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Year: 1878

GEN. BUTLER is catering to the Catholics
by advocating the taxation OF all churches
where the easements are used as stores and
where the attendants pay a high pew rent,
and the exemption of all churches where the
doors are opened to all and the seats free to
rich and poor alike. At least such is the in
depreciation put upon his remarks in Massa-
chusetts
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


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

AN official analysis of the public debt,
prepared under the direction of the Secretary
OF the Treasury, shows that from August 81
1865, when the backbone of the Rebellion
was broken, down to the present time there
has been steady annual decrease ranging
from 81 to "a per capita in the National debt,
and decrease in interest per capita from
4 20 in 1865 to 81 for the last fiscal year.
And this reduction has been accomplished by
the Republican party without imposing any
taxation hardly appreciable BY the people.
Year: 1878

The safeet correction of vice is blame
less life. Yet there are times when silence
would make us answerable Tor the slns OF
otbera. AT such times let us, in the name
of God, rebuke the offender without fear.
Year: 1878

"Will you stay here a minute, Mon
seigneur. l will be back presently"


In few minutes Antoine returned
with the blushing Sephronia.


" Marry us Monseigneur Let that
be my reward"


And they were married in front of all
those dreadful corpses9


The corpses were finally pushed into
the sea by the galley slaves that had
been liberated for that purpose.


Such an appalling calamity never be-
fell a civilized city in modern times.
Year: 1878

The frequent mysterious burning Of
haysticks and farmers building has led
to the discovery that they are set on
fire by wasps' nests, and that the nests
are ignited by spontaneous combustion.
This is produced by the chemical action
of the wax in contact with the paper
like substance of which the nest is com
posed, a comparatively small access Of
oxygen being sufficient to make it burst
forth in blaze.
Year: 1878

Is it raining, little flower


Be glad Of rain
Too much rain would wither thee


Twill shine again.
The clouds are very black, 'tis true,
But Just behind them shines the blue.
Art thou weary, tender heart 2


Be glad Of pain
In sorrow sweetest things will grow,


As flowers in rain.
God watches, and thou wilt have sun
When clouds their perfect work have done
Year: 1878

Concluding an article on the Fishery ques-
tion, The Daily NeWs We wait with interest the
publication OF Lord Salisburys dispatch and the state
ment drawn up by the Canadian Government but there
is Irying TO disguise the fact that Secretary
Evartss case has some force In It, a right has been
bought and in the natural course Of things. VIII be paid
for by the United States Their right OF fishing thua
acquired accrued about two before the local law
passed. and Commissioners forgot to reserve TO
the local Legislatures the right Of making regulations.
We fear that the date aked by the Treaty for the pay


ment OF the award-NOvember 23-wIll be long past
before tue American Government are convinced OF the
OF their contention The question II one OF legal
Obligation and IL cannot be too calmly discussed on botn
sides reluctance to iDct wrong should be at least
as strong rs determination not TO submit TO One."
Year: 1878

RumOrs in regard to fancied CLOVIS to the robbers
and even of the discovery Of the remains, were ID
circulation all day, and kept the police actiVe III
'raekng them down. Some were so evidently
without foundation that they were not inquired
inlo. Among others report that the body
had been found in a house in st. Marks-place


this resulted in several visits to the house.
tut was clearly refuted by the fact that the body
had not been discovered at all. Several gentlemen
residing IN house not far from ST. Marks Church
Year: 1878

Every qualified elector in School
District No. l, is personally interested
in the meeting to be held at the School
House, next Saturday evening. At
previous meeting it was decided to is
sue bonds to the amount of $5, 900 for
the purpose Of building a school house,
and an effort will be made next Satur-
day to reconsider; hence, it is essential
that all interested should be present.
This is question that is decided by
the parties interested. and we would like
to have full house, and hear any AMI
all arguments, pro and con. If it is
desirable to build the school house
and we certainly think it is-let us
have it. If it is the opinion of the
majority, that it is not advisable to
undertake such project, then let us
hear your reasons. Any action must
be open and above board, as it is con.
siderable of an undertaking for a young
county, and we must act understand
biHgly. ao Jnso asW5 sal
Year: 1878

The editors of the papers are the
only men in Pope county that are not
running for Office, but they are nearly
as much interested as the candidates,
and so their votes will be divided; con-
sequently, unless they vote understand
ingly, no one will be elected.
Year: 1878

BABY LEFT AFTER THE YELLOW FEVER


scouRGE-A DYING MOTHERS CARE FOR HER


CHILD.


TBY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD


NEWPORT. r. l.. Nov. .. 1873.


sad story Of the recent yellow fever scourge in
the South has just to light few evenings ago
a well dressed babe, about year old, was left
the doorsteps Of well to do citizen. Mr..
Newcomb. of Providence. who found IL there upon
answering sharp ring Of the door bell. IL
had tiny gold ring on its finger and gold necklace
with gold dollar attached around its neck. BY tho
side Of the infant IA girp a complete outfit Of
richly trimmed clothes A letter also found. in
which the heartbroken mother who had left IL therc
stated that she had lost her father mother brother.
husband and three children by yellow fever in New
Orleans and that she acd to Cairo TO escape the plague
with her baby that both were attacked with the fcver
i'm that place and recovered though the writer felt
though she losing her memory. and. no doubt
would soon be raving maniac. 1t appeared she hac
known Mr.. Ncwcomb and his family and in the
letter she stated that fearing she would lose
her identity she had made up her mind give them
the babe. she knew they would be good to It, She
urged them not to look her UP as she was going to
New York ON the midnight train There to die un-
known" She signed herself Mrs. Josie Hall Mr..
Newcomb was greatly affected. for he had known the
ladys family who he said stood high in the south,
Mrs Hall being beautiful and accomplished lady.
letter received from her the following day dated
Providence she having written it before leaving the
city, which simply gave instructions for the care Of
her offspring


THE MOTHER DYING.


Two days after the receipt Of this letter telegram
was received by Mr.. Newcomb from Boston stating
that Mrs Hall in a dying condition at hotel In
that city. He Immediately started for Boston and
rived in to receive the dying woman's nstruc
tions She begged him TO be good to her child aud to
send her body 10 New Orleans for intcrment. She
left some money pay her funeral expenses and also
some for the of the child. The remains for
warded TO New Orleans.


FROM THE scoURGE.


A letter received from tho latter city throws some
additional light ont the sad affair. Mrs Hall II APP
pears. while derangcd with grief. had fled from tho
city in her fathers caraiage accompanied by the faith
fu coachman. and went to Cairo. where the coach
man died. After her arrival there her uncle and aunt
also died. She Immediately left Cairo and fed North.
The babe will be tenery cared for and the mothers
instructions will be faithfully carried out.
Year: 1878

WARNING TO CITIZENS ABSENT FROM NEW Or


LEASs-PossIBILrTY or CONTRACTING YELLOW


FEvER-FoUR DEATHS YESTERDAY


[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.


NEW ORLEANS, Nov. ., 1873.
In the past few days regret to notice many new
arrivals in the city The people who return are GER
tainly running great risks. Yesterday the weather
was quite warm: indeed il has been for some days
past. Under it's influence quite a number .of new
have appeared in families well known to your
correspondent. Absentees should keep away for q
few days longer at least until we have another frost


Mary Ann Creighton, in religion Sister Mary Of st.
Thomas, native of New York, died of malarial fever
aged eighteen.


within the last twenty four hours in response to
circular Of the Board Of Health ply sicans have
ported 500 of yellow fever treated by them
during the epdemcan d not heretofore reported


Major ". II. Beanharn. Of the Howard Association.
work Of the Howaris during the epidemic Of 1873 CT
presses the opinion that there have been during the
past four months 900 Of fever in New Orleans
and the vicinity. The Howard Association physicians
did not report to the Board Of Health.


Yellow fever deaths for the twenty -four hours end
ing mt noon to-day. T.


tiovernor Nichols in an official communication to
the President Of the Board of Health says


I'm view Of the great Importance to the CONNER
cia and general interests OF the state Of raising the
restrictions upon free and complete intercourse be-
tween the city Of New Orleans and interior
points. and Of the probable influence against such
Immediate action resulting from imperfect knowledge
Of the sanitary condition Of the city, would
urge you TO as soon as possible make further
proclamation to what that condition is affecting
danger absence of danger from free and full inter-
with the city of New Orleans or in the
Of being unable 10 have immediate action Of your
board in the matter, should he pleased TO have an
expression OF your views thereon as early as possible
DR. Chopin replies The Board of Health at its
last meeting the 7th inst. declared that it was
safe for absentees to return 10 the city Since the
Of November only two OF yellow fever have
been reported to the Board Of Healththe last
the 4th inst In my opinion other ports cities in
land towns will risk danger of infection in
having free and full intercourse with the city Of New
Orleans
Year: 1878




The following letter came 70 the HERALD through
the mails yesterday. 1t may be intended for what
wouldbe wae would call Joke. but if 1t is not
the suggestion concerning the expense will strike
every about the coolest thing OF tho season
TO the


Editors Of New York Herald


II the executors of the late A. T. Stewnrs
will donate $500 900 for some needed public charity In
the city of York the whereabouts Of his remains
will be immedatly divulgcd and not penny will
be asked for the expence we have incurred


A Corpanv
Year: 1878

No machinery being used IN their manu-
facture and will be of the BEST MATER
IAL, and made by the best workmen, and
under his own supervision. l shall sell
these goods at prices very little higher than
machine made shoes.
Year: 1878

An examination Of the upper Mississippi
river. from Rock Island to the mouth of the
Illinois. made by the Mississippi river sur
veyng expedition shows that this portion OF
the river is filling up SO rapidly with sand
that in q few years it will cease to be nav1ga-
bic, even at average stages Of water. This
filling up tho engineers attribute to the con-
dition of the banks of the river. AS the farms
along the banks increase, tho amount OF sand
annually carried into the river will increase
until the Mississippi is left puddle, more
sand than water, stream impossible to nav


gate The expedition will report in favor OF
some plan by which the channel OF the river
can be reduced; they think that the increased
speed of the current and the permanent ac-
ton of the water in the same track that will
then ensue, will suffice TO clear away this
obstructing sand. This plan will be recon-
mended to Congress. 1t will prove expensive
and require many years for its completion.
Year: 1878

us much TO try, convict and punish for tho
theft of D chicken as for the murder OF man
There Is no sense in having our jails crowded
with that class of offenders, as they contlnu-
ally are, to be fed at the public expense.


Gov Seymour's suggestions in regard TO
Youthful offenders are most wise and hui
name and all that he says in this connection
of the Jail system in New York applies with
equal force here. 1t is q crime, great crime,
to send such people to D common jail, there
to be put on the same footing and thrown into
companionship with old. case-hardened and
professional criminals. The theories OF Gov
Seymour in regard to the responsibility and
treatment Of such persons, it seems to us, are
eminently wise and just, as we'll as merciful
and we commend them to the consideration
Of our prison officials as well as to our Legis-
Iature judges and district attorneys.
Year: 1878

LNeW York Commercial Advertiser tKeDll


The Potter majority may affect q show Of
impartiaity by Investigating Tiden, now
that they have made q miserable failure in
arragning Hayes, but it will be the merest
triiIing. They don't mean to hurt Iilden, for
10 doing so they would damn their whole
party and compromise especially such South
ern ''coparceners" as Gordon, Of Georgia.. 1t
is now for the Senate to take up the Demo-
cratic inquities, and to put the seal Of official
condemnation upon all that the Tribane has
brought to light and much more Of the
same criminal nature that remains be-
hind, and which can only be brought
on by searching inv e5tigation and
by putting the wroDg-doers themselves on
the stand Mr.. Tilden and his hopeful and
compliant nephew and tool will be made to
tell the whole truth. There will be some tall
lying, or else an open confession of guilt and
'all that guilt implies" The party have not
surrendered Mr. Tiden to his fate. They
cannot afford to do SO. To throw him over.
board without mercy or qualification would
be to render it utterly impossible for any
other Democrat to carry either OF the North
ern States that combined to give him fifty
electoral votes in 1876. He would put tbs
knife to them in New York in 1870 and 1880 az
Certainly as his friends in the interior Of the
State were recently directed to show indiffer
ence after his defeat by Kelly in the STATE
| convention
Year: 1878

Vermont Is by all odds the most barbarous
State in the Union. Instead + hanging her
rnurlerere ut once she sends them to the pen
itentiary for two years, and then hangs them.
The state of mind of the wretches during the
two years proceeding the conclusion Of their
punishment may be imagined Possibly the
object of the State Is to better prepare them
for the glorious future which the majority OF
sIarghterers talk SO much about on the eve OF
their departure, but the prospect must at
times seem appalling even 10 Christian lhur-
dprers,
Year: 1878

Go TO DANzrGER's This seems to be the cry.
Why should people go to Danzgers asked a
stranger the other day. Why said a gentle
man. who sat near him In the car, because he
claims to be selling his elegant new stock a.
New York prices.
Year: 1878

Austrian artillerymen loading cannon with
chain shot and manacles. In the distance a
burning village and streets filled with Bosnia
dead and dying. This is the way to Hberate
Bosnia from the Ottoman yoke
Year: 1878

Ata meeting of the Board OF Directors OF
the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, held last
evening, it was decided, upon the recommen-
dation Of the finance committee, to return to
the stockholders Of that institution. on and
after January TO- 1879, the sum OF So per
share from the surplus fund of the association
Year: 1878

WITHOUT the interposilion OF some
unlooked-for event, the execution OF
VIM. Dixon for the murder of old man
BaChman,will take place in the all yard
to-day. Such scenes are of rare occur
renee in Mississippi, and we trust that
If the dread sentence of the law is con.
summated it may prove such a warn
Ing that the crime Of murder may
never again be perpetrated in our
midst
Year: 1878

II to wish and to have were one, my dear,


You would be sitting now
With nota care in your tender heart.


Not wrinkle upon your brow,
The clock OF time would 20 back; with you


All the years you have Deen my wife,
Till its golden hands had pointed out


The happiest hours Of yourlife:
l would stop them at that immortal hour;


The ~loek should no longer:run;
You could not be sad and sick and old


If to wish and to have were one.
Yo% are not here in the winter, my love, J,


The snow is not whirling down;
You are In the heart of the summer woods,


In your dear old seaside town:
A patter OF little feet IN the leaves.


A oeaut full boy at your side;
he Is gathering flowers in the shady nooks-


IT was but dream that he died!
Keep hold Of his hand and sing to him:


NJ mother under the sun
Has such seraphic child as yours


Ii to wish and to have were one.
Methinks I am with y u there. dear wife


In that old house by the sea;
have Town toyou as the hluebirds flies


To bis mate Ia the poplar tree
sailors hammock hangs at the door,


You swing in it, book in hand;
boat Is standing In for the beach,
It's Keel CRATES on the sand:


Yonr brothers are coming Two manly men,
Whose lives haYe only begun:
Their days will he long in the land, dear heart
II TO wish aud to have were one.
II to wish and to have were one, ah, me!
would not be old aud poor,
But young and prosperous gentleman,
With never dun at the door:


There would be no past to hewail, my love,
There would be M future to dread:
Your broth RS should be live men again,
And your brothers would not be dead.
Perhaps it. will all come right at last;
1t NAV be, when all is done
We shall be together in some good world,
Where to wish and TO have are one.
Year: 1878

Indianapolis News.


Going up Tennessee street yesterd az
afternoon u News reporter witnessed a
fight between two En- nglish sparrow cocks,
that would have been to the death had
he not appeared upon the scene. as in
mose encounters, there was woman in
it, that is, hensparrow, who stood out
side at short distance waiting the result
o. the COMBAT, read to fly away with the
successful bird. They paid no attention
to the N. r. until he was just about to
step over them, when they separated and
flew away, the hen accompanying the
one that was on top. He evidently had
his rival foul, and was pecking his head
with much Vigor. the punishment must
have been severe, for the orc underneath
sent forth the most piteous cries, and
was apparently unable to help himself
When released, however, he showed .hut
he was still game by :,ursuing the pair
as far and as fast as his remaining
strength would permit. He soon gave
up the chase, however, and lit upon the
limb of a neighboripg tree, where the
reporter left him. panting for breath, and
smoothing out his rutfled feathers.
Year: 1878

Johnson's Anodvnc Ltninaent is one of the few
really valuable pat: Mt medicines which we al
ways take pleasure in calling attention to. It
Is both for internal and external use and is
worth more to fam ly than whole medicine
Year: 1878

many during the afternoon, he became en-
tangled, but the gallant fellow, using a small
pocket knife, labored on while dozen heavy
breakers passed over him, and succeeded in
cutting several ropes that confined mass Of
the wreck to the hull, and was swept away
with II to the southwark along the beach. He
succeeded in eXtricating himself and landing
safely.


The foremast falling aft and foresail being
partially spread, several were either killed by
It's fall or buried beneath the masts of the sail
in such a way as made death certain. One
young man, particularly conspicuous for his
daring during the day, at last sought refuge
on the topsail yard, evidently in the hope that
the mast would fall over the bows or side. OF
course instant death was the result of his
mistake on the fall of the foremast.


At about five p. m, the midship body Of the
hull the forebody being already gone, began
to break up rapidly, while / urged all who
would listen to me to trust themselves to the
waves and their hfeipreseryers. Many did so
and the majority with success At length the
closing scene was upon us. The lower deck
beams gave way and the starboard broadside,
give few more heavy shocks from the surf,
sank slowly beneath the waves. Then struck
out for the beach aud fortunately reached It.,
but in such an exhausted state that would
certainly have gone to sea, victim of the
undertow, but for friendly hands and aid.


Quartermaster Poland made three attempts
to get the line ashore and gave up when the
line proved too short and Timothy O'Brien on
reaching shore himself returned into the water
and rescued some fifty persons as they were
dashed toward him by the waves.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.


The General Superintendent of the
Life-Saving service has received tele-
grams from the keepers of life-saving
stations Nos. and 5, in reply to de-
mand for information, from which il
appears that the crews of both stations
did all in their power to save the lives
of the unfortunate men on the Metrop-
oils. The stations are about thirteen
and half miles apart, and the wreck
occurred nearly half way between them,
at the hour when the patrolmen had
come in from their night march
upon the beach. The maximum
velocity of the wind that morning
about four stations above, is Civ.
en- at sixty miles an hour. When il
is considered that the lightest saving
apparatus weighs 200 to 800 pounds
and this has to be dragged by six OF
seven men several miles through un.
yielding sand and in a gale of such VIC.
lence that the men could scarcely stand
against it, it is easily understood why
the wreck was not reached earlier.


NoRFoLK, Feb. 4.


The officers of the Metropolis were
to-day examined at the Custom-H House
before Inspector-of-Hulls j. j. Dunbar
with the view to ascertaining the con
dition of the ship when she sailed
Capt. Ankers and First. Mate Dickinson
both testified that she was in good con
dition and entirely seaworthy, and that
the whole trouble was caused by unskill
full loading of the railroad iron.
Year: 1878

AT Adairsville, Ca, the other day,
man named Manning and two Ger
man brothers quarreled about the settle
ment of debt of thirty cents. When
the settlement was made, Manning
made an uncomplimentary allusion TO
the Dutch upon which one OF the
brothers sprang at and began to choke
him, whereupon Manning slashed at
him with knife, cutting cash ten
inches in length and ddisemboweling him.
The other brother then rushed upon
Manning, when he cut seven-ineh
cash in his breast. Both were fatally
wounded.
Year: 1878

A WAR ANEcDoTE.--A correspondent,
of the Richmond Dispatch says: have
heard an old war story, and, by the way,
it is one of the best of them. / had il
from former officer under StonewalI
Jackson: "On one of our marches in the
early spring, when chilling rain had
been falling for days, and the slush was
almost waist deep, our command, utterly
wretched and broken down, was strug-
Cling along as best it could under such
circumstances. Worn out myself, crept
into fence corner to rest awhile. Pres
emily | saw solitary straggler Coming
slowly up the road. He seemed almost
completely exhausted-his shoes were
gone, and bis feet cut and bleeding. l
was struck with his appearance, for
through all its wretchedness shone the
indomitable spirit Of the Southern SOL
dierAthe man who would be at his post,
or else dead in the attempt to reach it.
watched him closely, and as he dragged
himself slowly past, heard him mutter
TO himself: 'D-n me if ever love an
other county,"