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Year: 1878

Born Anderson and the fellow who
attempted the assassination of the EN-
peror of Germany are editors, and both
seem to have been actuated to the
course they have taken by the failure
of their respective governments to APP
point them to office. The newspaper
men are determined to assert them
selves some way.
Year: 1878

Long Branch, Feb. almost every
building on the shore between Sandy
Hook and Long Branch has been more
or less damaged and all hotels and
dwellings on the beach had their
grounds badly washed. The bath houses
are all gone and many beautiful sum-
mer houses are either washed away or
blown to pieces by the gale. The bulk
heads are all destroyed. The beach for
miles is strewn with debris from these
wrecks. The New Jersey Southern
railroad track has been covered with
sand i'll many places and greatly dam
aged. 1t was the most terrific storm
ever experienced here.
Year: 1878

A VIENNA paper says the principal
cause Of the delay of the armistice is
stated to be the difficulty about the
military conditions imposed. They in
clude the occupation of Constantinople.
Year: 1878

THE LEADER earnestly requests its
friends in all parts Of the country to
send in the news. Write often, give
US all the news and keep us posted in
all matters of progress and develop
ment. When in the city our friends
are invited to call at this office and fur
nish us with any information they may
possess.
Year: 1878

in lifting up our people. This has
been done in Cincinnati aud every
city in the Union. The Sisters Of
Charity have gone even to the
Bucktowns and the Five Points,
and have accomplished wonders in
the work Of elevating our race. We
ought to proclaim on the wings of
the wind that we know these things
and appreciate them. Aud then let
our Protestant brethren command
--as they may-the same gratitude
from us by banishing from among
them the prejudice that exists to-
ward the black man.


Before the memory of Pope Plus
TX / bow in reverence. Many OF
the doctrines of his church l and
you do not hold, but is foolish to
pray for the death of that church.
1t is a mighty engine, and has ac-
complished much for US and the
world. The Catholic Church will
be here till the judgment day. Let
us rather pray that the papal chair
may be filled by one who will carry
on to a glorious completion the
work SO grandly begun.
Year: 1878

Out Of employ How these ter
rible words have shaken our COM
monwealth to its very center within
the past year; and how startling is
the thought that in our midst is a
great army of destitute men, ren.
dered desperate for want of work,
men to whom toll is a blessing,
leisure curse-men OF mind, men
of muscle, the leayened and the
unleavened, all with that piteous
cry, "Give us work that we may
live |" No work, no wages.


There is perhaps no country on
earth where all classes of society
live 50 much from hand to mouth
as in our own. Here large families
live from day to day by the nus.
band and fathers labor of the day.
Happy, indeed, is that household
when the needs are not above the
means.


When remuneratiye labor ceases,
when week after week passes with
the devoted husband and father out
Of employ, who can estimate the
sufferings All over our beautiful
land, in hundreds of happy homes,
where once bright fires burned
aud gentle hearts rejoiced where
Year: 1878




Cincinnati Commercial, 1lth.I


NJ. W. Taylor, a colOred Metho.
dist Episcopal clergyman of attain
ments, and pastor at Union Chapel,
yesterday made the death OF Plus
TX the occasion Of an appreciative
review of the work Of the Catholic
church, in behalf of the cOlored
people. He said:


In his coffin, at Rome, lies man
over whose death half a billion oil
people mourn. Such universal sor.
row suggests that in his character
aud life, and the vast work which
has been carried on under his direc.
tiou, there must have been, in spite
of all the hard things the Protes.
tantS are in the habit of saying
about popery and Romanism, some
thing praiseworthy and that will re.
suit in enduring good. For us
colored people, we shall see there
is much to recall in his career, and
the work he inaugurated in our be-
half, that is calculated to excite
profound gratitude. During the
war of the rebellion, with all the
world to look alter-for there is nc
corner of the civilized world that
does not contain subjects Of the
pope-that man turned his atten.
ton to the colored people in bond
age in America, aud gave his whole
energy to devising means for amelo-
rating his condition. When free.
dom was proclaimed to our race, he
ordered Archbishop (now Cardinal)
Manning to select three hundred Of
the best and brightest colored
youths he could find and place them
in the best college in the world, for
the purpose of preparing them to
lift up our race from the depths of
ignorance and degradation TO which
slavery had plunged us. And to
help on this work he added to the
sums taken from the revenues oI
the Church frequent and liberal
contributions from his own private
means. If a Sumner or a Morton
had done this we should laud his
name to the skies, Why should the
act be less praiseworthy because it
was the pope?


TO the 100000 Of colored peo.
plein this country, more completely
ostracised in the North than in tho
South, he has also sent ladies ol
pure character, who are not afraid
to come in contact with a black
person, even though he may have
sunk to the lowest level, and who
exhibited that sisterhood aud broth
erhood Of feeling which is SO potent
Year: 1878

National Associated Press to the Star.


New YORK, Oct. 16.-A' morning paper
says that, silver being an American
product, it is not desirable that it should
continue to depreciate; but so long as the
supply is greater than the demand it must
fall in price, like -four, iron and every
thing else. When the year began silver
was worth in London 537s pence per ounce,
and now it can hardly be sold for 81 pence.
These fluctuations will of course impair
still further its value as monetary stand
ard
Year: 1878

1t has been discovered that grape leaves
make an yeast in some respects superior
to hops, as the bread rises sooner and has
not the peculiar taste which many object
to in that made from hops. Use eight or
ten leaves for quart of yeast; boil them
for about ten minutes and then pour the
hot liquor on the -four, the quantity of the
latter being determined by whether the
yeast is wanted thick or thin. Use hop
yeast for raising it to begin with, and after
ward that made of the grape leaves
Dried leaves will be as good as fresh
If dark film appears upon the surface
when rising, little stirring will obviate
il
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON Feb 24-One of the most i'm
portant bills introduced during the past week
is Senator Sargents bill to transfer the Life
saving Service fl I'M the Treasury to the Navy
Department, to which it logically belongs. The
bill provides for an entire reorganization OF the
service. and places it on a seaman ike footing.


naval officer not below the rank OF COM
mander nor above that of captain is to have
charge of it. under the immediate direction of
the Secretary of the Navy. and naval officer
below the rank OF commander is to be as
signed to each district as an inspector.
% The stations are to be kept open the year
round, except when the Secretary of the Navy
may deem it unnecessary. The crews are to be
experienced surfmen, preference being given
to seamen who have served three years in the
navy and have received honorable discharges
and good conduct badges. Continuous service
navy enlisting for this special service and for
those who have served In this special service
when en1isting in the navy.


This bill has attracted O. great deal OF atten-
tion, and receives the unqualified support of
all those who desire this important and hu-
name service to be brought as near perfection
as possible The bill, it is, thought, will be re-
present week, and there is NO good Teason why
1t should not pass the House just as promptly.
The only known opposition to the bill comes
from those who have heretofore used the ap-
pointing power for political purpose. and who
would find 1t possible to use that power when
ment.


The navy department has materials ready at
hand for the speedy and complete reorganiza-
lion of the service, as contemplated by the bill.
All marine associations and owners of sea-go-
ing vessels are interested in this matter. and
their influence to. hasten the passage, OF the
hill "a
Year: 1878

NEW YORK. Feb. 24-A meeting of the four
sections of the Socialis,ic party was held this
morning, and lasted for several hours. The
room was decorated with national flags. and the
red flag of the commune was prominently dis
played.


object OF the meeting was to enter protest
against tho proposed repeal of the lien laws
but the resolutions offered by Louis Huck went
much further. They declared that it was the
opinion of the party that q State, and If neces-
sary q National Labor Bureau should be formed
and that more protection should be given to the
rights of free speech.


test was made against the existence Of the Ma
tional Guard and the existence Of armories in
any city. The resolutions were adopted with
considerable applause. and ordered to be sent to
Washington. to Gov. Robinson and both houses
Of the Legislature.


A short address was made In German. after
which Isaac Bermelt, who was announced as
belonging to the Workiugmen's party. made
length and highly in flammatory speech. He de-
claTed that both political parties were opposed
to them. and If they wanted iut tce they must
band together and mako laws for themselves.
If 1t was decided to do this they would have
help from the workingmen both in Germany
and France.


Congress. he said, might make laws. but they
could not restrain the people from breaking
them. Referring to the National Guard of the
State andEhe armories in the cities, he declared
that they should be abolished. They were only
established to protect capital and to intimidate
the Workingmen. Only let, the army be abol-
ished and labor would make such n move az
would insure its rights and render it equal with
capital.


The speech seemed to m eat with the approval
OF the delegates present The rest of the busi-
ness was Of a routine character
Year: 1878

New YORK, Feb. a,-The managers of the
Anchor Line Of steamships. who. during the
always managed TO steer clear of any trouble
with their stegedores or dock hands, are likely
to have serious trouble with their men to NOR
row, and general strike among them is ex-
pected.


All day to-day men were engaged discussing
the question. meeting in their usual places OF
resort on West street. and Ii is stated that they
have almost unanimously resolved upon a plan
of action.


The grievance of which thev complain, az
stated by onaof their number. is the attempted
reduction, Of their pay, 1t is alleged that the
day work and forty cents an hour for work at
night. but that they recently di continued this
plan and agreed too1ay steady wages of sl2 per
week, with the understanding that tho sum, of
forty cents an hour was to be paid for all over
time or extra work. Lately some Of the men
have not been needed during the whole OF the
time embraced in what would be a regular days
work. and ois stated that the company in
tend to deduct from the 81 per Ueek a pro rata
Year: 1878

New York, to be present at the sailing OF the
ship Supply tomorrow afternoon from New
York.


He will go to Philadelphia on Tuesday to see
the Constitution off. return thence to New York
Tuesday night, and come to Washington on
Thursday next.


Everything in his department is working sat-
isfactorly and he is confident that al the VI g.
sells placed at his disposal will sail promptly as
Year: 1878

sum corresponding with the time durinHvhich
they were idle.


This the men will resist on the grounds that
dock during Working hours awatin9 call ali for for
duty. Tomorrow Is the regular pay day. and
will decide the question. If the reduction is
it is certain that they will do SO in peaceable
Year: 1878

which the King of Spain was lately married,
a sentinel perpetually stands on guard. The
Virgin OF Atocha has long held the rank Of
colonel in the Spanish army. Hence the mill
tary honor
Year: 1878

THE five year old daughter ofan Eighth
street family, lately, stood watching
her baby brother, who was making u
great Iuss over having his face washed.
The little m $ at length lost her patience
and stamping her tiny foot sad "You
think you have lots Of trouble, but you
don't know anything about it. Wait
til you're big enough to get iekin
ana then you Il see won t be mamma p"
CINCINNATI Breakfuat Iable.
Year: 1878

A DocToEs' MIsTAKE.-A popular
doctor Of Utica, n. I. whils eseortng n
lady home the other evening, attempted
toreIieve her cough and sore throat by
giving her n troche. He told her to allow
it TO dissolve gradoaly in her mouth.
No relief was experienced and the doctor
felt quite chagliued tho next day when
the lady sent him pantaoon button with
note saying he must have given her
the wrong Kind OF a trJche, and might
need thi, one,
Year: 1878

" How came You 10 he a drunkard =
asked a friend of Tom Marshall, of Ken
sucky, in conversation with him 'WeI,
| will tell you all about that said Tom
" l graduated in law at Lexington with
the celebrated divine, Robert J. Breckin-
ridge, and our friends thought We were
the intellectual wonders of the age, and
they advised us, by way of taking a high
position at once, to attack Henry Clav,
then in the prime OF his fame and power.
upon the tirst opportunity that presented
Itself. That opportunity soon came. We
Sere employed in case in opposition to
him. Bob made a speech md made a
speech, and our friends congratulated us
on our tremendous speeches, and We were
basking in the sunshine of prosperity,
when the old lion arose, and with one
sweep Of his paw drove Bob to the bible
and me to the bottle where we have been
ever since
Year: 1878

NICE PE0rLE-If anybody who uses
the term were called on to define : nice
people he would find it somewhat diff
cnlt yet the word is i'll constant use
:. Are there many nice people at the
springs this year = Oh, yes | met a
.iraat many nice people The additional
word very adds greatly to the diff
Guilty. The nice people are not neces-
sarily wealthy. There are a great many
rich people who are not ''nice at all,
quite the reverse and oil the other hand
some quite poor people, or even people i'll
debt, are considered very nice. Beauty
and youth do not make people mice :"
genius and learning so far from making
people nice have the opposite effect.
Genius is eccentric, and learned men are
boreS What then is that very strange
quality that wealth, beauty, youth, genius
and learning strive III VAN to acquire,
and which nevertheless is possessed by
people who have no claims to any Of these
advantages Ii is very hard to say, and
yet the Judgment of other nice people is
almost Instantaneous. As soon rs a nee
lady sees another lady, notices how she
dresses, the tone of her voice, her air
and manner, and her associates, her mind
is made up as to whether she is nice or
not. A womans Judgment upon men,
however, is more lcnient. Either she
has less insight INTO the masculine nature,
nr else she is partial in her decision,
leaning in his favor If he he well-dresscd
and moderately good-looking, Mems iudg-
ment of ladies' is also faIlible. If the
specimen be young and pretty the male
intelligence IS very apt to consider her
nice. Yet uncertain and vague as the
term seems to be it has meaning well
accepted ami understood. People love
to meet nice people, and hate TO be caught
in the company OF those who are not nice
Yet the closest approach to 4 definition is
that nice persons are persons that other
people consider to he nice persons, and
who associate only with nice people, eX-
cept occasionally when they associate with
very nice people.
Year: 1878

Duncan's Liver and Kidney Medicine is a
cure for all diseases having their origin in a
diseased state of the Kidney, or Liver, such as
sick headache dyspepsia, swimming in the
head, loss Of appetite, bad taste in the mouth,
heartburn tenderness or fullne.s over the
region of the stomach cramp collie, costive-
ness, palpitation of the heart, pain. in the
back, sides and limbs, and all diseases pecu-
liar to females. We can say to our friends
that the above medicine is just what it is rep
resented to be, and is pronounced by every
one who has used it, far superior to any Liver
Medicine they have ever used. We know that
it gives better satisfaction than any we have
ever sold Knowing it to be purly vegetable,
we can recommend it to our suffering friends


Price IS cents. For sale by NJ. F. Ash, Jack
son, Miss.
Year: 1878

This veteran Magazine, which long ago out
grew its original title of the Ne,0 MonthLu
Maqazine, has not in the least abated the popu-
larity it won at the outset, but has added to it
in many ways, and has kept fairly abreast of
the times, thanks to the enterprise of the pub
fishers and the tact and wisdom of its editors


For whatever is best and most readable in the
literature of travel, discovery. and fictien, the
average reader of to-day looks to Harper's
Magazine, just as expectantly as did the read
er of quarter of a century ago; there is the
same freshness and suggestiveness in it's edi-
torial departments now as then.-Boston Jour
Year: 1878

WHY THEY SEND THEM TO CONGRESS-
The Lynchturg (Va.) Neus says: I've have
never undertaken to find out what brought
Gen. johnson to the front as a candidate for
Congress. We should have been satisfied to
give him our support as recognition of his
services as a confederate soldier Virginia
can recognize the services of her soldiers In no
other way than by giving them places which
honestly and properly earn a living. A seat
in Congress is one Of the places, and General
johnson can honorably and acceptably fill it,
and virginia never can repay him or a hun
dred other of her sons for what they have suf.
fered for her. We are glad the old General is
hOnOred and reWardedn
Year: 1878

The Fenian army that is to invade
Canada had better be less ostentatious
in their preparations, else the constables
will arrest them and break up the cam
paign. If"General O'Neill" were to be
arrested at the head of his army it
would be awkward.
Year: 1878

Up to the hour of going to press, oul
dispatches from the country at large art
highly favorable to the Republican party
In Connecticut We gain certainly two and
probably three Congressman, in New
York we gain one certain, and poss


bly, one or two more, in severa
other States We also gain members O
Congress, in all not less than ten or twelve


We carry the legislature in Connecticut
giving us gain of one senator, we carry
the legislature in New York, insuring tn,
reelection of Mr.. Conkling, and make en-
couraging gains in nearly all quarters. Ia.
ken all together, the result is very graf.
flying one, and fully as favorable as the
most sanguine Republican had hoped for
Year: 1878

SAN Francisco, November 4.-Dispatch-
es from Virginia City to the chairman of
the Democratic State Central Committee,
state that the Democratic legislative ticket
is ahead in the State There is a good deal
of scratching. The Democrats charge the
extensive use Of money on the part Of the
Republicans.
Year: 1878

strolled away. She sat where she could look
down into the valley, but there stood the mist,
and somehow she did not like either TO look
down there Just now Then she moved away,
and without any more thought she came and
sat on the opposite side of the cliff, where
she could look down on the Fjord. There
came peace to her from the long view of the
water.


While she was sitting there she thought she
should like to sing, and she chose a song with
long notes and burden, which foated far
away into the calm evening. She found that
she liked to hear herself sing, and when she
came TO the end of the first verse, she began
the second with louder voice. But when she
had sung that verse it seemed to her as if
somebody was answering from far below.
Dear me, what can that be z" she thought,
and stepped out on the utternOst ledge, and
threw her arms around tall brch-tree which
stood there and tremblcd over the abyss. She
looked downward, but she saw nothing. The
Fjord lay quietly asleep; not bird was stir
ring. She sat down again and took up her
song. But this time somebody answered
with the same tune and much nearer. As
laug sprang up and leaned once more over
the ledge. Then she saw n boat moored at
the foot of the cliff, but so far below that it
looked like a nutshell. She drew the eyes
upward and caught sight of red cap climb
ing the naked wall. "Who can that be p
she asked, and made long leap backward.
She dared not answer for she knew full well
WHO it was She threw herself down on the
green sward and took hold of the grass with
both her hands, as if it were she who must
not miss the grasp. The roots loosencd she
shrieked, thrust her hands deeper into the
sod, and prayed to God Almighty to help him.
Then she felt that this was truly to try God,
and could not be expected to be granted.
but only this one time" she burst out, "help
him, oh only this one time" She clasped
the dog as if it were Tore she would hold
fast, rolled with it over the green sward, and
thought that these minutes would never come
to an end.


But suddenly the dog sprang up, started
toward the ledge, wagged his tail, and bark
ed turned back to Aslaug, jumped with his
fore-paws into her lap and barked; twisted
round again and barked with frantic restless
ness, while red cap arose above the ledge,
and Tore leaped to her bosom. There he lay
for whole minute. Neither Of them spoke,
and when they begun to talk there was not
much wit in what they said.


But old Juut, when he heard about il, said
a word which was not unwitty. He threw
his fist down on the table, and thundered
through the room, There is might in that
boy, and the girl shall be his ~ Translated
in The Ne,r York Times.
Year: 1878

PARIS Is NEVER WITHOUT ITS SENsATlON, ana
the gossips at the clubs are never idle. The
latest story amusing them shows how clever
mother tricked Dominican monk and gend-
arme and made sure of the custody of her son.


Ten years ago Chevaudier de Naldrome, a
member of an illustrious French family, took
into his gray head the notion of marrying
young girl named Defoden. She was the
daughter of a dame who sold papers in one of
the kiosques of the boulevards, and though
upon the stage could scarcely be called an act
ress. The old gentleman was blessed with an
heir in due course of time, with whom he was
better pleased than with the subsequent con-
duct of his wife, whom he deemed too frivol-
GUS She had lover, and, according to her
story, at the advice of her husband, Il separa-
tion was decided upon, Naldrome, who was
rich, taking excellent care of the Defoden
family. Three years ago he died, and, of
course there was "A lively legal contest over
the parcelling of his garments. On the rep
resentation that his mothers morals We're not
good the court decreed the custody of the lad
to the Valdrome family, who were instructed
to place him at school with the Dominican
monks, and permit the mother to see him pc
riodically On New Years day monk brought
the lad to his mothers house, and while the
good friar cooled his heels in an ante-cham-
ber the boy was dressed in the toggery of a
girl and hurried out of the house and away
from Paris in charge of a well-paid servant,
When the monk found he was tricked he
called for the police, who endeavored to gain
n clue as to the childs whereabouts by watch
ing the movements of the mother. They fol-
lowed her to church and posted themselves to
shadow her after, her deyotions being com
pleted, she would leave the church In the