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Year: 1878

That tie seat of government shall be es-
tablishcd ut the city of Baton Rouge or at
the city OF New Orleans, as the majority of
the voters OF the State may determine at
the next ensuing election those voting to
locate the State capital at Baton Rouge
shall ndorse on their tickets, For State
Capital, Baton Rouge those voting to To-
cate the capital at New Orleans shall in
dorse on their tickets, For State Capital,
New Orleans


ts.ri!sc ont article ne.hurdred and tiir-
Year: 1878

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
shall receive salary OF seven thousand dol
hrs per annuDl, and the Associate Justices
of the supreme Court shall each receive a
salary ot six Thousand tice hundred dollars
pcr"nnun, payable quarterly on their OWE
warrant.
Year: 1878

The Congressional committee charged
with the investigation of Mr.. Robeson's
management of the Navy Department
has become satisfied that it was marked
by reckless extravaganza and Illegal and
fraudulent transactions. But political
investigation is seldom, if ever, satisfac-
tory, and the committee displays judg-
ment and fairness in recommending the
House of Representatives to transmit the
evidence to the Attorney Gencralthrough
the President, accompanied by a request
that suits be commenced against the ex-
Secretary and certain of his subordinates
in order that they may be tried IN accor-
dance with the law.


Mr. Robeson will of course eagerly
seize this opportunity to vindicate his
character, and on General Grants ac-
count as well as his own will invite a
Speedy prosecution.
Year: 1878

Parties are formed by the people to
work out in their collective shape, good
government for the people. Whenever
party fails to do this it had better be
abohdasea.ss ~


The Democratic party is opposed to
the high salaries paid to officials. Its vo-
ters do not understand why one man
should require so much more tolive upon
while in Office than as a private citizen.
1t is too frequently the case that men
in office look down upon their fellows
who are toiling hard to help pay to keep
up the lazy, lounging office holders, many
of whom are as destitute of the best
qualities of manly, christian virtue, as
they are of all due sensibility and shame.


In no departments Of government is
there perhaps, SO many idle, worthless
characters as in the army and the navy.
If one half ofthese loaters that loungers
about over towns and cities were dis
charged, the people would be the gamers.
1t would be far better if the government
would discharge nearly the whole OF
Elem and give some pitance to militia
companies throughout the country. Most
o. them are organized under officers OF
the late war who have seen actual service.
In our own city we have some most
worthy men who would no doubt take
an interest in military companies under
these circumstances. In this way our
young men could receive military train
ing fromq,en of purer character than
ever bef99e.: We believe we do nc
wrong to sHch gentlemen as Allen Cav
Year: 1878

THE Rerrtblicat" does not wish to mis-
represent the Democratic party by omit
ting to state that the salary of the Water
Commissioners was fixed by the City
Council, the political friends of the mi
nority of the Board The misfortune is
that the Republican City Council proved
incompetent to build the reservoir eco
ncmically, and the aid of the d emocrat-
ic legislature had to be called in to Sc
cure this being done
Year: 1878

ArLAsT Congress has crushed out the
tax upon matches. One more monopoly
is struck down by Democratic hands, and
a poor person will soon be allowed to buy
a box of matches for penny as before
the war
Year: 1878

THE NoMINArIoNs.-We publish to-
day the official result of the nomination
of the Democratic party, in this county
for Sheriff and Coroner, attested by the
Chairman of the county meeting. The
election was one Of the fairest contests
of the kind ever held in this county; and
the vote the largest vote ever given by
either party. In the city it run up to 81
SGT; and in the whole county 6,16O. The
accessions to the Democratic party were
very large and entirely from white voters.
This was mainly from the fact that the
Democrats have advocated reduction OF
expenditures, and because the Bepubli-
can party had resolved to abandon State
ticket in Kent county, naturally dissolv-
ing that party; they acknowledging that 1t
is so utterly corrupt in official matters, as
to be intolerable; all other excuses to the
contrary Notwithstanding. Another source
of large accessions from the Republicans
was through the advocacy Of the hard
money, gold and silver standard of the
constitution. Hundreds of Republicans
despise the grasping disposition of the bro
kers' organs to grind down the poor and
pay the bonds in one currency and sub
stitute another for the people; every Re
publican paper in New York and Phila-
delphia advocated the single gold stand
ard fallacy, and the question thus took a
partizan shape. And not few Republi-
cans were tired of being controlled by
negro suffrage, which was shaped just as
Tom, Dick and Harry of the opposition,
demeaned himself to seek it and control ii
by promises never to be fulfilled. The
negroes have been fooled every year by
promises to put them in the ticket, and
not being put on the Republican ticket
they, in a sensible way, refused to pay
their taxes to be used longer, and the
Radical Republicans are indignant at thu
Democratic party because it does no
make the collectors sue the negroes and pu
them in Jail to get the taxes. The negr
vote constitutes about halfthe Republican
party-it is thus crippled; and the Dove
Republicans charged its destruction upol
the Democrats, whereas it is the work 0
themselves in not paying the taxes for tn
poor innocent negroes, as they have don
before.


In 1872 the Republicans at their nomi
nation polled 2,S41 in the city, and 4,50
in the whole county, and in 1874 the.
polled 3,193 in the city and 5,203 in tn
whole county.


Under the circumstances the Demo
cratic candidates may feel quite sure G
their election. But as there is many sli
between the cup and the lip, our advic
TO them is to be careful to continue to dc
serve every vote that can be secured. l
fact they are already the choice Of I'll
people by the modes selected by the pee
pie, and we confidently expect they wi
be elected and prove competent and faitl
full servants Of the people, thanking ever
man, whether Democrat or Republica
for the votes they may receive at IL


elections necessary to secure their elevi
tion to these high and honorable and Il


crative offices. Every Democrat ar


every Republican that took part in the


nomination is pledged to vote for the1


and we do not believe any of them vi


go back upon their word of honor.
Year: 1878

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN NEW YORK.-A six
story building on west 23d street, New York.
portion OF which was used as the Eighth regi-
with Presbyterian church on one side and
the Scotch COvenanterS' church ON the other


There were six stores in the armory building


ala the various fOorS were occupied by differ
ent tenants. The building was constructed by
James II. lngerSOll during the palmy days OF
The Tweed ring. and is said to have cost four
hundred thousand dollars. A roller skating
RINK was being fitted up in it, and the work
men were busy using hot tin in the prepara-
llOn OF the floor: 1t is thought the fire origin
ated In the careleSsneSs OF the wOrkmen The
family ~ ~
Year: 1878

THE JURY SYSTEM in st. Louis seems to be
open to reformif we may credit the assertion
OF the Globe Democrat Of that city with refer
ence to recent libel suit against that paper


There were, it says, two Jurors who could
neither speak. read nor write English, and vet
they were sworn to give verdict in accor-
dance with the testimony, which was all i'm
Year: 1878

ten a letter to the Lewiston (Me.) Journal
explaining his vote against the recent anti
subsidy resolution. He says that he is opposed
favor OF ending the time for building the
Northern Pacific road, and he thinks that it is
possible to benefit our trade with South Ameri-
ca by Substituting Steamship lines prudentlY.
Year: 1878

GOING TO DESERT THE BROTHER HooD.-It
the employ of the New Jersey Central Rail
road Company have voluntarily agreed to
sever their connection with the Brotherhood
OF Locomotive Engineers
Year: 1878

AN ELEGANT OVAL CAMEO BROOCH, ordered
by Mrs. Hayes as memoir of her silver we'd
ding, has been received by her from New York.
The brooch is set in platinum. with four very
fine diamonds, one at each end of the oval set
ting and one at each side of it. \ medallion
of The President is cut.upOn the cameo
Year: 1878

You cannot always tell by the way person dresses
whether his pew is paid for-[ Danbury News.


The Turks took liking the silent Grant because he
said little that they couldn't understand. LooeU
Courier.


certain little damsel, being aggravated beyond endur-
by her big brother fell down upon her knees and
cried: Oh Lord bless my brother Tom He lies, he
steals he All boys do; girls don't Amen


1t is proposed that the Senate meet only once every
two hundred years. and then remain in session only
tyfour hours The object of this bill is give Senator
Sharon chance to spend portion of his time in the SEN
ate Chamber.-[ burlington HGukege.


Did not Charles Lever hint at the coming invention of
the phonogTaph when he said of of his characters in
the polar region that the words frozen they fell
from his lips until at last he up to his knees in his
own eloquence ?-[ Turner'S Falls Reporter.


One of the ISLANDERS aoat that which charges
that of our cergymen oath the other night
The circumstances simply these: He went into the
house. and attempted make his way in the dark through
the sittingoom to the pantry deposit bunch of rh-
barb presented him by parishone forgetting that house
cleaning had commenced. The wretched girl had left
pail of soft soap the door, which he accenty
stumbled. Making herculean effort TO himself he
grabbed for something with both hands, and he aght-
ed firmly his stomach pulled down top of him ta-
BILE full of crockeTy Rising promptly to his feet he made


pitch for the match sae but happening to plant his foot
puddle of the soft soap he promptly down in tub
of preserved fruits His poor tired wife who had retired
early reused from her sumbeTs, and thinking that
burglars abroad shreked for help, which the
hired girl responded rushing into the and tumbling
headlong the man in the washtub. These the
naked facts in the case and that all there is of it, Our
good friend did say word that could be constructed
into profanity He simply sat firmly and quietly among
the preserves until light struck and then mildly
qured: " How much longer, dear, does house cleaning
last. - ithaca Journal.
Year: 1878

Thought I'd just try EN-, yer know, he said as he
buced away at pair of skates in the rink yesterday a
ternoon. "Think maybe might, be able to skate yer
know And he threw into his tone the s0achGance of
him who seeketh to play green and lead sucker into
game of billiards Then he stood UP, and surely he was
beautiful to look upon Such delicate sotness of creamy
tint in that eXquisitey shirt-fren from which gem
of Aaskas famous mine flashed brilliantly; such au-
reate ogchain festoonng his from buttonhoe to
pocket and on just such darling little ow-crowned,
mashed-in lavender felt hat Then him move off
in that graceful glide, calmly elegant easily beaut
full People stopped their work look at him. He
seemed to feel their admirng eyes goatng his grace
for he changed his step into all the ntricaces of roller
skating He had reached the far end of tho great hall
and now he came moving backward his feet sailing in
tistc Sinuosity Every ON himevery beautyor-
shipping eye of all that great crowd.


There stands in the hall large fountain with great
basin filled with muddy water, and possessing very low
rim. The Chcagoan was moving Backward he thought
not of that foaunhe only increased his speed Before


voice could be raised TO much of ailors ovel
his heels had struck the fatal rmhs flew out
in wild grasp ether-he cried out-and the muddy
waters moved.


They shed that young man out, and they tried to de
tain him to hear their expressions of sympathy but he
would not stay Dripping from every shred he FASTENED
away leaving few hundred people conyulsed with
ment the idosyncrases of the Chicago glide.
Year: 1878

The threshing floors is institution of ancient times
and is still formed and used in Spain in the days of the
Patriarchs. circle thirty feet in diameter is
drawn by the primative of stick and string and


the circumference bordered with goody Over the
interior area, first we'll broken up by the pick clay is
thcy spread and leyeed and water is turned the
whole surface which then beaten smooth by heavy NAL


let's and left TO dry in the These floors which are
often the of great estivity of moonlight dances
and quiet hours of chat after the days labor done and
the tired wormen throw themselves down the piled up
sheais to smoke their cigarettes present. also at times
threshng characteristic any, perhaps


to be witnessed among these primitive husbandmen.
First the harvest is brought in odashioned lumber
vehicles and arranged in huge circle several deep
ginning at the CENTER circle upon circle of sheaves


laid the one tapping slightly inward and the other
till the whole shows of golden spray fixed
Year: 1878

firmly and carefully by the threshers and offering spen
did surface for the powing horses that tread
out Down they come, fine loose herd of their
long tails switching in the wind and driven by boys
and who shout and throw their long sas here and
there member Of the herd strays from the ranks
stops to crop the grass by the waysde Seven abreast
these horses attached wooden drag with smooth
rounded bottom about two and half feet square Upon
this uncertain platform the driver leaps and turns his
horses heads towards the circumference of the The
beasts plunge i'll and at long flourish and loud crack of
the whip away they go. Amid the flying wheat straw
they keep their around and aroundthe 1.-the,


tall form Of tho driver bending back to keep his balance
with picturesque costume his broad sombrero his swarthy
face sparkling with excitement and his Wild sharp cries
to his horses, making animated and peculiar spectacle
well worth looking at.
Year: 1878

g wish had his money! said young hearty-looking
man, millionaire passed him the street And SO has
wished many youth before him, who devotes so much
time TO wishing but too little to working But never
does OF these draw comparison between their
fortunes. The rich mans money looms up like balloon
before them, hiding uncounted and anxeties from
which they are ee keeping out OF sight those bodily ills
that luxury Breeds and all the mental horrors of eaui
Year: 1878

TEE finest potatoes we have ever seen on the Pacific Coast are raised near Wick enhurg. The Early Goodrich and Peerless varieties are particularly fine. At PheniX also we saw excellent potatoes from the ranch of J. George, Esq. The demand for potatoes is large among all the mining camps and has made this crop q very prof itable one. It is a safe estimate to say that no less than four thousand crates and sacks of potatoes have been imported from Cal ifornia into Arizona, via Yuma, during the past year. They have been shipped to points in the interior as remote as Verde Bowie and Grant. Their cost for freight alone must have averaged nearly eight cents per pound. At such figures farmers need not fear outside competition. A few experiments have been made with this crop in Yuma county, and have proved successful, when made at the proper sea. son.
Year: 1878

THE grain crop of Salt River valley is Tariolsly estimated at from nine to fifteen million pounds, in proportion to desire to boast of the products of the valley, or to keep up their prices by intoxicating in the minds of buyers that there will this year be no grain to spare. Producers need have no fears of their market. In travelling over the Territory we noted many indica- tions of increased demand for grain, and believe there is less chance of glut, than of a wheat and barley famine, before next years crop comes Tn.
Year: 1878

CASTLE DOME is about to have a post. office and daily mail. ApetitioH is bein 2 circulated and will go forward in such shape as to secure the desired end. The new office lies upon the new route from Yuma to Prescott.
Year: 1878

A review of the stock market for the week ending
to-day shows a decline in prices quite as general as
had been the advances of several preceding weeks.
Even if all that has been stated was true IL was un-
reasonable to expect that prices could always con-
tnue 10 rise from to 2 per cent a day. But there
Year: 1878

THE Deputy Sheriff came to us early yesterday morning in state Of great ex. .citement and informed Es Of most thrill. ing tragedy which had just occurred down town. A man suffering from rheumatism had laid down on the sidewalk when a Mexican made raid on him demanding any loose cash he might have about his person. Our invalid not feeling Inclined 10 disgorge his wealth managed to manip- ulate one of his pedal extremities in such a dex:rous manner that be com pleteiy "gOt away with the Mexlcan's baggage" as the Deputy said, and there the thrilling tragedy" ended.
Year: 1878

TRE grand surprise party given to Miss Hattie Stiles last evening promised complete success up to the time of oul latest adyices which only extend to the early part Of the evening. We will "ex pand " in our next.
Year: 1878

The suggestion Of tho Hchr ZcttGnJ
is that race of dogs should be attached
to armies in their campaigns, or at least
to the corps Of ambulance service atten-
ding uron them. AMI that after every
battle the dogs in question should be
sent forth to range over the field Of bat
tie in search of those wrctchcd worn


ded soldiers who have not been killed
outright hut who have hidden them.
selves in some refuge, and after figur-
ing in the list Of "missius" men too
often perish miserab,g before any relief
can find them out. It seems that the
idea of employing dogs in this way is by
no means a new one, but was brought
forward two years ago at Dresden,
when some dogs qualified for this pur-
pose were shown in an exhibition.
Since that time experiments have been
made by means of crossing tie st. Bern-
ard with view to obtaining tie more
suitable breed, and very satisfactory
result IS said to have been arrived at
by the German fanciers. The precise
mode of employing the animals on their
bcneGcient rllssion is described in the
Vienna paper, which explains that the
dog is furnished with leather collar
and plate, having marked upon it his
number and the division of the army
to which he is attached. and the Geneva
Cross. To this collar is suspended
small leathern bag. containing pencil
and slip of paper, and even little lam
torn in case Of his being sent out at
night. The wounded man. upon being
found, opens the bag and writes his
nam, if lie can upon the paper, to-
ce,hcr with the nature of his injuries
and or the return Of the animal to the
ambulance assistance is sent under its
guidance to the spot where the sufferer
is concaalel.-Laud and Water.
Year: 1878

A sign on house ON Crogan street,
Detroit. informs the public that wash
ing is done there, and it was quite nat
ural that mechanic working near by
should take bundle undor his arm and
call there, and ask boy on the steps {:


'Bub, is the washmoman ir q


NO sir was tho prompt reply, there's
no washwoman here ct ALL


But that sigu says that washing is
done here, remarked the man.


Suppose it Does remarked the boy
in higher key, suppose it does A
lady may become the victim of unlortu-
nate circumstances to such an extent
that she is willing to wash and iron
shirts and sheets, but that doesn't make
a washwoman of her, docs it?'


Il thought it did,


'Humph If you draw a buggy
down to the shop to be repaired that
doesn't make horse of you, does it@


The man was silently turning away
when the boy said


IF you want to find the lady of un-
fortunate circumstances, 90 round to the
side door, but tho washwoman is not at
home.
Year: 1878

Young folks should bo mannerly. How
to be so is the question. Many good
boy and girl feel that they can not be-
have themselves in the presence of com.
pany. They feel timid, bashful and self
distrustful the moment they are ad-
dressed by u stranger, or appear in com-
pany. There is but one wayto get over
this feeling and acquire graceful and
easy manners, that is to do the best
they can all the time at home as we'll as
abroad. Good manners are not so much
the result of arbitrary teaching so much
as acquired from habit They grow upon
US by use. We must be courteous, agrees
able, civil, kind gentlemanly and wo-
manly at homo, aud then it will become
Il kind Of second nature so everywhere.
a coarse rough manner at home begeOs
habit roughness which We can not lay
off if we try when we go among stran-
gers. The most agreeable people We Lave
ever known in company were those who
are perfectly agreeable at home. Home
is the school for all the best things, es-
pecially good manners.
Year: 1878

Either man. must be content with
poverty all his life, or else deny him
self some luxurics and save to lag the
base of independence in the future
But if a man defes the future, and
spends all he earns (whether his earn
inSs be one or ten dollars day. let
him look for lean and want at some
future time-for it will surely come, no
matter what he thinks. TO saye is ab.
solutcly the only way to get solid for
tune here is no other certain mode.
Those who shut their eyes and ears to
these certain facts will be forever poor,
and in their obstinate rejection of truth
mayhap will die in rags and filth. But
no They take sort of rccompense in
cursiag fortune. Great waste of breath.
They might as we'll curse the mountains
or the eternal. For | can tell them
fortune does not give away good and
substantial goods. She sells it to the
highest bidder, to the hardest and Wis
est worker for the bloom. M.n never
make SO fatal mistake as when they
think themselves creatures of fate; it's
;he sheerest folly in the world. Every
man may make or mar himself. which
ever he may choose. Fortune for those
who by diligence, honesty, frugality.
place themselves in position to grasp
hold of fortune when it appears in view.
The bes! evidence Of frugality is tie
Eve dollars or morc standing in your
name at the savings bank. The best ev-
idencc Of honesty consists in diligence
aud frugality.
Year: 1878

fiWJfi this sum specie payments can be
resumed at ,nce, and the promise that is
written ON the face of the greenback TO pay
the dollar, made good. This would give
Bill a good dollar for his work, and the
wounded veteran good money for his PEN
sion, which is only justice and fair play to
Bill and the veteran; that is, ill not only
would work for gold wages as he
does now, but would buy his goods
at geld prices, and thereby save
another large item of the $25434 that


is pressed out of him annually
SPECIE PAYMENTS IS THE ONE
THING NEEDFUL In OUR PRESENT
CONDITION, AND WILL CURE Us OF
MANY FINANCIAL ILLS. The m oment
You have got specie payments, PendIeton's
and Buffers theory of paying the bonds in
greenbacks, which means neither more or
less than more and meansr money, be-
comss obsolete. NJ Congress i'm its blum
dsrinas, did not agree TO pay the principal
Of the bonds in gold, il ought to have
agreed to, and specie payments will make
the agreement what il ought to be. The wit
of man cannot devise any sche me that will
bring about specie payments other than
deeming greeubaclks with gold; that is, let
somebody else have some good money be-
sides the bondh hsIders-SOLON CHASE'S
"POOR MANS TRACT" OF 1871.
Year: 1878

WHAT was that stern patriot, Gen. s. J..
Anderson, doing in the years from 1850 to
1865? Was he fighting for his country?
Was he supporting the Government in its
attempt to put down the Rebellion? Was
he training with the war wing or with the
peace wing of his party? For which side
were his voice and vote givens The people Of
this District would like to know.
Year: 1878

BEFORE the war the amount of currency
was about six dollars head. To-day 1t is
sixteen dollars. Does that show that con-
traction is responsible for the evils from
which we are suffering? Does it not rather