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Year: 1878

EXERCISES IN PRoNUNCIATIoN.-A
Indian was attracted by the aroma of
the coffee and the broth, arising from an
isolated bivouac, and moving down the
path he met bombastic bravo who was
troubled with bronchitis, for which he
was being treated by the allopathy sys-
TEN. The Indian being in dishabille,
was received in disdain by this black
guard, who called him a dog, and bade
him with much vehemence and contume-
ly to leave his domain, or he would dem
onstrate by his carbine the use of
coffin ana cemetary. The Indian calm
ly surveying the dimensions of his Eu-
ropean opponent, and being sagacious
and robust, and having all the combat
iveness of combatant, shot this rufian
in the abdomen with an arrow.
Year: 1878

we 90 noe read anonymous letters and communi-
eatons' The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty Of good faith.


we cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

The Supreme Court of Louisiana has
decided that the Mt. Vernon returns were
not susceptible of forgery and Gen. Ander-
derson IS consequently discharged. President
Hayes is reported to be much gratifed by
this decision and to have said that the entire
union would applaud the action of the court
as '.patriotic and IN the interest of concilia.
ton" Is it quite complimentary to the
court to assume that judicial decision of a
legal point was made on political grounds?
Year: 1878

The young men of to-day keep pace with the times.
The SHORT JACKET and LEATHER
PANTS of by-gone days are things of the past
peculiar and cultivated taste must be the only re-
qurement which will enable merchant to select
styles and fabrics that will be to please the
mass of our young Americans. We claim to have it,
and our Youths Department will speak for u. No
pains have been spared to make this Department
leading feature of our mammoth wardrobe.


A cordial invitation is now extended to young
gentlemen to call and examine our goods.


YOUTHS SUITS.


Sizes from 80 to So, prices from $500 for Gray
Mixed Cashmere suit to fine imported Worsted
suit at $4,000.


Single breasted Sacks, high roll, with high button
Vest cut long the prevailing style for young men
the incoming season.


Prince Albert Frock Coats are particularly adapt
ed for dress occasions.


No two stores in Eastern New England pretend to
show half the assortment that can be found on our
counters.


Youths PantalOOns


The Department devoted exclusively
to this display is unusually attractive.
Pants are cut full In the legs with
moderate spring bottoms. Our patterns
cannot be equaIled.


Boys from IL to 16 will find the most
attractive assortment at our store,
Our Styles and Prices are the wonder
of all.


Our stock Of these goods Is FOUR
TIMES LARGER THAN AT ANY PRE-
VIOUS TIME.
N1ME Z
Year: 1878

WAsHReTos. May 25.-The House
Committee on Appropriations will report
early this week the two remaining gen
eral appropriation bills, namely, sundfy
Civil EXPENSE and Deficiency.


The Army Bill may consume one OF
two days more before its passage. Il L
not believed that any Of the railroad bills
or Tariff Bill can pass both houses dur
ing the present session. Not few mem
bers are hopeful Of adjournment BY the
end Of June and working TO that end
The Potter Investigating COMMITTEES
would not interfere with such result, u
Il has the power to sit during recess.
Year: 1878

OF late years journalism has offered q new
field for educated women, and to-day in Amer
ica there are q few who make money and whose
names are known to every one. Bat, alas, we
see and hear of those who win; the many who
fail do SO with no one to tell of their strug-
giles. People are apt to fancy writing for the
press easy work, which any one with tolerable
huency-and most women are fuent-can do.
In point of fact no profession needs more care
ful training. A man who sets up as cabinet
maker, knowing only how to haadle plane;
woman who essayed shoemakng expecting
success because she could sew a straight seam,
would be as wise as she who hopes to make
herself name land fame among writers on the
strength of her ability to write a readable pri-
vate letter. And journalism-steady, faithful
work-which is ready with its article to order
on any subject, at any hour, is the only literary
work which may always be depended on for
daily bread and butter, let alone the cakes and
sweetmeats so dear to the feminine tooth.
"There is always plenty OF room at the top,


but genius Is the blOssoming OF an aloe-the
fruit of q century. Talent allied to pluck and
perseverance is sure to win iu the long run, but
it must be in most cases q hand to hand fight
with defeat-a close contest with the struggling
crowd at the bottom. IL general literature,
even where there has been real talent to back
the aspirant, and where success has came at
last, il has often come after many failures, and
when success comes the pecuniary reward Is
often pitifuliy small. A distinguished writer
Is reported to have once said, jocularly, that
his books averaged him dollar and narter
year apiece, and even the great novelists OF
the century have not made fortunes. The
woman who can make q decent living by her
pen may count herself successful.
Year: 1878

"With this sum specie payments can be
resumed at cnce, and the promise that is
written ON the face of the greenback to pay
the dollar, made good. This would give
Bill good dollar for his work, and the
wounded veteran good money for his PEN
sion, which is only justice and fair play to
Bill and the veteran; that is, Bill not only
would work for gold wages as he
does now, but would buy his goods
at gold prices, and thereby save
another large item of the $25434 that
is pr essed out of him annually
SPECIE PAYMENTS IS THE ONE
THING NEEDFUL In OUR PRESENT
CONDITIONAL AND WILL L CURE Us OF
MANY FINANCIAL ILLS. The moment
you hnve got specie payments, Pendleton's
and Buffers theory Of paying the bonds in
greenbacks which means neither more or
less than more and meaner money, be-
comes obsolete. If Congress in it's blum
derings, did not agree to pay the principal
of the bonds in gold, il ought to have
agreed to, and specie payments will make
the agreement what il ought to he. The wit
fman cannot devise any scheme that will
bring absrf specie payments other than re-
deeming greenbaclks with gold; that is, let
somebody else have some good money be.
sides the bondh slders-SOLON CHASE'S
"POOR MANS TRACT" OF 1871,
Year: 1878

La reply to all assailants we base the policy
of resumption on these impregnsble grounds:-


First-The Public faith demands 10. By all
the solemn pledges which nation can give,
the restoration of specie payment was promised
when the greenback was issued. That promise
ought to have been kept long ago; and it is as
unpatriotic as it is dishonest to attempt to pre-
vent its fulfillment now.


Second-the highest interests both Of labor
and of capital demand resumption. Uncertain
ty is the worst element that can enter into the
business calculations of men; and the uncer-
tainty which legislation brings is the worst
kind of uncertainty. The government must
get out of the way and let prosperity return.
1t can do this by putting it out of the power of
Congress to change our standard of value by Its
votes.


Third-The chief hardships of resumption
have already been endured. When the law
was passed in 1875 our paper money was at q
discount of 13 per cent. Since then 1t has slow
ly and steadily become better, mo nth by month,
until now it is but ] cent below par. The
short step to stability and certainty will hurt
far less than to retrace our steps aud plunge
back again into the evils from which we have
escaped Should we now retreat, the unsettled
transactions of last year would be thrown into
utter confusion. If we now abandon the At
temdt at resumption, the future will be cloud
ed with an uncertainty that will destroy con-
fdence and prevent the return of prosperity.
Year: 1878

The speakers for the Greenback party are
constantly affirming that Venetian greenbacks
were better than gold; they do not name the
day when it was SO. The statement upon its
face is absurd and needs no refutation. It Is
easy to imagine cases in which paper money,
convertible by the holder at will into gold,
would be better than coin, as matter Of con-
venience, and only SO. L have often seen per-
sons exchange coin for bank notes, as more
convenient to keep about them on long jour
neys.


was in Italy in 1866. and again in 1874
and In Venice as elsewhere in that country.
Italian greenbacks were at discount of II per
cent as compared with gold. often exchanged
gold for notes of the National Bank at that
rate, because the paper was more convenient
than coin, all prices being expressed in that
currency.


Every considerable city had local banks
whose paper was at greater discount-I do
Year: 1878

THE underlying cause of the threatened
war between two of the South American
States about Patagonia is that recent discov-
cries show that the whole of that country
teens with gold throughout its length and
Year: 1878

ANOTHER market for our corn has opened.
The Nile has not risen to its average height
this season, and although there is sufficient
irrigation for the cotton, the Indian-cOrn
crop is doing very badly. There is, therefore
a great demand in Alexandria for American
corp
Year: 1878

we 90 not read anonymous letters and commun.-
catiohs The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
put as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
muncations that are not used,
Year: 1878

and other sources of revenue, and it will
meanwhile discharge several times its amount
of private Indebtedness.


So it seems that in discharge of indebted
ness the eagle is as good as the greenback of
the same denomination. That disposes of
the debtor argument. But the eagle has a
great advantage over the greenback in an
other direction. Men take the greenback in
this country in the discharge of Indebtedness
because the government forces them to. But
no government can compel man to give ten
dollars worth of goods for ten dollar green
back. He will not do it. He will give goods
to the value of nine dollars and some cents !;
but if you want ten dollars worth you must
tender him the eagle or note that he can
exchange for an eagle. Thus the working
man is obliged to collect his debt in the green
back, to take ten dollar government note
for ten dollars worth of labor; but he cannot
compel the trader to give him ten dollars
worth of flour or meat or clothing for that
note. NomiDally he gets the equivalent of
his money; really he gets something over
nine dollars worth of wares for his ten dollar
note. Is not, then, the eagle better for the
laborer, as for others, than the ten dollar
greenback? 1t pays his debts as readily, and
be can buy more with it.
Year: 1878

Congressman Acklen says that Louisiana
will return a solid Democratic delegation to
Congress. He thinks Grant will be nominated
for President in 1880, and that every negro in
Louisiana will vote for him.
Year: 1878

A RAILROAD FIEND.-By the malicious re
moyal OF a rail on the New York Central rai.-
night, nineteen cars of an oil train were
wrecked and the oil burned. Plat s. Truax,
brakeman, was thrown under the train and
met with frightful death. The engineer and
fireman were slightly injured
Year: 1878

TRAMPs IN THE WEsT.-Telegrams from
Iowa report that trampS are interfering con
siderably with railroad property. Three or
four hundred of them took possession of a
train on the Burlington and Quincy railroad
on Sunday, using il for free ride. About
five hundred of them were in Rock Island
I'LL, on Tuesday. The police put them To work
breaking stone, which will no doubt prove
wholesome
Year: 1878

READJUsTMENT is the order of the day at
the Post Office department. The readjusting
of the salaries of postmasters is finished, the
readjuSting of the compensation of ralroadsiS
under way and there was completed Saturday
the readjuStment Of clerks in the department
in conformity with the reductions In grades
provided by Congress. There are no Vacan-
cipS
Year: 1878

/ Mr. Editor. Il want to call your attention
to the need of more strenuous, severe and
certain laws in this State covering what are
called petty thefts, but-which frequently in
the aggregate, make something more. Every
week nearly we have an item or two in your
paper, stating the fact of some ones meat
house, hog pen or chicken coop, being robbed.
Now, sir, 1 hold, that with the proper
laws this can in great measure be stopped,
and would urge it upon you, that as you
in your paper represent the voice of great
many people in this county, that you cease
not to lcall the attention of our Legislators to
the fact of this need in the revision of our
laws, also of the direct responsibility resting
upon them-fOr the present condition of soci-
ETY.. You may ask why? My answer is this.
l am told that nothing of consequence
be- done with a person unless he steals
tUentg dollars worth. Now l want to know
if The trainers of such laws nre not in mea>
sure responsible for the stealing going op in
this county. say they are, for if we had
the proper legislation on this subject it would
deter men from committing crime. A legis-
lator is morally, and in every other eniight-
ened sense, bound to study the needs of his
constituents and to devote his time especial
ly during legislative session to bring about
those ends which viii insure his constituents
that he is laboriug for them and that he is
serving the people in the attainment of the
best laws possible for the good of all alike.
We do not send him to the Legislature to
have jolly time, as some seem to think by
their actions; neither do we send them there
for their personal aggraudzement, and de-
sire to call tho attention of our Legislators
from this county to the fact that zee, tic peo>
pie, expect them to labor earnestly for law
which will punish person for stealing five
cents worth, if it is carried out. If cut
my iuger the laws of nature are trampled
upon and consequently have to suffer the
penalty. IT | transgress a single point of
the law of God am to be punished fur it
II steal one cent am just much thief
as the person wlIo steals thousand dollars,
and all laws of morality and God hold me
just as responsble. Now, sir, 1 hold that
all principles of morality and religion re-
qure that sufficient laws be enacted to pre-
vent the one just much the other, and
if our Legislators do not give us these laws
they fail to do their duty, and will be held
responsible before God and man, for it is
giving the thief room and opportunity to
carry out his malicious designs with an as
surance beyond the fear of law, and while
the hard working farmer and honest aborer,
(for they are the principle sufercrs) are taxi
ing their rest which should be sweet, they
are disturbed by fears and dreams of some
prowling thief inspecting their premises,
which too often is realized in tho morning
By The loss of some property, which comes
under the head of petty thefts, and there
being no punishment for the offender, there
is no incentive to ferret him out I sms


Yours respectfully, A SUBSCRIBER.
Year: 1878




WASHINGTON, Nov N--It Is the opinion of
leading Democratic congressman now here
that the following financial propositions will
be submitted to Congress by the Greenback
ers and silver mon


L. To substitute treasury notes for national
bank notes.


O. TO authorize the free coinage Of silver
dollars and the issue of certificates for silver
bullion.


g. To pay the interest on the public debt
and redeem called bonds In silver to the full
amount OF silver now Or hereafter to be In
the Treasury.


These three propositions are said to meet
the approval Of mnny Democrats.
Year: 1878

Sheriff Haas has been applied to by two
colored men Of this county who desire to Off
clate at the execution Of John Eird fcoloredl
on the sixth OF December next. Each one
wants the refusal and they offer to do it with
out compensation or reward i Hampton VA
Monitor
Year: 1878

IVY OF his life-intemperance. He is
an able and an honest man, and
but for his habits of life would no
doubt DO now occupying q seat on
the bench of our Supreme Court It
is subject Of genuine congratula-
tion among the friends Of Judge
Cothren and all good people that he
has reformed, though at a late day,
the great error of his life."
Year: 1878

A FARMER living near La Crosse
went to the market q few days since
to sell load of potatoes. Being Of
fered only Is cents per bushel, he
grew angry and driving his team
down to the river, dumped them in.
He was fined $40 for destroying
property, and returned home, poor
or, but wiser man.
Year: 1878

AN Oshkosh paper gives it Is an
actual fact that that city is the place
where q cat took the mumps by
sleeping with child who was trou-
bled with the decease. The child
was entirely cured on waking in the
morning, while the cat was swollen
to mammoth proportions, and, after
in great pain for two days,
died.
Year: 1878

CAT BITEs.-An exchange tells Of
q woman of its town who was bitten
some weeks since Dy an angry cat
and died after lingering at deaths
door about a week. It was at first
thought that her disease was hydro
phobia, but afterward her physicians
rather doubted this. A post mortem
examination, however, proved that
tho cat-bite was at least in q great
degree responsible for the cause OF
her death.
Year: 1878




THE following law, enacted by The
last legislature, applies to- many
property-holders in Mineral Point:
ut shall be and is hereby made the
duty OF oil hotel or inn keepers or
owners OF manufactures Of three or
more stories in height, to provide
and furnish every such hotel, inn or
manufactory with one or moro good
and substantial metallic or flre-proof
ladders, reaching from the cornice
to the top Of the lower story, or to
the ground, on the outside of such
buildings, and placed in such pos.
ition as to be easy of access to tho
occupants Of such buildings in case
OF 1re."
Year: 1878

The Republican party is going
through q trying ordeal since the
publication of last weeks Democrat.
Its all our fault, however, for had we
not reminded the editor that the
time was up for his annual harangue,
it probable would have been carried
over another year, and the party
still be enjoying a healthy existence,
but after such clear and beautiful
thoughts have been sown broadcast
DER our land, there's great difficulty
being experienced by the Republi-
cans in trying to oveIco ONE the shock.
The next editorial, which, according
to custom, will appear year hence,
will be the death-blow. Let's prepare
for the worst.
Year: 1878

RECENTLY, while two young pu-
gilists were engaged in . row the
light weight was much the better ct
sparring, but when they came to
clinching the heavy weight was get
ting the advantage, when his adver.
sary, knowing that so far he was
ahead and did not care to have his
clothes covered with mud, cried
enough" It's not often that such
good judgment is brought into req.
uisition on the battlefield. The
result was two black eyes for the
muscular party and q smiling coun.
tenance for the scientist.
Year: 1878

aloud with evident deep feeling. When the audience
was thus aroused TO the highest point of excitement
1t was always deemed advisable to make an announce
ment from the desk that money needed for the
payment of the debt and liberal were the responses
to these appeals that probably 81. 400 collected
before the service had concluded. In the evening
there was another service held. which was also well
attended. and at which liberal contributions
made
Year: 1878

[NorE.-Letters intended for this column must be
accompanied by the writer's full name and address to
insure attention. Complanants who unwilling to
comply with this rule simply waste time in writing.
Write only side Of the paper.-ED HERALD
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD:-


The patrons Of the Grand street and Forty second
street ferry line very frequently exposed NOT
only to annoyance but also to positive danger. Boys
in the vicinity Of Fourteenth street and OBJ
struct the track almost daily by putting and
other obstacles it, few days ago. while riding in
Car No. 49, lad threw big piece of lead pipe ON
the platform with such force that 1t injured my feet
and those of two other On demonstrating
with the conductor l advised to jump of and
nothing is done to punish these young rowdies thai
infest this part of the city. A PASSENGER.
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD


Will you please inform how can get into Belle
vue Hospital? received permit from Commis-
sioner Blake. but refused admission and referred
to Blackwells Is Island contracted my disease while
in the army during the war. and not able TO at
tend to any business. am man Of family and un-
able to pay for proper medical services. VS..
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD:-


Will the Superintendent Of the Metropolitan Ee-
waited Railroad kindly inform me why ticket cannot
be purchased ut the Fortysecond street station. on
the west sde after II rs p. NJ? have occasion to
get on their trains at that station every night my
way home. and am told by the gatekeeper to pay
getting off, Whed / come to my destination II I
should not have the proper change am obliged to
wait until the gentleman in blue and brass hunts up
the change in some neighborng saloon. w.
Year: 1878

In a recent paper in L'Aeronaute, Col.
Lausedat gives the results of expert
ments made by commission appointed
by the French minister of war. For
captive balloons it is absolutely necessary
to employ the best silk and cordage,
which, with the least weight. offers the
greatest guarantee of durability. After
much research a special vsrnish has been
found which renders the aerostat imper-
meable 10 gas Instead of numerous
ropes held by men as in former military
bslloOning, single cable has been
adopted to work by a simple but secure
capstan. Captain Renard has discovered
a rapid and economical new process of
manufacturing hydrogen. For postal
balloons Captain Renard also has devised
a secure and easily worked valve. A
LIQUID instead of q solid ballast has been
resolved on, and fluid is being sought
which will not CONCEAL in the low tenn
peratures of the upper atmosphere. The
valve and the ballast may work auto
matically and maintain the balloon at any
given height. Among the methods of
stopping TIE balloon experimental on
are the iavelin anchor of Meusnier and
sort of iron arrow devised by Captain De
la Haye For directable balloons the
principles which guided Dupuy de LONE
have, for the most part, been adopted by
the commission. The experimenter
found that with an engine of eight horse-
power turning screw he could deviate
from the direction of the wind by
considerable angle with ordinary Winds
and even travel, with reference to the
earth. in all directions which it would
be wished to follow. The commission,
however, instead of placing the screw in
the car, at a great distance from the
point of application of resistance of the
air, have constructed the balloon so that
the screw may work in the very centre of
the aerostat.
Year: 1878

Improper drinking has killed thou
sands There have been instances where
thirsty armies. after long marches, have
come to some river, when the men would
lie down on their fsces and quaff an inOr'
dinate quantity of water with these
results. Some died almost instantly,
Others become crazy and staggered like
drunken men. Avoid drinking water as
much as possible while walking When
YOU feel thirsty, rinse the mouth with
water. but do not swallow it. Drink
only when resting. Men, when heated,
should not drink anything cold. Drink
slowly; half a tumbler Of water will
suffice the thirstiest man in the world, II
he drinks it Dy sips In fact il is almost
impossible TO get down full glass OF
water taken in this way