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Year: 1879

THE simplest, plainest, and most truthful
answer TO the Democratic claim that the
army bill was not intended to interfere with
the free and legal exercise of civil authority
by the United States is that the claim is an
unadulterated, bare-faced lie. In other
words, those who assert this claim have sup
plemented their covert sedition by lying
about il.
Year: 1879

THE Confederates are now engaged in
starving Union soldiers by turning them
out, as they were during the war, by keep
ing them in their prison pens. There is
somethingin this for Union soldiers to think
about.
Year: 1879

SECOND attempt by Congress to bull
doze the President by the starving-out pro-
cess will further justify his characterization
in the veto of the present policy of the De-
mOcracy as an effort to assert that "a bare
majority of the House is the Government"
Year: 1879

SAM Cox has now assumed the role in
caucus, formerly played in the House by
General BRAGG, as monitor to the rampa-
geous Southern Bourbons. JOE BLACK
BURN will spit on him one of these days and
drnNurn him
Year: 1879

The great Democratic statesmen who talk
about making the redress of the grievance
of an honest election a condition to the
grant of the peoples money, have delved so
deep into English parliamentary precedent
that the phraseology appropriate to legisla-
tive debates under monarchical government
comes as glibly to their tongues as if they
were, each and all, candidates for retire.
ment to the Chiltern Hundreds, with the
grant OF fat pension, payable out OF the
dear peoples money


II has been well remarked that clear
Year: 1879

WE have but word for our irate
neighbor of the post The publication
of brief notice from the Court Record of
the fact that n deed of trust had been placed
upon the entire properties and franchises of
that establishment by its owner, and had
become matter of public record, and that,
too, without word of comment, was pure
Iva matter of newspaper business. 1t was
no assault, no Misrepresentation of fact, no
calumny, no act of ridicule or i'll will, and
no proper cause of offense, unless mere
statement of business and public fact Of
fends. The threat of reciprocity is very silly
and uncalled for, though it is welcome to
develop itself as best suits the taste of the
threatener. THE REPUBLICANS house is in
order now and will be after it moves into
the carriage factory recently referred to by
our irate contemporary.
Year: 1879

A FLOOD of communications is rolling in
upon us on the ruling topics of the day,
many of which possess sterling merit, but it
is not possible to insert tithe of them with
out sacrificing news editorials, and even adj
vertisements TO give them space, Under
such circumstances we are compelled to in
sert a large majority in the waste basket
instead Of our columns and this must ex-
plain TO our generous contributors the nom
appearance of their offerings. II is possible
that, in the opinion of their authors, many
are far more meritorious than the matter
we prefer but as that is our prerogative our
judgment must stand as law.
Year: 1879

THE Bourbons know that they are beaten,
know that their attempt to coerce the ex-
ecutive branch Of the Government is OBJ
noxious to the general public, and know
that they are baifled in their design to tear
down all the barriers against fraud in our
national elections. But they are making
loud noises, hallooing and shouting, and
sprinkling their newspapers all over with
big capital letters for the purpose of cover
ing their retreat. The vanguard is whoop-
ing and yelling, while the great demoralzed
body in the rear has faced about and is
quietly Sinking into safer quarters They
have adopted JEB ySTUARr's tactics, and a
few of their videttes are dragging brush to
raise q big dust on the turnpike to cover the
escape of the main body of the command
through the surrounding woods.
Year: 1879

TIME was, and not very long ago, when
the doughface Democratic press and the
mudsill, tuft-hunting, Southern hero-wor-
Shipping, element Of the North generally
combined to urge the return of Southern
brains and leadership to the councils Of the
nation. Their efforts have been successful,
Year: 1879


rs FEW years ago lad who was left with.
q out father or mother went to New York,
alone and trieDdless, to get position in a
store as errand boy. until he could command
higher position; but this boy had been in
zbaa-eemSep y, and adeget-into4 the habit cf
calling for " bitters aud cheap cigars.


On looking over the papers, he noticed
that merchant wanted a lad of his age, and
called there and made his business known.


&c Walk into the Office, my lad" said the
merchant; "I'Il attend to you soon"


When he had waited upon his customer
he took seat near the lad, and espied cigar
in his hand. This was enough. My boy"
said he, 81 want smart, honest, faithful
lad, but see you smoke cigars, and, in my
experience of many years, 1 have ever found
cigar smoking lads to be connected with
various other evil habits, and. if l am not
mistaken, you are not an exception. You
can leave; you will not suit me"


John held down his head and left tho store;
and, as he walked along the street, a stranger
and friendless, the counsel of his poor mother
came forcibly to his mind, who, upon her
death bed, called him to her side. and, plac-
ing her emaciated hand upon his head, said {:
" johnny, my dear boy. I'm going to leave
you. You we'll know what disgrace and
misery your Iather DrOugnt upon us before
his death, and want you to promise me,
before l die, that you will never taste one
drop of the accursed poison that killed your
father-nor tobacco. Promise me this and
be good boy, Johnny. and shall die in
peace"


The scalding tears trickled down Johnny's
cheek. He went to his lodgings. and. throw
ing himself upon his bed, gave vent to his
feelings in sobs that were heard all over the
house.


But John had moral courage. He had
energy and determination, and ere ao hour bad
passed he made up his mind never to taste
another drop of liquor, nor to smoke another
cigar.


He went straight back to the merchant
Said he: '' Sir. you very properly sent me
away this morning for habits that have been
guilty of, but, sir, have neither father nor
mother, and though l have occasionally done
what ought not to do, and have not fol.
lowed the good advice of my poor mother on
her deash>bed, yet have now made solemn
VOW never to drink another drop of liquor
nor to smoke another cigar; and if you, sir,
will onlytry me, it is all l ask"


The merchant was struck with the decision
and energy of the boy, and at once employed
him. AT the expiration of five years this
lad was partner in the business, and is now
worth $4,000.
Year: 1879

URAN1NE.-This is the most recently dis
covered, and perhaps the most remarkable,
of all the coal tar or eniline group Of color
ing substances, now SO extensively used for
adornment of the finest fabrics. Uranine is
said by chemists to be the most highly four
escent body known to science. It's coloring
power is astonishing; single grain will inn
part marked color to nearly five hundred
gallons of water. a most interesting exper-
imeDt, which any body may try, consists in
sprinkling few atoms of Uranine upon the
surface of water in glass tumbIer. Each
atom immediately sends down through the
water what appears to be a bright green root.
let and the tumbler soon looks as if it were
crowded full of beautiful plants. We are in
debted for examples of the color to the edi-
tors of the Scientific american, who are
sending out specimens. free of charge, to all
their readers. The subscription to the paper
is So 20 for year, or 81 60 half year, and
better investment for the money could
hardly be named.
Year: 1879

- To avoid the ghastly stare which eyes
often assume in photographs, English photo
graphers now make sitters look at the dial
plate of clock, and tell them to let their
eyes travel slowly round the figures The
rotary movement of the eyes is too slight to
interfere with the photographs process.
Year: 1879

The Mississippi newspapers have
got a nice little quarrel among them
selves over tho Chinese. Some of the
papers propose that Chfnamen be
brought to the State to take the place
Of those negroes that have cmigrated to
Kansas. Tho Columbus Democrat Wig
orously aud energctically opposes this
scheme. Ii the negro le0ves us, it says,
the South will try and supply his place
with white cmigrants; it will never fill
up its waste places again with an
inferior race, and bring on posterity
another conflict OF races. A majority
of the Mississippi press appears to side
with the Democrat. The Chinaman Is
evidently AS unpoputr in Mississippi
as in California and his introduction
there more than All itnprObabiiity.


a sink hole formed on the telegraph
road about ten miles from Tampa,
Florida, week or so ago. The hole
is forty feet in diameter and as round
as circle. A pine tree that stood
near the road and which was about
seventy feet high went down in the
sink and only the tips of its green
branches are now to he seen. Tho lakes
in that region arc getting low and 1t Is
supposed that the water support to the
vault Of some subterranean passage
from the nearest lake, being no longer
present, the earth gave way and drop
ped into the subterranean vacuum.
Year: 1879

Deacon Wilder, want you to tell NE
how you kept yourself and family SO well
the past season, when all the rest of us
have been sick SO much, and have had the
doctors running to US so long"


BRO. Taylor, the answer is very easy.
| used Hop Bitters 10 time and kept my
family well and saved large doctor bills.
Three dollars worth of it kept US all well
and able to work all the time, and viii
warrant it has cost you aud most of the
neighbors one TO two hundred dollas apiece
to keep sick the same time. | guess you'll
take my medicine hereafter. See other
column.
Year: 1879

Gorham Hastings of Sidney raised little
wheat last year, but this season he has mar
vested some sixty bushels. But this is not
the only instance of an increased production
of this grain the present year, for many
farmers in the county have raised more than
last wear. while others have attempted it for
the first time. Those farmers who have
brought wheat to the market, received one
dollar pcr bushel for it.
Year: 1879

twas a $3.50 house which attended the
Pinafore performance the other evening
About a thousand tickets were sold, $50 OF
which were for reserved seats. Possibly the
company will repeat its performance here on
its return.
Year: 1879

The Star of the East has continued right
through the season TO have splendid pas
sengcr business. On a recent trip she had
one of the largest loads of people that the
steamer has carried for FIVE wears.
Year: 1879

GRRENVILLE MURRAY in recent "RrOund
About France" paper divides the Bonapar-
lists into several categories. First came the
descendants of the men who won titles on
the battle-fields Of the First Empire, and
whose names are closely associated with the
glory of that epoch. They are the Jacobi-
tes of the party-the men who cannot waver
in their loyalty SO long as there lives
Prince of Napoleon's name ambitious OF
wearing the crown. The regiments of the
Guards, the brigades of the police and espi-
onage departments are full of them and
they were always remarkable for their dog.
like fidelity to the regime which employed
them. But it is only fair to say of some Cor.
sicans that their imperialism was devoid OF
any interested motives, springing only from
pride which inhabitants of small, wild is
land could but feel at the lustre shed upon
their birthland by great family. After the
men whose devotion TO Bonapartism has its
source in the First Empire come those
whose loyalty dates no further back than
Napoleon lids reign. The late Emperor,
Thought he had fewer admirers than his uncle,
had good many more personal friends. An
other class of Bonapartists remains to be &C
counted for, and these are the men who can
not imagine that country should be orderly
save under military despotism. The theoret-
ical advocates of Caesarism must always be
pretty numerous in a country which has been
80 over r-governed as France.
Year: 1879

The traveller who is fortunate enough to
see Babylon in April cannot call it desolste
The date groves and gardens along the banks
of the Euphrates are then things of beauty in
their fresh spring verdure, and the plain itself
is laid down with crops. Irrigation canals
cross it here and there, and give trouble to
the horsemen. No grass grows upon the
mounds, and there are patches of the level
white with the nitre which is to be found
here as in other parts of Mesopotamia; but
the surface of the soil is on the whole green
and pleasant to the eye. The glad waters of
the river flow in the bright morning sunshine,
with palm and mulberry hanging over its
banks, drinking in sap and life. The great
city which counted its population by millions,
and filled the world with renown not yet
forgotten has disappeared under the dust of
twenty centuries; but nature is as fresh and
as iocund as when Babylon was still unbuilt.
Birds sing overhead in the pleasant spring
air; balmy odors regale the senses. 1t is
difficult under the circumstances to feel as
one perhaps ought to feel for the great cap
ital which once numbered the ground; for
nature makes its grave beautiful.
Year: 1879

Dr. Day says, in late lecture: Whatev-
er be the plan of treatment decided upon,
rest is the first principle to inculcate in every
severe headache. Rest, which the busy man
and anxious mother cannot obtain so long as
they can manage to keep about, is one of the
first remedies for every headache, and we
should never cease to enforce it. The brain,
when excited, as much needs quiet and re-
pose as fractured limb or an indamed eye,
and it is obvious that the chances of shorten
ing the seizure and arresting the pain will
depnd on our power to have this carried out
effectually. 1t is a practical lesson to keep
steadily in view, in that there may lurk be-
hind some simple headache, some lesion of
unknown magnitude which may remain sta
tionary if quietude can be maintained.


There is point worth attending to in the
treatment of all headaches. See that the
head is elevated at night, and the pillow hard;
for, if it be soft, the head sinks into it and
becomes hot, which with some people is
enough to provoke an attack in the morning
IL the sleep has been long and heavy.
Year: 1879

Among the novel applications of electrici-
ty to the industrial art is q new stone. dressing
apparatus, which is worked by dynamo
electric machine, and which the inventor
claims will dress millstones or other stones,
and drill rock econ omically, with rapid
ity, precision and dispatch. The chisel en-
ployed is fastened to a spring arm which
prOtrudes from case containing magnets and
armatures. This spring arm, when the mag
nets are connected with the dynamo-electric
machine, moves up and down with extreme
rapidity, causing the chizel to strike a blow
at each decent. The inventor states that it
can be made to strike from l 1000 to 1900
blows per minute. Wires being used in place
of steam pipes enables the apparatus to be
moved readily to any angle,or worked at any
reasonable distance without much loss of
power while not the least meritorious por-
ton of the whole invention is the horizontal
frame or base to which the electric appdra-
tus is fixed. This frame is portable, and by
the use of screws can be so adjusted as to
cause the chiZel to strike any portion OF a
circle with either swift or slow motion, the
number and intensity of the blows being re-
gulated according to the softness or hardness
of the stone. By the use of this machine it
is said that a milestone can be covered in a
very short space of time with the necessary
grooves and furrow, having the straightness,
regularity and parallelism so much desired in
good milestone dressing. The apparatus can
be worked either automatically or by hand,
so as to suit the varying natures of the stone
operated upon.
Year: 1879

There is DO better place than Fort Worth
to observe the COW boy, that peculiar product
of wild frontier life. He is apt to make him
self obnoxious in crowded town, but seen
on his native heath, cantering over the plains
on his swift mustang, swinging his lariat and
shouting his whoop and halloa to the fleeing
steers, he is picturesque spectacle. He
lives in hut or tent, sleeps in summer rolled
in his blanket in the open air, is in the saddle
from morning to night, settles bis quarrels
with his six-shootcr, looks upon killing as a
venal offense, and upon cattle-stealing as a
capital crime, and is altogether the most free
and independent fellow to be found in this
peculiarly free nd independent country.
Year: 1879

There are some hearts that, like the loving vine,


Cling to unkindly rocks and ruined towers.
Spirits that suffer and do not repine-


Patient and sweet as lOwly trOdden flowers,
That from the passer's heel arise,
And bring back odOrous breath instead OF slghs.
But there are other hearts that will not feel


The lonely love that haunts their eyes and ears;
That wound fond faith with anger worse than steel,


And out of PHYS spring draw idle tears.
Oh Nature, shall it ever be thy will
Ill things with good to mingle, good with i'll?
Why should the heavy foot of sorrow press


The willing heart OF accomplishing love
Meek charity that shrinks not from distress,


Genteness, 10th her tyrants to reprove?
Though virtue weep forever and lament,
With one hard heart turn to her aud repent?
Why should the seed be broken that will bend,


And they that dry the tears in Others eyes
Feel their own anguish swelling without end,


Their summer darkened with the smoke OF signs?
Sure, Love to some fair region of her own
viii flee at last and leave us here alone.
Love weepeth alway-weepeth for the past,


For woes that are tor woes that may betlde;
Why should not hard ambition weep at last,


Envy and hatred, avarice and pride?
Fate whispers that so low is your poor lot,
They would be rebels; love rebclleth not.
Year: 1879

The girls of Italy do many things our
young ladies would not think of doing, and
they leave unlearned certain accomplish
ments which only the very poorest American
fair ones pass by. The Italian bride makes
her own outfit, and as the trousseaa consists
of six dozen of everything, being intended to
last twenty five years, and all must be en-
broidered and frilled, the task is not an easy
one. But they take their time to it, occupy
ing two years in getting it in shape, and all
the while the work goes on the lovers are
counting. The husband gives the dresses,
shawls, everything, in fact, but the under
clothing. Italian girls do not learn to sing,
draw and play the piano. These are left to
people who earn their living by them. But
they are taught how to sew, cook and iron.
Year: 1879

NURSES. the Rev. Arthur Blink
man, hospital chaplain, says about nurses
should be read by every nurse in the land,
and if they would all ''act accoIdin there
would be Joy among the sick indeed: :,


The nurse ought to have washing stand
all to herself in every sick-room. and the
more she washes her hands at it, whether
thev want it not, the more the patient will be
edited. Everything should be clean about
the cap. everything clean about the dress, but
the nice effect of it all may be spoiled by the
one black finger-nail that rests on the saucer.
Year: 1879

When you see ragged urchin
Standing wistful in the street
With torn hat and kneeless trousers,
Dirty face and bare red feet
Pass not by the child unheeding;


Smile upon him. Mark me, when
He's grown old he'll not forget it;


For remember, boys make men.
Have you ever seen grandsire,


With eyes aglOw with JOY,
Bring to mind some act of kindness
Something said to him, a boy?
Or. relate some slight or cOldness


With brow all clouded, when
He recalled some hurt, too thoughtless
To remember boys make men?
Let us try to add some pleasure


TO the heart of every boy;
For each child needs tender interest
In it's sorrow and i.s joy.
Call your boys home by its brightness,
They avoid the household when
1t is cheerless with unkindness-


For remember, boys make men.
Year: 1879

Persons living IN marshy districts, all
of whom who are necessary
exposed to miasmatic aXhalations,
will find that lime juice mixed with water
and taken freely as a beverage, will prove
an excellent preventive of malarial fevers.
Those who are suffering from intermittents
will find that antiperiodics, which are
cheaper than the quinine, the great type OF
the class, will answer as good purpose II
taken in the only proper way, that is, full
or even heroic dose one hour before the ex-
pscted recurrence of the chill. When dis
| f4buted throughout the intermission in very
small doses their effect is lost, and disap-
pointment follows The medical gentle
men who so carefully prepared the tabulat-
ed reports of the mOrtuary experience oi
the Mutual Life, of New York, have shown
in their admirable analysis of the causes OF
death, that the proportion of loss from con-
sumption has been 10.1T per cent. of the
total mortality of the company, and 10 per
| l0, 900 annually. Such figures show the
immense importance of more effective me-
thOds of treatment, and we are glad to OBJ
serve in the Medical Record the details
of treatment that, so far, has been very
promising IN its results. The theory Of
cure is to clear the lungs by a mechanical
effort, chiefly by manipulating the muscles
of the throat so as to cause more forcible
breathing: second, to establish perfect di-
gestion, third to promote a process OF heal
ing the tubercles, so that they shall become
chalky or calcified masses, fourth, to COM
pei the patients to take plenty of fresh air,
sunlight, and outdoor exercise. To secure
perfect digestion, a special diet is ordered
in each case, and the food is changed as the
power of assimilating it improves To
promote the calcifying of the tubercles, the
salt of lime, which are found in most veg
etable and animal food, must be supplied
in a soluble condition; the theory is that
too much heat in ordinary cooking des-
troys the natural combination of these salts
with albumen, and renders them insoluble
to weak digestion. Outdoor exercise is
regarded as so important that the patients
are instructed to 90 out in rain, snow,
dampness, or even night air or dew, the
habit thus acquired neutralizing the danger
of catching cold from such exposure. Only
strong head-wind and extreme hot weather
need be guarded against. The patients
sleep with the window open, summer and
winter
Year: 1879

Among the many picturesque tTadi-
tions of the Russian army there is a
striking instance OF the force of habit,
the subject of which was a Russian Of
ficer who served at SebastOpol during
the Crimean war. As soon as General
Todleben's defensive works were so
far advanced as to render the city proof
against any immediate assault, the Of
ficer in question was sent TO announce
the good news to the Gar. After trav-
cling night and day over the steppes
for more than a week, he at length
reached Moscow, where Nicholas then
was, so worn out that he had barely
time to place the dispatch in the En-
peror's hands, when overcome by
WEAKNESS, he leaned back against the
wall and fell fast asleep where he stood.
The Gar having read the dispatches
looked up to ask some questions of the
messenger, and at once perceived that
the latter was in no position to reply.
He spoke to him, touched him, even
shook him, all to no purpose. At
length he bent down close to the
sleeper's ear and shouted at the full
pitch of his voice - VdShe GlmgOrOdis
loshadi gOtOUi," Your Honor, the horses
are ready.) The sound of the words
whick had been constantly in his ears
for the last ten days and nights acted
like magic upon the sleeping messen-
ger. He sprang to his feet at once and
was overwhelmed with confusion on
discovering where he was; but the
Gar laughed good-humoredly, and dis
missed him with a high compliment
upon his promptitude.