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Year: 1878

The Canadian House Of Commons
apartment is carpeted every two years.
The carpets always purchased in Eng
land. A new Speakers chair is needed
every session, not on account Of tho old
being worn out, but because it is customary
to give each Speaker the chair be sat in.
Year: 1878

This little life-boat OF an Earth with its
noisy crew of a Mankind. and all their
troubled History. will ons day have vah-
ished; faded like a cloud speck from the
azure of the All. What. then. Is man !?
What then Is man. He endures but for an
hour. and is crushed before the moth.
Yet. in the being and in the working OF a
faithful man is there already (as all faith,
from the beginning. gives assurance n
something that pertains not to this wild
death element OF Time that triumphs over
Time, and is, will be, twhen Time shalt be
no more Thomas Carlyle.
Year: 1878

1t is an unhappy division that has been
made between faith and works. Though
In tbOueht may divide them. just rs IN
the candle think "i both the light and the
heat. yet As when the caDdieis put OUT
both the light and heat ARE gone. and nei
tier remains without the other, SO IL Is
with faith and works; in the Christian lite
they are inseperable. SeldeR.
Year: 1878

In vain do they talk OF happiness who
never subdued an impulse In obedience to
principle. He who never sacrificed
present to future good, or personal to
a general one, can speak Of happiness only
as the blind do of colors.-Hordce Mann.
Year: 1878

AS WE THoUGHr.-A. j. Selover informs us
that We guessed the true inwardness of that
Mowry letter business as correctly as if we had
been present and witnessed it all. He says Now
~ CAME to him, asking him for statement as
to his recollection about certain matters. He
replied that he was not positive upon the points,
but that if it would do Mowry any good, he
would mako statement, as it seemed to his
recollection, without being entirely positive, or
willing to vouch for it's correctness. He saws he
signed the letter, with the understanding that
Mowry was to bring it to us, and not for publ
cation in any paper. The next he heard of it,
was being twitted by his friends on his letter in
the Bsttefia. Mowry never came near us, nor
tried to see us. This is the way he treats a
friend, who tries to do him service. His object.
no doubt, was to get selover into his fight with
us. 1t has cost him the confidence of one of the
few men who still had any sympathy for him.
1t is poor dependence, trusting to the honor of a
man who is entirely destitute of honor.
Year: 1878

V-The terrific battle between Sol. Miller and Cas-
per Bridges at Troy, still goes on with unabated f
ry From the fact that the Troy Bxiietia this week
publishes communication from Bremen, however,
thus wasting much valuable space imagine he is
weakening, and disposed to give it up.-Atehison
Globe.


This week, the Balleiia will be filed with the
proceedings of the Democratic County Commit
tee, and the Chief will have to go on small
rations again.
Year: 1878

E1- In the Alabama Republican Convention,
last week, a resolution endorsing the wise and
patriotic policy Of the President, was laid on the
table. The Southern Republicans are supposed
to be the best judges Of the disastrous effects of
Hayesism upon themselves. Ohio and New
England may attempt to bolster up the Presi-
dents policy, but the act of the Republicans of
one Southern States is more significant than all.
Year: 1878

n We would kindly suggest to the editor of
the Bulletin, that be shove his nose less into the
affairs of the Republican party, and condne him
self to the Democratic side of the house; then,
perhaps, he wouldn't "get it up his snoot,"
when he asked for an endorsement of his De-
mocracy at the hands Of his party,
Year: 1878

~ The Balleiin has been worried because the
Chief has not untimely pitched heal over ears
into local politics. There is right time to do
thing, and there is such thing as spelling
matters by being in too much of sweat. Tho
Baliefin is usually in the habit of starting in so
that it manages to blow itself out by the time
the procession gets along.
Year: 1878

n We always had an idea that a paper
showed for itself what its politics were, and
that it required no resolution from committee
or a convention to convince the party that it
was sound. The Chief never thought of such
a thing as asking . Republican Convention to
endorse it rs Republican paper.
Year: 1878

CoNsoLAToN.-In this hour of his humilia-
tion, We feel like consoling our brother of the
Bulletin. What does he care for the Democratic
partyf He is Republican, and always has
been. You don't thank them for an endorsement.
Just rub this card under their noses, that you
published in the Chief Of October 14th, 1875:


CARD


EDITOR CHIEF:-A number of friends have men,
toned my name probable candidate for the Office
of County Treasurer, at the approaching election.
Duty to myself and to my friends demands that should
remain no longer silent A few gentlemen in this Coun-
ty who, from their actions suppose they the Peo
pies Party just now very full of patriotism, and
neglectng their shops and their fields for the pur
pose of laying the shelf in other words they
talk though Peoples party depends
my defeat To relieve them of any further uneasi-
my account, give them this public notice,
that in the of this County, last fall claimed
to be Republican, and talked and voted for the Re
publican State ticket BY reference to the Journals
Of the State Senate, it will be found that, upon all
questions of political character, voted and acted
with the Republican party of this State am still q
Republican, and if the Republican party ofthis COun
ty meet in the spirit of honest harmonious action on
next Monday, the ticket nominated by their Conven-
ton will meet with my hearty support.


Very Respectfully,


&. G. BRIDGES
Now, if you could only produce witness to
whom you showed your ticket, to prove that
you voted for Hubbard perhaps the Republican
Central Committee would place itself En- Rapport
with you, and get together, and endorse you.
Year: 1878

rVWashington County will send delegation to
the Republican State Convention in favor of Martin
for Governor, and delegation to the Congressional
Convention in favor of Cy Leland for Congress-
Junction Juioa.
Year: 1878

s Wonder how the ''Greenbackers' Bully
EHiittia' is getting alongi Couldn't you get
that s25 biography man to stick his shovel into
our local politics again. and give you a boost
Perhaps the Greenback party will listen to your
proposals.
Year: 1878

only making more work for the forester's
axe and grub hook. Lord Palmerston once
defined dirt as good thing in the wrong
place. A tree where it should not be is. in
like manner, an intolerable nuisance, and
there is no variety, however beautiful or
useful, which may not, by injudicious plant
ing, be made to answer this description
Cor. Country Gentleman.
Year: 1878

A certain Monsieur n, going OF
foot from Leuze to Lessiness, ir
Belgium, took with him his dog
which he was anxious TO get rid of
but as he has unwilling either tc
drown him or 10 shoot him, he re-
solved to lose him on the way. The
dog, who, instead to kind words
and earesses, received nothing, but
threats, seemed to understand bis
masters project; he kept quite
close to his heels, and would not
leave him for amoment. N, obIig-
ed to sleep out for that night in
order to finish his business, went
to the inn, and said to his fourfoot-
ed companion, instead of good
night:


TO morrow, you rascal, I shall
take the train, and you will have to
walk around here


He then went up to his room
and went to bed. The next morn
ing, great was Ms surprise to per-
ceiye when he got up that one Of
his socks and his waistcoat were
missing. The landlord, when
questioned, maintained that no one
could have taken these articles, as
no other stranger had been lodged
in the inn. They were searching
and wondering, when they found
in a corner Of the house the dog,
who had been so threatened the
evening before, lying upon the
stocking and waistcoat of his mas
ter. The poor animal seemed to
have wished in this way to prevent
his master from starting without
him. ~ NJ; adniring the sagacity of
his dog no longer tried to get rid
of him.
Year: 1878




Miller & Lux are, said to have
seven hundred thousand acres in
all in California, an area nearly as
great as the State ot Rhode Island


There must be at least four hun
Dire thousand acres in one body.
running in a strip ten or twelve
miles wide and sixty miles long
from Hills Ferry southwark. The
canal farm is, therefore, very
small proportion Of it. It is cover
ed with ia m-houses as we'll equip
ped in all respects as the canal
farm. They own about eighty
thousand head Of cattle, and last
year their newborn caIvesrumber-
ed twenty-five thousand head. Of
sheep they have vast number, as
we'll as Of hogs, and they furnish
the largest share Of fresh meat for
the San Francisco market. They
can start a herd from Kern County
and drive it through to San Fran
cisco, and have good pasturage on
their own land for the cattle to
feed on every night on the route.
Year: 1878

A Chicago father stood with his
little son watching the progress of
the new Court House Pa said
the latter, as both attentive1y OBJ
served the foreman, I should think
you could Ell that mans place all
he does is to sit there and swear at
the workmen. The father turned
from the contemplation Of the
scene with a suddenness that near
ly yanked the breath out Of the
body Of his obserrant son.
Year: 1878

The London Lancet says q piece
Of lemon, bound on a corn, will cure
It IN a few days. Tie trouble out
in these ATTITUDES IS that il is the
general custom to soak the lemon
in the corn, which, at this season Of
the year, i generally hot. But the
cure is just the same. the lemon
remains there long after the corn
is gone.
Year: 1878

A LITTLE CHILD CRUSHED TO DEATH.-Mr-
lost little girl four years old last week by a
lamentable accident. She was walking alone
on the BERN bank beneath cliff when a stone
missing the child, went in search, and found
her dead body with the stone resting upon her
Year: 1878

:. UNPLEASANT SEQUEL TO THE NEWPORT
BALL-!n the Supreme Court of Rhode Island.
at Providence, Il. l., a hearing was had yes
Newport that the city treasury of that city be
restrained from paying the bill for BAH given
by the city council to officers of the British
squadron. Chief Justice Dwifee said there
was little doubt in his mind that the council
had exceeded its authority in expenditure of
the money. The only question was whether
the petitioners by their DELAY had lost their re.
grant an Injunction to give time for further
Investigation
Year: 1878

IT took three men. two boys and q
brindle dog an hour and half to drive
q sandy pig q distance OF two blocks
down to the fsrry-boat yesterday after
noon. When the wearisome drive was
ended the dog was bit in three places,
the boy had sprained his ankle and bro
ken two windows by throwing stones at
the pig. one OF the men was tired to
death and the other two were drunk.
and the pig was back two miles from the
river, going west. and sarcastically ask
ing people 1t met II they could tell
whero the Burlington ferry crossed the
Observation-Disclosures Hdrksye.
Year: 1878

Come and select from the list of desir-
able property now on my books for sale,
cheaper than any other point in the State
for its value and advantages of market


GEO. A. j OVERTON.
Year: 1878

Remember we sell goods for cash only,
hence when you deal with US you only
have to pay for your own goods, and not
for goods, in the way of and extra profit,
that some one else has obtained from US on
credit and failed to pay for.


Off CHAs. WILSON.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, Jan. 2-TAe financial article in recent issue of the London Times points out that the proposition to remone- tize silver has nothing to do with the proj- ects for unlimited paper issue, and says: "Repudiation is word that can in no sense strictly apply to the United States. Suppose it should decree silver as the sole lawful money of tomorrow, we doubt whether bondholders would lose much by the change. At the present price of silver, say 55 pence per ounce, the loss to bond holders would be much smaller than is commonly supposed, If paid off at par in gold coin in New York, a one thousand dollar bond would be worth se206 As in London, and if paid in silver it would be worth e191 12s-a difference of 715 per cent only. It is not for a moment to be be supposed that the difference would re- main so great for a single day. Were sil- yer remonetized we should probably see it at once jump fully to five shillings per ounce, at which price the above loss would be nearly obliterated.
Year: 1878

I feel under increased obligations for the patronage so liberally accorded me as the successor of the old and successful house of Vim. B. Hooper 6 Co.,, and while ac- knowledging this fact, allow me to add that those dealing with me will find as complete stock as was ever offered by the old firm with all that is new and desirable in addi- ton.

 JAMES M. BARNEY
Year: 1878

Gold, Silver, Copper or Lead, will be made at highest possible rates for account of owners. My long experience and con- nection with buyers in the different mar bets give me a very decided advantage over any one in the Territory in making such sales to the profit of those entrusting them to me. Correct and responsible assays obtained and submitted when desired.
Year: 1878

TRAGIC EPISODE IN A GEORGIA FAM.
LY.-Mr, John Pore, who lives in the
lower part of Lumpkin county, had
two little children, aged respectively
three aud elk. They were engaged in


their customary play q few days ago,
while the mother was at the well. The


Oldest child, for what reason II will
never be known, picked up q sharp
Ratchet aud struck the baby In the side,
leaving the Ak sticking in the wound.
The child seeing what he had done ran
and told his mother, who was drawing
up bucket Of water at the time. This
so frightened her that she let 20 Of the
windlaSs, aud the revolving crank
struck the boy on the head and literal.
ly knocked his brains out, killing him
inStantly.-[Gainesville (Ga.) southron.
Year: 1878

TIE Grand Duchess of Baden, the
only daughter of the Emperor of Ger.
many, is q woman OF admirable good
sense. She has placed her young
daughter in the excellent girls school
in The Schloss at CSrlsruhe, where she
is proceeding step for step with her
young companions, and teachers and
playfellows have been alike charged
not to distinguish her by any of the
high and exceptional titles she may
bear In after.life. She Is 10 work aud
play run and wrestle, give and take, on
perfectly equal terms with all her com,
paniOus, and TO receive exactly the same
pnnishmenis If she Is remisl In study
sewing, knitting, or any other occupa'
ton Of All ordinary scholar. The
Grand Duchess is credited with ex'
pressing a wish that the child may be
made as thorough seAmstress as It she
were expecting to earn livelihood by
her needle.
Year: 1878

Magnolia Herald: We dsploro the
misfortune that go few Of our papers
are outSpoken and Independent. They
are the seutinels upon the outposts, to
warn the people OF danger approaching,
and when this duty is disregarded by
policy or ignorance, the very ground.
work of journalism is polluted, They
are not as Trustworthy as the geese
which cackled according to instinct
and saved old Rome. Tied to party.
right or wrong, biased in principles,
they enslave themselves to lie dictates,
regardless OF the character or purposes
of the men who assume to take the lead
and ignore the popular sentiment.
Year: 1878

Jenny Lind has been sent to jail in Kingstown, N. I. The New York Commercial says she must know by this time what it is to be night-in jail.

 Cast your little stanza upon the waters and it will return to you after many days credited to half dozen innocent persons who never did you any particular harm.

 An exchange asks, "What shall we do with our girlsY' Why, dc the fair thing by one of them, and give the other fellows chance with the rest.

 Profanity never did any man the least good. No man is richer oi wiser for it. It comments no ore to society; it is disgusting to the refined and abominable to the good.
Year: 1878

X large proportion of the Amercan people are to-day dying from the effects of Dyspepsia or disordered liver. The result of these diseases upon the masses of intelligent and valuable people is most alarming, making life actually a burden instead of pleasant existence of enjoyment and usefulness as it ought to be. There is no good reason for this, if you will only throw aside prejudice and skepticIsm, 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 it's virtues, with satisfac- tory results in every case. You can buy a sample bottle for 10 cents to try. three doses will relieve the worst case. Positively sold by all Druggists on the Western Continent. For sale by J. NJ. Harkey & Bro.
Year: 1878

Just while we think of it, why didn't the individual whe invented button hole get up something equal ly durable to fit into it? We have yet to run across the first button hole that would hold out with half the persistency that the hole would.

 An ingenious locksmith has in vented a new front door lock, which, by a clockwork arrangement, be- comes deaf to the entreatles of a latch key after 12 o'clock at night. Whenever you pass house at ? am. and see a man sleeping on the fence, you may know his wife has purchas ed one on the sly.

 There may be no more edifying and ennobling sight than to see a lady have tussle with her best dress on Sunday morning, after the church bells begin to ring, and she finds, at the last moment, it malig- nantly refuses to hang right behind. Angels couldn't use their tears to better advantage than at such . time-so we've been told.
Year: 1878

The leading wholesale houses Of St. Louis report that business was never more brisk than during the past month, This is one of the re- suits of the many bankruptcies of the past five years, which by weed ing out the weak concerns have in creased the stability of those which passed through the ordeal. St Louis IS probably the most solvent city in the country, and gives every indication that the rising sun of pros perity will gild the tops of her busi ness houses and the edges of her commercial paper among the first Eve. Post.
Year: 1878

We need to bring out our entire strength in the coming Congression- al election. One Democrat must not wait for another. Every member of the party must realize the fact that success depends upon indevidual eff fort. Our standard bearers are do- lng noble service in the field Let us all see that we do like service on election day
Year: 1878

and an honorable old age. But ever since
the days of Adam ana Eve. parents have
made it a point to toll and struggle all
their lives in order to realize sufficient
sum of money to purchase, when they are
dead and gone, their sons each a first
class through ticket to the devil, and it
is not much to be wondered at that so
many of their sons, reared in vice and
and idleness, as too many of them often
are, have no higher ambition than to in.
vest their Inheritance in just that sort of
TRANSFORMATION. @@
Year: 1878

There is said to be young man in the
Missouri penitentiary whose parents at
their death left him fortune of $50, 900.
There is where his parents made fatal
mistake. IF they had taken the precau-
tion to invest that sum in small dog,
and shot HIM, and then had simply lett
the young man jack.pla or wood
saw, with printed instructions how to use
t, the chances are that instead of being
n the penitentlary, he would to-day


ave been gradually but surely working


is way up to handsome competency
Year: 1878

Mrs. Kate Southern, the Georgia
murderess, whose case excited much at
tention both North and South, is nursing
her baby and doing household work on
the plantation Of Col. Smith, in Washing
ton county, Ga. Her husband is employ
ed as guard on the plantation, in order
that he may be near his wife. In Geor-
gia convicrs are hired out to planters and
contractors, and Mrs. Southern seems to
he fortunate in her master. The Geor-
gia press continues to differ in regard to
the justice of the verdict which doomed
Kate to the gallows, and the Enquirer
Sun of Columbus is cruel enough to as
sert that she is not beautiful-that in fact
she is only passably good-looking, and is
vulgar enough to wear imitation jet. At
any rate, the family have acquired money
as well as notoriety through the tragedy,
and are better off then when they were
driving cattle to the plough among their
cracker kinfOlk.
Year: 1878

A Liverpool youth married and
leaving his wife went TO Bombay.
In year he heard bis wife wGs
dead, and after a decent interval
married again. L1ter on his re-
turn TO his native land, and great
ly to his surprise, was joyous!y
greeted by his first wife, An am.
ic lble adjustment was made and
be returned to bis first love, he
other agreeing 10 go back to her
friends in India. Next The wife
died, and no mistake about it.
Then the young man looked a
bout for the other atSdfound that
she had gone back to ladia, but
was living with another man as
his wife. Last scene of all in
this strange, eventfdl history, the
young umn is before police court
for neglecting his wife and chi d
and leaving them TO come upon
the parish, the result Of the deser
tion Of the other fellow. It. is to
be hoped that the court will be
able to untaDgle the rights of the
case
Year: 1878

A faceiious brakeman on the
Central Pacific Railroad cried out
as the train was about entering a
tunnel, This is one mile long and
the train will be four minutes
passing through it" The train
dashed through into daylight a.
gain in four seconds, and the
scene Yves study for a painter,
Seven young ladies' were closely
pressed by seven pair of mascu-
line arms, fourteen pairs Of lips
were glued together, aud two doz'
en- inverted whisky TASKS dashed
in the air.


81 want to find out who is ths
master of this house," said The
m an with book under bis arm
to the vinegary-looling woman
with a pointed nose and a very
small top knot who opened tbs
door for him. "Well, stranger,
she said with arms akimbo, .yo,
1 just walk around into the bacl
yard, and ask a little spindle
shanked deacon you'll find ther'
fixing up the grape arbor, and b
will tell you if | don't boss thi
ranch he don't know who does
Now what do you want with me :?
Year: 1878

ToOTLE, LIVINGSTON & CO. offer the only nrs-class
stock of misses and chdrens coaks and ue shaws
the city Special taken the selection and purchase
Of the stock for this derarmenhe selections being made
entirely from the leading faahionabe manufacturers OF New
York Every garment being we'll made style
and the material and trimmings used of the finest quality


We take great pride in calling the
The stock in this department being far superior
similar establishment only this in the entire
west Our Alaska Beaver Velvet Broche Shetland
Shaws embracing the production everything choice and
and beautiful to be found in the New York market4