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Year: 1879

How A RICH MAN Cor HIS WILL
CHEAPLY.-A millionaire who lived in the
vicinity of this city, as he felt his lass days
drawing nigh, summoned distinguished
neighbor and lawyer, who since has occu-
pied one Of the highest positions in the gift
of representatives of the people, to prepare
a last will and testament. When the will
was made the man said 81 propose to
make you my executor, and I shall require
no bond from you. Write that, ALSO"
The ex-judge complied, after thanking his
client, and promised to execute the will to
the best of his ability. g What is your bill
for drawing up my will9" asked the mil
lionaire. "Oh, under the circumstances,
of course shall charge you nothing" was
the answer. "But," said the other, "that
is not my way of doing business. Make
out and receipt bill for your services, and
/ will pay you now." Well, since you
insist. will make out a bill for nominal
sum-say $25." And this member, who
seldom draws breath without charging some
one for the respiration, made out and re-
ceipJed for $25 bill which under ordinary
circumstances would have been $500. The
good man died and was buried. When the
will was read it was found that the name of
his son had been inserted in place of that of
the distinguished lawyer. The ruling pas
sion was strong in death. The man who
knew how TO accumulate wealth understood
the value of tightly-drawn will, and the
difference between S25 and $500. He had
merely copied the words ia the order they
were written by his legal friend, and thus
had obtained an irrefragable viii at small
cost, and an executor of his own choosing.
Cincinnati Gazette.
Year: 1879

The following dispatch, received here from Mr. M or
ton explains itself:


SAN FRANCISCO, March 18th.


M. NORTON, Los Angeles: Utter and complete demor-
alzation of the Market in consequence Of the failure Of
Messrs Godchaux Bros and several of the largest retail
houses in the city, Sell balance Of bankrupt stock at any
sacrifice in order make for immense quantity
of goods bought here prices Unprecedented in the his
tory of trade TSipned1 M. NORTON.


In obedience the above instructions, will sell the
balance of the Great Bankrupt Stock Greater Sachce
than ever, as must make room for the NEW SlOCk
Just arrived and which comprises the newest and latest
styles m all lines of goods purchased in San Francisco and
through agents in New York such prices as will en-
able us to sell way below former figures.


We ask only that intending purchasers of DRY GOODS,
FANCY GooDs HOSIERY CLOTHING, Doors AND SHoEs AND
FURNISHING GooDs into whose hands this paper comes
should patiently read this column and then make it their
business to call and examine the goods advertised.


1t is useless to give Price Lists which often look very
enticing paper but which, examination OF the goods
advertised prove to be dear at any price.


@EeWe can only say more COME AND SEE
U.S. WE PROMISE TO SURPRISE YOU
Year: 1879


THE LAST WITNESS FOR THE Defence IN HE
SMITH CAsE-ATTEMPTs TO SHOW THAT BIN
NETT WAS NOT IN JERSEY CITY WHEN OFFICER
SMITH WAS KIIIFp-BENYETT ADMITS HIS IN
T,.t,cy WITH MRS. sMITH-A CONFLICT Be
TWEEN THE LAWYERS.


The evidence for tho defence in the Smith murder
trial was closed yesterday after long examination
of Covert d. Bennett, one of the prisoners. lie adj
mitted a criminal intimacy between himself anu
Mrs Smith, who is accused with him of the murder
Of her husband. He asserted that he was III VIII
iamsburg at the time of the murder and that lie
had no part in the crime. The prosecution tired 10
compel one of the counsel for the defence to TESTIFY
about statements made to him.
Year: 1879

MALICIOUS OPPRESSION, PARTIAIIrY AND FRAUD


CHARGED AGAINST AN OIL INSPECTOR
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Feb. 4, 1879.


A good deal Of excitement prevailed here to-day in
political and official circles in consequence Of the
arrest late last night by detectives of Harrison Alta
way, State Coal Oil Inspector, just he was
boarding railroad train to leave the city. The
affair was quite mysterioualy conducted. No
warrant was served Attaway. the de-
tectivcs saying they received their orders
from the foreman Of the Grand Jury. The arrest
has been deemed very arbitrary proceeding. To-
day Attaway was brought before Judge Laughlin. Of
the Criminal Court, on bench warrant and placed
under 81 900 bonds to answer Indictment Clifford
Able, chief clerk. and deputy Of Attaway.
was also arrested to-day bench
warrant and put under bonds for will
fully refusing to produce the books OF
the Coal Oil Inspectors office before the Grand
Jury No indictment has yet been presented against
Attavay. but there seems to be no doubt that one
will be returned in day two and that the charge
referring TO malicious oppression, partiality in
office and fraud In this case alleged fraud
will be the principal charge, based upon testimony
which is sd to have been given before the Grand Jury
by wholesale petroleum oil dealers that for long time
past the oil sold by them to retailers in the city and
country fallen short of the official gauge from
two to four gallons per barrel


It is also expected that Indictment OF a similar
nature will be found against Deputy Able.
Year: 1879

The occupants of the rear tenement house No. 412
East Twelfth street startled last night by hear


ing peculiar noise in the apartments rented by
Michael O'Ncll. in the back part of the first floor
of the building immediately after smoke was dis
covered issuing from the rooms. John Reilly, who
happened to be passing through the hallway. broke
open the door and found Mrs. Ellen O'Neil
lying near the stove with her clothing fire.
He procured pail. filled it with water, and threw
its contents the unfortunate woman. An am
buance was sent for but when Dr. Ger
thals, of Bellevue Hospital. answered the sum-
mons Mrs. O'Neil was found to be dead.
Some time after the accident took place ONeil was
found asleep in one of the inner rooms. When ap-
prised of his wifes death he became frantic, and
he was somewhat under the influence Of liquor
Officer Leonard OF the Seventeenth precinct arrested
him on a charge of intoxication. His daughter says
that but few minutes before the accident she left
Her father was sound asleep in bed in all adjoining
Year: 1879

An inquest was held by Coroner Simms yesterday
afternoon on the body of James S. Ross, who com.
mtted suicide by hanging himself ut his residence.
No. 4s3 willoughby avenue. Brooklyn. It appeared
on the inquest that the deceased who forty eight
years age for several years engaged in the dry
goods business but failed several months ago. Since
then he had become melancholy and Respondent be-
cause Of his inability to contribute to the support of
his family When he returned to hts house on Mon
day night he appeared to be under the influence Of
liquor, and remained seated in the kitchen until a
quarter past twelve O'Clock, when he went up to his
bedroom. He did not remain there long. He got
ND and went down stairs to the dining room. His
wife, becoming uneasy at his prolonged absence,
went in search of him and found him hanging by
the neck from n rope. the end Of which he had
fastened the top of the door. With the assist
ance of her Mrs Ross lowered the body of her
husband, who was lifcess when she discovered him.
The Coroner's jury found that deceased committed
suicide while suffering from temporary alteration Of
mind.
Year: 1879

TEE other day man who had Just
signed his first naturalization papers
with his X. frankly admitted TO the clerk
Of the Court. that the American system
OF public schools was q hopeless failure.
Year: 1879

Now that Congress has placed it.
self on record in favcr of the doc
trine that America is not to be
inundated by Mongolian hordes
from Asia, it is perhaps not amiss
to recall the touching cartoon which
appeared in Harpers Weekly,
about two years ago, from the facile
pen of Mast, depicting the common
school of the future. In that
charming pictorial conception the
Caucasian. Celestial and African
school boys were depicted on bench.
es side by side and commingled
This happy concelt was intended as
an allegorical representation of the
Republican beau ideal. However
this notion might commend itself
TO the transcendentalists of Boston
1T cannot be expected to evoke q
remarkable degree of enthusiasm
among the people OF the Pacific
Coast.
Year: 1879

Now that MR. TILDEN is uracti-

 cally dead as candidate for tbe

 Presidency, since MR. BAYARD's

 return from Europe he is looming

 up prominently as a possible Demor

 cra.ic candidate in 1880, but while he wo i'd make fair President, no doubt, being a man of fair ability,

 he would be an manageable can

 didate for that party They must have a man who can say things which may be interpreted in several ways to become available in the race for success. They must have an

 cquivocal platform, and doubtful candidate as to his doctrines and sentiments he must be either "hard money or "soGt money" as occa- sion may require. This MR. BAY ARD will not do, even to secure the highest prize within the reach of American citizenship = the Presi- dcncy. If he is the conscientious man he is represented to be, his nomina- ton would require square, honest and sound platform with clearly enunciated and definite political creed. Such platform would not suit the great body of that party. It would be piece of political car pentry which they have not seen for twenty five years, and we don't believe their party mechanics are capable of constructing one, or that their people would accept the job at their hands if they did succeed in the novel attempt.
Year: 1879

The commission appointed by the Government to investigate the mas sScrc at the White river agency, have been in session. for some time. To his already established reputalieR for treachery may now be added that of supcrlative lying. In spite of the usual form of the "oath" ad- ministered to these scoun1relly red skins they have utterly refused to reveal the authors of that bloody at tack. According to these immac- ulate pets of eastern humanitarians not a man in all the tribe had any thing to do with the murder at all. Ifthey may be believed there has been no such thing as a massacre whatever. CHIEF DOUGLASS. who was there the whole of that bloody day, says he not only did not know who did it, but that he did not even know of the massacre until it was all ended, and when GENERAL ADAMS complained to OURAY that the commission could not obtain the truth that noble savage" showed his knowledge of jurisprudence by declaring there was "no law that could require a man to criminate himself" Granted, but such legal knowledge is entirely unbecoming a savage" In other words, the term savage" is no longer applicable to a set of cut throats who can meas ure their horrible crimes by as inst a standard as white cut-throats Cut-throats they are, and they should be treated as such. Put every one of them on his individual good behavior. Give each 160 acres of land if he wants it, and make him respect the rights of the white man, and at the same time protect him in his rights as an in- dividual. Simply treat him as a white scoundrel and liar is treated, if necessary, to a rope,
Year: 1879

When that idiot, Denis Kearney, undertook, the other night, to break up public meeting or leave it a "corpse, he found that he was un- able to do the one and not quite willing to do the other. When the pol ce arrested him he was no more valiant than ordinary blaokguards. but went along with the officer as meekly as f he had never dreamed of resistance.
Year: 1879

The Irish agitation is gaining ground. From present indications it would seem that the oppressive policy being pursued by Englaudis bat adding fuel to what may prove Q dangerous RalEc,
Year: 1879

The storm onkRc great lekes dur ing the past few days have been among the most severe for years. Many vessels have been lost and many persons drowned. The lakes are now beginning to be feared as much as the ocean.
Year: 1879

A large proportion of the Amercan people are to-day dying from the effects Uf Dyspepsia or disordered liver. Tine result Of these diseases upon the masses of intelligent and valuable people is most alarming, making life actually q burden instead of pleasant existence of enjoyment and usefulness as it ought to he. There is no good reason for this, if you will only throw aside prejudice and skepticlsm, take the advice of drug gists and your friends, and try one bottle of Greens August Flower. Your speedy relief Is certain, Millions of bottles of this medicine have been given away to try its virtues, with satistac- tory results in every case. You can buy a sample bottle for 10 cents to try. three doses will relieve tile worst case. Positively sold by all Druggists on the Western Continent. For sale by J. NJ. Harkey & Bro.
Year: 1879

We are thoroughly ih earnest in the desire to get all our people to do ulore reading and thinking for themselves. It is the only way in which the masses can protect themselves from imposi- tons, from deceptions and from hum bugs! It is the only way in which they can retain and secure their liber- tics ito read and think for themselves. But what, says one, would you have us read? We would have you read FIRST, YOUR OWN HOME PAPER. It is your home paper that feels for your interests, and that furnishes you such iuforma- tion as most intimately effects your in- terests. But, says our ordinary fault finder, you don't give us reading matter enough. Don't we? Well, we give you far more than you can get ou. of any book which costs you the same sum of money. We give you far more than we could possibly give you if all men supported the press just as you do. But we are not going to find fault, for we have had a very good support in dear old Pope county. We are now going to make you an offer to meet this objection of not enough reading. IL is this:

 To every man or woman who will send Us his or her name with the price of our paper in cash, (S1.50) within the next Sixty Days, we will send our paper one year, and in addition, will send free of all cost, for twelve months, an excellent monthly paper called the Farmers Review, published at Chicago, Illinois.

 The Review Is a hanesomely printed. 16-page folio, and has all the depart ments which any first class agricultural journal ought to have, all edited ably and industriously. The article extract ed from it and reproduced in to-day's DEMOCRAT is q specimen of the kind of literature you will get from it. Besides it gives full prices current and market reviews.

 Re member this offer is for only 60 days, and you should send your names at once for this offer.

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Year: 1879

THE Commissioners appointed oy the
Legislature to construct the "Cooi spring
Reservoir" last night sent commuh'-
cation to the City Council formally turh-
ilc the reservoir over to the CITY a'u
terminating their powers as Commission
.en. The attempts of the Republicans
vho controlled the City Council to build
this rese .voir we're remarkable ins'ances
of incapacity on the part OF some
gentlemen who claimed to be above the
average Of their fellow citizens ana
especially Of those who were opposed to
them in politics. No JOB in the city, II
We except the Eighth street basin, was
ever 10 botched, and in none was there


ever % much money wasted. The RUNS


Of the failure of these men remain as


monument of their utter incapacty uh-


iii this day and mons can walk round


the now beautiful and complete reser-


vo.r without being reminded OF their


reckless mismanagement and squander-


ing Of money to hold themsei ves in oillce


and dispose Of the funds gathered from


the taxation OF our people. We have


heard this waste computed as high as


one hundred thousand dollars, principal
and interest. The Eighth street basin


was built by the same class OF men; the


same political party and although
great amount of jobbery was used, it ha'
not been in use month until the bot


tom was found to be leaking and for more
i than q whole yer it would not hole
water and therefore was useless, and The
bottom had to be completely renewed
This should have served as warning to
the men who undertook to build tL'


"Cool Spring ReseIvoir;' but it did not
To show this incapacity it is onl,


necessary TO say that the Commissioners


who took it in hand found it in bat
condition every way, and much worl
that had been done had to be done over
4 They were all plain business men with
II Out any eApciieiCe III puiiuiilS ''o'i
i voirs. The work was more difficult II
n give out by contract than new work
n But they resolved to complete it in thi
X way by giving timely notice by adver


tisements and thus bring competi or
\ together. They followed this pohc
. carefully taking ample security for til
a completion of the work in proper maj


ner, and the result of their labo's


vritnaaaaa in a --,nst a callart rosnrvoi
y the future. There Is no necessi t;
"A saying more than that the Commi ssiol


ers did their duty. The building
N water rs,rvoi have always been I'll
4 most simple of engineering work, es
81 pecially as in this case on decivit
n where nearly the whole of two sides {
" square were formed by the high eroun
II and very little more than triangle ha


to be embarked. Had the Commission
q ers been entrusted with the work at fir.
Il We believe the city would have been ,
Y least one hundred thousand dollars be
y ter off to-day.
Year: 1879

The yellow hair which o number OF
actresses and many women off the stage
effect seems to be growing more and
more common. 1t is not pleasant to
see, however, because it is in almost ev-
cry instance artificial, the result of dye
ing, and artifciality is never agreeable
for any length of time. Actresses have
professional reasons--perhaps mistaken
ones-for dyeing their hair; but other
women have no excuse for it. They
imagine, of course, that it adds to their
beauty, or modiies their homeliness,
which it certainly does not. The effect,
indeed, is quite the contrary. Nature
is very likely to understand the true
principles of art. Although she may
not make all women handsome, she gen
erally furnishes them with complexion,
eyes, and hair to match. And when
they bleach their hair they blunder @s-
thetically, wronging nature and them
selves at the same time. The peculiar
hue of the hair which is now the fash
ion with certain class is almost always
unbecoming, because it is unnatural. 1t
advertise5 and emphasizes its artifciali-
tv, and conveys an unfavOraOle impress
sion of the person who adopts it. No
woman in civilization colors her hair
blue, her nose red, her cheeks green, or
her teeth black. But, if she did, she
would be acting very much like the
woman who dyes her hair yellow-a
dead, fictitious, repellant hue. Yellow
hair is apt to give an unprepossessing
notion of the wearer. The man or wom-
an of taste and good sense who sees it
associates it with painted eyebrows,
painted cheeks, and other false things,
spiritual not less than material. If these
hair-dyers knew what men of the world
mean by saying, "She is the sort of
woman who bleaches her hair" they
would think twice before they did it.
Ne1O York Times.
Year: 1879

it. This kind of training is as beneficial
intellectually as any training possibly
can be, the intellect, the Will, the JldS-
ment. are all called into action and the
consciousness of moral responsibility is
ouickened. Those girls who are thus
ballasted with duties for which they are
held responsible enjoy with double zest
the hours OF recreation, and insensibly
become adjusted to the burdens which
every thinking woman must bear on her
shoulders or on her heart, and often on
both. The girl who can with skill and
readiness perform all the offices neces-
sary in the proper care of and provision
for her own personal necessities as to
cleanliness, sewing, mending, food and
habitation, need not lack for home, or
for comfort and friends. And it would
seem that the ordinary dictates of com
mon sense would suggest to parents and
guardians that the education of q child
that leaves practical knowledge OF these
duties out of the count is radically and
fundamentally deficient.


The effort that is making for the in-
PRODUCTION of dresSmaking into the New
York City schools deserves all en-
couragement. Until the dwellers in ten
ement houses know how to take care OF
themselves and do for themselves ac-
cording TO laws and principles accepted
as hygienic and sound, landlords and
charitable institutions can never insure
the reforms that are so desirable and
lust now so much talked about. The
Great Teacher established His divine
mission as much on what he did for the
bodies as for the souls of men, and it is
fitting that the temple of the soul should
be made worthy to be the residence OF
its immortal tenant.-Ne1O York Tribune
Year: 1879

which the poor animal died. Then came
casts or men and women. Some had
evidently did peacefully, while in other
instances the bent form and contorted
limbs bespoke a death of fearful agony.
Then an ideal sketch of the scene in
Pompeii, with the people fleeing through
the streets, was given, and in another slide
was sho"n some OF the genuine volcanic
dust, swept up from window sill in
Naples after the eruption OF 1872. By
an ingenious device the lecturer showed
a mud shower on the screen.


The last slide was picture of the


NAPLES VASE


Found in Pompeil in one of the tombs,
tits beautiful thing sculptured in re-
lief with the vines Of the Lachryme
Christi which grew in profussion over all
the plains of Pompeli. Let us, said the
lecturer, fill the glass with its wine, and
across the abyss of ages, salute the men
of that old Roman world men whose
deeds are imagined on Pompeii's risen
walls and whose voices seem to be still
speaking in her silent courts and empty
streets, saying as the burden of heir
speech, "even thus all worldly glory
passes away"
Year: 1879

The effect of the importation of Ameri-
can cattle into England, says The Neu
York Times, has been serious on Irish cat
tie trade. For number of years past
the cattle and provision business has been.
outside of the province of Ulster, the onlv
one of any magnitude in the country
Thousands OF immigrants have come to
the United States because the owners of
the farms upon which they lived in Ire
land wished to turn them into cattle pas
lures as being the most profitable use tC
which they could put their land. But
the statistics showing the falling off in
the number of cattle shipped from the
port of Dublin can be taken as a basis OF
the decline all over the island return to
the abandoned custom of tenant-farmino
may be looked for in numberless in.
stances. In 1875 there was exported
from Dublin 22S,72S cattle, 1854 calves,
243,616 sheep, and 145,1 pigs; while in
1878 there were only 136,44S cattle, 147
calves, 19O,502 sheep and 1864 pigs
sent out, showing falling off in valua-
ton at least Of not less than 25 per cent.
1t IS said that for time the Irish cattle.
dealers were perfectly bewildered by the
change in their occupation which Ameri
can competition brought about, but that
now they have settled down to an accept
ance of the situation, and will endeavo1
to retain their hold on the English mark


ct by raising higher grade Of stock than
1t is possible 10 obtain from this country
This will no doubt enable them to keen
a certain class of consumers who are will
ing to pay high prices for superior quail
ties of meat; but trade carried on under
these conditions cannot be an extensive
one, as low price rather than finest quail
ty is the object sought for by the great
mass OF meat purchasers. For this rea-
son the present year will probably witness
decline in amount of expectation fully
equal to that of either one of the past
two years. As set off to this, it may be
said that the expectation of Irish whiskies
is constantly on the increase.