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Year: 1879

The present excellent English
Queen is eminently sensible In her
domestic notions. Sne cannot en-.
dure the modern idiotic habit of
women wearing O long fringe of
hair across their foreheads. An
English exchange says that Her
Majesty sent special Instructions to
the bridesmaids at the late we'd
ding of her son, the Duke of Con-
naught, that they would not be
permitted to wear these hair fringes
or high heels to their boots, nor to
tie their dresses back In the present
most uncomfortable and indelicate
fashion. Victoria deserves tho
thanks of every intelligent mother
In the land. The same paper says:
Last year one lady appeared at a
drawing room with her hair over
her eyes. The next day she re-
ceived a message from the Lord
Chamberlain Informing her that
until her hair bad grown she would
not be required to attend any more
drawing rooms"
Year: 1879

The HERALD always preserves o
rugged consistency. Kearney has
to-day just such a respectability AZ
may be reflected by his divorce,
entered of record. which allows him
alimony and separation from the
bed and board Of the Chr onicle.


We regard Kearney as quite as big
a blackguard as he lever showed


himself in the past. There is just
one redeeming feature about the
little drayman, and that Is that he
is not quite as base as his journal
istic hackers. There are deeps and
lower deeps, and no matter how
low the De Youngs may push the
artesian we'll of their new building
probably foreclosure sales will
cloud the ownership OF that build
ing-they will never get down, in
the soil Of California, to the depths
to which they descended as the
henchmsn of Kearney. They might
push their well until every disgust
ing strata Of earth was revealed
from here lowell, coming out
finally at the antipodes, without
striking anything so low down,
even from a we'll standpoint, as a
journal which admitted that it
knew what Kearney really was
and which yet championed him as
the dellverer and Moses of the peo-
pie of California. Kearney was
dead from the word 90. What
shall we say of his journalistic syc-
ophant, which is now mouthing
sour grapes and finds them sour to
teeth divested of all enamel.
Poor as Kearney is, he is pyra-
mid of respectabllity as compared
to the Chroniole-the olive paper''
live in the sense in which a
thing Is live that is alive with
crawling and creeping vsrmin.
Year: 1879

NEW JERSEY PLACING HERSELF IN A


POSITION TO FENCE OUT PLEuRO-


PNEMONIA.


TRENTON, August 12.-In an inter-
view to-day with General Sterling, chief
Of the Pleuro-Pneumonia Bureau, by a
Herald reporter, the former stated that
the disease is not spreading among the
cattle of the State. The General says it
is the intention to stamp out the disease,
when the State shall be so quarantined
that no cattle can get in excepting those
perfectly healthy, after an examination
by his veterinary surgeons. The west
ern part of the State Is already so pro-
tected. The State boundary from Salem
to Trenton and thence to Philipsburg
will be quarantined if necessary, and
when that is done the whole State will
be plac' d unde: similar restrictions if de-
sir,d. Every herd now infected in the
State is under quarantine supervision.
He says cattle will not be killed unless
absolutely necessary. He and the
veterinary surgeons are acting in perfect
harmony, and they think that the inter-
ference of DR.. Hunt, in Paterson, has
caused much injury and was entirely un-
warranted. Altogether they believe
there is no cause for alarm and are COLI
fident that they are able to take full
charge of the disease. General Sterling
says he keeps full record Of all diseas-
ed cattle at his Office in Jersey City.
Year: 1879

On Monday last William Lansingdale,
a young lad employed in the woollen
mills of william Dean & Sons near
Newark, met with very painful acci-
dent. He was engaged in working at
one of the pickers, when he suddenly
slipped forward, and his left arm caught
in the machinery, and before he could
extricate it his hand was torn off. He
was removed to his home, and Drs.
Kollock and Clark were called in, and
after short consultation, they decided
that amputation was necessary. The
operation was performed and the arm
taken off near the elbow. He is now
doing as we'll as can be expected.
Year: 1879

The Coroner's jury in the case Of the
abandoned baby that was found In the
railway track near Mt. Salem church,
which was to have met last evening, did
not meet owing to the absence of the
Coroner at New Castle, who was holding
an inquest over the body of A. Stokes,
who was killed in the fue mill of the
Delaware Iron Co. The jury will meet
at some future da'e.
Year: 1879

good price thus far this season. After a three years trial I've come to the conclusion that cotton raising is no job for a white man and horse, however well it may do for a nigger and a mule, and intend to go West to the wheat and cattle country. In my next I'll tell how cotton is cultivated TEXAN. Palestine, Sept 22d, 1879.
Year: 1879

=" We shall feel greatly obliged to any of our friends in the county, or elsewhere, who

 will send us particulars of any occurrence of interest which may come under their notice. RS CORRESPONDENTS are requested to send in their communications so as to reach us on

 Monday of each week. as we cannot insure the

 insertion of any correspondence received after that time
Year: 1879

The Rev. Dr. Bacon of New Haven pub

 fishes letter taking strong grounds against the Biennial Sessions Amendment, and in. deed the tide seems to be setting in that di. rection. This amendment has been pretty thoroughly discussed while but little attention has been paid to amendment No. ?. which is really two amendments in3 one. First it gives the judges of the Supreme and Superior Courts life tenures, and second

 it extends the period of their ineligibility on account of age from 70 to 75 years. This ought to be voted down. The electors of the state will make very great mistake if they fail to do it. A term of eight years for any judge is long enough. fine proves to be a good one he will be reappointed, if not, he ought not to be; and the proposition to sub- stitute 75 for 10 is simply ridiculous. It should remain 70 or be done away with entirely It is no argument to point to some exception al case, such for instance as Judge Seymour he is simply an exception to the general rule.
Year: 1879

the street, carrying something in its
mouth Of unusual appearance. He
picked up a stone and hurled it at the
canine The latter dropped its load
and he picked it up, His surprise was
great at finding the article to be a
well-formed human hand, so petrifed
that it retained its natural appearance.
The finger nails even remained. A
little inquiry convinced him that it
was "Canty's" hand and he returned
it to that individual, who in turn
gave it to the doctor as memento.
Year: 1879

The redu ced production of silver
by Sl6,OOO,O0O in one Year-shows the
way to a solution of the silver problem.
The precious metals obey the same
law which governs wheat IND cotton
all commodities A decline in value
brings about diminished production
which restores the value, the cost of
production being the universal regu-
lator. With the decrease of almost
one-haI6 in the production of silver
the position of the silver men will be
greatly strengthened. The result will
be, socn or late, a gradual rise in the
value of silver bullion, which will be
follow ed by extended coinage and use
sufici ent to prevent the tendency Of
increased production again to reduce
the value.
Year: 1879

BosToN, January 7.-Oxford Uni
versity has informed Harvard of their
inability to row as late as August 1st
As Harvard will not row earlier it is
likely there will be no race. Since
Oxfords letter was received eight
members of Harvard have withdrawn
and new crew will train for a race
with Yale in the summer
Year: 1879

New York, January7.-Ths stock
holders of the suspended National
Trust Company have rejected the
proposition to take the company out of
the hands of the court and place it on
a substantial basis by vote of 1850
shares against 1916. An advisory
committee was appointed to act with
the receivers and look after the inter
ests of the stockholders.
Year: 1879

WHAT his wife said She said she did
wish John could find something that
would cure his fever and ague. He was
all worn out with it and that nothing that
he had tried had done him any good. He
should take Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic. 1t
never fails to subdue the most obstinate
cases of fever and ague, and it is equally
effective in all malarial and bilious fevers.
1t is an agreeable, wholesome and inyig-
Grating tonic.
Year: 1879

SOUTH CAROLINA is the worst State
inthe country for couples to emigrate
to who want to get divorced. Before
the war divorce was unknown, but
under reconstruction rule the State
lurched way over toward the Indiana
freedom. A bill was introduced at
the recent session of the legislature
limiting the ground for divorce to the
ancient one Of adultry, butt was final
ly amended by repeating the whole
law now on the statute-books, and thus
leaving no way open to secure di-
vorce.
Year: 1879

THE Boston Advertiser is authority
for the statement that the letter re-
Gently printed in The Post, attributed
to the Rev. Cotton Mather, contain
ing the proposition to kidnap William
Bean and the Quakers who had en-
barked at London for the new world,
and exchange them for rum and sugar
in the Bar5adoes is forgery, and is
not in possession of the Massachusetts,
Historical Society. One reason for its
disbelief in the genuineness Of the let
ter, Mather was only nineteen years
old, and is not supposed at that age to
have been filled with the zeal for
Puritan orthodoxy which character
lied his later ministry.
Year: 1879

A UNITED STATES senator says
" No man and has family ever enjoyed
the Presidency and the White House
more than Hayes and his family do.
To them the whole thing is like the
first reading of Robinson Crusoe to
boy, or a first jackknife or first
pair of boots. They are an innocent,
harmless people, and, if they gush a
little and give it away, it is only be-
cause they are callow and green.
Year: 1879

A DISTINGUISHED Methodist d.
vine says that only for the women in
that denomination, one-half the
churches would die the first year and
the other half the second. And still
the Methodist church will not ordain
women to preach. R3
Year: 1879

Eve had one advantage over the
girls Of the present day. When her
mother called her to set tho breakfast
table, all she had to do was to tie her
hair up in a wad wash her face, put
on seraphic smile, and skip down
stairs. - Elmira Gazette.
Year: 1879

The great question to-day is whether
certain Returning Boards counted out
or did not count out certain n ildates:
when the fact is, that there Is no man
but knows that before the election
there were frauds perpetrated by ter-
rorism and violence; cItlzens we're
robbed Of their rights aud suffrage
was made mockery. Applause.
About that the newspapers forgot; bui
they awoke when the odor Of personal
corrupt on arose. Does anybody doubt
that If Louisiana had been let alone to
exercise her owo will she would have
swept the whole question into the sea,
where it never would have been heard
of gain? But wlen it became diff
ferent matter, when the little board got
together and began its peculiar work,
when the question of two and two
make five [laughter] came up then the
conscience of arithmetic Was aroused;
but as for the conscience for humanity
there was no demand for any Of that.


Mr.. Beecher paused tor about half
a minute, advanced to the right of the
desk, and, lifting his right hand with a
trem ulous and feeble motion, contln-
ued:


If there be az old, crafty paralytic;
if there be any leader who is repre-
sentative of an extingushed fame;
any man who represents the dying out
of glorious enthusiasm for the faith
of our fathers, or, if any man who is
the representative Of calculating cum
nlng and craft, hold him up and say to
this nation: This is the symbol aud
the representative of what you will
become if you have not conscience
about national morality"
Year: 1879

SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY -"In the
early age of the world perfumes were
constantly used, and they have the
high sanction Of Scriptural authority"
The patrons of perfumes at all times
have been the most polished people in
the world, and in this age no refined
lady or gentleman considers their toilet
complete without the use of some de-
ligh'ful scent like DR.. Prices Unique
Perfumes, which are really the gems
of all odors.
Year: 1879

The new schedule of prices at II. j. GmLEN'S
has attracted wide attention among the heads OF
families Low as goods have been in times past,
few offers have been made as are presented al
this well known house; and the reductions made
have increased the grocery trade wonderfully,
For the benefit Of the public TO whom these re-
ductions are OF great interest We repeat our few
Year: 1879

Those new goods are continuing to arrive at
j. Mcgailin's and they are the best goods for the
season ever brought to this market in many
years. All those in want OF anything in tho shoe
line will find it to their interest to look through
hIS stock before buying goods.
Year: 1879

If General GRANT is as unpopular as Mr..
NoRDHoFF, of the New York Herald, Mr..
SMITH, of the Cincinnati Gazette, Mr.. Root,
STONE, Of Iowa, and Mr.. ROBERTS, of the
Utica Herald, insist that he is, there is no
possible danger ofhis nomination as Presi-
dent in 1880. This should be q source of
unallOyed comfort to all these gentlemen
who are now engaged in whstling General
GRANT down the wind as candidate
though their apparent anxiety on the sub
ject would not logically convey the idea
that they are fully satisfied that their own
representation of the case can be confidently
relied upon. As we have said repeatedly,
the popular will and wish of the Nation
will decide that question, and if the people
want General GRANT, they will at the
proper time indicate it, and then those who
make haste to decry his chances will learn
the impotence of their own opposition. If
the people shall decide that they do not
want General GRANT rs their standard
bearer in $780, then his name will not be
mentioned in the convention, and perma-
nent relief will come to his enemies.


OF one thing the country may rest as
sured-General GRANT and his friends will
studiously abstain from shaping conven-
tions and packing delegations, leaving that
entirely with those who hold the political
machine at will through the agencies and
methods that attach to official power. If
delegates to the National Republican Con-
vention are "iixed,n it will be by 9th Ell
hands than those Of the friends of General
GRANT. They rely solely upon the pulsa-
tions of the popular heart, and lean their
hopes exclusively upon Il fair and honest
expression of the popular will, for his
nomination and election. They are watch
ing the popular tide which is their main
reliance in this affair, and its fowings, un-
tainted by the political and official machine
will bring the result they desire-the pre-.
sentaton of a standard-bearer who is of the
people, is supported by the people, and will
administer the Government for the peopl,
when he shall have been elected. If thi
shall result in the presentation of anothe
name than that of General GRANT--if tha
name is free from taint and il not th'
product of influences that are brought I,
bear upon this question unfairly--it will
receive the hearty support OF every Repub
lcau who has favored General GRANT
nomination under an impression that he i


the favored choice of the people.
Year: 1879

ing is; The disfrauchisement of over one
million of voters, the fraudulent counting
out Of at least forty members of the lower
House of Congress, the usurpation of at
least twelve seats in the Senate, aud the
forcble seizure of at least fifty Electoral
votes, all done by the Confederate, Copper
head, Bourbon Democracy. And, what is
more the Southern exhibit shows for every
DISTINGUISHED citizen of Maine the bloody
corpse ofa Republican citizen Of that section
murdered for opinions sake.


We are not of those who are inclined to
taunt the good people of the Pine Tree
State with "reminiscences Of their indiffer-
ence TO the Republican party Of the South
in the past, and to claim that the eternal
equities are now being asserted as pun
ishment to them for their neglect of their
Southern brethren; but we do sincerely
hope that the trial they are now being sub
jected to will serve the purpose of opening
their eyes to the complete significance of
Bourbon domination in any and every Sec
tion of the country. This much accom-
plished, they will see that Cancellation, such
as certain class of New England senti-
mentalists attempted in 1S75'-76 and per-
haps later, was nothing less than crime.
But we must insist that the slight taste
they have had of revolution under the
color and form of law" is as nothing COM
pared with the murderous dose of the same
medicine administered by the bloody bands
of the State-Rights Opposition to the Re-
publicans of the South.
Year: 1879

disffanchised, and the government shall be
subverted for year, at the ensuing cleo
tion the tide of popular Indignation will
rise so high that the Democratic party will
be literally swept away, leaving little, If
any, debris to mark its former existence.
We have great confidence that the curses
hatched by the Democrats in this Outrage
will come home to roost in abundance. So,
in any event, the Republicans cannot fail to
gain largely by this bold and outrageous
attempt to steal the rights of the people OF
Maine.
Year: 1879

EUROPE is q sufferer for the want of food.
Its supply from home production is short,
and there appears to he but one source OF
relief-the granaries of the United States
The famished peoples ofthe Old World rely
upon American food to keep them from
starvation. Through the goodness of the
Ruler of All, we have enough and to spare.
While the broad acres of this favored land
are cultivated there need be no food famine
on the globe.
Year: 1879

THE Graphic remarked very truthfully
the other day that "as long as GRANT lives
=" he will be q thorn in the side of Republi-
" can politicians meaning thereby that he
will stand in the way ofnot few nspirants
for the Presidency. For" continues the
Graphic, the people will always turn to
him in m emergency and ignore the
presence Of ambitious leaders" To which
we add that the people are proddiug this
thorn into the sides of the aspirants afore-
said with lively vigor Just now.
Year: 1879

IT is about time, in view Of the progress of
the suffrage movement in the District, for
some self-sats6ed political eunuch to rise
mp and screech out piping tones the words
" Feather Duster ~ And it is also about
time that the people of the District should
again be informed OF the fact that this SLAM
der against our last District legislature had
no foundation in fact. We mean by tins to
deny most emphatcally that the members
OF that body, with, perhaps, a single excep-
tion, were guilty Of the charges alleged
against them out of which grew the feather
duster story. The truth is that at the time
of the breaking up of the legislature,
and when the "spree" occurred wherein
the feather busters, the clock &c, &c, were
appropriated for other than public uses,
the members of that body were absent from
their official quarters paying their respects
10 the Governor and other District digni-
taries. During that absence some mis-
chievous mot vicious) citizens raided things,
as it were, about the legislative halls, and
the story was given out that the legislature
had dissolved in a disgraceful pilfering
scramble These facts have been known
for years, and are verified indubitably; but
they have also been ignored in certain quar-
ters, where the cry Of Feather busters I"
is supposed to be very funny utterancc,
and where q vile SANDER upon class of rep
utable and well-meaning citizens is often
repeated to serve the purpose Of serious ar
gument
Year: 1879

THE Southern GRANT boom seems to
have "died bornin'," as we expected it
would. II is nevertheless fact that the
inspiration of II, residing as it did, in the
idea of q true, broad and comprehensive
Nationality, still exists among the more
conservative of that section. They are
tired of wrangling over the Lost Cause and
attempting TO reassert the doctrine of
State Rights in the face of the fact that the
next census will relegite their section to a
lasting and obscure minority. In other
words, they propose to abandon a losing
fight 1t is a great pity their numbers are
not large enough to enable them to make
an effective impression upon the Southern
political situation. But they are not, and
the result is that the overwhelming major
ity of the Southern Democracy, for the
present generation at least, will continue
to vote as they fought" for the alleged
principles of the deiunct Confederacy.
Year: 1879

The seditious example of the Louisiana
and South Carolina Bourbons in erecting
State goyernmentsin in those commonwealths
by means Of the contingent process has
had not little to do with stimulating the
similar proceedings now being attempted up
in Maine. This goes to show that success
ful fraud in any section of the country has
tendency TO demoralize the entire people.
-Four years ago such thing as this would
not have been dreamed Of in New England ;
but the series of criminal blunders by which
the Southern Bourbons have been permitted
to establish bogus Home Rule in their States
are bearing legitimate fruit strong,
brave and honest execution Of the laws in
the South, supplemented by realization oil
the real will of the majority of the people
of that section during tho past three or four
years, would have spared us this mhiction
of covert rebellion in the North.
Year: 1879

GENERAL GRANTS blunt declaration
that his sympatbies from first to last dur
ing the Franco-Prussian war were with the
Germans exposes the characteristic iDspira-
tions of his habitual train of thought He
analysed the causes of that great struggle
with the clear insight of true statesman
ship and found that LOUIS NAPOLEON had
assumed the bloody, needless and hopeless
responsibility of precipitating it upon the
French people and forcing Germany to ac-
cept the gage of battle. If the right had
been upon the other side his sympathes
would have been with the French As it
was, no German-American can find the
least fault with him regarding this question
dear as it is to their hearts aud at the same
time every true lover Of France who de.
spised or hated Napoloonism will coincide
with him.
Year: 1879

THE New York Sun declared not long
means to go further and establish an En-
"pire "-an Empire, mind you, with great,
big E. Nothing less than the biggest L to
be found in its font Of editorial type would
satisfy the inhamed imagination of the
Sun when 1t asserted this belief Mean
while 1t is noteworthy fact that the peo-
pie at large are seemingly satisfied that the
General is devout and devoted supporter
of the idea that this Is a Nation, and the
bigger the N the better it suits them. They
have no fear of the tanner turning aristo-
crat OF of the patriot becoming traitor.
Year: 1879

THERE is no outcome to the existing
muddle in Maine that will not tend to the


advantage of the Republicans. The at
tempted fraud is so glariug that the more
candid of the Democratic press denounce it
severely. This may tend to frghten the ras-
calls from their ultimate designs and explode
the fraud before its consummatiOn. In that
event the Republicans will reap decided adj
vantagos iiom the diabolical attempt But
should the plot be carried to the end, and a
majority Of the people Of Maine should be
Year: 1879

II is understood that during tho coming week An
effort will be made to secure the attention OF the
Grand Jury with view TO Investigate the action Of
Superintendent Henry J. Dudley and the Department
OF buildings. 1t is said indeed. that has been
prepared against the superintendent by parties well
posted on tho workings OF the department and
that those Interested intend forcing the matter
the uttermost The case will probably be inquired
Grand Jury will be chiefly occupied with prison
cases. the matter may not DO taken up before next
month.