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Year: 1879

THE Democrats are just now worrying
themselves little too much over the next
electoral count This is borrowing needless
trouble. Present appearances indicate that
they will have but very small interest in
the next electoral count. They will come
out of the contest at the ballot-box the worst
whipped party known to American politics
since the close of the rebellion.
Year: 1879

Ben HILL, in n recent speech before the
sachems of Tammany Hall, remarked in
effect that the Republicans claim that the
people of the States "are not capable of
holding their own elections" This is the
generally accepted Democratic charncteriz-
alton of the Republican attitude regarding
the National election laws. But 1t is spe-
cious and false in the highest degree. The
Republican party docs not deny the right
nor the ability of the people Of the States
to hold their own elections in their own
way and in their own manner, but il claims
the same privilege for the people of the
United States rs represented by the Cen
eral Government that it aceords to the
State governments. In other words it
insists that the States shall not usurp the
power to interfere with or control the elec-
ton of National officers. This is the fair
way to put it, and Mr.. Hill and his fellow
Bourbons knowingly falsiiy the record
when they put it otherwise,
Year: 1879

THEBourbon talk about impeaching Presi-
dent HAYES for keeping the United States
courts open despite the refusal of Congress
to appropriate money therefor, is on the in
crease. Let them 20 ahead and try it. The
POTTER committee served to arouse his
amiable obstnacy the Notification schemes
developed his backbone, and an attempt to
impeach him would naturally enable h i'm
to show many other latent good qualities of
craftsmanship and sound Republicanism.
Year: 1879

TEXAS seems to be the only Southern
State the population of which is increasing.
All of the others are either'at stand-still
OF are falling off in this respect. These re-
suits will be officially demonstrated by the
next census, and may have beneficial eff
feet upon the country at large in the appor-
Ionment for Congress, which will be made
n lsS1-'s2. The Northern States, it must
be understood, especially in the West, are
all increasing in their population, and will
be entitled to a corresponding increase in
the ratio of representation. The solid 13S
Southern votes in the Electoral College
will then be among the things of tn c
past
Year: 1879

Those languid, tiresome sensations causing
you to feel scarcely able to be on your feet;
that constant drain that is taking from your
system all its former elasticity; driving the
bloom from your cheeks; that continual
strain upon your vital forces, rendering you
irritsble and fretful, can easily be removed
by the use of that marvellous remedy, Hop
Bitters. Irregularities and distractions of
your system are relieved at once, while the
special cause of periodical pain are perma-
nently removed. Win you heed this? See
Truths"
Year: 1879

Wien she returned to consciousness a
strange voice-the physician's-was
saying: No bones broken, though it's
wonder her neck wasn't, falling in the
way she did.


Sbwly she opened her eyes upon a
conflsed mingling of anxious faces, wet
cloths, and bottles of arnica and cam
phori and gradually she comprehended
what had happened, and her own condi-
tion, not dangerously injured, but
bruised and famed, and with sprained
ankle that would keep her a prisoner
for some days at least It was sudden
pause in her busy work-an enforced
rest. She scarcely knew how to bear
it, for moment, as she remembered all
Sd, had planned to do, until second
ssuadefing thought suggested that she
might have left it all forever; then she
grew patient and thankful. Yet it
seemed strange to be lying quietly on
the lounge in the best bed room-the
room that had been kept so carefully
closed to preserve it furniture until an
addition to the house should transmute
it into back parlor; to watch through
the open door, only spectator, while
Neatly fitted to and fro in the kitchen
beyond, spreading the table for tea


How good the children were that ev-
ening, and how tenderly thoughtful her
husband was, coming to her side again
again and again to talk or read to her
They had not found much time for talk
ing or reading together these late years,
she and David; she had always been
so busy when he was in the house. She
had always been SO busy when he was
in the house. She had dreamed of
leisure time coming, though, much of
illness or accident coming to mar her
plans, or of death suddenly ending them.
But it flashed upon her now how many
little loving words and offices and daily
enjoyments had been crowded out of
their home, and in that brief RETROSPECT
tive glance she understood the meaning
and the earnestness of Sister Searls' en-
treaty.


Why, it's all kind of real nice and
jolly-if you wasn't hurt, declared Tom
my, unable to express his enjoyment of
the pretty room the unusual family
gathering any more clearly.


Tears gathered in the mothers eyes,
but she had found her clue, and she
meant to follow it. She had ample
time for thought in the days that fol.
little now and then, on garments for
Tim, or look over seeds for Nealie's vine
planting; and slowly but surely she
learned her lesson, and brought it back
to health with her-to gather life's
pleasantness as God sends his sunshine
day by day.-Pacifc EUangeL.
Year: 1879

A Cincinnati lady is the mother of
bright little boy about three years old.
The whooping cough recently prevailed
in their neighborhood, and the mother
became very much alarmed lest her boy
should take it, She had talked about it
and worried so much over it that she had
infected her child so much with her
fears, that he would scarcely leave her
side. One night. after the little fellow
had been put to bed, donkey was driv-
en- past the house, and when just opposite
set up his loud hee-haw. With shrek
the boy was out of bed, screaming at the
top of his voice, "The whooping cough is
coming, mamma; the whooping cough is
coming!" He didn't catch it that time
however.
Year: 1879

NICOTINE IN HER SMACK.-I wonder
how any woman who has ever kissed
clean man can 60 through the pretense
even of kissing tobacco chewer. Did
you ever see one suffer the penalty.
This is how she does it. There is a
preliminary shudder, and then she sets
her teeth hard, holds her breath, makes
little pigeon dip at the foul lips of
the grinding beast, and then pale with
horror, flies to the kitchen, where. if
you follow her, you will find her disin-
fecting with soap and water. Many of
the blessed little hypocrites pretend
that they like the smell of a cigar, but
even hypocrisy is powerless to force
from woman the confession of fond
ness for hanging like the bee on the
flower to a tobacco worms lips.-Mrs.
Garrison.
Year: 1879

Who shall go first to the shadowy land,


My love or II
Whose will it be in grief to stand,
And press the cold, unanswering hand,
Wipe from the brow the dew of death,
And catch the softly Huttering BREATH
Breathe the loved name, nor hear reply,
In anguish watch the glazing eye


His or mine?
Which shall bend over the wounded sod.


Ny love or 1?
Commenting the precious soul to God,
Till the doleful fall of the mufled clod,
Startles the mind to a consciousness
ofits bitter anguish. and life distress,
Dropping the pail O'eT the lOvelt past
With the mournful murmur 'the last-the last"


My loveor1?
Which shall return to the desolate home,


My love OrI?
And list for a step that shall never come,
And hark for voice that must still be dumb,
While the halfstunned senses wander back
To the cheerless life, and the thorny track,
Where the silent room and vacant chair,
Have memories sweet, but hard to bear


My love orI?
All then, perchance to that mourner there?


My love orI?
Wrestling with anguished and deep despair,
An Angel shall come through the gates of prayer.
And the burning eyes shall cease to weep,
And the sobs melt down to a sea of sleep,
While fancy freed from the chains of day,
Through the shadowy dreamland floats away;


Ny love or l?
And then methinks, on that boundary land,


My love and II
The mourn'd and the mourner together shall stand
Or walk by those rivers of shining sand
Till the dreamer awakened at dawn of day
Finds the stone of the sepuchre rolled away,
And over the cold, dull wHste of Death,
The warm, bright sunlight of holy Falth,


My love and II
Year: 1879

Don't think when you have won a
wife that you have also won a slave.


Don't think that your wife has less
feeling than your sweetheart. Her re-
lation to you is changed, not her nature.


Don't think that you can dispense
with all the little civilities of life tow
ard her on marrying. She appreciates
those things quite as much as other wo-
men.


Don't be rude and gruff at home. Had
you been that sort of fellow before
marriage, the probabilities are that you
would be sewing on your own buttons
still.


Don't make your wife feel that she is
an incumbrauce on you by giving her
grudgingly. What she needs give as
cheerfully as if it were pleasure so to
do. She will feel better, and so will
you.


Don't meddle in the affairs of the
house under her charge. You have no
more right to be poking your nose into
the kitchen than she has to walk into
your place of business and give direc-
tions to your employees.


Don't find fault with her extravaganza
in ribbons, &C., until you have shut
down on cigars, tobacco, beer, &c


Don't leave your wife at home to
nurse the children on the score of econ
omy, while you bolt down town at nights
to see the show, or spend dollar on
billiards.


Don't bolt your supper, and hurry off
to spend evenings, lounging around
away from your wife. Before marriage
you couldn't spend your evenings enough
with her.


Don't prowl in the loafng resorts till
midnight, wasting your time in culpable
idleness, leaving your wife lonely at
home to brood over your neglect and
her disappointment.


Don't think that board and clothes
are sufficient for all a wife does for you
Year: 1879

The habit of snoring is peculiar to no
class, but that the snorer is common
pest no one will deny. A contributor
to the Popular Science Monthly tells
the cause of snoring, and how it may be
cured. First, as to the cause. The air
reaches the lungs through two channels,
the nose and the mouth. The two cur
rents meet in the throat below the soft
of the palate, the end of which hangs
loose, and swings backward and forward
producing the snoring. If the air reach
es the lungs, as it should, through the
nose, no noise will be made. If it reach
es the same through the mouth, the
palate will make more noise, since it is
not the natural channel. But when it
rushes in through hssh these channels,
then it is that the sound sleeper banish-
es rest from the pillow of his companion
by his hideous noises.


The remedy for snoring is to keep the
mouth closed; and for this purpose DR..
Wyeth, the writer of the article referred
to, has invented an article so cheap that
any one can make it, and no snorer
should be without it. 1t consists of a
single cap fitting the head snugly, and
piece of soft material fitting the chin.
These are connected by elastic webbing,
which is connected with the head-cap
near the ears. This contrivance pre-
vents the jaw from dropping down, and
thereby renders snoring impossible. The
great trouble will be to get people to
adopt this invention, since the most hon.
est and upright of men and women will
rarely, if ever, confess that they snore,
and will be very indignant, if accused
of it. AS further inducement to the
the introduction of this contrivance of
DR.. Wyeth, it may be added that breath
ing through the mouth is very detrimen-
tai to the health, and that many diseas-
es of the throat and lungs are contracted
or aggravated thereby.
Year: 1879

of paying the neat little sum of 900!
If your fruit falls into your neighbor's
lot you have an implicit license in law
to go and pick it up, doing him no una
voidable damage.-Ql3 Mass. 379, II
Vt. 273).


If, however, a fruit tree stands d.
rectly in the division line, and is what
is what is called a cline tree" both
parties own the tree and fruit in COM
mon, and neither can cut down the tree
or seriously injure it without being re-
sponsible to the other. az N. H. 454
81 N. Y. 123.


Sometimes persons are tempted to
poison or secretly kill neighbor's tree
Of some kind which stands near the fence
and casts baneful shade on their gar
den plot, but this is dangerous business,
and the party doing so may possibly
find himself inside the county Jail, where
the rooms are apt to smell and are not
always very clean The safer way in
such cases is to cut off the limbs which
hang over your side, which undoubtedly
you have legal right to do, bat it
would not be safe to use the limbs for
frewood or otherwise convert them to
your own use, lest you have to to pay
their value more or less. I have thus
imperfectly touched upon some of the
leading rights and liabilities of farmers,
and if, in the brief time allotted me l
have been able to impart and valuable
information, or save you from the many
entanglements of the law, or even to in
terest you, but for the passing hour my
purpose has been accomplished.-From
Judge Benefits address before the Mas
sachuSetts Board of AqY9culture.
Year: 1879

What is year? 'Tis but wave
Oflife's dark rolling stream,
Which is so quickly gone that we
Account it but dream;
tbs but single earnest throb


oftime's old iron heart,
As tireless now and strong as when
1t first with life did start.
What is year? 'Tis but turn


OF times old brazen wheel,
Or put page upon the book


Which death must shortly seal
'Tis but a step upon the road


Which we must travel o'er;
few more steps and we shall walk
Life's weary road no more.
What is a year9 IT'S but breath
From times old nostrils blown;
AS rushing onward oer the earth
We hear his weary moan;
'Tis like hubble on the wave


Or dew upon the lawn,
As transient as the mist Of morn
Beneath the summers sun.
What is year? 'Tis but type


Oflife's oft-changing scene;
Youths happy morn comes gaily on
With hills and valleys green;
Next summers primes succeeds the
With flowers everywhere;
Then comes old winter-and death spring
Must find their level there.
Year: 1879

In accordance with an act of the last
Legislature, the Trustees and Governor
of the State visited the State Reform
School at Vergennes and made private
examination of each pupil, to see if they
had any complaints to make of their
treatment, with this result: That not
single member of the school entered
complaint of any kind against any officer
Of the institution.
Year: 1879

The Cuban planters are emancipating
their slaves. Over three thousand have
been set free within a month. There is
growing feeling on the island that
safety requires this act of justice; and
that the road to prosperity leads through
freedom.
Year: 1879

A person who was recently called into
court for the purpose of proving the
correctness of a surgeons bill, was asked
by the lawyer whether "the doctor did
not make several visits after the patient
was out of danger?" "No, replied the
witness: Il considered the patient in
danger as long as the doctor continued
his visits"
Year: 1879

A Boy KILLED BY A BEAR-For the
past two or three winters two tame bears
have been kept at William Thorn's no
tel, on the Coney Island drive, short
distance out of Brooklyn. On Monday
afternoon of last week some boys began
to amuse themselves by pelting the bears
with snowballs, and occasionally the
more venturesome boys would run up
behind the bears and rub snow upon
their heads. This was not relished by
the bears, and from time to time the
beasts would chase the lads, who easily
evaded them. Finally the male bear
having been struck by an unusually
hard SNOWFALL, sprang forward and
caught a boy named Peter Stretcher and
threw him to the ground. The next
were drawn across the throat of the boy
completely severing the jugular vein
and causing the boys death almost in
stantly. The brute shifted curiously at
the blood which ran from the wound
for moment, and then turned about
and hobbled off to join his companion.
The bear was Immediately shot, but
this did not restore the life of the boy.
1t should be more generally know that
although bears may be very tame and
gentle when young, they become cross
and wilful as they arrive at maturity
and grow older, and they are exceeding
ly dangerous animals to have around.
Year: 1879

The DEBT QUESTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
The feature OF Importance in the South
Carolina House OF Delegates Saturday was
the decisive action taken in the debt quea-
ton by the appropriation OF the money to
pay the interest on the whole OF the State
debt declared valid by the Supreme court,
which was followed BY the third reading OF
bill to authorize the completion OF the
consolidation OF the debt under the decision
OF that court. 1t is considered that The debt
question is practically settled, both bond
men and anti-bond men, as they used
to be, supporting both measures. The
House finished the appropriation bill and
passed it to q third reading without im-
Dortant amendments. An attempt was made
to amend by reducing the amount appro'
pratcd for interest on the debt so rs to ne
ccssl,ate the funding of the interest OF 1878
and paying only for 1880. The amendment
was lost by a vote Of So to ID. The plan Is
to fund the unpaid interest for 1877 and
1878, and to pay the interest for 1879 out OF
the money in the Treasury. An appropria.
ton of $469, 900 is made for the payment OF
the interest OF 1880. A universal feeling
was developed in favor OF standing strictly
by the decision OF the Supreme Court on
the bond question.
Year: 1879

LARGE OFFER FOR A FRASCBIsE.-At 6
meeting of the New York Board OF Alder
men yesterday a communication was re.
ceised from Hon. John B. Haskin in regard
to the proposition to construct railroad on


Broadway from the South Ferry to Central


Park, and expressing the opinion that such


a valuable franchise should be disposed OF


to the highest bidder. In the event OF the
franchise being otherwise disposed Of, Mr.
= yssxin offered the SUM Of 81, 900, 600 for the
FRANCHISE within ten days from the time ol
the giant being made. The subject wss
rafo red to the Committee on Railroads.
Year: 1879

City Counca.-Another meeting OF the
City Council will be held tomorrow night
at the Council chamber. The only question
at present which agiiates the city fathers is
the financial question. Arrangements are
being made, however, which, when COM
pleted, will, it is thought, place our city on
a firm and solid financial basis. There is
nothing OF any special interest to come up
before The body Tomorrow.
Year: 1879

WE clip the following concise article from
the Philadelphia North American of August
lst, from which it will be seen that the out
look for the grain market of the United States
is of the most cheering character, and bids
fair to bring into the latter country, from
abroad, vast sum of money for the surplus
grain on hand The reviving industries of the
United Suites within the past six months is
proof of the recuperative powers of the latter
country, and the plethora of capital consequent
on large balance in favor of the States, at the
close of the present fiscal year, will stimulate
trade IN all lis branches, bringing to the peo-
pie swift relief from the stagnation which has
afflicted them for the past fifteen years. There
is no country in the world that has such f.
nancial future as the United States, as the fol-
lowing article abuudantiy proves:


The public anticipations of the benefits to accrue
TO The United States from the announced demands
TO meet deficiencies in Europe may not be fulfilled.
The crops in the old world may not prove short
as stated or our own supplies may not be as boun-
tu as has been calculated; or the high prices mas
prevent adequate shipments, and thus force the
grain factors OF England and France TO ransack all
the producing countries of the world for relief
Still II is fortunate for that this state of trade
happens al a lime when Europe, in alarm at the
mighty progress of our export trade has been pre-





and other measures. The leading grain-exporting
countries are Russia and the United States The
other sources OF supply are Egypt, Roumania, In
Ola, Chile, CauadB, Sweden and Norway. The only
countries that now available are supposed 10
be the United States, Canada and possibly Russia;
but If the accounts from the last named be true the
danger Of scarcity must be alarmingy real


current estimate of the food supplies needed is
TO less than $500 600; but this is SO far below
tue mark that other statements make the amount
5000, 100000, of which amount France alone will re-
quire 500 100000 The first question is, supposing
We furnish all this food, how is it TO be paid for?
The answer is in gold, securities or merchandise
Gold will not be sent If anything else be available
We know with reliable certainty that American
stocks and bonds are accessible in Europe TO more
than twice the extent named, and consequently
there will be considerable return movement of
that kind, which will by SO much lessen the annual
drain upon our resources to pay interest aud divi-
dends. But By the capitalists aud people of the
old world regular sources OF income are not parted
With when it is possible TO make payments 10 mer-
chandise, and consequently it is not unlikely that
great exertions may be made to stimulate on large
scale the shipments 10 the United States of all
classes of foreign merchandise.
Year: 1879

Some persons in this community were very
nervous last week, because of the presence of
an attache of the Chinese Embassy at Wash
ington, L. s., in the city, lest his object was
to procure commercial treaty with the Ha-
waiian Government To quiet all such appre-
tensions we are enabled to announce: That
the Chinese representative, now here, is merely
sent thither TO make observations as to the
condition of the Chinese on these Islands, with
a view TO report TO his Government the present
status and future prospects of his countrymen
here. For the present, we are informed that
all that will be done will he the appointment
of Commercial Agent of the Chinese Gov
eminent, whose duties shall consist in looking
after the interests of the Chinese on these Is
lands, and that the Hon. c. Along will likely
be, if lie has not already been appointed Mr..
c. Along is the right man for the position of
Chinese Commercial Agent, inasmuch as he is
a gentleman of intelligence and extensive ex-
perience as merchant, and will be assisted
by his son in the discharge of his responsible
duties. The latter gentleman is a graduate of
Yale College, where he attained high honor as
an English and classical scholar, and gem
tleman of ability. Such an agency as the
father and son will thus form will be a great
advantage TO the Chinese here, and is highly
credirable to the Chinese Government, as evin-
cling desire to protect the Chinese in the ex-
ercise of their rights in foreign country, as
established by the laws of nations We hope
those of our people who apprehended some
sharp practice in the way of treaty with
China VIII breathe more freely now that the
truth is ont