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Year: 1879

economy, and that the employees Of the
Superintendent should be treated TO the
same economical medicine as the Superin.


dent himself, and consequently made the


reduction fall upon employer and etn.


ploye alike. In support OF their
action tho First Branch took the
ground that the Shrinkage OF values
and tho reduction OF salaries in all depart.


ments OF business gave them precedent


for lnaugurating reform in the financial
affairs Of the city. The Second Branch
refused to concur In the amendments at n
previous meeting, and asked for Com
mittee Of Conference, aud said Committee
reported last evening recommending Coun.
Gil TO refuse to aCCede 10 the proposed re-
duCtions. Tho First Branch stood BY
It's former action and insisted upon
the amendments, and asked for another
Committee Of Conference, which was
granted. Tho committee failed to come
to any definite conclusion OIL the matter
at the time of adjournment last evening,
and II Is not probable TINT their report
will in any measure be agreeable to the
First Branch. The matter Of the City
sergeant's salary has not been touched,
and will not be until the bill for the in.
crease Of the police force, now pending in
tho Second Branch, shall have been acted
unOn.
Year: 1879

publication Of charges In the New York
TimeS, committed breach Of discipline.
He had perfect right to prefer charges
and specifications, which he had done
from New York on the 9th day Of July,
1877, but when advised that the President
OF the United States hal considered them
and had decided that the best interest oi
the service would not be advanced BY a
general court martial, II was his plain
duty to have submitted gracefully. The
law officers Of the government have de.
cidel thatthe United States cannot arraign
for trial any officer for otFenses committed
more than two years before the order for
the assembling Of the court. For this rea.
son charges against Colonel Hazen cannot
he inquired into by general court mar.
tial, 50 that this trial and judgment must
stand as the final decision OF all matters
raised in the controversy. Both parties
parties will be careful that the service will
not be injured by revival OF this subject.


JUDICIAL APPROPRIATION BILL.


The Democratic members Of the House
Appropriation Committee held a confer
ence after adjournment to-day for the pur.
pose Of agreeing on a plan Of procedure
on the bill making an appropriation for
the judicial expenses Of the Goverement,
which was amended and passed by the
Senate yesterday, and referred to the
House Committee to-day. Members Of
the committee are authority for the state
ment that the majority will recommend
non.concurrenCe on the second section OF
the bill rs amended by the Senate and
will submit that section In modified
form, and ask the appointment OF a con.
ferenCe committee. There will 10 spe.
cial meeting Of tho committee to consider
this measure tomorrow.


RELIEF OF COMMERCIAL INTERESTS.


The session OF the House Commerce
Committee to-day was devoted entirely TO
the further consideration OF the PROPOSE
ton authorizing the subcommittee to in
quire into report wherein the existing
laws eau be so amended as to relieve the
commercial interests OF the country, and
Chairman Reagan was finally instructed
to offer resolution at the first opportuni-
ty requesting an appropriation to carry
out the resolution OF this subject, which
was adopted by the House on the 4th
inst. It proposed to-day that this sub.
committee should also hear testimony in
regard to the interstate commerce bill,
and this will probably be the final deter
mination, providing the necessary appro.
priation shall be allowed by the House,


TIE LEGISLATIVE BILL ALL RIGHT,


Secretary Sherman has examined the
legislative bill as it passed the Senate
in the amended form, and Rays no Cliff
Guilty in constituting 1t was experienced,
nor does he anticipate any difficulty In
carving ont its provisions.
Year: 1879

OuR iricntl, Charley Franzheim, tells US
that when he was in the City of Mexico
lie noticed in passing along the street two
handsome wine glasses in the show case
window Of china store, and was struck
with the similarity of the pattern to one
that he had in his possession from the Gen.
tral Glass Company OF Wheeling. He
stepped into the store and examined the
pattern more thoroughly, and found that
it was exactly the same, and moreover
that the glasses had been made in Wheel.
ing by the Central Glass Company and
exported to Bremen in Germany, and
from thence importsgl into Mexico. The
price in Mexico was 81 35 for pair Of the
glasses, whereas in Wheeling they were
sold ut 40 cents per dozen.


This incident he told us as showing the
immense profit at which goods are sold In
Mexico.
Year: 1879


Tammany and Tilden Shifting the


State.


New York, Aug. PA Saratoga
special says Tilden democrats here say
if Robinson holds out for renomina-
tion the convention cannot refuse. But
they suggest that he does not care for
office, and il he becomes convinced
that the chances of democratic success
are greater with another name at the
head of the ticket, he will readily with
draw.


In that case they suggest that con-
troller Olcott be put forward for the
nomination and that he would be pre-
ferred by Tilden and Robinson to any
other man named.


OF course Tammany would vote for
Olcott if he should be nominated, for
Kelly has said plainly that Robinson is
the only man whose nomination would
cause bolt.


There has been little talk Of Gen.
Slocum of Brooklyn, within two or
three days.


Tammany does not prefer Olcott.
Church is plainly their first choice.
A ticket composed of Church for
governor. Potter for lieutenant govern
or and Nelson, or some man of SINH
lar stamp, for attorney general, would
please them.
Year: 1879

This sangulne view Of the situation in
New York is from the Albany Argus:
The democratic state committee have re-
ceived advices from every county in the
state. The advices come from men OF
knowledge, caretulness, diligence and
truthtulness. They are without excep-
ton OF most positively encouraging
character. There Is no doubt that if the
election were held to-day Governor
Robinson and all his associates would
have larger majority over Mr. Cornell
than Governor Robinson had over E. D.
Morgan. There Is no doubt at all that
by the time OF the election this lead of
Governor Robinson will be greatly IN
creased. and that his associates will
keep right on even with him. IN an as
sured triumphant election. There are
those who are neither ignorant nor san
guine but informed, well judging. who
have reason to believe that Robinson
will beat Cornell out OF sight IN the
country districts alone, outside of New
York and Long Island, and there is not
any reason at all to expect less than So
600 majority in the metropolis and halt
that naj jority moro in Kings county.
This statement rests on facts. The facts
represent work, cleaner and closer work
than was ever done before; work that
tells in votes. There 10 no false conf
dence. There is no over confidence.
There is confidence based on knowledge,
and we commend just what we say to
the hearts and minds of all the friends
of good government. The friends of the
reform ticket know what they must do
and what veuality and virulence they
must overcome. They are working on
ward to virtually certain victory. Pass
the good word along the whole line.
Year: 1879

Some democrats are easily alarmed
and fear that the result in Ohio Is very
damaging TO democratic success in 1880.
Why should it be SOP Was not Ohio re-
publican in '76. and did not the demo-
cratic party elect the president in that
ysarp The situation is as favorable as
democrats have any right to expect.
No matter what New York, distracted
by the Kelly bolt, may do next Tues
day. the electoral college will stand as
follows after the election of 1880, and
the man who Is elected will be inaug-
urated:
Year: 1879

The Davenport Democrat thus cruelty
rubs in the salt and pepper with a hot
brick: "Well, are the learned moneta-
ry philosophers of the greenback school
satisfied now that Iowa and Ohio have
repudiated their financial system? Or
must the people of these United States
continue, at each succeeding election, to
demonstrate the faot that Solomon knew
Just what he WAS talking about when hs
said that there is certain variety OF the
genus homo from whom the folly Of .
fool cannot be separated even though he
be brayed In q mortar7"
Year: 1879




The committee to organize a National
Agricultural Society that shall represent
every section Of the country and combine
every interest directly OF indirectly re-
lated to agriculture have issued an ad-
dress from their headquarters in New
York city. They state that the aim OF
the society is the advancement OF agrlcul-
ture in the United States by practical
methods, such as periodical exhibitions of
soil products, in the principal cities OF the
country the encouragement OF lmmIgra-
ton; the discussion Of questions OF agll-
culture and Of commerce in its products
and the collection and dissemination OF
thought and experience thereon. \ con
yention will be held at the Metropolitan
Hotel, New York city, on the 10th OF De
cember, to further the design OF the Com
mittee on Organization.
Year: 1879

= court has decided that if a women
lends money to her husband She cannot
get It back. This is stale news to a great
many wives, who arrived at that decision
long ago without the aid Of i court
Year: 1879

A correspondent Of the Cincinnati En-
quirer tells the readers of that paper how
to make good biscuit. She says:


For my little family of five take one
tincupfui of sweet milk, five heaping tea
spoonfuls of lard and little salt roll soft
and bake in hot oven. never fall to
have good biscuits. Try this and report
results.


Biscuit made without flour would GER
tanly be novelty, but few would care 70
eat them. We do not recommend our
readers to try this receipt Ed
Year: 1879

Readers of the New York Times are indebted to W. L. Alden, the six-column writer Of the editorial page, for many smile, but has just exceled himself in his peculiar line, and there is a sound lesson of stern common sense in his discourse on the Astley belt walking match, of which he talks thus:

 There will probably be more phosieal suffering at the Madison Square Garden this week than there will be among the most earnest devotees of the Hindoo gods during any consecutive six days of the coming year. This shows at once our.vast superiority to the heather and ought to fill every Christian mind with exultation.

 Unlike the gladitorial shows of the an- cient Romans, or the cruel rites of mod ern heathenism, the great walking-m match has for its aim the good of the human race. Who can estimate the enormous amount of good that is done by man who publicly walks for six consecutive days around saw-dust track? Widows and orphans are clothed, the sick are cared for, the sorrowful are comforted and the wicked are turned from the er- TOT of their ways by the mere publica- ton of the bulletins which announce ii'" hhoiiy itpo hoNeli IldS Hlaue, alu how many miles Weston is the rear During the first few hours of the exhi- bition S6,300 was taken at the door, and we may safely estimate that not less than 5000 will be taken daily during the rest of the week. When we think that this large sum of money consecrat- ed to pedestrianism might have been frittered away upon the sick of Mem phis, or the poor of this city, we cannot but feel that the walking-match is an immense blessing. Why should we not have an international drunkard's match, with champion belt to be given to the drunkard who should drink the largest quantity of rum in given time-drink as you please?
Year: 1879

that the black cavities of the nippers below disappear in the sixth year; those of the next pair in the seventh year. and those of the corner teeth in the eighth; also the outer corner teeth of the upper and lower jaws just meet at eight years of age. At years old cups leave the two center nippers above, and each of the two upper corner teeth have little sharp protrusion at the extreme outer corner. At the age of 10 the cups disappear from the adjoining teeth: at the age of II the cups disappear from the corner teeth above, and are only in- dicated by brownish spots.

 The oval form becomes broader. and changes, from the twelfth to the six teenth yerr, more and more into a tri- angular form, and the teeth lose, finally. with the twentieth year, all regularity. There IS nothing remaining in the teeth that can afterward clearly show the age Of the horse or justify the most experi- enced examiner in giving a positive opinion.

 The tushes, or canine teeth, conical in shape, with sharp point and curved are cut between the third and fourth year, their points become more and more rounded until the ninth year, and after that more and more dull in the course of years, and lose, finally, all regular shape. Mares have frequently no tusks, or only very faintly indicated.
Year: 1879

The summer is past. The harvest is ended. The vacation is over. The sum- mer parties are broken up, and the sum- mer friends have gone home. The ducks we shot are still flying around, as happy as the ducks we did not shoot. The drought we caught are growing in weight and size from day to day. The memories of mountain and forest and sea finger to fill the coming winter days with the grace of summer sunshine. No more the fond musquito winds his mellow horn; the black ant haunts alone the long, long deserted picnic grounds; no good man settles on his sand-built nest. The grape smiles out in ruddy bloom where erst the strawberry mocked the languid poeketbook. The sound of the agricultural horse-trot" is heard in the land as the honest horseman wan ders from fair to county fair, enters his horse in all the races, under as many different names as there are counties in the United States. Again the Agricul- tural Associations are making enough money on the gambling privilege to pay the premiums on needle work, and saul sage on the hoof Gone is the salmon rod; gone is the book of the flies; gone is the internal economy of the pocket book; gone are several things. The breezes of September sigh dreamily through the rustling blades of the rip ened corn, and the wide lecture-iields smile with the promise of harvest We have been home about twenty-four hours-halloi train time already Time we were off for Colorado.
Year: 1879

hendalls lreatise on the Horse.

 Eight to fourteen days after birth the first middle nippers of the set of milk teeth are cut; four to six weeks after ward, the pair next to them; and finally after six or eight months the last. All these milk teeth have a well defined body, neck and shoulder fang, and on their front surface grooves or furrows, which disappear from the middle nip pers at the end of one year; from the next pair in two years, and from the in- cisiye teeth (eutters) in three years.

 At the age of two the nippers become loose and fall out; in their places appear two permanent teeth with deep, black cavities, and full, sharp edges. At the age of three, the next pair fall out At five years old the horse has his perma- nent set of teeth.

 The teeth grow in length as the horse advances in years, but at the same time the teeth are worp away by use about one-twelfth of an inch each year, SC
Year: 1879

The recent fluctuations in wheat are eliciting much discussion as to the causes which induced the precipitate de- cline in the Chicago market, while for eign prices were maintained. The Chi' cago Tribune attributes it to the reckless and dishonorable course of certain com mission men in the seaboard cities. The practice of selling short" in the Western markets has been condemned in un- measured terms, but it is not nearly so reprehensible as the same practice in the East when short sales are made to buy CTS in Europe. There are two ways in which these Eastern spectators operate under the guise of commission men. The Tribune explains them as follows:

 ]. They agree to deliver to English buyers, at certain date, certain quan- tity of wheat at price somewhat lower than the ruling market rate; if they are able to buy in the wheat before the day of delivery they carry out their agree ment; if not, they fail to deliver, and also escape the damages which they would be obliged to pay upon similar contracts ] made with residents of this country.
Year: 1879

WHEN the present Pope was a cardinal he cherished the idea of publishing a Catholic journal that should be the or gan of his church. and that could be read by all the people of Europe and America in their mother language. Since his elevation to the pontifcate he has exerted Himself to. start this newspa- per,and now announces that it's first num- Der will be issued next month. It will be printed in seven different languages twill discuss the political and economi- cal questions of the day, and officially represent the opinions of the holy see The compositors are to be the deaf and dumb pupils in the asylums of Rome Allmonde will be the general superin. tendent, and the Pope is anxious that q cardinal should be at the head oi the editorial department. The novel paper will start with 42,000 sub SScribers. Very few of the number ars Italians.
Year: 1879

A SHOCKING occurrence took place in Toronto, on Monday, in which lady lost one of her fingers. It appears that two boys quarreled on the street, and finally closed with each other. An elderly lady happened to approach at the time, and, seeing the boys fighting, stepped up to separate them. In his rage, one of the boys turned and catching the second finger of the lady's left hand between his teeth, bit it of at the second joint, as clean as though severed with knife.
Year: 1879

Sleep is most wonderful power, often stronger than the will, as in the case of a sleeping soldier, and more mighty than pain, as when sick persons and tortured persons sleep in the midst of their suffer ings. No torture, it is said, has been found equal to the prevention of sleep. Children need more sleep than grown persons, because construction is more active than decay in their brains.
Year: 1879

--Brooklyn's Absconding Post Office Clerk was an exemplary church member Perhaps his crime may do good by re- minding other church members tha' mere churchliness is no substitute fol virtue and honesty.
Year: 1879

One of our exchanges truth
fully remarks that ADVERTISE
ments are really items Of busi-
ness news, in which every citizen
is interested. The advertisers
pay for the privilege Of placing
their business pursuits before
the public. They seek their
own gain thereby, but they also
greatly promote the convenience
of the social and commercial
world, by advising where the
necessary exchanges Of life may
be accomplished. The newspa-
per goes everywhere Gtis fright
fully Omnipresent if anything is
in it that ought not to be,) and
thus it becomes the universal
broker of society, telling every
man who has a want where he
can get that want supplied. 1t
is a hawker, a bell ringer, a
universal gossip, never firing of
telling the news, and never hap
py after telling it, but immedi-
ately rushing out to tell it over
again.-EX.
Year: 1879

beating true to your own. Inc
chosen partner to your toll has
a smile Of appreciation when
Others have deserted a hand Of
hope, when all others refuse, and
a heart to feel your sorrows as
her own. Perhaps a smiling
cherub with prattling glee and
Joyous laugh will drive all sor-
row from your carewOrn brow,
and enclose it in the wreath Of
domestic bliss.


No matter how humble that
home may be, how destitute its
stores, or how poorly it's inmates
are clad; if true hearts dwell
there it is yet a home-a cheer
full, prudent wife, obedient and
affectionate children, will give
their possessors more real joy
than bags OF gold and WINDY
honor.


The home Of a temperate, in
dustrious, honest man, will be
his greatest joy. He comes to
it "weary and worn" but music
of voices and the happy laugh
Of childhood cheer him. A plain
but healthful meal awaits him,
Envy, ambition and strife have
no place there, and with a clear
conscience he lays his weary
limbs down to rest in the bosom
Of his family, and under the
protection Of one poor mans
friend and helper Elk.
Year: 1879

THE pension bill passed by Congress
last week and now under consideration
by the president provides simply this j:
That every wounded soldier, or every
widow of soldier killed in the service,
or who died of disease contracted while
in the service, who at some time subse-
quent to such disability or death made
proper application to the government
and was granted pension to continue
from that time onward, shall now receive
from the treasury . sum equal to that
which he would have received up to the
time Of application had that pension
commenced with the disability or death.
That Is to say, pensions are to be paid,
not only after the date of granting but
before. As most of the pensions now
paid were granted subsequent to the oc.
casion therefor, this enactment will bring
almost every pensioner in the country 10
the treasury doors with bill for arrears.
The probabilities are so complicated that
it is not easy to compute the amount of
money necessary to satisfy the demand,
bu: the commissioner Of pensions esti-
mates it at $50, ,00O, 900. 1t is thought the
President may veto the bill.
Year: 1879

Col. CALx1Ne, an old,line Democratic
editor of Wisconsin, in his paper, The
Telegraph, thus compliments the Repub-
lican party on its fidelity to the cause OF
honest money:


The Republicans, in wsging q cam.
paien for honest money and resumption
in the face of hard times and business
distress, have shown courage and sagacity
which have never failed them in great
emergencies of their party, and they have
redeemed themselves from what appeared
like almost inevitable defeat, with the
probable reversion of long renewal of
their lease of power.
Year: 1879

NEVER since 1850 have California in
habitants experienced such cold weather,
the mercury falling to Is degrees above
zero, and in some places even lower.
Seventeen degrees below freezing point
is pretty cold weather for California, and
residents on the Pacific coast must feel
this very sensibly. There are fears that
the next crop will he materially effected
by this unusual cold
Year: 1879

"Make our money as good as gold, ~
said Senator Sumner, land the gold OF
the world will come to our assistance,
helping all the demands Of business, aud
adapting the currency to the occasion.
Make our currency as good AS gold, and
the national example will be above re-
proach, while the wantonness of specula-
ton will give place to the just transaction
of an honest commerce. The same fa-
miliar paper will circulate, but changed
from ifeless corpse to a living soul,
recognized and honored wherever credit
is known" To John Sherman alone
give all the glory. For John Sherman
was the author of the resumption act, and
in the face Of powerful opposition, he
has made the resumption of specie pay
ments grand and glorious success. The
nation is richer to day by over two hun.
dred millions than when he was appoin-
ted Secretary of the Treasury, due almost
entirely to his able management Of its
finances. The refunding Of the bonded
debt of the country at tour per cent, which
is now rapidly taking place under his
is making that the national and
popular rate ol interest. At the east new
life seems to have been infused into
financial and commercial affairs, and
capital is no longer timid. OF course,
we IN the west will not share in this
feeling 80 much until after another crop
But certainly the outlook is cheering,
and we look for long and prosperous
dawning of brighter and
better day. We too believe, a. says =
Washington correspondent, "John Sher-
mans name will 60 into history as the
great financier of this country"
Year: 1879

MORE adulteratlon. The statement IS
made that several mills in New England
are grinding white stone into powder, to
be used In adulterating sugar, soda and
flour. Wonder ii this is food for brain
oe Ynon1aola
Year: 1879

THE second asylum for the insane at
Rochester has now fifty patients. with
capacity for one hundred only. $4,000
are to be asked OF the Legislature this
winter for an enlargement Of the build