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Year: 1879

NEARLY EVERY ONE suffers at times
from Costiveness. or arrangement of the
digestive organs, and too often resort to
the use of drastic pills or purges, which
only lrritate and weaken the system.
Always use and keep in the house the
only specific for the above complaint,
LaDtne, so pleasant in taste, mild IN action
can be taken by all ages. Price 80 cents.
Year: 1879

Taken Home.-Little Mary Mathews,
who was accidentally shot by young play
mate In Chesterfield Saturday, was brought
home yesterday morning upon stretcher
borne by four men. Last night there were
hopes Of her recovery, but her condition is
still critical.
Year: 1879

CoSCERT.-There will be grand vocal
and instrumental concert at CIay-Strcet
Baptist church, corner Of Clay and Hancock
streets. OH Friday evening next, for the
benefit OF the church. Professor Reinhardt
will preside at the piano. An enjoyable eN-
ming will no doubt be spent by all who at
Year: 1879

81 had been sick and miserable so long
and had caused my husband so much trouble
and expense, no one seemed to know what
allied me, that was completely disheartened
and discouraged. In this frame Of mind
got a bottle of Hop Bitters and used them
unknown to my family. l soon began to inn
prove and gained so fast that my husband
and family thought it strange and unnatural,
but when told them what had helped me,
they said "Hurrah for Hop Bitters long
may they prosper, for they have made mother
well and us happy. The Mother
Year: 1879

A new and novel treatment of drunk
e,iness was devised and tested by a
Dubuque wife. Her husband came
home moderately intoxicated, and ex-
pected to get the usual scolding. He
was astonished, therefore, when the
woman received him s,nilingly, asked
him il he would have some brandy, and
produced a bottle and glass. He
promptly accepted the liquor, and
drank so much that he was helpless.
Then she tied him to bedpost, and
whipped him with rawhide until, as
the Telegraph avs, he was as tender as
a good beefstake.
Year: 1879

DR.. KINGS New DISCOVERY for Con-
sumption is certainly the greatest medical
remedy ever placed within the reach of
suffering humanity. Thousands of once
hopeless sufferers now loudly proclaim their
praise for this wonderful Discovery, to
which they owe their lives. Not only does
it positively cure Consumption, butCoushs,
Colds. Asthma, Bronchitis, Hay Fever,
Hoarseness and all affections Of the Throat,
Chest and Lungs yield at once to its Won
derfuI curative powers as if by magic We
Go not ask you to buy until you know what
you are getting. We therefore earnestly
request that you call on your druggist, q.
Speidel, and get a trial bottle free Of
charge which will convince the most skep-
teal of its wonderful merits, and show
you what a regular one dollar size bottle


will do. For sale by G. Speidel.
Year: 1879

CINCINNATI, March 7.-Archbishop Pur-
cell is in receipt of letter from Cardinal
McCloskey, stating that conference of
church digDitaries would be held in the
east, at which they hoped to devise some
plan for his relief. Suit was begun to day
BY one of the Archbishop's creditors, who
seek to set aside the conveyance of prop
erty to the assignee on the ground that the
conveyances made by him to assignee we're
Year: 1879

Total -, 9.45f IL


The bonds of the state belonging to
this fund are in the custody of the treas
urer. There is nothing to show upon
their face that the bonds belong to tho
state. All OF them are coupon bonds.
the title to which passes by delivery. If
these bonds should be improperly put
in circulation, anu come into the hands
Of an innocent holder. suggest for your
consideration whether the state would
not be morally bound for their payment.
Let us obviate all such questions when
it can be SO easily done. Direct that all
OF the coupons shall be destroyed. the
bonds cancelled by defacing them, and
that fact be made of record in the Offices
of the state auditor and state treasurer


by 4 description OF the bonds and the


date they shall become due. Issue GER


tificates of Indebtedness to the public
school fund, bearing interest at the rate


OF six per cent. per annum, and in suck


amounts as will cause the certificate te
} become payable at the time the bond!
would have become due, and in sucl
| manner that the public debt shall not b,
increased. in violation OF the constitu
| ton. Let provision be made that wher
: the certificate shall be redeemable. bond
of the state shall be purchased TOR thi
, f:nd. and when delivered to the treasu
, rer they shall. in like manner, be can
celled, and certificates oil indebtedness
, issued
Year: 1879

The volumes Of the Magazine begin
with the Numbers for June and December
q each year, When no time is specified
u VIII be understood that the subscriber
wishes to begin with the current Number
Year: 1879

We notice in an English periodical
that a lecture has lately been delived in
Manchester which in discussing educa-
tional matters SHES a heavy stone at
gossip. 1t urges that a liberal educa-
ton, broad culture and trained thought
utterly destroys all desire to pry into
and discuss the personal and domestic
affairs of our neighbors. A we'll stored
mind finds no pleasure in the trivial
details which make up what the world
calls gossip. 1t is useless to inveigh
against it, the only cure is to educate
children beyond it.


An Indifference to petty details does
not by any means infer an Indifference
to the we'll l-being of our neighbor. We
may feel the truest solicitude in Mr..
AS success in life, or Mrs. BIS manage
ment of her scanty income, but to ex-
tend this solicitude to the hour of Mr.
AS return to the domestic hearth, or
the number of potatoes Mrs. B. can
afford for dnDer, is gossip patr ct simple.


Gossip is the twin sister of scandal
and the resemblance is striking between
them. Persons, men or women who so
from house to house with the details of
their neighbours menage and conver-
sation are like Greek fire in a commu-
nifty. Even when not ill-natured it is
impossible they can report correctly,
and these garbled tales are at the bottom
of all the enmities in communities, par
ticularly those of small towns and
villages.


In former times in Europe gossip and
scandal were actionable offences, but
all the fear of punishment did not avail
to stop one wagging tongue.


Education is really the only cure for
it. Extend the realm of thought, and
people will have little time and no in
clination to peer into their neighbours
affairs. Ask yourself who are the most
inveterate gossips and scandal mongers
of your acquaintance. Always the most
ignorant and narrow-m minded. People
whose subjects of conversation never
extend beyond their own narrow circle
and whose interests are as petty as
themselves.
Year: 1879

Work on the streets is fairly begun,
and under the direction Of our excellent
Mayor every one may rest assured it
will be thoroughly accomplished. He
deserves great deal of credit for the
energy he has brought to bear on the
street question, and it is owing to him
that the side walks and streets of Ope-
1ousas compare favorably with those of
any town in the State.
Year: 1879

The work of the planters in this parish
has been somewhat retarded by the rainy
weather, but they are beginning it now
in dead earnest. Take the st. Landry
planters as class they are go-ahead
set of intelligent men, full of energy;
and who are not discouraged by last
seasons low priced crops. Before many
years they will make this parish the
garden spot of Louisiana and attract a
tide Of emigration to it.
Year: 1879

Sheriff Duson's house is beginning to
assume majestic proportions, and will
soon be an ornament to our neighbor-
hood. If one or two of the old conser-
vatiye inhabitants of Court street
would only awake to the virtues of
paint and white wash, this would be
decidedly the prettiest street in town.
Year: 1879

We are having delightful weather,
warm and shining days, and the nights
cool enough to keep us in remembrance
of how small our wood-pile continues
to grow and wondering where the next
load is coming from, and if our neigh
boris dog would bite fellow if he tried
TO borrow a stick, .A-.
Year: 1879

Two rustics, who were on a visit tc
an art exhibition, but could not afford
the cost of catalogue, were at a loss to
decide the subject of q painting which
particularly attracted their attention
They at length came to different conclu,
sions, and stuck to them till lady came
near who was provided with catalogue.
Her kindness was Immediately appealed
to to determine between them; and the
fair referee, turning to the number of
the picture, informed them that it was
Peter the Great and his Empress. II
told You SOL" exclaimed one of the con-
noisseurs, with an air Of triumph; 81
aid it was one O the 'Postles."
Year: 1879

A correspondent found in grave
yard in Ashford, not long ago, the
tombstone Of Deborah Mott, mother of
Samuel Mott d, d., OF franklin, and
Eliphalet Mott, d. d., L. L. d., long
president of Union College He col
lecte,l some curious bits Of this woman's
record and visited her old home, which
he describes as follows: 1t is a one
story house, not over l6x22, and Situated
in one of the toughest localities of this
hilly and rocky town There is but lit
tie cleared land even now around the
house, and there must have been less
l30 years ago The family were very,
very poor The Oldest inhabitants say
that they had but one cow and a few
sheep, and that the cow took the place
that is generally taken by the horse in
modern farm operations, ploughing. and
narrowing, beside furnishing. milk for
the needy household. The sheep pro-
vided the wool with which the clothing
of the father and sons was made, and
the general fare of the family was such
as could be raised from a few acres of
stony, poor landLcorn bread and milk
and bean porridge, year in and year out.


There are many curious legends about
this remarkable woman Her husband,
suffering from i'll health, resigned the
burden Of the work and the care into
the hands of his wife, who not only did
the indoor work but helped the boys in
their out,of-door toll. Once upon time
one of the boys wanted q new suit of
clothes in the dead of Winter. They
had no money to buy with and the
years stock of wool was exhausted so
the good mother proposed that they
should shear the half-grown fleece from
one of their sheep, and to protect it from
the ,cold make it a garment either of
braided straw or the worn out family
clothing, all OF which was accordingly
done and in one week from the shear
ing, as the story goes, with her own Ia
Dor and that of her neighbors the suit
was ready. .l...


Her Christian character is represented
as being of the highest type. They
lived four miles at least from the old
Ashford church, and yet history has it
that she and her boys, clad in the plain
est homespun, walked every Sunday
through the woods and up and down the
hills all this distance to the house Of
God, Standing over her grave / could
but think of the extent Of that woman's
influence through the two sons for
whom she gave her life. One Of them
was in his day one Of the most success
full college presidents, touching with a
transforming power thousands and thou
sands OF young men. The other, a
faithful and successful minister of the
gospel, for sixty-one years in the same
parish, moulding two generations, and
sending out from under his ministry
hundreds of men and women who have
made tho world better and brighter, be-
sides giving to the present and coming
generations two families whose influence
is and is to be among the largest and
best. New Haven Palladium. ,-.,,.
Year: 1879

1t being claimed by one of the sterner
sex that man was made first and lord
of creation, the question was asked by
an indignant beauty how long he re-
mained lord of creation. "Till he got a
wife"
Year: 1879

NEW YORK, April 5.-The events Of the
week In financial circles were quite import
ant. The money market worked close, and
oa several days per cent was the minimum
on call, while frequently 1-64@i-1e per cent
per diem, In addition to legal interest, was
paid for accommodations. Toward the close
an easier feeling prevailed. Foreign ex-
changes were quiet but firm. Government
bonds have been in active demand and closed
at an advance Of Il to ], except for ten-forties,
which were weakened In prospect OF being
called in for redemption. The event OF the
week In the government bond market, and
for that matter In financial circles generally,
was the enormous subscriptions to the per
cent bonds on Friday and to-day, aggregat-
ing nearly one hundred and twenty millions.


Railway and miscellaneous speculation was
rather dull early In the week and the course
of prices irregular. At one time prices showed
decline OF from l to 8 per cent, with the
market weak; the Michigan Central and
Chicago and Alton leading the downward
movement. Subsequently, however, firmer
tone set In and the market improved till near
the final close, and the advance was from to
4 per cent. The stocks most conspicuous In
the rise were the coal shares, the Northwest
and st. Paul Railroad, the Michigan Central,
the Lake Shore and Western Union Telegraph
Company. just previous to the close OF busi-
ness there was reaction In the general list
from to per cent, the latter In the Wabash,
but In the final sales the market was firm
again with recovery OF from Il to per
cont
Year: 1879

NEW YORK, March 5.-Mrs. Lizzie All Wab,
the first Chinese woman ever arrested In this
city. was In court to-day for drtlnkness and
dsotderly conduct. Mrs. All Wah is o well
built little woman and not devoid Of some
personal attractions. Her dark hair was
neatly braided and her dress OF black silk
became her well. Her husband Is cigar
maker She speaks English tolerably
well and wept bitterly In court She
promised never to drink again and the Judge,
after cautionng her to abstain from American
whisky, released her from custody. OF the
two Thousand Chinese In this city, not more
than eight or ten are women.


An important meeting OF Democrats was
held at the residence Of August Belmont to-
day. The object was to devise some means OF
shaping the policy OF the Democracy OF this
State and to take some action regarding the
widening breach Of the party. 1t was decided
that Tilden should not have the power to say
who should be the choice Of Che Empire State
for President or that the power Of nomination
should be centralized.


Mayor Cooper tonight notified Police Com
missioners Smith, Erhart and Nichols that
the certificate Of their removal from office
would be forwarded to the Governor Monday
next.
Year: 1879

LONDON. April ga dispatch from Rome
giving accounts of the reception Of Gen. Carl
baldi, on his arrival there to-day, state that
curious coldness on the part of the populaee
who were at the station was observable:
some exclamations ID favor Of republic
which the gendarmes affected not to notice.
But the populace were, for the most part,
apathetic. Garibaldi Is In wretched health
and looks more like a dead than a live man.
He was unable to walk, and was lifted from
the railway carriage on n streteher, on which
he was carried to the vehicle waiting for him.
The object of his visit to Rome has not yet
been authoritatively stated.
Year: 1879

PrrTsBuRe, April 5.-Frank Small, who
shot Nicholas Jacoby, on January 16 last was
found guilty Of murder In the first degree
last night Jacoby's wife is said to have been
too intimate with Small and her husband
quarreled with him In q saloon. As Jacoby
and wife were walking home, Small, who was
lying In wait, put the mouth OF his revolver
within foot Of Jacoby's breast and shot him
Year: 1879

position was TO be expected. Immediately
after his assumption to the crown, the new
king, as has already been telegraphed,
ordered the Wholesale slaughter OF those who
might contest his right, and then took
measures which threaten the invasion Of
British Burmah, and which have compelled
the English government to prepare to wage
war against him.
Year: 1879

T
| We are confident Of victory In 1880, be.


cause there is q great awakening general
revival among the stalwart Republicans,


which Is felt everywhere, from the White


House to the farthest log cabin on the from
| fiar
Year: 1879

New York, June 20.-The Courier
Des Etats Unis says anent the death of
the prince imperial the Bonaparte
party may be considered to have gone
out of existence. The republicans in
stead of rejoicing over the event which
relieves them of the presence of pre-
tender Of no mean calibre, will rather
think of the fate of this young man
who probably would have worthily
served his country if he had not been
the son of Napoleon the III.


Prince Napoleon, who has become
head of the line, is democrat in poll
tics, and is distasteful to the entire
Bonapartist following. He has two
sons, II and Is years respectively.
Party loyalty may fasten around the
name of one of these sons, but for a
time the imperial counsels must be dis
tracted, and the possibility Of the re-
turn of the empire appears more shad-
owy than ever.


Another special from South Africa
says the prince imperial had been sent
forward by the quartermaster general
to sketch a site for the next camp.
When the volley was fired not single
Zulu was to be seen. The party dis
persed and sought safety under cover.
The prince was never seen alive again.
His horse joined Lieut.. Cary and party
on the road back to camp.
Year: 1879

unturned to win the battle. Whether or not
the Democracy will unite with them remains
to be seen. It may be wise to pursue the
same tactics as we're adopted last year, and
throw the election of governor into the legis-
lature. If this plan is followed and
is successful, the Greenbackers would be en-
titled to their choice, for they worked with
the Democrats in good faith in the election
of Garcelon, the present governor. Turn
about is fair play, and as neither of these
two parties could hope single handed to cope
with the Republicans, it will probably be
deemed expedient that they pool their issues
in the hope of keeping the Republican party
out of power.
Year: 1879

The death of Baron Nathan Lionel de
Rothschild, the head of the great house that
bears his name, is noted in the cable dis
patches. His house, it is we'll known, is the
richest in the world, and he was individually
the richest man on either continent, his pos.
sessions being estimated to be worth in the
neighborhood of two hundred and fifty
millions of dollars. He was the first repre-
sentative of the Jewish race who ever occu-
pied seat in tho British house of commons
to which he was admitted in 1853, after
having been elected to that body for clever
successive years. His death will not, o
course, interfere with the financial operation
of the house of Rothschilds.
Year: 1879

DENIS KEARNEY is still power among the
workingmen of the Pacific slope. He was
chosen president of the California working
mems convention on Tuesday with great en-
thusiasm. The views expressed by him were
applauded to the echo. 1t is not unlikely
that this new party will exercise powerful
influence in the election to be held in Sep
tember. Numerically there is no doubt but
it holds the balance of power, but in which
direction it will be cast even the wisest can
not now divine. ..
Year: 1879

The Maine Greenbackers are manifestly
more sensible than their Iowa brethren, and
therefore may hope to retain the respect of
reasoning men longer than they. The plat
form adopted. at Portland on Tuesday is,
with few exceptions, a rarely sensible docu-
ment, and ought to form pattern for those
of other State conventions. The protest
against the increase of the bonded indebted
ness of the country effected through the So
called funding operations of the secretary of
the treasury will be approved by every think
ing person, for, while nominally decreasing
the interest it has compelled the people to
pay interest on double quantity of bonds.
The declarations in favor of unlimited coin
age of gold and silver, to be supplemented
by full legal tender paper money, sufficient
to transact the business of the country; in
favor of the immediate use of the coin in
the treasury for the reduction of the bonded
debt; in favor of the substitution of green
backs for national bank notes; and that the
value of our money should not vary with the
chance production of precious metals, or the
|
italy the theories upon which the legisla-
ton of the Democratic Congress has been
based in the past few years, and in further
ing these theories We gladly accept the aid OF
the Greenback party of Maine. We are in


clined to doubt the expediency of the pro.
posed tax on incomes, but Opposition tc


subsidies and legalized monopolies'' has long


been landmark of the Democracy.


The platform as whole is good-far bet


ter than the average. It is taken substan


TALLY from the platforms heretofore adopted


by Democratic conventions, a fact that maj


in measure account for its merit. Will


such platform there seems to be no goot


reason why the party cannot draw largel,
from the Republican ranks, and achieve a,
substantial victory as they won last year
| 1t is very evident, at any rate, that deter
{ mined effort in that direction will be made
J The party in Maine comprises many men 0
] acknowledged ability, who will leave no ston
Year: 1879

will prove wholly acceptable to the Green
back element of the State and weaken the
strength of the independent nominees of
that party. There is no doubt of the cleo.
tion of the ticket by majority of from
twenty to thirty Thousand.
Year: 1879

"Eustace, where did you get ac-
quainted with Miss Gray? / never
heard you speak Of her while We were
in college. %


"Oh, | knew her long before l
went to college. We attended the
district school together, and it was l
that used to work al the hard exam
Piles in arithmetic for her; and now,
Landon, when l look back to those
days when she sat by my side, ,puzzling
her head over partial payments" or
extracting the square root of some
ugly-shaped piece of land, l think
they were my happiest; and l love
her to-day better than l shall ever
love another. Try as we may, tbs
hard to forget pure affection. Moments
will come to us at times, and place
all the scenes before us-where we
had talked, laughed and played with
those we've loved; where they have
sorrowed with us in trouble, and
been gay companions in our joy. But,
such is life. Oh! L wish l could for
get her, or only think of her as my
little schoolgirl friend. But l shall
never marry her, Landon; / have
fully made up my mind to that. She
could never fill the place in society
l should like for my wife to fill. She
is poor; hea~family is not noted for
anything great. All that could be
said of them is,. they were honest.
Suppose l should have the good luck
to become one of the leading lawyers
of the State, and win fame? She
could never pass in the society, and
be able to entertain the company she
would meet with if she were my wife.
Last night l attended the concert
with her, and-wiil you believe it2-
/ was ashamed to enter the hall with
her, and famed an excuse to let her
go in alone. / know she felt the slight,
but how could L go in with her, be-
fore all of my best acquaintances. and
she dressed so poorly? She even
looked planter to me than 1 ever saw
her before, though suppose it was
because she was contrasted with May
Osburn, and many other elegant
dressed ladies'. When compared
her to May Osburn 1 was perfectly
shocked to see the difference. May, a
perfect beauty, so graceful and dress
ed with such taste; Lena, SO very
plain. Yet, think she possesses the
more amiable disposition. She is
forgiving and kind, yet with spirit
enough to resent wrong. She has
much tt ne courage. How noble she
looked as she walked in the hall alone,
wearing the same dress she had worn,
perhaps, many times before. She had
q look that made all feel that beheld
her, that she belonged to superior
class.


"Well, Eustace, as we have beer
friends so long, you will pardon me
for speaking plain to you. really
gave you credit for having more com
mon sense, and more courage thar
you seem to possess. All that I car
make out of what you have said II
about this, that you have not courags
enough to marry Lena hecause yot
are afraid your aristocratic acqualn,
tances will laugh at yqNr choice. fot
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