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Year: 1879

IL can't be very amusing to be a judge in
kentucky. To illustrate: The Louisville Age
says that Judge Riddle few years back had a
Bottle thrown at his head whil on the bench.
Jndge Wicklffe found 1t necessary to shield
himself behind his desk in court to escape
stray pistol balls. Judge Randall had to
abandon coult and leave the town of Jackson
very expeditiously. And then is noted the
higher phase of developnent-ths trusty shot
gun is brought out, and the county judge of
Breathitt county is killed.
Year: 1879

SENATOR EATON has given notice that he
is going to prove Webster held the extreme
State Rights doctrine, and thought the
Union mere confederation of sovereign
States. Is the next campaign to be fought
over the State Rights question, and did the
war settle nothing?
Year: 1879

We DO not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
Dut as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

New Haven Register: 1t don't seem posi-
BILE, but in few days she will pin nice little
apple blossom in your button-hole, and Won
will be unable to tell for the life of you which
blush you most admire.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, March 4.-The extraordina-
ry debate and proceedings in the Senate that
followed the motion to exclude Jefferson


Davis from the benefit of the Mexican pen.
sion bill, have given additional interest to the
report that his friends in Mississippi are
thinking of sending him to .the United
States Senate Judging from the converse
tions of the Mississippi delegation, it is possi-
BILE that Mr.. Davis will be the successor OF
the colored Senator (Bruce) from that State,
in March, 1881. A brief paragraph, stating
that there was such movement on foot, has
been going the rounds of the press for several
weeks. It was started by the very general
discussions the newspapers of Mississippi are
giving the question. Members Of the Missis-
sippi delegation in Congress inform your cor
respondent that the expression of the Demo
cratic papers of their State is universally in
favor of the election of Mr.. Davis to the Sen
ate. Several weeks ago one of the leading
papers of the State suggested the propriety Of
Mr.. Davis election, and the spontaneous wish
of the people of that State was given express
sion as above stated. There has been no con-
certed action, use of political clap-trap or
wire pulling of any kind whatever to secure
this end.


1t is claimed by Mississippi Democrats that
the election of Mr.. Davis would put an end to
the cry of Southern supremacy being danger
Gus to the welfare of the country. They con-
tend that Mr.. Davis, as natural result OF
his position at the head of the Confederacy,
gained the general reputation of being an
extreme and dangerous man, while in fact he
is, and always was, conservative thinker.
They recall that he was one of the strongest
and most persistent opponents of secession,
and only Joined the Confederacy after his
State had gone out of the Union; that he
did not resign his seat in the United States
Senate until he felt his duty to his State re-
quired that he should leave his place in the
Senate. If he should return to the Senate
now, they say he would soon, by his conduct,
show to the country that he is not the dragon
he has been painted. On the same principle,
these Southern men in Congress say that if
when they first came into power in the House
they had elected Southern man for Speaker,
the Radical cry of raid on the treasury,
and warning to the North to beware of
Southern supremacy, would, by the course Of
the Southern men in Congress, been refuted,
and the political issue of the Radicals wiped
out long before this time. Until the wrong
impression of the Northern mind regarding
the Southern people is thus cleared away,
there will be no peace in the country.


Mr.. Davis is now getting old, being In his
Year: 1879

In New York hotel, some twenty years
after the events chrouicled in the last chapter,
a young man sat one evening in a private
room, into which he had been ushered, on his
arrival, about an hour before.


He was a tall and remarkably fne-looking
young fellow, with certain air about him
which seemed to stamp him as foreigner !;
though there was nothing foreign-looking in
his physiognomy, which was of the frank,
cordial, refined, and somewhat delicate type
often met with among the youth of the higher
class in our Southern States. His complex
Year: 1879

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY.
In speaking of PERSONS faults,


Pray don't forget your own;
Remember those with homes OF glass
Should seldom throw stone.
If we have nothing else to do


But talk of those who sin,
'Tis better we commence at home,
And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge man


Until he's fairly tried;
Should we not like his company,


We know the world is wide,
Some may have faults and who mas not !
The old as we'll as young;
Perhaps we may, for aught we know,
Have fifty to their one.
I'll tell ysu of better plan,


And find it works full well;
To try nv own defects to cure


Before of others tell;
And though hope sometimes 10 oe
No worse than some l know,
NV own shortcomings bid me let


The faults Of others go.
Then let US all, when we commence
To slander friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word may 90
To those we little know.
Remember curses, sometimes, like
Our chickens, 'roost at home;'
Don't speak of others faults until


We have none of our own.
Year: 1879

FRENCH DocToRs.-Let US all 90 to
France to be sick. The village doctor in that
blessed land never asks for more than five
francs for visit, and if you give him two he
will take it and be satisfied. Indeed, when
he makes out a bill for services during the
year, two francs per visit is the invariable
foo
Year: 1879

Recent years have witnessed the
public alton Of work, in number
of the States Of the Union gotten
up in splendid aud separate volumes
in the form Of Encyclopedias containing a
biographical sketch Of the honored
dead and representative living men Of
such States.


The volume for Maryland has just
been published and the papers of Bal
timore and elsewhere in that State have
handsome notices Of their book. Della
ware because of limited area and popu-
lation has not been published, although


rich in historic and living materials


for such an undertaking. We learn


however with great pleasure, that Col.
J. 4. McCarter and Rev. DR.. Jackson,
lately editors Of the Maryland volume,
have removed to this city, and are both
personally and by the aid of Associates
Editors, collecting material in all por-
tions of our Diamond commonwealth


for such work.


This material is obtained by visiting
the several localities of the State in
terviewing its living representatives OF
"reminiscences and we'll authenticated
tradition, together with a verification OF
facts and dates by careful examination
of State and county records.


This it is true will involve great
labor and large outlay, but the appear
ance of these gentlemen in the past in
connection with similar work done in
other states, and the determination ex-
pressed by them to make the Delaware
book equal in every respect to the
best which has yet appeared have pre-.
pared us to give them our best wishes
and hearty cooper alton.


Gotten up from the stand point of
state record and state pride, it must be
a handsome volume to meet expecta-
tions, and must necessarily be Of con-
siderable COST yet its great value in
rssouing from speedy forgetfulness the
memory of men whose lives were of un-
told value to the community living,
whose influence left behind the most
valuable thing the State ever had
more valuable than bo nds or stocks, or
mere temporal riches-by this hook to
be made the charm Of the quiet hour,
and the inspiration Of our youth by the
examples of the dead and the living
held up before them. 1t is work which
ought to BE- and no doubt will be appre.
ciated by the people Of Delaware.


We understand that the Aldine Pub
fishing and Engraving Co. have already
made a canvass of the counties of the
State, and their work has met a cordial
and hearty appreciation by the leading
citizens of many localities.
Year: 1879

CHESTER County Buffers appear to be
In luck. One of them has recently
been appointed United States District
Judge of the Eastern District of Penn
sylvania, and another is almost sure
to be the next State Treasurer. They
are the real true Republican grit But
lers too, none of the Ben," stripe
about them.
Year: 1879

THB RISE in the price of ice is sup
posed to be the result Of following the
advice OF the Denver "Tribune - 1t
lately recommended the Democrats to
pack the caucus in ice, SO as to keep it
through the hot weather. Some of tho
Democratic papers think it might be a
good plan to let the thing fermpnt, and
work off some Of the impurities.
Year: 1879

We wonder If the people Of Whining


ton are aware that an attempt is being


made through the Board Of Health to


return to the abominable bucket system


of cleaning wells. If they have not


thought about it, it is high time they


were giving the question some consid-


GRAFTON. At the last meeting Of the


Board of Health, strange to say, large


and influential petition was presented


TO that body praying for the abolition


of the present and a return to the old


bucket system. We presume that all


that is required to flood the Board Of
Health with remonstrancps against =
return to the old system, is to notify
the people that such an effort to return
has seriously and earnestly been made.
Through an adroit movement of the
members Of this Board who are opposed
to any interference with the present
plan, the petition has not yet been re-
ferred to any committee, but an attempt
to so refer 1t will probably be made at
the next meeting of the Board, which
will be on next Monday evening. We
well recollect when there was strong
opposition to the Odorless Excavator,
more on personal than any other
grounds, but as time moved on other
air tight machines were authorized,
which broke the force of the objection to
a monopoly, and We were under the i'm
preston that there was commendable
unanimity Of sentiment in favor of the
new order of things. We cannot be-
lieve that the people of Wilmington de-
sire renewal of the terrible nuisances
which filled the streets at night few
years ago, but if they do not want a
repetition Of it they had better get up
remonstrances to the Beard of Health |
against any interference with the pres
ent system, which has proved so salts
factory. In view of the approach of the
sickly season. and the reports of the
breaking out of the yellow fever, every
effort should be made to keep the city
clear of nuisances, instead of contem-
plating return to night scavengering
by the old bucket system, which was
one Of the greatest nuisances that ever
existed i n the city.
Year: 1879

They are not unmindful of Lord Beaconsheids
gallant stand in their behalf, for the mo-
ment, bat they know perfectly well tha'
Lord Beaconshed would turn aErarian to-nor-
row If he saw his way to a political Vc'orS
with Free Land for cry. The very TACT tha'
Lord Carngton has not been prominent az poi"-
cal leader makes his present attitude the more
alarming 10 men of his own rank and posIlon'
Such a cry coming from him can he nothing Out a
genuine cry of distress. There must oe many oi
Them who. if they dared. would cxclaim with him
that entail Is a milestone round then necks-
milestone that hampered my father. that must
wear t,ll nv death. my brothers well If they sue
ceel me: and the land is not free till after our
deaths or the twenty-first birthday of an un-
born heir" Many Of them, too must go
with him IN his protest against Justify
inc the restraints of entail on the ground that
il prevents improvidence. IL does hot, says Lord
Caripgfon. for most men don't come into their
nroperty till middle life, when they have sown
their wild oats But If 1t did. "is il wise for the
sake of saving a few foolish men from the con-
sequences OF their folly to hamper all the propne-
tors of England and TO make living men, anxious
10 improve their estates and benefit their tenants,
feel the dead mars grip, from which there is no
eseapef And he boldly lays It down that 1t is by
free trade IN land that the agricultural difficulty
"


with the land once secured, the owners and cult-
vators of the land viii weather the storm together
the landlords with their acreage reduced perhaps
but with their properties in good order free from
crushing debts. credit as well as profit to them
selves; and the farmers, with their balances at
their bankers reduced, but still solvent, still able
and willing to fight against bad seasons ana low
pr,ces ill the good time comes-and come il will
when the Almighty shall send us the fruit OF the
earth in due season, and the country hail the re-
turn Of prosperity to the agricultural interest OF
Old England"


There may be many answers to Lord Carington
but il Is hardly an answer to say. as one journal
does that his family name is Smith. that the family
fortune came from bank. that his peerage Is only
eighty years old. and that IL is this present Lord
Cariugton himself who has made the name best
known The last point will strike most men as a
reason why the weight should be given to his
present appeal. G. W. g
Year: 1879

A gentleman from Eau Claure, Wis, now
a resident of this city, met with quite an ad-
venture in Minneapolis on Friday. He was
accosted on the street near the mills by two
men who asked him for means with which to
procure something to eat, saying that they
had been wandering about for some time
seeking employment and unable to secure it.,
that they had eaten nothing all day.


He gave them half dollar and engaged
in conversation with them, crossed on the
bridge to the east side. One of them, the
older, dropped behind short distance, and
the intended victim turning his head, caught
him in the act of firing a slung shot, and
barely saved himself from being struck.


Muschroe, the party attacked, struck at the
one near him with a knife which he hap
pened to have open in his hand, and out his
coat near the waist through. He thinks no
further injury was done. Judging from the
manner in which both parties put out of
sight they must have had enough and plenty
to satisfy all their wants.
Year: 1879

THE -ICTION OF THE NORNAL BO.IRD.


There seems to be something peculiar
relative to the doings of the Normal School
board at their late meeting in this city. The
GLOBE was informed, as we supposed rsli-
ably, that the board had resolved not to
principalship of the Winona school. The
editor Of the St. Cloud Jour7aal-P Press, who
is memter Of the board, very plumply de-
MES this statement, declaring that "nothing
of tie kind suggested was resolved
upon, secretly or otherwise, or even
broached or discussed This would seem
to be denial sufficiently general and specific
to cover all the points, but now comes the
Winona Republican with statement, which
we presume was given the editor by Mr.
Thos. Simpson, the Winona member of the
board, which is as follows:


No resolution of the kind referred to was
formally adopted by the board, in secret session
or otherwise, but it was tacitly understood
among the MEMBERS or a portion Of them, that
it would be advisable to pursue the course in
dicated-for reasons which do not very clearly
appear, and which are open to conjecture only.
oUOSe4HcfIty, ttS we stIe Ieu W unucISteuC, Gu1S
conclusion to 90 outside of the State for q
principal was quietly abandoned, and the COM
mittee entrusted with the duty of making the
selection was appointed without any restriction
upon its choice beyond the final approval of
the board at the meeting to he called for that
purpose.


So far as practical results are concerned
this statement is an admission of what
the GLOBE charged, that the board
secretly resolved to employ no one
now resident of Minnesota. It is perhaps
in little milder shape to say that it was
''tacitly understood" topursue such course,
but the essencs of the matter is there all the
same. 1t appears, according to the Repub-
sican, that subsequently, the scheme was
ssquietly Abandoned q bit of informatio,
the GLOBE did not have, but which does moi
make our statement essentially incorrect as
far as it went.


The further explanation of the Republican
that the matter was understood among tn
members, or s'portion of them" may &C
count for the know-nothingism Of th,
Journal Press man. He was not taken
into the inner councils and was not of thu
.sportion'' who 'stacitly understood the
matter. In fact he knew nothing of tn,
true inwardness of the board or what it wa
doing. We would suggest to the editor 0
the Journal Press, that little more car
Year: 1879

has been waited on by committee to give
advice and take part in the reception, and
the only motive in the minds of the movers
was to honor the foremost Am erican citizen
IN his own country. The doctor thought it
would be strange thing to have Gen.
Grant ignored wholly by his own country


men after he had received such honors and
receptions in Europe and Asia. And the re-
ception committee meant nothing more than
to honor him here as he had been honored
olcouuhoro
Year: 1879

HENDRICKS denies that he has entered into
a conspiracy with John Kelley or anybody
else to defeat the nomination of the old
ticket. He says, however, that he will not
accept the second place on the ticket under
any circumstances. If he can't play first
fiddle he will make no music for the boys in
1QSO
Year: 1879

pune. 5ia f,tgha


It is now the fixed purpose of the coal
companies of this city to raise circular prices
25 cents per ton the first of June. They have
been the same now for two months, but for
the past week nearly all cargo orders have
been refused, the companies having all that
they can fill the first week in June. If they
had been willing to take orders at present
prices they could have filled the time for ten
days more. Dealers admit that stocks are
small enough and the demand active enough
to enable them to comman d it if they stick
to it. Reading stock is q little off on ac-
count of realization from rec ent specula-
tions, and Lehigh Valley is str onger, since
it is definitely known that Judge Packard's
interest, one-third of the total capital stock,
will be managed by trustees who will do just
as he has in the past, and follow out the pol
icy that he pursued. This makes it certain
that no combination can be formed to re-
strict the production of coal.
Year: 1879




in spite of the heavy rain. was we'll filled in the
evening, the large congregation being composed
of the same persons who have daily attended
the revival services. Whatever may be the
ultimate result of these revivals, and the effect
they may have had upon the city, it is certain
that the pastors could not have better support
ed the evangelists, they have been Jealous and
earnest. holding up the hands of their Moses"
The congregations, too, have been over assid-
uous, their zeal, it is feared, be-
coming q barrier to the good that
might have been accomplished, as they
have nightly. especially on Sundays,
crowded the sanctuary to the exclusion of all
others. The service was opened in the usual
way and MIR. Stebbins prefaced his singing
with the intimation that it would be the last
time the congregation and he would sing to-
gether. MIR. Pentecost departed little from
his custom by offering quite a long prayer, in
which he told the Almighty of ali that he did
and reminded Him of the new experience His
servant had received in Minneapolis. The
prayer seemed more addressed to the people
than to Him to whom all hearts are open. The
sermon was not, ,.strictly speaking, a sermon, ex-
cept it be considered one with Pentecost for
the text. The speaker told the people what
they already knew and had heard before
that the great evangelist came stranger to
the city, and that Bill King sheet had abused
him, and its little sister the Twilight Twitter-
er" had insulted him, and that considerable
feeling among the lukewarm churches and the
| ungodly had been stirred up against him. He
said, speaking of the revival, that there were
| two ways of measuring its effect-one by count
| ing the number of converts. The press had
| said that seventy persons had been saved at an
expense of $27O, but souls were not to be
valued like cattle. He did not know
how many had been converted, neither did he
care (he said it reverently). OF course he would
have been glad to hear that 500
| or 1,0OO had been turned to God But the re.
suit did not end Immediately with the number
who showed immediate signs of contrition. He
truly said that there had been great unity Of
the brethren, the churches we're knit more
closely together, and there had been stirred up
such spirit of zeal that the benefit would be
felt in after-time. After the evangelist had
finished speaking several of the ministers
spoke warmly of. the efforts made by the doc
tor, and farewell sermon brought the great
| revival to close.
Year: 1879

About SIX weeks ago little daughter
of Richard Cox, tiagman, living on Sixth
street, between Lombard and Pine,
swallowed a small breast pin, with which
she was playing. She felt little
inconvenience at the time, but suffered
no real pain until Friday evening last.
From that time she grew rapidly worse
and this morning Drs. Maull and Brown
performed surgical operation for the
purpose of removing the pin. The little
girl was very low, after the operation.
and her recovery was scarcely expected
Year: 1879

The strawberry and ice cream festival,
which was commenced last week at the
First Presbyterian Church and which
was to have been closed on Saturday
night, was continued last evening and
will also be held tonight. As it is the
close, let everybody go.
Year: 1879

The horses of the Water Witch Fire
Company, which have been out pastnr-
ing for the past three weeks, were
brought home this morning and placed
in the stables. They will not be put III
service for at least a week vet.
Year: 1879

If you seek spot where the beauti-
grayling, the most game fish in Michi-
gan waters, disports himself come TO
Grayling. Your splendid trout com
pared to the grayling is like singed cat
to Bengal tiger. The flavor of the
grayling is much more delicious besides
it is a larger fish, weighing from one to
five pounds. Besides the grayling we
have the perch, the green bass, the
picllerel and in fact all that the angler
can wish for in that line. The village
OF Grayling, is situated on the banks
of the beautiful Ausable river beneath
whose pellucid waters the beaver and
otter hold court We know Of no
other place in the Unite States, where
a true sportsman can 50 enjoy himself
as within the boundaries of Crawford
county.
Year: 1879

Of the air is supposed to love holy wa
ter. Fox will do his bsst to kill off Walker,
and Walker, Fox; and Clifford is very likely to
head off both, as he certa My appeals to the
Democratic instinct stronger than Fox or
Walker will care to- OF course this is O fami
ly jar in which the PRESS has no interest save
to give the news as it finds it. One thing is
clear, and that is that without the promise of
support here and elsewhere, Clifford would
never have ventured to take the decided and
defiant stand that he has assumed and If sup
ported it is also clear that MIR. Clifford will
make the question Of license or prohibition an
immediate practical issue. One man explained
the apparently ungrateful course of the Democ-
racy toward Fox who had done his best to get
the present liquor law changed, by saying thas
the Democratic party had used Fox to pull
their chestnuts out of the Republican fire, but
finding that nothing was pulled out and that
he fire was as hot as ever and that f OK had
only burnt himself in his useless efforts, the
party had become disgusted with him and
would follow Clifford who proposed to put the
nut.