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Year: 1879

before the public Besides regular corps of CORES
pendents we cordially invite all of subscribers to con-
tribute to our columns any experience or knowledge
which will be useful to readers BY using this paper
medium through which to exchange experiences and
opinions our subscribers will derive great benefit them
selves and WILL at the same time, make the AGRICULTURE


sT interesting and instructive for others so will bep
to make the paper what intend it shall be-he best
Farmers and HOrticulturist's paper
Year: 1879

The Nation had no better son, the Union truer
defender than this great soldier


Born IN Virginia, be was born into the United
States


His love, his fealty, his devotion were given un-
hinchingly TO the country which educated him to
defend her in her hour of peril


Singularly quiet and composed on all occasions
in his outward. demeanor he was yet man of yig
orous passions of strong impulses, thoroughly held
in hand by his iron self-coutrol No man who serv
ed under him out learned to trust him, and
ever better deserved or better repaid trust bestow
ed His mind like his stature waa east in heroic
mould


Cautious in judgment, cool in deberation-his
resolutions final and complete, and when the
time for action came the whole reserve force of the
man moved forward like the tide of an ocean.


He was eminently just, but not severely so, for
he had wealth of human kindness that tempered
the vgor of his intellectual decision


In reviewing the whole conduct of the great war
of the Rebellion let all praise be~~gven to all other
great leaders but it will be reserved for Thomas
only that truthful history shall declare him the only
General who made mistake


Welcome his statue, then to the group of heroes
that adorn our city welcome the troops of friends
mourning, yet proud that they assemble in honor
of the dead chieftan at the unyeiing of his like
ness and to pay their tribute in fitting words to the
great life he lived
Year: 1879

tectyes IS counter to the genius of people; and
when the Commissioner talks hppantly of impartial
witnesses being trained to fasehood and perjury in
the er parte practice of afdavits he forgets that
he himself defeats claims upon the secret report of
detectives, without any notice to the claimant or
his friends with no cross-examination, no publicity,
and no possibility of examining these reports and
showing their falsity.


There are many experienced and just men employ
ed in the Pension Office, worthy to be retained in any
change but the character of the Office is derived from
the head, and it is marked by prejudice by narrow
views of the great duty of the Office and by desire
for dangerous concentration of power in one man


Mr.. Bentley wants the Pension A gences reduced
or abolished wants the whole business of payment
well allowance to be done in Washington,
wants the ZOO examining surgeons in vicinage of
the pensioners abolished, and new tribunals, new
methods and new men, alien and distant from pen
sioner and claimant to be substituted that the whole
matter may thus be welded at his single whm
and pleasure


All these projects are theories, theories without
reason, and against reason.


Let Congress apply sound, practical common
sense to this business as to all others


Give full fair salary to the Commissioner and all
his officers and clerks.


Give them all means that are fair and honest to
detect hinder and punish fraud. Prosecute to full
conviction every man and every woman who at
tempts to commit fraud on the pension fund--which
is not done


Deal Justly, fairly and firmly by the wards Of the
Nation. Remove the barriers which prejudice has
reared around the Pension Office let business be
despatched steadily and quickly, and let the rule be
in that Court in all Others that all men pre-
sumed to be honest and fair until the contrary is
proven.


Let Congress do this or any considerable part Of
this and they viii win the plauds of the desolate
and forsaken, who now shver and starve under the
dreful mismanagement of the Pension Office
Year: 1879

Last winter Congress repealed the law requiring
biennial examinations This winter Mr. Bentley
Commissioner of Pensions hopes to get his Sixty
Surgeon Bill " made into law, which contains the
following provision "The Commissioner of Pensions
shall cause to be examined, by surgeon often as
once in two years, all invalid pensioners whose dis
abilities liable become of less degree than that
for which the pension allowed and he mag
cause any incafd'pensioner to be be eGanained bya
surgeon at such times and as often as he shall deem
ii for the interests of the Gouernmentp This legis-
laton, if accomplished, restores the old law with
vengeance. How will our soldier friends like to be
ordered up for examination every thirty days and
perhaps pay double the amount they are getting per
month as pension, for expenses in going to and
from the place where they are to be examined?
Year: 1879

We owe apology to subscribers for the
delay in issuing the number Of The TRIBUNE
This is due to the fact of our determination to Sc
cure for them the splendid statue of General Thomas
which they find on the first page. All think
will thus be satisfied with the late coming forth of our
nanar
Year: 1879

Remember that any subscriber whose time has
expired will be notified therof by receiving this pa
per- IN pink aOrapper. Renew promptly You
cannot do without the paper 1t is daily becoming
more popular and necessary
Year: 1879

We have had some handsome TRIBUNE posters
recently printed, especially for postmasters and will
forward one with sample copies of our paper to all
postmasters who desire to get up clubs for us
Year: 1879

Grant County Herau: Our rail
road has had a smash. That is the
way it goes in the busy world Il
we have activity we must have col


Iisions. The faster the yace the
harder the fall. 1t was on Monday.
The train was on its way to Wood
man, made up of thirteen cars. Most
Of them were laden with cattle and
hogs. After tsrning the brow Of
.he hill to 60 down the grade on the
famous "horse-shoc bend" one of the
middle cars sprung a rail or in some
other way got off the track. The
engineer checked the train but the
dislodged car tumbled on down the
hill, pulling with it, off the track
seven others. Some of them turned
over and two steers and eight hcgs
we're killed. Fortunately neither
Year: 1879

the engine nor the rear passen ger
car were thrown Off the track and
therefore no person was hurt. The
next day while attempting to clear
the track O'Hara, the fireman, had
leg broken above the knee. He
was endeavoring, with others, to
move car off the track, and it slid
from their handspikes down upon
his leg. Thus is chronicled the first
accident upon the narrow guage.
Year: 1879

PLATTEvILLE'S BLIND ROBIN. -
During our recent visit to Platteville
our curiosity was aroused to such
an extent that we were compelled
to go round the "horn" in order to
convince ourselves as to the latest
schemes resorted to by the law-break-
ers of that place. The device is
something as follows: One corner
Of the room is covered in SO as to en-
clude all observation of its con-
tents, and the "Blina Robin" or
dumb waiter, which is warranted
not equeal, consists of revolving
wheel with port holes, where you
place your money, call through q
speaking tube for what you want,
turn the wheel, when 10 and behold
around she comes with your order
to your infinite satisfaction. Each
old beer gormandizer claims turn
ing interest in the Blind Robin
for one year Dusty.
Year: 1879

directors neglect TO prosecute for
fifteen days after notice has been
served upon him, be is liable to n
line OF not less than ten or more than
twenty dollars, This will prove to
be good law if it is enforced. and
Will work like a charm on those lads
IN Mineral Point who wilfully de-
ceive their parents in the evening
after "minching" all day.
Year: 1879

"A DEAF-AND-DuMB man went iuto
blacksmith shop to beg, and while
there he accidentally placed his hand
on a hot horseshoe hanging on a
nail, the act instantly restoring him
to remarkable huency of speech.
Ills hearing was also restored, for
when the blacksmith asked him If it
hurt much, the wretch backed off
to sale distance, and, among other
things, promised the blacksmith in
voice $50 feet above concert pitch
that he would never, never vote to
make him mayor if ho ran for thu
office n thousand times.
Year: 1879

A REVIEW of wheat prospect in
this country by a New York com.
mercial paper, says while there is
nothing yet to- cause uneasiness in
grain circles, il is evident that the
opening conditions of seeding for
the present season are far behind
those OF corresponding period last
year The conditions include late
Spring, an average acreage and a
disposition to decrease the amount
of wheat sown.
Year: 1879

A novel class of thieves have made
their appearance in Central Park, New
York. One night not long ago, while
Patrolman Morgan was on duty near the
Ninety-seventh street road, he discov-
cred men lettering on the edge OF the
thoroughfare. each carrying a bag.
When the officer approached them they
ran away. He pursued, and was about
capturing one of them when ne was
brought to a standstill by something
sharp catching in his left ear. Blood
dripped from slight cut, but he saw
nothing by which he could account TOR
the occurrence, and again started in pur-
suit, when he was again compelled to
stop under the same circumstances as
before.


This time slight cash was in his fore
head. The mysterious persons had by
this time made good their escape, and
Morgan turned his attention to his in
iuries. BY mere accident, he discovered
a clothesline stretched across the road
between two pine trees, about five feet
from the ground He cut it down, and
brought it to the police station in the
Arsenal building, where it was found
that pieces of hair wire about four inches
in length, to which were attached very
small fishhooks, were fastened TO the
line at intervals of every six inches:
The hooks were baited with pieces OF
fish and oyster meats. Sergeant Gale,
who was in command, explained the
mystery by saying that the persons were
undoubtedly fishing for birds. Orders
were given to the police to keep sharp
lookout for such thieves in future.
Year: 1879

Corns may be developed on any part
of the body where pressure and friction
exist to an inordinate degree; thus they
may be occasioned by too tight or too
loose a shoe; in the one case being due
to pressure, in the other to friction; and
they are most actively produced when
both causes are combined. They are
met with most frequently on the feet, on
account of an unpliant nature of the
covering of those organs; between the
toes from pressure only; and on other
parts of the body from distortion. Corns
are of four kinds. viz: clavus (bunion),
calius, soft and the common corn. The
callus may be softened by moisture, rs
by soaking in warm water; by the ap-
pfication Of starch or soap poultice; /;
and being softened, the thickened cuti-
Gle may be thinned by scraping with a
blunt knife. When the thickening has
been reduced sufficiently, it may be kept
down by daily washing with soap.
Clayus and the soft corn require removal
with the knife; and in effecting this
purpose their mode OF formation is to be
borne in mind. If the soft corn be of
moderate size, single pinch with pair
OF pointed SClSSOIS Will cueCI lLo lCLloSal,
while the hard callus will require a
patient digging with the point Of a not
too sharp knife. After the operation,
the corn should be covered with apiece
of soap plaster for day or two, and n
perforated plaster of buff leather subse-
gently worn to keep off pressure from
the center of the growth. The removal
of a callus or soft corn may be very con.
siderably aided by the use of the COM
pound tincturo of iodine painted on the
swelling. When the corn is painful, this
application subdues its sensibility and
renders the cuticle dry and friabie, and
easy of removal by means of a file. Soap
and water, 80 useful to the skin in many
ways, are especially serviceable to feet
afflicted with corns and particularly
when they are soft corns. Daily wash
ing with soap and the subsequent inter


position of piece of cotton wool be-
tween the toes. may be considered as a
cure for soft corns; and in these cases
the skin may be hardened by sponging
with spirits of camphor after the wash
ing. The cotton wool should be re-
moved at night. and this is tt good time
| for the use Of the camphorated spirit
| Rural NetU Yorker.
Year: 1879

A writer in the Gentlenaan's Magazine
relates the following instances to show
what hold the habit of smoking may
have upon persons: A city man that
I know gets haitian hour for his luncheon
or dinner in the middle of the day; but
he manages to eat a few biscuits during
Office hours, and spends his half hour
walking up and down one OF the quays
smoking. This man walks to the city
every morning from his home. the dis
tance being three miles; he also walks
home every evening; and he smokes in
cessantly during the walks each way.
He dimes at six o'clock. and then smokes
without ceasing until bedtime. On
Sunday he smokes all day, except dur
ine meals; he will never attend place
of worship, because it would curtail his
smoking. He will never 60 into society
with Ills wife, and. indeed, will not
readily talk to her at home, as it dis
turbs his smoking. In all other respects
this man is q good husband and father.
Another acquaintance of mine, who is
a hicnly-intellectua and deeply-read
man. will tolerate nothing that may
postpone his smoke. At dinner he is in
a perpetual drive to get done, 30 as to
begin his pipe; he wants no pudding,
cheese or desert; taking these would in
yolye loss of time, and put off the smok-
| ing period few minuteslonger. He like
wise requires no tea or supper, protest
| ing he is mot hungry. and that he does
not wish to be. disturbed in his smoke.
Another man that I know is In . gov
ernment Office, and when the usual pub.


lie holidays occur, such as the queens


birthday, his treat is to lie in bed all day
and smoke. The gentleman is married,
and always smokes bis last pipe in bed
Year: 1879

A strange and terrible revenge was
recently taken by discarded lover IN
Indiana. He was about thirty, years OF
age, and had been industriously court
ing girl of sixteen, but when ne came
to pop the question he was contemptu-
ously rejected. the girl saying that he
was old enough to be her father. y Eon
that hint he acted, for the girls mother
was buxom widow Of only thirty-five,
and he speedily transferred his court to
her. Their marriage soon followed, and
now the younger lady finds that her ex-
lover is her stepfather. She thought it
was funny until the couple returned
from their wedding tour. and then the
newly-made stepfather said to her: MY
daughter, you were too fond OF beaux.
Nice young men, ice-cream and buggy
rides are not proper luxuries for a little
girl like YOU. I am old enough to be
your father, and, what's moro, l am.
Go upstairs, take off that there SILK
dress, get ready for school. and don't let
me hear beaux or buggy, ice-cream or
nice young man from you for Mt least
three years" And now that young LADY
is retired in calico and study: .vainly re-
penting her rashness, and finding out ny
dire experience that lover seorned can
be ones worst enemy. especially when
he becom 9 4 stepfather t..S
Year: 1879

The Ohio Democratic platform is an
amusing illustration of feeble party
clap-trap. 1t accuses the Republican
minority in Congress of refusing to
support the army unless it could be used
to intimidate voters, and the President
of vetoing legislation that is plainly
constitutional. Is the veto less consti-
tutional than legislationP Such a
charge, and the declaration that the
President ought not to have vetoed the
bills because they had received the
most mature consideration of Congress,
are an illustration of characteristic
Democratic contempt for the intelli-
gence of the people of the United States
1t is an instructive commentary upon
the nature and tendency of existing par
| ties that in this Democratic Convention
delegate who, according to the re-
port in the New York Times, was
drunk. nominated a practical repu-
diator for the Office of Governor,
upon a platform of ridiculous and
palpable untruth. The respectable cit
liens of the country are invited to sup
pose that constitutional liberty, the
equal rights of citizens, the National
honor, the prosperity of labor and of
the laboring- man, and the general well
fare of all sections of the country are
safer in the hauds of a party whose
recent and most important perform
ances are the nomination of an infla-
ZIONIST to be Governor of Ohio, and q
threat of disorganization of the Ma
tional Government if the President
does not surrender his constitutional
rights.


There was another observable in
cident in the Convention besides those
we have mentioned. General Steed-
man, the temporary chairman, follow
ing Senator Hill in the Senate, an
nounced that to the Democratic party
belonged the credit of suppressing the
rebellion. There were brave mon and
good soldiers in the Union army who
were Democrats. That is gladly con-
ceded by every Republican. But since
General Steedman and Senator Hill
raise the question, it is we'll to recall
that the last Democratic President an
nounced that the Union had no right to
save itself from rebellion-an opinion
which he derived from one of the chief
of living Democratic leaders, Mr.. Black.
Every one of the rebel chiefs was a
Democrat. They defended their rebel
lion upon Democratic doctrine. Every
Copperhead that stung the soldiers
from the rear was Democrat; and the
Democratic National Convention, in the
midst of the contest, declared the war
to be failure. General Steedman and
Senator Hill choose to raise this ques-
ton. They wilbhave quite enough of
the answer. The Democratic party in
this country has been the party of
caste and aristocracy and special priv
ilege; the party of the most Odious in
humanity and injustice; the party of
State tyranny against the equal rights
of American citizens and the natural
rights of man; the party of sycophancy
to foreign ignorance; the party of dis
union and National dishonor. What
its leaders expect to gain 10y reviving,
in the political contests of to-day, recol-
lections the most damning to any party
in free and intelligent country, is not
yet apparent. Harper's Weekly.
Year: 1879

we will fall by her. Her people are
our people, her fortune our fortune,
and her God our God. There can be
no divorce between her destiny and
our own. A blow at her is blow al
us. When she is taunted we are taunted
too. When she is slandered we feel the
insult tingling through every fibre Of
our frames.


This is why we confront the bastard
Democrats in this manner to-day.


They have tried to humiliate her in
the eyes of the whole earth.


They have represented that she
has proved recreant to the dead who
died for her-has turned from the con-
secrated altars of her ancestors, and
flung herself prone before the false
gods set up by hands that reeked and
dripped with the gore of her children.


1t is lie.


The South is the old South still,
thank heaven, and all the storms and
passions that ever tore across our
planet can never make her depart to the
right hand nor to the left.


1t was well known that we have
clung to the Northern State-Rights
Democracy with dead-like tenacity in
its darkest hour of gloom.


We stood by it in the William Allen
campaign, when to do so was to be de.
nounced as fossil and fool.


We stood by it at time when almost
our whole people had lost faith and
hope in the cause.


We have promptly resented every as.
sault made upon it by friend or foe, and
arrested, as far as in lay, every threat
ened departure to form a new alliance.


We have stood by it against all odds
and under all circumstances, because
our brains and our hearts approved its
fundamental doctrines.


To-day, and up to this hour, VIC
stand uniiinchingly by the Northern
State-Rights Democracy.


But the Democrat who will not as
sert the principal of State Rights and
White Supremacy, in Congress or out
in the North or in the South, is a de.
serter; and we brand him as a traitor
to cherished political conviction Of
his party.


Such Democrats we spew out of ouI
mouths.


In conclusion, the States asks no odds
at the hands of the bastard Democrats
of Yankeedom.


We know that they will resort tc
falsehoods; we have proof that they re-
sort to forgery; we believe that they
are capable of doing anything that is
dishonest, unclean, and criminal tc
misrepresent the South and weaken
the usefulness of this journal.


But we fling the gauntlet in theil
teeth, and defy them to do their worst
for we have appealed to Time the great
Arbiter, and his verdict never went
amiss.- Okolona Miss. J Southern States,
(Den.
Year: 1879

In 1870 an eminent London
merchant received letter from a
valued correspondent in Hamburg
apprising him that he had been
victimzed to the extent of $4,000
by a young man whom he exactly
described. He requested his friend
to look out for him on what is
known as the "Dutch Walk' of
the Royal Exchange, and in few
days the merchant spotted him,
made his acquaintance and asked
him to dine. Dinner concluded
the host accused him, and the of.
fence was candidly admitted. Asked
to return the money! he said he could
not restore all inasmuch as he had
spent some, but he took out bun
die of notes and placed it in the
merchants hand. The latter then
told him that his Hamburg cores.
pondent, the most generous OF
men, had instructed him that in
the event of the offender appearing
to be penitent and ready to DO what
he could IN the way of restitution,
to give him check for $500 as he
was relative, and he desired to
give him one more chance; he
therefore handed him check tor
that amount. When the next day
be paid in the young mans restored
notes, the banker said they were
unmistakably forged; but the mer-
chant found that the penitent
youth had cashed the check and
the valued correspondent at Ham
burg telegraphed utter ignorance oil
the whole business.
Year: 1879

the surprised Senator, show about
the quality of the cutlery you have
contracted for-how does 1t COM
pare with the celebrated Gallery of
your country?" "Sir, it is, if any
thing, superior. You have the best
steel in the world, and with your
labor.saving machinery you can
manufacture the best Of cutlery
cheaper than 1t can be done any,
where else. Your financial trouble,
resulting in the cost of everything
including labor-being reduced to
hardpan, will prove in the long run
to be the best thing that has hap
pened to your country. You will
soon be competing with Europe
for the markets of the world, and
the time is not far off when you
will rank with England as q man.
ufacturing nation.
Year: 1879

ONE ofthe few monopolies which
have not been made to give way to
the general depression which has
left its mark upon business the
world over, is the Sleeping Car
Union. Prices for accommodations
are precisely the same as they were
during the prosperous imitation Pc
riod of ten years ago, though every
thing relating to their construc-
tion, furnishing and management,
has kept pace with other things in
decline, and arrangements with
roads for running the cars are
equally as liberal now as then. The
time has come when a nights ride
in q sleeper should cost no more
than a nights lodging at first
class hotel. and even at that price,
profits would be in favor of the
sleeping car companies. The way
to bring about reduction is for
business and travelling men to unite
in a demand for it, and if such de-
mand is not complied with, agree
to travel for season witho using
them. The managers of these lines
are themselves blind to their own
interests in this matter. One-half
the sleepers go out of our city al
most empty, when, if the fare were
reduced to fair rate, many who
sit up all night in uncomfortable
seats, would take accommodations.
Any travelling man can afford to
pay one dollar for a nights lodg-
ing, but when it comes to paying
double that amount, the reasoning
is plain that it is an easy way to
make wages, and hence keep clear
of the sleeper. Concerted action
will bring about the change in
ninety days.