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Year: 1879

Philadelphia Record


Few people are aware that the
nrond boast Of Englishmen that the
san never sets on the British empire
is equally applicable to the United
States. Instead of being the western
limit of the Union, San Francisco is
only about midway between the
furthest Aleutian Isle, acquired by
our purchase of Alaska, and Eastport,
Maine. Our territory extends through
1877 degrees Of longitude, or II degrees
more than half way round the globe,
The Rocky Mountain Presbyterian in
commenting on this fact says. " When
the sun is giving its goodnight kiss to
our westernmost isle, on the confines
of Behring's Sea, it is already flooding
the fields and frosts of Maine with its
morning light and in the eastern part
of that State is more than an hour
high. At the very moment when the
Aleutian fisherman, warned by the
N preaching shades of night, is pull
ing his canoe toward the shore, the
wood. chopper of Maine is beginning
to make the forest echo with the stir
ring music of his AK"
Year: 1879

One of our young bakers having
lately got married, a few OF his friends
thought they would surprise him last
evening with a serenade, and witt.
everything in readiness they proceeded
to his residence at the corner of Ninth
and Poplar, where they opened fire on
him with the United Cornet Band. and
after playing several fine pieces of
music the bridegroom made his appear
ance at the door and invited then in,
when refreshments were handed
around of hich til. boys were no way
backward in helping themselves. The
hanl treated him TO some more music,
and the guests departed for their homes
wishing .Mr. and Mrs. Sturgeon many
happy days. ONE VINO WAS There.
Year: 1879

On Monday evening Willet Ridgway,
who for nine years past has been a
boarder at the Allegheny House, on
Market street, above Eighth, Philadel-
phia, obtaining two sheets of writing
paper and envelopes from the clerk i,
started up stairs with the remark:-


This will he ahont the last writing
| shall ever do. -" Yesterday morning
boy was sent ,up to Ridgway's room
to arouse him for breakfast. He found
Ridgway lying dead and informed the
clerk. Further examination was made.


On a table was found cup contain
ing the drcgs of a wkitish chrystalline
su distance and near by was a lump of
cyanide Of potassium, and the knife
from which the poison had been scraped
into the cup.


1t is stated that the suicide, who was
about 4s years old and unmarried, had
lately become possessed of the idea
that he was the victim of Ill fortune
and would have to go to the almshouse.
lie had been Incorporate for many
years.
Year: 1879

Several engines are in the P. W. &
b. shops undergoing repairs, in order
to be ready for the summer travel.
This morning we were shown through
the pattern room, where are stored all
the patterns connected with the whole
department OF the room. Each depart
ment has section Of its own and every
thing is SO systematically arranged
that there is no difficulty to get pat
tern.
Year: 1879




IIowa Normal Monthly.l


1. Are you complete master of the
situation?


2. Do your pupils, as rule, obey
you from choice, or from fear of pnn-
ishment?


3. Are your recitations spirited
enough to keep alive the interest of
a majority of your pupils, or do the
most Of them sit in class with their
eyes fixed on vacancy and their minds
following in the direction Of theil
eyes?


A. Do you make frequent use of
the wall-maps in your geography and
history recitations, and do you sup
plement the maps by the use of black
board sketches?


5. Are you teaching your pupils
to read with the heart and the under
standing, or are you teaching them to
initiate you mechanically in the read
ing Of the pieces in the textbook?


6. Do you always prepare all the
lessons so thoroughly yourself, that
you are prepared to give clear expla-
nations of the more prominent points
connected with them?


q. Do you give the twentieth part
as much thought to the cultivation of
the hearts of your scholars as you do
to the cultivation of their heads?


8. Do you ever permit a whole
day to pass without finding an oppor-
tunity to say something, or do some
thing, to make your scholars purer
and nobler, as we'll as wiser?


g. Dc you save your best energy
for the schoolrOom, or do YOU de
vote it TO frivolous amusements!


10. What are you doing to cult
vate among your pupils a taste for
reading good literature?


IL. Are you living such life of
moral rectitude that parents could
wish their children to fashion their
lives after yours?
Year: 1879

Speclal Despatcn TO tne WOrlu


WASHINGTON, May 10.-It is the
universal comment, tonight among
both the Democrats and Republicans
that Senator Hill has made a very
great speech. Its damaging effect
on the Republicans who listened to
hum was evident. Senator Conkling
betrayed more feeling than he ever
shows except when under severe cas-
tigation He moved uneasily in bis
chair and made an effort-a too ap
parent effort-to look unconcerned
while Mr.. Hill was revealing the
weakness of his logic and the real
purpose Of his recent speech. Hoar
and others showed their anger in their
faces, and Chandler actually glover
ed at the speaker who flayed him so
numerically. Though the speech
was ostensibly on the Legislative
bill, its real subject was the essential
difference between the Republican
and Democratic parties, taking Mr..
Edmund's speech of yesterday as the
true exposition of the Republican at
titude. He held that the real danger
to the country to-day comes not
from the extreme Federalists, the
logic of whose position led to seces-
sion, but from the extreme Nationals
who, through consolidation, are
seeking to destroy the states. The
true Union men, Mr.. Hall contended,
are those who hold to the theory of
the constitution as explained by Mad
ison and expounded by Webster,
that the United States has both a
Federal and National government.
Such men were the Northern Demo-
Gratis who stood between the seces-
sionists who were seeking to disrupt
the Union by dividing the states and
the consolidators seeking to disrupt
it by destroying the states. Refer
ring to Mr.. Conkling's speech Mr..
Hill boldly charged that it was made
for the purpose Of intiaming one Sec
ton of the country against the other
and that the whole aim of the Repub-
licans in opposing the bill to prohibit
the presence of troops at the polls
was to keep their party in power by
the use of the Federal army. Sever
al interruptions of the speech were
attempted, but Mr.. Hill answered
them all so happily that no one sought
to cross swords with him q second
time. His reading of Zach Chand-
ler's celebrated bIood-letting letter
and his query whether l.. Chandler,
a gentleman whom he said he did not
know, let any of his own blood in the
conflict, created great laughter at the
expense OF the Michigan Senator who
became very angry and at the olo-e
of the speech, made a very violent
and ill-tempered response. There
seems to be less inclination to sign
the bill at the White House to-day
and almost all the Republicans are
insisting that next Monday or Tues
day will see another veto message
sent to Congress.
Year: 1879

In my Judgment, this is one of the
chief defects Of the schools Of to-day;
and the same defect is found in all
departments OF life,-relying too
much on outside help, too willing to
be aided in the accomplishment of
any task, too little working out of
ones own salvation, either intellectu-
ally or morally. Is there not too
little Of the persistency that would
prompt the burning of the midnight
oil in the pursuit of knowledge or the
search for truth2 l fail to find
among pupils of to-day eaough of
that spirit which used to prompt the
girls and boys Of our country dis
tricts to beg the privilege of an even
ing's study with the master, in solv-
ing the intricate problems in arith-
Inetic, or in the exercise of s'parsing, .
An exercise now nearly obsolete,
yet valuable still as an~aid in under
standing many passages in Pope's
Essay on Man, or Milton's Paradise
Lost. @zIa sl
Year: 1879

From the Pope County Press.


A firm IN Washington has the con-
tract for carrying the mail between
here and Benson at the rate of S2.7O
per trip, or s1.35 per day. They of.
fer this whole amount to any parties
here that will take the job Think of
it l.35 to man and team per day
for man and team for about 40 miles
travel and board yourself. What a
bonanza to offer to a white white man
And in order to compel parties here
or scare them into taking it at that
price, they say, if no one here will
take it, they will send a man, and
team on from Washington that will be
glad to take it at $3.50 per trip or
S1.25 per day, and that there are dead
loads ofindlviduals in that metropolis
that would just jump at the chance of
such an opportunity to make money.
As nearly all the mail routes in this
county are awarded to parties in
Washington at equally remunerative
rates-at rates that no parties here,
knowing the routes. will take them at,
q whole train load of Wasbingtonian
men and teams are expected here soon,
to make their everlasting fortunes on
these mail routes Two trips week
or 100 miles travel for S..
Year: 1879

When the silver bill passed the House
there were eight Democrats who voted
against it, and Hon. Henry Poehler,
Representative Of the Second congress,
ional district of Minnesota, was one of
those eight. Our readers are doubtless
aware that the bill had previously been
amended so that it was approved by all
but those who are opposed to a silver
currency except for limited and merely
subsidiary use; and we were surprised to
See Mr.. Poehler enrolled along with Re-
publicans against bill endorsed by his
party almost unanimously, and also by a
large majority of the people of his State
and district, without regard to party
lines. On the evening of the 10Th of last
November, banquet was given in St.
Paul in honor of the election of Mr..
Poehler to Congress, and on that occa>
sion he made speech. A report of the
speech appeared in the St. Paul Globe
the next morning, aud in it the follow
ing words occur:


"He averred that it was not his lnten-
ton to distress his hosts with financial
speech, but the country's finances were a
momentous question. He then declared
his belief that greenbacks were the best
currency ever used in any country. He
favored an issue sufficient to meet the
wants Of the people, but wanted no flood
of irredeemable paper, which could not
be taken up in gold and silver" 80
ri The political campaign had just ended,
and the issues on which Mr.. Poehler was
elected were then fresh in his mind. It
appears by his speech that he was in fav-
or Of greenbacks and silver, and that he
regarded silver coin good enough to be
used for the redemption of the outstand~
ing obligations against the government.
He wanted the paper currency redee:na.
BILE in gold and silver, and he is now. vot-
ing against silver and with the party that
has declared war against both greens
backs and silver. There is no question
upon which the Democratic party is
more thoroughly united than on the sill
yer question, yet Mr.. Poehler is unwill,
ing to go with his party on this issue,
Year: 1879

From the sberburne County Star.


Our neighboring town Of Monticel>
10 was thrown into state of intense
excitement last Saturday night, caused
by the shooting of a young girl by O.
K. Chance, an attorney of that place.


The facts in the case as we understand
them are in brief about as follows:


The boys Of Monticello are not un~
like boys of other towns-they are full
OF mischief, and any scheme to annoy
the quiet citizen always meets with
their approval. One of the pranks in
which they have been indulging of
late IS to attach one end of cord to
the door of some citizen whom thew
wished to tease so that it would knock
on the door. The other end of the
cord would be carried across the street.
where the boys would ensconse them>
selves, and as soon as the "quiet citi>
zen" had retired for the night opera>
tlons would commence. On the night
in question, it appears that Lawyer
Chance was the victim of this trick :
he had retired 10 rest for the night,
when the knocking commenced, and
when he went to the door nobody was
there, but on the opposite side Of the
street he espied a couple of fig cures,
and Immediately concluding that they
were the culprlts, started in pursuit.
The two figures, who afterwards
proved to be Miss Hitter, daughter
of a leading merchant of Monticello,
and another young lady out for a
walk, naturally enough, started to run
when they saw some one after them,l
but Chance soon overlook them, and
catching Miss Hitter by the arm, dis
charged his pistol, the ball passing
through the arm and lodging in her
side. The ball was extracted and the
young lady is in fair way to recover.
Chance was arrested, and had an ex-
animation on Monday, when he was
bound over to the next term of the
district court in the sum of $500. He
was unable to get bonds for that
amount, and has been sent to St. P au
for safe keeping.
Year: 1879

In the game of base ball between
the Clacknmas and Vancouver clubs, a
a somewhat notorious Oregon City
buffer, who lives below the bluffs, how
ever, called out: 81 want to bet an
even hundred dollars that the Clacka-
mas club wins the game. Put up OF
shut up, for Tn business from the
turn loose and have got more sand
than the Clatsop beach" One of the
distiagte looking printers from the
Standard office was near by, and hav-
ing been reduced to splitter by
betting on 3's and As boys at the out
set of the tournament, took out his
pocket book and shaking two crisp
looking hundred dollar notes clearing
the imprint of "Centaur Liniment" on
the back,) announced that he was a
big better from East Portland, and
that he was never known to take water
except with corn juice, and that if the
Oregon Citizen meant music to come
within reach. There WAS some talk
about "size my pile" by the Falls City
blood, and then complete back down,
while the wealthy printer carefully re-
placed the notes in his pocket book,
soliloquizing, "There's too darned much
WuF about this town to suit me. |
came here to make killing not to
be ioshed into showing up my week S
wages" And with an outraged air he
moved down the bluff to see how the
walking was back to Portland. Port
M,ld .StandalH.
Year: 1879

Some few weeks ago the Alaska In
dians were seized with the superstition
that one of their tribe-a young and
beautiful squaw-was possessed of
witches, and grand council of the
chiefs and medicine men was held and
it was decided that she should be
burned at the stake, and accordingly
great preparations We're made The
young squaw hearing of her fate APP
pealed to Capt. Beardsley of the L. 5.
war ship Jomestorn, for protection.
Captain b. sent for the chiefs and
medicine men and explained to them
that there were no such things as
witches, and that it was foolish SUI
perstition that they We're laboring un-
der The ''noble" savages were un-
able to see it i'll that light and insisted
that she must burn. Captain Boards
ley, says the Port Townsend Press,
found that there was but little use
trying to reason with them so he re-
sorted to more effective course and
told them to take the woman and if
they burned her he would hang every
one of them to the yard arm Of the
Jdmestoion 1t is useless to add that
their superstition Immediately van
ished. When those savages burn one
who is suspected of witchcraft, they in
dulge quite freely i'll IA beverage of their
own manufacture which makes them
crazy drunk, and it was feared if they
were permitted to burn the woman
that in their drunken frenzy they
might commit some serious depreda-
tions upon the whites. Everything
was quiet when the California sailed.
Year: 1879

On Sunday morning well dressed
and rather prepossessing looking
young man went into Nelson's Brew
cry, and while the book keepers back
was turned made dip into the circu-
lar till, and was about to vanish with
what change he succeeded in getting.
Fortunately he was seen from an ad
Joining room and was suddenly
pounced upon by a brewer one ofthose
ponderous teamsters who are always
enjoyed at places of this kind. The
captors took their victim out into the
yard, and while one of them held the
thief the other turned the hose upon
him with full force. After drenching
the rascal to the skin his new hat
was filled with thick toaming yeast
and then crammed down on his head
over his ears. The scamp was then
chased out of the grounds with the
hose, looking very much when he
reached the sidewalk as if he had Just
issued from IA Belfast riot or been one
of the victims of the Minnesota hur-
ricane. We venture to say that even
if that Young man does not mend his
ways, he will never again attempt to
"tap till'' in a brewery.-I'ortland
N1ufI1rH.
Year: 1879


hour, then dredge with flour and roll over
and over. Shave thin slices from the end
of the roll, shake them our and drop them
into sailed boiling water. Stir with skim
mer and boil for two minutes, then turn in
to a colander and dash cold water over them.
Drain, and put into boiling broth; add "a
little chopped parsely and serve at once.


Hoao to make 1Mrmip Salad.-Take six
turnips and slice them on a slaw-cutter pot
them in a stew-pan with water enough to
boil them soft. While they are boiling take
another pan and put in large tablespoon
full OF batter, and let it get hot, but not
burn; as soon as your turnips are tender
turn them into the pan containing the but
ter, having previously drained all the water
off the turnigs; put in one spoonful of s.e
gar. pepper and salt TO suit the lasts ; Ter
them fry, hut not make them brown. Ponr
in half pint of vinegar; stir it a few min
utes longer, ami serve either warm or
| cold.
Year: 1879

process IN the ''B" mill for some months
past, and the conclusion has been reached
that the exclusive Hungarian system has
some disadvantages connected with it. A
portion of the walls are now up to the third
story, and the entire building will be under
roof by the 1st of December. When COM
pleted, there will be nothing to compare
with it in the United States as regards size,
and if there is anything across the water its
equal, we should be glad to hear from it.
Year: 1879

world, none are m ore Independent than the
industrious farmer. There is no sitting
around and worrying and waiting for GUS
toners. The elements which the soil lacks,
if any, may be supplied, and diligence and
perseverance compel success. Whether
there be a market or not, the farm may be
made self-sustaining, and indeed should be,
and although the crop may have to be gar
nered till suitable season to insure a prop
er reward, the farmers table-his chief
pride, and greatest source of comforts
rever stinted. The nature of the calling
life in the open air-never fails to supply
good appetite, and no one can deyour the
sumptuous repast spread before him so well
and with such freedom and enjoymentas as he
who knows his larker is we'll supplied. And
he who would not toady to the rest Of the
world. but would be supremely independ-
ent, need but join the ranks Of those who


the world. and become progressive,
industrious and thrifty farmer.
Year: 1879

and this state few years ago was
part of the "Great american DeSert"!


referred in my previous letter to
the rapid growth of vegetation and l
may add that it reaches a size unknown
in New England. On the 28th day of
June l measured stalk of corn thirty
nine days from seed which was eight
feet one inch in height. At maturity
corn sometimes measures twenty feet.
Acre after acre can be found which will
average twelve to fourteen feet. l have
just measured stalk of coarse prairie
grass seven feet ten inches in length.
Of course weeds make as remarkable
growth as do cultivated crops. The
sides of many country loads are lined
with a so-called wild sun-flower which
is often ten feet high, and growing close
to the wagon track makes, us it were, Il
| sort of curtain.


Frequent rains in the early part of
summer have ensured an abundant crop
of corn and on the whole, agricultural
results will this year, be satisfactory.
Horticulture has not, however, been
successful owing to the unusual severity
of last winter. The only abundant fruit
crop this year is the grape, now ripen-
ing and temptingly luciOus. The fen
! apples remind me of the magnificent
fruit seen in the Kansas building at the
Centennial and give promise of what
may be expected in favorable season.
We have probably seen our hottest
weather. Monday August 4th was our
hottest day. The thermometer on the
north side of our building, where there
was no reflected heat, reached just
1OOo F. But the day was not nearly
us oppressive as the shot days" at the
North, owing to the dryness of the air
and its constant motion. There was
none of the close, sultry, ''muggy" con-
dition of the air which makes the heat
in the East so oppressive. To be sure
the sun in the middle of the day is very
powerful and those unaccustomed to
it must guard against exposure. This
hot day was followed by change OF
wind and we are now having delightful
weather. The sky is clear and bright,
but pleasantly cool winds temper its
heat and make it comfortable even at
midday. The nights are just fitted fol
refreshing sleep and there is entire
freedom from anything like the fogs
which are so prevalent and unhealthful
in New England at this season of the
year. The roads are dry and firm the
wide-rolling expanse of country par
ticularly beautiful and all our sur
rOundings seem to possess a peculiar
charm for Eastern eyes. If we have
uncomfortable weather and impossible
roads in winter l will be honest and tell
you of it. B. d. E.
Year: 1879

FROM recent paper by Mr.. B. F. Nourse,
of Boston, on the cotton trade, on which he
is an authority, it appears that improvements
in machinery since 1850 have increased the
product of the mills per hand from fifty to
sixty-five per cent, according as the fabrics
are coarse or fine, at the same time the week
ly earnings OF operatives are from ten to
twenty five per cent. larger now than in 1860
and the cost of living is less than then. At
the same time the returns on capital invested
have fallen from eight per cent. in 1860 to
five per cent. in 1878, the total capital having
increased from ninety-eight millions in the
first year to two hundred and eight millions
in the last. This practical result is a conclu-
sive reply to the complaint extensively made
in the last campaign that the use of machn-
cry had proved injurious to the interest of the
employed. This is certainly not true as 10
those employed in the cotton mills. Coarse
cottons are made in this country noH more
cheaply than in England.
Year: 1879

THE committee for the propagation Of
horsefesh as an article of food have issued a
return showing that the number of horses,
asses and mules, slaughtered in Paris for con-
sumption, in 1878, was 1919, or 700 more
than the previous year. The continued in
crease in the use of horssfesh in the public
alimentation is a proof that the prejudice
against that meat is being gradually over
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


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

THE immense success of the four per cent.
loans leads to the belief in English financial
circles that the five per cents. will be funded
in fours as they mature and become available
for that purpose.