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Year: 1879

We do not think the dead honored and we are
the living not benefited 10y raising political battle
cries their moldering bones 1t is indecent the
last degree unparotc and unchrisan to stir up hatred
and strife such occasions. If the people of this
try to live in peace together if the reunited State
to be members of the harmonious family if our
future is to be what should bea of unprecedent
ed prosperity and gory-ths annual howl of the dema
gogue the soldiers graves had better be suppressed
healthy public opinion should condemn it in all sections
aud demand that such abuse of sacred and solemn
occasion shall cease Washington Post June Is.


We take the above extract from the Washington
Post, the leading organ of the Democratic party
published at Washington, D. c.. and heartily ndorse
its views on the subject The men who gained for
us the Union by their lives and valor, were of va
ried shades Of political opinion, but they were
upon the question that Nation should not be
divided or perish 1t has been contended that more
Democrats than Republicans were in the Union
Army, but, be this it may, it should never be the
part of any orator entertaining Republican views to
make the graveyards of our soldiers places for
arousng party spirit or strengthening sectional an
imostv We are sure such feelings would not have
been encouraged by Abraham Lincoln, the great
chief of the Republican party The war is over
We are one nation, and God grant that never again
shall this fair land be desecrated by civil commotion
But, while thus saying we at the same time firm





was one involving the highest interests of freedom
and that every man engaged in aiding it deserves
the appreciation and applause of his country and the
world, and further, that his opponents, however
brave and selfsacrifcing they might have been
sustaining a cause altogether reprehenabe. We
take this position-a Union soldiers will adhere to
it-and never propose to change or abandon it,
There cannot be question about which two per-
sons differ in which both will be in the right
Recognizing, then, the glorious and honorable part
taken by our soldiers in maintaining nationa-
ty, and considering they are entitled to go down in
history as equally patriotic and praseworthy as
those who fell at Bunker Hill Princeton, or Cow
pens, we believe the American people never will
allow the day to come when their graves will be
viewed with indifference, or their memories cease to
be revered
Year: 1879

Among the sentiments recently expressed bv Gen
era sherman in letter to young friend in New
Orleans, we find the following: tThe great trouble
OF the South the great cause of all her woes has
been the localism of her brilliant minds Instead
of boasting Of the spot where one was born bv an
accident over which he had no control should sup
pose every American would be proud of his whole
country rather than of part Therefore | hope
and pray that the new men of the South with whom
l class you, will cultivate pride in the whole
United States of America instead of the mere ate
and locality of BIRTH


These words for southern fellow-ctizens
TO ponder upon, not feel offended at. He who
circumscribes the area of his patriotism TO the mar
row bounds of State instead of allowing il to ex-
tend to the limits of Nation, is in the position of
one breathing the dense atmosphere of confined
room rather than the heathfu breezes from the
mountain. And then, the statesman or citizen who
cultvates this feeling inevitably dwarfs morally and
intellectually, all his thoughts and actions The
origin of this sentiment doubtless was in the nsti-
tuition of slavery for it manifested in any
of the non-slaveholding States, and that the
country is homogeneous IN character-all free-we
look for the steady decay and abandonment of such
narrow, mpotic views glorious future is be-
fore the South if she will become thoroughly Ma
honaii2ed Her waste places viii soon be repaired,
and the desert shall blossom as the rosen
brave, valiant, warm hearted people, if they will but
lay aside the pre0dices of the past and enter into
and upon a new career they will within genera
tion, witness indeed land of which they may well
feel proud Let the term The South spoken of
as having separate interests from the rest of the
Union, be abandoned, and let the States where sla-
very existed be known only part of that
Union, in which each portion shall vie with the
other in advancing the general interest of the whole
Nation
Year: 1879

Now is the time 10 subscribe for this paper for In
our next number we propose to take up and treat
upon the Equalization Bounty Bill under new
phase of special Importance Not soldier in the
land but will be interested in the article BE ready
at once to come forward and subscribe If the bill
passes surely will should the soldiers and their
papers cooperate you will remember that for every
month you were in the service you will get SS4 and
to find out the exact amount you will be paid by the
United States multiply your months of service by
Ss4, then deduct what bounty has been paid you
Come forward then, soldiers Come to the front
Immediately with your subscriptions and we will
have charge along the whole line on behalf of this
Equalization Bounty Bill
Year: 1879

Tt is evidence of the rapid progress of profes- sona knowledge of these subjects that at the last meeting of the society the presidenDr Roosa, in his annual address took the sound scientific position in regard to deusions and voted that hs address be sent to every physician in the state.
Year: 1879

Congress forces upon the President
and the country sharply defined issue.
Fortunately all DISCUSSES and complica-
tions were stripped off in the Senate,
and the naked question presented is
this: Can one House nullify law of
the United Statesp For if the right Is
coextensive with the physical power,
one House can prevent an appropria-
ton of money as we'll as both Houses;
and if law of the United States can
be nullified by the refusal of an appro-
priation required by that law for its en-
forcement, either House can nullify a
law, though it requires the assent of
both Houses and the President, oP of
both Houses by a twO-thirds vote, to
repeal that law. 1t was distinctly de-
clared in the Senate that the intent of
the Judicial Appropriation bill was to
refuse money for the enforcement of
the election law. 1t is mere trick to
say that the election law would not be
really deprived of force, if the appro-
priations should fail. That is true;
patriotism would supply ample means
for the enforcement of the law. So
armies to put down rebellion would
still be found and maintained, if a
traitorous Congress should refuse all
appropriations for an army, and should
then head a rebellion. But the refusal
would be reasonable all the same. And
the refusal of any other appropriation
required by law of the United States
for its enforcement is equally a defiance
of law and reasonable attempt to
subvert the Government of law under
which we live.


This question is new one. 10 is
true that there have been Congresses
before, which have sought to prevent
the abuse of law by attaching condi-
tions to appropriations of money. This
is a different case. The attempt OF
Congress is not to prevent aTeal or al
legged abuse of law, for it has made
no effort to amend the law itself. The
attempt is to defeat the law entirely, 70
defeat it's original and proper purpose
to deprive it of vitality by refusing the
money which that law contemplates as
requisite for its enforcement. Never
before has Congress of the United
States thus tried to nullify law which
it has not power to repeal. And, as
has been said, if the right so to nulhfy
law exists at all, it exists in either
House separately, because either can
prevent the passage of an approprla.
| ton bill. This controversy originated
in refusal of the House alone to ap-
propriate money which the Senate de-
sired to appropriate. Hence, the ques
ton at issue, strictly stated, is this
Has either House of Congress the right
to nullify law OF the United StatesP


OF course, the physical power exists
As Mr.. Blaine pointed out, either House
has the physical power to disorganizt
the Government. So the President
may have physical power to make him


self Dictator. None the less, it woult
be usurpation and reasonable outrag'
for him to exercise dictatorial power
Year: 1879

Says the Winnemucca (Nev.) Silver
State: IS. w. Hammand informs us
that Charles Clark, owner of the Cucth-
man mine, in Central District, found
some Spanish broom growing on the
verge of the desert which extends from
Quin River Valley to the Humboldt.
The broom, which is shrub that
grows about three feet high, and is
covered during the summer with yellow
flowers, is considered by the miners
certain indication of water. AS there
was none of that essential fluid within
eight or ten miles of the mine, Clark
commenced digging well right where
the shrub grew. He and his assistant
sunk about twenty feet below the sur
face, and one evening about quitting
time they dug hole in the center of
the well and broke through crust into
what they believe to be subterranean
river, which filed the well almost in
stantly, and compelled them to abandon
their tools and go to the surface as
speedily as possible. The water is
said to be pure as that from the mount
ain springs, and wholly free from
alkali. This find is of great impor-
tance, not only to the miners of Central
District, but to the owners of cattle
which range on the plains and hills in
the vicinity.
Year: 1879

Now that the Confederate Democracy
have control not only of the Democratic
party but of both Houses of Congress,


the records of the leaders, both North
and South, are being brought forward
as evidence of their fitness to occupy
the places which they now hold, and
the higher one to which they aspire.
During the years intervening between
the close of the war and the last Presi-
dental election, Senator Thurman ac-
quired some reputation as man of
National views and as a Democrat who
adhered to the financial principles of
the party in its elder, if not its better
days. Discovering, however, that the
new Democracy OF Ohio and the West
generally discarded those principles
and exchanged their hard money doc
trines for those of unlimited soft money,
Mr.. Thurman made haste to mount the
greenback hobby, and to turn his back
upon the principles and professions of
lifetime. This commended him TO
the imitation lunatics, and made his
path TO the Democratic nomination for
the Presidency clear so far as they were
concerned. His next object was TO
commend himself to the late COnfeder-
ates who have risen TO the chief places
of authority, and whose support is es-
sential to success in the Democratic
Year: 1879

or for Congress to nullify a law which
il cannot repeal. Either ought to be
resisted to the end, by other branches
of the Government. This Is Govern
ment of law, and every citizen, from
the highest to the lowest in station, is
equally bound to observe and obey the
laws that exist, and to aid their en-
forcement. To resist a law, Congress
has no more rightful power than any
mob. 1t goes beyond its functions as u
Congress of lawmakers, and becomes
an unlawful assembly Of lawbreakers,
whenever il attempts TO set aside law,
or to prevent its enforcement, other
wise than by the constitutional method
of repeal or amendment.


The President will carry with him
the common sense and common patriot
ism of the whole country. if he cuts
straight through all technical kncts
and verbal cloakiDgs to the marrow OF
this business. The vital fact is that an
appropriation bill has been so framed,
of deliberate purpose, as to nullify the
law which Congress is unable TO repeal.
rbis notification bill is therefore vio-
latior of law of the United States,
which is as binding upon Congress as
upon the hu.ublest citizen. Congress
has no rightful power to break law or
to nullify law, and 1T ought to be kept
in session, if need be, t;u doomsday, so
long as that attempt is Continued and
law is disobeyed. Some assistant
Democrats have marshaled many pre-
texts for approval of the Judicial oliii
that its attempted notification wou!u
fail; that the election law will not
need to be enforced, unless in Califor-
mia, until after another session of Con-
gress. The President, there is good
reason to believe, will not be entrapped
by any of these subteffuges. 1t is not
his privilege to pass with indifference
sn attempt to nullify law of the
United States. Nor is there any rea-
son to suppose that it is his disposition.
A veto will not only state to Congress
its duty, but we hope, will place the
matter so clearly and sharply before
the country that every citizen viii tully
understand the attempted 1ulllhcatlon.


Some Democratic leaders fancy that
they can run away from washington
| by the device of a recess until Decem-
ber. Evidently they do not comPre-
hend the power ofthe Executive. He has
the power to summon an extra session at
any time when the public interest may
require one. The proposed unusual re-
cess would not prevent call for an I'M
mediate recess between the first and
second sessions of a Congress. The
language Of the Constitution deserves
notice (Article III, Section 81:


"He may, on extraordinary occa-
sions, convene both houses, or either
of them; and in case of disagreement
between them with respect to the time
of adjournment, he may adjourn them
to such time as he shall think proper
He shall take care tEat the
laws be faithfully executed"


The Constitution is inspired by COM
mon sense. Its trainers did not mean
to have it used as moose to strangle
the Union with. 1t will not serve the
purposes of those who want to nuliify
law any more than it served the pur-


poses of those VINO attempted in 1861


to leave the Government powerless in
the presence of rebellion. Y.
| T'riIp1ETIe
Year: 1879

Strange mischances with fatal results
are daily happening here and there. A
Boston butcher ran against knife that
lay on block, severed an artery, and
bled to death. A Denver woman caught
her foot in a railroad frog, and could
not get loose before a train ran over
her. A Vermont farmer sneezed with
a straw in his mouth, drew it into his
lungs, and died choking. A horse
kicked Michigan boy into a deep well,
where he was drowned. The shoe flew
off the foot of kicking mule, in Nash
vile, and fractured the skull of baby.
An Oregon girl swallowed her engage
ment.ring, and lived only week after
ward While standing on his head, on
the top of high fence-post, an Iowa
boy lost his balance, fell into tub of
hot water, and was fatally scalded. >
stone, thrown by playfellow, broke a
glass from which St. Louis boy was
drinking; driving some of the pieces
down his throat, and he died few days
afterward in great agony. Looking up
TO watch the flight OF an arrow, Nash
Vile woman did not see il descending
directly over her head, and the sharp
metal point penetrated her brain
through one of her eyes, killing her in.
stantly.-N. r. Sun.
Year: 1879

A boy seven years of age was seen to
fall from bulkhead iuto the Hudson
River, June 2. After considerable de-
lay youth named Thomas Berry came
to the rescue, and the spot where the
boy sank was pointed out to him. by
plncky dive and long swim under
water he succeeded in recovering the
boy, who had been in the water eight
minutes and was apparently lifeless.
A successful effort was made to resus-
citate him, signs of returning conscious
ness appearing at the end of twenty
minutes. The officers of the patrol OF
the water front pronounced this the
most remarkable case of resuscitatiOn
after long submergenee that had come
within their knowledge, and it was put
upon record as such. The happy issue
should encourage hope and persistent
effort in all similar eases'-Sesens.fe
AnleFicdR.
Year: 1879

An inquest was held yesterday before Coroner
Nolan. OF Brooklyn. the body Of William A..
Armstrong. who shot himself in his apartments at
No. VI Fourth place. on Thursday night. Mrs. Eliza
beth Armstrong wife of tho deceased testified that
he attended In stationery store in this city and
was In the habit Of getting under tho influence
OF liquor at times and had not been employed for
two weeks Witness said sho had been married seven
months; Thursday night his mother came to tho
house and chded him for not having written to his
father she told him that he neglected hts her and
neglcctng his wife, too deceased and his mother
then had some words; suddenly he took up re-
volver that had. been In n bureau drawer and went


into the front room; witness followed him. when
he returned to where his mother and shot him.
self In tho right side of the head; ho died shortly
aftorward; witness said she and her husband had
lived happily together she said that though he had
been drinking she did not think he was intoxi-
Gated. but. In her opinion. was crazy at the time.


Tho jury rendered. verdict to the effect that de-
ceased committed suicide while laboring under tenn
porary alteration of the mind
Year: 1879

best spirit not only this discussion. but the larger
question of policy involved IN the proposal to abro-
gate the existing arrangements to the fisheries:
His successor will doubtless represent with equal
good sense and good feeling the wishes OF his coun
trymen.
Year: 1879

Dyspepsia is the national complaint.
Almost every other man or woman YOU
meet has ii, and the result il that the
number Of pseudo-remedies for it Is as
numerous as Pharoah's host. They are
for the most part worthless. There is,
however, d searching eradicant of this
distressing and obdurate malady, one
whose genuine merits long sinse raised
it to foremost place among the staple
medicines of America Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters exterpates dyspepsia
with greater certainty and promtitude
than any known remedy, and Is a most
genial invigorant, appetizer and aid to
secretion. These are not empty asser-
tions, as thousands Of our eountrymen
and women who have experienced its
effects are aware, but are backed up by
irrefragable proofs repeatedly laid be-
jore the public. The Bitters also pro
mote a regular habit Of body and give
a healthful stimulus to the urinary
organs. 22-lm
Year: 1879




WHEN a man tells me thing, / am
apt to believe he is telling the truth
but when he comes back unsolicited and
tells the same thing, 1 begin to doubt,
and when he comes and pledges his
honor it is 50, don't believe a word of it.


Ira man is always ready to pledge his
honor, 1t is strong inference hat his
word is very unreliable, and il SO, so will
prove his honor. For an honest mans
word Is as sacred as his honor, or even
his bond.


YOUNG men, above all things, should
avoid going In debt without undoubted
means Of paying; by doing 50, they in
jure their standing and credit in society,
deprive themselves of credit II really
needed, lose their manly independence
of feeling; and when pressed to the
wall with their liabilities, almost always
resort to tricks and subterfuges, and f.
nally become dishonest and unreliable
for life.


THERE Is purity and neatness ofsOul
that shows in all Of some persons trans
actions; whilst there Is a coarsness
and vulgarity In others which render
their actions equally as conspicuous.


IT Is neither wealth or education that
constitutes the true gentleman it Is
purity Of thought, honesty of purpose,
kindness Of feeling and simplicity of
that constitutes any man
regardless of wealth, station
or learning.


No one Of good sense, memory and
will remain wholly un-
Books aud colleges, after all,
furnish but a small portion of the learn
ing needful in life. Nature, observation
and intercourse with the world furnish
us with our most useful lessons.


A MORTGAGE on mans estate is very
much like cancer on his person, the one
eating up his estate, and the other his vi
tality; and quack doctors and quack
lawyers are both apt to hasten the fatal
result.


MOST writers, like most fashionable
people, prefer gaudy show and Haunting,
to strength, durability and usefulness.


No sensible man should ever make a
to be complied with in the fu-
ture, without reducing it to writing.
The writing cannot lie and will not for
get, but whether parties to a contract
may, or may not, be disposed to do either,
yet We should recollect that mems men,
ories are like telescopes, disposed to
magnify greatly at the interest end, but
in the same ratio at the LA
bility end.


CARE and labor is the toll we have to
pay on the road to health and prosperi-
ty.


WE are generally more capable Of
giving good advice than acting it out
ourselves. Burns was q striking Illus
tration of this fact; every young man
should read, at least, once a year, his
'Epistle to young friend" yet where
was there ever more rolicking, reck-
|ess, imprudent scamp than Robert
Burns.


PROCRAsTINATTON Ia not ONLY the
thief Of time, but the thief Of prosperi-
" also. Jones procrastinated repairing
his fence-by reason Of which his calf
got out and strayed away. He thought
ne found it in Smiths pasture, Smith
thought differently. So he went to law
% get justice and his calf He got at
east $500 worth Of law, but says he
neither got justice or his cdlf.
Year: 1879

Gas has been introduced in an expert
mental way in some Of the railroad cars in
New York. Compressed Illuminating gas
is carried in cylinders beneath the car, its
own pressure giving it sufficient head"
The gas is conveyed to the chandeliers mid
way between the middle ard the ends OF
the car, the burners being provided with
glass shades. Four burners replace six
oil lamps, with double the illImins'irg g
Year: 1879

quirsd eight pounds of refued sugar, such
as Is known by its various names and
grades OF \ or or extra c, and costing 10
10 II : cents pound, according to local
lty and distance from sugar refinery. To
this quantity should be added three pints
of boiling water, and The whole subj cted to
slow boiling for period of fifteen or twen-
" minutes, after which the solution, while
warn, shoGld be strained through a fabric
OF moderately close texture This will
produce gallon Of syrup at much less
cn-t than the price demanded for the grades
Of syrup made For a light yellow or
golden syrup. the same qusntity OF light
brown sugar may be employed, and so on
through the lover grades of sugar and
syrup.
Year: 1879

Strawberries are very easily raised in
abundance, and every farmer, if worthy the
name, can plant and cultivate q bed Of
Strawberries. Keep them we'll h ed the
FIRST season and cover the bed with coarse
manure, late in the fall, to protect them
from the severe frost Of winter Rake the
litter from the bed the following spring,
and keep tie bed clean by thorough hoe
ing, and The vines shortened up into strong
hills or bunches and an abundance Of straw :
berries, large and delicious, will be the re-
suit.


No farmer should be without plenty Of
small fruits for bis family, aud he will be
sure to Rave some for sale, and will often
be sgreeabiy surprised, to find these little
things bringing him in nearly as much
ready cash as what he may call his staple
crops, because they require more hard work
and outlay to produce.
Year: 1879

Trapping hawks with steel traps is some
times praciiced by planting a pole, ten or
twelve feet long, in the neighborhood Of the
poultry yard, and setting the trap on top of
the pole, where the hawk is apt to alight
while On the lookout for The chickens A
bird or fowl fastened to the top Of the pole
and baited sell with poison, would proba-
bly, be an effective mode Of clearing out the
Year: 1879

lNOI AChS


To obtain early radi.hrs, make slight
hotbed, SOW the the seed in drills then thin
out "a soon as they appear above ground
20 that the plants will stand an inch apart
in the rows, and then give them plenty OF
air and light. II ke,t TOO close, they will
grow all topl 4 little later | make cold
frame, u-ins a light, sandy soil; and always
succeed If | can give the plants plenty of
air and light. Sometimes when the wealth
er is dark and Stormy and it Is not possible
to give air, the plants become drawn; that
is, having only slender tops and no bulbs
of any consequence. For open-air
culture the same writer obtains the best
mold from the woods, one load of which ia
worth three OF the compo I manure Tor
growing rsdishts, which is used as a top
dressing TO the depth oi an inch or two, il
possible.