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Year: 1878

THESE STATES were declared independ-
ent States, and Were intended to be indie
pendent States but they are not indie
pendent States, solely because for wears
some States wanted to hold other States in
subsection or make them subservient to
them in yielding certain advantages
which tended to inrich one section and
impoverish the other. When this was re-
SISTED war was made. The war became
profitable TO the contractors and military
leaders and il was continued for their
benefit until the people We're run into a
debt that never ought to have been made;
and never would have been made had
Il not been forced upon the people by the
use of arms. And the children who had
nothing to do with bringing it about
reaped none of its blessings, if it ever
produced any, ought not to be required
tD pay it. Scripture says lowe no man
anything;" and no where does it say the
debts of the parent shall be saddled upon
Ia child. 1t is a cruel thing to do this.
1t results in taxing the many for the ben
cit of the few. And when the people
submit to this wrong and propose to pay
as much as they are able, it becomes a
crime to increase their burden by Great
ing numerous unheard of officers and in
creasing their salaries to four and even
twenty times that which poor man can
make and is required to keep and edll-
cate his family upon.
Year: 1878

The frequent mysterious burning of
haystacks and farmers buildings has led
10 the discovery that they are set on fire
by wasps' nests, and that he nests are ig-
nited by spontaneous combustion. This
is produced by the chemical action of the
wax in contact with the paper-like sub
stance Of which the nest is composed, a
comparatively small access of oxygen be-
ing sufficient to make it burst forth in q
blaze.
Year: 1878

9 few inches long was cut, by his bullet,
from one of the wings, and now finds
that this feather fits q notch in the
birds wing. He found bullet in the
birds breast, entirely surrounded by
good sound flesh; also several buckshot,
one of which had almost penetrated the
brain. He will have her carefully
mounted and on exhibition a. soon as
practicable.
Year: 1878

have been seriously jeopardized, and a
feeling of insecurity is the result Of
recent events, which, in the opinion of
the meeting, have been mainly caused
by policy of undue leniency toward
the Chinese lower classes. III
iu Other resolutions, in general way,
favor a return to flogging and other
severe punishment of criminals prac,
ticed under former administrations,
and the appointment of a commission
by the home government to inquire into
the administration Of the government
of the colony, especially regarding the
application of criminal laws.


The chairman was instructed to for
ward the resolutions to the colonial
secretary for transmission to the secre-
tary of state for the colonies.


A gale on the coast occasioned many
miner disasters to shipping.
Year: 1878

JOE JOHNSTON was chewing the olive
branch yesterday. His statement that
the south is closely knit to the interests
of the entire country, must be received
with some degree of allowance. 1t is
hard to believe this in face of the fact
that the southerners are even now busy
counting out republicans who were hon
estly elected.
Year: 1878

THE German emperor expresses the
hope that he will soon assume the reins
of government. So he said in answer
to an address from the town council
of Weisbaden. He also trusted that
repressive measures to extirpate social
ism would be adopted by all the coun-
tries of Europe.
Year: 1878

THAT sudden stopping of work in the
consolidated Virginia mine, Nevada,
is already suspected as scheme for
bearing the stock market. Consider
able stock has already changed hands
since the announcement was made.
Year: 1878

INTERESTING news is received from
China and Japan. The associated press
was burdened last night with California
land decisions and the trans Pacific
mail, and between the two we preferred
the latter.
Year: 1878

The Boston Post has this little
story about how a Cincinnati mer-
chant found wife in Maine: GA
girl in Biddeford, Mains, has got a
husband by means of her graduation
essay. It was published in one of
the papers of that city, and an ex-
tract from it, in which the young
lady declared her intention Of earn
ing her own living, was widely
copied and met the eye of a Cincin-
natl merchant, who was so much
taken with it that he sought the
authors name and address. A cor
respondence ensued, and the young
lady was persuaded to abandon the
determination announced in her
essay"
Year: 1878

Twenty Thousand People
old and young. every week. It is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class OF
community.


We desire our business men to make note
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
tiSing for many good people seeing an ad-
vertissment in a paper. especially their
church paper. take 1t as guarantee Of re-
sPOnsibility. Such confidence should not t.
abused when it can be helped. We want,
therefore,
Year: 1878

The Social Tendencies of the TtnG


DemOraIizinR and Dangerous.


Mr.. Beecher had something further to
say On the labor question Sunday. Crowd.
| of men," said he, may be seen sitting in our
public parks as thick as flies around a mo-
lasses hogshead on Boston wharf, but any
attempt 10 relieve their condition by sys-
TEN Of direct charity is a real injury to
them, and not help. They suffer, OF course
they 60, and suffering is good for them.
Let their bellies 60 hungry. 1t will do
them good. A little starvation is a means
of grace now and then. Laughter II
YOU allow them still TO sit there idle and
feed them, you continue their present condi-
ton. Ii is said that they must not be al
lowed to starve to death. Well, as they
are, they don't grow better, and they do
grow worse, and they may as well go into
the other world, where they may do better
than they do in this The Social tenden-
ciss Of our times as demoralizing and
dangerous, and to no class 20
much as 10 those tn t advocate
them. All dangerous theories fall with
their worst effect upon the poor and the ig-
norant Ii Is true that there are many
wrong.-very many unjust hardships-on
the part Of the workmen. The real rene
dy tor the evils which are felt by the work
ingmen is for the laboring man to develop
his manhood Self-indulgence in the cor
ner groy sop and grumbling abou; oppres-
sion will not help men, and men that can
not take care of themselves in the great
battle Of life cannot he taken care of. Gov
ernment and society cannot do for the in.
dividual that which the law of God has
enjoined upon him-the care OF himself.
The moment you takeoff individual reSponsi-
biIity that moment you demoralize the
community Men are very fond Of being
sovereigns, and it is all we'll when it comes
to voting, but the moment you tell them 10
take care of themselves then they squeal.
They don't want TO be soverigns. Then
they want 10 be taken care of.
Year: 1878

BOARD OF EDUCATION.
The Regular Monthly Session Las.
Night and What was Done


Thereat.
Which Wasn't Much, as Most OF the
Time was Spent in the Trans
action of Routine Business.
Prof. Grant Makes Some Sugges-
tions in Regard to the High


School.
Year: 1878

Great Success "a Experiments Thus
Far Made-An apparatus subject tn
li,e Will Of sh Conductor, Rising or
Falling, or Cling with or Against
al,e Wind as fiesIred-lnfaucy of a
New Epoch in travel.
Year: 1878

Ten or twelve years from now
we shall rouse ourselves up in this
county and wonder that we ever
had such an imbecile population as
afi1icts US now. The two elements
of squashes and beets should, of
themselves, properly handled, be a
sufficient guarantee of our wealth.
1t is told us for fact that the yield
of beets to the acre in Green Mead
ows and many other sections of
Los Angeles county, is from sew.
enty to eighty tons. Think of
that, men and brethren, and vet
to-day we haven't o single beet
sugar mandatory in this whole
section. Some day or other we
shall learn how TO do things; and,
when we do, we shall all be rich.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Alvord reported yesterday in the
Assembly new apportionment bill, the
details of which may be found in our Albany
twenty-three members Of Assembly instead
of its present twenty-one, aud Kings county
twelve instead of its present nine. This is
less than these two great democratic counties
think they may justly claim; but they have
no reason to expect justice from Mr.. Alvord
and his coadjutors. These gentlemen would
prefer to have their bill fail, if they can
plausibly throw the blame on the Governor.
Their only study is to give the democratic
counties as little as they can without such
fragrant and outrageous unfairness rs would
react against them in the next election.
They would rather have this bill, or any
possible bill. vetoed by the Governor than
signed by him, provided it did not give him
IN opportunity to make too much party
capital by the statement Of his objections.
No bill is better for the republicans than
any bill which even Mr.. Alvord would have
the face to propose, and it may be thought
q skilful man9uvre to pass one which is
just unfair enough to provoke a veto, and
yet not SO fagrantly unfair as to render
its exposure in the veto very dam
aging in the elections. The tempta-
tion to juggle and gerrymander happens to
be this year very strong. The next Legis-
lature is to choose Senator Of the United
States, and if the republicans can elect
majority of the next Assembly they will
carry off that great prize. The success of
any apportionment bill would impair their
chances, since it would certainly increase
the number of democratic Assemblymen.
1t will be for Governor Robinson to decide,
if Mr.. Alvord's bill passes both houses,
whether it is not better for the democratic
party to take what it can get rather than go
into this years election on the old Appor-
tionment act based on the census of 1865.
Year: 1878

Dispatches from Havana this morning an
nounce the surrender Of the insurgents in
the neighborhood of the Trocha, and also
OF those in the Central Department of the
island. There can be little doubt that
the wornout revolutionists have resolved to
accept the terms offered them, and that in q
very short time the supremacy of Spain
will be everywhere acknowledged. The
result does not, Of course, satisfy the ir-
reconcilable party, who object to any COM
promise which did not include absolute
independence; but as this party conducted,
for the most part, its operations from the
safe shelter of neutral territory, their
opinions will not have much weight with
those who had to stand the brunt Of the
contest in the field. II, as it is asserted,
Spain has resolved to give Cuba repre-
sentation in the Cortes and to concede other
important advantages, the long war will not
have been fought in vain, and it is by no
means certain that the future Of the island
will not be as bright as if the revolutionists
had succeeded in obtaining total separa-
non.
Year: 1878

Our correspondent, who accompanies ex-
President Grant on his Eastern tour,
graphically describes on another page, this
leading on the waters of the most famous
river of all history. The Khedive, it will
be seen, is a thoughtful host, and has given
our distinguished traveller steamer
specially adapted to the intricate and diff
cult navigation, also guides, interpreters
and professors learned in the mysterious
language of the monuments and ruins which
tell Of civilization that was old thousand
years before the dawn OF the Western Roman
Empire. According to our correspondent
the ex-President brings to his trip the
kecnest enjoyment. He has not forgotten his
old habits of military precision, and when
ever there is anything to be done he is i'm
patient until it is accomplished. When
ruin is to be explored he is the first on
deck in the morning and if the members
OF his party are not NIL ready at the ap-
pointed hour he is away, leaving them, as
in the campaigns Of the great war; to bring
up the rear. Home and friends, we are
told, are never quite out of his mind, and
the pauses Of travel through the lotus
land are filed with anecdotes Of his gen.
erals--how Sherman fought and Sheridan
charged and Mcpherson fell. Occasionally
the tangled skein of his administrations are
taken up and knotty points unravelled. The
absence OF news from home seems to be the
only draw back to his journey, and copy
OF this mornings HERALD would be more ac-
ceptable to him than half the monuments
of the Pharaohs. And yet how little he has
missed since he passed into the night ofthe
Nile! Only the never ending Louisiana
business and the dreary silver debate and
the old wrangle about civil service reform.
The news he sends to us is much more in
teresting than that we could send to him.
Even in this the star of his good fortune
follows him to the East.
Year: 1878

place and no longer The cleaning of New
York must be done as purely business
operation and in such a thorough manner rs
to justify liberal expenditures. We want
the Mayor to treat the matter with the same
deliberation and method as if he was
about to build private house. He should
collect his material, contractors, laborers,
machinery and other requirements for the
work, and at the public cost perform it
steadily and efficiently. The politicians
may howl and the bureau builders may
groan, but by such simple plan the work
can be done, the people satisfied and New
York made clean.
Year: 1878

We print in our Washington intelligence
the text of the Postal Savings bill prepared
by Mr.. Phillips, Of Kansas, and approved
Banking and Currency 1t is believed by
sanguine friends that this bill will pass the
House by nearly unanimous vote. 1t
makes every money order post Office deposit
tory for money in sums as small as twenty
five CENTS the depositor to receive passbook
like those given by savings banks. When
the deposits by one person amount to ten
dollars or any multiple of ten dollars he is
entitled to receive bond for that amount
to be entered in his passbook as debit to
Offset the same amount of credits. These
bonds are to range from ten dollars to one
hundred dollars in even multiples of ten
up to fifty. The rate Of interest is to be
65-100 per cent, that particular rate being
adopted for convenience of calculation,
since the interest on a one hundred dollar
bond will be exactly one cent per day.
These bonds are to be exchangeable at the
cent bonds of the government but in this
form the government is to take no
special superintendent Of them. But
the holders of the 3 65-100 bonds
and of passbooks in which sums are
entered can draw money from the Post
Office very much as deposltors do from saw
ings banks. or course the sums which are
merely entered in the passbooks will bear
no interest. A special form of legal tender
Treasury notes is to be issued tor redeeming
the new bonds at the money order post
offices.


This bill may be found on examination to
be susceptible of useful amendments; but
whether amended or unamended we ear
nestly hope it may become a law. If the sys-
tenn of postal savings is once adopted it will
be so popular and benefcent that it will
never be abandoned and all needful amend
necessity for them should become ap-
parent. If this bill becomes law it will
prove to be the wisest and most salutary
act which Congress has passed in long Pc
riod. It will encourage habits Of saving
everywhere and create them in large dis
trlcts Wnere savings panKS 40 not eXlst.
The absolute safety of the deposits will re-
lieve the laboring classes of all anxiety
respecting their money, and the perfect
sense Of security will cultivate more and
more the disposition to save. We hope no
captious objections may be made to this
useful bill, and that it may be allowed to
have fair trial. Such defects as may be
disclosed by experience will be easily reme-
died.
Year: 1878

The OPINION is unanimous that ex-Surgeon
General Hammond was unjustly treated during
the war; that his removal from office was one of
those arbitrary acts in which that period of our
history was unfortunately only too fruitful.
Tardy justice has, however, been done him by
the Senate in restoring his name to the army
register and in removing the disqualification
from holding office under the government, which
was all that he asked in his request to reopen
his case. The House will undoubtedly confirm
the action of the other branch of Congress.
Year: 1878

The WEATHER.-The movement of the high
preston now extending through the Mississippi
Valley was very rapid. Attention was called in
yesterdays HERALD to the rising pressure in the
north. During the forenoon the barometer rose
Ill over the regions east of the Mississippi, and
very high pressure developed over the St.
Lawrence Valley and the New England States
Toward night, however. this area moved east-
ward, and the depression then in the Missouri
Valley began to become an organized storm,
with very high winds and light rain on the
northwestern margin. A sub-area of low pres
Sure from the southwest united with that of the
porthcrn district, both forming the storm centre.
The conditions are high pressure on the coast,
with clear weather and low barometer in the in
terror, with general cloudiness and rains extend
Ing from Manitoba to the Gulf of Mexico Be
yond the depression in the Rocky Mountains
the barometer is rising and is high OH the Pacific
coast. The winds are chiefly from the southeast
and east to the Mississippi Valley, and are north
erly aud northwesterIy between that region and
tho Rocky Mountains. They are variable over
Northern New England and New Brunswick. The
temperature has fallen in the northern but is
higher in the southern sections. The weather in
New York and its vicinity to-day will be warm
and fair, followed by increasing cloudiness,
strong easterly winds and light rain. To-mor-
row it promises to be warm and cloudy, with
rain and strong easterly and vcering winds, dan
gerous to coasting vessels.
Year: 1878




The friends of Mr. Jefferson Davis have
always denied the truth of the story that
when he was captured he wore certain por-
tions of Mrs. Davis attire which were un-
becoming to his manly beauty and fallen
greatness. It was at the time, in the words
of Southern journalists pronounced base
SANDER and o partisan falsehood, set afoat
for the purpose of bringing ridicule upon
the Confederate chieftain and the cause he
represented. Southern pride was cut to
the quick by the cartoons and pictures Of
the end of the rebellion representing its
civil head arrayed in an expansive crino-
line, an old-fashioned sun bonnet and q
well-worn waterproof cloak, with o water
pail in his hand instead of the trident Of
power. The picture, whether true or false,
was oomical one, and at the end Of the
long war, so full of sorrow and suffering
and tears, sent shout of hearty laughter
all through the. victorious North Mr..
Davis was silent on the subject; indeed,
he had other things to trouble him at the
time, and SO it passed into history. But at
last, at the end Of thirteen years, he rises
to contradict it and give his account of
this interesting episode in his life for the
paper, elsewhere printed, of his private
secretary at the time, Major Walthall, is
understood to have received the stamp of
his approval as the correct account of the
affair. In this document Mr.. Davis dis
cards the crinoline and the bonnet and the
pail and leaves only the cloak. Not only
that-the leader of the Confederacy be-
comes quite hero, and would have un-
horsed the Dragons who captured him and
escaped into Texas or somewhere else to
continue the struggle for liberty if it had
not been for the inopportune interference
of Mrs. Davis, whose womanly devotion
prevented her husband from carrying out
his bold and daring design. As historical
picture this is much more imposing than
the one that has been painted on our men,
cries, and since Mr.. Davis himself is the
author, is, of course, much more satisfac-
tory to him. But what is to become of the
other one2 Mr.. Davis can hardly steal it
away and hang his own in our national
gallery without, we suspect, q pretty lively
protest and controversy.
Year: 1878

quiry by the proper authorities, the charges
should unfortunately be sustained, then we
hope the most stringent measures will be
taken. We do not at all pretend that such
case can be tried in the columns Of this
or any other newspaper. but that is some
thing apart from the sense Of public duty
which leads US to print such charges which
profess to be capable Of unquestionable
Year: 1878

The LATE MORMON PROPHET, BRIGHAM
YOUNG, is thrown completely in the shade by o
citizen Of Pittsylvania county, Va, who at the
venerable age of ninety-six rejoiccs in being the
progenitor of five hundred and fifty persons
The story of his life elsewhere printed is GER
tainly curious one.
Year: 1878

The suit of John Guilty against William
Harrington tried before judge Goepp Marine Court.
yesterday for 5000 alleged have been lent to the
plaintiffs brOther-inlaw. There very contra
dictOry evidence given, the question being evidently
cmbittered by family feeling The jury gave verdict
for the plaintiff and Judge Goepp at once committed he
defendant for perjury. The defendant went TO the Dis
tTict-AttOrney's Office and gave bail
Year: 1878

The Senate will occupy this week IN
discussing and disposing of the Bland sill
yer bill. Several amendments have been
offered in committee to the House bill.
and individual senators have sill other
amendments to be disposed of. Mr.,
Blaine's bill was not referred to the RI
nance Committee, but lies upon the table
at his request, and will be submitted by
him as an amendment to the pending bill
and be supported by an extended speech
on the financial question.
Year: 1878

The war of bullets between Russia and
Turkey has ceased, and now begins the
contest of words and wits over the condl-
tons of established peace, in which all
Europe will be Interested. Turkey is so
completely prostrated by the defeat she
has suffered that of herself she can make
no effectual resistance to whatever terms
Russia may exact, but Austria and En-
gland will not witness the sacrifice OF
their interests without resistance. The
struggle among the diplomats will be
sharp. but the chances are that it will end
without further bloodshed.
Year: 1878

The democratic House at Washington
has a case to investigate not contemplat-
ed in the projected food of the investi-
cations. Door-keeper Polk is likely to
give them as much trouble this session as
the doorkeeper of the last session did.
Year: 1878

The democratic papers are beginning to
realize that the democratic majority in the
Federal House of Representatives cannot
be depended upon so long as the whisky
shop in the Capitol is kept running. The
Cincinnati Enquirer with good reason,
demands the suppression of the place,
and hopes that the members will attend q
little more to their business. If the dem.
ocralic member must have whisky per.
haps it would be some advantage to the
party il he should carry bottle; this
would enable him to take nip without
leaving his seat, for ii always happens
that when a lot of them 90 out for drink
the republican minority rise up and carry
some pet thing through. PhiialelphiC
Times.
Year: 1878

How this may be readily made. without
the use OF a mechanic, is told in this wise by
the Formers Friend:


dig Il narrow pit, from twelve to eigh-
teen inches deep, throwing the earth all out
on one side. From near the bottom OF this
pit olga trench Of sufficient length to hold
one or'two joints ofystoyepipe, ut such an
angle as viii bring the end away from the pit
to tile surface of the ground. Over the end
Of the pipe set a common flour barrel or
large cask, as may be needed, and, having
removed both heads, bank up around it with
loose earth. so that no smoke can escape at
the bottom. Hang the hams, etc, in il, MS
ing some round sticks to run through the
strings. Putting q cover on, the sticks will
leave space enough for draft TO let the smoke
pass freely. Build a smoke ii e of corn cobs
damp hard wood or sawdust in the pit, and
You will have Il cheap, safe and elicient1
smoke house with very little trouble