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Year: 1879

Seems to be the order Of the day. Friday
the ioot-race between James Baxter and Jno.
Franklin came off on the north side of the
court-house square. A good deal of feeling
was worked up on the part of the friends of
the two parties. Odds were bet on Baxter,
ana he was looked upon as the winning man.
But, contrary to the expectation Of most all,
Franklin won the race by several feet. The
knowing ones say that this was a throw-off
of Baxter to get larger and better bet, and
that he allowed Franklin to beat.
Year: 1879

Arkansas Democrat: There are Ger.
tain men in Arkansas who are saying
nothing about the next canvass and whc
have received no "bushels Of letters
from importunate and admiring friends
who will nevertheless go into the race
when it comes off and distance the blow.
hards who are now trying to work up
public sentiment.


1t is an old saying, that it is the "stll
pig that eats the corn"
Year: 1879

Boston Herald When a democratic
mayor of Boston appoints republican
ton of independence, and a Catholic
chaplain for Fourth of July cclebra
ton, VIC feel an inclination to look about
for the lion and lamb lying down togoth-
er, without the lamb necessarily being
inside the lion.
Year: 1879




THE SUPERVISOR LAW.


WASHINGTON Feb. 21.-The Republicans
have about concluded to make only a short
opposition to the repeal of the Supervisors
law, and then allow the whole thing to 60
to the Senate, where they know it can be
stopped. 1t is thought that the general op-
position among the Democratic Senators to
the repeal of the test oath, at this time, will
cause the Democrats to weaken in the
House OH the clause, and thus compromise
On the repeal of the test oath.


THE CHINESE BILL


Just before the House adjourned yester-
day afternoon, Willis, Of Kentucky, moved
10 non concur in the Senate amendments,
and asked for committee of reference. To
this Harry White objected. 1t begins to
look as if there will be some considerable
objection to considering the question at all
in the House. The opinions of the press
since the bill passed has had very decided
effect on members, and many now wish
the whole question was out of the way, and
would be glad if they did not have to vote
upon it again.
Year: 1879

National Associated Press to the Star.


New YORK, Feb. 21.-The Times this
morning reports gentlemen engaged in the
China trade as looking upon the bill to re-
strict Chinese immigration as an unwar-
ranted insult on the part of the United
States to the Chinese Empire, and an insult
all the more inexcusable from the fact that,
in passing the law, this country undid of its
own accord what few years ago it forced
China to do unwillingly. There is danger
that the Asiatics will retaliate.


1t is said that mass meeting urging the
President to veto the bill is under consider
alton.


The Star to-day says: Governor Seymour
being not only wise statesman but a
shrewd observer of men and things, his
views upon the Chinese question will be
read with interest. In recent converse
ton he declared the presence of the
Chinese in this country an un-
mixed evil. Their wants being few
they are able to work for fraction of the
sum that will support Americans, and it is
by destroying the first great condition of
life, the family, that the Chinese are able
to offer their services at rates upon which a
married man could not exist. Wants
which are the outgrowth of civilization are
not shared by the Mongolians Ten years
ago, when the Governor argued against the
coming of the Chinese. ne was answered
that there were only 10000 of them
here, and that as the number would not be
likely increased, he was fighting shadow.
Now, at the lowest estimate, there are one
hundred and fifty thousand in the United
States; and, but for the growing antagon
ism to the race, there would be three times
that number. Even now they are suffi
GENTLY numerous to threaten the prosperi
ty of millions of native workingmen. The
Governor also argues that if our Govern
ment had right to pass law in 1903 to
exclude the importation of Africans, which
was intended as blow to the slave
trade. it certainly has right to exclude a
semi-barbarous people, who do not come to
stay, and if they did, would never assimilate
with our own people.


PROVIDENCE, R. l., Feb. 21.-The Senate
protests unanimously against the law re-
stricting Chinese immigration.
Year: 1879

have brought number Of the immediate
friends and relatives of the prisoner to
prove his insanity, and also to show tnat
his father, grandfather and three OF his un-
cles had been insane.


The mother of the prisoner testified that
her mind was not good at times; she did
not know Chambers age; that before her
son became diseased he was soclable ana
kind, butafterwards very cross and grabbed; !;
he would talk wildly; jump out of bed in
the night and scream. and would say the
devils were after him.


The balance Of the testimony, by Mary.
the sister of the prisoner, Emma Coleman
and James RUSSELL friends, was of the same
nature.


The evidence for the defense proceeded
to-day.


Captain Eugene Daylor testified that
while he was acting as Jailer the prisoner
was under his charge.


Question-What was his physical condi-
ton while in Jail and what appeared to be
the condition of his mindf


Answer-His eyes were sore and he
looked down-hearted. l do not think the
man was very rational.


Geo. Taylor (colored) testified that he
did not think the man was sane but crazy
at times.


DIR. P. F. Maley was examined as medi'
cal expert relative to the effect of syphilis
on the mind, and as to whether it might
produce insanity; and he was asked
whether taking into consideration the pris
oner's condition of syphilis, the great
change in his manner and the hereditary
taint of insanity in his family, he was sane
or insane at the time he shot the woman.


The witness said that taking case Of
syphilis in the aggravated form described
by counsel, the brain might become af
fected so that the accused may not be free
AGENT but he would not 60 so far as to say
the prisoner was insane. 1t was only in
very rare cases that syphilis produced in
sanity. When it does reach the brain il
would affect the intellectual faculties, un
less its progress was arrested by medical
treatment.


The witness had case of man and wife
under treatment where the whole surface
of the body was covered with sores, pre-
senting the appearance of leprosy, yet thu
minds of the patients were clear.
The witness was under cross-examinatior
up to the close of the forenoon session.
Year: 1879

7HHWCFoWH


The defense began the production of their
testimony yesterday evening. They are re-
lying wholly upon the ground of the insan-
ity of the prisoner for their defense, and
Year: 1879

During the coming Presidential year The Tribune
will be more effective agency than for telling
the news best worth knowing, and for enforcing
sound politics. From the day the war closed il has
been most anxious for end of sectional strife
But it saw two years ago. and was the first persist
entity To Proclaim the new danger to the country
from the revived alliance of the Solid South and
Ianmany Hall. Against that danger it sought to
rally the old party of Freedom and the Union. 1t
began by demanding the abandonment of personal
dlslikes, and set the example. 1t called for end
to attacks upon each other instead of the enemy:
and for the hcarticst agreement upon whatever fit
candidates the majority should put up against the
common foe. Since then the tide of disaster has
been turned back; every doubtful state has been
won, and the omcns for National victory never
more cheering.


THE TRIBUNE'S POSITION


OF The Trbunc's share in all this, those speak
most enthusiastically who have seen most of the
struggle. 1t will faithfully portray the warming
phases of the campaign now beginning. 1t will
earnestly strive that the party of Freedom, Union
ana Public Faith may select the surest to win,
and Surcst 10 make "A good President. But in this
crisis il can conceive of no nomination this party
could make that would not be preferable to the best
that could possibly be supported by the Solid South
and Tammany Hall.


The Tribune is now spending much labor and
money than ever before to hold the distinction it has
enjoyed of tie largest circulation among the best
people. 1t secured, and means to retain it, by be-
coming the medium of the best thought and the
voice OF the best conscience of the time by keeping
abreast of the highest progress avoring the feeest
discussions, hearing all sides, appealing always to


t ocSt lhlCHSVllcC ana pufcst morality, and
usng to the tastes of the vile or the preiu
diccs of the ignorant.


SPECIAL FEATURES.


The distinctive features of The Tribune are known
to everybody. 1t gives all the news. 1t has the
best correspondents, and retains them from year to
year, 1t is the only paper that maintains a special
telcgraphic wire of its own between its Office and
Washington Its scientific, literary artistic and re-
1ious intelligence is the fullest. Its book reviews
are the best. Its commercial and financial news is
the most exact Its type is the largest; and its ar.
rangtmcnt the most systematic.
Year: 1879

Truth is mighty-mighty scarce.


A rich relation-The telling Of a
racy story.


Mosquitoes penetrate into the
best society.
A cuff on the wrist is worth two
on the ear.


Woman's sphere-that she will
never get married.


The way some farmers put up
corn is shocking.


Close contest-One woman try
ing to outdress another.


At the foot of his profession
The ChiropodIst.


Human happiness is bauble for
many, but bubble for all.


Dead men tell no tales, because
their tomtstones do it for them.


A mosquito is always ready to
put in an appropriation bill.


The most uncommon thing we
know of is common sense.


Everybody crosses the t's except
sailors, and they cross the c's.


Don't keep flowers for your
friends coffin. Give them now.


Sack corn from Tennessee is sell
ing in Talladega, Ala, at so cents.


A few lemons and lots of squeez-
ing can generally be found on pic
mic parties.


The editor of the Oil City Der
rick claims to have a country seat.
1t Is a stump.


Necessity may be the mother of
invention, but laziness is certainly
the father of 1t.


"Pay what thou owest" is a Bible
command. So march up and Fay
what you owe US.


1t was after Luna had passed her
first quarter that she was referred
to as the "sIlver moon"


"People never cough after taking
my medicine" advertises 8 doctor.
Is it so fatal as that?


A handkerchief Irritation is a very
simple thing. 1t only requires two
Year: 1879

A useful thing in the long run
Breath.


The man who chased sailor said
he was making a target.


Many people take more pains in
licking the stamp than in writing
the letter.


"We've moved into our own house,
now," said Spilkins, and have quit
the pay-rent-al roof forever.


The vulgar word ''hash" is not
heard in Boston. That article is al
luded to as a culinary symposium.
Those who work the hardest
should have the softest beds, but
alack, the reverse is the rule.


The man who tears another's coat
down the middle should be made to
pay up for back rent.


When may two persons be said to
be half-witted when they have an un-
derstanding between them.


The woman who said she would
not marry the best man living kept
her word when she married a tramp.


Moses was a very meek man, but
he never hit his pet corn with a cro-
qnet mallet.


Napoleon was called the gray-eyed
man of destiny, but our African
brother is black-hide man OF des
tiny.


No Hottentot is permitted to mar
ry more than eight sisters out of
one family. This is right. Some
body else might want chance.
Year: 1879

Mr.. j. W. Edwards, large plant
er in the canebrake region of Ala
bama, says in letter to the Selma
Times, that it takes a boil of cot
ton six weeks to mature after the
bloom drops from the stalk is an err
ror. He says that from the latter
part of June to the 10th or goth of
July it takes boil of cotton thirty
days to become fully grown after
the bloom drops from the stalk, and
from that time on to the 18th of
September it only takes from twenty
to twenty five days for boil to get
grown from the time the bloom
drops.
Year: 1879

The New York Times, the most


prominent Republican journal in


the United States, published the fol


lowing editorial In it's Issue of last


Monday:


The failure of the compromise


which the Tennessee Legislature


proposed to force upon the creditors


of the State is the most creditable


fact that has been reported thence


for some time. 1t shows that the re-


pudiators either shrink from the APP


plicatlon of their opinions or are


not strong enough to control the


action of the State. 1t shows that


the majority of the people are more


honest than the politicians of both


parties, more honest than most OF
the newspapers, more honest than the
''leadIng citizens" who visited New


York as apologists of robbery, and
have used their influence at home
in its behalf. Our Nashville cores
pondent, telegraphing the result of
the returns, describes the vote as
''the most remarkable one that ever
occurred in the State from fact al
though every leading newspaper,
prominent politician, and business
man favored q settlement at fifty
cents, with 4 per cent. interest, their
united counsel had no effect on the
people," To the people belongs the
honor of battling the redpuiators.


A light vote does not in this case
indicate indifference. The repudi-
alton game had been played cum
ningly. Democrats began the play,
and Republicans were found willing
to help them. There was nothing
straightforward, from first to last.
In the beginning, it was apparently
a simple case of default, which the
Government of the State attributed
to cause beyond its control. No
question had been raised affecting
the validity of the debt.


\ x


In the present condition of affairs,
it were idle to attempt to make a
party capital out of the opportunity
which Thursdays vote presents.
NelCner party, as party, can pre-
tend to be much more honest than
the other. The only hope of the
or those who, though not
are concerned in checking
the tendency to reputation, lies in
an independent effort TO organize the
people of Tennessee on the side of
good faith. Never can there be
more opportune moment. The re
pudiators foiled. The demagogues,
and Democratic, must
confess that they are not masters
Of the State. There can be no fur
ther mystification of the point in
dispute. Only one alternative re-
payment of the debt, or
its repudiation. No halfway house
breaks the road between honesty
and dishonesty; and no excuse
which politicians can invent will
hide from the people the issue they
have yet to decide. They have re-
fused to sanction repudiation.-l
What is now wanted is movement
that shall educate and organize them
up to the declaration that Tennes
see is willing, as it is able, to pay
every dollar it owes.
Year: 1879

A pet mocking bird is a comfort
able creature to have on the prem
ises. All sensible human beings
are naturally predisposed in favor
of an object that sleeps all day and
howls and squawks and. whistles
and yells and pulsates and gabbles
and hollers all night A man is
arrested and cast into prison if he
ventures to utter so much as a mer-
ry song upon the highway in the
dead of night, but a mocking bird
can make a whole neighborhood
miserable every night the moon
shines and never have the slightest
dread of an action for damages
We do not approve of such discrim-
nation
Year: 1879

The chap who sat down on the
sidewalk last winter and anathe-
matized the ice, now affectionately
shakes it up in his cocktail and
wonders how mankind could get
along without good ice CROP
Newark Call.
Year: 1879

An old fashioned minister in pass
ing fashionable church not along
ago on which new spire was going
up, was asked how much higher it
was going to be. "Not much," he
answered; "that congregation does
not own much higher in that direc-
tiOn."
Year: 1879

Too many persons regularly pack
up their religion for the summer
months, very much as ladies pack
up their fuis in camphor. But will
religion keep as well, and come out
as well preserved as the furs usually
dn9
Year: 1879

A peasant, being at confession,
accused himself of stealing some
hay. The father confessor asked
him how many bundles he had taken
from the stock. "That is of no
Consequence" replied the peasant;
"you may call it a wagon load, for
my wife and ! are going to fetch
the remainder very soon.
Year: 1879

From the back door of poverty
to the front plaza Of opulence is but
a short step, but how few of US,
anxious though we may be, ever
have the luck to start in the right
diraction.-T New Haven Register.
Year: 1879

This is the season of the year
when the ardent college graduate
applies for the editorship of the
great daily, and afterward accepts a
responsible situation as the driver
of q street car.-GChicago Times.
Year: 1879

The pencil marks you SEQ around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. Wo
would take great pleasure In extcDdiag
credit 10 our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such n
coarse, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


tB- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1879

ments TO enable them to utilize Edison's
patent by furnishing the electric light as
well as gas.


The next great improvement to the
comfort of city life is the heating OF
rows and block of houses by steam from
common centres, In order that the hand
ling of coal aud ashes, and the dust,
labor and annoy ance thereof may be
avoided.


This is entirely feasible. There is no
doubt about it. Houses may be made
more comfortable than they are now at
half the cost, and saving effected of the
trouble OF lighting fires and moving coal
and ashes. Baking, we are told, car
not be done by steam; but that the
greater part of cooking can, is well un-
derstood and practiced. Just the best
mode of heating by steam has not been
yet determined. Some say do 1t by
main pipes running through streets with
branches connecting each house as with
gas. Others advocate the heating Of
squares OF blocks by running the main
pipe through the cellars, warming and
making more dry and healthy The at
mosphere from the cellar to the garret !;
others again prefer the use of hot water;
and this is what is now proposed to be
used in New York city. Water can be
heated TO 576 degrees, which will throw
off an immense amount Of beat.


A proposition is now before the Board
of Aldermen in New York, offering
$50, 900 year per square mile for the
right TO heat the houses of the city with
hot water, and it is said this would
amount to 100000 annually. Besides
the company offers the city all the pro-
Fl above 10 per cent. to the stockhold
ees for the privilege it seeks. There is
scarcely a machine shop or factory that
is not now heated by steam and some
factories occupy whole squares larger
than any of our blocks of houses. OF
course the pracIibility of this is assured.
But the difficulty is to get the peoples
courage up to the point of doing the
thing. New York will have to lead oil,


We presume, and yet is said there are


gentlemen in Wilmington-mechanlcs-


who would, if they could only be sus-


taiued, heat our city fIom the Christi


ana to Fifth street at one half it now


costs to do so.
Year: 1879

A correspondent writing from the city of
Mexico says: 1t is happy circumstance
that a government that conducts national
lotteries should also have national pawn
shop, where its people can raise money to
buy lottery tickets. When the government
desires to encourage railroad or any cor
poration of public Importance, and wishes
to give it subsidy, it does not give the
company grant of money, for reasons too
obvious to need explanation, but gives it
concession for lottery. Nobody can es-
tablish lottery in Mexico without this
concession, not on account of public morals,
but on account of the public pocketbook.
Neither native nor stranger can walk
block in any principal street in the City of
Mexico without being bothered by at least
half dozen venders of lottery tickets, who
cry their wares as our newsboys do, and
make themselves as obnoxious to the public
as possible. But every lottery-ticket seller
is in some sense government officer, and
however much pleasure it might give a
stranger to pick one of them up and wiring
his neck, it would bedangerous. The num-
Der of people in the Mexican capital who
make living out of nothing is overpower-
ing. There are good many thousands OF
men who buy cheap articles at the pawn
shop auctions, and bone everybody they
meet to buy them at an advanced price.
The city is full of lottery-ticket sellers, the
pawnshops are full of goods, and Bete'a, the
city prison, is SO full of prisoners that there
are always lot of swarthy arms and legs
hanging out Of the windows.
Year: 1879

The pale moon rushed along the stormy sky,
Now hid, now seen, like some belated bark
That drives among the breakers aimlessly,
Their white crests cleaning silver through


the dark.
Pale as the moon, beneath the lighthouse


covered


The silent watcher on the great stone pier;
She saw how black the gathering cloud wrack


lowered,


She heard the gales hoarse warning mutter-


ing near;
She felt the kindred tnmult in her breast,
With Natures angry mood was prompt to


blend;
Yet the sea answered, stilling her unrest.
"The hardest hap comes ever to the end"
Though the great waves roll laundering to the


shore,


And DER the reef the cruel surf-clouds foam,
Though fierce and high the crashing breakers


roar,


Between the weary fisherman and home;
Calm to its depths the tide will ebb at night,
The waves creep whispering backward from
the Scar.
And as the cottage hearth shows welcome light
The laden coble leaps the harbor bar
Ears that can hear, hearts that can understand
Know Ocean tells us, like a staunch old


friend,
"God holds the future in His loving hand,
The hardest hap comes ever to the end"
The red-rooied houses piled beneath the Head
In silent separate lights began to shine,
The struggling moon her fearful radiance she
On the grand beauty of the ruined shrine
From the quay-side, laugh, snatch of song, md
, call,


Came f1tful to the pier upon the breeze
And, regular as pulses rise and fall,
Doomed the long echo of the breaking seas.
And still the watcher on the great stone pier
fingered above the eternal waves 10 bend,
Taking their answer home to hush and cheer
The hardest hap comes ever to an end"


All the Yay Round.
Year: 1879

TO live without purpose is to lead a
restless unhappy life.


To be angry is to revenge the faults of
others upon ourselves.


Discourage cunning in a child; cum
ming is the ape of wisdom.


1t is the rugged highway that calls out
ones strength, not the valleys of sensu-
Gus ease.


There are inscriptions on all human
hearts, which are never to be seen, ex-
cept at low, dead tide.


Some people never have a story to
tell, because of their quicksand natures,
from which every new wave washes out
the old impression.


Pride is like the beautiful acacia that
lifts its head proudly above its neighbor
plants, forgetting that it too, like them,
has its roots in the drift.


dislike an eye that twinkles like a
star. Those are only beautiful which,
like planets, have a steady lambent light,
are luminous, not sparkling.


Stories first heard at mothers knee
are never wholly forgotten-a little
spring that is never quite dried up in our
journey through scorching years.
Year: 1879

The coroner's jury called TO consider
the death of Thomas Starmore and 9TH


ers, killed at Barstow's Siding on the
night of the 25th of February, met at the
switch-house and heard the evidence of
the persons who were known to have
been present at the time of the disaster.


Even the tramp had been captured. He
was seen prowling in the woods near the
line, and had been caught by the sec
tion-master and his men. Every one at
once said, The tramp did it, But the
tramp had in his hand another bar just
like the bar found under the train. He
admitted having stolen the bar. He had