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Year: 1879

tainer" of $1,000 year from the iail-


road company. But this fee was only to


secure MS services in any suit that might


arise that is, he is obligated thereby not


to take any case adverse to the interests
of that company, thus they have the
opportunity first to secure him as their
counsel. His fee for services rendered in
any case, therefore, would be additional
to the annual fee. IL is unders ood that
the Chief Justice was likewise engaged
before he went upon the Bench. 1t is
the custom of these great corporations to
secure the most influential political tai
ent, and this has been gel orally known
ever since it was said that the Bank OF
the United States employed Daniel
Webster and Henry Clay. The Western
Union Telegraph Company have now
some of the ali cs, talent in the country
employed. We believe that George G.


Gordon, Esq, of this city, is the regular


ly employed attorney of the p, w. & B


At least this is what is said among the
lawyers. 1t used to be charged that the
railroads tried to secure favor and ex.
emption from censure by Issuing tree
tickets. Whether this wa, true or moi
we don't know but we do know that a
good many years ago, after Mr.. Hinckley
became President, they ceased to issue
free tickets and now the local newspaper
editors and clergymen are required t.
pay. We believe free tickets are still
sent to members of Congress and the
members of our Legislature, and it is
possible that favored few Of the Radi-
cal press may enjoy these favors still
But this is about the extent of the matter.
Year: 1879

IsD1dEsTtox.-Them main cause Of nervous.
ness is indigestion, and that Is caused by
weakness of the stomach. No one can have
sound nerves and good health without using
Hop Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purify
the blood, and to keep the liver aud kidneys
active, to carry of all the poisonous and waste
matter of the system. See other column
Year: 1879

y correspondent of the Nashua 1tl-
egropa, writing from Montreal, SAYS
that at NO time has the sentiment in
favor of the annexation Of the Domin-
ion to the United States has been as
strong as it is at the present time


The movement, as the. writer calls it,
is quiet but significant 1t is not the
result of any fresh admiration for the
United States on the part Of Canada,
but the necessity of the situation The
fact that the dollar OF the United
States has come to be as good as that
Of any other nation is one of tha
causes attributed for the change of
sentiment. Again, thoughtful men in
Canada see that the tariff of the Uni


ted States may be reduced, while the
increasing debt of Canada and its top
heavy Government will render it inn
possible for her Parliament to reduce
duties or other taxes. Every year the
necessity of having free admission to
the markets of the United States is
impressed upon the people Of Canada.
They hoped 10 obtain this by the means
of reciprocity treaty. but all hopes
in that direction have faded out. The
annexation sentiment is found almost
exclusively in business circles. As
rule the politicians are opposed to it.
Indeed, there is no real sentiment in
favor of annexation which does not
have its origin in business necessity.
Year: 1879

Mason was an unsuccessful grocer
in Littlebridge, Michigan. He had
been Methodist, but bankruptcy in
business led him to carelessness about
religion. although be was exceedingly
superstitious He had read Of the
devil buying souls, and made up his
mind that, for satisfactory price, he
would sell his own. He wrote out a
formal offer, the purport of which was
that be was to be given twenty years
of wealth and then his soul was to go
into the devils possession. This doc
ament be suspended over fire, rourd
which he performed incantations of
bis own invention. Although several
weeks have elapsed he has not gained
wealth, nor received any intimation
that the bargain has been closed.
Year: 1879

ENGLISH FARMERS COMING TO AMERICA
In view of the depressed state of agricul-
ture in England, there is much significance
in the announcement that an agent of the
Canadian Government will shortly leave
Manchester with a party Of Lancashire
farmers who intend to settle in Manitoba.
The movement indicates strongly that the
British farmer is coming to the conclusion
that he can no longer compete successfully
with the cheap produce, meat and live
stock which are so largely exported to his
markets from this country and Canada.
With less rent and security for improve
ment he might maintain his own, hut these
are matters of slow adjustment 1t would
be better for the pioneers in this migratory
movement to settle in this country, hut
Ike many other immigrants they are likely
t. cross the border when they have acquired
sufficient experience to compare the rela-
tive merits of Canadian and American
settlements.
Year: 1879




Under the caption of the Rising Tide the
New York Public startes with the two fol-
lowing propositions:


81. This country is sgrowing in population
at the rate of nearly 80 per cent. in a de-
cade, and in wealth and volume of business
at the rate of more than 100 per cent. in a
decade.


IL. The country is now surely recover
ing from the most severe prostration Of in
dustry and commerce ever known in its
history"


The first proposition is fortified by the
opinion of Professor Elliott, of the bureau
OF STATISTICS, in his paper on the growth OF
population, who, after assuming loss OF
3,lG0,000 in population in various ways in
consequence Of the war, predicted that the
population of the United States would in
crease to 50,S5S, 900 in 1880. The ordinary
progress of population with us is about 33
per cent. for each decade. As it may safely
be set down at these figures in future esti-
mates-unless decreased by potent disturb
| ing causes-the population in 1890, ac-
cording to the computation of Prof. Elliott,
may be put at about 67,000,000, and in
| 1900 at about 90,000000 With this steady
rate of increase the recovery from financial
pancs, though sometimes slOw-as, tUr In-
stance, from the panic of lS73--yet the
danger Of relapse, as sometimes occuro
is lessened thereby, inasmuch as depres
sion in all branches of trade and losses by
speculation force upon all classes economics
to which they would not otherwise resort
and in the meanwhile, unlike the olde,
countries of Europe, where the increase o


population is either very slow or more thar


offset by emigration, the United State


have the advantage not only of the natura


increase, but of an important annual addi


ton to it from immigration.
Year: 1879

Corn IN THE SoUTH.-The corn crop has
been cut short by drought in many parts of
the South this season, and it is thought
that so per cent. more of corn from the
North will be needed than was sent there
last year. One result of this failure will
probably be the planting of more cotton
next season, as it stands long dry spell
better than any other crop.
Year: 1879

How TO KILL SAssAFRAs BUsHEs.-Wm.
Gould, ESQ.,. successful farmer, near Gen.
treville, Md, says he had troublesome
patch of sassafras bushes which he could
not break up He read in paper that if
the bushes were cut down or dug up on the
day before the moon fulls in August, or the
day after she fulls, but not the day she fulls,
they would die. He tried it, and the next
wear there was not one bush where there
had been thousands, and the second year
he applied the remedy to the few that
came up, and they were effectually killed.
The thing is worth trying.
Year: 1879

Referring to the fact that the city coun-
Gil had voted months salary to the family
of the late police officer. Rosenfeld. for
their immediate wants. the Union INDUCES
in the following uncalled and unnecessary
remarks:


We are now informed, on what we con-
slider high authority, that out of this money
the widow was required to pay the priest
$40 for celebrating the service performed
over his remains and $3.50 forcandles, etc.


THE ARGUS defends no form of religious
service, but believes one is about as good
as another, none Of them being of any par
ticular benefit to the dead. But that there
is as much, if not more, satisfaction to the
devout Catholics toihave their particular
service performed over their dead, than to
the believers in any other religious rites In
having their forms observed, there can be
no question. Doubtless the ceremonies to
which the Union sneeringly alludes is
more than meat, drink and raiment to the
grief stricken widow. So long as it makes
her great sorrow lighter and easier to bear,
SO long as it brings peace and consolation
to stricken heart, so that she can find
comfort in these services, be they right or
wrong, useless or not. small must be the
spirit that will begrudge her the satisfac
ton. The allusion to this matter is cruei
and uncaIed. If Catholics believe thai
these services are eficacious according to
the price paid; if this be their teaching
and belief, it is no business of others who
do not believe as they believe, and why
should they invade the sacred precincts
of stricken family to tear down theil
cherished idols, or remind them of their
poverty and dependence.
Year: 1879

IMPORTANT TO PERSONS VISITING New
YoRK.-One of the best kept and most
convenient Hotels for Merchants and others
to stop at when in New York is the Grand
Union Hotel, nearly opposite the Grand
Central Depot, kept on the European plan
you therefore only pay for what you get.
Everything is first class, and prices mod
crate, adapted to the stringency of the
times. You save the expense of carriage
hire, and by leaving your baggage check
on the counter of the Hotel, your baggage
Year: 1879

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and Blacking
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade Of
these goods is always standard and their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
firm is one of the Oldest in the country and
has the largest trade in its line. diff
Year: 1879

The city physicians of Peoria have pro-
nounced the river water very injurious
to health, and recommend cistern water as
the only safe drink. They should keep
still and not injure their own business by
telling the people how to keep we'll. No
such foolishness on the part of our physi-
clans
Year: 1879

The bankrupt stock of boots and shoes
at Mitchell l. Parsons, is going off at a
lively rate, and we should not think that
the stock would hold out over thirty days
longer. Call early, if you wish to secure
a good fit Remember it is the Kelley &
Retticker stock, and is first class every
way. dtf
Year: 1879

A STREET TO THE DELAwARE.-
There has been an urgent necessity for
street to the Delaware for many years,
and for the last twenty-five years the
newspapers and the people have been
urging the City Council to adopt some
practical policy by which this object may
be accomplished. But unfortunately
there has never been man at the head
of the Street Committee with sufficient
brains and sagacity to introduce an ordi-
nance causing policy that would effect
this desire, who was not opposed to it or
controlled by the wharf owners and marsh
owners on the Christiana to defeat the
purpose in view.


Instead of taking one street and EN-
blowing ashes and all the waste dirt tc
filling up that street, whenever the op
portunity was presented to effect pur
pose of this kind, the Council has was
ted the time and opportunity by dump
ing the dirt on several streets.


In the removal of the dirt from thu
square of the Christiana Improvement
Company's land, that is now being done
the Council and the chairman Of the
Street Committee had an excellent op
portunity to make a valuable use of thu
dirt; but unfortunately the Street Com
Year: 1879




HA1D MONEY seems abundant in the
hands of the people. The order for the
coinage of silver and its circulation has
done more to restore the confidence OF
the people than any other act Of the gov
ernment for the past ten years. The
rapid sale of the per cent. bonds with
in the past three months is the financial
wonder of the day. The bonds Of the
State of Delaware drawn for ten year:
would be preferred and would have sold
quite as readily, as soon as it was ascer
tanned they would be paid punctually.-
1t is q mistake to say that our business
people prefer very long bonds. The gov
ernment will soon have no bonds on the
market for sale.
Year: 1879

PUBLIC CONPIDENCE.-The Radical
wing Of the Repu olican party-:he wing
which followed Grant and sustained the
cry of the "Dloody Shirt" and use of the
bayonet and Deputy Marshals at the
Iolls--have in every way possible tried
to alarm and destroy the confidence OF
the people in the government because Of
the triumph Of the Democratic party in
the elections and the determination OF
the people to entrust the management of
the affairs of the country with the mem
bers of that party, which has shown itself
opposed to war and civil strife, and in
favor of peace and union, and harmonic
ing all sections on some common ground
which all may occupy without fear of
molestation.


But, Notwithstanding the screams of
the opposition press and the odium it has
attempted to attach to the Democratic
party, the confidence OF the people has
grown stronger day by day just in pro-
portion as that party has fought its way
to power first over bayonets at the polls,
and then over Returning Boards, and
lastly over U. S. Deputy Marshals and
the corruption funds of hundred thou
sand office-holders. At each stage of lis
progress to power the Radical alarmists
have prophesed the loss of confidence
and ruin to the country. But after each
Democratic victory confidence grew
stronger.


And during the present week, wher
the last struggle is about to be fought fol
the rights of the people at The polls, ant
the Democrats have within the past thre'
weeks came into power in both Houses o
the national legislature, public conidenc
was never more strongly exhibited. S
much greater is the faith of the people il
the intentions of this party of union
peace and prosperity, that the sales of til
per cent. bonds have astounded nearl
everybody not excepting John Sherman
of bad emiEence, the Secretary of tn
Treasury himself, who seemed to hay
tried every way in the world to destro
she confidence of the people in the Den
ocratlc party. The people know that tt
officers of the army make money an
acquire fame by war; and that the |
S. MarshaIs gather fees from strife, ar
they approve of putting it out of IL
power of the Federal officers to mai
trouble at the polls with State officers.
Year: 1879

mittee contracted 10 have half Of this
dirt hauled over Eleventh street bridge
and half over Third street bridge. This
is contract, as we are told, with bonds
for Its fulfillment, and the city 10 equally
bound with the contracSot. Therefore
all the resolutions and talk which may
be had over the matter will not alter the
case. II is unfortunate that this whole
matter was not talked over before the
contract was made, and some one street
named In it on which the dirt should be
dumped and spread to proper width by
the contractor. But so far as we can
learn from the noisy, confused and unsat-
isfacsory talk in Council al its last meet
ing the contract is wholly deficient In not
requiring how the dirt may be applied,
no promise being made for spreading II
when dumped or as to how wide space
of the avenue or street 1t shall be applied
to; hence Mr.. Paynlsr is reported as
saving he had TO "drive around" TO get
past the piles of dirt when passing along
Christiana Avenue. 1t is a pity that


men who are not competent for public
position should be found undertaking
public works of this kind without con-


sulting and taking the advice of persons


competent to give it; and the city will


suffer so long as it entiusts incompetent
parties with its affairs. 1t is scanda-


lous shame that an intelligent commu-


nifty will entrlst its money to be expen-


ded by those who from foolhardiness sac


rifice others, are incompetent to manage


their own affairs and pay nothing to the
general tax. The City Council must dc


better if it ever expects 10 reduce taxa


ton and retain the respect OF the people


whom 1t should represent.
Year: 1879

WE VENTURE the assertion that Mr..
Bayard's vote will not be recorded
against his party friends or his party's
caucus decisions. 1t is mistake to sup
pose the Republicans can lead him to do
this, and some Of the critics who have
been expressing opinions of late will find
that they do not know the man.
Year: 1879

attended to at the time of entering the theater,
owing to the crush. it is necessary for the
men to report between acts


If my younger--that Is my very old
brother we're not given to the wholesale aid
somewhat reprehensible practice of manu-
featuring stories to suit occasions, l might
credit this explanation, but as it Is am not
prepared to adopt it with faith. Please, then,
Mr.. Editor, tell the poor, suffering women Of
New York why men do go out between acts
Alfred-A Alfred is my husband-scowls when
ask him the question and murmurs some
thing indefinite about 'tstock indicators and
the .sexigencies of the markets" But when
in his calmer moments, / reproach Alfred
with wasting his money in Wall street, he
assures me that he never in his life ventured
to think of stock speculation am not a
child; am not shallow harc-brained wo-
man. make it a matter of conscience to
keep myself well informed concerning my
husbands business and affairs, but l confess
that this upstarting of the entire male au-
dience every time a theater curtain drops
puzzles and disturbs ine.


If my husband were a drinking man
how do hate that low expression!-I should
imagine simply that he went out for beer or
something worse, but my husband does not
drink-he has often told me so. He does not
even smoke He has only silly habit of
chewing coffee-beans and cloves, not whole
some, but neater and better than tobacco.
The whole matter is therefore shrouded in a
mystery which hope you will unravel.
Year: 1879

Miss Corsons lecture on cooking had a
singular effect upon the wife of gentleman
residing in Washington. The gentleman
was awakened from a sound sleep about 2
o'clock in the morning by flood of gaslight
in the chamber. coming from the Jets in the
chandelier, burning at full head. Standing
over him, evidently in somnambulistic
state, and in pose closely resembling that
of the late Charlotte Cushman in the cele-
); brated sleep-walking scene of Lady Macbeth,
stood his wife, while In either hand, and
oninonsly flashing in the gaslight, she grasp
ed the mammoth carving-knife and fork
Curious to know just what was going to be
the denouement of this singular scene, he
kept quiet, while the lady soliloquized
"Hold the carver in an easy position in the
righ. hand, thus" and she dipped the point
of the huge knife as gracefully as fencing
master in the broadsword exercise. "Then,"
continued the culinary student, "bend slight
ly the left wrist and insert the fork in the
breast of the turkey, one prong on either side
of the breast-bone," and suiting the action to
the word, she was about to plunge the fork
into her husbands anatomy, about where the
ribs join the sternum, when he caught and
disarmed her. She drew back and glared at
him for q moment, and then, pushing back
the sleeves of her robe de mutt, pointed her
finger at him and exclaimed in a loud, the
atrircal manner: "The only way to reach
you husbands heart is through the stom-
achl" Since that night this gentleman has
slept in another apartment, with the door
bolted and stack of trunks piled up against
il
Year: 1879

In his. strange and passionate youth, John
Randolph was betrothed to Miss Maria
Ward, the daughter of his mothers intimate
friend. For some cause the engagement was
broken of. The lovers appear to have had a
desperate quarrel. and Mr.. Randolph rushed
out of the house in which he had been Wis
iting the lady in such a rage that he did not
even stop to unite his horses bridle-reins, but
slashed them through with his knife, mount
ed, and rode away in laundering gallop
The lovers scarcely ever saw each other
again. The lady became Mrs. Peyton Ran
dolph. John Randolph never married. To
the day of her death he spoke of her as "My
angel" and her marriage is said to have
been the heaviest blow this grievously-suffer-
ing man ever endured. He was sick all his
life, and sometimes in a feverish sleep he
used to mutter her name in the hearing of
the watchers about his bed. 1t was strange,
heart-breaking romance that of this quiver-
ing bundle of nerves, who was the lineal
descendant of Pocahontas.
Year: 1879

Ladies who like otto of roses as perfume,
can make it in any reasonable quantity de-
sired at an almost nominal expense, by sav-
ing up the rose leaves which fall SO plentifully
in their season of the year. Take two-gal-
lon glass jar, and fill it full of clean, freshly
picked rose leaves. Then cork it tight, and
take two-ounce vial, and ft the neck into
the cork of the two-gallou jar. Cut some
sponge into narrow strips; soak them in good
oil, free from smell or rancidity; put the strips
put the ,ns neck into in th the nuRg Of a the Large
heat will distil the rose leaves, and the aroma
will ascend and saturate the oil IN the sponge.
Put in fresh leaves about four times, and you
will have small vial of the finest otto Of
roses that can be made.
Year: 1879

A philosopher has said that the true edu-
cation for boys is to teach them what they
ought to know when they become men.
What is it they ought to know then?


l. To be true; to be genuine. No educa-
ton will be worth anything that does not in
clude this. A man had better not know
how to read-he had better never learn a
letter in the alphabet, and be true and genu-
inc in intention and action, rather than be-
ing learned in all sciences and in all Ian
guages, to be at the same time false at heart
and also counterfeit in life. Above all
things teach the boys that truth is more
than riches, more than culture, more than
earthly power or position.


2. To be true in thought language and
life-pure in mind and in body An impure
man, young or old, poisons the society where
he moves with smutty stories and impure
example, is moral ulcer, plague spot, a
leper who ought to be treated as were the
lepers of old, who were banished from soci-
ETY. and compelled to cry 'Unclean," as a
warning to save others from the pestilence


g. To be unselfsh. To care for the feel
ings and comforts of others. To be polite
To be Just in all dealings with others. To
be generous, noble and manly. This will
include genuine reverence for the aged and
things sacred.


4. To be self-reliant and self-helpful ever
from childhood. To be industrious always
and self supporting at the earliest proper
age. Teach them that all honest work i:
honorable, and that an idle useless life o.
dependence on Others IS disgraceful.
When a boy has learned these things
when he has made these ideas part of his be
ing, however young he may be, however
poor, or however rich, he has learned some
of the.important things he ought to know
when he becomes man. With these foul
properly mastered, it will be easy to find al
the rest
Year: 1879

That man who is scrupoulously polite and
respectful to all women in public, but habit
ually saves coarse manners aud vulgar Ian
guage for his own wife and daughters, is no
gentleman. He is only an impostor. The
young man who oils his hair, puts sweet
ordors upon his pocket-handkerchief, and
bows with charming elegance to Miss Ara
bella Spriggins and lady friends, and goes
home to sneer at his mother, disobey her
wishes and treat her with familiar discourtesy,
is a pinchbeck imitation only of gentleman.
Genuine good manners and gentle breeding
should begin at home. AS rule, the best
men in the community are the best men at
home