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Year: 1879

Apropos to the inter-oceanic canal
across the isthmus of Darien, CORES
pondent in Buffalo writes to the New
York Graphic, suggesting the construc-
tion of an enormous railway across the
isthmus, constructed and equipped to
carry ships of any tonnage. He would
have the track at each end of the route
run down into water deep enough to
support properly built dock, SO that a
ing this approach to the track, and then
be docked and drawn across the isthmus
on wheels. The writer does not profess
any engineering skill, and modestly ad-
mits that there may be difficulties in the
way of his scheme which he does not
see. If SO, others will probably see
them. He thinks such road might be
built for one-tenth Of 5000, 900, 900, the
estimated cost of the proposed canal.
Year: 1879

The police statistics Of large cities are
often more impressive than long and
rhetorical sermon could be. Take those
of Chicago, for example. The annual
arrests number about 10000, one-half
for drunkenness, and of the total, 5000
are women, Without going into elabo-
rate comparisons of figures, it may be af-
firmed that Chicago is not greatly worse
than other large cities; it may not be as
bad as some others. AT the best we OBJ
tain a glimpse of an incalculable
amount Of crime and misery and
when we remember that the infu-
enee of evil examples spreads like con-
tagious disease, the subject is seen to be
one of terrible moment. Mere preach
ing to those whose surroundings alone
render virtue almost impossible on the
one hand, and mere attention to physical
wants on the other, will not meet the
exigencies Of the case. Nothing will
effect an immediate or general cure, but
there should be a union of all the
methods which common sense and un-
common charity can devise.
Year: 1879

Testing New Hose.
The Washington Fire Company were
engaged last evening in testing their new
hose at Third street bridge. The result
was satisfactory. tl..


One Drunk.
The only case tried before the Mayor
since Yesterday morning was one drunk,
which was fined 90 cents and costs, this
morning.
Year: 1879

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD:-


In the matter Of entrance and exit in the Post Oce
there is serious cause for complaint. Each door
swings both ways. and the confusion. collisions and
loss of time-not to mention neutrality-suspicious.
thereby deserve consideration Those having busi-
ness with the Post Office will at once appre-
cate the force Of my remarks. Each door
should be SO secured to swing in one
direction only, that persons going in and out
would keep to the right hand 1t cannot be said in
favor of the present system that il expedites bus
ness, any one who knows will say that the occa-
sion when man walks right into the building
without lodging the doors or colliding with some
one is greatly exceeded by those when the contrary
is the case. Postmaster James serves the public
faithfully and efficiently and perhaps If he was made


J. +. D.
Year: 1879

10 THE EDITOR THE HERALD


You very justly satirize the unwieldliness of the
titles or our elevated railroads. but. in all serious
ness. would suggest that the companies substitute
for these two words that of "tramway." and
procure from the Legislature its sanction
of the change "Tramway'S is q thoroughly appro-
pirate and adequate name. much used in England as
here. Let it be given distinctvely to those which
raised above the city Streets and we will hereafter
be called upon only to say the metropolitan Tram
way and the New York Tramway instead of those
ng-linked abominatons of sound for the habitual
utterance Of which life is indeed too short


DIETRICH KNICKERBOCKER
Year: 1879

The only sale advertised to be made on the Real Es
tate Exchange yesterday was that of the house and
lot No. 405 West Twenty-sixth street. The suit in
foreclosure having been settled the property
withdrawn.
Year: 1879

[NoTE.-Letters intended for this column must DO
accompanied by the writer's full name and address to
insure attention. Compliments who are unwiiiingto
comply with this rule simply waste time in writing.
Write only on side Of the paper.-ED HERALD
Year: 1879

The season Of activity has arrived and
Dodge City is enjoying the felicity of its
usual summer bustle.' The grass is short
on the immediate range, but the long horn
and the festive COW boy are approaa hing the
banks Of the murky Arkansas. The cattle
drive ia little later for several reaeons, but
We believe iis season will be prolonged.
Several herds Of horses and cattle have been
driven north.


Those who calculated on diminished
cattle drive will be mistaken. This busi-
ness will continue until the settlements
crowd it out, and when another disposition
10 made Of the trade, By the several reasons
that are imminent. We notice that num-
Der Of Texas cattle drovere have purchased
improved stock at the Kansas City sales.-
With the establishment Of an increased s:--
Der Of camps for stock raising on our South
ern borders and the improvement Of the
stock held here and driven from Texas, We
shall expect better average business de-
rived from the csttle trade.


Then this business will harmonic With
the agricultural interests. We do not be-
lieve Western Kansas will be exclusively an
agricultural or stock raising country. We
believe it will be equsli1ed In both interests.
That is the sensible view taken Of the mat
ter At this time. There are large strips OF
territory better adapted to stock "a sing,
while come favored portions may be used for
agriculture. Oar farmers, too, will enter
more largely into sock raising, producing
only sufficient Of grasses and grain for home
consumption.


In the meantime the summer bu ines will
continue to boom. and Dodge City will
hasten on to that destiny Of magnitude and
good fortune pointed oat to her.
Year: 1879

The editor of the Gardiner tMe.) Jour-
nal has recently had a narrow escape
from death, his horse running away as he
hung in the wheel. He thus describes
his sensations: "'Oh, can't some Of nv
spirit friends do something to help me
out of this scrape?' beseechingly l said
or thought. II was prayer not laid
down in the books, and perhaps the form
was not staid nor formal. Short as it was
it did me good. l saw then crowds
OF spirits around me-part Of whom /
knew. 4 do not sec what they can io,'
thought, and as they seemed to hover
around the front part of the wagon, and
over the hurse, I wondered how they kept
up with him. Then l thought pcrhap ps
they'll take the old horses strength away
but 1 couldn't see very clearly how
they we're to do this-for Old Robin was
a hard customer to 'llcmateriulizc.' l
probably should have lived but a few
seconds longer. The rcins hal worn of
upon the wheel just when my strength
had all gone. Had I died, people would
pityingly have said it was horrible
dea'h-but really suffered very little.
All the pain have had up to now has
not been equal to what I suffered last
summer in day from the bite OF an in
sect. The shock was such that my nerves
rf sensation were benumbed. had 70
fear; in fact, there was physical sort of
feeling that it was bundle about three
feet long, with a sort of handle to it,
(Which was my left leg, pro5ably,) that
was bouncing along over the ground,
which was trying to antangle. Then
there was another self who bad to take
care of the wheel, untangle the rein, talk
to Old Robin, yell to the dog, and attend
to matters generally; while the third self
seemed te. DO the thinking, and kind of
liked that one the hest. have often
heard that in such crises as these ones
whole life passes in review before him,
and thcugh of that fact, but had no
such experience. had only one regret
for deeds done or left undone, and that
was that had neglected my usual Gus
tom of taking accident tickets, and this
regret felt ashamed of. My only thought
was Of my wife. Toe knowledge that |
have faced death untlinchingly is not with
out satisfaction to me, and there is some
thing that feel, which cannot describe,
that assures Inc that there was more pow
erful influence than my own aiding, CON-
forting and sustaining me. My religious
friends will say it was the Good Father.
and it matters not what We call 1.-THE
feeling is the same. do not feel of suf-
ticient consequence to merit God 5 special
providence, but that loving friends from
the other sphere may have comforted
and sustained me is not rcpugant to my
common sense, and does not lessen my
idea of the goodness and greatness Of the
Creator
Year: 1879

1t has puzzled many to decide why the
dark wood, so highly valued for pianos,
and in these times so clcverly initiated,
should be called rosewood. Its color,
certainly, does not look like that Of rose.
but when the tree is first cut, the fresh
wood possesses a strong, roselike fra.
GRANGE; hence the name. There are a
half dozen or more kinds of rosewood
trees found in South America and in the
East Indies and neighboring islands.
Sometimes the trees grow so large that
planks four feet broad and ten feet in
length can be cut from them. These
broad planks arc principally used to
make tops for piano-fortes. When
growing, the rosewood tree is remarkable
for its beauty; but such is its value in
manufactures as an ornamental wood that
some of the forests where it once grew
abundantly, now have scarcely a single
specimen. In Madras the government
has prudcntly had great plantations of
this tree get out in order to keep up the
supply. ""
Year: 1879

black shapes on tho prairie marked the
whereabouts of tho rest of the dozen
troopers, and told at what cost the victory
had been won.


The boy himself, only held half up
right by the soldiers strong arm, was
still alive. The bright moonlight shin
ing on his handsome, girlish faco lighted
it to unearthly beauty. In the struggle
his coat had been torn of, and broad,
dark, slowly-spreading smear was visible
on his coarse gray shirt. His breathing
was hoarse and quick. the sure index to a
shot in the lungs.


Hes goin',' said the sheriff, hopping
the blood from bad cut in the forehead
with his sleeve. ''Great snakes! what
fight he made"


"Here's the pony, sheriff"


One Of the men led tie pack pony,
which during the entire fight had been
quietly grazing at little distance of, up
to the group. With quick jerk he drag
ged off the tattered blanket which cover
ed the pack.


There were q few camp utensils, some
provisions, and a bulging sort of double
bag thrown over the fronts of the pannier.
With an effort he pulled this off, but its
weight tore it from his hands, and it fell
with q metallic crash. As it struck the
earth its seams burst. The queer shaped
sack was simply an old pair Of panta-
looms with the legs tied up, and its con-
tents rolled, jlngling and sparkling,
over the short grass cascade of minted
gold.


Before the musical ring Of the precious
metal had died away the group about the
dead man and the wounded boy parted
with an exclamation Of startled surprise.


The boy had suddenly struggled to his
feet: He stood swinging dzzily to and
fro for an instant, and snatching revol-
yer from the belt of the amazed soldier,
who still stood beside him, fired point
blank at one of his captors directly in
front of him.


The man fell dead, and his murderer,
with Il G smoking pistol still in his hand,
tottered forward a step and, sank in a
heap on the corpse of his companion,
with his face upon his breast and one
arm about its neck. * 4


Strange! Well, however that may be so
far, the strange part is to come yet. OF
course, you nave suspected all along tnal
the handsome boy was woman3 Well.
he wasn't! and what is more, the pair,
far from being two Of the train robbers,
were worthy Texan drover and his son,
who had sold out their beasts at North
Platte and were on their way home with
the money. They had eleven thousand
dollars in coin with them. The boys had
the laugh on the sheriff for many long
day after. For once his vaunted acute
ness had failed him.


What was done to him? Why, Great
Scott stranger, what do you suppose2
Are We not all liable to make mistakesl
Year: 1879

At a meeting Of the Weccaooe Fire
COIL p,ny it was determined that no
Christening" of their new steamer
would bs recognized unless said chris
teDipg is done by an engine OF the
same max aud pattern as their own.
Year: 1879

The Leadvile ladies must be a luxurious
lot, from the following in the Chronicle of
that city; ''There was a time which men S
wives and daughters in New York, and
other eastern cities on the frontier, used to
be richly dressed. This was during and
Immediately after the war The other day
large consignment of the costly jewels
worn by the New York social bellies during
the times that were good, came to Leadville
to be sold. Such consignments have been
common in the last few weeks. Through
reverses in fortunes the highNtoned ladies
of New York are compelled to sell. Through
great and unexpected prosperity the ladies
of Leadville think they must buy, and to
hear Mrs. So and So, or Miss -, the
daughter of ore of the Kittie Krocker mine
owners, paying two or three thousand dol
lars for pair of earrings, or four thous
and dollars for brace of bracelets, or two
thousand for finger ring, is nothing un-
common. One house in this city is now
wholly engaged in bringing to Leadville
the most costly jewels that can be found in
the Eastern markets, and during the season
now at hand, there will be ballroom scenes
in Leadyile that will dazzle.
Year: 1879

is as to crowd as much usefulness af


possible into it's labors having reference


more to the happiness of others than to


any one condition in which we may fine


ourselves, or to any anxiety for our own


welfare.


Tho foregoing remarks are intended
specially for the editor of THE COMET, but
generally for such of his readers as may
be discouraged by bad crops or unpromis>
ing surroundings. This letter, too, was
written on Sunday, and is intended for the
Sunday column.


Religious sentiment in Texas is much
the same as with you. All along the rail>
road, have been led to think that shep-
herds look more to the size of the flock
than the character of the sheep; and the
sheep regard the ability of the shepherd to
defend their particular cote rather than the
ability and disposition to make war upon
the wolves generally and save all the sheep.
1t is hard for preacher to be a good man
He has not only flesh and the Devil to FL ht
but he must meet and tranquilze all the
meanness in his congregation. If he an
tagonizes, his pay is affected, and much
grace is required to elevate the average
human mind above question of daily bread.
l am sometimes reminded of things, not
proper to be written, when l watch preach
ers threading their tortuous way through
pastors life-a hard life, and when faith
fully adhered to, glorious life, yet, with
out the greatest care, it will develop Won
deful faculty of deceiving, SO that ones
self may be deceived.


To illustrate: About a week ago prom
inent minister speaking to me of his con-
gregation, referred to u distinguished law
yer, who is a man, universally respected
and of great powers, but who is festive and
rarely goes to church have no idea that
the man knows which is in his creed, |
''total depravity," ''final perseverance"
or ''falling from grace" but he pays Che
has plenty) and has his name on the church
book. When he does enter the church,
there is general turning to look and the
preacher has new light to fall on his face.
The minister said to mo "Gen. - is
pious man, and an humble mani am so
fond of him" Mentally I said, ''See
here, Hodges, for l knew better. The
Doctor was deceived, perhaps.


To conclude this Sunday letter, 1 will
say: All of us have hard time, and each
of us can make the others burden lighter,
and in SO doing, do all that is commanded
by experience and Revelation
Year: 1879




Senator Gordon drives fast mare to
pony phaeton in Atlanta, Ga, or rather his
wife does, while he sits beside her. This
lady rode with him through the war.


So Gen. Gordon is patterning after
shoddy. If he will avail himself of the
first opportunity to take seat in a crowded
street car, while Mrs. g. stands up, and
swings on by a car strap, he will have
shoddy down to its finest and most beautiN
full point.


We consider the comments of the Clarion
of doubtful propriety. A lady that is held
in such high estimation wherever she is
known, should not be mentioned in such
There is certainly nothing
shoddy about Gen. Gordon. He is one of
Natures noblemen.-Macon Beacon.


We think our neighbor must have been
ont of sorts when he penned the above.
To our minds there certainly can be no inn
propsiety in a gentlemans wife driving
him around the city in phaeton. We see
it in our own city every day
Year: 1879

CRoAKERs, and men who insist upon dis
cussing dead issues must 60 to the rear. No
Democrat who loves his country can afford
to be a croaker Men who stand still, with
idle hands, and their fields barren for the
want of cultivation, and cry out we are
starving, our country is lost, are croakers,
and properly belong to the Gre. nback
party; it is made up Of this kind of mate'
rial IL you would be a live man join the
Democratic Conservative party. 1t does
not teach idleness nor croaking, but it does
teach that prosperity is the result Of in
dustry and frugality.
Year: 1879

The negroes of Pass Christian, Harrison
county, are very much excited over a rumor
that body of medical students are camp
ing near that town in the woods, and rid
ing through the country at night capturing
the negroes that they may meet, for the
purpose of dissecting them. All Of which
goes to prove that the negroes as class are
the most credulous people on earth.
Year: 1879

The merchants of Enterprise, feeling
the need of good road from their town to
the town of Claiborne, in Jasper county,
raised the sum of six hundred dollars, ex-
pended the amount on the road, got it in
fine condition, and said not a WORD to the
Board of Supervisors about refunding the
money. This town is appropriately named,
Year: 1879

Col Robert G. Ingersob, in closing his
lecture on the ''Mistakes of Moses, says:


No matter what may come to me, or what
may come to you, let us do exactly what We
believe to be right, and let us give the ex-
act thought in our brains. Rather than
have this christianity true, | would rather
all the gods would destroy themselves this
morning. | would rather the whole uni
verse would go to nothing, if such thing
were possible, this instant. Rather than
have the glittering dome of pleasure reared
on the eternal abyss of pain, | would SEQ
the utter and eternal destruction of this
universe. I would rather see the shining
fabric Of our universe crumble to unmean-
ing chaos and take itself where oblivion
broods and memory forgets would rather
the blind Samson of some imprisoned force
released by thoughtless chance, should SO
rack and strain this world that man in stress
and stTaint, in astoniShment and fear,
should suddenly fall back to savegery and
barbarity. would rather that this thrilled
and thrilling globe, shorn of all life, should
in its cycles rub the wheel, the parent star
on which the light should fall as fruitlessly
as falls the gaze of love on death, than to
have this infamous doctrine of eternal pun>
ishment true; rather than have this infa-
nous selishness of heaven for few and a
hell for the many established as the word
of God


One world at a time is my doctrine. Let
us make some one happy here. Happiness
is the interest that decent action draws,
and the more decent actions you do, the
larger your income will be. Let every man
try to make his wife happy, his children
happy, Let every man try to make every |
day joy, and God cannot afford to damn
such man, l cannot help God; cannot |
njure God. l can help people; I can in
lure people. Consequently humanity is the
only real religion.
l cannot better close this lecture than by |
quoting four lines from Robert Burns,


. To make happy freside cline


To weans and wife,


That's the true pathos and sublime


OF human lte.h
Year: 1879

THE Winona Advance, recommends that
the State Executive Committee, have
meeting and officially notify the party
throughout the State to have election tickets
printed with the word ''opposed to the
amendments" on them.
Year: 1879

AT a meeting of the Farmers Club" of
Jasper county, held recently, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted;


Resolved, That we recommend the pas
sage of an act by the Legislature, vacating
the seat of any member who shall be guilty
of 1ntoxication while at jackson.
Year: 1879

Only worl a little wipged word
blown through the busy town,
Lighter than thistle down.
Lighter than dust by rowing bee or bird
Brushed from the blossomng hly's golden
crown


Borne idly here and there.
Oft ~ the summer air
About mems doors the sunny stiffness stirred.


Only word
But sharp, oh sharper than two-edged sword
To p erce and sting and scar
The heart whose peace breath OF blame could
mar.
Only word little word that fell
Unheeded a. the dew


That from the dArkling blue
or summer midnight softly steals, 10 tell
It's tale OF singing brook and star-lit dell
Ia yonder noisome street


Where, pale with dust aud heat,
The liltle window flower in workman's cell


It's dropping bell
Uplifts 70 greet the kiss It knows 80 well
word "A drop OF dew
But oh, It's touch could hfe's last hope renew.
Year: 1879

A letter was received by tho Brooklyn Presbytery
yesterday from tho Rev. DR.. Duryea asking that
body to appoint time to take into consideration
the dissolution of his pastoral relations with the
Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church, and his con
Year: 1879

It may surpriye some people to hear that slavery no longer exists On the beautiful Island of Cuba; Net that is what Las actually taken sAaee, all Spanish arms and foreign fumors to the contrary notwith- standing There are laws for the gradual aboli<hing of the institution bnt, in tie face of these lava and indeed in partial opposition to them the owners of slaves have for the greater part msnumitted them. There have been really few slaves in Cuba since tic last instruction. Ut five plantations have kept regular number and these five are those which arc taking humane measures to rec;ify as far as they can that terrible blundcr of human ity. the bondage of fellow men, It is an undeniable fact that if all the slaves wore suddenly freed, great di tress would prevail unless some provision were made for them I he planters sec to this by engag- Ing the freedmen to work for them  on the rayme:.t of wages for terms of thrre or five years. Thus the abolition of slavery is going on and the internal affairs of Cuba are by no means in that unsettled condi- ten of which we hrar so much. Already it is said an Industrial Ex- position is soon to be held there and It will be the fist that was ever or. rar.ized on the Is.and.
Year: 1879



 There are some papers that strive hard to convince the masses that cheap labor makes community prosperous but tLey fail to cite an instance in support of their propo- sition, fer the simple reason there is none to cite. The prosperity of a town or community depends upon

 the condition of it's working classes and if the price of labor is low there will be found a rich few and poor many-a state of things that never mskes community a contented and thrifty people. It is not the capitalist nor the man in easy cir clmstarces that give to the town a healthy look but the man who works by the sweat of his brow He supports largely the merchant and the mechanic to a greater ex- tent than those of larger means. In places where labor is high or moderately go, business of every description is prosperous, money is plenty and all are happy. In the East the price of Labor is dowu to  go fine point that the laborer can but live from his earnings. Chi nese labor is advocated as the means to still further help the capitalist and crush the workingman further down in the dust. Let the capital Ist and manufacturer pay reasonable wages and all will be better both for the people and the country at large.