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Year: 1878

A few days ago Chinaman obtain
ed a permit to disinter the bodies of
some of his countrymen, buried in


Laurel Hill Cemetary, for expectation


to China. Accompanied by Mr.. Nc


Donald, the officer appointed by the
Board of Health to supervise disinter-
ments, he went to the cemetary and
the work of disinterment began. The
first coffin opened was found to con-
tain the petrified remains of China
man, who died and was buried some
five years ago. The next coffin con-
tanned the remains in perfect state of
preservation, which had reposed in the
grave more than four years. A por-
ton of the clothing which usually en-
velops the body of deceased China
man was mouldy and decayed, but the
remains appeared as fresh as at the
time of death. The body was raised
to the surface and close inspection
made of it. 1t showed no signs OF de-
cay, even the queue, eyebrows and
eyelashes. Upon pressing the skin
with hatchet it readily yielded, and
the indentions shortly afterward dis
appeared. What is more surprising,
the neck was found to be supple, and
the head could be moved from side to
side. Another strange circumstance
was the entire absence of any unpleas-
ant oder arising from the body. Sew
eral visitors to the cemetary viewed
the remains, and some made careful
examination thereof. The body was
reintered with the hope by the Chi
nese bone exporter that the next time
it is brought to the surface the super
auous flesh will have disappeared.
The ground where the interments
were made is sandy, and is moistened
by springs. A short distance from
the two graves mentioned another
coffin, which was deposited some four
Or five years ago, was opened and
nothing remained of the contents but
a floshless skeleton. A we'll inform
ed Chinaman of this city says that
similar case of preservation without
was discovered in the
same cemetary a few years ago, under
similar circumstances. The body was
brought to the city with the expecta-
ton that it would decay by exposure
to air; but afler keeping it year
without any noticeable change, it was
to await the effect OF time.
These coffins are of cheap make, and
by no means air-tight.
Year: 1878

A GIRL in st, Joseph, Mo-, went to .
dug store to buy srsenic.with which
to kill herself. The clerk happened
to know that she had qusrrellsd with
her lover, and he guessed her purpose.
He gave her corn starch instead of ar
senic, and hurried out to tell her lover.
The lover repented having grieved tho
girl, went to her house, found her ly-
ing on a sofa waiting in vain to die Of
a dose of corn starch, and made up
with her. } ti'
Year: 1878

ANY gOOO milo uaVOfeO apple can


be converted into an excellent bcyer-
age. To make O choice article the
apples should be ripe and sound, free
from stems and leaves, and when
ground the pomace should lie in the
vat from eighteen to twenty-four
hours. This gives good body, rich
ness, color and flavor to the cider that
cannot be obtained when Immediately
under the press. AS it goes into the
cask, do not use straw in wooden
funnel to separate the sediment or
pomace from the juice, but strain the
sweet cider through flannel, which
will separate almost all the sediment,
which must be worked out at the bung
or otherwise removed, for it is main
ly this sediment that sours the cider
and makes it 'hard.' That which man
neglects to do, nature strives to assist.
After it has been filtered, fill clean,
well hooped casks, and put them in q
dark, cool cellar. Take out the bung
and keep the cask full i; let it work,
half the usual time, then bung tight
and let it stand few days. Then
draw Off the cider from the sediment
which lies in the bottom of the cask.
Ii you desire Il drink Of extra fine, re-
turn the cider after the cask has been
we'll washed out, let it remain a few
days, then repeat the process, and at
ter the sediment has the second time
been removed, fill up the barrel and
cork up tight. The cider in this con-
ditiOn will keep one year. Or, to
convert 1T into sparkling drink, good
champagne cider, or wine cider, bot
tie it up with good corks in common
bottles as soon as the second draught is
made. and expose it to the light and
air as little as possible if you wish to
retain the gases and life of the article.
Add one good raisin to each bottle and
drink at your leisure. This makes a
pleasant, exhilerating drink. One
quart should be used sparingly for sew
eral meals. 1t should be used only at
meal time, then it is taken up and dis
seminated with the food, and is very
healthful and Strengthening as bev-
erage and antidote for dyspepsia and
jaundlce, When cider is drawn from
the cask, some leave q vent, this lets
out the gases and destroys the life of
the cider, so does the mixing up of
mustard seeds in barrel, the cider
becomes so weak and insipid that it


will not change into vinegar. The life
principles are destroyed. Other nos


trums should be avoided, such as some
use to keep the cider plain and sweet.
Bottled cider should lie on the earth
in dark cellar, until wanted for use.
Year: 1878

In faith. it becomes your immediate duty to
subscribe for this, the first publication of the
kind west of the Mississippi, for the extremely
low subscription price brings it within the
reach of all, while it makes necessary large
subscrlotion list in order to meet expenses,
Year: 1878

THERE are many men and women who
are i'll from want of brains. They suffer
voluntary decline because they do not
possess the brain power that can offer the
blood any inducement to circulate. The
blood does not want to be rushing about
when there is nothing going on in the man
or woman that owns tho blood. Why
should the heart or lungs be toling all
day and all night when the person who
owns these machines has no use for any
new stock Of tissues or blood Pluck is
a wonderful agent in throwing off dis
ease. A walk of five miles would cure
many an occupant of the lounge. Will
power will surpass pill power in nine
cases out of ten. To hold q bottle of
smelling salts in the hand on account of a
headache is just the thing at times, but to
fling pound of fruit cake out into the
alley, and then walk furlong as a re-
ward for not eating the compound is near
ly always much better thing.
Year: 1878

MIND Your P's.-PersoGs who pat
ronize papers should pay promptly, for
the pecuniary prospects of the press have
a peculiar power in pushing forward pub
lie prosperity. If the printer is paid
promptly, and his pocket book kept Pile.
thoric by prompt paying patrons, he puts
his pen to the paper in peace, his para
graphs are more pointed, he prints his
pictures OF passing events in more pleas
ant coors and the perusai Of his paper is
of more pleasure to his people. Paste
this piece of prov erbial philosophy in
some place where all persons can perceive
it.-E1.
Year: 1878

DOMINION people have just learned that
"Major De Winton, the splendid artillery
officer who was lately in Turkey as second
military attache, and formerly chief aide-de-
camp to Sir Fenwick Williams at Gibraltar.
has received the marquis offer of Colonial
Secretaryship of Canada" The Liverpool
Daily Ne,os which gives this Intelligence.
credits the Marquis of Lorne for shaving at
any rate done well in making this appoint
ment." and adds: sit is not too much to saw
that wiser and better appointment could
not have been made. Few men in the
British army have so unsullied reputation
and so wide capacity as Major De Winton."
Year: 1878

WHEN the tide of contributions for the re-
lief OF the yellow-fever suffers began to slack
en-, it was hoped that the cold weather would
come before the disease had outrun the
means OF succor. This expectation, unhap
PLY, has not been met, and new cases are
found every day, and the weather continues
not and oppressive. In fact the demand for
assistance is now as general as at first, if not
SO pressing or so great.
Year: 1878

JOB PRINTING.-We will be unable to
attend to orders for job printing until after
the close of epidemic We bave only three
printers in the Office, and the bindery has
been closed for six weeks, Our patrons will
of course appreciate 1.-The situation"
Year: 1878

As MIGHT have been expected, the New
York Nationals in convention assembled,
at Syracuse, began their deliberations with
a quarrel, which resulted in split and the
secession of a considerable number of dele
gates, who organized an opposition con-
vention. This division in their ranks was
due to the absence of distinctive purpose in
the organization. They met, they knew
not why, but simply inspired by discon-
tented feeling toward the two rcgnant po-
ltical parties of the country. They had
much difficulty in reaching Syracuse, for
the majority of them were so poor in this
worlds goods as not to be able to pay car
fare, and subscriptions were raised in New
York to help them of. How they will get
away when their so-called deliberations shall
have ended is question closely connected
with the subject of the increase of tramps
in that section of the country.
Year: 1878

GENERAL Ben BUTLER was very busy
along about June 30 ultimo-the expiration
of the fiscal year-throwing mud at persons
and things in general; 50 busy, in fact, that
he had not the time to cut the coupons of
his bonds which were then due. The recess
of the POTTER Committee since then has
enabled him to cut the most of them of and
also to get his yacht America out of the
Government navy-yard, where she has been
laid up for repairs since last summer lie
is now in excellent trim for renewed work
in his congcnial mud-throwing line. poT'
TER turns the crank of the Perjury Mill and
BUTLER slings the mud plowed up by the
investigation dredging 1t will be {
miracle If some of this perjury or mud does
not stick to the hands Of these distinguished
operators.
Year: 1878

1GNATIUs DONNELLY, of Minnesota, Is
coming to the surface again. Like a bubble
Of foul air in a pool of filthy water, he
blOnts himself into prominence whenever a
political campaign impends, and then ex.
plodes in unfragrant gas. The Democrats
Of the second district in that State have re.
fused to nominate him for Congress, and
now he is running for the nomination in
the st. Paul district, to be candidate
against his old enemy, cx-Congressmar
WAsHBrRN. He will probably take it out
in running
Year: 1878

THE Baltimore Gazette, in lapse of
political sobriety, blundered into an un-
favorable criticism upon the speech of
President DAVIS few days ago. Ever
since then tho editor has been called upon
to explain that his criticism was simply in
the political capital the Republicans are
making In the North out Of that speech.
But this does not satisfy his rebel-sympa-
thizing readers. They haul him over the
Goals for abusing their typical patriot,
and he replies by quoting from Northern
journals to show that his accidental posi-
tion is sustained by practical results In
great agony Of spirit, and useless endeavor
to appease his complaining readers, he
says:


from this irritation that we have counseled
Mr.. DAVIS to occupy grand and enviable
position on the high, back seats. For doing
this some able people would have us drawn.
and quartered as an enemy Of the South.


That's it, exactly. Even the Copperhead
utterances of the Gazette are not bitter
enough to satisfy the reasonable cravings
of the average Southern fire-eater for adula-
tion of the Lost Cause and its heroes. If the
Gazette would hoist the name of JEFF
DAVIS at Its masthead rs its candidate fol
President in 1880, its present troubles
would come TO an end. There is enough
Doughface, mud-sill sycophancy about it te
accept this suggestion and act upon it
FTz-JoHS PORTER would appropriately
find place at the tail of the ticket.
Year: 1878

We shall soon find out whether the pow
ers of this Government are in patriotic and
faithful hands, which will vindicate its dig.
nifty and the laws at all hazards, or If State
Rights are to run riot without prompt and
salutary check. The hour of trial is upon
us. South Carolina is defiant and threaten.
ing. If the Government attempts to enforce
the revenue laws and punish offenders
against them, a collision Is imminent. II
will not, under the circumstances, take long
to find whether the Federal power, as now
organized, is made of wood or steel.
Year: 1878

WE are not specially ambitious of having
our articles copied into the Louisville
Courier-Journdi, but when so copied, we
prefer that they should not be credited to
the Post, unless that paper needs such boost
to its reputation.
Year: 1878

offering to prove that there was no false pre-
tence of intimidation upon which conspiracy
could possibly have been based. lie offers 10
prove that the charges of violence upon which
the vote of the Feliciana parishes was thrown
out were strictly true. This goes right to the
root of the case. If the protests were founded
on truth, there was no conspiracy, ana the
whole theory of fraud falls to the ground.


But the Potter Committee coolly replies that
it has determined "nOt to go into that sub
"ject.n 1t takes the very essence of the ques-
ton for granted. 1t hos the monumental
assurance to accept in advance, as already
proved, the disputed allegations upon which
the entire charge OF conspiracy hinges. IL Is
easy enough to understand why the Demo-
cratic leaders should be unwilling to enter
into an investigation of the management OF
Democratic victories in Louisiana we may
even admit that there are obvious reasons
why the revival of the nterminabe dispute
about the fairness of elections in that h0t-bed
of violence and crime should be distasteful
TO all parties; but the Democratic instl-
gators of this inquiry have brought the
trouble upon themselves, and it is not
for them to draw back from the conse-
quences. They have revived the dispute, not
We, and they shall not plead the WEAKNESS OF
the public the intricacy of the issues, or the
dubious character of the witnesses as an ex-
cuse for declining to make the investigation
they have invited, and for assuming instead
that the truth is just as they would like to
have it, That is a little too much.


But if the impudence of their declining to
/" 90 into the question of intimidation at Mr..
Sherman's demand IS astonishing, what shall
we think of their proceeding almost in the
same breath to pile up the evidence of pro-
fessional liars on their own side touching
the very subject which they refuse
to let the other side considerf The
testimony of Anderson, the testimony
of Webber, the testimony of :several OF
the Democratic witnesses before the sub-com-
mittee at ew-Orleans, has been directed to
show that the stories of intimidation were
fictitious. These precious perjurers have even
been allowed to repeat hearsay evidence
and common rumOr and to swear to their IN
ferences and guesses, and to speculate on
oath as to the causes and consequences OF
certain acts. But the moment a witness at
tempts to show that there iDGS intimidation
IN the Felciana parishes, the committee turns
him out of the TOom saying I'VE are not
going into that question" Mr. Sherman Is
right in calling such an investigation trav-
esty and burlesque of justice 1t is one OF the
most outrageous exhibitions of partisan ras-
cality our country has witnessed, and 1t Will
recOil with crushing force upon the heads OF
its authors.
Year: 1878

California is the land OF sudden grOwths
For year past it has been menaced by the
dark uprising of a new force in polltlcs-a
destroying force which threatened to subvert
society and Overwhelm capital with lawless-
ness i'm the name of labor. 1t Is hard 10
realize this here in New-York, where the
Communist movement, or so much OF 1t
as is visible, seems to be devised mainly
to promote the sale of beer, where the
orators of the saloon talk maudlin So
cialsm instead of practical incendlarism,
and where they take up collections for
martyrs to the cause by general assessment
of the price of two drinks. But in the State
where men have risen most easily from the
ranks of labor, the woTkingmen have been
led into a ferOciOus agitation against the
rights of property. 1t even came near captur-
ing the convention which is to remodel the
fundamental law of the State. Its failure to
do so was as much of a surprise to its oppo-
nents as to itself, and was all that saved the
State, in all probability, from armed conflict
and possible bloodshed.


Two men led in this agitation, whom an
acute observer, experienced in the study Of
social and political phenomena in many lands,
depicts on another page in striking cOlors-
Kearney and Wellock. These two apos-
ties of the new gospel of destruction
make curious picture-Kearney with his
fclon's face and filthy Language, his rude elo-
quence and atrocious profanity; and Nellock
with his sleek demeanOr, his lnvariable Scrip
ture text, his plOus arguments that the ami
hilation Of capitalists would be pleasing to
God and that banks take hold on hell! 1t Is
said that these unscrupuOus agtatOrs are COM
ing East to preach their doctrines in new
field. Let them come by all means. We shall
see whether workingmen in the more Ameri-
can regions of America can be led away by
such hypocrisy and transparent fraud.
Year: 1878

MR.. BOUTWELL, on THE LABOR QUESTION.


The address of the Hon. George II. Bout
well at Worcester tells in plain and sensi-
bic manner some old truths which the labor
agltatoIs have still to learn. Hard times al
ways bring complaints of the tyranny of cap
ital and machinery, and the only remedy
which occurs to the ignorant workingman is
TO limit the productiveness of labor in order
TO raise its price. But reason and experience
alike make 1t plain that this only aggrayates
the disorder, and that the true cure is
to be found in the very contrary pro-
cess. General prosperity always increases
in direct ratio with the prOductiyeness
of industry. All labOr-saving inventions
have resulted. after n very brief period of
disturbance and readjustment. in greater de-
mand for labor, higher wages, cheaper living,
n marked improvement in the condition of the
laboring elasses and a more general diffusion
of wealth. There is n constant rivalry in
trade and manufactures between the various
countries of the world Our prosperity, the
good fortune of all the industrial classes in
America, must be measured by our success in
this international competition.


The special lesson which Mr. Boutwell,
wishes to enforce by these principles is the
necessity for a more extensive technical edu-
cation at the cost of the state. But another
and just now more useful lesson to be drawn
from them is the folly of the attacks which
ill.informed iabOring men are making upon
the very sources of their own well-being. The
aim of all such assaults is TO create an artif-
cial scarcity of the products Of labor, in the
wild notion that a country is most prosperous
when it is most destitute
Year: 1878

Now that dog-steaing has got into politics, in
consequence of an unfortunate misunderstanding
about a missing dog between brother of the Hon.
James O'Bren and q gentleman named Callaghan,
who for aught that the police records show, may
be either an official dog-catoher private gentle
man, is it too much to hope that the morality
and common-sense Of the present dOg-laws may
receive a little mature consideration In parox-
ysm of fright over q few dubious cases of hydro
phoba the Common Council passed slaughtering
ordinance ingeniOusly devised so as not to accom-
pllsh its purpose since il is confined III its operation
TO those dogs who least likely to go mad and to
that season Of the year when hydrophobia, rare at
any time, is least common The disease most
frequently attacks not the homeless cur of the
streets, but the pet of the household and our City
Fathers have consequently enacted that no pet dog
shall go abroad without human being attached to
him by leader not more than four feet long, 30
that in case of an attack victim may be handy
But IL the ordinance has had effect upon hydro
phoba, it seems TO have very decided effect upon
the morals Of public ife Dog-stealing has become
an official career. Gentlemen who decide upon this
line of larceny are duly commissioned by the Mayor
and furnished with q badge ThereupOn they snap
up stray animals In the street; they snatch the
tender puppy from the arms of its mis-
tress as she takes the evening air on the
front stoop; they stand Mt the area gate with rag
of meat, and. like over-zealnus detectives. tempt
unwary animals to come out and violate the law ;
and often they force their way into private houses
and carry of innocent dogs ri ct armis And then
take them to the pound do you say, to be ransomed
by the owners at a charge Of $3i Oh, no. The Of
fetal dOg-thief knows better than that. 1--WE never
get dog that is worth anything" said one of the
pound-keepers the other day. "All animals ofhreed
are sold to the dealers and they bring nothing but
the refuse that wont fetch thirty cents a head any
where else" Really this is yerS pretty business
10 be established by tho Common Council.


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-. -. Af,ooo1h 49,, ~ ao.xnA
Year: 1878

term which will long be remembered for It's severity
The range of the thermometer was not 80 ligh as IL
has been in some former years; but the long coh-
tinuance of the heat and, during tho last TWO OF
three days the remarkable oppressiyeness OF the
atmosphere have made the affection hard indeed
TO bear. Outside the close streets with their burn
ing bricks and stones there has been reliei Ior
those who had the leisure to seek it, The breeze at
times has blown strong from the sea, DrlnRlhg
health and vigor; but it was only mt great eieVa-
tions above the pavement as in the upper floors OF
The TRIBUNE building orinstance, that THESE ireS
and liferiying winds could be felt they were all
LOST in the scorching city, The erratIe thunder
showers Yesterday afternoon had moro effect upon
the temperature than the rains of the evening be-
FORE and as we write there is the cheering prospect
of a cool night to refresh the million of weary DIS
heartened and feverish peOple who have been suner
ing IN the metropolitan furnace.


Mr. Indian Commissioner Hayt came promptly
to the front few days ago i'll card indlg-
nantly denouncing "puerile and mall
cious" the statement that he had failed
to avail himself of his option, under an
existing contract. to take beef for the Red Cloud
and Spotted Tail Indian Agencies at 81 90 per
hundred that, instead, he made new
contract for the remainder of the current





then proceeded to make contract for the next year.
for the same agencies, at 50 SO and 2 80. The con-
undrum which the people who bad been taught that
Commissioner Hayt was to introduce absolute purity
and straightforward business management into
the department. where hitherto the Indian rings
had full sway were now bothered over was this
Why shoud the Commissioner insist on paying $3 20
for beef, which he had contract for at 81 80. and
which he found he could get a new con-
tract for at So So To that conundrum
Mr.. Hayr has offered reply. His
letter in roundabout way admitted the facts, and
in very direct way called them "puerile and ma
licious" The public hardly takes that view OF
them. We respectfully submit that it is quite time
he should write another card.


Is there any good reason why the people on Muir
ray Hill should pay the most of the CrOtOn water
tax aud get the least of the CrotOn water There
is an abundant supply in the reservoir
and everybody is assured that there is
not the least danger of any scarcity this
Summer. Yet over large portion Of the
Hill it is now impossible to get water above
the second story-in some portions lmpos-
sible to get it even there excepting early
in the morning or late at night. Some years
ago the residents of this section demonstrated
so vigorously that some mains were laid
for their special benefit, and people were as
tonished at the sudden and sometimes for
chile appearance of water in their fourth
stories. The ardOr of that irst gush has long since
passed away, and is evidently not TO be renewed,
unless under the stimulus Of complaints as loud and
long as before
Year: 1878

The firm stand of the Michigan Republicans
for honest money has compelled the Demo-
Gratis of that State to take an almost equally
sound position. The spectacle of two rival
parties IN Western State agreeing that tie
money of the Constitution is gold and silver,
and that all notes should be convertible into
coin at par, is calculated to cheer up the dog
days