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Year: 1878

THE UPWARD iTH.-
" Not once or twice in our rough island story
The path of duty was the way to glory;
He that walks it, only thirsting
For the right and learns to deaden
Love of self before his journey closes
He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting
Into glossy purples, which Outredden
All voluptuOus garden roses.


Not once or twice in our fair island story
The path of duty was the way to glory.
He that ever following her commands.
On with toll of heart and knees and hands,
Through the long gorge to the fair light has won
His path upward and prevailed,


Shall find the tOpplng crags of Duty scaled,
Are close upon the shining table lands
To which our God himself is moon and SUM-
Year: 1878

John Sherman is exceedingly happy
over the fact that gold is now at par, and
his satisfaction is increased by numerous
kilograms of congratulation, one among
them being from Democratic editor in
Missouri recanting his former declarations
and saying he will rejoice in seeing the
finances of the country permanently estab-
lished on a gold basis, as he is now con-
vinced that this is practicable.
Year: 1878

"Iaw dreamed last night" said he to her whom he
bored greatly by his attentions that laid in wait
for a man with an immense sum of money. and
knocked his bwOins out and then robbed him of his
wealth" There would have been more merit in the
theft if You had stolen the brains" replied She
Gweat heavens! what would have done with them 2"
She gave it up.
Year: 1878

William Writ Henry, grandson of Patrick Henry,
and an eminent member of the Richmond bar and q
leader in the Virginia Legislature wants Bayard fol
President and says that he will vote for hard money
republican rather than for greenback democrat.
Year: 1878

During dense fog Mississippi steamboat took
landing. traveller, anxious to go ahead, came to
the unperturbed manager of the wheel and asked
why they stopped. Too much fog can't see the
river" But you can see the stars overhead" Yes
replied the urbane pilot but until the bier busts
bed.
Year: 1878

A little girl recently saw an old drunken man
his face and crowd Of children preparing to make
fun of him She took her little apron and wiped his
this remark: 20 don't hurt him, he is somebody's
grandma
Year: 1878

Small boy" Say, Mister I'll give yer ten cents for
the use of revolver for about three minutes want
TO commit 81 cide Father and mother are quarrelln
and fightin about half their time on my account and
if was out of the way guess thered be peace In
family"
Year: 1878

A full-bearded grandfather recently had his beard
shaved off showing clean face for the first time in
number of years. AT the dinner table his threeyear
old granddaughter noticed it. gazad long with
wondering eyes, and finally calculated, Grandfather
whose head you got on p?
Year: 1878

Floating ISldnd-Beat the whites of eggs till very
stiff then put in tablespoon of some acid jelly for
each white and beat it good while Boil rich
sweetened milk and put it in glass dish, and when
cold put the Jelly and eggs on top.
Year: 1878

successful, grandly triumphant. Very nearly
all the parishes Of the Fourth Congressional
District have been heard from, and so far
Wells has not been credited with hundred
votes altogether There still remain to be
heard from Vernon and Sabine, famous for
never casting q Republican vote, and Rapides
Unless this last parish affords Mad Wells
some relief, it is greatly to be feared that his
whole congressional vote will not exceed three
or f@ur hundred. Even his ackno W ledped
arithmetical talents would fail to count in
such q minority candidate. The Times Ia
mistaken, Hayes is the only representative of
the presidential steal that the Republicans
will have at Washington this year.
Year: 1878

pittsburg has just found out the inconve-
niences of Sunday law. Tho "City OF
Smoke has always claimed considerable
credit to itself for its morality and religion,
and particularly for Its strict observance OF
the Sabbath in the real old-iashioned Puritan
STYLE A claw and order" society, organized
there some tmo ago. took this Sunday matter
In hand and began tho prosecution of all sa-
loon keepers selling liquor on the Sabbath.
They succeeded in their purpose, and soon
every bar-room of Pittsburg was closed and
d Sunday drink an absolute impossihility.
But the bar-keepers were not disposed to
calmly stand this treatment, and resolved to
retaliate on the friends of Law and Order"
by making the Pittsburg Sabbatarian law as
unpopular and unpleasant as possible. They
organized on opposition claw and order So
ciety and set to work TO still further protect
the Sabbath. They prosecuted the BARRIERS
and shut up their shops Oh Sunday: they at
tackled the cigar stores and prevented Sunday
smoking: stopped all railroad travel on the
Sabbath and even put a veto ON Sunday
horse cars, thus rendering q trip to church
tiresome and almost impossible. The saloon
men have been triumphant, and the most re-
ligious Sabbatarians of Pittsburg now ask
for the repeal of its Sunday law.
Year: 1878

The New York Times chuekled triumphant


ly a few weeks ago over the probable election
Of old Mad Wells to Congress from the Fourth
District of this State. He was making, 1t had
learned from some unknown source, vigor-
Gus and energetic campaign with every
promise of success. The Times is not much
In love with the Old Returning Boarder and
has, in fact, more than once expressed its un-
complimentary opinion of that venerable ras-
cal; but it was extremely happy at the pros
pect of getting him in Congress. 10 have
this head devil Of the Presidential steal in q
Democratic Congress would be, 1t thought, a
thorn in the side of the Democracy, constant
annoyance and insult to that party. Like
most Republican ante-election predictions


however, this brilliant prospect has
faded away altogether. The National
Red Warrior ticket has not been
very successful in Louisiana; so far
as heard from, it has carried but three par


ashes out OF the fifty Weight of this State; but
IS compared With Wells. the National ticket is
Year: 1878

Heretofore it has been our custom, In com
mon with that of other journals Of this city,
TO publish on the first Of September an an
nual statement OF tho commerce OF New Or
loans. But when that day rolled around this
wear. the ravages of tho fever had become
fully developed. business was paralyzed, and
mail commun unication with our friends IN the
interior almost entirely stopped by quaran-
zine restrictions. Under these adverse cir
cumstanoes we deemed 1t expedent to post
pone the publication Of our annual statement
TO time when tho fever should have sub
sided and mail communication sufficiently
restored TO enable us to deliver the DEMO
GRAF to our numerous subscribers In the
country, as well Oh TO the correspondents OF
our advertising friends and patrons.


We take pleasure In announcing that 80
soon as the much longod-for black frost shall
make it's appearance and lower the crest OF
the knight with the yellow plume, we design
publishing a long, complete and exhaustive
report of the commerce Of Now Orleans from
September /, 1877, UP to date. On that occa-
sion we will issue ono Of the largest editions
ever sent forth from newspaper office In
Now Orleans, and wo specially direct the at
tention of our advertising friends to this on
nouncement.


II is well known fact that never before
were stocks Of produce aud merchandise at
tho South lin the interior) SO low as at the
present time Whom the cause of the inter
ruption of business Is removed there will
necessarily be great demand for goods of
all kinds. and New Orleans will naturally be
the great source Of supply-the commercial
Mecca to which tho country merchants and
planters will bend their steps for tho replen-
lshment of their empty stores and exhausted
larders


Then will he tho time for our mercantile
friends to avail themselves of the superior
advantages which the DEMOCRATS annual
statement and Its extraordinarily large edi-
tion will afford TO advertise their goods and
present their claims for patronage to pur-
chasers from the country.
Year: 1878

good times for all people. 1t would
give full employment to labor. 1t
would lessen crime. We ask all peo-
pie to try it. It wonld save us an i'm
mense amount OF money. 1t would
enable us to surround ourselves and
homes with most of the comforts and
some of the luxuries of life.


We never were SO prosperous as in
1865 to 1870, though our taxes were
very heavy. Why! Because the peo-
pie had plenty of money. Now give
us plenty of money with light taxes.
We thing it would be good to our
pockets.


Good times do not depend upon the
fact that greenbacks are at par with
gold, or convertible into gold. The
most prosperous times our countr y
ever saw was when gold was rareing
and carverting into the clouds. ,Busi.
ness was never more lively than when
gold was 2.8e. Why was this so! Be.
cause the business of the country was
not done with gold but with currency
and this sufficient in amount for all
the demands of trade. Gold took its
place like other metals where it nat
urally belongs, viz, as an article Of
commerce. What caused it to vaci.
late so greatly was simply an unjust
law which compelled few men to
transact their business with gold.
This built up the gold rooms and the
gold gambling operations of New
York city, and in which we are sorry
to say. the government took part.


Now give us back the currency,
only make it absolute money by max.
ing it the only legal tender for all
purposes. and let gold take care of
itself. just as beeswax, raw hides,
and other commodities have to do.
Year: 1878

10 Greenback Voters:


This being the last issue of our
paper that our subscribers will receive
before election, we wish to say few
plain words to them. We presume
they are converts to the principles we
advocate, and are like ourselves
especially anxious that these princi-
pies should be crystalized into laws
and become the practice of the land.
It then is very essential that you
should vote the Greenback ticket,
especially that part which nominates
members of congress and of our State
Legislature. Whether there be any
hopes of success or not, make your
vote count for the cause. In locations
where there has been any union
effected between the Greenbackers
and either of the other parties. carry
out that agreement in good faith.
For local officers where there is no
hopes of success for the Greenback
nominees. vote as you please. But
for the State, Congress and the legis
lature. let nothing hinder you from
voting your oaon ticket.


We should never forsake principle
for policy, yet the times are such that
any help we can get towards a better
financial 1oOialafi0u ohnu1d h0 crate
fully accepted; and the indications
are, that with friendly hand exten'
ded, the multitudes will come to u.s.
May we prove wothy Of their coming
Year: 1878

Soon after the enactment of the


Resumption Act by Congress. the Le-
gislatuye of tho State of New York


passed gold act, saying. that on and
after the first of January, 1879. the
taxes of that State can only be paid
lin gold. United States gold certifi-
Gates. or National Bank Notes which
are redeemable in gold" The first of
January draws near, and the people
begin to be in great quandary how
they can pay their taxes. None of
them have any gold, except perhaps a
few bankers in Wall street; nor have
they any gold certificates and as to
Gational Bank notes there are none
that are redeemable in gold. They are
all made redeemable in greenbacks.
Sherman says they cannot be com.
PEELED to redeem in any thing else. II
they have greenbacks they can go to
New York and present them in sums
of not less than fifty dollars to the
Assistant United States Treasurer,
and he will redeem them mot in gold
| unless he choose to. which is not like.
ly) but in silver coin. No law com


pells him to redeem in any thing else


But silver coin will not pay taxes the


law demands gold. So the probability


is that the people Fill be compelled


to pay heavy shayes to the gold shark.


before lhey can liQuidate their taxes


The Republican and Democratic par
ties were alike responsible for thi,
Year: 1878

II the objects of the finance legls'
lation of the past twelve years were
to paralyze the industries of the coun-
try, stop the growth OF material
wealth, and pauperize the people, the
three last administrations are entitled
to the credit of being the most saga
cious politicians the world has ever
produced. But if. on the other hand,
the objects were the promotion OF in
dustry, the increase of wealth, and
tho general welfare OF the people,
their incompetency is SO glaringly
demonstrated that no one of them
should ever again be invested with
legislative Or executive authority.
Year: 1878

We are informed on reliable
authority that the blatherskite who
has charge of the Steam mills at
Sauk Centre, makes it his daily
business to misrepresent and SANDER
Donnelly. He says that Donnelly
admitted to him that the greenback
erase was only to gain votes at this
election, and that after it was over
they would hear no more of the
greenbacks, and that Donnelly could
not tell him whether they were to be
redeemed in gold or not redeemed at
all, &C.. Now all such statements are
absolutely false, and this blatherskite
doubtless knows it rs well us any
body But for money he has sold him.
self to Satan who was a liar from tn,
beginning.
Year: 1878

The mex. number of this paper will
contain the plan of such bill as we
desire Congress to enact on the finance
question. We hope it will at least
clearly convey our ideas of the law we
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-One man was
killed and two we're probably fatally in
jured to-day by the fall of scaffold ON
which they were at work at the Forty
second street depot of the Third Avenue
Elevated Railroad.
Year: 1878

tattered sail and beats his way slowly
southwark amid clouds Of gnats,
sand-tlies and mosquitoes, which sting,
bite and torment him almost beyond
the powers of endurance.


To those smitten with the orange
fever, who fondly imagine that exis-
tence even during the hot season may
be made endurable and even pleasant
by swinging III hammock beneath
the spreading branches of some giant
live oak and quenchin2 their thirst
with the luscious juices of our tropical
fruits, we would say that with the ex-
ception Of the lemon which bears the
year round, all our fruits ripen during
the fall and winter. Oranges are no.
fit for use before October and are sell
dom shipped before December-shad-
docks, lines and grape fruit, about
the same time, and quavas somewhat
earlier. Nothing hourishes during
the rainy season, (June, July and
August except sugar-cane and sweet
potatoes. Gardening commences in
September, and January is the favor
ite month for planting corn.


Fishing during the rainy season is
good.


And if you can endure the heat
you may don your broad brimmed
palmetto hat, then swing your ak
over your shoulder, and if you
have keen eye a tramp of half a
day through the pine woods will prob
ably reward you with the discovery Of
a bee-treo continuing from thirty-fve
to forty pounds Of honey clear as
crystal and with comb white as snow.


Ycu can enjoy clam bake when
ever you choose.


AS for clcthing-well you don't
need anything here in the stock
region, except perhaps a paper collar
and pair of spurs.


Such is summer life in South Flor
ida. To the few who love novelty in
any form it offers superior attractions,
but the vast majority of practical
people who love good fare, good
health and good company, had better
stay at home. RAMBLER.


IManatee, Florida.
Year: 1878

Gentlemen of the jury" said a
Tuscarora lawyer, what kind Of
swearing has been done in this case +?
Here We have physician--a man
who, from hia high and noble calling,
should be regarded as one who would
scorn to stain his soul with perjury,
or be guilty Of uttering an untruth.
But what did lie testify gentlemen
l put the question to him plainly,
as YOU all heard, Where was this man
S s.abbod" And what was his reply
Cnblushingly and as cool as though
his features were cut in marble, he re.
Piled that tho man was stabbed about
an inch and a half to the left of the
medal line, and about an inch above
the diaphragm, and yet we have
proved by three witnesses that he was
stabbed just below the Young Ameri.
ca Hosting Works"
Year: 1878

A CONTEST is going on in Califor-
nia between the mining interests and
the agricultural interests of the State.
Application has been mad in Neva-
da county for an injunction to prevent
certain companies engaged in hy-
draulic mining in that county run
ming their waste, or tailings,' into the
Bear river, to the injury of the appli-
cants who are farming on the lands
watered by that stream. The hy-
draulic mining interests are very great
in the State, and the ground Of usage
and priority Of custom has been des-
troyed, ard there is every prospect
that the suit will very much unsettle
mining enterprise until some other
practicable way Of disposing of waste
is found.
Year: 1878

An old tanner of wild beasts says: As
for the smell of blood maddening them,
know there is popular notion to that
effect, but it is not true. l have had
occasion enough to know, when II was
nv blood they smelt. Lions and tigers
raised in captivity are more dangerous
than those that are well broken when
taken wild full grown. When a cub
born in cage grows up he will become
imprudent, saucy, aggressive, and is too
familiar with men to be easily cowed.
But the wild beast never forgets when
he has been once well whipped, and
though his instincts will still prompt to
attack, he viii have his doubts about
the results of his getting into fight.
You may handle a young lion for years,
and it will be harmless as Newfound-
laud dog, until suddenly, without any
apparent reason, all its ferocity will be
developed.
Year: 1878

REPEATING watches have gone out of
fashion of late years, partly, perhaps,
because they were cumbrous; yet they
need not be so. One presented to
George III, was smaller than silver
dime, and weighed only dwt. and p
grs. A repeater is very convenient.
Striking light to see the time often
arouses a person so much that he can
not get to sleep again, while he can fall
asleep again in five seconds after just
pressing a spring and hearing so many
throbs in his hand.
Year: 1878

A LADY spent the best part Of week
in registry Office in London, enduring
n variety of snubbing from women,
who turned up their noses at her ample
wages and her moderate work. At last
she was taken pity upon by person who
consented to preside over her kitchen.
"You live on a terrace, ma'amT p
said Mrs. Cookie, Modified. 81 have
refused six hexcellent situations because
street and place sound so vulgar
for ones address. But terrace will
look pretty at the top of my letters"
Year: 1878

A COMMITTEE has been lately assembled
at the Typographical department of the
German army, in Berlin, to
arrange for the publication of a
uniform military map of the whole of
the German empire. Among other al
terations it is proposed to take some
point to be fixed in the observatory at
Berlin as the zero, to which all the
vertical measurements on the map are
to be referred, instead of the sea level of
the Baltic. Last year the eastern half
of Schleswig- -Holstein and part of Meek
lenburg were surveyed. This year the
western half of Schleswig- Holstein,
Hamburg, and apart of Hanover will
be completed; and in 1879 Alsace-Lor-
raine will be begun. The staff of the
typographical department having been
increased, the work will now proceed at
the rate of two hundred German square
miles year.
Year: 1878

the funeral last fall. The lot in which
Governor Morton now lies is at the head of
the soldiers graves, few feet from the
flagstaff, and in full view from one of the
principal avenues leading into the grounds.
Year: 1878

THE advancing light of science is
rapidly clearing up the dark mysteries
that have so long dwarfed reason and
clogged the mind with perplexing
doubts. AS soon as the savants came
face to face with the startling fact that
the bones of the female contain much
larger percentage of phosphorus than
can be found in the framework of the
male, the world no longer scratched its
head and marveled that all women
should be natural match-makers.-
Breakfast Table.
Year: 1878

THE POPE has at last issued his en-
cyclical. He points out that it is wrong
for society to combat the Church, and
the Roman Pontifcate, especially. Re-
garding the latter's Civil Principality,
which is a guarantee of its liberty and
independence, the Pope renews and con-
firms the protest of Plus TX against the
occupation of this civil principality Of
the Church. His Holiness is confident
that with the aid Of God and the zeal of
the pastors, society will finally return to
the homage it owes the Church. The
encyclical is generally moderate, and
full Of expressions of affection toward
society.
Year: 1878

CoMMUNIsM.-In theory Communism
is in conflict with the laws of our being.
Were it put in practice, it would increase
rather than diminish the evils of which
its advocates complain, and create others
of graver import. AS compared with the
present order of things, it would diminish
production, and distribute what would be
produced unjustly. Says Herbert Spen-
Ger; "A desire for property is one of the
elements of our nature" and :'the right
of private property harmonizes with the
human constitution as divinely ordain-
ed" By denying this right and holding
the produce Of labor as common stock,
Communism takes away one Of the
strongest motives Of human effort. To
labor energetically the iaborer must be
sure Of receiving the fruits OF his indust-
ry in form which he can appropriate
as his own. The Commurlstic idea of
equality is also wholly at variance with
the principles or which labor, to work
OlOStlNClJS iluSI Vo VI SuiilItu anu ull lGCI-
ed. 1t is, moreover at variance with the
principles of equitable distribution.
There is nothing more manifest in the
constitution and course of nature than
the law Of diversitication. In the animal
and vegetable kingdoms there have been
found no two organisms exactly alike. OF
the millions of human beings, the featur-
es Of each one are so unlike the features
of all the others as to be distirgui.h-
able; and observation and experience
prove sim liar diversity to exist in
their mental organizations and aptitudes.
Now to assign to the service of every one
an equal value, and allot to every one an
equal share of the produce of labor. would
be manifestly unjust; and, as Herbert
Spencer says, "tO ascertain the respective
amount Of help given by different kinds
of mental and bod lily laborers toward
procuring the general stock Of the neces-
saries of life is an utter imposs bility.
We have no means of making such a di-
vision save that afforded by the law of
supply and demand" Communism has
no root in the nature Of things. 1t is n
parasite on the body polite, and it is for
the interest of every citizen, be ne labor
er or capitalist, to exterminate it.-At.
idntic Monthly.
Year: 1878

How TO BECOME GIDDY.-A true
theory of the cause of giddyness ought to
explain the following extreme experience,
which deserves record in print. The
method was first told me by friend; |
once tried it myself In mtigated form,
and will assuredly not repeat the expert
ment, and l persuaded a philosophical
friend to try it also, with much the same
result. Stand in the middle Of a soft field
where you can't hurt yourselfby tumbling
on the ground or against anything avoid
having your best clothes on, and secure
appreciative spectators. Then put both
hands one above the other on the top of
your umbrella or walking stick, and bend
down until your forehead rests on the
back of your hands. Thus your legs will
be vertical, your body will be more or less
horizontal. and the umbrella will be
vertical. Shut your eyes. Then get a
friend, by touching your hips, so to guide
YOU that you shall circle three times, with
a sidelong gait, round the vertical UNI
brells as an axis. Finally, raise your
head quickly and try to walk straight as
though nothing particular had happened.
What will occur is frightful gIddiness
and feeling of sickness sense OF the
ground rising up tumutuousy on aIl
sides a wild rush to save yourself, and
headlong tumble.-FTOm NOtHfe.