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Year: 1879

The Greenback Convention yeste rday was
disappointment to its members. They
were dissatisfied with its management, dis
trustful of its candidate and ill-pleased with
its platform. The Greenback leaders hoped
and planned for scene of wild enthusiasm.
They have been engaged for months in
working up'' the meeting, and confidently
predicted that they would get together the
largest political convention ever held in
Maine.


The Convention was little if any larger
than that held in Lewiston last year, it was
far less enthusiastic, and its proceedings
will give far less satisfaction to the Green
hackers throughout the state. Its morning
session was dull and inefficient, and in the
afternoon interest was awakened only by
the discussion over the platform. That was
animated and even angry, and developed
grave differences of opinion in the party.
The hot Argument made patent the fact that
large and determined faction of the Green
hackers, apparently not in the majority,
wish to demonetize the precious metals al
together, and to commit themselves to the
advocacy of the most advanced socialistic
doctrines. Their opposition was in reality
to the resolutions condemning Communism
and calling for the free coinage of gold and
silver. They did not succeed in having
their way, but they did alarm the more con-
servative of the delegates, who for the first
time saw plainly presented by its own advo-
Gates the logical outcome of the Greenback
doctrine.


The platform was itself compromise, and
so opposed by the extremists who sought
to commit the Convention to the doc
trines that Colonel Blood, Leo Miller
and men of that kind, have been preaching
in the State for the last six months. 1t con-
sists of one or two vague statements, several
misstatements, and reiteration of the
Lewiston resolutions. 1t satisfied no one.
but as it was the only thing upon which the
crowd could agree the Convention accepted
it. The candidate also satisfies no one
except himself and Major Folsom-but he
was the only available man and so was ac-
cepted, as people sign legal papers, with
out recourse"


1t is to be feared however, by all who
favor an honest currency and sound prinei-
pies of government, that the dissensions of
the convention will be forgotten in the heat
of the campaign. The Greenbackers are a
strong and aggressive party, flushed with
the hope of victory, and unscrupulous as to
the means they use to secure success. They
may not be as strong as they were last year
but they are strong enough to be dangerous
and if the Republicans intend to recover the
State this Fall it is time to set to work.
Year: 1879

AMONG the orations delivered in Illinois
on Decoration Day was one by Col. Clarke
E. Carr, which contained this powerful pas
sage: 'The patriotic men and women of
America are in as great majority as they
were at any time of the war. 1t is by their
disorganization and division that the con-
troll of the Government has passed into the
hands of men who attempted to destroy it.
1t is because we have thought too much up
on mere questions of policy, and too little
upon the great question of nationality, that
this demon of Calhounism is at the vitals of
the nation. While we have been devoting
ourselves to what we regarded as the material
interests Of the country and to questions of
morals, the negro has been steadily disfran-
chised, the influence of the old Confederacy
has extended itself in our midst,.and gaining
at every recurring election, under differ ent
party names, more Senators and members of
Congress among us, until we seem to be the
Lost Cause | am not here to-day to adj
vocate the cause of any party or partisan
ideas. This question of nationality is as





existence during the war; but | feel it nv
duty to my country and to these patriotic dead
to say here today that the time has come
when the patriotic people of America should
for time, put aside all other questions.
and, uniting as one man, take possession of
this Government; that the time has come to
crush this hydra of State rights. | believe
in and advocate all the generous measures of
reconstruction; the rehabilitation of the State
Governments, amnesty, the restoration of
men who fought in the Rebellion to every
privilege which we enjoy, l do not regret
that it was DONE 1t would have been
fatal to Republican Government to have at
tempted to rule the conquered as depend
ent provinces. | would not deprive those
Year: 1879

who fought in the Rebellion of their Just
and equal share and influence in the Gov
ernment; but 1 do insist that the peopl lie who
still hold to doctrine which is sut,versive
OF all government, which from the day it
was first conceived, was in itself incipient
treason, which has desolated nearly every
household in the land, shall have no more
representation Or share in the public affairs
than that to which, under the Constitution,
they are justly entitled.''
Year: 1879

The negro exodus is having wonderfully
civilizing influence in Mississippi The
Vickburg Herald, a Democratic paper, has
come to the conclusion that there ought to
be several colored men elected to the next
Legislature.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for pubca
tion but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

The South American war has done one
thing. 1t has given another proof that iron
clads are not invulnerable. This is not a
priceless boon to mankind, but it is a good
deal for South America to give the world an
obiect-lesson in ANYTHING.
Year: 1879

The towns of Hamburg and Bremen are
much concerned at Bismarcks note inviting
them to surrender their privileges as free
ports. The invitation is couched in polite
terms but is one they dare not refuse.
Year: 1879

Cincinnati Saturday night: This is the time
of the year when the boy who has accidentally
changed shirts with companion while enjoy
ing the surreptitious swim, tells his mother.
when she discovers the swap. that the other
boys mother took fancy to his shirt, and bor-
rowed it as pattern to make some shirts from
for her little boy Noble, unselfish little fellow!
Year: 1879

Put away the sheets and counterpane, and sleep in blankets, under and over, and no counterpane at all. The sheets and the counterpane do g great deal of mischief. The cotton keeps the sour heat and precipitation from the body iL the bed, and so you breath poisoned air all night, summer and winter, and that poisoned air makes your rheumatisna ten times worse. If you were in blankets they would absorb the precipitation it would pass through from one to the other but in cotton, if it absorhs it. I had better say soaks into it-there il remains, cold, or hot, or clammy.
Year: 1879

Sit down in any position relaxing all the muscles of the body, and let the head drop forward upon the breast as low as it will fall without forcing it. Sit quietly this way for g few minutes, free ing all the will power of the body, and g restful, drowsy feeling will ensue, which will, if not disturbed, lead to refreshing sleep. If the sleepless fit comes on in the night, one can simply sit up in the position described. Stiffness of any part of the body must be avoided, and it is well to bend the body forward after lying down, rather than to keep it straight or thrown back upon the pillow.
Year: 1879

Mr.. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, JR., Is
not a man who will be accused OF working
in the selfish interests of the Republican par
ty. The only boom he takes stock in IS the
family boom, which doesn't seem to share IN
the general revival of trade Yet this is what
he had to say to the Indianapolis Board Oh
Trade concerning business: Il am fully
persuaded from all l see as l go over this
country, that at no time was it so prosperous
as it is to-day, and that it is now gong lnto
a period of prosperity in the next ten or NJ
teen years greater than it ever had before.
I could go further and say that we were get
ting into period of prosperity greater than
any people ever saw before-a period When
all these great causes that are now WORKING
here in this room, the combination OF teie-
graphs and railroads and other appliances,
have got to work with greater energy ana
produce greater results than we have ever
dreamed of or seen any cause to dream OF IN
past history"
Year: 1879

SEVERE but just talk by the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat: No sane man doubts that
Republican majority in Missouri would
be millions of dollars added to the property
valuation of the State, and cause an i'm
mense food of immigration from the Eas-
tern States and Europe. A Democratic ma
iority in the State acts like a beacon light to
warn people away from it. And yet the
Democratic papers of this State are con-
stantly boasting of the $4,000 majority or
100, 600 majority which Missouri is sure to
give Tilden or any other nominee OF the
Democratic party. They might as well, for
the purposes of immigration, advertise the
fever and ague or the smallpox, and say
that those who came here were certain 10
get one or the other.
Year: 1879

We do not read Anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publca-
tion but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
muncatlons that are not used.
Year: 1879

REALLY the Republican papers are cruel
to Senator Thurman. 1t is unmanly to in
trude upon his grief. When there is to be
funeral in the family it is the hollowest
kind of mockery to send cards up to the
corpse in the back bed-chamber. Any man
of sensibility will respect the open windows
Year: 1879

A DOG who was in the habit of going to
church with other dogs, heard the magis-
trate of an English town say it was getting
to be such nuisance that thereafter no
dogs would be allowed in the church. The
next Sunday the mastiff stationed himself
at the church door and savagely assailed
every dog that came there, and kept the
church clear of them ever afterward. That
is like the hard-money Democrat
Year: 1879

THE charge Of drinking champagne
brought against the Rev. Mr.. Talmage is alb
solutely incredible. He does not talk like
that sort of man. His rhetoric is the
rhetoric of the stiffest of water drinkers.
Year: 1879

WE knew it would come, and here it is
The resumption Of specie payments is due to
the Democratic purchase of California.
Were it not for those gold mines we should
still be using an irredeemable paper curren-
cy To Mr.. Richard O'Gorman of New
York are the people indebted for the discoy-
cry. It is worthy of the historical genius OF
NOhaiiah' y
Year: 1879

QUETTAH, Dec 24.-Between Mach and Dar-


waZa the character OF the pass suddenly


changes. The low hills of shingle or con-
glomerate disappear, and their place is taken
by lofty cliffs, which rise on either hand from
the smooth floor of pebbles to q height of
many hundreds OF feet. The valley has now
become narrow gorge, and nowhere could
twenty men stand abreast. So sharply does
the pass wind In several places that you can
not see Its course fifteen yards ahead, and the
feeling is almost that OF being at the bottom
OF an enormous we'll. Bushes and even trees
grow In the cracks and crevices Of the cliffs,
and In spring these wallis OF rock must be
lovely indeed. Even now they are very grand
and picturesque. The natives tell me that
the only path by which the defile can be
this is 80 the Bolan ranks among the very few
tmpregnable passes of the world


Further on soldiers were hauling wagons
whose bullOcks had all died. This battery
has had terrible time since 1t entered the
pass on the thirteenth instant and Is not vet
out as / write. The bullocks were utterly
broken down at the end of the third days
march, and those that remain will be useless
for months to come. The deep shin2le has
cut their hoofs to pieces, and has literally torn
their fetlocks. 1t is pitiable to see them tot
tering along, almost unable to support them
selves when harnessed to drag the wagons.
Two OF the elephants have died on the road.


AS rode forward l overlook wagon after
wagon belonging to the heavy battery 5-11.
abandoned, with their bullocks lying dead or
dying alongside Presently came on forty
FOUNDER siege gun, which two elephants and a
hundred soldiers were dragging painfully,
with halts at every ten yards distance.
Year: 1879

NEW York. Jan. 1.-THE trunk lines OF West
ern railroads agreed to make up East bound
lreights on the basis Of the rate from Chicago to
New York. with ocean freight rate addeF.
There will be a uniform freight tariff to Europe
~ way OF any great sea ports.


morning paper says: The nature OF the
railway c0mpacts was never more lucidly do
seribed than yesterday. when. at the managers
meeting, 1t was said there was no trouble in
xeu1ng them to agree The difficulty Is to make
tnem stick to their agreement


seventy mine fire insurance companies have
H&reed to convene soon for the purpose OF FORM
Ang tarin association with lower rates.
Year: 1879

The resolutions In favor OF qNarantining all
Kong, offered yesterday at meeting Of the
Board OF Health, are more timely than Is
generally understood There Is very little
doubt, from the tone and language OF our latest
newspaper files from Japan, that Asiatic
Kong and In some other cities In China, and
is causing alarm at Yokohama and Toxic. It
Will be kept secret as long as possible, for
the reason that as soon as 1t shall be known
commercial intercourse and local business
will suffer. Cholera infection is as dangerous
to this city as yellow fever Is to New Orleans.
Year: 1879

There is a negro woman in Philadelphia
who has two heads. How long will she re-
main In her grave after the funeral, is some
thing Of more interest to the country just
now than the name OF the last Afghanistan
pass or who invented Edison.
Year: 1879

THE Spaniards of Peru have always
believed that the subjects of the Incas,
at the time of the conquest of their
country by Pizarro, buried large
amounts of gold, and that the secret of
the places where the gold was buried
has been handed down from father to
son, through successive generations,
the object being to restore the Incas
when the rule shall be renewed, as the
Peruvians long believed it should be-
striking proof that it was a good rule.
This belief was not like that which so
many North Americans have had in the
burial of vast treasures by that rowing
Captain Kidd, and which furnished to
Poe the subject of the best of his
strange stories; but the Spanish belief
had better foundation than any that
had been brought forward in support of
the American tradition. Out of novels
no one has ever found any of Kidd's
treasure-if treasure that worthy ever
had; but in Peru it has more than once
happened that great sums have been
found. About hundred years ago an
Indian left in possession of a woman,
as security for small debt, number
of golden figures, making her promise
that she would show them to no one.
Wanting money herself soon afterward,
she in her turn pawned them to the
priest of her village. Some months
having elapsed, the Indian returned and
claimed his images. The womaa sought
them of the priest, but he suspected
something, and, having compelled hsr
to tell where she got them, the Indian
was thrown into prison, where, having
been subject to torture, he pointed out
the place where for 200 years great
quantity had lain concealed, having
been buried there by some noble Peru
vians. The value of it was $500, 600
"a very pretty profit ON such capital as
injustice, falsehood and torture. The
story goes that the Indian added that,
if they dug to a certain depth, jet of
water would spring up and flood the
valley, where the treasure lay under
the rock; and the spot is now covered
by lake with small island in the
center of it. What became of the In
dian our authority does not state; but,
Judging from the usual manner in
which Spaniards treated such men, il
was probably tragical enough.
Year: 1879

DIR. A. Fl. Heweter, of st. Clairsville,
Ohio, has contributed to the Hospital
Gazette, of this city, the following ac-
count of a curious case of loss of per-
sonal identity, the victim being now un-
der his care in the County lnfirmary in
that town:


:" have had under my care, as ply
sician for our County Iniirmary, very
interesting case. There is no discov-
cradle bodily disease, but very pc
culiar mental state. The patient has
lost all knowledge of his personal iden-
tity; does not know who he is, where
he came from, or whittier he was GO
ing. He became an inmate of our in
Urinary about nine months since. The
following is his history since taken in
charge by our county officials. All
previous to that is a blank to himself
and entirely unknown to us:


About the time referred to, nine
months since, he found himself stand
ing upon the depot-platform in Bell
aire City with q little money in his
pocket, and a small traveling-bag in
his hand. This bag contained a change
of linen, pair of scissors, and some
Dldllh puDJl llhb blAlL hoNA Ny RhAbOA
His clothes were quite genteel, and the
underwear in his valise was neat and
clean. His entire appearance was that
of well-cared-for gentleman ready for
business. There was no name on any
property about him indicating who he
was. except on some part of his effects
was the name Ralph. This is what he
is called in the infrmary.


After thinking and thinking while
at the depot, he at last went to the near
est hotel, and gave the landlord can
did statement of his very strange con-
dition. He asked for bed, said he
had a little money, that he would be no
trouble, and that he feltAsure this
strange mental sickness would soon pass
off. The landlord became interested in
his case. The same day a gentleman
came to Bellaire to lecture on temper
ance. Stopping at the same hotel he
soon made the acquaintance OF Ralph
and invited him to attend the lecture.
While attentively listening, some i'm
pulse came over him which he
could not resist, and he found himself
out in the street smashing the saloon
windows with big club. The roughs
ran out, beat and abused him badly
breaking the neck of the humerus, and
beating one side all black and blue
This brought him into the hands of the
police. But the lecturer, the doctor
the landlord and Mayor all became in
terested in finding out who he was
They made every effort, but utterly
failed.


"He certainly is man of more thar
Year: 1879

The man who can devour dozen
and half raw oysters at one sitting is
the man for eighteen ate ne. (What
no, without therel Seize him and hurl
him from the loftiest battlements of the
donjon deep into the foaming portcullis
that flows past the postern gate.) 1t is
done. The limpid ripples of the silently
flowing turret close above the eddying
sally port, and all is over.-Ha10b-E Eye.
Year: 1879

AN exchange solemnly AYERS that a
certain man in town who never adver-
tised was recently found dead under his
counter, where he had been lying two
days. People had forgotten where his
store was, and stranger looking for a
storehouse was the discoverer Of the
deceased proprietor.
Year: 1879

Nothing so deeply impresses a
young man with the unwarrantable and
tyrrannical assumption of parental
authority, than, just as he is making
up to his girl at the church sociable to
ask if he may go home with her, to hear
her old father snarl from the hall,
"Come long, Emeline! "
Year: 1879

INVNs


A special from Wrights Station says the
white men injured by the explosion are likely
to recover. Que more Chinaman died last
night. No more bodies have been taken out
Of the tunnel yet. The blower is re paired and
the pumps were started at 10 o'clock The
head Cinnamon are trying to get men to go
into the tunnel after the dead but no one is
willing. They will probably get some after
the blower runs about seventeen hours. The
air pumped out is very 70 ul and full of gas.
Year: 1879

Graham Bread. pint water,
one quart Graham flour, one pint wheat
flour, one yeast-cake dissolved in half
pint water, half gill of molasses, one
teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of
soda; mix at night; in morning pour in
deep bread-pans and bake about one
hour; it is too moist to knead with the
hands, but requires TO be thoroughly
stirred with a strong spoon.
Year: 1879

But in the supreme instant he was
spared. A man sprang up, and almost
dragged him from his horse, receiving
as he did so, the lance in his own bosom.


General p cried Valore-for the man
was he-smy life belongs to you and to
France !" and he fell with the blood
pouring from the jagged wound in his
breast, helpless and unconscious.
1t was over--the day was won. With
mighty cry of triumph the victorious
army swept over the plain, leaving the
dead and wounded upon the blood soaked
field.


In his tent, Europe's conquerer was
thanking heaven for its favors, and
dreaming already of new worlds and new
people 70 subdue.


The day will never be forgotten. Its
victory and multitude OF slain will be
remembered as long as history lives.
But there were deeds of yalor performed
on those Egyptian sands that deserved
loftier monuments and louder praises
than were sung over their naked bones
by the hyena and carrion bird.
Among these obscure heroes was Pierre
Valore, whose name, although unknown
t. fame, still found place in the memo
ry and gratitude of the Indispensable
man he Lad saved.


Bonaparte never forgot Pierre Valore's
generous salvation of his life from the
mameluke's lance. His preserver could
never go to the wars again. Death long
hovered over him; his words always
rang in the great conqurer's ears; there
was no man in France who kept warmer
place in the Emperor's usually cold
heart than Pierre Valore.


In his quiet home, with his sweet
heart who would have scorned him for
asking parting kiss, now his wife, and
the mother of his children, Valore, with
his badge of the Legion Of Honor on his
heart, watched the tides of battle from
afar, unable to take part III them. Ma
poleon was his god.


On his return to Paris the Empeor
chose the violet flower as his favorite
emblem. He never gave any reason for
its selection; but long afterward it was
said by veteran of the "Old Guard"
that the origin of the emblem could not
be traced beyond the battle of the Pyra
mids. He added, also that hardly any
other subject would make the masters
CHEEKY voice tremble, or make the pure,
unclouded brow grave.
Year: 1879


When cowslps boom in summer,
And grasses bend in June,
Flowers shedding fragrance
MID the roses sweet perfume;
When the Till and stream and brooElet,
Rhyme in placid tune,
And the stars are pale in twilight
In the rich and subtle June.
When grasses are fringed with coral
My love win meet me there,
Down where the stream is flowing,
With flowers in her hair.
When the moon is DER the meadow
And apple buds breathe and blow,
I'll meet thee by the brooklet
Where the water lilies grow.
VIII you love remember


When the grasses bend in June,
And cowslips bloom in summer,
Mid the roses mild perfume?
VIII you always, love, remember
Our tryst in the meadow brown,
When the pale white light of luna
Lights the city, vale and town?
Year: 1879

AT funeral service in Slawson last
week, the minister, in his remarks, was
dwelling upon the loss to the husband of
the deceased, when that worthy spoke
up: 'tNever mind me. Just throw your
heft on the corpse.
Year: 1879

was their own) and that she has provided
for it ever since. The poor little deserted
thing was taken to the Children's Home,
where it will be properly taken care OF un-
til it becomes of age.
Year: 1879

The Greenbackers are enthusiastic, and
insist that they have twenty-five men, but
decline to name them, on the ground that
the members if named. would be subjected
to great pressure from the candidates.
This is ridiculous, as the candidates are lay
ing wires for every member of the next
House who is not an out-and-out Republi
can