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Year: 1879

IF President HAYES and his good wife were
to visit Utah tomorrow, and the decent
people Of Salt Lake City should undertake
to show their respect for their distinguished
guests by public demonstration, it is not
likely that it would be one-tenth as imposing


and consequential as the Mormon meeting
azd procession in homer Of one Of their
number who recently defed Federal author
ity- L member of the Mormon Church. was
asked some questions while he was giving
his testimony under oath in the United
States District Court q few days sgo in re-
gard 10 what took place in the Endowment
HOUSES sort Of s077ctuns sanctoruma where
spiritual marriages are performed, and be-
cnuse he refused to answer and reveal the
secrets Of the Mormon priesthood he was
sent to Jail for two days as punishment


for contempt. After suffering this mild
martyrdom he was released from prison, and
his co-religionists- rnther his co-fanahcs,
for religion is too sacred an idea to be men,
toned in the same breath with the
Mormon system-got up a monster mass
meeting and pro ocession for two Objects q
To properly recognize the fidelity of the re-
calcitrant witness to the Mormon faith and


to glo1ify him for the same, and (2) to man.
ifest their contempt for the Federal author


ity in the most un1nistakable and insulting
manner. These two objects were fittingly


celebrated by the largest assemblage ever
seen in Salt Lake City on any occasion,-no
less than ten thousand persons jpinlng in the


procession, which was furnished with nll the
banners, devices, notices, music, and para
phernalia incid~nt to the success of IN e1hi-
bition Of that kind.


It Was only last winter that the Mormon
women Of Suit Like City held an immense
mass-meeting in the theatre of the Saints
the largest building in the town except the
great Tabernacle, which was packed to its
utmost capacity by the advocates Of
polygamy, and they then and there boldly
proclaimed their firm faith in and adherence
to the pernicious theories Of the Latter-Day
Saints. The occasion Of this meeting was
the appeal Of the Christian women of Utah
to Mrs. President HAYES to use her
influence for the elimination of polygamous
marriages from the social system Of that
Territory. It was little curious, too, that
this immense meeting was presided over by
an unmarried woman,-a Miss SSow,-who
had never tasted the sweets of married life
the fair presumption is,-at least she is en-
titled to the benefit Of the doubt, and
whose very name is suggestive Of the purity
Of those icicles that are said to have been
suspended from the temple Of Diana. Miss
Snow not only presided with grace and dig
nifty over the vast assemblage, but delivered
the principal address on the occasion, in
which she stated with considerable en-
'phasis and perspicuity, interlarded with the
inevitable adiuncts Of religious. zeal and
Year: 1879

Fallible editors who arc groping round in the
darkness after stray rays of journalistic light
Should learn from the editor Of the Springfield Re
publican what important news really is, anl in
what form it should be presented. The following
is an item from Stafford Springs, printed in re-
cent issue OF the RcDu6lican: ''Dry-Goods
Merchant C. H. STEVENS Owls five hens, and
they braced up sufficiently Yesterday to lay six
eggs for him.'' The intrinsic importance Of this
item is only cqualed by the classic elegance OF
its form. If it. could only have head built over
It bY the Times, it would be perfect.
Year: 1879

Lust Monday the Democrats in the House
made show Of applauding vigorously upon
having defeated motion to take up and pass
The Amy Appropriation bill shorn of its po-
Gticn1 appendages; but they were careful this
week to adjourn over until Tuesday to pre-
vent another vote On that question. It might
happen that they could not control the re-
quisite majority another time to prevent any
action On that question until the caucus can
determine what shall be done. The major
ity in the House is too small to run any risks.
Year: 1879

Atyesterlay's mass-meeting of working
men to take action in reference to the eight
aour question it would appear that the
Trades-Union men were largely in the ma
Jointly, and that the Socialist ;agitators were
not in demand The speeches, so far as
they touched upon the main question,-the
1unber of hours that shall constitute 9 days
Year: 1879

Next Mondays election decides the fate of the biennial amendment The objection to It is serious and the opposition certainly not without force. The fact that it iengthens the term of the present legislature is unmportant. Even if we are to ielieve that the general as sembly was influenced by so contemptible a reason, the people cannot afford to defeat ii good measure from an equally .contenptibic spirit of revenge. Nor is the saving of expense likely to be enough to affect the question seriously.

 The real difficulty is to strike any safe bal ance between the advantages and disadvan- tages of frequent sessions. The present ar engagement gives more frequent opportunities for initiating reforms and remedying evils; 1t also increases the amount of crude, needless, hurtful legislation We have been inclined to think that this balance, properly struck, would be found in favor of biennial sessions

 Two other considerations make rather strongly the other way: the increased chance of bribery Tn elections, from the enhanced value attaching to the longer legislative term; and the better chance that would be offered large corporations for blocking reform legisla- tion. In these respects, however, the worst has been done already. The Senate is now biennial; and it is in the senatorial elections that bribery and influence of voters are most practiced, and in that body that the great cor porations find it easiest to block reform.

 Dr. Bacon condemns the whole thing as a weak attempt to patch up an old constitution when what we need is a new one. There would be more force in the objection if any strenuous effort was likely to be made for the calling of constitutional convention.
Year: 1879

Read the card from "Oak Hall," Boston, in another column. This system of doing busl- ness is entirely new, and perfectly successful. Out of hundred orders there will be scarcely one misfit 27-1t
Year: 1879

We hope the amendment extending judges terms will be adopted. It should befollowed, however, by the adoption of the amendment which will come before tue next legislature, giving the appointment of judges to the Gov. ernor with the approval of the Senate.
Year: 1879

The Springfield Republican. denies that the queston of finance enters into, the Massachu- sets campaign. It is pure Butler and anti Butler fight, certainly not the grandest issue with which to- agitate million and half of souls, and those of the Massachusetts species, i"

 An independent movement is starting in New York against Cornell, and another Conk- ling nominee on the State ticket It is a capital idea, but not likely to be very effective in practice. Yet it IS only by bolting the nom- nations of an insolent political machine that it can be brought to reason.
Year: 1879

A queer story comes from Buffalo of young mans getting young lady into aprivate room on the false statement that her father had been accidently killed, and his body taken there, and then trying to make her write letter ask ing her parents to give $500 for her release. The girl made so much opposition that she was finally let go without any ransom, but pa- pers found on the man when arrested show that he had concocted several similar plots.
Year: 1879

l pair gents fine calf boots 3-tined hay fork (Bachelders make) pound fine cut chewing tobacco '' pure paris green for potato bugs l balloon fly trap pound good Japanese tea sardine or can opener ounce camphor gum
Year: 1879

Keg nalIS l sack ashton salt IT pounds mackerel pair of the best barn doer hangers ever used,

 20 feet of track and screw stay roll good cotton hammock in colors l pair ladies cloth slippers
Year: 1879

Prejudice is sometimes apt to inter tere
with our comfort 10 life. and to cause us
to do injustice to some worthy article or
object, This was exemplifad in the ex-
perience of very worthy lady, u short
time ago.


Her daughter was a firm believer 10 the
efficacy of PoND's EXTRACT, but such was
the elder lady's prejudice against it, term
ing it quack medicine, she would not al
low it in the house.


1t happened that the mother severely
burned her hand with the fre-poker, and
while suffering intensely, the younger lady
without intimatating her intention, dressed
her hand with the Extract, from bottle
she kept secreted iu her own room. Reliei
from pain was instantaneous, and the re-
suit was marvellously satisfactory; and
when the patient was made acquainted
with the remedy doing her so much good
she acknowledged herself in the wrong
and ever afterward was a warm advocate
of PONp's EXTRACT.
Year: 1879

If you are suffering from combination
of liver or kidney diseases, and constipa-
tion. do not fail to use the celebrated
Kidney Wort. It is a dry compound as
easily prepared as cup of coffee, and in
one package is as much medicine as can
be bought in six dollar bottles of other
kinds.
Year: 1879

No use of having the chils, no Use OF
headache or any of the ills that come from
disordered oG Inactive liver. Oae bot
tie Of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn oase-will
relieve the system aud make you feel like
a new person. Try it aud be satisfied.
Year: 1879

In the collision near Canastota during the recent storm, Express Messenger Butts, of the Syracuse office, had very narrow escape He was ill an iron car.

 When the collision occurred his Car was thrown over tho bank, one end resting against the smoking and baggage car. The side of the car pinned him down by the hand and held him thore ill spite of every effort to release him. "Save me, or kill me p While Butts was thus i'm prisoned, the car took fire, the hurricane driving the flames savagely from one end to the other. Surrounded by fire on nearly all sides, Butts cried out !: "Save me or kill me ! Don't let me burn alive ]" Conductor Snyder and his men with the passengers worked like heroes. It seemed as if Butts could not be saved, and at one tune Conductor Snyder was tempted to save the poor fellow by cut.

 ting off his arm, and he actually took out his knife for that purpose. Just then bar of iron was got under the side of the car and Butts was saved. His hand is nearly cut of, and he is badly hurt about the head. Everything in the car was burned, and the baggage and smoker were only saved by hard work.
Year: 1879

A KNOWING ELEPHANT.-An officer in the Bengal army had a very fine and favor1te elephant which was supplied daily in his presence with certain allowance of food, but being compelled to absent himself on 8 journey the keeper of the beast diminished the ration of food, and the animal became daily thin ner and weaker. When it's master re- turned the elephant exhibited the great est signs of pleasure; the feeding time came and the keeper laid before it the former full allowance of food which it divided into two parts, consuming one immediately and leaving the other un- touched. The officer, knowing the sa- gacity of his favorite, saw immediately the fraud that had been practiced and made the man confess his crime,
Year: 1879

Geo. s. Smalley tells the following story of the late Bayard Taylor:

 A single incident-which hope may now relate without offence to anybody will show how thoroughly man of the world Bayard Taylor was ill the midst of all his simplicity. On the night of the first of May he went othe Marshal's official reception at the EIysee. He found himself on arrival absolutely alone No one from the Legation in Paris had accompanied him, and no one was at the palace to meet him. The official ar- engagements were so meagre that not so much as an usher was there to announce him. MT. Tay- lor's colleague did not arrive till later. With Marshal MacMaho", the President of the French Republic, MT, Taylor had no acquaintance. Iu such circumstances, most men would have gone away, or have mingled quietly with the crowd. MT. Taylor made h,s way to the Mars hal, introduced himself by his name and titl', paid his due compliment, and asked leave to present his wife and daughter. The Marshal, whatever his political sins, is quick to recognize manly frankness. He greeted MT. Taylor cordially, carried off the party and presented them to the Duchess, who in turn received them with marked civility. "I thought" said Mir. Taylor, in describing the incident to me, that had no choice. It was known that l was in Paris, and had been asked to this ceremony. If had gone away without making myself known, my sup posed absence would have been set down as piece of rudeness or carelessness, and l was determined that no such charge should be brought againi a Minister of the American Republic when he was in the Capitol of foreign Re- public" He made absolutely no otser- vation on the singularity of his position on his being left to do for limseli what might have been done for him. l don't thiRk it occurred to him that any neglect had been shown him. He was concerned with nothing but the dis charge of his duty. He did it, let me add, after day of great fatigue. and when he was quite ill enough to have excused him for going to bed instead oi going to the Elysee. He had been on foot all the morning and afternoon al the opening ceremony, missed his car. riage and walked home, arriving in C state of exhaustion.
Year: 1879

V0n5ty F'HtT, in recent issue, says :: The question which we considered last week, 7" Why Men Marry" is an inter- esting one; but it must be pronounced inferior to the question 't Why Women Marry in the degree in which men are in all respects less interesting than women. The willingness of women to marry is greater and more patent than that of men and, we will add, that it is a great deal more wonderful. That women have, to use colloquial phrase, the worst of it all through life, we en- certain no doubt, and that the matri- monial state, as understood by experi- ence, has, as rule, fewer attractions for them than for men, we also believe to be true. Yet, while there are mauy men who from choice abstain from marrying, and still moro who pnt off marrying till the last practicable moment, we doubt If there are any women worth mentioning who refuse the married state from option and deliberation, and not many who postpone marrying till @ late period of life from general repugnance to having husband. That women refuse indi- vidual men, and sometimes go on refus- ing man after man, is true enough; but then their objection is to inc man and not to the condition of life tho man pro poses or, not unfrequently, their re- fusal arises from mere skittish1less, from feeling that they may do better, or from cheerful conviction that there Is plenty of time to "think about it, As rule, however, women who have the chance of marrying, marry, and they would marry yet more promptly than they do were it not that they are frequently held back from taking foolish step by wise par ents or dissuading friends. How is this apparent paradox to be explained There is less to induce woman to marry than to induce men :; yet men hesitate to marry and women jump at marriage. Some will answer that man is rational and woman an irrational animal :; but over and above the distinction being too uncomplimentary to be true, it is one of those plausible explanations that ex- plain nothing. Again. it is sometimes affirmed that, in marrying, men sacrifice liberty, whereas women, in marrying, acquire it. But this is an epigram easily disposed of. When men sacrifice what is called liberty by marrying, they are already tired of their liberty, or that particular form of it which bachelorhood enjoys, and, were the point thoroughly examined, we suspect it would be found that they abandon form of liberty oi which the are weary for another form they have not yet possessed.

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Year: 1879

A month or two ago a young girl n
Boston, the daughter Of one of the wealth
lest men there being about to marry,
asked her father to let the wedding be as
quiet as possible, and to give her the
money which would have been spent 10
flowers, wines, etc. With this money she
gave certain sum to the poor of each
city which she visited on her wedding
journey. She had the blessing Of the
hungry and naked strewed along her path
instead of roses. The story, without
names, crept into the newspapers. A
short time since the wedding Of one Of the
great capitalists Of New York city was
marked by as beautiful and touching an
incident. One Of the gifts of the bride
was the sending Of one hundred orphan
boys to homes in the West. Two noble
examples for al! to follow.-Ex.
Year: 1879

How She KEEPS H1M AT HoME.-The
Chicago Tribune says that young wife
Of that city, who is anxious to keep her
husband at home evenings. fatters him
about the exquisltely dainty proportions
Of his feet, and induces him to wear boots
about two sizas two small for him. He
is on his feet all day long in town, and
when he comes home at night she has
soft chair and a pair Of loose, cool slippers
for him, and BY the time he, with great
drops of agony pearling on his brow, has
got of his boots, he comes TO the conc'u-
sion that there is no place like home after
all, and has no desire to 60 down town to
lodge or sit up with sick friend.
Year: 1879

A boy in New York drank poison, sup
posing it TO be whisky. and died in few
hours. II he had drank whisky, suppos-
ing it to be poison, the result would have
been the same-but not quite so sudden,
perhaps
Year: 1879

When vou go to a Japanese
house, there is no bell to ling, no
knocker on the door, and no per
son TO receive yon; you sing aloud,
II ask To be heard" wncn a ser
want opens the door and bows down
to the floor, AMI then listens yon.
You tell the servant what you want
and she leads you into the house.
There Are no chairs to sit on, nor
arc there any stools or sofas, you sit
OH the floor with Your limbs donb-
led up under you as the tailors sit.
| forgot to tell you that you have tc
take off your boots or shoes before
entering. After you sit down, the
servant brings you a pipe and some
tobacco to smoke, also tea and cake
and tells you that the master is busy
and cannot sec yon Immediately
After awhile the master comes II
and you make Il profound bow te
each other. lie then asks you te
his study, which is well furnished
On one side is door which SWING
on hinges, or can be pushed back t.
right or left. The walls are moi
white, but either gray or brown, the
same as the ceiling, which is low
and made Of wood. In the onrnel
Of the room is rack, covered will
silk spread. Pictures hang oil
the wall, bu. they are not framed
but trimed with silk and fancy pa
per, which can be rolled mp and pm
away. The study tronta on the gar
den, and yon can inhale the fra
GRANGE of flowers. There is M
partition between the study and TIN
garden, except sashes filled witl
transparent paper, which appear
most beautiful at night but in cas-
Of storm they have canva
which they draw overthis and max
it secure. Then the master intro
duces you to his wife. He doe
not call her Mrs., but simply say
she is my wif.


She is dressed splendidly. lie
hair is arranged in something til
same way as tho American lad


dresses bers. She asks you to 81
Year: 1879

1t is we'll understood by natural
scientists, that In the noblest forms
of animal life such, tor instance,
as ihe thoroughbred horses-t the
likeness of parent and off. spring is
much more strongly marked than
IN lower forms Of life 1t we carry
our Investigations low enough. we
discover q curious Ldao of unlike
ness or alteration of ferns, IN
which the immediate offspring are
totally unlike their progenitors. but
possess resemblance of their an
cestors one degree further remov


ed, AID this alter alton goes on with
an invariable tendency, in the third
generation, TO revert to the form OF
the first. instead OF assuming that
of the second. It thus
appears TO be a law of nature thai
the nobler The production the more
type-giving power it possesses


while the weaker and simpler are
dominated by circumstances, ano
it weak and low enough, do no


necessarily impress their own i'm,
age on their successors. May no


this law apply to some extent t.
the human race ? The nobler speci
Year: 1879

The Volumes of the weekly" begin with the
drst Number for Ialinary of each year When no
time is mentioned, it viii be understood that the
subscriber wishes to commence with the Number
next after the receipt OF order,
Year: 1879

New York Commercial Bulletin.


The tobacco trade generally with few
exceptions, are now united in favor OF a
reduction Of the tax on tobacco to sixteen
cents Per pound; the idea being To get a
test Of the proposition in the Senate as
soon as possible. The Treasury Depart
ment strongly opposes tho reduction.
However, tho question will come up in
Committee next Tuesday, and bo con.
sidered day after day until finally disposed
Of. Several tobacco manufacturers are 10
be heard.


The Treasury people take the ground
that the people OF the country prefer that
whisky and tobacco, being luxuries, shall
pay alundred millions OF tho revenue
that is needed. They take the ground
that to reduce the tax on tobacco would
not cheaper it to the consumer, o. make
them smoke or chew a particle more, Mr.,
Burwell, who is lobbying for the tobacco
manufacturers, never smoked or chewed
in his life. Mr.. Spence, OF Cincinnati,
who has taken such an active part in favor
OF the reduction, never chewcd nor
smoked; and Mr.. Helms, Of New York,
another Of the strong advocates, has moi
Chewed nor smoked for years. And vet
these three gentlemen maintain as a strong
point in favor OF a reduction, that It would
increase consumption and thus make up
the deficiency in the tax, which Is now d
cents per pound. Surely these gentlemen
would not use tobacco even Il L was un.
taxed. Tho increased consumption ar0u.
mont is all bosh. And the Treasury peo.
pie say that tho argument that to reduce
the tax would stop all agitation OF the TAI
question is not true; that the agitation
can not be stopped. Years ago
when these gentlemen were here
arguing in favor OF q uniform tag
they agreed that there should be no NOR
agitation Of that question Il they could ee
uniform tax. So the tax was made uni
form at twenty cents. Afterward the Gov
ernment wanted more revenue, and Ii,
tax was increased to twenty.iour cents
II 1t is put down to sixteen cents this YEA
1t will be apt to go up again next year, 70
imports are falling off and tho Govern
ment must have revenue. A tea and col
fee duty and an income tax are eouail'
unpopular, but the Virginia manufactured
will never stop agitating tile reduction q
the tobacco tax till they getit all of.
Year: 1879

BERLIN, January 1.-THE bill on the
subject Of Parliamentary discipline Is
pretty generally condemned by the Lib.
eral and Moderate press Of the city. The
interior Conservative organs are reticent.
The National Zeittng has an article which,
for that paper, is almost ierocious. It says,
ironically, that the fault Of the measure Is
that It does not go far enough. 1t would
have been more honest and bitter to pro.
pose complete abolition OF Parlia-
ment and the substitution of dictator, a
free legislature, and such laws as are ire