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Year: 1879

The manifestations Of Southern opinion in
General Grants favor are not by any means
to be regarded as empty or insignificant, for
there Is good reason 20 believe that very many
Southern Democrats would prefer him to any
other Republican as President. Among shrewd
Democrats of the South the opinion is growing
that they cannot expert to elect any candidate
of their own party. Many of them, therefore,
think it the best thing that can be done to
promote the election Of General Grant and
their reasons are these: They like his policy,
as far as they are able to foresee it. in regard
to public expenditures, improvements and
subsidies they believe that lis course toward
the Southern States would be more to their
taste than that OF any other Rrpubllcan; and
they hope to cripple or divide the Republican
party by assisting his nomination. 1t is
well worth while to consider upon what facts
these expectations are based.


General Grants preference for liberal
policy in respect to public improvements
and subsidies, the Democrats think, has been
shown by his conduct. They believe that his
disposition toward the Southern States
was greatly changed during his last
term. They point to some changes of





SONS often quoted, showing that he be-
lieved that the policy of coercion had failed,
and that cOnciliatory course then seemed to
him more wse to the withdrawal of military
force at a time when the control OF several
Southern States could easily have been re-
tanned for the Republicans by suppression of
the Democratic schemes of lawless violence
to his statement that Northern opinion had.
in his belief. ceased to sustain coercive
measures TO his approvals OF the course DUR
sued by President Hayes, and to hls latest
utterances which look to the adopiion of
policy deemed by the South national
and conciliatory. The most stalwart of Reuub-
licans. who favor the election of President
Grant for another term, observe these declara-
tions with some degree of dissent, and it is
not strange that they produce a deep impress
sion upon the minds of Southern Democrats.


1t is the belief of shrewd Democrats that
the reelection of President Grant would di-
vide the Republican party. For this opinion
they rest upon the fact that those who
now support the Republican administration
were much divided when President Grant
was last elected, and upon the opposition TO
his reelection which is shown even now by
many Republicans. They fancy that, II elected
In some sense as a non-partisan cand-
date. by the hearty assent of strong
body of Southern Democrats, President
Grant would be so far inclined to recognize
that support in his official course that the
differences among Republicans would be
greatly aggravated. In short. they say to each
Others I'VE cannot elect Democrat. but we
Year: 1879

nomic evils of land-tenure, pauperism and
agricultural distress Much remains to be done,
and the Irish have an instructive feeling that
they must do it themselves. That the present
movement can accomplish any useful purpose
seems grossly improbable. If it were sup
ported by the %lnd-owning class, or II there
were intelligent leaders to direct it, something
might come of it. AS matters stand, the best
hope of Irish regeneration is a Liberal Admin


stration in England
Year: 1879

The Police Commissioners talked for the
greater part of four hours yesterday upon the
question Of removing the Superintendent OF
Scows in the Street Cleaning Department
This is all the progress that was made toward
getting the streets clean but the debate Will at
ford the public some little satisfaction as it dis
closes the secret of the present condition of the
streets. One great cause of trouble, 1t seems
from the talk reported with Mr.. MacLean, on
another page, is the fact that there are not
scOws enough to carry away the dirt. Mr..
MacLean must not be surprised if dull and
slow-witted public fails to perceive just how
this meets the case. The mud is III the
streets, and is not removed, as we all can
testify. Surely the street-sweepers do not go
about III scows. though they may need to soon If
things go on at this rate and we have d heavy
ram. Perhaps that is what Ar. MacLean
means. But he has other explanations why
the streets are not clean. One is that too
much dirt Is thrown into the streets. No
doubt. and it would seem to be the duty of
the Streot-Clearing Bareau to remove it,.
Another is that there is SO much diff
Guilty "In keeping the men at their
work." Perhaps so, but it would seem to
be the province of the undisputed head of the
Street Cleaning Bureau to do just that thing.
Really Mr.. MacLean is getting to be a very
ridiculous person, and we do not wonder that
Mr. Morrison publicly cut loose from him yes
Year: 1879

The revulsion in Wall Street has none of tn
aspects of panic, except in the startling fall
of prices. There are no failures to speak of.
nobody seems to be greatly damaged, there


is no serious alarm, there is unusual good
humor, and the Street and the country
alike regard the crash as good
thing. A very SOLDERING thing it is,
however. to the multtudes of amateurs
who haze been tempted by the reports
of sudden gains into games they do not
understand. The losses, though in the
aggregate enormous, seem individually tri-
fling to the Wall-Street eye; but they
often represent the savings of years. and
in nearly every case they swallow up
all the available cash the loser can scrape to-
gether. The Street will pay small
heed to them; the trade in stocks will be just
as lively as ever, and, in little, prices
will again be booming. But all over
the country are men of mode
rate means, active, enthusiastic
sanguine, who ought to have been
the chief promoters of our industrial
revival. but whom yesterday has crippled
for the season, if not for life. The revival will
60 on; but their part in it is very different
from what it would have been if they
had attended to their business. The
lesson is an old one but new generation
has come up and yesterday it took its turn
at learning it.
Year: 1879

Complaint is made that Senator Bayard has been
damaged seriously by iniudicious friends" HIS
own tongue has been the chief offender. and he
not expect to have his friends control that for him.
Year: 1879

The inquest in the extraordinary murder
case at Passaic has come To an end, and In
the way that was to be expected The jury
find that John Nyman came to his death by
violence at the hands of komah Nyman, his
son, and that Kate Nyman. the sons wife.
was All accessory. The burden of the testi-
moDy at the inquest was so overwhelmingly
against these two. that it is difficult to see
how they can hope for a different verdict
upon the trial itself.
Year: 1879

The negro exodus is not over, nor have the
causes ceased which brought it about. An
appeal issued by the EmIgrant Aid Society of
Washington, composed of thoroughly respect
able citizens Of that city. declares that they
have received petitions from many hundreds
OF colored people IN the South for aid III escap-
ing from condition which they say Is a. worse
Year: 1879

than slavery" Some migration is still IN
progress in spite of the approach of Winter
IL he aspect of things in the South does not
change materially within the next few months,
il would not be strange if the Spring or SUM
mer of the coming year witnessed an impress
sve movement among the negroes for escape
from bondage that has no bright side.
Year: 1879

AT the Election on Tuesday Bismarck
polled 227 votes, all but sixteen of these
being in favor of the issue of bonds to the
extent of twenty thousand qollarsfor the
construction of a court house and Jail;
almost, it will be seen an unanimons vote,
and a large majority Of all the votes cast
in the county Oh that day, thoug the pro.
position was not voted on in the Mandan
precinct. This is as it should be-. Every
interest of the county demands the con


struction of roomy court house and dssub:
stantial jail The commissioner should
proceed at once to negotiate the bonds
and construct the. building, thus adding g
another to the important Improvements
that will go to make up the record Of 1879.
Year: 1879

The rain of Thursday evening was the
heaviest in the history of the U. S. Signal
office in this city. It fell to the depth of
three and a halfinches- heavy fall for any
part of the u S. The rain fall for hismonth
to date is four inches. Last June the fall
for the entire month was 2.7S inches.
One week in April rs the fall 437 inches
the heaviest on record. The roof of Mr..
Mason's brick house on the hill she'd forty
barrels of water. The Pacific saloon was
flooded but no special damage done At
Fort Stevenson there was.a wicked storm
with a rain fall of two inches. This rain
has been a blessing to the farmers, and
puts the ground in splendid condition tor
breaking.
Year: 1879

The coal explorers opened a four foot
vein of coal about ten miles west of Bis
marck. which, on trial, welded iron and
proves to be much better than anything
heretofore discovered in Dakota. Prof.
Davis was almost wild with excitement
and in lis excitement declared 1t to be the
best coal he ever saw, but as he processes
to be an old Pennsylvania miner this
statement should be taken with grains of
allowance.
Year: 1879

ItuS


J.C Cady has raised his furniture store
and made it a two story building.


The Custer Hotel has built in the rear
a new stable and wash house.


FL Call has added a neat little wing
to his cosy residence on I'd st.


The signal service Office isimproved by
the addition of a store room.


The Western Hotel has built an addi
ton for bed rooms.
Year: 1879

O1icer Chiardi. Of tho Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children. had three little a the
Fftysevcnth Street Police Court yesterday Of whom
he told a most pitiable story. Seven months ago
their father died. and since that their mother.
Martha Stack. has been supporting thcm by selling
coal and wood in the basement of No. 395 First
nue.. Three weeks ago she gave birth to another
child and the consequent illness 80 prostrated her
that sho has been at the point of DEATH Some OF the
neghbors convey cd word to the Society for the Pre-
venton OF Cruelty to children and Oficer Chiardi,
on visiting the house, found them alone with their
dying mother. They had been supplied with food
by tho neghbors. but were in a SAD plight. The
eldest was ave years OF age. On taking them before
Justice Wandell that magistrate committed them to
the Female Guardian Society.
Year: 1879

The shooting OF Nelson prudnomme. who was
found dead ON the deck Of the steamboat Belle lying
the foot OF West Fourteenth strcet beon thor


oughiy investigated by the police. but thus far no
clew to the perpetrators OF the doed has been OBJ
tanned. All the facts known at present are against
the theory OF suicide. A relative of tho deceased
ut the Coroner's Office yesterday and made ar
rangcfnents for tho interInent of the remains Tho
autopsy was made by Deputy Coroner Goldschmidt.
who found that the bullet entered one ana half
inches below the point whore It recovered,
showing that the missile from below the point
ofaf
Year: 1879

and nearly shos BY the British oatPosts.
kaganagh's narrative was listened 70
with rapt attention BY Sir Colin, who
Immediately gave orders for the army %
advance as quickly as possible to the aid
Of the gallant defenders Of the Residency.
How the latter was rescued is natter Of
history. Kavanagh lived long enough to
wear bis Cross, though he lost his life
in battle shortly afterwards with the
same enemy but the noble example he
left behind him was not lost on the brave
hearts who eventually saved India for
England Chambers Journal.
Year: 1879

A correspondent Of Boston journal
says that an emineut physician there told
him that there is no profession in New
York IN which it is SO easy to lay up a
competency for the future as the minis
terial. The average pay is larger than in
any other profession, for while the lawyer
and doctor are struggling the minister
takes his position with bound, but he is
apt to spend in trips to Europe the
money which he should lay up.
Year: 1879

The New Building Completed and Occu-


pted-Description of the Edifice.


Tho opening of the street railway line to st.
Anthony Hill necessitated increased stable ac-
commodatlon for the st. Paul City Railroad
company, to obtain which the new stables,
corner of Fourth and St. Peter streets, were
erected, and were occupied by the company
yesterday.


The building is of brick, plain but sultan
tial. The first floor is thirteen feet high, con-
tanning stalls for seventy horses. and necessary
into hay and grain rooms, and sleeping apart
ments for employees. The central location was
selected by the company as the most available
point from which it's two lines of road
could be operated, and to save the
otherwise necessary division of its business
into two small establishments, with the con-
sequent increased cost of conducting the busi-
ness and the greater difficulty of supervising
it. The building it. has erected was planned
with the view of making it as convenient as
possible for it's present use, and at the same
time available for some manufacturing or
other business, should the growth of the city
| and the extension of the companys lines make
it desirable to seek other quarters further from
the center of the city. The company is plan
ming tho erection of building on the corner
of Fifth and st. Peter street for its car house,
repair shop, and Offices. For the present it
will occupy for this purpose it's old quarters on
| Fourth street.
Year: 1879

4 new instrument for measuring dis
tances by sight is among the recent inven-
tions in England. In this arrangement the
distance of any object is ascertained by
simply reading off upon scale marked
on the base of right angled triangle the
number of divisions which are equivalent
to the angle of two lines of sight denoted
by an index scale; the two sides of the tri-
angle-that is the perpendicular and the
hypothenuse-are the two lines of sight to
the object, and the length Of the base varies
with the distance of the object observed at
the apex of the triangle. The distance of
the same is measured by the length of base
required to enable the line of sight to meet
the object of the oblique line. The oblque
line of sight in the instrument is obtained
along radius arm, the angle of which TO
the base may be set at pleasure. The part
of the instrument forming the other line Of
sight at right angles to the base has a
sliding action along the base, so as to ena-
able the latter to be heightened or reduced,
but is always at right angles to it. For
the base, a space is divided of 6. 2S2 inches
thus allowing the decimal readings of the
length of the base to be obtained-6.2 2S2
being the proportion of circle circumfer-
ence to radius. A scale is provided by
means of which the radius arm may he set
for oblique line of sight to the decimal of
a degree. The process of reading off the
distance of an object on the instrument is
in this wise: AS the chord of arc of an angle
is to the radius as l to 81. 35, then if then
the radius arm be 81. 35 inches, it follows
that for an angle of one degree it will be
one inch out of perpendicular to the base.
The oblique line of sight being along the
radius arm, will therefore meet at 57.35,
the perpendicular line of sight with one
inch base, and the object-at the apex of
the triangle-will be distant 57.35 inches
from the observer, that is 57.35 times the
length of the base line The base line be-
ing divided to scale, the distance of the
object may thus be read off.
Year: 1879

Ideals of cxcellences, If not excelences
themselves, are SO graduated rs to fit the
different orders of mind in which they take
their rise. Greatness is not positive quail
| ity; il is simply a relative attribute.
The man who has never succeeded in en-
snartng single 'speckled beauty" from
some 'tortuous stream" may truthfully
boast Of his eminent success in catching
sculpins.


The man who cannot sing may yet have
voice peculiarly adapted TO crying CLAIMS,
oranges or charcoal.


He who is no dancer may be good at
hitch-and-kick or shinny.
The man who was not born to command,
to set squadron in the field, may surpass
all his acquaintances in the untiring devo-
tion he evinces in the coloring of his meer-
schaum.


The boy who is ever at the foot of his
class may still be an expert in the formation
and propulsion of spitballs.


The lad who is not a pronounced success
at arithmetic niay be simply excellent at
mumble-peg and taw.
The woman who canno make loaf of
bread may excel in the making of frills and
| furbelows.


She who cannot play tie simplest air on
the washboard may execute the most diff
cult themes upon the piaroforte.
She who cannot darn stocking may be
the envy of her circle for her skill and taste
in worsted work, in marrying sky blue dogs
to pink backgrounds.
The mother who cannot command the re-
spect of her children may yet be fawned
upon by half score of male bipeds without
a spot on their dainty linen or an idea in
their heads.
The son who never does a stroke Of work
at home may be superlatively active in the
bowling alley or billiard room.
The daughter who is too feeble to wash
the dishes may dance till the small hours of
the night after having been shopping all
day.


The girl who cannot sew may chew gum
with tireless jaw.


\ great singer may not be able to smoke
the mildest of cigars without turning pale.


A general who has led armies on TO vic
tory may be surpassed in profanity by the
raggedest street-boy in the city.


he hand that has penned the divinest
poetry may be clownishly awkward with
the billiard cue


The man who is capable of organizing
and carrying forward gigantic business en-
terprises may be easily outdone at caucus
management by the shabbiest politician of
his ward.


The artist who gives birth to such cx-
quisite creations may not be able to tie his
neck-cloth nearly SO well as Augustus, who
in his turn can do nothing else
Year: 1879

y West Point recitation, by the way, is
something unique. When a visitor makes
his appearance every cadet rises and
fronts" and you feel as you did when you
entered your first freshman society, where
the walls were lined with your tender initi-
ators. This severe military carriage is re-
laxed at a sign from Lhe instructor, and the
recitation goes on. The teaching is un-
doubtedly the most thorough in the country
if not in the world. The reason will proba-
bly, be found in the act that not only are
the cadets held to strict accountability for
the work they go over, but in addition to
that the assistant Instructors are also strict
ly responsible TO tho professors in charge of
their department. Thus q professor of
mathematics will have one hours instruc-
tion with his class dIring the forenoon, and
the remainder of the time he devotes to in
specting the work Of his assistant professors
who are instructing other sections in the
same subject. As h,re are only nine men
in section, it will We readily seen that no
one can escape. The fact that a professor
is known TO make tie rounds of the section
rooms is a guaranty o the cadet that no in.
justice will be done lin by young instruc-
1Ol NhO lOl iSthSul lllah1 bStldy
lity The professor sure to seek an ex-
planation for any great difference between
his mark and that on tutors book when
the same man is under consideration. 1t is
the curse of the marking system at our
American colleges that manis at the mercy
of a young tutor who by his mark-book sits
in judgment from which there is no appeal.
Every college nan knows how much in


justice is done Iy few callow instructor


who have perhips forty men to hear at a
time, who hea, each man perhaps every
other day, ana must determine his stand by
the two or three minutes he is on his feet


There are so many opportunities for the dis


honest student to impose on the tutor, and
the tutor is 50 quick to suspect of laziness
the man who is too honest to ''pony" or
hand in ''sick-excuses, and, moreover, the
divisions are so large and the examinations
so infrequent, that the marking system, in
my Judgment, is fruitfulof evil. No edu-
cational institution in tbfJ country has prob


ably so large a teaching force in proportion
to the students as West Point. At Yale
and Harvard the proportion is about ! to
10 at the Military Academy it is l to 8.
At Yale professor has sometimes 60 men
in a recitstion-room herehe has nine Here
the student must learn, there he may


Here he must learn so much and no more
there he must learn little less than so
much, but may learn great deal more.
Year: 1879

1t has been gravely asserted by men who
have given the subject serious and patient
study, that the locust and grasshopper pests,
which, from time to time, devastate some
of our Western States and Territories, are
due TO the wholesale destruction of game
birds of the Rocky Mountains slopes and
the Mississippi Valley. Prof. Riley, State
Entomologist of Missouri, declared that one
grouse would in a season consume eggs and
larvae of locusts enough, if hatched out, TO
destroy the crops upon one hundred acres
of land. These birds arc the guards which
nature has set over the fields, and we might
as well poison the soil as to remove them
from their appointed work. And what the
grouse is to the Western farmer the beauti-
full Virginia partridge is 10 the Eastern
for it comes in numbers proportioned to the
ields sown, and takes as the recompense
of its guardianship of the young crops only
the scattered grains of the harvest. Even
the ungainly crow has at last found favor
i'm the ewes of the husbandman. He pays
for the few grains he steals from the first
planting by an incessant warfare upon
countless unseen enemies of the corn. But
these are not all. The trees, the hedges,
and the grass are alive with smaller birds
which contribute their share to the security
of field and orchard, and which are swept
away in multitudes by the foolish gunners
who infest the country from the first of Oc-
tober to the first of January.
Year: 1879

When a stranger goes to Mexico, every
body who has ever been there asks, care
you going to climb Popocatapetl?" and the
stranger almost invaribly replies, Seer
tainly." He almost invariably changes his
mind. Popocatnpetl is private property,


owned by a resident of the Mexican CAPT
tal In our own country where there are
plenty of things to get, nobody would take
volcano for gift, but in Mexico where
there are so few things to own, they snap
up volcanoes as we would gold mines and
brag of owning them. There is something
not only unique but impressive in owning
volcano. was going down stairs in the
Iturbide hotel in Mexico one day with a
native. when the native pointed out gen.
tleman coming up stairs, and said he was
the owner of the volcano Popocatepetl. |
rather expected to see fire belching out of
his mouth and birthstone oozing out of his
ears. But there was nothing of the kind


His name was General Ochoa, and the
guide-book says ''ke is perfect gentle
man." so it must be So If he is, should
think he would start up his old worn out
volcano when a lot of strangers go down to
see it. But he doent. 1t is not within the
memory of man that this fraud of volcano
has done any real work. We might as well
say that old ROundtop UP In the CstSkillS,