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Year: 1879

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you, my colored friends, are in the


enjoyment of this high boon to-day
| You may be poor and feel yourselves


somewhat isolated, and often neg


lected by your white brethren, still


remember that the great arms of this


Nations protection are around you.


She guarantees to you, "life. liberty


and the pursuit of happiness" But


her guardianship is not conferred to


the land alone. So jealous is she of


the liberties of her citizens that if the


humblest Of you were out upon the


high seas, sailing under your coun-


try's flag. and the crew of another


nation should wantonly or malicious


ly deprive you of life, liberty OF


property, popular swell of indig


nation would be felt in the minds OF


all the people, and upon demand.
if you were not speedily delivered


up and reparation made-this coun.


try. from the Lakes to the Gulf,


would tremble with the march of
armed men on your behalf. Then is
it not reasonable to ask that you
make every effort to properly train
and educate your children that they
may be fully prepared to discharge
their duties as citizens of this free
government.


AN UNANsWERABLE ARGUMENT.


1 will still ask your attention
while draw one more argument on
behalf of education in its relations
to the public welfare. 1 might do
this without uttering a word. II
might point with sad and melancholy
triumph to our jails, prison houses
and penitentiaries. Whom do you
expect their future inmates TO be?
Certainly you do not expect the fu-
ture inmates of these gloomy dens
TO be gathered from these bright,
intelligent students of this College,
or from the regular members of our
Sabbath schools and who are now
almost every one professors of relig-
ion. No, my friends, you expect
them to be gathered from the haunts
Of ignorance and vice. And we
know it, just as well as any truth
which we ever knew in our lives,
hat this neglect, this criminal
neglect upon the part of parents to
educate and morally train their chill.
iren, must cost our public treasury
thousands upon thousands of dollars
o restrain their waywardness and
% punish their vices.


Now, in conclusion. I return my
Iindest thanks to this audience for
heir polite attention. L wish for
'ou. one and all, the highest pleas
Tres which life can afford. But l
AVE for you still higher wish
which my poor language is too
'arren to express. You will pardon
ne, therefore, if snatch the senti-
aent from the burning pen of the
'oet, and give it to you:


$50 live, that when the summons comes to join
he innumerable caravan, that moves
o the pale realms of shade, where each shall take
lis chamber in the silent halls of death


hou go, not like the quarry slave at night I
courged to his dungeon but sustained and r


soothed


y an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
ike one that wraps the drapery of his couch d
bout him, and lies down to pleasant Dreams"
Year: 1879

Pi Roberts, a noted smuggler and pi-
rate of Niagara Falls, while under the
influence of liquor, on Monday of last
week, attempted to row his boat to Goat
island. He was caught in the current,
and in his drunken stupor his boat was
broken in pieces upon a rock and float
ed over the falls and was lost in the
whirlpool below. The catastrophe was
witnessed by hundreds on the banks, but
no assistance could reach him.
Year: 1879

The Rev. a. A. Rolf, Methodist pas
tor of Michigan, prayed recently that
the Almighty might palsy the hands of
every man who went to the ballot box
to vote and did not vote for prohibition,
and to palsy every mans tongue who
spoke against prohibition.
Year: 1879




The Amerieus (Ga.) Republican tells
how a man may be horse if he will: A
gentleman of the new Twenty-sixth dis
trict, of this county, informs us that on
last Saturday as he was riding through
the country he witnessed the most novel
sight of his life. It was nothing more
nor less than a white woman blowing,
her husband acting as the horse, mule
orsteer, as the case may be. He was reg
ularly harnessed and dragging the plow
as complacently as an OK. The gentle
man spoke to the woman about her team,
and she replied that 'this was the only
way she could get any work out of Elam,
and she would make him do what she
could" The plowed ground was well
broken up, and showed that the woman
was expert in the use Of the plow, and
that man can be q horse when he will.
Year: 1879

Under the new postal regulations it is
provided that mail matter directed to a
public official or to an officer of cor
poration or person holding a position
therein having an official designation
should be delivered to the person aceu-
ally holding the office or the position
designated, notwithstanding the name
of another person may also appear upon
it, the presumptive intention of the sem
der being that the article of mail matter
shall reach the officer, ETC., addressed,
rather than the individual named.
Year: 1879

The differences between Chill on one
side and Bolivia and Peru on the other,
which have just eliminated in declar-
alton of war, began some months ago in
the taxation by Bolivia of the product
OF nitrate deposits held by Chilians in
southerd Bolivia. A treaty has existed
between Chill and BoliYia exempting
this property when in the hands of Chill
ian subjects from any but municipal
taxation, and it is the infraction of this
treaty by the imposition of an export
duty which leads to this war. The war
win practically be between Peru and
Chill, Bolivia having no navy and an
army of but three thousand men.
Year: 1879

The police of Knoxville have been
engaged for some time in taking the
census of that city. The report shows
population of 1911. From the
Tribune we learn that the veritahle
Oldest inhabitant was unearthed in
the third ward in The person of "Un-
Gle Burl," a festive darkey of one hun
dred and seven stnirners, who didn't
nurse the father Of his country, but
was an intimate Friend Of Andrew
Jackson, James K. Polk and other
prominent men whom he frequently
met at country tavern where he was
employed as ostler in the slow coach
DAYS.
Year: 1879

The HeaS Constable of the Liver
pool police has had a police experience
of fifty years. In an address made
to a young man joining the Liverpool
police, he said: 81 give no lessons as
to The use of the baton, except slrat
the human skull in some persons is as
thin as worn~out siXpence; there
fore, whenever yod have occasion to
use the staff you are neTer to strike
on the head" !"
Year: 1879

The following strange story comes
from Mississippi: A man named Sea
graves, living in Marshall county,
Mississippi, dreamed several times that
there was some gold buried Oh the
place on which he vived, and his
dreams having been so livid and the
exact place so distinctly impressed on
his mind, that he searched for the
gold, and discovered eleven hundred
dollars. Its supposed the money was
buried by a former resident Of the
place, now dead
Year: 1879

CONTINUANCE OF THE
CHEAP SALE.
We thank the people Milan cousry tributary
their kind patronage first When
below regular selling prices that would
leave the Judgement of those who have bought
,wehaye been wen satisfied the volume
We took charge of the here Our cheap sale has been
Unprecedented in the Annals of Milan
at usually dull OF the year


IN thanking the people favored US h their patronage
say that we can still offer them BARGAINS IN GOODS at such prices a.
will excite their astOnishment.


with the resumption Of all 5 rotten @ have sruPbsi
hope stand before the great competition of mercantile fe


We Buy Our Goods Strictly for Cash,
and any person ds statement benefit will give


MERCHANT FROM WHOM WE BUY GOODS
And you find any merchant whose bills do discount will


AS Deliberate F'alsifie1s.
We sell goods Strictly Cash country produce We CASH
Sell for Cash. takes risk selling goods and consequently offer goods



Very Low Margin of Profit.
In order make little til.


Great Eastern Cent Table.
We have secured these various household goods all of them useful and ladies
who housekeeping furnish house cheap that all the


PLEASURE OF BOARDING HOUSE LIFE
Will the household utensils that
bought for the
Year: 1879

The undersigned takes this occasion toreturn his thanks
the people Of Yankton particularly and to his
friends throughout Dakota and for the
patronage which has been bestowed upon the late firm Of
DUDLEY & HAWLEY through the many years in which
that firm has carried business in this city, and he
desires to call the attention Of these friends and that Of
the generally to the enlarged facilities exten
sive assortment comodous which the late
firm had provided and which the of Dudley
& Hawley, possesses


In the line Hardware trade
Tin Copper and Sheet Iron Ware he claims
tabshment equal in all respects anything the
tent.


In the FUTURE application business hopes
to see the Hardware trade of the region which naturally
uary to to this point cenered here and shall
make for the interest Of the people within this REGION
chase their Hardware Tnwae Copper Sheet Iron ware
Stoves, and all other articles this line from
Yours gratefully and respectfully
GEO. e. HAWLEY,


Union Block, Third st.
Year: 1879

A correspondent wants to know
IL wearing hat tends to make a
person bald. We believe it does.
Women don't wear hats and they
are not bald, at least they do not
wear them on their heads, and so
they are not bald on there. Hats
destroy hair. A woman's hat is
Year: 1879

awe are going out with the tied,"
said a young man to friend, as
he filed down the church aisle after
a wedding. ain that case," said a
lady in front, "you can afford to
get off my train" And he did.
Year: 1879

! From the woodson County tKan.) Post
June ~ -..w .5...s


Miss Mary Holt was the daughter Of
Jacob Holt, man Of wealth and prom
inence, and one Of the most respected
citizens OF Perry township. She was
in the prime Of her young life, intelli-
gent, cultured and refined, respected
BY all, admired by a worthy young
man, living on q farm near by. Be
tween himself and Mary there had
sprung up an attachment which, be.
ginning in Joy, has been the dsath OF
one, and will be lifelong blight on
the other.


The family Of the young lady were
averse to her attachment to this young
man and had provided one they
deemed a more eligible suitor, who
was expected to arrive in short time
to claim the hand Of the young lady
against her will, but at the bidding of
her parents. To secure themselves
against the rigor of parental demands,
the young people resolved upon private
marriage, which was solemnized by
Esquire Waldrip about three weeks
ago, only few trusted friends being
present They went to their respective
homes and only met occasionally in
company with the sister Of the young
wife.


On last Saturday Mr.. Ashburn com
municated to his wifi. the fact that their
secret had been divulged, and that it
would be impossible to keep it from her
parents. She declared that she would
die before she would face the storm Of
parental Indignation such commun,-
cation would bring upon her, when he
endeavored to dissuade and comfort her.
Immediately on. her return home, how
ever, she went to her room and swal-


lowed dose of strychnine and in thir
ty minutes she was corpse. The
young husband, in the agony of his
grief, declared that they should not be
long parted, but was closel watched
by anxious friends.


On Sunday he was informed by his
cousin, in whose care he had been left,
that the funeral procession would pass
the house soon, and he was asked If he
would go. He replied that he would,
and directed the young man to 60 and
get the horses ready. Hardly had his
companion left the room until the re-
port of pistol was heard, and hurry
ing back he found young Ashburn on
the floor weltering in his own blood.
The muzzle Of the pistol had been
placed almost against his forehead, but
in the excitement OF his crazy grief the
range had been too low, and the ball,
ranging downward, had lodged in his
face without. ..inflic'ing a necessarily ia.
tai wound. H. is now under the Care of
physicians, who entertain strong hopes
Of his recovery. should he recover he
will he removed as soon as possib e
from the sorrowful associations of his
present home and taken TO Indiana,
where he formerly lived.
Year: 1879

Coming events cast their shadows before
and already, through the mists Of months
the gladsnme Holiday season looms clearer
day by day, filling the youthful mind with
pleasing speculation, and causing materfa-
milias to consider in what direction shecan
exercise a little additional economy, where
by the money for presents may be forth
coming when required. And just in the
nick of time there comes to hand a sugges-
tion of how johnny, and Mamie, and Flos-
sic, and Charley may secure for them
selves and by their own exertions, the
lack knives and work boxes, and writing
cases, and tool chests, for which their
souls are longing: of how mamma may
get that book or parlOr ornament she has
talked about so often and of how, by
their united exertions, they may obtain
present wherewith to surprise and glad
den the soul of papa.


For the publishers Of EhriChs' Fashion
Quarterly are in the field with the new
premium list Of their magazine and all
that mamma or children tor papa either,
for that matterI need do, Is to send name
and address on a postal card to Iessrs.
Enrich q Co., of 2S7 Eighth Avenue, New
York, when q copy Of the list Will be
mailed them free, and they can appreciate
for themselves the advantages offered.


The Fashion Quarterly so exactly fills
its place as q guide to economy in the house
hold, and its subscription price, only 80
cents q year, is so very tridiug, that little
difficulty should be experienced in secur-
ing subscriptions; and we have no doubt
that thousands viii gladly avail them
selves OF the opportunity thus presented
Of securing some useful article at very
moderate expense Of time and trouble,
Year: 1879

In India 10000 to 10000 people
perished on their way home from q
fair. Possibly while at the fair they
had attempted to sustain life on the
oyster stew dispensed at said fair
TBOstOn Transcript.
Year: 1879

Tits to be hoped that the wise ez-
ample Of the above named gentle
men VIII not be lost upon many Of
their brethren Of the Prohibition
party in Ohio. There are probably
some 1000 to 5000 voters Of that
party who are sound Republicans on
national and financial issues, and
yet who viii commit the folly Of
throwing away their votes this fall,
when taey might be so cast as to aid
in the defeat Of the Confederate
Rag Baby Democracy, and at the
same time promote the cause Of
temperance, by putting the Repubi-
can party in power in the State Leg
islaturs. I5 is well known that the
Democratic majority in that body
last winter refused so give the peo-
pie local option law, while nearly
every Republican voted for it, and it
is nearly certain that should the Re
pubIieans have the majority next
winter. a Local Option law VIII be
passed. Let Prohibitionists think
of this, and vote so that their votes
viii tel in favor Of Local Option,
which IS only Prohibition in another
and more practical form.
Year: 1879

The coach that left Tucson on Wed. day afternoon was stopped by two masked men five miles this side of Picacho and robbed. The robbers SC. cured $50, a gold watch and chain and pistol from the passengers. They shook up the express box but it sound. ed so empty that that they handed il back. The robbers then took one of the coach horses and left. but as the driver had four horses in his team, the coach was not much delayed. We understand that the stolen horse came into Desert Station yesterday morning.

 It is also reported that a man and woman travelling in the San Pedro valley were stopped by two men and robbed of S75. Our good officers now have the opportunity to make them selves appreciated.
Year: 1879

4 COUPLE of weeks ago we held the mirror up to the Sentinel editor, and showed him how he looked in the land grant business, and it has made him madder than Spitz. He reveals himself in new and strange light, and twits us on the humbleneSs ofour past life Well, we are not responsible for the accident of birth or the concomitants of pover- ". And all men are not smart or mean enough to be confidence men and cappers.
Year: 1879

Some weeks since we referred to th,

 bill introduced in Congress in Decem

 Der last by Delegate Romero, of New

 Mexico, providing for lhe prompt set

 clement of private land claims in Ari

 zona and New Mexico. We said then

 and think now that said measure quite

 fully meets the demands of the case. Il

 places the entire adjudication of land

 grant claims in the courts of law, and

 establishes speedy and fair routine

 for such adjudication IL affords per

 feet hearing 10 all sides, and renders

 fraud as uncertain of success as can

 be effected in any hearing in a court

 of law And while we have heard

 nothing of late of action Tn Congress

 thereupon, it is the only measure on

 the subject before that body and the only one likely to be during this ses- sion During the pending of that measure, and while the claims of min CTS and settlers are beng threatened

 by land grant claimants, we can see no harm likely 10 result from a spirit

 ed representation of the case by the. miners and settlers side of the ques- ton al issue. Such a protest and rep resentation was lately made by mem- Der of the legislature of Arizona, and it has called down upon inc au- thor's head the most unfair abuse from the editor of the Yuma Sentinel. In the actual and prospective absence of any immediate solution of the vexed matter, private land clai,lantS were at work and had been for a year past, putting miners and settlers to great alarm and diSquiet. This was matter of Hoioriety, and the editor of thei Sentinel was all along the border at divers times and in sundry places. But all that time you couldn't have got him to say land grant for a spoonful. He was as innocent of any such 'wanity" as was the Rev. Stiggins of pine apple rum. And we venture to say that if. the business had been allowed to pro- ceed quietly without any protest from the settlers, every acre of land in this county claimed under private grant could have been disposed of, and every settler thereon driven from his place and Improvements, and you wouldn t have heard anything from the Sentinel but botany and blusler. But the mo- ment ringing protest comes from the settlers, the Sentinel becomes a perfect of land grant points. Well, ( we have neither the disposition nor ; the power to prevent he Sentinel from of it's wares in its own pc l culiar way, but no newspaper can eat i its cake and have it. And the virtue of . a newspaper should be above suspl- cion, and it cannot, with impunity, ( coquet with railroad or mining compa- l nies, or doubtful legislators and off, ' aa ala s>-- b ,f sr q, -
Year: 1879

GLOBE District is rapidly improving under the new management, that is. a class of energetic men with capital have gone there for the purpose oi honest development, and as a natura consequence, the beneficial results are already apparent. We understand that aside from the several new mills there are buildings for various pur poses in construction. The saw mills are all busy and lumber is in demand The miners see light ahead, and hence are more industrious and show bette results. We have no doubt that an other six months will place Globe in very enviable position.
Year: 1879

THERE is great promise of a bIg mining camp in the Dragoon noun tains. There is plenty of good ore on the surface. Miners are rushing in and the original locators are feeling happy over their encouraging pros DppfS
Year: 1879

money would have only silver to lend; but
they would have enough more OF IL to COM
pcnsatc for its diminished value


Incidentally, the community would suffer
by having to maintain mt New York and
other commercial centres numerous brokers
ip gold rs WIS done before the resumption
OF specie payments. We should also have
10 pay for all imported goods slight nd
ditunal price 10 tho importer as q margin
against fluctuations in tho gold premium
For the same reason, exporters would get
little less for their exports when they sold
their gold or their exchange.


or the mischief which would result from
the adoption Of silver us the currency OF the
country, whenever commercial crisis
should arise requiring us to borrow money
abroad, 1t Ia perhaps premature TO speak, IN
view of the large balance OF trade now In
our favor, and the likelihood OF its continu-
Ing to be In our favor for some time TO come
Yet. II ever a pinch should occur, such as we
have had In times gone by, our silver cur
rency would be as efIeotual an obstacle to
getting relief as our greenback currency
was in 1878. With the best intentions possi-
BILE, our mercantile and financial friends
hDIOau COulu HOt Help uS lncy NOulu HuNc
no stock on hand of our silver dollars to
lend us, as they had no stock of grecnbaclSs
In 1873, but only gold, which would be, as 1t
was in 1873, too costly for us 20 make use Of
and we should have TO extricate ourselves
the best way we could.


These are the principal objections to the
WARNER Silver bill, and to all measures
like 1t aiming at the unlimited issue Of sill
yer legal-tender dollars. They are the Same
as those which we made to the Silver bill
which became law year ago, but which
has so far been rendered imperative. The
demonetization Of gold and the substitution
OF silver for II would not paralyze industry,
nor rob the workngman, nor produce uni
versal financial ruin; but, on the other
hand, 1t would work injustice to vested
interests, considerably increase the friction
nndexpense Of business, and do good to no
one but gambling spectators in land and i'm
merchandise, who desire to get out OF debt
at a cheaper rate than they can at present.
Year: 1879

When the last baby show was held in this
city the victims resolved-at least the mature
ones for the infants took their Cruel Of griev-
ance without resistance-that they would never
bo caught in such trap again. Very likely
they kept their word and very likely the
mothers who camorcd for their wages on Sat
urday night wero not old exhibitors. But Il is
none the less singular that baby shows should
regularly have such endinRs and yet become
again not only possibility but an accomplished
fact within year or two.
Year: 1879

The Senate yesterday discussed the bill in
relation to subsidiary coin, but did not reach
vote. The cattle transportation bill was taken
up. and WIS laid aside without action TO afford
Senator MCDONALD an opportunity to speak on
his bill in regard to the use Of troops in cleo
tons. Senator EDMuNDs announced his inten-
ton OF replying some other time.


The House was not Ia session
Year: 1879

It appears that great effort has lately
been made to defeat Deacon RICHARD SMITH OF
tho Cincinnati Gazette in his canvass for the
office OF delegate TO the Ohio Republican Con-
venton. We rejoice to add that this effort was
Overwhelmingly beaten. as 1t deserved to be.
The Republicans Of the district knew that Dea-
con RICHARD SMITH would make a truly good
delegate. and they have gallantly chosen him
by an overwhelming majority.


But why should such man be running for 80
small an onlce2 Why should he not be the can
didate Of his party for the place OF Governor OF
Ohio? Since john SHERMAN has been rejected.
why should the party decline to such fellows as
TAFT or FOSTER when II is In their power to
nominate Deacon RICHARD SMITH?