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Year: 1877

After so much spiritistic juggling with
the dead and the living for quarter OF
century it does not seem to us that the
moral effect of visit from the dead would
be very great but DR.. Armitage may think
differently Nor do we believe with Mr..
Lloyd that the absence of true unity in the
Church is the cause Of modern scepticism.
Sceptics existed before the Christian Church,
Year: 1877

terest in the matter we do not see why the
justices should object to the new arrange
ment. unless, indeed, they suspect that the
attempt to keep the prisoners out of the
hands of the clerks is designed to place
them more completely under the control of
the police. The quarrel as it stands GER
tainly has not very creditable look.
Year: 1877

The LAST PoLO GAMES of the season were
played at Newport yesterday, when some excel
cnt horsemanship was shown A splendid
record has been made by the club during the
past two three months, and the large attend
ance at the different matches attests the grow
ing interest in this exciting sport.
Year: 1877

VERY EXTRAvAGANT ESTIMATES have been
imade by some Of the city departments, which, it
s to be hoped, the Board of Apportionment will
reduce when they come up for consideration this
Year: 1877

The VERY FAST TINE of nearly mile
minute was made yesterday i'll pigeon match
between Homer, in this State, and Scranton, Pa
Sixty-cight miles an hour were made some years
ago, or nine hundred and fifty miles ill fourteen
lours
Year: 1877

United States 3S, OCO, 900 $4,000


On peace establishment the European
nations named above keep an able-boded
man for every one hundred and one Of the
total population constantly idle and under
arms we maintain only one out of sixteen
hundred in arms TO these figures must be
added the naval forces of these countries, and
the great numbers employed in preparing
ammunition, great guns and small arms.
And what is still more wasteful, we must
remember that these soldiers, the flower of
the population, are not only clothed, fed,
housed and armed at the expense of the
rest of the nation, but they are removed
from productive labor; they are idlers. If
we assume that the able-bodied men in a
country are one-tenth of the whole popula-
tim, it would appear that in Christian
Europe in the year of grace 1877 about one in
ten of these able-bodied men is continually
supported in idleness during peace and at a
time when it has been seriously proposed
among US to entirely abolish our little
army.


1t surely needs no further words to show
that if we all started poor alike we of the
United States ought to recover our losses
and attain prosperity long before our Euro
pean neighbors. In fact, they are going
from bad to worse; it begins to be generally
acknowledged that unless Europe can soon
disarm it will become bankrupt


Now, it is clear that with these great adj
vantages we should not only recover our
losses sooner than the nations Of Europe;
we ought not only to accumulate wealth
much more rapidly; but having already on
hand at this time an overabundance of
mills, foundries, machinery and workshops
of every k;nd--being, that is to say
thoroughly equipped to produce cheaply
i'll every department of human industry,
unless we wilfully continue to hamper our
selves by restrictive laws, we are in posi-
tion to compete at great advantage in the
worlds markets with other producing and
manufacturing nations.


But in spite of our great natural advan-
tages all our industries are PROSTATE, and,
on the most careful calculations, there is no
sale for the labor of over four millions of
our population. We can produce more than
we can consume, and restrictive laws pre-
vent us from selling the surplus. Hence
the whole country remains poor, for this
surplus weighs like lead on every industry.
The workngmen of the country ought to
unite in monster petitions to Congress
when it meets for the repeal of this restric-
tive legislation. That alone is needed to
set our workshops going again, for when we
can sell our surplus manufactures abroad
Year: 1877




Some little time ago q number of our met
ropolitan detectives were found to be in
collusion with thieves and SO fearless were
they in their felonious friendship that to
see detective and bond robber convers-
ing under the pillars of Broadway hotel
and eating peanuts out of the one paper
bag was not m uncommon occurrence
When some Javert of an inspector reported
to headquarters this touching entente cor
dale between the guardians and breakers of
the law, the Draconian Board of Police Com
niissioners decided that men with such
little respect for appearances were not
fit to be trusted with plain clothes,
and that henceforth they should give infor-
nation to their friends, the thieves, in full
uniform. They were moved from pillar to
''post." We were proud Of such policemen
and such Commissioners. The thought that
the "tip" as to which "crib to crack" was to
be given only bya policeman in uniform
made us deliriously proud of our free insti-
tutions, and in our vanity we believed that
we had this kind OF policeman all to our
selves in America. We were mistaken. The
cable told US some weeks since that four in
spectors Of police in that home of the Meme
sis of crime, Scotland Yard, London, had
been found in collusion with number of
swindlers who had captured in criminal
way five thousand dollars from frolic-
some countess. This threw our detectives
in the shade, and told us that what we be-
lieved unique exhibition of official ras-
cality could blossom under an effete mon
archy as we'll as under our glorious repub-
lican constitution. But the parallel, as
might be expected, ends with the commits
sion of the crime. Instead of being made
to don helmet and parade through the
squares Of the West End to find windows
for their ''crooked" friends that could be
coaxed open with q jimmy, these four fine
fellows were actually sent to prison. No
wonder that one of them was SO dis
gusted with such a country that he attempted
to hang himself in Jail. Even this warning,
however, was not enough, for we now learn
that some narrow-minded magistrate has
committed them for trial at the Old Bailey,
like ordinary thieves. And yet the eternal
fitness OF things may be illustrated; for
Druscovich, Meiklejohn, Palmer and Clarke
may yet serve the State in uniform, al-
though it be the convict gray instead of the
policemans blue. We are filed with mis-
givings. Perhaps, after all, striped suit
at Sing Sing would be more appropriate for
our late detectives than a Derby hat and
blue coat with brass buttons on Fifth
avenue.
Year: 1877

The following sweet tribute to
mothers memory is full of tende
meaning, and is worthy of the poet
singer who wrote it.
Is there no grand, immortal sphere


Beyond this realm Of broken ties,
To fill the wants that mock us here,


And drive the tears from weeping eyes;
Where Winter melts in endless Spring,


And June stands near with deathless flowers
Where, we may hear the dear ones sing


Who loved us in this world of ours ?
l ask, and 10 my cheeks are wet


With tears for one cannot see;
Oh, mother, art thou living yet


And dost thou still remember me
| feel thy kisses DER me thrill,


Thou unseen angel Of my life;
hear thy hymns around me thrill


An undertone to care and etrife;
Thy tender eyes upon me shine,


Aa from being glorifed,
Till am thine and thou art mine,


And l forget that thou hast died
l almost lose each vain regret


In visions Of life to be-
But, mother, art thou living yet,


And dost thou still remember me
The springtimes bloom, the Summers fade,
The Winters blow along my way;
But over every light or shade


Thy memory lives by night and day;
1t soothes to sleep my widest pain,


Like some sweet song that cannot die,
And, like the murmur of tho main,


Grows deeper when the storm is nigh.
know the brightest stars that set


Return to bless the yearning sea;
But, mother, art thou living yet,


Aud dost thou still remember me
sometimes think thy soul comes back


From o er the dark and silent stream,
Where last we watched thy shining track,


To those green hills Of which we dream;
Thy loving arms around me twine,


My cheeks bloom younger in thy breath,
Till thou art mine and am thino,


Without thought of pain or death;
And yet, at times, my eyes are wet


With tears for her cannot see-
OH! mother, art thou living yet,


And dost thou still remember me E?
Year: 1877

The sweeping eloquence in ad-
vertising is becoming so wide spread,
that it is getting very difficult to dis.
tlngulsh a railroad land advertise,
ment from patent medicine puff un
til you get down to the signatures -
Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1877

The Hon. David NJ. Key writes to the
Cincinnati committee which invited him
to attend the Decoration Day ceremonies in
that city; {" rejoice to hear you say that
the soldiers that are buried in your beauti-
full city of the dead, whether they wore the
Blue or the Gray, will be alike respected.
He who dies for cause he believes is Just
may have done wrong in engaging in the
strife, but he has committed no sin. He
may have died Christian-an honest
man. The fact that the Southern soldier
staked his life on his cause manifested his
sincerity. Say, if you please, that he was
mistaken. that he did great wrong; but
say at the same time that he was honest
and brave. On the grave Of such one
tears may fall from kindly eyes and flowers
be strewn by lovely hands without re
proach.''
Year: 1877

The PERMANENT EXHIBITION Elk.
hibition in Philadelphia received a splendid
welcome on Thursday. Flags waved. can.
non roared, the President opened it, the
ex-President, Cabinet, dignitaries of all
sorts, and a hundred thousand people
crowded to see the opening. There was
much enthusiasm. People went about the
grounds shaking their heads as the old
Jews did at the building which was but a
meager sham of the ancient temple. The
Japanese bazaar is an empty she'll: the
Swedish school-house is going to be a sea-
side boarding house, and the barbaric
Brazilian pavilion in which the soul of
Dom Pedro eXulted is occupied by a we'll
known tailor The display from foreign
countries Is better than could be expected,
especially in the Agricultural Department.
Turkey has made a finer exhibit than she
did last year. AS soon as the matter has
proved itself to be really permanent, other
countries will doubtless join more heartily
success as usual commanding success.
The exhibit of American manufactures is
fair; of art-the less said the better. The
educational department shows genuine APP
probation Of a higher aim and an inten-
ton to fulfill it. We have strong hopes
that it will perform for the cause of educa-
tiOn the work which the National Bureau
of Education never has fulfilled for want of
sufficient means.-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1877

A STRANGE STORY.-ITere is a true story
from Philadelphia, with all the elements of
mystery and dramatic horror for which our
modern novelists and playwrights strive in
vain. Two or three months after the Ex-
position closed the dead body of man was
found in a lonely gorge. six miles from the
city, too much decomposed for recognation,
and without the slightest clew in his
clothing by which to identify him. 1t was
supposed he had been a guest at the
Granger's Hotel, which was an enormous
temporary barracks to which thousands Of
transient lodgers came daily. No register
was kept, nor could any account be taken
OF them after they paid for their room in
advance. What could be more unlikely
than that this unrecognizable body could
be identified as one of the nameless millions
who came and went through Philadelphia
last year, or that his murderer should be
found?


Yet, by chance letter to prominent
newspaper published from Germany, tie
whole strange story is laid bare. The
murdered man proves to bea young German
oil wealthy family who came to Philadel-
phla last Summer. AT this Granger's
Hotel he fell in with another German and
formed a close eompanionship with him.
The stranger learned all his secrets, the
particulars Of his business and family life
obtained letters from him, from which bt
studied his handwriting, peculiarities of ex
preston, etc. When his plans were rim,
he enticed the young fellow out to thi
lonely gorge, killed him, took possession O
his trunk and other property, and opened
correspondence with his family in Germany
Since last October this correspondence ha
been carried on, the murderer personatinl
his victim and obtaining by pleas of illness
losses, ETC., large sums Of money.


BY this time his arrest will in al
probability be made.
Year: 1877

II is said that he will visit her no more,
forever. 1t was only the other evening, as
he bashfully walked into the half.darkened
parlor. The cat was asleep in the old arm
chair, but he did not notice it until he sat
down. Then he did he saw he had made
mistake, and SO did the cat. That young
man arose in hast for the door; the cats
claws indicate that he had on his best
clothes. He swears that he will visit her
no more.
Year: 1877

THE STAGE oBBERs.-The Marys
vile Appeal says Marshall Casad was
in telegraphic communication with the
officers in pursuit of Brown, and that it
was their belief that he could not posi-.
bly, escape. His companion in the rob
berry was caught asleep in the brush near
Vina station and four of the watches tax
en- from passengers at the time of the rob-
berry were taken from his person.
Year: 1877

The PETERSBURG RAILROAD CAsE-DEcI-
SION OF THE SUPREME Court OF APPEALS
RENDERED THuRspAY.-The Supreme Court
OF Appeals, Judge Christian delivering the
opinion, decided in the case OF BroadnaX
against Raglsnd that the Circuit Court OF
Richmond had jurisdiction in the trial OF
the cause, and concurred with the Circuit
Court Of Richmond in the "opinion that
the 1926 shares OF the capital stock OF the Pc
tersburg Railroad Company in the bill and
proceedings mentioned, and embraced in
certificate No. 743, issued by said company,
and now held by said city as collateral secu-
rity for the note OF said Ragland and others,
and which was derived originally from
the State OF Virginia, is entitled to a diyi-
dend OF one and one-haif per cent. per share
semi-annually,Ato be paid out OF any earn
ings Of the said company, and that IN the
event OF any semi-annual dividends being
declared upon the common stock OF said
company, exceeding said one and one-half
per cent, the said stock is entitled, in addi-
tion to paid one and one-hah per cent.
chargeable upon the gross earnings OF said
company, to receive out Of the net earnings
OF said company sum sufficient to make it's
aggregate dividend equal to that received
by other stockholders, and that in case
OF default OF the company to pay
said one and one-half per cent. semi
annually the Board OF Public Works may
be required to 5oreclose the mortgage made
to secure said payment and to realize by a
sale OF the corporate property in said mort
gage mentioned the sum Of S163,5O0, to be
divided ratably among the holders OF the
said 1926 shares OF the said stock"


This court 1.-THE Supreme Court OF Ap-
peals], adopting the views OF the said
Circuit Court expressed In the clear and
able opinion filed with the record in this
cause, is Of opinion that there is no error in
the decree Of the said Circuit Court, and that
the same be affirmed.
Year: 1877

THE CANAL.-At 4 meeting OF the Board
OF Directors of the James River and Kama
wha Company held Yesterday evening the
President was authorized to apply to the
Council of the city Of Richmond for such
aid as may be necessary for the restoration
OF the canal.


A number of influential gentlemen were
present by invitation at the meeting OF the
Board, and the opinion was generally en-
tertained. as we are informed, that with
reasonable assistance from the city Of Rich
mond the navigation on the canal could be
restored in few months.
Year: 1877

FROM PRIVATE LETTER received from
Bolling's Landing on the canal We ascertain
that the loss OF Messrs. T. N. Maury d Co.
WAS much less than the amount stated In
the Dispatch of the 2oth instant. Their
entire stock of goods was saved, and the
goods washed away belonged to other par
ties, and were stored in their lumber-house
awaiting shipment. We make this state
ment to remove any erroneous impression
that may have been made by the corFe-
spondence in the paper Of the goth.
Year: 1877

The following table shows the state OF the
thermometer on each day during the month
OF November. Itshows also the highest and
lowest points reached on each day and the
condition Of the weather ut sunrise on each
day. The readings were made at sunrise in
ap elevated position in the eastern portion
OF the city:
Year: 1877

Dom Piatt solved some time since tn,
conundrum as to why so many stylish
youths rushed out of the theatre Just befor,
the closing of the last scene, thereby dis
turbing those who wished to enjoy tn,
whole, by stating that the fashionable look
ing masculines were coachmen and foot
men who had slipped in to see the play and
hurried cut SO as to be on hand when theil
employers came out. Therefore, says q
Capital correspondent


have concluded that those who go to
church to amuse themselves, annoy Others
and go noisily out when The music is over
must be servant girls and dining room ser.
wants, Vino, dressed in the clothes of theiI
masters and mistresses, are out for an airing
and are obligsd d to hurry home by a certain
time
Year: 1877

Mr. EDTroR:-Elas not the time arrived
for the introduction and Use. at this point,
of coins under five cents? The Use OF moth
ing less than the nickle .s merely custom,
and grew out OF the flush times during the
war. Money is not made 50 fast now. and
great many people would be benefited
by the saving in the Use of coins under five
cents, and although small to individuals, it
would be very considerable to the commu-
nifty.


Retail dealers would doubtless oppose
any change, because their profits would be
reduced, but the buyers have the thing
in their own hands ii they could
be made to see the advantage In the pur-
chase of box Of matches, by the Use of
pennies, two cents could be saved to the
buyer, because they can be sold at THREE
CENTS with a profit. A pound of SODA
CRACKERS can be sold for seven cents in
stead of ten, jellIes can he sold at eight
cents in stead of ten, and so on through a
long list of articles used in small quantities.
1t would perhaps be necessary to have the
corporation OF the banks. which could be
obtained, for some of the officers are known
to be favorable to the use of pennies and
thus make exchange. ScIMIP.
Year: 1877

1t seems to us that the claim of the let
ter-carriers to better pay is entitled to con-
sideration. They now get from some $50
a year to SS3l, the latter sum being re-
ceived by those who have been longest in
the service Their work is severe and try
ing, and it taxes not only their industry and
intelligence, but their honesty and fidelity
1t has been so well done, on the whole, that
the people are apt to forget how easily a
little fault in its performance might bring
serious annoyance and loss to the com
munity. The carriers, moreover, have no
chance of promotion beyond the grade
above indicated, and in view of this fact
their pay is low. We have little doubt
that if the question Of giving them mol
crate increase could be voted on by those
who are served by them, it would be cheer
fully granted.
Year: 1877




There is an impression among the people
of Ohio that because they have pronounced
against resumption in their election the sec
retary OF the treasury should cease prepar-
ing for resumption. They seem to think
that the secretary is bound to heed the voice
of his state and govern himself accordingly
This might be reasonable enough if the see
retary of the treasury had the shaping of
the financial policy Of the government Fut
he has not. lie is bound to obey the laws.
There is a resumption law on the statute
book enacted by the late congress,
and the seSretary's duty is
TO execute il, or make an exhaustive
attempt to execute it, at least even though
the people of every state in the Union should
pronounce against it. He has no discretion
in the matter. The law stands before him,
and he must eep his eyes on it and conform
his treasury management To it, and, when
the day for resumption arrives, make an at
tempt to execute it. There is some doubt
about his ability to effect resumption under
it. There are defects in it which some be-
lieve, will make the execution difficult and
lead to hardships. But it is the business of
congress. not Of the secretary, to remedy
these. III the bill is 10 be repealed or
amended, or if the day for resumption Is TO
be postponed, congress alone must do it.
Year: 1877

should not be unnecessarily DELAYED, he
considered it still more important tha, 1t
should proceed upon sound principles
which would furnish guarantees Tor the fu-
ture integrity and peace OF the republic.


Senator Morton was never actuated
by feeling of hostility to the Syuth. His
ruling sentiment was one of loyalty to the
Union, fidelity to principle, and justice to
all He repeatedly said that the Southern
people had in their own hands the power OF
restoring perfect peace by Obeying the con-
stilution and the laws in good faith, and
recognizing the principles of political
liberation. But he opposed with all the
force and determination of his nature the
admission of unrepentant rebels to full
participation in government, or the pracii-
cal obliteration of the dividing line between
loyalty and treason. He believed that
there was such thing as treason, and that
those who engaged it, should be made to
feel some of its consequences. He believed
that during the civil war there was right
side and wrong side, and that public
opinion, at least, il not the law of the land,
should recognize distiction between those
who fought for the government, and those
who fought against it.


Space would fail us to recount all Of
Senator Morton's services in the Senate, to
the cause of liberty, union and progress.
At all times, and in all circumstances, he
was the faithful champion of Republican
principles instant in season and out of sea-
son, always ready TO lead in attack or de
fense as occasion might require. No man
now in public life has been identified with
so many great public measures, either as
author or champion. Ii his services to the
Republican party were such as to deserve
the gratitude OF all Republicans, hisservices
to the cause OF liberty and humanity chal-
lenge the admiration of every patriot and
philanthropist. Nature and circumstances
united to make him political leader. His
remarkable political sagacity and foresight
wee supplemented by large experience and
knowledge of men and affairs. He was
bold without being rash, sanguine without
being over-confdent, always cool, never
losing his self control, never forgetting what
was due to an opponent or to himself, and,
above all, never forgetting to press steadily
toward his objective point. Once commit
ted to a great measure, he knew no such
word as fail.


Those who enjoyed his personal acquain-
tance, will bear witness to his amiable dis
position, his simplicity OF character, and
the absolute purity of his private life. 1t
is a grand thing for his friends to be able
to point to such record of public service
as Mr. Morton's, but it is still greater
source of pride to them to have
it in their power TO say that
in the whole course of his long career,
he never made dollar dishonesty, nor
leat himself to the commission of a wrong
or an unjust act. Enemies have defamed
and endeavored to belittle his character, but
the impartial historian will write the name
of Oliver 2. Morton, among those Of the
goat men of the nineteenth century.
Year: 1877

A correspondent from Louisville says
"This town used to support three or four
ministers and must be getting pretty rough
if preacher will not live here. Rev. Mr.
Myers, OF Wabanusee county, was to have
occupied the Congregational pulpit at night
on Sunday, but after large audience had
gathered and waited over half an hour and
no preacher came, they went home. This
is good town for any kind of a minister
now, as we haven't heard one for some time
It would be quite novelty to sit and listen
again"