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Year: 1879

At the last meeting of the Executive Commit
tee Of Foreign Missionsl Rev B. F. Thompson,
of the Synod of Nashville, Mr. A. Sydenstricker,
of the Synod of Virginia, and Mr. Joshua Phipps,
Of the Synod of Nashville, were appointed for
eign missionaries Mr. Phipps and Mr.. Syden-
stricken are members Of the senior class in Union
Seminary, Virginia, and they will not be ready
to engage in the work until their studies are
completed, which will not be until next spring
Mr. Phipps is expected to Join the Greek und
Mr. Sydenstricker the China Mission. Mr..
Thompson graduated at Union Seminary some
thing more than year ago. He is expected to
reinforce the Pernambuco Mission, and it Is
hoped he will be ready to sail by the first of Jan
uary next, if not before.


These brethren are all highly recommended
and promise to be very useful in the fields to
which they have been respectively assigned.
This will be cheering tidings to our missionary
brethren who have been waiting solong and so
anxiously for help. 1t is only to be regretted
that much larger number of laborers cannot
be sent out Those who have been appointed
will only meet the demand to partial extent
1t is a cause of sincere gratitude however, that
God has been pleased to incline the hearts of
these dear brethren to engage in the work. and
that there is at the same time the reasonable
prospect VI lllG GC6oSdil LlCdlLo " cCALN tiLO


The ladies of the First Presbyterian church.
Nashville, Tennessee, are engaged in the. effort
to raise $500 to pay for the outfit the travelling
expenses, and the passage of Mr.. Thompson, and
we have no doubt that with the blessing of God
they will succeed in the undertaking. In the
course of time, and when the circumstances of
the case demand it, others will be found, we
have no doubt equally willing and ready to
make corresponding efforts. Still, however, we
rely mainly upon the general efforts of the
Church to furnish the means necessary to carry
on the work


1t is necessary to exercise faith in the people
of God and we are compelled to do this, if the
foreign missionary work is to be carried on at
ALL At this time there is some evidence of in
creased interest in this great cause and we earn
estly pray that there may never again be any
retrogression on the part Of the people Of God.


Missionary
Year: 1879

a Lake George letter describes an
amusing scene caused by clerk at one
Of the hotels on the lake. He had OBJ
served the devotion of man of sixty
to a widow much younger, and believ-
ing that an intrigue was going on, ac-
costed the old man very rudely inti-
mating that such proceedings wen. not
allowed there. The man of sixty flew
into n passion; threatened to chastise
the impudent fellow, and made a grand
scene. The sequel proved that he was
the womans husband, and ad been for
ten years. The clerk humbly apollo
gized; expressed his profound regret,
but added that his mistake was natural
enough. Asked afterwards to explain,
he said he had noticed that the patron
of the house had, while sitting on the
piazza in the evenings, repeatedly put
his arm around his feminine companion
and bent down and kissed her warmly
and in his clerical Judgment that was
not the way husbands were in the hab
\ it of treating their own wives.
Year: 1879

For the pnst ten years considerable
gold has been taken out annually on
the bars Of the Santiam river At the
same time prospecting for quartz leads
has been vigorously prosecuted in the
country above the placers. The result
has been the discovery OF mining re-
gions near Monnt Jefferson which will
soon be the SCENE Of active operations


a quartz mill is now en- ronte, and a
company is about TO expend a large
STUN on a toll road TO the now diegines.
Old hands at the business expect to see
the largest mining camp in Oregon in
tho above named locality next spring.
Year: 1879

To study the world is better than to
shun it.


One must be poor to know the lux
ury of giving.


To understand the world is better
than to condemn it.


Employment for the mind is what
thousands are in need of.


BY being contemplate we set peo-
Piles minds to the tune of contempt


To make the world better, lovelier
and happier is the noblest work of man
or woman.


When alone, watch your thoughts;
in your family, your temper; in compa
ny, your tongue.


Let amusement FIJI up the chinks Of
your existence, but not the great space
thereof.
Year: 1879

A NAN never keeps his diary long. AT
the beginning Of the year he records a
vow to swear OF. After that there are
entries Of a few simple drunks, couple
Of headache and the book Is closed.
Year: 1879

The atmosphere is composed Of one
part oxygen and four parts nitrogen. The
former supports life, the latter extinguish-
es L. Tho more oxygen there is the
livelier, the healthier, the more joyful are
we; the more nitrogen, the more sleepy and
stupid and dull do we become. But if all
the air were oxygen tho first lighted match
would wrap the world in instant fame; II
all were nitrogen the next instant there
would not be upon the populated globe a
single living creature.
Year: 1879

The New York Shipping List, In an
artlcle on the future of trade says !:
"rhere is, altogether, q more hopeful
feeling regarding the future of trade
than there has been for years at least,
inspired by the belief that the shrinkage
in prices is at an end, and that with a
sound currency calculations can be made
tons with some degree Of certainty
Confidence may now be expected to
gradually revive, and this will give an


impetus to fresh enterprises and EN-.
ployment to capital that has long been
!. In Q waiting attitude"
Year: 1879

On Saturday evening last there
came near being big fire in this city.
The roof around the stove pipe or flue
in the shop Of Johnny Smith caught
fire. Being early in the evening the
fire was at once discovered and extin-
guished with but little trouble or
damage. Had it broken out late at
night the north side of Main street
would in all probability now be in
ashes. This should be taken as a sig
nificant warning to every one to be as
certain, as it is possible 10 be, that
their fues and fire ducts are safe.
Hope has been expressed to Us, and
We join in il, that our city council
Will, if they have not done so, en-
pioy person competent TO judge of
fire arrangements, 10 examine in de-
tail every fire fiue in the business
portions of the city, and instruct the
marshal to enforce rigidly orders re-
garding protection from confiagra-
tions. Timely iudieious measures en-
forced to prevent fires is better protec-
ton than all the fire companies and
fire machinery. "A stitch in time
saves nine"
Year: 1879

- Better ''put up at the lively sta
iblen than lie down in the gutter these
cold Aights.-PerU Herald.


Really, there was no necessity for
either sleeping In the haymow or the
gutter, for Sheridan has a very good
hotel, as the Herald man could have
sscertained had he looked around q
little.
Year: 1879

the State equal advantages in the election.
But if Tammany should have one-fourth of
the inspectors there would virtually be
three Cornell inspectors in each district
against one Robinson inspector. since the
sole and avowed purpose of the Kelly vote
is to elect Cornell.


The order of Judge Barrett requiring the
Police Commissioners to show cause why a
mandamus should not be issued requiring
them to elect the fourth inspector in each
district, will bring before the Court some
important questions respecting the form of
the mandamus Will it require the ap-
pointment OF Tammany inspectors in de-
Aance Of the recent decision of the Court Of
Appeals that while man damus may require
the performance ofthe act it cannot prescribe
the selection of the appointees We sug-
gest to Mr.. Whitney. the Corporation Coun-
sci, that he telegraph to Albany for tran
script of this important opinion, since any
action by subordinate court in contraven-
ton of judgment of the Court of Appeals
would be null.
Year: 1879

The fall meeting Of the American Jockey
Club. beginning to-day at Jerome Park,
promises to be one Of the most enjoyable
sporting events of the year. From the
great number of horses in the fields it is
evident that there will be some fine racing
and numerous surprises. The attendance,
as is usual at these meetings, will be large
and select, and the delicious weather will
doubtless increase it by many thousands.
Jerome Park, alone among famous American
race courses, may be easily and quickly
reached from New York, and year by year
additional thousands Of our citizens are
learning to avail themselves of their rare
opportunities for enjoying noble sport.
Year: 1879

While the collection of the customs
revenue should be faithfully performed,
it is simply disgraceful that system of
spying which does not discriminate be-
tween the respectable citizen and the
vulgar smuggler should be applied to
it. We refer now to the inquisitorial
searching at this port of passengers arriv-
ing from Europe for what is conveniently
termed reasonable cause of suspicion"
Where the law gives the authority to search
without actually ordering it an exercise of
discretion is implied. It is not the discre-
ton of dog to worry or not to worry. as
pleases him. whole flock of sheep be-
cause one wolf may be concealed in fleece,
but the discretion of q keen yet courteous
official who has to deal with people whose
honesty is to be taken for granted unless
they furnish unmistakable signs of inten-
tional dishonesty. With the trained off,
cial these signs are seldom overlooked,
though they may not be obvious to nm out
slider. In England, France and Russia
similar discretion is vested in the customs
officials, but nowhere is the right of search
exercised in so harsh and fitful o manner as
with us. The case of Mr.. do Graiffe, his
wife and family recently put to the indig-
nifty of having their persons searched illus
trates the point forcibly. These people, it
is evident. would not have been searched if
the matter had been left to the dis
creton Of tho immediate examining
officials. Owing, however, to o system
which puts premium upon UNDER
handed enmity and keyhole spying, they
were searched, we are given to understand,
on Information received" 1t is plain,
then. that the system pursued invites
the despicable offices of the mean fell
low with grudge, the irresponsible mis-
chief maker, the malicious snob who may
have been snubbed on the evoyage-anybody,
in fact, with sufficient paltriness to slander
another in secret. Nay, more. while it in
suits and worries the innocent victim it
protects the malignant sneak. This calls
for reform. respectable man treated like
Mr.. de Graiffe has right to ON ample
apology and to the name Of the concealed
person who pointed him out as suspicious.
Trunks and packages arc already searched
with no little roughness, but the persons Of
people whose surroundings and belonging
proclaim thom respectable and responsible
should be exempted from this extreme re-
sort.
Year: 1879

self and for himself in barrel all around
the circle. The HERALD at the time warned
the .proprietors and supporters of all these
booms that they were simply making them
selves ridiculous and that each and every
one of them was marked for an early grave.
The first frost has scarcely come and our
prediction has been fulfilled. The politi-
cal katydids who have been making the
political thickets resound oil through the
summer have in some way been myste-
riously killed off during the past few weeks.
Not sound of boom is heard from one
end of the country to the other The BAR
rel and its occupant have ceased to give
forth the faintest rumble; there is silence
as OF death in the custom houses and
the camp followers of the Grant admins
trations have been unable to make them
selves even heard in the magnificent ova-
tions that have greeted the ex-President on
the Pacific slope. The fate of this last
boom is the most singular of oil. The
reception in San Francisco, which, it
was expected, would send the boom
all over the country, has really been
the means OF killing it. While in point
OF splendor and spontaneity it was all
that the most enthusiastic friend Of
General Grant could have desired, the very
magnitude of it has convinced the country
and the coterie of camp followers who were
attempting to set themselves up in business
at the expense OF General Grant that it is
impossible to again make the ex-President
q party man. Henceforth he belongs to the
whole people, not to faction, and espe-
cially to faction in so small minority.
Now that all the minor booms are dead and
gone and forgotten it will be soon in order
for the people to organize the boom that
will sweep the country in 1880.
Year: 1879

Another man has been tramping for the
much travelled Astley belt. He walked into
the Madison Square Garden for it and also
into Tiffhny's, having FIRST walked into tho
Sheriff's Office to got his authority--to make
his entry, SO to speak. Whether he really
expected to get the gorgeous cinoturo. $50
heavy to get and so light to hold" is quite
doubtful, bat as he not only professed bat
proved to have an attachments for it, his
intentions con hardly be doubted. Like
many another fellow, however, who has
started for the same glittering prize, he
found the truck not so easy as it might have
been; o strong crowd we're opposed to him,
the spectators did not cheer him q particle.
there was not even band to play '.Pina-
fore" at him, and plenty of good mon
shouted '.Foulw r. So his aspirations finally
fell to the low plane of gate money. There
is not the slightest likelihood that
he will get even this to keep, for the
belt belonged no more to the man
from whom no strove to take IL than it
does to the slowest bootblack who takes
part in the nightly go-as-you-pleasc tramps
around the City Hall Park fountain, and as
both the walker and his hacker either knew
this or were disgracefully ignorant, his
prospective defeat will be noted with de-
light by every lover of fair play. Sherifrs
Office entries have not boen popular since
the late investigation of the Office accounts
began.
Year: 1879

You MAY HAVE THOUGHT the weather de-
Iightful yesterday, and so it was, but if to-day
you eat ~ much usual, wear your heavy
clothes, walk rs fast and work as hard as YOU
did during the colder weather, tomorrow Won
will have no spirit to enjoy the weather or any
thing clse
Year: 1879

ANOTHER BANK is in trouble-this time in
Pennsylvania. Perhaps the directors will be
honest enough to explain in plain English what
their peculiar proceedings have to do with
banking.
Year: 1879

PAROLES APPEAEANCE-The special
commissioner of the London Sportsmen,
in commenting upon one of Paroles vic
tories, says Like his sire, Parole is a
brown, but not 50 big or SO lengthy. He
is not a large boned horse, but true in his
formation, and wiry looking on the very
best of legs and feet He still wears
a lot of his winter coat, and | do not
think that We saw him at his best, for he
only came over in the autumn, and as yet
the sun has scarcely shone on his Jacket,
which he will shell off when he gallops
on the daisies. Then we shall see him
4 handsome, hloodiike and thoroughly
sound horse. | have said that he has the
best legs and feet for although his
hooks show the remains of curb they are
as hard and Gallons as the flint of Water
loo musket, and being six years old, prac-
teal horsemen need not be told that he is
not now likely to give way from this
cause. Parole is certainly not an equine
dandy" because he wears a raggsd coat


From this cauSe many a good horse has
been condemned as mean looking and out
OF condition at this period of the year.


Heavy cloths, warm stables and hnseed,
or other mashes well known 10 horsemen,
will materially hasten the changing of a
horse S coat, but by this process there is
more risk of the animal taking cold than
by leaving him TO the more tardy and
safer treatment ordained by Dame Ma
ture." | believe that not only Parole,
but all the other American horses in train
ing here and at home, stand uncovered
night and day in their stables, and their
Clothing AZ exercise appears lighter than
the majority OF English trained studs"
Year: 1879




EDITOR STATESMAN 1t was q surprise
to all yesterday when the senate, by q
decisive vote, concurred with the house
in the proposition directing the secretary
of the treasury to use for the payment
of the arrears of pensions the eight or ten
millions of money in his vaults, held there
to redeem fractional currency long since
worn out. 1t was surprising, not because
there was any reasonable objection to
such a course, but because the vote
showed willingness to act upon financial
matters. So far as the pensioners are
concerned the vote is of no consequence,
as there is plenty of money in the treas
ury to pay them. That they are not paid
is the fault of the secretary Of the treas.
ury, or the secretary of the interior, or
both. The interest on bonds is the only
money that Secretary Sherman pays out
cherfully and and promptly; yesterday,
before the vote alluded to, Senator Bo tn
attacked the course of the secretary Wig
orously.


The proposition mentioned above was
part of the legislative appropriation bill,
and will of course share the fate of that
bill. Opinions differ as to what MIR.
Hayes will do when the bills goes to him ).
as it will in a day or two, but veto is
expected by pretty much everyone. The
veto of the army bill, after assurances
that convinced many democrats that the
bill would be approved, and the veto on
Monday ef-the Ladd bill. afteI renewed
and emphatic assurances of the same hnd
has created conviction that MIR. Hayes
has determined to- be governed by the
extreme elements of his party. At the
dictation of men like Chandler and Robe
SOIL he will, in all probability veto any
measure Of importance passed at the pres
ent session in relation to troops or civil
officers at the polls or to the repeal of the
jury test oath The truth is apparently
that MIR. Hayes, reversing the words
which, spoken in the house by his per-
sonal friends, secured his Inauguration,
is determined to rule over provinces,
not states.


The best speech so far made in the
senate on the republican side against the
legislative appropriation bill, was made
on Monday by Senator Window. He
stated briefly but plainly, all the objec-
tions which could be fairly argued against
the democratic demand for fair and intel
igent juries. He went out of his way,
of course, as all republicans do, to mis-
represent southern sentiment. He did
this, as the rest do, because all the argu-
ment is with the democrats, the republi-
cans have no hope of future except by
keeping alive the sectional feelings which
ought to have died ont long since. But
the senator is not as malignant or unfair
as most of his radical associates. His
friends claim that his speech which will
be circulated extensively, will greatly
strengthen him in his presidential chances
at the next radical convention. DEN.
Year: 1879

From the tenor of an article in the
April number of the american CatA0tae
Quarterly Rerie,c it is very evident that
Gen Gibbon is not an admirer OF Genao
o. Howard, for he intimates that Howard
at the commencement OF the Nez Perce
pursuit in 1877 wasted five precious days
at the start this ''precious" five days loss
of time has been explained over and over
again and no one knows better than Glib
bon that it was unavoidable from the tact
that the rations for the use of the troops
in their terrible march over the Lo Lo
trail did not come up in time II is fact
well known in army circles and those who
went with Howard in the pursuit, that the
military in Montana were to blame for
the delay in the capture of Joseph. They
had fourteen days notice before the Nez
Perces emerged into the Bitter Root val
lev, that they were coming that way, and
vet only corporal's guard under Capt.
Rawn WAS sent to intercept them, instead
of doing which they and the citizens let
them pass, red handed as they were, be-
cause forsooth they promised not to mo-
lest them in their journey up the Bitter
Root. Gibbon shows the ''serpent's tooth"
by his insinuations against Howard; he
has evidently forgotten that he and the
remnants of his gallant little band owe
their very existence to the man he now
decry's for had not Howard pushed on
with his best men and horses as soon as
he heard of the Big Hole fight, the fate
of Custer would have been repeated as
it was, the Indians sa@ the little band
headed 10y the "one-armed chief coming
DOWN the narrow valley before it emerges
into the Big Hole fiat, and thinking it was
the main body OF the command left the
field, and even their dead unburied. These
are the true facts for we were there, and
reflection on Howard is censure to every
man who took part in the pursuit of
Joseph.
Year: 1879

LATEST RAILROAD NEws.-The latest
railroad news Is from Mr. Clark, in charge
OF the surveying party on the branch roa,l Of
the Nor Pacific ROAD to the Yakima He
was 30 miles from Priest Rapids and had
made an elevation of 1900 feet through
country evidently intended by nature for
railroad He viii return to the man line
when all three parties will concentrate and
continue the survey To the Pen d'Oreillie
Lake. As soon rs thorough survey is
made the contracts for building Will be
thrown open to competition. This method
has been adopted by the company on the
other side with uniform success and has
proved financial benefit to them As an
instance-three Years ago tine estimates for
the road from BiSnark TO the Yellowstone
were sl4,0G0 per mile To-day the road is
beng built FOR less than one half viz; S7lOO
per mile.
Year: 1879

UNITY Is SrRESGTH,-We hope that the
democrats who proved traitors to their
party at the last election are satisfied
with their work A delegate to Congress
IS but political emuch at the best Of
times, and to send a republican to dem
ecratlc congress by their votes is nothing
less than infamous We are in possession
OF the whole case and are only awaiting
similar action on their parts to give them
such notoriety that will most etfectually
and forever squelch their political aspira-
ti'Es. The democratic party henceforih
Is no place for malignant sore heads.
Year: 1879

Our DRAwBACKS.-Uu dispatches an
nounce another Indian outbreak, and two
more murders by them, of men from past
personal knowledge we know to he honest
persevering citizens That these outbreaks
should occur at the opening of every sum-
mer is drawback to the prosperity of our
upper country and = disgrace To the ad-
mInIstratinn. at whose door the blood of
the murdered men can properly he laid.


Under republican administration the
lives OF the pioneers Of empire who leave
home comforts and advance to the ultima
thule of civilization III ottler to conquer
nature in her widest moods, are as chaff
before the wind. This last is only another
scene IN the act of the hurlcsquc of In
dian management The Indians who
perpetrated the last deed were originally
quiet, peaceahle Indians. living in har-
mony with the whites. and often rendered
them assistance Last summer the whole
Piute tribe, To which these fresh murder
ers belong, this side of Nevada went on
the war path for no other reason than the
starvation policy meted out to them by
Agent Rinehart Of the Malheur reserva-
ton. The very fact that not a sinqle In
dian remained faithful To him ought in
itself 10 he convincing evidence to the
interior department of the utter unfitness
OF the man for the place he still holds


He is at his old work. trying TO get In
dams who despise and jeer him, to come
on to the reservation he has shown his IN
competency in the management of. If he
Is allowed to remain, nothing less than
another outbreak aud series of murders
accompanied by the same horrible out
RACES and tortures We witnessed on sew
eral occasions last summer, will again be
repeated. How hng, o Lord. How long
Year: 1879

TIE New CONFUSION %, New Con.
stltution Party is being organized


throughout California. Denis Kearney
opposes the organization, and is doing all
m his power to get the supporters of the
new constitution to join the Working.
Gens party and recognize him as chief