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Year: 1878

Troy Budget: President Hayes is evidently becoming . good Grant man.

 Boston Post; Kearney may be allowed to name the next President, but he will have to wait until after the election, and he can leave of swearing in the meantime.

 St. Louis Globe-p -pemocrat: If it is too early to nominate candidate for the Presidency, why are so many Democratic papers putting Senator Thurman forward? Let us have a fair start in this thing.

 Philadelphia Times: The third term sentiment is making great headway Tn the Republican organs. By and by Grant will be along on horseback, with Belknap and Robe son up behind, and we shall have Grantism with all that the name implies.

 Chicago Times: It is quite man fest to the great American elector that his solemn duty is to rid the Legislature and the offices of his country, when the legitimate occa- sion presents, of ninety nine per cent. of the crowd now in. Fresh blood, and lots of it, is in demand.

 Brooklyn Eagle; New York in

  1880 will do for Mr. Tilden what she did in 1876, only more ahundantly, for even if Kelly himself should head an anti-Tilden delegation from this State in 1880, the manhood of the party in the Nation would resent the insult and the outrage, and the convention would renomihate the President elect, if right.
Year: 1878

The buffalo COW seems to have little
maternal instinct, differing in this re-
spect greatly from the domestic COW.
When frightened, buffalo COW will
abandon her calf, and running away.
leave it to be protected by the bulls, who,
to their honor, seldom forsake their
charge. An army surgeon once saw an
admirable Illustration of this maternal
care.


One evening, as he was returning
from days hunt, his attention was at
tracted by the curious behavior of six or
eight buffaloes. Approaching them he
saw that they were all bulls. They
stood in a close circle with their head
downward. At some twelve or fifteen
PAGES distant sat, in an eccentric circle.
a dozen large gray wolves, licking their
chops, as if impatiently waiting for
supper.


In a few minutes the circle of bulls
broke up, but keeping in a compact
body, walked off toward the main herd
half mile off. To his 9mazement, the
doctor saw in the centre Of the guardian
bulls little feeble calf, newly-born, and
hardly able to walk. After going hun
dred PAGES, the calf lay down, and the
bulls again formed a protecting circle
about it. The wolves, who had followed
ON each side, sat down and licked their
chops.


The doctor did not wait to see the
end, it being late and the fort distant;
but he had no doubt the bulls brought
the calf, abandoned by its mother, safely
to the herd.
Year: 1878

Lo B shafts of moonlight were shoot.
ing down through what seemed an almost
inpenetrable wood and quivering on
the green MOSES. A faint wind dallied
with the foliage. Wild flowers fleckeI
the ground.


Here, in this sylvan retreat sat Miss
Barron, AMI she was very much out O.
humor, for every now and then she drove
the point of her parasol into the un-
Offending MOSES. She looked and was
downright disgusted with everything
and everybody. Tie belle of three
seasons, during which she had escaped
heart-whole, she was now " caught"
and all because of three weeks sojourn
at a country villa.


Madge had never been off her guard
before. Hitherto she had visited
fashionable watering places; but this
year she had come to quieter place, and
had met Lindhurst Barringtou, : She
did not yet know, howeSef, she was in
thralldom.


She only knew she was cross and
lonesome; and so she sat punching the
little blossoms and pouting. She thought
Darlington exceedingly companionable,
and that the other four gentlemen stop
ping at the villa were little better than
wooden men. As for downright, earnest
love, why her intentions for three years
had been never to venture her heart at
sea, but only to glide about the shore,
flirting, safe to disembark any time.
Yet she was now thinking of Lindhurst
harrington IN way many would have
termed love. Bat she would not admit
this to herself He was a delightful
summer friend, that was all, she said.
She liked summer, and flowers, and
birds, and hazy atmospheres, and a
quiet Irritation; but when these went,
the coming season brought new enjoy
ments and fresh hirtations, and Barring
ton could go with them. Were there not
others, pray, who could read Tennyson
and sing tenor? But now, just this
moment, it was rather lonesome. If he
only would come


He had gone to town the morning
previous, promising to return in the
evening. She had walked with him
through this wood-path, on his way to
the station. He had fingered moment
at the stile beyond, to tell her how beau
tiful she looked-how the fresh morning
air had frightened the color on her
cheeks.


"Come this evening as far as here to
meet me, " he had said, "won't you
The path will be a horrid labyrinth with
out you"


"You will surely return ?" she had
asked. "n you don't, / shall find
every tree hobgoblin when l go back
alone"


''Retun, indeed l shall think Of
nothing. else, shall do nothing all day
but pull out my watch to see if it is time
for the train.


Then he caught her hand in a quick
Year: 1878

Few will agree that sixty cents day Is
a sum on which a man can be expected to
support his family, while sixty cents pos
sesses its present exchangeable value.
The employers in the shipyards and lum-,
ber yards of Quebec may not be willing to
accede to forced adjustment of prices
but starving, any more than insurrection, is
not the way to bring them to terms, and
hunger and riot are equally Objectionable
means in producing conviction.


The New York Daily News wants the
Emigration Commissioners to favor them
with detailed report of the increase OF
immigration to that port recently, and the
nativity of immigrants, so that they may
be able to arrive as nearly as possible q
the motives that have impelled them to
ssek this country at the present peculiar
;uoction of our affairs. How many of them
have capital, and what proportion Of them
are in search Of work2
Year: 1878

We have had some arrests in this city
lately Of "breeched bipeds," insulting wo>
men upon the streets, this is most helm
GUS offence, and one deserving quick, and
severe punishment. The crime seems to
he general. In Washington, during the
last year, the number of assaults npon wo-
men which have taken place IS unprece-
dented, and the evil has assumed such
proportions that Justice Wylie, in addres.
sing the Jury in the case of Evans, few
days ago, on trial for an assault upon a
lady, while she was waiting for a car on
Seventh street near Pennsylvania Avenue,
called attention to the subject and used
very severe language in regard 10 it. He
said that ladies, either young or old, are
no longer safe from insult while walking
alone in the streets Of that city, nor are
the outrages committed alone b. represen-
tatives of the lower classes. Some of those
who are call ID respectable are guilty Of
them, and they should be made especially
to suffer the full penalties of the law,
Young women, he said,on appearing alone
on the streets of Washington after DARK,
are attacked like the children of Bengal,
and these tigers in human form do not
stop to ascertain whether their victims are
respectable or not. So serious has this
evil become. he said, that he is tired Of
it, hardly day passes that case of the
kind is not either brought before him Or
before the lower court.


We invoke the police authorities to
punish and cause to be known the next
scamp who is brought to the Mayors office
guilty of insulting females upon the street.
Such persons have been mercifully treated
heretofore.
Year: 1878

The sidewalks Of Wilmington are more
uneven and rugged than that of any city we
know of. Our city bricklayers do not
seem to take pride in their paving, else the
sidewalks would not be so bad. We know
Of brick pavement, not three weeks laid,
which is already uneven, rugged, and un-
slightly. Will some good bricklayer tell US
what is the matter. The broken and worn
out sidewalks are standing rebuke to our
municipal officers.
Year: 1878

The Miners on the Pacific coast have
created considerable excitement in San
Francisco, by strike against a reduction
of one dollar per day in their wages. They
demand continuance of five dollars. The
Consolidated Virginia Mine has agreed to
advance that in the future.
Year: 1878

AN AFFAIR THAT Is CREATING A RIPPLE


OF EXCITEMENT AMONG THE UPPER
TEN.


just at present, the residents of certain
fashionable locality in this city have the
most startling bit Of scandal on which to
talk and dilate that they have enjoyed for
years. Two parties figure in it, who are
respectfully connected, who have born good
regulations and who move IN the best So,
ciety One of those implicated is a pros
porous grocery merchan who has been in
business but few years, and yet, whose
adurance in trade has been rapid ,and whose
actions in business SO far as as business was
concerned have been unquestioned. He is
we'll connected both in this city and Phila.
delphia, is comparatively young man and
has been married not quite two years.
The other party is young lady who re
sides with her parents in the house adjoin
ing that Of the gentleman alluded to above.
Her parents are also we'll connected, and
her father formerly held position in the
United States navy, which he resigned a
few ytars ago and coming to this city en-
tered into business as an assistant In large
grocery store. The yoang lady is tall
and slender and gracefully formed and is
not only beauty but an acknowledged
belle. Never until recently has any shadow
Of suspicion been cast upon her authority
| Tnc cause fall the talk lies in the re-
ported land it is said copfrmedD criminal
intimacy between the young lady and the
gentleman, although the latter is married
man and has already been stated, and only
married for the matter of two years OF
there abouts How long this has confined
is unknown but during all this while, peace
has been reigning in the erring husbands
household up to short time ago where the
whole matter came to light. OF course this
has created great deal of dissatisfaction
in his household and has been already
written given rise to much talk. The
young lady has been taken out West by
her father to await the result Of her indis-
crition and vain effects are being made to
hush the affair up. Meanwhile the in.
jured wife is very indignant and there is
some thought that divorce suit will b.
result. From reasons that cannot fail To
be plain to the public the names are witt
held.
Year: 1878

The Quickstep base ball club are endeav
oring to arrange game with the Sails
bury club, to take place in this city for a
purse of $lOO; or at Dover. The Quick
steps are very anxious to play the Salis-
bury club return game, and are sure they
can beat them fairly. x '.
Year: 1878

In our last issue we were under the painful
necessity of announcing the sudden demise of
the gentleman whose name heads this notice.
Mr.. Kleinpeter was not only 8 gentleman in
the amplest sense of the word,-courteous, CHI
vslrous, honorable.-but he was g staunch,
practical Catholic. As q member OF the Society
of st. Vincent de Paul, he was President of
one of it's Conferences and took an active in
terest in all its works. Though still compare
lively young he had established throughout
the community an enviable reputation for pro-
bity and capacity. The energy of his oharac-
ter carried him into relations outside of his
professional labors, so that we find him con-
nected actively with the Fire Department. of
the city and filling the position of secretary in
the Association of the Army of Northern Viz.
ginia. After having braved the dangers of an
eventful war unscathed, he succumbed in q
few hours to the violence of consuming fever,
stricken down in the very strength and flower
of robust manhood. His beresved widow and
fatherless little ones have our earnest sympa-
thies, strong in proportion to the respect and
admiration which we enter taineGfor him whom
they have lost.
Year: 1878

Recently Vice Chancellor Mallins, in London,
gave decision in the case of Agar-Ellis vs.
Agar-E Ellis. The plaintiff daughter Of Lord
Camoys. She married the defendant, who is a
Protestant, on the strength of q distinct
promise that the children of the marriage
were to be educated in the Catholic faith. The
husband broke the promise, the plaintiff petit
toned the court of the Vice Chancellor, who
decided that the English law repudiated such
an arrangement. Furthermore, that the wifes
duty was to submit, and gave Judgment for
the defendant. The case will be brought be-
fore Parliament by Mr.. Butt.
Year: 1878

After all, the true intent and meaning of
going on the land is not so much to have
something to sell as to have something to
eat. If a man makes 900 pairs of boots
and nobody buys them, he is in bad way;
he starves. But If he raises ], 900 bushels
of wheat and find no buyers, he is still at
leaet safe in having something to eat him.
self. When there is an overstock of agri-
cultural produce the raiser can eat as much
as ever, and raise less to sell when there
is aH overplus ofmanufactured of goods, some
of the mechanics must go on the land.
There are millions of acres in our country
waiting for come people to come and till
them. There need be no business suffer-
ing to any great extent if people who can
will go and till it.
Year: 1878

a slight fre occurred recently in Lambeth
Palace, and the London correspondent of the
Cork Examiner telegraphs that paper shat
the ere is said to have arisen through the fact
that eleven American Protestant Bishops, at
present the guests of the Archbishop of Can
terbury, are, without exception, in the habit
Of smoking in bad.n
Year: 1878

of Nice, and once intimate friends, but
separated by the ardent passion which
each of them had for q lady" had
agreed to have hostile meeting with


pistols in the lugubrious valley already
described. They met, and had for
some time been discharging their fire.
arms at one another without any in
convenient result, when they were startl-
ed by the tolline of the neighboring
chapel bell. They interrupted their
terrible work and began to mediate
upon the wickedness Of angry passions.
"Then appered upon the scene an un-
expected witness. It was the clergy
man of the aforesaid chapel" whose
counsels promptly reconcied the two
quandam friends, and who, as it ap-
pears, hns reconciled many pairs Of
duelists in the same way. As soon as
the report Of firearms rings through
the valley of death the good man always
sets bis bell tolling and hurries o,the
scene. One is tempted to think that
this humane practice is pretty well
known at Nice and some other places,
and that the pugnacious young bloods
who repair to the Mortola Valley are
not always so nightly surprised to hear
the sound of the chapel bell and to see
the unexpected witness" appear on the
scene. There must, however, very Of
ten be an anxious period of suspense
while the first few shots are being ex-
changed, lest too clumsy champion
should hold his pistol straight and
shoot his adversary incontinently be-
fore the "bene6t of clergy" is obtained.
- London Globe. ....
Year: 1878

The hanging of the mistletoe is a
cause of much frolic and laughter in the
house. Il is the rule that whoever is
passing under tho mistletoe bough must
submit to being kissed then and there
by whoever chooses to take that liberty.
As bough usually hangs from the CEN
ter of the ceiling, spreading over large
space. it follows that there must be much
dodeing or much kissing; I am inclined
to think that there are both.


The origin of this use of the mistletoe
is not known; but we do know that more
than eighteen hundred years ago, when
the GLAD stars sang together over the
mapeer in Bethlehem, and wise men
brought gifts of gold, frankincense and
myrrh to a young child in the peasant
mothers arms, England was chill, mist
covered island inhabited only by sava.
ers. who wore garments of skins and
lived in huts of mud and stone. Among
these savage Britons there were pagan
priests called Druids. These priests
were a mysterious folk. who lived in
dense woods far away from other men
and who, in the gloomy solitudes OF the
forest. performed strange secret ceremo'
pirs The 'ssacrcd groves" as they wer',
called; were. Of oak, for the oak was q
Year: 1878

! A woman in a neighborhood is only
exceeded by another woman. She can
love truer or hate worse than tho men
of ordinary calihre.


She can make q home little heaven
or little hell, on less capital than any
other business can be carried on.


She can make q ten or hundred dollar
bill 60 up, O! SO quick. d s,g


She can drive man out of house,
if her tongue be working all right,
quicker than Beast Butler could get
away with set. Of spoons.


She is better than pine or stone coal
for keeping a neighborhood boiling hot
and home more uncomfortable than burn
on. your first thumb joint, all the tims
making you think she is q package Of
refined innocence, q saint, a favorable
angelic advertising agent for Gabriel.


She can kiss another woman sweeter
and then talk about her worse than one
Of these Reform Republicans can talk
about tho President.


And she knows more by intuition of
all the affairs of tho neighborhood than
Grant knows about his relations or the
post Office presents he receives, or is to


She can be nicer to woman she
hates than carpct-bag politician is to
ncoro hefora ha boa votad a. 4.


She can walk further to display new
dress than loyal or disloyal contraband
could travel for chickens in the, night.


And God love her, if she loves man.
she will stick to him longer than the ,
Dent family will to the immortal Ulysses


Like dollars, good women are hard to !
get, hard to keep, bothersome to look
after, but here is conuundrum how
can we get along without them Brick
Poneroy.;r +; ..s.'' : sF. "~ ~
Year: 1878

How little we know of each other
AS we pass through e'journey Of life,
With its struggles, Its fears and tempta


tions,


Its heart-breaking cares and its strife.
We can only see thing, on. the surface,
For few people glory in SIM
And an unrufied face Is no index
To the tumult which RACES within.
How little we know of each other


The man who to-day passes by
Bless with fortune and honor and titles,
And holding his proud head so high,
May carry dead secret with him


Which makes of his bosom hell,
And he, sooner or later, felon,


May writhe in o prisoners cell.
How little we know Of each other!


That woman of fashion who sneers
At the poor girl betrayed and abandoned,
And left to her sighs and her tears,
May, ere the sun rises tomorrow,


Have the mask rudely torn from her face,
And sink from the height Of her glory


To the dark shades Of shame and dis


grace.


How little we know of each other!


OF ourselves, too. how little we know!
We IRE all weak when under temptation,
All subject to error and woe, - :
Then lei blessed charity rule us


Let US put away envy and spite
Or the skeleton grim in our closet


May some day be brought to the light.
Year: 1878

The afternoon service had ended and
the congregation were arranging them
selves for tho bencdiction, when the
parson descended from the pulpit to tie
desk below, and said, in calm. clear
voice = Those wishing to be united in
the holy bonds of matrimony will now
please come forward .-


A deep Stiffness instantly fell over
the congregation, broken only BY the
rustling of silk as soms pretty girl or
an excited matron changed her position
to catch the first view of the couple to
be married. No one. however, arose or
seemed in the least inclined to rise;
whereupon the worthy clergyman, deem
ing the first notice unheard or under
stood, repeated the invitation: Those
wishing to be united in the holy bonds
of matrimony will now please come for
ward ....' ..-.r


Still no one stirred. The silence be-
came audible, and a painful sense of
awkwardness among those present, was
felt, when young man, who occupied
o vacant seat in the broad aisle during
the services, slowly arose and deliber>
ately walked to the foot Of the altar. He
was good looking and we'll dressed, but
no one accompanied him. When he
arrived within respectful distance Of
the clergyman he paused, and with a
revercu: bow, stepped to one side Of the
altar, but neither said anything or
seemed at all disconnected at the idea cf
being married alone.


The clergyman looked auxiously around
for the bride. who, be supposed, was yet
to arrive, and at length remarked to the
young man in an undertcne:


The young lady is dilatory.'


sYes. SIR 3d..


Had you better not defer the cere-
mony7' -


Il think not


DO you suppose she will be here
soon 2


i, sir p said the young man; 'hoW
should I know of the young lady's move
mentss q


A few moments were allowed to elapse
in this unpleasant state of expectancy
when the clergyman renewed his irter'
rogations.


did the lady promise to attend at 'h'
present hour p


what LADY,


why the lady, to be sure, that yo'
arc waiting for


i did not hear her say anything abou
it, was the unsatisfactory response.


Then, sir, may ] ask you why yo'
are here, and for what purpose you thu
tri6e in the sanctuary of the Mos
High p said the somewhat enrage'
clergyman.


L came. sir, simply because you in
vited those wishing to be united in tn
holy bonds of matrimony to step tor
ward, and I happened to entertain sacl
wish. I am sorry to have misunder
stood you and wish you, very goo'
| dou'
Year: 1878

A new swindle, called the fig racket
is being practicsd on railroad trains.
The news agent marks out some un-
sophisticated looking passenger in the
smoking car and approaches him with
several boxes of figs. Into one of these
boxes he puts a two dollar bill neatly
folded. He then puts the boxes be.
hind him, changes them about several
times and offers his victim choice of
boxes for one dollar. As the victim
examines the boxes he sees the corner
of the bill sticking out from under the
cover of one Of ihss1, and can hardly
get the dollar out quick enough, and
when he buys the box he finds himself
with a box oil figs worth fifteen cents
and the little corner of ten-cent shin.
plaster. The piece Of shinplaster is
called the fash and the trick is worked
with books as we'll as figs.
Year: 1878

The undersigned respectfully informs his
friends and the public generally that he
may still be found at his shop, one door
west of the postoftice, where he is prepared
10 execute promptly and in the most stylish
and durable manner all jobs that may be
given him. lie will also make or repair
harness. or in fact anything else IN his
line. He only solicits call.


ISAAC YOUNG.
AUG. 6=tf
Year: 1878

THE I,teLhgenesr concludes that We
were not sincere in suggesting that the
accomplished Mr.. FAuLKSEs would
make n proper Commissioners to Paris
because we did not advocate bis clams
TO a seat in the United States Senate last
winter. Then we are TO conclude tnal
the editor OF tie httsLLiQeHcer WAS not
sincere in his support of Mr.. FAULKEER
for the Senate last winter, Is be mas not
favored his appointment 10 this instance.
But we don't reason that wsy. For IN
stance: If we were sent on y mission IN
search OF a gentleman we would not
think OF gong to the editorial rooms oi
the Lte!Ligencer office with the exPects
ton of finding onei but il the most ego
tisticsl ass in the State WAS the object o!
our search, we would light on CAMPBELL
ike hawk on chicken.