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Year: 1879

WHEN the Democrats are hunting for de-
preston and calamity among the laboring
classes they take particular pains to confine
the limit of their inquiries to the large cit
les. The number of loafers who walk the
streets of those localities complaining of
hard times while their betters are at work
in the harvest-felds of the adjoining coun-
try-sides, is growing less every day ; but the
few of them who have been caught and
used as witnesses before the WRIGHT COM
mittee will awake to find themselves famous
when the report of their testimony is made
up. AT the same time those who make up
the report will find themselves equally in
famous.
Year: 1879

The mud machine has done its work
and dumped its filth upon the public mind,
where it is regarded with loathing and dis
gust. The assalants of Senator CoNKLING
are beginning to crawfish and seek abiding
place in deep water already, and we greatly
misapprehend the case and the nssaied if
his assailants are not called to account for
the deeds done on this occasion. Humble
pie will be the first course of the feast that
awaits these graceless defamers, and they
are on that dish now. Crow will follow.
This affair may be regarded as among the
most wanton and fragrant assaults on private
reputation that have characterized the annals
of calumny in this country. Nothing but
satanic malice and hate could possibly have
invented and published this graceless and
cruel scandal, which has freighted the col
umns of the New York World and its feeble
and filthy echo in this city to repletion. The
performance is without parallel in journal
ism, and insignifcance in character and
standing alone can save the offenders from
condign punishment. Public sentiment is
rapidly crystallizing in deep-seated con-
tempt for the inventors and propagators of
this most infamous onslaught upon private
reputation, which is as dear as life 10 every
man and woman of self-rcspect. Those who
have no character left are the first usually
to depredate upon that of their superiors.
1t has been eminently so in this case.
Year: 1879

TO ho Editor Of The National Republican,


SIR: Changing the place and keeping tho
pain" would be the result of changing the men
and administering tho local government un-
der the present form. Not but what we ad-
NIT one man might be better than another
and be moro acceptable to the people. But
no man is good enough to govern us on tho
present plan, and the worse the men the sooner
we shall be rid of this miserable and anti.Re-
publican system. Violent resistance against
the authority of the Commissioners would be
perfectly right, and It will como to this before
long If peaceful methods fail. Q.
Year: 1879

pose, and to interfere in any degree with
nominations was o violation of their origi-
nal purposes and intents. What we have
regretted from the day Of the downfall of
these associations Is that, because two of
them had behaved in an unseemly manner,
the whole should have been destroyed. 1t
is not regarded as the part of wisdom in
the owner of fabric to demolsh 1t entirely
because one or two bricks prove defective,
while the balance are unimpaired, and the
structure is not materially affected by this
trivial imperfection. 1t has not appeared
to be the part of fairness and justice to
order the immolation of all the other asso-
Citations for the reason that those of Ohio
and Pennsylvania have been guilty of acts
inconsistent with the fundamental princi-
pies and purposes Of their organization. II
is scarcely possible, under all these circum-
stances, to justify the sweeping consequences
of order No. 1, to which the President clings
with so much pertinacity.


1t was the good fortune Of the editor of
THE REPUBLICAN to be somewhat promi-
nently identified with the early history of
the New York Republican Association, the
pioneer association at the National Cap
ital. 1t was organized to aid in the elections
not in caucuses or nominating conventions
and at no time was 1t ever used for any
other purpose than that which stimulated
its formation. 1t was always jealous and
efficient in advancing the cause of Repub.
licanism through the election of Republican
candidates. 1t was never, to our knowledge,
used for any other political purpose, and
hence we have deplored its overthrow very
sincerely, for it was invariably an unflinch-
ing supporter of Republican principles and
tickets down to and through the election
which declared Mr.. HAYES President. This
association bore conspicuous part in that
contest; it had never given the slightest
offense against the proprieties Of its political
relations and to be sacrificed on account of
any act of folly or impropriety committed
in Ohio or Pennsylvania is an act of injus-
tice against which its spirit has rebelled
since its death was demanded and accom-
plished.


1t now appears that way has been found
to retabernacle the spirit Of the Ohio as-
sociation in another form, which will sub
serve the Republican intetest in that State.
This is a matter of profound rejoicing, and
it is to be hoped that inventive genius will
not exhaust itself in that effort but that a
way may be devised in which the other
State associations may put on newness OF
life and activity, and be rendered useful in
the approaching State elections outside OF
Ohio. Let the hand which has led Ohio
out Of the wilderness be pow directed to
the other States where succor is equally
needful. All we ask is Republican success
and that it shall be attained by all the
honorable agencies at the command of the
party
Year: 1879

TO the Editor of the National Republican;


sIR The Republicans of South Carolina
take the lead in their fealty to General Grant.
1t was Grant who nterposed the strong arm
of the law in their behalf in 1870, and stopped
the vilainous work of the Klu'Klux Klans,
which had set themselves to work TO accom-
pish the same work which has since been per.
formed under tho present National Adminis-
tration. The South Carolina Republicans be.
lieving that the reelection of General Grant
will insure them the enjoyment of all their
Constitutional rights, are unanimously in his
favor, aud we hesitate not TO express the opin'
ion that the delegates from that State to the
next National convention will stand by him
to the last, as they did In the campaign in 1872,
when other false prophets attempted to swerye
them from the path ofduty. And let me add
that South Carolina will so solid for Tom Set.
Year: 1879

THE New York Tribune feels constrained
to speak its mind in this wise "Some people
with more money than sense are talking of
" starting GRANT organ in Washington.
General GRANT is the last man to need an
"organ and Washington the last place to
"run one in. That city is a cemetery Of
"dead newspapers started to serve factions
or individual politicians"
Year: 1879

JOHN KELLY is evidently more in earnest
than ever before in his present anti-TILDEN
crusade. 1t is barely possible that he may
save the Democracy from itself by prevent
ing a denomination of the Cipher Ogre.
Year: 1879

upon the recommendations of Generals
SHERMAN and BURNSIDE. His name is
HENRY HETB. Some one who lost leg
or an arm in defence of the Union, and Is a
Republican, would be, glad to get that
place.
Year: 1879

If the "brigadiers" can get as complete
control of the Union as they have Of Lou
isiana they will, of course, pension their
comrades as they have partly done in the
Pelican State. How will the loyal people
of the North like being taxed to pay for
artificial limbs for crippled rebels?
Year: 1879

GONE Who Was There and 81. W." seem
to differ widely in regard to the battle of
Buflngton's Island during MoRGAN's raid,
but the points of difference are so inconse-
quential that o continuance of the contro-
versy will afford no profit to the public
mind. A mere disputation with concurrent
proofs of fact does not convince any one,
except perhaps that the disputants are at
loggerheads
Year: 1879

lIazoo Hearld.l
We are glad that county political affairs look
as we'll as they do now, since II Is sign that VIC
are to have better days. May they always continue
so. That's the way they should be.
Year: 1879

Columbia, S. c. has produced one car of corn
seventeen inches long. But that Is much shorter
than the ear of the Democratic donkey which Is
going 10 let Ben Butler ride him in Massachusetts,
the coming fall
Year: 1879

THE Republican press of the country has
done more to kill off" TILDEN than any
other agency in that direction. By con-
stantly preferring him as q candidate for
the Democracy, it has created suspicion of
his weakness and attracted attention to his
vulnerable points 1t remains to be seen,
however whether this potent influence,
aided as it is by JOHN KELLY's and Tam
many, will be sufficiently strong to over
come the insidious power of that bar'l.
Year: 1879

IT is, perhaps, an unpopular thing to
attempt to defend Senator CoNKLING just
now against the assaults made upon his
character in connection with the recent
SPRAGUE-LINoK scandal. But, if Mrs.
SPRAGUE, as it is intimated she will, makes
application for divorce from her somewhat
erratic and habitually excited husband, the
whole truth will come out, and it will DO
shown that the Senator has suffered from
the usual treatment received by one who
attempts to patch up family quarrel
only this and nothing more
Year: 1879

A CORRESPONDENT of the Springvale
Reporter thinks resumption of specie pay
ments failure because there have been
"two thousand failures since we resumed. /"
No one claims that resumption Will save
men from the consequences of rash specula-
tion and business incapacity. The CORES
pondent of the Sanford paper neglected to
say that there has been decrease in failures
OF S31 during the first quarter Of this year as
compared with the first quarter of last year, a
falling off of one quarter; and that the liabil-
tiles are but slightly in excess of one halt ip
amount of those for the corresponding period
of 1879
Year: 1879

THE Cleveland Herald believes that " the
vote in Michigan and Ohio tells its own sto-
ry. Loyalty to the front, treason to the rear.
The men who bluster, threaten and say they
will stop the wheels of legislation and destroy
the government unless they oan have their
way, have met lion in their path"
Year: 1879

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


We cannot undertake 10 return or preserve COM
municstions that are not used.
Year: 1879

Consumers of Wood will find it to their advantage
to call at


40 PLUM STREET,
where we keep constantly on hand dry hard wood
of the best quality; also hard and soft wood slabs and
edgings for kindlings sawed and delivered to order
no20tf MORSE a. FICK4ETT.
Year: 1879

Rutland IuGuirer: Our exchanges are max
ing note of various absent minded men, bat
Dobson takes the belt. Coming homo late one
evening he very carefully deposited his dog on
the lounge and turning round, kicked himself
down stairs. BE never found out the mistake
till he tried to howl.
Year: 1879

The influence of the press, although often
unappreciated. is nevertheless one of the
most potent agencies for the good of socie-
ty. No men have higher regard or deeper
veneration for the law or for tho well be-
ing of society and the elevation Of the race
than our Journalists. They have direct,
personal, individual interest in the increase
of the sum of general intelligence. They
are the cOnserYat0rs OF education; they are
the natural enemies of wrong, injustice and
lawIessness. To them the peace Of society
and the prosperity and well beng of all
classes, ranks, cOlOrs and conditions are
matters of absolbiUg and controlling IN
terebt' Rnt the world reoks little Of their
power for good. The right that is vindi-
Gated, the wrong that is condemned, the
good that is encouraged and The evil that
is prevented often pass for little in the eye
Of the world. Society joys along with self
complacence, and thanks the pulpit, the
school room and the courts for good order,
peace and security Of life and limb, but
who stands back Of all these agencies TO
mould and quicken public opinion that
makes them powerful for gOOdl The press.
A thankless, unTeQuited calling it may be,
but still it IS the power that moves the
world.
Year: 1879

Those Of our readers who are now
or may hereafter. be engaged in
wheat growing, may obtain some
benefit from the following advice,
furnished by well known firm in
St, Louis, that is engaged in the
sale of agricultural implements,
The information is given in response
to an inquiry made by MesSrs. j. W.
Shaver & Sons, of this place, rela-
tive to the best manner of stacking
wheat:


To stack wheat properly, rails
should be lald to put the bottom
bundles on, so as to prevent mois
ture from the ground getting to the
wheat. When this is done, begin in
the middle where you want the
stack, set the bundles on end, butts
down, and continue setting them
around, placing them more level,
until you attain the right size for
the stack; then put on two courses
On the outside, bringing it up per-
pendicular, or as nearly SO as posi-
Die; then proceed, keeping the center
of the stack always the highest, ill
you get 1t to the highth of ten d
twelve feet. You then want to fill
the center Of the stack so that 1t will
be necessary to stick the butts Of the
outside course in the bands of the
course below, to prevent them from
slipping off. To top off the stack,
the stacker should put his knees on
the last bundle, until another is laid,
and so continue until the stack is
finished, or gradually drawn to a
point. After the stack is topped, it
is sometimes well to cover the top
with a little hay or straw, with pins
driven through it, to prevent its
blowing off.
Year: 1879

> e z I i drh8isleN,e-.a' ~


As TIE second volume of our. pa
per is coming to a close, and we de-
sire to transact 3 more strictly cash
business than has previously been
our custom, we will hereafter offer a
discount Of 80 l-3 per cent, or fifty
cents on each yearly subscription
paid US in advance. This discount,
however, which INCLUDES our entire
profit, and which is made only for
the purpose of introducing a cash
system in our business, will be made
only to subscribers who pay the en-
tire amount of their subscription in
advance.
Year: 1879

HAS BEEN LARGELY DUE TO THE NOVEL
TRAoRpiYARY DISPLAY OF sEAsoNABLE NOV
Try GOODS AT FAR LESS THAN REGULAR
MESSED THE INAUGURATION OF A EREsH AT
LIGHTED VISITORS


GRATEFUL FOR THE PUBLIC APPRECIATION
THE FACT THAT MANY OF OUR VISITORS WERE



SECURE SHARE OF THE BARGAINS OFFERED,
DAYS LONGER, THE SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS 70



CORDED so MUCH FAVOR -
Year: 1879

Apropos of the death of the French
headsman curious article by Camille
Desmoulins on capital punishment has
been unearthed. He advocates the Sc
lection from among the imprisoned
murderers of the most ferocious of their
number to be employed as headsman,
that "In the punishment of criminals
these wretches might always behold the
doom they had merited and perhaps
were not to escape" 1t might be urg-
ed that these executioners would bungle
their work. Camille proposed a plan
(which should be welcomed ty all gen.
tie minds, and which has already been
proposed in the National Assembly by
just and merciful man, DR.. Guillotine.
Employ purely mechanical instrument,
where there will be nothing to do but
to cut a rope and let an AK fall" But
Camille saw that it might be objected
to that the opprobrium of being an ex-
ecutioner would still rest u pon the man
that held the scissors and made pro-
vision for the objection thus: "Place
an astronomical machine upon the scat
fold; and at the hour of noon the action
of the sun will detach the spring and
the celestial body which beholds the
crimes of the universe will become also
their avenger."
Year: 1879

The Newport correspondent of the
Boston Transcript says: must tell you
of the experience of q friend of mine in
her search for cheerful, pleasant sum-
mer home; such experiences are often
very amusing. My friend is in ill
health, and the place must be bright
spot where she can rapidly convalesce.
So her husband and her sister were sent
to choose for her. After much travel
ing they found a home, lovely in loca-
tion and spacious and inviting, and the
best suite of rooms was untaken. Just
as they were to conclude the arrange
ments their astonished gaze fell upon a
coffin standing upright in niche in the
room. The 1andlady, following their
look, stepped briskly to the spot, turn.
ed key in the lid and threw it back
with the remark, "This goes with the
room; my husband was in the business,
and when he failed we saved half.
dozen large sized. and use them for clos.
ets." Now, closet room is desidera.
tum in country houses, but my friend
concluded to hang up her gowns under
a sheet in another house further down
the street.
Year: 1879

The chameleon has been an object Of
curiosity the world over on account Of
IT'S power to change it's color, but its
power to change its form is not less re.
'markable. Sometimes it assumes the
form OF a disconsolate mouse sitting
mum in a corner; again, with back
curved and tail erect, it resembles a
crouching lion, which no doubt gave
origin to its name, ckan,ai-leon, OF
ground-lion. By infating it's sides il
hattens its belly, and viewed from below
takes the form of an ovate leaf. The
tail is the petiole, while white, serrat-
ed line, which runs from nose to tip of
tail over the belly, becomes the midrib.
sui again throwing out the air, it draws
IN Its sides, and at the same time ex-
pands itself upward and downward till
1t becomes as thin as knife, and then
viewed from the side it has the form OF
an ovate leaf without midrib, but with
the serrated line of the belly and the
serrated back becoming the serrated
edges of leaf. When thus expanded it
also has the power to sway itself over so
as to present an edge to an obserer, thus
ShSiJ ooulhS W l1S ucduS OI COuCoal-
meGt.


| have studied the changes of color
with much interest. In its normal state
OF rest it is of light pea-green color, at
times blending with yellow. The least
excitement, as in handling, causes a
change. The ground work remains the
same, but TRAVERSE stripes appear run
ming across the back and nearly encir-
cling the body in a full-grown animal,
numbering about thirty, and extending
from head to tip of tail These stripes
occupy about the same amount of space
as the ground work. and are most sus-
ceptible to change of color. At first
they become deeply green, and if the
excitement continues gradually change
to black. When placed upon tree the
ground work becomes deep green and
the stripes deeper green or black, and
so long as they remain on the trees the
color does not change. The prevailing
idea, that they take on the peculiar hue
OF the foliage among which they happen
to be, is. think, erroneous. We have
placed them on the scarlet leaves of the
dracana and among the red flowers OF
the acacia, with no change from the
prevailing green.-O. R. Bachelor, in
Popular Science Monthy for June.
Year: 1879

BEST Corn BREAD.-1 cup sugar, 1
cup sour or buttermilk, pour the milk
on the sugar; add l teaspoonful of gin
ger, lemon and /! cup of butter; dis
solve teaspoonful soda in q little milk
and add; then stir in cup -four and
Indian meal enough to make a stiff bat
ter; bake in a moderately slow oven.
Year: 1879

EVERY now and then you may hear
some BOBBY say, "Oh, there's no sense in
increasing the currency. That would give
only fictitious prosperity. We would have
to get down to hardpan some time!"
This is what the gold-mongers say, and
this is what those who take their opinions
secondhand repeat, They assume that
the normal, natural, proper and necessary
condition of the workingman and the pro-
duccr is one of hardship, privation and
suttcring-the bedrock the hard-pan Of
low wages, want of work, poverty and
starvation.
Year: 1879

Now look out for a movement along the
whole Shylockin front for the rcmcneti-
zation Of silver and the retirement of
grcenbacl1s. Nothing else will make re-
sumption permanent" says Big Wig he
hind his gold spectacles and gold-hcadcd
cane. He's right. That would do it, if it
was not impossible. But YOU will let him
have his way again?
Year: 1879

THERE is something wrong when every
industrious man cannot find plenty to do
and earn sufficient wages to support in
comfort and educate properly the wife of
his bosom and his children, youchsated to
him in the beginning of the Almighty.
Year: 1879

This is sheer nonsense. The Great
Creator of the universe never sent man,
woman Or child into the world to suffer
from want Or die of hunger. And any
system or policy that leads thereto is false,
pernicious and damnnhle.
Year: 1879

SCENE IN THE EDITORIAL ROOM OF \
"GREAT' DMLY.-Political editor to
chief; Il do not see how can avoid
mentioning the observation-disclosures party in
my article on Maine All right then,
if you cant help it. But don't mention
them as still existing in any other State;
and mind you will bounce any man who
puts in the paper that ugly truth that they
polled over "A million votes last Novcm-
Der.
Year: 1879

Is IT not time that the law-making power
ofthis country was doing something to at.
tract the wealth of the country to the mat
tor of producing property, thereby en-
pIoying hundreds ofthousands of men and
women who would gladly work could they
obtain employment. Hundreds of mil
lions of dollars of money, or of wealth are
now locked up by some kind of trick Of
Legislation, drawing support from indus
try to the support of idleness. When the
law shall declare that money or property
that is in idleness shall receive nothing
whatever in the shape of interest or COM
peusation, and every man is able to put
his hand to the plow and to help on in
the works of enterprise shall work Oh
starve, then every man who can work will
find opportunity to invest his life and
strength in that labor, he will secure ia
himself a reward, and those who are vii.
ling to work but cannot for want of health
and strength, can be cared for by those
who, being in health and in prosperity,
can do their duty by their fellow men who
are in distress.
Year: 1879

The Pope has just issued q very
lengthy Encyclical Letter occupying
seven columns of the O6serpdtore Ro-
mdno, in which he makes war upon So
cialism, Nihilism and Communism,
which he says initiate no longer secret.
y but openly against Church and State.
The Pope attributes the rise OF all these
sinister agencies to the Reformation,
which he snys opened the sluice. gates
OF skepticism, "till goddess governments
have arisen wherein the Author and
Redeemer Of the world is ignored"


Now it is a we'll known fact that it is
fundamental principle OF the Church
OF Rome that the people in matters con-
nected with religion shall not be allow
ed to think for themselves, but must
take the dogmas Of the Church without
questioning their truth; and it is equally
well known that this principle was the
main issue between Martin Luther and
the church at the time the Reformation
first commenced. It is undoubtedly
true then that the Pope is right IN that
the Reformation allowing people to
think for themselves has stong ten.
dency to lead to skepticisn. and that If
the people would accept without ques.
tlon the teachings OF the Church then
the evils which the Popo speaks Of
would not exist, but the difficulty is to
get the people TO accept those teachings,
and then again the opinion is very gem
eral at the present time that the people
are better off under the goddess gov.
ernments" thnt the Pope speaks OF than
they would be under any government
which would dictate the religious belief
Of tie people.
Year: 1879

We notice that the above humbuE is
at winnemucca on his way east. Tho
story that he tells now and told when
he passed here going west III that he Is
walking for O wager. But the truth is
that tbero is no wager about it. The
way he does is to have a man go ahead
Of him into every town that he passes
to the different saloons aud find out
whnt inducements they will offer him
to stop ut their houses, and the place
that will offer the most money in ad-
dition to free whisky and grub has him
to make that place his headquarters
while he stops in the town. the object
in paying him being to attract crowd
TO spend money ut the bar.