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Year: 1878




The Insolvency Bill introduced in our
State Legislature by our Representative, Mr..
Mclaughlin, is one Of the most important
matters, and in all probability the most import
ant matter before the Legislature. This bill,
ii passed, would not take effect except In
case of the repeal of the National Bankrupt
Law; in such case, the state, without some
such law as this, would have no Bankrupt
legislation, and we should be thrown back up
on the old ''grab'' law. In preparing this
bill Mr.. Mclaughlin has advised with some
Of our ablest business men and lawyers, and
presents to the Legislature measure, which
well deserves their attention. 1t is still in an
unprotected condition, and is brought for
ward for debate and advisement. Its lead
ing provisions seem well suited for the needs
of the state if the national law should be re-
pealed. The bill divides the state into three
districts and provides for court consisting
OF three judges who may sit separately or to-.
gether, and who are to have Jurisdiction in
Bankrupt matters, subject to an appeal to
the Supreme Judicial Court. AS the bill
NVeSAS sAAho NV P"5Oo oAu Aoo lOU JOO UO-
come law, it hardly seems wise at present to
discuss Its provisions in detail. 1t seems at
first glance, little too much in the interest
of the creditor class, to meet with general ap-
proval in all parts Of the state. Instead of
the present bankrupt provision requiring a
fourth in number and a third in value of the
creditors to put a man into bankruptcy, the
proposed bill makes it possible for creditor to
the amount of only hundred dollars to put
his debtor into bankruptcy, provided he has
committed an act of bankruptcy, and for a
fourth in number of a mans creditors to be
able to throw him into bankruptcy if they
can prove him insolvent. Some of its other
provisions are rather summary. But the bill,
in the main, seems a wise one, and certainly
demands careful consideration by our law
n,akorc
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous etters and communi
cations. The name and address Of the writer are In
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


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

THE infationists cannot be made to see that
it is credit that is wanting. Millions of dollars
are lying idle in this country because their
owners cannot lerd them on good security at
even low interest.
Year: 1878

JUDGE RUSSELL is to return to Venezuela
as United States minister, but his stay will be
brief. That is to say, he is sent back in order
to vindicate himself, but mustn't stop long be-
cause some other man wants the place. This
is civil-servce reform.
Year: 1878

brittle thread of about $4,000 votes out
of grand total of 100000; and
second, that the tendency of changes
in doubtful districts from 1874 to 1876
was entirely in favor of the Republi-
cans.


In view of these suggestive figures,
it is not altogether imprudent to sug-
gest that this is not u safe occasion for
the Democratic party in the House to
indulge in the luxury of making mis-
great country like this balances on
a political pivot so delicate as that we
have pointed out, fine opportunities
are afforded of placing choice bits of
true craftsmanship in utterance and in
legislation where they will do the
most good.
Year: 1878

Another attempt is being made in
New York to introduce the system OF
advertising engagements" in the
newspapers as marriage notices arc
now advertised. The New York
Herald has inaugurated an engage
ment column, and number OF happy
swains and girls of Manhattan have
rcsorted to this column to let the world
know that they are in love, or at least
believe they are, with each other. So
far the system is working well, but it
is too early yet to predict success.
This plan has been tried a dozen times
already, and although it has often
promised to succeed, it has always
eventually ended in failure. The
Year: 1878

It's all very we'll to talk about econ
omy, but the difficulty is to get any
thing to economiZe. The little baby
who puts his toes in his mouth Is al
most the only person who in these
hard times manages to make both ends
meet.
Year: 1878

TARIFF OF ADVERTISING RATES.


Advertisements will be inserted at one
dollar and fifty cents per square Gone inch
OF space or less) for the first, and seventy
five cents for each subsequent insertion, for
any time under one month. For longer
periods as follows:
Year: 1878

CAPE MAY, Juhe 15-Twenty-one large
drum fish wePe taken with hook and
line from boats opposite Diamond Beach
Cottage, on the bay shore, about four
miles from the Cape May hotels. yester.
day. They were caught at the top of high
water and the bitinglasted about anIho ur
Seth and Lucein Chambers, with a lad OF
twelve years, caught five, weighing quite
fifty pounds.


The boy hooked two and the Others
helped them to secure them. They fight
desperately at first, but are soon over
come and lie on their side by the boat
and are lifted in by hook or hand in the
gills. They were heard drumming be
fore they took the bait and continued il
while lying in the boats. 1t is a moar
made with the mouth and gives the fist
! its name. Clam is used for bats The
noon train came in at the new summer
depot for the first time to-day.
Year: 1878

AMERICA is doing more and more every
day toward the work of feeding tie world
The reports of our Consul at Havre show
q asteadily increasing demand for American
provisions in France, and two steamers,
which have been fitted up with refrigers-
ting chambers, have taken to that country
in the last six months half million
pcunds of fresh meat.
Year: 1878

aru hereby authorized by merchants and
other responsible citizens of the town Of Ope
0us,s to offer the above reward for the appre'
heDsion, with sufficient evidence to convict, OF
the party OF parties who were engaged few
nights since, In the attempt to burn the b lilt
my now occupied by Emile Petfcrkorn. AZ q
coffee house. JAMES RAY,


President Board of Police
Year: 1878

The { arltston Ners and Courier ia


vors its readers with a two column
panegyric on the "Solid South" II is


refreshing to read it. The sublime
heig ht to which it rises makes one dizzy,


but there is delicious delirium about
the dizziness that W would make the most
hardened villain pleased with himself
while the class of people who resort to


all expedients to carry their points, ao-
cording to no one the right to think or
act otherwise than as they shall dictate,
will be- overjoyed at this new apologist
who has arisen, and whose notes come
TO us on the breezes from the South. II
is kind Of the Neus to tell us that the
responsibility of stirring up hatred


between peoples who can, and ought to
live together in amity and peace shall
not be upon us, or upon our chillren.'
The voters who were shot dead while
in the exercise of their rights will new
er know about this, but it was proba-
bly, intended for those who were only
dubbed from the polls or whose meet


ngs were broken up by Democratic
cavalry. Public credit will lust hump
itself over the announcement that "ths
solid South is not for repudiation.'


The .NcmS says -" We grant that the
southern States have repudiated part
OF their public debt. This was an in
cident." The explanation and assur-
ance is clear and satisfactory! Incl
dents are only common things of life.
And that is all this was. This epistle
to the gullible announces that South
Carolina Democracy has purpose only
to bring the whites and blacks together,
to secure equal rights to all men, to,
work out in South Carolina, tho social
and political problem in such a manner
that the higher race shall elevate and
improve the lower without mingling
with it, Truly this is beautiful.
"There 10 no ti.ou,..,' continues this
truly good organ Of hatchery and fraud,
"of distranchisins the colored people.
We want them TO vote, as they will
hereafter vote with the Democracy"
Further on we are assured that the lion
and the lamb will lie down together
shortly. 1t omits to state that the
lamb will be inside the lion, probably
because that is a fact apparent to the
most casual observer. But all they
want is time to demonstrate their wis.
dom and good policy. All they want
is to be "let alone" II appearances
are not 0ec-iviug, the solid South -
is fixing herself to be "let alone" in a
manner that will not be good for "shot.
gun " politics.
Year: 1878

that. hos and Of figures don't lie.
Let us illus. rate by our own city Of
Wilmington. 1t is supposed nov to
contain a population Of not less than
A, 600, and at the recent election only
1878 yotss were cast. We do not
want however to be guided by this
rather unfair showing, and we are will.
ing to allow the fullest vote ever cast
in the city to be used In comparison,


This vote We believe was about $500
two years ago in a Presidential cam
paign when the largest vote is general
ly cast, and it is probable that even
then there were 800 persons Of votable
age who did not vote, which would
make total of 1000 voters in the city.
This would not make quite one vote in
every six persons which compose the
population, hut for the sake Of convent.
ence, we will call it one in every six.
The same liberal ratio of computation
applied to Charleston allowing it so, 600
population would make 1888 votes in
stead of the 5000 actually polkd. By
this reasoning which We think is a fair
mode there were over 1900 too many
votes polled, all Of which must have
been fraudulent 1t Is rather steep to
ask the public to suspend judgment
upon such a clear case Of fraud until
Mackey has his trial. No fair minded


person who fully understands the stu.
alton as he should, doubts but what
Mackey will he convicted and so will
Ex-Governor Chamberlain, and so will
every Republican placed upon trial for
political offences in South Carolina. 1t
has always been the habit Of the Bcur-
bon Democrats in that State, whenever
a Republican attempted to expose
Democratic fraud to have him promptly
arrested and If not bnll-dozed into 81.
lence he Is tried and convicted, and it
Is sad commentary upon the morals
of the press when papers which profess
to be true exemplars of public morality
and virtue, throw their influence on
the side of fraud, violence and despotic
usurpation. In partisan point Of
view we would rather see such papers
pursue that course, for it stamps them
and the party they advocate IS un,
worthy of confidence and false guides
Of public opinion. The recent elections
in the north show the estimate in
which they are held.
Year: 1878

In WYOMING, whore lovely woman can
vote if she will, she doesn't. Only
one woman in the Territory has
ever been elected to office by the people,
and now official station is never deman-
ded by any member of the sisterLood.
Not half the women in Cheyenne have
cast q vote since the first two elections.
Although there are separate polling
places for the sex, respectable women
stay away frcm The polls and keep out
of politics. The only women who take
an interest in elections are those of the
baser sort. This is the strongest argu,
,nent We have yet seen against extend
ing the suffrage to women. We know,
well enough, that all bad men are sure
to vote. The Reading Times and Dis
patch in commenting upon this subject
says, if they had the bad wcmrn to
reinforce them they would be formide
able power in the country.
Year: 1878

The EDITOR OF the Gazette must Ger
tainly be in error, or misunderstood Mr..
Hanson Harman, when it says that the
latter gentleman called at his (the Ga
zette) Office and said that he did not
call at the REPUBLICAN Office, nor did
he say what that paper reported him
as saying. We cannot think that Mr.
Harman wonld make such a statement
and therefore We are inclined to think
that our contemporary must be in
error. Never did man walk more
unconcernedly and leisnrely into our
Office than Hanson Har1nan did, and
give unsolicited the information which
we published.


Injustice to Mr.. Harman we hope the
Gazette will correct its error. In regard
to the pardon referred to we never once
said that Mr. Martin was not pardoned,
indeed We rather thought from the first
that he was, but We still challenge the
Ex- limited States Marshal Johnson, edi-
tor of the Gazette, to produce the proof
of it without going to Washington to
get transcript of the record.
Year: 1878

A STRONG PATRY.-There never was
clearer demonstration Of a lack OF
confidence in ths D, ,no,..ti3 party as
was shown hy the people of the north
in the recent elections and clearer
pr, of that the mission Of the Republi-
can party is not ended. The sweeping
victories all over the north has demon


,trated the fact that the Republican
party is as powerful and we'll organized
as ever, held together by well defined
code of conscientious principles that do
not die away after even number OF
defeats which serve as sitter to the
party which strengthens instead Of
weakens it.. Since it has been shown
that the Republicans are destined yet
to rule the nation for some years to
come, the return Of s'rsgglers has been
very rapid and extensive, for nothing
in politics is 50 potent magnet as sue
cess. After the victory in Colorado,
Iowa and OHIO in October, the 'Novem-
ber rally came like rushing avalanche.
There is something peculiarly exciting
in the return of the victory to a great
national historic party. 1t awakens
enthusiasm in places where the glory
of past achievements is endearngly
cherished. The recent victory of the
Republicans was grand and decisive
blow struck at the right time, in the
right way, with strategic ability and
with crushing resistless force. 1t
crushed at one decisive stroke all the
products Of tao years Of Democratic
campaigning about fraud, usurpation
free trade, contraction upon the cur
rency, and all the other ills with which
party could I've charged. Another
such general battle would scatter to the
far winds all the. hopes Of side issues,
and prove beyond doubt that the Re-
publican party is not only in major
ity in every Northern, but nearly
every Southern st te.
Year: 1878

A dispatch from New Haven, Nov. 10,
says: In the case of VIM. w. Brom.
ham, who is alleged to have thrown his
brother overheard from a boat in the
Sound with intent to murder him, and
thereby secure his inheritance, Judge
Peck, in the City Court to-day, over
ruled the demurrer that the Court had
no jurisdiction over matters happening
four miles from shore, and bound the
accused over to the Superior Court in
the sum Of 5000, which was promptly
furnished. If the demurrer is over
ruled in the Superior Court, the ques
ton Of law will be taken to the Supreme
Court Of Errors. The case may not
reach that Court under a year. If the
decision of the City Court Is upheld by
both the higher Courts, the case will
be tried before the Superior Court, If it
ever is tried, which many seem to think
improbable.
Year: 1878

The New YORK Times thinks that the
election of 1879 will be among the most
momentous in the history of the coun-
try. The financial question, the solid
South, and the commune sentiment
will be the cause of agitation. No mat
ter what the issues ar, thu Republi-
cans are able to grapple with them and
will come out victorious.
Year: 1878

With solid South en- one side and q
solid North on the other, it will be q
long time before the Democratic party
Will be able to elect a President. The
sooner we drop this solid business the
better for both sections, but especially
ior our own interests. Richmond State
(Dem.) '''
Year: 1878

Thomas Cox & Son will have a fine
lot OF trlpe at their stand, Fourth and
King streets, this afternoon and to.mor.
row morning. This is the only stand
they have ON King street. His son at
Fourth and King street is his only
agent on said street. Give him a cali
a! an early hour, and secure your choice
Year: 1878

From the Petersburg, Va, Ind dex-Appeal.
The contributions so far to the women's
fund for the liquidation of the State debt


are very encouraging, and give practical


aspect to scheme which at first seemed


visionary and almost impossible, and which


even now is in but crude state of devel-
opment. The ladies, however, have laid
hold of the enterprise with right good
will, and when these energetic and enthu-
siastic creatures are thoroughly in earnest
they invariably succeed. One cannot re-
press thrill of pride while reading report
of these contributions and the promises for
the future. The unselfish and patriotic
spirit there displayed is worthy Of Spartan
mother or Roman matron. One lady sends
contribution with the declaration that sne
will make her last summers bonnet do for
this year. Another has two pigs and pro-
poses to give one. Another will give her
butter money from this time forth, and SO
on. The list, when completed, will consti


tute proud roll Of honor. The bond
holders could very we'll afford to contribute
largely OF their bonds to foster the enter
prise. Efforts will be made to organize a
fund in every city and county in the State. :
and if successful the effect will be to crush:
out an agitation which has already serious :
ly impaired the credit of the State and tar
nished her character for good faith.
Year: 1878

The pickpocket's motto is like name
made immortal by Dickens. because it's
Pickquick. Free Press.


The Russian hymn "Kalloff Yerdog :"
will now be subst ituted for the " Watch on
the Rhine. IN 7. Graphic.


There is an equator that runs just under
the nose all that live under it are animals
and all that live above it are men.


The Elmira Gazette says "there1s land
that is hotter than this" It's the home
of the Hot en- totem and it's the grim mes
senger that "done tote 'em thar


If you would be clear and forcible, don't
use foreign words. Be natural A man
never stops to hunt up foreign word when
he is stung by hornet.-OI City Der
rick.


The fact that George Washington's wife
never askd where he had been when he came
home late at night, goes a great way to-
ward accounting for his extreme truthful
ness.-EWlton Times.


The simple cast-iron fact states the pub
lie IN the face, that when a mosquito has
made up bis mind to come in and spend the
evening with family he means to put up
with abuse and expects no praise.


The basket that You bring home from the
picnic these days is about seventeen pounds
lighter than the one you take out, but the
red ants up your trowsers legs fully make
up the deficit. Nature abhors vacuum.
Haaokeye.


Theoretically speaking, the pen may be
mightier than the sword, but when you
come to regular knock down and drag out
nine men out of every ten will stick his pen
horizontally behind his ear ard look care
fully around for big club.-Elmira Ga
sette.
Year: 1878

AN AMPUTATED LEG CAUSING PAIN.


Mr.. ]. o. Eldridge, the well auc-
tioneer Of the firm of Hill, Newhall & Co.,
San Francisco. writes to the Virginia city
Enterprise the following note:


ga gentleman called my attention to an
item in your paper regarding lad whose
arm had been amputated, aud what he
suffered at the removal of the same and
its results. Fifteen years ago I lost leg,
and it was closely packed in a casket,
causing me constant terrible pain. A good
wife, unknown to me, sent faithful ser :
want to arrange the amputated limb in a
new and larger casket. The moment the
leg was handled knew it, and the comfort
began then and has never ceased, and I
could tell the position precisely in which
the missing member was placed. I am
glad to know. my experience is verified
but just how to account for this let the
wise men tell. This is the first time any
allusion was ever made to the matter by
myself, and only allude to it now to add
my testimony to that of the little lad, that
missing members do in some way convey
to ms the sense of feeling. am we'll
known IN your community, and the pecu-
liar circumstances attending my loss you
can publish II you DESIRE"
Year: 1878

Popular Science Monthly
Two remarkable examples are on record


of two persons who allowed themselves to
be hanged for amusement of an audience.


An account of one of them is given in the


Lancet of April II, 1s47. The mans real


name was John Harnshaw, but he per-
formed throughout England under the
high-sounding professional title of Mon
sieur Gouffe. He was an athlete, and
among other feats it was customary with
him to exhibit the process of hanging. In
this performance he relied for security on
the strength of the muscles of the neck
and throat He had rope with fixed
knot which could not slip, and passed both
ends Of the loop up behind one ear The
whole act was SO adroitly managed that he
prevented any pressure of the rope on the
windpipe or on the jugular veins, and could
even sustain weight of $50 pounds in
addition to that of his own body.


On three separate occasions Harnshaw
mismanaged the rope, and became uncon-
scious, being luckily rescued each time.
DR.. Chowhe, who writes the account, says
very truly: cit cannot be doubted that, rs
sensation and consciousness are concerned,
Harnshaw passed through the whole ordeal
of dying, and, had he been permitted to
hang until dead, he would have passed out
of existence without further conscious
ness"


Now, this man stated, not with particu-
lar reference to either accident. but as COM
mon to all, that "he could hardly recollect
anything that happened to him in the rope;
thai he lost his senses all at once the in
slant the rope got in the wrong place he
felt as If he could not get his breath, AS if
some great weight were at his feet could
not move only to draw himself up; felt as
if he wanted to loosen himself, bat never
thought Of his hands. And he added
" You cannot move your arms or legs to
save yourself you cannot raise your arms;
you cannot think" He did not see sparks
or light, but had in his ears rattling
sound.
Year: 1878

Two Californians doing Paris kept rather
| late hours, and a friend thus describes


their peregrinations in search Of nights
| lodgings:


| 4 short time since two friends of mine
attended a village fete at st. Cloud. Re-
turning to the city at an early hour in the
morning they could not Immediately find
any description of vehicle to carry them to
their rooms, which were located in dis
taut quarter. Tired and sleepy, they sought
| admittance at the Grand Hotel. Awaken
ing the porler was work of time. The
porter wrung up to consciousness, must
awaken the clerk. The clerk was some
time in coming to, and when at last he cast
off slumber sufficiently to find out who he
was, where he was and what he was about,
he couldn't tell whether there was room
vacant or not until he had inspected the
books for period, in the estimation of our
two Americans, long enough for making
out an abstract of title to an old estate.
But at last it was settled that one small
room of one bed was vacant near the roof.
"Auywhere anywhere r. cried the belated
ones. Anything in the semblance of
room and bed." But here new obstacle
presented itself. "Messieurs had no bag
gage" 1t was one Of the rules of the hotel
not to receive any guests without baggage.
Messieurs offered for their nights lodging
deposit of 80 francs. No, not without
baggage They offered deposit of 100
francs. No, not without baggage at 2
o'clock in the morning. The clerk was po-
lite but firm. They then showed him their
credentials, their letters of credit, their
passports, in order TO establish their char
acter-baggage OF no baggage. They
begged and implorei for a place to lay their
tired, pleasure stated bones. The clerk re-
Tented so far as to 60 and awaken the ''pat
ron" and lay the case before him. He re-
turned. There was no hope in his face
none in his reply. No, not without bag
gage. If" said the patron, the Prince
of Wales should apply baggageless he
would not be admitted to the Grand Hotel"
Whereat the two baggageless men roamed
the streets until they found a cab to convey
them TO their distant quarters.


THEY HAVE Run OuT.-Of the Barops
who met in the first English Parliament
over six hundred year ago, the descend
ants of two only now >i5 IN the House of
Peers. More than hundred Of the origi-
nal great families of England have become
extinct. There are now but four surviving
peerages which were creations of the four
teenth century, but seven surviving peer
ages of the fifteenth, twelve of the six
teenth, thirty-fve of the seventeenth,
and of the eighteenth century ninety-fve.
All the remainder are creations of the pres
ent century.