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Year: 1877

From the Richmond Dispatch, 17th.


RICHMOND, VA, Dec. 11th, 1S77.-It
may be we'll to correct the incident in
refersnce to General Gordon and the
PRAYER on the eve of battle, which is
going the rounds, so far as to say that
General Gordon tUdS aecer a preacher.
His father was a preacher, as is also a
younger brother who served on his staff !;
but the General was simply one of those
earnest Christian laymen with whom our
army was blessed, who never hesitated
to ''show his colors," and who exerted a
wide influence for the religious good of
all who came in contact with him.


have heard him make exhorJations
to his men of great pathos and wonder
full power as he urged them to put their
trust in Christ. And have known him
to seek personal interviews with many of
his officers and men that he might press
upon them the claims OF the gospel.


In the winter of 1S63,64 it was my
privilege to assist Rev. A. B. Woodfin
(now chaplain at the University of Vir-
ginia) in a great revival in Gordon's
brigade, during the continuance of which
there were some three hundred profess
tions of conversion, and we regarded Gen
eral Gordon as one of the most valuable
and efficient workers in the meeting.


have thought it worth while to make
this correction as giving another OF the
many examples which show that man
need not be a preacher, in the technical
sense, in order to be actively useful as a
Christian worker.


j. WILLIAM JONES,
Year: 1877

The arrangements for the Theodore
Thomas Orchestra concerts at the High.
land House and Belyidere are progress
ing most fayorably in all respects, and
there is every evidence that our people
Will show a thorough appreciation OF
the enterprise that gives them an oppor-
tunity vi hearing this excellent organ
Year: 1877

sian troops in Bulgaria refuse
pay unless they can receive
L in the coin OF their own country.
This they demand or threaten to sur
render TO the Turks. Toe state of af-
fairs is very alarming. News from the
seat OF war Is that the combatants seem
to veil their movements with the utmost
care from newspaper correspondents,
Year: 1877

a The editor of the Wathens Reporter, re-
viewing the rise and success of the paper under
the guidance Of his Greeleyan intellect, remarks
that Q great deal that is due him will never be
paid. We thought this would be the cry, in due
time. All publishers lose . great deal, even with
the most careful management; but the Reporter
hes bssn wont, about twice year, in order to
coax mp some sort of . circulation, to invite the
public to come In and subscribe on time, express
ing its willingness to trust all who wanted to
run OF tick. and promising never to dun. The
result il, that out of its ono hundred and fifty
subscribers, one hundred and forty are dead
beats who accepted tho offer Of credit. Ofcourse,
they will never pay him. But he can "accumu.
lstsp that capital, as he did his "wages" and fall
back on it when he wants to take in another
Office
Year: 1877

A war correspondent writes Shortly
after leaving Rahova, we saw number OF


Circassians engaged in their fayorite


pastime ofracing. The way in which they


race in this: One competitor takes white


flag in his right hand and suddenly breaks
away at full gallop, followed by any one
of his opponents who chooses. Pursuer
and pursued urge their horses to their ut
most speed by fierce shouts and blows Of
the flag or whip, ard the flag bearer turns
his sure footed horse from right to left and
left to right like hare before grey
hound, until either the pursuer acknowl,
edges defeat and returns to his comrades,
or else passes the holder of the flag, when
he takes it, and the pursuer becomes the
pursued. The second heat then takes
place, and should the winner of the first
be again successful, he wins the tie, and
two other competitors take their places.
The game is very exciting, and calls forth
all the splendid horsemanship for which
the Circassians are so justly famed.
Year: 1877

the sun. The last man will be sunstruck


5. The amount Of water on the earth is
slowly diminishing, and simultaneously
the air is losing in quantity. Finally, the
earth will be an arid waste, like the moon.
The last man will be suffoeated.


6, Other suns have disappeared, and
ours must, sooner or later, blaze up and
then disappear. The intense heat of the
confagration will kill every living thing
on earth. The last man will be burned
up.


{. The suns fire will gradually burn out,
and the temperature will cool. The earth )
glacial zones will enlarge, driving our race
ttwArd the equator, until the habitable
space will lessen to nothing. The last man
will be frozen to death.


8. A gradual cooling Of the earth will
produce enormous assures, ike those seen
in the moon. The surface will become
extremely unstable, until the remnant of
humanity will take refuge in caves. The
last man will be crushed in his subterra-
mean retreat.


8. The earth will at last separate into
small fragments, leaving the people with
out any foothold. The last man will have
dreadful fall through space.


10. The tenth theory, proving that there
will be no last man at all, is thus expressed
Evolution does not necessarily imply
progress, and possibly the race may have
refrigerated unil the human being pos
sesses the nature Of the plant louise such
being the case, this single inhabitant will
spontaneously produce posterity of both
sexes"
Year: 1877




There ought to be some place at every important
point in the country whore savings could be deposited
with positive certainty of safety. No place
be provided except by through the authority Of the
government A man who takes national bank note
knows 1t be good because the government guaran-
tion. 1t ought to DO with deposits, but the next
best thing, and not but the better
one Is TOR the goovrnment itself to become
the custodian Of The peoples money. How
easily the plan could bs made 10 work will
readily appear by taking own city example.
We have hero an Assistant United States TreasUre
who does speak, the Official banking business Of
clerical this institution might become the saw
ngs bank OF the CITY, receiving and paying out as re-
CURED But the people want interest on their saw
ings and the government cannot enter this Held. Not
directly but II the sub Treasury in this city was
supplied with bonds oil the United states. for which
that millions OF dollars would be invested III
them by the people where comparatively moth
ing Is Invested now. The fact Is
that the great OF our citizers know
httic or nothing about government securities; no
eIor has been made To popularize them but II onco
they were made fainiliar goodIy proportion o our
debt would oe hoatcd IN TINS country. And It ought
SO. The man who has financial interest IN the
existence OF the government has strong link added
to the chain OF patriotism which binds him 10 tho
land The people ought TO be afforded two opportuni
ties by the government l. The opportunity W dc.
from breaking banks or abscondlng cashiers. z
The opportunity TO invest their surplus savings
tionai securities OF low denomination and bearing
q lair rate OF interest.
Year: 1877

but 1t will be impossible to accomplish that result
without providing them with the means OF safely In
vesting their surplus earnings 10 that they may be
secure and draw reasonable amount Of interest II
absolute security could be obtained the amount Of
economy thrift would thereby be encouraged and
augmented. We believe that this desidcratum
readily be obtained by simply making
the currency OF the nation exchangeable for
interest bearing bonds OF the national government
Although do believe In the practical ity Of tho
scheme advocated by Hon. W. d. Kelley and others,
which proposes issue Indefinite amount Of green
backs to be interchangeable with government
loss think that the plan contains the germ OF what
might be made a very useful and bencfcent financial
policy But, however that be, the fact 10 that the
people OF the United States amilartxed with the
investment Tor their savings The success which A.


tended the taxing OF the fQr pcr cent loan during the
very short period tho people had an oppor-
tunity 10 subscribe for II rs . popular loan
70 have placed tho entire amount OF that loan
In tho hands OF our own people. TO have accom-.
pIished this result II would have been necessary of
course, to have given perfect facilities 10 the
people for getting the bonds than the machinery o!
the syndicate provides and likewise TO have extended
the ne considerably The necessity for action Is ur


CONT so many savings banks have Jailed recently
that popular confidence In them IS utterly destroyed
Fortunately II is within the power OF the govern
ment by means Of popular loan. TO afford people the
means OF securing their savings and At the same time
strengthen the hold OF that upon tho pop
uiar affections. The agony which so many thousands
OF people endured yesterday IN Chicago when they
learned Of the failure OF the bank in which thor utto


fortunes deposited appeals eloquenty to the gov
ernment exercise the power which II possesses OF
giving the people security for their savings
Year: 1877

The Santa Monica Railroad having been sold by Senator Jones to the Southern Pacific Company, that charming little town is now trying to console it. self for not being the western ter minus of an independent road across the continent, by refecting that the s. P. Co. will be able to spend more money there than Jones could. and that it will use all its influence to build up this occidental "Long Branch" Santa Monica possesses particular inter- est for Yuma only from the fact that 1t is the nearest and most agreeable point at which we can reach the ocean. Sea bathing there is sure medicine for tor pid livers. priekiy heat, and other anneyances incident to warm weather here. As soon as some hotels are built there they will probably advertise the fact out here.
Year: 1877

Gold. Silver, Copper or Lead. will Do made at highest possible rates for accounsr of owners My long experience and con nection with buyers in the different mar kets give me very decided advantage oyer any one in the Territory in making such sales to the profit of those entrusting them to me Correct and responsible ssssJs, obtained and submitted when desired.
Year: 1877

One of the worst.things that can
be applied to a road-bed in ordc,
to ill depression, or. as commonly
called, a mud hole, is turf and ton
soil. If dry weather ousucs, IL Is
soon powder, and if wet weather
it. makes more and worse mud
than before it was applied. Good
clean gravel should be hauled and
applied to replace any wear or
holes on a dirt road and gravel
only.
Year: 1877




In the latter days of the Greek domination
Trebizond was the capital of an independent
Empire. Since it was taken by the Turks,
notwithstanding the advantages of its situa-
ton, its growth has been arrested, and it has
sunk from the dignity of political capital to
third-rate town. Whatever commerce it
has is carried on by Greeks and Armenians
and few foreign traders. Under a power
like that of Russia it would become place of
great importance in every respect, and would
soon rival the splendid era of the two hun
dred-year rule of the house of Comnenus.
As long as it belongs to Turkey it will be the
miserable, tumble-down place that it now is
without a sheltered port, and with an open
roadstead only for anchorage, where vessels
lie league from shore exposed to the full
power of the land and sea gales. The Turks
have great power for destruction aud none
for construction. Put them down In any
given place, and let 1t be as rich and prosper
Gus as it may, and in short time they will
let it fall into decay. Ifitis seaport its har-
bor will be choked up with sand, its piers will
crumble to pieces, its trade will dwindle away
and its population will thin off as if 1t had
been swept by a pestilence. The famous
haIbors Of Asia Minor, once thronged by the
galleys of the Phenicians, Egyptians, Greeks,
Romans, and all the trading nations of an
tiquity, are blocked up with mud and mac
cessible. In many places the deposits have
stopped the mouths of rivers, causing them
to overspread the surrounding plains, and
converting them into breeding places of mias-
ma and pestiferous fevers.
Year: 1877

Never write with pen or ink. 1t Is altogether
too plain, and doesn't hold the minds of the
editors and printers closely enough to their
work.


If you are compelled to use ink never use
that vulgarity known as the blotting pad. II
you drop blot of ink on the paper lick it of.
The intelligent compositor loves nothing 30
dearly as to read through the smear this will
make across twenty or thirty words. We have
seen him hang over such piece OF copy half
an hour, swearing like pirate all the time, he
felt that good


Don't punctuate. We prefer to punctuate all
manuscript sent to u.s. And don't use capitals.
Then we can punctuate and capitalize to suit
ourselves, and your article, when you see it in
print, will astonish even if it does not please
yOu


plebeian origin and public-school breeding
Poor writing is an indication Of genius that
great many men possess. Scrswl your article
with your eyes shut and make every word as
Ineligible as you can. We get the same price
for it from the rag man as thought it were COW
cred with copper-plate sentences.


Avoid all painstakiDg with proper names.
We know the full name of every man, woman
and child in the United States, and the merest
hint at the name is sufficient. For instance, it
you write character something like drunken
figure IS, and then draw a wavy line. We will
know at once that you mean Samuel Morrison.
even though you may think you mean "Lemuei
Messenger" 1t is great mistake that proper
names should be written plainly.


Always write on both sides of the paper, and
when you have filled both sides Of every page
trail line up and down every margin, and
back to the top Of the first page, closing your
article by writing the signature just above the
date. How we do love to get hold OF articles
written in this style. And how we would like
to get hold Of the man who sends them. Just
for ten minutes Alone. In the woods, with .
cannon in our hip pocket. Revenge is sweet;
yum, yum, yum.


write; the ugher the ground the better.


Coarse brown wrapping paper Is the best for
writing your articles on. Ii you can tear dewn
an old circus poster and write on the pasty side
of it with pen stick, it will do still better.


When your article is completed, crunch your
paper in your pocket and carry it two sor three
days before sending it. This rubs off the super
fuous pencil marks and makes it lighter to
handle.


If you can think of it, lose one page out of
the middle Of your article. We can easily sup
ply what is missing and we love to do it. We
have nothing else to do.
Year: 1877

THE cotton gin created revolution in the
cost and production of this important fleece.
Recently another invention has been per-
fected which may produce almost as marked
an effect as the cotton gin. 1t is the picker.
1t is wagon-like machine, which is driven
through the ripened fields and picks clean
every scrap of cotton lint, and nothing ex-
cept cotton, and saves the labor of 100 hands.
Where the price of the staple may go to with
this invention in general use it is impossible
to fathom. The machine is North Carolina
affair, and is said to do good work
Year: 1877

THE advancement of the work on the new
Trinity College buildings at Hartford leaves
only the elevation Of the central structure
between the two buildings already erected, to
complete the main western line of the large
quadrangle. These buildings. Of dark brown
stone, with their opulence of ornate cream
colored free.stone trimmings, are beautiful
samples of the English style Of architecture,
and the effect Will be very fine.
Year: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished


with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
ncations that are not used.
Year: 1877

in Tennessee, and recommends appointments which
injure the Administration"


Colonel Shornburgh insisted that the feeling
againt having Judge Key in the Cabinet would not
weaken the Republicans in East Tennessee, and that
they would hold together and fight their battles on
the old line. l think he is over sanguine III an
election were to come off there this FALL the Inevta-
BILE tendency of the pacifcaton policy would be to
weaken the Republicans, who cannot change front,
il they would so suddenly, and VINO certainly could
not make an effective fiQh. the old war ISSUES,
when their party elsewhere, under the lead oil free
dent Hayes, is engaged III burying them.


In their hostility to Judge Key.as a Cabinet mem
bcr the East Tennessee Republicans are apparently
in a curiously inconsistent attitude, for the wloie
body of thoir representatives in the Legislature
voted for him only last Winter TOR United states
Senator. They explain this by saying that IL Is the
policy Of the Republican minority i'll the Legislature
20 do whatever will tend TO disconcert the piis
of the ultra-Southern Democracy ana tna'
they supported Judge Key because MS own
party had rejected him on account VI
his conservatism. This is pretty far eXplahatioh
lint tbe President who is not supposed 20 be IA
n'iiiar with the doings of caucuses at Nashville,
might well saw to his Republican crltics IN East
Tennessee - wanted man to represent Ile 'oouln
i'm my Cabinet who had been on the southern sue
and was willing TO unite with me IN me WORK ol re-
cancellation. Judge Keys conservative course III
the Senate pointed him out as an avaliaDle man. an
and Won. who are tho Old Guard OF Southern Ie-
pnblicans, had already Indicated your confidence IN
him You have no right to complain now"


II must have been gratifying to the President to
witness while IN Chattanooga the evidences of re-
gard for the PostmasterGeneTal on the part OF ms
neqhbors of both parties, and to learn that Judge
Key had led oil in the pathway of reconciliation
several years ago by delivering an Grafton on the
first occasion IN the whole country when the Union
and Confederate graves were decorated by the same
hands and on the same day. Chattanooga set the
example of hOnOring The dead OF both armies, Which
has since become the custom in many places. III IS
the most tolerant town IN the South. Its population
is composed largely of from all parts OF
the United States attracted by its business advan-
tages and q spirit of anty between the NOri herh
and Southern elements was early perceived To be "A
business necessity, rs well as matte OF praise
worthy sentiment. The TACT that judge Key comes
from a town that took the lead in pubic demon
s,ratOn to bury the cstraDgementS ana anlnosiies
left by tie war, and that he was himself foremost IN
the WORK shows that ne is peculiarly hted 10 repre-
sent the southern side OF the pacIcation movement


T.. v. =.
Year: 1877

The R. R. Company is having new floor
laid 10 their passenger depot 1T this place and
other repairs made to the building. IL has
only been very few years since this build
ing was erected, and to see it needing new
floors SO soon, looks as if there was either a
tremendous amount of wear on it, or that
very poor material was used in its construc-
ton.
Year: 1877

der this proposition so unjust as to be almost
wicked. It would necessitate large increase
of taxat1on. The Chicago Fire Department,
as now organized, enjoys the confidence OF
the community. It is felt to be adequate to
conquer any condagration that may get
headway, as long as the present building
restrictions ara enforced. But to begin
again the unrestricted erection Of fre-trnps
will be to require d vest increase In the
machinery and working force of the Fire
Department, and such an increase can only
be secured at the outlay Of large sum OF
money nnd permanent addition to the
annual ta1-fund. Is there any justice IN
taxing the business and house-oTners
of large part of the city in order to per-
nit the property-owners Of 4 favored section
to build q lot of shanties? The city at large
has already been taxed enormously to enable
the landowners in the southwestern portion
to build brick houses. Since the enlargement
Of the limits, probably over $4,000, 600 have
been expended on sewerage and water-plpes
in the outlying districts, in order that the
property-owne1s might construct proper
foundations. Is it fair that taxpayers gen
orally should have been compelled to con-
tribute thus literally without receiving the
consideration that was promised to them :?
Even those owning and living in frame
houses in tho district named hare no interest
in extending the same privilege to neigh
boring property; on the contrary, the erec-
ton Of new frame houses will only increase
their own danger. The fact is that there is
not single ward in Chicago where the ma


iority OF the residents are not opposed, by
interest and inclination, to revival OF the
old fre-trap privileges


The Committee which have had the pro-
posed ordinance under consideration have


resolved to report. it back to the Council
without recommendation It will come be-
fore the Council without any other prestige


than that which few demagogues may give


it individually. All the property and busi-


ness interests Of Chicago, large and small,
are unconpromisingly opposed to it, so that
there should not only be d majority against
| it, but it should be voted down so promptly
and Overwhelmingly that the proposition
| will never again be revived, aud certainly
not while brick houses can be built almost as


chesply as frame houses.
Year: 1877

In the opinion Of Comptroller KNOX there
will bc n two-thirds majority in the Senate
for the Silver BILL This does not refer to
the BLAND bill. but to that,reported BY tue
Senate Finance Committee with the free
coinage section stricken out It Is also Ills
on;nion TINT the President will veto the bill,


and that the Senate viii pass it over the veto.
Year: 1877

A history of Turkey written from an English
standpoint must be remarkable production.
The tolerant spiris of the Ottomans, and the
wise and able craftsmanship Of tho Fiziers, are
topics such US could only be discovered by q
British historian, and Sir EDKAKp GREASY Is
his name.
Year: 1877

New York Herald (Ind. I'VE are
confident that patriotic men i'll all parts
OF the country will be disposed to seek
for merits and to pass over defects in
the plan, if defects it should prove to
have. All lovers OF peace will


Be toits virtues very kind,


Be to its faults little blind.


We hope to be able to give it warm,
earnest support, not merely on the
ground that any settlement is better
Than none, but on the higher ground
that the committee have succeeded in
devising method which Is lair, wise,
judicious and cOncilatOry, and against
which no objections can be made which
are not captious or frivolous.


New York Times (Rep. 1T imposes
on the Judges OF the Supreme Court
functions which they were never in
tended to perform, and it relieves the
President of the Senate OF duties which
the trainers of the Constitution DELHI
erately and distinctly imposed on him.
1t is merely a device to Stave off the
settlement OF questions which can and
ought to be decided at once. and it rem
ders possible the occurrence of Presi-
dental interregnum which would neither
be creditable nor profitable to the coun-
try.


New York Tribune (Ind. Rep. 1.-The
plan proposed is revolutionary and
dangerous. When leading Democrats
realize how completely the power now
claimed by them would change our form
Of government. they will confess the
mistake to which partisan feeling is
driving them. When the leading Re-
publicans see that, In departing from
the plain constitutional requirement., in
an hour of weakness, they put it iu the
power OF any party TO hold the Govern
ment OF the United States Indefinitely,