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Year: 1879

The Anti-Tilden Democrats are working them
selves, with much wriggling, back to confession
that Tilden not dead after all. The late propis
ing boom business has been abandoned and the
boomers are now dverting themselves with dis
cussion on the subject OF Iidens second choice. II
won't take them long to discover that the only
second choice the Claimant Is likely To have will he
the Republican candidate. III his party decides to
condone fraud by dropping him, he will to it
that il Is rebuked Tor It's cowardIce.


The Democracy of Maine have tackled job Of
altogether too serious dimensions. But although
they cannot steal the State, the past at least is
cure and they have been already successful In
achieving the infamy OF making the attempt.


There is pretty strong Democratic demand for
the application of gag to Montgomery Blair. He
would explode. like plugged-up tea-kettle over o
hot fire, IN less than twenty minutes.


Speaker Randall is SAID to have a scheme for
keeping Congress down to business and making n
final adjournment possible as early as May /. At
present 1t looks # he might succeed but there is
no telling what may happen. The Democratic hot
heads are all quiet now. but there surety that
they can be kept so for any length of time. Anyone
of them is likely to accumulate more steam than he
can carry almost any day. and then there will be
an explosi0o which may spoil all the Democratic
plans of good behavior. Mr. Randall thinks II Ia
settled that there will be no financial legislation,
but there some reason TO hope that he Is mistaken
In that.


The business of seat-snatching Is not 80 popular
IN Washington as 1t was The Dunderheads have
heard from tho country on that subject also.
withors, of virginia. Is the first Senator TO get
astraddle of the Mexican boom. Yesterday he in-
troduced petition to fuse all the governments on
the Continent and mix them upinto sort Of amaga-
| mated or alloyed Confederacy.


General Garfield is as certain us man can DO of
| future event Of being chosen United States Ssss
Year: 1879

The annual meeting of the Training School
for Nurses last night summed up a years
work of that excellent institution. The roll of
its graduates is eulogium enough. There have
been ninety in the six years of its existence !;
OF these twenty are at the bead of training
schools, or are matrons of hospitals, and fifty
nine aIe professional nurses.
Year: 1879

An incident in the French Chamber of Dep
uties yesterday strikingly illustrates the French
way of doing things as distinguished from al
most every other way known to the civilized
world. The Minister of the Interior moved a
special grant OF 100000 francs for the re-
lief of the existing depression, declared that
he would he responsible for the roper distri-
button of the money. and demanded the adop-
tion of the motion as a vote OF confidence in
the Government. Out of Chamber OF 532
members all but five were present and voted.
and there were only three votes against the
grant.


Mr. DOrsheimer yesterday dragged the Dem
ecratic skeleton out of the closet In which il
Year: 1879

The municipal election yesterday resulted
in . substantial republican victory. Both
branches of the city council are republican
and the combination has only won the barrer
and fstiguing honor OF the mayoralty. That
appears to have been captured on n new is
sue, the sabbatarian. brought forward by tn,
Argus yesterday morning that versatile jour
nal appearing, for this occasion Only, as the
sabbatarian organ.


Fortunately the choice of Mayor is but an
incident in the contest The fight was really
over the city council and the republicans con
troll that body by large majority. The city
has been saved from the domination of the
fat stratocracy which menaced it. The
hungry swarm of "colonels' that had antici
patively divided the spols have suffered an
utter rout. Not one of that crowd who was
set up for Office succeeded at the polls


The result ofthe election is an Overwhelming
defeat Of the coalition. The one thing they
did not care for alone was the mayor-ship
that useless prize is the only thing they have
won. Our victory is the more gratifying be-
cause We had to fight the combined and clam
orous hosts of discontent--it is the victory of
intelligence over ignorance, of rational hope
and patriotism over the prophets Of disaster,
Of the friends of sound currency over the
advocates of fiat money.
Year: 1879

AFTERNOON SEssION.
The President, having called the Senate to
order, read the following message:


To the President of the Senate:


In compliance with the Constitution of the
state herewith return without my approval
the resolve On the pay roll of the Senate
which originated in the body over which YOU
preside endorsed by you as having finally
passed the same on this day and by the Speak
er of the House of Representatives on the
first instant, and for the following reasons to
wit:


The Con. titution of the State, article A..
section I, provides that the Senators and Rep
resentativos shall receive such compensation
as shall be established by law, but no law
increasing their compensation shall take eff
icct during the existence of the Legislature
winch enacted 1t. Chap. ll5, sec of the
revised statutes provides that s'each member
OF the Senate and House of Representatives
shall be paid salary of $50 for the
regular annual session of the Legislature and
81 for every ten miles travel from his place
Of abode once in each session. He il entitled
10 mileage on the first day of the session and
$50 of his salary on the first day of each
month thereafter during the session and the
balance at the end thereof" An examina-
ton Of this roll exhibits the fact that against
the name of each and every member his mile
age is reckoned at 81 for each and every ten
miles travel, instead of ~ as expressly limited
by law. Article 5, sec. II of the Constitu-
tlon OF the State enjoies -riso:s :se executive
the duty to take care that the laws be faith
fully executed and in the discharge of this
duty cannot consent TO approve an act or
resolve so openly and manifestly a violation
OF the law, the spirit and letter of the Con-
stitution as well as the usages not only of the
trainers OF that instrument but of ali subse-
quent Legislatures for period of more than
fifty years.


ALoSzo GARcELoS, Governor.
Year: 1879

The city and town elections which have
occurred indicate that the greenback DEM
ocratic party reached high water mark last
September Since the legislature began
its session and the true inwardness
of the coalition made itself manifest
in the inordinate scramble for
Office which took place, and in the pro-
ceedings of the House where economy was
displayed over jack-knives and lead-pen-
ellis and reckless extravaganza was the
rale when partisan ends were TO he
answered, there has been a very percep-
tible receding of the greenback tide


The falling away of prominent men
from the greenback party, and the loud
censure which it generally received gave
token before the elections of coming
change. and now the elections are telling
plainly that the change has begun.


Last year the spring elections gave
warning in the results of the defeat which
overlook the republicans in the fall elec-
tion. This year the signs of republican
success in the State election are abundant
The additional returns received since
Monday evening of the elections continue
to be of the same encouraging character
rs the first.


Let the republicans be wide-awake ant
active this week and make ready for thu
elections to occur next Monday. If thu
results next Monday are as favorable t'
the republicans as those Of last Monday
the redemption of the State next >eptem
Der will be well assured
Year: 1879

The argus and Advertiser join in hosan-
mas over the election in Augusta. The ex-
ultation of the Argus is not to be wondeied
at. but it is surprising to fad paper SO SEN


sitive to imputations upon its Republicanlsm


as is the Adoertiser rejoicing over Republi-
can defeat at the State Capital; for the elec-
ton OF Mr.. Nash is certainly defeat of the
Republican organization in that city, and
deeply to be regretted by all who have the in
terests of the party at heart and wish to pre-
serve its strength and discipline unimpaire ed.
Year: 1879

A BALTIMORE judge has decided that cats
are not property. The decision was given in
case where fellow was arrested for steal
ing Maltese kitten valued by its owner at


twenty-five dollars, by no means an excessive
valuation. That Judge ought to be removed
as Communist and disgrace to the bench.
Year: 1879

we do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily publication
put as a guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return OF preserve com
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

was reading to-day the strange,
mysterious story of "The Man in
the Iron Mask" That one leaf Ia
ken from the history of France con
tains enough romance to make US
willingly believe the adage, seTrdth'
is stranger than fiction" For
years the prisoner lived in his lone
ly cell, supplied with every luxury,
treated with unusual Difference; yet
never allowed to raise the mask
which concealed his identity, on
pain of instant death. No one ever
saw his face, no one ever knew his
name, except the King who had
condemned him to this awful fate.
Even after he had died and his
crime, whatever it may have been,
was expiated, his history still re
manned unknown. He died as he
had lived with the mask still be-
fore his face, fastened with iron
clasps.


Reading this strange story of
this strange prisoner reminded me
of TIE other kind of masks that we
nearly all of us wear, to some ex-
tent. Men with base motives, sell
fish and ignoble minds, may, and Of
ten do, hide their aims behind the
mask of purity and goodness. 1t
is bnt too often that innocence be-
comes a mask for crime and deceit
becomes a jailer, so powerful that
evenin the hour of death the iron
claps are not unfastened. Were it
not for these masks, many who are
revered and respected would suffer
disgrace and defeat. But the mask
which holds the greater portion of
us with its iron clasps is the musk
invented by society. 1t is intended
to disguise all our thoughts and
feelings, and the rules of society
are such as to exclude all persons
who will not wear the mask. The
''verdant" is simply name applied
to all who do not thus conceal their
thoughts and impulses. And rath-
er than have this term applied to
them, many will clasp this mask sc
tight that even death itself cannot
undo it. Many of US use masks
unawares, deluding ourselves will
the idea that we never use them
and before we know it, the clasp:
will have so rusted with time anC
age that we caunot unciasp then
even if we try our best; ant
we are doomed like the man 1 tolC
you of, never to raise it from be
fore our face till the judgement day
Reader do you wear mask?


GRAPHEus.
Year: 1879

saved fuel and lights and her own
eyes. Her food was regularly
taken, cooked as well as possible,
andsalways of a kind to bring the
best return in health and strength.
They worked in this way for five
years, the boy earning more money
as he needed more clothes; then at
thirteen he got a situation with the
coal man. In two years more the
girl got a place with the bakers
wife, for all the neighborhood had
learned to respect this family in
their struggle against beggary. For
two years before she went out the
girl had helped her mother in sew
ing and so secured her clothing; the
youngest girl had fallen heir to the
kindling gathering, area cleaning
and errands. When her sister was
elevated to a servants position this
child helped her mother with the


sewing; she is now twelve, and the


whole family are thriving in every
WaV"
Year: 1879

Having been in the bee business


several years, claim to be practlc-


al. If you want to transfer bees


from an old fashioned hive to new


one, it can be done in any month


when it is warm enough for the


bees to fly, and it can be done


whether the bees are building comb


or not. 1 prefer that they have


very little honey at the time. l


have no objection if they are gath


ering. Avoid robbers by not ex-


posing the combs too much. The


first thing in transferring from an


old box hive is to smoke the bees.


This causes them to fill their sacks.


In about fifteen minutes they are


full and docile and have lost their


resentment. Now move the old


hive say feet to the front, set the


new one in place of the old, dlsplace


the frames, spread cloth over the


bottom section, if it is wo-story
hive. so che bees will not be scat


tered through both sections. Now
turn the box hive bottom end up
| spread a cloth over it, continde a lit


tie smoke for a few moments, then


move the cloth so that you can split


the box open, or prize of one side


without damaging the comb,so as W.


can cut out the comb one sheet a
a time. Each sheet will have mor'
or less bees on it, which we mus


brush off at the entrance to th'
new hive. This comb should b'
f, placed in a box covered with a clotl
so as to keep out neighboring bee
4 and robbers. When the comb is al
e removed if bees are clustered ol
4 the old box shake or brush then
), off as above directed. Now retlr
J to a room, cut out your comb an
t fit it into your frames, confining


bv means of thin strips of plan


tackled with OF. tacks around th


edges of the frame, and place theI
It in the hive. Ia or 3 days remoy
e the strips or clasps as the bees wi
;, have the combs welded up tight t
q the frames. If you should find on
Il stock very poor either in brood 9
T honey, or both, while another
v rich. in this case you may dral
u on one to supply the other. 1t
y . ALWAYS right to give to the poor an
:? needy. Especially is this necessar
:. TO poor bees. Thereby we may fr.
i oueptly save weak stocks which otl
u erwise would be lost. This is Oh
z of the great advantages oil the ID
Year: 1879

proved movable comb hives. But
it is important that your hives be
made alike so as the frames may be
interchangeable. Otherwise you had
better stick to the old box gum. If
you prefer comb honey you may
use cases to hold say a pound of
honey in sections so as to be inter-
changable with your breeding
frames. If you want good honey,
either comb or extracted, never take
it till it is ripe and sealed. Imma
ture honey is no more fit for use
than a green water melon. Bees
never seal it till it is ripe. When
sealed it will keep for years without
soaring. j. B. BRAY.
Lynnville, May, 10.
Year: 1879

Alexander II. Stephens was so
poor when he commenced the prac
tice of law that he had to live on
six dollars per month. This is said
to be the secret of his assistance to
poor young men, over fifty of
whom he has assisted to a liberal
education.
Year: 1879

The pencil marks you see around hi
paragraph (thus) mean that your 81 D.
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure In extendLlg
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash. alone win Yay our expenses, md
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such a
course, and renew your GU scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


W- We enter no new names ON our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1879

To such base uses do we come at
last, that when a boy looks you
straight In the face and without a
change of expression tells you a
lie, it is perfectly safe to predict
that he will some time make first
class politician.
Year: 1879

Systematic vaccination has rare
ly had a more complete vindication
than was offered by the health re
turns of New York city last year.
Out of twenty-seven thousand
deaths, but two were due to. small
pox. A solitary case last week was
the first, during the current year.
Year: 1879

The best recipe for going through
life in an exquisite way with beau
tiful manner is 10 feel that every
body, no matter how rich or how
poor, needs all the kindness they
can get from others in the world.
Year: 1879

Don't be pleading up poverty,
hemming and having, but send
along 50 and subscribe for one of
your own. That is sensible advice,
and you ought to profit by it. The
difference between stealing and bor-
rowing a newspaper will lead to
stealing, and stealing will lead to
borrowing a newspaper.-- CleVe-
land Banner.
Year: 1879

Don't kick a man when he's down,
You know not what his temptation has been,
His fall may be caused by weakness and not
the result of sin,
So don't kick q man when he's down.
Don't kick man when he's down,
But help him to rise again;
The act will give you pleasure and perhaps
will relieve him of pain;
Then don't kick man when he's down.
Don't kick a man when he's down,
For though now you are standing erect,
You too may be weak and tempted and fall
when you least expect;
Then don't Fick man when he's down.


CHARITY.
Year: 1879

Frank Wighlman has accepted the agency of Wells, Fargo < Co. at Yuma. which is good news as thus we keep him here and will please all our citizens whom he has won by his constant amiability and never failing attention to their wishes. No one more competent and acceptable could be found. Yuma and the Express Company are in luck.
Year: 1879

The mining town of Silver Reef, Utah which was recently almost totally destroy ed by fire has just met with another mis. fortune in the same shape. Last Monday the quartz mill of Bsrbee & Walker was en. tirsly consumed by fire. AS the prosper ity of the place WAS In large measure de. pendent on the mill Its destructiou is lit. tie less than calamity to the town.
Year: 1879

Albany Evening Journal, August Ill


Thomas Mast was for some time
trustee of a New York savings bank.
He saw how it was managed in the
interest of few officers. In the fol-
lowing letter, which we are permitted
to publish, he gives a chapter of his
experience. He shows something of
the same vivid and humorous quail
ties in the letter as in his cartoons:


MoRRIsTowN, N. Y, July 3O.-Mr.
Henry l.. Lamb-Dear Sir: see by
to-day's Tribune that most of the
banks try to deny your facts to a
reporter, who has been sent round.


That you are perfectly correct in
your charges, my own experience, ten
years ago, convinces me is too true


Being at the time much the young
est and poorest member of the board
TO which | belonged, of course my
single opinion had no weight, and the
consequence was my letter of resigna-
ton, which you published.


made the rest of the board feel
pretty uncomfortable though, while |
was among them, but that was about
all that was able to accomplish.


AT the time of the Chicago fire, for
instance, the board discussed sending
on $4,000 to the sufferers as dona
tion from the bank, during a meeting
in which they made most benevolent
speeches, and described scenes of dis
tress which would nave melted the
most stony heart


Igot up and suggested an amend
ment to the resolution, thinking that
it was q most deserving charity. but
not liking to use other peoples money
for it, proposed that the trustees
should put their hands in their own
pockets and make up the amount from
their own personal funds, and said
that | would contribute any sum that
any of the others did, which was a
very rash thing for me to do, as |
could notaford much then.


But what a change came over the
spirit Of the assembly


There was a silence, and the visions
Of suffering which had appeared SO
pathetically a few moments before
gradually faded aud faded away, and
soon became so invisible that | have
never heard them so much as family
alluded to by any of the trustees since


Then the constant grinding of indi-
yidual axes disguised me.


Ia theory, the trustee of savings
bank is supposed to accept the position
as an honor, and with the idea of help
ing his poorer fellows creatures to take
care Of their money. He is understood
TO have sufficient leisure and money to
indulge in benevolence, and the honor
Of the position is considered compen-
sation. Butin practice how frequently
the post is sabused and made the means
Of personal profit you seem to be con
tinually finding out. Yours truly,
TIL, MAST,
Year: 1879

Long Branch letter.


Half a mile or so further along the
road you come to slate-colored cot
tage standing back among the trees in
modest seclusion. This is the home
of Mary Anderson, and the property
OF Maggie Mitchell. 1t was not until
we had driven in and learned that the
whole family had gone sailing in the
Dolphin on Pleasure bay that nv
driver got fairly unbent. Then he let
himself loose upon the most astound-
ing flow of talk | had heard for a
week.


So you know Miss Anderson" he
began. We'll, you're lucky No
body around here knows her, thanks
to that stepfather of hers. He's
queer old cuss, that Griffin. When
they first came to the Branch, all the
professional people set out to welcome
Miss Anderson as a sister actress.
Mrs. Chanfrau, Mrs. Adams, Mrs.
Paddock, and all the rest came up
and called upon her the first thing.
And you can bet your sweet life it was
a setback fer them when she never
returned solitary one of their visits.
It's all over the Branch, and every
body says it's caused by old Griffin,
who is afraid somebody will give her
points or, worse than that. some
chap will steal her heart away"


Points-what points ?"


y, everybody knows she earns all
the money and never gets dollar of
it for herself. You see the old cuss
has got a good thing, and he doesn t
mean to lose it. That's how the busi
ness is put up around here"


+" Is that SO p


You bet it is. And then there's
that horse those Louisville fellows
gave Miss Anderson. It's the
incest little thoroughbred mare YOU
ever saw, Well, awhile ago Miss
Anderson was out riding one day.
when the mare threw her. She fell
on that handsome nose of hers and
almost broke it; and you couldn't
get her to ride horseback again if YOU
were to give her $4,000. But old
Griffin ain t so particular. Every day
he hOists his 300 pound carcass to the
back of that little mare and runs her
up to the beach and back. In three
weeks she won't be fit to hitch up ia
an apple cart, you hear me. How il
would please those Louisville chaps
to know what had become of their
present. Whew !"


And now the gracious driver
whistled in a soft and meditative
key.


But how does Mary pass her
time p | ventured to inquire.


20, she's got a swing hung up in
the front yard, and one of the Griffin
kids comes out there and gives her a
boost now and then. In the evening
she sits out there and sings all the
tenor solos in Pinafore and fights
mosquitoes. She can sing tenor first
rate, she can. | often hear her when
I'm driving parties by. But the way
that ole cuss Griffin is playing it onto
the girl is meaner than dirt. I'd Just
like to bust his crust, would. "
And, pointing his exclamation with a
vicious cut Of the whip, the driver
drew up in front of the Ocean House.
What he told me | found to be com
mon gossip all over the place. But
what foundation there is for it all l
am unable to say.
Year: 1879

Quincy lll,) Whig, Rop.l


Every Republican knows that moth
ing could happen to this republic that
would be of such advantage to it as a
general and judicious slaughter of
the Democrats at the polls. For this
purpose there ought to be a Federal
bayonet in every county in the United
States at the next general election.
There ought to be more, but there are
unfortunately no more to be had.
Every patriot, however-and every
patriot is Republiean-ought to take
a bayonet with him to the polls for
the purpose Of assisting the Federal
army in the work Of killing Democrats,