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Year: 1878

The thinly yelled purposes Of the cOnspr9tors who
inyeigled James +. Anderson TO the commission of
periury. and refused to give him q cOnsulship in a
warm climate for it, are beginning TO be disclosed,
Incredible as 1t may APPEAR can hardly be doubted
from the course the examination has so far
taken, that they have actually conceived,
and are now attempting TO carry out, diabolcal
plan for invaldating his neatly yariegated test-
mony. by proving him liar And as if to add in
suit TO injury, it looks now very much as though
they were going to prove it by himself Does 1t
need TO be pointed out that this sort of treatment
of witness who has be5n corrupted and brlbed and
hired TO swear falsely. and cheated out of his pay
for it. is outrageous Is it not possible hat the Re
publican members of the Potter Committee are
carving this thing too far Is it worth while,
merely for the sake of proving that President
HAYES is not a fraud, and that John Sherman is not
liar and cOnspirator and suborner and
that Stanley Matthews is not a forger
is 1t worth while merely for this to
impugn the veracity of 'such man-let
alone bis being Night Editor of The Philadelphia
North Amaioan-as James L. AndersOnG Will the
American people look on quietly while such things
are in progressi Shall these assassins of private
character be permitted not only to blast his reputa-
top by stories of his stealing watermelons while he
was nourishing n youth sublime in the
interior of Pennsylvania, but to destroy
his value as q witness by tangling him
ND in his own testimony to such degree that
he forgets which story to stick tot VIII the public
permit 1t 7 We think not. James H. Anderson lies
and it may be so stated without exaggeration-he
lies so to speak, too near the popular heart he has
been lying-if we may be allowed the expression
in that neghborhood too long to be surrendered to
such treatment without protest.


There may be those who will refuse to believe
that any man or set of men could have the etiron-
terry to suggest 80 much as suspicion that James +.
Anderson is not worthy the confidence and trust of
the American people. But what, We ask, in the
Year: 1878

The Seashore Cottage is the attractive name of
little Summer resort which will be opened at Attain
ticyille on the 1st of next month, under somewhat
novel conditions 1t is an establishment founded
by the Ladies' Christian Union, of No. 27 Washing
ton-souare north side for the benefit of the young
workingwomen Of NewYork, and we probably be-
tray no secret in mentioning that the kind
heart and practical good sense of Mrs. Fletcher
Harper, jr have been specially concerned in 1t.
great many things have been dOne-or at least
talked about-fOr the benefit of wOrkingwomen,
but we do not know that it ever occurred to
any one before that they would be the better
for n little amusement-to say nothing OF rest
and fresh air. 1t has now been made
possible for a limited number of them to enjoy
fortnight on the seashore at very moderate cost.
The cottage will hold fifty visitors two in each
rooml and that as many as possible may have the
benefit of the place, it Is stipulated that no one
shall stay longer than two weeks. The price of
hoard will be five dollars for week, or nine dol
lars for two, including railroad fares both ways;
these charges will probably just cover the running
EXPENSES OF the house. The of bath houses will
be free This seems TO very useful and simple
charity and it will be none the less grateful to the
deserving class for whom il is intended from the
fact that 1t does not take the form of aims. Full
information about it will be given at No. 27 Wash
ngtOn-square.
Year: 1878

The Senate has sustained the Appropriation
Committee by a handsome majority in its
action upon the Army bill. The vote upon
keeping the force at its present nominal
figure of 25,OOO was 80 to 10, the minority
IN favor of reduction being composed ex-
clusively of Democrats. al the sections OF
the bill disOrganizing the army and reducing
its pay, were stricken ont, and the whole sub
iect of reorganization was referred to a COM
mission. 1t seems likely that the same
course will be adopted with reference to
the proposition TO transfer the Indian Bureau
to the War Department. Considering the
speed with which this project was voted
through the House, and the short time which
remains for dispOsng of it in the Senate and
for reaching an agreement between the two
houses, the cry of "hasty legislation" has
some point. 1t may delay the accomplishment
of this reform to refer the question to COM
mission, but it can hardly defeat it. The
longer the investigation of the subject, the
more apparent is the need for the change
likely 10 be.
Year: 1878

Persons tearing tOiUR for the season, and Summer
frapeUers, can haze THE DAILY TRIBUNE mailed 70
them. postpaid for 81 per month, The address being
changed as Otten as desired


Senator Matthews ought to feel easier now
that that those letters from Anderson have
been discharged from custody. They should
have burnt a hole in his pocket long ago.


The Chamber of Commerce has a rather un-
pleasant recollection of the mOiety business
with handcuff trimmings, as it used to be-,
and yesterday adopted unanimously resolu-
tions denouncing the moiety scheme proposed
by the Treasury Department.


Yesterday the Potter Committee gave the
other side a hearing, and examined Judge
Levissee, one of the Louisiana electors, who
saws an attempt was made to bribe him. 1t
will be interesting now to see the people who
swallowed Anderson whole contemptuously
spew out Leyissee


Disregarding the spirit of the age, which is
in favor Of extending presidential terms, the
SantO Domingo Congress gives its new Presi-
dent tenure Of only one year. This may,
however, be a polite rule in that disturbed
nation, since it will afford less scope for rev.
olution, and will give each aspirant a chance
TO be President at least once in lifetime.


The readiness of the German Liberals to
support repressive legislation denotes great
change in opinion since the vote fortnight
ago on the anti-socalist bill, which they sum-
mariiy rejected by majority OF 200. But II
the Government is judicious it will ask only for
such additional powers as are necessary 10
preserve social order, and not regard the
printing press with undue hostility. Should
Nobiling prove to be lunatic, and to have
had no aceomplices in his crime, the reaction
Year: 1878

Most of those who noticed the half empty Sixth
Avenue cars starting uptown yesterday evening, at


the time when they have generally been the most


densey packed, comfortably sohloquized, " Serves
'em right" The Sixth Avenue Road was one Of the
most persistent and vicious opponents of rapid
transit, and suffering citizens haye enough fallen
human nature IN them TO rejoice in seeing their
old oppressor lose money. Bat it is not clear that
in the long run 1t will lose The elevated roads will
unquestionaby take away from the horse
cars tho through passenger traffic, and the
result must for time be seen in q
marked loss of receipts. But there will be also a
marked reduction of expenses. Fewer horseswill be
worn out tugging at overloaded cars. One-horse cars
without conductors will frequently do the work.
The passengers win ride for only short distances.
and thus tine same car may come TO carry on single
trip five times many passengers as 1t could II
wero filed at tho Astor House with business
men going home to Thirty-fourth-st. It has already
been discovered. that in many cases the ele-
yated roads arc going to help business in
Year: 1878

1t is not unlikely that the commission Of the
sweet little cherub that sits up aloft looking out
for the life of poor Jack, includes in some degree
the care of all red-headed men. There was tho
well-knOwn case of the two men drowning, when
a person rushed frantcally to the wharf, and cried
out in such agOnizing tones, Save the man with
red hair!" that the rescuers left the other man
to perish while they pulled in the one with the red
hair Brother Of yours 7" inquired bystander Of
the excited person. "No." Near relative Z"
mot at ALL" "May inquire then why YOU were
so much interested in having him rescued lu-
stead of the other mani' "0h certainly
he owes me three dollars and a halfD As
between the two Supervisors, Weber and Anderson,
both of whom were exposed to Democratic rifles,
there seems no reason why Weber should have been
shot and Anderson spared. unless possibly some
Democrat who had an inkling of Andersons testify
ing capacity, gave out word 10 Save the man With
the red hair" There may have been


sweet little cherub in Gramerey Park


Looking for the life OF poor Jim.
Year: 1878

We have received from Ferris Bros.'s a
copy of ]he new city dire ctory for which
We return our thanks. The book Is In
every respect a most complete volume and
superior to any directory that has been is
sued for this city. Every business man in
the city should have one. The printing
and the appearance of the book is excellent.
Year: 1878

We have found out that the weather
depends on the state of the air; we
have examined the different kinds of
weather, and see how the observer at
the signal service station makes a rec
ord Of the changes Of the weather ;
lastly, we must find out how "Old
Prob" decides what the weather is 60
ing to be at any particular place.


Get good map of the United States
and keep it open before you while we
study this matter.


On the north is the vast country ex-
tending hundreds Of miles toward the
North Pole, and known as the British
Possessions; on the west is the Pacific.
and on the south are Mexico and the
Gulf; on the east is the great Attain
tic.


Scattered over this great country are
eighty-seven signal stations, extending
from Brownsville, on the borders Of
Mexico and the Gulf Of California and
Oregon on the west, all through the
Western and Southwestern States,
along the lakes and as far as Eastport,
in Maine. The stations cover the
whole country, and even extend into
Canada At each of these eighty-sev-
en- stations is man making record of
the weather.


Some Of the observers are among
the Rocky Mountains, others along
the great rivers, others are along the
Atlantic coast, and still others may be
found through the Middle States and
in New England. Each day every
man sends to Washington at a given
hour, an exact account of the weather.


Now, you can easily imagine that if
all these messages came to you as you
sat with the map open before you on
a certain day, and if all the messages
said that the weather was pleasant,
you could make mark on the map at
each station, and thus the map would
show that it was fine weather all over
the country.


Then, suppose the next day a man
at Cheyenne reported that it was rain
ing there, while all the other men re-
ported that it was pleasant at their
stations. You could. now place a piece
Of black cloth on hemap at Cheyenne,
to show that there was a storm there.
The rest of the map would be clear,
because it was a fine day at all the
other stations.
Year: 1878

Mr.. James Bryce Harper thus grace
fully and graphically describes the
Turkish capital:


"You may judge from looking at the
map what a singular city this Con
stantinople) must be, with the sea run
ming through it in all directions not
merely III canals, like those Of Venice
or Rotterdam, but forming great, broad
inlets, whose water is intensely bright
and clear as well as deep TO the very
edge. 1t is as if you had a city built
on both sides of the Kyles of Butte, at
the point where one of the long sea
locks (Lock Ridden or Lock Striven)
comes down in the main channel.
Stockholm and New York are the only
other great cities that can be compared
with it in this respect; but Stockholm,
though beautiful in its way, is on a
comparatively small scale, wilhelm New
York man has done his utmost to spoil
nature, and nature has done infinitely
less than at Constantinople. She has
given it the bluest and clearest sea that
can be imagined, and vaulted over in
the most exqisitely bright yet tender
sky, full of delicious light that would
be dazzling if it were not so soft. She
has drawn the contour of the shores
and hills as if with an artists hand the
sweeping of the Bosphorus, the grace
ful curve of the Golden horn, the soft
slope of the olive-clad heights, behind.
Scutari, the sharp, bold outline Of the
rocky isles that rise from the sea Of
Marmora, and far away on the south
eastern horizon she has raised into
heaven the noblesummit of the Mysian
Olympus, whose SHOWS blush rose red
under the morning sun. The sea seems
to pervade everything. Turn which
way you will it meets you till you get
confused among its winding arms. Its
glittering bosom is covered with vessels
of every size and style, from the long,
dark, ugly ironclads, which the late
Sultan bought from the Clyde and
Tyne shipbuilders with borrowed mon
ey, to the sprightly feluccas and other
odd little crafts, rugged in a fashion our
language has no names for. During
the day its surface is seldom calm, for
there is usually a breeze blowing. and
when this breeze comes up from the
southwest and meets the strong current
running down from the Black Sea, it
raises in moment short, sharp waves,
a kind of chopping sea, that make the
small boats vanish. The nights, how
ever, are often still and serene, and
then under the brilliant moon the city
seems to lie engirt by flood of molten
silver
Year: 1878

Prob" is not like farmer looking up
at little bit of the sky and guessing
wildly about the weather. He has near
ly hundred eyes, for each signal man
is one of his eyes, and thus he looks at
storm from every side and can see
its every movement, and can tell US
pretty nearly what it will do. Some
day, when men learn more about it, he
will tell US exactly what every storm
will do.-N Y. Weekly.
Year: 1878

HOW IT Is REGARDED IN NEW YORK.


Parsimonious, hard task-master that
Mr. A. I. Stewart was in his life, even
he would surely not have the astound-
ing impudence 70 have received all the
newspaper puffs he did for his benev-
olence in founding a Workingwoman's
Home, and now making it what it is !!
Home, forsooth !! Why, it's to be q
vast Jail, where the imates are obliged
to pray through the nose for solitary
confinement. It is a magnificent look
ing structure seen from without, but
inside it is heavily and cheaply finish
ed and the furniture is all dark and
sombre to a degree. The lowest price
for a room is six dollars week about
the size Of sardine box-and two
women are expected to occupy one of
these; if one rooms alone, then the
price is seven dollars a week.


This is simply monstrous to begin
with. Numbers of Stewards own en-
ployees receive but Sc week and S12
is high pay. A few of his best sales
women get $40, and some Of the fore
women $50, but few, however, l have
been told by ladies employed there.
One woman told me she had been in
his service for twelve years, and re-
ceived at the date s12 week, her pay
having been raised at the rate of the
princely sum Of 81. year. The So
called parlor rooms, for which from
So to S. week extra is charged, are
only fair sized rooms; transient board
ers 50 a day-for one Of the small
rooms at that-paying invariably in
advance Now, as none of the women
receive their wages in advance, how
are they to pay in advance? They
must be taught to be beforehanded
suppose by the philanthropic Hilton
and the doting old Mrs. Stewart.
Here are few Of the extra charges:
for every bath Is cents; for every
meal sent to the rooms extra, and only
allowed in case of sickness, of which
sickness the manager-a man-is to
be the judge. This is at once outrag-
eous and indecent, inasmuch as the fe-
male sex are subject to many aches
and pains Of which men know nothing,
or if they did would class them as
"affectation." Again. in this city
and working women, is fair to assume,
are the same the world over-many
delicate women who have stood on
their feet the whole week, to say moth
ing Of walking to and from their place
Of business, are so jaded out by the
time Sunday comes that they lie in
bed the greater part Of the day, or on
the sofa reading in wrapper, and on
ly dress when evening comes. In reg
ular boarding houses the landladies,
unlike Madame Stewart, having heart
in their bosom, send their bit of food
to these tired creatures without extra
charge, and they can also get bath
Year: 1878

who have broken down in harness anC
surely need shelter. Surely if there
had been any remote thought of help
ing working-women there would have
been some provision made for the
cradel and the grave, some graduated
scale of prices which would have en-
abled the poorer as well as the more
prosperous women and growing girls
to partake of the so-called advantages
Of this last pretentious fraud and i'm
position. AS far as the multitude Of
working-women are concerned, they
asked for bread and have been given
stone. All along the Bowery and
the great shopping avenues most of
the girls receive from So to 81 a
week. | know of only one class of
women to whom this hotel might be a
benefit if it were conducted on the
principles Of frst-class hotels. and not
as a convent or reformatory, and that
class is the one which furnished legiti-
mate amusement to the public; they are
known as "show folks;' but by the
exceedingly adrOit wording Of the bo-
tel regulations, it is to be clearly seen
that none such are to be received, for
their work is performed nightly, while
the Stewart boarders must be engaged
in daily work or employment what
the subtle difference is between work
and employment the crudite Hilton
does not tell US. All people in his en-
ployment have got to work, on the
drive continually, and none work for
him unless employed by the establish
ment.


There are some few rules which he
forgot to add, which will come as soon
as the prison gets in working order.
They are "No false hair allowed, but
every lady must have head shaved by
a barber on the premises, for which an
extra charge will be made. No lady
will be known by her name, but will
be expected to answer by her number.
A striped suit will be provided for
every occupant, which must be made
blythe mOdist Of the hotel extra charge,
and the material purchased at A. T.
Stewards" s."


And this is the long-talked of great
charity which was to atone for all
Stewards niggardliness in life! If
there are any women outside Of Stew
arts stores will 60 there, they will
sing low-one heavy hearted
chorus of:


"It's oh! to be slave,


Along with the barbarous Turk,
Where woman has never a soul to save


IF this be Christian work !"


If Judge Hilton wants to keep
big boarding house, let him call it 50,
and not a charity. Let him run it on
his Saratoga plan, and put up these
rules:


'No Jews received here.


mo show folks.


mo poor white trash"


CELIA LOGAN.
Year: 1878

Ostera spirit of sprirg-time,
| Awake from thy slumbers deep
Arise and with hands that are glowing


Put off the white garments Of sleep
Make thyself fair, O goddess


In new and repslendent array,
For the footsteps Of Him who has risen


Shall be heard in the dawn of day.
Flushes the trailing arbutus
Low under the forest leaves
A sign that the drowsy goddess


The breath of her Lord perceives.
While He suffered, her pulse beat numbly


While He slept, she was sill with pain;
But now He awakes-He has risen


Her beauty shall bloom again.
o bark in the budding woodlands,


Now far, now near, is heard
The FIRST prelCslve warble


OF rivulet and of bird.
o listen the Jubilate


From every bough is poured,
And earth in the smile of spring-tme


Arises TO greet her Lord


ii.
Radiant goddess Aurora


Open the chambers of dawn;
Lei the Hours like garland of graces


Enrich the chariot Of morn.
Thou doSt herald no longer Apollo,


The god of the sunbeam and Tyre;
The pride of his empire is ended,


And pale is the armor of fire.
From lofticr height than Olympus


Light flows, from the Temple above,
And the miStS Of old legends are scattered
In the dawn of the Kingdom Of Love.
Come forth from the cloud-land of fable,
For day in full splendor make room
For triumph that lost not its glory


As il paused in the sepClchre's gloom.
She comes the bright goddess Of morning,
In crimson and purple array;
Far down On the hill-tops she tosses
The first golden lilies of day.
On the mountains her sandals are glowing,
0'er the valleys she speeds on the wing,
Till earth is all rosy and radiant


For the feet Of the new-risen King.
Open The gates OF the Temple;


Spread branches Of palm and of bay;
Let not the spirits Of nature


Alone deck the Conqueror's way.
While Spring from her death sleep arises
And ioyouS his presence awaits,
While Mornings smile lights up the heavens,
open the Beautiful Gates
He is here The long watches are over,
The stone from the grave rolled away.
''We shall sleep" was the sigh Of the mid


night;


I'VE shall! risel'. is the song of to-day
o Music no longer lamenting,
On pinions of tremulous flame
Go soaring TO meet the Beloved,


And swell the new song of His fame
The altar is snowy with blossoms,
The font is vase Of perfume,
On pillar and chancel are twining
Fresh garlands of eloquent bloom
Christ is risenl with glad lips we utter,
And far up the infinite height
Archangels the pean re-echo,


And crown Him with Lilies of Light
Frances MACE, in Ha4per's Magazine for
Nay.
Year: 1878

eff we would have a free country,
we must have free press" heroically
exclaimed devoted daughter of rich
Nevada miner, as she slid down a grape
arbor at two o'clock in the morning
and then eloped with poor editor.
Year: 1878

THE Gas Companies seem greatly ex-
ercised over the report of Edison's discov-
cry of successful electric light, and no
wonder. The new illuminator is said to
be three times as cheap as gas; so, if the
companies propose to compete with it in
price, they will have to reduce their rates
so much that they will not be able to
more than double their money.-Herald.
Year: 1878

Make all your arrange
mentS now to be at home
on election day so that you
will be sure to vote. If
you have to go away from
home, get back before cleo
tiOn, or else wait until the
election has passed before
you go.
Year: 1878

through a trap door, and from .
show case took several hundred
choice cigars. They left the building
through the rear celler door, with a
case Of Milwaukee bottled beer,
leaving the case out side and Juggling
of the bottles. If in drinking the
contents they drank to the health of
one another, they made an error il
they did not drink congratulations
to the success of their low, petty,
thieving scheme, which should meet
its reward in the gratuitous presen-
tation OF a striped suit to the par
ticipants.
Year: 1878

FREEpoRr is dangerous place to
visit, especially during Fair time.
That is the experience OF two of our
citizens, and they will steer clear of
that demoralized town in the future.
They suspected the house where they
put up was not first-class, but con-
cluded to stay the first night on trial.
Although the chamber door had no
fastening, their own honesty made
them unsuspicious. But alas; when
the sun arose it discovered 70 them
how depraved is human nature. All
their clothing, except what they slept
in, was gone. leaving them almost as
nude as nature brought them into
the world, and penniless. Phancy
their pheelings as they cried out for
help. We draw the veil of oblivion
over this narrowing scene. 1t only
remains to be told that the two have
returned home. Their borrowed
clothes and G.oaey have, been sent
back to. the unhsly city,.
Year: 1878

Our bills for paper, material and
,.bor continue to fall due, but We
are receiving no money to meet
tbem Will those who know they
are owing US please pay as promptly
as possible, and not wait for a bill to
he sent. A receipt with statement
Of account will be Immediately re-
turned. Over one.half of our sub
scribers are owing US $500 or more,
and if each one of them would come
forward and pay up we should be re-
]ieyed from a great emergency.
Year: 1878

The farmers hereabouts are rush.
ing their hogs to market without
fattening them, for fear they might
he overtaken by the cholera plague.
AS the success of the country de-
pends largely upon that of the farm
ers, this will prove q great drawback
to all classes. There's On abundance
of good corn in the country that
might proftably be fed to hogs.