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Year: 1878

ly from the South, are beginning to arrive in
the city. When questioned as to the prob
ability Of a sectional debate, they declare that
no tactics Of the Republican side will lead
them into such discussion. If the President,
however, does as he is automatically reported
as intending to do, review his Southern
policy, so called, and takes occasion to charge
the South with betrayal, there will be some
thing said by Southern members. It is IN
derstood that the Republican leaders will
endeavor to spring debate on both the solid
South issue and the Florida cypher kilograms
which have been published in the New York
TtibnuP
Year: 1878

The American exhibited an industry and
fearlessness that deserved all praise. And to
no one is Nashville more indebted than to the
sndefatigabte chief of the city news depart
ment, D. r. Doris, who investigated every
case personally; fought all the liars, who so
much abound in times Of epidemics; pub
lished all the truth without concealment, and
saved Nashville at least million dollars. He
will never get a cent more for his courage
than his salary, but the business men Of the
city ought to get up a costly testimonial and
present it to him without ,grudge: If he
had done less, Nashville would have taken a
panic and "sQuandered " to the four winds,
and her fail trade would have gone to the
f2opS
Year: 1878

General seemed to lean toward the anti Chi
nese side of the question, as he laid consider
able stress upon the favorjte California argu-
ment against the1n namely. their refusal to
assimnte with our civilization There is
sufficient evidence that the Democrats hope to
pose of gaining strength in the Pacific States
for,
Year: 1878

In the next Congress there will be q majori-
ty against free trade, against initiation,
against a debased currency and against med
ding with resumption or with the national
banks; and yet the nominal party will be
classed as belonging to the Democratic party,
whose main force in Congress will be in the
minority on all these Issues.
Year: 1878

The project of turning over the Repub ublican
party of the South solidly to Conkling in 1880
may not be so easy a job. OF course he will
have the advantage of position after Grant,
hut it must be remembered that the Southern
Republicans are a marketable article, and
will go to the highest bidder. The pIumed
knight Of Maine will be among the gentlemen
who attend that auction.
Year: 1878

The public press throughout the country
has almost without exception published and
commented upon the Presidents message
and so far rs our observation extends no
state paper of equal importance for years
has encountered so little severe criticism
The Republican journals, with great una
nimity, have referred to it in q kind
spirit and favorable tone. Not word of
unfriendly denunciation or even of harsh
criticism has come under our observation in
scanning a large number of Republican
papers scattered over the country. The
Democratic press make wry faces at the
message, but their criticisms are confined to
that portion which relates to the rank in
Justice exercised toward Republicans in the
Southern States, and they are Of weak,
pettifogging order, that, at the worst, at
tempt TO justify general wrong in the
South under an assumption that similar i'll
huences are brought to bear upon
voters in limited localities at the North.
This is a weak invention, which the Demo-
Gratis themselves do not treat with anything
more than hollow show of seriousness.
They know there is nothing in 1t, and they
only resort to il to gratiiy their bull-dOZing
brethren at the South, who are chatting
greatly under that peculiar feature of the
message, because it touches them on the
raw. The only objection raised by the
southern press against it is its presentation
of the late election wrongs in that section


in such truthful and Just terms that they
cannot be met aud answered, and which
must stand as undisputcd and undisturbed
history. This message reflects great credit
upon the moderation and justice of the
President, and brings him higher need of
all his official efforts put together since he
entered the executive chair
Year: 1878

THE President has suspended Archi-
tect HILL from active duty pending
the indictment that has been found
assigned for this act is a point that has
been raised by the prosecution that 1t is
not proper for an indicted person to have
charge OF the Office records during prepara-
tion for the trial. This may be good
point; but one thing is evident, if Mr.
HILL had any disposition to embarrnss the
trial by meddling with the records he has
had ample opportunity and time for that
purpose already.
Year: 1878

DEPICTING the Sundays which intervene
between now and the 4th of March next,
and the customary two week or ten days
holiday recess, there remains only sixty
working days of the present Congress. At
the pace the House has progressed with It's
business since last Monday there will he
very little work accomplished before the
final adjournment. This prospect is not,
we are rcioiced to remark, very discourag-
Ing.
Year: 1878

THE Cumberland Times vauntiugly says:
THE States can take care Of themselves -
Yes, and Uncle SAN has shown to the sor-
row Of some Of them that he can take care
Of the States when they rebel
Year: 1878

THE editor of the Baltimore Gazette car
pct-baggcd into Maryland as Senator CoNo-
YER did into Florida, and yet he now says of
CoNovER, the crime of being a carpet-bag-
ger is one he can neither palliate nor
deny If carpet-bagging be crime, then
is every citizen of this country criminal
when lie emigrates from one State into an
other for business purposes.
Year: 1878

THERE is good deal of significance in
the resolution of Senator SAULsBURY,
which provides that the Secretary of the
Treasury, in redceming United States legal
tender notes, shall pay on the same ~ per
cent. Of the amount in gold and % per cent
in icgal-tCnder silver dollars. As the law
now stands we think it is at the option Of
the Government to pay in either as it may
elect. This being so-and the change is
contemplated for the purpose of securing II
share Of the amount in gold coin to the
holder Of lcgal-tcudcr notcs-it would be
just to the coin involved that no discrim-


nation should be made against either silver
or gold, but the resolution should be
amended so us to put gold and silver on an
equality as to the amount paid out. Half
and half should be the proportion if any
direction is 10 he given in the matter.
Year: 1878

THE adjournment Of both houses of Con-
gress yesterday until next Monday shows
an indisposition on the part of the Demo-


cratic majority in the House to begin the
active work Of the session, although it is to
be n short session, and if anything is to he
accomplished in it there is no time 10 be
spared from straightforward hard work.
We say the Democratic majority in the
House, because the Senate, in the natural
course Of things, must wait upon the action
of the popular ~ branch of Congress be-
fore it proceeds TO business. This indispo-
sition is explained by the fact that the
Democrats are afraid TO begin business,
because they know that the consequent
discussion Of current political topics will
necessarily he TO their disadvantage. They
stand committed now, by the precipitate
action of FERNANDO WOOD last Monday,
to an attempt to defend the dissracerul and
horrible atrocities of the late campaign in
the South. And they are wasting the pub
lie time and public money in their end ,avor
to evade further discussion OF this issue.
Year: 1878

MAxx TWAIN told q newspaper re-
dorter that no was going abroad IN order
to find quiet place to write. where he
would not be disturbed once day. IL
is singular that II never occurred to him
TO remain at home and secure desk in
4 store that doesn't advertise.
Year: 1878

Chief Joseph has turned bigamist,
having lust taken to himself new
wife. the ceremony consisting in
giving his brides father a few blank
cts G for her. His deposed wife is re-
ported to be weeping in seclusion
with her child, since the religion of
the tribe. prohibits chief from
having more than one wife at q
time.
Year: 1878

Mir. Amere, as we have said, was a
resident of New Haven He was very
wealthy at the time we introduce him to
our readers; but he had struggled very
hard to obtain his independent position.
He had crossed the Atlantic in sailing
vessel some thirty years ago, when he
was quite young man. He endeavored
to obtain a position as clerk in New
York, but in vain. He went to Phila-
delphia, where he succeeded in obtaining
a position, but could not hold it long.
There was a certain independence IN his
character which untitled him for sub
ordinate: certain carelessness and lack
of exactness which gave cause Of dis
pleasure, and a shrewdness and aptness
to understand what is sometimes disa-
greeable for the employer to have a clerk
of little experience know; and there was
an indomitable curiosity in him, which
caused him to pry into everything with
which he had nothing to do 1t the en-
ployer or the secretary gave him letters
TO mail. he must first read the addresses
before he threw them into the box Ii
he had to carry 4 note to some parties
and the same was not sealed, he must
peruse its contents. If he came to the
desk he must handle and read every slip
of papcr thereon. But he was perfectly
honest: willing to perform every kind OF
work which was beyond his station and
experiencc slow and unwilling to do
what was in conformity with his position,
and whatever he did, he imagined that he
made his employers rich by it,


The reason of such faults was this: At
home he was considered a young man OF
nerfect maturity, He was of good
family. and had not the remotest idea
what working for others meant. Ills
parents always told him that he was
yerv clever and good, and confded all
their interest to him. This made him
.conceited and gave him the desire to
know about everything that was going
on around him. He imagined that the
more he knew, the more he would be
Year: 1878

to gather information. Hence his inter
rogating his friend, who is this one and
who is that one There was no other
object in his inquiries. His indomitable
curiosity of old confined itself now to
the desire of knowing every person, his
business, his domestic affairs, his capaci-
ties, just for the sake Of information.
Year: 1878

THE HERO APPEARS UNExPECT


EDLY IN A RATHER DISTRESSING


MANNER.


A few days after the important meet
ing Of the brethren, Simon Amere has
resolved to leave Hectoria. He had seen
of the city all that was to be seen; he
had become informed Of all that inter
ested him; he had made the acquaintance
of almost every Israelite there, and had
expressed his dissatisfaction with the
services at the synagogue; with the de-
fcient learning of the minister, and with
many other matters of importance-ex-
cept with his host and hostess and with
a few members of the community who
had shown him great honor There was
nothing more for him to do at Hectoria
and he prepared to leave. On the day
appointed for his departure, he went
into the office of his host to read the
morning journals, as he was accustomed
to do since he was in the city. Glancing
through the columns of the paper, a
sudden palor covered his face; he ex-
claimed: Good heavens!" and nearly
dropped from his seat, fainting Thut-
NIGHTS was at his side in an instant


Never mind, Amere," he said sooth-
ingly, your Aaron is not in danger of
life; he has only few bruises, which
will be cured in a week or ten days, and
hereupon he began to scold his clerks
who had the paper lying about, against
the strict orders he had given to de-
stroy it.


The reason Of this commotion was an
account in the paper Of a railroad accl-
dent three miles from the city. Several
passengers had been wounded, among
them travelling agent by the name Of
Aaron Amere, who has been brought to
the city and located in the ''Spread- Ea-
Gle" Thutnichts had read the account
early in the morning, went to inquire al
ter the patient, and had purpOscd TO break
the news to his guest with precaution.
But when Amcrc came to the store he
had been busy with some customers, and
so it happened that his guest had picked
up the paper and learned the distressing
news suddenly and with the customary
newspaper eXaggerations.


The distressed father went immedi-
ately to the Spread Eagle to eehis son.
The young man had some bad bruises on
his head, his left arm was fractured and
one of his ancles dislocated. He was 10
Gated in a small room on the fourth floor.
Nobody was at his side. The porter who
Year: 1878

and, if not minded to fool him, they
dropped his nearer acquaintance.


After Amere had been fooled" by
some of his lady acquaintance three or
four times, he managed to marry young
lady with pretensions," which fattered
his vanity but did not respond to his
taste. He also joined a congregation
and was ambitious to play the head
man" Because he had seen Hebrew
books in his childhood he imagined that
he could raise his voice in every congre-
gational affair, and sit in judgment about
every one who professed Hebrew learn
ing. He made trouble, he had trouble
and at last gave up the attempt to have
voice in such matters. Children were
born to him; he gave them good edu-
cation, but was tyranical and whimsical
and exacting. Sometimes he would fon-
die and caress them, at another time he
would impose obedience and punishment
in the most extravagant manner They
respected but did not love him. He was
proud of them as they developed into
maturity, but invariably found fault with
their manners and actions The result
was that he did not know his own chill
dren. He knew their dispositions, but he
did not know their thoughts, their prin-
ciplcs, for what they were fit, what was
their ambition


Mrs. Amere died and left him two
sons The senior was business clerk;
the junior, at college. He was sufficient
ly wealthy to ruminate in his library to
his hearts content. There were files Of
sensational periodicals Hebrew Latin,
French; scientific historical, archeologi-
cal books and pamphlets of the most
promiscuous nature. He was always
reading and imagining that he discovered
mines of wisdom unknown. He also had
a knack of writing, presumably for the
periodical literature; but somehow or
other he did not succeed to get in print,
save with few local correspondence,
at which the editor had to file and to
polish. When he became sufficiently
rich he withdrew from his business. He
invested part Of his money in a safe firm
as q ''silent' partner, and the rest he
held in bonds and in real estate He
could now, at the age Of fifty, yield HIM
self entirely to his laziness, or rather
'studies,' as he preferred to consider it,
He was respected in society; some even
believed in his wisdom His views were
pessimistic withal, neither person nor
thing suited him. He loved sometimes
to speak ON a subject, and to spin out
his idea with a quotation or parable; but
in most cases he spoke in brief terms,
with disdainful air and from on high. "
like a man who knows best. He always
came with his ego first, and his precious
self was indeed dear to him.


At the time we met him at Hectoria,
he was on trip for his health by the ad-
vice of his physician. He had read some
books of travel and imagined himself a
tourist now. As such, Of course, he was
Year: 1878

A prominent Chicago physician, DR..
n. S. Davis. who has given great at.
tention to the subject of yellow fever,
takes bold but plausible ground
against the theory that the fever is
contagious-that is, communicable
by individual travelling from infected
localities to neighboring or distant parts
Of the country. He presented, in a
lecture last Monday evening, strong
data in support of bis position, both
from the now prevailing epidemic in
the South and from the history of
former epidemics there and elsewhere.
The doctor is of the opinion that yel
low fever is caused by certain local at
mospheric conditions, which could
readily be obviated by the health
authorities of cities and towns taking
the precaution early in the opening of
the warm season, to enforce a rigid
system of drainage, cleanliness and
disinfection. He deems quarantine
regulations utterly useless as a protec.
ton against the introduction or spread
of the epidemic, and almost equally
useless does he deem extraordinary
efforts to stamp out the diseases by
disinfection after it has once gained
headway, the time for the enforcement
of sanitary measures being before the
disease has had an opportunity to
develop itself.
Year: 1878

The Chicago Tribune tells a good
story of Hon. b. W. Keyes which has
the merit of being true. Mr.. Keyes is
making excellent speeches through out
the State this tall, in favor of honest
money. It seems that at New Lis
bon, where Mr. Keyes and Congress-
man Pound were holding mass m eet-
ing, the former was expatiating on the
Greenback lunacy, and was trying to
show that the mere fiat of the Govern
ment was insufficient to make good
money. He said that Divine Will had
decreed that gold should be precious
metal for all time aud among all peo pie,
and that when the fiat went forth that
there should be light. there was light.
Here Greenback idiot in the crowd
cried out: THE fiat of the govern
ment makes as good money as [ want"
Keyes turned upon him and said:
The fat of the Government is one
thing, and the fat of the Almighty is
another. But there is one thing the
Almighty cannot do. He cannot lay
His hand upon your head and say,
Here is an honest, intelligent man."
Of course the audience, roared, and
the crestfallen fnancier went to the
rear for repairs.
Year: 1878

By a unanimous vote the Grand Jury has
declared the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad
" a public nuisance in its unparalleled invasion
" of private rights and public comfort, safety
"and health" and has requested the trans
mission of its presentment to the Legislature,
that steps may be taken to redress an out
"rage which would never have been sane
" toned, had It's enOmIty been realized"
This is a sweeping condemnation, and If a
bill from Grand Jury can destroy railroad,
the Metropolitan Railroad has run its last train.
But it is not likely that the Legislature
will obey the bull. While much is true
that is stated in the presentment respecting
the discOmfOrts OccasiOned by the road,
some slight part of it has ceased to be true.
1t has certainly been generally supposed that
the dropping of cinders and oil from the track
had come to an end, and efforts have been
and are making to abate the noise. But, if in
spite of all that ingenuity and money can
effect, great inconvenience to the residents
along the line of the road still continue,
the sense of a selfish public will be that
the few must suffer for the good of the many.
Rapid transit roads are rendered absolutely
necessary by the conformation of New York
Island, and no roads are so cheap as those on
stills. 1t seems inevitable that some thorough
fares must be sacrificed, and when a road has
been put into successful operation, it will take
more than presentment from q Grand jury
to 6asfrOv
Year: 1878

The Peruvian Government has found that
the shortest way to resumption is cremation,
and burns up bank notes by the million. A
fiscal policy of this sort would furnish KearDey
with so many new and lurid metaphors that,
if we really felt able to get along without him,
we might suggest his taking the next steamer
down there. But Peru can't have him unless
she cries very hard.
Year: 1878

Adam repeats himself in Connecticut. A
new phase is given to that shocking case in
which man and woman moving in respect
able society, are said TO have poisoned, the
one his wife and the other her husband,
in order to remove all obstacles to their guilty
love. The man now charges the woman with
both pOisonings, and paints h1s portrait as that
of one who knew of these dreadful crimes but
lacked the courage to do them. There are
men in this world who would rather have
owned up TO half dozen robust murders.


Not even so vigilant and careful an officer
as Mr.. Mcpherson could retire, it seems,
without having a lie started about irregu-
Clarifies " in his bureau. These bushwaekers
of the press, who make it their habit
TO abuse honest men with the same
zeal that they defend rogues, cast
their ugly shadows too often over the
whole business of journalism and it is the
wanton circulation of such falsehoods as this
that makes it too easy for real rascals whom
the newspapers have caught to wave accusa-
Year: 1878

The New-Jersey Greenbackers have a touching
faith in their ability to fix things as they ought to
he but they seem to know less about things they
are than any other class of accountable beings.
Last year at their State Convention, after nominal
ing the volcanic Hoxsey for Governor, they
were proceeding to ballot for a candidate
for " Lieutenant Governor when some one hap
pened to discover that there no official OF that
style and title known to the laws of the State
And now, over the river in the With Congressional
District there lives and agitates one Jacob, an orig
inal who has been spouting eloquenee ike lOuh-
tain for several months to prove just how the
Constitution and the laws should be remodelled to
hurry nm the soft-money millennium, and the other
dov b,s fellow Greenbackers nominated HIM for
CONGRESS. Ii now appears that neither Jacob nor
anv delegate to his Convention had ever read the
Constitution of the United States as far as the
second section of the first article, or they would
bove kuoyyn that Jacob was ineligible to the posi-
tion A new convention has been called by these
accomplished reformers.


broadway begins TO resume its wonted appear
once More and more Of our people are learning how
nleasan the country is in September and the return
Of ibe Summer wanderers this year has been later


than ever before But at last the streets show their
nresepce again. and the shops feel 1t in a sudden
onicLeping of the retail trade. This opens brisky,
and dealers are once more confident, and this time
with greater reason than in previous Autumns
that the ong-expected revival of business Is fairy
| upon us.


II is to be a campaign of fraud, Mr. Smith weed
We thank you for keeping fraud uppermost now' a.
Year: 1878

THE testimony ELECTED by Gen
Butler from Kellogg in the Potter
Committee yesterday is very sug-
gestive. The Generals shrewd,
quick questions drew out the fact
that, when the Louisiana Return
ing Board had thrown out all the
Democratic votes it thought it
could in common decency reject,
it was found that two Of the Hayes
electors were still defeated. The
Board, however, was equal to its
work. In the language of General
Butler to Kellogg, "whereupon the
Board proceeded to give the screw
another turn" Apter language
could not be applied to the opera
tion. fit had been necessary to
throw out every Democratic vote
in Louisiana 10 have given that
State to Hayes, they would have
been promptly thrown out, al.
though the Board would have ad-
mitted that it was a little awkward
to have to do SO barefaced a thing.
The screws, however, would have
received the requisite number of
twists not withstanding.