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Year: 1878

Reports from all about the State in.
dicate that the Early Amber sugar
cane is coming rapidly forward under
the influence Of rains and sunshine,
and that in . short time it will be
readp to cut. It is q matter of supre-
me importance to the people Of Min
resota-this growing crop Of cane.
Should the expectations Of those d.
rectly interested be realized, new and
almost boundless enterprise is opened
to the people, in which thousands who
have been losers on the present wheat
crop will embark another year. The
demand for sugar is as great as for
flour, and when we consider that the
most of it Is imported, and that Min
nesota eats largely Of that manufactur
ed in some other part Of the world,
the profit and value of homegrown
article is apparent; For two years
past the crop has been a success. If
the thousands Of acres now growing
should turn out we'll, and several hun
drcd tons Of the domestic article be
distributed around the State, the cul
tivation Of the cane next year would
become general. A few weeks more
will tell the story.
Year: 1878

A few days ago, in Madelia, Samuel
Ash shamelessIy exposed his person to
two small girls and made infamous
proposals to them. One of then was q
daughter of Capt. W. W. Murphy. He
went in pursuit of the william with a
loaded gun, and when he overlook him
shot. the contents passing through his
forearm and into the left side of the
chest above the heart. Ash was just
alive at the last report. Capt. Murphy
has been before the justice on charge
of manslaugh.er, and was put under
bail to await the result Of the shoot
ing.
Year: 1878

Mysterious reports Of an impending
war with Mexico, .continre to come
from Washington. Probably this thing
is an.incident Of the summer dearth of
real news, and will continue until the
meeting Of congress gives correspon-
dents something else. to talk about.
This is all very we'll if it is understood
that tn" gentlemen who telegraph these
stories are simply amusing themselves,
bat if any credulous reader takes them
seriously, he viii experience needless
alarm. There ism t going to be any
war between the United States and
Mexico for the excellent reason that
neither nation wishes it. It takes two
to make quarrel. and hero is not even
one willing belligerant Of course
there is some embarrassment and dif-
iculty on the Rio Granae, and this will
continue until Mexico is blessed with
= government stable and strong enough
to compel it's citizens to observe their
own laws and international obligations
In the mean time this government will
be compelled to relieve that govern
mcnt Of the duty Of restraining the
bandits. But this is mere question
Of police duty, not Of war.-[ Pioneel
! Press
Year: 1878

Every now and then some chap
writes to a newspaper for a receipt to
prevent hair from coming out. 1t
men would go homo from the lodge
before midnight, with their legs sober,
their hair wouldn't come out SO rapidly.
We always go home early, aud We
have more hair now than than the day
we we're born.
Year: 1878

The Spring Videttc asserts that "the
poor crop has driven away Eve or siz
spring bed bottom canvassers aud q
couple Of tanning mill peddlars. within
the last three days." The farmers can
console themselves with the though,
that there is no great loss without some
small gain. It is thought there will be
less Of lightning rod men, cloth ped
blars and other humbugs during the
next year, which will in large meas
ure compensate tor even small wheat
vield.
Year: 1878

will open Millinery store on I'd
street three d. ors from the Post Office
Thanking al for their liberal patron.
age, she would respectfully solicit its
continuance. Her stock will be much
more complete than formerly.
Year: 1878

ALWAYS A CHANCE. 1t is scarcely
necessary To remind reasonable men
that il they wish to he sad and sour;
to grumble and complain, there is al
WAYS chance. Reasons for being
cast down aud detected are as plenty
as blackberries in the height of har-
vest. II one thing goes right, you
may be sure there is always something
else going wrong; and il one thing is
in order, something else is out of joint
or at any rate soon will he. The
chief difference in the feelings and
dispositions Of people results from the
different way .oi looking al things.
Few nights are so dark that no stars
are to he seen; the thing Is to look
them out aud keep your eyes on them,
and make the most of what light YOU
can discover.
Year: 1878

We know Of nothing that is more
soul elcvating u the publisher Of a
newspaper, than to see man rcfu SO
to take his local paper, and all the
time sponging on his neighbor for the
reading Of It. When we ask a man to
subscribe for our paper, we do so sim.
ply because il makes our heart "nop'
from one side Of our breast to the
other with joy when we hear him say.
81 take more papers now than | read.
and then find him seated on some
neighbor's door step eagerly watching
our carrier togct glimpse at the To-
cal page before the owner of that pa
per takes il in the house. There are
also, an eternal "fitncss" in seeing
merchant or mechanic refusing to al.
vertise in his home paper, and then
consider himself justly entitled to q
share Of the trade which newspaper
brings TO 3 town.
Year: 1878

An Indiana farmer missed three
hundred pound hog and found him,
after thirty.iive days, under box that
had fallen and caught him un',er it..
The hog lived, but he only weighed
two hundred pounds when found.
Year: 1878

The Ohio State JouraGl says that a
woman named Polly Fox, living in
the Southern part of the State, was
burned to death the other day while
polly foxing about the fire with the
kerosene can.
Year: 1878

1t was an eminent light of the law
who said there we're two things that
no man could foretell-One being
what sort of a man any particular wo-
man would marry, and the other what
sort of a verdict petit jury would
c;,o
Year: 1878

We observe that a well.known cor.
set manufacturer places his mono.
gram conspicuously on the front of
each article. This method of adver-
lising is about as unobtrusive as an
advertisement in our evening cotem.
porary would be Worcester Press
Year: 1878

felt the blessedness of peace, of safety,
of life wrung from death.


"They dared not tell me It was real
that all ! am now telling you had been
awful reality-that I had dared as the
boat drifted abreast of me to risk a leap
into it-that, on the very edge and utter
brink OF death, the strength of scores
ashore had overpowered the rushing
hood-that amid the shouts and tears
and sobs. not of women only, but OF
bearded, iron-nerved men, 1 had been
lifted senseless from the boat and borne
to enjoy brain fever safely in the hotel
yonder.


"Do you think have told you lie
or a believable truth the bare fact ?
l know it is plain truth, and yet I only
half credit it myself. Well, stranger,
dream or truth, never forget it; it's
part OF me always.


"God save any one from ever trying,
in fact or fancy, such an experience as
mine


Snow you know why 1 don't see any
thing of beauty in Niagara. 1 leave
that TO be discovered by those who
never came so near to being real part
of it as 1 did,"
Year: 1878

When he pops the question.


When he goes home at night, finds
a house full of company, and his wife
blissfully ignorant of the fact that dinner
is not ready.


When he dives down into the bottom
of his trunk, jerks out what he sup
poses is clean pair of socks, but finds
only an old table-napkin, with four white
neckties, put away for next summer.


When he buys new pair of shoes and
discovers two big nails sticking up in the
heels.


When he takes his girl out and dis
covers that he has left his pocketbook
at home in his old trousers.


When he hurries around the corner
and lands square in the arms Of man
who holds his I. o. o.


When he writes to his best girl and
has to wait two weeks for reply.


When hash is placed before him five
successive mornings at his boarding.
house.


When, after waiting in barber-shop
for an hour, and hearing the welcome
word "next," he sees little fellow
shoot up from behind paper and slide
into the chair like streak Of CREASED
electricity.


When his wife wants to talk and he
doesn't.


When he pokes his head through his
last clean shirt and finds no button or
behind.


When in his dreams he is standing
upon the verge of precipice, and hi
wife suddenly reminds him that he isn't
but that he is jerking her changed
hair all TO pieces.-Neto York Erpress
Year: 1878

A Canada paper, the Ottawa Citizen,
gives an interesting account of the pres.
ent position of Sitting Bull and his fol-
lowers. A British officer, Major Walsh,
is at present in charge of post in the
immediate vicinity nt Sitting Bulls ell
campment, near Wood mountain, and is
on the most friendly terms with the
"big Indian" chief. The major appears
to have decided influence over the red
men, and they all look up to him as a
great and noble chief of the White
Mother. He has contingent of twenty
picked men. as brave and as true as
steel. The Sioux camp at this point
numbers about five hundred lodges, re-
presenting nearly one thousand souls,
and is divided up at present into small
hunting parties. The old braves are
most peaceably inclined, and there would
be no fear of a breach of the friendly
relations existing were it not for num-
Der of hot-headed young bucks who make
depredatory incursions across the border
and sometimes go SO far, when favor
nble opportunity presents itself, to steal
horses in Canadian territory, and escape
to the United States. The old braves
deprecate this, and in every way endea-
vor to prevent it. In fact, they invari-
ably make good the value of the horses
stolen. To show how strongly they feel
on this point, Inspector Allen says that
the day before he left party OF Sioux
we're out hunting when they came across
young buck with number of horses in
his possession, evidently making his way
to the United States. The father in-law
OF the young man was in the party, and
wanted to know where he got the horses.


He replied that he got them as present
from white trader. The father-in-law
quietly limited that he handled the truth
carelessly, whereupon the young buck
grew impertinept. The father-in-law
considered this sufficient justification
for him to dispatch the young man to
the happy hunting ground, and with
ont further parley dashed his brains out
with war club.
Year: 1878

The king is the least independent man
in his own dominions the beggar the
most so.


Whoever considers the weakness,
both of himself and others, will not
long want persuasives to forgiveness.


"He who says Jump + doesn't tear
his mouth, but he who jumps breaks
his legs" is q proverb of the Caucasus.


Deceit is the false road to happiness
and all the joys we travel through to
vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when
we touch them.


No man can be brave who considers
pain to be the greatest evil of life nor
temperate, who considers pleasure to
be the highest good.


Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a
pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient
for it to spring from to the highest
point. There is usually some baseness
before there is any elevation.


There is many wounded heart with.
out contrite spirit. The ice may be
broken into thousand pieces it is ice
still but expose it to the beams of the
sun Of righteousness and then it will
melt.


An infant. prattling child. dying in
it's cradle, will live again in the better
thoughts of those who loved it; and
plays its part through them, in the re-
deeming actions of the world, though its
body be burnt to ashes, or drowned in
the deepest sea.


Hope is the ruddy morning ray of
Joy, recollection is it's golden tinge !;
but the latter is won't to sink amid the
dews and dusky shades of twilight; and
the bright blue day, which the former
promises, breaks indeed, but in another
world and with another sun.


Some feelings are untranslatable no
language has yet been found for them.
They gleam upon us beautifully through
the dim twilight Of fancy, and yet when
we bring them close to us, and hold
them up to the light of reason, lose
their beauty all at once, as glow worms,
which CLEAN with such spiritual light
In the shadows OF evening. when
brought where the candles are lighted,
are found to be worms like SO many
others,
Year: 1878

The eye of workman in an iron
foundry here was recently injured by
some molten iron being spattered into
it. Under medical treatment the
wounded member soon healed, but with
the upper and lower lids fastened to the
ball of the eye. To remedy this diff
Guilty DR.. Van Duyn separated the un-
duly-joined membranes with knife,
thereby necessarily removing a part of
the conjunctiva of the eye. In the an
ticipation of this loss, the doctor had a
rabbit in readiness, under the influence
Of ether, and at this stage Of the opera
tion took piece of the coniunctiva from
one of the insensible animals eyes and
Immediately placed it upon that OF the
injured man, where it speedily adhered,
and now has become part Of the human
eye. Syracuse Journal.
Year: 1878

BARNsTABLE, April 23.-A heavy fire ragged
all day yesterday In the woods in Dennis, and
was still burning at a late hour last night
having crossed over into Brewster. Some so
acres have been burned over An estimate of
the property destroyed cannot yet be made.
Year: 1878

THE PACIFIC RAILROAD FUNDING BILL.
The House Judiciary committee to-day, by
majority OF one vote, agreed to ask the refer
ence of the Thurman Pacific Railroad funding
bill 10 that committee. When the bill which
is now on the Speakers table is reached, an
effort VIII he made to pass it without reference
to any committee.
Year: 1878

There are many men like John MOYrissey


IN the lower ranks Of American life, but so
few have stood like him in the strong light of
public Office and political notoriety that New


Workers came TO regard him as a phenomenon.
he was not that his character was rather Or
dinary; his faults and vices were of "A common
kind his ambitions were not high nor strange
his virtues were coarse and cheap. The Of
fences by which be first distinguished himself
in the world were crimes of violence, BOt OF
baseness and after he had emerged from the
dangers of the prize ring, and the banoom
chance-medley, and the occasional IiOt with
policcmen. and had tasted the sweets
Of notoriety, be conceived, as many others
of his class have done, perfectly nat
ural desire to be thought better than
lis old companions and to live respectable
Ideas of rospectability differ. Mr.. Morrissey's
scheme consisted in wearing good coat. 1t
implied no particular change in his MORALS,
and only little variation in his manners.
Prze-fghtiug would not do any longer; so he
reformed himself into gambler. and set up a
Grst-class hell and inasmuch as his patrons
spent great deal Of money, and did not cut
one anOther's throsts for the sake of the stakes,
he made no doubt that he was now entitled
Year: 1878

Superintendent Smyth is fortunate in his enemies.
Their malice 80 far Ourns their discretion that, III
all their attacks upon him, they expose themselves
instead OF exposing him. The l9test instance of
this blunderlrg is to be seen in an assault based
upon Mr. Hepburns bill FOR making certain assets
of nsOyent insurance companies promptly
available. The charge was that this bill, which
simply facilitated the process OF converting
into cash the hundred thousand dollars worth
Of securities which every life insurance company
is required to deposit in the Department,
underwent a mysterious change in the Assem-
bly Grinding Committee; that this change trans
ferred the disposition of such securities upon the
department and not upon the receiver, as the bill
originally proposed; and that, in some inexpliCabe
way the Superintendent was to profit by the affair.
The facts were as The Albany Journal explains that
this amendment like the bill, was not the Superln-
tendcnts work at all, and indeed hardly
met his approval; that it was drawn by
the Attorney General with the idea of avoiding the
tax that the passage OF the securities through the
receivers hand would entail. Mr. Hepburn says Mr..
Smyth had no more to do with the matter than the
man in the moon,' but that did not save HIM from
being lied about
Year: 1878

II did become necessary for the Board of
Health Yesterday TO order the prosecution OF
yiolators of the code with respect TO dumping
manure, and to revoke the permit Of a gyoer-
inc factory but it is nevertheless true that
there are no unpleasant smells in New-York,
and that Mr.. Musgrave's accusations are not
worthy Of notice.
Year: 1878

The policy Of Cancellation has its highest ex-
position, properly enough, in Ohio. The Com
missioner who punched the head OF the Senator
says he did it ON the impulse of the moment
which seems quite likely, such things being
usually done in that way he is willing TO
forgive the man ho pounded, and offers him
Year: 1878

1t goes without saying that the usefulness
of the investigation of the railroads. which the
merchants of this city have asked, and which
the Legislature will grant, if yesterdays vote
in the Assembly is repeated in the Senate
will depend, mainly, upon the character OF the
men appointed to the commission. Inc
resolution under which it will act is so
broad that the whole railroad problem can
be studied, and, with proper appointments
much valuable information can be acquired
which may or may not result in immediate
action. If the railroads cannot he coerced'
perhaps the business men of this city can be
aroused to q livelier sense of their situation
and that will be result enough. Lieutenant
Governor Dorsheimer and Speaker Hustled
should pick ont the best men they can find
for this work, without regard to political OF
personal considerations.
Year: 1878

Tho marvellous perfection to which the science Of
fast printing has been reduced well illustrated
in Yesterdays issue Of The TRIBUNE. Everybody
knows that fine engrayings have heretofore bafied
the fast presses They could only be well printed
on the slow machinery used for the pictorial papers
or for book work. But the large cut of
Paris and the Exhibition, the most intricate and
delicate design that has ever been fur
nlshcd us by our engravers, was reproduced
with admirable distinctness-athough printed
and folded on the newest of presses at the rate
Of Is, 900 copies per hour We hazard little in say
ing that considering the difficulties, this Is the best
piece of fast newspaper printing yet done by any
machine invented in America or Europe.
Year: 1878

Mr.. and Mrs. Eyarts have the profound sympathy
of the American people in the double aillie-
ton which has befallen them. Called away
from the remains of one son TO watch by the side OF
another who was thought to be lying at the point
of death, their cup of sorrow is filed indeed to
the brim. II they are happily spared the loss with
which they have last been threatened the whole
country will rejoice with then
Year: 1878

It's saunounced with an air of the most impressive
mystery that Glovers forthcoming report will make
such terrible disclosures that the Republicans will
at once abandon their hilarity and break out into
uproarious lamentation. Glover has been tremen-
dously sly, we are told and has kept all his great
"fnds" a secret, in order to bring them out with
better effect. This is the same old bulletin which
was nut out when Glover first started for the enemy.
He posted it again when he employed his experts,
and it is revamped for a final duty now. GlOvers
imagination is the only dangerous thing about him
which Republicans have to fear. As for the Demo
Gratis they know by experience what deadly hook
lac throws.
Year: 1878

The pertinacIty and plain speech Of Secre-
tary Sherman have bad an effect at last, aud
the subcommittee at New-0rleans has con-
sented to summon the Witnesses whom the
Secretary designates, and to hear evidence on
the subject of intimidation in the Feliciana
parishes. It is true that one does not see how
the Democratic members of the committee
could persist any longer in refusing to hear
both Sides after the free course which they
have allowed the witnesses for the prOsecu-
ton, and the indignant protest of the public
against the outrageous unfairneSs OF declining
to listen to the defence. But we have no desire
to cavi at the tardiness of this concession TO
common sense and justice, or TO suspect
the motives that may have prompted it. We
accent the declaration of Mr. Stengcf that it
is the purpose Of the subcommittee to afford
IS the fullest opportunity for the taking of any
Testimony upon this subject that may be had,
"upon the one side or the other" and we
shall presume that the subcommittee mean
what they say, until they give us reason to
think otherwise. In the inquiry, therefore,
whether Mr.. Sherman was party to a con-
spiracy fol- suppressing the true vote Of thess
parishes, we shall have the advantage. whfsh
the committee has hitherto seemed disposed
to deny us, of first aseertaining whether there
was any conspiracy.


If the truth were told, we have little doubt
that this coming down TO decent and busI-
ness-like methods must be a great relief to
the Democrats themselves. Their investga-
tions at New Orleans have taken them lately
into dreadful holes and corners, out of which
they must emerge with a general sense of dis
gust and a longing for soap and water and
fumigation. Por weeks they have been test
ing the capacity of Louisiana politicians and
afidayit-makers to lie. On Saturday they
questioned number of persons who
had been examined before another COM
mittee IN relation to the same ques-
tions of fact, and as the telegraphic report
tersely remarks, "Al recanted their previous
affidavits and testimony as given before the
Howe Senate Committee, saying the state
"ments made were not true, and they were
"made at the instance of Others for political
purpOses.n One or two gentlemen well
known in Louisiana politics have given direct
and unimpeached testimony to show that there
could have been no such plot as the Potter
resolution assumed bat the other persons who
have appeared before the committee, the rogues
with quickened eOnscienees eager to confess
their sins, the pOll-clerks who see a chance to
make four or Ave hundred dollars by acknowl-
edging that they are internal rascals, the female
adventures trying to make profit out of real
or pretended documents" have done moth
ing but impeach one another when they have
not been busy impeaching themselves. Not a
point has been elected from Anderson, Web
Der, OF the other alleged "accomplices from
whom so much xas expected, except the fact,
patent now 10 all the world, that nothing these
worthless say can be accepted, and that there
is never any reason to think that they swear