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Year: 1878

1t is evident that resumption would at once
| do away with the chief objections to the bank


notes. 1t would bring the banks under the
control of natural laws. 1t would by no means
constitute return to the old state bank sys
tenn. as some seem to dread. The free bank
ing act might, very probably, become mis-
chievous, for bank issues might be simply ex-


panded to supply the place of greenbacks


Withdrawn. 1t certainly is not worth while
| for the public to buy back value currency
for the sake of giving it away TO banks again.
At fast as the greenbacks are redeemed with
specie, specie ought to take their place in cir
culation. Some persons pretend to say that
no one wants specie. 1t is difficult to see what
right they have to speak for any one but
themselves. A generation which has grown
up to kno only irredeemable paper, will not,
prob badly, know the advantages of specie cur
rency in elasticity, in uniformly, in retail
business, in expenditures tor consumption, in
all the transactions of the man of small in
come. If they do not know this advantage,
they may foolishly give it away. Business


men and bankers educated in the same system,
may not appreciate at once the great necessity
which arises from time to time for mass OF
specie in the circulation, which can be easily


drawn to the banks to support bank'notes, or
the evils which may arise if no specie is pre-
sent in the circulation. Nevertheless. it is
true, and experience of convertible currency
will soon show it, that good currency must
consist of both notes and specie. AS to the
proportion in which they should exist, that
depends on convenience entirely. Sometimes
one prefers notes and sometimes specie. The


bank note become mischievous the moment it


displaces q coin which the holder might have


and would prefer to have. 1t is useful and


AID beneficial only SO long as, under complete


liberty of choice, it supplies substitute which


the holders convenience prompts him to pre-


fer. In the course of time, therefore, after


resumption shall have been accomplised, it
will be necessary to modify and improve the


bank note system until it answers the purpose


of facilitating exchanges with absolute neu-


trality between the parties. For the present,


the national bank notes offer the only paper


issue upon which we can pass over to specie


payments, II we are to resume at all.-[Scrib-


ner for December.
Year: 1878

The Washington Territory people are sure
they have in their midst valuable deposit of
hard coal. TIE Seattle Times says: "There
can be no longer any doubt of the existence
Of anthracite coal southeast of Mount Rainier
and within three miles of the projected Cas-
cade Mountain road of the Northern Pacific.
We have it on the authority Of two reliable
witnesses, who have seen it, that several
veins OF eight feet thickness and one of TWEEN
ty-lhree feet thickness and one of twenty
three feet have been discovered. We have
ourselves seen the coal, and experts in our
presence have pronounced it genuine anthra'
cite"
Year: 1878

Happiness is not te he found in tie
social glass nor in the festive hall; not
in the hilarities of the ball room, nor
at the gaming table; not in the pur'
suit of wealth, nor worldly fame or
honor, but it may be found in doing
good.
Year: 1878

Knowledge cannot be acquired with
out pain and application. 1t Is trouble
some, and like deep digging for pure
waters; but, when once you come n
the spring, they rise up and meet you.
Year: 1878

Va - - 'SeN@ ~ IA 49,
DAIN in the right side, under the
L edge of the ribs, increases on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain is
felt under the shoulder blade, and it
frequently extends to the top of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The
stomach is affected with loss of appe-
tite and sickness; the bowels in gen
eral are costive, sometimes alternative
with lax; the head is troubled with
pain, accompanied with a dull, heavy
sensation in the back part. There is
generally considerable loss of men,
ory, accompanied with a painful SEN
sation of having left undone some
thing which ought to have been done.
A slight, dry cough is sometimes an
attendant The patient complains of
WEAKNESS and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains Of prickly sensa-
ton of the skin; his spirits are low;
and although he is satisfied that exer-
else would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough to try it In fact, he distrusts
every remedy. Several of the above
symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred where few of them ex-
listed, yet examination of the body,
after death, has shown the LIVER to
have been extensively deranged.


AGUE AND FEVER.


DIR. c. McLANE's LIVER PILLS, IN
CASES OF AGUE AND FEVER, when
taken with Quinine, are productive of
the most happy results. No better
cathartic can be used, preparatory to,
or after taking Quinine. We would
advise all who are afflicted with this
disease to give them a FAIR TRIAL.


For all bilious arrangements, and as
simple purgative, they are unequaled.
Year: 1878

THE other day while an engine was
pulling q freight train that leaves RO-
chester before daylight, the engineer
was suddenly struck by something
which Knocked him back upon his seat,
aud cut his face badly. Il was found
that a frightened partridge had flown
through the double plate glass window
with such force as to be torn In two.
Year: 1878

X bird in the hand gathers no moss.

 If a man is sent to jail for twenty days, his days are certainly numbered. A poker-player can raise beans on a table, but a farmer can't do it un- less he has a hand that is up to it.

 Some kind-hearted newspaper re- porters nowadays, when speaking of the hanging of a gentleman, call it q suspension from work -'---i

 If your boy takes q fancy for pull ing on the accordcon, the best thing to discourage him is to gently, but firmly, hit him on the head with q base ball bat.

 Vesuvius has another eruption, and it isn't the itch either. In fact the way that old volcano breaks out would make one believe that she had been jailed for horse stealing.

 Awake, oh Lyre," is an old song, but lots of people would get up in the morning by it just as soldier turns out at reveille. They would take it as a personal invitation.

 It is said that the horse Occidcnt could out-trot any horse on the turf, but for the fact that he always breaks when he finds he is getting ahead. He is like some men-he can't stand prosperity.

 Some one desires to know if you Treat a man to a glass of beer arc you~brewtally malttreating him :' The man who wrote that will soon come to his bier and the widow will have no one to supporter.
Year: 1878

He stands in a store with his back to the counter and tells how he could run newspaper; how he could be as independent as a hog on ice, and call things by their right names; a-w .he would expose corruption in high places; how he would write good common sense, and none of your friv- Olous try-to-be-funny stuff. Then he criticizes other peoples methods of conducting newspapers, and just wishes some one would give him a chance to show his journalistic abil- ity. The way to cure one of these chaps is to get him to agree to write q sensible article every day for q week Before the week is out he is sure tC be pumped dry, and will gape worse for an idea than a chicken with tho DiD.
Year: 1878

THE Rev. IT. T. Ellis is pastor of the Congregational church in Wood stock, Connecticut. He habitually uses violent language in his sermons. This is only sample: .' You low, mealy-mouthed looking wretches of the devil, you look as though you had but now hopped up out of hell, and the devil had stuck you up against the fence to dry. It would make heavens stomach sick to look at you" A part of the congregation united in requesting him to resign, but he refused to go. A committee and a policeman went to take posses sion of the church, Ellis and a few adherents locked the doors. A whole night was spent in quarreling and ac- tual fighting, but in the morning the pastor retrcated. rF
Year: 1878

A vicar advertises in an English
paper for a curate--salary, $8 a
week. The vicar goes on to add in
his ad. that excellent board and
lodging can be had for SO a week.
The question is, how long will it
take the curate to roll in wealth at
that sate1
Year: 1878

In looking over our exchanges we
have come to the conclusion that the
hard times are produced by the great
number Of laboring men trying to live
without working. IIollo IVal2o Union.


And trying to live without work is
not all of it. Far too many of them
have false idea of what constitutes
gentlemen; especially is this true
among young men who spend their
money for dress and other vain graft
tications. There are other prolific
causes of hard times, such as the eX-
cessive use of intoXicants, tobacco
and other Incorporate things which
dcplete the purse and sap the foun-
dations of mental and physical health
Then there are also hazardous specu-
lations, and fraud in public places
and universal tendency among the
lower and poorer classes to increase
and multiply their species without re-
gard to their circumstances or condi-
tions. The God of nations does not
err in His judgments and His punish
ments, whether in the form of fam
ines, pestilence, war, or hard times

are metcd with rigid exactness.
Year: 1878

a CRYING TRAMP.-A tramp, name
unknown, made himself very obnoxious
in town last Friday. Armed with a
bundle of dirty old chromos, he cdn-
vassed the town to sell them. His
plan of operations was to visit house
and offer to sell the pictures; if only
women were about the house, and they
refused to buy, he would set up howl
about bis distressed famil Y and begin to
cry and shuttle, hoping to prevail upon
the lady to give him something At
one place the lady told him to saw her
some wood and she would pay him for
it. He then all of sudden got on his
dignity and told her to 90 to hell At
another place where the lady refused to
buy his pictures, he went out in the
street and stood in the presence of the
children and cursed her He visited a
number of houses and tried the crying
dodge but all with little effect. He
has probably left town ere this, as at
the present writing, Saturday nothing
more has been seen of him Such bilks
should have chance to board few
days in the Jail. He was a man to all
appearance able to work, and whether
SO or not, his conduct merited him a
good horse whipping.
Year: 1878

At each recurring Senatorial cleo
ton throughout the country, it be-


comes more and more apparent that
the legislature is not the best place
to make Senators. Nomode of man
ifesting the popular vii! can be alb
solutely perfect. That Of a direct
vote by the people, if for no other
reason than that it gives general sat


isfaction, is better than any delegated
authority as exercised by the legisla-
ture. In form of government like
ours, it is always best to submit the
matter Of choice of public servants
to direct vote of the people them
selves. In this way the field where
in the politician must work is coequal
with his constituency. His chief eff
forts to secure perferment are not
thus narrowed down to few dozen
men congregated at one place, com
posed often of petty politicians and
small demagogues who are generally
ready and anxious to feather their
own nests out Of the spoils to be scat
tered by the successful or would be
successful aspirant for congressional
honors. While there are no special
qualifications or restrictions put up
on the legislator, and his responsible
ity as such is at best, but vague and
indefinite, it is not well to delegate him
the power of electing so important
an officer as United States Senator.
Let the candidate make his fight be-
fore the people, and look to them di-
rcrctly for the verdict. His corruption
funds, if he has any, will thus have a
wider field in which to operate, and
relatively will not be so potent as
they are in the Legislature. Another
phase of the subject is that presented
by the Orego0jo0: At the Legislature
where a Senator is to be chosen the
primary object of assembling as a
Legislative body, that of looking to
the laws and other business Of the
State, is too often subordinated to the
Senatorial fight, or lost sight of alto
gether in that all absorbing topic.


Every State in the Union has felt
the effects of this system, and the
time has fully come when the neces-
sites of the country demand a change.
Year: 1878

Congressman Smalls, of South Caro-
lima, will feel smaller yet when he hears
that the House Judiciary committee has
prepared report showing that his priv
ileges as a member of Congress do not
shield him from the custody of his
State, under charge of felony


''rhe mills of the gods grind slow,


But they grind exceeding Small.


Lawyer McGilvra, of Seattle, who is
now in Washington City, looking after
the interests of the Seattle and Walla
Walla Rail Road, is hammering away
with the zeal and persistency common
to the average Seattleite. If he bores
as well as he did at the Territorial
Legislature, he will surely have Con
gress on his side if he has time enough.
Year: 1878

"Evsry Evening" is right condemning
the 9Th ward frauds but it advises the
Board of Education to course Of action as
illegal and censurable as the fraud 1t con,
demns. No man can be deprived Of any
right of his without due process Of law ,and
the mere s1parts statement of the forty.nve
votes of the 9th ward does not rise to the
dignity of evidence and cannot be treated
as such. There is right and wrong
way of acting in the premises, and the Board
should be careful ard not commit greater
wrong, than was perpetrated in the 9th
ward by an illegal remedy. ~


Nothing is to be inferred against Mr.
Farrell, he is in office by the action of the
Board, and until his title is ovsrthrown, by
competent testimony in legal proceed
ings, the Board it has no power to disturb
him. IT 10 matter of taste with Mr.. Far
rell personally, whether he will retain his
place pending the investigation but one
thing is certain, if the Board attempts any
arbitrary exercise of power, he ought to
fight back. Thus far there is no proof such
as a court would entertain as to how the
veters voted.
Year: 1878

Aprspos of the celebrations of the day
we quote the opinion of Archbishop Wood,
Of Philadelphia, upon the subject. Last
year the Cathedral Cemetery at West Phila>
delphia, was closed against Post OF the
Grand Army, of the Republic, and 1t was
resolved by that body this year rot to 60 to
any of the Catholic cemeteries in Philadel~
phia. This coming to the ears of the Arch>


bishop, he caused himself to be interviewed


by reporter Of the Ledger, to whom he
made the following statement


"The matter has been entirely misunder>
Stood" said the Archbishop. II never
gave any orders forbidding the Grand Army
Of the Republic to visit any cemetery in my
diocese to decorate the graves of any SOL
diers who may be there. I once refused to
allow the children of the orphan asylum to
accompany post to cemetery, because
there was hymn and psalm singing which
Is not in conformity with the rules of our
Church. do not know much about the
Grand Army"
The reporter explained that twas secret
society entirely removed from politics, and
the rock on which 1t stood was charity, dls


pensed after the manner of not letting the
right hand know what the left hand doeth.


"Well. now," replied Archbishop Wood,
81 have no objections TO allowing any post
OF the Grand Army of the Republic visiting
any Catholic cemetery in my diocese to dec
crate the graves of the soldiers. They can
90 there and sing hymns and / will not OBJ
ject in the least. l admire the ceremonies


and most heartily approve OF them. I am


patriot myself" he added laughingly,


"although never fought"


This we trust will settle the question In


80 far as any misunderstanding may have
existed.


The Right Rev. Bishop Of this Diocese
has pevec objected, that we know Of, 80 it


is to be hoped that frem tomorrow, and
hezcoferth the brave who sleep their last
sleep in Catholic cemeteries will be remem-
bered upon the day.
Year: 1878

WILMINGTON, Del, May 2sth, 1875


EDITOR OF MORNING HERALD lin


Mondays Every Evening and Commercial


the editor, in referring to the Democratic


County Meeting says that there were men


present that were a disgrace to the yeo>


manry of the county, and that should be in


the pen!tentiary, or words to that effect. =,
Now, want to ask the people of this


city and county by what authority


person, without family, credit,


truthfuluess or Integrity man without


country or party, without friends or con-


stituency--uses such language. God


writes plain hand ANY man
that has studied human nature
can read the character of the editor of the
Every Evening and Commercial by looking
at his face. q" 7' ~ "9~'3
And yet while this vile, conceited creature
is pouring out his vituperatien and abuse Of
the best men Of both parties In this State,
and especially on the men that have borne
the heat and burden of the day for the
Democracy--there are men In this city that
aspire to Office in the future, aud that have
lived off the party In the past, that will 60


to the Every Evening and Commercial with


their fsvors and with their patronage, and
talk in public places about the uselessness
of party papers. --ar.'


The workipgmen of the Democratic party,
the men that control the votes and lead


the "boys, ,"-and the Democracy have such


men, WHOM the people delight to please
want to mark well the man that carries the
favor and secures the praise of EveryEvening
Such men want to bs learned lesson once


for all. That is. let 1t be fact known of
all men, that a man with political aspira-
tlons had better be stricken by death than
to have the smiles and praise of that journ>
al. ~ DEMOCRAT.
Year: 1878

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, by


a per euyiam decision, has decided that a


woman has a legal right 70 brace herself
with stays, steel-ribbed or otherwise, If she
likes. Considering that the members, o.
the Court are all on the shady side Of fifty,
and two Of them quite up to seventy, this
must be considered gallant y decision
A lady was riding in q horse car, not
Year: 1878

lively scene occurred at the Bowery Theatre last
night near the close Of the play of .Oyer Twist
From what could be learned at late honr it appears
that certain parties enjoined the management from
paying Miss Rose Eytnge her salary, wherenpon she
declined to finish the performance. good deal OF
excitement resulted and the audience made the usual
Bowery clamor. But the woman She refused
to 60 ON without her money.
Year: 1878




ave expect to see the influence of place
and power exerted as strenuOusly rs it
ever WAS in the days Of General GRANT"
is the mournful complaint Of the New York
Tribune, alluding to the condescension OF
President HAYES in permitting voluntary
subscriptions by office holders to the cam
paign funds. There is an untruthful slur
in this upon the last Administration which
savOrs of the Tiibui,e'S manner of attacking
the Republican party in 1872. Perhaps it
has not recovered from the habits Of that
campaign, and consequently believes the ly-
ing insinuations that place and power were
used by General GRANTS followers 10 pro-
mote iniquitous results, BE thisas it may, we
defy it to prove single instance
during General GRANTS eight years


in Office where single cent was assessed
upon any one, in Office or out Of it, for cam
paign purposes. The truth is, money for
such use WAS raised then, as II will he now,
by voluntary contributions, such as JAY
GOULD, the owner of the Tribune, is said to
have made in large sums during the last
campaign. 1t is true that GOULD may have
had some other object than party success in


view when he made his contribution; but
| we leave that to the Tribune TO decide for
Year: 1878

THIS Congress is wenrying the patience of
the people beyond measure. They are tired
oil the trick of introducing deficiency for
economy. The plating is too thin to con-
zeal the base metal that turks beneath it.
The cheat worked tolerably well for one
Congress, but it is becoming odious in pub
lie appreciation, as will be seen when an
other Congress shall he elected this fall.
The public patience is now worn thread
bare, and will correct existing errors in rep
resentation, though it may not be able to
repair the damage done by this Congress to
the interests Of the nation.
Year: 1878

THE selection of the Hon. FERNANDO
WooD by Speaker RANDALL to be chair
mn of the Ways and Means Committee
Turns out to be sad mistake, viewed in
the light shed upon ii by the tariff men of
Pennsylvania. 1t is true the WooD tariff
bill is dead to certainty, but that does not
destroy the influence of the fact that it
might have passed, nor does it remove from
Mr.. RANDALL the responsibility of having
placed its author in position to threaten its
pIssage even now
Year: 1878

SPEAKER RANDAILs trip to New York
last Saturday, from which he returned on
Sunday, is now described as mysterious In
a few days it will be exaggerated into a po-
litical intrigue with Tn.DEN; week will
not pass before alleged details of the sup
posed intrigue will be printed, and before
month is over the whole affair will be for
gotten. This is Washington news, by Our
Especial Correspondent" as it appears in
the Great Dailies.
Year: 1878

THAT rancorous rascal McLIN goes down
to postcrity as the political JUDAS IscAR-
lot Of his day. Even the Democratic news
papers give him a kick in his downward
progress, while they make use of his
trcsehery. But the time for the cruciGxion
Is as far distant as ever.
Year: 1878

THE North is approaching a period when
shard-pan" will be reached, but not without
attendant financial disaster. An equitable
insolvency act is required to bridge the peo-
pie over this period Of embarrassment.
Year: 1878

SENATOR MCCREERY wants to send the
pirate SEMMEs to the North Pole Nc
CREERY has always been opposed to
the natural or involuntary inspira-
tions of the people, great majority
of whom have often desired to send
sEMMEs to much warmer place,
But the great trouble with his present
proposition is, that 1t necessitates SEMMEs
reinstatement in the Government service.
Better send him up and reinstatc him after
ward. The red-hOt treason in his makeup
might be frozen stiff within hm-u sug-
gestion that embraces surmise that he
might be frozen to death.
Year: 1878

. THE curiosity of citizens Of the District
is again aroused regarding the influences at
work to defeat legislation by Congress for n
change in the form of our District govern
ment. Mr.. Commissioner BRYAH's return
from his Southern trip is coincidental with
the revival of this curiosity. The enact
ment of the pending bill would legslate the
present Commissioners out of ofice-a fact
that Mr.. BRYAN does not overlook. But it
also provides for the assumption by the
General Government of fifty per cent. of the
burdens of taxation, which now rest so
heavily upon our Taxpayers Really, we
are constrained to believe that the loss OF
the Commissioners by the enactment of the
bin would be more than compensated for
in this division of the taxes. This is an-
other fact that Mr.. BRYAN should not over
look.
Year: 1878

THE New York Tribune is fearful that the
State organizations among clerks of the
Executive Departments may exercise some
influence in the coming campaigns. Well
what if they do? Does any one suppose
those organizations are for social purposes
only? The members thereof are free Amer
lean citizens, entitled to serve such political
principles, and advance such political par
ties as may seem to them worthy Of being
served and advanced. Because they happen
to be the fortunate recipients of partisan
favor or place they are not robbed OF their
freedom by any means; on the contrary, q
due sense Of gratitude would demand more
partisan labor from them than from the
pecuniarily unrequited workers Of the party
to which they belong