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Year: 1878

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WASHINGTON, June 12.-The House OF Repre-
sentatiyes gave strict attention to business to-day
1t spent the entire day session in work upon the
sundry Civil Appropriation bill. and the. intention
at the time the recess was taken this afternoon was
to complete it tonight in order that 1t might go to
the Senate for its immediate consideration. Lead
ing Senators said to-day that If the bill was passed
this evening an adjournment on Monday would be
Year: 1878

ME. W. W. CoBcoRAS, the
Washington millionaire. one of the
kindest of men, has just done very
generous thing. Students of art
are permitted to copy the pictures
in the Corcoran Art Gallery, and
among them the old gentleman often
saw a young lady doing excellent
work. He learned her history, and
finding that she was clever, self
taught, devoted 20 her art and poor,
he offered to send her abroad and
assist her to study IN the best
foreign schools. It is by such gen.
erous deeds as this that the kindly
old banker is making his name one
that will long be remembered in the
city so fortunate as to be his resi-
dence.
Year: 1878

The following Is the text of the
decision, as reported in the Associ-
ated Press kilograms:


WASHINGTON, Feb. Il.-Supreme court de-
cisions, No. original, State Of Wisconsin vs..
the city of Duluth. Il is here held that the
State of Wisconsin is not entitled to de-
cree compelling the city of Duluth to fill up
the canaK.cut across Minnesota point bv the
city and the Northern Pacific railroad com
pany 70 improve the entrance TO the har Dor
Of the city, on the allegation that it obs.ructs
flew Of waters Of st. Louis river. turns them
from their natural eoarse, to the prejudice of
the State of Wisconsin and her citizens. the
courts taking the view that by the act Of
1873 making appropriation for the benefit
of this harbOr, Congress had determined TO
place this canal under the same protection as
was given the other. and a natural entrance
10 the harbor. The action taken under the
act Is reported as the aaeut;ol of the canal
and! harbor improvement as made, and as
when exercising Jurisdiction the matter
passes under the exclusive control of con
gTess, the action taken by the fedral power is
treated as removing the whole subject from
the province OF the State authority, Bill
dismissed.


1t viii be seen that the case was not
decided upon the merits at all, but
simply the bill was dismissed upon
the ground that Congress, by max
ing an appropriation for the canal,
assumed exclusive control of the
matter, removing it beyond the
jurisdiction of the State authority.


The ease bad dragged along so
many years, and so little was known
of It's condition generally, that
many people had almost lost sight
Of it until the recent hearing, and
now the result is received, especi-
ally by the people on this side ofthe
bay, with 4 good deal Of indifference
/ Whether the controversy will now be
permitted to- quietly slumber, or
whether it will be resumed in some
other shape are questions for future
determination.
Year: 1878

TIE Pioneer-P Press intimates that
Gov. Davis satisfied the Supreme
court that the Duluth canal "affords
q secure and convenient harbor,
available TOR alI-lake shipping and
an outlet equally as available for
the Wisconsin people as tor those
of Duluth He did, eh? Well,
then, the court was pretty easily
satisfied" The lake shipping
must be mighty small indeed if II
all can find room IN the little ''pock
et'' Of which the canal is the mouth;
aud the poor old Wisconsin people
must be the greatest fools in the
world for ever going to law about
the question if the canal was just as
convenient for them as for the Du-
luth people!
Year: 1878

Three decisions in city cases were handed down yes.
.erday in the General Term OF tho Court of Common
Pleas, in each oil which the city Is successful. In
she suit Of Bleeckcr VS. The Mayor the question was
whether the pIantn an auctioneer, who IN 1871 had
appraised all the real estate Of the city, could recover
nt the rate Of the usual commission appraisas or
should be content with the verdict the jury gave him
OF So 000 The Court holds that the verdict bo
disturbed and that This DO the limit of his rccov
cry. The OF Waterman VS.. The Mayor was an
ncton difference oi salary as police sur
geon The Court holds that the Guy Is not liable Tor
The debts OF the Police Department In Devlin Va
1bc Mayor the order Of reference TO Judge Leonard Is
reversed.
Year: 1878

Old England, so far, seems to have
come out first best in the controversy
and fussing that have been going on
between her and Russia in regard to
the settlement of the Eastern question.
An effort was first made to rule her out
of Continental politics, to ignore her
entirely in the treaties and settlements
by some of the dominant powers Of Con-


tinental Europe. But she was not thus
to be ignored. She made her demands
positively and firmly, and got her army
and navy ready to enforce them. In
addition to the home troops, the i'm


mense number she was able to draw
from India, together with the undis-
puted supremacy of her navy and great
financial resources, caused Russia to
pause, and finally to accede to all the
material demands of England. Some
of the powers may be cleft" in the
pending congress at Berlin, but England
will not be one of them. Her main
requests will be complied with, or she
will accomplish them Ui ct arueis. Lord
Beaconsfeld will come out of this con-
troyersy with Russia with as much
prestige for craftsmanship as that which
made celebrated the name of the younger
Pitt; and those who thought England
had entered her dotage and become
effete, are doomed to disappointment.
Year: 1878

Memphis Appeal: One candidate for
the office of Attorney General promises,
if elected, to give one-fourth of his
official income to the public and private
schools. Other candidates offer still
more, while another candidate pledges
himself to give the entire proceeds to
an orphan asylum, of which he is the
only occupant, he being an orphan. The
office OF Attorney General is worth be-
tween fifteen and twenty thousand dol
lars year.
Year: 1878

THE CROPs.-The rains have been
pretty general, and came just at the
right time for the corn crop. The main
corn crop should always be planted
early enough, in this latitude, to mature
or fill in June; as in this month we gen.
orally have showers apparently designed
for that purpose. The acreage of corn
in this parish is much greater this year
than ever before and the general crop,
which is unusually good, is now made
and secured against all contingencies of
the weather, except storms of wind and
rain which cause it to rot in the ear.
The cotton and other crops are also
very promising.
Year: 1878

Philadelphia.Times


The list of grave senator's who
were accused OF having been inebri>
ated at the all lnight session on the
silver bill now numbers sixteen
Tne names are not yet given, but
there is a probability that they will
be when the returns are all in. 1t
is sadly suspected that when the
count is fully made up the inehrlates
will be able TO show a majority, and
that is fine spectacle under the
very nose OF temperance admins
istration.
Year: 1878

Vieksburg Herald.


The Ohio papers are exposing the
brutal crueIties OF the Ohio penis
tenliary. Recently a prisoner was
taken from his dungeon dead, and
another was sem IRON his sick bed
TO an iced bath and carried back
TO die. Hereafter when Bob Inger-
soil and other philanthropists Of
the north want illustrations OF
heartless savagery we hope they
will seek Tor them north OF the
Ohio, where it seems they can be
found in abundance.
Year: 1878

Investigations which were recently
carried through by a French physician
DIR. Fleury, of Bordeaux. have adduced
facts showing that our natural impulse
to use the members on the right side of
the body is clearly traceable to prob
ably physiological causes. DIR. Fleury,
after examining an immense number
of human brains, asserts that the left
anterior lobe is a little larger than the
right one. Again, he shows that, by
examining large number of people,
there is an unequal supply of blood TO
the two sides OF the body. The brach-
iocephalic trunk, which only exists on
the right of the arch of the aorta, pro-
duces, by a difference in termination,
an inequality i'm the waves of red blood
which travel from right to left. More
over, the diameters of the subclavian
arteries on each side are different, that
or the left being noticeably larger.
Tile left lobe of the brain, therefore,
being more richly hDmatosed than the
right, becomes stronger; and as, by the
intersection of the nervous fiber, it com
mands the right side of the body, it is
obvious that that side will be more
readily controlled. This furnishes one
reason for the natural preference for
the right hand, and another is found in
the increased supply of blood from the
subelavian artery. The augmentation
Of blood We have already seen suggest
ed; but the reason for it is here ascribsd
to the relative size of the artery, and
not to any directness of path from the
heart. DIR. Fleury has carried his in
vestigations through the whole series
of mammalian; and he finds that the
right handed peculiarities exist in all
that have arteries arranged similar to
those of man. At the same time such
animals, notably the chimpanzee, the
seals and the beavers, are the most
adroit and intelligent.-1he Eclectic.
Year: 1878

The question, do we eat too much in
summer, is being discussed. The
Philadelphia Ledger thinks we do, and
believes the great mistake in summer
diet is that it does not take the place of
the winter bill Of fare as it should. The
habit of most people is simply to add
summer luxuries To the winter diet, thus
imposing additional labor on the diges-
tive organs, which in reality they are
less able to perform than in winter
There is doubtless logic in this, but as
rule the consumption of flesh is much
less in SUMMER than in winter, for the
reason that the appetite does not crave
it so keenly. Overlooking the stomach
at any season of the year is injurious tc
the health, and especially so in hot
weather when the digestive organs are
in relaxed and semi-torrid condition,
and disinclined to perform any extra
amount of labor. A purely vegetable
diet during the summer months might
be best adapted to the constitutions of
many persons, but there are others
whose physical condition absolute ~ re-
quires judicious blending of winter
and summer fare.
Year: 1878

The world is indebted for nine-tenths
of its valuable knowledge, its improve
ments and progress generally, to men
and women who have trained them
selves TO think in systematic and con-
secutive manner. No man has ever
become eminent il science, art, litera-
ture or farming, who was not pro-
found thinker. who did not Well exam
inc and compare all the items pertain
ing TO the subject, to know whether in
their various relations they sustain the
principle which public opinion up
holds as being true. 1t is not a very
uncommon thing that principle hes
been enunciated by men who have pet
theories to support, aad where it Is
plain toa thinking, unbiased mind that
some of the important items of the
theory are in direct antagonism to the
principle, and therefore false-or other
wise the principle itself has no founda-
ton i'm truth.
Year: 1878

LONDON, July 22.-The Times finan cial
article says: Active preparations are ap-
parent for q favorable change In commercial
affairs, which is expected In consequence of
the settlement Of the Eastern question. Al
though as yet there Is no marked change for
the better in the manufacturing districts, O
more hopeful feeling prevails.


Reports from various centres OF iron indus
try are decidedly more encouraging, especial
ly from Sheffield, whence the most gloomy
accounts have OF late proceeded. More work
is said to be going forward also In South
Wales, than during the last month.


Business in cotton in Liverpool has been
large during the last few days with rise In
almost every description. Add to these favor
able circumstances the fact that the harvest
prospects have improved materially with fine
forcing weather, and we have q brighter
future already for commerce than could be
hoped for o couple Of weeks since. D....aa
Year: 1878

New YORK, July 19-Over two hundred
Thousand people we're driven out Of town to-
day by the intense heat. They took refuge at
Coney Island and other neighboring seaside
resorts, where the ocean beach swarmed with
the OutDOuring Of New YOrks multitudes The
heat was more intolerab1e than on yesterday.
The streets were half deserted, and business
was largely suspended. The midday mail
service was suspended. The great iron strIc-
ture Of the elevated railroad attracted the
SUMS rays, and the heat on the road was
terrific. Many Of the trains in the middle Of
the day did not have O passenger. By far
the greatest suffering was experienced in the
tenement house DISTRICTS where from five to
twenty people herd in one room. Life in
these crowded, stinking quarters was intoler-
able, and all day the little parks throughout
the city we're thrOnged by New Yorks most
wretched and squallid denzens.


Tonight the sidewalks and the streets that
are bordered by these Over-crowded tene-
ments are covered with these people, who In
the scantieSt attire short Of absolute naked
ness, stretch their limbs on the steps and
pavements, in the hope Of a little air and
chance to Sleep A few minutes ago there
were counted on the steps OF Harpers' build
ing In Franklin square, over 100 persons the
most Of them sleeping quietly in the cooler
outdoor air. The physicians OF the Board Of
Health say that the temperature in some
tenement houses at 6 o'clock tonight was 90o
The street car employees have stood the heat
we'll, and have not furnished single case Of
prOStrattOn The horses on some lines were
changed to-day every half trip, and every
trip on all the lines. The great care with
which they have been treated for two days
past has doubtless saved the car companies
thousands Of dollars.


The temperature in the streets was go at Q
o'clock, though the signal service bureau,
from its exalted height Of observation, re-
ported the highest temperature at 93o at 3 80
p. M. The reports that the temperature in the
West is still very high is taken here to indi-
cate prolongation Of our present great hot
spell.


Nine deaths to-day from sunstroke and
about sixty cases Of serious prOstration from
heat in this city and Brooklyn have been re-
ported.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, July 22.-The National Green
back party in this city is rallying It's forces in
preparation for the great conflict to take
place at the State Convention at Syracuse to-
morrow The various branches are doing
their best to outnumber and overcome their
rivals for admission to the convention. The
conflict when it comes will doubtless be a live
ly one. In all there seem to be four distinct
divisions, each claiming to represent the ma
jority of the voters of the party in this city.
Year: 1878

AS matters stand to-day, with no keen in
terest in any question except finance, the
South has the choice of the next President
Concliating the West to her concurrence on
finance, she holds all the cards. Unless a
radical change Is wrought in the coming
year, a Western Democrat on soft money
platform will be the next President, and some
Southern Confederate leader, civil or mill
tary, will be Vice President.
Year: 1878

Wives are of some use in Rhode Island, If
not In any other State In the Union A for
eign-born citizen cannot vote in Little RhOdy
unless he owns property to the amount of
S134, but the Supreme Court has recently de-
cided that If his wife owns that amount he
can vote just the same as If the money or
property were his own.
Year: 1878

When man is found dead In the Black
and twenty seven bullet holes distributed
over his body, the coroner's jury are five
hours in deciding whether his death was
IIJIstEii ~ visitation of Divine
Providence. They finally decide that he com
mItted suicide BY hanging,
Year: 1878

Time for Repentance-A pedestrian
on Brush street yesterday came across
boy about thirteen years old, who was
trying to get up bloody battle between
a goat and dog, The man halted and
said. boy, what sort Of way is this to
end the old yearP" "But the goat kin
lick if he's a mind to sail in," protested
the boy. mo matter il he can, you ought
to be ashamed to end the year in this
Manner What time is it P" queried
the lad. Three o'clock" was the answer
Mine hours to repent it-go for him.
Watch-stand up to him, Billy" yelled
the young imp.-Erchange.
Year: 1878

Senator Blsine's illness is reported to
have lett him materially unchanged in
voice, manner and nervous action. There
is nothing listless about him, and he sits in
the Senate IN the old crouching attitude,
an arm across the desk, ready for the
spring and toss with which he handles
argument and opponent.
Year: 1878

Never marry man who has only his love for you to recommend him. It is very fascinating but it does not make the man. If he is not otherwise what he should be, you will never be happy. The most perfect man who did not love you should never be your husband. But though marriage without love is terrible, love only will not do. It the man is dis honorable to other men, or mean, or given to any wee, the time will come when you will either loath him or sink to his level. It is hard to remember amidst kisses and praises, that there is anything else in the world to be done or thought of but love-making but the days of life are many, and the husband must be a guide to be trusted-a com panion, friend, as we'll as a lover. Many girl has married man whom she knew to be anything but good, '" be- cause he loved her so." And the flame has died out on the hearthstone of home long ago, and beside it she has been sitting by one that she could never hope would lead her heavenward-or who, if she followed him as a wife should, would guide her steps to perdition. Marriage is a solemn thing-a choice for life ; be careful in the choosing.
Year: 1878

of these facts it will justly be regarded as grave breach of the public faith to undertake to pay these bonds, principal or interest, in silver coin, worth in the market less than the coin received for them. It is said that the silver dollar made legal tender by this bill will, un- der it's operation be equivalent in full to the gold dollar Many supporters of the bill believe this, and would not justify an attempt to pay debts either public pri- yate in coin of inferior value to the money of the world. The capital defect of the measure is that it contains no provision protecting from it's operation pre-exist- ing debts, in case the coinage winch it creates shall continue to be of less value than that which was the sole legal tender when they were contracted.

 If it Is now proposed, for the purpose of taking advantage of the depreciation of silver in the payment of debts, to coin and make legal tender of a silver dollar of less commercial value than any dollar whether of gold or paper, which Is now lawful money in this country, such a measure, it will be hardly questioned, will, in the judgment of mankind, be an act of bad faith as to all debts heretofore contracted The silver dollar should be made legal tender only at its market value. The standard of value should not be changed without the consent of both parties to the contract. National promises should be kept with untlinch- ing fidelity. There is no power to com pei a nation to pay it's just debts. Its credit depends on it's honor. The nation owes what it has led or allowed its credi- tors to expect. l cannot approve bill winch, in my judgment, authorizes the violation of sacred obligations. The obligation of the public faith transcends all questions of profit or public advan- tage. Its unquestionable maintenance is the dictate as well of the highest ex- pediency as of the most necessary duty, and should ever be carefully guarded by the Executive, by Congress, and by the people. It is my firm conviction that if the country is to be benefited by a silver co1nage, it can be done only by the issue of silver dollars of full value, which will defraud no man. A currency worth less than it purports to be worth will in the end defraud, not only creditors, but all who are engaged in legitimate business and none more surely than those who are dependent on their daily labor for their daily bread.

 RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, President of the United States.

 EXECUTIVE MANSION, Feb. 28, 1878.
Year: 1878

A medicine which remedies dyspepsia, liver complaint, constipation, debility, intermittent and remittent levers, urinary and uterine tendency to rheumatism and gout, and relieves nervousness, may be truly said to have many uses. Such an article is Hostetters Bitters, one of the most reliable alternatives of a dis orderly to a well ordered state of the system ever prepared or sold. It has been over quar- ter of a century before the public, is endorsed by many eminent professors of the healing art

 and its merits have received repeated recogni- tions in the columns of leading American and foreign journals. It is highly esteemed in every part of this country, and is extensively used il South America, Mexico, the British possessiont and the West Indies. If its increase in public favor in the past is to be regarded us reliable criterion of its gain in popularity in coming years, it has indeed splendid future before 1t
Year: 1878

This Company not aware of any real improve ment yet effected in such instruments which Is not to be found in their organs. In power and smoothness of working stops variety and attractiveness of solo stops; exceeding refinement of tone; delcacy of soft stops; volume of louder stops; equality in character throughout each stop; snoothness, ease and exactness of action; durability and perfection of workmanship, and elegance and finish of cases, the excellence of their organs is COMPARATIVELY GREATER TO-DAY THAN EVER BEFORE, and must be recognized by every competent judge who sufficiently aDda
Year: 1878

But while 1t is commonly conceded that the Mason x Hamlin Organs are THE BEST INSTRUMENTS OF THEIR GLASS IN THE WORLD, it is often supposed that the prices much higher than those or nieror
Year: 1878

Tho Supreme Court Of Wisconsin has
just decided that the amount Of insur.
nnce written in the policy shall be
deemed tho actual value of the pro.
perty i'll tho event OF its destruction; {;
that being the amount the company
taking the risk. shall be obliged to pay
Under this decision, the unjust practice
Of insuring property ut double its value I;
collecting the annual premirm on tho
full amount, and then in the event of
the loss OF the property. force n settle
ment upon the basis of its market value
IN hundred per cent. below tho figure
named in the policy, will be annulled.
Companies in that State will be careful
to take no risks beyond the market
value OF the property insured, and the
policy holder may safely calculate upon
the amount lie is to receive, should his
property be destroyed.
Year: 1878

TnE Virginia City EHisrprise publish
cs the following: "A miner in the Black
Hills, writing TO n friend in this c.Cy, tells
u horrible reminder Of the fearful snow
storms of last Winter and Of the perils
of those who were caught out aud lost
their way Oh the plains. Iio snys that
recently. while he and two others were
crossing the country, they came upon
the skeleton OF horse within which was
skeleton OF man, with tho grinning
skull looking out ut them from between
the ribs of the animal like n prisoner
pcering through the bars of his cell. The
two skeletons told the whole story. The
man had killed his horse, cut him open
and crawled inside of him, thinking
to thus escape perishing OF cold, but
the flesh Of the animal forze solid and the
mnn was as much Of n prisoner as il he
had been shut III walls OF iron. The
wolves and carrion birds had stripped
the greater part of tbs flesh from both
skeletons.
Year: 1878

lr's hard to keep track OF tho ser.
mon when you sit in the back part OF
the church. but then you got out first
and have the best chance to select n
good umbrella from tho pilo at the
door.