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Year: 1879

The striking furniture-makers held reg
ular meeting to-day, Mr.. Charles Herschel
presiding.


1t was reported that portion of the la
borers at Kreimcr & Bro. had gone to work
again. Some bitter remarks were INDUCED
in against these men.


A resolution was offered that all the
strikers 20 down to the shop of Kreiner d;
Bro. and remove the men. The resolution
was adopted


A motion to appoint committee of
twenty-five to do the same, was put to the
vote. and there being Al ayes, THESE Al men
were ordered to go down to Kreimer's
shop and put the men out.


A motion was carried asking that the
men, who had drawn money from the
Union Relief Fund and then gone to work
in shops where the Is per cent. had not
been given, return the money received from
the strikers fund.


A committee of three was appointed to
confer with q similar committee of the
Bosses for the purpose of fixing time and
place for friendly discussion as to how
the strike may be ended.


Adjourned.
Year: 1879

In Davenport, Iowa, virtuous mob
threw stones and antique eggs at an Off
GER who was guilty of the outrage of try
ing to arrest bride justas she was start
ing on her bridal trip, merely for stealing
$50 out of somebody's trunk. The sym
pathetic crowd wouldn't have it, and the
ill-timed officer had to hide to save his
life. Hymen is recognized as having very
sacred rights in that State.
Year: 1879

The Alumnal Ass citation OF Wesleyan
College will meet in the college parlors at
3 oclock tomorrow afternoon.


The Art Museum Association will estab-
lish themselves in their new quarters at the
College of Music November lst.
Year: 1879

The Coroner was notified this morning
that an unmarried woman had given birth
to child last night at No. $40 Central ave.
nue., and that, when Mrs. Apffel, a mid
wife at No. 566 Race street, was called in,
she found the child dead. The Coroner
will investigate the matter to see if there
was any malpractice in the case.
Year: 1879

MEMPHIS, Oct. 80 A. M.-1he back
bone the fever is at last broken, and on
every hand are indications of the business
revival. The weather last night was clear
and the atmosphere cold. Early in the
evening there were indications of a sharp
frost, but the temperature moderated some
what before morning, the thermometer
ranging low as 43, but whether frost was
actually observable or notis dubious. Early
risers differ, but we are willing to believe
there was slight frost. Several hundred
absentees preparing for business come into
the city during the day and return at night.
The quarantine will probably be raised in a
few DAYS and the Howard doctors and
nurses find their occupation entirely gone.
Such spirit OF business prevails that it
would be impossible to keep things at a
standstill much longer
Year: 1879

The Cincinnati Gazette says editor
tally; 1--WE have direct information
that the decision of the United States
Supreme Court sustaining the penal
act against open bigamy in Utah, or
what they call polygamous marriages,
has had the effect to stimulate these
marriages, as if the saints delighted to
exhibit their defiance of the govern
ment Of the United States. We have
information also that the saints take
special pains to declare in their con-
venticles their defiance and hate of
the national government"
Year: 1879

WHILE the Tennessee legislature is
rushing bills and resolutions through
in a hurry, We noticeYthat Others are
going slow, especially that of Missouri.
An exchange says; If things do not
soon start more promisingly in the way
of the statute revision at Jefferson
City the legislature will find the blue
birds twittering around before it has
half begun the work. With farm
work pressing, and the limit of per
diem allowance past, it is safe to say
the agricultural wing of the assembly
will drop the whole matter of revision,
and constitutional requirements to the
contrary Notwithstanding, we shall
have to wait another two years to get
the statutes and the organic law of the
State in full harmony"
Year: 1879

New York Journal


Everybody seems surprised to think
that the four per cent. bonds are being
sold at the rate Of $140,000,0O0 a
month. They think it an evidence
that the credit of the country is good,
that money is plentiful, and that times
will be better. But who is it that is
putting their money into these bonds {?
Is it the bankers and money lenders.
do you think? Not so. They are the
go-betweens, the stool pigeons used to
entrap the confding public. No
banker is going to put much money in
four per cent. bonds. They will buy
them for other people, will advance
money for that purpose and hold these
bonds as security.


The bankers in Wall street are offer
ing to advance money for any one who
desires to purchase bonds, providing
the party is responsible for any depre-
citation in the value of the bonds.
The object in doing this is to induce
everybody to purchase these four per
cent. bonds and tie their money up in
them. The bankers know we'll enough
that just as soon as business becomes
active money will be worth more than
twice four per cent. per annum.
1t will not be many months
after renewal of business be-
fore there will be marked de-
probation in the price of government
bonds. Men are not going to lock up
money In four per cent. bonds when
they can realize twenty to thirty per
cent. by investing it in real estate or
in other enterprises. When once tied
up in cheap securities it is not easy to
get it out, and for this reason the bank
ers will soon be able to buy these three
and four cent securities at prices that
will bring fair interest on their in
vestment,
Year: 1879

Dramatic criticism is a fine art on
the frontier. Here is bit from the
Deadwood Times:


"We would say, and it is the least
and most that we can say, that Miss
Fanny Prices condition of Camille
on Saturday night was indifferent.
Her positions are not good in her pas
sion scenes; VIII en- she should swell
out like a mountain, she sinks in like
gulch. That amt right in this
country She ought to know the audi
ence here is not the fne-spun crowd
that she would encounter back East,
and when she had worked their feel
ings up to a scalpiRg hurrah, she ought
not to give up to her lover. She pre-
sented only fighting front when her
lovers back was turned. This won't
do for a frontier audience, and Miss
Price will probably thank us for this
suggestion. We make it for her bene-
| fit. The character of Camille is way
| up when the right conception of it is
presented by the actress. Clara Nor
ris would make a mule kick its driver
If the said animal was allowed to
look upon her-but Fanny Price ex-
cites none of the human passions by
her representation.
Year: 1879

New YORK, February 18.-Captain
Blair, of the Fifteenth infantry, to-
day brought his trial on a charge of
bigamy to an abrupt termination by
pleading guilty. In his plea he does
not admit that at the time of his mar
riage in Kentucky he believed that he
had been legally married in Scotland,
and claims that he is therefore guilt
less of Intentionally doing the great
wrong charged, and yet he does not
deny that in acting solely upon his
own conviction in so grave matter he
committed an error so serious in its
consequences to Others that he is will
ing to make whatever reparation or
atonement that may seem fit in full ac-
knowledgment of his wrongful act,
and awaits the full sentence of the
court.
Year: 1879

THE Washington Republic ayers
that during the discussion on the
library bill Senator Thurman, in an
swer to remark by Mr.. Blaine that
we might as well have a national
academy Of music as a national library,
said that while favorable to a national
library he should oppose a national
conservatory of music because it
would operate against little estab-
lishment of that sort in his own State,
the conservatory at Cincinnati, upon
which Mr., Eaton, in an audible aside,
Year: 1879

THE New Orleans Democrat says
that there can be no doubt that the
United States grand jury was organ
lied with the prosecution of prominent
Louisiana Democrats in view. All its
members but two are pronounced Re-
publicans, and eleven of the sixteen
still hold positions in the custom
house y I..
Year: 1879

Charles +. Barry, who committed
suicide in New Orleans, left the follow
ing note to the coroner's jury; Gen
tlemen, you can bring in your verdict
without trouble or delay. | have taken
my own life by taking morphine and
laudanum, | tried hard to make a
living but utterly failed. No person
had compassion on my old age, or
would give me employment. / was
reduced to utter destitution. There
is not cent to bury me.
Year: 1879

The pulpit candidate who has been
refused by Illinois Congregational
church because he chews tobacco
must be nonplussed. Sometimes a
candidate who drinks wine can plead
scriptural authority for his defense
but the lovers of the indian weed are
cut off from that argument.
Year: 1879

GENERAL RossER, chief engineer
of the Northern Pacific railway, says
that if Senator Window will send on
1000 negroes he will put them at work
during the summer and thus help
to carry out the senator's colonizing
scheme.
Year: 1879

Don't call one of your schoolmates
ugly, another stingy, another cross be-
hind their backs 1t is the meanest
sort of sin. Even if they are ugly
stingy, or cross, it does you no good to
repeat it. 1t makes you love to tell OF
faults-it makes you uncharitable-
your soul grows smaller-your heart
loses its generous blood, when you
tattle about your friends. Tell all
the good you know about them, and
carry their sins in your own heart or
else tell them to God, and ask him to
pardon them. That will be Christ
like If anybody says TO you, "Oh
that Mary Willis did such naughty
thing" call to mind some virtue that
Mary possesses, and hold it up to her
praise. For your own sake, learn to
make this habit.
Year: 1879

Heavy losses have been sustained by the
farming portion of the northwest this fall
on account Of prairie fires. While feel>
ing of sympathy is universally felt
throughout the country for those who
have bren so unfortunate ss to have their
Iarl earnings thus destroyed. ". can
hardly do otherwise thsn attribute the
cause Of their great misfortune something
like neglect or carelessneas on their part.
Any ono who has lived in prairie coun.
try fifteen minutes ought to know that
everything they possess is subject to
prairie fires, and that if they do not take
the necessary precautions it will, in case
Of fire be burned up. Had the majority
of those who have lost their hay, grain,
and other property, taken the trouble to
plow two. or even one rod wide around
their stocks and buildings, they would in
all probability have escaped all damages
from fire.
Year: 1879

x New Olv1Sl0n o. the Northern


Pacific.


Az soon 40 trains commence running
regularly west of Bisnsrk new division
will take place between Fargo and that
place, and in so much as Jsmestown is
situated inst one hundred miles from either
place, it will in all probability be chosen
As the dividing point When this new
arrangement goes into effect it will add
somewhat to the prestage of our city.
Year: 1879

The New York Sen of Q recent date
presents piteous picture Of the inte-
rior life Of some Of the female pedes.
triaus who in that city have lately been
walking for wagers. The intense suf.
ferings OF the women from ove= eIer.
tion. together with their miserable sur.
rounding, as depicted BY q reporter who
visited their lodging, makes it clear that
their struggles were for food instead of
fame. and tho conrictiVn is forced apon
the mind Of the reader that in majority
of instances. at least, these women are
driven to these public exhibitions BY
poverty. aud not from choice. The fol
lowing is one Of n number Of narrowing
cases cited by the Sun. and is sufficient
TO give correct idea of the miserable
lives Of these poor creatures which must
cause the emotion of pity for the actors
to override the contempt usually felt for
their unwomanly and totally useless
practices:


ION tho upper floor in n back room
Of the tenement. AZ Bedford street, Eva
st. Clair was found last night to be in
an almost dying condition. She had
suffered from q succession OF fainting
spells ever since she was carried from
Gillmore's Garden on Monday evening.
The chances are that she will recover
but 1t will be long time before she will
be able to walk. In one of her easier
moments she said: Il came from the
Garden without one cent, and tonight
the landlord served a disposses1 warrant
on me. What will do? I can't stand,
even. 1 had finished a walk of 1850
quarter miles in New Haven on the 18th
Of March. for which 1 was not paid one
dollar. i was not fit to walk here, bu,
had no other chance to pay my debts
Her physician said she was suffering
from a dangerous attack OF one OF the
most painful diseases woman is heir
to -
Year: 1879

We hereby notify our friends and the public generally that from this time forth we will cease to sell for credit on any terms whatever. We are aware that in order to do this we will have to sell cheaper than our neigh bors, and we are prepared to do so. As we are building we are very much pressed for cash, and therefore 1t will be better for us to sell for cost than to sell on ever so short a time, no matter how good the buyer. The facts in the case are Just these: 1t Is a necessity with us to have our goods or to have the wherewith to buy more. Of course we do not expect to do so much business, but we are de- termined to do what we can.

 Onr Lumber Yard is now full and nearly com. plete.
Year: 1879

The Constitutional Convention is work


ing slowly, but it is working effectively
and in the right direction 1t is hedging
the powers of the Legislature, and its
subordinate bodies, the parish police
boards, within narrow limits. No more
State bonds shall ever be issued, except
in case of invasion or insurrection From
the tone of the Convention we do not
doubt that a like prohibition will be ap-
piled to the parishes. All special legis-
lation is forbidden. General laws shall be
enacted, by which all must abide No
special privileges, powers, rights, or ex-
emptions, shall be granted to any man or
association of men. Corporate powers,
redress, relief, must be sought through the
courts: if existing laws do not provide for
the case, there is an end of the matter
the Legislature shall be powerless to in
tervene. Absolute equality before the
law, and the immunity of individual rights
these seem to be the guiding stars of the
Convention. OF course, there are dissen-
tients but these are in feeble minority


The doctrines of Jefferson will permeate
the fundamental law of the State that his
craftsmanship added to the Union z5u


We shall watch the further proceed
/ mgs of the Convention with intense in
| terest The perfection of their State gov
ernments is what the Southern people
| should strive for. Let the "Nation" slide,
for slide it will in spite of all we can do.
Year: 1879

We think our readers will be pleased
with the beautiful appearance of The
PATRON. It's print is clear and smooth,
and its columns are not burdened with
unsightly and improper advertisements.
We shall add features to it soon that will
render it still more valuable and attractive
to its readers. If all its friends will work
for it, and send in clubs at once, it will be
a power in the summer campaign, which
promises to be most active and interesting
throughout the entire Southwest.
Year: 1879

This is the opportunity of the South. Let
principles of economy be observed in
State and municipal government; let capi-
talists be assured that they will not be bur-
dened by enormous taxes; let law and or
der prevail as in New England, and there
is no reason why the region where cotton
grows at the factory door, where rivers
turn the mill wheels, and the adjacent
fields furnish the operatives with the staff
of life, cannot compete successfully with
the territory east of the Hudson, which
brings its cotton thousand miles for
manufacture, buys its fuel FIVE hundred
miles away across the continent The
outlook in the Southern States is hopeful


and they must have great future before
them.--B0ston Post. M aa
Year: 1879

We send copies of this issue of The PA
TRoN to all who were Masters of Subor-
dinate Oranges in this State in 1874. We
respectfully request each one to read the
paper carefully and pass it around among
his neighbors and friends, and raise
a club of five or ten subscribers.


There are doubtless many of the Gran
ges with which these gentlemen were
connected not now in existence; but it is
probable that each officer was once an
active supporter of the movement, and
still desires its success. They can aid
greatly in strengthening the cause by ex-
tending the circulation of THE PATRON
among their friends and neighbors, and
when these learn what the Order is ac-
complishing elsewhere, they will be able
to reorganize their Oranges and resume
active work in the great army of progress
and reform.
Year: 1879

There is an old adage which says, 4hunt
for your money where you have lost it. y
The lesson is plain. Every effect has an
adequate cause. The point we would now
argue is this: In various sections there are
Subordinate Oranges which seem to have
lost their vitality, and are drifting along,
apparently without motive. Others are
successful only in one thing: it may be in
building up strong ties of friendship and
personal appreciation; others in stimula-
ting a wide range of reading, thought and
discussion; and others still in promoting
material interests by experiment, by CO.
operative sale of produce, or by wholesale
purchase of commodities.


Not only these half-developed societies
but the best working Grange may be made
still better. The inference is to ascertain
the cause of the present condition, and al
once proceed to remove it. Fix your stan
dard, make out your programme, anc
work up to it. 1t may take time. There
will be many ydiscouragements; many will
be slack to take hold. Unite with re
quisite number. to build up worthy
Grange. Devise ways that are interesting
still keeping in view. that the Order is tt
build up as well as amuse. lnfuse YOU
own zeal and activity into the others
Give each one something to do to promote
the amusement, instruction and good o
all the rest. Don't let the work drag
Meet on time, begin on time; be pleasan
and helpful all the time and there will b
no such word as fail Grange Bulletin.
Year: 1879

1t is to the interest of every farmer,
whether member of the Grange or not, to
read this paper, and place it in the hands of
his children 1t is the only journal in the
Southwest that pretends to be devoted ex-
clusively to the interests of the farmers,
and as it is the cheapest weekly published
in the South, it ought to be taken by every
farmer in the Southwest
Year: 1879

Past Master Wright, of California, took
an active part in advocacy ofthe adoption
of the new constitution of that State du-
ring the canvass, both on the stump and
through the press, and is quite jubulant
over its adoption. The adoption of the
new constitution was a triumph of the
toiling masses over the Money Power.
Year: 1879

The Rural Ne7U Yorker says: can in
tending purchaser should have the horse
brought out before him, and watch the
animal as he stands at rest If the owner
is continually starting the horse into mo-
ton and urging him to show off,, some
thing may be expected, because it is
when the horse is at perfect rest that his
weak points are divulged. If the horse
be sound he will stand square on his limbs,
without moving any one ofthem, the feet
being placed fiat upon the ground, and all
his legs plump and naturally posed.
If one foot being thrown forward, and the
toe pointing to the ground and the heel
raised, or if the foot be lifted from the
ground and the weight taken from it, dis
ease or tenderness may be expected"
Year: 1879

We hear but little of the Order in Ala
bama and Louisiana. What is the matter;
Surely our good friends in those great
States have not lost interest in the Grange
or are willing to return TO the service OF
their old taskmasters?
Year: 1879

The letters of our correspondents show
that the working men in the Order have
lost none of their ardor in the good cause.
Their efforts will have telling effect in
their respective States, and the patriotic
spirit that pervades their letters will stir
the hearts and raise the spirits of their
brother Patrons in other States The in
dications all point to a general revival in
the Grange throughout the Southwest,
and our brethren elsewhere may look out
for general forward movement this sum
mer in this section.
Year: 1879

That able and patriotic Grange leader,
Worthy Overseer Rose, of the Texas
State Grange, is out among the Oranges
of that State at work earnestly and sue
ccssfully. He will fill seveIal appoint
ments in Williamson county next week,
and from there will go to Lampasas and
Burnet counties He writes us from Sa-
lado, Bell county, under date of the 10TH:


"There seems to be revival all along
the line. The farmers are finding out that
they can do something for themselves in
the Grange. Old members are taking hold
of it with renewed zeal, and new ones of
the right stripe are falling into line. In
every section where the Grange is taken
hold of at the right end, with practical
object in view, it is moving right up"


We hope to keep our readers fully post
ed with the movements of Worthy Over
seer Rose during the summer campaign
Year: 1879


mind it would appear that woman who
will kill one man whom once she
loved would not hesitate to dispense
with another in case he did not come
up to her standard of husbands as
they should be. There are vices, however,
that steal and destroy mans reason while
they are apparently stimulating it, and that
to which Bishop confesses has blinded too
many minds otherwise clear to require any
special explanation from us Nothing could
more plainly show the debasing effect which
passion may have upon reason than Bishops
own confession OF his steady intention to
marry Mrs. Cobb, although he knew con-
stantly, according to his own statement,
that she was comporting herself toward her
legal partner in manner which should have
driven even fool away from her.
Year: 1879

SO many of our citizens aro disposed to
express their opinion of the "Britisher'


who has so poor an opinion of his own
countrymen and their descendants that we
should be compelled to publish quintuple
HERALD if we desired to print half their
communications. The subject is not
Of sufficient importance, national or
international, to warrant further no.
tice We allowed the "Britisher" to
air his opinions through our columns
in order to teach him that in a free country
there is no more restraint upon the utter
ings of foolish person than on the braying
fan ass, and we have given space to q
sufficient number of replies to show the
sort of comment his letter has drawn
forth. In taking our leave Of him We bea to