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Year: 1878

The New York Heraids correspondent
'ays Senator Howe will speak on the
policy of President Hayes tomorrow.
lie will denounce the Southern policy
md criticise his Civil Service Reform
acts severely. 1t adds that "the trouble
between the administration and many of
ne republicans in Congress is not of a
nature recoDcilable, except by the sub
mission of one side or the other. The
President, early in the session, was fire.
luently admonished by Senators and


Representatives that he ought to submit
% the views of policy urged by those
who found fault with him.
Year: 1878

THERE are indications of an animated
discussion in Washington over the manage
ment of Indian affairs. The military COM
manders in their annual reports make
severe structure upon the management with
view, it is thought, of concerted at
tempt to have it transferred from the In
terror to the War Department. Secretary
Schurz will oppose the movement and asks
for specifications and proof of charges.


GENERAL GARFIELD informs reporter of
the Cleveland Penny Press that the Re-
publicans in Congress will certainly press a
thorough investigation of the cipher bust
ness. He intimates that he has some in
formation. of his own about ciphers which
he will be glad to place before commit
tee. There is a good deal of material OF
this kind which is waiting to be develoved
| THE Treasury is now fortified at every
point for resumption assured and contin
uous in gold coin. It's surplus coin is al
most equal to fifty cents on the dollar o
the whole greenbac1 circulation which ha


to maintain at par. The foreign ex
changes, immediate and prospective, arr
every way favorable, and the public conf
dence confirmed by the recent elections.
Year: 1878

In sounding the cell wall Of the Dover
Jail the other afternoon Sheriff Dunn, our
new Sheriff, struck daylight. A hole SIZE
two by three feet, had been made in one OF
the walls. A general Jail delivery was down
on the prisoners programme for that night,
but an inkling of what was gong on goI
out. The prisoners are nov in lron-clao
coils
Year: 1878

A NOVEL CAsH-DRAwER.-At late eXhi-
bition in Falmouth, England, 4 "patent
check-till" was exhibited, which is GER
tainiy remarkable if it does one half OF what
is claimed for it. According to the official
description Of this friend OF the shop-keep-
cr, ''it will check every penny taken and
paid better than keeping cashier and using
check-boolls. It occupies no more time than
the ordinary till. II an assistant should
take money Of customer and fail to put it
in the till, it can be detected at once. II
only part of the amount is put in, it will
show how much has been withheld. II any
cash has been taken out, it will show the
amount. The till cannot be opened with
out its being known, and the number Of
times. 1t will show how much money there
ought to be in at any time. Any amount OF
change can be lett in for use. and yet none
can be taken away without its being known.
1t can be lett any length Of time without
being cleared, and will show the amount
there ought to be in without counting the
cash. It can be used as q desk, or set IN
level with the counter-top il required. 1t
shows the number of customers waited
upon by each assistant; and as line is
drawn across the paper close to the glass
every hour, it tells the number OF Gus
toners at any given time" And all these
advantages are wound up with the brief
statement, "interest on outlay and cost Of
working, onc-half. penny day."
Year: 1878

STEAM STREET-CARs IN BERL1N.-During


the last year a series Of trials have been car.


ried on in Berlin with view Of determining
the practicabilty OF substituting steam- for


horsepower on tramways running through


streets, and also of ascertaining the most
suitable and convenient form OF engine for
employment in towns. These experiments,


which have been made on the Berlln-Char-
lottenburg line, are now, it is stated by q
Berlin newspaper, satisfactorily concluded,
and q large number OF locomotives have
been ordered by the above-named company
for use on their line. Three different kinds
of engines have been tried, and those
now accepted work, it is stated, without
vomiting forth any smoke OF steam worth
mentioning, and with so little noise that
during the prolonged trials which have
been made no instance has occurred Of
horses being frightened by them, and no
accident of any kind has happened. The
experiments have been closely watched by
the police authorities, who ut the outset laid
down very stringent regulations for their
conduct. On some days two carriages were
attached to each engine, as the company de-
sired to obtain permission to add an extra
wagon to the tram.car proper on Sundays
or on holidays, when the traffic may prove
exceptionally heavy.
Year: 1878

Kearney is probably the worst case OF a


young Lochinyar that ever came out of the


West; through all the wide border his


screed was the worst, and save his loud
yawp.yawp, he weapon had none, he rode
all unarmed ana he rode all alone, because
no MAJ with any deceney about him would
be caught in tSe same car; so dirty his shirt
end so loudly he snore. was there ever o
snide like this young Loehinvar ?-Pscd-
yuae.


5 A clergyman who was recently called up
to hold services in the State prison at Sing
Sing prefaced his remarks TO the prisoners
by saying that he was agjad to zee 50 large
a number present"
Year: 1878

THE increase in the rates of freight by the
Union Pacific Railroad Co. of one hundred
per cent, is simply an outrage upon the pub
lie, which should be resisted. This gigantic
monopoly sprung into existence through cor
corruption and fraud, and by means OF a
shameless system of bribery obtained not
only valuable franchise from Congress, but
in addition guarantee of its bonds for the
construction of the road, and millions of acres
of the public lands as subsidy. The United
States Government holds second mortgage on
the road for the amount of the interest guar
anteed.


This Union Pacific Railroad meyer paid
cent of interest on the bonds, and at the last
session of Congress, q law was passed compel
ing all railroads whose bonds the Government
had guaranteed to pay up, or rather refund to
the q. S. Treasury the amounts already paid.


The managers of the Union Pacific Railroad
finding that the Government is determined not
to be swindled out of millions, have come to
the conclusion to make the public pay the in
terest on their bonds, and hence, the trick of
advancing their rates of freight one hundred
per cent. This they think they can do with
Year: 1878

impuDity, because they have monopoly of the
route at least from Omaha to San Francisco.
The cheek and efrontery of the managers of
the Union Pacific Railroad in this instance is
but another evidence of what monopolies will
do when they have chance.


The merchants and freighters of New York
City have protested loudly against this impo-
sition on the part of the railroad company, and
ii remains to be seen whether they will hold
out against this outrageous exaction, and send
their goods to California by the Isthmus
route, instead of the overland route, and thus
compel the Union Pacific Railroad Company
to return to fair rate of charges for freight
over their road.


The people of these Islands have an inter-
est in common with all others, who are COM
PEELED to make use of the Overland OF Pacific
Railroad Route to transport goods from the
East. An increase of one hundred per cent
in the charges of railroad company is no
small affair to the commercial community, and
hence our reasons for speaking about it at all


The tariff of charges for freight on the
Union Pacific Railroad was high enough be.
fore the increase, but the addition of one hun
dred per cent is cutting the thing entirely toe
fat and amounts to an outrage upon the public
Year: 1878

WE see it stated by Chicago paper that
there are 10000 boys and girls of that city
who are patrons of drinking saloons, and that
at least 10000 of the number are confirmed
drunkards, and that that number are arrested
annually for drunkenness and crime. 1t is
also said that many of the saloons with which
the city is cursed, could not exist if it were
not for this army of tippling children, these
juvenile drinkers.


There used to be city ordinance prohibit
ing the sale of liquors to minors; but through
some mysterious influence this ordinance was
declared invalid. The citizens are now petit
tioning for the restoration of the prohibition
ordinance. If this statement is true, it ex-
hibits dreadful state of society in Chicago.


If the youths of Chicago of both sexes are
really so demoralized as this statement would
indicate, few years will develop such a
moral or rather immoral pestience in the city
of Chicago, as will entitle it to rank with
Sodom and Gomorrah, or any other sink OF
iniquity on earth. 1t is impossible for the
human mind to conceive picture more truly
awful than that presented by Chicago with such
cancer eating at its vitals, or for the imagina-
ton to conceive more hideous future than
such state of things exhibits. Here is q
theme for the liveliest Imagination to descant
upon, and here too is theatre for the exer-
else of the largest philanthrophy.


Here is the place for Moody and Sankey,
Murphy, and all the hosts of reformers, to ex-
ercise their saving powers of eloquence. We
believe Moody and Sankey have been at Chi
cago several years ago, but if the Chicago
journal to which We allude, speaks half the
truth, we think it is time that an angel from
heaven should make special visit to the
doomed city. for it seems to us that nothing
short of a miracle, can save people whose
youths are SO far gone. 1t makes us shuddel
to think of it,
Year: 1878

We earnestly request all persons having
matter for insertion in the GAZETTE, to furnish
their manuscript not later than II o'clock NJ.
on Tuesday, as the paper goes to press at 4
o'clock p. NJ, on that day each week.


By observing the above request. will insure
insertion of articles, advertisements, &c, and
enable US to get our paper out in time.


Mr.. A J. CARTWRIGHT has opened a sub
scription list at his counting house, for the
relief of the sufferers by yellow fever in the
Southern States, where those who feel disposed
to do so, can pay in their contributions. The
money collected as Southern relief fund, will
be transmitted TO the Secretary of State of the
United States, by draft, with instructions to
transmit to tie proper municipal authorities
where it will do the most good. We again ap-
peal to the benevolent, who are able to con-
tribute, to make no delay in doing so. The
object is high and holy one, and should be
attended to; whatever is done should be done
with dispatch
Year: 1878

The fact that human eyes, with the aid
of field glass, have seen rife bullets
during their flight rom the muzze OF
the rifle to the point at which they were
aimed, has been published, We believe,
several times but We nave never seen,
to our knowledge, the announcement
that they could be seen with the naked
eyei Yet it il we'll attested fact that
rife balls were seen in their flight by
several gentlemen without the aid of
glass or anything, at the rife rahse north
of this city, one day last week. A high
wind was blowing and showers were ire.
quentin fact, it rained almost constant
ly. When the spectators stood at one
side of the shooter they could only follow
the ball to the highest point of the arc
which it described, but when they stood
Immediately behind the shooter (he
lying down and they standing up) they
could follow the bullet from point
about ten feet from the muzz'e, all the
way to the target or Whatever object it
struck. One gentleman told the shooter,
Immediately after he had fired, that he
had shot too much to the right, and the
signal of the marker a minute or two
afterward confirmed exactly what he had
said. The balls were seen while the
shooters were firing at five hundred
yards distance. The rifles were of the
heavy military kind, which carry a large
bullet Those who saw the bullets in
their flight say that the arc described by
them is immense at that distance, and
that they al,o appear to curve to the
right as well as up and down.-[Ro
ter Express.
Year: 1878

AN old lady, when she heard the min
lister say there would be a nave in the
new church, observed that "she knew
well who the party was"


THERE will always be more or less ex-
element in the household that possesses
a cat and back fence, or a poor piano
and good healthy girl.


EVERY high aim lifts you above your.
self, even though you fail to attain it.
No man can Jump without getting away
from the earth Tor a moment at least,


GEN. GARFIELD, one OF the six officers
which composed the court martial which
tried Ftz John Porter, says that the
latter escaped the death penalty by a
single vote.


A sTRoLLNG theatrical company was
at the dinner-table. A waiter approached
one of the members and said: /" Soup"
" No, sir" replied the guest, " am one
ot the musicians" + Utica Observer,


SHE asked the clerk if he was positive,
thoroughly convinced the eggs were
fresh. 80, yes" said the young philoso-
pher az know they are; why, the
farmer said none of his hens were more
than . year old" She bought basket
iull on the spot.


IT is human to doubt. Display a sign
with the inscription "Beware OF paint"
and nine men out of ten will draw their
forefngers across the newly painted sur
face to see if the sign is not merely "an
invention OF the enemy" The tenth
man never learned to read


A Coop SUGGEsrIoN-lt is well
enough to hang up chrome with God
Bless Cur Home" on it, but it will do
no har..' to help on the matter by Il
little less fretting. A great many people
ask the Lord to do what they won't lift
their little fingers to do themselves,


RAPID CORRESPONDENCE When a
man goes TO the theatre tor the first time
nothing surprises him more than the
wonderful rapidity with which an actor
writes letter-unless it may be the
suddenness with which the receiver
ascertains its contents. One glance and
he absorbs it all, and clasps his forehead
with his left hand Norristowu Herald.


A REFLECTION ON THE SEX - Jones
was always complaining of his wite's
memory. She never can remember
any thing" said poor Jones "it's AWFUL W
" My wife was just as bad" said Brown,
" till l found out u capital recipe"
"What is It'll" said Jones eagerly.
" Why" said Brown, whenever there's
any thing particular | want the missus
to remember, write it down on a slip of
paper, and gum it on the looking glass.
See Jones is now a centented man.
GJudy.
Year: 1878

AT indianapolis there is a newspaper
which says its mission is the emancipa-
tion of labor. If labor is so much en-.
shaved in this country it is little singu.
lar that 20 many poor men become rich
here. There is nothing that will eman-
cipate labor SO soon as good morals and a
habit of saving. The mechanic who has
learned his trade we'll; who has no pet
vice to feed, and who marries at the age
of twenty-five or thirty a young woman
80 skilled in household economy that
she can make every cent of his wages
bring to him its full value, is very certain
of becoming well.to do if not a rich
man. No young man can accumulate
property honestly without great self
denial in the beginning. He needs more
discipline than soldier, ior he has
bigger fight to make. One of the first
things he has to learn is the Importance
OF keeping out of the society of fools and
spendthrifts His most dangerous en-
emies are his companions,-I Courier.
Journal.
Year: 1878

WHEN a boy throws stone his arm
moves in plane parallel with the plane
OF his waistband. When a girl under
takes like feat, her arm is first held up
right in line with her major axis and
then moved rapidly in downward direc-
tion. The stone thrown by the boy has
4 enormous range, and strikes the
windew, the cat, the old gentleman or
other object at which 1t is aimed, at a
surprisingly long distance. The stone
which the girl attempts to throw desert.
bes q brief arc and descends to the
ground few yards in front of her. What
is the cause of this difference in thu sexes
is mystery. DR.. Watts took the ground
that nature had withheld from girls the
power to throw stones, in order that the
human race might have some little
chance Of perpetuity. He argued that
If girls could throw stones, they would
constantly hit the wrong objects, and
that 80 great would be the fatality from
accidents Of this kind that in com


psratively short time the world would
become depopulated IN. Y. Times.
Year: 1878

AT Amity Church, Clark county, Ala,
pine tree groans like human being in
distress or dying. Numbers of persons of
both colors visit the place to hear the
doleful sounds. With colored people the
interest in the mysterious sound is en-.
hanced by the fact that the tree stands
Eard by large graveyard and is also
near the place where a man of their color
was killed by lightning a year or two
ago.
Year: 1878

enact the necessary ordinaoces for the
protection of life and property on the
approaching national holiday, Last year
no less than thirty-one persons were
killed and one hundred and sixty-six
otherd seriously injured in consequence
ot this senseless practice of pyrotechnic
patriotism, and it is high time that the
thing should be completely stopped.
Year: 1878

THERE is evidently something wrong
with the atmosphere out west, and If
the weather clerk was attending to bust.
ness he would have it ret right again


At Morris, Ill.,, the other day, a large
cloud arose from a little south of west
passing eSst, and just about on the line
and directly over the Illinois river. The
cloud was not very dense, and yet was
quite black, but had nothing to indicate
tornado in it. But emanatinp from
the cloud was constant roar, like dis
tant thunder, which did not cease from
the time the cloud appeared in the west
until it was cut of sight in the east, the
time extending at least fifteen minutes
The sound was something like the roar of
a distant train of cars. although those
who have heard the sound of coming
tornadoes, reco. nHed it Immediately as
being of the same character. But the
most remarkable feature of it was that
every few moments, perhaps as often as
once in two minutes, the sound would
swell into roar OF thunder-in no case
a crash, but simply an enlargement of the
roar 1t would then subside into the
continuous roar, and then swell again,
and 20 on. There was no wind percepti


BILE near the earth, and no evidence of
any accompanying the cloud in the sky.


IT is strange thing how little, in
general, people know about the sky. 1t
is he part Of creation in which nature
has done more Ter the sake Of pleasing
man, more for the sole ard evident pur.
pose Of talking to hinl and teaching
him, than in any other of her works, and
it is just the part in which we least at
tend to her, There are npt many of her
other works in which soBle more mate
rial or essential purpose, than the mere
pleasure OF man is not ans Eered in every
part of their organisation; but every
essential purpose of the fky might, as
far as we know, be answer ed II once in
three days, or thereabouts, "a great, black,
ugly rain cloud was broken up over the
blue, and everything well watered, and
80 left blue again until tlhe next time,
with perhaps film of morning and
evening mist for dew. Bint, instead of
this, there is not moment of any day
OF our lives when nature produtes not
scene after scene, picture after picture,
glory after glory, and worb ing still upon
such exquisite and cOnstan principles Of
the NEST perfect beauty that 1t Il quite
certain it is all done for US, INTENDED for
our perpetual glory by the great Being
who made all-all worlds.
Year: 1878

Tho Coroner yesterday smpauslled . jury and
viewed the bodies OF tho Cassidy children who were
smotherod in the Sixth street tcnoment house nro
Monday night Ono OF the boys is yct alive, but no
hopes entertained OF his ultimate recovery The
three dead ones were laid out sido by side In tho
rooms Of their parents aud presented sad spectacle
to the jurymen. some Of whom were visibly Affected
The young servant girl Mary Kinstery who ispiayed
considerable horoism at the Are In taking Of
tho chiIdron through the binding smoke, went on
that evening to tho pocc station whore she remained
all night and greater psrt OF yesterday the Cassdys
refusing to allow her return to their ts
rncy would give no reason for their
ter, put stated that they attached no blame to her
whatever Tho girl ~ orphan ana was taken
IRON some uptown institution several years
ago by relatives OF the Cassidys, and has for some
time past been an inmate Of their home. Snc has


friends or relatives aud to be cast upon the world
suddenly was an exceedingly hard fate. SO thought
Coroner WoItman, who learned the above acts about
her and Interested himself In her sufficiently to
procure her tempo nome In the Convent oi the
Siiters oil Mercy.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, June 15-In the rush and
hurry OF the closing days of Congress there
Of Mr. Burchard on yesterday. The Republi-
cans are damning him up hill and down. They
say he has taken away their only political
capital for the coming campaign by putting
the majority OF the Democrats on record as
against the question OF revolution. The DEM
ocrats are all very much gratified that Mr..
Burchard gave them the opportunity of going
on record without their acknowledging that
the cry of revolution raised throughout the
country had any influence on them. They
did not desire to introduce resolution as a
means Of defense, but we're very glad to vote
for one when introduced by Republican.
Year: 1878

WHEELING, W. Va, June ia horrible
case of an attempt at wholesale slaughter has
Just been discovered. The Monitor Tug and
Lumber Company have barge at their yard
which they have been repairing. 1t was held
blocks. During the night some one cut these
ropes In place where they were covered and
only the blocks kept the barge in It's place.


1t had been determined to raise the barge
with jack screws this morning, but it was
been found necessary, at least dozen men
would, In all probability, have been killed.
It Is thought by the company that the cut
ting. was done by some men whose wages
had been reduced, and who have been talking
ugly for some time. Detectives are at work
on the case. This is the first display Of any
thing like labor troubles in this city this
summer,
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, June 19-The conference
committee on the sundry civil appropriation
bill were In session all night up to 6 o'clock
this morning, and re-assembled at II o'clock.
The entire bill was gone through WITH but no
action was taken upon any OF the contested
ence is authority for the statement that there
is large number OF items upon which a
protracted discussion is likely to ensue, and
that there appears to be but little ground for
the expectation that the committee can'eome
TO any sort of an agreement to-day.
Year: 1878

GREENFIELD, o., June 19.-There has been
faint rumor for several days of the organi-
zation of the laboring men for the protection
OF their own interests, and it was supposed
that yesterday would develop something.
but it did not. II any trouble arises it will be
from the laborers on the Springfield, jackson
and Pomeroy Narrow Gauge Railroad. There
are about 400 men on the road, and they have
worked cheerfully and with no trouble to any
one, accepting what was given them with an
occasional kick from some one who happened
to fall short and got nothing.


The principal cause Of anxiety now Is the
fact that the road Is about completed, and
nearly all the hands will be discharged, re-
tanning only section hands, and it is under
stood that on the last pay day the company
propose to pay 20 per cent cash and so per
cent In company scrip. The scrip is worth,
or at least brings, about sixty cents on the
dollar, as it has no cash value, being redeem
able in freight or passenger fares and common
stock. The wages of men being only 81 10 per
day, they cannot stand a very heavy discount,
and when these poor men, who earn every
cent they get, walk up to the paymaster and
get nothing but scrip there will most right
eous howl go up, and 1t is feared that we will
feel the full force Of it, as this is headuuar-
ters for the paymaster while on the road
Fair treatment from the company will avert
any trouble, while the proposed course may
result seriously.