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Year: 1879

IT looks little as though Bill Washburn
would loose that five per cent. which he has
been drawing from the Chicago pool lines
while shouting against railroad discrimina-
ton. If he had any decency he would re-
sign his position on the committee appoint
ed to devise means for protecting the people
from railroad exactions.
Year: 1879

1t has come at last. Sitting Bull, as q
prominent slaughterer at large, has un-
doubtedly been neglected, for he has never
been invited to take the lecture platform; ;
but virtue is its own reward, and the fero-
cious chief is now in demand by gentle
man who wishes to make him the lending
feature of travelling show. There can be
no doubt that Sitting Bull would succeed
as q popular attraction if he could draw
audiences as steadily as he drew rations
and raise the hair of his hearers as effect
lively as he raised that of scores of his ene-
mics. Another point in his favor is that he
has been out of the country for many
months, and the almost worshipful regard
which certain portion of the community
manifest toward any prominent native who
has been abroad is too we'll known to re-
quire explanation. To be faithful to ma
ture, however, the manager should intro
duce a few typical scenes of border life,
and among them should be occasional
shootings, scalpings and tortures. Under
ordinary circumstances the public might
object to this sort OF thing, but if the vic
Tins were selected from the plethoric ranks
Of dishonest contractors for Indian sup
plies and from miners who invade the res
ervations it is not improbable that the per-
formance would be relished with unmixed
delight by the most worthy members Of So
cietv
Year: 1879

The active revival of the project of Civ
ing Cabinet officers seats in Congress, where
they would be obliged to respond to inter-
rogatories concerning the conduct of the
executive departments, is entirely in the
spirit of the passages of the Presi dents
Message touching civil service reform, al
though it is not one of his specific recon-
endatYons. 1t gives us pleasure to
learn that Senator Pendleton intends
to press his bill for this purpose to de-
bate. and to adoption, if possible. This is
thoroughly practical measure, easy to put
in force, and Immediately fruitful of stabil-
ity and political independence in all the
bureaus OF every executive department. A
secretary liable to be summoned to answer
publicly at any moment concerning busi-
ness in his charge could not afford to re-
gard any consideration in his subordinate
appointments superior to the approved test
of "honesty. capacity and fidelity" regard
less of political affiliations.
Year: 1879

Seven days ago we notified people in
England that they might expect, within a
period stated in the message, that extremely
severe storm the arrival of which, .'as per
advice by cable" was reported yesterday.
That prediction, therefore, was verified, and
that storm followed close upon the heels of
another which we had announced much
longer period in advance of its appearance,
and now still another, also predicted by US,
and which started as o separate depression,
has, perhaps, gone so close upon the heels Of
its predecessor that Il may figure as mere
continuation of it. If our announcements
of this nature made in England are practi-
cally attended to they must certainly prove
of great value to people in their ordinary
social concerns and in commercial affairs.
Take, for instance, the storm which ragged
yesterday and the day before. and which
has proved serious impediment to
railway traffic. Those most concerned to
know of this storm were informed of Its pos
sible arrival FIVE days in advance, and could
in that period have SO pushed their traffic
that the eventual interruption would have
caused them little if any loss. What could
people in this country not have afforded to
give for previous information Of such an
impediment to business as resulted from
the great snow blockade of last winter?
Apparently the persons interested in the
coming Of the storms of which we send no.
tice do study our dispatches closely and
act upon them. We judge this from fact
cited by writer in. the Quarterly Revieac.
That writer had heard of 'sone" fisherman
who made good day by venturing out in
defiance of prediction, the storm on that
sone" occasion not coming to time or not
coming at all But he could apparently
only find one; for if there had been more
he would have put them all in. All the
other fishermen know very well what they
are about in needing fair notice.
Year: 1879

THE WEATHER.-Thc centre of low barometer
referred to yesterday moving slowly east-
ward from the Northwest is now over the lower
lake and st. Lawrence Valley districts. An
other centre has advanced to the Central
Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys, but the
pressure within it is only relatively low. The
barometer is highest over the South and Middle
Atlantic States. 1T is rising in the Northwest
80 that the zone of low pressure is very well de-
fined from the Rocky Mountains to Nova Scotia
Light snow is reported in the lake regions and
rains on the South Atlantic coast. Elsewhere
the weather was fair. The temperature rose in
the central valleys, lake regions and the Middle
Atlantic States and fell in the Northwest. The
winds have been brisk on the New England
coast and in the Middle Atlantic and lower lake
districts, fresh in the central valleys and light
elsewhere. The weather over the British Islands
continues stormy. The weather in New York
and its vicinity today will be warmer and fair
Tomorrow the same conditions will prevail.
Year: 1879

pean commodities can be sold at high
profit in our market. Then the resump-
tion experiment will begin to be tested;
then the tide of money will begin
to flow back into Europe, and greenbacks
will be offered at the Treasury to procure
gold for expectation. IT, after the stream
is turned, there should be prospect of
short crops in America and an abundant
harvest in Europe, it will require all Mr..
Sherman's skill to weather the change.
The governments is trusting altogether too
much to luck and accident.


The most urgent duty incumbent ON Con-
gress is to withdraw the greenbacks with
nearly the same swiftness with which for
eign gold il coming into the country and
thereby arrest imitation. What the country
needs is, to repeat the Presidents ex-
preston, ga safe and stable currency"
A circulating medium which mounts
as ours is now m mounting is not stable and
therefore not safe. We had money enough
before, and the greenbacks ought to be re-
tired in about the same proportion that
gold flows in, one process keeping, rs
nearly as practicable, even step with the
other.


This cannot be done without legislation.
Congress ought, without delay, to repeal
the absurd act of May 81, 1878. passed by
the inAationists, which prescribes that
when any of the government notes are re-
ceived into the Treasury ''they shall not be
retired, cancelled or destroyed, but they
shall be reissued and paid out again and
kept in circulation" Besides repeating
this idiotic law Congress should confer au-
thority on the Secretary of the Treasury
and make it his duty to fund the excess
of the legal tender notes over the coin
reserve held against them, allowing a
reasonable time for the withdrawal, so that
the national banks may make preparations
for supplying deficiencies in the circula-
ton if there should be any. The coin re-
serve in the Treasury should go into the
banks to replace their greenback reserves,
and the other gold in the country
flow into the channels of circulation as q
substitute for paper. If unequal to the
retired greenbacks the deficiency would be
supplied by new issues of bank notes.
There would then be no further danger Of
imitation and the country have reached ''a
safe and stable currency"
Year: 1879

As VIRGINIA was the first Southern State to
become democratic after the war it is only fair
that she should be first to suffer q general up
setting; but the party that has for dozen
years been in power does not seem to recognize
any such principle. Our Richmond despatch
explains the new situation.
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Money continued
easy, the ruling rate for call loans on stocks
being per cent and the highest rate per cent


Stocks were active, but very feverish and weak.
Governments were shade lower under the in
fluence of the Presidents Message. Railway
bonds were fairly active but lower. Foreign ex-
change exceedingly dull at unchanged rates.
Year: 1879

THE ATTORNEY GENERALS SUGGESTION that
the nations district attorneys should receive
compensation by salaries instead of fees is
good one; the fee system is responsible for an
immense amount of unnecessary iniquity in
almost all offices where il prevails
Year: 1879

AN ELECTION INSPECTOR has actually been
sentenced to year and half of hard labor in
State Prison. "If this is the thing that is going
to obtain there will be money whatever in
playing inspector for the sake OF ones party.
Year: 1879

THE LATEST CITY HALL RUMoR is of q ''divvy"
of the city offices yet untitled. If this policy be
agreed upon all the high toned political princi-
pies in the city cannot maintain the existing
daodloaE
Year: 1879

A LARGE QUANTITY OF GERMAN STEEL has
been ordered by the United States. Does our
enormous protective duty this material
make manufacturers careless about turning
out as good an article as is made abroadl
Year: 1879

MOVEMENT of Scotch farmers upon Mani
toba is reported. Sensible fellows If they
don't find what they want in Canada they
need only to the border and take their
choice from some millions of acres to be had
xpit hon
Year: 1879

PLAGIARISM IN THE PULPIT was sOundly de-
nounced in the Baptist Conference yesterday.
But don't give up the habit, brethren. You
will do far more good by preaching fine SER
mon by some other man than poor one of
your own
Year: 1879

LITTLE FREDDIE HARRINGTON is undoubtedly
very naughty boy if he set fire to the Clinton
factory last week; but how many times worse
are the men who compelled him and other chill
dren to work fourteen hours per day!
Year: 1879




been put to any test fitted to expose its
weakness. The short crops of Western
Europe and the great abundance of our
own have sent tide of gold into the coun-
try SO much in excess of our wants that
there is no motive for drawing coin out of
the Treasury by presenting notes for re-
demption. We do not need gold even
for the payment of duties since
paper is received at nll the custom
houses. There has accordingly been no
strain to test the value of our fair weather
resumption. But the situation may change;
it is already changing. Symptoms of new
imitation are presented all around us. The
prices of all commodities are rapidly ad-
vancing and the stock market was mover
moro feverish. When the money that has
been needed in the West during the autumn
for moving the heavy crops flows back to the
commercial centres a new impulse will be
given to this imitation. Meanwhile the influx
of foreign gold continues. The upward
tendency OF prices will be strengthened by
the stream of paper currency from the
West and the stream of gold from Europe.
These two streams, meeting from opposite
directions, will cause monetary swell on
which all property will be lifted. Nobody
can foresee the height to which prices will
rise with this increasing redundance Of
money. Even Congress may be made
thoughtful by the middle of the session.


AS soon as prices rise high enough q
flood of foreign goods will come pouring





into the country. The drain of money
from Europe will lower prices there, in
fation will enhance them here and Euro
Year: 1879

I will tell you a very curious and
melancholy incident that happened on
one occasion in q church where was
conducting the service. The windows
and doors were, of course, all wide open,
and through one of those open doors >
cobra darted into church. I did not
notice it myself, but several of the con-
gregation did, and were not unreasonably
much alarmed. The beadle, native,
was fortunately on the alert, and he
managed to procure a. tulwar, with
which he cut off the creatures head be-
fore it had time to do any mischief.
T. Tranquility was restored and the service
proceeded to its close, when many of the
congregation went to look at the dead


snake as it lay headless on the ground.
Among them was a man who, in his
curiosity to examine the reptile, put his


foot on the head and rolled it toward
him, when he instantly uttered loud
exclamation and drew his foot away:
BY some meansor other he had contrived
to set in motion the muscular apparatul


attached to the poison-fangs, which had


darted violently forward and struck him
on the foot. All remedies were useless;
in half: an hour the poor fellow was Z


corpse, proving, with vengeance, tht
awful virulence of the poison Of th<


cobra di capella.- ChGnsber9 journal. /
Year: 1879

inc scene At the close was highly exciting,
the crowd going fairly wild over the winner,
IN Irish lad named Murphy. On his last
rounds the boy Murphy appeared on the
track wearing the O'Leary belt and rolling
before him his Haverstraw wheelbarrow,
well filed with bricks. The shouts that
went up was unparalleled even in that
peculiar garden. Following is the official
score:
Year: 1879

gagements with Lord Falmouth, his re-
tanning fee alone will be salary that a
Supreme Court Judge might envy, be-
sides all the regular fees for ridings and
winnings that he will earn through the
year.
Year: 1879

Farmers busy killing grass.

 Corn and cotton looking fine. --River falling pretty fast, but rist may come any time.

 The wheat crop don't look as vel as we hoped for.

 --The large Shinn farm here under the management of the energetic Tate has fine crop prospect.

 The scarletina, or measles, or what ever it was has about exhausted all the material here, and our town is again healthy as common.

 Uncle Ligc Truett is all O. K., only little feeble from old age.

 Suspicious female tramps arc pass ing about; look out for more house breaking and robbing.

 --"Subscriber'' is informed that Greenback Money Bush is still here, and is neither dead nor made fortune,

 -I thought once I would never at tempt to write for the papers again, but as "Fifty-Six, Subscriber" and some others have made inquiry about me. give way to selfish feelings and walk into the scribbler's chair again and sit down, but will say to the many corres- pondents of the DEMOCRAT, and to the able editor, that I think we all write too much nonsense about the girls and boys, &c.,, and lose sight of some very important matters, such as our finan- cial policy as people and as govern ment; What makes money SO scarce who is to blame? how are we to be relieved from these hard times? who will do it, and when? All of this and more. As ever, your

 UNCLE JESSE.
Year: 1879

Many pale-face individuals who re- side near these swamps and chill breed- ing cess-pools of malaria are known to be sufferers from ehills by their very appearance. They have used quinine and other chill medicine until it seems q mockery. They soon become chronic and are then almost impossible to cure. Such cases are easily and immediately cured by the use of Days Ague Tonic, the most powerful antiperiodic and blood cleanser now before the public. It acts directly upon the secretions.
Year: 1879

It is proper to state that there is not now and has not been at any time the slightest disdosition on the part of Democratic members of Congress to abandon the position they have taken in regard to the use oftroops at the polls or the test oath and supervisor laws. All statements. to the contrary are either fiction or intentional false. hoods.
Year: 1879

Religious fanaticism in New Eng land reached its culmination few days ago in one of the most revolting crimes on record. A Second Adventist of Pocaset, Chas. F. Freeman, murdered his little five-year-old daughter, claim ing that he had been commanded by God to offer her as sacrifice, and that the Lord had promised to raise her again from the dead on the third day.
Year: 1879

A boat will leave Little Rock on Friday evening, the 30th day of May, for Pine Bluff. Be at Little Rock by that time, to take the boat, which will arrive at Pine Bluff on Saturday eyening.-Pine Bluff Press.
Year: 1879

walked with the beautiful Marcelline

 At eve in the scented clover; The nightingale sang to the rose and moon

 One sweet song over and over. The nightingale sang, and he sang, know, Tell herl Tell her you love her! I'd tell

 her SO!

 Tell her you love her; it's easy to say

 Just here in the scented clover" So I told her the sweetest story there

 I told it over and over; But at moonlight, music, and what said, My beautiful Marcelline shook her head. Next day walked with the exquisite girl

 In the streets of the crowded city; She was daintily clad in silk and lace,

 She was gracious, wise, and witty; I spoke of jewels, of houses, and gold, Of lands to be bought aud bonds to be sold showed her my bank-book there and then ; And she whispered, Really, Harry!" And Marcelline, darling, all shall be yours

 Whenever you choose to marry; So on, and accordingly, things were said, And the beautiful Marcelline bowed her.head. Moonlight and music and that sort of thing Are rated as foolish or funny; If you're in earnest your wooing to speed,

 Talk to g girl of your money. Tell her, I'm worth so and SO; , then kiss Bet you the wedding ring she'll say Yes"
Year: 1879

The small mines of Colorado are worked by miners who live alone or in couples" pardners," they call them selves. Each couple occupies @ cabin, and cook, wash and keep house for themselves. A correspondent of the Boston Journal describes one of these cabins, built on the steep side of Pros pect Mountain

 The house consists of stone cabin, generally built into the hill, or under the lee of some huge rock. The roof is made of timber cut near by, and mostly covered with layer of gravel or clay.

 The mountain-side is so steep that the few feet of ground about the doors of the cabins have to be walled up and leveled to make room for threshhold step.

 The whole arrangement looks as if good wind or slight jar of the ground might send it sliding off and down a half mile into the ravine below.

 A cabin has but one room sometimes a window and door, but mostly the window is in the door two benches at one side, and a large stone fireplace op- posite, few shelves for dishes and for storing goods, rude pine table, and one or two chairs or stools.

 | A little shelf in one corner, screened from dust and smoke by hanging cur tain, usually contains few books and papers. The books are mostly novels, tales of love and romance, with some times a scientific work on mineralogy or geology.

 You never find them without a pen and ink-bottle, and often the men in spare hours are engaged in writing. You are not to suppose by their rough exterior and surroundings that these men are illiterate, that they are mere machines of bone and muscle, calculated to do so much work for so much money.

 The miners of this county, as class, are men of good, vigorous mind they have brains, and have to use them in their daily occupation, great deal oi calculation and thoughtful planning is required in all their operations.

 To misiudge the weight of hanging rock, or the consistency of a bank ( loose clay, might bring death and disas ter as a consequence.
Year: 1879

There was buried from St. Rose Church, in Cincinnati, says local paper, young man named Peter Rapp, a street-car driver. He was the only support of an aged father and mother, and the privation and suffering which he endured that they might have a home, with such necessaries of life as his scanty wages would provide, were doubtless the cause of his death. The family, consisting of the two old people and Peter, who was twenty-six years of age, lived in Washington street, near Front. The father is crippled and in- firm. The mother was only able to per form such light labor as was necessary in the care of their little household. All the money that came into their home was provided by th @ son from his small earnings. He paid their house rent, supplied them with food, clothing, fuel everything. During the past winter, and up to short time ago, when he was prostrated by the disease-quick con- sumption-which terminated his life, he was in the employ of the Eighth street car line in tEe capacity of a driver. Those who know him speak of him as a hero who died that his father and mother might live. His wages were not suf- fcient to provide all with the necessa- ries of life, and he chose that he himself should be the one to suffer most. During some of the severest weather of the past winter he wore neither overcoat nor underclothing, and thus contracted the cold that soon resulted in his death. It is rule of the company that driver must be ready to go out with his car at twenty minutes before o'clock each morning or receive no car that day. AL though young Rapp had to walk from his home in Fulton to Prices Hill, a sixty consecutive mornings during the cold weather of last winter, he never missed car. It is another rule of the company that, when not on duty, a driver shall not ride on car without paying regular fare. This rule and his poverty necessitated young Rapp walk ing home every night after leaving his car. This made him daily walk of nine miles, and this in addition to the fifteen hours that car drivers are required to work each day. Standing on Q car platform for fifteen hours day, scantily clothed, perhaps hungry, walking to and from his work through the bitter weather, the suffering of this young man must have been intense. Through it all the comfort of his father and mother was uppermost in his mind, and for two months he never spent single cent of his wages for himself. Car drivers receive their pay every evening, and every night he carried his little pit tance home and gave it to his mother, even to the last cent. From St. Rose Church his remains were borne to the grave, followed by little band of friends and neighbors. The lamentations of his aged mother touched every heart, and surely mother never wept for 8 noble1 son.