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Year: 1879

Leading Wagon OF the United States and the Best Wagon N


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thorough of aI
using inspection the work subjected various e
of skilled free labor
dscarding and mechanics by the day.
durability Qst
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from
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Year: 1879

ALDTYPE- 800 pounds of OLD TYPE for
~ sale in lots to suit purchasers. This type
is an excellent substitute for Babbit Metal
pronounced by those who have used it better
and can be sold at one-naf the price. Apply


at the STATESMA NOFFlCE-
Year: 1879

We would respectfully state that
we have just had our saw mill over
hauled and thoroughly repaired by
J. B. Green and John Wilkerson,
experienced workmen, and we are
now prepared to furnish lumber Of
all kinds, on short notice and atlow
rates for cash. All in need Of lumber
will find it to their interest to give
us a call. We would also recommend
Messrs. Green and Wilkerson to
those having machinery to repair,
as competent to perform all such
work in the best manner.


Resp'y, O. HENBY & Sons.
Year: 1879

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and With all thy soul
and with all thy mind" This is the first
and great commandment. Love is life.
It is the fulfilling OF the law Of our
being. Only as We worthily love do We
truly live; only when we love with q
perfect affection that which is perfectly
worthy of our affection do we attain
unto the supreme good of life. Conee. Il
ing these truths there has been no dis
pute; all that is deepest in man has
affirmed them with unhesitating faith.
And therefore the first great command
maent of the law has almost the force of
first truth OF reason. Men have always
been ready to join in this confession !:
I" I need to love some one with heart and
soul and mind; I ought to love God,
the Infinitely Gt'od, with all my heart
and soul i'd mind" But when you
have denied to God conscious person
atty what have you done with these
deepest sentiments of the human nature
out of which our highest morality
springs? You have cut them up by the
roots, or trampled them unt,er your feet


You car not If you try to love with al
yenr heart sud sonl and nlad, spy
Year: 1879

Being that cannot love you with heart
and soul and mind. Personality in God
is the correlate Of morality In man. The
word personality is one over which men
quibble, but the thing is precious. A
God that cannot love US is a God that
we cannot love.
Year: 1879

contributed somewhat to the movement.
The principle embodied in that resolution
he regards, however, as utterly impraoticable.
There can be, he claims, no separa-
tion Of races within tho limits
of this republic. There can be no citizen
the black race could be separated from the
white, the line between them would be line
of strife and blood. If, on the other hand,
they inhabit the same territory the same
race antipathies will probably exist and pro-
duce the same results as those from which
they have fled. Concluding his remarks to
the reporter who interviewed him, Mr..
Douglass said:


The hope of the negro, like the hope of every
body else in the republic, is in the progress of
enlightenment and civilization, and the South
will more and more, in my opinion, become
open to those influences. Although Southern
land-holders are unwilling to be taxed to sup
port negro schools. the school-master is abroad
in the South, and hundreds and thousands are
learning to read, write and to count. Con-
tr.sting the present condition of the colored
people with that which existed previous to the
war, cannot but refuse to despair of their fu-
ture peace and happiness in the States on the
soil of which they were born.


In these views Mr.. Douglass is sensible
far more so than he usually is. The place
for the negro is at the South, where the eli
mate is suitable to him, and where he can
find abundant and congenial employment.
The complaint made by some of the emf
grants that their wages are lower tkan those
of other laborers elsewhere is perhaps just
one, but the fact is due more to the extra
or iinary business depression that, has existed
at the South since the war. With revival
of industry there, of which the promise is
SO suspicious, this difficulty will speedily ad-
just itself, and with the increased demand
for labor the compensation offered for that
labor will be correspondingly increased. The


present exodus is foolish in the extreme, an6


will work only harm to the colored race.
Year: 1879

LITTLE alarm need be felt on account of
Mr.. fuckers proposal to repeal the clause of
the army bill that prohibits the enlistment OF
men who served in the confederate army.
Ninety-nine one-hundredths of those who
wore the grey in the struggle that ended
fourteen years ago are now past the age pre-
scribed by law for enlisted men or officers.
There's little prospect that ''the rebel yelP'
will be heard in the army.
Year: 1879

If the published proceedings of the Brook
lyn Presbytery, now engaged in the trial of
Talmage for deceit. are indications of their
real character, the members are better quail
fed for places in an asylum for imbeciles
than for the pulpit. More inane discussions
never disgraced the proceedings of any de-
Lucrative body, and We confess to surprise
that such mon ever were placed in the posi-
tions they now occupy. Their drivel ant
disputes are removed from the rational 81
far that there is scarce room for question as
to their hopeless idiocy.
Year: 1879

FlcED DOUGLASS ON THE EXODUS


FROM THE SOUTH.


While on most questions affecting his race
Mr.. Fred Douglass holds opinions too radical
and impracticable to merit serious consider
alton, we are constrained to commend hi,
views upon the mad rush of negroes now in
progress to some imaginary promised land
vest of the Missouri river that is supposed
% flow with milk and honey. He falls, how


ver, into the mistake created by few mon
iacious correspondents of radical Northern
newspapers, that the fundamental cause of
The present exodus is to be found in the out
RACES committed in the Gulf States especial
;y, on account of differences of political
opinion and action. The negroes, he says,
like all other people. love freedom and will
make sacrifices to secure it. The same feel
ing that led negro slaves, in the face of
dangers, hardship and destitution, to escape
from slavery and make their way by the light
of the north star into the free States is at
the bottom of this emigration. The facts in
the case do not warrant 50 extravagant an
assumption. It is true that the effort has
been made to incite the negroes
to emigrate by exaggerating to them
the difficulties that they as well as
every other race of employees have to endure
yet it is not true that in any section of the
South they have been persecuted for theil
political opinions or for any other reason.
Such a policy would be the height of folly
on the part of the Southern people, and
without presuming them to be blind to thei,
own interests we cannot entertain such an
opinion. The negroes are necessary ele.
ment of Southern industry, as necessary as
are the laboring classes of the North to this
section. Without their assistance the plan
tations would run to waste, commerce would
be suspended, and manufacturing would
cease. To drive them from the country
would be equivalent to biting ones nose of
to spite his face, and we do not believe that
the Southern people are equal to this folly.


Mr.. Douglass proceeds to say that in his
opinion the resolution Of Mr., Window sus
gssting the colonization Of The negroes haa
Year: 1879

TAMMANY is breathing forth threatenings
and slaughter in case Tilden shall succeed in
carrying off the Democratic nomination next
year. This is discouraging to Tilden, but as
he seems to control not only the State but
the city government, and to be manipulating
both in his own interests, without regard to
the wishes OF Tammany, We presume he does
not lie awake O. nights to worry over the op-
position Of Kelly and his gang.
Year: 1879

Health in the Honse-Ihs porta,sce Of Sani-


taTy Knowledge.


DR.. John s. Butler.


DR.. Richardson, an English physician, says
in public address,: 81 want strongly to en-
force that it is the women on whom full san
itary light requires first to fall. Health in
the homo is health everywhere; elsewhere it
has no abiding place. have been brought
indeed by experience to the conclusion that
the whole future progress of the sanitary
movement rests for permanent and executive
support on the women of the country. When
as physician I enter house where there
is contagious disease I am, of course, pri-
marily impressed by the type of the disease
and the age, strength and condition of the
sick person. From the observations made
on these points form judgment of the
possible course and termination of the dis
ease, and at one time should have thought
such observations sufficient. Now I know
them to be but partly sufficient. A glance
at the appointments and arrangements and
management of the house is now necessary
to make perfect the judgment. By this
glance is detected what aid the physician
may expect in keeping the sick in q
condition most favorable for escape from,
death; and by this is also de-
tected what are the chances that the affection
will be confined to one sufferer or distribut-
ed to many. AS rule to which there are
the rarest exceptions, the character of the
judgment is hereupon dependent on the
character of the presiding genius of the
home, on the woman who rules over that
small domain. The men of the house come
and go; know little of the ins and outs
of anything domestic; are guided by
what they are told, and are practically of nc
assistance whatever. The women are con-
versant with every nook of the dwelling
from basement to roof, and on their knowl
edge, wisdom and skill the physician rest
his hopes. How important, then, how vita
that they should learn, as part of thei
earliest duties, the choicest sanitary CODE
AS timely illustration of the CORRECTNESS:
of this judgment, may be permitted t.
state, on the authority of DR.. Bowditch, o
Boston, that the movement which resulte'
in the establishment in Massachusetts, of tn
first board of health iu the United States
originated with lady of Pittsfeld MRS
Thomas F. PlunkatD, who had been init
mately connected with the Maplewood semi
nary in that town al the time of the well
known outbreak of typhoid fe~er in ths
institution, and was an intelligent observe
of those violations of sanitary law which lie
to such disastrous and fatal results.
Year: 1879

PERHAPS the reason Strait did not buy
cane was that its presentation would not Pc :
nit the use of that exquisitely beautiful, daz-
zlingly brilliant, and severely intellectual pun
on the word watching in his impremptu
written reception speech.
Year: 1879

The st. Paul GLOBE has established tele-
phonic communication between the main
Office in st. Peul and the branch Office in
Minneapolis, and commenced two weeks
ago to receive its news items from the latter
city by the new method of communication.
There will, of course, be great saving of
time in transmitting the news over the old
way of communication by mail, and news
can also be sent several hours later than be-
fore. The distance between the two Offices
is over eleven miles.
Year: 1879

OUTLAwED.-It is a fiction of!aw after
all, that the crime Of murder does not out
law. AT least such appears TO be :he case
with the slayer of Broderick. Twenty
years ago he resigned as Chief Justice Of
California, to violate the constitution he
mad sworn to support and dye his hands in
the blood Of his fellow man. The mur-
der OF Broderlck, was one of the steps
leading up to the great tragedy ofthe re-
bollion. Broderick was slain because he
dared to oppose the extension of human
slavery, and his place in the Senate filled
with one more plant. In the battle of
Freedom which ended in the triumph of
right, Terry foughton the side OF his con
Victions, returning to California when the
struggle was over. San joaquin can
claim the honor of first showing her
belief that "killing is no murder" by
sending him as a delegate TO the Conven-
tion, and that luminous body, rather than
meet the issue squarely, disposed of the
case by voting that the position of dele
gate was no: an ''office" within The mean
ing of the Constitution. To-day, the kill,
Ing of Broderck is forgotten by the peo-
pie Of California and it remains to be
seen whether Mr.. Terry will once more
put on the ermine he doffed twenty years
ago. Tint such is the vindication he
wishes we cannot doubt.
Year: 1879

VEToEp.-President Hayes returned
to the House of Representatives without
his approval, the bill recently passed by
Congress known as the Military Interler-
ence Bill. The veto message is in terms
which call forth the unanimous approval
of the people. If the Democratic MAJOR
ity of Congress is aiming to unite the
Republicans Of the nation, they are cer~
tainly pursuing the right course.
Year: 1879

The San Francisco Chronicle of date
since the election, has a leading article
upon the foul fruits of lying. If there is
man in the world qualified to deal with
The subject it is certainly the ed ogthe
Chronicle. l. lied persisten.ly from the
beginning to the end of the constitutional
canvass, and ifcaught and exposed, paid
no attention to the exposure but lied with
more energy and vim than ever. 1t has
got so in the habit of lying that it keeps
oui suunty as shaving given majority for
the Constitution when the majority is the
other way Verify the Chronicle is com.
petent to deal with its subject.
Year: 1879

Free Bridge.-The people Of Manchester
and Chesterfield are looking forward with
anxiety to the solution of one great prob
lem which at present interests US: whether
or not the Free bridge shall be converted
into toll bridge.


p at different street-corners and public
places Of the city persons are discussing
this question, and as it now stands there
seems 10 be great diversity Of opinion in
regard to it.


The City Council will convene tonight,
and will give its views upon it, and take ne
cessary action in case the bill now pending
before the Legislature should pass.
Year: 1879

UP UNTIL LATELY labor strikes were
only known in this country. ana aM
came to the strikers from across the
waters, but now there is change
Business is Frightening here and be-
coming depressed in England, and a
strike having been going on there for
tho last three months, and now there
Is no doubt that there will be = call
upon American laborers for aid. 1t is
strange that labor is so blind that it
cannot see that it costs more TO sustain
a strike than the increase Of wages de-
manded will amount to. The sooner tina
labor and capital learn to adjust their
difficulties by arbitration the better ii
will be for both sides.
Year: 1879

A NEW STEERING INTENTIONAL new
Invention for steering vessels by steam in
stead OF by hand was tested in New York
Monday on one OF the largest and most un-
manageable tugs in that harbor. BY the old
way Of steering a vessel, when there is 4
strain on the right OF the rudder there is a
corresponding slack on the left, and this is
what causes all delay and hard work in ham
ding the wheel. The new invention picks
up this slack and holds it. No matter in
what position or in what angle the rudder
is placed, it is held as taught as though it
was straight.
Year: 1879

of mashed hsh-aJapanese fish named kisu, shrimps.
potatoes rabbits, gold fish and ginger. After the
shimada had series called sashimi. This
was composed of four dishes. and would have
been the crowning glory OF the feast II we had not
failed in courage But one Of the features of the
sashin that live fish should be brought in.
sliced while alive and served. We were not brave
enough for that, and contented ourselves with
looking at the fish leap about in their decorated
basins and seeing them carried no doubt to be
sliced for less sentimental feeders behind the
screens AS final course we had pears prepared
with horse radish, cake of wheat Hour and pow
dered ice The dinner came to an end after strug-
gle of six or hours, and as we drove home
through tho illuminated town, brilliant with lam
terms and fireworks and arches and bonfires it was
felt that we had been honored by an entertainment
such as we may again expect to see.
Year: 1879

NJ. do Lcsscps. speaking ut Bcauvais, few days
ago the Panama Canal and contending that tho
Monroe doctrine had nothing to do with it, told tho
following anccdote.--


In 1885, when the Anglo-French alliance had
reached the eliminating point, Queen Victoria
came to Paris. DO you know what the first
thing Her Majesty said TO the Emperor when shc
had All opportunity of talking seriously with him?
You could never imagine. Sho asked him immc-
diatey to have stop put to tho sucz Canal works.
The Emperor twisted his long mustache aud replied
that he had heard of Nj. de Lessops but that he
not personally acquainted with him. and that IL
impossible to prevent him from continuing his
work; that " he had gone and asked Queen Victoria
to interfere with the work of any English contractor
he would in all probability have boen Ill received.
Tho conversation was not continued. Thus
IL that the ill-will of England with
regard 10 canal she considers
precious remained without effect. There In
America extremely energetic Latin races who take
the greatest interest in the Panama Canal People
are much mistaken IL they fancy that these peoples
would remain Indifferent in the event of hostile or
malovolent attitude on the part of North America.
have proofs 10 the contrary, and know that the
United States do not think of Offering resistance,
which would expose them to tho censure of the
whole southern population OF the New World
Year: 1879

am travelling agent Ior the Wei''
known firm OF Selwin & Co., and al
though most OF my time is spent in
negotiating sales aud transac'ing Other
prosalc business OF similar kind, ye,
now aud then / stumble across some
romantic little episode or striking in
cidcnt which serves TO convince me
that the poetry of life is by no meant
monopollzcd by those who do not Ia
Dor for their daily bread, rs the fol
lowing personal experience OF my own
very clearly proves.


1t was towards the close Of the year,
and the days wers growing very short
and cold. Winter had get in with un'
usual severity, and, as the reader may
suppose, ! was only too glad, alter
walking and riding many miles every
day in all weathers, when night came
on, and | was able after supper to rest
myself beside the fire, cigar in mouth
and paper in hand.


One evening in particular, the even,
ing of my adventure, / we'll remember
how unusually weary / was. / bad
spent very busy day indeed. Early
in the morning l had arrived at Pitts
tord, a thriving little town, where ev-
erybody was busy and on the make.
All day long l was on my feet, run
ming this way and, calling upon one
customer of the firm and then another,
scarcely allowing myself time to eat a
few crackers which J carried in my
pocket TO serve instead of dinner.


As soon as business hours were
over hurried to the station, hoping
to be in time to catch the train for
Milltown, where, as it was now Fri.
day evening, l thought l should be
able to spend the whole of Saturday.
and thus wind up successfully one OF
the busiest weeks of my whole life.
The fales, however, decreed other
wise.


"Last train gone, sir" said the
porter of the station; "but ifyou hur-
ry up you can take the cars from Sea-
view, and then you wont have very
ia: to 60 if you take the first train IN
the morning tor Milltown."


followed his advice, and in little
more than an hours time myself and
luggage were safely deposited in the
office of the solitary hotel of which
Seavlew could boast.


The landlord of the hotel saluted me
very gravely, shook bis head like a
judge, aud finally told me, with an air
of profound mystery, that he was
afraid he could not accommodate me
that night; he was more sorry, he add
ed, as there wasn't another place in
the village where | could go to, and
he really didn't know what l could do


My first question very naturally was,
what was the reason for this extraord-
mary state of affairs, what was the
matter at Seaview, and, why and
wherefore should |, n peaceful citizen,
a worsliperlof the constitution, de-
votee of George Washington and a
firm believer IN his little hstchet and
CHEEKY tree, be denied rest for the sole
of my foot and repose for the crown
of my head at the Great American
Eagle Hotel


To all the fine points Of my charac-
ter Just enumerated, the landlord gave
Year: 1879

\ HARD OLD NUT-Big Dave of Sil
verton, San Juan Mountains, Colorado,
must be a tough one 1t seems that he
can't get killed; he has often tried it
very hard, but he seems TO have more
lives than q cat. Two years ago, in j
burning cabin near Silyerton, he attempt
ed to save keg of powder that was on
fire by carrying it outside in his arms.
The result was an explosion which blew
him through the roof, and scattered the
logs far and wide, and was even power
ful enough to knock down the hosting
mule Dave escaped with singed eye
brows. Early last winter he was in the
cabin on the Highland Mary mountain
side, when the snow-slide came down
which killed his three companions It
knocked Dave into the mouth of the tun-
mel. where he was safe \ month later
the inhabitants of Sllyerton were startled
by the roar of a landslide on Sultan
Mountain. Looking out, they saw Big
Dave sliding ahead of the snow on pair
of snowshoes. He beat the ava anchc
for a hundred yards, until one OF the shoe,
struck a projecting stump and caused
David 10 turn Somersaults into an ada
cent rayiue. where he was again saved


Three months later he fell down a forty
foot shaft; and the superintendent adims
that he struck on a threc-to drill, and
buried il SO far in the rock that they had
TO blast it out. This latter part is, how
ever, denied by a few After firing a
fuse in the Aspen Mine, he discovered
that he had forgotten the cap to his pow
der can, and went back after it. He
found it, and was fired out OF the shaft
with about three tons of blast rock. It
has taken Silyerton's two doctors three
days to extract the quartz from David 5
frame, and he Is now pronounced good
for a little diversion with nitro-glycerine
or lightning, or any other force which
may wish to waste its surplus energy.
Year: 1879

there were some unfortunate influences in
some of the churches over which he has
ministered that did not help him Yet a
stronger man would have overcome these,
and the fact remains true that today a
brilliant writer and able clergyman has
gone all to wreck for lack of moral prin-
ciple. To the same city, some thirty
years ago, came young physician, who
accidentally stumbled upon the town.
dined there, liked the looks of things and
stuck up his shingle, without a single
acquaintance save druggist, who told
him he was n fool 10 settle there. We
shall see, was the response. The first
Sunday of his stay he attended church,
and on his return said to his landlady:
~ saw my wife at church today What
do YOU mean: | understood you to be
bachelor 80 am, but saw in church
the lady that shall marry. Who Is
she;' Il don't know never saw her
before, but she sat in the centre Of the
middle aisle and was dressed so and so.
Goodness, that is Miss --, Of one OF
our Oldest families. She wouldn't look
at poor young doctor like you. we
shall see said the doctor, who in less
than two years made bride of the lady
in question, rose to a fine practice in
town, and is today, as he has been for
years, the leading physician of one of the
very largest cities in America, in posses
sion of princely income, man whose
name would be recognized by two-thirds
of your readers were it given here. This
man had purpose-the clergyman had
none.