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Year: 1878




As what is known as the malta scan
dial" is now the subject of a Court OF
Inquiry, and as many misstatements
have been made on the subject, there
can be no harm in saying that the equer-
ry who has been horsewhipped is Cap
tain the Hon. ID. J. Monson, and that
his a8sailant-who conceives himself
cruelty insulted-is Mr.. t-Steven-
son, Adjutant of the Forty-second High
landers.


No one can deny the Duke of Edin-
burg the credit of having at least stood
up for his retainer through thick and
thin. In the first place. when the cX-
plosion came, it was the Prince who
screened his equerry from the dire risk
of a hostile meeting. Then it seems to
have been the same Royal parsonage
who counseled the farce of the agree
ment for hushing up the affair, on con-
dition of the equerry taking to his heels,
Not content with the gallant Lothario
being let Off solightly, again it is Prince
ly ingenuity which suggested that the
agreement has been broken, and that
the eQuerry was accordingly entitled to
return to Malta. Furthermore, it comes
about by the same Royal influence that
civilian is suffered to become prose-
cutor before a military court of inquiry:
and the Duke himself as a witness at
the inquiry on behalf OF his protege had
not his application to return ION sick
leave" from the Dardanelles to Malta
in the Rupert been refused.


The cquerry eventually offered to eX-
change a couple of cozy bullets with the
injured husband, which the latter de-
clined. Before this refusal was return
ed, the officer to whom it was sent sub
mitted the challenge to five military
friends, equally distinguished for their
honor and their high rank in the SER
vice; and they gave it as their opinion
that, as the officer had already proffered
satisfaction of the kind in question,
which proposal the equerry had thought
fit to refuse, he could not now, without
compromising his character, accede to
the equerry's request for n meeting.
Year: 1878

ence to the decision of the Supreme court
of Louisiana in releasing Anderson and the
action of Gov. Hampton in bringing the
militia forces OF South Carolina to the as
sistance OF the government In its efforts to
enforce the revenue laws in that State and
expressions Of satisfaction Herewith were
made by the President and cabinet officers.
The President did not hesitate to say that
the particular events noted should be re-
garded as an indication OF the proper state
Of public feeling in South Carolina.
Year: 1878

From the Detroit Free Press.


An instance of filial consideration
comes from Quebec, and it is hoped it
will serve as bright example to other
sons throughout the land. A son in the
vicinity of that ancient place will not
even go to visit to the city without his
fathers permission. The most trivial
REQUESTS of the parent are implicitly
obeyed, and the boy does nothing with.
out first consulting his father. The
old mans name Is Peul Leonard and he
is lo7 years old. The youngster IL
yishty.ays,
Year: 1878

The Louisiana Legislature adjourned
sine die the day after the Supreme
Court ordered the release of Anderson.
One work of the Legislature was to
pass, for submission to the people at
the next election, number of amend.
ments to the State Constitution. The
closing hours of the session, it is said,
were marked by considerable bitter
ness.
Year: 1878

Indiana is going into the new State.
house business on the basis of an esti,
mated cost of $l,7OOOOO. If she will
put the managers under guard as soon
as the cornerstone is laid, with the
understanding that they shall be shot the
moment the expenditure goes beyond
the estimate, it will be easy enough tc
keep within the limit.
Year: 1878

The published correspondence be


tween Count Schouvaloff and Lord
Derby makes clear one important point.
The British government was informed
year ago as to what the Russian pro-
gramme would be as to Constantinople
and the country south of the Balkans.
Year: 1878

Pittsburg must be queer place to
live in. The inhabitants Of Fifth ave-
nue., hillside street in that city, COM
plain that their street is gradually slid
ing down hill, and the people living
further down the slope have petitioned
the common council to relieve them
from the danger of having their houses
smashed by the descending thorough
fare.
Year: 1878

AN UNDENIABLE Truth You deserve to
suffer, and if you lead miserable, unsatisfac-
tory life in this beautiful world, it is entirely
your own fault and there is only one excuse
for you,-your unreasonable prejudice and
skepticism, which has killed thousands. Per-
sonal knowledge and common sense reason
ing will soon show you that Green's August
Flower will cure you of Liver Complaint, or
Dyspepsia, with all its miserable effects, such
as sick headache, palpitation of the heart,
sour stomach, habitual costiVeness, dizziness
of the head, nervous prostration, low spirits,
etc. It's sales now reach every town on the
Western continent, and not a Druggist but
will tell ah OF its wonderful cures. You can
buy Sample Bottle for 10 cents. Three doses
will relieve you.
Year: 1878

The Philadelphia Times says that
the average Democratic opinion in
Washington about Keys letter seems
to be that the Postmaster General was
atrife too near his own bombshell when
1t exploded.
Year: 1878




Of the decision Of the Electoral SoRi- :
mission, body created by both par
ties, and with a full and fair under
standing that the decision should be
final. But, at the same time, these
election frauds Of Florida and Louis
lana should be probed to the very bot
tom and the whole rascally transaction
laid bare for the inspection of the peo-
pie.


If Mr.. Keys letter is a bid for a
continuance of favor at the hands of
the Administration itmay be a success,
bat it will be sufficient to say that the
people Of the South will care as little
for Mr.. Keys letter as they care for
Mr.. Key.
Year: 1878

There is deposited at the Mint, Broad
street, Philadelphia, troy pound
weight, which is kept under duplicate
locks and seals. There is curious hiss
tory connected with this.weight. By it
is determined the standard to which
the accuracy Of the gold and silver coins
of the United States must attain. The
commission appointed by the President
to test the coins and make the annual
assay use this weight, and on these oe-
casions it is taken from its carefully
guarded seclusion, and it shows the ac-
curacy or inaccuracy Of the productions
Of the various mints in this country.
This little cylinder is copied from troy
pound weight preserved in the Tower OF
London, and on this latter the coinage
of Great Britain rests for reliability.
This exact witness of financial integrity
is carefully preserved and guarded from
tampering hands. At the conclusion Of
the assay commissions labors the weight
is intrusted to the care Of a judge Of the
United States district court, the COL
lector of the port aud the director Of
the mint, locked up and solemnly sealed
for another year, only to appear twelve
months after and show which mint has
been derelict in Its work.
Year: 1878

Taking seat just behind the happy
pair in church, he racked his brain for
means of revenge, and looked like sew
enteen Othellos concentrated in one.
Finally ghastly smile crept over his
face, he raised half up in his seat, and
nabbed a large black bug that was
crawling on pillar hard by, and gent
ly dropped him down between his un-
cons cious rivals shirt collar and neck,
and then calmnly leaned back with q
virtuous and christian air of satisfac..
ton. The bug soon made his presence
felt, and that other fellow began to
twitch and scratch himself against the
back of his seat and look uneasy, and
cast unhappy glauces at tho minister and
affecting ones at the fair being by his
side. The bug evidently grew more
impatient at his imprisonment, and
turned himself loose, graphing around
with recklessness very suggestive oi
of big black spiders or scorpions and
that other fellow could stand ii NJ
longer ; but boiling upright, cast ont
wild, startled look at the congregation
cleared the space between him and th,
door at two bounds.
Year: 1878

There are light, quick, surface voices
that involuntary seem to utter II won't
do to tie to-" The mans words may
assure you of his strength of purpose
and reliability: yet his tone contradicts
his speech.


Then there are low, deep, strong
voices, where the words seem ground
out as if the man owed humanity q
grudge, and meant to pay it some day,
The mans opponents may tremble and
his friends trust his ability to act.


There is the course, boisterous, die
tatorlal tone invariably adopted by vul-
gar people who have not sufficient
cultivation to understand their insignif-
cameo.


There is the incredulous tone, that j.
full of a covert sneer, or secret, "you
cart dupe me, sir" intonation.


Then there is whining, beseeching
voice that says "sycophant" as plainly
as if it uttered the word. 1t cajoles and
fatters you; you are everything that you
should be.


Then there is the tender, musical
compassionate voice that sometimes goes
with sharp features, but always with
genuine benevolence.


If you arc full Of affectatioE ant
pretense, your voice proclaims it.


If you are full of honest strength ant
purpose, your voice proclaims it.
IF you are cold and calm and firm ant
persistent, or tickle and foolish and de
ceptive, your voice will be equally trutl
telling.


You cannot change your voice from
a natural to an unnatural tone wlthou
its being known that you are so doing
Year: 1878

1t is a we'll known fact that from time
to time immemorial herds of wild
horses have roamed over the plains Of
southwestern Kansas. Their origin no
man knows. 1t may date back to the
early Spanish conquest Of the country,
1t has been exceedingly difficult to cap.
ture them, the metho pursued having
been to run down and lasso them with
feet horses Latterly, however, it has
been ascertained that they can be cap
tured in herds. The method is to get
up an outfit Of a fast walking team on a
wagon carrying provisions and camp
supplies, and three or four riding po-
MES and as many men. When a herd
is found they are kept moving, no eff.
fort being made to drive them in any
direction. The team and ponies are
not driven faster than walk, and every
opportunity is embraced of cutting
across to save distance. The wild hor,
ses are kept in motion until dark, being
given an opportunity to Craze during
the day. At night they are too tired
to Craze, and will lie down. The pur.
suers camp, feed their horses from grain
which they carry with them, and are up
by daylight, have breakfast and start
again. This is kept up day after day.
Every day takes some of the scare and
wild out of them; they become accus-
toned to sight of the men on horseback
and the team, find that they are not
going to be hurt By them, and tired
and leg-weary from constant travel and
little feed, and in from eight to ten days
will allow the men to ride in among
them and drive them in any direction.
They arc then headed for the ranch.
and are quite tame and docile by the
time they get in. They are Of the pony
order, such as are used in the cattle
business, make good riding ponies, and,
when thoroughly broken, good teams
for light driving in that country. They
sell, when broken to ride, at GIG to s25
per head, and when broke to ride and
drive from $50 to s75 per span.
Year: 1878

In the dark path of the late eclipse
across Texas, 116 miles in width, there
were thousands of ignorant people, both
white and black, who had not heard
that anything peculiar was about to hap
pen. Many of these people the eclipse
surprised at work in their fields. Many
ludicrous scenes are reported. Espe-
-.-"y = s,.o plantation of United States
Senator Coke, near Waco, was it that
the negroes went to praying, believing
verify that the day of judgment had
come. A terrible tragedy in Johnston
county may be set down to the eclipse.
Ep5raim Miller, colored, with his fam.
lily of wife aud four children, lived near
Buchanan, in that county, whittier be
had removed from Tennesse six months
ago. On the morning Of the eclipse
he said that no had heard the world
was coming to an end that evening, and
if so, he intended to be so sound asleep
the trumpet of the Angel Gabriel could
not awaken him. When the eclipse
commenced and the darkness Of totality
came on he ran from the field to his
house with hatchet in his hand. He
was followed by negro woman named
Nancy Ellison, who also thought the
world was coming to an end. As she
cot to the house Miller's wife rushed
out under the same delusion, and look
ing up at the beautiful corona of light
around the black moon, screamed,
"Come, sweet chariot !" at the same
time rushing across cotton field wiring
ing his hands. In the meantime, Mill
Ter, wishing to take hi, ten'year.old boy
with him to the other side of Jordan,
raised his Ratchet and split his head
open. Leaving the latter weltering in
his blood and struggling in the last
throes of death, the father, on a ladder,
ascended to the top Of the house. Here
with new razor he cut his throat from
ear to ear, and he fell to the ground a
corpse. His two little daughters es>
capped by hiding under bed.
Year: 1878

GThe following beautiful poem is said t
have been written by King James /, though
by some it is ascribed to Bishop Andrews.
If any are distressed and fain would gather
Some comfort. let them hasten unto


Our Father.
For we ofhope and health are quite bereaver
Unless Thou succor us


Who art in Heaven.
Thou showest mercy, therefor for the same
We praise Thee, singing,


Hallowed be Thy name.
Of all Thy miseries cast up the sum,
Show us Thy joys. and let


Thy Kingdom come.
We mortals are, and alterfrom our birth,
Thou constant art;


Thy will be done on Earth.
Thou madest earth, as we'll as the planets


seven;
Thy name Is blessed here.


AS it is in Heaven.
Nothing we have to use, or debts to pay,
Except Thou give it to us.


Give US this day.
Wherewith to clothe us, where to be fed,
For without Thee we want


Our daily bread.
We want, but want no faults. for no day


passes
But we do sin


Forgive us our trespssses.
No man from SHINING ever free did live;
Forgive US, o Lord, our sins,


AS we forgive.
If we repent our faults, Thou ne'er dis


dained us,
We pardon those


That trespass against us.
Forgive us that is passed, new path tread
Direct US always in Thy Faith,


And lead US,
We, Thine own people and Thy chosen ma


tion,
Into all truths, but


Not into temptation.
Thou that of all good grace art the giver,
Suffer us not to wander,


But deliver
Us from the fierce assaults of the world and


devil,
And flesh, so shalt thou free US


From all evil.
To these petitions let both church and lay


men
With one consent of heart and voice, soy


Amen.
Year: 1878

1t is told of that distinguished SOL
dier, Sir Phillip Sidney. that being
about to wash his hands after hard
fought battle, he had just taken up the
soap and turned OF the warm water
when he perceived a particularly grim
soldier at his side. Handing the soap
to the soldier, with the now historic
words, "Thy necessity is greater than
mine" Sir Phillip turned away, and
went, unwashed, to his virtuous couch'
Cold and cynical indeed must be the
man who can read this anecdote with
out a thrill of admiration and sudden
mi.t of tears.
Year: 1878

CONGRESS is the only legislative authority
for the government of this District. VIII it
exercise that authority to.day-tho day set
apart for the consideration OF District af-
ilirs' Utterly dependent as the nearly
two hundred thousand citizens OF the Ma
tionsl Capital are upon the representatives
OF the people in the lower House. they will
watch the proceedings in that body to-day
with more than usual interest /. Is 10 DO
hoped nothing will occur TO postpone con-
'Idcrntion of our pressing interests again,
and that the importance OF the demands Of
such large un:cpresented constituency
will not be overlooked
Year: 1878

THIRTEEN years ago yesterday occurred
the assassination of ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
From out the editorial rooms of THE Ma
TIoNAL REPUBLICAN building can be seen
the angular roofs and the plain, unpretend-
ing structure once called FoRD's Theatre
that building wherein the assassin did his
work too well, and the life's blood of one OF
the best and purest men of the age ebbed
slowly away. That fearful crime Of Friday
night is yet remembered, and the Republi-
can principles OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN still
live. The man, good and pure, was stricken
down but the principles for which he fell
a. martyr survive him, ever to be the rally
ing cry of the Republican party of this ma
ton. Charitable and with a kindly heart


but firm and unyielding in his devotion to
the creed of tho party which elected him


The memory of ABRAHAM LINCOLN should
! serve as IN honest guide to him who now oc-
cupics the chair OF our martyr President
Year: 1878

TIE Republican party may have commit
ted eaOrs in policy, but none of these have
ever attained an enormity that would ins-
tify the handing of the Government over to
the Confederate Democracy, that they may
bs corrected. The people should not lose
sight of that one point 1t is ot necessary
to destroy the entire fabric to patch rents
of trifing importance.
Year: 1878

We would like 10 have some twenty
or more political theorists sit in the gallery
of the House to-day and note tho objections
OF Northern Democrats looking out for re-
turn At the fall elections to tho passage Of
private bills for the relief OF Southern claim
ants on first presentation from the commit
tees What does it all meanH Ths effect
Of such objection is, at the most, simply de-
fcrring the bill till next session when thor
hopes of reelection will have been decided
How will they then vOte2
Year: 1878

time to withhold proper encouragement to
our merchant marine. As II nation we Ger
tainly do aspire to extensive trading; but
our national Legislators have hampered that
aspiration in every conceivable way. II re-


mains to be seen whether they will make
amends by prompt, consderate, and favor
able action regarding measures for the re-
lief of our stagnated shipping interests now
pending before them.
Year: 1878

A SlNGULAR STATENENT.-0n Sunday last Rev.
Mr. Talmage in his third sermon upon the
Wlckedness OF New York. made the singular
statement that, while looking on at a game OF
roulette in one of the gambling houses OF that
city, he was told 10y the officer i'm whose COM
pany he was that no one entered there except
upon the introduction OF patron or by police
mandate
Year: 1878

JACK FROST CONQUERING YELLOW JACK.-The
the germs OF the fever at Memphis. and the
BOARD OF health viii announce to-day that
refugees may return with safety. At New Or
iealiS the number of new cases is still diminish
ing as Wen as the number OF deaths. There
were black frost and ice at Vicksburg Sunday
night, and the outlook generally in the fever
again.
Year: 1878

A WOMAN CRUSHED TO DEATH IN AN ELEyA-
TOR.-MrS. Annie Young, wife OF Thomas
Young, janitor at store No. III Nassau street
New YORK, undertook TO operate the hydraulic
elevator by herself, Saturday. and went to the
Top OF the building. She reversed it in order to
she tried to jump out, but was caught by the
stlll descending elevator, and her head wa,
Ieaf1ully crushed, causing her death in about
an hour after the accident
Year: 1878

1HE CIPHER DISPATCHES.-One whose official
position should give him every facility to know
the facts in the case says that the cipher dis
patches recently printed in the New YORK
Tribune We're i'm the possession Of Senator MOI
ton before his death: likewise the key thereto
and that the Senator had intended to expose
this Geographic correspondence had he lived
Year: 1878

THE CLERKS in the Office OF the republican
campaign congressional committee yesterday
presented to Secretary Gorham a Handsomely
flamed Photographic picture Of all Of the en-
plOyeS of the committed
Year: 1878

CURIOUS TELEGRAM.-At the Cabinet meet
ing this afternoon the Attorney General read
telegram which he had received from the mar
Shal of Texas. stating that nearly all the COM
plants of lawlesSneSS in that state come from
greenbacherS who We're formerly democrats
Year: 1878

GRANGE.


BRETHREN We enter upon the
discharge of our new duties with a
Just sense of the responsibilities of
the position, and an honest purpose
to do our duty as becomes a good
Patron. We earnestly invoke your
hearty CO operation, that our noble
cause may prosper. 1t is a source
of graduation that the spirit mani
tested by your representatives in
the late meeting of the State Grange,
augured well for the future success
of our Order, Notwithstanding there
is a reduction in membership and
in the number Of working Oranges.
But those errors and false views of
the nature and methods of the
Order, which have greatly retarded
it's growth in some sections of our
State, have been, we trust, dissi-
pated; and we may now rejoice in
the bright prospect that opens be-
fore u.s. Our Order is yet in its in
fancy, and though highly practical
and comprehensive in its aims, was
necessarily experimental in its oper-
ations in the beginning; and your
representative in their late meeting
labored assiduously to remedy all
defects, and to so perfect the ma
chinery of its organization as to ia
cilltate greatly the future progress
and development of the Order in
our midst.


The removal of all obstacles to
the rehabilitation of the dormant
Oranges, and such other provisions
Year: 1878

Savannah (Ga. News: An inter-
esting decision relating to the right
of husband to the custody of his
wife was recently determined by
Judge Rice at q late term of the
Gwinnett County Court. The wife
was a minor, being only sixteen
years of age, and or this ground her
father detained her at home. The
husband sued out writ of habeas
corpus, and on the return day of the
same the Judge held: 'That, not
withstanding the license was ir
regularly issued and the father had
not given his consent, she being six
teen years of age, the marriage was
valid and binding, and the parties
occupied the relationship of hus-
band and wife; but that under the
law which gives the parent the Gus
tody and right to the services of his
child until majority, unless he vol
UNFAIRLY loses it, that defendant had
the right to her service until she was
twenty-one, and therefore was en-
titled TO her custody. An order was
therefore passed dismissing the writ
and remanding the wife TO the pos
session of her father"
Year: 1878

A story is told of a deacon in
TenRnessee, who was in the habit
of riding bucking mule-that is,
a mule that can make a camePs
back of its straight one, and, by a
spasmodic movement of its four
legs and hump, discharge its rider
like cannon ball. The other day
they came to the edge Of the worst
mud hole in the State, and the mule
gave uamistakable indications OF
bucking. The good deacon knew
that he was about to be thrown, and
his mind skurried about for pray
er. His table grace came easiest
Lord, for what we are about to re
ceive make us humbly thankful.
he exclaimed, and the mule ha(
bucked and he was in.
Year: 1878

A married acquaintance says his
wife don't let him belong to a club,
because, she says, it would take him
out of an evening, when he ought to
stay at home and make club to her.
A woman who could make a joke
on such a subject ought to be club
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