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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-10
NEW-YORK SAYINGS BAEE
OFFICIAL REPORTS.

OFFICIAL REPORTS.
COMPLETION OF THE STATEMENTS FOR JANUARY,
IS77-DEcRzAsE OF BOND AND MORTGAGE IN
vRsrMENrs AND NcREasE OF STOCK INVEST
MESrs-rScREAsE OF Withdrawals AND DE-
CREASE or DEPOSITS.
lyKox A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRrBUSE.I
ALBANY, Feb. 9.-The yearly statements OK
the EewYork City savings banks required by Law to bs
furnished the Banking Department concluded with
the accompanying seven repoFts: Il
UNION DIME.
EeSgrfyr1z
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-10

What asked an Arkansas exchange,
shah We do with the sehocl nossy o. We shoa.d say
thai IA Arkansas tc best thig you do spend t
before tlc treasurer steals It
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-10

rhe comparative fable given below shows tlat the
AMOUNT invested by the banks ia bonds and mortgages
has decreased four uilons and the stock invest
meats have increased eight millions expendi
tirt Of 100000 ia real estate; while The casa IN other
banks which draws slight interest and tue cash on band
when draws zone. Is decreased nearly million and a.
half The amount due deposltOrs which should he the
laaItiist indications OF condition 81 t1et savings
bank CLASSES, has Increased little <.J,ODO during
the year while the humber or depoSitOTs his increased
$50. The average amofnt Of eaen account sFows
falling III ol 81. The surplus hts Increased Sis7 0to
wne the aOnt deposited duIlag tie year Is not quite
ri 5 O1g more than the amount withdrawn. and Is
S74OOO ti1n IL m shc same SaBks last yess.
Tne withdrawn Is s2,SO0OOJ more Than q Was
from thr banks last year In comparing these
iliey the figures representing The eUidiOn of the
banhs which .alled last year have been eliminated:
COMPARATIVE TABLE or THE CONDITION OF THE NEW
YORK CITY BANKS TOR LAST TWO YEARS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-10

Croton Aqpeduct and City Parks Improvement fund
each $2J 900
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-10

uEg HUSBAND HELD AS THE PRINCIPAL AND 10
sEPH MORRISON AS AN ACCoMPLIcE IN THE
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23
Why Mcdonald Was PardOned and
joyce Wasn't.

A queer story, which, however, comes
from Il seemingly trustworthy source, is
atloat III st. Louis concerning what oc-
CURED subsequent to the recent pardon
of Mcdonald, the imprisoned whisky
ringster, and also concerning the reasons
which forbade pardon to his bosom
friend and accomplice, Joyce. The par
don of Mcdonald, it will be borne in
mind, was issued by the President upon
the solemn assurance of the prisoners
physician and others that Mcdonald was
i'll such a condition physically that to
keep him in the penitentiary would be to
sacrifice his life. Mcdonald did, indeed.
appear TO he in bad condition while at
Jefferson City, and there is reason to be-
ieve that the pardon was issued solely
on this account When Mcdonald had
secured his liberty, though, his conva-
lescence was something abnormally rap
nj, and he was soon III Washington,
where, with his characteristic impudence
and effrontery, he actually called ON the
Presidents as though he had never robbed
the revenue and never been convict
ed as n felon This was too much for
even the ordinary phlegmatic disposition
OF the President, and the story is that,
after he had seen Mcdonald, he remarked
briefly TO friend that, had he known the
real facts in the case, the pardon would
not have been granted, and that he re-
GREETED his action in the matter
Of the reason Of Joyce's disappoint-
ment the account is that his constant in
clination to make rhetorical display
was what made the serving out of his
full term an absolute certainty. He was
foolish enough on one occasion, in talk
ing with person certain TO carry infor-
nation to Washington, to assert that he
had the administration in his power, and
could, if need be, force the pardon de-
sired. His statement was repeated, and
the effect upon the mind of the President
was that no pardon should be issued I'M
der the circumstances. This is the story
told, though it appears by no means GER
tain that it was the intention to release
the arch plotter, Joyce, in any event.
Cincinnati Commercial.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23
The Use OF Opium in Oregon.

The crime of using opium is alarming
ly ON the increase in Portland, and
where but one den existed year ago
there are now five or six, patronized
almost exclusively by young men and
boys between the ages of ID and 20
years. Why the authorities do not take
some means to arrest this evil is query
that we are unable to answer. Every
evening these low places are filed with
those who have acquired an uncontrol-
liable appetite for this narcotic. On a
late occasion two boys were borne home
by their friends in state OF complete
stupefaction, from the effects of several
hours indulgence. The following morn
ing they were unable to attend to bust
ness, and complained of feeling very
badly and sadly in need OF stimulant.
If something is not done to close these
disreputable haunts it is impossible to
predict where the evil will end.-I'ort-
land (Ore.) Standard.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23
Maine Barbarians.

About fifty years ago family named
Bubier went into the Maine forest north
of Lewiston and cut themselves off COM
pletely from civilization. Recently they
wers discovered by a correspondents of
the Boston Globe. Their novels were
scattered about in the patches of cleared
land which they had made. The vagrant
family had multiplied into several fam
lilies, including over fifty persons, and
was dwelling in poverty, ignorance and
sloth. The log houses were unprovided
with anything that could contribute to
human comfort. There was no furniture
except blocks and pieces of log. But one
person could read, and he wouldn't. Not
a book or scrap of printed paper was to
be found in the place. None of the
younger generation had ever been to the
nearest town. All were profoundly igno-
rant of the world, and devoid of either
religion or morality. They obtained a
precarious subsistence from such scanty
crops as their lazy habits prompted them
to obtain, and from the game of the for
est and the fish of Dead river. In short,
the Bubiers, under the influence of ma
ture and solitude, had relapsed into a
barbarism more depressing than that of
the savages that dwelt in the woods three
centuries ago.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23
Statistics of Suicide i'm New York City.

The records of the Bureau of Vital
Statistics show gradual decrease i'll the
number of suicides. The total in New
York in 1874 was $50; IN 1875, 157; and
in 1876, $50 in year whose total NOR
tality was 20, 152. OF the $50 cases re-
ported in 1876 only % were natives of
the United States; of Austria, 2; of Bo-
hernia, 3; of Canada, l; of Cuba, 2; of
England, 8; of France, 8; of Germany,
SO; of Holland, l; of Ireland, 2i; of
Poland, 2; of Scotland, 2; of Sweden,
/; and of unknown nativity, /.
In 1874, 50 single persons and IS mar
ried ones committed suicide; in 1875 the
record was, single, p; married, "A ; and
in 1876 the rate was, single, 81; mar
ried, Sc.
The various modes of suicide show a
wide diversity of ingenuity. A COMPARE
son with the reports of two preceding
years shows that the usual " Paris green
average has been maintained-among
Germans generally. The lists of the
past three years afford the following ex-
hibits
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23
Looked Through Him.

One day to Charlotte Cushman came
an affected lady who said, with the evil
dent desire to exhibit her very superficial
learning, my dear Miss Cushman, 90
you read Emerson % mo" replied the
famous actress, bluntly, without the
least attempt to appear wise. els it
possible you DO not admire Emerson 2"
with look of utter establishment.
"Quite possible" Miss Cushman said
no more at the moment, but after little
she launched forth into beautiful and
dramatic recitation. Her finished rendi-
ton of several of Emerson's most brill
liant apothegms was simply magnificent,
ending with, "be yourself, do not imi-
tate-every great man is unique" using
the words as if they were her own, and
uttered only as Charlotte Cushman could
utter them. Her purpose was obvious.
The lady had not recognized single
line of her "favorite author" "Why,
/ thought you did not read Emerson, y
said one. "Nor do l; but have looked
through him."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23
A Town on Its Legs.

The town of Baxter Springs, Kan,
has concluded to run away in order to
avoid paying it's debts 1t contracted a
bonded Indebtedness of nearly 5000, 900;
it is in default in paying the interest
coupons; court of the United States
has decided that the payment must be
made; and the people, in large numbers,
bag and baggage, taking their houses
with them, are proposing to found a new
city elsewhere. Baxter Springs may
take it's place among the lost cities of
antiquity. Sodom and Gomorrah were
burned by fire from heaven; Hercula-
neum and Pompeii were buried under
volcanic ashes; Babylon and Carthage
have not left a vestige behind them, and
now Baxter Springs is about to disap-
pear from the vision of men.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23
Divorced and Remarried.

A mail agent on the Union Pacific rail
road had wife and little daughter at
Omaha. Whenever he left home for q
fortnight on the rail he would take the
little girl with him block or two from
the house, and then kissing her good-by
wonld send her back to her mother.
Jealousy took possession of him without
cause, and one morning, about two years
ago, he carried off the child from the
wife whom he believed to be faithless.
The mother waited for the patter of the
little feet and the sound of the little ones
voice, and finally ran to the station, where
she learned that her husband had gone
West with the child. She telegraphed to
him, she wrote to him butreceived no re-
ply. Convinced that he had deserted her,
and would neverreturn, she sold her furni-
ture, paid visit to some friends in Wis
consin, and procured a divorce and de-
cree giving her the custody OF the child.
She then went to Oakland, Cal, where
her husband and her daughter were
boarding, and took legal measures for the
recovery of the child. About a fortnight
ago husband and wife met in law Office
she with countenance cold and stern,
and he with a hang-dog, sheepish look.
The lawyers went out to lunch and left
the estranged couple together When
they returned, husband and wife were
holding hands. The writs were not
served there was remarriage the next
morning
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23
The MOrlnOns.

The r,lmor that Brigham Young, Jr.,
is to plant colony OF 800 Mormons i'll
the Mexican State of Sonora is not i'm
probable. Last spring reconnois-
sance was made by the agents of the
Mormon Prophet into Arizona with the
avowed purpose of fixing some perma-
nent settlements there, and number Of
families from Utah have. since settled in
that Territory. There is now a chain of
Mormon villages extending from Bear
river southwestward to Arizona 1t
has long been foreseen by the leaders
that the resources of Utah are INSULT
Client to sustain so large population as
their hopes and ambition lead them to
anticipate, even III the present genera
ton. They must have more room. The
bleak and barren region of the north of
Salt Lake presents no inducements the
south offers good climate, rich soil, and
an abundance of water and timber.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23
BONS' Work.

Z" / wish, John, you would drive few
nails for me in the wood-house," said
Maggie to her brother. 81 have been
wanting them this long time, but always
forgot to ask you.
"Why not drive them yourself, Mag
gle ?" asked her father
"Why, l don't know how, father. 1
don't believe / could DO boys work, p" she
said, doubtfully.
"Come, my girl, will show you in a
minute how it is done. Go Oh mending
your harness, John we will attend to the
nails"
Maggie drove in all the nails success
fully, and SO pleased was she with her
success that she would have set double
row around the shed, 1 think, if her
father had not concluded that these
would answer for the present.
"There, that little lesson helps to
make you independent, my girl. Now
will teach You some day to catch and
harness up horse. You have already
learned to drive gentle one. Learn to
sharpen knife, and white, too, with
out cutting your fingers. Don't let the
doors creak for want OF an oiled feather,
or the little childrens boots get hard in
the winter for the want of little grease"
You, too, boys might learn to advan-
tage how to make your beds and sweep
room, and sew up bag on sewing
machine.
Don't ask any one to sew on button
for you when there hangs cushion with
needles in it, and mothers thread basket
is SO handy.
A little cooking will never hurt you.
Many beefsteak and fresh fish have l
cooked in my day, and mother says
can beat any girl making pot of coffee.
1 do not often get chance, nowadays,
but / have seen the time when my knowl.
edge of the business came just in play.
No telling where you will be cast away
some time during your life. The most
helpless people L have ever met are
those who can only do one sort of work.
Learn to do something very well, in
deed, and make that your dependence
for living, and add to it just as much
skill and knowledge as you can. 1t costs
nothing to carry knowledge.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23

The secret of Their Growth.

The Secret of Their Growth. $500
lrntersicw with Chief Justice, Mexican in the New
York world.l
"Do you believe that the creed of the
Mormons is based upon what appears to
them TO be true religious principles ?"
g Perhaps / have said too much al
ready. 1 should dislike very much to
get into controversy with them, but
will say that it is my private opinion
that the majority of the men who go into
Mormonism do it for the purpose of
gratifying their passions"
Among the Gentiles even one wife is
often regarded as an expensive luxury.
How is it that among the Mormons a
poor man is able to support several
wives?"
"Oh, that is easy to e& plain. A man
who joins the Mormons generally makes
money by it. Let us suppose case.
Say European peasant comes over here
with his wife, having been induced to
join the Mormons in Utah. He immedi-
ately takes possession of 100 acres of
good land under the law of Congress.
Now, this is great thing for man who
has probably never owned foot of
ground before. The land out there, you
must remember, is very good The soil
is rich and deep, and the rainfall has in
creased, / suppose, about 100 per cent.
in the last fifteen years. Still the land
has to be irrigated TO some extent. Well,
the man goes to work and puts up lit
tie hut made of slabs or logs and mud
then he gets a COW, raises crops, and
pnlls through the first year. He may
have brought over peasant girl to work
for him at, say 81 or So week. He
sees that he can just as well marry the
girl and save the wages he would other
wise have to pay her. He gets baby
as soon as he can, and the next year he
puts this new wife of his, with her baby,
upon another 160 acres of land. Per-
haps he has been smart enough to build
his hut just on the boundary of the
farms so that by putting up an extern
sion the new family can live in the
same house and yet on another farm.
Then, as he extends his dominion, he will
marry more wives, and with each of his
additional children he puts up another
100 acres. Now, you know, after the
settler has occupied farm for five years,
built upon and worked it, he gets full
tllic Io tne property lIonl tue euerdl
Government Each of his wives, after
he has lived on another 100 acres for the
same time, can swear out clear title as
head of family This has always
been done, and is done still. And thus
the head of the concern, who came into
the country a poor peasant, often be-
comes n regular patron, living in ease in
the center of his dominion, while his
wives and their children go on increasing
their numbers and his wealth. Now you
know just how it is done"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23
Spotted Tails Daughter.

Spotted Tail has a daughter named
Shonkoo, which means the Red Road, who
has recently been married to Mr.. Lone
Elk, dashing young buck. There is a
little bit of romance about Shonkoo. Not
long ago two Sisters of Charity visited
their agency, and were presented to
Spotted Tail during their stay. He was
well pleased to meet them, and had a
friendly talk" with them at Col. Mills
house. In the course of the CONVERSE
ton they asked him if he would like to
give them Shonkoo to go and live with
them in n convent. He said yes, he would
like it very much. Then they sent for
Shonkoo and asked her if she would like
to go; but she remained silent, vouchsaf-
ing no answer to their question. Her
father urged her to speak, to say yes; but
still she was silent, and the interview
thus terminated. That night Shonkoo
eloped with Lone Elk, to whom she man.
aged to convey the intelligence that her
father was about to send her away. Shon-
koo is considered quite pretty. She has
good taste in dress for an Indian woman,
and understands English, but dislikes to
speak it. She is proud enough to be a
Princess. -C0TTcspOndencc Nc,C York
/IoruJI
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
The New Vestments.

The New Vestments.
There llived an old man in the kingdom of Jesse,
Who invented purely original dress;
And when II was perfectly made and complete,
He opened the door and walked into the street.
BY way OF a hat, he'd loaf of brown bread,
In the middle of which he inserted his head;
His shirt made up of no end of dead mice,
The warmth OF whose skins was quite huhy ana
nice;
TIs drawers were of rabbit-skins so his shoes
His stockings were skins, but 1t is not known
whose;
ais waistcoat and trousers were made of pork
chops;
His buttons were jujubes and chocolate drops;
His coat was all pancakes, with jam for border,
And girde of biscuits TO keep il in order;
And he wore over all, as screen from pad
A cloak OF green cabbage leaves stitched all to-
gether.
tie walked a short way, when he heard great
OF all sorts of beasticles, birdlings and boys;
And from every long street and dark lane IN the
Beasts, birdscs and boys in tumult rushed down.
Two cows and a calf ate his cabbage-lcaf cloak;
Four apes seized his girdle, which vanished IKE
smoke;
Three kids ale up half ofhis pancaky coat,
And the talls devOured 10y an ancient he-goat;
An army of dogs in twinkling tore ul his
Fork wastcoat and trousers to give TO their puppies;
And while they were growing and mumbiing the
Ten BOYS prigged The juiubes and chocolate drops.
He tried 10 run back 10 his house, but in vain,
For scores of fat pigs came again and again;
They rushed out of stables and-hoyels, and doors,
They tore of ms stockings, his shoes, and his
drawers
And now from the house-tops with screenings
descend,
striped spotted white, black, and gray cats with
out end:
They jumped on his shoulders and knocked OFF his
hat,
When crows. ducks, and hens made mince-neat
of that;
They speedily few at his sleeves in trice,
And utterly tore up his shirt OF dead mice;
They swallowed the last of his shirt with squal
Whereon he home with no clothes on at all.
And he said to himself as he bolted the door,
u will not wear "A similar dress any more,
Any more, any more, any more, never moreW
- Eflrnrd Lcnr.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23
Turkish Rufrianism in Bulgaria.

The London Times correspondent at
Constantinople forwarded recently a
story illustrating the present admins
tration at Bulgaria. On Christmas day,
a Turkish gendarme, enraged with the
Christian Mayor of the village OF Drank.
ortsi. after a severe beating, saddled and
bridled him, and compelled the poor
wretch to carry hin up and down the
street. finally driving him to the village
inn. where he threw the reins to the hostler,
ordering him to walk his horse mp and
down. The landlord reconstructed,
whereupon the ruffian knocked him down
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-23
THE CONTRAST.
Before and After Marriage, as 1t Appears
To a Cynical Youth.

before ana Auer marriSge, an IL appears
to a Cynical Youth.
From the Burlington Qowa) Hawk-Eye.
When you see young man sitting in
a parlor, with the ugliest 6-year-old
boy that ever frightened himself in the
mirror clambering over his knees, jerk
ing his white tie out of knot, mussing
his white vest, kicking his shins, feeling
III all his pockets for nickels, lombard
ing him from time to time with various
bits of light furniture and bVOuterie,
calling him names mt the top of his tiend-
ish lungs, and yelling necessarily for him
to come out III the yard and play, while
the unresisting victim smiles all the time
like the cover of comic almanac, you
may safely bet, although there isn't the
sign OF girl apparent in radius of
10, 900 miles, you can bet your bottom
dollar that bowling boy has sister who
is primping in room not twenty feet
away, and that the young man doesn't
come there just for the fun of playing
with her brother.
They were very pretty and there was
apparently five or six years difference in
their ages. AS the train pulled up mt
Bussey, out on the A., X. e. d., the
younger girl blushed, fattened her nose
nervously against the window, and drew
back in joyous smiles as young man
came dashing into the car, shook hands
tenderly and cordially, insisted on carry
ing her valise, magazine, little paper
bundle, and would probably have car
ried her had she permitted him, The
passengers smiled as she left the car,
and the murmur went ripping through
the coach, "They're engaged" The
other girl sat looking nervously out of
the window, and once or twice gathered
her parcels together as though she would
leave the car, yet seemed to be expect
ing some one. At last he came. He
bulged into the door like house on fire,
looked along the seats until his manly
gaze fell on her upturned, expectant
face, roared, "Come on I've been
waiting for you on the platform for
fifteen minutes - grabbed her basket,
and strobe out of the car, while she fol-
lowed with little valise, a bandbox, a
paper bag full of lunch, a bird-cage, a
glass jar of Jelly preserves, and an extra
shawl. And crusty looking old
bachelor in the further end of the car
croaked out in unison with the indignant
looks of the passengers, They're mar
ried -