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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-26
HlGHKsr AND LOWEST.
The following we're the highest aud lowest prices


Money on cali ~as easy to-day, lending at 8 per
cent on stock, and AZ q per cent on government
bond coiatsra& The following wore he rates Of ex-
change Now York AZ ths aforementioned CITIES to.
dsy:-Savannah, buying 1-16 premium, selling u
premium Charleston, easier, y premium par; New
orleans, u AZ; Chicago. 80 premium, and Boston,
par q l2sc. discount. Foreign exchsnse was arm.
with actual business at S6i for bankers sixty day
sterling bills, and II 4.s9 for demand.
rHR MAkKEr.
Gold vas steady throughout tho day at 1ook. Tho
carrying rates we're az, ~, 3, l. and ~ por cent
Loans we're slso made Nat.
GOLD cLEAKIScs AT rnE NATIONAL BANK rHK Stair
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-26
iO:l5 A. N.
FIRST BOAgl,--lU:a

$1,000 52vs 'ss.n losk $4,000 Us5s 100 81 I05k
500 5 52vs. B5 ITO lUUOo b 4s. :. 1877. lUDE
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1878-05-10
The Circular.


The Portland Standard after being
tainted By the Bee for not publishing
the 0. S. N. Co. circular, says:
''Capt. Stump, a very worthy man,
by the aid Of several shippers east Of the
Dalles, has built steamboat TO run On.
position to the 0. S, N, Go. on the up
per river. To render this opposition
ahortive, the q. s N. Co. issued a cir
cular to merchants and others shipping
to the upper country. that they must
forward by the o. s. N. Co. the entire
distance. or pay full fare. JUS. the same
should Capt. Stump's boat be engaged.
We have no. en- the terrible .eireu-
lar" and state the case from hearsay.
If our nnde, standing If the matter,
therefore, is correct. we are unqualified.
y OF the opinion that the publication OF
such ''circnlar" showed lack If jujg-
ment-- for Capt. Stump's boat has no,
taken $500 in freight away from the D.
s. N. Cu..--sud was foolish way Of
breaking butterfly . wings with forty
horse power.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1878-05-10
A Question OF Principle the PrIneipal
Question.

LONDON, May 4.-Notwithstandine
the hopeful news of Russian concessions
announced from Vienna and intimated
from St. Petersburg, it cannot be said
there rs any positive change in the priu
eiple OF the questions in dispute. Il is
said conciliatory dispositi has pre-
vailed in the council Of the St. Peters
burg government. but it is asked what
does Russia consider at this moment to
be peaceful concession or nc,liatory
proposal. The fresh attempt to reach
an understanding is described As getting
over the difficulties Of form by making
far reaching concession on the merits
of the question; bnt the misfortune
seems to be in what the Russians con.
slider a question of principle. England
demands the placing Of the treaty Of St.
Stefano before the Ccngross for uure.
served discussion. Russia, it is said,
refuses to give way on that point. In
Berlin as in London the subject is treated
ed with skeptism as long as it is known
Russia refuses to yield on the chief point
and that Eugland maintained her de
mand.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1878-05-10

at the portages. But 10 the event of
another Indian war to drive the people
away from their producing. perhaps by
adding ten per cent to our regular
charges on all transportation Of troops
and munitions Of war, With the addition
al amount we will receive from the peo.
pie themselves as they leave the country
with their families and return when the
war Is over, We may avoid any serious
loss. | propose to forward : copy Of
these facts to our Ssnstors and Repre-
sentative 10 Congress, collecting them to
make every exertion to protect their
constituents and prevent our natural
enemies, the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company from obtaining an extension
OF time for the construction of their
road. more especially with the amend
ment to the bill providing that they
tirst construct around the portapes At
the Cascades aud Dallcs. can foresee
nothing but ruin tn the people Of the
country. II such Law b passed. the
practical tendencies Of which would be
70 elevate rates Of freighting around
these portages, 80 that the people could
not bear the exp .nse. As our company
now own roads around these portages.
there is no room for others. and we al
ways having the good of the people in
mind. have put our rates across the &c.
lilo portage = distance of IA miles at
the low price Of $40 per ton, and pas
senger fare at 81 per head, which will
readily be seen on comparison with rates
on roads up the Willamet valley, gives
to the perple east Of the Cascades great
advantages over the people Of Western
Oregon. There are ether matters l
might discuss in this letter, going to
show that our company is not n,onopo
~. but is great servant and benefactor
Of tie people, but have said enough
to illustrate my position and shall ex.
poet the people themselves to f,llow out
my suge astions and not be misguided
and mis!ed by the insiuuations OF our
enemies, and especially those upholdiug
the operations Of this new monopoly up.
der the name Of the Northeast"
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1878-05-10
-"- --------------------------------
Tightening the Screws.

The W. W. Union under the above
caption says:
The 0. 8. N. Company by a circular
give notice that they will not tolerate
the moving Of freight, anywhere on the
Columbis river. as far as their lines ex,
tend, by any other water craft or steam.
boat, where transportation charges are
collected. Tha, is, they will not move
freight to any way point, along their
lines, SO long as they are able TO trans
port tho same to its destination, unless
the shipper will covenant with that com
pauy to pay the full charges, 10 that
case it eau be landed at any intermediate
port.
The public we're informed bv 8. i.
Reeds letter few wesks ago, that the
company he represents had always acted
very fairly with their patrons. This
movement goes to show that they do not
intend to continue the so>calied we'll
doing any longer. That hencefor.h
they will com. el shippers to give their
entire patronage to the o. S. N. Com.
pany whether the full service ia Der.
formed or not. The members of the
company have Grown fat of the public.
BY this Columbia transportatiuu business.
They charged $50 and $50 ton from
Portland to Wallula at first, and by this
extortion drove large portion Of the
business from the Columbia river. The
people Of the Boise basin established
new routes. The Chico route became \
competitor and OK teams did the busi>
ness, and for less money than was exac,-
ed on the Columbia route, The speciops
privilege. however. is now granted mi.
vate parties to transport their own bro.
duce without mourning the displeasure
Of the company, but they are no. nntifi.
ed that they caunot divide the business
Of the Columbia river, with other par>
ties, ~ they are the sole possessors md
regulators Of tho commerce from Il,
mouth to the bead Of navigation.
AZ common carriers, the COMPANY
cannot refuse to transport freight to any
point where their lines exieud, aud 10
which their boats run, when il Is offered,
At the usual rates; nor has the COMPANY
any right To dictate Were tina, freight
IS to be landed. If the people Of Lew.
iston see Ct to land their frsigh, at Una
iilla or Wallala, they can do so, despite
the Fat issued BY the company 70 the
contrary. No suit at law can be main
tanned 70 compe' party to pa.roni.e
the company to the exclusion Of III other
common carriers. Il is an insult to al
shippers to exact such terms. aud there
Is no law to sustain the collection Of
money tor which NO service has been
performed, ). q. Reeds manifesto to
the contrary Notwithstanding"
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1878-05-10
Punishment,

A soldier brought in the startling
news, last Saturday that some Of our
Walla Walla youths took to horse steal.
ing some whore above Almota and that
on their way TO Montana with their
plumber they we're overtaken and
hanged, BY the eDraged settlers. The
report lacks confirmation. II 'atchman.
A similar report reached this place
last Friday. but nothing definite could
be learned further than that four pcr
sons we're engaged in the larceny of the
horses, that they had been apprehended
in Montana and were being brought
back aud that only one. boy succeed.
ed in getting back. This business of
horse stealing is becoming exceeding Of.
fensiye to the people generally and in
the newly settled portions Of ~ eoun.
try, If these thefts continue We shall
Lot be surprised to hear of several other
cases Of disappearance of the offenders
mysteriously. however much the
legal mind objects to the doines of
Judge Lynch" Tho ways Of trans
Gressors will surely lead them into q
snare that will choke them. An out.
ragged people are bard to control.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1878-05-10

ILtirsRArR PosrnAsTsss.-Last Friday
We happened to oe in the post-otiice when
tue mail-sacks, which had just come dowu
'r'm Lewiston, we're opened and assorted.
Among it we're packages and letters plsiu-
y directed to Pierce CRY, Mt. Idaho and
Florence. |. T.. but Who can be the NUT
ton head. Of such gross ignorance or neg.
iect! Let him either die aud rest ia peac.
or resign and 60 and take up land. - Watch.
man.
This 10 rather severe on our postmaster
and not really deserved. Some mistakes
nave occurred as We are informed through
some changes in the newspaper boxes Of
the once, but our postmaster is early and
late At bis past and closely attentive to his
business aud courteous and obliging
which are qualities not found in some OH.
ces we have visited.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1878-05-10
The Orders for the Evacu alton OF Var ,
and Shumla

LONDON, April 20 Last week Gems. 10.
vanowisky and Zimmerman sen. officers
s'muitaheously to Fssli Pasha At Shnmls
and Ahmed Kaiserli at varna With formal
demands for the SUI render Of those places.
The answers in both cases were tina, no
orders to quit hsd been received from the
Seraskierate nor fsuch orders we're re-.
csived could the troops be moved until
transports came. Some threats were then
used. Finally the Russians begged per.
mission to occupy the outer lines, leaving
the inner lines and towns 10 the Turks.
This was declined aud the Russians press.
ed the point. lie, Us talk no more abou,
this TO, lishness,' vas Ahmed K.iserl,'.
hast answer, The evacuation of Rstoum is
rendered diRcalt, through the opposition
Of the population. They refuse To sahmi.
to the Russian rule, and offer to pay ran
som and remain Turkish. Petitions to
this effect have been received at the po.,~.
Turkish tpoOps have been moved recently
so ~ to more edsctaally cover the land
side Of the forts Of the upper Bosphorus.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1878-05-10
VIM be Rejected.

Under the above head the Orsgoaiaa
sAys:
The following dispatch from director
OF The Northern Pacific Railroad Company
to well known resident Of Portland, has
been received.
Nav YoRK, May l, 1879.
The hill passed by the senate 10 sbso-
lately inslwissible. II hasbeen discussed
ov the board and will be promptly rejec-
ted ~ The stockholders. Mitchell's course
should insure him Oregon's utter condemn.
alton.
Middletown transcript., 1878-06-01
lighting the streets with Electricity.

lighting the Streets with Electricity.
About two years ago, says the New
York Sun, Mr.. J. B. Fuller invented
and exhibited an electric machine for
telegraphic purposes. 1t then occurred
to him that the same apparatus might,
with some changes, be made to produce
an electric light, and, after considera-
bic labor, he perfected his invention.
1t was in operation on Saturday eve
ming at the rear of Maltby's oyster de-
pot at IL Greenwich Avenue. A small
steam engine furnishes the motive
power for the machine, which is very
simple, consisting of an armature re-
volving between the poles Of a power
full electro magnet. A strong current
Of electricity is thus generated. Two
electric wires are attached to the ma
chine, and they convey the electricity
to the various burners. Each Of these
burners consist Of two sticks of carbon,
separated by piece of glass, which
are attached in an upright position to
the wires. The electricity is ignited
by the application Of an ordinary piece
of metal to the burners. The light
thus produced is dazzling brilliant and
very beautiful. so far surprising the
ordinary gas-light that the latter looks
yellow and dirty beside it. Any num-
Der oflights may be supplied by the
same wires, and Mr.. Fuller has sue
ceeded in SO subdividing the current
of electricity that any one of the lights
can be extinguished without efecting
in the slightest degree the other lights
on the same circuit. This had not
been accomplished before. Mr.. Full
Ter says he can light buildings in any
part Of the city by extending his wires
to them through the streets. He also
says he can light the streets with cleo
tricity, and to prove this he has
his wires to post on the
sidewalk in front of the building,
where he keeps a light burning every |
evening. This light is far more brill
LIANT than any calcium light, and il
Eliminates the street for a block. Ore
of these lights would illuminated whole
block, and far better, too, than dozen
or more Of street lamps. In lighting
up house, porcelain or ground-glass
are used for softening the glare of the
light The cost of production is very
slight, much less than that of the or
dinary gas.
Middletown transcript., 1878-06-01

lows 54czIco, one million head,
value one million one hundred and
fly Thousand dollars; Colorado, nine
hundred and fifty thousand head, value
one million dollars; Wyoming Terri
tory, two hundred and twenty-five
thousand head, value four hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
Middletown transcript., 1878-06-01

Two WAYS OF PUTTING IT.-The
first literary effort of Flavius Josephus
Cook has been made public by his old
teacher. 1t takes up the subject of
"The' Cow" and discusses it as follows
"The COW is a good animal. She has
two horns, and two eyes, and gives
milk which is good to eat. She has
four legs and eats grass and hay.
Some Of them are red, and they have
long tails"
There is very little to be said by
way Of criticism of the production, ex-
cept that it bears evidence of the writ
er's immaturity His information is
correct, but this way of putting it be-
trays the fact that it was written be-
fore he had become erudite and COM
petent to address a Boston audience
acceptably. Doubtless he meant to
say that the female of the bovine genus
is a benifcent animal that this rumi-
nant quadruped is possessed of cor
neous protuberances, projecting from
the occiput, that her vision is binocu-
lar and that she yields an edible and
nutritious lacteal exudation that she
is quadrupedal and herbivorous, as
similating her food in both the succu-
lent and exsiecated state; that some
of them automatically correspond to
the seventh color of the spectrum, and
that they are endowed with caudle APP
pendages of exaggerated longitudinal
.ty.- Worcester Press.
Middletown transcript., 1878-06-01

A QUEER WoRLD.-This is a queer
world, said the late John Morrissey,
and some people have very queer ex-
periences in it. [ think l have had
my share of them. Many's the time
I have been kicked off the boats of the
Hudson River by a captain when try
ing to stow myself away for trip from
Troy to New York, because 1 hadn't
money enough to pay my fare-and
that very captains daughter I subse-
quently married. To-day I am abun-
dantly able to pay my way, but anoth-
er captain will not take my fare, and
insits also upon my occupying one of
the best rooms on the boat, with a
carte blanche as to eating and drink
ing. Yes, he repeated, it is a queer
world, and I shouldn't wonder if down
in the steerage now there is some poor
devil who feels as l have many time
when stealing ride on these boats
that It is mighty hard fate that keeps
him huddled up in a dark, cold cor
nef, behind boxes and barrels, while
just over his head people, who are,
perhaps no better than he, are enjoy
Ing all the Injuries of this floating
DalacP
Middletown transcript., 1878-06-01
99ritulturat.
eardsning in France.

There are over six thousand men,
women, and children engaged in grow
ing early asparagus, lettuces, carrots,
and the like in and around Paris. The
rent Of the land varies from one hum
dred and eighty dollars to two hum
dred and forty dollars per acre, ac-
cording to situation and irrigation
plant. These market gardens are of
comparatively small dimensions, and
vary from II to 24 acres in extent.
Taking the smaller size, the plant ne
cessary to carry on business costs nearly
two thousand five hundred dollars, in
Guiding large and small bell glasses,
straw mats, glazed lights, frames, tools,
baskets, horse, cart, and other neces-
sary materials. The regular workmen,
it IS said, earn an average pay of about
forty cents per day, with board and
lodging, all the year round. Extra
men receive about seven cents per
hour, women five cents. Most of the
men come from other sections, not so
much for the sake of the wages, which
are now low for France, but in order
to learn business which they can turn
to profitable account when they return
to their homes after two or three years
service.
Amiens claims to be one of the oldest
market gardening towns in France,
vegetables having been grown there in
the twelfth century-hundreds of years
before q cabbage was grown in Eng
land. There are at present about two
hundred and fifty acres under cultiva-
ton, the yearly produce of which av-
erages about six hundred and fifty
dollars per acre. The cabbages often
weigh from forty to fifty pounds, beet
roots twenty to twenty-five pounds,
black radishes twelve to twenty pounds,
and the turnips from II to Is pounds.
A stretch Of about Is miles of the
north coast, near Roscaf, is celebrated
for its early artichokes, onions, aspara-
gus and potatoes. Finland takes every
year about FIVE hundred tons of early
vegetables and two thousand tons of
onions, being about one-third of the
whole production. Four thousand
souls make a comfortable living, and
even grow rich, ON the produce Of somsh
two thousand acres of land. p
a neighboring province, has gi
name to a gigantic cabbage
grown in western France, and
used for cattle feeding. FlIg!
are carefully picked off in the
and at the end of winter, the
being cut down in the spring.
cred in this way, the P0itou ca!
will yield from II to II tons per
Boston CuItivator.
Middletown transcript., 1878-06-01

THE New SYsTEM.-"William," be-
sgan a Second street woman the other
morning as she laid aside the daily pa
per, what Is this new metric system system
proposed by Alexander Stephens ?''
"It is very wise measure, indeed
my DEAR" he replied. Suppose Fod' q
want a new dress costing 81 per yard. !,
"Yes."
"Under the metric system you write
to your father in Wisconsin for the
money to buy it with. The money
comes, you take half of it and buy me
a pair of pants, and then you use the
rest in purchasing fifty cent dress
goods. It is a very good measure,
very good"
"And they promise to makeit lar,
do they p
"They do"
"WeIl, sir" she heexclaimed, showing
a red spot on each cheek, "when the
metric system comes into practice in
this family divorce viii follow, and
Stephens is fool.-Detroit
Free Press.
Middletown transcript., 1878-06-01
goad Gommis'rs Statement.
Statement Of the Road Commission G
ers Of st. Georges Hundred,
New Castle County.

For the Year Ending May 1st, 1878.
Amount Of Road Tax levied, So, 80 90
Errors and Commissions, 942 81
Net Proceeds from Tax, 81, 367 09
Orders drawn by the Road Commissioners
- f,rn, oF
Middletown transcript., 1878-06-01

HINTS FOR HORSE OwNERs.-If a
colt is never allowed to get an adYaa
tage, it will never know that it
sesses a power that man cannoS
troll; and if made familiar with q
objects, it will not be skittish al
vous. If a horse is made accustom.
from his early days, to have obie
hit him on the heels, back and kiioss
he will pay no attention to the giving
out of a harness, or of wagons running
against him at an unexpected moment.
We once saw an aged lady drive a
hlgh-spirited horse, attached to a car
riage, down steep hill, with no hold
back straps upon the harness, and she
assured us that there was no danger.
for her son accustomed his horses to
all kinds of usages and sights, that
commonly dive the animal into a
frenzy of fear and excitement. A gun
can be fred from the back of q horse.
an umbrella held over his head, a buff.
alo robe thrown over his neck, a rail-
road engine pass close by. his heels
bumped with sticks, and the animal
take tall as a natural condition of
lhip only taught by careful man
ageiNent that he will not beeiniured
.hereb
Middletown transcript., 1878-06-01

THEY HAD HARD TIMEs.-Th
Paris (Mo.) appeal says: An oI
friend, in the eastern part of the cou
ty, dropped in to see us the other da
and during the conversation, he relaf
the following circumstance that occt
red in 1843 or "A: 1t SO happen
that one of his neighbots was sued
$3.50, and in his distress, he went
one Of the capitalists in his section
the country to borrow the m
which he failed to get, but elicit
sympathies of his neighbor in 3.
halt, who got on his horse and sta
out to see if he could not find
money. Four of the richest me
Monroe county were applied to,
between them they were unable ID
the amount $3.50. The 1nfoFfunat,
man, though, found way to pay tht
debt. He had a fine fat 3-year-olc
steer that had been raised pet anc
his children had taught it to lead. He
put a rope around the horns of the an.
imal and started out on foot for Han.
nibal, some 35 or 40 miles, where he
sold the steer for So and at the end Of
the sixth day got back home, and, af-
ter paying the debt, had $3.50 lett,
saying nothing about the expense of
his trip and his six days hard work.
Cheer up boys, times are not so hard
as they were then.
Middletown transcript., 1878-06-01

Peach brandy enters into the muci-
lage composition on postage stamps !;
so when you see the next drunken
man, don't lay it to whisky. He may
have just mailed a letter Turner'S
Falls Reporter.
Middletown transcript., 1878-06-01

New Republican platform: Resolved,
That Rutherford B. Hayes was elect
ed. Resolved, That Henry Ward
Beecher never sat on the ragged edge.
Middletown transcript., 1878-06-01

1t is said that a flfhy man, with
filthy hands, milking a filthy COW, a
filthy corral, into filthy pail, and set
ting the milk in one corner of hot,
filthy kitchen, is the perfection of filth
in butter-making, and that the pro-
duct will be anything but "gilt-edged."
Middletown transcript., 1878-06-01

Tennessee has twenty-nine million
acres of land, with six million only
under cultivation.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-30
PAYMENT OF INTEREST - RE-
DEMPTION OF CAPITAL,

At their meeting Of January H., 1878. the
Council Of the Corporation ascertained that.
outside of the Us ual and Irregular receipts. the
annual secured revenue of the Diocese. after
deduction Of the costs of admin Illustration, leaves
a surplus of $50 900 that can be disposed of SEMI
annually; and 1t was resolved thot
l. For the punctual payment Of the interest on
the loan q sum of s12 800 shall from the first of
January, 1878. and thenceforth yearly, be re-
served, appropriated and deposited In bank to
meet these interests.
O. similar sum of s125oo shall also. annu-
ally from the first of January. 1892 be reserved,
appropriated and deposited in bank for the
gradual curtalment Of the capital. and 30 on
every year until its entire extinction.
g. That. in no case and under no pretext what
ever, these sums reserved appropriated and
deposited shall be used tor any other purpose
than those above expressed.