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Year: 1879

Henry Ward Beecher, in a recent SER
mon. said:


I'VE are told that in Adams fall we
sinned ALL but don't believe any such
nonsense. II | am to Ike punished etcr-
nally for what my great-great- great grand
father did six thousand years ago. might
as well give up. am responsible for
Henry Ward Beecher's conduct, and not
for the naughtiness Of my ancestors.
There is wickedness that Is original with
me that is much greater than any deviltry
may have inherited. If Adam put poi
son into the ocean six thousand years ago.
then that poison must be- very thin by this
time. in fact, too thin to do much harm.
1t is n,caner than dirt for us to sin and law
it to Adam. Let Adam answer for HIM
self and we for ourselves. Let us reme,n-
her that we are tree moral agents. and
that our duty is to labor for righteous
ness"
Year: 1879

Or. I. S. Lambert, of New YORK, is con-
fident that large majority of persons
drowned, if taken out Of the water within
a few hours-or even few days-can be
restored to life by the proper application
Of heat to the body. According to his
theory of resuscitation, when taken out of
the water the drowned person should be
turned upon his face for a moment only.
to allow any water in his nose or throat to
to run out, then his wet clothes should be
removed and replaced by the warm under
clothes Of bystanders, II none other arc
available. several tbicknesses being applied
Year: 1879

WE are glad to see that the HER
AIDS suggestion OF Hon. e. w.
McKinstry for the Democratic
nomination for Vice-President is
receiving the serious consideration
the eminence and popularity of the
man merit. He would be tower
of strength to the party, and men
of all politics recognize this fact.
The McKinstry "boomp is certain
to grow upon the Pacific Coast.
Year: 1879

, facilities OF the HERALD Steam
ing House for doing job work are not
aesod In California outside of San


CISCO and Sacramento. All work en-
ID to MS will be executed with neat
& and dispatch at the lowest living
Year: 1879

THE practices of the Oneida COM
munity are as much more degrading
and bestial than the polygamy of the
MormOns as murder is worse than
larceny. Yet this hotbod of lust has
been quietly tolerated for many years,
while the people Of the Eastern States
have been exhausting their forces to
destroy polygamy in Utah. Having at
length seen check put upon the
lesser evil, some Of the good people Of
the State Of New York propose to see
if anything can be done toward cradi


eating the social cancer at Oneida.
Some of the customs Of these people
are so vile that they cannot be de-
scribed in a public journal. 1
Year: 1879

When the season for making pres
ents comes, make some sufferer of
your acquaintance present of DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup, and note the ben
eft it will do him and the happiness
you will receive.
Year: 1879

There are thirteen regular drinking
saloons in Murfreesboro, and thirty
one business houses in which whisky
is sold. In the majority of these
houses whisky can be bought by the
drink.
Year: 1879

Judgments are prepared for the
backs OF fools and everlasting pun
ishment for hin that payeth not
for his newspaper


A wise son makes "a glad father
and a prompt paying subscribor
caUseth an editor % laugh.


Folly is a JOY that Is destitute OF
wisdom; but delinquent subscribers s
causeth the suffering in the house
Of IA newspaper maker.


All the ways Of a man are clean
in his own eyes, except the way the
delinquent subscriber hath In not
paying for his newspaper.


Better is a little with righteous
ness than thousand subscribers
who fail 20 pay what they owe.


A just weight and balance are the
Lords, but that which is due on
your newspaper Is the publishers
thereof.


Better is the poor man who walk
eth in integrity than the rich man
who continually telleth TIE "deyil'
TO call again.


A righteous nun hateth lying,
hence the editor wakes wrOth
against the subscriber who prom
ises TO call and SETTLE tomorrow, yet
calbth not 10 settle.
Year: 1879

Twas milking time, and the cows came up


From the meadows sweet with clover,
And 500 l in the lane, while pretty Jane


Had quiet chat with the droveT-
Such a quiet chat that it scarcely seemed


That a single word was spoken;
While a magic spell with the night dews fell
Aud the rythm Of song was unbroken.
The cattle stood at the lovers side,


without any show of vexation,
As though impressed that five bar rest


Was a part of their restoration.
And as Jane listened to the notes that came


Right under the bars and over,
Her heart took wing. the silly thing,


And Lestled up close TO the drover.
She heard him say his home was poor,


That he'd nothing but love To give her;
And she smiled content, as though Love had


spent


Every arrow he had in his CULVER;
She smiled content, when the evening air


With voices of birds are ringing,
And her Ii ps confessed that a lcwly nest


Should never prevent her singing.
So over the barr the lovers lean,
In the Joy Of their sweet communion;
And their looks declare that poverty ne'er
Shall be q bar to their union;
o, sweetest music go thread your rhymes


Now under the bars and overi
Where pretty Jane, in the fragrant lane,


BewiIched the heart of the drover.
Year: 1879

Don't fail TO prepare for planting
orchards this spring. The farmer
who has a generous supply of good
apples in the cellar In winter, is TO
be congratulated They make good
pies, good dumplings, are good
stewed, baked or raw. They are
healthy food for children and old
folks too. The acid of ripe fruit is
said to be an aatidote for worms in
children, and that children with
plenty of apples to eat are never
troubled with them. Baked apples
and bread and milk furnish a re-
past good enough for anybody
There are some persons that like
milk; but it does not digest well.
It forms curd in their stomachs. II
trey will use baked or stewed ap-
plies with their milk, they will expe-
rience no such trouble, as we have
learned by experience The juice
Of the fruit itself prevents the for


nation of the cu.d, and the food
taken is easily digestible, healthy
and nutritious Nearly all kinds
of food are digested easier II fruit
is INDUCED in at meals. The cheap
ness, healthfulness and nutrition
quality of fruit should recommend
It's careful culture by every farmer.
Year: 1879

A reunion of plug uglies Is to
take place soon. DR.. j. Tol. Grant
is to superintend the matter and
hold an election for officers. The
race for Captain is waxing warm.
The contest for the prize medal will
be hotly fought We don't wish to
bias anybody, but we call to mind
one of the company who, in our
opinion, should have the medal.
His squalid body stands on a pair
of rickety legs twisted by rheuma-
tism into knots and bows, the whole
frame making a shapeless mass OF
graceless, rawboned, grotesque dis
tortion. His head looks as If made
oil the odds and ends left in Great
ing other peoples, bumpy and
scraggy, his eyes set like grease
Spots on the kitchen wall, his nose
looking like hunk of raw spoiled
beef turned wrong side out, his
mouth like a wagon track through
a mudhole, his ears like stable door
shutters rotted and hanging by one
hinge, the whole together having 8
tragic mic, clownish, cadaverous.
frightful.appearance about like the
spot made by a rotten egg mashed
against a smokehouse door. We
enter him
Year: 1879

If anybody is curious to know
what's the matter with Athens
about this time we can relieve them
in . few words. There are too
many idlers in the community, old
aud young, black and white; too
many sitting around, industriously
engaged in doing nothing from Gay
to day, week to week, month to
month, and from year TO year;
many of them too lazy to labor at
any useful employment, and others
are too proud. And what is true
of this place is true OF every town
in the State that we know anything
about Athens Post.


We didn't know there was anoth-
er town in the world like Pulaski.
Year: 1879

Franklin Patriot: 1t is quite diff
ficult at times TO get 'the right OF Il
story. The other day while AT
work at our desk, we heard some
thing of an uproar in the street and
FASTENED TO the front window
TO investigate the matters. BY the
time we reached the window the exj
citement had subsidized, bat we
beard some one say something
about o runaway hoss& We want
Year: 1879

Knoxville Tribune: In Tennessee
our people have been taught by a
certain class of politicians that
there is and must he ali irrepressi-
BILE conflict between the people and
the railroad corporations of the
State. These gentlemen seem to
lose sight of the fact that the rail
roads are a necessity to the State,
and that no State can compete with
the producers of the world without
the presence of railroads.
Year: 1879

The rampant rebel Legislature of
Texas has just had a case of con-
test between IA negro and a white
man. The negro was entitled to
the seat, and it was given to him.
We shudder to think. OF the conse-
quences had the case been different.
Year: 1879

About a year aud a half go Mr..
NJ. McDuffey was killed. in an in
toxicated state, on the streets of
Meridian. Mr.. Hale, the saloon
keeper who sold him the whisky,
was sued by the wife and children
of the Stayed man. The case was
tried last week by the Circuit Court
at Meridian, and a judgment rem
dered against the saloon keeper in
favor of the wife and children for
$3.50. This action was brought
under the statute making it penal
ofense to sell whisky TO drunk
man or to make him drunk.
Year: 1879

MILK IN WINTRR.-The cows OF many farmers
'go dry" In wfnter-that Is cease 70 give milk.
Farmers think the fault is with the cows but
the fault is really their own. The trouble is the
COWS are not well fed and comfortably shelter
ed. They cannot give much milk without an
abundance OF food TO make It. Their own nat
ural wants require certain amount OF food 10
keep life and health and strength. III they get
only enough food TO secure these ends how they
can give milk? IL would be like asking a man
TO give you money when he had none. Good hay
coarse food, and corn meal can't be beat for
nutritious food. IL is little too concentrated,
but one part OF corn meal and Two or three
parts OF wheat bran make an excellent food for
milch cows, and pound or two ground oil-cake
mixed with this feed makes splendid diet for
milk.-[ Rural World.
Year: 1879

The DAVENPORT INVESTIGATION was continued
in New York yesterday. Several witnesses
testified to the knowledge of intimidation Sen
ator Wagstaff said that while his district was
mainly republican he thought that many dem-
commissioner Davenport opened his defense
after recess. He examined a large number OF
chief, special and deputy marshals On duty on
election day, all Of whom testified positively
that there was no discrimination whatever
made on election day between voters as to what
party they belonged to. republican, democrat
or ant1-Tammany, and that while the majority
OF the persons arrested were democrats, there
were numbers arrested who voted the comblna-
tiOn ticket
Year: 1879

QUARANTINE VS.. YELLOW FEVER DR. Van
0elpool, In charge Of the quarantine station at
New ork, In his recent report to the Quaran-
tlne commission Of that city, states that from
the 9th or June last until the last of September
lnele was not an interval of three DAYS In
which the bay Of New York was free from VEL
low FEVER brought by vessels arriving from in
1ected ports. He aScribeS the absence of any
excitement from this cause among the peopie
OF New York to the thorough manner i'm when
the quarantine regulations were carried out.
he ventures also to assert that New Orleans
Wo9ld nave been as exempt from yellow fever
as New York If its quarantine had not ignored
lHe elementary principles that govern such in
St1tut1ons In other places Two principles. ;,
ne says must be regarded, first, the incuba-
i've period OF the disease; and second, its mode
or manner OF transmissiOn.' These recogniZed
and he is Of the opinion that a uuaranfine az
New Orleans could be made as effective as at
; New y York s, Nevertheless, he holds that the
way to deal with yellow fever is to attack ft
where it originates. AS he regards Havana az
the principal hotbed OF this terrible epidemic
he suggests that through President HAYES ..the
government OF Spain be solicited to unite with
this government in the appointment of an in
ternat1onal commission, who shall proceed to
havana with a view to examine the sanitary
surroundings of that city and their relations 70
the propagation OF the scourge, and that the
Spanish government be earnestly requested to
carry out fully the joint recommendations OF
such commission"
Year: 1879

TROUT JUMPING FOR OXYGES.-The recent cold
weather destroyed the trout fishery OF T. c. Fra
Aer, between 1ruckee and Lake Tahoe The
trout require fresh running water. and when
tie supply Is cut off II Is impossible or them TO
survive mere than two or three days. on Tues
day night the temperature was - degrees below
zero. Solid ice filled all the bitches from the
reservoir TO the fish ponds. Ice covered the
various ponds 10 great depth, and all the out
lets were chOked with massive cakes OF ice Not
drop OF fresh water could reach the imDrtson-
ed fish. When holes were cut in the surface OF
tie ponds the large beautiful trout would lean
clear out OF the water in their efforts 10 get the
oxygen which the water lacked The fishery
was the finest one on the Sierra Nevada =
fTINrLfc N9r E.tlrhlicnn
Year: 1879

UNsUCCEssFUL ATTEMPT TO SAVE LIPs BY
1RANSFUsIoN.-For several months Andrew
Fitzgerald. OF Brooklyn, n. Y, former promi-
nence politician, was ailing. and for the past
fewweekswaS unable to take any kind OF nourish
ment. As a consequence he became very feeble
and on saturday last his physician determined
TO TO try the efficacy OF TRANSMISSION OF blood
from healthy body 10 the diseased one, for
which purpose stout hearty man was secured.
The patient S arm was barred aud the delicate
operation OF finding, taking up and opening a
vein was successfully performed. The patients
condition was such that his pulse was nearly
gone, the action OF his heart was feeble and the
vein could scarcely be got at. The healthy
mans arm was tapped and his red, rich blood
flowed freely into a funnel held 10 receive H..
This was connected by tubing with a syringe,
which worked into gold pointed tube, and it
in turn led into the open vein. They took fiye
ounces OF blood about three-quarrers of a
tumblerfu from the man and pumped IL slowly
into the system of the dying patient. The eY-
pertinent was entirely successful and the tnstru-
ment worked TO charm. Unfortunately for
the patient he was already far gone, and after
brief rally he retained full possess on OF his
senses until about fifteen minutes before his
death, which occurred at two O'Clock on Satur-
day afternoon.
Year: 1879

PICKING OUT THE SPOT FOR HIS GRAVE
Adam Wicks, an aged resident or Centerport
l.. L, one morning last week took his hired man
TO a hill on his premises and carefully indicated
spot where he said he wished TO be buried
When ne died He was apparently in good
health at this time, but In the afternoon of the
same day, while chopping wood at the house.


lie fell in an apopleptic fit, from which he did
Lot recover, dying the next day. He was buried
in the place pointed out by him.-[N L. sun lst
Year: 1879

The PAN0CHE GRANDE QUICKSILVER NINE
The subcommittee Of the House committee on
public lands to-day unanimously agreed to re-
pert bill to send the claimants to the Panoche
Grand quicksilver Mine to the Court Of Claims
Inc report Will be made to the full committee
tomorrow night
Year: 1879




The House District of Columbia committee is
busily engaged in a revision of the Secretary OF
the Treasury's and the District Commissioners
estimates for the expenses of the District for
the next fiscal year 1t is the intention to cover
all the appropriations to be made for the Dis
trict into the sundry civil appropriation biII
which is now being perfected by the House COM
mittee on appropriations.


IMPROVEMENT OF THE POTOMAC


The House committee on commerce having in
charge the river and harbor appropriation BILL
expect to complete it In time to be reported to
the House next week. AS yet no amount has
Deen determined upon by the committee for the
Improvement of the channel OF the Potomac
1he committee is giving careful study to the
report OF the chief OF engineers on the subject
and 1t is also understood that Capt. EadS has
presented plan OF improvement. There is an
evident disposition both I'm committee and
amoDg COngI eSSmen to make a liberal apprO-
priation If the Commissioners or some public
spirited citizens will take the trouble to give
the subject their attention to demonstrate its
justice and importance to Congress
Year: 1879

almost in that proportion. For the present
We have SO great lead that it is almost
local interest.


All the development of this industry and
traffic shows what may be done tor coun-
try by the application of simple economical
laws. Western production OF cereals ruined
the Eastern raisers of such commodities be-
fore it touched Europe. Then the Eastern
fields fed cattle for market till the Western
raisers solved the problem of transporta-
tion. Eastern farmers had turned their hay
into beef, and now they turned it into milk
and butter, and, where u market for such
fresh and perishable commodities was not
handy. into cheese. Thus from what might
have seemed impending ruin to others the
farmers of this State seized q source OF
wealth surer and richer than any in the
hands OF farmers in any other part OF the
land
Year: 1879

The official report of General Escala, who
commanded the Chilean expeditionary COL
umn at the capture of Pisagua, throws light
upon an event which had been very much
ob-cured by unintelligible and conflicting
Peruvian accounts. While rendering full
justice to the gallantry of the Bolivian de-
tenders of that port General Escala prop
erly claims for his soldiers the credit of
daring exploit, achieved not so much
against the small garrison and their single
gun, as against one of the strongest of nat
ural defensive positions. To fully esti-
mate the difficulty of the capture Of the
height dominating Pisagua it must be borne
in mind that it is, as described by a
HERALD correspondent some months ago,
an almost perpendicular wall rising for a
thousand feet or more to the tableland
occupied by the Bolivian encsmpment. A
few men on the summit could and did sue
cessfully resist for considerable time a
vastly larger force toilsomely climbing up
ward over the narrow rocky pathway. 1t
seems unaccountable that so important q
position and one so obviously likely to be
assailed should have been left without
artillery and with only o skeleton garrison.
The invaders doubtless expected and were
prepared for a more serious resistance The
modest and unassuming tone of General
Escala's report, SO different from the usual
style Of South American bulletins, is calcu-
lated to make a most favorable impression,
and augurs we'll for the enterprise COM
mitted to his hands. 1t is known from
later kilograms that his confidence in his
troops was we'll founded, they having since
gained more than one important success.
Year: 1879

The man who has not noticed the change
that within u fortnight has come over the
windows of shops and stores in prominent
business streets would do we'll to shield his
ignorance from the various pairs of eyes in


his homo circle. He may have forgotten


that Christmas is coming, hut there is no
such lack Of memory on tho part of
any member of his family who is out
of the cradle, and the shopkeeper
was tho first of all persons to re-
member the approach of the day and to
make appropriate preparations. When he
removed old stock in trade from his win
dows to his shelves nobody seems to know,
but somehow it has disappeared and It's
place is so crowded with new goods, too
lovely for anything, that leisurely walk
through almost any favorite block of retail
stores makes ladies and children almost as
wild as heads of families will be before all
the Christmas bills are paid. The
shopkeepers, bless their thoughtful souls,
have forgotten nobody. From the penny
toy whose price the drudging mother will
steal from her share of loaf Of bread to
the diamond set which her employers
daughter knows will be her own IL her
lover has the heart of man, the shop
windows display everything. Never be'
Year: 1879

The Western Union Telegraph Company


is said to have joined issue with the Senate
Committee on Privileges and Elections


touching Its liability to produce all its
records of dispatches from certain Offices
between certain dates in answer to drag


net subpoena in Senator Ingalls, case. We
hope this is SO, and that the matter will be


pressed to decision in the Supreme Court


which will settle this vexed question. 1t is
the question which the company failed to


prosecute to judicial determination in


the course of the Investigations into the
Presidential election of 1876, when it sur


rendered AN undigested mass of de-
spatches into the hands OF Congressional


committees to be fumbled and pilfered.


Kansas Legislature is under inquiry by the
Senate committee on charges Of bribery, and
the purpose OF the drag-net subpoena is to
obtain evidence supposed to exist some
where in the records of the company, but
not specified on the face of the writ. 1t
makes no difference that Mr.. Ingalls, is will
ing to have the company respond to the
subpoena. The issue is broader than his
individual case, which merely affords the
occasion Tor raising it. 1t is the question
of the constitutional right OF the public to
protection against wanton searches into its
transactions by telegraph. If the Senate


committee can specify what it wants in am


particular case, let it do so distinctly. But
has it the right to pry into all the de-


spatches of the public at large on the pre-
tence of investigating Mr.. Ingalls,?
Year: 1879

Parliamentary Methods in Fra nee.


In the French Chamber of Deputies, as
we'll as in the Senate, there is O certain
of the government upon several points ofcur-
rent interest, and the Left in both bodies is
naturally somewhat restive under the situa-
tion created for republican party not con-
tent with the course of the government and
prac ,ically without q remedy; or, rather,
conscious that the only remedy it can
apply would, if effective, leave it in worse
position than it is in at present The Sen.
ators, in this difficulty, have resorted to
the method of an exercise upon the govern
ment of moral pressure by means of CON-
mittees-a method that was considered the
other day by the Deputies of all shades and
hues Of republicanism. but decided to be
impolitic. Between Deputies 1t was recog-
nized that if Parliament is not satisfied
with the course of the Ministry the remedy
is to vote it out of Office; but that there is
no known method by which any part of the
Parliament can practically itself become
the government without thus ousting the
government whose policy 1t disapproves.
Yet that in substance was what was pro-
posed when it was suggested that the oppo-
sition should draw up programme which
the government should be required to fol-
low. II the government proved refractory
the Left would then have to vote it out; but
the Lett is not sufficiently of one opinion to
be able to do that. AS the Left in the Cham
Der does not just now see its way clear to
making another government in place of the
one now in Office it has decided it cannot
force instructions, and the Senate after
mild trial of another plan will perhaps
eventually take the same view as the Depu-
| ties.