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Year: 1879

~ had one very thrilling adventure
while diving" said Captain Paul Boyton,
the celebrated swimmer, to New York
reporter, whom he was telling some OF
the early incidents OF his career. "We
Lad anchored in the bay OF Canpeachy,
where Mexican brig had stood over
and gone down. Only two men OF the
crew had been saved. The name OF the
ship was Avarada. We were told that
her topmast was sticking out OF the
water: but after proceeding upon &C:
curate bearings for several days, we
were unable to find it. We were cruis-
ing about coral reef one Sunday morn.
ing, and happening to lean over the taft
rail at the right moment I saw many
fathoms below long, dark line stretch
ing out under the crystal water. con-
cluded that this was the mast, and that
the vessel lay on her side. We dropped
anchor, and I put on diving dress and
went down. We had been told that six
people were lost. Among them was the
captains niece, a young woman about
eighteen years of age. I got to the
bottom near the brig and walked around
il, taking care to keep the air-tubing
clear from the keel, so as not to break it.
Not sixty yards from me rose the white
wall OF the coral reef. There were great
holes in the bottom Of the bulk. I got
aboard, and, on feeling around, foun


that the matches were still closed. The
sails hung down in clogging masses on
one side. The ship looked weird and
strange enough, I can tell you. I went
down into the cabin. The floor was so
steep that I could hardly walk. On one
side there was stateroom. and this was
the side which leaned toward me. Wish
ing to see whether there was any treas
ure aboard, / picked up bar which I
had with me and struck the door two or
three times. It did not bulge, and then
I got the bar in the crack next the post
and began to pry. Suddenly, as I was
looking up-for you must understand
that it was above met swung clean
open, and the corpse OF beautiful
woman, clad in her white night clothes,
with her face toward me, slowly fell over
toward me and Coated down tf: mob the
water head foremost. Before I could
move-and if I had wished to I was
paralyzed with horror her hand touched
my helmet with light blow, and her
feet struck the floor. The light poured
around her from portfolio in the state.
room. I remember just how that face
looked. The eyes were wide open and
starting from their sockets; the lips were
gasping, and the matted hair lifted and
trembled and waved with her motion like
the long fibers of seaweed. When I
could recover myself I shook off the
hand with all the power that I could
muster. It seemed to clutch at me, and
T was frightened. When I got on deck,
however, felt better, and we fastened
a line to the corpse and drew it up. She
must have jumped out of her bunk just
as the brig went down, and died in try
inp TO omen the door"
Year: 1879

Lead white is dull blush gray tint.


Oils and pomades are not used on the
hair.
Guipure lace is coming into fashion
again.


Waterproof cloaks are fashionable in
Paris.
The cabbage bow is used to trim
dresses.


Fur bands are used to trim fam Q
costumes.


Artificial flowers are not in high favor
at the moment.


Red is worn with frenzy with every
article of the toilet.


Seal-brown plush takes the place Of
fur on new garments.


Ball shoes and stockings are made of
the color of the dress.


Lead white is to take the place OF
vory and cream white.


Panniers are worn 80 are corsages
close fitting over the hips.


Twilled flannel costumes are brought
out for the mid-winter season.


The coiffure for morning and street
toilet is low on the nape of the neck.


For full evening toilet the hair mus
be arranged high and very elaborately
trimmed dresses have deep bor-
der on the underskirt instead of a
hounce.


Bridal wrappers are of brocade CON-
bined with plain silk covered with Bre.
ton lace.


Lower skirts are now made of velvet
and upper ones of brocade, plain silk
or cloth.
Mulberry and dragon green are the
favorite shades in the fashionable spun
silk hose.


Belt bouquets are going out Of style,
and bows of lace and ribbon are taking
their places.


Curls and frizzes are all smoothed fiat
in Paris, and Pompeian bands bind
heads in shape.


Montague locks about the forehead
and temples are still much worn by
fashionable young women.


The coiffure is very elaborate for full
dress and evening toilet, but severely
plain for street wear by fashionable
women.


The new hat is the Victim. It has q
scoop front, and is turned up on the
side !; feathers nod over it, and roses
almost drop from its brim.


The favorite dress bonnet for young
ladies and young matrons is of maroon
velvet with gold and garnet head edges,
and trimmings of garnet ribbon and
feathers and dash OF pale blue or rose
color in an ostrich tip on some part OF
the same.


A vest usually requires to be three
quarters Of yard in length, and the
pieces that cut away from the sides in
modeling1 it will be enough to make
the cuffs. Another yard will form the
reversed bands and revers on the skirt
of the stylish "washerwoman" polo
naise.
Year: 1879

"And who was it that I struck down
and killed?"


"Your own reflection in our pier-glass
mirror, which was shattered to atoms
the night you disappeared"


And 80 It was my own second self, and
none other.


We remain in California, my wife and
T, for it's air is genial and it's skies blue
and bright; and if at times 1 recall the
recollection of those long years of
wretchedness and despair, it is that the
contrast may render the present more
peaceful and happy.
Year: 1879

A witty Western editor, suffering from
depleted purse, copied in his paper an
account of an accident, in which the man
rescued from drowning related that, at
the moment OF sinking, he had q most
vivid recollection OF every circumstance
OF his life, and at the end of the para.
graph pointedly advises his subscribers
to bathe In deep water,
Year: 1879

roI uedo aSalust NY uea1I


White hands held fast in mine.
Sweet lips that barely part,


Soft arms that fondly twine
As down the silent stream
We drift as in q dream.
The rustling foliage near


Signs with a mournful tone;
High in the trees We hear


The south winds's dying moan;
Still down the silent stream,
We drift, and drifting, dream.
The sun sinks in the west


The wild fowl hurry by;
And passing to their rest,


They chant lullaby;
While borne upon the stream,
We gently drift, and dream.
The bittern's lonely cry


Comes family thro' the night;
The wild swan far on high,


Pursues her silent flight
AS down the quiet stream
We slowly drift, and dream
All! should our voyage last,


Through all eternity,
The arms 10 hold me fast


Would welcome fetters be;
Forever down the stream
Tc slowly drift, and dream!
Year: 1879

A deputy sheriff at Richmond, Kyr
being unable to collect taxes from a
resident, got third party to admire the
residents false teeth and ask to be
shown them, then darting forward
seized them. After living on soup for q
few days, the resident paid his taxes and
redeemed his property.
Year: 1879

Indians in Utah have been induced to
lay aside their blankets and put on the
dress of civilization, and to go to work
with shovels on q railroad. They had
been accustomed to loiter around the
stations of the Utah and Northern road,
doing nothing. Negotiations were
opened with them by the builders of
the road through an interpreter, and
about q dozen were prevailed upon to
take up shovels and attack q sand-bank.
Year: 1879

on as favorable terms so large an amount
OF money in so short time as has been
borrowed by the United States within four
months after resumption, and the compari-
son with the enormous loans made by
France, which were at the time without
precedent, is very clearly and strongly
drawn. Important facts are stated by Mr..
Knox in connection with this point; for
example, that not dollar of coin has been
asked for by the holders of $500,O0O,0O0 of
bonds redeemed, and that "the man cannot
be found in all this land, who, since the
resumption of specie payments, has de.
manded dollar of coin because he lacked
faith in the issues of the Government or
the banks"


While all this is the case there is large
party who would go back to State Banking,
in opposition to the system that puts the
money of one bank on par with that OF
every other. In discussing the position
taken by Controller Knox the New York
Tribune says:


alt is quite true that the amount of coin
needed for resumption is the smaller
because nearly half of the notes outstand-
ing are protected by deposits of Govern.
ment bonds, as well as by redemption in
legaltenders but the people who hate
National banks are, as a rule, people who
are hostile to resumption also. Unques
tionally, the old State Bank system per
mitted double interest on capital invested
to much greater extent than does the
National system, but the precise reason fol-
wishing to break down the National system
with many men is that they may gain more
money, by the creation of wildcat State
banks, under the loose legislation of the
under the National act. To that point O
danger the address properly directs atten
| tion.n
Year: 1879

WISE LEGIsLAToR.-He is successful
because he has the manly courage to rise
above all personal motives or interests and
cast his vote and influence on the side of
measures which will contribute to the we'll
being of his fellow.men. The good of the
many, even though it proves injurious to
the interests of the few, is the maxim of the
wise legislator But certain men will never
admit the wisdom of this doctrine, any more
than some selfish private practitioners will
admit the superlative value of DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant
Purgative Pellets, because these remedies
have injured their practice OF course, no
man in his right senses will pay physician
$500 for a consultation, bottle of bitters,
a few powders, and a prescription, when one
bottle of DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery and bottle of his Pleasant Purga.
tive Pellets, both costing but $l.25, will
accomplish the same result, viz: cleanse the
liver and blood, regulate and tone the
stomach, and impart healthful action to
the bowels and kidneys
Year: 1879

Our BANKING SYsFEM.-The Association


of Bankers, which met last week in Sara
togo, gave Controller Knox an opportunity
to exhibit the workings of the National
Banking system which he did in an adj
dress of great clearness. The system which
we have in vogue is pronounced the best
that has ever been devised for govern.
mental use, and it is put down to the
credit Of the Government that while it
knows the minute affairs of every bank,
there has never been an instance where
this knowledge has been abused. On the
matter Of resumption it is shown that no
ether nation ever has been able to borrow
Year: 1879




Now that the Levy Court has again
met and is likely to b in session all
through the month of March, and per-
hsps far into April, it would be good
time to make . frank and full state
msnt of ths amount of county taxes
that have been collected in 1877 and
paid into the County Treasurer, and
also how much Of the taxes for 1878
have been collected and paid over, and
how much yet remains to be paid. This
We think Is requisite to satisfy the pub
lie that the people may know what be,
comes Of their money. II the taxes
have been honestly collected and paid
over to the County Treasurer, there can
b. no reason for any collector objecting
to q full statement being made, but II
on the other hand the Levy Court re-
fuse to give this information, it will 10
accepted by the public az evidence
that there is something back which
will not bear to he brought to the
light. II is no secret that more than
half the collectors Of New Castl. Coun-
ty are charged with being default-rs in
not paying over to the County Treasur-
Or the taxes which they had collected.
We frankly say that W. do not believe
that either Of the collectors Of this city
bslong to this catalogue Of d-faulting
collectors. Whatever may have been
the objections to Mr.. Given, no on. can
truthfully charge him with using the
funds, of the county for his own use
and w believe the same may be said of
Mr.. Carpenter. We are reminded that
with one exception outside of Whining
ton, oil the old collectors have been re-
tanned in their Offices for 1879, tor the
simple reason that they we're 81 far be-
hind with the taxes Of 1875 and roru. OF
them even for 1877, that they could
not be removed and others appointed
in their placr- without leading to ugly
disclosures 1t is currently reported
that tn. taxes o! 1878 were taken to
make up what the collectors were be-
hind in 1877, and now they are 70 far
behind that the taxss of 1879 will have
to be taken to pay of the ds6ci-nci-s Of
1878. II this il the case, il IL high time
the Levy Court would max. s,at--
ment and let the responsibility fall
whsre it will. A failure Of the Levy
Court to make such a statement will
surely b- interpreted by the people as
An admission that there is something
hid that dare not h- revealed
Year: 1879

upon as q signal of danger 10 the Republic
and to the safety ofour institutions. And 1t
will not do to pooh-pooh this danger
in the face Of the constant proof
which now exists of their determination TO
restore the dnte-bcll,m condition of affairs
all over the country. Every mail from the
South comes freighted with proof of this
kind some of it hot-headed and rampantly
impudent, like the editorial vaporings of
the Okolona Southern States, and some Of it
evolved in the cool and deliberate argu-
ments of such leading Democratic journals
as the Mobile Register. To show what big
otry and perveision can accomplish, as well
as to prove the existence of this conceited
assertion OF political heresies, we copy the
following editorial extract from the last
mentioned journal OF recent date


The great ofrcnse of Mr.. DAVIS Is that he
has never asked for pardon at the hands of
the Government Why should ho ask for par
don Why should any at the South have been
compelled to ask for pardon? IF the Southern
States were simply conquered provinces at the
close of the war, there might have been some
reason in the demand. But the theory of our
Government was maintained, although for
years it had very little practical effect and the
South was considered TO be again part Of the
Union. There is no Government in this coun-
try except that made by the people. Hence,
as the South soon assisted in forming that
Government, IN asking pardon she addressed
her petition partly TO herself This was man
| ifestly absurd, but the Republican party has
never been careful TO have it's practice conform
to the theory Of our institutions.
Year: 1879

THERE are those who now begin TO see
why it was that General CAMERON resigned
from the Senate, If he had made up his
mind to resist the efforts of black -mailers
in the shape of would-be widows as sternly
few years ago as he now does, he would
have deGed age and intimidation until the
end and retained his seat in that body. But
this is not the first time woman has been
at the bottom of the unseating of a states
man.
Year: 1879

UNDER the proposed amendment of the
national election laws by the Democratic
caucus managers, all national supervision of
those elections would become mere sham
perfect farce. The proposition is charac-
teristic of the Democracy. Here is law
which is obnoxious to them because it pro-
vides for the punishment of fraud, and they
propose insidiously to extract its faugs and
then leave it as harmless nonentity upon
the statute books
Year: 1879

IT is unanimously conceded by the de-
feated candidates for offices in the Senate
that Mr. VOORHEES, was the most uniformly
pledged member of that body during last
weeks canvass. And some of them in
sinuate that his pledges were worth less, If
possible, than the Fiat money he advocates.
His Fiat followers should not object, how
ever, for an Office is an office, provided only
you think il is an office. And all that is
necessary to get an Office is to get promise
of it. This is as plain as u pike staff-ex-
ccpt to those who will not see it.
Year: 1879

A DEMOCRATIC Congress, sitting under
the shadow of the great white dome" Of
the Republics Capitol, claims for itself the
title of majority, and has all the power Of
this order acceded to it ON this account, and
yet this great Democratic majority is the
result of monstrous wrongs and crimes that
would shock the morals of any age. Strip
from these pretenders their illegitimate and
ill-gained power, and instead of being a
nominal majority they would not be strong
enough in such an honorable body to have
the least weight in passing their odious bills
and in endeayorng to fasten their debased
legislation upon the world-they would be
powerless 10 carry ont any of the mischief
that they have 50 loudly talked aud threat
Year: 1879

WE doubt if General BUTLER, who has
had long career and wide practice as n
criminal lawyer, has ever had a case so en-
tirely in accord with his tastes and abilities
rs the one in which he is now engaged in
defending Mr.. CAMERON from the vile APP
proaches and assaults of the Widow OIL
YER. The circumstances involved the high
literary character of the correspondence,
and the refined modesty of the plaintiff, as
developed in the trial, all seem 10 contrib
ute to make the case unctious in the high
est degree TO the vein of mischief which
underlies the very nature of the eminent
barristcr who handles the defense.
Year: 1879

lIleVelnnu herald


1t is to be hoped there will be no necessary delay
in setting day apart for Congressional eulogies OF
Wilkes Booth II is only fair, after giving jeff q
send-oh, that Wilkes should come in for his share
Year: 1879

years, matter over which we have no
control, may be matter of public interest
but we shall aim to exercise healthy in
1uenCe over the character of this journal
while connected with IL, nevertheless.
Year: 1879

THE good old time when clubs were
trumps in the Senate of the United States,
and men were cudgeled on its floor for u
difference of opinion, is fast returning to
mark the progress of American civilization
under Democratic rule.
Year: 1879

WE expected to be bespattered from that
pool Of nastiness which contributes to the
tastes of the unwashed Democracy when we
proposed to keep the columns of The RE-


PUBLICAN as clear US possible from the llth
of journalism for which our cotemporary
seems TO have pateut We were not dis
appointed at neither do we object to- its
assaults, for abuse from that quarter is re-
garded by most right-minded people as q
badge of respectability. Our accumulated
Year: 1879

WE'LL split the difference and compro-
mise was the cry of the Democratic
leaders few days ago. Their caucus prop
osition, adopted last Saturday, shows that
they mean anything but an equal split
the difference being decidedly in their
favor.
Year: 1879

THE Democrats propose to repeal the pro-
visions Of the national election laws for the
detection and punishment of frauds and
then leave the laws upon the statute books
u meaningless dead letter. This is what
they expect President HAYES to accept as
satisfactory compromise of the threatened
deadlock between the Executive and Con-
gress.
Year: 1879

T1LDEN's bar'l has been tapped again to
the extent of a Hoe perfecting press, and
the accomplishment of this fresh tap of the
barl is made the occasion of growing al
most as stentorian as that which would
have followed successful steal of the en-
tire Government Printing Office.
Year: 1879

THE assault upon Senator KELLoGG's
title TO seat in the Senate las begun-in
the newspapers. When it begins in the
Senate the Democratic majority in that body
will find that his tenure is fortified by an
accumulation of Democratic admissions that
II is res adudicata, the cumulation being
capped by the action of the Democrats in
lhe case of BUTLER, of South Carolina.
Year: 1879

The Democrats propose to compromise
the pending difficulty between Congress and
the Executive by jeopardizing the very un-
derlying principles of our governmental
forms, In other words, they offer to behave
themselves and do their duty in the matter
of public appropriations if the Government
will abstain from any effective supervision
Of its own elections.
Year: 1879

THE compromise" to be offered to the
Executive in the repeal Of the national cleo
tion laws will possibly be accepted as the
best terms that can be expected at the
hands of the Democratic caucus managers
But it should not, and must not, be ac-
cepted as satisfactory to the Republican
party
Year: 1879

WE are indebted to the Interior Department
for copy of its Annual Register as corrected
to January 1, 1879. 1t contains list of per-
sons employed in the Department appointed
by the President and Secretary OF the Interior.
Year: 1879

UNDER the Democratic caucus proposi-
tion log of wood would be as useful in
the capacity of national election super
visor as live man. In fact, that propo-
sition amounts to nothing more nor less
than to denude supervisors of all power at
the polls and make them as useless as so
many sticks of Cord-wood.
Year: 1879

itcs the Conicderary have at last captured the Capi-
tal.-- HdshinDtoR Republican.


Yes thank God, we have captured the Capital,
and in 1880 our man will walk up the White House
steps and take his seat In the Presidential chair.
Then will our glorious triumph be complete then
will we proceed to tear your amendments from the
Constitution and trample them in the mire; then
will we break the shackle you have forged for the
free sovereign and Independent Commonwealths
of the Union then will we recognize the right of
secession right that is not dead but sleeping then
will we decorate the Capitol with the pictures of
DAVIS, and LEE, and STUART, and all the glorious
leaders Of cause that is not lost but living still.
Yes thank God we have captured the Capital, and
from that toign of vantage we propose to rule the
Republic in way that will make your Radical laws
and your Radical leaders forever odious TO Amer
lea.


The extract from the Washington RE.
PUBLICAN quoted above, with the reply of
Mississippi paper which calls itself the South
eyn States, has been quoted by Republican pa
pers in Washington and telegraphed over the
North for effect. If it is genuine it only shows
that there are still Southern extremists WHO
are ambitious to occupy the role of purveyors
to the Republican party, as BANKS and POPE
supplied STONEWALL JACKSON with provisions,
or else that there are men who are willing to
deliberately furnish ire.eating articles ready
made at call. Whether it is folly or treachery
matters not. Such stuff has 10 political place
now. Indeed, a little folly has good effect,
for it serves to point the contrast between the
prevailing Southern sentiment and the opin-
ions of the few fools who are left TO fret them
selves out. Mississippi has large conserva-
tive population, and it is to be regretted that
her citizens should furnish the most of this
material, or that the Republicans should have
arrangements made for obtaining such material
from ississppi.-NdShcNe (TeRn) AmericaL


The Americm is the journal owned and
edited by Colonel BURCH, the new Secretary
of the Senate of the United States, and we
are gratided to find it breathing milder
atmosphere than characterzes its fre-eatng
cOtemporary of Mississippi. 1t evidently
has power Of suppression which the South
ern States has not. 1t covers its true in
wardness,' while the States is too hot to
conceal its gushing ardor, That is the diff
ference on the surface, while we do not
think that away down at the bottom there
is wide difference between these two
Southern journals. The Southern States
blurts out feeling of hostility toward the
Government and the North which the
american adroitly hides under caution
that the other does not possess. This may
be harsh judgment, but thus far our cxpe-
rience in dealing with the South has taught
us that, when boiled down, the residuum is
about the same.
Year: 1879

ened A false majority had better exercise
decency, if it can, rather than attempt to
make itself still more odious by trying to
bully the Government-tbc whole people
of the United States--as IL bullied private
individuals in order to secure its present
dishonest and criminal advantage