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Year: 1879

upon the nation two debts the one to those who
furnished the money, and the other to those who
did The fighting Let us, we choose, regard each
class as equally patriotic and meritorious This is
admitting great deal for no one will claim that
the man who risks his money in a cause is entitled
to more credit or honor than he who endangers his
jlfe and hedHh and sacrifices the comforts and
pleasures of his home Well, these two classes of
our citizens are now being paid by the Government
and how? Why, the interest to the bond-hoIders
is looked after by large class of clerks, where
checks for interest made out months in advance
to meet payment, and to the very day, aye almost
hour, every owner of bond will receive his inter-
est. The force employed at this work is entirely
adequate and thoroughly complete in all its appoint
ments. Mr. Millionaire is sure of his funds at the
appointed time But reverse the picture. Turn to
the soldier We do not charge that it is the nten-
ton Of the Government to cheat the soldier out of
his pension; far from it.; but we do most emphat-
cally declare that we have not the slightest doubt
that often soldiers going down to the grave,
whose departures are hastened by the unjust action
of the Government in delaying the payment of
money due them, when in debitated, necessitous
condition, induced by the hardships and exposures
of a soldier life What reason is there that these
should eoait oast, ,oait and either die unre
warded or only be paid after months, and not un-
frequently years, of delay? This is gross and
infamous outrage against the soldiers OF the United
States. Why, under Heaven, should their demands
not be attended to promptly those of the bond
holders? Now there Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress- like Senator Logan and
Representative Townsend devoted and long tried
friends of our soldiers to whose earnest attention
commend this subject. 1t really looks if there
was one or more leading officials intimately assoc-
ated with the purse-strngs of Uncle Sam, who We're
constantly seeking to throw stumbng-blocks in the
way of paying soldiers their honest dues. Again
we do most earnestly and soemnly protest against
this unjust and cruel discrimination in favor of one
class of our creditors really far the less deserving
We propose further to ventilate this subject, and
desire that the soldiers throughout the land should
cooperate with us to bring about such change of
opinion in public sentiment will force Congress
and the leading officials at Washington to mete out
TO them their just deserts Let us hear from you,
soldiers on this matter.
Year: 1879

Let no Republican he deceived
with regard to his duty on Tuesday
next. Whatever may he said or kind
ly thought Of the Democratic nomi.
nees, II must not for one moment be
forgotten that they are the distinct
representative Of that Democratic
party, which, in one-half Of the Tn.
ion, have, by dreadful violence 10.
wards the colored people, and the rs.
sassination OF Union men, dabbled
and blotted out in blood the Republi.
can party in at least eleven States
While in the North. this same Dem.
ocratic party have struck hands with
the Confederate Brigadiers, In n
bold and audacious attempt TO bull.
doze and starve the administration
into an approval Of congressional acts,
which had for their object the oblit.
Grafton from the national statutes,
some Of the grandest results of the
civil war In voting for Democratic
candidates, you vote with the Con.
federate Brigadiers; You vote for the
state Rights heresy you vote to jus.
tify the shotgun policy, and the


long list Of political murders. which


constitute a drama Of blood without
a rival and finally, you vote To m.
settle the finances Of the nation. and


expose to doubt and danger that
which Is safe and should he durable.
The tendencies of the Democratic
party are wrong and pregnant with


danger therefore give them no en-.
couragement by your vote. For


whatever may be said of candidates,


the votes will be construed into an


endorsement Of Democratic policies.


In voting the Republican ticket. you
vote that the settlements of the war
shall stand that fraud and political
assassination shall not dominate half
the Republic; you vote n hearty wei.
come to resumption you vote against
a tendency to Mexicanize this nation
you vote in the direction Of honor.
prudence and civilization itself.
Such q vote will therefore be one OF
conscious pride and unaffected patriot.
Year: 1879

When mi lord" Edmund Rice,
shall be governor. he will issue pat.
ent OF nobility to every ''old time"
democrat in the state. pay the old
State railroad bonds out Of his privy
purse. and send a bouquet to every
lady in the land.
Year: 1879

We have no apology whatever 10
offer for changing the name Of the
consolidated papers. On reflection
we think our friends will concede II
TO be better. The name of a newspa.
per is a mere matter of taste, as to
which but few persons would agree,
We did not choose 10 drag hyphena.
ted compound into the whole life OF
the new journal. Those papers were
useful and honorable in their careers,
and we dismiss them TO the realm OF
memory with sincere regret.
Year: 1879

A few weeks ago the large carpet
in the adjuster's room of the San
Francisco Mint was taken up for
she first time in five years and burn
ed, for the purpose OF reducing the
accumulation of filings. Tie valne
of the bullion obtained was $24OD.
Year: 1879

TO FOREIGN 8UBSCRIBERN.


SUBSCRIBERS to the ADVANCE living
outside of Mobiles county will please
remember that when we notify them
OF the expiration Of their subscription
and they do not respond, we take it for
granted that they do not want the
paper longer, and our rule is to strike
their names off.
Year: 1879

In conversation with Gen. Bishop,
General Manager of the Sioux City &
st. Paul and St. Paul & Sioux City rail
roads Wednesday we ascertained that
his companies have not given up the
idea of building the Rock Rapids
branch, but on the other hand that they
calculate to build it according to agree
ment the coming summer. lie said
that The only thing that stood in the
way of the completion Of the road last
year was the failure of crops and the
general gloomy outlook which followed.
MIR. Bishop also stated that the Worth
ington & Sioux Falls branch would be
pushed whenever the roads north and
south made any move in the extension
of their lineS=Sheldnn Mail
Year: 1879

There is something admirable III the
pluck and independence exhibited by
the Worthington ADVANCE. It dares
to utter it's convictions Oh every topic
secular and spiritual, and many Of them
are radical enough, but filings wide its
columns to all who wish to combat
| its position. We admire Miller.-Le-
mars Sentinel.


1t will not be long until majority of
the country press will stand where the
ADVANCE now does and the ADVANCE,
We hope, will still he in advance. The
notion that a church, creed, relig-
ion, philosophy, or, in fact, any sub
ject whatever is too sacred to be dis
cussed by 4 secular paper, while leaders
Of different sects and creeds may 60 on
battling tiercely and laboring to destroy
each other, this notion has been ex-
ploded. and one by one the newspapers
are wheeling into line and taking up
their march in the yan Of free thought,
where they ought to be. Gradually ed
itors are beginning to appreciate their
profession, and to feel that neither the
forum, the pulpit, the lyceum, nor all
combined equal the influence Of the
press. This mighty modern lever has
been called the third estate, but now
the last has become first. The press
leads the world. The editor is, as 4
brilliant French writer has said, ':the
pale and silent man, who, sitting alone
at midnight in his chamber, holds the
fate Of empires on the point Of his
pen." The editor is the Apollo driv-
ing the chariot of the sun which lights
the world. OF whom, then, or of what
should he he afraid?


But then he is afraid. That is, the
average editor is yet afraid of the
church, of his political leader, of Mrs.
Grundy, of the business world and of
what not. If all country editors were
independent and would devote half as
much space to Free Thought upon all
topics as they do to writing one politi-
cal larty up and the other down, that
long expected Millennium would come
stealing upon the earth like i rosy
dawn and daylight would be here before
we could realize it.
Year: 1879

National Associated Press to the Star.


CHICAGO, Jan. 2.--The New Year was
usheredsin on West Side by carnival of
robbery and attempted murder on the part
of twenty men who drove around in a
sleigh.


They entered the house of an old milk
man named Roach, and at the point of a
pistol secured $3.50. They went to the gro
Gerry and saloon of Charles Falksdorf, after
he had closed for the night. He refusing
to open, they broke in the window and
fired TWO shots, one of which passed through
his body.


Thinking him dead they left and were
next heard from at the saloon of Patrick
Caldwell, which they broke into. helping
themselves to whisky and the contents of
the till. They fired four shots at Caldwell,
one of which took effect in his chest and
will probably prove fatal. The murderous
gang is unknown,
Year: 1879

The last notable application of
papier nldche was in the manufacture of
a revolving dome for the astronomical
observatory of the Polytechnic Institute,
Troy. 1t only weighs ton and three
quarters, and can be revolved without
the assistance of any apparatus. The
paper is on light framing of wood, and
is fully as hard and rigid. The dome
has an internal diameter of 29 feet, and,
if constructed in the usual manner,
would have weighed five or six tons,
and required powerful machinery to
move it.
Year: 1879

The original backbiter was no doubt
the flea.


The workingmen demand cheaper
whisky or glasses with thinner bottoms.


Young ladies wearing fashionable
dresses now may be said to be in clothes
confinement.


-"Oh, that my father was seized with
remittent fever" sighed young spend
thrift at college.


eff am stuck up, am not proud, "
as the butterfly said when pinned to the
side of the showcase.


An eminent spirit-merchant in
Dublin announced, in one of the Irish
newspapers, that he had still small
quantity of the whisky on sale which
was drunk by his late Majesty while in
Dublin.


The sporting season has arrived
when the amateur hunter goes into the
forest and shoots the farmers $40 COW
under the impression that it is deer,
and afterward pays the farmer S25 to
settle the matter and keep it quiet.


The peculiar characteristic of the
Irish flea is that you put your finger on
him and he isn't there. The peculiar
characteristic of the Russian Nihilist is
that you put your finger on him and
you are not there.
Year: 1879

The Free Home for Incurables. to be opened under
the auspices of the House of the Holy Comforter at
No. 2il West Twenty third street. September l5. is
grestiy in need of furniture. carpets. household
linen and domestic articles OF every kind As 1t de-
pends for daily support upon contributions. every
thing in the way OF money, coal and PROVISIONS
will be most thankfully received. and it's Will
bo opcn not alone to shelter tho sick. but enable
those enjoying health to enter and do all their
power to tighten the burden OF suffering resting
upon its inmates
Year: 1879

An oral contract for a farm is moi
binding in the courts on either party.
Nor is written proposition to sell
binding until it is accepted, and the
proposer again agrees to accept it. A
man proposing in writing to SELL, can
retractshis offer any time before it is &C
cepted, unless he gives in his PROPOSE
ton certain time for it to be accepted
or rejected.


If a proposition to sell, specifying all
the conditions, is made, and the second
concludes to take it, and proceeds at
great expense to buy stock and imple-
ments to carry on the farm, and should
move his family there to take posses
sion and close up the bargain by tax
ing deed and paying the money, if
notice of the acceptance had not been
given the owner, and he had not agreed
to the condition of the acceptance, the
purchaser could not compel a convey
ance, nor recover damages for expense
and trouble incurred in going to take
possession.


A proposition in writing to sell a
farm for a certain price means the pres
ent time, and to be binding must be ac-
cepted then. Or, if the proposition is
sent by mail, the reply must be re-
turned by due course of the mails. The
proposition does not mean that he will
take that sum at any future time, un-
less so specially stated. A deed for
land may be very simple instrument
to make it binding, so far as the con-
tracing parties are concerned. 1t is
not really necessary that the deed
should be acknowledged or witnessed,
for in cases where such informal deeds
have been made courts have rendered
DEGREES ordering the specific perform
ance of the contract. But where cred
itors or third parties are interested,
such informal deeds would be set
aside. For this purpose all the condi-
tions of the law of the State, and the
form of the deed, and in signing and
acknowledging, must be strictly COM
piled with.


Care should be taken in the descrip-
ton of the lands sold. More trouble
occurs in this particular than all 9TH
ers. II the land is particularly de-
scribed by meteS and bounds, and as a
certain subdivision of the Government
surveys, it is immaterial about stating
the number of acres. A deed for the
farm conveys all the fences standing
n the farm, and all the buildings put
on by the owner. 1t also conveys all
the boards, rails, posts or wire which
have been used on the farm for fencing
it, even if they have been taken down
and piled away. But if the owner had
procured new materials for fencing be-
fore selling, and said materials had not
been used for that purpose, a deed for
the farm does not convey said lumber.
If tenant occupies farm, and by
consent of the owner builds temporary
houses, pens or stables, the deed will
not hold them, but the tenant can re-
move them. If the purchaser bought
| ignorant of the facts in the case, he has
his action against the assignor for
damages. If manure is laying about
the stables, yards, or is hauled out to
the fields for use, the purchaser takes
them with the farm. If, however, the
owner had previously gathered said
manure in close heaps, and had sold it
TO another person, it has been held that
thus it became personal property, and
did not go with the farm.


'' Gene 'eeded ths' grow
Year: 1879

-Good heslth among stock is the
best security that the animals will
yield well; and sensible people who
own good animals cannot be wheedled
into the use of any quack nostrum or
quack machine. On the other hand,
those folks who own poor stock, and
expect to suddenly make it valuable by
the use OF those foolish devices, show
how little they know of their business.
-EGchHnge.
Year: 1879

ASe" - ~SSSo'o - "


Her name was Alice. A pretty name and
pretty girl. A light of heart merry maiden
somewhat fond of company and pleasure; too
fond perhaps, some demurr ones said, but moth
ing serious suspicious, or even questionable,
was ever mentioned concerning her until gay
lotherio came along. Not good looking but
the 'ladies' said he was. He attended all the
dances and all the parties, and even some giddy
infatuated young married ladies gave parties
on his account. He said he was
single man bat there were
faint rumors of a neglected wife pining in an
other State, but then he was great actor and
consummate dissembler, and the rumors grew
fainter and fainter till ut length they were lit
tie needed. Alice and he were frequently seen
out together and at hours and at places that
provoked considerable criticism, and the young
lady's name was used as it had never been
used before and Alice was taken to task about
the matter, when she stated that the gay and
fascinating stranger was going to marry her.


But now, more particularly, as to who the
parties are. His name is not John Smith, but
Roswell G. Pitcher. He is a cooper by trade.
He came to Minneapolis last October from
Michigan, and came to take soldiers claim.
He boarded at the house of J. G.. Evans, 1,5l4
Fourth street south, and met Alice Mcintyre at
party. He bought jewelry for her and q
sewing machine, and everything went on
smoothly till letter came to Mr. Evans in
quiring about Pitcher-a very weak vessel.
The letter was from a lady who said she was
the weaker vessel who claimed this weak
Pitcher for her lord and master: Mr.. Evans at
once wrote the lady, stating that if she was
Pitchers wife she had better come on
at once and look after her husband. The lady
took the hint and soon made her appearance at
Mr.. Evans but the frail Pitcher had smelled
mice and gone down on his claim at Apple
ton, Swift county. Mrs. Pitcher, however,
sought out the fair Alice and told the girl her
story-how she was the lawful wife of Pitcher,
how he had neglected her and ceased to send
her money leaving her to starve. Alice instead
of showing sympathy, for the poor woman and
indignation at tie gay deceiver declared she
would never give him up, and she started fol
Appleton forthwith and Joined her paramour
Mrs. Pitcher is lying very sick in this cit,
without money or friends.
Year: 1879

The Massachusetts Ploughman very sen
sibly says - NO smoking ought to be
posted i'll every barn. There is not much
difference in having a horse thief around a
stable and man cleaning off horses with
pipe or cigar in his mouth and there is
no man much meaner than the one who.
when his employer comes around. slips
his pipe into his pocket or puts his hand
over it. All such fellows should be paid
off and started off. As for the proprietor
himself going into his barn with his pipe
in his mouth, no complaint can be made
nobody should cry unless it be his wife or
children. Lightning, incendiaries and
Spontaneous combustion combined do not
cause As many barns to be burned as the
pipe. and, generally, at least one good
Year: 1879

California is land of wonders.
There are fresh flowers every month
in the year, and winter wears the
bloom of spring. There are water
falls three or four times as high as
Niagara natural bridges of white
marble some thousands of goldbear-
ing veins; inexhaustible quantities of
iron and crome, ores, lead, bismuth
and quicksilver most beautiful por-
celain clay; and in short everything
that can bless an enterprising and in
dustrious people. In one valley were
found more than forty springs over one
hundred degrees Fahrenheit. In an
other valley, sixteen geysers, like the
famous one in Iceland, In this ia
nous abode of Vulcan the rocks are
so hot that you can stand on them but
short time, even with thick bootson
The roar of geysers at times may be
heard a,mile or more, and the moment
is one of the most intense interest as
you approach them.
Year: 1879

SAN Francisco, March 3l.-The
compromise between the mining com
panies of the Comstock lode and the
SutrO Tunnel Company was brought
to definite conclusion this morning
and papers signed by all contracting
parties. The agreement is in effect as
follows The preamble reciteS the
original agreement of March, 1866,
between Gould & Curry and the tun-
mel companies, and declares all mines
interested in adjusting the differ
ences. Article first provides that
the terms of the original agreement
have been complied with by
each party second, that the main
tunnel is considered constructed
according to the terms of the original
greement, but provides for the CON
struction of a sub-drain within 80
days; third, that no water shall be
sent through the tunnel until the end
Of 80 days unless the sub-drain be
sooner ready; fourth, that lateral
tunnels s feet wide and Z feet high
shall be constructed, one running
north to a point about 500 feet east of
the Utah shaft, and one south to a
point about 200 feet west of the new


Overman shaft, the work on them to be


commenced within ninety days and


pushed diligently; fifth, reflections


may be made from the regular course
of lateral tunnels if unfavorable
ground is encountered; sixth, the
mining companies agree to advance
seventy dollars foot of the lateral
tunnel payments, to be made on the
9th of each month on work
done the preceding calendar month,
and each of the companies may con-
struct a lateral tunnel along its own
claim, being credited therefor at the
same rate; seventh, the companies are
the be repaid these advances by de-
duction of half of the monthly royalty
in ore reduced or sold; eighth, it
reduces royalty from two to one dollar
per ton on ore yielding not over
forty dollars per ton of two thousand
pounds ninth, mines lying between
California and Challar shall be consid-
cred drained whenever the tunnel is
ready to receive water from the mines
now connected with it, the mines
north of California and south of Chal-
Ter to be considered drained when the
lateral tunnels reach their respective
centers; tenth, the mining conn.,
panies are to make sworn re-
turns of ore product each month,
with the yield of bullion and pay
charges thereon by the 10th of each
succeeding month eleventh, no mine
shall allow any other mine not in
cluded in the agreement to so dis
charge its water that it may be pumped
into the tunnel; twelfth, provides for
the construction of an outside parallel
drain whenever necessary.


Mr.. Sutro calculates that the tun-
mel will be ready for use within sixty
Year: 1879

NASHVILLE AMERICAN Both F." If
we should fail to settle the State debt
on the basis proposed in the bill
which has just passed the legislature,
the question would still be one for us
to settle for ourselves but the credi-
tors should look very carefully before
they decide. They lose only ten cents
on the dollar between this proposition
and the one they made. If it is ac-
cepted, their bonds will be at par in
six months. Then, if they are not
satisfied with four per cent. interest,
they can sell and seek other invest
ments. That the bonds would be at
par, the cases of Georgia and Alabama
show clearly. Having conceded forty,
they can afford to concede the ten
cents left between us, when, as we
understand, they would readily accept
fifty cents at six per cent.
Year: 1879

What are termed "romancers in real
life" are getting quite common. Tues
day afternoon a handsome, dashing
widow from Mishawaka was walking
on one of the South Bend, Indiana,
streets. A good looking, well-dressed
old gentleman was walking the same
street at the same time. He ap-
preached the lady, whom he had never
seen before, politely apologized for
speaking to her, and courteOusly told
her that he was a widower that he
lived in the Fourth ward that his
son and his sons wife had their habi-
tation with him; that he was displeased
with the regime of his daughterin-
law, and that he would be very much
indebted to the madam if she could
direct him to some one that would
make him a good housekeeper. She
replied that she was a stranger in
South Bend, and could not therefore,
give him the desired information.
He bowed, agolOgizcd again and
started away. Suddenly he turned,
retraced his steps, and once
more addressed her: Pardon me,
madam, but something in your ap-
pearance tells me you are widow ?''
She acknowledged that the something
in her appearance told him the truth.
Then said he: Il like your looks,
and if you'll come and keep house for
me I'll marry you on the spot. Ifyou
want references | can furnish them,
and if you think I've been too hasty
allow me to come and see you at your
home, and we will talk the matter
over. Of course you know the an
swer of the dashing widow. 1t would
not have been much of a romance,
after all, if she hadn't gone with him
to the nearest justice of the peace and
agreed to keep house for the old man
for life. But she didn't. She de-
clined to talk the matter over" at all,
and respectfully informed him that
she preferred to remain widow, thus
spelling our little story.