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Year: 1879

FREEBoRN, MINI, Jan. 10, 1879.


DEAR FREEMAN:-While the jingling
sleigh bells are making the crisp. frosty
air alive and merry with their music out
side, and while n good old-fashioned ma
pie wood fire is making things comiorta'
BILE inside, it is II good time to write letters
to old friends. and having IN odd day at
my disposal couldn't resist the tempta-
ton to spend ii in this way, The FREE
NAN, of course, comes first in the list. for
like II faithful friend its visits are regular
and it never disappoints us, while your
humble correspondent has to apologize
and confess his remissness. Like many
would-be reformed man, he sins and
confesses and then sins again, until bis
case is looked upon rs being nearly incor
rigible.


said the sleigh bells were jingling, and
so they are, and the fact is worth putting
on record for be it known to all it may
concern Minnesota is not state that C IN
boast of its facilities in this line. Mime
sofa sleighing is generally II miserable
farce. There is always too much snow or
too little. Sometimes both these objections
are found within II very short distance.
Bare ground and snow drifts alternate
with disagreeable frequency. As u gen.
eral thing but little snow falls from the
skies in this state during amy given winter,
especially rs compared with what falls in
Vermont, but that little finds no rest day
nor night. 1t is tossed hither and thither
by every wind that blows. 1t is tho play
thing for every blast. In sheer self-defence
it forms itself into windrows around every
building and across the road behind every
hedge-row, an banks itself waist deep in
every lane where there is the least shadow
of an obstruction to furnish the excuse.
The north wind sends the snow all flying
to the south when a change occurs and the
south wind sets it all flying back again.
Back again? That makes me think of the
little boy, who, when his father told him
he had chopped down certain tree and
then chopped it all up, says, Why, pa
it is right where it was in the first place
then, amt itP" Strike out road across
these prairies and in two hours very likely
YOU won't know where it is. Some of the
time you will find in the roads deep snow
drifts, and then you will find long aggra,
vatug spaces where the road has been
"pked up" that will be as bare as in
midsummer. Then, in tho first part ol
winter there is hardly snow enough, but
later us it accumulates the sleighing is
obstructed by superabundance OF it. The
roads fill up and it is trod down, then ii
fills up again until the road bed is as high
rs the drift on either side. Then comes q
wind lengthwise the road and blows away
the snow from both sides and in the mid
die, leaving the road itself standing up in
the air in two ridges, like the track of an
elevated railway. several inches. higher
than the soft snow all around. 1t is hard
to describe the rapturous felicity one ex-
periences in taking sleigh ride over such
n road rs this. One thing can say about
Year: 1879

LAST TO BE FOUND. deserving
poor are the last to be found. Too modest
and self-respectful to beg, they remain
hidden away in corners and attics. in
hunger and nakedness, until some village
Nightingale searches them out and pro-
vides for their necessities. Back.door
begging is often brazen and undeserving.
Idleness and vice brought the parties to
want, and they are moro ready to apply
to the benevolent for relief than to take
any measures to help themselves. Chronic
laziness and shiftlessness can be cured
only by the pressure Of hard necessity.
But the virtuous and worthy poor should
be sought out and cared for. The vagrant
You can leave to the public authorities,
but that unfortunate one, who. like a
stricken deer, has fled to the secret place
to suffer and die alone, should be searched
out and made comfortable,


TO make handsome picture frame
Cut four strips of silver perforated card.
board one inch wide. and cross them like
rustic frame. Crochet n fiat border
around them with dark walnut brown
single zephyr, work diagonal pattern
down the center of each ono with gill
beads. Hang with walnut brown worst
cd cord aud balls.


! 70 RESTORE VELvEr.--Whero velvet
has been crushed, hold the wrong side
over basin of quite boiling water, and
the pile will gradually rise. Do not LOSE
patience, for it takes u considerable time
but the result is marvellous.
Year: 1879

THE editor of the Yuma Sentinel has gone into the land grant business, To diversity his hitherto monotonous life, and has some characteristic remarks tu make of MT. Kirkpatrick late speech on the subject in the Legislature We are glad 10 see the subject agitated, although it is rather significant that the Sentinel's sensibililies are only aroused a: the first open representation of the settlers and miners side of the question. Land grant companies with or without a shadow of title could have gone on for years grouping and selling land under claimed grants, and disturbing and alarming actual settlers and miners, and for all the Sentinel would tell you, one wouldn't know there was such a thing in the world as land grant But the moment q miner rises in the Legislature and states the ther side of the question the Sentinel knows all about the land grant business. and tells it too. This is we'll. Bring the subject on the boards. Agifate ard agitate until Con- gress gives us suitable legislation on the subject. But the Sentinel can rest assured that the miners and settlers of Pima county are nnt going to be quiet. ly frozen out Oi their little stakes with ou: making sign, and pretty strong sIgu at that.
Year: 1879

Within year past there has been a number of cattle lost in Pima county by strange disease which has baf fled treatment. The loss therefrom has not been al all extensive, but the loss of few head of cattle to a man iusr starting IS serious. One phase of the disease is an affection of the animals shoulder; modification soon sets in and the animal dies. Mir. A. C. Bene- dict, of the Santa Cruz. during his last visit to Tucson, told Us that some time since he saw in a copy of the New York Tribune an account of a new cattle disease in the east, and the treat ment thereof. The description of the disease applied SO we'll 10 the com plaint affecting his cattle, and the rem edy was so simple, that the next time MT. Benedict found one of his cattle affected he tried the remedy, and with perfect success. The remedy was sim ply to soak we'll piece of common twine in tCrpentIne and run it through the loose skin on the animals breast. that is, to rowel it. We publish the information for the benefit of whom it may concern.
Year: 1879

The Washington Republican had been in favor of the transfer of the Indians to the War Department up to the late inhuman massacre of Indians in charge of the army at Fort Robin. son, Nebraska. As usual the army has tried to throw the odium of thIs dastardly massacre on others but has failed. The Republican says:

 Until quite recently we have been impressed with the belief that no se- riOus mistake could be made and no increased wrong would be wrought against the Indian by a change. It may not be possible to secure the h. dians against the dishonesty of Gov. ernment agents and traders, who are incident 10 theIr management, but they can be protected against such atrocities as have recently marked their treatment at Fort Robinson un- der the auspices of the army. They were held there as prisoners until some disp siIiOn of them should be provided for It was proposed to remove them to Fo,t LeavenwOrth, and this propOsi- ton was sternly resisted by the h. dians. The prisoners consisted of men, women and children, the latter to the number of about fifty. The policy pur- sued by the officer in command to force a submission to the purpose of the Government was to withhold food for tweniy-tOur hours from all indis- and also to withdraw their fuel and expnse them alike 10 starva tipn and freezing. It was from this terribly inhuman and barbarOus treat ment that the Indians escaped when they broke away from Fort Robinson. They, no doubt, pursued the first law of nature in thelr escape, for it was an attempt iO escape a lingering death from starvation and cold They did escape from their prison and were pur- sued by the troops, and men, women, and children were Indiscriminately act which would have brought the blush of shame to any cheek save that which approves starva- ton and freezing as the agencies of enforcing a Government policy And here we desire 10 say if the treatment of the Cheyennes is sample of the war policy of dealing with the Indian remnant. we want no more of il, for 1t IS an outrage upon humanity and a shame to the nation.
Year: 1879

NEW YOYK. January 1S-Speaking of the great fire last night, the Times says It is a curious incident that it's discover was caused by the squeak ing of terrified rats.

 This is an associated press telegram to the great city dailies. When you see it fnr the first time you gulp it down and look farther to see if you cannot glean some stray item of In- terest in the stereptyped mess gener- ally emanating from that source. But no. So you go to the mex; great daily and wade through the squeaking of the internal rats again, and similar stuff And so on ad infinitum, and when you get to the last exchange, and read for the fiftieth time how that the Times says it is a curious incident that the discovery of the fire was caused by the squeaking of terrified rats, you are in state of nervous exhaustion and wish the rats had hold of the miserable agent who telegraphed the remarkable extract from the Times across continent. It isn't that there is any particular harm in the para graph but that it's constant repetition is wearing. Of course the rats would squeak on the approach of the fire, but whats the use of telegraphing the fact. Here is a great city, with an enor- nous debt, paying for a costly fire department, and still the fire burns massive and richly stored warehouses, 10 the amount of three million dollars i; and smouidering ruins lake the place of stately structure and rich contents; {; and many are thrown out of employ ment in midwinter and enterprise is paralyzed and insurance companies swamped and there is wide spread ruin; but, "it is a curious incident that the first discovery of the fire was caused by the squeaking of terrifi, d rats. If Nero was a good violinisI when he fddled while Rome burned, he was much better fellow than this associated press agent, as music IS bel Ser than the squeaking of rats. How ever, speaking of the fire, he Times says: It is a curious incident that it's discovery was caused by the squeaking of terrified Rats"
Year: 1879

IF the Legislature must while away the t.me let it refrain from serious Legislation injuriously affecting the finances and material interests of the Territory. and engage in harmless re creation. There is the Moffeit Bell Punch which might be legislated into existence. This Punch is 8 favorite wherever adopted. It is set up in saloons, and as drinks are dispensed they are registered on the Bell Punch. Then at stated periods an officer in- poets the Punch, and the saloon keep CT is taxed for the commonwealth one cent, or any stated amount, tor every drink sold. There is no pos slbilily of tsmpering with the instru- ment. Wherever adopted it becomes favorite institution, more particularly with the prOprietOrs of saloons, whom it protects from the constant pecula liou of their assistants. The Punch in this Territory would probably yield an annual revenue of from forty tO fifty thousand dollars. We do not par ticularly advocate it. We only know that we have yet to see the slightest dissatisfaction elsewhere with it, where tried We are gravely alarmed ai some symptoms in the legislature and would offer them a rattle, or a jumping jack, or a wooden horse, or tin trumpet 10 quiet them and engage their atten- lion
Year: 1879

Not alway by the wayslde

 Where a common world has trod, Soiled by taInt Of earthly contact,

 Looks the daisy up to God. Far away in fragrant meadows,

 Where the cooling breezes pass, Signing with a dreamy music,

 Through the tremulous, wavy grass. Where the rose and gold of morning And the pearly twIlighis fall, Radiant in her dewy splendor,

 Grows the daisy fair and tall. No: nione where toll and conflict

 Show the prints Of busy feet, And the great heart tide unceasinR Ebbs and flows with restless beat. Far away where lonely beauty

 Starlight pale is shining through, In a holy revelation,

 Hearts grow swiflest toward the blue Many thought is born of silence

 And the gloom Of weary hours, Reaching up 10 God and heaven,

 Like the whiteneSs Of the flowers.
Year: 1879

A MARIPosA paper advises young men to engage in the AngOra goat business. The Marip'sa man or some of his frieh Is have probable got loi If these nice goats that they woule like to make market for.
Year: 1879

A WESTERN paper wants to know why a woman always sits on the floor to pull on her stockings. We know. Because the chairs are all occupied tith her other clothes st that time Jersey City Journsl.
Year: 1879

q Ladies, you cannot make fair skin,
rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes with all
the cosmetics Of France. or beantihers
of the world. while in poor health, and
nothing will give you such good health,
strength and beauty ~ Hop Bitters. A
trial is certain proof See another
column.
Year: 1879

Senator Thurman made his first
speech ia the Ohio canvass at Column
bus on Saturday night, to an audience
which did not fill the hall. The main
portion of his address was devoted to a
review of the Republican election and
naturalization laws, and their opera
ton, especially in New York, and to a
defence of the Democratic policy in
Congress. He said little on the finan-
clal question, asserting that we had only
the rssem blance Of resumption.
Year: 1879

The Major Reybold will leave French
street wharf as usual tomorrow MORN
ing at $50, for Collins Beach and
Bombay Hook. This is a delightful
trip and those who find it impossible to
get away during the week, should profit
by it. Fare for round trip to either
place fifty cents.
Year: 1879

Officer Thomas marched up Market
street last evening about nine o'clock
carrying in one hand diminutive spec
linen of humanity, and in the other
large piece Of watermelon rind. The
case was clear. enough. in one hand the
prisoner and III the other the evidence.
The boys had been throwing at passsrs
10y on King street.
Year: 1879

On Sunday afternoon, in coming from
the third dam to Market street cross
ing, on the Brandywine, a gold bound
watch seal. The finder will he reward
ed on leaving the same at the REPUBLI-
CAN Office.
Year: 1879

A STRANGE SroRr.-Tbo Dubuque
Times, of Iowa, tells that n wealthy
couple had lived together in perfect
peace for forty one years. While sit
ting in the parlor one evening not lorg
ago, the husband surprised his wife by
saying 81 am going to tell you a secret
you have never heard before" There
was a brief pause as the lady and near
relative who chanced to be present
awaited the disclosure, and the husband
continued: "Yes, you will be surprised
TO hear that had another wife before |
married you" Startled and aghast the
wife clasped her hands in suspense, and
asked, "Am i then not your lawful
wife ~ "You are my loved and lawful
wife" was the prompt reply, "my first
wife died four years before came TO
Dubuque and met you" Then he rela-
ted how he had married his first wio
and been summoned TO his home TO find
her dead in child birth. Then he went
West and settled in Dubuque where tho
second romance of his lite came about.
Six years ago he received letter from
the woman who had Dursed his first
wife. She wrote that she was upon her
death bed, ard could not rest until she
had confessed her share in base CRIME.
The wife had died but the son had sur
vived, and through large bribe prof
fered by the dead woman's father, the
nurses lips had been sealed, and the
husband told that the child had died
with its mother This man, the father
in-law. was wealthy, but bis daughters
death left him withoutIan heir and he
took this means of supplying what fate
had denied. With her last breath the
nurse informed her employer that sho
bad divulged the truth TO the gentle
man in Dubuque, and Immediately upon
her death the fathcr.in-law went West
and offered large bribe. This was re-
fused, but the secret was kept. The son
was a millionaire IN the city OF p, and
his father was anxious 10 see him. Tho
second wife was thus told the truth for
the first time and asked to 90 East and
pay the first wife's son visit. When
the story was told, the wife announced
in low tones: 'Since you kept it from
me so long would rather you had new
er repeated it." The excitement caused
by the recital proved fatal. In two days
the lady was dead.
Year: 1879

ly populated area in the country. Young
men and women are TO be found IN ev-
cry town who have been man aud wife,
but are so no longer.


The clerk Of the supreme court says
that the girls on Cape Cod are married
very young, and member OF the bar
adds: "Young or not at ALL" AT this
term there were three libels, as divorce
cases are termed here, on the docket
with similar names-the father and his
wife, and the son Of these two against
his wife. The father, who is peddler,
a very honorable avocatien on tie cape,
managed his own case in court. lie
cross examined his wife, his son and
daughter, and shouted so loud in doing
it that the keeper OF the jail, who Was
ont in the fields with two coEvicts 1t
work, went under the window OF the
court room to hear what was going on,
whereupon one Of the convicts, Zach
aus Pocknet, descendant OF the ln'
dians whom the Pilgrims found on the
cape, ceased bis hoeing and smoked a
stealthy pipe Percival gave his own
testimony on the witness stand, saying
that his wifes father drove him out OF
the house with curry comb, and then
going inside of the bar asked Judge
Lord whether he should address the
court or the audience in his plea. "You
may do as you choose. | don't think
the audience will have much voice in
making decision. In determining 10
manage your own case you have done
yourself injustice, aud in managing it,
every step you have taken has been O
bad one. But you had the right. Go
on


"Well, then, Judge" Percival shout
ed, 'let her have the divorce, and I'm
ready TO support them.


The sons wife's father testified that
young Percival married her TO prevent
an action for bastardy, and as soon as
the ceremony was over left her, ana has
refused to live with her ever since.


"And you ask for a divorce. shall
grant none. 1t a young man and wo-
man marry, no matter If the girl is IN
disgrace, and either of them says before
the ceremony to the other Il shan't live
with you, and still the ceremony is per-
formed, shant construe the refusal TO
live together aiterward as desertion. II
a young woman is willing TO bind her
self TO a man for life to save herself dis
grace when he announces that he will
never live with her, she must abide by
the consequences


Since the law making the desertion
for three years good cause for divorce
has passed, applications for decrees have
more than doubled in some parts Of
Massachusetts,, especially in the rural
districts. York San.
Year: 1879

ing the corpse, the women, the officers,
the seducer and the white haired father
was dramatic and impressive in the ex-
treme, while the stoicaI remark Of a
policeman sounded harsh and profane
on such a solemn scene: "The madam
will get twenty years and the young
man ten. But the consequence Of pull
ing this place will be to bring out some
more scandal"


Tilden is a remarkable product, yet
whether admirable or no is the ques-
ton. I think if could have his whole
talent omitting his money, I should say
with Artemus Ward, "Give it to the
poorr' Looking quite feeble, he is yet
capable, like Mrs. Dombey, Of making
an effort such as he made the other day
before the committee. The effort, how
ever, is rather the exhibition OF a dislo-
Gated mind, dwelling in political ideal
ity, disappointed, yet Of such c1nceit as
Thackeray described in Henry Fsmond
of the Prince of the house Of Stuart.
''The Prince was late aud lazy. aud lost
all his chance through his indulgence"


Time not only works wonders, but
plays strange freaks, not least among
which are his inroads upon the immor-
tai faculty Of memory in wise mems
minds. Now, there is the great warrior
and statesman, General Shields, who,
the other day, was handed an envelope
containing over S4OO Of his mileage and
salary. He threw it carelessly on his
desk and sauntered into the cloak-room
to chat with colleagues aud crack jokes
on the Mexican war, directly forgetting
all about the money. After the Senate
had adjourned, page found the pack
age, and next day returned it to the
owner. General Shields at first declared
he had not lost it, the circumstance of
receiving it having entirely slipped his
mind, and more yet, he forgot to reward
the honest lad with so much as a penny.
Such failure of memory is unfortunate
in a public character, and yet there are
people who desire to see this man ser
geant-at-arms Of the Senate.


AUGUST.


New York, February %, 1879.
Year: 1879

i f35


Private letters received from Cork and
Dublin by Irish citizens of Washington
confirm the opinion that the refusal of the
+ city of Cork to receive General Grant was
due principally to the treatment which the
| Centennial address adopted by citizens of
Ireland and sent to this country received at
the hands of President Grant. The senti-


ments expressed in President Grants Des
Moines speech on "Church and State y


vas made the ostensible reason for the re-
| fusal of Cork TO honor the ex-President !;
but the indignation felt at the non-recep-
tion of that fraternal address was, it is al
legged, the true ground of resentment. 1t
appears that the whole feeling against Gen
eral @ rant was worked up by Mr.. Doran,
who, to make sure of the snubbing of Gen.
Grant, used his supposed antl-Cathollc
views against HIM. The people of Ireland,
the letters state, were not enraged at the
refusal of this government to receive the
address, but at what they considered their
shabby treatment by General Grant. The
embossed document was sent over to this
country by Messrs. Parnell and OConnor
Power, two Irish members OF the British
Parliament. Mr.. Parnell was selected as
one Of the delegates because he was a
grandson of Commodore Stewart, of the
American navy. When these gentlemen
arrived at New York General Grant was at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. They called upon
him with number of compatriots living in
this country, and made known the object
of their visit. One of the gentlemen who
was present at the interview told Star re-
porter to, day that they were received most
cordially. President Grant was glad to see
that SO kindly feeling was felt in Ireland
for the welfare of the United States. He
would, he said, be most happy to receive
tbs address, and expressed himself as ready
to receive it then and there, The delega-
tion thought that, to give more eclat to the
presentation it should be made here in


Washington. Gen. Grant expressed him.
self as satisfied with the arrangement.


Messrs. Parnell and Power came to Wash
ington, and upon the return of the Presi-
dent sent the document to the White House.


The next morning they received a note
from Assistant Secretary of State Cadwal-
lader-Secretary Fish was absent and did
not, as is generally supposed, have any
hand i'll the matter-saying that the adj
dress could not be received except through
the British Ministry. As the contents of it
were inimlcal, inferentially, to Great Brit
ain, the impossibility of such course being
taken was evident. The Irish members of
Parliament then left for New York. The
address was sent from here by a gentleman
to Mr.. Power, in New York. but whether
it was taken back to Ireland or still remains
in this country is not definitely known. 1t
is very probable that it is now in New
York. The letters from Ireland say thai
no bad feeling would have been engendered
if the President had stated that he could
not have received the address when first
waited upon, instead of promising to do SO
and then all9Yipg the bearers Of to be le-
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