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Year: 1878

Redfi eld. correspondent Of the Gin
cinnatti Commercial, writes July lst.
us follows:


We must be pretty near resumption
in fact as we'll af in law. l was in the
treasury this morning, where long
strip of bloated bondholders were
moping the sweat from their brOws as
each waited his turn, coupon III hand.
They were receiving interest in gold,
but every little while one would say:
"Oh, give me paper" actually prefer
ring paper to gold. When this is the
case, we seem 50 near resumption that
it is hard to see where the dividing
line is. \ sweltering day like this,
when men dislike to cross the broad
and hot street in front of the treas
ury, imagine that the officials could
resume without calling much of a
crowd. They could hang out a sign.


Gold given in exchange for paper at
par and the crowd rushing to take
advantage of this would not be larger
than Bob Ingersoll would draw If he
should lecture upon mo hereafter" at
ten cents head.


This illustrates the doctrine we have
long advocated that paper money was
preferable TO metallic money; and that
the latter was only insisted on
through an old world superstiti ON.


And lRedfeld makes this significant
admission which those who have
claimed That resumption would do
well to peruse:


There are numbers Of people in the
country who long with great long
ing for resumption, for with that
event they expect 'gnod times to
set in. They will be mistaken. The
times will be hard for some years vet.
and those y no look for resumption to
bring good times are as much mistak.
on as are the infationists who profess
To believe that resumption is ruina-
ton. Should resumption take place
tomorrow. or should it be postponed
a year or two years, the effect would
not be perceptible to a business man
in the land, with the possible excep-
tion Of bankers. Resumption will
have no other effect than to "infiate"
the currency with the gold that is now
locked up.


The gold now lockedNp will be held
in the bank as security for their out
standing notes. The people will see
little of it.


But if resumption will not produce
good times why have we gone through
wretchedness and ruin to reach it
Year: 1878

\ recent number of the Mark Lane
Erpress speaks as follows Of the bad
prospects of the wheat cropin England
and Scotland:


Broken and unsettled weather has
prevailed throughout the course of
the past week, and scarcely day has
passed without copious showers of
rain; while the temperature has been
low and the nights especially cold,
retarding the advance of vegetation
and seriously jeopardising the pros
poets If the cereal crops on the heavy
lands. With the advent of June in
creased warmth and cessation
of rain were reasonably expected
having regard to the usually humid
character of the preceding month. but
the weather has hitherto disappointed
all such expectations, and the agricnl-
tural situation is causing farmers
greater anxiety every day. Com
plants Of discoloration are rife alike
in England and France, where in
many districts, the wheat plant has
also been laid by the heavy rains,
while weeds have everywhere IN
creased with great rapdity. In
Scotland similar state OF affairs
exists, all low-lying land being in 4.
saturated state. and the oat braird
much damage by the ravages of grub
The pastures and artificial grass lands
bear heavy crop. it is true, but the
weather is anything but favorable
for haymaking, and the country is
everywhere pining for the want Of
warmth and sunshine. Speaking
generally. the appearance of all creals
is bulky, but the tendency of SO much
moisture has been to develope plant
at the expense Of grain-producing
power. and, however favorable the
weather may be during the next two
months. it may not be too much to
say that appearances do not favor
the presumption of more than a bare
average yield at harvest. at any rate
as regards wheat and barley.
Year: 1878

The leaders of the old parties have
succeeded in sitting the voice Of
Maine on the great financial miseries
of the countries, but at last she has
reused up and proposes to take her old
position at the head and front of the
greatest movement in the history Of
the country. And when her voice is
once heard calling fer Reform. ii will
be echoed all over the country.
''Oh Maine prayer founded! Never hung
Such choice upon a peoples tongue.


Such power to bless or ban !"


The prayers of the starving. the
tears and shame of the naked. and the
groans of the Wretched have stirred
Maine as she has not been stirred
since the flag Of Sumpter was fired on.
"The evil days have come, the poor are made


prey


and hilltop calls to hill top for the
people to come to the relief. And
they are ''coming as the waves come
when navies are stranded and all
parties that try to obstruct the way
will be ground to powder.
Year: 1878

The PiOAees Press, discussing the
question of tree-planting the other
day, said:


In this country. unfortunately, we
have had no governmental policy on
this subject, until very recently,
when by the exertions chiefly of the
members of congress from this state
congress has adopted the wise policy
Of giving large donations of public
lands to settlers on condition of plant
ing and cultiyating thereon a certain
number of acres of timber, If we
are not mistaken the original impulse
to this whole movement, which is
destined to prove of incalculable i'm
pOrtance to all the prairie regions of
the west, came from Minnesota: and
to Mr.. Leonard b. Hodges, through
his valuable contributions to the Pio-
ncer Press, and Though his organi-
zation of the forestry association,
more than to any other man in the
state, that impulse is due.


We can scarcely think the Pioneer
Press is mean enough to utterly ig-
more our connection Wltn the subject
of forest culture, when it did itself
cover us with ridicule for years for
leading off in advocacy of the then
untried project. We made the first
speech ever made in congress upon
the subject of tree-planting, three or
four years before Mr.. Hodges was
appointed tree. planter of the st. Paul
and Pacific Railroad and before he
became identified with the subject
He has done a great and practical
work and he would be himself the last
man to sympathize with this attempt
of the Pioneer Press to commit Il gross
injustice.
Year: 1878

Prosessor Baird reports that the
work going on at the headquarters of
the United States Fish Commission
at IIavre de Grace, Md, is the most
extensive and important undertaken
during the history Of the service. At
the beginning of June they were tax
ing over "a millio sllad eggs day,
Matching them promptly, and sending
them out to the head waters of the
principal streams of the south and
southwest. 1t is expected that from
twelve to fifteen million young fish
will be secured. Toward the end OF
July, salmon Matching will begin. and
the Commission hope to make sue
cesssul solution of the problem OF
stocking the streams of the MISSISSIPPI
pi valley with California salmon.
Year: 1878

water power which could thus be
thrown into the head waters of he
Ohio and Susquehanna to be used a
hundred over would be OF incalculable
value to that great industrial state,
While it cost would be but tritle com
pared with steam, more especially
now that the dams and water wheels
already exist. The same principle OF
supplying power to other streams. but
by steam power, it is believed will be
found feasible, especially where the
stream is so rapid and the dams SO nu-
merous as to completely use the water
when furnished. The water leaving
the Connecticut at Holyoke. Mass,
turns the water wheels lor mills To-
Gated upon six different terraces. so
that the same water is used six times
over in a distance of less than two
miles.
Year: 1878

stances, be in fit state for men to
work, and be free from any mo9ious
and poisonous gases, and for the in
forcement Of these requirements pro-
vide severe pains and penalties and
yonr law will mean something.


am aware that our, Ohio, mining
law has the very requirements sought
to be incorporated into your Mary
land statute. But after four years
experience as Mine Inspector of this
State I have seen the folly of such
provisions. They stand in the way
Of willing compliance with the stat
ute in other respects and offer to the
enemies of mining Legislation the ex-
cuse that these laws are oppressive
and destructive to the business inter-
est of the State; and I hope our legis-
lature will, this session, amend our
mining code SO as to make it simple
and practicable, and such as can be
enforced in it's letter and spirit.


I fully approve of section l2, in
regard to making the Mine Inspector
an inspector Of weights. Your In
spector has but few mines to look
efter and can attend to the scales also.
There is a general feeling that miners
are defrauded in their weight at
certain mines, not only in Maryland
but in every mining State in the
Union. IA false balance is an
abmination to the Lord" Even if
miners do get fair weight it is no more
than right that some one in their in
terest should occasionally test the &C.
curacy of the scales. No fair deal
ing operator can object to this. On
the contrary, he desires it, for it keeps
his dishonest competitor from under
selling him in the market.


ANDREW Roy.
Year: 1878

The man in the moon has forgotten to


frown,


And is stealing kiss tonight.
Sse, beautiful Venus is bending down
To his cold lips her brow of light
Hes hiding himself while he steals kiss,
For his weired face can scarce be seen
AS he steers aloft to his goal Of bliss
In shallop Of silver sheen.
He is singing, "Come sail with me afar,
Through the shoreless blue let us float"
And he clasps with rapture the evening star
As they glide in his phantom boat.
The man in the moon has not wooed in


vain,


Lovely Venus is all his own;
They are sailing together--but look again,
She has left him, he drifts alone,
Like the earthly lovers who, sated, turn
From their idols; too lightly won,
Do his faithless lips already yearn
For the kiss of some warmer sun;
Or has she left him and wandered away
AS maidens on earth sometimes do,
To seek a more glorious mate? Well-a-day,
Perchance they are both untrue.
AS to earthly love, let it come and pass
If this be heavenly sample
OF truth, for the heavenly bodies, alas
Are setting fearful example.
False men in the future will point up and


say,


"He grew tired of Venus as soon;"
False maidens will cry to their lovers,


"Away,


You are as cold as the man in the moon


Rosa Virtner Jefrey.
Year: 1878

SHAWNEE, PERRY Co., O., Feb. 7, rs.


Editor Frostbury Mining Journal:
Being at present on tour of in
spection of the mines of the "Great
Vein Region" Of Southern Ohio, I
called to-day at the Lyensdale mines
Of the Straitsville Camel coal COM
pany, of New York, Thomas Corco-
ran, Esq, Superintendent, who by the
way is an old Marylander, having
been raised in the Frostburg mining
region. Mr.. Corcoran handed me the
last number of the FRosTBURG MIN
ING JOURNAL, (Feb. 81 in which is
published the new mining bill of your
State, amendatory of the mining law.
AS I have recently received several
letters from old friends in Maryland
requesting my opinion Of the value
and practicabllity of the proposed
amendments, propose with, your
permission, to answer all through the
columns of the MINING JOURNAL:


The 7th section of the bill appears
to me to be very faulty, and ought
not to pass in its present shape. The
Mine Inspector ought not to have
power to order the stoppage of a
mire, or the reduction of the work.
ing force to ten persons, except in
cases of sudden and immediate dang
or to life. Where defective ventila-
ton prevails, or for example attempt
ing to ventilate with cooking stove,
the reduction of mines working
force to ten men would, particularly
in these hard times, of little work and
low wages, punish the poor miner
worse than the wealthy mine opera
tor. The proper remedy it seems to
me would be to punish, by fine or
imprisonment or both, the mine own
er or his superintendent after proof
of guilt before a court of competent
Jurisdiction. Little harm would,
however, result to any party, no mat
ter how guilty they might be, in at
tempting to compel obedience to
this section in its present shape, for
there is no penalty of any kind at
tached, in case the mine superin-
tendent should refuse to reduce the
working force to ten men after being
so notified by the Inspector.


One hundred cubic feet of air per
minute person employed, is neces'
sary for the sanitary condition Of
any mine, however harmless its gases
may be, but it IS neither wise nor ex.
pedient nor possible so discharge this
column of wind at the face Of leach
and every working place" in the
mine. The manner of the distribu.
ton of the air Of mines, it is true
forms the essential particular in ven
tilation, and there may be very mucl
more than 100 cubic feet of air pei
man per minute passing through thu
intake and discharging at the upcast
and the working places of mine b.
in a very defective condition, yet i


one hundred men were employed il


a mine and 10000 cubic feet of al


per minute were made to sweep alonI


"such and every working face" yol


would soon hear a clamor raised "w


have too much wind here" Requir


100 cubic feet of air per minute pc


person employed to be the leas


amount of current air in circulatio


in the mine, and provide that ever


working place shall, under all circum1
Year: 1878

o, dull, dark days, with laden skies,
And sense of sorrow in the air,


With chill winds wailing like voice
That feebly echoes the despair


OF some heart stricken unto death,
Whose hopes are buried past recall,
Der whom all skies will ever hang
In gloom and darkness like pail;
Say, is not Nature one with mani
And must she not in some way show
All feelings, passions, hopes that move
His heart, in their resistless blowr
Year: 1878

IT appears by q foreign letter that the
italian government has great faith in the
eucalyptus tree as means of destroying the
malaria which exists in the neighborhood of
Rome. Ithas made concession of five
hundred hectares Of land to the monks of La
Trappe, who reside short distance outside
the wall of the city on condition that the
monks undertake to plant certain number
of the above trees every year. They are
growing at Ire Foutana no fewer than fifty
sorts of the eucalyptus, but it seems that the
variety known as the blue tree of Australia
has thus far proved the best, specimens only
eight years old measuring yard in circum-
ference at the stem. There is every reason to
believe that great benefits will result from the
extensive planting of this tree in and around
Rome.
Year: 1878

Rockland Courier: A Rockland man gave
vest into his wife's hands to be repaired, and
when he came home to dinner she showed
him three pencil stubbs, piece of chalk, four
watch keys. nineteen matches, six pants and
four coat buttons, receipt for making milk
pinch, buckle, blank lottery ticket, small
handful Of cloves part of a roll of lozeDges,
three seat coupons to a last winters lecture,
poker chip and chew of gum that had slipped
down into the lining of the vest through hole
in the pocket. 1t was the most startling dis
closure the Rocklana man had seen since he
had read the cipher dispatches.
Year: 1878

THE Marquis of Lorne says shrewd things
in sharp way. In his speech taking leave
of the electors Of Argyleshire he took occa.
sion to remark that there are certain weak
vessels in every country who desire to show
their strength by doing eccentric things, and
independence from every influence is among
those features of strength of character which
such vessels always wish to display.
Year: 1878

THE Grant movement appears to be on
the increase, and the Democrats are turning
their thoughts to Bayard. There is another
name slowly coming into prominence. If the
policy of the Treasury prove success the
head of that Department will win great
honor, and John Sherman will step to the
front
Year: 1878

THE New York Telegram is now to be
added to the list of humorous-paragraph
papers. 1t announces that Tilden will vol
unfairly appear before the Potter committee
and testify in regard to the cipher dispatches.
The TeLedrnm will please step to the head.
Year: 1878

We do 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 guaranty Of good faith.


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

poet stole to the EDITORS room
With a roll of manuscript long
face of gadness and joy he wore.
And never a thought OF wrong.
The editor snickered in gloatsome glee,
As editors sometimes do;
And the poet uneasily sat and eoze
On the reportorial crew.
A rush-a sound Of breaking glass.
Ali twas a scene of wOeI
And the mangled remains of fledglng bard
lmpinged on the pave below.
HIS friends for vengeance swift and sure
All howied and likewise cried.
But twas no use, for the Jury said,
'Justifable homicide"


Shoe and Leather Reporter.
Year: 1878

THE correspondent whose inquiry is
headed "Lght Wanted" will, if he have
patience to wait, probably find an answer to
his question in the report of the Blaine in
vestigating committee.
Year: 1878

BENJAMIN HUNTERS S chances of hanging
are uncommonly good. Even If Governor
Mcclellan should decide to reprleve him the
reprieve would be apt to be delayed until a.
Ter the execution
Year: 1878

We know the MANA man will sit up
nights for week and do an enormous amount
Of thinking in the daytime, and after pennipg
his thoughts on paper and rewriting them about
half dozen times, will burst into an editorsl
Room about half hour before going to press
with "I don't know whether you can make IL
out or not, it was little point that hadn't
seen noticed, and just thought I'D scratch it
off. Get 1t in this issue?"
Year: 1878

Bob Ingersoll is believed by the Chicago
Times to be bold man. "He stood right up
in Cincinnati-in Cincinnatil--and declared his
belief that there was no hell And in Cincin-
natl one can smell the sulphur
Year: 1878

A peice OF tin foil which has been
inGented with speech in the Phonograph
by the inventor, Edison, may he seen at
this office. We are obliged to orr
Washington correspondent for the same,
and only wish hc had sent the machine
along.
Year: 1878

In faith. it becomes your immediate duty TO
subscribe for this, the first publication Of the
kind west of the Mississippi, for the extremely
low subscription price brings 1t within the
reach OF oil, while 1t makes necessary q large
subscriotiou list In order to meet expenses,
Year: 1878

There is possibility that you may not fully
understand our principles and doctrines, and
TO take our paper for year, which many coult
afford out Of mere curiosity to do, would be I,
sure method Of becoming fully informed con
cerning our faith, our works and our hopes.
Year: 1878

The division of political parties into
black and white is unnatural, for the color
of the skin has no known influence upon
the purely intellectual operations of the
mind. On any question of policy, colored
men, prejudice aside, are as apt as white
men to Disagree, and, therefore, each party
espousing a different side of the contro-
versy, would naturally embrace men of
every color.


Why is it, then, that the Democratic
party of to-day, in this State, is expected
to include all the white pOpulationf Have
the white people of Louisiana always been
unanimous in their Democracy Certainly
not. The Wing party was formerly very
powerful here, sometimes even controlling g
the State. Is Democracy any better now
than then in any degree more pure more
perfectH


The spirit of American Democracy il
simply this: The least possible amount OF
government. In other words, the greatest
possible amount of liberty for the individ
ual. The opposite0f this spirit is the incli.
nation to accumulate power in the govern.
ment, to let it replace theindividual, to have
it control and regulate affairs u OF essential t.
Year: 1878

On Wednesday next, weather perm itting,
New Orleans expects to make a public
demonstration in honor of the great and
good man who but lately filled 30 important
IA place on the stage of human affairs under
the title of Plus TX. A detailed programmed
1of the arrangements under the supervision
'of Gen. Beauregard will be found published
lin this number of the MORNING STAR as
we'll as in all the daily papers. The wis
dom of the Committee of Arrangements in
securing the services of Gen. Beauregard
in such a capacity is happy omen of sue.
cess. In fact, as an organized display the
success of the demonstration is assured in
advance. In addition to this, however, the
|selection of names for subordinate POSITIONS
indicates universality Of interest in the
occasion hitherto unknown in this city.


In fact the demonstration though origin ]
|ally intended to be Catholic, in the reli- !
Igious sense, bids fair to be Catholic in the
Iordinary sense. Numbers of prominent
Icitzens who are not Catholics are taking al
decided interest in the preparations and
intend to take part in the demonstration.
L ue llIc duO CuAEdCtCT OI our ueCeAS6O
pontif were such as appeal to the univer-
sal human heart. Independently of his


grace of Christian charity, he was by ma
lture gifted with an inexhaustible fund of
human benevolence. Kindness and con-
federation for others marked every pulsa
ltion Of his heart, and all men of every
sect and every color were his brothers.
The best proof of this is the kindly feeling
with which nearly all men, even of reli-
sgous views the most antagonstic to his
faith, regard his memory.


Thus it is that the coming demonstration
has grown out of its character of strictly
religious one and developed into universal


tribute of human affection and human re-
lspect for man who was one of the best


and grandest representatives of his race.


The world cannot lose anything by paus,
ing one day to mark it's respect for virtue


as pre- eminently embodied in the person Of


him who 80 long stood on the topmast pin


acle of human affairs, and whom the world


will now see no more.
Year: 1878

Men expect to live first and then support
the government. This is natural enough
that they can, after a fashion,
get on without civil government, but not
without something to eat. 1t follows, then,
that the support of government must bel
expected to fall and ought to fall on those
who have a surplus. Let US start them
from the point that taxation should be laid i
mot on the necessities of life, but on super
Ihuities and luxuries. Thus, by way of
example, bread is a necessity; coffee is not.


If this principle we're recognized as the
basis of taxation and could be practically
applied, much of the hardship of tax paying
would disappear. Many poor man whose
little property is assessed at, say, Sl0O0l
ands it very difficult to pay his annual tax
of $50. In fact he gets into arrears for it,,
and finally the tax collector sells him out.
He never could save the money; but in the
meantime he has been spending twenty
cents day for whiskey, which was S73
a year, or more than double his tax.


Whiskey and it's kindred of the bottle
are not the only opportunities INDUCED in,
There are tobacco, tea, coffee, silks, fine
fabrics of wool, linen or cotton, jewelry,
gold and silver ware and many other
luxuries without which people can do very
veil. If it could be 80 arranged az to
collect percentage OF the consumption Of
all such things and nothing else, nobody
would pay any tax unless he chose to do it,


and it would become certain that the bur.
den was falling on those only who were
able to bear it without suffering. The tar
would really be voluntary. But this could
not be said of tax laid on any kind oi
property apart from its consumption. A
man may own blocks of empty building
and be without any income. With what


then, shall he pay his taxes. He may hav,


no money, while it is cure that he hal
come if he is able to live luxuriously.