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Year: 1879

proposal to increase the mposts on coffee ana
petroleum has been abandoned ana the Assembly has
empowered the Federal Council to raise higher
duties than proposed on tobacco and alcoholic
liquors, such duties to take effect in one year.
Year: 1879

The Bird Island Post, in a lengthy
editorial discussing the removal Of
the county seat of Renville Co. from
Beaver Falls to that point, has this
paragraphs;


Redwood Falls, located in an ad
joining county, reaching for wealth
that should not be hers, opposes Wig
orously the removal of the county
seat, her people in their sagacity see
ing plainly that its failure will result
in retarding the growth Of our bust
ness points, and enable her to con-
troll a large portion of our trade and
add to her prosperity, and that of
her county, at our expense.


This is news indeed. What kind
of an hallucination are you laboring
under brother Moran? Let us as
sure you the citizens of Redwood
Falls don't care two straws about
where your county seat is located.
They are not in the habit of inter
fering in the affairs of their neigh
bors. There is not any foundation
whatever for the statement of the
Post. While our business men are
always glad to trade with the peo-
pie of Renville Co. and try to give
them their moneys worth when they
deal with them, they have taken no
sides on this question and we don't be.
lieve there is one man in ten here re.
members that the Legislature passed
an act relative to this matter. Will
the Post present this true state Of
facts to its readers.
Year: 1879

y very important decision Of the
supreme court of Minnesota was re-
ndered y few days ago. 1t is III sub
stance that, when the. amount Of a
tax judgement is only expressed IN
numerals, without indicating what
they represent, and with no reference
in and of the omission it is void for
uncertainty; and that descriptions in
delinquent tax list must be spelled
out in full instead of being abbrevi-
ated. 1t is logical conclusion that
the sales of all property under such
defective descriptions are void-a
proposition that will make those
whose real estate has been sold at
TAX sales as we'll as those who have
purchased it, at once inquire if all
the requirements of law have been
complied with.
Year: 1879

The elections on Tuesday in Ohio
and Iowa were glorious Republican
victories. They sound notes of
warning to the rebel Brigadiers in
tie present Congress that they
would do well to heed. Following
the Republican success in Maine
and California, with such unlocked
FOR Republican gains, it is fair con-
clusion that New York, Pennsylvan-
III and Minnesota will eheerfully
unite in doing their part to present
as united Northern front as when
armed treason sought to destroy the
government
Year: 1879

IL lSa well established fact that the
men who run what they claim to be
tn peoples party, or what might
more properly be termed the peoples
humbug, are just as full of tricks
and schemes as they average poll
tician. To Republicans they are re-
publ;cans and the try to win that
element in the county to them by
stories Of needed reforms, while to
Democrats they are more honest
with promises and nominations for
office, for these leaders are generally
democrats who wish to defeat the
Republican state and county ticket
by fair or foul means. The proceed
ings of last Fridays caucus at Red
wood Falls disclosed part of the
movements of the Ring here, while
their manipulatidns were plain to all
men at Lamberton, the next day.
Sheriff Whitemore was not on the
Ring slate for Sheriff for some rea-
son or other, and his overwhelming
victory made his opponents groan as
they tried to explain how they had
been beaten by the "whisky ring" as
they, in their wrath, termed it. Not
satisfied with this defeat they pur-
sued him to Lamberton, and there
solemnly stated that Whitemore had
not elected single delegate from
Redwood Falls. At one time they
had him beaten, but like Sheridan.
when he was "twenty miles away,
the gallant Sheriff, with a full
knowledge of the men he had to con-
tent with, fastened to the scene of
action, organized his friends and
second time slaughtered the Ring.
This clique was more successful in
nominating the others who were Sc
lected by it during fair week-when
the managers had quiet little eau
Gus of the own to which the dear
people were not invited-but had
the discovery of this set up job been
made in time or had there been
more men like Whitemore there, it
could not have done so. The ticket
nominated by the Republicans on
the End inst. was formed after care
full and serious consideration on the
part of men from all parts of the
county who had the best interests of
the tax payers at theart-the one NOM
mated at Lamberton, was, with one
exception, ticket previously deci-
ded upon by the bosses of the self
styled peoples party whose sole aim
and end were to reward a few fav-
orites.


We ask our readers to compare
the two tickets before them and de-
termine for themselves in what re-
spect any man nominated by the op-
position convention is better quail
fed to hold office than the Republi-
can candidates. Don't be deceived





by the promises Of the leaders of the
peoples party, for their recent con-
duct will not afford you any reasons
bic ground for hope of reform in that
direction.
Year: 1879




The steamship England sailed from
Liverpool on the 18th inst, and reach
cd the port Of New York Tuesday, af-
ter rough passage. When long
shoreman descended into the fore hold,
which was slowed full Of barrels, pack
ed so closely as to leave only space Of
about three feet between them and the
deck, he heard talking, and suddenly
touched something that his lantern
showed to be q human body. Soon af-
terward the safers dragged to the light
a man, still alive and conscious, but so
reduced by starvation that he was only
living skeleton, with skin like shriv-
elled parchment drawn over his bones.
The ships physician tried to force
nourishment down the stowaway's
throat, bu. he was too far gone, and
within half an hour he died. 1t was
evident that he was foreigner, and
when he was first taken on the deck an
Austrian girl from among the steerage
passenger succeeded in understanding
few words that he WAS able to mur-
muir. He begged for water, said that
he had tasted neither food nor drink
since the day the ship sailed, and that
his name was Harry" That was all
he was able to say. His body was sent
to the morgue. In the narrow space
in which the stowaway had squeezed
himself just before the steamship sail
ed, he could only lie down or crawl
around over the heads Of the barrels;
but could notstand nor could he sit up
right. His clothing showed that in his
terrible hunger he had gnawed it, as
he had also gnawed bits Of wood from
the barrels.
Year: 1879

New YORK, January l3.-Madame
Anderson concluded the task Ol walk
ing 200 quarter miles in As many quar-
ter hours tonight. Considerable money
is said to have changed hands on the re-
suit. She commenced the hast quarter
mile at lO:45, and made it in 2:3l3.
During te last four quarters she was the
recipient OF several presents. The
quarter before the hst she stepped
ON the stand and said she hoped
that they would keep quiet so
that she might accomplish the feat
without interference. She appeared
greatly exhausted after the last quarter
Oi mile had been accomplished, and
was taken to her physician, where she
will be under treatment Tor a week or
two. At first she will not be allowed to
sleep more than fifteen minutes at
time, as it is said she would probably
never wake ii not disturbed. In day
or two she will De allowed to sleep two
hours at time, and the time oi rest
will he gradually increased until she
can take all the sleep she desires with
out fear Of injury.
Year: 1879

not true, as everybody knows. When the


people had been shown the rascality of the


Tweed Ring they swept that combination


of powerful and corrupt men from power


at once. But if they had had simple


charter making the Mayor responsible they


would have known how to prevent the for
nation of such ring. The difficulty with
our present system of boards and COM
missions is that it prevents even decent
and reputable men from giving us honest
and efficient government. What can be
more scandalous than to see the Police
Board, composed of two of each party,
appointed by the Mayor and Governor. and
responsible to nobody, quarrelling over the
appointment of inspectors of election, not
on the ground that bad men are presented
to them, but because each party waits to
see If it can get bargain out of one faction
of the other by which the inspectors shall be
used for partisan purposes? Mayor Cooper
would not dare to do or to tolerate such a
thing if he were responsible it would dis
grace him. But it is done by board-a
commission. If he is asked he will say he
has no power over them. II they are asked
each will lay the blame on the other. and
so the game goes.
Year: 1879

AS the HERALD to-day contains nine
pages of advertisements we are forced to
issue quintuple sheet in order to make
room for the news. In q quintuple HERALD
there is the equivalent OF five ordinary four
page newspaper sheets, or twenty pages.
With paper of this size we have eleven
pages left on which to give the news OF the
day, and while advertisers gre thus accom-
modated the public is supplied with an
abundant record of current events in
the city and by the seaside, at
the springs and in short oil over the
country and at the other side Of the ocean.
Our recent show of crowded advertising
columns is good sign for business in the
city and general activity in the commercial
world, and for such paper as we print to-
day to come in at the close Of August is an
evidence of good start for fall trade. 1t
is also an evidence that the heads of adver-
tisers are level as usual, and that they
know how to get at the public and put their
money where it will do most good.
Year: 1879




On Wednesday evening a story imputing the most
scandalous misconduct to tho Rev. Joseph p. Thomp
son, wcll known American Clergyman. now nearly
or quite threescore years OF agc who has long ro-
sided in Berlin, offered for salo in the ofce Of
the World having bcen received by telegraph from
Chicago. in which city II had been that morning
published by the Chicago Times. II declined by
us for several In the first place. 1t did not
seem to us story likely to be true. In the second
place. II story ruinously duplicating tho char
acter OF n woman. yot profcsscdly told to reporter
for publication in q nowspapcr by the woman's hus-
band; and IL is opinion, which we are not
likely TO change, that husbands who think they
have reason to believe themselves injured
by their wives have sufficiently engaged tho attcn.
ton of tho American press during years past.
Society may be held together. perhaps. either by .
doctrine and discipline OF legal divorce by doc
trine aud discipline OF loaded shotguns fired with
intent to kill. but we doubt whether society be
held together by doctrine and discipline Of news
paper controversies between husbands and wives as
TO their respective behavior in the conjuga relation
In the third place. true false, the story did not
suit us as an article Of merchandise There is q
good deal of ne work wasted in and out Of the press
upon the mission OF journalism. But ss
q matter OF fact It appears to us that
most newspapers are conducted like most hotels
and most railways. upon the simple busi-
ness principle of supplying certain number of Gus
TONERS with something which they wish to buy.
Year: 1879

Our esteemed contemporary, the World,
is, We are glad to see, falling into line in
the matter OF the exclusion from newspaper
columns Of what it rightly calls ''social
garbage" We reprint in another column
an article in which the World speaks in the
proper spirit of the wrong of publishing
private scandals. We agree with our con-
temporary that the vulgar itch for noto-
riety often leads men, and even women, to
rush to the press with their private griev-
ances, and that great deal OF such matter
is not sought for even by those newspapers
who print it, but is thrust upon them. But
this, after all, does not excuse the news
papers, who are bound to use discrimina-
tion and Judgment.


The World relates story concerning the
latest bit of social garbage. which most
men connected with the daily press will
recognize at once as true and characteristic.
"On Wednesday evening"" it says, "a story
imputing the most scandalous misconduct
to an aged and eminent citizen was offered
been received by telegraph from Chicago,
in which city it had been that morning
published by the Chicago Times. 1t was
declined by US for several reasons" If the
public know half or even quarter of the
extent to which the business of offering
filth of this kind to the newspapers
is carried it would be amazed and
alarmed but not only that-it would
give the great body Of the press of this
country far more credit for careful and up
right conduct than it is accustomed to.
The number of men--and women, we are
sorry to say-who seek to use the press as
medium to revenge their private griefs or
affronts, or who would like to use it as a
lever for the raising OF blackmail, is much
greater than the public supposes. Fortu-
nately the number Of newspapers in this
country willing to lend themselves to such
base uses in the hope of gaining large
public is constantly decreasing. The
American press is respectable and we be-
lieve we do not 60 too far when we say that
il is even more respectable than its public.
Year: 1879

A conference of representatives of the
various Protestant churches to-day begins
it's deliberations in the old Swiss city
Basle. The reassembling Of this great un-
denominational congress, after an interval
of six years, is On event of considerable inn
portance in the history OF Professionalism.
Since it's last session at New York in 1873
Professionalism has made long strides toward
unity. The barriers of creed and the fan
tastes of bigotry have been much levelled
and broadened. twill be remembered that
q feature of the New York meeting was
violent attack by the Missionary Bishop OF
Zanzibar, who had never been heard OF be-
fore and hos not been since, upon those
ministers of the Church of England who
partook of the sacred communion at the
same table with dissenters. The effect Of
the TRADE was most wholesome upon the
entire Protestant Church Every effort has
been made since that day to close up the
ranks, and the present session will, it is to
be hoped be productive OF even further
advance toward liberality and Christian
charity.
Year: 1879

GENERAL GRANTS Fourth of July celebration
Is the sole topic of the letter of our special
correspondent with the ex-President's party
The place was Toxic, capital OF Japan,
and the principal entertainer was the
Emperor himself assisted by the entire
population of the city. The occasion, the
guest and the associations of the day seem
to have impressed even the Emperor into max
ing personal declaration of independence, for
he shook hands with the General 1t was the
first time that an Emperor of Japan had ever
so far waived his rank and heavenly ancestry,
and the widest imagination cannot conceive of
a more violent radical movement, according to
established japanese ideas.
Year: 1879

Since the Department of Public Works is
fully authorized by the decision of the Su-
preme Court and has actually taken the
proper steps to proceed to the demolition
of all booths and stands that encroach upon
the public streets and squares, we may
hope with reasonable confidence that the
public will be able to get an actual view Of
some important public edifices-such for
instance, as Washington Market. Who has
ever seen Washington Market, and how
many New Workers, resident all their lives
in the city, can actually figure to them
selves the appearance that structure would
present stripped Of the fungus growths Of
sheds that surround it on every side? Per-
haps the city may be the richer in markets
if the people shall ever become really ac-
ouainted with what their markets are, for
the knowledge must certainly lead
up to clamor for the construction of
some new ones. But with the markets
clear and tho booths sent forever
to the limbo of municipal rubbish,
what do the authorities intend to do in re-
gard to that next important obstruction Of
the public streets-the horde of market
wagons from Canarsie, Flatbush, Newtown,
Flushing and those parts, with the cataract
of cabbages, corn, beets and other pictur-
esque 'greens" that they let loose upon the
city on all the market days. We cannot
afford to drive those fellows out. They are
an important element in the regular supply
of city dinner tables, and We can better
afford to give them premiums than to refuse
to give them place. Yet we cannot afford
to have them where they are. Even in dull
times the streets are blocked for an hour
often because of their presence, and in this
business season they are great evil. Once
upon time it was proposed to set apart q
space for their use. What has become of
that excellent project?
Year: 1879

According to the calendar to-day is the
last day of summer. No person of expe-
rience in American weather will pack away
his thin clothing on being reminded of the
date, for September always brings some
days in which thermometer is the most
enraging thing in existence. Neither will
any one who went into the country to enjoy
Nature in her smiling moods prepare to
hurry home on learning that it is the last
day of August, for hillside and seaside are
more beautiful, more suggestive, more full
of changes, most of which are delightful, in
September and October than in the two
preceding months. There are no other two
months of the out of town season in
which so much pleasure can be gained
in the country and SO much benefit done
to health, as the two that are yet to come,
and yet trains coming into New York to-
morrow will bring an unusual number of
family trunks and baby carriages, the
passenger cars will contain several times as
many women and children as men, and all
OF these people, even those who have spent
O most enjoyable season, will show plainly
by looks and actions that they are delighted
at the prospect of getting back to New York
again. What if there are to be no more
strolls through the fields or under the trees,
no more surf bathing or delicious lounging
on the beach? What it the cares OF house.
keeping are again to be assumed, or,
worse yet, new servants are to be
selected? The travellers are coming home,
and two or three months of absence. no
matter how freely the family purse has
been opened, have convinced them that
there is no other place in which home CON-
forts are really to be had. Besides, they
are returning to New York. the full mean
ing OF which oan never be imagined by any
one but o resident OF the metropolis. Per-
haps, too, the hustle consequent upon look
ing up ones old friends again, of making
good the ravages of summer upon the FAM
lily wardrobe and preparing home for win
ter work and winter enjoyment will take
oil people out of doors in the mild days yet
to come and enable them to end the sum-
msr in the open air after ALL
Year: 1879

Do the republicans wish to carry or to
lose the State this fall2 That is really the
question they are to decide on Wednesday.


If they want to lose the State they need
only nominate Mr.. Cornell. When party
nominates grievance it pretty certainly
marches to defeat, especially when that old
sore does not affect even all of the party,
and when the public cares nothing ut all
about it.


Mr. Conkling does not like Mr.. Hayes,
therefore the republicans-a good many of
whom do like Mr.. Hayes are asked TO
nominate Mr.. Cornell And then the
pretence is that the Cornell people
want to carry the STATED Nobody
will believe it, that is the only diff
about among politicians that the anti-ad-
ministration republicans had made up
their minds to lose Ohio and Maine this
fall by way OF bringing supposed dis
grace on the President. We have not heard
that it was proposed also to lose Now York I;
but this notion Of forcing the nomination
of Mr.. Cornell looks very much like it. It
is not very safe or very reputable game
to play, and only desperate men will ven-
ture on it. We do not regard Mr.. Conkling
as desperate man by any means and we
prefer to believe that when the Convention
meets on Wednesday next he will produce
q candidate on whom all the republican
factions can cordially unite.


Any other course will be very injurious
to Mr.. Conkling, and tho anti-Conkling
men will chuckle to see him making SO gross
blunder. But he ought to act quickly.
He has but two courses open to him-to nc
cept the nomination himself, or to bring
forward generally acceptable candidate at
Once.
Year: 1879

Our report from West Point tells the story
of the uncovoring there yesterday of the
monument to General Custer. Addresses,
poems, music--all agreed to give due effect
to the ceremony Of the first exhibition on
its pedestal of grand memorial to one of
the most gallant fellows that ever fought
under our flag. AS sometimes happens on
these OCCASIONS the real success OF the day,
from an oratorical point of view, was
reaped by the man from whom least was
expected in that way-the quiet undemon-
strative but steady hearted old soldier
who accepted the monument in the name
OF the Academy. General Schofeld's ad-
dress was little masterpiece, as neat in
it's way and covering the ground as entirely
and as handsomely as famous short ad-


dress of Lincoln on the occasion of the
conservation OF the great cemetery at
Gettysburg. These few happily put to-
gethor words present 30 neatly the ethics
Of monuments to soldiers like Custer, or to
Year: 1879

The Police Commission, or such of it as
there was in the good old times before the
messengers of the Mayor and Governor be-
gan to stagger painfully between New York
and Albany under mysterious and intoler-
ably heavy documents, effected temporary
organization yesterday at the Astor House
restaurant, and seemed for once to be of
single mind, although, to be sure, the mat
ter under discussion was only bill of fare.
If the sentiments of the gentlemen present
are indications of what is to be expected in
the early future it is quite probable
that such of the city's interests as
are not considered by Police Commits
sioners to be beneath their notice may be
cared for by two police boards, for General
Smith is ready to act officially with his old
associates, Mr.. Nichols expects to be ordered
by the courts to do likewise, while Messrs.
Morrison and MacLean have not the slight
est idea of ceasing to 60 through the mo-
tions of doing something. and Messrs.
French and Wheeler will be on good terms
with both boards, SO far as doing their full
share in the work of filing vacancies goes.
The idea of having two boards is, in the
abstract, an excellent one, although not at
all original. The plan was first devised in
Asia, where even to this day some coun-
tries have two kings, and appoint
two ministers of equal rank to q
single country, the theory being that they
will watch each other, and the public will
be saved from official laziness and dishon-
esty. If our two police boards could be
pitted against each other on the same prin-
oiple grateful public would willingly
stand the additional expense, even to the
extent of footing the restaurant bills of the
Astor House Board. With two boards
Watching each other and telling tales, as
would naturally follow, we might yet find
out what becomes of the money that is sup
posed to be spent for cleaning the streets,
and why butchers, blackguards and thieves
are SO tenderly retained on the police force.
The workings Of the new system cannot
fail to attract great public interest.