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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-22

The Geneva Award bill was killed in the Sem
ate yesterday, by the success of Mr.. EatOns mo-
ton to indefinitely postpone il, which was car
ried by a vote of 81 yeas to % nays. The bill is
therefore dead as far as the present Congress is
nnncaTnad
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-22

General Grant, in his campaign tour through the
South, neglected to impress upon the people who
welcomed him their need of being governed by a
Strong Man. In Texas, he even assured his hearers
that thoy could got along very comfortably without
any Strong Man, and lnsinuated that Texans didn't
need much of any government. and that the less
they had the better they would fare, which last
statement is probably a portion of that wisdom in
crude state which the exPresident has been collect
ing during his travel in foreign parts and storing
I'D for future use. 1t is evident too that the able
statesmen who are conducting the thlrd-term cam
yass have modified their views as to tho mperiOus
necessity Of placing the country under the executive
control of somebody who was rather stronger than
the laws which tho people have framed for their
own government. Tho Strong Man cry has died out
all around in q very thin diminnendO. and when the
conductors strike another "key-nOtc." they will
take care If they wise. that 1t isn't tuned up so
far above concert pitch.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-22

fate in his hands, for not man Of them can be NOM
mated against his viii. Even the Democratic party
10 not stupid enough to nominate candidate whom
Tilden does not Ike after the remarkable display OF
power made at Syracuse.
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has sold: there are scores Of the animals
on the hill beyond his house. Only 4
week ago he shot a very large one,
but not until he his lost his best dog
by blow from the creatures paw
Francisco goes on to tell other hunting
stories, and adventures of his own in the
woods; the conversation takes wonder
full interest, with the darkness around
and the moaning of the wind above.
BY and by we alight to stretch our legs,
walking beyond the slow-going wagon:
we feel our way rather than see it, SO
dark the road is. There are white ant
hills along the sides-pale CLOVIS of phos-
phorescent light, like Goals in the ashes.
They look ghostly in the darkness, and
We think of the jaguar stories with
little tremor. But presently comes the
CHEEKY shout b ehind, and the cracking of
the wheels; and beyond there is Il great
clearing and a house, whenc the dogs are
pealing a noisy welcome to our party.
The farmers wife welcomes US cordi-
ally; the children are shy. for they do
not often see strangers. Greetings over,
we swing our hammocks under the
thatch: the air is cool and pleasant-a
little cold towards morning. SO that we
have need of our thick blankets.
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WHOLE No. 1910

spite remonstrance and danger, however,
Moore leaped the breastworks, canteen i'll
hand, reached his wounded enemy, and
gave him a drink. The Federal, under
a sense of gratitude for the timely SER
vice, took out his gold watch and offered
it to his benefactor, but it was refused.
The officer then asked the name of the
man who braved such danger to succor
him. The name was given, and Moore
returned to his position behind the en-
bankment. They saw nothing more CT
each other. Moore was subsequently
wounded and lost limb in one of the
engagements in Virginia and returned to
his home in Burke county. A few days
ago he received communication from
the Federal soldier to whom he had given
the ''cup of cold water on the occasion
alluded to, announcing that he had set
tied on him the sum of. $4,000, to be
paid in four annual installments of 81,
500 each. Investigation has established
the fact that there is no mistake OF de-
ception in the matter.-Home journal.
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BEN WADE'S PLAIN SPEECH.

The great struggle over the Kansas
Nebraska bill had brought Wade promi-
nently before the country as debater
The Southern tire-eathers and their allies,
the Northern dough-faces, had combined
to throw him down. but he kept his feet,
hurled them back with surprising dex-
terity and ability, and pursuing taught
them for the first time that they had 4
master in the United States Senate who
would not spare them.
The Hon. Charles G. Anterior, of New
erton," from his introduction of a reso-
luton to lay all anti-slavery petitions on
the table, was emphatically Northern
man with Southern principles.
One day Mr.. Wade, who was person.
ally very popular even with his political
opponents, was conversing with ex-Goy-
ernor Morehead, of Kentucky, who was
then visiting Washington, when Ather-
ton came up and at once commenced an
attack on Wade in regard to the Fugitive
Slave law.
"Why. Mr.. Wade" he said ''if a mig
ger runs away from good master in
Kentucky and comes to your house in
Ohio, wouldn't you arrest him and send
him back to his master?"
.No. indeed, | would not" replied
Wade. Would you. Atherton?'
Certainly | would" said Atherton.
81 should deem it my duty to enforce
that as much as any other law
Wade turned to Governor Morehead.
well, Govern, what would You say
Would you arrest negro and send him
! back under such circumstances -
"No," replied the Governor, grufly:
I'D see him damned first
"Well,' said old Ben, after moment
pause, q don't know as can blame you,
seeing you have got such thing as that
/ (pointing to Atherton to do the dirty
work for YOU
Soon after taking his seat as a Senator
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The Classic Drunkard DefeS Fate.

The bar keeper was about to close up. he
had said so several times, and had put ont
all the lights but one The old fixtures had
shook the sawdust from their feet and re-
luctantly directed their footsteps homeward.
Only a stranger remained, a dark, saddened
man, who sat demurely Oh stool and kept
his thumbs revolving around each other,
like white mice turning a little Wheel
When the coast was clear he stepped up to
the bar and said softly: "May l whisper a
word in your caro- "You may, mister, if
you will be quick about it," replied the
drink mixer, with his hand on the lamp
screw. q want you, now that we are ali
alone, to fill me a flask of your best whisky
for family sickness" said the stranger,
drawing out an ancient wallet with twenty
fathoms of leather string wound around it
a well worn wallet, that looked as if all
the waves and pillows of bad luck had beat
upon it, and gone over it, and through it,
and tiattened it, and polished it, and washed
it out clean. The bar man filled him NJ d
pint, shovel down the cork until it squeak
ed, wiped the bottle dry, and set it upon the
counter.
"The autumnal air is getting trific
tartish," soliloquized the stranger. would
you have any objection to my taking
little liver-padlder from my bottle?"
He filed the tumbler quite full, took it As
he did paregoric in the days of his infancy,
and then remarked:
"Perhaps, on the whole, as the night has
far waned, and my family are on their
spiral springs end in their trundles, yolr
had better put my bottle away on the upper
shelf, and when Phnbus Apollo begins TO
canter his golden Frances along the avenues
of the purping east, l will cali for 1t, and
YOU NAV then assess me the appropriate
amount of ducats."
The bar keeper sprang over the bar and
began to kick him.
"What." he said, sweetly, ''you kick me
after have drank? Don't you know bet
ter than that? Kick me with both feet
cannot feel you even then. Before took
that glass, if you had but shaken your INST
at Inc you would have wounded me-huIt
me, but now scorn your physical punish
ment Good night" he said, as he stood on
the doorstep. 81 see by the shadow on the
sidewalk that you have kicked me again.
You should remember, my irascible publ
can, What the dear old poet said: Fate can
not harm me now; have dined to-day.
So say l. 1 have drunk tonight. Good
night. taverner! How much the sparkling
armament looks like far-otf city, lit up for
festal night, Farewell l shall sec You
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Very True.

This is the age of CAB Talk is plenty,
cheap and thin. Nearly everybody talks,
except the dumb, and even they are
afflicted with the raging epidemic in their
fingers Our friends make speeches.
Our adversaries write books. Our bene-
factors publish newspapers. Interview
ers, reporters. supplemented, slippery,
Argus-eyed literary Bohemians, note
taking travellers, unfolding lecturers
who can count them, Or measure their
wisdom. or--endure their CAB? n
chronic talker. an irrepressible gabbler,
is a sore affection to the family or COM
munity. He is an irritating human
mosquito forever poking his keen pro-
boscis into sensitive souls and torturing
them before their time. The fire of the
cab is in his bones. He was born to
gable and will gable on till he is dumb
or dead His intolerable jabbering is the
sacrifice of fools, offered up to his own
self conceit He seems to think that the
world would stand still if he ceased to
talk. "A fool is full of words" says
Solomon.
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ODDITIES OF SELFISHNESS.

More amusing are the strange fancies
that some persons have as to what over
worked men may be asked to DO for them.
In the very thick of the American war,
nos farmer in a great state of excitement
about pair of horses that one of Lin
coins generals had requisitioned for the
war. The owner was, of course, entitled
to compensation. but somehow it had not
come. Going to the President he told
him his story, and was chagrined to be
the money. Then. says the farmer, will
You undertake to write to the general,
and see that the matter is settled pro-
perly: Poor Lincoln, who never wanted
for story to help him in an emergency,
was ready for his visitor. "When | was
a rail splitter" he said there lived near
us a smart young fellow, the captain Of q
Mississippi boat, who could steer a vessel
over the rapids with wonderful skill, as
hardly any one else could. One day,
when he was grasping the wheel with
his utmost strength, at the most critical
point of the rapids, little boy came rum
ming up TO him in great excitement and
said: "Cap'n, stop your ship, my apple
has fallen overboard!'
In the Life of Sir James Simpson :"
Of
traordinary things that patients in the
county would sometimes ask him to do.
Once gentleman wrote to him asking
him to send him Il copy of the prescrip-
ton which he had given him some years
before. when the doctor could hardly re-
call the man. much less the prescription.
& F'lockhart's and get them some par
ticular medicine.
\ very busy clergyman of our acquaint-
ance when over head and ears with
many things, once got letter from a
stranger in the United States, explaining
that more than century ago some one
near Edinburg which was destined by
| will in a particular way. so that the rela-
tives in America thought they had some
claim to it. He was requested to inquire
! into the matter, find out about the will,
communicate with the present owners of
the property. and put everything in train
| for just settlement of the claim. 1t
would have been reasonable for the
writer to enclose bill for $500, but that,
unfortunately, he omitted to do.
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are frequently committed by children
belonging to educated families, not by
the very poor. There seems to be no
adequate motive for them, but kind of
thing which will bring them into notice.
We believe that one cause Of this in
crease of crime among lads who are
scarcely more than children. is the publ
cation by respectable journals of the
minute details of trials for murder, for
gerry, etc. These newspapers are other
wise moral in tone, and are placed in the
hands Of their children by parents who
would protect them with horror from the
influence Of low thcatcrs or flash novels.
Yet 10 variety show or fiction, however
unclean. could be more debasing or sure
i'll its effects. than the newspaper ac-
counts Of trials for capital crimes, set
forth as they are i'll the most dramatic
and attractive shape. The minds of pure
boys and innocent girls are thus familiar
lied with shameless vice. which. if they
had lived generation earlier, would not
have been SO much as named in their
hearing Parents should exercise care
full scrutiny over the newspaper which
forms the daily mental food of their chill
dren. Parents should remember that
when their boys and girls read the re-
port of this or that Great Murder
Trial. they are staining their souls with
a blot, which, like the blood on Lady
Macbeth's hand, will never wash out.
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the Ohioan witnessed one of those scenes
SO common in the Senate in those days.
\ Southern fire eater made an attack on
a Northern Senator, and Wade was as
tonished and disguised at the cringing,
cowardly way in which the Northern
man bore the taunts and insults of the
hot-heated Southerner. As no allusion
was made to Ohio or himself, Wade sat
still, but when the Senate adjourned he
said, openly, if ever a Southern Senator
made such an attack on him or his State
while he was upon that floor, he would
brand him as liar. This coming to the
ears of the Southern men, "a Senator took
occasion to pointedly speak few days
afterward of Ohio and her people as ne
gro thieves. Instantly, Wade sprang to
his feet and pronounced the Senator
liar. The Southern Senators were thun-
derstruck and gathered around their
champion, while the Northern men
grouped about Wade. A feeler was put
out from the Southern side looking to
retraction, but Wade retorted in his pc
culiar style and demanded an apology
for the insult offered himself and the
people he represented. The matter thus
closed and fight was looked upon as
certain. The next day a gentleman called
on Senator Wade and asked him the
usual question touching his acknowledge
ment of the code.
Il am here he responded, Sin dou-
die capacity; l represent the State of
Ohio and I represent Ben Wade. AS
Senator | am opposed to dueling; as Ben
Wade l recognize the CODE
"My friend feels aggreved.' said the
gentleman, lat what you said in the
Senate yesterday and will ask an apology
or satisfaction
81 was somewhat embarrassed" con-
tinued Senator Wade, by my position
yesterday, as have some respect for the
Senate Chamber. l now take this oppor-
tunity to say what l then thought, but
could not say, and you will, if you please.
repeat it. Your friend is 4 foul-nouthed
old blackguard.
Certainly, Senator Wade, you do not
wish me to convey such a message as
that -
Most undoubtedly | do, and l will
tell you for your own benefit. this friend
Of yours will never notice it: will not
be asked by him for either retraction,
explanation, OF fight The amazed
Southern gentleman took his hat and
left, seriously doubling Wade's sanity.
Next morning Wade came into the Sen
ate, and proceeding to his seat deliber-
ately drew from under his coat two large
navy revolvers. and unlocking his desk
laid them inside The Southern men
looked on in silence. while the Northern
men enjoyed to the fullest extent the
fire-eaters' surprise at the proceedings Of
the plucky Ohio Senator No further
notice was taken of the affair of the day
before. Wade was not challenged, but
ever afterwards was treated with the ut
most politeness and consideration by the
Senator who had so insultingly attacked
him
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WHIPS: WISE IND WlTFY.

The young mans first razor-ller
fathers boot.
The waves of womans handker-
chief have wrecked many man.
A tramp and Kcely's, motor and
Edison's lamp are all alike--tiiey Won t
work.
Some peoples brains are like West
ern lands-enough of them, but not half
cultivated.
People who have waited so long for
Edison's light are beginning to think he
is the light-wait champion.
A silly woman in fine dress bears Il
strong resemblance to y tifteen-cent
dahlia in two dollar flower pot
1t cannot be that "Ali flesh is
grass" Grass gets its dew. About tie
only thing that does in this world.
Noah made the great mistake OF hIs
life when he had the flies reduced to Ii
single pair and forbade Shem TO sernnch
'em.
The man who says advertising docs
not pay is the man who comes around to
ret his name in the paper when he gives
four bits to an orphan.
The principal beauty OF the Mormon
religion is that the same woman does not
have to get up first the entire Winter I"
build the kitchen fire.
A fond mother in Leadvillc speaks
of her late son as having been born III
Michigan, but raised in Colorado. The
Vigilance Committee raised him.
When two ships collide at sea the
testimony is Just as conflicting as when
two women pull hair over the gate
Nobody can tell who is to blame.
A Nebraska monument to u horse
thief is simply stake at the heat ct a
crave, and a sign reading, at would
have been cheaper for him to go aloot.
-"Patrick Maloney, what do you say
to the indictments Are you guilty or
not ruilty?" "Arrah, musha, yer wor-
shin. how can | tell till | hear the ivi-
dence ?"
The art of talking pays in Turkey;
the Sultan has five agreeable gentlemen
about him whose sole business it Is I"
entertain him with polite and graceful
conversation.
1t is understood that man cannot
be tried twice for the same CRIME OF
murder, unless he happens to be con-
victed the first time. In that case he
may be tried till he is acquitted.
-Howells said once in an atter-dinncr
| speech that such was his stern Impair
tiality as editor of the Atlantic HonthlH-
| that on one occasion he respectfully de-
| clined one of his own contributions.
Sir Walter Scott tells a story Of a
| gentleman who. irritated at some mis-
| conduct of her servant; Either you or
must quit this house. ''Nera wces.
sir" said John, where will your honor
be ganging tull?''
| The Chinese Premier, Prince kuB.-
addressed General Grant in English, So
called. Trying to compliment him by
assuring him that he was born to cont
mand, he said: "Sir! Brave General. you
vos made to order,'
Father twho is always trying 80
teach his son how to act while ut thc
table, J." Well, John, you see that When
I have finished eating always leave tbs
table, John" Yes, sir. and that Is
about all you do leave.
"A Yankee woman recently married :.
Chinese laundryman, and in three day
thereafter the unhappy Celestial ap
peared at a BARRIERS shop and ordered
his pigtail to be cut off, saying, in eS-
PLANTATION, "Too mucAee yank."
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BOYS LED INTO CRIME.

During the last month or two, the
daily papers have reported 4 number OF
crimes committed by boys and girls, and
these not the acts of petty larceny to
which an ignorant child would be tempt
ed by want, but burglary and murder.
One lad shot another in New England,
but not from any malice or revenge, but
simply, as it seemed, because he fancied
it heroic thing to do. A noticeable
fact of THESE juvenile crimes is that they
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TINE TURNS THE TABLES.

Ten years ago, when she was ten.
| used to tease and Sc0id her:
| liked her and she loved Inc then,
\ boy, some five years older.
l liked her: she would fetch my book,
Bring lunch 10 stream or thicket:
Would oil my gun and bait my hook
And field for hours at cricket.
She'd mend my cap or find my whip:
All, hut boys hearts are stony;
! liked her rather less than 'Gyp
And far less than my pony.
She loved me then, though Heavens know!
why,
Small wonder She had hated;
For scores of dolls she had to cry,
Whom | decapitated.
| tore her frocllS, ! muSsed her hair,
Called red " the sheen upon il:
Out fishing | would even dare
Catch tad-ppes in her bonnet.
Well, now l eXpiate my crime
The Nemesis of fables
Comes after yearS--to-day old Time
On me has turned the tables.
I'm twenty-five, she's twenty row,
Dark-eyed, fair checked, and bonny;
The curls are golden round her brow
She smiles and calls me Johnny"
OF wore, ] used her Christian name,
Eut now. through fate or malice,
When she is by, my lips cant frame
The letters that spell alice
l who could laugh at her and tease,
Stand silent now before her;
Dumb through the very wish TO please,
4 sueechlesS shy adorer
Or. if she turns to me TO speak,
I'm daZZled by her graccS:
The hot blood ruSheS TO my check,
/ babble common places.
She's kind and cool; ah, Heaven knows how
! wish she bluShpd and faltered.
She likes me and love her now:
All me! how things have altered.
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Persons making applications for transfers of
property will be required 10 comply with the fol
lowing sections OF the Code. article 81:
SEQ. IS. Whenever any persons shall make
application Tor any allowance or deduction on
account of tho sale. transfer, alienation. loss
removal of any property, or the collection or pay
mcnt OF any public or private security Tor money.
the County Commissioners or Appeal Tax Court
shall interro%ate him oath in reference thereto
and the disposal OF the same. and especially in
quire of him to whom the same has been sold or
transferred. and the amount vi the purchase
money. the money collected. and how tha same
has been invested.
SIC 10 They shall also interrogate said per-
son on oath iii reference to any acquisition in
ycstmcnt made by him and not already assessed.
and the amount Of all such acquisitions and in
veStIncnts shall be added to his assessable proper
tv; and if he refuses to answer no allowance or
deduction shall be made on his assessment
Ian o:-5W
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$4,000 FOR A DRINK OF WATER.

In one of the hotly contested fights in
Virginia, during the war, Federal
officer fell in front of the Confederate
breastworks. While lying there wound
ed. and crying for water Confederate
soldier (Jamas Moore, of Burke county,
North Carolina) declared his intention of
supplying him with drink. The bullets
were flying thick from both sides, and
Moore's friends tried to dissuade him
from such hazardous enterprise. De-
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ASSES SING DOGS.

Notice is hereby given to Collectors and to the
owners of Dogs that all the Dogs and Shuts in the
several districts. two months old and upwards,
shall he assessed under the act of 1857. chapter
80. Taxing Dogs and Shuts" between the LIST
day Of February and 18th day Of the same month.
and the owner OF every taxable Dog or Slut as
sesScd between those dates shall be held accounta-
Bile for the tax assessed to him. whether he shall
afterwards part with the Dog or Slut or not. and
said assessment To be returned by the several Col
lectorS to the office OF the County Commissioners,
on or before the 2sth day of February next
BY order. |. F. NANARSDALE.
Clerk Commissioners Cecil county.
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ORDER NISi.
ROBERT C. THACkERI

STEPHEN ]. WOODROW AND WIFE.
In the Circuit Court for Cecil county In Equity
No. 99l.
ORDERED. This Goth day of January,
~ 1880. that the sale made and reported by
Robert c. Thackery. Assignee. and authorized to
make sale, of the real estate i'll the proceedings in
this cause mentioned. be ratified and confirmed.
unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on
or before the LIST day OF April next: provided. Il
copy oil this Order be inserted in some newspaper
published in Cec! county once week for one
month before the LIST day OF March next.
The Report states the amount OF sales to he
81 5000. JAMES A. DAVIS, CLERK.
True copy: test, JAMES a. DAVIS.
Jan 81 lSSI-lm Clerk.