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Year: 1879

THE MORNING HERALD we believe it


was, that in praise Of the honesty
anil efficiency of the present City Coun-


Gil, defed ths pointing out of a single
act or instance in which there was any


thing but strictly honest and honora


BILE action by the Democratic members


We do not accept the challenge with


any thoughtthat We shall point out any
dishonorable action, for those things BY
shrewd managers are generally kept
covered from sight, and in keeping cor
ruption and dishonesty covered over, the
Democrats are generally more success
full than Republicans. We will say
that in taking cursory and general
view of the management of the Demo-
cracy the outside platter does not look
so bad, but there is no knowing how
hideous the sight woul appear if the
covering was removed. We do not in
tend to be specific in our illusions, but
we would venture to intimate that the
outside wrappings of the quarry lot
job are of such a thin gauzy nature
that the insi le workings of the machine
within are almost visible. We had
almost said that We would like to see
the inside workings of the quarry lot
contract, but we withdraw that. We
do not think we would after all. If
what Me5srs. Payntsr and Hart, two of
the ablest an | most reliable Democrats
in the City Council say is trus, and
we have no doubt that it is. The intrig-
uing to effect the election of mem
Der of the City Council, Street Commis-
sioner, is quite sufficient, without an
exposur. of the quarry lot job. In re-
gard to the latter, however, we would
simply say that if half the reports are
true, it would be interesting to know
the ratio Of the divies that were agreed
upon and who got them. 1t is natur.
al that all intimation5 of ringism and |
jobbeiy in the quarry lot affair will
be Indignantly denied, but greater
secrets have been exposed, and the
truth in the quarry lot matter may yet
be made public.
Year: 1879

afternoon was cloudy, and the day
had gone down in a low, penetrating
rain.


Now, Mrs. Beach loved her hus-
band with the love Of true wife, but
he was not q demonstrative man, and
the first beauty and poetry OF their
married life had settled down into a
bare, everyday, matter OF fact exist
ence. But her heart was warm to-
night-warm with the good deeds OF
the day, and remembering her reso-
luton OF the morning she threw
down her book and ran down stairs.


Henry, DEAR" said the soft voice
OF his wife. "has the rain wet you at
all? Let me take of your coat for
you"


"Thank you, Mary, don't believe
I'm anywise injured, but you may
help me just for the pleasure OF it,"
rnd he stood still, while she removed
the heavy coat, with the softness OF
touch and movement belonging to a
woman.


She hung it up and then the hus-
band drew her TO his heart with all
the old lover tenderness.


"You ara very thoughtful Of me,
Mary. my wife," he said.


And there was music in Mrs Beach's
heart as she went up stairs-music
set to the words, Eyes open! eyes
openln
Year: 1879

specimen fork, and also signed what
he called an obligation for 800.
and he and agreed positively that
the 500 was to be paid only when /
sold enough forks TO realize that
amount. A few day ago 1 got a letter
from the banker at our county seat,
saying that he held my note for slOO.
and that it was due and he wanted
his money. 1 went to see him, and
there, sure enough. was my 'obliga-
ton to pay 800. That Indianapolis
chap had sold it to him at a shave
He says will have to pay it, though
l have not sold single fork. Now, 1
would like to know why our positive
agreement can't be set up as de-
Tense to the note"


We are sorry for you, but you will
have to pay the note. The note Is a
contract in writing; your positive
agreement" was not in writing. The
law does not permitdan agreement in
writing to be changed or varied by
any verbal agreement made at the
time. The law supposes that your
whole agreement Is reduced to writ
ing, il any OF it is. II you had insert
ed in the note your positive agree
ment." instead OF making it payable
at certain time, you could not be
compelled to pay only as you agreed
to. 1t is we'll to remember, that when
you put any part OF q contract in
writing you should put it all in, or
none. Have nothing understood"
outside OF what Is written. We wish
We could reach every farmer in the
s ate with your letter and our an.
swer. in order to warn them against
signing notes In favor OF these false
patent right agents.-Indiana Farm
er
Year: 1879

A farmer writes us as follows: "A
few months ago smooth talking
chap from Indianapolis called at my
house and wanted me to act as agent
in our township for the sale OF pat


ent hay-fork. He made the business
appear very easy and profitable, and
l concluded to act for him, and so /
signed an order to. the factory for a
Year: 1879

The course of the wcariest river
Ends in the great grey sea;
The acorn, for ever and ever,


Strives upward To the tree:
The rainbow, the sky adjoining,
Shines promise through the storm;
The gimmer of coming. morning
Through midnight gloom will form.
BY time all knots riven,


Complex though they be,
A peace will AZ last be given,


Dear, both to you and me.
Then. though the path NAV be drexry,
Look onward to the goal;
Though the heart and the head be weary.
Let faith inspire the soul,
seek the right. though the wrong be tempting
Speak truth at any cost:
Vain Is all weak exempting


When once the gem is lost.
Let strong hand and keen eye be ready
For plain and ambushei foes,
Though earnest and fancy steady


Bear best unto the close.
The heavy clouds may be raining,


But with evening comes the light;
Through the dark are low winds complaining
Yet the sunrise gilis the height.
And love has his hidden treasure
For the patient and the pure;
And Time gives his full measure
To the workers who endure:
And the Word that no law has shaken
Has the future pledge supplied;
For we know that when we awaken
We shall he satisfied.
Year: 1879

The following experience OF Burdette
OF the Burlington Hawkeye, will be APP
preciAted by not few;


The sea grew rougher, and, as the
pitching aud rolling OF the good steamer
New York increased, my spirits did not
rise. Your spirits are not
apt to rise, find. They are the only
thugs about you that don't rise, however


My subject OF reflection having eluded
my rather instructive mind, became SEN
sibe OF kind Of sort of languor that
suggested repose. did not feel like
standing up aud singing vast partic-
ular what kind Of repose. The repose Of
the grave would have suited me perfect
ly well.


| stood on my feet aud took of come of
my things. Then leaned up against the
door and took of a few more Then |
stood on my head aud got of one or two
Then looked up at my berth.


II was six hundred feet from the floor.
aud was still going.


! cast an anxious despairing glance at
II, reached out and dragged travelling
shawl over me, and tried to warble a
merry .stave of rolicking sea song.
The sense Of utter forlornness, the feeling
Of desolation andIgoneness the impress
ion, generally correct, that every well
person In tho ship Is laughing at you the
saddening thoughts that there is no
chance of dying, the depressing know
ledge that there is no help for II anyhow
the confidence that nobody is going to do
anything for you, and the philosophical
resolution that you don't care constitu-
tiona red cent If they don't; the hope
that you will be over It by morning, the
fororn hope, now and then, that the piloe
will get frightened and tie the ship mp to
to tree some place, II only for u little
while, the despairing sense of disappoint-
ment that steals over you as IL becomes
evideDl that the pilot hssen't thought Of
doing anything of the kind and AT last
the icrvent, earnest ,dcspairing wish that
the boiler will blow mp, the ship strike a
rock, and catch on fire, capsize, be run
down by lightning and sink in 600 faith
oms OF water, aud do IT all most power
full quick, TOO.


This IL the final spasm. While the
Illness lasts II does take the nerve out Of
you. Nothing else in the world Is or can
be 80 destructive TO manly self respect
and dignity. don't believe Chariss
Francis Adams could look dignified
under such circumstances.
Year: 1879

Brom the Philadelphia Times.


Home religion should be as natural and
spontaneous as the singing of birds OF
the perfume of flowers. A forced and
studied manifestation OF it is alike OPP
pressive and useless. Cant is as out OF
place as hypocricy in the pulpit. 1t must
be, to be Of value, the outnowing of hearts
full of genuine kindness and sincerity,
The parents who would have their homes
relgiously attractive must begin with
themselves. What they are their homes
will be pretty sure to be. Impatient
fathers and fretful mothers will not have
patient aud gentle children. Parents
whose religious life is cold and formal
will not, so far as their influence goes,
lead their children to desire an expert
mental knowledge OF Christ. In a word,
so much of the happiness of the home and
the influence it will exert upon the future
of the children who growup in it, depends
upon the kind Of religious atmosphere
which pervades it, that 1t seems to us no
more important subject can engage the
thoughts of Christian parents than how to
make home religion lovely and winsome
in the eyes of their little ones. Bl ssed is
the home in which love to Christ binds
father, mother and children in closer
bond than merely human affection!
Year: 1879

SENATOR BAYARD and Secretary Sher-
man ARE candidates Tor the presidency.
They both desire 10 secure the good will,
confidence sil support of the people, SO
they adroity attempt to straddle the issue
by proposing to the former to deprive the
greenbacks OF their legal tender qualities
and to the later, to retain them in circu-
lation. The result will probably be the
same which berell the old man travelling
with his son and ass, they will please
nett er, and lose the presidency in the
bargain.
Year: 1879

LGT every one bear IN mind this broad
distinction between the case Of the SOL
aiers and Of the citizens who received
grcenbacks from the governmcnt-that
the citizen wa free to accept the green
back or terrject it, while it was forced up
on the soldier
Year: 1879

THE secretary of the treasury claims to
be opposed to the funding and cancella-
tion of the greenbacks. Why should he
not be? They constitute over half of our
paper currency, arc at par with gold, and
it costs not one cent to maintain their
volume. If they constitute satisfactory
currency, are inexpensive, and the secre.
tary is in favor of retaining them, why
does he not advocate the policy of making
our entire volume of paper money uni
form, by the retirement of the bank cur
rency which costs Sls,OO0,OOO year and
substituting greenbacksp Consistency is
no lsss jewel in politics than In other
n,tters,
Year: 1879

PRESIDENT HAYES stated to several
members Of congress who called upon him
For information, that he WITS not partlcu-
larly anxious that legislation on his fnan-
ciai Suggestions" should be had at this
session, but he was sure that the grounds
he had taken in his message were such as
the Republican party would ultimately
represent.
Year: 1879

JOHN SHERMAN's friends say that he is
backed in his presidential aspirations by
every national bank, every railroad cor
poration, every insurance company, every
large manufacturing interest, every man
dependent upon national banks in his
financial operations, and that it will take
some power mighticr than man to defeat
this combination. If they speak The truth,
and prophesy Alright, it is proof ample,
that the national banking monopoly is
wholly inconsistent and incompatible with
democracy, the independence of the mass.
cs, and the purity and freedom of the
elective franchise.
Year: 1879

The remains were inferred in the plot of Mrs.
Seymour's father-the late Isaac N. seymour-in
Greenwood Cemetery. Present in the church were
q great many clergymen and members Of the Episco-
pal sisterhood. Many strangers visited the church
STILL IN THE DARK.


Detective Joseph Dorsey, or the Central Office,
called on Captain Ryan. OF the Sixteenth precinct.
during the day, and they together visited the
mary grounds The detective made q careful survey
OF the place and surroundings. but remained reti-
cent to any theory OF the case. Tho idea that
Mr. Seymour committed suicde--slthough that
opinion Is still held by few--is entirely
LETT out of the police working of the mystery, and
with very good reasons The absence of any sign OF
burned powder on the dead mans clothing and the
failure to find any weapon near where the body was
found are convincing facts OF themselves, without
considering the absence OF any known motive ON
tue part deceased to take his own life. The advo-
Gates of theory of suicide hint ut the possibility
OF the removal of the pistol by the unfortunate
wife or brotherinlaw for the purpose OF concealing
the true 81 tba s youd foio snc inc
cry for pecuniary reasons. as his life was in-
sured, it is said for $4,000. There is how
belief and the cause of Mr. Sey death is mar
rowed down to accident or murder. II it
cideut the stray ball. from the direction it took
after entering Mr. Seymour's body. must have como
from an elevation, and by the use of parlor rifle
could easily have been propelled with sufficient
force to kill from the window roof Of any OF tho
neighboring houses on Twenty first street. II Mr. Sey
mour met his death at the hands OF an assassin
the murderer pocketed his weapon before he fled.
He. would most likely have thrown it in the deep
grass. aud II it is there II will be found to-day. when
the moving will be continued.


The only persons seen on the grounds on the
night of the tragedy were woman and man. The
former dressed in white. and was seen to leave
about ten o'clock by two ladies who live opposite.
She walked hurriedly they said. when she passed
out of the gate. up Twentieth street. toward
Ninth avenue. Tne man followed at short
distance and carried shawl on his arm.
This man. it was thought. might have
countered Mr.. Seymour during the latters
walk around the grounds. Captain Ryan said last
night that be had found the woman in white. She
was a married lady and resident of the neighbor-
hood Her companion was her son, with whom shc
took stroll through the seminary grounds. She
did not desire to have her name mentioned in
necton with the case but considered 1t her duty to
mention the facts the police in order that they
might not time in following up what appeared
1.o oo1auv
Year: 1879

AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP.


The Nameless Club, of Brooklyn, who won the
amateur championship Of Prospect Park last season,
the lead in the this by their victory
the Dauntless Club July and their victory
the Barrett Club July 5. The Commercials,
who have the best percentage. ddnot play any game
during the past week on account of majority Of
their players going out OF the city to spend the
Fourth. The following is a complete record of tine
games played up to date:- .t-
Year: 1879

one morning last week some water
men, who usually occupy their little
boats at Fourth street wharf al light,
were alarmed at hearing a terrible
splash in the water as if som" person
had fallen overheard The splash was
followed by some snOrting and h'"' - z
and smDth-r.d calls for help, which
happily was at Hand. Not kn"wImI
8hether the animal was amphibious III
it, nature or whether it belonged to
those which walked the terrestrial
spherp, or whether it was a
cross between the two, the watermen
proceeded carefully, and when the OBJ
iect was raised two or three feet above
the water they knew by the smell Of
whiskey that it belonged to the upper
surface. Winding him up carefully
until a little more than six feet were
coiled on the wharf he was gathered up
and taken to the police office, but his
name never appeared III the published
,eports of the following evening, and
neither will it appear in this report.
He came down from Philadelphia at
three o'clock in the morning with too
much whiskey beneath his vest and
,traying down to the wharf mentioned ,
he found too much water.
Year: 1879

One Of the plumbing establishments
@f DanbHry took in u new jour, the
other day. He was from hamle. over
ia New York State--a little hamlet
where he had worked with his father.
The day after his arrival there was a
burst in III. water pipe of a house on
Pine street. He was told to 20 over
there and attend to it.


Seeing the owner of the house in the
shop, he went up to him and got the
particulars of the break, and then he
made ready his tools and started.


Just as he vas passing out OF the
door the proprietor saw him.


"Where are you go:ng' ?" he almost
SCREAMED.


The new man told him.


do you mean to tell me that you
ara going to fix that pipe without rx-
alnining it ~ he gasped.


why, am going TO look at it when
get there" said the new man.


"Meicitul heavens :" calculated his
employer catching hold OF the desk TO
support himself. "Can it be possible
that you would do Job on one visit
Don't you know your trade aiy
better than that? Have you Il
pride in your business Why, you Il
ruin the community in less than a
year" And the speaker burst into
tears.


A A, soon as he grew calmer h. TX,
planned TO the new man that he should
trst visit the Lo lse, make thorough
examination of the building, get the
lay of the street, lind the location OF
the hydrant, 90 up Oh The roof Of the
house and then return thouShttully
to the shop for his tools, keeping an ac-
curat. record of the timr.
Year: 1879

The n. Y. Sun, always sensible re.
ganling educational topics, says:


"Thc sooner the youth of this coun.
try are compelled by the scope and
tendency Of our public school system
to recognize that only one boy in a
hundred can be lawyer, doctor or
clergyman, the better it will be for
the American people. To that end
it is essential that our methods Of
training shall cease to foster the silly
and abortivc preference for so-callcd
gentlemanly pursuits-sI'all squarely
face the fact that manual labor is tho
sphere in which the greatest majority
of the human race are destined to
move, and that it is mechanical skill
and genius which have Transformed
the world, and which should command
tho highest price in the race of life"
Year: 1879

A great many persons have an idea
that it is unlawful to touch or attemp,
to aid Il man found dead or dying, and
that the first duty is to notify some
official. Lives have been sacrificed
under this delusion. The first duty
is to render every possible aid, and
then promptly to make tho facts
known to the authorities. Tho con-
trary idea has been obtained from the
laws of other nations, which arc az
absurd as they arc inhuman. Refer.
ring to the law of Russia in this mat
ter, an eastern exchange says:


Among the most extraordinary of
the tyrannical regulations of the Rus
sian police is one whid, strictly for
Dds any one to touch a dead or dying
man without the direct sanction of
the police. In consequence of this
arbitrary enactment. it is no uncom-
mon thing to see man lying bleed
ing and helpless from a very severe
fall IN the streets Of Moscow or St.
Year: 1879

follow her and she would set him free


Nolselessly they crept down the stairs


out into tho silent night, then telling


him to wait an instant, this boys good
angel left him, but soon returned with
money, which she gave him, bidding
him "go and sin no more" Shall
tell the prayer that went up to
Heaven, the vow this boy took, of five
years later, when he had become a
man, how he returned to that village.
hoping to find the girl who had never
been forgotten, how he did find
her, fairer, sweeter even than on that
night when she saved him 2 Shall |
tell, Josie, how he knelt at her feet
praying for her to be his own? How
he waited, with fast beating heart,
for the answer, knowing if she failed
him the home lie had striven hard TO
win for her dear sake, his very life
would bc worthless.


My King was on his knees before
me, as he ceased speaking. l bowed
down my head until it rested on his
breast, and he was answered.
Year: 1879

claws in tho bulls head and neck.


Giving tho bulls right horn q power


full blow Cuff cracked it, and the


blood trickled from the wound. The


bull gave the round to the bear and


that animal ran from corner to corner


OF the arena, bleeding at the mouth


and his sides heaving with exhaustion.


In the next round the bear flew at the


bull and foil to the earth, Taurus roll


ing over him. And SO tho fight went


on. Both animals were jaded, and


thespectaters threw blocks and stones,


Once the bear was driven out of his
corner. Getting his horns under bru-
ms arms, the bull threw the poor bear
through the air back overlli head into
the center Of the arena. The last
three rounds were without any inter-
est. Roughs took complete control.
A rope was thrown over the bulls


horns and the poor brute dragged up
to the bear. The bear was too much
exhausted to offer any resistance to
the goling received fsom tho bull. !
Once brun almost made his esco,x,
through the bulls entrance door BY
taking a rope which fastened it in his !
mouth and pulling the door partially |
open. On the last round the bear fell |
in the corner and was unable to rise.
His sides heaved, he breathed pain.
fully and blood streamed from his
mouth. Cheers were given for the
bull by some. Others more brutal
wanted tho fight to do on, and for a
few moments it looked favorable for
. general row as a finale to the dis
graceful proceedings. ~


The bull was removed, but the bear
ny for fifteen minutes and was finally
ragged out of the pit into Ills cage.
The poor dumb animal will in all
probability die from llis injuries. The
'rowd, satisfied with the spectacle,
eturncd to the depot. Tho time of
ne combat was one hour and ten
Year: 1879

A middle-aged woman, one of til,


last members of an influential family


died lately, in largo city in the Mid


dIe States. She had occupied for year.


two handsome apartments in = hous,


situated in fashionable quarter.


There she livedin an almost absolute
solitude, freak which was accounted
for by cccentricity. In fact, the pool
woman was dead for days before she


was discovered. Then it was found
that her rooms were absolutely bare,
and that she had died literally Of
starvation.


She had felt it disgrace for one of
her family to either work or beg.
Every penny she possessed had gone
to pay the rent of her handsome rooms.
And she had retained the costly lace
curtains at tho windows, which hid her
poverty new when she was diving of
hunger.


1t is seldom that false pride arrives
ut such extent of maniacal folly as was
exhibited by this woman, but it does
cmbitter and impoverish the livos of
many American women, who will bear
every extreme of want rather than
acknowledge their poverty, and
openly 20 to work.


Instances are not rare Of the women
in ruined families retaining their
splendid dwellings, the sale of which,
would have enabled them to live in
comfort, and cking out q miserable
support by slopwork, which they stole
out in disguise through the back gate,
and in the darkness of evening, to find.


In the higher classes of the cities,
honest labor is no disgrace, but
honorable, to a woman; but, in the
secluded villages of the South and
some parts of the West, itstill involves
loss of caste.


BY tho laws Of caste, lady is
woman who does nothing. Hence, |
in submission to this silly, vulgar
educated, intelligent, able
bodied young girls, who might earn
a good income in n dozen ways, and
make their own and other lives full
and beautiful, starve in body and
mind Oh q wretchcd pittance, or hang
helpless, dead weights on an old woru-
'ut father, or upon young brothers,
whom they cripple and handicap at
Tho outset of honorable business lives.
Year: 1879

Aquaint writer says: Thave seen
women so delicate that they were
afraid to ride a horse for fear of the
horse running away; afriad to sail, for
fear the boat might upset; afraid to
walk, for fear they might fall; but |
have never seen one afraid to be
married, which is far more riskful then
all the others put together.'