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Year: 1879

SO much Is expected from the Polar expe-
peculiar circumstances under which she
has been sent and from the fact that she
is taking the Behring Strait route, which is
now favoraby regarded by all who have
studied the Polar problem, that we regret
to read in Lieutenant De Longs first
report to the Navy Department that
at the outset he has met with diff
culties which have caused such de-
lays as may mako him lose season,


which is equivalent to prolonging his search
for an extra year. Lieutenant DE Long
writes to the Secretary of tho Navy I'll
can but deploro that the necessity of load
ing the ship SO deeply at San Francisco has
made our progress thus far 80 slow, owing
also to head winds and swell, MS to mako it
doubtful whether we shall be able or not to
profit by the open water in the Arctic Sea
in our efforts to gain a high latitude
this season." This official letter of
Captain De Long, and the despatch of the
HERALD correspondent s with the expedition,


both show that the vessel was heavily over
laden; and it is to be regretted that she
could not have had the assistance of n
steamer to carry some part of her coal and
stores TO Oonalaska, where she could have
coaled from this convoy, and thus, by
making quicker passage northward. had u
better chance to catch the open water by
Year: 1879

The FIGHT for access to the Sheriffs books
opened earnestly yesterday, the defendants pro
testing warmly. AS the Sheriff. in his office, is
not a business man, but a servant of the public,
and no honorable transaction recorded in his
books can in any way injure him or benefit his
adversaries, what be the motive Of this
great reluctance to show the office recordsl
Year: 1879

A NEW COMPRESSED AIR MOTOR for street
cars has a three hundred pound hot water at
tachment, from which it appears that to carry
hot water to warm street cars would not be so
impossible rs directors have tried to make the
press aud public believe.
Year: 1879

No MATTER how and upon what terms tho
juvenile members of the Austro-IIungaran
Cadet Band were obtained, they and their leader
should be compelled to conform to our laws for
the protection of children.
Year: 1879

POoR MAYOR CooPER!-Now he is asked to
investigate the Park Commission. If he pro-
poses to finish even the investigating he has
already begun he will need the assistance OF
half dozen first class referees.
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsrERDAY.-The stock market
Vas more active and prices advanced point.
Money was easy ut 8 to q per cent on call.
Government and railway bonds were buoyant,
while States displayed more activity than usual.
Exchange was unchanged.
Year: 1879

A quaint writer says: Il have seen wo-
men SO delicate that they were afraid to
ride for fear of the horse running away,
afraid to sail, for fear the boat might upset,
afraid to walk, for fear they might fall, but
never saw one afraid to get married,
which is far more riskful than all the others
put together"
Year: 1879

EXAMINE TIE CoMBs-lt is the casi-
fS. thns 4aH 70 &hd yaar laWak la kHaW Hqx bbq Nj
health, even in the incipint stages of any
disease or ailment, if you but examine your
flock carefully. The comb of teach fowl is
a true index to the workings Of their sys-
TENS. If they be in i'll health, the comb
will lose coler and will become far less firm
in texture !; as the malady increases the COL
or decreases, till very sick bird will show
comb almost devoid of scarlet color, being
of a livid dull crimson, or else pale or ashy
i'll appearance. If the cholera or any dis
case should come into the flock, carefully
examine the combs of each bird, morning
ald night, and all those which are wanting
in that bright, rich color which denotes
perfect health, remove at once from the
flock to place remote; where they should
at once be put under medical treatment.


The comb Of the fowl is an honest index
of the true inwardness, and should daily be
consulted by the fancicr who values the
health and well being of his flock. Look
at the comb Of a laying hen or pulet She
is in the height of health and strength and
carries her uniailing sign Of healthfulness
or her head, in the shape of blood-red,
bright and full comb y vigorous cock or
cockercl will carry the same sign, though
not, perhaps, in so eminent degree
1cnricuN IOultiy Yard
Year: 1879

the duties you performed or the exposurc
ana risk you suffered for "our common
country"


there Is another pension bill yet to be
| reported 10 the uouSc, which restores to
the pension roll those men and their widows
OF the South who were once on the roll but
were stricken from it by an act passed in
February, 1867 Whether it will be rc.
ported this Congrass am unable to saw
AND II reported, whether it will become
law, no one now eau tell. You have heard
4d 4dntf Ithf plan who said no one but a Creator
of jury. ury''"'1Y15a 155a OF could diagnose the
hidden verdict of Il half dozen juries even
South Carolina post bcllum juries, easier
than we could anticipate the fate of bill
in the forty-ifth Congress, unless it were
bill known to be for the benefit of the en-.
tire North.


do not believe the bill restoring the
S2uthcrncrs to their rights will pass first
because tho Republican party do not think
we have any rights that they are bound to
respect and secondly, because the North
crn Democracy are so nearly of the same
opinion that they will not oppose the Re-
publicans il order to favor us Of the South.
The National Democracy to day are prac-
tically divided by the Potomac and the Ohio.
aud unless something is done to remove
this line Of division before 1880, can see
no reason why Grant or some other nominee
of tho Republican party may not walk
without molestatlon from private life
straight into the White House.


Your obcdicnt servant,


II "
Year: 1879

New YoRK. Dec-A dispatch from
/ Alpena, Michigan, said that Eva Leroy,


a Young and once handsome woman, was


found lying in the road badly frozen, near
R0g-rs City, Michigan. Monday night.


S D.. was brought to town and the Surgeons


decided The ampuration of both legs 10 be


NECESSARY. but she died during the oper-


alton. She was a woman of bad repute,


who had been driven out of Alpena with


out funds Becoming exhausted, she had


fallen by the roadside where she was


f und. She was a native OF Cleveland


and went 10 Detroit, where a few years


ego she created sensation, but sunk


lower and lower until no one would give


her shelter Commenting on the doom


OF poor Eva, the Herald says: Driven


out OF Aipena: This bad been done to


Eva Leroy while all the world was busy


Isying up stores OF joy for the merry


Chris mas times Tragedy marches side


by side with comedy under the smiles of
agony She fell by the way side In the
bitter cold, and lay there in the numb
scupor of creeping death. just think of
it for moment amid your pleasures,


while little faces dimPle with delight,
and older faces beam with softened pleas
ure. and lights CLEAN and fire blez how
that woman wandered ali through the
darkened, wind swept wastes, laughter
dying out on her ears, the light of A pc
ma fadiDg from her eyes, even the hard
w rds and stern faces of those that drove
her forth leaving but an indistinct i'm
press on her brain, so piercing was the
cold, and so long and dreary The road
stretching out before her. Atlength the
lights Of another village cleaned on her
eyes, but she fell before she reached
them. She was young, and had been
but she was sinner, and now
the penalty was lain upon her with the
dull savagery that man reserves for err
iug woman alone. There are persons
who paint heaven for the godly, but there
was no hing short of death for her.
Thy found her where she fell, frozen and
dying. and brought her in. Too late!


The chalice Of life was broken, and there
was nothing left but to hide the frag-
ments under the frozen clay. Think of
her a. she sank down, wearied, chilled TO
the marrow and despairing You would
pity a dog DIVING such death; but wo-
man, young, with the lines of her beauty
still to he traced under their haggardness,
a God might trace the whiteness of lost
purity under stains, the soul stains, that
they tel US can be washed away! Was
her death made better by the thought
that it was to be upon the eve Of the time
when the angels sung of peace and good
Will among men on earth? She cannot
be recalled to answer The hardened men
that drove her out cannot undo their
Iced, but all who read her fate to day
may make amends in some form for hu
manity, by plying and helping one
soul among the poor erriug and
1utcast, who are dear to God
Year: 1879

''Sure of heaven ?" exclaimed Uncle
Thorp, in reply to an interrogation OF a
right reverend who called to inquire as
to his souls welfare, and had remained to
tea to insure his own corporal body's
we'll being; he had peculiar way of
always making his pastoral calls at such
a time as would insure a good, square
meal. Sure of heaven Well | think
am. l amt none o your narrow
minded religious fanatics, thinking no
ones going to heaven but me amt so
bigpted as that. Why, don't the Bible
say God loves all o us worms, and don't
the Bible say, too, He made Us in His
own image, an do ye suppose He's going
TO burn Himself everlastingly in effigy =?
Sure o Heaven" said he, as he balanced
a dainty morsel of meat on his fork in
close proximity to his mouth, while he
finished his idea. ''Sure o Heaven
why, I'm just as sure o goin' there as
am of eating this meat!' just at this
juncture the meat fell to the floor, and
was quickly eaten by the dog. The
expression which overspread Uncle
Thorp's features would have made an
excellent frontispiece for Millions Para
disc Lost"
Year: 1879

lnter-Ocean Letter


The better class of females are largely
represented at the polls here. They are
accompanied by male friends or relatives,
and | have never seen elections conduct
ed in any other Western city as orderly
as they are here. The influence of good
and pure women at the polls has proven
most salutary for good, and thus tar
have failed to see any evidences of their
degradation, in consequence Of their
having been clothed with the elective
franchise. My own observation and the
expression of opinion which have heard
on the subject, lead me to assert that
woman suffrage is a complete success.
The better class of citizens of Wyoming
have no desire to 60 back to the infiction
OF bondage on a sex which now has the
privilege of helping, indirectly, to frame
the laws by which they are governed.
The people of Wyoming, regardless of
race or sex, are as free as the winds that
blow, and, until they have some evidence
of the demoralizing effects Of female suf
frage, they viii be content to let the law
remain upon the statute book of the Ter
ritory.
Year: 1879

Messrs. Benuett Il Becker brought an action last
August Against grocer named Creighton. who had
purchased over $4,000 worth Of goods from them on
open account, for balance which the latter failed
TO pay. The defendant interposed contain
ing general denial of all PLAINTIFF allegations in
their complaint. The having been moved on
the special calendar came up in the Marine Court
yesterday before Judge McAdam and jury. and Mr..
Denis Spellissy. plaintiffs counsel in brief opening
Speech called attention to the fact that defendants


answer denied that the plaintiffs were CO.
partners at the time OF the sale and delivery
Of the goods mentioned in the complaint. which
denial was. from the manner in which the complaint
was tramed. positive on that particular point and
proceeded to place his frst witness upon the stand
Meantime. With, characteristic brevity, Judge
McAdam had run his eyes the litigants plead
ings and turning to OF defendants counsel OF
whom he had three, asked ''What is the real
sought to be put tnr' Mr.. Pinckney replied 1--WE
intend to show. Your Honor that the goods not
sold to the defendant but to firm Of which he
, member" THAT is not good defence under
your answer, counsellor" courteously replied the
Judge, ''if your antagonist is willing to
admit that to be the fact shall dispose of the at
to admit for the purposes of the trial that the
goods Ill question sold to firm OF which the
defendant was q member at the time; but, while
making the admission. would object to the reception
of that fact as evidence under the pleading. Judge
McAdani upheld the objection and directed verdict
in favor OF the plaintiffs for the full claimed
and interest. to which the Court added the costs,
with an allowance. The verdict recorded within
ten minutes of the opening Of the case.
Year: 1879

Some OF the persons who sold out TO the
railroad have bought property elsewhere
Miss Norah Jones has bought the first
lot west OF the Methodist parsonage
paying therefor $500.


Three lots belonging TO r. ]. Alexan'
der, Just back OF the public school house
were recently sold at fair prices and al
ready houses are erected on two OF them
which are receiving their finishing
touches.


G.. NJ. Rhodes and A. J. Boggs houses
have had considerable filling around
them TO prepare for pavements. The
former has a neat fence just put up
around it and the chandeliers in, so that
it is about ready for occupancy.


The walls of the La Belle reservoir are
completed and it presents substantial
appearance, so that those below need
never fear repetition OF the Mill Greek
disaster Of several years ago.


Work is going on in excavating fOr
the foundation OF the new furnace
at the glass works. 1t is
to occupy the entire space
of the present road which is crowded
out OH W lllc Nlllutl Ddllhs w iSi NilN
T. V. r. r. gets outside OF this there
will not be much space left.


We notice that the bottle works built
near West Wheeling, but never put into
operation, is falling to pieces.


The West Wheeling ferry boat is still
fast on the bottom, near the shore, and
seems destined to stay there awhile.


Some gentleman, driving between
Bridgeport and Bellaire, Sunday after
noon, tumbled out and the horse ran
off southwark, but was stopped after GO
ing about half mile and returned to
his owner by the gentleman who stopped
him.


The naughty boys who pretended to
be married and were gobbled by the
police, should reform and get married.
The girls were Steubenvillians.


\ recent accidental displacement OF a
postal card, revealed the fact that an
other OF our young men has been triiling
with the affections of some fair damsel,
who begs him to right her wrongs as she
dare not return home.


Good luck has stood by the contractor
for building the Kirkwood bridge, and
he now has the north abutment so well
started that high water can not easily
catch him.
Year: 1879

RICHMOND, Va, October 2S.-lntelli-
gence was received here tonight that a
tire was raging at West Point on the
cotton platform of the Richmond, York
River and Chesapeake railroad, upon
which were two thousand bales OF cot
ton awaiting transportation northward.
The fire originated in the cotton and
the flames spread to the extensive
wharves adjoining the platform, one OF
the Baltimore steamers being at the
wharf. The dummy pumps were put
TO work and kept the fire in check for a
time, but at last accounts stiff wind
was blowing, and the total destruction
of the wharves was threatened. A
steam engine from this city has been
sent down. When the fire first broke
out heavy force was at once set to
work removing the cotton, but the last
report states that 1000 bales We're then
burning
Year: 1879

Pittsburgh Telegraph.


The coke business is the latest which
has been affected strikingly by the busi-
ness revival. The price to-day advanced
with bound from a dollar and half,
to dollar and seventy-fve cents per
ton. A short time since the best quail
ty of the article could have been OBJ
tanned for dollar per ton. This will
have the effect of greatly enlivening the
Connellsvile coke region, and it would
not be at all surprising ii more than the
six hundred new ovens already an
nounced should be started in the spring
Another effect OF the rise will be to aug
ment the discomfort OF the wOrkmen,
the miners and oven tenders OF the
ConnelIsvillc region. Their recent de-
mand for a one-tiith advance and its re-
fusal by the coke men have already been
noted
Year: 1879

More new houses are going up IN
Clark's addition this fall. Those have
been built for four years. Kerr q Co.
have about completed very neat one
for George Nennum on Pike street,
have one under way on the same street
for David Ncnnum and one on Main
street for Humphrey Williams. j. Me-
dill have nearly completed one on Main
street for George Delaney, one on the
same street for Charles Spoonhaltz and
one on Pike street for Samuel West
wood partially completed.


Madame Rumor reports that one OF
Martins Ferry's best looking widowers
is to be married to-day 10 one of our
most respected ladies'.


Our town has become so quiet and or
derly that it can do without either mar
shal or policemen. Marshal Cochran
rendered his resignation last week, which
was accepted.


Rev. j. II. Blackiord and family, OF
Glasgow, Ohio, are visiting friends in
town and vicinity.


From reports, we learn that the peo-
pie in the Deep Run section are terribly
exercised over huge black snake which
has made its appearance in that neck OF
woods. We give the story for what it
is worth. One man who saw his snake
ship, said while its tail was in the road
its body extended through under the
fence aud as he passed along, the snake
raised its head above the fence and
thrust its red tongue almost in his face.
1t seems from reports that the snake has
its harbor in hole near the railroad
bridge over the run and that last Sab
bath quite number OF people made
strong efforts to drive him out OF his re-
treat by pouring boiling hot water down
the hole, but without success. They
are bound to capture his snakeship
alive, if possible.


Council expected to make some police
appointments last night.
Year: 1879

WAsHISGToN, October 2S.-The effect
of the decision regarding the duties on
steel blooms threatens TO be disastrous
to that large industry. II is said that it
is not improbable that it will be recon-
sidered. Should no relief be extended
to the manufacturers from this uneX-
pected blow, the question will be
brought before Congress, and will then
at once open the controversy between
protection and revision of the tariff.
Year: 1879

From the San Francisco Call, Feb 49,


It is now said, although we can scarcely believe it.
that the President will veto the anti Chinese bill
which has just passed the Senate. Suppose
this should be the case what will be the
next step taken by the Inhabitants Of this
coast. and particularly by California We have
no doubt in this event that in the next Presi-
Dental election the opponents of the Chinese
would nominate electoral ticket in this State and
what is more, would elect it, Oregon and Nevada
would most likely follow suit. Such result with
veto would be almost inevitable. and then the Presi
dental election would go into the House of Repre-
sentatives. This would be the unless pledges
should in the meantime be made by the democratic
party to assist in removing this obstacle to pros
Year: 1879

from the Salt Lake Herald, Feb. POI


The anti-Chinese Immigration bill is not having
the effect that its advocates expected it would have
Instead Of being popular measure it is decidedly
unpopular. Where the Chinese had one friend
month ago they now have ten, and their
enemies in this country are rapidly grow
ing fewer II this kind of legislation is
persisted in by Congress the moon-eyed heather will
soon be the "big dog with the brass collar" Cali
fornia, with her Kearneys. has certainly overdone
the thing this time and will sadly lament her mis-
take in urging unconstitutional and lliberal meas
ures for dealing with q matter that could have been
dealt with honorably and fairly.
Year: 1879

TERRE HAUTE Ind. Feb. 81, 1879.
This city is nearly evenly divided on the Chinese
question, but popular opinion expresses itself as
antiChinese.' although no public meeting has been
held on the question The subject is the every day
talk OF all classes OF society fierce controversy is
going among the city newspapers and their cor
respondents subject. and those in favor OF the
bill think that a treaty should first be made with
China before any action is taken.
Year: 1879

Commissioner Erhardt and Mayor Cooper were in
consultation the latters private Office for several
hours yesterday afternoon. The purport of the
conversation between the two officials could not
be ascertained. The investigation will be resumed
on Monday next.
Year: 1879

From the Salt Lake Herald Feb DOL


Some of the California papers talking Of the
State seeding from the Union and setting up little
republic within itself. 1t is too late in the day to
even think about such course If the Golden State
had wanted to do anything of the kind, about
eighteen years ago would have been the time. Now
the opportunity has forever gone.
Year: 1879

ABOUT LYING.-This world is very
much given to lying. Almost everybody
lies-not perhaps maliciously or with a
bad purpose, but lies nevertheless. Some
persons lie because it is a sort OF second
nature TO them others because they fear
to speak the truth, lest it might not be
acceptable. There Is deceit and dissimu.
lation all around you, and unless you keep
your eyes open it is hard to tell what to
believe and what to disbelieve. Medical
men deceive their patients by telling them
that they are well when they nro not well,
and not we'll when they are we'll. Cer-
gymen sometimes practice deception by
preaching what they do not believe. Law
yers, Of course, lie right and left. 1t is
their business to lie, and nobody can
blame them. The politicians lie continu-
ally, and there is probably no class OF
be said of them that they wax fat on lies
The ladies lie-or rather they tell stories;
for Of course it would never do to say the
ladies lie They send down word that
they are not at home, and they declare
they are delighted to see somebody whom,
at the moneEt, they wished at the bottom
of the sea. Even editors have been known
to lie in exceptional and extraordinary
cases. The merchant deceives you in the
goods you buy the grocer deceves you


in the tea he sells you the baker lies
about the weight of his loaf; and there
are cases on record where the butcher and
the coal man has been guilty ofan untruth.
In short, it is fashionable to lie and il
people believed all the stories they heard
about each other, every body would come
80 the conclusion that everybody else was
a great rascal, ard really ought aot to be
allowed to go at large.
Year: 1879

We glad to notice that the authorities
OF Brooke county have offered 81 ,OO0-re-
ward for the arrest aAd conviction Of the
incendiary or incendiaries who set fire TO
Bethany College. This step is a necessity
on the part Of the county after all that has
happened in the Bethany neighborhood
OF late. The actual and possible loss of
property in that vicinity to the tax list Of
the assessors is consideration well
worthy Of the attention OF the county.
Had the college burned down last week
there would have been shrinkage in the
value Of real estate in that neighborhood
that would have told in the tax returns OF
the county for perhaps an indefinite time
to come. This shrinkage at Bethany
would have fallen at length upon the
wholeproperty OF the county, and there
fore every tax payer is Interested in the
arrest and conviction Of the incendiary
who is still at large, and who may at any
time consummate his evident purpose
of destroying the college and killing the
value OF property in the village and
vicinity. We trust that the reward will
induce active efforts to ferret out the mis-
creant. There is certainly some clew to
the perpetrator Of the deed. That Jug Of
oil ought to furnish some data. The in
cendiary may have recently purchased q
jug at some store in that region, and possi-
bly, he may have bought jug and oil at one
and the same time. Inasmuch as the peo.
pie arc well satisfied in their own minds
as 10 who is the guilty party, they should
make every effort to trace that jug and oil
to him. As matters stand no body's pro.
perty Is safe around Bethany while the
mtscreant is at large, and it seems as il
every citizen Of that end Of the county
should feel himself committee Of one to
hunt down the villain and secure his pun
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