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Year: 1878

PITTsBUBGH, January 29.-Tho Board
of Wholesale Grocers held special
N Getting this afternoon to ascertain the
feelings of the members in regard to the
action OF the Chamber Of Commerce IN
passing resolutions adverse to the free
pipe bill now pending in the Legislature.
The meeting was largely attended. After
preamble setting forth that the action
OF the Chamber of Commerce mis-
represents the merchants OF this city
and places them in false light before
the residents and tradesmen OF the oil
regions, and admitting that the prosperi-
ty of this city is closely allied to theirs,
the following resolutions were unani-
mously adopted:


Resolred, That we are opposed to all
monopoiies in any branch of business,
manufacturing, mining, produces
railroads, and are opposed TO all class,
or special legislation that will benefit
a few to the detriment OF the many.


Resolved, That we are In favor of a
general free pipe line, that will grant
privileges alike to all our citizens, SO that
no individual or corporation can have
any special privilege or advantage.


Resolred, That what we demand for
ourselves we cheerfully concede to all,
and we hereby extend our sympathy to
the people OF the oil regions in their
struggle with the monopoly that has
been and is still depressing their pros
perity, and that we will use our influence
for the enactment of general free pipe
hne law.


ResoIved, That we are always in favor
of free, open, fair and equal competi'
ton. With these rights and advantages,
city or community that cannot retain
its trade and commerce deserves to fall.


A call is published this afternoon,
signed by over two hundred OF the best
firms in the city, for meeting OF the
citizens and business men on Thurs
day afternoon, TO take action on this
Suhiact
Year: 1878

DEAR BRoGEag Fox Il am feeling
quite unwell this evening, my lungs
trouble me, but still we are holding
meetings nearly every night. and work
ing hard to do good. We may be-
obliged 70 give up the ship, owing to
the indifference Of the people that have
means, many of them are indirectly
connected with the rum traffic. 1t
makes me heartsick to think that the
Church members are selling the poison
in Richmond to their fellow men. re-
joice that the professet Christians Of
Wilmington are free from the sin of
rum selling.


There is a great work to do in the
South. Oh, that we had the means To
keep the ball still rolling. Keep
stout heart, Brother Fox, and think of
us as VT often think of you and the
dear friends of the cause in Whining
ton. Soberly and cheerfully thine,


GRo. NJ. BUTCHER.
Year: 1878

come to be paid in silver the quantity Of
silver disbursed will exceed the quantity OF
greenbacks received for taxes. The Silver
bill, therefore, if skilfully worked, will
enable Secretary Sherman to prepare for
specie payments without any contraction of
the money in circulation.


This Silver bill may prove comparatively
harmless even for the remote future if what
is really the most important amendment
should answer the expectations of its
friends. If the governments of Europe ac-
cept our invitation to meet us in silver
conference, and an agreement should
be reached for common standard
OF silver coinage. the power of the bill for
mischief will be in great measure dis
armed. If even the governments composing
the Latin Union should enter into the
arrangement the general market for silver
will be so widened and the market for gold
be so contracted that the price of silver
may rise and the price of gold may fall so
as to bring their values sufficiently near to
enable legislation to make them practically
equal. We trust no exertion may be spared
to make the international silver conference
success. Meanwhile we are confident
that President Hayes will take care that the
interest on the public debt is paid in gold.
Year: 1878

In our kilograms to-day will be found


the text Of two DEGREES in regard to the
settlement in Cuba-the substance of which


we gave some days since. These documents
are promulgated by Captain General Jovel-
lar and General Martin ez- Campos. The
first provides that all slaves who were with
the insurgents on February ~, shall be free,


on condition that they present themselves
to the authorities before the last day of this
month of March, and that the owners of
the slaves thus made free shall be indemni-
fed if they did not themselves act with the
insurgents The second decree declares
Cubas participation henceforth in certain
privileges extended to other colonies, and
(which without insurrection Cuba would
have enjoyed long ago." Representation
of the Cuban people in the Cortes at
Madrid is the most important of these.
Equality before the laws with the
people of Spain, representation, i'm
mediate freedom for slaves who joined
the insurgents and the total extinction OF
slavery by gradual process whose ultimate
term is after all very short. these are the
substantial results to Cuba Of the peace thus
made y the conquest secured by its revolt.
Another conquest not less important. If less
Year: 1878

Mr.. Hayes is President of the United
States fairly and through the legitimate
operation Of the political machinery; but if
there had been any power in the United
States government or any authority under
the United States laws to Ego behind the
returns" from Louisiana, it is thought by
many persons rather more than likely that
another man would have been to-day where
Mr.. Hayes is. But the action of State was
q thing so supremely sacred that the whole
United States could not change it--could
not set it aside-could not ignore it. II the
man put in Office was not elected the people
of all the States were wronged; but there is
no proceeding by which their right could be
asserted if the chicanery by which the wrong
was wrought is certified to legitimately as
the act of State. One Of the rights ofa State
is to have even its roguery accepted by the
nation if regularly certified to by the proper
officers That was the doctrine under
which the present occupant of the Presi-
dency was seated. But in Washington they
seem to have an unequal respect for the diff
ferent acts of the authorities Of the same State.
They do not esteem the conviction OF An
derson by the courts OF Louisiana as an act
whose validity they are bound to respect ;
and yet it was all regularly done by the
proper authorities. They maintain Ander-
son in an office of trust under the United
States government though he is a man under
sentence to the State Prison. This is be-
cause they believe he is innocent. But where
do they get the right to 'go behind the re-
turns" or to believe anything not in the
record? They are not the State officers, and
their opinion that Anderson is not guilty is
IL. Ia
Year: 1878

Recorder Hackett's pithy charge to the
Grand Jury yesterday drew particular at


tention to class of crime regarding which
strong public sentiment is as desirable as


dragging few of the criminals to justice.


He spoke Of charges which would be laid


before the jury against four persons ac-
cused of 'felonious meddling in the bust.


ness of infanticde," and added, 81 say


business regarding this crime, because.
as I am told by the agents OF the


Society for the Suppression of Vice, child


birth preventing has become business
both organized and lucrative" These are
startling words and demand the attention
of the community, for this has been written
of as one of the peculiar crimes of the age
If it has attained the proportions alleged il
demands stern repression; but it seems


strange that the salaried police should have


left the opening of the campaign to purely


private society. We pay detectives whose
business it should be to make all such


monstrous callings impossible. The persons
carrying them on and their places of abode
must be known to the police, for If the feloni.
GUS business is organized and lucrative" its
headquarters must be more or less stablel
yet a murder in the pursuit of the hideous


business must be committed before the prin
cipals are arrested by the regular force, and
even then SO clumsily or suspiciously are
the cases managed that convictions nre rare.
The proper method undoubtedly would be
to take such steps as would once for all
break up business which is in every way
criminal. If there are three men on the
detective force above the purchase of these
murderers this city could be cleared Of
them in a month. The detective work
which has resulted in bringing four of these
alleged practitioners before the Grand Jury
is more meritorious than that which re-
Gently convicted the notorious Dr. West. It
is to be hoped that the work will go on.
Year: 1878

he would never row another race. This he
no doubt saw when he wisely authorized
the challenge as stated in Bells Life. That
challenge does him credit in every way.
II he has permitted the later statement 1t
does away with that credit. Let him come
to Owasco Lake as originally agreed. A
sheet of water more suitable in all respects
for his purpose could hardly be found on
either continent. Courtney will race him,
also Hanlon, and Morris doubtless as well,
while the Auburn people will be wholly
derelict if, after the great match is over
they do not offer very handsome purse
and open the field not only to these crack
scullers, but to Louther, Riley, Johnson
Ross, Plaisted and Ten Eyck as well. Then
if Higgins wants turn with Trickett he
could be readily accommodated on this
thoroughly neutral course, while doubtless
half dozen lively and exciting matches
would follow such brilliant meeting to
say nothing of handsome purses from New
York, Boston and other cities.
Year: 1878

Russia has made peace with Turkey on


terms that leave to those who object scarcely
the material to make q case. She has Sc
cured the great and substantial results of
her victory and has relinquished those ex-
treme claims which might have made posi-
BILE combination against her. She leaves
the Egyptian tribute as it was and
every other portion of the Turkish
revenue that is pledged to foreign creditors.


She abandons the demand for n portion Of
the Turkish fleet. She has cut down the
money indemnity to q low point, compara-
lively, and she apparently leaves the free
dom of the Dardenelles as an issue for the
future. Finally, if any portion of her army
enters Constantinople it will be merely in
the spirit in which the Germans entered
Paris, as formal sign Of their
absolute victory, but not to stay there.
In these points are included all
the ground covered by England's declara-
tions as to the "interests" the violation of
which she would take as an invasion of her
rights. Mr.. Cross formal statement of the
interests that Russia said she would respect
has been kept in view, and Russia
appears to have respected them. Evil
IDENTIFY, therefore. England cannot at
this stage make new difficulties and
object on points as to which she
said nothing when invited to declare how
far Russia might go without injury to her.
1t cannot be denied that Russia's victory Is
blow at England's prestige in the East,
which she can i'll afford to accept. She is
in fact the Power that is overcome by the
victory. But the loss of prestige in the
East and the loss Of that influence at Con-
stantinople which made the Sultan
simply her viceroy, are not points
that sho can formulate as grievances.
II she is to quarrel with the peace she must
quarrel on the terms declared by her own
government last year, and the fact appears
to be, therefore, that while the results Of
the war have done her great harm, the re-
suits of the peace. taken in connection
with her own declarations, have been to de-
prive her of fair claim to de.
mand redress; while if she de-
mands redress in the old arrogant
way and without such fair claim,
she will not get it, since she will not have
either an ally or the sympathy of any other
Power, and without physical or moral sup.
port she would find war with Russia not a
pleasant pastime. Thus. whether there ID
Year: 1878

material, results from the impression made
by the fact that if Cuba did not actually
gain her freedom from Spain she showed
that Spain was not powerful enough to put
her down with armed force and could only
quiet her finally by Cancellation and the
concession of all that would have given
practical value to her independence. All
men in Cuba will rejoice in the result save
only those owners Of sugar estates who see
with dismay tho proposed application Of
the promised abolition of slavery but these
may comfort themselves now with the con-
sideration of how much worse their lot
might have been if free Cuba had added one
more to the number of Spanish American
republics.
Year: 1878

In December last the Sydney (Australia)
correspondent of Bells Life said that
Trickett authorized him to state that he
would row Courtney n three-mile race
straightaway on any neutral water in the
United States for one thousand pounds
a side. Courtney promptly responded,
even telegraphing his assent to Aus
trnlia, and naming Owasco Lake as the
course. Now the Newcastle Chronicle comes
out with the startling information thas who
ever will row Trckett for the worlds
championship must go to Australia to do it.


For the sake of all who are interested we
trust that this last story is not correct. As
champion sculler of the world Trickett
doubtless could stand on his rights and in
sist that he who would wrest the coveted
honor from him must go to his
far off island home to do 1t. But,
if he did. there is great danger that
Year: 1878

Tomorrow being Ash Wednesday the
forty days Of fasting begin which are still
prescribed by the Roman Catholic and Prot
estant Episcopal churches with various
pleasant notifications Of the old time limi-
tation of the feeding of the human to zone
meal and a collation." per diem. These
"modern improvements" on the stern old
Lenten regimen--the tendency to increase
the flesh days at the expense Of the fish
days, to admit butter where butter once was
heresy--m the season OF abstention one
not difficult for the observant children Of
the more dogmatic Church to bear. When,
indeed, we ponder on all the good things
which cook OF moderate abilities can pro-
vide and yet keep we'll within the
rules" and when we know how many
good Catholics keep good cooks, we cannot
say that religion nowadays demands over
much from the pious churchman in the way
of bodily modification. If he opens with


sblue points on the half-shell, follows
with pea soup, proceeds to broiled split
mackerel, with squeeze Of lemon, touches
on lobster timbales or oyster patties, moves
on macaroni with cheese. crunches sue
culent salad of inefable dressing, ap-
proaches with becoming respect a lordly
striped bass decorated with smelts, turns
lightly to green peas, potatoes tickled with
parsley, or celery tipped with salt, passes
by the road of pastry and water ices to
his coffee, meanwhile lubricating with
white and red wines and q glass or so Of
rich Burgundy, we think, on the whole, he
is not to be pitied as he imagines the
curling smoke of his cigar into votive in
cense. Many heather, without positive
convictions on the necessity of fasting here
to avoid q roasting hereafter, would sit
down without regret to such q Lenten dis
cipline Of his coarse, heshly appetites. Far
different is it to the diet of salt herring,
mouldy crusts and cold water or lentil
soup and water crosses of the old days,
when fasting was something serious. But
if the fasting is becoming an agreeable
fiction the deeper lesson of the season re-
mains beautiful and unmodifed. As the
pampered body may be bettered by season
of modification, SO the pampered soul may
surely be improved by the humble contem-
plation Of the greatest sacrifice for the love
of man which it is possible to conceive-the
crucifixion of the God made man to atone
the sins of world.
Year: 1878

or is not conference, il is not clear that
England can take effective exception to
policy always has been to protest, but to
consent at last and take portion OF the
plunder, ard it does not seem probable that
she will now change her tactics
Year: 1878

some SAD SCENES were presented yesterday
around the Pension office Has no one in the
Pension Bureau brains enough to simplify the
present detestable system and do away with its
stupid redtapisml
Year: 1878

lT WAS Found NECESSARY to hold a caucns
OF the democratic Representatives ut Washing
ton to decide the very important question of
how experts should be appointed to help the
Investigating committees 1t has been left to
the committees.
Year: 1878

If in watching Its operation he hndS that 1t
is producing too much contraction or too
much expansion he will apply the check
which will always be in his hands.


1t is understood to be the purpose of the
Secretary of the Treasury to put the new
silver dollars in circulation as fast as they
come from the mints, and as he will doubtless
purchase his silver bullion with gold coin
the greenbacks paid into the Treasury for
taxes will remain there and accumulate.
BY this means he may gradually in the
course of the year contract the greenback
circulation pretty we'll down toward the
limit of three hundred million dollars
fixed by the Resumption act and thereby
bring the legal tender notes to par in adj
vance of the actual resumption Of specie
payments. BY this mode OF administra-
tion the Silver bill may be made an efficient
instrument of resumption without disturb
ing the business Of the country. While
there would be a contraction of the green
backs there would be no real contraction of
the money of the country. There would,
indeed, be slight expansion, because more
silver would be put into the channels OF
business than the amount of greenbacks
Withdrawn. The legal tender notes paid
into the Treasury tor internal taxes are not
sufficient for the ordinary disbursements.
and the government makes regular
sales of gold to supply the deficiency.
The current expenses being greater than
the internal revenue when these EXPENSES
Year: 1878

The Free Press says no woman
has ever made a successful wealth
er prophet. 1t is as odd as it is
true, considering the ability Of the
sex for getting up storms; yetif
they we're to predict, would 1t not
give the unfortunate man oppor-
tunity to get out Of the way2
Year: 1878

1T is ENTERPRIsING. FEARLESS. RE-
liable and newsy, and the peer of any weekly
newspaper published in West Tennessee. con-
tanning all local events of Importance in the
city of Memphis and Shelby county. No
labor or expense will bo spared to maintain it
in every department at the highest possible
standard. and to commend it in all respects
to the confidence and approval Of the best
classes in the surrounding country, being


strictly
Year: 1878

And yet so it was and this discovery was
the result of her holiday that treat which /
had designed all for her." Of course, we
had an addition to our family of course,
the contract for her holiday would not have
been completed if had interposed views
of mine, and had prevented her carrying off
in the end the young semi-Italan. scara-
mouch to add to our own collection.
However, l am bound to say | believe she
might not have pressed this point, had it
not been for the fatal effect of the accident,
which, after all, terminated in Lucia's
death, and consequently for the child having
thus, as it were, fallen to our charge as his
natural guardians. 1t was all very sad and
miserable, the end of our time at Locarno
involving numerous complications with the
local law. We were detained there till the
end of October, for the old padrone departed
this life soon after her daughter, and we had
some difficulty in proving our right to the
child.


Our right to the child Humph ! Tru
ly, women are wonderful beings and she
had instinctively discovered that right, kat
discovered it through that mysterious, deli
cate, subtle intuition to which our masculin
and grosser natures are entire strangers. Sh
was quite correct from the first. Little Pao.
10 has grown up marvelously like his young
! est cousin ; even | can see it now II Lsndo
SOcietV,
Year: 1878

LIVING FROM AN ACRE OF GRoUND-On the
cooper lane, about mile or so north of Stock
ton, Cal, there lives an industrious Italian on
an even acre of ground lying in triangular shape
between the road and the railroad at the cross
ing point. He has wife and five Children,
whom he supports in comfort from the product
OF his garden. The little farm is planted to trees,
vines, and vegetables, and is thoroughly well
TILED. Occasionally he plants an early crop on
the railroad right OF way adjoining, which re-
mains undisturbed until the plough of the fire
protectors comes along. But this instance is a
good illustration of little farm well titled -
Stockton IU6eneudeuf
Year: 1878

GEN. HAwLEY, OF Connecticut, said in a re-
cent Speech:-"1 once read of a man who start
ca 10 walk around pond He got three-fourths
OF the way, and, looking at his watch, Thought
II SO near dinner time that he could not finish
his walk In season; so he hurried back the wav
ne came. If he is living he will be found advo-
eating the repeal of the resumption act
Year: 1878

vey the situation calmly, with view to dis
covering its logic and its requirements.


At the outset we say that the discomfort
of the laboring mass of our people has
reached point where it can no longer be
safely ignored by those who are responsible
for the conduct of the public business and
charged with the destiny Of the country.
What is known in current phrase as "the
Commune" does not appear to be formidable
In point of numbers or in scope OF organlZa-
ton.


So far as 1t has definite existence, 1t stands
the representative of q class OF persons, the
exponent Of a system of thoughts or the EN-
bodment Of feeling which, being formlda-
BILE in themselves, reflected upon the organi-
zation of the Commune an Importance far be-


yond its own, intrinsically.


These two influences, aristOcracy and pro-


etariat, have been disintegrating our social


fabric, or rather pulling in twoparts, until the
line of separation Is becoming visible to every
eve Each pulls away in its own direction
blindly The arlstocracy clamors for more
privileges and for an increased regular army
to sustain them. The proletariat elamors for
work, for bread, or for more equitable dl-


vision of the good things Of life.
The corporate properties Of the country
have already passed into few hands, and the
landed estate of the people is rapidly follow
ing suit under the operation OF a constructive,
fanciful policy, which makes every mortgage
practically convertible into fee simple upon
its maturity.


This slow. sure method of impoverishing


the masses and enriching the few, began IN
der speciOus pretenses, has gone too far now
to be successfully disguised any longer, and


the people are at last face to face with their
despoilers. This is the true meaning Of the
Socialistic movement which has begun to
crop out In the Western cities.
Year: 1878

drove the rebels from their positions, and
finally, after five hours struggling, they fled
from the town, leaving twenty one killed and
forty wounded behind. Nine soldiers were
killed and several wounded.


The leader of the rebels Ituriashe, was shot
through both legs, and was saved only by the
devotion of his followers, who bore him off
helpless from the strife. When all danger
was over Gov Oriondo left the friendly shelter
of the church roof parapet and took the com
mand All the insurgent dead were carried
off and Inferred in ditch.