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Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE question
of the extra session OF Congress Is again
a subject of conversation among the
members of both houses, The opinions
expressed generally favor an ADJOURN
ment about the 9th of the present month
in order to enable members to visit their
homes on Thanksgiving day, which
would allow them three days for their re-
turn to Washington in time TO be present
at the meeting of the regular session Of
| Congress-.
Year: 1877

THE postponement of the question
of the right of Kellogg to seat In the
United States Senate to the next ses
sion of Congress is another victory fol
the new President and the Conserva.
tive statesmen of both parties who
have rallied to his support. The ex-
treme Radicals were determined by
seating kellogg to PREJUDICE the ques-
tion of the legality of the Louisiana
State government, and thus either to
force the President to recognize Pack
ard, or, if they could not succeed so
far, at least to add another embarrass-
ment to the successful prosecution OF
his policy of conciliation. They have
been defeated in this, and the Presi-
dent is free to act without being COM
PEELED to consider whether his action
is or is not consistent with the recogni-
ton of Kellogg by the Senate.
Year: 1877

Our German fellow-citizens will learn


with singular interest that the New


York World has discovered that Cupid


is IN hot pursuit of Gail schurz. Peo-


pie having memory of Schurz's sweet


face, in poor Greeley's time, adjoining


the fly leaf of each number of Harper's


Weekly, will hardly give credence to


the story when we are told that hun


dreds of eager damsels are Offering


themselves to the worn old trimmer


among the storms of public life. But


there is something romantic In his ca


reer which touches the female heart.


Women love him for the vic ssitudes


through which he has passed. He has


been student, professor, musician, rev.


olutionist, editor, soldier, Senator and


itinerant orator. He has been a citi-


zen of several States, and a member of


three parties at the same time. And


he has always continued to be SO far


successful that he has gotten good Of


fees under every dynasty, which fact


Is in itself captivating to women who


love good providers. 1t is true that


he never made much of reputation as


q professor, because he devoted the


time which should have gone to teach


ing to politics; nor did he make much


of reputation as a revolutionist, since


he devoted the time that should have


been given to fighting to the study of
the infinite; bat he was great scholar
among the red Republicans and great
red Republican among the scholars.


He failed as an editor because he was
too anxious for office, and be failed in
office because he was too much
prone to literature; but he was a
great politician among the Bohe-
uians and q great Bohemian among
the politicians. He was a wretched
soldier, because he was always plan
ming campaigns against the Democrats
in the North rather than the rebels IN
the South; and he almost ruined his
fame as an orator by losing his wind
in sundry hasty retreats; but he was
great warrior among the stump-speak-
ers, and great stump-speaker among
the warriors. He was not good Re
publican, because he was always abus.
ing the administration; and he was not
a good Democrat, because he was al
ways advocating the election of the
other party's ticket; but he was a
great enemy of Hayes among Tilden
men and great despiser Of Tilden
among the friends of Hayes. He is not
much of reformer nor much of a pi-
anist, as Watterson, his choicest friend,
is, but he is a great reformer among
musicians and great musician among
reformers. His strong point has been
the fertility with which he could in
vent and give reasons in several Ian
guages for his versatility. 1t Is. no
wonder, therefore, that he has imposed |
upon the female imagination and now
shines forth hero. 1t is natural that
schoolgirls dream of becoming the
darling of this many-sided man, of
hearing him make love in all the mod
ern tongues, and listening to the i'm
provisations on the piano, with which
he charms away the cares of Office by
his own hearth. 1t is natural that the
dear, innocent creatures should write
letters to him and quote Heine for his
AMI if any of them can
induce him to recommit matrimony he
will not make bad match.
Year: 1877

If the Southern States can only make
the beginning, if they can only take
the first step, what boundless sweep
of prosperity lies open to the view.
The lands which, under rude and
wasteful tillage, have furnished the
world with cotton and tobacco, with
sugar and rice and hemp, are ready for
richer returns under better methods ol
cultivation. The whole cast of the
gulf revels in q growth of timber
which can undersell the plneries ol
Wisconsin and Minnesota along the
Mississippi river; the mountains OF
Texas, like those of Tennessee, are
masses of mineral wealth, the labor
supply is everywhere, and only asks
the opportunity of employment. There
is not one natural advantage which is
wanting to the South, and the capital
and the enterprise which are required
to start the busy hum of industry will
not be wanting as soon as assurance il
given Of geod government. The
Globe Democrat. referring to these
facts, says it does not generally favor
government exemptions of any kind,
but the situation at the South is ex
ceptional, and it would be great gair
to all interests, and no loss to any one,
if the Southern States would grant !
ten years' exemption from taxation o.
all property or other capital invested
in manufactures. Whether it would
be advisable to 60 as far as this or not,
there is no doubt that the true Southern
question now is not political, but in
dustrial, and that the future we look
for is one in Which the unhealthy an
tsgonism of party will give way to the
invigorating competition of business
enterprise.
Year: 1877

TuAT insufferable public nuisance
who is maddeued by longings for no
toriety and is not as respectable in
this as Sergeant Bates, has sued an Of
icer of the treasury for ejecting her
from the building. Her absurd dress
and more absurd conduct render Mrs.
DR.. Mary Walker great public Dui-
sance, and If she were not supposed to
be q woman she should be confined for
lunacy and for insulting her sex by dis
honoring, it.
Year: 1877

LEGIsLATUREs of States having won
the right, before the Supreme Court OF
the United States, to amend railway
charters at viii and regulate charges,
the Legislature of Tennessee has IN
dertaken to transform street railway
charters and tolls, and there goes up
another case to be determined by the
Grangerism Of the High Old Court at
Warrington, which does not roost as
high now as it used TO in popular
opinion.
Year: 1877

The "statuesque" is the coming style
of the average woman of the period.
But why haven't the women the right
to put their 'tightness" on the outside
with clothes, even as men conceal it
within with cloves9 Therefore we
hear it SAID. when fellow gets along
knavishly, che is cloven footed"
Year: 1877

A PRECINCT, Trinityville, in Dallas
county, voted for prohibition by two
thirds majority, every negro voting
with the minority. They were told by
good men that it was going to be ter
rible year for snakes and the white
people wanted the negroes to die and
it was only needful to extinguish
whisky to exterminate the colored race,
and they voted even as they did here
when told that their liberty would go
next after their whisky.
Year: 1877

BLACK WAREIoR.-We were shown to- day some ere from the Black Warrior which struck us as being more silver than rock. The ledge. at 115 feet from the surface, shows well defined lead, with 3 feet of yery rich antimonial silver sulphurets, which is worth from one to three dollars per pound. At the depth of l75 feet, however, the Com pany are necessarily compelled to suspend operations until such time as they can send te San Francisco and purchase an engine which will enable them to hoist the water mt as fast as il runs in, and also the orc that they blast from the bottom of the shaft or stope from the ledge The fact has been thoroughly demonstrated that the War rior hhs millions in it.
Year: 1877

T. c. Bray, of the New York and Boston Store, arrived by yesterdays stage, direct from the East via San Francisco and Ehrcn- berg We shall have more to say about it tomorrow, and when hls twenty tons of clothing arrives, say iE five or six days, he will have something to say to the people in . two column advertisement
Year: 1877

Henry Lyon, who has been called, like Cincinna,us. from his farm, not to take part in war or politics, bus as witness in Court, was allowed to depart this morning, and took up his line of march for the base of Bill Williams mountain, where he has established a hermitage, and but for official interference, like this, would probably spend the rest of his days in listening to the whispering winds as they sough through the pines in winter. pr wander through groves of bloom and de,ach the delicate blossoms from the trees in summer.
Year: 1877

Charley spencer, the discoverFr of the rich s;l,.sr load near the confluence of the Little with the Big Colorado has gone to eX-

 anime the Peck and other silver leads Tn that section. SO that he may be better able 10 iudre of fine mines in the new district which hs is about to start up in the northern part of this county
Year: 1877

BAD. BUT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE John McNcll, who owns and drives the crack team of Arizona, came very near smashing everything to pieces and killing himself and team, on this trip up. Just as he turned down the Bells Canyon hill, his brake gave way, and his heavy wagons loaded with 27,O0O pounds of freight, ran on 10 the team, doubling them all up in heap on a narrow grade in a most frightful man. ner Finally the tongue of the forward wagon ran into the bank and broke all into splintcrs. The wheels followed into tn, bank and stopped, and by some miraculou. providence, not horse nor man was killed though some of the horses are injured. Why the brake should have given way on this. the only big or dangerous hill on th' route, or why it didn't run of on the othe side. over the grade, and kill and masl

 everything all to smash, arc questions tha no fellow can find out.
Year: 1877

STILL IsCRgAsIHG.-Itl Is scarcely pos
sible to accurately anticipate the extent
Of the public demand for good news
paper, and although the large editions of
the GAzeTrE are increased each day u sy
are oft-times insufficient to keep pace
with the number of people who desire
the paper. As newspaper, the GAZETTE
IS the cheapest and best in the city. 1t
prints more reading matter by far than
any other penny paper, and in this re-
spect 10 not much excelled by any two
cent paper. The GAZETTE also works
up the city news more closely than any
other city paper, and this fact, combined
with the excellent assortment Of miscel-
lanoous, general and telegfaphic news
which it daily publishes, makes it the
tavorite psper with the people. As an
advertising medium it cannot be excelled
reaching as it does, all classes of the
community by means Of its extensive cir
culation. This circulation has been
steadily increasing for several month:
past, and at the present rate Of increase
il will not be long before circulation o
1900 copies can be safely claimed for the
DAILY GAZETTE-the best paper in W il
rniDptOn
Year: 1877

THE table of expenditures published
yesterday by the Republican to prove
economy in the expenditures Of the
Council On the Street Department is
lacking in not giving the faintest idea of
the work that has been done the current
year for the money. 1t shows that about
$500 less has been paid out than by the
former committee. But the difference in
the per diem wages paid then and now
would more than cover this. Beside the
Republican seems 10 overlook the fact
that that journal, during 1875 and 1875,
was frequently complaining that the city
did not employ more men, and urging
the continuing of city work on the streets
and elsewhere. If less work has been
done this year at less cost, there certainly
should have been less money expended,
The Republicans article shows really a
worse show Of saving than we bad hoped
or expected TO find. In fact 1t shows an
unwarranted outlay considering the
change in the times and the growing debt
Of the city. The Street Committee must
do better.


The following is the table which We
clip from the Republican,
Year: 1877

A glance at the figures will show that for
the corresponding months Of October, the
expenditures Of the new committee exceed
that OF the old, which was owing to work
which ha1 been ordered by the OLD com
Lnittee and which had TO be finished by the
new,


The Democratic committee had TO
complete the work ordered by the Repub-
lican committee for October, 1875. other
wise there would have been less expen-
ded in that month by Mr.. McMensmen.
1t should be noted that in every month
since February last the expenditures have
been greater than in 1876. In January
and February last no work wss done Of
consequence and of cor Sc but title
money was expended.


We don't defend the old Democratic
committee. 1t may have been, and
doubtless was, too extravagent but We
cLnnot endorse the Republican commit
tee. We believe if the city work is done
by contract the Street Committee could
save fully 20 per cent. on the expense in
t4e above table.
Year: 1877

THE story OF the strike at Bergen Point
is one of the most interesting episc les n
these striking times, and should be perused
not less as matter of news than study
Of character. The coal company had in its
employ set Of picked men, for none but
the strongest in frame were fit for the labor
they had TO perform. These men were
working on short time and receiving 10
cents Ton Tor wheeling coal up an inclined
plane TO distance OF one hundred yards.
The price was reduced to IL cents and they
struck, The company brought men from
New York, who went to work but after a
few days labor struk in their turn. ManyI
Of them found the work too hard and gave
up from sheer exhaustion others held ont
until they had given the job fair trial and
found they could only earn about s. cents a
day. Itis hardly worth any mans while
TO wheel coal all day uphill for half dol
lar unless he wants TO earn a rope to hang
himself Tne strikers have behaved with
great good sense and refrained from vio-
lence even when others took their places
The ostwhlmsical incident of the whole
affair was the attack of the women upon
very few men who resumed work yester
day. They made their onslaught will
their stockings, into the toes of which the,
had slipped stones, making dangerou
weapons out of their hosiery. "She was o.
ugly woman" said one Of Gerald Griffin
characters, "to come feminist a man at ,
fair wld her stockin of and stone in til,
foot Of It," SO 1t seems their method O
warfare is an old one, e,though new TO Amer
lea. Next TO the influence of the strikers
wives the influence of the priest is note
worthy R0rld.
Year: 1877

these relations are not we'll settled Is
evident from the fact that they have been a
subject of contention through many reyo-
lutions Even the revolution of 1880 was
the result of an attempt to substitute the
principle Of prerogative for that of respon-
sibility to Parliament, and whenever per-
sonal authority has raised it's head in France
it has made the same effort, and every sue
cess Of republican principles has resulted in
definite assertion Of the contrary theory.


But the new Ministry comes into Office
under flag Of truce-it comes in with the
assertion that it is only cover to the re-
treat Of its predecessors, only device con-
trived to save the Presidential pride-the
assertion that it has only taken office in
order to be at complete liberty to surrender
it to well-behaved majority 1t is evident
that this device may be only ruse, and
that if it induces a little toleration OF the
new Ministry the modest pretence may
presently disappear. But the government
is watched by a majority fully informed OF
its rights, and though this majority will not
quarrel with any little device merely con-
trived to save the supposed dignity of the
President, it will not tolerate further min
isterial chicanery.
Year: 1877

terious manner. Dissipation may be over
come and infdelity compensated 1t Is
better to wait Tor these changes than 10 make
improvement impossible by swapping OH
the thread Of life prematurely. sick man
can take no worse medicine than cold lead;
a poor man can never be rich after he COM
mits suicide A Tilted lover if he dies Is
certain never to find new sweetheart more
constant than the old one. The poor hus-
band who killed his babies and himself had
better have sent his wife to an inebriate asy-
lum. The old sayings. "It is long lane
that has no turning" and ebay
light always comes after darkness
ought TO be fatal enemies to the suicide
mania. Brave men believe that ''while
there's life there's hope" Cowards only
seek forgetfulness in sclf-destruction. There
can be no real necessity for suicide, except
perhaps in the case of the Partisan during
spell OF bad weather, and in this broad
country, where there is elbow room for
everybody and where no man Of courage
and energy need despair OF living, the
crime ought to be unknown.
Year: 1877

yoltaire says the worst use to which
society can put a man is to hang him. The
worst use to which a man can put himself
is to send bullet crushing through his
brain, to cut his throat or to take his own
life by some other violent means. When
man is hanged it is generally for some
offence against the laws of q heinous char
acter, and while it is true society alter the
operation has no further use for the carcass
the punishment is usually deserved and the
example is likely to be beneficial. When
man kills himself it is for what he no doubt
regards as good reason. His health is bad !;
his business does not prosper; his wife
leads him an unhappy life; he has been
drinking too freely; he has lost all his
money; his sweetheart has Tilted him.
or. if Il Frenchman, the weather has been
unpleasant and depressing for week or
ten days. A bank president blows out
his brains and, wonderful to relate, his ac-
counts are all straight, but he has feared
that he might become paralyzed, and so, as
a permanent preventive, takes to suicide.
An inventor of q watch case spring meets
with bad success and IS without money, so
he begs drink and then puts pistol ball
through his temple. Ayoung woman, aftera
too free indulgence in liquor, is found on the
street dying from the effects OF Paris green,
and abuses the policeman who picks her up
and saves her life A man with dissipated
wife kills himself after numbering his three
children. A young lady with dissipated
husband posons herself simpleton,
whose sweetheart has deserted him, jumps
into the river from ferrybort and is
drowned and so on through the list


Now, the world is world Of ups and
downs of sickness and recovery Of
success and failure Of wealth and
poverty; of backsliding and reform. The
man who is depressed by sickness, prob
ably through faulty digestion, may
before long hit upon remedy and be re-
stored to health. The bankrupt of this
year may, with good courage and industry.
be the thriving business man of next
year. Money has wings, snd hes from
full pockets to empty ones III mys-
Year: 1877

The story told to-day by the receiver of the
Popular Life Assurance Company is getting
to be familiar tale, yet the bold frauds it
exposes have seldom been equalled, prob
ably never surpassed. The company dis
played precocity of rascality unusual even
in life insurance concern. When pulling
infant scarcely n year old, and having to
borrow baby jumper in the shape of five
thousand dollar loan from n Salem bank to
president and directors met and declared
n dividend of seven per cent, free of
government tax, for the first eight
months of it's existence, or ten and
half per cent per annum. Of course
the books showed the company to be in o
highly prosperous condition in these early
hours Of its life, and this was accomplished
by crediting to profit all premiums on the
books whether received or not, and by fail
ing to debit the outlays for furniture, large
portion Of tho salaries and wages and all
outstanding bills, which ''were at the time
considerable" Having thus cut its teeth
the infant company dispensed with milk
and water diet and commenced to feed
on solids. 1t nominally increased its
one hundred thousand dollars capital
to half million. 1t made false entries
on. its books of subscriptions never re-
ceived and proceeds Of imaginary stocks
and bonds never sold, to the snug amount
of over two hundred and seventy thousand
dollars. 1t made perjured statements show
ing imaginary balances of more than four
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 1t
entered on its ledgers fictitious sales Of
nearly two hundred thousand dollars worth
Of stock, which was paid for in checks after
ward returned. 1t entered in its peri rjured
statements pretended purchases of seventy
three thousand dollars worth of city bonds
paid for and never had in its possession" !"
Meanwhile it went on paying dividends and
making loans with such money rs came in,
and fought off the payment of death claims
by .'vcxatious litigation" In fact, from
the cradle to the grave it has been one Of tho
most revolving moral deformities ever be-
held in a civilized community. The sight
disclosed by the raising Of Mokhanna's veil
was not more hideous than that exposed by
the receivers report.


The president of the rascally company,
DIR. Lambert, is under indictment and is
soon to be put on trial. The recent convic-
ton of the Sccurity's president gives good
hope of the triumph OF justice in Lambert's
case. Let us hope that the courts and
juries have at last made up their minds to
been committed by these insurance officials
and to put stop to the most cruel fraud
that can be perpctrated on people.
Year: 1877

Now that the hot weather has gone and
bracing November is here it is the time of
all the year to commence little daily
athletic work. The newly formed athletic
clubs of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton, of the Metropolitan Police, that at
Englewood and others recently noted, are
all steps in the right direction, and show
how interest is gradually spreading in the
physical well-being Of our people. Half an
hour daily, or even three times n week,
spent in vigorous exercise, aimed directly,
for instance, to raise, enlarge and strengthen
the chest, would, long before the winter is
over, bring most gratifying results, not
only in increased size and symmetry, but
in improved health and spirits, and conse-
quent capacity for work. The expense at
tending neat and we'll appointed gymna-
SUM need not be large. A central and we'll
ventilated store or hall eighty by forty, two
hundred dollars worth of apparatus, hum
drcd for light and heat and a small sum
Year: 1877

A correspondent Of the HERALD suggests,
as meanso lessening our annual taxation,
and thus relieving real estate from portion
Of its burdens that license fee should be
exacted from all descriptions of business in
the city, the same as at present required
from auctioneers. venders, pawnbrokers,
liquor dealers, &c. A small fee, he argues,
would not be felt by those doing business,
but would raise some twelve or fifteen mill
ions of revenue, which would 20 into the
general fund applicable to the annual ex-
penses Of the government, and thus at once
decrease the rate of the yearly taxation one
half. The effect Of such policy as our cor
respondent suggests would necessarily be to
drive business from the city, Probably the
amount exacted for a license would not be
large enough to prove any burden on, the
business paying it; but that is not the
point. The very fact that oil descriptions
.of business must pay an annual license
embarking in trade in the city. The true
way Of relieving the burden of taxation.is to
reduce the expenses of government and
to enforce honesty and economy on all the
public departments. Taxes levied on real
estate reach all classes of the people, and
when the long continued depression ceases
and we have more carefelly suarded munich
pal laws the revival our correspondent pre-
diets will take place without resorting to u
novel, unpopular and experimental method
Of raising money.