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Year: 1878

The public may as well know, once Tor all,
that we have not entirely done with 1Ilden
vet. nor is the presidential question yet set
tied Bv the terms of the electoral bill the
defeated candidate has his recourse to the
supreme court, and Mr. Tilden viii, III lis
own ocnd time, avail himself of that right.
TLis IS not a sensational statement, but the
words OF truth and soberneSs- L know
whereof | AN speaking When sly Mr. III
den is fally resolved


TO CONTEST HIS RIGHT TO TIE PRESIDENCY
before the courts He has never for mo-
ment wavered in that determination As a
preliminary step IN that direction Re took
the oath of office on the 4th OF March last,
and has been swearing ever since, Tor that
matter. Not that he expects to succeed III
ousting Hayes from his seat, unless IN the
meantime such a change should come over
the political complexion of things as to rem
der such 4 result probable. But his object,
in the main, is to reopen the question Tor
discussion at the proper time to have lis ei-
feet ON the next democratic national con-
| yention. He expects to present such al
array of facts TO the public that, whether
the legal points involved are decided III his
| favor OF not,


| SUCH AN EXCITEMENT WILL BE CREATED,
and such feeling evoked in his favor, as to
render his denomination IN 1880 foreSone
conclusion. He has had men In his employ,
ever since the contest was decided against
him. collecting and collating the evidence,
and it is the business OF his life to superln
tend the work as it progresses. He has a
private printing office OF his own, with trusty
men employed, sworn to secrecy, Whose
business it is to print the matter as 1t Is pre-
pared


In view of these facts, it becomes an IN
teresting subject of speculation what the ei
feet will be if Hayes Is


DRIVEN INTO THE DEMOCRATIC PATTY.
In that case it is not impossible that w
may witness the spectacle OF two democratic
contestants contending for the presidentia
ofice-an anomaly not more startling thar
many we have been called upon to witness
within the past few months.


But it is idle to speculate at this time
The main facts you can rely upon. Ih'
presidential contest is not over, and Will no
| be Tor years The interview with Tiiden
pnblisbes,. some time since, In the New Yorl


Herald. and afterwards feebly denied. wa
substantially true, and was procured by Til
den himself as feeler OF public sentiment
E-De.roa Nears.
Year: 1878

Persons who have become thoroughly
chilled from any cause, may have their
circulation at once restored by taking in
to the stomach a teaspoonful of Johnson's
Anodyne Liniment, mixed in a little cold
water. we'll sweetened.
Year: 1878

CHRISTIAN WoMEN's CITY MISsIoN.-A
slight error crept into our article OF Satur-
day on this subject. twas in regard to the
sale OF soup and coffee. A pone Of bread Is
qiren with each cup Of coffee or bowl OF
soup, no charge being made for it. A quart
OF soup-good, rich, and wholesome-and q
piece OF bread for three cents. AS long as
this institution is kept up there need be but
little suffering for food in our city Ii the
deserving ones will only make application
FOR If
Year: 1878

& EASTERN LUNATIc Acknowledgements OF
the Board Of Visitors to the Eastern Luna
tic Asylum who have Just returned from
Williamsburg report that the institution Is
In q most admirable condition under the
superior management OF DR.. Black, the
present superintendent. IS
Year: 1878

"Dear Mr.. Hawkeye, should one take
ones soup from the aide or the end of
the spoon? Edward.' Oh, well. if
you've got so stuck up and proud that
you have to eat with a spoon, we don't
suppose it makes any difference, but we
should think you would have enough
reverence for the good old days and the
grand old simplicity CT the better times,
and take your soup as your father did ;
blow it until it is cold, then lift the plate
with both hands and empty it by steady
and long continued suction, making a
Tipping sound with your lips at the con-
clusion of the services to indicate to the
waiter that you are ready for the next
course. 1t is these new tangled ideas
that are driving the old simplicity and
the old purity out of style and existence,
and crowding society to the edge of the
awful precipice that leans and totters in
crumbling weakness over the dark and
fathomless abyss of corruption and de-
struction.-T Burlington Hawkeye.
Year: 1878

A man, armed with long iron hook,
pulls open an iron door, and you gaze
with awe into the Dantesque heart of q
huge fierce furnace, the white.hot con-
tents slowly turning round, and ever
falling in cascades of yellow fire. It is
found that at the works on Devon
sulphur in the pyrites is enough to keep
the furnace, when once heated, burning,
without other fuel. The product? Here
it is, white heap of several tons of it
lying in an open shed, where everybody
passes by. It is something like fine
-four. One of the men dips thumb and
finger loosely into the white powder, puts
quantity into the palm of his other
hand, and brings it to us to look at
precisely as a miller shows sample of
flour, smoothing it with his fore finger.
One expects every moment to see him
test it with his tongue; child probably
would, but the miner knows better All
this white heap is arsenic; all these rows
Of barrels are filed with arsenic. More
than 1000 tons year are sent out from
this one mine, 10 be used mainly in
those brilliant modern dyes by which
our women and children can dazzle the
sunshine at cheap expense. Are they
safe to wear? Ny chemistry books do not
plainly say yes or no. But in one book
/ have CHANGED to open l find the follow
ing remarks: Arsenious acid-white
oxide of arsenic, or white arsenic. This
substance is of the highest Importance, as
being the frequent agent of criminal or
accidental poisoning. There
are few substances so much to be feared,
it being almost tasteIess ; it can be mixed
with articles of food and swallowed with
out discovery, and there is no practically
efficient antidote." This innocent look
ing white powder, this potent and fatal
substance, of which your chemist must
not sell you q dose without entering
your name and address in book, of
which three grains weight will kill man,
was lying by one of the ordinary roads of
the mine, in the open sheds, in heaps
breast high. l was assured that no kind
OF harm ever comes of all this, save skin
eruptions to the work people, and these
rarely, but it gave one shiver to see
those white mounds-- Fraser Magazine.
Year: 1878

The average returnsof cultivated crops
may be largely increased by thorough
authorization of the soil, because the
more a soil is pulverized, and the greater
the state of division in which its parts
are, the greater is its absorbent power.
The action of the hoe increases the
attraction for moisture, encourages the
circulation of the atmospheric and
nutritive gases, and thus, be the soil what
it may, adds to its fertility. By the
mechanical operations of agriculture, we
divide and renew the surface, and en-.
deavor to make every atom of the soil
accessible to the action of the carbonic
acid and oxygen Of the atmosphere. In
this way we distribute the excess Of
mineral food found at one spot to others
in which it fails, and thus enable new
generation of plants to find everywhere
the materials which are indispensable to
their growth and prosperity.


The pulverization of the soil by plow-
ing, grubbing, narrowing, rolling, hoeing,
mellowing, and other operations, is a
main department of agricultural labor,
and one which is far too much neglected
by a majority OF farmers. While tillage
cannot practically be offered as a
substitute for manure, yet it quadruples
the effectiveness of the latter. Every time
the earth is broken by any sort of till
age or division, there must arise some
new superfces of the broken parts which
never has been open before. Fibrous
roots, which alone maintain the plant,
can take in no nourishment from any
cavity, hence the necessity of so pulver-
izing the soil that each particle can be
reached by the roots. The finer the soil,
the richer will it become and the more
plants will it maintain.


Successful cultivation can only be
maintained by the intermixing of air
with the soil. The presence and circu-
lation of the air in the soil, in as many
minute streams and as large aggregate
quantities as possible, is important to
free and luxuriant vegetation. The
grand means of efIecting sucl aeration
are such as maintain the porosity of the
soil. Air is thus supplied, however, not
only In a direct manner by the atmos'
phere, but indirectly and quite as neces-
sarily and efficiently by water. The fine
parts of the earth are impregnated
throughout their whole substance with
the riches contained in dews and gentle
showers, and in such soils the most weak
and tender roots have free passage to the
utmost extent, and have also an equal
pressure, everywhere giving the needed
contact with the minute PARTICLES OF
earth. The subject of the thorough
pulverization of the soil demands in
creased attention from every practical
agriculturalist.- American Cultivator.
Year: 1878

Is it true economy to use cheap, adulter-
ated baking powder, which is highly injuri-
Gus to health, merely because it is cheap ?
Common sense and experience say no !
DooLEY's YEAST POWDER, which has been


we'll known for twenty years as an absolutely
pure, wholesome, and in every respect reli-
able article, is within the reach of all those
who practice true economy in this respect.
Year: 1878

MANY suns go down while it is yet
noon, and many life goes to an early gave
which would have been spared many years
had they but known of the curative powers
OF HOME STOMACH BITTERs. Prepared by
the Home Bitters Co., st. Louis, Mo.
Year: 1878

that could feel the palpable darkness.
and as the hours dragged it's slow
length along l began to realize the
word eternity. Ny brain was again
becoming benumbed with the terrible
pressure, when slight, almost impar.
ceptible rustic close tesiie me, restored
my self-posession.


The next moment a hot breath
seemed to scorch my face. and sim
ultaneous with loud thud, which re-
sounded from Jacks body, | drove nv
revolver against the form above me and
fired.


Then my overstrained sense gave
way, and | knew nothing more.


NV eyes opened on blaze OF light
a half dozen of candles illuminating
the tent In every part, and was sur
rounded by lot of miners, whose
scanned faces expressed sympathy and
commiserasion. Then came with
rush the flow of recollection-the mid
night assassin. the probable murder of
Jack, and the pistol shot in the dark


Rising to my feet saw stretched
on the ground before me. where he
had fallen, the body of Claud Devries
stone dead, small oriice in his fore
head marked the entrance Of the lead
en- messenger


Scarcely glancing at the stiffened
corpse, with its petrified scowl of death
agony, stepped to the entrance of the
tent. and. alas my great fear was con.
firmed-for there reposed on a rudely
constructed bier all that was mortal of
Jack Hood, my old mining chum and
partner. The newly risen moon bath
ed the pallid features iniia silver flood
of light and besutified even that rough
unshaven face, which had alway. in
life wore kindly expression.


The rest is soon told OF course
Devries must have overheard our plan
to apprehend him. and so determined
to put an effectusl end to it. The
boys, alarmed at the pistol shot, had
found him dying, and his knife sheath
ed for second time in the body of
Jack. They always believed that Dew
ries was melted to the deed by the
hope of plumber, and l did not en-
Tighten them.


And these whitened locks and pre-
maturely aged feature safest my life
long sorrow and remorse that / ever
sought that $4,000 reward.
Year: 1878

A SANE MAN IMPRISONED As LUSArIC
BY HIS CIIILDREN.-A petition was filed in the
supreme judicial court yesterday afternoon
in the name of Captain Jacob =. Holm, asking
for the interference of the court in the matter
OF his confinement Oh a charge Of insanity
The application sets forth that Captain Holm
is unlawfully confined and deprived of his
liberty in the Mclean asylum for the insane
that he has not been put there for treatment,
but at the instance of his children, Jane b
Holm and VIM. X. Holm, 10 keep him in con
fiEement. 1t prays for an order To compel DIR.
George +. Jelly, of the Mclean asylum and
Jane B. and VIM. X. Holm 20 appear as speed.
lily as possible before the court and show cause
why Captain Holm should be longer deprived
of his liberty, and submit the issues between
the parties 10 jury, and TO furnish such relief
10 the said Captain Holm as may seem most
meet to the court. The order is retuInable TO
the court on Tuesday next at l0 O'Clock, when
it will be shown why the captain is restrained
of his liberty as at present. 1t is understood
that the alleged insane man is keeping very
quiet at the asylum, and that the trustees
have under consideration a proposal to re-
lease him upon condition that his friends
shall be responsible for his safekeeping-
[RUStOn Herald, 18th.
Year: 1878

AN UNDISCRIMINATING LAD.-A dispatch
from Allegan, Ohio, TO The st. Louis Globe
Democrat says: John Cook had tame fox.
which finally came TO stealing. Monday nigh
he told his son to kill the fox the next morning
if he heard him come about Cook heard the
noise first, then got down among the bushes
near the coop, watching for the fox. Then the
boy heard noise, saw stir among the
bushes, and fired. The charge hit his father
in the side, and he died in an hour It was
O'Clock, and the boy could not See distinctly.
The boy did not know his father was out, and
is not TO blame"
Year: 1878

THE CHICAGO DIAMOND ROBBER ARRESTED.
Detectives in Chicago have captured the entire
amount of jewelry stolen from the Palmer
house. and one of the professionals who did
the job. The room of the robbers in lodging
house was searched during their absence, and
the jewelry found in trunk. The arrested
person registered at the Palmer house as
White, but upon being taken on his arrival at
the lodging house gave his name as Charles
Woodward. He is believed to be the same
man who perpetrated the ST. Louis, Worcester
and PittSburg burglaries He is an English
man, and unknown to the police
Year: 1878

SENATOR SPENCER positively declines to be
a candidate for Congress from the fourth Ala
tons of prominent republicans from every
section of the state. He says that his priyai e
interests require his entire attention, and
therefore he cannot afford to make the can
Year: 1878

AN EDITOR ABUSED IN EFFIGY.-A, A.
Chase, editor of the Scranton Daiiu Times wa a
ridden In efigy on q rail through the streets
THURSDAY night. Subsequently the effigy was
nred from the mouth of a cannon on the pub


Tic square. He opposed the new county idea
Year: 1878

From the Atlanta Constitution. ..


Those who hold to the greenback doc
trine can never hope for any substantial
success apart from the success of the
Democracy. "a victory for the Democratic
party is victory for the Greenbsckers, and
the defeat Of the Democracy is the defeat
Of the 6reenbackers.
Year: 1878

delicate guise of cake money many of the neighbors
contributed from 81 to III. apiece, ana the rest
mad TO borrow. and am still paying on. The CHER
expense Is for the three days open house kept during
TO be literally distributed around, and 1t would
never DO for q gentleman OF my position 10 De
shabDy Then the wife's outfit must always be sup
phed by her own family. Tables, chairs, clothes
trunks, pots and pans and goodness knows what
not All You have little idea how we Chinese fathers
must scrape and starye to do our duty respectfully
Well my second is still at school; he IS twenty
one years or age, but yet not betrothed MY
youngest daughter is thirteen, and she learns her
household duties ut home OF course all tine females
OF our family are small footed. My uncle's son,
aged fortyhve Is still alive and has four daughters.
My wife and children, and my cousin and his four
daughters. thus form the whole of our family.


RENTS SHANGHAI.


My house consists of six apartments and stands
me S5 month for rent: two of the apartments are
reception rooms Before / employed by my
foreign friend served as clerk i'll the Custom
House, but never having any inclination to squeeze
did not get on well. l know l am stupid. but
really cannot squeeze although my friends make
sport of me for it, / like to be quiet ana IN
dependent, and as long l get my salary
regularly paid hope to remain OF the same mind.
We're to die my wife would take one share OF what
little property have one share would be reserved
for the expenses OF my youngest daughters wedding,
and share apiece would go to each Of my two sons.
Besides the members OF our family we keep one
coolie and one old woman to do the rough work
OF the household. Every day l walk four Eng
lish miles to my duties, and four miles back
again III the afternoon. This l have done for
nearly twenty years. Certainly, might move to q
nearer place. but enjoy very high position IN my
neighborhood, being one of the spokesmen OF the
ward. The wards Of different sizes. Ours is .
small one. consisting of not more than two hun
dred houses. All small matters referred to the
four spokeslnen, who either settle the matter indi-
vdually or meet in the temple to discuss IT. Grave
matters go before the district magistrate in the usual
way
Year: 1878

yicksburg papers, and make himself coat,
pants and vest from them; he might get into
self with O hat fresh from the Southern print
ing-press; he might wrap himselfin Southern
paper blankets and sleep for twenty hours q
day. and then he couldn't get the fever, no
matter how much he might yearn for 1t. He
might absorb good deal Of information, but
he wouldn't get the yellow fever.
Year: 1878

One Of the pleasantest recolleetions of the
Centennial trip to Philadelphia thousands OF
people will connect with their pleasant quarters
and agreeable treatment at the Colonnade Hotel.
Year: 1878

The Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, in a SER
mon to his congregation in New York said
there was not single amusement on the
face of the earth which had received the
ban of all nations to so great an extent as
dancing. To illustrate this he quoted from
the Bible "Ths girl, Herodias's daught-
err" said he twas a professional dancer"
" Dancing was consistent with riot, murder
and immortality. The first chapter of the
book of Esther relates how the king made
a feast for his male friends. The wine-cup
passed around, songs were sung, stories
were told, and when all were drunk the
King commanded that the Queen should
be brought in. What for? Ordinary
amusements would not suffice. Dancing
was in order. The Queen rufused to ap-
pear before such a company and the King
divorced her from him because she refused
to do what thousand of Christian women in
New York to-day would do if they had a
chance. From the time of Cain down to
the present day dancing has always been a
worlds amusement. A boy cannot leave
his Sunday School to 60 to dancing school
with any less danger than he would incur
in frequenting a gambling-hell."


"You would not want a Christian woman" !"
continued the preacher, " "dressed in ball
| COSluIllG W COul0 " llC DCOSlOO vi JOul
dying wife to speak words of good cheer.
The widest savage is not fit to murder the
settler and take his scalp until he has
danced the war dance. A particular dress
is required for the dance. The lady who
received her guests at dancing party in
ordinary attire would be ostracised. At
the same time, her dancing costume would
be scandalous on the street or at dinner.
table. The plea that you dance for exer


else is absurd. You never lock yourself III
your room and dance for an hour. Dan


GERS must have the excitement of being in
public. Any one who has passed the sum


mer at Saratoga for the past five years car
see how public dancing has fallen off since


the public halls were built. There is com
parative little dancing because there il


nobody now to look on except at great balls
| When Mrs. Sherman entered her protes


against round dancing she did not make i


as religious woman. She is q fashionable


woman and woman of the world. Sh'


made the protest in behalf Of the morals o


her children. Mrs. Polk banished dancing


from the White House because it was al


amusement unfit for the national halls


The most dreadful place in Paris to-day
and | am sorry to say every one goes there
even ministers and deacOns-is a dancin


hall, and scenes are enacted there that


Mohawk Indian would not tolerate in hi
kingdom, unless his braves were on the ev


of going into battle. Dancing adds moth


ing to our enjoyment. A dancing hall
as mischievous as a dram shop would be i


the vestibule of a church. | have see


men sit smiling in dancing hall, lookin
! at their wives in the embraces of other me
/ in the round dance, who would shoot tn
I couple if they assumed such attitudes i
| any other place. The world would sustai
f them in the shooting, too. 1t is disgrace


full for Christian women to dance. D0ncin
;. is not only foolish, but it is sinful"
Year: 1878

Four stories of love and marriage from
many lands; A well todo minister of faith
described as orthodox" loved young
lady in Shirley, Mass, who was already en-
gagged to a poor young man. To the poor
young man the well-to-do minister speedily
went, and made him an offer of 81 900 if he
would reGnquish his claim, pleading that
the young lady was not fitted to be poor
mans wife" not able," he said, "to with
stand the trials of life and dothe washing"
......A German who had not lived long in
London applied for divorce from his wife
and pleaded his case himself. The Judge
declined to accept his testimony as conclu-
sive, whereupon the petitioner hourished
in his hand " de Great Seal OBJ Germany"
But the case was dismissed, and he turned
upon his heel threatening that he would
complain to Prince Bismarck, and crying
out against "dis Won rascally England in
vich no ioostice Good pc had" ."......An ex-
cursion party went from Troy to Rockaway


Beach last Summer, and one of the young
ladies while bathing was carried out by the
undertow and seemed likely to drown,
when q young man rushed into the water
and saved her life. When they returned


to Troy he courted her, and they have just
been married. The story would be fresh
err one if they had not been......H err Bob
rem lived in Switzerland and married him a
wife. lie afterwards left both her and his
native land and came to this country. The


wife heard nothing from him until word
came that he was dead. She then married
Herr Zumbrunn. But few weeks ago


Herr Bohren returned and claimed her for


his wife. By the law of that country it was


not perfectly clear whether she was his wife


or Herr Zumbrunn's. Herr Zumbrunn re-


fused to give her up, and she refused to GO


A lawsuit was begun, but, while it was in


progress, Herr Bohren armed himself with


pistol and shot the second husband in the


arm and chest, wounding him seriously


Thus curious situation may arise. A civi


court is engaged in ascertaining to which
, of these two men this woman is legally


welded. and a criminal court will be occu
, pied with the trial of her first husband fol
the attempted murder of her second. Ir


the event of her being declared the wife o
Bohren, and if, as is likely enough, hC
should be condemned to imprisonment fo
, life, she will be in the unfortunate position


of having lost her second husband, anC
found. her first only to lose him, and with
out possibility of marrying another so loni


as the latter may live.