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Year: 1879

The WEATnER.-Th last of the two centres
of disturbance is now moving into the ocean
through the Gulf of st. Lawrence. attended by
brisk winds and very little precipitation. 1t is
followed by large area OF high barometer, the
rentre Of which is over the Upper Missouri
Valley. The pressure continues relatively low
In the Gulf and South Atlantic States, but the
indications are that IL will increase soon. Rain
fell in the lower lake regions and on the New
England coast aud snow showers were
general throughout tho Northwest and III
some sections of the upper lakes. The
weather was fair in the central valleys
and ON tho Middle Atlantic and New England
coasts Elsewhere it was cloudy. The tenn
perature has fallen in NIL the districts except on
the Gulf coast The winds have been brisk In
all the northern districts and light elsewhere.
The weather over the British Islands is still
unsettled, but a change is likely TO take place.
The weather in New York and its vicinity to-
day will be cold aud fair. Tomorrow the same
conditions will prevail
Year: 1879

The manager of the Neuchatel Asphalte
Company addresses us a communication on
the advantages of asphalt. He gives US
good deal of scientific information. We
are far from denying the advantages of
asphalt. 1t is one of the gifts of God But
1t was never given for pavement. For
skating rink nothing could be better. Peo-
pie in New York prefer to drive their horses
and not skate them. The horse Is intelli-
gent and could no doubt be taught to
skate, and might acquire skating gait
that would make our boulevards even more
interesting than now with our fast trot-
ters careering on to Jerome Park. But
no one in tho community really cares Tor
the experiment.


Another disadvantage of asphalt is in our
climate. The summers and winters are
aeainstit. The best road for New York is the
macadamized, which combines all the ad-
vantages OF perfect road and has none Of
the disadvantages of wood, asphalt, gram
ite, cobblestohe, tar and the other elemen ents
with which experiments are constantly
made III Fifth avenue could be macad-
amized it would be as easy for horse and
driver as the Champs Elys6es. There is no
better road in the world than the Champs
Elys6es. We have no doubt if the residents
OH Fifth avenue were canvassod they would
pronounce in favor of such road with
practical unanimity. It would be we'll for
some OF our citizens to make such cam
Year: 1879

had been used for the ponies, and they
resented being deprived of their no.
madic liberty With Indians in this mood,
ignorant and suspicious, remembering
many wrongs, wanting confidence in the
assurances OF agents who had betrayed them
and their ancestors; seeing that, to use their
own phrase, when land felt the plough
it would soon pass to the pale, strong race !;
hearing of the advance of the white men in
search of coal and silver and gold; their
fears played upon by mischievous white
adventurers who did not fancy Mr. Meek
ers sentimental notions about temperance
and giving Indians lands instead of kill
ing them, we can understand how the mas
sacre came. And while we deplore its con-
sequences we cannot but be thankful that
the work of murder was stayed, that the
ladies of the agents family were spared and
that Colorado will be saved a cruel, ritiless
and exhausting war.


While, therefore, we dwell with admira-
ton upon the heroic episodes OF frontier
phine Meeker and her mother, we cannot
dismiss the subject without repeating our
opinion that there will be no peace on the
frontiers and no justice either to the white
or red man until our government adopts a
firm and honorable policy. We must
deal with the red man as with white
and black He should live like his fellows,
but he can only live in peace when he
learns industry, frugality aud peace. That
is the law of all prosperity, and the Indian
cannot escape it. Until our government
learns this there will be massacre and
wrong, until the final chapter Of Indian
history will repeat what has been written
in SO many previous chapters-anarchy
perfdy, rapine. war and annihilation.
Year: 1879

In the constitution of the State OF New
York are these words: s:"No law shall be
passed to restrain or abridge the liberty OF
speech or OF the press" If Surrogate CAL
vim in the hearing of the Marx will case
had remembered this yesterday he would,
perhaps, not have expressed his opinion
that ''a law should be passed" in abridg-
ment OF the liberty of the press, since he
might have reflected that his law would
have been of no great value to him when
opposed to the constitutional guarantee.
Judges who charge journalists with want
OF consideration of the dignity of courts
should themselves show some little consid-
Grafton for the constitution.
Year: 1879

The letter from Drogheda given in to-
days HERALD depicts the growth through
out Ireland of the agitation of the relations
OF landlord and tenant and shows the revo-
lutionary character OF the movement. AS
the case is presented by our CORES pondent
the Irish farmers refuse now to resort to
the great remedy for all their troubles
that hns availed hilherto-fight to
the United States. This time they
will not leave. They believe there Is
less room here than there was formerly,
and they have not the means to emigrate; (;
they are discouraged On that side and are
determined to face the difficulty and fight
it out They cannot pay tho rent; the land
lords cannot live without it. II eviction is
tried they will resist, and that, OF course,
leads to open revolt against the laws This
issue has displaced all others in Irish poll
itics. Home rule is fclt to be IL piece of
sentimental moonshine by comparison with
this practical extension OF its fancies to linz
its that set aside all rule, and in q new
election Ireland will return some members
whose politics will clearly be Of an extremely
radical type.
Year: 1879

''A Liberal Catholic" reOpens in our
columns this morning the question pro-
pounded in the San as to whether John
Kelly is running his canvass upon the in
teresting domestic fact that he happens by
marriage to be nephew OF His Eminence
Cardinal McCloskey. When the Church
and State touch in politics it is never for
the good of the Church or the State, and
the wisest men in the Catholic faith are
those who have gratefully accepted the toler-
ance shown to the Church under the insti-
tutions Of country where Professionalism
predominates, and avoided even semblance
of sympathy with our political parties.
This being the case, and Mr.. Kelly, what
ever his eccentricities in politics, having
always shown conservative good sense in
religion, we are inclined to think that the
writer in the Sun is North American
Protestant, and not North American "Cath-
olic." and that his purpose is to unite the
Protestant vote against the Catholic by
appealing to religious sympathies. We
have seen such expedients in politics be-
fore.


Our own view is that Mr.. Kelly is wronged
in this matter and that especial wrong is
done to the Cardinal. Cardinal McCloskey
is of gentle, retiring nature, whose hap
piest hours are those spent in the closet over
his breviary; who has opposed all burning
issues in the Church, feeling that under our
free institutions Catholicism would grow
naturally, in silence and at the same time
in vigor. He does not foster antagonisms
and has none of the turbulent genius of
Archbishop Hughes, who believed the
Church never fourished SO we'll as in a
storm. Under the Cardinals rule the
Church has had peace. When Arch
bishop Hughes was on the archiepiscopal
throne there were anti-Catholic, Know
Nothing, anti-Popery parties without num-
ber For this reason the suggestion that
the Cardinal would raise finger or turn the
glance of his eye, even to advance the for
tunes Of a favorite relative, is absurd. 1t
would be doing violence to his whole
career. There may be some willy and am
bilious priests, as we frequently have in
New York, who busy themselves in the
election, as they have done in other matters
that do not concern them. But the Cardinal
does not know OF such intrigues.


| We will do Mr.. Kelly the justice to say
that he has always shown proper respect
to his Church in his dealings with
politics. A devout man, unbending
in his piety, foremost in all works
to advance the Church and with the
advantage of high and ilustrious connec-
ton, he has never yielded to the temptation
of using Catholicism as he uses Tnmmany
Hall. We think Mr.. Kelly is too sincere in
his faith to degrade it by trying
to tie the Cardinal, the clergy and the
various institutions OF the Church as so
many bobs TO the tail of his kite. SO far as
we can see he is making his grotesque and
eccentric Canvass tor Governor entirely
upon his own personal and secular merits,
as stubborn, pg-hcaded, revengeiul man,
giddy with power and blind with ambition,
and not as the nephew of the Cardinal and
devoted follower of Rome. Unfortunately
he is willing to run any risk with Tammany
Hall in his mad experiments, but he has
never degraded his Church by dragging it
into the arena.
Year: 1879

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket opened strong, but under the pressure oftight
money and the timdity caused by the action Of
Comptroller Knox in regard to certifying checks
1t later declined and was weak until the closing
hour when considerable recovery was made.
Money on call was active at z per cent and u
commission of 1-16 to Il Of one per cent II day.
Governments were steady. State and railway
bonds were fairly active and irregular.
Year: 1879

CASADAs PRoDucTs are finding their way to
the United States, and doing so to an extent
that has materially raised the rates of water
transportation. There is nothing strange about
this, for Canada's natural market is not on the
other side of the ocean, but directly south of the
st. Lawrence and the lakes.
Year: 1879

FORMERLY He WAS INDUSTRIOUS, but for
The last few years had been addicted to drink"
After that one will wonder that he threw
himself under the wheels Of railway train
"Wednesday evening.
Year: 1879

THE ILLINOIS CLERGYMAN who complained
against some confidence men and was sent to
the House of Detention has been released, but
can preach understandingly about the man who
went from Jerusalem to Jericho.
Year: 1879

SOME PEOPLE determined that General
Grant shall be called President again; he
declines to go to the White House several rail
way companies are reported intending to
make him their president.
Year: 1879

Gen. Walker, superintendent Of
the census is anxious that we
should initiate the example OF
England in the way of taking q
census and publish the census OF
1880 within a very short time after
it is taken. The census OF 1860
was not published until 1868, and
the census OF 1850 only appeared
In 1869. There is no excuse for
this hardness. 1t takes away all
the true value OF q census, and in
stead of making il a feature OF the
condition of the country, leaves it
valuable only from historic point
of yiew,-N, o, Democrat.
Year: 1879

TIE CONDITION OF MR.. BLACK, who was shot
at CINCINNATI yesterday by George Price, was
very critical last night. He had discharged
Price for larceny of tobacco. Price on being
arrested said he was pleased with the result Of
his murderOuS effort
Year: 1879

The Republicans Of the Seventh
Ward will meet on Thursday evening
at Bullock s Office on Tenth street be-
tween Orange and Tatnall. A full al
tendance of the members of the Ward
Is desired as important business will be
transacted.
Year: 1879

undersigned takes this his thanks
the people of Yankton particularly and to his
friends throughout Dakota and Nebraska for the
DUDLEY HAWLEY through the many years in which
that firm has carried business in this city, and h.
desires to call the attention of these friends and that
the people generally the enlarged facilities exten
sive assortment commodous which the late
firm had provided and which of Dudley
& Hawley, possesses.


In the line of the Hardware trade in
of Tin Copper and Sheet Iron Ware he claims
tabshment equal in all to anything
west occupying three grand each 25xloo
tent.


to the Hardware trade of the region which naturally ~
utary to to this point centeFed her spare
make it for the interest Of the people within this region
chase their Hardware nware Copper Sheet ware
Stoves, and all other articles in this line from


Yours gratefully and respectfully,
GEO. e. HAWlEY,


Union Block, Third st.
Year: 1879

Yesterday afternoon as Mr.. Philip
Stotsenbuig, was going down The front
steps of his residence, he slipped and
fell breaking one of his legs. He seems
to be unfortunate as it has only been a
short time since he broke one OF his
arms.
Year: 1879

HE BELIEVES HIS LIFE SAVED By THE
PRAYERS OF HIS PEOPLE.


/ The editor of the Columbia g. c.
/ Register, in the course of a most interest
+ ing account of visit to Govern Hamp-
/ ton, whom he found greatly improved IN
strength and steadily recovering from the
severe trials through which he has recent
/ ly passed, tells a striking story OF dream


which the Governor had at the crisis of
1 his case, and tells it in the Governors
own words. The visitor, about to take
his leave, said to the Governor cat
least in all your serious illness you had
the devoted love Of your own people"


"Ah, yes, sir, was the hearty, deep


toned reply, never man more, [ believe,
| as confidently as [ do that l live,
! that the prayers OF the people saved


my life. [ will tell you why | feel


and believe it so firmly. Whilst | was
lying here at the point Of death AID had
become utterly Indifferent whether /
lived or died | got letter from an old
Methodist preacher, one fmy Old friends.
He wrote me word informing me Of the


deep and devout petitions put up in
behalf Of my restoration by the Metho-
dist Conference then in session at New
berry. He then urged upon me to ex
ercise my will TO live in response to the
supplicatlons of the people of the whole
State, who were praying for me night and
day in every household in the State.


My sister, who had tremblingly brought


the letter to my bedside and read it to


me, then urged me to listen to the kind,
! loving words of the man of God and to
rouse my will to live, and promised her
to do SO. | fell into a deep sleep that
night, and the most vivid dream | ever
| experienced in my life crossed my slum


bers. | dreamt was in ; acious room,
and that in it | was moved to all parts Of
the State, so that | met my assembled
| friends everywhere. | remember most
| distinctly OF all, old Beaufort, where |


had last been. 1t seemed there were


immense assemblages, and as l looked
/ down upon them a grave parsonage APP
preached me and touched me on the
| shoulder and said to me: These people


are all praying for you. Live, live, liven


l never realized anything like it before.


l seemed a vision. | woke the next morn
/ ing feeling the life blood creeping through


my veins, and | told my family the crisis


was passed and | would get better"


At the close of the touching and thrill


ing relation, we babe him good bye,


heartily wishing him a speedy recovery


and many, many long years Of health
| and usefulness.
Year: 1879

Halifax Chronicle


This time Dartmouth is the happy
town which Is the scene of the turning
up OF husband who was supposed, aud
ought TO have been. dead A ship car
penter met his fate in the shape of q
bloomIngyoung lady. They were married
ana for few months all went merrily


Then a cloud came over the matrimoninl
sky, aad there was weeping and wailing
where once all was bliss. The cloud
came IN this manner: The husband found
1t necessary To 60 somewhere in the coun.
try on business. The wife did not hear
from him, and, on inquiry, found that he
had never arrived at his destination


Weeks slipped by, then weeks became
months, and no tidings of the lost hus
band could be obtained. Over two years
| passed, aud the deserted wife mourned
the loss of the departed, and felt that
there was hiatus iE her young life
which could never be filed. She was
young. Adjoining her pew in church
was one occupied by a gentleman who
had long regarded her with admiration.
After a long time it was noticed that
sometimes both were in the same pew,
and it soon became evident that they
were more than friends. Two years and
a half had passed away; surely number
one could not be in the land of the hv
ing. OF course no one else could ever
quite fill the blank left by him; but then
the gentleman who went to church was
nice man, so agreeable, and offered such
sweet words of comfort. They married,
and for month or so happiness reigned
once more in that Dartmouth household.
Then another cloud put in an appearance
in the shape Of letter from husband No.
l. He was very much alive, and wanted
to know what his wife meant by her con
duct. He had been living all the time in
Hants county, working at the shoemak
ing business. She was in ii dilemma
most confounding She loved them
both, and oh. chow happy she could be
with either were 'tother dear charmer
away" beyond the possibility Of returning
No l, not being 0ne of those lovely, self
sacrificing men, emhodying all that is
good and noble in human nature, didn't
come to look at his wife by moonlight
through the parlor window, and then
weep tears of sorrow and steal away to
die alone, like the Enoch of the poem.
No, this Enoch wanted to know how she
could have been so unfaithful to him as
to marry again, and insisted on her com
| ing to him at once and never looking on
the sorrowing countenance of number
two again. Sne took legal advice, and
then separated from number two. For a
time the two separate pews in the church
we're again occupied. Then both were
empty, and it became known that she had
decided in favor Of number two, was liv
| ing with MIN, and had some big brothers
VINO promised to punch number one if he
ever gave them a practical evidence of
his existence in this wDrl |. Thus the
matter stands, and fur her developments
are anxiously awaited.
Year: 1879




A white man by name Uf Cooper came
near freezing to death few nights since
about three miles from Covingtou. 1t
appears that the young man was riding
horse and became so cold that he could
not ride. He turned his horse loose and
laid down in the corner of the fence to
await the coming of a party of hunters.
He went to sleep, and all his limbs were
frozen. Even the flesh from his legs was
ready to drop from the bones But his
faithful dog, lying close beside him,
seemed to take in the horrible situation
of his master, and making his bed upon
the legs of the frozen man warmed them
into life again. It was by the heat Of
the dog that Mr.. Cooper was enabled to
get up and walk, else he would have
frozen to death.
Year: 1879

From A c. Redwood's "reminiscences in


Midwinter Scribner.


A single fife and drum-the whole
regimental field music-are sguealing and
humping the last notes OF an old time
melody which has clung to the command
through all its fortunes it is run,
nigger, run de paterol ketch you !"
often heard in the days when the war
was young In space between the tents,
serving in lieu of more pretentious parade
about dozen men are ranged in an
irregular line facing the orderly sergeant,
and my little soldier falls into his ace
just as the roll-call begins. 1t is short
work now, but memory intersperses the
list with many names in the order in
which they were committed to its keeping
in the old days-names to which no man
will ever answer again until the reveile
of the eternal morning shall sound. The
sergeant hesitates more than once, as his
thought corrects his tongue, which was
wont to run over the longer array so
glibly; and at each such pause there rises
up before US the apparition of some
familiar face as it used to beam upon US
in life, or perhaps as we last looked upon
it, CHASTITY and grim beneath the stains
of battle, ere We folded our comrade in
his bloody blanket shroud, and laid him
in his shallow grave. From dank
Chickahominy marsh and fertile Penn
sylvania valley, from the tangled thickets
of the Wilderness, the sterile slopes OF
Manassas, the dreary pine levels of the
Southside, :he ghosts Of the old company
come back TO OUTAGE the living witnes-
ses of its valor, and challenge their
sturdy Here !" with an answer prouder
still.
Year: 1879

Hon J. Key, the distinguished represen-
tative of Aloorn county in the State Leeis-
lature, has recently returned from visit to
the river counties. and he informs us that it
Is his intention to locate in Washing on
county as soon as he can arrange his affairs
here so that he eanle leave. Mr. Key is a gem
tIemaH Of sterling worth, and the people of
this county, who fully appreciate him, will
regret his removal from among us,
Year: 1879

Gen. Butler Tells Why He Voted


Fiiy-seVen Times for Jefferson


Davis.


Minneapolis Tribune


The following letter was received a
few days ago by gentleman Of this
city:


BosToN, Mass, Jan. 3, 1879.


DEAR SIR do not know as I ought
to write you to decide bet, because YOU
ought not to bet. But to set YOU right
in a matter of history in which you seem
to be interested, allow me to say that in
the Democratic Convention at Charles
ton, South Carolina, in the year 1860, l
voted fifty seven times, as | remem Der it,
for Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, after
ward President of the Confederate States,
as candidate for the Democratic party,
for President. He was not before the
Convention as a candidate, for my vote
and that of one of my colleagues were
the only ones he had. | believed him to
be representative man of the South,
and subsequent events have shown that |
was right. And l believed then, and /
believe now, that if he could have been
nominated for President and elected, the
war would have been saved and the at
tempted disuniOn prevented, for he
would have been chosen to be President
over thirty-two States rather than fifteen,
and my experience has been that the
North always got more consideration on
questions of human liberty from South
ern statesman as President before the
war than it did from Northern dough
face, and that remains true down to the
present time. BENZ. f. BUTLER.
Year: 1879

The new departure Of leaving your
order on Saturday night with Davis,
Southeast corner of Seventh and Mar
kst streets, to have a copy Of either a
New York or Philadelphia Sunday pa.
per left at your residence in the morn
ing, is very convenient one. "A sample
copy sent free to any address upon ap
plication. All the news and the truth
about the news up to 2 o'clock in the
Open all day.
Year: 1879

This question is often asked,
and should be made much more
a study for orindividual cases than
it is. The mother Of one OF our
United States senators asked
herself this question, and an
swered is practically for herself
and child. Her child's father
was dissipated, and also his
grandfather. Should she raise
the object of her life's work, in
which was centered all her hopes
for future comfort, in the reck-
less drifting way that many pa
rents do, simply hoping that all
will come out right in the end.
No; she pondered the matter well
In her heart, and labored In sea-
son and out Of season with her
boy in prayer, and taught him
by precept and example the dan,
ger of his Inheritance; that total
abstinence for him was his only
chance foY freedom. Mothers,
fear not to teach and stimulate
your child to shun the tempta-
lion which he cannot overcome.


This man has lived to do his
country great service, and TO
give the personal testimony that
he should never have been able
toresist a drunkard's indulgence,
had he ever allowed himself to
tamper with the wine, cup. But |.
ever in after life, IN times OF
great nervous and physical eX


haustion, at seasons OF the
strongest temptations to indulge
in stimulating drinks for an
emergency, this great and good
man asserts 5ilat nothing could
have saved him but the eager
imploring expressions OF his
mothers face, as she comes IN
vision before him now as she