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Year: 1879

1t is gratifying to know that there are
laws and. tribunals in this country where
individual rights can be protected against
proscriptive intOl erance aud organized per-
secution. II is too often the case that strong
organizations, like the labor unions, for in
stance, when they fail to make individual
interests entirely subservient to their own
purposes, whether just or unjust, they be-
come vengelul and make war by way of
punishment under impulses that are not
altogether necessary or Justifable, and
against which there should be proper pro-
lection under the law. These remarks are
melted by II recent circumstance that has
fallen under our notice, and which in our
Judgment was brought to most righteous
judgment under the action of the law. The
case to which we refer is that Of Catholic
priest at IIolyoSe, Mass, who cx-communi-
Gated a member of his flock, PARKER by
name. He went further and forbade his
people to patronize the offender, PARKER
kept livery stable, and in consequence of
the priests nterdiction his business fell off
10 depressing extent He sued the priest
for damages, and the jury has just awarded
So, 433 damages, payment of which will be
"a lesson the priest will be likely TO Temem-
ber Judge BACON charged the jury that
the exact words of intimidation alleged
in the complaint must be proven,
and if these words were uttered only
% threats they were to be considered
as malicious in law, and if uttered in fact as
malicious in fact, and they entitled the
plaintiff in either case TO a verdict. The
law of this country, said he, does not allow
ecclesiastical interference with a mans busi.
ness, after ho had been communicated
from the church, which is the extent Of the
punishment which ecclesiastical authority
can inhict; nor is ecclesiastical authority
allowed to interfere with any one to deter
him from giving his patronage to that busi-
ness This reads like sound sense, and
Judge BACON is doubtless right in giving
it as sound law. The venerable pIelate is
entitled to his religious belief in a free coun-
try, and 10 all the rights and privileges it
involves but judgment is the Lords, aud lie
should not exercise his religious faith as an
engine of vengeance beyond its proper ju-
risdiction.
Year: 1879

THE Democrats still treat New York as
doubtful State. We admit their wisdom
in this instance, but are rejoiced to add that
intelligent Republicans have no doubts at
all in the premises.
Year: 1879

IF the Republican members, or any num-
Der of them, of the Virginia legislature 20
into the MALONE caucus to cooperate with
the Bourbon Readjusters in the organiza-
tion of that body they will make asses of
themselves. The greed of Office, whetted
by promises of a division of the spoils may
tempt them, but if they are foolish enough
to yield to such inducements they will GER
tainly deserve the disappointment they will
earn and be subjected to. MALONE and
his gang are Democrats from their boot
heels up to the crowns of their slouch hats,
and they have no use for Republicans of
any shade or prediction, except so far as
they may be available as tools for the time
beiDg. Our friends will pursue the part of
discretion if they stand alooC and let
MAHoNE or the other party come to them.
They hold the balance of power, and should
not throw it away Tecklcssly.
Year: 1879

bic. Their plans are detestable and in vio-
lation Of the principles of good Govern
ment; but the power rests with the
Republican party to offset them We have
control to-day of sufficient number of
States in the North in which the same game
can be successfully played to elect in Janu-
ary next the requisite number of Presden-
tial Electors to secure the success of the
Republican nominee whoever he may be.
Year: 1879

No single State in the South has been
subjected TO such radically revolutionary
political influences during the past three
years as Florida, We mean by this that n
sufficient Northern immigration has in
truded itself into its citizenship to change
the political aspect Of IFS voting population
very materially, In fact, the Democratic
managers are wisely alarmed at the pros
pect of certain defeat in the next National
campaign in that State, For this reason
they propose, as in Louisiana and Missis-
sippi, TO change the law regarding the
choice of Presidential Electors so as to pro-
vide for their election by the present Dem
ocratic) legislature. As our readers are
already informed, an extra session of that
body is soon to be called, ostensibly TO at
tend to certain canal affairs but really to
make this revolutionary change in existing
laws whereby to deprive the people Of their
rights and practically to set aside the will
of the majority But we admOnish these
manipulators to take heed lest they Stun
Year: 1879

THE COINAGE OF TnEsILVER DOLLAR.


1t is intimuted that Secretary SHERMAN
will, in his annual report, recommend to
Congress that the coinage Of silver dollars
shall cease, This is all very well now, for
the people do not want them and they are
only numbering the vaults of the Treasury,
When the slyer-dollar bill passed Congress
Year: 1879

THE Graphic makes use of Senator CAR
PEYTER's admonitions regarding the next
Electoral count as n basis for a suggestion
that 1880 would be good time to begin
"another era OF good feeling" and adds :
Let all parties next year unite upon one
"man for the Presidency-each Of them
"would take him if he knew they would
"accept their overtures-and thus avoid
/" the unpleasant and maybe dangerous
contingencies which Senator CARPENTER
depicts in the near future" Now, who is
the /" he referred to here if it is not Gen.
eral GRANT? But the Graphic mistakes its
man if it imagines for moment that Gen
eral GRANT would accept the overtures of
any class of men or section Of people, ex-
cept upon the sound basis of thorough Ma
tiOnal Republicanism.
Year: 1879

The above is timely and to
the point, but thero is one fact
which We wish to emphasize.
That is, that the price of sub
scription does not pay the cost
of publication-especially' in
country offices. This-is SO, even
in good times, and more so in
hard times. Then keeping in
mind the fact that the average
country paper costs the publish
er more than be gets for it, how
can a reduction of price be cx-
pected? In good times the adj
vertising patronage makes up
this deficit and gives the pub
Usher a small profit, but in times
like the present it is not suffi-
cient TO do this. Hard times
cuts down the patronage Of a
newspaper before 1t touches
any thing else. 1t cuts off sub
scriptions already insufficient to
pay expenses, cuts off the in
come Of the Office, and at the
same time increases the outgo
by increasing the space to be
filed with reading matter. So,
a reasonable man can see that
it is great struggle for coun-
try paper to live such times as
these, and really that an increase
of price rather than a reduction
would be proper. Perhaps the
Citizen has enjoyed a prospcri-
ty above the average in the past.
In fact, for ten years after the
war its prosperity was remark
abe, but for five years past il
has barely made a living for It's
large family and employees.
This, however, is more than
most. country papers can say.
BIT we hope for better things
than these now in the near fn-
tire. We pray you TO help US
realize our hopes.
Year: 1879

ed-Facts not Understood by the
Public.


Hartford cohraut..


A friend asks why it is that
the price of the newspaper does
not drop with the price Of cloth
ing and provisions. tits a reas-
enable question, and shall have a
frank answer. The newspapers
Of the first class are better now
than they were few years ago;
and the cost of producing them
is more, while their. receipts for
advertising arc much less than
formerly. The newspapers have
shared to the full extent the
hardness of the times. Few
of them have made much money
since 1878, many of the most





important newspapers have
been without profit, some at a
loss. Every newspaper in the
country, SO far as we know, is
sold at much below its cost-it
depends wholly upon the adver-
tising for making up the deficit.
When business is poor the news
paper is the first to feel it.


But for the fact that the price
of white paper has fallen since
the war, many newspapers
would be compelled to suspend
or greatly increase their SUBJ
scription price. There has been
a fall in paper, and the rates of
composition have decreased
but forthese reductions the news
paper would hardly have surviv-
ed. For in most other respects.
the cost of producing the news
paper has increased. More is
demanded of it. The cost of
collecting news increases every
day; the telegraph bills are
higher than ever, and would
have seemed enormous a few
years ago; correspondence in
journals of the first-class is
better and better paid; the ex-
pense ofthe editorial department
is greater, and the labor on it is
better and more varied. If we
were to 60 through all the items
from telegraph down to gas bills,
the reader would see why the
newspapers can not afford much,
if any, reduction below present
rates, especially when it is con-
sidered that it takes its full share
of bad debts and loss Of business.
Year: 1879

In spite of the saying about
"The better day, the better deed"
the Indiana courts have ruled
that where a man gives a church
his obligation at q Sunday debt
raising, payment therefor can
not be enforced at law.
Year: 1879

No man can know ali thing,
but there arc lots of men wh5
think they do. They are tho
fellows who give an editor -
much valuable information as to
how to run a newspaper %
the ground.
Year: 1879

A bill for 20S suppcrs was
presented TO young man in
Port Austin, Michs.. by a father
whose daughter had been court
ed for lour years by the young
man and then deserted. lie
was always in time for ten each
Sunday night Of the term.
Year: 1879

Mayor Howell. of Brooklyn, yesterday sent
TO the chairman OF the convention which nominated
him letter OF acceptance. Ho says that II he were
70 consult his private Interests and he shes of hCso
WHO have tho strongest claims upon him. he would de-
cline the renomluationi and besides h health Is IN
such condition that he cannot participate personally
IN the campaign al ALL lie wlsAcs nis acts auu Official
record to be considered as The platform on hen Ac
stands and dovoeS considerable space to review OF
his "a
Year: 1879

ALrrrLs dog In . front yard will make
moro noise than . whole menaseris-
particularly when Z fellow Ii trying to
slip out Of tho front door without making
any noise, and the old folks happen to
slcsp Sight over the front stoop.
Year: 1879

Powell will have on his stall in the
Third street market, a fine assortment
of fish, among which are halibut, had
dock, smeltz, white fish, steak cod fish,
Labrador herring and catfish also .
lot of terrapin. Call early and avoid
the rush.
Year: 1879

A laughable incident occurred, a few
evenings since, when lady living ut
Baldwin; got on board the cars at a
station east here intending to pay her
fare. When the conductor came around
she discovered that her pocket-booll
was missing. She was sure she had
lost IL. Pacifying the conductor with
the statement that her husband would
meet her at the depot here, and pay
the fare, she came through. The fare
was paid by the waiting husband, who
also, telegraphed back to the point she
started from, to institute u search for
the pocket book. 1t could not be found
there but ras found, after the lady
reached home, safely deposited Id /, the
valise she had carried.
Year: 1879

The weather to-day is delightful and the
delegates seem to thoroughly enjoy both
the visit to the city and the earnest fight
in which they are engaged. Swarms of
busy politicians were on hand atall the
hotels early this morning, and especially at
the Gibson House, where are located the
headquarters OF the State Central Commit
tee, the local committees and the two can
didates for the Gubernatorial nomination.
At 8 O'Clock the District Conventions met
to do the preliminary part of to-day's s
work.
Year: 1879

The appointment and prompt confrma-
tion of Hon. ALEXANDER RAMSEY as Secre-
tary of War as the successor of Secretary
MCCRARY, are alike creditable to the Presi-
dent, the Senate and the incumbent. We
doubt if an appointment could have been
made which would have met with more gen.
eral approval than the selection of ex-senator
RAMSEY for the War portfolio. A man of
conceded ability and probity, of large ex-
perience in public affairs of unques toned
integrity and unblemished name, he will
bear with him into his new position a meas
ure of public confidence and respect that
seldom attaches to public position. We
have already given brief sketch of his
public career, which has been alike honor
able and successful This is the first break
in the Cabinet since the Inauguration of
President HAYES, and this appointment
vindicates the skill and judgment of the
Executive in filling breaches
Year: 1879

Mr. MCCLURE, the editor of the Philadel-
phia Times, has been at the Capital for some
days, applying his microscopic powers to
the Democratic situation, to ascertain, if
possible, what the matter is with that
party, and what its prospects are of sustain
ing respectable status in the contest of
1880. He has looked the ground over care
fully, and has come TO the deliberate con-
clusion that about the best thing that can
be done with the wreck is TO abandon it to
the underwriters. He has discovered that
the affair is in very bad way. In the first
place, there is no one question upon which
there is entire Democratic harmony"
This fact confronts and discourages the
party. 1t is admitted that the most serious
trouble now in the Democratic path resides
with the Federal election laws. The diff
Guilty of doing anything with them now, as
the case is candidly viewed, seems to rest
with the fact that the Hotspurs of the
South were so irrepressible and irrestrain.
able during the extra session that
they madly upset every future prospect of
obtaining anything like modification of
these laws so that their Objectionable fea-
lures, if they have any, may be eliminated.
The attempt to repeal them and wipe them
out was so offensive that the President,
who might then have signed an act of mod-
fcation, has been kicked and cuffed by
Southern arrogance until it is very doubt
ful if he can be induced now to approve
any measure of Democratic origin in rela-
ton to them. Then, again, the opinion
turks in the more conservative Democratic
mind that public sentiment has been so
poisoned toward the extravagancies of the
extra session that it will justify any posi-
ton the President and the Republicans
may elect to assume toward future Demo-
cratic action on the question.


Then, again, Mr. MCCLURE has discov-
cred that want of unanimity in the DEM
ocratic party in regard to Presidential
candidate brings grave trouble to its cause
and prospects Then, there is great
"chaiing and unrest among the Demo
cratic leaders because they feel that they
are handicapped in every race" He pre-
diets that I" if the Democrats get TO be the
"under dogs in the fight in this session, as
they were jn the last, there will be a
heroic break for the annexation of half OIL
" the whole of Mexico, and GRANT will be
indicated as the leader"


This is the possible programme that this
observer of the Democratic situation con-
jures up for the Democratic party in 1880
and nothing more deplorable could be con-
ceiyed rs last resort for a party which il
falling. in pieces under the disintegrating
forces that come from descrtion of prin-
ciple and mere scramble for place and
proyender.
Year: 1879

THE brains of the Democratic leaders in
Congress have now been involved in the
labors of craftsmanship for two weeks.
The result does not show a parallel case
with that of the mountain and the mouse,
for such n comparison would be an exag-
geration. But it does appear that colossal
Hatulency has been exerted to evoke the
admonition; "Keep quietl do nothing p
This is the new-fangled GORDON policy, so
named because Senator GORDON is alleged
TO have been its originator We are in
clined, however, TO relieve the Georgia Sem
ator from the responsibility of its paternity.
There is nothing cowardly about him, how
ever much of diplomacy and Gush may
sometimes enter into his utterances and
this is the policy of Notwithstanding
more and nothing less. Ho may have
adopted II as among the necessities of the
situation, but that is all he has had to do
with il.
Year: 1879

THE report of Professor BAIRD, the United
States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, for
1877, is a document of nearly Que thousand
pages, and is a vast mine of interesting infor-
nation on that subject No mere journalistic
notice can do it justice, and hence wo will at.
tempt nothing of the kind, but be content with
mcie acknowledgment of the receipt of a
copy through the kind attention of tho Com
missioner, for which ho will please accept our
thanks
Year: 1879

IT is now asserted that the footprints of
SAMUEL j. TILDEE have been detected in
the election fraud that is being attempted
in Maine. This should surprise no one, for
there probably has not been a political
fraud of any magnitude in any part of the
country in which TILDEN has not had
Year: 1879

THE National Agricultural Association
convened in New York ON Wednesday last


The object of the association is the promo
tion and development of the agriculture of
the entire country. Some of our most dis
tinguished scientists were present and a
thorough organization was effected 1t is
believed that more good will accrue to the
agricultural interests of the country by this
and kindred organizations than from the
Agricultural Department here at Washing
ton, and with no expense to the Government.
Year: 1879

The New Orleans Times wants to have
the Constitution remodeled or "codiiied u
from beginning to end so that it shall con-
form in all respects to the progressive in
SEPARATIONS of modern governmental science.
This is not so much needed, in our opinion,
as it is that modern and progressive con-
struction shall be placed upon the provis-
ions of that instrument as it now stands,
and then that such construction shall be
faithfully adhered to. All that we want
now is an unqualified recognition of the
fact achieved in the results of the war, that
"Ths is Q Nationw
Year: 1879

How OF at twilight hour
We two went floating of upon the wave!
The West resplendent with its sunset doWer'
The East al luminous, yet soitly grave;


The ocean spread around,
Just ruined, yet rejecting every hue,
Marking with foam each emerald islets


bound,


And glldi1 back It's Dillow to renew.


Then the lone sea bird sped
It's trackless way with many plaintive
The winds swept slowly, and from oceans bed
Rose perfumes that cen now seem gather.


Ing nigh.


Leaning on idle oars
We gazed on hills whose feet were on the


sand;


Their crowns rose grandly where the sunlight
Its last rich food on rippllng sea and land.
l. In all the long, bright past
When ocean, earth and sky In blest accord,
Their spell of light, song, motion round US
There are no dearer hours In memory's
ward.
The cup our lips did press
In that glad time was trembling to the
brm
With Its sweet draupht OF mortal happiness
Not wasted, lost, but grown far oil and dim.
Year: 1879

A little Holyoke miss, being very
anxious to have baby brother or sis
ter, teased her mother to buy )ne. She
was told she must pray if she wanted
it, and the child faithfully included the
petition in her nightly prayer. Time
passed on and no baby came. Losing pa
tience the little girl said one night,
"oh!' Lord, please do bring us baby
even if it is a red-headed one." That
was some time ago, and recently the
prayer has been answered, and as the
little brother is not red headed, the
child is doubly pleased.
Year: 1879

A lady was the mother OF bright
littl. boy three years old. The whoop-
ing cough was prevalent throughout
the entire neighborhood, and the poor
mother was very much alarmed lest
her boy should take it. She had talk
ed so much about it that she had infec-
ted the child with her fears SO that he
would scarcely leave her side. One
night after the little fellow had been
put to bed and to sleep, mule was
driven by til. house, and when just
opposite set up that I" hee-haw hee'
haw!" With a shrek the little fellow
was ont Of bed, screaming at the top q'
his voice Tn. whooping cough is
coming, mama; the whooping cough is
coming !"
Year: 1879

wait and wait OH for turn in the wheel
of fortune which may be far distant, OF
may never take place.


What, them should they do2 They
should make up their minds boldly to
face the hard times, and should prompt
ly commence active life with "a courage
equal to the emergency. They must re-
double their industry, be more self-deny-
ing and rigid in their economy, more
diligent in their calling, in every way,
to give satisfaction and attain promo
ton.


All their privations, all their hardships,
endure but for seaaon; for the requisite
effort, though greater now than it used to
be, will in time secure its reward.


Again, it should be borne in mind that
though the times are less propitious now
than they used to be for the rapid ac-
emulation of a fortune, they are not less
favorable to the formation of high and
heroic character; and. character, always
stands far above fortune.
Year: 1879

Miss Prince was the only daughter of
Pittsburg merchant, and two years ago
was welded to MIR. Savage, Of Baltimore.
Six hours after the ceremony the train
upon which they had started on their
bridal tour was wrecked, and the hus-
band of less than day was killed. The
shock of the terrible calamity robbed the
Young wife for time of her reason.
From this mental death she recovered to
go into slow decline. All the blossoms
of her life were whitening, and the world
once so robed in beauty and delight be-
came prison from which her spirit long
ed to be free. They took her across the
sea, but the panorama of scene and Incl
dent had no power to renew the love OF
life, and the young thing faded as flow
er fades. At last they took her to the
south of France, and there amid the
bloom of fowers--on the spot where
Petrarch once sang songs to Elvira-in
the home of Leonardo da Vinci's exile.
this fair American girl found the peace
full quiet of the grave. Our correspond
ent who relates the incident draws a
vivid picture of the ssrrowing family
around the death bed. The father over
whelmed with grief, the mother wild
with despair, while young sister clasp
in. hand Of the dying girl looks with
pallid face and rigid lips into the glazed
eyes.


ssThe anguish is nearly over-my race
of life is done,' came in feeble intona-
ton from the lips of the dying.


"And you are willing to die?" asked
minister, bending low to catch the whis-
pered utte1ance.


"oh, SO glad! Listen to me. die as
many of my sex have done, of a broken
heart. l had put my all Of life and hope
on the hazard Of an earthly love, and
God has smitten me for my SIM


"It was no sin to love-"


"No, not to love-but to build an idol
as did and to worship the creature
instead of the Creator. have been ter
ribly punished. The horror of these two
brief years no words can tell".


There was futter of the feeble heart.
The blue eyes sheathed themselves 'neatE
palely tinted waxen lids, and the fair
young form. once SO full of subtle life,
was frozen into death.