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Year: 1878

In conversation will, gentleman


recently about the Hall fire, he inform


cd US the wasriR the spsrtnof the


buikaine occupied by Mrs Densmore,


and that suddenly he saw the floor


coming up toward him. This wasn't


the moment of the explosion and he,


with others, Of course, rushed out of


the house. He thinks that there must


have beeu half il keg Of powder placed


under the building. The force Of the


explosion, was SO great that the walls


of tue building were forced out and the


ceiling over the hall mp stairs fell. 1t


is almost miraculous. that no one. was,


killed..


As We have said often before, it is


universally agreed that tile Hall was
deliberately set on fire. It is as clear
a case of arson as ever went into court.
The difficulty is to ferret out the guilty
party or parties. Whoever did it w:ls Il
villain of the FIRST, water; ~ because
nearly all the sufferers were non-resi-
dents and perfectly innocent; of any
local squabbles or entangling local III
liances; ~ because it was an injury to
the whole community in depriving the
public of a town hall; ~ because it
destroyed minister's library worth
81 600 which was uninsured; (4) because
it endangered the lives Of u number of
our citizens by the explosion Of the
powder placed under the building; (5)
because it put the whole town in i'm
minent jeopardy, for single strong
gust Of wind would have fired the
building and then the town
would have gone.


In view Of all this TIE Grand Jury,
at the coming term of Court, will fail
to DO its duty i it does not institute Il
rigid inquiry into the question of who
fired the hall. A most infamous crime
has been committed in our midst, and,
as we have said before, if the matter
is allowed to pass without an investi-
CATION, we deserve to have a guardian
appointed over us by the common
wealth,
Year: 1878

If the Sentinel's subscription books
are any indication, :he people of Mar
tin county are more sorely afflicted
with hard times than they have been
for five years. There are upwards
Of four hundred Of our subscribers who
are delinquent. and who claim that
they are not able to pay. Under this
state Of affairs the Sentinel's financial
outlook is anything but encouraging
Martin Co. Sentinel.


Neighbor Day, they arc able to pay
you dollar or two. Tie trouble with
many Of them is they sront divide
around. They can pay part, if they
will.
Year: 1878

Read the Prospectus of the st. Paul
Globe on our outside. The Democracy
of Minnesota at last have newspaper
worthy of their support. No journal
ist in Minnesota understands better
than Mr.. Hall how to ''raise Old Ned''
and sell newspapers, and when the
great National waye reaches this State
aud begins to melt down the Republic
can sugar loaf, the Globe will come to
the front prepared to hold its own.
Year: 1878

TIE other children Of the late Col.
VANDERBILT expect to break the will by
proving that he willed his property to
his sou VIM. II. by spirit direction.
Spirits are supposed not to he capable
advisers In business matters and this
is thought to be good ground for con-
testing the will.
Year: 1878

Brother Mundy's war dance on Sunday seems in
no way to have effected the popularity Of Francis
Murphy, the Gospel temperance revvalist; for at
both the noon and evening sessions yesterday the
Seventh Street Church was crowded and hosts signed
the pledge. Brother and Sister Wilson were called
away to sing at Albany and their places fcd by
Mr.. Froelich and Mr.. Johnson. "All Hail the Power
Of Jesus Name" sung at the opening OF
the Meeting. Brother Murphy thanked God
that He had deigned to smile propitiousy
on tho work during the first week Of
its progress. He read from the sixth chapter Of
Corinthians and exhorted all present to their
individual efforts in the Of temperance. No
man. he said could do all the great work; it must
permeate the masses of the people. and every
man must be apostle of the great
reform in his own social, domestic or commercial
sphere When the work was done in this way,
Brother Murphy said its far reaching effects could
not he calculated II every who signed
the pledge would induce other TO do
the thing. and all these in their
turn continue in the same line. the liquor shops
exhibition was an unproftsblc business. Let every
man who attends these meetings adopt the motto.


with charity to all. with malice to none." aud go
through life giving . helping hand 70 every man
in distress. Here followed the reading Of. the
Scriptures after which prayers asked for those
Nohles and Brother Robinson also asked prayers for
Mr.. Murphy. that he might have the grsoe OF God
with him and continue in the noble work he had begun
Brother Franklin. who halls from Troy. said that
through the instrumentality Of Mr.. Murphy . man
In that town who was considered past being
claimed had been Influenced by Mr.. Murphy to such
. degree that he was now completely reformed
man. and was bringing many TO Jesus. An
other anonymous brother whose fescoed nose
and generally dnapidated appearance bore out the
assertion that he Had been hard drnker. said that
since he had stopped he never felt boter in all his
life" The congregation arose to sing "sign the
Pledge. Boys" and during the singing
number Of men passed up the aislcs
and signed the pledge. A great number
Of persons unwilling to 80 up and sign
the pledge because they do not know what II requires
and they do not wish to go up and read it and then
turn away. The pledge is herewith given for the
benefit Of the timid ones:--
Year: 1878

cant lot What he wants is money, with
which to buy rum what he does not want
and Will not under any circumstances ac'
cept, is the chance to work. His proper
place is the workhouse or prison, where he
may be kept from mischief and compelled
to earn his own living. and we have
enough Of laws, courts and jails to provide
for him according to his deserts. Can the
Police Commissioners drop politics and
personal squabbles long enough to see that
the law against these nuisances is enforced
They are more annoying than confde
men and more feared than burglars /; yet
there is not the slightest reason, except in
the gross negligence of police officers and
police magistrates, for their existence
at oil within the city limits. The law
should be enforced at once, if only to dis
courage the regular winter incursion of
these rascally nuisances from the rural
districts but cure is as necessary as pre-
vention when an evil has been allowed to
go unchecked as long as this has. The
peace of single householder is worth more
than the lives of the entire fraternity OF
tramps.
Year: 1878

new tramp law having just come into
operation in New Hampshire some of the
sturdy beggars and loungers have gone to
State Prison and others are leaving the
State-it is simply impossible that any of
them arc wilfnlly going to work. 1t is time
that New York took action of the same sort,
and this city, with its six or seven thousand
male tramps and about one-tenth as many
vagrant females, is the proper place to be-
gin No new law is necessary the existing
Vagrant act is sufficient If the police courts
will enforce it. In New York the tramp is
even greater curse than the Street Cleaning
Commission. He infests every area and
doorway; yet If food-the only charity which
summer beggars should expects offered
him, he either curses the giver or throws
the food into some convenient alley or va
Year: 1878

In the Billings murder case, in the in
vestigation of the death of Mary Stannard,
in the case Of the murder mystery at
Gravesend, we have typical instances of a
species Of tragedy that has become almost
a. common feature Of our American
life. These are so many terrible dramas
OF passion, confined generally in their
development to the domestic circle or
within narrow sphere beyond it,
but within that limit working on day
by day and year by year with IN ever
growing intensity Of fierce hates and des-
perate impulses that end logically in the
last terrible act, which is the first that
forces the interference of society. Crimes
like this are, paradoxical as it may sound,
characteristics Of civilization, and are
inseparable generally from certain amount
OF what is called responsibility, and from
regard for the opinions OF friends and
neighbors and o morbid apprehension of
scandals. Barbarous men also kill, as well
as civilized men, their wives or the women
they love, but not in this way. They beat
them in savage rage, and sometimes the vio-
lence carried too far ends fatally, or they
murder them outright before the world in
jealous fury, and the savage society then
murders the murderer in precisely the same
way. But this horrible family tragedy of
the Billings is case Of two fierce and Bit
ter enemies tied together for lifetime by
marriage, and the rights OF the woman
under the law and before society virtually
compelled its continuance. Flagrant out
rage on his part ''to fight it out" as men
and women do in the slums and alleys,
would have called in the police, which
would have been scandalous and horrible !;
divorce and alimony would have made q
dreadful pull on the keen husbands purse,
and hence the continued attempt to keep as
fair a surface as possible and plan secret
and desperate solution. In these murders
that are reasoned upon for months, per-
haps years, before they are committed, there
is no doubt that the common miscarriage of
Justice in murder trials acts as q direct in
centive and encouragement to the criminals.


1t is commonly said by opponents of capi-


tai punishment that the dread of the gall
lows does not prevent murder but how


do they know? But for the gallows every
case OF assault and battery would be a case
Year: 1878

Seldom has the mysterious and the 70.
mantle braved the sunlight Of our literal
age and country as it did yesterday at Day
ton. Ohio, where the gypsy tribes in the
United States gathered to bury their queen.
The occasion was to many people the first
intimation they had ever received that
within our national limits there existed
kingdom and a royal couple, to
whom implicit obedience was rendered by
thousands Of people acknowledging no other
rule. Contrasts and contradictions were
strong and peculiar. Ruler only of band
OF scattered outcasts, the dead queen and
her royal consort could trace their lineage
farther back into tho ages than any
sovereign of Europe. The funeral cort6ge,
which civilized people would have invested
with many attributes Of gloom, seemed to
be made almost joyous by the. flowers and
gay colors which decorated everything,
even the hearse itself. Believers in no re-
ligion, unless it be corrupted fragment of
tradition handed down by the priests Of
ancient Egypt, the gypsy mourners
listened respectfully to funeral SER
vice conducted by Christian minister,
though the words of faith, hope and censo-
lation probably never fell upon ears less
competent to understand their precious i'm
port. Yesterday this strange nation within
nation had visible shape to-day it will
disappear so thoroughly that only frag-
ments Of it will be perceptibIe anywhere,
and even then be undistinguishable from
other unattractive wanderers. Were it not
that the obsequies and the mourners were
beheld in broad daylight by thousands Of
clear-eyed Americans the whole afiair would
appear like a misty dream of an ancient day
and an unknown land.
Year: 1878

The sagacious ecclcsiastics who at present
direct the purely worlly or political for
tunes of the Catholic Church in Europe
seem likely to regain in short time all the
material advantages which the blundering
non-possumus policy of the ultramontane
leaders under Plus TX. had lost to it.
Those who have carefully watched the cur
rent of religious events on the other conti-
nent for the past six months must have seen
Vatican, and that Leo and his ministers are
skilfully handling the silken threads Of
diplomacy. Germany and Rome are closer
to-day than they have been at any time in the
last ten years. Bismarck is not unwilling
to court the alliance of the Church against
the socialists, nor is the Church unwilling to
withhold the awful thunders in her eccle-
siastical arsenal which he is so anxious to
hurl at the would-be king slayers Of the
Empire. In the extreme North the Pope of
the Greek Church sends the most loving
greeting to his brother in Rome, and both
are quietly arranging for religious parti-
ton of Poland Our cable dispatches this
morning show how Swiss Calvinism is melt
ing in the soft religious sunshine that
streams from the seven-hilled city, and, as
described by our correspondent yesterday,
the funeral pageant Of Theirs in the splen-
did Cathedral Of Notre Dame was really the
bridal ceremony of the young Republic with
the political power of the Papacy. 1t is
sweet to see SO many religious and political
brethren beginning to dwell together in
peace
Year: 1878

make the government of Egyptians a pay
ing business from that point--with the
debts, but without too minute an inquiry
last compelled to give way, and then the
secret came out. Throughout his reign the
Khedive had been doing just what Abbas
Pacha had also done in his time--acting on
a secretive and miserly impulse and put
ting the public money away on private ac-
count


Enormous estates had thus been pur-
chased with the money that should have
paid the expenses Of government and pre-
vented the accumulation of debt; and while
the country publicly regarded had become
burdened with extreme obligations the
Khedive had become the proprietor of one
sixth OF the land in Egypt. Naturally no
financial system could 80 on and no credit
could stand in the face 81 Such diverticu-
lum, and the financial experts recognized
this and declared it, and France joined with
England in the agreement that all that system
must come to an end, and that the Khedive
must give up his plnnder or lose the coun-
tenhlce anu support VI tHe w oStcrH So'-
ernments. In other days the Khedive
would not have given up. He would
have sent few millions to Constantinople
with the expression of his opinion that
these financial infdels Of the West were
liars and sons of liars, and would have gone
OIL indefinitely in the same groove. But
this is critical time. II would be hard
fate to lose the confidence of the Western
Powers just now, because, in fact, the coun-
tenance of the Sultan is OF no great value
to anybody: and a prince in the position OF
viceroy in Egypt needs rather the sup
port OF others against the Sultan than Of
the Sultan against the others. London, not
Constantinople, is the source of support to
him who has become merely the keeper Of
the locks in the Suez Canal and the Khe-
dive therefore bows to the strange DEGREES
OF destiny--hands over his great estates for
the benefit of the nations creditors, and
even surrenders his kingdom as to all money
aspects to assignees who have the conf
dence of the creditors, and sits down to
watch the edifying spectacle of the pay
ment of his debts.
Year: 1878

THE SUGGESTION in our columns yesterday con-
cerDing Mr. kclly's possible candidacy for Mayor
threw all the politicians OF high and low degree
into a state of considerable excitement. Many
of them will be relieved this morning to learn
that Mr.. Kelly declines. More modest than The
Pope who put the tiara OH his own brow, he
refuses 10 nominate himself.
Year: 1878

GENERAL SHIELDS is still in critical condi-
tion. lie had sufficiently recovered last even
ing. however. to justify his removal from the
Astor House to a private residence IN Brook yn.
Year: 1878

of murder, perhaps. There might be hun
dred murder cases where there are now ten,
and we believe that crimes hike those to
which we refer would be less common if a
man proved a murderer had more reason to
dread the gallows than he now has.
Year: 1878

Our REPORTS from nearly al! thc yellow
fever districts this morning are very favorable.
aid it may be confidently expected now that
each day will continue to show an improved
saiiitary record
Year: 1878

ACQUITTED.-Th trial Of Haneil
alleged poisoning of Polly Biackmore,
resulted in his acquit al after a delibe-
ration Of one hour BY the jury. The
defence introduced evidence to show
that Gcdwin had no strong motive for
committing the deed, but that John A.
Mchoy did have such motive, and
seized the property Of the dead wo-
man without any apparent right. Fur
ther more that he was seen TO offer
Polly a drink of white liquor on the
day of her death-not drinking him
self. Nevertheless the case is involved
in much mystery.
Year: 1878

abrading the skin Of both legs,
and running a silver into the bali
of his thumb so far that it made
his teeth ache when he pulled It
out. His clothing was also con-
siderably torn. When he went
home that evening be learned
that his eldest BOY had been
whipped at school for sticking a
pin as far through another boy as
the head would let it 80. He was
warned to quit drinking iced tea,
but he persisted in the practice,
and he is now sleeping in the 5
valley, between West and North
Hill, where he Ives sud says he
never felt SO we'll in his life. But
may be he lies about it.


Henry Esterloldt, Of Eighth
street, drank iced tea regularly
every summer for three years.
He persisted, and one Sunday az.
ternoon while be was out driving
his horse ran away and smashed
seventeen dollars out Of bor-
rowed buggy. He paid the money
but neglected the warning. He
went on drinbng iced tea, and N
less than six weeks somebody
poisoned his dog.


A young woman who did plain
sewing in this city, while enpI
in the family of Ralph Henderson.
of Maple street, became addicted
to the use Of iced tea. She soon
ran sewing machine needle
through hor thumb, and for many
days, whenever she picked up
cup Of iced tea, sharp pain ran
through that thumb. She re-
fused to obey the warning, how
ever, and in six weeks she was
carried away. The man who car
ried her away married her first.



Last week, at the beginning OF
the heated term, two eminent
scientific gentlemea, of BurIing-
ton, took a strong, healthy, black
and tan dog and immersed him ii
a tub Of pure cistern water, into
which a weak solution ofliced tea
had been poured. They held the s
dogs head under the water fifteen
minutes, although he struggled
violently, thus showing the natu
raj and instructive aversion to q
substance which intelligent human
beings bHndly and eagerly drink,
and when the gentlemen took him
ont Of the tub he was dead.
teacupful of iced tea in a tabful Of
water will kill dog, think for
yourselves what must be the
effect of strong, undiluted cup
Of this deooetion upon the system
Of q weak woman.


Eleven grains of stryehnine
mixed in tablespoonful oficed
tea will kill the oldest man IN
America.-Burzington Hawkeye.
Year: 1878

At the northwest corner Of the
Exposition building is 8 grand tow
er unique in shape and Of grand
design, which is daily delight to
thousands and thousands of >Visi-
tors. From early morning till the
shadows of evening fall, constant
stream of inquisitiVe humanity may
be seen ascending and descending
to and from the gallery near its
summit, from which can be obtained
one Of the most magnificent views
to be found in the entire Exhibi
ton. The building itself is Of var
nished Canada pine, and is decked
with the flags of England and
France from the base to the sum-
NIT. On each side Of the eastern
door couple of rampant bears are
ready to give you a welcome, and
from a point near the spire noble
deer looks down as if intently
watching the wonderful pageant
below. Around the first story are
arranged seeds, wines and many Of
the products of agriculture, gar
nished by display Of the most
tempting and luscious fruits.
Rare fax and hemp are there
and many other things that
lay at the foundation Of Canada's
wealth; and above are stuffed birds
and animals; mingled with Indian
fabrics rich with the odor OF the
pine woods and suggestive Of say
age life. Beautiful models of boats
are fastened to the side Of the up
per tier, and, in fact, the entire
building is a museum ofcunosities'
This is Canada's temple and tri-.
ouSe 70 the Great Exposition Of
1878. It's surroundings are par
ticularly grand: In one corner



rises a mighty obelisk Of copper
from Australia; in another, a mon
ument OF gold representing the
wealth of Victoria. New South
Wales aud Queensland are here
with their glittering tributes, and
as if undismayed by the shining
challenge. Canada exhibits huge
octohedron of gold valued at IS
millions of dollars. On the east is
the splendid Prince of Wales col
lection fanked by the richest pro-
ducts Of the Indian loom. On the
south side is machinery hall with
it's marvellous collection of engines
and machines. On the west is the
department devoted to agricultural
implements, and on the north
stretches the beautiful grounds rich
in horticultural wonders and gay
with the gaudiest of flowers. But
though this curious and splendid
building is the center OF obserVa-
ton and bears the name and ar
mortal bearings of Canada. 1t is
not the main object in the Canadian
Exhibition. The great exhibit OF
Canada is down at the opposite
end of the British section, and ad-
Joins the American department. 1t
is no small task that Canada mas
undertaken. Close neighbors to her
are those wonderful British colo
MES from the other side OF the
globe apparently teening with all
the riches of the earth. Beside
Year: 1878

three Southern Representatives admitted to
seats, fifty-two were Republicans, and Of
Southern Senators twenty-five were Rcpub-
Leans. The South was just about as solid
then as it Is now but it was on the other side
In the Forty-tirst Congress the entire body Of
the white people of the South, the people who
owned all the property and paid all the taxes,
were practically without representation; yet
not one word of disapproval was uttered
against th1s tn IN monstrouS wrong by Press or
vague allegations, totally unsupported by re-
spectacle proof, that the colored people Of
two or three States are deprived of repre-
sentation, tho partisan press Of the North is
in an agony Of horror and reproach.
Year: 1878

Is there, then, nothing the Republican
party can do to prevent the practical dis
Of the negroes? Yes; we have
before pointed out the remedy. Let the party
insist In all its platforms on the right of
every man to vote what ticket he pleases and
have his vote counted and let it notify the
Southern leaders that if they persist in their
present course it will make q square issue be-
fore the country of depriving them of the
power they obtain in Congress and the Elec-
toral College by counting the negroes in the
basis Of representation. The fourteenth
amendment to the constitution meets the
case exactly, and was adopted to cure just
such an evil as we are now dealing with.
Year: 1878

Tho "solid North" foreshndowed by the
latc elections alarms tho 'soId South. which
now protests that thcy didn't mean to do it,.
and if let alone, won't do it again! They
was jeff Davis express request made in for
NAL message to the Confederate Congress
after his election to the presidency of ''that
country It has been the plea of every Grim
inal from the beginning of time to this hour.
1t is at once the confession of guilt and the
plea for forgiveness which every culnrit In
stinctively makes rather than meet the re-
sponsibility which his crimes merit. But as
the patriotic feelings of an outraged North
resented this plea in 1861, SO now the Justice
loving and fair-dealing people of tho North
will contemn and deride the subserviency
which would first commit shocking crimes to
get power and would then ask to be excused
from meeting the consequences they involve
Year: 1878

Washington cor. to the Cincinnati EnQuirer.I


President Hayes made the statement to Il
member of Congress- who called on him to-
day, that there was one feature of the recent
elections in the South which pleased him, and
that was that what the South had heretofore
accomplished by brute force had now given
way to fraud; and herein, at least, was one
point gained, as the negro thus had at least
the protection of life and limb. Referring to
the prosecutions for alleged fraud in the
South, he said that if the juries impaneled
failed to do their duty such q proceeding
would only have the effect to further solidify
the North