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Year: 1878

Miss Bessie l.. Houston's return will
be hailed with delight by her many
friends, though the greatest sympathy
is felt for her, because of her greatly
impaired health caused by the ST.
verify of the climate. By medical
advise she went to Yokohama, hop
ing to grow stronger but had grown so
weak from climatic trouble that a re-
turn home was imperative. She is now
in a very debltated condition, but we
trust with medical treatment and home
care she will soon be recovered.
Year: 1878

The Baltimore american sarcastically
remarks tEat "the negro Jones may
have been great liar, but the lies he
told must have been the most power
full on record for they made a bullet
hole through his head"


Geo. w. Bush & Son have a good
stock of their pure, hard Shenandoah
Small Stove and Nut Coal carefully
picked and expressly for family use.
Year: 1878

Last evening the Grand Opera House was
filed with q refined and intelligent audience
on the occasion of the Millard Clubs grand
concert for the relief of the yellow fever suf-
ferers. The singing was without any excep>
tion grand. Great praise is not only due the
members of the Millard Club, and those as
sisting, but to every one who gave help.
ing hand to make the concert q success,
thereby giving something to relieve the suf-
fering people in the South who at some
time will return their heartfelt thanks.
Year: 1878

A CORRESPONDENT of one of the Boston
papers says that Simmons lost the battle be-
cause he "believed the President to be as
insincere as himself in regard to his pro-
claimed purpose to divorce the civil service
from machine politics." He has abundan
reason to be confirmed in that belief now.
1t was cruel eftsr tic surrender OF his inde-
pendent political action to dismiss him with
out even character. After taking all means
to secure the approval of the Administration
Hayes dlssembled his love and kicked him
down stairs.
Year: 1878

ONE of the most heroic deeds in ancient or
modern history was that of Mr.. Barron, the
Dexter Savings Bank martyr, who laid down
his life for the protection of his trust. With
out the aid of companionship in suffering and
daring which comes in battle, or the exalta-
tion which uplifts the religious devotee who
barters earthly existence for the immediate
joy of paradise, without the glow and fire of
combat to make death easy, in the gloom of
darkness, alone and powerless in the hands
of brutal rufians. he died, not to save the
lives of those he loved, but simply because it
was duty. 1t was grand thing and worthy
all hsnor and praise. 1t is certainly becom-
ing that men see to it that the memory of the
deed fade not from the land. Elsewhere will
be found communication recommending a
contribution from such individuals as choose
to give, for the purpose of erecting monu-
ment or in some other way commemorating
this notable event..
Year: 1878

Interior regulated the amount of bonds to be
given, and if Costar could not give satisfac-
tory bonds he should step down and out.
Mr.. Blaine said the title ought to read ga bill
to relieve the Secretary of the Interior from
the embarrassment of appointing pension
agents who cannot give bonds"
Year: 1878

GEN. HALL in his lecture Wednesday
evening advanced the idea that our greatest


need to-day is rest from political agitation.
"Let us have rest" he said, "elect officers
for longer terms, have less legislative ses-
lative sessions, less enactments, and more
respect for lawmakers" Let US s'haye
rest" from this talk about too much legisla-
ton. If he wants to wake up the masses to
political action the way to do so is certainly
not to reduce the frequency Of elections OF
OF meetings where topics of national inter-
est are discussed, or of legislative assemblies
where the representatives of the people learn
the nature and methods of the law power
and acquire an intelligent interest in state
and national politics. Ralph Waldo Emer-
son never said truer words than these: ''The
town meeting is, after the high school, a
higher school. The legislature, to which


every good farmer goes once on trial, is an
academy. The mind is always better the
more it is used, and here it is kept in prac-
tce. Even cant is useful to provoke COM
mon sense" As he again says, "Congress
itself is standing insurrection, and escapes
the violence of accumulated grievances just
as the globe keeps its identity by perpetual
change" Our legislative bodies give every
man an opportunity to make his complaint
and his remedy known, and he does not
brood over a grievance to which the consti-
tuted authorities will not listen. The policy
that would do away with these opportunities
Is unrepublican, undemocratic. Its effect is
seen in the history of France. There the
states.general did not meet for over hun
dred years. When they did come together
they had to listen to the accumulated griev-
ances of century. Having no practical ex-
perence in legislation they knew not how to
redress the wrongs they were called upon to
consider, and the result of their ignorance
was the great revolution and its misery.


THE bill introduced in the Senate Wednes-
day allowing the President to appoint tenn
porary pension agents for sixty days provoked
q sharp debate. 1t came out in the course of
the debate that the bill was introduced to
meet the case Of Col. Costar, who was ap-
pointed and confirmed pension agent in New
York on Feb. 9th, but who was unable to
give the bonds required. Messrs. Conkling
and Edmunds made a sharp fight on the bill,
the former contending that if Costar could
not give the necessary bonds the President
ought TO appoint person who could. The
object OF the bill was to allow Costar to take
the office for sixty days without giving any
bond. Mr.. Conkling said it was as barefacei
an appeal for special legislation as the Senate
had ever witnessed. Mr.. Edmunds said the
bill ought not to pass, as the Secretary Of the
Year: 1878

we 90 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 a guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used,
Year: 1878

The Demand for an Investigation Unanimous


on the Democratic side and Re-echoed by


the Repubiicans-Hsyes'. cunt shown.


WASHINGTON April 25.-The confession
made by McLin. of tho Florida Returning
1t would bo safe to say that every member and
Senator had read 1t before the two Houses ad-
journed. two hours later. 1t Is months since
any single document has so enRrossed attention
at the Capitol Its FIRST emphatic effect was to be
seen on the Democratic side OF tho House. Mem
bers began suddenly recalling their own past
utterances and correcting them. The demand
for an investigation became unanimous on the
Democratic side. Men like Hewitt. who had be-
lieved the decision Of tho electoral tribunal to
be hnal. admitted that this last discovery left no
possible course open but rigorous and search
ing inquiry. The demand was echoed on tho
Republican sido Of the House. A distinguished
Republican member said before the afternoon
session was over. and said somewhat publicly,
that while the passage OF resolution OF inquiry
would have been dificut before. it became in
evitable now. The most significant feature OF
the whole round OF comment was that 1t showed
Hayess personal knowledge OF the Florida
transactions. Nobody seemed to doubt the truth
OF this confession. Everybody admitted tho
fraud the proof OF which was therein presented.
Meanwhile. the hope OF an early adjournment
disappeared in the certainty that Congress
would remain TO deal with this new phase Of an
oil auh,ao,
Year: 1878

Do They OWE 1T TO HIM ITO read the few
newspapers that favor the 70 nomin q tion of Gov.
Anthony, one would suppose that those who think
otheGyise are guilty of a crime, and that they
were seeking to deprive him of something that
was his by right. What claim has be upon the
Office more than any other competent citizen Of
the Statef What has he ever done for the Re-
publican party, that entities him to the Office
above all other meni He has voted the ticket,
the same as the balance of us; and that is all.
He held lucretiye Office for years and years,
which he held on to like grim death, never
yielding it up until he was ready to step into
the Office of Governor. Has his service to the
party been so great, that he has not yet been
sufficiently rewardedi What has he ever done
for any man, except George T. Anthony, that all
men who oppose him must be besmeared by the
chosen fewf He acts as if it were condsecen-
sion for him to consent to be Governor Of the
State; and if the law permitted, he would dis
pense with the services of all assistants, and
fill every position in the State himself If peo-
pie dislike Gov. Anthony, on account of his self
ish and repulsive manner, his strikers cannot
make them like him by abusing them; and the
party is under no obligations to re-nominate
him, when it knows that it will be q damage to
the ticket.
Year: 1878

Having last week celebrated the completion
of its 2lst year, the Chief this week starts ont on
its 22d. How many who commenced with the
first number, will answer at the roll call st the
close of the next twenty -one yearsi The Chiy
has now been published long enough to convince
even the most cautions that it 10 permanently
established, and this is good time to start in
to ride with us through the coming twenty -one
years.


We take this occasion to remark, that money
never comes aIniss to the printer. Look at yonr
labels, and see how you stand /; and whenever
you yet little spare change, do not be afraid to
send it. The harvest promises gloriously. Let
us hope that those who promised to pay after
harvest, may have such a bountiful yield that
they will fulfill their promises cheerfully. You
that have never taken the Chief are invited to
try it. If you resolve to take 10 account of the
things in it that you do not like, and to treasure
up the things that are useful and interesting to
you, you will acknowledge that the paper gives
you your two dollars worth every month in the
year.
Year: 1878

A KNOCK Down ARGUMEST.-we last week
exposed the infamy Of the editor of the Bulletin,
i'm sending copies of his paper to Mr.. Williams,
the attorney for the bondholders who have sued
the County, with articles marked, in which the
County Commissioners are denounced and op-
posed for their efforts to rid the people of load
of debt. The editor of the BalletiR says he did
not send them; but he did. Mr.. Williams has no
doubt that he did, and is satisfied why they were
sent. What other citizen of the County would
have any interest in sending him these marked
copiesi Who also, except the County officials
and legal advisers, know Mr.. Williams, or know
be was the attorney in the casef Who else
could have sent them without the prepayment
of postage by stamps, instead of violating the
law, by smuggling them in with the rest of the
mail, at pound rates 7 The exposure is complete,
and the brand is on the rump of the traitor
And how does he refute the chargef Listen:


"For the valuable services of Messrs. Price and
Perry, We have doubt but what the editor of the
Chief will support one of them for District Judge,
and the other for County Attorney, and that they
will both be defeated, usual on such occasionsT


Now, isn't that conclusive and knock k-down
answer to an infamous chargef 1t will convince
everybody of his innocence, and they will roll
in their patronage, to assist him in selling out
the people of the County!
Year: 1878

The bill of exceptions and writ of error in
the case Of Louis Therasson signed yesterday by
Judge Davis the Court Of oyer and Terminer and the
motions Tor trial and for bail pending the appeal
were set down for Saturday next.


In the action of DOrothea Beilstein for a
limited divorce from Frederick Besten, Judge Gilbert
In Brooklyn yesterday, denied motion for alimony and
counsel fec The ground of the is cruel end nh
man treatment The defendant is said to be worth tlO
900. and TO receive salary OF 81 500 year.


One part of the Brooklyn City Court has
been occupied for the past days with the trial of the
SUIT OF Augustus Maverick against Demas Barnes 10
cover three weeks salary OF the Editors OF The
Brooki Argus OF which the defendant the prOnIe
tor. Tue case closed yesterday and the jury Was
directed 10 reuder q sealed verdict this morning.


In the suit of Alexander b. Mott against
the Consumers Ice Company the jury found yesterday
for the defendant DR.. Motifs gig upset by ice
cart and ne was thrown ont and seriously injured The
Year: 1878

PICKED BLACKBERRIEs. Three quarts
Of blackberries, one quart of Vinegar, one
quart Of sugar. No spice is required
put all together at the same time into
your kettle and boil ten or fifteen minutes.
After standing a few weeks they are very
nice
Year: 1878

WHAT CONGRESS SHOULD Do.-A resolution
was introduced i'm the Pennsylvania House
yesterday calling on Congress, i'm view of the
present depression of business and want of
employment of willing labor to adopt policy
which will stimulate the erection OF public
buildings and such general system OF public
improvements as may be deemed necessary in
the near future. Referred TO the committee
on federal relations
Year: 1878

NEWSPAPER PosTAGE.-The St. Louis Post expresses the belief that it would be money in the pockets of the newspaper proprietors of this country if the various press associ-

 ation meetings, instesd of passing eulogiums on the value and independence of the pres,

 would unite in plain and honest request to Congress to carry newspaper mail matter at cost, instead of, as sr present, taking ten millions of dollars annually out of the pock- cts of the people to pay expenses for acting as . newspaper carrier. Newspapers are among the great educators of the day, and It cannot he amiss to cheapen to minimum figure the facilities for placing them before the public.
Year: 1878

GoINe FOR THE RED MEN. Every indica- ton now seems to point to large expedition to the north this season on an Indian hunt General Crook is man who keeps his pro jected movements to himself; but the opinion of military men is that the coming season will witness large force sent into the field, tho abandonment of several old, unnecessary posts, and the establishment of several new ones at more exposed points on the frontier It is also probable that the Indians since they have been transferred to the military department, will be placed under Gen. Crook who has few equals ana no superiors in deal ing with Indians. In the event that Gen Crook should decline to take charge of the unruly proteges, thon it is thought the charge will devolye on Gen. Kautz, who seems to be the next man prsferred, after Crook.
Year: 1878

Appointment physician remarked in on
hearing sdsy OF two since, that one ofthe
striking peculiarties fmany cases of sick


ness which he had been called upon to
treat, was the indssposition or ability on
the part of the patients to rally after the
disease had been broken, and they had be-
come eonvziescent. He attributed the
sIovnes Of the complete recovery to the
peculiar weather ofthe last winter and
Year: 1878

The origin of hell ringing for
swarming bees is Thus accounted for
by n correspondent of the Amer
iran Bee Journal. IAN English
man told me some time since, that
an English bee keeper said to him
that bees had no ears. aud. oi
conse, could not hear. He asked
him why he rang bells for them
when they swarmed? He answer
ed that the people were not there
allowed to cross fields and gardens
hut the law provided that a per
son conld do so If he was following
swarm of hees and the ringing
of the bell was to let the occupants
Of the premises know that he was
following a swarm of hees.
Year: 1878

The small nov who babe good
bye to Sunday School just after the
picnic, is now making a desperate
effort to regain his standing in time
for the coming Christmas tree
New Haven Register. (
Year: 1878

The bitterness of poverty is be-
ginning to he felt in the country as
il never was before. A man ac-
tually confessed in market the 9th
er morning that he was about 10
buy another dog
Year: 1878

Our police are too fat.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.


It's their club life that does It
But inst lead one of them TO cor
ner lamp post and see how easily
you can make him lean.-Pbiladel.
pbia Bullefin.
Year: 1878

The fashionable ladies who are attendants
of the Catholic Cathedral of Three Rivers,
Canada East, are very indignant at Bishop
Lafieche for sermon he recently preached
bitterly condemning tie backs. A number Of
them left the church during the sermon In
high dudgeon, and their indignation is SO
aroused that they declare they will never en-
teri again until the bishop apologies for the
open insult he has offered them. The ladies
very properly say that what they shall wear
belongs to the province Of the modiste and
not of the priest, and they further give the
reverend prelate the wholesome warning that
it is @ very dangerous business for men Of the
cloth to meddle with women's clothes and he
had best let them alone.
Year: 1878

The want of this age is men who are mol for sale. en who are honest, sound from center to circumference, true to the hearts core Men who will condemn wrong in frend or foe. iu themselves as well us others. Men whose conscieuces are as steady as the needle 10 to the pole Men who will stand for the right if the heavens totter and the earth reels. Men who can tell the truth, and look the world and the devil right in the eye Men that neither brag nor run, Men that neither fag nor finch. Men ih whom tae courage of everlasting life runs still, deep, and strong Men who know their message and tell it. Men who know their places and fill them Men W ho know their own buiness. Men who will not lie. Men who are not too lazy to work, nor too proud 10 be poor. Men who are willing to eat what they have earned, and wear what they have paid for.
Year: 1878

The facilities of the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed in California outside OF san
francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted to us will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
rates,
Year: 1878

but how modified is even this awful relic OF
barbarisml How jealous of it has the Chris
tian world becomel How it questions i'll
How it strives in a thousand ways TO miti-
gate its horrors and inhumanitiesl What
shout il sends up when two great nations
meet and settle by arbitration a question
which in any previous age would have been
a cause of wari The duel, too, is in disgrace.
Slavery is abolished nearly everywhere on the
face of the globe. Prisons have been reform
ed. The insane, formerly forsaken of man,
and supposed to be forsaken of God, are
tenderly cared for by every Christian state.
A thousand charities reach out their helpful
hands to the unfortunate on every side. The
ma ions are brought every day nearer to one
another, in the interchanges of commerce,
and in the knowledge of and respect for one
another Popular education is augmenting
its triumphs and enlarging its area every
day. And this record of improvement is
sealed by vital statistics which show that the
average duration of human lite has been
slowly but lndisputably increasing from de-
cade to decade.


The world improves, but 1t improves as
the tree grows, without observation" The
work of one mans life is small when applied
to twelve hundred millions of people. but it
tells IN the grand result We discover a
great nest of corruption in our government
and are tempted TO despair but we break it
up. There are so many vicious men around
rs that we feel as if the world was going to
the dogs, yet the recoil and outcry and pro-
test we make show that We are more sensi-
tive to the apprehension of what is bad than
we were formerly. The world improves,
and the man who can not see it has a very
good reason for suspectiDg that there is some
thing morally at fault in himself.
Year: 1878

The match box, the wall and the carpet
are the three substances upon which the
average woman Will consent to light a
march, and it should be noticed, as a curious
and as yet unexplained fact. that no woman,
in any circumstances, dreams of lghtin :
matches on the under side of marble man.
tel piece. Man, on the other hand, regards
the msntel piece the natural com plement
of the match, and if he happens to be near
one when about to light match. uniformly
scratches il on the under side of the marble.
Some men prefer to light matches on the
soles of their boots. except, of course, when
the soles in question are damp The vast
majority of male human beings, whether
men, boys or advocates of female dress
reform, light their matches on their trousers
Year: 1878

England's position in the Oriental difficult
ties isnot improved by the complication in
regard to her fleet, which may yet involve
her in war. or failing that infict upon her a
humiliation which must prove so mortifyiBg
TO the nation as to excite great bitterness
against the government 1t would be well
for Earl Beaconsfeld to have his windows
insured, for it may be their turn next
Within a very short time the British
fleet could have gone to Constantinople
with prestige and effect BY wise and
adroit diplomacy the way could have been
smoothed for 1T to appear in the Golden
Horn, even now, with that easy eclat which
with the prime minister passes for success
But blunder follows blunder and the end IS
not yet. Some days since the British feet
was ordered to Constantinople because
England was kept in doubt as to terms of
imical to her, was determined to take q
guarantee against Russia. But the terms
were made known the same day, and the
order to the fleet was countermanded. That
countermand was an expression of England's
satisfaction with the terms made. and it pre-
sented the advance of the feet in the light
of step that England was prepared to take
if uncertain of Russia's course or dissatisfied
with it. And now that the fleet has again
been ordered to CoDstantinople Russia has
the right to regard this act in the
light in which it was evidently
regarded by the British government
on the former occasion. That Russia did 50
regard it is certain. from what has followed
for the sultan's response to England is
simply Russia's response to him. England
requested the sultan's leave TO send her ships
to the Bosphorus, and as the sultan is at the
mercy of the Russians he could not give
such a permission without reference to
them. He was under heavy bonds not to
do so. He could only reply that this
would justify an act on the part
OF Russia that it was imperative for him to
avoid, and whether he had hint to that
effect from them or spoke from his own per-
ceptions his reasoning is equally In accord
ance with the logic of his position Russian
dispatches indicate that the view taken in
st. Petersburg is in accordance with that
taken at Constantinople. With England no.
titled as to the consequences, the Russians
would apparently prefer that she should
insist. upon going forward. II she
does not insist, If she YIELDS to the sultan's
refusal, the fact will be disgraceful TO her;
but if she forces her way in, as she
can with half a dozen cannon shot, she
will be ct war with Turkey, and will at last
have driven the Ottoman into the arms of
her enemy, and will have given that enemy
a valid reason for the occupation of the sui
tan's capital. From the report that the
Grand Duke Nicholas is to visit Cons.anti-
nople on the invitation of the sultan the
establishment OF amicable and pleasant rela-
tions between the belligerentsseem ina far
way to follow the conclusion of peace; and
If, at such a critical moment, England takes
an attitude of hostility to the sultan In aili-
ance of the two great empires of eastern
Europe may arise to change the destinies of
the whole orient.