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Year: 1878

1t will be seen that the Republi-
can Central Committee have issued
a call for party conventions 10 nomi
nate candidates for seats in the Con-
stitutional Convention.


This was not done until it becam 0
apparent that the Democrats had not
only refused all overtures that could
result in the election of partisan
delegates, but were working secretly
and underhandedly to further the in
terests Of their own party candidates.
Although the Republicans, on strict
party vote, are almost sure to elect
ten out of fifteen delegates, they
were willing and anxious not to en- =
gage in party strife but to Join in
electing good men for both parties.
In return for this, the Democratic
managers have pretended to con.
slider this proposition and at the
same time flooded the Territory with
a secret circular calling upon Demo
Gratis to maintain their party organi-
zation and see to it as far as lay in
their power, that Democrats were
elected.


Self protection has, therefore,
compelled the Republicans to do as
they have, and if they will follow it
up by nominating the best and most
competent men in the Territory the
people will sustain their action. -
" Courier"
Year: 1878

ANNIuILArIoN.-Now is the &C
cepted time for newspaper men to
crawl into their respective abodes
and never display themselves or their
ire. provoking sheets tie the public
ra2e again. The squire, having
brought his spectacles from their
prominence on his forehead down to
the bridge of his nose, and gathered
his eyebrows into sCowl terrifying
to behold, pronounces this oracular
dctum in the plural language used
by "some pumpkins" as he terms
editors: "For eight or nine years
Of our life we have lived and attended
to our business, and not newspaper
printed within fifteen or twenty miles
of us. If we could then have had
such paper as the "ARGUs" to have
shown US our work, and to have
pricked us up little, the world don't
know what we would have done"
The pungent satire and halo Of con-
centrated wisdom which surrounds
the above, and insinuates itself be-
tween the lines thereof finds its only
parallel in the case Of the enlightened
inhabitants OF certain portion Of
the United States, who continued to
vote for old Hickory" Jackson for
President twenty years after his
death. Their several bumps of self
esteem were equalled in magnitude
only by their contempt for newspa-
pers, and they have left a solitary
record, bereft of emulation, until a
chord was struck in the antiquated
genius of to-day, vibrating back SEN
timents in glorious harmony with
their own. The only paradox in the
matter seems to be in the fact that .
public print was used to disseminate
this stupendous piece of intelligence
instead of allowing it to spread
through the more expedite and time
honored medium of the ncghborhood
tatrlers. But the sublimty of the
spectacle may be partially appre
ciated when we consider how very
much people have degenerated in
regard to newspapers since the good
old days of yore, when such frauds as
Webster's dictionaries were left in
merited obscurity together with their
strait-jacket rules. Despite all we
have said in the foregoing; in the
face of the squre's withering, blight
ing sarcasm, and although we may
present an unexampled spectacle Of
fool hardness, we have decided that
if the squire doesn't want the ARGUS
to "prick him up, and show him his
work" in the future, it will not be
safe for him to leave public nui-
sance (endangering human lives
without a remedy, until it becomes
our DUTY as journalist to administer
the lash.
Year: 1878

The telephone may be we'll enough
as musical disssminator, but what
the country needs is the invention of
some sort Of telephone which may
be applied to hand.organs and thin
toned pianos in such manner as to
conduct the music noiselessly off,
and dump it in some out.of,the way
place where it will not be offensive.
Year: 1878

Gen. Crook is once more in the
ield. 1t is his opinion that Sitting
Bull will be compelled to cross over
into United States territory on ac-
count Of the scarcity of food. The
general is now in the Indian territory
on business connected with Indian
affairs.
Year: 1878

Two men quarreIed and one was wounded.
He refused to have his arm amputated, gam
CREME set in and he died. His brother, as
next of kin, claimed the antagonists life. A
European writer thus describes the final
scene: "About noon there was a great crowd
and tumult Of voices outside the citadel gate,
but as we knew what was to take place we
did go out to sec the ceremony. Presently
the din was ht1Shed, there was a momentary
pause Of complete silence, and then a sudden
outburst of applause. We hardly needed to
be told what had happened, but soon after
delight at the brutal sight he had just wit
messed and applaudcd. He told us that after
the judge had pronounced the prisoner guilty,
he consigned him to the care of the avenger,
who at once stepped forward, and, unsheath-
ing his knife, threw down his brothers homi-
eide, and knecling on his chest, with a sonor-
Gus Bismllah-a rahman-a- rahim lin the name
of God the most merciful and gracioush cut
bis throat from ear to ear as be would have
done that of q sheep"
Year: 1878

Some curious experiments have been made
in England for the purpose Of demonstrating
the value OF Infantry as opposed to artillery.
The result was not such as was anticipated.
A half battery Of artillery was represented by
three logs Of wood painted black, each sup
ported by q couple Of trestles. The guns We're
at full intervals and placed on a shelf of the
target butt, about twelve feet above the level
of the range. In rear of each gun, at dis
tance of some four yards, were placed, rest
ing on a slightly inclined position against the
target butt, a brown blanket on a frame eight
feet square. These represented the limbers
and teams. The gunnerS were supposed to
be kneeling in shallow pits, giving some
slight protection. and We're represented by
black boards four feet high by twenty inches
broad, the top diminishing like the summit of
gun. one gunner to each timber, and an officer
In order to give an air OF realism to the ex-
pertinent a fire Of wood and straw was kin


aled on one side OF the guns, in order that the
Year: 1878

Necessity has no law: Parson (sternly)-How
could you come to church to be married to a
man in such state as that? Bride (weep1ng).
It was not my fault sir, never can get him
to come when he's sober
Year: 1878

One Of the curiosities of this campaign is
noted in Rhode Island, where the Democratic
nominee for the first congressional district
lives in the second and that for the second in
the first.
Year: 1878

tinction OF the public debt; rigid econo-


my IN the reduction of expenditures in all


public service, and a tariff for revenue


only.


Resided, That theinterests ofthe industrial


weaith-the producing classes is the para
mount Interest of the people of the Unite 1
States, and those whose labors and enter
prize produce the wealth she uld be secure in
Its enjoyment and our warmest sympathy is
extended to the laboring classes who have
been thrown out of employment BY the rg-
Inous financial policy and the unjust legis-
lation Of the Republican party, and We
pledge the Democratic party to a reversal
of that policy and a restoration OF all the
rights they are entitled to upon its ascend
ency to power.


Resoiued, That there can be no legitimate
employment Of an organized force in this
country except TO execute the law and
maintain the public peace, and that no vi
oience should be countenanced to obtain
redress for any alleged grievance but
should be repressed at any Cost until relief
can be secured by legal methods. We con-
gratulate the country on the adoption of
the constitutional and pacific policies OF To-
cal government in the States OF the South,
so long advocated by the Democratic party
and which has brough, peace and harmony
10 that section Of TIE Union.
Year: 1878

An excursion came in over the Kansas
Central yesterday. The train had three ,N-
ira coaches containing those who had given
the right Of way over their farms for the
road. The Company gave them a free ride
10 the city and return.
Year: 1878

Cultivate singing in the family. Be-
gin when the child is not three years
old. The songs and hymns your mother
sang, bring them all back to your mem
ory, and teach them to your little ones !;
mix them all together, to meet the SIM
liar moods, as in after life they come
,overus so mysteriously sometimes
Mary time and in the very whirl of
business, in the sunshine and gayety- of
the streets and amid the splendor of the
drives in park, some little thing wakes
up the memories of early youth-the
old mill, the cool spring, the shady tree
by the little school house-and the next
instant we almost see again the ruddy
cheeks, the smiling faces and the merry
eyes Of schoolmstes, some gray-head-
ed now, most ''lie mouldering in the
grave And "the song your mother
sang" springs unbidden TO your lips,
and soothes and sweetens all these mem
cries s


At other times, amid the crushing
mishaps Of business, merry ditty OF
the olden time pops up its little head,
breaks in upon the ugly train of thought,
throws the mind into another channel
light breaks in from behind the cloud in
the sky, and new courage is given to US
The honest man goes singing to his
work, and when the days labor is done
his tools laid aside, and he is on his
way home where wife, and child and tidy
table and cheerful freside await him, ht
can not but whistle or sing.
Year: 1878

Keep your boys and girls at home,
but don't expect to keep them there by
throwing to them the chaff and keeping
the grain yourselves. Don't ask or ex-
pect improbable things of them. Don't
expect them to love q home which has
nothing in it to make it lovely, but where
it is constant servitude from morning
till night Don't expect them to love
your old hillsides when you have never
given them anything there but hard,
duh work. Don't expect your daugh-
ters will love the old homestead when
they have got to leave it to learn the


first lesson in culture or innocent pleas-
ure. Make your home cheerful and you
will make it happy one. Instead of
making the boy hoe all day on the hill
side for you, let him hoe half day
there, occasionally for himself Plow
up an acre for the boy and let him have


what he raises, and you will soon find
that what little leisure time he has will
be spent there instead Of running to the
village. Don't make him put up all his
proceeds in the bank, for be will soon


tire of working for money which does


him no good. Let him take certain


portion of 1t and buy something to read
! or to make his room or home pleasant.
Year: 1878

An English paper tells us that the pur-
chasers Of horses for the French army
always endeaver to obtain first look
at the animal when he is in the stable;
noting if the animal supports himself
equally well on all its legs, and il one
seems to yield, especially examining 1t.
Attention is then directed to the large
ness of the pupil Of the eye, which
ought to be more dilated when in the
stable than when exposed to light. AT
ter the animal has been led out of the
stable, the eye ought to be again exam
ined, to see if the pupil has been con-
tracted; if not, the sight is feeble.-
Others, to test the power of vision feign
to strike the forehead with the hand
If the hollow over the eye be profound
and the temple gray, old age is to be
concluded Wounds about the temple
suggest attacks Of staggers, and when
the end of the nose presents circular
scars, it may be concluded the horse has
been twitched with cord to insure his
quietness while being shod, or having
had to submit to some painful opera
tiOn
Year: 1878

kJOnn IiiAAnSoI


Pills may sometimes fail to act on the
liver, but saving wood never will.


Make yourself necessary, young man,
and your success is certain.


Anger always hurts US more than the
one we get mad at.


About as low down as a man can gel
and not spoil is to live on his wife's rep
utation.


I don't bet On precocious children
the huckleberry that ripens the quickest
is the quickest to decay


Everybody seems to think himself a
moral half bushel to measure the worlds
frailties. f


When you strike oil, stop boring
many man has bored clean through
and let the oil out at the bottom


Next in point of meanness to doing ar
injury is to DO man favor and every
now and then remind him OF it.


The man who is honest from policy
needs as much watching as hive o
bees ready to swarm.
Year: 1878

IN Barker's circular of the Hoosier
Poultry Yards, gives the following RENE
dies against lice: A good way to keep
hens free from lice while setting, is to
put two or three tobacco leaves in their
nests, the fumes of which will speedily
drive out the vermin if they are infest.
ed with them. This is the best and only
use I have for the weed. Another good
plan is to sprinkle sulphur literally
through their feathers.
Year: 1878

All who can do so should arrange so
as to keep hogs in their apple orchards
to eat up all the wormv fruit as it drops
during the season. In this way easier
than bv any other can the ravages Of the
worms be checked. Where hogs are moi
sufficient for the purpose small flock Of
sheep should be used. 50 q
Year: 1878

A bale of cotton contributed by citizens
of Friar's Point for the sufferers of Mem
phis was delayed in transit and not sold
until the proceeds were no longer needed.
The money fell into the hands of Miss
Clara Conway, who sent it to the officers
of the cotton exchange, with the
suggestion that it be invested in a
bale Of cotton and that this be sold
and the returns contributed to the
Lieutenant Benner relief fund. This was
announced at the mass-meeting at the
Opera House yesterday, and Colonel Pet
tit stated that the bale so purchased would
be sold to-day at o'clock. To-day, how
ever, it was decided to postpone the sale
until next Monday, when there will be a
a larger attendance, and a handsome price
will no doubt be realized. Memphis has
as vet made no contribution TO the Benner
fund and this now gives our merchants
and business men a good opportunity to
set the ball in motion. Any persons will
ING 70 contribute to this fund in any sum,
large OF small, may leave the same at the
cotton exchange and it will be aclInowl-
edged from day to day, deposited in bank
to the credit ofthat fund and turned over
to the committee at Vicksburg having
this movement in charge. We must not
let our sister cities get ahead Of us in this
matter, which involves the pride anc
gratitude of the Southern people.
Year: 1878

This recalls an incident which hap
pened in Boston within a few years.
A young fellow. fresh as a daisy and |
full of enthusiasm for work, was en-
ployed by a then well known firm in
the dry goods business. The contract |
was a simple one, but was contract.
On his part, the youth was to give his |
service and do what he was told. On !
its part, the firm was to pay him one
hundred dollars for his first years
work and teach him the business. The
money consideration was insignificant;
the knowledge of the business was
what the youth was after He was
put down cellar, kept at opening and
mailing boxes, running errands, and
sweeping the store; in a word, he was
made to do a porter S work, and his
employers no doubt chuckled at the
thought that they were getting for two
dollars a week work that was well
worth fifteen. But, like a sensible
fellow, the youth said nothing until
the time was up. On the morning of
the first anniversary of his coming to
the store he was on hand early, and,
when the senior partner came in, re-
spectfully asked to be allowed to see
him in the counting-room on business


The man Of business acceded to the


request, and the two entered the back
office. "a year ago to-day" said the
youth, closing the door, II entered
your services and agreed to give you
my time and work. Have ! done it to
your satisfaction ?" Entirely so,
replied the merchant, "and | am will
ling to increase your" Excuse me,
said the youth. 81 have more to say.


You agreed to pay me 800, and you
have done it. You also agreed to


teach me the business, and you have
| deliberately and knowingly broken


your promise | know nothing about


the dry goods business, and it is your
| fault. You have robbed me of year 4


time. What do you propose tC


do about it?" The merchant
Hooked at the boy" but he


did not finch. He had right on hi:


side, and his employer knew it. He


the man who prided himself that his
word was as good as his note, haC


been accused by beardless boy o
| having failed to keep his agreement
t and knew that the charge was true
He said nothing. "What | want,


said the boy, is an extra 800 as al


increase" "You shall have it, sal,
the merchant. "And besides that,
] continued the youth, Il want 5000 ad
9 ditional to partly make good you
' broken promise" Again the mel
chant looked in his eye, but got n


comfort. well" he said, tits
d good deal to pay boy the secon
II year, but will see about it" An
y he did see about it, for the mex
morning the "boy" was salesman o
: S4O0 salary. 1t don't pay to rob


boy who knows his rights.
Year: 1878

Life.


Atlanta constitutional


The impression has been created.
and it is most zealously maintained by
many persons who have no military
reputation, that General Gordon is a
result of the war. They hold that his
present position was won when he put
his life to the hazard Of battle, and
that if there had been no war he would
never have been heard of. Pretermit-
ting a defense of the rather reliable
proposition that the man who handles
the sword in time of peril is the safest
leader in time of peace, we can but ex-
claim against the cruelty of the mis-
representation.


Georgia has produced very few
brighter youngsters than John B.
Gordon was. His college course was
particularly brilliant one. He took
the first rank in his class-the largest
and one of the best classes graduated
at the Georgia University before the
war. In his sophomore year he carried
off the class medal. In his Junior
year he took the first speakers place.
In his senior year he left college sud
denly, just before graduating, for the
purpose of marrying "a frustrated
elopement being the history Of this
event. The faculty, however, gave his
father letter, in which they stated
that had he remained he would have
taken the senior honor, and thus
showed a career of unprecedented
brilhanty, receiving the three class
honors three years in succession.


Upon leaving college young Gordon
became engaged in coal mining in
North Alabama, just over the Georgia
line. He became distinguished at
once among the mountains as a bril-
liant and captivating orator He can
vassed the State in every campaign
that was waged, and was accounted
one of the best of the campaign ora
tors, always drawing immense crowds.
He broke with the Wings on the
Know Nothing issue and made a stir
ring canvass against the policy, though
but twenty-five years Of age. In the
Breckenridge campaign he was liter
ally everywhere, and was pronounced
marvel of eloquence in address and
endurance. AT Huntsville he was in
vited with the great Yancey to meet
the biggest crowd of the campaign and
close the good work. The two spoke
from the same platform, Yancey max
ing there probably the grandest speech
of his life. Being very much inter
ested in the great questions of 1860,
Gordon travelled over the country with
his young wife, watching the course of
events. He was in Milledgeville
when Georgia seeded, and spoke at
night to a vast crowd, and made an
electric impressiQn. Reing in Mont
gomery the night that Alabama seced-
ed, he was called upon for a similar
address and made it. His fame as a
polished and brilliant orator as a
young man Of culture, ability and
promise-went over the two States,
and probably exceeded that ever at
tanned before by so young man. He
was solicited by his friends in the
North Alabama district to run for
congress-and it was claimed he could
/ be nominated If he would accent it,
gbep he Was twenty-five years. old.
He delivered tic commencement ad
dress at old Oglethorge University
Year: 1878

Mr. Nagle states that he sold out his
interest in the store, 1877 Main street, to
Mrs. Dutlinger on the 9th; says the watch
man was drunk when he arrived, and that
no one attempted to take out goods after
the levy was made; that the whisky and
other goods found in the wagon which
Graham, the porter, was driving had been
sold, and that failing to deliver them, re-
turned to the store and was putting them
away when arrested
Year: 1878

ceased to be virtue, we left for the north
ern part Of the city. On our return, moth
ing having turned up, we again sailed
forth in quest of an item. Meeting a
private watchman at the corner of Court
and Main streets, we learned that four
policemen were in the rear and three in
front Of the store of II. B. Howell & Co.,
26S Front street, who could distinctly
hear what they supposed to be the pecking
Of a chisel and drilling of the safe. The
captain of the force hastened to the resi-
dence Of the proprietors Of the store and
procured a key, with which they entered,
and ascertained that the pecking noise was


produced by coop of geese.
Year: 1878

deceased we can fully endorse
the following tribute to his char
acter by the Oregonian, apolitica!
opponent of over twenty years
standing:


:'In official life we have never
heard Of q single charge tarnish-
ing his character, though his
public career embraced a time
when political rancor ran to a
high pitch and but few men es
capped the shafts of calumny.
Since his retirement from the
office of governor he has filled
other important trusts, both
public and private, and always
in an acceptable manner. His
interest in behalf Of the welfare
of Oregon was great and having
seen the state In herinfancy and
weakness he rejoiced in her
fuller growth and her power
among the states of the Union.
A Democrat in politics, he was
earnest in his convictions as
such, but not an EXTREMIST, and
labored for men rather than
party. Hence in the days when
strict partisanship was made a
test Of merit, he was passed in
the political race by others less
worthy Of preferment.


'In private life and among his
neighbors and personal acqualnt-
ances Gov. Curry was universal
ly esteemed, and by those most
intimate with him he was regard
ed with most affection. His atfa-
BILE and courteous manner, his
fine conversational powers and
his well stored mind made him
an agreeable companion. In
fact Leading trait of his char
acter was that Of urbanity, and
he was everywhere recognized
as Il true gentleman and an
honest man."
Year: 1878

Republicans have great reason to be satisfied


with the present results Of investigation at
Washington, and still more with the impress
sion made on the public mind by the conduct
of the Democratic House. But it is not safe
for them to forget that all their energy and
patriotism will be required in order to prevent
the election of a Democratic majority Of
representatives this Fall. Patriotism will be
needed TO suppress those wretched wrangles in
the aelection of candidates by which strong
districts are sometimes abandoned to a minor
ity. Energy and good sense will be needed
TO bring home to every voter the true issues
of the contest, and to check assaults upon the
financial position of the party Voters will
not elect majority of members of Con-
gress upon the question whether Democratic
charges Of fraud are completely disDroved


Practical issues, largely of financial
Year: 1878

When statesmanlille persons at Washington wish
70 have something said, and do not wish TO say it
themselves, they ask our good-humorcd agent Of the
Associated Press To do it for them, and the solem-
nity with which he goes through the motions as #
he were doing it out OF his own head
is always edlfying Here however, is something
sent over yesterday. which is absolutely as solemn
as the face our agent pulled in transmittingit !;
Inquiries continue to be made from persons occu-
pying Federal offices In different parts of the conn
try in regard TO whether the Presidents Civil Ser
vice order remains in force, whether II has been
modified It can be stated on authority that the
order VIII be enforced" The proprIeties having
now been observed. the officials will proceed with
the exercises aud trample on the order as much
longer as they please.