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Year: 1878

The Administration n Failure Far as


Is what Ss Necessary to


place Hayes I'm Line with His PaFty.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 15-The friends Of Sena-
tor Conkllng deny that he contempates call


ing upon President Hayes with reference to
the latter's Southern policy. They say, in so
far the result OF that policy has failed to
bring about in the South reign Of peace and
quiet The Senator believes implicitly with
the President, that the South has not re-
turned in kind the generous treatment it has
received. The Senator is said to hold
that, so far as the Southern policy Of
the President is concerned, he cannot
now undo what he has DONE even
II he desires. That his Southern policy eK-
hausted itself-so far as it could be called q
policy-when the President gave South Caro-
lima an Louisiana the benefit Of home rule,
but that the President is now beginning to re-
aiize what the leaders in the party, from the
very beginning, apprehended that the South
would not administer the fourteenth and tif-
teenth amendments to the constitution in the
spirit in which the trainers Of those articles
Intended they should; that all the harm that
the Republican party sustained in its divi-
sions over the wisdom OF the President s
policy has been felt to the uttermost
and that the very fact that the President rs
not satisfied with the result Of his dealing
with tho South Is the best evidence that tbs
party can readily be reunited on Il basis that
the laws of the country must be enforced and
the constitutional amendments, which apply
to the freedmen, not only be accepted but
likewise honestly interpreted.
Year: 1878

This he will undoubtedly hold as long as he
lives. It Is impossible to make headway
against him in his district the latest attempt
having signally failed You can enter Ste
phens name as O. member for life, without re-
gard to the course he may take with the ever
lasting Potter investigation.
Year: 1878

Secretary Sherman has written let
ter to the Secretary of the "Honest
Money League" denying emphatically
that he or any other member of the
Cabinet had proposed to recede from
the position heretofore taken by the
Administration in regard to the Re-
sumption act, and assuring him that
there will be no letting down by the
Executive branch of the Government as
to resumption on the lst day of January
next
Year: 1878

Gen. Butler made a two hours speech
in the Exposition Building at Indianap-
oils on the afternoon of the 2Oth, and
another in the evening at Masonic Hall.
He confined his remarks chiefly to the
finances and a defense of his own posi-
ton.
Year: 1878

The following is as near the result OF
the election in Maine as can be given
until the official returns are received:
There is no choice for Governor by the
people. The Legislature will stand 81
Republicans, % Democrats and SO Green
hackers, and they will probably choose
q Democratic Governor. Eugene Hale
is defeated in the Fifth District by at
least 500 majority.
Year: 1878

and her assassin young lawyer named
Andy Tracy. The murderer came mn
behind her as she was walking
IN the street in company with
another young lady, placed revolver
at the back of her head and fired He
then turned and ran, and succeeded in
eluding arrest. His victim died in 40
minutes. She was engaged to be mar
ned to another gentleman of the town


1t is reported from Berlin that the
Government has received an official
notification from Russia, Austria and
France Of the acceptance by these pow
ers of Prince Bismarck's invitation TO
join in the active mediation between
Turkey and Greece, in favor of the lat
ter power. The English Government
has refused to cooperate, and Italy's
adhesion is declared to be conditional
upon the unanimity of action of other
powers.
Year: 1878

1t Will not astonish the public to learn


that there is much excitement at Wash
ington over the startling course of Secre-
tary Sherman with regard to the convict
ed member of the Louisiana Returning


Board. Several interviews in our Wash
ington reports will give the reader the


opinions entertained on both sides Among
the many extraordinary things in the
politics of the last year and half perhaps
the most extraordinary of all is the atti-
tude in which President Hayes Secretary
OF the Treasury has put himself toward
the prosecution of the members of the
notorious Returning Board in Louisiana.
what greater violation could there be of
oinoai decorum than for high officer of
the federal government to intrude his
oplnon IN criminal trial during its pro-
gress before regularly constituted Judi
cial tribunal in State? BY what law or
what usage or what principle ofpropriety
can the strange course of Secretary Sher-
man be justified? BY what conceivable
warrant can he, mere outsider, a mere
looker-on from distance, assume to de-
eide that legal prosecution in State
court against man charged with a felony
Is an outrage upon justice? How did it
become the business of Secretary Sher-
man any more than it is the business of
any other citizen of the United States
who is not resident of Iouisiana?-
Since when did the administration of
justice in State fall under the supervis-
Ion of federal Cabinet officer and be-
come subject to his review? What law
makes him an appellate tribunal to set
aside the verdict of State jury and re-
verse the judgment of State court?
While the trial of Anderson was in pro-
gress Secretary Sherman, Stanley Mat
thews, Mr.. Garfield and other "vsiting
statesmen" sent him telegram declaring
their belief in his innocence, telling him
that he was 'falsely accused and malic-
iousiy persecuted," rendering him their
"earnest sympathies" and deploring the
"revival of sectional animosities." This
was an unseemly and scandalous proceed.
ing, even on the hypothesis that Ander.
son is innocent. 1t was the expression
of an opinion in advance of the trial and
in ignorance to be presented in court
But as if this gross breach of decorum
were not enough, Mr.. Sherman publicly
denounces the verdict and traduces the
judge after the trial is over. There has
Year: 1878


THE COMMISSION TO THE LATIN UNION
we fearis only another trap of the bank
ers and bondholders to attempt to secure
their object through another Congress,
viz; the payment Of the public debt in
gold coin exclusively. We therefore, hope
that this amendment to the Bland Bill
will not be passed by the Senate. We
may be mistaken of course But as
"eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"
and we have SO narrowly escaped being
transferred to the European and domes-
tic bondholders, we would not trust the
gold grabbers, with anything out Of our
sight. ..t.


These people are the financial thimble-
riggers of the day; and remind us forcibly
OF the gentry who display and hide and
hide and display the little ball, that we
hold them in the same attitude. "Now
you see it and now you don't see it," You
bet your money, and it passes from
your hands. Away with political decep,
ton. The men who would teach om
young men that the silver 'dollar of the
daddies" is "dishonest dollar" and thai
the men who adhered to it in the honesty
OF their hearts, are dishonest men, ''fools
and knaves," if you please, must regain
confidence before they deserve to be held
up as teachers worthy of the public trust
of the people.
Year: 1878

RIGHT.-H affords us unalloyed plea
sure to publish the brief synopsis of the
speech of HON. ELI SALISBURY in the
Senate yesterday in favor of the Bland
Silver bill. The Senator utters the voice
of Delaware on this question, whether
considered as in unison with his party or
otherwise. The vast majority of the De-
mocratic party from Gov. Cochran down
are IN favor Of the bill, and the majority
of the Republican party are also favora-
BILE TO gold and silver. The single gold
standard has noD political status in Della
ware, outside of two or three corpora
tons. 1t is greatly to be hoped that the
Senate will pass the bill and that the
country will settle down again upon a
permanent specie basis as existed before
the war htf' 1000
Year: 1878

and in the same act of the Legisla- ture ratifying that settlement pro- vide for the Hoford Bonds to the extent of the actual amount that may be found due on that account after fair and equitable adjustment of the matter in accordance with the

 facts and history of the case from the date the $500,000 bonds were hypothecated by the agents of the old Real Estate Bank with the North American Trust Company" and provide that the holders of any part of the issue known as 'Holford Bonds" be permitted to surrender their bonds and receive pro rata of the actual amount found dne from the State on account of those bonds. In this way the State would not re- pudiate nor scale any part of the debt for which the Holiord bonds were issued, but would lop of the fraudulent portion of that issue and pay dollar for dollar with interest on same for what we actually received on the $500,000 bond Cor rather on what the said Bank received, as the State received nothing except the assetts of said Bank after it's failure ). Now, if you agree with me in these views, l have no doubt of getting all the other bonds Ga majority of them in time for you to call the Legisla- ture in extra session before the mid dle of January, and this closes up the whole thing in accordance with the plan you set out to settle upon, and thus save the State from sweep ing repudiation, which l fear will be the case should no settlement be made before the next election, if the bondholders show no disposition to accept a settlement which is entirely
Year: 1878

"The night is far spent and the daylight
appears" The time for the resumption Of
specie payments is coming near. What will be
the effect?


First, it will unlock the specie which miserly
people have everywhere been boarding. The
old stockings will give up their dead dollars
and eagles. and people will invest their boarded
treasures in productive undertakings. Those
dollars and eagles will soon find their way into
the vaults of banks, fer people will prefer
bank bills when they know they will command
the gold and silver as wanted. Bills are
more convenient for daily use and safer and
easier to have about the person. Bank bills
will seldom be presented for redemption. So
specie will be mostly kept in the banks as for
merly, and bank bills be the currency of the
people. The ability of the Government aud
banks to maintain resumption, when once un-
dertakeH, is past doubt.


Second. The price of all articles which has
been depressed by the panic will be raised, and
the price of those which has been swollen by
the panic will be reduced. There will be
new adjustment of prices upon the grounds of
equity, an equilibrium established between
them all. Groceries bought abroad at old gold
prices will be cheaper, as in 1860. Manufac-
lures which have been selling at less than the
cost of production will be higher, as they
should be, and the wages Of operatives proper
tionately raised.


Third Stability in money matters being
secured and prices equitably adjusted all round
Year: 1878

THE following question anent those steers
is put to Solon Chase by correspondent of
the Lewiston Gazette. Lots of people are
listening for the answer:


Suppose the Resumption Act was to be re-
pealed, and the financial policy of the Govern
ment fully committed to this scheme, would he
be willing to sell ''them steers" and his farm at
their full market value to-day and receive
therefor note payable in three years from
date, at per cent. interest, payable in this fiat
money that he proposes to flood the country
with? 1t is my opinion that when his note
became matured, and he should take his prin-
cipal and interest and undertake to buy another
farm, then he would see what shrinkage was
The farm that he would be able to buy with
the money he got for his first farm would not
be large enough to make a respectable back
yard for Pat Murphy, and the steers would
probably be about large enough 70 work iti
Now this would not be the case if the money
they proposed to put in circulation had any
real value, and this is question would like
to ask any one who Is sympathizer with this
wild cat scheme, and who has property that he
has acquired by years of industry-if he has
confidence enough in this fiat money to part
with his hard earned property or money and
take his pay in this stuff in three years from
now? II not they are voting for what they
hnO1o is rohherY
Year: 1878

THE agricultural philosopher of the Hart
ford Courant has discovered that there are
more'n forty different restful attitudes that
tired man can take in hammock-each one
worth a quarter. Putting down the price
of hammock at $1.50 the profit is some
thing immense. But the farmer who invests
may find that Stirred man. is a misprint for
"hired man."
Year: 1878

THE Gardiner Journal sensibly remarks
that "Papers cannot be too careful of giving
rise to these mad dog excitements. The fact
is that the number who die from hydrophobia
is so small that very many physicians deny
the existence of the disease at all; and with
out doubt more people are frightened to
death from fear Of hydrophobia than ever
died of the disease" That is true. But
perhaps it will be just as well to keep on
killing the ours. The labor Is its own
uarI
Year: 1878

ST. LOUIS is exulting because a man
arraigned for murder in one OF its courts was
suddenly called up in the absence of his
lawyer and SO far forgot himself in his ex-
element that he told the truth and pleaded
guilty. He was promptly sentenced before
he had time to retract his plea.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communl-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

Pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Church at Pitts


ton, Luzerne County, Pa.


My Dear Sir-Having at various times, personally,
and in my and other families, tested the great
value Of the medicine called PERUVIAN SYRUP,
or PROTECTED SOLUTION OF PROTOXIDE OF
IRON, most cheerfully recommend it, especially to
those who are suffering from dyspeptic and nervous
disorders. As reliable and powerful Alternative it
is, think, unsurpassed; and as tonic, free from
all the Objectionable features of alcoholic remedies
it is a most efficient auxiliary to the temperance
cause. One of the greatest hindrances to the tenn
perance reform at present is. as Think the medical
use Of alcoholic stimulants Whatever may be ar
gued to their necessity in certain cases. we have
in the PERUVIAN SYRUP, a safe and efficient sub
stitute for those dangerous remedies This testimo-
ny is given unsolicited, with the hope that some who
are not yet acquainted with the valuable properties
of the medicine may be induced to give it a trial.


Yours truly,
Year: 1878

WE have not room this week to insert
any remarks upon the alI-abSorbing
''greenback question:" upon which our
local correspondent grows eloquent. We
invite attention to his communication
which appears on our inside local page.
Year: 1878

The recent high wind fell so many trees
across the telegraph line above this place
that it had not been repaired IA tar as
Port Ludlow up to the time we went to
press. Roads have been block in all direc-
lions
Year: 1878

Advices from Panama announce the
beginning Of fresh quarrel between
Chill and the Argentine Republic,
which it IS feared will end IN war.
These NO nations have never been
On exactly the rest of terms, and now
will be as good time as any for them
e settle outstanding difficulties. The
former has evinced so much enter
prise ~ of late in building railroads
across barren mountains and through
virgin forests that she finds herself at
this critical moment with little money
at command. A Latin government
in South America at least-rarely con.
fronts contingency like this with
any better plan than the establish
ment of dictatorship which can raise
funds through other than regular chan
nels. So it can occasion no surprise
that the news of political turmoil
comes coupled with the intelligence
that in Chill all the banks have sus-
pended specie payment owing to their
being drained of gold by the govern
ment II EsmeraIda Herald.
Year: 1878

Two gentlemen were proceeding
along San Pablo avenue about IL
o'clock Saturday night, when they
heard feeble call for help proceed
ing from the vacant space between the
avenue and Grove. street, this side of
the junction. Going to the spot they
found a well dressed white man and a
well dressed Cnnaman engaged in a
life and death struggle, both covered
with blood and nearly exhausted The
Chinaman had scratched all the skin
off the white mans face, torn piece
out Of his nose and seriously injured
one of his arms. The white man, dis.
ablcd and nearly exhausted from the
loss Of blood, was clinSing to the Chi
Year: 1878

Peter Humphrey, an employe in the
Blue Banks mine, near Moore's Flat,
met with an accident about ten days
ago that is liable to lay him up for
some time. He was holding the drill
for the striker when the lookout called
to the miners 10 run from small
slide that was coming down upon
them from the high bank Humphrey
placed the palm of his hand on top Of
the drill in order to assist himself in
rising, that he might escape As he
did SO, the sledge descended with all
the force that strong arm could give
it, and the unfortunate mans hand
was pierced through its center, the
top of the drill coming out just above
the knuckles. He was liberated from
his horrible position and a physician
Immediately called Only one small
bone is believed to be broken, the drill
having crowded the large ones apart
and gone between them = Nevada
(Cal. Transcript.
Year: 1878

A New Orleans gentleman tells the
following curious anecdote: In Match
itoches parish pedestrian noticed ON
"a lonely road a frog fighting desper-
ateIy with a tarantula and the ta-
rantula returned the compliment by
singing the frog Every time the
frog got stung he would hop TO tho
side of the road, where some green
plantain was growing, and nibble of
piece, after which he would hop
hack to the fight. This being repeat
ed about half a dozen timesi the hui
man spectator resolved to satisfy his
curiosity, took ont a iack-knife and
Topped off the plantain close 10 the
roots, while the frog and tarautula
were carrying on their duel. When
tine frog got stung for the seventh
time he eaped back to where the plan
tain had been, and not finding it, ut
tered a peculiarly helpless Cry, stag
gered little, vainly tried to hop into
the high grass, shuddered, fell over on
his side and gave up the ghost.
Year: 1878

The bankrupt law has expired, and
we may look for fewer sayings-bank
failures in the future While its de-
mise will work hardships on honest
people who fail in business through
unavoidable circumstances, it will be
a protection to them against dishon,
est men who get rich by robbing them.
AS more thieves than honest men fail,
the country will get along better with
out the law.
Year: 1878

IT Is said tina, yellow fever has nev-
er been known to exist in attitudes of
over FIVE hundred feet above sea level,
except occasionally in large cities
that have bad sewers and filthy al
leys. As Idaho is of sufficient alti-
tude to warrant US in guaranteeing
that it will never have case of the
frightful disease, and as our people
are the most healthful in the world,
tie people Of the stricken cities would
do well to come and settle among US.
Year: 1878

A very sad accident, in which Miss Lil- He Haines is the sufferer, occurred in town late Tuesday afternoon. Lillie is a bright little girl Of nine summers, a favorite of the family and neighborhoOd. She had just recovered from a protracted illness through which she displayed most love- ly, patient, and submissive disposition. On Tuesday afternoon an elder sister Of Lilies was preparing to make a visit to some friends, and was just about to start. when she thought or little pistol which she thought she would take with her. Lil- lie ran Into the house to bring the pistol and handed it to her sister with the muz- zle toward her own breast. The weapon must have been cooked, for her sister no sooner grasped the pistol than it explod- ed. the bullet entering L1Ilie's right breast, seveung rib and lodging in the region Of the spine. The little sufferer is lying in a very critical condition, and though she Is patient and cheerful, her physicians entertain serious doubts ot her recovery. We heartily sympathize with poor little Ldllie and the afflicted family This sad should serve as another warn- ing against the indifferent handling Of firearms.
Year: 1878

TIE Eureka Republican reports that large numbers of cattle are dying from starvation in the southern part of Ne vada.

 THERE is an old German proverb to the effect that a great war leaves the country with three armies-an army of cripples, an army of mOurners, and an army of thieves.
Year: 1878

THERE is to be seen at the Recorders office box of ore received from the Hannible mine. No doubt can exist re- garding its value as the horn and native silver Is plentifully difTused through the quartz; what is still more encouraging is that in the shaft now being sunk on the mine at a depth of sixty feet, there is a body of ore six feet in width which aver ages $500 to the ton.
Year: 1878

OUR friend Feuillu of the One Bit Bar is one of the best of the French boys, and always has the best brands of liquors and cigars at only one bit chance. Read his advertisement, or better still go and see him.
Year: 1878

current expenses of the government.


From carey worn and burdened
business men, all over the country,
the anxious inquiry comes Watch
man what of the night? Are better
times at hand7 Four bitter years of
commercial distress confront the
present Congress. Few men have had
the sagacity to lay aside fhe par
tisan and assume the patriotic garb
as legislators in these trying times.
Not a city or town in our land that
does not show large portion of its
population suffering for the want'of
bread. Thousands of the unemployed
have been demoralized and swell the
great army of tramps that infest all
portions of the rural regions. Muscle
and labor-the nations truest
wealth-have no value, and can not
be exchanged for bread. Ip such
times Macaulay's ringing words have
no application to our statesmen:


Then none were for party,


Then all were for State;


Then the great men helped the poor


And the poor men loved the great.


The remedy can be seen by any
patriot, and the people will rise in
their might and majesty and new
party will come to the front, whose
motto will be the right of every man
to earn his bread, unless Congress
provides suitable appropriations to
encourage and stimulate business
activities. Why, by another turn of
the screw, continue the monthly re-
duction of the debt? Let posterity
bear some portion of the burden.
Let Congress make ample appropria-
tions for completion of all public
buildings and ether public improve
ments, North, South, East and West.
Let provision be made for removing
the unemployed in the great cities
to homes in the undeveloped West,
and help them to team and pro-
visions for six months, such advances
to be lien upon the homestead to be
returned to the government at the
end of ten years. The expenditure
of even $50,000, 900 would be capital
| we'll invested as a business trans
tion, to say nothing of the want and
suffering that would be relieved.


The long neglected and un$ightly
Washington monument is to bb top
ped and bottomed out, Congress hav-
ing provided that $4,000 of the
former appropriation of $500, 900 may
be expended in strengthening the
| foundation.


The swamps and mosquito factory
Just south of the Capitol is to be filed
at an expense of SIS, 700. It is q good
time to abolish all nuisances both in
and around the building.


The warm weather sends home-
ward bound the throng who have
been spending the delightful days of
winter amid the everglades and
orange blossoms, and their presence
fills the street and hotels with hosts
Of visitors. Fashions stern decree,
even in these times of depression,
tints the color and monlds the cut of
garments, and the variety and mosaic,
the old styles and the new that are
woven into the dresses Of the elite
are marvellous, both as to materials
and quality. SENTINEL.