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Year: 1879

We print elsewhere three different ac-
counts of the trouble in the Park Commits
sion-one by Commissioner Conover' VINO
charges his fellow Commissioner, Lane, with
having accepted a bribe to audit an ac-
count; one by Commissioner Wenman, VINO
repeats Commissioner Conover's charge
against Commissioner Lane OF bribery )
and third by Commissioner Lane, VINO
denies these charges of bribery and re-
torts with charges of corruption, rascality
and inef1iciency against Commissioners
Wenman and Conover.


All three of these Park Commissioners
agree on one thing-that the Park is in
bad condition. No wonder.


We may as we'll tell our readers that the
three interviews with the three Commits
sioners were submitted for correction and
that they appear precisely as in each case
the Commissioner authorized.


And this is what is called city govern
ment. Suppose there was one head of the
Park; suppose him appointed and remov-
able by the Mayor, who in turn would be
responsible to the people could such q
scandalous, disgraceful state Of things exist
as is developed by these Commissioners,
who have, it seems, 50 little responsibility,
even to each other, that they openly call
each other scoundrels?


What puzzles the average citizen is how
either of the three can consent to sit in the
commission with the other two. Why do
they not oil resign and relieve the city OF o
disgrace
Year: 1879

THE WEATuER.-The area of high pressure
which rested over the central valleys and the
South Atlantic States for the past three or four
days is rapidly moving eastward, and will
probably pass out into the ocean off the Atlantic
coast to-day. The barometer has fallen through
out the lake regions, but is rising in the North
west. The meteorological conditions in Texas
and the Western Gulf States are very unsettled,
and it looks rs IL "a storm centre would make its
appearance in these sections within q day or
two. The temperature has slightly risen
throughout the lake region and the Middle
Atlantic States, and considerably so i'm
New England. 1t has fallen in the
West and Northwest and the Gulf
districts. Clear and fair weather still
prcdorninates throughout the lake region,
the Middle States and New England, but it is
clouding up to the west of these States. In the
Western Gulf States it is threatening and rainy.
Light rains have also been experienced in the
Northwest and thunder storms have passed over
the northern portion of this State. Brisk and
high winds arc prevalent in Texas and along the
coast of the Gulf States elsewhere they have
been moderate and fresh The weather in New
York and its vicinity to-day will be fair and
warm. Tomorrow it will be warm, with in
crcnsing cloudiness.
Year: 1879

THR WELL WORN SUBJECT of the principal
business transaction between Jacob and Esau
was again discussed in the pulpit yesterday,
and the claim was made that as the brothers
were nearly eighty years of age at the time of
the transfer of birthright Esau was old enough
to have known better than to pay such an
enormous price for single meal. But perhaps
In those days there were Sunday excursions to
favorite suburban resorts, and Esau had come
tn consider swinde mt the dinner table to be
the unav avoidablc thing
Year: 1879

NUMBER of the political probabilities of the
coming fortnight are foreshadowed in our Sara
toga letter. We would like to assure our read
ers that as they pay their money they may take
their choice, but this plan went out of politics
long ago The people pay their money, as of
old, but they have nothing whatever to do with
the selection of men and measures
Year: 1879

Our DISPATCHES from New Orleans show
that, although there have been cases of yellow
fever in the city, there is not the slightest
probability of a severe outbreak of the disease
this year. This information will allay fears
which, thanks to rumor, have been torturing
the hearts of thousands who have friends in the
Crescent CITY.
Year: 1879

IRELAND is promptly taking advantage of the
repeal of the Convention act, and her first
move is, very sensibly, in the direction Of q
change in the land tenure system. Success to
her; the desire to own ones home and Danish
landlords is most natural and honorable
Year: 1879

A New REMEDY for Southern outrages was
proposed from the pulpit yesterday-it is
the power of evangelical religion. Try it,
brethren, it is about the only influence that has
not been used; and it is far cheaper than any
OF the others.
Year: 1879

Does single zone of wood invariably indicate the entire annual growth of 8 tree? This is question that has not yet been satisfactorily answered. Gen orally speaking, the number of concen- trio rings present in cross section of trunk will afford tolerably correct idea of the age of that particular part of the trunk from which the section is taken. To obtain as nearly as possible the age of tree, the section must, of course, be taken from the base of the trunk. It is not easy, however, to prove whether two or more rings are sometimes formed in the trunk of a tree in one year, because it would be necessary to know before hand the exact age of the tree down to deterfdine the point. Several writers

 haveBiven it as their opinion that two

 rings are occasionally formed in one year, caused by an interruption and re- sumption of growth. Some of them agree that when there are two rings formed in one season, they are not so sharply defined as when there is only one in each season.
Year: 1879

and doors were of course all wide open, and through one of those open doors cobra glided into the church. I did not notice it myself, but several of the con- gregation did, and were not un- reasonably much alarmed. The beadle, a native, was fortunately on the alert, and he managed to procure tulwar, with which he cut off the creatures head before it had time to do any mischief. Tranquility was restored, and the service proceeded to it's close, when many of the congregation went to look at the dead snake as it lay head less on the ground. Among them was a man who, in his curiosity to examine the reptile, put his foot on the head and rolled it toward him; when he instantly uttered loud exclam ation and drew his foot away. By some means or other he had contrived to set in action the muscular apparatus attached to the poison fangs, which had darted violently forward and struck him on the foot. All remedies were useless: in half an hour the poor fellow was @ corpse, proving, with vengeance, the awful virulence of the poison of the cobra da oapello."

 This was our last anecdote. It was getting late, darkness was setting in, and it was about the time when the judge, the doctor, and some of the others were in the habit of turning in for nightly rubber of whist. An adjournment was made, therefore, by most of the party to the cabin, Dr. Beamish bringing up the rear with the chaplain.

 "Very curious incident that you have just related, MT. Lane," I heard him say, as he descended the stairs; "I must really make note of it."

 Yes," calmly replied the chaplain, "but nevertheless terribly true."
Year: 1879

ALondon letter to an American news paper says:-"A dashing American girl now travelling in Europe would probably say somebody was a "mean old thing" if she could hear the gossips about her. One of them says: T have actu ly seen her blush like girl, though l know she had quarter of an inch of cream emperatrice and velontine on her face. She can blush when she pleases -she does it somehow by drawing in her breath and holding it so. have watched her. 'She can make tears come into her blue eyes in some similar manner said another, 'and she can hold one diamond tear for five minutes just poised on the edge of her lower lid. I've seen her do it. When she raises a tear she is economical of it, as if it were real diamond, and one who wasn't watching her would naturally believe she had shed dozens of tears since that one rose,'"
Year: 1879

A singular accident and narrow escape is reported from Bay City, Mich. It is stated that while MT. Farmer was standing in front of a six foot revolving circular saw, at Bradley's mill, one of the teeth of the saw flew out and struck MT. Farmer in the breast. He escaped with his life only because the tooth happened to strike and imbed itself in his gold watch, which was of course sadly damaged. The best way is to keep clear of circular saws, especially those having inserted teeth.
Year: 1879

Gen. George Crook, who as an army officer has been among the Indians twenty-five years, in letter says :-The leading chiefs thoroughly understand the changed condition of affairs-they see that they can no longer depend upon game for their support, and are anxious to obtain cattle, seeds and implements, and to have their children educated. They see the necessity of adopting the white mans ways and conforming to the established order of things. But I am very sorry to say they have to a very great degree lost confidence in our peo- pie and their promises. Indians are very much like white men in being un- able to live upon air. If you were to oollate from treaties all the promises made to the red men and contrast them with our performances you would have to admit that there was very serious margin of compacts broken and unful- filled, upon which the Indians could ground their distrust and contempt. We send them too many commissioners i; there is no class of men for whom the Indian has less respect. Better select one tribe and stick closely to the letter and essence of the compacts we have en- tered into with it; such an example would not be lost upon adjacent tribes. Our method is different. Let tribe re- main at peace, wa starve them. Let them go to war and spring suddenly upon our scattered settlements, we make every promise, yield every concession. Thus the Indian learns that by being "bad " he is all the more certain to be the recipient of kind treatment. This was the very point so forcibly urged by the Bannacks and Shoshone chiefs in a talk I had with them at Fort Hall, Ida ho, last summer. |" They had been our allies in the war with the Sioux and Cheyennes, but the latter who had given us so much trouble (that is to say the Sloux) were kept we'll supplied, whereas the tribes which had been friendly in the hour of our need were exposed to starvation" And yet thou sands of our people wondered why we should have war with the Bannacks.

 The General cites instances where the Indians have lost their ponies and other stock at the hands of thieves, and adds For all this there is no redress what ever. As understand the law we can- not even seize Indian property when found in the hands of well-known thieves. The Indian owner has the privilege of suing for recovery in the State courts, but this would prove to be in most cases very shadowy consola- tion.
Year: 1879

Oh! the elms are yellow, The apples arc mellow,

 The corn is ripe in the ear; The birds leave off nesting,s The earth begins resting,

 Because 'tis the fall O the year. The crickets are calling, The red leaves arc falling,

 In the field the stubble is sere; The day of the clover And wild bee is over,

 Because 'tis the fall O the year. Since summer is fitting, Dear friend, it is fitting

 The heart should make double cheer; So let us go smiling With love life beguiling,

 Because 'tis the fall O the year. Mrs. M. x Butts, in Boston Transcript.
Year: 1879

In the summer droughts which now
and then occur it is common to see per-
sons everywhere at work watering the
garden to keep things alive till the regu-
lar rains come. 1t is, however, the ex-
perience Of all, that the more the garden
is watered the more it wants and thus
on the whole it does little good. Yet
water can be so given as to be free from
this objection. 1t is the hardening of
the surface which causes the evil, and a
hard, compact surface always dries out
faster than loose one. The proper way
is to take the earth away for few inches
around the plant to be watered, so as to
make sort of basin, and into this pour
the water, letting it gradually soak away.
After it has all disappeared and the sur
face gets little dry, then draw the
earth back again which has been dis
placed to make the basin. This will
make loose surface over the watered
part, which will preserve it from drying
out rapidly. Tomatoes, egg plants, cab
bages, and other things of this charac-
ter, watered in this way, will need nc
renewal of water for several weeks. 1t
is slow way of getting such work done,
but it is the only SUI way of doing it.
Year: 1879

"Of course there are objections to
doing or not doing anything or every
thing in this world" says an exchange.


cit might almost be said that if we do,


or fail to do any one thing, we shall
should we listen to counsel-have cause
to regret it. All kinds of food, every
sort of recreation, each variety of habit,
have their disadvantage or lurking peril.


In respect to heating or not heating


there is always danger. Cold or warmth
in house is to be avoided and yet it is
rather difficult not to have one of the
two. Hot air is bad so is steam !; 80
are stoves, 30 ara CRATES, 80 is wood, 80
is coal. We now have an old theory re-
vived as to the last. 1t is reported to
vitiate the air by impregnating it with
sulphur, which all coal contains, and
sulphuric acid does not improve the
atmosphere for respiration. When coal
began, long ago, to be employed for fuel
in England the outcry against it was
so strong that royal edict forbade its
use, making it capital offense. Ira
dition AYERS that man was once actual
ly executed there for mining coal. The
statement has been made on authority
that the coal annually burned in Great
Britain sends into the air $500, 900 tons
of sulphuric acid, which causes much OF
the consumption, neuralgia, bronchitis,
asthma and typhoid fever for which the
country is noted. Never burn coal
never burn wood never use hot air o,
steam. Never do ANYTHING: still YOU
will repent II" &
Year: 1879

shattering in the wind in empty houses
for want of people to shut them. In
word, people began to give up them
selves to their fears, and to think that
all regulations and methods were in vain
and that there was nothing to be hoped
for but universal desolation.
Year: 1879

sett Che has got three Cousin Sarahs),
and asked her to come in June; he
liked her ever 30 much, and 30 did l,
what little I had seen of her. I thought
she was splendid.


(Note by Jack-Ten minutes acquaint-
ance in the parlor OF New York hotel,
on the way to Niagara.)


So I asked her to come next week,
which would be the 1st of June: but she
wrote back and said she was very sorry,
she was going to Hillsdale, she had
promised week there, but she would
come on the 10th if wanted her; 80 1
sent a postal to say I did. I told the
milkman I must have cream three times
that week-I mean the week after-and q
made sponge.cake and delicate-cake and
cookies, and I planned out dinner and
dessert for all the week, 80 I shouldn't
be anxious. It's one good thing about
being married, you don't have to do any
sewing for such long time. If I
hadn't chosen to do my own work 1
should have been at loss what to do
with my time; but I was glad hadn't
dressmaking to do now; I could have
no such time with Sarah. To be sure,
there's the mending, and Jack does wear
out stockings faster than anybody ever
saw; don't have one hole in mine to
four in his. I suppose it's boots.
However, mending is easy if there isn't
too much of it. Buttons trouble me
more than anything. I do believe they
were Just glued on to Jacks things, and
break off.


So I was quite ready the day before
the 10th. I had roses all over the
house, and the silver pitcher full OF
cream in the ice-bo1. and the man prom.
ised to bring me two quarts of berries
as soon as the boat came in, and I had
lovely veal outlets and peas for dinner
mean I was going to have them-and
Jack came home early; but. oh he had
letter in his pocket-a letter from
Hillsdale-to say Sarah had been per.
suaded to stay a week longer, but she
would come on the 18th,


Mother, was just mad. I sat down
on the sofa and cried. I always do cry,
you know. when I am angry; but poor
Year: 1879

| 10 Gu6Iu, SOluo ldlo uhu0o upOn uAOu


selves, as above; some broke out into
the streets, perhaps naked, and would
run directly down to the river and
plunge themselves into the water, when.
ever they found it. It often pierced my
soul to hear the groans and cries Of those
who were thus tormented. This run


ming of distempered people about the
streets was very dismal, and the magis-
trates did their utmost to prevent it
but as it was always in the night, and
generally sudden, when such attempts
were made, the officers could not be at
hand to prevent it and even when they
got out in the day, the officers appointed
did not care to meddle with them, be-
cause they we're all grievously infected,
to be sure, when they came to that
height, so they were more than ordinarily
infectious, and it was one OF the most
dangerous things that could be to touch
them. On the other hand, they gener.
ally ran on, not knowing what they did,
till they dropped down stark dead or till
they had exhausted their spirits 80 as
that they would fall, and then die in
perhaps half an hour or an hour and,
which was most piteous to hear, they
we're sure to come to themselves entirely
in that half hour or hour, and then to
make most grievous and piercing cries
and lamentations in the deep afflicting
sense of the condition they we're in


= After while the fury of the
infection appeared to be so increased
that in short they shut up no houses at
all !; it seemed enough that all the RENE
dies of that kind had been used till they
were found fruitless, and that the plague
spread itself with an irresistible fury, sc
that it came at last with such violence
that the people sat still, looking at each
other, and seemed quite abandoned te
despair. Whole streets seemed to be
desolsted, and not to be shut up only,
but to be emptied Of their inhabitants


! Doors we1e left open, windows stood
Year: 1879

The undersigned takes this occasion toreturn his thanks
the people Of Yankton particularly and his many
friends throughout Dakota and Nebraska for the generous
patronage which has been bestowed upon late firm Of
DUDLEY HAWLEY through the many years in which
firm has carried business in this city, and he
desires call the attention of these friends of
people generally to the enlarged facilities extern
sive assortment and comodious roos
firm had provided and which h Dudley
& Hawley, now possesses.


In the line of the Hardware trade manufacture
Tin Copper and Sheet Ware es
tablishent equal in all respects anything north
tent.


to the Hardware trade of the which
utary to this point centered her spare effort to
make it for the interest Of the people within this REGION pur
chase their Hardware Tnware Sheet ware
Stoves, and all other articles in this line from


Yours gratefully and respectfully


GEO. e. HAWLEY


Union Block, Third St.
Year: 1879

Between Mulberry street and the COngrega-
tlohal church, OH Sunday forenoon. a small black
beaver cape. faced on right side with silk, and
open at the back. Please leave at Press office.
Year: 1879

About q year ago young man


in this city conceived what he con.
sidered to be brilliant idea in
economy. His wash bill was quite
heavy, and he determined on
retrenchment. This plan he carried
into effect by running an account
of ten or fifteen dollars at China
mans and then suddenly transfer
ring his business to O rival laundry
without liquidating his back in
debtedness. Whenever he "got inn
on Chinaman all he could, he
would change laundries and never
pay. This plan worked like a
charm for many months. A few
weeks ago, however, he found that
he had exhausted the stock of
Chinese laundries on the Comstock,
and they were beginning to turn
and rend him. He suddenly became
an object Of interest to the Mon.
golians. 1t got so that he was un-
able to walk block without being
met by Chinaman, who, with
broad smile on his face, would
sing out: "You catchee eight dollar
nap 1hCoo lCiiONo bCNCl Sob
mad, like Caucasian creditor, but
always walked up smilingly, like,
O Carson flower garden in June,
and when he refused to pay their
smiles were just as broad and their
demeanor just as polite as if they
had received the amount dunned
for in full. The young man simply
contented himself with putting
them off with careless " See you
again, John, " i" Go to H." or
something of that sort and never
put up cent. He presently bega n
to notice, however, that the Celes-
tials were raising on him. The
" eight dollar hap" man Of yester-
day was after nine dollars to-day,
and the six dollars of last week


had got up to "ninc dollars hap. "


At first they only tackled him
when alone, but presently they


began to dun him when with q
crowd Of friends. Then they would
Year: 1879

There are many worthy people IN
full sympathy with the Temperance
cause who cannot understand the
Importance of machinery for doing
temperance work. They think that
regaia and ritualism is only waste
of time and money. The most radi.
cal of this class of people never come
into a secret temperance organization
and they continually wonder where
the benefit of Grand Lodges and
County Lodges come in, and what
under the sun constitutions or laws
were ever devised for.


We do not critizise the good in.
tentions of this class of people; but
the best of people are quite liable to
make mistakes, and those people GER
tainly make most egregious blum
der. If experience has proved any.
thing it is that perfect success in any
cause is to be gained only by perfect
organization. A single company of
disciplined troops in an emergency
is worth a whole regiment of raw re-
cruits who are strangers to the ma
chincry of military life. The success
of our Order in the past, the mighty
power with which it has been able to
withstand internal disturbances and
outside opposition is due to its per-
feet machinery. There is no better
disciplined organization in the world
than ours. Members bow to the will
of majority without a murmur. A
decision from superior authority is
readily acquiesced in. although it
may be adverse to well settled con
victions. A member carries up an
appea! TO the highest authority with
perfect good nature, and the deter
mination Of the r. w. G. Lodge is
as unquestioned by Good Tempiar
as decision Of the Court of Appeals
is by !itigant. To refuse submis
sion is only to be Immediately cut
of from the organization. This is
the secret of our power to settle con.
troversies and fight out opposition
Year: 1879

We fondly hoped would, ere it closed devise and
adopt some measures specially benefting the sol
diers; but now (June I'D an adjournment is antci-
pated next week, and nothing will have been done
with regard to the Equalization Bounty Bill the re-
organization of the Pension Office and other meas
ures the soldiers are all interested in 1t is indeed
lamentable that more attention cannot be given to
business which urgently needs attention and less to
the struggles of partisans anxious for the advance
ment of fayorte candidates for the Presidency, or
the putting up or pulling down Of certain pet jobs
and fat contracts Ia thus writing we intend to
reflect upon party, nor any man or men, but to
mention the situation Of affairs as it really and
unfortunately exists
Year: 1879

There are probably many readers Of THE Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE who are not thoroughly posted as
to the meaning of the word coupon. Well, cou-
pom is nothing more than HHle leech, constantly
sucking at the Treasury of the United States.
There are millions and millions of them, drawing
out the life-bood of the country.


Their father is bond of the United States. and
these little fellows attached to him. as matter
of course They are about the size four fractional
currency bills, and call for various amounts, from
fifty cents upward They are dying constantly and
constantly coming to life when one leech departs
another takes his place. for the sucking process
ceases These creatures are owned by parties, at
home and abroad, who live in luxury and magnif-
cence, in London, Paris, New York, Boston, and
other cities, nutriment secured by these leeches
Now, we are not about to treat extensively on the