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Year: 1879

The resignation of Warden Hewes seems to be accepted as substantial confession of bad management involving the directors as we'll as the retiring officer against whose conduct of affairs so much has been said.

 The passage of the bill through both Houses repeating the ten per cent reduction of salaries, is on the whole good measure. There was some saving under that law, but much of the reduction came upon the wrong people. The passage of the bill allowing sale of | liquors in no-license towns for mechanical and medicinal purposes by agents chosen by the selectmen, is one of the amendments which the law has long needed. Whether the bell punch system will affect much, if it becomes law, is matter regarding which we have great doubt

 The action of the Senate in regard to rail- road fares is little peculiar, to say the least, | The special committee reported a bill which, in view of the importance of the principle in- | volved, they proposed to continue to the next general assembly having the same printed with the laws. The House so voted, but the Senate insisted upsn rejecting the bill. Considering the interest that has been taken in this matter and that it has been deemed of sufficient im- portance to go to a special committee, we think the Senate acted very strangely in refus- ing to let the bill reported by that committee go before the people for consideration. | We wait with much interest for the action of the conference committee, and of the Houses thereon, regarding the extension of minority representation to grand jurors, constables and justices. The bills passed the House but were attacked in the Senate by Senator Coe, for what reason he did not say, and defeated with out discussion. The opposition to this reform has generally come from the House where town majorities only are represented In the Senate, where minority parties have representation as well as majority. there has been heretofore 8 disposition to give this plan fair trial We had never suspected MT. Coe of the petty par tisanship which chiefly objects to minority representation on town boards
Year: 1879

It seems that the laws of France deny the privilege of teaching in that country to foreign CTS. Minister Jules Ferry proposes to extend the exclusion to the religious orders like the Jesuits, which are under foreign control It is thought that the bill will pass.
Year: 1879

An influx of spring advertising crowds out 8 good deal of matter from correspondents which we should have been glad to publish. It also cuts down editorial space, so that many matters pass without comment to which we intended to refer
Year: 1879

The resignation of Warden Hewes seems to be accepted as 8 substantial confession of bad management involving the directors as well as the retiring officer against whose conduct of affairs so much has been said.
Year: 1879

The passage of the bill through both Houses repeating the ten per cent reduction of salaries, is on the whole 8 good measure. There was some saving under that law, but much of the reduction came upon the wrong people.
Year: 1879

To GIBLS.-Neve marry man who
has only his love for You to recommend
him. lt is very fascinating but it does
not make the man. IL he is not other
wise what he should be, YOU will never
he happy. The most perfect man who
did not love you should never be your
husband. But though marriage with
out love is terrible, love only will not
do. IL the mau is dishonorable 10 other
men, or mean, OF given To any vice, the
time viii come when you will either
ioathe him or sink to his level. It is
hard to remember, amid kisses and
praise, that there is anything else in
the world TO be dOue or thought Of but
lovemaking; but the days Of life are
many, aud the husband must be a
guide To be trusted-a companion,
friend as we'll as lover. Many a girl
has married man whom she knew To
ue anything but good "because he
loved her So" And the flame has died
out on tine heaTthstOue of home before
long, aud beside it she has been sitting
with one that she could never hone
would lead her heavenward-or who.
if she followed him as a wife should
would guide her steps to perdition
Marriage is a solemn thing-a choice
for life; be careful in the choosing
BiegrdUia.
Year: 1879

creatures, and qualify our otherwise i'm
pertinent and iueXcusable ofiiciOusness,
we transgress the limit Of our duty and
privilege, and descend from the highest
ol principles to low personalities. I do
not say that there are not occasions
where individual liberty of action has
TO be restricted by force of law or bv
private interference, hut the wisdom
that comes Of divine guidance in our
own sad human experience, and the
pity born Of "a consciousness Of our own
human weaknesses, should teach rs a
way by which that end may be accom-
plished without destroying the self-re-
spect and supplantirg the will and con-
science Of the offender by an outside
force wholly unsympathetica and viudic-
tive in its character.


Only soul alive and thrilling with
love for humanity, with no faint Of
malice, envy, enmity or spite toward
any fellow-being, can be trusted with
the delicate and difficult duty of intru-
sion into, aud supervision over, anOth-
er's personal affairs, where such intrusion
and supervision may be accounted nee
essary 10 the general good.


In short, we have no capacity for
miuding our ueighbors' business until
We have learned how wisely to mind
OuF owu
Year: 1879

The DISTRESS ~ GREAT BRITAIN
The poverty aud suffering among the
manufacturing classes in England and
Scotland are still unhappily on the in
crease. It must be evident now that If
actual famine be not threatened, as DO
cannot be, because food is plenty, an
amount Of destitutiOn is sure to prevail
during the winter and spring months
which will severely try the temper of
the poorer classes and severely tax the
generosity Of the charitable. According
10 all appearances, it will be worse than
the memorable cotton famine" which,
shortly after the outbreak Of the civil
war in this country, reduced such a large
proportion of the working population Of
Lancashire TO a state Of pauperism. The
attention Of the government has already
been directed to the matter, without
practical effect so far, because IL was as
serted by several members of Parlis-
meut that the bad condition Of affairs
had been greatly exaggerated. This
seems treating a most urgent and i'm
portaBt matter very lightly, and is not
in harmony with reports from the CEN
teTs of manufacturing industry pub
lished in the newspapers. The mum ber
Of men and women now out Of employ
ment, and therefore I'm need Of the COM
mon necessaries Of life, is too large 20 be
provided for by private or local charity
and the government will have to step
in with aid. Hunger is not to be trihed
with, and British artisans will not
starve in the midst Of plenty, simply
because they cannot get work.-S. i.
CtrOnciie
Year: 1879

MARRIAGE. One Of the greatest mis-
takes in married life, and the cause OF
many divorces aud much unhappiness,
is IN the foolish custom Of marrying for
money rather than for anything else.
Gold cannot buy happiness, aud the
parents who compel their daughters %
marry for station or money commit a
grievous sin against humanity and JUS
lice. And a woman who marries a
ehurl for his wealth will find that she
has made a terrible bargain; that all
the glittering Of a heartless grandeur
are phosphOreseent glitterings OF heart
wretchedness; that their life will be one
gilded misery, and her old age viii be
like crag on the bleak side Of a desert
mountain where cold moonbeams some
times glitter, bat no birds sing, but wild
storms howl and hoarse thunder roars,
as through sweeping storms shall be
heard TIE stern voice Of conscience say
ing Your riches are corrupted, your
eSIments are moth-esten, your gold and
s,iNer are cankered, aud the rust OF
I eueh shal be a witness against you,


anu eat your flesh as if IL were fire.
Year: 1879

Careful physicians who have thor
ougbly investigated the matter say that
writing on both sides Of the paper will
predispose the system 10 the yellow
fever, and is one Of the primary causes
OF that disease. We trust our CORE
spondents, especially those who write
poetry and politics, will remember
this.-RtTItRgtO HdiUkeye.
Year: 1879

The will OF the late Mr.. O'Brien, of boz
nanza fame, is in danger of being included in
the dismal list of last testaments which
is blessing lawyers, cursing surrogates
and scandalizing claimants and testators
with rigid impartiality. Our special de-
spatch, with details of the physical and
financial circumstances of the dead million
naire's brother, the unexpected appearance
OF a self-reputed wife and child of the sick
man, and the latter's abrupt and mysterious
departure with his supposed family, reads
like strained romance, but the two mill
ions of dollars which are involved give the
story a. basis of admirable solidity. The
inferences which the public will naturally
make will, OF course. be complimentary to
the family affection which prompted the
women to leave dying man to depart this
life in poverty, peace and in ignorance Of
the loving relatives who were to mourn his
loss, while the influences under which their
treatment altered will not easily escape
recognition. Meanwhile, there will be some
sceptical people who will recall other estates
which have attracted the attention of per-
sons who have been supposed to be under
ground, and whose Identification lacked
somewhat Of completeness. The story as it
stands is certainly. incomplete enough to
consume every reader with wonder as to
what is coming next
Year: 1879

Strikes ami Failures i'm England.


With what friction the adjustment of the
relations between labor and capital IN the
United Kingdom is attended can be seen in
the cable dispatches Out OF the depression
of trade the capitalist sees no way but by
reduction OF the price of labor, and labor
sees no way to stop it but by going
on strike. Then the capitalist suffers a
little and the laborer great deal. In
nine cases out of ten capital wins, and
the laborer returns, grumbling. to work. In
the cotton, coal and iron trades the strug-
gle is very bitter 1t is gratifying to
observe that in one case the dispute
about a FIVE per cent reduction has
been referred to arbitration, and it is
give the grounds on which they base their
decision, as we'll as the decision itself. The
coal miners Of South Yorkshire are prepar-
ing to resist reduction Of pay, and the
amalgamated engineers are ready to re-
sist an attempt to increase their hours
the depression of business, of which o
further idea may be formed by the record
of failures for 1878. They are in all
l5,O59, or 4,037 more than in 1877. OF
these 2,643 are of large concerns, tho
Glasgow Bank. with it's thirty million
dollars Of deficit, heading the list. No
symptom of recovery from this state
of affairs is yet visible. Wages pairing and
profit shaving may help English trade a
trife, but its great days are gone beyond
recovery. 1t can no longer monopolize the
markets of the world, and where it has re-
Gently lost ground another has taken its
place. It is Americas turn.
Year: 1879

The Secretary of the Interior having called
upon General Sheridan for specifications in
support of his late charges against the exist
ing management of Indian affairs, the Gen.
eral has written reply which has probably
a great deal more in it than the Secretary
will care to read with the whole nation look
ing over his shoulder Aside from the
specific information given by the letter pub
lished yesterday, the statement that the
material upon which the charges were based
had already been transmitted by the War
Department to that of the Interior, as is the
case with all military documents relating to
Indian affairs, embodies some unpleasant
suggestions of carelessness, to say the least,
in the Interior Department The public is
SO accustomed to hear of fraud and
mismanagement in Indian affNirs, even
when honest ind ablesmen are .nominally
in control ;of fthek bureau, thutit will natu-
rally regard lthe Secretary eself- Implied ig-
norance Aas oonly another nproof of the
trickery and aduplicitys which seem to have
been just beneath the surface ofnearly all
dealings with or for the Indians since the
red men became the nations wards. The
Secretary has admitted that the Indian
Bureau is and has been an incubus upon
the Interior Department, and the public
needs no official intimation that this is be-
cause of the Incompetence and dishonesty
of most Of the men who really manage
Indian affairs; it seems strange, therefore,
that he should become Its defender against
the army officers, almost any one of whom
has really more facts at command than any
Indian Commissioner hos ever been able
and willing to give to his official superior.
Whereabouts in the Interior Department. are
these statements in point that have been
transmitted by tho War Department, but of
which Secretary Schurz has been ignorant? !?
Year: 1879

In the Cobb murder case, now on trial in
Connecticut, another court has to deal
with the difficult problems of the poison
er's art but we do not apprehend that the
famous farce that was played in New Jer-
sey court in the case of vosburgh will be re-
peated at Norwich. In Connecticut at
least they had dead body to begin with.
Professor Doremus has given his testimony
on the examination Of the morbid anatomy,
and has declared what he found. His
chemical knowledge on points of this nature
is assuredly without fault, and judges and
juries may accept as beyond the reach of
refutation any positive declarations made
by him Of the presence of poison in the
tissues of the deceased. In the present case
we do not see but that the counsel for the
defence may accept them also, for unless
the evidence of analysis is remarkably sup
ported by expert medical testimony nobody
can be hanged on what has been Shown.
From the arsenic actually found in the or
gans examined, and computation there
upon, Professor Doremus states his opinion
that there was at least q grain and a half of
the drug in the dead body, his inference that
there was more in the body shortly before
death, and his further OF nion that no man
can SO accustom himself to the use of ar
senic as to safely carry one or two grains
of it in his system. These several points
are to be received with very different de-
grecs of credit. The fact that half grain
was found is doubtless absolute the COM
putation thence to grain and q
half is of less value; and the alle-
pation rs. to the limit of toleration
is worthless-is mere opinion, and
not the opinion even Of q person practi-
cally familiar with the use of this substance
in medicine. 1t appears that the deceased
was ut tho time Of his death using medicine
which contained arsenic, ''but only. liz.
tle.". In the twelve powders found the Pro-
fessor says there was not enough arsenic to
be dangerous. In the long continued use
of very small doses Of this drug lies the
secret Of its toleration by the system, and
it will become an important issue how long
the deceased had been using such powders.


III he had been using them for any consid-
erable period the accumulation of grain
and half in the system would not have
been a great one, since the Professors
views are altogether erroneous as to what q
man may carry. Won Tschudi's report
Of four grains used in day cannot be ig-
nored, and rs Orfla reasons that thirty
days are necessary for complete elimination
a man might have in him at one time any,
where from Ave to ffty grains.
Year: 1879

out of the depression and stagnation of the
last five years; and if we should be blessed
with another bountiful harvest, keeping the
foreign balance in our favor, the country
will find itself next autumn not merely
convalescent, but in confirmed financial
health.


The smooth and successful resumption of
specie payments which We now witness
falsifies many confident prophecies and re-
fleets discredit on the financial judgment Of
tho democratic party. In its last national
platform it denounced the Resumption
act os 50 hindrance to specie pay
ments" and demanded its repeal. A
bill for repeating it was soon after passed
by the democratic House of Representa-
tives, and the Presidential canvass of the
party was conducted with great zeal on
that basis. 1t was an odd position for
some men to take that the fixing of q date
for the maturity of a debt was hindrance
10 its payment. 1t was only because date
was fixed that efficient preparations were
made. If O mans note at O bank is to fall
due at specified time he has motive to
bestir himself as the time approaches and
meet his engagement. There was
great deal Of extravagant invective both in
the democratic platform and in Mr.
Tilden's letter of acceptance against the
republican party for having provided no
means of resumption. But it would have
been absurd and wasteful to accumulate
great stock Of gold to lie idle in the Treas
ury years in advance of the time. Instead
of employing the surplus revenue for that
purpose it was used for reducing the public
debt and thereby saving q large amount OF
interest. Between the passage of the Re-
sumption act and the date fixed for specie
payments there was paid S113. $50, 191 of the
government bonds. It would have been
folly to have converted this sum
into gold and have kept it lying
in the Treasury without interest.
When the time came that additional
gold was needed for resumption purposes
it was easily procured by the sale of bonds
in accordance with the law; and no method
could have been wiser or more economical.
The signal demonstration which we now
witness Of the unwisdom and want of fore
sight of the politicians who denounced the
act as a hindrance to resumption and pre-
dicted it's total failure has justly destroyed
all confidence in their financial judgment.
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was active and strong during the forenoon.
Later in the day there was, however, u general
decline. Government bonds were quiet, States
weak and railroads strong. Money call was
easy at per cent, but sold up late in the
day to 6. closing at per cent.
Year: 1879

social and business standing of the gentle
men of the club, combined with their wide
| experience in matters of this kind, guaran-
tees very attractive evenings sport, likely
to even outstrip in interest the famous
meeting of 1878.
Year: 1879

CENTRAL PARK, the principal avenues and
streets and the fashionable drives rcsounded
yesterday with the merry tinkling of the sleigh
bells. Several of the crack teams were out, and
the picture presented, especially in the upper
portions of the city, was exceedingly brilliant
one
Year: 1879

In THE DEATH of Caleb Cushing, which took
place at Newburyport at an early hour this
morning, New England has lost, perhaps, the
ablest, most accomplished and versatile of all
her sons. As a lawyer, a diplomatist and a
statesman he stood in the very front rank Of the
men of the present time.
Year: 1879

OvERCROwDED and i'll ventilated buildings is
the report from the Seventeenth ward schools.
The frank statements Of the trustees show that
the present school system sadly needs an over
hnulinr
Year: 1879

We have written and said so much in re-
gard to the Little Falls & Dakota Railroad
that it almost seems as If the subject was
well nigh exhausted and worn threadbare.
We have endeavored to show that the ad-
yantages to accrue to us upon the compile
tion of this important link in the chain of
Minnesota Railways will benefit us as
county, as town, and az q people. OF
course some will take exceptions to our
views, and we apprehend will also oppose
pledging our assistance, to aid the enter
prise. To those who are opposed to the
scheme we would like to say few words
as follows: any measure that will ad-
vance our interests, by increasing the val


ue of property, giving US better market ia


cilities, advancing the prices of produce,
decreasing the cost of transportation, and
reducing our necessary expenses for those
articles we import: the measure that will


accomplish all this is most assurcdly the
one which we should support. Any in
crease In the value of property will in a
farming region like ours benefit the major.
Iity Every dollar added TO the value Of an
acie of land, or to yoke of cattle. or ton
Of hsy, every cent we add to The value cl
Year: 1879




The following is the bill as passed, al
lowing settlers additional land in the rail
road limits:


An act to grant additional rights to home


stead settlers on public lands within rail-


road limits:


Be is enacted by the senate and house
OF representatives of the United States of
America in congress assem- bled: That
from and after the passage of this act, the
even sections within the limits of any grant
of public lands to any railroad company or
to any grand military road company, shall
be open to settlers under the homestead
laws to the extent of 100 to each settler;
and any person who has, under existing
laws, taken homestead on any even Sec
tion within the limits of any railroad or
military road land grant, and who by exist.
ing laws shall have been restricted to eighty
acres, may enter under the homestead laws
an additional eighty acres adjoining the
land subject to entry; or if such person go
elect, he may surrender his entry to the
United States for cancellation, and there.
upon be entitled 10 enter lands under the
homestead laws the same as If the surren
dered entry had not been made And any
person so making additional entry of eighty
acres, or new entry after the surrender and
cancellation of his original entry, shall be
permitted to do SO without payment of
fees and commission; and the residence
and cultivation of such person upon and of
the land embraced in his original entry
shall be considered residence and cultiva-
ton for the same length of time upon and
of the land embraced in his additional or
new entry, and shall be deducted from the
five years residence and cultivation re-
shall patent issue upon an additional or
new homested entry under this act until
the person has actually, and in conformity
with the homestead laws, occupied, resided
upon, and cultivated the land embraced
therein at least one year.
Year: 1879

We have just received a copy of the Meek
er County Tribune new paper published
OF Grove City. 1t is bright, neat and tasty,
and has the spice, energy and independence
which makes local paper popular and
ensures il success.
Year: 1879

We hardly see upon what grounds or
the propriety of the directors of the Little
Falls & Dakota railroad company so COM
pletely ignoring this county in perfecting
their organization by the election of Off
GERS.


What! crying again? well yes it was to
be expected but then you can't blame US
for it.