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Year: 1878

A Steamer On Chesapeake hay LITERALLY


Dashed I'm Pieces-Nenrly All ON Board


Lost.


BALTIMORE, Oct. 2f-The tornado which
swept with such terrific violence over the
chesapeake yesterday morning carried with
it destruction and loss of life. The full extent
will be difficult to estimate as the coast is re-
ported strewn with wrecks from North Point
to Cape Henry. The most disastrous event
so far reported is the loss Of the steamer Ex-
press Capt. Barker, Of the Potomac trans
porthtlOn line, with nearly oil on board. Capt.
Barker says the Express left Baltimore at
o'clock Tuesday afternoon with freight and
passengers for Washington and other points
on the Potomac River.


About o'clock tho sea began rising. The
the water to u seething mass Of rushing
foam. The steamer labored heavily and the
waves broke clear over her upper deck.
About 3 o'clock her joiner work began giving
way and efforts were made to head her for
the shore, but the storm was 50 furious that
1t was impossible to stand against 1t, and the
rolling OF the boat prevented the engines
from working fast enough to keep steerage
way on her.


Shortly after 5 o'clock there came terrific
crash. The joiner work had started from the
stanchiOnS. The passengers and crew had
hardly time to realize what had happened be-
fore u wave tore away the saloon deck like SO
much paper work, and the following billow
swept it off to sea, and with it nearly all on
been carried away, the hull rolled over and
sunk, bottom upwards. Those Of the pnsscn-
gers and crew that could reach the portions
Of tho wreck clung to them, but tho heavy
sea washed them off again, and at the break
Ing Of dawn only eight persons could be seen.
Year: 1878

THE Law COMMITTEE is slow in com
plying with Mr.. .McGlinchey's resolution
in reporting an ordinance for the pro.
lection of the citizens from rabid dogs.
This is a question that should be acted
on immediately, and let it go into ope-
ration with the commencement of the
new year.
Year: 1878

The EDITOR or the Morning HTal
is filling place in journalism in viii.
mingtOn. never before Undertaken. He
has become the historiographor ofr"bel
biography, and from what we have
read Of his efforts we know of no per.
son better qualified to do the work, OF
more in sympathy with the extreme
rebel feeling Of the South.
Year: 1878

The DEMocRATIc majority in Council
has at last found a way out of the diff.
Guilty in which they find themselves,
and instead Of allowing the City Treas,
urer % have clerk Of his own choos
ing, they have given one to the Finance
Committee.
Year: 1878

The SOUTH CAROLINA election frauds
are to be tried before the United States
District Court at Charleston, soon after
the New Year sets in, and Chief Justice
Waite will preside assisted by Judge
Bond as associate. These cases will BE-
among the most important tried since
the reconstruction Of the Southern
States, and were it not for the intimi,
dation of witnesses which will be prac.
ticed, somebody would be convicted
The Department of Justice claims to
have important evidence, but unless
witnesses can be made safe in their
property and lives, it is not likely that
the evidence will be given.
Year: 1878

a YOUNG man was arrested in a New
Jersey town, few days ago on the
charge Of carrying concealed weapons.
On searching his person a bowie-knife
was found in each boot leg, q seven
shooter in his hip pocket and slung-
shot in his inside coat pocket, cavalry
sword slid down his back, billy" in
each coat-tail pocket and q dagger up
each coat sleeve. That was all He
was discharged when he explained that
he was on his way to Princeton College
TO enter the Freshman class, and had
merely taken some precautions to pro
tcct himself from the attacks Of the
Sophomores. Baltimore Bulletin.
Year: 1878

LIFE is in living. The marble palace
is not always the bower Of love. Every
kind word is a flower, which win
beautify our final home. Every good
deed is an evergreen, which will mark
our resting place.
Year: 1878

WE DO THINK the REPUBLICAN might
let the name of Capt Gallagher rest. -,
Certainly, We have no desire to refer to
h m or his terrible defeat agaip. After
his political death his party here CAV"
up the ghost; and we prefer to let the
d cad bury the dead. Requiescat in pace
Gazette.


With all due respect for our contem
porary's desire for peace which seems
to have struck it all at once, we still
insist that our question has not been
ans wered, and as 1t wishes the name Of
the late Republican candidate for May
or to rest, we will remodel our question
and PROFOUND it again "Has the Ga
zette any recollection Of opposing the
late Republican candidate for mayor on
the ground that he would want an in
crease in the police forces" This Ia
the third time we have asked the ques
ton and the Gazette will not answer
1t could have answered yesterday in al
many words as it took to dodge the
question. Do tell us.
Year: 1878

No well-regulated family pre-
tends TO do without hammer. And
yet there is nothing that goes to
make up the equipment of a do
mestic establishment that causes
one-half as much agony and pro-


family as a hammer, 1t is always
an old hammer, with a handle that
is inclined TO silver, and always


bound to slip. The face is as round


as o full moon and as smooth as
glass, When it glides off a nail
head and mashes a finger, we un.


hesitatingly deposit it in the back
yard, and observe that we will
never use it again. But the blood


has hardly dried on the rag before
we are in search of that same ham


mer again, and ready to make an
other trial. The result rarely va
ries, but we never profit by it. The
awful weapon goes on knocking of
our nails, and MASKING whole
joints, and slipping off the hardle
to the confusion Of mantel orua.
ments, and breaking the com.
mandments, Yet we put up with
it, and put the handle on again,
and lay it away where it won't gel
lost, and do up our smarting ant
mutilated fingers; and, after all, il
Year: 1878

The Fresno (Oal.) Expositor
tells the following cat and rabbit
story: A few days ago a boy found
a nest containing five young jack
ass rabbits, which had not yet
opened their eyes, and took them
in the house. His parents made
him put them in the bed of an old
cat that had just given birth to a
litter Of kittens, expecting the old
cat to eat them up. A short time
afterward it was discovered that the
young rabbits had been adopted in
the feline family, the old cat having
killed and eaten three of her kittens
in order to make room for them.
Subsequently two more of the kit
tens were killed, and their places
are now quietly filled by the young
rabbits. They draw their regular
rations from the lacteal fountains
of old puss, and may now be con-
sidered full.Aedged Step.kittens.
Year: 1878

me, when talking upon the subject
Of this discourse, "Girls, nowadays,
are too frail to marry" Does any
one think the young man to blame
who says this and then stands aloof
from the marriage altar? Surely
not. And does the young lady who
is too weak to sweep her own room
or to make her own toilet, think
that such young man will hasten


to propose? If SO, she is mistak-
en- young men of to-day are fast
becoming wise through the expert
enoe of their unfortunate friends.
Il DR.. Fletcher. 81
Year: 1878

the outrageous thing should disap-
pear, we kick up a terrible hullaba-
loo until it is found again. Talk
about the tyrannizing influence Of
bad habit! Iti is not to be COM
pared to the family hammer.
Year: 1878

So many persons suffer nowadays from
sleeplessness that every contribution to
the literature of the subject is of inter
est. DIR. Ainslie Hollis, in the London
Practitioner, maintains that, although
the quantity of blood in the brain is
diminished during sleep, this diminutlon
is not the sole cause of slumber, for we
may have the former without the latter.
One of the most efficient means OF in
ducing natural sleep is the application
of mustard plasters to the abdomen.
Preyer. of Jena, advocates the admlnls-
tration of freshly made solution OF
lactate of aroda, or of some milk or whey,
on the hypothesis that sleep may be IN
duced by the introduction OF the fatigue
products of the body. The alkalies and
alkaline earths are useful when acid
dyspepsia is associated with the insom-
MIA. Electricity has been used IN the
paresis of the vaso- MOTOR nerves due TO
an overworked brain. In hot weather,
spTinkling the floor of the sleeping
apartment with water lessons irrltant
properties of the air, adding much to
the comfort of the sleepers; possibly the
quantity of ozone is at the same time
increased. When sleep is broken Dy
severe pain, opium or morphia is OF
value, not only by relieving the pain but
by its action in producing anemia OF the
cerebra vessels. In the wakefulness due
to neuralgia. it is often better to iniect
small dose of morphia hypodermi-
cally near the branch of the affected
nerve, than to administer 1t by tine
mouth. It is doubtful whether the
bromides possess hypnotic properties,
although they undoubtedly act as seds-
tives on the nervous system, and as such
may occasional induce sleep.
Year: 1878

A good cause makes a stout heart.


Progress is born of doubt and anxiety.


Candid thoughts are always valuable.


A wounded reputation is seldom
cured.


Hope is a good breakfast, but bad
supper.


He who can take advice is sometimes
superior to him who gives it.


Method is the hinge of business, and
there is no method without order and
punctuality.


Some of the grandest things which
have been achieved were by those whom
we thought our interiors.


Education is friend at home, an in
PRODUCTION abroad, an ornament to
society, and solace in solitude.


The tallest trees are most in the
power of the winds, and ambitious men
of the cyclones of failure, disaster and
business reverses.


Man, being essentially active, must
find in activity his Joy, as well as his
beauty and glory, and labor, like every
thing else that is good, is its own
reward.


He that does good to another man
also does 1t to himself, not only in the
consequence, but in the very act of
doing it, for the consciousness of well
doing is an ample reward.
Year: 1878

THE peach. season is just opening, with
out any very fsttering evidences that the
rosy, tender, luscious, and wholesome fruit
which charms without inebriat:on, Is TO be
very abundant or cheap in the market.
Even Delaware and New Jersey, to whom
we look with marked vcnertion usually in
early peach time, are rather reticent on the
peach question. The Newark Daily Idrer-
fiser hints in the most delicate manner that
there is good show for an average crop,
but this is not said in spirit of boasting.
1t compensates its evident want of conf
dence in the New Jersey peach crop by the
remark that ''the United States is tho
greatest of all fruit-growing countries, and
when methods oil transportation are still
further perfected it will supply Ito
world"
Year: 1878

orr adyiccs from the fourth Congress
sionul district of Virginia are to the effect
that the present able Representative, Dr.
JORGESsEN, will be nominated with great
unanimity for reelection by the convention
which is to meet at Burkeyille on the ID
prOximo. His nomination is in that dis
trict, equivalent to election if fair play Is
accOrded in the registration, the vote, and
ihe count. What the chances will he in
this respect it is yet too early to determine.
Much will probably depend upon the char
act"r Of the opposing nominee, If Colonel
HINTON should be the man. he will no
doubt use every means to prevent negroes
from voting in some precincts and to force
the count in his favor in others by stun.
ing - the ballot-boxes and then "purging
after the old style
Year: 1878

GENERAL GRANTS first official act when
his famous proclamation giving effect upon
all public works where the Government
employed the men directly to the then re-
ccntly-cnacted eight-hour law. That act
alone spoke volume of the sentiments OF
quietly done, without any ostentation,
boastina or display, and was obeyed by
most officials without hesitation during
the eight years Of his administration. 1t
was, in his view, simply what his oath re-
quirrd. ii the law is not enforced now it
is because different spirit rules, OF be-
cause u less rigid view of duty obtains in
executive circles
Year: 1878

Mr.. CHARLES NJ NYE will act as the cor
respondent of THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
at Washington Grove during the approach
ing camp. meeting. The doings of each day
will appear the following morning. Those
desiring THE REPrBiiCAN at the camp
grounds can have it by leaving their orders
at the counting-room. 1t will be furnished
for sale on the grounds daily.
Year: 1878

The most abundant crops which have
ever blessed this generation will soon have
TO be moved. The millions that have been
appropriated for public buildings and pub
lie works should be put into circulation in
time to aid in this great necessary work OF
carrying produce to market.
Year: 1878

JUDGE VAN HoEsEN, of New York city
is not only a most righteous judge, but q
true philanthropist, so far as babies are
concerned A short time since an injunc-
tion was sued out to restrain the father of d
sick child from rolling baby carriage over
the floor of his rooms during the night, to
the annoyance of the lOdyer in the floor be-
low. The answer to the prayer for per-
manent injunction was that the infant oc-
cupant of the Objectionable perambulator


il suffering from teething and other ills
that Juvenile humanity is heir to; that it
has an unconquerable aversion to crib,
and that to give ease to the little sufferer
and prevent it from crying and fretting all
night long it is necessary to move it
backward and forward in its little
carriage, to the soothing mo-
tion of which it has grown accustomed
The court took broad and catholic view
of this grave question, and decided that a
man who lives in hotel or flat cannot ex-
peci all the peace and comfort he gets, or at
least has right If he has no mothcr-in-
law to look for, in q house of which he is
lord and master and sole occupant For in
stance, II hotcl-boarder must submit to being
sometimes awakened by the heavy tread of
other guests who keep late hours and Stun
BILE on their way up broad staircascs and
through long passages, and an apartment
house lodger, whose upper-story neighbor
is compelled to walk his room all night in
pain, cannot invoke the power Of the law
to compel the sufferer to wear rubbers. So
the baby-carriagc injunction is dissolved
Year: 1878

A bad book, magazine or newspa.
per is as dangerous to your children
as a vicious companion, and will as
surely corrupt their morals and lead
them away from the paths Of safety.
Every parent should set this thought
clearly before his mind and ponder it
well. Look to what your children
read, and especially to the kind Of pa
pers that get into theiS hands, for
there are now published scores of
weekly papers, with attractive and
sinuous illustrations, that are as hurt.
ful to the young and innocent as
poison to a. .healthful body.


Trenching on the borders of in
dency, they corrupt the morals, tant
the imagination, and allure the weak
and unguarded from the path of in
nocence. The danger to young per.
sons from this cause was never SO
great as at this time; and every ia
ther and mother should be on guard
against an enemy that Is sure TO meet
the young.


Our mental companions-the
thoughts and feelingr that dwell with
us when alone, and influence our ac-
tions-these are what lift us up and
drag US down. If your children has
pure and good mental companions,
he is safe, but if through corrupt
books and papers, evil thoughts and
impure imaginings get into his mind,
his danger is imminent.


Look toit, then, that your children
are kept as free as possible from this
this taint. Never bring into your
house paper or periodical that is not
strictly pure, and watch carefully lest
any such get into the hands Of your
growing-up boys.
Year: 1878

Mr.. $. d. Howe says the information
respecting his intention to start Plum
mer fruit-dryer at this place is false. A
correction may be made by saying that he
purchased the patent right tor one or two
counties about the head of the Sound. But
then the mistake was not ours, 20 we will
attempt no apology. Mr.. Howe is just
down from Olympia, and says the owner
Of the patent will De down here in II few
days with view to selling the right for
some of the lower Sound counties.
Year: 1878

IT sounds "sweet and commenda.
BILE" to hear a newspaper man, who
can be bribed by a squaw-brothel
manager to publish libellous attacks
upon respectable citizens, enlighten
the public with the startling an
nouncement that his paper is one OF
the only two in the Territory that
cannot be bought by influential Of
6cials
Year: 1878

The country attorneys intellect
Is SO obtuse that our allusion to his
published challenge to fight is above
his comprehension, and it is conse-
quently misrepresented. Well, this
only adds to the sublimity of the
spectacle.
Year: 1878


and his Republican associates was
to make sure that the scoundrels
who had once reversed the vote of
Louisiana should repeat the crime
in the interest of the Republican
Presidential nominee and In the
personal and political interest also
of the leading twisting statesman"
himself. TO what extent, if any,
he was concerned in the irregulari-
ties, not to say the forgery aud per-
jury, to which Wells and Ander-
son resorted, may never be discov-
cred; but he could hardly have
been ignorant of theirproceedings,
and by encouraging and endorsing
their acts, he is morally involved
in their guilt. The vlrtuous indig-
nation and protestations of such
man can only excite public con-
tempt.-Bufalo Courier.
Year: 1878

THE EMPEROR WILHELM, for a
q man who started out in life in the
wars of the first Napoleon, has had
a very storm y time of it. In bis
eigsty-fourth year it would seem
that the old man ought to have q
little peace. TO be shot at twice
with buckshot, is a discouragement
to frequent drives in Unter den Lin
den, or any where else, for that
matter. Abo1t year ago, old
Field Marshal Won Wrangel =
"Papa Won Wrangel,n as the Prus-
sian soldiers delighted to call him
delivered the birty day address to
the Emperor Wilhelm. The EN-
peror was at that time eighty-four;
the now dead Marshal was ninety
eight. III the privilege of his four
teen years. seniority, the Marshal
addressed the Emperor as one who
was as yet very little more than u
mere boy. At the rate at which
the first Prussian Emperor of Ger
many is being fired at, of late, he
has small chance Of living to q
green old age of the Won Wrangel
standard. AS Prince William, the
present Emperor was the head of
the absolutist faction of the Prus-
sian monarchy. He assisted to
stamp out the revolution of 1913
with violence which is remem-
bered with hatred by the Republi-
can elements of the present mon
archy of Prussia and Empire of
Germany. No better gauge of the
bitterness which is fomenting in
Germany is afforded than the fact
that there are Republicans who are
ready to fire at a man eighty-four
years old.
Year: 1878

This Republican threat to pro-
woke disorder in the event of "a law
full exercise of power by Congress
is threat to foment insurrection.
No good can come from 1t. No
good is intended. 1t is as compe-
tent to inquire into the manner of
the election of a President as of a
Mayor or Alderman. Such inquiry
will proceed. And If those who
are now threatening to organize
lawlessness shall carry out their
threats, they will prove them
selves desperadoes who have no
love of country, and prefer disorder
to justice. Albany argus.
Year: 1878

THE first notes of the Oregon
election indicate that Whitaker,
Democrat, has been elected to
Congress and that the Legislature
will be Democratic. This Is the
first note of the coming campaign,
which is to place Presidential
fraud in the hands of the people,
the sniveling San Francisco Call to
the contrary and Notwithstanding.
A Democratic Legislature sounds
the knell of the bigamist and Re-
publican Senator, Hippell Mitch
all
Year: 1878

1t is not easy to reconcile the
present angry tone of the Secretary
with his first expressions of indif-
ference unless, possibly, he has
discovered that the Committee is
likely to come into possession of
evidence throwing further light on
his course. The fact is notorious
that the object of Mr.. Sherman
Year: 1878

The Herald Steam Printing House is
aot surpassed by any Job Printing ONCE
on the Pacific Coast, outside of San Fran.
cisco, In facilities for doing job work
Low prices, good work and expedition
may be relied upon at this office.
Year: 1878

TIE resolutions adopted by the
Democratic County Convention
yesterday are sound in principle
and timely. We could suggest no
Improvement upon their tenor.
They are instinct with sympathy
for the people, and the gentlemen
placed upon this platform are in
perfect unison with the resolu
tiOns.
Year: 1878

In the opinion of the Shoe and Leather
Reporter the situation of the tanning inter-
est is still very far from being satisfactory.
The supply of leather is not nearly as redun-
dant as it was a few months ago, but some
how or other, there is enough to keep prices
below the paying point and to dissuade buy
ers from taking any more than they require
for immediate use. In order to make both
ends meet, hides must be purchased cheaper,
or leather must be sold dearer. This is not
exactly an alternative proposition, for the
two things are likely to happen Simultaneous
ly. If hides fall. it will be because of abate-
ment OF demand; if leather rises, it will be
because there is diminution of supply.


There Is no danger of producing too much, if
the cost is not too great. The difficulty under


which our trade has labored, during the great
er part of the last six years, is that they have
not calculated carefully enough as to the
chances of getting a fair requital for their
labor and capital. They have shown spirit
ofhopefulness worthy of Wicawber, but unfor-
tunately, their excess of confidence has led
them to pursue the very course which has
prevented them from realizing the good luck
wherein they so implicitly trusted" -
Year: 1878

EQUALITY of paper currency with coin
and exchangeability with it can be easily
maintained by the Government of the United
States simply keeping its plighted faith,
which the advocates of irredeemable paper
propose to disregard.
Year: 1878

THERE are those who believe that the
late Mr.. Tilden will rise up like William
Riley, of blessed memory, and go along with
them. But he will not unless they are on
canter to the cemetery.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters ana communI
cations. The anne and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve CON-
muncations that are not USED.