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Year: 1878




.,ad signed it when wearied by impor-
tunities of her husband. The same night
she retracted the retIaction at the request OF
her husband, and declared that she had signed
1t when wearied by the opportunities OF Mr'
! Beecher. She made long written statement
| in 1874; she has made score OF lesser
statements during these years OF shame ana
agony; and they have only left one thing
! clear-that her word is of no value. Even
now, when she signs the acknowledgment OF
her own crime, there will be people to say
that she cannot be trusted, and they will ASK
with some show of reason, what assurance we
can feel that she will not take it all back
next week, and explain that she has once
more been wearied by the opportunities of
her husband "


Thus there is a probability that the letter
published this morning instead OF making an
end of the scandal, will revive it. more fierce
and filthy than ever. To be sure, the persons
most interested do not speak at much length.
Mrs. TitmI's card is one of the shortest dOcu
mcnts in all the literature of the scandal, and
Mr.. Beecher, to whom TIE TRIBUNE tele
gIaphed ii in full, returned the brief but en-
phatIc denial printed in another column. But the



again with cloud of lies, suspicious, prurient
discussion, malicious gossip; the chickering's of
churches are to be exposed to the scon
OF the ungodly; the sincerity of religious
professions is to be questioned; the privacy of
families is to be unveiled; households are 10
be turned out of doors in undreSs; society
ia to regalc itself with the amOuis of
ministers and pcripGtetic moralists; and
mixed companies OF ladies and gentlemen are
to discuss topics which were once reserved for
circles into which ladies and gentlemen are
not III tie habit of penetrating. NO respccta-
bic person, most of all no father OF young
family, can contemplate the impending ava
lanche OF indeccncy without alarm. Ii IL too
much to hope that those whose regulations,
whose lives, perhaps, are stakcd upon the
issue of this battle, will sacrifice them
selves for the good of the community;
hut if the various actors in the tragedy
would make amends for the harm they
have already done, some by their guilt
others by their folly, let them remember
that the only thing an afflicted community
asks of them row is to speak quickly and
briefly and bcgone.


The letter Of Mrs. Tilton is, like all the lit
erature Of the scandal, somewhat OveTStraincd
in language and spasmOdic III general tone;
but in one particular, at least, it bears the
appearance OF sincerity. Whatever we may
think of this amazing woman, whichever OF her
many contradictory statements we may take to
be lies, there can be no doubt that she has lived
seven or eight years of cruel anguish. 1t Is
impossible to think of her past withOu! mercy,
of her future without compassion. No matter
who may have been the chief sinner, she has
been the chief victim, and there is no posi-
bic solution of the case which can restore her
peace, happiness and good name. The only
boon she can pray for is the pardon of God
and the forgctfulness Of man. And the best
blessing which the rest of the world can i'm
plore is that il may forget.
Year: 1878

Yesterdays vote in the Senate on the bill
repeating the-BanlTupt Law was so nearly
unanimous In favor of the bill as to put the
repeal apparently beyond all doubt The
effort which is to be made to pass the bill
promptly through the House is likely to have
the same result, and the present session will,
In all probability, see the obnoxious law
stricken from the statute book. Our Wash
in9ton dispatches give an interesting review
Year: 1878

The Postmaster here is unwilling that we
should verify these figures from his records,
as to the other papers, without their consent;
but as the figures all reached lis from the
same source, and as those relating to our own
business are correct we have no doubt that
the rest are also. We shall gladly unite,
however, with any two of the other eight
page papers in formal request to Postmaster
tames for transcript in detail from his books.


In estimating the significance of these fig
ures, it must be remembered that they repre-
sent the weight of seven daily issues OF the
other papers, against only six of THE TRIB-
UNE (since we have no Sunday paper); that
the weight of The Herald seems unduly great
on account of its frequent triple, quadruple
and quintuple sheets, and that the weight OF
The Times is also swollen by the heavy wood
paper which its Walter presses require.
Year: 1878

The parliamentary skirmish which took
place IN the House, yesterday, over the intro
ductiOn of the resolutions of the Maryland
Legislature, was without particular slgniii-
canoe or visible result. The Democrats stood
solidly together on the right of a State to pre-
sent any respectful petition to Congress, and
would undoubtedly have voted that it be re-
ceved if a vote had been reached But it is
plainly understood that this position was taken
simply because of the traditional jealousy with
which Democrats seek to guard the rights of
States, and had nothing to do with the views
of the Democratic members as to the expedi-
ency of reviving the electoral controversy. On
that point majority of the Democrats still
agree with their Republican colleagues.
Year: 1878

Polk was as bad as Fitzhugh, and Field
turns ont to be worse than Polk. The first
act of the new DOorkeepcr is to lift up into
the place of first assistant one of the able
bodied c1ipples whom Polk hid away in the
roll of disabled soldiers" This was the hero
who wasn't wounded "exactly," but in fact
sprained his ankle 1t is an instructive exhi-
bition. We see what a mess the Democratic
party makes of it in keeping a door which
has nothing more valuable behind it than a
Democratic House of Representatives. If it
were asked to keep the door of the National
Treasury we should see men appointed VINO
were able bodied indeed!
Year: 1878

Mr.. Sargent has subjected the clap-trap reso-
luton of the House, putting General Shields
on the retired list. to the test of common sense
by adding to the name of General Shields
those of at least twO-score more distinguished
officers, beginning with General Grant himself.
Certainly if General Shields is entitled to a
comfortable income for his services in the war
and we do not say that he is nOt-these men
are also entitled to 1t and if it is to be re-
fused to them, 1t surely cannot be granted to
hlm. The Government cannot afford to make
an exception IN his case simply to get the
Democratic House out of a scrape. at the
same time, Senator Sargent protests that his
amendment is offered in earnest, and if the
bill is not too heavily loaded with additional
names, General Shields may get his handsome
pension in the only way in which he should
get it, if at all.
Year: 1878

Last Thursday afternoon the Ladies Sewing Society met at Mrs. Pratt's

 Nicholas Parent, of South Cornwall, has lost his horse. He turned it into the road about two weeks ago, and last week found he couldn't find it.

 For several years past the Housatonic Railroad Go. have been extracting an ice tax from the farmers who send milk along it's line. Some of the very sensible farmers of this place have ar last repeiieo, ana petlttOn is now in circulation remonstrating against it.. The claim of the farmers is certainly a just one. The Railroad Company, taking upon themselves the responsibility if delivering milk in New York (for which they receive a very high compensation also take upon themselves the responsibility of delivering it there in good order and to do that ice is necessary While all other roads are putting ice in their milk cars for the purpose of transporting their freight in good order, without extra charge the Heusatonc Railroad is charging the milk producer cent per can in addition to it's al- ready high freights.

 Last Friday, some boys, while trying to learn to smoke near the barn of E. F. Sceville, set fire to it. The fire happened to be seen in time, and was checked without damage.
Year: 1878

to as our brother reporter. He was not in- tending to fish long, and that near home. whereas we were going ten miles to find our fish, and intended to stay all night.

 LITTLE GHONNIE,
Year: 1878

Mir. Garry Smith was bitten slightly by an unmuzzled dog belonging to R. B. Lines. The dog was promptly killed. A petition is being circulated to have the muzzles removed from all dogs on June 1st. The name of almost every man who is the owner of dog is found upon the list.

 A new fenceis being built around the fair grounds of the Agricultural Society and per sons who have been in the habit of scaling the fence at our fairs for years past will meet with an obstruction, this fall, not easily overcome.

 The Congregationalists are improving the looks of their building by a new coat of paint. As usual out of town talent is re- quired.

 The late extensive frosts have damaged many fine pieces of potatoes in this vicinity, acres being cut close to the ground.

 Augustus Hamilton has sold his fine farm situated in the southern part of the town to a gentleman from Hartford. This is one of the farms that took one of the first premiums of fered at our fair

 MT. R. B. Lewis has disposed of some of his fine stock of poultry to MT. Sherman Hart well of Washington. PRosPERo.
Year: 1878

Few men die of age. Almost all die of
disappointment, passion, mental or bodily
toll, or accident. The passions kill men
sometimes, even suddenly. The common
expression, choked with passion, has little
exaggeration in it; for even though not sud
denly fatal, strong passions shorten life.
Strong-bodied men often die young-weak
men live longer than the strong for the
strong use their strength and the weak have
none to use. The latter take care of them
selves, the former do not As it is with the
body, so it is with mind and temper. The
strong are apt to break or, like the candle,
to run the weak to burn out. The inferior
animals which live, in general, regular and
temperate lives, have generally their pre-
scribed term of years. The horse lives
twenty-five years; the OK fifteen or twenty ;
the lion about twenty the dog ten or twelve {;
the rabbit eight; the guinea-pig six or seven
years. These numbers all bear a similar pro-
portion to the time the animal takes to grow
to its full size. But man, of the animals is
one that seldom comes up to this average.
lie ought TO live hundred years, according
to this physiological law, for five times
twenty are one hundred but instead of that,
he scarcely reaches, on the average, four times
his growing period; the cat six times and
the rabbit even eight times the standard of
measurement The reason is obvious-man
is not only most irregular and the most in
temperate, but the most laborious and hard
worked of all animals He is also the most
irritable of all animals and there is reason
to believe, though we can not tell what an
animal secretly feels, that more than any
other animal man chershes wrath TO keep
it warm and consumes himself with the fire
of his own secret reflections.
Year: 1878

To one who makes study of children,
the different ways in which they find con-
tent are very interesting. One child will
find in a single toy amusement for a long
time, while another demands a constant sue
cession of playthings aud then is restless aud


unsatisfed We have been told many times


that child's mind is like piece of blank


white paper, but any observing mother can


readily trace in her child the prevailing tone
and character of her own moral, intellectual
and physical condition previous to its birth
and this wellkuown fact can but furnish
food for careful reflection to every prospec-
tive mother. The love which every child
brings with il is in itself the strongest indi-
cation of the needs of the child. Love is like
sunshine; without it there can be no harmo-
nious growth or development. As well ex
pect fruit tree to bear delicious fruit in a
cellar, as expect a child to grow up into
symmetrical manhood or womanhood with
out love. As invariably we appropriate the
sunnest nook i'll the garden to the nursery,
the sunniest room in the house to the nurs-
ery so must the warmest and sunniest
apartments of the heart be given to the lit.
tie ones. Nurtured in an atmosphere of
love, their various powers expand Ill uncon
scous but harmonious beauty "Love hath
its seat in reason and is judicous.' We
prune our trees, we cut back our vines aud
our roses, we pinch off the excess of buds on
our floral pets, having in view ali the time
the highest development of the plant; to let
it have its own luxuriant way would often
be to cultivate its ruin. And in the same
way we watch our children, checking pro-
pensity here that may lead to vice, killing
in the bud a trait that may develop bitter
fruit by-and-by; cutting off branches that
mar the symmetry of the whole, aud watch
ing continually to keep the thing straight,
till it is firmly rooted in the soil, and can
bear the east winds without bending. And
yet it is folly to shut children away from
the knowledge that sin and death, with all
their train of woes, are in the world. This
knowledge can be kept from them but a lit
tie while at longest. As it comes to them
in the natural course of things, such anti
dotes can be given with it as shall prevent
any untoward effect. pure child, like
ray of sunshine, can go anywhere without
contracting taint. Though choice OF asso-
Citations is essential to wholesome develop
ment, yet normal and healthful child may
come in contact with great deal Of rough
ness and vice without being injured by it,
This can only be, however, when the child
carries with it continually the atmosphere
of pure, elevated, Christian home The
intuitions of child thus nurtured will
make it shrink from the taint of vice and
keep it pure.-New York Tribune.
Year: 1878

| wonder whether the little girls of these
days would like to live as little girls did a
hundred years ago. The daughters of Sir
William Johnston, rich and wise man, who
lived on the banks of the Mohawk river, in
very elegant style, were brought up in a
very simple way All the year round they
wore the same kind of dress, chintz wrap
per opening in front TO show green silk
petticoat In winter they wore over this a
scarlet cloth MANTLE which went quite down
TO their feet. They wore, summer and win
ter, large hat called calash, 10 shield
them from the sun and wind. Their long
hair was done into a single braid, and tied
behind by ribbon. Every morning they
rose early, read their Bibles and their PRAYER
books, and tended their flowers, and took
breakfast. After this they sat for several
hours, engaged in fine sewing and embroi-
derry. When this was laid aside they were
allowed 10 read either Rollins Ancient His
tOrH or one OF the sentimental romances of
the period. Dinner divided the day After
dinner they took long walk, if it were
summertime, or if winter, went for ride
in the sledge, aud then after more sewing
and reading, went very early TO bed. Mrs


Grant, IA friend OF the Sohuylers, in her recol


lections of her childhood and youth, tells us
Year: 1878

There is something at once sad and joy
full about March. Only nonIinally has win.
ter departed. Spring comes slowly, almost
to our northern latitudes.
To-day blue-bird pirouetted on the boughs,
and sang his little carol of delight. To-
morrow there may be snow, sitting into
every cranay and crevice, the raw, chill
wind cutting you as with la,hes of whip,
and the cold keen AS it was in December.
Still, the clouds have begun TO look lighter,
and there is an airy grace about their shape,
and charm in their whiteness, which
speaks TO our hearts of bithe days coming
apace. The pathetic part of March is the
fact that it so dreaded in homes where there
are invalids Often they who have gone
through the winter with comparative ease
and comfort succumb to the clamorous
blast of this month, and many a household
has reason TO fear lest it have mission of
sorrow TO their circle.-Chrisiidn at Work.
Year: 1878

Sweet April when you try with your sunshine your sky
Your wind breathing low and your birds that sing together
Your misty blue that nlls the hoows Of the hills.
You can mnkca day Of most enchanting weather.
But on this lovely morning YOU have for your adornlng
The presence Of my only love, my darling, my dear
So have need to try with your sunshine and your sky
To make this day the day Of all the year.
Yet. April, do best, with soft wind from the vest
with sunlight the sprnglng grass and tender blue
above


Let your singing birds sing loudly and your flowers look up
proudly


SO may You serve the lady Of my lovel
o month Of chaneefn mlcnyour days may be serene
Oryour sobbng east wind may he bringing rainy weather
Each sa welcome day, for It takes me nearer May,
When my onlylovc and shall be togetheri


--Scribner Tor ApriL
Year: 1878

TINS little lfe-boat of an Earth, with its
noisy crew OF Mankind, and all their
troubled History, will one day have van
shed faded like a cloud-speck from the
azure of the All What then is mani What
then is man lie endures but for an hour,
and is crushed before the moth, Yet in the
being and in the working of faithful man
is there already Gas all faith, from the be-
ginning, gives assurance) a something that
pertains not to this wild death-element OF
Time; that triumphs over Time, and is, aud
will be, when Time shall be no more
Thomas Carlyle.
Year: 1878

The Republican party Of the State of Ten
nessee, in convention assembled, while reaf-
frming its devotion to the great principles
of the Republican party heretofore repeat
edly declaI ed, yet with direct application TO
the present question at issue in our State af-
fairs, do further declare:


/. That we are opposed TO repudiAtion Of
any kind or by any means; that we favor
the payment Of all just liabilities of the State
according to the terms of her obligations;
except 30 far as the creditors may volunta-
rily concede more favor able terms; and that
the last Democratic Legislature, IN falling to
honestly adjust the bonded debt of the State,
showed themselves unworthy the Office Of
Legislators and unfit Representatives of an
honest people willing to do right and anx-
ious to avoid the crime of repudiation.


We arraign the Democratic party Of the
State of Tennessee for its inconsistency and
recreAncy to public trust in failing to meet
the great question of the State liabilities
with frankness and honesty in its deelArs-
ton OF principles so called) as set forth at
its late convention.


8. Resolved, TT at we are ia favor Of the
strictest economy and most scrutinizing care
in the conduct Of our State affairs, and that
the present system Of allowing public ofiicerr
to retain the fees Of such offices over and
above q reasonable compensation for their
services is oppressive and unjust, and we
pledge ourselves to the enactment Of . law
winch viii It4uTc tuo Rhymout VI bHo tA-
cess of such fees over and abo' Q such reason
able compensation into the public treasury


4. That we arc IN favor OF a liberal system
of public schools TO be supported by general
State taxation adequate 10 the educstion of
all the children of the State believing that il
is an absolute necessity to the perpet0ity Of
republican institutions. Intelligence and good
government under a truly DEM cratic form
Of government 90 hand in hand, therefore
perfecting and perpetuating the common
school system Of the State upon . broad aDd
liberal basis, 10 the end that "a government
Of the people by the people and for the peo-
pie, shall not perish from the earth"


4. We are opposed TO the system Of leasing
con vict labor 70 be brought into competition
with mechanics and other laboriDg men Of
the State, . system inaugurated and persist
emily maintained by the Democratic party
tsnding TO degrade labor and deprive the
toiling masses Of their just opportunity for
merited reward.


6. That We are in favor Of encouraging
immigration TO our State, and point incom-
ing population to our salnbrious climate,
manifold resources and abundant haryests.


7. We demand such further legislAtion as
Is necessary 70 insure free and fair elections,
and the fair return Of the votes cast.


s. That we favor such smocbaLics' lien
law as win protect honest mechanics In
their just compensation for material fur
nished OF labor performed.


We cordially invite all citizens, without
regard to previous party afflliations, 20 unite
with us upon the declaration Of principles
herein contained.
Year: 1878

There's ajolly Saxon proverb,


That is pretty much like this,
That man is half in Heaven


w hen he has Woman's kiss.
But there's danger in delaying,


AID the sweetness may forsake it;
So tell you, bashful lover,


lfyou want kiss, why takeit.
Never let another fellow


Steal march on you in this;
Never let laughing maiden


See You spoiling for kiss.
There's royal way of kissing,


And the jolly ones who make it,
Have a motto that is winning;


lfyou want kiss, why take it.
Any fool may face cannon


Any body wear q crown
But man must win woman,


If he'd have her for his own
Would You have the golden apple,


You must find the tree and shake it;
If the thing is worth the having,
And you want kiss, why take it.
Who would burn upon desert,


With forest smiling byl,
Who would give his sunny summer
For a bleak and wintry sky?
y, teDyo there is magic,


And you cannot, cannot break it;
For the sweetest part of loving $50.
Is to want kiss and-tSke is.
Year: 1878

One of the leading heroines OF
the pestilence in Memphis, and one
who has spent her means and
bravely exposed her life as a nurse,
is Annie Cook, the keeper of a
bawdy house. She gave her money
and sold her jewelry to raise more
for the sufferers and turned her
house into a hospital, she presiding
as chief nurse. God will look with


a me-ciful eye on this outcast, as
He did on the unhappy woman


whom the Jews would have stoned.