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Year: 1879

Army and Navy, and the puny arm Of Con-
gress has no power 10 disarm that prercga-
tive. When the public peace is violated
and the rights Of citizenship are trampled
upon by ruthless Democratic mobs, whether
armed or unarmed, it is the province of the
President to use the army to suppress vio-
lence, restore order, and enforce the law.
Troops never have been, and never will be,
used under any other circumstances and
the President fails in the discharge of his
constitutional duty when he shall neglect
to enforce the authority of the Government
in preserving the peace and protecting the
right during Federal elections. None but
those who desire to debauch the elections
and defraud the people of their rights have
ever yet objected to the election laws and
the suppression of wrong and violence by
United States troops, and never will. None
but Democrats do that thing.
Year: 1879

there Is also SETTLE boom in Alabama
and Arkansas. Perhaps there may be a
Solid South for Tom SETTLE for vice-Presi-
dent, independent Of all preferences for
the chief standard-bearer. If the South
is to be recognized in the second place on
the ticket, he would certainly be an accept
ab1o man
Year: 1879

THE Cabinet has sot down on the boys,
and they feel rather fat. The full rights
of citizenship and the exercise of those
rights by speech or action are not guaran-
teed TO subordinates. The Cabinet will do
the politics for the Administration for the
present The boys can lay their rights
carefully away and keep silent until q
change of administration comes or they re-
heve themselves from the restraints of Office
In man free citizen when thus handi
capped2 We pause for reply.
Year: 1879

Now Mr., Manhattan Beach CoRBIN has
issued an edict against dogs. He will have
none of them about his Coney Island prem
ises. If he should happen some fine day
TO get down off his hind-legs he would
naturally suffer in his own person from
this exclusive order.
Year: 1879

THE termination of the recent drouth was
o severe blow to the Greenbackers and
Democrats. The crops are booming and the
possibility of making political capital out
Of the miseries and calamities of the people
is rapidly disappearing
Year: 1879

THE unanimity of approval with which
the suggestion to send Ben BUTLER out OF
the country-to make him minister to Eng
land, to Russia, or anywhere else-must be
very flattering to the Essex Statesman. But
it is noteworthy fact that decided
preference is shown for the proposition to
send him to Russia. st. Petersburg is
further away than London.
Year: 1879

City council tonight.


special meeting of the Lurline boat club
was held last night.


Adjourned meeting of the county commits
sioners Friday morning.


The canvass for the annual issue of the
city directory will be completed by Saturday
night.


The Centenary Sunday school will go on
an excursion to Minnetonka tomorrow
morning.


Yesterday afternoon gentleman overcome
with the heat tainted and fell from his buggy
on Bridge Square. He was not seriously
hurt.


The Great Union bands concert last even
Year: 1879

ing was musical treat such as is seldom
vouchsafed to our citizens. The band is a
credit to the State.


A vicious runaway occurred yesterday on
Nioollet avenue, resulting in lady and gen.
tleman being thrown from the buggy and
considerably shaken up.


The Bennett Female Seminary commences
mer exercises were held at Plymouth church
last evening. The church was crowded with
q large and fashionable audience. Each fair
participant in the exercises was loaded down
with handsome boquets and flowers.
Year: 1879

1t is limited that Madame Anderson
accomplishes her prodigious walking
feats without any signs of exhaustion
by simple stratagem. Somebody
looking and dressed like her takes her
place while she rests and sleeps. A man
in Cincinnati walked 1000 miles in
1000 hours by means of a double"
who finally "undd" him, for he be-
trayed him just at the close of the walk,
The trick is very old one. 1t is found
among Hindoo legends of the hedge
hog aud the fox, version of the hare
and the tortoise. The fox challenged
the hedgehog to race, and the hedge
hog agreed. The fox started, but when
he arrived at the end of the path
through the woods, there was the hedge
hog. Then be proposed running it
right over again to the starting point.
The hedgehog agreed and the fox
found him ahead of him as before.
This contest was continued until the
fox could go no more, and paid the for
felt The hedgehog merely stationed
his wife, wno looked so like her hus-
band the fox did not know them apart,
at one end of the route while he stayed
at the other Neither of them moved,
and the fox ran back ana forth from
one 60 the other until he dropped from
fatigue. Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1879

II is usual for travellers to dwell upon
the utter desolation of Babylon, and to
paint its site rs a strip Of desert, es-
pecislly woe-begone and unfertile. But
the eloquent gentlemen who dwell upon
this aspect Of the place could not have
seen il in the middle of April. The
date groves and gardens along the banks
OF the Euphrates are then things OF
beauty in their fresh spring verdure,
and the plain itself is laid down with
crops. Irrigation canals cross it here
and there and give trouble to the horse
man. No grass grows upon the mounds,
and there are patches of the level white
with the inter which is to be found here
as in other parts of Mesopotamia; but
the surface of the soil is, ON the whole,
green and pleasant to the eye. The
glad waters of the river now on in
the bright morning sunshine, with palm
and mulberry hanging over its banks,
drinking in sap and life. The great
city which counted its population by
millions, and filed the world with re-
nown not yet forgotten, has disappeared
under the dust of twenty centuries, hut
nature is as fresh and jocund as when
Babylon WAS still unbuilt. Birds sing
overhead in the pleasant spring air
butterflies flutter about in search OF
flowers; balmy odors regsle the sense.
II is difficult under the circumstances
to feel as one perhaps ought to feel for
the great capital which once numbered
this ground. Nature does not mourn
for it, and it is hard to be sad at tho
bidding of sentiment when the bright
spring hides its grave,-Through Asi
attic Turkey.
Year: 1879

In his letter, resigning the position
OF Government Director of the Union
Pacific railroad, Mr.. Charles Francis
Adams, Jr., states very clearly and
fcrcibly the difficulties which surround
that position. 1t is simpossible, be says,
for any one to discharge satisfactorily
the duties OF q Government Director un-
der the present laws. These duties in
yolvs . thorough knowledge Of the
whole subject of railroad construction
and management, the closest and most
painstaking attention to detail in the
annual inspections Of the property in
which the Government is SO largely in
terested, and constant humiliation OF
the official in the fact that he is at all
times the guest Of the corporation he IL
expected to supervise. Mr.. Adams says
on this point:


"To "A person in any way sensitive il
is far from pleasant to be the guest of
corporation; to eat and sleep and live at
its expense; to accept every possible at
tention and hospitality from its officers,
and meanwhile to keep careful note of
every point open TO criticism, and, when
the time comes, to speak openly and
truthfully, no matter how much what is
said may hurt Neither is it agreeable
to do public duty faithfully and at
the same time to accept the money Of
one who suffers from the performance
of the duty even though that one be a
corporation. Yet the Government Di-
rector who does his duty must, under
the law MS it now stands, either do this
or go wholly unpaid. As long as this
system continues, it is practically in
evitable that services of purely formal
character can only be looked for. The
active Government Director is at best
but an honorable spy"
Year: 1879

We have carefully compiled from the
Tribune AimdHac for 1879, which
gives returns from all State and Con
gressional elections held in 1878, the
following tables showing the complete
Greenback vote of that year. In the
States where Greenback State ticket
was nominated we give the vote of the
head of that ticket; where a State
ticket was not run we give the Green
back vote for Congress:
Year: 1879

A New York exchange tells How
men Suddenly Disappear from Our
Streets" We haven't read the article
but we suppose they suddenly dart up
an alley in order to enter the saloon
from the rear. We have seea scores OF
men suddenly disappear from the
streets in the same manner.-Norrts-
totcR Herald.
Year: 1879

New YORK World: at will probably
be found that the principal stockhold-
ers in the companies for introducing the
electric light are also heavily interested
in gas stocks, so that it is not likely that
any change which may be made will be
of q ruinouslv revolutionary character"
Year: 1879

paddle in his hand. just then the doe
turned her head and looked at him with
her great appealing eyes.


81 can't do it. My soul, can't do
it ~ and he dropped the paddle. "Oh,
let her go!"


"Let II go ~ was the only response
of the guide, as he slung the deer round,
whipped out his hunting knife, and
made pass that severed her jugular.


And the gentleman ate that night of
the vension.


The buck returned about the middle
of the afternoon. The fawn was bleat-
ing piteously, hungry and lonesome.
The buck was surprised. He looked
about in the forest. He took a circuit
and came back. His doe was nowhere
to be seen. He looked down at the
fawn in helpless sort of way. The
fawn appealed for his supper. The
buck had nothing whatever to give his
child, nothing but his sympathy. If
he said anything, this is what he said i:
-''Pm the head of this family, but
really, this is a novel case. I've moth
ing whatever for you. l don't know
what to do. I've the feelings of a
father; but you can't live on them.
Let us travel"


The buck walked away the little
one toddled after him they disappear
ed in the forest.
Year: 1879

With the exception of one college in
New York and two in other states, says
Barnes Educational monthly, any one
may become a medical student without
preliminary examinations in anything,
moral character not excepted. Stu
dents are often graduated at the close
of two years. study, and in some insti-
tutions the course of instruction is even
nations for diplomas are not at all
rigid, knowledge even of chemical
analysis not being required. There is
not single doctor in one of the coun-
ties in western New York who can con-
duct a decent chemical analysis, or
even tell whether his nitrate of bismuth
does or does not contain arsenic. A
doctor recently stated on examination
that the proper dose of prussic acid for
a child two years old was from four to
six drops! AS general thing, doctors
in rural places, and in some of our
cities as well, stick to the antiquated
remedies and outrageous doses. We
think our educational journals ought to
stir up the young doctors to more dill
gent habits as students. Each one of
them should have his chemical labora-
tory, where he daily should conduct
such chemical analysis as sickness de-
mands. If doctors were little more
enterprising and pushing, we should
know something more concerning such
diseases as typhoid fever, diphtheria,
scarlet fever and measles. Call two
doctors in succession to a child attacked
with one of these diseases, and the
probabilities are they will give you
contradictory explanations and totally
different remedies. This is no recon-
mendatiOn to the medical profession.
Because doctors are not scientific, the
practice of medicine is not conducted
on scientific principles, and medicine is
not to-day a science. 1t is a practice,
we admit, much to the honor of sensi-
tive tastes. The day will be hailed
with joy by a diseased world when this
practice is conducted on scientific prin-
ciples. We laymen would like to know
many things our medical advisers will
not tell us, simply because they cannot.
Let us have some light on these diseas-
es lurking unsubdued in all parts of our
land. 1t is your duty to enlighten the
world, and if you are the students you
should be, some of you will bless this
humanity of ours by telling exactly
what will cure certain diseases, and
why it will do so. You should be paid
to prevent as well as cure. We would
rather give you twenty-five dollars to
keep us well, than ten to cure us when
sick.
Year: 1879

l would prepare myself with good
strap want no whip; perhaps he has
got taste of that already, and still he
is master. But some fine day when 1
was at peace with myself and all around
l would hitch him to the buggy, turn
ing his head to the village. He goes
half the way very well indeed then he
begins to consider he has gone far
enough in that direction and stops. 1
step down; he expects me to use the
whip. He is mistaken. AS criminal
| treat him on the silent system. /
push him back a little out of the way.
| show him the strap, putting it up to
his nose. go to the off side and buck
lie it to his off fore leg, close up to the
breast, throwing the other end over his
shoulder then raise his near fore foot
and fix it with the hoof nearly touching
the belly. This done, l say to him,
"NOw, old chap, you stand there"
don't smoke, so l take paper from my


pocket, and finding place where | can
sit down and he see me, begin to read.
This is something he did not bargain


for, and the novelty of standing on
three legs somewhat diverts his mind
from the cause that stopped him. 1
think this is the chief point to be gain
ed, and the most humane. He now
shows signs of wish to go, but that
does not suit at the time, as l have yet
considerable reading to do. When the
strap is taken off l show it to him, ca
ress him little, and we move on with
out irritation. The strap will now be-
come part of the harness for a month
or two till at last the sipht of If will
Year: 1879

seaside, but it is not so easy to obtain
good boarding places there.


Just a word more. Husbands and
brothers, if you cannot go away your
selves, let your wives and sisters, shut
up in the house, over steaming suds,
hot stoves, in sweltering kitchens, go
and get rested. Live on bread and
milk, if necessary, for week or two
weeks, but let them go. The change
will be beneficial to all parties. The
pale, worn and haggard look that will
leave them, the sparkle that will come
back to the eye, and the flush that will
recOlor the cheek, to say nothing about
the sunshine they will shed in the home
circle as the result of their going, in the
months to come, will more than repay
you for your expense and incOnveni-
ence. Let them go, we say, and go
yourself, if you can. Count health and
cheeriness above every other gain. And
you cannot have either without they
and you have an occasional respite from
toll
Year: 1879

Y Two farmers in Santa Clara coun-
ty, Cal, are having a queer law suit.
One had a fine artesian well on his
grounds, yielding water enough to irri-
gate large strawberry beds and an
orchard during the dry season. The
other day well sunk on the adjoining
property struck the identical vein of
water which supplied the first, and
effectually checked it's flow. Land
owner No. then instituted suit for
damages for injury to his well, while
No. 2 claims that the well he dug, and
which No. l considers as injurious, was
dug on his own property and therefore
was not an injury which No. 1 could
ask redress for. The case is still hotly
contested.
Year: 1879

DEXTER, January 80. The Barron tragedy
so-called, has come to a sad conclusion. We
have the authority of the bank officers for
stating that the detectives who have recently
had charge of the matter have come to the
conclusion that Mr.. Barron committed sui
eide. They declare that the position in
which Mr. Barron was found in the vault,
hand-cutied, and gagged, with the double
doors OF the vault locked upon him, could
have been caused by himself This has sIbeen
accomplished in less than five minutes time
by one of the detectives.


The cause would naturally be supposed to
be difference in his accounts or misap-
preparation of the funds of the bank
Whether this is the case or not cannot now
be definitely stated. 1t seems improbable
that such a deficiency existed and that he
could have easily made it whole from the
property he held in his own name


1t must have required a very deliberate
planning on the part of Mr. Barron to have
arranged all the little details of the matter to
have given the appearance of She work OF
burglars.


The bank officials are hard at work to as
certain what was the actual state of affairs at
that time, but nothing is promulgated but
this As the conclusion of the detectives.


The act of Mr.. Barron as at first viewed.
seemed so heroic and in keeping with the
character he had borne, that his memory has
been presented to the public as specimen of
virtue to Tighten the dark records of the de-
generate times. The announcement must be
received by the public with even greater sor-
row than the news of the tragedy.
Year: 1879

There has been Of late a gratifying decrease
in the number of prisoners in kennebec Jail.
With the price of board at 81 per week, coal
at So per ton, and general decrease of fees
and costs, we may confidently look for quite
lessening of current expenses of the county.
The INMATES of the Jail are now at work up
on brogans for the spring trade.
Year: 1879

all insurers statements, representations or
declarations made on applying for, obtaining
or procuring policy of insurance on the life
OF any person or persons, shall be deemed
and held to be representations only, and not
warrenties. Any such representations so made
unless the same were knowingly false, and
made with haview to deceive the Company, shall
not be deemed material or affect the contract,
or render the policy void, unless the matter
misrepresented shall have actually contributed
to the contingency or event on which the
policy is to become due and payable.
and whether it is so contributed in
any case shall be question for the jury.
All premiums and policies shall be made
payable in the State. All policies or con-
tracts for life insurance hereafter effected
shall be subject to the terms and conditions
OF the act. The committee voted to
report the hill. The committee will re-
port giving auctioneers special licenses to
operate in towns outside of their own.


The committee on reform school will visit
that institution on Monday
Year: 1879

For New England and the Middle States,
partly cloudy weather and slight rise in tenn
perature, with westerly to southerly winds,
and slight fall in barometer during the day,
probably followed by threatening weather and
variable winds during the night
Year: 1879

Lamp Explosion.


A kerosene lamp sitting on the mantle in
the house of VIM. Farris, in China, exploded
Monday evening. The report was like pis-
toll The oil was scattered about, burning,
and With difficulty the house was saved. No
one burned. The oil was the kind known as
the BOSTON oil No comments needed.
Year: 1879

One of those small boys who aid to make life burden to the San Francisco citizen by forcing advertising bills on him in the streets was annoying people on Market street in that way the other morning when General Grant and a friend came out of the Palace doorway, bound for a promenade. The gamin pestered the twain to accept one of his hand-bills, and, on it's being several times declined, he suddenly thrust one inside the Generals vest and rushed off. An indignant spectator stopped the youth and said:

 "What do you mean by such impu- dence, you young rascal? Don't you know that's General Grant 2"

 "Oh l it is, is it p was the composed reply. "Well, all I've got to say is, that he puts on 8 blasted sight of frills for 8 guest p'
Year: 1879

The gloomiest picture yet presented of the condition of effairs in Georgia IS thus made by the Thomasville Enter prise: "The farmers have made very little cotton, and the rains have ruined all they. have not picked. They made but little corn, and that is rotting in the field, because the land IS so soft they cannot haul it, and the corn so wet they

 cannot gather it; and if they did, it is too wet to put up. The potatoes are so watery they are not fit to eat, and if they are dug they will rot in a few days.

 Peas are running in the fields for want of picking, and the sweetness of the sugarcane is so diluted it will not make syrup. The negroes can't work while it is raining, and when 1t stops they all want to como to town to see how it looks, and no work can be gotten out of them. "
Year: 1879

A short time ago Gen. John Gibbon,

 of St. Paul, made the assertion that 100 bushels of wheat had been raised on an acre of ground in the Territory of Mon tana. The statement having been re- ceived with incredulity, he wrote to the President of the First National Bank in Helena for proof. h reply he received the certificate of the President and Sec retary of the Territorial Fair Association that one James L. Ray, of Lewis and Clark county, was awarded first premium for the best acre of whea5, being 102 bushels to the acre. This is believed to be the largest yield of wheat on record.
Year: 1879

A wounded man sitting up in bed and taking medicine from teaspoon, while he grasps a revolver in each hand to guard against surprise and assassination this is the grotcsque attitude in which visitors now find Shepherd, who last week killed his brother outlaw and des- perado, Jesse James, in Missouri. Shep- herd was about aJ notorious scoundrel as James, having robbed several banks with him and killed his man. He slew his comrade in the name of law, and will probably have the doubtful credit of it, but it is not surprising that he keeps Q lookout for the next avenger.
Year: 1879

The newest pastime at English coun- try houses is tea tray toboggin, which is thus described by an eyewitness :- "You take 8 tea-tray to tho top of 8 good flight of stairs, sit on it, hold on to the sides of the tray with both han Is and let yourself go! If you manage we'll you slide down the whole flight of stairs quickly and easily and bring up at the landing on the bottom if you don't manage it properly you turn round when part of the way down and get a good crumpler. The advantage of this game is that the ladies can play at it, and in the house where I saw it played they toboggined far better than the men, who generally lost their tray and them selves half way down the stairs.
Year: 1879

Regulate first the stomach, second the liver especially the first, so as to per form their functions perfectly and you will remove at least nineteen-twentieth of all the ills that mankind is heir to, in this or any other climate. Hop Bitters is the only thing that will give perfectly healthy, natural action to these two or gans. 1InaeS.
Year: 1879

THE GREYHOUND is short lived. At the age of two years he is full grown, and a5 his fifth or sixth year he is worth little for the sport of coursing. He may be said to run himself out in three YearS.