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Year: 1879

The Democrats having failed in every at


tempt at evolution-having been headed


OIL by the Presidential veto in their at


tempts to circumscribe the powers of the


President as cOmmander-in-chief of The


army-and finding themselves foilcd at all


points by Executive vigilance, they now


seek revenge, and think they have found n


rare opportunity for its wreaking. Power


less against the President, and being foiled


in every mischievous invention they hnye
attempted, the Democrats are full of chagrin
and resentment. They dare not, or cannot,
II they dare, reach the army; but the Sec
retary of War furnishes q shining mark for
their malice. His position is the nearest
point to the army that they can reach and
he IS spotted as a victim. The President
has nominated him as Judge of the United
States Circuit Court There is no doubt of
the fitness of the appointment but the
Democrats must have revenge, and it is
given out that Mr.. MCCRARY's nomination
IS doomed to rejection. We cannot believe
that the Senate is sufficiently besotted in
partisan hate to do this thing; but if it
proves so to be, so much the worse for them,
and so much the better for the Republicans.
In political point of view it is not to be re-
gretted, though for the credit of the United
States Senate we should regret to see it lower
itself to grade so far below the average
decencies and proprieties of coordinate re-
lation. One thing shakes our confidence in
the predictions made that Mr.. MCCRARY's |
rejection is forcgone conclusion: it comes
from "a liar of the first magnitude "-the
champion who has won the belt by sacriGe-
ing truth to ialsehood to au extent that out
strips allhope and powerof competition. We
prefer to see the end before we accord to
the Senate the scalp of the Secretary of
War to crafty petty spite.
Year: 1879

IHE story is ahoat that some one or more
OF the greater European Powers are about 10
interfere with an offer Of mediation in the
settlement of existing difficulties between
the three belligerent Republics of South
America. This is a matter which should
demand the immediate attention of our De-
partment of State. If the story be true it
may perhaps become the duty of this Gov
ernment to take an active hand in the con-
templated mediation.
Year: 1879

The Philadelphia Times asks "Who is


pushing GRANr?' If the Times will read
the New York Herald of yesterday we think
1t Will discover that that sheet is pushing
GRANT back with its best efforts but it is
the old push of Cesarism. The Republican
party has not yet adopted the Herald as its
political mentor, and hence it is wasting its
fragrance on the desert air
Year: 1879

1reenbackers opposed to EWING, there is no
doubt but that the Willard Hotel predic-
hons of $1,000 majority for him will be full
hlled' OF course they will, until Demo-
cratic blowing is over but then when the
canvass is over and the account is made up
1t will be revealed that he is the worst
beaten man that has run since vALLAND1a-
HAM
Year: 1879

1T is reported that Mr.. KNOTT has fin
lshed his answer to the Presidents vetoes
and that it will be made public some time
TINS week. This parliamentary way OF
talking back to the President and attempt
ing to have the last word in the contro-
Versy is of recent Democratic invention.
Public curiosity will naturally be some
what excited regarding the contents of this
extraordinary document, but at the same


Time public propriety WILDE shocked at the
partisan use of the Judiciary Committee of
the House in its preparation We are of
the opinion, however, now that the Demo-
Gratis have set the precedent, tbat the Re-
publican minority of the committee is in
duty bound to submit dissenting view of
the matter. In this way the Democrats
Will at last be foiled in their efforts to have
The much coveted last word.
Year: 1879

SINCE the Rag Baby had the colicky life
knocked out of it in the campaign of 1875,
when Rise-Up WILLIAM ALLEN ran for
Governor of Ohio, there has been no such
wild, cavorting hopefulness as now exists in
the breasts of the Buckeye Democracy. 1t
remains to be seen whether Tom EWING
Will prove to be better wet nurse for the
brat than old Fog Horn was. We are of
the opinion, however that the thing will be
hattened out tiutter than ever next October
Year: 1879

IHE current movement in this country
Tor more liberal and reciprocal commercial
treaty with France may be all right in its
ultimate design, but we are very much
afraid it is all wrong in its inception. The
way to begin such thing, if France were
In earnest in the matter, would be by the
repeal by the French government of laws
now on its statute book which discriminate
against American commerce. Until this is
done the unauthorized assertions, promises,
Or negotiations Of selfappointed French
commissioners should bcaccepted with some
grains Of allowance.
Year: 1879

1 lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. Al
l1t n.e WASHINGTON. Jan. 8, 1879.


The opinion is expressed tonight by the men EN-.
ployed at the baltimore and Potomac railroad depot
where the trains from the South change for the North
that the two women who kidnapped Mr.. p. s. OBrien
did not 90 direct through from Raleigh to New York,
but after reaching this city remained in the sleeping
until few minutes before the train left for the
North, when they got ofI and with Mr.. O'Bren went
to some hotel in the city.


STATEMENT OF A SPECIAL OFFICER.


This opinion is strengthened by the statement Of
Special Officer Scott doing duty about the depot.
who says that on December 5th 9th last about
o'clock p. NJ, he noticed sitting in the gentlemen s
waiting room two ladies who seemed to have charge
Of sick who suffering severely with a
cough and appeared like he in the last stages Of
he called to another portion OF the building and
was absent but short time. When he returned to
where he left them sitting he found they had gone
out. He describes the women as being about forty
aud twenty-five years of age respectively.


THE coLoRsD MANS STATEMENT MODIFIED.
no saw tho train move OF. and that the two women
and the sick man were In the sleeper is somewhat
modified by him tonight. Ho says he was several
feet from the sleeper when the train went out. and
although he heard the man coughing and thought he
was still on the train he might have been mistaken
which is but a short distance from the point
whore the train stands and the mans
Comgnng coad easily Wno nave been heard on the
gave him the hint to 80 away. said the
colored man, he did not tarry long but walked down
tho platform. and during that time they might have
got out OF the and gone into the waiting


WHAT A HAcKMAN SAID.


Several hackinen who stood about the depot were
questioned TO their having conveyed any persons
answering the description Of the kidnappers, and
of them said he drove party OF two women aud
delicate to house near the Capitol when he left
them. but did not notice which house they entered.
The baggage they had was an ordinary sized trunk.


''The sick man." said the hack driver, ''was bun
dled in shawls. They paid me my fare and that was
all cared for. After they left my hack drove of
hurricdy and went to the stand, and, therefore. had
opportunity OF seeing where they went. Thore is
thing about it-they did not walk far with that
man. he hardly able TO raise foot after the
other. He was very weak specimen of human
being"
Year: 1879

London Truth, June b.


Lord Noreys, in selling Sir Bevys to
the Rothschilds, reserved half the stakes
of the Derby should the horse win the
race. Coming home one evening he
found his little daughter surrounded by
lighted tapers. This child, who is a
Catholic, had lit them as votive offer
ing that Sir Bevys might win, and so
convinced was she of the effect OF the
illumination that she requested her father
to stake her savings, f3, on the horse.
This he did and the young lady won
600.
Year: 1879

returns to the author would DO correspond


ingly large.


|: LIE TRIBUNE does not oppose internatlon-


al copyright on its merits, nor does 1t adyo-


cato any methods Of doing business that will


be permanently injurious to the interests Of
the publishing trade. But it does
resist any and all attempts to pro-
tect one class of publishers ut the
expense of another; to make the strong
houses more powerful, and to destroy the
weak. This is subverting the principle Of
protection to homo industry, which no class
OF men upholds more earnestly than the
very publishers who now demand an inter-
national copyright When the t1mo comes,
II it shall come, to adopt Copyright treaty,
that measure should be framed with refer
ence to the interests OF the whole people,
and not at the dictation exclusively OF an
interested party to The transaction.
Year: 1879

Intelligent men who oppose the re-elec-
ton OF Judge McA111srxR do not pursue
him with any animosity. Nobody seeks to
punish him. The election of Judge does
not involve question Of reward or punish
ment~ lawyer who has never been judge
is, IN this respect, precisely in the position
Of Judge who is asking reelection. Both
have equal claims on the consideration of the
public. The lawyer has as honorable
claim On the votes Of his fellow-citizenR as
the Judge. The Judge has no stronger night
to reelection than the 1nwyer to q frst
election. Our :: Constitution does not
make the Office perpetual. Failure
of reelection does not put the
seal of popular condemnation On anv
man. No Judge has the right to demand a
reelection as a vindication Of his personal
character. # it were otherwise, every
Year: 1879

There IS an important move ment among the
Jews to return to the agricultural lfe which
they followed in Palestine down 70 the time OF
JosEPHus the destruction OF their temple, the
subsequent breaking up OF their Government
and nationality, md their scattering Throughout
the world. The prejudice against the Jewish
race became SO great at one time that 1t was i'm
possible for them to hold real estate, and they
were consequently compelled TO engage in pur-
suits in which they could conceal their wealth.
Now It is proposed to establish Jewish colonies
on the public lands Of the United States, where
as Of old they NAV sit under their own vines
and ds-trees. They will not return to Pales-
tine, which, like the ancient city Of Jerusalem,
is worn out end not worth occupying as free
Gift, but will turn their attention to the free.
and glorious West.
Year: 1879

ofdce-holder might clai1n the right


to continus in Office indefinitely. The


opposition to Judge ,McA111srER arises,


not from any irrational prejudice, o.


any hot-headed resolution to punish him for


errors committed in the past, but from q


common conviction that he has shown him
self unfit to occupy the position Of Jud re.


Wise men look more at the future than at
the past. They do not reflect so much that
Judge MoA111srEn has leaned strongly to
tie alde Of wrong in the past as that he will
be likely to lean strongly to the side Of wrong
in the future. The case against Judge
MoA111s7En is briefly this: That, be-
ing man Of strong prejudices, aud
bound up BY social and religious ties
of q peculiar nature, he is apt to
swerve from the straight line of justice in
special cases. Not that be would conscious
II do so. There is no man on the Bench
who is less susceptible to corrupt influences
than Judge McAL11srER, or who would more
quickly spurn an improper consideration
of any kind openly put before him.
The difficulty is, that being q man Of
strong convictions and passionate nature, he
does not always perceive when the considers
tions are proper and when not. He is too
likely to make the worse appear the better
reason; to doff the robes Of the Judge and
assume those Of the advocate; to sink the
merits Of the Gauss in his own gym
pathies with the clients. The removal
Of Judge MoA1I1srER from the Bench
which We think should be accom-


2lished at the approaching election-would


te no hardship to him. He is an able
lw!er. If he had, in the SULLIVAN
cata exhibited the same zeal and legal


dezeHty as counsel for defendant that
he exhibited on the Bench, his fee
would hare been fur larger than his salary
for ths period of the trial. He Is, in fact,
too gooda lawyer to be On the Bench. He |
ought to 5e IN the ranks with his most emf
nent professional brethren Some Of the |
best Of than, gre confessedly unfit for the |
Office Of Judge, but their: incomes are treble
that OF an, Judge On the Bench Judge
MoA1IasTEE ought to contest tho palm Of
supremacy with them on equal terms, in-
stead of striving for the 1aarels of the advo-
cate on fhe Be1oh. and rendering decisions in
hia nEn fnvor
Year: 1879

LIE cAssAasAo, the'fghhng editor of the
far1s press, has another duel on his hands
During debate in the Chamber Of Deputies
Yesterday, GOBLET, Under Secretary Of the
Ministry Of Justice, applied the epithet .d;a
graceful to some Of the duelists writings.
Tho latter took umbrage, and tried to
huudoze further apology from the Under
Secretary than be was willing to make
Swords for two and coffee for one were Or
dered, and it is expected that a sudden trin
to the Belgian frontier Will be made within a
few days.
Year: 1879

I


Marrying by telegraph has certainly 70


mantle flavor about 1t that q certain class Of


sensational young people will be charmed With;


but it Is easy to see how it might lead to enbar-


rassing and unsatisfactory results. Take, for


example, such case as TIE TR1BUHE's NIL
] Waukee correspondent sent on Friday last, where


Miss BuDDNaroN stood up before 8 Clergyman


in the telegraph office In that city and was united


in marriage with young man out West. Sup
| pose that the operator at the other end OF the


line had been resolved to play q practical Joke
| upon the young lady, with or without the con-
sent OF the bridegroom, and had reported him
present when he was not, or reported him as


saving ''yes" when the clergyman propounded


the usual questions when he really said s'no,"


how would the young girl really know
whether she was lawfully married or


not2 She did not hear him say he would take


her for better or worsei he did not place the
ring upon her finger; be did not raise her veil
and kiss her after the ceremony; neither did her


'ssters, her cousins, and her aunts," nor any
Of the witnesses. The telegraph, unlike Mr..
Ep1soH'a talking machine, cannot be appealed
to hereafter as q witness in the case, aud proof
produced from the instrument. Other con-
tfngencies might arise to mar the happiness OF
the bride and render the alleged marriage cere-
mony delusfon and 8 snare Suppose the
bridegroom should bribe the operator at the
other end Of the line to 60 on with the proceed
ing at certain hour in his 1.-THE bridegroom's)
absence, and, after being run down and caught
by the bride ard her friends, and the obligation
of husband being insisted upon, be should be
able to prove an albi on the day and date OF his
alleged wedding. No! It may be all right in |
Miss BUDDrNaToH's case, but the practices is !
certainly dangerous one to botn parties, and |
cannot be commended. Besides, the custom |
may havu legal a., well as moral aspects that
might be troublesome to encounter. We cer-
tainly cannot recommend the practice, and hope
It will never become universal. There is kind t
of habeas-corpus reality about the old-fashioned
method Of getting married that we are partial
to, If it is less romantic and does not smack SO t
loudly OF the progressive spirit OF this fast and
fconoclastic age.
Year: 1879

Our Greenbsck friends complain that heiiers
are selling for IS apiece in Iowa. This Is bad for
those who have heifers to sell. But II Con0ress
should undertake to fix the price of heifers n
would oe accused OF bulling the market Lei
congress Steer clear OF that sort Of legislation,
The peoples representatives should mot Be- oowed
mo making new and dangerous precedents.-
Year: 1879

in the East India Company's service, was
buried in style singular enough, though
not outrageously extravagant. He built
himself house in eccentric fashion at
hlissenden, in Buclsinghamshirc, and made
auticipatory arrangements for his funeral,
certainly marked by no great reverence for
established usagcs. 81 will have nothing
to do with the church or the church !:
bury me in my own wood on the hill, and
my sword with me, and I'll defy all the
evil spirits in existence to miure me. "


His remains were deposited according Ia
his will. A kind of dwarf pyramid of
fiints and brick-work was constructed.
about eleven feet square by fifteen feet
high, with a small Gothic window on the
North side and another on the South. Be


ing partly overgrown with ivy, and in u
thick plantation Oh the top of q hill, it Is
about as far removed from the eve of a
passing stranger rs a monument can well
be. The coffin is placed upright in the
tomb, and the captains sword on the ton
OF it. One of his descendants, some years
aftcrward, wishing to consult public scnti-
m'n little more closely, had the coffin
quietly removed from the pyramid and in
tered in the parish church-yard.


The Rev. Langton Freeman, who was
rector of Billion, iu Warwickshire, about a
century ago, did his best to obtain for his
own funeral a very detailed attention to
his own wishes by certain clauses in his
will. "Four or five days after my dccease.
and until my body grows offensive, would
not be removed out of the bed or place I
may die in. And then would be carried
III the same bed, dcccntly and privately, to
the summcr-house now erected IN the gar-
den belonging to the dwelling-housc where
now inhabit, and to be laid in the same
BED there, with all the appurtenanccs there
TO belonging; and to be wrapped up in n
strong double winding sheet, and to be in
all other respects inferred as near as NAV be
to the description we read in Holy Scrip
tyre OF our Saviours burial. The doors
and windows to be locked and botcd, and
10 be kept as near in the same manner and
state rs thoy shall be in at the time of my
disease. And desire that the building or
summcr-house shall be planted around with
evergreen plants, and fenced off with iron
or oak palings, and painted of a dark blue
color. And for the duo performance of this
In mannor aforesaid, and for keeping the
building ever the same, with the evergreen
plants and the palings in proper and decent
repair, give to my nephew, Thomas Free
man, the manor of Whtton," etc. Tho
wishes IF the testator were duly carried into
effect. When two or three generations,
however, had passed away, and the tomb
was well-nigh forgotten, an entry was cf-
fected by making hole through the roof,
and there the body of the old rector was
found nearly dried up. Of course there is
no entry of 30 very unclerical burial in
the parish register, for his successor in the
parish could not have signed it if he would.
Year: 1879

Many Of our readers have doubtless
heard of the hmous travelling stones
of Australia. Similar curiosities
have recently been found in Nevada,
which are described as almost per-
fectly round, the majority Of them
as large as a walnut, and of an irony
nature. When distributed about up
on the floor, table, or other level sur
face, within two or three feet Of each
other, they Immediately begin trav-
cling toward a common centre, and
there lie huddled up in a bunch like
"a lot of eggs in a nest. A single
stone removed to distance Of three
and half feet, upon being released,
at once started off, with wonderful
and somewhat comical celebrity, to
join its fellows; taken away four or
five feet, it remained motionless.
They are found in region that is
comparatively level, and nothing but
bare rock. Scattered over this bar
rem region are little basins, from
few feet to rod or two in diameter,
and it is in the bottom of those that
the rolling stones are found. They
are from the size of a pea to five or
six inches in diameter The cause
of these stones rolling together is
doubtless to be found in the material
Of which they are composed, which
appears to be lode-stono or magnetic
iron ore.
Year: 1879

Autumn was drawing near when
he returned to the village; twice had
the fires of st. John seen the whirls
of the merry dance since he had
painted the portrait, and when he
thought of the young girl it was
with a smile that was somewhat sad
as he asked himself on which of the
village rustics she had fixed her
choice.


His first pilgrimage on arriving
was to the forest of chestnut trees
At the fall of day-night comes
quickly at the beginning of October
he wandered down the long path,
but it was no longer dark; it was
traversed by an amber sunbeam,
which seemed to have fastened itself
on every one Of the leaves which
quivered on the branches or crackled
beneath his feet.


The odor of the dead leaves brought
to him whole world of regrets, Of
remembrances Of bitterness, stirring
up within him an unspeakable sad.
ness, and u more complete disgust
with everything that he had sought
up TO that time. When he had
reached the glade he sat down on The
Year: 1879

others love, for you must and shall be
mine HUGH"


THIS letter 1 wore on my heart. Ny
aunt's solicitor came that night. We all
knew the will was being changed. Hugh
had offended the hard, cold woman by
loving an Aubrey.


That night my aunt died suddenly of
paralysis. 1 cannot tell how it shocked
me. Stevens and l dressed her in a
white satin bridal dress which had been
folded away for thirty years. This
stroke was a retribution for assuming to
be what she was not, as she had never
been'a paralytic She was to be mar
ried in fortnight to a man she loved
passionately. He forbade her dancing.
She went to a hustings ball, and while
waltzing received the intelligence that
he had shot himself. She took a VOW
never to stand on her feet again, and
she never had. Stevens told me this.
She had made me her heir, and mar
ried Hugh and gave it back to him.
Year: 1879

A Gold Hill New paper gives this
account of fight that was advertised to
take place between a bulldog named
Turk and a wildcat in n local theater
The fight was to be followed by graz
olio on the stage. 1t was an immense
bill, and it drew. In due time the cat
was introduced upon the stage and was
Immediately followed by Turk but at
the first kiss of the dog the cat took to
the audience, and the olio, instead of
being performed by the troupe, was
done by the spectators. tooth and toe.
nail accompaniment. The first bound Of
the cat took it upon the piano of the
orchestra. The pawer of ivory left the
swelling strain unfinished, and turned a
back handspring over among the audi
ence. The next leap of the "varmint
was at the cOntrabass, and both player
and instrument went down instanter
with broken heads. The cat fingered
lovingly moment among the strings as
if to test their quality, and then sprang
out among the audience. Then began
an olio in dead earnest, but not the one
advertised, although the fight was over
1t consisted of ground and lofty tum-
bling, leap. frog, and such-like feats of
dexteTity, all having a single obiect-to
amuse the audience by glimpse of sun
light out of doors and under the free
light of heaven once more. 1t was per-
fectly satisfactory as a whole, and each
player did his best. Time-shortest on
record-1.6 90. Everything went of well,
especially the audience. The cat was
found a few moments later looking out
of one of the boxes and waiting for an
encore.
Year: 1879

necessity. Then if people wish to vote
for or against greenback theories, they
can do so in peace and freedom. 1t is a
disgrace to greenback and Independent
members of Congress that so many of
them voted with the rifie-club democracy
for the repeal Of election laws. the Grip
ping of federat courts, and the removal OF
all restraint from the lawless and rcvolu-
tionary democracy. The democratic par
ty makes war upon free institutions at the
South by force. and in the northern cities
by fraud. and it ought to he the first duty
of all citizens who care for free govern
ment to meet and defeat that assault. Un-
til the shotgun party has been stamped
out. rs civilized community would put
out a fire or a pestilence. there is little
use in debating how the government
ought to be conducted.