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Year: 1878

The consul of the United States at Port
Sarnia, in Canada, has sent to the State
Department communication reporting the
number of emigrants from Canada to this
country through that port for the year end
ing June 80, 1873. The facts are remark
able. The whole number of emigrants for
the year through Port Sarnia was 30,610,
and of these 16, 1873 were Canadians from
the two provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
They seemed to be very respectable and
well-to-do class, taking with them horses,
wagons, agricultural implements, house
hold goods and in most cases money
enough to purchase farms in our Western
States SO large n loss of valuable popula-
ton throws light on the distress and dis
content which have wrought the recent
great political revolution in the Dominion.
1t proves that the suffering there is even
greater than it is in the United
States, and that the agricultural
population can improve their condition by
emigration to this country. If Sir John
Macdonald should adopt the protective
policy on which he has so triumphantly
carried the parliamentary eleCLlOuS IHcTe
will be still larger exodus from Can
ada to the United States. The present emf
grafton is consequence of a restricted
market for agricultural produce. The Can
adams cannot sell their oats and barley in
the United States without paying duties
which put them at disadvantage but by
cultivating equally cheap land iii our West
ern States they will enjoy unrestricted
use Of our markets. When Canada shall
have adopted high tariff its agricultural
population will bc still worse of, because
they will have to pay larger prices for
everything they have to buy besides getting
smaller prices for everything they have to
sell. Under q zollverein, and still more
surely under annexation, Canada would be
on an equal footing with the most favored
portions Of the United States and instead
of losing population by emigration she
would be large gamer by settlers from
this country.
Year: 1878

For some days there have been great
holes in Tryon row, where the principal
downtown terminus of the East Side ele-
waited road should be, but even practical
engineers are unable to see why the work
at this point should proceed SO slowly, and
Mr.. Director Fields late statement that
the Chatham street branch would probably
be in operation in two months is
anything but encouraging when the
small distance to be covered is
considered. The delay at this most i'm
portant portion Of the road is of great an
noyance to the larger body of passengers
from down town, aud the explanations given
ore by no means satisfactory. Another
cause Of delay, which is equally provoking
of the company, is due to an insufficient
number Of cars during the busiest portions
of the day. Any one who has attempted
to get upon train between five and
seven in the evening at Canal street or
Grand street knows to what we refer The
crowd upon the platform, the packing Of
the cars, the difficulty Of getting on or off
through the crowded mass OF humanity on
the trains and platforms, and the foul air
Of the cars are not only destructive of
human comfort and dangerous to life and
limb, but they show the present inability
of the company to do the work it
has promised to do. The discomforts,


dangers and delays of horse-car travel
will soon seem to nearly every one to be
preferable to those experienced on this ele-
waited road, and if once dislike to the road
takes possession of its would-be patrons it
cannot subsequently, be overcome until the
company has suffered considerable loss.
The management of the East Side road is
decidedly lacking in executive ability, and
no time should be lost in making good the
deficiency if the line is to be properly bene-
fetal either to the stockholders or the public.
Year: 1878

dance of gold in the country to which it is
exported would reduce its value by the law
of supply and demand, and the balance
the effect only when coinage in the two
metals had been honestly adjusted on their
approximate bullion value. At present in
our own national coinage, there is differ
ence of more than ten per cent in the value
Of the gold bullion in gold dollar and the
value of the silver bullion in silver
dollar; whereas the difference should never
exceed one per cent, and ought, if possible,
to be confined within much narrower limits.
If the two metals did not fuctuate at all
with reference to each other an interna-
tional ratio would be Of no consequence,
because there could then be no difference
between coin and bullion, and both would
be equally valuable for expectation. But
such absolute stability is contrary to the
nature of things, and it is therefore desira-
BILE that the effect of fluctuations should be
parried by a common ratio established
by international agreement But an
international agreement would be futile
and worthless except on ratio founded
upon the actual market value of bullion. 1t
could rectify small differences, but not
large differences. 1t would be competent to
deal with difference Of one per cent, but
not with difference Of ten or twelve per
cent. Our present law for the coinage OF
silver is absurd Except for mere subsidiary
coins) because it defes nature and reason
by declaring that ninety cents worth of sill
yer has the same value as one hundred cents
worth of gold. The international Confer
ence having failed our Congress ought to
put bullion enough in our silver dollars to
make them the real equivalent of gold
dollars
Year: 1878

In to-day's HERALD is given in a letter
from Paris minute account of public ex-
ecution in that city, The persons executed
were the two speculative students who MUIR
dered milkwoman to secure for themselves
the small amount of her little fortune, and
who so heedlessly left ghastly relic OF
their crime in hired room. 1t is a story
that indicates with how little consideration
of the magnitude of such crime two men
will for pitiful sum of money undertake
murder, and it is probable that its early dis
Year: 1878

covery and punishment have saved the hfe
of many capitalist in small way, for if
the partners had found impunity in their
enterprise they would have continued it.
But the execution is for New Workers the
most instructive part of this story. The
artistic completeness of the preparations
for the grand act of justice, the care with
which these two wretches were launched
into eternity, can only be compared, with
any account of an execution here, to the
complete conviction ofevery thinking person
that our method is horrible and barbarous.
Year: 1878

OUR REPORTER of the Billings trial has OBJ
tained from the prisoner information
which, though not of the legal nature Of evi-
aence, will be read with great interest by those
who have followed the course Of this extraor-
ainary case. Tho foreshadowing of the points
Of the defence Also add to the interest Of the
report.
Year: 1878

The CAPTAIN of the steamer City of Fitch
burg, which struck and sunk canal boat on
"Wednesday, seems to have peculiar ideas of the
purpose Of an alarm whistle. This whistle was
not blown because he could see no one on tho
deck of the canal boat, whereas the simplest
regard for life and property should have
prompted him TO sound an alarm and call men
Oh deck to save their boat and themselves.
Year: 1878

IT Is BEAUTIFUL for brethren to dwell together
In peace and unity; but some of the officers Of
The Ancient Order of Iibernians, who met in
Brooklyn yesterday, seemed to have had pecu-
liar ideas OF what peace and unity consist in.
Year: 1878

BIG SENSATION was completely spoiled yes
terday by the Coroners jury returning u verdict
that the shooting of Molloy by Allen Us acci-
dental; but the more of such sensations arc
spoiled the healthier will he tho moral sense of
the community. Mysteries of manslaughtcr are
very dangerous as moral diet
Year: 1878

Washington, Jan. 12.-Postmaster
General Key was asked to-day what
would be his course if the Anti-Repudi-
ationists in Tennessee should call on
him to lead them in the next guberna-
torial campaign, and replied: "The
campaign is long way off-next fall
and do not at present much expect to
be called on. 1 am, however, known
throughout the State as being bitterly
opposed to reputation of the State
debt, and if an honest party thought
that by running me as its candidate for
governor its cause would be strength
ened, l would be greatly tempted to
leave any position | might occupy to
answer the call thus made for me.''
Year: 1878

THE London Times says some of the
gold from private stores in England is
in course of transmission to the United
States, and some will likely be wanted
for Germany next week; but there is
no probability of these operations ex-
tending beyond the limits of what the
open market can supply.
Year: 1878

NOTICE was given in the official paper
at Ottawa, Ont, on Friday, that appli-
cation will be made at the next session
of Parliament for an act to incorporate
the Presbyterian Church of Canada in
connection with the Church of Scot
Year: 1878

AT meeting of bankers in Buffalo,
yesterday, it was unanimously resolved
to cooperate with the bankers of New
York in such action as they may take
in opposing the Bland silver bill, now
before the U. S. Senate.
Year: 1878

hereby announce myself as a Candidate to the I6th Congress of the United States. and would say to my fellow citizens that if hoaored by an election will diligently labor to pro- mote the interests of the entire Territory. with out regard to section. X. F.. DAVIS.
Year: 1878

Special to the Chicago Tribune.


Columbus, O., June 15.--In an
interview with gentleman well
known in railroad circles, who has
been travelling all over the United
States in the interest of railroad
men, it is learned. that full and
complete organizations of railroad
men are now working in union,
and that a strike is liable to break
out any time which, he claims,
will extend over the whole country.
He states that there are thousands
of miners out of employment who
are ready to aid the strikers in
securing their demands. In refer
ence to the so.calk Il communistIc
element, he was of the opinion that
they would make no move until the
strike was started, when they
would come to their assistance.
The interview withholds the name
of the person referred to, but rail.
road officials give it as their Opin-
ions that the person is no other
than Jack Cooper, who took an
active part and assumed the lead
ership in the railroad strike one
year ago. In an interview with
General Managen Caldwell, OF the
Pan Handle lines, this evening, in
reference to the proposed strike,
he said that, SO far as he knew,
there was nothing to base the re-
port Oh. Their men had looked
stern facts in the face, and were
well satisfied with present salaries
under the existing depression in
busiueSS of all kinds,
Year: 1878

The Mississippi Judge was just
saying that no one but q coward
would carry a pistol, when his own
fell from bis pocket, was dis
charged and the bullet hit law
yer in the leg--Globe- Democrat.


The relic, made mp for North
ern radical consumption, is taken
from the patent outside of South
ern newspaper. And so the patent
outside system helps to educate
Southern peopIe.-Hohy springs
iSoNth.
Year: 1878

we learn that the State, through
Attorney -General-T. G. Gatherings,
yesterday stepped in and Preven-
ted the sale of the Eicksburg,
Shin Island and Pensacola railroad.
This was done on account OF the
state holding a joint mortgage
with those who attempted to sell.
According to a late act of the leg
islature the only way to lift this
mortgages TO pay il, or to bulld
the railroad across Big Black river
before January, 1880. We presume
the company will attempt at once
to build the road across Big Black.
yicksbmg Herald. llh.
Year: 1878

A correspondent of the PW 1EI
Gazette writes; When sitting i'm punt
in summer, moored hundred wards or
more from shore, | lave often watched
snake swim across the lake, i'm that
place about three hundred wards
wide. In the distance all that
is visible is small black spot
moving steadily over the water.
This il the snakes head, which he holds
above the surface, and which vibratcs a
little from side to side with the cNer-
lions of the muscular body. As he
comes nearer n slight swell undulatcs ON
each side marking his progress. Snakes
never seem TO venture so far from
shore except when it il perfectly calm.
The movement of the body is exactly
the same as on land-the snake glidcs
over the surface, the bends of its BODY
seeming TO act like screw. They 90 a {
a good pace and with the greatest appa-
rent ease. In walking beside the mead
ow brooks, not everywhere, but i'm local
ities where these reptiles are common.
every now and then you may sec n
snake strike of from the shore and
Rwim across, twining in and out tho
stems of the green flags till he reaches
the aquatic grass on the mud and din e.
appears among II.


One warm summer day sat down
on the grass under an oak, and leaned
my gun against it, intending to watch
the movements of n pair of woodpcck
crs who had young close by. But the
drowsy warmth induced slumber, and
on waking-probably after the lapse of
some time-l found snake coIlcd on
the grass under one of my legs. / kept
perfectly still, being curious to see what
the snake would do. He watched me
with his keen eyes as closely as
watched him. So long az there was ab.
solute stiffness, he remained; the mo-
ment | moved, out shot his forked black
tongue, and away he went into the ditch
"a rapidly as possible.
Year: 1878

A SHORT time ago one Of our young
men conceived the idea Of getting n
tarantula and putting him against Mr..
Smiths scorpion in an open fight. The
tarantula was procured recently, and
both venOmOus creatures we're placed
in large tin box. In an instant they
made n dart at each other, and were
rolling over and over until they
brought up against the side OF the box.
Then they settled down to business.
The tarantula, being much larger than
his antagonist, made great efforts IA
crush him In his strong embrace, but
without success Then he piled hi-
sting, and kept the scorpion pretty
busy, who relied up his sack Of poison
and his hostile claws for victory. lie
seemed - prefer 10 keep underneath
the tarantula, and, lying ON bis back
he covered the enemy with bites and
poison. The fight lasted about ten min
utes, and ended in favor of the scorpion.
About an hour afterwards the tarantula
died, but the scorpion is still fresh foi
another EUrcia Lo0dcr.
Year: 1878

if "a set of incompetent inspectors


were selected" the producers of one
| of our staple products might be COM
PEELED "to submit to the depreciation


of their property" and that "this is


the condition of things that may


arise under our present system. I"
Obviously, Mr.. Carroll hesitates to
criticise his own apNointes in the
State Tobacco Warehouses as nlcom


petents who are damaging the trade,
and so he lets them off easily under
cover ofa suppOsitiOn that he and
everybody else knows is reslity.
However, In view of the excellent
recommendation he makes for the
entire abolition of the compulsory in
spectlon system, we shall not find
fault for his dislike to hurt the ten
der sensibiities of the Democratic
- aaaska stsfE s}asias fsanas II.
Indeed, he evinces a larger degree Of
courage than any of his predecessors


in openly advising such a sweeping
and wholesome reform. and fortu


nately has the letter of the Bremen
Board of Trade in evidence Of the in
jury the inspections under the exist
ing law are doing the city. If the
Legislature lets the statute stand it
will simply fail to act because of the
importance of the tobacco warehouses
as part of the political machine.
Pretty nearly the same allusiOn
would be in place regarding the State
Cattle Scalt 5, but the Governor con
siders them of too much convenience
to the buyers and sellers of cattle 10
be done away with. He recommends
the abolition of the offices of Weigh
er General of Grain and Inspectors
of Grain on the same broad principle
0tn0n-lntelerence between buyer and
seller that applies to the tobacco bus
lness, and he embraces the office of
Inspector of Mines as another useless
lncumberance. These features of the
Executive document will also be
pooh poOhed by the managing poll
ticianS.


Governor Carroll discusses the top
les of public education, the penal and
reformatory institutions ofthe State,
and the registration of voters in the
remainder of the message. Under
the head OF Baltimore city, he treats
of the beneficial effects of the new law
in relation to Justices of the Peace,
and takes occasion to say that the
taking of any fee by Police Justice
will constitute cause for immediate
amendment Q Of 'fe the Law " so ola as ft5 ft5 pen
quire the Police Justices to sit at the
station houses for one hour after ten
O'Clock. at night to pass upon the
cases of persons who should not be
imprisoned until morning when they
can procure bail. On the oyster
dredging question he suggests
that the whole bay should be thrown
open to dredgerS under license, that
the rivers only be protected for the
counties, and the cost of
the oyster police force be reduced. A
novel feature of the message is the
showing Of the pardons granted to
convicts and the nolle proseques or
dered against individuals, and the
reasons for such action. In the cases
of some of the Baltimore criminals,
at least, the Governor fails to present
satisfactory reasons for his interven-
tion.-BaHimore Amerjcdn.
Year: 1878

A new Pacific Railroad Bill is 10
be presented to Congress, The eastern
terminus of the prop 1sed road to be
at Memphis, and the line to run
thence past Lake City to Jefferson,
Texas; thence by the international
and Great Southern railroad to San
Antonio, to El Paso del Norte, to
connect with any road to the Pacific
ocean now or hereafter to be built,
affor1ing communication with the
various military posts on these line.
and the valley Of the Rio Grandq:
The projectors ask for thirteen mil


lion. to be repaid by transportation
Of Government mails and supplies
Year: 1878

PATRIOTISM "A communication
to the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch
relates the following story as an
evidence of the indOmitable will and
state pride that animated the SOL
diers of that state in the late war:
ION one of our marches in the early
spring." said he "When a chilling
ram had been falling for days. ,and the
olush was almost waist deep, our
command, utterly wretched and
broken down, was struggling along
as best it could under such circum-
ltances. Worn out myself, | crept
into a fence corner to rest awhile.
Presently saw a solitary straggler
coming slowly up the road. He
seemed almost completely exhaus-
ted-his shoes were gone and his feet
cut and bleeding, l was struck with
his appearance, for through all its
WretchedneSs shone the indomitabIe
spirit of the Southern-the man who
would be found at his post or else
dead in the attempt to reach it.
watched him closely, and rs he drag
ged himself slowly past, ! heard him
mutter to himself; "D-il me if
Year: 1878

Rare almost as great poets-rarer, per-
haps, than veritable saints and martyrs
are consummate men of business. A
man to be excellent in this way must
not only be variously gifted, but his
gifts should be nicely proportioned to
one another. He must have in high
degree that virtue which men have al
ways found the least pleasant of virtues
= prudence. His prudence, however,
win not be merely of a cautious and
0uiescent order, but that which, being
ever actively engaged, is more fifty
called discretion than prudence. Such
q man must have an almost ignomnious
love Of details, blended land this is q
rare oombinstion) with high power Of
imagination, enabling him to look along
long extended lines of possible action,
and put these details in their right place.
He requires great knowledge of char
acteP, with that exquisite tact which
feels unerringly the right moment when
to net. A discreet rapidity must
pervade all the movements of his
thought and action. He must be sin
gularly free from vanity, and is gener-
ally found TO be an enthusiast who has
the art to conceal his enthusiasm.
Year: 1878

ware that you listen to nothing and do
nothing before seizing the keys.'


%If that is all, that is easy enough -
answered Oliffe.


@Not so easy as you think" said the
owl, flying away.


Count Oliffe rode to the two oaks, and
dismounted. There he waited many
hours till the ground opened, and the
man and woman came forth as before.
He watched them in silence, and went
boldly down the steps. At the foot of
the steps sat a fat, jolly giant, smoking
| a pipe, while the keys of the palace
hung loosely in his girdle.


Give me the key of the palace" said


ayes, my son" said the giant, ''if you
viii first smoke pipe with me, 1t has
been q great many hundred years since
anY one has smoked with me-"


EThere is no harm in that" thought
Oliffe, who thought, beside, that he
should like to smoke out of such pipe
as the giant handled-a pipe with bowl
of amber and a stem of gold.


At first when he saw the doors of the
palace open, he did not walk in, and yet
he seemed to enter. He saw splendid
halls and wonderful treasures, and said
to himself that he would not take them
just yet, but when he had finished
smoking his pipe.


He smoked and smoked down to the
very last bit of tobacco in the pipe.
With the last Whit the pipe fell from
his mouth and broke. The iron door
swung to with a bang. The light, the
giant, and the steps vanished. Olife
started to his feet. He was standing
alone in the forest, and the day was just
breaking. Something seemed old about
himself; and looking down, he saw that
he had long gray beard, and that his
clothes looked worn. He went slowly
back to his castle; but he knew nobody
there, and nobody knew him. He was
an old, old man. He had smoked the
best years of his life away in idle dreams,
and the cunning giant had cheated him
out of entering the palace Of Time, after
all. Poor Count Oiffe.
Year: 1878

A post-ofice clerk in Russia was
found to be constantly in trouble with
the stamps. The accounts would come
wrong. Sometimes there was not enough
money in return for stamps sold, and on
other occasions there was too much.
This made dishonesty on his part less
likely, but it was incomprehensible how
he could make the accountsso entangled.
At length it was discovered he was color
blind, and could not distinguish red nom
green stamps.
Year: 1878

Toward the end of the last reign In
Russia, a native official of high rank,
having questioned their reputed skill in
tracking down any one on whose trail
they might be set, was challenged by the
Minister of Police to test it in bis own
person. Accordingly, the Russian lefs
the capital, and returning to Il q month
later with the utmost secrecy, in q SEEM
ingly impenetrable disguise, took up bis
quarters at an obscure tavern in the
poorest part Of the city; but he had
hardly been there an hour when he was
astOnished by the arrival Of q courier
with card from the Minister, inVlnhs
him to dinner that evening.
Year: 1878

A lusty tramp, one summersday
The sun was glaring down,
Trudged on along the dusty way


That led towards the nearest town.
No friendly tree its welcome shade


Athwart his weary pathway cast;
No babbling brooklet leaped and played
Along the roadside as he passed.
Is there no shady spot he cried


AT hand? to one who by him strobe;
20! yes" the other one replied


"A little fO-ther down the road"
Year: 1878

'T don't think you need send Ior me
again. She cannot possibly get better;
and to save you further trouble, I'll just
write you out certificate for her burial.H
And he did. After the doctor departed
the woman got better rapidly. She has
now completely recovered, and goes
about carrying her burial certificate with
her. At least so says the Sheffield Tex
graph