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Middletown transcript., 1878-04-20
THE GOLDEN HORN.
Constantinople as Seen Through English
Spectacles.

Mr.. James Bryce Harper thus grace
fully and graphically describes the
Turkish capital:
"You may judge from looking at the
map what a singular city this Con
stantinople) must be, with the sea run
ming through it in all directions not
merely III canals, like those Of Venice
or Rotterdam, but forming great, broad
inlets, whose water is intensely bright
and clear as well as deep TO the very
edge. 1t is as if you had a city built
on both sides of the Kyles of Butte, at
the point where one of the long sea
locks (Lock Ridden or Lock Striven)
comes down in the main channel.
Stockholm and New York are the only
other great cities that can be compared
with it in this respect; but Stockholm,
though beautiful in its way, is on a
comparatively small scale, wilhelm New
York man has done his utmost to spoil
nature, and nature has done infinitely
less than at Constantinople. She has
given it the bluest and clearest sea that
can be imagined, and vaulted over in
the most exqisitely bright yet tender
sky, full of delicious light that would
be dazzling if it were not so soft. She
has drawn the contour of the shores
and hills as if with an artists hand the
sweeping of the Bosphorus, the grace
ful curve of the Golden horn, the soft
slope of the olive-clad heights, behind.
Scutari, the sharp, bold outline Of the
rocky isles that rise from the sea Of
Marmora, and far away on the south
eastern horizon she has raised into
heaven the noblesummit of the Mysian
Olympus, whose SHOWS blush rose red
under the morning sun. The sea seems
to pervade everything. Turn which
way you will it meets you till you get
confused among its winding arms. Its
glittering bosom is covered with vessels
of every size and style, from the long,
dark, ugly ironclads, which the late
Sultan bought from the Clyde and
Tyne shipbuilders with borrowed mon
ey, to the sprightly feluccas and other
odd little crafts, rugged in a fashion our
language has no names for. During
the day its surface is seldom calm, for
there is usually a breeze blowing. and
when this breeze comes up from the
southwest and meets the strong current
running down from the Black Sea, it
raises in moment short, sharp waves,
a kind of chopping sea, that make the
small boats vanish. The nights, how
ever, are often still and serene, and
then under the brilliant moon the city
seems to lie engirt by flood of molten
silver
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Prob" is not like farmer looking up
at little bit of the sky and guessing
wildly about the weather. He has near
ly hundred eyes, for each signal man
is one of his eyes, and thus he looks at
storm from every side and can see
its every movement, and can tell US
pretty nearly what it will do. Some
day, when men learn more about it, he
will tell US exactly what every storm
will do.-N Y. Weekly.
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Misttllaneous.
Stewards Women's Hotel,

HOW IT Is REGARDED IN NEW YORK.
Parsimonious, hard task-master that
Mr. A. I. Stewart was in his life, even
he would surely not have the astound-
ing impudence 70 have received all the
newspaper puffs he did for his benev-
olence in founding a Workingwoman's
Home, and now making it what it is !!
Home, forsooth !! Why, it's to be q
vast Jail, where the imates are obliged
to pray through the nose for solitary
confinement. It is a magnificent look
ing structure seen from without, but
inside it is heavily and cheaply finish
ed and the furniture is all dark and
sombre to a degree. The lowest price
for a room is six dollars week about
the size Of sardine box-and two
women are expected to occupy one of
these; if one rooms alone, then the
price is seven dollars a week.
This is simply monstrous to begin
with. Numbers of Stewards own en-
ployees receive but Sc week and S12
is high pay. A few of his best sales
women get $40, and some Of the fore
women $50, but few, however, l have
been told by ladies employed there.
One woman told me she had been in
his service for twelve years, and re-
ceived at the date s12 week, her pay
having been raised at the rate of the
princely sum Of 81. year. The So
called parlor rooms, for which from
So to S. week extra is charged, are
only fair sized rooms; transient board
ers 50 a day-for one Of the small
rooms at that-paying invariably in
advance Now, as none of the women
receive their wages in advance, how
are they to pay in advance? They
must be taught to be beforehanded
suppose by the philanthropic Hilton
and the doting old Mrs. Stewart.
Here are few Of the extra charges:
for every bath Is cents; for every
meal sent to the rooms extra, and only
allowed in case of sickness, of which
sickness the manager-a man-is to
be the judge. This is at once outrag-
eous and indecent, inasmuch as the fe-
male sex are subject to many aches
and pains Of which men know nothing,
or if they did would class them as
"affectation." Again. in this city
and working women, is fair to assume,
are the same the world over-many
delicate women who have stood on
their feet the whole week, to say moth
ing Of walking to and from their place
Of business, are so jaded out by the
time Sunday comes that they lie in
bed the greater part Of the day, or on
the sofa reading in wrapper, and on
ly dress when evening comes. In reg
ular boarding houses the landladies,
unlike Madame Stewart, having heart
in their bosom, send their bit of food
to these tired creatures without extra
charge, and they can also get bath
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who have broken down in harness anC
surely need shelter. Surely if there
had been any remote thought of help
ing working-women there would have
been some provision made for the
cradel and the grave, some graduated
scale of prices which would have en-
abled the poorer as well as the more
prosperous women and growing girls
to partake of the so-called advantages
Of this last pretentious fraud and i'm
position. AS far as the multitude Of
working-women are concerned, they
asked for bread and have been given
stone. All along the Bowery and
the great shopping avenues most of
the girls receive from So to 81 a
week. | know of only one class of
women to whom this hotel might be a
benefit if it were conducted on the
principles Of frst-class hotels. and not
as a convent or reformatory, and that
class is the one which furnished legiti-
mate amusement to the public; they are
known as "show folks;' but by the
exceedingly adrOit wording Of the bo-
tel regulations, it is to be clearly seen
that none such are to be received, for
their work is performed nightly, while
the Stewart boarders must be engaged
in daily work or employment what
the subtle difference is between work
and employment the crudite Hilton
does not tell US. All people in his en-
ployment have got to work, on the
drive continually, and none work for
him unless employed by the establish
ment.
There are some few rules which he
forgot to add, which will come as soon
as the prison gets in working order.
They are "No false hair allowed, but
every lady must have head shaved by
a barber on the premises, for which an
extra charge will be made. No lady
will be known by her name, but will
be expected to answer by her number.
A striped suit will be provided for
every occupant, which must be made
blythe mOdist Of the hotel extra charge,
and the material purchased at A. T.
Stewards" s."
And this is the long-talked of great
charity which was to atone for all
Stewards niggardliness in life! If
there are any women outside Of Stew
arts stores will 60 there, they will
sing low-one heavy hearted
chorus of:
"It's oh! to be slave,
Along with the barbarous Turk,
Where woman has never a soul to save
IF this be Christian work !"
If Judge Hilton wants to keep
big boarding house, let him call it 50,
and not a charity. Let him run it on
his Saratoga plan, and put up these
rules:
'No Jews received here.
mo show folks.
mo poor white trash"
CELIA LOGAN.
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Select noetrn.
EASTER MORNING.
Ostera spirit Of sprirg-time,

Ostera spirit of sprirg-time,
| Awake from thy slumbers deep
Arise and with hands that are glowing
Put off the white garments Of sleep
Make thyself fair, O goddess
In new and repslendent array,
For the footsteps Of Him who has risen
Shall be heard in the dawn of day.
Flushes the trailing arbutus
Low under the forest leaves
A sign that the drowsy goddess
The breath of her Lord perceives.
While He suffered, her pulse beat numbly
While He slept, she was sill with pain;
But now He awakes-He has risen
Her beauty shall bloom again.
o bark in the budding woodlands,
Now far, now near, is heard
The FIRST prelCslve warble
OF rivulet and of bird.
o listen the Jubilate
From every bough is poured,
And earth in the smile of spring-tme
Arises TO greet her Lord
ii.
Radiant goddess Aurora
Open the chambers of dawn;
Lei the Hours like garland of graces
Enrich the chariot Of morn.
Thou doSt herald no longer Apollo,
The god of the sunbeam and Tyre;
The pride of his empire is ended,
And pale is the armor of fire.
From lofticr height than Olympus
Light flows, from the Temple above,
And the miStS Of old legends are scattered
In the dawn of the Kingdom Of Love.
Come forth from the cloud-land of fable,
For day in full splendor make room
For triumph that lost not its glory
As il paused in the sepClchre's gloom.
She comes the bright goddess Of morning,
In crimson and purple array;
Far down On the hill-tops she tosses
The first golden lilies of day.
On the mountains her sandals are glowing,
0'er the valleys she speeds on the wing,
Till earth is all rosy and radiant
For the feet Of the new-risen King.
Open The gates OF the Temple;
Spread branches Of palm and of bay;
Let not the spirits Of nature
Alone deck the Conqueror's way.
While Spring from her death sleep arises
And ioyouS his presence awaits,
While Mornings smile lights up the heavens,
open the Beautiful Gates
He is here The long watches are over,
The stone from the grave rolled away.
''We shall sleep" was the sigh Of the mid
night;
I'VE shall! risel'. is the song of to-day
o Music no longer lamenting,
On pinions of tremulous flame
Go soaring TO meet the Beloved,
And swell the new song of His fame
The altar is snowy with blossoms,
The font is vase Of perfume,
On pillar and chancel are twining
Fresh garlands of eloquent bloom
Christ is risenl with glad lips we utter,
And far up the infinite height
Archangels the pean re-echo,
And crown Him with Lilies of Light
Frances MACE, in Ha4per's Magazine for
Nay.
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Colonel Valentine Bakers exploits
in the Turkish service have made him
the hero of the hour in London and
his adventures on an English railway
have already been forgotten. He has
been unanimously elected member
of the Marlborough Club, which is un-
der the special patronage of the Prince
Of Wales.
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A little Athol boy. guilty of some
misconduct, upon being asked why he
could be SO naughty, replied that he
thought he was not doing anything
very wrong. "That's no excuse" said
the mother, thinking doesn't help the
matter much "Well, mamma, said
he, whats the use of having think
er, if you can't think%
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Prince Rudolph, Prince Imperial of
Austria, will, after a brief sojourn at
Prague, visit the United States and
Brazil, returning round the Cape of
Good Hope and through the Suez
Canal.
Middletown transcript., 1878-04-20

Western papers tell the story of a
man who sold his gun for whisky,
drank the whisky, and sat down on
the railroad track. A coronor's in
quest was deemed unnecessary.
Middletown transcript., 1878-04-20

eff we would have a free country,
we must have free press" heroically
exclaimed devoted daughter of rich
Nevada miner, as she slid down a grape
arbor at two o'clock in the morning
and then eloped with poor editor.
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eff you don't stop your coughing,
sir," said testy and irritable judge,
'Pll fine you hundred pounds" "Tn
give your lordship two hundred if you
can stop it for me" was the ready re-
ply.
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A Lowell man who lost his good
character some time ago was severely
hauled over by some of his former
friends. Il know it, boys; I know
my characters gone, lost entirely
"And," he added rather pointedly,
''it's too confounded bad, for it was
the only one in the place worth saw
LoweU Journal.
Middletown transcript., 1878-04-20

Extract from the centennial Ser
mon preached by Rev. John Pat
ton, d. d., in Forest Presbyterian
Church, Oct. 30, 1851
The daily gazette., 1878-10-14
General News.

A four hundred gallon distillery IL
Brooklyn, n. Y, RIM bv moonshiners,
was captured in full blast by revenue
agents Saturday night. Pat. McCleary
the proprietor, escaped.
On Saturday 203 new cases of yellow
fever and 40 deaths were reported IN
New Orleans, 26 deaths 10 Memphis, 81
new cases and deaths In Baton Rouge,
4 deaths in Vicksburg, 10 new cases and
4 deaths in Greenville, 6 new cases and
A deaths in Biloxi, 5 new cases and 8
deaths in Grand junction, 0 new cases
and 2 deaths in Bay st. Louis, and l2
new cases and I deaths Chattanooga.
There was no abatement of the fever In
the infected country districts of Louis
lana, Mississippi and Tennessee.
William r. Dckerson, Herman G.
Pulte and Joel Vanarsdalen, the al eyed
conspirators in the Robert Whitaker
will case at Philadelphia, were heard
Saturday on habeas corpus. Volumin-
GUS testimony was heard, and the court
decided to hold the defendants for trial,
bail, however, being reduced from S2O.-
900 to $4,000, $4,000 and $4,000 for
Dickerson, Vanarsdalen and Pulte,
respectively.
Forty or fifty men convicted at Malad,
Idaho, tor cutting timber for the
Utah Northern railroad on the Bannock
reservation, have been sentenced to ag-
gregate fines of about $4,000 and six
| months imprisonment. This action de-
lays the progress of the railroad. Old
Indians, squaws aud pappooses of the
Bannock tribe were maintained on the
reservation this summer while the Young
Indians were on the war-path.
| A furious northeast gale prevailed on
the New England coast Saturday night
| The sea was so rough off Newport, r. L.,
that the lights on the Brenton's Reel
light-sbip could not be kept burning, aud
the crew burned firebals at intervals.
which were mistaken on shore for sig.
nails of distress. The gale is described
as the severest that has occurred in tif
teen years. Anumber of disasters are
reported on sea and land.
Suit has been entered at San Francisco
by John Ii. Burk, as a stockholder OF
the Consolidated Virginia Mining Com
pany, against j. w. Mackey, James c.
Flood, John g. FAIR aud the Pacific
Wood and Lumber Company, to recover
A,0O0,OOO worth of property alleged tc
have been converted to their own ust
by the defendants. THIS Is one of s
number of suits in proper form to take
the place of the 835,00O,000 suit, which
was found defective in form.
| The republican comm ttee which ha,
been engaged in invest alng the case O
Congressman Acklen, in New Orleans
the charge being that he had ruined ;
certain young woman-have reported
that he is innocent OF the charge. Tht
democratic committee investigating tn,
affair says: "At the outset Mr.. AckleI
agreed to abide by their decision as I,
his candidacy Tor Congress, but they ad
vlsed him to withdraw from the ticket
but now that he refuses to do SO, the,
decline to take further action in th
premises"
The daily gazette., 1878-10-14
THIRD EDITION !.
Poeket-Book Recovered.

HOW A PoCKET-BoOK WAS RECOVER
ED THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF TBE
PEOPLES PAPER.
On Saturday the GAZETTE contained
a local notice Of q pocket-book being
found on the steps of one of the cars OF
the New York and Washington Express,
south which leaves this city at 500 p. IN.
The notice also contained the informa-
tion where the lost article could be OBJ
tanned. In a very short time after the
paper had made its appearance upon the
streets, the article referred to, was read
by Mr.. William Tatnall, who Immediate
ly started for the depot, and calling at
the telegraph office was in possession of
the lost pocket-book.
A representative of this paper in passing
the depot $50 o'clock was greeted with
the following information by detective
William Legg. "Your paper brought
the answer in regard to the lost pocket
book"
The gentleman who claimed the pock-
et-book was standing conversing with
Mr.. Legg, and calling the representative
TO him, rendered his thanks.
This little incident conclusively proves
that the GAZETTE is the peoples paper,
and is read by the masses, thereby prov
ing it 10 be the best advertising medium
in the city.
The daily gazette., 1878-10-14
The Lynehing ROiters.

Particulars of the lynching of the four
negroes At Mcunt Vernon, Ind, for raw
ishing three white women, and murder
ing an officer, show that 800 men took
part in the riot. 1t having been rumored
that the Governor had determined to
send militia force TO guard the Jail
where the negroes were confined, 200
men were stationed AT the depot to pre-
vent the militaryfrom getting oR the cars,
and cannon was placed in front of the
Court House, pointing at the depot. No
militia came, but the armed mob re-
II ned in front of the Jail all day. At
night, one hundred of the rioters fired
upon the officers of the jail entered the
building, and by means OF a sledge-ham-
mer and crowbar, gained access to the
prisoners. An old man named Harris,
father of oae of the negroes, suspected
of having shot Deputy Sheriff Thomas
when the latter attempted to arrest the
offenders, was stabbed to death by one
of the lynchers. The four younger De-
groes were then led out with ropes
around their necks and hanged.
The daily gazette., 1878-10-14
FOURTH EDITION
Disastrous Conaagratien.


THE TOWN. OF ENDENBURG, Pa, DE-
sTRoYED BY FIRE-Two HUNDRED
AND TWENTY-FIVE BUILDINGS BURN
ED-Loss $350,O0O.
PITrsBURa, Oct. 13.-A special from
Edenburg, Clarion county, Pa, TO the
Commercial Gazette gives particulars OF
the. destruction Of that place by fire this
morning. The fire broke out at half-past
three O'Clock In the roar of Wilbur's livery
stable, Main street, spreading rapidly,
and soon swept over the entire block.
The firemen were promptly on hand, but
their efforts were paralyzed by the insult
ficiency of water. The total loss is esti-
mated at $3.50, 900 TO $4O0, 900; largely in
sured. Two hundred and twenty-five
buildings were burned and the town al
most completely destroyed. There is
much suffering among the losers. A re-
lief committee has been organized, and
the contributions of food from adjacent
towns and farmers in the vicinity being
distributed to the homeless. The prin-
cipal losers are the Oil Well Supply Com
pany, $4,000; Trair's livery stable, loss
heavy, but unknown; Flynn & Hamm,
$4,000; Bennett House, $4,000; Eden
bling House $12, 200; NJ. Z. Church and
parsonage, $1,000; Chalfant & Graf,
hardware, $25,0 900; Exchange Hotel, $lO,-
600; b. Simons, tobacconist, $500; l..
Water, grocery, $1,000; and Defrance &
UTy, druggists, $4,000. The amount of
insurance carried in the town was large,
but the amounts cannot be had at pres
ent. The depot warehouse, Union ex-
press office and postoffice were destroyed.
The fire is believed TO have been incen-
diary.
The daily gazette., 1878-10-14
Ford Escapes from Jail.

James Ford, who was arrested in this
city last week, for stealing horse and
buggy, and taken TO Chestertown, Md,
where he was confined in jail, made his
escape last Tuesday evening.
On that evening, about o o'clock, Dep
uty Sheriff Price entered his cell with
the prisoners supper, leaving the door
open behind him, utterly nnsuspicious of
any attempt at escape, and knowing him
TO be ankle-chalned to the floor but lit
tie while previous. The prisoner was
standing up when Mr. Price entered, and
had blanket wrapped loosely about his
feet he asked for some water, and just
as the Deputy turned to leave the cell to
procure 1t, the prisoner, having pre-
viously slipped off his irons, darted past
him, leaping from the head of the last
flight TO the floor below. From thence
he past out Of the front door-.jumped
the fence into the street, and though
tiercely pursued succeeded in escaping.
The daily gazette., 1878-10-14
A Case that Fell Through.

Before Esquire Brady, ON Saturday af-
ternoon, were heard the suits of Kate
Weiser against VIM. McGarra, for assault
aud battery, against Mrs. McGarra, for
using threatening and abusive language,
and against Mr.. McGarTa's son nine wears
old, also for using abusive language.
But Mrs. Weisei's witnesses instead of
sustaining her case, testified in an oppo-
site direction, whereupon she grew vio-
lently angry and accused them Of perjury.
She also gave a hard tongue-lashing TO
Elden Hagany, Esq, who was counsel for
the defendants. Next she turned her
abuse towards the Squire, when he dis
missed the case, ordered her to leave the
Office, and requested her never to bring
a case before him again.
The daily gazette., 1878-10-14

THE INDIANA LEGIsLATURE-Lates
returns from Indiana fix the complexion
of the Legislature as follows: Democrats
80, republicans, 60, nationals Z. The
Democrats claim all the Nationals elected
by Democratic votes, which would give
them 80 members. In response to a sere-
made at Indianapolis, Friday night, Rev.
Or. De La Matyr, who was elected to
Congress by fusion of nationals and
Democrats, made speech IN which he
foreshadowed his intention to act with
any party opposed to the republicans.
The street car system of PHILADELPHIA
Is claimed by the Record of that city to
be the most perfect in the world, and
considering the service rendered, the
cheapest. The aggregate length of track
within the city limits is 279 miles Dur
ing the year 1877 86,586. $40 passengers
were carried, at an average cost per pas
senger of five and one-third cents for a
single fare. The taxes paid for repairs
of streets and city and State levies
amount to from seven to ten per cent. of
the earnings.
VIM. Edw. Larue. colored, indited fof
the murder of Henry Holland, also col
ored, in the town Of Northeast, Cecil co -.
last spring, was tried in Elkton last week
andfound guilty of murder in the second
degree. He was defended by Hon. Hi
ram Mccullough and Albert Constable
Esq. The court imposed penalty o
sixteen years in the penitentiary, anC
congratulated the prisoner on the "fortu
naUe termination of the trial.
The daily gazette., 1878-10-14
An Unnee~ssary scare.


A vIssEL ENTERS THIS PORT WITH A
Low FEVER.
On Saturday afternoon rumor started
by some unthinking person, that yellow
fever had made its appearance IN THIS
city, gained considerable crediepce, and
the residents in the vicinity OF the Chris
tiana Greek were thrown into an unne-
cessary alarm.
The rumor had Its origin in the fact
that the schooner Charles Laurence had
entered the port with the dead body of o
colored sailor on board. As soon as the
schooner had made fast to her mooring
word was at once sent to the coroner in-
forming him of the fact. He In company
with Drs. Ogle and Springer at once
started for the vessel, and upon stepping
on board, were at once informed n ~ the
nature Of The case by the Captain Of the
vessel, whs started that on the 30th OF
August the vessel left Philadelphia, TOR
Charleston, South Carolina, for the pur-
poseof receivinga cargo ofph hosphate'rock
consigned to Walton, Whann & Co., of
this city. She left that port on last
Thursday week, with all bands on board
in good health, In which condition they
until Monday last when the de-
ceased whose name is George Brown,
colored, complained of being unwell.
The captain thinking he had bilious at
tack gave him number of pills TO take.
The pills did not seem TO benefit the man,
as he grew worse every day until Friday
last about 8 o'clock, he expired,
just as the vessel was entering the Break
water.
The coroner summoned jury and held
an inquest; after apast mortem had been
made the jury rendered verdict that the
deceased came to his death from conges-
tive appopl.xy. The body was inferred
in Potter'siFi-ld yesterday afternoon.