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10000 SHOP. GIRLS IN BOSTON.

Miss Jennie Collins, the presiding genius
at that haven for homeless girls at 1921
Washington Street, Boston, known as Bof-
fms Bower, has just made her sixth annual
report. The document is quite lengthy,
and is largely devoted to the presentation
of the social condition of shop girls in Bos
ton.
Shop girls are employed in seventy two
distinct branches of industry according to
this report, in any one of which oppOrtuni
ties for support as we'll as advancement
may be found. Then there is an army of
little girls, from seven to ten years old,
who pick out hastings, run on errands, and
act as cash girls. The whole number of
shop girls is estimated at thirty thousand,
or nearly one tenth of the entire popula-
ton of the city. Many of these occupa
tons have very short season but the
girls change from one thing to another in
differant parts of the year. Spring and
fall are the busiest seasons. In the sum
mer, some of them go to the seashore or to
the mountains as table-girls. In winter,
some of them find occupation at home.
From the books of foremen in different
in every hundred shop girls, fifty live at
home, and the remainder live in boarding
houses OF lodging houses. In the latter
case they take their meals outside. Twen-
ty five of those who live at home are as
sisted by a reduction of board, care in
sickness, etc. Thirteen help to support
others. Thus the advantages of living at
home are substantially recognized and re-
warded. 10 regard to tailoresses, the state
ment of foreman is, that in seventeen
years, having in his employ from two to
six hundred girls, only three cases of in
temperance came under his notice. A fore
man in a dry goods house also adds his tea
timony, that in ten years, with an equal
number under his charge, only one case
occurred where a girl was discharged for
misconduct, and that was at the request
of the help. The feeling with the vast
majority of poor girls is that they have
only their characters, and these must not be
| loet.-BoSton Pilot.
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on the rope and help him to crawl ont, ae
| the bear might institute a vigorous pursuit..
| Once outside, the other members of the
party could cover his retreat with their
guns. That was excellent. He carefully
made his way through the hole until he
| caught sight of bruin, then took good aim
and fred.
Mean while the remainder Of the party
had been standing outside, nervously cling
ing to the rope, and when the shot was fred,
giving loud and very peculiar eound, to
which the bear responded with a terrible
roar, which, rushing to them through the
narrow opening, seemed to indicate that
the animal was making terrific charge,
they started a rush for camp, and,
though unconscious of the fact, dropped
their guns but chung to the rope. The re-
sult W as that George found himself suaked
out of the hole like creased lightning and
bumped along the ground at a furious pace.
The more be yelled the faster his friends
ran, believing that the ferocious beast had
made short work of him and soon would
operate upon them. They never stopped
until they reached their wagon, and then,
hearing large amount of fragmentarv
catechism at the end of the rope, they in
vestigated and found George barer than the
bear had ever been, and with every bit of
sun burnt skinned eff his face, while his
hands were lacerated and full of slivers. 1t
took a long while to explain to his satisfac-
ton. Afterwards come one thought about
the other bear, and he WAS found to be dead
in the hole.
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Pen Picture Of blue Jeans Williams" Democratic
Candidate for Governor Of Indiana.
Indianapolis Letter to the St. Iouis rimes)

Indianapolis Letter to the St. Louis Times)
The Democratic candidate for Governor
Is James ID. Williams, at present member
of Congress frsm the Second District, and
Chairman of the Committee on Expendi-
lures in the House. His personal appear
ance is somewhat remark able, and as an en-
thusiastic admirer yelled when his name
was placed in nOmin alton at the convention,
" Hurrah for the second Abraham Lin
coin !" any one could reco!lect that a slight
resemblance between the two might be
traced. In person, Mr.. Williams is long,
lank and angular, with horney hands that
show the corrugated marks made by the
pillow handle, aud his pedal extremities
spread out to almost IN abnormal size by
many rolling marches in the furrow and
behind the scythe or the cradle in the early
days of Knox County. His frame is sur
mounted by head of more than the aver
age size, and upon gazing upwards the in
teryiewer of dwarf stature will see looking
down upon him countenance com bining
both shrewdness and strength. His face
resembles one more of the typical Yankee
than the somewhat my thical uoosier, being
clean cut, but insinuating, if needs be ag
gressive, and with look from penetrating
eyes that convince you that here ia a man in
whom there is no foolsbneas. On top of
this head is an old SLOUGH hat. At the bot
tom, boots OF no small design, while the
frame work is covered with q suit of old
fashioned blue jeans. This is the suit
winter or summer, rain or shine, on the
banks of the Wabash, or in the halls of
Congress-, and such has been the case for
years. In Mr.. Williams this popularity
has no Significance, as with some who
affect popularity in dress; but Williams
adopted it because it suited him and was
economical. In the present campaign this
idiosy ncrasy, if 1t may be so termed with
regard to dress, is likely to be one of the
campaign nothipgs that are 30 often in our
history the making OF public men. Blue
jeans clubs are organized in the rural dis
tricts in every direction. and the desire to
be economical exercised years ago, when
all was extravaganza, seems to have struck
a chord which reverberates now when
those who gained and profted thereby are
engaged in grinding the faces of the poor.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-08-27
GENERAL PUTNAM DISCO UNTED
Sacramento Reoord.l

The party of Sacramentaus who recently
left for Mendocino County on a hunting
trip, and of whose fit out we gave brief
description, were yesterday heard from
through O brief letter received here. They
reached their hunting ground without more
than ordinary trouble, but had an adven-
ture the first day they got into their per-
manent camp, which was Immediately ad-
Joining the farmhouse of q gentleman who
used to reside in Sacramento. Shortly
after they arrived, the rsnchman intimated
to them that he bad discovered that a bear,
supposed to have been the cause of the dis
appearance from the ranch of sundry young
pigs and goats, had secreted himself in a
crevice in a ledge of rocks not moro than
one hundred yards from the house, and they
could kill him easily if they meant hunt
ing" We doubt whether there had been
any bears lost by the hunters, but what
could they dot OF course they de.
clared, with more or less emphasize, that
if there was anything they wanted it
was q chance at o bear. The ranchman
volunteered to show them Bruins head
quarters, and after thorough preparation
they started out to do battle. Arrived al
the rocks, it was determined after a careful
survey that the bear had crawled through
q narrow opening into a cave, which might
be large or small, there was no way of judg
ing. George G., the quietest man of the
party, now showed the most pluck. Evi
IDENTIFY he had heard of Israel Putnam'
exploit, for after careful reconnaissance
he announced that he would crawl in will
his gun after the bear, previously afixingi
rope to his ankles, and when the partie
outside heard him shoot, they were 30 pull
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IN. o. Price Currently

We every day heur complaints of "no
work" in this city; the same cry arising in al
most all large cities in the Union. Yet there
are plenty of farmers, in all sections Of the
country, who would gladly employ the idle
population of our cities (at least that por-
ton which is not afraid of work) at fair
wages and we can assure our Idle town
population that the work required from
them on a farm or plantation ls really not
as exhaustiDg or as enervating, as the ordi-
nary routine of a dry goods or grocery
clerk, or the work performed by our Dung
men on the levee, in checking the discharge
or loading of vessel. Labor in the coun-
try has suudry advantages over the work
in a city. The labor is more manual, con
sequently the rest enjoyed after the days
travail is sound and unbroken the artifi-
cial needs of a person gradually wear away
on the farm, while in the city they are liza
Bile to increase in proportion (and often
more) to the wages earned. Thousands of
farm hands every year come from the West
while the crops of their section need no
immediate labor, having been laid by for
the summer. Why cannot large proper
ton of our own idle town population en-
ploy their muscle in The same wayf An
accllmated laborer would certainly com
mand the preference, provided he brought
the same willing arm to work, as his West
ern brother and we have no doubt that if
our superabundant city laborers would look
to the country, and get over the idea of the
work being too hard foc them, we would
have less poverty, lees complaint generally
and ultimately a new nation of small
white farmers exactly what is needed by
Louisiana.
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Referring to the application of Gen. D.
81. Hill for the removal of his political dis
abilities, a Southern writer remarks: This
reminds US Of the anecdotes we have heard
of the General during the war, which we give
without vouching for their authenticity.
In the early part of the strife, while Hill
was ommander at Leesburg, two young
gentlemen, engineers who had served under
him there, desire d positions elsewhere,
and sought the Generals endorsement,
which was cheerfully given, to the effect
that one possessed theoretical knowledge,
the other experience, and that the two made
a very clever engineer. That the work
they had done for him was we'll done, and
in much less time than engineers generally
would have consumed in the task ; but that
frst-class man would have ACCOMPLISHED
all they did in about ne-half the time re-
quired by them.
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THE NEW POSTAGE RATES.
A REASONABLE FIGURE FOR CARRIAGE.

Postal cards, one cent each, go without
further charge TO all parts of the United
States and Canada with an additional one
cent stamp they go to all parts of Europe.
All letters, to all parts of the United States
ana Canada, three cents per half ounce.
Local, or "drop" letters, that is, for the
city or town where deposited, two cents if
delivered by carriers, and one cent where
there is no carrier system.
Newspapers, daily, semi weekly, tri-
weekly, and weeklies, regularly issued and
sent to regular subscribers, two cents per
pound, pay able at the office of publications;
newspapers and magazine published less
frequently than once a week, three cents
per pound.
All other printed or miscellaneous m after,
including transient newspapers, magazines,
pamphlets, hand bills, unsealed circulars,
DOCKS, book manuscripts, proof sheets,
photographs, etc., and also seeds, cuttings,
oalbs, and roots, and merchandise, not ex
ceedlBg four pounds in weight, one cent
for each ounce or fraction thereof
The following are the postal rates with
Europe. The rates for letters are for the
newspapers for four ounces or traction
thereof
To Great Britain and Ireland, letters,
hVa cents, newspapers two cents; France,
letters, five cents, newspapers, two cents
Spain, letters, five cents, newspapers, two
cents; all parts of Germany, including Aus
trla, letters, five cents, newspapers, two
cents; Switzerland, letters. five cents, news
papers, two cents Italy, letters, five cents,
newspapers, tive cents ; Russia, letters, five
cents, newspapers, two cents; Norway.
letters, five cents, newspapers, two cents
Sweden, letters, five cents, newspapers, two
cents; Turkey, European aud Asiatic,
Letters, five cents, newspapers, two cents
Egypt, letters five cents, newspapers, two
cents.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-08-27
HEALTH.
PROVIDENCE NOT ALWAYS TO BLAME

Take, for example, young girl bred
delicately In town, shut up in a nursery in
her childhood-In boarding school
through her yOuth-never accustomed
either to air or exercise, two things that
the law of God makes essential to health.
She marries her strength is inadequate
to tue demands upon it. Her beauty
fades early. She languishes through the
bard Office of giving birth to children,
euckling, and watching over them, and
dies early and her acquaintances lament
ingly exclaim, What n arrange Provi-
dence, that a mother should be taken in the
midst of life from her children !" Was it
Providence 7 No! Providence has as
signed her three score years and ten-a term
long enough to rear her children and to
see her children's children but she did not
obey the laws on which life depends, and
of in the midst of his days. He is a useful
and distinguished citizen, and eminent in
his profession. A general bur rises on
evory side of, What a striking Provi-
dence!" This man has been in the habit
of studying half the night, of passing his
days in his office and in the courts, of eat
ing luxurious dinners and drinking various
wines. He has every day violated the laws
on which health depends. Did Providence
cut him off The evil rarely ends here.
The diseases of the father are often trans
mitted, and feeble mother rarely leaves
customary in some cities for young ladies
to walk in thin shoes and delicate stockings
in mid winter. A healthy, blooming young
girl, thus dressed in violation of Heavens
laws, pays the penalty a checked circula-
ton, cold, fever, and death. " What sad
Providence!" exclaim her friends. Was it
Providence or her own folly A beautiful
young bride goes, night after night, to
parties made in honor of her marriage. She
has slightly sore throat, perhaps, and the
weather is inclemeRt; but she must wear
her neck and arms bear for whoever saw a
bride in a close evening dress She is seized
with Inflammation of the lungs, and dies
before her bridal days are over. "What a
Providence!" exclaims the world, " cut off
in the midst of happiness and hope7 Alas !!
did she not cut the thread of life herself
A girl in the country, exposed to our
! changeable climate, gets new bonnet, in
stead of getting a flannel garment. A
rheumatism is the consequence. Should
the girl sit down TRANQUILITY with the idea
that Providence had cent the rheumatism
upon her, or should she charge it on her
vanity, and avoid the folly in future Z
Look, my own friends, at the macs of dis
eases that are incurred by intemperance in
eating and drinking, or in study, or in bus
mess by indiscreet dressing, tight lacing,
etc, and all is quietly imputed to Provi-
dencel Is there not impiety as well as ig-
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CATHOLIC MESSENGER SUNDAY AUGUST a. 1875

norance in this Were the physical laws
strictly observed from generation to gone
ration, there would be an end to the fright
ful diseases that cut short life, aud to the
long maladies that make life a torment or
a trial. 1t is the opinion of those who
best understand the physical system, tn at
this wonderful machine, the body, this
"goodly temple" would gradually decay,
and men would die as few now die, as if
falling to sleep.-Nrs. Sedgsoick.
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NEW YORK CATHOLIC AGENCY,
81 Barclay Street, New York.
THOMAS d. EG4N------ ------ Proprietor

This Agency Possesses uuequalled facilities for
plying Clergymen Religious Societies. Schools, News
dealers and private indlviduRls.with all the
Standard and Latest Publications
Of this country and EuroPei and all goods sold or
manufactured. Also with pamphlets THE
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Subscriptions received and advertisements inserted
In any respectable Paper, Journal or Magazine.
All orderu win be carefully and promptly hIled and
at publishers or deAlers' Prieea nhiae
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What wonderful power has the true wife
over home and husband! No man ever
prospered in the world without the coop
GRAFTON of his wife. If she unites in mutual
endeavors, or rewards his labors with an
endearing smile, with what confidence will
he resort to his occupation, meet difficulty
and encounter danger, if he knows that he
is not spending his9strength in vain, but
sweets of home. Solicitude and disap-
pointment enter the history of every mans
life, and he is but half provided for his
voyage who finds but an associate for his
happy hours, while for months of dark
ness and distress no sympathizlng partner
is near,
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-08-27

Lord Brougham once defined a lawyer
thus: "a learned gentleman who rescues
your estate from your enemies, and keeps
it himself"
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TT T. LAWLER,
GENERAL COMlfISSION MERCHA Mt

EhNEhdL COIHMISSION MEROHANI
rs IT, -, 81 and 81 Peters date New Levee near
Poydras New Orleans,
NORTHERN AND WESTERN PRODUCE.
A Good Supply of tho following articles always On
hand:
PORK BACON LARD FLOUR
CORY, OATS, BRAN. HAY, CORNMEAL,
POTATOES ONIONS BEANS
DRIED FRUITS, ETC, ETC :.
Cash Advanced on All Consignnents mot perishabe).
Shipments Advanced On, Rus: BE Insured in My Open
Policy.
Personal Attention Devoted All Business Entrusted
TO Ny Care.
PROMPT IN ALL THINGS
in the execution of your commands in the acknpy.
ledgment of receipt and advice of sale of consgn
ments, and IN remitting proceeds accompanied
with account sales.
All orders for Western Southern Produce filed
promptly at the lowest market rates. Satisfaction
always guaranteed, commission charged for
ting orders for goods which may have hand, full
commission charged for selling all oonsignments
Consignments and Orders respectfully solicited.
nol4 rs If
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ST. PATRICK'S HALL ASSOCIATION
SAVINGS BANK,
5---- Camp Street. ..-...-.-.a

81 .-.. .----- Camp Street. --...-...-1
Open daily from 10 A NJ. to P. NJ. and Saturday
evenings from 6 to 8, only to receive deposita
Deposits of fifty $50 cents and upwards received
. Interest allowed at the rate Of SIX per cent %
annum. No interest allowed for period Less thla
three months
On the LIST of January and the LIST of July Of eaeh
year interest will be calculated at the rate Of pa1
cent, and will be paid placed to the credit Of shs
depostor.
Deposits will be paid on demand, . rule in Untsa
States currency legal tenders the Bank reservia
the right to demand thirty days. notice Of withdrawal,
JOHN McGINTY, PresidenA
j. CONNOLLY, Cashier. oo375ly
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-06-01
Sayings Of the Press.

Senator Bayard, of Delaware, is step
ping into prominence, without so far a.
tracing any hostility from any quarter.
N 7. World.
Morton is the coming man for the Re
publican nomination, and everything
points to the success of Hendricks at
81. Louis.-EUansUille (L'ld-) Courier
Dem
voice of the people. Ohio has done we'll.
Indiana does not desert Hendricks, but
when convinced that his cause is hopeless
will transfer, with enthusiasm and rejoic-
ing, her solid support to William Allen,
the sage of Fruit HILL Terre Haute
(Ind.) Journal (Den.)
Sam TildAn cannot carry the Bill Allen
banner to victory. Bill Alien will not
carry the Sam Tilden hammer at ALL The
house is hOpelesslY divided, but the ag-
Cressive ragamufins are the better half
The hesitating hards may as we'll surren-
der or run away Chicago Times (Ind. }
The truth is that no man can be cleo
ted " no cannot secure the enthusiastic
support of the West and South; for the
South, when it comes to voting, is still a
power in the land. With Thurman, Ba-
yard, or Hend rlcks, success is within
our grasp. With Tilden success is scar
cely possibility Weldon (lN. CO. Nttos.
Unless all signs fail, Senator Bayard
stands at the head Of all Presidential can
didates. We have had interviews with
many of the Pennsylvania delegates,
and they are all favorable to Bayard; in
fact, with any considerable backing from
other States, he is their first choice. New
York is reasonably certain for him.
Wilmington (DeI) Herald (Dem)
With Hancock as the Democratic nom
inee, all doubts, suspicious and fears as
to the utter extinction of the spirit oil
rebellion and the reestablishment of loY
atty throughout the land would be scat
tered like wreaths of vapor on the wind.
The election of this great Union soldier
would have only one possible meaning
1t would be the trium phi of nationality.
His very name would signify the suprem.
acy of the flag and any attempt to quos.
ton the motives of his candidacy would
recoil fatally on ITS authors. The oppos;
ton to him would have to seek some
other standard than the "bIoody shirt. u
IN T. World
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-06-01
Hooking Horns.

The Kentucky Democratic State Con-
Vention declared in favor of the immedi-
ate and unconditional repeal Of the re.
sumption act, and the TiIdenized New
York Democratic Convention resolved to
cake no step backward" on the currency
question. In spite of Politicians, the ex-
listing irrepressible conflict on currency
between the East and West will crop out
he people are alive to the importance of
this subject, and if they are properly rep
resented at st Louis they will register
an emphatic verdict in favor of home in
terests and home prosperity and against
an Eastern money rule.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-06-01
Mr.. IncorrnntihIe


The Tilden bio K-hards are using Bates
d Locke, New York advertising news
agents, to subsidize the provincial press
OF the country. How irreconeilable is
such an elcctioneering trick with the
claimed incorruptibility of s. IT. 1t
is pity that Eastern Democracy is so
lar an GrticulO mortis that it yields itself
piiable tool of a merchandising Yam
keeism. Not only in stocks and bonds
but IN politics and religion, the adYentur.
Gus Yankee is forever on the make. The
general Intelligence and true worth of the
people should let Mr.. Tilden know that
their principles are not for sale. If now
as an aspirant he would buy up public
opinion, what would he not do as Presi-
dent From just such traficing spirit
the country is now struggling for deIiv-
erance. Surely it would be a reckless
venture to invest in such man as a
fit subject for the Chief Mogistracy of
the nation.