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Year: 1879




A young man, against whom there is moth
ing notorious, has several ways at the present
day of entering society, should his kith and
kin be unable TO command the ordinary mode
of ingress. A good tenor voice will open the
doors of houses which otherwise would be
closed. A marked capacity for private theat-
ricals is in itself an introduction to the high
est. An amusing talker will generally end
by finding his legs under the mahogany in
most desirable dining rooms. Music, comic
songs, talent for getting up cotillions, MINI
icry ventriloquism, conjuring, are all means
to an end. know one man who was asked
out q good deal, simply and solely be-
cause he had q name as being clever de-
signer of monograms. in the days when mon
ograms were the rage. Where he dined he
had to design; as another man, where he
dimes has to sing, play, amuse or talk. So
ciety conducts its hospitalities on very CON-
mercial basis. You are welcome because you
are noble, illustrious, famous or wealthy and
thus by your presence reflect credit on your
host or hostess. If you are none of these
things, you are invited because you take the
place of the professional singer, musician or
entertainer. There is no obligation on either
side. You get your dinners out of society,
and society gets its equivalent out of you.
But to the man who has no equivalent to Of
fer, society is the coolest of hosts.
Year: 1879

Remember, my son, you have to work.
| Whether you handle pick or pen, a wheel


barrow or a set of books, digging bitches or
editing paper, ringing an auction bell or


writing funny things, you must work. If
you will look around you, son, you will see
that the men who are most able to live the
rest of their days without work, are the men
who work the hardest. Don't he afraid of
killing yourself with overwork, son. 1t is
beyond your power to do that.


Men cannot work so hard as that on the
sunny side of thirty. They die sometimes,
but it's because they quit work at p. m. and
don't get home until q. m. It's the interval
that kills, my son. The work gives you an
appetite for your meals, it lends solidity to
your slumber, it gives you perfect and
grateful appreciation of holiday.


There are young men who do not work,
my son; young men who make living by
sucking the end of cane; whose entire
them which side of postage stamp to lick;
Young men who can tie a necktie in eleven
different knots and never lay wrinkle in it,
and then would get into a West Hill street
car to go to Chicago; who can spend more
money in day than you can earn in month,
son, and who will 60 to the sheriffs to buy
postal card, and apply at the office of the
street commissioner for marriage license.
a But the world is not proud of them, son. It
does not know their names, even it simply
speaks of them as old Soanso's boys. No.
body likes them, nobody hates them, the
great busy world doesn't even know they are
there, and at the great day of the resurrection,
if they do not appear at the sound of the
trumpet, and they certainly will not unless
somebody tells them what 1t is for and what
to do, don't think Gabriel will miss them or
notice their absence, and they will not be sent
for or waited for, or disturbed Things will
60 on Just as we'll without :hem.


So find out what you want to be and to do.
son, and take off your coat and make dust
in the world. -, The Lusier you are the less
deviltry ycr will be apt to get into, the swee-
ter will be yorr sleep, the brighter and hap
pier your holidays, and the better satisfied
will the world be with you. f...H q:
Year: 1879

THE Pullman Palace Car Company has es-
capped serious financial isaster by the ter
mination in its favor of suit for damages,
in which the plaintiff sought to show that the
paper car-wheels used by the company were
not as safe as iron wheels. and that the COM
pany was guilty of criminal negligence in
using such wheels. The case was tried in
the United States Court at Philadelphia, and
the plaintiff was nonsuited. Had the
plaintiff got verdict it would have COM
PEELED the company to change all its car
wheels at cost of not less than million
dollars.
Year: 1879

Washington Special to Pbila. Telegraph


The Conkling-Sprague scandal,
which at first attracted very little in
terest in this city, because of the gen
eral disposition of the people here to
attribute the apparently exaggerated
accounts to more of a political move
ment to injure Senator Conkling. The
fact is, however, that there is marked
change taking place in the conserva-
tive sentiment Of the country in refer
ence thereto, by reason of the fact
that the more the matter is probed,
the more unpleasant truths appear to
be developed. 10th as is this moral
sentiment to attach guilt to persons
occupying the prominent positions of
Mrs. Sprague and Senator Conkling,
when once its suspicious are aroused,
its verdictis is generallysevere and this,
unfortunately, appears to be the ten
dency of the convictions of the better
classes Of this city. Outside of social
circles here, the effect upon Senator
Conkling is very strikingly manifest
ing itself in political circles. A
prominent politician In this city re-
marked that, unfortunately for Sena-
tor Conkling, he is so barren of the
natural elements that attach men TO
each other, that, attacked as he now
is fFop all sides, he has nothing
within himself by which to win either
sympathy or q disposition Of his fell
low-mep to overlook the crime with
which he is charged. Almost any
other public man with the personal
attractions so necessary TO q success
fpl public career in this country
might feeover from the cloud that is
now thickegigg around Senator
Conkling. Public msg who q few
days ago were ready to excuse a44 de-
fend MIN have nothing to say but
rather by their manner add to the
growing conviction that the chances
of saving himself for future that
promised The most brilliant political
achievements 4Fs against hun, This
feeling appears to be entertained
more IN sorrow than from any dispo.
sition to injure him. New Workers
in this city, and among them some OF
his most ardent political supporters,
say that if his election for another
term 90 Che United States senate was
to take place this fall, few OF the Re-
publican members OF the New York
legislature from the rural districts of
the State could be induced to vote for
him, and without this class of support
he never could be again elected.
Year: 1879

proper that the people of Tennessee
should themselves provide for their
helpless brethren in this hapless be-
leagured and fever-ridden city. 1t is
to be hoped that those who are able
will contribute their means toward
feeding and caring for the needy
among us, and that they will send
forward a sufficient fund so that it
will render an appeal to the world at
large unnecessary.
Year: 1879

The governor of Tennessee, Albert
S, Marks, will to-day issue n procla


nation calling on the people Of the
State to do something in the way of
contributing to aid the sick aud dis
tressed Of this city. This is COM
mendable action. iRasmuch as it is
necessary for assistance to be secured
from some quarter, and it is meet and
Year: 1879

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is So per annum and
SOC per month fOrlsss than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free.


Persons leaving the city for the summe,
can order the DAILY LEDGER at SOC per
month in advance, with the privilege Of
changing pOstOfice.
Year: 1879

A recent letter from Rome saws


All lovers of the beautiful, and
particularly those who have fingered
10 Home, will regret to learn that the
fine fountain Of the Ponte Sisto-.
certainly one of the most picturesque
of all Romes many fountains, its
waters rushing ito a great she'll in the
upper part and then splashing down
Year: 1879

SUBSCRIBERS who wish to re-
new will do us a favor by SEND
ING MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail list IL very


large, and our force to do the
work small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS WITHOUT the MONEY.
Year: 1879

A merchant at a town in Arkansas,
on the Iron Mountain railroad, has
sent his aged and infrm mother to the
charity hospital at Little Rock to be
cared for by the ladies' benevolent t
society Of that place.
Year: 1879

AFTER brief and stormy existence
the Chicago Herald had to yield up
the journalistic ghost. 1t aourished
like a green-bay horse, or even as a
green-back banner, and promised to
outlive all the papers in Chicago, but
it only held out about three months
1t was too good to live in the pestilen-
tial political atmosphere of such a
wicked city. Chicago is not a healthy
place for a Democratic paper. 1t may
be said that few are born there and
none survive long. The man who
starts another one will not come along
soon, and when he does he will wish
he had not come at all. Democratic
editors in Chicago are of few days and
full of sorrow. Their lives are all
vanity and vexation of spirit.
Year: 1879




New York, May 26,-The one dig
nitary of the Catholic Church who
commanded attention, in an eminent
degree, of those inside the cathedral
yesterday, was Archbishop Purcell,
and it is stated that he will receive
from the laymen before leaving New
York substantial evidence of their
esteem for him. At the vesper service
in the cathedral there were great
many empty pews and vacant seats,
and in the morning nearly all holders
Of one dollar tickets, which gave ad-
mission, only were provided with seats.
Year: 1879




The different committees appointed
by the chamber of commerce for the
laying of the cornerstone of the
United States custom. house are at
work. All the different military and
civic societies, not only here but in
towns adjacent hereto, have been in
vited, and a big time is expected.
Governor Marks has been invited to
deliver the address, and although he
has not as yet signi6ed his intention Of
being present, it is the hope of the
committee, aud the public generally,
that he will be here.
Year: 1879

SECRETARY SHERMAN has written
letter to General Robinson, chair
man of the Ohio State Republican
committee, in which he announces
that he cannot accept the nomination
for governor if offered, as he owes a
higher duty to the whole country.
Like Caesar, he would rather not wear
the crown.
Year: 1879

Another very remarkable instance, we
are informed, says an English paper, has
just come to light as to the preserving
or petrifging effects of nitrate of Soda
A well known and influential city firm,
who have very extensive connections
with South American planters, miners,
etc., have recently received from Peru a
curiosity in the shape Of what may be
termed a crystalized female body, which,
as their correspondent advises them, was
some short time discovered by set of
miners at Pisagua, in that country, COM
pletely embedded in one of the great
nitrate Of soda deposits peculiar to that
district. The body is described as hav-
ing the appearance of a petrifed mummy
and is stated to be in singular state of
preservation. This curiosity has already
been seen by several of our best known
naturalists and scientific analysts, and it
is believed that the woman, who appar-
emily was Of middle age, must have per;
ished either through accident or design
at remote period of the past, probably,
as some even 60 so far as to say, two or
three thousand years ago. That her
death was violent there is little room to
doubt, inasmuch as when discovered the
body was in a recumbent position, partly
on one side, with chest slightly crushed,
as if through a severe fall, with legs
drawn up, and the fingers and toes con-
tracted. The hair is in most perfect
state and maintains its contact with the
skull in peculiarly astonishing manner,
and the mouth is open displaying the
teeth and tongue, which are plainly visi-
BILE. The extremities are remar arkably
small and perfect, even the nails being
in their respective place. The hair on
the head, we should add, appears to be
plated in a very peculiar manner, and is
Of great length and thickness, though in
some parts detached, owing to part of
the skull having been destroyed. The
curiosity at present is at the offices of
the firm who have imported it from
South America, but we understand that
arrangements are made that it shall be
public shown at the Westminster Aquar-
ium at an early date.
Year: 1879

There are serious fears entertained of
a failure of the silk crop in Italy and
France. In France more particularly
the situation is very critical. If heat
suddenly sets in after the wet and cold
of the Spring, the leaves of the mulberry
trees will be dried up quickly, and no
mstenance will remain for the cocoons.
Year: 1879

Compliments, or expressions Of civility,
respect, or regard, are made manifest in
various forms Of words, but the following
compliment paid BY sailor to a hand
some lady, is as pretty thing OF the kind
as we ever read:--


A compliment, true and genuine, was
paid by sailor who was sent by his cap
tain to carry letter TO the lady Of his
love. The sailor, having delivered his
message, stood gazing in silent admiration
upon the lady, for she was very beau i
full.


"Well, MY good man. she said, "for
what do you waltz There is no answer
to be returned"


LADY" replied the sailor, with hum
BILE Difference, "If you please I would like
to know your name"


did you not see it on the letter."


pardon. LADY, never learned to read.
Mine has been hard, rough life"


Sand ior what reason, my good man,
could you know my name'"


Because" answered the old tar, look
ing honestly up, Gin storm at sea, with
danger afore me, would like to call the
name of the brightest thing I'd ever seen
in my life. There'd be sunshine in it,
even in the darknessP
Year: 1879

In nine cases out OF ten, one who
lacks energy to make rag carpet will
not have the means to buy store carpet
even at so cents per yard, when it must
be cash in hand; and then, if purchased,
it is poor thing, and will not, with the
best of care, endure the wear of every
day use for one season. But even that
would pay by giving the house more
habitable appearance, for a house with
bare floors, though it be ever so well fur
nished otherwise, looks naked and barn
like. But rag carpet pays better in
an ordinary farm house, because it wears
better and is better adapted to the Cir
cumstances of the family, and CORE
spends with the usually plain furniture.


1t pays by subduing the noise caused
by the tramp of boots, the moving of
chairs, the rattling of dishes, and in
softening the tones Of voices. Indeed a
rag carpet has a softening aad refining
influence upon every member of the
family. Even those rough boys forbear
to scuffie in the house, because it will in
jure the carpet that mother worked so
hard to make, and they hate to see the
pleasant room grow shabby. Boys, as
well as girls, like to have their hone
look CHEEKY and stylish" and thus the
rag carpet wears much longer than the
matron imagined it would
Year: 1879

ination is made This change Of movement
has been brought about by the accounts re-.
ceived of the officious intentions of some in
dividuals who fastened themselves upon his
administration, and whom he found difficult
to shake off. The same parties, he has been
informed, intend to obtrude themselves upon
the public by rendering him reception
against which he expressed the greatest
AVERSION
Year: 1879

| The Farallone egg company, several
years ago, attempted to killthe sea-lions
which frequented those barren islands
for their oil and skins. They built try
works and went to considerable ex-
pense, but it was found that the oil
obtained from carcass did not pay for
trying it, and the only disposition that
could be made of the skins was to sell
them to glue factories The best return
they got from the carcass was from
bristles or whiskers and the livers.


Both of these were sold to Gilman en-.


The former they made use of to clean
their opium pipes, while the latter is
chopped up, put into mixture of
alcohol and another fluid, and admin
istered as radical cure for many acute
diseases. The company accordingly
gave up the plan of sea-lion huntin ..
but the effect of their brief warfare upon
these animals was to drive vast droves
Of them over to The rocks about the Cliff
house and the neighborho0d of til


Heads. In consequence of their being
protected by law in these localities,
they have doubled and trebled in num-
Der within the past three years. The
sea-licns are very expensive luxury


1t is probable that they consume more
fish than are caught in the bay for food,
and if they continue to increase in the
future as in the past, it viii be but afew
years before the waters Of the bay will
be destiSutehffioahy mi ssFro.rute lie E.
mails seldom came within the Golden
gate, but now it is a very common
thing for passengers on the Oakland
boats to see their mischievous- looking
heads rise from the water with large
fish in their mouth-they give it shake,
bite out piece. drop it, and then diving
again, catch it, and rising to the surface,
take another nibble until it is consumed,


tis- certain that something should be
done to diminish taeir numbers. If the
legislature was to offer royalty Of from
seventy-five cents toone dollarsper skin,
it is thought by many terested in our
fish supply that it would be an economi-
cal act. As it is now, the sea-lions are
protected by law-nO one being allowed
to molest or Fill one within mile


the Cliff honse. An effort has been
made on several occasions to repeal this
law, but at the first intimation Of any
thing in that direction, the lobby in
Sacramento has been reinforced by dele
cations from a certain. stratum of society
which history tells US has more or less
influence with legislation since the days
of Marc Antony. The consequence is,
lhe law is still upon the statute books,
and the sea-lions continue to increase,
while the fish supply proportionately
decreases.-SG'l Francisco Call.
Year: 1879

The facilities of the HERALD Steam


Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed in California outside of San
Francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted to us will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
Year: 1879

Tho ferryboat Hackensack collidcd with the
schooner H. d. Brewster of pier % North River yes
terday. They struck each other heavily and both
sustained considerable damage. but fortunately
injured The ferryboat approaching
her slip and the schooner had just left her dock.
The tide carried the latter directly In the formers
path and the bow OF the schooner struck the ferry
boat just behind the paddle house. tearing away the
homework for some distance. The schooner lost
her bowsprit aud was otherwise badly damaged.
Both vessels laid up for repairs.
Year: 1879

Total average. ......S2 ON " 3S1n ~


The advance Is ascribed to the efforts of the differ
ent coal companies. When they found they could
not form new combinati through the opposition
OF the late ex-Judge Packer. of the Lchigh Valley
Company, they made effort to reach agree.
ment among themselves to limit the production of
coal by stopping mining operations whenever tho
market might be overlooked. Several meetings
were hcla for this purpose without any result but
IL is reported that Understanding has been reached
among the leading representatives OF the principal
coal companies by which they will issue monthly
circulars advancing the price OF each class OF coal to
figures satisfactory to ALL A meeting of coalmen
interested IN the Phi adelphia trade will be held in
that city to-day for the purpose OF advancing the
att ia m
Year: 1879

The Democracy, despite their high repu-
tation for superior wisdom, are most unfor-
tunate III bringing up this old English case
as n precedent as an example TO follow.
Perhaps at first glance there is resem-


blance, but when Analysed there is not the
remotest similarity between those old Brit
ons and the Bourbon element among us to-
day. The men who then would withhold
public funds from tyannical king were
patriots and an honest majority. They took
their position on the highest moral grounds
grounds that even at this day cannot be
assailed. They risked their lives and for
tunes in cause that was at once righteous
and sensible. But these men of our day,
| with brazen faces, come before us and claim
that their action in the present case is SINH
lar to that Of these worthy patriots of Brit
ain, when there is not the least semblance
between the two cases beyond the mere
threat in the matter. Pass the Threshold OF
the threat, and we at once come into con-
! tact with things dissimilar instead of SINH
lar. In the one case we have a body Of men
standing on the firm sub-base of truth de =
manding their rights aud resorting to hon
orable means to enforce them; in the Other
we have class Of men, who, in the
interest ofa most shocking crime waged
war against most righteous Government,
and who resorted TO the most illegal means
Of cheating their fellow-men at the polls
doing no more or less than stealing an elec.
ton, stealing the rights of man, disobeyinl
every law Of the conscience committing q
crime far greater than that ofstealing man.


money. In order to prevent this n certain
law was so amended as TO give protection


to the weak. Without strong physical fore,


to enforce them, mere laws against sucl


men never amount to much, still the at


tempt was made, and for season did SOM


good. And now the very party who's


banditti actions called for such measures


through the open and well-known violation


of this very law, appear in force ant


demand its repeal, not in an honorable way


however, for there is no honor in them


but in most dishonorable an
revolutionary way, and liken them
selves unto some of our old patriotic Eng
lish ancestors. The comparison is highl
, odious. We however, would call attentio
to the nature of the party who makes thi
/ demand and its precedents and TO the pre-
; cedents of the party who have so earnestl


and ably opposed this measure.