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Year: 1879

with written authority to perform the service,
but the perpetual curate will then present him
with u document containing series of reasons
why he is made to oacknowledge Lord Penzances
court. Upon this the Bishops chaplain, as
arranged, will retire and Mr.. Maclonochie will
proceed with the service. The position of the
new court and judge in the case WILL by this
action, be enabled to be raised The Archbishop
Of Canterbury has admitted that Lord Pen
zances first appointment, under which Mr..
Mackonochie was condemned, was possibly
irregular, and that if it were irregular it would
be null and void"


THE SAHARA RAILWAY


M. de Freycinet, Minister of French Public
Works, has submitted to the Cabinet an esti-
mate of OO,OOOf. for the expenses of
preliminary inquiries into the Trans-Sahara
Railway project. 1.-THE RGforme des Chemins
dc Fer publishes an account of the proposals
made by M. Duponchel, whose leading idea is
that Of a central trunk railway carried south
ward into the interior in direction
not yet definitely settled, and at the
northern extremity branching out as it
is expressed Sin all directions toward
the sea coast and the habitable districts. His
piitls lucluuo tue execution OF ut least three
principal lines. The first of these would nat,i-
rally be an extension Of the existing line from
Algiers to Affreville. This would proceed by
way Of the Valley of Chelif to Laghouat, and
thence strike northward away into the great
desert The second, or western branch, would
be continuation of the existing line from
Philippeville on the coast to Constantine.
There is a projected railway, already half
executed, from Constantine as far as Biskra
and it will not require a very long extension
beyond this place to bring the rails to a june
ton with the route first mentioned. Finally,
the third branch would join, somewhere to the
westward of its course, the rail between Algcrs
and Oran. Although the direction of this road
is not so definitely fixed as the other, it seems
it is designed to trace it along the west coast of
the Lake Shergu, and so up into the high noun
tain plateaus which intervene between it and
the desert. The experiment of trunk line
thus united with minor branches convcrging
toward the common centre is already quite famil-
lar to French railway engineers, being the prin-
ciple upon which the whole of the French sys-
TEN is constructed at home In fact, the scheme
adopted in Algeria of coast lines parallel with
the sea was from the first in direct contrast to
the views which prevailed when the old seseatar
of the mother country were planned.]
Year: 1879

On the Fourth of July night Demo.
cratic member of Council, was SO drunk
that another pan who was with him
was unable to keep the councilman on
his feet, and when opposite the REpuB-
LIcAN Office the Democratic member of
Council fell in the gutter, when his
friend exclaimed, "that he was a good
Democrat and he was enjoying the
Fourth.
Year: 1879

One of the colored men engaged with
the Odorless Excavating Company who
was diging in the cellar of the Plunkett
Building under J. McCabe's cigar store
corner Third and Market sts., went
away and left candle burning in a
cigar box, and q bucket and box were
on fire, and the fire was making its way
through the other things, when Mr..
McCabe discovered it aud put it out
with bucket of water. Such careless.
ness DESERVES reprimand.
Year: 1879

1t is truly a sad and disgusting sight
to see drunken man reeling along the
streets. How much more so it is to see
dull and sickly Baby; rendered so by
the use Of dangerous and poisonous
opiates. DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup con.
tains nothing injurious.
Year: 1879

The Detroit River Tunnel, one Of the
most important and extensive engineer
ing works Of the Northwest, is being
built with satisfactory speed. The tun-
mel proper will extend from Anderson,
under the Detroit river, to Stony Island,
a distance 4,450 feet, though the ap-
proaches upon either side make the en-
tire distance from enterance to exit a
much greater distance. The thickness
of the rock between the bottom of the
river and the crown Of the tunnel is Is,
Is, and % feet, according to the depth
of water in the river. The excavation
of the tunnel is to be twenty-six feet
clear, and when completed will be fifteen
feet in the clear, with two arches for
double tracks separated by a divided
wall. Under the tracks will be four
feet of solid masonry, and the top of the
arches will be constructed in a solid and
enduring manner with asphalt cement
and rubble stone, and overtopping all
will be placed smooth fagstOne to pre-
vent anchors drawing ON the top of the
tunnel and doing possible injury. The
cost of the tunnel is to be $1,5O0,OOO and
the contract stipulates that it shall be
completed by December 1, 1880.
Year: 1879

Philip Gilbert Hamilton, in his admi-
mirable papers on intellectual Life"
thus talks to the man who stopped his
paper: "Newsfapers are to the civilized
world what the daily house talk Is to the
members of the family-they keep our
daily interest in each other, they save US
from the evils of isolation. To live as a
member of the great white race that has
filled Europe and America and eOlOnized
or conquered whatever territory it has
been pleased to occupy, to share from
day to day its thoughts, its cares, its in
spirations, it is necessary that every
man should read his paper. Why are the
French peasants so bewildered and at
sea? 1t is because they never read a
newspaper. And why are the inhabit-
ants of the United States, though scat
tered over territory fourteen times the
area of France, so much more capable Of
concerted action, so much more alive
and modern, so much more interested in
new discoveries of all kinds, and capable
of selecting and utilizing the best of
them? 1t is because the newspapers
penetrate everywhere, and even the
lonely dweller on the prairie or in the
forest is not intellectually isolated from
the great current of public life which


flows through the telegraph and press"
Year: 1879

THE course of events during the extra
session of Congress is getting exceeding
monotous. The Senate passed the Leg
islative, Executive and Judicial ApprO-
priation bill, with Democratic political
riders attached. The President will, of
course, veto it, and the House, with a
groan, sustain the veto. Then Congress
will resolve itself into partisan caucuses
to consider what to do next, appoint
smelling committees and thinking COM
mittees, and then try to pass the same
Objectionable measures clothed in more
adroit phraseOlOgy. That there will be
more talk of revolution and starvation,
and addresses to the President and ad-
dresses to the people. How many more
months will it take for the Democrats to
learn that all these lodges will avail
them naught, and that their best policy
is to pass the appropriation bills and 60
home.
Year: 1879

We quote the following from a paper
on this subject by DR.. Holland in the
June Scribner:


We wonder if the South knows how
hard it is making it for its friends and
those who would think well of its spirit
and society. We know there are two
Souths, but everybody does not know it.
We are quite aware, and every one is
likely to be so, that the South is polit-
ically unit for its own purposes. Even
in this we think Southerners make a
grave mistake, as Southern solidarity
will be sure to beget Northern solidari-
ty, and the South knows what that
means for them and their views of ma
tional policy. But for this we have no
disposition to blame them. We UNDER
stand in this quarter that the South has
no great love for the national flag as
such, and that "the lost cause" is still
very precious to its politicians and its
people. We understand this, we say,
and We expect in all their dealings with
national affairs only such a policy as
would naturally be dictated by the cir
cumstances in which they are placed.
and the unrepentant spirit which still
possesses them and on which they take
their stand and boldly make their boast.


With this we do not quarrel We ex-
pect it. 1t is the most natural thing in
the world that we should have it; but
certain events have occurred in the
South of late with astounding frequen-
cy, which betray condition of morals
and society that makes every true friend
of the South and every true American
hang his head in shame. Murder after
murder is perpetrated in high life with
the coolest blood and nobody is arrested
for it and nothing is done about it. Now,
as we have said, We are perfectly aware
that however much of unit the South
may be politically, there are socially two
Souths. There is law-lOving and law
abiding South, and there is South
that is neither the one nor the other.
We understand perfectly that to great
number of Southern people such beast
ly murder as that of Judge Chisholm
and his family is horrible. We under
stand that to these people such notable
murders as have taken place all over the
South during the last three months are
great shock and great sorrow. The
feeling finds expression in some of their
best newspapers, but the trouble is that
Year: 1879

The result of the International Con-
gress which has just adjourned in Paris
will, it is hoped, be speedy beginning
of the great scheme of severing some
where the narrow connecting link be-
tween North and South America, and
the uniting the waters Of the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans by means Of ship
canal. The work is in the best hands.
No better President of the convention
held to further the project could have
been found than NJ. Ferdinand de Les
seps, who succeeded so admirably with a
former remarkable undertaking in the
shape Of the Suez canal. He may well
be entitled the Emperor Of ship canals.
A large representation Of eminent
Americans were present, and many were
placed in the foremost positions in the
convention and its committees.


1t is apparent if the gigantic project
is carried to completion that the energy
and money must come mainly from
France and America. England looks
with indifference or jealousy upon it
Such canal would give great impetus
to American commerce by furnishing
direct communication with the eastern
coast of South America, and steamers
could pass from our great Atlantic sea-
ports to the hemisphere across the Pa
cific without the long and dangerous
voyage round Cape Horn. The heavy
freight rates by rail across the cOnti-
nent, or by the exacting Panama and
Aspinwal company, would be escaped,
and North America afforded every Op-
portunity to defy the competition of all
other countries, at least in her trade with
the rich field which forms the western
slope of the Andes, if not in that with
the countries beyond the Pacific.


OF course, no particular route was fl
nally decided upon in the Congress,
which convened solely for discussion.
The Nicaragua survey, however, met
with the most favorable reception. II is
the most extended of all the. routes pro-
posed, but for the entire distance the
land closely follows in altitude the pro-
posed water level of the canal. 1t is as
serted that no tunnels or great "euts"
will be necessary. Its length Is nearly
three hundred miles. but less than two
hundred Of this will require expensive
excavation. Its course is from the har-
bor at Greytown, along the San Juan
river into Lake Nicaragua, across this
body and by lock canal to the Rio
Grande river, and thence to BritO on the
Pacific, thus traversing the two Central
Year: 1879

this South is utterly overawed by the
other South, so that no man dares to
move for the maintenance of the law
and the punishment of crime. Murder is
committed, and the murderer shakes
his bloody hands at the law everywhere
and walks the streets with entire free
dom and impunity. Human life is ac-
counted Of no sacredness whatever, and
law and the executors of law are held
in perfect contempt. The judge upon
his bench is not safe. Even the lawyer
who tries case that involves any seri-
Gus personal relations takes his life in
his hands when he does so. The most
trivial causes seem sufficient to awaken
the brutal instincts of men and to induce
the extreme of violence. Fighting
weapons seem to be in every mans pOck-
ct, as if he lived in state of war, and
he does not hesitate to use them OH the
smallest provOcation.
Year: 1879

We warn this better South of which
we have spoken that it must arouse
itself and assert itself, if it would save
the section Of the country which it so
enthusiastically loves from irredeema-
BILE disgrace. The thing has gone too
far already. and unless these people are
willing to pass the South into the undis-
puted possession of the men who de-
spise the law and propose to take its ad-
ministratiOn into their own violent
hands, they must arouse themselves, and
become the sworn and devoted vindica-
tors of the law. When a man takes the
life of a brother man he must be made
to suffer the legal penalty. They cannot
but see that the matter is growing worse
from year to year. Any man can COM
NIT murder now, if he be in high life,
and do it for personal reasons, and bear
a white skin, with great degree of GER
tainty that nobody connected with the
law will take any notice of it: and so
long as this fact obtains, the murders
will go ON, and nobody will be safe. A
man might as well live in hell as in a
community where the law has no force
and life has no sacredness. As an Amer
lean who loves his country, we are
ashamed of these Outrages upon Chris
tian decency and modern civilization,
and they are, indeed, burning shame
upon the nation, and especially that part
of the nation which has been in the hab-
it of claiming for itself very high
stand in all those matters that relate to
social purity and high breeding.
Year: 1879

7 IAiItC AItrcI


One principal reason why we have
so few orchards, so few gardens of small
fruits. such mere apologies for vegetable
gardens, and scarcely an attempt at fiOri-
culture and ornamentatiOn, all over
the south and west, lies in great meas
ure in the fact that the average farmer
is led to believe that there is some pro-
found mystery in this branch of agricul-
ture, requiring long years Of experience
and study. This, however, is no more
the case than in the cultivation of the
soil with reference to any crop.


The real farmer who succeeds in
making good home, and making money
from his farm, must understand very
decidedly and distinctly, the special
culture and requirements Of eve
ry crop cultivated, else he fails. Per-
haps this may be why so many western
farmers run so largely to corn and hogs,
the. first struggling among weeds, from
lack of drainage and imperfect eultiva-
tiOn, and the latter dying of cholera,
generated by imperfect care. and spread
ing the infection among other swine.
They are analogous to that class of Or
chardists who plant largely in localities
suited to the growth of fruit, and leave
them harbOrs of weeds, and breeding
places of insects, to the disgust and seri-
Gus injury of their more intelligent
neighbOrs who suffer from the yearly
overflow of noxious insects from these
natural breeding places. They thus
yearly fill our markets with wOrmy, in
different and scabby fruit, scarcely fit for
the cider mill and vinegar house. We
hardly expect to see a better state of
things until farmers generally come to
understand the use of reading, to the
end that they may get correct infOrma-
tion, Just as other successful men in the
various industries read journals especi-
ally devoted to their eallings.
Year: 1879

THE Democracy declared the first gun
fired from Fort Sumter uncOnStitution-
al, because it was an attempt to coerce a
State. They declared the first call for
seventy-fve Thousand troops unconsti-
tutional, because Congress had not time
to convene and order it. They declared
the draft unconstitutional, the emanci-
patton proclamation, and every import
ant step taken to suppress the rebellion,
including the Treasury notes and legal
tender act. The amount of it is the De-
mOcracy declare everything uncOnstitu-
tional that goes to sustain the Govern
ment or that is opposed to State soyer-
eighty Indianapolis Journal.
Year: 1879

FEEDING BEEs.-What is called glu-
cose in commerce is thick, gummy
liquid made from starch. 1t costs by
the barrel five cents per pound-ab0ut
ten pounds to the gallon. do not think
it would pay to feed bees on it for any
honest purpose. What is called in the
trade grape sugar is a solid, also made
from starch, and costs from two to four
cents per pound, according to the guam
tity bought. If dissolved in water it
makes feed which bees viii take slow
ly and on which they will drag out An
existence probably in the spring till
honey begins to come. think they can
be kept alive on this cheaper than ON
granulated sugar. But the great lesson
that bee keepers need now to learn is
that it does not pay to buy anything to
feed bees while you pay some one hand
somely for selling your honey. Honey
that they have gathered is the cheapest
thing that bees can eat Manage so that
You have honey enough fer them always
| in the comb, and make them feed them
selves, is the way to keep bees ON busi-
ness principles.-Bee Keepers Magazine.
GRASS Is KING.-In its direct money
value, and in its collateral and indirect
benefits, grass is worth more than all the
cereal crops combined. Its direct is
nothing in comparison to its indirect
value in the influence it has in presery-
ing the fertility of our farms by its ma
mural wealth in forms. No man can
thrive on farm-no farm can be self
supporting where grass is wholly ne
elected, or advantage is not taken OF
stock raised on other grass farms. The
old Belgian prOverb is true-"No grass,
no cattle; no cattle, no manure; no ma
nure, no crops"


1t is supposed by many that only such
soil as is not fit for cultivation in the ce-
reals or roots should be devoted to grass.
This is mistake. We can afford to
take our best soils for the production Of
this crop, and this is the real plan for
for bringing them up to the highest
point of fertility.


SEAsoNABLE HINrs.-The vitality Of
seeds may be tested by placing \ sample
of almost any Of the larger kind Of seesfs
or grains upon n hot pan or griddle.
When the seeds are good and the vitaia-
ty is perfect the specimen will crack or
pop open with more or less noise; ON the
other hand, II the seed Is not good or
the vitality is defective, 1t viii remain
still and burn. This is a much quicker
and surer plan OF testing seed than to
plant In earth or warm water. To test
them in this way it is not necessary that
the seeds be perfectly cry. although they
should not be too moist Seeds should
not be kept too dry an airy but moder-
ately dry quarter gs4ret is the best place
to keep them.
Year: 1879

We sre informed by Postmaster Hull
that he issues, on an average. one
thousand dollars in money orders per
week, which in 4 year amounts to the
large sum OF fifty.two thousand dollars.
The grenter part Of this sum is sent to
Cheap John auction b Juses In the east
and west. who are continually sending
out circulars advertising schneid ner-
chandise and filled up with wood cuts,
for goods. These goods almost invar-
iably turn out much inferior In quality
to those that were ordered but the pur-
chaser has no other recourse but to
keep them. us TO return tnem would
necessitate an expense greater than the
value Of the goods and the buyer con-
sequently has to make the best Of bad
bargain. In u town like this, where
the capital employed is limited, is il
any wonder that times are hard when
the sum of fifty-two thousand dollars
and more are sent ont of il yearly. II
would take larger and much richer
towns than ElkO to stand steady
drain, OF this Sort from i.s capital. Is
it not probable that If this sum Of
money was kept in the county that the
hard times that are now upon us would
not be so hard after alp In fuct would
we not have easy times in COM
parison with those that are causing
such general distress. Is il not better
aud cheaper in the end to spend
twenty-five cents more for nn article at
home, where you can see what you are
getting, thnn TO send your money of, to
those that yon know not and who will
send You what pleas9s their fancy and
often times will not send nything, aud
leave you minus your money. We con-
slider that this sending your money out
Of the country is one OF the causes OF
the present stringent times and advise
all who would see the return OF the
good old times to invest their money
and savings at home, in the place that
they earn it.
Year: 1879

The Phoebe Record is responsible for
the following: '-


On Saturday last some ladies were
out riding in the vicinity OF Highland
when the team started mp a striped ami.
NAL of the feline species, who stood on
tie side OF the road and gazed a. the
loveliness seated in the buggy. perhaps
thinking what nice meal he could
make out OF them If he had the show.
One OF the ladies seeing the animal ex.
claihhed, "oh! what lovely rabbit"
and was considerably chNgrincd on dis
covering that her natural history was at
fault, and that the lovely rabbit" was
a wild cat Of very savage species.
Year: 1879

To pay, or not to pay, that is the question,
Whether 'tis bette. for me to refuse
To take a local paper, and deprive
My family from reading all the news,
Or pay up promptly what the printer asks,
And, by such payment, cheer him? No


pay-n0 paper
Then no more shall he poste on the news,
And local haps through the town,
And dryers topics-'tis consummalien
That long have feared. To pay, or stop?
To stop! perchance to losc-aye, there's


the rub;


For in thav stop no interest do take
In any of tn affairs which move the town,
And such shutfing off of all that's good
Must make me pause There's the respect
Which every editor maintains for those
Who come down with the cash and nc'cr


delay


To settle up that little BILL For who


would bear


The pointed squibs and pungent paragraphs
Which far too oft reflect upon the man
Who fails to settle his subscription bill?
I'll haste me now unto the editor.
And, with my purse p'elho'ic in my hand,
win settle up in full one year from date,
By paying TO him from my ready cash
The sum of ono dollar and ulalt.r in al


vance