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Year: 1879

From all sections of the country come in
dications that business is improving. Here
in Maine the cotton and the leather manu-
factories are looking up. Labor is in de-
mand, wages are better, and steady employ
ment at remunerative pay is offered. Else
where the prospect is quite as good. The
Western fields promise immense harvests.
The great iron industry of the Middle States
has got new start, there is incre ased de-
mand for the product of the mines, and the
foundries are taking on more men and run
ming at their full capacity. The cotton
mills everywhere report heavy orders The
stock on hand has been exhausted, and the
demand is sharp for new supplies. The ex-
port trade has increased forty per cent.
The country is earning and saving The bur-
dens put upon it by the great expenditures
necessitated by the war for the maintenance
of the Union are steadily decreasing, the
volume of debt everywhere is being reduced,
and all the industries of the country are
looking up. The benefits of a return to a
sound and stable system of currency are felt
in every part of the land. We have invited
prosperity, the invitation has been cordially
accepted, and the guest has come


Our future is sure and prosperous if we
trudge along the path upon which we have
started. If we turn about and to the ways
of paper promises, public extravaganza and
fast living we shall lose all we have gained
by six years of frugal conduct and self denial
1t is not to be believed that after the severe
lesson just taught us we shall fall back into
our old errors
Year: 1879

THE Democratic majority in Congress go
on steadily backing down. At first they said
they would not pass the appropriation bills
without the political riders. Their policy
was settled by Blackburn in the following
words:


We do not intend to stop until we have
stricken the last vestige of your war measures
from the statute book, which, like these, were
born of the passions incident to civil strife and
Looked Looked to the abrdgment Of the liberty of the


Now, sir, if the gentleman from Ohio is to be
excused, for surely he cannot be Justified if he
is to be excused for parading before this House
the threat, the argument in terrorem of a veto
that is already cut and dried to be placed upon
a Dill that is not yet passed; if he is to be par
doned for warning this House that the execu-
tive branch of this Government will never
yield its assent to this measure in its present
form, may not be warranted and justified in
employing equal candor, and may 1 not assure
inant party of this Congress, the ruling ele-
ment of this body, is also equally determined
that until their Just demands are satisfied
that this side of the cham
Der, which has demonstrated its power, never
means to yield or surrender until this Congress
shall have died by virtue of its limitation?
lApplause on the Democratic side.


do not mean to issue threat. Unlike the
gentleman from Ohio, I disclaim any authority
to threaten. But 1 do mean to say that it is
my deliberate conviction that there is not to be
found in this majority single man who will
ever abandon one jot or title of the faith that
is in him. He cannot surrender if he would
1 beg you to believe he will not be coerced by
threats nor intimidated by parade of power
He must stand upon his conviction, and there
we will stand. He who dallies is a bastard.
and he who doubts is damned. [Great ap-
plause on the Democratic side.
Year: 1879

THE Philadelphia Bulletin draws moral
from the condition of the New York police,
and says: ''The New York papers are filled
with complaints of the inefficiency and bru-
tality of the police force of that city, the
Herald going so far as to class the police
men among the dangerous classes and to
insist that they compel decent people to live
under reign of terror Philadelphia had
nearly the same experience while her police
force was filled with and controlled by
Democrats. What New York needs is a
heavy dose of Republicanism. 1t is, how
ever, somewhat encouraging to perceive in
the reports from that city in the morning
papers that the policemen are beginning to
club each other. This kind of variation of
the usual programme ought to have general
encouragement"
Year: 1879

The Mobile Register reveals the inward
ness OF the Greenback movement when it
says: 1t is because of our earnest desire to
see our local banks once more banks of issue
that we favor the repeal of the Federal
banking system.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all indispensable not necessarily for publica-
tion but as guaranty of good faith


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

THE chief end of Democratic statesman
ship, according to the Hartford Courant, is
to prevent the colored Republicans at the
South from voting once, and to enable the
roughs of Northern cities to vote indefinite
Year: 1879

An eyewitness of the recent terrible tornado
in Kansas says that the cloud from which the
wind and rain seemed to come was in the
shape OF an immense inverted tunnel, of a
dark blush color, and seemed to be continual
ly whirling and grinding within itself. The
tunnel seemed to float along with its bowl
close to the ground, occasionally bounding
high in air and almost disappearing for several
seconds, when it would again drop to the
earth Whenever it thus leaped into the air,
whatever was upon the earth under it was
left unframed.
Year: 1879

An old turkey raiser gives the following
experiment, fur turkeys were fed on meal,
boiled potatoes and oats. Four others Of
the same brood were also, at the time, con-
fined in another pen and fed daily on the
same article, bus with one pint of very fine
ly pulver.zed charcoal mixed with their food
mixed meal and boiled potatoes. They
had also plentiful supply of charcoal ii
their pen, The eight were killed on thu
same day, and there was difference Of on,
and One-hali pounds each in favor of th,
fowls which had been supplied with tn,
charcoal, they being much the fattest, snC
the meat being greatly superior in point o
tenderness and flavor.
Year: 1879

"WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26-6 r M.


II IL open secret now that the great eide
want bull operators have broken the pipe of peace.
have ranged themselves in hostile camp and are
ready to go at each other tooth and nail. The war
fare commenced indeed this morning and spread
from offices whore daggers were spoken If not used to
the more legitimate battle field of the Board Room.
hours were dull and spiritess neither
tho bull nor the bear party being demonstrative.
This may have arisen from the fact that plans
not formed or that several prominent spectators
hors combat by of Illness 1t would be
q curious circumstance If the epidemic now desolat
ing the rural and vaccine village Of Blissville
should have infected the herd of Broad street bulls.
After haltng between two opinions 1t were, until
after MONDAY. with neither bull nor bear gaining
the advantage the market was suddenly attacked by
the former party with great vehemence. and prices
were quickly knocked into that traditional cooked
hat" which is usually expressive of very bad state
of things indeed Prices which had been stiffened up
materially from the early morning decline, went
down by the run, and q general thing the lowest
prices Of the day ruled at the Close The chief suf
ferers were New Jersey Central. Northwest common.
Delaware and Lackawanna. Erie and St. Paul COM
mon, the decline ranging anywhere between z and
per cent. The demonstration was principally di-
rected against what are known as the "Keene
stocks" or such securities this gentleman
is presumed to be interested in, while the
"vanderbts" with the exception Of Western
Union) were left unmolested. Undoubtedly, the
bears considered that the widest chnk in the bull
armor lay in this direction, and determined
shave at it" outrance. Matters in general way
favored the attacking party. The New Jersey Gen.
trail report was on the whole regarded unsatis-
factory and large sales both Of long and short stock
werc the and these infected other stocks
as we'll. The coal sale Of the Delaware and Lacka-
wanna Company showed an average for all kinds of
coal of 50 ass. per ton, against So 50h obtained
month ago-a trivial decline, it is true, but still
decline and that in the face Of the promises of an
advance which the street has been freely treated
with by the bulls in the stock. Western Union
was particularly sensitive. selling from 1O32i
1929 103A and down again at the end
to 1929. Information not entirely disconnected
with ''melon cutting set off to any injury that
may be done by Congress- is impaired at low breath
and has created very formidable sustaining power
to the stock. The market had weak look at the
end which may mean temporarily lower prices.
There is no reason depart from the opinion, how
ever. that the present is bull year. and that the
most money will be made upon the long side of the
count Having "had it out" in the shape Of lively
squabble the bulls and bears will probably kiss and
make friends, and turn to to organize q fresh up
ward movement, which, indeed, ia the only one that
promises any real success


The opening highest and lowest price sof stocks at
the New York Stock Exchange to-day were as fol-
Year: 1879

The memory of man extendeth to the
day, says the Nashville American, when
the boys on the farm were proud to ride a
fine young horse to church or to see the
girls. He took pride in the colts, and
taught them to move freely under the sad
die, and above all. when the colt was
broken he was taught to walk. Now the
boys must have a fine buggy and harness,
and the colt must show his style and
speed all the time. The boy is in too
great hurry to allow the colt to walk.
The colt, buggy and boy are soon used
up set, by fast driving. The whole busi


ness of buggy riding by farmers boys is
expensive, extravagant and demoralizing.
Not one farmer in ten can afford such a
turnout for the lad. Many of them buy
buggy and let it stand in the sun and
storm. They are too poor to have house
for vehicles. Such men cannot afford the
luxury of buggy. If we could return
to the fashion of riding more on horse
back, we would save millions to the far
mers. and the boys and girls would de-
velop better forms, and have better health.
Any lazy lout can ride in buggy. but to
be graceful rider on horseback, one must
have some energy and get-up in his ma
ture. There is life and health in riding
on horseback The whole system feels
the invigorating effect of it. The rider
and the horse catch the fire of sympathy
and excitement in the run, or fast PAGES,
and every nerve and muscle of the body
is brought into healthful, invigorating
play. The mania for trotting horses has
been felt on every farm in the land. The
country is full of road horses that some
man or boy loves to pull the strings on.
They are usually poor saddle horses, slow
walkers, and rough. We need a reform.
The place to begin is in breeding class
of horses of good size, style and action.
that can move freely in more than one
gait. The English market is open for
such horses. The well-knit horse Of good
style and action, suitable for the hunter or
carriage. will bring better prices than
our average horse. The farmer will find
it to his interest to raise class of colts


that the poys will like to ride. He can
raise three or four fine saddle colts for
what one buggy and harness will cost.
and a fair saddle horse will bring more
money than the average roadster.
Year: 1879

A DANGEROUS COUNTERFEIT OF SILVER HALF
DoLLARs--The secret service division to-day
received from New Orleans the most perfect
counterfeit Of silver coin ever executed-a half
dollar All the work on it including the milled
edges, Is perfect. The color of the metal is ex-
actly that OF silver. 1t weighs something less
than the genuine coin, however, but that is the
only way in which the general run of people
can detect its bogus character, and then only
by comparing 1t with the genuine coin,
Year: 1879

Martin Comether, of Glasgow, came
into town this morning with wagon
load of charcoal for the Clayton House,
and at Third and Market streets one Of
the hind wheels of h,s wagon broke
down, and he was delayed several hours.
Year: 1879

late Senator CHANDLER is not one of minor
importance to the party OF to the country,
and in selecting his successor the committee
should take into view the entire situation
and select the best man for the place with
out any reference to any of the Presidential
candidates. The person selected will have
to be member of the committee, so that
many of the names mentioned cannot, un-
der the circumstances, be considered.


In the action of the committee i'll select
ing a chairman THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
has no interest except that in common with
all Republicans, to see man selected who
will discharge the duties of the position in
the interests of the already assured
triumph of the Republican party at the
next election for the Presidency, and be
the special champion of no one.


Let the committee ignore all issues except
that of selecting the man best fitted for the
place and most acceptable to the earnest
Republicans throughout the country.
Year: 1879

1t is evident that our Indian policy does
not work we'll Whether the machinery or
its administrative power is defective we
will not pretend now to say, but one thing
is cvident-the management of the Indians
reflects very little, if any, credit upon our
Government. The Indians are discontented,
and to some extent hostile-a condition of
things that must have some melting cause.
This should he sought out, and the present
system OF dealing with our National wards
should be reformed or cast aside as insult
fcient and something else substituted in
its stead. Those residing much nearer the
Western tribes, who seem to be more
strongly inclined TO war than to peace and
who, perhaps, are more competent to judge
correctly of the defects of the existing pol
icy, are outspoken in their opinions in
favor of transfer of the Indian Bureau
from the Interior to the War Department.
The ST. Louis Globe Democrat criticses the
present policy of treating with the hostiles
through the medium of a peace commission
instead of meeting them and furnishing
them on the field where they made the
murderous attack. 1t speaks out thus
plainly on the subject; "If it had not been
"for Mr.. SCHURz's foolish confidence in the
efficiency of talk, the army under Gen
"eral MERRITT would long since have
"taught the White River Utes lesson that
"w0uld last them for ten generations. The
"sooner the control of Indian affairs is
"taken out of the incompetent hands Of the
interior Departmentand turned over to the
"ormy the better it will be for the country
"and the redskins"


Whether this criticism is fully deserved
or not we leave those who have studied the
Indian problem to decide for themselves
but this much we can say, there is a widely
growing public sentiment throughout the
country that n radical change should b'
brought to our Indian policy.
Year: 1879

The Alexandria Gazette is the only DEM
ocratic journal that has fallen under our
notice which seems to appreciate the effect
of the pending exodus from the South into
the State of Indiana. 1t says:


The North by the result of the war gained
complete power over the South, and what's
more, IL can exercise that power in whatever
way IL thinks fit, and the events of the recent
past show plainly enough that the South is in
sad need of friends at the North who will be
able to protect II from the injuries which there
is every probability the Radicals will infict
upon IL If not restrained by strong hands in
their own section. The Democrats OF New
York have given that State to the Radicals by
transferring to them the State offices with all
their immense political influence The Radi-
Gals will make Indiana Republican State by
colonizing 1t with Southern negroes. Upon
these two States depend the success of the
Democrats in the next Presidential election,
and If neither of them would be made Radical
by the means We have mentioned, the whole
Treasury of the United States would be
avaied of to make them so by purchase and
all know that in the vocabulary of the Treas.
ury there is no sucn word as fail.


Our cotomporary is evidently good dea !
frightened by the aspects of the situation
as they have been revealed in the late
Northern elections, and we rather think its
most serious apprehensions are to be realized
in the future. The unification of the Re-
publican party North and the rapid disinte'
grafton of the Democratic party in the
South, as evidenced in the elections held
there, is little discouraging; and we are
not surprised that the nerves of our cotem-
porary should let down little under the
circumstances The prospect does really
look dark for that side.
Year: 1879

There is at present quite discussion in


the Republican press of the country on the
question of the proper person to be selected
us chairman Of the National Republican
Committee, 1t is, Of course, important that
the committee should select competent
man, thoroughly conyerant with the impor-
lant duties TO be discharged, and willing
and able to give the position his time and
attention. The place 30 ably filed by the
Year: 1879

convenience of being compelled to specify
the kind Of currency to be used in the full
6llment of business contracts. Then, as
now, business would be transacted on a coin
basis and with the exception of this incon-
venience there would be no ground for
complaint, provided the sum total Of our
money issues of all kinds should be re-
tanned at their present maximum. But the
better way is to let the matter alone
severely and rigidly alonei
Year: 1879

That awful boom that awful boom!
how surely it foretellsour doom
OF high-wrought expectation crushed
And sanguine howls for office hushed.
Delicious hope has fed away


From brigadiers who wore the gray
Before the boom that laundering swells,
And sure and sad defeat ioretells.
Twill be so sod when we are gone,
To think the boom will still keep on;
"Twould be appropriate on our tomb
knocked endways by that awful BOOM"
Year: 1879

CONGRESS makes haste slowly, and it is
probably better for the country that such
is the fact. The disturbance of public al
fairs consequent upon its action will, ac-
cording to present appearances, be delayed
until after the holidays.
Year: 1879

IT is perhaps fortutous thing that the
holiday recess will intervene before Con-
gress settles down to the hard and peril
nent work of the session. Meantime the
conflicting views Of all sorts of financial
theorists will be exploited in response to
the suggestions of the Administration, and
it will not be difficult thing for the
average member of either House to dis
cover that those suggestions are, in the
main, at variance with the popular i'm
pulse.
Year: 1879

THE Virginia Republicans in the organi-
zation of the legislature of that State yes
terday earned the reputation of spOil-hunt-
ers. They combined with the Democratic
Readjusters to get control of few of the
officesi in that body and to show that by such
a combination they would be able to defeat
the Bourbon Debt-Paying candidate ior
Senator, OF course, they have seriously
compromised themselves by this trailicking
concession; but they can rally again, il
there is enough manhood left in them for
the effort, in time to redeem themselves be-
fore the election of Senator occurs. We
await further developments, and hope to be
able to chronicle the commendable fact that
they are not given over altogether to the
greed Of politics and the abandonment OF
fixed principle,
Year: 1879

THE completion of the railroad hyphen
between Selma, Ala, aud Pensacola, Fla,
will soon open up new and artificial chan
mel Of trade in the South in competition
with the natural channel down the Missis-
sippi valley. In the not far distant future
this new outlet TO the Gulf will command
the Southern traffic of the entire country
except that portion which can afford to wait
the economy and delay of water transpor-
tatiOn. This fact of the future is to be ac-
counted for by the correlative fact that the
harbor at Pensacola is the finest, safest and
most capacious, as well as the deepest, OH
any Of our coasts, East or West, on the At.
lantic or the Pacific. In the course of time
New Orleans and Mobile will both FIND
themselves overshadowed, or at leas
equaled, in commercial Importance by thi,
newly developed rival Gulf port.
Year: 1879

THE most Objectionable feature of secre-
tary SHERMAN's finance recommendations
is the suggestion for a contraction of the
currency. If the legal-tender quality OF
the greenback is to be annulled the popu-
larity of that especial currency issue will
not be necessarily impaired, SO long as it
remains at par and is interchangeable into
coin But the people would suffer the in
Year: 1879

THE Republicans in the Senate will rally
TO the support of the Conservative anti-con-
traction financial policy under the leader
ship of Senator CARPENTEB, and in the
House they will do the same thing under
the leadership of Messrs. Fort and PRICE.
This situation is exceedingly disappointing
to the Democracy, for it disposes of the
new issue which they imagined had been
raised and behind which they had hoped
to hide their abhorrent misdeeds If any
change is to be made in our existing finan-
cial system, it will be forced upon the coun-
try by the Democracy,
Year: 1879

We once knew d man who was always nrafs


ing his wife. On the corner, down the street,
ut the Post-Ottice at the race-trurk, in the skat
lpg-rink, at til" theatre, in tho sa1-that is, at
the choir-rneeting, be was always telling what q
happy man he was, just because he had such a


sp1enuid wife, and he talked every man he met
into perfect frenzy Of envy about her. Well,
one winter morning when it was not ret TOO
light to make one appear overly ostcntattous,
We sncaEe1 into that neighbours yard to steal
tence board tor kindling, and nad TO wait before
VIC could safely obtain it until that mans wife
came out aud sawed 4 couple OF armiuls of
wood, shoveled out three snow paths, fed and
groomeu tue horse, aud cleaned out tile COW
saeu, and then when she went into the house
and We heard her call to her husband that the
sltt1ng-room was warm enough for him to dress
IN IT tlc wanted to get up now, we were SO
amazed that we forgot what we were waiting
1or' aud went back and isindied the fire with a
cOrR-cOh and pint Of KEROSENE
Year: 1879

New York, May 26.-One of the
dignitaries of the Catholic church, who
commanded the attention in an eminent
degree of those inside the cathedral
yesterday, was Archbishop Purcell, and
ii is stated that he will receive from the
laymen before leaving New York a sub
stantial evidence OF their esteem. At
vesper service in the cathedral there
were many empty pews and vacant
seats. In the morning nearly all the
holders of one dollar tickets, which gave
admission only, were provided with
seats so great were the number of sittings
unsold, and which ticket spectators in
the neighborhOOd OF the temple en-
deaYOred to dispose OF.
Year: 1879

confined myself pretty closely to an an
alysis Of the position of the Republican
party in Ohio tor the reason that their
convention comes first and will be held
this week. / have endeavOrOd to give
reliable statement OF the condition OF al
fairs as they appear at this time, and
tlatter myself have succeeded. What
have depicted is the status OF parties
here to-day, but before the meeting OF
the convention on Wednesday the
whole aspect OF affairs may be changed.
Ii is an old saying that nothing is so un-
certain as politics, and especially is this
true of Ohio politics, which are subject
TO sudden and wonderful mutations.


In subsequent communication Will
give YOU the result Of Wednesdays con-
vention, together with the Democratic
probabilities" and when the campaign
opens there will be no lack OF subjects.
Ohio will boom this fall FLAMEN.