. Let every tub
| stand on its own bottom in this contest for
success that should come by an alliance
with either side of this Democratic schism
would bo worse to the Republican party
than absolute defeat on principle. Mr.
CORNELL is too straight-lnced Republican
to eountenance an alliance with Democracy
in any shape and we feel confident will not
tolerate anything of the kind. The rumol
that any such thing is possible is TGLDEN
| invention for Republican harm.
Year: 1879

THE editor of the Athens Post defines his
position pretty clearly as follows


And now, to make the matter perfectly
plain and afford no further opportunity for
falsifying our position, we desire to soy,
aud say it loud enough for all to hear, that,
much rs we detcst Radcalism, we had thou
sand times rather see Republican in the
gubernatorial chair who favored fair and
equitable compromise and adjustment of the
State debt than to see 1t filled by a npudis-
ZIONIST. Having said this much, we hope moth
ing more is necessary to clear understand
inu
Year: 1879

MEN build wiser than they know. This


holds good even of the Confederate Congress
which met in extra session last spring.
They proposed to annihilate Stalwartism,
but the plant gr W under their system of
cultivation with surprising yigor and rapid
ity. BLACKBURN and Cox and RANDALL
were so impatient to make capital for the
next campaign that they couldn't hold
their horses, and forced an extra session,
and the extra session cooked their goose
with the feathers still on, 1t united the
Republicans, split the Democrats, and ex-
cited general disgust That nothing might
Year: 1879

SENATOR WooDIN, who has just been re.
nominated for the State senate by the Re-
publicans of the new district composed OF
Cayuga and Tompkins counties, New York
in n speech to the convention which nomi.
mated him, remarked:


We have gone too far and too fast in the di
rection of forgiveness and pardon for treason
and done too little in the way of securing
guarantees for the future. Indemnity for the
past we could not hope for, but security for the
future was attainabe, and there is still left an
opportunity to escape the dangers incident Ia
a policy which offers magnanimity and ten.
derness in return for embittered hate. There
is one remedy, and one only, and that is in
continued Republican ascendancy. That lost
all is lost. The loss of this State this fall will
be the first fatal step that leads to rebel su-
premacy To be forewarned is to be foro-
armed.
Year: 1879

THE internal revenue receipts from the
tax on tobacco have decreased to the ex-
tent of about $4,000, 900 since the reduction
of the tax on that product. Messrs. RAN.
TUCKER, CABELL and other members of the
tobacco States delegations in the House
should proceed at once to revise their
speeches on this question. They claimed
pending the passage of the reduction bill
that the receipts would be increased, or a
the worst would not fall off
Year: 1879

Prominent Democrats in Alabama are
engaged in organizing an independent
movement in that State. They will not
carry their operations into Mississippi for
BARKsDALE and his shotgun reside there
Year: 1879

THE New York Times, which answers to
roll-call in the Republican army in Demo-
cratic uniform, now draws consolation from
the ex-Presidents hearty reception by the
American people as follows:


1t is fortunate for General GRANT and for
the party that made him President that tine
proposal to convert his return into means OF
forestalling an exciting political incident OF
next year not only received no adequate en-
couragement, but was Indignantly secuted as
an affront to the party in whose name it APP
peared and to the General whose ambition its
authors pretended to consult.


And yet the GRANT boom will go on the
mme as before
Year: 1879

IT remains for General GRANT himself to
decide which course he will finally pursue.-
Post.


General GRANT may be a little busy for
few days in putting his wardrobe in order
after so much journeying, but we think it
highly probably that he will take the ear
liest opportunity to advise the Post as to
what course he will pursue in the future
This seems to be his first duty to the Nation
Year: 1879




Madam G., dressmaker. has q
great deal OF trouble with her sewing
girls. The other day one of them came
to her and said:


MADAME, l fear that will not be
able to work much longer; think am
getting blind.''


why, how is thatP You seem to
get along pretty we'll with your work"
"Yes, but can no longer see any
meat on my plate at dinner"


Madam G. understood; and the
next day the young ladies were served
with very large but very thin pieces OF
meat.


What happiness" exclaimed our
miss. ."My sight has come back; can
now see better than ever"


"How is that, mademoiselle?"
why at this moment l can see the
p ate through the meat"
Year: 1879

THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS
adopted Representative Buford's resolution call
ing on the Secretary of the Interior for the cor
reSponGence relative to the Ute trouble: also,
Representative Scales resolution inStructing
the committee on Indian affairs to investigate
the cause OF the recent Ute outbreak. and the
Senate resolution to appoint a commission with
view of the removal OF the Utes, was also adopt
ed with some amendments.
Year: 1879

NOT Mr.. Brown, THE SCULPToR.-Through an
error caused by haste, the death OF Mr.. H. X.
Brown, the sculptor, was announced yesterday,
whereas it should have been stated that it was
the wife of that gentleman. She 1t was who died
on Thursday last. The mistake was fallen into
the more easily from the fact that it was known
Mr.. Brown himself had been in feeble health for
some time past. That eminent and much eS-
teemed gentleman will have the sympathy OF a
wide and attached circle OF friends in his IRE
parable loss.
Year: 1879

ONE OF THE PLEASANT SOCIAL events OF the
season in behalf OF most worthy charity, will
be the kettledrum at Odd Fellows Hal, on Mon
day afternoon and evening, by the ladies Of the
west End, including many from the diplomatic
corps. There will be music and dancing, lunch.
supper, holiday presents and other attractions.
Year: 1879

Senator Blaine has presented petition
asking the appointment of 4 commission to
investigate the traffic i'll and the sanitary ef-
feet of alcoholic liquors and also prohbitory
legislation


Congressman Gibson has introduced a reso-
luton creating commission of five, To be
appointed by the President and confirmed by
the Senate, TO be composed of one from the
army, one from the navy, one from the coast
geodetic survey, and two from civil life, to
consider the whole subject of an interoceanic
canal over the Isihmus OF Panama. The
commissioners are TO report the results of
their examinations to the Secretary of the
Navy, with their recommendations as to the
best route, the plans to he adopted and the
legislation necessary.


Mr.. Wilber of New York has presented in
the House a unique petition praying that
Congress should publish Il newspaper from
its proceedings, and that a copy should be
sent TO every family in the United States
daily. Twenty-Five reasons are adduced for
the free circulation OF the proposed news
paper, among them that it will decrease
crimes, advance education, elevate the peo-
pie, and powerfully subserve the best inter
ests of the country.


The Senate committee on finance have
agreed to postpone the consideration of the
Warner bill, the Bayard resolution and other
important financial measures until after the
Year: 1879

THERE are still left OF the Government
lands in the West the vast amount of l, ,300,-
900, 900 acres, or enough to supply about
eight millions settlers with a homestead
grant of 1G0 acres each, while it is said that,
in the past century, only sGO,000OO0 acres,
or about two-thirds of the public domain
have been surveyed and sold A large part of
this territory is merely waste land, but a
part of it IS very valuable. Thus wooded
tracts in California are worth not less than
one thousand dollars per acre. while mineral
lands in some OF the territories have pres
ent and potential value which can not very
well be calculated
Year: 1879

CONGRESSMAN SHELLEY of Alabama has in
troduced bill in the House providing for
the creation of commission Of five to inves-
tigate the causes producing the present emf
grafton of the colored people from the South
Mr.. Shelley claims that the colored people of
the Southern States are more prosperous and
receive better treatment than the laboring
classes of any other section OF the country !;
that the most amicable and pleasant relations
exist between the people of the two races,
and that the whole movement is simply pro-
duced and carried on by politicians anxious
to subserve their own interests.
Year: 1879

One of the bills the republicans in the
house are "flibustering" against is the bill
to prevent federal officials, claimants and
contractors from contributing money for
political purposes. The republicans do
not like it. although it is in the direction
of that reform of the civil service which
Mr., Hayes so pretentiously avowed at the
beginning of his administration. 1t makes
it unlawful for any officer, clerk or employe
OF the government, or any claimant or con-
tractor under the government, to pay
money to any committee for political pur-
poses under heavy penalties. The secret
OF the republican opposition to the meas
ure is that it would cut off the source from
which they have long been accustomed to
draw their supplies of electioneering
money-assessments on the S.. 900 federal
othce-holders and the army of claimants
and contractors who depend on the favor
OF the department heads. The republi-
cans have been so long accustomed to use
money as lever inI elections that they
would be at loss without it, Indeed,
they are determined not to be without it.
They need it in Ohio and California this
fall and they will need it still more in the
more important elections of next year.
The Democrats in congress are IN favor of
the bill and the public would gladly see il
passed, as means of purifying our poll
tics. but the republicans are resolved it
shall not be passed if filibustering and roll
calls can prevent it,
Year: 1879

versy. There seems no doubt that the
President will approve the large bill and
veto the smaller one, but in the event of
both houses adiourning Immediately there
after, which is also considered certain,
there Is very little probability that congress
will be reconvened as the indispensable ap-
preparations for courts will then have been
made, and the Marshals' fees forYserving
United States processes can be provided
for by deficiency bill at the regular ses-
sion next winter.
Year: 1879

PROVIDENCE. June 26.-Edgar D. Tho
mas and wife have lived apart Last
night he called upon his wife at the house
of her father and during brief interview
shot her fatally and fed


The striking spinners and weavers OF
the Westerly wooden mills, resumed work
to-day under compromise.
Year: 1879

What is this that He saith?
S"Is 1t but little while
And trouble and pain and death


Shall vanish before his smile
"Alittle while,'' and the load
. Shall drop at the pilgrims feet,
Where the steep and thorny road


Doth merge in the golden street.
But what is this that He saith?


"a little while," and the day
OF the servant that laboreth


Shall be done forever and aye.
0 the truth that is yet untold!
o the suffering manifold,


And the SORROWS that have no tongue
Othe helpless hands held out,


And the wayward feet that stray
In the desolate paths of doubt


And the sinners downward way!
For silence soon will fall


On the lips that burn for speech,
And the needy and poor that call


Will forever be out of reach.
For the work that ye must do


Before the coming of death .lg5
There remaineth, o faithful few,


But little WHILE" He saith.
Year: 1879

and it is not surprising that they are 10,
The result is that when German physi:-
clan or surgeon comes to treat a particu-


lar ease he is apt to follow the teachings
OF his master to the letter. This will not
DO, for there can hardly be found two
cases which require precisely the same
treatment. For this reason the Ameri-
can, who is naturally ingenious, when he
comes toa case will set to thinking on
his own hook, and will devise some way
to get successfully through with it..
Take, for instance, the case of man
who has leg that requires to be ampu-
tated.av The books tell exactly how to do
it. But suppose the man has in addition
some serious constitutional disease. Then
the circumstances are altered entirely,
aud what he can get from the books may
not help him out oft. So, you see the
surgeon must always rely mainly upon
his own knowledge and skill"
Year: 1879

All the children Of the Crown Prince
of Germany are scrofulous like their
mother. When it was first proposed at
the Prussian Court to marry the young
and robust Crown Prince with the fat
English Princess, Bismarck opposed the
project in these words: "You will ru-
in the sound and lusty Hohenzolxern
stock"-an impression that the Crown
Prince never forgave. As little gallant
as this remark of Bismarck's may have
been, it has nevertheless proved true.
The eldest son, and who may one day
he Emperor, is full of talent, but he is
sicklv, and his left arm is withered,
distorted and almost unserviceable. All
the other children arc diseased in one
way or another.
Year: 1879

MESsRS. EDITORS We notice tha,
by your report ot the proceedings Of the
Board of Education, more books have
been ordered to take the place of others
which have feeD in Use but compar-
ativeiv short time IN the schools. This
unwarranted expenditure Of money for
books which are not needed, but which
are bought by the Board through the
influence Of the drummers of New York
aud Philadelphia publishing houses, is
getting to be unhearable. A teacher
in one Of the schools stated recently
that she had books enough to last her
school for hundred years, and vet
still they come. We hope that those
Of the Board Of Education who are op.
posed to the reckless expenditure of
money will insist on The yeas and nays
on each motion Of THIS kind, and thu
let the people know who the sprud-
thrltts are. Low TAXES.
Year: 1879

For the REPUBLICAN.


Last Monday morning, one of the
men loading freight at Edgemoor, pick
ed up calf by the ears.and threw it in
the car. Now what ought TO be done
is to tie that man Ivy tho hands and
feet, pick him up by the ears and pitch
him in on the hard floor of the ear, and
if his head Is as hard rs his conscience
it wont hurt him rs much as it did the
calf, and the poor litt!, helpless ami
mai is as precious in the Lords sight
as he is. Let him pause and tremble
for retribution awaits him both at an
earthly and heavenly tribunal. E. ".