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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-13
GARRISON AND DOUGLASS AZ A NEW TICKET

SIR: ! think William Lloyd Garrison and
Frederick Douglass might be named as men worthy the
nations confidence for President and VieePresidcnt IN
place OF tho tnaidates who voted for the No
veInber election, and whose election thero stil
exists 40 much doubt and strife think neither their
ability nor houesy wond be questioned by tbis any
other nation Wore tbey In the responsible places have
named they would be respected and hon0rtd. ~ think,
at home aIi abroad l. ID. TAkSER.
4aratton, ". T., Jan. 8. 1877.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-13

ci I,-I ana james RvSui 80 49,. -.
ocrs-rnbrrs uf tile Ist COngross-Sefo nciiociS vi
the CVnS itJlpnI CUbycDtioI .ho
sit r0i u Ilir presumption thai The momb.rs Oh tno
convention who IN Congress knew wiltt tle nci
ing of me wors and the vote shall then De eoun'eu
WA especially John Llngdon had pee, ,eo i =
President %, the Senate for the sole purpose OF opening
and committing tho votes" Tellers we're appointed on
April g. 1882 they have been since and @,ei 20
one yhn Eceps "A tally" "trliers' Df the iiOus. IT,
uyrt 10 the Sneaker when vote IL taken by teIiors
Il better 10 abide by that intefprt sou Vi "'
Constitution gwen b. the men wI0 made III D. n d.
Br01ki.l. Dee 20, 1876.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-13
WHAT AUTHORITY HAS TIE HOUSE,

TO Tie EGIf0r or THO TrtbNnt.
SIR: "This Constitution and the laws Of tho
United States which shall he made In pursuance thereof
shalt be- the supreme law OF the OF
II. s.. Art. Vi, Sec ,.
Whit article in the Constitution, what law made in
pursuance thereof gives the House Representatives.
am control the actions Of Tho votes cast jy the
electoral colleges OF the several Statesi
Neto- York, Jan. 3. 1877. HENRY STONE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-13
AIRY 13. 1s77.-TRTPLE SHEET.

kingdom OF heaven for which Jesus asked people TO pray
n h the sabbath that remaneth for the people OF God
wherein the daily bread OF its subjects 70 DO as sure
"a wGs the In the widsrne5S-lU could gather w.
And he or she who viii work eat In this Sabbath OF
Lord. The jewish sabbath fod she poor one day m
seven, month In In seven ana NJ tho
Jubilee gave them the land. The Shaker Gospel gives
poor the land from the beginning IN perpetual pos
session thus swallowing up all short time or typical
SGbbahs in jubilee Of jnblees the true sabbath OF tho
Lord Jesus. ONE on THE BRETHRES'
NJ LcbInOn NJ Y, Jan. T. 1877.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-13

tons being takon 10 prevent inhalation and con seou.
the spread Of the disease.
II tho good sense Of the people cannot be aror..s
exercise prccauton. IL IL DO hoped tbst tbo
Of Health will e1erci-e Of the authority yes,sad
them BY the laws andor which they created snT
ganizcd. PKEcIrTn.~
Neg York, Jan. 4, 1877.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-13
TUE SPREAD OF CONTAGIOUS prssAsrs

TO the EditOr or The Tribune.
SIR The subject of dangerous funerals has
az length attracted the attention or the press we'll
tho Board of Health. Every physician IL that the
spread o' mind contagious Diseases snc phthc1a
scarlet fever &C. Is In great duo TO the want OF
caution at and before tho funeral when ths members OF
tho family and friends permitted remain In the
with the body, without the ordinary procau
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-13

whatever other means your correspondent 'o0s' 10
coil il prevonied by their color frCIR tAeicsibY
their freedom 10 the Oal0t-bo6. tAbohNiAN
Chirlcsi0H. IS. O., Dec % 1S1N.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20
A Modern DOgberry.

The Earl of Bridgewater lived in
Paris during the last century, where the
circumstances we narrate took place.
He was miserable looking little man,
unable to walk without the support of
two lackeys. He had an immense for
tune, which he spent in gratifying every
caprice. Was book lent him, it was
regarded as the representative of its
owner, and returned in the EarPs landau,
occupying the place of honor, and at
tended by four footmen in costly livery,
who handed it to the astonished owner.
His carriage was frequently to be seen
filled with dogs, his special pets. On the
feet of these dogs he bestowed as much
attention as though they were unfortun-
ate human beings; he ordered them
boots, for which he paid as dearly as for
his own. Not caring to entertain his
own kind at his table, few people dined
with him. Still covers were laid for a
dozen, served by suitable attendants.
At this table he received and dined with
no less than twelve favorite dogs, who
seemed to comprehend the compliment
paid them, as they occupied their chairs
with decorum, each with its white nap
kin tied around its neck. They were SO
trained that should any, by an instinct
of appetite, rransgfess any rule of good
manners, he was banished from the table
and degraded to an ante-chamber, where
he picked his bones in modification, his
place remaining empty until he had
secured his masters pardon.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20
The Victims of Mars.

According to the World, French
statistician has formed an estimate OF
the number of human beings killed in
battle or carried of by disease during
the wars of the nineteenth century-the
century, MS he grimly observes, " of
progress, of science, and of humanity
Notwithstanding the general peace F."
which reigned between the "grcat
powers" with little or no interruption
from the downfall of Napoleon in 1918
to the Crimean war in 1854, 1t is literally
true that civilized men have been fight
ing in one part of the world or another
without cessation ever since this model
century began. The great wars of the
French Empire ragged from 1901 TO 1915
with secondary fighting during the same
period in the New World between Spain
and her colonies after 1909 and 1910, and
between England and the United States
in 1872. The war of Greek independence
broke out in 1922, and the Legitimist
invasion of Spain by France took place
in 1928, leaving the country legacy of
mercilcss civil conflicts not yet worked
out to their full contamination. The
Russo-Turkish war of 1928 followed,
which ended, as Count Moltke puts it,
"bringing twenty thousand Russians to
Adrianoplc at the cost of fifty thousand
lives and thousand million of roubles.
After this came the French invasion of
Algiers, the Franco-B elgic war against
Holland, the bloody and resultless
Polish instruction, the wars between
Mehemet Ali aud the Sultan, the war of
the Swiss Sonderbund, the American
war with Mexico, the revolutionary
outbreaks of lS4S all over the Continent,
the desperate struggle between insurgent
Italy and Austria, and the Hungarian
war in which Nicholas of Russia so
madly interviewed to save the Austrian
Empire, in order that it might decide
the defeat of Russia six years afterwards.
The Crimean war, in 1854, shook to
pieces the system of 1915. 1t was
followed by the Indian mutiny, by the
French expedition to Syria, by the
Franco-Italian war of 1850, by the civil
war in the United States, by the Anglo
French expedition to China, by the
Danish war, by the allied war with
Paraguay, by the French invasion of
Mexico, by the Austro-Prussian war of
1866, by the Cuban instruction, by the
Franco-German war of 1870, and by the
great Russo-Turkish war now waging.
The statistician who has undertaken to
compute the losses in the way of human
life alone inflicted upon our century by
all these wars and conflicts (and the
catalogue is by no means completely
sums them up, on the faith of the best
official data, at zoe, 100000 of men. In
other words, the science and energy of
the nineteenth century have been so
applied as to deprive civilization of the
use and service of number of able
bodied male human beings five times as
large as the total population of these
United States
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20

Jones was dry hadn't been so dry
since the strike, but there was no saloon
close by, and he had passed the last drug
store. He knew Mrs. J. had little old
Hennessy about the house that she put
in buildings and pies, and he sat down
on the door steps and wondered how
he could save it from being wasted
in such fxings, as economy was his
motto.
He looked up at the dog star, the
alioth and the milk-maid's path, but
they were silent and tending strictly to
business. A scheme finally dawned
on him, and he opened the door and felt
his way back to the ice-cooler, got up in
a chair and fished out piece of ice, but
toned up his coat and turned up the col
lar. Then he staggered up stairs, ice in
hand, and met Mrs. Jones.
whats the matter, Jones--been drill
ling?"
mo-" said Jones, with sigh and
SILVER.
"Caucusg" "No, no caucus" can
other strikeT' " No-chill," said Jones,
as he sank into chair and slipped the
ice in his coat pocket. "Feel my hand"
"Oh, my p and she shuddered. Then she
got blanket and put over him, and
said she would make some hot tea. As
size started for the kitchen, Jones called
her back, and, with sigh, suggested if
there was little alcohol about the
house it would be better. There wasn't
a bit, but she had little brandy for
cooking purposes. Jones gave a shake,
and said it would answer if she had a
lite hot water and sugar to make it
palatable. They we're on hand in two
minutes, and while she pulled off his
boots and wrapped blanket around his
feet, Jones mixed the toddy and shivered.
He felt better afterwards, though he
made up a terrible face when he emptied
the bottle, and told Mrs Jones that she
had saved his life. He retired ten
minutes afterwards singing,
sThere a land that is fairer than day'
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20
TPONCLADS.

What a powerful country England
would be if her ironclads would only in
fict as much damage on an enemy as
they do upon themselves. The Shan
non, the first vessel of new class, tried
to make a six hours steaming trial at
Plymouth recently, but her bearings be-
came 50 overheated that she had to be
stopped. After week she was still in
such shape that three stoppages for
cooling had to be made in one hour.
Then it was discovered that her bow
spirit was out of place, so that for ram
ming purposes she would be useless !;
also, that she was so overmasted and that
such mistakes had been made in calcula-
ting her displacement that she drew
twenty-three inches more than had been
expected and allowed for. AT the same
time the Flamingo set out from
Plymouth for Malta, and during her
brief voyage displayed faults so multitu-
dinous and multifarious that Admiral
Rice declared that unless she was put in
better shape in a fortnight he would or
der her home as useless.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20

A BEAUTIFUL story is told of Sir
Philip Sydney, while he was borne away
dying from the battlefield. He had Just
placed cup of cold water to his lips,
when there was carried past him a
wounded soldier, who looked with long
ing eyes on the draught of the more
favored Sydney. He Withdrew his lips,
and instead of drinking himself, gave
the cup to the poor MANNED soldier, with
the simple utterance, "thy necessity is
yet greater than mine" That was an
illustrious instance of unselfishness, and
does honor to his character in the sphere
of heroic deeds more than the most bril-
liant passage of arms.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20

In the Globe Theater, Boston, Clara
Butler, the wife of Frank Frayne, while
shooting at an apple in her husband S
hand, took off the first two fingers of his
left hand. Frayne took it so quietly
that no one in the audience was enabled
to perceive the accident that had taken
place. The same afternoon the wounded
man, after losing great deal of blood
had the fingers amputated at the middle
joint. 1t is curious that Mrs. Frayne
says she had a presentiment ali day that
something bad was about to happen.
She tainted when she found what she
had done.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20

BUFFALO Commercial: A woman out
in Polk County becoming converted to
the doctrines Of DR.. Mary Walker, took
advantage of her husbands absence to
array herself in his clothes. She put on
the coat first, and ignoring the buttons,
pinned it up from chin down. Then she
put on the vest, back in front, and toll
somely buttoned it up behind. That
was about three o'clock in the afternoon.
Atabout half-past six her husband found
her seated on the side of the bed in a
disordered room, weeping, her hair down,
face red, eyes infamed, and her whole
mental being convulsed with fretful ex-
element, impotence, and anger. She
held his Sunday pantaloons in her hands,
and all those three mortal hours she had
been trying to put them on over her
head
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20

THE site Of the petrified forest of Cali
fornia is about one thousand feet above
the sea level, and lies in the same trend
with the Geyscrs, Mount St. Helena
and the thermal springs of Calistoga.
Asreoent visitor says that, geologically,
tits one vast lava bed, in which the trees
lie as they were thrown, probably thou
sands Of years ago, by some convulsion
of nature. The trees are in fragments,
many of which have been converted into
charcoal, others into Ignite, and others
into beautiful specimens of jet.
! Where the heart of the tree had de-
cayed, the cavity is filled with opal, a
form of lustrous uncrystallized silica,
containing water. Chalcedona, another
form of the silica, but clear and limpid,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20

DuCoURToIs, Partisan storekeeper,
determined last year that he would retire
to the country, and accordingly betook
himself to a handsome place in the
environs of Paris. Being bachelor, he
invited Pous, his former clerk, to bear
him company. They soon, however, be-
came lonesome, and Ducourtois thought
the quickest way of recouping the outlay
would be to heavily insure and then
fire the building So he and Pous
saturated with petroleum the most in
fammable parts of the edifice, to which
they then set fire, disregarding the fact
that seven persons slept in the tenement
adjoining In the defense Ducourtois,
with Count Fosco GOODNESS, pleaded
that he committed the deed because he
was "unsuited for rural pleasures and
not made for country life" He has
been sentenced to eight years penal
servitude.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20

II is curious to notice the different
effect which the beautiful and sublime
in nature has upon different persons. A
story is told of a German tourist who,
when he reached Inspiration Point,
where is seen the first glimpse of the
Yosemite, fell on his knees, and said,
with tears in his eyes: "Mein Colt, ich
danke dir fur desc Stunds -" My God,
thank thee for this hour" 40, how
prettyp' was the vapid exclamation of a
young lady as she reached that same
magnificent spot; and her senseless re-
mark sent thrill of disgust through
others of the party.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20

ELsoN H. CARR, prominent and
worthy citizen of Great Plain District,
Danbury, Connecticut, was killed in a
shocking manner. He had procured a
quantity of dynamite, or giant powder,
for blasting purposes. He went in COM
pany with a visiting friend to field a
short distance from the house, and while
showing the manner of using the ma
terial it exploded in his hands. His
bowels were torn out, his left arm half
way to the elbow is missing and can not
be found, the right hand torn into
shreds, and the lower part of his face
blown off.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20

THERE are some seven hundred carpet
making establishments in the United
States which, in prosperous times, fur
nish employment to between 10000
and 100000 operatives, men, women and
children. Thirteen million dollars is
invested in the business, which includes
buildings and machinery, while 81, 700,-
900 is expended yearly for wages. The
annual production is valued at between
So, 0oO,0 900 and S24000,G00.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20
Another Poe-P0e'm.
lNorristown Herald


Not to be outdone in enterprise by a
Kokomo paper, the Herald dispatched
correspondent to Virginia with
instructions to spare neither time nor
expense in the effort to capture n
posthumous poem by the gifted but
cratic Poe. After an absence of nearly
two weeks he sends lis the poetic frag-
ment given below, with the explanation
that he discovered it written in chalk
on the inner side of barn door, on the
premises of an old farmer living near
Winchester. One night, the farmer
says, young man with wild and berry
look applied at his house for lodgings,
and was accommodated in the barn. At
daybrcak next morning, when the cid
man went out to feed his stock, the
stranger was gone and the following
poem, with Poe's initials attached, was
found written on the barn door:
MARIENNE.
Mary Ann her parents named her,
But she wrote il Marienne;
And though angels have not claimed her,
She's as fair MS any,
For her eyes are dark and gloomy,
And her nose is sort o. boomy,
And her mouth is rather roomy--
And have angels whispered to me,
Marienaeg"
No, not any.
When fantastic shapes and shadows
Danced in darkling gens and meadows,
Fairies gay and bright and beamng,
With pale starlight luster cleaning,
lowered DER the fair and dreaming
Marienne.
But my dream of life is broken,
And my tale OF love unspoken
For with gloomy ewes wide open,
Leaving neither sigh nor token,
She eloped with fancy fellow,
tine whose hair was long and yellow
And his head both thick aud mellow;
And do you think that shall below
For Marenne?
Nary any. f. p.
The asterisks in the poem, it may be
as well to explain, represent gap made
by the farmer inadvertently backing up
against the barn door to scratch his
back. The beautiful thoughts thus
obliterated are forever lost to the liter
airy. Jeaousy may impel some of our
contemporaries to insist that the poem
would have been vastly improved il the
farmer had wiped out the whole pro-
duction, but they cannot conscientiously
declare that our poem by Poe doesn't
contain more sense to the square inch
than the Kokomo effort The Herald
correspondent wished to send us the
entire barn door as a guarantee of his
good faith, but the farmer objected.
He secured one of the hinges, however,
which any one who doubts the genuine
ness of "Marienne" can see by calling
at his residence.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20
"REMINISCENCES OF LocoMoTIoN.

"REMINISCENCES OF LOCOMOTION
The boiler of the first locomotive ever
run on railroad in America is still in
excellent condition, and is used at Car
bondale, Pa. This engine, named the
Stourbridge Lion, from the place of it's
manufacture, was ordered from England,
by the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company, while the first English, the
Liverpool and Manchester road, was
constructing, and while it was yet doubt
full whether or not George Stephenson
would succeed in persuading its man
ayers to use steam. The assistant engi-
neer of the Canal Company, Mr.. Horatio
Allen, went to England to examine the
question of steam transportation, and
returned to this country satisfied that it
was destined to revolutionize commerce.
He was commissioned toorder three loco
motives. One of them was landed in
New York in May, 1929, and after being
exhibited for several weeks to throngs of
curious people, it was sent by river and
canal to Honesdale, Pa, whence just
completed road sixteen miles long ran to
Carbonate, connecting the Lackawanna
coal fields with tidewater on the Hud-
son, by means of the canal. The rails
and tide of this rude railway were of
hemlock, which, not having been well
seasoned, was warped and twisted badly
by the time the engine arrived, making
the trial very dangerous; the more so
that the road crossed the Lackawanna
River over slender hemlock trestle,
at the height of hundred feet. Mr..
Allen was not ignorant of his danger,
but ambitious Of distinction as the first
engineer in this country, he dared it, in
opposition to many anxious friends, and
demonstrated that the new idea was a
success. This was on the 9Th of August,
1929, two months before the successful
trial by Stephenson on an English road.
The engine was complicated affair,
covered with rods and joints, and with
huge walking beam. 1t resembled
nothing so mich as huge grasshopper.
Mr.. Allen and Mr.. Jervis, the principal
engineer of the canal, who ordered the
engine, are yet living in the State of
New York.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20

BURLINGTON Ha,ok-Eye: A family of
Nebraska immigrants passed through
this city yesterday on their return to
Indiana. They had suffered every
thing, and were in the last stages of des-
titution. This man had been compelled
to part with nine of his dogs, and the
woman was positively ashamed of her
bracelets and earrings, and she refused
to get out of the wagon because, she
tearfully informed the President of the
Woman's Relief Society, her litter was
nearly three months out of style.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20

HYDROPHoBIA must either be an cpl
demic in Paris or the French classified
ton of dogs that are mad must be very
different from the American We learn
from official returns that the police of
the Capital killed 276 mad dogs in 1875,
and 80 in 1876. If these figures repre-
sent cases of unmistakable hydrophobia,
seasickness and the possibility of ship
wreck constitute by no means the most
formidable drawbacks to an excursion
across the Atlantic.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20

THERE is remarkable German Com
munistic Society in Iowa, called the
Amana, which has adopted cooperative
housekeeping. The families live in
separate houses, but take their meals in
one common clearinghouse. They have
one common kitchen and laundry to a
village, SO that no cooking or washing is
done in the separate houses. The So
ciety is very prosperous and wealthy,
and the members are happy and healthy.
1t is all because they don't have to worry
over housekeeping
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20

ONE of the new and curious objects of
the japanese Capital is gigantic image
of woman, made of wood and plaster,
and dedicated to Hachiman, the god of
war. In height it measures fifty-four
feet, the head alone, which is reached by
a winding staircase in the interior of
the figure, being capable of holding
about twenty persons with comfort. A
sword is held in the right hand and a
huge ball in the left. Internally, the
novelty consists of an extraordinary
anatomical model. A fine view of the sur
rounding district is obtained by looking
through one of the eyes, and the price of
admission is only two cents.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20
MORGANTOWN. VIVA. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1877.

places aman under the bed entirely at the
mercy of cool and courageous woman,
and those women who may at any time
hereafter find man under their respect
i've beds will do well 10 initiate her OK.
ample, and share her well earned glory.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-10-20

Ir has been discovered that the pea
cock is the natural ecemy of the Colo
RADIO beetle. We are glad that this biped
has at last found mission, and that he
is now useful as well as ornamental
He can make as many eyes at us as he
pleases if he only destroys the potato
bug, for what would life be without the
festive Murphy?