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, 1878-01-26

A Washington dispatch says
there is unquestionably an ugly
feeling among some republicans
there towards the president, and
besides certain well arranged at
tacks to be made on Secretaries
Evarts and Schurz, tis intended
not to stop short Of the presi-
dent himself. This latter part
of the programme is to be car
ried out by Senator Spencer as
chairman of the senate military
committee, who has arranged to
investigate the recent payment
of $4,000 to Major Benjrmin p.
Runkle as back pay in the army
and the presidents connection
with it.
, 1878-01-26
In a recently published &C

In a recently published ac-
count of the Montenegrin army
some details are given of extra
ordinary marches which have
been made by its soldiers during
the present war with Turkey.
Before the battle of Butschid0l
the force engaged had marched
for fourteen hours across coun-
try, over hill and dale, having,
moreover, been previously under
arms for six hours. On this c1e<
casion the men had nota mouth
full of food from daybreak until
midnight; the day was intense
ly hot, the country traversed
was mountainous and difficult,
and yet not q man was left be-
hind. When marching from
place to place the Montenegrins
never follow the roads. but move
straight across the country. al
though heavily laden the men
easily climb the steepest rocks
or descend the most preclpitous
slopes. Besides their weapons
they carry invariably ''torba, y
and Il "struka." Their arms
consist usually of rifle, a cut
Lass and a revolver or brace of
pistols. The torba or bread bag
contains generally an enormous
loaf of bread, biscuit, a flask
and a reserve Of cartridges. The
ammunition for immediate use,
as well as money and any other
small articles, are carried1n the
belt. The struka is a large,
heavy plaid, which serves as. .
cloak, rug ora covering. When
it rains the army is halted, the
soldier wraps his head in hisstru-
ka, wraps it round his body, puts
his gun in his leather case and
lies down and sleeps, heedless of
the weather.
, 1878-01-26

A late New York dispatch says
that the Sheriff Of Chocteau Co.,
Montana, telegraphs that one
hundred Nez Perces now Ill Sit
ting Bulls camp, are anxious to
surrender. They escaped at the
time of Chief Joseph's surren-
der. The dispatch states that
none Of the Indians who partici-
pated in the Idaho massacre last
summer were among those cap
tured by Miles. 1t twill be recol-
lected that Mr.. Natter made an
affidavit that he saw some OF the
murderers among the captured
on the Missouri river. 1t was
once stated that all the parti-
cipants in the massacre had been
killed in action. So there is
contradiction and confusion
about the matter. The depart
ment, it is said, are unwilling to
permit this band of escaped Nez
Perces to return to North Idaho,
as they will be exposed to trial
by the Courts for murder or to
be killed by the whites. Those
who have been indicted should
be returned wherever they may
be, and the rest should be dis
armed and never allowed to re-
turn.-B0ise Statesman.
, 1878-01-26

Would you regard this prob.
lematical or complimentary?
"Nellie, little girl, do you like
having a ride on my knee?" The
simple, artless child replied, eyes,
papa, pretty well, but not as
we'll as to ride on a real jackass,
| mean one with four legs, you
know" The father pondered
pn that saying, and, hghtingean-
xther cigar, concluded that
Childhood is wise beyond its
years.
, 1878-01-26
The act Of 1908 makes the annual

The act of 1908 makes the annual
appropriation of 5000. 600 to provide
arms and equipments for the militia,
bnt il is argued now that the population
o: the country at that time did not ex-
ceed blight millions. and besides arms
were more expensive then than at the
present time. The effec. of increasing
III, approx fiation to $1.OOO,000 would
Ds to encourage the organization of the
militia. The records of the War De-
psss ment show that the organized mill
it'd pf the country numbers 80. 865 and
IT, unorganized 2.S75,469. The Sec.
retary will review at length the militia
laws, many of which. although still
upon the statute books, are now obsos
lete, as, for instance, the act OF March
2, 1903, section ;632 of the Revised
Statutes, which requires each dragon
to furnish himself with horse, pair of
pistols, &C., and general revision OF
such laws will be recommended.
, 1878-01-26

Sir Edward Coke divided his day
as follows:
SIX hours in sleep, in laws grave stuGies SIX;
-Four spend in prayer, tue rest on nature fix.
But Sir William Jones had bet
ter notion OF arithmetic, and more
accurate moral outlook, when he
wrote
Sven hours to law, to soothing slumber sever;
Ten to the world, and all to heaven.
In such days as these it is we'll to
look at some of.the old worthless.
Their example may nerve US to a
larger effort. Andrew Marvel died
in 1878. He was called "the man
who dared to be honest in the worst
of time.' He occupied a mean
lodging in the Strand
There lived be iocund.
And his thoughts were roses all.
When Charles II. attempted to
bribe him through Lord Dandy, he
replied that he "could not accept
the offer without being unjust to
his country by betraying its inter-
ests. He refused a gift from his
Majesty of $1,000, and then bor-
rowed a guinea from friend. "His
heart was not buried in the rubbish
Of the world What a pleasure to
look through the murky atmos-
phere Of to-day and see such q
giant. There is as great demand
kOr such men now rs ever,
, 1878-01-26

Some men, when in the company
of rich man, are the empty echo
of the rich mans voice. If he says,
SIT is very like a whale;;" or, "It is
bumped like camel" they are sure
to swear that he is right, though
the subject under discussion may be
a sewing machine or a stick Of can
dy or anything else. We de-
light to fawn in the presehce of q
millionaire. whose very contempt is
gsft ne highly prize. Some one
has artly called this 'serpentine
prudence" and Columbian simplic-
ity" We are too much like the
poor fool. who in the presence of
the king
Would not, with peremptory tone,
Assert the nose upon his face his OWL.
, 1878-01-26


4 rapid penman can write thir-
ty words in a minute. To do
thss he must draw his esill
through the space of a rod-six-
teen feet and a half. In forty
minutes his pen travels a fur
long, and in five hours and a
third, q mile. We make, en an
average, sixteen curves or turns
of the pen in writing each word.
Writing thirty words in a min
ute we must make 439 to each
second; in an hour $500; in a
day Of only five hours, IA, 700;
and in a year of 300 days, 43,-
100000. The man who made
100000 strokes Of a pen in a
month was not at all remarkable.
Men make 100000. Here we
have, in the aggregate, a mark
300 miles long, to be traced on
paper by each writer in a year.
In making each letter of the or
dinary alphabet, we must make
from three to seven strokes of
the pen-on an average, three
and 4 half to four.
, 1878-01-26

Some idea Of the amount of am
munition required for the eighty
one ton gun carried by the British
man-of-war Infexible, may be form
ed when it is estimated that in an
action, if the Infexible should fire
only ten shots from each of her four
guns she would use up IA, 800
pounds Of pebble powder. and hurl
upwards of thirty tons of projectiles
at a a cost of Sc, 800.
, 1878-01-26

Among the most important feat
ures of the Georgia constitution are
strict provisions against duelling,
make lobbying crime and petty
larceny cause for disfranchisement,
prohibiting the State from render
ing financial assistance to railroads,
abolishing the whipping post and
Imprisonment for debt, making the
sessions of the legislature biennial,
and increasing the facilities for free
public education.
, 1878-01-26

A London detective says that so
per cent of the people who go to pc
lice headquarters to complain that
they have been robbed by confidence
men are Americans. So much for
the smartness" of our travelling
countrymen!
A New York editor heads an
article, j" What we Drink" As
he. names nothing but water. we
suspect that he has been refused
trust at the beer saloon.-Noyris-
toua Herald.
F" What station do you call
this?' groaned traveller, as he
crawled out Of the wreck Of a
smashed-up railway train. ode
vastation," replied the conduc-
tor.
Some colored Lien in Augusta, Ca,
are moving to start cotton factory
there. with capital of 500. Geo.
Boston has just opened skating rink
which cover- 20. coo square feet of land.
We have se!f-made men often, but
self-unsmade ones good deal oftener.
"Itis sin to steal pin, and man
in Philadelphia has been arrested for
that very offence. The pin had dia~
mond attached TO it.
Carlot,a Patti is reported to be Sc
riously ill. and has undergone pains
full operation. concerning the fortunate
issne of which, however. her surgeons
entertain no doubt.
, 1878-01-26

Danbury Ne,rs:-" Boots of
the thirteenth century are occa-
sionally dug up in London, with
skeletons of cats of the same fes-
tive era. The relative positions
of the boots and cats show that
the ancien.s were not much bet
ter at aiming than we of to-day
are"
, 1878-01-26

Among the articles at the New York
Loan exhibition is snuff box gwen by
DR.. antomarchi, o few days before his
death, to Napoleon. Bonapart, during
the hundred days. A portrait of Napo
leon is upon the lid. and the setting is
of carved gold. There is also . cup
and saucer of Sevres porcelain once
owned by Marie Antoinette.
The latest reports show that London
has now 81 ,136 paupers, of whom 3d.
4O3 are in work houses. and 81, ,733 res
ceive out door relief. Compared with
the same period in 1876. 1875 and 1874
these figures show decrease of 1,109,
3,646 and -, $40 respectively.
Sarah Bernhardt, the distinguished
French actress, has fully won her right
to high position as a sculptor. so fully
that the French government has given
her an order fer marble bust of Fell :
Glen David, for the Versailles Museum.
Saw sign in barber's window the
other day, Boots Blacked Inside. !"
Couldn't for the life Of us, think why
anybody wants the inside OF his boots
blacked. Should think it would ruin a
fellow socks.
The British Consul at Ajaccio say S
that 400. 900 blackbirds are annually ex-
ported from Corsica to France for the
ericures of Paris.
, 1878-01-26
The revolution which has been go

The revolution which has been go
ing on in Cuba for the past nine years
is gradually disintegrating. Bands
of insurgents numbering from twen-
tyfive to seventy are daily surrender
ing, and it will not be many months
ere the Cespedes Provisional Gov
ernment finds itself without fol-
lower.
, 1878-01-26

A Scotch paper says General
Grant lost two fingers at the
battle Of Michigan. Yes; it was
q tough fight, that, but the Gen
eral never cared a cent for the
loss. He merely remarked, as
he sent a boy after the missing
fingers: II only take three fin
gers at a drink, anyhow"
, 1878-01-26

The carver asked Mr..
which he would have, a leg or a
wing? ats d matter of perfect
Indifference to me-" replied the
person addressed. "And to me-"
replied the carver, laying down
his knife and fork and resuming
his dinner
, 1878-01-26
The Great Ring Thief.


city Of New York of$50, 900, 900,
only about 100000 of which
has been recovered, is again urg'
ing his claim for release, on the
ground Of having made repara-
ton SO far as in his power laid.
The Board Of Aldermen recent
ly held a meeting in that city,
and a resolution for. his release
was introduced. Alderman Cow
ing made the principal speech in
opposition to the passage of the
resolution. He spoke substanti-
ally as follows:
I did not intenl to speak to this
resolution, as when it was first Of
fered did not think that the gen.
tleman was serious, but I desire to
say q few words against Its adoption,
and I do SO with no revengeful feel
ing, for I can truly say that pity
a man who, like William NJ. Tweed,
was once so powerful, surrounded
by all the comforts that wealth can
give, who so far forgets his duty to
his trust as to fall to such deep dis
grace. I also pity the thousands in
this great city who have now been
brought to want and suffering
through the crimes OF this man.
Who can measure the distress that
his crimes have brought upon the
community? The example he has
set is one of the very worst. There
is no crime so odious, SO Infamous
and so disastrous in its far reaching
results as is the crime of official
breach of trust. In my Judgment
the man who steals into the bed
chamber and plunges a knife into
one Of his fellow beings and sends
him into eternity, does not commit
so bad crime as he who, like VIM.
M. Tweed. helps to fraudulently
load a city with debt, indirectly
bringing misery and distress upon
thousands of households. There
are men who are now suffering in
State Prison who were guilty OF
stealing, perhaps. a few hundred
dollars to keep their families from
starving, and there is no one in this
Board to pity them or move for
their discharge. In these times,
when there is so much betrayal of
trust in insurance companies. banks,
trust companies and other business,
it is very poor time to relax the law
and open the prison doors. No;
rather make the laws more severe to
punish such crimes, and then make
them more uniform and universal in
that application. or.else crimes will
increase instead of decrease. Old
grey headed men are now tottering
on their way to prison cells for such
crimes, and they deserve their fate.
1t is said that justice requires Mr..
Tweed to be released. If justice
was done him what punishment does
the mind of man conjure up which
would be too severe for him? If JUS
tice were done he would not be in a.
debtors prison, but in State Prison.
I hope that this Board will not close
its existence by passing this resolu-
ton. Two wrongs do not make
right, because others go unpunished
that is q poor reason why Mr..
Tweed should go unpunished."
The resolution was adopted,
however, by IS to Z.
, 1878-01-26

The confession is generally
being made that if there had
been ITO politicians on either side
TO interfere with the armies the
civil war in America would have
been ended in a short time. The
politicians commanded the gen
erals.
, 1878-01-26

Old Londoa will soon be thing of
the past. Her ancient landmarks have
been either efaced or are in process of
being blotted out. 1t is now proposed
to obliterate Newgste jnil in favor of a
new postofice. The needs of the me-
tropolis in that line have long been re-
cognized. With the removal of News
gate another historical landmark will
disappear.
, 1878-01-26

The Louisville Cowir-Jomaal
says: Between 1913 and 1876 the
product of gold and silver IN Mexi-
CO was $702, 100000. During the
same period American enterprise
produced from the territory acquired
from Mexico by the Mexican war
81, ,3S9, ,372.195. In the northern
states of Mexico there remains o
mineral wealth of enormous value,
which, after all the operations OF the
Spaniards, has scarcely been
scratched. Railroads and American
enterprise viii stir this region into
life. Thousands of mines have been
abandoned in Sonoraand chihuahua
Oh account of the insecurity of the
country, which formerly yielded
enormous riches even with INSULT
cient appliances for working them.
, 1878-01-26

The head waiter Of asaloon in
Boston was referred to as "a
gentleman of soup-or- -fish-al at
tainments. ae
, 1878-01-26

Senator Cameron, of Wiscon-
sin, is endeavoring to aid the
Winnebago Indians Of that
State in their efforts for subsist.
ence by agricultural pursuits,
and to promote their civiliza-
ton. A large number of these
Indians have selected and set
tied in good faith upon home
stead claims, under a special act
for their benefit of 1875. The
Indians have slgnified their de-
sire and purpose to abandon
their tribal relations, and
adopt the habits and customs
of civilized people, and avail
themselves Of the privileges of
that act, but in many instances
are unable to do so on account of
their extreme poverty.
The New York Herald gets it off
thusly: The Baltimore Ners is
gaining credit for its very funny
paragraphs. Even the Burlington
Hasrk-Eye and Detroit Free Press
quote them: We desire to say.that
the Ne,cs' paragraphs are the bright
est in the world They are stolen
from the Herald"
There amt much difference. Before
marriage she says. s'by-bye, darling"
when he is about to leave the house,
and after marriage she says the same
thing-"buy. buy darling. only more
often.
= Miss Kate Field has had large piece
Of good fortune in the publication Of
articles in the London Times, and in
the proposals of that journal to receive
and print other matter from her pen.
As soon as man becomes per-
fectly familiar with his own name
he writes it so that nobody can read
II
, 1878-01-26
An organization has Just been ef-

An organization has just been ef-
fected in Massachusetts, whose o6-
ject it is to promote the relief
of the surplus industrial population
of the community by offering prac-
tical help in settling on farms in the
West. The association is composed
OF the hest citizens of Massachu.
setts, and it sets forth its design by
saying it is ''to promote associate
emigration to fertile unoccupied
lands, and to aid in their develop
ment into agricultural townships
and homesteads, by these means
contributing to a redistribution of
labor and its diversion from trade
and manufactures where in surplus,
to the tillage of the earth, the basis
of all industries and the primary
source OF all wealth. The associa-
.ion is to consist of twerty-one
members, in addition to which there
is to be an advisory board of some
two hundred citizens, AMI an Office
is soon to be opened for business in
Boston. Land is to be purchased in
large tracts and sold at cost in alter
nate sections, to settlers; and the
settlements are to be made under
the direction of competent superin-
tendents, who will show those who
are ignorant the true method of cul-
tivating the soil. The class chiefly
to be benefited is that OF poor work
ingmen who now find it difficult to
obtain living from lack of work.
A committee is about to go West and
South to examine lands which have
already been offered to the board.
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Ell have theory about the dead iau-
euages.' said a new student. .Nhai is ite''
asked the professor. THAT they were killed b.
being studied toO hard"
90 During the passage 81 Tie British war ship
OToLteS for Bermuda. a boat crew of thirteen
men were sent 10 the rescue OF man Who had
fallen overheard. and the entire party persisted
by the capsizing OF the boat
a. George Henry LeWes, the literary gentIe-
man. whose death is announced from LONDON
Was the husband OF George Eliot" The we'll
known writer. The couple lived together Tor
years outside OF matrimOny.
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DIED,

BEATTY On December ID 1878 CHARLIE, r.
BEATTY, in the Goth year of his age
His funeral Will take place from the residence of
his niece Mrs. Gale, 2l0 22d street, Thursday at
O'Clock.
CRIMMIN. On the Sd of December 1875 at q
O'Clock IN, PATRICK CRIMsIIS ina the thirty fourth
year of his native Of County Limerick Ireland
HIS funeral viii take place Friday, December 9Th
at O'Clock w. from his late residence corner I2f,
and streets northwest Friends and relatives are
respectfully invited to attend. d.
kORTE. On the evening of December Sd. 1878 Mt
bis residence III this city, FREDERICK WTLLfAr
konTE, native of westphalia. Germany, aged
The remains will be taken TO Baltimore for inter.
inent Funeral from the residence of III Nj. Adler.
NO 80 W. Lombard street at o'clock tomorrow.
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FATAL CASE OF HYDRoPHoBIA IN DELAWARE
Mr.. Nln. II. Dobb, a well-hnown citizen OF New
castle Del. was seized on Saturday morning. as
lie sat at breakfast. with every symptom OF ny
drophobia. He had been bitten by his Own doc
ABOUT eight or ten weeks since. which at the
time exhibited signs Of the disease. and was al
once killed. Mr.. Dobb afuer being biLLen COM
menced taking elecampaDe and milk. which he
hdd learned was sure antidote 10 the poison.
htlt had discontinued its use. and on SATURDAY
morning lie was seized with the first symptom
physician was immediately summoned. hui
The patient grew rapidly worse About noon on
sunday last he began to be deliTiOuS: his COP
FuISlFe ShudderS and tremOrS increased in ire
quency aud strength until they became terrible
ana II required several men 10 hold him. A one
llme he Jumped up out OF the bed and, reaching
The window, broke the sash before he could be
restrained. The commissions went On from bad
TO worse, until about 2:45 O'clock Monday morn
Ing, when death terminated his SuferingS NJ
Dobb was for ten years superintendent OF the
Newcastle Locomotive company, and during
| the late war served as second engineer in the
navy,
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OIEARY AND CAMPANA TO WALK.-A match
has been made for six days walk between
OIeary, the champion, and Campana. all the
details OF which, except the place where the
contest is to take place, have been completed
Calnpana and his hackers challenged 0I.eary 10
walk for 81 900, tie winner to have tWo-thirdS
OF the gate money. Campana to walk or run.
the loser TO have nothing unless he makes 450
miles. John OkOuke backs Campana In the
chalenge no money was put up, and 0Leary
ridiculed it, but On Thursday last James E. Kei-
E, by direction OF Alfred Smith OF Chicago.
0,Leary hacker, deposited in the Spirit Of the
Tones Office 81 ,0ea accepting the challenge ON
Saturday, O'Rourke, for his man. covered the
deposit made by Kelly. The men win walk in
Gilmore's Garden, il the lease OF that place 10
Shook Gilmore is renewed II ii is not renew
ed the match viii be decided in Chica@o.-IN. Y.
Sua, Dee. Pad.
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MARRIED.,

GODEI-SMITH. On Tuesday December 81.
1878, 10y Rev. Father SOIthgate. EDWARD CroDEY. OF
Georgetown, ID. G.. 10 Miss KATIE W. SMITH, tor
merry Of Mississippi
PAlNE-DAkIS on Tuesday. December 81.
GeoTgetonp ID. C., by the Rev. z Morris, CHARLES
A. PAYNE, OF GeoFgeto VII, to MARi y. DAVIS. u
Washington.