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Year: 1879

New York, June 6.-The Portland
Press of yesterday says:
Mrs. Clemence has succeeded in
making her escape from the station
house. She broke out between mid
| night and five a. IN. She managed
probably to cut the wooden bars of the
window of the lodging room where she
was confined with the knife with which
she cut her food for supper, and hid the
shavings under the bed. She then
raised the window and squeezed herself
through into u narrow walk back of
the station, and scaled the fence into
Chestnut street.


1t is thought it may have been Mrs.
Clemence and confederate who broke
into the stable and stole the horse and
beach wagon of Motley, at Prides
bridge, for it is said she can drive the
widest horse that was ever seen.


She left her trunk behind filled with
expensive wardrobe, S400 in money,
and superb quartz and gold chain, a
pair of expensive bracelets and other
jewelry.


Blame cannot be attached to the po-
lice for her escape because they were
given to understand by those who Mrs
Clemence had wronged, that it was
probable that she could explain every
thing, and that she herself expressed a
perfect willingness to go to the station
when arrested.


1t has Teen ascertained that this Mrs.
Clemence is really named Oracle
Clemence


Her husband was employed on the
Illinois railroad and was killed by an
accident.


Mrs. Clemence was quite well known
in Cleveland, Ohio, some years ago, but
since then she has bloomed into con-
fidence woman, well calculated to de-
ceiye.


She had a quantity Of valuable rings
and an elegant chain, blue dress and n
light gray sack. She has property, no
doubt, deposited in banks, subject to
her control, in Boston and Albany, to
the amount Of $1,000. She left pack
ages of silverware in her trunk, which
she says were presents to Mrs. Spring
from her sister. One hundred dollars
reward is offered for her arrest.
Year: 1879

Washington, June CT is stated to-
day, upon entirely unquestionable
authority, that the president has def
nitely made up his mind to approve the
army appropriation bill and legislative
executive and judicial appropriation
bills in their present terms, and that
he also said to-day that he could see nc
good reason to withhold his signature
from the judicial expense bill if sent to
him in the terms reported to have been
agreed upon by the last democratic
caucus, although of course he will not
feel absolutely certain in regard to this
bill until he sees its exact language
when fully matured by the committee
on appropriations.
Year: 1879

A decision of much importance has recently been rend&ed by the U. $. Supreme Court It holds in effect, that the State government of Tennessee, after it's attempted secession and renunciation of allegiance to the Union, remain ed still legitimate state government, all whose acts. except in direct aid of the rebellion; are still valid and binding on that community Chief Justice Waite, and Judges Bradley and Harlan dissent from this opinion and maintain that the contracts entered into by the seced ing state government could not be binding up on subsequent, loyal state government h other words. the majority hold that by rebel lion a state does not forfeit it's rights under the Constitution, but that its rebellous government remains entitled to the obedience of it's cit izens in all matters not plainly in aid of the re- bellon. Does not this decision make it more difficult than ever for the citizen to remain Icy al to the Union after his state has gone into re- belliOn?
Year: 1879

A Tribune reporter recently interviewed number of prominent New York physicians on the subject of drunkenness among women in that city. We are glad to see that most did not consider this form of vice on the increase One of the doctors interviewed thought that beer drinking was largely on the increase among women-the result, to a consideral le exte 1t, of injudicious medical prescriptions Five times as much beer is now drunk in New York as Wac the case ten years ago, and a part of this increase is due to an increased con sumption by women. Another physician gave statistics showing that drunkenness is more quickly fatal to woman than to man. Com petent authority, says he, gives the average duration of life of the incorporate after the habit is formed, as follows:

 Among mechanics. working and laboring men Is yrs Among tredels dealers and merchants IT Amoag professio Ial men and gentlemen Is Among women IA e

 Dr. Willard Parker attributed half the in sanity and half the idiocy in the country to the effects of drunken parentage:

 From my own observations and the testi. mony of others 1 am led to the conclusion tha, by far the larger share of mental disease, pov. 'erty and crime is the direct heritage of alcohol 1t IS also the cause of great share of our bod lily disease, and is shortening the average du. ration of life. Robbins in work on sanita " science, says that the average duration oi life in 1910 was between twenty six and twen. ty-seven years. Since then it has decreased until the average age does not now exceed if teen years If we reduced the death rate to what it was fifty years ago there would be 8 saving of more than II GOO lives every year. Our city ought to be one of the healthiest in the world, A careful examlnation will all ways reveal the fact that indulgence in alco- holic beverages and the death rate, as we'll as the increase in mental and nervous dlseaes have relative proportion. Of course there are other degenerative .ca4ses, but they 70 back fs intemperance as the primary one.
Year: 1879

Christmas has rolled around to US once more with it's Santa Claus and Christmas tree, and good times in general There were several Christmas trees in the place. and good times were had in each instance We had the pleasure of being present at the exhibition of some of our home talent. Tn connection with a Christmas tree, at the school house in East street, Mir. Charlie Hall, teacher Quite a number of pieces and dialogues vera acted, showing real talent in some. All of the schol- ars took more or less part in the exhibition. Every one present seemed to enjoy it very much, and we believe there is prospect of more of the same kind at some future time, in the same place. No.
Year: 1879

The recent deaths and marriages here have been duly chfonicled, also the snow and rain fal; by which the fountains of water supply have been replenished for the winter That is now with us, and the cold season with the ground bare, although we hear from places not far away of good sleighing for Christmas.

 Our merchants, all, have presented large and attractive assortment of goods for the hol- ldays, so that the most fastidious could not fail to find something to please taste and purse. Many of the beautiful things became fruit for
Year: 1879

It is curious perversion of sentiment that which makes the Mormon women stand up for polygamy. They have been having a meeting Tn Salt Lake City in which they politely re- quested Mrs. Hayes and other interested per sons to mind their own business, and let po- lygamy alone. The more abominable syst em is, the more will religious fanaticism find to admire in if
Year: 1879

A Hardscrabble bachelor upon reading that two lovers will sit up all night with one chair in the roem," said it could not be done unless one of them sat on the floor. Such ig- nerance is painful - Winsted Press.
Year: 1879

There is said to be decline in the amount of litigation in the country. Hard times are usually fruitful of work for lawyers, but per haps nearly everything is already wound up that was needing winding up.
Year: 1879

We are glad to see that the omission of the celebrated "Hot Springs item' from one of last sessions appropriation bills, is now be- lieved to have been the result of accident rath- CT than of corruption, as has been generally supposed
Year: 1879

The burning of two men in Northern Ne braska would have been denounced as char acterstic performance had it occurred in any Southern State. There are barbarians North, as we'll as South it seems
Year: 1879




think that met you, sweetheart,
Ifancy the might have been,
Come to me there in vision


In the midst of that giddy scene;
But knew we had lost our birthright
As worshippers at Loves shrine,
So drew you not from the dance, love,
And your hand lay not in mine,
To-day 1 lie by the waters


That with mystical music tell
With words that no mortal utteTs
The truth that l know so we'll.
We have parted, love, with our birth
The pOttage that Esau bought fright;
Was pure, to the gaudy trappings
That have worn our souls to naught.
Upward away through the ether


| look toward heaven above.
Whence God in His infinite goodness
Gave to His children Love-
Gave them as their best birthright
No portion of power or pelf,
But the Joy of the souls surrender
That in loving loses itself.
We played with the wondrous garland; /;
We lost the halo of youth:
We smiled with a tickle blindness
That tarnished the glow of youth;
TO Fashion we sold eur birthright:
She tricked it with hot-house flowers
1t faded amid the gas light,
And perished in midnight hours.
Year: 1879




New York Tribune.


The facts of the case are that the
country this year has been scourged
to an exceptional degree, not only
by yellow fever, but By every form
Of malarious disease. The death
rates in some of our large cities rose,
during the warm, muggy weather of
September, 83 per cent. over the
same space of time last year. The
primary cause was doubtless The
prolonged drought and the uncover
ing of the miasmatic borders ofthe
streams; but the seeds Of disease
thus engendered would not have
brought forth such prolific death
crops if they had not found abuu-
dant soil in the foul air, poisonous
smells, and fermenfing fifth about
our towns, country houses, even re-
sorts of health. In the South this
fact was patent from the first. Gren-
ada is a fair sample of small South
ern town in its absolute neglect Of
drainage of every sort, bad or good.
New Orleans has been a breeding
place of polsons for fifty years. Bur,
ial is impossible in most Of the cem-
eteries, and at high water many of
the receiving vaults in which the
dead are packed are under water.
Thirty years ago the visitor to one
of these rose-pIanted, shell-paved
cities of the dead would be forced to
drive through it at full gallop, so
terrible was the odor. Nothing has
been done 70. remedy it since. Nei-
ther have Northern cities any reason
to boast. New York, was the pure
air Of the bay blowing constantly
through her streets, has managed in
times past to lead it with as many
vile. disease-breeding smells as
pest hospital. Boston is LITTLE bet
ter. The soil of Atlanta City. Cape
May. and the cheaper religious sea
side resorts was pregnant this sea
soR with malaria. In Philadelphia
so defective is the sewerage that to
live near culvert opening is to in
sure an attack of fever. These are
facts, but they are facts
which are telling on our weekly bills
of mortality. What is to be done? P?
Galveston, as our readers know,
from one of the most sickly, is now
one Of the heaIthiest, because it is
the cleanest city Of the Union. The
will find it out, probably,
the cause and cure Of yellow fever,
and other fevers, bat twill not him
der the cause nor advance the cure.
That is for each town. village and
household to do. The matteris one
of national importance, but it is also
one Of individual effort.
Year: 1879

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is unpaid, and that you are re-
ouested to pay up at once. We would
take great pleasure in extending credit
to our friends and patrons, but cash
alone will pay our expenses, and we are
forced to adhere to strict cash RUE
we hope you will comprehend and ap-
preciate the necessity of such course.
aCd pay your subscription without de-
lay. We solicit your favor.
Year: 1879

Twas 4 jolly old pedagogue, long ago,


Tall and slender and sallOw and dry
HIS form was bent and his gait was slow
His long thin hair was as white as snow,


But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eve;
Aud he sung every nlght as he went TO bed


lie Us he happy down here below;
The living should live, though the dead he dead,
sad The Jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
He taught his scholars the rule OF three,


Writing and reading, and history too;
He took the little ones upon his knee,
For kind Old heart IN his breast had he,


And the wants OF the lIttlest child he knew
Learn while you're Young he often said,


There is much TO enjoy down here below +;
Life for the living. and rest for the dead!'


said The jolly old Pedagogue, long ago.
With the stupidest boys he was Kind aud cool,


Speaking only in gentest tones;
The rod was hardly known in his school
Whipping 10 him WAS harbarOus rule,


Aud too hard work for the poor Old bones
Besides it was painful. he sometimes said


We should make life pleasant down here below
The living need charity more than the dead"


said the Jolly Old pedagogue, long ago.
lie lived IN the house by the hawthorn lane.


With roses and woOdbine over the door;
Ills rooms were quiet, neat and PLAIN,
But a spirit Of comfort there held reign,


And made him forget he was old and poor,
Il need so ilttle.' he often said,


And nv friends and relatives here below
Won't litigate over me when am dead


said the Jolly old pedagogue. long ago.
But the peasantest times that he had, OF all,
Were the sociahle hours he used to pass,
With his chair tipped back TO a neighb0r wall,
Making an unceremOnlOuS call,


over pipe and friendly glass.
This was the finest pleasure he said,


Ot the many he tasted here below
Who has no cronies had better lie dead
said the Jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
Then the Jolly Old pedlgcgue's wrlnklcd face
Melted ali over in sun-hlny smiles,
He stirred his glass with an old school grace,
Ihucklcd and slipped. and prattlcd apace,


TIL the house grew merry, from cellar 10 tiles
I'm pretty old man. he gently SAID,


Il have fingered 4 long while here below
Bur mt heart Is fresh II my youth + Iied.
said the Jolly old pedagogue, long ago
H. smoked hi- pipe IN the halny air.


Every night when the sun went down.
While The soft wind PLAYED m his sIlyery hair
Leaving IL tender kisses there


ON the jol I'D pedlgugue's jolly old crown
And feeungt kisses he smiled, and said,
&c Twas glD.tous world down here below;
Why wat for happiness TIL We are dead -
sad the jolly old Pedagogue. long ago.
He sat at the door one midsummer night,
After the sun had sunk In the west,
And me lingering beams of golden light
Made his kindly old face look warm and bright.
While the odorous night-yind whispered rest !!
Gently. gently he bowed his head,


There were angels waiting for him, know;
Ha was sure of happiness, living or dead,
This jolly Old pedagogue. long ago,
Year: 1879

1t comes to us now, from the gen.
eral conclusions of the commercial trav.
elers who have gone to the City of Mexico
with generally a Chicago opinion that q
handsome trade can be built up between
the merchants Of that and other cities oi
the United States and Mexico, that there
is but poor prospect of creating senti-
ment in favor of an international railroad.
The fact is, undoubtedly, that they scarce
ly dare trust US. They have never made
anything out of our acquaintance. They,
doubtless, fear the shortening of the dis
tance between the centres of the two
countries, and upon the principle that the
singed cat fears the fire, they apparently
would prefer between the two nations an
impossible gulf to railroad. Doubtless,
the visitors from tie United States are
having good time, for the Mexican lead
ing citizens in and about their capital city
are courteous, having enough of the old
Spanish character to forbid their being
otherwise.


As to trade between the two countries,
Year: 1879

In February or March, the former month
is the best, as the cassava sticks have not
yet sent out new growth, which is easily
broken off in handling; cut the sticks in
pieces of about eight inches to one foot in
length. Run your burrows four feet apart
in the rows and cover. The land should be
pretty rich for cassava, as it is great i'm
poverisher of the ground, although we
have seen it thrive admirably on our high
pine lands, which appear to have some
substance favorable to its growth. The
weeds should be kept down by blowing
until the plant gets to be about two or
three feet high, when they should be let
alone for fear of disturbing the bulbs,
which begin to form about September.
The shrub is very bushy, and shades down
the grass around it when it gets high
The cultivation is very simple. You plant
the cassava, and before You can reap We





facture. We are now in correspondence
with starch manufacturers at the North
about getting factories set up to utilize it.
Arrowroot does not require rich land. 1t
will thrive as well on our high pine land
as in the tropics. Once planted it will
ra:toon for years, for every small piece
lett in the ground grows again. The
grass should be kept out, with the hoe,
until the plant is high enough to protect
itself. In the first instance the bulb should
be broken in pieces and dropped eight
inches apart in burrows that are three feet
apart. Cultivate same as for Irish pota-
toes. If the land is too rich arrowroot
will give more stem than root, for the lat
ter instead of going down and forming
large bulbs will turn up and make STEM
Ginger root should be planted next moi tn
We have seen some very fine ginger
grown on low pine land in this State, but
should say that the rich, high hummocks
are more suited for it. Ginger is sur
face plant and must not be hilled up. 1t
should be planted only just far enough |
apart to allow the hoe to pass between
the plants, to take out the grass, say two |
feet in rows and eight inches between |
Agriculturist.
Year: 1879

Many people look upon the compass as
an introduction of the fifteenth century
but it seems to have been well-known in a
primiti We form in the twelfth and thir
teenth centuries. In one of the popular
songs written in the time of King John, it
is said that the sailors who 60 on long
voyages to Friesland or to the East know
their way by observing the Tramontane
Polar star; but when the sky is covered
with clouds, and they could no longer see
the stars of heaven, they had a contri-
vance, which was this: They took needle
of iron and put it through piece of cork,
so that one end remained out, which they
rubbed with the loadstone, and then
placed it in vessel full of water and
whichever way the end of the needle point
ed, there without any doubt, was the Po-
lar star. This formed primitive but
fairly perfect mariners compensation
tit5c american.
Year: 1879

"Large bodies move slowly" ar


proverbs. It is now twenty year
since the Legislature of this Stat,


passed bill granting to O. w


Wozencraft present and prospec


tive interest in those lands known


as the Colorado Desert, and join


resolution, instructing our Con


gressional Delegation to procure ;


cession of those lands from thu


General Government, for the pur


pose of utilizing them by irriga


ton. From the report of the


House Committee on Public


Lands, during the past session OF


the present Congress, conveying


those lands to the applicant, on


condition of paying the amount


of appraisement of their present


value and by irrigating them.


From it we learn that the Com.


mittee on Public Lands of the


Thirty-seventh and the Forty


fourth Congress passed bills
making a free donation of those
lands, conditioned alone on their
being irrigated. But the Com
missioner of Public Lands having
suggested that the Secretary of
War be authorized to cause a sur
vey to be made, and if it proved
practicable, to introduce water on
said Desert, and if the lands were
Enthusiastically without it, then to
make the cession absolute for that
purpose, the survey has been
made, after delay of fifteen years,
and confirming survey previous
ly made by the applicant, at his
own expense, in 1860, from all
which it wonld appear that 1t has
received the approval of all the
Committees before whom it has
passed, as well as the require
ments of Government. Conse-
quently, we can see no valid OBJ
lection to the passage of the bill
now pending before Congress,
but, on the contrary, much to urgo
its final passage.


1t has met the objection now,
which might formerly have been
urged against it of being a free
cession or subsidy; as it is now to
be a purchase at the appraisement
of a Government Commission,
and the title acquired by paying
the amount, and by irrigation.


1t is to be hoped that this i'm
portant measure may be passed
without further delay. 1t is a
matter of more Importance than
any other to this State, and it is
of sufficient general Importance
to secure the favorable action of
all who would aid in promoting
our general welfare. We subjoin
an extract from the report of the
Committee on Public Lands, and
endorse it: Your Committee
deem it unnecessary to elaborate
further a measure which has been
so long and thoroughly investi-
gated, and uniformly approved.
The utter worthlessness of the
lands as they now are; the detri-
mental effects of the sirocco blasts
sweeping over this desert, carry
ing aridIty to the surrounding
country, are elemental arguments
which cannot be controverted.


" By the proposed system of ir-
rigation, the temperature will be
reduced so as to make if habitable
,or man, and affording him a soil
and field for his industry, and
wealth to the General Govern
nent"


The field is sufficiently ample
% give employment and homes
% all unemployed laboring popu-
alton of our State, and add to it's
axable property large amount,
Is we'll as products which the eli
nate and soil of that section alone
an produce. Our Congressional
i 4
Year: 1879

SPRINGFIELD. Jan. 6.-Several mem
bers OF the board Of Agriculture from the
southern portion of the state report that
peach trees have been greatly injured by
the recent cold snap, and that prospects
for crop are exceedingly unfavorable
Other fruit is not seriously injured. Win
ter grain is reported by them 10 excellent
condition.