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Year: 1879

1t has been asserted recently, with some
show of confidence, that President HAYES
will sign the army bill rs it passed the
House should;the Senate concur. What au-
thority there is for such an assumption we
have no knowledge: but we do not believe
that the President has indicated to any per-
son with any positiveness what he will or
will not do with that measure when 1t
reaches him. and hence it is all matter OF
speculation. Unless he should say to us
positively that he will sign the bill when
passed, we should find room for doubt, for
the reason that we think he would find oc-
casion for a change of such determination
before the bill reaches him. The country
will be. previously disappointed and cha
grined should he approve that measure, for
it will be regarded as a concession or sur
render to the menaces of those who declare
that they will not stop until the last vestige
of our war measures are wiped from
the statute book. Each of these pend
ing measures which are ridden with
foul political sections should meet with un-
yielding objections at the hands of the Exec
utive, for the reason that each forms part OF
q mischievous and revolutionary programme
which should be smashed in part and as @
whole.


We have confidence to believe that if this
| pioneer measure of the Democratic pro-
gramme shall encounter veto the balance
of the scheme will be abandoned by th'
revoutionists, and they will pass the appro
priation bills without these riders fearing
| to return to their constituents after having
refused to make appropriations except upoi
untenable terms. The attitude assumed by
the Democratic party thus far finds no favor
able response in the heart of the North ant
West. This they begin to understand, ant
hence, if the President will act wisely AM
firmly in his treatment Of these measure
and set his face as flint against them, j
will burst the bubble, much to the relief 0
these mischievOus statesmen, who alread
begin to suffer alarm at the responses whic
are coming back to them from popular sen


timent. The country is looking for and eX


pecting veto to each of these measure
with their obnoxious riders, and we douh
if the President is prepared TO inilct upo
it so grievous and unfortunate disappOint


ment.
Year: 1879

WHILE Mr.. BLACKBURN is engaged in
the business of wiping out "war measures"
he should not fail to try his hand at his
own record, which embraces the fact that
he turned traitor to his country without
even the doubtful excuse of "going with
"his State Kentucky did not secede, but
BLACKBURN did.
Year: 1879

YESTERDAY was not very good day for
selecting stalls for the horses who propose
to enter for the rhetorical race under the
legislative bill. The number was not as
large as the day before. The chin market
lulls
Year: 1879

SENATOR THURMAN didn't boom much at
the late municipal election in Columbus, his
home and the seat of his ambition and hopes.
The city went Republican for the first time,
and some people are wicked enough to inn
pute the result to TuDEN.
Year: 1879

To open up general legislation Just now,
Mt this stage of the extra session, would be
greatly to the advantage of the lobby gen.
orally, and especially TO the plunderers who
have been lying in wait hereNbouts for an
opportunity to steal the Government Print
ing-Office.
Year: 1879

TIE official publication of the new or re-
vised treaty between the United States and
Japan in these columns yesterday attracted
some comment in diplomatic quarters The
negotiation of the treaty was not known or
suspected, and the fact that Secretary
ENARTs had struck out from the beaten
paths of supposed fixed relations with
the Orientals, and established new and en-
hrged commercial reciprocitics, served to
create some surprise.
Year: 1879

streets yesterday-the streets of the ma
tiou's Capital-unprovided with the Ma
tional colors was inexcusable on any and
all grounds When our Southern friends
visit us they may be entitled to the exer-
else of the questionable taste of ignoring
the existence of the General Government,
as the Norfolk City Guards did yesterday !;
but the "crack" company of the Capital, one
that aims to be, if it is not, the best drilled
and disciplined volunteer militia orgon2o-
ton in the entire country, provided with
quarters and arms at the expense of the
Government, should have set them the ex-
ample of superior patriotism.
Year: 1879

THOSE who are in such hot haste to set
Senator CARPENTER down Gs n free lance in
politics may as well wait until he develops
himself on political questions. The New
Hampshire Senatorial question wears no po-
litcal significance. 1t is purely question
Of constitutional jurisdiction and right, and
one over which lawyers disagree very easily
under their differences in mental organiza-
tiOn.
Year: 1879

HERE it comes again " Republican gains
ain New Jerseyw When will this thing
stop? And the Conlederacy is at hand at
the National Capital to take charge of
things !! This is an insult to the patriotism
and craftsmanship of the Confederate-B Bour-
bon Copperhead-D Democracy. 1t
is really mot too bad.
Year: 1879




ings.
The following report ON the sanitary condi-
tion of some of our public buildings was sub
mitted to the Commissioners of the District of
Columbia yesterday by Health Officer Town
shend. The subject is one which comes home
to many in our community, and it will be read
with intercsL:
Year: 1879

Mr.. Goldie, the naturalist, who
has passed eighteen months in New
Guinea, has, among other matters,
informed the Brisbane Courier that
his party came in contact with a
tribe Of natives in the interior
whose custom suggested to him
the probable origin Of the rumors
that have been always current Of
race Of tailed men in some re
mote corner of the globe" These
natives wear artificial tails of such
cunning construction as to entirely
mislead o casual observer. They
are entirely naked, except for the
caudal ornament, which is o plat
of grass fastened around their loins
by fine string, and depending
behind to about half way down
their legs.
Year: 1879

The editor who quashed a juicy
coclSroach with the butt end of bis
lead pencil and afterward forget
fully sucked the same while WOO
ing a coy expression, suddenly
found a word, but it proved to be
foreign to the subject under con-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Express.
Year: 1879

This is the time of the year at
which tho sylph-like teacher goes
to a realm of perfume and flowers,
and presents to her rural relatives
the jackknives and other things
taken from her pupils during the
year.-New York Star.
Year: 1879

The locomotives on one Of the
principal French railways are pro
vided with small clocks placed in
front at the bottom of the smoke
stack. They are not effected by
the vibration, and they tell the
station master the exact time Of
the arrival Of trains.
Year: 1879

A snow white dove makes daily
habit Of flying just behind the en-
gine of a Massachusetts passenger
train, and local expectation is on
tip-toe rs to whether this portends
that the engineer is going to be
killed in an accident, or fall heir to
o fortune, or what.
Year: 1879

Now that the tramp law is in
operation in Connecticut, every in
genious tramp carries with him
evidences of occupation. Some
have a bundle of umbrella sticks,
and others a tool box that gives
them the cast of clock maker or
travelling tinker.
Year: 1879

II is said that the profits on the
sale Of thrashing machines are
about sixty per cent, and yet
thousands Of young men are still
rushing to college to learn law and
medicine.-Free Press. 1t is be-
cause they had thrashing enough
at school.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
Year: 1879

Two or three miles of telegraph wire belonging to The government line, between nere and Mtricopa. Is liable to get out of order at any time. OSiag to the unusual accident of break in the wire, we were uEable Co obtain our usu d telegraphic news to-day We do not need to apologize for the management of the iine Their efforts to keep it in order are only too commend able; ana ~e should not blame them for spy such li.tle accidents.
Year: 1879

New YORK, July 9.-The sixth
council of the Union of American and
Hebrew congregation resumed its ses-
sion to-day. Rev. DR.. Silventhal, chair
man Of the special mission on the
course Of duty from the Hebrew Union
College, presented a unanimous report
on the subject, in which he said he
was happy to say that all the differ
ences between the clergy had been
settled.


The report was unanimously
adopted. e


Rev. DR.. Mcndes, chairman of the
committee on Onion College, pre-
sented report recommending at once
the establishment of college and the
erection of a building for such pur-
poses in Cincinnati, and adverse to
establishing branch college in New
York, owing to tie fact that until the
college proper in Cincinnati is fully
established no branch is permissible
according to law. The report recon-
mended an appropriation of $500 for
a preparatory, After an amendment
to the effect that the committee is op-
posed to the establishment of
branch college in New York because
it was in conflict withthe organic law,
the report was adopted.


The chairman of the committee on
the Sabbath question, presented a re-
port pertaining to the preservation of
the Sabbath institutions, which was
adopted.


Mr.. lsaaes presented q report in
favor of circuit preaching, and the
appropriation of one thousand dollars
to supply deficiencies in congregations
unable to pay The report was re-
committed


A letter was read from Ex-Governor
Seymour giving his views on the sub
ject of land culture. He said that he
had watched with interest the
plans of the Catholic Church
to get its people into the cOun-
try and to make their homes
on farms. He deemed it a wise poll
cy and wise to have those of differ
ent faith so placed at the outset so
they can keep in their respective
places of worship. He had no idea
but that the Hebrews would become
good farmers. A recess was then
taken.
Year: 1879

The election on the 80 and 4 pro-
position to settle the State debt will
be held Thursday, the 7th of August.
The people should understand the
vexed question aud vote on it. The
question is not whether one-fourth,
oue.half or three-fourths of the
bondholders agree to settlement
upon this basis, but whether the peo-
pie owe this much and feel that they
can assume it. This question will be
discussed between now and the elec-
tion. We hope the good name of the
State can be preserved without i'm


posing greater burdens upon the labor,
industry and capital of the people
than they can bear. ..ibIhGi
Year: 1879

The trouble with the New York
judges is the bad ventilation of the
court rooms. Men go on the bench
healthy, and in a few years have be.
come confirmed invalids, or are dead
Tweed not only swindled the taxpay,
ers out of millions in building the new
courthouse, but left the Judiciary
who are housed in it, a legacy of dis.
ease and death.
Year: 1879

THE Denver Tribune says the story
told in the Eastern dispatches to
some of the papers a day or two since
that half-breed daughter of the late
General Sully is about to lay claim to
his estate, as his legal representative
and heir, is by no meaus an improba-
BILE yarn. Indeed, it is more likely to
be true than false. 1t has frequently
been remarked by those who have
visited the Indians of the frontier,
that among them there is fair sprink-
ling Of young people whose blood is 4
mixture of white and red. A good


many Of these half breeds, if they
could trace their parentage, would
find fathers in the army; while not a
few could call agents, and even Chris
tian ministers, pa. A few years ago it
was a common reply of the little half


breds of the plains, when asked as to
their tribe, to say in better English
than Indian: Half Sioux and half
missionary" a pgq
Year: 1879

NASHVILLE AMERICAN "Ths
State owes the debt, and if the roads
should have it to pay, the State would
Just as surely have it to repay as that
1t exists. This compromise is the
easiest way out of a bad box. As
soon as the creditors see that the
State will recognize its obligations to
the extent of fifty and four, they will
compromise at fifty aud four, and that
will end the whole natter
Year: 1879

member of a school board writes
that a building is about being erected
for educational purposes, and wants to
know the effect on pupils and teachers
of climbing long flights of stairs.


An old man instinctively goes round
log instead of stepping upon it; each
step up is equal to lifting a considerable
portion of the body, and le old have no
extra strength to spare, nor have the
Young and Grail The most roh"e+ ----s
conscious ofan effort in going up STAIRS,
and we all puff and blow" when we
get to the top.


In New Y ork city the young and vigor-
Gus are appointed to deliver letters in
the lower part of the town, where they
have to be taken up two or three or more
stories of buildings containing business
offices; they all complain ofthe exhaust
ing effects; every now and then the car
rier is missed; on inquiring the answer
| is, Dead" Others! have had to give up
at the end of three or four years and take
positions for deliveries TO private dwell
ings. If strong young men are thus
worn out, so much more will children
and female teachers. If they must go up
stairs, each step should not be over six
inches high, and should be at least twelve
inches broad, so as to give support to
the whole foot at each tread. There can
be no argument against facts. In some
cases weak lungs may be strengthened
by goinU up stairs rapidly, with the
mouth closed, so as to compel a deep in
spiration when the top is reached, and
thus compel the air to the very bottom
of the lungs, distending them fully; but
this, at the same time, endangers bleed
ing by the extra strain. if there is ten
dency to hemorrhage or heart disease.
The safest and best plan for all is to go
up stairs slowly and deliberately, bear
ing in minG that, in all stages of life,
equality of bodily motion and mental
activity are most promotive of health.
No person, after forty, should go on a
run unless there is seeming necessity
for it. Running to catch a vehicle or a
departing ferryboat is not only not dig
nilied but is dangerous-always danger
Gus to young and old-and the moro so
as one is advanced in years, for, like 60


ing up stairs, it imposes an extra strain
on the heart and lungs.-HalpS Journal
of Hennh
Year: 1879

A romantic story is connected with
Appledore island, one of the Isles of
Shoals, off the coast of New Hampshire.
Years ago the island was purchased by
Mr.. Leighton, lawyer and prominent
local politician of Portsmouth, who
bought it with view to living on it
permanently, on account of his dissatis-
faction with his party He took his
wife and child-a daughter--there. built
rude house, and expressed his determ-
ination never to return to the main land.
He adhered to his word infieXibly, for
ne had grown soured and misanthropi-
cal by his political disappointment.
When his daughter had become fifteen
or sixteen, a young lawyer of delicate
constitution asked the privilege of board
ing in Mr.. Leighton's isolated family, for
the benefit of his health. The privilege
was reluctantly granted, and the attor-
ney, being thrown into the society of the
daughter described as a very pretty,
bright and unconventional girl, as she
would likely be with her peculiar sur
roundings), fell desperately in love with
her. The cynical father opposed mar
riage and was furious at the interloping
gallant; but as the latter could not be
bullied or driven off he was final ly al
lowed to take the girl to wife, and the
two went to the main land and lived
there. The lady is now known to the
literary world as Mrs. Celia Thaxter, a
favorite contributor to the atlantic Mag
nzipe. She is very iond of Appledore,
doubtless through early romantic asso-
Citations, ard spends most of her, sum-
mers in a cottage near the Appledort
House, kept by her brothers, who were
born on the island, and have grown tc
he inn-keepers by a process of evolution
gradual but irresistible.
Year: 1879

Common Men.
We're nobody particular,


We're just the men you meet
At harvest with the sickle, or
AT seed-time dropping wheat:
From Mondays until Saturdays
We work from morn till night,
And only in these latter days
We've learnt to read and write.
Our little place is poor enough,
Tho clean as any pin;
Whoe'er you are, you're sure enough
OF welcome when you're in:
The rich man has his Wallets and
His locks to guard his store,
But we have empty wallets, and
We only latch the door.
Besides perhaps pair or two
OF blankets, and bed,
An oaken chest, q chair or two
All brought when we were we'd
There's little you would lend upon:
We've neither house nor lands,
We only do depend upon


The labor OF our hands.
When these begin to fail you, and
You're thrown upon yourself,
Or anything should all you, and
There's nothing on the shelf,
Though anxious looks the mother, and
Our own is almost bare,
We feel for one another, and
We find a bit to spare.
You ask me what we think about
In rainy weather, when
We sit and pass the drink about,
And speak but now and then:
Sure, all may spend their leisure in
The manner that they will,
And poor men find pleasure in
Just simply sitting still.
We're up to tend the cattle, when
The Londoners in bed;
We hear the thunder rattle, when
There's nothing overhead
To shield us il the racket, and
When down doth pour the rain,
We only shake our jacket, and
We go to work again.
To every man his station, and
His work is set, ween;
The queen doth rule the nation, and
The soldier guards the queen
From toemen that would harm her, and
Their number is not small;
We labor for the farmer, and
The farmer keeps them all.
Then do not Judge us blindly, rs
You'll hear some people do;
Think only OF us kindly, as
You'd have us think OF you.
To eher folk than we belong
The pulpit and the pen,
Yet England were not England long
Without her common men.
r. CraUiey in Pail Mall Gazette,
Year: 1879

Yesterday and for several days past,
it 9as rumored on the streets that a
case of yellow fever existed and "a death
had occurred within day or two at
Leath Orphan Asylum, which institu-
ton is located out on the Raleigh road
half mile from the city limits. An
Appeal investigator was delegated to
hunt up the facts. Fro n his invests
cations the following may be relied
upon as correct: In November last
young woman, aged about eighteen
years, a cripple and an invalid, and
former inmate Of the asylum, took the
fever and lingering for some weeks
with a very bad type of yellow fever
recovered in December. Within a
week or so a little orphan boy, Of weak
constitution and in rad health, con-
tracted the yellow fever, he having
been no doubt exposed to it in the
case first mentioned. He got along
very well for a couple of weeks, it be
ing a very light attack, and at last
was able to be up and run about.
About Christmas he had a relapse,
and this time a bad and malignant
case of yellow fever of pure type. DR.
Ess, the attending physician, believed
for a time that the boy would die, his
constitution being weak, but he recov-
cred from the attack, only, however,
to be again prostrated with meningitis,
which was consequence of the vel
low fever relapse. The boy IS now
sitting up, is out of danger, and is in
a fair way of recovery. Our Commits
sioner asked DIR Ess for an opinion as
to the probability Of the appearance of
yellow fever here next summer. The
Doctor said that he believed the late
freezing snap of weather had destroyed
all the germs Of the yellow fever. But
| he added, it might be that such germs
may yet exist, not actually, but pas
sively, in, buildings wherein yellow fe-
yer patients had died, and which
buildings had not been properly fumi-
gated and ventilated. Should this be
so, it might break out again next
summer in such buildings.-Memphi
Appeal.
Year: 1879

a meteor has made a fearful record
in Kentucky, if the account Of its
flight and fatality be true. LeOnidas
Grover was an old farm n in the vi
cinitv of Newton, Fountain county.
Grover did not get up to breakfast
one morning. He slept by himself,
and his daughter, who lived with him,
went to his room to see what was the
matter. She found his mangled and
lifeless body lying on the bed. There
was hole like that of a cannon ball,
in the ceiling and roof above him and
in the bed and floor beneath him. Fol
lowing the course Of the crashing, q
conicaI,shaped stone, weighing twenty
pounds, was found buried about FIVE
feet in the,earth. 1t was pronounced
a meteoric stone, and the direction
from which it came, and the force that
must have propelled it, seems to con
firm the meteoric theory. If the facts
are as stated it is said to be the first
death known from such cause. lie.
onidas Grover was singled out from
all mankind in all the world to be the
first victim of red hot meteor shot


flaming from tie skies st Louis Re
publican.
Year: 1879

The present Legislature will do the
country a great service if it will inn
prove our system of public roads. The
following from the Memphis Herald
is to the point: "No state has worse
roads than exist in Tennessee, and they
are the logical sequence of our public
road system. 1t is bad system, and
has resulted in a complete failure. Let
a new one be devised. Why not so
fix it that the occupants of our county
jails shall be made to wo:k upon and
repair our roads, just as penitentiary
convicts were used to build the railroad
from Decatur to Montgomery"
Year: 1879

The idea so long held by some farm
ers, that late plantiQg and heavy dews
of the season make fine, weighty to-
bacco, has been exploded. Exper-
ience teaches that early planting and
vigorous cultivation is the only sure
reliance for fine crop. When buy
ers 90 around, planters are sure to ex-
hibit their first cutting as their best
tobacco, and of course the first cutting
is the early planting. The seasons are
too. unreliable for late planting.
There is no certainty of good stand,
while more time and labor are reluir-
ed to cultivate, and then the crop is
generally hurried in, before maturity,
to save it from frost. We verify be-
lieve we have before US good crop
year, and. every farmer should aim to
plant early moderate crop, fertilize
and cultivate well, with a view TO
quality and not quantity. Plant no
poor land.-CarksriIle Tobacco Leqt.
Year: 1879

A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature to put off the payment Of
taxes. The people do not want it
passed. They would rather pay now
than TO pay twice year hence. Let
the law remain as it is.
Year: 1879

New YORK, March 28.-The
general session of the grand jury
to>day handed into court a presents
ment concerning the New York Ele-
vated Railroad Company, for in
efficient management and gross neg
ligence, as shown in the recent acci~
dent on their road, and requiring
them to take measures to prevent a
possibility of a like occurrence
again.
Year: 1879

CINCINNATI, March 28.-Some
little excitement was occasioned at
a meeting Of the Catholic Priests of
this Diocese last night for the pur-
pose of perfecting the plans for the
relief of Archbishop Purcell by an
announcement that Frank Grever,
Charles Stewart and Thomas
Granlon had been appointed by the
Archbishop committee to receive
charitable contributions to pay t. e
Diocesan debt. This appointment


was understood to mean that the
committee appointed by the priests
was completely ignored and cansed
a bitter discussion in which Father
Callaghan, of the Cathedral, who
was supposed to be at the bottom of
this Appointment, was denounced
by the German priests especially.
The meeting finally adjourned with
cut united action upon the matter.