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Year: 1878

When you number the men who are mad
because they didn't get the Presidency and
the men who are still trying TO get it, you
have almost a complete list Of President
Uaycs' enemies in the Senate.
Year: 1878

We have a Reform Club, and several
clubs that are not so much for reform.
Why do not the temperance workers con-
tinue the good work begun. The first
part of the year the whiskey men were
very sly and real gain seemed to have
been made. Now they have grown bold
until to-day there is more drunkenness
and devlltry going on in this town than
ever before in its history. Scarcely a
day in which you Can not see several
"drunks." Wake up, retormers. The
Cubs are the very thlnncst subterfuges for
evadi ing the law, and a grain of pluck
will pierce the cheap deceits. In one of
our western cities, where temperance
means something, the proprietor of one
of these "clubs" was sent to jail for hi:
S1Ork
Year: 1878

It more brave to confess fault, it re-.
quires higher grade of Courage, to ac'
knowledge a mistake, than to storm a
walled CITY, And bravest Of all is the
manhood that does not fenr to acknowl
edge the ,nconslderate1ess of an action,
even though the insult that called it forth
was Of tie most ag=ravating character
Mayor VanValkenburgh's honor was as
snulted and lis most sacred feelings out
ragged. And yet though he took the only
way see ingly open to him for redress
he now is brave enough to regret til.
temper which led 10 the violence Of the
law. The timely appearance and tenn
per of his card shows him TO be truly
brave
Year: 1878

READ Just Like Page" in another
column. The facts were reluctantly
given US by postmaster Harwooi. because
the thing is so small! and nasty and dirty
that he was ashamed to speak of it. But
that is Just what we wish to show up
the li,t:eness Of Pages character. Look
at the case; all men paw their box rem,
lit goes to Uncle Sam and not INTO Har-
woods pocket, and pay it like men; and
a man who should he above such cnntemp
tible tricks, dead. beats his rent, and when
asked for it, insults the postmaster in
the language Of gutter snipe. What a
sweet thing for a Jndgr!!
Year: 1878

TIE drlve-well sharks are after the
people in parts Of the state Sure, its a
pity that innocent parties should suffer
for the sin Of the designing. The best
way to make money on a patent, seems
to be 10 keep dark with the original idea
until a number have bought the mas hine
from your partner. and then yo step
forward ano claim royalty, or threaten
lnfring"u.ent damages. 1t is pity the
law is so constructed rs TO allow of such
abuses of instice and Righteousness.
Year: 1878

If Captain Hunt had been Little better
up in his latin he would Lave known
that the primary Sl=nitication Of Rex
was ruler and not tenchrr-1hat the fem
mime of the word Was Regina. We will
add ior his further information that the
gentleman who answers to that name Is
not Mrs c. J. Short
Year: 1878

We take pleasure calling your attention to the
why we sell GOOD CLOTHING for less money than the
marking tag costs.


We have "BUYER" who resides permanently in Phila-
depha and has communication by Telephone with all the
large clothing houses in this country and Europe also the
Island of Madagascar and New Guinea


When any of these houses become shaky, "Buyer is
advised of the fact and the permmons by having the
longer pole.


AS result of this policy, and rapidly increasing trade.
we have been obliged lease 200 Of prairie to pile
empty dry goods boxes


We expect in the FUTURE to occupy the whole block
which located ing Of graLd store house
for the bankrupt stocks of the world Here the Mexican
and Trade dollars will be redeemed in 100 cents worth of the
clothing at prices always below those doing business on
less vast plan.


Don't you it is impossible for to have competition
We take advantage of all the bargains in the world before
anyone else knows Of the chance.


Our unlimited capital and widely branching lines of Tele
phone give advantages which glad to share with
our customers.


To show how efforts reduce prices appreciated
will say that have just received order by Telephone
to cothe the entire population of the Feeee Islands also
order from the to provide pair of pants for the
original every copy Powers Greek Slave making this
elegant piece of satuary admissible into every home


We intend erecting vast amphitheatre in the centre of
the block to be occupied by large orchestra, which will fur
nsh ravishug music harmony with the low prices offered at
our miles of counters.
Come and u.s. and can't verify every statement
made above will sell you suit of clothes for less
than any other house in Minnesota.
CHE ZAP CHARLEY,
One door North First National Bank,
AUSTIN, MINNESOTA
Year: 1878

Scales that will give the weight Of
q grain of dust are used in the Phila-
delphia mint.


-Lynchburg, Va, has nearly 100 to-
bacco factories, giving not less than
5000 persons employment.


M. w. A. Mynster, of Council
Bluffs, Iowa, is erecting a Matching
house and ponds, and intends to engage
in the culture Of fish.


The raising of the blockade in the
Black Sea has given an enormous impe-
tus to the sugar refining business in
Marseilles-a very important element
in the trade of that great port.


The telephone has passed with ex-
traordinary rapidity through its period
of curious experiment, and is now quite
a common instrument for practical use.
In Congress the two houses are to be
connected by telephone, and a wire run
from each house to the Government
printing-oflice.


To break glass bottle or jar across
its circumference: Place the bottle in
a vessel of water to the height where
it IS designed to break it; also fill the
bottle to the same level. Now pour coal
oil inside and out on the water; cut a
ring of paper fitting the bottle. Satur-
ate with alcohol or benzine, so that it
touches the oil. Pour, also, some in
side the bottle. Set on fire; the cold
water prevents the glass from heating
below its surface, while the expansion
caused by the heat will break the vessel
on the water line.
Year: 1878

So considerate and experienced is our we'll
known and popular friend, Coroner Roche in all mat
tors connected with funerals, and splendid the
carriages etc., he controls that while halt just this
side of saying that 1t must be pleasure TO bs buried
by him, omphAtcAlly assert that 1t must rebound
to tho credit of and be consolation Though sad one)
to the family that gives into his charge the
mont of tho details of any funeral which they are
concerned. But not only in such sad Affairs a.
funerals is the Coroner ait he shines best whom
the happy marriage bells ring" and advise young
gonts about to stop CT to call him. Read tho
COroAOrs card in another column.
Year: 1878

Under the above heading wheat
grower remarks:


The wheat plant readily adspts itself
to.a varsity of soils snd climatic in
fuences, provided these soils are dry and
rich. We find prime fields of wheat
grown in the most uniavorsble seasons,
and inferior fields in seasons which are
called good for wheat. Among all its
S7laaiies, eiSS asiss-.s f's..ssv aiHs iviIS
than one-half the farmers who attempt
its cultivation. Some seem to regard it
as an aquatic plant, requiring little be-
sides water for its subsistence. We fre-
quently hear farmers inquiring sfler a
variety Of wheat adapted to poor soil,
determined st all hazards to starve the
wheat to death if they fail to drown it.


The first requisite for a good wheat
crop is soil well supplied with plant
food adapted to the wants of that
plant. IF the soil is not naturally dry,
it should be thoroughly drained, not
with few burrows on the surface, as ia
too often seen in wheat fields, but with
good underdrains of tile or stone To
properly prepare field to receive the
seed is by no means au unimportant
matter to be attended TO by some disin-
terested enploye, but should receive the
immediate attention of the proprietor,
and if he should get between the plow
handles once in while, if good pIow-
man, 20 much the better. Although 1
regard good summer iallow IS the very
best preparation for wheat, yet a good,
clean, rich barley stubble should not be
discarded Summer fallows have bes
come deservedly unpopular among
farmers for two good reasons. They sell
dom summer-fsllow field unless it is too
poor TO raise a paying crop of anything,
and in the next place they do not halt
Our best success has been with clover
ley turned down between June and the
10th, with strong growth of clover just
coming into blossom; ground plowed
from six to seven inches deep, and the
surface thoroughly cultivated three
inches in depth.


/ have grown wheat this seaaon upon
soil treated in the above manner, which
In 1868 produced fourteen bushels Of
wheat per acre. This ground has re-
ceived 30 manure since, and has been
regularly cropped with barley, wheat
and corn, with clover every third year
and my crop this year upon this piecs
will yield from thirty to thirty five
bushels per acre. So much for clover
have q thirteen-acre corn field this
year well manured last fall and winter
which propose to summer-fallow mex;
year by way of experiment, and if aE
successful as l anticipate, ] shall leave
barley out OF the rotation hereafter, be
lieviDg that heavy wheat crop is worth
more and costs less than a crop of bar
ley and moderate wheat crop. aud il
leaves the land IN better condition fol
future crops With such a preparation
wouid not only be sure OF a good croI
OF wheat, tut would be almost certain
Of good stand of young clover aftel
the wheat crop was taken off, 9Th,
clover makes frst.clsss hay for fattenins
steers in winter.)
Year: 1878

THE propositions submitted to the
monetary conference at Paris, by the
United States delegates now under dis
cussion are as follows:


First-It is the opinion of this assem-
bly, that it is not desirable that silver be
excluded from free coinage in Europe
and the United States. On the contrary
this assembly believes it Is desirable
that unrestricted coinage of silver and
its use as money, of unlimited legal
tender should be retained where they
expand, and as far as practicable re-
stored where they have ceased to exist.


Second-Use of both gold and silver
as unlimited legal tender money may
be safely adopted; first by equalizing
them at a relation fixed by international
agreement, and second by granting to
each metal at relation fixed on equal
terms Of coinage, making no discrimi-
nation between them.
Year: 1878

Clipper Office and deposit $1,000 as a
forfeit. The Captain emphatically de-
nies the truth of certain statements
made by Carver in a letter published in
one of the morning papers yesterday.
Judging from the bitter language used
by Bogardus in speaking of his chal-
lenge, it would seem apart from the
professional antagonism existing be-
tween them, that they also bear a great
deal of personal enmity toward each
other.
Year: 1878

The Supreme Court of Mexico has
decided, upon test case, that there is
nothing in the constitution of that re-
public which prohibits the extradition
OF criminals. This item of information
is condensed with view of bringing it,
as concisely as possible, within the ap-
prehensi0n of whom it may concern.
Year: 1878

THE Oregon Indian war is at an end.
This is satisfactory in double sense.
People will be glad because it is over,
and because there is no danger of its
getting mixed up with the Patterson
Belford contest.
Year: 1878

THE longer Kearney, the labor agi-
tator, remains in the east, the more the
shafts of ridicule seem to be pointed at
him. His trip across the continent will
evidently be neither political nor a
pecuniary success.
Year: 1878

THE International Monetary Confer
ence, created by section of the Silver
bill, which passed the United States
Congress last Spring, is now in session
at Paris, France. The object will be
to devise an international monetary
system which will establish both gold
and silver as currency standard.
Year: 1878

The National party is already dis.
tnfblng the plans and calculations of
the politicians. In Pennsylvania the
question seems to be, shall the DEM
ocracy combine with the nationals
and win or go it lone and be beaten.


The following, from an eastern paper,
shows how the battle RACES:


The fight between the Wallace and


Randall factions Of the Pennsylvania


Democracy over the time and place


for holding the State convention, has
been won by the former. The whole
controversy grew out of the develop


ment of strength displayed by the
National party, and the best way to


cOnciliate that element. The plan Of


Senator Wallace and his friends is to


hold an early convention and nominate


a ticket composed of men who have
friends in the labor movement, giving


the Nationals recognition by placing
a leader named Collins on for Lieu
tenant Governor. 1t is expected that
this will cause the Nationals to


indorse the ticket. and will thus give
Wallace the upper hand in future


combinations, which will enable him
to hold his seat in the Senate. The
plan of the Randall faction was to
hold the convention after that of the
Nationals, with the expectation that
the latter would nominate Hendrick


B. Wright, the Democratic Congress-


man from the LuZerne district. for


Governor. This would give the anti
Wallace faction chance to make
combinations on Congressman and


members of the State Legislature.
with the prospect Of naming the next


United States Senator. The Dem


ocratic State Committee met yester-
day at Harrisburg and by majority
of one it was decided to hold the
State Convention at Pittsburg on May
%. This is two weeks earlier than


the date for holding the State Con-
vention of the National party, which
is called for Philadelphia on June 8.
All this wrangling and scheming
| among the Democrats is very amusing
to the Nationals. who have no idea Of


coalescing with the Democracy on any


terms. They fully appreciate their


strength and fiattering prospects, and


propase to act entirely Independent


of old parties. They will nominate


none but men identified fully with the


National party. and this plan will be


followed By the several Congressional.


county and legislative conventions.
The Republicans as well as the Dem


ocrats, are courting an alliance, which


only adds to the resolution Of the


National leaders to 60 it alone.
Colonel Mcclure Of the philadelphia


Times, one Of the best informed


politicians Of the State. says the vote


Of the Nationals, If they conduct a


separate campaign, will be nearly il


not quite, one-tbird Of the whole. and


that the probabilities point to their


control of the Legislature, and the


election Of majority Of the Con.
Year: 1878

An honored friend in Faribault
writes us as to whether the party
name should be National, Greenback
of National-Greenback. Upon this
point every man should exercise his
own judgement and taste. The
name is not of so much consequence as
the principles and the organization.
We trust our friends Will organize in
every county for an earnest battle
this fail. The signs of the times are
auspicious in the highest degree. All
over the country the party is growing
with unexampled rapidity. Minneso-
ta must not he in the rear rank of the
great army of progress.
Year: 1878

The hot water increases around the
devoted members of the House who
voted as the Book Ring wanted them
to. and grows hotter every day. One
Mr.. McBroom of blue Earth county is
busy explaining to his constituents
why he voted TO make them pay Sl.75
for a book which Merrill was ready to
sell tor % cents. etc: and this broom
makes some Swssping assertions to
justify his action; but the Mankato
Rerisr seems to think he is loose in
the handle. and mildly remarks:


We publish on the first page of to.
days paper a letter from Mr..
McBroom. explaining his action as a
member of the legislature, in regard
to several measures of State and local
interests So far as his record on the
text book bill is concerned, we have
no criticism to offer. Possibly his
constituents are satisfied with his
course. but we think after the tex;
book bill has been fairly tried it will
be difficult to satisfy the people. tha,
Year: 1878

Gfant. IL may De True OF not.


\ strange fact has leaked out here
within the last few days, and that is
that Seligman, the unfortunate He
brew who was expelled from the
Grand Uuion hotel Saratoga, New
York. is paying eN-president Grant s
expenses in Europe. The solution of
the mystery is that number of capi-
talists, principally Jews, have Grant
in training for the next presidential
contest, and it Was thought wise to
not only get him out of the country.
but secure for him enough attention
abroad to keep him before the people
at home. We are given only the lead
ing facts in this extraordinary affair,
but are promised the details hereaft-
er.-ljashin gton capital.


General Grant will return to this
country in the Fall. He will take up
his residence in Washington on the
4th of March. 1881.


We have no doubt Grant would be
willing to be Il life incumbent of the
presidential chair; and we know that
there are thousands who would be
Nad to see him crowned emperor:
but the American people have had
enough Of Grant and his Whiskey-
Ring civil government.
Year: 1878

MANS inhumanity to man. SAYS
the poet, "makes countless thousands
mourn And here is a fresh and
awful illustration Of this great truth:


New revelations are daily made by
4 correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, who is investigating the
Ohio penitentiary. Il know of one
man. said an ex-official of the prison,
"who was worked and punished to
death in just eight days Somehow
the contractor didn't like the man.
He was a tall, green-looking fellow.
and couldn't do as much as others had
done, and the contractor just said that
he was going to kill that fellow. and
he did kill him in just eight days"
One ingenious method of torture is to
make man sit upon q chunk of ice
for fifteen minutes or more. until he
writhes and howls with agony. 1t is
evidently good thing that sunlight
is now streaming into the prison cells
all over the country.


In our own State it seems that
similar horrors have been enacted in
the Insane Asylum at st Peter. A
legislative committee of Investigation
has been at work. and, if we are to
believe the testimony of witnesses,
one man was brutally choaked to
death with huge wooden plug. and
woman was boiled to death in hot
water bath.


We might almost exclaim:-"God
protect us from our fellow mortals.''
Year: 1878

We are under many obligations to
the st. Paul Dispatch for kind and
friendly words in behalf of the ANTI
MoNoPoLIsT. Capt Castle makes the
Dispatch a lively and able journal; and
he has lifted it out of the servile rut
of echoing the administration. His
course upon the silver question was
manly and able and events have PROV
ed its correctness.
Year: 1878

Mr. Frank Beinert, a promising young
man of twenty-three years and son of Mr..
George Beinert, one of our oldest Turner'S
and proprietor Of the printing office, No.
4S5 Walnut street, met his death by drown,
ing last evening.


He and several of his friends hired sl1iff
for the purpose of enjoying themselves ON
the Ohio River. When the young men
showed off from the foot of Main street the
steamer Graham was about to land, but in
the darkness they did not observe the boat,
with which they soon collided and were run
down.


Their boat capsized and the occupants
were carried under the steamers hull.
When they reappeared on the surface of
the water their cries attracted the attention
of those on board the steamer, who at once
went to the assistance of the drowning par
ty They saved the lives of all except that
Of Frank Beinert


The body of the latter, although the river
was dragged for some time and for COR
siderable distance, could not be recovered.
1t is impossible to describe the grief of the
distracted parents on learning the death OF
their darling son.


They ordered that the river be dragged.
and this was still being done at 10 clock
this morning.
Year: 1878

National Associated Press To the Star.


New York, June 29-During the count
ing of the Presidential vote of Louisiana
in New Orleans before the Returning Board
in November, 1876 the country was startled
by the introduction as witness of victim
to the savage Democratic bull-dozing OF a
colored woman named Eliza Pinkston.


She has since married again and is living
comfortably with her second husband in
Mississippi. Eliza related to Herald re-
porter that she received $500 for her
appearance and testimony; that she was
carefully instructed what to say
before the visiting statesmen; that, though
entirely able to walk she was laid on sofa,
when she was about to enter the chamber
of the Returning Board; that her testimony
was false; that her husband was murdered
and she was assaulted, not by Demo
rats, as she testified then, but.
as she has always believed, by colored men
who had threatened to kill her husband,
and that the quarrel had nothing to do with
politics. She was brought by Republicans
from her home in New Orleans, and
instructed by them to pretend
she was more seriously hurt than she was,
and also instructed to lay the blame of the
killing and assault on the Democrats Her
present husband testified to this story,
which he has always heard from her.
Year: 1878

Some years ago when the writer
was q reporter upon an Eastern pa
per, it devolved on him to write for
the same edition an account of the
presentation Of a gold headed cane to
the Rev. Dr.. Nudge, the clergyman
of the place, and a description of a
new hog killing machine. that. had
just been put In operation at the fac
tory. Now, what made the Rev. DR..
Nudge mad was this: The inconsid
crate buccaheer who made up the
form got the two locals mixed in a
frighttul manner, and when we went
to press, something like this was the
appalling result:


Some OF the Rev. DR.. Mudge's
friends called on him yesterday, and
after brief consultation the unsus>
pecling hog was seized by the hind
leg and slid along the bean. until he
reached The hot water tank. His
friends explained the object If their
visit and presented him with a hand.
some gold~headed butcher, who grab
bed him By the tail, and ewing him
around, and in less than minute the
carcass was in the water. Thereupon
he came forward and said there were
times when the feelings overpowered
one, and for that reason he would
not do more than attempt to thauk
those around him fpr'the manner in
which so huge an animal was cnt in
fragments was astonishing. The Doc
tor concluded his remarks, the ma
chine seized him, and, in less than it
takes to write it, the hog was cut in
TO fragments aud worked into deli
cioue sausage. The occasion will be
remembered by the Doctors friends
as one Of the most delightful ofStheir
| YES. The best pieces can be OBJ
tanned for fifteen cents per pound,
and we are sure those who sat under
his ministry will rejoice to hear that
he has been 90 handsomely treated. :"


Mad ! Well, about nine o'clock
that morning the Office had been
abandoned by every man but the
advertising clerk, aid he ascended to
the roof and robed himself in. boiler
irou, 80 that he could see the clergy
man tearing around down in the
street with his congrega,ion all
wearing tie panoply OF war, and
carrying butcher knives and things
The next day we apologized, bnt the
Doctor stopped his subscription.
Year: 1878

p 1tis difficult TO avoid envy without
laying ourselves open to contempt;
for in being too scrupulous not to
trespass on others, we lay ourselves
open to bo trifled With and trampled
on. giis