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Year: 1878

The phonograph, telephone and zero phone
are by no means the only grand inventions of
the past two years. The electric light, which
is just now the sensation of Paris, is thus
described by. a correspondent in that city:


The intense white glow from the electric
burners directly in front of the steps leading
up to the Grand Operas entrance, and scat
tered at inrervals across the grand boulevard
to the corner of the new avenue leading to
the Comedie Franchise, made the space for
hundreds of yaids round light as day. One
of the eletric candles seems to give as much
light as a hundred gas jets. Gas looks yel-
low, muddy and petty beside this grand fire,
which defes darkness. For a city lighted by
the new process all the terrors of midnight
would vanish. Burglars would find their oc-
cupation gone. The assassin would have to
sell his stiletto. Vice of all kinds would
either have to stink away, disgusted at the
small rewards which it would obtain when it
could no longer walk in darkness
Year: 1878

counts in the complaint he sustains
plaintiffs THE United States in their
demurrer to the answer of the defence,
holding virtually that the Government


was not bound by the action of the
United States Assessor as its agent,
and that Mr.. Tilden was required to
make himself a return of his income,
which he had not done. The case is
now to proceed to trial by jury on the
question of the amount of the
income of Mr.. Tilden during the
J ears in which he made no return
himself. In three years Mr.. Tilden
allowed the United States Assessor to
make a return and paid the tax on
such return, together with penalty of
five per cent, but this the court holds
was not sufficient, as will be seen by
the decision above. 1t is more thah
probable that Mr.. Tilden's counsel will
appeal the case to the United States
Supreme Court.
Year: 1878

Your reforming Democrat always succeeds
in curbing his zeal for economy when the
pruning knife approaches his own salary. The
poor clerk has no mercy shown him, and yet,
if Postmaster General Key is correct, he
ought to have his salary raised instead of re-
duced. Mr.. Key says the salaries of clerks
At that time Congressman received only So a
day, or less than $4,000 a year. Now they
receive 1000 year, no matter how long
sessions are. If clerk is worth no more than
he was twenty years ago, which may or may
not be the case, nobody will for moment
contend that the present Congressman is worth
nearly double what his prede cessor of that
time was. He costs the country double in
more ways than one, though.
Year: 1878

WHAT has become of all those investigating
committees, and have any of them picked out
their experts yet? The mud industry needs
reviving There isn't enough in progress at
present to supply the Democratic editor with
ammunition. He is sadly III need of some to
throw back against those ugly Southern
claims, and it must be of the blacklist kind,
too, or it won't do any good.
Year: 1878

SECRETARY SHERMAN says with considera-
BILE truth, that those who charge him with
Inconsistency have not carefully weighed
what he said before the committee. The
evils of unlimited silver which he predicted
haven't come yet, but he thinks there is still
tine for them to come. So does every other
man capable of forming an opinion on the
Gnhiccf
Year: 1878

SENATOR JOKES makes the level-headed re-
mark that it is useless to waste time in repeal
ing the Resumption Act, since resumption
will be an established fact before the date ar
riyes
Year: 1878

IT is said that Senator Thurman and David
Dudley Field are behind Montgomery Blair
in his fraud crusade. If this is so the country
will soon have rest from Blair, for Field
never yet got behind man without running
him
Year: 1878

MONTGOMERY BLAIR is still at it trying to
keep the fraud clamor from dying out, and
declares that he receives no end of sympathy
from all parts of the country, Nobody will
begrudge him this consolation; the poor man
needs it if ever anybody did.
Year: 1878

A PART of the economy" of this Demo-
cratic Legislature consists in cutting down
the salrrics of president and teacher in the
Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges, to
pay which not dollar of tax was ever levied
upon the people Of the State.
Year: 1878

PERHAPS if the belligerent college student
y as given less newspaper nOtoriety and put
thrOug the police court mill the same as any
other rowby, he might become the making of
a decent citizen.
Year: 1878

TIE sinking OF the British naval snip Edry-
dice in the English Channel, with between
300 and 400 persons on board, of whom all
but two are reported to have perished, recalls
the sinking of the Royal George in 1882 in
the harbor where she had been careened for
the purpose of repairing her bottom. Too
much weight was put on one side and the
huge vessel turned clear over. Her commaH-
der, Admiral Kemperfeldt, and hundreds OF
men were drowned. 1t was this catastrophe
that suggested the poem commencing:


''roll for the brave,


The brave that arc no more;


All sunk beneath the wave,


Fast by their native shore"


4 parallel of still more recent date was the
sinking of the iron clad Captain, of the same
navy, in the Bay of Biscay few year ago.
She capsized in gale and not man was
saved
Year: 1878

Michael Hessian, stevedore at Busb,s
wharf died suddenly this morning, from
a rush of blood to the heart lie was
at work when he was suddenly stricken,
He was taken to his home onSlxth street


between Franklin and Broome.
Year: 1878

While the whole country was sinking po1iti-
cal and sectional differences to bind the wounds
and comfort the heart Of the stricken South. IL
was LETT for the arch sooundrel Kellogg, who
Senate. to attempt to make capital out OF the
sorrOWs OF his DeOple,
Year: 1878

single wire rightly arranged for family SER
vice would do the churning, rock the baby, and
bring the cows home, and il Gen. Buffers
financial ideas prevail it could also be made to
ran the printing machine that Is to turn out
money for the household.
Year: 1878

The Republican papers protest most vfgor-5
ously that there hasn't been any Democratic
been Republican defeat which Is so much the
same thing there is no need to quarrel over the
difRarance
Year: 1878

A fool for my doubling and dreaming
And following up and down!
Shall 1 fill my life with scheming
For touch of my lady's gown?
Shall plot from night to morning
For the glance of a woman's eye?
And take the wages of scorning,
And wear shame's livery?
o foOtman, o wonder of whiteness
And diplomatic cockade,
q footman of much politeness
For my lady's lady y's-maid-
AS you open the door of the carriage,
Just tell her I've gone away,
But will come to dance at her marriage
On somebody's happy day.


Bldck1C0oGS Magazine
Year: 1878

Good breeding is % guard upon the
tongue; the misfortune is that we put
it off and on with our fine clothes and
visiting man1ers, and we do not wear it
where Il is wanted the most-at home,
Year: 1878

When woman makes up her mind
that hen shall not sit, and the hen
makes up her mind that she will, the
irresistible meets the immoyable, and
every law of nature is broken or per
verified
Year: 1878

If few words render man happy,
he must De wretch indeed who will
not give them to him. Let another
man light his candle by your own, and
yours loses none of its brilliancy by
what his gains.
Year: 1878

1t should be hardly necessary to utter
word of warning to the intelligent and well
meaning voters of the Fifth District. The
contest there seems to be practically between
Mr.. Hale and Mr.. Murcb. 1t is likely that
Mr.. Martin will receive but small vote, as
the Democrats seem inclined to 60 en- anosse
to the support of the Greenback candidate.
Su the choice of the electors seems narrowed
to the two foremost candidates and eyery
voter should look fairly at the men and see
which he will prefer to represent him at
Washington. About Mr.. Hale it is needless
to say many words. His character and SER
vices are known and respected of all men.
He is one of the very foremost of American
statesmen and any district or any state might
well be proud TO have him as representa-
tive. He is strong, upright, sensible, discreet
and able. He has to-day no superior on the
honr of the national House of Representa-
tiVes. He is man of the people, who has
made his way by the strength and merit
born in him. He efficiently serves and hon.
ors the District that trusts and honors him.


Who is Mr.. Murch? The head of a trade.
union. communist and agitator, man who
wars on society and seeks to upturn and
destroy the settled institutions of our free
country. He boasts that he is an ignorant
man and that he has lived more than forty
years in the world without laying up dollar.
Are these qualities to commend him to the
industrious, law-abiding, frugal and educated
voters of the Fifth District, who believe in
the schoolhouse, the church and the estab-
lished institutions of our New England COM
munity? Do you wish to commend to the
imitation and emulation of your sons man
whose conspicuous merits as stated by him.
self are failure to improve the means of ed
ucation afforded to everybody, and an i'm
providence which has left him at the age of
forty with no savings? An ignorant and an
unthrifty man is not suitable representa-
tive for you, to say nothing of the dangerous
disorganizing theories which this man pro-
tesses. The voter who helps to elevate such
a man to place of power where he will
ally himself with all the wild and
demoralizing elements from other parts
OF the country. is laying up for
himself plentiful stock of grief and self re-
proach. Shameful indeed will it be if Maine
sends contribution to the dangerous up
rising which is just making itself manifest in
this country. If Maine don't throw its
whole force to check this wicked movement
what can be expected of less intelligent and
conservative parts of the nation? Consider
it well, ye good men of the Fifth District,
and see if you are willing to lend your aid
to the wrong side of things.
Year: 1878

ssWith this sum specie payments can be
resumed at ence, and the premise that is
written ON the face of the greenback to pay
the dollar, made good. This would give
Bill good dollar for his work, and the
wounded veteran good money for his PEN
sion, which is only justice md fair play to
Bill and the veteran; that is, Bill mot only
would work for gold wages as he
does now, but would buy his goods
at gold prices, and thereby save
another large item of the $25434 that
is pr essed out of him annually
SPECIE PAYMENTS IS THE ONE
THING NEEDFUL IN OUR PRESENT
CONDITION, AND WILL CURE Us OF
MANY FINANCIAL ILLS. The moment
You have got specie payments, PendIeton's
and Buffers theory of paying the bonds In
greenbacks, which means neither more or
less than more and meaner money, be-
comes obsolete. If Congress i'm its blum
derings, did not agree to pay the principal
Of the bonds i'm gold, it ought to have
agreed TO, and specie payments will make
the agreement what it ought to be. The wit
ofman cannot devise any scheme that will
bring about specie payments other than re-
deeming greenbaclks with gold; that is, let
somebody else have some good money be-
sides the bondh dhslders.-SOLON CHASE'S
"POOR MANS TRACT" OF 1871.
Year: 1878




Those Greenbackers who were once Re-
publicans have grave responsibility resting
upon them. 1t is necessary for them to de-
clare by their votes for Congressman from
this District whether they prefer to see
Thomas B. Reed or: Samuel j. Anderson
sent to the national Congress. Mr.. Reeds
position on all the great national questions
which must press for determination within
the next two years, with the sole exception of
the currency question, is such as to commend
him to every Republican Greenbacker Gen.
Anderson's opinions on such questions are
odous to everybody except the hide bound
old Bourbon Democrats, and are such as to
excite apprehension and alarm in the breast
of every man who stood by his country in its
great trial and. who cherishes a desire for her
future honor, prosperity and stability. If
seLt to Congress he will strike hands with
hatred toward the North is only deepened
and intensified by their defeat and failure.


What will be the feeling OF any man who
was ever Republican when he comes to re-
fleet aiterward that he helped to send such
man as Anderson to Washington! Will not
the shame and self reproach be keen? Re-
fleet before it is too late. You would not
think of assisting Anderson directly. The
Democrats know better than to try to capture
you directly, and so are trying to make you
the victims of cunning trick. Hundreds
of Democrats have gone into the Greenback
movement for the sole purpose OF utilizing it
for their own party purposes. They are pro-
Tossing with the greatest vigor that they shall
vote for Cove, for the purpose of deluding
the Republicans who are associated with
them in the Greenback movement. They
will so protest until late in the day of elec-
ton, until after the Republican Green
hackers have voted, and then they will
syly slip in ballot for Anderson. You
may think that this is shocking aud that
these men could not be guilty of such bad
faith; but did you ever know Democrat
to keep faith in politics? Ifyou don't believe
this possible, just watch them and see how it
works. Don't be deceived by few of thsm
voting for Cove early in the day; that is a
part of the trick. Don't permit yourselves to
become cats-paws to draw Democratic chest
nuts from the fire.
Year: 1878

In the heat and press of the contest in the
Congressional Districts a great political and
public interest has failed to receive its GUS
tomary and due share of attention. As the
currency question is to be settled in the
national Congress, the choice of the State
government for the ensuing year has been
overshadowed and in some sense neglected.
Of course the awakening of political inter-
est in one direction operates in all, and Re-
publicans who go to the polls to vote for Con-
gressmen will vote for the Governor and men,
bers Of the Legislature. But this subordna-
ton of the State issues has given an oppor-
tunity for trickery and combination which
our willy and uDscrupulous adversaries have
not been slow to improve, and it is against
these Vaccinations and their possible result
that we wish now to utter very serious
word of warning.


In the first place Republicans may as well
bring their minds to contemplation of the
fact that it is quite possible, If not probable,
that we shall fail to elect our Governor by
the people. Our natural majority on such
year as this is about ten thousand, and this
is the amount which we should expect if the
situation had not been disturbed by the out
break of the Greenback craze. The Green
hackers expect to cast about 40, 900 votes this
fall. Suppose they cast half that number
drawn equally from the two parties,-our
majority is wiped out. IT Connor fail to get
majority Of all the votes cast. the election
goes to the Legislature on this wise the
House of Representatives selects from the
four persons receiving the highest number of
votes, two, and reports their names to the
Senate, which body then must select one of
the two for Governor.


Thus 1t is readily seen that in order to be
sure of electing our Governor we must have
majority Of each branch of the Legislature.
The Senate is reasonably certain. but our
danger lies in the House. The Democrats
and Greenbackers, who have been keeping
up in most parts of the state pretence of
hostility toward each other, have now thrown
off the disguise and are uniting in all direc-
tions on candidates for the Legislature. The
Greenback party is at last openly assuming
its true place as feeder of the Democratic
party. Can any honest Republican Green
backer longer doubt what are the tendency
and practical effect of his new associations?


Against this formidable combination of the
forces of evil, the Republicans must arise and
assert themselves or great disaster may
arrive. 1t is time to put aside all personal
considerations in the presence of great
public exigency. Every Republican should
vote for every Republican candidate for the
Legislature. We have a candidate for Gov
ernor who, in addition to beinga Republican,
stands head and shoulders above his oppo-
nents in every attribute desirable in our
Chief Magistrate. Shame indeed would it be
to US all if such man should fail of an elec-
tion through the apathy or fault of any one
OF US. Every good and true inducement for
political action exists in this case and no
man can excuse himself for neglecting them.
The danger is great and the uprising to meet
it should be equally great.
Year: 1878

New SINGING Book oliver Ditson s. Co.
have just published, and Ira q. Stockbridge has
for sale, Johnson's Chorus Choir distraction
Book, which teaches all the processes. and
every item of every kind, which has anything
to do with enabling company of singers to
sing perfectly. With the aid Of that book
every church can have a volunteer choir which
can lead the singing in way which will cause
it to affect and impress the hearts and minds
OF congregation as powerfully as words
spoken by the most eloquent speaker; and
musical az associations can arrive at a state of
discipline which will make their practice the
most agreeable Of recreations.
Year: 1878

And now it is proposed-proposed by the
men who steadily fought the Republican party
through the dreary and anxious days of the
war, who lifted not hand in defence of the
Union, and by a few men who seem to re-
gret the cost of the war for the restoration of
that Union and wish to escape the payment
of the debt they were then so anxious to
contract,-it is proposed by these men to
take away the control of public affairs from
the Republican party and give it into the
hands of party which showed itself imbecile
in administration, extravagant in expendi-
ture, and traitorous at heart. Democrats
may wish to do this. But those who have
ever been Republicans should leave that talk
to the men who sympathize with treason, and
who have been endeavoring, during the last
seventeen years, to destroy the unity, honor,
and credit of the country. The Government
is safest-and only safe-in the hands of the
Republican party, party which has con-
Quoted it so long and so ably, and which,
having saved the Union, proposes to
honestly discharge the debt incurred in the
great struggle for the preservation of the
national unity.
Year: 1878

DOES the North want in Congress man
who is of the North, who will represent
its views and press its interests, who will
stand up for his state and his order? Or
does it want a Northern man with South
ern heart, a man who devoutly believes that
the sound sense and intelligence and political
sagacity of the country is in the South? That
is a question which the people OF the First
District will be called upon to decide Mon
day.
Year: 1878

The "iron hoof' was put down in 1861
and 2 and 8 and 4-and put down for slav-
cry and secession. 1t will be put down now
for Southern supremacy aud the payment of
Southern claims. Will it be well to send the
man with the iron hoof to Congress, where
he can do so much mischief?
Year: 1878

"Paper emissions by the government are
of n nature so liable to abuse, may say
SO certain to be abused, that the wish ON of
the government will be shown by never
trusting itseIf w ih SO seducing and dan
gerous a pSwer.o


ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all 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

A resurrection case has just occurred
in this city, which has created great
sensation and no little excitement among
the superstitious. Several months ago
Mrs. Maria Hillitz, a wealthy and high
ly respectable German widow, was taken
i'll, and, in order to secure proper nurs-
ing and medical treatment for her dis
order, was removed to the Hospital of
the Little Sisters of the Poor, in the
western part of the city. She continued
ago grew suddenly worse. During her
illness she received the best of medical
attention and tenderest nursing from the
Sisters of Charity at the institution.
She grew worse, however, and her ply
sician pronounced her case hopeless.
Last Saturday night she died, and on
Sunday the body was shrouded and
placed in casket ready for burial on
the following day. The corpse was laid
out in the parlor of the hospital, on the
first floor. The friends of the deceased
gathered on Sunday, and watched be-
side the corpse of their companion.
About midnight the watchers were thun-
derstruck and utterly paralyzed by see
ing the body of Mrs. Hillitz suddenly
arise from the coffin, get up and stand
erect with glaring eyes; and imbued
with superhuman energy the woman ran
up the steps 10 the hospital on the Sec
ond floor, singing at the top of her voice.
The nurses were so astonished at this
unlooked-for event that they stood still
and made no effort to obstruct the move
ments OF the women. As soon as they
recovered from their fright they placed
her in bed, where she fingered until
tonight, at 10 o'clock, when she was
pronounced to be dead by the attending
physician. The affair has created in
tense excitement, and the hospital was
visited by thousands of persons anxious
to catch a glimpse of the resurrected
corpse.-Richnlond Va.) Dispatch.
Year: 1878

Morocco leather is made from goat
skins, tanned lin sumach, dyed in the
ordinary way, having been previously
immersed in solution of sulphuric
acid; and the grain or stamping upon it
is done either by hand or by machinery,
similar to that for the purpose of dicing
or granting. Very fine small skins for
gloves are often prepared by immersion
in solution of alum and salt, instead of
tannin, -four and the yelk OF eggs being
afterward applied to soften and whiten.


Buff leather, not now quite 30 much in
request as in former days, was at first
made from the skin of an animal called
the buffe, or urus, which was then COM
mon in Western Europe. When new,
the leather was always tawny yellow,
and the skins gave the name to the
color. Cordovan leather was first made
at Cordova, at Spain, from hides dressed
to be used with the grain side outward


It was from this leather that the title of
cordwainer came. Russia leather is
tanned in an infusion of willow or birch
bark, and derives its peculiar and long
enduring odor from the birch oil with
Year: 1878

The wolf asked the goat to dinner, but
the goat declined.


A fox sleeps, but counts hens in his
dreams.


The wolf changes his hair every year,
but remains wolf.


Dog, why do you bark? To frighten
the wolves away. Dog, why do you
keep your tail between your legss l am
afraid of the wolf.


Love, fire, and cough cannot be hid.
Make friends with a bear, but keep
hold of an ak.


Measure ten times; you can cat only
once.


Everything is bitter to him that has
gall in his mouth.


Bread and salt humble even n robber.
A full stomach is deaf to instruction.
If you hunt two hares you will catch
neither.


God is not in haste, but his aim is
sure.


You may shut the door on the devil,
but he will enter by the window.


Praise not the crop until it is stacked.
The devil when old becomes NOR k.
1t is not necessary to plow and SOW
fools-they grow of themselves.


With God we go even over the sea
without him not over the threshold.
Truth is not drowned in water mol
burned in fire.
A fool may throw stone into pond
it may take seven sages to pull it out.
No bones are broken by mothers
fist.


Many will give advice few give help
To whom God gives employment HI
gives understanding.


Whose bread and whose salt 1 eat
his praises l sing.


A good conscience is Gods eve.


Lies march on rotten legs; who lies vii
steal.


When you walk, pray once; when yol
go to sea, twice; when you go to be mar
rie1 three times
Year: 1878

fine old fellow. / baited his hook my
self. Quivering with Joy, as baby
does when it gets hold at last of play
thing some one has taken from it, Old
Soupramany hardly paused to thank me
by a soft note of JOY for batting his linz
for him before he went back to his
place, and was again watching his cork
as it trembled in the ripples of the river.
--St. Nicholas for May.