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Year: 1879

SO many of our citizens are interested in the En-
erald Isle that maps of the country may be cassed
among the most prominent Of the wall decorations
of Irish homes. The ordinary atlas map. being ON
very small scale. fails to give the details Of mountain
and moor. Tough and haven. that would be sought
for by those familiar with the old land. Common
wall maps Of Ireland are either incorrectly drawn or
hdeously daubed with bright colors laid on thick. 30
as to define with startling eject the county or pro-
Year: 1879

Ii Is SAFE TO PREDICT that the city bank
ruptcy statistics will not be so large tor years
and years to come as those Of 1873, elsewhere
printed In all there were nine hundred and
seventeen failures, with liabilities amounting to
about sxty-four million dollars. The repeal of
the Bankrupt law undoubtedly tended to swell
the nurnher
Year: 1879

THOSE WHO HAD OCCASION to travel up and
down the city yesterday found abundant reason
to bless the elevated roads. 1t was the first
New Years Of rapid transit, and the improved
facilities of travel contributed in no small de-
gree to the enjoyment of the day.
Year: 1879

Fourteenth army corps at Toulouse, died suddenly.
December 10. at midday from attack of apoplexy.


lie was prescnt only two days before at the funeral


service OF General Baudoin. chief of his STAFF and
Ind short address by the side of the grave.
Year: 1879

THE STABBING of a member Of an uptown So
cial club and the shooting of his supposed assail


ant by police officer yesterday morning was a
rather sanguinary celebration of New Years
Year: 1879

ANOTHER DARING BURGLARY has been perpe-
trated on Long Island, the victim this time be-
ing the postmaster at Mineola. little vigi
lance on the part of the police in that section is
in order.
Year: 1879

TIE Manufacturing yesterday the press
urc fell rapidly throughout the central valley
districts and the Middle Atlantic States. 1t is
rising slowly in all the districts west of the Mis-
sissippi Valley, particularly in the Northwest.
Rain fell in the South Atlantic and Gulf States
and snow in all the other sections. The winds
have been generally light throughout the coun-
try, except in the Northwest, where they arc
increasing in force The temperature has
been variable in the northern lake regions and
has risen generally elsewhere. Although the
barometer has fallen in the eastern districts, the
pressure is yet only relatively low, but the in
dicutions are that the decrease will be more
rapid during to-day and steep gradients will
probably DC formed over the coast districts
north of Cape Iiattcras during the next few
days. Tho snow storms reported in the West
have been very severe on account of the low
temperature that attends them From the special
cable despatch, printed elsewhere relating to the
weather in Europe, 1t would seem that the me-
teorological conditions were not very favorable
for the enjoyment of the Christmas and New
Years festivities. The weather in New York
and its vicinity to-day will be cold and cloudy,
with rain or snow Tomorrow it promises to
be colder and partly cloudy, with occasional
snow, followed by clearing.
Year: 1879

just at day-hvak, we came TO crossing
of the bayou where felt SURF the bear must
pass on the way 10 his den. Harvey placed
me, the dogs, and himself. A fallen tree
was i'm front, and through it's iutcrlaCcd
roots | could see in every direction. Hard
ly had we completed our ambush when a
quick movement of one OF the dogs startled
me But, i'm moment, noticing that his
looks were directed toward the crossing. |
too, looked thlthcr and heard the sound of
a heavy animal sauntering slowly over the
Soddcn ground and approaching my lair


In AN instant pair OF yellow ewes glared
AT me, and with as wide "A look of surprise
as there was in mine. Recovering myself
fired AT the monster, which appeared like
huge, animated black cloud as lac rnsc up
before me. The brute disappeared with the
smoke of my gun, but i'm moment was
startled 10y the report and shock OF "A second
discharge The other load of my gun had
been accidentally exploded. Looking i'm
the direction that the bear had taken. | saw
he had run along the other side of the fallen
tree and met the two dogs at the farther
end, when he turned about and came toward
me AT his most rapid speed and i'm savage
humor Then there was fearful crash
and rush The black mass came ON, with
eyes cleaning, aud bcwidcring me with
the reflection of their glare in the sunlight


! was conscious that my gun was useless,
and so instinctivcly grasped my pistol, but
found it hopclcssly cntanglcd i'm my belt


For aseCond, despair came upon me, but "A
sudden revulsion aroused every sense and
prompted me to defense for life. Quickly
drawing my knife, it was presented at u
thrust as the dark mass sprang at me. At
this moment, one of the huge dogs lcapcd
at him 50 tierccy AS To divert the monsters
attention from myself and make him miss
his bite. He reared, and as lac again came
down on his fore feet and was i'm the act of
going over the bank, plunged my knife to
the hilt into his body, in the region of his
heart. lie turned and made terrible
backward snapat my legs, hut at the mo-
mcnt fell backward over n bush. and ~
we all went into the bayou together, foun-
dcring i'm the water and mud | scrambled
TO the edge of the slough, and watched with
intense anxiety the result of the battle I'm
another moment, and when the bear had
nearly reached the farther side of the pool,
desperately fighting with the dogs every
inch of the way, heard rushing sound
and the whirring flight of more of the pack
as they sprang over me. I'm the same in
stant Il flash shot out from the brown barrel
of llarveys rifle, and the bear rolled over,
though he still fccbly fought the pack, and
kept on fighting to the last moment of his
existence To my modification, AN eXami-
nation of the huge carcass showed that my
shot had not made any visible mark ON the
animal, and that my knife had not quite
reached his heart lIarveys shot had killed
him. The weight of the savage animal was
over five hundred pounds.
Year: 1879

Instead of the contractor having the
quarry dirt hauled over Third street
bridge according to the contract, it ia
stated by one who claims to know, that
part of the dirt is being used for filling
up William McMenamin's lots in the
Eighth ward, and also for filling up
Chambers coal yard cor. Fourth and
Spruce. Councilman Moore has yard
which also might be leveled off with
this dirt, as it would be handler
place than taking it over Third street
bridge.
Year: 1879

This evening, the Delaware Regula-
tors will give their first grand ball in
Webster's Dancing Academy. A large
number Of tickets have been disposed
of, and the ball will no doubt be very
pleasant affair. The grand march will
positively take place at o'clock.
Year: 1879

Some weeks ago a railroad official
OF this city went east on summer
jaunt Among other places visited
was Warren, Pennsylvania. He had
an annual pass over the warren and
Tonawanda narrow gauge road" and
thought he would like to take ride.
Now, il appears that once upon a
time some enterprising citizens of
Pennsylvania concluded to lay pipe
line for petroleum between these
points, and applied to the legi lature
for q charter and were refused. They
then quietly engineered bill for the
building OF a narrow gauge road,
which, not interfering with any oil
capitalists, went through. Having
procured the right of way andachrist-
ened their oil line the Warren and
Tonawanda narrow gauge railroad"
they carried the joke to the extent Of
issuing annual passes over the road
which they sent TO railroad officials
all over the country, receiving passes
in return. The traveller found the
station at Warren nearly all chimney
and marrow gauge" an iron-lined
hole In the ground. He Is moved to
anger at the slightest reference to
the Warren and Tonawanda n.g
Year: 1879

Washington Correspondence Boston Journal


Among the many bloody duels
on record as having been
fought by Congressmep, was one In
which James Jackson, OF Georgia
who had been and who was after
ward United States Senator-was
the challenged party. He was an
Englishman by birth, but he went to
Savannah when a lad, studied law.
was a leading Freemason, and fought
gallantly in the revolutionary war.
He killed Lieutenant Governor Wells
in 1850, in duel, and was engaged
In several other "affairs OF honor"
until he finally determined to accept
a challenge. on such terms as would
make it his last duel. So he pre-
scribed as the terms that each party,
armed with a double barreled gun
loaded with buckshot, and with a
hunting-kni should row himself In
d skiff to designated points on oppo-
site sides OF the Savannah river.
When the city clock struck -, each
should row his skiff to a small island
in the middle of the river, which was
wooded and covered with under
brush. On arriving at the island each
was to moor his skiff, stand by it for
ten minutes, and then 60 about on
the island until the meeting took
place. The seconds waited on the
main land until after l o'clock, when
Year: 1879

New York Cor. Chicago journal.


At 20 time since the panic OF 1873
has there been such hopeful feeling
in business circles here as prevails at
the present time. Everybody ex-
presses the opinion that we have now
undoubtedly turned the corner, and
that in the future we are to have an
other era OF prosperity. The sales OF
some OF the mercantile houses dur
ing the past two weeks have been ex
ceedingly large. For example: A
Franklin street firm, dealing in cot
ton goods, whose sales for the past
three or four years have hardly
amounted to 5000 week, sold bills
OF goods on Tuesday and Wednes-
day Of last week amounting each day
to over 100000. Merchants from
Philadelphia report to me a similar
encouraging condition vi affairs in
that city. The trade with the south,
which existed prior to the war, is just
now rapidly reyiving, and the south
ern purchasers buy far more for cash
than heretofore. The activity OF
New York real estate undoubtedly
has had much to do in imparting ac-
tivity to trade circles. When the up
ward movement in real estate here is
fairly under way, an impetus will be
given to all branches of trade. and we
shall have lively times again.
Year: 1879

Charles May and his brother Rob-
ert. In the spring Of 1870, offered to
pass 10000 railroad ties down the
Arkansas from the mountain source.
He says: Our offer was accepted,
when We started into the upper en-
trance OF the canon with a large skiff
provided with six days provisions
and 200 feet OF rope, with which, by
taking a running turn around some
firmly planted object. we could lower
our boat hundred feet at time. In
this way, at the end OF three days.
having set adrift many hundred ties.
We reached the entrance 10 the ROYAL
Gorge. Here we discovered that an
attempt to descend the first waterfall
with two in the boat was certain de-
struction, and to return was impossi-
BILE. Accordingly / determined to
lower my brother down the fall in the
boat, distance OF two hundred feet,
give him the rope and let him take
The chance Of the canon Cite seemed
more certain in that direction), while
1 would risk my physical ability to
climb the canon wall, which was
about 1000 feet high.


about 10 o'clock in the morning |
shook hands with my brother, low
cred him in the boat safely to the
foot OF tho fall, gave him the rope,
and saw him no more. Then throw
ing aside my coat, hat and boots, ani
stripping the socks from my feet, l
commenced my climbing way. often
reaching the height OF one or two
hundred feet, only TO be compelled to
return to try some other way. At
length, about o'clock in the after-
noon, / reached height upon the
smooth canon wall OF about a thou
sand feet. Here my further progress
was arrested by shelving ledge OF
rocks that jutted out from the caneu
side foot or more. To advance was
without hope: to return, certain
death. Reaching upward and out
ward, / grasped the rim of the ledge
with one hand and then with the 9TH
er, my feet slipped from the smooth
side OF the canon, and my body hung
suspended In the air a thousand feet
aboye the roaring waters OF the Ar
kansas.


AT that moment I looked down.
ward to measure the distance / would
have TO fall when the strength of my
arms gave out. A singing sensation
crept through my hair as my eye
caught the strong root or a cedar
bush that projected out over the
ledge, little beyond my reach. Ny
grasp upon the rim OF the ledge was
fast yielding to the weight OF my per-
son. Then determined to make my
best effort to raise my body and
throw 1t sideways toward the root SO
as to bring it within my grasp. At
the moment OF commencing the effort
/ saw my mothers face as she leaned
,at over the ledge, reached down her
hand and caught me by the hair.
Stranger, my mother died while yet a
young woman, when and my broth
er were small boys, but 1 remember
her face. / was successful in making
the side leap OF my arms, when 1
drew myself upon the ledge and rest
ed for time. From here upward
my climbing way was laborious but
less dangerous. / reached the top OF
the canon just as the sun was sink
ing down behind the snowy range,
and hastensd to oul camp at the
mouth OF the canon, where 1 found
my brother all safe. Charley said
he. have you had your head in flour
sack?' 1t was then discovered that
my hair was as white as you see it
now."
Year: 1879

He Is fool. We mean the man,
who lets his baby cry all night in the
arms Of its mother. and does not
sleep a wink. when DR.. Bulls Baby
Syrup will quiet the baby by rriiev-
ing its pain; bottle costing only 25
cents.
Year: 1879

o mothers whose children are sleeping,


Thank God by their pillows tonight.
And pray for the mothers now weeping


Ger pillows too smooth and too white,
Where bright little heads oft have lain,


And soft little cheeks have been pressed;
o mothers who know rot this pain,


Take courage and and bear all the rest
For the onbre-winged angel is going


With pitiless flight DER the land,
And we wake in the morn, never knowing
What he. ere The night may demand,
Yes, tonight while our darlingS are sleeping
There's many a soft little bed,
Whose pillows are moisteDed with weeping
For the loss of one little dear head.
There are hearts on whose innermost altar
There is nothing but ashes, tonight;
There are voices whose tones sadly fatter.


And dim eyes that shrink from the light;
. mothers whose children are sleeping,


AS ye bend 10 careSS TIE fair heads,
Pray for the mothers now weeping


Ger pitiful, smooth little beds,
Year: 1879

The Centaur L;niments are of two kind
The White is for the human family; the Yell
low is for horses, sheep and other animals
Testimonials of the effects produced by these
remarkable preparations are wrapped around
every bottle, and may be procured of any
druggist, or by mail from the office of the
Centaur Company, 46 Dey street, New York
city.
Year: 1879

Biobbs was good fellow, but on account of
some arrangement of his system his head was
frequently ''of leetle." He WIS a shoemaker,
hence was closely confined all day, and very often
late at night He had constant headache with
pam IN tue back, loss of appetite, sour stomach
and constipation of the bowels. He frequently
arose in the morning with fever and dull headache.
He became morose, unsocial and Indifferent,


Blobbs sent half dollar to tie Drug Store for a
bottle of Bailey's Saline Aperient and few doses
cooled his stomach, opened his bowels. unlocked
his liver and he at once became a healthy and
happy man.
Year: 1879

The cry for ''strong" man. who will
give peace ami order and allow industry
aud commerce to revive, is foolish cry,
for peace and order are best attained By
a free aud virtuous people governing
themselves. -Neao York Tribune.


Some democrat must have written that
sentence and slipped it into the Tribune
''unheknownest" to the editor"
Year: 1879

The Wisconsin Republican State
Convention was held at Madison ON
the 23d. Governor Smith and all the
present State officers were renomina-
ted by acclamation. A platform was
adopted declaring the United States
to be a Nation and nota Confederacy
OF foreign States, and that its Gov
ernment is clothed with permanent
authority for the regulation of all
subjects of National concern; that it
is the duty of the National Govern
ment to enforce, the right of every
voter to the full exercise of suffrage
at Congressional elections; that the
Republican party is opposed to any
military interference with elections
except when it is necessary to main
Year: 1879

If the Minneapolis papers, iuclud-
ing the Farmers' Union. would con-
centrate their energies on legitimate
measures for promoting the interests
of the Minneapolis Fair, Instead of
abusing the State Agricultural Asso-
citation, they would be much more
creditably employed and their efforts
would receive very cordial endorse
ment. There is no objection, in any
quarter, to Fair at Minneapolis. 1t
would be a good thing and would
draw an immense crowd if run on it's
own merits, but the selfshness of
Minneapolitans is getting monoto-
nous. With them it is, always, Min
neapolis or nothing. We would
undertake to make good to them.
out Of the earnings of 4 country
newspaper during August, every cent
they have ever expended for any
purpose or on any project that was not
directly and exclusively for the bene-
fit of Minneapolis and that has been
the spirit of all their dealings with
the State Agricultural Association.
AS to the rival cities we have no
thought of saying anything in favor
Of st. Paul, except that, as a city she
is "broader gauge. 1t is the State
Agricultural Association that we de-
sire to see fairly dealt with. The
people have much greater interest
In its prosperity and the success Of
its Fair than they have in the Min
neapolis horse-race.
Year: 1879

There is some talk about an extra
session Of the Legislature during
the coming winter. The bill pro-
viding for biennial sessions is SO i'm
perfect that, it is claimed. an extra
session cannot be avoided. The no.
table defect in the bill is its failure
to provide for canvaSSing the votes
for railroad commissioner and dis
trict Judges.
Year: 1879

In the Matter of the Estate Of Carl An
ton Simondet Deceased.


Notice is hereby given that the Judge
of the Probate Court of Redwood County
has fixed upon the first Monday of each
and every month for the next six months,
and the Probate Office in said County, as
the times and place when and where he
will receive, hear, and adjust all claims
OF all persons against said deceased, and
that six months have been limited as the
time for creditors to present their claims
against said estate.


Dated the 2Sth day of June 1870,


JAMES HENRY SIMCNDET
IL. ID. BALDWIN Executor.


Attorney for Executor.
Year: 1879

BISMARCK, D. T., July 25.-The latest
from Fort Peck says courier has just
come from Miles and reported that be ex-
pected a battle with the Indians every day
There were sixteen hundred lodges south
of the Line.


The Eclipse arrived last night from the
Upper Missouri, bringing back badly
scared party of excursionists. Thlrty-five
miles above Musselshell she took on board
Lieutenant Wright's detachment of the
Fourth Infantry, that had been on a scout,
killing an Indian in a skirmish at Camp
Loder, at the mouth of Mussclshell.


About seventy Indians rose up as the
boat rounded point and made the shore
ring with their savage yells Their demon
strations were dramatically hostile, but no
attack on the boat was made.


Agent Henderson, of Wolf Point, sends
the particulars of the massacre of the Lam
bert family. They were two miles back of
the river on the prairie hunting, when the
Indians circled around them and COM
menced firing.


Lambert had only three cartridges he
used them to the best advantage, and after
his horse was shot he fell dead by the ami
mails side. His wife and four children
were killed and scalped. His two little
boys who were found and ferried across at
Wolf Point on log raft were so seriously
wounded that they can not live.


One was shot in the side and the other in
the back, with his forehead smashed in and
his eye out Lambert was an intelligent
half breed, noted for his friendship to the
whites.
Year: 1879

The course % the weariest river


Ends In the great. gray sea
The acorn. forever and ever.


SERVES upward % the tree
The rainbow. the sky adJruiug.


shines promise through the storm
The aIimmer Of coming morning


Through midnight gloom viii form
By time all knots are riven,


Complex although they De.
And peace will At last be given.


Dear, both 20 you and me.
Then. though the path may be dreary.
Look onward 20 the goal
Though the heart and the head b. weary.
Let faith inspire the soul.
Seek the right. though the wrong be tempting
speak truth At any cost
Vain f. all weak eIempting


When once the gem Is lost
Let strong hand and keen eye be ready
For plain and ambushed foes
Thought earnest and fancy steady


Bear best unto the close.
The heavy clouds may be raining.
But with evening comes the light
Through the dark low winds complaining.
Yet the sunrise gilds the hight
And love has his hidden treasure
For the patient and the pure
And Time gives his full measure
To the workers who endure
And the Word The - l----sa-s saAsen
HAS the future pledge supplied:
For We know that when we awaken
We shall be '' satisfied"
Year: 1879

TELEGRAPHlC.
The Veto of the Legislative APP


preparation Bill.
The Presidents Message Sent


Into the Senate.
An Able and Logical Enunciation
of True Republican Principles
In Important Ruling of the


Treasury Department.
Year: 1879




FRIDAY, July IL p. M.


1t is no fault of the Stock Exchange historian that
he obliged to record the fact that today business
In the Board room differed but little from that Of
yesterday either in magnitude of transactions or in
aegree OF fluctuations. At the opening the market
was in most cases lower. and general inclination
TO sit upon prices" was tho prevailing idea. Tow
ard midday the market showed some signs of anima-
tion, eventually struggled to its legs and finally
stood holt upright with the best nearly the best
prices of the session being registered at the close
The rally from the droop of the morning and the
better prices which followed were apparently due to
the strong support lent in the first place to the
Northwesterns. and next in order to Lake Shore In
both of these stocks there was evidence Of good
and persistent buying. This fact being acknowl
edged. 1t only remained to put finger upon the
purchasers In response more than one digit pointed
to Mr. Vanderbilt and most operators inclined
to believe that the gentleman referred to had these
stocks pretty much under his thumb. Because they
were there, or supposed to be there quotations were
stronger and higher. 1t is generally believed that
Mr. Vanderbilt and his following have been liberal
buyers of Lake Shore and Northwest during the past
few days. and to this belief may be traced the frm
ness of these stocks. There further recession
in Louisville and Nashville early the day. subse-
quent rally and q final decline during the
last hours. Whether purchasers wore wanting
because there was pressure to sell. whether
the existing fear of yellow fever epidemic rendered
weak holders timorous Is open question:; it is
enough to say. however. that. from the
other there existed greater to sell than to
buy. There was less controversy to-day about crop
prospects, In spite If the knowledge that injury to
the standing grain has been suffered In some places
1t is conceded that the general wheat crop will be
quito up to the average of last year. Judging by the
foreign reports of the prospects of the European
wheat fields it Is fair to presume that nothing more
than meagre crop be expected. and that the re-
lance for breadstuffs must mainly rest upon this
country. With this fact assured there can be little
doubt of the enormous traffic to be afforded to our
trunk roads. of tho probability that the values of
Western railroad shares will be materially enhanced.
The extreme fluctuations of the day in leading
shares are given in the following tablet