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Year: 1878

Well, Tom, my boy, I must bid YOU gOOd-by.
I've had a wonderful visit herei
Enjoyed u, too, as well as / could


Away from all that my heart holds dear.
Maybe I've been a tTile rough
little awkward, your wife would say
Of your city polish day by day.
But somehow, Tom, though the same old roof
Sheltered US both when we were boys,
And the same dear mOtherlOve watched US both
Sharing our childish griefs and lows
Yet you are almost a stranger now;


Your ways and mine are as far apart
As though we never had thrown an arm
About each other with owing heart.
Your city home is a palace. Tom:


Your wife and children are G.ir to see;
You couldn't breathe in the little cot.


The little home, that belongs TO me.
And am lost m your grand large house,
And aaZed with the wealth every side
And hardly know my brother, Tom,
In NE midst Of so much stately pride.
Yes. the concert was grand, last night,
The nging splendid; but, do you know,
My heart kept longing, the evening through,
For another concert, so sweet and low
That maybe it wouldn't please the ear
Ofone so cultured and grand as yOui
Butto its music-laugh If you will


Ny heart and thoughts must ever be true.
Ishut my eyes in the hall last night


(For the clash Of the music wearied mel,
And close TO my heart this vi,iOn came
The same sweet picture I always see:
In the vine-clad porch Of a cottage home,
Half in shadow and half in sun,
"A mother chanting her lullaby,


Rocking TO rest her little one.
And soft and sweet as the music fell


From the mothers lips, I heard the coo
OF my baby girl, as with drOwsy tongue
She echoed the song with "COO-a-gOO"
Together they sang, the mother and babe,
Ny wife and child, by the cottage door.
All ! that is the concert, brother Tom,


Ny ears are aching to hear once more
So now good-by. And wish you WELL


And many year OF wealth and gain
TC4t were born TO be rich and gay;


lam content 20 be poor and plain.
And so back TO my country home


With love that absence has strengthened too
Back to the concert all my own


Mothers singing and bahy's COO,
Year: 1878

The Democracy of Maine are in
pretty much the same condition rs
the Ohio boy who took out a very
young bull-pup to train in killing
woodchucks. The pup was ''willin,


and Immediately disappeared down
the hole to be killed by the wood
chuck. The boy watched the hole
for half day, and went off with a
sigh, and the remark that she guess
ed there had been a death in the fami-
ly." The Bourbon pup was also viii
ing in Maine, and disappeared down
the hole made by the Fiatists. As
he doesn't come out again, they be-
gin to suspect there has been a death
in the family. = Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1878

It is becoming clearer every day
that the financial question is the rul-
ing issue in the campaign. There
are other important questions to be
solved, but Just now the contest is to
be waged between honesty and dis
honesty, between honor and dishon-
or, between resumption and repudia-
ton, between financial prosperity and
financial disaster. On this issue
there are but two parties The Dem
ocratie party and the National
Greenback Labor party are united
in sentiment and action, and they
have inscribed upon their banners
Dishonesty, DishonOr and Repudia-
ton. The Republican party alone
stands by the country in its honest
endeavor to honorably pay its hon
est debt in honest mOney.-[Syra-
cuse Journal
Year: 1878

1t has been the hope of Democrats
that the revelations made by trans
lated cipher dispatches would cease
to have Importance after the election.
''They were made in order to "affect
the election" said Democrats, ''and
"nOW will be allowed to die out of
memory" This notion will be found
entirely mistaken. The facts were
not made known with a view to serve
the purpose Of any party in any elec-
ton, nor with an expectation that
very great immediate effect could be
produced by their disclosure. They
have more permanent meaning, for
they teach, Il the degree of honesty
and sincerity which prevails in the
Democratic party; ~ the necessity
of holding political parties to more
rigid responsibility for the acts of
their agents, committees, leaders and
candidates and (3) the necessity of
Immediate changes in the mode of
electing a President. Particularly
for the latter reason, public opinion
ought to be throughly aroused. 1t
can no longer be tolerated that one
man may have it in his power to sell
out a nation. Corruption is bad
enough at the best, and dangerous
enough. But it must seem little less
than miracle, to any upright and
intelligent citizen, that the defects
of our present machinery of govern
ment have not resulted before this in
a sale of the Presidency at auction.
The people can be trusted. But the
individuals whom they select are not
always honest or true,


For the present, the immediate
necessity is to concentrate public
opinion upon the conduct of the
Democratic party its agents in 1876.
The matter will not die out. Let no
one lay that fiattering JUNCTION to his
soul. Congress will be compelled
either to shield or formally to expose
the criminals. We shall see how
many members are disposed to hide
a truth because it happened to hurt
their party. The pettifogging eva
sions of newspaper cards and Inter
views'' will give place to the sworn
testimony and the searching cross
examination. Men who have cheaply
denied things in print will be invited
to answer where a false declaration
may lead to Jail. PERHAPS the con-
scienceless journalists who have
made bold to assert that some dis
patches ''must be forgeries," may
haye to testify on what ground, if
any, they are accustomed to base ed
itorial statements. In short, the
country will probably have a fair
opportunity this Winter of learning
precisely what Reform" means in
Democratic mouths, and what lead


ing Democrats are willing to see
Reform" promoted by the bribery
of officials. The subject will not be
dropped quite so soon as many De -
ocrats would like To have it, they
may rest assured. ". y. TibUpe.
Year: 1878

From all parts of the country re.
ports come Of the immense sales and
Increasing demand for that desery-
lngly popular Sewing Machine, The
Old and Reliable STANDARD" the
price of which the proprietors wisely
reduced to $50, including all the at
tachmentS, and at once secured for
them a popularity among the peo-
pie, far beyond that ever yet attain
Ell by any other machine at any
price, the consequence of which is,
agents are leaving the old high priced
machines, and seeking territory for
the STANDARD" Knowing from
experience that with the best goods
at the lowest price they can outsell
all other Machines, where the supe-
ior quality and low price is made
known. This splendid Machine
combines all the improvements. Is
far ahead of all others in beauty and
durability of its work, ease of man
agement, light running and certainty
OF operation, is sensibly made upon
sound principles, with positive work.
lnS parts all steel, and can be safely
put down as the very perfection of a
Serviceable Sewing Machine, in
every particular. that will outlast
any Machine, and at a price far down
below any other. 1t is thoroughly
warranted for five years. Kept in
orderfree of charge. And sent to any
part Of the Country for examination
by the customer before payment of
the bill. We can predict equally as
large Il demand for them in this
section as in others. Families desir-
ing the best Machine manufactured
should write direct to the Factory.
And enterprising persons wishing to
seize the chance should apply for SO
desirable an agency. See advertise
ment in another part of this paper.
Address, Standard Machine Co., Cor,
broadway and Clinton Place, New
York.
Year: 1878

the Presidents determination to see
that the laws are enforced every
where. The statement that the Pres
ldent has recently said that he had
tried the plan of conciliation and
found 1t a complete failure is untrue.
The President has never made such a
statement. 1t is true that he does
not think that the South has fespon-
ded as it should to his good iDten-
tions, but nevertheless he does not
intend to change in any manner the
course of his administration upon
this account. This course, as has pre-
viously been said, is moi 4 South IN
policy. 1t is not in any true sense a
man policy it is the enforcement of
the laws hv civil process Asete


sAsHl y 81 &. I s.s..s. 49, sl.ssl
been reconciliation between the
Administration and the dissatisfied
leaders of the Republican party, it
may be stated that in order that
there might be "a reconciliation" as
the phrase is, it would be necessary
that the President should come at
least partially to the way of thinking
held by leaders Of theparty to which
he is to be reconciled. The Presi-
dent has never seen any reason why
he should cease to do his duty. be-
cause some portion of his party were
dissatisfied with his methods. He
has always desired and still desires
that the utmost harmony should eX-
ist in the party. If leaders of the
party after interchanging views with
him see that they have misunder-
stood his course and conduct, and
think tlat it would be good that past
differences should be heated, the
President is ready to respond heart
lily. That such is the case is no
doubt true, and the party which cleo
ted the President to office is certain
ly now, with few exceptions, ready,
as Representative White, of Penn
sylvania says, to "lo0k to future re-
suits and forget the effect of the past
with its past differences" If this is
reconciliation, well and good
Year: 1878

In summing up the causes for the
Republican victory. due thanks
should be given to the valiant service
of the Potter Committee. Next to
the cipher disclosures the Grand
Combination Exhibition of fImbeciles
and Truth Shatterers probably did
more to defeat the Democrats than
any other one cause. The commit
tee demonstrated that 1t was impos-
sible to find any Republican fraud,
and that even the most cautious IRE
form" investigator was unable to do
days work without taking the
cover off a Democratic villany or
two.
Year: 1878




The immediate future is full OF promise.
On every hand mems energies, SO long pa
ralyzed, are reviving. Want and distress
have sensibly stimulated the enterprise and
skill Of our people. Economy in all branches
Of government, State and Federal, is the
rule and no longer the exception. A great
er number Of men are willing to work for a
living than at any time since the war, and
farmers and skiliul and industrious mechan-
les in all parts Of the country are earning q
living. Few men are making rapid for
tunes, and speculation has undoubtedly
received blow; but faithful, punctual,
honest, and skilful labor is already getting
the moderate reward with which it was sat.
isfed before 1850. tits curious sign OF
the times that in many OF our cities house.
building has recommended, but the houses
are mostly small and inexpensive. Finally,
there is little doubt that II the people who
now cry out about the severe pressure oil
| the times and demand o new imitation could
be examined it would be found that they
consist almost entirely OF two classes
tramps, and spectators who bought at the
| top OF an inflated market and are suffering
the results OF their incautious ventures
But no &gisiation can, help these two
| classes.
Year: 1878

The OLD Tavern Not Sold.-The Old
Tavern property, which was put up for sale
Wednesday evening, was withdrawn. This
is one Of the famous landmarks OF the city,
and in by-gone days was one OF its most
noted localities. In its yard is situated the
celebrated we'll with its old oaken bucket.
The waters Of this we'll are not fablcd to
bestow the gift OF perpetual youth, but it is
claimed for it that no one who ever cools
his thirst therefrom can remain permanently
from "the free State" 1t is stipulation
that no matter by whom the "Old Tavern .
is purchased the we'll is not to be removed.
The sale of the property was not pcrcmnto-
ry, but was for the purpose OF division
between the heirs.
Year: 1878


TEN PER CENT. DIVIDEND DECLARED.
LEVY BROTHERS
ALLOW TEN CENTS OFF
EVERY DOLLARS WORTH OF GOODS
YOU PURCHASE OF THEN.
You GET YOUR GOODS AT THE LOWEST CASH


PRICES,
and then you get an extra
TEN CENTS TAKEN oFF
ofevery dollars worth you buy.
THEIR LINEN SUITS


have been
MARKED DOWN so LOW
that any person afford to purchase new dress.
SUCH AN OPPORTUNITY


to purchase
DRY GOODS AT Low FIGURES
Is but seldom offered,
so AVAIL YOURSELVES


OF The
PRESENT OPPORTUNITY.
Store open until p. NJ
Year: 1878

KEssNICH's PROMENADE CoNCERT.-Frank-
lin-Street Park was crowded last night with
the elite OF the city on the occasion of the
promenade concert by Kessnich's band. A
very beautiful programme was excellently
rendered. The pyrotechnic display was a
very fine one. The promenade concerts
pected that they will be given at Franklin
Street Park twice week. Tomorrow
night Kessnich will play at Sanger Halle.
Year: 1878

POLICE COURT, YEsTERDAY.-A few tri-
fling cases were disposed Of, and the court
adjourned early in order to give the attaches
opportunity to vent their patriotic fervor
in an excursion.
Year: 1878

a partial abolition of the Mexican free


zone will be of advantage to the reve-


nues of this country. The Treasury


Department has long had information,


but has never been able to obtain exact
proof that an extensive system of SNUG
Cling is carried on between England
and the United States through the
Mexican free zone. The method of
operations is to send parts of cargoes
to New Orleans, shipped through to
Matamoras, which is free port, under
the law allowing foreign goods to pass
over our territory in bond. Those
goods are transported to Matamoras,
and our Consul there certifes 10 their
receipt. This releases the bond, and
the next day the very same goods are
brought back across the Rio Grande
and smuggled into the United States.
Year: 1878

IT Is hard to account for the fact
that many. Of the poor people in Mem
phis hide themselves from the health
officers when attacked with fever.
They have horror Of going to the pub
lie hospital and prefer d. ing unattend-
ed and alone in alleys and by ways. The
officers discover many dead bodies only
after the most vigorous search, being
led to investigate by the terrible
stencil of decaying flesh.
Year: 1878

THE LEADER earnestly requests its
friends in all parts of the country to
send in the news. Write often, give
us all the news and keep us posted in
all matters of progress and develop
ment. When in the city our friends
are invited to call at this Office and fur
nish us with any information they may
possess.
Year: 1878

wHEs you look at the goddess. for
We understand she Is IN alleged goddess.
on the new silver dollar. doesn't itmaks
your blood boil to think OF the man
who has evidently ehucksd her under
the chin with croquet malletr
Year: 1878

The New York Tribune is warmly In
favor of the practical education of young
ladies in cooking. dressmaking and milli-
merry. 4 good deal. it says. is bitterly
spoken of women of fashion,, enamored of
expense. indolent, frivolous and selfish.
Poems are written about them of the sat.
rcal sort, and they are ignominiously


classed as Flora McFlimseys. There is
not a word to be said in their defence, ex-
cept that they are what fond mothers and
foolish fathers have made them. But
there are other women who mean well
and who would like to do well, If they on
ly knew how-poOr. jaded creatures, who
are willing to work, but who, through ig-
norance, work constantly at q disadvan-
tage who would be economical and so
help their husbands. if they had been ear
ly taught the elements of economy; and
drag through lite, God knows, without
| mach pleasure. and die at last leaving q
| succession of like inefficiencies and both
| erations to their daughters. If there be
| no want of will, and oftenest their is none,


the fatality of this dowdy tragedy is igno-
| rance. When good intentions and inca
pacitv are united in the same person, the
spectacle cannot be otherwise than dis
heartening.


A poor woman may help herself in a


hundred ways while poor man, under


the same circumstances, would be utterly


helpless. She has taste and dexterities
which he would seek in vain to acquire.
1t would be an absurd waste Of time and


patience if he should undertake to make
his own coats and hats,-he would not on
ly fail egregiously to secure preseptable
appearance, but he would be laughed at
for the failure. OF what he would do if


he should try to cook the family breakfast.
it is needless to say anything. The nat


ural cleverness of woman, her bright per-


ceptons, her unfailing TACT her dexterity.
what a pity it is that these should be so
often wasted When their cultivated use
would save her from so much annoyance,
from so many dilemmas, and from morti-
tications which she feels so keenly She


needs but little teaching. for she is an apt


pupil. Heretofore she has been forced to


20 without it. because teaching has been


supposed to be mere matter of books.


A radical change in our system of educa-


ton, of which we see so many signs, will


make the world wonder that did not come


sooner
Year: 1878

sleep, or that sleep which knows no
wa king. 1 am now going to close this
last scene on this stage Of action, and
consign myself to oblIvion's tomb, and
be forgotten forever to things of earth.
Noslab or stone will mark my last rest
lng-place. In the language of Burns,
"no marble bust or storied orn, but the
winds will whistle requiem over my
dead memory; the rustling of the leaves
and the sighing in the breeze, will only
be in keeping with the spirits that will
communicate with NINE"


And as pass DER deaths dark river,


With all its horrors and its turbulent


waters,


May kind spirits be on hand to de-


liver


And assist me to more gentle quar-


ters.


You need not care about enquiring for
relatives or friends, as L don't consider
there is any that will care anything about
me. Put mein box and bury me in the
most convenient place. l don't care if 1t
is on the highway, SO there is no stake
drove through my body. The man that
would thus disgrace my body after / was
dead, L would haunt him not only
through time, but l would visit him in
the heights of his torment in the midst OF
the damned.


My truHk and contents, and box OF
stone cutting and mason tools, are worth
something's stone cutters know best
the worth of tools. Perhaps Bruner will
have the first claim on them, as / owe
him since the sixteenth of November
Now farewell TO the trials and turmoils
of earth; farewell to the hills aud valleys
and lastly, farewell to all the
people round about and throughout the
city.


Bury me in the clothes / wear,
Though blood stained they be,
They are mine, by purchase far,


None can say they don't belong to
Inc.


Down in the 81 ent river of death.
Where sleeping zephyrs fan the
Shore


This weary wanderer, oEce of earth,
Has gone to sleep forevermore.
JoAB CLOUD.


After the reading of this letter the jury
deli berated briefly, and agreed upon {
verdict that the deceased came to hi.
death by shooting himself
As Cloud possessed no effects, othel
than those mentioned in his letter, hi
body will be buried by the Coroner, un
loss it is claimed by relatives.
Year: 1878

The New York policemen receive 500
n month, the same that was paid in the
height of the war. A proposition has
been advanced to decrease their pay in
accordance with the changed order OF
things.
Year: 1878




the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend payments
OF this kind until the 1st of July, 1885.


The vote in the Finance Committee of the Senate
cannot, however, De accepted as final test OF the
strength of this measure in that body.
7 preamble OF Mr. Beck's resolution sets
forth that whereas the purchases OF bonds
for the sinking fund have exceeded the amount
required by law by $500, ,954 459 80, therefore
II is esOved by the Senate, the House OF Represen-
tatves cOncurring that ii Is unnecessary and mex
pedent either 10 maintain impose taxes at this
time for the purpose of providing for the S37 1856,
O54 O4 asked for by the Secretary of the Treasury
in his estimates for the purpose of providing further
for the sinking fund.- and that the Secretary of the
Treasury be directed not to purchase any
bonds for the reduction of the principal
of the National debt until the further order of Con
Gress, and that the committees of Congress
not to provide for the payment during
the next fiscal year of any part of sad
sum in the adjustment of the taxation
required for the maintenance and support of the
Government. The Senate Committee IN reporting
adversely 10 the resolution, stated that the pay
ments into the sinking fund are provided for by
law, and that the law could not be changed b,
concurrent resolution.


The suspension of payments into the sinking fund
has been one of the main FEATURES OF Mr Fernando
Woods financial scheme from the beginning Inc
assumption upon which Il "a based Is that the Gov
ernmcnt during Secretary BoutwelFs adminisira-
tOn Of the Treasury Department reduced the Ma
tOral debt more rapidly than was required by law,
and that now that the revenues have fallen on, and
business depression makes a reduction Of taxes de-
srabe II l. only proper that the people shall be re-
leved Of this burden at least until accounts with
the sinking fund are squared up.
Year: 1878

TRIBUNE OFFICE, May l, l \. MA slow rise Of air
pressure yesterday accompanied by partly cloudy
weather The Temperature similar TO that OF the
preceding day the OF moisture IN the air con-
tiuues


For this city ard vicinity, partly cloudy and arm
weather may be expected % follow fOgguess this nOr-
ing and continue through t-mouOw
Year: 1878

Mr. Augustus Maverick, an experienced Jour
nalis contributes THE TRIBUNE extended history
OF the eommunstic movement and OF s relations to the


bOr organic atoms of the country In the hight OF the
great rnroad disturbances OF last and Of the new
Political Developments IN many LOCALITIES the question
u OF tie highest Importance Thoughtful observers
Recognize tna t c0ntans seeds OF danger and that the
sobef Judgment Of the country should be directed toft
Year: 1878

Woman gets the credit Of exercising
patience and fortitude under circum-
stances that would overwhelm the BRAY
est man, and she deserves it. 1t tries her,
though, to entertain young man in the
parlor every Sunday night or oftener, for
two or three years, without the slightest
suggestion from him Of matrimony OF
household furniture, while the old man is
storming daily about the hard times and
the high price of lights and fuel
Year: 1878

\ singular instance of the ingenuity Of
birds was noticed ut Detroit the other
day, when two robins were seen to be toll
ing away at a small toy basket, which had
been left in dooryard. Evidently think
ing it would make palatial nest the birds
were pulling and dragging it along over
the grass, but We're unable to get hold OF
it in such way as to fly off with it, They
accordingly left it, but soon returned with
a string about eight feet long, which they
drew through the basket and, each tax
ing one end in its bill, flew briskly away
with the basket hanging on its swing be
tween them.
Year: 1878

wendell PHILLIPS in his reply to-J
Bancroft Davis's attack on the life and
character Of Charles Sumner, said: "As
l look at it, the effort TO concliate the
South was total surrender of the North.
1t is marriage where tho North and
South will be made one, and the South
will be that one. fear that the fate of
the Administration will be like that of
the boy who had tho pet alligator, and
the alligator loved him so intensely that
it swallowed him."
Year: 1878

'ALF-AYD-'ALF.-Blaine, of Maine,
has got his Bill into the Silver muddle.
He has introduced sort of compromise
measure in the. Senate, the main feature
of which provides that silver shall be n
legal tender for all sums up to and includ-
ing five dollars, and all payments in ex-
cess Of that amount may be made one
half in silver and one-half in gold coin.
Under bis Bill the debtor has the right to
to tender, and the creditor to demand
payment in such gold and silver coin.
Year: 1878

AN Engineer proposes to utilize the
heat of the Comstock mines by taking it
up through pipes to warm the houses of
Virginia City and Gold Hill, at the same
time reducing the temperature and aera-
ting the mines.