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Year: 1878



 An Act in amendment of an act concerning

 Education.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives in General Assembly convened |: That section twenty three, chapter five, title eleven of the general statutes be and the same is hereby amended by inserting between the word 'shalp' and the word ''fix, :" in the fifth line of said section, the words ''after confer ring with the school visitors of the town or towns in which such district is located" The section, when thus amended, will be as follows ''The vote of two-thirds of those present and voting at meeting of the district shall be nec- essary to fix or change the site of school house but if such two-thirds vete cannot be obtained in favor of any site, the school visit ors of any town adjoining the town, or either of the towns in which such district is, on appli- cation of the district, shall, after conferring with the school visitors of the town or towns in which such district is located, fix the site and make return to the clerk of the town in which such site is to be.

 Approved March 27, 1878.
Year: 1878

CHAPTER CXVn. An Act authorizing the Investment of the Funds constituting the Capital of the Agricultural College Fund.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives in General Assembly convened: That the treasurer of this state and the con- missioner of the school fund are hereby author ized to invest any moneys that are now or may hereafter come into their hands, belonging to the capital of the Agricultural College Fund" of this state, in the bonds of the United States, or of this state or of any town, city or county in this state, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said bonds

 Approved March 27, 1878.
Year: 1878

An ambitious young man of Monroe County Illinois, thought it would evince his familiarl- ty with the usages of fashionable society if he were to have his engagement printed in the village paper under the head "Betrothed," but when at the trial of the action for breach of promise the advertisement, marked Exhibit A" was put in by the plaintiffs attorney, he was sad indeed
Year: 1878

The appearance of sunshine, this morning, caused a member of the Scientific Society to look up the authorities bearing upon the sub iect, and he found from the record that sim liar phenomena had occurred in this section hefore = SLgndnrd
Year: 1878

There is probably not woman in all this broad, sunny land of our who doesn't think that the carving fork was made for the express purpose of pulling corks out of blueingsbottles and lifting stove-lids.
Year: 1878

A distinguished Japanese traveller in this country writes home: ssThe chief branch of education of young men here is rowing. The people have large boat-houses called colleges, and the principal of the are Yale and liar yard"
Year: 1878

Any subscriber wishing his paper stepped with the expiration his subscription should notify ct the time Of subscribing, before the term paid for pres Any subscriber in desiring to stop his paper must pay up arrears.
Year: 1878

''These things are written for our
instruction. There is a change in
society. There must be a CORES
ponding change in the government.
You may make the change tedious;
you may make it violent; you may
God, in his mercy, forbid make it
bloody; but avert it you Cannot. Agi-
tation of the public mind, SO deep
and so longcontinued as those which
we have witnessed, do not. end in
nothing. In peace or in convulsion-
by the law, or in spite Of the law
through the parliament, or over the
parliament-reform must be carried.
Therefore be content to guide the
movement which you cannot stop.


Fling wide the gates to that force
which else will enter through the
BREACH Macaulay.
Year: 1878

ANOTHER possible contingency, in
which the Greenbackers would figure
as the power at the helm is thus
stated by the Springfield Republican.


1.-The Democrats will hardly have a
majority of the States in the next
House, should a contingency arise
which sends the election of the next
president to that body. They are
eighteen States; Florida would make
nineteen, and should the Republicans
turn out to have carried one of it's
two districts by narrow margin. the
House may be pretty safely counted
on to unseat the man elected, and so
make the States vote count on the
Democratic side. But they still need
another State to make twenty, and
the majority of the whole thirty-eight
which the constitution requires to
elect a president. If they should
carry three of the four California
districts, they would have the re-
quisite twenty; should the State be
evenly divided, there would be
nineteen Republican States, eighteen
Democratic and one that would not
count. But should the Republicans
carry three Of the California districts,
as they have repeatedly done, each
party would have nineteen States. and
and the Indiana Greenbacker, Rev.
De La Matyr, who holds the balance
of power to choose the next President
of the United States.''
Year: 1878

OUT of the one hundred and odd
Democratic members of congress
chosen on Tuesday last, not more than
dozen favor the hard money policy.
Sunset Cox and James O'Brien from
New York are for Greenbacks. It is
noticeably that such hard money
western Democrats as Morrison of
Illinois are left at home. Not one
Democrat from the west who voted
against the repeal of the resumption
act has been returned, Phelps of
Connecticut, is 4 Greenbacker and he
goes in by a good majority. while
Landors and Bruggerhof, hard money
Democrats are left at home. All
this goes to show that the Democra.
cy of the nation cannot expect to win
two years hence on q hard money
platform. Catering for the support
of the money power is fruitless. The
money mongers first seek to keep the
old political parties on their side, and
then give their support to the Repub-
licans. Not until the Democracy
abandons the money power will it
sweep the country.
Year: 1878

THE result demonstrates the fact,
that the Greenback question is simply
Il matter of education, not of pre-
judice or clap-trap subterfuge.
Wherever Our papers have circulated
and Greenback speakers have been,
there the seeds of knowledge have
sprung up in mems minds resulting in
fruitage most glorious to those
whose homes are the aboding places
of misery and want. 1t is education
alone that will wrest the people from
the power of those who sop up all
Of yore and the Southern Slave holders
of yesterday.
Year: 1878

If the objects of the finance legisia-
tioa of the past twelve years were to
paralyZe the industries of the country
stop the growth of material wealth,
and pauperize the people, the three
the credit of being the most sagacious
politicians the world has ever pro.
duced. But if, on the other hand, the
objects were the promotion of industry
the increase of wealth, and general
welfare of the people, their incompe-
tency is so glaringly demonstrated
that no one of them should ever again
be invested with Legislative or exc.
cutiye authority.
Year: 1878

WE publish below table showing
the strength OF the three parties in
the Congress just elected based u,,on
the returns so far received. 1t is not
probable that there viii be any de-
crease IN the Greenback strength. In
fact there is prospect that the
Greenback strength will be increased,
as there is q doubt whether Loudon,
Greenback candidate has beaten
Hatch in Missouri. We have not
classed the two opposition members
elected from Wisconsin with the
Greenbackers, although they were
placed in nomination by joint con-
ventions of the Democrats and Green
hackers. Judge Kelley is the only
doubtful man in our list, and he is
very likely to enter the Greenback
Year: 1878

1t is here shown that the Green
hackers hold decided balance Of
power. They can hold together and
dictate the Speaker, and thus secure
all the financial committees for their
side. It may be put down as GER
tainty that Randall will not be
reelected. Some such man as Thomas
Ewing will be chosen Speaker, thus
giving emphasis to the Greenback
supremacy.


While the old party papers suppress
the real Greenback strength in the
next Congress, they are already talk
ing of the probability that the Green
hackers will dictate the organization
of the next House. The Tribune
says:


The Congressional situation is pe-
culiar. The Greenback purity, having
brought about the overwhelming de-
feat Of the Democrats in the Northern
States, may possibly dictate to it in
the organization of the next House.
Auo Aol ACpOICS udVc DeeQ TeCclvcO
and tables prepared mainly to show
the relative strength of the two lead
ing parties. The fact has thus been
generally overlooked that a consider
able number of members, who have
been chosen by union of Democratic
and Greenback votes, may prefer to
act in separate caucus with the other
Greenback members. This is the moro
probable, because, from present ap-
pearances, the entire Grcenback
force, if kept together, may hold the
balance of power in the House,,
The smoke will all clear away in a
few days and we shall be enabled to
classify all the members to a GER
tainty. 1t seems likely that the Cali.
fornia delegation will consist Of two


Workingmen, one Republican and one
Democrat. We base this estimate ON
the vote polled for the Workingmen's
party. This would add to the Green
back balance Of power.
Year: 1878

THE President and his Cabinet
officers may go about the country
making agricultural addresses the
ring politicians and papers may talk
and write by the hour and by the
column in the interest of their masters
the National Banking Association,
but they cannot much longer hood
wink and bulldoze American citizens
as to the real question at issue, which
is simply this: Shall this government
control gold, or shall gold, and the
few who possess it, dictate the money
policy of this government, as they
have done for the last sixteen years |!
This combination Of 1000 bank presi-
dents no doubt represents great wealth
and power, but on the other side are
the industrial millions, the farmers,
the workers. the little home owners,
the mechanics and the small capi-
talists. Too many of these. it is true
cannot be induced to break the ties
of party, but they must do it, or
liberty is doomed in this land,
Year: 1878

Ben BUTLER takes his defeat like a
philosopher. He feels highly tlatter-
ed by the enormous vote he polled,
which was accomplished without or
ganiZatiOn, and with a subsidi Zed
press and an unscrupulous money pow
er fighting against him with reckless
desperation. We Judge from the tone
of Buffers speech to his neighbors in
Lowell on the night of election. that
he intends to try the race again next
year. lie can go ahead now and per
feet his plans. If elected next year,
he would come on top just when the
presidential issue was uppermost.
Year: 1878

On account of the president S veto
the resumption act cannot be repealed
and on account Of the sentiment of
both senate and house the demand of
the administration for the demoneti-
Zation of silver will be denied. It it
is true, as the bullionists claim, that
presumption is a farce with silver in
circulation" we submit that the
Greenbackers hold the fort and have
much reason to rejoice.
Year: 1878

EDWARD COOPER, the new Anti
Tammany Mayor of New-Yorh. is 4
son of the Greenback patriarch. Hon.
Peter Cooper. and it is the under
stood fact that he is in full sympathy


with his fathers views on the money
question. How does the money
power of the world like the picture, of
Year: 1878

THE Cincinnati Enquirer correctly
senses the situation. 1t says there can
be no Democratic victory on a hard
money platform. We notice that this
is the prevailing sentiment in the
west and south,
Year: 1878

New YORK, Oct. 6.-Col. Thos. Scott has
written the stockholders of the Pennsylvania
company, in which he states: 1 desire to state
that all charges or allegations to the effect that
the Pennsylvania railroad company or any of
its officers, are in any way directly or indirect
ly, interested with the Standard oil company,
or any other party in the production of, buy
ing or selling, or trafficing in any way in oil,
are without foundation in fact. The Pennsyl-
vania railroad company is in NO possible COM
bination in regard to producing, buying, selling
or otherwise dealing in oil, and it does not
believe it has made any unlawful diScrimina-
ton at any time or under any circumstances,
and upon the hearing of the case, if it ever
comes to hearing, it will make this
very plain to any court before whom it may be
heard. If any shippers or producers of oil feel
themselves aggrieved, the courts are open at
their individual instance for any redress that
may be due them. The whole movement
seems to rent on ex parte testimony entirely, as
this company has never been given an oppor-
tunity to be heard on the subject. I am not,
therefore, surprised at the supreme court hesi-
tating, as shown by questions addressed by the
justices to the deputy attorney-general, about
taking Jurisdiction Of the matter. Why your
| company should be assailed in this manner and
| at this time will be perhaps made plain to you
at no distant day.
Year: 1878

Now that the Mineral Resources of Arizona are being rapidly developed, agricultural products will be in great demand and the Farmer will quickly find himself King, and while enjoying home comforts will reap largely of the golden harvest of the hardy minor. Prospectors who are searching the moun- tains for hidden treasures it may be poor as Jobs turkey-will in a moment find themselves Bonanza Kings and be able to revel in luxury the rest of their days; but all men cannot become owners of rich minesI All men cannot become wealthy farmers! To the great mass of man. kind the price of pork and beans will still be an object.
Year: 1878

offered five-hundred-mile tickets for
SO each, by which arrangement
seven hundred tickets will have to
be sold to secure the required
amount. Not rail will be laid or
q sod turned by the contractors till
the sum called for in the contract is
raised.
Year: 1878

A LITTLE kitten with two heads
was ushered into this city and the
world the other day. The remain
der of the body was an exact imita-


tion of all other cats. Poor Barnum,
death beat him out of this curiosity.
Year: 1878

BONFIRE BURN.-One day last
week while little girl of respect
able citizen was enjoying the usual
sport attending bonfires, her clothes
caught fire, and before assistance
came the wicked flames had sue
ceeded in severely scorching the
body in several places. Fortunately
the face was not reached. At pres
ent there is good reason to hope for
her speedy recovery.
Year: 1878

pure and fresh from where il heads in the White Mountains to within fifty miles of where ii empties into the Gila. Fifty miles from its junction with the GIla there comes into it a stream of water th,t is intensely salt. This stream pOurs out of the side of a large mountain and is from twenty tO thirty feet in width and about two feet in depth. It Is very rapid and pours into the Salt river great volume of water.

 Here could easily be manufactured sufficient salt to supply all the markets of lhe world All that would be neceS- sary would be to dig dItches and lead the brine 10 basins in the nearest deserts. The heat of the sun would make the salt Were there railroad near the stream, its waters would doubt. less soon be turned and led to immense evaporing ponds IL is supposed that the interior of the mountain out of which the stream flows is largely com. posed of rock salt.

 In the Salt river country. MaricopaI county, three fiouring-millS are in operations, and the flour made is as fine aS any manufactured anywhere on the Pacific Coast
Year: 1878

ELECTRIC candles are the sensation in Paris. They emit no heat or smoke whatever. while in brilliancy they hold the same ratio to gas and oil lamps as sun to moonlight, and they cost only one-fifteenth as much as gas. It l. hailed as one of the greatest discover ies of the century.
Year: 1878

THE Postmaster General of the Unit ed States once received an odd official communication. The RaebOrn Post master, new to his duties, writing to his superior officer: Seeing by the regulations that 1 am required to send you a letter of advice, l must plead Iu excuse that I have been Postmaster but a short time; but l will say, if your office pays no better than mine, 1 advice you to give It up." To this day that Postmaster General has not decided whether his subordinate was an ignoramus or was quietly pOking fun at him.
Year: 1878

THE VESSEL OBLIGED TO PUT BACK TO PORT


DIscHAHaING THE DAMAGED CARGO YEsTER-


DAY.


left this port Tuesday morning last bound for Ant
wep compelled to put back when about 100 miles
from Sandy Hook owing fire breaking out in the
main hold She reached her dock beside the Cortandt
street ferry Jersey City about eleven o'clock yester
day forenoon. At about seven clock Tuesday even
ing the day the iceland sailed the chief engineer
Of the boilers, but the flames were soon ex
tinguished. and the vessel went on her
course. feeling secure that all was right. IN
about an hour afterwsrd Captain F1aherty. COM
nander of the Zealand. found that smoke coming
from the main hold and at once had the hatchways
removed. 1t was then ascertaned that the flames of
the Are had reached the bulkhead and spread to .
quantity of bag grain slowed in the main hold. The
cargo on board the vessel was mixed one and the
hold adjoining that in which the grain number
of sheep penned up The captain at once set to
work with all hands board to stay the progress of
the fire, but his efforts nnavailing. No flames
arose from the nre, which steadily eat
ing its way among the bags OF grain. but
the volume of smoke continued to increase,
and on Wednesday morning at hve O'Clock the cap
tain resolved return to port As the vessel
reached her dock yesterday arrangements were made
for the clearing Of the main hold and gangs of men
were put work with all the usual appliances tor
unloading. As tho bags containing the grain were
raised and heaped the deck it that nearly
all Of them were moro or less scorched After cou-
pie of hours work number Of layers of bags had
been taken up from the hold. and It was then found
that the fire had centred near the bulkhcad. Some
half dozen lengths OF hose were turned and tho
powerful streams placed the vessel ont of all
danger. There were $500 bushels OF grain in the
main hold but except the damage to this very ittlo
loss to the cargo win be sustained. 1t not do
termined yesterday when the iceland will sail again.
Year: 1878

Among those who arrived from Germany ut Castle
Garden on Tuesday last were young married woman
and her three months old babe. Upon landing she
hastened to Newark. n. j. to trace up her husband,
who, she alleged, had not only deserted herself
and babe, but had carried of to the New
World . considerable of money belong
ing to her. She found the husband. but
he spurned her and her babe saying, who you ?
/ don't know you. Get away" The poor young
wife returned TO this city and put her before the
authorities. The result was che went again to New
ark yesterday and caused her husbands arrest. He
was taken before Judge Pauiin. and, in default of
hail vas cent to the County Jail.
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD


Will you allow me space to make complaint
against the great waste OF time caused by of
your Custom House officials to business men. re-
ccived a letter in Hartford informing a sma
case / had bcen onxiously looking for from England
for some timc had arrived and was at the Custom
House awaiting appraiscment. I came I
New York on purpose to get It,. fond I
imagining / should finish this small 4
ter in day ut most. The
taincd letters Of introduction drawing. and an II
perfect sample of tool had just patented in Was
ington. had to take oath to tho effect that the
pie was for sale in any way. but merely to demo
stratc a principle. notwithstanding which the
liner chose to consider it dutiable OF course ca
not complain against the Flaw of the country,
although pay SSfor customs and charges for thing
which cannot be sold is not pleasant and makes
one wish Americans crossing the Atlantic might be
subject short time TO the petty annoysnces.
What do complain Of however, is that IL took eight
days before my brokers succeeded in having this
miserable little appraised and released "WhyY
asked increasingly. because the appraiser ia taking
. holiday" the invariable reply. Now, is it fair
that man should not only be mulcted in duty for
what is not dutable. but also be compelled TO wa
eight valuable days because official takes holiday


n
Year: 1878

To THE EDITOR THE HERALD:--


wish you would call the attention Of the prope
authorities to the condition Of Waverley place. bt
tween Sixth avenue and Christopher street. They
have torn up the wooden pavement that was for
merly there and they have brought q load or two O.
large stones which, suppose, they intend to place
there ut some future day Since the rain there has
been quite lake there. and the boys arnuse ther
selves sailing boats and wading in and splashing
dirty water over the walks. SUBSCRIBER.
Year: 1878

To TIE EDIroR THE HERALD:-


am glad to see the suggestions from Justice" ir
regard to cooperation of tenants against the sesl
and exorbitant demands of landlords First clas
boarding housekeepers already agitating the qes
tion as to how they protect themselves from
landlords and also against the unreasonable demand
of boardcrs The latter, feeling the necessity 70.
economy, should be willing to put up with less: but
on the contrary they expect more room and superior
accommodations than when they were paying fifty
and seventy five per cent more cannot agree with
Justice" that she is getting fair prices II she is
vate income. All ladies' in the business have not
private income therefore each house should pay
more than its expenses Certainly very few if any)
take boarders for pleasure, and unless something
be done for shall all be obliged to give up.
Under the most favorable circumstances the life 10
very hard. B. l.
Year: 1878

rNorK-Letters intended for this column must
accompanied by the writer's full name ana addres
insure attention Compainants who are unwhiins
comply with this rule simply waste time IN Writ
Write only ON one side of the paper.-ED HERALD
Year: 1878

body was stark and stiff. The cries
continued and he hurried to the front
apartment into which the room opened.
There upon the floor lay mother and
daughter dead. The older woman had
evidently thrown herself on the floor in
a frenzy of delirium. Upon the only
bed in the room writhing with fever lay
the man whose call attracted attention.
A child eighteen months old had, at the
time, crawled over her dead mothers
breast. That driver has hauled twenty
corpses from the same house since the
epidemic commenced. At No. 154
Bienville street, long narrow alley, so
narrow that one can penetrate it only
with difficulty, leads back to building
once occupied as stable, now a pest
house. In the loft Of this the Howard's
discovered o family Of seven, five of
whom were delirious; one, child of
two years, dead, and mother PROSTATE
upon pallet with a new born babe.
The mother, with many tears, stated
that utterly unassisted and unable to
move, she lay in the pangs Of childbirth
and saw her little daughter die. A
volume might be written of horrors ,ex-
perienced by the very poor but these
cases are cited to show how greatly the
relief extended to them is needed.


Memphis: 219 new cases yesterday.
Physicians rested last night for self
preservation. Drug stores are closing.
Year: 1878

Food is becoming scarce in Memphis
and the Government train cannot reach
there too soon, Yesterday large
crowd of starving colored people sur
rounded the commissary department.
demanding rations. The woes of the
epidemic are fearful to contemplate.
Year: 1878

AUSTRIA will soon have force of
1000 men opposed to the insurgents.
Had they properly estimated the
strength of the opposition at first, they
might have ended the movement by
this time.
Year: 1878

THE Lazis have returned to their
normal condition and feel the lack of
the necessary vim to oppose the Rus
sian occupation of Batoum. Their
dark and bloody oaths will have to be
erased.