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Year: 1878



 daJ) Tn Lakeville, will serve to foster and keep alive this new impetus. The need for active, energetic workers in this cause is great, and whatever is done. Is done for the cause of humanity and good order. Speech making, singing and grove meetings are not enough to save men and keep them saved. Work of this kind is good and commenda- ble in itself and serves to engender spirit for the prosecution of the work, but there must be something more. The spirit of en-. thusiasm inspired by such means, must be kept in motion, and work must be the re- suit. This work must be individual and personal to be effective, and it must be con- tiruous and uninterrupted to. be lasting, spAsmodic, galvanic workings in any move ment, produce only transitory effect, and the reaction weakens and retards.

 From the interest manifested in the To- cal county fairs and agricultural exhibits this fall. it IS evident that the farmers do not experience the severest of the hard times and general commercial depression. The yield in everything this year is good, and we hear but few complaints against bad weather, severe storms or heavy drought. The farmer feels every change in the commercial world, as his products are always staple and worth their money. When, then, he brings the work of his hands, and the produce of his fields into view for competition with others, or for sample of what is, and what can be done. EooIo sad hat h<n. A~ his power to avert this terrible incubus now pressing on every trade and work. If the in every state would combine and pledge themselves not to mention, or suffer to be mentioned in their hearing the words | ''hard times,p then would be snch an in all business and business en- ,erprise as would bring ali into healthy tate, and prosperity would be an assured act.
Year: 1878

In its peculiar way the Chicago Times
discusses what it considers the peculiar
phases of this subject:


A Washington telegram predicts that
the secrets of the Louisiana returning
board conspiracy will all be brought out
before the winter closes, "and the history
of the entire presidential swindle will be
revealed" A good deal of the history
of the presidential swindle has been re
vealed already. That part of it which
consisted in throwing overheard all the
party leaders at Cincinnati who had
shown any considerable capacity for po-
litical leadership and, taking up an un-
known man who had never shown any
capacity for leadership-that is, had
never shown any fitness for the office
of the executive-needs no further reve-
lation. No part of the entire presiden-
tial swindle was greater swindle than
that. That part which consisted in
putting forward Sam Tilden as "re-
form" candidate of peculiar fitness for
an emergency, and that part which ex
hibited his peculiar unftness to grapple
with the emergency that came, need no
further revelation. But no part of the
presidential swindle was greater swim
die than those parts. BY all means
let the whole presidential swindle be
revealed. But let us not overlook the
already revealed parts of that gigantic
swindle in our curiosity to know what
the unrevealed parts are like.
Year: 1878

The Baker county Democrat is in
formed by persons who are acquainted
with the depth of the snow in the
mountains, that there is more snow
there now than there has been for
several years. While it has been
raining in the valley, heavy and wet
snow has fallen in the mountains. If
this great snow fall is general over
the western slope ofthe Rocky noun
tains about the headquarters of the
Columbia, we may look for high wa
ter in that river during June next.
1t will be we'll for the citizens liv-
ing on the Columbia bottom to pre-
pare for high water.
Year: 1878

The spirit of chivalry has not yet
disappeared among the white men of
Louisiana. A dozen of them in West
Baton Rouge, one night last week,
hagellated four colored men, whom
they suspected of being cattle thieves,
The next night they went to the house
of one of the unfortunates and apollo
gized because they had thrashed him
by mistake. 1t was very kind of them
to do this, and their courtesy must be
fine salve for a sore back.
Year: 1878

A letter to the Port Townsend AT-
gus say there is much activity among
the people on San Juan and Lopez
Islands Farmers are busily employed.
The Catholics are building church on
San Juan island, and the lumber for a
Presbyterian church is on the ground
Year: 1878

At quarter before 8 o'clock this
morning we were at the pump house
and the large pump was making four
teen strokes to the minute, and there
fore was pumping TOO gallons or %
barrels Of water every minute.


Where this large amount Of water
was being consumed it is difficult for
us TO imagine. It shows, however,
what 10 very true, that the consump-
ton Of water during the first year Of
our water works has reached . very
large figure.
Year: 1878

The absence of the "old man" from the Enterprise "wheel" yesterday IS perhaps the most charitable excuse for allowing illegal gentlemen here" to make covert attack upon tour new Judge in explanation of their failure in a certain injunction suit. to convince him that they knew all about the law of inlunctions. We are free to confess that we know less about the law governing the matters in question, if possible, than the illegal gentlemen" who have appealed from the Court to the Enterprise for the trial of their cause; but the presumptions are in favor of the opinion that the Judge is cor rect in his deciSions at least, he has better

 nance than otheas to know the right, and no one, competent to judge, who has ob- served his action thus far on the bench will doubt his ability and inclination to decide correctly every question submitted to bim. Ourob ;ervatiOn has been that ''legil gentle men here," as well as elsewhere, who are constantly at war with the Court are gen.r ally those who either have bad causes in Court. or % into Court with their cases poorly prepared. Some one has said that the Lord is on the side eff the army that has the longest guns, and we think he might have added that the Court is on the side of the lawyer who has the best cause, and who does the best work. If the object of this attack is to frighten ''onr new Judge" into decisions not sustained by his under sta ding of the law, it will be a worse de feat than they met in the Court room, or ve are deceivs>. in the material of which the Court is composed.
Year: 1878

wastekcn of tea in this country, the Chinese
government placed an export tax of fifteen
cents per pound upon all teas shipped from
China to this country, thus keeping the price
of the commodity the same as it was before
the tax was removed. The abolition puts
money into Chinese coffcrs-not our own.
Neither do we enjoy the benefit of cheap
tea. five restore the duty the Mongolians will
abolish their export tax; we will buy the tea
just as cheap as now, and Government will
be annually enriched thereby Sl1,OoO,OOO.
Let us try il.
Year: 1878

agent TO the penioner without any inter-
vention. Another misstatement Is that the
bill provides for back pay to all living pen-
sioners, whereas but about one-eighth Of the
number are interested, and these are pan
sioners who by accident and incident, and
not unfrequently through the fault Of the
Government itself, were unable to secure
their pensions within the limitation Of five
years, including widows, who could not
prove they were widows within that time,
ms well as those whose papers were pigeon
holed by attorneys and neglected, and others
whose papers were destroyed by fire or lost
in transmission through tho mails-all of
whom have been deprived Of their rights.
There is no pensioner borne upon the rolls
of tho United States who has not fled
medical and other proof in the Pension-0f-
flee to show that his disease, If pensioned
for such, not only originated in the service,
but has continued from the time Of dis
charge until the date of application for PEN
sion.


The statement has been recklcssly made
by portion Of the press that the bill pro-
poses to make donations to pensioners Of
sums from 800 to $1,000 each-whereas
nothing Of the kind is proposed, as the pen
sioners have only asked that Congress shall
act upon the question of their rights rs pre-
sented by them. The further statement
has been made by the Chicago Tribune and
other Northern journals that it would take
some 500, 1000, 600 to meet the requirements
Of this measure, while the truth is that the
report Of the Pension Office to the chairman
of the House committee one year ago shows
that it will require only about 10000, 900
No one can deny that this sum would dc
vastly more good to the country in this
shape than by lying idle in the vaults o.
the Treasury. We can understand South
ern hostility to this measure, but can dis
cover no good reason why the North should
not be unit in its behalf as an act of jus
tice to the soldier who periled his life and
has suffered for the salvation of the Union
Year: 1878

Congress yesterday refused to appropriate
$4,000 to keep the schools Of the District of
Columbia open for the education of its
youth, and their doors will be closed on I he
1st of May This is sad commentary upon
Congress of the United States in the nine
teenth century, but it is a faithful reflex OF
the aims and purposes of the Democratic
party of the present day. They would suf-
fer the people of this District, which is sol ely
dependent upon the munincence of Con-
gress for the means of education, to be ILL
educated and their manner to be corrupted
from their infancy. This calls to mind the
sentiment of THOMAS MOORE on this sub
jcct. When this is done, he says-"then
punish them for those crimes to which
their first education disposed them-you
first make them thieves, and then punish
them"


The people of the District of Columbia
are subjected to great wrongs at the hands
OF Congress, but this is the greatest
that L<, as yet been laid upon
their interests. One-third of the
children educated within the limits of the
District belong tto transient families, who
are brought here from all parts of the ma
ton to consume the substance of tax-pay-
ers, and a considerable percentage belong ia
the very men who now withhold the means
for keeping the fountains of education open
TO all. While Ignorance is dangerous
"and spiritual poison which all men ought
"warily to shun," it appears to be tn,
popular inspiration that a Democratic
House would invoke. As Democ,
mcy thrives best among thu
ignorant and vicious, the Democrats appea
to be intent upon establishing their hot-bed
at the National Capital.


Close the schools Turn our youth loos,
upon the streets or imprisOn them in ou
homes at the behests of q parsimoniou
Congress, the popular branch of which /
eminently, and unfortunately for the wei
fare of the country, Democratic. Wha
motive inspires this action we will not as
sumo to divine; but that it is of the wors
possible type there is no doubt.
Year: 1878

An insinuation from the flippant and gar
rulous Opposition press is going the rounds to
the effect that General TON EWING is man9u-
wiring to make Secretary SHERMAN Presi-
dent, with the design to become Secretary of
the Treasury himself. If Secretary SHER-
MAN should ever become President by any
now unforeseen combination of circum-
stances, he would no doubt, select Cabinet
from outside the Democratic party and his
own blood relatives. But this makes no
difference with the Opposition. When other
sources of attack upon Mr. SHERMAN fail
they resort to their weak imagination for
causes. The EwINGs are great as family
something like the BLAIRs; but their Jort'
is not Presidcnt-making
Year: 1878

IT Is the plain duty of every good Repub-
lican to encourage Democratic investigation
into public affairs. A campaign is coming
on, and the resultant discoveries of these
investigations make good Republican CAM
paign material.
Year: 1878

THERE is a story that President HAYES
consulted with several Louisiana Republic
cans regarding the nomination for the New
Orleans scollectorship. Will some one please
reproduce that letter Of acceptance?
Year: 1878

Now COMES the correspondent of the Bal
timore Sm from this point and says Mr..
HEWITT knew all the while that JAY
GOULD sent $4,000 down to Florida to aid
in the elucidation of President HAYES cleo
ton in 1915. What man Mr. HEWITT is
to keep secret and let it out at the proper
time TO advance the interests of the DemOc-
racy! There are other secrets, however
that he does not reveal for tho same reason
that he does reveal this one. Why don't he
tell us how much JAY GOULD or some other
non-partisan railroad manipulation sub
scribed TO the Democratic funds2
Year: 1878

WHY not restore the duty on tea ? Tea IL
tho rich mans beverage more than 1t is the
poor mans drink. The tax on tea brought
to our revenue nearly SllOOOO0O annually,
1t was abolished, and the tax on sugar re-
tanned. Sugar is the poor mans luxury
and while perhaps there is a deficiency in
our revenue not making it advisable to ad-
init imported sugar free Of duty at the
present time, yet we can see no good reason


why tea should be exempt. When the duty
Year: 1878

1t may seem incredible to the ordina-
~ reader, says the Germantown Tele-
graph, yet it is a fact, that we have
within our present National territories,


far greater riches Of gold and silver


that are not mined at all, thar all the
known and producing mines yield. In
Arizona and New Mexico these unde-
velOped resources are immense, and the
mines now known in our other terrific
ries are but few in comparison with the
aUriferOUs and aTgentifeTOus treasures
that lie neglected. In Colorado and
Nevada there are no obstacles to the
opening and working Of the mines. In
Utah the MOrmOns are no longer able
to prevent the increase of tho mining
element. In Idaho, Montana and Da-
kotah the trouble is with the Indians,
If the Indians could be managed peace
fully and the westward emigration
movement revived, the production of
both metals would undoubtedly be very
greatly increased. Should silver re-
cover from its depreciation, as il may
do when the German government sales
cease, the demand would undoubtedly
stimulate a large extension Of silver
What appears at present to
be most needed is large increase Of
the product of gold. 1t seems to escape
that gold and silver are
blended in tue ores, and that of the me-
tails produced by the mills at the Neva-
da mines from forty TO fifty per cent is
gold. There is a great decline in the
production Of the California gold mines,
and yet they are said to be scarcely
half-worked. New Mexico is very rych
in gold mines, mostly undeYeloped.
Year: 1878

I must tell you of a New Orleans
ghost story which 1 have just heard,
writes Ozias Midwinter in Cincinnati
Commercial. In these days ghosts
have almost lost the power to interest
us, for we have become too familiar
with their cloudy faces, and familiarity
begetteth contempt. An original ghost
story is a luxury, and a rare luxury at
that. Now think this one Is unique
enough to excuse me for presuming to
relate it. There was an old house on
MelpOmene street which nobody could
live in. Many good folk had attempted
to take up their residence ia it, but
none ever dwelt there more than one
night. Sometimes people would send
their furniture there in the morning
and have the place fitted up, only to
find everything outraged and violently
upset tn the afternoon. Carpets had
been torn from the floor and stuffed up
the chimney, or flung into the center
Of the room in an elfsh shape, mock
ingly suggestive Of a corpse with its
hands crossed. Invisible footsteps
shook the house with laundering tread,
and bolted doors opened mysteriously
at the touch Of viewless hands. AS
the years fitted by the Goblin Of De-
cay added himself to the number of the
Haunters; the walls crumbled, and the
doors yielded, and grass, livid and
ghastly-lOoking grass, forced its pale
way between the chinks Of the planKs
in the parlor. The windows fell into
ruin, and the wind entered freely 20
play with the ghosts, and cried weirdly
in the vacant rooms. At last the po-
lice authorities resolved to solve the
mystery of the house.


Stephen Leary was then chief Of po-
ice. He visited the house one evening,
accompanied by a picked detachment Of
six men, all armed with dOuble-barrel-
ed shot-guns double-shOtted. When the
seven entered the crumbling building
it was twilight. The chief ordered the
detachment to form a hollow square in
the middle Of the old parlor, facing
outward, and he himself filed the CEN
tire Of the square, lest the ghost might
arise in the midst and seize every man
by the back of the neck at the same
time.


Now" quoth he, "whencesoever it
may approach we can blow it back to Il
without hurting each other" And the
hollow square remained stationary in
the position Of "ready."


Then the clocks commenced to strike
the hours. There seemed to be at least
a hundred clocks within hearing
one a little faster or a little slower than
the rest. They told the time regularly
in a hundred different keys, till it be-
came "the dead waste and middle Of
The night" One after another, all the
hundred clocks struck the hour Of
twelve. Then a vast and awful silence
fell. The seven men brought up their
guns to "present," and stared wildly in
seven different directions.


Suddenly a gust ot wind blew lte
light out; and they heard it coming
an invisible and irresistible force SEEM
ed to burst up the flooring under the
feet Of the pOlicemen-and each one
simultaneously felt himself seized from
below and violently flung against the
ceiling.


And yet the city would not pay the
bills of the seven doctors who attended |
the faithful men thus grieYously in
iured, "While in the discharge of their
duties"
Year: 1878

Meat is essential to promote eggIay-
ing. AS rule it should be cooked, al
though it is more stimulating given
raw. IIorse-fesh cannot be surpassed
for excellence, when it can be obtained,
and even when given in quantities it
does not impart the slightest flavor to
the eggs. Nothing but gross prejudice
and ignorance prevents tie more gene
raj use of horse flesh for this purpose,
thousands Of horses being annually de-
stTOyed and buried the flesh Of which
should realize fifteen or twenty dollars
at two cents a pound. A mincing OF
sausage machine is the best mode Of
preparing the meat when cooked
FdncieT'S Journal.
Year: 1878

Potato Uheese-.-A Peculiar Proeact OF


Central Germany.


Cheese is made from potatoes in
Thuringia and SaxonY, in the follow
ing manner: After having collected a
quantity of potatoes of good quality,
giving the preference to a large white
kind, they are boiled in a cauldrOn, and
after becoming cool they are peeled
and reduced TO pulp, either by means
of a crater or mortar. To five pounds
of this pulp, which ought to be as
equal as possible, is added one pound
of sOur.milk and the necessary quantity
Ofsalt. The whole is kneaded together,
and the mixture covered up and allowed
to lie for three OF four days, according
TO the season. AT the end of this time
it is kneaded anew, and the cheeses
are placed in little baskets, when the
superauOus moisture escapes. They
are then allowed TO dry in the shade,
and placed in layers i'll large vessels,
where they must remain for fifteen
days. The older these cheeses are the
more their quality improves. Three
kinds are made-the first and most
common is made as detailed above; the
second, with four parts of potatoes
and two parts of eurdled milk; the
third with two parts Of potatoes and
four parts of cow or eve milk.
Year: 1878

There is a tailor IN a town not a thou,
sand miles from this place, whose rose
is so red that he can sew the finest work
in the darkest night with no other light
than that affCUded by his flaming pro-
bOscis. His head is quite bald from the
effects Of carrying building material"
b his hat.
Year: 1878

The man OF the organization that has
merit and capacity for good is helped
by a certain amount Of opposition.
Large birds rise against the wind, not
with it. A fine ship makes little pro-
gress in a dead calm. A stiff breeze
purifes the atmosphere, supplying life
given principles. Man never shows
his latent force until opposition faces
his darling schemes. Hardship is the
native soil Of manhood and seIf-reliance.
He who cannot abide the storm with
out finching, or fight for the right
against the legiOns in opposition, is not
made Of the stuff that commands sue
cess. Fair weather men, those who
prosper only in the sunshine and under
a eloudless sky, must resign the leader
ship to those Of sterner qualities, whom
opposition strengthens and whom the
sight Of the foe only nerves to brave
desds.
Year: 1878

Almost all animals die in sixty sec
onds, if placed under an exhausted re-
ceiYer, from whence the air is removed
by the air pump. Frogs viii live an
hour or even two under such circum-
stances, and after being apparently
quite dead they will come to life in the
open air.
Year: 1878

It is stated That the percentages Of
deaths in the South and West Of this
country are almost precisely alike,
while that Of the Eastern States is very
different. In the former death annually
takes one human being in every thirty
six, i'll the latter one in every fifty
two,
Year: 1878

Sheet glass is blown by hand, but into
hollow cylinders about four feet long
and ten inches In diameter, which are
cut off and cut open lOngitudinally
while hot, and therefore fall into fiat
sheets. Compared with crown glass
a more perfect window glass eau be
made by this process, thicker and cap
able of yielding larger panes with less
waste. Ordinary sheet glass will cut
to pane Of 3OxIO inches, and some
even TO 3Ox5O inches. 1t can be made
in thickness from I-20 to inch.
Year: 1878

A Bohemian, who rented a small
house at Cleveland, Ohio, put it OF
wheels the other day and moved west.
The landlord, coming for his monthly
rent, found nothing but the cellar and
an ash barrel. He sent an officer in
pursuit Of the house thief.
Year: 1878

The Rev. Mr.. Busser preached 4 ser.


mon in Lowell, Mass, recently. on


miracles, in which his object was to


show that the swallowing Of the whale


by JOnah-that is to say, the swallow


ing Of Jonah by the whale-Was not \
mere Gsh-stOry, told for the entertain


ment Of the marines, but an actual oc.
Cdrence. We agree with Brother
Busser, says the Courier Journal, that
it is not impossible that Jonah could


have lived for three or four days in the
-the-the abdominal cavity of the
whale, if you will kindly allow the ex-
preston, without feeling very greatly
the worse for it On landing, for it may
have been a new-fangled sort Of whale
"a large, rOOmy fish gotten up regard
less Of expense expressly for the Occa-
sion, and furnished with all the modern
improvements and conYeniences-ex-
Cept perhaps a bridal-chamber and a
dODkey-engine for the hosting Of
freight, for which there couldn't have
been much use; in which case, Jonah.
on being shown to his state-rOOm, would
have had nothing to do but leave word
with the steward or chambermaid 10
rouse him at the first indication that
the whale was growing sick at the
stomach, or was feeling a spasmOdie
procliYity for the precipitate landing
Of an indigestible passenger without
waiting to throw out a gang plank, and
then turn in for the night. A fire and
a eOOking-stOve being quite out Of the
it must be presumed that
Jonah took his provisions with him.
AS for the whales throwing Of him ID
when he found that he didn't set well
on his stomach, nobody pretends to
doubt that he could have done that
easily enough. This is not precisely
within Brother Busser's line Of argu-
ment, but it might just as well have
been, for all the good his argument
was calculated to do.
Year: 1878

The temperature OF the blood in
health is preserved exactly at the same
degree, whether the individual is
placed at thepOle OF tie equator. This
has been satisfactorily demonstrated
by scientists