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Year: 1879

To-day at noon twenty pigeons were
let loose on the roofof the United States
Hotel. The bird that alighted on
the roof of the Clayton House, had not
returned to his home last evening.
These birds are now being trained and
on Monday next the grand flight of car
rier pigeons will take place. The own
ers of the different birds will not under
any circumstances tell the time their
birds made, and although but one can
win in the prize on Monday yet all
seem confident of success.
Year: 1879

The City Council having concluded
to put new water-wheel and puml
at the city mills, the water committee
accompanied by the Chief Engineer
visited Philadelphia to inspect the
water works of that city. They were
met by Mr.. McFadden, Chief Engineer
of the Philadelphia water department,
and were conducted through the works
and shown the different wheels in use.
The committee gained greet deal OF
useful information which will be OF
great advantage to them. The subject
will no doubt be discussed in the
meeting Of the City Council this eve
ming.
Year: 1879

To-day at noon the Exile club. O,
Philadelphia, to the number of about
fifty, headed by the Philetic band, of
the same city, paraded along King
street with flying colors, keeping time
to some most excellent music. The
club stopped here for dinner at hotel
and will spend the afternoon in view.
ing the CITY. They are on trip down
the bay.
Year: 1879

A very large advance in tn. price OF
hides has given an impetus to the lea ther
business which will stimulate the shoe
business. The trade is said to be in a
very satisfactory condition at present,
win falr prospect of being still better
as the season advances.
Year: 1879

IF fun is good, truth is better, and love is
best of all.


He shall be immortal who livelh till he
be stoned by one without fault.


No man ever regretted that he was vir-
tuous and honest in his youth, and kept
aloof from idle companions.


Stick to one thing until it is done, and
done well. The man who chases two
hares not only loses one of them but is
pretty sure to lose the other also.


You ought not to ask odds of any one.
Like blooded horse, all you have right
to demand is TO be put even on the whillle-
trees. After that show your mettle.


The fortunate man is he who, born poor
or nobody, works gradually up to wealth
and consideration, and having got them,
dies before he finds they were not worth
so much trouble.


The damps of autumn sink into the
leaves and prepare them for the necessity
of their fall; and thus insensibly are we,
as years close around us, detached from
our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure
of recorded sorrow.


No man possesses real strength of mind
if he cannot, after having heard all that
others have to say, resolve and firmly re-
solve what to do and carry his resolution
into effect. Take counsel of others; profit
by their experience and wisdom ;but above
all take counsel with yourself; make up
your mind what 10 do in the world, and
do it.


A habit of scolding indicates want of
self-discipline. The machinery has got
from under our own hands, and has fallen
TO grating and destroying itself under the
friction and perpleXites of life. "Possess
thyself " is Il more important rule than
" Know thyself." Without this primary
virtue, we are not in Il condition to receive
much good ourselves or to afford aid to
others.
Year: 1879

A BIG IRISIMAN.-The Emerald Isle
has long been famous for producing giants
The most celebrated of these was the well
known O'Bren, whom we first hear of as
II great raw youth crying in Il public house
because unable to pay the bill, having
been left penniless through Il quarrel with
his exhibitor. A gentleman taking com
passion on him, paid his debt, and advised
the young giant to set up on his own
account. Acting on this recommendation,
O'Brien started public house in Bristol
long known rs the Giants Castle. A
memorial tablet in Trenchard Street Ro
man Catholic Chapel records his stature
as having been eight feet, three inches
He was very anxious that his remains
should not fall into the hands of the anato.
msts, and gave directions against desc
Grafton from body snatchers. 1t has, how
ever, been quite frequently disputed, herto-
fore, whether the giants bones still rest in
his grave, or form one of the curiosities o.
the Huntcrian Museum, though we believe
that they still lie undisturbed in deep
sunk grave. Poor O'Brien had to take
his consttutionals under cover of dark.
ness, to avoid being mobbed by tho curl
Gus, and like most big fellows proved him
self simple and inollensive man; though
once he inadvertently terrified watch
man almost to death by lighting his pipe
at a street lamp, the sudden appearance o
which strange apparition threw the watch
man into u fit. His colossal proportion,
once saved the giant from being robbed
the highwayman who stopped his carriage
riding away in terror ut the sight o
o Brien's huge face thrust through The
window to see what was the matter
Chambers Journal.
Year: 1879

TIE COURTEsIEs OF LIFE.-Wm. Wirt's
letter to his daughter on the small,
sweet courtesies of life," contains pas
sage from which deal of happiness mi ght
be learned:


" l want to tell you secret. The way
to make yourself pleasing to others is to
show them that you care for them. The
whole world is like the miller at Mansfield
" who cared for nobody-no, not he-be-
cause nobody cared for him. And the
whole world would serve you so if you
gave the same cause. Let every one,
therefore, see that you do care for them by
showing them what Sterne so happily
calls the small courtesies, in which there
is no parade, whose voice is too still to
tease, and which manifest themselves by
tender and atlectionate looks and little
kind acts of attention, giving others the
preference in every little enjoyment at
the table, in the fold, walking, sitting, Or
Standing
Year: 1879

MORAL CoURAGE.-Public men have
duties to perform from which there is no
escape. No one high in position can turn
Il deaf ear to the remonstrances of his fell
low citizens against measures inimical to
other interests. To surrender his person.
al independence to the dictates of mer-
cenary few is to sacrifice the welfare Of
the selfish interests of individuals. When
riot and monarchy are abroad in the land
when fanticism kindles the torch of the
incendiary; when pestilence mows down
whole communities, it is his duty to step
to the front, and show an example of self
sacrificing devotion that may nerve the
hearts of the despondng to struggle
against u common calamity.


Whoever is placed above the general
mass, whether he be statesman, secnlar
or popular leader, it is his duty to lead
the van and front the peris that menace
public health and the safety of society,"
lrresolution and moral cowardice on the
part of public functionaries, in great ex'
tremities, is little else than crime.
Moral courage has given TO some of the
most humble names in history more
solid and enduring glory than that which
irradiates the history OF the most famous
military heroes.
Year: 1879

A HARD HEAD.-Every man graduated
from Williams college in the last twenty
five years has some recollection of Abe
Parsons, or Abe " Bunter,n as he is more
commonly called, from his bunting pro-
pensities. A correspondent of the Boston
Journal writes Little is known of his
early life, but he was owned as a slave
and run away to obtain his freedom. The
story is told of his recognizing the picture
of his old mistress, who had aided him to
escape, in the room of one of the students,
who was her son, and that after that she
used to send him aid. The most powerful
blows have no effect on his Uranium Two
inch planks are shivered at single blow,
and large sticks of wood broken in two.
AT an agricultural fair he was once giving
an exhibition of his powers by breaking
cheeses, which had been placed in bags,
but grind-stone had been substituted for
one of them. The first blow failed to
break it, but nothing daunted, he made
the attempt the second time, and sure
enough broke it quite to pieces. At fire
once some men were trying to break in
strong door with axes, but they did not
succeed in making an entrance till his
power was put in use, when the door
quickly yielded. A thousand stories might
be told of his wonderful feats, but nothing
has brought him into notoriety so much as
his connection with j. Frank Baxter, the
spiritualist mediem. At one of the spirit
ualstic camp:meetings at Lake Pleasant,
Baxter brought up his spirit and gave
detailed account of his exploits, but Abe
proved too lively ghost for him, rs he
was not dead, although reports of his
death had been published. He is now
about seventy years of age; but though he
has given up some Of his feats, he can
still make quick work with dry goods
box Or door Of ordinary thickness.
Year: 1879

A SMALL BOYS REvENGE.-The small
boy who steals rides on the street-cars
swung himself upon the platform of
Jefferson-avenue Car the other day to
come down town. He was mentally cal
culating the cost per rod of street railways
when the driver looked back and caught
sight of the top of his head and leaped off
to give him a cut. If one ofthese small
boys was ever hit with drivers whip be-
fore, the date has been forgotten; but this
lad caught n stinger, and left that plat
form as if he meant to fly. The driver
chuckled, but the horse didn't. For some
reason he stopped, left the track, tried to
draw the car off the rails, and in the effort
broke a tug, jerked the money box off the
rail into the mud, and might have climbed
into the car if the driver had not appeared.
While the moneywas being fished for in the
mud, and repairs made, the small boy put
in his speech. The ache " had left him,
and, standing where he could secure a
good view of operations, he called out:


Kin ye tell a fellar jist 'zactly how
much yer made by that ERE jobP"-
Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1879

A BEAUTIFUL TnOUGHT.-When the
summer of youth is slowly wasting away
on the nightfall of age, and the shadow of
the path becomes deeper and life wears to
its close, it is pleasant to look through the
vista of time upon the sorrows and felci-
ties of our early years. If we have had Il
home to shelter, and hearts to rejoice with
us, and friends have gathered around our
tireside, the rough places of wayfaring will
have been worn and smoothed away in the
twilight of life, and many dark spots we
have passed through will grow brighter
and more beautiful. Happy indeed, are
those whose intercourse with the world
has not changed the tone Of their holier
feelings or broken those musical chords of
the heart whose vibrations are so melodi-
GUS. so tender, and so touching in the
evening of their life.
Year: 1879

ATTENDANT ON TITLEs.-One of Henry
Fox'S jokes was that played off on the late
Mrs. -, who had u great fondness for
making the acquaintance of foreigners.
He first forged u letter OF recommendation
to her in favor Of German nobeman, the
Baron Won Sedlitz Powdertz, whose card
was left at her door, and for whom din
ner was Immediately planned by AIrs.-
and an invitation sent in form. After
waiting considerable time, no baron ap-
pearing, the dinner was served; but dur
ing the second course note was brought
to the lady of the house,w excuses from
the baron, who was Unexpectedly prevent
ed from coming by the sudden death of
his aunt, the Duchess Won EPSON Saltz,
which she read out to the company with
out any suspicion of the joke, and to the
entertainment of her guests, among
whom was the facetious author.-Brtc-a
Brac Series.
Year: 1879


nxious for reply.l
On the ears Of his sorrOwng friends
Came the clarion voice of his call
Like the ppln warrior sends,
When ordered to conquer OF fall
For. the militant host of the Lord
He had led fifty years in the van.
Where he welded the spirits sword
The gospel Of goodwill to man."
Does he speak to command or reply?
Must he cease or renew the fight?
Shall he linger or soar on high?
To either he answers, " All right"
b 1t the Master has hidden him 81 Col"
And the death-train at once must start;
" All right" was the fiery glow
That hashei from the veterans heart
From the sunlight into the dark
The plunge of his life boat is heard,
Till our ears lose the sound of the bark
And " All right !" is the last, brave word.


Methodist.
Year: 1879

The HERALD, hav-
ingmOre than DOUBLE
the circulation Ohio
county over any paper
published anywhere,
it is by far the best
Advertising Medium
through which to
reach the people of
Ohio county.


Business men should
make a note of this.
Year: 1879

On the morning Of the Sth, Just be-
fore the commencement Of the fighting,
as General jackson was surveying the
line of battle, Il wealthy French mer-
chant of New Orleans drove up TO the
line and requested an interview with
the General. On reaching his presence
jackson demanded of tho Frenchman
the object of his visit


al come" said he, "to demand Of
you to return to the city all of my cot
ton which you have taken to make
breastworks


"Ah," said Old Hickory, ''can you
point out the particular bales that are
your property


"Oui, Monsieur, certainement, Eat is
my cotton" pointing to many bales in
the vicinity


"Well," said Old Hickory, "if that is
your property you have come just in
time to protect and defend il" and
calling to corporal he ordered him to
bring a spare musket, and, giving it to
the Frenchman, he told him to stand
and defend his property. At the same
time he gave the corporal an order to
shoot the fellow if he attempted to run.
There is no doubt but that the French
man was glad that his cotton was there
to screen him from British bullets.
Year: 1879

is lG-page monthly agricultural paper, and
is a. full Of departments as the government
at Washington, and they all bear evidence of
unusual skill and industry in their manage
ment. Besides its agricultural articles it
gives great deal of miscellaneous reading
and some splendid stories.


1t and the DEMOCRAT viii be sent one year
for only So.


Remember that We cannot make these Of.
fers to any one but new subscribers who pay
in advance, or to old subscribers who square
mp and pay one year in advance.


1t isn't every day that such an opportunity
is offered to get two papers for the price Of
one, and you would do well to improve It.


gshow This 10 YonF SeIghboF.Ea
Year: 1879

The Ohio CultiUator warrants the fol-
lowing to be worth a hundred dollars
to every housekeeper Take one pound
of sal soda and half pound of unslaked
lime ana put them in n gallon of water;
boil 20 minutes; let it stand to cool,
then drain off and put in small jug
or jar. Soak all your dirty clothes over
night, then wiring them out and rub on
plenty of soap, and to each boile, of
clothes we'll covered with water, add
teacupful of this washing fluid, boil
half an hour briskly, wash thoroughly
through suds; then rinse, and your
clothes will look better than by the
old way of washing twice. Let every
poor woman be persuaded to try this
Year: 1879

is an independent paper about the size Of the
DEMOCRAT. but it is printed in smaller typO,
and doesn't have over two columns Of adyer-
tiseTnents. Each number is crammed full
with the latest news Of the world, misceiIa-
neous articles, and as it always has from
three to five stories in it home circle can
not find anything else which would be more
weleomesS.


For 50. . in advance we will send it and the
DEMOCRAT to any address for a .faH year.
Year: 1879

Recoguizing the fact that all our people
are now affected by the hard times, and
knowing that when they pay ont money for
newspapers they Of course want to get as
much reading matter as possible, we make
the following announcement and offer:


To all subscribers who will settle what
they owe and pay us one year in advance for
the DEMOCRAT, or to any ne0 subscriber who
pays in advance, we will send the following
free Of charge:


The C.;eago Westiy Nsws for six months,
or the


Farmsrs' Revie,o for one year.
Year: 1879

The following anecdote was related
by an American minister for fact /;
He was praying, and in his prayer he
said,'I pray that the power of the devil
may be curtailed-" just then an old
darkey in the congregation cried out !:
"Yes, Amen! Bless mel Cut him tail
right smack smoove off p
Year: 1879

The best and about the only way to
get even with treacherous mule-and
who ever saw any other-is to take his
shoes off, lead him on to smooth iceand
then blackguard him. He dare not in
dulge his natural propensity, and the
vexation of spirit exhibited in his in
telligent countenanee is really interest
ing.
Year: 1879

This, he added, would greatly en-
nance the value of the book, as every
Protestant would have that edition of
the Bible which exposed the tricks of
the Jesatits. And if the committee
could implisate the horrible Hudson
Bay Company in any way with the de-
NAL of Peter, he could guarantee the
sale of at least thousand copies in Or
egon alone. Regarding the antiquity
Year: 1879

AFTER full deliberation the
Southern Pacific Railway Compa-
ny have decided to suspend work
on the extension of their road East
until November next. We regret
that the prime need of Southern
California, o connection with the
Mississippi valley, by a railway
below the snow belt, will thus be
deferred. From the very moment
such O connection shall be estab-
lished through the crossing of the
tracks of the Arizona Pacific and
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe roads, this section will begin to
take on new life and energy. 1t is
pleasant to know, however, that
the connection cannot be post
poned long, and the proprietors of
Los Angeles orange groves and
vineyards may we'll possess their
souls in patience in anticipation of
the good times ahead.
Year: 1879

The Two most precious thlngs on this
side Of the grave are our reputation and
our life. But 1t IL Too much lamented
that the most contemplate whisper may
deprive US of the one and the weakest
weapons Of the other. A wise man
therefore Is the more anxious to de-
serve a fair name than to possess It and
this will teach him so to live ~ not to
be afraid TO die.
Year: 1879

The present plan adopted BY church,
es of making contributions BY cave
lopes enables man TO drop two old
fashioned cart wheel copper cents 10
with as much style and flourish as u
they were trade dollars at par. r.
Year: 1879

A bright little miss in Napa, Call,
noted for hel quaint saying, said to her
neither the other day: Mamma, when
you went to heaven to get me did you
pick out the prcttiest baby on Gods
ioor?' OF course mamma said yes.
Year: 1879

A subscriber In the conpty 'takes his
pen in hand to let us know that the
other evening he passed young couple
in buggy, the youas man sitting on
the girls lap, and she singing Baby
Nine He thinks the song was very
appropriate under the circumstances.
Year: 1879

once elevated him far beyond the reach of
his rude and quarrelsome assailant, and left
the latter and his coachers to share alike
the disgrace and disgust that the
scene which they had inaugurated
brought upon their offending heads.
There was no measure to the
whitening contempt that Senator CoNK-
LING evinced toward his confederated as
sailants while his words fell like Goals of
fire and hot embers upon the heads of those
who had conspired to disgrace the Senate
Chamber by a scene more becoming bar
room broil or among the rude elements of a
ward political caucus. This scene, dis
graceful as it is, may perhaps be regarded as
the fitting dcROuemom Of vile conspiracy
against the peace and dignity of this nation
For eighteen years Congress has been ex-
empted from such disgraceful scenes, for
until the present session the enemies of
peace, good order, and ordinary propriety in
and out of Government have been in Mi
nority and on their good behavior, and
their plantation manners have been held
under restraint. But now the case is diff
ferent. The Confederate Brigadiers are in
power, and they have resolved to either con-
troll public affairs in accordance with their
crude and unhealthy notions of government
or bring disgrace upon our national good
name.


The conspiracy to draw Senator CoNK-
LING into personal quarrel, and, in accord
with the Southern code, into violent en-
counter is apparent; but it utterly failed
in its purpose. Not for want of courage on
the part of the assailed, but for the reason
that he regards his own and the reputation
of this Government of more consequence TO
himself than the personal chastisement of q
regiment of Confederate Brigadiers. A sur
vey of the battlefield fails to develop any
proper cause for this emoRe; but it had TO
come, as a part of the Confederate pro-
gramme, and no Republican has cause to
regret 1t, for the reason that it reveals to
the country another and an appropriate
chapter in the history of Congress which
is clothed with the spirit and purpose of Sc
dition and revolution and which is no more
in accord with the genius and spirit of oul
Government than its predecessor, which ex-
lpired at the threshold of the rebellion
This occurrence affords the people anothe


opportunity to study the intents and pur
poses of the majority of this Congress, ant


to appreciate to some extent the peris tina


now environ the peace, harmony, and wei
fare of the Government
Year: 1879

On Wednesday night the Senate of the
United States became n scene of disorder,
discourtesy, aud disgrace through the ire
strainable ill-nature and worse manners of
au ex-Confederate Brigadier, Senator La
MAR put on his plantation manners, and,
in violation of every rule of parliamentary
usage aud propriety, aud behind his parlia-
mentary privilege" offered direct and
unprovoked insult TO Senator CoNKING.
Nothing had transpred in the proceedings
of the Senate that could possibly be pleaded
in justification or extenuation Of the con-
duct of LAMAR, who ut once sunk himself
TO the level of a common blackguard and
bully and excited the disgust and contempt
of every right minded man within the
Senate Chamber, whether on its floor or in
its galleries. Descending from the poisc
and dignity of the Senator to the grovel-
ing plane of the grounding, with the man
ners of the boor and the swagger oi
the braggart, he made the saddest
exhibition of himself that has dishonored
that Chamber since the day the cudgel
Of Bully BROOKS descended upon the
fated head of SUMNER. And what is
more and worse for LAMAR, he had allowed
himself, like mere prize-fghter to be
coached and groomed for the occasion by
his ex Confederate peers, and to be egged
| on to his own disgrace and that of the Senate
by their encouraging words aud evil spirit
Prominent among his coachers was VANCE
who divided his time between a proddingO
LAMAR on aud an almost constant violation
of the propricties Of the Senate Chamber by
words and signs Of encouragement whicl
at times degcnerated into the service ant
acts of the mere ciaquer.


Senator CoNKLISo received the insul
rendered with dignity of bearing and
propriety and power of language which a
Year: 1879

SENATOR HILL struck the keynote of the
situation yesterday in n short speech which
commanded much attention. He declared
to the Senate that there is more danger to
the Republic from non-action than from
revolution. The Government, he insisted,
cannot be destroyed by open and armed
revolution MS easily as by an insidious policy
of non-action which withholds from it the
needed means for the performance of its
functions. These may not be his precise
words, but they convey his meaning In
this he virtually conceded all that the Re-
publicans in both Houses of Congress have
contended for since this extra session was
made necessary by the non-action or-which
is the same thing-by the wrong action of
the House of the last Congress 1t is to be
hoped that Mr.. HILL by this impulsive eff
fort may arouse both Houses of the present
Congress to q sense Of duty and put stop
to the non-action policy of the majority that
now menaces the Government and threatens
it with revolution. Through this non-
action it is now within ten days of the end
of the fiscal year without appropriations ex-
tending beyond that period for several ofits
Departments.