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Year: 1878

--, Lsmoille Co, Aug. %, '73.
To the Editor of the Free Press and Times.


Should square-dealins, honorable men go
back on their pledged word aud actions in
politics. any more than in any other business
transactions? ? Certainly not Almost any
one can see that the bolt is bid by Barlow
for Democratic votes. 1t was reported in
this (the Lamoille) valley that Barlow said
he was going to Congress if it cost him one
hundred and fftv thousand dollars. Do the
sober. thinE ing, voting Republicans of this
District want TO be cheated out of their
choice of a Representative by money? If
you want to know how the men in circuits
own county regard the matter, look at his
unanimous endorsement By the Orleans
County Republican Convention at lrasburg.


Two carloads of the train that ran TO the
St. Albans Barlow convention were of men.
Democrats and others, from outside of the
Third District. One station out of the Dis
trict furnished twelve men. OIe-halt Of whom
were Democrats. Reports from all parts of
the District show that the whole move is
confined to Barlow and his wire-pullers who
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The Morrisvile Citi>en says the nomination
OF Gen. Grout was one not fit to have been
made But the editor OF the Citizen re-
peatedly said, just before the Convention,
that if 1t was not for their private trouble he
should like to help Gen. Grout and after
the nomination was made on the Sth ballot,
he said ne could not say he was sorry.


Now he says Barlow was defeated at
Hydepsrk by base means. Does he mean BY
that to say that the statement of Mr.. Car
penter Was false Or that Of the Salem dele
gate? He knows these men too well to call
them liars. He was in the Convention all
the time, and what did he see there that
was base Why did not Mr.. Barlow and
his friends. who knew then as well a. now
all that was done there, bolt upon the
spot 1t was because they knew they had
been fairly and squarely beaten.


Now, by the help Of the Barlow Demo
Gratis. Greenbackers and few dissatE fed
Republicans, they hope to defeat the election
Of our regular nominee.


Republicans stand by your eolors do
not let yourselves be carried away by this
wholesale flooding of every postofiee in the
District with daily Messengers and Sunday
Rerieus W hich give the true standing of Bar
low financially. as entirely antagonistic to the
principles Of the Republican party. Go 10
the polls on September Sd and cast yJur
vote for the regular nominee, who always
has been true and sound, personally, po-
litically and financially. Do not let any of
these new theories mislead you. Men of
the Third District, think this over candidly.
See that every Republican voter Is out and
see to it that he votes Tor Gen. Grout. For
no man denies him to be true Republican.


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Year: 1878

HOW WOMEN HAVE THEIR RIGHTS IN PARIS
Paris Correspondence Of the Baltimore American


In examining the French department "a
great many OF the depositors appear before
the jury accompanied by their wives, who
take an active part in describing the mode
of manufacture of the goods, and expatiate
most volubly or their superiority and the
uses for which they are intended. In many
cases it is evident that the wife Is the master
mind of tine establishne and knows more
about the business than the husband. 1t il
a well known fact that there are few really
prosperous business men In Paris who do
not owe a great deal of thels success to their
wives Indeed, there are very few establish
ments in Paris wholesale or retail, in which
women do not occupy most of the i'm
portant positions OF trust and responsibility.
In many of the largest and most successful
establishments the wife is the principal
business manager. American merchants
who come here annually to buy goods state
that they transact most of their business
with the wives of the merchants who are
generally on duty in the wholesale houses
during business hours. When purchasing
goods nearly al important questions are
answered by the female clerks OF saleswO-
men, the male clerks being mostly engaged
in the handling of goods, leaving all the





the wife is called upon to make agreements or
answer questions when the husband is pre-
sent, indicating that she was the brains of
the establishment Jennie June would be
delighted with this feature of Partisan life
though she would like to see the signs
changed and madam name substituted for
that of the husband. However, there are
many widows who continue to conduct the
business of their late husbands, and some of
them in their own name. There can be no doubt
that the average French woman Is superior
to the average FTenchman IN business tact
and enterprise as she is also superior to him
IN physical development and address.
When passing the small stores at night tho
wife IS seen at the desk, pen IN hand, keep
ing books, and thousands of the smaller
stores IN Paris are kept by women. They
undoubtedly have great business capacity,
energy and enterprise, and take more than
their full share IN supplying the means for
the maintenance Of the household A
Frenchman remarked in our hearing the
other day that he believed there are as MANY
women in Paris who support their husbands
as there are husbands who support tbeis
wives The prudent wife generally manager
to live free OF rent by renting a fiat of rooms
and sub-letting enough Of them to pay the
rent for the whole. The American ladies
who visit Paris and spend so much money
that they had no part in earning generally
return better satisfied with their lot in life,
and convinced that their destiny has been
more fortunate than that of most of the
sisterhood in the old world. However, a
business woman is seldom an unhappy
woman, as the business man who makes
money is more happy and contented than
the man who does nothing but squander
money that he did not make
Year: 1878

ing down on the off or left side l
saw a strange sight; head, shoulders
and web feet Of a monstrous ami
NAL, under my horses feet. Think
ing my time had come, and not
having time to think of any sins,
| spurred my horse to jump from
there, which he very readily did.
On looking back, the water being
clear, l saw the monster in the
place where / left it. Taking
courage, | returned toward it, with
in about four feet. / fired my
single -barreled pistol at his head
and returned in haste, but not too
far to watch his movements.
Shortly after my shot this animal
rose, turned over, and Aoated on
top. The current being very still,
lit almost remained in the same
place, and then it turned over and
went down again. Seeing it was
not on the fight, / repeated the
dose twice, with the same result,
but the third time it came up it
kicked up fearful racket, beating
the water with its tail and splash
ing it over me. Not having more
ammunition withdrew.





Some Indians were camped with
in hailing distance. When they
saw me charging back and forth in
the river and shooting at some
thing, they came running towards
me. The animal was turning to-
ward me. The first shot l fired was
a line shot, but came short about
eighteen inches. l loaded up as
soon as possible. BY this time the
beast had again turned toward me,
and came at a fearful rate. Taking
a dead aim, | fired. At the crack
Of the gun the animal made a terri
bic plunge and then turned over,
its head turning down stream and
floating toward deep water. Not
having any more ammunition, |
filled my pockets with rocks, mount
ed my horse and followed the ami
NAL as close as prudence would per
nit. / fired rocks at it, but it never


moved. The Indians would not &C


near the water, but promised tha


if it was dead they would skin the


animal for me and save the hide.
Year: 1878

The ingratitude of republics is proverbial.
But this nation is certainly not now open to
that reproach. 1t has bestowed substantial
benefits upon those who perlled their lives in
its defense and came back to claim their re-
ward. The memory of those who did not
return is kept green in every hamlet of the
loyal States by ceremonies like those we OBJ
serve to-day. We have set apart time for


the special teaching and example of


the virtue of patriotism, for that is the


esson Of Memorial Day. On this occa-
lion we express anew by peculiarly beau
tiful aud appropriate ceremonies, our de.
votion to the Union and regard for its de-
tenders, and ''show the sad honors of our
hearts" to the heroic men who sacrificed
themselves that we and our posterity might
enjoy the blessings of free and stable govern
ment. These recurring ceremonies in which
mingled wreaths of laurel and cypress
betokeEing triumph and sorrow-triumph
over restored and victorious union,
sorrow for the brave and steadfast who
gave up their lives for that triumph
are heaped upon the graves OF our soldiers
are more even than tributes OF respect for
the dead; they are incentives TO the living as
well to hold themselves in readiness for the
call of duty and to go forth as bravely
and cheerfully in the hour of peril
to the defense of the nation and
the principles upon which it is founded.
"Greater love hath no man than this, that
man lay down his life for his friends" This
greatest proof of affection has been given by
those whose memory we honor to-day.
Year: 1878

POSTMASTER GENERAL Key mas address,
ed letter to the people of the South in re-
gard to the Potter resolution. He says the
circumstances attending its passage afford
sufficient evidence that its purpose ia to oust
President Hayes and inaugurate Mr.. Tiden.
He calls the attention of his Southern friends
to the encouragement which Northern
Democrats extended to the Southern States
in 1860 and 1861 to secede, and the manner
in which their promises of aid and comfort
were fulfilled, and asks if the South can af
ford to to join this new revolutionary move
ment, with the certainty that when the hour
of peril comes they will again be left unas-
sisted and alone to meet the storm from the
North once more united by this attempt 10
revive an issue whose settlement was forced
by public opinion upon an unwilling Con-
gress. He tells the Southern people it is
their duty to afford crownng evidence of
their renewed devotion to the Union, in
which they now enjoy every right of citizen
ship, and are subject to no restrictions not
laid upon every citizen, by sending Represen-
tatives to the forty y-sixth Congress pledged to
resist, at all hazards, revolutionary schemes
of mischief.makers, who seem to have gained
control of the House of Representatives of
the forty-fitth Congress. To this end the
people in every district should meet and pub
licly organize, and resolve to support no per-
son for Congress who has given aid to this
movement, and who will not pledge himself
to sustain the title Of President Hayes during
the term for which he was elected against all
attempts at its overthrow.
Year: 1878

THE reports which come from Chicago of
the enormous shipne of wheat must be
be very depressing to the Greenbackers, after
they had succeeded in demonstrating to their
own satisfaction that unless their theories
were adopted general ruin was inevitable.
Year: 1878

The Potter committee finds itself balked
at the very start. Its witness Anderson,
who, by the way, has been drinking like a
Democratic Congressman since he came to
Washington, has told SO many contradictory
stories and so shamelessly lied about his
acquaintance with Secretary Sherman that
his testimony will be utterly unworthy of
belief-and he is about the only witness the
Democrats have against Sherman.
Year: 1878

we 90 not read anonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

They surrendered their lives that we and
ours might be free anu happy.


But even so soon we are tempted to put
these men and the cause for which they
fought out of mind. Their memory seems r.,
be already growing dim. If we forget the m
and the sacrifice they made we shall desc rye
the curse the Psalmist called down upon him-
self if he forgot the holy city of his faith.
Our strength should wither and our pros
perity decay.
Year: 1878

CONSIDERING the fuss England has been
making lest the Sultan should become the
vassal of the Gar 1t ia rather cool in the Lon
don Times to propose that Eogland assume
protectorate over the Sultan's Asiatic possess
sions
Year: 1878

Now that the Democrats have succeeded
in cutting down the army on the plea that it
was larger than was needed, they should
take care that Blue Jeans Williams does not
get frightened again and call for troops.
Year: 1878

not be at hand to prevent, and even when
any got out in the lay, the officers appoin-
ted did not care to meddlc with them, be-
cause as they were all grievously infected,
to be sure, when they came to that height,
SO they were more than ordinarily infcctu.
Gus, and it was one of the most dangerous
things that could be to touch them. On
the other hand, they generally ran on, not
knowing what they did, till they dropped
down stark dead or till the eu had axha,.a.Aa
then die in perhaps half an hour or an hour;
and, which was most piteous to hear, they
were sure to come to themselves entirely in
that half hour, and then to make most
grieyious and piercing cries and lamenta-
tions io the deep affecting sense of the con-
dition they were in. Il After
while the fury of the infection appeared to
be so increased that, in short, they shut up
no houses at all it scecmed enough that
all tho remedies of that kind had been used
till they were found fruitlcss, and that the
plague spread itself with an irresistible fury,
so that it came at last with such violence
that the people sat still, looking at each
other, and seemed quite abandoned to dcs-
pair. Whole streets seemed to be desolated,
and not to be shut up only, but to be emp
tied Of their inhabitants. Doors were left
open, windows stood shatterins in the
wind in empty houses, for want of people
to shut them. In word, people began to
give up themselves to their fears, and to
think that all regulations and methods we're
in vain, and that there was nothing to be
hoped for but an universal desolation."
Year: 1878

In A FIx-One of the parties before the
Police Court yesterday for violating the
State law by laboring at his calling on Sum
day was barber. A policeman caught him
in the act OF shaving customer. The bar
ber, ignorantly thinking that he would be
arrested, left the customer half-shayed and
full of lather and ran off.
Year: 1878

en- men IN buggy drove down Main street
at fearful rate, came near running over
persons on the street, and no police could
be found. They were attending to their
duty watching bar-rooms. So now sug-
gest the bar-keepers be employed next Sum
day to attend to street duty while oir police
are watching for them.


A VOTER OF JEFFERSON WARD.
Year: 1878

& Vicious Dog KilIed.-Y Yesterday little
child OF Mr.. Al. Boiler, living on Hull street
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets,


was badly bitten about the face and body
by vicious dog belonging to Thomas How
Soon afterwards, by order OF
Mayor Clarke, the dog was killed by the
nolicp
Year: 1878

Match Game.-The Old dominion Can
dle-Snufers and the Alert Greenhorns are
making arrangements for match game of
glass-ball shooting, to take place near the
city at an early date, for handsome souue-
Year: 1878

Base Ball 1o-Dag-A match game OF
baseball will be played to-day between the
champion Red Stockings and the Green
horns on the grounds Of the former. The
game will be called ut O'Clock sharp.
Year: 1878

LEVY BROTHERS
continue to take Off ten cents on every dollars
worth Of goods you puI chase of them.
They show large stock of LINEN DRESSES for
ladies. which they selling al about half price,
and take an extra ten cents off every dollar.
They also offer their whole stock Of LADIES'
DIR ESS GOODS at and below cost and take ten cents
Off on every dollars worth you purchase.
You can Hnd a full assortment of every thing in
the way of


DRY GOODS,


FANCY GOODS.


NOTIONS and TRIMMINGS,


LEVY BROTHERS,
and they take ten cents of every dollars worth
You purchase.
Year: 1878

SENATOR BEN HILLS late speech indi-
Gates the sort. of political liberation they
have in Georgia. A man dare not have
soul and conscience Of his own. He must
swallow the whole Democratic hog or be an
ontcnsk
Year: 1878

IN the session yesterday, at Boston, of
the Good Templars' Grand Lodge of the
World, the report of the committee on the
the sacranental wine question was adop-
ted after long discussion. The report
recommends that the members OF their
order express their deliberate conviction
that the use of termented wine at the
sacrament of the Lords Supper is no.
where sanctioned in the Scriptures, and
counsel members of the several churches
to which they belong to induce those
having charge of the matter to provide
unfermented wine for sacramental use.
Year: 1878

RIGHTS or HUSBAND AND WFE.-In
case before the Circuit Court of Talbot
county, Md, last week, the court decid-
ed that an lnSolvent husband having a
policy OF insurance on his life might as
sign the same to his wife, and If she should
survive him she should be entitled to the
sum insured, free, clear and DISCHARGED
of her husbands creditors though he had
continued insolvent and paid the prem
llIns up to the time of his death. An
appeal has been taken from the decision,
Year: 1878

PENNsYLvANIA is the richest beggar
of all the protective harpies. The boasts
of her iron, her coal, her oil and agricul-
tural products, and yet she is begging
people of other States to suffer themsel.
YES to be taxed to enable her to get the
wealth of treasures with which she is so
remarkably favored in fit state to COM
pete for sale in the open market of the
world and denies her own ability to cope
with other people on a common basis OF
trade.
Year: 1878

GENERAL Crooks official report on
Indian affairs is being mailed to the
press. The substance of it is that
we starve the Indians that are friend
ly to US, and literally feed the Sioux,
that hate us. With the Indians gen
orally, according to General Crook,
it is "warpath or starvation" Lo
the poor peace policy.
Year: 1878

GENERAL BUTLER said to a reporter
in New York last evening that his trip to
Indiana convinced him that the Green
back party will without doubt hold the
balance of power in that State. lie said
he was OH his way to Massachusetts and
that he should speak there every night
and some of the time in the afternoon
until election day. He believed that the
Ereenback question was the chief issue
i'll the country and the labor issue chief
in cities. Farmers are intelligently study
ing currency questions. They were con
tinually asking for his views and he had
sent them 10000 copies Of his speech.
Year: 1878

ton Of the orange groves are doing
we'll, and show no signs Of the in
sect, and have yielded well and
given satisfactory prices-S12 per
thousand, the seller TO pick them
and the buyer to find his own
packages and pack them.


The climate, at this season of
the year at least, is as lovely as
the "Vale Of Cashmere" I have
been here two weeks, and at no
time has the thermometer been
below GOO nor above 72o. Were
this place not 80 difficult to reach
from tho outside world, it would
be q charming place for a winter
resort.


A RAILROAD,


to connect New Orleans with Hous-
ton via this place, is a necessity.


The country through which tho
railroad is graded is very thinly
settled, but the land is good, can
be easily drained into the nuner-
Gus streams and lakes. Stock
does we'll without other protection
or feed other than nature has pro-
vided. 1t is healthy, within the
Influence OF the Guls breezes.


1t only needs more rapid com.
munication with the commercial
world to attract attention, and
with the yankee vim" that settled
up the West, this would soon be
the garden spot OF America. Were
Louisiana and her chief interested
city to hold out the same induce
ments that Illinois and her chief
city did to her early settlers, a diff
ferent result would soon be mani
fest. w. e. THOMAS.
Year: 1878

AT the hearing before the House committee
on Post-ofices Tuesday the Washington cor
respondent of the Boston Herald made a
strong argument against the new postal bill,
stating to the committee that the business of
delivering the leading daily newspapers to the
public mainly belongs to the field of private
enterprise and cannot be assumed by the Gov
ernment; that newspaper publishers demand
to be left free to use any method of circulat-
ing their papers which they may choose to en-
ploy; that for this purpose they now avail
themselves of many passenger trains on
which no mail or express packages are carried,
of express freight trains and great variety
of private conveyances; that they often en-
ploy special trains or locomotives at unusual
expense in order to supply the demand for
their newspapers; that if the Government
were to undertake to do this work, or any
considerable part Of it, it would only increase
the annual deficit in its revenues, since the
business could not possibly be remunerative;
that the undertaking would involve serious
and disastrous delays, which would in many
cases amount to an interruption of the circu-
lation OF the newspapers and great loss to
their proprietors; that the proper title of such
measure would be bill to repress and dis
courage all enterprise in the publication of
newspapers, and that the alternative propo-
sition Of some members of the committee to
collect postage on the whole mailable editions
of newspapers, no matter how delivered,
would be to make their proprieters or patrons
pay twice the cost of delivery. Several men,.
bers of the committee are fully convinced of
the impossibity of the proposed system. Mr..
Money offered motion to strike out these
sections from the postal rate bill and make
them separate measure. Some ofthe mem
bers of the committee desired further state.
ments to be made by the newspaper publish
ers, and Tuesday next was appointed day
for hearing them.
Year: 1878

SOME of the Pacific coast men are anxious
that the coinage of the trade dollar shall be
continued. They argue that the coinage has
appreciated the silver bullion product of the
United States 2 per cent that the trade dollar
is now at premium; and that it is the only
coin of modern mintage which circulates in
any other manner than by weight on the
coast of China.
Year: 1878

THE man at the mint who gets up the new
silver dollars says that the eagle is of heroic
design, and the head is poised as if in anger.
The soaring attitude of the bird indicates the
aspiration of the people. 1t is well to be
told these things; no one certainly would have
guessed them.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The name and address Of the writer are In
alcases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

The young men Of to-day keep pace with the times
The sHORT JACKET and GEAT8ER
PANTS of by-gone days are things of the past
A peculiar and cultivated taste must be the only re-
quirement which will enable merchant to select
styles and fabrics that will be sure to please the
mass of our young Americans. We claim to have it,
and our Youths Department will speak for u. No
pains have been spared to make this Department a
leading feature of our mammoth wardrobe.


A cordial invitation is now extended to young
gentlemen to call and examine our goods.
Year: 1878

A great deal Of scandal has lately been
caused in this moral city by the discovery Of
the faoe that dentist, who has stood very
nigh IN society and Is q pillar of the church,
leaves his family every day and goes down
town 20 take hand In little game of draw.
This may sound tooth In, but 1t isn't,