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Year: 1878

deal of sanguine talk of giving hun 10000 majority
and remarked that it was we'll to remember that
nomination was not always an election. bnt that
something depended upon the work OF the party
afterwards. He found that ont once before, and he
hoped to see thorough canvass of the whole stare,
that the victory might be so large that the night
would not have to be fought over again another
year. Mr. Talbot realizes that Butler is hard man
10 kill, and 10 would seem II everybody else IN
Massachusetts ought to have found that out by
this time.


There was rather q rough time at the meeting
which Mr.. Butler addressed in somerville, Mass,
on Friday evening" last. The hall being well packed,
there came sharp. startling crash, and cry that
the floor had given way. and a rush for the door.
Unfortunately the great gun had not yet arrived,
to reassure the crowd by his bold yet winning
presence, to calm the tumult by letting of of
his excellent jokes. Half the floor "bulged down
some ten OF twelve inches" and even those who
were not frightened to death went out. They or
ganized n meeting for Mr.. Butler at the foot OF
flagstaff in the street, and tho chairman began by
making this announcement 81 am requested by
the Chief of Police to state that there has been
child lost, about three years and half -" Here
the irreyerent crowd cried, Tell us something
newlp and Mr.. Butler began his speech; but
whether he told them anything new or not is
matter on which the report throws no light.
Year: 1878

who getting Grecnback nominations and the number


who are begging them without getting them prove this


fhe manner ia which the hard-money platform or SRA.
cnse was crammed down the OF the convention
without giving moments chance for protest showed
that tho leaders feared eruption OF entmrut OF
which Mr.. Peter Mitchell was the horny-handed repre-
sentative. In connection with ths point The Sc5srs
Journal makes this statement, after directing attention
to the fact that the genuine hard money platform sar
aioga was approved by unanimous vote OF the Com
mittee on Resolutions; ION tho contrary. In
the Committee Resolutions OF the Democratic
Convention, we are assured, the authority
OF q member OF that committee, who Is him-
self inclined to soft money, The majority for the
resolutions they stand but small and is
undoubtedly true that but tor the past record OF the
party IN avor OF hard money, the resolutions would
have been soft. Though their hearts were that way
majority OF the committee could not make up tneir
minds to challenge the criticism which would follow
scn an act Of decentralization would be the adoption
of resolutions squirting at Greenbaokism."
Year: 1878

Should the Peshawur garrison, which was
recently marching IN the direction of the
Khyber Pass, attack the Afgbans who are
posted there, the acs would be faIly in accord
with the aggressive policy which Lord
Year: 1878

How Cleopatra's Needle viii be PLACED


in Position on the Thames Embank-


From the London Tims.


The plan for raising may he briefly de-
scribed. The column will be fitted with
a powerful iron Jacket as near the center
of gravity as is wanted, and this jacket
has swo massive iron trunnions, just like
the trunnions of a great gun. These
trunniOns will rest on two wrought-irou
girders of great strength, and the whole
will then resemble monster cannon on
a slide without wheels One END of the
column being raised by hydraulic presses
a sufficient height, say foot, it will be
kept so raised by powerful balk of tim
Der slid under it. The other end will
then be similarly treated, and thus,
slowly but surely it will ascend foot by
foot, shored up with timber at every
stage, laid in the way which will best in
sure the stability of the whole structure.
The jacket, it is thought, will clip the
stone sufficiently tight to hold it when
in vertical position, but in dealing with
such enormous weights and tapering
column it is as well to err on the safe
side; SO Mr.. Dixon has wisely decided to
have a wrought-iron strap, eighteen
inches broad and more than an inch
thick, which will pass from one side to
the jacket under the base of the mono
lith and up again to the jacket on the
other side. Thus, then, during the few
minutes it will be suspended vertically
before being lowered to its base, it will
stand in the band as if in stirrup, and
the more ifs usaieh@ r,as.-,-s., .s-s Is..'a
the tighter it will make the jacket grip.
The column, as we have explained, will
be hoisted horizontally, but when it has
reached the required height the supports
under the base will be removed, and the
base being slightly in excess Of the rest
(2a tons), the whole stone will slowly re-
volve on the trunnions till it hangs
direct over its appointed spot and about
four inches above it. It is then simply
turning on the taps of the hydraulic
presses and the column will sink into its
base in about two minutes. A small gap
will be left in the centre of the base, %
as to enable the iron band to be removed,
but when this is done and the gap filled
up with granite blocks all will be COM
pleted
Year: 1878

In Allegheny, Pa, "a list of all the
people in the city who have claimed the
benefit of the law exempting 5000 worth
OF property from levy and sale is being
prepared by the ward constables for the
benfit of business men generally"
Year: 1878

SHARoN's sevenstory palace hotel in
Frisco is the biggest kind Of an elephant
on the hands of the proprietor. Every
month at least 81 900 interest is due on
mortgage account, and the running ex-
penses of the institution are scarcely met
by the receipts
Year: 1878

Boston law says that full loaf of
bread shall weigh two pounds, and
smaller loaves shall be either three.qua
tiers, half or a quarter of the full loaves
in weight, each size to be marked for
precisely what it is.
Year: 1878

SAN BUENAvENTURA,M March 81.
A heavy rain storm from the SOUTH
east set in at eleven o'clock last
night, and has continued without
intermission this forenoon. The
wind has shifted to the northeast,
but without abating the rain.


The Ventura wharf Is now ready
for business, and Is constructed in
much more substantial manner
than before, immense piles having
been used and driven with the
large end down. The builders are
still strengthening it.
Year: 1878

me CLERK DELIBERATELY ROBBED, AND THE


THIEVES FINDING THEMSELVES KNOWN BRING


BACK THE MONEY.


!BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE


WASHINGTON, Dec. 23-The mystery of the lost
package containing $1OO 900 of Post Office money is
explained 1t seems that certain persons, yet un
known, who were acquainted with the occasional
weakness of the clerk sent to the Treasury for the
funds met him when he came out of the Treasury
and invited him to place near at hand to take a
drink of whiskey. This was repeated at a point
nearer the Post Office. and from this place when he
was we'll under the influence of liquor, he was
taken to a house of questionable character and
robbed of his money. The persons who did this
having been seen with him, and finding out that
they were known, sent friend to Postmaster Ed
munds before daylight this morning and arranged
for a surrender of the money. The money was
duly given up to-day.
Year: 1878

THE ARGUMENT OF NIX ffENCI IN FAVOR OF FIX


ING UPON CHEMICAL ANALYSIS AS THE ULrI-


MAZE TEsT, WITHOUT DISPENSING WITH OTHER


SYSTEMS.


Icy TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE.I


WASHINGTON Dec. 23.-In the conference held a
week ago between the Committee OF Ways and
Means and Secretary Sherman and other officers of
the Treasury Department on the subject of pro-
posed modification Of the tariff sugar, Assistant
Secretary French explained briefly and very nte.
gently the policy which the Department favors. He
said:


As understand Il. the value OF sugar depends upon
the amount Of crystaZabe saccharne matter In IT, and
lie n1ury s how should ascertain that percentage
of saccharine matter There Is something
WHICH called grape sugar. and which ~ not crystal
Iilahe and believe il sometimes comes under the
f glucose But the ODect is 10 ASCERTAIN the amount OF
crystalllzable saccharne matter IN the sugar.


IRE color has been the usual test but Is said to
OF sugar But II IL not thought best 70 abandon that
test entirely, because we are familiar win u, ana Oe-
cause applied 10 by far the largest amount OF sugar IL
ia probably sufficiently accurate test We would not
abandon IT, because the samplers educated 10 IT, and
iD wher" there Is no controversy we would


The next beet Of the saccharne natter far
know Is the pOla1scope, and understand that that
instrument gives the per etage, and that when we say
92 degrees we mean W per cent or ciystalhZaDie
saccharine matter.


But the poarscope is the ultimate test for In the
trial at Baltimore and IN all the discussions which
have had anything 10 do WITH the experts 20 further
U has teen said that the pOariscOpe not correct ana
that the same sample gives different results, varying
One two three degrees But the chemists go further.
They say, By chemical analysis find whether the
poarscope is correct" think that the experts all
admit that chemical analysis s the actual perfect test


Therefore in fixing any standard l would retain all
three OF those modes would retain the color standard
because IL convenient and because accustomed
test as 10 the larger OF sugar would
use pOariscope because IL c0nsidereda sufheeny
Year: 1878

the Government made by private firms would
bring great injury to the Government and benefit
only private manufacturers who would be very
certain to make ring" against the Government,
and to demand any price they might please. Be-
side this, the Superintendent claims that the Gov.
ernment has invested more than sixty millions OF
dollars in perfected machinery of various KINDS:
which wonld be valueless except for old metal, if
the proposition of the Army Commission should be
adOute1.
Year: 1878

MINISTER AND THE WIFE OF THE GERMAN


EMPEROR.


IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.1


WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-Onc OF the most interest
ing dispatches which the late Bayard Taylor sent
from Berlin was that written on the 1st of July
describing the visit of President Grant to the
German capital. The EMPEROR owing to his then
recent wound, was unable to receive any one, and
the Empress felt bound for that reason to maintain
her privacy in the palace. But the Empress sent
for Mr.. Taylor, who described the interview IN the
following words:


From the absence of certain customary formali-
ties on reaching the palace, and the quiet manner
of my reception, suspect that il was meant to be
private quite rs much as official. The Empress
took occasion to express to me the Emperors inter-
est in General Grants history, his desire to meet
him personally and his great regret that this W as
now impossible. Her words and manner implied
an authorization that should repeat these express
sons to General Grant. She then spoke very freely
and feelirgly of the disturbances occasioned bv the
distress Of the laboring classes, declared her belief
that period Of peace would be the best remedy,
and finally said The Emperor knew that should
see you to-day. He has the peace Of the world at
heart aud he desires nothing much as the estab-
lisbment of friendship between nations l ask you
to make t your task to promote the existing friend
shin between your country and ours. You cannot
do 4 better work. and we shall most heartily unite
with you in doing it. This Is the Emperor's mss
sage to You. and he asked me TO give 1t to You IN
his name as we'll as my own She bowed and left
me. -. -. -. ;o.
impressed me profoundly. i kept her words care
fully in my memory, and have repeated Them Win
only such changes as the translation makes neces-
SaIy,'
Year: 1878

| The correspondence published yesterday
between Gov. Nichols and DR.. Chopin,
president of the Board of Health, relative to
the health of the city and the necessity of
continuing the present rigid quarantine
against it, is conclusive. DR.. Chopin de-
clares that the epidemic is at an end that few
new cases are occurring only two during the
past week-and that there Is no longer any
danger to returning absentees Or those whom


business or pleasure may bring to the city.
| In view Of this positive declaration of the
chief health officer Of the city 1t Is to be hoped
that the quarantine against New Orleans will
be everywhere raised and business inter
course with the interior resumed at once. A
further exclusion of the merchants and manu-
facturers Of the city from their customers In
this and contiguous States will be o gross IN
Justice, indefensibe upon the score of the
public health or any other reason. The city is
now free, or nearly so, and there is absolutely
no danger Of infection for the remainder Of
the season, New Orleans has already suf-
fered the loss for three months of
her legitimate trade. She has been shut
out in every direction, while commercial
rivals, taking advantage Of her misfortunes,
have stepped in and taken from her business
men the custom that years Of industry fair
dealing and an accommodating spirit had
secured. AS long as the fever existed in an
epidemic form, or there was any risk to non
infected places IN unrestricted intercourse, no
complaint was made. FOf two weeks how
ever, the reasons for the quarantine have
ceased to exist, and the business community
very naturally begins to chafe under the con-
tinuance of trade restrictions. Every consid-
eration OF fair play requires that the quaran-
tine should be raised at once. New Orleans
makes no appeal because of the charity her
people have shown, their self-saCrificiDg
spirit, or their noble zeal in assisting all who
have applied to them for help in the past or
present. All she asks for is justice. and that
is demanded with full confidence in a favor
able and Immediate resp onse.
Year: 1878

this State, save that they do not approve OF
the scheme OF patching up the present con-


stitution so as to make it pass for new one
Democratic parishes seem to have voted some


for and some against the amendments. and


Republican parishes the same. Many have


in disgust refused to vote on this question at


all, there being no vote pro or con- on the


amendments expression Of opinion at all


on the coast. A singular picture of the ab-
surdty OF the whole thing Is the,vote Of the
heavy negro parishes on the amendments
In the white parishes the vote appears to have
been solely for OF against the whole batch of


amendments; IN Concordia, however. nine


tenths Of whose voters are negroes and three


fourths of them unable to read great critical


aeumen has been shown. The coorel voters


would appear to have studied each amend-


ment carefully its workings and effects, and
to have voted for 1t intelIigently and on its
merits. Thus the thirteenth amendment ap-
pears to be unpopular, the majority against
it being 2068, while the majority against the
fifth Is only 507, against the sixth 3O3, and for
the first 1863. The chances are that many of
these voters scratched out the "for' or
against Of the votes at random, and with
out the least idea of what they were doing Or
what they were voting for.


The first amendment-the capital question
seems to have Jared worst. In Ouachta
and several other parishes this was not
treated as an amendment at all The voters
simply cast their votes for Baton Rouge Or
New Orleans as State capital, without pro-
viding for any alteration of the State consti-
tuition on this subject, a vote which would be
as effective MS If the citizens Of New York
were to vote tomorrow to change their cap
ital to Sing Sing. In Ouaehita and these par
ishes the amendment establishing biennial
sessions Of the Legislature was voted on as
one, whereas here 1t was voted
on as amendment two. This is 8 fair exam
pie of the confusion existing In this vote on
the amendments confusion which was pre-
dlcted by us when the Legislature undertook
this amendment job
Year: 1878

The Houma Progress was determined tc
crow, as all good Democrats have q right to
do over the result of the State election. The
type bag WAS taken down, its contents
searched over, but no rooster could be found.
Here was dilemma, truly. Native ingenll-
ity however, proved equal to the occasion


The cut of an ancient and stately Shanghai
hen had been secured in searching the bag


Our genial contemporary ably reasoned that
a hen was the next thing to q rooster; was,
In fact, the mother Of re osters; and was his
natural representative. No better substitute,
therefore, could be had. Accordingly, over
appropriate head lines, that old hen did some
dusty Growing in the last issue of the Progress.
Year: 1878

The Legislature of Michigan at the last
session provided for the purity of the ballot
box by enacting that when any vote should
be cast tho judges Of the polls should indorse
On the back number which should corre-
spond with the number of the voter on the
poIl-book. This act has been declared uncon-
stitutional by one Of the district judges on
the ground that it deprives voter Of the
privilege Of casting a secret ballot, and that
LIS right which cannot be taken from him.
Year: 1878

Although defeated by a large majority,
those twenty constitutional amendments do
mated us by our late Legislature promise
some trouble and worry. The vote on these
will be found nearly as confused as in 1876,
when the Returning Board refused to count
the vote on the amendments, and utterly un-
intelligible as to the desire Of the people Of
Year: 1878

Phenix is making rapid progress to- wards bcc6ning q business center of much li.nportance.A Its closeness to thcb best developed mining districts in the Territory, and the near ap- proach of the Southern Pacific Rail- road make it the best located town in Arizona as a base of supplies. Capi- talists from oihersections of Arizona and southern California are obtaining information about US with q view of investment. Our merchants are laying in larger stocks to meet the increasing demands. A bank, located in Los Angeles is thinking of establishing a branch here. It is something that is very much needed, and would yield handsome return on the investment to the promoters of the enterprise; it would be great accommodation to our business men, and be the means of retaining much money in town that is now sent away. The money order business of our postoffice, published from time to time go to show that such an institution would be a success from the start. \ gentleman, also from Los Angeles is in town and has in contemplation the building of q large hotel. This, also, would be q paying investment. The new ditch now being constructed by the Grand Canal Company will be finished in time to put in q cropnext season. It will carry water sufficient to irrigate ten thousand acres - more land than the entire acreage this season. This will be tue means of giving employ ment. to a large population. Our fruit yield in the valley this season has been quite large, and found q ready market at good prices in the different towns and mining camps. The three flour mills arc kept busy filling orders. The Golden Star Min ing Company, at Cave Creek, is dis playing much activity in the erection of 10-stamp mill the busness of this mining camp will be considerable in-the next six months, and it will all center in Phenix. We are informed, from a reliable source, that work on a 4O-stamp mill, in the same district will be commenced inside of three months. Besides supplying several mining camps of lesser note, we have quite q trade with Tonto Basin, Sun flower valley, Camp Mcdowell, Tempe valley and Tiptop, all of which arC steadily increasing. Taken all in all the future for Phcnix has very brilliant outlook.
Year: 1878

Phenix is now of sufficint size and importance to justify an incorporation. To be sure it would increase the taxes slightly, but thebeneiits that wOuld be derived would be worth many times the amount thus paid in, We are sure the Board of Supervisors would issue an order declaring the town inco-pO- rated whenever they are asked, in the proper manner, to do so. Let some live man take hold of this matter. The Board of Supervisors meet Mon- day, and will have time to consider a petition, only fifteen voters to which are required.
Year: 1878

One of the managers of the Long fellow Copper Mining Company is in San Francisco for the purpose of hiring Chinamen 10 work in that mine Although the statement is made that they are intended for work that the Americans or MeXicans refuse we think. after they are thoroughly introduced. the whole affair will pre- sent a different appearance altogether. It is nothing more or less that the be- ginning of an attempt to work our mines by Chinese cheap labor.
Year: 1878

CT, and if every other amusements is exhaust ed we can always talk. really think he is a born poet, and if circumstances had only con spired as they do over some people, that the whole world would have acknowledged 1t. He certainly has said more sweet things to me just to-day than that Raymond did during all the time he stayed here and he is considered quite poet, you know. I often tell Edgar that if he would only print all the pretty things he says, he would be renowned from Maine to Georgia but he says his greatest honor is to lay them at my feet. Isn't that just as sweet as it can be!

 Well, Belle, hope some day you will be as happy as I am. Give my love to the girls, and say hope we shall meet in Paris. Probably this is the last time 1 shall write to you and bear my present name, but believe me | shall always be as true friend to you as l was when ANGIE PUTNAM.

 P. S. Be sure you don't breathe word of what I have told you about Kitty and Marion, for of course they would be dreadfully angry. Pm sure I hope they may be happy, but don't see how girls who do euch things can hope to to be respected as wives.

 And don't forget to write me just what you heard about Raymond and me, and who told you. I think it must nave come orig ginally from something that the girls have told. | should just like to know ach0t haey sod x f@f
Year: 1878

Teeth are not, ordinarily, matter
meet for romanticism, but theOakland
Times chronicles very poetic episode
resultant from the transplanting of a
tooth. A society belle" of Oakland
had sustained the incompatible loss OF
front tooth. She appealed to a lead.
ing dentist, who in due time was ena-
bled to supply the deficiency from the
dental store Of a handsome but inn
pecunious Spaniard. The tooth took
root and made itself at home in the
lady's mouth. From the hundred
dollars he received for the prize the
foreigner was enabled To establish a
prosperous business. In the meantime
the minds of both young penons had
been busted in wondering, the one
over the origin and the other over the
destination OF that tooth. One eve
ming at "select party" they met-he
smiled aud casually mentioned the
cause of the vacancy in the front row
of worries; the society belle gave a
little shrek; and now ii is rumOred
that a loye-match will shortly occur
in fashionable Oakland circles be-
tween the respective owners Of that
tooth. -[Courier- Journal.
Year: 1878

The doctrine of metempsychosis, or
transmigration of souls, is still taught


by the Brahmins of Malabar, and an
English Captain had nearly fallen a
victim to its effects. Trading along
the coast, he one day went ashore,
when he unluckily shot bird called
perumel, which is supposed to carry
one Of their gods Of the first rank. A
Malabrian saw it, and accused him of
the enormous crime; the people in the
neighboring villages Immediately as
sembl ed. seized the sacreligious Eng
lishman, and would have sacrificed
him on the spot had it not been for
the presence Of mind of a jew who
CHANGED to he present. He advised
the Captain to confess the crime. but
to assign as his reason for committing
it that his father. who had been dead
some time, was thrown into the sea,
and had become carp; the perumel
was going to devour the carp before
his eyes, when the recollection of his
father rushed upon him and he shot
the bird. The judges we're struck
with the apparent justice of the plea,
and instantly pardoned the criminal.