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Year: 1879

A PHYSICIAN, of extensive quarantine
experience, says that persons who
thoroughly wash their heads every day
rarely take contagious diseases, while
those who allow their hair to become
dirty and matted are peculiarly liable
to infection. Washing the head in
water containing a weak solution Of
soda frequently relieves nervous head
ache, and is said to be beneficial in
cases Of severe colds. Morning is said
20 be the best time for such .ablutions,
and the head should be thoroughly
dried afterwards and draughts of air
avoided.
Year: 1879

PERHAPS Mr., Edison can invent some
plan for running supply pipe from a
distillery to the moon, so as to keep it
continually full. This might not do
away with ga' altogether, but it would
save the expense of lighting the streets
at night. rt'Ea ri
Year: 1879

ARE We NOT GONE AsTRAY p
There was time In the history Of this
country when the people did not suppose
that the man elected President was
thereby made superior to other men-a
time when the American citizen who dis
charged his duty faithfully in the private
walks Of life, was the equal Of men in
any station-a time when the Office
holder was the servant Of the people
from whom he derives his pay and that
even the President of the United States
recognized that he was only chosen to
the Office to perform certain duties, for
which he with thousands Of others
were fitted-and that after this choice
was made he was the servant OF the
whole people whose collective voice be
felt bonored in yielding obedience TO.
Are we not slipping away from this posi-
tion. Do not Presidents now recognize
few aristocra,ic men Of wealth as their
only friends and companions Such
seems to be the tendency. Presidents
are no longer found to be the most re-
tired, dignified, and sagacious men, seek
ing the anionship Of the most learn
ed and experienced in statesmanship,
bestowing all their time and attention
upon the government over which they
are expected TO keep careful watch and
resting for their reward more on the
gratitude of their countrymen. This is
no longer the case. Presidents now find
more time for junketting about the
country, and taking frivolous pleasures
than those who are not burdened with
the cares of State. 1t is no uncommon
thing to hear 1t said that a second-rate
clerk in one of the Departments knows
more about the details of the govern
ment and can make 4 more accurate
statement of its affairs. In fact II is toe
often admitted that he knows but little
of craftsmanship, and that any OF his


Secretaries are his superiors. Hence II


is that a secondary officer Is found to bt


advising Congress to one course and thu


President another. There was a tim


when the President was truly The hea,


of the nation-the exponent Of tie voic'
of the whole people, and the friend OF all
That time may come again and when
does there will be more prosperity an


happiness in the land than there La
been for many years. The people shoul
be allowed to regard the President an


those who hold Office as their friends
>, but alas, the Presidents of late and h
II officers have been teaching one class |
i believe that it is their duty to regard al


other class as enemies.
Year: 1879

THE n. YORK ELECTORAL SCHEME.
Many of the oldest of the Republican
journals are opposed to the proposed
change in the mode of electing Presl-
Dental Electors in the State Of New
York. In referring to the matter the
Philadelphia Telegraph denounces the
scheme in severe language, as follows :
"Under the Federal Constitution tie
Legislature If each State has the abso-
lutte right to declare how the Presidential
Electors shall be chosen, but by common
agreement all the States-New York
since 1828-have bestowed the right to
elect them upon the entire body of
qua ified citizens. New Y ork, or rather
the Republican Congressman at Wash
ington for her, proposes now to alter this
law, and to practically disfranchise her
citizens, only because her Electoral vote
is essential to the electio on of the Repub-
lican candidate for President. Ii they
be not got for him by indirection the
Republican leaders at the capital believe
they cannot be got at ali; and therefore
what they cannot honestly accomplish
through the ballot-box they propose
they shall dishonesty accomplish
through the Legislature. To show how
patent the suggested fraud is, it is only
necessary to say that they would oppos,
any attempt to alter the law if the Leg
islature were Democratic; they desire /,
do it only because they have Republi-
can Legislature, and fear to permit tn
people to express the will of the majorit
at the polls.


The truth must be admitted that Ne
York is Democratic State, precisely a
Pennsylvania is Republican State, an
if, as is commonly admitted, next yea
the choice of President depends upo
her vote, and, as is feared, that that vot
will be cast for the Democratic candidal
then to carry out this scheme would
to disfranchise not only the voters
New York but of every other State th
polled Democratic majority, the resu
of which would be to put into the Pre-
idential Office the defeated candidate il
stead of the elected one Presi e
who would be Presid ut by the MINOR T.
supported by gigantic traud. The pr
posed wrong is too great, We urlIeve,t
accomplishment. The Americans are {
hot partisans enough aL The polls, b
they do not carry their parts II feeli
SO lar into fraud as this plan propos'
They are fair, honest people, and t
mass OF the Republican party would


the last to countenance an act so re'
lutionary and so imperilling TO their


stitutious. They want victory, but I'll
don't want it at the price of their O.


acknowledgements"


The New York Herald to-day p,


fishes interviews with the New Y,


Congressional delegation in Washingt


and says :-''It will be seen that ms


OF the Republican members, as well


all the Democratic members, look u


the scheme with disfavor. We are C
Year: 1879

fdent that nothing Of the kind will be
seriously attempted by the Legislature.
In the first place, the chances Of the Re-
publican party for carrying the State are
not so desperate as 70 impel it to such a
daring experiment. In the next place
the Republican members Of the Legis-
lature would be as much divided on the
question as the Republican members Of
Congress and TO make the attempt and
fail would put q potent electioneering
weapon into the hands Of the Demo.
Gratis which would enable them to carry
the State"
Year: 1879

THIS seasons corn crop is now re-
ported to be the largest ever grown in
this country, and it should be remem-
bered that corn brings Western farmers
several times as much money as it did
a few years ago.
Year: 1879




Grant is that he has arranged to take
the management and the Presidency
of the Nicaragua Canal Co. 1t is
said that the rich capitalists Of Eng
land have subscribed large sum sof
money to that enterprise conditioned
upon the Generals taking the man.
agement OF it. The work would be
OF immense Importance, and Grants
position would be both lucrative and
honorable. His friends say that this
is what he alluded to when he said
he was coming east to find employ.
ment. The President is said to be
making arrangements to send Gen.
Grant to. Central America to treat
for the right of way across the 18th
mus, and to make such arrangements
a. are for the interest Of the scheme.


The reunion of the Army OF the
Cumberland here was a grand occa.
sion, and many thousand from abroad
besides the soldiers participated.
The statue of Gen. Thomas which
they unveiled is a fine work of art,
and holds one Of the best locations
in the city. Washington is fast be-
coming city of adornments of
patriotic nature, and this is probably
the most worthy of any in an artis-
tic view.


The total estimates of the expenses
Of the Government next year are
little more than Congress appropri-
ated last year, but it is notorious that
the Democrats meant to allow less
than enough TO carry on the Govern.
ment. They have labored to make
capital for themselves in this way,
but it will not work. The people
will see through their thin disguise,
and will not trust them. j.


Congressman Frye, of Maine, has
been interviewed. He is member
of the Republican national commit
tee and he says that the Grant men
on the committee will join the Blaine
men in selecting chairman, in place
of the late. Senator Chandler. Mr..
Frye does not think that General
Grant will be a candidate for the
Presidential nomination unless at
the coming session the question of
doubt as to the mode of counting the
electoral vote should be made promi.
nent. In that event he believes the
people will demand the nomination
of Grant, because they think he will
assert and obtain his seat if the cleo
ton is disputed. Otherwise he
thinks Mr.. Blaine or Mr.. Sherman
will be the leading candidate before
the convention.


The conspiracy in Maine by which
the greenback Democratic combina.
ton hope to steal the Incoming leg.
islature, on the face of the fact that
the Republicans elected 50 majority
in that body, is of a piece with their
general plan to steal the Presidency
next year. Our latest accounts are
that they are determined to reverse
the majority in at least one house so
as to control the election Of Govern.
or and state officers. 1t will be their
suicide if they do.


A large band of colored refugees
have just passed through here on
their way from North Carolina to
Indiana, where they have employ
msnt engaged for them. They fee
from the outrageous system of oppres-
sion t which the Confederates sub. .
jeot them, and say that there are
thousands preparing to follow them.


There is likely to be change in
the Indian policy, and it is rumored
that the management will be changed
in the going out of Sec'y Schurz or
Commissioner Hayt or both. 1t is
dawning upon US that the In.
Year: 1879

IT seems as though Sam Tilden
were really done for at last. John
Kelly killed him. Most Of his old
supporters are dropping away from
him. Abe Hewitt, formerly his
trusted henchman, is the latest to
put himself on record as saying that
the guilelsss old man will not again
be nominated for the Presidency.
Year: 1879

THE RIVER AND THE ICE. GORGE.-The
river continued to fall yesterday, but very
slowly. At the Chesapeake and Ohio
wharyes the water was about two feet over
the lower docks. Last evening the river
was within Its banks.


Yesterday morning at O'Clock the Old
Dominion Comuany's steamship Wyanoke,
having discharged her cargo and taken
in a cargo of cotton, sailed from her
wharf at Rockets, and proceeded down
the river cautiously but steadily until
she reached Wilton, distance of about
seven miles from the city, when her
engine got on the stop CENTRE" the ma
chinery stopped, and the ship, being sur
rounded on all sides by the heavy ice, was
unable to go either way. She had cut her
way through the ice-gorgc about quarter
OF mile when the engine got on the CEN
tire, and had it not been for this unfortunate
occurrence it is believed the vessel would
have gone through. Captain Couch at last
accounts was making every effort to start
tue machinery, in the hope of getting out.


The steamship Richmond, Of the same
line, left City Point yesterday morning
bound for this city, and succeeded in get.
ting up rs far as Varina, cutting into al
ice-sorge in that vicinity about two hun.
dred yards. Being unable to get any fur.
ther she returned to City Point, and viii
send her freight up by rail. The gorge that
the Richmond undertook to break up ex
tends from Aiken's to JoneS's wharf, and is
about SIX hundred yards wide.


The basin was again occupied by skaters
yesterday.


The canal is said to be open from the
second level above Richmond to Cedar
Point.
Year: 1879

THE READJUsTERs.-A conference Of the
readiusters of the General Assembly viii
be held In the Hall OF the House OF Dele
gates tonight to receive the report Of the
Executive Committee, which was instructed
on Monday night to prepare call for a
State Convention If readiusters.
Year: 1879

The Condition of the Water.-The water
had so far fallen yesterday as to allow ope-
rations to be almost entirely resumed along
the water front. BY this morning all can
be at wcrk, should they feel disposed to
Year: 1879

THE PRINTING INvEsTIGAT1oN.-The joint
Committee on Printing met last night to
hear argument Of counsel, bnt Colonel Cor
doa being engaged in the Atlantic, Missis-
sippi and Ohio Railroad case the committee
agreed to adjourn until Friday night.
Year: 1879

THE ANIMAL GAINS HIS LIBERTY ONLY To


SENSATION.


Texan steer broke away from cattle yard al
Fortyfourth street and First avenue yesterday al.
ternoon. and If by instinct boed for the Twenty.
ninth precinct. He long time finding
his way there, for he heard of in
real streets. where frightened children
and pedestrians cleared the road for him.
When he started he comparatively
tame animal but before he had been at liberty half
hour a dozen or pistol shots had been fred
at him and mob of 500 men and boys were at hia
heels everywhere he turned. As near rs could be
ascertained he crossed through Fortyfourth street
to Eighth avenue and down that thoroughfare faa
as Fortieh street. Then he turned eastward and BY
u route not exactly defined by the police reached
the triangle formed by the intersection OF
Broadway. rhirty-second street and Sixth
avenue Here he held sway for over an hour. The
crowd increased to 1000 people. the were
blocked and reign of lasted until the Door
beast despatched with rifle while he stood on
the corner Thirty street and Sixth avenue.
Thomas Rey ynolds of No. $50 First avenue. atd who
is said TO be employed by the owners of the steer.
followed 1t whom it escaped. On the corner of
Thirty fourth street and Broadway IL turned him
and tossed him several yards. injurng him. how.
over, but slightly. After this exploit tho beast





The result was nothing more than prick OF pin
would have caused. The animal made rush, and
the crowd yelled and cleared the way for him. The
door of Thomas Baur's real estate office In ita
course and IL dashed its horns through the glass.
Then 1t turned around into broadway, and at
tractcd by something In front of drug store
opposite went hesdiong ia that direction when the
crowd dispensing chokcd up the store to the immi-
nent peril OF the showcases and the window plates.
Turning quickly around the animal rccrossed tho
street and dashed into the hallway of photograph
gallery at No. 1.2sS Broadway. With decent re-
spect for the interests OF the proprietor OF
the pictures he passed showcase full
of costly portraits ana was content to
thrust his horn into the wall, ripping
away tho plaster Another pistol shot again started
him upstairs. When half way up the first flight tho
beast tunbled over backward down into the hall
again. Several policemen had arrived by this time.
and among them Officer posthoif. who had oh.
tanned rifle from gentleman who lives ut No.
62 West Thrty.fourth street. He loaded the
weapon with large slug. and when
favorable chance offered fred shot that brought
the steer TO the earth. Two butchers on hand
with cart that bore the names of Gambe Klinge,
and they carried the carcass away. The above are
only fow OF tho incidents that occurred before tho
ansial killed. He attempted to gore horse
and walked deliberately into fruit store. The
police say that the crowd was responsible for driv.
ing the animal to madness.
Year: 1879

Can't do it sticks in the mud, but
Try drags the wagon out OF the rut.
The fox said Tiy, and he got away from
the hounds when they snapped at him:
The bees said Try. and turned flowers
into honey. The squirrel said Try, and
up he went to the top ofa tree. The
suowsdrop said Try. and bloomed in
the cold snow of winter. The sun said
Try, and the spring soon threw Jack
Frost ont of the saddle. The young
lark said Try, and he found that his
new wings took him over hedges and
bitches, and mp where his father was
singing. The OK said Try. and plough
ed the field from end to end,
Year: 1879

During eight hundred years no wo-
man is known to have entered the
grounds of the monastery of Canal
doll, Italy. except once. when princ-
ess of the house of Medici. who had a
great desire to behold the place, dis
guised herself in mems clothing and
was admitted. But SO stricken with re.
morse was she on behclding the sacred
spot. that she hastened to the Pope to
confess her fault, and as pennance
for it was commanded TO build new
cottage in the inclosure. which she
did. This monastery is one OF the in
stitutions of the kind suffered to re-
main in Italy. A recent visitor says
that what are called cells are comforta-
BILE little dwellings,. Each is surround
ed by wall, and has its garden twenN
ty feet square. A little piazza, with the
trunk of a tree planed and squared for
bench as its only furniture. runs
along the side OF the house. Enter
ing the door, you find yourself in a
brick paved vestibule, with an empty
chamber where a spring water is
flowing into basin on the LEW. and The
living rooms on the right. These con-
sist Of study just large enough fol
one person to enter and sit down. q
dining and sleeping room, with the bed
bnilt into the wall in the fashion of q
ships berth. A small table, two chairs
and cupboard complete the furnish
ing. Food is passed to the occupant
through hole in the outer wall. all be-
ing prepared in common kitchen and
brought to the hermits once a day
They never eat meat, an'l their portion
Of fi.h on all except fast days con sists
OF six ounces of fresh. o, four OF salt
fish.
Year: 1879




There are two great reasons why We
naturally shrink from coming to the
throne of grace.


The first ARISES from the greatness OF
God. The Almighty is 30 Vast In his
being incomprehensible In his nature
that it is almost impossible for us to
conceive, much more to believe that He
can place himself upon a throne of fa~
vor to man. The brightness of his
glory dazzles us; the awfulness of his
person overwhelms MS. When we at
tempt to think of God, when we force
our minds to grasp at the idea of an alb
soute and infinite essence, without be>
ginning of existence or limitations of
space, and when We clothe this huge
and staggering thonght with those un-
limited attributes and properties which
Ineessssr;lx betone q sucl, ~ eessnel
subject Of ths5 q


though overwhelming ftou8ht jnfI1
ses himself upon us as being Vi high,
and grand, and glorious MS 10 make us
feel so low and Insignificant that We are
crushed into sense OF utter nothing-
ness as contrasted with him. How can
we come before him with boldness3
How cap we avoid the feeling that the
brightness of his glory would consume
MS, and the vastness of his being would
bury us in hopeless distance form him.


This great barrier, which rises be-
tween our natural hearts and the throne
of God as high and inaccessible as abb
solute infnitude, can be gotten rid of
only by full and emphatic revelation
of God, as entering into voluntary COM
munion with ms. This revelation can
be found only in the Incarnation.
When the eternal word is made flesh
and dwells among us, aud we behold
his glory, then the heights of inacces>
sibility which tower between us and
the throne of grace are levelled, and
we behold the eternal Father, giving us
power to becom the sons of God. Thus
it is through Jesus the Mediator, that
the throne of infinite majesty and pow
er becomes the throne of grace, and the
measureless distance between God aud
mo is bridged.
Year: 1879

We all complain Of time. and yes
have much more than we know what TO
do with. Our lives are spent either In
doing nothing at all, or in doing moth
ing that we:ought to do; We are always
complaining our days are few, and act~
ing as though there would be no end b.
them.
Year: 1879

THE Queen of Sweden is not pretty,
but she is very pleasant and elegant
looking woman, and is always well
dressed. She likes to talk, and it is said


that one day, at the Marienbad water
ing-place, she detained her doctor for
fully two hours in conversation, while
the poor man fretted and fumed inter-
nally, knowing that his consulting room
would be full of indignant patients, yet
prevented by etiquette from Withdraw
ing until she gave him permission to dc
Year: 1879

AMERICANS can send wheat to Eng
land and sell it at profit for less than
it costs the English to grow it. This
fact and several similar ones mean that
there is change in store for landed pro.
prietors in that country. A writer in
HaemIlaa's S Magazi,se insists that every
owner of land shall become an absolute
freeholder, and that game shall be ex
tirpated as yermin.
Year: 1879

Ladies who never tried the expert
ment, may at a trihing expense have a
beautiful hanging plant in the east or
south window of the sitting room, that
will grow very thrifty and retain its
rich green color formonths. e


Take round piece of coarse cheap
sponge, and soak it thoroughly in warm
water until it is fully expanded. Squeeze
out most Of the water, and in the opened
holes of the sponge thrust rice, oat,
barley, grass, millet and red clover
seed. Hang this improvised flower-pot
where the sun will reach it during a por-
ton of the day, and for week after
depositing the seeds above mentioned,
sprinkle the sponge lightly every morn
ing, to keep the inside damp, but not
wet. i'nrH4 -r.t~


In little while the seeds will COM
mence to push out their spiry leaves
from every part Of the sponge; and fall
ing down in graceful tendrils as they
rapidly increase, there will soon be
formed a pretty mass of flowing green
fringe, that will. remain bright. and
cheerful to the eye for long time. II
carefully sprinkled, later on, the clover
| will bloom before the mass decays a
THE roots. Now is good time OF thu
Il year to commence the growing OF thi


simple but pretty hanging window plant
Year: 1879

NEVER despair. Many boy VITO
goes around with yellow patch in his
blue pantalo.ns may some day write
volume of poetry in blue and gold, or
have silver plate on his door.-N. J.
! Herald.
Year: 1879

Few secrets can escape an investigator,
who has opportunity and license to
undertake such quest, and skill to fol-
low it up. A man ourdened with a
secret should especially avoid the init
macy of his physician. If the latter
possesses native sagacity, and nameless
something more-let us call it intuition; !;
if he shows no intrusive egotism, nor
disagreeably prominent characteristics
of his own if he may have the power,
which must be born with him, to bring
his mind into such affinity with his
patients, that this last shall unawares
have spoken what he imagines himself
only to have thought; if such revelations
be received without tumult, and &C.
knowledged not 81 often by an unutter-
ed sympathy as by silence, an inarticu-
late breath, and here and there a word,
to indicate that all is understood; If to
these qualifications of confdant be
Joined the advantages afforded by his
recognized character as physician
then, at some inevitable moment, will
the soul of the sufferer be dissolved, and
flow forth in a dark, but transparent
stream, bringing all its mysteries into
the DAYLIGHT.
Year: 1879

AMONG the papers Of the Nebraska
state grange produced in a recent law
suit, was resolution appointing COM
mittee to urge the legislature to pass an
act to regulate the price Of country
produce for five years, and to make it
legal tender.
Year: 1879

The Jesuit fathers OF Chicago have fled
bill to restrain certain parties from begin.
ming an ejectment suit against them on the
ground that the land on which their church
and college buildings, worth a million dol.
lars, are situated, is private property, under
An old state land title.
Year: 1879

No one at Houston, Tex., will trust
the fire department for forage, hence its
horses have been sent to livery stable.
As soon as the bill for their keep exceeds
their value there will be an end of the
Houston fire brigade.
Year: 1879

From Rome it is announced that the
intention Of the vatican to establish sew
eral new bishoprics in the United States;
and, at the same time, to institute a
Catholic hierarchy here on new basis.