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Year: 1877

About fortnight since there ended
strike of the shipbuilding trades upon the
Clyde after duration Of six months. Ten
thousand workmen during the greater part
Of that time remained unemployed, losing,
on the lowest estimate in wages alone, from
$3.50, 900 to $40O, ,OOO What the master ship
builders lost we are not informed, but,
apart from the loss OF interest on their
sunken capital, there is story, welcome
enough to us, that they have been losing
trade which has come to America. Here,
then, is a case for capital and labor in this
country to study with advantage. The
struggle in theshipyards along the Clyde had
been SO bitter and its tension so severe that
both sides were glad in the end to approach
q settlement of their differences in a sobered
frame Of mind. The proposition for set
tlement came from one of the largest GUS
toners OF the shipbuilders, showing that
while the labor and capital directly involved
in the dispute might continue to fritter
away their forces in losing battle for both
there were other interests which could not
stand by without an effort to bring it to an
end.


A marked increase in the shipbuilding
business in the beginning of the present
year was seized by the men as good ground
for demanding increased wages. This was
but were again refused, and early in April two
thousand shipwrights 'struck." The other
trades continued at work, but six weeks later
the masters decided on retaliation by gen.
eral "lockout," and ten thousand men We're
discharged. For three months the vast in
dustry of the Clyde was absolutely sus-
pended not sound Of labor was heard in
the shipyards. The process of exhaustion
was in progress. At length, toward the
close Of August, the masters accepted the
principle of arbitration, and some Of the
men went back to work Professionally at the
old rates, the shipwrights and iron workers
holding out seven weeks longer, but at
length yielding to proposal, which seems
so fair that it is painful to think SO much
time and money should have been wasted
on both sides before arriving at it. Each side
is to name an arbitrator and the two arbi-
traitors may select an umpire. They may hear
evidence where information is necessary.
Their decision is to be binding, and in case
IN increase of wages is declared just the
award is to be retrospective, going back to
the time Of the mems return to work. The
questions submitted to the arbiters are
"Did the state Of trade on the Clyde at the
time Of the strike warrant or does it now
warrant, the Clyde shipwrights in seeking
an advance of wages? If SO, what ad-
vance?' After our painful experience here
during the railway strikes We may well
watch with interest the progress Of 30 inn
portant step in the adjustment Of the two
great industrial forces, and hail with pleas
ure everything tending to seasonable set
tlement by nm intellectual process Of troubles
which IRE at present left to the crude and
often brutal remedies which labor and capi-
tal alternately apply.
Year: 1877

The chief interest in the Ohio election,
except within the State ITSELF hinges on the
question whether President Hayes is TO be
indorsed by his own State. The President
and Secretary Sherman naturally feel great
deal Of solicitude on this point, rs do also
Mr.. Conkling, Mr.. Blaine, General Butler
and the dissatisfied republicans whose SEN
timents have been expressed with more plain
ness by Benjamin Wade than by any other
republican opponent Of the policy OF the
admin istration. If Mr.. Hayes loses his own
State in the first election which takes place
after his Inauguration Messrs. Conkling
and Blaine will attempt to turn the
loss against him by holding it up
as o proof that his policy is weak
ening his own party even in that part
Of the country where he is held in greatest
republicans should carry Ohio to-day by
fair majority, the republican opposition to
the new policy will be discouraged and mat
ters will 60 smoothly enough for the Presi-
dent during the extra session of Congress
which is to begin next week. In the only





that of Maine, the republicans are so strong
that they were in no danger OF losing the
State, and even had the parties been more
evenly balanced Mr.. Blaine would have de-
sired success as means of maintaining his
own influence. But republicans Of Mr..
Blaine's way of thinking in oil parts
Of the country would not be sorry to
witness republican defeat in Ohio,
which they could use to embar-
tass the President and discredit his
policy. But all his supporters desire re-
publican success in Ohio. Mr.. Hayes car
ried the State in 1875 when he was elected
Governor, and again by an increased ma
jority in 1876, when he was running tor the
Presidency, and the prestige Of his great
position would have made third victory
easy if his policy mad not caused differences
in his own party. He may think himself
fortunate if the party barely escapes defeat
now, or even if it should elect the Governor
and lose the Legislature, since an equivocal
success would be better than sheer defeat.


The prospect in Ohio is SO very doubtful
that nobody can predict the result. That
the supporters Of Mr. Hayes ore anxious
and alarmed is proved by the fact that the
Ohio clerks in Washington have been sent
home to vote which seems ridiculous
enough, in view of the fact that fifty thou
sand republicans in that State who reside
within their polling precincts will not take
the trouble to vote. Neither Mr. West, the
republican candidate for Governor, nor Mr..
Bishop, the democratic candidate, has ex-
cited any enthusiasm in the canvass. The
supporters Of either would gladly sell him
out tor majority of the Legislature The
Ohio Legislature serves two years, and that
chosen to-day will elect United States
Senator to succeed Stanley Matthews. The
republican majority in the Senate has be-
come so very slender that the election of
every new Senator has become matter of
national interest.
Year: 1877

THERE WILL BE a CHARTER ELECTION in New
ark, N. j.. to-day and from the fact that it is the
home of two republican members Of the Eec-
toral Commission an effort il made to give the
contest an intensely bitter partisan turn. II the
property owners of Newark are wise they will
vote for the best men. irrespective of considera-
fions OF this character
Year: 1877

THE SALE OF SEATS for the Edwin Adams
benefit was very great success, and the rare
compliment it carries with it will be all the more
valued by the recipient because the good work
is mainly the tribute of his own professional
brethren. One and all they have played a truly
noble part
Year: 1877

WHAT ARE THE Police COMMISSIONERS going
to do in the of Mink, the brutal police officer
The evidence was so strong against him that he
has been held for trial. In justice to the re
spectacle officers ON the force the Commissioners
should promptly dismiss men like Mink.
Year: 1877

ALL THE HORRIBLE THEORIES about the
Patent Office have been exploded by the official
report. 1t was entirely accidental, with the ele-
rnent Of gross carelessness on the part of some
body not named.
Year: 1877

In SOUTH CARoIINA's Ring days there was
sliding scale in corruption The evidence in the
cases Of Smalls and Maxwell shows that Con-
gressmans vote was worth five thousand dollars
and State Senator's one-fith of that amount
Year: 1877

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock market
was very active and showed at times consider
able strength. Gold was steady all day at
1O212. Government bonds were firm, States
steady and railroads strong. Money on coll was
active at g q z per cent.
Year: 1877

Boston Has MADE its contribution to the
forgers roll. Her model citizen was in the habit
OF forging the names of his friends OH promis-
sorry notes and raising money them in the
banks.
Year: 1877

LOCAL OPTION. "A petition will be
presented to the Legislature next
week of which the following is the
principal clause:


To repeal the present License Law
and enact a Local Option Law with
a civil damage clause, thereby Civ
ing to each coanty, city. town or
precinct, of this Territory, the right
by vote of the people to permit or
prohibit the sale of intoxicating IL
quors within its limits, an2 holding
each liquor seller and the building
occupied IN the traffic liable for all
damages resulting from such sale of
Intoxicating drinks.
Year: 1877

WHITE SLAvEs.-The woolen
mills at Racine, Wis, seem to be
attracting considerable attention
just now. On Thursday last
Miss Ella Fahey was working
there, and fell in paralytic tit
witch caused her death in about
three hours. On Friday two
girls, aged about sixteen years,
tainted away while at work
Both girls were taken home, and
while under medical treatment
were soon out Of danger. 4 Wis
it to the factory revealed the
fact that the girls were over
worked and cannot stand it.
They begin work at 6:30 in the
morning, have thirty minutes in
which to eat q cold dinner, then
work until 6 P. NJ, at which time
they eat another cold lunch and
resume work, keeping 1t up until
nine O'Clock, making nearly IA
hours work each day. This,
coupled with the fact that they
frequently have to work in close,
hot rooms, is probably the cause
Of the two last fainting away
and the death of Miss Fahey
undoubtedly scared the girls and
made it worse for them. If the
mill is crowded with work so
they have to run extra time.
they ought to put on an extra
set of girls.
Year: 1877

The chronological Journal ad-
vises young men to be guided by
the shape of the chin in licking
out a wife. Inattention to this
rule is probably the reason why
80 many husbands are led by
the nose.-London Punch.
Year: 1877

The Sitting Bull Commission
is making all the speed 1t can
toward the present abode of his
savage majesty. 1t is to be
hoped that 1t will not be as rap
idly making tracks for home af-
ter the first conference.
Year: 1877

GOVERNOR Robinson of New York has
vetoed the bill authorizing the election
of women to school offices, and gives as
his reason, that there is no reason why
women, if they may be school directors
may not be supervisors. members of the
State Legislature, etc. and says, the bill
goes either too far, or not far enough
He implies that it is unconstitutional
to break over in one particular the law
in ragprd to his matte :, but does not
ssy ne would not favor the elevation of
women to an equality with men. There
is no boubt as to the soundness of the
Governors logic. The qualifications to
hold Office are first, that the party be a
voter, and to admit class OF our people
to the higher privileges of citizenship,
without investing them with the minor
right to vote is undoubtedly putting
the cart before the horse, and is q bad
example OF craftsmanship. The friends
Of women's rights must push the main
point in their question, and that is the
right to vote, and by the nece sity OF
the case, when this is gained, ali other
things will be added to them. If wo-
men are qualified to hold positions on
school boards, they are qualified to
vote.
Year: 1877

While he was gone he was taken
sick, and came home Immediately.
[ had q bout q pint of brandy in tho
house and l put some arsenic in it.
That night he drank it and the next
morning he was very sick. I did
not mean to kill him; I only wanted
Year: 1877

Let US consider a few of the many
ways in which we waste the stuff that
life is made Of 1t has been well said
that" the habit of looking on the bright
side of things is worth far more than a
thousand pounds year," and certainly
it is habit that must add many years
to the lives of those who acquire it.
Really, every fit of dependency and
every rage takes SO much out of us, that
any one who indulges in either without
a great struggle to prevent himself do
ing so should be characterized as little
less than-to use an American express
sion-"a fearful fool" How silly it
seems even to ourselves, after cooling, to
have acquired nervous headache and
to have become generally done up,
stamping round the room, and showing
other signs of foolish anger, because the
dinner was five minutes late, or because
some ones respect for us did not quite
rise to the high standard measured by
our egotism! AS if it were not far
more important that we should save our
vital energy, and not get into rage,
than that the dinner should be served
exactly to the moment.
Year: 1877

Just now missed from hall and stair
joyful treble that had grown
As dear to us as that grave tone
That tells the world by older care
And little footsteps on the floor
Were stayed. I.laid aside my pen,
Forgot my theme and listened-then
Stole softly to the library door.
No sight? no sound la moments freak
Of fancy filled my pulses through;
"If-no"-and yet that fancy drew
fathers blood from heart and cheek.
And then-I found himi There he lay,
Surprised by sleep, caught in the act.
The rosy Vandal who had sacked
His little town, and thought it play.
The shattered vase the broken jar;
A match still smoldering upon the floor
The inkstands purple pool of gore,
The chessmen scattered near and far.
Strewn leaves of albums lightly pressed
This wicked Baby Of the Woods;''
In fact, of half the household goods
This son and heir was seized-possessed.
Yet all in vain, for sleep had caught
The hand that reached, the feet that strayed
And fallen in that ambuscade
The victor was himself o'er wrought.
What though torn leaves and tattered book
Still testified his deep disgrace
1 stopped and kissed the inky face,
With its demure and caln outlook.
Then back stole, and half beguiled
My guilt, in trust that when my sleep
Should come, there might be One who'd keep
An equal mercy fer His child.


-H1rrey,s Moonzfna.
Year: 1877

Judge Paxton, of the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania, in recent decision
thus defended the liberty of will making:


The growing disposition of courts and
juries to set aside last will and testaments,
and to substitute in lieu thereof their
own notions as to what testator should
do with his property, is not commendable
No rights of the citizen is more valued
than the power to dispose of his property
by will. No right is more solemnly as
sured him by law. Nor does it depend
in any sense upon the iudicious exercise
of it. 1t rarely happens that man be-
queaths mis- estate to the entire satisfac-
ton of either his family or friends.
The law wisely secures equality of dis
tribution when man dies intestate.
But the very object of will is to pro-
duce inequality and to provide for the
wants of the testator's family; to
protect those who are helpless, to reward
those who have been affectionate, and to
punish those who have been disobedient.
1t is doubtless true that narrow preju-
dice sometimes interferes with the wis
dom of such arrangements. This is due
to the imperfections of our human nature.
1t must be remembered that in this
tountry mans prejudices are part OF
his liberty. Where man has
sufficient memory and understanding to
make will, and such instrument is not
che result of undue influence, but is the
uncontrolled act of his own mind, it i:
not to be set aside in Pennsylvania with.
out sufficient evidence, nor upon any
sentimental notions of equality,
Year: 1877

There BY the roadside stands the queer old house.
Deserted IL has been fer many years;
And when one enters first one has strange fears
OF what may be in.i ids. But not a mouse
Raises its tiny head or hides afraid
And the sole sound through the deep stiffness


heard
Is the shrln chipping Of a mother bird,
who right above the door her nest has made.
while through bare lonely rooms my way wend,
feel kind Of pity for the thing
Left thus alone, like TO some fallen king,
Deserted both by enemy and friend.
But life is short; so gently close the gate,
And leave the house 10 mercy and to fate.


81. Nicholas
Year: 1877

We are surprised to read in an ex-
change, says the Philadelphia Euening
Bulletin, that the corn of Mr.. Redman,
of Lycoming County, is seven feet high" :"
We pity Redman. We cannot imagine
how he gets his boots on over such corn
as that, nor can we conceive how he con-
trives to walk even when barefooted. 1t
is hardly likely, we should think, that
Redman himself is more than six feet
high, and if that is the case that solitary
corn of his must tower above his head. 1t
might be good thing to tie an umbrella
to, or he might carry fower-pot on his
foot and have ahoneysuckle climbing up
the corn and blossoming under his nose.
Of course Redman cannot enjoy himself
in wet weather. Those of us who have
ordinary corns know how intense is the
suffering they cause on damp days. Now
imagine seven feet of corn in one long
string, and an idea may be obtained O.
Redman's agony when the air is moist
He would be very valuable man in the
Signal Service Bureau. A man with g
seven-foot corn in Washington ought tt
detecta storm that is raging in Kansas.


BALTIMORE, to increase her water sup
ply, is making tunnel which is to b.


seven miles long and twelve feet in di
ameter. Five miles of rock have to b


drilled through in this great work.
Year: 1877




in France.


A Paris letter says: The authorities
of Soudan, near Chateaubriant, recently
desired to remove the rusty cock that
surmounted the church steeple. A slater
was engaged to do the job. He had gone
two-thirds of the way up, when, losing
his balance as he threw the rope that
enabled him to climb higher, he began
to slip down the lightning rod with fear
full rapidity. He was ninety feet from
the ground when he began to lose held.
He fell on the steeple's balustrade,
bounded on the church roof, rolled down
it, and fell on the ground. He got up
with no bones or skin broken, but so
bruised and jostled he could not think of
again attempting to climb the lightning
rod. Another slater took his place. The
second slater, after trying in vain for
an hour to pull himself up to the cock,
in making a more violent effort, broke
one of his stirrups or supports, and fell,
hanging head downward, one foot rest
ing in the stirrup which still held good.
He was hundred and twenty feet from
the ground when this accident happened.
He could be seen making desperate efforts
to recover hold of the knotted rope !;
arms and one leg made convulsive
gestures as he strove to release himself
from his painful and dangerous posi-
ton. To add to the horror of the
spectacle, the wind blew with great vio-
lence, and the poor fellow swayed to and
fro, and was at times in danger of being
dashed to pieces against the steeple. At
length his strength became exhausted,
and he fell into a swoon. From the
ground he seemed lifeless. A third
slater went to his assistance. Time and
again the third slater seemed on the
eve of success, but time and again the
body of the second slater fell with all its
weight, fearfully straining the rope, and
swaying in the air with dreadfulsoscilla-
tions. After striving for forty-fve min
utes the third slater was obliged to give
up in despair; his strength was COM
pletely exhausted. A fourth slater volun-
teered to attempt to rescue his comrade.
He climbed to the second slater, secured
a block and tackle, fastened rope
around the second slater's body, cut the
stirrup rope, and at last lowered the sec-
ond slater to the eground. The latter had
been three hours in the air, dangling by
one foot, head downward.
Year: 1877

WORCESTER Press The farmer who
thought to demoralize field of potato
bugs by planting rows of onions be-
tween the rows of potatoes is not
feeling as smart as he was. When he saw
the bugs crawl off the onion tops and
chew cardamom seeds for their breath
before attacking the next row of potato
vines he went into the woodshed and
gave way to his feelings.
Year: 1877

From the Van Buren Argus.l

 The extended statement made by the State Board of Finance, and originally published in the Little Rock Gazette on the 8tl, inst, is now fully before the people of the State. We would have been glad if the facts and figures contained in this statement had been laid before the people simultaneously with the conditional acceptance of the Adams and Redtield proposition. Had this been done, there would have been no controversy as to the actual amount of our indebtedness. While we are thankful for the information contain ed in the tables given us by the Board, we would have been much better satisfied if the statement had been confined to facts of this charac- ter, and had not been made--as it is -an earnest argument in favor oi proposition that is seriously oppos- ed by a majority of the taxpayers of the State. 1.-the argumentative DOT ton of the statement had been used by an advocate of the scaling plan, in an address to either house of the General Assembly, urging the adop- ton of the plan, it would have been exceedingly appropriate. The Fi- nance Board, however, being agents of the taxpayers of Arkansas, it occurs to us that it would have been better for them to have laid the plan before their principals in simple, short and concise manner, leaving them perfectly free to accept or re feet, upon statement of facts, alone, unaccompanied by argument and words of earnest solicitation. There is but one point in the statement to which we direct attention at this time. It will be borne in mind that
Year: 1877

Agree, for the law is costly. Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

 Curiosity about triflcs is a mark of a little mind.

 The great end of good education is to form reasonable man.

 No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

 The follies of youth become the vices of manhood and disgrace of old age.

 No wonder that egotists find the world so ugly. They only see thsm- selves in it.

 The world may make a man unfor- tunate, but not miserly; that is from himself.

 Truths supreme. revelations come in sorrow to individuals, and in'war to nations. Recreation Is not being idle, but easing the wearied part by change of business.
Year: 1877

out being confronted with penalties
that he is not anxious to seek. If
ne and his friends mean what of lat
they pretend, what need is there of
this great standing army with an
expenditure of more than fort,
millions Il year 7-Nep Torh iS,tn,
Year: 1877

IN an election for school trustees in
Denver, Colorado. votes were cast by
three hundred and twenty three women.
Only one was challenged, Miss of
eighteen, who knew she was old enough
to marry and thought she was old
enough to vote.
Year: 1877

A BUGo-LoGIsT in New York state has
discovered a new insect. and we think he
might have turned his attention to moro
profitable employment. We have insects
CROUCH in this country. When an editor
sits up on hot night writing by gas
light, with the windows of his room
open, he receives visits from four thou
sand different kinds of bugs and insects
in les than half an hour, and now this
New York fraud must go and discover a
new specimen to help to torment hirl
Year: 1877

CURosITIEs OF LIFE,-Lay your finger
on your pulse aud know at every stroke some
fellow being crosses the river of death and
il we think of it we may well wonder that
it should be so long before our turn comes
Half of all who live die before seventeen
years. Only one person in ten Thousand
lives to be a hundred years old, aud but one
in a hundred reaches sixty. The married
live longer than the single. There is one
soldier TO every eight persons, and out OF
every thousand born ninety-6ve weddings
take place.
Year: 1877

No man who is fit to live need fear to die.
Poor faithless souls that we are How we
shall smile at our vain alarms when the
worst has happened To US here death
the most terrible word we know. But when
we have tasted its reality, it will mean to
birth, deliverance, a new creation of our
selves. 1t will be what health is to the sick
man. 1t will be what home is to the exile.
1t will be what the loved one given back is
to the bereaved. As we draw near to it a
solemn gladness should fill our hearts. 1t is
Gods great morning lighting up the sky,
Our fears are the terror of children in the
night. The night, with its terrors, its dark
ness, its feverish dreams is passing away
and when we awake it will be into Gods
sunlight.