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Year: 1879

Rice County is moving in the mat
ter Of establishing an amber cane
sugar refinery. The Board of Trade
# Faribault is actively interested
in it. The matter has been in
vestigated and it is believed that
choice sugar can be made.
Year: 1879

Fifteen per cent. of the purchase mo-
ney and interest at the rate of seven per
cent per annum on the balance from the
date OF sale to the first day of June, 1889
will be required on the day of sale. On
tinbered lands sn amount equal to the
value of timber will be required in addit-
ion to the fifteen per cent. After the
first payment the balance of the purchase
money in full. or in installments, is pay
able. at the option of the purchaser, at
any time within thirty years from the
date of SALE on School, Agricultural Col
lege and University Lands. and twenty
years on Internal improvement Lands.
provided that annual interest thereon at
the rate of seven per cent is paid. in ad-
vance, on the first day Of June, or within
six days thereafter. Upon failure to
pay interest when due the lands revert
to the State without further notice or
process, and will again be offered at
public sale, unless doubled the amount of
interest due is previously paid. No
lands can be sold at less than the appra-
isai which cannot be less than IS per
acre.


o. p. NHITCOMB, r. '#
Commissioner.
Year: 1879

so;M the gloss and t;ssh'sess Of youth.
Thin hair is thickened, falling hair
checked, and badness often, though
not always, cured by its use. Moth
ing can restore the hair where the
foilicles are destroyed, or the glands
atrophied and decayed. But such as
remain can be saved for usefulness
by this application. Instead Of foul
ing the hair with pasty sediment, it
will keep it clean and vigorous. Its
occasional use will prevent thu hair
from turning gray or falling of, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances
which make some preparations dam
gerous, and injurious to the hair, the
Vigor can only benefit but not harm
It, IF wanted merely for . -
Year: 1879

No use Of having the chills, no use OF
headache or any of the ills that come from
a disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn case-will
relieve the system and make you feel like
a new person. Try it aud be satisfied.
Year: 1879

The weather during the past week, has
been ''too lovely for anything. ~ The stub
BILE fields are quite green with a second
growth. This will clean the fields of weeds
for another CROP
Year: 1879

ABSENTEEISM IN CONGRESS 1t is won
derfally strange as they see power slipping
from their grasp how virtuous all at once
the radical papers are becoming. Things
that were not only noticed for the past
twenty years of republican misru,e but
were even endorsed by the organs, are
discovered to be sinful and revolutionary
now that the democrats have control
The following is a shining example. .'The
query arises why WAS it net discovered
long ago


The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times has unearthed an old and
ong disregarded. but still unrepealed law
against congressional abSenteeism. II ex-
pre>S!y requires the secretary of the seuate
a.I the Scrceant-at-armS Of the house To de-
duct from the salary Of absent members the
amount forfeited by each day absence which
has not been occasioaed by the sickness of
themselves or Of some member of their fami-
lies. Ii Is also provided that withdrawal from
congress and failure to return before adjourn
meGt shall cause the forfeiture OF mileage 81
!rwaEce for the absent members Journey
nome. ~ completely has this law been ig-
Huisu tbsiG one Se.la,or drew, toward the
close Of last session, SO, 600 of salary for the
time employed in attending To his private
business and was allowed mileage, which.
under the law was forfeit. HIS is merely
the most fragrant case among number OF
minor instances Of absenteeism, and though
he Is not likely tn refund, out of his millions
the money which lie got Illegally, It is hoped
the people will net hs again subjected to such
a swlndle now that the law has been cxplic-
lily set fGith
Year: 1879

CiPrAIg BEyoERE. about whom there was
a court marital, brought the ordeal 70 sud-
den halt by taking back the offensive Ian
gauge he used toward Colonel Ofis.-Teiier.


Mr.: 7et'er, Captain Bendire did moth
ing OF the kind, he is the last man in tine
world to take hack as you call it, any
thing he ever said If you had said Otis
took back his complaint, you would have
struck the mark.
Year: 1879

The New York Tribune says that ike
louder the democracy groans the broader
the country grins." But then the 1'rijrte
always was lar We guess the poor
mel. of the land are not grinniilg very
much just ROW under republican rule
Year: 1879

The Portland Standard cones 70 us
srllntul Of news and Wit as usual A new
and special feature OF this Ire paper is a
column OF witty paragraphs from, the ever
ready pen of Tom Sutherland who is
qnoted now as often Buriette of the
Hagkege.
Year: 1879

lhE court of inquiry in relation to the
loss OF the Great Republic has suspended
captain Carrolfs license for SIX months.
ana the license of the Pilot Thomas Doio
4 suspended for one wear s
Year: 1879

LITTLE WILLIE BANKS PAIL FROM THE TRACK


TO THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CT THE


RAILROAD EMPLOYEES.


The escape of little Willie Edgar Banks from in
stantaneous death Friday last by falling from the
platform OF the Grand street depot OF the side
"L" railroad appears TO be moro wonderful than the
nrst accounts suggested. The sister of the child
Miss Irene Banks. young lady OF sixteen years.
getting the train the east side OF the Bow
cry at Grand street to go up town. II about
half-past ten o'clock in the morning and there were
not many people the train or platform. The
little boy is somewhat lame and walked with diffi-
cuity. Miss Banks lifted him by one hand on to the
platform of the nearest when his foot slipped
and he fell on the track between the cars.
There is quite considerable space, as may
boz observed, between the outer parts Of
the car platforms. Terrified and almost fainting at
the tel rible danger to which her little brother was
exposed Miss Banks screamed loudly for assistance,
still holding the child by the hand yet unable lift
him on the platform again. The employees OF the
company instead VI assisting her, shouted to her
let go her hold the child's legs would be of.
She did unconscously, and the child rolled under
the platform and fell TO the street. In his descent he
struck the shoulder OF truckman who was passing,
bounded thence TO the side of the truck and lay
the street Unconscious. Had II not been for the
providential presence Of the truckman the child
Year: 1879

largest town in the vicinity of the


prison, and naturally the last place to
give escaping convicts even indirect en-
couragement. have signed petition for his
pardon. II his own statement to HERALD
representative is correct, as it seems to be
to all who know of the case, he is richly de-
serving of release. Even if he were con-
structively guilty, which is the worst that
Is charged against him. his punishment
has already been greater than New York
generally imposes for murder, except in the
first degree. Still more, his character and
disposition, tested by nearly twenty years
of prison experience, show him to be man
whose proper place is outside of prison
walls, unless vengeance instead of reform
is the object to be. gained by imprison-
ment The case seems pre-eminently one
in which Justice, mercy, common sense and
precedent unite in asking for prompt ex-
ercise of the pardoning power.
Year: 1879

conciliating public opinion by taking the


public unreservedly into their confidence,


they may be provoking hurricane of pop
ular fury. This is a propitious moment
for new political questions. Most of the
old ones in the field have ripened and their
fruits been garnered. Only the sere stalks
remain, waiting for the plough to crush
them into the soil in it's preparation for
new crop. Corporate managers need to
bear this carefully in mind. 1t will not do
for them to rely merely on their wealth
and power for security. Those, we know,
are great indeed. There are railroad COM
panies in New York whose capital, signifed
by stock and bonds, exceeds the total valu-
alton of any one of eight States in the
Union according to the last national GEN.
sus There also are life insurance compa-
nies whose funds exceed the valuation OF
any one Of five of those States. But even
these gigantic corporations. singly or COM
bined, cannot stand up against failure Of
public confidence. If their managers are
wise they will not rashly provoke such
failure
Year: 1879

At the bottom of all Irish grievances" is
undoubtedly the land question, and as it is
o real one it is not to be wondered that the
'anti-rent" agitation should, when devel-
oped by men apparently of some skill, out
rank in interest all other agitations for the
time being. 1t is the subject of all others
on which the British government can least
afford TO legislate in a manner that would


meet the popular needs, for any disturb
ance of the present state of affairs would


work to the injury of the entire class which
can be now relied on for thick and thin


loyalty to Great Britain. That, neverthe-
less, such sweeping legislation as is de-
manded would ultimately inure to tho WELL
being of the country and the strength of
acknowledgement even in English Cabinet
circles, but it would require magnanimity
greater than Is usually found in Downing
street, and moral courage rare in consti-
tutional monarchies, to take hold of the
question in proper spirit, and even then
il would require q broader statesmanship
than is visible to put the cure for the evils
of absenteeism, rack rents, holdings at will
and so on into practical shape for imperial
legislation. The very form of the present agi-
tation shows that the leaders appreciate the
fact that such lawmaking as London could
afford would be of little service to them in
this period of agricultural depression. 1t
is, in fact, an appeal to the land holders TO
combine against the landlords and withhold
all rents until reduction of rentals is
made. 1t is an ultra-legal and revolution
AIRY plan, but for that very reason has a
likelihood of taking hold upon the masses,


who have unfortunately been long taught
by England that law is very one-sided affair
on properly questions in Ireland, the well
Year: 1879

It is essential to ready understanding
of the election returns from Maine which
will be printed tomorrow to remember
that of the three candidates for the Gov
ernorship Davis is the republican, Garcelon
the democratic and Smith the greenback
candidate. AS Governor is the only
State officer to be elected the counting Of
the votes will require but little time
and the telegraph may be expected to bring
the full result tonight The canvass has
been one of the most active and animated
that ever took place in the State. Nobody
gives any heed to the election eering boasts g
of the rival factions; but it is safe to assume,
from the energy which the republican
leaders have thought it necessary to put
into the canvass, that the greenback party III
Maine is truly formidable. 1t is not prob
able that it will elect its ticket, but load
of anxiety will be lifted from the mind of
Senator Blaine if the voting to-day shall
show that the election of Governor is not
again thrown into the Legislature, as it was
last year-a result which would be unfavor-
able to the hopes of Mr.. Blaine as Presi-
Dental aspirant, the ability of o candidate
to carry his own State being regarded by
both parties as necessary requisite for his
nomination. If the republicans lose Maine
and should carry New York these results
will have marked influence on the subse-
quent current of Presidential speculation.


Besides electing q Governor and Legis-
lature the people of Maine are to vote to-
day on proposed amendment to their
State constitution making tho elections and
sessions of the Legislature biennial instead
of annual. There seems to be no doubt
that this amendment will be adopted.
Year: 1879

What will Governor Robinson do now
that, in addition to the serried battalions
of Tammany, he has to face the oppo-
sition of another formidable cohort of foes !?
The legions Of John Kelly can fight as we'll


as howl, and are quite capable, we believe,
of laying out our Governor cold and fit to
be taken home con shutter" at the No
vember battle Of the polls if he ever gets


that far in his campaign but death politi-
cal can have greater horrors still. We can
fancy our Lucius dying on the field under
the hammering and chopping of the toma-
hawks of the braves, but to see him writhing
in agony while Miss Susan B. Anthony and
the shrieking sisterhood rent the air
with their maledictions on his devoted head
would move a sterner heart than ours.
When the Indians want to make captive die
miserably they tie him to tree, light fire
under him, puncture him all over so that
he will bleed to death if he should fail to
be frizzled alive, and then, while the wounds
and the woodpile are running race for
his last gasp, the braves retire little dis
tance and bring in the squaws to call the
wretched man vile names and speak i'll in
a rasping chorus of all his relations. Men
who have held out through all other tor
ments have been known at this point to beg
the big Indians to bury a atomahawk in their
brains, and we believe Senator Conkling
and Vice President Wheeler, ay, even Mr..


Cornell, would weep to see the doomed
Lucius turn a glazing eye from the sharp
outlines of the shrieking Susan to the burly
John, and ask family for just one more
knock on the head from the chieftain's
little hatchet. s
Year: 1879

CAPTAIN CAREY, lately court -martiallcd for
his supposed share in the loss of the Prince
Imperial, has written letter attributing his
exsneration to the power of prayer. He may be
right. British alteration for anything imperial
is 50 intense that it seemed as If nothing but
special influence from heaven could infuse any
sense into it when the young Napoleon lost his
life.
Year: 1879

IT Is To BE HOPED that the bad feeling be-
tween the chiefs Spotted Tail and Brave Bull
may be allayed without bloodshed. The latter is
farmer, and consequently sets good example
to his race, while the former has cost the coun-
Try so much that it would be hard to part with
Year: 1879

COMPLAINTS that clothing is injured or ruined
by drippings of oil from the elevated roads are
far more numerous than they should be; for this
nuisance, unlike the noise, can easily be abated
by any one of several methods known to the
compapy
Year: 1879

WHAT has the month of September done to
excursionists that they should persistently stay
at home on days like yesterdays hundred
thousand habitual Sunday loungers lost day
that had no equal i'm July or August.
Year: 1879

STRANGE ARE THE WAYS of the law. Two
Of the four men who were condemned in the
Raber murder case are to die because they con-
tess to having committed the crime, but the
other two, who are believed to have employed
the murderers to do the deed, are to have an
other chance for life through a writ of error.
Year: 1879

HIS HOLINESS LEO XIII. was formally ex-
communicated from the "Irish Catholic" Church
yesterday. The venerable Pontiff's inevitable
sorrow ut the reception of this bit of intelli-
gence may be in some slight measure assuaged
by the reflection that he never was a member of
the fold from which he has been cast
Year: 1879

The importance OF breathing plentifully
of fresh air as an essential OF health is
generally admitted. Well ventilated
rooms, opeH.air exercise and excursions
into the country are appreciated to some
extent by all classes But the art OF
breathing is very much overlooked BE.
ing process not depending on The will
for its exercise, il i too much left 10 the
mere call OF nature, II is, however, an
tally by The will. Properly trained sing
ers are taught to attend very carefully 70
their breathing. When brisk muscular
exercise Is taken, breathing is naturally
active without any special effort. But
when the body is at rest or engaged in
occupation requiring confined posture,
and especially when the mind is absorbed
in thought, the breathing naturally be.
comes diminished aud the action Of the
lungs slow and feeble. As a remedy for
this, 1t has been suggested that there ls
room for what might be ftly termed
breath gymnastics draw In long aud
fall bresths, filling the lungs full at every
inspiration, and emptying them as COM
pletely as possible at every expiration
and to acquire the habit OF fall breathing
at times. This mode OF breathing has a
direct effect in supplying The largest pos
sible amount OF oxygen TO the blood aud
more thoroughly consuming the carbon
aud 50 producing animal heat. 1t has
also the very important effect OF expand
ing the chest and 30 contributing 10 the
yigor OF the system. The breath should
be Inhaled by the Dostrils as well ss by
the moGlb, more especially while out OF
doors and in cold weather. This has
partly the effect OF a respirator 10 90 far
as warming the air 10 lie passage TO the
delicate air cells and 10 also rendering
one less liable to catch cold. This fuil
respiration is OF so much importance that
no proper substitute is 10 be found ioT II
in short though more rapid breathing
In short breathing large number Of the
air cells remain stationary, the upper por-
ton OF the lungs only being engaged 10
receiving And disehsrging small portion
OF air.
Year: 1879

old TYPE-Soo pounds of OLD TYPE for
~ sale in lots to suit purchasers. This type
is an excellent substitute for Babbit Metal
pronounced by those who have used it better
and can be sold at one-half the nrice- Apply


at the STATESMAN OFFICE.
Year: 1879

Putting commercial considerations
aside, and looking merely at social
ones, how great an alteration will there
be in the ways of civilized beings if fly
ing is brought within the reach of all
who can buy an engine and some dur
able wings. Ts take the most poetic
relation of life, what different thing
will courtship be when lovers sock
the clouds, as OF course they will. and
when vows are exchanged in the air.
Lord Lytton tried to describe some
thing of this kind, but his hero was
clumsy fellow who could not learn to
manage his wings, and constantly had
to be caught by the woman who loved
him. Very different will be the case
with the vigorous and well-trained
young Engllshman, who will take the
lady whom he admires out to fly just
as ladies are now taken out for
drive, or will perchance, urge his suit
when lowering outside her second
floor window, and will perch on the
sill to learn his fate. Then, in the
more prosaic part OF life, in the ordin-
ary routine OF commonplace daily ex.
istence, what strange alterations will
occurI Our ancestors would have
laughed at any one who had told them
that the time would come when the
throngs in the streets would have un-
der their feet men of business who
were being dragged TO and from their
daily work; and it is equally difficult
for Us to conceive that perhaps in the
next century the peaceful ramblers by
the Regents park will find the sky
overhead suddenly darken at a certain
time in the afternoon by the great
focks of city men who are flying to
their homes in the far northwest.
There will, of course, be some incon-
venience from the general acquisition


of powers of flight; but then every
great change brings with it certain
amount Of Suffering. Thus it is terri
BILE to picture the feelings of the quiet
householder OF the future when he
learns that large number of school
boys have recently been let loose, and
are flying about the neighborhoOd OF
that the crew Of man.0f-war recent.
ly paid of have bought mrial machines
and may appear at any moment. Such
draw wbacks AZ these, will, however, be
trifiing when compared with tho vast
advantages which men will gain
from tho possession Of wings. Per-
haps the most striking Of these will be
the facility which will be given for
Year: 1879

SAD DEATH OF MATURIN LIvINGSToN, AT THE


HOFFMAN HOUSE, FROM AN OVERDOSE OF


CHLORoFoRM.


man went to the Hoffman House. and, complaining
OF feeling unwell, asked to be assigned a room.
He registered his name Maturin Livingston. Jr.,
and was shown to room lag. Nothing more
seen Of him during the day or evening. Yesterday
morning a servant saw looking across open
court, the body of a man with his clothing on dis
tended bed III No. 1i6. The door
forced open when it found that the stranger had
been dead for some hours. An empty bottle which
had contained chloroform. and glass in which
some of the an@sthetc still adhered upon o
bIreau. small sum of money was found upon the
body, but no letter or other memoranda to
establish his identity. 1t was assumed that tho
gentleman had taken overdose Of the an9sthetic
to relieve himself of the pains in his head,
of which he complained on applying for room
the previous day. Later In the day
it was learned that the unfortunate gentleman
nephew of MaturIn Livingston, OF No. 80 West
Twcnty-fourth street, who, with his family, rs at
Newport. where they have been tor three months
past 1t was also ascertained that he the OF
the late Morgan L. Livingston. of the army. whose
widow and daughters live Mt No. Ga West Thirty
ninth street. The Coroner was Dotifcd. when
Deputy Coroner Golismith viewed the body and
gave a certificate permitting its removal. This
done in the course oil the evening.


MIR. Livingston was engaged In no business and
lived with his mother and sisters in the Thirty
ninth street mansion He was bachelor and about
thirty-seven years of age. lie had returned FROM
iner. only o day two before he met his death.
Considerable reticicnce exhibited by the hotel
officials and OF the friends OF the family last
night in regard to the affair." as they desired little
publicity be given to the matter possible. 1t
il understood that the body will be inferred In the
Livingston family plot ut Hyde Park.
Year: 1879

variations of the tariff were made it would ruin the
railroad interests and generally the business OF New
and our rivals would know what we were doing the
business at and thereby take advantage or us; 1
ing all the States; have no arrangement with the
Standard Oil Company; we get our OIL from the
Erie which transports for the Standard Oil Company.
and We take our pro rata.


COAL COMBINATIONS.


Witness explained about coal combinations, or
agreements as he chose to call them That they
were made with other companies agreeing not to
oiror more coal from the mines than was demanded.
so as to keep up the prices but the other companies
had, in some way. broken their agreement. and 1t
had ended; each company got a pro rata OF tho
amount received. but it was found that there were
not units enongh in the hundred to supply them
all-that it would require 15O The witness said he
thought it aproper thing for the companies to
combine to restrain the production Of coal. He said
potatoes could be made to grow plenty tnat peo-
pie would not take them, even if they were given
away, and. therefore. he thought the law OF COM
merce would require restriction. and he thought
that to COAL this would result in fair price to
the producer and to the consumer.


He asked about the purchases Of real estate in
New York, in Church street, corner Of Cortlandt-
property and he replied. 1--WE not infalliLle.'
Witness thought that il he could commence the busi
ness that he is in over again he would not have
mile of railroad his property. as there were SO
many lines other in competition against him.


Mr. Sterne closed his examination of the witness
and requested him to make any explanation as to his
view or the railroad question. which the witness did,
but nothing of any moment was elected. Thereupon
tho subcommittee adjourned and closed the exam
ination OF tho Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
The counsel left for New York tonight.