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Year: 1877

Washington Correspondence Chicago Inter-Ocean.l


President Hayes's horses are criticised
more than they otherwise would have
been had not President Grant been so
fastidious in the choice of his equipages.
No person ever had in Washington a
handsomer turnout than General Grant
used to drive. He had a pair of horses
which went before his carriage that could
not be surpassed in this or any other
country. They cost $4,000, and were
selected by the owner himself, who has
as good an eye for the fine points of an
animal as any jockey that ever handled
a whip. When he left the White House,
President Grant sent them as a present
to George w. Childs, of Philadelphia,
and they are now pointed out as the
finest team in the State.


But President Hayes has introduced
into their stalls pair of horses that
look as if they came from country
livery stable, as they did. Mr.. Rogers,
the Presidents private Secretary, paid
$500 for them in Alexandria. Mr.. Rogers
is an excellent man; hestudied theology,
and he has studied law; he knows about
all that need to be known of philosophy
and art; he can see the fine points in a
legal argument or a doctrinal sermon,
and can write letter as politely as a
letter can be written, but he has one i'm
portant weakness, and that is his ignor-
ance of horsefesh. He ought never to
have been trusted to buy team for the
President of the United States. The
horses are lily matched and clumsy.
They trot each on his own hook, without
regard to the other. They both have been
accustomed to be hitched on the nigh
side, and every horseman knows that to
hitch two nigh horses together will spoil
a team.


One of them is dark mottled chest.
nut, with white foot, the other is a
bright bay with white nose. Any one
can see in moment that those two horses
ought never to be harnessed together any
more than a blue bonnet ought to bt
worn with green dress. Besides, they
are lazy, and don't lift their feet the way
the horses that draw President ought to
Year: 1877

lScranton Letter to New York Herald


The destitution of the most of these


miners is appalling, and to walk into


their little cottages and huts and witness


the sights there to be seen is fearful.


Whole families would have nothing to
eat; but for the charitable and their
relief store just started, many would
die of starvation. 1t might be supposed,
and reasonably so, that the quarter of
a loaf provided for them by the COM
panies, if they would work, would be
better than no bread, and l so suggested.
One of the men Immediately replied,
and give his words, nearly verbatim /:


If the work that we are called upon
to do was anything but what it is we
would accept the little offered to us as
better than nothing and continue our
labors. But remember that we are
called upon to do dangerous work, and
none of of us know when we 90 down a
shaft whether we shall ever come out of
it.ahve again or not. Many and many a
man is brought up dead, killed by a
dropping rock or suffocated by the gas
To keep man cool and careful in such
work he should have at least full
stomach, but when little mush is all
he can get for his breakfast and few
old potatoes for his dinner, l tell you,
sir, man loses his head, and either be-
comes careless and is killed, or cannot
resist the gas and is suffocated, or so
inhales it that it tells upon his weak
system, and he is good for nothing for
many week afterward. l cannot keep
family and feed myself upon five dol
lars week. No man can. And when
1 am down in that mine and these
thoughts come into my head 1 tell you a
man gets wild, and he would prefer to
live above on the earth and starve to
running the dangers of that mine.
Thank God, when we are above ground
there is no roof to fall in and crush us;
no foul gas to suffocate us or render us
useless for work; no danger of tapping
vein of water and being drowned as
we crouch in our chamber! We would
have left work in March, but the cold
weather was yet with us, and provisions
were high. To-day we can get potatoes
from the farmers and live on them till
some aid reaches u.s."


"But what is the object of the strike,
and what is your idea ofwhat you should
receiver l asked.


"We sent a committee before the
company" was the reply, "and alive
asked was an advance of twenty-five per
cent. on our present wages. We asked
not for full time, and are willing to take
our chances alike with the other men in
getting work; but We did ask that we
should get some sort of decent remu-
neration for the dangerous work we are
called upon to do"


1 have given above, without embellish-
ments, the statements of the men. 1
found them quiet, orderly and civil
They deprecated any violence, were
strongly opposed to marching or gather
ings, and denounced the action of the
roughs from the outlying districts who
fought with the vigilants in the streets
of Scranton. The miners of Hyde Park
are the best in the country. Many of
them have little homes of their own,
built upon the lands of the company;
but such are to-day as hard up as any of
the others, for they cannot sell their
properties, or even raise money on them
during these times.
Year: 1877

A few nights since, when the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas train arrived at the
Garrison House at Sedalia, Mo-, and
came to astandstill, man crawled from
under one of the coaches, where he had
been stealing a ride on the brake-bar.
He gave his name as Sam King, and said
he had ridden all the way from Parsons,
Kansas, in that position. He said he had
gone to Texas from Illinois about four
months ago, taking with him about five
hundred dollars, and expected to go into
business at Waco. But on the road
down he was set upon by three tramps,
who knocked him down and took all the
money he had, leaving him, as they sup
posed, in dying condition by the road
side. He recovered sufficiently to crawl
to farmhouse near by, where he laid
for about month, oblivious to all that
was going on around him. When he re-
covered his strength he worked on the
farm few weeks for his board, and
then hearing that his wife was in dy-
ing condition at home, he took all his
worldly possessions and started to go to
her. He arrived safely at Parsons, Kan
sas, and when the passenger train came
along he watched his opportunity to get
under the coach and ride to Sedalia.
Just as soon as he could conveniently, he
crawled under one of the Pacific coaches,
which was standing on the main track,
and took his seat on the brake-bar, in
tending to ride to st. Louis. He said he
never felt the slightest fear while riding
in his perilous position whatever. The
last seen of him he was riding on the
brake-bar as unconcerned as you please,
and seemed to enjoy himself very well
on his uncomfortable seat.
Year: 1877

WHEN the German Governmentsowed
that Cologne farm ten inches deep in tan
bark, saturated it with kerosene and fired
it, the officials supposed it would crisp
the Colorado beetle; but the second day
they were shocked to see him crawl out
of the fire, climb up on the fence, wipe
the beaded perspiration from his brow,
and remark to the nearest official:
"Purty hot for comfort, stranger, but it
is the boss weather for corn"
Year: 1877

just after the strike, when Solos
mon closed the discussion by telling
the sluggard to 20 to the ant, the
sluggard replied, with a knowing
wink, that he had a much softer thing
than that. Gas how?" inquired the
proverbial monarch. "I will start a
savings bank" ," replied the man of
inertia. The monarch nodded slowly
twice or thrice, and went away to get
shaved. The next time he met the
sllggard, that deliberate individual
was riding in gold mounted carriage,
with coachman and footman in livery,
and, in reply to the monarch's nod,
he just pulled up to say that he was
going over to Europe for q little while,
till the furry blew over. And Solo
mon went back into his sanctum and
wrote; Better is a handful of quiet
ness than bank book as big as Biz
BILE -with travail and vexation Of spir-
il"
Year: 1877

of him under the provisions of the
9th section of this act, shall be guilty
of q misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than
twenty nor more than one hundred
dollars, one>third to go to the inform
er, for which such dealer and his
sureties shall be liable On his bond,
which may be collected by summary
process, by motion, on ten days mo-
tice, in the name of the Common.
wealth. and upon conviction for a
second violation of the provisions of
said section he shall forfeit his license,
which shall not be renewed for one
year. Any person prosecuted for
violation of the provisions of the
fifth section of this act shall be ais
lowed to testify in his own behalf.


ONE BAR~KEEPER REPORTED.


Yesterday Mr.. H. Westerhoff, the
proprietor of the bar-room and res
taurant on Main street, between
Twelfth and Thirteenth, was reported
to Commissioner of the Revenue r.
b. Munford for failing to turn the
crank as required by law, Mr.. Mum
fcrd declined to give the name of the
infOrmer, and stated that it would be
his duty to report Mr.. Westerhoff to
the Commonwealth's attorney, who,
in his turn, will have to bring the
case before the grand jury.


Last night the bar-keepers were
all busy, and the punch bell was
ringing merrily The principal bar.
rooms on Main street and those OH
Broad had their registers working
we'll. The work of putting the punch
up is necessarily slow, and therefore
the retail groceIs will probably not be
reached to-day.


At some of the bar-rooms last
night the figures on the dials of the
register were far mp in the hundreds.
Year: 1877

In according to woman the palm of
lOveliness, the lords of creation think
they have done the whole duty of man
by her, and that they have nothing to
complain of if they deny her the mental
ca pucity to which they lay claim them
selves. They will tell you that Mary
SOmerville among the scientific, Rosa
Bonheur among artists, the host of
prime dome among musicians, George
Eliot" among novelists, are only excep-
tions to the rule, and prove nothing in
favor of the sex. Hamerton has the
further audacity to assure us that
women who are not impelled to study
by some masculine mind are not supe-
rior at the age of fifty to what they
were at twenty-five, entirely overlook
ing, it seems to US, the knowledge
which comes to every woman through
experience and the hard friction of life,
as well as the maturing and developing
of her intellect by the lessons of every
day, though she may be so unfortunate
as to be quite without the impulse from
the "masculine mind" Is not every
one among us required daily to use her
Judgment? and does not judgment in
crease with use as well as muscle? and
is it not conceded tn be one of the su-
preme faculties of the mind? 1t is only
those women who have been in the
habit of leaving every question to the
decision of some male dictator who are
weak in this respect, and throw dis.
credit upon their sex.


"If we meet no gods" says the sage
''it is because we harbOr none;" aud we
should fear that those who speak with
disrespect of the feminine intellect
have simply been unfortunate in theil
associates, whether accidental or Sc.
lected.


''For your handful of female astrono.
mers, artists, poets, and the like" the
male objectOr may say, 1--WE can count
our tens of thousands" without remem.
bering the centuries during which hi:
sex had the start of ours, when letter:
were prohibited to women, and they
were allowed only to think sucf
thoughts as their rulers chose for them
1t does not at all follow because you arr
acquainted with all the dead and living
| languages, with all the literatures o
the world and the sciences thereof, tina
| the original powers of your mind ART
greater than yOnder plOwman's, bu
only that such as fell to your shart
have been fostered and encouraged be
yond his. Considering that we havt
been thus distanced in the matter o
artificial development, it is surely {
great argument in our favor if even ont
among us, labOring under such disad


vantage, has gained an acknowledge
equality with the ablest of the ''supe


rior" sex. 1t is certainly a modest con
ceit on the part of man that he shoulC
possess the lions share of mind ant


muscle both, one of which we SHOULD


hesitate to deprive him if it did not i'm


pugn the justice of our Creator, as wei


as His wisdom.
Year: 1877

The popular consciousness has been
profoundly aud tenderly impressed by
the fearful destruction of life in the
Brooklyn disaster. 1t is entirely honor
able to our nature and our civilization
that human sensibilities should be
wrung by such disasters. The feeling
is no less intense than when the effects
of a holocaust like that would have
been considered chiefly in respect to the
destiny of the dead. Life itself is q
thing too valuable not to be protected
against such hazards; and affection too
sacred not to be saved from the shock OF
the sudden bereavement that now ehills
so many hearts. Let us hope that in
the quickening of human sympathy
consequent upon this fearful calamity,
there may be a permanent addition tc
the forces of tenderness and humanity
in the popular heart.-Ne1O Age.
Year: 1877

Phe young woman who was chosen
one of the class-day officers at Middle
town University has been compelled to
resign, owing to the clamor raised by
some of the class, and there will be
new election of elass-officers. The con-
duct of minority of the students who
took part in these proceedings was un-
manly and unworthy of the institution.
We hope that the faculty will express
its disapproval.
Year: 1877

BAD TENPER.-There are few things
more productive of evil in domestic life
than a bad temper. 1t does not matter
what form that temper may assume,
whether it is of sulky kind that main
tains perfect silence for many days, or
the madIy passionate. which vents itself
in observation-disclosures. III temper at any
age is bad thing; it never does any
body any good, and those who indulge
in it feel no better for it. After the
passion has passed away, one sees that
he has been very foolish, and knows
that others see it, too. Bad temper in
the aged is, perhaps, the most trying of
all; it is indeed a pitiable sight to see
the wrinkled cheek of an old person
afiame with the fires of anger and pas
sion. Since anger is useless, and an un-
speakable misery to its victims, why
should it be INDUCED in at all?
Year: 1877

The question which now absorbs the
larger half of Philadelphia is what to do
with the immense amount of cotton
batting with which their Centennial
bedding was made. The hotels and the
bedsteads can be sold for kindling wood,
but the batting is puzzle.
Year: 1877

notice., Philip Tobin, do hereby give
notice that shall apply to the Judges Of
the Court of General Sessions of the Peace
and Jail Delivery Of the State CT Delaware
in and for the county of New Castle, on
Monday,,the Sth day OF May next being the
first day of the May Term, A. D. 1877, for
license to keep an Inn or Tavern, at No.
sol Orange street, the Third Ward, in the
city of wilmington and county aforesaid, to
sell intoxicating !liquor in less Quantities
than one quart, TO be drunk on the premises
and the following respectable citizens Of
the ward recommend the said application
Year: 1877

Our distinguished Governor 70.
tires from Office this week, the
most popular Executive that ever
occupied that position. His sue
SCISSOR, Gov. Phelps, will go into Oh
dce with the good opinion of an
immense majority Of the people of
Missouri, and that he will
fuly and honestly discharge his du-
ma is past life is guarantee.
Year: 1877

The Delaware Institute met to consider
the proposed exhibition Of Industrial Arte.


The Committee on Location reported .
proposition from the directors Of the VIII
mington Institute Hall In. regard to the
lease of their hall for the proposed exhibj.
ton Their proposition was considered
exorbitant, and was rejected. The COM
mittee was continued and authorized to
confer with the Directors of the Institute
to ascertain If they would make any coz
cession In the matter and report further.


The enterprise meets with hearty sp-
proval from many who are ready and wills
ing TO help 1t along by active effort.


Tho only drawback to the complete sue
cess Of the affair 10 the want Of proper
place to hold it in, which Wilmington needs
much.


The meeting adjourned TO meet next
Saturday evening, a. which time probably
some fnsl action will he taken.
Year: 1877

An HONEST WoMAS.-A portly old
lady recently surprised the Custom Off
Ger at Paris. Ontario, by presenting her
self and insisting on paying the duty on
a number Of spoons, she stated she
smugkled into this country some twenty
years ago. There was no mistake about
1t. Those silver spoons had troubled her
dreams from that day to this, and lately,
having got religion and joined the
church, she felt she could not have their
weight on her conscience any longer.
She must pay up. The astonished col
lector at last fixed the tariff Of charges
to her satisfaction, and she went forth
with a light heart and free.
Year: 1877

The opponents of the Silver Bill now
report that the President will veto 1t II
it is not passed in conformity with the
wishes of the foreign bondholders. This
is all fslly. He will not veto it; if he
does, House will be elected to the next
Congress that will pass it over his head
Silver will not be allowed to remain de-
monetized in this country if the people
are allowedIto vote upon it. If it is good
enough to pay wages with it is good
enough to pay bonds with. We want no
money for the poor that the rich may re-
fuse-no money for the farmer and me-
chanic that will not be takeh by any
body. Such class legislation may do
for Germany ifthe Germans submitto 1t;
but it is not such as the the free voters
of the United States deserie. r.
Year: 1877

Notice is hereby given that the following applications to occupied village lanus have been granted and Deeds for the same ready for delivery at my office. upon pay ment of the respective amounts as herein appear, with twenty per cent added thereto. tO. wit.
Year: 1877

The Carrolton (Mo.) Democrat, a
lively and somewhat spicy paper, vol
untecrs the following advice, which it
would be well were it taken here:


Don't carry your hymn book in
your hand when you go to the house
of worship and your ledger in your
head. The Lord can see through
your skull.


Don't, when in church, chew tobac-
co and spit all over the floor. You
would not do 50 in your own house,
and you ought not to do so in the
house you respect more.


Don't think when you have gone
to church on Sunday that entities you
to do as YOU please the rest Of the
week. The upright man lives
through the six days as he does the
seventh.


Don't walk into the house of wOr-
ship with your hat on. You bare
your head when you enter young
ladies parlor. Is your young friend
entitled to more respect than your
Creator?


Don't think your Creator is under
any obligation-to you for the quarter
YOU gave for converting the heathen ;
that is only a small fraction you owe
for turning your own ancestors away
from their wooden gods.


We don't say that those boys, who,
on Sunday evening last, in the vesti-
bale of the NJ. L. Church, South,
were trying to stand each other on
the head, ought TO have their necks
broken, but we do say that their par
ents should hold such muscular ar
gument with them that the young
rascals would regard it luxury to
take their meals standing for week
or 50.
Year: 1877

Bring yourself and all your boys
and buy Jeans cheap of Us to make
winter clothes. Our tailor cuts Coats
Pants and Vests for entire families
free of charge when they buy goods
of us at The Emporium.
Year: 1877

1t has been conceded that we carry
the best line Of Custom-made Shoes to
be found anywhere for ladies' Misses
and children. They are neat fitting
and are warranted good. A fine lot
constantly on hand at


The Emporium.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, ID. g., June 22.-It is
thought that at least week will elspse
before the civil service reform rules will
be ready for PRONUNCIATION. From pri-
vste uttersnces of the President, it is in.
ferred that all Federal officers will be
prohibited from taking active part IN po.
litical manifestations, becoming members
of political conventions, or serving as
members of political committee. The
President, IN conversation on the subject,
said that while the enforcement Of such
a rule might and probably would work
some injury to the Republican party Tor
little whtle TO come, it was sound in
principle and he would insist upon its be-
ing strictly observed, and in the end he
thought the Republican party would be
benefited by it. 1t was brought to the
Presidents attention yesterday that in
the large Atlantic cities like Boston, New
York aud Baltimore, the manipulation
OF the Republican primary elec-
tions had for years been mainly
directed by the custom house
ard other federal officials. The Prcsi-
deLt said he was pretty well cognizant
of all these facts, and that the time had
come when there must be a change. He
had no objection to any of the federal
officials who thought that patriotism and
duty to The party demanded that they
should mana e the primary meetings
and conventions resigning their offices,
but they must either give up one or the
other,
Year: 1877

The telegraph brought yesterday
mornings papers the sickening details of
The hanging of eleven murderers at Potts
vile, Mauch Chunk and Wilksbsrre,
Pennsylvania. On these occasions was
again repeated the terrible blasphemy of
gsllows tree repentance, which we
have on the occasion Of almost every
execution. On last week We had
the spectacle OF three negroes, all proven
guilty of murder in cold blood, pro-
fessing CHEI-T and his saving grace from
q scsffold 10 Louisiaua; and now we
have eleven brutal Molly Msguires,
whose sins are of the deepest and most
dsmnng type, affecting the belief that
they are seeing directly trom the scatfold
into ABRAHAM's bosom. So common
has this species of shocking hypocrScy
become that the doctrine that
the red-LaLded assassin can 60
straight to the Cnristisn's heaven by
suddenly protesting belief Ill what is
termed 1.-The scheme of salvation" and de-
voting few of his last hours or days to
mumbling prayers, is becoming popular
belief, and thus the penalty for murder
is robbed of half its terror. There is 81
ways chance that the murderer
will not be caught; there is al
ways chance that il caught he
will not be convicted; and there Is al
ways a chance that even if caught and
convicted, he will not be hanged. Now
BY adding TO these chances the comforta-
bic and comforting assurance that the
murderer, il he will avail himself OF the
offices OF the church, can receive pass
port TO Paradise, we remove the
most powerful restraint upon the
blood shedding propensity. The fear
OF hell ls stronger than the
lear OF hemp, and it Is only by combin-
ing the one with the other that we can
hope to check the homicidal tendency.
When the scsfiod is turned into kind
OF spiritual elevator, by which the muir
derer is lifted at once into everlasting
olessedness, high premium is offered
ior murder, and murder must inevitably
increase and multiply. The intelligent
and thoughtful portion Of mankind are
beginning to realize that the only sort OF
religion worth having in this world and
likely to be of benefit in the next, is the
religion of principle, not of passion; the
religion of reason, not of blind faithi the
religion of week days, not OF Sunday ex-
ciusively; the religion which finds its
expression in the conduct, and not
merely in church going; the religion
which is displayed in health, and not
generated by the shadow of DEATH
'ne religion in which belief counts
ior little and behavior counts for
much. II the soul Is immortal it must
carry with it into eternity the essential
features which have distinguished il here;
And those features, if bad. cannot be
changed into good in few hours or
lew days. Religious character is q plant
o' slow growth. 1t cannot shoot up like
'0SAHs gourd by any hot-house pro-
oess' 1t is an oak whose roots stretch
aeep and wide, and whose branches have
oeen nursed by the storm and the sun
snine' The creed which ignores these
fundamental facts Of all morality and all
fs'igisn BY putting faith before practice,
n unworthy the respect of sensible pso.
pie.