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Year: 1879

DEAR soN-I have a hard duty to per-
form in announcing to you the death OF your
mother. You were her only sorrow and trouble
in her last illness, and that is why will keep
my promise made to her to take you home
when your time has expired. But let me tell
you plainly that cannot afford any longer to
spend money on you. I spend one hour q
week thinking how much sorrow and disgrace
you have caused your family. will take you
home if I see it is your earnest desire to be-
come useful member Of society. Only o
short time ago met one Of your former school
fellows riding in an elegant carriage. You
could have been Just as we'll of il you had
obeyed the commands Of your father.


Fisher was released. His brothers and
sisters looked coldly on his proposed
return, and wrote that his father did not
want him. He resolved to find employ
ment here, and went to the Prison asso.
citation in the Bible house. He could
not get work enough to support him
self, although mp to the time of his
arrest he lived on 50 week-seventy
cents for lodging and the rest for food.
His old friends met him and laughed at
him, calling him "Charlie the pauper." I"
He was offered position as bark 2eper
in thieves den in Chatham street, but
refused it. When arrested he had had
nothing to eat for over sixty hours, but
would not break his promise to his
mother.


This is Fishers story. Justice Otter.
bourg said that he thought the lad told
the truth, and that he would try to get
him employment ont of the city, where
he could take his old name and start
afresh. "I've got several contributions
of money for him." added the Judge,
':and think the case deserves sympa-
y."-NeW York World.
Year: 1879

John Charles Collins, the "Cast-I Iron
Man." lies in st. Luke's with some alloy
in his composition. While he was act
ing last fall as teacher of sparring in
Colonel Monstery's academy in Sixth
avenue he was suddenly attacked with q
sense of suffocation. He was removed
to Bellevue hospital and afterward to
St. Luke's, whf re he was found to be
suffering from paralysis of the vocal
cords-the little organs whose vibrations
cause sound, and which, when paralyzed,
fall together and prevent the entrance
of air into the lungs. The only imme-
diate relief for Collins was All operation
that would allow him to breathe from a
point below the vocal cords, and so q
hole was cut in his throat, or, as the
doctors would put it, the operation of
laryngo-tracheotomy was performed, and
double silver tube, open at both ends,
was introduced into the windpipe. COL


Inns was Immediately able to breathe
without the aid of his nose or mouth
and in spite of the paralysis Of the vocal
cords, and his life was saved. Since
the operation he has been doing we'll,
and the doctors are now treating him
with view to cure the paralysis. The
case is a peculiar one, Us there are few
instances on record of paralysis of the
vocal cords, and Collins disease is fur
ther complicated by the fact that the
cause of his affection is unknown. Be-
fore he was attacked he had suffered
from slight cold, but was otherwise, as
he had always been, in the best OF
lhealth.-Neso Yorb World.
Year: 1879

Two Spaniards have lately taken out
q patent in Spain for making writing
paper incombustible. The experiments
are said to have been very satisfactory.
The paper will not burn, no matter what
may be the intensity of the heat ap-
piled. A single sheet submitted to the
direct action of a fame will carbonize
but does not take fire. If roll of pre-
pared paper Is placed in the hottest fire,
the outside leaves will oarbonize the
edges for short depth: but the interior
remains unaltered, the writings or print
ing being perfectly legible. The cheap
ness of the preparation makes it accessi-
BILE to every purpose in which paper is
used.
Year: 1879

a new YORK WOTtU reporter uas uau
the following interview with Professor
Alfred l.. Loomis on the subject OF
diphtheria:


"What is diphtheria ?"


"It is an infectious disease-that is,
one capable of being transmitted from
one person to another. Opinions further
than this are divided about equally.
Some hold that it is purely local dis
ease in which the throat only is con-
cerned, while others claim that it is q
disense of the whole system, the men,
brane or exudation in the throat being
one of its expressions.


"What is your opinion r


"I believe diphtheria to be disease
of the whole system. In different cpl
denies the types differ. Sometimes you
will find the throat affection to be the
most severe, causing death by mechani.
cal obstruction of the air passages; and,
again, you will find that the constitu-
tional symptoms, which are of depress.
ing and exhaustive nature, kill the
patient before the emulation has advan-
ced far


"Is there any reason why diphtheria
should be most prevalent in the winter
season 2"


"Only that at the opening of winter
people begin to shut themselves up in
their houses and 80 surround themselves
with imperfect hygienic conditions. and
inhale more sewage gas than ordinarily.
Diphtheria is by no means a disease OF
cold climates, for it is found in tropical
countries. There are atmospheric con-
ditions that tend to make diphtheria
epidemic, but what those conditions are
is not readily understood. 1t is certain,
however, that they have nothing to do
with the change of the seasons"


"Is diphtheria very prevalent now ?"


CT have not found it 80 as yet this
winter. And you cannot Judge much as
to the relative mortality of different sea-
sons under given treatments, because at
one time the disease takes on the e1haus-
tive form and at another the deaths are
largely from the obstruction to the air.
passages"


"What is the best plan of treatment
in your opinion9"


81 work upon the prlnclple tnaI tne
diphtheritic membrane is the result OF u
very low grade of Inflammation, and that
when higher degree OF Inflammation is
set up around about the diphtheritic
patches those patches are prevented from
extending. This is found to be the fact
in practice. I endeavor. therefore, to
excite this higher degree of Inflammation
and I do this by causing the patient to
inhale large quantities of the steam of
pure water. Then, of course, I use
local antiseptics, such as chlorate of pot
ash, and for the constitutional trouble I
give iron and the most nourishing food.
Quinine ! do not use much, as that is
most valuable when there is high tenn
perature, and that is seldom found in
diphtheria
Year: 1879

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLEASURE RESORT


ESTABLISHED by TIE CENTRAL YER


MONT RAILROAD IN THE SPRING or


1873.


To meet an increasing desire in the
minds Of the public for the enjoyment OF
a modern picnic ground, and also in
recognition of the liberal patronage of
excursions, the managers of the Cen
tral Vermont railroad, in the early
spring of 1873, found the long-looked-
Tor spot, and called it
Year: 1879

ter is as near tho center Of the
county as a situation can be found,
accessible to al parts of the county,
it would be the height of injustice
to locate the county seat south Of
Strawberry river, even if there
should be few more living in the
pine hills south of Strawberry than
there is in the mountains north of
Spring river, besides the injustice OF
compelling those in the north part
of the county to ride 10 miles to get
to the county town, while those in
the south part would have only to
travel 10 or II miles; and further,
the north has to cross Spring river,
Big creek, Strawberry and Finey
Fork.


The south part of the county has
had the county seat 10 or II years,
to the entire exclusion Of the north
part from all privileges Of the same.


Would say that Center is before
the people, and will be as long as
the matter of removal iS before
them, claiming the right to the
county seat upon her merits Of CEN
tral location, beautiful situation,
liberal donGtion and easy accession,
together with many other good and
lawful reasons, and purposes to pre-.
sent her claipS to the people fairly
and squarely, asking nothing but q
fair representation of the interests
of the entire county. knowing that
tho question will never be settled
while the county seatrenains south
of Strawberry, i am satisfied that ii
would be greatly to the interests of
the county, financially, to locate at
Center, Remember, gentlemen, that
honesty is the best policy, as this
question will fully demonstrate.


j. NJ DAWSON.
Year: 1879

To the people Of Sharp:


As the county seat question IS
again being agitated, | wish to
make a few seasonable suggestions
on the matter. l think it is q set
tied fact that the county seat will
move before the question can ever
be settled, and as Evening Shade Is
geographically located as it is, it is
but justice to The people that IS
should move, and to 20 to the oX-
pense Of a removal and locate at
another place quite as out Of the
way and inconvenient as Evening
Shade, would be next to insanity,
which would be the case with Pough-
keepsie or Kings place; and as Cen
Year: 1879

EDITOR RECORD: As stated IN your
issue of Oct. I'd, the directors for
school districts No. II and Is have
failed to forward to the county ex-
aminer the scholastic enumerations
of their respective districts, and
thereby said districts have lost all
their school funds, both state and
county; and this will continue to oe
the case so long as directors neglect
to furnish the aforesaid report.
Now, as to the cause Of No, II failing
to report, it is unknown to me, but
to No. l6 | will say, as the ant said
to the grasshopper, "You sang last
summer, therefore you will have to
dance when winter comes" | will
further state, for the information OF
directors generally, that the direct
ors Of No. 1Gbave made themselves
liable for all their district has lost,
and to q fine of S25 each for neglect
Of duty; but as they are all well
known to be good men, / beg that
the citizens of the district let them
pass for this time, with e hope that
they will do their duty IN the future.


A. J. PORTER.
Year: 1879

As we 60 to press Judge Porter
informs us that he has refused to
order county seat election on the
petitions presented and filed at the
present term ofthe county court, the
number of names on the largest peti-
ton (the one IN favor of CENTER not
being sufficient to serve the purpose
for which it was designed,
Year: 1879

From our own observation and from
facts CLEANED from others we believe
that the aggregate yield of the wheat
crop for this county will be as large and
probably larger than it was ever known
to he before. In the first place there is
a larger acreage, and it bids fair to be a
good yield per acre. We have had sew
eral specimens brought to our office,
among the number three specimens
from the farm of Mr.. John Barnes OF
Goshen. One of the Golden Amber,
one Boden, another Rock wheat and
all are good, in fact better than the
crop usually is. We can not starve
while cake can be had, and the pros
pect is good enough.
Year: 1879

Rev. w. G.. Benton lectured Monday
night TO quite small audience consid-
ering the subject of his lecture. He is
fine delineator of character and told
his auditors more in one short lecture
about Chinese habits, customs and pc
culiarities than could he obtained so
quickly and cheaply in any other way.
He lectured again last night and will
also lecture tonight and tomorrow
night. Go and hear him and you will
be well entertained and will receive
much valuable information.
Year: 1879

Calvin Martin, a colored man, and a
native of this town, now of Owensboro,
KY, accompanied by his family, is
visiting his old home and friends. Cal
win is well-behayed, respectable look
ing man, and bears evidence Of thrift.


Go to the Hartford Water Mills for
your wool carding and grinding. They
are up with their work, you can get
your wool carding and grinding done
the same day you bring it, and can car
ry it home with you, thus making one
trip do. They have just received fresh
supply of Gates double and single
wapred jeans, which they will sell for
cash or exchange for wool.
Year: 1879

Clifton, Arizona, is the center of an increasing mining business which may well induce the Southern Pacific Company to run its line as near to it as the country will admit. Last Sat urday's Silver City Herald says:

 The material for the railroad from Clifton 10 the LongfellOw mine will weigh about 325,00O pounds. Henry Lesinsky informs us that it will prob ably be at the end of the railroad by the last of this month. and that the freight to destination is already con- tracted for. Seventy-five men are now at work on the grade, and the force would be increased to 800 could that number be obtained.

 Nearly 300,000 pounds of copper from the LOngfellow works at Clifton are now stored in Silver City, await ing shipment to the railroad terminus.
Year: 1879

cheerfully recommend him for any other duty than that of an advance missionary in Arizona, and we feel sure our "men and animals !" who are still fat and vigorous" will not ob- ject; but how can we enjoy this Terri tory in peace if MT. Todhunter is per mitted to come down here and then go back and lecture! Don't expect too much of us. We are still human, and subject to human affiictions as we'll as infiictions-ls instance our late wis itor
Year: 1879

NEW YORK, June lt.-The Evening Posts financial article says; From the official list of mining stock sales it will be seen that moderately active business is doing. At this distance from the mines. and. with speculative interests intervening, it is next to i'm possible to form an approximately correct opinion of values. However, the mining stock business has become an important Dart of Wall stree, speculation.
Year: 1879

TOMBSTONE is about certain Co have forty stamp mIll for the Contention mine: and that without much delay Superintendent J. II. White left to- day for San Francisco with a purpose to recommend to his company the con- struction of such a mill. The mine k so far developed as to warrant such reduction works.
Year: 1879

AN eastern exchange says the New York Evening Mail has added Min inr Department. and Major Bundy has engaged NIT. Hinton. of Arizona fame to take charge. Presume this is he of the Hand Book, and if so he must be highly qualified for his new position. as he has spent so much time in the mines-say whole week
Year: 1879

more had already established trade with Rio,
and had twenty or thirty vessels now Running.
The effect of this bill would be to divert the
Rio trade from Baltimore to New York.
Senator Conkling said there had been some-
thing said about a violation of contract, and
what should be done then. He was not one to
propose compromises, but why not amend the
bill so as to provide that the service shall be
performed by Chinese company, and then
Congress could end the contract whenever it
should choose to do so


Senator Bailey said he would, ut the proper
time, submit an amendment providing that
should the contract upon one line fail that
upon the other line should be forfeited.


Senator Blaine said the United States steam
er Tennessee was recently on a cruise of thirty
four months. The government paid for that
cruise two and half millions. Congress at
this very session bad appropriated thousands
of dollars for the South Atlantic squadron to
protect commerce which does not exist


Senator Herman, in reply to Blaine, said
Suppose the cruise of the Tennessee did cost
over two million dollars, was that any reason
why money should DO squandered on private
parties? Nothing but loss to the government
and scandal had come out Of these subsidy
bills.


The amendment of Mr.. Eaton that the con-
tract shall run four years instead of ten, as
proposed by the committee, was rejected, yeas
81, nays 80.


Senator Bailey then moved to limit the con-
tract to five years instead Of ten, and said the
bill of last year proposed that the contract
should run five years. Why, in the time
elapsed since, had the friends put it up to ten
years.


Senator Beck said at the last session of Con-
gress he said all he could against this subsidy
He knew there was majority of the Senate in
favor of It, and therefore there was no use in
his taking up time to oppose it.


Senator Bayard expressed the opinion that
there was danger in a scheme of this kind not
only to our government, bnt to the morals Of
our people.


After an executive session adjourned.
Year: 1879




WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-Murat Halsted, of the
Cincinnati Commercial, to-day made brief
statement to the Senate committee on rail-
loads. He said the letter he had written some
years ago and introduced into arguments upon
the Jones bill before the committee, grew out
OF warfare OF Western papers with the New
York associated press at that time The West
ern papers then conquered their independence
and now transact their business through their
own organization, having business relations
however, with the New York associated press,
The Western Unioa Telegraph company had
treated them with absolute fairness The
main object Of the New York associated press
was to prevent reckless competition among its
own members. The newspaper business was a
private one, and the government had no right
to NEEDLE with it at all. Men connected with
the press had the same rights as any other citi-
zens no more. They claimed that when they
had built up system of obtaining news as the
Western associated press, employing agents
everywhere, they had right to the news as
property. There were too mauy newspapers
now. They were dying out, and therefore it
was not good policy to encourage other swarms.
Senator Mitchell-What do you think of Civ
ing railroad com panies the privilege Of trans
mlttlng commercial messages?


Mr.. Halsted-They will do we'll to mind their
own business. The privilege would add to
their privileges in elections. do not think
the rule of railroads would benefit the country
newspaper and the telegraph business should.
SO Tar as possible he let alone.
Year: 1879

The entertainment next week to be given
under the auspices of the st. Paul boat club at
the Opera House, will be as attractive as any,
thing presented during the entire season. The
cast OF amateurs is exceptionally strong. and
there is no doubt of an exceedingly enjoyable
evening for all who attend.
Year: 1879

How do the war Democrats like the
political situation? Is it what they
fought for? What they looked for when
they left their party leaders and gave
their voices and votes to the support of
the national government against the
Confederate secession? Would they
then have thought this political situa-
tiOn worth all the cost of that war? The
Confederate leaders holding both Senate
and House of Representatives holding
them by the overthrow of elections in
the late Confederate States! A COnied-
crate caucus resolving that unless the
President shall surrender to them his
constitutional Office, they will break
down the government! The Northern
Democratic Representatives and Sena-
tors survilely submissive to the Confed-
crates, and, as in the secession, insti-
eating them to- more destructive de-
mandsi The party managers through
out the country actually working the
party machinery to deliver up the whole
country, bound hand and foot, to the
Confederates!


How do the war Democrats like it as
far as they have got? Do they intend to
Year: 1879

BUSINESS reports from the East are
more encouraging than at any time since
the panic of 1873. The Boston Post says
that the factories are generally resum-
ing, or making ready to resume, work /;
and even real estate, which is the last to
rally, feels the effect of reviving trade,
and improves its figures and pretensions
together. Sales of New England cotton
goods to China have increased to a flat
tering extent during the past year. The
Buffalo Express speaks exultingly of
business prospects on the State canals.
From all standpOints the prospects are
encouraging. Twenty million bushels of
grain are in store on the upper lake
ports, and the amount of lumber cut
during the past winter and now await
ing shipment is larger than ever before.
Miners have been unusually active, and
immense quantities Of copper and iron
ore and pig material are ready for ship
ment, and here our business men all
speak encouragingly of the state of trade.
Manufactures are starting up, and mer-
chants report sales good and payments
pretty prompt.
Year: 1879

follow the Confederate programme to
the end2 What is the next thing? To
abolish all laws that protect the cleo
tiOns, so that the party which has made
the South solid by destroying the cleo
tiOns may make the whole country SOL
idly Confederate by the same villainy.
And they have held caucus, and pre-
sented the Confederate ultimatum that.
unless the President shall abandon his
duty and his oath of Office, and assist
them in this destruction of laws against
crime, they will stop all branches of
government by depriving it of means of
existence


Is this what the war Democrats
fought for2 Did they support the ma
tiOn in that bloody struggle against re-
belliOn. in order to give immunity to
crime? Was the country which they
sought to preserve one in which the peO-
pies elections were to be given up to
ballot box suffers, repeaters, voting
tramps, false counters, tissue ballot
dealers, forgers of returns, ballot box
smashers. and all manner of scoundrels? ?
Was the country that called out their
patriotism one which they supposed was
to be formally surrendered to have its
government made by criminals?


OF course the war Democrats did not
contemplate any such vile end as this.
But they see it. They see the COnfeder
ates in possession at Washington by the
overthrow of elections in the South and
the slavish servility of Northern Demo-
Gratis. They see this demand for the alb
olition of criminal laws, so that they
may fasten themselves in power by the
They see the Confederate demand that
the President shall abdicate his Office in
Legislation, coupled with the threat to
take vengeance, not on him, but on the
country. And they see the whole work
of managing the city nominations in
Cincinnati, and of planning the election,
carried on for the same Confederate
purpose, in the interest of candidate
for nomination to the Presidency who
has sold himself and is trying to sell his
country to the Confederates for this
mess of political pottage.


Have not the war Democrats travelled
about as far in this line as their ideas of
patriotism will permit? The war ended,
naturally they wanted to try their old
party again; they have tried it, and they
linow see what is its nature. Every step
it takes in the nation is toward destruc-
tiOn. And in the State it is the same.
All that it lays hands on it defiles. 1t
has degraded all the State institutions
and made them scandal. Its control of
the General Assembly is standing dis
grace. And the party has no pretense of
principles or policy for the North; it is
all for placing the whole nation under
subjectiOn to the COnfederates. The
war Democrats can not follow further
in this course without cOnfessing that
their war resistance to the COnfederates
was fOolishness.-[Cin. Gaz.
Year: 1879

ONE Of the things which none Of ouI
prophets foretold was the furious going
out of the month of March. Yet it may
be that this was included in the series
of disturbances soon to take place, ac.
cording to an interpreter of the signs in
the heavens, in consequence of the un-
usual positions the planets are to occupy
relatively to each other. Brilliant auro.
raj displays; parching flames shooting
out from the sun startling electric phe.
nOmena in the heavens; atmospheric
conditions so breaking up the order OF
the seasons that crops shall refuse to
grow and famine stalk around-these
are some of the things predicted as form.
ing part of the approaching train OF
evils. of which the prophet will perhaps
hold that this unusual ending Of March
is the feeble beginning.-[N. Y. Sun.
Year: 1879

A PROMINENT Ohio Democrat told
the Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette that if things went
on in this way the Republicans would
carry Ohio at the next election by 1OO.-
600 majority. 1t may be remarked that
there is every indication that things
will go on in this way"