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Year: 1877

he scorned the notion that there was any
reason whatever why he should listen to the
advice Of the Powers, but now he requests
them to advise the Czar that he ought to
make peace on terms agreeable to Turkey.
Naturally the Powers are not enthu-
siastic in his cause. From Berlin
he hears that Germany will only act
if Russia makes the same request that
Turkey has made. Vienna will echo
that reply. England. with wonderful con-
sideration, sis most anxious to avoid COM
plications which might lead to unpleasant
ness with Russia, SO that Lord Derby will
write no more dispatches in the vein of his
reply to Prince Gortschakoffs notification
of the declaration of war. In fact, Turkeys
circular will not become the basis of any
diplomatic proceeding. for all the Cabinets
understand that Turkeys separation from
the Powers, brought about through her re-
lection of the advice of the Constantinople
conference. was SO great an advantage to
Russia that the latter will not consent to
treat on any terms that contemplate the Eu-
ropean protectorate of the Sultan as revived
and reconstructed. With that answer made
plain to him the Sultan will appeal directly
to the Car and peace will follow.
Year: 1877

seen in a few individuals it is in the
public schools where the evils of a
bad system of heating and defective
ventilation are seen on grand scale. Every
now and then attention is called to this
subject-the nature of the evil and the
remedy are pointed ont; there are confer
ences of medical men and engineers with
the authorities. 1t is clearly understood
what should be done; nobody does it. In q
few days the topic passes out OF public view
not to be recalled again for month or two,
and all the time, day in and day out, the
operation Of the evil continues, and the
little innocents in the schools are tortured
as if we were practising on grand scale the
attempt to produce human creatures capa-
BILE Of breathing carbonic oxide instead OF
atmospheric air, or as if the problem
were to try how many little collins may be
made necessary by the practice OF passing
children from an Arctic to tropical tempera-
ture about once an hour during the time
school keeps Until some one can show the
educational authorities precisely how each
individual Of their number can make hum
dred thousand dollars by proper warming
and ventilation Of the schools all the evils
will continue. of course that we recognize
and accept as first principle But is it not
possible to have some intelligent supervi-
sion Of even the bad system that exists, so
that caprice or the defective sensations OF
teachers in disordered health shall not take
the place of the thermometer? One shivers
to ai nd
"cannot get warm;" another, nearer a good
standard of health, revolts, opens window
and lets in the wintry air till the tempera-
turo goes down to forty and so they con-
tinue, while the thermometers should
tell the one that the trouble was in
her own sensations and the other that
she was carrying a good remedy to an
extreme and dangerous application. This
is an improvement that will cost little. All
the evils Of school room heating are suscep-
tible Of remedy more or less expensive; but
this remedy is comparatively without cost
and the evil is great. 1t is plain truth that
every school heated with q cast iron furnace
is badly heated; every school room not ven-
tilated from the floor is not ventilated at all,
and every school room in which the ther-
mometer is not watched by the janitor rs
sedulously and constantly as the compass is
watched by the navigator OF a ship, is room
certain to be by turns drying chamber and
an icebox. Children forcibly detained in
such place certain number Of hours every
day necessarily have their health broken
down, and it is only the wonderful elasticity
and adaptability of child life that prevents
their wholesale murder
Year: 1877

in San Francisco and other points are fur
nishing silver dollars at O large discount for
greenbacks, and the result is that every me-
chanic and laborer who has taken his pay
in silver has lost at least five cents on every
dollar of the daddyites. Bankers refuse
to take silver on deposit and return
greenbacks to the depositors. The retail
dealers and workingmen who have
taken them in preference to greenbacks
now find that they have been cheated by
the silver brokers and spectators who are,
of course. in love with scheme which nets
them such handsome profits. The lesson is
q costly one, but they can justly blame no
one except the foolish and incompetent per-
sons they have sent to Washington to legis-
late for them.
Year: 1877

TMI WEATHER.-The phenomena presented
BY the meteorological conditions and changes
yesterday are extremely interesting. At about
midnight Saturday u belt of relatively low
pressure extended from Wyoming Territory to
Lake Superior and thence toward Nova Scotia.
During yesterday morning tho two areas Of
high pressure which lny north and south
Of this low zone closed on each other
along q line which extended with TN
dulations from the Platte Valley into the
Lower Missouri and Upper Mississippi valleys,
lakes Michigan. Huron, Ontario, and through
Northern New England. Relatively low areas
were formed west Of Lake Michigan, where the
margins Of these two high areas did not meet.
The result of this nipping, as 1t were, Of the
volume of warm, rarcfcd and very moist air in
the low zone was to lift it above the surface and
bear il OH the denscr substratum that was formed
beneath it. general condensation Of the
atmospheric moisture then took place and
rain fell over an area OF territory whereon the
barometer recorded from tenth to a twentieth
of an inch above the mean pressure. Fog aud
rain set In northward Of Tennessee from the
Missouri TO the Alicghanics. But from the
westward the main depression referred TO MS
causing rain in the Territories was advancing,
and opening for itself an outlet To the ocean
along the line Of contact between the two high
areas. The pressure gradually decreased ON
that line toward evening, and fell rapidly ON
the New England coast, where higher surface
temperature contributed TO cause IA baromctric
lal. The movement Of the approaching dis
turbancc will be slow, and il is probable will be
attended BY heavy rains gradually extending
eastward. Rains continue on the Pacific coast
and the Southern Territories. The weather IN
New York and It's vicinity to day will be- slightly
cooler and cloudy or partly cloudy. with morn
ing fog and threatening OF rain. On to morrow
it will probably be cloudy and colder, with fog
end rain.
Year: 1877

One OF THE COUNSEL in the Lambert trial has
enriched the financial literature Of the day by n
new and somewhat expressive phrasc-Lambcr-
tine cash-to characterize the bogus checks and
drafts In which the Popular Lfo and other
worthless concerns have been so largely deal
inr
Year: 1877

IL THE SETTLEMENT of millionaire Merritts
estate the Surrogate decides that second cousins
must be excluded. 1t was necessary to draw
the line somewhere, but it is q little hard on the
second cousins
Year: 1877

lF IN THE SUIT brought to test the question it
shall be held that the Fire Commissioners are
personally liable for damages in cases Of acci-
dent to frcmon there will probably be some
vacaCcies on tho Board
Year: 1877

THERE WAS COLLISION on the East River
yesterday between ferryboat and a sailing
vessel. It is not the fault Of the captain Of the
tugboat that large number Of persons were
not drowned
Year: 1877

are universally believed to abbrevi-
ate mans term Of life. From the
age Of twenty till he was seventy
he was an habitual drinker, and for
a long part Of that time such con-
firmed tippler that his health was
seriously affected, and it was be-
lieVed that he could not survive
long. Forty-six years he has not
tasted intoxicating drinks, except
as medicine. In 1850 he fought a
bloodless duel with a brother SOL
der, and ten years later, in a SINH
lar encounter with another antago-
mist, he was so desperately wounded
that it was two years before he fully
recovered. At one time he suffered
a double fracture of his right Leo
by a caissOn wagon running over
it. He was also wounded twice
while fighting in battle. He has
had the yellow fever, and has been
repeatedly prostrated by the other
malarial fevers that prevail in all
parts of South America.


1t seems so remarkable that one
should be preserved to such an ex-
traordinary age after passing
through so many adventures and
accidents by field and flood. Roias
is the son Of Spanish nobleman
who fled his country for a political
offense, and settled in Chill under
an assumed name. The son lived
almost half a century before he
found out the true history of his
father, and upon the discovery he
made trip to Spain, and succeeded
in obtaining from the government
the title and possession of valuable
property which had been confs.,
Gated. This is the only voyage Ro-
jas has ever made away from his
native country. The venerable old
man has ample means and is sur
rounded by a numerous line of de-
pendants, consisting Of children,
grand children, great -grand-chil-
dren, great-great and great-great-
great-grand-children
Year: 1877




Richmond Temperance Advocated


Now that the bell-punch is to
test the consumption Of liquor per
annum, the State will be at GUAM
dary to know the exact amount of
revenue due each year, as "there's
often a slip 'twixt the cup and the
lip" but at any rate


Wen ring, ring away,


From early morn till close Of day;
Then if by this scheme Virg' la don't


profit,


Wen attribute the sum total to Senator


Moffett


Yes, let us punch this public
debt, or the nation, out of exist
ence as early as possible, and we
are not puzzled to know which is
the most destructive, debt or
dissipation.


Virginians, this scheme is to put
your State, after which you are OF
the manner born, on foot-pickle it
with rum-preserye it as q me-
mento for her rising sons.


What constitutes a fourishing
State-wise and healthy popula-
ton, or barren, unabiding wilds?
If the population becomes dimin-
ished, then, to an alarming extent,
the facilities for improvement are
cut off.


Our State is now PROSTATE, to a
great degree, simply from the thin
ness Of the inhabitants of some of
the rural districts, which are in
many instances devoid Of a native
schoolmaster to teach the few scat
tering and almost uncivillized youth
that reside in that particular Wild
erness.


Talk about the late civil war
That lasted only four years, play
ing havoc with our State! Moth
lag, compared to this whisky war,
that has been in existence over
half century, and to-day almost
submerges our commonwealth as
well as the whole world.


During the coming cold and des-
perate winter numbers of fresides
will be made desolate and dreary
from the effects of this intemperate
taxation. Window-glass viii be
punched out; wearing apparel will
be fairly riddled by this punch, for
the punch system is only q contin.
uation of the awful vice of intem-
perance, in a speculative point OF
view.


The dial-plate or calculator of
this tax machine will score each
and every step taken by the drunk
ard toward his eternal home-give
the number Of drinks swallowed,
Would that there could be an at
tachment, that the State might
ascertain the number of good and
useful men destroyed per annum
by this eunningly-deyised contri-
vance and so-calIed public benefac-
tor.


Our street and County Court
day scenes throughout the State
give us a rough estimate of the
number of victims to intemperance,
but not the number of drinks it
requires to make finished drunk
ards; they go reeling from bar
room to bar-room, with the tops of
their hats punched out and their
clothing hanging on their bodies in
almost invisible shreds - all from
the effects Of over-taxation.


We suggest that our legislature
pass law TO the effect that every
grave, the work of intemperance,
from the date of the bell punch,
be decorated with the following in
scription: Rung to sleep by the
Mofett Bell Punch. Gave his life
for the State debt.


:
Year: 1877

In letter to the house committee on
military affairs, Gen. Sherman says, in
regard to the bill to limit and fix the
signal service, that he is opposed to it IN
toto, be cause it adds new permanent
bureau to the war department, already
Overburdened with nine others, all of
which Sre in undue proportion to the
actual peace establishment, and damage
the army itself by wrongfully charging
il with the extravaganza thereby imposed
on it by congress itself. The army is
supposed to be composed of armed men
and such accessories as provide for their
wants; but when these accessories be-
come more numerous and powerful than
the armed body, we have an illustration
Of the "tail that wags the dog" The
merits of the signal bureau Gen. Sher-
man does not oppose, but he objects to
the army estimates, which are necessarily
very heavy, being charged with the
cost of maintaining such body of men.
They may call them colonels, majors,
sergeants Iand privates, but that does
not make them soldiers. He suggeste
that, if congress eDacts a law to make a
permanent corps of signal officers as q
part of the regular army, it is better to
take the officers of the army now detailed
for this duty, and allow an equal number
of new officers TO be promoted and ap-
pointed to perform the duties with the
troops, which are now neglected by rea-
son of detachment on this so-called
temporary duty.
Year: 1877

The New York Medical Journal re-
ports this case: "The patient was en-
gagged in machine shop, and while his
hand was upon tie anvil of trip ham
mer, the Misunderstanding seven hun
dEed pounds-fell 1t 80 happened that
q file was OH the anvil, and in this way
the force of the hammer was arrested
about half an inch before it reached its
bed. When the hand was examined, it
was found that the whole palm was a
mass of pulp. 1t was, however, placed
in hot water, and kept there for two
or three weeks, and then taken out and
dressed In three months the patient
was sufficiently well to leave the hospital,
and now-nine months after the accident
he is able to move the fingers and has
quite a useful hand. Bruises and in
iuriss do much better when treated with
hot than cold water. The temperature
should be about one hundred and three
degrees Farenheit. Another case is re-
ported of compound fracture and dis
location of the ankle joint, in which the
proximal end of the first metatarsal bone
protruded from the foot. The disloca-
tion was reduced and the foot placed
in hot water. At the end of a week It
was taken out and dressed in the ordinary
manner. The foot is now doing well and
promises a good result.
Year: 1877

There is hardly more pathetic sight,
when you think of it, than the little
shops that here and there put out The r
modest signs on by-streets. They are
the uCmest venture of poor widows, or,
at least, of poor women who have in
vested their trifling capital in the few
laces, buttons and ribbons which are dis
played as temptingly as possible in the
small windows. How few the customers
who enter and ask for these wares How
infrequent the jingle of the little bell at
tached to the door Think of it, and,
sometimes, instead of going to the great
bazar for everything drop into "the lit
tie shop around the corner" and buy
your needles and cotton, your pins and


tape, leaving more than pence behind you.
Year: 1877

forming they at once take up their seal
nets; and it often happens on the Labra-
dor that seals taken in nets sunk ffty
feet below the surface are found frozen
solid when brought to the surface"
Year: 1877

Is the great blood purifier cures Syphilis, and re-
moves Pimples and Humors on the face


Reason should teach that blotchy, rough or
pimpled skin depends entirely upon internal
cause and no outward application can ever cure the
defect.
Year: 1877

TIE THEATRE LAST NIGHT.-The per-
formance at the Theatre last night was truly
delightful, as all OF those who composed the
audience will cheerfully attest. In the first
act there was momentary hitch caused by
a child not entering upon the stage accord
ing to programme, thereby causing one OF
the actors to lose his self-possession and for
get his lines: but after that everything
went on smoothly enough. Lemons" Is
full of ridiculous situations, charming love
scenes, and burlesqulng of the tender pas
sion; and opportunity is given the ladies
for display OF fine dressing, and they do
not neglect it, The company is by far the
best that has been here this season, and
great taste and skill is exhibited In the ar
rangement OF the stage. Miss Ada Gilman
;Is as captivating as Nelson. The house was
q very good one, and will be still better to-
night, when g Lemons y will be repeated.


The company Is most heartily commend
ed as worthy OF the largest patronage our
people can give.
Year: 1877

Fire alarm Telegraph for Manchester
Your reporter has frequently alluded IN the
Dispatch to the importance to the city OF
Manchester OF connecting with the Hieh-s
mond fire-alarm and police telegraph. Can-,
not or will not parties interested in the mat
ter make movement in the direction Of
having telegraphic communication with the
fre-alarm OF Richmondf The great neces-
sity for something Of the kind was never
more felt than Sunday night, during the.
prevalence OF the fire in Manchester, when
1t was found necessary to call upon the.
Richmond department for aid. With the
time taken in sending messenger across the
river to the residence of tie Chief Engineer
of that department., and the necessary delay
in that officers arrangements for furnishing
the aid asked, more than an hour was lost,
and when the Richmond steamer (A) came
upon the scene there was little for it to do
but eXtinguish burning debris. A wire
could be run across the river and made to
connect with the Richmond fire. and police
wires at small expense, and an arrange
ment made by which the nearest steamer
could be called for when actually needed to
stop conflagration without turning out
the whole Richmond department..
Year: 1877

Mcssrs. Editors,-The gas-lamp at the
northwest corner OF Franklin and Ninth
streets has had sheet OF tin substituted Tor
q pane OF glass on that side OF the lamp
which should give light up Ninth street.
The consequence is that the sidewalk and
street in that direction ID ever in darkness
at night, unless the moon gives the light to
the people which is cut off by that sheet OF
tin. By whose order and by what rlght
this is done is unknown to us; but the fact
that the residence, OF ole Of the city fathers
Is on that particular corner, and the lamp is
within close proximity to his front en-
trance, illuminating it with a glaring bril-
liancy, may account for the change. Will
not some one eXplain2
Year: 1877

-aHsrassr CHIEF OF PCLiCE.


The police force shall consist OF Chief OF
Police and as many officers and priyates as
the City Council may by ordinance pre-
scribe. ..r


The Chief Of Police shall have the right
to discharge any private, and shall report
his reasons therefor to the Board.


/. He shall be appointed for the term OF
three years by the Board OF Police Commis-
sioners. No new appointment shall be
made until the expiration of the term OF the
present Chief of Police. .@


The pay OF the police shall be fixed by
the City Council by ordinance.


The Chief OF Police shall be responsible.
for the discipline and efficiency OF the police
force. All orders shall pass through him,
exceptso far as the rules, regulations, and
orders OF the Board of Police commissioners
authorize orders to be given direct to any
subordinate III the police force. ss


Any member OF the force may be removed
lin addition to the power OF dismissal vested
Year: 1877

A Curious Freak OF Nature Illus
trRting n social Vice.


Sedalia Democrat


A remarkable case was yesterday
brought to the attention of the
medical fraternity in this city, re-
vealing, as it does, singular freak
of nature. A gentleman residing
in Saline county has from birth been
afflicted with q malady so distress
ing in its popularity as to all the
appearance of a man afflicted with
delirium tremens. tits accounted
for on hypothesis not less strange.
Just previous to his birth, his faith
er, who was a dissipated man, was
taken with mania potu. He was
attended during the terrible crisis
of the disease by his wife, who
shortly afterward gave birth to a
son. Imagine her sorrow and con-
sternation when the infant became
large enough to attract attention she
realized the terrible mania which af-
flicted her husbad was reproduced in
the child; the rolling eyes, the con-
vulsed, distorted body, the shaking
hands, the shrinking and contract
ed pupils, sheathing themselves be-
meath closing lids, as in the vain
effort to shut out some horrible
sight too hideous to be seen. 1t
seemed to strengthen with his
growth and to become confirmed as
he advanced to manhood. But in
no other respect did he differ from
other children. His mind was clear
and bright, and his intelligence re-
markable. But he was sensitive in
his deformity, and seemed to shrink
from public gaze, But when he
became a man the burden of this
terrible legacy became too fearful
to be borne, and the last five years
have been spent in the vain effort
to remove it. He was examined
yesterday by a number of physicians,
who rightly ascribe it to the abnor.
NAL condition of the nervous or
ganization, but they are doubtful if
there is any cure for it.
Year: 1877

If there is one place more than
another where simplicity should
characterize the dress, it is the
school-room. The object for which
the children are here gathered is
certainly not the display of the
wealth or tenderness of their pa
rents. Anything which diyerts the
attention Of the pupil from his
school duties is an injury to him (;
but it will accord with the observa-
tion of teachers, that fine clothes
oftener work mischief to their rWear-
or in this respect than mean clothes
do. The highest minded children
are oftepest found in plain garb,
while those be-ringed aud be.rufiied,
and otherwise showily attired, are
generally quite destitute Of intellec-
tual home culture. Their mothers
have been too busy with their
clothes to pay much attention to
their brains. This sounds severe; /;
would it were not true. While over
attention 10 toilet matters is q him
dranGe to study, negligence and
Hntidiness are as carefully to be-
avoided, Clean clothes, plainly
made, need not be expensive, either
Of time or money, and a proper re-
gard to personal cleanliness in all
its details is what every person owes
to himself or his associates. 1t is
very desirable that the pupil should
have at least two school suits, for
in the crowded school room the
clothing soon becomes saturated
With the eXhaIations floating in the
atmosphere, and an airing Of the
clothes every two or three days is
necessary to keep them fresh and
sweet,
Year: 1877

Twenty Thousand People
old and young, every wsek. 1t 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-
vertisemOnt in a paper, especially their
church paper, take it as guarantee of re-
sponsibility. Such confidence should not 10
abused when it can be helped. We want,
therefore,