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The New York herald., 1877-10-30
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stanley.

We give elsewhere the manly, earnest and
graceful epistlc of the Geographical Society
OF Lisbon to Henry M. Stanley, expressing
its congratulations on his success and its
admiration of his achievement. Documents
of this nature arc apt to be strained, arti-
the nature OF the case this is almost inevit-
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

A PoRTroN of tho Third United States artil.
lery is marching home TO Fort Hamilton from
Wilkcsbarrc by a road over which military
organization has not travelled for a hundred
years One would suppose that the hallowcd
and patriotic associations of the famous high
way would arouse all the enthusiasm in their
nature. but, strange to say. they do not and
they dcnouncing the economy which denies
them palace car.
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.--The stock mar
ket was without any specially interesting feature
except strong close at three p NJ. Gold was
somewhat weaker ut 1O21s. Government bonds
we're steady and States neglected, while rail
roads were stronger. Money on call was easy
At q a 5 per cent.
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

The LABRADOR INDIANS in seizing and carry
ing into the woods a Canadian magistrate who
made some unjust decisions against them have
set an excellent example to their brethren out
West II our Indian agents were treated in
this way it would possibly stop the thcvcry
OH the Plains
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

JUDGE DosonUE has very properly granted
the application for struck jury in the Connolly
trial. MIR. Orton and Mr.. $. ID. Babcock have
been appointed, rs disintcrcstcd parties, to per-
form that duty
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

The SwINDLED DErosToRs Of the broken
savings banks all ovcrthe country will be ear
ncstly in favor of the passage OF the bill Just
introduced in the House by Mr.. Upton, OF
Illinois, providing for savings repositories in
connection with the Post Office Department.
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

Morton, OF the Philadelphia street railway,
and his coconspirators were placed on trial
yesterday. They did not know whether they
were guilty or not, and the Judge considerably
gave them twenty-four hours in which to make
un their minds
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

From. omr4cports nis naos'iing ate probabilities
IRE hhttt tie weat.cr a Ne,o York aud its riciaity
0-iay sciA Je cooler and partly cloudy or clear.
The New York herald., 1877-10-30
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NEW YORK. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 80. 1877.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ADvERTIsERs.-Io
Insure The proper classification Of advertisements
Il is absolutely necessary that hey be ha,aded IN
!cto,c eight ociock cre,.y creni,,g.
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

The LATEST REPoRTs from Senator Morton
arc very disconraging and his friends are seri-
onsly apprehensivc in regard to his condition.
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

HAVANA Has BEEN THROWN into something
like panic by the discovery in that city of an
agent of the Cuban insurgents.
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

TIE SEA CLIFF Camp Ground Association
have unfortunately passed into the hands Of an
earthly receiver.
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

CHIEF OFFICER AITRIDGE, Of the steamer
Idaho, in III interview elsewhere printed, bears
strong testimony to the accuracy at sea and on
shore Of the HERAID's weather predictions.
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

A Day Has AT LAST been fixed for the trial
Of the silk smuggers-ncxt Thursday
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

TIE CIGAR MANUFACTURERS having professed
Willingness to listen to the complaints of the
employees the true policy for both parties is to
submit the whole question to a board of arbitra-
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

The CANAL STATISTICS this month show a
large increase in business over this time last
year.
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

SCANDiSAvIA AND SWITZERLAND have be-
come the principal Mormon recruiting grounds,
the exposure of the infamy OF the Salt Lake
Saints not having yet extended to those couil-
tries
The New York herald., 1877-10-30

PRESIDENT HAYES has issued his first ma
tioLal Thanksgiving proclamation.
The New York herald., 1877-10-30
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.


WALLACK'S Observation-Disclosures
BOOTHS TnEATRE-Rip VAN WtSkLk
BROADWAY EATRE-GiRosLEGi GisorLA
sRAND OPERA nOIsE-uScLE Toxs CAsiS.
sowERY THEATRE-AH sIN.
rfBLOS GARDEN-MAssAalslLo
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-EScLisn OrERA.
PARK THEATRE CRUSHED raAcEDIAN
THEATRE CoMIQUE-TmE RISING STAR
UNION SQUARE THEArRE-Prsx DosiSca
SEW YORK AQUARIuM-Tmn OCTOPUS
EAGLE ruEATRE-MgTA
sERMANIA rnEATRE-Eis EscrL UsD EISz PARru
Pioukr.
THEATRE FRANCAIS-Sos ALLiEEa
SILMORE's GARDEN--LoNpoS cIncus AND MRNAcERIE.
COLUMBIA OPERA HousE-vARIxrY.
sRYANTS OPERA HOuSE-MiSsrRELsy.
rlvOLI TuEATRE-vARrKrY
TONY PASToR'S-vARikrY.
IAN FRANCISCO MISsTRELS
EGYPTIAN HALL-vARiLry
AMERICAN Observation-Disclosures AND MECHANICS
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-09
DOvl ESTuC.

ihh treasury o' the 'hl'eo states, up
to the nth, bad dishurscd $50 SAT 900 in silver
coin, of which amount $lS095 900 were in lieu
of fractional currency, and l2,2ia coo for cur
- ss son ooo "''' was 'N'''''''' ON o""'
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inc case CT tNe southern Hotel hre IA 81 Louis
= 10 'he eu'et 'ha' the hre had ITS origin IN the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-09
Philosophy of Laughter.

\ laugh is worth hundred groans
in any market-and the old maxim of
Laugh and grow fat would be equal
ly proper if it read laugh aud grow
good. 4 genuine, hearty laugh can
never come from Il man whose soul is
corrupt. and whose brain is filled with
evil principles and wicked projects.
Even the astute and cynical CARLYLE
has said: mo man who has once
heartily and wholly laughed. can be
altogether irreclaimably deprayed. !"
The widest imagination cannot con-
ceiye of CasSius as being Jolly. or Of
BrutuS as funny man. Shakespeare
speaks of CaSsius as being " lean and
hungry of course he never laughed:
but was as solemn as an owl People
cannot live upon tasteleSS mental food
any more than they can be satisfied
with bodily nOuriShmeut which is I'M
seasoned. Genuine and innocent wit
is the flavor of the mind, and hearty
laughter is the expression of its digeS-
ton. The lugubriouS parsonage who
froWns at pleasantly, who can't take
a joke on any terms, is either NOR
tally stupid character, or the most
likely man ON earth To sheathe a pom
lard in your body of a dark night,
either tor purposes of robbery or re-
verge. Is no the moral an Obvious
Ouey
Extremes are reacuonary. Though
al philosophy teaches us that laugh
ter is property of feaSon and wisdom.
still its excess is a mark of folly.
" For my own part" says the Rev.
Dr. Bellows, II say it in all solem-
nifty. | have lived to become sincerely
suspicious of the pieJy Of those who
do not love pleasure in any form.
cannot trust the man that never
laughs that is always sedate; that
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-09
ElS>ON Al.

GEN. SHERMAN Is sand 10 be of the oplu-
ion that the war in Europe will be OF long dura-
tion, and involve other Governments beside
Russia and Turkey. Tie states that American
officers DESTROYS of visiting the scene If opera
tous can only obtain leave of absence ON half
pay, if at all, aud that they will be dchsrred
from engaging temporarily with either army.
IL the divorce case of Ann Eliza rs.
Brigham Young Judge SchsctIer has decided
that there was no marriage between the uarties.
and thar hence the plaintiff Is not entitled to =
decree OF divorce. The Judge also decides that
sur'the mental service which she rendered unto
the Prophet during the Years of their joint
polygsmous career, As man and wife IL flcta, she
would he entitled 20 recover reasonable com
peusStou; but, ~ she has already received in
the form Of alimony durlng the pendency Of the
litigation, sum IN excess Of the value of her
services rs shown IN the proof. she has cx-
hausted her legal claim upon Brishams estate,
and mast look to tho Law for no further oouso-
latjon.
JOHN f. KING has been appointed bv
che PrcsideOt Collector Of Customs Of Nep
Orleans.
THE resignation Of A. NJ Clapp, Public
Printer, was rendered, on the SoJh ult and J.
d. Detgecs WAS appointed to succeed him.
. SENATOR BLAINE has been recently
chosen foE tie eighteenth time, Chairman Of
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-09

THE results recently obtained with
the Woolwich Infant, or eighty-one-
ton gun, and the Italian 100-ton gun
appear to demonstrate conclusively the
enormous efficiency of these monster
weapons, the latter having apparently
somewhat the best of it, if the eX-
perimental trials may be regarded as a
sort OF competitive examination of the
two, for the infant is becoming
seriously affected by the extension of
the assure or crack noticed some time
ago, and will probably be only used
for few more rounds, after which it
will be removed to the Royal Arsenal,
and cut in half in front of the trun-
mons for the purpose of attaching a
new steel lining, the whole cost of this
rebuilding, SO to speak, OF .he gun
probably amounting to several thou
sand pounds; whilst its larger rival.
up to the present time. has stood the
tests applied to it remarkably well,
Some idea of the magnitude Of the
forces involved in these weapons may
be gathered from the circumstance
that the pressure eXerted on every
square inch of the powder chamber is
usually upward of twenty-five tons,
occasionally reaching the enormous
amount of forty-two tons. Let it be
supposed that in a crowd an average
man weighs 200 pounds and occupies
half square foot; thus to equal Il
weight of twenty-five tons per square
inch there would have to be Is, 600
layers of men, each layer resting on
the heads and shoulders Of those under
meath allowing five feet to each layer,
this mass of humanity would be in
vertical height about seventeen miles,
or upwards of twenty times the height
OF Ben Nevis -L0ndOH Society,"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-09
Total Deprayity of the Parrot.

a naturalist speaks thus unkindly
of poor Polly:
The parrot is much more fiendish
than monkey. There is a pitifuf
something about a monkey that dis
arms our resentment; but who could
not hate large, impudent parrot,
with its oriental plumage and beak,
as, clinging to the bars of its cage, it
looks sideways ut the world without
and says " Poor Polly, poor Polly" in
the most hypocritical way magma
BILE? There are people who believe
that they have made parrots fond Of
them. Poor mistaken souls A pa--
rot is not even fond of its young-at
least, don't believe it. Who ever
saw a maternal parrot ministering to
its offspring. | can't imagine par
rot sitting on its eggs. 1t would surely
leave the nest perpetually to hang IT.
self up somewhere and let the eggs
addle. a parrot is naturally evil. If
croaks unintelligibly. Ii you say good
words to 1t, 1t is mute, or stupidity pre-
tends to think you want it to repeat
Poor Polly" But let some wicked
persons use an oath in its hearing, or
let a mischievous word be breathed
near cage, and it has it pat, and never
more forgets it. Profanity, in fact, Is
parrots chief accomplishment, and,
when you hear him muttering to him
self between its beaks, you may be
sure it is practicing something dread
full to bring out when you have com
pany. The worst entaHt terrible that
ever went unwhipped is not 50 bad as
a parrot. Anything you would not
have repeated it repeats, and the more
you pet it the oftener it bites you. In
fact, the parrot is, in my opinion, the
missing link between men and demons.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-09
The Lesson OF the Hard Times.

But the hard times have temporarily
taught, first, caution: next, economy.
Caution, unluckily, has run to sus
picion, while economy has issued in
dearth of employment; thus the cor
receives applied 10 hard times have
perpetuated them. People are buying
not only less, but sometimes at second
hand, SO that every trade sutfers-un-
less il be that of the coffin makers; |
never knew anybody who wanted a
secondhand coffin. The economy that
America usually needs is perhaps less
that of refraining from buying than
that of turning things 10 account. The
man who needlessly cuts down his eX-
p.nSes is hardly So praiseworthy as the
one who only makes every thread yield
its best uses. \ National fault of ours
is that OF not getting the full use of
Thugs. European cities. for example,
earn millions year by selling their
street dirt. American cities pay mill
ions To get rid OF il. In Europe ii
dresses sterile soil; in America ii is
dumped into channels to obStruct nayi-
CATION. One can almost admire the
humble Paris rhif0HierS, as being
guild employed in redeeming to q hum
bred services what has been thrown
away As uSelesS-they rescue vast for
tunes yearly. On the Pennsylvania oil
.ldudS twenty men put zap a derrick.
sink "a teSt-well. and fail. Sixteen out
of the twenty reorganize. sink new
Well within fifty rods OF the other,
build a new derrick. and never touch
the old one, leaving it TO rot. The eN-
pense OF this kind of machinery Is
great: and vet out of the abandoned
derricks in the oil regions You could
almost build a timber track from Cory
20 New York. Ii is. ! say, almost
National trait 10 accumulate what Will
be left 10 rust unused. --6alarg JoT
AGg.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-09

has no apparent outlets for those na,,,
raj springs o. Spoltiveness and cav,
that are perennial in the human Sol
l know that Nature takes her reven1e
on such violence. Innocent nIass
ures and popular amusements are
worthy of all encouragement. Anr
thing is better than the dark. daaS
unhappy social life-a prey to enn~;
and morbid excitement-which rasnl+.
from unmitigated Puritanism, and
which is apt to lead to license and in
famous folly. HE who LAUGHS y
said the mother OF Goethe, "can com
nit no deadly SIM" 81 am persuad-
ed said Sterne, "that every Tina
man smiles-but much more So VIZ
he laughs--it adds something to bis
fragment of life" Douglas JerroId
the prince of modern wits, exclaims
LET materialists blaspheme as DIN.
gerly and acutely us they will. thev
must find confusion in laughter ),
And yet laughter is akin to weeping
for true humor is closely allied n
pity, paradoXical as it may seem.
Heaven has especially made Us tba
merriest Of the creation-anges are
supposed to be more serious, and we
know that although animals can ween
they cannot laugh. Mir.h has been
said to be Gods medicine; EVERYDAY
ought to battle in it. 1t will lubricata
the joints of the body, and radiate
sunshine in the brain. A certain
divine once said, "praying can mo
more be made substitute for smiling
than smiling can for praying" truth
well worth remembering. BOILING.
broke, the brilliant English orator
politician and author, says: q have
observed that in comedy the best
actors play the part of the droll, while
some scrub rogue is made the hero, or
fine gentleman. SO in this farce of
life, wise men pass their time in mirth.
while fools only are serious Cheer
fulness is just as natural to man in
sound health as color is to his cheek,
and bears the same friendly relation
to the mind as to the body and as
nothing will supply the want of sun
shine to flowers and fruit, so nothing
can take the place of mirthfulness in
the ripeulng and nourishment of the
human heart. God is glorifed-not by
our groans, but-Dy our thanksgivings.
A merry heart doeth good like
medicine" says the sacred volume
~. Y. Weekly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-09

the Maine Republican State Committee, be hav-
ing already served seventeen years in that ca
pacity.
Elk SENATOR WILLIAM G.. BRowNLow
died at his residence in Knoxville, Tenn, On the
29th ult.
STATE SENATOR WOODEN, of New York,
testified at Albany on the I'd, relative to the
charges in the alleged confession of VIM. M.
Tweed, to the effect that in no possible shape
had anything of any value passed through his
hands, or been received by him, in consideration
OF any vote or ACT done by him in the Legislature
or out OF 1T for the benefit of William NJ Tweed
or anybody associated with him (Tweed); he
never reviewed any money from Tweed, Winslow
or Hastings.
Gov. FAIRBANKS, of Vermont, has re-
proved John P. Phair until April, 1879.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-09
POLITICAL.

THE Louisiana Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 9th.
The South Carolina Legislature con-
vened in special session on the Goth. In his
message, Gov. Hampton cherishes the hope that
the members Twill forget the luminosity engen-
dered by political strife and rise superior to
petty considerations of craftsmanship, and that,
devoting yourselves with patriotic zeal to the
service of your State, you will strive earnestly
to restore It's lost prosperity, revive its wasted
industry, reform all the abuses in it's govern
ment, and promote harmony, good will and
justice among all classes and parties"
GOV. NICHOLS issued proclamation
on the 2sth, designating Thursday, May TO- as
day of Thanksgiving and prayer in Louisiana,
and inviting the citizens of the State to observe
the day, to the end that all the people, 60 for
getting past dissensons and bitterness, may
unite in the fulfllment of common and happy
destiny"
A COLUMBIA Is. CO. dispatch of the
Both ult. says the Republican claimants for
State offices would consent to the proceedings
before the Supreme Court, which would end the
contest and seat all the Democratic State Off
oials
THE Democratic State Convention of
Pennsylvania has been called to meet at Harris
burg on the 8th of August.
The Portland daily press., 1877-08-29

EAsToN, Pa, Aug 2S.-Pennsylvania spec
ials says that President Gowen of the Reading
railroad has made Determinations in freight
rates and tolls on shipments to New York and
up the Hudson river. SO as to get some of the
New York coal companies trade.
The situation in the Schuylkill and Lehigh
districts of the middle coal fields improves. An
early settlement of grievances by arbitration is
possible.
LANCASTER. O.. Aug. 2S-The boatmen's S
strike on the Hooking canal has ended by a
compromise. An im mense fleet of boats has
now gone down for freight.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 28-One hundred and six
ty cigar makers in the employ of Krohn, Feiss
& Co., struck today, alleging that journeymen
were now able to make only SIS per week, ow-
ing to the fact that women have been employed
who worked 25 per cent. cheaper than the men,
They demand the removal of the women from
the works 1t is said the real aim of the strik-
ers is to force the women out of all the shops.
when the male cigar makers in the city will
join in general strike for advanced wages.
The Portland daily press., 1877-08-29
News and Other Ttamo

The Blisses of Philadelphia, who have won
quite reputation as materializng mediums
have been completely exposed. Their "spirits''
were invoked from an apartment in the cellar
of their house, During their absence recently
Times Reporter gained access to this apart
meut and there found the dresses, wigs. etc.
worll by "spirits," and Immediately recognized
by him.
The Washington county, Md, officials rise
to protest, so far as they are concerned. against
the recent report of the most glaring abuses in
fhe alms-house management of that state and
they want to have an investigating committee
appointed to look into their conduct. The
other county officials maintain suspicious ST.
tence.
4 Mr.. Moody tells the Washington clergymen
chat, upon the whole, he thinks the New Eng
land cities offer more inviting field for labor
Daring the coming winter than the national
capital.
Wade Hampton is to be tho orator at the
Virginia State Agricultural Fair, and the Pres
hent ana MS CABINET are to be invited to at
&nd.
One of the sights in Lebanon. Pa. the otbor
Gay, was great-grandfather, his daughter. her
son. and that sons son, at work together in the
harvest fald. The Oldest was 80 years Of aye
spd the youngest 19.
The Portland daily press., 1877-08-29
MINOR TELEGRAMS.

Postmaster James of New York has com plet-
ed lease of the old post Office building. JAS
ID. Conant of Brooklyn, is lessee for wear and
month, at an annual rental of $500O
Special agents report numerous instances of
favorstism in emitting to examine the baggage
of persons arriving at New York from foreign
ports.
The government paper mill at Glen Mills,
Pa, will be closed the 1st CT September. The
stock on hand is so large that no additional
supply will belneeded for year.
John E. Appleby, passenger CONDUCTOR on
the Conway division of the Eastern railroad,
died suddenly at North CONWAY Yesterday
morning from effects of injuries received sew.
eral months ago.
Francis Sebastian, young Cuban, is under
arrest in New York for an atrocous assault on
child ten years DID,
The 18th Rhode Island Veteran Reoiment
held their annual reunon!at Rocky Point yes-
terday.
In Ashaway, Hopkintou, R. l., yesterday,
Willard Allen, aged 12 years, went into the
stall OF horse when the animal jumped upon
him, causing fatal injuries.
The veterans of the old 10Th Massachusetts
regiment held a reunion at Newburyport yes
terday, 70 being present.
The st. Johnsbury Academy opened yester-
day with over 200 students.
VIM. Stone, U. s. attorney for South Caro-
lima, has rendered his resignation, which has
been accepted by the President,
Ben Debar, proprietor and MANAGER of
Debar's Opera House, st. Louis, died yesterday.
james Carey Williams, one of the men
wounded in the riot at the 9th Regiment
armory, Baltimore, on the evening Of July
goth, died yesterday This makes the 18th vic
tim of the riot.
The officers of theiPennsylvania Coal Co. ex-
press their opinion that the strike of the miners
not increase their wages. An early resnmption
it is said is probable in the Scranton region.