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Year: 1879

THE old elm at Schuylerviile, under
which General Burgoyne surrendered,
was seriously damaged by a recent fire,
but with proper care it can be preserved
in good condition. It was a narrow
escape for the old revolutionary relic.
Year: 1879

THERE is a genuine patriot in the
Massachusetts house of representatives.
During iCng debate last Thursday he
resigned his allowance of ten minutes.
saying that he would give his time to
the state.
Year: 1879

THE Missouri legislature has novel
proposition before it, to punish voters
who stay away from the polls three
elections in succession with forfeiture
Of their right to hold any office in the
state
Year: 1879

They come no more
The little voice that lisped it, morning soug:-
The little feet that pattered all day long
The little hands that mine 80 Low to press. -
The little lips whose touch was a caross,-


They come no more


They come no more
The laughing eyes that fondly looked in mine -
The baby ways that round the heart-strings


tHlnc,
Tho cur head that nestles on my breast
All, al have left me for a sweetar rest, -


They come no moro


They come no more
Aud. yet, to soothe my sorrow aud regret,
The feeling comes my boy is with me yet
know that some day, when this life has pat,
Loving me still the same with joy at last,


He'll come once more
Year: 1879

In yesterdays HERALD we gave timely
warning to holiday excursionists, caution
ing them against undue haste in getting
The necessity for such advice is
found in our telegraph columns to-
day, for O shocking disaster occurred
yesterday afternoon on Lake Quinsiga-
mond, near Worcester, Mass, when several
lives were lost, and another at Trenton,


N. j., with the same sad result. The Quin-


sigamond accident was due to the frantic
efforts Of one thousand people to get on


board a small steamer, when the hurri-
cane deck gave way and the vessel
careened, precipitating several hundred
persons into the water. At Trenton q crowd
of excursionists were permitted to rush on
to wharf, when the structure sank be-
meath their weight. In both cases
panic occurred, as is natural
in the presence of sudden danger,
and many homes are thrown into mourn
ing. We trust that q strict and searching
investigation will be had, and in the event
of the responsibility being placed where it
belongs severe punishment awarded.
This will not bring the dead back to
lite or heal the wounds of the in
jurcd, but stern dealings may have the
effect to prevent such terrible scenes here
alter. 1t is true that if people would be
patient accidents like those of yesterday
would seldom occur, but crowds are
naturally unreasonable; therefore the
managers of steamboats, and rail-
roads should be compelled to adopt
measures which will keep their
patrons within bounds and out of dam
GER We notice that some twenty thou
sand and odd men, women and children
landed at the Coney Island pier yester-
day, fortunately without mishap. 1t Is to
Year: 1879

From the Jackson MISSY Comet. June 2s.


We recognize greatness in the HERALD because
that paper not only commands q great income aud
has great run. but it is among the very few Jour
nails OF the United States that afford and dares to
occupy lofty plane Of patriotism and statesman
ship above parties and Independent Of them. It can
and docs. npon suitable occasions. condemn any
party or sustain any party without the loss Of
power. Its influence is immense. because it has the
world an audience and its views are not dwarfed
by the necessity of sustaining or condemning this
or that party. Instead OF being weathercock and
following the popular current. as many unthinking
men aegc It has the moral audacity to plant itself
in the very middle of the most turbulent current
and TO say to the angry element. Peacc be still"
II does not Follow but 1t leads public sentiment II
does not drift but It opens the channel for the
rent to run in. The HERALD is, therefore, q great
paper--grcat in resources Of mind and money great
in scope. great in power.
Year: 1879

The final upshot of the stormy State Con-
vention at Sacramento city indicates that
the democratic party of California will main
tain it's separate organization, but makes it
improbable that it will carry the State.
California is more nearly in a condition of
political chaos than any other State in the
Union. 1t is so bedevilled with Kearney-
ism and so split up into factions founded
on wild crotchets that outsiders can take
little interest in its confusing squabbles.
The election of members of Congress in
California is the only thing in the coming
contest which is of any particular concern to
the country at large. California is the only
State which was not represented in the
House at the late extra session. She
chooses her four Congressman in Septem-
Der. and if, as in the Forty-fifth Con-
gress, they should be equally divided be-
tween the two great parties, the result will
make no change in the democratic majority.
But the politics Of the State are in SO dis
tracted a condition that the two democratic
members of the last Congress are likely
enough to be replaced by nationals or men
OF some odd political stripe.
Year: 1879

Few chronicles of the tragedies of life in
a great city go beyond the story told in the
HERALD to-day Of the murder of Mr.. Sey-
mour in the grounds of the Theological
Seminary on Twenty-frst street and Tenth
avenue. Startled by the murder of Mrs.
Hull in her own bed, people have scarcely
realized all the danger to life which that
drama implied when they are called upon
to consider strange drama of the night
equally fatal but marked evidently by
widely different circumstances of murder
Gus passion. On a summer night an old
gentleman makes the tour of the grounds
that surround the seminary to drive away
the tramps or other persons by whom the
place is apt to be peopled at that time.
Although these grounds are, in fact, in the
centre of densely populated district, they
are obscure and lonely. Lighted streets
are all about them and inhabited houses on
every side; but the dim, silent space, out Of
reach of the policeman on his beat, affords o
tempting place Of refuge for homeless cred-
lures of every sort, who swarm there to rest
or sleep. In that place the old gentleman
WuS hAlcQs UStWCSA eSA oAN OAOVSA az AAehe
apparently, by single pistol shot. BY
whom was it fired? Against all conceivable
possibility the police hold that it was fred
by the old gentleman himself LOCKERS on
believe it may have been an accidental shot
from the hand of some early celebrant of
the Fourth in neighboring window. But
the palmer probability is that he was killed
face to face by some intruder upon
whom he had come in his tour of
inspection. In the mere disturbance of a
tramp's repose there will naturally seem to
be not enough passion for murder, but that
cannot be declared positively, for the tramp
is apt to be irritable and to act with savage
readiness in such circumstances. But
beyond this it is possible that Mr.. Seymour
surprised some interlopers in circumstances
more likely to excite fury than the mere
disturbance Of repose. He was shot within
arms length of the sidewalk on public
street, but the police knew nothing about
it. They will have many clews, however,
in day or two, and one of the theories they
will form will be more diabolical than that
formed in the case Of DR.. Hull.
Year: 1879

Five murders in the neighborhood are
reported this morning-two of which at
least grew directly out of the celebration
of Independence Day. Many persons,
though how many is not known, were
spilled into lake from the upper deck of
a careening excursion steamer. In short,
the list of casualties is large, varied and
remarkable. One of the elements OF an old
fashioned celebration of the Fourth
was always list of the killed and
wounded. In former days the City
Hospital always had couple of wards
filled with boys who had blown them
selves up in various ways, losing their
members with liberal mpartiality-some-
times only thumb or an ear, sometimes
respect due to the enforced abstinence
from pistol practice in the streets, though
tho enforcement was not very energetic.
But from the rural districts we hear of the
customary casualty to the men who
rammed an unserviceable cannon once too
often. One OF the features of the celebration
that abounded in promise turned out some.
what unpleasantly. This was the popular
trip to Coney Island. Everybody and his
wife went there with the babies. For eight
or ten hours every possible means Of con-
veyance to the island was crammed to the
utmost. Consequently not less than ten
hours would be required to return this
great mass of humanity to the city. But,
though people We're going down nearly all
day, everybody wanted to come home at
about the same hour. That was impossible,
''and what's impossible can't be, and never,
never comes to pass" 1t did not come
to pass yesterday and there was great trou-
BILE about the return trip. People who
wanted to come home at six were still
struggling for a seat in the cars at eight.
nine and ten, aud the pitiful wailing of the
babies melted the stoutest hearts. All over
the country the spouters spread the un-
plucked eagle of eloquence and Mr.. Hayes
went to Fortress Monroe.
Year: 1879

One of the most notable chapters in a
future history of inventions will be that
which tells the story of Mr.. Edison's labors
in the perfection of his electric light. For
many years now it has boen mooted that
one of the uses of electricity would be to
supply the world with an artificial light but
little inferior for purposes of illumination
to the sunlight itself, and so far superior to
all other artificial lights that they would all
by common consent be abandoned when this
could be made accessible and cheap. But
the inventive spirit of the world slept upon
this hint, and the means Of making the
project practical were not found despite
many devices. Electricity, however, and
electrical machinery, through the demands
OF telegraphic companies. were studied
and manipulated to an extent never
known before, and the consequence
was to produce class of ingenious
men who thought electricity, just rs
other men think stocks, or law, or
medicine or railroads. Mr.. Edison is the
foremost of these, and a man who exhibits
as remarkable capacity to handle this
great imponderable iorce as other men to
handle the more ordinary forces familiar in
arts and industry. Upon him seemed to fall
the obligation of carrying the electric light
to completion, as it must have fallen upon
Michael Angelo in his time to make any
new temple in the Christian world. If the
achievement was within any mans reach in
the present state Of our knowledge it was
within his. In another column will be
found a statement Of the latest known de-
tails of his labor, by which it appears that
he has invented for his purpose q new gen.
orator Of electricity, new measurer, and
that he has discovered the existence in this
country of platinum to such an extent us
may reduce that scarce metal to the price
of silver
Year: 1879

Our kilograms from Minnesota and
Dakota recount the dreadful visitation of
those regions by q whirlwinj, or perhaps
two whirlwinds, for it does not seem to be
clear that the storm reported from one dis
trict as occurring on Wednesday night is
the same that ravaged another place on
Thursday. Perhaps there may be some
confusion of dates in the chronicle,
but if the dates are accurate the ap-
pearance of the same storm ut the
places named could scarcely havo been
separated by twonty-four hours. 1t
is notable that these storms--undoubted
tornadoes- though destructive, were far less
destructive than these perturbations gen.
orally are. Apparently this can only be at
tributed to the circumstance that the line
of advance only touched one town, and
that comparatively an inconsiderable place.


In tho absence of populous towns and fine
structures the best tornado in the world is
ut fault as to the havoc IL would make, for
the open prairie county takes little dam
age, and the atmosphere soon RECEIVERS its
equanimity. Doubtless the church and
orphanage destroyed ut vasa are severe
Year: 1879

Another great reform is required In the
celebration of the GLORIOUS Fourth" We
have exploded the pestilent frecracker,
burst up the fifty cent brass pistol in the
hands Of the small boy and got rid of many
kindred denominations that made the ma
tional festival hideous but the hifalutin
politician still cracks and snaps, and fills
the air with unpleasant noises and odors
oil about US. He still infests the Fourth AS
the tick infests the pine woods of Virginia,
the trichina spiralis the meat of unhealthy
hogs, or the festive and eloquent bullfrogs
the muddy regions of every low lying dis
trict. Having crushed so many evils in the
Fourth, can we not also crush him? He is
exceedingly numerous this year. He brays
at Tammany Hall in the ordinary
forms of the mild idiocy which distin-
guishes that array Of Tipperary Indians,
he snorts exhausted rebellion in neigh
boring city OF a patriotic State and
twaddles sophomorical science illimitably
at the mutual admiration Sunday school
turnout which Mr.. Bowen annually gets
together in Connecticut. Some Of tho
things he says may be respectfully enough
said but it is untimely to crowd this sort
of superAuous ginger pop eloquence upon
O holiday. Did not the extra session give
chance for saying all that these fellows
know about State rights and the ''inestima-
BILE boon of a free country?" If all that is
to be gone over again nt miscellaneous fes-
tivities let US by al means have another
extra session and localize the evil.
Year: 1879

rapid travel but it is obsolete in
this age of railways. The seat of
government should be at the great
centre of commerce and exchanges and of
intelligence, culture. social refinement an
civilization; at the place where a vigilant
and powerful press can keep immediate
watch on the proceedings OF the govern
ment and where the rapid interchange of
ideas would enable our legislators to keep
abreast OF the most enlightened thought of
the age.


1t was never consistent with the common
sense OF the nation that the seat of govern
ment should be in a small provincial town.
The government was first organized and set
in operation in the city of New York it
was then transferred for ten years to Phila-
delphia. It's removal to a wilderness
on the Potomac was the consequence
of disgraceful intrigue. When the
scheme OF assuming the State debts
was agitated in the first Congress
the greedy spectators who had bought up
out Of the assumption found that they
could not pass the scheme without the aid
of Southern votes, and they bought the
needed votes by offering to Southern mem
bers the bribe of establishing the perma-
nent seat Of government on the Potomac
and creating new Southern city in ma
larious wilderness.


The only reason of any weight against
revising that absurd and corrupt decision
is the heavy expense which has been in
Cured in the erection Of public buildings
at Washington. we do not dispute the
force Of this objection, but it is less conclu-
sive than it seems on its face. The princi-
pal cost of the public buildings consisted in
quarrying and shaping the stones Of which
they are constructed. The mere putting
them together after they had been hewn and
prepared was minor part of the expense.
They could ali be taken down, transported
by water to New York and replaced in
structures of the same form and dimensions
for trifing part of the original cost.
Year: 1879

OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PERSONS
rushed TO Coney Island yesterday to escape
from the oppressive heat in New York and
brooklyn. At least one-third of these pleasure
seekers were caught in the rain storm and
drcnchcd TO the skin-a result wholly at vari-
ance with their expectations setting out.
Our reports of the scenes witnessed on this now
famous beach are as amusing they are inter-
estng. The unfortunates will no doubt rail
loudly at the lack of accommodation on the
island forgetting in their anger that it is essen
TALLY "A fair weather resort
Year: 1879

be hoped, however, that the managers Of
this new structure will see to 1t that no
sudden panic can occur, to end only
III great loss of lie. This question
OF carefully guarding masses of pleasure
seekers from possible danger is one that
should not be lost sight of, for the ounce of
prevention is not only better than the
pound of cure, but far cheaper in the end.
Year: 1879

Two small white hands, with fingers meekly
folded ..--..o


Upon her quiet breast;
A sweet pale face that seems in marble mold
ed


Is she at rest!
Did she grow weary at her happy play,
And will she wake again ut close of day?
No; little Elsie never more will waken


TO smile or play; .-t
The angels (scarce more purc) have come and
taken


Our pet away;
And yet we think her spirit cannot be
More lovely than this little form we see
On the dear lips tint of rose still fingers,


Reluctant to depart;
And as We press the dimplcd icc-cold fin


In anguish to our heart, ...,..
We cannot find it in our hcsrts to spare
To the dark grave thing so bright and fair
o blind and weak! let us return to Heaven


What was but lent while,
Knowing how soon again she will be e ivcn


Back, with her sunny smile
Back with strange lore within her baby mind,
And knowledge which no sage of earth could
find.
Sleep, darling Elsie in Gods sheltered gar


We lay thce-littlc flower! ..
Lifting once more our weary earthly burden,


Till comes the blessed hour
When Death, the healer, bounteous and mild,
Shall give to us once more our falrest child!


chambers Journal.
Year: 1879

CANE TO TlME.-The father of the
babe found in u vault in this city and
marvelIously restored short time since,
for the attempted murder of which the
mother was arrested and held in prison,
on being informed of the facts, came
from his camp on the Skagit, acknowl-
lged his paterli y, gave bonds for the
release of the mother and took the moth
er and child away with him, with the
avowed purpose of marrying the woman
aid legitim,t z;ng the child. 1t is to e
hoped that the grand jury will ignore
the bill which it will be the duty of the
Prosecuting Attorney to present and that
the public will have no occasion to med~
die with the matter any further.
Year: 1879

THE SKAGIT GOLD MINEs.-In con-
versation with an intelligent miner who
has had many years experience IN the
mines OF California and British Colum-
b a, he said positively that the promise
o the Skagit mines, SO far as prospected,
is better than any ne had ever seen be-
tore. He has no doubt of their wonder
full richness and large extent, and b.
lieves there will be 5000 people there by
the 1st OF June next The altitude u
the mines is not as great as IN some #
the inhabited portions of Northeastern
Washington and British Columbia, and
hence there is no reason why work in
the mines cannot lie carried ON through
out the winter. Several parties are get
ting their supplies here now with the in
tentiOn of wintering in the mines. Mr..
Martin, one of the owners of the steamer
Cassiar, which ran On the Siickcen River
last season, after visiting these mines,
has determined to put his steamer on
the route between Seattle and Skagit.
Seattle can now secure nearly the entire
trade OF those mines, amounting perhaps
to millions annualIy-by the expendi-
ture of three or four thousand dollars in
the improvement of the trai! between
the Skagit and Ruby rivers, otherwise
we will have to divide the traffic and
travel with the British, who are making
a trail to the diggings from Fort Hope.


DRAMATIC.-An entertainment by the
Washington Dramatic Club" an anna
teur company, was given at Yesler's Hall
on Friday night last. 1t was reasonably
we'll attended and is spoken of as fair
beginning. fully equal to tie expectations
AL in
Year: 1879

JOB PRINTlNG.-Wc have Just received
at this Office full and very fire stock of
printers stationery, including every
thing usually used in job printing, and
are now prepared to execute any work
in our line promptly and on reasonable
terms.
Year: 1879

COURT HOUSE 'REMovAL.-We pub
lish elsewhere an address to the men,
bers of the Legislature prepared by q
committee of the bar headed, we believe
by the Oldest member Of the Bar Asso-
citation, and signed by some of our
heaviest Taxpayers and most influential
citizens. II puts the question of the re-
moval Of the seat Of justice to Whining
ton in so strong light that there is
scarcely any room left for argument.
The Courthouse must be built here if
built at all. In justice to all the people
Of the county, as a matter OF economy,
1t should have been here long years ago.
Its removal is only matter Of time any
how, and now the sooner the question is
settled the better it will be for all par
ties.
Year: 1879

WILMINGTON has often been termed a
"work house," Her voting population is
mostly confined to the mechanic shops.
and for these many years they have been
dragged from their labor for weeks at a
time to attend court at New Castle at a
great expense to themselves and always
at even heavier expense for witnesses
lees to the county. They number over
SIX thousand voters, and as there is nc
justice i'll longer imposing this inconye.
nlence upon them it cannot be Longer
overlooked.
Year: 1879

Harris Lewis ran behind his ticket, notwIthsiaud-
ing the fact that he was nominated partly because
he was president of the Farmers Alliance. The
scattering vote was less than 5000.
Year: 1879

the subpoena duces tecuno served
upon him some time since, namely,
whether or not he be required
to produce the books called for. A
secret session will be held on the sub
iect. 1t is understood that the commit
tee is divided in opinion, the majority
holding that the books should be
given up for examination the mi
nority, that the books are of pri-
vate nature and the committee had
no right to compel their production
for public inspection. At a meet
ing on Monday, Seward will proba-
bly be informed of the action of the
committee, and if he still refuses
to produce the books, will be re-
ported to the House as in contempt.


The House committee charged
with the investigation Of the best
means of preventing ihe introduce
ton and spread of epidemic diseases
have prepared bill similar to that
reported by the special committee
Of the Senate. One of the princi-
pal differences is the omission of the
provision for a Bureau of Health,
but it adopts the Senate's feature
for a Board Of Health, to consist of
seven members, to be appointed by
and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, not more than one men,
Der to be appointed from any one
State. The compensation of each
during the time when actually en-
gagedin the performance of his duty
is to be $40 day and expenses.
The Surgeon General Of the Army
and the Surgeon General of the
Navy are to be members Of the
Board without additional pay. The
duties of the Board are such as are
defined in Senate bill and precau-
tions for preventing the introduction
Of infectious diseases into this coun-
try generally the same.


The House bill contains provis0
that it shall be unlawful for any
vessel engaged il the transportation
of goods or persons from any for
eign port where any infectious or
contagious disease exists, to land in
the United States, except in accord
ance with this act.
Year: 1879

A FEW weeks ago we commenced
the publication Of "reminiscences of the
Second Tennessee Cavalry, by Lieut.
John w. Andes, OF Sewer cIuuIy.
With the present issue We commence
a similar series in reference to the
Third Cavalry, written by Adjutant
Will. A. McTeer, of that regiment.
He is competent TO write the history
Of his regiment in such a way as to
prove highly interesting, especially to
those who served in that regiment and
their friends. We will be glad to do
this in the future for other regiments,
the object being to furnish items of 10
cal history that will prove Interesting
and valuable in the future. We do
not desire to copfine this entirely TO
the history of Federal regiments, but
will be glad to publish items of inter-
est relative to regiments in the Con-
crate service also. Persons interested
in these publications would do well to
subscribe for the DAILY or WEEKLY
CHRONICLE.