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Year: 1877

GOVERNOR PARKER's Inauguration cost
the people of the State of New Jersey three
thousand five hundred and twenty four dol
lars and ninety -four cents.


Governor Bedle's Inauguration cost the
people of the State two thousand three hum
dred and seventy seven dollars and seventy
cents.


Governor Newell's Inauguration did not
cost the people Of the State single cent.
He walked from Allentown to Trenton,
took the oath of Office quietly, delivered his
inaugural message, and then walked home
again through binding snow-storm that
no horse could travel in.


Simplicity and economy was the order
when Newell entered upon the duties of his
office, but the other two mentioned were
satisfied only with pomp and ceremony and
eXtravagance.
Year: 1877

interests of capital and labor without sem
sible conclusion. AS the fingers to the
hand so is labor to capital, in combination,
dexterous and strong, assunder, palsied and
and powerless


Asking the support of the law and the
preservation of order for the protection of
life and property, | have well known SYM
pathy for laboring people, and all that
could do to alleviate their necessities, |
would cheerfully accord. Legislation seems
impotent for relief, unless it might be to
prevent the competition Of conoict labor wsth
the industry Of honest men, and by making
a more liberal allotment of public lands for
actual settlers. -


Gentlemen, the Democratic party has
presented a distinguished and honorable
gentleman as their candidate, and it will re-
quire our most earnest and unremitting eff
forts to regain our ascendency in the exec
utive department of State, efforts, which
doubt not will be cheerfully given in the in
terest of economy and good government
We are conscious of defects as party, but
the existence of Republican principles, an
outgrowth of the highest civilization, can
no more be imperilled by the mistakes and
disasters which affect parties, and unhorse
politicians, than can the King of Day be
shorn of his light and heat by the smallest
star that reflects twinkle borrowed from
his rays.


have but a word to add, personal to
myself. 1t is well known that have not
sought the distinction, yet l am none the
less grateful for the honor which it confers.
venture an earnest appeal to my personal
friends, to my political associates, and to
all others whom l have cheerfully served
without reference to political differences
and without expectation of reward, to the
good people of New Jersey, whose honor
and welfare l have sought these many years
to support for such assistance as it may be
in their hearts to bestow, giving assurance
that if elected, | will fully perform all the
duties of the exalted office for which have
been placed in nomination.
Year: 1877

A LARGE GATHERING-PLENT OF
EuN--AN IMMENSE CATCH OF
FISH. -f
Although yesterday was more or less
disagreable for pic mic, still it did not
dampen the ardor of the relatives and
friends of the Lyman family. As has al
ready been stated it is the custom of this
family for years to give family reunion
on the 9th day of August. The lmme-
, diate family always look forward to the
day when the. event is to take place, and
with their well known generosity ,.invari-
ably prepare grand feast for the invited
guests. OF course there is no set pro-
gramme for the days amusement, all
being privileged to enjoy themselves as
they see proper, and as a consequence
every one is sure to spend happy day.
A large number of invitations had been
sent out to all the families in the neigh
borhood, and also to a number in this
city and New Castle. 1t is estimated by
one who was present that during the day
there were over three hundred persons
present, there being 80 carriages on ths
ground.


The reunion took place on the farm of
Thomas Lyman, situated on the White
/ OANy OhSSh3 q obOlb uiotdhSC OCyOhu
Newport. The days sport opened early
IN the morning with fishing, and those
who engaged in 1t were rewarded by
securing about ten bushels of the finny
tribe, Of all kinds and species. Shortly
after IL O'Clock large table was set cut
upon the lawn, which was completely
loaded down with every eatable that the
human mind could conceive of. At the
first table all the little folks were seated
and it certainly presented pleasing
sight to the lockers on, to see them
make the contents of the table rapidly
disappear After the young folks came
the older ones, who did ample justice to
the vands spread befdre them.


At er dinner various games were in
dulged in, among them being croquet,
pitching quoits, swinging and other
amusements.


Late in the afternoon the guests de-
parted hoping that the family would
enjoy long years of happiness. 1t is said
that the number of pretty ladies present
was remarkable.


The invited guests from this city, one
and all desire to return their tharks tor
the kind treatment they received
Year: 1877

STILL SUFFERING.-Mis Derrickson,
who was SO terribly burned yesterday
morning, full and descriptive account
OF which was given in the GAZETTE,
is still very low. Her sufferings during
the day and last night were terrible, but
this morning she is somewhat better, and
is not suffering such acute pains. Her
condition is very critical and il will re-
quire careful and constant nursing and
watching to save her life. Mr.. Heinel,
who was also badly burned, is slightly
better.
Year: 1877

greatest Importance that you should keep
all : those people at your sgerc es.
There l know that your hearts are right.
That will make you strong with me. 1t
is impossible for me to let those people
go up to the Tongue river country until
we know they are sll our friends. 1t is
necessary that all OF the Indians should
GO down in the direction OF the Miss souri,
river to get supplies, SO as to be ready
early in the spring to select the best land
on the White river and other places on
the reservation for cultivation.


During the address the Indians smiled
broadly when the President said, "To be
better educated, so as to know how to
work and gain your own living by rails
sng cattle and tilllns the soil, will be
better for your children than hunting
bufsloes and dancing the war dance"


Conference closed.
Year: 1877

Ill. Neither the State nor the School
Fund has at any time held dollar 5
worth of stock in any bank at Charles
ton, and therefore Lever lost $4,000 or
any other sum by such investment
Wheeling Register.


This is specimen of special pleading
that beats David Dudley Field, even.
Nobody asserts that the State has lost
stock in Charleston bank, but will the
REGISTER deny that the State has lost
heavily as depositor in bank at
Charleston2-StateJ Journal.


The discussion Is upon the action of
the Board of the School Fund. Does
the Journal pretend that this Board has
lost anv money rs stated2
Year: 1877

In spite of, or in consequence of, The
dull times, the schools and colleges
throughout the country are more largely
attended this year than for
several years past. This is tht
case with the State University
at Morgantown, with Washington and
Jefferson College, and with every proml-
nent educational institution from which
we have seen any report. Is this con-
sequence of the hard times2 We have
heard it suggested that 1t is. In recent
conversation with DR.. HAYES, President
of Washington and Jefferson College, ne
affirmed tins proposition. de says
it is part of the history OF
the leading collegiate institutions OF
the country that depression in busl'
ness invariably swells the number OF
students in the schools, while on the
contrary an unusual activity In business
reduces the attendance at the schools
He accounts for it in this wise
When business is driving, parents
are tempted to bring their sons into
active life without so full d preparation al
school, but when business lsgs and
thousands are seeking in vain for en-
ployment there attention is drawn more
vivdly to the advantages OF m educa-
lion.


Whatever may be the cause, we be-
heve il is true that the leading colleges
are unusually well attended this fall.


The Grafton Sentinel favors the prop
osition TO hold al extra session OF the
Legislature. 1t comedies, however, that,
Judging from the tone OF the press OF the
State, majority of the taxpayers are
opposed to the scheme. The Sentinel
presents its reasons thus:


But after all it is our candid opinion
that an extra session OF the Legislature
could be made profitable to the State
There is not one who is at all acquainted
with the condition of the State laws, but
recognizes the necessity of the members
of the Legislature getting together AS
soon rs possible and coditying and put
ting our iumbled laws in proper shape.
Our judiciary system is burden up
on the tax payers and needs revising; and
it is SAID that much of the States in
debtedness has been evolved mainly from
it, and in consequence OF these and other
matters which need revising the tax bur-
den is daily growing heavier and more
exhausting on the people of the State.
The change proposed in the judiciary
system alone would prove asaving to the
State of $4,000 per year. Could the
Legislature be relied upon to meet and
attend promptly and strictly to the work
needed to be done the sooner it meets
the better.
Year: 1877

An Indian womsn while bathing was
seized oy Devil fish and drowned. The
body WAS discovered by Indians the next
day lying At the bottom of the bay in the
grasp of the Devil fish. They cut the
tentacles and recovered the body.
Year: 1877

In yesterday mornings REGIsTER we
called public attention to the costhness
of the luxury the people OF this city ara
apioying in the manner OF treating Va
grants. d.unksTds s0d disorderly per
sons. All that We said Is admitted to be
true. but we are told there is no remedy
not for the present at least-thst the
people are helpless; that Council Is
bound hand and loot by the charter that
We must grin and bear it until legislation,
which was passed last winter and Which
will take effect in May, 1879, can operate


From this view OF the question we en-
phstjcally dissent. Some OF these va
grants 20 in AL unvsrying round from
the street to the Police Court, thence to
the abortion of work-house, thence ~
the street agsin; and the peoples pockets
are tolled at every turn of the crank. 1t
costs to arrest them; 1t costs to try ana
sentence them, and it costs TO feed and
shelter them. Now, we maintain, that
the system should be made selt-sustain-
ing; and we believe IL can be.


First. we want work house where 3
rigid discipline can De enforced. Provision
mus. be made for working the prisoners
sentenced TO it, just Is coHV.cLs IN
the penitentiary are worked. We are
told that some of those committed have
not sufficient clothing to protect them
from the biting breczas-theretore, they
csnnot be employed in outdoor work
Then put upon their backs cheap sult
Of some such material ~ the Stfte turn-
ishes to her uubidden guests, and make
them work J they pay for it. These
men who are sent up every thirty days
are, many OF them, dead beats, and thor
imprisonment Las no reiormaIory IN
auence upon them. The authorizes
know perfectly well that as soon as their
sentence shsll expire they will be up
for sentence again. Such people should
BE- sentenced with more vigor, and
worked with more vigor during their
term of impr sonment.


l. is not of the officers fees we COM
plain, but of the impotence Of the punish
men, imposed. Why, most OF these men
had rather vibrate between the lock up
and the workhouse than not. That
tabernacle on the hillside Is sort OF
winter Saratoga for them. They toll not
neither do they break stone unless they
wsnt to, yet SOLOMON in all his glory
wss not as tree from care as they are.


1t iss rejection upon the good sense
OF the members of Council to say that
our present system of Furnishing vsgrSn-
cy and disorder is the best they can con-
lrive. We hope to see some practical
member bring forward some practical
plan to put an end to the present stuPidi-
" without much delay.
Year: 1877

None of Hayes's Cabinet are rich, un>
less it is Evarts, and as he owns farm in
Vermont, he can, of course never become
an exceptionally wealthy man. He has
a very large income from his practice,
and he accepted seat in the Cabinet
only upon condition that he be allowed
to retain it. There is no statute of 17Ss,
heretofore overlooked. as in Stewards
to see the Secretary of State journeying
to New York about once month to look
after his law cases. He sayes his salary
alone would cut but sorry figure in
meeting his family expenses. You re-
member few years ago Mr.. Evarts was
spoken of for Governor of New York,
but declined. He could not afford it, be.
cause a term as Governor would break
Up his law practice.
Year: 1877

Now that both Hampton and Cham
berlain have travelled to Washington to
see Mr.. Hayes, and both have visited him
we are informed that no decision will be
made until after the ''most deliberate con-
sideration." The worse than uselessness
Of this move must now be apparent to all.
1t was apathy piece of strategy for delay
by which the fraudulent President sought
to postpone the withdrawal of the
troops. z
Year: 1877

MoLLIE MAGUIREIsM seems to have
sprung up with new life in California.
for the massacre of Cinnamon at Chico
is directly traced to an order similar to
that which kept up reign of terror in
Schuylkin county. The action of the
law has been unusually swift, however,
and on the Pacific coast justice, if it
comes at all, comes quickly. Here is q
good chance for Senator Sargent. He
ought to appear as counsel for the de-
PENDANTS.
Year: 1877

RoAD.-The track of the Columbia and
Port Deposit railroad has been completed
and the first locomotive with a large
train of construction cars passed up over
the road last week. The ballasting it is
expected will also be completed in few
days, when the cars will run regularly
between Columbia and Port Deposit.
Already several prominent business men
are on the lookout for grain warehouse
stations.-0Iford Press.
Year: 1877

The new coal combination if not quite
accomplished is at least assured. The re-
sentatives of all the great companies
took part in the conference at New York
yesterday, and committee was appoint
ed to perfect plain for the improvement
Of the trade, which is to involve "an ad-
vance of at least fifty cents per ton at
tidewater.o
Year: 1877

The Reading Railroad Company have
determined to discharge all members of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers in its employ unless they sever
thelr connection with that body. This
is done to obviate conflicts arising from
the exercise Of authority by that body in
instigating and encouraging strikes,
Year: 1877

WEAVING CoLTs.-A Vermont farmer says be
weaneu "a last spIiug cot in the following manner :
81 led gram Oh meal To the mare when the colt
was with her. The colt soon learned to eat meal
with the Dam. Alter he has been taught to eat
with the mare he viii eat readily when he is
removed from her. l put my Colt in = stable
where he could have plenty OF exercise in large
yard led him with hay and bran mixed with mlk
which soon taught him TO diink without the
bran. | weaned him from the mare III this way
when he was three months Old he seemed Con-
tened, aud tniuk did we'll as thoug Ia he had
run wilh the mare TWO months longer. 1t was
much better tor the mare, and mole CONVENIENT
one wants 10 use her, as most people do in the
country, while the colt Is with her. This way Of
weaning colts Is very CONVENIENT, and one can
feed mix at such times seem jud lcions, subst-
Iutng gram or shorts Tor the mix At any reason-
able time"
Year: 1877

act as partisans. 1t provided for the ap-
pointment of five republicans and five dem
ocrats by Congress, and selected two
republican and two democratic Judges OF
the Supreme Court. 1t was not expected
that the first fourteen members would di-
vest themselves of all partisan bias, and it
was accordingly arranged that the bias on
one side should balance the bias on the
other 1t is idle to exclaim against a thing
which was SO clearly contemplated. The
fifth Judge was left to be selected by the
other four, but as two of the four belonged
to each political party, neither had any
advantage in selecting the odd member. In
commission so composed bolt would
violate every principle of good faith and
personal honor.


Justice requires rs to say that
the preponderance of democratic sentiment
in Washington frowns down all such coun-
sells of dishonor. The democrats may have
bitter pill to swallow in the Louisiana
case, as they have had in the Florida case !;
but they will not reject it. They may make
wry faces, but they will, nevertheless, gulp
down the dose. Honor and interest alike
require this manly course We are conf
dent that there will be no flinching.
Year: 1877

1t is held by the people of British Colum-
bia-if correctly represented in the Cana
dian Parliament-that the terms of their
union with the Dominion are violated in o
way SO practical and extreme as to absolve
them from all further allegiance to the Do
minion, and they declare unless a remedy
is soon found that they will secede. 1t will
be remembered that the condition of their
union with Canada-the price of their adhe-
sion, in fact-was the pledge on the
part of the Dominion to build with
in ten years the Canada Pacific
Railway, by which the Eastern provinces
were to be connected with the Pacific. This
road was to be about two thousand five hun
dred miles in length. AS only four years
remain of the period within which the road
was to be built, and as the project seems to
have ceased to be even an ambitious dream
with the Northern authorities the people of
Columbia feel themselves the victims of q
great breach Of faith and are indignant ac-
cordingly But there does not seem any
likelihood that this demeanor on their part
will make the construction of the road less
impossible to the Canada authorities.
Year: 1877

Somebody has undertaken to bribe the
Secretary of the Interior by the proffer
of the small sum of three hundred dollars,
and is to be prosecuted for it by the United
States authorities. If this man is found
guilty his punishment under the statute
will be fine of not more than nine hun
dred dollars and imprisonment for net more
than three years, and he will deserve all this
if he gets it for it is shocking that a man
should believe q Cabinet officer would be
corrupt, and worse still for him to suppose
he would be dirt cheap. 1t will be an
event of importance in the history of
this administration if it closes with the i'm
prsonment of man for the attempt to
bribe Secretary. In the London Times
there are published from time to time by
the authorities of the British Treasury ac-
acknowledgements of the receipt of what
is called conscience money" Some
man or woman who has dcfrauded
the government, made miserable by
the pangs of conscience, sends the
money to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and requests a public acknowledgment OF
the fact. 1t has been observed that the sum
in these cases is generally about one pound
or thirty shillings. 1t is tremendous effect
of conscience for it to reach five pounds.
| These facts have given rise TO great deal OF
regret that conscience does not sometimes
trouble q man who has stolen a thousand
pounds or fifty thousand pounds. 1t may in
the same way be deeply regretted that some
/ United States officer did not take up the
case of bribery against vile scoundre
( who had offered him hundred thousand
dollars. But tho three hundred dollar mar


is certainly better than none.
Year: 1877

Only strict adherence to the rules as in
terpreted by the chairman at the late meet
ing of the directors of the Direct Cable Com
pany saved that corporation from being
overwhelmed in the interest of the ANAL
gamation scheme. By these rules the friends
of that scheme could not use the power they
really possessed to vote down their oppo-
nents. They have, therefore, resorted to the
courts for an order compelling the chairman
to count their votes in defiance of the rules
of the company. This is resisted by the
directors on the ground not only that the
votes are shut out by the rules of the COM
pany, but that the persons in regard to
whom it is claimed that they must vote as
the holders of certain shares are not the
actual or bona tide owners of these shares,
or have not given such evidence of their
ownership as the protection of other owners
requires Thus the case is fairly launched
in the courts and that war against the
Direct United States Company, WHICH was
threatened in the interest of the great ANAL
oamation has actually begun for litigation
of this sort is desperate trial who has the
longest purse.
Year: 1877

Lord Derby ON the Extradttion.
Somebody is mistaken as to the precise
source of the misunderstanding that re-
Gently arose between England and this
country in regard to the surrender of fugi-
tive criminals and the consequent suspen-
sion of the Extradition Treaty. Lord Derby
made statement on the subject yesterday
in the House of Lords in answer to a ques-
ton. and put it in way which seems to
present the United States as reced-
ing from false position. and thus
opening the way for England to
revive the operation of the treaty. On this
side the ocean it is not understood in that
way. 1t appears in this country that Her
Majesty's government unwarrantably refused
to continue to surrender criminals because
the United States refused to make, with re-
gard to certain criminal. pledge that had
never been made or required under the law;
and that England, after deliberate examina-
ton, concluded she had made mistake,
and revived the operation of the law. 1t
may not be q matter Of the greatest conse-
uuence how this is understood in different
countries, but if perversion Of the facts is
necessary to protect the dignity of one gov
ernment correction is perhaps due to the
dignity of the other.
Year: 1877

The Rev. Mr. Cowley, the late shepherd
of the Childrens Fold, who retired from
the immediate management of that charity
a short time since, still claims the privilege
of ruling over its interests in the character
of a trustee and refuses to yield his posi-
ton in the Board. If the charges made
against Mr.. Cowley were sufficiently well
established to authorize his removal from
the resident management of the institution
they ought certainly to disqualify him from
acting in the capacity of trustee, and as the
city of New York mainly supports the char
ity the people have q right to insist that
Mr.. Cowley shall have nothing to do
with it. The management of the
Fold requires to be completely reformed,
and this must be done through the trustees.
Mr.. Cowley thought proper to rent four
story brown stone house on one of the best
streets up town, where the rents range from
eighteen hundred to two thousand dollars a
year. 1t made a handsome residence for
the shepherd of the Fold, but is not in any
manner fitted for the accommodation of his
flock. much more roomy and convenient
house Tor the purpose could De nlreo iurther
up town on the east or west side for five
hundred or six hundred dollars year,
whore the children would have play
ground for air and recreation and where
the Fold would not be a serious injury to
the adjoining property. There are other
evils of Mr.. Cowley's management that re-
quire to be broken up, and it is not de-
sirable that their author should be allowed
as trustee to pass upon his own acts.