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Year: 1879

WHEN you are In bathing always dive
under water and grab d lady,s foot -
she won't scream. If she should happen
to set up i yell, then duck her, and
If you hold Der under long enough, this
will prove eHeetual
Year: 1879

Sr. Louis, November l4.-There is a
movement among the millers here TO
close their mills until tine price of wheat
declines. Two mills closed to-day, and
two more will shut down as soon
as what wheat they have on hand
is ground, and this action will probably
become general. The principal reason
assigned ior this is that flour is below
the price OF wheat, and can only be
made at loss. Many millers have al
ready lost heavily on contracts made
when wheat was less than a dollar
per bushel, and they see no profit
in the immediate future. But little -four
has been shipped from here the last
three weeks and large amOunts,are in
store. more than enough to supply all
demands for some time. The millerS are
ratisiied that there must be a decline in
wheat pretyt soon, at all events they
will not purchase until the price falls or
there is q margin on -four.
Year: 1879

MARVELLOUS EsCAPE-At Cincinnati last:
Sunday 4-year-old boy, who was leaning out.
OF the fourth story of a tenement house. lost his
balance and started whiriing dowa toward the
orick Povement, fifty feet below On the porch
OF the third story, Immediately below him, stood
niue glrl lo years old, the daughter of one Of
the residents of that floor She saw the how
coming, and by an instinct or purpose, which
amounted to herosm, put out her arm TO try to
save the boy. She did catch him at the risk of
being dragged over herself and of falling with,
him. OF course she could not hold such weight
but her arm was just strong enough to turn the
course OF his fall, so that he landed on her feet
on the hoor of the third porch. His head struck
the baluster, and he had an ugly cut on his fore
head and one eye was considerably injured, but
his life was saved. The little girls arm was
famed, cut not broken. She said she saw him,
coming, and just thought she might save him if
she would put out her arm, and she did it.
Year: 1879

A "REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR.-Mr.
Sanford, Of Alabama, to illustrate a point
in recent speech in the House of Repre-
sentaiivcs, said he had heard of an incident
which occurred on battlefield in North
Carolina. Two brothers, one wearing the
blue and the other the gray, had by a
strange coincidence shed their life. blood on
the same battlefield. A tender fathers
hand gathered their remains together and
buried them in the same grave, over which
he raised shaft bearing on the northern
face the name Of him who had worn the
blue and on its southern face the name of
him who had worn the gray. On the ives.
tern face was the inscription-"Erccted by
the loving hand of father over two boys,
equally loved"-and, on the eastern face,
the inscription-"Who was right and who
was wrong shall be decided before that
great tribunal to which both have gone
/, their father, will not decide who was
right and who was wrong
Year: 1879

Coon MovI.-The veto message was re-
ferred to the committee OH the judiciary. The
object of this is understood to be to give an op-
portunity for a formal reply to be made in behalf
OF the Democratic majority to the arguments of
.he PRESIDENT: both in this and the previous vc-
to message. 1t will be submitted in the nature
OF report from the judiciary committee, and
will state the Democratic position. The purpose
will then be to let the veto messages and the rs
fatation so out together TO the country
Year: 1879

On the front of the shaft is carved palmetto
tree, with a shield beneath it, on which are cut
the letters &C. S. A." On the east and west
faces of the shaft are the cmblems of the army
and navy Of the Confederate States.
Year: 1879

Appropriated by Legislature. $50 90
lotai.".'.'... .."............-.Sll,73 ,734 40
While the monument remained here be-
fore erection, the Association paid interest
on their debt to the contractors, forwarding
to them such sums as they received from
time 20 time, and these yere deducted from
Sshe pti6cfpai and accfuing interest


THE MONUMENT
LIS forty feet high from the ground to the
top. The statue at the top is eight feet
high, and represents Confederate soldier
holding his gun with fixed bayonct. He
stands with one foot advanced his head
erect and his face looking boldly to the
front. lie wears cape, the left side of
which is thrown over his shoulder, slouch
hat, and all the trappiuSs of soldier on
duty.


On the front die>stone beneath is WI litten
the following inscription:


This monument


Perpetuates the memory


OF those


Whc,
True to the instincts of their birth.
Faithful to the teachings of their fathers,
Constant in their love for the State,


Died in tho performance


Of their duty;


Who


Have glorifed fallen cause
BY the simple manhood Of their lives,
The patient endurance of suffering,
And the hcroism of death


And who,
In the dark hours of imprisonment,
In the hopclcssness of the hospital
In the short, sharp agony of the field,


Found


Their support and consolation


In the belief
That at home they would not be forgotten.
On the rear die stone the following:


Let the stranger,


Who may in future times


Read this inscription,
Recognize that these were men
Whom Power could not corrupt
Whom Death could not tcrrify,
Whom Defeat could not dishonor.
And let their virtues plead for just Judgment
OF the cause in which they perishcd.


Let the South Carolnian


Of another generation
Who may read this roll of honored names


Remember


That the State taught them


How to live and how to die
And that from her b.oken fortunes
She has left to her children
1hc ono priceless legacy OF their memories,


Teaching all who may


Claim the same bir.hright


That


Truth, Courage and Patriotism


Endure forever.
On the west face Of the base were the words:
TO SOUTH CAROLINA'S DEAD
1911 OF THE 1865
CONFEDERATE ARMY.
On the cast face Of the base the following:
ERECTED By TIE WOMEN


OF
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, April 9, 1870.
To tho Editor Of the Democrat:


The lnolossd article from the Baltimore
Telegram presents some Views which think
ought to be considered by The Southern pso-
pie, and therefore hope you will have II repltt-
lished. That the lobby Is making an organ
i5ed effort TO array the South against Tildsn
because Of his opposition TO their scheme Of
plumber by appeals to the sectional feeling Of
the South Is undeniable. The lobby of the
Texas Pacific Railroad Company Ia only n
part Of this organization.


The whole jobbing interest is IN the league
against Tilden. Now. the question for the
South to decided is whether It can be influenced
by appeals TO Its sectional prejudice TO abau-
don the issue On the fraud and on reform and
take up candidate whose nomination win
raise the currency Issue, upon which the
party Is divided, and thus insure the rs-elec-
tion Of Grant. On the other hand, If the
Southern people will now put down these ap-
peals TO Southern sectionalsm and rally for
Tiden's denomination, to assert the right OF
ths people to elect their President and TO
purify and reform the government they will
so vindieate themselves from the chargs Of
| seeking to control the government as to dis
arm Northern seetionalism and enable the
Democratic party to carry the North as well
ms the South on the great issues Of fraud and
reform. On this issue of fraud, as stated in
the Telegram article the facts are unfisputed.
| If upon this issue we can enter the contest
dssrnbarrassed Of the sectional issue, we
shall have the sympathy OF all the true
friends Of popular government, and our VIC
tory will be overwhelming. The result will
be the total elimination oil seetienalism from
our politics hereafter. This will give new
| life to the South. It's fertile lands, Its water
| power its coal and iron mines and other great
natural advantages WILL III we can lift that
weight from It, give 1t d degree Of prosperity
1t has never known.


| Are not these then the considerations which
the men who love the South ought to weigh
instead Of the paItry esctIoueeTtng appsafs
made to their prejudicss against Tiiden, be-
cause he was OF the old Van Buren, and
Wright party2 II the Southern people are
sincere In letting by-gones be by-gones
as respects the slave questions, they will not
hesitate to support .Tildsn, for on every other
question bnt that he has shown himself 10 be
the representative man OF Southern opinions.
He is q free trader and an economist Of the
most approved type.


rhe editor Of the Telegram is himself o
Southern man Of the ultra States rights
school, and his grandfather, Abel 2. Upshur.
OF Virginia, whose ability and character he
inherits, was Secretary of the Navy In Mr..
Tylsr's Calhoun Cabinet. and among the
most illustrious men OF that school. His
ardent support OF Tildsn comes altogether
from seeing that that Is the way to deliver
his people from the bondage Of Radealsm
and to restore them to prosperity.


Yours truly, M. B..
Year: 1879

shell burst in the road near Prince Milan
while he was walking at Nish, Oh Tuesday.
His aide.de-camp was wounded. 1t is not
known whether the explosion was the result
of a plot to assassinate the Prince.
Year: 1879

When Mr.. John Wise was lost il
his balloon called Pathfinder" sew


eral weeks ago, the newspapers printed


many accounts of trips made into the


air, some by brave men and some by


foolish ones. A lady who lives in the


town of Centralia, in the State of Ill;-


nois, said nothing until all the rest


were through talking Then, one day


last week, she told the editor of the
st. Louis Republican to look into the


number of the Republican that was


printed on the 2lst day of September,


1858 The editor looked and found an


account of how two little children took
a trip in balloon all by themselves.


On that day an aronaut, named


Brooks, filled his ship with gas on the
farm of Mr.. Harvey, who lived near
Centralia. He expected to sail in the
afternoon. About noontime Mr.. Har-
vey put his two children into the bas-
ket of the balloon just to please them,
and not thinking for moment of anv
danger. The balloon was tied to
tree by ropes. All at once a gust of
wind broke the ropes and the balloon
shot up into the sky with nobody but
the two children in the basket. Mr..
Harvey was wild with grief and
shouted aloud: "They're lost, they're
lost" All the neighbors ran to the
spot only to see the balloon drifting
off north and more than a mile high.
One of the children was girl, Nettie,
eight years cid, and the other was her
little brother, Willie, four years old.
Both cried when they found them
selves leaving the ground and going
on very, very strange journey in
deed. Nettie looked over the edge of
the basket and saw her father wiring
ing his hands away below. Soon the
people looked to her like babies and
the houses like toy houses. She and
Willie were going up, up, up all the
time. II expect we are going to hea-
ven, Willie" said Nettie Willie
thought it was very cold in heaven
then, for the higher they went the
colder it grew Nettie wrapped Will
lie in her apron and held his head fast
in her lap until he cried himself fast
asleep. Then Nettie folded her hands
and waited. 81 think we must be
near the gate now" She meant the
gate of heaven that she had heard
about in Sunday school, But Nettie
fell asleep, too. When she awoke she
found that some strange man was lift
ing her from the basket. The strange
man was farmer in Northern Hi
nois, who had seen a balloon drifting
low down across his field The rope
was drag ging and so he caught it and
landed the children safely. The bal
loon had foated al night Nettie and
Willie's father soon learned that they
had been found, and took them home
two days afterwards. Nettie is now a
woman--thc very same one who told
the Republican to look back in his
files for the story
Year: 1879

No subscription will be discontinued until all
arearagcs are paid. Postmasters neglectrng to
notify us when subscribers do not take out their
papers will be held liable for the subscription
Subscribers removing from one postoffice to
another should give us the name of the former
as well as the present Office.


All communications intended for publication
in this paper must be accompanied by the real
name OF the writer not for publication. but as
. guarantee Of good faith.


Marriage and death notices must be accompa-
nied by responsible name.


Address


BUTLER. PA.
Year: 1879

Tho conditions favorable to stutterine

 may be hereditary and may manifest

 themselves when the child begins to

 talk. Some sufferers have never known

 free speech. Suffering may be caused

 also by fright and by imitation. Stutter.

 ing sustains itself. That is, the original

 cause may be removed and yet there is

 no end or diminution of the impediment,

 which, on the contrary, increases. If a child recover from nervous or muscular

 weakness-the first cause.-the stutter- ing may seize hold of the chest, and by deranging respiration make conditions which of themselves would bring on the malady. Or if defective respiration be the first cause, and it be remedied, the stuttering may find nourishment in dis ordered nerves or unhealthy brain. Thus, as already said, causes and effects pass the one into the other, so that they are constantly changing not only them selves but also the character of the suffering, whose outward manifesto tions, at intervals of five or ten years, would appear entirely different to an observer. In nothing is the adage, "An ounce of prevention is worth 8 pound of cure," more applicable than in suffering. Indeed in this instance an ounce of the one is more effective than hundred weight of the other. Children with stuttering tendencies should be specially we'll nourished i; they should take great deal of physical and outdoor exercise care should be taken that their lungs are fully developed and that their nerves are not irritated. Late hours and highly seasoned food, and everything tending to derange, weaken or unduly excite, mentally or physically, should be avoided. The child should not be allowed to talk too rapidly nor when out of breath. If he has trouble with Q word he should be asked to repeat the whole sentence, and not merely the offending word. Often times serious mistake is made here. The child is drilled upon his most difficult words, and he comes to fear them, and, as result, his ability to articulate them is continually lessened. He should not be permitted to associate with another stuttering child: indeed, no child should. Inveterate stuttering may be caused by mimicking others. Throughout, the child should be sub- jected to kind but firm treatment.-7he Voice.
Year: 1879

The New York correspondent of the Baltimore American says:-As an illustration of social equality that reigns in this region, may give an incident of my visit. A Lady from New York had brought with her the score of "Pinafore," which is fast becoming the rage of Sunderland, recent perform ance of the opera at Amhest having given the long opportunity of hearing the famous composition. The domestics in the family of my friends are natives, daughters of farmers living on the out skirts, and to the manner born. Of course, they had been taken with the rest of the family to see "Pinafore," and were infatuated with it. Hearing their mistress try parts of the opera after dinner to-day on the piano, they left their dishes standing and flew to the parlor, where, standing one on each side of her, they sung, with the clear voice and very good expression, parts from the role of Josephine and Butter cup, but, becoming little puzzled as to the correctness of their version, one of them went to the foot of the stairs and told the visitor she wished she would come down and tell them if they sung it right. Of course, the guest obeyed orders, came down and super intended the performance, the lady of the house playing orchestra and the two girls singing with vigor and certain amount of precision, as we'll as ex- pression.

 When the time came for the "Pinafore visitor to depart, one of these young ladies said with genuine heartiness, Goodbye; I've enjoyed your visit ever so much."

 Now, this to some may seem like too much of good thing, but in Sunder- land it seems perfectly natural, right and proper. There is no presuming upon the privileges accorded. Their manners are, after all, respectful and the ! work is we'll done. It is not, of course, easy to get household help, and it could not be had at all except under the con- dition of being treated as "oue of the family" In fact, it is not unusual on the occasion of being invited to after noon tea to be received by the domestic instead of the mistress, if one has hap pened to get dressed before the other, and under these circumstances she would feel bound, as matter of polite ness, to act as entertainer, and it would be churlish person, indeed, who should refuse to be entertained.
Year: 1879

I lay In grief, And Hope drew near to where l tossed alone

 Without relief, And paused moment when she heard that moan; Then raised her glowing eyes and met mine own,

 Never a word she said, Yet still I gazed and still was comforted. Then bending low with wond'rous grace She laid her hand upon my eyes, Her cool hand on my burning face, And at her touch bright visions rise, Fresh woods and streams and unimagtned skies.

 In softest tone She sang the song that had no close, That deathless song which no one knows

 Save she alone; The song that leaves no memory, The song of endless victory

 And future love; And as listened to the voice above, felt as one returning from the dead; Slowly rose and raised my dropping head.
Year: 1879

Six boys were sitting in Chicago barn, on recent evening, talking. Po''

 iceman Collins, who had previously driven them out of the street, entered the building and ordered them to go home. They told him that the building belonged to the father of one of their number, which it did, and that they had a right to remain there, if they were orderly. The policeman instantly began to use his club, beating one lad brutally. They wrenched his club away, struck him once with it, and then hastily scat tered. Collins chased Jimmy Leigh, commanded him to stop, and, because he did not obey, shot him twice in the back. Jimmy fell, and Collins began to roughly drag him toward the station, but he died immediately.

 Judge James c. Edwards, of St. Louis, Mo-, is a man who takes things literally. He agreed to pay 1925 to have his life described in "The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery" but when it came out the Judge declined to pay and stood an action. Upon the trial he testified that he was set down in the dictionary as having been born on the 25th of August, whereas he was born on the 26th of that month. Another gross ly erroneous statement was that he came to St. Louis when he was eight years of age, whereas he never set foot in that city until he was nine years of age. No man could stand this, of course, but the Justice before whom the case was tried did not think the Judge had suffered mortal injury by these glaring errors and gave judgment against him. The Judge, however, proposes to carry the case to the Supreme Court of the United States rather than acquiesce in the shameful misrepresentations.
Year: 1879

Among the interesting men of Roches- ter is Seth Green, the patron of fish culture in America. He is 8 broad shouldered man, square, seaman-like face, reddened by the sun and good

 living. He has fine white beard flow ing over his chest, and he generally

 wears 8 sort of brown velvet sacque and drives good horse. He is worth about $55, ,00O, accumulated as fisherman.

 said to him, in few minutes converse tion we had {: "Mr. Green, what put you in the notion of matching fish and restocking our streams ?" CT fished Lake Ontario" he said, for about one generation. I had 100 miles of net and 100 hands before was done. kept a fish market in Rochester, and supplied white fish, salmon, trout, pickerel, &c.,, all over the country. I was good line fisherman, and went up the streams lending into the lake to get brook trout, salmon and other game fish. One day, when up the stream, saw 8 fine female salmon, weighing about six pounds, come up, attended by her mate and three or four other fish. I had to jump behind tree and take an observation, and there I saw the salmon begin to scoop out place in the bottom of the brook with her tail. After scooping awhile she would go off coquettishly, and then come back, and the other fish seemed to help her. It occurred to me that she was putting her spawn down there, beyond the reach of other kinds of fish. There is nothing in the world so delightful to brook trout as to devour salmon spawn. You know how salmon multiply. Put the spawn out of sight and it will multiply into little salmon {; let it lie in the water and the trout will eat it. I became so interested in that incident that got up in the tree next ! day and made myself kind of seat there among the boughs, where I could look down in the clear water at the opera tions of those fish to protect their spawn. I made up my mind then that if ever got little more money than would keep me would go at fish culture. It had been begun in England and I began to read on it. As soon as I had $1, 200 8 year more income than my necessities, I went at this fish business and took a brook near Rochester, where had five miles to myself, invented my matching boxes and started in. The only money I have made in this business was by the sale of the brook. I made $11, 1000 on it. However, the work has been started in various parts of the country, and we shall not leave the generation to succeed us without fish and sport.
Year: 1879

THE EXTENT TO which American cheese

 is being imported into Ayrshire and re- tailed at prices greatly under the cost of the home produce is (says the Standard) beginning to tell in way that was hardly anticipated by dairy farmers in the coun- try. Many of those farmers, it appears, still find themselves in possession of the bulk of the cheese manufactured last season, with little prospect of getting il disposed of at anything like the figure they have been in the habit of realizing.
Year: 1879

WHEN IT RA1NED.-The following is told of Professor Tholuck A new stu dent had come to the university, and some time after his arrival he called to see Professor Tholuck. After while the Professor asked him where he went to church. "Oh p said he "I do not attend preaching. Instead of confining myself to the four walls of a building go into the green fields and under the lofty arches of the forest trees. I listen to the singing of the birds and the count less melodies of Gods creatures, where everything that hath breath praises the Lord" The Professor allowed him to go on in this strain for a while, and when he had finished he quietly asked him: "But what do you do when il rains p''
Year: 1879

Honor the dear old mother. Time has scattered the snowy flakes on her brow, plowed deep furrows on her cheek, but is she not sweet and beautiful now The lips are thin and shrunken, but those are the lips which have kissed many hot tear from the childish cheeks, and they are the swestest lips in all the world. The eye is dim, yet it glows with the soft radiance of holy love which can never fade. An, yet, she is dear old mother. The sands of life are nearly run out, but feeble as she is, she will go further and reach down lower for you than any other upon earth. You can not walk into midnight where she can not see you; you can not enter prison whose bars will keep her out you can never mount scaffold too high for her to reach that she may kiss and bless you in evidence of her deathless love. When the world shall despise and forsake you, when it leaves you by the wayside to die unnoticed, the dear old mother will gather you in her feeble arms and carry you home and tell you of all your vir- tues until you almost forget that your soul is disfgured by vices. Love her tenderly, and cheer her declining years with holy devotion.