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Year: 1879

AN increase Of the working force of the
Pension Bureau is imperatively demanded
to secure prompt and efficient execution
of the arrears of pension act The law in
creases the number pensioners and thereby
increases the amount of clerical labor to be
performed in the preparations of pension
papers, &c. A neglect to provide for this
obvious demand would be nothing less than
criminal.
Year: 1879

The New York Tribune thinks that the
uniform course of sending nobody but
whipped rebels to Congress from the South
will give the Democrats the liveliest kind
Of a circus when these graybacks get into
power. The only difficulty about this pred
i1ate is that the rebels referred to are not of
the whipped" kind. If they were, no rea-
sonable man would seriously object to their
getting Into power"
Year: 1879

THE New York San has discovered that
Senator GoRDos has been guilty of as much
sharp practice in the way of ofice-getting
rs any carpet-bagger ever was. The San is
not always good authority on such subjects,
but seems to have blundered upon the truth
in this instance. If the Georgia Democrats
were not 50 clannish, something more def
mite and detailed than this general charge
might be made public against GORDON. As
it is he is protected from exposure by the
friendly cover Of partisan interest.
Year: 1879

DEMOCRATIC economy, so called, has been
illustrated latterly in many ways, but in
none so clearly as the parsmonious appro-
priations for the execution of the pension
laws. Everybody knows that the Pension
Bureau is behindhand with its work, and
now that the CUMMINGS pension act is
about to go into effect everybody knows also
that an increase of the number of clerks in
that Bureau is emphNtcally demanded by
the requirements of the public service. Win
any Democrat come to the relief of the pen
sioners now with proposition to increase
the strength Of its clerical force?
Year: 1879

There was very fine attendance at the Jersey City
Grounds yesterday afternoon to witness the National
Association game between the New Bedford club, Of
New Bedford. Mass. and the Jersey City Browns
The game was opened in brilliant style. the first
four innings being played without error on
either side. In the fifth inning Esterbrook opened
for the Jersey Citys with pretty line hit, stole to
second aud scored on hit by Kicker. Tho visitors
scored three runs in the last half of the inning.
which were the only runs they got during the game
Troy and Clinton led OFT with safe hits in the sixth
inning Callahan reached first base on an error.
Esterbrook went out o sacrifice hit, while Troy
scored. and base hit to right field by Booth sent
Clinton and Callahan home The seventh and eighth
innings unproductive of to either side. In
the niuth however. the home team added another
run to their score. Poorman making base hit and
scoring on errors by Storey and Browdy. The scoro
was to in favor OF the Jersey Citys.
Year: 1879

CONFUSION AT THE BREAKFAST Ia
BLE.-Housewivcs in the far West
don't know as much ayout the native
majesty of the oyster as we do, and
this ignorance gave rise to the follow
ing occurrence related by the Burl-
ngton Hawkeye man:


1t vas rather late yesterday morn
| ing when Mr.. Willaby got up, and he
was vaguely conscious of a confused
recollection of things, but he didn't
say much and tried to appear as
cheerful as he knew how. Presently
breakfast was announced, and the
family took their places at the table,
but Mr.. Willaby was amazed, as he
sat staring at six little round wooden
boxes Of axle grease ranged solemnly
in front Of his plate.


Where under the sun, he said,
with a puzzled intonation, what in
the thunder-where did all this axle
grease come from, and what Is 1t for?'


oh, is it axle grease? asked his
wife, with charming simplicity and
Innocence, just a triAe overdone.-
'You said last night when you brought
these cans home that they were oys-
ters and would be nice for breakfast.
thought that you had batter eat
them right away, as they didn't smell
as they would keep very much long
er.


And then Mrs. Willaby removed
the cans, and her husband sat and
looked at the teapot and thought so
long that his coffee was cold rs rich
relation when he thought to drink
Year: 1879

A Hartford gentleman who tarried
late at a wine supper, found his wife
awaiting his return in high state Of
nervousness, Said she, Here I've
been waiting and rocking IN chair
till my head swims round ike top
Jess so where I've been, responded
he; its in the atmosphere
Year: 1879

Commercial travellers are a good il
lustration Of the development theory.
This springs styles have about an
inch and half more cheek than usual
and about a ton and three quarters
more baggage.
Year: 1879

They were stroIling along in the
moonlight. Something pnt it into
his head that she wouldn't be very
angry if he snatched a kiss he re-
solved to do it, but in the ecstasy Of
the moment he forgot that he had a
cigar in his mouth, aud they don't
stroll in the moonlight any more.
Year: 1879

A butchers boy was coming down
the street, with a tray on his should
er. He accidentally struck a young
lady's seven story bonnet, when she
exclaimed Deuce take the tray -
'Madam, said the boy, gravely, the
deuce can't take the tray
Year: 1879

As before remarked, of the vast area of this Territory, but diminu- tive fraction is suitable for grain raising in its natural state. There is much good land along the river val levs still open to pre-emption and en- try under the Desert act, the most of it being desert land.

 There are countless miles of country
Year: 1879

The Richmond Basin mines arc proving all that their owners antici- pated, every days development add ing to their value, the question of true Assure vein and permanency is now settled fact MeSsrs. Riggs, Cambell S Newland are now down on the main shaft of their La Plata mine sixty feet, ten feet below water level and rich sulphuret ore contin- ues regularly through the whole width of the ledge, seven feet White gneiss is now coming in, carrying ruby and native silver, all of which goes tN show there is a lead or "Bo-- nanza" of silver below The show ing of this great ledge is truly flat tering, three consecutive claims car. rying the same high grade ores, same uniformity in width of ledge and, make run of metal of 1920 feet lt looks strange to hear of men looking for good mining property to invest in, and at the same time such mines of undoubted richness and value as, those mentioned to remain in the hands of the original owners, miners without means to develop thcm ex- cept when they are forced to do SO by extracting ore to support themselves. This is done and under every disad- va~tage, necessarily using none but their high grade ores for that pur- pose. When capital onee takes hold of the Richmond Basin mines, there will be such production of bullion, that the great astonishment will be, why those mines remained so long out of the hands of capitalists
Year: 1879

We hereby notify our friends and the public generally that from this time forth we will cease to sell for credit on any terms whatever. We are aware that in order to do this we will have to sell cheaper than our neigh bors, and we are prepared to do so. AS we are building we are very much pressed for cash, and therefore 1t will be better for us to sell for cost than to sell on ever so short a time, no matter how good the buyer. The facts in the case are just these: it is a necessity with us to have our goods or to have the wherewith to buy more. Of course we do not expect to do so much business, but we are de- termined to do what we can.

 Our Lumber Yard is now full and nearly com plete.
Year: 1879

When in New York, two months ago, one
of the most remarkable things we saw was
the phonograph, invented by clever young
mechanician called Edison. 1t is an instru-
ment into which, when one speaks, his voice
striking against mica disc, sets it in mo-
tion. This presses steel point against a
quickly-revolvng cylinder covered with tin
foil, which receives the impress of the point,
which is an exact representation of the
vibrations produced by the voice retaining
its strength, tone, and character As long
as this tinfoil retains these impressions, the
voice may be heard exactly as it spoke upon
the circle of mica. We were told that it
could be heard two hundred times, and if
preserved could be heard thousand or ten
thousand years after this. We spoke into
it, and it was something ghost-like to hear
ones own voice reproduced exactly as it
spoke. Being rather hoarse by continued
preaching, the tones were rather rough and
unmusical, but the phonograpb neither fat
tered nor changed. Out came the same
rough, unmusical words as had entered. A
most solemn meaning was given to us there
and then of many passages in Scripture.
Mans ingenuity has got so far. But what
of mans God, the Judge of all the earth ?
Does he not say something about every idle
word coming into judgment When the
books are opened, and man sees his own
actions photographed, and hears his own
voice condemning him, will he not be speech.
less May the Lord set guard on our lips
| have in my possession that piece of tinfoi
which even man could make me hear my
own voice back from after millenniums had
passed over me. And think of the tinfoil OF
a mans life covered over with oaths, his lies
his lcentious talk, his drunken songs, his
idle words. A man condemned by his own
voice A man hearing himself at the Great
White Throne, cursing his own soul, OIL
disappearing God. Reader, our only hope il
in the blood of the Lamb That can wipt
out all our sins. As sure as the throne Of
judgment shall be set, so surely will Goo
Judge mankind, Praise his name that b,
faith we can now hear, and pass from deati
unto life. and cross the judgment line. Chris
tian, shall this year not record for us word
of grace and faithfulness May we speal
nothing that we shall be ashamed to hear a
Christ's judgmentseat. What manner o
persons ought we TO be in all holy converse
tion and godliness, looking for and hastin,
unto the coming of the day OF God l--Britis
| Ep1nosIisI
Year: 1879

One evening in Winter a man and his
wife seated by their fire were conversng
about the happiness of their richer neighbors.


"Ol il I were able to have all wished,
I'd soon be happier than all these people"
said the wife.


"And |, also," said the husband. "I
wish had lived in the time Of the fairies,
and that one would have given me all that
| wished for.'


At that moment they saw in their room
beautiful lady. "Pm a fairy" said she.
al promise to give you three things but
take care, after having wished for three
things, can give you nothing more"


The fairy disappeared; the man and his
wife were much embarrassed.


"For myself" said the wife, al know
well what will wish. do not wish, yet
wish it; but think there is nothing so
good as to be beautiful and rich"


"But," said her husband, "with that one
may be sick, or die young. Wish for health
and long life."


"And of what use is long life if one is
poor" said his wife. "That only helps TO
make one unhappy longer time In truth,
the good fairy should have promised to give
us a dozen gifts for there are, at least a
dozen things which we need"


"That is true" said the husband. "But
let us take time and consider until to-mor-
row morning the three things which are
most necessary for u.s."


81 wish to think all night" said she. "In
the meantime let us warm ourselves, for it
is cold"


Then the woman took the tongs and
stirred the fire. and as she saw she had
much charcoal well lighted, she said, with
out thinking;


:" See the good fire. wish | had a yard
of black-pudding for our supper We could
easily cook it."


Hardly had she said these words when
there fell a yard of pudding down the
chimney.


"a pest upon the gourmand with her
puddingl" said her husband. "Behod what
beautiful wish As for myself, am SO
angry that | wish that yon had the pudding
on the end of your nose ~


In moment he perceived that he had
been still more foolish than his wife. For at
this second wish the pudding leaped to the
end of the nose of the poor woman, who
could not pull it off.


"How unhappy am I" cried she "You
are wicked to wish this pudding on the END
of my nose"


81 assure you, my dear wife, that did
not think of it," replied her husband. But
what shall we do? will wish for grea
riches, and will make you golden case tc
hide the pudding"


80, mol" replied she. 81 will kill my
self if it is necessary to live with this on tn,
end of my nose, believe me. There remain,
to us one more wish. Let me have it, or
will throw myself from the window"


"Stop my dear wife, give you per
mission to wish what you will"
"Ah, well, then I wish this pudding
should fall to the ground !"
1t fell, and she said to her husband 6"
see the fairy has Knocked US, and she hat
reason to. Perhaps if we had riches W,
should be more unhappy than we are a
present. Let us sup upon our pudding
since it is all that remains of our wishes"


The husband thought his wife was right
and they ate gaily, without troubling them
selves more about the things they had mean
TO have wished for.-June Vide A oake.
Year: 1879

o my soul, dignifed with Gods image,
redeemed by Christ's blood, betrothed by
faith, enriched by the Spirit, adorned with
graces, ranked with angels-love him by
whom thou art so much beloved BE intent
on him who is intent on thee seek him who
seeketh thee love him who loveth thee
whose love anticipates thine, and is its
cause He has all merit, he is thy reward !;
he is the vision, and the end Be earnest
with the earnest, pure with the pure, holy
with the holy What thou shouldest ap-
pear before God, that should God appear to
thee He who is kind and gentle and of
great compassion, requires the meek, the
kind, the humble, and compassionate. Love
him who drew thee from the lake of misery
and from the miry clay. Choose him for
thy friend above all friends, who when thou
art bereft of all things can alone remain TO
thee. In the day of thy burial, when. every
friend is gone, he will not forsake thee, but
will defend thee from devouring foes lead
thee through an unknown region, bring thee
to the streets of the heavenly Zion, and place
thee with angels in the presence of his
majesty, where thou shalt hear the angelic
melody Holy, holy, holy There is the
chant Of gadness, there the voice of exulta.
tion and salvation, of thanksgiving and
praise and perpetual hallelujah There is
accumulated bliss and supereminent glory
-Auqustine.
Year: 1879

1t has been profoundly remarked that the
true way of telling toadstool from mush.
room is to eat it. If you die, it was toad
stool, if you live it was mushroom. A
similar method is employed in the selection
of husbands--marry him, if he kills you he
was bad husband; if he makes you happy,
he is good one There is really no other
criterion. As DR.. Samuel johnson remarked,
the proof of the pudding is in the eating
thereof. Some young men that seem unex-
ceptionable, indeed very desirable when
they are single, are perfectly horrid as soon
as they get married. All the latent brute
there is in the heart comes out as soon as
sensitive and delicate being seeks her hap
piness in his compauionship. The honey
moon lasts very short time, the receptions
and the round of parties are soon over ;
then the two sit down to make home happy.
If she has married a society man he will
soon begin to get bored he will yawn and
go TO sleep on the sofa. Then he will take
his hat and go down to the club and see the
boys, and perhaps not come home till morn
ing. If she has married man engrossed in
business he will be tagged out when he
comes home. lie may be sickly man that
she must nurse, morose man that she must
seek to cheer, a drunken man that she fears,
fool whom she soon learns to despise, a
vulgar man for whom she must apologize
in short, there are thousands of ways of being
bad husbands, and very few ways of being
good ones. And the worst of it is, that the
poor silly women are apt to admire in single
men the very traits that make bad husbands,
and look with contempt or ridicule upon
those quiet virtues which make home happy.
Men with very little beauty or style often
make the wife happy, and sometimes quite
the reverse. The number of ways of being
bad husband is almost as great as the num-
Der OF ways of being ugly. No one can tell
from the demeanor of single man what
sort of husband he will be. Meantime she
must marry somebody. Eat it; if you die it
was asort OF toadstool, if you live it was a sort
of mushroom.-Baltimore Erery Saturday.
Year: 1879

THERE are many people in every audience
who do not understand some not unusual
words. A preacher who, il addressing a
country congregation, spoke of drawing
an Inference" was surprised next day TO
hear one of his auditors remark, don't
just know what an inference is, but If any
horse in the parish can draw it, It's our
Blackbird. -Congregaiionalist.
Year: 1879

FRIDAY. Feb. 2S-6 z. NJ.


rhe bull courage exhibited in yesterdays closing
prices seems to have oozed out during the night for
very little of it left after the opening hour this
morning 1t is true Western Union shot of at
tangent. onward and upward. but it the only
projectile of the list. the rest of the market result
ing in nothing better than mere fash in the pan
so far any advance movement concerned. The
strength of the telegraph fancy however was sufli-
cient to a multitude of the backslidng sins
developed in other active stocks, for it alone grew
strong. forged ahead and came to anchorage at the
best figures of the day. Closing transactions were
made at 1868. which is the top notch of values in its
Stock Exchange history. Almost without exception the
remainder of the list was lower There was posi-
tive weakness apparent, but general tendency to
droop which resulted in pairing down OF prices and
essening Of that emb0npont of values which is so
attractive to the eye of the shareholders In fact.
there is Banting treatment effective in reducing
fat figures on Change smart attack from q few
determined bears. Something of this kind
this morning in their treatment of Delaware and
Lackawanna. 1t not thoroughly successful.
however for the price. which had been driven from
6l7s to 49S, rallied in spite of all opposition to so
and closed there. There was, nevertheless, very
pretty 'mill" between the bull and bear factions
while these differences being made, the bears
striking out from the shoulder with their
''Seller SlXtieS ana the DulS cOuntcrnR Dy Tree
purchases of the same. 1t is estimated that
10 900 shares put out by the bears in the
shape of these time contracts Between endeavoring
to shove up Western Union and shove down the
thracte fancy the day spent. and around either
the other clustered the largest dealings the
keenest interest and the most lively fluctuations of
the session. Although, as between the rise in the
and the fall in the other of these two stocks,
there resulted, to speak, drawn battle. there
lack of killed and wounded expressed by the
roster Of the rest of the list. Pretty much every
thing suffered to the extent of to per cent. Even
blockade in January is said to have earned since the
beginning of the year least per clean and
clear account OF it's next dividend. lost point in
the days work. So did the preferred grangers
much and the common stocks even more. So did
Michigan Central New Jersey Central and several
market to be hilarious over, unless born
bear Jay Gould, with congenital antipathies to
all progress and prosperity. Erie remained steady,
and intimatons given to an immediate ad-
vance. These possibly founded the fact that
the Atlantic and Great Western bond and stock
holders met in London to-day and by large major
ity voted to lease their property to the Erie road.
While in some cases closing prices were the lowest
Ones in most instances a fractional Improvement
was secured at the end.


The opening, highest lowest and closing prices Of
stocks at the New York Stock Exchange to-day
as follows:-
Year: 1879

regard as among the sblest, most useful and
ttost fromis ing OF ot1r public men. If any
thing says Mr. Hutd; shas been settled BY
the legislation of the last qiaftsr Of century,
it is that even general legislation fiat bs
tackled to appropriation bills, and certainly, no
man at any time in the history of this Govern
ment has disputed the proposition that msas-
ures in the interest Of economy, propositions
relating I'd the revenue, such as these are,
might be incorporated into bills when original
ed by the House,


But fUf the purpose Of this argiment let me
admit that in their cotirse in this matter the
Democratic party wers wrong; let me admit
that they were fagrantiy, fatally, hideoueiy
wrong let me admit that that schenie Of tack,
Zig is scheme Conceived in fraud and
brought forth In iniquity" What then? The
Sery law which the Democrats were proposing
To alter and amend became q law In this very
r1aniief, and becatie Law In this manner by
the contrivance of the fefy party fof whom Mr..
Sherman speaks, and with which he was co.
operating at the very time. They and he edh-
ceived the fraud; they and he brought forth
In their footsteps in the single instance of try
ing to pull down by such practice q fragrant
and crying evil by them created through such
practice, have committed o wrong, then is the
Democratic party responsible, not to Mr. Sher-
man and the stalwarts, who bsve Elnnsd worse
than we, but to the great body Of the American
people, and to them alone. II we have sinned
in attempting thus to procure the repeal of an
oppressive law, framed in such manner, how
much greater is their sin who conceived and
FIRST practiced the plan for the purpose Of strip
ping from the President of the United States
the veto power granted by the constitution, and
who did succeed by this very method in pass
Ing this law over the Presidents head without
having the constitutional majority.
Year: 1879

Now the criticisms that men make on
women's work-and I dare say that
those made by women on men are no
more reasonable-are mainly of this
description-growing out of the impress
sion that all work is easy which one
does not understand. just as hay-mak-
ing is the ightest and most graceful of
labors to those who have never person
ally handled hay-fork, SO is the great
er part of woman's days work easy to
a man until he has tried it. Try him
for a while at the occupation that seems
ightest-let us say, for two hours
steady work at taking out basting


threads from that pretty blue bunting
that was bought to please hinn-and see
if he does not get some new views on
the subiectl And all this has yet a
farther bearing upon the summer @rest,"
as it is called, of women. by the mount
aims, or sea-shore. We sometimes see
very ill-natured things said on this sub
iect by those who should know better.