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Year: 1879

The compositor made rather a
tame affair out Of the latter part Of
Samson's Riddle; but we presume
it is scarcely necessary to say that
it was out of the ''eater, and not
out of the "earth," that the ''meat"
came forth.
Year: 1879

The object of the visit of Messrs.
Read and Pell to America is to inquire
as to the amount of live stock and meat
which the United States and Canada can
export during the next four years, and
the cost at which animal food can be
produced upon the American continent.
Another voyage will be made next year
to pursue inquiries into the production
OF wheat and other crops,
Year: 1879

Capetown advices up to the 18th of Au
gust state that Sir Garnet Wolseley was a
Ulundi and that the country was quiet, with
the prospect of an early and peaceful set
uement of the conflict.
Year: 1879

The Custer monument at West Point is
a statuesque portrait of the original in his
last and fatal fight. It'll 8 feet in height
and dressed in coloneps uniform. The
pedestal is of granite and is 9 feet high,
which makes the whole structure about
1S feet from the ground to the top of the
head. On the four sides of the die of
the pedestal are three medallions and q
tablet, all of bronze. The front medal
lion represents General Custer on horse
which he delighted to appear while on a
warlike expedition. The other two me-
dallions on the right and left sides give
buffalo heads, with Indian weapons and
implementa
Year: 1879

THINK ABOUT IT.-The attention of
every voter in Trinity County is particu-
larly directed to the communication pub
lished on the second page of this paper
Improsor is an old and valued cor
respondent of the JOURNAL, a pioneer of
the county, and one identified with its
best interests. The point he makes has a
direct bearing upon this section, as an
onerous tax on mining is not only possi>
Bile but highly probable under the New
Constitution. That instrument should
not receive single vote in Trinity Coun
ty. The COW counties will cinch us if
they can and the New Constitution gives
them unlimited power.
Year: 1879

ABOUT BALLOTS. Although it is rus
msred that an attempt will be made ia
circulate illegal ballots on election day,
we do net think such an attempt will be
made. We have seen three different lots
OF ballots received here from Sacramento
and San Francisco and they are the same
as these furnished by the State Printer.
For the information of all we will say
that the ballot must contain the words
For the New Constitution, or the
words Against the New Constitution. !"
Anything more or less than this will rem
der the ballot illegal and it cannot be
counted.
Year: 1879

RUNAWAY During severe elbow"
at Douglas City, Thursday afternoon, a
paste board box was driven under bug
gy team, tied in front of the hotel, caus-
ing spirited runaway. Rssult-a
sprung axle and wheel minus several
spokes. The horses were uninjured and
taken altogether the accident was much
less serious than it might have been.
Year: 1879

A GooD RoAD.-Geo. W. Ward, Over
seer OF Douglas City District, has done a
splendid job in building the wagon road
around Rocky Point out of reach of high
water. The line of the road is the same
as that laid out by Tom Carr many years
ago when he was Overseer of Weaver
vile District. The road is in bed rock
all the way and is one of the best in the
county. A suggestion in reference to an
improvement has been made and should
be acted upon. 1t is that the road be
widened in two or three places sufficiently
to admit the passage of teams travelling
in opposite directions. George Ward is
one of the best Overseers in the county
and the people of his District appreciate
the valuable services he has rendered.
Year: 1879

I. PINcUs returned Wednesday and
New Goods for the firm are arriving
daily. For sample of the very latest
style of hat gaze upon the JOURNAL man.
Next week Pincus & Co., will have some
thing to say through our advertising col
umns this week they have been crowd
ed out to make room for reading matter.
Year: 1879

RETURNED.-John Martin and For.
dyce Bates returned from San Francisco
last Saturday. Both gentlemen say that
during their absence they met neither a
business man nor working mechanic who
was in favor of the New Constitution
and predict it will be badly beaten in the
State. Both will vote and work "Agsinst
the New Constitution -
Year: 1879

SEND THE RETURNs.-We again un-
gently request friends in the several pre-
cincts to send us the result of the election
in their localities at the earliest possible
moment after the votes are counted
Please give total number of votes For
and Against.
Year: 1879

MINING SALE.-We learn that one
half of the Buckeye Property in this
county has been SOLD TO Eastern Capital
lists and that they will be here TO settle
old scores and commence work in few
doua
Year: 1879

would rent tor six hundred dollars
a year; thus yielding n paying per
cent to the company for their in
vcstment, as well as working n
great convenience for those who de-
sire dwellings and are unahie TO
build. Or II u party should wish
to buy, they could po.chase from


the association, and pay IN mouth
ly or quarterly lnstallments. We
hope the matter will draw the nt,cn-
tion OF the ciiizeus, and finally lead


to a move in the proper direction.
Year: 1879

Il Is stated that the Northern company
who have recently purchased The gold mine IL
TIE lower end Of Fsuquier county. Va. aTs
making two hundred dollars on every car load
of the cleaned ore they send to the refining
works in Pennsylvania.
Year: 1879




Within brief period aft, r the assem-
blying Of the Legislature it was ascer-
tanned hat a majority of the
Democratic members were in favor of
the nominati n of Gov. Vance to be
United States Senator for the term
beginning March 4th prox. On Mon
day last it was learned that Senator
MerrimOn would ad ress the Demo-
cratic caucus the same evening. But
after consultation with a few friends,
he Ito the surprise of many declared
he would no longer continue the COM
test, and wrote the following letter,
which was presented to the caucus by
Senator Snow as an interruption of
letter, then being read, requesting to
be heard.


RALEIGH, Jan. 13, 1879.


To THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS: My
friends have ascertained that whatever
may be the popular desire for my re-
election to the Senate of the United
States, causes and influences have
been brought to bear that will prevent
my reelection.


l have no desire to disturb the quiet
of the Democra ic party by further
contest over the Senatorship, and
hence beg my friends not to mention
my name fun ther now in that connec-
ton.


l beg to express my most grateful
thanks to friends in and out of the
Legislature who have so generously
and earnestly manifested interest in
nv behalf. l Can never cease to re-
mem Der them with feelings of pleas
ure and deepest gratitude aud ven-
ture to trust that they will not have
occasion to regret the con fidence that
they have reposed in me


A. s. MERRIMoN
The withdrawal Of Senator Merrimon
produced quite a sensation, but, SO far
us we have heard, the popular COM
ment is one of praise and qualification.
A possible wran ne must have wasted
much time, for which the State Treas-
ury would pay at the rate of one or
two thousand doollars per day.
and assuredly anything which
at this period of our recupera-
ton from the war tends to divide and
distract the better and more infuen-
tial classes, is to be deplored as pub
lie calamity. 1t is therefore COM
mon remark that Senator Merrimon on
his return to Washington on Tuesday
carried with him far larger share of
popular favor than was his when first
he went to the scene Of his successful
labors for the State
Year: 1879

An Eight-Page National Republican"


The encroachment upon our columns by
our advertising patrons, welcome as it is
and interesting to our citizens generally us
an indication of revived and renewed bust
ness prosperity in this community, compels
us to issue an eight-page NATIONAL RE-
PUBLICAN tomorrow morning for the pur-
pose of supplying our readers with due
proportion of reading matter


1t will contain all the latest news of the
day, together with current editorial COM
ment, and several special articles of politi-
cal and local importance.


Advertisements for this especial issue
will be received at our Business Office rs
late as 10 o'clock tonight.
Year: 1879

THE Philadelphia Times insinuates very
pointedly, or admits very emphatically,
that GRANT and SETTLE would make a
good Republican ticket in 1S5O-"Good for
a storm" it says; but little stale just
now" We think, however, that the stale
ness of this combination may possibly be
assuaged, as it were by the conduct of the
Democratic majority in the coming session
of Congress.
Year: 1879

ONO having got the Democrats on the
run, New York and Pennsylvania can now
take them in hand and finish up the work
OF wiping them out This task is made
easy, and the accomplishment of it must be
short, sharp and decisive. Ohio has been
fighting the battle of New York with zeal
and energy worthy of the cause and the Em-
pire State should roll up the memorable
majority OF 1879, which exceeded 10000
when GRANT led the column on to victory
That is the figure for 1879 and 80.
Year: 1879

will enrage Republicans everywhere, North
and South, and make them more deter
mined than ever that pure sectionalism,
based upon bogus Home Rule, shall be put
down, for the day Of temporizing and con-
ciliation with these selfish, unresponsive
and seditious aggressors against the cause
of good government has passed, and is gone
forever. But all that will make very little,
if any, difference with the Bourbon majority
in the present Senate. All they desire is
to add to the tenacty of their grip upon
the legislative branch Of the Government
to preserve the Senate, if they can, against
any change Of its political complexion in
1884, ,'and to hold that body as a base for
future operations in their efforts to re-
establish the most exaggerated and covertly
seditious construction of the rights Of the
States. To do this they will not hesitate
or scruple at anything, no matter how un-
just, revolutionary OF disreputable it may
be- The country may therefore rs well be
prepared for vigorous renewal this coming
winter of the assault upon Senator KEEL
LoGG's title, and it will then become the
duty of the Republican press TO keep the
people thoroughly advised of its infamously
partisan character.
Year: 1879

No curious, lynx-eyed reporter was on
hand at No Is Gramercy Park to take note
of the boisterous sorrow of the Cipher Ogre
when the news from Ohio came in. But it
is reasonable to suppose that the c. o. arose
in the might and dignity of his comprehen-
siye innocence and remarked that PELToN
or JoHNGEE, or some other fellow did it,


Meanwhile he is undoubtedly calculating
the profit and loss of his bar'l investment
in the Buckeye campaign, made with an eye
single and another crooked to the propaga-
ton of friendly relations all around in 1880,
and feels assured that he has done his whole
duty as Democrat to-S. JONES TILDEN.
Year: 1879

An Attempt to Blow up Boat Loaded with


People.


ALBANY July 10. The report that an attempt
was mace to blow up the steamship Daniel Drew,
Of the Peoples line, running to New York, is cor
rohorated by passengers. About one O'Clock, this
morning, when the boat was near Hudson, an
alarm Of FIRE was sounded. The saloon was then
filed with smoke which came from powder
Three inside staterooms had been blown into one,
and the windows and glass doors of the adjoining
rooms were shattered The scene was one Of the
widest C0nfuaion The saloon was hlled with
people only half dressed, some Of whom could
hardly be restrained from jumping overheard.
The FIRE which followed the explosion was
promptly extingushed and quiet restored. One
person was injured in putting out the FIRE. It is
thought an sttempt was made by a gang Of pick.
pockets TO create panic so as to give them o
chance to rob the passengers, large number be-
ing on board bound for fashionable watering
places. An investigation was Immediately made
Into the cause og the explosion but the party who
engaged the state ROOM which contained the
powder could not be found To-day however, q
young man who had been seen TO place box in
the room was seen coming OF the boat with IT,
and was arrested.
Year: 1879

Atlanta, Ca, July ia strange suicide was wit
messed here yesterday. As the down passenger
train on the Western and Atlantic railroad was
coming at full speed into the suburbs Of this city
the men on the engine saw neatly dressed man
placing his head on the rail with his face to the
engine. Before the engineer could reverse his
lever the engine had thundered over the mans
head. Upon examination It was found that the
upper half Of his skull was clipped off and his
brains were left exposed. No clue TO his Identity
can be had. He had prescription in his pocket
with W. r" marked on 1t, and handkerchief
was similarly marked.
Year: 1879

Pardon the big whiskey crooks in Chicago but
let no guilty moonshiner who runs gun barrel
distillery and Is liable to deiraud the revenue
Of dollar day escape. This Is the motto Of the
Year: 1879




Spring, which is popularly but enormously sup
posed to make its advent to- day, and which good
old bishop much more verdant than the season
itself, poetzed as an epoch (which unlocks the
flowers" chiefly greeted in financial circles this
morning by the unlocking Of very large bag of
Delaware and Lackawanna shares and the spillng Of
its contents upon the market. The price. which had
opened at so. speedily receded under offerings Of
long stock, and in the end gave way under perfect
stampede to 45& which at once the closing and
the lowest figures of the day. Transactions were
enormous. and were accompanied by steady
drag down of values which could only have
been created by the marketing Of long stock
for the account Of more prominent operators.
Withal there was some mystery as to the identity
Of the drau,atis persona in the transaction which
every broker had his own solution for. Mr.. Keene
was supposed to have been liberal taker Of the
"seller sixties yesterday and equally sup
posed to be liberal seller of cash stock to-day.
Other brokers' who have . nose like hound when
laid the scent Of transaction sapiently believe
that these time sales were but rttse de gIe'Te to
cover the marketing Of real stock. If was clever
artce IL true, for by creating the impression that
large line Of 'shorts" being made. the market
steadied and the stock taken without materially
lowering quotations. There was masquerading
of this sort attempted to-day. however. but
sheer dependence upon the simon Pure
method Of selling as much cash and reg
ular stock any one would buy. The
effort had o depressing effect upon the entire
list. and lower prices from to 2H per cent were
made and stuck to up to the end Of the day. The
so-called vanderbilts the steadiest Of all and
yielded obstinately. Western Union. until near the
end, was kept out Of harms way by the strong
buyers Of the last week. who il they say little about
q stock dividend. pretend to laugh to scorn any ad
legislation at Washington. Lake Shore de-
cined Less than per cent, thereby developing
unsupported strength. while Michigan Central stood
up within the same limits. despite Of the general
racket. The grsngers and the coal roads, however.
were excessively weak. and might have run from
bad to worse had not the appearance late in the
day of some large orders to buy Northwest common
(which were ascribed to Jay Could checked tho
decline As it was. although trife steadier at the
Close Anal prices the lowest Of the session and
the market finished with every appearance Of hav-
ing 70 encounter another downward surge on Mon
day morning.


The opening. highest. lowest and closing prices of
stocks at the New York Stock Exchange to-day were
Year: 1879

rrhs following Is q portion Of Richard Hsnry y
stoddart's poem on the Death of Bryant" which
was read at the Century Club memorial meeunS'
and printed In full In Scrsonsr for feorusryI
II Ia appointed unto man 10 die.
where Life is Death is, dominating idfo
Wrestling the scepter from its feeble gr sp,
And trampling on itz dust. From the nrst hour
when the first child upon its mothers breast
Lay heavily, with no breath ON its cola ups,
10 the last hour when the last man shall die,
And the race be extinct Death never came
Nor ever will come. without apprehension.
The dying may be ready 10 depart,
For sleep and death are one 70 them; but We
Who love them, and survive them-unto whom
The places they once hlled are filed no more,
FOR whom . light has gone out of the sun,
a shadow fallen on noonday-uEto us,
Who love our dead, Death always comes too soon,
A CONSERVATION. and lamentaton,
The sorrow of all sorrows, till In turn
We follow them, and others mourn tor us.
This tragic lesson of mortslity'
The Master who hath left us learned In youth,
When the Muse found him wandering by the
That spsrkled, singing, at hi: fathers door.
Such was the first sad message to mankind
OF this young poet, who was never young,
30 heavily the old burden of the Earth
Weighed on his soul from boyhood. Yet not less
Not less, but more, he loved her; for II she
Was somber with her secret she was still
Beautiful goddess; and II he


should one day look upon her face no more,
Heswould not cease to look till that day came;
For he for life dedicate to her.


The inspiration of his earliest song,


The happy memory of his sterner years,


The consolation of his ripe. old age.


what she was to the eyes of lesser men.


Which only glance at the rough husk of things,


She never was 10 him-but day and night


lovelhess might a mystery,


Presence never wholly understood,


Inc broken shadow of some unknown Power


which overfiows all forms. but is not Form


The inscrutable Spirit % the Universal


High priest, whose temple was the woods, he felt
Their melancholy grandeur, and the awe


That ancientness and solitude beget


Strange intimations of invisible things,


which while they seem to sadden, give delight


Ana hurt not but persuade the soul TO prayer;


FOR, silent In the barren ways of men,


Under green roofs of overhanging boughs,


where the Creators hands never stayed,


The soul recovers her forgotten speech,


The lost religion of her infancy.
Year: 1879

To discourage rats that burrow unde'
walls, don't tamp the holes with broken
glass bottles, which will merely incite
them to dig new holes, but put shovel
full of dry sand over each hole. The
rats soon come up through this, but in
doing so let half the sand into the bur
row, which, unlike earth, they cannot
either force or carry up again, and by
repeating this at every fresh-opened
place their runs become quite filed up,
and they make up your foundations
again.
Year: 1879

A YOUNG man at Montreal who was
engaged to girl lately gave her his ac-
cumulated earnings, amounting to sew
eral hundred dollars, to place in the
bank in her own name. Afterward he
fell in love with another young lady.
and wanted his money refunded, but
this was refused by his first love.
Year: 1879

The record of this Administration in finan-
cial and currency matters is SO conspicuously
honorable that it needs only the briefest COM
ment. The supporters of Governor Tilden,
those of them who were not infationists, never
tired of vaunting his superior wisdom in politi-
cal economy and public finance. They did not
conceal their contempt for the Republican can
didate, and for all who thought the national
pledge to resume payments ON the 1st day Of
January, 1879, could be kept. The repeal of
the resumption act because it was an obstacle
to resumption was the demand of the Demo-
cratic platform, and Governor Tilden took the
same view. When that had been done, wise
measures of preparation for resumption at some
far-off day, which it would not be safe to fix in
advance, might be undertaken cautiously.
President Hayes believed that the nations
pledge could be kept. Without additional leg
islation, with less than the anticipated hard
ship to business interests, and with no shock,
specie payments were resumed at the date pre-
viously fixed by law. 1t is demonstrated that
the indefinite postponement recommended by
Governor Tilden was unnecessary, and would
have been blunder. The refunding at four
per cent interest of the whole interest-bearing
debt which the Government can now call in
has been accomplished in manner worthy of
high praise, and is signal testimony to the
ability and energy of the conduct of the treas
ury department.. The veto of the Bland silver
bill, carried through Congress by overwhelm-
ing majorities, was protest which no Presi-
dent who held his principles as conveniences
rather than convictions, or was infirm in cour-
age, would have made. But besides exercis-
ing Jealous care for the national interests in
his official capacity, the President has exerted
a consistent, enlightening, and powerful influ-
ence upon public sentiment in behalf of right
understanding of the conditions of financial
soundness. To his stalwart faith in absolute
national integrity it is largely due that the Re-
publican party all over hle land is becoming
more and more solid in its hostility to every
heresy of finance, while the Democratic party
is becoming more and more identified with the
clamorers for imitation, depreciation and re-
pudiation.-August Atlantic.
Year: 1879

That the tide has turned, that business is
on the mending hand, that sales are increas-
ing, our business men generally testify.
Here IN Portland the outlook is certainly
brighter. The testimony of its merchants
is OF special worth for the reason that the
city does great wholesale business, the
largest done by any city of it's population in
New England, or indeed of thrice its
population, This is due in great measure
to the facilities Portland possesses for receiv-
ing and delivering goods, thus enabling it to
give lower rates than many fits competi-
tors; and in large measure to the enterprise
and honorable dealing of its merchants.


The testimony of these men, who are
peculiarly well situated,-s large are their
dealings, and so intimate their connection
with the great markets and with buyers
throughout this region of country,-to give
an opinion, cannot be disregarded. When
they say business is improving we can
not refuse to take their word, nor does
their belief, or rather knowledge, show it.
self in words alone. They are stocking up





wholesale houses in the city, the very cream of
the wholesale and manufacturing trade.
unite in circular address, to be found in
our advertising columns this morning under
the head of wholesale and Manufacturing
Interests of Portland The number of
firms and the variety of interests represented
cannot fail to attract the attention of traders
throughout the region of country of which
Portland is the commercial centre. They
will certainly find their profit in consulting
this carefully selected list and in making
their purchases before the present unmis-
taxable upward tendency of prices results
in much further advance of rates. The
list is in fact directory which retail deal
ers who have or seek commercial connec-
tions with Portland will find it greatly to
their advantage to consult.
Year: 1879

A BANGOR correspondent of the Boston
Journal writes: ''Whatever else the Re
publican Greenbackers of this State are,
they are not Democrats; nor do they mean
to be used as cat's-paws to pull Democratic
chestnuts from the fire. From one
town we hear of thirty, from another forty,
and from another seventy, who last year
voted the Greenback ticket, but who now
are in hearty affiliation with the Republic
cans, and who will work, heart and hand, to
swell the majority for Daniel f. Davis as
the next Governor of Maine"
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publica
ton but as ssguaranty of good faith.


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

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certifcatesigned by Stanley L. Pullen
Editor. All railway steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon usby demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our Journal