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Year: 1879

Do NOT forget that to vote at the city
election on Tuesday next requires the
payment Of State and county tax (not
city tax assessed within two years Of
the day Of the election, and that
to insure vote the receipt for such
tax paid must be produced. Many
votes are lost by persons going to the
polls without taking their State and
County tax receipt with them, and
when it is demanded OF them rathor
than 60 home and get it they do with
out voting. We say again take your
State and County tax receipts with you
and avoid trouble.
Year: 1879

The Committee on Space Of the Gin
cinnati Industrial Exhibition have is
sued an important notice to those de-
string to exhibit. Those who have ap-
piled for space for exhibits must await
notice that they have had space allotted
them on their applications before ship
ping goods to the exhibition. Appli.
cauts who have been notified OF space
having been allotted them must signify
their acceptance before August Both,
or the space will bs allotted to others Oh
September lst,
Year: 1879

Last week in Chihuahua, a woman
went into a shoemaker's shop in front
Of his dwelling and was measured for
a pair Of shoes. The son Of Crispin
said to the women: "You have :
very pretty foot" Do you think 20
said she. He replied: "Yes; that Is
the prettiest foot in Mexico.n The
woman was to come back next day
and leave 81, when the shoes were to
be commenced. The shoeinakers
wife, hearing all, said nothing. The
next day the shoemaker was out whet,
the woman with the pretty foot called,
according to agreement, and the wife
got her into the back room and stab
bed her to death. The wife then cut
a steak out of the dead woman's leg
and packed the body under the bed.
The shoemaker came home and ate
his dinner. The wife asked him how
he liked the meat. He answered that
.it was the best he had ever eaten.n
The wife then told him lie had eaten
a part Of "the prettiest leg in Mexico
He asked her what she meant. She
showed him the body under the bed,
and made dash at him with o knife,
bat he escaped and rain to the Palacio
and told the Judge what had happened.
The judge summoned u guard Of SOL
diers aud went to the house. He
asked the wife If she had committed
the murder, and when she attempted
to justify the act he ordered her to be
shot on the spot by the soldiers, and
his orders were promptly obeyed.
Year: 1879

Kindness of heart and charity must
be at a very low ebb in East Baton
Rouge parish, when the Capitolian
devotes half column to the action
of a young farmer who lifted u totter-
ing old negro woman into his wagon
and carried her to her home, and
winds up by saying he is one of the
grandest productions of the PARISH
New Orleans Times.


Yes, dear Times; but you wilfully
ignore the way in which it was done.
There is only slight difference be-
tween our half-column article and
your four-column convict story con-
cerning the management of the pen
itentiary at this place. Ours was
published to point moral, and yours
toO--imMoral, and slanderons in the
extreme, Then you had to make a
two-column denial, creating a silly,
sensational waste of six columns of
space in" ,"the best paper in the south
west" Don't grind your wit down to
such fine point, and perhaps you
won't smash the glass walls of your
domicil. Listen how the
falling pieces jingle.
Year: 1879

John King, the newsboy, who re-
Gently gave $500 books to the Gin
cinnati public library, is thirty mine
years old and has been cripple since
his seventeenth year. He says he
will never stop buying books so long
as there are cheap book stalls, but
hereafter he will buy with more dis
elimination. He will give all he buys
to the same library. Some million
aire might very well profit by the
example set by this poor cripple.
Year: 1879

The Clinton Watchmaa says: "We
regret to state that on Sunday night
last, while the Rev. Jas. A. Godfrey
was engaged in preaching at Pine
Grove church, some adroit thief ran
sacked his buggy and went through
his valise, abducting therefrom his
best wearing apparel, save only a
pair Of slippers. It is written thou
shall not steal And again it is writ
ten that we shall watch as well as
pray" The Watchman should have
advised our reverend friend of these
facts before the theft happened.
Year: 1879

The Philadelphia Times says there
is not q section or line in one of the
general appropriation bills that would
justify veto; and if there shall be
strife in politics and unrest in busi-
ness circles, President Hayes and his
advisers must answer for it to q cOrn-
try that has one supreme desire for
rest. That editors head is level.
Year: 1879

DR.. j. r. Gladney, of Chickasaw
county, Miss, is in Washington City
after q patent by which he can man
ufacture alcohol from air and water.
Unless he can make a better article
than we get nowadays, we appeal
against the granting of the patent. If
Gladney wants to immortalize his
name, let him patent something that
will make bread with less labor in
stead of taking it out of the mouths
of a drunkard's children.
Year: 1879

When they start to have a big time
in Kansas they have q big time gem
orally. The Empire City Echo says:
"a lady gave birth to triplets while
attending the golden wedding Of her
parents at Mound City recently.
Year: 1879

No one blames u business man for
wanting his sign to convey big idea
Of business, buta Michigan blacksmith
in q hamlet Of four hundred people
rather overdone the thing when he
made his sign to read: "Fopign and
domestic horses shOd here.
Year: 1879

An Indianian married when he was
II, was q father at 16. Lately he
married a second time, and at the age
Of 80 is happy with second child,
between whom and the first there is
a difference of 62 years.
Year: 1879

Talmadge preached in Presby-
terian church in London lately, and
received with greater enthusiasm than
any American minister ever had
been. He was taken from a carriage
a half mile from the church and car
ried bodily by the people to the
church. The house was packed and
the streets thrODged.
Year: 1879

| MchenZle, Tenn.. Cor. N. 7. Herald


Train after train load of Memphians
now almost hourly pass through here,
leaving crowd of anxious people at the
plague stricken city waiting for the first
to get away. Memph;ans say that the
people are so determined to get out of that
city that they clamor with one another as a
mob, and those passengers with the most
strength and determination are those who
run over the multitude of more timid peo-
| pie and escape.


People have crowded about the depot for
twenty-four hours before being able to get
on the train. Overcome with heat and "a
tigue, men, women and children sleep
closely huddled together until aroused
and told that the hour of their liberation is
near at hand. A fresh train has been made
up, and they pass out to the transfer sta
ton, which is always crowded. Instead Of
waiting for trains to carry them thither
they 60 out by every conceivable convey
ance, and by that means often take the
places of those who have been forced to
come out on the trains only to find that
they have been deprived Of the possibility
of an early escape to more healthy eli
mate.


Restive and combative under these cir
cumstances, men grow desperate and fight
like tigers. ReYolvers are drawn in the
most savage determination, and bloodshed
only prevented by the interference of
strong guard. People are so closely sand
wiched in the trains that the heat becomes
intolerable, passengers get restive, and
almost any one who makes ii known can be
accommodated by knock k-down. A gene
raj scramble for seats continues all along
the various lines until the conductor gets
rid Of the jam by dropping them here, there
aud everywhere. .r+. .'.i ~
Year: 1879

How do the roses die?
Do their leaves fall together,
Thrown down and scattered by the sky,


OF angry weather7 ara gr E-r
No, the sad thunder stroke


o'ersweeps their lowly bower;
The storm that tramples on the oak


Relents above the flower.
No violence makes them grieve,


No wrath hath done them wrong,
When with sad secrecy they leave
The branch to which they clung,
They yield them one by one


To the light breeze aid shower.
To the soft dew, cool shade, bright sun.
Time and the hour.
........ sd. q. .... Spectator.
Year: 1879

A CuR1ous judicial experiment has been


tried in virginia--that Of trying negro


with Q jury composed entirely OF his own 'II
race. This was not by any means the


prisoners wish, as witness the strenuous
efforts OF his counsel to prevent It. Indeed
there is story extant OF an ex-slave who
objected to being tried BY his peers in color
On the ground that "niggers would hang o
nigger just to Bee him kick" But this
was evidently q libel on has race. The Viz
einia jury did mot hang the nigger, thongh
he was guilty Of the crime OF killing bis
grandmother. They proved sheir familiarity


with the niceties Of the criminal code BY
finding him guilty only Of murder in the


second degree, and they let him OIL with
eighteen years imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary. eea : isi'@s III
Year: 1879

On Wednesday night of last week a.
Mrs Lucy Masters. Of Logan township.
this county, was going from Mrs. Mil


lers 10 Mrs. Lucy Knights. while passing
through dark skirt Of woods on her
|way, two men sprang in the road In
front Of her, one scizing her horse bv
the bride and thrusting revolver In
her face and commanding her to mako
mo noise or he would shoot her. while
the other pulled her from The horse and
robbed her ofher pocket book. contain
ing sixty dollars and two notes. one for
twenty and the other for fifv dollars.
They then both m ounted her horse and
rode OF at full speed in tho direction
she had come. The bride that was on
the horse was found next morning M
Mrs. Lucy Knights gate, the horse was
turned loose in the road. No clue vet n
20 who the robbers were.
Press.
Year: 1879

Helmbolds Buchu has long been known
as one of the most valuable medicines at
tainable in certain classes of diseases, such
as dyspepsia, chronic rheumatism, dropsy
cutanoous affections, and especially af'ec-
tons of the urinary organs. As diuretic,
il is superior to almost any other medi-
cine in use, and the great care with which
it prepared, the absolute purity of the
preparation, and the diligence used in the
selection Of the crude material havemade
it known far and wide as reliable and
effective preparation, and one that can
always be used with safety and benefit.
The great success OF Helmbold's Buohu
has led to the production of many spur
ious prepare tons, which are made cheap
ly and placed upon the market to be sold
on Interpolation acquired by Helmbold's s
original preparation, Parties who desire
a really good medicine should be careful
and use Helmbold's only.
Year: 1879

The Nashville Banner, of MONDAY,
discusses some Of the features of the
late controversy between quarantined
Memphis as represented by the press
with the outside world or that part of
of it which managed the quarantined
business from afar. The Banner.
while differing with the Memphis
press, has always been kind, courteous
and considerate for our peculiarly
distressed condition, which is more
than can be said of some other papers
which seemed rather to rejoice at our
calamities The article to which we
allude closes as follows:


But that is not what we set out to
say, What we do say. now that the
epidemic is gone, let all our passions
and recriminations 80 with it. One is
a great curse, the other great evil.
Ii we will only consider that all done
was for what we thought for the best.
and any mistakes made were not of the
heart, we think we know our brave,
generous friends of Memphis we'll
enough to guarantee the like feeling
with them. Let by-gones be by-gones
and now let us rub out and start
atresh to devise measures to keep the
awful monster from ever darkening
our borders again. Many of our best
and brightest young men have laid
down their lives upon the altar
Of human love to save our sister
city, and there are thousands
more ready TO take the chances if
they can do any good. We trust then,
with returning health and happiness,
our friends there will not retain any
feelings of hostility towards those
who, whatever may be the return, ev-
er have and will entertain for them the
liveliest feelings Of friendship and
brotherly love.


We accept the utterances of our
cotempOrary in all good faith, and take
occasion now to thank it for many
word Of encouragement and sympathy
from time to time during the late epi-
demic. There are those who have
acted shamefully toward Mem
phis, and would rejoice to see
the place ruined. We cannot ac-
count for such abnormal malice, but
the Banner has recognized our misfor-
tunes as State question, has taken a
broad, liberal view concerning the
subject, has always been ready to aid
us, and while not taking the same
views as the press of this city upon
some points, has nevertheless been a
true friend, and one upon whom we
shall depend for hearty cooperation in
future,
Year: 1879

DR.. W, NJ. CLARK, secretary of the
State Board of Health, who moved to
adjourn in the meeting of the State
Medical society, when DR.. Wise arose
to offer the resolutions Of the Shelby
county Medical society, comes out in
a card and says that he had no idea,
whatever, of the character of the reso-
lutions, or he would not have made
the motion. If the worthy Doctor
was in such total ignorance he could
have been enlightened by remaining
silent few minutes. Yet it seems
that he had heard of the resolutions
at least, for be says further on
that he had been told some frebrand
resolutions were to be offered as the
result Of a split in the Shelby County
Society, and that he moved to adjourn
to prevent the difficulty from being
thrown into the State Society. There
is an admission that puts the Doctor
in an awkward position. What right
had he to prejudge a set of resolutions
before he knew what they were or
had given the other members an op.
portunity to hear them read. No
matter what they were the gen
tlemen from Shelby were responsible,
and not DR.. Clark or President Wight,
and common courtesy, if nothing else,
should have secured a respectful
hearing, However, we give DR.. Clark
the benefit of his disclaimer. DIR.
Wight seems to have been perfectly
aware Of the nature of the resolutions,
and to have availed himself of his
position as presiding officer to suppress
them. He had worked in his own
self-praise and yoluminous production
and was determined to shut
out all criticism. Afterward he
promised to call the State
Medical Society together again,
although be annouced on the floor that
there was no way to convene the soci-
ETY. until next April, hut he even vio-
lated this promise, called only for the
members Of the society to come to-
gether, and made himself conspicu-
ously absent. 1t is charged that he
declared the meeting adjourned when
in fact large majority voted against
adjournment. His conduct is the
more noticeable because he halls from
a locality that has been particularly
hostile toward Memphis during
the late epidemic, and that has
yillifed our people with all the bitter,


mean malicious adiectives in the Ian
guage. The bare suggestion that the
state board of health should be re-
organized, so as to allow Memphis two
representatives on it who would re-
main at their posts in time of danger,
was enough to settle it in the doctor
mind that the resolutions were unfit
to be read before the state medical
society.
Year: 1879

The jackson Sun and Tribune,
which has been the warm friend Of
Memphis through thick and through
thin, is heartily in favor of calling the
legislature together at once. Yester
days issue says:


We trust there will be no unneces-
sary delay in calling the extra session
of the legislature, and when that body
meets we hope measures of relief will
be promptly adopted. We again insist
that the question is one of state i'm
portance and it addresses itself to
every interest in the state. So long as
yellow fever is generated or harbored
in Memphis, so long will the peril of
its spread to all parts of tie state exist,
and 30 long will every material interest
of the state be made to suffer- Again
we urge prompt action on the part of
Governor Marks, and a liberal spirit
on the part of the legislature when it
assemblies in dealing with the measures
that may be suggested.
Year: 1879

THE Pittsburg Post has discovered
that whenever there has been falling
off in church attendance in Pennsyl-
vania increased Republican maiorities
were sure to follow. There is reason
ing from cause to effect in a very
logical way. The purity of God and


morality always used the church as
stepping stone in politics, but begin to
feel that they can get along without it.
Year: 1879

THE Boston School Committee has decidedtha two
hours week are too much to devote to sewing, as
tour-and-twenty minutes are daily thus consumedJ


When was youth my sister went
10 the public school, where she was sent;
She studied her books, and was taught to sew
And learned where the buttons on shirt should CO.
My garments, all from heels to head
In order she kept with needle anq thread;
But to learn all that it daily took
Fourand-twenty minutes from dOg-eared book.
But the frugal men on the committee
Swore they must rule economically:
So the course they cut in various parts,
And classified sewing as among Lost Arts
The sewing was stopped, and the taxes paid
For sewing were reaped with retrenchant blade
And the stamps thus saved were wisely spent
In buying corner lois in the Firmament.


At length my sister married got,


And shared with her husband a rural lot;
She made his waistcOats and she darned his socks.
And patched his Sunday trousers and her pretty


froeks.


As there. then, none to sew for me,


My buttonleSs garments all fOuted free;
So determined though late in life,


From the public school to choose me wife
knew what my sister dear could do;


That she could write and cipher, and do sewing too
So thought from the schol my wife I'll bring


And she'll know how to sew and all that sort of thing
we q n0rdly started on the journey OF life
When off popped button. and l said tO my wife,
- Oh, here's a fine chance your skill TO display
| In sewing on that button right straight away"
| Oh. what do you think, then said my frau
Really Jim, I'd like to, but don't know how
| Oh! what a confession was that she made;
| A girl for whose schooling my taxes had paid?
/ So said, Maria Jane in the name of your aunt


Do really understand you to say that yOu cam" -
| That's just what mean" she shrly sings,


In the public schools of Boston they don't teacl
such things"
/ Then clasped my hands with franced air,
1 And tugged at the roots of my auburn hair;
And asked my wife quite angrily,


When was it that she went to the schools SO free.
| She opened her lips and whispered me-
Il went in the day of economy,
| l went when sapient committee
Said sewing was sort of a luxury.
"All we were taught when we went to school
| Was to get by heart the Golden Rule,
That our only aim in life should be
TO try and be as wise as the committee"
| have learned at last, through experience,
| If a man wants q wife with hOmely sense,


He must wed no girl who since 20


Has graduated been from schools so fine.
4 Boston Transcript
Year: 1879

HONEY DEw.-A correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, writing from the foot
hills of the Cumberland mountain range in
Kentucky, mentions a curious resouce
in which the busy bee has for gather.
ing honey every day in chat region
which be does not enjoy everywhere. ain
June and july" the writer says, "the bees
pay little regard, especially if it be a dry
season, to the flowers. Nature provides for
them abundantly in, TO me at least as we'll
as to all the denizens of the mountains, q
mysterious manner. Over the forest during
themonths named there is deposited at night
what is called the honey dew. 1t is said to
be of almost the consistency and sweetness
of honey, and from daylight until midday,
when the sun dries it, in the locality of the
hives the bees can be seen in swarms upon
the leaves, luxuriously lazy, slipping to
surfeit. 1t does not exude from the leaves
but it deposited chiefly on pawpaw, chest.
nut, poplar and linn. Whence it comes
and whereof it is born I've yet to learn,
although its origin may be familiar to the
scientist"
Year: 1879

An old gentleman, without tact, on meet
ing some ladies whom he had known as
girls in his boyhood, cordially remarked
Bless mel How time flies Let me see
1t is fifty.two years come next April since
we used to go to school together in the old
red schoolhouse. | was ~ little chap then
you remember, and you were fine young
women" The old man couldn't ever under
stand why his cordial greeting was received
so coldlv
Year: 1879

Senator Bayard has got to the front Of
the Democracy in Congress. In the last
general caucus his counsels prevailed and
the majority party was rescued from all
revolutionary tendencies and placed in a
conservative attitude in the struggle with
the President and before the country.
Had the counsels of Bayard prevailed at
the opening of the present session there
would have been no serious issue between
the Executive and Congress-; the necessary
appropriations would have been promptly
passed, the army and legislative bills would
have been even more justly modified than
is likely now, the test oath for Federal
jurors would have been repealed, and
Congress would have adjourned two months
ago. Unfortunately, the temper of the
Democracy was not in accord with Senator
Bayards views when Congress met. 1t was
vain and arrogant, and revolutionary senti.
ments were common without rebuke; but
the sweet uses of adversely have brought
the party squarely in line with the ablest
and most consistent Of the Democratic
statesmen of the Senate, and there is now
q reasonable prospect of speedy termina
ton of the dead. lock between the branches
of the government. There are those who in
sist that it is q back down and that it is
uISuOnoFdole Ior u naJorlCy party III OOn
gress to back down but it must be con
sidered that it is much more honorable
to back down to the right than to back W
obstinately to the wrong. Congress started
under the worst impulses when the Presi
dent was as nearly right as he could be
and now when Congress has got nearly
right the President is right wrong; but M
measure of wrong by the Executive will
justify persistence in wrong by Congress


Every consideration of interest and patriot
ism demands the avoidance of needles
strife at Washington, and he who doe
most for peace will do most for himself, 70
his party and for the nation. Senate


Bayard now seems likely to win that honor
PhiLa. Times.
Year: 1879

THE PANAMA CANAL.-M. de Lesseps is
not the sort of person to permit grass to
grow under his feet. Already he has the
Panama Canal Company in process of for
nation in accordance with a well-digested
scheme, and, if all goes well, the company
will have $S,000,000 in its treasury by the
end of the present year, and the actual
digging will be begun on the first day of
January, 1880. This promptness in getting
at his work gives the best possible assurance
that NJ. de Lesseps is most earnestly deter
mined to carry his work through.
Year: 1879

The writer of an essay on "The True
Interest of Nations" in stately monthly
magazine, commences with this astute al.
lusion to the ancient history of the human
race, showing a remarkable acquaintance
with Scripture; "When Abel asked ol
Cain, Am l not man and brother p
the latter, instead Of giving him the hug
fraternal, did beat him to DEATH"
Year: 1879

"Luckiest man ever knew-everything
succeeded with him. He had only to say
what he wanted, and he got it. Why, con.
found it, | was talking with him one day
the very last day of his life-and he said to
me: when die want to die suddenly
Got run over that very night. Ever see
such luck.
Year: 1879

He who is changing from object to object
finishes nothing, and his life at last re-
sembles heap of detached stones, which,
if he had bat kept to one plan, might have
been built into stately and commodious
abode.
Year: 1879

Lord Nelson once said: 81 owe all my
success in life to having been always a
quarter of an hour before my time"
Every moment lost" said Napoleon,
"gives an opportunity for misfortune"