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Year: 1879

FRIDAY, August 22-6 T. NJ
] The stock speculation to-day displayed increased
activity. about thirty thousand shares more be-
ing dealt in than yesterday. The features
Lake Shore and the granger stocks. which closed at
an advance for the day ranging from Y to Ia per
cent. Erie and the coal stocks weak through
out and closed at the lowest figures of the day. Erie
recording fall of y and the others decline OF
about n on the days operations. general feeling
OF uncertainty prevailed as to the money market III
the immediate future and this undoubtedly deferred
many from investing in stocks. Sensational reports
the action Of the Treasury in calling in the
balance due the four cents circulated and
. result it almost impossible to procure
time loans. Toward the close rumors were
spread that the Of the banks had largely in
creased. as would be shown by the statement to-
morrow. In the final dealings also money was
offered call loans lower rates. he effect OF all
this being rally the dropping stock market to
recovery from its temporary and to cause


frmer feeling. 1t is asserted that the money mar
ket '.rigged to produce this effect. as will be
by reference to the paragraph on money below.
The statement in to-day's HERALD that the pub
lshed earnings Of the st. Paul road included much
greater mileage than was embraced in the earnings
Of last year. with which they compared. gave
rise to considerable discussion. Vice President
wadsworth appealed to in relation to the mat
ter. and he declined to contradict the statement He
would not assume the responsibility of declar-
ing that the receipts from the 2l2 miles Of Western
Union road lately added not included
in the reported earnings of st. Paul. In ad-
dition to this it is well known that 167
miles of road known the Southern
Minnesota has also been added to the ST. Paul. Re-
gardng the lease of the Burlington and Cedar Rapids
road to the Chicago and Northwestern the directors
Of the latter held protracted secret meeting Just
what they did they refused to tell but the general
Impression was that the arrangement would not be
consummated. and the Burlington stock fell off two
per cent iR consequence Aside from the fact noted
in this column yesterday that the latter road has not
earned sufficient to pay the interest its bonds.
serious objection to lease found in the fact
that suits for S750.000 against that road
pending in Iowa. These brought to recover
money alleged to have been expended by Henry
Olews account of its bonds. Tho Stock Exchange
list has been extended by the addition of the
mon and the preferred stocks of the reconstructed
Erie Company, the former amounting to SIS OO0, 900
And the latter to $50. 000 The Iowa and Dakota
division extension bonds. No. 1901 to 1850 have
been also added to those already the list.


The extreme fluctuations Of the day in leading
stocks is shown in tho following table
Year: 1879

TnE consideration Of the street cleaning
contracts by Council last night resulted
in nothing, the First Branch failing to
concur in the acceptance Of the few con-
tracts confirmed by the Second. There
seems to be firmly grounded apprehen-
sion that the worst features Of the Haley
regime will be revived In the proposed
new arrangement, with the added differ
ence that the Street Commissioner win
have half dozen contractors=to fght'in-
stead Of one, and we should not be sur
pised to see the whole plan 60 by the
board. E tTatt
Year: 1879

The re-adjusters are actively at work in
Virginia in spite Of the settlement Of the
State debt by the last Legislature, and the
Richmond State calls upon the conserva.
tives to organize and overwhelm them
once for all in the fall elections. A
correspondent Of the Springfield Republican
thinks the debt question is but q pretext
about which to rally opposition TO the reg.
ulars, as is true generally Of the indepen.
dent and greenback movement through
out the South, but they are prophetic, all
the same, Of the final disruption Of the
solid South and its division between two
parties.
Year: 1879

The fact is significant that the national
banks at present organized are entitled to
receive upon their present capital $780,
372,9l6 Of circulating notes, while the
total actual issue falls over S76,0OO,OOO
short Of that amount. That they do not
take advantage Of the opportunity to in
crease their circulation is because they
cannot profitably use the notes after they
get them. This single statement, based
upon tine report OF the Comptroller OF the
Currency, is worth volumes oi argument
against the national banking system. The
system is free to all comers as any other
business, but the profits are SO small that
there are few new banking undertakings
iu any part of the country, and the banks
we have do not find use for the capital
they are privileged to employ.
Year: 1879

LATE dispatches last night from Mem
phis, induce the hope that the yellow
fever may be driven out or held down to
its present proportions until the coming
Of cool weather. 1t is estimatedtha there
are not over FIVE thousand persons re.
naming in the city subject to the fever,
and these are being cared for in the best
possible way. Those who are absent will
have no temptation to return, the seasons
business has been killed SO faras the city
ia concerned, and its people have concen'
trated all their energies on the one purpose
Of fighting of the plague until the frost
comes TO their relief.
Year: 1879

bic resources of ready cash ten-foid, or by an
absolute sum of more than TWENTY
EIGHT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.


In 1856 the total valuation of the entire
property of Maine of all kinds was Just
800, 57,573 so that in deposits in banks and
in Savings-banks the people of the State
have added nearly thirty per cent. to their
wealth.


Citizens of Maine, think on these things.
and ask yourselves if any community was
ever blessed with better government than
the Republicans have given Maine.


OF course this increase in cash capital rep
resents the net result of the gains and profits
in many departments of trade and industry
II will be the grateful task of "HONEST
TRUTH" topoint out to our citizens the large
and encouraging advances made by our beloved
State in so many fields of enterprise during
the period in which its destnies have been
controlled by the policy and the measures of
the Republican party.
Year: 1879

Thing. Pillsbury's pal, thinks Mr.. Davis
was not much of a soldier because he did not
get Il commission. The rank and file in the
late war in the estimation of this Thing
amounted to little as soldiers and the men
bore commissions, fill his ideal of soldier


Men of Kcnnebec. What do YOU think
of the man who could make such a remark
abouta soldier whose commanding officer tells
You was ever faithful in the discharge of
duty? BY the way, when he told his friends
few days since, that he had been green
hacker since 1861. (sometime before the is
sue of such money, he forgot that when he
wanted to be nominatedby the republicans for
County Commissioner, he sent mis- friends and
neighbors about the county telling the people
how good a republican he was, even better
than his competitors, when it seems he was
no republican at all. A queer Thing. this
Daniel. 7
Year: 1879

the WONDERFUL
Effects of the Extract of
CELERY the CHAMOMILE UPON


THE NERVOUS
System and Digestive


Organs
In Curing Especially Sick


Headache,
Nervous Headache, Neuralgia,


Nervousness,
Paralysis and Indigestion, and


Preventing
Neuralgia of the Heart and Sud-


den Death.
Year: 1879

The combination machine got badly


smashed at the Penobscot democratic


county convention held at Bangor, Thurs


day. Both conventions-the greenback


and democratic--were called and held at


the same time, and in conjunction there


with a grand mass meeting, or love feast,


was advertised to be held in one of the


public squares after the regular conven-


tions had met and renewed the wedding


of last year by uniting npon one ticket to


be supported by both parties.


The greenback convention nominated


the old senatorial ticket of last year, and


went through to the end in the same man
ner. with everything in and about the con
vcntion appearing serene and lovely.


But soon after the democratic convention
assembled signs of discord in the combi-
nation appeared. An attempt was made to
endorse the greenback ticket nominated,
or to adjourn without making nominations
and leaving it to be understood that this
amounted to an endorsement. This was
at once and earnestly resisted. with much
plain speaking against trading out the de-
moericy to the rag-baby peddlers, and
finally the amalgamation scheme was
most cffectually squelched. nearly all in
the convention appering to be opposed to
it, and straight, siIuon-pure democratic
ticket was nominated.


This failure of the combination machine
in the arrangement of ticket that both
parties conld support had II depressing ef-
feet upon the love feast to he held in the
afternoon and evening in the public square.
So that the evening meeting, which it was
intended to hold out doors by the light of
the moon and a grand display of Chinese
lanterns, petered ont into lugubrious
meeting at Norombega with II very thin
attendance towards the close.


Now us the republicans of Penobscot
will elect their ticket whether the demo-
crats and greenbackers amalgamate or not
the failure of the combination machine in
terests them no farther than it is an indi-
cation that the unholy alliance forced by
the "tricksters" and "ringsters' of the
is dissolved. I'm this respect it
is very important event, and will have
wide influence. ltbreaks forever the bond
that held the combination together. 1t is as
much notice to the fiIsionists of Kennebec,
or Cumberland, or any other county. as to
those of Penobscot, that the attempt to
carry out their scheme is a failure. Oil
and water will not unite. Soft money re-
publicans and hard money democrats NAV
go through the ceremony of marriage, but
it does not require prophet to tell that
trouble and a divorce will surely follow
an attempted union of such discordant ele-
ments. Honest money democrats and
honest money republicans can stand to-
gether upon the same financial platform
without a jar for they think alike; and we
trust they will act together against the dan
gerous doctrine of greenbackism.
Year: 1879

There is loud cah being made in all
parts of the State for Pillsbury or Smith
to speak out and tell all they know about
Mr.. Blaine trying to bargain with Mr..
Smith" The Portland Press says we
have had insinuations long enough. Now
give us the facts. The Bangor Wing
says: 1--WE hope the Standard will
be pressed to tell all it knows on this sub
iect or confess it knows nothing. Mr..
Smith has AN admirable opportunity to
speak. The columns of the Standard are
open to him we presume. Those of the
Wing certainly are


The Campaign Standard copies an arti-
Gle from the Boston Herald in regard to
the political outlook in Maine, in which
the Herald gives very rosy look to the
prospects of the trade-and-dicker party.
The Herald's article was written before
the Penobscot combination smash-up, and
put that county down certain for amalga-
nation. The next article the Herald pub
fishes on the outlook in Maine, won't be
quite so favorable for the fusionists.


1t will be seen by our report of the pro-
ceedings of the Board of Aldermen, YES
terday, in relation to the offer of the
Trustees of the Cony Female Academy,
that the Board voted to accept the offer,
which is to erect and give to the city a
high school building and keep it in repair,
ON condition that it shall be kept free
high school for the whole city. The offer
was a very generous one and the action of
the Board is important.
Year: 1879

Better than gold to Il man is q cheer
full wife. But he must do his part to-
ward making her cheerful. 1t is easy
enough for Il man to marry Il happy
woman. But the bride eXpectant, when
she thought how happy she would be,
never contemplated the picture of a hus-
band coming home cross as Il bear, and
going to bed without speaking to her;
she had never thought of the long even
inc when he wouldn't come at all; OF
his bringing some one home to dinner
without warning or preparation; or his
awful profanity over so tritling matter
as her little bill of expenses. She had
no idea, in fact, there could be any thing
but happiness in married life, and she
had determined to be happy, and to dis
tribute her happiness to those about her.
1t is not often her fault il she doesn't t
succeed. Men, as Il rule, do not exert
themselves to secure their wives happl
ness. They know that it itrequires a con
stant and great effort to possess prop
erty and be secure i'll its value III the
midst of constant commercial changes
The cheerfulness, the happy, hopeful
character which every woman displays
at the beginning of marriage, is not SC
easily lost us fortune it requires but 4
small share. A word to the girls i'll this
connection is in order: Beware of the
man who doesn't know enough about
cheerfulness to understand its value IL
daily life. Such II man would improve
the first opportunity to grind the cheer
fulness out of his home, to frlghten
sunbeam into shadow, and then won
der what is the matter. Such Is no bet
Ger than no husband at all; and whei
You want Il husband go find somebody
else-somebody who will give you a


least some chance to be happy far int
the life beyond the honeymoon.-St
! Louis Post -Dispdtch.
Year: 1879

The duties of the teacher are tcrscly
set forth in the New York School Jour-
nal as follows:


His business is to develop, discipline,
and train the powers by which knowl-
edge is gained; besides, in performing
this work he will lodge in a secure and
usable form all the useful knowledge
possible. He will make as his great
leading object the training of the mind ;
he will next direct the pupils attention
to his own mental processes, to show
him when he thinks accurately; this is
sometimes called teachi'ag TO think; he
will teach the pupil to arrange and
classify his knowledge; he will teach
the pupil to give good expression to hls
knowledge. These being the objects
the teecher aims at, he requires study in
order that he may secure these objects
they may be set down as the objects OF
study. And if person has no teacher,
he still needs all of the above. effects,
and to produce them he uses. study. II
is plain, then, that study is the indispcn-
sable means to be employed to obtain
education. ..
Year: 1879

An awful case of the consequences OF
refusing a Young mans honorable love
is reported ON the West Side. A really
nice young man fell in love with hand
some girl, the only daughter OF hand
some and well preserved widow OF 80,
and offered her marriage. She ridlculed
him because he was 26, and said he was
old enough to be her father, and so on,
and with her taunts goaded him to such
a pitch of frenzy that he swore he would
be fearfully revenged. Accordingly he
proposed to and married the wretched
o,irl's mother. Now that wretched girl
has to wear stout leather boots two sizes
too large for her, and 90 to bed at p
M. and eschew the theater, chocolate
caramels, icc-cream, and, in fact, every
thing else that makes life worth living
for. her stepfather's nominal object be-
inc that when she grows up she may be
as splendidlv matured Il woman us her
mother, the compliment implied IN this
inducing the mother To second HIM en-
Enthusiastically; and when young man
comes round TO see that wretched glrl
her stepfather bounces him down the
front steps and throws his hat after him,
and tells the wretched girl that the young
man is not fit companion for her, and
that he is rs solicitous for her future as
he would be for that of his own child,
and altogether in the kindest manner
possible he makes that wretched girl
even wish that she were dead as many
As hundred times day Letall other
beautiful girls who are ever tempted to
refuse the matrimonial offers of eligible
Young men he warned by her unhappy
I fate. Chicago Tribune,
Year: 1879

In an article on the Russian peasantry
the Molra observes that the chief peas
ant in village sometimes has more
power than any man in the Empire eX-
cept the Gar He has the power, for
instance, of ordering Il culprit to be
nogged, a right which is denied by law
to any other public functionary or citi-
zen in the Empire. Further, Il majority
of the peasants in a commune can. SEN
tence one of their number to be beaten
with sticks, and there is no appeal
against the sentence, and the commune
can still sentence a man to banishment
to Siberia for life This sentence has
been passed for such petty offenses as
stealing handkerchief ora little honey,
or opening brandy shop without the
permission of the commune. In the
Government of Samara a man was SEN
fenced to be banished, together with his
family. Shortly after, however, the
Senate, to whom the case was referred,
decided that the man should be per-
mitted to remain in his village, on the
ground that his health would not permit
of his going to Siberia. The case OF the
mans wife, however, was not consid-
cred: and the sentence was carried out,
so far as she was concerned, though she
was innocent of any crime, and had been


directed to 90 to Siberia merely in or
der that she should not be separated
from her husband.
Year: 1879

bic of doing good service between a
mans home and his store OF office when
not too far away, or between an office
and shop or yard, or between Il drug
store and the residence of physicians,
and it possesses the great merit of being
quite inexpensive.
Year: 1879

A FARMER has experimental with ma
nure taken from his barn-cellar under
cover and exactly the same kind OF maj
nure dropped just outside the cellar and
of course exposed TO the weather. Inc
crop from the former was just about
double that from the latter.-LoVfH
Courier
Year: 1879



 DAN in the right side, under the edge of the ribs, increases on pres sure; sometimes the pain is in the left side; the patient IS rarely able to lie on the left side; sometimes the pain is felt under the shoulder blade, and 1t frequently extends to the top of the shoulder, and IS sometimes mistaken for rheumatism in the arm. The stomach is affected with loss of appe- tite and sickness; the bowels in gen eral are costive, sometimes alternative with lax; the head IS troubled with pain, accompanied with dull, heavy sensation in the back part. There is generally a considerable loss of mem- ory, accompanied with a painful sen- sation of having left undone some thing which ought to have been dore. A slight, dry cough is sometimes an attendant. The patient complains of weariness and debility; he is easily startled, his feet are cold or burning, and he complains of prickly sensa- tion of the skin; his spirits are low; and although he is satisfied that exer. else would be beneficial to him, yet he can scarcely summon up fortitude enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred where few of them ex- isted, yet examination of the body, after death, has shown the LIVER to have been extensively deranged.

 AGUE AND FEVER.

 DR. C. McLANE's LIVER PILLS, IN CASES OF AGUE AND FEVER, when taken with Quinine, are productive of the most happy results. No better cathartic can be used, preparatory to, or after taking Quinine. We would advise all who are afflicted with this disease to give them FAIR TRIAL.

 For all bilious Arrangements, and as simple purgative, they are unequaled.
Year: 1879

The lawyers frequently have applicants
for divorce who give singular grounds for
their petition, but the most singular one
came last week when young woman of
Westlield asked for a divorce from her
neWly-made husband because he had very
thick lips. The lawyer told her she could
hardly get divorce on that ground, and
suggested that usually the wife knew what
kind Of lips her husband had before mar
riage. The parties in question are well
known in town and We're married only
week or two ago, but separated the day
after the ceremony. The husband is not
over %, and, though a member Of the
Church and never a liquor drinker, got
drunk soon after the separation and in
disgust has left town, where he had lived
since boy. [springfield Republican.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


How can judges and lawyers be expected to plead
and do justice when the court rooms badly
ventilated as those OF this county, One hour after
the opening of the court the atmosphere becomes
fetid and dense. and Of the officials have the
sense to let in the precious Dir. No wonder that
several Of the judges indisposed and half Of the
headaches. J..
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR OF THE HxnALD:-


If Mayor Cooper will condescend TO pay . visit
to East Ninth street His Honor win And the most
astounding and substantial evidence Of the incom.
potency of the Street Cleaning Department. for here,
under the nostrs of the tens OF thousands of cizens
he can mountains of every conceivable manner
OF filth. How long will the street be allowed to con-
tnue in such a state? If much longer It will surely
create contagion. THE LOST CHILD.
Year: 1879

To THE EprroR OF THE HERALD:-


would like to ask why 1t is that the rag mon and
junk permitted to have bells their cartsf
It is against the law, and few months ago the po-
lice had instructions to arrest all those having BELLS
They now go around undisturbed. and the noise
they make is, to put it mildly. hideous. II don't
it stopped pretty will take time enough to
have every arrested that may meet In my daily
travels and make personal complaint against them.


ANTLBELIa
Year: 1879

[NorE-Letters intended for this column must bs
accompanied by the writer's full name and address to
insure attention. Compliments who are unwilling "a
comply with this rule simply waste time In writing
Write only on one side of the paper.-ED. HERALD.l
Year: 1879

sine die. Eating and drinking, smoking and billiards.
these the only occupations of society in England
just now. The wretched tenant farmers now know
that their ruin Is complete, not single crop put
must be marked down to half its usual value; the
potato crop will serve for pigs food chiefly Mill
ions of bushels of wheat pouring into the coun-
try from America. There is absolutely no redeem-
ing feature in the prospects of the agricultural in
terests of England. Many farmers having given up
their holdings. and realizing all the money they can
sixty have just left for Texas. and follow
just as they can get their affairs settled and
make fair start.


THE STATE OF AGRIcULTuRE.


The terrible weather OF the present year. the in
element spring and the utter absence of summer are
tending to bring agricultural matters to issue.
and. some think. to precipitate the nation into
something like social revolution. was talking
not many days ago to the holder of Of the oldest
baronetcies upon the effect OF the distress among
ants upon landlords. He. being naturally i'm
bued with the prejudices OF his own class.
looked upon landowners q sorely tried
and much to be pitied "f the ten
ants of my best farms" he said. ''cannot
pay me their rents shall be ruined. rs have not
got any capital and cannot farm my lan1 myself.
We landowners live from hand to mouth at the best
of times and IL our tenants cannot keep their heads
above water they drag down beneath the surface
with them" 'Sell some of your land said. land
put the proceeds into good government securities;
then you will be all right and have no bother IN
employing stewards collecting rents and depending
upon other peoples industry or on the weather. =
"Sell my land" roared the baronet; .why. cannot
sell an acre of it. and if could wouldn't


What is to be done with such people? Nothing
short of social revolution can bring them to COM
mon sense. Whom the gods wish to destroy they
deprive first of reasoni II the aristocratc owners
of land and the scarcely less aristocratic landed
called-do not wake up to the solution of some Of
the problems which are now beginning to weigh
heavily upon this country they may find themselves
laws Of entail and primogeniture have created for
them.