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Year: 1879

In our cable dispatches will be found the
points of leader on the Irish agitation
printed in the London Times of yesterday.
AS will be observed, the latest intelligence
from the districts in which the agrarian cry
was taken up with the greatest vigor is to
the effect that the excitement is diminished,
that the people who are able to pay the rent
are disposed to pay it, and that the agita-
tion would all 60 down quietly if not in
dustriously fomented by the men who hope
to make political capital out of it, Indeed,
unless large amount of money is
subscribed here to nourish this dis
content, and an enthusiastic encourage
ment is given to 1t, 1t will come to naught
far more speedily than did the famous
Fenian uproar. And we do not believe it
will get much assistance here. Those who
have the means to contribute have learned
to scan very closely the propositions of the
so-called friends of Ireland. Irish men and
women in America, ii they pay the rent Of
the houses at home, and in bad years
supply the means to buy the potatoes also,
may we'll doubt whether they have any
more to waste on the material to keep up a
trumpery agitation which proposes tho i'm
possible as its object. Money for food they
will give and literally; money for brass
bands and fireworks we do not believe they
will contribute.
Year: 1879

A reasonable call is made upon the
superintendent of the Census of 1880 to
collect statistics of the number of persons
excluded from suffrage in any OF the States
by restrictions which should lessen the
representation of those States pursuant to
the fourteenth amendment of the federal
constitution. Although the ratification of
that amendment was perfected long before
the census Of 1870 was taken no statistics
of the kind were collected in that year. We
observe that the Springfield Republicdn-
good New England authority admits that
if they had been they would have deprived
New England of probably one and possi-
bly, two" members Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives, and consequently of the Elec-
torl College, by reason Of the restrictions
existing in Rhode Island and Massachu-
sets. When we remember that the last
President tial election was determined by
majority of one vote in the electoral count,
and that the next bids fair to be very closely
contested, the gravity of the omission in
1870 is manifest without argument. If the
Superintendent of the Census does not pos
sess the requisite authority to avoid this
omission next year there should be no delay
on the part of Congress to confer it, so that
the facts may bo ascertained in season for
the next apportionment of Representatives
and Electors.
Year: 1879

There is no good reason why Congress
should not pass the bill, reported by the
Senate Judiciary Committee, to repeal that
section of the Revised Statutes which pro-
vides that no ex-oflicer OF the army, navy
or civil service of the late Confederate gov
ernment shall be appointed to any position
in the national army. The South is now a
part of the nation, some of her citizens
have had considerable military experience,
and while it is not easy to see how any
ex-officer Of the Confederate army can
desire the position of second lieutenant,
which Is the only one to which civilians
Year: 1879

We are not informed of the legal grounds
on which the Cabinet has decided to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to
instruct General Hatch to receive the
Indians who committed the White River
massacre, with the assurance that they
shall be tried outside Of Colorado or New
Mexico. Their crime was committed in the
State Of Colorado, and the constitution pre-
scribes that in all criminal prosecutions the
accused shall be tried sin the State and
district wherein the crime shall have been
committed, which district shall have been
previously ascertained by law" 1t is very
clear that these Ute murderers cannot be
tried outside of Colorado by the civil au-
thority.


This is SO evident that the Cabinet does
not attempt to contravene it. They have
decided that the trial shall be by military
commission. It is not clear, however, by
what statutes military commission ac-
quires jurisdiction. We suppose the gov
eminent assumes that the atrocious White
River massacre was committed in time of
war. and thus bring it within the military
authority. But this is evidently an after
thought Had it been the original intention
to try them by military commission
General Hatch had only 10 communicate
that purpose to Chief Ouray to remove his
objections to the locality of the trial.
His reason for objecting to o trial
in Colorado was the impossibility of
securing a local jury from which the
murderers could expect justice. In a mill
tary trial the members of the court are off,
GERS appointed by the government and they
would be as fair and impartial in one place
as another. The Cabinet having made this
decision and given this assurance it now
remains to be- seen whether the Utes will
stand by their engagement and give up the
murderers.
Year: 1879

The immortality OF Three Cent Pieces.


The three cent piece by common consent
is nuisance. If it happens to be one of
the small ones it is easily lost, and If of the
larger size it is frequently mistaken for
bronze cent or for silver piece Of ten
cents. We believe that these odious little
three cent coins are no longer manuiac-
tured at the Mint. Nevertheless they cir
culate more freely in proportion to their
number than any other species Of coinage.
Such is the selfshness of human nature
that everybody who chances to have one
passed to himself makes haste to pass 1t to
his neighbor. There is material for the
pulpit in this very active circulation of bad
money. Certainly any preacher who could
find sermons in stones" ought to be able
to extract moral lessons from the adven-
lures of q three cent piece. The horse car
conductors agree that there has been u large
influx of them here within the last few
weeks. Where have they come from2
Year: 1879

Of registered voters the city Of Boston
has fifty thousand, of whom about one
thousand are women qualified to vote for
school committees, yet, although the men
that out of Difference to the gentler sex the
polling places are unusually quiet and
orderly. II this is to be the result of
woman at the polls, and so few of her
among so many men, by all means let her
vote, no matter IL she il not intellectually y
Year: 1879

The TWENTY FIFTH ANNIvERsARY of the
procana lion of the dogma of the immaculate
Conception was celebrated at the Vatican on
Monday with all the impressive pomp and splen-
dor customary at such celebrations. Our spe-
sial cable despatch from Rome gives US %
graphic picture of the ecclesiastical ceremonies
of the day
Year: 1879

Tomorrow the mammoth performance for tho
benefit Of the orphans takes place at the Academy Of
Music. As already announced in the HERALD all the
attractions running at the various theatres. as
per announcements elsewhere, will be given. at the
matinee and evening performances. 1t Is expected
by the manager OF the affair that the greatest
yet scored for the orphans will be accredited to
this year Of grace 1879. limited number of tickets
can be had from the sisters OF the asylum In Prince
street ut the box Office tomorrow.
Year: 1879

The PRESIDENT has offered to Senator
Edmunds the position vacated by Justice
Hunt. The Senator has accepted. The
democratic side OF the Senate will be only too
glad to rid their chamber of so powerful an
enemy by confirming him, while the republicans
will sustain loss almost irreparable.
Year: 1879

the equal of the plantation negro or the
newly imported European pauper. If she
can reform election day every man will
welcome her at the polls, even if she knows
so little as not to vote his ticket.
Year: 1879

HUSBANDS contemplating divorce, yet loving
their children, should learn from the result of
quarrel described on another page that the
public may always be relied upon to sympathize
with the mother.
Year: 1879

THE FINDING of the jury in the case of
Brewster VS.. Hatch implies that to fee the
coachman of a probable purchaser does not come
under the head of undue influence. Moral-Be
your own coachman.
Year: 1879

MIR. THDEN's BAR'L OF MONEY is reported to
be emptying into IA and immense railroad
scheme-iar better business Tor it than torment
ing the public about an election day long past
and another that never can come.
Year: 1879

Justice Moncietf, in passing sentence,
said he considered the circumstance
that the prisoners had not falsified the
accounts for their own personal benefit,
but in the mistaken idea that il was for
the public good.
Year: 1879

THE doctors employed at $500, 900
per annum by the government at
Washington to look after the health
of the country, have done nothing so
far, we believe, and now get into big
chancery suit with the cotton buyers
and other people at Memphis. They
may not know much about the obstruse
ways of Yellow Jack, but will find out
all about the devious doings of Fed
eral and State courts. But then the
government should never have agreed
to give all this money to the doctors.
The lawyers couldn't stand it, and now
the latter will get what is left of the
big pile. 1t signifies nothing. Tax
payers are used to being swindled, and
if a doctor can't drive the life out of
US the lawyers will skin us alive. But
the doctors and lawyers and courts
nave one another by the ears in Mem
phis, and Yellow Jacks deYiltries and
terrors are forgotten. There was never
so pleasing a change as this from
deaths doings to those of courts.
Memphis is to be congratulated.
Year: 1879

In New York State taxes under the
last Republican Governor amounted to
the enormous sum of SIG, 600, 600.
Under the Democratic Governors Til
den and Robinson taxes were reduced
to 81, 100000. This is q platform, and
strong one too. The STATESMAN
sought day after day to induce the
Texas Legislature to adopt burdens of
taxation to the contracted volume of
currency and growing cheapness of
living; but law-givers exhausted hu-
man ingenuity in the search for new
modes and subjects of taxation. Il is
all dug out of the ground and falls at
last upon the producers, the farmers of
the State VIII they not demand IN
the next canvass that the Legislature
enact vigorous reforms and. promote
rather than paralize public and private
eaterprise3
Year: 1879

THAT President Hayes Is not mis-
taken in asserting the revival of busi-
ness activities and reproduction of
commercial prosperity everywhere is
shown in the fact that the commercial
messages passing through the New
York telegraph Office are 10. 900 greater
in number each day than at the same
date of last year. We would have
published this item day or two ago,
but were unwilling to wound the ten
der senslbilities of the rousing Gree n
backer, Mr.. Hamman, then sojourning
10 the capital. It. is too sad.
Year: 1879

SENATOR LAMAR is in Washington
busily engaged on speech with which
he will shortly open the campaign in
Mississippi. Friends of the Senator
say he intends TO read some Of his con-
stituents lecture On the Y4zoa matter.
Private advices from several uthern
senators indicate very restive spirit
in the discussion of the Yyz)o affair.
One Senator says that on the first pub
lie occasion he will treat of that style
of politics which led to the shooting of
Dixon. Lamar will cry about it.
Year: 1879

EVERY city and village in intelligent
reading portions of the South during
the winter and spring will be thor
oughly expurgated. There was never
such demand for glazed terra Gotta
pipes for underground drainage. 1t is
agreed at last that the only security
against malarial plaques consists in per-
feet cleanliness. The average duration
of human life in these tropical States
will be increased 10 per cent.
Year: 1879

"PRoGREss AMONGST Our CoLoRED PEo.
PLE.-The New York Nation of last week,
in commenting upon Mr.. Windom's resolu-
ton in regard to promoting the emigration
of colOred people, notes the fact that Mr.
Window overlooks a great deal of negro
emigration that has been and still is going
on under the influence of economical mo-
tives. "That is to say" says the Nation,
which can always be cruelty frank when its
own individual interest does not seem to
suffer, "the negroes do move about great
deal in pursuit of cheaper or better land or
higher wages, and it is a remarkable fact
that to this emigration the States in which
there has been most bulldozing-such as
Louisiana and Mississippi-have been most
attractive, because land can be had in them
most readily. The explanation of this is
that the great body of the negroes really
trouble themselves very little about politics
so long as they have fair security for person
and property, which they have in as high a
degree as the white man all over the South
except about election time" The Nation
adds that we have had many inquiries into
the political condition of the blacks, "but
nothing would do so much good just now
as an inquiry by competent commission
into their social economical condition, with
the view of ascertaining the progress they
are making in acquiring property and edu.
cation"
Year: 1879

The GAMBLING LADY.-A lady of rank in
Paris died three weeks ago. in the fashion
able quarter of the Are de Triomphe, of
whom an interesting story is told. She
was famous card-player, and was credited
with knowing every game there was to
know. When travelling in foreign land
she met, one day, in a hotel, Russian lady
with that passion for gambling said to be
inherent in the Russian nation. Anxious
to play with the lady from Paris, she
wrote requesting few games. Her re-
quest was granted, and the ladies played
all night, the Russian losing at every hand,
until her opponent had won from her more
money than the mines in the Ural had pro-
duCed for her revenues in twenty-five
years. At last the Russian lady made a
despairing effort to regain her fortune, but
without avail. Rising from the table,
she told the French lady how she had lost
more than she possessed, but that in her
desire to pay debt of honor she would in
struct her steward to convey to her the
title deeds of all the mines and estates she
owned. AT this the victorious antagonist
smiled and requested that she might have
her own way in the matter, since she had
won. A priest and lawyer were sent for.
When they arrived, the Russian lady was
asked to bind herself by q solemn oath
never again to touch a card or risk money
at any game of chance. She did so, and
then signed an engagement to pay her an
tagonist the annual sum of $1,000. The
VOW never to play cards for money again
she faithfully kept, and the $4,000 was
punctually paid every year, the French
lady giving it the name of the "Queen oi
Spades Bounty" and invariably giving it to
the poor of Paris.
Year: 1879

A STARTLING FACT FOR FARMERs.-Over
half million of people have emigrated
from the East and settled on the new lands
of the West in the year just passed.
Allowing an average of twenty-five acres to
each person, l2,500,000 acres of new lands
were brought into cultivation, and putting
twenty bushels of grain to the acre as the
average product, there were added to the
grain crops of the country last year by
these new settlers 350,000,O00 bushels! Is
it then any wonder that the grain growing
business is killed in the Eastern and Mid
die States9 Will it be strange, if under
such circumstances, corn sells at twenty
five cents2 All this is brought about by the
direct action of the Congress of the United
States influenced by the interests and
management of the transporters and trad
ers of the country.
Year: 1879

The Plague is creating great alarm in
Europe. Both Austria and Germany are
isolating themselves from inland intercourse
with the Russian cities. The cessation of
the grain trade would be a calamity of no
ordinary magnitude, for Russia is one of
the chief sources Of supply for the w1st of
Europe, as it is the region whence there is
the largest exports of beeves to the heart
of the Continent. The deficiency in these
two important articles of substance will
have to be made up by this country. Our
ability to meet this extra demand depends
much on our own exemption from the
scourge. The health of the Nation, as we'll as
our commercial interests, are at stake. Thus
far nothing has been done, perhaps from
the belief that the ocean forms an insur-
mountable obstacle to the extension of the
epidemic to this side of the globe. The
great plague Of London of 1865 was caused
by woollen stuffs imported from Holland,
which had received them from the Levant.
A bale of goods, a single wooden garment,
is sufficient to carry the plague thousands
of miles away. a select committee of the
British House of Commons, in 1919, re-
ported it was the most contagious of all
kind of diseases. OF all the maladies that
have scourged the human race, the plague


is the most fatal. In one year it has des-
troyed S0,OOO,0OO of people. Physicians
are conversant with its symptoms, but they
have been unable thus far to combat it by
any remedies which they have adopted.
There is no protection against its ravages
but the perfect isolation of the country in
which it exists. In London, in 1865, plague
infected houses were shut up, and their in
mates prohibited from outside intercourse


There would not be so much danger of the
universal spread of the plague were the
facilities of intercommuncation between


the different countries of the world les;


general then they now are. Stringent
sanitary precautions cannot be too soor


adopted to prevent this insidious epidemic
from reaching our own shores.
Year: 1879

The Maine Democrats are said to have a
curious and general preference for Senator
Pendleton as the party's candidate in 1880.
They care little about Tilden, less for
Hendricks or Thurman, and have nothing
but sneers for Bayard. The trouble with
the latter is that he is "no better than a
Republican" OF course what they mean
is that he is no worse than a Republican,
for the great obstacle to Bayard's success
always has been his great moral superiority
to his party. He has habit of doing what
is right, whether it hurts his party or not.
Year: 1879

Two actions have been brought by the Attorney
General in the of the people against the Brook
lyn I'll" Railway Bruffs road) at the instance Of a
number of property owners along the line. Ore Of
the suits is quo warranto brought to forfeit the
charter OF the company. and the other action to
enjoin the building or the road and to compel the
removal of the work already done. The grounds on
which these actions based substantially the
same in both cases. 1t is claimed that the
company did not begin the construction Of
the road within two years OF the date Of
its charter and that the work was not


finished within three years. as required by law. The
charter required ten cent on 100000 OF the cap
itsl be paid In and this. 1t is claimed was
not done. Another point in .he complaint 10 that
tho company is putting the pillars to sustain their
structure in the middle of the road. instead OF
the sides Of the streets and avenues required by
their charter. The suits were begun on Thursday


last in the Supreme Court OF Kings county Sticknoy
Shepard being of counsel. gentleman yesterday
informed HERALD reporter that the only pretence
toward beginning work on the road within the two
years, as required by the charter. was in digging
some holes In the street the line OF the road,
which were Immediately filed up again.
Year: 1879

his diocese than he twenty ii We years ago this
day when he stood in that holy place trembling be-
fore the solemn work which awaited him. He had
experienced LOVING sympathy throughout his episco-
pate He invoked the mercy OF God upon ali present
and prayed that they might SO live as to have life
everlasting. .


The prayer for the church militant was then
offered by Bishop Potter. and Bishop LittieJohn be-
gan the communion service which Bishop Potter
continued. All the clergynen present entered the
chancel and partock of the communion, IN when
he other memb of the congregation then united.
The GLORIA in Excelsis was next sung. all present
joining in the chant. Bishop Potter pronounced the
benediction and the choir sung the .'Nunc Dimittis
The choir and clergy then formed in procession and
passed into the vestry. the recessonal hymn being
'.Now thank all our God" This closed tho SER
vices. and the congregation dispersed.
Year: 1879




The Academy of Music was well flled last evening
to hear the first concert of the season by the
chestra of the Philharmonic Society. As the pro-
gramme has already been considered in the HERALD
in connection with the public rehearsal. there is
no necessity detailed mention of it's rendition
last evening further than to note any change which
occurred.


Mr. Rummel. the soloist Of the OCCASION playing
the piano score Of the Tschakowsky concerto (opus
23 did not do himself the credit that he did the
rehearsal. His touch was less delicate and clear.
and several passages he blurred somewhat. In the
march movement, preceding the finale of the
allegro fuoco, the piano and the orchestra
were not at all together. Aside from these faults
the concerto grandly rendered and
Mr.. Rummel executed the closing in
octaves in q mastery manner. The ride Of the
Vaky yries' was n superb piece of orchestral work,
with but q single marked blemish the brass insru-
ments not prompt in the tempo in the passage
where they carry the theme. but quickly corrected
the error. In the other Wagner selection. Sieg-
tune The Beethoven concerto rendered in
more perfect manner than at the rehearsal. excel
lently as 1t was then played.


Tho large audience, the close attention they gave
to the programme OF the evening. the evident un-
derstandng of the selections, all were pleas
ant evidences of the good work the Phil
harmonic Society has done in New York
and the grand results that to follow in the
future in connection with the object for which
they are strivingthc cultivation OF love OF music
by the people generally.
Year: 1879

There IS more money made and more
money saved by farmers adopting the cash
system in all their dealings than is often
made from the profits of the crop. Far
mers generally sell their produce for cash,
and they always should do it; and they
should endeavor to raise such crops and
stock as will bring in cash income
throughout different months; then you can
always buy cheaper for the cash, and you
will surprised at the end of the year to find
SO great saving.


The credit system has been great curse
to the West, and if the Grange can sue
cessfully bring about cash system which
they ably advocate, that alone will more
than repay the entire cost of the organi-
zation.


With the coming of the New Year let
farmers universally, with one accord,
adopt the cash system and practice it.
Never buy what you cannot pay for. That
system is adopted by European farmers,
and is strictly lived up to there, and they
save by it handsome profit every wear.
Then, too, every farmer should keep an
account of all sales and purchases. to see
what pays best, and where the money
goes.-Western Agdculturst.