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Year: 1879

Nothing is so painful at this sea.
son OF the year as the disheartening
spectacle OF nine-year-old hen, look.
ing through the fence at man digging
a garden, while she exercises her rug
ged legs and inoisive claws on tie
plank walk, just keeping in practice
until the garden is ready.-BWrlingtOn
HdUk-EVe.
Year: 1879

ana the small potatoes they couldn't
sell. Though they had big lot of poul-
try, none Of it ever came on their table.
neither did eggs or such, for every
thing that would fetch copper went
to market, and if they lived like that
you can think what sort of vittles Jack
gotl Yes, Jack, for found Dan'l
Briggs Jack there.
Year: 1879

Decision of Judge Simons In Favor OF the


City in the Hoffman Avenue Reassess.


ment Cases.


Adecision was yesterday rendered by Judge
Simons, of the district court, in the case of the
city of St. Paul Va. the owners Of property re-
assessed for the grading Of Hoffman avenue
m mt was ordered against each lot for the
amount assessed in favor of the city. Follow
ing is an abstract of the decision, which was
very voluminous:


This is an application by the treasurer of the
city of st. Paul for judgment against certain
lots and par. els of land reassessed for the grad
ing of Hoffman avenue in said city from
Seventh street bridge to its southern terminus.
The original assessment was confirmed on the
25thh day of March, 1875, and judgment there
in was rendered by the late court of common
pleas of said county of Ramsey, on the 18th
day of November, 1875.


After adverting to the city's contract with
Patrick Nash, and the subsequent order of the
council for reassessment of the property on
account of the assessed improvements, together
with the illegality of going behind the former
Judgment of the court, based on the act au-
thorizing the council to order the reassessment,
the decision goes on to give the objection inter-
posed by the property owners, which are
twenty-nine in all and very voluminous.


The decision then says: No evidence has
been offered to show that the reassessment


was not regularly made, nor has any evidence


been offered tending to prove fraud or any act


of willful misconduct ON the part of the COM
mon council or board of public works or any
of the members thereof either alleged in the
objections or otherwise, and as in the view
take in the law, the only objections material


upon this application for judgment are those


which relate to the rcasscssment, it is not neces
sary to consider the evidence which tends to
prove the invalidity of the original assessment
and upon which Judgment was derived as above


stated.


The decision then quotes the acts of the leg
islature under which the council acted, togeth.
er with the reasons given by the objectors, by
| which it is alleged that the reassessment was
| unconstitutional under said acts, and con-
| times: The legislature has not proceeded upon
| the theory that the city authorities would in
| any case wilfully disregard their duty or viii
| fully omit any act incorporated by the charter,
| and the court cannot construe the statue upon
| that assumption. OF course fraud vitiatea
| these as we'll as all other proceedings, but thai


must be proved, it cannot be presumed.
If it be said that such legislation tends tt


encourage negligence in public officers in th'


discharge of their duties, the answer is. that il
| question for the legislature, and not for th,


courts. The power of the legislature is ample
| its intention is plain, and that must be car


ried out, let the views of the court as to the ex
| pediency of the statute be what they may. Lee
| judgment be entered against each lot and par
| eel of land reassessed for the amount assessed
| fhore0n
Year: 1879

Mr.. John Mccullough will return from
Minneapolis this morning, and in the even
ing will appear in his great character of
King Lear. He has no superior in the role
now upon the stage, and competent critics
are divided as to whether he or Forrest best
interpreted the character. To see him in
the character is to witness revelation OF
dramatic power that will never again be af-
forded to citizens of St. Paul. 10 soy that
Mr.. Mccullough will lack an audience would
be an imputation upon the intelligence Of
the community. We therefore predict thai
he will be favored with an audience worthy
of his high abilities.
Year: 1879

How TOAD UNDREssEs. A gentle
man sends to an agricultural paper an
amusing description of "How toad
takes off his coat and pants" He says
he has seen one do it, and friend has
seen another do the same thing in the
same way:


about the middle of July / found a
toad on hill of melons, and not want
ing him to leave, hoed around him; h.
appeared sluggish and not inclined 10
move. Presently l observed him press
ing his elbows against his sides, and rub
bing downward. He appeared SO singu.
lar that watched to see what he was
upto. After few smart rubs his skin
began to burst open straight along his
back. Now. said l, old fellow, you have
done it; but he appeared to be uncon-
cerned, and kept on rubbing until he
had worked all his skin into folds on his
sides and hips; then grasping one hind
leg with both hands he hauled off one
of his pants the same as anyone would,
then stripped the other in the same way.
He then took this cast off cutice forward
between his forelegs into his mouth and
swallowed it; then, by raising and low
ering his head. swallowing as his head
came down, he stripped off the skin un-
derneath until it came to his forelegs,
and then grasping one of these with the
opposite hand, by considerable pulling
stripped off the skim changing hands,
he stripped the other, and by slight
motion of the hea1, and all the while
swallowing. he drew it from the neck
and swallowed the whole. The opera
ton seemed an agreeable one and occu-
pied but short time.
Year: 1879

conveyed through tho body framework
of the head to the auditory nerves in
closed in the inner ear, thus producing
the sensation of hearing. just as the
phonograph or telephone records or
transmits every sound with the utmost
accuracy, SO the audiphone receives
and transmits every modulation of the
speakers voice, until it is heard as
clearly as by the ordinary healthy ear.
In using the audiphone the deaf person
simply holds the instrument in the
hand, and it is of no importance wheth-
or it is held close to the mouth or with
the hand resting on the knee, or in any
other convenient position, as the con-
ductor connecting the mouth-piece may
be so heightened or shortened as to al
low the instrument to be held wherever
it is most comfortable for the person
using it. Thus it will be seen that, in
addition to its small size, which makes
it convenient to carry in an ordinary
watch pocket, the ease and comfort
with which the audiPhone is used rem
der it entirely yunobjectionable to many
persons who would be too sensitive to
carry an ordinary trumpet.
Year: 1879

WHEN mans house is building he
never thinks the carpenter puts in one
third enough nails, and frequently and
with biting sarcasm asks him if he
doesn't think the house would stand if
he just simply leaned it up against it
self, and saved all his nailsp Then a
few years afterward, when he tears
down the summer kitchen to build a
new one, he growls and scolds, and
sarcastically wonders why that fellow
didn't make the house entirely of nails,
and just put in enough lumber to hold
the nails together.-HaUk-Ey Eye.
Year: 1879

If there is one thing more than an
other that will make q young man in o
big button hole bouquet, light gloves,
dainty clothes, and hair parted in the
middle, come down to hard pan and as
near common sense as he can get with
out previous preparation or adapta-
biIity, it is to have a woman tell him
he ought to have been born girl
Steubenviile Herald. "
Year: 1879

A correspondent of the journal OF
the Telegraph submits the following:
We will suppose the earth to be hol-
low sphere, with an opening at the poles
of 400 or 500 miles in diameter-the
shell being, probably, 1000 miles in
thickness. This leaves 5000 miles di-
ameter of space inside the shell. In
the center of this space is sun, having
the same elements of light, heat and
proportional power as the sun of our
planetary system. As the sun, by
force as yet not fully understood, causes
the planets to revolve around him in
their orbits, SO this sun in the center of
the earth by like force causes the
shell to revolve around' him, and also
gives light and heat to the inner sur
face, which is composed of land and
water, as is the outer surface, the heat
of which, penetrating the opening at
the poles, would account for Kane's
open polar sea. From the fact that all
the planets travel on the same plane
and in tho same direction, infer that
there is one force actuating them all,
and that force emanates from the sun.
Now, if there is sun in the center of
the earth, the moon and the earth's
shell stand in the same relation to it as
the planets do 10 the sun of our solar
system. I hold that each heavenly
body revolving on its axis is revolving
around an electrical center, and each
planet is a perfect system within a
system, wheel within a Wheel We
attribute the cause of the motion of
the planets in their orbits to the sun
why not, then, attribute the revolution
of the earth and the other planets on
their axis to like cause contained in
their center? A bar of iron surround
ed by coils of insulated wire and cur
rent of electricity passed through the
wire causes the whole to become polar
lied. The supposed sun in the center
of the earth is probably composed
largely of iron, and the natural cur
rents of electricity around and through
the shell being insulated from the CEN
ter by intervening space results in the
polarization Of the earth"
Year: 1879

rights, equal taxation and the ballot 1t NAV
bo long before they strike at the mere form of
our Government Uu; they have struck aud are
striking at its spirit. / spak not of individ-
uals, but of classes; for among the
wealthiest msn are many of both parties
who love and are faithful to our DEM
ocratic system Of government But it is the
mass Of the people, the farmers, the owners Of
small industries, aud those whose dependence
and hope for themselves and their children is
In wen-paid labor-who have the ryofoundest
interest in the preservation of every part Of
this most perfect form Of government. IN
which is set the jewel of popular liberty. They
have it in their beepiDg-in the free ballot, held
by independent men-.and, if they would hand
it down to their children. they must protect
themselves from impoycrisfment by insidious
finance legislation, and prevent the bsllot-box
from being wrested from the control Of their
home government
Year: 1879

Charles Mays Thrilling Adventure.


Charles May and his brother Robert,
in the spring Of 1870, offered to pass
$4,000 railroad ties down the Ar
kansas river from the mountain source
in Colorado. He says:


sour offer was accepted, when we
started into the upper entrance Of the
canon with large skiff, provided with
six days provisions and 200 feet Of
rope, with which, by taking running
turn round some firmly planted object,
we could lower our boat 100 feet at q
time. In this way, at the end of three
days, having set adlift many hundred
ties, we reached the entrance to the
Royal Gorge. Here we discovered that
an attempt to descend the first waterfall
with two in the boat was certain destruc1s
ton, and to return was impossible. Ac--
cordingly, I determined to lower my
brother down the fall in the beat, a dis
tance of 200 feet, give him the rope, and
let him take the chance of the canon
life seemed more certain in that direc-
tion-while I would risk my physical
ability to climb the canon wall, which
was about 1000 feet high.


About 10 o'clock in the morning
shook hands with my brother, lowered
him in the boat safely to the foot of the
fall, gave him the rope, and saw him no
more Then, thowing aside my coat,
hat and boots, and stripping the socks
from my feet, I commenced my climb
ing way, often reaching the height of
100 or 200 feet, only to be compelled to
return to try some other way. At
length, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
/ reached a height upon the smooth
canon wall of about 1000 feet. Here
my further progress was arrested by a
shelving ledge of rock that jutted out
from the canon side foot ormore. To
advance was without hope; to return,
certain death. Reaching upward and
onward, I grasped the rim of the ledge
with cne hand, and then with the other,
my feet slipped from the smooth side of
the canon, and my body hung suspend
ed in the air Thousand feet above the
roaring waters of the Arkansas.


"At that moment I looked downward
to measure the distance I would have to
fall when the strength of my arms gave
out. A stinging sensation crept through
my hair as my eye. caught the strong
root of a cedar bush that projected out
over the ledge, little beyond my reach.
My grasp upon the rim of the ledge.
was yielding to the weight of my per
son. Then I determined to make my
best effort to raise my body and throw
it sideways toward the root, SO as to
bring it within my grasp. At the mo-
ment of commencing the effort, I saw
my mothers face as she leaned out over
the ledge, reached down her hand and
caught me by the hair. Stranger, my
mother died while yet young woman,
when and my brother were small boys,
but remember her face. I was sue
cessful in making the side leap of my
arms, when I drew myself up the ledge
and rested for time. From here up
ward my climbing was laborious, but
less dangerous. I reached the topof the
canon Just as the sun was sinking
down behind the snowy range, and
hastened to our camp at the mouth of
the canon, where l found my brother
all safe. Charley said he, have you
had your head in a iour-sack?' 1t was
then I discovered that my hair was as
white as you see it now"
Year: 1879

Two valuable lessons, not from text
books, are taught at West Point strict
honesty and truthfulness. A cadet
guilty of lying is expelled. There is
no hope for him, and there ought to be
none. OF all mean and detestable vices
falsehood is the meanest and most de-
testable. A cadet guilty of dishonesty
is expelled. Dishonesty and falsehood
go hand in hand. They are twin vices.
No young man who should show the
taint of these vices goes through West
Point if the authorities can help it.
By extreme circumspection a youth
whose imagination is too lively for his
Judgment may occasionally get through,
and even rise to comparatively high
command in the army afterward; but
he certainly must walk with great care
while passing through West Point; and,
as to the honesty of its graduates, as
class, that, fortunately, is beyond dis
pute.
Year: 1879

With ten new casoa and tiye deaths as tho
record for yesterday thore would soom to DO
but slender foundation for the hope that
Memphis will escape mn epidemic visitation
OF tho yellow-fever. There is, however,
some ground for encouragement In the OK.
poctation that tie disease will eoon die
ont for lack Of matorial to feed
upon, tho theory being that ut tho
present rate Of dopopulation the city
will aoon contain only such inhabitants "a
hare nlready had tha disease and are for that
reason likely to escape second attack.
People are still leaving the city In hot haste,
tho railways belng ovcrorowled with fright
ened refugees, and with tho population
reduced to strict fever-seasoned minimum
1t Is probable thas tho fearful experiences Of
last year will not be repeated.
Year: 1879

the new one advanced to the altar, with


four small children in white, who bore


her crown. The crown was sprinkled
with holy water; the Rosiere knelt in


prayer; the service went forward with
great pomp by the help of a powerful
rural choir, reinforced by stars from the
capital. The church was crowded, and
with motley congregation-here M. D.
Lesseps (who has promised to give the
Rosiere the first share in the Darien
Canal Company, there "Mark Twain. !"
Among the Frenchman hardly soul
seemed to pay the slightest attention to
the service; and when the rather croak-
ing voice of the old priest took up the
chant after the choir, there was a litter
at the very altar rails. The old man
preached a short sermon, in which he
was evidently airing his period for the
edifcation of the Paris crowd-talked of
the Rosiere's consulate of virtue" and
sketched her history in narrative from
the cradle, and prophecy to the grave.
Then Delphine, leaving the altar for the
seat of honor in the nave by the side of
her na02Y0i,ae, was solemnly crowned by
that matron with wreath of white roses;
and with triumphant outburst of song
the ceremony came to an end. The pro-
cession was formed once more, and the
Rosiere was reconducted to her humble
lodgings by the gallant ''sapper-pump-
er" band. The crowd then dispersed
some to see the conjuror swallow the
sword at the fair, some to taste the water
of the well of st. Genevieve, which is
understood to cure all blindness, except
that of the belief in its miraculous pow
0rS.
Year: 1879

safety. Are you doing this, my DEM


ocratic friends? Do you condemn


treason when you aid in putting the


government into the hands of the I'M


repented traitor? When you choose


to act with such men rather than with


those who have been loyal and true?


w hat sort of men are these ex-COn-


federates with whom it is proposed to


lntrust the nation? Do you say they


vii not steal? They did steal thel


arsenals, the guns, the Custom Houses,


the mints, the money Of the country


Do you say they will be faithful to


their oaths of Office? They have twice


violated their official oaths, once when


they went into the Confederacy, and
then again when they came out. Do
you say they will bear true allegiance
to the nation? They have already


been false to it, and still hold that
their high allegiance and first duty
belongs to the State. Do you think
they will be kind to the poor and the
laboring man? They and their faith
ers have robbed laboring men for a
century, and rioted and reveled in the
product of unpaid labor. Do you
think they will secure honest elections
to the people? They hold ten States
of this Union this day by virtue of
tissue ballots, fraud, intimidation,
and murder. Do you think
they will promote liberty of speech
and of political action? To-day the
Republican party Of the South lies
PROSTATE, crushed and bleeding be-
meath the brutal heel of Ku-Klux and
White Leaguers. Do you say they
will enforce the constitutional amend
ments? To-day they are regarded in
the South as a dead letter, and utterly
lisregarded. Do you say that you de-
sire to uphold and reverence the flag
IF your fathers? Then, for Gods
sake do not play into the hands of
men who insult, and who but recently
fought to dishonor and destroy it.
Year: 1879

There was a hand organ grind
ing forth the Sweet By and
By" Then there came a heavy dash
of rain, and then the organ stopped.
II was simple matter but it was
beautiful to think of, and people who
think we have had too much rain in
the past month are trying to look
more hopefully on the subject.
Year: 1879

Charles Foster attended the Republican coun-
ty convention at Columbus August Ist, and
made short speech. The following is a syn
opsis of his remarks:


Mr. Foster, after a few opening re-
marks, went into the matter of his
speech, as he had but little time,
being obliged to leave on the o'clock
train for Portsmouth. He said Gen.
Ewing made great claims to being the
friend of the laboring men. They
keep that point prominent. | want
to look into this. | want to ask my
Democratic friends what particular
thing Gen. Ewing or the Democratic
party have ever done for the interests
Of the laboring men. The Republi-
cans look after the interests of no one
class above another By honest toll
IS the only way to get an honest liv-
ing. In Ohio if the workingman is
honest, industrious and is economical,
he can not only get living, but lay
up money. have no patience with
the demagogues about the working
men, and | look upon that kind of
talk as little better than a crime. The
Oldest law is, that by the sweat Of thy
brow shalt thou eat bread That law
can not be repealed. We try in the
Republican party to protect the inter
ests of all laboring men without re-
gard to class. We passed the home
stead bill. Without protection we
would not witness these great indus
tries all over the land. Without the
Republican protective legislation
these industries could not flourish. In
Congress we were besieged from all
quarters to let the tariff business
alone The business would have to
close, and the mines would be empty.
Ewing and Rice both voted for the
Wood tariff bill, and now is it with
good grace that they come before the
people as the friends of the laboring
men?


The issues of the campaign are
clearly defined. Now | happen to be
one Of those who believed in policy
Of Cancellation. But | have had all |
want of that. Applause. | have
been disappointed We have tried
these Southern gentlemen thoroughly
by cOnclllatlOn. and 1t won do, L am
free to say They have been trying
to repeal laws that have stood for one
hundred years. For what reason
The reason given by these gentlemen
from the South is that Congress has
no right to go into State to protect
the ballot-box. Ewing and Others
seem to think that troops at the polls
are a very dangerous thing. The law
of preserving the peace at the polls
is as old as George Washington. 1t is
the law by which the whisky rebellion
was put down, the Burr rebellion put
down and the rebellion put down by
honest old Abe Liucoln. Tremendous
applause.


The law providing for Supervisor
is of late origin, and was made afte


it was shown that the whole State O


New York was turned by repeating


and frauds. The last election in Gin


cinnati was the first honest one eve


held there, and this was through til
Supervisors. The only influence c
troops at the polls has been to allo'