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Year: 1878

THE ELECTION REvERsE--The Deld,rGreGR accounts
for the recent elections as follows


The Democratic press of the country is trying to
find cause for the late defeat which has betaen the
party especially in the States of New York. New Jersey
this is very unsatisfactory solution. The financial
question was but secondary consideration. Ambi-
ous political rivals seeking to make the organization
of their party subservient TO the accomplishment of
their own selfish purposes was in our opinion the prl-


mary cause of the late defeats which the press of the
country has been compelled to chronicle. SO de-
ermned were they to crafty their own personal as
piratOns that they seized every disturbing element
for the purpose of Crystalizing public sentiment
around themselves.


This might be plausible reason if it was the first
time that ambitious politicians subserved party to
selfish purposes not otherreason must
be found The Greenback craze" has had its share
of the blame but there still another is set forth
by the following item from the Christian Advocate:


I'VE now confront solid South. Gentleness and
clemency and confidence have failed The old ante
btLIlm spirit is unchanged. hundred thousand
majority in South Carolina teaches lesson that even
the most hopeful cannot fail to understand. sollC
North is now inevitable The nation has undertaken
to give the ballot to the cOOred man. and 1t VIII moi
stop short of the accomplished fact. Do you MIND
that?"


This is an extreme view, but if one half of the
nation crysalizes around pole, the natural conse
Guence is equalization of the other half around the
other pole. These northern and southern poles are
dangerous points of observation.
Year: 1878

AN ExcEPTIoN-In our article two weeks since on
the NoIe Pr0sequi and the fearful manner in which
the privileges granted had been abused by our At
,orney Generals especially in regard to the indict
Inents against the License Law, told, that the
imputations would not apply to Chas. B. Lore, Esq.
In taking oath to prosecute the offences against
State he could not go behind that oath and connive
with criminals whom he knew were warning against
the best interests of society. Mr.. Lore could have
done differently and had emOluments that are not
his, but consciousness of doing ones duty has its
benefit in that it brings moral strength and virtue In
the long run is not without its reward
Year: 1878

OYsTERs-The metre that measures the commercial
prosperity of the Eastern Shore is the oyster trade
which at this time is unusually brisk. The merchants
books show profit or loss the Oystermen's pocket
books are petheric scany For two or three years
the trade has been discouraging but this year the
business has been better footing and the packing
houses have not been able to supply the demand.
The frequent strikes is of the best evidences of


their success, and the wages in some places have
doubled The packers are everywhere doing well
tic dred2ers are making money, the merchants are
1ocketng the fugitive cash, and everybody is happy.
Year: 1878

SENATOR BAYARD in company with Belmont the
banker recently attended the jerome race near New
York acting judges and the following rap from the
Sentinel sounds strange coming from that source


sIt stries ms that United States Senators could find
better occupation than running around and acting as


Judges at horse races and especially one so pure and
honest as this chevaler from Delaware"
Year: 1878

ut is astonishing how many democratic news
papers have suddenly become aware that Senator
Bayard would make a splendid presidential candi-
date. Journals that since the auumnal equinox said
of Bayard, 20, he's of no account! He is in league
with the New York money kings now call him that
pure and distinguished statesman and that unfnch-
ing democrat" The st. Michaels Comet thus morali-
zes and it tells the truth for than journal
Can the Gazette give an echo?
Year: 1878

PENINsULAR UNION is up again and some of the
papers are treating it as if it serious matter
We have seen and heard enough of this Gison in the
past decade to set it down one of the most uopian
schemes of tho day. All admit that the topography
and business of the Pennsular call for its union in
one government but to break the present lines will
be as difficult as old man to break his sumptuary
habits of life time. 1t is not yet
Year: 1878

STATE MALITIA-The BreGEaOdter Light wants more
thorough State Melitia system and says:


There is now in the State Treasury between S20,-
900 and $4,000 which in equity belongs TO the Malta
Of the state II is the Government restitution for
arms taken from the State Malta during the war
The State cannot fairly use this money for any other
ourpose than for the establishment and sustenance of
the States soldiers"


1t would be curious TO know just what Is wanted TO
ale done with this money Playing the soldier with
the drills and evoutons Of the military camp do not
we think form any part Of the humors Of our people.
Year: 1878

WHOLESALE ASSASSINATION OF KINs.-A telegram
from berlin reports that the belief is current that
Mot exists for the assassination of all soveregns is
ssfated that the Prussan Judges. when examining
Noblings case were led TO believe in the existence Of


central organization for this purpose, and investiga
tions are still going on.
Year: 1878

Bsbee, the Republican candidate for Congress from
the Second Florida district has succeeded In getting
from the State Supreme Court an alternative writ o
mandamus to compel the Alachua County Board l o.
Canvassers to count the vote OF three prechcts WHICH
II had thrown out.
Year: 1878

4 skunk got into the basement of Grace Church at
YunanOquC Ont, one evening last week while
prayer meeting in progress and the congregation
was dismissed without waiting for the henediction.
Year: 1878




The officer who was detailed by General
Brisbin to make another survey of the
Yellowstone Park has finished the work
and made his report to the War Depart
ment. 1t differs very little from the many
other reports that have previously been
made by civilians. The geysers continue
to play with their ordinary activity, and
the mud volcano is bubbling away AS usu-
al. The paint wells have not been stolen
as yet, and the birthstone mountain is
growing right along, and viii some day.
if it is not spirited away by some enter
prising Yankee, become a source of great
wealth to the Government, especially il we
should get into war with Mexico. Tie
great complaint is, however. that the visit
ors to the Park insist on filling their pock-
cts with rare specimens, thereby retarding
the growth OF the calcerous incrustations
us well as deficins the curiosities of nature.
The attention of the Government is also
called o the fact that wild game is disap-
pearing from the Park, and that it c..n
only be restored by the most stringent
measures. As the ground was not set
apart for the better preservation of the
bears and panthers to be found therein.
but as National Park for the benefit OF
the people. and to prevent each particular
geyser and paint well from being pre-
empted and fenced up by enterpri,ing
speculators, the Secretary ef War will
hardly put in standing army to protect
game, especially as that game is wild. and
could not well be induced to obey army
regulations. The spoliation OF The curios-
i,ies, to which the Government's attention
Year: 1878




"A young woman during the first week
of her married life cntertains vague sus-
picions that the statements of older wives,
that the way to mans heart is through
his mouth. are true. Her Charles, who is
almost, if not quite, exempt from hum: n
tailings. has already manifested a profound
admiration for veal pies, and las openly
expressed his DIGESTION to overlone NUT
ton. She accordingly builds up within her
fortress Of resolution. in which to guard
that sacred treasure Of husbands ailec-
ton. In her girlhood this young woman
had spent much time in cultivating her
musical taste, in reading Emerson and
Carlyle; she had been fond of pretty land
scapes, and could use her pencil with et-
feet, and she had been heard to declare
with pride that wheh she married she
would give up none of these things.


Let us visit her now, at the end Of ten
years of matrimony, and we will find that
she has broken her vow and thrown it to
the winds. We find tircsome sort of
person, whose whole intellect is absorbed
IN atten,!ing to tie cares OF housekeeping.
and in getting stylish dresses for her chill
tlren. Her conversation rises seldom
above the level of infant gossip and serv-
ants. and the only ideas developed by time
md experience are expressed in her con-
viction that men are the most unreasona-
ble and selfish creatures, and women TIE
(snin &c
a great evil somewhere, but what is it !?
The husband acknowledges to himself that
he is disappointed in the wife he has chos-
ea. and yet ne finds a difficulty in pointing
out his mistake, and hardly finds cause to
blame her, for is she not faithful wife. a
devoted mother, and fittgsl manager !?
The mistake is a National characteristic
so passionate and intense is the American
mind in pursuit of its temporary interests,
the men will suffer the chains of business
to bind them down and throttle them.
while their wives bend beneath a similar
yoke of duty at home.


..What is lacking is the power to rise
above the petty annoyances of daily life !;
we need to learn to distinguish trifies from
affiirs of moment, to know that every
mole-hill is not a monntaiA. We need not
forsake the upper strata OF sentiment,
thought and ideality-the atmosphere of
the soul-because We know there is bw-
er one Of routine and yexations. in which
our feet are told to tread. TO breath in
the one is to receive strength and refresh
ment for exertion in the other, 1t is a
good plan to pick up needles and pins
from the floor, but picking up pins Ought
not to he made the chief object OF exis-
tence; for if We move along with our
heads constantly downward We most as
suredly will see nothing better than pins
and needles to the end Of our days.
Year: 1878

Pioneer-Press.


President Wright. Of the Northern Pa
cific Railroad, was found at the Metropoli-
tan Hotel yesterday by representative OF
the Pioneer Press. who Immediately set
about seeking information pertaining to
that road. President Wright was found
to be very a,erse to talking upon the sub
ject, but finally gave the following brief
statement OF what was expected to be
done:


A proposition is in preparation which
he experts to lay before the stockholders
at the annual meeting of the company, on
the 25th of September, in New York, with
reference to the immediate commencement
of work west of the Missouri river, at Bis
marck, with the intent that the road for
the entire distance to the Yellowstone.
2O5 miles, shall be completed and ready fof
operation in one year from next spring.
The company will soon advertise for bids
for supplying the ties and timber, wn'en
will bo got ont the coming winter
Year: 1878

The Good Old Way.
The following is OLD b,ii good:
One night As Old st. Peter slept,


He left the door of heaven aiar,
When through, a little anEcl crept
And came down with falling star.
One simmer as the be ,sel beams
Ofmrrn approached, my blnshing bride
Awoke from sweet and pleasing dreams,
And found that angel by her side.
God grant but ihi5-I ask no more
That when he leaves this world of sin,
He'll wing his way to that bright shore,
And find that door Of heaven again.
Some fellow Of a practical turn, not possessed
IF The ''diyine ailau.,' gets of the following
in reply:


ST. PETERS REPLY.
Fail eighteen hundred years or more,
lye kept my door securely tiled,
There has no little angel sirayed,
Nor one been missing all the while.
l did not sleep, as You suppose,


Nor leave the door of heaven ajar,
Nor has little angel left,


And gone down with q falling star
Go ask the "blushipg bride" and SEQ
If she don't frankly own and say
Tha: when she found that angel babe
She found ii in the good old way.
God grant but this-I ask no more
That should your number still enlarge,
That you will not do as before,


And lay ii to st. Peters charge.
Year: 1878

have recently been instituted; and parties
who delay proving up and who perhaps
have acted in good faith and done the very
best they could to comply with tie law,
but who in some respects have been una
bic to do so strictly. will be liable to be
put to the trouble and expense of long
contest. should they delay tie matter for
any great length of time. Especially is it
to be to the interest of all persons who,
under the new rulings. may be in doubt rs
to whether they can hold their homesteals
or not, to be satisfied on thr.: point rs
praccGeas GnessaIe SBaIe Thsy should as soon as
proofs and state the facts just as they exist
and rely upon the generosity OF the Gov
ernmcnt, in view of its past dealings with
homcsteaders, to allow them to squeeze
through.
Year: 1878

A distinguished member of the Benedic-
tine Order, aod of a family which, even in
these days, has given more than one
illustTiOus ornament to the Church, is at
present engaged soliciting in this country
assistance in the completion of project
which may we'll be deeEued remarkable.


We have Of late heard much oftbe progress
Year: 1878

Thibet is the old bachelors para disc, for it is there that he can f1irt with a hundred girls simultaneously, and get married without knowing il. TT. T. Cooper, an agent in the English civil service-he Was recently murder ed at BhamO, although that is neither here nor there - resolved to travel through China by a route comparative ty unknown and full of dangers. Start ing from Hrdow, he went along the Yang-tse-K -KIsng 10 eastern Thibet. One day he found himself in a grove, sur rounded by a group of young glris, and according to him, the whole scene was so Arcadian, and the roman tic effect so irresistible, that though struck by the remarkable absence ot the male sex, he gave hlmsclf up to the influence of the situation, and waited with languid curiosity for the denOuement of this pleasant little ad- venture" He smoked with the girls and shared their meals, and aiterward they dragged in young girl of six teen, attired in silk dress, seated her by his side, and then began to dance round the par. He could not make 1t out until his servant explained that, according to one of the customs of Thibet, he had, without knowing, Il allowed himself to be married. He al first wished to resist, pleading English customs, but the tribe among whom he was would accept no explanation, and he was compelled to take the girl with him.
Year: 1878

John c. Hamilton, a son of Alexan. der Hamilton, gives to a correspondent of the Philadelphia Times this pathetic incident of his father: My fathers resi- dence was in the country, toward the north of New York islan1 His law office in the city was rather shabby affair. The day before the duel 1 was sitting in a room, when, at slight noise, I turned round and saw my father in the doorway, standing silent ly there and looking at me with a most sweet and beautiful expression of countenance. It was full of tenderness, and without any of the business pre- occupation he sometimes had. John" he said, when I had discovered him, wont you come and sleep with me to- night?" His voice was frank, as if he had been my brother instead of my father That night 1 went to his bed, and in the morning very early he awakened me, and taking my hands in his palms, a,l foGr hands extended, he said, and told me to repeat, the Lords Prayer Seventy-five years have since passed over my head, and have for gotten many things, but not that tender expression when he stood looking al me in the door, nor the prayer we made together the morning before the duel.
Year: 1878

Thou hast the colors of the Spring, The gold of kingcups triumphing,

 The blue Of wood-bells wild; But winter thoughts thy spirit fill, And thou art wandering from us still

 Too young to be our child. Yet have thy fleeing smiles confessed Though dear and much desired guest

 That home is near at last; Long lost in high mysterious lands, Close by our door thy spirit stands,

 Its journey well nigh passed. Oh, sweet, bewildered soul, I watch The fountains Of thine eyes, to catch

 New fancies bubbling there, To feel our common light, and lose The flush Of strange ethereal hues

 Too dim for us to share Fade, cold immortal lights, and make This creature human for my sake,

 Sinre am nGught but clay; An angel is too fine a thing To sit beside my chair and sing,

 And cheer my passing day. smile, who could not smile unless The air of rapt uneonsciousness

 Passed with the fading hours; joy in every childish sign That proves the stranger less divine

 And much more meekly OUTS. I smile, as one by night who sees Through mist Of newly-budded trees

 The clear Orion set, And knows that soon the dawn will fly In fire across the riven sky,

 And gild the woodlands wet.
Year: 1878

Placing himself at the head of his small army and leaving Marquez to defend the city, he marches straight for the enemy. At Queretaro they met Fighting against hope Maximilian performed progidies of valOr, and at length fell victim to the treachery of one of his Mexican officers, whose for tune he had made. In the dead of night, after a hard days fight, while he was seeking a short repOse from the cares that oppressed him, the gates were opened by this Arnold of the Elm pire; the enemy was placed in posses sion of all the strongh0lds, and Maxi milan awoke to find himself pris- ouer, without a chance for resistance or hope of escape. After the mock cry of trial he was led to execution, supported by his faithful General, the calm old military chieftain and sacer- dotal Casique of the Indians, Mejia, and the young, handsome and heroic Miramon.

 After having distributed gold (in token of forgiveness) among the sol diers who were to be his executiOners, he resumed his place with the calm dignity which remained with him to the last, placed his hand upon his heart and gave the word" Fire" He fell pierced with many bullets. His death was not instantaneous; he fell, in reclining posture, upon the cross which some pious priests had put near him, and with his cheek upon this sa- cred emblem-a fitting resting place for one who had not only been soldier of honor but faithful soldier of the Cross-this wise prince, this good and gentle man, received a shot through :he heart from one of his executioners and breathed his last.

 Thus ended the most brilliant drama of modern times; a disgrace to the Mexican nation and to the civilization of the age in which we live.
Year: 1878

DID the Prophet Isaiah ever eat at a railroad station? IL certainly looks so. fer how could he have described II so literally if he had not? And he shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry; and he shall eat on tue leii hand, and they shall not be satisfied.
Year: 1878

THE New York communists recent lv paraded with banner saying Bread or Lead" If that's all they want they can step into some North river restaurant and get both in one These fellows don't want anything containing yeast, as that is inclined to work.
Year: 1878

THAT the doctors logic is queer take "p" from pill, and you are i'll take D" from bill. and you are ill therefore it is better to take the pill and pay the bill and save yourself from being i'll.
Year: 1878

I9aw shark of strange sort one
day when we were q thousand miles from
land. It had fallen dead calm. There
was not sign of breeze anywhere be-
tween the north and south poles, so far
as we could tell. It was just the day
for turtle, and, sure enough, we sighted
brace of them sleeping on the surface
half mile off. The starboard quarter
boat was lowered, and we went off and
picked them up. After that, We caught
three more, but breeze springing up
the boat was called in. When we we're
hosting it up on the davits, it got a
little jammed, and, through the clumsl-
ness of the man who was minding the
falls, it also caught under the channels
and got a little strained. Well, the
evening was as glorious night as ever
was seen in the North Atlantic, the
moon at the full lighting up the sails
that loomed like great ghosts against
the stars, and the bar k Jogging along
with six.knot breeze just abeam.
The captains wife was on deck, look
ing over the rail and enjoying the scene.
Suddenly she called the officer OF the
watch and asked him if that was shark
under the quarter following the ship,
He said it looked "mighty likea shark ;
in fact, he though it was some big fish
or other. / looked over the side, and
certainly there WAS something there
that looked like q fish eighteen or
twenty feet long, following the vessel
as sharks often do, and vaguely seen
near the surface in the light of the moon.
The captain, who was below, was now
summoned. On looking over, he IN =
eouivocally pronounced it to be shark.
and rouser at that, and called for q
harpoon. To quiet the anxiety OF his
wife, he stood in-board as he balanced
the murderous weapon to hurl it into
the quivering flesh of the bloodthirsty
! monster.


call ready! !" said he to the men who
we're at the line attached to the harpoon,
to haul in the fish. Cali ready, sir"
they replied. taking firmer grasp OF
the line, as the harpoon vas plunged
with accurate aim into the shark. I've
got him |" cried tho captain, with en-
thusiasm. and the men pulled with a
vim, and fell flat on their backs as the
line came home perfectly slack. They
had not got him after all, and this was
the reason-because there was no shark
there to catch. It was nothing but the
shadow of the quarter.boat which had
been out after turtle that day. When it
was hoisted up, you remember, it had
been strained, aud that made a small
leak in two places on each side OF the
bilge near the stern, and through these
holes the water in the boat dripped
drop by drop in the boats shadow, just
about where the gills of the fish wonld
have been, which only made the shadow
seem more life.like. They did not get
over laughing in the forecastle about
that shark for some days.-Appletom'
| T0ffrnnl
Year: 1878

of the dish is transmitted to him. More
over, sense of repletion is experienced
proportionate to the quantity OF food
consumed-or rather the length Of time
the wires are held in the mouth. But,
unfortunately, as soon as the wires are
disconL ected from the battery, the feast
remains only a pleasant memory, and
the guest is as hungry as before the
banquet, and as thirsty DIS ever. Whether
viands and wines are consumed or not IN
this process is not on record. such ls
the inventors dream.


Modern playwrights on the watch for
new sensation could hardly ask one
more dramatic or more dire than the
catastrophe that happened at sea not
long ago, on the African coast. Two
dozen boats full of Greek sponge fishers
were getting water at Mandrouka, when
party of Arabs tried to make them pay
tribute of money and food for the privi-
lege. They were driven off after a
bloody fray, with their ammunition
gone; but just then contraband
seller of powder came on the scene with
his vessel, The fishermen hurried to
him, and got his promise not to sell
powder to the Arabs till after their own
departure next morning. He gave the
pledge, but then, rejecting what good
thing he had lost, broke his word, and
landed few barrels at midnight. The
fishermen rushed aboard his vessel,
voluble with reproaches, and, it is said,
struck him. The enraged trader drew
his revolver and fired into his powder
barrels, when a terrible explosion tore
to shreds the vessel and all on board.
OF the seventy Greek fishermen that 30
perished, fitty.6ve were from the Isle OF
Halkis; the others were mostly Rho
dians and sailors from Calymnos.