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Year: 1879

Such being the usuol-in fact only proper and
honorable mode of procedure--aH parties hactng
claims against the Government of the United States,
Of any noture, should communicate only oolh the
attorney they have appointed to attend to their bus-
ness in Washington in relation thereto. Upon the
receipt of any letter document referring to their
case, they should refrain from answering Il, and
at once transmit It to their attorney, to take such
action upon it as he may deem advisable
Year: 1879

It has been predicted by some philo-
sophie dietists that dogs will yet be-
come favorite food IN civilization.
They contend that the dog is not only
very palatable, but that he is nourish-
ing and entirely wholesome, and that,
when young and tender, he cannot be
distinguished from the best mutton.
Year: 1879

A lot of fresh Chattel Mortgage
blanks just printed at the ADVANCE
Office. This form is the best in use
and is preferred by the bank and by
our business men generally. Send and
get u supply.


A supply of Legal Note, Foolscap
and Letter paper Just received at the
WOrthinCton Book Store
Year: 1879

The Cincinnati Enquirer has taken
the trouble to look up the statistics and
to show that the banks of the United
States suspended specie payments nine
different times in the tfty-two years
from 1909 to 1861. Each of these sus-
pensions brought ruin to thousands of
business men and distress upon tens of
thousands Of people.


We have reached resumption again
and are promised Il revival Of business
and brtter times from this on. We
hope that all this may be realized,
though many think the fact of resump-
tion will have little effect in causing
revival Of business.


But the fact that under the present
system such frequent suspensions re-
suit, and are always attended by such
great disaster, should set the business
world to thinking seriously whether af-
ter all a specie basis is not all delu-
sion and Il snare. No nation on the
globe ever maintained specie payment
for any great length Of time and the
banks Of Venice are said to have sus-
pended for Il period of four hundred
years. England suspended for thirty
years. Certain it is that the business
world needs some mere reliable none
tary system.
Year: 1879

A movement is on foot to have the
time for paying taxes extended until
about next November when farmers
will have their coming wheat crop mar
keted and he in better shape to pay.
OF course this act will only he applica-
bic to the southern tier Of counties
where the wheat crop was q failure.
This would certainly be but a just meas
ure. and should be looked after imme-
diately.-Preston Republican.


Since the precedent has been estab-
]ished, it will no doubt be well to ex-
tend again. Certainly there has been
10 time since the settlement of this
part of the State began, when it was so
hard to obtain money to pay taxes.
Year: 1879

THE SOUTHERN MINNESOTA.


The Murray cOunty correspondent of
the Jackson Republic says Of this road:


There was some in Murray county
that received information il year ago
would lie built through Bondin, and so
on to the State line, and a branch from
Jackson to Wortlington us soon as it
would pay. 1t will pay any time that
WOrthngtOn and other towns will pay
for building it. This information is
official from the head centre). Now
vote your bonus and down with rates of
freight tariff. All want and expect to
see Worthington Il Railroad center some
day.


This has been the view of the AD-
VANCE all along, that even if the main
line should follow the northern route.
a bra lcl would be built to WorthiEg-
ton, similar to the branch of the Vino
ia & st. Peter into Mankato. AS to
giving enough bonus however, to build
the branch, that cannot he done. We be-
lieve that Worthington and perhaps
one OF two other towns would vote the
five per cent. allowed by law and per-
laps give something besides in the way
Of a subscription:


We say again that our people can
we'll afford to pay 4 handsome bouus
to secure the road, for the saving in
freights would pay the whole bonus in
aycar or two. Add to this the appre-
citation in the value Of real property
which is sure to follow the securing of
another railroad, and every one must
see that we can make no better invest.
IDent than to invest in the Southern
Minnesota or some east and west road


There is another consideration. Al
present Worthlngton and Mobiles coun
ty are one of the papers going to form
the tail of a st. Paul kite. We art
tributary to st. Paul, and receive but
little i'll return. All the efforts of thai
city are put forth to send settlers int<
the country north and west of that cit]
while Southwestern Minnesota is barel,
mentioned. No one thing would con
tribute so much to the settlement O.
this ccuntyas to place us on line of rail
road leading directly into Chicago ant
Milwaukee.


10 secure immigration, to reduce
freights, and to bring up The price o
farm products, we must have anothe
Year: 1879

According to notice given on the
day of sale on the 10th of Nov. last,
no one will be allowed to enter the
timber lot after the first day OF
March until the first day of Novem-
Der next. Those who wish to get
out any more wood for spring and
summer use should bear this in
mind. HENRY LEUsCHE.
Year: 1879

The publisher of the Cincinnati San
dav Neus received a terrible beating in
tue street Saturday afternoon at the
hands OF the youngest son OF Judge
Taft, ex-Attorney-j-neral OF the Uni
ted States. The NeDs published an
anonymous letter, protesting to come
from the wife of Congressman VINO
had celebrated a silver wsdding re-
Gently, as did Judge Taft, and also re,
f-rring to the letter as from the wife OF
an ex-m.mber OF the Cabinet, clear
ly directing attention to the wife OF
Judge Taft as the author. The letter
purported to be an exposure OF faulty
matters. The editorial cvmmens point
ed SO strongly to the wife Of Judge
Taft as the author that his sons felt II
their duty to notice it, which they did
by proceeding TO the office Of the pub
Usher, where the younger administer
ed beating. Mr.. Rose was found on
the sidewalk, in front of the Office, and
was knocked down, thrown into the
gutter, and most thoroughly whipped
by the young man, while the elder
brother kept the crowd back, and call
ed for fair play. Young Taft is
broad shouldered, we'll developed
young man, and recent graduate
lrcm Yale, and showed that his physi
cal training there was not neglected
Rose was badly used, and had to b.
taken home in a hack. The feeling
among all classes Of citizens is tina
Mr.. Taft did public service. Judg
Taft's domestic relations are OF the nap
| pi.st character.
Year: 1879

William Maston, living in the Ninth


Ward was arraigned last evening for
assaulting Edmund Provost, city tax


collector while in the performance OF
his ctticial duty. Maston was indebted
to the CITY for tax and the officer was
trying to collect the amount when the
assault was made. Two dollars and
costs was the fine imposed, and he was
also required to pay 80 II the amount
due the city for the two past years
Year: 1879

The Swiss experiment of getting alons
without capital punishment Of crime lasted
| just five years, and the penalty of death wa,
restored by vote OF ~ to Is in the federal
council.


More than one hundred thousand tons
| OF Algerian and Spanish iron ore will be i'm.
ported into the United States this year
| The iron will be used in Pennsylvania, in
competition with Lake Superior ore.
Farmers in the eastern part of Penn
sylvania find it very profitable to raise their
own trout. and have large quantities to
spare for market. The trout pond on a farm
is becoming as common as an orchard.


The Canadians are greatly incensed at
finding that many of their merchants, lust
before the new tariff was brought forward,
loaded up their shelves with American goods
which have escaped the duty and are now
retailed at an advance of 10 or 15 per cent.


English newspapers very rarely con-
tain in the obituary column notice OF a
funeral, because, except in the case Of an
eminent public person, it is not desired
that any but near relatives and very init.
mate friends should attend, ana men worth
q million go to their graves with less pomp
and parade than New York car.driver.
A general order has been issued by
the postofice department abolishing ali
agents for. the sale OF postage stamps
throughout the United States, and hereafter
the regular postoffice officials only will be
authorized to sell stamps for the govern.
ment. This order, however, will not pre-
vent anyone who may purchase stamps from
selling them.


10 estimate what bridge will cot
any city II IL is done by contract; Take the
highest figures presented by any engineer
and multiply them by the length OF the
bridge in inches. point of two places, and
then add enough to prosecute anybody who
has anything to do with handling the funds,
and the result is-that the bridge is an obr
struction to navigation.


The London Lancet offers this cure
for bone felou: AS soon as the pulsation
which indicates the disease 10 felt, put di>
rectly over the spot fly blister about the
size Of thumb nail, and let it remain for
sI hours, at the expiration Of which time,
directly under the surface of the blister may
be seen the felop, which can be instantly
taken out with the point Of needle or
lancet.


The newest cottage bonnets, after
clasping the head closely, roll upward in the
brim Just above the forehesd and low down
behind the crown. The roll s scarcely an
inch deep, yet when covered with shirred
SATIN II makes the small bonnet much more
dressy than were the closer fronts worn dur.
ing the winter. The best Partisan milliners
have sent out this new shape in the most
expensive braids, trimmed with the richest
materials used this season.


The Nevada (Call Herald has been
shown curiosity in the shape Of trout
which had become petrited in the root OF
tree The fish measures about six in hes in
length, and shows very plainly the spots on
its sides and back. II is very perfect, aud
looks almost AZ II ready to glide Though the
water. II was washed out OF u mining
claim about two yeara ago, II must have
Year: 1879

North Adams gpseial 10 Boston Herald.l


The Boston and Albany road had narrow
escape from terrible accident the other
night When the engine left the II 80 train
at the Pittsfield depot and switched out OF the
that the journal was broken, and 1t was after
ward aseertained that the train had come a
distance OF two miles with one Of the locoruo-
tive wheels Off the track and running on the
snow and Ice, between the rails, Neither tho
firemen nor engineer had noticed anything
unusual In the running Of the train. and were
greatly astonlshed when the accident was dis
covered, which was not until the attempt was
made to back the engine into the round house.
The train had two slespers and three ordi-
nary coaches. and q usually full complement
OF passengers. Had the wheel entirely broken
off and dropped upon the track the train must
have been wrecked, with probably large loss
Of life for It was hurried at full speed to make
up twenty minutes lost time.
Year: 1879

To the supporters Of President Hayes in this
State the reelection OF Senator Conkling is O.
bitter dose, and 1t is to be seen whether they
will swallow 1t without making wry faces.
The administration has been waging war
against him ever since II came into power.
but the only effect has been to make his tri-
umph more respondent Last week Mr..
Conkling made speech In secret session of
the Senate, In which he handled the President
without gloves, and this week be will be
elected to the Senate for the third time with
less opposition and by larger majority than
ever before. It is difficult to conceive how
Mr.. Conklings great abilities could be more
signally attested than by this shining victory
over his political opponents In both parties.
Year: 1879

Now that the Legislature has passed the
bill calling for q constitutional convention, we
may look out for good times for the working
masses. Cormorants on ths public treasury,
look out, your days are numbered.


claiborne GuardfaBJ


The people had better begin to put their
heads together for good men TO SEND 10 the
constitutional convention. IT any mistakes
were made last November they should serve
as warnings against similar errors In the
future, In sending delegates to convention
to remodel and change the organic law, We
cannot afford TO make mistakes. we must
send the hest material that We have In point
of brains and character. Cast about among
yotlrselves for such men as we need and let
them be elected.
Year: 1879




The election Of Vest from Missouri and
Vance from North Carolina to the Senate OF
the United States is q notable addition to the
intellectual strength Of that body. Both are
among the ablest men In the country, elo-
quent speakers and distinguished debaters.
Either will prove more than match for the
cunning Edmunds or the perspiring Blaine,
and together they will represent their States
Year: 1879

The friends OF Senator Howe are very much
disappointed over his defeat Dy Matt Carpen-
eighteen years In the Senate, and that he has


alwavs been q pronounced radical RAuuh-
Iican. was considered sufficient to secure his
return for another term. 1t is said now that
his defeat was due TO the active interference
Howe made set speech attacking the admin.
Year: 1879

Youth commiserates Age because she
can not share in his pleasures and fol-
lies, because she walks totteringly,
wears spectacles and a wig, or dresses
her hair in by-gone fashion, lives in
the past, and has no glorious earthly
future or career ahead while Age is in
tolerant of Youth and his pastimes, his
love-making, the cut of his coat, the
color of his meerschaum, and his crude
opinions. The young talk and conduct
as if they were never to grow old; the
old complain and criticise as if they had
never been young. One would suppose
that the first possessed some spell
against the paralysis of Time, and that
the second had never skipped rope, or
staid out in the evening dew, or had
never worn her clothes for vanity in
stead of comfort, or enjoyed the de-
licious nonsense of "sweet-and-twenty." )"
The old person reminds us that girls
were different in her day, though the
main difference is in the point of view.
In her days she regarded them with
young eyes; she sees them now reflect
ed in Claude Lorraine glass, so to
speak, wearing the ineffable charm of
remoteness. The girl of the period is
so close at hand that she has no claim
to picturesqueness; all her angles are
visible even to imperfect eyesight.
"Old peoples eyes are strongest for
things a long way off. like their men,
ories," says George Eliot. Those vir-
tues about which the precious past has
cast its glamour are quite plain to
them, but these of the present are too
near, too much part of every days
commonplaces, for complete recogni.
ton. Perhaps it is because youth is the
season of hope and beauty that the
poets have all consented to espouse its
cause and sing its praises, as if it alone
possessed all the advantages the human
soul could covet, as if age had not a
poetry and pathos as well. Is there
more poetry in looking forward to hopes
that may succeed or fail than in looking
backward to those that have disappoint-
ed us? Does not the fading rose touch
the imagination more sensibly than the
opening fowerP "When was young" "
is the poetry of the old, since we all
look for it in " something afar from the
sphere of our sorrow" but does not
something of the tender bloom of heart
remain, whatever Byrons may say, al
though we fancy that it abides only with
the bloom of youthp


Life is but thought; so think will


| That Youth and are house mates still.


If age has gout and rheumatism, it is,
at least, exempt from love-sickness, and
immaturity, and the uncertainty OF
what things Fate may have in store: il
"youth is nimble on the road, age has
not so far to travel, and can afford tC
take it easily; moreover, it has learned
that heaven is not place but a state
and that "youth's Il stuff will not en-
dure. ."-Hdrper's Bazaar.
Year: 1879

city bnt the local auth ority may reduce the numbe
after the expiration of the term of ONCE Of the press
ent incumbent. shall receive a salary In excess oe
$4,000 per annum. The Board Of Estirnsts
and Apportionment shall fix and determine
the sums to De applied and paid during any
year, but shall not withhold moneys from
charitable other institutions. The amount to pay
the expenses OF conducting the public business OF
said city shall hereafter be at least 100000 less
than the aggregate amount included in such esti-
mates i'll said city for the year 1879 Before Anal
estimate is made time shall be given for q hearing
upon from the taxpayers, and the Board shall pub
lish in the City Record schedule of the names
OF all officers whose salaries have been fixed. Sais-'
ries OF employees who have faithfully performed
be increased but the number of other than day


aborers shall he increased beyond that existing
the 3lst day of December. 1875 except that the
number OF policemen may be increased, and the sal
ary of any such officer or employe shall not be


increased which on the day mentioned amounted to
exceeded 81 900. The vote of threefourths OF all
the members of the Board shall be requisite for any
action under this act.


The other bill relates to the compensate of pub


lie officers in all the other cities of the State and pro-
vdes that the local authority of city shall be tho
Common Council. except where there is Board OF
Estimate and Apportionmci.. in which the latter
shall annually fix and regulate the compensation OF
all public officers paid ont OF the city treasury. All
departments in city are prohibited from incurring
expenses beyond their appropriations, under penalty
of removal. Provision is also made for the reduc-
ton of the number Of employees in the different de-
partments. The local authority Is prohibited from
Increasing the salaries or pay OF public officers.
Year: 1879

John J. Kelly, IN Ex-Alderman of the
Eighteenth Ward was brought into the u
S. Court this morning on an application
for executive clemency, but ii was ordered
that the sentence heretofore entered be Ell
forced
Year: 1879

Thomas Darrill, an idiotic man, was
found by the policeman in naked condi-
ton at the corner Of Ann street and Gen.
trail avenue at an early this morning and
was taken TO the Hospital.
Year: 1879

therefore took him on trial for year
and the firm paid him a clerk salary,
After the year was around, Aaron be-
came convinced that Dudler would be
able to keep his contract; he would take
care of his own interests and pay INN
what was agreed upon. Aaron therefore
sold his part in the business to Dudler:
he set him up in business, as the say
ing is. with advantage for himself. Thus
Dudler found himself at the head of a
thriving firm. This contributed a great
deal toward giving him self-reliance.


Dudler became a popular man IN his
lodges and a leading member Of Beth ham
cdrash. Since we have met him as the
janitor Of the great building at llectorla
five years have elapsed, and how great
was the difference between the janltor
doing ON the stairs and the merchant OF
Sharpensville. Yes, our Isaac Dudler
was now respected. not Onl y in the lodges


and congregations Of his own country
men. but also in higher and better cir
cles of society, for he could speak Eng
Iish and German very respectfully, his
previous experience had filed off the un-
couth odds and ends of his early habits;
at the age of forty y-fye real life began
for our friend Isaac Dudler.
Year: 1879




When he came of Sabbath to their
synagogue and found there everything as
he had seen in the synagogues OF his ma
tive land. all the piety, superstition and
medieval usages, the sight was familiar
to him. The chanting Of the hoZ0n re-
yiyed his memories, the honor Of being
''called up to the reading of the law flat
tered him, the sexton standing on the
5tnaa and rapping with his hand ON
book to call the noisy congregants to or
der was a familiar apparition. The same
sexton meeting him deterentially, re-
minded him of the sexton at home, who
did not even deign to look at him, and
often turned him out of the synagogue
if he had been unruly, and he felt that
he had become quite a different beng
since. and that now he could even com
mand the official. Such associations Of
ideas bv which man takes the remem-
brances of his childhood as the ruling
principle of his actions in future life are
not seldom. They are SO closely allied
with a vencration for the ancient and
truly noble principles that it requires Il
subtle analysis TO expose the difference,
In our conversational affairs we have no
rabbinical authority to check the AFRO
gance of the children of circumstances
men like Dudlcr become the autocrats
the demagOgues, and their code of laws
are the remembrancos Of childhood and
the miscOnstruction Of their own petty
ambitions and personal likings into mat
ters of principle and communal bearing.


There was another circumstance which
made Dudler high in his own esteem.
Aaron Amere had been involved through
business operations to become partner
in the firm where he placed Dudler as a
clerk. The business was not lucrative
enough for him to keep on as a partner,
and he would have to lose q great deal if
he had insisted on withdrawing. 1t was
therefore necessary to find a man who
would buy him out. He saw that Dud-
ler would be the man. \ few hundred
dollars DudIer had on hand, for the rest
he was reliable enough, The business
realized so much that Dudler could live
respectfully on it, and pay off annually a
sufficient amount on what he owed. 1t
remained for Aaron only to see whether
Dudler would be man enough to hold his
own when put into that business, He
Year: 1879

Il seems strange that with the re-
cprocal necessities in the future
trade OF Eastern aud Western Wash,
inrton in view there should have
have been so much talk about divid
inc tho Territory. With = railroad
to connect and unite the two great
divisions of country, and open up
the trade through its legitimate chan
neIs, there is little prospect that a
proposition to effect division would
be received with favor by the voters
of either section.


The relative positions of the two
localities have been amply illustrated
by correspondent in the city Of
Walla Wala, from whose letter we
quote as follows: ga most abund
ant harvest is now all garnered.
What pity there is no outlet on the
Sound for all this immense stock Of
wheat But Portland holds iron
rule of this part Of Washington. She
is heaping her Golfers with that
which positively belongs to our
territory, and is SO much needed
within our boundaries that develop
ments might be made which would
enrich our own citizens. We want
the coal and lumber from the Sound,
and you want our grain. A railroad
to the Sound, and Portland's real es.
tate would collapse like a rent bal
loon! They know it, and are skin.
ming all they can before q road is
built s..' ... .-..t
e The above represents the case in a
nutshell Give us q railroad across
the mountains, and the enormous
tax on our Eastern friends for trans.
porting their grain down the Colum-
bia would GO into their pockets as
profits and they would be able to in.
vest largely in Puget Sound lumber
for fencing and building purposes;
and also in Puget Sound coal for
fuel. 70 H.
Year: 1879

GREAT preparations have been
made for the reception of General
Grant in San Francisco this week.
The demonstration will be grand
ovation to our distinguished country
man. About the only one who raises
any objections to the proceedings is
the great (?) sand lot dictator, Dennis
Kesrney. That august parsonage
has risen in tho full majesty Of his
awful wrath ard issued his decree
that Gen. Grant should be hung in
effigy. But even HE intimates that
he MAY be induced to revoke his ter
rible sdict. To what sublime
height has this bullying bIackguard
raised himself in the eyes OF loyal
American people by his insolent re-
marks and threats about one who has
done SO much for our country /!
Some one ought to lift him with a
stuffed club.
Year: 1879

The FIRE engine and hose which
was to have beer brought up on the
Alaska was left in San Francisco, on
account of a failure to get it on board
1t was boxed and ready for shipment
aud will be here in B few days at
farthest. ,I