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Year: 1879

Hope on, though all your dreams OF life


should vanish,
And mortal blooms, like Autumn leaves


decay;
Though all the phantom joys you love to


cherish
Elude your grasp like spectral shades the


day;
Though friends forsake and all the world de


ceive you,
And every mound you stand upon is gone,
Though night shuts in without one star to


light you,
And tempests howl around you, still hope


on.
Hope on. The bowling blast will sink be-


meath you,
And natures storm leave the sea more


calm;
The starless night shut in at last viii leave
you,
And morn's bright star proclaim the break


of dawn.
Though deaths pale Steed should sweep in


cycles round you
And bid you muse upon the life of man,
Though every friend in life be called to leave


you
And silent sleep or roam in distant realm,
Though death should drop his murSy mantle


DER you
And earth's scenes fades with n night of


gloom.
Hope on. For one passed through the gate


before you
And burst the bonds of his lone rock sealed


tomb.
Though every gem Of life seems dead within
And you walk the Valley Of Shades alone
Hope on, The Lord thy God is there above
YOU,
And he will light you to the Masters
thOne.
Year: 1879

Young man fight your own battle.
Hoe your own row. Ask no favors of
any one, and you will succeed thou
sand times better than those who are
always beseeching some ones patron
age. No one will ever help you as you
can help yourself, because no one will
be so heartily interested in your affairs.
The first step will not be such a long
one, perhaps; but, carving your own
way up the mountain, you make each
one lead to another, and stand firm in
that while you chop out still another.
Men who have made their fortunes are
not those who have had five thousand
dollars given them to start with, but
started fair with a well earned dollar or
two. Men who have by their own ex-
ertiOns acquired fame, have not been
thrust into popularity by putfs begged or
paid for, or given in friendly spirit.
They have out-stretehed their hands
and touched the public heart. Men
who win love do their own wOoing, and
never knew one to fail so signally as
one who had induced his affectiOnate
grandma to speak good word for him.
Whether you work for fame, for love,
for money, or for anything else, work
with your hands, heart and brain. Say
81 will, "and dsome day you will conquer.
Never let any man have it to say, ~
have dragged you up" Too many
friends hurt a man more than none at
all. Then depend on your own efforts,
and success and victory will be yours.
Year: 1879

1.-THE 4th of March, 1877, saw the end
of Grantism. However Hayes may
have obtained title to his Office, the
fact is umdisputable that, as if by magic,
the South underwent changes for the
better the moment he took the Presi-
Dental chair, ordered the bayonet away
and left the people of that section free.
AS Grants oppression of the South had
been the cause of its prOstration, so
Hayes's relief of the South from that 0p-
preston has been the cause of its
prosperity. Hayes let-alone policy,
coupled with Democratic financial poll
ey which remOnetized silver and stop
ped the retirement and destruction of
the legal-tender notes of the Govern
ment, has done much to enable the
country to recover from the riOtous and
mereenary reign Of Grantism. And
whenever Gen. Grant makes himself
conspicuous, at home or abroad, the Oc-
casion ought to remind the American
people of what they suffered under his
Presidency, and render them thankful
that the man on horseback has had his
day in high civil Office for a generation
to come at least.-ROchester Union.
Year: 1879

WILLIAM j. MARSHALL wrote as fol-
lows, before committing suicide at
Grand Rapids: :" made up my mind
several weeks ago to enjoy life as best
l could for while; and have done so,
you bet! l came here, having made
up my mind to have one old rouser,
and then shuttle off this mortal coil.
My passions are simply uncomfortable,
and it is nonsense for me to jog on
longer. If there is future state, !
will do my best, if it is in my power to
let you know it; but my impression is
when a man leaves this world his goose
is cooked.n
Year: 1879

fence these were brutal savages who had faiieh
upon helpless enigrants in Kansas and Nebraska,
and murdered them ia cold blood They had SET
the Government ut defiance, and IN the end had TO
be shot down like dogs. But If they fought
like infuriated beasts 1t was because thcy
were starved. and if they wcro shot down one after
another it was because they were allowed to
escape from the prison. The barrack does not ap-
pear to have been barricaded; the windows were
not barred: the quarters could not have been prop
cr.y searched and inspected by the 0ihcers,
for the prisoners had arms and ammunition
concealed within. and the guard which surrounded
the building was utterly inadequate. Captain "eS-
sells is brave soldier. but thore was reckless mis-
management somewhere Our correspondent uses
the phrase " Bulgarian atrocity." There Is no need
of a new name Tor an old sore. 1t is only the old
story of laundering and bloodshed. The moral Is
that our Indian policy Is standing disgrace 10
American civilization. But that Is not new. II mas
been said ever since there WAS such thing as
American civilization.
Year: 1879

1t is said that one Of the first operations Of
the cipher subcommittee in New-YOrk will
be TO call to the stand Messrs. Marble, PeltOn,
and Weed This would be the natural and
regular course !; but the Committee has varied
so often and so far from the natural and reg
ular course during the many uneventful
DAYS of its protractcd and unproductive
preliminary laLors that we shall not be sur
prised to find it starting off any morning upon
some novel excursion, only to come back after
a long hunt with empty game-bags and ruff
fled tcmpers. Still the trio of cOparCcncrs
must be called, sooner or later. and it VIII
be in the power of the subcommittee, if it
goes about the work in the right way, to OBJ
tain from them great deal of entertaining
and instructive information.


There having been, to all appearances. an
agreement among the chiefs of the conspiracy
that they cannot carry Colonel Pelton any
longer, the public will watch that bad young
mans demeanOr in the witnesS-bOx with par
ticular curiosity. Is he a voluntary sacrifice {?
Has he consented to be goat for this occasion,
TO stand still while the sins of all the tribe
are strapped upon his back. and then to run
into the wilderness with meek alacnty7 How
does he like the play9 And if he has ac
cepted the part, is he going to tell the public
that besides trying to swindle three or four
Returning Boards, College OF Electors, a
State Legislature and n Supreme Court IN
posing upon Smith VI. Weed, usurping COM
mand over Mant0n Marble. and taking fOrcl-
ble and unwarranted possession of the Demo
cratic National Committee, he also hood
winked and abused his ingenious uncle Is
hc going to tell us that he made up all this
affair out of his own head If he does, are
we going to believe him


If Colonel Pclton assures rs that lc be-
gulled everybody with whom he had 10 do in
this matter, load Of innocence will he thrust
upon Mr.. Smith NJ. Weed at which that fresh
politician will be very much amazed indeed.
Mr.. Weed in the character of victim of Colo
mel Pcton's confidence game Will be Il spccta-
Gle of such extraordinary innocence that We
hope nothing will be allowed to interfere with


its speedy production. II Will be necessary
however. for the unSOphisticatcd Mr.. Weed to
explain some curious incidents in his Southern
excursion, and the public will listen with open
ears 10 the fail and frank narrative OF his Bal
tim0rc visit, which he will 10 doubt submit at
the earliest possible moment.


And then we are to see Mr.. Marble at last in
the keen bright sunlight of publicity. II is
doubtful whether he can tell uS much about the
ciphcrs which we do not know already. He
put into his remarkable dispatches all that IN
his great mind-his planshis wishes, his doubts,
his fears, his antipathies, and his rescntmcnts
Year: 1879

Last week the Democrats thought they were
after Republican grizzly, aud they grew uu
common fond of the sport; now that they
know it's the other kind of Il grizzly, they
begin to think the trail Is disagreeaby warm.
Year: 1879

General Sherman has been once more at
Atlanta, but this time mot with the roll
of the stirring drum, nor the trumpet which
sings of fame. 1t was like Wollngton's visit
to his own famous field, but with a
difference. The Doors Of Waterloo cared nothing
for the Duke, and as little for the Emperor, and
only knew that the British and French blood mixed
had gwen them good crops for many year after
the famous victory. The citizens of Atlanta had
good enough reason to wish that they had never
seen soldier whether Federal or Confederate; but
if they really believed that General Sherman
"burned Atlanta they manifested a snguary
forgIying disposition. The way in which
they came out to welcome the veteran is
about the most cheering sign of IA forgiy-
ing disposition which we have lately OBJ
served. 1t is particularly noticed that the crowd
which gathered at the station to welcome General
sherman was white one that there DO
perccptbc indignation, no feeling of prejudice;'
and that warm Jokes were dying to and fro" as
the train containing the General and his party rolled
in All manner Of cOnrteScs enSued; and
If there was any lingering feeling of en-
mity il was kept well under The best of all was
the admiration expressed by the General at the en-
ergy exhibited by Atlanta and the lndisputablc
way IN winch she had proved herself to be phG lX
The general thrift of the city was the only sub
iect upon which the hero would talk; ho made
little excursions to the old battletields, and
attended a ball at the barracks but he fought
very shy of reporters. and reDuscd all attempts TO
interview him with stately dignity. We mark the
"good humor" of the occasion with pleasure; the
Union is not only political institution, more so
now than ever, but it is also great and generous
sentiment; and the good sense and good feeling ex
hiblted by the people of Atlanta shows how surely.
if slowly, We are getting back to all that was best
in The good old times.
Year: 1879

morning glories ivy vines, Japanese lilies
and others. The ladies have also on hand
a lot of button-hole bouquets made entirely
out Of ish-scales, and ladys fsh-scale
necklace, the scales of which are held TO.
gether by silver wires.


Each and every one Of the articles re-
ferred to above is the handiwork of the
ladies' That they have taken considerable
trouble in making these flowers can not be
disputed, and so great is the skill shown by
them in their work, that these artificial
flowers actually deceived connoisseur who
mistook them for natural and living
flowers.


The ladies are doing better business than,
perhaps, any other two stands in the Fair.
They have, moreover, entire control OF the
strawberry stand, and they are making this
delicious fruit bring in handsome financial
returns.


The ladies do not propose at present TO
make public the amount taken in by them,
but VIII wait until the close of the Fair.
Another delightful feature of the Conserv-
atory is the "Grecian Oracle" who nightly
expounds your fortune at consideration
of fifty cents per gentleman and twenty
five cents per lady.


All who have visited the "Jardin de
F!eurs'' have gone away fully satisfied and
pleased with their visit. Go and see the
place before it is too late as the flowers and
plants are selling rapidly.
Year: 1879




The following is q copy of cir
cular signed by the Governor and
Attorney General, and addressed to
the Boards of Supervisors of the
various counties:
The law which provided for the
calling of the Constitutional Con-
vention, provides also for the sub
mission of the Constitution which
the Convention framed to vote OF
the people on the 7th day Of May
ensuing. 1t also makes all persons
who wsre by law entitled to vote
for members of the Asse tnbly vo-
ters at the election for Delegates.
It is, therefore, clearly the right of
all persons to vote at the election
for the adoption or rejection of the
Constitution who would be quail
fed 10 vote for members of the As
sembly.
While there can be no question
as to the right of all such persons
to vote, there is some doubt as to
whether the election laws, con-
strued strictly and literally,
wouli secure to all the exercise of
that right. An Act entitled IAN
Act concerning special elections"
approved Feb, 8, 1878, provides that,
at special elections, copies of the
Great Register, printed before and
used at the last preceding general
election, shall he used. Section
1,227 of the Political Code, as
amended by an Act approved
March 80, 1873, provides that "no
person shall be allowed to vote
aCJSose name DO not on the register in
use at the precinct" The effect of
the amendment to this section is to
prevent all voting on certificates,
and to restrict the right to vote to
those whose names actually appear
on the printed register in use at
the polls.


Al uue election to be held on the
7th proximo, the printed register
in use will be the one printed in
August, 1877, and will contain only
the uncanceled names Oh the Great
Register of the county on the 1st
day of August of that year. 1t is
plain that to so construe the law as
not to allow any persons to vote
whose names are not on the Great
Register, made up twenty mouths
before, would deprive many citizens
of their constitutional right of
suffrage.


That this great wrong may not
be done to citizens through tor
strict and technical construction of
the law, which should be as care.
full to protect those who are qualified
In their rights to vote as to prevent
those who are not qualified from
voting, we respectfully advise that
you cause Supplemental Register
to be printed, which shall contain
all the uncanceled names and
other entries on the Great Register
OF the count-, which were placed
there subsequently to the first day
August, 1877, and prior to the
day on which you may deem il
necessary for such Supplements
Register to be placed in the hands
Of the printer; and that you cause
copies of this Supplemental Regis
ter to be furnished to officers o
election, as copies of the Great Reg
lister are furnished to such cf1icer
in pursuance of law.


Very respectfully yours,


WILLIAM IRWIN, Governor.


10 HAMILTON,


Attorney, General.
Year: 1879

or have their property seized so as
to enable the embarrassed and dis
tracted editor master the emergency,
have sworn vengepce on the inno-
cent birds. This is the latest
dodge to get delinquent subscribers
to pay up, and perhaps it would be
for the best, financially, if we were
to have mock trial like that of the


Dial nan, thereby gaining the sym
pathy of our negligent delinquen;s
who would DO likely to respond be-
fore their eyes were open to the
scheme.
Year: 1879

THE matched race between Chest
nut Oaks and Trouble which was to
have come off at Platteville on Fri
day, proved a farce. The first heat
was run, when the rider of Trouble
claimed foul and the judges decided
it dead heat, whereat great clamor
and dispute arose, as can only be
heard on race course and the
owners of Trouble would not allow
the horse to run again upon such
decision. 1t is supposed the money
will be drawn, also on side bets.
Year: 1879

TUE Dodgeville brick yard is
tuning out very satisfactory work
anl gradually y.receiving an increased
trade Parties in this city would
find it economizing by purchasing
brick at Dodgeville instead of going
further away from home.
Year: 1879

IT is not doubted for n moment
that Jackson Bros. got one hundred
acres of the best stock pasture in
Iowa county, only one mile and a
half north Of Mineral Point. All
those who have horses and cattle to
pasture please apply to


3w JACKSoa Bros.
Year: 1879

By the death of Squire Thomas,
our city is short % Justice of the
Peace. The statutes provide that in
case OF vacancy candidates
to fill the tffice shall be voted for
by special ballot ot the next general
election. Let the matter be attend
ed to, and a competent and credit
able justice chosen.
Year: 1879

AT Cumberland, in the northern
part of this State, there lives young
man named Mcdonald, who, five
years ago, swallowed the thimble Of
an umbrella handle, and since that
time has been in ordinary health. A
few weeks ago he caught cold and
had lung fever, and while having a
bad spell of coughing he coughed up
the thimble followed by nearly a pint
of pus The poor lad is now greatly
reduced, and there has been taken
from his left side nearly five pints of
decomposed pus. He is not likely
to recover.
Year: 1879

The Anchor Line of steamboats,
have offered TO bring the negroes
who were deluded with the idea
that they could make more mosey
upon the bleak and barren prairies
of Kansas in week, than they
could in Mississippi or Louisiana in
year-back from st. Louis where
hundreds of them are in almost a
starving condition-to the States
they left, free of charge.-They no
doubt will accept the generous offer
made by the Management of this
line of boats, and when they return
to their old homes they will never
feel like starting again for the wind
swept plains of Kansas, where the
skies are ever bleak, and where
negro emigrants are so likely to
drag their days out In sorrow and
disappointment
Year: 1879

Vieksburg Commercial.]


The Necessity for great vigilance
for the preservation of the public
health must I've apparent to all. Ii
is clearly the duty of every citizen
to exert himself to the utmost 10
second the efforts of the health
officer ia matters of such vital i.n>
portauce to the city and to the peo-
pie. Let the authorities manifest a
determination to enforce sanitary
regulations without fear or favor,
let them insist that none who viO>
late the law shall escape, and peO
pie will not evince SO much indiffer
rnce to the demands made upon
them by the aealtla officer. There
can he no sort of doubt of the neces-
sity for prompt and vigorous action
in the matter OF cleaning up the
city, and it behoves every one TO
take an active interest in a matter
in which everybody is so deeply in.
terested.
Year: 1879




The Supreme Court of Ohio has
decided that where a drunken and
unruly passenger is put of rail-
road train, and is then run over by
another train, the company is not
liable. it was the duty of the con.
siucfor TO protect other Passengers
against him by rjecting him, and if
he was too drunk to take care of
himself after that, it was only his
own fault. Similar law has been
laid down in New York and in most
of the other States OF the Union,
sss'l it seems to be about settled
that if a man will get drunk, th e
safest place to do it is st b0aue.
Year: 1879

CONSIDERABLE excitement was
caused in Memphis on the 14th
inst, by a report that Mrs. Donelly,
janitress of the Linden street school,
had died on that day of yellow
fever. Inquiry of the Board of
Health showed that her disease was
malarial fever. The Aralancke says
that malarial fever at this season of
the year is nothing unusual in Mem
l,hiS.
Year: 1879

THE Kentucky Supreme Court
mas decided that the statute agains t
gaming, wiIich enables a person
iosing money at faro table to re-
cover hls Essses from the proprietor
will not work the other way and al
low the proprietor to recover losses
from fortunate PLAYERS.
Year: 1879

The nutmeg tree is fourishing
near the equator. 1t is raised from
the nut in nurseries, where it re-
mains till the fifth year, when it
puts forth its first blossoms. 1t is
then set out permanently. The
trees are planted thirty feet apart
in diamond order. They begin to
bear in the eighth year, increasing
for many years, and they pay a
large profit. There is no nutmeg
season. Every day Of the year
shows buds, blossoms and fruit, in
every stage of growth to maturity.
The nutmeg is large and beauti-
full tree, with thick foliage and Of
a rich green color. The ripe fruit
is singularly brilliant. The shell is
glossy black, and the mace it ex-
poses when it bursts is bright scar
let, making it one of the most
beautiful of the vegetable king
dom.
Year: 1879

A man who was arrested for
stealing goods at the fire one day,
pleaded in extenuation of his con-
duct that he hadn't been in the
place but a few days, and hadn't
learned the rules.
Year: 1879

The sooner, says novelist, we
learn to subsist chiefly on the plain
diet of good conscience, the better
it will be for US. How would you
like your sole cooked, boiled or
fried New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
Year: 1879

1t was stated at banquet of the
pastry cooks in New York the
other night that their society, which
numbers 112 members, had lost but
one by death during the last year.
The Graphic explains that pastry
cooks never eat pastry.
Year: 1879

New York, May 23.-The evening
papers interviewed Senator Farley here
to-day. He said: 81 see nothing in
the situation Of California to create any
great alarm. Had / been there should
probably have voted against the consti-
tuition. There is a great deal of good
in 1t however. There is no doubt but
that the Objectionable provisions will
be evaded in one way or another, and
30 become practically q dead letter. 1t
will be difficult to prevent stock specu-
lations; besides, stock gambling is not
all bad, and while have no desire to
defend it, there are some things to be
said In its favor. There is only one
class of men in the state who would be
likely to do any harm il they got in
power, and they will never get in power
by the votes of the men who carried
the constitution through. Men of the
Kearney stamp have exerted their full
strength and have failed to get what
they wanted
Year: 1879

New York, May 90. Among the ill.,
dications of business Improvement, il is
noted within the past ten days that
unusual activity has existed in the
wholesale and retail leather trade of
this city. Last week the sales of sole
leather and hides in the region known
as the Swamp" amounted to over a
million dollars. The recent abundant
and widely extended rains have fresh
ened up the country wonderfully and
given the season prosperous start. 1t
cannot be called backward as compared
with the average season. The hay
crop is already assured. The dry
weather of the first weeks of May
alarmed the farmers, but now, from
every part of the country come reports
of daily showers.
Year: 1879

Washington, May 23.-It has become
apparent thar the remainder of the GER
tifcates unsold will not last more than
six days, and applications for United
States depository designation hereafter
received will be declined by the depart
ment.


The general tone of the correspon-
dence of the departments is hopeful Of
revival Of industry, and that the sur
plus Of unemployed labor is growing
less. Good labor can generally find
employment at fair prices. Many are
idle because they will not accept the
reduced wages offered.
Year: 1879

New York, May PA letter from
John Sherman to a war democrat
here states that while there is no doubt
but what he could be elected governor
of Ohio, it would be wrong for him to
entertain the proposition, so many be-
ing interested In the refunding and re-
demption work now in progress. "What
/ would aspire 10 in case public opinion
should decide to make me the candidate
for president would be to unite in CO.
operating with the republican party In
all the national elements Of the coun-
try that contributed to or aided in any
way the vindication of national author
ity during the war. l would do this.
not for the purpose of irritating the
south or expressing them in any way,
but to assert and maintain supreme
national authority to the full extent Of
all powers conferred by the constitu-
tion. The true issue for 1880 is ma
tional supremacy in national matters,
honest money and an honest dollar"
Year: 1879

himself while crawling through the
fence after the supposed burglars.
Public excitement grew so high that
the disinterment Of Pugh's body was
demanded, and a post mortem examin-
alton was held this morning, when the
ball was found to be seven times the
size of those found in pugh's revolver,
and must have been fired from an army
pistol. This startling revelation in
creased the excitement, and S400 was
Immediately raised, besides $500 al
ready offered, for the discovery of the
criminals.