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Year: 1879




New York, April 1.-The Herald
deyotes four columns to-day to the ne
gro exodus question. Its Leavenworth
correspondent says, a public meeting
of citizens was held at Wyandotte,
Wednesday, at which it was decided to
publish an appeal to the country to
raise funds to provide for the large
number of southern blacks now en-
camped there. About one thousand
have already arrived from Louisiana
and Mississippi, and it is the opinion
of the citizens that it is not safe nor
prudent for those people to tarry long.
Many of them have no money nor a
single change of clothing. Many have
died and scores more are sick of pneu-
monia or other diseases contracted on
the journey. A gentleman who has
lived in Mississippi for nearly forty
years, attributes the exodus mainly to
poverty. occasioned by an over-produc-
tion of cotton, and consequently the low
price Of that staple. He admits that
politics and the maiarial character of
the country have had something to do
with the stampede.


Ex-Congressman Rainey, of the ex-
ecutive committee of the national emf
grant aid society, who thoroughly un-
derstands the condition of his people in
the southern states, is now in WASH
ington, and was yesterday asked his
opinion of the present emigrant move
ment on the part of the negroes. He
said: 'I rather favor it, believing as /
do. the time has come when the col
ored people must look out for them
selves, and live where they can enjoy
best their political and social rights,
and at the same time improve their
material condition. They can hope
for neither of these in the south at
present"


Rainey, however, does not endorse
the present reckless exodus now going
on from Louisiana and Mississippi.
Being asked why so many of these
people were absolutely penniless, he
said, because the laboring classes
in the south, as general rule, never
receive actual money in compen-
sation for services. The plantation
hands are paid in scrip, having no
actual value or purchasing power out
side. By this fraudulent method and
arbitrary arrangement, the laborer is
compelled to purchase supplies at ex-
orbitant prices from his employer, in
stead of being allowed the benefit to be
derived from the force of wholesale
competition among regular merchants.
The lamentable poverty of this people,
despite their constant application to
labor, has led many to suppose that
they were utterly unfit for freedom or
the proper appreciation of the more lofty
rights of full citizenship. l say, by
all means let them go west, where they
will have an opportunity to develope
into full manhood, and at the same
time reap the benefit that would accrue
from tilling the rich, virgin soil of that
section. With these advantages, let
them take their chances as others have
done. Rainey believes that if the ne
groes are removed from the south, king
cotton will be dethroned, and other
agriculcultural interests will share in
the disaster.
Year: 1879

Zach year the GOLD FAMILY JOURNAL


Seems better than ever before.
And its friends all welcome it gladly


Every week. rs it comes to their door
Wishing Happy New Year TO our patrons


In this season Of bounty and JOY,
With a gift, let them gen rously gladden.


The heart of their
Year: 1879

For events but repea! themselves daily;


Months mark, as they come and depart,
The same surging Of human passions,


joys and sorrows ofhmn hearts.
From the year that is fitting before us,


We must turn the old to review
With a sigh and a tear for the past one.


And a mile end a cheer for the new.
Year: 1879

counties of the Fourth district.
Facts are stubborn things, and the
most sanguine Republicans are
obliged to recognize their force.
The Democratic detection from
Glenn is decreasing every day.
Thousands of that party, who
looked with disgust upon having to
accept as their nominee the caudi-
date of another party, are at last
awakening to the fact that Glenn,
O staunch and uncompromisiDg
Democrat, is infinitely preferable
to Perkins, who is not onlya a dyed in
the wool Republican but a Repub-
lican who is receiving the cordial
support of every monopolist and
lover of class privilege in the State.
The large body of Republicans who
will vote for Glenn will do so be-
cause they desire to teach their
party the lesson that in nominat-
ing its candidates regard must be
had TO the wishes of the masses
and not to the dictation of q lordIy
few. There is really no fact in the
present campaign more significant
than the distrust aud lack of conf
which pervades the Republican
leaders in the present campaign.
Year: 1879

IT'S pitiful, tits wondrous pitiful,
that a public journal should be
made the medium for the gross and
prurient details of human depravi-
ty which have filled the columns of
the San Francisco Chronicle in the
Kalloch matter. THIS paper, under
disguise of being a family journal,
has fairly reeked with details of
lust which make the pages ol
Bocaccio's Decameron light and
innocent reading in the COMPARE
son. The youth Of California, who
have access to this purulent sheet,
have been polluted beyond belief.
1t is not so material whether De
Young kill Kalloch, or Kalloch
kill De Young. The world will
still be the same, though work of
death were done on both. But 10
have innocent maidens and ingen.
uous youth, who have been tender
ly guarded by jealous parents,
landed at one leap into the inner
most penetralIa of lascivious crime,
is horrible in the extreme. The
Chronicle should be compelled to
reform itself or it should he exter.
minated.
Year: 1879




SAN FRANCISCO, August 25th.-
The excitement of the past few
days has toned down to deep in
terest in the result of Kalloch's
wounds, and the universal inquiry
on the street is as to his condition.
This afternoon a decided change for
the better is noticeable, as a result
of which his physicians express the
opinion that there is a strong prob
ability that he will recover. Not
withstanding these favorable symp-
toms, there is still good deal of
talk among Workipgmen as to the
course to be pursued in the event
of a fatal termination. Among
the rank and file there is a stroug
desire visible to put up Kearney for
Mayor should IA change become
necessary, but this desire is shared
neither by the agitator nor his
friends, and it may be considered
certain that nothing of the kiud
will be done. At the police station
vigilance has been relaxed during
the day and only a few officers are
on duty and few militia men.
The Workingmen specials, sworn
in for the purpose of making sure
that De Young was not spirited
away, still remain on duty. A
crowd has fingered around the Met
ropolitan Temple all day, but 9th.
erwise there have been no street
assemblages. except around the
bulletin boards.
Year: 1879

AGAIN and again the news reach


es US that Glenn is waxing strong


or amongst the farmers of this


State. It Is a curious fact that,


with divided Democracy the Re-


publicans have no real confidence
Of success. The reason for this
lack of heart is easily found. In
every section of California there
are multitudes Of Republicans who
regard Perkins as the chosen rep
resentative of monopoly and class
distinctions. He is looked upon as
sort of political Trojan horse, in
whose belly lie concealed the men
who will hand over the State to
monopoly and the lovers of wealth,
class and privilege. 1t is useless to
try to disguise the fact that Per-
kins is personally very amiable
man. Were his record invulnera-
BILE we know of no one who is better
calculated than he to make votes
by a personal appeal to the citizen.


But the people are not in quest of
q good fellow. They are ready to
take as their standard bearer
the most uninteresting of
men providing, only, that he is
staunch on principle. 1t is due to
this fact that the Republicans fail
to dress up into line and are found
in thousands ready to sink politics
on State Issues. 1t is due to this
that no Republican politician feels
safe In counting a half q dozen
counties for Perkins as sure beyond
peradventure. Take the Fourth
Congressional district, for instance
He who can reckon any one of the
nineteen counties composing it as
certain for Perkins is very sam
guine man. Driven to desperate
straits, such counties as San Diego
and Santa Barbara are put down in
the Perkins column. This, indeed,


shows very sorry pitch ofdespera-
ton. We much doubt if a single
county of the whole tier will give
Perkins o majority, while the
counties in which he will even se-
cure a modest plurality are hard to
discover. 1t is not strained esti-
mate to look for a plurality for
Glenn In every one Of the nineteen
Year: 1879

WITH an inconsequence of ideas
which is really laughable it is as
sumed that Glenn's candidacy for
Governor will be weakened by the
De Young-Kalloch episode. The
truth is that the nomination of
DR.. Glenn by the New Constitu-
tIon party was a triumph over the
De Youugs. These men went to
Sacramento with a great flourish
of trumpets determined to force
the nomination Of their own favor
ite, Webster. They were inglori-
ously beaten from the field and had
no alternative but to support
Glenn. They did so slowly and
unwillingly. We have always
doubted whether the advocacy of
the Chronicle did DR.. Glenn any
earthly good. His strength is in
herent and does not depend on
newspaper advocacy. He is strong
because he represents a great
yearning and aspiration of the peo-
pie of this State, and his nomina-
tion by the New Constitution and
Democratic parties was a conces-
sion to this undisguised and imper.
ative public sentiment. The
De YouDgs saw the strength
of the Workingmen and tried to
ride into popularity on theil
brawny shoulders. They next
discerned the fine promise of the
New Constitution movement and
threw themselves bodily upon a
flood tide which led them to a GER
tain sort of success. Still again
they shifted from afar the vigor Of
the impulse which called for the
nomination of a man like Glenn


and which now calls for his cleo
tion, and they threw themselves on
the shoulders of the Colusa GraDg.
er like an Old Man of the Noun
tain. Not even the advocacy Of
the Chronicle could beat the new
Constitution, nor will its cham.
pionship of Glenn lose that gentle
man a vote. The purely personal
quarrel of the De Youngs and Kali
loch, and the appearance of Charles
De Young in the role of an assas-
sin, have absolutely no political
significance. There is probably
not man of any party in the State
Of California who does not look
upon the whole episode, and every
stage of it, as disgraceful and in-
famous to all the parties concerned.
The Workingmen originally COM
mitted grave error in nominating
Kalloch, and the De Youngs have
simply sealed their doom in sally
ing forth as eowardly murderers.
DR.. Hugh J. Glenn is as much in
terested in the lamentable and in
famous affair as Pope Leo is in the
trade of the Guano islands.
Year: 1879

An expert at Long Branch is
able 10 tell whether a lady came
from the North, South or West, by
the prints of her naked feet in the
sand. He says it takes three times
longer to scoop the water out Of
hollow made by Western girls
foot than it does out Of that made
by any of the others.
Year: 1879

The wife of a certain well known
rancher living near this place has got
the true grit. Her husband was away
on business a whole week recently, and
one day while he was absent the pump
gave out. The nearest neighbOr lived
a long distance, so she hoisted up the
pipe herself, and found that the trouble
lay in the suction leather, which was
too much worn to work properly.
Away she went and cut a new one,
using the old one as pattern. On
returning she found that large hog
had fallen into the open well. Moth
ing daunted, she got a strong rope,
made a slip-nOose, tished it around the
squealing porker, and then lifted as
hard as she could, made the end fast to
the curb, thus raising the animal par
TALLY out of the water, and preventing
it from drowning. She then harnessed
a horse, hitched him to the rope, and
in less time than it takes to tell it,
that hog,


All dripping with freshness, arose from the we'll.


But before the rescue of the parent
animal, two of her offspring, crowding
too close to the curb, probably to SYM
pathize with their mothers distress,
lost balance and were now foundering
around in the water at the bottom. In
stantly the hog was rescued, our hero
inc set about the recovery of the pigs.
She procured ladder, which, howev-
er, though long enough to touch the
water, was not long enough to reach
the bottom of the well. Necessity is
the mother of invention, and prOcur-
ing fence-rail, she thrust it through
the top round, resting both ends on the
curb. Then climbing down the hang
ing ladder, she rescued the two pigs,
bringing both safely to the surface.
This done, she quietly completed the
job by putting in the new suction leath-
er, lowering the pipe into the well,
closing the curb and pumping water
for her weeks washing.-LiUermOr
(COl } Herald.
Year: 1879

Dr. HALL was opposed to the immOd-
crate drinking of water. He says:
''The longer one puts off drinking in
the morning, especially in the summer,
the less he will require during the day.
If much is drank dming the forenoon,
the thirst often increases and very un-
pleasant fullnesS is observed, in addi-
ton to a metallic taste in the mouth.
The less a man drinks, the better
for him, beyond a moderate amount.
The more water a man drinks, the
more strength he has to expend in
getting rid of it, for all the fluid taken
in the system must be carried out, and
there is but little nOurishment in water,
tea, coffee, beer and the like; more
strength is expended in carving them
out of the system than they impart to
it. The more a man drinks the more
he perspires, either by lungs or through
the skin; the more he perspires the
more carbon is taken from the system,
but this carbon is necessary for nu-
triton, hence the less man is nOur-
ished the less strength he has. Drink
ing water largely diminishes the
strength in two ways, and yet many
are under the impression that the more
water swallowed the more thoroughly
is the system washed out Thus the
less we drink at meals the better for
us. If the amount were limited to q
single cup of hot tea or hot milk and
water at each meal, an immeasmable
good would result to all Many per-
sons have fallen into the practice of
drinking several cups of hot tea or cof-
fee ut meals, out OF mere habit. All
such will be greatly Ncnelitrd by break
ing it up at once. 1t may be very well
to drink little at each meal and per-
hans it will be found that in all cases
it is much better to take sinl le cup of
hot tea at each meal than a glass of
cold water, however pure"
Year: 1879

Sing, and to you! NO-no-with one note
The harmony Of LIES chord is broken,
Your words were light and by light lips


were spoken,


One string. my friend. is dumb beneath your


hand.


Strike and it throbs and vibrates at your


will,


FaIters upon the verge Of sound, and still
Fall back as sea waves shattered on the


strand.


Touch it no more. for You shall not regain.
The sweet lost tone, Take what is LEFT, or
Lies music sleep TO Death. Let US forget
The perfect melody we seek in vain
And yet, pei chance some day before We die,
AS half in dreams we hear the night winds


sweep
Around our windows, when we fain would
Laden with one long sobbing, moaning cry,
One faint. far tone will waken and rise
Above the great wave voice of mortal pam,
Hand will touch hand and lip touch lip
AS in the darkness 1t recedes and dies;
Or lingering in the Summer evening glow,
Then, when the passion Of the crimson
Burning like some great heart that cannot
Stains as With blood the waters as they flow,
Some old forgotten tones may rise and wake
Our dying youth, and set our hearts aIiaIne
With their old sweetness-to our lips the
OF Love steal softy, for the old 10, e's sake


-JUrfi5tttL -udgOziHt
Year: 1879

Y While the Democrats arc hard at work on
their now task Of proving that the Democrats
were the men who put down the Rebellion,
they occasionally forget themselves, and try to


provo that John A Logan aided and abetted the
Rebellion, at its beginning. because he was
Democrat, and only turned Union when he be-
came Republican. These fellows are liable to
prove too much. But one thing they have not
yet ventured upon they have not accused any
man who was Republican at the time, Of aid
ing and abetting the Rebellion, taking part in
draft riots. or assassinating recruiting officers.
Year: 1879

The Science of Health says: If farmers
would avoid suddenly cooling the body
after great exertions, if they would be
careful not to 60 with wet clothing and
wet feet, and if they would not over eat
when in that exhausted condition, and
bathe daily, using much friction, they
would have little or no rheumatism.
Year: 1879

'Deacon Wilder, want you to tell me
how you kept yourself and family well the
past season, when all the rest Of us have been
sick so much, and have had the doctors visit
ing us so often.'


BRO. Taylor, the answer is very easy.
used Hop Bitters in time; kept my family
we'll and saved the doctor bills. Three dol
lars worth of it kept us well and able to
work all the time. I'll warrant it has cost
you and the neighbors one to two hundred
dollars apiece to keep sick the same time"
'Deacon, I'll use your medicine hereafter" !"
Year: 1879

stood once homestead of the French settlers.
Little trace is left to-day of any house tLat fire
or time have taken. The new town of Grand
pre- has withdrawn from the sad site OF the old
village; it stands now on a pleasant hill, and
looks down on the low marsh-meadow where
the tragedy of exile was enacted. AS one
makes way along the road which traverses the
meadow the pathetic stiffness fairly burdens
the ear. No life is, to-day, where such sad
ending to the happiness of living was made.
The place is given over to the past. Here,
with pale pink wild roses hanging over, are the
stones of the ruined house of the priest; farther
down the road, in a blackened, barren spot, are
yet to be found stray cinders of the forge OF
Basil the blacksmith. An ancient, cleft willow
stands beside it, and upon one of the few
branches left to it bird of the new summer
was singing. The fields were filed with the
bloom of buckwheat. white, delicate flowers
tinged like the foam at sunset when it breaks
in pink bubbles on the sand; and over every
stem of buckwheat doomed yellow-banded
bee So it is that Nature will not give over
any place of hers wholly to desolation. Across
a league of water the land takes gradual
slope to the promontory of Blomidon, rising
straight from its surges. Even the new little
railway station, the noisy train, seem to have
come here with no intent to disturb the pa
thetic peace of Grandpre; like the tourists, they
bring their everyday and modern life here to
pay tribute to the memory of the place, and
the power of the poet who has given 1t veies.
AS one leaves Grandpre, and the train moves
toward Halifax, the line of the old road may
be traced, overgrown with grass now. where
the folk of Grandpre took their sad way to the
ships lying near the sands that edge the Basin
of Mines. This was the scene of the summer
day that one little picture recalls-a scene
whose air was filled with the soft long rhythm
of the poem in which Mr.. Longfsllow has told
the story of Evangeline


Among the extensive poems included In the
eight numbers of this edition which are already
printed are The Spanish Student, drama of
which the admirable design. the passion and
humor-both entirely Spanish in their quality
and the dramatic and lyric beauty need no
praise to commend them; the tender Proven
cal tragedy of the Blind Girl of Castel-Cuille:
and the native epic of Hiawatha.


The edition will be comprised In twenty
eight or thirty parts. the series to be completed
in the autumn of $780, published at the rate of
two parts monthly. 1t will be sold only by
subscription, fifty cents for each part. which
will be made up of thirty-two pages of text,
copiously illustrated, with at least one full
page picture. Mr.. Frederic Hale will receive
subscriptions for the work, at his Art-Stors,
No. 3 Free st. Portland.
Year: 1879

THE Cincinnati Commercial remarks
.'One would suppose from reading the aver
age Greenback speech that there is only one
class of people in the country,-namely
debtors-and that their chief aim is to avoid
the Dayment of their debts"
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for pubca-
ton but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
mun1catlons tnat are not used.
Year: 1879

THE Eastport Sentinel learns of a number
of staunch Democrats in Washington county
who say that they cannot swallow the Green
back dose that their leaders have prepared
for them. ''They will, like the Penobscot
Democrats, take no skunk in their'n this
year. We could give names, but prefer to
respect the privacy of those Democrats who
will throw their votes for honest money and
for national honor, instead of with the dis
honest fusion which advocates cheating
the creditors of the Government and nation
al reputation"
Year: 1879

Nothing is more novel and stunning


in It's effect upon travellers from this
country in England then the constant.
obtrusion of the everlasting sixpence in
places where we should consider it an
insult to all proper or sacred feeling.
An Englishman in almost any rank will
accept pay or money for kindly SER


vices, which here the poorest would
offer gratuitously. If he tells you the
way on the street or gives you the
time of day, or a light for cigar, no
matter how good his coat, the chances
are that you will not offend him by tip.
If lady calls at a friends house, she is
expected to tip the servant who shows
her to the drawing room; if you stay by
invitation at private house over night,
you will find the whole corps of servants
drawn up waiting for their money in the
hall in the morning; their master saves
himself so much of wages by your gifts,
and counts on saving it. Very few
Americans would be willing to throw
open the privacy of their homes to the
public to increase their income; but if
an Englishman's house is his castle, or
can by any means be made show place,
he turns an honest penny by exhibiting
it. The shilling, or crown, or sovereign
paid by visitors to the servants who
escort them through the great houses
goes, not to the servant as is often sup
posed, but directly into the pocket of
the master. In the cases of Chatsworth.
Blenheim, and places of that grade, the
revenues of the ducal owners are in
creased thousands of pounds by this
means. The American is just as fond


probably, of the almighty dollar as his
British cousin, but he manages to get il
in different way.-Neao York Tribune
Year: 1879




A young lad of this village had an
unpleasant experience with one of his
ears. While in the country on Wednes-
day night an insect of some kind en-
tered his ear, and, after buzzing there
moment, came out again. He thought
no more of it until toward evening,
when his ear began to pain him. The
pain grew more intense, and he was
compelled to walk the floor all night.
In the morning he went to DR.. Pills
bury, who examined the ear and found
it full of maggots. The insect, while
in the ear, had deposited its eggs, which
had Matched within twenty-four hours.
At the end of thirty-six hours they had
grown to the length of an eighth of an
. inch. The doctor tried to kill the larvae
and wash them out by injecting carbolic
acid with syringe, but he failed utter
ly, and had to use an instrument to re-
move them. He extracted from twenty
five to thirty of the crawling little
things, which had lodged against the
drum of the ear. The lad experienced
a great feeling of relief when the job
was finished, but not all were removed
then, and another operation will be nee
essary.- Middletoau4a IN. Y Press.