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Year: 1879

Neal Dow, the great temper
ance reformer Of Maine, had a
narrow escape the other day.
For a whole generation he has
been regarded as . consistent
teetotaler. But a tramp solemn
ly swore that he and Neal Dow
stood at the same counter and
imbibed brandy and water.
Things looked a little serious
for a while, and the temperance
folk in that far-off REGION felt
that even the greatest OF us will
once in a while have fall. The
tramp, however, on the cross
examination explained that he
drank the brandy and Neal
Dow the water, and the whole
State, of Maine brcathed freely
once more.
Year: 1879

According to the News,
Griffin can boast of a citizen
who still has confidence in Con-
federate money. That paper
says he has a fish pond near the
city, and will allow anybody to
fish in it one day for one hun
dred dollars inConfederate mon
ey. He has a mill and he will
sell a bushel of meal for one
hundred dollars, or he will give
one dollar in greenback or gold
for one hundred dollars.
Year: 1879

German eXperlmentalIsts have satisfactorily proven that plants will grow more in bright moonlight than in dark nights.

 We no longer question the proprl- ety of considering vessels in tho fem mine gender They run each other down almost every day.

 "Whau were the worst results of the late civil war?" erred a spread eagle orator. "Widowsm shouted Jones, who had married one.

 Strange to say there are not law vers enough in the Lower House of the North Carolina Legislature to make judiciary committee.

 Young men and women should not be allowed to stand at the gate too long these nights. It is liable to bring on the new.moon-ia,

 The reason young man parts his hair in the middle, is through fear that the weight of any more than half of it on one side wlll crush in his scull

 A one legged man can nevor ex- pericnce the thrill of pleasure which permeates every fiber of the being of the fellow who scratches one foot with the other.

 Nobody seems to know what be- comes of the bumble bees in winter but they are on hand and ready to be sat down on as soon as the first bare footed boy appears.

 The Rev Talmage says that Q country village is the heaven of gossips. The Rev, TalmaJe spends his little vacations at Ridgewood N. J.

 II say, Jack, which would you rather, that lion tore you to peices, or t!gol?' "Why, you goose, of I'd rather lion tore a tiger to pieces"

 The insane hospital must be estab- lished, or the people will be most Uit. terly fieappdistsd.
Year: 1879

Mrs. Farr, a woman living at Con. way, attempted suicide yesterday morning by taking chloroiorm When discovered she was almost dead and it was only after resorting to almost every means that she was saved. She alledges as reason fol wishing to kill herself that her Eus band said that he was going to move to the country and that she did not wish to go. She .iiso says that she was perfectly deliberate in the course taken and that she is not in sane but is in her right mmd.-Ga. Zette.
Year: 1879

CONWAY, ARK. March 3, 1879. 4 The County Treasurer's office, in the Court House, was broken open last night, and bungling effort made to break open the rreasurer's safe with a slcdgc hammer. The door knob and hinges were broken off Failing in thus opening the safe, q wagon was obtained and the safe transferred to the same. The wagon heinz a light spring one, was broken down, and the safe found lying out in the yard. There is no clue to the .pe:pctrator of this bold attempt at burglary. From the awkward way m which the job was done, it is sus- pected that It is the work of the Memphis negroes who lately emigra ted to this place.
Year: 1879

When it was first rumored that the Joplin Railroad would perhaps be extended south, the people of Neosho and Merton county saw at once the great benefit to be derived from hay ing it located advantage ously for them, and went to work with will and did not stop until they had se- cured the prize beyond a doubt.

 The people of Arkansas now be. gin to see the great need of it, and we are informed that they now look to the extension Of the road us sup plying q long felt want, and that they have gone to work in dead ear nest. There is no computing the value of this road to Arkansas. When finished it will form one of the main outlets, and the want of such high. ways of trade and commerce has, as everyone Knows, been 2 great draw back to that State. It will give them competing lines, diversity of markets for their immense produc- tions of cotton, pork, cereals and na tive pine lumber, and will not only do this, but bring into the State an energetic and thrifty class of people who will soon make it one of the most productive states In the West. Being 'in the backwoods" is what has always caused Alkansas to lose it's portion of the emigration from the eastern States and gave to it a reputation for seclusion not by any means attractive. l. now has an ap- portunity to get an important line of ralroad-a railroad running through and from points that need her surplus of grain, neat and tim. ber-and that road is in the control of men who are abuudantly able and htINV buN hSNSo7ii5 dilObHb VI SIVi- gy to push it forward to an early completion if they only get the prop. CT encouragement. These meh are not builders of railroads on paper, like great many who heretofore have pretended to make q strike for Arkansas, bat they are men who, when they start to do anything, do 1t inc arnest.

 Pro0dent E. R. MohFet, of the Jop- lin Railroad, has returned from Ar kansas, where lie has been on bust. ness connected with the extension of the road into Shat State. He says the bill granting land to the compa- ny has passed both houses of the legislature and has become a law. This iusures the extension of the road beyond a doubt, and it IS ex- pected that work will begin within very short time. The Arkansans are very enthusiastic for tue road. Joplin News.
Year: 1879

time paying interest on 30 many bonds
with which it was purchased. That Is
Sherman's policy. Under It the govern
ment has NO credit. It has plenty Of
cash but no credit. In former times the
government had credit. and did NOT need
to keep on hand two to three hundred
millions Of gold and silver purchased
with government bonds for which 1t paid
interest while the same specie laid idle.


Sherman's act was positive injury to
the people and their government. Green
backs had risen, in anticipation Of the
full demonstration of the silver dollar,
to 99a. Then Sherman stepped In and
contracted for fifty millions Of gold at Il
premium; thus actually putting green
backs down and gold up by his own act,
and making the people run into bond
ed debt Of fifty millions Of dollars for
they money did not want and have not yet
used. Had sherman not been knsve
or fool, he would have snapped his
fingers at the gold brokers and bade
them keep their gold. Greenbacks were
within per cent Of par, and the silver
dollars then being coined would have
given him and the government all the
coin and paper at par that was wanted.
But Sherman Is q mere money trader.
He has no patriotism and he sold him
self and his people to the money kings
and has put the government two hun
dred millions deeper in debt than 1t was
when he went into the Treasury De-
partment. The greenback was going to
par and when the government had no
silver or gold either, more than what
was paid for duties why then go in debt
to buy millions Of gold just when the
mints were being set to work to coin
millions more than we needed.


The rascality Of John Sherman and
the cabal that demonetized silver will
yet be shown up. The men live thai
will be able to portray these villain
Gus transactions IN their true light, anC
the Independent no-party organs viii


not be able to delude the people will


imaginary theories to sustain radicalisu


and build up . centralized mooetar!


despotism.
Year: 1879

No STATESMAN EVER got so much


credit, in spite Of his blunderHg, as


John Sherman, the present Secretary of


the Treasury. His blunder in demone-


tizing silver, as a party leader, would


have destroyed his prospects in any


party that was not suffering from a crop
Of corrupt leaders so numerous that it
feared to turn from one cunning rogue |
lest it might find on its hands worse
one without his cunning ability to cover
up his tracks.
Sherman did all man could do to
prevent greenbacks going up to par; he
did it intentionally, since he is no fool.
He kept silver out of circulation as legal
tender money for years, to enable bro
kers TO buy gold and sell it again to
merchants to pay duties; and when
Congress ordered the Bland dollar coined
Sherman refused to allow it to circu-
late in competition with gold. Had he
not kept silver below par as legal
tender money, greenbacks would have
gone to par year or two earlier, with
out running in debt for gold. Not salts
fed with thus trifling with the currency
OF the people, when he found that gleen-
backs were going up to par with gold, in
spite OF all he could do in anticipation
OF the issue of silver legal tender dol
lars, John Sherman committed the un.
paralleled folly Of contracting to buy
fifty millions of gold at II cents pre-
MUM, when gold had sold daily in tbt
market at half per cent. He had ther
over one hundred millions of gold ant
silver in the treasury and yet he ruI
the nation into fifty million dollars NOR
OF bonded debt with the premium ad
ded, when the gold was already dru
In the treasury, which he could not ge
rid of. And two or these three huI
dred of millions of dollars remain il
government hands yet, and there the
are likely to remain. Barring th
small difference, millions of this gol
which Sherman bought and paid pr
MUM for never was actually put I'M
The U. s. Treasury; it is left just whe


1t was when Sherman bought it, in tt
banks of the Syndicate, or such BAN
as Sherman selects to hold it Il; and the


banks do business upon it just the san


- they did before the Syndicate sold


to Sherman for the Government. Nc


can anybody tell the use of keeping ty


or three hundred millions of gold or s


YER dollars boarded up and at the sar
Year: 1879

tween - and 90 per cent. within the
last fifteen months, and the question was
whether the standard, which was thus
constantly changing, should he ad-
hered to. If the value Of money was
being constantly changed il was easy TO
see that the relations OF values were
overturned, and that industry was ne
cessarilv paralyzed. He regarded the
success OF the t per cent. bonds the sad
dest commendatory that could be made
on the condition Of the country. IL
proved only one thing, and that 1t
proved absolutely, that there was no
profit in the UUited States on produc-
tive capital or industry, and that the
American peoplewith educated brain, its
skilled hand and its industrial equipment
was earning no profit. Ii he had his
own way the light of another day should
not fall from the sky till every one OF
these financial measures wicked and
wrong throughout was torn from the
statute book. Applause.


The effect OF provision OF the bill
allowing unlimited coming OF silver
would he to increase the value OF silver
and to decrease the value OF gold. That
was the sort OF compensation which
belonged to the bmetallic system and
tended to retain the equivalency of the
two metals. In conclusion he urged a
return to the standard OF the fathers
and the giving to the people currency
that had the element OF unchangablllty
to the fullest extent possible. That
could ONLY be by allowing unlimited
coinage Of both metals. Applause.


Mr.. Clafin obtained the floor, and the
House adiOurned.
Year: 1879

SAN FRANCIsCo, MAY 4.-Elias LipsiS,
stage manager OF Bella Union Theatre,
suicided last night by shooting himself
through the body in the presence OF his
wife. lie shot at his wife 4 few days
ago. hut was subsequently reconciled.
The fear OF trial and conviction Of at
tempt at murder was the cause OF the
SuiriIa
Year: 1879

The row in the Senate indicates that the
Republicans mean to base their next campaign
on the continued existence of the double
dyed traitor" in the country CoW-
ier-JOut1ldl


Our mild-mannered and intensely pa
trotic cotemporary may as well understand
that the Republicans mean to base their
next campaign not only on the continued
existence of the "double-dyed traitor" in
the country, but on the continuance of all
of that class who are aiming to subyert the
Government to their own heinous purposes
in politics. The Republican party will base
its next campaign not so much upon the
rebellion itself up to the date of its surren-
der at Appomattox, as upon the intervening
history of the conquered men and territory
since, which shows that when they pre-
tended to surrender they did not in fact
and that when they assumed to accept the
results of the war and the amendments to
| the Constitution and the laws INCIDENT
thereto, it was q mere sham and mock
cry. The South has had some fifteen years
in which to make up its record under the
impulses of its own regard for the public
peace, welfare, and unity, and the record is
stained with the blood of the victims of its
hate and soiled with bad faith on its part
from beginning to end, the most positive
confirmation of which is found in the clos.
ing scenes of the late Congress and in the
foreshadowngs of that which is soon tC
come. The Republicans want no better
base for their next campaign than that
which is furnished by the history Of the
Democmtic party-there being no Demo
cratic party now worth considering outside
the boundaries of the late Confederacy-
since the close of the war, when it began tC
practice its bloody treachery and bad faitl
to the Union, tho Constitution, and thu
laws, under a hypocritical pretense of sub
mission to the results of that struggle. The
Democratic party has piled up record for it
selrsnco peace was declared sufficient to bur,
halra dozen such parties in hopeless deieo


when properly revealed and ventilated, as j


will be during the next two years


The Democratic party has shown to TIN
Year: 1879

The Democrats are eating crow in Michi-
gan without trimmings. They take it pure
and simple, and lard it as they take it with
woeful grimmaces and contortions; but
they eat it, nevertheless. 1t will be rccol-
lected that last fall, for the sake of princi-
pie, the Democratic Michigandcrs supported
an honest money ticket on an honest
money platform. Now they are fusing, for
convenience sake, in the hope of securing q
few offices, on the reverse side of their hon
est money platform, and have invited the
hard money Free Press to sit by and eat
crow with them. 1t has accepted the invi-
tation, and has taken crow on its plate by
putting the Greenback ticket at the head
of its columns but it INDUCES few feel
ing and pertinent remarks over its Green
back repast by way Of an appetizer, and we
take pleasure in extracting therefrom, to
show the extreme sense of humilia tiou un-
der which il is suffering 1t says:


| The full report of the proceedings of the
| Democratic convention of Friday confirms the
impression conveyed by the first tidings.
There was q full, complete, and ignominiOus
surrender by that conventiOn-or, rather, by
the majority-to the National Greenback organ
zation. Self-respect, principle, policy, every
thing of value to party organization,w were cast
at the feet of the Groenbackers,a and the scornful
acceptance of the sacrifice by the latter was re-
| garded as rather gracious than otherwise
There is nothing lacking TO the completeness:
Of the humiliation. No good can possibly come
| from so unholy an alliance. The Democracy
of the State may be misrepresented in cOnven
| ton but they cannot be led or driven to the
support of any such platform as FIELD and his
proxy-bearing accessories have attempted t
force upon tho party. To support it would b.
TO cut loose not only from principle and from
the best and noblest traditions of the party il
the State, but from the National Democracy


With such protest and offer of thank
closely intermingled, the Free Press pro
ceeds to eat crow with q face that i
wreathed in smiles and frowns in charming
harmony. II is seldom that such sacrifice
are made in the hope of securing q few pal
try offices at the acknowledged expense o
principle, consistency, and self-respect. Blu
the crow was passed and the Free Press tool
its share and is discussing it with the pOlit
side of its mouth under protest. When tn
rcpast is over it will probably take some
thing TO relieve the taste.
Year: 1879

EX-SENATOR SPENCER has not escaped
assault in the public press by leaving the
Senate. lie is now being roundly abused
for having secured extavagant appropria-
tious for the improvement of the Yellow
stone in the River and lIarbor bill but the
more he is abused for this the more popular
he will become in his new home in the
Black Hills Meanwhile it is noticed that
the great statesmen of the South, especially
those from Alabama, did very little eflec-
tive work in this particular line in the last
Congress for the benefit of their immediate
constituents
Year: 1879

country that il cannot be trusted so long as
its destiny is controlled by those who once
attempted the national life, and only wait
an opportunity to repeat the attempt This
bare fact, illustrated in its own history, con-
nectcd with the further collateral consider
alton that Republican principles incorpo-
rated and perpotuatcd in Government as its
only hope of prosperity and pcrpetuity, will
form the base of the next and opening Re-
publican campaign for supremacy. Demo-
cratic hypocriscs and atrocities are to he
laid bare without exaggerntion, but with
thrilling and convincing effect upon the
popular mind wherever loyalty to the


Union still resides and the coming extra
session of Congress will add largely to the


Republican magazine of war material.
Leaving "tho double-dyed traitor" entirely
out of the question, the Republicans arc
thrice armed for the next campaign.
Year: 1879

THE condition of President TTLDEN's
health is just now a matter of great solici-
tude in the same quarters where a few
months ago it was feared that President
DAVIS was going into decline.
Year: 1879

A DEMOCRATIC Senatorial caucus will be
held next Saturday whereat the infamous
BECK programme will undoubtedly be rati-
fed again. The patriots are in earnest
so earnest, in fact, that they are liable TO
the charge of being in hurry to grab the
spoils of power, for it is not to be presumed
that the caucus will adjourn without hay
lug also fixed up q slate for the offices in
the new Senate.
Year: 1879

THE Democrats in both Houses Of Con-
gress in 1875 insisted that the Office of Pub
lie Printer should be Presidential APP
pointment, and the Republicans conceded
it, Prior to that for years it had been a
Senatorial office, Now the Democrats have
the power in both Houses Of Congress- and
they are agitating the question of making
the Public Printer electable by both Houses
They are after that mutton, and consistency
will stand nothing in their way.
Year: 1879

THAT violence and corruption in political


affairs cannot fail to permeate the entire


body polite wherein it is countenNnced or
permitted was never more forcibly illus


trated than by the promised adherence of
the next Congress to The BECK programme,
The Democratic party has cropt into power
in the House and in the Senate through the
not altogether slow process Of bull-dozing
and fraud in the Southern States, wherein
legitimate Republican maiohties have been
swept away before a murderous avalanche
of shot-guns and a disciplined array of so
called Rino Clubs, And now it is proposed
by the same party to seiae upon the Exccu-
tive branch of the Government by the same
process. 70 do this the national election
laws must be repealed, Thus ii appears
Year: 1879

ONE certain result of the extra session
will be renewed Democratic assault upon
the army. The Democratic belief that the
army is composed of or oficered by, per-
jurers and political stool-pigeons will in
duce this assault. This belief, it should be
understood, is evolved in the Democratic
mind out of knowledge that majority
Of our army officers are loyal to the achieve
ments and legal consequences of the late war,
Any man, in Office or out of it, who stands
even suspected Of such loyalty instantly be-
comes the object Of derogation and assault
by the Bourbons
Year: 1879

THERE need be no delay, after the organ
ization of the Forty-sixth Congress shall
have been effected, in bringing forward the
unpassed appropriation bills They are
already prepared, and may be introduced
and acted upon at once. After that there
would be plenty of time for legislation
upon purely political affairs. But this ar
rnngement is at variance with the BECK
programme, which provides that political
legislation shall have the precedence over
the appropriation bills. In other words it
is proposed to take care Of the Democratic
party first, if possible, and let the Govern
ment take care of itself
Year: 1879

EVERY Senator from the Solid South was a
rebel There is not Union Senator from the
Southern States.-DayL0n Ohio Journal.


This is mistake. Ex-Governor KEEL
LoGG of Louisiana, remains, the last of the
so-called carpct-baggers and Mr.. BRUCE, of
Mississippi as the only loyal Senators from
the South-a fact for the responsibility of
which the Republican party is itself to
blame. The record shows that in every
contest for a seat in the Senate, except in
the single instance of KELLOGG against
SPOFFoRD, between UniOnist and Con-
federate, from the case of RANSOM against
ABBOTT down to that of BUTLER against
CoRDIN, the Senate has decided in favor OF
the Confederate or against the Republican
contestant Thus, step by step, the Repub-
lican party of the South has lost its foothold
in the Senate, and in the end that body has
passed under Democratic control.
Year: 1879

Now that Southern absolutism has again
been asserted in the legislative branch of
the Government, some Of the Liberals of the
Republican party are beginning to "cry
over spilled milk" They begin to see that
Stalwartism would have been the best policy
after all, and that Cancellation is only profit
able TO those who are conciliated.
Year: 1879

IT should not be forgotten in the coming
contest between Congress and the Execu-
tive that many members Of the former body,
especially from the South, are not lawfully
and equitably elected. They will hold their
seats by virtue of the very lawlessness which
it is proposed to encourage and permit by
the repeal of the national election laws.
Year: 1879

SOME Of the papers seem to harbor the
suspicion that the Cincinnati Commercial
would oppose GRANT if he is nominated
in 1880. The suspicion even, OF such a
calamity is enough to bow the national
heart with grief But the Commercial OPP
posed him in 1872, and the nation survived
Year: 1879




ARMY officers who have any respect Tor
themselves or their calling must find it
very difficult to comply with the Regulo-
tions which prohibit them from speaking
dsrespectfully of Congress. Now that the
Democrats are in majority i'll both
branches of that body the men who wear
the blue, aud especially officers of any
grade, from SHERMAN and SHERIDAN
down TO the lowest subaltcrn, will come
forward for au unusual share of abuse and
unjust criticism. Like the supervisors of
elections appointed by the United States
courts they will all be characterized as
enemies of the Democracy and rs disrepu-
table citizens, who make 1t habit to per-
jure themselves by partisan performance
of their duties. 1t is true that some OF
them-too many, we fear-are Democrats
by association or natural proclivities; but
this fact does not serve to relieve th EN-, as
an entire class or especial body of public
servants, from the enmity of the Bourbons.
The mere fact that some of them may in
the past have been efficient in repressing
political violence, in preventing fraud and
corruption in our National elections, or in
securing the punishment of partisan crimes
will be sufficient TO debar them from any inn
partial consideration by the majority party
in the Forty-sixth Congress-