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Year: 1879

hereafter. The power OF the Speaker Is arbi-
trary and almost absolute, and nobody doubts
Mr. Randalls ability to visit his resentment
In this way, but the great interests OF the
Democratic party In the next two years are
worth being considered. The sixty-six votes
which were cast against Mr.. Randall last
night were protest chiefly against his sch.
fishness and cruel exercise of the functions OF
his office. He may see In this what two more
years of similar policy may bring forth
Year: 1879

We commend to amateur actors, troubled
with bad memories, the happy idea of our
friend C.. Though still young man, he was
to play the father, and the daughter chanced
to be very handsome woman So when he
forgot his part he could think Of nothing
better than, while holding his child" to say:


kiss your father


And each time when he felt taat his memory
was about to fail, he would save himself by
crying out:


Come to my arms, my child"


The husband OF the daughter was heard to
say that he thought ''the author repeated
himself very often.''
Year: 1879

SAN FRANCISCO, March 21.-It turns out
was badly whipped by one OF the men whom
he slandered, was armed at the time, but
made no attempt to use his pistol. This will
probably end his tour, as he Is liable to
receive the same treatment in every town
where he attnmptS to speak.
Year: 1879

ToRoNTo, March 2l.-A special cable dis
patch to the Globe says that all the leading
English Journals strongly condemn the pro-
lection policy Of Canada, and predict that IT
will be her ruin
Year: 1879

People are dying every day of throat and lung
complaints who might be saved by timely and
persevering use OF the New Louisiana Remedy.
That remarkable product of our swamps II
everywhere winning golden opinions.
Year: 1879

A WRITER in Boston says the next
twelve months will materially advance
the business interests Of Boston. She
is desirous Of increasing her CONNER
cial intercourse with the cities of the
great west.
Year: 1879

In the Oliver-Cameron case yester-
day the first vote stood 8 for plaintiff,
o for defendant; second, for plaintiff
and II for defendant. 1t took two
hours and half to convince this one
juror. An effort will be made to secure
a new trial, and If refused the case will
be carried to another court upon ex-
ceptions.
Year: 1879

Among the names Of the many base,
hallists who have secured fame and
money by their achievements within
the diamond arena, we never have yet
seen the name Of the Prodigal Son, yet
the fact stares posterity in the face
that he was the FIRST man to make a
home run.
Year: 1879

4 II


The chattel mortgage law in Vermont,
which was passed by the last state legis-
lature, copy of which is before us.
seems to be as satisfactory as such laws
can be made to be. The idea has pre-
vailed among some of our business men
that the Vermont law, while directing
that the mortgage should be recorded in
the office of the clerk of the town in
which the mortgagor resides, did not
specify any time within which the docu-
ment must be recorded, but an examina-
tion shows that without possession of the
mortgaged property is taken and retain
ed by the mortgage, the mortgage must
be recorded at the time the mortgage
was made. The recording of these mort
cages is the important feature to any
mortgage law, and before such provi-
sion was attached to our state law there
was a case in which man failing there
had appeared the day after his failure a
mortgage dated back two years. The
delivery Of the property or the taking
possession thereof renders this recording
unnecessary, and in this connection we
have to cite plan that has been recent
ly attempted to conceal the possession
from, creditors In one instance the COM
plete stock was taken possession of, and
then the clerk of the mortgagor was hired
to continue the business and creditors
did not know of the mortgage. 1t would
seem, in view of this facility to deceive,
that under all circumstances the mort
gage should be recorded. The Vermont
law provides that the MORTGAGE and
mortgagor shall sign an affidavit in sub
stance as follows:


1--WE severally swear that the forego-
ing mortgage is made for the purpose Of
securing the debt specified in the condi.
tions thereof, and for no other purpose
whatever, and that the same is a just
debt. honestly due. and owing from the
mortgage"


All wilful falsehood committed in any
such affidavit is deemed perjury and
punished accordingly. The Vermont
law seems to be satisfactory and no
more facilitates fraud than is almost
unavoidable in any such law. Men may
swear falsely anywhere. and will conceal
the fact of their having possession, il
they are without character and con
science, but business men are not apt to
trust such characters with their goods
Credits are carefully scanned. and un
/ less dealer stands well these days ht
will find it almost impossible to obtair
fresh goods on time. Such risks are
only taken, if at all, when the goods
sold are out of style and if held would
/ be in any event largely sacrificed
Boston Journal. @
Year: 1879

COATES Kinney, the author Of the following poem
once journalist Of rare ability became stroller an
an Outcast from society and was recently killed by
stroke of lightning near Deadwood in the Black Hills
When the humid shadows hover
Over all the starry spheres,
And the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in rsining tears,
What joy to press the pillow
0fa cottage chamber bed.
And to listen to the patter


ofthe soft rain overhead.
Every patter on the shingles
Has an echo in the heart
And thousand recollectons
Into busy being start;
And thousand busy fancies
Weave their bright hues into woof.
As we listen to the patter


Of fthe soft rain on the roof
Now in memory comes my mother
AS she used long years agone,
To regard the darling dreamers
Ere she left them till the dawn.
oh ! see her leaning Ger me,
AS list to this refrain
Which is played upon the shingles
BY the patter of the rain.
Then my little seraph sister.
With her wings and waving hair,
And her star-eyed cherub brother
serene angelic pairl-
Glide around my wakeful pillow.
With their praise mild reproof
As listen TO the murmur
or the soft rain on the roof.
And another comes to thrill me
With her eyes, delicious blue;
And mind not. musing on her.
That her heart was all untrue;
remember but to love her.
With passion kin to pain,
And my hearts quick pulses vibrate
To the patter of the ram.
Art hath naught of tone or cadence
That can work with such spell
In the souls mysterious fountains,
Whence the tears ofrapture well,
As that melody Of Nature,


That subdued, subduing strain
Which is played upon the shingles
BY the patter Of the rain.
Year: 1879

The turpentine distilleries, which are
often seen close to the railways through
the pine region, are most singularly rude
in appearance, the whole structure being
frequently composed of rough board
roof. supported upon round poles and
posts, barely forming shelter from rain
to the still and workmen. Nearly all
the work is done under the sky canopy,
and the stock needs no protection from
anything but fire. Sometimes the dis
tiller buys his stock of those who gather
it, but frequently he owns the whole
tract occupied, and hires his hands by
the month or furnishing the trees, he
agrees to pay stipulated price per
barrel for the pitch, rating it first, second
and third quality. In that case he u.s.
ually furnishes the rations in advance,
and often supplies for the whole sum-
mer's work is taken up as fast as earned,
and sometimes little faster.


The laborers in any part of the tur-
pentine business are not patterns of
neatness, for pitch will stick to what
ever it touches, and dirt has a natural
affinity for pitch; nevertheless it is a
healthy employment. | don't believe
that one of its operatives ever died of
consumption, catarrh or diphtheria. 1t
would surprise some of my Northern
readers, if they should visit Georgia
turpentine plantation, to see upon what
a small modicum of what they consider
the "comforts of life" people can live
and still exhibit signs Of cheerfulness
and satisfaction with what they have.
have frequently seen families whose
entire belongings house and all. would
be 10th to buy at So.


1t is perhaps quite unnecessary for
me to state that nearly all of these
laborers in the turpentine field are Of
the colored variety of humanity. A
few of the other variety condescend to
do little overseeing; but, as a rule,
the old notion that labor is not quite as
respectable as Incidence, is still very
prevalent in all that region where pine
trees are abundant
Year: 1879

Gen. de Lamorieiere was fond Of telling
this anecdote: A brave captain Of cavalry
had always had controlling passion for
sleep, which the army regulations gave him
small opportunity to indulge. When he was
at last retired from the service, he gave him.
self up to his ruling passion and slept the
whole forenoon. But he held that good for
tune cannot be- fully enjoyed unless one is
conscious Of it, and this was the means he
employed to cause himself to fully appreciate
his blessing:


Eevery morning his old orderly would enter
his room with horn in his hand and blow q
blast, which would sometimes shatter the
very glass in the windows and wake the dead
at the nearest cemetery.


'What the devil is that ?" the captain would
exclaim, jumping up In bed.


Come. captain, you must get up; 1t is tha
reveilleW


.'Revellle be id " the captain would ejacu-
late; "what do / care for the reveilIe? AMI
NAL, don't you know that I've been retired
for year? ? Get out OF this, you id horn-
blowing son OF q sea-cook, or I'll beat your
brains out with the warming pant'


Then the captain would lie down, wrap
himself once more with the bed-clothes, and
sleep quietly until noon, wearing all the while
smile which betrayed his keen conscious
ness, even in his slum Der, OF his good fortune.
Year: 1879

A "staf' correspondent OF the New York
Tribune met Ben Butler In Boston the other
day and says OF him: "I never saw him In
better health or Id better humor. His yacht
voyage along the coast Of Newfoundland has
given q ruddy hue to his comp mplexion, and as
he strides along with the rolling gait always
natural to him, a broad -brimmed Panama hat
on his head, and a big whistle made OF q
sharks tooth dangling at his watch chain, he
might well be taken for jolly admiral just OF
q cruise"
Year: 1879

CINCINNATI, May 1O.-The new company
formed to operate the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad organized to-day, under what ia
known as the Stone franchise, and elecied
temporary officers and increased their
capital stock TO ono million dollars, which
was all taken at once by their stockholders,
1t is expected that the transfer from the old
company TO the new one will not be delay.
ed but a few days longer. A permanent
organization Is to be effected when the
new company assume control Of the road.
Year: 1879

ONE week from tomorrow the Ohio Re-
publican State Convention will meet to
nominate candidates for Governor, Lieu
tenant Governor, Attorney General, State
Auditor, State Treasurer, and member
OF the Board OF Public Works.
Year: 1879

The old methods of doing business are fast passing away, and whether the change is for the better or not, those who wish to achieve success must abandon theSold and fall into thenew A revolu- tion has been wrought in such matters, and the old methods are daily becoming obsolete. One hundred thousand com mercial agents or drummers are now en- ployed to travel the length and breadth of the country in the interest of their employers, and in this fast age no one unless he holds monopoly of some good thing, can afford to wait for GUS toners, so great is the competition in every line or branch of business As pertinent to this subject, the Boston Post says: The ways of traffic are not the old ways; wooden ships are going out of date, and sailing vessels are giving place to steam; currency is superseded by commercial cr9dits; the cable and telegraph have brought markets close together railroads derive their freight profits from the perfectness of their ter minal facilities; men buy and sell by sample before products and manufac- tured stocks are moved; prices and rates change oftener now in a day than they used to do in week or month; every thing tends to economy of business fric- tion, to bringing things down to the finest point by the shortest way, to the performance of the most work by the least machinery.
Year: 1879

The Bangor (Me Commercial reports the discovery of wonderful boy, ten years old, son ofColonel Fuller, formerly postmaster at Bangor. Here are a few of his remarkable feats: He can, in an average of five seconds, tell the day of the week upon which any particular date in any year of this century fell. He never forgcts date. Among other things he can tell instantly when each President was born, when inaugurated, how long he served and when he died He can tell where he himself was and what doing on any specified day of. the last two years. He knows all about the Bible, even to the number of verses in each chapter of several of the books; he can give the substance of any verse in any chapter of any book; tell just where any event is described and where any Scripture name is mentioned. He is equally at home with the hymn books, being able to tell on what page any hymn in the Moody and Sankey and other col lections is to be found. One evening somebody told him that twice two was four and that was multiplication. He did not know it be fore, but the nex morning at the breakfast table he re- peated the whole table. Fractions and the addition, multiplication and division of them are his pastime, and the big dic- tionary furnishes him with light reading for many hours of his leisure.
Year: 1879

The late Isaac White of Pennington. in Albermarle county, told me the follow ing, which he had from Mrs. Marks, the mother by former husband, of the eel ebrated Meriwether Lewis, who first explored the upper Missouri, the Rocky Mountains and Oregon; MT. Lewis had started one afternoon to cross the Blue Ridge, and when near tho summit was arrested by the spectacle of two snakes a black and rattlesnake-in the narrow road he was travelling. They were in coil, with upraised heads, darting out their tongues and each intently gazing on the other. Suddenly the rattlesnake uncoiled and took to flight, but in an instant the black snake pursued and caught him by the neck, and quick as thought twined around him from head to tail, constructing him with force that made the bones crack audibly. Then he lay motionless for some time, when, as if he thought his prey was dead, he began slowly to unwind He had about half completed this process when the tail of the rattlesnake gave a slight quiver. AS speedily as before the | black snake whipped around him gave another crushing hug, breaking bones as before, and again lay motionless and for a longer time. Then more cautiously unwinding he found the rattlesnake en- tlrely dead and began to swallow him

 He had about half completed this opera tlon when night began to come on and MT. Lewis went on his way, not wishing to be belated in the mountains. Upon his return both snakes had disappeared l 7-Riclsnlo1sd Daspatch.
Year: 1879

''They cured me of Ague, Biliousness and
Kidney Complaint, as recommended. l had
half bottle left which l used for my two
little girls, who the doctors and neighbors
said could not be cured. would have lost
both of them one night if | had not given
them Hop Bitters. They did them so much
good continued their use until they were
cured That is why l say you do not know
half the value of Hop Bitters, and do not
recommend them high enough."-B., Roch-
ester, N. Y. See other column.
Year: 1879

A Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial says that the dis
patch lately published, that the Ad-
ministration had decided henceforth to
treat Sitting Bull as a British subject,
was read in the Canadian Parliament,
and pronounced canard by Sir John
Mcdonald, Premier, who stated that the
Dominion Government had received no
such information, official or otherwise,
and denied the fright of the United
States Government to say who was or
was not British subject. The publica-
tion was originally made upon the very
best authority, .and is reiterated. The
Dominion Government has received no
notice of the decision of the Administra.
tion, and will receive none until some
cause arise to call for it, but it is never
theless true that General Sherman has
received orders to this effect from the
Secretary of War, and will act accord
ingly. The correspondent called the
attention of the Secretary of War to the
incident in the Dominion Parliament,
and he said that it was not customary
for one Government to notify another
what its opinions were, until occasion
arose, making an expression Of opinion
necessary. He said further that Sil
John Mcdonald was right in saying thai
the President could not determine who
was, or was not, British subject, bu


he could decide who was, and who wa


not, subject of the United States, ant
it was a we'll matured opinion that Sit


ting Bull was no longer subject of tn
Year: 1879

The Shanghai Sin Pao publishes an
account of the cruel treatment to which
the coolies are subjected who are en-
ployed in the Dutch Islands in the
Straits to clear land and plant tobacco.
Every man on his arrival is tattooed on
the cheek. Once arrived, they are
never released. No letters are allowed
to be transmitted. If any one tenders
his RANSOM, it is not accepted. When
sick they have no medical attendance.
For dress they have only cocoanut bark.
for food one pound of rice in the husk
and three cash to buy salt fish daily.
When a man dies his body is cut in four,
and is buried under a banana tree to
manure it. On account of the heat and
unhealthiness of the climate, nearly
half die the.6rst year. Many are killed
by the cruelty of the overseers, and
some are driven to suicide. The total
number of cases of death since the trade
was begun is more than ten thousand.
No one has ever been known to escape.
Year: 1879

Few people who see bananas hanging
in the shops of fruit dealers think of
them as more than tropical luxury.
The fact is, they are staple article OF
food in some parts of the Grid; and,
according to Humboldt, an acr e Of ba-
nanas will produce as much food for
man as twenty-five aires of wheat. 1t
is the ease with which bananas are
grown that is the great obstacle to civ
ilization in some tropical countries. 1t
is SO easy to obtain a living without
work that no effort will ever be made,
and the men become lazy and shiftless.
ALI that is needed is to stick sucker
into the ground, and it will at once
sprout and grow, and ripen its fruit in
twelve or thirteen months without
further care, each plant having from
seventy-fve to 125 bananas; and, when
that dies down after fruiting, new
suckers spring up to take its place. In
regions where no foot ever reaches,
bananas are found in all stages of
growth, ripening their fruit every day
and every month in the year.-ScientiSc
american.
Year: 1879

It is O critical moment in the life and
clothing of man when he gets down on
his knees to look under the sofa for
ball of zephyr that lady friend has
dropped. It is possible that he may be
able to accomplish this and recover his
perpendicular with nothing more seri-
GUS than very red face and general
sense of having done something for
which he should be sent from the room.
But in nine cases out of ten he never
fully RECEIVERS the good opinion of him
self that he possessed before he under
took the recovery of that ball. It is al
ways Just beyond his reach, and in a
moment of weakness he drops on his
vest and commences to work himself
under the sofa by series of acrobatic
feats that would have won him an en-
core on the stage. He is SO intent up
on the recovery of the ball that he quite
forgets his appearance until he is re-
minded by suppressed litter from one
of the ladies. Then he realizes the sit
uation and commences to back out. OF
course his coat is worked up over his
head, and as he feels cold streak creep
up his back he pronounces benedic


ton on the man who invented an open
back shirt. He is also painfully con-
scious that about two inches of red FAN
mel drawers are visible between the
tops of his boots and the bottoms
of his trousers. This has the effect of
producing more internal profanity and
still more violent struggles to back out,
during which one suspender breaks and
his collar-button comes out. When he
finally delivers himself and stands up in
the middle Of the room, you would not
recognize in that red-faced, wild-eyed
man, standing there holding his clothes
together with one hand and trying to
smooth down his hair with the other.
the smiling, genteel ladies' man who
stopped down to pick up that ball of
zephyr a moment before.-Peck's Sam.
Year: 1879

Capt. William Jones, who has been
over to Caribou, brought back with
him remarkable natural curiosity. 1t
is q section of stove wood, sawed from
a tree about nine inches in diameter.
In splitting it Capt Jones disclosed a
pine cone, imbedded in the wood,
which by pressure of the annual growth
of the wood is as hard as adamant, and
which retains its natural purple color.
1t was evidently one of the most top
most cones when the tree was very
yaung. The stem of the cone was
caught by about the sixth annual
growth, and the rings of the wood show
that it gradually enveloped, and had
been finally hidden for over six years
before the ax of the woodman gave it a
chance for resurrection Georgetown
(COl) Miner.
Year: 1879

IT is generally known, says the vi
emma correspondent Of the London Globe,
that the Gar is haunted by a perpetual
fear, almost amounting to morbid ap-
prehension Of being one day assassinated
Every time some person of eminence
falls a victim TO the Nihilists there is an
aggravstion of these forebodings and
anxieties. The terrible doings of the
Nihilists of late, and the general rest
lessness of the people, are known to have
very much disturbed his Majesty's mind
and made him anxious to leave Russia
for a time.
Year: 1879




of the Government. The British Gov
ernment had given him and his Indians
a home and protection for over two years,
and was quite as much responsible for
his conduct as for the conduct of any
Indian on Canadian soil. The United
States had sent commission to Sitting
Bulls camp, with the advice and consent
of the Canadian Government, asking
them to return to our soil, but they re-
fused to do SO, and were upheld in that
refusal by the Canadian authorities, who
should then have compelled Sitting Bull
to leave, if they did not want to assume
the responsibility for his acts. In case
Sitting Bulls tribe returns to the Uni
ted States, the question of the RESPONSE
bility of the British Government will be
considered. "My orders to General
Sherman" continued the Secretary,
are that whenever any Indian from
Sitting Bulls camp makes his appear
ance on this side of the border, no mat
ter whether his intentions be hostile or
peaceful, he shall be either driven back
over the border or captured, and held
as prisoner of war for future orders.
If they came over with hostile intent, it
would be in my judgment an invasion
of United States territory by armed
enemies, for which the British Govern
ment might be held responsible. The
matter will be difficult to decide, if they
came peaceably, as it would be emigra-
tion then, and not invasion, but if they
came with hostile intent they would be
treated just as white persons would be
treated under the same circumstances.
Then it would become necessary to no.
tify Great Britain that we considered
Sitting Bull and his men British sub
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