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Year: 1877

IMPORTANT DECISION by JUDGE BENEDICT.


In the matter OF the joint actions brought iu the
United States District Court. Brooklyn, by John u.
Hessenbuttle and John Gala against the schooner
Koon, Judge Benedict filed his decision yesterday,
allowing tho owner OF the cargo to from the
koon his whole loss. The actions were brought,
one by the owner Of the canal boat Hope,
and the other by owners OF the cargo OF the same
vessel 10 damages resulting from tho sinking
Of the canaboat November D. 1875, tho loot OF
the per foot OF seventy ninth street. East River. The
Hope sunk BY the luke OF tho anchor OF the Koon
knocking n holo IN her while swinging IRON hcr moor
ings Hence the action on the ground that tho
schooner had been guilty OF negligence. The Judge
says:"I am OF the opinion that II Is negligence for
vesse lying the Koon was, to allow her anchor 10
hang she cid The Of the Hope told the mate
Of the KoIon tnat the position OF the ancnor
gerous and tho mate did not dispute It. IL clear
that the Kolon was guilty OF negligence" The Judge
further finds that II was case OF mutual fault bc
tween the canal boat and the schooner that they
came In contact. and allows, as there no dam
ages to tho Koon, decree to the OF the Hope
TOR one-half his damages.
Year: 1877

The Republicans of Maine achieved yester-
day good, subtantial off.year victory. The
majority of Gov. Connor is larger than he
had two years ago and his plurality over Will
liams is much larger, Of course nobody ex-
poets such majority in an off-year as is
thrown under impulse of presidential elec-
tion, and the Democrats were hopeful of re-
ducing the majority below that of 1875, or
even of extinguishing it altogether. They
talked of tine great inroads which Williams
would make in the Republican ranks and Of
the great popular uprising against Blaine.
But as usual they were too sapguine. The
Republicans have way of taking their
ease and indulging their private fancies in
the way of voting on the years when neither
congressman nor President are to be chosen
-heinG careful haweyar to throw 4 few more
votes then the Democrats can possibly
muster. So they tantalize the old adversary
by showing him victory near at hand, but
provokingly, just out of reach; but they are
good party men at heart all the while as
abundantly appears when any emergency
requires strict drawing of the line.


The stock of Democratic hopefulness is
something marvellous; and they came up
galvanically smiling this year to their twenty
first consecutive defeat with all the sprightli-
ness of sangulne youth pervading their
battered old frame. This time they have
got few county officers here and there, and
some extra representatives in the Legislature,
which to-day however is largely Republican
in both branches. On the whole it was
very good days work for our side and shows
that the Republican party is practically rs
strong and united in Maine as it was
before "the policy'' was ever dreamed of.
We send greeting to our bretheren in other
states. We are in very good political health
and hope you will follow the same sound
hygienic methods which we have found so
eficacious.
Year: 1877

In pcst years the Western press has brought
reproach upon itself by unlimited indulgence
in offensive personalities and scurrilous abuse.
A change has however come over its spirit of
late and some of the great papers of the
Mississippi valley have taken up the work of
reform with will. Thus the st. Louis
Gtobe-Democrat, reprr -enting the high-toned
journalism of the West, dignifedly rebukes
the wanton crsonal attack of neighbor and
declines to enter into controversy in which
the weapons shall be abuse. 1t loftily says;
"Simply because we spoke of the two old
scoundrels who control the ReAublican, that
journal retorts in language which in our
judgment, is beneath the dignity of newspa-
per controversy. We can not condescend to
dispute with the venerable he-harlots at
Third and Chestnut, because they are utterly
unmindful Of the courtesies due from one
newspaper to another. If these two convicted
blacklegs can not restrain their personalities
within the bounds of decency we cannot take
notice of anything they may say."
Year: 1877

THE London Standard, commenting upon
the departure of Captain Tyson's Arctic
Expedition and its proposed plan of opera
tions, expresses the belief that the project is
impracticable. 1t thinks that it has been al
ready proved to the satisfaction of scientists
that the possibility of sustaining health and
vigor under the condition of the proposed
colony is at least questionable. 1t adds:
1t will not surprise us if. despite all care in
regard to the provisions, exercise and medi-
cine an outbreak of scurvy should paralyze
the efforts of Captain Tyson and his success
sors." But with all its apprehensions it can
not conceal its admiration for what it Justly
styles "the most daring and brilliant scheme
OF Polar adventure that sanguine courage
and scientific enthusiasm have yet
prOmptedo
Year: 1877

THE guieless Ben Butler is unable, in con
sequence of other engagements, to defend
the rioters in Pennsylvania, but he expresses
a mild astonshment at their needing law
yer, as he "never knew that man could be
arrested for simply making Speech" There
are speeches and speeches. When man
simply makes speech to a.friend advising
him to upset fruit stand or to throw brick
at policeman, and his advice is taken, it is
no stretch of law to collar the orator and
hold him as an accomplice in the deed. When
the simple speech-making goes to the extent
OF exciting furious and reckless men to riot
and plunder, and to destruction of life and
property, the simple speech-maker stands in
the position of the trumpeter in the fable
who tried to beg off because he did no fighting
himself, but who was incontinently slain as
the worst in the whole lot
Year: 1877

we DO not read anonymous etters 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: 1877

The Hawkeye man can't under stand why it
is that constable with search warrant, look
ing for whiskey in temperance town, can
search for i've days and never get a smell,
while dry and thirsty man, in the same town
steps out of his Office, walks briskly away,
and in three minutes is seen emerging from
an adjacent alley, wiping his perspiring mouth
with his cuffs.
Year: 1877

AFTER mentioning that the season Of the


New England boot and shoe trade has virtually


ended, the Shoe and Leather Reporter sug-


gests that it is good time for contemplating


the possibilities and probabilities of the future


with calmness and deliberation. 1t says:


Before taking fresh start it is desirable that


all parties in interest should calculate the


chances of the next years business nicely


and wisely. The rewards have not been


equitaby distributed of late. The makers of


leather have been forced, against their will, to


pay such high rates for their raw materials


that they will be obliged to work for nothing


or less until they are in position to make


better terms with the people they buy Of. 1t


is an anomalous state of things that a COM


modify should be inordinately abundant, and
yet excessively dear, for continuous period,
as has been the case with hides. 1t is a mat
ter,of wonder that it lasted so long, and rea-
sonable to expect that it is about over.
There are several signs which point in that
direction, the most significant of which are
that stocks are accumulating merely in
first hands, but in the hands of adventurous
and over-sanguine spectators, and that the
extent of the decline cannot be determined
simply because there are no transactions by
which to measure it. Taking into view the fact
that we are only at the threshold ofa lethargic
period which, according to precedent, will
hold on for a number of weeks, it may be
taken for granted that we shall soon witness
healthful change in the relationsof the
several branches of the trade to each other
1t is a great deal better for all that prices
should be SO adjusted that each may thrive
That cannot happen till one of two things
shall have occurred, to wit: fall of hides ol
rise of leather; as the latter contingency
seems quite outside the range of possibilities
we are obliged to fall back upon the alterna-
tive, that the former is essential to the res.
toration of prosperity to the trade.
Year: 1877

We do not read anonymous etters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all 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: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T..
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Year: 1877

terpretation of the State Supreme Court, which
holds that the law did not pass, the case VIII
be tried on its merits, and, IN any event, will
again go to the Supreme Court OF the United
States. So long as the case is not formally
disposed of by the Court of last resort there
will be doubt, which all bad better Keep IN
mind


we have no special reason tor wishing to
dampen the hopes of those who are interested
in sustaining the validity of these bonas, but
it is better tina, they should not hug delus
ION. No copy of the opinion of the Court has
vet been received in Illinois, but we have
seen the statement OF a person who heard 1t
delivered and he AYERS very positively that
the mandate to the Court below is perempto.
ry TO follow the finding of the State Courts
that the law in question never was passed the
legislature and that the bonds issued under
it are void The Chicago Tribune in its re.
marks referred to by the Republican seems to
have correct comprehension of the case,
and indeed we are told that no intelligent
Chicago lawyer entertains any other view.
Year: 1877

cabinet have the slightest knowledge. The
general impression in regard to the functions
of the commission are, however, probably
correct, to wit: that they are first to attempt


~ buldose Packard into backing down as
governor Of Louisiana and accepting some
other good thing; or, if he proves to have too
much back bone for that, then the commission
are to make such report as will enable
HAYES to back out of the Louisiana business
entirely by turning it over to congress, where,
OF course, with a democratic house and re-
publican senate, nothing will be done and
Louisiana will be remanded to two or four
years more Of military and carpetb do.
mination.
Year: 1877

While the result of the town election in
Ottawa on Tuesday has no political signifi-
canoe, the large majority cast for Mr.. Lynch
is full of meaning as to the position and feel.
ings of our people in regard to paying the
Fox River Valley railroad bonds The large
vote cast for Stout and Neely-especially the
former-nust be regarded in the light of a
personal compliment, due for their faithful
services heretofore as assistant supervisors, -
compliment all the more emphatic from the
fact that they were opposed by such excellent
and ordinarily popular men as VIM. Ii. Hull
and d. Hollecker.
Year: 1877

The Ottawa Republican takes pains to write
quite lengthy editorial TO cast doubt ou the
anality of the recent decision of the Supreme
Court OF the United States in regard TO the
Fox River Valley Railroad bonds. The gist
of Its remarks is embraced in the following
paragraph:


The late decision of the L. $. Supreme
Court, reversing the decision of the Circuit
Court simply sends the Case back for new
trial on the ground that the rejected evidence
on the passage or non-passage OF the bill
should have been admitted by the Circuit
Court. Both parties had stacks of evidence
all OF which will be admitted IN the next trial
Should the court not see III 10 follow the in
Year: 1877

The health of the pope, which week ago
caused some uneasiness, was on the 2d pro
nounced again "excellent,' and he was able
to receive many Italian and foreign visitors.
He has, however, completely lost the use of
his limbs, and Is carried about in chair.
His expected death a week ago served to
bring vividly to the surface the discord be-
tween The preales and to indicate that there
will be hot times over the succession on his
death.
Year: 1877

Our neighbor Chauncey Hart has dog that Is remarkable for his apparent knowledge of the English language, if his owners statement about the dog is true--and as to veracity there is no queS tion. Mir. Hart is blacksmith by trade, and has an acre or so of land which he cultivates, and during the season of hoe ing he rises at about four o'clock in the morning to subdue the weeds. His dog is always with him. When the time ar rives for making fire to prepare the morning meal, Mr. Hart goes into the house, makes the fire, and says to the dog, "Go call your mistress He goes immediately to the bedroom and wakes her. If she does not notice the call, the dog will pull the clothing off the bed, and will not leave until she gets up. If MT. Hart sees pack. peddler coming, he says to the dog, Carlo, there is pack k-peddler coming" He will start off at once, and prevent his coming on to the premises.

 On another occasion Mir Hart walked over to a neighbours house just as the neighbor came home with some bones he had procured for his chickens and threw them out of his wagon. Carlo got one of them and brought it near where they were talking. When Mr. Hart saw it he said, "Carlo, that bone don't belong to you; go carry it back where you found 1t, and go home" Carlo carried the bone back 10 the place where he got it, trotted off about ten rods toward home and sat down waiting for his master. The neigh bor also had dog of about the same size that Was in hearing. Seeing Carlo where he had sat down, the other dog picked up the bone and carried it to within few feet of Carlo; there he laid 1t down and came back a little way. Af- ter waiting while and seeing that Carlo did not take it, he placed it little near. CT, came back as before, and waited for Carlo to take it; but Carlo would not. The third time the bone was placed near er--very close to him this time--but he would not touch it, but sat there until Mir. Hart went home. When he came up to where the dog Was sitting he said, Carlo, you may have that bone now. ? The dog immediately picked 1t up and carried il home Nothing was said to either dog but the order It carry back the bone. But both dogs seemed to know what was said the visited dog was de- termined that Carlo should accept the prOtfered bone as pledge of friendship and as hospitable eDtertainneHt.-- UA- i0nctNe (CO'4nl Letter to LarJ0rd Times.
Year: 1877

Slowly tolled the deep. toned bell of the church of St. Louis, while from be- meath its massive arches issued forth long funeral procession. By the coffin, covered with white satin, and blazing with rich silver plates, the snowwhite plumes of the hearse with it's draperies of spotless white, and by the four young girls. who, dressed in white, and wear ing long white veils reaching to the ground. each holding in her hand one of the four white ribbons attached to the coffin, might be known that she whom they were bearing to her last resting place was young, while the long train of carriages that followed bore ample testi- mony to the wealth and rank of the de ceased. The priests clad in their long scarlet tunics, and bearing aloft blazing torches, their company headed by the
Year: 1877

When young heart grows weary and
sorrowful Ger the little ills Of life that
no one can hinder, it is better to bear
than to murmur. It is always better to
turn away from trouble than to add to
it by brooding over it in sadness. The
heart ever feeds freely on the food we
prepare for it. If the mind is busy with
scenes and achievements of the pure, the
good, and the beautiful, little room will
be left for despair. Do the trials of life
thicken about us? So have they done
to others. Is the journey of earth dark
ened by defeat, hope hidden away in
the chamber of disappointment So has
it often been to others of our race, and
so it will be through all generations.


But in the darkest of life's dreariness
some bright memories will steal over us,
and from the prayer of the never forgot
ten past will be found volume of good
thought wherever bitterness has been
sweetened by hope; and sorrow may be
mellowed by gladness. None are 50 poor
but others have tasted of poverty's cup
before them none are SO grieyed but
others have borne sorrow equal to their
own: and none are 80 cast down as to
be below the lowest of their race.


Some friends may prove treacherous,
others will be true. Some hearts may
betray us, others will support and COM
fort us. We may be strangers cast In a
lonely country, with little to enliven or
encourage good living. but nearer than
ever will come back the joys of other
days, and more fond than ever will be
their memory.


It's something to have lived some good
days something to have known what
Joy is, and what happiness is. when it is
rightly understood. It would be rare
life and rarer history to find a whole
life of unalloyed enjoyment; it would
be wonderful if more than one-half oul
days should pass in perfect pleasure
Courage, then, is the cure for disap.
pointment. A busy life full of good
thoughts, useful employment and self
denial-a heart oyerhowing with love
for humanity, will clear the blue sky o.
its darkness, and let in the sunshine Of
brightness and good cheer.
Year: 1877

The industrious man always finds
more leisure for study and investigation
than the lazy, shiftless man. The busy
men keep the world moving the busy
men sustain the farmers clubs, the
Oranges and the main projects of pro-
gress and improvement. The lazy man
is always full of trouble; he never sue
ceeds /; he is always finding fault with
every one but himself. 1t is the idle
men who mutiny at sea, and there IS a
wor Id Of philosophy in realizing the fact.
We remember an old Cape Cod sea cap
tain who, when there was nothing else
to do, ordered the watch on deck to scour
the anchor. Some one calls cheerfulness
the daughter Of employment, and it is
certainly true that occupation is the nee
essary basis of all enjoyment. Men who
have half dozen irons in the fire are
not the ones to go crazy. Put in all the
irons you have, shovel, poker, tongs and
all. without the least fear of being too
busy. 1t is the man of voluntary or
compelled leisure who mopes and pines
himself into the mad-house or the grave.
Employment is natures physician, ac-
cordlng to Galen, and any occupation
which is innocent is most certainly bet
ter than none at all.


Schiller declared that he found the
greatest happiness in life to consist in
the regular discharge of some mechani-
cal duty. Motion is natures law; &C.
tion is mans salvation, physical and
mental. Stagnant water becomes putrid,
flowing water is pure and sweet. Idle
ness IN man is just as surely moral
death. No thoroughly occupied man
was ever yet miserable, though he may
have had an idle moment in which he
may have thought SO. Discomfort arises
under want of occupation, and that no
man need be without who is blessed with
health, eyes, hands and the usual ply
sical endowments. Real life is thought
and action. and usefulness lengthens our
days. Laziness, like rust, eats into the
very heart of our strength !; it is the
paralysis of the soul. Nature never lies
fallow if we grow nothing useful, be
sure we shall ourselves run to weeds.


And yet nine persons out of ten are
looking forward to the coveted hour
when they shall have leisure to do moth
ing, or, in other words, to allow their
energies to stagnate. False philosophy.
All power appears in transition; the
FREELY only glows when upon the wing.
Keep busy, that is the. true motto. That
man among US is only truly wise who
lays himself out to work till life's latest
hour, and that is the man who will live
the longest and who will live to the
most purpose. We live in deeds, not in
years. Keep busy


"Absence of occupation is not rest;


A mind quite vacant is mind distressed"
Year: 1877

Probably every living thing is more
or less subject to depression of spirits
by which we mean to include animals;
and we are by no means sure that the
malady does not extend to the vegetable
kingdom as well.


Is there any earthly cure Certainly.
Plenty of them; just as there ere for
chills and fever. but in like manner they
will not always work. We know one
man who walks off an attack, another
who rows it off, another who rides it off
in the saddle. These are all dyspeptics.
The same prescriptions, aided perhaps
by lemon juice or dilute nitromuriatic
acid, often prove effective in the case of
bilious folks.


When the cause is, as it often is, ner.
vous exhaustion, good remedy is cessa-
tion of all work, religious and secular,
plenty of sleep, and, if the constitution
can bear it, cold water bathing.


Always an ounce of prevention is
worth pound of cure, for when the at
tack has once set in it requires strong
effort of the will to take active measures
for relief


1t is not an easy task to fight off the
blues. Misfortune, sorrow, individual
temperament, and even the accidents of
wind and weather, often combine to
weigh down the soul until, in extreme
instances, insanity may be the result
Probably that which comes nearest to
being panacea is occupation, by which
is meant anything that will interest the
brain or quicken the circulation. Those
who suffer most from the blues permit
mind and body to relax before the at
tack is fully developed.


Nevertheless there is no rule which
can be trusted to cure every one. Each
must find out what is most effectual in
his own case and if he prays for aid
from on high, he must rise up and go
right to work helping himself, if he ex-
poets his prayer to be answered.-Chrss-
tian Union.
Year: 1877

failure And yet she had been inno-
cent before the tribunal of his judg-
ment she was blameless. Yet she was
dead-what mattered this long-deferred
discovery-it was too late now! Too
late for her, but not too late for her chill
dren. They should be his, and he would
be their father. And it was even so.
Richard and Violet Gray went forth no
more from Ireton Hall henceforth their
home was with the early friend of their
mother.


Unbounded was the surprise in Mil
ford when it was known that Mr.. Steele
had adopted two strange children but
still greater was the astonishment when,
on the following Sunday. the rich man
walked into church, leading the orphans,
one on either side. The good work was
begun, and it went on until Richard
Steele's whole nature was revolutionized.


Years afterwards, while he lay on his
death-bed, loving and grieving friends
were around him, and at the very last
he fancied he saw the face of his lost
Violet lowering above the couch.


And at his funeral there were few dry
eyes, for the poor had learned to bless
his bounty, and the sick and distressed
offered up his name in their prayers.


And, therefore, say not that because
men are harsh and cold there is no oasis
in the desert, for in every human heart,
however strong. there is fountain of
sweet water, and happy is he who breaks
the finty barriers and allows the stream
to gush forth.
Year: 1877

being at last expended, she returned to
the wise man, anxiously begging to have
a fresh supply Of the same liquid. "You
foolish woman II said the soothsayer {:


.there was nothing in the bottle but


brown sugar and water. When your
husband is in a passion, hold your
tongue, and, my life for it, he will not
lay finger upon you 2