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Year: 1878

will become pdriiceps criminis in ofrenses Of
the darkest hue against the public welfare,
for the purpose of misleading popular senti-
ment and averting popular condemnation.
And Congress Is asked to waste the pub
lie money AMI increase the burdens of
taxation under which the people are now
groaning, to aid conspiracy which viii
only disturb public confidence, derange the
business interests of the country, aggravote
the suiierngs of the people and bring gem
eral disaster 10 the business pursuits Of
people who would have been united, pros
porous, and happy but for the plottings of
Democratic traitors, rebels, and the Mexi-
canizers of the present day. Congress is
asked to lavish the public treasure upon
such men and such measures, while pecu-
MARY distress is resting upon those who
pay taxes and refund the public
treasury. 1t will never he allowed,
If the Senate Of the United States
is alive to duty. The conspiracy and the
revolution will both be nipped in the bud
by refusal to allow the public moneys 10
be squandered in such tOm(oolery rs now
characterizes the proceedings of Mr.. POTTER
and his isco-conspirators in plot to disturb the
Government and opprcss the people through
u arrangement of their interests and an
aggravation OF their embarrassments


This Congress has been in session nearly
eight months, and nothing worthy of mcn-
tion has been done to advance the material
interests of the country. Trade, commerce,
and manufactures have been ignored md
almost entirely neglected. Even the appro.
priation bills for the support of the Govern
ment have Jagged until only nine days of
the session are left 10 perfect them. Some
few appropriations have been made, but
these have been marked by a stinginess
that is crippling to the public service.
Those yet to be passed will be pushed
through the last days and hours of the ses-
sion in hasty and inconsiderate manner,
and in a shape that will in no degree sub
serve the public wants. And all this
criminal neglect has come upon the coun-
try through feelings of partisan hate that
takes more pleasure in hunting baseless
scandal against some Republican official
than in applying the principles and prac-
tices of real craftsmanship to the national
welfare.
Year: 1878

The Democrats have found nice plum
to pick in ORvILLE GRANT and it is to be
hoped they will make the most of him
He shoots his mouth or at half-cock, and
that is little dangerous to himself and
friends. The wisdom as well rs the ret
icence of the GRANT family was all be.
slowed upon one of its members, when per-
haps little Of the latter should have been
distributed for the comfort of the thing
Year: 1878

IT Is intimated that before ANDERSON
was put on the stand by the conspirators he
was specially advised that lie well stuck
TO was just rs good ns the truth for their
use, and he has acted upon that hypothesis
with great fidelity.
Year: 1878

GLOVER is losing his patience. POTTER
is poaching upon his domain. To discover
Democratic fraud and corruption is his pre-.
rogative by patent right. He don't like
the infringement.
Year: 1878

THE Democratic politicians are
very Indignant when it is proposed to
investigate the tissue paper ballot
business in South Carolina. AS the
Knoxville Tribune would say, that is
dead issue"
Year: 1878

DIAMONDS IN OREGoN.-A tele-
gram from Myrtle Creek, re-
ceived a few days since, inform
ed the Portland Bee that q valu-
able diamond had Just been
washed from the gravel nearthe
bridge. We did not receive any
information regarding the size
and probably -aIue of the stone,
but trust that it may prove a
Z" bonanza to the lucky finder.


The Victoria cricket club will not
go over to Portland to play this
Fourth, as was at first intended.
Year: 1878

is afrai to hold the colors and to breast
The storm, let him stand aside for the
next man in power. The money power
may be afraid, the Office holder may be
afraid, the monopolics may be afraid and
Governor Nichols may Le afraid;
but the people are not afraid to call n
convention and to meet the issues of the
hour. They want now constitution,
one that will protect and perpetuate
+l,eir rights and liberties, and they want
it nOw.'
Year: 1878

The CHAMBERLAIN INDICTMENT - Ex-,ov-
ernor Chamberlain yesterday resolved from At
dispatch saying that the present term OF fhe
sessions court was ended and the next term
would begin on the fourth Monday In March.
Governor Chamberlain replied with the offer
OF any amount OF security desired, and asking
that he be allowed TO execute his bond here n,
New YORK. II this proposition is not accepted
he win go at once to Columbia and give hafi
there.-tN y. Tribune, lltA,
Year: 1878

THE TRIAL OF JUAN MoNCAsI for attempting
the life OF King Alfonso of Spain was com.
menced yesterday at Madrid. The sentence OF
death will be promulgated to-day. His counsel
urged In his defence that he was insane, Or al
the most only intended to inf1ict bodily harm
The prisoner was not present al The trial
Year: 1878

The angler sometimes hooks salmon
that has had a piece bitten out OF the
shoulder by the rapacious seal, and GER
tainly the seal lives by masticating fish
in whole or in part. It is rare, however,
that combat between the fish and the
mammal is witnessed, even on the Oak
land Ferry route, which, to the natural
lists eyes, is SO prolific in incident,
ranging from the gobbling of garbage by
the gulls to the dipping of divers and the
pop and roll of the porpoises. Yesterday
morning the passengers on the ten o'clock
boat from Oakland witnessed a tough
fight between surgeon and sea-lion.
The former had swan away from the nu-
tritive mud of the San joaquin in quest
of something to suck in the bay, and its
fiippered enemy had entered the bay on a
prowl. One wanted to eat and the other
to escape. The seal saw its chance for
magnificent meal on what is too often sold
as sea-bass in chowder, and the sturgeon
was painfully conscious that nature ought
to have endowed it with sharks teeth and
the capacity to crush like the squid.
Fish and mammal came to the surface,
the former to breathe and the latter be-
cause it couldn't stay down. The seal
bit viciously at the gill openings of it's
adversary, and showed superior Jfnessee in
planning the campaign, while the stur-
geon lashed the water powerfully with its
unequally lobed tail, and occasionally
administered a stunning blow to the seal.
Blood flowed profusely, and the water
was dyed for yards around, but eventually
the sturgeon yielded up the ghost, being
seized unluckily by the tail and paralyzed
in movement by having its only propeller
nearly bitten off. Thus wounded and
circumvented, it speedily desisted from
battle, and the seal administered the coup
de grace and towed his dinner beneath
the waves. The spectacle was an exciting
one.-San Francisco Call.
Year: 1878

An old seed dealer of Philadelphia
says that never in his experience has he
known timothy seed to be as cheap as at
present. He exports considerable guam
titles of various field seeds to Europe,
and says by the carload he could sell
timothy as cheap as s1.45 per bushel.
It's cheapness is owing to the extraordi-
nary yield this year and the large area
under cultivation.
Year: 1878

of this dreadful circumstance. The poor
creature had torn her clothes TO pieces
and even fractured her limbs in her efforts
to release herself The doctor who
signed the certificate and the municipal
officer who sanctioned the interment
have been sent to jail for three months
for involuntary manslaughter.
Year: 1878

A LIFE SAVED FOR THIBIY-FIvE
CENTs.-A lady in Boston had diptheria and
was almost dead from strangulation. She was
instantly relieved and finally cursl by John
sons Anodyne Liniment. Every family
should have a bottle ready for instssnt use.
Year: 1878

According to the popular belief in Ger
many the eStremities of a rainbow al
ways touch streams, whence it draws
water by means of two large golden
dishes. That is why it rains for three
days after the appearance Of a rainbow,
because the water must fall again on the
earth. Whoever arrives at the right mo.
ment on the spot where the rainbow is
drinking can take possession OF the golden
dish, which reflects all the colors of the
rainbow; but if nobody is there, the
dishes are drawn again up into the clouds.
Some say that the rainbow always let's
the dish fall. This once happened at
keutllngen, in Suabia. 1t broke in
several pieces, but the finder received an
hundred gulden for it. At. Tublngen
people used to run to the end of the
rainbow, which appeared to be resting
over the Necker or the Steinack, to secure
the golden dish. Usually it is considered
wrong to sell the dish, which ought to be
kept as an heirloom in the family, for it
brings good luck. A shepherd in the
Suabian alps once found such dish, and
he never afterwards lost a sheep. A un-
fortunate native of Heubach, who sold
the treasure at high price, was struck
dumb on the spot. Small round gold
coins marked with a cross or star, are
frequently found in Suabia, and the
peasants declare that these we're man
ufactured from rainbow dishes by the
Romans when they invaded Germany.
In the Black forest the rainbow used a
golden goblet. The Servians have
theory that passing beneath a rainbow
changes the sex.


When double rainbow is seen, Sua-
bian peasants say the devil would like to
initiate the rainbow, but he can not sue
ceed. The Esthonians called the rainbow
" the thunder of Gods SICKLE" A theory
existed in the middle ages that the rain
bow would cease to appear certain mum
ber of years before the last jugement
aud Hugo Won Trimber, in an old Ger
man poem, mentions forty years as the
prescribed time.
Year: 1878

CREAM CHEEsE.--Four quarts sweet


milk, one of cream, sufficient rennet to
turn it. When it comes dc not break
it, but drain it as gently as possible
plaza the curd in the hoop-a big box
or drum will answer very well for a
hoop-Plt presA on and press gently
for one day. Take ont and rub with
salt. It viii be fit to eat in three OF
four days.
Year: 1878

A new scheme Is on foot, having Grant for
ite object Certain Republican politicians In
Illinois are bringing the ''oid man. forward
as a candidate for the Senate In opposition TO
Logan. It Is objected TINT Grant would not
appear to advantage on the floor OF the Sen
ate. and that his election would impair his
presidential chances. However this may be,
If the namo of the ex-President is presented
in connection with the Senatorship, Logan g
little plan for succeeding Oglesby would be
overthrown. There is q charm about the
name of Grant which the average Radical
officeholder cannot resist.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, Nov 20.-Judge Key contra
diets the story that he had said that Bonanza
Mackey would give 81, 100000 for the Grant
campaign. Speaking Of the subject, Judge
Key said: IL did not even see Mackey while
on the Pacific coast, for at that time he was in
Paris. 1t was all pure invention, OF course.
But what good can it do to make up such
stories as that i? The people Of the West are
for Grant. There Is no doubt of that. | went
a long way and saw great many people, but
scarcely saw anybody that was not for
Grant. He is very popular in the West.
Blaine is very popular but my observations
convinced me that the West is for Grant. The
Pacific slope is unquestionably for Grant,
Year: 1878

There is q very general feeling in all parts
of the country that elections are too frequent.
What with national, State local and mun-
cipal elections the people are hardly done
part In another. The excitement end dis
turbanco caused by one election has hardly
subsidized before the premonitory notes Of an
other are heard. This may be very interest
ing to professional politicians and those whose
business it is to engage in such matters but
it Is not to tho mass Of people.
Year: 1878




Congressman FELTON,, of Georgia, Is O. good
specimen of tho Southern Independent. He
declares in O. speech to his constituents that
he has always been faithful to the National
Democracy in Congress, and always will be
He Is even willing to abide by the decision o.
the party on the money question. That ls
he trusts his conscience to the keeping Of the
Democratic caucus, No" regular Democrat
could do more than that.
Year: 1878

More plagiarism. The second prize
man at the Yale junior exhibition last
week had pretty good piece. 1t was
made up of two of the Townsend prize
orations of the class of 1869. They are
on file in print in the college library.
The original author of half of this
junior prize essay was in the audience.
He looked up the old papers and the Sec
ond prize man lost his glory. The ex-
PLANTATION on which he escapes punish
ment is that in his manuscript the stolen
parts are in quotations. Probably he
gesticulated quotations marks when he
reached that part of his speech. His
case is like that Of a predecessor, who
spoke over again the Hon. Henry G.
Deming's graduating Grafton, when Mr..
Deming was in the audience. The
delicate compliment to Mr.. Deming be-
came known, and the young man re.
ceived the severe condemnation which
still gathers around the memory of his
act, though he himself is said to have got
rid of any association with the affair
and is doing very we'll in the ministry
And these are not the only two cases
They are inevitable. A member of the
class of 1870 passed off as original, il
the Yale Literary Magazine, paper
upon Tact and Talent that was a direc
transfer from Webster's spelling book
Some people have natural taste for do
ing things the crooked way.
Year: 1878

Somebody in England has patented
machine for telling timber.


Oxychloride of zinc is being much
used as partial substitute for gold in
the filling of teeth.


Salicylic acid, the new remedy for
rheumatism, does not injure the teeth,
even in the strongest solution.


Some London doctor has been listening
to the chest sounds of patient thirty
yards away by means of the telephone.


One part of boracic acid added to 500
pa rts of milk will keep it sweet for fifty
hours at temperature of eighty de-
grees.


A case of the transmission of scarlet
fever infections by means of letter to
distant town is reported in an English
journal.


Glycerine is said to be one of the best
lubricants for machinery, especially
when exposed to the air and changes Of
temperature.


Oil of eucalyptus is said to be an e1-
cellent local an@sthetic A drop placed
on cotton or wool and inserted in the
cavity will relieve toothache.
The statistics of certain large insane
asylums, in Germany show that the wo-
men patients discharged cured, who
marry subsequently, are less liable TO
relapses than those who remain single.


An account was lately given in Nature
of the difficulty met with in Australia
in getting bees to work after few years.
A correspondent calls attention to the
fact that similar difficulty occurred in
California, where it has been obviated
by systematic abstraction of the honey
as the bees collected it.


The following is highly recommended
as homemade court plaster. One ounce
of French isinglass, one pint of warm
water, stir till it dissolves, add ten cents
worth of tincture of arnica, lay piece
of white or black silk on. board and
paint it over with the mixture.


The Boston Journal of Chemistry
thinks the time is coming when eur
houses will be heated by steam from a
central station, as they are now lighted
by gas made ats distance. This has
been actually tried with entire success
in Lockport, New York. Three miles of
pipe, covered with non-conducting ma
terial, laid under ground, radiate from
a central boiler house. Fifty houses in
that city have been comfortably warmed
all winter by steam thus distributed.
Year: 1878

IT seems to have Just been discovered
why an elderly maiden lady is not the
right kind of lady to put in charge Of
postofice. The postofice department.
has recently been compelled to seek the
resignation of postmaster of small
town on the West Penn Railroad, Penn
sylvania, because the postmaster, who is
an elderly maiden lady, has felt it her
duty to open letters addressed to the
young ladies and gentlemen of the neigh
borhood, to find news which she couldn't
get in the local papers. Hereafter she
will have to look through keyholes or
something of that sort, in order to get
any happiness out of this dreary and
exacting world.
Year: 1878

CIVILIZATION in America may be
pushing right ahead of any other nation
on the globe, but when a newspaper
stops the press to announce the result
of game of baseball between the Clod-
hoppers and the Bowlegs," mans faith
in its onward progress is subjected to a
terrible wrench.
Year: 1878

DURING the last four years the farming
interest has extended itself over %, 1885,
900 acres of land in the United States.
Here is solid fact and solid assurance
of future prosperity that no amount Of
growing can countervail or counteract.
We fling it in the teeth of growlers to let
them gnaw upon.
Year: 1878

The annual ball of the Reliance Active
Association takes place this evening. al
the Masonic Temple. From present I'D,
dications it will be largely attended and
will be a very pleasant affair.
Year: 1878

WHAT THE ARMY Is FoR.-The use OF the


army for police purposes can only be dc,
manded in the interest Of desrotlsm, ana


no one but traitor to American lnstltu-
tions will ask such use OF the army. For
all purposes that this nation needs, an army
OF 10000 men are all-sufhcient. Our people
should be so prosperous and happy, and
should love our Government so well, that
at the first flash Of telegram from wash
ington that they were wanted, million
trained men would spring TO arms from
every farm and workshop in the land.
When our people are not thus happy q
standing army Of million can't keep them
in subjection. He is an enemy and traitor
who demands standing army, or that it be
used as police at the polls or anywhere.


The only use of an army in this country is
to fight in open war the public enemy
Peoria (ILt.) Democrat. .. ..
Year: 1878

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.,


WASHINGTON, February 19, 1878.


Dear Sir: Your note Of the 17tb, inclos-
ing your letter to the -- newspaper, is
received. For the kind view you have
taken OF my official action | am very much
obliged to you. AT this moment, as you
say, there seems to be disposition to at
tack me from all quarters, and probably
do not bear it as TRANQUILITY as I ought. My
official duty has compelled me to stand in
the way of a multitude OF claim agents,
custom-house brokers,f extreme silver and
initiation advocates, and the host OF men
who crowd around the Treasury to obtain
money improperly. I am perfectly con-
scious OF the danger OF the position, and
have made up my. mind to do my duty re-
gardless Of results.


You are mistaken in one thing, and that
is that ever wrote letter to Anderson, or
ever did anything in Louisiana which could
ever be construed into wrong. l believe
the element in Louisiana thatjs endeavoring
to stir up these prosecutions now acknow-
ledge that they cannot assall me except by
forgery or perjury. They sought to do this
through Anderson and Mrs. jerks, but
this utterly failed, and / have now letters
from each Of these that no such letter was
received or was ever written. Still, though
you have fallen into this error, express my
grateful Acknowledgements for the kind
words spoken in the midst OF obloquy. /
do not fear the investigation Of any act OF
mine connected with my public Office, and
boldly defy any inquiry or investigation
that may be made. neither claim to be
better than other men, nor am I; but in my
public duty have never consciously done
a single act that would not have spread
before the world without apology or eXpla-
nation. Very truly yours, -.


JOHN SHERMAN.


To George Alfred Townsend, Esq, Eliza
beth n. i
Year: 1878

class refreshments, vocal and instrumental
music, and lovely girls are among the good
things on the programme.


A novelty Is announced Tor next week.
This IS garden-partv under the auspices
OF the ladies' OF the Presbyterian church.
1t is needless TO say that this will be one OF
the most attractive entertainments ever
given in the CITY.
Year: 1878

Committed in DefauH.-Mayor Clarke
yesterday committed George Turner to Jail
for twenty days in default Of surety for
whipping his wife. Advocates OF the lick
her law, and persons who have a punchant
for beating and bruising people generally,
would do we'll to remember that after July
1st these petty offences are punishable with
stripes. II the new law is faithfully carried
out the criminal calendar for the next twelve
months will be very small one.
Year: 1878

DRAGGED DOWN TO DEATH.
The sun shoue again brilliantly shortly afterward
but nothing was then visible except few boxes
noating down the channel. The survivors say they
saw the ship suck down many as she sank.
Year: 1878

ONLY TWO OF THE CREW sAvED-THREE DIE


AFTER BEING PICKED UP.


LONDON, March 26, 1873
survivor OF tho Eurydlce disaster gives the
number on board as over three hundred.


DIED OF EXHAUSTION.
Five were picked up by passing schooner after
sbeng in the water over an hour but all have died
except two. 1t Is not probable that any others
were saved, as o strong ebb tide was running
A SNOW STORM.


The Eurydice was under full sail when she was
Year: 1878

EVIDENTLY the last channel in jour
nalism is occupied. Our dispatches this
morning contain summary from the
graphic description by James F. Alcorn,
of the wreck of the rotten hulk Me-
tropolis off Hatteras. 1t appears from
his story to the Associated Press that
he was only temporarily employed
shipped by the run-on board of a craft
which his nautical skill must have con-
vinced him was unseaworthy, but
which afforded him an opportunity of
employment and a chance to weather
the blast or-chronicle disaster.
Year: 1878

Born the silver and hard money men
have held conferences since the adjourn
ment of the Senate on Thursday, and
the question of comp lomise has been
very fully discussed. There is dlspo-
sition on the part of the latter to make
very important concession, providing
the silver men will accept it in good
faith. This is to yield the question of
legal tender if the silver men will in
crease the weight of the silver dollar so
as to make it on par with gold at the
present valuation of both metals. Ad-
vocates of single standard do not con-
ceal their fears that the silver bill may
be passed over the Presidents veto by
both branches of Congress. and they
are more inclined now to make some
cnmprOmiSc
Year: 1878

NEW YORK and New Jersey were
the only states represented in Congress
solid against silver. Tilden and Nc
Clellan will have to speak little pieces
to the Western Democracy and tell them
the reason.
Year: 1878

Constantinople, Feb. 2.-The follow
ing is the text of the Cars telegram
to the Sultan:


II desire peace us much as you, but
it is necessary for me and necessary for
both of us that it should he solid
and durable peace"
Year: 1878

A stranger sat IN corner of a car
hence to New York, in easy attitude,
his feet upon a large black trunk.
The gentlemauly conductor, going his
rounds, at the first station politely in.
formed the stranger that the trunk
must be put in the baggage car. To
which the stranger nothing replied. At
the second station the displeased con.
ductor, more decidedly told the stran-
ger that he must put the trunk in the
baggage car. To which the stranger
nothing replied. At the third station
the vexed conductor more imperative
ly told the stranger that he must put
the trunk in the baggage car or it
would be put off the train. To which
the stranger nothing replied. At the
fourth station the irrate conductor had
the trunk put off and left. At the
fifth station the notified conductor,
addressing the stranger, begged him
to remember that he had but lone
what his duty required, and that he
had only done it after repeated warm
ings, and that it was solely the stran.
gers fault. To which tn stranger la
conically replied. "Don't care; faint
my trunk!"-T Boston Courier.