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Year: 1879

A. Brown with the influence of Brown, then
receiver as stated, made entry at said New Ulm
land office in June, 1875, Of tho eighty acre
tract heretofore mentioned as an additional
homestead; and having received a patent there
for thereafter conveyed the said land to said
Canute A. Brown, who received the same in Sc
cret trust for the benefit of said receiver A. A.
Brown.


The bill further alleges that the said Canuto
A. Brown thereupon commenced an action at
law against said Francis w. Knapp, the owner
and occupant Of the land under the Buisson
title, to eject him from the same, which ac-
ton is now pending in the United States cir
cult court.


The prayer is that Canste A. Brown may be
perpetually enjoined from prosecuting said
action at law against said Francis ". Knapp;
and that the order canceling the Buisson loca-
tion of scrip and also the patent subsequently,
issued to Sorrerson may be vacated and de-
clared of no effect


AS above stated, there are number of other
tracts of land in different parts of the State
whose titles have been involved by the same
kind of proceedings and by the same parties,
who claim under the patent which this suit is
brought to set aside, and this will be a sort of
test case.
Year: 1879

The Republicans of the House have &C.
no captious objection to the introduction of
bills. The result WAS a perfect deluge Of
new measures, although the call of States
was not finished. OF the thirteen hundred
and eighty-fve new bills introduced, there
are undoubtedly many of moro than doubt
full propriety, bat q large number will strike
the public pulse as wise and in the interest
of the psople. The bill extending the time
for the completion of tho Northern Pacific
is especially gratifying to the people of this
section, and the sooner it is put through both
houses, the sooner will the forty sixth Con
gress be entitled to at least one good long
credit mark,
Year: 1879

The chief stock in trade of the Repub


licans seems to be to quote the insane raw
ings of q newspaper published by a couple
of lunatics in Mississippi and hold the
Democratic party responsible therefor. The
fellows who make the utterances are SEEK
ing little cheap notoriety, and they ought
to be satisfied with the avidity Of the Re-
publicans in repeating their nonsense.
During the war Brick Pomeroy published a
disloyal paper at La Crosse and was i'm
,nensely quoted at the South to show what
the real sentiments of the North were. In
assuming that Pomeroy represented the
real sentiments of the North, the South
hugged delusive phantom to her breast.
The threshing went right along. If the Re-
publicans can get any comfort out of the
Okolona States they are welcome, but the
Democrats will keep right along whipping
Year: 1879

FERNANDO WooD may not be acceptable to
bis associates or the country as chairman of
the ways and means committee, but his joint
resolution yesterday for the appointment of
joint select committee of three members
of the House ways and means committee and
two of the Senate finance committee, to sit
during tho recess to consider what changes,
if any, should be made in the present tariff,
was eminently wise aud judicous. That
there is a necessity for such changes, is the
sentiment of nine tenths of the American
people, and the sooner the robbery of the
people cau be reached by pruning our pro
tective tariff, the better. We trust Mr.
Woods committee will be ready to report a
bill, when Congress meets in December,
which will do Justice to all.
Year: 1879

The people of Minnesota are having the
question of free trade or tariff brought pretty
practically home to them, owing to the new
tariff established by the Dominion govern
ment-a tariff which almost shuts US out of
the trade of Manitoba. Heretofore The
tariff question has been looked upon as an
abstract question, and not a few have frank
ly admitted that they could not comprehend
it. There is nothing like practical business
to aid the understanding. When Mime
sotian undertakes to sell resident of Mani
,toba an agricultural implement and finds
that the tariff is twenty-five per cent. ad va
loren, and that consequently the dealer in
Toronto or Montreal can pay the difference
in freight and undersell him, though the
articles have an extra haul of 800 miles, he
begins to see what a tariff means.


The fact which is being developed, that,
though the government gives away the land
in Manitoba, it is cheaper for the immigrant
to buy his farm in Minnesota and locate on
this side, speaks volumes. After he locates
in Manitoba he must either pay an excessive
tax on almost everything he buys, or else he
must pay heavy freight bills for bringing it
through in bond from some other portion of
the Dominion. This is the style of "protec-
tion' which our own protective tariff people
have been urging and securing for years.
1t is the style OF protection which every poor
man in this country is paying to-day. We
cannot properly find fault because We are
shut out from Manitoba. We have set such
an ercCllent example to our hitherto free
trade neighbors that they are at last meet
ing Us on our own ground, and giving us q
very practical dose of our own medicine
There is practically Chinese wall raised
between Minnesota and Manitoba, and an
iinsu.ense trade which naturally belongs tc
us passes through and beyond our reach.


This is one practical development, bu
another is the fact that our own people ar.
being robbed just as the Manitobans are
Almost every article we buy has on extra
price added in order to protect some one
Instead of buying articles on their merits
leaving competition to regulate the rate, W
are forced to pay the arbitrary sum whic]
aome one needs to ''protect'' him from com
petition. This species of highway robber,
ia perpetuated on the theory of develop
;no our industries. We have reache;
a point when our business and manufactur
ing establishments are enabled to compel
Year: 1879

JUDGING from the attendance at the Re-
publican primaries last night, there is no
undue enthusiasm in the ranks of the radi-
Gals. They will have to nominate candidates
to-day who are out of town, or they will be
unable to find any one to stick long enough
to get ticket in print.
Year: 1879

No wonder there has been O pent-up agony
in Congress. Thirteen hundred and fifty
eight bills introduced yesterday shows the
terrible effort there has been to prevent an
explosion. The strain must have been
something terrific. 1t is a matter of surprise
that so great an outburst has been so long
ratnined
Year: 1879

It is estimated that 50,000 men and women are employed in Philadelphia in the manufacture of clothing, and o. 000,000 suits are made there every year. Cutting machines are gradually finding their way into all of the large manufao- turing establishments of the city. Tho machines have capability of cutting nearly eighteen hundred garments in a day of twelve hours, or about equal to the combined results of the labor of eight men. Buttonhoies also can be worked by machinery at the rate of one hundred and eighty per hour, while by hand it would take the same period to complete three holes. By the cutting machines folds of cloth forty ply thick ness can be easily cut through. An in- stance of the value of machinery in ex- pediting manufacture is afforded in the fact that the establishment where cut. ting and buttonhole machines are used turns out one hundred suits ready for wear inside of twelve hours.
Year: 1879

He sat on the shore as the sun went down. Went down in the depths of the wide, wide

 west, To chance observer it might have seemed

 queer That he didn't go home as the night drew

 near, But he didn't, and therefore it might appear That the sitter himself knew best: He sat on the shore as the morning sun Shone out from the east over Sea and land He sat, I remark, as the sun arose, On the very same spot where he sat at ths

 close Of the previous Gay, and the Lord only

 knows Why he did it-I don't understand. Perhaps be was searching for coral reefs; Perhaps he was trying to keep him cool; Perhaps the breezes from over the sea As they toyed with his tresses said, "Come

 tome;" '*eT>FH.'F The field of conjecture Is wide, you see' Perhaps he was only fool.

 Ynle Rac0rd.
Year: 1879

In the hour of death, after this life's whim, When the heart beats low and the eyes grow

 a dim,

 And pain has exhausted every limb

 The lover of the Lord shall trust in Him. When the will has forgotten the lifelong aim, And the mind can only disgrace its fame, And a man is uncertain of his own name

 The power of the Lord shall fill this frame. When the last sigh is heaved and the last tear

 shed,

 And the coffin is waiting beside the bed, And the widow and child forsake the dead

 The angel of the Lord shall lift this head. For even the purest delight may pail, The power must fail and the pride must fall, Andthe love of the dearest friends'grow small But the glory of the Lord is all in all.
Year: 1879

A goodly parson complained to an elderly lady of his congregation that her daughter appeared to be wholly talk en up with trifles or worldly finery, instead of fixing her mind on things above. " You are certainly mistaken, sir" said she. "I know that the girl appears to an observer to be taken up with worldly things; but you cannot judge correctly of the direction her mind really takes, as she is little cross-eyed."
Year: 1879

the talk of the squaws whose hus-
bands were away fighting the soldiers.


ZONE TOUCH OF NATURE"


On Wednesday and on the other
days one of Supanzisquait's three
squaws put her hand on my shoulder
and said: "Poor little girl, feel so
sorry. You have no father and you
are away off with the Utes so far from
home" She cried at the time and said
her own little child had just died and
her heart was sore. When Mrs Price
came into camp another squaw took
her baby, Johnny, into her arms and
wept over him and said, in Ute, that
she felt very sorry for the eaptives.


| asked the Indians before Brady
came where the soldiers were.


They replied that they were "still in
that cellar" and the Indians were kill
ing their ponies when they went for
water in the night They said: Tn-
dians stay on mountains and see white
soldier soldiers no see Indians. White
soldier not know how to fight.
Year: 1879

There is no nobler Office in the
world than to nobly, honestly, pure
ly entertain the people. TO be
amused is to take the bitter drop of
gall out of the things of life.


Amusement takes away the sting
of care and furnishes medicine
for the heart. 1t cures the miasma
of the mind, and the art of anus
ing men, women and children in
nocently is thing Of which the


proudest might be proud. The en-
tertainment which can win the
elevated and the noble to smile de-
serves the respect and gratitude OF
every person; to make people
laugh; to carry them out of them


selves and out of the hard world
about them, is task for the noblest
intellect. Such things are accom-
plished every Sunday at Washing.
ton Gardens. Be sure and come.
Bring your wife and family. a9-lm
Year: 1879

AT meeting of the Hook and
Ladder Company on Monday eve
ming, FIJI. Steele was elected Fore
man and Henry Prieuer, Assistant t
Foreman. The truck was housed
at the new quarters, adjoining the
old opera house, last night and will
hereafter be ready FOR service when
ever called upon.
Year: 1879

To the Editor of the Standard:


Please republish the following article,
together with the comments:


Rev. Mr.. Creighton said some things at
the M. Church last Sunday night, which
deserve a wider circulation than was Civ
en-, even in that large congregation. He
said that he believed nearly all the pre-
tended death-bed conversions were bogus
He did not believe in murderer step
ping from the gallows into glory. A man
would give all his years to his evil pro
pensities, and commit all kinds of crime,
and when at last he was cornered, he
would be told, in prison, by some spiritu
al adviser, that he was forgiven, and all
was we'll. He, (Mr Creighton had no
faith in such conversions, and it heaven
is filled by thieves and murderers, he did
not want to go there. That is the right
kind Of preaching


The above | most cheerfully endorse
/ is in consonance with the promptings
of reason, and the principle Of justice
but from a scriptural stand point it does
not seem SO clear. Coy into all the
world and preach the gospel to every
creature. He that believeth and is bap-
tized shall be saved, &c. This is the
commission given the Apostles by the
great head of the church, clearly and
fully setting forth the terms of admission
into his kingdom, embracing within its
ample folds every creature ig the world.


End. Behold l stand at the door and
knock; if any man hear my voice and
will open unto me, will come in and
sup with him, and he with me.


Cd. The Spirit says come and and the
bride says come and whosoever will, let
him come.


4th. He who seeketh shall find, and to
him who knocketh it shall be opened.


In the foregoing and many other SINH
lar Scriptural declarations there is no
discrimination against the murderer
The promise is TO every creature, any
man. Whosoever will, &c. Nor does
there seem to be any warrant in scrip
ture in the supposition that the return
Of wanderer at late hour will be look
e3 at with disfavor, but on the contrary
the parable of the laborers shows plainly
that the eleventh hour comers were made
just as welcome as they who began the
first hour. From this stand point it ap-
pears that salvation is not predicated nor
in any way depends upon previous char
acter, nor the time of returning, but as
the poet says:


AS long as the lamp holds out to burn,


The Vilest sinner may return.


Standing against this position, howev-
er, is the contradictory declaration that
no murderer shall inherit the kingdom
of Heaven. Herein the scripture is at
variance with itself How then shall we
ruling of reason, and the eternal princi-
Year: 1879

CHARLTON, April II, 1879.


To the Editor of the Standard


Pleasant weather always makes happy
faces, and so it is with our people out
here. The winter has been q cold one,
but dry. There has been no rain worth
mentioning for the last six months, until
one week ago; since then we have had
about four inches of rainfall. Now the
weather is clear and warm, and the face
of nature wears greenish hue. Next
month the prairies will be decked in
flowers of a thousand hues, and it would
do your eyes and soul good to get on
some rising hill and look far out over
the scene. He who sees it once will call
it up when far away, and muse over the
lovely night, and even when slumber
steals existence away it will be with him
there in all its grandeur and beauty.


Winter wheat looks we'll and bids fair
to be splendid crop. The crop of spring
wheat will he larger than usual, unless
ch1ntz bugs take it, which is not likely,
as the winter has been too cold for many
of them to live through. Most of the
spring wheat was sown in February, and
is up and looking green and thrifty. The
fruit is not hurt much as yet and if no
late frosts come the crop of apples will
be good. Our farmers are now sowing
oats and plowing for corn. Every effort
will be put forth to raise a large crop,
and if their efforts are crowned with
success, Iowa will fill the store houses of
the world next fall


The political pot has begun to simmer
here. The Greenback party are trying
to sever their connection with the Dem
ocratic party. The leading Greenback
paper in this State accuses the Demo
Gratis with trying to steal their party, and
yells at them in laundering tones,
Hands off, ye hell born thievesW The
Democrats hold up their hands in holy
horror and exclaim, Didn't we swap
with you last year, and now what are
you making such fuss about it this
year?' Things will be badly mixed be-
tween them in the coming campaign,
but the State will come to the front with
its usual Republican majority-40 900


If there is such a thing as a stain that
will never fade, we believe it would be to
pension jeff. Davis. Traitor is too mild
a term to use in his case. Great God it
is too much to have him walk over the
bones of the brave boys he has had slain
sustained and fed by the nation he tried
to destroy. If it comes to this, 1.-The boys
in blue" will rise up from their lowly
beds and point the finger of scorn at
those whose homes they have protected
and will say, thou cans't not say | did
it" We want to ask every honest man
that loves his country and desires the
perpetuity Of this government, are you in
favor of giving jeff Davis a pension
What has he done that this nation owes
nim such debt? Stop and think a mo-
nent, friend Democrat. Have you for
gotten Libby prison, Florence, Anderson
lille. and if you want something nearer
nome, go out to the graveyard and look
1t the white marble slab that marks the !
grave of some soldier, and then say if
his nation owes jeff Davis d pension.


With kindest regards to one and all, |
We close. J. A KEAToN
Year: 1879

For some years past decided inclina-
ton has been apparent all over the coun-
try to give up the use of whisky and 9TH
er strong alcohols, using as a substitute,
beer and bitters and other compounds.
This is evidently founded on the idea
that beer is not harmful and contains q
large amount of nutriment; also that Bit
ters may have some medicinal quality,
which will neutralize the alcohol it con-
ceals. etc. These theories are without
confirmation in the observations of ply
sician's and chemists where either has
been used for any length of time. The
constant use of beer is found to produce
a species of degeneration of all the organ
ism, profound and deceptive. Fatty de-
posits, diminished circulation, conditions
of congestion, and perversion of func-
tional activities, local inhammations of
both the liver and kidneys, are constant
ly present Intellectually, a stupor
amounting almost to paralysis arrests
the reason, precipitating all the higher
faculties into a mere animalism; sensual,
selfish, sluggish, varied only with parox-
ysms of anger that are senseless and
brutal; in appearance the beer drinker
may be the picture of health, but in real
ity he is most incapable of resisting dis
ease. A slight injury, severe cold, or
shock to the body or mind, will COM
monty provoke acute disease, ending IA
tally. Compared with inebriates, who
use different forms of alcohol, he is more
incurable, and generally more diseased.
The constant use of beer every day gives
the system no time for recuperation, but
steadily lowers the vital forces it is our
observation that beer drinking in this
country produces the very lowest forms
of inebriety, closely allied to criminal in
sanity. The most dangerous class of
tramps and ruffians in our large cities are
beer drinkers. 1t is asserted by compe-
tent authority that the evils of heredity
are more positive in this class than from
alcoholics. If these facts are we'll found
ed, the recourse to beer as substitute
for alcohol, merely increases the danger
and fatality following,


In bitters we have a drink which can
never become general but its chief dan
ger will be in Strengthening the disorder
ed cravings, which later will develop a
positive disease. Public sentiment and
legislation should comprehend that all
forms of alcohol are more or less danger
GUS when used steadily and all persons
who use them in this way should come
under sanitary and legislative control
[Quarterly Journal of Inebriety.
Year: 1879

Weather continues cold and dry.
Everybody watching and wishing for
rain. Some pieces of early sown wheat
coming up, thereby promising that No.
wheat will grow.


A little circumstance happened in
this town which goes to show that the
erassloppers intend TO be OIL time this
year. A farmer wishing to have some
early plants for his garden procured
some dirt for the purpose and made Il
hOt-bed, and sowed his seeds therein.
A few days after he went to see how
his yo.lng plants were thriving and
found the bed full of young hoppers
and his plants entirely destroyed.


If Mr.. Brains would put his brains
to work and devise some plan to ami
hilate these pests as completely as he
thinks he can annihilate the farmers by
his abuse of them N the paper, he might
gain lanre]s for himself instead Of ours.
es. I am on the out side of the ring and
intend to stay out, bnt it is surely a de-
plorable state of affairs if the whole
population of MOBILES county has got to
submit to he led by the nose and abused
and brow beat and called fools. and
compared with mules by abont u dozen
bridge builders, and dead.beats hang.
ing around Worthington and the court
house. But if sucl, is the case, and
there is no help for it, of course the peo
pie must submit.


While I think of it Mr.. Brains
couldn't you be 80 accommodating as
to make Il few exceptions and have q
hole for few Of us to get out at
Don't rake us all into the fool-klller's
box in one heterogeneous mass.
Year: 1879

And still they come and yet there Is
room. Last night there were some
gentlemen came to this place to locate.
We say come. You are all welcome,
but we would like to see good black
smith come in for we need one very
much. A shop will pay we'll here, plen-
ty of work if that is what is wanted.
There is a better chance for shop here
than any other place on this road.


The Hersey String Band gave dance
in the Hall last night. It was attend
ed by thirty couples which made it Il
grand affair.


A new No. / American Sewing Ma
chine can be had for 4 good No. Cow
at T. E. Fitzgerald's store, Hersey.
Year: 1879

Last Tuesday, the 9Th inst, while the
wind was blowing as only a MINES )ta
wind knows how, t le house belonging
to and occupied by Mrs. Vail, an aged
lady living all alone on her claim on
sec. 20, was consumed by fire with near
ly all its contents. She emptied !. pan
Of hay ashes supposed to contain no
fire but proved otherwise and ixnited
the grass and weeds and soon reached
the house and consumed it in about as
little time as it takes to tell it. Mrs.
Vail is the wife of the fiend in human
form who the county got well rid of
about two years ago by furnishing him
4 railroad ticket. She is now in 4 very
destitute condition. There are plenty
of roofs under which She would be well
come but she fears that unless she lives
OIL her claim she might lose it. F. b.
Year: 1879

There are one or two land sharks in
Worthingtom who lay on the streets
watching to sell sl,anties and breaking
on claims which do not belong to them.
They pocket the money from the poor
stranger in place of letting them 60 to
the Land Office where Government land
is to be got, and the opinion of the peo"
pie in the northwest part of the county
is that such sharks had better not sell
much more property ont in that section
Of country which does not belong to
them.
Year: 1879

One Of our friends up town is about
to have boat built and wants one that
won't upset. We would recommend a
birch bark canoe. A man who will
part his hair exactly in the middle. ard
balance himself exactly over the keel,
won't upset in q birch bark,
Year: 1879

A man down in one of the eastern
counties is grumbling because certain
proposals for bridge contracts were not
''sealed proposals." That kind of pro-
posal may do we'll enough for bridges
but our judgment is averse to ''sealed''
proposals. Never propose by letter if
you can get at the girl. Go to her and
kiss her and then propose before it gets
drY.
Year: 1879

TO FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS


Subscribers to the ADVANCE living
outside of Mobiles county will please
remember that when we notify them
of the expiration Of their subscription
and they do not respond, we take it for
granted that they do not want the
paper longer, and our rule is to strike
their names of.
Year: 1879

PUBLIC WELLs.-Parties are at work
sinking large public well on the cor
ner of Tenth street and Third Avenue.
When this is done, the village should
put in a good force pump and get g.
nough hose to ''cover" the buildings in
the vicinity in case of fire.


Another we'll is being sunk about
half way down the park on Tenth street
ut the point indicated by the Water
Witch experiment. Parties bored down
first and we understand that afterwards
about twenty feet Of water was found
in the auger hole. This well is to he
sunk by private subscription.