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Year: 1879

There is q miniature villain in town.
He IL q red.headed small boy. The
other day he had just the wind he
wanted. and. calling the near.sishted
boy over the way. he tempted him into
the yard, edged behind him. dexterously
removed and secreted his head-gear. aud
then had the fun Of seeing him chase a
black hen all around. thinking sho was
his Yonksrs Gazette.
Year: 1879

At Q legal investigation Of liquor
seizure the judge asked an unwilling
witness: "what was in that barrel you
hadg" swell. your honor" replied
tho witness. ''it was marked whisky
on one end Of the barrel and Pat Duffy
on the other end. so that l can't say
whether it was whisky or Pat Duffy was
In the barrel. being as I am on my
OATH"
Year: 1879

WE have tried the Perfect Milk Pail, advertised in another column, and found it to be just as represented. Every fam fly having COW will want one, as it only costs two dollars and will last for years. An agent wanted to canvass this county immediately. As liberal con- mission is allowed and there is no com petition it offers a rare opportunity to make money rapidly.
Year: 1879

Stevenson's "New Annals of Edin- burgh" tells this story about two maiden ladies of that quaint town:

 This pair inhabited single room from the facts, it must have been double bedded !; and it must have been of some dimensions; but when all is said it was single room. Here our two spinsters fell out-on some point of controversial divinity belike but fell out so bitterly that there was never word spoken be- tween them, black or white, from that day forward. You would have thought they would separate, but no, whether from lack of means or the Scottish fear of scandal, they continued to keep house together where they were. A chalk line dra VII upon the floor separated their two domains it bisected the doorway and the fireplace, so that each could go out and in and do her cooking without vio- lating the territory of the other. So for years they co-existed 1n hateful silence; their meals, their ablutions, their friend ly visitors, exposed to an unfriendIy scrutiny; and at night, in the dark watches, each could hear the breathing of her enemy. Never did four walls look down upon an uglier spectacle than these sisters rivaling in unsisteri- ness. Here is canvas for Hawthorne to have turned into a cabinet picture he had Puritanical vein, which would have fitted him to treat this Puritanical horror he could have shown them to us in their sicknesses and at their hideous twin devotions, thumbing a pair of great Bibles or praying aloud for each others penitence with marrowy emphasis now each, with kilted petticoat, at her own corner of the fire on some tempestuous evening; now sitting each at her win. dow, looking out upon the summer land scape, sloping far below them towards the firth, and the field paths where they had wandered hand in hand or, as age and infrmity grew upon them and pro longed their toilets, and their hands began to tremble and their heads to nod involuntarily, growing only the more steeled in enmity with years; until one fine day, at word, a look, visit, ol the approach of death, their hearts would melt and the chalk boundary bt oyerstepped forever.
Year: 1879

~ LEAF RIVER TOWNSHIP.
From our own correspondent.


Sleigh making seems to be the order Of
the day.


Snow is what we want now to make il in
teresting for Mr.. Adams and his mill crew.


Mr.. Winters is the man to make farm in
the timber. He has built two houses and
cleared about five acres since Septem Der, and
:.asn't worn hole in his coat on his should
CT carrying his gun either.


The contract for repairing the Leaf River
was let to Joseph Schleyl for $74.75. We
think we have the right man in the right
place this time.


Dou't know how we will spend Thanks
giving, whether it will be in fasting and
prayer, or leasting and deerhunting. sup
pose We can worry away one of these short
days either way.


1t is splendid time to survey the Shell
River road now, as the sloughs are all bridg-
ed for the winter.


The school house question is being agita
red again and we hope they mean business
this time. At any rate we need school
house. We have plenty of scholars and why
not 60 to work and build it, then we will he
all 0. K.
Year: 1879

Patience in horsefesh is somewhat rare,
hence we cite an instance. 4 team was driv-
II in behind Lace & Bandings carpenter
shop Monday and the horses detached from
the tongue and hitched to thr back of the
wagon to feed, the kind hearted owner COW
ering them with bed quilts to keep them
warm. They had not been there long before
some sparks from al adjoining chimney
lodged in the blanket on one Of the horses
and set it on fire, but the patient horse never
stopped eating. The smoke attracted the at
tention of some passer by who soon relieved
the poor horse of his more than warm cover
ing, and found several large hair singed spots
distributed over his back.
Year: 1879

"a Two mill men in Miles City got
into dispute which developed into
a fight, One used an iron poker on
the head OF the other and now the
Montana: lawyers have a real murder
to develop their legal proclivities.


The dead man was known by the
name of Winters and the man in
durance vile, is called Ulman.
Year: 1879

'Alter," in the Richmond Dispatch,
says


There are some interesting and sug
ees,ive facts connected with the history
of the great cavern which have come to
my notice, and which, in the light OF
subsequent events, afford striking il
lustration of the old apothegm that
"there is nothing new under the sun.
The hill which caps the cave has been
known for nearly century as Cave
Hill. People about Luray tell you the
cave was discovered year ago last Au-
gust; but that means the present en-
trance to the cave was discovered at
that time. More than ffty-four years
ago lengthy and beautiful description
of the cave was published in the Shen-
andoah Sentinel Even before that ear
ly period the presence of large subter-
ranean cavity was acknowledged be-
meath the hill one mile west of Luray,
and, memorial of this fact, the locality
for years past has gone under the name
of Gaze HH-an appellstion it still en-
joys. The party who undertook The
exploration of the cavern at the period
referred to numbered fifteen gentlemen;
and though they were not the first, they
were the most determined and the best
prepared tor a good investigation OF
those extensive underground chambers
that had been spoken of vaguely tor
years in Luray. The entrance to the
cave at that time was at the summit OF
the hill, while now it Is towards the
foot, lying IN the direction of the vii
lage. Congress Hall, which was de
clared by the explorers to occupy floor
of nearly quarter of an acre, and which
recent visitors will recognize by differ
ent name now, was first discovered, ard
after that, in rapid succession, the Mu-
sic Room, the Gallery, tie Glazed
Chamber, and Masonic Hall-names
quite different from those the same
chambers have at present.


The account referred to above, which
we copy from the Hagerstown Torch
Light of May 25, 1925, is as follows -
Year: 1879

AT Bellevue Hospital last evening four gentle
men called and requested that one Of the
party would be allowed to enter the hos
pital, as he was very sick. This one
gave his name as Samuel Ferguson, twentyone years
Old o. No. IA? East Eighteenth street 1t found
he suffering from the effects of dose Of Paris
green, and Dr. DIXON and other physicians began
operating on linn with stomach pump Dur
ing the operation the doctors say he be-
came very violent and declined to allow
them to use the pump. He sprang
from the bed and broke the tube attached to the
pumping apparatus. Another tube was then pro-
cured but the young man refused to allow it
TO b. used him. rcnarking at the same
time that he would rather die from the poison than
bo choked by the tube He was then informed
that lie could leave the hospital il he
so desired. Some time later he and his
companions left the institution. One of the men
who accompanied Ferguson gave the name of James
Williams. and his address. as at No. 303 East
Ninth street. The house No. 142 East Eighteenth
street, is fashionable apartment house.
bu. inquiries made their elected the
statement that Ferguson did not reside
in it. Similar intelligence received
at the house in Ninth street, where Ferguson's s
friend said he lived 1t is the opinion Of the pbysic


ans that Ferguson cannot survive the effects OF the
poison,
Year: 1879

[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD


EAsToN, Pa Jan. 81 1879.
This morning young man named William Stocker.
employed at the mines near Eaton met with
terrible death. He drinking water at the mouth
Of the washing machine when he was seen suddenly
to disappear and before the mill could be stopped he
was torn and mangled in fearfully horrible manner
by the spades of the washer and killed.
Year: 1879

We defer to the general public
interest attaching to the Constitu-
tional question by surrendering a
large portion of our space to CORES
pondents. The people are ponder
ing the weighty problems which
are SO pregnant with their veal or
woe, and we are glad to note this
intelligent fermentation.
Year: 1879

The administration has plainly
told the Mexican government that
citizens of the United States along
the border must be protected i'm
their property and their lives; that
the first duty of government is to
protect life and property; that for
this governments are instituted. and
when they neglect or fail to peform
it, they become worse than useless.
Doubtless some such thoughts as
these have occurred to settlers on
the border, time and again, for
years. To our way of thinking the
administration has talked quite long
enough on this subject, and should
now be ready for a little salutary
force. Because Mexico is a pitiful,
vacillating nation, that is no reason
why we should allow those who
ought to be her subjects to commit
depredations upon our citizens with
impunity.
Year: 1879

THE Western RoTal, which ought
to be good authority in such mat
ters, says:


"The death Of the young stock is
caused by keeping them continually y
in the stalk field. A diet consisting
exclusively of dry, fibrous, and in
digestible material, is sure to be
followed, sooner or later, by evil
consequences. In the advanced
stage of impaction OF the manifold
or third stomach, cure is generally
ont of the question. In the early
stages, repeated doses of saline lax
atives should be given. But the
best course is prevention. Give the
cattle every morning a ration OF
oats or barley, and handful of oil.
cake, and do the same thing in the
evening. Turn the cattle into the
cornfield only during three or four
hours in the middle of the day; and
at all times let the animals have
ready access to pure drinking wa
ter. A variety of food is a necessa.
ry item in successful management
of cattle, especially during the Fall
and Winter months"
Year: 1879

The Wahoo Times, on the subject
of Legislators receiving passes from
railroad corporations, makes point
thus:


"But the cat has got out of the bag
by the people electing one man who
was honest enough to fling the in
suit back to its author and give them
to understand that he was elected TO
represent the people and not to max e
excursion trips to Ogden. We say
the people are right in demanding
of their repres eniatives to give those
"contracts" back or resign. The
people pay taxes TO pay them mile
age as travelling expenses over and
above their daily salary and they
have 10 use for passes"
Year: 1879

PETER STRETCH, boy 13 years
old, was killed by bear at Cony
Island on the 3Ist. VIM. Thomas
keeps public house at that place,
and has two pet bears chained in
the yard and Peter and his brother
stopped in the yard to look at some
doves, and being nearer the bear
than he supposed, the male bruin
reached him with his paw, threw
him and bit and lacerated him with
his claws in a horrible manner. A
farmer used pitchfork to loosen
his hold on the boy without effect,
and the bear was finally shot by a
policeman.
Year: 1879

ORR thanks are due TO Hon.
VIM. Window, of Minnesota, for a
copy of his speech in the U. S. Sem
ale on sour National Water Ways"
We have not yet had time TO exam
inc it. but the subject is well worthy
the attention of our ablest states
particularly as the problem of cheap
transportion must be solved in the
near future, and it seems only by
utilizing water courses that this can
be done.
Year: 1879

The Atcbison & Nebraska rail-
road is soon to be extended, to unite
with the Union Pacific, at some
point at or near Columbus, provided
satisfactory arrangements can be
made as to right of way, &c. We
would say to the people along the
proposed route that they will show
good judgment in extending what
ever aid is necessary to secure this
line, as the policy of the manage
ment of this road is exceptional,
inasmuch as they are always dispos-
ed to work with the people along
their line TO aid in developing the
country and bringing business to
their towns. When extended,
through trains will be run from
Atchison 10 San Francisco by this
rOute.--NeW Vest Monthly.
Year: 1879

What can be done? 1t is almost
an insult to American intelligence
to ask such question, and yet the
fact that the necessity of doing
something is generally recognized
and that nothing is being done, re-
mains. And SO long as that state of
things exists, the question seems
pertinent at least. The principle
that the legislatures have the right
TO fix the maximum and minimum
rates on railroads has been settled
by the Supreme Court, and it can
not, or will not be altered. 1t is
boys play to complain of Wander
bilt's or Gould's action, and yet do
nothing. Those men are as COM
pletely at the mercy of the people
as straw is at the mercy of the
wind. If there was the disposition
TO wrong them-which there is not
it is in the power of LEG islators to
utterly ruin them, so far as their
railroad stock is concerned. Instead
of disposition to wrong them,
however, the people simply demand
that the legislatures of the States
through which their roads run, shall
fix the rates of tariff at such a point
as will be just TO them and a per-
feet protection to the producer
Western RurGi.
Year: 1879

SENATOR COKE is about 10 intro
duce a bill to establish permanently
a stated salary for the district at
torneys of the United States instead
of the present system of fees which
Senator Coke alleges is subject to
great abuses.
Year: 1879

NINE hundred and seventeen fail
ures reported i'm New York during
the past year. This number exceeds
the record of any former year. tits
alleged that the repeal of the bank
rupt law added largo numbers to
tha LIST
Year: 1879

SECRETARY and General Sherman
left Washington on the night of the
I'd for Cleveland to attend the fun
eral of their brother, Judge Sher-
man, who died at l o'clock on the
morning of the Cd of rheumatism of
the heart,
Year: 1879

AS friends and patrons of the
public school we take the liberty to
make friendly comments. Our oh
ject is in no way to depreciatc our
teachers, whom we esteem faithful
and efficient, but to call attention
to a few ruts into which they may
have fallen, and to help them out.
We also wish TO show our people
that il is their duty to note the
progress Of their children, and to
know if they are advancing as rap
idly as they ought-to know if we
really have a lirst-class school, and
what makes it; open-eyed vigilance
and knowledge Of what we ought
to have.


We are glad to know the exam
ations have been extended from
four to six weeks, thus saving much
very valuable time.


II is pretty well conceded that
written examinations are the best
tests Of scholarship; that they are
true tests in all instances can hard





ly be admitted. The association Of
ideas is SO arbitrary that with
many ii is impossible at once to
recall the knowledge they actually
possess if they are obliged to ex-
press it in a given time; consc-
qucntly, it would seem that the
general progress from day TO day
must after all be the best test.


The advantage of written over
oral examinations was observed
when in Australia class Of Eng
lish and class Of native children
were examined. In answering oral
questions the native children were
quite as quick and ready as the
English, but in written examin-
ations the natives fell far behind.


The present method seems 10 be
! to EDucg q great deal--to draw out
what it is not always reasonable
to suppose the pupil would know,
or 70 leave him wholly in doubt
without INsTRucTIsd him or RIGHT.
IsG him on the subject. 70 expect
Year: 1879

Eps. DEMOCRAT: AN article cntl-
tied "latin in our School published
by you last week, contains among
other statements evidently design
ed TO mislead the reader, the follow
ing: "Our worthy principal says
he had n class in Latin n year or SO
ago, but for want Of interest or
some unknown cause, il died out :


This statement was never made
by me TO the writer or any one else,
As is well known TO all the mem
bers of the High School, there is n
Latin class making daily recitations
at the present time, and there has
been such II class in the school
every term during the last three
wears. The writer of the article
was aware Of the existence of the
present class at the time she pen
ned the sentence; as she proposed
10 me but week or two before the
publication Of the article, II divis-
ion Of the time now devoted TO that
recitation, and the appropriation o.
half of it TO n beginning class, q
large part of which was TO be com.
posed Of members of her own fam
ily From these facts the spirit
that prompted tie article may be
easily disccrned.


With your contributor who fur.
nished the series Of articles, d
which this is one, ! wish no con.
troversy, nor do | intend 70 have
in future. ! write this communica.
ton (the last in which ! shall at
tempt 10 pursue II slandcr) for sey.
eral reasons:


First, it is due to the public that
they should understand the nature
Of the criticism that comes from
this source, and how much reliance
they can safely place upon it.


Again, ! wish TO urge upon those
in any way interested in the school
TO make personal examination ol
its management by frequent visits
and close scrutiny, and not to rely
for their information on those who
have some malicious purpose tc
serve.
Year: 1879

And lastly, desire TO state as
briefly as possible, the place which
the study ot Latin occupies il the
course OF study. At the organiaa-
tiou of the High School, the Board
adopted without material change
u course of study suggested by the
State Superintendent, which pro-
vidcs for no other language than
the English But Ms II few pupils
have been in attendance who de-
sire to study Latin, and a few 9th
erS German, classes in these studies
have been formed when numbers
have been sufficient to justify the
usc of the time necessary for their
rcciMtions, These subjects are pure
ly slcotive, no pupil being required
to study them, and few wishing
to, Whonover in the Judgment of
the School Board it is thought best
to include them in the regular
course, Il new class will doubtless
be formed Mt the beginning of every
year, regardless of the number il
may contain; until that time, the
studies that now form the regular
course will receive first attention,
and small classes III elective studies
must he content to use such time
MS can bn afforded without infring-
ing ON that which should be devot-
ed to tho larger classes. As the
Latin class now in the school is too
far advanced, your contributor re-
quests the formation of u beginning
class for the benefit of her two
boys, neither of whom il yet n
member of the High Sohool--a
class which but two other mem
bcrs of the school would join, and
perhaps but one.


The public will decide, and de-
eide justly, whether the refusal to
withdraw the necessary half hour
each day from the interests Of sov-
cral hundred pupils and devote it
to these three or four is q wrong to
any one. Tothe people may safely
be left the decision whether the at-
tempt to convert M institution CO
tablishcd for the good Of the whole
public into an instrumentality for
serving individual interests should
be encouraged or opposed. When
sclhshness so intense as this is de-
fcatcd in it's aims, il is natural that
it should be enraged Hence that
little exhibition of spleen with
which the article alluded TO closes,


Respectfully yours,


J. II. TERRY
Year: 1879




Bismarck fashioned for himself
in the Chancellorship an office for
which he was peculiarly adapted,
and 1t is not probable that any sue
cessor he may have will ever feol
so entirely at home in it. Count
Munster is said to be first in line of
promotion for the succession. He
enjoys great influence among his
colleagues and is gifted with great
oratorical power, talent in which
he far surpasses Prince Hohenlohe
and other aspirants to the Chan
cellorship. Closely connected with
the Crown Prince and Princess, the
Count may be said to have ingra-
tiated himself as much with his
Majesty as with the heir to tt q
Imperial throne. His long resi-
dence in England, whose Constitu-
ton and political institutions he
has carefully studied, renders him
far more favorably inclined toward
Liberalism than is at present con-
sidered admissible in government
circles. While in Parliament he
more than once showed great ener-
gy and strength of will and did not
even shrink from opposing Bis
marck as soon as the latter's action
did not coincide with his views.
Although he had submitted to the
Prussian rule on the forcible annex
alton of his native country, he re-
mained so far loyal to the de-
throned dynasty that he endeavor-
ed to obtain for it kind of con.
pensation for its compulsory losses
and was an ardent advocate of the
payment of the sequestered Guelph
fund to the members of the royal
family of Hanover.
Year: 1879

AN infinite amount of stress has
been laid upon the fact that so
many Confederate Brigadiers"
have appeared in the last and pres
ent Congress of the United States.
Unscrupulous politicians have
sought to hold up their election as
an intentional insult and menace
to the people of the North. The
fact is. however, that nothing is 30
natural as the presence of these
gentlemen in the national council
chamber. The Philadelphia Times
tells the story 10 nutshell thus:


The "Confederate Brigadier" Isl
coming into considerable promi-'
Year: 1879

The facilities OF the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed in California outside of San
Francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted to as will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
rates.