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Year: 1877

IT is said that with favorable weather
for harvesting, the wheat crop through
out Central Ohio and Indiana will be the
largest since the memorable year of 1864.
And all this with a foreign war in pro-
yress
Year: 1877

"He serves his party best who
serves his country best" was the no
bic sentiment of President Hayes in
his Inaugural. The Republicans of
HilIsboro, who on Monday last re-
fused to vote for Objectionable men
for Council, notwithstanding they
had received the regular party nom
ination, really did the greatest
service to their party it was in their
power to do, by keeping out of re-
sponsible positions, men who we're
notoriously unfit for them, and elect
ing men who are known to he well
qualified, capable of discharging
their official duties with credit to
themselves, and advantage to the
public interests, A party which
elects incompetent or unworthy men
to Office only Injuries itself, for it is
justly held responsible for the acts
of those whom it places in power.
It is therefore true, in the highest
sense, that she serves his party best
who serves his country best, and it
is a truth that all political nominal
ing conventions, of whatever party,
would do well to remember in future,
for the day of blind, unquestioning
adherence to party, without regard
to the personal fitness of candidates,
is, happily for the country, fast
passing away.
Year: 1877

Col. Ingersou concluded his re-
cent New York lecture with the fol
lowing eloquent peroration:


eve have fought and hated
enough. Our country is PROSTATE.
Labor is in rags. Energy has empty
hands. The wheels of the factory
are still In the safe Of Prudence
money lies locked by the key of Fear.
Confidence is what we need-conf-
dence in each other, confidence in
our institutions, in our form Of Gov
ernment, in the great future; conf
dence in law, confidence in liberty,
in progress, and in the grand des-
tiny Of the great Republic. 1 ex-
tend to you each aud all the olive
branch of peace. Fellow citizens of
the South, I beseech you to take it.
By the memory of those who died
for naught, by the charred remains
of your remembered homes, by the
ashes of your statesmen dead, for
the sake Of your sons and daughters
and their children yet to be, I i'm
plore you to take it with loving and
with loyal hands. 1t will cultivate
your wasted fields it Will rebuild
your towns and cities it Will fill
your Golfers with gold; it viii edu-
cate your children it will swell the
sails of your commerce it will cause
the roses Of Joy to Chamber and to
climb over the broken cannon of
war it will food the cabins of freed
men with light, and ClOthe the weak
in more than a coat of mail, and
wrap the poor and lOwly in measure
less content Take it the North
will forgive if the South will forget.
Take it the negro will wipe flom
the tablet Of memory the strokes and
scars Of two hundred years, and
blur with happy tears the record of
his wrongs. Take it ; it will unite
our Nation it will make US brothers
once again. Take it; and Justice will
sit in your courts under the out
spread white wings of peace. Take
it and the brain and the lips of the
future Will be free. Take it it will
bud and blossom in your hands, and
fill your land with fragrance and
with Joy. Take it and we have
passed the midnight Of our political
history, and the star Of hope heraIds
again the rising sun.
Year: 1877

The following is the experience of a
thorough farmer. one who farms to
proht. He says. II have fsrmed for
thirty years, aud always had large
family, and kept large stock, but |
never yet bought bnshel of corn, ex-
cept for seed, and but one barrel Of
flour Possibly at some times | would
have made money by doing so. but you
see when fall comes have forty bush
els Of wheat in my bins and two hun
dred bushels Of corn in my corn barn.
and then haven't got to keep looking
around all winter to see where am
going to get the money to pay my meal
and -four bills with and, furthermore,
| feel better to be independent. l can
show you ncighbor who thinks he
can't afford to raise wheat or corn. and
who has not now a bushel of either


He will tell you that he raised other
crops in place of them, but before he
gets through will probably groan over
the war in Europe, which has lifted the
price Of grain; and | doubt nightly
whether he don't owe at the store for
all the -four his family has eaten this
winter; and | know he hasn't wintered
any hogs, because he raised no corn and
couldn't afford to buy tell you this
talk about farmers can't afford to raise
corn and wheat. pork and beef, is very
much like mans talking that he had
better DO nothing than work for seven
ty-fve cents day. 1t amounts to the
same thing can have patience with
a man who argues that we cannot
raise grain to sell, but one who says he
can't afford to raise it to eat set down
as shiftless fellow. whose farm will
shortly be owned by somebody else. "
There Is much solid sense in this talk.
A farmer, of course, should figure to
make his crops pay, and there are some
who are engaged in specialties who can
make money by buying their grain, but
the corner stone of farming in times
like these is its Independence; its GER
tainty to give man enough to eat anj
drink and wear; and he who plans his
operations with this view is quite as
likely to make something in addition
rs any body. The farmer who raises Il
years stock of corn and wheat and po-
tatoes, which includes also stock of
beef, pork, butter and poultry, is sure
of having enough to eat next winter,
and he who don't raise them is not sure
of it, The one is independent. There
may be European wars, hard times,
bankruptcy and ruiz generally, but you
can't starve HIM out. The other Is de-
pendent on the market. on all sorts Of
things and contingencies.
Year: 1877




New York Times


The Roumanian officers are quite re-
signed and ready for anything. They
are perfectly convinced that they have
no mercy to expect from their enemy
should they fall alive into his hands.
All who have anything to leave have
already made their wills, and the ma
jority have provided themselves with
poison, in order to escape by death from
the cruel martyrdom which they know
too we'll will be their fate if they are
taken prisoners. They will fight
bravely, we may be sure, but it will be
without enthusiasm and with the cour-
age of despair. Perhaps one of the rea-
sons for their dependency arises from
the eabals of some Of the natives against
the Surgeon General, Davila, q
French physician, who, during the last
his energy and talents, both OF which
are remarkable, to the organization Of
military and civil medical service Of the
principally. Scarcely ever in America,
certainly never in Europe, have | seen
q more complete organization Of the
ambulance service, whose arrange
ments, even in their minutest details,
are simply perfection. But Davila is o
foreigner, and therefore subject for
tne jealousy or the aDOrlglnaI amateurs
and doctors who have volunteered
themselves to the Red Cross service,
and who are In constant conflict with
the regularly constituted authorities,
as not unfrequently the case with
our own Sanitary Commission.
The chief Of one ambulance at Crajova,
where there are no patients, gives In his
resignation because Davila wants med
icines which are actually needed at the
front. The honorary president Of the
association, Prince Ghika, sustains the
civilian against the soldier, the Prince
Charles backs up his officer, the jour-
mails Of the opposition take up the cry
against the tyranny Of the government
officials" and almost before single
wounded man has been brought back
from the field everything connected
with the service Of the hospitals has
been thrown into such confusion that
when patients do begin to arrive there
will scarcely be surgeon to operate or
a nurse to dress their injuries.
Year: 1877

NEW York, Sept. 1O.-The New York Tribune
Is dissatisfied. 1t says" Here we have had
ono man Of spotted political character sent
tn South America, and another of worse than
spotted personal character sent to one of the
most important courts Of Europe; have had
to raise o howl in the newspapers to drive
Geo. Butler out of office, and have had more
or less disagreeable scandal concerning good
many other appointments floating about"
Year: 1877

General Grant has opened his doors to
the interviewers Of the Paris press; and an
account OF the success that two Of them have
had in drawing him out will be found in
our cable dispatches. It will be seen that
the General had too nice perception of
the proprieties of his position as q visitor to
express any opinion on French politics.
Our anticipation that he would be reticent
on that topic is thus verified. Indeed, since
to express such an opinion would be SO
evidently to supply material for party uses,
and therefore to abuse generous hospi-
tality, we are astonishcd that the writer's
for the Paris press should be found so
impolite as to put questions that
they know the gentleman whom they
visit could not with propricty answer. In
this country the interview is used rs q
means Of giving distinguished visitors an
opportunity Of putting before the public
whatever they may desire to say but there
is a scrupulousness. deicacy and dip
lomatic tact in the consideration for the
stranger that the Parisians would do we'll
to study. Evidently the General was in
happily sportive mood when he assured the
Figaro man that MacMahon and himself
were "not made to understand one another"
because one could not ''parleyvoo" nor the
other expand i'll the desperate difficulties Of
our sibilant speech.
Year: 1877

It is not much to expect that between
fifty and one hundred thousand people will
witness the great race between Ten Brock
The American Jockey Club has entered into
the spirit of this contest with something
more than it's usual vim and lberality
The great Western horse, Ten Brock,
who sustained defeat at the heels
Of the Eastern horse, Parole, will
seek to recover his great prestige.
remarkable animal in every way, Ten
Brock is brought East with the air of one
bound to win. We shall see. His previous
performances are warrant for much of this
feeling but he was beaten once and he may
be beaten again. 1t has been freely stated
that in his Baltimore race with Parole and
Ochiltree he was out of sorts, and we hear
certain defiant notes from the West which
seem to say that now he is once more in
condition he will beat anything that con- as
before him. We do not wish to be understood
as the champions Of any section of the United
States, and shall, doubtless, be satisfe ed
with the result, whichever side wins, for
such an exhibition of running horsefesh is
not likely to come our way often. But,
despite the achievements of Ten Brock,
his magnificent form and sweeping stride,
we confess to hankering desire to see
Parole somewhere prominent, when of that
hot two miles and half there remains q
furlong to be run. Besides the great match
there will be two other free to all purse
races and q steeplechase The other West
ern cracks, Vera Cruz and King Faro. will
contest the running races.
Year: 1877

In another column will be found q start
Boucicault. He returns to his meal on the
critics He crunched them we'll in the North
american Rerie,r, and now he stirs them up
to see if there is any life left in the lot or
to find bone here and there not thoroughly
picked on which he may again polish his
terrible teeth. He calls this good humor"
in the CHASTITY spirit Of the heroes in all the
Irish dramas, tragedies, comedies or farces,
when, for ''a little pastime" or ''to keep
their blood in circulation they fracture
the skulls Of eight or ten men Of less imag-
inative nationalities. He proposes to prove
the incompetency, incapacity, ignorance,
conceit, impertinence and duplicity of all
the so-callod dramatic critics by daring
them to define the word comedy"
They draw salaries on the assump-
ton that they possess the precious
and recondite sort of knowledge that one
must have to do this, yet he declares they
do not possess it and are consequently
cheats. They cannot ''tell what o comedy
is, nor describe its component parts.
Now all the world, except the dramatic
critics, knows that the component parts"
of comedy are one French play and
ments as it were, the combination and
correlation of which have produced all the
comedies of modern times and made the
fortunes of several original writer's II the
dramatic critics are, as Mr. Boucicault
alleges, ignorant on point of such familiar
knowledge, they deserve the splendid scorn
and severity Of his "good humor" We
give them up to him. In fact, we give up
tohim everybody that does not know as much
rs he does and that does not fully accept
without mental reservation all the opinions
he has hitherto declared or may be pleased
to declare hereafter. But there is one point
omitted in the challenge to the critics-a
point which we respectfully and diffidently
submit is worthy attention: Who is to be
the judge? The critics are deiied to define
a word or to give an account OF n kind of
u play, but it is not snid who is to
determine whether they have defined the
word accurately or shown that they compre-
hend the nature, quality and form of
comedy. There is nobody, of course who
knows all about this except Mr.. Boucicault,
and naturally he should be the Judge, but
as he is the prosecutor his familiarity with
the law will enable him to see the impro-
pricty Of such a dicephaous relationship to
this important case. 1t would be well also
before the case comes on to have it under
stood whether the conception of comedy is
to be taken from any particular period in
the history OF tho stage and at what period
in the great range from Aristophanes to
Boucicault.
Year: 1877

dealt at all in the stocks Of the
roads in which he is interested except to
purchase them as Investments. He regards
himself as holding position OF trust IN re-
lation to those roads and would think it a
violation of his trust to speculate in their
stocks. He gives all his time to his official
duties and justly resents the mischievous
gossip set aAoat by persons who are not
friendly to the interests which it is his duty
to protect. 1t is to be hoped that MI. Van
derbilfs comprehensive denial will put an
end, if not to the invention, at least to the
circulation of such truthless and malicious
stories
Year: 1877

In our correspondence from the camp Of
the Indian Commission will be found racy
letter on subject with reference to which
no one has hitherto had much reason to be
gay. But in this pleasant bit of correspond
ence the last battle with the Nez Perces is
''fought over again" in the lighter mood Of
the historic muse, and some incidents and
picture filled with tho finer spirit OF war
rather than with it's horror and misery, of
which we have lately had a surfeit. Once
on time our literature dealt very largely
with Indian fights as staple element of the
romantic; but the generation that has seen
a great war seldom regards any war from the
romantic standpoint, and least of all can the
American people Of the present time regard
these horrible, murderous, laundering
struggles with savages as i'll any way related
to those displays OF the knightly spirit that
make ambition virtue. In the chronicle OF
the adventures and observations of Lieuten-
ant Jerome the reader will get glimpse Of
Indian war in that phase in which it
touched the fancy Of Cooper. Lieutenant
Jerome, New Yorker and the son of well
known citizen. comes in very handsomely.
as the chronicle runs, for fair share OF the
glory Of the combat. which his comrades in
arms will not begrudge him, while his
happy account of what he saw in Joseph's
camp, and how it seemed to be held as q
hostage for Joseph's safe return. will charm
oil reodera
Year: 1877

Tammany Hall last evening was filed,
crowded. jammed, and the space in Four
teenth street, between Third and Fourth
avenues, though neither jammed nor
crowded, nor even filled, contained q great
multitude of people, probably outnumber-
ing those who came early enough to gain
admission to the hall. The outside crowd
was addressed by several speakers. who got
such attention as they could from mass of
people who hung around to look rather than
to listen. Music and rockets and brill
iant illumination Of the street, with the
occasional arrival Of democratic organiza-
tions in uniform, made an attractive dis
play, and the meeting, both in the
hall and the street, was decided
success. But such meetings prove nothing.
Tammany was equally successful in this
kind Of display two years ago. when it got so
badly beaten in the election. The faithful
democracy of the city has q great proclivity
to noisy demonstrations and there are
always multitudes Of indifferent people who
are willing to pass IN idle evening in wit
Messing this kind of entertainment. They
60 as they do to look at fireworks on the
Fourth Of July, or as they line the streets
for miles to see passing procession. The
election is to be won by quiet, diligent, hard
work, such as Mr.. Morrissey is doing, and
themselves to for the ensuing week. The
tone of feeling on Saturday or Monday next
will be better criterion OF the strength Of
parties in the city than in the frothy en-
thusiasm Of great meetings.


The principal speech of the evening was
1t was clear, able, dignifed, and not too
long. We are sorry that we cannot say that
we think it entirely candid A gentleman
of Mr.. Dorsheimer's opportunities should
have learned by this time that speaker
gains nothing in real weight, even in his
own party, by statements broader than the
facts or by any kind Of exaggeration. How,
for example, can Mr.. Dorsheimer justify
himself for having made such a statement
as this respecting the DISTINGUISHING consti-
tutional amendment ?-"rhere is nothing in
the amendment preventing the Legislature
from investing the Board of Finance with
complete power over all the affairs
Of the city," This statement is not true.
and o public man does not strengthen
himself by such violations OF candor. The
amendment, in truth, carefully takes away
from the Legislature all authority to in
crease the powers which it proposes to con-
fer upon the Board of Finance by this ex-
plicit prohibition:-"No power shall be con-
ferred by the Legislature on the Board of
Finance except the powers conferred by
this constitution or such as may be neces-
sary to carry them into effect" The amend
ment is SO certain to be rejected that there is
no need OF misrepreseuting it to secure its
defeat, and nothing SO tends to undermine
confidence in our public men as the bad
practice, which man Of Mr.. Dorsheimers 5
talents should disdain to follow, OF distort-
ing the truth for party effect.
Year: 1877

TIIr WEATnER.--Thc storm area which was
In the lake district on Sunday night has moved
to the mouth Of the 1t. Lawrence River. Very
heavy weather was experienced on the lakes
during yesterdays storm, and it is feared many
shipping disasters have occurred. The pressure
behind the storm rises rapidly, indicating that
the energy of the disturbance will be main
tanned into the Atlantic The barometer Is high
est in the northwestern district, but is also rcla-
lively high on the Atlantic coast, though falling
toward the Gulf. Rain has been general within
the area influenced by the storm, and
has also fallen in tho Southern States.
The temperature is high on the Atlantic coast
and low in the western districts, where cold,
novthwesterly winds prevail. The weather in
New York and it's vicinity today will be cooler
and partly cloudy or fair.
Year: 1877

able, for learned body voting that ON adj
dress shall be sent may do this with sim
cerity and enthusiasm, but all that follows
is mere formality and the drudgery OF some
factotum. Because it is SO different in this
respect the epistle before US seems
one Of the happiest efforts OF this
kind we have seen. 1t proudly re-
calls the fact that the little kingdom SO
comparatively unseen in the great activities
Of our time was one of the earliest in the
field in those great labors of discovery to
which the world is indebted for all its prog
ress; and the reader Of this reference cam
not but remember the wonderful results
that flowed from the great discovery Of Vasco
de Cana and those only less wonderful
OF several others Of his countrymen. For
the geographers Of that nation to send
'their most enthusiastic greeting" is
tribute Of no mean value.
Year: 1877

Mr.. Randall announced the list of standing
committees, which are elsewhere printed
The Senate was only thirty minutes in opsr
session, but in that time managed to give
the government printing office pretty faii
days work. The real business of the session
maynow be said to have begun
Year: 1877

Ex-SENAroR HARRIS fatty contradicts the
testimony that he was guilty Of corruption while
Commissioner Of the Capitol Building at Al
bany. Bridgcford, the superintendent, on the
other hand, swears that he was so that one or
the other must be guilty Of something very like
perjury The investigation yesterday threat
encd several times TO end in free iipht.
Year: 1877

We give elsewhere the manly, earnest and
graceful epistlc of the Geographical Society
OF Lisbon to Henry M. Stanley, expressing
its congratulations on his success and its
admiration of his achievement. Documents
of this nature arc apt to be strained, arti-
the nature OF the case this is almost inevit-
Year: 1877

A PoRTroN of tho Third United States artil.
lery is marching home TO Fort Hamilton from
Wilkcsbarrc by a road over which military
organization has not travelled for a hundred
years One would suppose that the hallowcd
and patriotic associations of the famous high
way would arouse all the enthusiasm in their
nature. but, strange to say. they do not and
they dcnouncing the economy which denies
them palace car.
Year: 1877

The LABRADOR INDIANS in seizing and carry
ing into the woods a Canadian magistrate who
made some unjust decisions against them have
set an excellent example to their brethren out
West II our Indian agents were treated in
this way it would possibly stop the thcvcry
OH the Plains
Year: 1877

TIE CIGAR MANUFACTURERS having professed


Willingness to listen to the complaints of the
employees the true policy for both parties is to
submit the whole question to a board of arbitra-
Year: 1877

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Year: 1877

We hope that all OF the Congressman
In this State are in favor OF the remon-
etization Of silver. We hope they
will labor earnestly 10 this end. II they
want 10 represent the people of this
State, they must do this. In all our ac-
quAiutance we do not know Of one sim
gle individual who is opposed to this
measure. Some Of our Ananciers are
srdently in favor OF II, and predict that
It will do more than any other measure
could, to restore prosperity to the whole
Union. OF course it 10 not our pur'
pose to insinuate that any of our Con-
gressmen are opposed 10 the measure
on the contrary we believe they all un'
derstand the public sentiment of this
State better than that; If they do not
we assure any Of them who vote
against the measure, that they will be
pretty we'll informed in regard to 1t be-
fore they are sent back to Congress. II
the question could be put to the voters
of the State we do not believe FIVE
thousand people would vote against
silver.
Year: 1877

The four planets usually visible 10
the naked eye, may now all be seen in
the early part of the night, aud will
continue to be visible nearly all the re-
maiuder of the present year. Jupiter
will disappear first; be may now be
seen In the southwest, Venus in the
west and Mars and Saturn In the south
east; the last named are now about
half an hour apaFi-Saturn on the left
and will gradually approach each
other until the Sd Of November, at
about eight o'clock, when they will ap-
pear 10 almost occupy the same place,
or saturn will get behind Mars and af-
terwards appear on the right.