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Year: 1879

"A most mysterious murder was perpetrated
in the Baldwin Hotel, San Francisco, on the
18th of April last: Doctor by the name of
Samuel P Chalfant, dentist of the latter city,
shot and killed one Josiah Bacon, in the lat
ter's room, about o'clock a. m. of the above
date, and succeeded in making his escape
from the hotel, without being suspected.
Chalfant and Bacon, (the latter being the
agent Of an eastern company, the patentees of
certain dental preparations), had had some
difficulty a few days previously. Chalfant
called upon Bacon at the latter's room in the
Baldwin Hotel, to effect, as he (Chalfant) al
leges, some arrangement of their difficulties !;
and that interview resulted in the shooting of
Bacon to death by Chalfant In the course of
a few days Chalfant, goaded by conscience,
and horrifed at the murder he had committed,
gave himself up to the authorities, and is now
in prison at San Francisco. Chalfant's story
about the shooting OF Bacon seems so improb-
able, in the face of the fact that he (Chalfant)
went to Bacon's room armed with a loaded
pistol, that one can hardly credit it. But in
asmuch as Bacon's mouth is sealed in death,
and he cannot appear in person upon the wit
ness stand in court, and the murderer is alive
and will have an opportunity to give his version
of the affair, which will contain Just enough of
the marvellous, and romantic, not to say heroic,
to give piquancy to the affair. Chalfant will
get of, perhaps altogether, but certainly with
much lighter punishment than his real
crime deserves. 1t is an old saying, that
dead men tell no tales" and so thought Chal-
FAINT, when he took deadly aim at Bacon at the
distance of the breadth Of an ordinary sitting
chair between them, and sent ball whizzing
through Bacon's brain There is entirely too
much of this pistol business in San Francisco,
and we fear that juries in that city are too
prone to look upon this thing of shooting down
unarmed men in broad daylight as but a
trivial affair, and too often let murderers loose
upon society, who should at least be incarce-
rated within State prison walls for life, for
foul murders and brutal exhibitions Of the
pistol or dagger, as suits their fancies best.
We predict the acquittal of Chalfant, for the
reasons given.
Year: 1879

Kieff correspondent OF the St. Petersburg Jour-
nal gives the following account of the outbreak
among political prisoners last month The Russians
in the kief prison resolved time ago tunnel
under the walls and escape. The scheme be-
trayed by of the consprators. The authorities
allowed the prisoners TO continue the excavation.
When tho tunnel was completed and the prisoners
had entered it after the other, intending to
up through the opening beyond the prison precincts.
soldiers previously posted at the opening shot the
escaping prisoners as they came up. When the bulk
ofthe prisoners terrified by the noise firing, stopped
and remained in the tunnel. soldiers were sent in
from behind, and the unfortunate wretches caught
between two fires, were all shot down. The pro-
ceedng seemed to give the officials much amusement,
and the director Of the prison then praised and
decorated for having acted with such cleverness and
decision.


The London Times says The equiyocal attitude
assumed by the Sultan relative to the Khedive is
doubtless an advantage which England and France
will be able to turn to account, but cannot
yet discern any valid reason for England abandon
ing policy of extreme caution with regard to Egyp-
tian affairs. The proposal for joint expedition is
manfesty premature. If display of force were re-
solved upon, England might find her influence di-
reeted to securing good government, while France
would be occupied with even greater energy in de-
Tending the claims of foreign creditors. Halim Pasha
the Kkedive's uncle, is well educated enlightened
aud liberal minded, and has lived quietly for several
years past in European fashion on the Bosphorus.


LIE NOSE AND TIE flNGERs.-ln the current
number of the Medical Record, DR.. Hamoud says,
that when you poke the end of your finger into your
ear the roaring noise you hear is the sound Of the
circulation in your finger, which is fact, any
demonstrate for himself by first putting his hn-
gers in his ears and then stopping them up with
another substance Try it and think what wonder
Of machine our human body is, that the points
Of your fingers are such busy work shops that they
roar like small Niagara. The roaring is probably
than the noise Of the circulation Of the blood
noise of all the vital
tearing down and building up processes that are al
ways going forward in every living body from con
ception to DEATH We may add to the above that the
sound produced upon the timpanum of the ear, by
placing empty sea shell to the ear is caused by
the air rushing in through the aperture space left
uncosed between the and the shell, and thus we
have an explanation Of both processes natural as
well as scientific principles.
Year: 1879

The Hawaiian brig Storm-Bird, Captain
Jackson, which left this port in November
last, under the directions of the Board of I'm
migration, returned on Saturday morning the
10th inst. The Storm-Bird brings 90 passen-
gers, composed of adult males and females and
children of both sexes. who come from the Mi
cronesian islands and are hardy, wen formed,
docile people. These people are eagerly
sought after by our planters to work on the
sugar estates on these islands, and from their
appearance and make up we think they are
well chosen for the purposes of plantation la
borers and the probabilities are that they
will not wish to return after the period for
which they are hired, but will become per-
manently fixed and assimilate with our people
here. This increase is strengthened by the
fact, that many of the men have brought their
wives and little ones with them. Captain
jackson informs US that they can all read and
write, and about one half of them can speak
English. The Storm-Bird had a long and
tempestuous trip, owing to severe weather and
adverse currents encountered in and about the
Micronesian islands. She was fifty odd days
on the return trip, which is by no means an
unusual length of time at this season. She
has proved herself frst-class sea boat, and
has given entire satisfaction to the govern
ment. The bringing here of the natives of the
Micronesian islands is as yet an experiment,
which the Board of Immigration feel warranted
in believing will result successfully. The
arrival Of the Storm-Bird has allayed all the
apprehensions that were felt for her safety,
and the Board of Immigration have cause TO
congratulate themselves on the success of their
efforts thus far to bring laborers here, and to
add new and congenial element of popula-
tion, which will serve to replace the diminu-
tion in the native race Of these islands. In
common with all good citizens We rejoice that
the Storm-Bird, with her living freight has
made another successful trim
Year: 1879

Would u pay the Nations dcbtsf Would y give the
soldiers their pensions The endeayor of the ocrai
woud be recover all that they had iOst They w0uid
not care anything about The peace, honor or
prosperity of the Nation. He called upon al
Kepubcans b. sink minOf differences Of opinion and 10
strive every possible way TO preserve The country
South had done nothing TO chow that the Govern
ment of the country could be safely transferred 10 IT,
Year: 1879

Young man if you wish to make your
self obnoxious to large proportion of
the genteel, and to still larger proper
ton of the sensible people, if you want
to contract habit that makes necessary
separate accommodations for you in cars
or on boats, where your offense may not
smell in the nostrils of respectable peo-
Pile; which makes them drop out of the
atmosphere of your smokestack, or
swing around the mephitic pools you
leave at intervals in your wake-a habit
which turns you out of the parlor and
drawing-room into the clubhouse, bar
room. or into the streets-from the So
ciety of refined ladies into lower order
of social intercourse which fills your
system with poison so offensive that the
breath you exhale, and the insensible
perspiration you cast off, vitiates the air
for rods about you, and makes you a
walking nuisance from which delicate
nostrils turn away in disgust--then begin
early the use of tobacco.


The young patron of the cigarette may
not realize this, but the reality will come
when the subtle influence of habit has
degenerated, as most certainly it must,
into a slavish bondage from which there
is little hope of release.


1t is a habit which Gin common with
alcohoD has its regular and inevitably
retrograding SCALE from the highly per-
fumed cigarette to the foulfumed, loath-
some old pipe; from the pink flush of
health with its fresh aura, down through
the various stages of selfish habit and
conduct, to the brown, withered, de-
crepid, prematurely old man with his
pipe and tobacco-pouch (unless nature,
unable to longer tolerate the abomina-
ton, arrest the course by paralysis of the
heart).


Do you want to proclaim your love with
your words stepped in the essence of to-
bacco? Do you want to take to the altar
q habit which will impose upon your wife
the burden of its filthy surroundings
make your presence repugnance, and
perpetual reproach for her sacrifice
Will you live in habit that will eat
away your substance while the little
family growing up about you plead in
vain for better subsistence-that will
make you hug your own appettes while
those depending upon you are neglected?
Then begin early to smoke and chew
tobacco for this almost of necessity fol-
lows its use. But if you could not make
a wife of one who had formed this habit,
then have the pride and manhood to
offer your heart and companionship
untainted by this vile insult to health
and decency, that she may not have to
accept your proffer under painful pro
test from her whole delicate nature. II
you would not have this great canker
worm fasten itself upon the lives of your
children, don't invite it by your exam
Pile; don't stamp it into their organic
appetites by sleeping your own body in


the distilled juices of this defiling and
paralyzing poison. E. w. A.
Year: 1879

to be at the head of the government


stands alone in the breach.


No, we cannot preach over the dead


yet. Other battles are to fight. 1t were


an empty offering We do not wish to


mock their bleaching bones. They did


not bleed and die for few empty eulo-


gies, and a handful of half faded flowers


cast upon their graves once year. They


ask bread and we gave them stone.


They rot in their graves with gaping


wounds of sword and bullet and bayonet.


and the death stare of those who starved


in prison-pens yet traceable in the dust


nuder their cofin-lid we push aside


their manned comrades to make room


TOR the men who laughed at their dying
| scream for food, and ordered guards to


shoot the poor crazed maniac who dared
reach over the dead line for half-putrid


bone, and now come in token of our ap-
probation with Hilted flowers. How
these dead skeletons must appreciate this
costless offering; God forbid we should
approach their graves until we can carry
the old flag over a land united and free
such us they dreamed of in their last de-
lirium. Let other hands carry flowers.
1t is meet that pure and lovely maidens
should do this 1t is all they have. Let
those preach sermons of eulogy who nev-
er shivered in the Wilderness, nor heard
the roar of "the battle above the clouds"
We shall stand in silence over the old
battery. We are still on picket. The
war is not over. The distant mutter of
the conflict can still be heard. We are
yet to lay other treasures away in the
graVe-murdered on the alter of revolu-
ton. We cannot insult our comrades.
Over their graves before the God of the
nation we have sworn allegiance to the
cause for which they died, and stand
ready for the next buglecall but we
have never scattered flowers and never
will, until the right shall finally triumph,
and the enemies of our common country
are driven from the place of power. Let
the dead sleep. We are ashamed pub
llcly to speak of their heroism in the
presence of the history of to-day. They
have passed beyond the stencil and cor
ruption, the flies and the maggots, the
hunger and thirst under burning South
ern suns, and no longer ask aught of US.
Our heart aches. Il is all huge farce;
righteous indignation consumes US.
The Government is heartlessly cruel. 1t
called them to sacrifices thousand times
more terrible than the juggernaut and
has forgotten the purchase price The
enemies who followed them with blood
hoahus now seek Inc llle OF the Natlon,
and crate the principles of the rebellion
in the Senate Chamb Der. No! we scorn
this empty offering. Turn out these
rebels Tear down stheir flags Send
traitors where they belong; aud God will
carry the flowers in the deft fingers of
the sunshine and the raindrop and will
weave wreaths and garlands by the agen-
cy of the winds, and will make melody
by the orchestra of all nature. Until
then, we shall leave our harp on the will
lows, and continue to cry out, How long
y Lord, holy and true, dost thou not |
Judge and avenge our blood on them p
Year: 1879

When Henry Clay was running
for President it was nOtoriOusly
the fact that in any vote taken in
steamboat or stage coach, he
was almost certain to have ma.
Jorlty. On all the great thorough
fares OF travel Clay was always
ahead. The talk in places Of pub
llc resort was largely in his fa-
vor. People who considered them
selves better than other folks
were pretty generally for him.
Persons who sought to bolster up
their doubtful responsibility by
being on the respectable side in
politics, We're tor him. 1t seemed
the height of folly 70 doubt that
Mr.. Clay would he elected.


Bnt " ben it caHe to the actual
election everything was chang
ed. The noise had been for Clay
the votes were for jackson. The
amount OF clamor raised for ID
candidate is no test of his
strength. A man cannot be elect
ed by noise /; he must command
the votes.


Insis little while we shall hear
people shouting themselves.
hoarse for Grant. BY many his
election, as well as his nomina-
ton. is already regarded as a
foregone conclusion, whereas, ev-
en- his nomination is far from be.
ing fixed fact yet.


And the election efGen. Grant
for a third term would speedily
be put among the extreme imprO-
liabilities if the Democracy would
unite on patriotic platform and
a good candidate. 1t the noise
raised for Gen. Grant shall teach
them wisdom, it will have pro.
dnced one beneficial etfeet.-N.
Y. Sun.
Year: 1879

red handkerchief bound around his
head. 1t looked as though corpse
was being carried in state. 1t was
found impossible to move him from the
litter, which was placed in an open car
riage and driven, accompanied by a
mournfully silent crowd, to the house
of his son, Menotti Garibaldi. 1t was
impossible to move the general at Civil
ia Vecchia, and the side of the railway
saloon was cut to admit the litter. The
general slept well, however, Saturday
night, and his doctor thinks he will
leave bed within week. His friends
assert that politics are wholly uncon-
nected with his coming here. He
found that his health was not improy-
ing at Caprera, and thought the min
eral springs near Civita Vecchia might
benefit his gout. Garibaldi said to the
syndicate who visited him on his ar
rival, that he did not himself know the
reason of his visit. Some say Garibaldi
came to Rome to die.
Year: 1879

Washington, April 7.-Prominent
democratic members of the senate have
expressed an opinion that the debate on
the army appropriation bill, which is
about to commence in that body, will
not last more than week or ten days
at the utmost. 1t seems to be the in
tention OF the majority to allow the re-
publicans to do most of the talking on
this bill, and to pass 1t as quickly as
possible, the calculation being that the
president will sign it, and that the re-
publican arguments against the alleged
coercive programme in general will
thus be notably weakened before the
more important struggle over the pro-
posed repeal of the federal election law
shall have practically commenced.
Year: 1879

Rome, April IA more pathetic
scene than that of Garibaldi's arrival at
the railway station has seldom been
beheld. The shouts raised as the train
arrived at the station were speedily
silenced on the circulation of the report
that the general was i'll. He was car
ried from the train on mattress placed
on large litter. He laid extended and
motionless, with his eyes closed and a
Year: 1879

The North Carolina Democrats In Washing
ton who are acquainted with the company OF
blacks who lately emigrated from Lenoir
county, North Carolina, to Indiana, say that
they are good class. AS to she political as
pest OF the case, they affirm that Indiana
Democrats will keep their eyes apon these
blacks and not allow them to vote at the
Presidential election, as they did not get sato
the State soon enough
Year: 1879

Especial to the Democrat
DELTA, La, Dec. S-Madison has given ma
iority Of something over two thousand for the
Democratic ticket and the constitution. and
against the debt ordinance.


mo n STONE
Year: 1879

A LAME CoUNTKRFKITER's CANE lame
counterfeiter was arrested in Erie, Pa, short
time ago. He carried black cane, which upon
examination was found to be a hollow tin tube
filled with counterfeit silver halves and quar-
tiers. In this way he had managed to carry
around quite an amount of ''the crooked with
out exciting suspicion.
Year: 1879

GENERAL GRANT having decided to be present
in Chicago on the 5th OF November next, it has
been decided to hold the meeting OF the Army
OF the Tennessee In that city on that date. The
indications are that this meeting will be more
largely attended than any held by the society
since the first meeting, directly after the war
General Grant, and the inflow of people from
tn ;djacent states and from q distance for the
SaL-t purpose, Will, OF course, be great
Year: 1879

SCARCITY OF MINOR COINAGE.-With the re.
vival OF business comes an unusual demand for
the bronze one cent pieces as well as for the
small notes. Minor coinage can only be exc.
cuted at the Philadelphia mint and that mint is
devoting most OF its time to the standard silver
dollar, In order to keep up the amount required
TO be coined every mOnth-two millions. For
this reason 1t is found impossible to supply the
demand for one cent pieces. AS soon as posst-
Die the mint Will turn out sufficient amount
ofthem to fill the many orders received. There
Is now no more OF this coinage in the Treasury
than Is required for current business.
Year: 1879

undersigned this occasion his thanks
to the people of Yankon particularly and his
friends throughout Dakota and Nebraska for the generous
DUDLEY HAWLEY through the many years in which
that firm has carried business in this city, and h.
desires to call the attention of these friends and that
the people generally to the enlarged facilities
sive assortment and conmodious roons
firm had provided and which dudley
& Hawley, possesses.


In the line of the trade the manufa
of Tin Copper and Sheet Iron Ware he
tablishment equal in all respects anything



to see the Hardware trade Of the which
utary to to this point here spare effort 10
make it for the interest Of the people REGION to
chase their Hardware Tnware Copper Sheet Iron
Stoves. and all other articles in this line from


Yours gratefully and respectfully


GEO. e. HAWLEY


UAion Block, Third ST.
Year: 1879

GONE TO SEE THE MISUNDERSTANDING Assistant
secretary of Navy Hogg, Charley Thompson
and party from the Navy department.. left
the may yard this morning on the tug Trianna'
10 oe present at the launch of the Galena. al
tne portsmouth Va.) navy yard, Tomorrow
Chief OF the Bureau Of Construction and Re.
pair, Easily, and one or two others will %
down this evening on the Lady of the Lake o.
Year: 1879

BY AUTHORITY Of the Secretary of War, the
quartermaster's department, in furnishing
transportation for enlisted men of the signal
service on change OF station, will allow and
proV1de lot 100 pounds OF baggage to accompany
each enlisted man OF that service on the same
CONVEYANCE by which he is transported.
Year: 1879

Young ladies who think proper to corre-
spond with rejected lovers would perhaps
do well to take q hint from the following
curious case, which is, however, authentic.
Mile. Felicie Maxy, who lives on the farm
of Pentecote, on the Belgian frontier, was
on the point of being married, when she
received letter from an old suitor asking
her to reconsider the matter, and send him
an immediate reply. A postage stamp was
gallantly inclosed to defray the cost of
transmission. The answer duly written,
Mile. Maxy applied the stamp to her fair
lips; but hardly had she done SO when she
felt sharp pain in her tongue, and in less
than no time that interesting member
became horribly elongated and inflamed,
and covered with noisome sores. The dis
consulate one, Alfred Camin by name, q
farmer of Pichon, in the Nord, has been
arrested; but he declares that he used no
noxious drug, but simply moistened
corner of the stamp with his own hps-a
delicate way of stealing kiss. Such is the
state of the case as il stands at present, but
the tale carries its own moral.
Year: 1879

In 1860 Cox attended school in Whining
ton. Lulu Watkins, of Tennessee, was q
pupil at q select school in the same city.
The young people met, and after short
courtship were married by Methodist min
lister, and fed from the town. An attempt
was made to spprehend the couple, but Cox,
then is years Of age, stood upon his rights as
. husband, as the marriage had been con-
summated before the officers came up with
them. A reconciliation was had. Captain
jefferson Norris, graduate of West Point
in the class with Grant, was an instructor in
the school, and he aided and was present at
the marriage. He was dismissed from the
school. Cox's marriage was q happy one,
and the wife who sat IN the court room dur.
ing the trial was the girl with whom he eloped
nearly 20 years ago. The affair was q great
social scandal at the time.
Year: 1879

OLD Pomeroy, the Republican scamp, is
supposed to have had something to do with
the negro exodus He wanted to speculate
upon the suffer1ngs of the negro. He is a
representative Republican.
Year: 1879

A WELL informed Washington correspond
ent writes that from all that can be as
certained it appears probable that the Dem


ocrats will have no concern about the army
appropriation bill during the coming two or
three weeks. Requiescat in pace for the
present il what they say in regard to it. In
the meantime they will go forward with the
Year: 1879

Chesterfield Conuention.-Th Conserva-
tive delegates recently appointed from the
different districts in Chesterfield county to
the Convention to be held at the court
for the purpose Of re6rganizing the Conser-
vative party throughout the county, will as
semble at the above-named place to-day
Should the weather be favorable, no doubt
a large number of spectators will also he
present. The number OF delegates to the
Convention is A.
Year: 1879

Greenbdck Nominees S.-Some OF the men,
bers OF the Greenback party Of this city
have decided TO call a meeting OF that fac
tion some time during the coming week for
the purpose OF nominating a candidate for
the Senate and members for the House from
this district. From present indications the
approaching political contest in this district
will be quite warm.
Year: 1879

HACKHEN AND OMNIBUS DRIVERS would
do we'll to read the regulations adopted by
the Mayor, and which will be enforced by
the police from this date, to be found else
where in our columns,