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Year: 1879

WE should judge that blasphemy
is making fine progress in Califor-
MIA from statement which we
find in the San Francisco Post to
the effect that play is about to be
produced at one of the theaters in
that city in which Jesus Christ
and the Virgin Mary are to be i'm
personated by members of a stock
company and the Crucifixion is to
be rendered with sensational real
ism. If steady advances are made
in this line the world will not be
long in making up its mind as to
which is the wickedest city. San
Francisco will be called upon
unanimously to go up head.
Year: 1879

IT Is much to be desired that the


next Legislature should contain a


majority of some one political


party. However, it will have to
deal with such variety of new
and difficult questions that no one


who wishes well to his party would
have any great hankering for the
perilous honor Of moulding the
new laws. But the Democratic
party is in face of the rugged fact
that 1t cannot hope to have a ma
jority OF either House with four
sets of candidates In the field. All
the more necessity is there, there
fore, for O powerful and compact
minority, to restrain corrupt or In
legislation. Democratic
like Los Angeles should
take pride in having their dele
CATION unbroken. Particular in
terest clusters around the State
Senators who will be elected this
Year: 1879

fall. They will take part in the
election OF q United States Senator
to succeed Booth. In view of this
fact, every Democrat should pul
forth especial efi1rts to secure the
election of Gen. Sanford.
Year: 1879

Tho report Of the United States Local Inspectors
Of Steam Vessels in regard to the explosion Of the
boiler OF the tug Daniel Brown, which occurred on
the morning Of October 90 was yesterday forwarded
to tho department at Washington. The tug at the
time engaged in landing bark alongside pier
40 East River Tho explosion instantly killed
Daniel Haviland, deck hand and William Van Aiken.
fireman. and severely injured George Coon. the
engineer, as to confne him for a long time to the
hospital 1t was on account of the engineers ILL
nesSthat the Board delayed SO long in making and
forwarding their report of the occurrence. The
tvg was purchased by its present owners q
few weeks previous to the accident, and on
examination at the time it found that
the boiler needed some repairs and some
calking. which she received. The boiler duly
inspected in March last and then allowed to
carry . steam pressure of eighty pounds. The evi-
dence given went to show that this pressure was
never exceeded; but as the steam was blowing of in
the safety valve and as it proved there suf
fcent water in the boiler. the inspectors of the
opinion that the explosion was dus to excessive
steam PRESSURE though there was no evidence to
tabsh that fact In conclusion the inspectors state
that as the engineer of the tug. George Coon, has
failed since his recovery from his injuries to make
any report of the disaster. they revoke his license
The tugpoat, which was worth $1,000, has not yet
been raised. t4f.1f
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON, December 1.-There is an
immense pressure on the President for ap.
pointments as Supervisors of the Census
One hundred aud fifty of these officers are
to be appointed. The President told an
applicant yesterday that he had commit
tedth selection Of Supervisors to Genera
Walker, Superintendent Of the Census
and that he should not receive any ap
plicants, but when Walker had made ou
list for his approval he should inquire
into the fitness Of each man,
Year: 1879

ranging from Z to Il per day in addition to per
cent interest being paid for call loans on stocks
Toward the close the market was easier and per
cent neat became the ruling rate. No difculty was
caused by the action of the Bank Examiner in rea-
ton to the certihcation Of checks.


At the Sub Treasury the days business a. fol-
Year: 1879

Gird me with the strength of Thy stead'ast


hills!
rbe speed OF Thy streams pive me!
In the spirit that calms, with tne lie tha'


thrills,


wouid stand or run for Thee.
Let me be i, by voice, or Thy silent power,
As the cataract or the peak
An eternal thought In my earthly hour,
Oftte living God to speak.
Cl0the me In the rose tints of Thy skies,
Upon morning submits laid
Rsbe me in the purple and gold that hles
Through Thy shuttles of light and SHADE
Let me rise and rejoice in Thy smile ar'ght'
AS mountains and forests DO;
Let me welcome Thy twilight and lhy night'
And walt for Thy dawn anew!
Give me of the brooks faith, joyously sung
Under clank of Its Icy chain
Give me Of the patience that hides among
Thy hill tops In mist and rain
Lat inc up from the clOd, lot me breathe ihy


breath;
Thy beauty and strength give me!
Let me lose both the name and the meaning
in the life that share with Thee
Year: 1879

Jeffersons ten rules-Take things
always by the smooth handle. We
seldom repent Of having eaten too lit
tie. Pride costs more than hunger,
thirst, and cold. Nothing is trouble
some that we do willingly. Never
spend your money before yon have it.
Never buy what you don't want be-
cause it is cheap. Never trouble
another for what you can do yourself.
Never put off till tomorrow what you
can do to-day. How much pain the
evils have cost US that never hap
pened When angry, count ten be
fore you speak; il very angry, count
hundred.
Year: 1879

cen years, and allow them to obliterate all
the glorious work that we have accom-
plished in these years of trial, and retire
from the field with as much want of grace
as a whipped cur. This seems to be the
programme and expectations of the ex-slave
power. We, however, think that we have
conceded enough and done our share, and
far more than our share, in binding up the
nations wounds and before we concede
any more we would ask our brethren of the
South to turn and help us bind up these
wounds" and let their aggressive meas
ures rest for while We will assure them
that they will gain more by love than by
the threats of the BLACKBURNs, SPRING
ERs, BECKs & Co. We repeat for our toast
L1NcoLN's noble words, and hope for re-
sponse from them in act as well as speech


Let us emulate one another in "binding up
the nations wounds" for this is an act
that requires response from both sides.
Year: 1879

Even from Charleston, S. c., comes the
cry, "better no army than an army at the
polls" We wish that this Democratic
cry had come up from the same source long
before the war, when the army was in the
hands of the Democracy and at the beck
and call of some noted men from South
Carolina. No army at the polls" so
SAY we all of us"-no army at all-no
policemen, no States prisons, no jails, no
Infringement upon the rights of man. We
will hail the day when there is no longer
any need for such things; and it becomes
every honest and true man to say, God
speed the right and the reign of right
eousness. But it does not well become un-
repentant thieves and burglars to take up
this cry; neither does it become our Charles
ton contemporaries to head their columns
with such a glorious sentiment--a senti-
ment that they have not respected in the
past, and do not respect now. The army
was never called to the polls by Republicans
for the purpose these Southern men would
| intimate, nor for any such purpose, as un-
der their rule it was called on to do i'll
Kansas in 1856. No; during the war and a
| little while since the army was called to
keep peace at the polls and if possible to
prevent such people as reside in South Car
olina from stealing an election. 1t was
| called then in the interest of peace, and not
as was the X. X. element, in the interest OF
| anarchy From reasonable men we have
no fear of censure for the presence of that
clause TO keep peace at the polls" Knaves
and bigots may be impressed by it, but
sensible men will look into the why's and
wherelorcs and digest the whole matter, and
will always contend against any base use o.
an army still they will support the army
in noble effort TO keep the peace !" ssure
they would strive for peace by civil process
but if this fails, as it has throughout tho
South, why then, rather than let BUSH
whackers and guerillas or Democratic
roughs carry the day by brute force, they
will indorse the order to the army to keel
"peace at the polls" $50 say we all o
| "usu
Year: 1879

Representatives to Congress 1t must be this
class, If this Is so, and the best Southern
papers tell us that such is the fact then so
much the worse for the South, that 1t should
have had this military element 50 strong
within its borders. But then we might
know it, for the c. s. A. was nothing but q
military despotism from first to last, and 1t
is no wonder that military men Of high
rank wero so numerous there. We know
that it was such government, and that it
ruled with an iron hand, and that it tram
pied the rights of the individual in the dust
with its military heel. Now these men
come to the National Congress, and pretend
to have much horror for the small army
that the General Government had at the
South for the purpose, not of emulating the
actions of these brigadiers in expressing the
people, but in protecting the people against
the vile arts by which they have now be-
come such power in the land-such al
illegal and brutal power 1t is easy for in
telligent men to see where the shoe pinches
These brigaders want to rule the whole
Government rs they ruled the unholy c
| s. 4.
Year: 1879

TINT these poor creatures are forced to Gee,
and 1t has been punished by loss of power
in the counsels of the nation, because it
raised so weak and feeble q voice against
wrong. The very men so cruelty deserted
show how it may repair the disaster-by
fostering and promoting the exodus; by
pouring out money like water from ves-
sci; by offering every inducement aud per-
suasion; by doing this at once. Thus the
South would be emptied of a large part of
the population on which representation is
based, and that of other States, more con-
ducivo to growth of Republican princi-
pies, be correspondingly increased before
the next census. OF course the coming
Presidential contest would not be effected
by this, except such changes as would be
made in the popular vote of the States to
which the refugees go; but the fruit would
be ripe and ready to be gathered in good
season.


No time in this matter should be lost
Tie iron is red-hot. Washington should
strike the first blow, not by noisy meetings
but by the still, silent subscription list.


And let all remember that while the
cause of good government, justice, and righ
are thus served humanity will receive it,
share. There are patient, uncomplaining
shadowy forms gathering on the banks o.
Southern streams, waiting, in storm, sun
sickness, poverty, privation, and death to be
ferried across TO the land OF the free. But
in that land men aud women and children
can hunger and want. These silent bands
should not pass over TO meet their palli'
foes without some more substantial weapon
with which to fight them than enthusiasm
They have never appealed for aid, but ar
grimly marching on, and the spectacle o
their mute misery should excite our strong
est sympathy.
Year: 1879

On that great battlefield ofthe war where
the tide of the audacious slave power was
turned from invasion into the free States of
the North, in cOnsecratlng it as national
cemetery for those who there laid down their
lives in the defense of free government, the
great LINCOLN proclaimed it as one of the
great duties of the hour "to bind up the
nations wounds" We have been called
radical. We have nosdesire to boast of good
acts-we are satisfied with the genial inhu-
cnce of good acts well intended; still we
will assert, and challenge our enemies and
the world to produce evidence TO the con-
trary, if we have not zealously and earn
estly sought to bind up these wounds"
Had the slave power prevailed would it
have done more2 In the interest of peace
and good will we have given up many q
point that grew out Of the war for which
we have received no thanks but, then


thanks is not what we wero after, at least
thanks from those whom we benefited


What we did we did in the interest OF
peace. Occasionally when we think of this
we ask ourselves what has the other side
done? Little or nothing, comes the response


Sure, they promised nothing beyond for
nal submission to the laws of the land


neither did we promise anything, Indeed
1t was not for us to promise. Yet we have
done many acts in the interest of fraternal
love. But this desire on our part to "heal
the nations wounds only seems to be re-


garded as weakness rather than as the high
est moral strength, and thus far has only
been recognized on the part of the enemy
as inducements TO demand more and more
of the essential points gained by the war.
Indeed we are practically asked to turn


over the whole Government to those who
would have destroyed it, humbly ask theil
pardon for keeping it from them these eight
Year: 1879

The degradation of our nation is complete
in the spectacle of men fleeing from the
places of their nativity to seek peaceful
homes in a strange land. The colored race
has shown devotion to principle even unto
death, and again courage we once hardly
gave it credit for, after being forsaken Of
friends and weary of an unequal contest.


The Republican party is responsible for 1t
Year: 1879

The ENew York HcTald is vexing itselfgriev
ously over the prospective fact that the peo-
pie propose to give General GRANT hearty
welcome when he returns to the shore of
his native land, 1t is appalled, at the pros
pect that possibly politicians may take q
part in the proposed demonstration. How
it is to draw the dividing line in this coun-
try, where every citizen is either politi-
clan or a nobody, we cannot clearly per-
ceive. Every voter is politician, and votes
upon his politics, unless he barters his vote
for pelf Some citizens may take deeper
interest in politics than others, but the man
who cares enough about the political inter
ests of the Republic to be intelligent in re-
latiOn thereto is so far politician, and it
hardly seems gracious to object to the pay
ing of homage to the great hero and states
man of America by the most intelligent and
active of those who mingle in our political
struggles 1t looks in this case as if the
Herald is making large spread to incubate
q very small egg; but, after ALL the people
will do about as they please, no matter what
newspapers may say about it.
Year: 1879

THE Confederate retreat will soon be re-
newed. BILL SHERMAN got them in the
habit of doing this several years ago. An
other army bill is the active agent on this
occasion in producing the same result.
Year: 1879

IN reply to the fact that the present Con.
gress is full of the defunct c. s. A. briga-
diers, they tell us that ii is simply so for the
reason that in all the South there are no
other men to choose from, and if they send
Year: 1879

THE Implacables insist that the veto of
the army bill is already written, and that
President HAYES is hesitating between
signing it or the bill. The time has come,
however, when he will agreeably disappoint
them. lie knows that the Republican party
is once more solidiled in support of his adj
minstrotion in expectation of this righteous
veto, and besides that he knows that the
bill, while ostentatiously claiming to be a
peaceful measure against "bayonets at the
"polls," is in reality revolutionary scheme
to disarm the General Government of all
power to protect itself from the rapidly in
creasing encroachments of the revived and
aggressive spirit of State Rights
Year: 1879

SENATOR THURMAN said that Senator
BEcKs speech on The army bill was the best
speech made on that subject; but one of
his cousins or his aunts is reported to have
remarked that he would not have said so if
BECK, who is a Scotchman by birth, had
been eligible TO the Presidency.
Year: 1879

Now the Southern Democratic papers
call THE REPUBLICAN Zulu, because it
reproduces the language of the Richmond
Examiner at the opening of the rebellion,
and they denounce the Examiner as want
ing in loyalty to JEFF DAVIS and his gov
ernmental contrivance. The Examiner was
undoubtedly in strict harmony with the
spirit of the South and was too honest to
conceal its sentiments 1t might not have
had full confidence in DAVIS, but it was in
full sympathy with the rebellion.
Year: 1879

SOOTHING SYRUP DAVIS is not the bold
man some of his adulators would have us
believe he is There was nothing brave in
the agile manner in which lie left the polit-
ical fence the other day and dropped down
on the Democratic side. lie did it, in fact,
from fear; he was afraid the fence couldn't
stand up under his weight any longer. But
the Bourbons have clasped him to their
arms all the same, singing:


BY the air We breathe and the


Heavens above us, etc


As political Tirgiaia Mr.. DAVIS is q
great success He is a fine actor, especially
in heavy parts.
Year: 1879

also been formed in the outlying settle
ments. Recruiting tor the police is going
on actively.


Lieutenant Governor Laird is still in Bat
tleford, but the women and children have
left for Winnepeg.


The fur trade is at complete standstill,
owing to the scarcity of Buffalo. Pemmican
selling at forty cents a pound, and mono
coming in.


The Dominion Government and the Hud-
son Bay Company are making great exer-
tions and sparing no expense to relieve the
distress, but want of transports is serious
drawback.


Colonel Richardson, of Batteford, and
Chief Indian Commissioner Dewdney are
in Ottawa comforting with the Government
on the position of affairs. The Canadian
Indians blame the Government for permit.
ting the American Sioux to settle on Can
adian soil and slaughter buffalo out OF
season.


At Prince Albert a large body of the
Minnesota Sioux have been settled for some
years, and Sitting Bulls people are joining
them and urging them to join in rising.
Laird has gone to see the Minnesota Sioux
to warn them against the Tettons.
Year: 1879

KAKooB'S MEANNEsS UNMAsKED.


National Associated Press to the Star
SIMLA, Dec. News from Cabul states
that General Roberts has sent the Ameer
to Peshawur under the safe conduct of q
strong detachment of English troops.
Since his captivity in his own capital sus-
picions OF his completely in the massacre OF
Major Caavgnari and his hand at the Brit
ish residency have been increasing in the
minds of the commanders and of the Home
Government. Although Yakoob Khan has
steadily denied this, investigation has de-
veloped facts which render it impossible to
place further reliance on his loyalty OF
his word. All disguise as to the purpose
of the Government concerning his relation
to it, are now thrown of, and he will be
held as prisoner until final action can be
taken upon his case.


POSSIBLE PRoTEcroRArE


1t is quietly asserted in military and off,
cial circles here and in Calcutta that it is the
intention Of the foreign Office to set up an
open protectorate in Afghanistan in which
the native Princes or Chiefs will have only
the semblance Of authority.


Notwithstanding the small reliance placed
Year: 1879

Aims & Doepke were beat out of $43
worth of silk yesterday on the old dodge of
having the goods taken to an hotel. The
silk was taken to the Burnet House, where
the errand boy was requested to wait for a
few moments until the man returned. OF
course the man failed to again put in an
aDpearanCe,
Year: 1879

upon the Ameer by his own followers and
people the temper of the tribes is so uneer-
tain and the Russian emissaries are so
numerous and alert that it was deemed
best to incarcerate him across the frontier.
The authorities are officially reticent as to
the state of affairs at the various military
stations of the Great Passes. Winter is
now upon the country and nothing but
compulsory military operations may be an
ticipated before spring
Year: 1879

EDITOR CITIZEN Il see you have
published a method of telling the
age of an old horse by the wrinkles
about his eyes. propose to give
you a more reliable one, and by
which the age may be arrived at
with reasonable certainty, at least,
near enough for all practical pur
poses.


In young horse the front teeth
OF the lower jaw form nearly, or
quite, right angle with the jaw,
which angle becomes more obtuse
as the horse becomes aged.


Now, the marks with which near.
ly every one is familiar, which indi-
cate the age to ten or twelve years,
l need not mention. When they
disappear the horse is considered
about twelve years old. About this
time the lower front teeth begin to
depart from the right angle and to
straighten out, which Strengthening
becomes plainly perceptible to the
eye at fifteen years of age, and be-
comes more marked as the horse
advances In years.


At from twenty-five to thirty
these teeth stand out nearly straight
and as the process goes on regularly
from the starting point, the extent
of the departure from the right an
gle becomes the index of the horses
age. OF course the upper teeth
straighten out also, but the lower
furnish all the indications material
to the enquirer, which, to a close
observer, becomes almost infallible.


OBSERVER.
Year: 1879

The pencil marks you SEQ around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub :
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extendl1g
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 win comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your su scriptlon
without delay. We solicit your favor.


eB- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1879

Boiled Tomatoes.-Take nice
large tomatoes, cut them in hall
crosswise; broil them over the fire,
skin side down, until brown; place
the gridiron inside of the stove, to
brown the other side. Cook slow
ly; when done, season with pepper,
salt or sugar and butter. Serve
plain or on toast.