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Year: 1874

THE situation of the man without
money or work in Philadelphia grows
daily more interesting. Forty more of
this kidney actually went to magis-
trate last week and begged to be COM
mitted to the house of correction, just
to have something to eat and be shell
tered. They frankly acknowledged that
they had tramped all over the state
looking for work, and could find none.
There is room in Texas for two hum
dred thousand of them if they are not
tlcklish or squirmish about catching
hold of the handles of plow.
Year: 1874

left, voting with it till the dissolu.
ton of the assembly. Since the
coup d'ctat he has retired from pub.
lie life altogether. Less ambitious
of distinction even than his brother,
he is regarded rs a safe man, in
heriting with him in u marked
degree the moderation and good
sense which distinguished the elder
Lafayette, and enabled him more
than once to give good counsel to
his erratc countrymcn.
Year: 1874

IT is not safe to commit suicide in
Van Vert, Ohio, for the Fort Wayne
doctors consider suicides legitimate
dissectiug material, and they have an
amiable way of digging up your post
humous remains and leaving them,
professionally, ain way that all ad-
Year: 1874

THE proposition to redeem the mutt
lated currency at the postoffices is a
sensible one, and will be particularly
acceptable in Texas, where the green
backs in circulation are SO generally
dirty, tattered and torn.
Year: 1874

CIVIL NOTES.


In the United States District Court yester-
day. In the case Of Frederick Horst assignee against C.
H. G.. LOsene ana Others heretofore reported in THE
TRIBUNE Judge Batchford dismissed the bill In equity,
on the ground that ii estabshed that the de-
PENDANTS had reasonable to believe that fraud
the BankTutcy act intended and also on tine ground
that there was full and valid consideration for the
goods received by the defendants


A motion was made in Supreme Court
Chambers yesterday before ChefJustice Davis, in the
suit Of Ferdon against the Marposa Land and Mining
Company and In ole suit for sequesraton OF The
property OF that Company for the benefit OF all the
creditors and for the appointment OF receser Tne @
Court took pa and announced mat aIter Tue
hearing in the case OF Eugene Kelly against the Com
pany on Monday decision would be given In tue mat
Ter and 40 in the application for an injunc-
ton TO restrain the Company from dsposng of It's Stock
Year: 1874

adornments and steady improvernente.


Finally We shall meet the Catholic
Cemetery, which promises in time TO


be interior to none in verdure and taste.
l need not speak to friends and relatives
bereaved, OF the sad yet grtaeful task
Of beautifyipg the coil beneath which


rests the remains of dear ones; nor is 1t


necessary for me to say aught here OF
encouragement of visits to the cities o.
the dead in view Of the moral effect. 1
only refer to an existing inclination to
enjoy the melancholy pleasure Of visit
ing the graves OF the dear departed. TO
call the attention OF all 60 disposed to
the roadway, as furnishing ready access
to 90 many OF our larger cemeteries.
The stockholders in these various
places OF interest will regard the matter
under another point Of view and will
see at glance how much Of prospective
advantage is held out by the improve
meut advocated. Enough for the mo.
ment; do not wish to fatigue your
readers. I shall soon place before them
some estimates ofthe cost and add YET
other considerations, showing the ad-
vantage within their grasp. -
Year: 1874

Our special dispatch from Charleston
this morning only shows that the pro-
cess of Democratic consolidation which
has been silently going on during q
year past in all portions of the State
has found expression in Charleston in
an open statement of uuity and concord.
For 3 long time past men who were
lsboring Tor the advancement OF the
same political principles have seen how
futile and foolish it is to place person.
al considerations above the great ends
of party. Men die and are forgotten,
but party beliefs live on. This Char
lesion movement is but the formal
unity Of factions that have long since
ceased to have any reason for
existence or to antagonize
each other in the Democratic party OF
the State, because all have learned and
few have dared to cross the gulf
that separates Democracy from modern
Republicsnism.


Upon one hand is the right Of the
people Of the State to enact such laws
as may seem to them best suited to
their condition, subject to the consti-
tuition OF the United States. Upon the
other hand is the irresponsible will Of
Congress debating this or that and as
Stunning to override all constitutional
restraints.


Where there is 80 wide divergence
in political opinion, what folly it is for
sensible men to attach themselves to
the personal fortunes Of individuals
and say that unless such or such q
man is nominated for Office we will 60
over to the other side and labor to
break down all the principles we have
heretofore sought to have put in prac-
tice in the administration OF the govern
ment.


We have many evidences that the
people Of West Virginia have too much
good sense to submit themselves again
to the Radical yoke; they have too
much good sense to permit a Radical
triumph by their division; and there
has been something in the all
during the past elk months or more tha'
convinced us that in the important
elections OF this year the opponents o
Radicalism would stand together
shoulder to shoulder, and win victory
oSer all foes, whether within our OWE


ousehold or openly in the Radica
ranks.
Year: 1874

There is no question OF more import
ance to the city Of Wheeling just now
than that OF how they can best expand
the habitable limits of the city. Hem
med in as we are by steep and rocky
hills, we are at loss where to bestow
the population that is crowdirg in upon
us year after year, and we find some
trouble in securing favorable sites for
the manufacturing establishments that
seek to avail themselves OF the cheap
fuel and other facilities which loca-
ton in this neigbborhood affords.
With every succeeding year the hills
surrounding the city are more
and more severely felt to be
an obstacle 10 further growth, and
every year the question as to how the
natural difficulties OF our situation can
best be overcome becomes more i'm
portant.


Almost the only desirable ground for
the expansion OF the city limits; almost
the only earthly Eden to which our
citizens look for refuge from the NOISE
and smoke and dust OF business; Is
found in the beautiful and fertile valley
OF Wheeling creek from which the city
is shut out by the formidable wall OF
hill which stands between US and this
promised land" Accordingly our
citizens have been discussing for years
pss, how to get rid OF this obstacle.
Projects for digging it down and throw
ing Il into the bed OF the creek; FOL
making q roadway through it by tun-
mel; for conducting the creek through
it by tunnel or cut; or for going arounc
it by turnpike or stree. railway; have
all been more or less discussed, bu
without much actual result and with
out as yet accomplishing anything o
practical importance in giving the peo
pie any more convenient access
to the valley which lies directly ess
of the city.


Among the numerous projects tha
have been broached in relation to thl'
matter, is the construction Of turn
pike around the hill and across tn
Peninsulsr, upon which street rsilwa.
cars, drawn by horses or propelled b.
steam, might run between Wheeliui
and Elm Grove. Starting every hal
hour or oitener aud stopping along th'
way wherever passengers might desir
to get on or of, as the street cars upo
the city lines do, it would be com
psratively easy ior business men, la
borers and mechanics to resId
in the country and d
business in town, thus solving, !
part at least, the question that mas
long perplexsd our citizens. Th
Wheeling and Elm Grove railway com
pany has already been chartered b
the Legislature, but we believe that n
active steps have been taken as yet
carry out the purposes Of the organizs
tion. We received last evening from


prominent and much respected citiEe
Year: 1874

and told that the negro was in great fear at that
time that he would be shot. Ivey under lndict-
ment in the court at Livingston for some offense.
and Dr. Wight seemed to have an impress
sion that his fear had some connection with that
Indictment. myself believe that there were two
reasons why Ivey was shot. The first was because
he was an obnoxious Niger" hated. with or
without cause, by the gang of ruftans who shot
him: and the second was because the same gang
determined that no "nigger" should be mail agent
on that road don't believe that he was killed be-
cause it was supposed that his death would have
any effect upon the election. for the people OF sum-
ter County are not FOOLS and they knew just as wei
last August as they know now that the surest ROAD
to defeat was by political assassination.


ARREsTING DEMOCRATS BY WHOLESALE


see in the Associated Press reports to-day tna'
Detective Hester has arrested forty-two nv" "
Sumter County this week on charges OF hu-hiuAins
and interfering with the mails have not ye'
Iarroa tbo noTt,culars of these arrests, but some
facts which I do know may throw some
Icbt unop them. Mr.. Hester told me that
be was sent to Sumter County to investi-


cate the Iyey case but since his arrival he mad heard
that the mail between Demopolis and Livingston
had been stopped-ths is the that is carried by
a negro boy on a mule-and he thought it his duty
as a Special Agent of the Post-Ofice Department to
look into it, This is the interference with the mail
which have described in former letter, and for
which he has arrested at least thirty men who. at
the time the thing occurred. were acting as
sherifs posse Isuppose these men will be taken to
Mobile at great expense to the United States.


The object of making these wholesale arrests may
be inferred from remark made by Senator Spencer
to a friend when he received private information OF
them" That will give us the State" z.L.w.
Year: 1874

STATEMENT OF LARGE IRON MANUFACTURERS OF


THE QUESTIONS AT ISSUE BETWEEN THE EN-


pLOYERs AND wORKMEN-CoUNTER STATEMENT


OF THE wORKMEN


Three of the great iron manufacturing firms
of Troy, N. Y. Erastus Corning & Co., Ii.
Burden & Sons. and John A. Griswold & Co.
have made q statement to the public to explain
their position In the labor troubles among the iron
establishments in that city, The workers are now
on strike or strictly speaking. the pudders are
on strike and the OF the workers are unable to
do anything without them. The Winter drawing near
the employers being pressed by the men, concluded TO
run the works which have been partially closed during
the Summer account Of the dullness OF trade at
reduced schedule Of wages. which, as Is shown by
table greater than any paid at eight OF the largest
iron manufacturing districts Of the East AT these
places Scranton Ph@nixve. Reading, Danyille, Beth
ebem Harrisburg Cambria and Worcester, the average
earning OF the pudder 50 per day. and at Troy with
the reduced rates they earn 3 per day. Regarding
the difference between the prices offered at Troy and the
prices paid the West the prices given to the public
as paid by Western manufacturers have been prices for
five heat iron, aud in making the comparison the Troy
price for five heat iron has been ignored and the price
maid for six heat iron substituted. To arrive at proper
understanding Of the matter the difference between the
manner OF working at the West and at Troy should be
expained. At the West the old fashioned method OF
working is still kept up. The pudder uses but about 500
pounds OF TO ton or iron, Wnlle at Troy tne puu
dler uses 1900 pounds. much as he desires.
The free of Port Henry magnetic ore In


pudding furnace hastens the process OF pudding and
enables the pudder do his work with greater ease
while he larger quantity Of iron IN day. and
thereby his daily earnings The large quan-
tity used at Troy, and the improved method OF
pudding vogue here enable the Troy puddler to take
out six heats Of iron each day with greater ease than
the Western pudder get ont five heats But while
working six heat iron the prices arranged
that the pudders just much at one as at the
other.


The heaters at the Rensselaer, Rail Mil object TO work
at reduced wages 81 80 to 81 80 per day. and thus
keep the Bessemer Steel Works idle, well the mill
itself In four OF the principal rail mills Of the country
the earnings OF the heaters average - 10 per day
from Is TO 35 cents day less than
Is offered at the r Ransselaer Works.


To Offset this, the iron-wOrkers make a statement
They complain that they have work harder and longer
with the method OF pudding than the old that the
comparison OF prices with the Eastern companies made
In the manufacturers statement is erroneous the
figures they give the rates paid for working dry
railroad rOn and those which make fairer
the paid these places for boiling pudding rOn
which much greater-are not given at all The
add table OF current prices prices offered and
prices paid in 1885, with the difference in living
tween then and now, follows;


1888. 1874.


m nj
Year: 1874

The air is murKy with rurnors OF rottenness dlscov
ered by the Legislative Committee engaged IN inves


eating county affairs Nothing s definitely known ex.
ce pt by the gentlemen performing thlsnecessary work
OF thng oicial dishonesty and their report will
be made to the next Legsature but certain facts
already established inquiry understood TO have
materially changed the political slate 70 one section Of
create considerable sensation when they come to the
public knowledge Unless apparently authentic reports
are mere exaggeratous there have been Irregularities
more or less fragrant throughout the Commonwealth in
relation 70 county accounts.
Year: 1874

1t is the fashion nowadays to quote
Philip Gilbert Hsmbcrton, and this is
what Philip tiiIbert Hambcrton SAYS
about tobacco:-


The use of tobacco has so much
extended itself in the present gem
Grafton that We are Obliged to make
. decision for ourselves on the an
cicnt controversy between its friends
and cncE.ics. We cannot form any
opinion about tobacco without bear
ing in mind that it produces, accord
ing to circumstances, one Of two dis
tinct and even opposite classes of
effects. In certain states of the body
it acts as a stimulant, in others As =
narcotic. People who have a dislike
to smoking affirm that it stupctics;
but this as e.tion, at least SO tar rs
the temporary consequences arc con-
cerned, Is not supported by expert
encc. Most of the really brilliant
conversations that l have listened to
have been accompanied by clouds of
tobacco smoke, and great deal of
the best literary composition that is
produced by contemporary authors
is wrought by men who are actually
smoking while they work. My own
experience is that very moderate
smoking acts as u pleasant stimulus
on the brain, while 1t produces tenn
porary lassitudc of the muscular sys-
TEN, not pcrccptiblc in times OF rest,
but an appreclablc hindrance in times
of muscular cxcrtion. 1t is better,
therefore, for men who feel these
effects from tobacco to avoid it when
they are in exercise, and to use il
only when the body rests and the
mind labors. Pray remember, how
ever, that this is the experience of an
exceedingly moderate smoker, who
has not vet got himself into the gen
cral condition of body which is
brought on by larger indulgence in
tobacco. On the other hand, it is
evident that men engaged in physical
labor find u muscular stimulus in oc-
casionally smoking, and not a tenn
porary lassitude. 1t is probable that
the effect varies with individual cases.
and is never precisely what our own
experience would lead us to imagine.
Eor excessive smokers it appears to
be little more than tranquilizlng Of =
sort Of uncasincss, the continual sat
ist:.ction Of a continual! craving. l
have never been able to asceit tain that
moderate smoking diminishcs intel
lectual force; but | have observed III
excessive smokers y decided weaken
ing of the will aud y preference for
talking about work. to the effort Of
actual labor. The opinions Of medi-
cal men on this Subject arc so much
ut variance that their science only
adds to our uncertainty. One doctor
tells me that the most moderate
smoking is unqucstionably injurious,
while others affirm that it is innocent.
Speaking simply from observation, !!
find that in my own case, tea and
coffee arc far more pernicioas than
tobacco.
Year: 1874

IT will do no good to tell the peo-
pie that the mission of the Rcpnbli-
can party is ended, when, at the
slightest prospect of Republican dc
feat. the threatening clouds of re-
bcllion gather in the Southern sky;
when ut the first intimation that any
considerable number of voters are
willing to withdraw from the Re
publican party, even for the purpose
Of experiment, it is seized upon by
the rebels rs an evidence that the
people will no longer insist upon the
enforcement Of the Legislation which
grew ous Of the war.-B.srliagtoa
lfu,ck- Hye." -
Year: 1874

A South German paper relates the
following: In a Bavarian town Of
the most pronounced Catholic ortho-
doxy, the priest preached lately
against the Old Catholics, and stated
such horrible things against them
that his pious hearers were horror
stricken at Old Catholic impicties.-.
At last the preacher cried out, "The
Old Catholics a:e 80 vile that thcv
will all be cast into the pit, and if
what l tell you is not true, may the
devil take me now OH the xpot!" His
excitement was terrible, and he so
struck the cushion that the book fell
from it. Not far from the pulpit
there sat All Amcric sn, who had u ne
gro servant with him, to whom he
beckoned to take the book up to the
priest, who, perhaps, had never seen
one of those sons OF Ham in his life.
The negro at once obcycd, and as he
mounted the lowest Of the pulpis
steps, the clergyman repeated his
wish that the devil might come and
take him if what he had said against
the Old Catholics was not true. Al
though the negro went softly, the
preacher heard his footsteps, and,
turning around, saw black object
solelnnly, steadily and surely ap-
preaching him. lie looked at him
with terror, and believing that he
would be the next instant collared by
his Satanic Majesty, he cried ont,
with trembling voice, ut is, after all,
possible that there may be good peo-
pie among the old Catholics" Turn
ing around to see if the object had
disappeared, he saw it still steadily
apl reaching. The perspiration burst
out on his brow, and, full Of despair,
he called out, "There are even many
good people among the Old Catho-
lies" Thinking that this would suf-
flee, he turned around, but what was
his horror to find that the object was
close at hand. I'm 6 ming h ms If in
the very grasp of BE, lzebub, t rn;ng
partly to the negro and partly to the
congregation, he cried out, "May the
devil come and take me ii all the Old
Catholics arc not better than We arc!!''
The terrified priest tainted from the
fright, and it was only after some
time that he recovered.
Year: 1874

! We wish to call the attention of all
consumers Of kerosene oil to the per
nicious and unhealthy practice of US
ing lamps filed with that article Will
the wicks turned down. The ga,
which should be consumed by the
fame is by this means left heavily il
the air, while the cost of the oil thu.
saved at the present prices would be
scarcely one dollar ayear for the lamp.
Of a household. A large family o
children in the country were taken il
one night, and on going to the nurser,
the mother found the whole room
nearly sufocating with a lamp turned
nearly out, whereupon the doctor for
.bade the use of a lamp at night unles
burned at full head. A girl was sub
ject to fits Of faintness, which if no
'induced were greatly increased b,
sleeping in the room with the LAM


turned almost out. Besides the dam
age to health, it spoils the paper ane
curtains, soils the mirrors and win


dows and gives the whole house al


untidy and unwholesome odor.-Er


change.
Year: 1874

fsom BeeeheTs Thanksgiving Sermon.


The family idea is the grand prim-
tive institution of life-it is the grand
universal life. No other institution
has awakened anything like its
strength. 1t supports all those who
are sprung from the father and moth
er into model commonwealth, where,
by reason of the smallness Of the num-
Der, they come within the sphere of a
parental government that has thus the
fundamental ideas Of laws within a
law. Now, l find in this a revelation
above all revelation, not of an innum-
erable company of angels, of archan-
gels, Of seraphims-not a dramatic
representation Of power; but in this
family idea God reveals Himself, and
in His nature His mode of governing
the world, and in the condition of the
father and the mother his relation
thereto. You might destroy the
whole Bible, you have yet the whole
germane idea of what the Bible saws
in the family idea. There is only the
one place in the whole world in which
We know what it is to govern by love.
In this you have the most precious
thing that was ever given to US.
Now, is the family idea losing or gain
ing? Gaining. There have been
some mischievous, licentious people
who have put forth philosophy that
has regarded this view of the family
as mischievous. All the moral sense
Iof the race, however, is strong to-day
for monogamic family. The family
was never so virtuous and so refined
as it is to-day. 1t takes more to be a
husband and father than it did
some hundred years ago.
Year: 1874

Fowls IN WINTER.-One of the
most essential things, in winter, is to
have a warm ho<>e for chickens to
roost in. The best way to have
house constructed for winter use is to
have it partially under ground, fac
ing the snnth. with a. slantine roof
reaching within three feet of the
ground on the north side and the
front or south side covered windows,
so that the fowls may enjoy the warm
rays Of the sun without being exposed
70 the piercing winds and freezing
cold. For a summer house the build
ing should be above ground, with
ventilators, so that the fowls can be
kept comfortable during the hot
nights OF summer. In the fall, as the
weather becomes cool, shut up your
summer roost, and your fowls will
soon take to their winter quarters
again. In winter give my fowls
warm pudding for breakfast, then
keep corn by them during the day. I
also keep scrap-cake by them from
cary fall till spring."
Year: 1874

A BAoaAaE-SMAsHER's DhEAM.-A Ger.
tain baggage smashcr on the Wilmington
and Baltimore railroad, had fearful attack
Of nightmare the other night. lie dreamed
that sone man came along to his car with
splendid new trunk that had never been
touched. And the dreamer got hold Of that
trunk and soused it down upon the floor
three or four times, aud jumped upon it, and
smeared it with chalk marks. And then
lie dreamed that lie pitched it into the car;
and was about to explode keg of powder
under it, when the engine Of the down train
struck him, and he awoke. He found lis
wife standing over him, and rapping him on
the head with earuestness, In bis sleep be
had hold of the baby's crib. and had beer
waltzng around the room with it, ranming
it up against the wall, and pounding it with
the pitcher. and trying to heave it out Of
the window, while the infant, spilled upoif
the floor, yelled like brigade Of Shoshone
Indians. 1t was the conclusion Of the
chair, in the hands of an indignant mother;
that made him dream about the locomotive
striking him. When his friends now ask
him the meaning Of those Jumps upon his
forehead, he says nothing, but seizes the
nearest valise, and goes through all the ex-
crcises he dreamed about.