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Year: 1878

Ohio is in many respects the representative
State of lhe Union. In her borders wealth,
intelligence end culture is, perhaps, more
evenly distributed than in any other patt of
the country. Her people ere, therefore, the
best exhibition and product of the republic,
aad her journs's and the men who conduct
them are the best reflection and exponent of
her people. When the social condition of a
people is such as it is in Ohio there is no dan
ge. to the nation. 1t is only when the COM
plex and involved civilization of our large
cities sets in that danger confronts US end
good men begin to despair of the Republic.
IPhiladelphia Press.
Year: 1878

The hair, when naturally white or Of
a very light fiaxen, a. Is often the case
in children and some adults, contains
phosphate of msgnesia, which ulti'
mately disappears In children when
their hair gradually darkens as they
advance In age, The coloring oil OF
black hair 10 Of dark green, which
becomes lighter In the different shades
from black to light brown. The col
oring principle OF red hair Is red, that
of auburn hair q mixture OF red and
dark green, that Of light or fiaxen
hair is almost without color.
Year: 1878

IF the Bland bill had have become law j,
would have been easy for that eminent Demo.
crat, August Belmont, with the use Of two
hundred of his millions, to have made 500,
600 each and every month; but the people Of
ihe country would then have been robbed out
of Just that much.
Year: 1878

TaR Democratic House of Representatives
cut down the regular appropriations and
claimed great reduction in the annual ex


penses of the Government; afterward they
made up the appropriations by deficiency
bills, but said nothing about those amounts.
If it was not deliberate deception, what was
Year: 1878

MORE persons have been murdered by the
Democracy in cold blood for opinions sake
since the war than were slain on both SIDE
in any one battle during the war. The con-
troll of the State governments gained by tbs
policy 3 ca led l. cal self government.
Year: 1878

A lady whose husband held one of the
highest places in the government stood in
her magnificent home attired for her weekly
reception. ''How gladly would give up all
the finery, show and insincerity of this public
place and 60 back to the rooms lived in
when we were first married. would throw
my silks and diamonds away and sit down to
my supper of chip beef and tea at sunset, and
afterward take long, quiet walk with Will,
and rest on the stump in the moonlight, and
tell my little plans for the future, and what I
had done every hour while he was gone, and
know that we were alone in the world, living
only for each other. Those days seem like
days in heaven. work harder now than
any slave; often three hundred calls to return
in single week; receptions or parties every
night; sec the same things, come home dis
gusted, wonder what am living for, where
will go when die. Bette, must have
Hon. and Secretary here tomorrow;
must get their influence; you must talk
music to the Secretary, and you must ask
Hon. about monolith monoiith is his
hobby. Do your best. 1 need their help
So it is always. Help, influence, power-a
smile in my face, interest in my manner, liv-
ing lie; feeding my soul on husks. -
Washington Letter.
Year: 1878

A recent writer says: "After long obser-
vatien l have come to the conclusion that a
great majority of the farmers that are poor
might have made money. If you inquire into
their business habits you will find that they
always sold the best and kept the poorest.
For instance, if they have too many sheep on
hand they pick out the best to be sold. II
you ask them why they do so they will say,
Because they bring twice as much as the
others, and l am hard up just now for money.
I know that it is not d good plan, and l do
not intend to follow it always" think the
habit of selling the best is very poor plan
for any man, don't care what his circum-
stances may be. I have man in my mind
now who always sells his poorest sheep for
more than twice as much as the average far
mer gets for his best. have seen farmers
In the fall pick out their best pigs to fatten,
because they would make few more pounds
OF pork than the others. This I call very
poor economy.
Year: 1878

A New York firm has made a proposition
to the Board of Health of that city for the
removal of snow from the public streets every
winter at cost of less than one-tenth of that
of the existing method. The machine, which
is indorsed by several eminent engineers, con.
sists simply of boiler with super-heater,
and is so constructed that all the heat OBJ
tanned from the furnace, as we'll as the super
heated steam, is discharged upon the snow
direct. By simple contrivance, most rapid
combustion of fuel is effected, and the steam
being employed in producing draft on the
fuel. One machine, it is claimed, can do the
work of 400 carts, and will remove snow six
inches deep in street a mile long within less
than "a hours after the first fake has fallen,
and at q cost of about 300. The same work
by the slow and tedious process of carting
would cost nearly $4,000.
Year: 1878

Tune.


When at home do as the home 'uns do.


Beware of the man with one book, if he
be an agent for it.


Old age comes on a pace, in harness, and
at good round gait


All the worlds stage, and money makes
the mare 60 before it.


At many of the cheap clothing auctions
there is great cry and little WOOL


The ear of charity is as deaf as an adder
at work on long column of figures.


The blood of the turnip is the seed of the
church IN some of the stingy instances.


The old hummer smelleth the bottle from
afar off, when it is set up for free treat to
the crowd.


Virtue is its own reward, but little be-
sides, that will buy something, is generally
quite handy.


A word spoken in due season; how good
it is when it strikes the man with the bill
just about right.


The motto of the gay old bachelor on the
shady side of life is, The Guard dyes, but
never surrenders.


Women are generally pretty smart. but
they cannot hold candle to can of kero-
sene with safety.


The grinders should cease, because they
are few, and hand-organ music isn't very
popular just at present, anyhow.


How doth the little busy wife improve each
shining hour, and gad around the shops all
day; at night done out and sour.


And after the fire still, small voice. 1t is
that of the reporter sliding around for the
amount of the loss and insurance.


He that touches pitch shall be defled there
with and poker, seven-up and other games
of that class are just as bad as pitch.


When man slips in to gel sly nip and
finds crowd of his acquaintances there, his
first thought is, Defend me from my friends.
The fullness of merchants store is not
indicated by the beggarly account of empty
boxes which he permits to block the side
walk.


sRemove not the ancient landmark, plead
eth the venerable tramp when they bid him
peel off and get into the bath pool at the
work-house.


God helps them who help themselves. The
lunch fiend takes heart and goes for what
there is on the table, regardless OF Providen-
tial aid in the contract.
Father, at that critical period when the
down is appearing on the chin OF your BOY
when his changing voice ID constantly get
ting out of gear; when ne Is experiencing
his first dreams of love, and when ne IS pecu- |
liarly sensitive, be careful 10 your bearing
towards him, and govern your temper, prac-
tice f0rbeaarance, for fear the son may 80
down on your wrath, and you be cleaned OUT
at your own old game.
Year: 1878

Yesterday afternoon, the young
and beautiful Queen of Spain, Mer-
eedes, left her Spanish throne to ap-
pear before that eternal and change
less throne at whose foot all the
kings and rulers of the earth must
sooner or later do vassalage.


Probably no death in the long
obituary of 1873 will create so sin
cere and profound a regret through
out the civilized world.


1t was only few months ago tha
the illustrated journals of Europe and
America made the nations familiar
with the beautiful face and beautiful
character of the young Queen, on the
occasion of her marriage. Pleasant
predictions of happiness for the
bridegroom and bride, and of pros
perity for Spain were heard the world
over; and although the Spanish dia-
dem has become a dim and shadowy
bapble, it mighHbe said that Merce-
des was the most beloved Queen dur
ing her short reign that graced a
European throne i'll the last half CEN
tury.


The universal regret will be, how
ever, not for the death of the young
Queen, but for the young and beau
tifuI woman so suddenly taken from
the midst of all that happiness could
desire in the present or promise in
the future. She was in the very
bloom of wolnanhood, beautiful, rich,
and beloved by her husband and her
subjects. Doubtless there have been
many hundred deaths within the last
few months equally worthy of regret,
but this one win be deeply felt be-
cause the victims social position
rendered every marked action of her
life visible to the eyes of the world.
Year: 1878

Caterpillars have been seen OH sew
eral places on Bayou Bmuf but not in
sufficient numbers to do any harm.
In 1872 they were here as early as
the first days of May, yet We had the
finest yield that year Of any since the
war. If VIC should have hot. dry
weather from bow ON they would in
all probability disappear entirely.


st. Landry News.
Year: 1878

We hold from good authority that
there are fourteen applicants for the
Office Of State Tax Collector from st.
Martin parish to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Felix Olivier.


-Teche Courier.
Year: 1878

We hope the celared people will
turn ont and register. and vote when
the time comes. We are having a
fight with corruption, and want them
to help establish good government.


Colfax Chronicle
Year: 1878

There appear in June or July
two set of Eusquitoes-a grayish
fellow, who stands the day watch,
and big black devil that relieves
him at sundowu. They cut right
through an ordinary mhsqulto bar
as il it were a piece Of cobweb,
and chew at their helpless victim
until, as a gentlemih who has hal
experience expressed it,. "they
swell up like poisoned pap
Then comes the boss flea, a mus
cular aud pestiGerous bug that
takes piece out every time be
bites, as big as Toothpick Ben can
take out Of section of custard
pie. Thes nuissncese hunt the
human family in detachment4 Of a
couple of thousands at time, and
80 thoroughly subdue the object
of their attack that six or seven
hundred will head off, seemingly,
with the magnanimous reflection,
"He's got enough, we can afford
to let him alone" The favorlte
watering place of Jacksonville
people in the swarm summer
is Fort Georgia Bach. There is
considerable ocean there and my
riads of insects of all kinds from
the boss flea down to the little
gnat.
Year: 1878

"Habit" is hard tc overcome,
If you take off the first letter il
does not change "a bit" If you
take off another you still have q
"bit' left. If you take oft still


another, the whole of "it' re.
mains. If you take Of another
it is not "t'--totally used up
All of which goes to show that i
you wish to be rid Of habit.
You must throw it off altogether
Year: 1878

This is the choicest premium
ever given to newspaper sub
scribers-somcthiug of real and
practical value. The ladies viii
be delighted with it. If your
neighbor don't take the OBsrR-
YER tell him of this offer. They
all want the paper and book.
You get the old OBSERVER and
a capital, practical, useful book
of l6O pages, for the price OF the
former.


Now is your opportunity:
This unprecedented offer Will
expire in a few weeks.
Year: 1878

1t will be seen by all who read this paper
that we are making feadess war upon all meas
ures that in our judgment tend to delay, dimin-
ish, or defeat the speedy and fair settlement of
just claims for pensions.


In doing this we know that we are likely to
provoke hostility; that men cannot and will not
understand that it is our right and duty to do
what we have done and intend to do


We want prompt response from the country
We need the sense of support in the sympathy
of thousands of the men scattered everywhere
whose battles we are fighting. We need to feel
that there is a host behind us cheering us on,
cooperating heartily with our efforts We
want to be able to say to members of Congress-
to these officials, that we express the views
wishes and feelings of hundreds of thousands of
the voters Of the country There is where the
power comes in there is the ultimate tribunal in
a free government that controls all things.


Express then, at once, and promptly this
sense of the goodness of the cause and the good
ness of or Uork, by adding your names to the
long columns of our subscription list, and we
shall know that we speak By authority on the
great questions we are handling.


Don't forget this, friends of the cause, and do
it once.
Year: 1878

We are so determined to bring the NATIONAL
TRIBUNE within the reach of every one that we
now reduce the price of subscription from ONE
DOLLAR to FIFY CENTS per year.


This latter amount is the lowest possible fig
ure at which paper of this style and size has
been or can be furnished, and it can only be
maintained at this price to regular subscribers
and on a large subscription roll Again we
urge upon our friends the duty Of prompt ac-
ton in subscribing and canvassing for this pa
per. We shall arrange with our subscribers at
the old rate as they may prefer, by extension OF
the time or by sending two papers for one, but
we very much prefer that each OF our old sub
scribers send us an order for another paper.


Hereafter the national TRIBUNE will not be
sent to any but its regular subscribers, and those
who need it will find it to their advantage to
subscribe at once and forward their names and
the cash to the publishers.


GEORGE E. LEMON & CO.,


p O. Dra,cer 325, Washington, ID. G.
Year: 1878

This measure still hangs in the Committee,
and is likely to sleep there forever if the sol
diers do not take hold of their own cause.


Write to your member or your Senator
write in your own plain way. Demand your
rights, promised long ago, pledged by State and
National Conventions demand work instead of
wind votes instead Of talk. Promise, and keep
the promise, to remember, next November, all
who forget you at this session; and you will
find that you can put spur to them which will
move them out of the solemn walk they now
indulge in.
Year: 1878

1t is understood that several persons are flood
ing the country with circulars in relation to a
bill pending to give land warrants to every sol
dier and sailor and to the heirs of deceased sol
diers and sailors.


We feel it due to our friends to say that there
is not the most remote chance of such a bill be-
ing passed by this or any future Congress. The
notion is exploded and the only effect of the
bill would be to defeat the Bounty Act. In
fact there is not enough good land owned by
the United States now to fill onehalf the de-
mand made by the bill in question.
Year: 1878

We invite correspondence from surgeons and
others on matters of general or special interest.
Views and suggestions Of practical men are
always valuable.


We of course can pay no attention to anony-
NOUS communications but shall always hold
all communications addressed to us as strictly
confidential, unless the writer permits the use of
his name.
Year: 1878

tlOn; 10 SyStematlZe, arrange, ana expedite tne
business of the Office to put just economy and
vigorous action into the details of the office was
the duty of the Commissioner, and he has done
it creditably and well.


To suggest further reforms in the law by
which the settlement of just claims could be
expedited, and fraud and false representation
detected and punished or prevented is his duty
now. But hemust perform that duty in the spirit
and purpose of the law in just and merciful
spiIit. He must not assume one of old did
when he cried out " In my haste | said all men
were liars"


He must remember that all testimony in all
courts proceeds upon the assumption that men
will tell the truth, and that an oath is binding.


These are the foundations of all judicial in
vestigations, and they apply as well to witnesses
sworn in pension cases rs in all others


Now the existing law recognizes these princi-
pies 1t undertakes to provide the cheapest,
easiest, and most expeditions mode of gathering
up the isolated facts and the scattered evidence
out of which the case must be made


This mode is, and necessarily must be, sec
parte statements. Vouchers are required to
sustain them, and disinterested testimony,
wherever in the nature of things it can be OBJ
tanned.


4 No other mode could ever have done the work
already done; no other mode can do the work
vet to do IF each claim was to be in the ma
ture of law suit, that would imply court
for each--parties, attorneys, witnesses present,
or by commission examination and cross-exam~
ination, and final Judgment.


The delay, hindrance and expense of this
renders the scheme prerosterous and absurd


In the new bill proposed BY the Commissioner,
he goes as far as he dare toward this style of
judicial examination But, after all, as the bill
stands it is nothing more than g &c parte evi-
dence to be given and received. The commits
sion have no judicial faculty or function; there
is no assertion even of their right to cross-eX-
anime; there is no power given to summons
witnesses for the United States They are sim
ply to hear and reduce to writing such testi-
monv as the claimant chooses to bring before
them and, so far as the bill states. have no more
power, authority, or jurisdiction over the mat
ter than the present justice of the peace, who
now takes the same testimony. If this be so,
why send this peripatetic commission on IT'S
travels at Government cost? Why substitute
anew-fangled, complex, and cumbersome piece
of brass amounted machinery into the place of
the plain, simple, and quiet action provided
for now, with which all men are familiar?


If on the contrary, it is meant to make this
commission a court in any sense of the term,
or to give it any power Of judgment and deci-
sion, let the bill be so amended as to say 50, and
it will be easy to show that this proposition is
fraught with great dangers, great wrongs, and
great delays, and involves absurdities as gross
and consequences as bad as can well be imag-
ined.


Let we'll enough alone, Mr.. Commissioner.
Accept the line already laid down, and hew up
to it as closely as you can. Let the poor claim


L., l.nr rr.,cit t,no,n, ntn Alc
Year: 1878




TREMENDOUS STORY IN REGARD TO THEM PUB


LIsHED IN WASHINGTON, UNDER DEMOCRATIC


AUTHORITY.


.-a IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUsg.I


WASHINGTON. Oct. 3.-The local organ Of the
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
devOtes column and half in this mornings issue
to alleged history of the cipher kilograms, from
the time they are supposed to have been taken from
the files of the telegraph companies until they APP
peared in the columns of The TRIBUNE. The story
is told on the convenient authority of "a gentleman
visiting the Capital"


1t is to the effect that in the Winter
of 1876. when the Democratic House organ
lied its investigating committees, and called
upon the telegraph companies for all kilograms
which it was hoped might implicate prominent Re-
publicans, Senator Morton and Mr.. VIM. Orton,
president of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany Doth now dead conspred together to keep the
most important kilograms out of the hands
Of the House Committee. To this end.
the dispatches were turned over, a subpoena, to
the Senate Committee on Elections, of which
Mr.. Morton was chairman. They were then,
as the story runs, examined by Senator Morton and
other Republicans, and the most important
of them, including both the cipher kilograms and
those sent by the managers Of the Republican cam
palgn, were taken out. The rest of them were
shown to the Democrats, and as their contents
proved nothing they returned to the telegraph
companies.


The rest of the tale would do no discredit to the
pages Of dime-novel. One day, some time after
the Inauguration of President Hayes, while
General Butler was absent from his Office,
1T is said, a mysterious package was mys-
teriously laid uDon his table, and to
this day the method by which it was placed
there has remained unknown. The contents of the
package were scarcely less remarkable than the
method by which the package itself came to light,
being in fact the famous cipher kilograms of cur
rent history. The experienced eye of the General
soon detected this fact, and in the fulness
of time he transferred them to the Editor of The
TRIBUNE stipulating that the latter should not as
sail him editorially during his candidacy for the
Governorship of Massachusetts, But this
was not all. There were according to
the gentleman visiting the Capital" other
kilograms duplicating the Republican party
managers in political crimes of the darkest
and deepest character aud these were reserved by
the General to be brought out when next the
Potter Committee shall meet, and are TO form the
grand climax of the exciting drama OF which the
prelude only has as yet been played.
As all the principal personages vino are referred
to in this story, whose interest 1t would be 10 ex-
pose it's untruths, dead and the Potter Com
mittee will not meet until after the November
and its mysterious package" may be expected to
do duty during the remainder of the campaign as
the best device which Democratic ingenuity is cap
able OF producing TO offset. in slight degree,
the disastrous effects of the "cipher teegrams."


IDO tell Ed. TRIBUNE.1
Year: 1878

was honestly rowed or not and until Courtney can
be asked to explain the things which seem suspl-
cious now IL is not fair to PREJUDICE the case nor can
there be any question that it was an uncommoniy
pretty race to look at, and one in which the men
seemed to be very evenly matched


This is rather festive week in Montreal. as there
are several steeple-chases to take place tomorrow
and an athletic contest Saturday. in which some
of our New-York athletes are to take part. and in
which they are likely to give good account Of
themselvea
Year: 1878

NORWICH, Conn, Oct. 3.-Wesley w. Bishop
made a brief supplementary confession to-day lie as
scrs the night before his wife died. Mrs Cobb went
TO his house to see his wife In his absence and when she
subsequently met him ut the Good Templar lodge, the
same evening told him she had gwen Mrs. Bishop
dose OF morphine instead OF the regular medicine.
Year: 1878

The effect of balloon-descent was
tried on a camp-meeting near Cincinnati
lately. The balloon came sailing down
in the middle of prayer, like an answer
from above, but il effectually broke up
the meeting. As the aeronaut had
ballast left, some of the people wanted
him to give an ascension exhibition
but the expo tulations of the preacher
to please not turn the camp-meeting into
circus prcvailed.-MsT York Lior
Year: 1878

HEAVEN DESIGNED THE JUICE OF the HOre-
hound Plant the Balm Of Glead Tree aud healing
Honey for the relief rated lungs These three specifics
are combined IN HALEs HONEY HOREHOUND AND TAR VIII
Cough Cold however violent with unelrng certainly
Pixies TOOthache Drops cure 10 one minute.
Year: 1878

the present method OF grinding, even
usder the most advantageous circum-
stances. Flour is heated and deteriorat-
ed by the most expensive machinery in
the largest steam mills. "The Universal
Grinder" is SO simple in construction, SO
inexpensive to produce and so effective
in working that every small town and
village can have Flour Mill which will
grind better than the best mill now ex-
listing in the wide world.