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Year: 1879

simultaneously with the announcement
that the Cabinet had decided against the
reorganization of the Republican State asso-
Citations, and that the movement has been
entirely headed of, comes another in effect
that Secretaries SHERMAN and SCHURZ will
in few days enter the campaign in Ohio


and make the fur fly with their oratorical
powers. 1t is said that Secretary SCHURZ
was the most vehement In the Cabinet
against the State associations, and that the
act of Introduction is attributable to his eff
forts. We presume that the State associa-
tions will never be forgiven for their efli-
cheney in 1s72-but, really, so long as Sec
retary ScHURz consents to hold minis
terial position in Republican administra-


tion he should forget and forgive those as
sociations for having at that time been very
persistent in behafof the Republican cause,
tits not at all probable, had Secretary SCHURz
remained with the Democrats and had they
succeeded in 1875, that he would have been
honored with any position. We infer 80
from the fact that in 1873 they had u Sena-
torship to confer in his State, which he had
earned by his detection and betrayal of the
Republican cause the year before, and his
claims were treated with contempt. That
was an ungracious act on their part, which
would have been repeated, no doubt, upon
every possible occasion. In view Of al


this we cannot recognize tho hostility o.
Year: 1879

THERE arc three men prominently before
the country at the present time, one of whom
will be the next President of the United States
GRANT, BLAINE and SHERMAN. A represent
ative of THE REPUBLICAN recently met gen.
tleman of national reputation, whose name is
familiar as household words, who gave it as his
opinion that BLAINE and SHERMAN would
each go into the next Republican convention
with sufficient strength to make trouble, the
one for the other, neither one being strong
enough to obtain the nomination, and that the
result would be u compromise of the factions
on GRANT, and that he would be unanimously
nominated and triumphantly elected. Shou Id
such be the will of the people all will say
Amen
Year: 1879

Now President DIAz proposes TO hang all
the revolutionists in Mexico. If he carries
this threat into execution the next batch of
census-takers in that country will be cheated
out of their job unless they 20 to work, as
they will all be in readiness to do, in the
world to come.
Year: 1879

SO long as the Republican party is the only
conserving power of this Nation now, and
it is by eternal vigilance that it can retain
supremacy, it is difficult to appreciate the
wisdom of that policy which keeps Demo-
Gratis in place and says substantially to the
Republicans in office "Sit thou there, fold
your hands and move not, politically, ex-
"cept under superior sanclionn
Year: 1879

nurses Of experience to the stand and OBJ
tain from them whatever information they
possess regarding the latter branch of this
inquiryY Every one at all eonversant with
the disease knows that the good nursing,
such as these women afford to patients in
their charge, effects more cures than any
thing else. Instead of wasting time. and
money in the elaboration of special and
truly professional theories, 1t would, in our
opinion, be better to find out how these
practical workers go about saving human
life from the ravages of the great Southern
scourue.
Year: 1879

THE Louisville Courier-Joarndl justilies
the sending of tents and rations to Mem
phis by the War Department, to protect the
poor Of that city, because they are largely
negroes, aud we think it is right. The
white people of afIluenco having fled from
the pestilenco and left the poor to starve
and die without shelter, we think, though
il might be at variance with statutory law,
that the Government was clearly justifiable,
under the common law of humanity, in
rendering the relief it has afforded. The
queer feature of this matter is, that the
Government has no right to invade State
to enforce o violated statute, while, when
the South is in aflliction and her own people
desert aud flee for personal safety, then they
supplicate the Government. Upon other
occasions they revile it.
Year: 1879

HENDR1cK B. WRIGHT's expedition, un-
der Congressional sanction, was designed to
expose the alleged fact that labor is de-
pressed in this country, aud that things
have gone to the dogs generally. The cost
of the expedition will not be less than eight
or ten thousand dollars but it will be more
than compensated for by the exposure of a
condition of things exactly the reverse of
the foregoing alleged fiIct.n
Year: 1879

SINCE the renewed prohibition against
State Associations the Opposition press has
suddenly discovered that President HAYES
really has a backbone. And they seem to
admire him for it. Whenever he does any
thing which attracts their commendation
it is safe to say he is on the wrong track.
Year: 1879

EVERY dollar of the $113, 100000 collected
by the Internal Revenue Bureau during the
last fiscal year was paid into the Treasury
The Government didn't lose cent from de-
falcation or any other cause of the amount
thus collected. We suggest this fact us q
text upon which Democratic orators may
preach from now until the end of the next
fiscal year regarding the corruption and
bad management of this Radical Admins
tration. They will have q new text then, OF
the same kind, for 1880.
Year: 1879

PosTIAsTER-GE GENERAL KEY is just now
the recipient OF an avalanche of abuse at
the hands of the Southern Democratic press
because he made few conciliatory speeches
up in New England q fortnight ago. These
Southern scribblers all profess to be in favor
of conciliation until some one attempts it
from their side of the line, when they in
stantly show that their professions are only
intended as one-sided limitations. So long
as Cancellation comes from the North they
are satisfied; but they have none to extend
in return.
Year: 1879

THE proposition submitted to the people
of Tennessee, at the election held in that
State, was to fund the state debt at fifty per
cent, l. G., to repudiate one.half of it. 1t
was defeated, because both the out-and-
out repudiators and the honest debt-payers
combined to vote against it. This settles
the question for the present, or until next
summer, when the Legislature will probably
submit similar and more sweeping propo-
sition-one that will provide for absolute
and unqualified repudiation Unless there
is a radical change in public sentiment in
the State, that proposition will be carried.
Home Rule, you know.
Year: 1879

ITaffords uspleasure to say to the Sunday
Herald that THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
is not in special need Of sympathy or ill
will on the subject of managing its own af-
fairs in its own way, for it works charm
ingly. And one word more with our cotem-
porary-it should wait until it has just
cause for an exhibition of ill-nature toward
THE REPUBLICAN if it desires contro-
versy, and not seek pretext for it when
no legitimate occasion for it exists. 1t
should not ventilate its ill-will without
provocation, unless it draws comfort fro m
such exercise If so, we do not object.
Year: 1879

Not to be considered censorious, the
Southern members (whose names we &c
not know. because we nave not examln-
ed the record and, therefore, we are
not aiming at anybody particularly
oyerstepped the bounds Of magnan'mity
itself in voting this S50.000000 of ex-
ira pay to the armies that fought and
desolated and impoverished their own
States in the late war. 1t is an open
question, SO far as the opinion of man
kind at large is concerned. whether
that war was a just one; but 1t Is not
an open question with the people OF
the South who have always held to be
a slander the charge that they were
seeking to destroy the Government
from which they proposed to with
draw, and establish a Government of
their own, based upon the principle
th"t ust Governments derive their
powers from the consent Of the govern
ed.


If bygones are to be bycones, let
them be so in fact rs well as preten-
sion; but this system Of pensloning the
soldiers who fought on the winning
side of the war at the expense OF the
side that lost (because of the over
wheln ne odds against them) is not
only a dlsagreeahle reminder of by
cones but most unfair and iniqultcus
proceeding. While large numbers Of
the soldiers on the eide Of the North
honestly believed they were fighting
to save their Government and were i'm
PEELED by patriotic motives, others were
mere soldiers of fortune from abroad
who enlisted for pay, regardless of the
cause involved. On the side Of the
South, the struggle was for hone and
altar and the right Of self government


1t is monstrous crime against the
peace of the reunited country for its
Government to pursue course which
will perpetually remind the weaker
side that it is to be beast of burden
fer the others


1t was only twelve months ago that
bill passed the Republican Senate
voting a princely pension to General
Grsnt. the leader of the Northern ar
mics. notwithstanding he had been
crowned with the highest honors of
the country and had received hundreds
of thousands of dollars from the public
treasury And but the other day the
same body passed an amendment to
the Mexican War Pension bill, exc!ud-
ing Jefferson Davis from its benefits
though he was one of the most gallant
and successful leaders of the armies of
the United States in that war. r.-Jack-
son (Miss) Clarion.
Year: 1879

Secretary Sherman says that the
funding operations of the Government
during the past four months are with
out a PARALLEL in the history of finance,
the saving in annual interest amount
ing to over 100000. The credit
of this, he says. is due to resumption.
without which. aud the restoration of
public confidence, it would have been
impossible to have refunded the debt at
4 per cent.
Year: 1879

A GLOOMY OUTLOOK. LONDON
April 2.-David McIver, one of the
proprietors of the Cunard line, and a
member of Parliament writes that he
does not know Of any nations whose
trade prospects are so gloomy as Great
Britain British exports to the United
States are comparatively nothing in the
volume of value. The balance of
trade is so overwhelmingly against
Great Britain that he sees nothing ex-
cept ruin for home industries, whether
manufacturing or agricultural if the
present state of things is allowed to
continue. The export trade from
Liverpool to the United States is so
small that when the restriction or the
importation Of United States cattle are
removed, it is intended to make tie
outward voyages with water ballast on
ly, ship-owners being unwilling to
scramble for the little outward freight
recently carried as ballast at nominal
rates.
Year: 1879

There's a call upon the housetop, from the


plain;
There's warble in the sunshine. twtter in the rain
And through my heart at sound of these there


nameless thrill
As sweet Odor to the rose, verdure to the hill;
And all these joyous mornings my heart pours forth


this strain;
"God bless the dear old robins that have come back


again"
For they bring thought of summer, of dreamy, lus-


cious days.
ofkiugcups in the meadow. making golden haze;
longing for the clover blooms. for all aglow,
For fragrant blossoms where the bees with drowning


murmurs go
dream of all the beauties of summers golden reign
And sing, God keep the robins hat have back


again."
Year: 1879

or within our little cottage.


As the shadows gently fall,
While the sunlight touches softly
One sweet face upon the wall.
Do we gather close together,


And IN hushed and tender tone,
Ask each others full forgiveness
For the wrong that each has done.
Should you wonder why this custom
At the ending of the day,
Eye and voice would quickly answer:
at was once our mothers way"
II our home be bright and CHEEKY,
lift hold a welcome true,
Open wide the door Of greeting


To the many-not few.
five share our Fathers bounty


With the needy day by day,
IT'S because our hearts remember
This was ever mothers way.
Sometimes. when our hearts grow weary,
And our tasks seem very long,
When our burdens seem too heavy
Aud we deem the right all wrong.
Then we gain anew fresh courage,
As we rise to proudly say: .....
"Let us do our duty bravely-


This was our dear mothers way"
As she taught us when but infants,
Acts Of faith and hope and love,
Thus we keep her memory precious
While we never cease to prove
That at last when lengthening shadows
Mark the evening of life's day,
They may find us waiting calmly
To 90 our darling mothers way.
Year: 1879

Every little while an idiotic couple
think 1t would be very smart to get
married by telegraph. The latest case
was out West, the bridegroom being
seated in telegraph office at Ovation
ma, Mich, and the bride and the off,
cIating clergyman in an office at Mil
waukee, Wis. OF course the notorlety
seekers accomplished their purpose by
getting full notice Of the performance
in oil the papers. and they will proba-
bly, be rather gratifed than displeased
by the discovery that the ceremony
was of no legal effect. For one thing,
under the Wisconsin laws a minister's
authority 70 marry extends only
"throughout the state" so that he
couldn't marry groom in Michigan,
The couple will therefore have n
chance to get married over again and
get their names into the paper sec
pnd time
Year: 1879

Mothers live for their children
make self-sacrifices for them aud
manifest their tenderness aud love SO
freely that the name Mother is the
sweetest in tho human language.
Aud yet sons, youthful ana, aged
know bat li.tb Of tie anxiety, the
nights Of sleepless aud painful soli-
tude which their mothers bavo spent
over their thoughtless waywarduess.
These loving hearts 60 down to their
graves with those hours OF secret
agony uutold. AS the mother
watches by night or prays in the
secrecy cf her closet, she weighs
we'll the words that sho will address
to her sou in order to lead him to a
manhood OF honor and usefulness.
She will not tell him all the grieis
and deadly fears that beset her soul.
She warns HIM with trembling lest
she say overmuch, she ties to charm,
him with CHEEKY love whiie her heart
is bleeding. No worthy or Success
ful man ever yet knew the depth Of
the great obligation which he Is un-
der to the mother who guided bis
needless steps at the time when bis
character tor virtue and purity was so
narrowly balanced against u course
of vice and ignominy.


Let tho s)n do his uttermost to
sooth his mothers pathway let
him oboy as implicitly as be can her
wishes aud advice let him omit
nothing that will contribute to hei
peace, rest, and happiness, and ye,
he will part from her at the tomt
with h'. debt to her not half dis
charged.
Year: 1879

Our advertisers have been so much
benefited by our double sheet, that
there is a desire on the part OF many
o. them that We would issue another
at an early day. Yielding to this desire,
W. have concluded to comply with the
request ofour patrons who have spoken
to us upon the matter, provided a suf-
fcient amount of extra advertising can
be secured to pay the extra expense
We make this statement to give SUI
fcient number of the business people OF
Wilmington an opportunity of letting
II, know whether they really are in
earnest or not in their desire for us TO
publish another double sheet. We
mean OF course by this, a sufficient
number to bear the expense of such an
enterprise. If in earnest, they are re-
duested to make known that fact at the
Office Of publication this week, and il
enough respond, we will launch out an
other mammoth double sheet on Satur-
day the last day of May.
Year: 1879

SENATOR Vance has more to show for
his work in the Senate during II d,
short time he has been there than any
other Democratic Senator. In his
m .iden speech the other day he- brought
DR.. Mary Walker right over to the
Democratic side, pantaloons and all,
and didn't half try.
Year: 1879

We invite the business men OF Will
mington, and indeed of the whole State
to pay the REPUBLICAN press room
visit and see for themselves the large
editions of our daily run off on our
Campbell railroad press. Come and
s,e aud then make comparisons. The
following is the daily edition OF the Re


PUBLICAN since Saturday last, inclu-
Year: 1879

Was the most prosperous yess In Tho history Of
tho Company; hut The year now drawing to
close has been nearly rs good. Tic claim OF the
Company IL Oh Ruby Hill, an isolated spur from
the main range.


The following gt7ea the fluctuations OF the
Year: 1879

AN exchange, referring to the
whimsical farmers. did hardly the
fairs thing by including the whole
class: These farmers are queer
set First it was the drouth that
was ruining the wheat then it was
the ,rms then the rust was spoil
ing the crop; and, now, finding
themselves unable to play that on
the community any longer, they
have let the chinch bugs loose and
wholesale havoc is inevitable. There
is one thing Mr.. Barnium has never
had on exhibition, and that is a
Granger who wasn't a kicker" We
consider that among TIE farming
community are to be found men of
great manly worth, lever active and
energetic, ,yet still determined to
content themselves with the uncer
tanties in their chosen profession.
Year: 1879

How entertaining it is to some to
see score of little rat-tailed ours
charge on farmers innocent mas
tiff that marches under the wagon.
TO shoot these worthless ours with
out reserve would be better employ
ment than to sit and giggle at their
howlings,
Year: 1879

CITY Eds are now wallo wing in
the rich mire of summer resorts
with roll of green hackers" from
two to three inches in diameter
tightly clinched in their fists, while
country editors can't afford to go a
station from home on compliment
ary pass.
Year: 1879

THE premium list of the South
western WIS. Industrial ASS, is
published in this number of the
TRIBUNE. 1t may be sapless to a
few, but the majority OF the people
will devour it with relish.
Year: 1879

THERE are people it seems who
can't or wont see into the workings
Of providence, For instance, the
editor of the Arena Star was deter
mined to attend the state greenback
convention at Watertown last week
Tuesday, but on the evening before
his pocket book containing his rail
road pass Chats about all an editors
pocket book can boast of usually,
was lost or stolen, providentally, we
take it, to keep him out of such a
crowd as he would find at the con-
vention. He took no heed of the
warning, however, and went, if he
did have to pay bis railroad fare.
And yet we haven't heard just what
he thinks of the convention .-Rich-
idnd Go. ObSerUer.
Year: 1879

To the voters Of the Parish q


Lafayette and Verm'lion.
| am a candidate for District
Attorney of the 25th Judicia
District, at the election to take
place on the 2ud December


You all know my past recorc
as District Attorney of this Dis
trict refer to it as the bes
guarantee, l can give for future
and solicit your vote.


JOSEPH a. CHARGOIS.
Year: 1879

THE CHEF OF THE MoDocs.-We
stopped at the edge Of the field 10 feed
our horses, and at our invitation Bogus
Charley came out and we talked with
him about the present condition and
prospects of the tribe. He speaks Eng


lish quite well and understands readily
ordinary conversation. Like all the
Indians we saw, he seemed shy and 81
lent. answering our questions freely but
making no conversation himself. He
told us there were l55 in the party that
came here ITO the Inl ian territoryl in
1873, but that they had dwindled now by
death to 100. In answer to our inquiry
ifthoy were contented, he said, sadly,
"Oh, we'll, / expect we stay here now.
We no get back" "But don't yoG like
IT here?" mo, VIC not like it," he said.
"Too many die. We come here one
hummer fifty fve-we only one hummer
now. All over there" and he pointed
To the burial place over on the hillside
half n mile away. There was an exquis-


ite tenderness in his way OF saying this,
and his 'only one hummer now" was so
full OF gentleness and gravity and though
he plainly did not aim at any effect be-
yond answering US, he did really touch
the feelings of us all. Then when we
asked him if he wanted TO go back to his
old home among the lava beds, his eye
Just frightened little and turned west
ward with the far-away look Of home
sickness and longing, and he said, g es,
] ike to go back; my sister there, my
friend there.n l was much interested
in this chief, Bogus Charley. Other In
dians complained or begged, were sullon
or naughty; either posed or groyclliag.
This man with felt hat, blue shirt and
overals, without bead or feather or n
touch Of color, an utterly uEheroic per
son in appearance, with no effort at dis
play or attempt to excite sympathy or
admiration, seemed to me great, great in
the simplicity of his talk, his unstudied
eloquence, his profound natural patEos,
his dignity without haughtiness and
grace without afIectation, and greatest Of
all in the phiIosophic resignation with
which he accepted his fate with hardly n
murmur or complaint. As ho stood
there on little emincnco overlooking
the corn fields, his arms folded and his
little figure limned against the sky, not
looking at us as we drove away, it was
not difficult to picture in him heroic
Last Of the Modocs. He had said little,
but the tone and manner OF what be did
say so impressed me that for while !
did feel as though this man represented
an hggrieved and despoiled race, and
that l, as representative Of the race that
had wronged him, had something 10 be
sorry for. N. Y. I1fdUHc.
Year: 1879

The most honest man we have heard
Of lately was Washington street deal
er ia mems Undertaking. A friend of
ours bought pair of shirts Of him at
81 % each, buc finding them too small
carried them back the next day to
exchange them for larger ones of the
same kind. The exchange was made
without hesitation, but as the buyer was
about to retire, he was asked to wait a
moment. AT the end of the moment
the cashboy appeared and tho salesman
taking half dollar from him, handed
it to the astonished customer, informing
him that between the time of purchase
and the exchange the shirts had been
marked down to one dollar each, and he
was therefore entitled to halt dollar,
the shirts he returned being dollar and a
quarter ones, and those he took being
dollar oncs,-Lc.
Year: 1879

KILLED BY A METEoR.- Leonilas
Grover, who resided in the vicinity of
Newton, Fountain County, Indiana, met
his death in q way that is probably with
out parallel in this or any other country.
Mr.. Grover was n widower, living on
lis farm with married daughter and
her husband. On the evening referred
to, the married couple had been on II
visit to some neighbors, and upon re
turning at a late hour. entering the house
found everything, TO all appearance, in
usual order, aad supposng that Mr..
Grover had already retired, went to bed
themselves. Next morning the daGeh-
ter arose, and having prep ared breakfast,
went To the adjoining room to call her
father, and was Mortified to find him lying
upon his shattered bed a mutilated corpse.
Her screams brought the husband quick
ly to tho bed room, and an inspection
disclosed ragged opening in the roof,
directly over the breast Of the up 'ortun-
ate man, which was torn through as ii
by a cannon shot, and extending down
ward through the bedding and floor; hol-
es showed the direction taken by the
deadly missile. Subseqent search re-
vealed the fact that the awful calamity
was caused by the fall ofa meteoric stone,
and the stone ITSELF weighing twenty
pounds and few ounces, avordupois,
and stained with blood, was unearthed
from depth of nearly FIVE feet, thus
showing the fearful impetus with which
it struck the dwelling. The position of
the corpse, with other surroundings when
found, showed that the victim was asleep
when stricken, and that death, to him,
was painless.
Year: 1879

Early in the fall there is a shy little
matron, Mrs. Walton, pnsconced in II
palatial residence in the city of her
birth, and picture far happier in he
gilded framing, that of the country
girl in natures frame.