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Year: 1879

WHEN the act repeating the election laws
is brought forward in the next House which
of the Republican members will emulate
the courage Of THAD STEVENS and move to
amend the title so that it will describe the
proposed law, by inserting in lieu of the
one proposed by the Democrats the words
"Au act to enable the Democrats to commit
frauds in the city of New York and fol
other purposes
Year: 1879

THE admission of female lawyers to prac-
tice in the courts of the United States and
the attempt to pension JEFF DAVIS were
concurrent events, it is true; but they had
no relation either with the other JEFrs
claims for pension were not based upon
his connection with the pctticoat frater-
nity
Year: 1879

In the absence Of RANDALL and TILDEN
from the Manhattan Club dinner, Chief
Justice CHURCH was the most distinguished
guest. 1t would be strange, indeed, if this
incident were the shadow of a coming
event; but it is hardly probable, however
much they may wish to carry New York
that the Democrats will leave TILDEN and
20 to CHURCH.
Year: 1879

Ouray. the civilized head chief Of the
ties, has difficult position to maintain.
This was made evident in his speech to
Ike Commissioners at Los Pinos, Thurs
day. He is compelled to listen with SEEM
ing appreciation to many of the plots of
the ties, in order to preserve his intlu-
encc over them, and. on the other hand,
he feels that his confidential relations
with the savages subject him to the sus-
picion Of treachery on the part Of the
whites. He asserts that he wants only
the white man." and of his fidelity to
the government there can be no reason
able doubt. The fact that he has adopt
ed the dress, learned the language and
made himself successful in the agricul-
ture of the whites, is an indication that
his affection for the white people is very
strong. lie will, if possible, lead the
Utes to maintain peace by surrendering
the White River murdererS at the de-
mand of General Adams But he admits
that his task is very difficult, and he ever,
wishes that he could escape from the re-
sponsibilty of head chief Of his tribe.
He confesses that he could not restrain
the L ties from another massacre. should
the whites attempt to imprison any of
the witnesses who have been summoned
to give their testimony. The speech of
Chief Ouray evinccs the need of con
stantly maintaining a military force near
enough to every Indian tribe to suppress
an outbreak at its first appearance.
Year: 1879

a creature possessing two feet and a
head, with q very weak spot in it. who
goes about among people with a cigar OF
a pipe i'll his mouth, and putls his dis
gusting tobacco smoke into the faces OF
men, women, and children, without the
slightest regard to their wishes, com


fort. or health. and only intent upon the
qualification of his own filthy and per
verted taste, is found everywhere A
great mistake, which this creature makes
is that he thinks himself gentleman


and that he is enjoying his natural rights


instead of which he is infringing upon
the rights of others by poisoning the pure
air OF heaven, which they must breathe
He who poiSons the food of fellow being
is amenable to the severest penalties OF
the law, but this creature is allowed with
perfect impunity and brazen effrontery
to poison the air which our wives, our chill
dren and ourselves must breathe every
time we go upon the street, in u horse
car, boat, park, or other public places
where these creatures are found. There
should be a law to protect people in their
rights, and compel these creatures, fthey
must smoke, to retire to their own pri-
vate dens, where they can make smoked


bacon of themselves to their hearts con-
tent and where they can not infringe
upon the rights Of others. y.


For The Cecil Whig
Year: 1879

Representative Burrows, of Michigan in his
speech at the Republican reunion in Madison.
Wis, said 81 cannot understand this fiat
business. can understand how piece of
paper is perfectly good if it is payable at some
time and to some one, but how piece of paper
stamped as money is money, cannot under
stand can understand perfectly well when
buy ticket from here to Chicago, that it is
good for something, because it is redeemable
in ride; but 1 cannot understand how the
ticket itself is the ride, and nobody but mod
ern Greenback fiat-money man would sit down
on that ticket and think he was going tn
Chicago. [Great laughter. l can understand
how ticket into circus is good, if / can pet
into the show; but cannot understand how
the ticket is show, and nobody but modern
tiat-money man would take the ticket and
think he saw the horses going ronnd and the
whole performance. l can understand how an
order on farmer here in Wisconsin for a COW
IS pretty good, if | can get the COW; but can
not understand how the order itself is a COW
and nobody but a modern Greenback fiat
attempt to milk the order Great laughter. |
will tell you, my fellow citizens, there is no
use i'll talking about getting out of the national
debt in any way except to pay it; that is the
only straightforward way to do. To-day the
best thing that could happen to the financial
interest and the business interests would be for
Congress to pass law at its very next session
to punish with death any member of Congress
that would make a speech on finance for the
next 20years. What we want is to let it alone


and we are ON the high road to prosperity"
Year: 1879

THE Boston Aduertiscr, which was fear
full OF the result in Maine at the opening of
the canvass, has been looking the ground
over little more carefully, and now says:
1T is evident that there has been a revival
OF Republican interest to an extent that
fairly surprises the managers of the canvass.
The meetings, of which many are held in
various parts of the State, are attended by
large crowds, and the speakers are well re-
ceived. These are not the only significant
facts in regard to the Republican meetings
Last year the assemblies were frequently
interrupted by Greenbackers, who had
learned from the club organizers few
catch phrases, and fancied themselves mas
tiers OF the whole system of finance. This
aggressiveness has wholly disappeared, not
from lack of disposition to interrupt, but be-
cause there is nothing to say. The Repub-
licans have made large and valuable gains in
the shape of reconverted Republicans They
come openly by scores in some towns, and
IN others, while they make no secret of
their intentions, they do not quite care to
advertise their return to all the world. Re-
ports of gains like these are, we know, to be
received generally with caution, but they are
numerous and too well specified as to place
and number of reconverts to be rejected as
imaginary
Year: 1879

BOSTON Herald: Senator Zach Chand-
Ter says truly that there has never been a
day when days labor would buy so many
OF the necessaries and luxuries of life as
to-day. This is especially true of all the
necessaries OF life. Increased power of pro-
duction has decreased cost, and, while wages
are as good or a little better than before the
war, dollar will buy more of almost every
article the poor man is obliged to buy for
himself and family. The people of this
country have great deal to be thankful
for"
Year: 1879

AGAIN the argus sinks into its hole.
The PRESS asked it to show how the cost of
bank bills over greenbacks is ten millions a
year, and in reply it refers to its files of
year ago in which it failed to show where
the extra cost of bank paper came in. 1t
says the regular readers of the argus are
familiar with the whole subject. The reg
ular readers of the Argus are familiar with
a great many falsehoods. If they want
truth for change, let them read Sherman's S
speech or the latest report of the Comptroll-
er OF the currency, or that eminent Demo-
cratic authority, the New York World which
says:


AS matter of fact the people of the country
at large are better pleased with the national
banking system now than they were three
years ago, or year ago. There are, doubtless,
points i'll which the system needs reform and
improvement, but as a whole it is an excellent
working system. Security for the note-holder
and the depositor is nearly perfect under it.
Since the Bank of Glasgow failure the excel
lence of the American system has become so
apparent that the British opinion demands, in
the new banking legislation of Parliament, the
same banking publicity which is the great
merit of our plan.
Year: 1879

The utterances of the New York Times
provoke the Cincinnati Commercial to re-
mark: "The New York Times should have
small stick of hard wood tied in its mouth
to bite in hot weather. 1t is a good cure
for the kind of collie the Times has,
Year: 1879

The worm with fruit first tempted Eve;
But being caught and cursed
He hideth now in the fruit itself,
Until about August first;
And the racket he makes in the small bows stomach
Is just about the worst


-Binghamton Republican.
Year: 1879

Buffalo Express: 1t is now learned that
Princess Louise's salmon was so old that it had
to wear spectacles and swim with q crutch,
whereas the trout caught by Mrs. Hayes was
in the prime of life and health, and kicked as
viciously as if it had had four legs and bad
temper
Year: 1879

Gazette. ~


Ask any old Boston printer who was in
weighed by said Troup into the ill-fated print
ers strike IN Boston in 1864: They have rea-
son to remember him.-Sunday Times


TRoUP is the man who saws it is no credit
to have served as aprivate in the Union army.
Year: 1879

THE astute editor of the Camden Herald
accuses Congressman Reed of neglecting in
his speech at Union to say that ''Sher-
toms for fear that the gold would be drawn
out of the treasury for the purpose" What
If it had? Would it not have been immedi-
a'ely paid back again for duties? What
had Sherman to fear?
Year: 1879

AS for the indecent ISLANDERS on the Secretary
put forth by the Argus they are unworthy of
notice, and ISLANDERS that no honest man would
make and no intelligent man believe.-PREss


Please explain, most amiable contemporar
Argus


THE nasty insinuation advanced by the
argus that Sherman made money for his
own pocket out of the refunding operations
That is as base a slander as was ever uttered
Even the argus seems ashamed and does
not repeat it, and slander that will shock
the 1rguS must be uncommonly nasty. AS
for Sherman's wealth we know nothing of it,
nor do we believe the AYyus does. But it
is nothing uncommon for man of Sher-
mans abilities to honestly acquire wealth in
twenty-four years. Even the editor of the
Argus, unless general report does him in
justice, has got rich, no doubt honestly, in
less than that time and on salary not half
as large as that of Sherman.
Year: 1879

The possibilities that the Greenbackers
may attain to the dignity of national party
are Justify proclaimed by Colonel Duncan.
By organizing in all the Southern States, pro-
tecting the negro from Democratic BULLDOG
ers and so absorbing the entire colored vote,
''solid South will form the nucleus of a
magnificent party which may be dominant
in 1880. This ingenious plan, the first that
any teacher of the Greenback faith has
sketched, looking beyond the local subjects
of petty barter, is certainly fattering to the
pride of those men who have united them
selves with the fortunes of a new party in
the conscientious belief that there are dis
coverable somewhere beneath the strata of
absurdlties which have seemed to be the le-
gitimate subject of ridicule, principles which
candid men might respect. This revelation
OF the near approach of the supreme hour of
triumph for their party and Colonel Dun
cams words of warning against union with
the old parties, are causing the Greenback-
ers to reconsider the trade they have just
negotiated with their allies, the experienced
diplomats of the Democratic party. They
feel themselves imperiled by the contem-
plated coalition; they do not trust the good
faith of men who, in spite of similarly worded
platforms, are known by them to entertain
most diverse views on material issues; and
they suspect they may awake to see the Dem
ocratic portion of the fusion ticket elected,
while their candidates, especially those of
Republican antecedents, are defeated.


They are just discerning also that they
have been over-reached in the edivision. The
long-term offices, with the exception of the
minor office of Register of Probate, have
been arrogantly demanded by the Democrats
The annual office of County Treasurer is
offered as an offset to the four-years Office
of Judge of Probate. 1t is known of all
men that this coalition is a maneuvre of
the Democratic ring masters. The Green
hackers have not sought it. The signers of
that remarkable letter, ''We concur" writ
ten to the editor of the Argus, have secured
delegates for the Greenback County Conven-
tion in this city favorable to the union (?)
and their agents and emissaries have, during
the past weeks, been packing the Green
back caucuses in the country towns. The
result is probably assured. The Greenback-
ers repent; but Col Duncan's warning comes
too late.
Year: 1879

Fellows Compound Syrup is composed of
ingredients identical with those who con-
stitute Healthy Blood, Muscle aed Nerve
and Brain Substance, whilst life itself is
directly dependent upon some of them,
Year: 1879

THE WALLACE COMMITTEE proposes to resume
active operations in this city next week, and
after taking testimony here the committee will
probably proceed to some of the northern cities
and prosecute their Investigations. The U. s.
marshal for the southern district of New York
will be the first witness examined. His exami-
nation will cover the matter OF the appoint
ment OF deputy marShalS for the city Of New
York at the last Presidential election.
Year: 1879

1t seems that a young man and
woman of Bucksport, Maine, were
not so much married as they
thought they were the other day.
They met and were each charmed
with the others qualities. A mu-
tual friendship sprang up, which in
few days ripened into love. 1t
was agreed that they should be
r,aerried. and, after brief lapse OF
time, they visited well known jus
tice of the peace in that town and
were married, or supposed that they
were. Two weeks passed on, and
the discovery was made by the sup
posed justice of the peace that his
term of office had expired prior to
the marriage ceremony, and that
the couple were not legally united.
The surprise of tho man and his af-
6~-~e9, wnen the state of the case
was told them, can hardly be imag
ined. They had lived together as
man and wife for two weeKs, and
the announcement of the fact that
they were not married created quite
a little sensation. But the sequel
is even stranger than what went be-
fore. The would be husband said
to his intended wife that they would
go and see some one who was really
a justice of the peace, and get le-
gally married. She said she be-
lieved she did not Gale to; that she
had had enough of married life for
the present; and, persisting in that
opinion, she left town next day for
Boston.
Year: 1879

Chicago Saturday Herald
There was once perfectly modern girl,
With perfectly modern ways,
Who saw perfection in every Iything
That happened to meet her gaze.
Such perfectly lovely things she saw,
And perfectly awful, too,
That none would have dared to doubt her


word,


So perfectly, perfectly true.
The weather, she said. in summer time,
" as perfectly, awfully warm;
The winter was perfect, too. when there came
Some perfectly terrible storm.
She went to perfectly horrid school,
In perfectly horrid town;
And the perfectly hateful teachers there
Did things up perfectly brown.
Her lessons we've perfectly, fearfully long
Bnt never were perfectly said,
And when she failed, as often she did,
Her face grew perfectly red.
The church she attended is perfectly mag
With perfectly heavenly spire,
And perfect crowds go there to hear
A perfectly stunning choir.
The latest style is perfectly sweet
The last the perfectest out;
The books she reads are perfectly good,
Gust here we raise doubt.)
A ride she took was perfectly grand,
On perfectly gorgeous day,
With perfectly nobby friend of hers,
Who happened to pass that way.
The perfectly elegant falls she'd seen,
When on her way to the lake;
And the graphic description she gave US al
Was simply a modern mistake.

The perfectly splendid foam dashed up,
In perfectly killing style;
And the perfectly terrible waves came down
In perfectly lovely pile.
1 might go on with this perfectly" poem
And write to the end of time,
But fearing to wear your patience out
Will bring to an end my rhyme.


M. s. B.
Year: 1879

The self-made man is generally
an independent, self reliant worker
who deserves all he gets. Not so
with the sybarite who depends
upon outside help. Many a parent
labors hard and lives sparingly all
his life for the purpose Of leaving
enough give his children a start
in the world as it is called. Setting
young man afoat with money left
him by his relatives, is like tying
bladders under the arms of one
who cannot swim; ten chances to
one he will lose his bladder and go
to the bottom Teach him TO swim
and he will never need bladders.-
Give your child sound education
and you have done enough for him.
See to it that his morals are pure,
his mind cultivated, and his whole
nature made subservient TO the
laws which govern man, and you
have given him what will be of
more value than the wealth of the
Indies.
Year: 1879

Brooklyn Eagle: The object OF


the school system seems 60 US 10 be


quite clear TO anybody who will


take the trouble TO look at il. The


State insists upon the education of


its children, because Its very exist


ence depends upon the intelligence


of the people. Its purpose, there


fore, is TO educate them as TO insure
their becoming, at maturity, sufli-
ciently intelligent TO understand the
conditions OF self government and
to take their part in framing the
necessary laws for the support Of the
Government. 1t can not, then,
Justly eXpend one dollar upon any
additional instruction which after
this limit becomes an accomplish
ment. The foundation OF this Gov
ernment can not be said 10 rest
upon the dexterity Of the pianist,
the culture Of musician, or the ia
cility Of an artist. An ability TO
read and write, TO understand the
language, the history, the geogra-
ply and political system of his own
country and its relations TO the
world-knowledge enough TO make
him an intelligent citlzen-is all
that the State has any right TO con
fer upon its attendant at the public
schools. Anything beyond that
the parents or guardians Of the pu-
pills must provide at their own dis
cretion and expense. Unfortunate
IL the gentlemen who conduct our
public schools seem TO be complete
ly oblivious of the fact. They have
raised the standards of education
beyond the limit TO which the State
ought TO go, and have acted as
though the funds Of tue city and
the time of the pupils we're equally
They have introduced
higher grades of. scholarship, instruc-
tion which is costly, and are con
stantly pushing on to the ornament
Al, with which, as Trustees Of the
State, they have nothing 10 do.
Year: 1879

Country Gentleman: There can
hardly be a greater sign of prosper
ity in a community than a disposi-
ton 10 assist one another-lift a lit
tie when a neighbor's wheel gets
stuck in the mud. We know of a
place where a mans barn with all
its winter stores of grain and hay
was consumed by fire in the night.
Immediately all the country mus
tered and hauled up timber for a
new barn, and then a big raising
came of. After that the sound OF
twenty hammers was heard until the
whole was shingled and sided. But
their deeds Of kindness we're not
done yet; and one after another


they offered to take head or two


of his stock and winter them for
Year: 1879

The Paris correspondent Of the
Boston Courier, referring to his ro-
covery from a dangerous illness,
says:


l mention this illness that / may
tell you how easily was cured. L
was bent double. l could not
breathe. My physician ordered me
to take a fiat iron and heat it as hot
as 1 could bear, put a double fold Of
flannel on the painful part, and
move the IRON TO and fro on
the flannel. l was cured by en-
chantment. My doctor told Inc
that some time since a professor in
one Of our colleges, after suffering
some days with neuralgia in the
head, which he himself had tried TO
cure, sent for the former, who pre-
scribed a hot hat-iron. The next
time the doctor saw the professor
the latter exclaimed, "I had no
sooner applied the heated iron TO my
head than instantly all pain had
vanished" My physician was SUM
moned recently to the bedside Of a
woman who had neuralgia in both
sides, and so violent that she
alarmed the whole neighborhood by
the screams which. her intolerable
anguish wrung from her. She was
taken from her bed ana borne near
the fire. In such severe cases a
heated iron is not energetic enough.
He has an iron rod fastened 10 an
ivory handle. He heats this rod TO
a white heat (which causes less pain
than a red heat and applies il very
slightly Co the seat of the pain, first
in longitudinal then in latitudinal
lines. The application is so slight
that no trace is left but red lines on
the epidermis, which are soon ef-
faced. In twenty minutes the wo


man walked back TO bed, and the
third day afternoon quilted it en-
tirely freed from neuralgia. This
instrument is not 20 be intrusted 10
! awkward hands.
Year: 1879

The report of the outbreak of
cholera in Calcutta a week ago was
confirmed in our dispatches of
Monday. 1t is an undoubted fact,
and when we consider that this is
its usual starting point, whence it
ravages the western world, we may
expect a visitation at no distant
day. Its speed of approach is con-
trolled by the facilities of human
travel. Some years ago, before the
world had been bound by iron
bands and the car swiftly whirled
along over plain and mountain, it's
approach was slow, generally taking
United States But it takes advan-
tage of the same means of locomo


ton that is enjoyed by man, and
consequently Its arrival in the Uni
ted States may be set down at an
early day, unless it is checked by a
rigid enforcement of quarantine.
Hitherto this fearful scourge has
defied the quarantines of nations
and passed over them as easily as if
there were none in existence. Nor
has a military Gordon been able to
check it. But there is one way to
rob it of it's terrors, and that is,
clean up. Put the city in good san
itary condition, and its virulence
and malignity will be destroyed.
To people living in perfect clean
illness it has no terrors. Only when
the system is so oppressed by poi
sonous exhalations, and the vital
powers so reduced beyond the pow


ers of resistance, is its malignity
felt. Cholera per Sc is as easily
managed, taken IN time, as a case
of intermittent fever. But under
the above conditions, it is as quick
in its deathly outset as the tiger In
the jungles. Let the people then
prefare for it. Do not trust the
matter to the scavenger force of the
city, but let every household use
every precaution to keep their
premises clean. Permit no refuse
from the kitchen, or garbage, to &C


cumulate. Have the water closets
frequently cleansed and purified. If
every family in Nashville will do
their full duty in this regard, we
may be able to see it without fear,
We all remember its terrors in past
years and know it's causes. The
two fanks of Nashville were the
main ones to suffer then, because OF
the filth around those sloughs. But
we can, and ought to, get ready
and now is the time while the enemy
is yet far Distant Banner.
Year: 1879

and the train he viii take an
nounced in the village paper, and at
the appointed time he goes rattling
down to the depot in an open car
riage two hours before train time,
and swaggers up and down the plat
form while he waits, and as the
train goes of he leans out of the
window and yells personal good
bye to everybody on the platform.
But when he comes back he times
his return so as to strike his native
town by a back road after dark,
then sneaks home through the al
leys, climbs over the back fence,
taps at the kitchen window and
begs, under his breath, to be let in,
and when he gets in he stays in bed
three or four days, while his new
clothes are being made and the doc
tor is trying to count the blisters
on his feet. Oh, it's easy to ex-
plain why we never see them come
back; but they do come back all
the same.-T HawkeVe.