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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-04
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY. AUGUST A, 1872

for the experience of the last two
years has abundantly proved that coins
can in no way be forced into circula-
ton so long as the channels are filed up
by an excess of small notes. The fractional
paper currency has practically disappeared;
only S27,782 came in for redemption last
month. 1t is worth while for Secretary Sher-
man to consider whether he can carry out the
intention of the Silver Coinage Act IN any
other way than by substitution OF silver
dollars for 81 and 81 bills in use. This can
be done, of course, only by gradual with
drawal of the small notes, for the attempt TO
crowd the silver into channels already filed
would fail rs it has failed. But it would be
n good thing TO utilize part OF the com now
living idle in the Treasury.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-04
4 coon gOPK WELL DONE.

No better work has been done by any de-
partment OF the Government in the last year
than by that of the Signal Service. Ii has
stretched its lines from Fort Davis to FL Paso
IN Texas, and on the northwest from Bismarck
TO Fort Ellis, about 100 miles. In every
direction OF our frontier territory these spider
like threads are extending over caiiOns and
through the dry alkaline deserts, sure pre-
cursors of civilization.
a new instrument has been issued by the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-04

II is satisfactory to find that the gold re-
serve increases, though slowly, and as no GOLD
certificates are now issued, while the Sl5.-
24O. 700 gold certificates still outstanding are
closely boarded by the banks and scarcely
appear at all in payments, the entire gold re-
serve is virtually available for the protection
of notes outstanding. 1t is pig that the
load of useless silver should increase as much
as 81, S52,4 72 % in month, but it will do
less mischief in the Treasury than anywhere
else, and if the Government Will perversely
COIN an excess of this metal, to the public
detriment, the least it can do IN compensation
is to take the surplus out of the way of the
people, lock 1t up, aud bear the loss itself.
The increase of $40, 900 in the amount
of currency certificates outstanding Is yirtu-
ally, Of course, merely "A substitution of notes
OF large denominations for notes of small de-
nominations in the bank vaults In some
quarters there is complaint of the scarcity OF
the notes of 81 and - each, but this
scarcity, wherever it exists, is caused by
the voluntary action of the community
in emptying into the Treasury small
bills that are not wanted for use, and taking
out in place of them certificates or large
notes. Under the laws rs they stand the
Treasury has no power over this matter. and
the decrease of small note circulation Is in
every way desirable. TO those who wish to
see silver coins brought into use, it is partic-
ularly desirable that room should be made Tor
them by the withdrawal of the small bills
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-04

the Emperor in 1866 made him believe that the
Captain was right. lie does not think however
that the Southern people would have entertained
the proposition, he quotes moumiuly the well,
worn adage that those whom the gods wish o de-
strov they first make mad. General b ,aurcgsrd "a
right about the madness Of the south. The rebellion
the most gigantic act Of folly ever perpe-
frated
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-04

United States do not have TO wait so long for oppor
tunites to get INTO business, in older countries
The chances are that an industrious American IS III
a better condition at twenty-seyen to marry pr'l-
IDENTIFY than Frenchman at thirty-two. Besides
there is more of sentiment and less OF expedency IN
matchmaking here than in France, and we nope
there alWays will be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-04

Nation. To do this it was necessary for this
intrepid correspondent to ride eighty miles
alone through a wild country that swarmed
with savage enemies He did it, and has for
his reward the same pride and satisfaction
that soldiers win OH the battlefield.
New-York City is the greatest watering
place of them all, and Coney Island NAV as
well sink its diminished beach. During last
week no less than 100000 persons bathed in
the free baths of this city, and on Saturday
alone 10000 men and boys enjoyed this
branch of the municipal hospitality. Probably
q good proportion of the larger figure is due
to the fact that many have used the
baths number of times during the week
and probably also the same thing may be said
of the smaller figure, for the report shows
how many of the little citizens Of the streets
manage, by process of repeating" which
must assuredly be considered a very
innocent civic crime, to get several
swims a day. But all deductions made, the
number of individuals benefited must he
very great, and the good resulting TO the
general health of the poorer classes beyond
measure. II the man to whom the city is in
debted for the foundation OF these baths has
never done anything less deserving of praise
he should have very handsome monument
indeed.
All lovers of Dickens-which term includes,
of course the whole world and all the rest OF
maDkind-will ind rare pleasure in the London
letter from "A staff correspondent which is
printed elsewhere. They viii be surprised
as well as delighted to find how many
bits of circumstantal evidence there are
IN the great city to which the novelist pc
culiaIy belonged that he drew his inspiration
from the scenes around him. Having no
desire to deprive the reader of the enjoyment
of making these discoveries for himself, we
refer him to the letter with the single sug-
gestiOn of the good things in store for him
that our correspondent has penetrated to the
very street in which Mr. Pickwick lived,
and has apparently found the very house.
AS to the inn in which so many
adventures occurred to the head of the Pick
wick Club, that is identified with all the de-
tail and certainty required in a court of law.
Thus far, the fossil remains of the fat boys
semi-annual smile have not been discovered,
and there is no trace of Captain Cuttle's hook,
but there is no telling what continuance of
such explorations might bring forth.
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-18
Editorial Spinnings.

Where man is always finding mares
nests the novelty of the thing will eggs horst
itself.
Farmers who plant large fields of to-
matues might proftably teach their children the
can-can.
You may get the tongue of your wagon
into an awful pickle, but it does not neverthe.
less make as fine reiis sh as mangOes.
We may as well acknowledge the corn
to that New Orleans paper, we like to take the
Plc-a-you'un's jokes as often us we can,
The pineapple crop is double that of
previous seasons-[ Exchange Stuff! The crops
OF chickens may be double what they were in the
spring, but pineapple crops-Fudge
The old knickerbocker families of
Leadville do not invite to their gilt edged assem-
blies those parvenues whose wealth or citizenship
is of less antiquity than three weeks. They have
to draw the line somewhere.
What is the difference between horse
chestnut and chestnut horse?-[ Exchange. This
joke that appears to have come down from the
middle ayes is fac-simile of the sick fam lily CO.
nuudrum that bothered Horace.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-18
The dangerous Girl.

But now, at last let us come to the real
dangerous girl"-the girl who seems by
some fine fitness to walk into the empty
room in mans heart which has never
been opened to another woman and take
up her abode there. "She is just as high
as my heart" Orlando says of Rosalind,
and there can be no more accurate meas.
urement for lovers delight in his sweet
heart. She fits him, she suits him. She
may not be pretty, she need not be clever /;
she may be both of these things in re.
markable degree, and a ballroom belle
beside, and chef deuvre of milliner's
art in the bargain. But she has gift over
and beyond all these which renders all
others subordinate. She has way of lis
tening which makes the most reserved
man eloquent, and her little speeches,
never audacious and rarely brilliant have
yet something tenacious about them, and
cling to his memory when he sits over
his fire by night or goes about his daily
work. Then her face, her distinct and
vivid personality, pursues him; it is the
girl herself, not her bangles nor her floun-
eSo, tlldt II seems natural
to him that he is thus taken possession of
and held captive. No matter how cold
he may have been heretofore, he now be-
comes ardent, warm-hearted and rash. He
may have admired a pretty girl with her
hlrbelows and flounces and her nice per-
ception of the most becoming; he may
have been little heavy hearted over the
sumptuous beauty of the belle, and have
enjoyed the society of the clever girl who
saved him the trouble of doing all the
talking, being able to do it herself so
much more brilliantly. But this banker
ing after private felicity, this fervid belief
in attainable happiness, this large faith in
the future which marriage may assure to
him, only followed his acquaintance with
the dangerous girl" who upset his boast.
ed ideas of Independent enjoyment over
turned all his preconceived notions of
and set him longing to be
engaged. Until he saw her he said with
Benedick, "One woman is fair, yet am
we'll; another'is wise, yet am well; an
other virtuous, yet | am well; but till all
graces come into one woman, one woman
shall not come into my grace"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-18
Tho First Slave Case In England.
(Erospre MauazipnN

A planter brought to London a slave
called James Somerset, in I77I, and when
he fell ill inhumanly turned him out Of
doors. Mr. Granville Sharp, a philan-
thropic barrister, found him in the street,
placed him in the hospital, where he re-
covered his health, and then got him a
situation as servant. Two years after
his old master arrested and imprisoned
him as a runaway slave. Mr.. Sharp
brought the case before the Lord Mayor,
who ordered the negro to be set at liber-
ty. But the master seized him violently
in presence of the Lord Mayor and Mr..
Sharp on which the latter brought an
action against the master for assault The
question of law was finally referred to the
twelve judges, in February and May Of
that year, who decided unanimously that
no man can be accounted slave on Eng
lish territory. This decision is often quo
ted as though the soil of Great Britain
made slave free; but that is legal fc-
ton. Evidently, it is only when a slave
(so-called) comes within the reach of an
English court that his freedom is declared.
AT that time the American colonies were
beginning their quarrel with Great Britain,
but had not renounced allegiance. All the
colonies were subject to the common law
Of England; ; and if in Virginia and Jamaica
there had been Judge as upright and able
as Lord Mansfield, and phlanthropist as
Jealous as Granville Sharp, it would seem
that slavery might have been dissolved by
a few judicial trials.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-18
Stage Life.
tOld English stage.]

How many of you straightlaced ladies,
who so savagely condemn the actress
without recommendations to mercy,would
pass scatheless through the ordeal to
which she is subjected, the temptations by
which she is surrounded? To be homely
in mind and face, without beauty or wit {;
to be born and reared and coddled in all
the responsibilities and convcntionalities {;
to be watched so carefully that you could
never find the opportunity of going
astray, even if you desired it;-in short
to develop into an immaculate matron, is
not such marvellous matter to congratu-
late yourself upon.
But to be born altogether out of ortho-
doxes, left to your own wild will; to be
poor, beautiful and brilliant, to see the
handsomest men in the land signing at
your feet, doing homage to your talents as
well as to your face, and then to come out
of the fire unscathed, as many an actress
has done and will do-then lady, you have
earned the right to look down upon one
who has not been blessed with your pow
er of resistance.
Bigoted asceticism revels in those
gloomy pictures in which the shadows are
unnaturalv deepened, and the lights are
omitted; but gentler moralists might
draw from that same source the brightest
examples of noble selfdevotion, undaunt-
ed perseverance, and divine charity.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-18

thusiastic kitchen girl will never be
tempted to light or hurry up the re-
luctant fire with the kerosene can; nor
will John, coming in fatigued with the
labors of the day, be nagged by his
jaded better-half to fetch, before sitting
down to supper, bucket of coal from
the cellar. Moreover, when your opera
tions are ended, the same ease that kin
died extinguishes the incandescent glow
at the furnace.
These suggestions seem to us apropos
since the matter of gas has been under
discussion very considerably of late in
the newspapers, and great deal of the
talk appeared to us inconsiderate and
unjust, in view of the fact, so apparent
to any one who has reflected upon the
subject, that the possibilities in the not
distant future for this agent in fields as
yet comparatively untrodden seem al
most illimitable. Let us give gas a
chance.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-18
CHAPTER XVI.
SAVED FROM SIM

Through the long hours of never-to-be-
forgotten night Geofrey Chetwynd fought
the fight that Sibyl had fought, but with a
still tirmer determination not to see clearly.
He knew that be was falling and dragging
her down to sin and shame, and that the ln-
evitable punishment would follow.
"Never, never !" he muttered, as he tossed
from side to side Il can never love her
less she shall never regret it for single
moment never remember that she is not
my wife as fast as the law could make her.
/ love her the more for shrinking from the
step, but I will repay her amply for the
pain l am causing her now-and ! cannot
give her up. Poor little darling, how utter
" miserable she looked as / left her Her
face haunts met shall never look like
that again if l can help it"
He had told the Temples, and they had
readily agreed to go with him without letting
anybody else know. There were visitors in
the house, but neither of the Misses Day
rell, for Milly was married, and Eva, on
finding that Godfrey was there, had refused
to come. He had written note to the
clergyman, asking him TO be at the church
by eleven o'clock TO perform the ceremony,
and groom was going to take it over early
in the morning
As he dressed himself with hands that
shook from excitement and cold, Geoffrey in
vain tried to persuade himself that he was
one of the happiest men on earth. Before
his eyes the picture of Francesca di Rimini
foated perpetually, and the sad upturned
face of the SHINING woman was like the
face he had left On tie preceding night 1t
was a gray, gloomy day, few fakes of
Gnow falling from the. lsadsn eispda sad
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-18
TO BE CONTINUED.
A Romantic HistOry.
1~IN~ ottnN

Sixty years ago young Italian was
condemned to death for political ofrense.
The scaffold was erected when he found
means of escape. He finally landed in
England. A stranger, and unable to
speak the language, he began to teach his
own. For ten years he lived a life Of
penury. One day he found friend in
Roscoe, author of "The Life of Lorenzo
the Magician" who gave him letters which
obtained him employment at University
College. One OF the letters was to Sir
Henry Ellis, who was then chief librarian
of the British Museum. Two years af
terward, when Brougham interested him
self in the young Italian, this letter to
Sir Henry no doubt helped to obtain for
him the position of assistant librarian.
He was "a when he entered the muse
um, and at 20 he was appointed keeper of
the printed books. He instituted wise re-
forms, administered his department with
great skill, showed marvellous knowl.
edge of books, and with liberality which
is creditable to the government OF the
time, when death once more made the
higher place vacant he was elevated to
the post, and, being naturalized, he was
knighted. This, in nutshell, is the
brief history of Sir Antonio Panizzi,
Librarian Of the British Museum, who
died at the ripe age of So.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-18
GIVE GAS A CHANCE.

The use of gas for illuminating pur-
poses has hitherto in a measure with
drawn public attention from the advan-
tages which it possesses for various other
offices of utility that it seems peculiarly
fitted to fill. If the electric light, of
which 50 much has been said and prom
ised, shall do no more than direct atten-
ton to these comparative unknown and
undeveloped forces which gas possesses,
it will rather be benefit than an injury
10 the latter. For generating steam for
The propulsion of light machinery, for
domestic cookery in its various FORMS
and the heating of apartments under GER
tain conditions, we see no reason why
with suitable apparatus gas may not al
most Danish the cumbersome and grosser
appliances necessitated by the use of
wood and coal as fuel.
Inventive genius is already at work in
this field, and as the convenience and
economy of the thing are more fully
understood and demonstrated, will we do
not doubt, be found quite equal to the
emergency of supplying the improve
ments needed. Nearly every house of
any pretensions to completeness in
cities and large towns is now fitted
with pipes conveying gas to its
several rooms. Hence the light COM
parative cost of securing the agent of
combustion at the point demanded, and
the ease of shifting your furnace arrange
ments to any conceivable situation de-
sired with no greater outlay of ingenuity
and capital than the requisite length of
flexible tube.
As gas burns almost without smoke it
may, when the proper apparatus is
found, enable us to measurably dispense
with our present formidable chimneys to
houses As it obligingly conveys itself
through convenient pipe to any place
demanded and there affords the combus-
ton whose products are so esteemed in
the thousand forms demanded by our
present civilization. The coal bin with
its nastiness, the stoker with his grimy
duties, and the coal hod with its exas-
perating tendency to get itself emptied
at the freside may, perhaps, ere long,
find themselves, to great extent, aboI-
ished in places where gas-works exist.
Given the proper apparatus, the enor-
nous saving in labor and convenience by
using gas as fuel will instantly assert it
self. Turn a stop-cock and apply
match, and presto, your furnace is in
full operation.
In the domestic department. the en-
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-18
Lincoln on an Auction Block.

The following story about President
Lincoln is certainly characteristics: Soon
after he went to Washington he attended
the Foundry Church, occupying a seat
within the alter while Bishop Simpson
preached missionary sermon. After the
collection was taken at the close of the
sermon, and as the congregation was about
to be dismissed, an irrepressible brother
arose and proposed to be one of given
number to raise $Ioo to make President
Lincoln life director of the missionary
society. The proposition was put, and
Brothers A. B. and c. responded glibly
But the inevitable pause finally came
Part of the money was wanting. When
the bishop annouoced "Who will take the
balance" the pause became slightly op-
pressive. Then the long form OF Lincoln
was seen to rise, long bony arm was ex-
tended imploringly, and he said, "Bishop,
this is the first time I have ever been
placed upon an auction block. Please let
me pay the balance myself and take me
down"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-18

THE want of cordiality in the Grant
reception in Japan will not greatly affect
the "Boom" in this country. Japan does
not send delegates to the Republican
Convention, and the English Admiral
who went on an excursion to avoid giving
Grant salute of twenty-one guns, is not
likely to be delegate. This much by
way of consolation to the Globe Demo-
crat and other "boomers.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-18

The defense in the Chastine Cox mur-
der case established conclusively to them
selves that Mrs. Hull died from apo
plexy, heart disease, clot on the brain
and fright. In the face of all this New
York jury has found the young man of
immaculate linen and fashionable gar
ments guilty of her murder.
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LoNGvIEw seems destined to be a con-
tlnual source of trouble. DR.. Miller has
managed the lunatics inside the nstitu-
hon very satisfactorily, but those outside
appear to be beyond human control.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-18

Two hundred employees of a Chicago
furniture factory struck on Wednesday,
and demanded that their hours of daily
labor be reduced to eight. The propric-
tors, who assert that they can make no
money on the terms proposed by the
strikers, offered to sell the establishment
TO them, and let them conduct it to suit
themselves. This proposition is now be-
Ing considered by the worlmen, who will
no doubt make an effort to purchase and
conduct it on the cooperative plan.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-18

THE unhappy passengers of the i'll
fated steamer State of Virginia, who are
shipwrecked on Sable Island, have one
consolation: The scene of their disaster
lies of Nova Scotia, where the breezes
blow cool and inyigorating.