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Year: 1878

THE Greenback club at South Windham
has disbanded. The members took to study
ing the matter calmly and concluded that
they had been mistaken, and deceived by the
misrepresentation of the unscrupulous men
who head the movement. So, like straight
forward and sensible men, they simply aban-
doned the foolish business.
Year: 1878

Mr.. E. II. COVE of Biddeford has been led
by the falsehoods of the Ne,o Era into the
belief that the forgeries on the World and
Times published in the Era are genuine quo
ations from the editorial opinions of th ose
journals. Mr.. Cove, who assumes to give les
sons in finance should assure himself of the
truth of his statements before he goes in
to the business of teaching. He also dis.
plays lamentabe ignorance of the history
Of England. He ought to know that the
English people have been steadily gaining in
freedom and power since the passage Of the
first Reform Bill.
Year: 1878

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigneG by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon US by demanding
credentials of every person claiming represent our
Year: 1878

sc. B. S" OF STANDIsH is another man
who has been misled by the impudent false
hoods of the Ne,o Era. In communica-
tion to that paper he says that our interest
bearing debt has increased five hundred and
ffty-one millions since 1865. He should
know that the statement is stupendously
incorrect, and that he has been deliberately
deceived by the Era which states the interest
bearing debt as billion of dollars less than
it was in the aforementioned year. The
Understanding debt in 1865 was over two
billion instead of over one billion, as may be
seen by consulting the official reports.
Year: 1878

THE we ight of the testimon which is
brought out by the House investigating COM
mittees is illustrated by an incident which
took place before the committee that is look
ing after the public printing. Finley, the
Democratic expert, testified in regard to
certain lot of paper that had been purchased
that it was far below the standard, his COM
parson really being eq uValent to testifying
that it is worth only one third as much as had
been paid for it. He was then furnished
with sample of paper by the government
expert and asked to tell the committee what
he thought of that grade. He promptly
pronounced it exeee ut and in fact good
enough paper for anybody. At this point he
was astonished at being informed that it was
exactly the same paper he had just con-
demned,
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and adj 1ress of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not sed.
Year: 1878

Paper emissions by the government are
of a nature SO liable to abuse, L may say
so certain to be abused, that the wisdom of
the government will be shown by never
trusting it elf with so seducing and dam
gerous a power"


ALEXANDER HAMILTON,
Year: 1878

You can't have everything you want
in this world. Life is like q blanket
that is too short; if you pull it up over
your shoulders you uncover your feet,
and If you cover your feet your shoul.
ders mast be bare. However, some
cheerful people manage to draw their
feet up little, and 90 pass . pleasant
night.
Year: 1878

THE real difficulty with business men
nowadays is that they are absent mind
ed. The bank cashier, the president of
the insurance company and the broker,
and all that class of eccaatric persons,
VINO put wrong names to checks and
start for Canada with some one else's
pocketbook. are simply absent minded
that is. they are suffering from a fit
of abstraction.
Year: 1878

We would like to see the Cinnamon
60; but we don't suppose the laberers'
millennium will come in when John
goes out. There isn't any John at the
the East to speak of, and yet there are
a great many more white men out Of
employment there than here
Year: 1878

The price Of gas In London Is lower now
chan ever before. The city is lighted by sew
tsral gas companies, and the charge is from
Is Sd (78 cents to 3s Cd go cents per thousand
feet. The gas is required to have q lighting
power Of 16 candles when consumed at the
rate of GO cubic feet an hour to be freed from
Impurities In the shape of ammonia and sui
phur compounds beyond certain limited
quantity, and to be delivered under q suffi-
cicnt pressure.


Forty-five millions of pairs Of sewed shoes
and 55,000,O0O Of pairs of pegged shoes were
made and sold by the manufacturers OF the
United States in 1877, and IS per cent Of the
work done on these shoes was done by ma
achinery. The uppers are cut out by hand,
simply because of the variableness Of the
quality Of the leather in the same skin The
souls are cut out by machinery, and the bind
ing, pasting, closing, crimping. stitching,
Feeling and polishing are done by machinery,
without the aid Of human hands.


Russia promises to become q formidable
rival to the United States in the European oil
market. Oil wells near the Caspian sea are
reported to equal in their yield the greatest
wells in Pennsylvania. In the oil-producing
region In Russia large number of wells have
been sunk, and great many more are under
way. Reports from there say that there is as
much excitement over the discoveries as ex
listed In Pennsylvania when the oil fever was at
its height. The wells are drilled and pumped
lin the most primitive manner, and large
amount of oil is wasted through the want Of
proper means Of saving it. At present the
only way OF getting the oil to q market Is by
way of the Volga and the Russian canals to
St Petersburg. If a railroad should be con-
structed from the Caspian to the Black sea, q
distance of 400 miles, Russia could supply the
European market at such rates as to drive
out the American trade.


One OF our exchanges talks out in meeting
a,nua oass d sf 81 Tia scrongest monopoies in the
country Is the Pullman Palace Car Company.
They are not only leeches upon the public, but
Gley levee tribute from the railroad in the
country with an iron hand. A passenger who
desires to make night ride with some degree
Of comfort is charged S5 for n state-room
ahout the size Of a sardine box-more than 1t
ssosts at q first-class hotel for three good
meals and nights lodging. Should pas
senger feel that his pocket-book is not pie
thoric enough to stand this heavy tax he can
take @ sky parlor berth and sweat till every
drop of water in his system Is absorbed by
Gi1e few garments that decency compels him
TO sleep In. For this luxury passengers are
asked to contribute 81 so to the monopoly,
with stipend to the porter who has nosesi
around all night to find the boots and spit on
and give them q Click and promise" 1t is
safe to say that a small amount Of comfort
costs more money in palace car than any
place in the country. It is to be hoped that
the time is not far distant when railroad COM
panies will be able to provide the travelling
public with at least some of the sleeping cal
t,onveniences at a reasonable price.
Year: 1878

The Board OF Trustees this day resolved that
after paying the annual dividend Of TEN PER
CENT on Capital Stock Of Company. that @
dividend of TWENTY PER CENT In cash be
paid on Monday. June 10. to those parties en-
titled TO receive the same.
Year: 1878

THE ELECTION of Mr.. Geo C. Ward,
Assessor in the Northern District is GER
tainly great Democratic triumph. But
that gentleman must remember that he
is only elected because the Republican
citizens of the District had confidence In
the assurances that were given that he
would make an honest, fair and impartial
assessment of the property, as Mr.. Pro-
vost has done as City Assessor and that
he would be indefatigable in his efforts
TO secure full and complete assessment
OF all the property. This was the promise
OF the GAZETTE for him and we feel
confident that Mr.. Ward will make this
good in an earnest and faithful effort.
Year: 1878

The Columbus Enquirer Sun has
received from Albany, n. Y, piece
of tanned negro skin, and COM
ments on this fresh evidence of the
love of their Northern friends for
the man and brother in this wise
yesterday we received by mail a
piece of tanned negro skin from a
gentleman in Albany, N. Y. who
once lived here and made his de-
parture in 1858. He states that
this is an evidence of the love,
which, in theory, the Northern peo-
pie profess to have for the colored
race. A negro convict died. The
medical students skinned the body,
and tanned the hide for the pur-
pose of making boots. This piece
of skin is certainly great curiosity
and we will preserve 1t. The same
can be seen in our Office. This
trophy (?) of the scientists is of the
thickness of fine calf skin and quite
porous. The Radicals can howl over
this inhuman act of their students.
The party sending vouches for the
truth of the statement. Nothing
so abhorrent has ever occurred in
the South, and we want to see if
the Radicals will raise their hands
in pious horror at the atrociOus
deed of their young men,"
Year: 1878

The boy who spends an hour each
evening lounging idly on the street
corners, wastes in the course of a
year three hundred and sixty five
precious hours, which. if fapplied to
study, would familarize him with
the rudiments of almost any of the
familiar sciences. If, in addition to
wasting an hour each evening. he
spends five cents for a cigar, which
is usually the case, the amount thus
worse than wasted would pay for
five of the leading periodicals of
the country. Boys, think of these
things. Think low much time and
money you are wasting, and for
what? The qualification afforded
by the lounge on the corner, or by
the cigar, is not only temporary, but
it is positively hurtful. You can
not indulge in them without injur-
ing yourselves; you acquire idle
and wasteful habits, which will cling
to you more and more tightly with
each succeeding year; you may, in
after life, shake them off, but the
probabilities are that the habits
thus formed in early life will remain
with you TO your dying day. BE
warned, then, in time, and resolve
that as the hour spent in idleness is
gone forever, you will improve each
passing one, and thereby fit your
self for usefulness and happiness.
Year: 1878

Many an unwise parent labors
hard and lives sparingly all his life
for the purpose of leaving enough
to give his children a start in the
world, as it is called. Setting a
young man ahoat with money left
him by his rich relatives is like
tying bladders under the arms OF
one who cannot swim-ten to one
be will lose his bladders and go to
the bottom. Teach him to swim
and he will never need the bladders.
Give your child sound education,
and you have done enough for him.
See to it that his morals are pure,
his mind cultivated and his whole
nature subservient to laws which
govern man, and you have given
him what will be of more value than
the wealth of the Indies.
Year: 1878

Money will buy a great many
things, but it will not buy what
makes a gentleman. If you have
money or credit you can go to
a store and and buy clothes
But hat, coat, pants and boots do
not make a gentleman. They make
a fop and sometimes come near
making a fool. Money will buy
dogs and horses, but how many
dogs and horses do you think it
will take to make gentle
man? Let no boy therefore, think
that he is to be made q gentleman
by the clothes he wears, the horses
he rides, the stick he carries, the
dog that Il OTIS after him, the house
he lives in or the money he spends.
Not one of all those things do it
and yet another boy may be gen
tleman. But how? by being true,
manly and honorable, by keeping
himself neat and respectable; 10y
being civil and courteous; by re-
specting himself and others; by do
ing the best he knows how. And
finally, and aboHe all, by fearing
God and keeping his command
ments,
Year: 1878

Boys, the habit of obeyIng at
once is one of the best habits in the
world. 1t makes prompt, active,
energetic business men. Why, it is
''now, at once, right off," what leads
all the work to the world, and gets
the pay for it too. A boy that is
prompt and ready will be just the
boy that will get recommended for
a place in a warehouse or an office,
and when he gets the place he will
keep it until he gets promoted, till
finally he becomes a member of the
firm, probably its manager. All
this because he is on hand, ready
and prompt; sees what is ready to
be done, and is ready to do it.
Year: 1878

The colored population of Allan
ia is greatly excited over what they
claim to be a divine revelation.
One of their number lately died,
since which time they say that they
have been regaled with visions of
the Heavenly hosts waving flags
and parading to the sounds of celes
tlal music. So carried away are
they with the idea that the last day
is at hand that, when one of them,
drayman, was requested to haul a
load, he replied "it could noo be
done, as de kingdom was so nigh" !"
The Constitution reporter is very
irreverent over the subject, and
doesn't hesitate to say that the
Africo-Americans are crazy.
Year: 1878

Exit Agnes! She plays her part
almost as well as Eliza, but she did
not hold out so long. La Pinkston
hooked her second husband and
skipped over the Mississippi before
she revealed the particulars of the
farce in which she had played the
part of leading lady. La jerks is
already brought to a timely expos
ure. People did for awhile look
with pity, not unmingled with ter
ror, upon the PROSTATE form of the
negress. The Scotch adventures,
with her brazen face and glib
tongue, deceives no one. The only
service she is now capable OF per
forming for her adopted country is
to elope with John Sherman Cou-
rier-Journal.
Year: 1878

"Did you ever know a man who
grew rich, by fraud, continue sue.
cessful through life, and leave for
tune at deathT


This question was put 10 a gen
tleman who had been in business
forty years. After rejecting awhile
he replied;


"Not one. have seen many men
become rich as if by magic, and win
golden opinions, when some little
thing led 10 an exposure Of their
fraud, and they have fallen into dis
grace and ruin. Arson, perjury,
murder and suicide are common
crimes with those who make haste
TO be rich, regardless Of the means"


Boys, stick q pin hero. You will
soon be men, and begin 70 act like
those who make money. Write this
good mans testimony in your mind,
and with il put this word Of God:
"He that hasteneth 10 be rich hath
an evil eye, and considereth not
that poverty shall come upon him."


Let the words lead you 70 resolve
to make haste slowly, when you go
into business In the matter OF max
ing money.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph tthus) mean that your SUBJ
scription Is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure I'm extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such n
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


az We enter no new names on otr
books without the money In advance.
Year: 1878

A poor Chicago widow committed
suicide the other day because "she
wanted TO 90 and meet her hus-
band" She is perhaps sorry by
this time that she didn't inquire
more particularly which way he
went before she started.-[C Courier
Journal.
Year: 1878

A. new organization has been
founded called the Society of the
Sons OF Texas. The objects of the
society are the preservation of the
unity of Texas and the cultivation
of reverence for Texas for her early
history and of fraternal intercourse
among its members.
Year: 1878

A writer 10 the Southern TTma says that
his COW gives all the milk that is wanted in -
family Of eight, and that from it, after taking
all that is required for other purposes, 2Gs
pounds Of butter were made this year. This
is in part his treatment Of the COW:


II you desire 10 get large yield Of rich
milk, give your COW every day water slightly
warm aud slightly salted, IN which brau has
been stirred at the rate Of one quart TO two
gallons Of water You will find, If you have
not tried this daily practice, that your COW
will give twenty-five per cent. more milk iIu-
mediately under the eject Of It, aud she will
become 30 attached ~ the diet as TO refuse 10
drink clear water unless very Thirsty. But
this mcss she will drink almost any time, aud
ask for more. Tho amount Of this drink ne
cefsary ID an ordi,, y water pailful at a time,
morning, noon and night"
Year: 1878

Every day meet 10 The streets Of Boston
young ladies' who would other wise look intel
ligen:, rcduccdto the appearance Of idiocy by
a peculiar method Of combing the hair down
over the forehead This hidcous deformity is
evidently copied from the patients oi luDatic
asylums aud schools for tic feeble minded -
The effect is shocking. Although not fastid
Gus, shrink from these ladies as children
shrink from n bidcous mask. Is It q protest
against being considered strong minded that
the young woman thus assumes the garb Of
idiocy am told that a lady thus degraded
is said TO have her bair banged" But il
seems to me that ber sanity must bc badly
banged TO thus deform Lcrsclf
Year: 1878

7


As to that wing Of the Republicans who
coll themselves 'atnlwntts," they will have
tC put up with q disappointment. The presi-
dent is not going to ''hniat the bloody shirt" J."
On the contrary, he is doing hat which we
apprehend will contribute in u very mpor-
thnt degree to put quietis upon
tho Southern question. It is TO be TO-
GREETED that SO many more partisans
among the Republican leaders accept
this result with such evident ragrct. The
disposition of II party which has long held
power to keep alive old and wornout nues-
tions rather than march on to new ones is
natural, but It's, nevertheless injurious to the
country; and We hope there will be wisdom
enough among the Republican leaders here
after to SEQ this, and to induce them to drop
the old ami disturbing issues and place their
party on fresh ones, on which they may justly
appeal to the country for support.
Year: 1878

Whatever may come Of it, VIC are heart and
soul In favor OF the solid South The time will
come sooner or later when the views enter
tained by Southern men Of the theory and
practice OF our government will prevail; when
not only the rights OF person and property,
but tho rights Of States ~ we'll, will every
wfaese be respected, and when, OF course, the
'f,atornal theory" according to which every
privilege springs not from the States or from
The people thereof but from 81 grand central
government at Washington, will bo thorough
ly exploded. The soonpr this consummatton
SO levoutly to be wished is reached, the bet
ter for us all, whether we live at the North or
at the South but when it does come 1t will
come from solid South,
Year: 1878

The DEMoCRAr Ia under obligations to the
New Lusitanos Benevolent Association for a
kind invitation to nttond the celebration Of their
twenty frat anniversary which takes place on
Sunday next, and will comprise grand pro-
ceesion through our principal streets and o
banquet at Carroll Hall
Year: 1878

There is to this day an unfinished
portrait, turned face to the wall, in the
studio of Mr.. Raphael SMITH The Ia
dy never arrived Tor her last sitting,
he explains. Her husband would have
purchased it, but the artist declined TO
sell an unfinished painting


Il meant the portrait for a Christmas
present, dear, TO you said Mrs. Dew
ems. That was why l went to town
so privately for my sittlngs, why made
such a secret of it,


And the wretched fellow prolonged
the sittings IN order to make love to
YOU


Il remember the very day when l re-
ccived the postal card from cousin Jack
her name is Jacqueline, you know,
but we call her Jack for breyity-tell'
ing me what day to so up for my first
sitting. Mrs. Bender brought it, and
thought you would be in that evening
supposed you would drop in at any
moment and make up and then-aF
terward-I had engaged the portrait
and what excuse could | give for with
Year: 1878

\ witty young lady was once told by
gentleman friend of her acquaintance
that, lie thought he must have been
born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
She looked at him carefully, and upon
realizing the size of his mouth, replied :
I don't doubt it but it must have been
a soup ladle.
Year: 1878

4 lilc insurance agent at Cincinnati
exhausted his eloquence upon victim
who finally threatened to kick him down
stairs. The agent promptly replied that
if the victim really meant to attempt
that sort of thing there was another rea-
son why he should get his life insured,
hut the victim didn't take policy.
Year: 1878

A AMIssINGMAN.-RACINE April 5.
Great excitement prevails in the
Fourth Ward this evening, over what is
supposed to be clue to the whereabouts
of a man who has been missing about
three years. The facts are these:
About three years ago a man named
Hammer was missed from his home.
and as it was known he had sum of
money about his person. foul play was
suspected. Diligent search was made.
but no trace Of him was found and the
matter was dropped, until man named
Leopold made the statement to the
missing mans son that he could place
a shovel on the spot where the old man
was buried. Leopold, who was very
drunk, also told the son that the body
was in certain lot. Search was i'm
mediately began. Up to the present
time nothing has been unearthed, but
the search still continues and there Ia
great excitement in the northern part
Of the CITY. Leopold was the last
person seen with the missing man, and
it is probable this clue will lead to the
detection of a murder. No arrests
have been made as yet, but there prob
ably will be-morrow.
Year: 1878

that in no Southern State could a vote
have been given for Fremont and Day
ton as there was no electoral ticket in
the South; and even with one, Nc
Clellan in 1864 with "A per cent of
the popular vote, received only 9 per
cent. Of the electoral vote. Douglass
had 20 per cent. of the popular vote,
and Clay in 1882 had ~ per cent. of
the popular vote and only II per cent.
of the electoral vote. UNOINE.
Year: 1878

GARIBALDI's Views ON EUROPEAN
MATTERs.-Garibaldi, in recent
letter to political friend, reminds his
countrymen that on every ground Italy
ought to succor her sister in glory and
misfortune, Greece, and that all the
nations on the Eastern shore of the
Adriatic have right to count upon
the sympathies of those who are separ-
ated from them only by the Strait of
Otranto. He does not despair of see
ing his young sovereign tread the
glorious path of his progenitors. with
the genius that tiIguished them"
IL Significantly refers to the selecting
power by which great men are chosen
bya great sovereign for great enterpris-
es-a quality which can never be
denied to the Emperor William and
which must equally be withheld from
Napoleon III. During the recent war
what was chiefly wanting on the side
of tie Turks was directing mind to
make choice of leaders worthy of the
intrepid soldiers Of the Crescent. The
Emperor Alexander, on the other hand
had the great merit Of remaining among
his soldiers particularly during the dis
asters of Krudener under Plevna;
thereafter he had the wisdom to put at
the advance guard Of his troops such
men as Ghourko and Kisseleff, and in
the department of military engineering
Todleben William and Alexander
have given to their campaigns that
direction and force which is the secret
of theirsuccess, and as the compliment
of this merit, they have known whom
to select to make their successful issue
certainty
Year: 1878

Coon SALE.-ThO sale of the personal
effects of the late Asa Taylor took place
Wednesday afternoon. Quite crowd
was in attendance and the bidding was
spirited, the property realizing considera-
bly, moro than the apprasement. The
furniture went especially high, and one
waggishly inclined bystander announced
his intention of disposinE Of his own
household goods at auction and buying
new, as he might make little by the
transaction.