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Year: 1877

One of the dread penalties which the
British House of Commons holds over the
head of offending members is the threat that
the offender shall be named by the Speaker.
For long time this threat had power to ter
rify, and no man dared persist in violation of
rules, for fear it would be carried out; all
thought something, they knew not exactly
what, but it must be something dreadful, would
then happen. But one day foolhardy mem
ber, from Ireland, boldly disregarded it, and
was named by the Speaker-and there was
not much of an earthquake, after all. The
guilty man lived to tell the tale. and when he
died died lamented and respected.


This parliamentary incident suggests itself
when we read in the London dispatches that
the British Government 'swi declare in
strong terms its disappsozalaf Russia,s, cons
Guiding direct peace with Turkey; and the
course England will pursue in case the re-
monstrance is not recognized by Russia is
matter in which the deepest interest is taken,
and on which there is great difference of
opinion" 1t is to be presumed that Beacons-
field will name the Gar. But the presumptu-
Gus Alexander subjected himself to that pen
atty last winter and it didn't hurt him bit.
The threat is like postage stamp in that it
can never be used, with safely, but once,


The British Premier is credited with this
design: He will not go to the extent OF an
immediate declaration of war, but will enter
upon a course of warnings and threatenings.
Like the Chinese warrior he will make hide
Gus faces at the enemy, aud if that doesn't
ffighten the encroaching Russian he will fall
back in as good order as may be, taking care
not to expose his rear. He is also said to en-
tertain this ingenious idea: "If Russia will
consent to ultimate terms of settlement which
he can approve her amour propre shall be
gratified by direct appeal from the van
quished enemy" Russia however doesn't
seem bit worried about an insult to her
amour propre, and prefers the freedom of the
Dardenees and a slice of Armenia to empty
Acknowledgements of her prowess. As she
has Germany and Austria at her back she
can afford to give way to her will and ignore
British interests.


The interference of England will come too
late. She should have compelled Turkey to
accept the terms of the Conference. As she
preferred to stand back and let the two ma
tlons fight the quarrel out, she cannot now
come in with any grace and object to the
conclusion of peace between them on the
terms to which they may agree. She has
missed her opportunity. Rather than en-
counter the English feet Russia may consent
to leave Constantinople in the possession Of
the Ottomans. But she will doubtless insist
upon the freedom of the Dardanelles and the
acquisition OF Armenia as repayment for the
expense to which she has been put, and will
not be deferred from her purpose by English
threats. The independence of Bulgaria is
already assured. Even Great Britain admits
that, and hastens to say that the proposed
rewards to Russian allies do not menace Brit
ish interests. This sop however will not sat
isfy Russia
Year: 1877

TENNESSEE has relented, and kindly offers
to pay her creditors one-half OF what she
owes them if they will take the sum in full
discharge of the debt. This is generous, for
she might refuse to pay anything. But if
ever she repents of her iberality she can
easily retrace her steps, for she can repudiate
the four per cent. bonds in which the debt is
to be esfunded"
Year: 1877

FLORENCE, the actor. looks to better day
for the stage, and thinks it will not be long
''before the public will demand more in a
leading juvenile man than the capacity to
dress in the height Of fashion aud to lean
gracefully upon the back of sofa." As that
is about all the public asks of the real article
there seems to be no reason why it should
exact more of the stage imitation.
Year: 1877

IT seems these Georgia Independents are
"Gordon Independents" that is they have
SO far overcome their hostility to the Federal
government that they are willing to take
office under it. This is the extent of their
independence. They are Democrats all the
Year: 1877

The Paris, Kentucky, Citizen, re-
produces from the same paper Of Sep
tember sth, 1909, the following:


AS he lived, SO he died-with his
gun In his hand. We are informed
by a gentleman direct from Boone's
on the Missouri coast, that early last
month Colonel Daniel Boone went to
the deerlick and seated himself with
in blind raised TO conceal him from
the game that while sitting thus
concealed with his trusty rifle in his
hand pointed towards the lick, the
mnzzle resting on a log, his face to the
breech of the gun, his rifle cooked, his
finger on the trigger, one eye shut, the
other looking along the barrel through
the sight-in this position, without a
struggle or motion, and of course with
out pain he breathed his life out so
gently that when he was found the
next day by his friends, although stiff
and cold, he looked as If alive with
his gun in hand just in the act of firing.
1t is not altogether certain if a buck
had come in range of his gun, which
had been the death of thousands, but
it might intuitively followed Its old
employers mind and discharged It.
self. The hypothesis being novel we
leave the solution to the curious.
Year: 1877

Silver spoons are used to scrape
kettles.


Coffee, tea, pepper and spices are
left to stand open aud lose their
strength. Potatoes in the cellar grow,
and the sprouts are not removed until
the potatoes are worthless.


Brooms are never hung up. and are
soon spoiled.


Nice handled knives are thrown in
to hot water.


The -four is sifted In q wasteful man.
ner. and the bread pan is left with
the dough sticking to it.
Clothes are left on the line to whip
to pieces in the wind.
Tubs and barrels are left In the sun
to dry and fall apart.
Dried fruits are not taken care of In
season and become wormy.
Rags, string and paper are thrown
into the fire.
Pork spoils for want of salt, and
beef because the brine wants scalding.
Bits of meat, vegetables. bread and
cold puddings are thrown away, when
they might be warmed, steamed and
served as good as Cottage
Hearth.
Year: 1877

The Senate, u nder the audacious as
sumption and crafty designs of the lead
ers of The Republican party has become
dangerous body. Should it continue
to permit the worst men of the country
to occupy seats in it by purchase or by
Stealth and brazenly attempt to defeat
the aims and well attested expressions
OF the people through the ballot, it will
some day be overturned and driven
from the chamber, as body no longer
10 Dc tolerated by free and intelligent
people. During the last ten years it ha s
assumed to itself the dangerous power to
dictate who shall fill the Cabinet Offices
and to deny the President the right to
select his own advisers, and in one case
to force into his presence a man who had
become his moral enemy; plotter for
his position and adverse to all Executive
plans for the conduct of the government
toward section embracing third of the
population of the country. Having forti-
heo Itself in this at later day 1t dictated
VINO should be the President of the Uni
tea states in defiance of the Constltu-
tlonai mode of expressing the choice by
the people by ballot and by the votes of
House of Representatives.


Securely seated IN power; made enor.
mousiy wealthy by long terms, large sal.
aries or the sale of their influence upon
laws, they cease to be the representatives
OF the people, and stoop to be the repre-.
sentatlVes of wealthy, aristocratic corpor-
atlons, and designing politicians.


recent events have shown that with g
Year: 1877

HARD ON SHARoN.-senator Sharon. of
Nevada, instead of being in his seat in the
Senate, is specializing in min ng stocks on
the San Francisco Exchange. He regards
The Senatorship as sinecure honor, with
no duties attached TO it. Men with such
large private interests to take care of have
no time to give to the public AT east he
might set up telephone communi alton
between the Stock Board and the Senate,
and In the intervals between the biddings
send on his vote or express his opinions on
matters that concern bis constituents
PI,ila Press.
Year: 1877

WHAT has become of all the gold that
should have been covered into the Treas


ury by the sale of STOO,0OO,OO0 bonds to


Europe? What was done with the fif-
teen millions of gold that was paid by


the British government for the Alabama
award? Where is the gold that ought to
have been received by the late sale of
S72 100000 bonds by the Syndicate ? 1t
never was received. The brokers know
this-they know that the British govern
ment sustained the Bank of England in
its decision not TO pay gold and suffer it
to go out Of the country in all these
cases and the Treasury of the United
States has no more gold now after these
sales than had on several occasions four
or five years ago. Where then is the
government to get 800, 100000 of gold
to meet the resumption of specie pay


mems on the 1st of January, 1879. 1t
can not be got, and the whole scheme is
delusion in favor of the gold and bond
brokers. If silver is remonetized anS
made legal tender, we shall be far bet.
ter able to resume specie payments thar


we have ever been. We never can have


a gold standard without an immense pa
per circulation. The introduction of tn,
Democratic standard Of silver and gol,
= as legal tenders will give activity to trad
and increase the value of all property a
it did before the war when the govern
ment was called by its opponents ,'th
: best government the world ever saw"
Year: 1877

President as bad and desighihg as the
men who have controlled That BODY for
the past twevle years, the liberty of the
country might be snuffed out as quickly
as the light of candle. No man can look
upon the condition of thugs as hs finds
them without serious apprehensions. And
one of the greatest fears is that the capti-
waiting Influences of power win draw to
the side Of the present political controll-
ers Of the Senate enough votes from the
Democrats to enable it to hold on 10 all
the vast power 1t has usurped and secur-
ed by the tenure Of office bill and other
acts intended to enable the Radical party
to carry out its bloody-shirt terrorism
over the South. The Senate is too small
body to be entrusted with such vast
power-this has been shown in the
purchase of seats by men from several
States, enough to give the majority for
years, and these corrupt men getting in
to power in this way, demand and hold
the right to distribute the political pat
ronage in their States. They keep this
power by their votes, and they trade of
their votes in executive session to secure
the confirmation of their fayorites or to
defeat the nominations of the President.
There has been,at one time, in the Senate
as was charged, some five or six Senators
who obtained seats by purchase or by
fraud. And even now the deciding vote
of that body may be in the hands of a
Senator who is fugitive from justice
whose vote may perpetuate the party cou.
troll and the introduction of Kellogg OF
a Pinchback.
Year: 1877

Those who oppose silver money as a
legal tender, never tell their readers
what gold would be worth if it were de-
monetized and silver monetized in its
place. That is what the gold grabbers
did to silver to make their bonds and
gold interest sell higher in the market.
Year: 1877

The opponents of silver are willing
that it shall be used as legal tender to
pay wages with, but not to pay bonds
with. 1t is good enough dollar for the
poor man but not good enough for therich
brokers.
Year: 1877

Congressman Smalls. of South Caro-
INA, has been convicted of bribery while
he was member of the State Legislature.
his majority at the last election was
nearly fifteen hundred, but his success or
will probably be democrat.
Year: 1877

James Murray, young lad, who was arrested the
evening previous for stealing box Of crackers, was
arragned the charge OF theft before Justice Walsh,
yesterday A pale, deicate.looking girl approached
the railing and III broken accents asked Justice Walsh
release the prisoner he her brother and had
stolen the crackers TO keep them both from starving
to death. Her story found TO be true, and SUBJ
scrpton for their reof Immediately raised among
the court officers Justice Walsh heading the list, and
the prisoner was allowed TO depart with his sister
Year: 1877

goes on. The sensitiveness of our es-
teemed cotemporary is enormous
who said anything about inappropri-
ateness 4? in what particular part of
that innocent little line is it that she
wakes funny ?" Why, it was the
enormously happy selection of the
word to poke irOnical fun, as we
thought, at his own town, that at
tracted our notice. We hope the
Courier will be satisfied with this ex-
planation that it has learned, on the
fault-finding question, that it makes
all the difference in the world as to
whose OK is gOred, and that it will
not heI eafter indulge in fault-hnding
filings at us when We are having a set
to with a neighbo withOuteven con-
sidering the merits of the cOntrover-
sy; and thus avoid the inevitable
humiiating sgueal of fellow who is
sure to get a reciprocal punch for
sticking his unjOurnalistic nose where
it has no buiness.
Year: 1877

Every body who is so fortunate as to
visit our city, calculate that they
"had no idea the place was so large"
Enormous views of our importance as
"A commercial centre seem to have OBJ
tanned among our neighboring towns.
Central City Courier.


No'doubt enormous is just the word.
-AdUertiSer.


The Fairbrother of the Brownville
ADVERTISER is getting cute again
He thinks we employed the word
enormous" inappropriately, and then
he wakes funny. Now the ADVER-
TISER is one of our best and neatest
exehanges-an honor to the state
press, editorially, geographically, &c
and we are sorry it is given to fault
finding instead of commendation.-
Central City Courier.


That one line Is all We said about it,
and why does our estimable. good
looking and brainy cotemporary think
we found fault. We do not find fault
-wk6y ~Spld we? for it has, most
unqNS~r bly,. the perfect undisput'
ed right ~ re word enormous y
in any commensurate chooses-at any
time. a thousandSmes, in season oil
out Of season. insppropriateiy. upside
down or otherwise, and its none OF
our business. All we want is per-
mission to laugh as the enormous fun
Year: 1877

The board of Regents on the 10th
inst. reconsidered their order made
some weeks ago which declared the
University building unsafe for occu-
patton. BY later evidence through
eminent architects and builders, who
have thoroughly examined the build
ing, the Regents have very properly,
we think, concluded that it may be
rendered perfectly safe by putting a
new foundation under it, of strong
material, in place of the soft stone of
which the foundation is now made.
The citizens of Lincoln agree to bear
the expense. The Regents could not
reasonably have done other than what
they have. They have been duly eau
tious; the evidence upon which they
have based their proceedings has been
the hest possible for them to obtain,
and should the building after all fall
down and kill and MAIN a score or
two of students, the Regents will
stand exonorated from all blame.
Year: 1877

The body of an unknown man was
recently found near Cedar Island in
the Platte river, between Concord and
Plattsmouth. The body was so decom-
posed that the features were unreeOg-
nizable, one arm and leg also being
missing. The supposition is that il is
the body of the young man who was
drowned opposite Brownville about
six weeks ago West Point Repu6Ii-
can.


There has been no young man nor
old man drowned opposite this Brown
vile within the past year. but if there
was it would be curious how his body
could get hundred miles above this
place into the Platte. What's the
matter with you Bayha?
Year: 1877

Tie Tribune war specials have a
larger circulation than those of any
other paper in the Chicago
Tribune


We think likely this is true. for
nearly all the other papers publish
them a day before the Tribune. The
making them over for that paper
DON t alter their character much. and
is a dead failure so far as news is con-
cerned.-.Inter Ocean.
Year: 1877

The cattle thieves of Mexico cross
ed the Rio Graude into Texas last
week and stole l50 head of cattle, and
got back home with them. The Mex
lean government is no more able to
cope with its outlaws than is the
United States to enforce law and a re-
Year: 1877

This is what Carson Appeal says oil
Montgomery Queens rhinoceios: We
have all along been assuring our readers
that the two-horned rhinoceros was a
fact. And it is a fact. He is a very
perfect specimen; very singular and
interesting creature. His head is shaped
like mansard roof covered with asphal.
tum. His front tooth seems to have
grown up through his nose, and his wis
dom-tooth has come out through his eye
brow. His eye is located in his upper lip.
He seems TO be a cross between deformed
elephant aud the debris Of an old India,
rubber over,hoe manufactory Ifhis an
cestors were with Noah in the ark, that
early navigator must have consigned
him to the steerage, or else it was Just an
cmigrant ship where they made no pre-
tense of tone, style or anything first. class
in the passenger carrying way.
Year: 1877

Professor Boyd Dawkins in giving an
account to the Manchester geological
society of his visit to the crater Of
Vesuvius said "A coating of yellow
sulphur about three inches thick covered
the lip, and beneath this tie loose
gray ashes gave out aqueous vapor at
every pore, which deposited on them in
some places white powdery sulphate OF
lime, in Others common salt, sal
ammoniac, green chloride OF copper, and
specuiar iron ore, which looked like
little pieces of shattered mirrors scat
cred through their substance. 1t was
obvious that here we had striking
proof of the mode in which water, in
passing through heated rock, can carry
minerals in solutions and ultimately
deposit them. In these deposits wecould
easily recognize the mode in which the
various metals were brought up from
deep down in the earth's crust, and
deposited in holes aud crannies in the
rocks which are accessible to man as
mineral veins" In this description we
seem to have an approach towards an
answer to the ott.repeated question
Where do metals come from?
Year: 1877

1t is mistaken notion that book
knowledge is opposed to the practical,
There is much practical knowledge that
cannot be obtained outside of books or
their equivalent. The captain of yes
sel is practical sailor; no is the man be-
fore the mast. But while both can reel
sail equally well, the latter would run
the vessel to destruction, perhaps, ii
placed in command. There is a science
in navigation that cannot be learned by
simply performing the duties of COM
mon sailor 1t must he obtained from
hooks, and the men who safely conduct
the thousands of vessels from one port
TO another, across the boundless ocean,
demonstrate how eminently practical
this book knowledge is. 1t is just so in
farming. Holding the plOw, driving the
machine, pitching hay, sowing grain and
making cider, is all practical work, that
must be learned just as sailor must
serve his time before the mast ere he can
aspire to the command of the vessel
And before the farmer can take the
higher position Of commander, he must
learn something Of the science Of agrl7,
culture, and this can no more be learned
by holding the pillow than the science OF
navigation can be by reefng sails'-Oh'0
E1r1ucr
Year: 1877

In matchmaking a new method OF Sc
curing adjustment is announced All
tho works of the watch, except the main
spring, are placed upon circular frame
sinn6Tted at the center, and by means
Of or y geared rim round the inside of the
case this frame is turned entirely round
once in two hours. This arrangement
giyes the works n circular motion round
= common center Independent of their own
proper movement and secures balance
Of ali the parts by constantly changing
their relative positions
Year: 1877

fstung or bitten by an insect, snake
or animal, apply spirits of hartshorn very
freely with a soft rag, because it is one ot
the strongest alkalis, and is familiar to
most persons The substance which
causes the so.called poison from bites OF
stings is, as far as is ascertained, gene
rally acid. Hence the hartshorn antag
onizes it iuproportion to the promptitude
with which it is applied. If no hartshorn
is at hand, pour a cup of hot water on a
cup of cooking soda or saleratus, or even
the ashes of wood just from the stove OF
fire place, because all these are strong al
kalis, and hartshorn is only best because
is the strongest.
Year: 1877

When the industrious plebeians of the
north, freed from the soul slavery in
which their masters have so long debased
them, will seek in the rich and hospitable
cline of the south a place of rest and
plenty, let them be welcome amongst us
as suffering brothers escaped from their
persecution as our own slaves, when
fleeing from our mild rule, sougbt-but
sought in vain--a heaven of peace
amongst them.
Year: 1877

As it is here, so everywhere; the idle,
vicious and criminal elements are on top


They have subdued the workingmen.
These everywhere stand impotently by
and see the subsistence of their families
taken from them. All over the country
Year: 1877

Let the president issue his call, and
promptly the gray will stand shoulder tc
shoulder with the blue, an impenetrablt
bulwark against which mob violence and
communism will dash in vain. He will
find that the veterans of Manassas and
Gettysburg still remember that the first
duty of soldier is "implicit obedience
toorders" With such men theirpersona
prejudice will weigh as nothing against
the word of command. Friends and
foes must suffer alike from their bullet.
or bayonets if the emergency so requires
We at first gave to the strikers on the
Baltimore and Ohio a warm sympathy
They have suffered grievously. But the
reparation and relief they seek can never
come through sacked cities and whole,
sale murder. When a strike takes on
the proportions of communism then it is
that the Order-loving element north and
south unite in a common cause, declaring
that the lawof the statute books and the
law of humanity must and shall be re-
speCted.
Year: 1877

The MEssAGE.-The Presidents Message is
long -winded, and generally without interest.
We shall not infict it upon our readers, but snail
merely refer to several Of the subjects treated in
in it. The President glories in his treaohery to
the Republicans of the South, and pictures beau
ties arising from it that do not exist. The Re-
publican party have nothing to hope for at his
hands. He is al. that the most ardent foreign
bond holder could desire. Resumption must be
forced at the time fixed by law. If the silver
dollar is to be coined again, it must be for the
people only, but the bond-holder must be paid
in gold. 1t would be breach of faith to redeem
bonds that were bought for gold, in any other
currency than gold aud it would be breach of
faith to redeem bonds that were bought for
greenbacks, with greenbacks, for the bond-hold-
ers are expecting gold. After bonds were bought
with greenbacks, it was no violation of faith
with the people, to enact law providing that
they should be paid in gold; and it was no
wrong upon the people to pass a law by stealth
demonetizing silver; but any attempt to undo
the wrongs committed, would be violation of
faith. Hayes is owned, body and breeches, by
the gold gamblers and bond holders aud if the
people expect to obtain justice, it must be
through twothirds majority in both branches
of Congress. This they may not have in the
present Congress, but they will have in the
next.