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Year: 1878

Our BoYs.-Teach them reliance, teach
them to make fires, teach them to saw and
split wood, teach them, every day, dry,
hard, practical common sense; teach them
how to darn stockings and sew their buttons
on; teach them how to eat what is set be-


fore them and be thankful; teach them
how to black their boots and take proper
care of their clothing; teach them how to
say no, and mean it, and yes, and stick to
it; teach them to wear their working
clothes like kings; teach them that steady
habits are better than riotous living; teach
them that the further one goes beyond his
income the nearer he gets to the poor
house; teach them politeness and Difference
to others; teach them not to have anything
to do with Incorporate and dissolute young
men, Orwith idle or frivolous young women.
Year: 1878

SMOKY CHIMNEYs.-The Springfield
Union says Trouble with smoky Chin
neys caused by their being used for two or
more stoves may be averted in most cases
by inserting vertically in the Rue a piece
of sheet iron SO as to divide the fiue in the
centre for about two feet above the point
where each pipe enters, and turning the
bottom of the sheet iron under the pipe so
as to shut it completely off from the part
of the due below it.
Year: 1878

wmxS q man Is treating dashing
widow TO ice cream. and sOss his vile
coming into the restaurant. about all
he can do is to button his coat. hang to
his chair, and trust TO Providence.
Year: 1878

WHEN q man at Portland called an-
other citizen a fool he was arrested aud
made to prove it. The jury returned a
verdict 10 the effect that the defendant
hes been duly found to be fool.
Year: 1878

Temperance is a cordinal virtue.


Every one who stands as just and


upright man is temperate in all


things. This is a perfect point which
he makes on entering the race of
life. We cannot consistently advo-
cate the nomination or vote for the
election a any man to any Office who
is not temperate. Should he, through
our ignorance of his moral delinquen.
cy, get a nominations, we should
scratch his name from our ballot. So
far on the temperance side. Now fol
the Greenback. This is an issue
which over-rides every other one,
even temperance itself in importance.
We are certainly and inevitably fast
drifting, and must drift without Z
financial change through hard times
Year: 1878

Receipts from internal revenue on
Tuesday the 18th were s549.o44; Gus
toms S485, 500. There is food for
thought in those figures. They contain
a problem which all should study. Sup
pose you, reader, paid just your aver
age proportion. what was it, and
what would it amount to in year,
supposing the above to be fair aver
age for the year! If working man,
and supposing the workingmen to
average one-eighth Of the population,
how much of it must be ground out
by your labor. Will it not make some
difference with your pocket which
way you vote this fall! We fgnred
the difference from other premises at
500, which is quite sum these hard
times.
Year: 1878

one district this years year, and he IS run lust % to
make fun for the boys. The report that he
is running in all the Congressional districts,
is mistake. Glencoe Register.


The fact is that Donnelly has so
many good qualities that all the dis
tricts would like to have him repre-
SAINT them in Congress; but not one
of them will even set up Liberty
Hall as candidate. Liberty's best
hold is distributing money among
the grasshOpper sufferers.
Year: 1878

they cease to convey the new idea
OF the age, should be dropped as we
/ quit a railroad that ceases to run in
the right direction.


W The present increased circula.
tion of the ANTI-MoNoPOLIsT by
thousands of campaign and other
subscribers. make it most excellent
medium for advertising. Our readers
and friends should bear this in mind
and If they have anything to adver-
tise, to bny or sell, to know or have
known, make this the medium of
their communication.


t. The hard money papers are
continually talking of gold and sill
yer as standards Of ralue. Do they
know that the Supreme Court of the
Uuited States has decided IL Wallace,
Supreme Court Reports, page 553)
that THEY ARE, IN NO SENSE, stand
ards of value, and cannot be, as value
is an ideal thing! When stampted as
money they represent value, and so
does paper. Wherein. then, are gold
and silver better than paper


t. A greenback dollar would al
ways pay a dollar of debt, a gold dollar
has never been able to do more than
that. A dinner bought with green
back affords as much nOurishment
as one bought with gold dollar and
none but the money bugs have been
able to see why it is not just as good.
The material for either the people pay
for, and the cheaper material suits
the present condition of their pockets
much better than the dearer.


1 The faith Of the government is
the only guarantee for the payment
of our bearing bonds, yet
these bonds are always above par.
The legal-tender greenback should be
worth as much as the bond, for it has
the same guarantee. Then why should
the government pay over hundred
millions annually as interest, when
the greenbaek is equally good, and
upon which there is no interest
Ed The cent now in use weighs 48
grains, and is composed of o5 per cent
Of cOnnpr and < Dpr cent of tin Or
zink. The intrinsic value of this ma
terial is l6 cents pound. But it is
no matter how little value there is in
a cent, the less there is the better for
the country. because they have less
capital invested in the material. The
fiat of law gives them their value
They are legal tender for any pay.
ment not exceeding four cents.
Year: 1878

perish with cold. Such is the unjust
and wicked discrimination which the
rich make in favor of their own class
and against the poor. Such are the
partial laws and wicked wages by
which the poor and unfortunate are
compelled. to keep their faces on the
grindstone of hard labor, that the
rich may luxuriate in wealth and
ease. Would it be so if the poor
would mass their political strength,
pool their issues, and vote for some
poor man instead of a rich landlord I!
Year: 1878

What man with money wouldn't t
buy bonds when the government pays
a higher interest than he could make
on the same amount Of money honest
" invested in businessi II il good for
the bondholder, but DEATH TO THE
PEOPLE WHO ARE T0RcKD TO SUPPORT
HIN.
Year: 1878

to reputation, communism, revolu-
tion and bloodshed. This is as GER
tain as that two and two are four.


And there is only one way out, and
that is the Greenback. We cannot
pay our debts, nor even the interest
on them under the reign Of hard
money and hard times, and hard
money and hard times are always
synonomous. They stop industries.
They compel to be tramps. Tramps
lose self-refpect. With want Of en-
ployment temptation to stimulants
comes with tenfold power. All vices
and bad habits naturally aggregate.
Chewing, smoking, drinking, swear
ing. stealing. generally go together.


When we open the door of our lives
to one, the whole company is apt to
come in Does not every reader of
the papers know that there is twice
the amount of criminality in the land
that there was ten years ago! And is
it not caused, indirectly it may be, by
the hard times, the want of employ
ment, ragged clothes, hungry stom-
achs, and the loss of self-respect!
Through the hard times which neces-
sarily lie along the road to resump-
ton more than three millions of men
have been thrown out of Unemployment.
With want Of employment come
temptations to drink. They feel the
need of a stimulus to pass away their
time or drown their sorrows. Hence
the best use which all temperate peo-
yle can put their strength to, is to


vote for the Greenback. They will


accomplish more in so doing than they
can in any other way. for temperance.
Year: 1878

Post Office box IF. Office No. Is East Third
Street, W there he will be glad to make the ac-
ouaintance of any Greenbackers who may be
in the city at any time, and have little spare
time.
Year: 1878

jackson Beard, residing AZ the Black


Bear Station, Wilmington and Northern
Railroad, is the owner Of sword that was
carried by his grandfather through the
Revolutionary War. He was twice wounded
10y the enemy at the battle Of Brandywins
Year: 1878

Now that the Mineral Resources of Arizona are being rapidly developed, agricultural products will be in great demand and the Farmer will quickly find himself King, and while enjoying home comforts will reap largely of the golden harvest of the hardy miner. Prospectors who are searching the noun tains for hidden treasures it may be poor as Jobs turkey-will in a moment find themselves Bonanza Kings and be able to revel in luxury the rest of their days; but all men cannot become owners of rich mines! All men cannot become wealthy farmersl To the great mass of man. kind the price of pork and beans will still be an object.
Year: 1878

The search for the body of Willie Wick
ers, was continued throughout yesterday
by the diver, but without success, as he
failed to find it, These seems to be
but little doubt now that the body has
tioated out with the tide, and may be
found some time IN the river. The
search has been given up.
Year: 1878

A member of the Grand Jury of New
Castle County has been considering the
recent shooting of the negro Dave Will
liams, by policeman Charles BrlckIe
with view of having 1t investigated by
the Grand Inquest at the next term OF
Court He is going to write to the AT.
torney General for assistance in the mat
ter.
Year: 1878




SIR: The writer proposes to ask question
about spun silk yarn, and also give answers to this
ouestlou with view OF setting forth such facts as the
peope who are directly and indirectly interested IN the
subject should know, in order that our Government may


abolish altogether or least greatly reduce, the present
duty this material


why ought carled, waste spun silk yarns In skeius
to be admitted free OF dutyi Because 1t is ma
terial aud needs good deal Of labor upon 1t before
IL is ht to use Now single spun silk is just about as
far advanced in process OF manufacture as ordinary
raw silk not far advanced as re-reeled raw silk
Ordinary raw silk OF usually large reel is admitted free
OF duty but single and twoold spun silk is taxed 80
rer cent The rereeled silk has mad labor expended
upon it equal to at fifty cents per pound and yet
that comes In free also. Many OF our American silk
manufacturers have this re-reeng done In Europe, in
Japan China, to prepare t as fully as possible
for their machinery before 1t here. Throwing
this rereeed silk, in other words twisting 1t and
doubling it into tram and organzinc 1.-THE former for fill


ing aud the latter for warp costs on an average, say
eighty cents pound but if this is done abroad the tram
and the organznc is taxed 35 per cent duty when IL
rlyes here. when looks at the difference between
eighty cents and 80 per cent upon pound of tra cost
ing say $5 per pound about nnetyye cents, he has
90 further FOR reason why no tram ana organzhe


This throwing" process certainly gives employment
on aud orgRnZlue benefits Us somewhat, even II 1t
affords revenue to the Government.


This consideration, however, Will not hold good In


favor OF taxing spun silk yarn 30 per cent for the re-
tnat only moderate quantity OF IL Is spun here
Manufacturers anxious 10 use ~, Dut IL cannot DO
had except from abroad, aud the tax 80 per cent rem
dcrs 1t too expensive to Tho most excellent under
wear is made In Europe from spun SILK and this unde
wear comes to this country and pays go per cent duty
Our hosiery manufacturers able to make just as
good underwear the foreigners, aud anxious to do
| II as they have the yarn free. Why don't
they silk that does come IN free Because raw
silk IA not suitable for knitting and spun silk is
Not hosiery manufacturer in this country Is making
kpun silk shirts drawers and stockings, though the
| son is that they cannot do It, but that the
raw material SO heavily taxed Give free spun silk
yarn and silk uudershirs, drawers and socks OF Ameri
can manufacture will be plenty and cheap The same
remarks apply 10 mixed dress goods fOulards,
etc. etc Manufacturers Of these want to employ spun
silk largely, bat cannot One OF the largest silk manu-.
facurers in Paterson remarked few days ago that II
the Government would only abolish the duty spun
| silk yarns, he would double his mill capacity at
once and use very largely OF it in his looms. Goods
made spun silk yarns ought TO be plenty and cheap
| In this country. A L. W., JR.
NeC- York, April 0, 1873.
Year: 1878

TO fhe EdlfOF or Ihe .IFiOhhe.


SIR: Seeing an article in THE TRIBUNE
about West Virginia wish to inquire II the land be
bought credit must cash be paid for 1t, and If
what are the inducements for mechanics to so there
Can they nd employment at their trades laborersl


would like take up land therebu have not the cash.
Still am willing to work at anything that will pay the
best return am machinst by trade but work at
farming. ain young man and would like to own some
land and In time live from it. CIIAs f. DEAN.


WhhnSUiVe, Mass, April g. 1878.


lit would be impossible for us at this distance
to direct any mechanic or laborer to the neghbor-
hood in West Virginia where he would be most
likely to succeed The best plan for this applicant,
and any others in his position, would be to write di
rectIy to Dr. d. Mayor. Commissonerof Emigration,
Kanawha G. H., or any Of the gentlemen named in
THE TRIBUNE of the Sd inst, stating candidly his
wishes and resources as TO money, and skill as o
workman. They are on the ground and will bo
able to advise him intelligently as to details We
have no doubt of their willingness to do So Men
who want to work, and to buy land and live on it
are the kind of citizens who build up State.-Edl
Year: 1878

70 the Edttor Of The Tribune.


SIR The pathetic letter of half-starveu
gentleman in Saturdays TRIBUNE has overcome my las
scruple ask space for suggestions on the 'pO
question When men are starving for want Of work a"N
Year: 1878

Three poker players from Chester and
Philadelphia, the other day, fleeced Del
aware county hotel man out of $50, and
then performed like service for hotel
man in Brandywipe Hundred, this State
They then returned to Chester and stuck
two hotel men there for S25 apiece. Had
they come on to Wilmington they could
have found some poker sharps who would
have lightened their pockets instead OF
adding to their gains.
Year: 1878

Has already been of inesti- mablc benefit to Arizona. It has reduced the cost of transportation very mate rially, and lessened the time of receiving goods at least one half, besides add ing greatly to the comfort and facility of travelling. With this record in the past, the prospect of a speedy extension of the same into the Territory is very encouraging for the future, as it will add very much to the prosperity and wealth of the whole coun- try.
Year: 1878

Iwould take this method of returning
my heartfelt thanks to the very liberal pub
lie of the entire city ofWilmingten for their
kind and generous patronage to me for the
space of nine years the time I have been
located in what is known. as the Eighth
street market. During that time I have
endeavored to the utmost of my ability 10,
deal Justly by every one with whom have
had any business dealings. III have done
otherwise it has been through ignorance
and not design and am willing TO- make
any reparation to any and alto whom L
may have failed to please in any respect. 1t
has always been my chief aim to keep the


very best goods the market afforded and


to dispose of them at price consistent with


justice to my customer and myself but new"


er offering my goods at cost 10 keep my
neighbor from making a sale a principal


that bringsno good.o any one. l would
also beg leave to inform my many custo.
mers and friends that my business .connec>
tion with the Eighth street market has
"stopped short but have not skedaddled,
jumped the town or quit the business as
some of my frierds2 Of said market please
| to report land whose names | shall give in


future card ifthe practice is confined. I


will continue my business in the little


market at the west end of Eighth street


market) which will be hereafter known as
| the Central Market whereby strict atten-


tion to business and choice line Of goods


| hope to merit continuance Of former


pa tronage. Yours Truly


last. THOMAS GREEN.
Year: 1878

HARRY B. McINTIRH was elected Chief
Of the Water Works last evening, and VIM.
Morrow, Registrar. We hope they will
make good officers, for the reason that
Council is very roundly abused for electin x
them. The Democratic doctrine is supposed
to be rotation Ia office. In one of the above
cases 1t appears that the rotation is merely
q shifting from one Office to better one.
Year: 1878

The Horticultural, was fairly attended
last evening, many Of our best citizens be-
ing present, Itisquite unaccountable that
many more do not 60 considering tho
laudable charity its proceeds are to benefit
and the attractions Of the fair itself The
bevys of fair merry girls, beaming with
beauty and charming in their manners, are
attractive, and worth trip to the Institute
Hall to witness. The management are de-
termined to popularize itsndto do 80 will re
duceths price Of admission this evening, and
until the fair closes, 90 as to be within the
power Of the many to aid benevolent OBJ
iect, and give the young folks treat
Year: 1878

M Whitehall Times.


Blame not. before you examine tae
truth.


The trial is not fair where affection is
Judge.


Vows made in storms are forgotten in
calms. :,


Unreasonable haste is the direct road
to error.


Remember always that labor is one Of
the conditions of our existence.
Year: 1878

have accomplished SO little must have
heads literally crowded with unborn
blessings for filth ridden commu-
nifty. Then there are those estimable
citizens who know that our financial
system is SO fearfully wrong; perhaps a
glance within their heads would give clew
to the reformation upon which the tongues
of these gentlemen are so amazingly in
distinct. The cerebral matter Of the man
ayers of the elevated railways might be ex'
amined by the curious to discover when the
promised relief for the extreme uptown
wards lie to be given, were it not abundantly
evident that no such relief is within the
mental byways of these gentlemen at all.
We refrain from even suggesting the Won
ders that modern scientific methods might
discover in the brain of Disraeli and that
of Bismarck, for we believe that the devel-
opment of ideas, like that of charity, should
begin at home, and in our own land such a
society would be kept too busy to think OF
crossing the water.
Year: 1878

Reports from the infected districts are
full of painful details, but on the principal
point, that Of the extent Of the disease, they
are in the main encouraging The death
rate has increased at New Orleans, as was
to be expected from the increase in the
number Of the sick, but new cases are no
more numerous than during any day but
one last week. At Grenada there is a marked
falling off in both new cases and deaths,
but this is explained by the lack OF
material which can be infected, for, except
the sick, the nurses and the physicians,
there is scarcely any one in the town. The
improvement in the Memphis reports is
due to a similar cause. AS there are no
serious outbreaks reported elsewhere it


would seem that the fugitives from the
afflicted towns escaped early enough to
avoid infection. The Grenada cases are
particularly fatal, scarcely any of the sick
having recovered. Whether the malady
really originated in the old sewer Of which
our correspondent telegraphs or was
merely intensified by the foul gases escap-
ing from that receptacle of filth, the
unusual virulence of the disease proves
conclusively that decomposing materials
peculiar to the waste of human habitations
have more to do with the fever than stick
lers for the germ theory will allow. The
sadness of the general subject is somewhat
relieved by reports OF generosity already
exhibited toward the sufferers. Our col
umns contain mention Of several handsome
donations, which have already reached their
destination, and of relief measures projected
elsewhere. Certainly there has not been for
a long time any disaster in which the suf-
ferers were SO absolutely helpless and de-
serving.
Year: 1878

stroy, but only to reform the power that
dispenses support to the industry by which
he lives. He knows that to be too fierce
toward capital will dry up the stream that
turns his little mill he wants to reform
it-that is, to draw more to his mill at the
expense of his neighbors. If he kills the
gentlemen to whom will he sell the piano
he makes? whose floors will be inlaid with
hard woods? who will buy the fine product
of his looms? from whom will he get the
little money he needs in any trade what
ever? Apparently, the simple artisan who
lived in Europe in the sixteenth century
understood this not difficult problem, and
yet it is an inextricable puzzle to a man
enormously proud OF his superior knowl-
edge-the American workingman OF the
nineteenth century.
Year: 1878

1t is ever thus. Set any one at the task
of self-reformation and the first thing he
does is to make himself disagreeable.
been urged to reform and become truly pa
ternal; but instead of beginning by giving
every one a printing press, a set of engraved
plates and few reams' of greenback paper,
which would be universally considered n
faultless paternal act, he has determined to
become a meddlesome old fuss and rum
mage the trunks of such of the children as
have been away from home. This would be
bad enough if he had supplied the spend
ing money which the innocents squan-
dered abroad, but the stingy old cur
mudgeon has no such excuse. If
his contemplated action were to be
preparatory to general renovation
of spoiled clothing and regulations there
would be something truly fatherly about it;
but what he really proposes to do is to have
Custom House officials discover the value
of superfuous luggage and secure him
share of it, the same to be paid in cash
instead of in kind. No regard is to be paid
to the feelings Of modistes, merchants and
others of the travellers friends who,
not having been able TO 60 abroad
themselves, deserve such consolation
as can be got out of goods imported
duty free. more wretched misappre-
hension Of the true nature of reform and
the paternal relation cannot be imagined.
1t will give more hush money to sharp in
spectors and more trouble to stupid ones,
reduce sweet girls to grief and palmer ap-
parel and compel some people to be honest,
which is the last thing that is desired by
shriekers for paternal government. Let the
nation begin its reforming somewhere else
BY the time it has equalized incomes by
taking from the rich to give to the poor. and
piled its vaults with fat money, to which
those still dissatisfied may help themselves
the people will have become educated up to
enduring Custom House examinations with
that true equanimity that comes of bot
tomless pocket.
Year: 1878

candidate for the highest Office. An ex-
President is merely citizen, standing on
the same level as other citizens, and re-
strained by sense of dignity from resort
ing to the political arts and manoeuvres by
which other candidates seek to promote
their interests. No ex-President, whether
he has served one term or two, can possibly
be reelected except by appointments move
ment of the great body of the people
Year: 1878

The CoMiNG MAYOR is, no doubt, photo
graphed. But why should the picture be
hung with it's face to the wall in the new
Court House building? Why will not the
Comptroller turn it round and let the peo-
pie see if they admire the countenance?
Year: 1878

The INTERESTING EVENT, in an aquatic point
of view, in this section this week will be the
regatta of the National Rowing Association on
the Passaic, near Newark. All parts Of the
country and Canada are represented. The ell
tering clubs have nearly all arrived and the
rowing promises to be the best that has been
seen in these waters for wears.
Year: 1878

THERE HAS BEEN SOME CURIOSITY of late
years to know why petroleum, which in the
crude state costs but little more than water,
should double its price so many times before
reaching the consumer. Our article on 1.-The
Oil Monopoly" seems to throw some light Oh
this subject