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Year: 1878

PROSTITUTION OF TEE PREss.-,J en-
hns' old Commercial adopted the most
mischicvous of all the modes for stabbing
the reputation of men, and blasting the
prospects of party candidates. 1t fastens
itself upon one or two able and influen-
tial members of the party, and lauds
them to "the Skies" and the little circles
that are tickled by the flattering remarks,
run around and exhibit the "puffs J" and
think they have made good impress
sion; and all they have to do in case some
one is nominated whom they do not like,
is to get this dirty machine to denounce
that candidate as has been done at every
election. To give it weight against the
Democratic candidates it was dubbed a
"Bayard organ" by the Republican and
other Radical sheets. And now its lac
keys use Senator Bayard's name, and its
. hypocritical praise of the able Senator
to cover and give weight to its attacks
upon the Democratic candidates when the
nominations are made, or to influence
voters in favor of favorite. 1t has thus
been used to cut and stab some of the
most popular Democrats in the State
Whether this was the intention of the
men who got out the charter of the Sian


derous sheet and were paid in stock ant
promises of puffs and support and othel
modes, we do not know butit has served
only to injure the prospects Of any wht
put their cause in its hands. And now i


is being used in this way, to Senator


Bayard's injury and to the injury of tn,
Democratic party. The Levy Court il


attacked, abused, falsified and bully
Year: 1878

DUBLIC SALE.


i The subscribers will sell at Public
Auction on the farm of of Robt. T Rankin
In Mill Creek Hundred, on The road lead
ing from White Olay Creek Church TO
Pleasant Hill. one mile and quarter
noi th of said church, on
Year: 1878

The desert of Colorado, between Cairsa creek and Fort Yuma can be made productive and very valua- ble by making plantations of the date palm. This tree not only does not require much water, but water is prejudicial to it, and the climate of the Colorado desert is singu'arly like tha- of some of the best date produc- ing districts in Egypt. All the valleys of Southern Ar izona, yielding large per cent age of saccharine matter. The facts have been fully settled by extensive experiments during the past three or four years. The only thing to hazard the profitable growth of sugar here on a large scale, is the alkalie char acter of much of the soil in the valley of Gill and Salt Rivers. as well as of their waters. This alkali-sola and potash-is taken up by the cane expressed by the juce and remains with the sugar on boiling down, giv- ing the sugar a salty flavor. We can offer few suggestions for neu- tralizing this effect. Calcined sul. plate of lime applied to the soil may combine the suits of potash and soda into sulphates not absorbed by the cane, leaving the lime free to form other combinations. Or, the alkalinity of the canejuice may be neutralized by adding a proper prop. portion of acid, say sulphuric, deter. mined by experiment. If all else fails, the juice can be distilled into a prime article of Jamaica or Santa Cruz rum, and its molasses into New England or Medford; no alkali leave: the still. But we believe that sugar will yet form staple product of these valleys.
Year: 1878

1tis but fair to state that Mir. s. c. Slade the collector of customs at Fl Paso is in no way responsible for the smuggling now going on along this portion of the line between Mexico and the United States. We agree with the Independent that the force of inspectors under Collector Slade is totally inadequate to meet the re- quirments of the service, and that it is impossible for the collector to pro perly guard this frontier and prevent smuggling unless the Government in- crease the effective force at his dis. Posal.-lGrant County Herald.
Year: 1878




At a recent meeting of the Metho-
dist ministers of Chicago three of the
communist leaders in that city were
to express their views. One
of them did so. He discla;med any
Intention by the communists to make
war npon individual life or property.
But what they did propose, he said,
was to have an equal division of all
the real estates on the globe, to have
wages regulated by law and ail labor
competition abolished to do away
with all labor saving machinerr, and
compel II return to work by hand,
with the further requirement. that The
hours of labor shall be decreased and
the rate of compensation made great
er. He thought, this man of modest
views, that the churches ought to
join hands with the workingmen in
compelling capitalists to yield to
these demands.
Year: 1878

Inadvertently we omitted to men
tion in our last Fridays issue the re-
ceipt of a polite invitation to attend
grand ball to be given by Phoenix
Fire Co., No. l and Ascension Hook
and Ladder No. of Donaldsonville,
on the 25th inst. The committee of
invitation, of which L. E. Bentley of
the CHIEF was chairman, have our
sincere thanks for the invitation, and
to our brother firemen of the Donald
sonville corps we express our regrets
at not being able to attend. At some
future time, though, we hope to be
able to be with them and enjoy the
cordial good fellowship and hospitali-
ties for which they are proverbial.


Baton Rouge Advocate.
Year: 1878

announces that the mine don't need
its ordinary shifts of workmen.
Nine men out Of ten believed he
lied in April and believe he lies
now, although man of Mackey's
position and wealth in Europe
would be ashamed to assume role
which would disgrace q capper for
q thIrd-rate gambling house or
nsaison dc joie.


We need to cultivate higher
sense of honor in the United States,
especially in California. The re-
formation is bound to come, and
We should not be surprised to see it
come, as the lightning comes in
the physical world, amidst the rum
BILE and roar of wrathful and de-
ceived men.
Year: 1878

The New York Times says "the
current notion that the American
Indians are gradually disappearing
is an error" Who entertained
such notion The fact is the
American Indian is constantly and
most unexpectedly appearing. 1t
Is the scalp Of the white man that
is gradually disappearing.
Year: 1878

Some interesting experiments have re-


Gently been made by the medical faculty of


Michigan University, in order to determine


the seat of hunger and thirst in the animal


system. A dog was chloroformed after


having been fed a hearty meal, and, while


the sculo-membraneous reservoir food


was largely distended, an incision was made


through the abdomen, oyer the large curv-


ature of the stomach, into that organ then
silver tube, quarter of an inch in diam
ater and an inch and a half long, was in
serted in the cut, the other end of which


was then corked up. The tube has half
inch flanges at both ends; the inner fange
serving to keep ths tube in place while the
outer faDge closely shuts the exterior. The
dog still lives with his stomach permanent
ly on tap; in fact, the operation in no way
affects the health of the mastif, although,
in undergoing the severe ordeal to which
he 10 now at times subjected in the interest
of science, hunger compels him to eat about
six times as much as formerly. The result
Of the experiment proves the seat of hum
ger is not in the stomach, neither is the
seat of thirst in the throat, but that they
both reside in the system at large. The
dog was permitted to eat hearty meal,
which was Immediately taken from him
via the tube. In few minuter, after re-
from his fright, he would eat an
equally large quantity of food, and so on
to any extent. Again, he is not permitted
to have anything to eat for say "a hours.
Food would then be injected into his stom-
ach through the tube. notwithstanding
his stomach was already full, the animal
would ut once gulp down more food; but,
# sufficient time was given for the injected
food to enter the system, he would then re-
fuse all that was set before him. The con-
clusions arrived at from these experiments
ind confirmation in the fact, which has
often been observed, that persons suffering
from thirst, although the parching sensation
IS apparently limited to the throat, find inn
mediate relief upon entering bath, OR even
from immersing the feet in water.
Year: 1878

When the parent went into the parlor to
look for the newspaper he came suddenly
upon his daughter and her young man
with their faces SO tightly glued to each
other that they didn't notice his entry.


"Ahem ~ he observed.


The twain started and came to the light
with faces that bore every appearance of
having just been drawn out Of furnace.


Anything the mattere" grimly asked
the old gentleman.


"T think we mast have fainted,'' said
she in whisper,


'Humph what made you faint e'' he
inquired suspiciously.


This was such a poser that she sank
back exhausted, leaving her companion to
carry them safely through. With an awful
wrench at his faculties he managed to gulp
out -.


{" think there must be poison in the
wall paper"


The old gent leman collapsed Ha-
cen Union. as z1t&
Year: 1878




Pills may sometimes fail to act on the
liver, but saving wood never will.


Make ourself necessary, young man,
and your success is certain.


Anger always hurts us more than the
one we get mad at.


About as low down as man can get
and not spoil is to live on his wife's repu-
tatlon.


Idon't bet ON precocious children the
huckleberry that ripens the quickest is
first to decay.


Everybody seems to think himself a
moral half-bushel TO weigh the worlds
frailties.


When you strike oil, stop boring. Many
a man has bored clean through and let the
oil out of the bottom. -H
Next in point of meanness to doing an
injury is to do a man favor and every
now and then remind him of it.


The man who is honest froha policy
needs as much watching as hive OF bees
ready to swarm. a--z. z
Year: 1878

The marriage of DON Cameron and Miss


Elizabeth Sherman reminds US of a little


story told some time ago by river captain.


It was during the navigation season of '76


that Miss Sherman took trip up the fel-


lowstone on the steamer Far West, just to


see the country. Grant Marsh was cap


tain. and at one of the wood landings. while
he was scouting around for. dry sticks with


a gang of reostsrs, Miss Sherman came on
shore, accompanied by a young officer who
was rather attentive to her, While the
couple were promenadiug up and down the
river bank something with black and white
stripes upon it suddenly shot across the
trail at Miss Sherman's feet and disappear
into hollow log. Woman's qsiick instinct
suggested in an instant the nature of the
apparltion, and she called to Capt. Marsh
to come quick and kill the snake which had
gone into the log. Marsh went, of course.
He would like. no better diversion than
mashing up Yellowstone reptiles for the
entertainment of good looking young la
dies. He poked the end Of o dead limb into
the hollow log, and they all stood back and
squinted into the opening to see what would
be the result. This close inspection was
entirely unnecessary, as they soon discov-
cred. A blind man half mile off could
have made q reliable affidavit as to the
species of the animal which Captain Marsh
was stirring up with the end Of short
stick. There was wild rush for the boat,
a hurried order to steam ahead to the next
wood lot, and as the boat swung out. into
the turbid current, Captain Marsh said, sif
I'd known that was skunk in that log,
you may be sure I wouldn't been poking
around there to kill snake.' After the
voyage was over and heparty had disenl-
barked Miss Sherman's parting words to
the Captain were to beware of Yellowstone
snakes. And he has ever since.
Year: 1878

"A German paper gives simple test for
the purity of milk. It states that if we'll
polished knitting needle is dipped into q
deep vessel of milk, and withdrawn in an
upright position, some Of the milk viii ad-
here to the needle; if water has in The
slightest degree been added to the milk,
none will remain on the needle.
Year: 1878

New York SUM-


We are informed by a gentlmsn Of
South Carolina, friend of Wade
Hampton and lifelong Democrat,
that, in view of the frauds at the re-
cent election in that State, many Of
the colored voters have determined 10
call convention of negroes, with the
avowed purpose of petitioning Con-
gress TO take away from them the right
of suffrage. These men despair of
ever giving their ballots the effect
which the Fourteenth Amendment 10
the Constitution was designed to insure.
They say that in the practical working
Of negro suffrage their citizenship
merely adds to the strength of tho
Southern Democracy in Congress and
in the Electoral College, and that they
would rather be unrepresented in the
Government than contribute to the
power of those whom they regard aa
enemies.


Of course the discouraged negroes


have no definite idea how they are to
be relieved of the burden of suffrage,


nor what would be the effect of disfran-
chisement upon their future as a race.
They feel that tn exI eriment has been


Il failure, and in their ignorance OF
constitutional methods they look upon


Congress as a power which can give or
take away at will.


The fact that a considerable party
among the colored voters of South
Carolina has come to such determin-


alton as this, not in order TO afford q
partisan argument for future wavings


of the bloody shirt, but simply in weari
ness and disgust, shows how grave is


the problem which the political condi-


ton of the South presents to the cOun-
try. For years the less intelligent
Republicans of the Northern States


have been taught by their leaders to
believe that the ultimate aim of the


men lately in rebellion against the
Government was to overflow negro


suffrage, if not to restore slavery itself.
What would Charles Sumner or Thad-
deus Stephens have said. twelve years


ago, if they had been told that the
first distinct proposition for the abro-
cation of negro suffrage would come,


not in the shape of a demand from the


whites of the Sonth, but as piteous re-


quest from the blacks themselves


The repeal Of the Fourteenth


Amendment is now as impossible as the


restoration Of the slave system or the
recognition of a States right to Sc
| cede.
Year: 1878

Chicago Tribune.


The New York bankers, led By AEr.
Coe, and acting in the interest Of the.
money lenders, have taken rash step,
and the sooner they recede from it the
better it will befor them. The proposition
to move en- ma@se against the circula-
ton Of the silver dollar is prompted by
the desire to enhance the value of their
money-stock on a gold basis as COM
pared with the value of all other prop
erty They are much deceived in the
intelligence Of the American people rs
they think they can conceal tins fact.
They are equally deceived, in the tenn
per of the American people if they
tAtAk they. can succeed in such a
scheme without exciting resentment.
They will have enough on their hands
TO protect their characters and their
notes of issue, and they are courting
disaster by their imrertiEeRt project Of
defying the law and the people.
Year: 1878

You are the coming trustees of
these democratic institutions, and those
institutions rest upon the democratic
principles which I have attempted to
set forth and enforce, and great parties
are the natural and necessary agencies
for the promotion of these principles. In
this connection l wish to repeat the re
mark with which I set out, that in this
country there are only two great par
ties, the Democratic and the Republi
can parties; the one, conceived in pas
sion, born of fanaticism and baptized
in blood, has, from its acces sion to
power, marched with rapid and straight
strides over these principles, over
State governments and the Constitution
to an increase of power in the central
government, the other, beginning its
existence with the Constitution, pro-
claims and defends that instrument as
the fundamental, inviolable, omnipO-
tent character of all rights Of this con-
tinent. One is the party of passion,
power and privilege; the other is the
party of peace, of law and of liberty!
The one Iegislates for classes, for
grasping monoplies, for colossal cor
porations which despoil the people; the
other, confning itself within the limits
of the Constitution, keeps steadily in
view the veal sud safety of all classes,
all communities and all sections Of this
great country.


Where is the room for third party
with such issues as these dividing the
people? 1t would of necessity be
ground to powder between these upper
| and nesher mill-stOnes. 1t would be
but bubble to flash faint and false
hope for time only to burst and van.
/ ish and mingle in the waters of these
great streams.


My young friends, let me say to yo'
with with greater emphasis than
could prior to the Senatorial election
(for having been chosen for six years
seTS,ice no man can charge ne with {
selfish motive), let me say to you tha
! you are not only bringing damage t.
r to this country and destroying the party
: which maintained your principles, bu
you are sapping the foundation Of you
I own political character. You coul'


not organize and keep in position
third party if you were to try, ant


you ought not to do so if you could


1t would be a damage to the countr


and to your own manhood and politics


future. Why do l say that? Beeaus


no man has ever sacrificed his arabitio


upon the altar ofprinciple without com


ing from the sacrifice a purer, greater


grander man! But my independeF


friends tell rpe shat they sacrifice n
riuciple But if to break down t
,arty, and If breaking down the part
not to destroy the possibility OF er
/ ioreing its principles in the admin
"A tration Of government, then reason i
Year: 1878


There are many trite sayings,
To follow you know,
But the wisest of all is:


Hoe your own row.
is a lesson to heed,


And none should be slow,
To remember this maxim,
Hoe your own row.
Never grow weary and sad,
Take courage and show,
That you are determined to


Hoe your own row.
1t is no use to complain,


And fret as you go,
All alone in this world, but


Hoe your own row.
There are rough paths to travel,
Twill always be SO:
Just keep TO the windward, and
Hoe your own row.
There is way to succeed


In life here below,
'Tis by keeping this motto,


Hoe your awn row.
Year: 1878

THE Utica y. " Head says bitterly
that the opponents of the Presidents con-
ciliation policy are not those who went TO
the front" Perhaps so. But it is very evil
dent that the great majority of those who
approve of that policy did go to the front
with their faces toward the North. 4 close
examination of the Army and Navy Regis
tcrs of the United States during the war
fails to discover the name of the editor OF
the Hcrdd among those who went to
the 'front.' with their faces to the South.
Year: 1878

THE Congressional smut-mill will he in
operation in few days. We trust for the
honor of this Congress, it may be gcarcd
justly and run more fairly than it was by
its former engineers. Nobody objects to n
fair and just investigation Of the acts OF
public officials.
Year: 1878

IT Is the policy of the gold ring" to crush
business and starve the people, that it may
make gain from misfortune. 1t is now per-
forming the service of the undertaken, and
robing the business of the country in the
shroud of bankruptcy, and laying private
credit away in gilded collins.
Year: 1878

We have hard-working Cabinet, as is
evidenced by the fact that Secretary
SCHURz says he is too busy TO tender his
resignation, and Secretary EvARTs has too
much outside law practice on his hands to
give his attention to resignation.
Year: 1878

THE Maine papers tell Of an old woman
who was surprised by concerted visit
Of nine of her twelve children" Thirty
five children call this same old woman
great grandmother. Just think of that,
young woman, whenever your apprehen-
sions of becoming an old maid begin to
make you feel gloomy. Think ofholding
a mass meeting in your own family!
Year: 1878

AMONG the curiosities in the Army
Medical Museum at Washington is the
withered and parched hand and arm of
man who forgot it on the battlefield of
Gettysberg. A cannon carried it to the
top ofa high tree where the crows over
looked it for the moro abundant carrion
of tho field, while the wind and sun came
drank up its juices and shriveled it to its
present well-tanned condition.
Year: 1878

A VALLEJO man who accepts tho
Beechcr doctrine that there is no he'll is
now pulling his own hair for being good
so long. lie says he might have been
rich man TO day if he had not been afraid
of that everlasting fire.
Year: 1878

General Grant writes to a friend in Phila-
delphia that after visiting Austria he de-
signs spending some four or five weeks at
some watering place on the continent.
His present intention is to make a tour of
the world, passing the winter months in
India and China. After observing tine
methods and manner of most of the people
on the face of the globe, he will return to
America by the way of San Francisco.
Year: 1878

Saturn, too, is getting up little earlier,
and each evening shows himself above the
eastern housetops little after nine, in
creasing a few minutes each evening.
Along toward the end of the month he will
be up as early as half-past seven.
Year: 1878

The undersigned having taken charge of the above
name hotel, has put it through thorough revision
and refurnished it with new beds, carpets furniture
&C., is now prepared to accommodate the travelling
public in every respect Especial attention will be
given to all, whether permanent Boarders or transient
Customers.


The subscriber has had varied experience in con-
Quoting Hotel which will enable him to secure the
approval of every one who may give him call. The
Bedding and Chambers will be especially attended
to, and the Table will be equally SO.


THE BAR
Is repete with choice liquors and of the best and
pureSt brands. and my experience in this branch of
the business ustifes in announcing that the Bar
is not surpassed by any on the Peninsula


HACK.
A Hack will be run to the principal trains. No
charge to guests of this hotel Other persons will be
conveyed for 10 cents each.
THE STABLE
Is in charge of experienced hostler and persons
leaving horses i'll charge may feel assured that
they will receive the best attention.
There is Livery Stable connected with the Hotel
where Horses and Carriages be hired at reasonable
rates.


may 29-tf P. p COLLINS Proprietor.
Year: 1878

Sisters and Brothers, | return to your
hands the trust you have for two years
confided to my keeping. Permit me most
heartily to thank you for the honor thus
conferred. am only sorry that more
progress has not been made. During my
term of office am conscious of having
erred, but not Intentionally. My one aim
has been the welfare of my fellow men.
desire to express the gratitude of my
heart TO the Brothers and Sisters Of this
jurisdiction whom ! have associated on
my official: visits, for the very great kind
ness shown me. My Intercourse with the
Brethren has been of the pleasantest char
acter; more especially so with my Amer
lean friends. feel that am great deal
better in every sense of the word than |
was two years ago. But our gatherings
on earth will cease. hope we shall so do
our duty here as to be in possession of the
password to the Grand Lodge above,
where Ill is joy and peace.


remain, Yours in Faith. Hope and
Charity. NOAH HAKEsPEARE'


Grand Worthy Chief Templar.


Victoria, B. G.