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Year: 1877

Duke was in CONSERVATION. He hnrnedly explained
30 the Marshal the enormity of the mistake he had
committed, told him in plain terms that therc was
nothing in the situation as il stood to justify the
dismissal of his Ministry, reminded him that the
letter was designed for such n crisis as might prob
ably occur three months later, and implored him to
recall it before it was too late. They drove of To
the Elys6e together. a second letter was
written TO NJ. Jules Simon. and the same
messenger dispatched at full speed with orders
to regain possession of the first letter if il still
in the hands of NJ. Jules Smon's valet; If not, to
present the second letter cancelling the first TO
NJ Jules Simon himself. OF went the orderly at
a gallop, but reached the Place Beauvau only to
find that the valet had gone home with the letter
that NJ Jules Simon was not expected to return
for the night, and that nobody knew where the
valet lodged In hopes still of nercepting the first
letter. the second letter was not delivered and
when the orderly returned with his report it was
decided that it would be time enough to send again
in the morning.


But NJ Jules Simon returned that night At six
next morning he was awOke by his faithful valet to
receive from him the original letter. fOu remen-
Der the ins0lent abruptness of it, Decming 1t hnal,
NJ. Jules Simon instantly sent off for some OF ms
friends, to whom the news told, and who were
dispersed right and left Paris to give their ver-
sion and view of the situation before the Marshals
emissaries should have got to the public ear
The Republican editors knew il 10y o'clock. There
was funeral early that morning which NJ. Jules
Simon had promised to attend, and where he
communicated tho facts to n number of his political
allies His colleagues were, of course, apprlSed
In short, by the time the messenger from the Eysee
reappeared NJ. Jules Simon had quilted the Place
Beauvau, and the news had spread 80 widely, that
the Due de Broglie judged it no longer possible to
withdraw the original letter. The second letter
was thrown into the fire. and there remained
nothing but to put bold face and enter upon the
task of justifying the dismissal.


All the rest is history. But what history! The
history of an unscrupuous cabal, seeking lts sole
justification in the imminence of the peril which the
Marshal and his advisers pretended to discover Rad
icasm was making such rapid lnroads, the danger
was so near pressing the certain consequences OF
delay so awful that il Necessary to strike at
once to turn out Ministry which had great
majority in the Chamber TO dissolve the Chamber,
and to appeal to the country. That is what Minis
ters and Ministerial journals, and the Marshals
apologsIs have diuned into ears ior months pasi
What becomes of ALL if it be true that the author
Of the crisis did not mean it to occur till some
months laterl CIV. s.
Year: 1877

fair examples. but some averages which shall give
below seem to indicate that they were


The following tables show the number Of miners
and pangway-men employed IN two mines on TINS
side of the river during May and June, loU-the
last two full months before the sirike-the average
number Of days they worked each month, the aver
age amount of wages each man received after de-
ductng all expenses and the average rate per day'
The first of these mines. Sugar Notch. or slope No.
10 Is, am informed at Mr. Parrishs Office one of
the hardest to work in this whole region, and that
the wages earned there are lower than almost any
where else:
Year: 1877

Y NVV0
company al dinner had black attendant who was
n native OF Africa and could be taught TO nand
things invariably the left hand of the guests AT table
Al length hi. master thought OF nfalibe eXpedient
Ia direct him and, the coats were then worn single
breasted. the present Quaker fashion, he told him
always hand the plate 10 the butOu-holo side un-
fortunately however for the poor follow, the day ar
ter he had received this Ingenious lesson there Was
among the guests at dinner gentleman with double
breasted coat aud tho African was. for while com
peeiy stand lie looked nrs III one side OF the gen
tsmaus coat then at the other and finally confounded
at the Outlandlsh make of the strangers garments he
east dcspairing look at his master and exclamlng In
loud voice. Buton-holos both sides, massaW j. handed
tho plate right oyor the gentlemans head.
Year: 1877

Drivers and runners employed inside of the mines
all unmarried and are paid various rates of
wages according to the amount and character of the
work they perform. In order to give some idea OF
what these classes Of laborers are able to earn, /
have copied from Mr. Parrish's pay-ros, at random,
the following figures. which show the rates per dav
and the net earnings of some of the mon during


june last have IN these aud all other cases, omit
ted the names of the labOrers:
Year: 1877

For we know full we'll that could
the dark face come back from "the
pale realms of shade, where each
shall take his chamber in the silent
halls of DEATH" he would say-"If
you speak of me at all, speak of me
as I was"-nothing extenuate, nor
set down aught in malice. The
right to applaud carries with it the
right to censure; so we speak of one
whose merits overbalanced his fol-
bles. A cloud hung over his life,
that no mortal eye ever penetrated.
Charles Anderson and James Os-
born were his true friends and did
all they could to render his latter
days peaceful and free from pain.
But even to them he revealed not
the mysterious weight of care that
crushed him at time when life is
most enjoyable. One cold day last
March


THE WEARY HAND RESTED


And the subtle brain ceased to throb.
Billy Flfe mad gone TO rest, and car
ried the secret of his strange life
before One whose queries may not
be evaded. That a mighty grief
underlay his whole life, more than
one is aware. But its cause slum-
bered in the breast that bore 1t, as
the restless black eye grew filmy
and the bold spirit took its fight
beyond the gates which Deaths
hand alone can unbar. Where he
is buried we do not know, or
whether a tombstone tells his rest
ing place, we cannot say, but if
there is none above him, he shall
have one ere the lapse of another
year. He was a man who initiated
no one, and coveted no followers.
He lived an enigma, he died a
charade.
Year: 1877

We have been censured by several of
our neighbors for the plain manner in
which We have spoken of the presence
of smallpox in this city. They say it
will discourage travel to this place and
send the transient traffic to some other
point. We say, it is better to lose the
entire transient trade of the whole
Sound for a month than to delude, our
own citizens, by our silence, into the
belief that there is no danger. Indians
go into families to wash clothes in the
day and return to the infected neighs
borhood at night. thus placing the
health of our entire community in dan
ger. 1t is better to act with candor and
treat the question as it deserves.
On Thursday night. Notwithstanding
the praiseworthy precaution taken by
the Mayor and Common Council, two
men who have been hangers-on about
the infected locality ever since they
have been here. walked into ,estau
rant in this city and ordered some oys-
ters. At the same time another degrad-
ed creature who plays the fiddle in that
establishment, was walking from one
saloon to another and talking about the
sick woman with the utmost nonchalance
| Of course, no better could be expected
| fl ON any of these animals, for when
a white man gets SO low down as to CO.
habit with Indian women. he is lost to
all principles of decency and has no
scruples about spreading disease or
anything else.


We favor measures of prevention, be-
fore the disease breaks out in multiplied
! instances and virulent form. Erect
pest house at Alki Point or on the op-
posite side of the bay. near the mouth
of Duwamish rirsr. Remove the in
fected Indians there, and the degraded
white mer who subsist from the wages
of their shame, will not be long in fol-



lowing them. Thus our city will be
happily rid of two most pestiferous
classes. If matters are suffered to 60
on as at present, the Indian women
will spread the contagipn into some
family whose children may carry it into
the public schools-schools Of which
our city has just cause to be proud. We
cannot be too open in our action about
these matters. Let us use every effort
to extinguish the malady. SO that we
will gain the confidence of the adjacent
country and retain our prestige as the
metropolis of the Sound. To smother
the truth at this time, would be dis
graceful to an intelligent and honest
people. Let us do all we can to quench
the contagion and prevent future cou-
taminatiOn.
Year: 1877

A contemporary says that eve
have large rivers cursiag through
fertile valleys" The italics are ours,
but it reminds us of the dam of the
Yuba and the days when we rolled
the forms Of the Sierra Democrat for
poor old Forbes.
Year: 1877

TINE brings its reyenges. No out
rage like this, which almost lifts up
into credit the ballot-box stufing and
repeating and frauds of returning
boards, can stand without certain ret
ribution. These judges cannot be re-
moved from the places they have
stained, but the finger of scorn will
point at them, and hot blast of pop
ular indignation all over the land will
make them wish for oblivion and ex-
lie. They have helped to make a
President by fraud far more afro
cious and blackened by more crime
than others for which these judges
have sent convicts for long terms to
the penitentiary. They may hask for
a time in the sunshine of power Gre
ated by their t.eachery to duty and
their rank perjury, but the shadows of
a career to close in disgrace will fall
upon their paths hereafter and darken
every day of that circumscribed flu
ture.-N. y Sun.
Year: 1877

is a little story. Twenty-Five years


years ago man in New Haven wa,


engaged to marry young woman


there. For some reason s..e trans


ferred her promise to marry, if no


her affections, to another person. The


first suitor, who was a respectable


mechanic, disapproved of the match


and declared that his rival was a dis


reputable person who would lead his
affianced a wretched life, and that
while he could surrender her himself
he would rather she should die than
marry that man.


Accordingly, as he said, solely to
save her from the awful fate of such
degrading marriage, he killed the
girl. He did not attempt to conceal
his deed; he justified it, and regarded
himself as the savior of the girls hap
plness.


He was tried for murder and acquit-
ted on the ground of insanity, al
though he stoutly denied that he was
insane, and said he had acted upon his
cool conviction of hat was best for
the girl, and was ready to suffer the
penalty of the law for the homicide.
he was remanded to the
county Jail by the court; he remained
there seven or eight years, all the
lime protesting he was in his right
mind. and that the State should either
lang him for murder or release him.


He was then transferred to the
State Prison at Wethersfeld, by what
1t does not appear, under
10 sentence. There he has remained
Until this day, in the same state of
mind, apparently rational OH all sub
ects. except that he insists he had
light to kill the girl to save her from
lishonor; and that if the State thought
otherwise it should have punished him
IS murderer. This is the story ofI
Willard Clarke, who has now peti-
ioned the Assembly to remove him
rom the State prison to the insane
.sylum at Middletown.


If he is insane, that is where he be-
Ongs. If he is sane, he has right
0 his liberty, having been once ac-
uitted on trial for his life.. So far as
appears he has now been in jail
early quarter of century without
uthority of law; for if there is any,
vhere existing legal commitment of
;larke as lunatic, the State prison
) not legal place for the confinc-
lent Of lunatics who have not been
onvicted of crime.-Hartord Cougard
Year: 1877

and gig, and they both disappeared
for time, but by and by the horse
and gig were doing service for the
same owner again. On being asked
what this meant, the mans reply was,
II went through the bankruptcy
court, but the horse and gig went
around"
Year: 1877

The way not to be healthy or hap
py is to keep up an .incessant snarl-
ing. If you want to grow lean, ca
daverous and unlovely, excite your
self constantly about matters. you
know nothing about. Accuse other
people of wrong-doing incessantly,
and you will find but little time to
see any wrong in yourself. We
wish here and now TO inform all men
of irritable dispositions that they
will live longer if they only keep
cool. If such men want to die. we
have nothing to say. Snarling will
kill about as quickly as anything we
know. We have had good health for
the whole period of our manhood,
and attribute most of it to the way
we take things.
Year: 1877

This world is full of kindness
that never was spoken, and that is
not much better than no kindness at
all. The fuel in the stove makes the
room warm, but there are great
piles of fallen trees lying among
rocks and on the tops of the hills
where nobody can get them; these
do not make anybody warm. You
might freeze to death for want of
wood in plain sight of all these fallen
trees if you had no means Of getting
the wood home and making a fire
with it. just so in a family love is
what makes parents and children
and brothers and sisters happy but
if they take care to never say a
word about tiff they keep it pro-
found secret, as if it were crime
they will not be much happier than
if there was not any love among
them; the house will seem cold even
in the summer; and if you live there
you envy the poor dog when any,
body calls him 'poor fellow"
Year: 1877

The question Of the State debt
continues to occupy a large space in
the papers, and the more It is discuss
ed the more the people are likely to
be divided about it. It seems to us
that the proposition of the bondhol.
ders to accept sixty cents on the dol
laris liberal enough, and if the press
of the State would harmonfze, take
hold and work to that standard the
subject could be disposed Of within
the present year. Otherwise it will
enter largely as a disturbing element
into the canvass of 1873, and the
meeting of the next Legislature will
find US further removed from an
equitable and honorable adjustment
than we are to-day.-Atheas Post.
Year: 1877

Gen. Grant attended divine ser.
vice to-day in Westminster Abbey.
An eloquent sermon was preached
by Dean Stanley, who took as his
text the twenty-seven chapter and
thirty-eight verse of Genesis: "And
Esau said unto his father. Hast thou
but one blessing, my father? Bless
me. even me alas, o my father And
Esau lifted up his voice and wept."


In the course of his sermon he
alluded to ex-President Grant, say.
ing that in the midst of the congre.
CATION there was zone of the chiefest
citizens of the United States, who
had just laid down the scepter of the
American Commonwealth whose
military prowess and generous treat
ment of his comrades and adverse.
ries had restored unity to his coun.
try. We welcome him as a sign and
pledge that the two great kindred
nations are one in heart, and are
equally at home under their paternal
roof. Both regard with reverential
affection this ancient cradle Of their
common life.' 4aea


Dean Stanley also took occasion
to refer to the historian Motley as
one of the brightest lights of the
Western Hemisphere high-spirit.
ed patriot, and one of England'a
most faithful friends-one of the
best and purest spirits of the age.
and brilliant and indefatigable
historian, who had told, as none had
ever told before, the stirring story
of the Dutch Republic, which could
almost be regarded as the parent OF
the American Republic. g There
will be-" continued the Dean, "a
niche in the Temple of Fame for him
who tomorrow will be laid in the
loved land of his adoption, and who
in life was houored by the respect
and love of many gifted ruler,
statesman, poet and historian on both
sides of the Atlantic" Herald.
Year: 1877

1t is scarcely necessary to remind
reasonable men that if they wish to
be sad and sour, to grumble and
complain there is always chance.
Reasons for being cast down and
detected are as plenty as blackber.
ries in the height of blackberry har.
vest. If one thing goes right, you
may be sure there is always some.
thing else going wrong; and if one
thing is in order, something else is
out of joint, or. at any rate, soon
will be. The chief difference in the
feelings and dispositions of people
results from the different way of
looking at things. Few nights are
so dark that no stars are to be seen;
the thing is to look them out and
keep your eyes on them, and make
the most of what light you can dis
cover
Year: 1877

This gentleman, so well known to the
merchants and people of East Tennessee,
succeeds the firm of Bearden & McTeer
in the extensive clothing house at Knox
vile. His Spring and Summer stock is
very large and complete, was purchased
at reduced prices, and his customers
will have the benefit of his intelligence.
While at Knoxville, last week, we had
an opportunity of pricing his goods, and
were astonished at the low prices laid
upon them. a man can get good and
respectable suit anywhere between SO
and $50 as he may select. Everything
in the clothing line for gentleman can
be found at his store as low as anywhere
else in Knoxville or in the State.
Year: 1877

hereby inform my old customer and the pub
lie generally, that have moved in my NEW SHOP
in the east end of MOrristown, opposite J. Brown
& Sons Carriage shop, where I will keep on hand
and make to order, all kinds Of FURNITURE.
Special attention given to Picture Framing. al
so keep on hand and make and trim to order all
kinds of WOODEN COFFINS, with without


glass the face. All kinds of repairing done in
the Furniture line. Having had y years expert
ence in the FURNITURE and COFFIN trade,
feel that guarantee satisfaction in either line
of business. All nC1s of PRODUCE taken in
change for work Prices to suit the hard times
Prompt attention given to all orders for COFFINs,
and liberal reduction in former prics on all work
Spring-seat Sofas and Chairs repaired in good
order. NJ A. WHIT.


March %. ls76-tf.
Year: 1877

Yesterday morning two children were
born to two mothers, in the west part of
town, in the same room and at the same
time. The woman who cared for the
little strangers bathed and clothed them.
aud started to present them to their wal
ting mammas Then she made the start
ling discovery that she had inextricably
mixed the infants so that she was unable
to decide which was the mother of either
The two mothers cast lots for choice,
agreeing that if the children should,
when grown. develop family traits suf-
ficiently to identify them they should be
exchanged If the selection should prove
TO be incorrect
Year: 1877

On very rainy day, man enter
ing his house, was accosted by his
wife in the following manner: Now
my deam while you are wet, go and
fetch me a bucket of water" He
obeyed. brought the water and threw
it all over her. saying at the same
time, "Now my dear. while you are
wet. 60 and fetch another
Year: 1877


be Withdrawn.


Mr.. Jeter said that he would like to hear
the reasons of the Senator from Richland in
offering his amendment


Nash (Rep. replied that he recollected that
at the last session, the Senator from Union, in
Offering objections to the seating of ex-Lieu
tenant Governor Gleaves, submitted an ordi
nance passed by the Constitutional Conven'
ton, and held the position that the President
of the Senate must take an oath administered
by either the Chief Justice or one Of the Asso.
ciate Justices of the Supreme Court. That
was the position taken by the Senator from
Union at the last session, and only follow
in his footsteps.


At the instance of Swails, the reading clerk
here read the ordinance referred to by Nash


Mr.. Crittenden said : II hope that the
Senator from Richland will withdraw his
amendment, for I am sure he will see the in
consistency of his course with that which be
pursued last session. He must be aware Of
the fact that the presiding officer of the Sen
ate, the late Lieutenant Governor, was moi
sworn in by the Chief Justice or either of the
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, but
by another and an inferior officer. Notwith
standing this fact, the Senator from Richland
and in fact the entire Senate, recognized him
as the President of the Senate, without the
requisiton that he now attempts to put upon
the present Lieutenant Governor of the State
1 hope, therefore, that he will withdraw hit
amendment If not, I move that it be indef
nitely postponed"


Mr.. Jeter rose to explain that the statement
made by the Senator from Richland was in
correct Il was not" he said, "present wher
the ex. x.Lieutenant.G Governor went through the
farce of an inauguration, and raised no such
Year: 1877

and peaceful settlement than l am. hope
that we will arrive at some conclusion, if not
to-day, at some early period, for this now is
the only bone of contention


Witherspoon: The statement of the Presi-
dent pro tem., that the agreement arrived at
in the consultation was not binding upon the
members of the Senate, is correct but he can
not deny that an adjournment was had from
yesterday to this morning to settle that very
matter, and to consult our respective friends"


Nash said that he was not aware that any
such arrangement had been made. If the
Senator from York speaks correctly, and / do
not doubt that he does, if such is the arrange.
ment, / consider myself bound by it, and if
1 had been aware of it, I should have been
the last man to have made such motion as
did. I am not disposed to break faith with
any one. .,....


Whittemore: II have not been aware of
any arrangement being perfected by any one
No such thing was ever presented as this that
we are now at variance upon, that this Lieu
tenant. Governor Simpson should take posses
sion without being sworn in. l understand
from the x-Lieutenant. Governor that no un'
derstanding of this kind existed between these
parties yesterday, or at any other time. l
understand from him that the matter was
spoken of, but neither of the parties could
pledge the action of their respective friends.
recognize that Mr.. Simpson must be the
Lieutenant. Governor of the State, and that as
such we are to obey his orders but while the
gentleman has said there is no power upon
earth that can make him take the oath Sec
ond time, it appears to me that while he asks
courtesy from us, there is some courtesy due
to US from him. When we ask that he shall
take the oath. we ask no more than We would
ask from Republican officer. 1t is true that
the Senate was invited to witness his induc'
ton into Office, but the majority which COM
prises the active energy of the Senate was not
there" ...- a.
! Maxwell, who generally runs on the out.