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Year: 1878

worth after: hut you will save
the price Of your cOrn.cake at
home. Can you connt it all joy
to walk to and fro. upand down the
world, and feel that every one yOu
meet owes you from one TO a dozen
years subscription 4! If you have
faith enough, backed hy a goOsl
degree Of work. dam you will coll.
pct abOut one in ten during the
year. Those who do not pay walk
abOut the streets and tell how
much they do towards the supp.
ort IF the paper. You will he
surprised, also, ut the wickeslness
Of the world. Scores of people
will come to yOu and ask yOu not
to put some wicked deed into the
paper, which their conscience
leads them to fear michtcome ont ;
Of course, as no one knows il hut
themselves and yOu, yOu must
have the power of secretiveness,
IL you wish to keep them lifelong
patrons Of your paper. YOu will
also b. surprised, should yOu
write m item on some particular
folly or sin, to find that yOn have
"hit' dozen whom yOn supposed
to Ike perfectly innocent; and "a
these dozen pOintel'y interview
yon on writing the article about
them, yOu see more clearly than
ever lefore the force IF the maxim,
''COnscience makes towards Of us
ALL" In brief, We have given you
q few ideas of the grace and faith
necessary to pursue journalism
as a calling, hut one half has not
been told. Journalists have FIRE.
quently to decide how to put ev.
cry mans advertisement in the
same place at the same time how
to put two columns of matter in
one column space how to display
q solid nODpareil advertisement in
great primer tyne, and not occupy
more space; how to make news
when there ia not any how to fill
q paper with fresh sensation when
nothing has happened /; how to en-


IOgize a dead mans past good
deeds, when he was n0tOriOusly
had all his life how to write an
obituary Of a man who has called
you muIish all your life, that will
not Offend the relatives of the de.
ceased how to make a grand re-
ceptiOn (acitAomt pay) of q mush
and milk party of six; how to
live on nothing, with slight varia.
tons yeap BY year, are, my young
friend, some Of the questions You
will be called upon to settle in
your journalistic career.
Year: 1878

TO THE EDIroR HERALD:-


Allow to call attention 10 what consider very
great outrage the part Of the police. On July
young man who had been swimming at the foot OF
Sixty.nrst street. East River arrested and
taken naked through the streets 10 the station
house several blocks rant DO not our policemen
know any better than TO commit an outrage OF tins
kind upon the community? CITIZEN.
Year: 1878

TO THE EDITOR THE HERALD


am somewhat partial to fowl Of any Kind when
they are properly cooked aud well served at dinner.
But to have few hundred ducks, chickens and geese
waking you Up before daylight with their quacking,
cluckine, growing and kissing is very annoying. At
the southeast corner OF Fiiyffth street and Fourth
avenue there is butcher shop and connected win 1t
is henroost OF such proDortons as TO make contra
band's mouth water with envy. It - an intolerabie
nuisance the residents OF the imm ediate neghbOr
hood. Won't you call the attention Of Captain Mount
this nuisance IN his precinct and ASK hlm 70 DO
something for usS SUFFERERS.
Year: 1878

VALLEJO, CAL, Oct. ga cor
respondent of the Vallejo Chroni-
Gle, writing from MidGletown, Lake
county, gives intelligence of the
killing at that place of Charles
Bates, an engineer employed at the
Napa Consolidated quicksilver
mine, by Thomas Dye OH the after
noon of the lst instant. The ac-
count represents the killing as a
deliberate murder. The two were
strangers to each other. They had
had an alteration short time be
fore the shooting, but parted, meet
ing casually again in front OF the
Lake County House. Dye i'm
mediately and without words
pulled his revolver and
tired. The ball entered Bates's
breast aud passed through his body.
He fingered for four hours and
then died. The deceased was
native of New York, and twenty
six years old. What added TO the
tragedy was the fact that he had
come to town with his wife to at
tend the marriage Of his sister, and
the nuptials had been celebrated
but a few minutes before his MUIR
der. Dye was under the influence
of liquor. He was imm ediately ar
rested. and at the time of the cor
respondents writing was surround.
ed by a strong guard to protect him
from being lynched by the excited
inhabitants.
Year: 1878

Laviua :. Goodwin, writing from the
Paris Exhibition TO WOm0H's Words,
thus describes a certain piece of sculp-
ture in the Art Departments:


In the gallery devoted to the Prince
Of Wales Loan Collection is "A piece Of
sculpture which can never pass with
out a look. Besides being good artisti-
cally, it amuses one by what it suggests.
a msjesiic king Of beasts is in the act
Of devouring a slain wild boar. Behind
"A pair Of horns attached to portion Of
the head Of an OK, tell how we'll he
dined yesterday. Here his lioness, hun
cry aud humble, almost creeping on
her belly, ventures up by his side, but
before she can touch one savory morsel,
the male half turns, with a leg OF the
pig between his jaws, and sets his left
fOre-paw plump against her forehead
TO push her back-we may well believe
with a snarl and how dare you 1t is
so supremely illustrated that | thought
OF suggesting TO you to recommend GER
tain American legislators who plant
/ themselves on the head of every effort
/ in behalf OF women TO organize and pur-
chase the piece aud exhibit 10 through
I the country in demonstration of how
decidedly Nature opposes the equality
Of the sexes, and how clearly her realm
is governed by the law Of might makes
right. The literal counterpart of the
woman sitting aloof with her appetite
until her lord and master has satisfied
his, then meekly taking something OF
nothing, according to circumstances
as seen among our Indian tribes and
universally among people living nearest
a state Of nature, has as truly its iigu-


rative exempliiication in the feeling
and practice of man toward womeT


among the most highly civilized, an,


in all matters relating to money an,


influence.
Year: 1878

When the eclipse reached its maximum
the general appearance of the city was that
of q moonlight night. Chickens went to
roost, ducks stood on one leg and looked
sad, and the feline population crooked their
hairy backs and sang their moonlight sere-
nades with all the tabled sweetness and
variations. .a


Perhaps the most interesting feature ac-
companyinS the approach to totality was
the difference between the northwest and
southeast portions Of the horizon, the latter
being of a bright, sunny tint, While the
former was as black as night.


At the Cotton Exchange 4 number OF the
Strand brotherhood assembled with their
astronomical instruments, which were much
the same rs those used by the Smoked-gass
school. One gentleman lent his large mag.
nifying glass to his neighbor, who, after a
futile attempt to see the sums disc, went
around the streets as hind as bat. AS the
moon gradually passed of the suns face the
Cotton Exchange astronomers noticed a
singular phenomenon. Evidently some
planet was following after the moon. Some
knew that to be impossible, and took occa-
sion to explain that twas the simple refrac-
ton of the suns rays on the neither side OF
the moon. Some less enlightened thought
the object might be one OF the planks OF a
certain independent candidates platform,
and this conjecture was gradually gaining
ground when the phenomenon was dis
covered to be the gable-end OF the Texas
Banking and Insurance Company.


DOWN on THE STREETS. -.


All business was suspended, and clerk
and proprietor, mihion and millionaire,
politician and peeler, stood out in the streets
gazing steadily through their smoked glass.
Occasionally an oracle would appear and
call the peoples attention to some feature
Of the eclipse, and deduce therefrom theo-
ries more extravagant than ingenious to
show that Roberts would be the next Gov
ernor; that the cotton crop would be as
free from worms as q siX-year-old child ;
that quarantine was farce or that, etc.,
etc. Considerable difference Of opinion ex-
isted as to the seeming size Of the sun, some
putting it down as large as a cart-wheel,
while others thought silver quarter the
proper dimension; but probably the most
correct opinion was that which placed its
size between that of piece OF chalk and a
lump Of coal.
Year: 1878

In order to dispose Of our stock In as snort time
as possible we have made
GREAT REDUCTIONS IN PRICES;


and as al extra inducemcnt We take
rrS CENTS OFF on EVERY DOLLARS WORTH


YOU PURCHASE.
Year: 1878

over 10000, 600 people, cemented to.
gether by one common language de-
rived from every civilized nation on


the earth. We have yet much land


undeveloped and yet waiting for
the hardy pioneer to improve. We
have various manufactures to be de.
veIoped. We are already acknowl-
edged to possess the granary of the
world. Our live stock and dead
meat are shipped far beyond the
ocean. The next step in our devel.


opment must be to make our manu-.
iactures and commerce as supreme
and widely known as are our agri
cultural products. The close of
this century, unless we engage in
private quarrels and internicine
strife, will 60 far to accomplish this.
Year: 1878

Neuhesuay, Oct. oU, 1919, VIII be
memorable in the annals of this state,
Cor on that day and in the presence
of Gov. Connor, the Maine Beet Su


gar company Of Portland turned out
over $4,000 pounds Of granulated


sugar, the first ever made in the


United States from beets grown in


America. Several establishments


have, it is true, made small quaint


ties of raw sugar of excellent quail


ty. but regular boiling of refined su.
gar made from raw beet sugar pro


duced in the United States has never


before been attempted in the Allan.


tic atates.-"Maine State Press"


We are glad to know that the ex.


pertinent in the manufacture of beet


sugar has resulted successfully in


Maine. Our contemporary is, how.
ever, mistaken in saying that it is
the fist granuIated sugar made from
beets grown in the United States.
1t is true that it is the first produced
in the Atlantic States. At the Chats.
worth (lI!.) factory granulated (re
hned) sugar made from beets grown
there was sold in Chicago by the car
load, and upon its merits, as refined
sugar, for price within fourth
of cent per pound, and even at one
eighth of cent less than the price
Of the best New York refined cane
sugar. Refined sugar was also made
at Freeport subsequently in consid.
cradle quantities, the real disability
at Chatsworth having finally resolved
itself into that Of water sufficient
to work the crop. At Freeport the
failure was from other causes, rather
than an inability to raise beets rich
in sacchar!ne or failure to make
good sugar. The writer of this was
the first to cal attention to the fact
hat beet sugar should be profitable
in the East for the reason that there
the pulp, after being exhausted OF
it's saccharne as far as possible,
would be valuable for feeding cattle,
and also to the fact that the cultiva.
tion of beets and the feeding of stock
would largely increase thr grass and
grain crops of the districts where
they were raised. We repeat our
sense of qualification at the success
of the initial trial in Maine, and hope
the success may not only be continued
there, but that the industry may be


widely extended to other states.
Year: 1878

The yellow fever commission ap,
pointed by the surgeon general OF
the United States is now we'll started
upon its investigation Of the import
ant question of cause and effect in
connection with the fearful epidemic
Year: 1878

When summer passes away and
the flowers lie withered and sere.
when the forest puts on its annual
robes of scarlet and gold, when the
breeze becomes fresher and more
bracing, when the crack of the gun
reverberates through the silent isles
of the woodland, when everything
has tendency to make men pause
and mediate upon the uncertainties
and vicissitudes of life, what is
sweeter than to sit on a rail fence
and peacebly devour a raw turnip.
Year: 1878

Just think of the enraged feelings
of farmer who finds too late that he
had a squash down in the off corner
of the field that was half pound
heavier than the one that took the
prize at the fair.
Year: 1878

A vegetable gum possessing many
of the characteristics of gutta- per-
cha is just now sensation in Lon
don and Paris. 1t IS tasteless and
devoid of any unpleasant odor when
under the process of melting. 1t
can be cut like gutta. percha, is tough
and flexible and even more elastic
than India-rubber, which, it is hinted,
it will successfully rival. The gum
is the sap of tree grown in South
America.
Year: 1878

A DIRECTOR Of the Union Pacific
road claims that there is no binding
contract between the Pacific Mail and
the Union Pacific companies, hence re-
cent changes would not be recognized.
Year: 1878

Not until Margaret was in the buri


al ground, aud near the end of her
walk, did her resolution begin to give
away. She stood nov by the uilapi-
dated tomb. The stones had fallen
away from the entrance, so that the
vault within was quite exposed. The
pale moonlight tell through the wide
gaps above, and CLEANED on the white
bones of a skeleton, distinctly seen as
it lay upon the ground. 1t was fear


full thing thus to see the secrets of the
grave disclosed. All that Margaret
had heard of the tales current among
the people, concerning the dead the
earth refused to cover-who, Tor some
nameless crime had been condemned
to molder in the sight Of living men-
came back to her recollection, and fill
ed her with a sense of sickenng horror.
The scene around was not calculated
to re. assure her. Far as she could see
was city of graves. The silent


mounds, the marble monuments, SOW
ed thickly on every side, and white in
the feeble, uncertain glimmering Of
the moon, seemed 70 chlde her for in.
vading the repose of the dead. With
what unhallowed purpose-the selfish
desire OF purchasing her own happi-
ness by gratifying the curiosity of an.
other-had she penetrated into this
sanctuary of the departed, at an hour
sacred to repose Margaret trembled
violently she was obligedto lean
against the tomb tor support, and =
shudder came over her as she touch.
ed the chilled stones. BY strong
effort she composed herself and bent
on accomplishing her task, pushed
asiie the rubbish, and entered the
tomb. Another moment and she had


sir ped the ring from the finger OF the


skeleton. But she overtasked her


courage; the strong feeling that for
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, sept Z, 1915,
To THE EDITOR THE HERALD


We wish 10 call TO your attention TO the outrageous
condition OF Forty-nnth street, between Tenth and
Eleventh avenues II Is simply a series OF bills
valleys. Any man having business to transact In
that locality, II In a buggy must perforco his
buggy on Tenth or Eleventh avenue ana walk tho
balance OF the distance, otnerwiss he wouia, on his
arrival, have no buggy and not much horse TO speak
Of II he came IN Ice wagon or heavy dray he
might got through In safety TO the derimeBt oi his
bones Lauor Is cheap and plenty and tho putting Of
the block good 0rder would 90 no great expense.


HILLS AND VALLEYS.
Year: 1878

DAMAGES TO BE ALLOWED ONLY WHEN EACH


PACKAGE Is OPENED.


Secretary Sherman has issued n circular to
the Appraiser OF this port insisting that no allowance
OF damage shall be made ia any unless the package
is opened in order that the question Of actual damage
may be ascertained reports having been made that
very small percentage Of the packages In many in
stances have opened and in other cases not ex-
ceedng ten per cent


The Secretary says: "Itis my opinion that such q
practice is raught with extreme danger TO the revenue
and an end should he put to 1t at The regulations
in this respect clear and should be faithfully en-
forced. and no damage allowance made on any Ro"ds
contained in package unless each package il opened
II the examination Is made at place other than the a
praisers store article $40 Of the regulations requires
that the package should be opened by the applicant
and 80 arranged assorted and exhibited that the ap-
praisers may little delay possible. and In the
cearest manner inspect and ascertain the actual daB-
age incurred aud that when ready for examination the
applicant must notify the appraisers Where the I'M
porter fails perform the duty required by article blO
the Appraisers should refuse TO certify 10 the damage
You will require the examiner connected with the
division which the goods assigned Tor appraise-
rnent of value assist in the apprasement OF damage
i'm all cases before aixiug your approval 10 the damage
warrant aud that examiner well az the one attached
10 The damage DIVISION and the aslsta ppralser OF
the damage division, will certify suc warrants that
each package on which damage mas been allowed mas
been Opened and examined"
Year: 1878

GOVERNING COMMITTEE.


The New York Gold Exchange, on May l,
1877 entered into contract OF three years duration
with the New-York Stock Exchange, by which the
former was to become branch of the latter corporation
to be known as the Gold Department OF the Stock Ex-
change and be subject TO the rulings OF its Governing
Committee The object OF this compact was to break
down the opposition Of the Open Stock Exchange by
preventing the union Of that board with the Gold Room


BY the stipuations contract the members of the
Gold Department by the payment OF an annual SUD-
scrpton of $50 to have the privilege OF the room
to deal in gold Government bonds and miscellaneous Sc
ernment bonds except during the temporary excitement
caused by the passage OF the Silver DILL having Deen
very small and then the only dealings were by members
of the Stock Exchange. Miscellaneous securities were
never traded in at ALL The prospect OF speGle
resumption on January /, 1879, ana OF ihe !e
abolition OF the gold premium, causes c0nsldefaDle
anxiety among the subscribers TO the GOld Room
as TO what acUiOn the Governing Committee Will take III
connection with their room. There Is division OF Opl-
ION among the 100 subscribers thinking that the
Governing Committee cannot close the room without
violation OF the contract, ana some maiuailnE EnaV
whatever action the committee take must be 1nal.
When the premium on gold sank 10 Onetourth OF per
cent, petition put III circulation asking the GOV
privilege of dealing in the mlscelIaheOus secules
referred in the contract but as gold went up again no
action was taken on the petition. go , -,
Yesterday that the Governing Committee had not taken
any steps in the matter had the contingency Oeen
contemplated eyen In their business sufheient unto
the day evil thereof and they did not care TO
face evils until they had arrived. Other prominent men
of the Exchange seemed TO be OF the same mnd Iose
who opposed the AGREEMENT between the two Exchanges
the first place. the ground OF the opposition Delng
trivial and the experiment of running the Colo Depart
ment costly claimed that they were Justified In ther
position. the present arrangement costs the stocK
change many thousands OF dollars Not long ago the
employees Of the Gold Department were informed hat 9
the event Of gold touching par they must De prepared
10 10 at one months notice.
Year: 1878

BosToN, July GA severe thunder shower
passed this city this evening, continuing several


hours and greatly cooling the temperature. Lightning
struck In many places in the city and suburban
Year: 1878

No license tax shall be imposed by the
State. or any parish or municipal authority
on any mechanical trade. mandatory or
factory, except such as may require police
regulations, III towns and cities
Year: 1878

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
shall receive a salary of seven thousand dol
lars per apnum, and the Associate Justices
Of the Supreme Court shall each receive IL
salary Of six Thousand five hundred dollars
per annum, payable quarterly on their own
warrant.
Year: 1878

The Legislature is authorized to EXEMPT
from State. municipal or parish taxation
household goods. such as furniture. wear
ing apparel, tools of trade or profession and
family portraits. not exceeding in aggre-
gate Naluc the sum of five hundred dollars.
Year: 1878

WE the undersigned beg leave to in
w form you that we have associated
ourselves together in the Mercantile bus
mess at KNOXVILLE, and have re-
turned from the city with a full line of
Goods which we have now opened and
invite your examination. We propose to
sell Goods upon the closest living profit
for the cash or rade, excepting only
those who deal regularly and pay prompt
ly, upon thirty, sixty and ninety days
time. We cannot do business upon the
old system of twelve months time. Both
duty and interest 20 ourselves, as we'll as
our customers, forbid it. We hope, by
strict attention to business, an earnest
desire to please and give satisfaction, to
merit and receive your support.


All kinds of marketing, including corn,
received in exchange for goods.


Respectfully.


MELVIN & STRIDER.
. Unionville, Nov.3, 1877. If
Year: 1878

On the morning Of the 2Sth General
Jackson put his corps in position near
Sudley's church and Grovetop. He
had no desire 10 bring on an engage
ment, for it was the obvious policy Of
the Federal commander to force one on
him before be was reinforced by Long
street. Consequently, after some pre-
liminary shutting OF troops on both
sides, an attack was made by General
Pope late in the afternoon. A tough
fight for several hours followed and the
attack was repulsed but not without
loss which We could not afford. Gen.
Ewell, one of the best division COM
manders the war produced, was disabled,
and bis efficiency permanently impaired
by the loss of leg. Generals Trimble
and Taliaferro were badly wounded.
On the same evening General Long.
street was engaged in forcing his way
through Thoroughfare gap, which, after
Jackson passed, had been occupied by
the enemy. 1t was vital that Long
street should force a passage that day
and he did it. 81 roitss. asc


On the morning Of the 2sth the posi-
ton Of General Jackson was perilous in
Year: 1878

Application was made yesterday by the coun-
sci Of the American Female Guardian Society o. this
city to Judge Knapp in the Hudson County Court Jer-
sey City, for O writ compelling Mrs. Eleanor Thompson
of Jersey City Heights to produce in court Lena Miller
her ward The writ was issued Theodore Ryerson, the
counsel for the society," stated that the girl who is now


fifteen years OF age, placed in the hands of the
society when a mere infant She was indentured
to Mrs. Thompson ak years ago, who was
then the wife of a named Van Horne Mrs. ThomD-
son does not reside with her nominal husband now. be-
cause she claims had another wife lviPg at the time
he married her.


Recently the officers OF the society informed that
the child was being treated in cruel manner and they
say that there are also other why she should
not remain with Mrs. Thompson. In the application II
was alleged that the has been guilty OF extreme
cruelty toward her ward that she has not given her
necessary clothing, and has beaten her severely with
cane and a brOOm-handle. II is also stated that she
dragged the child across the room by her hair
Last Friday she treated the girl brutay
that she fed to the house of neghbor for protection
Mrs Thompson followed with heavy cane In her hand
and demanded her surrender The neghbOrs refused 20
give up until the police ordered them 10 do So The
writ is returnable tomorrow.