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Year: 1879

morning before large concourse of people,
and the amazement Of the multitude may
be pictured but not described when it was
opened to their wondering eyes. Divided
carefully in the middle, the top half was
removed. disclosing a globe Of beautiful,
golden-hued butter, with plump filed seeds
peeping out from all sides of the luscious.
looking ball. Its weight was estimated BY
many Of the best judges at ten pounds, and
was as fresh and fragrant to the smell as
spring blown daisy. 1t was the unheard of
novelty more than the surprising beauty of
the sight that raised the enthusiastic out
burst of the crowd as they viewed this re.
markable blending Of farm and dairy pro-
duce. The "mea" of the squash, in rich
ness of color, equaled that of the butter
ball, and, after everybody had had fair
chance to see and satisfy themselves of the
genuineness of both, and investigate to
their hearts content the unique exhibit, it
will be divided up and parcelled out 10 a
dozen or more parties, to whom also will be
given portions of the butter for trial. Mr..
johnson receives from the citizens of Hele-
ma special premium of $50 for this rarest
specimen of "bu,ter squash" ever raised
by hand, or. for that matter, by natures own
process We think it will be generally
acknowledged wondrous product, the
counterpart Of which has probably never
before been seen or heard of in Montana or
in any other part of the world.
Year: 1879

amusement was to place the women folks
ii chairs side by side, and, after poking
loaded gun into their faces, to fire it Oh
at a target Just above their heads Five
weeks ago respectable and well con
Quoted woman in this town, whose hus-
hand died less than two years ago, leaV-
ING her q nice little home and $4,000 in
cash. fell in love with young tramp
who came to her door, and though twenty
years his senior she married him. Since
then her house has been a rendezvous for
nearly all the tramps who come along,
and apparently the good news is being
rapidly spread among the fraternity. a
few days ago the woman appeared with a
badly bruised face and damaged eyes, and
her friends had her tramp husband ar
rested for assault. The trial was most
ludicrous affair, for, while the wife ad-
mitted that "Johnnyn not only was
the cause Of her Disagreement, but had
soundly thrashed her at least twice week
during their brief honeymoon, she
declared that she loved him dearly, and
that he only whipped her when he was
mad because she wouldn't at first asking
give him money, or buy him horse and
carriage. The man said that he didn't
think that he thrashed his wife above once
week, and that he loved her dearly.
Upon this followed very dramatic scene
the woman rushing into her husband
arms and mingled her tears and kisses
with his ditto, and both fell on then
knees before Judge Lewis to beg bis
mercy. Judge Lewis told them, L want
no such nonsense here, and fined the


man 1886, which the woman paid, and
few minutes later they were seen loVlngl,


riding toward their peaceful home.
Year: 1879

An intelligent writer on this subject
thinks the use of stimulents to fortlty the
exhausted brain an unwise measure. The
best possible thing, he says, for man to
10 when he feels too weak to carry any
hing through is to 60 to bed and sleef
IS long as he can. This is the only recn
ppration of the brain force because dur
inc sleep the brain is in a state of rest, in
a condition to receive appropriate partl-
cles Of nnfviment from the blood, which
takes the Of those which have been
consumed by previous labor, since the
very act of thinking burns up solid partl
fc}as, as every turn. of the wheel or screw
IF the steamer is the result of consump
fion BY fire of the fuel in the furnace
The supply of consumed brain substance
oan only be had from nutritive particles
in the blood. which were obtained from
the food eaten previously, and the bra1r
IS 50 constituted that it can best receive
and appropriate to itself those nutritious
particles during the state of rest, OF quiet
md stiffness Of sleep.
Year: 1879

reply to Mr.. Garfield. He recapitula-
ted the principal points for which the
Democratic party had been contend
ing, and in conclusion appealed conf
IDENTIFY to the patriotism of the eoun-
try. If on these issues the ROpubli-
can party were TO be successful, such a
result would mean the end of the
republic and the uplifting of an EN-
pire. Could there be any doubt as to
the result of such a controversy? In
Russia, Germany or France, the result
might be doubtful, but it could not be
doubtful here. Civil liberty could
not perish on its own threshold and at
its own fresidc. The past and future
protested against it, and what was of
more practical value, the Democratic
party protested. He could hear the
mutterings of the Anglo-Saxon resolve
against it he could hear the tread of
legions forming with the banners of
civil liberty above them. The contest
was already begun, and God would
give victory to freedom and right
The speech was frequently and enthu-
siastically applauded on the Demo-
cratic side.


The house passed by a party vote
making appropriations for marshals
and their general deputies.
Year: 1879




THE Knoxville Chronicle says: If
the Memphis papers do not weary in
we'll doing, they will build up a public
sentiment in that community which
will render the foolish practice of car
rying concealed weapons the opposite
OF popular. We wish them success in
their good work, and trust they will
keep it up until this relic of barbarism
will be thing Of the past. Let the
savage array himself in hideous form,
and 90 around with deadly weapons
and the scalping knife, but let
men Of culture, intelligence and
courage rely upon something else.
Rather let our jails be filled
with young men and men of
maturer years, hailing from the first
families, but who go to theaters, social
parties aud other public places with
pistoIs in their hip pockets, than that
life should be endangered by a prac-
tice so utterly devoid of reason, so
wicked and SO cowardly. Let the
press in other portions Of the State
Join in with that of Memphis, and
let us have public opinion that
will demand the enforcement Of the
law tNNl I.Ns t'ir
Year: 1879

We would like to know why it is
that while passengers and freight and
express packages come through from
Nashville in single night, we never
get the Banner until the second day
after it is published. Perhaps some
OF the travelling politicians connected
with the mail service can find time
between now and fall to straighten
this matter out. We are certain the
fault is not in the Memphis postofice.
Year: 1879

The Tichborne claimant writes
from DartmoOr prison in answer to a
friend who advises him pray and
have faith" How can | have faith
in anything when | find myself in a
place like this as somebody else ?"
Year: 1879

About eleven o'clock this morning q
lot of window sash that had been taken
from the residence Of II. c. Robinson,
in West street above Ninth, was being
taken away from where they had been
stored at Fourth and Market streets,
and after they were loaded, the horse
turned short around, upsetting the wa.
gon, making a very loud crash and
breaking every light Of glass, some OF
which were one fourth Of an inch thick.
Year: 1879

Live In.


Any person in order to succeed in
this world must follow his avOcation
perscverlugly and diligently, and ad
vance with the inventions and improve.
ments ofhis times, whatever his pro.
fession or trade may be.


1t will not do to stand by old time
usages il we stand still on what We
have learnt, then VIC retrogradc; 9th
era more diligcnt will out-stride US,
you may not fail in your occupation or
trade, but others will supersedc you
in success. Could you expect success
of a manufacturer who would not avail
himself besides steam power of all late
inventions and improvements, who
would not take printers lux in rcqui
sition to advertise his merchandise,
and also avail himself of the telegraph
to transmit important dispatches.


1t isa false saying that "the world
owes you livingi" this motto may do
for tramp, thiet, or swindler; but
the world will give you an honest liv-
ing If you labor for it.


Many trouble themselves too much
about the future, Of which we absolute
" know nothing. Sufficient are the
evils of life time; let us struggle to
avert them as much as possible; you
have plenty to do, to mind your own
business, and to provide for your fam
lily. without troubling yourself to try to
find out how the Universe was made
nr to fathom the eing who made it,
. and trying to locate heaven and hadcs
thee subjects will ever be incom
prehcnsible TO human beings for they
are too exalted over the most gigantic
intellect of man.


IfyOu are u protestant and you
should travel in a country where the
catholic faith in an established religion,
do not attemp. to get into controversy
about their faith ; perhaps you would
show your ignorance, for possibly you
do not fully know their doctrines; but
more than probably you would engen-
der hatred and disgust if not p-osecu'
tion BY controversy. If you want to
cou-ince the catholic that yours is
u better religion, then show it byyorr
acts. If you are in Mohammedan
country do not deride their religion,
for you probably y never read the Moran.
and they have some traits that the
Christian might well initiate, viz.
their great reverence for parents and
their hospitality. If you abide by the
doctrine Love God above all. and thy
ncichbor as thy self" then you will
get along anywhere. Z. Il.
Year: 1879

If we recur to the subject of tenement-hOuse
reform, concerning which so much has been
said and so little done in our city during the
Winter and Spring, it is only for the purpose
of making direct appeal to the members of
the Legislature. The act which was drawn
up by the Committee of Nine appointed at one
of the mass-meetings in Cooper Institute has
been favorably reported In both houses, and
can be passed any day; but for some mystic
rious reason it is not called up. Mr.. Murphy
seems to be responsible for the delay. He has
charge of the bill in the Senate, but does not
seem disposed to take 1t any further and
there it lies at the head of the list of orders
Its passage is assured whenever tho Senate
can have a chance to vote upon it; and the
Assembly will undoubtedly concur in the
amendments, and allow this radical measure
of sanitary reform to become a law. The end
of the session is close at hand; delay is I'M
necessary and mischevous; the bill should be
acted upon at once.


That the act will prevent the construction
of tenement-houses on ordinary city lots is
quite certain. When SIS out of $500 square
feet of superficial area are reserved for courts
and areas, so few families can be lodged on
a floor that remuneratiye returns on the capt.
tai invested are out OF the question. This
feature of the bill is open to criticism; but
in other respects it is a sound and benefcent
measure. 1t invests the Health Department
with ample powers of supervision and cor
rection; it opens skylights us well as ventila-
tors in every tenement hall; it prevents over
crowding; and it enforces the fundamental
principle that every room wherein human
beings work or sleep shall be lighted and ven-
tilated by window opening upon street,
court or area. The need for legislation in this
Year: 1879

If the constitutional provision which gives
the President authority to review tie meas
ures of legislation adopted by the two houses
of Congress had no other merit to recommend
it, we should regard it as a most valuable
safeguard against the eXccsses of demaGOgues
and reckless partisans on account of its use
fulness in correcting misapprehensiOns and
stripping off DISCUSSES. The Democratic party
in Congress has been making a determined
campaign against the Federal election laws,
but making it through series of false pre-
tences. The prOpriety and necessity of the
laws are so well understood by everybody
that direct movement for their repeal would
be dangerous. The Democracy proposes,
therefore, under cover of preteXt which the
leaders neither believe in themselves nor
believe that their followers believe in, to
Obstruct the execution of the laws so that they
may be practically imperative. The Democrats
have also been making a campaign against
the general authority of the Federal Govern
ment to enforce its own statutes and defend
its own life but that also. since the question
involved is popYarly supposed TO have been
settled by the war, is too dangerous an un-
dertaking to be riskcd openly, and again they
leSO1l 10 SuDltIluSt anu StIdlttS<tH' IHc ut-
bate has been conducted from the first upon
false premises, and has been pushed toward
false conclusions. The bill under discussion
was framed for a purpose widely different
from its ostensiblc object, and has been de-
Tended upon reasons and assumptions entirely
distinct from those which influenced its sup
pOrters. The minority have indeed demon
strated from time to time its true character I;
but they have been forced to travel far a-feld
in order to meet the attacks of their adver-
saries, and thus the long cOntrOversY. in Con-
gress has been unreal from first to last.


The Presidents clear and ringing veto mes
sages are like the voice of authority calling
back the disputants to the question before
them. They are models of that most effective
style of argument which consists in simple
exposition of the matter in debate. 1t was
only necessary for him to show what it was
that Congress tried to do by the Army Appro-
pliation bill, and at once all controversy on
that topic came to an end. There was abso-
lutely not a word to be said in support of the
Democratic scheme, and the Democrats showed
that they realized this by the rapidity with
which they shifted the point of attack


Neither in Congress nor in the press was there
any serious reply to the Presidents statements I;
but tacitly admitting that Mr.. Hayes was un-
answerable, the caucus set about the cOnstruo-
ton of a new bill to evade his objections. The
first. Its meaning is no sooner exposed than
Year: 1879

We have National Board of Health, and 1t has
done excellent work. 1t has sent out a Commission
to search for the Of yellow fever III Cuba and
elsewhere it is labOnng steadily IN the collection
of vital statistics and in the investigation OF
all the great problems of disease, and last
week il met at atlanta the public health officers of
the Mississippi Valley to concert measures for the
sanitary protection Of that region. Besides the
National Board there are twenty State Boards Of
Health, fifteen of which were represented at the
meeting OF the National Public Health
Association at Richmond. But the greatest
State of all, New-York, has no such In
stitution and will not have unless the bill
pending in the Assembly, authorizing the
Governor to appoint such a Board shall
pass No doubt it will be asked what practical good
such a Board can do. In the first place it could
supply want which may, without eXagCeration, be
said to be dsgraceful to the Statethe lack of any
registry Of mortality any form of vital statistics
The million of families in this State have no
records, except in this city and Brooklyn, OF
the births, marriages and deaths of their
members; and science, in taking account Of
the statistics of life and death, must pass over
the State of New-YOrk. The State Board of Health
could do much directly for life and health, as well


as indirectly by promoting scientific inquiry. 1t
could prevent, or at least could check the yearly
outbreaks OF iata diseases IN the villages ana NAM
let's of the State. Few realize how destructive
of these are. Not long ago more than half of the
inhabitants of a populous and beautiful village
in the Southern tier were prOstrated by malignant
fever When the National Public Health Assoca-
tion investigated the NATTER il was found that the
wells were drawing up from underlying sandstone
the sOakage of the feversinks of the households
cessiyely invaded. Last Winter in remote dis
trct where medical attendance was poor, there was
an outbreak of dphtheria so malignant that the
terrified people left the sick poor to die un-
cared for. Even in the beautiful village and
region Of Geneva the same disease killed hundreds
of persons whom prompt and suitably authenticated
sanitary instructions might have saved. Another
village, an important place in trade, was scourged
by smallpox until wealthy citizen did
what there should have been State Board of
Health to do-organized a lazaretto, provided
nurses, issued instructions, etc. etc. Such things
are happening every year, and very many lives are
lost-may be lost tins Summer-through prevent
able causes. There Is plenty of work for a State
Board of Health to do. and the present Legislature
should not fail to pass the bill.
Year: 1879

The Trustees Of the Metropolitan Museum OF Art,
at their annual meeting, held yesterday in the new
binding in the Central Park, took a step which
may yet prove far more important to the iulnre
interests of the Institution than its recent re-
moyal. They unanimously elected General
di Cesnola Director Of the Museum. IL is a singular
coincidence that the first organizer and director OF
tho British Museum. and for quarter of century


its chief pillar of support, was the late Sir
Anthony Panizzi, an Italian, who, like di
Cesnoll, had thoroughly identified himself
with his adopted country and fairly earned his
citizenship by long and conspicuous service The
English world of art was proud OF and grateful to
Panlzzi. aud America has more than one reason for
a similar feeling to di Cesnola. Coming to
us entirely unknown in 1860, he volunteered
for the war in 1861, served with distinguished gal
lantry throughout, entered then the consular ser
vice where again his record was excellent. became
then an explorer and archDOlOgist, aud with the
most creditable feeling of pride in his adopted coun-
try. refused superior offers from Great Britain IN
order that the Cesnola collection Of antiquities
miqht become the chief attraction fol the Metropol-
itan Museum of Art in New-York. lt is IN every
way fitting that such a career should be crowned
by the unanimous selection to the director
ship of this museum. We count it a happy
augury for the future of the institution, which
seems now at the turning point of what we all hope
may prove a most brilliant and useful career.


The removal to the new building has been
completed under the direct personal super
vision Of committee Of the trustees,
consisting of General Cesnola, Mr. Prime and Mr..
Andrews. For several weeks they devoted every
day to the work, and as result are able
TO announce that the entire collection OF
treasures of all sorts has been transferred without
the loss or breakage of a single article. They
are now making a special effort to Sc
cure the Avery collection of Oriental porce'
lain. As usual, the trustees have already
put their hands into their own pockets and suo-
scribed about $40 900 towards the purchase. 1t IS
time that the public should now assume the burden,
and an appeal ig shortly to be made 70 them.
Year: 1879

The great merit Of Senator Ben Hills speech
in the Senate on Saturday was its exceeding
frankness. He is gentleman who has been
put forward ever since the close of the war
as the representative of the real Union senti-
ment of the South. His public utterances in
favor of a restored Union and in behalf of
reconciliation and peace have been widely
quoted at the North as showing that the
Year: 1879

matter is so pressing that the interests OF the
public must not be imperillcd by any qub-
bling over the provisions of this act We have
already named the Senator who seems to be
blocking the wheels.
Year: 1879

Neither the claims of locality nor of polit-
ical prominence should be decisive in choOs-
ing members of the Tax Law Commission ;
but the Legislature should, at the same time,
take care not to lose sight of the fact that
New-York City pays more than half of the
taxes of the State.
Year: 1879

The favorite Democratic scheme to tax the
incomes of the North SO that the tax on the
tobacco and whiskey of the South may be
made next to nothing, reappeared in the House
Of Representatives yesterday. A proposition
70 suspend the rules and pass bill reyivng
Year: 1879

IL is universally admitted to be 1nde1ensiDie'
A bill which deprives the Federal Govern
ment, OH certain days of the year, OF the
right to protect its own property,-a bill when
takes from the President the means, even Tor
short season. of performing his sworn duty
in the execution of the laws of the United
States.-a bill which reverses the historic
view of the Presidents functions maintained
in an unbroken line of enactments from the
time of Washington down to the present day.
"a bill which contains repeating clause
whose reach no human being can understand,
and imposes severe penalties for offences so
vague that no officer can be sure whether he
is committing them or not,-a bill, hnaiiy
and worst of all, which makes the Federal
Government distinctly subordinate to the
State Governments, and allows local Slnc-
tionaries to use the Army OF the United
States while the Federal Executive Is for-
hidden to do sO-this Is measure
which needs no stronger condemnation than
the Presidents impartial analysis and exhibl-
ton of it. Controversy upon such clear
case is out of the question.


If it were possible by any new law to
guard the suffrage against military interfer-
ence, or the fear of military interference,
more effectually than it is guarded already,
we should advise some Republican Senator or
Representative now TO introduce bill
for that purpose. But it is not possible, ana
the Democrats know that it is not. They are
not trying to erect safeguard against in
reference by the military authorities; but
they are striving to remove the ballot from
under the protecting care of the General
Government. That they shall not DO They
may as well admit the inevitable without
further struggles, which only expose them to
fresh defeats and notifications.