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Year: 1878

The following spicy article, from the Fair
field, Maine, Chronicle, is applicable to other
attitudes than that Tor which It was written.
and it Is matter for regret that no denomina-
ton can claim monopoly OF the business:


He was the manager Of church fair, and
one morning he walked into the newspaper Of
flee and said


Want an item this morning?'


"Of course, replied the editor Whereupon
the visitor laid the following note upon the
table:


" TIE ladies os the - Street Church will
give festival at their vestry next Friday even
ing. Literary aud musical entertainments will
be provided and supper Will be served to ali
who desire. The ladies IN caarge of the affair
have much experience in such matters and are
sure to provide good time. The admission
will be only fifteen cents. and it is certain that
no one can spend that amount to better ad-
vantage. BE sure to so and take your friends.


When the editor had read 1t. be said


"Oh, I see, an advertisement


"No; not an advertisement. We prefer TO
have it go in the local column" replied The
manager.


And seeing that the editor looked skeptIcal
he continued


Il will interest great many OF Jour read
ers, and help good cause; besides. we bave
spent so much money getting up our entertain
meDt that we can't afford to advertise it with
out increasing the price Of tue tickets. In such
matter as thus we ought 10 be Wiling TO help
each other"


"Weu," said the editor, "if it goes into the
locals suppose you would reciproca;e by read
ing q little notice in your church next Sunday"


The visiting brother asked what notice, and
the editor wrote and handed HIM the following:


The Weekly Chronicle fer the coming year
Will be the best aud cheapest family paper III
Maine. Its proprietor has had much expert
ence and has all the helps which large outlay
OF money can procure. His paper has larger
circulation than any other published in the
country, and is TO be furnished at only So Ii
is certain that no one can spend that amount
to better advantage. BE sure TO take the
Chrontce, and subscribe for your friends"


The manager hemmed and hestated, aud
then said solemnly, that he doubted whether IL
would be iudicious to read such notice but
suggested that if 1t was printed, copies Of Il
might be distributed at the door Of the yestry
on the evening OF the entertainment.


" Yes, " said the editor. but II would attract
more attention In the middle Of sermon ID
will interest large number Of your congrega-
tion and help good cause; and besides, 20
much money is spent upon the Chronicle that
l don't see how the owner can afford 10 PRINT
hand-bllls to advertise it without increasing tie
subscription price. In such matter as tins
we ought to be willing to help each other"


Then the gentleman saw the situation
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, Sept.6.-Comptroller of
the Currency, Knox, is about to issue
blank forms TO cashiers of banks though
out the country, for them to fill, that he
may be able to give Congress in his report,
the amount of all taxes paid by banks to
to State, county, city, town or other mum
icipal authorities for II, together with
other and similar statistics.


A circular of instructions has been is
sued by the Commissioner of the General
Land Office under the recent decisions of
the Secretary of the Interior in the Dudy-
mott case, and is addressed to the Register
and Receiver of the United States District
Land Office. The Commissioner in
structions apply only to land granted by
the act of July !. 1862, as amended by the
act of July 2, 1868, aud the act of March
3, 1869, authorizing the transfer of part of
the grant to the Union Pacific Railway
Company, where any persons shall apply


to file presumption declaratory state
| ment fer tract or tracts not exceeding q
quarter section, within limits of such
grant aud where the entire road shall have
been completed for more than three years,
| Such applicant will be required to show
that he or she is duly qualified as q pre-
empter. Thereupop a declaratory state
ment : will be con1itionally receiYsd
and proper note thereof made. You
/ will immediately thereafter call upon the


proper officers of the r. R.Co., for a.state-


ment showing whether the land applied
for has been sold by it prior to the date oi
application and file declatory statement
therefor. If the company shall report
that the land had been sold the report


must show the date of such sale and the


name of the person or persons to whom


sold and give description of the deed or


instrument of conveyance. On receipt oi


such report you will reject the application
to file declatory statement. subject to ap-
peal to this Office If the company shall
state that the land had not been so sold
you will file the declatory statement and
i upon the applicant showing at the proper
j time full compliance with the require,


ments of pre-emptiou laws. permit pay


meDt of entry at $1.25 per acre.


following is list Of the companies thos.
Year: 1878

THE DEMOCRATIC MEETING last night |
in the Grand Opera House was largely
attended, and the speeches Of Messrs.
salisbury and Martin well received
Senator Salisbury being the orator of
the evening, consumed most of the time


and discussed most of the questions that


engage the attention of the people
at this time. He made very able and
we'll digested address. The Senator's
manner, always earnest and sincere, can
did and decisive, seemed to be rather
more so on this occasion than usual. He
is certainly right in this. His constitu-
ents have right to know the opinions of
their representatives, and a man cannot
be strictly honest and withhold his
opinions and take the stump in politi-
cal campaign. 1t would be difficult, we
think, for Democrat to find fault with
Senator Saulsbury's position last night
He certainly occupied strong and conser
vative ground on all the questions he re
lcllth W. oul pcOlIlc VI Oil tidooco Ildl
well repose confidence in what he said
The Senator's objection to the extraya
gance of the Republican party were wei
taken. Had not the enormous sums O
money that have been taxed from TIN
pockets Of the people by the Republican
party in the last seventeen year
been wasted and squandered, and bee
applied to the uses of government in


skillful and economical way, the publ
debt would not have been half so large
and the army and navy both been i


better condition.


Col. Martins speech was also well n
ceived. But the Colonel omitted entirel
to tell his hearers whether he was in f;
vor or opposed to a reduction of TIL


standing army. This is very impo


tant matter, and as we know the d,
mocracy of Delaware are opposed to til
army as it is now constituted, and in fl
vor of reduction to very considerabl
extent, the omission to refer to this ma
Year: 1878

THE GENERAL Ell 4EcTIoN takes place
this day week. Every Democratic voter
should bear this in mind and remember
too that the polls open between eight and
nine o'clock a. m, and close at fire o.
clock D. III. In former years they did not
open so early in the day. 1t would be
well for voters to look up their tax re-
ceipts, and to conclude to vote in the
morning. Voting is duty which every
man, who is a Democrat in principle and
in favor of republican institutions, owes
to his community. It is no light matter.
He who does not vote cannot claim TO be
patriotic citizen.
Year: 1878

ter will at once attract attention. TWAS
the more necessary since the PLATFORM OF
the party made no reference to II what
ever. Representatives who pursue a.
course hostile to the people, are not the
men to represent an intelligent Democra-
CIV. Col. Martin had it in his power to
satisfy his hearers on this important ques-
ton of difference, that destroyed the har-
mony of the Democrats in the House at
the last session. We regret that he did
not avail himself of this opportunity and
declare at once that he was in favor OF
a reduction of the army, and Of the navy
also. He is quite a forcible speaker and
although apparently little timid, Will,
if he plants himself square on the Demo
cratic side in favor of Retrenchment and
Reform, be able to represent the State in
the House in an ADLER manner than 1t has
been for some time. But to be able and
useful he must be open, fair and square
on all questions of expenditure on the side
of the people and a reduction of expen-
ditures. On the tariff, subsidies and the
smoney question:" Col. Martin appeared
TO be in accord with Senator Salisbury.
He will be elected by a large majority.
He has, to use his own language last
night, "no opposition !" or, none that he
may fear.


John W. Hall, Esq, the next Cover
nor of Delaware, was very cordially
greeted by the people He is one OF the
most active and energetic business men
of the State, and although not accustom-
ed to public speaking is well posted on
all political subjects, and scarcely ever


found to be on the wrong side OF any
question.
Year: 1878

THE GREAT Radical naval station,
League Island, has been buried under
water for nearly d week, and hardly a
word has been said about in the Phila-
delphia papers. The waste of money in
this marsh has been awful.
Year: 1878

The above goods have wearing Qualities
their color and superiority of appearance entirely worn G
fore should be conounded with the trashy
which, while sometimes promising well to the eye purchase are
unreliable in
Year: 1878

The days of chivalry and all that sort
OF thing have not departed, although
railroads and Pullman palace cars have
taken most of the romance out Of travel
ing, and rendered bridal tours but
another name for an expensive and often
unwarranted luxury. Colorado, how
ever, has not yet qnite surrendered to
the alluremeuts of modern fashionable
life, but has fashion OF her own worthy
of her brave SONS and fair daughters.
Frank S. Byers and wife arrived in Den
yer, on Monday, from Middle Park.
They came through on horseback in a
little more than two days. The first
days journey was fifty miles. and over
the summit OF the snowy 1ange. That
is romance and reality in bridal tour
as woT derful as it is rare IN these latter
years OF et1eminate ease. What would a
Fifth avenue belle or Boston beauty
think of journeying fifty miles through
SNOW ard storm over the Rocky noun
tains IL midwinter, as it were, on a
pleasure trip ?-Denver Nescs.
Year: 1878

Twenty years ago gentleman living
along the Tennessee line, not more than
thirty five or forty miles from Glasgow,
concluded to move to California. The
proposition met the cordial assent OF all
his family. Everything was shaped to-
ward the removal. When the time came
the land was unsold and some business
remained unsettled. It was agreed that
the mother and remainder of the family,
except the father, should commence the
move, which in those days consumed
months in making. The father re-
manned to settle up the affairs and sell
the farm, intending to start as soon as
he could wind up. The gentleman set
himself to work, but found it an uphill
business to adjust his affairs, and could
find no suitable purchaser for his land.


Two or three years passed in fruitless
efforts to get ready to leave, and eventu-
ally the muttering of war was heard,
and speedily the blaze of civil discord
caused all hope of family reunion to
vanish until the conflict should pass


The war over things were in no shape for
emigration. Time passed on until the
gentleman has reached an { Id age, and
infirmities have taken hold of him, and
now the probability of the family meet
ing beyond the grave is all that lights
up the hopes of either wing of the long
separated family. The family were
bound together by the strongest ties,
and the long separation has been most
painful one. 1t is certainly II most sin
gular history. Glasgow (ky.) Times
Year: 1878

The Holy Father is now much better,
and, had it not been for the paralysis Of
his limbs, it might be said that his health
was as good as it was last spring. For
the past three days he has been taken
from his bed at 9 o'clock in the morning
and placed in his chair, in which he
remains until 2 o'clock In the day.


It is known that he has horror of fire.
He can't endure g stove In any of his
Year: 1878

M TERCHANT TAILORING ESTABLISH
INI ment, on 9Th street, near south end of
Bridge The tailoring department is complete
and contains large assortment of fashionable
cloths and Gents furnishing goods constantly
on hand Please call and examine before pur-
chasing elsewhere
Year: 1878

The recurrence of the Orange niversary
this week threatens to bring with it the
usual scenes Of disorder and perhaps blood
shed on the other side of our northern
boundary. At the present time all the
signs point to a row ii not riot in Mon
treal unless the Orangemen decide to
forego their parade or the authorities are
strong enough to carry out their determine
ton to forcibly prevent it. 1t is incompre-
hensible why these demonstrations occur
on this side of the Atlantic. The events
they seek to perpetuate have no possible
interest for the people of this continent,
and it would be just as sensible to recall
the War Of the Roses as the Battle of the
Boyne If religious freedom were in
any way restricted there might be
some excuse for celebrating an event
like that of the Boyne, but it is not.
Every man is at liberty to worship when,
where and how he pleases. If he sees fit he
need not, in fact, worship at all. King
William and King Charles are nothing to
us. The ideas and principles they repre-
sented are entirely foreign to tho spirit Of
our government and civilization, and it is
to be deplored that their adherents have
imported with them signs and shibboleths
which in this section of the world and at
this hour in the century are as absurd as
they could we'll be. We hope the authorities
in Montreal will sternly put down
the Orangemen. And when the rival ami
versary comes around we trust they will as
effectually suppress its observance. It
seems to US the bishops and clergymen on
both sides ought to unite with the civil au-
thorities in preventing these foolish demon
strations, which are calculated to provoke
disorder and violence. The effect of them
is to bring religion into disrepute. They
are scandal, a disgrace and IN outrage.
Year: 1878

Courses Encourage JOckeyfngs


For half century England has been row.
ing her most celebrated races-those which
have given her such prestige at the oar
mainly on two courses, the Henley and the
Putney to Mortlake. The races of last week
have made the shape of the former familiar,
while the Putney course, as all know, is
spectfully ask the oarsmen of England and
her people generally, is either of these
courses fair? Is it fair at Henley for the in
side boat to have fifty feet less to row than
the one in the centre, and more than fifty
feet less than the one on the Blu ks station?
Especially, we would ask, is it fair in short
distance like that. where one foot may win
the racer Again, is it fair to row on a course
where one crew can creep along, as London
did on Friday, close to the bank and out of
the current, while the other must row right
against that current over the whole dis
tance2 What could tend more to encourage
washing and fouling than having to row
round q curve rs at Henley or over four
miles and three furlongs, with several de-
cided curves, as on the Putney course? We
have no charge to make that the palpable
unfairness of rowing on such tracks is in
territorial. But does the lack of wrong intent
alter the fact? England has begun
to find that America can actually
give her points in rowing matters,
and points worth needing. Only within
Ave or six years has she learned to row
without coxswain, while America learned
it nineteen years ago. Now, when she has
found that our student oarsmen can row
quite as well as those OF her own illustrious
universities, may 1t not be well to take an
other lesson from those students? Instead
of SO arranging her races that, even with
only three bouts abreast, she cannot keep
from fouling a stranger twice in two days,
she might learn how TO avoid all chance Of
FOULS. In q very brief interview Captain
Goodwin could tell her that in America he
had seen not three but thirteen college
crews row breast race for three whole miles
without an approach to a foul, and the
whole making u much finer water spectacle
than any rowing race England ever saw.
In short, had England cut her Henley
course into three equal parallel strips and
put a row of small flags along each side of
the central lane, and then forced each crew
to stay in it's own lane, would there have
been any marrying of Columbia for the
greater part Of the wav by Dublin and then
Year: 1878

The scientists, Edison and others, are now
engaged on the very interesting task Of dis
covering. if possible, where the Metropoli-
tan Elevated Railroad noises dwell and the
best manner of capturing and suppressing
these troublesome sounds. In a structure
almost entirely composed of iron vibrations
are set up by slight shocks and transmitted
directly to every part of the framework and
thence to the ground and to the neighboring
which is necessarily governed by the vio-
lence of the originating disturbance. In
theory the whole structure is supposed
to be tied and supported in the
most perfect manner; but in practice
this is simply impossible. because the
bearings will give rise to a series Of CON-
pound movem snts Of the parts which are
independent of the vibrations in the mate
rial and contribute their quota OF shocks to
the production of the general noise. 1t does
not follow that these little noisy imperfec-
tions are in the least degree dangerous to
the stability of the road. They are simply
the defects of workmanship insepara-
BILE from oil structures less delicate
than a watch or piece of machinery of the
finest class. Now we know that the ele-
waited railroad noises are due to several dis
tinct causes. They originally proceed from
the shocks and vibrations to which the iron
structure is subjected by the move-
ment of trains, but they are increased
by echoes from the houses. First, we
hear the rattle due to slightly defective
joints and bearings; second, the vibration
of the monster musical CO instrument
represented by the iron structure third,
the echoes of both Of these sounds. The
remedies lie in the adjustment of the joints
and bearings by which oil jar or rattle will
be prevented and the insulation Of the track
from the iron structure that vibratos, and
the further insulation of such portions Of
that structure from each other as will pre-
vent the transmission Of vibrations from
part to part. A certain amount OF noise is
set up in tho railroad Nar itself by the reso-
nance of it's materials formed into kind
OF sounding boz; bun the sound is not heard
outside the car and can be dsagreeablc only
to the passengers.
Year: 1878

district is an advantage to the few men who
control that organization but it is a
curse to the people, because such
an organization, having no opposition,
soon becomes corrupt and falls into the
hands of designing men. But even us
a matter of mere party expediency the
Southern democrats ought to welcome tho
independenr movement this fall. 1t does
not follow that independent candidates will
be elected wherever they are nominated.
But as two parties are inevitable it is far
more for the true interests of the Southern
people that both parties shall contain and
be controlled by citizens OF good character
than that they shall fall back to the former
system in which ono party was led by
vicious and corrupt men with no interests
in the States they sought to control. More
over, Southern democrats should remember
that the cry of ''solid South" has still
power over the minds of Northern voters,
and that it is certain to be raised by the re-
publicans in 1880 if they have plausible
pretext for it.


The rise of n vigorous independent
~
pears to us, therefore, on all accounts an
event TO be welcomed by the country, as
beneficial not only to the Southern commu-
mites, but to the country at large. 1t will
do much to fix the policy of both the ma
tional parties in 1880 and compel them to
announce real questions and abandon the
old and dangerous sectional issues The
Southern Independents would, two years
hence, naturally cooperate with the repub-
licans; but they would do 80 only on the
condition that the Northern republican
party should meanwhile throw overheard
the carpet-baggers, cease to claim the negro
vote, and make the republican truly ma
tional party, with platform of principles
acceptable to many good citizens in every
Sfnte
Year: 1878

IF THE SEASIDE HOTEL KEEPERS and the thou
lands of other persons on mountain and sea
Ihore who find their annual bonanzas in the
perspiring humanity Of the metropolis are not
happy now there is not much probability that
their felicity will be increased this season. The
number of excursionists who left the city yester-
day was fully equal to the population of many
of our moderately sized towns, and the amount
of money distributed by them must be in the
hundreds of thousands of dollars. No city in
the world has greater variety of charming
resorts and the facilities for getting to them are
as n rule the best that can be devised.
Year: 1878

IT Is ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO touch point Of
the city government without at once encounter
Ing abuse of some kind. In that portion of
the city where an arch fell a few days ago and
killed two men works have been in progress for
more than seven years that should have been
finished in less than half the time The result
s that life is insecure, property is deprecated
and the unfortunate inhabitants inconvenienced
In thousand ways. And the worst of it is
there is not he slightest prospect OF relief upon
any hand.
Year: 1878

Governor Hampton's Good Advice.


Wade Hampton's speech on the Fourth
of July to the people of Barnwell county
was in fact addressed to the people Of all
South Carolina, and deserves to be read,
and carefully read, too, by all Southern
democrats. The Governor admonished bis
people tOstandiby their promises Of 1876,
and she told thenI nplginly that he at least
msans to dc sorfefa4e occasion of his adj
monition appears to- have been q PROPOSE
ton by the Barnwell democrats to reject
the votes of colored democrats at their
primary meetings. They appear to have
Bourbons in Barnwell who are silly enough
to think they can fling away the negro
voters, or at least allow them no share in
the preliminaries Of an election, the nomi-
nation of candidates and there appears to
have been some rascally talk, besides, Of
counting in anybody we pleased"-of sue
ceeding by fraud in the fall elections, that
is to say.


The people of South Carolina, white and
black, are fortunate in the possession of q
man like Governor Hampton, who is not
only just and honorable himself, but has the
courage to tell his people the truth. He
is perfectly right in what he told them.
South Carolina is on her trial, and it is
quite possible, if her people permit the
baser sort Of politicians to control the elec-
tions, that they shall ind themselves flung
back into the woful condition from which
the wisdom and courage of Governor Hamp-
ton and those who stood by him rescued
them. We are sorry to think that such
suggestions as Governor Hampton alludes
to in his admirable address could be
for moment tolerated anywhere in
the State !; but it is pleasing to see
that his stern rebuke of them and
his repeated and reiterated assertion
that he and those who were chosen to the
State offices with him mean to redeem to
the last iota every promise made to the
blacks, were received with repeated and
continued applause 1t belongs to the
honest and honorable citizens of South
Carolina to stand by those pledges and to
put down every rascally attempt to violate
or evade them. The honorable fame of
their State is ut stake in this matter. But
this is not all; they may rest assured that
any attempt to prevent the blacks from vot-
ing, or from having their votes honestly
counted, or to treat them many way un-
Justly, will be carried all over the Northern
States, and will surely bring back upon
them the plague of misrule from which
they have but lately escaped.