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Year: 1879

It seems to us that altogether too much is
made in the dispatches about the trivial dlsa-
greement in the Democratic ranks over the
proper disposition of the Warner silver bill.
The sum and substance of the whole matter
is whether the Senate shall perpetrate
an act of discourtesy towards one of its
principal committees, even in the event of
that committee being in the wrong. The
GLOBE regrets that the finance committee
decided to postpone the bill in question till
the December session of Congress, not that
it esteems its provisions of vital Importance,
questions embraced in its provisions ought
to be decided at as early a day as possible so
that our currency system may be placed up
on stable and invariable basis. The act
remonetizing the silver dollar was only par
tial. Silver currency is yet debased in the
markets of the country from the fact that
its coinage is restricted by law. We do not
assert that more should be coined than is
now turned out of the mints, nor would it
be necessary to coin larger amount under
the present bill, but the removal of restric-
tions upon the coinage of silver will do more
to place it on par with gold than any other
action the Congress could take. There is q
present necessity for the settlement of the
status of the silver currency of the country,
for the persons who have control of our
financial system seem to be doing all in their
power to lower its grade and to bring it into
disrepute. Their purposes can only be frus-
trated by removing the restrictions upon it's
coinage and compelling the issue of the coin
in whatever amounts the business commu-
nifty may require it.


Messrs. Bayard and Herman, of the Dem
ocratio part of the committee on
finance, are opposed to the passage
of the bill. They have perfect right to
oppose it, and it is not to be wondered at
that they take that course. Their associa-
tions are with the Eastern capitalists who
are interested in maintaining the disparity
between the two metals. While some may
question the prepriety of committee at
tempting to block the course of the body


"AAASAA
doing SO if, in the discharge of it's duty, it
shall deem such course expedient. Mr..
Bayard stands on his dignity too much, per-
haps. in threatening to resign his place on
the committee if the bill is taken out of the
hands of himself and his associates. He es-
teens such an act to be one of discourtesy
sufficiently patent to warrant his resipna-
ton. But even if he should resign there
would be no cause to assert that there is q


break in the Democratic ranks. The Demo.


cratic party is greater than any man. Mr..
Bayard is but human, and if he should hap


pen to die no one imagines it would termi-


nate the existence of the party. If he


should resign the craftsmanship of the com


mittee Democratic President will still be
elected in 1880.
Year: 1879

TRIO OF SCOUhDRELS WHO DESIRE


TO DESTROY NJ. PAUL.


Bill Kings paper continues to obey the
behest of its master aud abuses st. Paul in
order to kill off the State Fair. The traitor
spies who print Bill Kings Minneapolis
paper in this city make the following on
slsu sht: Lu.


The business men OF st. Paul are almost
without exception opposed to taking any lot or
part in the State Fair business this fall. With
two three reputable exceptions the only
residents of this city who wish to involve St.
Paul in venture of this sort under the ad-
verse conditions which insure its failure in ad.
vance, are few bummers and scallawags whose
motives are perfectly we'll understood. They
are the sort of people who are always enthusi-
astically in favor OF dancing to music fur
nished at the expense of somebody else The
efforts which these scallawa9s are putting
forth to make it appear that the peo-
pie of St. Paul are committed to the project of
State fair next September, renders it neces-
sary to remark that even the chamber of CON-
merce, where the scallawag element has log
rolled Itself into larger proportionate repre-
sentation than usual, has gisen notice to the
State Agricultural society that they may hold
a fair on the ST. Paul Driving Park grounds if
they choose, but on the distinct condition and
understanding that they must not call upon
the people OF ST. Paul for any pecuniary as
any whatever, and that St. Paul will assume
no responsibility Of any sort for its success or
failure.


We copy this not because of its import
ance or because it is worthy of reply, but to
direct attention of the business men
and the people generally to the treacherous
character of this. sheet, which being part
ner of Bill Kings not only in the newspaper
but also in the Fair, is ready, as usual, to
betray and destroy St. Paul in order to ad-
vance Minneapolis and Bill King To show
that these disreputable employees of Bill
Kings are liars as well as traitors and spies,
it is only necessary to explain
that the Chamber of Commerce did
not make any Condition that the people
of st. Paul would not aid the Fair. On the
contrary, it pledged the cooperation of ou1
citizens in making it success. The com.
mittee having the matter in charge we're in.
struoted not to incur pecuniary obligations
Year: 1879

WINDOW got frightened on Tuesday over
the old bugaboo of the knights of the
golden circle in Indiana. That scandal was
buried more than fifteen years ago, but it
seems that Window is anxious for reputa-
ton as resurrectionist. The only difficulty
in the way of his success is that the graves
he opens contain no corpses. He had better
turn his attention to the Minnesota Con-
gresham who received $4,000 of Northern
Pacific stock for services rendered on the
floor of the House.
Year: 1879

AS long as the people of St. Paul harbor
and make it profitable for trait or-spies to ex-
ist in their midst SO long can they expect to
be betrayed, villified and misrepresented by
Bill Kings paper, which he prints in st. Paul
in order that it may more effectually stab
this city than it could if located in q hostile
town, where it's real interests exist.
Year: 1879

WHEN it comes to clubbing an inoffensive
citizen, the police force of New York is the
best in the world, but when murder is per-
petrated in broad daylight and in the pres
ence of witnesses, the police never hear of
1t until the newspapers have heralded the
facts abroad for day or two.
Year: 1879

1t is usual for travellers to dwell
upon the desolation of Babylon, ami to
paint its cite as strip of desert, espe-
cially woe-begone and unfertile. But
the elegant gentlemen who dwell upon


this aspect of the place could not have
seen it in the middle of April. The
date groves end gardens along the
banks of the Euphrates are then things
of beauty in their fresh spring verdure,
and the plain itself is laid down with
crops. Irrigation canals cross it here
and there and give trouble to the
horsemsn. No grass grows upon the


mounds, and there are patches of the
level, white with inter, which is to be
found here as in other parts of MesO>
pOtamia; but the surface of the soil is
on the whole green and pleasant to the
eve. The glad waters of the river
flow on in the bright morning sunshine,
with palm and mulberry hanging over
its banks, drinks in sap and life. The
great city which counted its population


by millions, and filled the world with
a renown net yet forgotten, has disap-
.peared under the dust Of twenty centu-
ries, but nature is as fresh and jocund


as when Babylon was still unbuilt.
Birds sing overhead in the pleasant
spring air; butterflies perch about in
search of flowers; bslmy odors regale
the sense. 1t is difficult under the
circumstances to feel as one perhaps
ought to feel for the great Capital which
once numbered this ground. Nature
does not mourn for il, and it is hard to
be sad at the budding of sentiment
when the bright spring hides its grave.
Year: 1879

hochester democrat


If there Is noble human impulse
or virtue perverted and abused worse
than others by Americans, it is that OF
generosity. And perhaps one of the
very worst perversions of this beDifl
cence may be found in that degenerate
custom com monty known as treating
Possibly its origin may be traced back
to spontaneous generosity, but If so,
how widely has it diverged from the
first principles of the admirable virtue
which gave it birth.


But who would have the effrontery
to claim that it is a generous motive
which prompts men to tempt their fell
low men? Strangely enough, he is
sometimes called a waTm-hearted, E,
whole-souIed man who leads his neigh
Dor up to the bar and urges him to par
take of that which may deprive him of
situation. self respect and reputation.
Reflection does not improve the cOm-
plexion of this worse than burlesque
upon lberality, to the sad effects of
which there are thousands of wretched
monuments to be seen in every large
city.


Even though stripped of its ruinous-
ly injurious features. the custom of
treating would yet be ridiculous one.
Imagine its application to the pur-
chase of other commodities than Ii
quors and cigars. Think how ludic-
rOus would be the proposition OF a
young man TO his companion, while
they were promenading the arcade, of
such an idea as this:


'Aw, come along, | say, and have a
pair of spectacles with me; l want to
wet this new hat


What if company of young gentle
men on the street should say:
Now, boys, l want to set 'em up for
the crowd; oome in and have chrO-
mo. or bracket or something with
mep


Yet which would be more valuable
to man and his family, chrOmos,
brackets, and even spectacles, or liquor
enough to make him drunk?
1t is lamentable fact that treating
is d custom as purely American as it is
ruinous in its effect. And yet, with
this, as with many other injurious
practices, people recognize and ac-
knowledge their evil influence and
power, but will not abandon or con-
demn them because they happen tosbe
customs largely observed by those
who have the name Of being generous,
and Stunned by the s;ingy, hard-fsted
class.
Year: 1879

As regards the bankruptcy, idleness of la
bor and capital, and the losses in business, so
much dwelt upon, we do not well see how
they could have been avoided under any sys-
TEN in settling down from the wild initiation
of the war era To talk of contraction as an
evil, when the value of the greenback dollar
was only 36 cents in gold at the highest point
of initiation, is an abuse of terms. The green
back has been raised in value to the full
standard of gold. Is that contraction ? The
bank curaency has been enhanced in the Same
way. Is that contraction ? Three hundred
millions of gold and silver have been added to
the circulation. Is that contraction ? The
drain of gold and silver has been arrested. Is
thai contraction Incomes are of nearly
thrice the value that they were in 1864. Is
that contraction ? Capital and credit are in
enormous supply at all business centers Is
that contraction Rates of interest are low.
Is that contraction ? As to the want of en-
ployment, it is the same alb over Europe,
where our currency changes cannot be held
responsible as the cause. Philadelphia
North American (Rep).
Year: 1879

The cipher inquiry has a practical import
ance which some people are slow to appre


,iate 1t is not pursued from motives of idle
curiosity or of personal enmity. 1t is likely
to determine who shall be the next President
of the United States. 1t is likely to settle the
question whether the Government shall pass
into the hands of the party which tried to de-
stroy the Union and which is now trying to
reverse the results of the war, or shall be re-
tanned in the charge of the party which saved
the Union, the party which is committed to
the def nee of national honor, justice, peace,
progress and equal rights The conspiracy
disclosed by the cipher dispatches was so
base, SO Caring, so fraught with danger to
free institutions, that the inquiry ought not
to stop until the remotest ramifcations of the
plot have BEEN laid bare. 1t is not enough
that disgrace has overtaken the few men who
figure by name in the correspondence. They
were only the agents in the affair, not the
principals. They only negotiated the bribes;
some higher authority stood behind them
with the money. Perhaps a committee of
Congress might have got at the bottom facts,
if it had hegun in season; but at this late hour
the discovery of the full truth must depend
largely upon discussion in the newspapers.


Already the debate has had one very seri


Gus effect. It has placed the Democratic
party in the dilemma cf either convicting its
leader and candidate o: an outrageous fraud
which it will not do; or of voting him reso-
luton of acquittal-which would inevitably
make him the leader of The party again.
Either choice would be dstasteful to the De-
mocracy. Either would be observed with
great satisfaction by the Republicans. We
could desire nothing better than campaign
Year: 1879

How oft amid the sordid strife


Of worldly wisdom have turned
To memory's scenes of early life,


And o'er my joyous b,,yhood mourned;
How oft have wish'd mid care and pain
To be that huOyant boy again
To sleep beneath the slanting roof


And hear the pattering raindrops fall,
Or listen to the lively proof


Of vagrants round my airy hall;
Yet rise at morn with wonted glee
To wade the brook or climb the tree.
To Join the sturdy reapers train,


What time the lark her matin strings
When mounting with impassiond strain,


She bathes in light her glittering wings,
And, poised in air, is scarcely seen,
So high amid the dazzling sheen.
Twas mine to trap beside the stream,


Or angle meath the alder's shade,
To tend the plow, or drive the team,


Or seek the herd in distant glade.
Where oft from clustering thic2ets shrin
Rang out the notes of the whippoOrwin.
Those trembling notes, so long, so wild,


Were music to my boyish ear;
Thought backward ties-and as child


Zen now me thinks the sound hear.
While fancy spreads before my eye
The dewy glade and moonlt sky.
The Glowing herd" now vending slow


Along the wood their homeward way;
The winding streams dark CLASSY flow,


The llied vale, the woodland gay,
Still float in visions bland and bright,
As on that balmy summers night.
Then standing on the distant hill,


With boyborn fancies wand'ring free,
l saw no specter'd form of i'll


Rise in the bright futurity:
But all, instead, was joyOur, clear,
Buoyant with hope, untouched with fear
o, these were boyhOod's cloudless hours,


And sweet on wings unsullied flow,
But pride soon dream'd of lOftfer bowers,


And wealth her golden luster threw
Ger tempting scenes, as false as fair,
And babe my spirit seek her there
And have sought htr nor in vain,


might have piled her treasures high,
| But that l scorned her sordid reign


And turned me from her soulless eye,
| could not delve her dirty mine,
would not worship at her shrine.
would not Stoop to fatter power,


For any vile or selfish end;
l would not change with every hour


My faith, my feelings, or my friend,
And least of all would intrust
My hopes to the accurseG dust.
The God that reared the woodland heigh


And spread the flow'ry valleys wide,
And walked within my mind delights


That spurn the lures of human pride,
And stern forbade in accents known,
To worship aught beneath His throne.
Year: 1879

SENATOR CHAHDLER's reelection was Sc
nearly unanimous that even his btterest crit
its have refrained fiom charging that it was
not the Spontaneous wish of the people OF
Michigan. As The Detroit Post and Tribune
says, in giving the meaning Of it, the election
was not the result of intrigue, but the re.
sponse of the Republican members of the
Legislature to the demand of their constitu-
ents. The party press of the State was al
most unanimous for him. The Republican
ism which he represented wheD in the Senate
before, is the very kind the party in Michigan
is desirous of bringing 10 the front again now,
namely, the Republicanism which fights Dem
ocratic designs upon the Constitution and
upon the Treasury without finching and
without promise.
Year: 1879

IT turns out that Genersl Grants Des
Moines speech in favor of the secularization
of the common schools and the completest
severance of Church and State, was the cause
Of the refusal Of the city of Cork to extend to
him the usual courtesies and hospitalities.
The action of that city is approved by Owen
Lewis, Member of Parliament, as secplariza-
tion is at war with the Catholic policy, which
aims at division of the school fund and de
mands it as right. 1t is not likely all Cath
olics will agree with Mr.. Lewis, but it is well
to have it understood on what grounds the
city of Cork took its action against the tx
President
Year: 1879

SENATOR BAYARD will never be Demo-
cratic nominee for the Presidency if be
doesn't stop talking like this about his party's
project for forcing an extra session: 81 can
not and will not lend myself to a policy that
approaches SO closely to revolution. While
am willing to serve my party, | think my first
duty is to serve my country" What hungry
Democrat can be expected to indorse such a
sentiment as that I?
Year: 1879

A certain man got mad at the editor
and stopped his paper. The next week
he sold all his corn at four cents below
the market price;then his property was
sold for taxes because he only heard of
the convention three days after it had
adjourned; he lost ten dollars betting
on MolIie Mccarthy two days after
Ten Brock had won the race; he was
afterward arrested and fine d eight dol
lars for hunting on Sunday; and he
paid $500 for lot of forged notes that
had been advertised two weeks, and
the public cautioned not to negotiate
them. He then paid big Irishman,
with leg like derrick, to kick him
all the way to a newspaper Office, when
he paid four years subscription in nd
vance, and made the editor sign and
swear to an agreement to knock him
down and rob him il he ever ordered
his paper stopped again.
Year: 1879

Yesterday evening, an old gentleman
had o very narrow escape from being
crushed tetwesn two trains at the Mar.
Fet street crossing. Two trains were
approaching Market street at the time,
ono going north and the other south
The gentleman referred to came driving
down Market street At a rapid rate, and
in spite Of the warning Of the Hagman
at the crossing drove across the track
right in the teeth Of the approaching
trains. The carriage got safely across
however, but the fagman and those
who saw tho occurrence say that u
very narrow escape from a horrible
death was made by the daring driver.
Year: 1879

We desire to express our thanks to
the Fire Department for the valuable
services rendered us on last Friday and
The promptnsss with which they re-
sponded to our call for aid. They did
nobly and deserve much credit for the
ability they manifested. Yours,


M. GAMBRILL K Co.
Year: 1879

will be ready to wait on his friend, i
al those who will patronizs him /
morrow morning At 10 o'clock and Il
serve them with a fine lunch at 1
southwest corner Of Fifth and Shin
streets. "
Year: 1879

4 BAD SHOT OF \ BAD MAN At \ BAD MAS


N A BAD PLACE.


About eight o'clock last night consider
abe excitement was caused in the neigh.
borhood of the City Brewery by the re-
port of Il pistol fired in the saloon depart.
mcnt of said building Various and
numerous. were the report, which at once
reached our ears as to the cause and we
at once started for the scene On our
way down u the brewery We met officers
Tylor and Wins who had Jake
Waiter, the Eighth street butcher
under arrest and were escort
ing him to the city jail. He
was underline influence Of liquor and ap.
parcntly did not realize the situation he
was in.


The cause Of Walters arrest was the fir
my of pistol at the head Of Fred Keoh-
Ter, in the Brewery saloon, coming within
about two inches Of blowing his brains out.
1t appears that Walter and Keohler have
not been on the best Of terms for quite a
while and it was only yesterday morning
that they had dispute about some insignti-
cant matter.


Mr.. Walter beng too much under the
influence Of liquor we could not get his side
Of the affair; but the following are the facts
as obtained from Kcohlcr and as corrobor-
ated by those present in the saloon at the
time Of the shooting Kcohlcr entered the
saloon about haitpast seven o'clock and
took seat, with several friends, at one OF
the card tables. lie had been in the saloon
but few minutes when Walter entered
who, with several friends, also took posses
sion Of one OF the tables. Conversation soor
became general aud general good feeling
Year: 1879

A ine silver tea set will be drawn ior at
Tichemans billiard parloTs on Christmas
eve Every person paying for a game of
billiards will receive ticket emitting him
to chance in the drawing Tickets can
mol be obtained IN any other way.
Year: 1879

Eliza Schumann vs.. VIM. Schumann.
This wasa suit for divorce OH the ground of
gross neglect and cruelty. The plaintiff, a
young German woman about nineteen
years of age, and rather good looking, was
in court


From her evidence and that of several
other witnesses it appears that, when about
seventeen years of aye, she left Bavaria,
haying then 100 marks, and came to the
United States. The defendant young
man about twenty five years old, came over
in the same steamer, but they did not get
acqu9inted till their arrival in New York.


His parents had come with him, and he
told the plaintiff they came here only to
visit some of their children, and he pro-
posed in short time to return to Saxony,
where he owned large estate. The whole
party then came on t Cincinnati, and put
up at Degenhardts Hotel. The plaintiff
and defendant then got married.


He ran up board bill at the hotel for
over week, and had no money to pay the
bill, and the plaintiff had to work there as
Il servant to pay the amount; he also
pawned her clothes and a few articles of
jeWelry, and spent the money in dis>ipa-
tioli; they then went to Riverside for few
weeks. where she also had to work to pay
their board.


He then told her his uncle in Lawrence
burg had received from Germany $500 tor
him, and compelled her t" walk with him
from Cincinnati to Lawrenceburg while the
snow was on the ground; they put up at a
hotel, and having no money she remained
at the hotel several weeks to pay up the
expense, while ne went to New York, Oh
the preense of getting money.


He did not hear from him afterwards un.
til about-four months ago, when he re.
turned to Cincinnati and wanted her to 20
with him again, which she refused, as he
had no means to provide for her.


All the witnesses gave him the reputation
of being great liar


Some parties here wrote to Saxony to in.
quire about the property he said he had
there, and the information received was
that he had been volunteer in the German
army for one year and deserted that he
was tried by Court-martial and found
guilty, and at that time his estate was for.
feited. 1t was also proved that he had
committed violence upon his wifi.


The Court has not yet decided the case.
Year: 1879

The American "bobtair' cars recently
introduced in London are source of
unalloyed joy to the Juveniles of the dis
trict in which they run, as they are un-
provided with conductors and afford
irresistible temptations to steal ride in
security and VITA impunity. They do
not appear to be as freely patronized as
the two-horse ears, but the determination
of the company to keep them as select as
possible will no doubt insure their re-
ceiving their full share of patronage
when the public becomes more accus-
toned to them.
Year: 1879

a Texas newspaper gives the follow
ing news paragraph from johnson
county in that State: "a lady was
visited by two of her lady friends who
spent the day with her She told them
of lately having come in possession OF
large sum of money. aud that the
absence of her husband annoyed her
because she was afraid of being robbed.
That night a stranger stopped at her
house, and during the night, being
awakened by noise 10 the lady room,
be looked through the window anc
saw two negroes choking her IN her
bed. He fred NJ them and killed both,
and just then two persons fled from
near the house. On investigation 1t
was found that the negroes were the
lady's guests disguised, and it is sup
posed that the two who fled were their
husbands"