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Year: 1878

The report comes that Senator Thurman is
recovering. doubt this, and cannot escape
from the belief that he will never get we'll. The
reports which, came from Morton's bedside were
always favorable, but his intimate friends did
not expect him to recover, Thurman is now
s1xty-five years of age. He has al ways been q
party friends and associates In the Senate have
noticed his failing rapidly for several years
ate, and his labor has been beyond his strength
and habits. He never lost his fire or earnest
ness. He was always eager to combat, but late
was entirely knocked up and unable to do any
thing for day Or two. His present attack is
nothing more nor less than paralysis or apo
plexy. and II he recover5 he will be a broken
man. Wallace will be the next leader of the
Democrats in the Senate.
Year: 1878

The fate Of the National party is scaled, It
will amount to nothing instead of being con-
the present and future viii be between the
Democrats and Republicans. Democratic-
Greenbackers may give US victory by returning
publican success. One thing is certain no
matter which cou SO they elect to pursue, the
Democrat1c organization will be Loyalty main
Year: 1878

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The reflection last evening In the
North Western portion Of the city came
from the burning building upon the
corner Of Sixth and Union streets. The
structure was double two story frame
dwelling. Fortunately 1t was unoocu
pied at the time. The fire started at
about six O'Clock, and by twenty min
utes past six the Weocaooe. .engine was
upon the ground. A general alarm be-
ing given the whole department was
soon in motion. When they arrived
upon the spot. the upper story Of the
building was wrapped in flames.


The Water Witch, Reliance and
Delaware with the Weccacoe got in Ser
vice at the edge Of large pond about
a square and half away and soon had
the flames under control. The upper
story Of the house was almost wholly
destroyed. The building belonged to q
party named Edwin X. Williamson, and
is valued at $1,000. The loss is wholly
covered by insurance, policy being
taken in the Shawmut company l.. p.
Buck & Co., Of this city, agents, lfor the
sum Of $500.


Up to couple Of weeks ago the
house had been occupied by the family
of Mr.. James Cannon, but in disposing
of 1t to Mr.. Williamson he had vacated
it and removed to a point further in the
country. As there was no fire about
the building it is supposed that the
house was set on fire.


The alarm last evening few minutes
previous to that given for the abov.
fire, WAS caused by the burning Of the
chimney Of house at the corner OF
Eighth and Spruce streets.


ICE HOUSE BURNED.


This morning between six and seven
o'clock, the large frame building on
Shellpot creek, owned and used by Mr.,
Jacob Stuck, baker, corner of Seventh
and King streets, as an ice house, was
discovered to be on fire. An effort was
made to subdue the flames, but all to
no avail, as the building, being empty
and dry, burned like so much tinder.
The structure was comparatively new
being built by Mr.. Stuck, at a cos: Of
between $500 and 5000. 1t bad been
used as store house for ice for several
seasons back, and it was for this pur
pose that it was to be used this winter


Mr.. Stuck intended to commence
cutting ice the early part of next week.
The building, Mr.. Stuck thinks, was
undoubtedly set on fire, as there were
no other means by which the confagra-
ton could have been started. The
structure which was wholly destroyed,
" as insured to the amount of $500.
Year: 1878


ARE ITS SESSIONS ANNUAL OR EIENNLNs--A
QUESTION SERIOUSLY AGITATEG THE CITIZENS
OF THE OLD DOMINION


BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD


RICHMOND, Nov. a5. 1878,
regular sensation has been created here within
the past few days in the attempt of city newspaper
to prevent the assembling OF the Legislature here
next month. The question whether it can do so in
accordance with the constitution Is raised and the
negative held by the siats. newspaper which has
consistently opposed reputation and advocated re-
treneLmeIt OF expenses and increase of taxation to
meet the public debt


A GLANCE TIE LAW.


The constitution of Virginia provides methods for
its amendment. In accord with them certain
amendments were adopted in 1875. chief among
which were one making the payment of poll tax q
qualification for the exercise of the elective franchise
one cutting down the number of Assemblymen
one changing their per diem allowance into a
salarySand one making the Asseublys sessions bien
NAL in place Of annual. All but the last are in
undisputed force. Tho question is, Is the last
in force? Tho State holds and many with it that
il is in force; that the existing Legislature having
had one session and being biennial cannot have
another The press generally supports the State and
measures will be taken to obtain judicial decision.


A MATTER OF ECONOMY.


The treasury is said to be empty: the Legislature
Woud cost floo,oV'i the people are jealous ot the
waste, and the school advocates want the money
for the schools; the puolic institutions. asy
luIns colleges and the rest ali want money
and meantime the legal question is asitaied
1t is claimed that the Legislature is functs cDicio
and If 1t assemblies will be mob,
the amendments all in force, all having been
acted on by this very Legislature The Legislature
was elected under them, paid under them and has
distrcted Virginia under them. Therefore the State
urges that ii Is unable to meet again and it Is hintcd
here that the best lawyers bot Houses agree with
its views. At all events the people. if judged from
the country press, deprccate and hold that
the Legislature is biennial and cannot meet.
Year: 1878

By TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD


NORFOLK. Va. Nov. -, 1873
II is understood to-day that the new sloop-of-war
Quinncbaug. now receiving her finishing touches at
the Navy Yard, will not so to Europe to relieve tho
vandalia until next spring summer. and that the
Secretary OF the Navy has so determined in conse-
quence Of the Plymouth Unexpectedly going out Of
commission for repairs. The Quinncbsug will join
tho North Atlantic squadron soon ~ she comes
out Of the dry dock and will remain on the home sta
is ready to take her place. This change in the orders
of the Quinnebaug takes everybody in naval circes
by surprise and Is great disappontne ent to the on
OF the ship who have been deliberately preparing
for two months pest for the always welcome cruise
up the Mediterranean. Officers waiting here to take
passage the Qunnebaug to join the Alliance will
no out on the mail steamer from New York.


number OF officers detached from the Guard LEFT
for Washington tonight
Year: 1878

Owing to the yellow fever panic and
business considerations the LEDGER this
day comes out as a half sheet and will
be issued as such until times change for
the better. Advertising, perhaps, is en-
tirely suspended, but this gives us the
more space for news, aud the public may
depend upon it that we will give every
thing of interest up to the hour Of going
to press. Our editors and reporters are
veterans of the press who passed through
the yellow fever here in 1873 and IN
former years. All that the board OF
health receives and all that can be gath
cred from the most trustworthy sources
will be published. 1t will be our aim, as
in the past, to give full reports and ac
tual facts, without suppression or color.
ing. Persons going away from the city,
and we urge everybody TO do so that can,
would do well to call and subscribe for
the LEDGER before leaving. 1t is only
so cents per month.
Year: 1878

As long as there was any possibility OF
keeping yellow fever out of Memphis we
heartily supported the measures devised
to accomplish that end. But it is here,
and no mistake. 1t cannot be kept out,
nor is it likely to be'increased, by those
who might be disposed to come here
The effort to quarantine the city was
made in good faith, but it has failed OF
its purpose and is no longer any use.
New Orleans might as we'll quarantine
against Grand junction or any of the
little panicky towns in West Tennessee
Let the money and the talentrtqulred tt
sustain this now useless institution bt
directed into some other channel Tbi
common-sense proposition, we doubt not
will be considered favorably by the boar
of health and the city government.


At late hour we learn that the quar-
antine has been raised.
Year: 1878

and keep the house, not. consider
ing themselves at all excused by
reason of their dislike, and however
great her talent, thinking but
poorly of the woman who does not
likewise. In fact, the greater their
own talent the more do they ap-
ply it to use in daily life; their
coffee is clearer and richer, and


their bread is lighter, whether they !
make it or whether they have it |
made, and their houses in general


are brighter, gayer and happier, be-


cause Of the superior intelligence
brought to bear on the household
of nature, touching nothing that


that they do not gild. To be good


mothers, good wives and helpmeets,
lis an ambition common with all the


sex, whether endowed with genius


or not; her husbands praise is


more to a woman than that of all


the world +; but this desire and am


bition are not necessarily a check


upon her carer, if worth anything


and capable Of bringing about


any results Of value, she can


not be diverted altogether, and


will work out her own saliva


ton, but because apprenticeship


in her fathers house has usually


made the performance Of homely


duties as a matter Of course as


combing her hair, or buttoning her
gowns or breathing, while the great
power Of love, the abandonment
of self in care for others, the de-


scent between the gates of life and
death in the birth of children, in
the loss of them, in the love Of
, them, in their rearing, are all ex
I periences deepening the nature
I, strengthening the powers, and en-
! riching genius. 1t is possible there
, may be some questions as to wheth,
, er, while SO much is expected of q
! woman of genius, the practice Of
I Harvesting Pegasus to a gravel cart
: is not wasteful one; but, however
1 that may be, it is very evident that
/ Pegasus can draw the cart, that il
is not women Of genius who are
unfit for marriage and all its re-
. sponsibilities, but that on the Other
!, hand, they meet their responsible.
a ties the better for their genus; and
g in spite Of the ISLANDERS of certain
e coarse souls who think the world
e was made for men alone we mus
D declare that in a long experience
u and acquaintance among literary
D women, we have seen very few in
o stances that did not sustain oul


opinion.
Year: 1878

THE little country towns are quite
OVERRIDING the quarantine business, and
are not oaly doing Memphis an injus
tice but are injuring themselves The
yellow fever cannot be carried to the
country and propagsted. Grenada has
it, but there was terrible local cause.
Nobody ever heard of yellow fever
spreading over The couatry, and we hope
never will. Persons who have the dis
ease in their systems may take the fever
aftec leaving the city, but such cases do
not produce epidemics The towns
which quarantine against Memphis ought
to open their doors to our refugees and
could do so with perfect safety as we'll az
to their own benefit. Should yellow ie-
yer break out in one of these towns,
which we consider impossible they would
appeal to Memphis for doctors, nurses,
supplies and money, and we would re-
spopd in very different spirit from that
in which they set up their quarantine
against u.s. If they need anything we
have it is at their service Our private
citizens, physicians and nurses hurried
to the help of Grenada, even before help
was asked, and our merchants contribu-
ted thousands Of dollars for the relief OF
the sufferers, even after the plague
crossed our own threshold We have
always acted the neighborly part and
the good Samaritan, and feel more eur
pr.sed and hurt in the house Of our
friends than actually aggrieved at the
spirit manifested toward Memphis by the
West Tennessee towns. II any Of them
aye so unfortunate as to get the lever
like Grenada, We hope they will have The
courtesy to take down their blockade
against women and children before call
ing for outside assistance. We thought
we had some crazy folks in Memphis, bu
conclude now that there is fine crop il
the country,
Year: 1878

Two lawyers, while bathing at Santa
Cruz, the other day, were chased ashore
by a sh ark and the San Francisco Post
declares that this is the most fragrant
case of want Of professional courtesy on
recotd
Year: 1878

New York Herald, 7th.l


1t is scarcely possible to withhold
sympathy altogether from the miners ou
strike in Illinois when we hear only their
side OF the story of their grievances
Labor such as is done in coal mines
could not be made acceptable to the
mass OF men by any rate of wages; and
those whose hard fortune it is to be un
able to live otherwise than by such labor
should at least be fairly paid the prices
they contract for. But in the issue made
by these strikers it is alleged on their
part that while the rate of pay-a cent
and a cent and hslf bushels ruin.
ously low, they have to pay for all their
own supplies, as oil, tools, aud powder.
and are cheated ia the measurement of
the coal If a strike were likely TO
afford them remedy they certainly
would be justified in striking, but it does
not promise well, and their condition at
the end OF their endeavor will only be
the worse for their loss of time. There
ls, no doubt, another side to the story
but it will scarcsly be inquired into, fer
the public will not wait 10 hear it, but
will condemn, without even such reasons
as 1t might give, the attitude of workmen
who affiliate with the. communistic
scbemers who seem to have somewhat
alarmed the Western communities by
their warlike preparations.
Year: 1878

PoOr Outlook for Literary Work


The world Of letters has been this sea
son subject to number of mutations
says New York correspondent. The
Galaxy has stopped D r Locke has
left the Evening Mail, and Bayard Tsy.
lor and Mark Twain are of for Earope.
Bonner has been visited with severe do.
mesiic bereavement, which may lead to
the sale Of the Ledger. The stoppage OF
the Galaxy throws a large amount Of
magazine matter into the hands OF other
periodicals. which are now burdened
with offerings. | would say to all
writer's who are ambitious of a place in
any New York journals or periodicals
that their chance is so small as TO be
hardly worth the effort The Harpers
have enough accepted matter 10 fill their
magazine for the next two years, and
other publishers are equally we'll SUP.
piled. The departure OF Bayard Taylor
and Mark Twain will hardly make any
room for other ltterateurs, since their
works now have but a small sale. The
latter is considered the best humorist OF
the present day. He certainly has writ
ten some capital things, but the public
tires Of fun more rapidly than anything
else. More changes are to be expected
in the literary world before the close OF
the year. Two or three journals are in
a tottering condition, and may be soon
closed. This is sad prospect, but per.
haps the threatened danger may be
| ayerted
Year: 1878




A citizen in want Of some flower seeds
was hunting around the market yeater
day when be came upon woman sur.
rounded by numerous bags Of seed, pack
ages Of roofs and parcels of sprouts.


Madam, he began after close look
at her face two years ago | purchased
some seeds Of you You told me to
plant them in grayelly soil, and | did
Not a seed cane up. Last year pur.
chased some more OF you. You told me
to plant them in loamy SOIL which did
Not a seed came up Madam. VIA. have
you to say


shs pinched cuts few seeds, wrapped
them up, and as she thrust the parcel
into his hand she replied;


I'm very sevry~<plant these in a slifi
clay soil
Year: 1878




The Buffalo Express says:


A widower who lived near Ron
dout, in this State, concluded one
day last week, that he had lived alone
long enough, and hitching up his
team, drove into town and to the
house of widow whom he had
never seen, but whom he knew by
reputation, and invited the lady to
ride, The ride was taken and the
two returned to the widows house
for dinner; after which tliey went
for another ride, and returned in
the evening man and wife. 1t is
we'll never to put off till tomorrow
what should be done to-day, per-
haps; but those two persons are go
ing to be very much astonished be-
fore they get as thoroughly ac-
quainted as man and wife ought to
be. There are thousand peculi.
arities which can hardly be under
stood until after marriage, but there
are thousand others a knowledge
of which previous to marriage is in
dispensablc toIdomestic peace when
it is time for that consummation.
For instance, this widow had for
her first husband the only perfect
man the world ever produced, while
the widower was equally happy in
his first selection. These remark
able facts will be presented after a
day or two, to the intense surprise
of the persons hearing them for the
first time, and there will follow the
first difference of opionion and the
first tears and adjectives,


What will be the end Of it heaven
only knows; but if two tombstones
are not ruthlessly tom from their
positions and broken against the
nearest trees or stone walls it will
be very singular, that's all. We
are not prepared to say that mar
riage after a oourtship of one hour,
the parties having been entire stran-
gers previous to the hour, is not
safe, so far as younger aspirants to
matrimony are concerned but it is
very difficult with persons who have
been through the-we believe it is
called the mill. There should be a
thorough court8hip in their case.
There should be many visits aud
solemn and thoughtful discussions
Of what has been as well as of what
il to be. There should be precisely
such aetiQp as was taken by Mr..
Thomas Thompson when that gen
tleman courted the widqW who be-
came his sixth wife.


. 81 will tell YOU" said Mr..
Thompson, taking pinch of snuff
and looking wise, "what | expect
of you, my dear. You are aware
that l have had a good deal of mat
rimOnial experience. Ho-huml it
makes me sad 10 think of it. My
lot in the cemetery is almost full,
and | may truly say that my cup of
misery would be running over at
this moment IL it were not for you.
But to business. vas about to
remark that Jane, my first, eoald
make better coffee than any other
woman in this world. l trust you
will adopt her recipe for the prepa.
ratiou Of that beverage


MY first husband frequently
remarked began the widow.


And there waS Susan" inter-
rupted Mr.. Thompson. "Susan
was the best mender that probably
ever lived. II was her delight to
End a button of, and as for rents
in coats and things, ! have seen her
shed tears Of Joy when she saw
them, she was so DESTROYS of us
ing her needle for their repair.
Oh, what q woman Susan was"


Many is the time," began the
widow, "that my first hus -"


"With regard to Anna, who was
nay third" said Mr. Thompson has
Year: 1878

New York Sun.


Regarding the allegation of woman.
hater, he may be forgiven, if such he was,
or his malsvolent feeling at least ex
cused, when we consider the following
incident in his early manhood He had
paid his addresses to a young lady of
equal social position with himself, asked
her hand in marriage, and was accepted
The day Of their Huptisls was announced,
the invited guests assembled, the hour
for the ceremony arrived. and the priest
stood ready to perform the functions Of
his holy Office. The bride.elec sent q
message to her afianced husband that
she wished TO meet him privately for
consultation before proceeding to the
hymeneal altar. He obeyed the SUN.
mons and was confronted by her parents
and other relatives, and asked to sign a
contract for marriage settlement as a
condition precedent to the performance
OF the ceremony-a document prepared
without his knowledge, and of the exist.
ence Of which he was now made first &C.
quainted. Not deigning to notice any
one present but she who had plighted
him her love and faith, be Inquired of
her it this demand had been prompted
by others or was it her own voluntary
action. Receiving a reply that it was
an act of her own free will, he bsde her
adieu and retired from the assembly.


This circumstance is supposed to have
had lifelong influence on Randolph
to have bunted the finer feelings of his
nature, and to have given that cast to
bis character which enemies have con.
strued iato misanthropy.
Year: 1878

THE RUSSIAN WOMAN, Vjera Sassulitch.
whose attempt to assassinate the st. Peters
burg prefect of police, and whose unexpected
acquittal made her somewhat of a heroine.
turns up now at Geneva, Switzerland The
uncontirmed report given in sundry German
Journals that she had since been rearrested
would appear to be without foundation
Year: 1878

IF THE EFFORT is SERIOUS to indict Capt
Tom jerks for perjury, it will be made
through the courts of this District as under
the law the proceeding must be commenced
in the place where the offence is alleged to
have been committed
Year: 1878

IT Is NOT THOUGHT that the Potter investi-
eating committee will find quorum in at
tendance on Thursday next, to which day it
adjourned, Nearly all the important witnesses
nave already testified, and the remaining ones
will be taken in hand by the New Orleans sub
committee.
Year: 1878

THE JENKsEs.-It is said that Captain and
Mrs. jerks have decided not to return to New
Orleans, both preferring residence in some
colder climate. Both are still in the city,
the newspapers, inasmuch as she is just nov
the subject of good deal of comment. Last
night the Captain and Agnes" paid visit
TO the office OF the Associated Press, and for a
long time read the exchanges.
Year: 1878

HgA mean spirited Ohio man,
saws the Burlington Hawkeye, took
a fourteen pound club with knot
on the bad end, and got some of
his friends to put him i'll a coffin
and place it in u vault. BY the
gray of dawn two solitary figures
were seen coming along the high
way into Cincinnati. One of them
went lamely to the Medical Col
lege, with large lump on his
head that lifted his hat off, and
the other went to quiet home,
with a spoiled club under his arm
and the glad light of a happy
smile shedding the glow of peace
and duty over his honest counte-
nance.
Year: 1878

"Every man, rich and poor says
the Cleveland Herald, "should have
the right to take a bank bill to the
counter of the bank issuing it. and
demand its redemption in coin.
You may give the poor man such a
right, but who is going to give hun
the bank bill to take there?
Year: 1878

The latest sentimental ballad rs
entitled, Give Me the Home of My
Childhood" Bless your soul, we'd
do it in a minute. but--why, haven't
You heard? Old Tadgers closed out
three mortgages on it in 1867 and
'GS, aud the next year it was sold
for taxes; it was seized for de5t IN
she summer following, then your
oldest brother claimed that it be-
loueed to his wife, and brought suit
in her name to recover, and before
that was through they found an old
flaw in the title, and in trying to
straiohten that out it transpired
that your old grandfather had no
government patent Oh it at all, but
had stolen it bodily from the In
dians: and now two half-breeds
have brought suit to recover the


property as the heirs. The house
was burned down about two years
ago, and the neighbors have used


the fence for kindling wood. your


wifc's cousin is trying to get hold o


the lot, and your half-brotherj Jump


ed the property one night, put up


little shanty on the alley corner, ant


is now in possession. There doesn'
seem to be much show fog yon t.


dwell again in the "hone Of you
childhood" but you might file you


papers with lawyer and sail IN.
Year: 1878

nss- The last man will have an
awfully lonesome time of It No
body to borrow money of; nobody
to dun him or raise his rent, 10
book agents; no hfe insurance man,
and no oldest inhabitant to declare
that it's the most remarkable sea-
son we have ever had.