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Year: 1879

brave actor can be heroic In real lie as he affects
to be when pcrsonatug hcros part upon stage and
Is always ready to risk his hie to that Of woman
This is fully illustrated in story from real life entitled
THE Actors Secret" which will be commene next
week In No. % 0l the Nae York WssklE lE.-AdR
Year: 1879

craft we'll knows 1t; so does the big
chief terrier.


No benefit can be secured under
the taxation clause; for, unlike
the present Constitution compell-
ing uniformity and equality in
taxation, the new novel admits OF
specific taxation, admits Of differ
ent rates of tax being fixed on diff
ferent kinds of property, go that
the grand end would follow, should
the new Constitution be adopted,
should Kearneyism be triumphant,
that we will have the railroad
monopoly passing bill fixing the
taxation on railroad stock and
paraphernalia at comparatively
low rate.


In conclusion, it is plain that the
people of this county, who think
that, by voting for the new Soon
stitution, the railroad company are
liable to be 'cinched," are wide ol
the mark, and the quicker the peo.
pie understand their situation in
reference to the monopoly-the
quicker they appreciate that honest
officers under the existing laws
will do all that can be done fol
them-then so soon will the burden
OF oppression he lifted from of
their shoulders.


OLD CONSTITUTION.
Year: 1879

One election is over, but there will hardly
be more than time to get In the official re-
turns before the political managers, wh Sc
very breath is agitation, will be hard at work
here In Philadelphia In setting up states for
the February election, and all over the coun-
try as we'll as here into getting their ma
chimes into working order for the Presiden-
tial elections next year.
Year: 1879

New YORK Nov. 1O-The grain trade met at
Produce Exchange this morning and decided
to rescind the rules referring to the GENITAL ays-
confer with the board of managers Of the Ex-
change as to the advisability Of continuing the
old system of weighing and measuring grain.
Year: 1879

Baltimore lieutenant of police, while sit
ting behind the desk, was accosted by re-
specially attired man. evidently just recov-
ering from q hard drinking bout, who re-
quested the officer to send him to Jail. This
the lieutenant refused to do, when the man
became violently abusive and had to be
elected from the station. On reaching this
pavement he walked up the street and meet
ing policeman repeated his request to be ar
rested, which was again refused. He became
"You won't arrest me, won't you 7" struck
him two heavy blows over the head with a
heavy cane which he carried. The officer was
partially stunned by the blow, but recovered,
and grasping his assailant marched him into
the station, where the individual gave the
historic name OF John Jones. He was com-
mitted for the action Of the Criminal Court
for assaulting the officer, and few hours
later was comfortably lodged In jail, accord
ing to his expressed desire.
Year: 1879

No woman likes to be ugly, and she who
is born a beauty is fortunate indeed But
let not the plain or even the ugly girl despair
of acquiring a sufficient amount of beauty
to render her attractive. Do not let a fool
isl fear, a silly shame, OIL worse still, su-
perstitious prejudice against what is called
vanity, prevent you from trying TO improve
your looks, if you are not naturally beauty,
or from trying to preserve and place at the
best advantage to charms which you already
possess.


When a woman loses a desire to please,
she loses half her charms. Nothing is more
conducive TO beauty than cheerfuiness and
good humor and no morose or unhappy
woman can be good-humored and cheerful.
Then there are vast numbers of ill-tempered
womed who are ill-tempered because they
are ugly. They do not know what is the
matter with themselves neither do their
friends know. But the incessant neglect
and indifference with which they are treated
finally does its work of embittering their
feelings until the effect upon their moral
character is most pernicious. Every woman
ought to understand that nothing short of
deformity can make a woman utterly unat.
tractive, provided she will study her points
aud points of attractiveness every woman has


n BldCtlul
can be required by any woman, and is
powerful charm. The best grace is periect
naturalness. Still, you must study your
self, and form your manners by the rule OF
that art which is but a carrying out of the
law of nature. But if it is your nature to
be forever assuming some unpicturesque,
ungraceful attitude, pray help nature with
little art. If you are stout, avoid the
smallest chair in the room; and be sure, if
you do sit on it, not to lean back Oh it with
your hands folded in front of you, lust be-
low the line of your waist, especially while
the present fashion lasts. If you are thin,
do not carry yourself with your chin pro-
truding and your spinal column curving
like the bowl of a spoon. DO not wear
ilimsy materials made up without rufe
or puff or founce, to fill up the hard out
lines of your bad figure so cruelty defined
by the tightly pulled-back draperies. Study
the art of dress.


We once knew very plain woman who
dressed so tastefully that it was an absolute
pleasure to look at her. If you have been
Inopng until you are sick with the thought
of your own hopeless ugliness, be up aud
doing. Forget your disappointment for
get the past and the sneers of your own
family over the mistake that you have made
There are still friends to be won. There is
work TO be done. Rouse yourself, aud cast
off the enervating distrust of self, and the
moral cowardice which forbids you to assert
Young Woman's Journal.
Year: 1879

Those who would be in health do not sit
still in their houses to breathe such air as
may come To them, but they walk abroad
and seek out rural and elevated spots that
they may inhale the invigorating breezes /;
and thus those godly souls who would be in
vigorous spiritual state do not merely
think upon such holy doctrines as may come
into their minds iu the ordinary course of
thought, but they give time TO meditation.
they walk abroad in the fields of truth, and
endeavor to climb the heights OF gospel prom.
ises. II is said that Enoch walted with
God here is not an idle but an active com.
munion. The road to bodily health is said
to be a footpath, and the way TO spiritual
health is TO exercise ones self in holy con.
temptation.
Year: 1879

will only say that have heard as good preaching
In America a. ever heard In England, and will
only add in conclusion, the truth in which none
OF your readers need instruction, that whatever
talent God has given to any Of his servants, II
these, whether many or few, are diligently i'm
proved and faithfully employed in the service of
our common Lord and Master the possessor OF
them need not doubt that he shall at last be well
coined with the plaudit "Well done, good and
faithful servant enter thou into the joy Of thy
Lord. Yours truly,


JAMES BUCKHAM
Year: 1879

Apparently the present anxiety OF the
Russians in Turkey is to get away. They
have made their defnitive treaty, have all
their relations with their late enemy we'll
understood, have put the Christian popula-
tions north of the Balkan out of the domin-
ion of the Moslem and those to the south
in greatly ameliorated position, and are
eager, perhaps, to see how the machinery
that they have put in motion will op-
crate when they are gone. But there
already appears on the scene the initiation
of the proceedings that are to force the Sec
ond stage of the solution of the Eastern
question-Who shall be dominant in the
east of Europe? What shall be the fate of
the Continental parts of the Ottoman EN-.
pire? and who shall rule the people of those
countries? These are the points of the
Eastern question. And the first doubt
that was to be determined was set
tied in the late war by the col
lapse of the Turkish resistance. It
cannot be the Ottoman, because he is beaten
out and is beyond revival, and if not him
not England, because England could act
there only through him. Shall it be Russia
or Austria? That is the next point in the
problem. England moved Austria's posses.
sion of Bosnia with deliberate purpose to
put a spoke in Russia's wheel; and there
are already appearances that sort of moral
collision is already in progress. Out of
that will grow the passions and rivalries
that will produce the next forcible solution.
Year: 1879

Apparently the committee charged with
the duty of inquiring into the acts of those
two ministries chosen by Marshal Mac
fight the republican party in his famous
struggle of 1877 does not mean that the
theme of that investigation shall die away
quietly and without an echo. 1t will be re-
membered that Marshal MacMahon, under
the excitement of public agitation stirred
denly dismissed with insulting circum-
stances the republican Ministry of which
Jules Simon was the head, and chose q
Ministry from the Right in defiance of the
principle Of government by the majority.
This was tho De Broglie Ministry, which
don. but which was succeeded by another
of the same character, which, it was
thought, would be less obnoxious because
it's members were less conspicuous party
men. Finally came the dissolution and
the return of an Overwhelming republican
early acts of the new Chamber was to ap-
point q committee to investigate the acts of
those two ministries of the gouoe7nnent de
combat, and this is the committee that now
proposes to recommend impeachment
People will be able to judge fully of the
propriety of this course only when &C
auainted with the facts the committee dis
covered. It has been thought that the
process of impeachment would be now q
source of injurious and needless excite
ment; but the committees persistency
must necessarily be based on clear
knowledge of important facts.
Year: 1879

A week ago we pointed out to the men,
bers of the Society of American Artists the
danger they would run by policy of artis-
tic exclusiveness. That the warning we
then gave was needed is shown by the petty
squabble between the Hanging Committee
and some artists whose pictures have been
refused or badly hung. Absurd as it may
seem, the most indignant of these offended
members of the society, after resigning in
i'll advised and hot haste because his large
canvas was rejected, was permitted to take
from the walls, after the hanging of the
gallery was completed, smaller picture.


Another member, more temperate, who
grumbled because his most important pic
ture was sent home, did not resign, but on
request was allowed to carry away one
of his two other pictures which were
given place in the gallery, because it was
hung too high. Finally the remonstrances
of q third discontented one, who intends to
resign, had such an effect on the Hanging
Committee that they allowed him also to take
a picture away. Now, this is all child's play,


and is not worthy of sensible men and true
artists Either the Hanging Committee have
the power to accept and hang as they think
best such pictures as members or non-mem-
bers send in or they have not. If not, what
are they elected for? In either case, after the
pictures are hung it is ludicrous and un-
dignifed proceeding for members to at
tempt or the society to allow them to with
draw their pictures. It is, however, gen.
orally understood that members of society
have more claims on Hanging Committee
than outsiders. Such should not be the
Year: 1879

When q man has property for which he
has paid or is expected to pay his exclusive
right to unload the same must be conceded,
no matter whether he operates with shovels
or kilograms. Mr.. James r. Keene, the
well known operator in wheat, has there
fore the sympathy of the public in his in
dignation at the rascally liberty that
was taken with his name on Thursday
night The despatch purporting to be from
Mr.. Keene, and ordering the sale of any
quantity of wheat at Chicago, even IL IL
had failed to work any of the mischief
which it temporarily occasioned, was as un-
pardonablo an outrage as the theft of Mr..
Keene's pocketbook or private accounts
would have been, for, although the aggrieved
gentleman has lost nothing but his temper
by the operation, the rogue or rogues who
managed the swindle did whatever busi-
ness they accomplished solely upon the
name and reputation Of the man whose sigma
ture they used. II the perpetrators of the
fraud should be detected no punishment
will seem to the public to be too severe, for
the telegraph is an instrument which can be
used to the injury of almost any person or
business, tho only preventive of swindling
or malice being the fear Of consequences.
Year: 1879

An important decision was made by an
English Judge in o recent case tried at Liver
pool, on point that may be the same in law
on both sides of the Atlantic, and if SO is OF
interest to the public and to the police of
this city. Sewell, policeman, was shot
dead in the street by man named Carey.
whom he had stopped, and Carey was tried
on the charge of murder, but under the
ruling made by the Judge it was clear that
the shooting was not murder and the.pris-
oner escaped conviction for capital
offence and was held guilty of man.
slaughter. The circumstances of the
homicide were these:-The policeman met
the culprit in the street and demanded to
know the contents of bundle the prisoner
had with him. But the prisoner refused to
satisfy him, and when the policeman tried
forcibly to examine the bundle, the other
drew revolver, exclaimed ''Take thatr and
fred the fatal shot. The Judge held that
the officer was not justified in laying hands
on the prisoner, and was, therefore, en-
gagged in an illegal act when he was shot,
and he directed the jury "that the pris-
oncr could not be convicted on the capital
charge" As it appears to be standing
order that the police in this city shall stop
every man they meet at night with bun
die, and rs that is one of their principal
duties, this judgment on q case growing
out Of O similar activity may interest them.
Year: 1879

The advance of the Zulu army, according
to the plan of attack shown by the diagram
which we publish elsewhere this morning,
was evidently made with q very complete
knowledge of the British position and a
good conception of the invaders manner
of movement and system of covering
their trains. The horns, as it were, OF
the Zulu order of battle closed
like pair of enormous nippers on the
the troops from their supplies of ammuni-
tion by the capture of the supply train.
The front attack was, it appears, regularly
covered by skirmishers, behind whom came
q sufficient force to draw the whole atten-
tion of the British to the direction of the
general Zulu advance. While engaged
with what they deemed to be the whole
force of the enemy the flank movements
by the horns or "nippers" were completed,
and the unfortunate column was sur
rounded. It is clear that if the British
had suspected flank and rear attack they
would have fallen back on their wagon train
and utilized it for defence. Behind the
wagons the British might have pro-
longed desperate resistance until sue
cored, but in the open field they were
overwhelmed as they stood. It is very
probable that the concentrated fire of the
Zulus destroyed the greater number of the
troops before the former got near enough to
use the assegai. weapon that is not effect
i've at longer range than thirty or forty
vards
Year: 1879

There Is little room to doubt that, in
some quarter or another, gross and wilful
perjury has been committed in the progress
of the Vanderbilt will case. The conflicting
testimony cannot be explained away in any
other manner. 1t is not case in which one
witness takes one view of existing facts and
another witness takes another view, and in
which the two give directly opposite, but
still each in his own belief truthful, evil
dence. Hero are some witnesses swearing
to actual occurrences which other wit
nesses swear never had existence to con-
versations with persons which those
persons swear never took place; to Sc
cret and confidential negotiations with men
who in their turn make oath that they never
knew aud never saw the parties thus testi-
flying until they appeared on the witness
stand. No sane person can doubt that the
crime of wilful perjury has been committed
by some one in this scandalous case, and
as a matter of public concern the guilty
parties ought to be brought to
punishment. To suffer so self-evident
crime to pass by unnoticed Is to
offer reward to false witnesses in all such
cases, and no mans last will and testament
will be safe from assault. The District At
torney will probably regard it as his duty
to examine the testimony given before the
Surrogate with . view to ascertaining
whether there Is ground for the institution
Year: 1879




Currency is given to the report that the
Governor intends to take official action
against the Register and County Clerk on
the grounds hitherto advanced against these
officers with respect to charges made for
services under their authority, and our
Albany correspondent is of opinion that
this report is not mere idle rumor. While
we are not disposed to believe that the Gov
ernor would act in o case of this nature
without mature deliberation, we must con-
slider that decision to remove these func-
tionaries implies that the Executive has not
fully examined the case in all it's aspects.
AS we have hitherto pointed out the facts
that are the basis of the complaints against
Messrs. Gumbleton and Loew are part of
system-it is, we believe, vicious sys-
tenn; but these men did not invent it
and have not extended it beyond the limits
at which they found it. They are not NOR
ally responsible for it +; they are not officially
to blame for it's existence. They went on
with it as they found it-a system which
had grown under their predecessors and
acquired the sanction of usage and the assent
of the many citizens who deal with these
Offices officially. Now, the citizens that
specially deal with these departments are not
of the general public that may be deceived
as to its rights and be imposed upon with
out q murmur. They are, on the contrary,
lawyers who know their rights very we'll
and are vigorous in their defence. That
they permitted this system to exist for
years is under one of their own rules an
evidence thatit has some justifable if not
strictly legal origin. They are right, as we
believe, in their endeavors to secure a re-
form. BY all means reform any part of the
public service which needs it. But do not
make victims of incumbents guilty of no
other offence than that Of administering
Offices under the system they found in op-
GRAFTON.
Year: 1879

Some Statistics OF Newspaper Making.


We are compelled this morning to again
print quintuple sheet of the HERALD to
meet the demands of advertisers who oc-
cupy sixty-eight columns of our space.
Apart from the great amount of extra labor
required to set the immense quantity of
type required by this increase of size, the
single item of stereotyping reaches ex-
traordinary dimensions AS fourteen plates
are made of each page of the HERALD our
issue of to-day calls for two hundred
and eighty plates; each of these weighs
fifty pounds, so the full set requires
about fourteen thousand pounds, or
seven tons of metal from which to print
this single edition. In round numbers
about three millions of pieces of type have
been picked up, one at time, by COM
positors to prepare the pages for the stereo-
typers, and more than hundred and fifty
men were required to set the type, make
the plates and print the paper. These
figures will give our readers some idea,
though only an imperfect one, of the amount
of work necessary to the printing of single
copy of the HERALD.
Year: 1879

THE TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR VERDICT against
. street car company yesterday will, perhaps,
convince those corporations that crippling one OF
their patrons for life is not very funny as they
sunDOsed.
Year: 1879

OUR PARIS LETTER this morning contains
some pleasant gossip concerning the theatre in
France. Since the fall of the Empire the thea
tire has taken the place of the Court in the
world of fashion and amusement.
Year: 1879

Having captured the heart of California
and the Pacific coast by sacrificing the un-
offending Chinaman. Mr.. Blaine. it will be
seen from our Richmond dispatches, is lay
ing desperate siege to Virginia and her in
teresting sisters. The Maine statesman is
the most accomplished of wooers. No one
knows better than he that ''every door is
barred with gold and opens but to golden
keys" and, of course he is too shrewd to
be placed at disadvantage in his
suit. The particular golden key with
which the Maine Senator has deter
mined to unlock the door to Virginia's
affections is railroad, the old flag and an
appropriation. and, if our dispatches accu-
rately describe the state of the young lady's
affections she is ready to throw herself into
his arms for better, for worse until per-
chance the Presidential election do them
part. This little political love making is
exceedingly interesting and we do not
wish to interfere in any way with its prog
ress. Far be it from us to forbid the
banns. But, if the contamination SO de-
voutly to be wished for is to take place,
Virginia ought to insist upon one tnlng-
namely, that Mr. Blaine settle down in the
old homestead of his maternal grandmother
to whom he SO touchingly alludes and get a
complete divorce from her Maine rival
whom he has SO long worshipped. MIR.
Blaine is gay deceiver. He turned his
back upon Pennsylvania long ago, abandon
ing her for her northern cousin. Virginia
ought to be warned in time. railroad, an
appropriation and the old flag are handy
things to have in the house, but she ought
to insist upon Mr.. Blaine remaining to
watch and preserve them against political
tramps. Does Mr.. Blaine really mean to
take his we'll filed carpet bag and settle
down in the home of his grandparent?
Virginia may yet become the grandmother
of President.
Year: 1879

An INDIAN CAMPAIGN, it would appear from
she military preparations that are making in
Washington, is expected by the War Depart
ment this spring. Montana is the seat of trouble
this time, but we shall be fortunate if hostili-
ties are confined to that section. 1t is some con-
ISOLATION to know that the administration has
learned something from past experience and is
taking time and the Indians by the fOrelock.