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Year: 1878

TIE NEW Road To KAPIoLASI PARK.-In speak
ing of the contemplated new road TO KSpIolani
Park last week, we said that the road was to be an
extension of King street, but We now and out that
such is not the case. The new road is TO be an ex-
tension of Berstsuia street via the Moiili church
which lie & different affair altogether. The only
reason gwen is, that the appropriation of $1,000
BY the last Legislative Assembly was inadequate to
meet the expense of extending road the width oi
King street TO the Park This is to be regretted
inEsmuch as the extension of King street would
have been q substantial improvement to the city
bringing Us Ii would, large nnmber Of elegant
building lots into market, upon which valuable
buildings would have been erected and thus add to
the growth and prosperity Of the city.
while the other route will not only
be much narro wer, but will make the distance to
the Park much longer, and at the same time 20
over ground that is sterile, rocky aud unnTiting,
on which no one will ever wish to build. Besides
the extension Of Beretana street by the route in
tended will neeessitate a bend in the road that
should have been avoided. Under these crcum-
stances think 1t would have been better to have
expended the appropriation. to extend King street
By good broad carriage road far as it would 60
and trust TO the generosity of the next Legislative
Assembly 20 make another appropriation TO COM
plete the work to the Park.
Year: 1878

We learn by the news from Sydney that there has
been serious trouble there the Chinese question,
and that violent outbreaks have only been threat
ened among the striking workmen, but have really
taken place. So serious have been these demonstra
tions that the strong of the military has had to
be invoked to keep peace among the agitators. The
Auckland Evening Star of the 9Th inst, speaks as
follows about these outbreaks:


The Anti Chinese agitation in Sydney has resulted
in serious public disturbance, was anticipated in
issue of Saturday. special cable dispatch from
Sydney to-day reports further assaults committed by
the men strike upon the Company's worknen, the
swearing in of special coustabes and the calling out
Of the military, who are kept under arms day and
night. That the men ill advised in resorting to
violence is too patent TO require argument. Such
action is more likely prejudice their cause and to
ALLEVIATE sympathy than strengthen their hands in
their contest with capital and power but it have
the effect of compelling respectful consideration of
the whole subject Of Chinese immigration by the
Government and the Legislature.


| We fully agree with the Evening Star that
violence not the instrument to employ for the
rectiOn of Chinese any other difficulties that may
arise in a community, and that as violence is
resoted to it begets only sympathy for the object
aimed at, but is to put the vOators of the law
at disadvantage and invariably defeats the pur-
poses of those who breaches of tie peace.
Violence must be met by violence always, and in a
country where there is organized society aud officers
carry the provisions of the statute laws peace
must be sustained at all hazards The state Of
things must follow any outbreak in California should
the turbulent element in that country attempt
put their threats in execution against the Chinese
The only remedy for existing evils is peaceful
through legislative enactment. 1t may be slow in
its operation but nevertheless is the best.
Year: 1878

DRIVING NAILS BY MAcHIsERY.-0ne of the most
simple, and at the time most ingenious. imple
ments view at the Exhibition is invention of
young of this city, Mr.. Falkner. 1t is called
mail gun" and is used for mailing down flooring
boards. We have seen the implement in use, and
far able to judge it is quicker in its work
and insures greater cleanliness than hand mailing
could do. The apparatus is not unlike gun in shape
and is about the length. 1t is kept in position
with the foot and knee. and the nail is be placed
point DOWN in aperture at the top of the
1t slides down to the bottom and then the operator
draws up rod, and by one downward stroke of this
the nail is cleanly driven into the board beneath. A
practced hand by this simple contrivance. could do
more work than a dozen men. We believe that Mr..
Falkner is improving upon his invention, and is
making q nail gun which will be selffeeding. We
have doubt that when the mplement becomes bet
ten known it will be brought into general use-N q.
Times
Year: 1878

The MIsTLEToE BoUGH.-All who were
so unfortunate as to have missed seeing the
handsome representation OF this lovely pan
tomime during Christmas week will have
the opportunity Of witnessing itto-morrow it
evening at Mozart Hall. Besides whole
bevy Of beauties, the charming Miss Ward,
who played the Leading role before an i'm
mense audience in New. York, has again
kindly volunteered to lend her valuable aid
for this representation, which is given in
behalf of charitable object.
Year: 1878

DIRECT IMPoRTATIoN-W. d. BLAIn 6 Co.
have received another lot Of that really fine TABLE
SHERRY, which they offer at $2.40 per gallon. The
quality OF this wine for the PRICE Is unsurpassed.
Year: 1878

ACCIDENT TO A MAN ON THE RICHMOND
AND PETERSBURG RoAD.-The northward-
bound train on the Richmond and Peters
burg railroad brought to this city last night
man who was very painfully, il not dan
gerously, injured. When the train reached
Dry Bridge, about three and half miles
this side of Petersburg, several of the pas
sengers heard heavy thud on the top OF
the car, and it was believed that some one
bad thrown large stone from the bridge.
Nothing more was thought OF ituntil the cars
reached neighboring station, when ex-
Senator Allan and others heard a cry OF dis
tress from the top Of the car. They went
out, and found white man badly wounded
on the head, q frightful cash extending
across his face. and one OF his eyes nearly
out. He was also injured in the small OF
his back. The man was taken into the
smoking gear and made as comfortable as the
circumstances would admit. BE gave his
name, and said he was from st. Louis, Mo-;
but his voice was SO feeble that the pa>sen.
gers could only hear his first name, which he
gave as Henry. The city ambulance was
telegraphed for, and the injured man car
ried to the city almshouse, where he Is well
cared for. It is supposed that he got on top
OF the cars for ride, and that in passing
the bridge was struck by it and badly
wounded. Among those who administered
to his comfort OH the cars was Mr. Tupper
OF New Orleans, q relative OF DR.. Tuppcr
OF this city.
Year: 1878

PENAL CoDE.-It is the. purpose Of the
Joint Committee for the Revision OF the
Criminal Laws to gather together oil the.
criminal laws in one act-to make q penal
code, in other words.
Year: 1878

The COLD SPELL.-It will hardly be con-
sdered piece OF news to say that the wea-
ther Yesterday was quite cold. It is never
theless fact. Saturday night the mercury
got down as low as 16o. az was indicated by
the thermometer on Sunday morning. The
maximum Of the thermometer Sunday was
800. Old indications promise Of pos
sibIe snow in the Middle States was not full
filled-that is, so far as this part of the moral
vineyard is concerned; but the weather
continued to grow colder, and yesterday
morning at sunrise it was 12o or 200 below
freezing, and continued cold all day. The
river was frozen over from shore to shore,
with ice about half an inch in thickness.
The basin was also frozen, except where
there was a current-viz., at the canal en-
trance, a space in front OF the GalIego Mills,
ana part of the basin leading to the gauge
lock.


The ponds in the country were also
frozen, and hands were yesterday reported
to be engaged in gathering ice at Young's
and Hechler's. Information received from
Coyingtoa on Sunday was to the effect
that the mercury was ten degrees be
low zero-one degree colder than at any
time during the winter OF 1871-and the
ground covered with snow four inches
deep.


In Staunton the mercury yesterday morn
ing was twelve degrees below zero, and the
snow four inches deep.


Should the cold spell continue day or
two longer our country friends will (who
arc prepared) all be enabled to fill their ice
houses, and this luxury next summer
will be cheap and abundant in these parts.
Year: 1878

ton. Without doubt the inspiration Of
their action was fixed belief that the
Emperor is personally responsible for
the evils from which the people suffer,
and against which the Socialists make
bitter and determined war Like all
other crimes of the kind, these We're not
only atrocious and Infamous, but insane
ly impolitc They will bring down
swift and terrible punishment upon the
perpetrators, and they have already had
the effect to urge the government to the
adoption of severe measures for the
suppression of Socialism. Instead OF
loosing the bonds Of the people, these
outrages have draw them tighter, and
good men who might have given their
sympathy to a cause which has ele-
ments of Justice in it, are driven to
protest against it by the murderous
character of its methods Even if the
Emperor William should be removed,
the system of which complaint is made


would remain. That relief would come
to the masses sooner or later if they
should wait patiently and strive earnest
ly by lawful and manly means to find
disenthralment, is almost certain, but
its coming has probably been delayed
for many years by crimes at which the
instincts of just men revolt and which
compel society to seek selfprotection in
more rigid enforcement of existing laws.
Year: 1878

eous crimes, then medical education
must be given up, though its abandon
ment should send us back to the limited
science Of Galen and Hippocrates =
Although we do not hold the idea en-
tertained by some, that the province of
physician is to amuse the patient
while nature performs the cure, yet the
sensibilitIes of society are not to be
wounded SO sorely, even for SO admra-
BILE an institution as the medical faculty.
We do not envy the position Of the
Ohio medical faculty, at Cincinnati,
since the country at large holds them
responsible for so revolving an insult to
one Of the strongest instincts of man
kind-respect for the bodies Of the
dead
Year: 1878

Fifty or hundred years hence, when
the world becomes more civilized than
it is at present, it is to be hoped that
such a revolving incident as recently
transpired at Cincinnati may have be-
come impossible. The dead body of
the Hon. j. Scott Harrison, promi-
nent citizen of North Bend, Ind, had
been decorously entombed there, with
all the observances suggested by Gus
tom and affection. Indeed, the burial


had been conducted with unusual pre-
cautions. His tomb had been overlaid


with heavy stone slabs, and a special


guard had been placed over it. Yet
within twenty-four hours after the in
terment, Mr. John Harrison was horr-
fed by discovering the naked body of
his father dangling at the end Of rope


in the Ohio Medical College, at Cincin-
natl, whittier he had gone in search of
another body known to have been stolen.
Seldom is it that more painful story
is authenticated by actual fact, aud the
indignant public reasonably demands a
condign punishment for these reckless
invaders Of the sanctity Of the tomb.
1t is an instance of sacrilegious theft
that admits of no paliation or argu-
ment, and if the liability of the inva-
sion of the graves of the dead is the
condition upon which medical colleges
are to exist. an outraged public will no
longer tolerate their existence. 1t is
true that the general run of young doc
tors are not now overburdened with
knowledge of surgery, or of medicine,
as was attested in the recent trial of
the Rev Mr.. Vosburgh, at Jersey City,
for wife poisoning, where the attendant
physician, when put upon the stand,
did not know the difference between a
suporiic and suderic, and spoke of the
duet leading from the aimentary canal
to the liver as an "aqueduct." But
profoundly ignorant as many empirics
are as to whether man, like an air
tight stove, is perfectly hollow on the
inside, or is equipped internally with a
complicated apparatus, society will at
least forgo the luxury of young doctors
if every man is to carry about him the
consciousness of his liability to become
victim of the resurrectionists, when
he shall have shutlled off this mortal
coil But there is no possible excuse
for these shameful dissertations of Gem
eteries in the supposed interest of as
necessary science as that of surgery.
In all our cities, the seats of medical
colleges, legal means have been pro-
vided to secure the use of the bodies of
certain classes of persons, friendless
paupers in our aims houses and public
asylums, whose exemption from custom
airy burial will give no shock to the


living. There is, then, no necessity for
body snatching, and such violations of
the rights of the living as well as the
dead are brutal instances of vile and
abominable dissertations of the tomb


which merit condign punishment
If anatomy and physiology cannot be
taught without the perpetration of hid
Year: 1878

THE result in Oregon is decidedly
mixed. The Republicans elect most of
the State ticket, and probably the Gov
ernor also, but the Democrats have car
ried off the great prize-tbe United
States Senatorship. This will afford
the party chance to put Cronin in a
position where that controversy about
the Illuminating qualities of his nose
could be settled to the satisfaction of
the country.
Year: 1878

Ii is all over On Wednesday, in
the house of its friends, and with the
author of its being at its bedside, the
Wood Tariff died Such monstrosities
rarely survive birth, but this one had
lived several months For so much.
its careful nurses and doctors deserve
due credit. Indeed it would not have
lived week, except for severe sur
gical operation performed upon it, after
a consultation among those who had it
in charge at birth But even after
that, it gained no strength 1t could
never have been of any service in this
world And Wednesday it was put out
of its misery. Whether its remains
shall be quietly inferred or whether they
shall be set aside on the shelf of some
collector Of curiosities, they can only
bear one legend Died of Congental
Malformation. Tribune.
Year: 1878

The crowded condition of our col
umns compel US to carry over to next
week a number of interesting articles,
among them another of Mr. Haines'
pleasant letters, and third one Of the
interesting Lake George series.
Year: 1878

Published in compliance with an Act Of
the General Assembly Of Maryland, which
requires that all Public Local Laws shall
be published for three successive weeks in
all the newspapers published in the county
wherein the law is made to take effect.
Year: 1878

POsTMAsTER-GENER Key continues
to talk freely about his letter to the
South. He says congratulations are
coming to him from every State in the
Union, but he mentions no names of
prominent Democrats among the send
ers He denies that he has contri-
buted to the Republican campaign fund,
but says he thinks there is general
willingness among the clerks in his de-
partment to contribute rather than have
change Of Presidents now He makes
reckless bid for a fresh storm of Demo
cratic denunciation, by giving it as his
, opinion that the Republicans will have
majority in the next House He isn't
the only Democrat who believes that,
but he is the only one who is owning
up to it.
Year: 1878

IT is difficult for a loyal man to
avoid just now a feeling of unusual
kindliness for General Grant. Even
while he is beyond the seas ENJOYING
himself and taking no special thought
of American politics, the Democrats are
so afraid Of him that they can scarcely
speak of him or hear him spoken of re-
spectfully, without going into spasms.
All the stale old talk about C;psarism
is being revived, and the same rural
Democratic editor who, fails to see revo-
luton in Potter's scheme, is prophesy-
ing that Grant is busy laying deep and
awful plans for destroying American
liberty. There seems to be a trembling
apprehension all along the Democratic
line that Grant will run for the Presi-
dency in 1880, and the scare is born of
realization of the fact that in such an
event certain very nice little Demo
cratic schemes and arrangements may
be knocked as it were into eternal chaos.
So mote it be-
Year: 1878

On Sunday, for the second time
within fortnight, an attempt was made
to assassinate the Emperor of Germany.
In both cases the men who fired the shots
were members of the Socialist organiza-
Year: 1878

New YoRK, Jan. 5.--A special TO
the Evening Post from Washington
tonight says there is no longer q
doubt but that intinations have been
made to Senator Pattersons that if
he wishes to avoid trial in South
Carolina, he must resign his seat in
the Senate. Patterson's son circulates
the story that his fathers health is so
poor that he will not be able to take
his seat in the Senate for several
weeks. This isnot true, however, as
bis physicians assert positively that,
with proper care, he will soon bo
able TO attend to his duties. Tho
Senator is dcsirous Of leaving the city
for few weeks, and his physicians
do not offer any objection. Many
Republicans believe that Patterson's
intention is to resign on plea of i'll
health and allow his seat to be filed
by Democrat.
Year: 1878

A TOUCHING INc1DENr.-There is
in the Hebrew burial service one
prayer which is not read by the Of
ficIating minister, but by the son
OF the deceased, or in case there be
no son, by some orphan in whom the
deceased was interested. At the
service for the late Baroness Mayor
de RothschiId, in London, this part
Of the service was taken by deaf
orphan boy, q pupil in an institution
for the teaching of the deaf to speak.
The Baroness WAS largely instrument
tai in founding two such schools
He recitcd the prayer, which pro-
claims "the exaltation of God in that
world in which He is to restore the
dead to everlasting life," with a very
distinct utterance.. As he repeated
the prayer with the mournful ca
dence into which it is said the deaf
who are taught to speak naturally
fail, this part Of service always
impressive WAS most deeply teit in
its fervent solemnity. -r.. ..
Year: 1878

New York, Jan. An the board
of alderman this afternoon a resolu-
tion was adopted declaring that
greater benefit could be gained for
The city by the discharge of WIN. M.
Tweed from imprisonment than by
lis longer detention, aud recon-
mending the Attorney General and
corporotion counsel to release him
from imprisonment, after securing
to the city such property as he now
possesses, and after taking means to
secure his testimoney as might be
deemed necessary in any suits that
might be brought by the city.
Year: 1878

The other morning young man
thought he felt bug on his neck,
and brushed away at it for five
minutes before he discovered it was
a chunk of chewing gum on his COL
lar, deposed there by his girl the
night previous, just before business
hours.
Year: 1878

one of the two chmpanzees or man monkeys
recently brought to this country from Africa
died in the New York aquarium Friday of
quick consumption. This couple were the first
alive. 1t was not believed when they arrived
that either one could live long. Coming from
the southern part of Africa, where the ther-
mOmeter varies hardly half a dozen degrees
during the entire year, it was thought that this
variable climate would soon kill them. On
the second day after their arrival the male
cough. Drs. Gayler and DOrner gave him
medicine liberally. All through his illness he
was like child. When he died the female
showed unmistakable signs of grief She has
cough.
Year: 1878

THE VICTIM OF THE MURDER at West Point
on Sunday morning was not cadet as an
n0unced by telegraph. Two private soldiers
OF the detachment of the engineer corus now
stationed at West Point quarreled abont a
woman, and one shot the other. The murderer
is in the guardhouse awaiting the demand of
the civil authorities
Year: 1878

ABOUT FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN are out of
work in San FranciscO-so say the papers,
though 1900 is the figure sworn to before the
legislative committee. The employers-at
least in the iron trade-admit that the dull
times prevailed long before the present anti
Chinese labor agitatiOnS.
Year: 1878

NEW YORK, Feb. ga special from Easton.
Pa, says:-The retail coal dealers of this sec
tiOn have received notice from. the mining
companies that they must advance the price
OF all coal TO a certain figure, or they viii not
be furnished with any more coal from them,
and they have in consequence advanced its
price about fifty cents on the ton.
Year: 1878

OSE can 81, down ON a chair ON Coney
Island beach at ten cents per hour. The
object In sitting down is to patronize n
poor but worthy man. who lost his eye
while trying to lick a school teacher.
Year: 1878

THs pious colored brother learns
early in life that there is time for all
things. and that night time is best for
enticing n full grown watermelon to
leave a neighbor's garden patch.
Year: 1878

Scribner's for January.


In these days all men and women
read something, but the trouble is
that by reading in a single vein,
which so strongly appeals to their
individual tastes and personal idios-
yncrasies that it is not study at all,
they lose their power to study any
thing else. The rule for successful
and profitable reading would in the
light of these facts, seem to be to
read only what one does not like to
read, That reading which costs no
effort and necessarily dissipates the
power of study, is that which we
know to be important in itself, and
Ia its bearings upon broad knowl-
edge and culture, should most en-
gage our time and attention.: The
trouble is, not thai we do not read
enough, but simply we read so
much OF that which simply pleases
Us as to destroy our powers to read
that which viii edify and enlarge
US. There are many aspects in
which newspaper reading is prefer
able to much that is considered
essential to high culture. 1t is nm
doubtedly dissipating TO the power
OF study, but so is any other read
ing which IS pursued as "A passion
1t has this advantage: that it never
detaches the mind from a supreme
interest Ia the affairs of to-day.
There are studies which separate a
man from his time, which shut of
his sympathies from the men and
movements around him. There is
a kind of dilettanteism which re-
joices in mousing in dark corners
for the curiosity of history or art,
which is wise about great nothings
wise about bric-a- brac, wise about
antique gems, wise about classical
antiquities, wise about old books of
whose contents it knows little, wise
about dead and useless things, and
foolish enough to plume itself upon
its wisdom.
Year: 1878

The pencil marks you sec around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested TO pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure In extending
credit TO our friends and patrons, bot
cash alone will yay our expenses, ana
we are forced to adhere TO a strict cash
rule. We hope you win comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF such q
course, and irenew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


E8- We enter no new names on our
books without the money In advance.
Year: 1878

Listen to the water mill,


All the Evelong day
How the clicking of the wheel


Wears the hours away.
Languidly the autumn wind


Stirs the greenwood leaves;
From the field the reapers sing,
Binding up the sheaves;
And memory o'er nv mind


AS spell is cast,
The mill will never grind


With the water that is past.
Take the lesson to yourself,


Loving heart and true;
Golden years are fleeting by;
Youth is passing, too,
Strive to make the most Of life,
Lose no happy day;
Time will never bring you back
Chances swept away
Leave no tender word unsald,
Love while love shall last
The mill will never grind


With the water that is past.
Work while set the asyisnL snines,
Man OF thought and will:
Never does the streamleJ glide
Useless by the mill;
Wait not till to-morrow's sun
Beams upon your way,
All that you can call your own
Lies in this-to-day.
Power, intellect and health
May not always last
The mill cannot grind


With water that is past.