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Year: 1878

Of all the rights and tho liberty Of ell


citizens as ordained by the amended con-
#tisution, and until they slsall be secured


the work Of The Republican party to pro


test hunaa rights win be unfinished


z, We xenew our declarafion for the
elevation Of the public service on the basis
Of . secure tenue during the faithful per-
fofmAnce Of official duties, for q fixed
term, for the frugal and efficient admins
tration of national, St&te and local affairs,
for unyielding resistance 10 any further
land grants as subsidies to corporations or
monopolies, for grateful recognition Of the
brave soldiers and sailors Of the republic,
and for common schools, free from sec
tartan influence and unmenaced by secta-
rian appropriations.


Z 8. While recognizing with satisfaction
that many patriotic Democrats do not
share its spirit and impulse, we arraign
the dominant force of the Democratic
party as q constant distuiber of public
tranquility and confidence, as the wanton
foe Of public security in its persistent as
saults on the authority and stability Of the
established government, as attempting to
weaken the nation by erippling the army
in time OF uncertainty and danger, as
guilty Of false pretenses in claiming for
the Democratic House o reduction in pub
lic expenditure, whose fraudulent char
acter is proved by the necessity for Q
heavy deheiency bill, as dependent on q
solid South and thereby aubseEvient to all
its demands, as aggraVRting the troubles
OF the country BY misclievbus agitation
throughout the period of its supremacy In
the House of Representatives, as faithless
to the obligation of national honor and
the chief support of Wild schemes of infia-
ton, repudiation and utter financial dis
order, which imperil public credit and
business security, and its further or greater
success would be national calamity.


8, An emergency in the history of
great country, second only to the great
struggle for its existence, now confronts
us. As then. the Republican party was
the sole organized political protection
against national disruption and patriotic
citizens of whatever party name rallied
under its standard for the defense of the
Union, so now the Republican organiza-
tion is the only efficient bulward against
national xepudiation and disgrace, and
it again invites all good citizens, of what
ever previous political ties, to unite with
il in preserving the national honor. To
all Republicans this great exigency espe-
tons and join heart and hand for the
triumph of those vital principles upon the
security and welfare Of the republic de-
pend


George N. Danforth was unanimously
nominated for Judge of the Court of
Appeals.
Year: 1878

The death of Francois Vincent Raspail, an
nounced by cable, ends most singular and va
ried life. Aside from the political features of
his long career his name was universally known
throughout France and Belgium because of his
medical work among the people. 1t was one of
the aims of his life to show the poor the folly
of their unhealthy ways of living and the SIM
pie remedies which vera within the reach of
every one. His "Manuel de la Sante," sort
of family medicine book. had az immense sue
cess and created great unpeasantness between
Raspail and the medical faculty. Although his
faith in the efficacy of camphor was a hobby
and was carried perhaps too far, the undoubted
value of much of his work has been recognized
by high authority and is undsputed.


Raspail was born on the 18th of January,
1894. After teaching for a time at Avignon,
where his liberal opinions in theology and the
natural sciences were not relished. he went to
Paris soon after the fall of Napoleon and sup
ported himself by giving lessons and writing
for scientific publications. His bent toward
politics was strong and got him into
continual trouble. He was identified
with every Republican secret society in
government as he did for the furtherance
Of his philanthropic schemes. In the revo-
luton of 1880 he was wounded, and the
following year imprisoned for his published
opinions. lie passed theigroater part of the next
six years in confinement. The revolution of
1S48 brought him no relief; his projects were
even then deemed too subversve OF all order,
and for his attacks on the provisional
government he was again imprisoned. The sac
CESS of his medical work however, was by this
time assured, and the faith of the people in
him was unbounded. While in prison he was
elected deputy twice, and third time in 1869,
when he sat on the radical side with Roche
fort. After the Commune, in which he played
a subordinate part, he was imprisoned for an
other year and was then elected deputy from
MarSelles
Year: 1878

THE Count of Palkao who died in France
the other day was the general who COM
manded the French forces in China at the
time of the Anglo-French difficulty with that
power, and took the lions share of the IA
nous loot of the Summer Palace. In return
for the plunder he brought home and as a
bridge of Pa.li-kia-ho he was given his title.
He was a good example of the brigands
who fourished, under imperial patronage in
the days of the Second Empire.
Year: 1878

THE majority of the New Hampshire con-
vention favored a mild endorsement of Presi-
dent Hayes, and the minority did not deem
1t wise to distract the party councils on the
eve of close campaign by tactious opposi-
ton. Their conduct is in striking contrast to
the self-willed conduct of the minority in the
New York convention.
Year: 1878

New York, April 24.-Samuel e.


Upham, in his address at the unveiline


of the Lick monument at Fredericks-


burg, Pa, said:


In the year 1919 young man in the
vigor of manhood and in whose lexicon
there was no such word as fail, left his
boyhood home in this beautiful valley
and the endearing associations of the
old hearthstone, to seek employment in
one of our large cities. He obtained a
situation in a Piano factory in Balti-
more and year later started in some
business for himself in the city of New
York, but failing to succeed for want
of capital, went soon after to Buenos
Ayers and then to Valparaiso, where
he devoted himself to his business of
Piano making for four years. He then
visited different places in Peru-re-
naming in that country eleven years.
Mr.. Lick arrived in California in the
year 1s47, with about $50, 900 which he
invested in real estate in San Francisco
and vicinity, and its rapid advance in
value caused by the discovery of gold
at Suffers mill, in that state, in the
month of January, 1s4S, and the large
immigration thither, soon made him a
second CrGsus.


Among his numerous bequests he did
not forget the far off home of his child
hood, and the loved ones whose dust
was mingling with the soil of the Key
stone state; and we are assembled on
this beautiful April day to unveil and
dedicate the sculptured marble erected
at his request, to the memory of his de-
voted mother and father and loving
sister and honored grandfather. The
mortal remains Of the great benefactor,
whose memory We honor to-day, lie
minsling with the dust of that far off
land he loved so well, and is so dear to
the heart of every true Californian.
There in that beautiful silent city of
the dead, near the portals of the Golden
Gate, with the roar of the waves of
the mighty Pacific ever singing his re-
QUEEN, he shall lie until the final day,
when earth and ocean shall give up
their dead, and this globe shall dissolve
with fervent heat and leave not a rock
behind.
Year: 1878

SECRETARY CHASE used to wear
gold dollar on his watch chain, which
he put on when he issued the first green
back and which he hoped to wear till
the greenback was equal to gold in val
ue. He confessed once that he had had
seasons of great encouragement and
had laid away the charm.
Year: 1878

WHEN man goes to the theatre for
the first time, nothing surprises him
more than the wonderful rapidity with
which an actor writes a letter-unless
1t may be the suddenness with which
the receiver ascertains its contents.
One glance, and he absorbs it all, and
clasps his forehead with his left hand.
Year: 1878

A car has just been constructed and
tried in New York which is run by
compressed air. 1.-The atmosphere of
New York city during the summer
months is admirably adapted for this
purpose" says the Jersey City Journal.
Year: 1878

How LEADERS ARE MADE
Our friend Foster, just from San
Francisco last evening, picked
UP the Tribune and read under
It's editorial head a leader, in
serted as original, which he had
read in the Chronicle before leav-
ing home, and he uses this little
incident to QUIZ our newspapers
and reflect upon the intelligence
Of their readers. He did not
know that the editor of the Tui-
buae habitually 'draws upon his
imagination for bis facts and his
memory for his wit" that he
steals his leaders and invents bis
news items. If he did not do
this, how would he get any rea-
ders?


STEAMBOAT EXCURSION. .-Atten-
ton is called to the advertise



mentin our columns ofthe steam
boat excursion to come off next
Saturday, the 18th inst, under
the management Of the ladies OF
the Methodist Episcopal church.
Too much cannot be said in lau
dation of the beautiful ground
around Steilacoom for picnic
purposes. We understand that
every arrangement will be made
to make the visit to Steilacoom
one of unalloyed pleasure TO ali
who go.


RACE TRAcK.-Thc race track
is being finely fitted up for the
accommodation OF those who
propose to attend the rifle shoot
ING on the coming Fourth, by
Mr.. Jos. Symonds. At the con
clusion OF the rife shooting, there
will be some horse-racing. In
the neighborhood Of the race
track there are some fine groves
for picnic parties, and altogether
it will be one of the most agree
able places to be found to spend
the day.


SEATTLE PosTMAsTER.--Mr.
Ossian J. Carr has been in
formed by telegraph from Wash
ington of his appointment as
Postmaster of this town rice L.
W. Prosch, resigned. Mr.. Carr
had the endorsement OF nearly
or quite all of the pest citizens
of the town and itfs generally
elieved will conduit the office
n a satisfactory mbnner.
Year: 1878

ALREADY the weather prophets
are at their work and an early
rainy season seems to he the bur.
den of their predictions. There is
always delightful uncertainty in
this section as to whether tho rains
will begin in October or In the
latter end of December. The last
thoroughly good year we had in
Los Angeles we had quite early
rains, then long dry spell, and
the real rains of the season on the
10Th OF January. We have no
doubt whatever of having an
abundant rainfall This year, but
we heartily hope that we shall be
spared the unreasonable deluges
which, late in the Spring of the
current year, converted one OF the
best Seasons L,s Angeles had ever
known into, on the whole, some.
thing to be deprecated nearly as
much AS a drouth.
Year: 1878

It's hard to impress the average
boy. There's Keokull mother
who delivered a lecture to her son
on the noble quality of self-denial
the other day, and that urchin
hung around the door until dinner
was over that day and licked the
son of neigbbor, who had been
invited to dinner, because he got u
seat at the first table, while the
boy who had been lectured had to
wait. Human nature will assert
itself.
Year: 1878

IT is unfortunate that General
Grants stay in Europe has been
80 protracted. 1t is not difficult to
imagine that nothing would have
given Ben Butler more pleasure
than tn have had the ex President
before the Potter Committee. If
Butler had caught such witness
we may be sure that the scene
would hBve been of absorbing in-
terest. Tae Massachusetts, Grac-
chus would have got thoroughly
even on that Dutch Gap Canal
and "bottled up" business. Gen.
Grant would have been an inval-
liable witness before the Potter
Com mittee, especially with Butler
there to persuade him, by "indi-
rections finding directions out," to
tell all he knew of the inner bulls
DOING which proceeded from the
Presidential penetralia, and which
made 1t possible to cheat the peo-
Pile of the United States out of
their choice for President.
Year: 1878

No such inducements are held out
to the farmer intending to emil
CRATE by either Oregon or Washing
ton territory, or by the Mississippi
valley, or by Northern or Central
California, as may be readily des-
cried in the spread of our own
splendid valley.
Year: 1878

the best line FURNISHING
this city. Also cusom-made CLOTHING the


latest and of the best qualiies


NsAll these goods will be sold at least 25 per cent
cheaper than at any other place in the city.


N These goods bought CASH and will be sold for CASH
ONLY The sale of these will MONDAY.
at A NJ The Store will be from Am till 8 p


RsS-Remember, the MECHANICS is at ST,
ST. Charles Hotel
Year: 1878

There is a growing feeling in
every healthy community against
journals which make it their special
object to minister to a perverted
taste by seeking out and serving up
in a disgusting form disgusting
scandals and licentious revelations.
There is good reason TO believe that
the clean newspaper is more highly
priced to-day than it was four or
FIVE years ago. 1t is also safe TO
predict that as people in all ranks
Of life, who protect their own at
least from contamination, become
more conscious of the pernicIous in
fiuence of n certain class of journals,
called enterprising because they are
ambitious to serve dirty scan
dals, they will be careful TO see that
the journals they permit to be read
in the family circle are Of the class
that never forget the proprieties OF
life Already men and women OF
refinement and healthy morals have
made commendable efforts TO coun-
teract the same by causing sound


literature 10 be published. and sold


al popular prices. These efforts


are working a silent but sure revo-
Year: 1878

1t is so easy for some people to
advise other folks to sit down in 8
dentists chair and have q big doub.
lie tooth jerked out, that have of
ten wondered why they didn't sit
down anu have one jerked oat them
selves just for the fun of the thing.


Young man, sit down and keep
still; you will have plenty of chances
yet to make fool of yourself before
you die.


] always thoueht1t was better for
a man to invest his religion in his
business rather than his business
in his religion.


1t pays to be polite, even to a
mule, not so much on the mules ac-
countas your own.


Any man can be a first class gen
tleman in half the time it takes to
make third-rate loafer of himself.


Politeness is as cheap as cold wa
ter, and he who gives his brother a
drink of either ''will in no wise lose
his reward"


AS we grow wiser and have more
To say, we talk less.


There always has been ami there
always will be, fools enough to sup
port any cunningly executed hum
bug.


Patience and laziness are some
times confounded, and the mistake
is not unnatural, for often notice
that those who have a good deal of
either have fair supply Of the
other.


have finally come to the conclu-
sion that if l can't prove a thing
without betting So on it, the thing
has got dreadful weak spot in it
somewhere.


am no prophet, nor the son of
one, but l bet this-the man who
matches himself against the devil
at any kind of game is going to
oct beat.
Year: 1878

Philadelphia Times: Not an hour
ago l met one of the brightest men
on the metropolitan press. Twenty
years ago he was .facile princeps.
Ten years ago he was the managing
editor Of a great daily. Tonight
he begged a drink from me, and
when / rendered him dollar he
thanked me with tears in his eyes.
Make no mistake about this man.
He's on tare now, but in less than
ten days he'll be making his $3.50 a
week as easy as rolling off a log.
Rum gets us all. The bane of New
York life is whisky: They all drink
it. Actors, managers, critics, dry
goods men and everybody else are
slaves to drink. 1t is the curse of
the age in which we live. A gener
alton of 'bright fellows" die out
every five years. If our clergy
would bother their heads about this
plague of our city half as much as
they do about the second coming of
Christ it would be jolly good idea,
and if Christ should chance to drop
in all of sudden He would perhaps
be quite as well pleased as if His
followers were found on their knees
in prayer.
Year: 1878

An excellent hint is given In the
following item: DR.. Hall relates
the case of man who was cured OF
his billiousnesss by going without
his supper and drinking freely oil
lemonade. The next morning this
patient arose with a wonderful sense
of rest and refreshment, and feeling
as though his blood had been liter
ally washed, cleansed and cooled by
the lemonade and fast. His theory
is that food can be used as a remedy
for manydiseases successfully. AS an
example, ,hecures splitting of blood by
salt; epilepsy, by watermelons; kid
ney affections, by celery; poison, by
olive or sweet oil; erysipelas, by
pounded cranberries applied to the
part affected; hydrophobia, by on
ions, e-c. So the way to keep in
good health is really to know what
to eat and to know what medicines
to take.
Year: 1878

Twice already had the marriage
of a young doctor and rich belle
of Mount Sterling, Ill, been post
poned, when the cards were issued
for grand wedding party last week.
The feast was set. the guests were
met, but no bridegroom was there.
The young lady went out to seek
him, and found him in his room,
dead drunk. Going to the railroad
station she took the first train that
passed, gave the conductor a ring
TO pay her fare, left the cars at Ma
comb, and was only found next day
by her father and the sober and re-
pentant lover. He was anxious to
marry at once, but she refused ever
to speak to him again.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your SUBJ
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. Wo
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such u
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


CB- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1878


While rambling through Central Park
Themoon was brightly shining,
spied maid with an burn hair
On a rustic seat reclining.
She was little beauty,


So sylph like and so fair,
With ruby lips and pearly teeth
And q mass of wavy hair.


CHORUS:
This lovely maid so pretty,
So happy, light and gay,
Stole my heart when first we met,
Twas ut the close Of day.
Ipolitely tipped my hat,


And said good evening, miss;
When a smile o'erspread her face,
Which filled my heart with bliss.
So now we are the best Of friends,
OF 4 wedding you'll hear soon,
And now we invite you TO come down
And dance by the light Of the moon
Year: 1878

One of the great needs Of this
country is a vest pocket deep
enough TO take in the length Of the
extra cigar, so a mar can look his
fellow square in the eye and say,
"No. Pm sorry, but this is the last,
and / have had it in my mouth.
Year: 1878

If you want to know just what
the world thinks of you try to Dor
row a five dollar bill. That is the
crucial test of public opinion and
one that is likely to open your eyes
unless you were born blind. If
you are rich the world will take
you at your own estimate of your
self; but if you are poor it will put
Is own valuation on you. Not
many people in this naughty world
have five dollars worth of sympathy
for any one.
Year: 1878

The th-ill of rapture which pass
es through a man when a girl
throws her arms around his neck
and kisses him, is not precisely the
same as the feeling which takes
possession of him when he rolls up
his sleeves to wash in the morning
and ascertains that there is no water
in the pitcher.
Year: 1878

The New York Express saws
alt isn't overwork that's running
the young men Of this great city by
any means. No, it's waiting on the
street corner for somebody 20 invite
them into the nearest saloon"
Year: 1878

Remember they must be new sub
scribers, not renewals. Don't make
n mistake in this. Our object is to
get neaO names. We expect the old
ones to renew anyhow. They know
what the CITIZEN is worth. They
know that people accuse it of being
the best country paper in the South,
and they won't be without it. Be
sides, we want every one of them to
take advantage of this proposition
and get his paper for nothing Ii
any subscriber should live out of
Giles county, 20 cents must be add
ed in all cases for postage. This
proposition is to old subscribers
only.
Year: 1878

Memphis Legdger: If the people
of the South do not organize
against the tramp nuisance the or
ganized tramps will take the coun
try. One hundred desperate yaga-
bonds can capture any county seat,
commit any and all kinds of outra-
ges and terrorize a whole county.
We do not produce the tramp in
this part of the country, and should
not feed or tolerate him.
Year: 1878

Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution: !:
l never liked steers as q model of
blooded stock nor as a motive pow
er, but my nabor Freeman says
they make the best plow nags in
the world, that they go slow, but
they'll go all day constant and keep
the furrer and never break nothin'
nor run away, and if they plow up
yaller-jackets' nest and get stung
all over it only peertens 'em up a
little-nuthin' more. But it seems
to me that nuthln' in the world
would be more monotonous than to
follow 'em around. I'd druther
work a mule any time, and have
him run away or kick the back
band in the top of tree once or
twice in a while. Wouldn't you?
Year: 1878

lin, whose portraits of Indian
Chiefs use to adorn the Smithsoni-
an Institute at Washington. Mr.
Catlin, portrait painter. was
brought very low from bleeding at
the lungs, and as a last resort he
went far west of the Mississippi and
lived among the wild Indians. He
noticed their freedom from pulmo-
nary and malarial diseases. He no
ticed also that they breathed inva-
riably through their nostrils, and,
indeed, rarely opened their mouths.
He learned that this was taught
them from their earliest infancy,
the mother watching her sleeping
babe. and COMPRISING its lips as
often as they are opened.


After a long, arduous struggle he
managed to do this himself. His
lung troubles at once began to dis
appear, and he dwelt amid malari-
al marshes, both in North and South
America, with impunity. On his
voyage home from the latter he
pointed out to fellow passenger
those who habitually breathed
through the mouth. The yellow
fever broke out on this vessel, and
all who did this, died.


Now we don't know how much
Importance to attach TO this, but as
Mr.. Catlin evidently fancied he had
found a panacea for many of our
bodily ills, and took the trouble to
write book in which he urgently
entreats the adoption of the custom,
we think it worth mentioning at
this time. "Shut your mouth"
therefore. 1t will do you no harm;
it may do you good, and will very
likely do your neighbor good.
Year: 1878

luton. The best authors are more
generally read to day than at any
previous date. The sickly, senti-
mental story paper and the wild
ranger and pirate story book are
slowly but surely yielding the field
to worthier claimants. To the
praise of the decent newspaper it
may be said that where it has a
place in the family, and has been
read for years by the young as well
as old, it has developed such a
healthy tone and such a discrimina-
ting taste that the literature OF the
slums has no admirers. Fortunate
ly, the number of such families is
increasing in the land, and as they
increase, TIE journal that devotes
itself to sickening revelations of inn
morality will be compelled to find
its supporters solely among the
classes who practice vice and crime
or are ambitious to learn TO follow
such ways Exchange.


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The New York Sun thinks that
the third party movement is at an
end. 1t says: "The contest in 1880
will be square, front to front. up
and down struggle between the two
old parties for ascendancy. One
side has the offices, the patronage,
the treasury, and the army, which
will all be freely used for the Re
publican candidate, no matter who
he may be. The other side has the
Senate and the House of Represen-
tatives by a narrow majority
There will he no third party, except
as it may be set up by designing
politicians in particular localities.
to draw off votes from their adver-
saries."