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Year: 1879

Persons tearing torn for the season, and Sam
qer trareIlcrs, can hare THE DAILY TRIBUNE
mailed to item, postpaid, TOR 81 per month, the
address being changed as often as desired.


TIE gay and gentlemanly perjurer gets his
deserts occasionally. In n suit over the GUS
tOdy of a child, the testimony OF certain
witness was reviewed by Judge Gilbert with
the remark that he did not believe any part
of il TO be true.


That exuberant Missouri Congressman who
assured the Democratic serenaders in Wash
ington last night that the Republican party
was destitute of every vestige of principle
"save an unholy lust for power might be
truthfuly described as L" a killing Frost"


The intention of France and England to
abstain from further active interference in
the affairs of Egypt puts an end to the schemes
for placing that country under European tu-
telage, and leaves the Khedive at liberty TO
deal with the finances as he sees fit This
policy O! inaction will tend to restore har-
mony between the French and English Gov
ernments, but the Egyptian bondholders In
either country are likely to suffer heavily
by it.


When THE TRIBUNE offered chrome for q
Democrat who was proud of the present Con-
gress, there was a great silence IN the party
for the space of half an hour. At last one
Ohio Democrat spoke up and said he wanted
the chrome, but when he was asked to take q
solemn oath that he pointed with pride" to
Washington, he quietly withdrew to private
life. Read the correspondence elsewhere, and
realize how much the truly good Democrat
has to be ashamed of.


The Washington dispatches report variety
of troubles for Mr.. Hayt, the Indian Commits
sioner. The Society of Friends, 1t seems, are
indignant at the injustice they declare they have
received at bis hands, and last week delegation
of that society is said TO have astonished the
Year: 1879

If those Pittsburg pudders who scout the offer Of
fair arbitration the only ones to suffer by their
refusal to work, the present strike would have


little general interest But it is not their pay alone
which is stopped, nor are their employers the only
others who are embarrassed. All the lronworkers
in other branches of the manufacture as well as the
miners of coal and ore, are thrown out of
work. so that thousands of men and mil
lions of capital are lying in enforced
idleness by their peryerse seliishness. These
men have selected an unpropitious time for their
outbreak and they certainly will have no sympa-
thy The iron industry is Just beginning to revive.
Investors have been sinking capital for years, and
they ought not now to be asked TO manufacture at
a loss. Prices are low and profits consist mainly OF
hope. 1t is time when there can be 10 success
without cordial cooperation between employers and
employed Under such circumstances, when men
refuse 10 submit even to arbitration their conduct
!. al
Year: 1879

Next to the abject servIlity with which the Demo-
cratic majority submit to the domination of a few
loud leaders, the most amazing feature OF the Doit
cal situation at the National Capital is the tran
scendant stupidity and incompetence of the leaders
themselves. What is to be thought of men who IN
augurate a campaign for the Presidency by such an
unusual and dangerous advance as the forcing of an
extra session without taking into account the fact
that they were to meet enemy. Everybody ex-
pected the vetoes just as they came but in every
case these incautious captains have been panic
stricken men who are surrounded and surprised
at 3 O'clock in the morning. The New Demo
cratic Programme has come to be a standing head
line for Washington dispatches, and it proves how
completely and continually they are at their wits
end and that too when nothing has occurred which
could not have been plainly foreseen from the be-
ginning. Why didn't they set out with pro-
gramme which provided for moral certantles If not
for remote contIngencicsf 10 Is small wonder that
mutnous mutterngs against the Randalls and
Blackburns are reported from Washington. Before
$50 Congressman again march into hole with BAN
ners flying and their eyes shut they will be liable
to inquire if their leaders have considered whether
the other end is plugged up not.
Year: 1879




From the New York Evening Mail, July IL


The three wandering and adventurous heroines Of
..Jeanne Jeannette ct Jeanneton" one of the comic
operas given in New York last season, did not meet
with more wonderful and novel experiences than
likely to come in the way of the nanesake Of Of
them-the tight and handsome ocean yacht which
has been fitted out for exploration in the direction
of the North Pole There is to be no playing at dis
covery no pleasure trip along established routes and
within hailing distance of provision stations. The
Jeannette is to make what is said to be the rst at
tempt to reach the Polar Sea by way of Behring
stra-at least 1t is the first genuine trial made in
modern times since that passage made known
To the world by the daring Dane in 172S. The
pcdition well defined purpose, and the usual
effort to reach the North Pole wall be made and to
tack the American flag to it. this essentially new
route being chosen worth testing.


''It will be of the pleasant thoughts or our
voyage that the expedition started from San Fran
cisco said Lieutenant DE Long yesterday, at the
Indeed. the Cafornians have done their best to
press their hearty sympathy with the development
OF scientific knowledge by the vessels voyage. OF
course the Jeannette may not reach the North Polc
she may even be forced to turn back before she has
pone half rs far she proposes into the Arctic
Ocean. But vessel yet entered the ice-bound
circle of the Polar regions without finding some
thing that is worth knowing. and no expedition.
honestly undertaken, Will return without
fact or two to add to the of science. This at
least, the Jeanncttc will do, and having done thic
she will be regarded not haviry wasted time. We
hope, like all who wish her weyi, that she will 10
more than has yet been done.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON. July l. 1872
THE ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS -PREPARA-


T1oNs FOR THE OHIO CAMPAIGN-ErFEcTs OF


THE VETO OF THE MARsHALs BILL.


Congress adjourned amid general good humor and
with no traces of bitter feeling between the men,
bers Of opposite parties The Ohio were
particularly glad to get away to begin the
summer and fall campaign. and tho repub-
icans seem inclined to meet General Ewng's
wishes by making the conspicuously on
the currency issue. The Congressional Committee
has ordered among other documents for distribution
In Ohio. 10000 copies OF each of Congressman Nor
toms two speeches silver, the one opposing the
free coinage of silver. the other opposing the re-
demption of trade dollars.


In some republican quarters 1t was pretended to-
day that the failure OF the marshals bill would
put stop to all proceedings in the fed
eral courts and infct terrible calamitics upon
the country. formidable list was published of
not less than eighteen instances in which the
United States. it asserted. would now lie de-
fenceess at the mercy of evil doers OF this
is all The veto message gave incidentally
some countenance to the fable, because the Pres-
dent recited in it the duties of marshals, which,
II there marshals. would of
remain undone But he did not pretend that these
duties and offices would be prohibited would re-
main unfulfied through the lack of appropria-
tion OF money, and he does not intend to disband
the force of marshals to order them not to act.
On the contrary. they will all go with
Ill their duties precisely as though the six
hundred thousand dollar bill had not been
vetoed by the President. and all their
legitimate expenses will doubtless be covered by a
deficiency bill at the next session. which, it is to be
hoped, the President will not veto. That is to say
the fact that the marshals bill vetoed does not
prohibit the marshals from acting in their lawful
capacities. but only delays their payment few
months. II it were otherwise the President would
either not have vetoed the bill he would have felt
obliged to call an extra session.
Year: 1879

POsTMAsTBR-GBNKRALK KEY and party arrived
at Richmond, Va., last night, and after trans
acting business In connection with the southern
mail superintendency will go tomorrow or next
day to Fredericksburg and down the Rap
Year: 1879

THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION IN MAssACHU-
SETS PoLITICs.-About one hundred temper
ance men met in Boston last night, and resolu-
lions were passed that as the republican party
in the state had Incorporated the temperance
question In its platform, only such republicans
should be put In nomination for the legislature
as will give no uncel tain sound on the temper
ance question, and that the nomination OF
Messrs. Long and Weston meet the hearty
approval Of temperance republicans
Year: 1879

side by belt of loose sand

 through which it cannot easily be carried without fluming. There are places, however, where the channel is crossed by dikes of hard. pan or country rock. These are selected for the construction of dams, which require to be laid on good foundations to with. stand the winter freshets, which sometimes carry them away, nece.sitating rebuilding. The irrigating ditches are here made wide and shallow, and with as lit. tie fall as possible. the land being so nearly level that is necessary to keep the water as high as possible to be able to distribute over the entire surface. The construction of these canals Is not very expensive, the soil being so light, with little rock and no tim Der Instructions to remove, that the work can nearly all be accom- plished with blows ard scrapers. Once having the water at a prop CT height and clear of the sand belt, it is a comparatively light task to cary 1t where wanted. In some sections the canals, when in constant summer use, become obstructed with species of Wa. ter-grasS, which, fastening its roots on the inner banks, grows so rapidly that it has been known to attain a length of two feet in couple of weeks. Its long fibers waving in the stream from either bank become entangIed, and un- less removed from time to time, choke up the channel. A ditch less than a mile in length, near Tue

 son, requires the constant labor of one man to keep it clear of this intrusive fiber. The trouble, however, can be averted by turn ing the water off for few days, when the burning sun quickly Scorches the grass to death.

 As before remarked, of the vast area of this Territory, but diIninutive fraction Is suitable for grain raising in it's natural state. There is good land along the river valleys still open to pre- emption and entry under the Desert act, the most of it being desert land. Indeed, all that skirting the rivers for many miles where they run underground is, of course, worthless. Much of the land is too high for irri. gation, even could the water be had and still a great deal is III itself so sterile that no amount Oi water or culture could make Ii profitable. Land grabbing has not been indulged in here to any great extent, or any material profit as yet. In several cases the grabbers have quite over reached themselves acquiring large tracts which were after. wards found to contain but 8 very small proportion of available soil; and they have discovered that its possible to loose money on land even at two bits an acre

 Those who think of settling here cannot be too strongly urged tC examine carefully into the fore. going pOints-the idea prevailing to some extent that land which can be had for a trif1e or nothing is better than no land at all

 There are countless miles of coun' try here that would break the capitalist who tried to work it.

 even he got it for nothing. Still

 1t must not be inferred that there are m IandS loft ,ph;oh oon he
Year: 1879

chosen to live at La Crosse, or across tho
river from Winona, lest the fact of becoming
a resident of Minnesota should prove con-
tamination and disqualification. In fact we
don't know but it is discreditable to be a
resident of Minnesota if one expects to OBJ
tain any promotion.


The sooner the board resoinds such RI
diculous resolution the better. There should
be tho widest latitude given to select from,
and other things being equal resident OF
Minnesota should be given the preference
If competent man can be found within our
borders no outsiders should be considered.
A man who fills that position
should be identified with tho State and un-
derstand something of our wants and oul
people. There is Prof. Phelps, for instance
who probably did more than any one man tc
build up the Winona school, and who, with
| whatever failings he may possess, IS an ex


ceedingly competent man. AS he happens
| to be resident of Winona he would be OK,
cluded under this resolution, though prob
| ably his selection would advance the inter


ests of the school. The absurdity and in
| Justice of such resolution is too apparent


to require argument


When State organization formally ia


boos our own citizens it is time to protest


and protest emphatically. 4.
Year: 1879

The festive fly proved himself a great and
successful evangelist yesterday. He would
permit of no doing in the pews, for the
moment somnolence took possession of one
who had gone to the house of worship pre-
sumably for the purposes of instruction, the
busy little insect would proceed to tickle his
nose or inaugurate pedestrian tournament
on his bald pate. The result was that the
sermons were listened to with great atten-
ton, and the preachers were inspired with
the belief that fresh interest in religious
subjects had sprung up. They didn't know
the flv did il.
Year: 1879

HE House committee on agriculture has
reported with a favorable recommendation
the bill repeating the tax upon tobacco in
the hands of producers. The bill requires
that no farmer or planter shall be required
to pay special tax as dealer in leaf to-
bacco for selling tobacco of his own produc-
ton, or tobacco received by him as sent
from tenants who have produced tho same.
We trust the bill will not pass. 1t simply
opens another loophoie through which the
payment of taxes can be avoided. A man
may be construed to be tenant of another
and furnish him with tobacco enough to
supply dozen States, thus making the pre-
sumed s'landlord'' a dealer. The law in re-
lation to the sales of tobacco is we'll enough
as it is, and we trust that at the present
session of Congress there will be no amend
Year: 1879

It has transpired that the Normal School


Board secretly resolved at their late meeting


to appoint no one who is now resident Of
Minnesota to fill the vacancy occasioned by
Prof. Morey declining the principalship of
the .Winona school, This is one of the
straneest proceedings on record. We can
only account for ii on the ground of coward
"a or lack of nerve to meet applicants. Why
person should be disqualified IRON hlhne
a position in this State because ne
is already resident OF Minnesota
is beyond comprehension. 1t would be
better and safer for the person who may be
Year: 1879

The Chicago Times asserts that Clark
son N. Potter is not dead, but waiting for
a chance to jump into the political arena
as an anti-Tilden candidate for governor of
New York. The Times is unfortunately a
little off in this matter. Mr.. Potter, in
stead of being an opponent of Tilden, is
ono of his most enthusiastic supporters,
and if he enters the gubernational race at
all it will be for the purpose of assisting
Tilden to the Presidency.
Year: 1879

FURTHER contributions to the ''conscience
fund.- are chronicled by the treasury de-
partment. We are glad that quickened con.
sciences are coming into vogue onco more
But, by the way, what becomes of this
fund? It is not reported as among the
assets of the treasury, although it must
amount by this time to q considerable
amount. Can it be that some person will
less conscience than those who make resti
tuition has appropriated it to his own use?
Year: 1879

AFTER all the pothor about tho immense
amounts of money that will be required
for the payment of arrearages of PENSIONS
it appears from statement of Secretary
Sherman that oil such claims will be paid
within twelvemonth, even if no extra pro
vision is made by Congress for the payment
of these obligations. "Ihe gigantic scheme
of robbery perpetrated by the Democratic
Congress- for the benefit of tho soldiers
does not appear to have impoverished th'
treasury greatly.
Year: 1879

WE can fully endorse Mr.. Garfeld's re-
mark on Saturday that "What this country
needs most of all is that the Congress go
home.' Home is a good place to 60 to when
all the other places are shut up, and it is
about time that the doors of the capitol
were closed,
Year: 1879

JAY GOULD travelled from Toledo to st.
Louis at the rate of fifty three miles an hour.
We didn't know Toledo was such a wicked
city that people would be in such hurry
to get away from it.
Year: 1879

The Ramsey county grand jury are trying
to find legal evidence to indict some Of the
lothel-keepers in st. Paul. Everybody
knows the reputation of the houses, but
petit jury will not convict on bad
reputation alone. If the city did not receive
$40 month from every prostitute the po-
lice perhaps could prove case once in a
while. It seems bad faith to the dignitaries
of the town to receive $40 a month for
quiet prosecution of q business in violation
of an ordinance and then not allow the vio-
lation to 60 quietly on.
Year: 1879

The balance of the amount was contributed
by different members subscribing one and two
shares each. The pastor then requested those
who desired him to stay as their pastor to arise
in their seats, and the entire congregation with
one or two exceptions arose. The cliff meet
ing closed with the dnxolOgy
Year: 1879

The Agony Over the Legislative Bill Ended
in the Senate-All the Riders Retained
aud the Bill Passed-The Warner Silver
ties Suffer Defeat In the House-An
Amendment Attached to Section Four
Regulating the Price of Bullion to the
Legal Tender Value of Coined Silver
Not to Consider Revenue Bills this Ses-
sion-General Capital News.
Year: 1879

Fortunately the threatened necessity did
not arise. At the last moment the federal
authorities took counsel of discretion, and
retreted. Not federal soldier was seen in
the streets of New York on the election day
of 1870, and since that time no attempt has
been made to invade our State.
Year: 1879




Coroner CarriCk rendered the following verdict
in the much talked Of Harry Baldwin murder case
to-day.


Death from pistol ball wound in the left
temple, the ball penetrating the skull and passing
through the anterior lobe Of the brain; but as to
VINO hred the fatal shot can not determine"
the Coroner, who had done everything to ferret
out the mystery, found that it was an impos-
ability, and after having heard every vestige ,f
testimony that could be had, came to the con
clusion to-day to close up the INQUEST
Year: 1879

A sensible farmer out West remarked
the other day : "Well ! am going to
vote for the 50-1 if for no other reoson,
because by so doing pay half the debt
any how, and l can afford to take the
chances of thirty years on the other
half. ."-KaoroiHe Dispatch.


Sensible man, He rates bird
in his hand worth two in q tree
and a single steak, smoking on his
dish worth whole mutton in pros
pect. We bet that man has corn to
sell.
Year: 1879

If you wish good garden crop
of turnips, have them thin on the
ground, hoe about once and apply
daily and continually COW manure
in the vacant spaces between them
Keep the process up for a month
and ifyou don't have fine turuips
it will be because you have not o
ecasun.
Year: 1879

terrible moment for Gen. Lee. Hav-
ing fought for years with high and
lofty purpose; having won victory
after victory, and made record for
his army not equalled in our history,
it was hard that he must surrender
everything. ! cannot tell you how
my heat went to him"
Year: 1879

Now is the time to plant your
strawberry beds for next season.
Water them well and in the winter
apply corn fodder between the
rows. In the early Spring or late
in the winter apply rotted manure
in abundance. The application of
straw is far inferior to the fodder
and will disappoint you.
Year: 1879

The Able Reynal was the first to
give publicity to the following remark
able instance OF Highland ingenuity
and courage: The hero Of il was SER
geant of Montgomerys Highland Regi-
ment, and his name was Allan Mac
pherson. Being taken prisoner by the
Indians, he was doomed to witness the
miserable spectacle of several of his
comrades being tortured to death. See
ing them preparing to commence the
same operations upon himself, he made
signs that hs had something to commu-
nicate. An interpreter was brought.


Macpherson told them that providing
his life was spared for few minutes,
he would communicate the secret of an
extraordinary medicine, which, if ap-
piled to the skin, would cause it to re-
sist the strongest blow of tomahawk
or sword, and that if they would allow
him to 90 to the woods with guard to
collect the plants proper for this medi-
cine, be would allow the experiment to
be tried on his own neck by the strong
est and most expert warrior among
them. This story easily gained upon
the superstitious credulity Of the InGi.
ans, and the request Of the Highlander
was Immediately complied with. Be
ing sent into the woods, he soon re-
turned with such herbs as he chose to
pick up. Having boiled these herbs,
he rubbed hiss neck with their juices
and, laying his head upon a log oi
wood, he desired the strongest mar
among them to strike at his neck will
his tomahawk, and strike hard, wher
he would find that he could not MAKE
the smallest impression. An Indian
leveling blow with all his might, cut
with such force that the head flew Of
to the distance Of several yards. Th


Indians were fixed with amazement q
their own credulity, and the addres
with which the prisoner had escapes
the lingering death prepared for him


but instead of being enraged at this es


cape Of their victim, they were s


pleased with his ingenuity that the


refrained from inficting further crue


ties on the remainder of the prisoners
Year: 1879

In an essay by David Swing, on
this subject, he says: The heart re-
spands to the intellect as a harp to
the sweeping fingers. God made
xsaass a 3a.ai ifI,-anaI=An zz<k-aiaaatAis. hat
the seeker should know the mora, but
that under the influence Of wider
knowledge his finer nature might
grow as flowers under sunshine. It
is not probable that the Greater or
dained the pursuit Of truth only that
that the passion Of curiosity might
be gratified, but rather that the mind
and soul might grow upon such di-
vine good. The bird and the beast
seek daily food, and thus build up
their organism to keep It in life, but
man goes beyond, fer having found
the food of his body, he must seek
truth also, the daily bread of his
soul. He whose body has been well
fed is that noble being called Man.
The pursuit of truth is not, therefore,
simple pleasure, but it is the high
struggle for the spirits daily bread.
Hence the true man rises from the
banquet of king not half 50 happily
as he rises from the pages of most
noble book, or from the banquet Of
men of science, Of art, of philosophy.
Children remember with delight the
viands they have enjoyed, but ma
turer life remembers the wise conver-
sation that surrounded the table.