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Year: 1879

THE exact situation as stated by Attorney
General Devens: Il think the Republican
party will remain in the ascendancy for
some years, but those who think there will
not be hard and bitter struggle next year
are mistaken, in my opinion. | think the
Republicans wiR win, but work, and hard
work, viii be required to bring this about.
We cannot sit down and calmly look upon
victory as matter of fact without effort.
The Republican party is i'll prime good con-
dition, and in possession of enough States
10 give them majority next year. Had the
election been this year they would have
won. The Democrats viii make desperate
effort next year, because the Solid South
will require but forty-seven votes in addi-
ton to her own to elect the President.
This will never happen again after next
uaart;
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and eommuni-
cations he name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable necessarily for pubca-
ton but as guaranty OF good faith.


ne cannot undertake to return or preserve com
municat1ons tnaJ are not used.
Year: 1879

BosToN Herald: 1t appears that the fraud
hunting commissioner in Maine of the But
Ter organ procured one or more of his certif-
icates about purchased votes by getting the
certifier drunk and inducing him to sign a
paper, the tenor Of which he was blissfully
unconscious Of at the time.
Year: 1879




I have become accidently possessed of
the following letter, which is correct
copy of one lately addressed by Cor
poral 0f Marines to his wife, from ves-
sci which is at present stationed off the
west coast of Africa.


WIFE-I was greatly surprised to
hear from you Through my Captain). I
had forgotten that was married, and to
tell you the truth, had entirely forgot
ten you. should have thought that a
handsome young woman like you would
have been above applying to poor
marine for help. I think you have been
guided by your mother in this matter,
as you have in all others. Well, should
like you to act upon my advice for
once; that is to take no notice of your
mother, do the best you can for yourself,
and, if possible, get married again. 1t
might be better for you. | can assure
you that never will trouble you as long
as live. l am very comfortable in the
service, and there is no doubt but that
shall stay in the service for the next Is
years. My Captain said that he would
not interfere with my private affairs, and
if had any trouble with you to take no
notice of it. / must now conclude, and
Idon't think shall ever see you or Man
chester again, for l have greater attrac-
tions in Portsmouth than any other part
of England.


"I remain, etc. lass


"P. ST. cannot return your letter as
it is lost"


In this letter the sternness of the war;
rior and the Inconsistency of the sailor are
fearfully and wonderfully combined.
Year: 1879

Miss Anna Hoff, of Newport, KY, shot and
instantly killed Charles Scheuer, young man
twenty three years old, of the same place, on
Friday last. The shooting occurred little
after 6 o'clock in the morning. 1t appears that
Scheuer had long been keeping Annals COM
pany, and under promise ofmarriage had ruined
her. Approaching her advanced condition,
Anna had repeatedly demanded of seheurer
that the marriage ceremony be per-
formed. As often as she made that
demand did he refuse to grant it, his plea
universally being that he was unable to sup
pore wife. Finally, at an early hour last
Friday morning, Anna went to the house OF
her brother, revealed to him her condition, and
requested him to accompany her to Scheuer's
boarding house, declaring her intention to COM
pei him to marry her to protect her honor.
She showed him a weapon which she carried,
and he advised her to leave it behind, but that
she refused to do. He then told her he
would not go with her. She said, every well,
them can go alone" He finally accom-
panied her. When they arrived at Scheuer's
boarding house he was not up yet. AT her re-
quest the young man was called. He soon ap-
peared in the room in which the brother and
sister were waiting, and sat down upon chest
The girl made known. the nature of her visit,
and asked him again if he would marry
her to protect her honor. He said he
had NO money to support her. She told
him she would not ask him to sup
port her. She would live at home with
her parents where she had good home. All
she wanted, she told him was for him to pro-
tect her honor by going through the marriage
ceremony. He then refused upon the plea that
he did not have the money to pay for the sim
plest ceremony. She offered to go before a
squire He did not have the money even to
pay for that. Her brother then offered to pay
the expenses. He replied by sayiny that he
had firmly made up his mind in the matter.
This was too much, and Anna, who held her
pistol concealed in front of her under her
shawl, shot without taking the weapon from its
place of concealment, killing the young man
almost instantly. She and her brother then
left the house. Miss Hoff went directly to the
Chief of Police and surrendered herself. Upon
the body of the young man was found $195 in
green backs, a note for $50, and silver watch.


Besides, he had money coming to him from
neighbor to the amount of $50. Scheuer is


from Canton, Ohio.
Year: 1879

A fire in New York few days ago resulted
in seven deaths, the building burned being
tenement house at No. so Cannon street.
Mary Babiska, who occupied apartments on
the third floor, leaped to the street, and was
probably fatally injured. Joseph Botzkie,
who lived on the fourth floor, unable to escape
by the roof stairs, threw himself from a
window and was killed. His entire family


consisting Of wife, two children and mother
n-law, were suffocated. When the cries of the
neighbors brought the police and fremen
to the house, Botzkie was seen rushing
wildly to the window of his bedroom and re-
turning, asst endeavoring to drag something
with him. The smoke drove him back, but he
returned again. This time sheet of fame
shot into his face, and with despairing cry he
seized the window frame and sprang out. The
distance was not so great, but in his descent the
mans feet were caught by the Intel of the win
dow below, and he was turned head downward


Thus he struck the pavement with a sickening
thud, and was dead before he could be raised.
Flames and smoke now poured through the up
per story windows from which not groan was
heard, and no sign of life was seen after the fall
of Botzkic. But the fremen were Mt work, and
soon the flames were under control. When at
last the top floor gained four human bodies,
closely huddled together on the bed in the
little side room, met the cyes of the fremen.
Half conscious, probably, and struggling
to rouse herself, with the cries of her
husband ringing out from the window, whether
he made his two Intellectual attempts to come
to her assistance or not is not known but
the wife had rolled upon the floor and
reached her chidren's room, her first thought
being for them. Then the smoke had over
Year: 1879

The moonshine distillers of North
Carolina are giving the federal officials
OF that State a world of trouble. AS
fast as their Illicit whisky is seized the
moonshiners recover their property by
means of writs of replevin issued by the
State courts. The government officers
have adopted another method of deal
iug with the trouble. They have
secured the indictment in the Federal
Courts of quite number of the State
officials who issued the writs of replevin,
and now the Supreme Court of the
United States will, in all probability, be
called upon to settle another question
involving conflict of jurisdiction
between the Federal and State Courts.
Year: 1879

San Francisco Bulletin


Arriving opposite the mouth of the
ford, we steered straight inland between
wooded shores surprisingly beautiful,
and the grand glacier came in sight, ly-
ing at home in its massive granite valley,
glowing in the early sunshine, and ex-
tending most noble invitation to come
and see. After we are fairly between
the two majestic mountain rocks that
guard the gate of the ford, the view that
was unfolded fixed every eye in wonder
ing admiration. No written words, how
ever built together, can convey anything
like an adequate conception of its sub
lime grandeur the noble simplicity and
the fneness Of the sculpture of the walls;
their magnificent proportions; the cas-
cade, garden and forest adornments; the
placid waters between them; the great
white ice wall stretching across in the
middle and the snow-laden mountain be-
yond


Sailing directly up to the sunken brow
of the terminal moraine, we then seemed
to be separated from the glacier only by
a low, tide-leveled strip of detritus, a
hundred yards or so in width; but on so
grand scale are all the magnitudes of
the valley that we afterward found it to
be mile or more.


The Captain ordered the Indians to
get out the canoe and take as many of
US ashore as wished to go, and accom-
pany us to the glacier also, in case we
should desire them to do so. Padding
to the nearest and dryest looking portion
of the moraine we stepped ashore, but
gladly wallowed back into the canoe, for
ho 70 do
the mountain meal and kept unstable
by the tides, at once took us in, swallow
ing us feet foremost. Our next attempt,
made nearer the middle of the valley,
was successful, and we soon found our
selves on good gravely ground. 1 made
haste in direct line for the huge ice
wall, which seemed to recede as we ap-
preached. The only difficulty we met
was network of icy streams, at the
largest of which we halted, not willing
to get wet in fording. The Indian we
had with us promptly carried us over the
difficulty on his back.


Standing in the gateway of the glori-
GUS temple, and regarding it only as a
picture, its outlines may be easily traced.
There is the water foreground Of pale,
milky-blue color, from the suspended
rock-mud issuing from beneath the
grinding glacier-one smooth sheet
sweeping back five or six miles like one
of the lower reaches of great river At
the head the water is bounded by bar
rier wall of bluish-white ice from 500 to
600 feet high, few mountain tops cov-
cred with snow appearing beyond it. On
either hand stretches series of majestic
granite rocks from 5000 to 1000 feet
high, in some places bare, in some for
rested and well-patched with yellow
green chaparral and fowery gardens, es-
pecially about half way up from top to
bottom, and the whole built together in a
general, varied way into walls, like those
of Yosemite Valley, extending far beyond
the ice barrier, while their bases are
buried in the glacier. This is, in fact, a
Yosemite Valley in process of formation,
the modelling and sculpture of the walls
nearly completed and well planted.
Year: 1879

Some travellers in Colombia, South
America, in traversing an arid and
desolate tract of country, were struck
with strange contrast. On one side
there was a barren desert, on the other
a rich and luxuriant vegetation. The
French Consul at Loreto, Mexico, says
that this remarkable contrast is due to
the presence of the 1amai caspi, or
the rain tree. This tree, which grows to
height of sixty feet, with diameter
of three feet at its base, possesses the
power of strongly attracting, absorbing
and condensing the humidity of the
atmosphere. Water is always to be seen
dripping from its trunk in such quantity
as to convert the surrounding soil into
veritable marsh. 1t is in summer
especially, when the rivers are nearly
dried up, that the tree is most active.
If this admirable quality of the rain tree
was utilized in the arid regions near the
equator, the people there living in misery
on account of the unproductive soil
would derive great advantages from it's
introduction, as we'll as the people of
more favored countries where the climate
is dry and droughts are frequent
Year: 1879

A New York correspondent says of
the sights to be seen from the elevated
road: In a room whose windows were
flung wide apart to catch cool breath
from without, woman had lain down
to die. The engine was turning curve
with us, and we went at pace so slow
that we could see the terrible tableau Of
that death scene, and almost hear the
sobs of the living. The room was on
the corner; with small effort l might
have touched the window as we steamed
along. 1t was close and stuffy She
lay stretched on her bed, which was
drawn near the window for air. Near
her a tallow candle tiickered and flared
and cast fitful rays of light on brass
crucifx. The family knelt, except a
slip of girl, who stood near, tanning
the dying creature for whom life was so
soon to be happily ended"
Year: 1879

A WOUNDED man sitting up in bed
and taking medicine from a teaspoon,
while he grasps a revolver in each hand
to guard against surprise and assassina-
tion-this is the grotesque attitude in
which visitors now find Shepherd, who
last week killed his brother outlaw and
desperado, jesse James, in Missouri.
Shepherd was about as notorious q
scoundrel as James, having robbed sew
eral banks with him and killed his man.
He slew bis comrade in the name of the
law, and will probably have the doubt
full credit of it, but it is not surprising
that he keeps a lookout for the next
avenger.
Year: 1879

The strangest news coming to us from
Germany even stranger than that the
efleminate Viennese should welcome the
man who conquered them at Koniggratz


lis that learned doctor has discovered
means of dying human eyes any color
he likes, not only without injury to the
delicate orbs. but, as he asserts, with
positive advantage to the powers of
sight. He can not only give fair ladies
ewes black as night or blue as orient skies
by day, but he can turn them out in hue
of silver or gold. He says golden eyes
are extremely becoming. Nothing goes
down without grand name; therefore,
the German doctor calls his discovery
"Occular Transmutation." He declares
himself quite ready to guarantee success
and harmlessness in the operation.
Year: 1879

THE Saltwater Lumberman knows
about how it is. 1t says: strangers
judge town or county by the appear
ance of local papers. A good home
paper has a constant influence in draw
ing people and money into a place. A
poor paper, if it has any influence,
rather drives them away" 1t is evil
IDENTIFY then a city's duty to support q
good paper in such liberal way that it
can afford to be first class in every re-
spect.
Year: 1879

AS AN illustration as to what degree
men will 20 to crafty an unnatural
viciousness in human nature, we need
but cite to q recent care of litigation at
Plain City, Ohio. A lawsuit has been
going on there for sometime over an iron
bolt worth forty cents. The cost to the
htigants have already amounted to
over $500
Year: 1879

A LITTLE boy tumbled into barrel
of molasses. He was fished out by a
gentleman who said: "Boy, what is
your name and how do you feelY' The
lads reply was "Short and sweet" The
gentleman remarked that he was in a
hurry, and he could only stop long
enough to assure the boy that he stood a
fair show of being president some day.
Year: 1879

ANOTHER secret printing office has
been discovered by the Russian police
in St. Petersburg, and this time in one
of the most fashionable quarters of the
capital. When the police entered the
house they found about twenty persons,
some of whom are supposed to belong
to the best classes of society, engaged
in printing a forbidden pamphlet.
Among them were three women.
Year: 1879

come her, and with her last strength feeling
about for her boys, she had fallen upon them
and died there. Their drawn up limbs showed
the agony of their death struggle together.
Their checks were slightly scorched, otherwise
the fire had not touched them. The smoke had
done the work effectually.
Year: 1879

DrELs are excessively frequent just
now in Europe, as we'll in political as in
Literary disputes. The latest case is
challeI ge sent ly the Hungarian Min
lister oi Ire Interior TO Deputy who
asked him VI the Diet whether or not
he was engaged in unlawful stock job
bing. The Deputy has accepted the
Year: 1879

A farmer says: "Four years ago my
farm was fearfuIly infested by rats.
They were so numerous that had great
fears of my whole crop being destroyed
by them after it was housed; but having
two acres of wild peppermint that grew
in a field of wheat, cut and bound with
the wheat, drove the rats from my prem
ises. have not been troubled with
them since, while my neighbors have
any amount of them. I feel convinced
that any person who is troubled with
these pests can easily get rid of them
by gathering a good supply of mint and
placing it around the walls or base of
their barns"
Year: 1879

DR.. james, of the New York Board of
Health, says: eft has been determined,
beyond doubt, that the fever germs
move at rate of speed near the ground
or water, but they seldom rise above
certain hight. A wall fifteen or twenty
feet high win arrest its march, and it ac-
tually has been fenced out in some in
stances. The commission now making
a tour of investigation in the West In
dies will obtain new facss and data in
regard to this remarkable and terrible
malady.n
Year: 1879

Can at our Drug Store and get trial
bottle of DIR. Kings New Discovery
tree OF charge, if you are suffering with
a Cough. Cold. Asthma, Bronchitis.
Hay Fever, Consumption, loss of voice
tickling in the throat or Lungs. This
is the great remedy that is causing so
much excitement by its many wonder
tul cures, curing thousands ofhopeless
cases. Over one million bottles ofDr
Kings New Discovery have been used
within tbs last year, and have given
perfect satisfaction III every instance
We can unhesitatingly say that this is
IS really the only sure cure for throat
and lung affections. and can cheerfully
recommend it to all, Call and Get q
trial bottle free Of charge, or a REGULAR
size for 81 90
Year: 1879

No use Of having the chiils, no use of
headaohe,or any of the ills that come from
s disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn case-wiil
relieve the system and make you feel ike
a new person. Try it aud be satisfied.
Year: 1879

THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN does not
care in advance of the Republican National
Convention to takea decided partizan stand
for any candidate, for the reason that it ex-
poets to support with the fullness of its
ability and zeal the man into whose hands
the Republican standard shall be placed in
1880. If the people desire General GRANT
he will be nominated and elected. We
have no doubt on that point, for the reason
that we think the people propose to take
an earnest hand in the next Presidential
contest. If the people do not want General
GRANT there is no power on earth to make
them accept him. and he will not be heard
of as a candidate except that the popular
tide becomes so strong that it bears before
it his disinclination to be candidate, and
he is carried into captivity in the canvass in
spite of himself.


The same thing may be said of Secretary
SHERMAN, to whom is imputed an ambi-
tion in that direction. If the people want
him, he will be nominated and elected but
on the other hand, if he is only the candi-
date of the Federal power and the monied
interest of the country, the people will not
permit him to be nominated, for there is al
ways in the dominant party q strongly
planted jealousy with the people lest an
Administration may attempt to dictate and
control in matters that they hold rightfully
belong to themselves In a struggle for
supremacy between the oflice-holders and
the people the former invariably fall under,
but when they are in accord, then there is
no contest between them, and the work is
easy and the burthen light. We make this
remark now, for the purpose of clearly de-
fining the position which The REPUBLICAN
has taken, and proposes to hold down TO the
day when the National Convention shall
solve this problem wisely and place the party
on the road TO certain success. And we are
further led to make reference TO it for the
reason that the Jealous admirers of the
respective possible candidates for the nomi-
nation are insisting upon being heard in
these columns in an expression of their pre-
ferences. We have before us two commune
cations, the authors of which feel confident
that we should give them place. They are
the antipodes of the questiOn-SHERMAN
and anti-SHERMAN, in which the names Of
three candidates, GRANT, SHERMAN and
BLAINE are mentioned prominently, Under
q somewhat persistent request on each
side we are inclined to publish both, as
specimen bricks of each kiln at the present
period and hence they will be found in
another part of this sheet We trust that the
insertion of these communications will not
be taken as an opening Of the door
to food Of contributions ON this subject,
for we may feel called upon TO call halt
Year: 1879

THE opinion of the Okolona States that
Senator THURMAN is possessed of q spinal
column as stiff as an Egyptian obelisk is
not re-echoed and endorsed by his intimates
and political associates here in Washington.


The latter are aware of the fact that the
Senator's inclination to be an out.and.out
State Rights man is of the kind that would
suit the States to dot but they also know
that he is as unreliable when sit comes to q
"pinch" as JOE BLACKBURN, who, 1t will be
remembered, heads his own list of dastards.


Witness his many back-downs in the late
extra session, wherein, as the Car of the
caucus, he planted himself ever so firmly in
favor of unconditional repeal of the Ma
tional election laws, but was finally discov-
cred waving his bandana in sneaking,
pitiful and puerile attempt at Modification
Year: 1879

at this point. AT all events, it is but just
to all concerned that when we are furnished
with q paper strongly partizanizing any
ono of the candidates urged by their re-
speotive friends no one side will be admit
ted without corresponding favor to the
other. They will go hand-in-hand, subject
to the editorial judgment of the paper,
whether or not any shall appear We en-
tertain the old-fashioned opinion that n
party journal should not partizanize its i'm
fluence within the party in advance of the
convention, whose province it is to select q
standard-bearer. Then every party journal
should be free from all entangling alliances
which can possibly cool its zeal or weaken
its efforts in behalf of the cause when its
leader is placed before the country for the
popular suffrage.
Year: 1879

IT is the almost unanimous complaint of
casual soiourners, as we'll as of citizens of
the District who have recently returned
from brief visits to other sections, that
Washington yields more stenches to the
square inch this summer than ever before at
this season of the year. The reason for this
is that bone-boiling establishments and
other fagrantly fragrant factories are per-
mitted this year to do almost as they please,
and they are never so well pleased rs when
they emit the most outrageous stenches. Ol
course some one is responsible for this, and
reasoning from cause, which in this case is
inattention to duty, to effect, it would not
be difficult to establish the logical fact that
it is the District authorities themselves who
smell bad.
Year: 1879

SECRETARY SCHURz will soon visit the
Crows, If he fingers there long enough he
will find himself surrounded by the hard
money Democrats of the East, all of whom
will naturally seek their regular diet in the
Crow country as soon as the Greenbackers
complete the swallowing job they now have
on hand
Year: 1879

ONE way to preserve the health Of large
cities would be to use the shotgun very
freely in the immediate neighborhood of
sewer projectors and sewer builders. After
that it would be well to enforce strict laws
against bad plumbing. The sewer man and
the plumber are the best friends the doctors
have in the heated term.
Year: 1879

THE sea-serpent and Senator THURMAN
made their appearance cotemporaneously
ON or near the coast of Halifax, N. S. The
coincidence was not alarming although it
was natural that the Boss Copperhead of
this country should have been thus attended
during his foreign" trip.
Year: 1879

THE death of Baron GERoLT at Bonn last
week was barely noticed by the press of
this country. Yet he was for years during
his long term of diplomatic service the Dean
of the Diplomatic Corps here in Washing
ton, and at the same time an earnest and
loyal friend of the Union cause.