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Year: 1878

Timid people in Chicago are afforded
an unpleasant sensation in the dramatic
story that large body of armed Com
muhists are drilling in obscure places in
the city, preparatory to an outbreak
against the public. To this. narrative
some of the daily papers give credence
and intensity apprehension by the. inti-
nation thai the force thus preparing for
rapine and slaughter amounts to between
five and eight thousand men, under the
command of determined leaders, and
they deduce from these premises the con-
clusion that the city authorities must
have an augmented police force armed
with the best of weapons. and thus. be
prepared for a quick and, if necessary,
bloody suppression of any and all at
tempts at riot. 'l''


To gentlemen and ladies already tor
tured by the convulsive ehills of terror
arising from this fear of communism we
would suggest, the reading of Falstaf's s
tale of his rogues in buckram whom he
peppered SO Justify. From a scrawny
company of men and boys drilling with
venerable muskets, the multiplying eyes
of reporters and the fear ar-enlarged pupils
of peace-inclined editors have built up
an admirably equipped and drilled army
of red-capped laborers who are to make
tie city field of carnage and give its
people to the sword. The picture is a
somber one, but wholly ideal, so far as
the facts are given; and those facts do
not Justify the alarm that has caused
men to subscribe within a few days over
81, 900 for the purpose of preparing
against any outbreak. 1t is criminally
wrong to convulse the whole city with
these rumors. 1t Injuries its good name
abroad, while, at the same time, it i'm
pairs the confidence of the citizens in
the authorities.


There can be no question as to the
dangerous ascendencys of communism in
this country and in this city. Its senti-
ments percolate the lower classes of all
communities; it is becoming dangerous
because, of its freedom; but it is the
rankest 'cowardice in our authorities to
permit such imputations on their wisdom
and courage, as abAve referred to, to go
abroad, and it is deplorable that
newspapers should add to public dis
quietude these wild rumors that Chicago
is really in the hands of its socialists
and rests upon volcano of an archy. 1t
is all discreditable to our good judg-
ment and our courage, and few days
will show the evil results of permitting
such baseless rumors to spread through
the country 1t is truth to say that Chi.
cago is in no more danger frsm mobs
than any other city; and that if there
is any attempt to repeat the riots of last
July there will be no repetition of the
child's play which characterized the
treatment of the mob at that time. That
fact it will be well for mobocrats to beal
Year: 1878

IFrom Our Pets and Protectors" by VIM, M, Tiles


ton. in May Scribner.l


If anything were wanting to convince
the skeptical as to the high status of the
dog in this country at the present day,
it would only be necessary for him to
attend one of the dog or bench"
shows which are held in all the principal
cities. Although Englishmen have al
ways been more enthusiastic over these
four-footed friends than we, yet even
there great revival occurred some fif-
teen years ago when bench" shows
became common, and rivalry led to
in all popular breeds. The fever finally
spread to this country, but was at first
confined almost entirely to dogs used for
sporting purposes, such as the setter
and pointer; and it was not until the
occurrence of the show given by the
Westminster Kennel Club in New York
City last spring that the merits of the
transporting classes, and their right to a
prominent position at dog shows was
fully recognized. 1t was but Just that
this should be so. We cannot all be
sportsmen, and the owner of a pure
mastiff or st. Bernard, or even a di-
minutive terrier or pug, may take tbs
same pride and pleasure in the posses
sion of his or her pet and companion, as
the sportsman does in his bird dog.
Had we ever been blessed with Land
seer or Harrison Weir in this country,
it is possible that our knowledge of the
various breeds of dogs might not be so
! limited. As it is, we are obliged to go
to England for our authorities and for
our standards of excellence. There is
but one breed of dogs that can be said
to have originated in the United States,
and that's the Chesapeake Bay yretriever,
and of course the ancestors of this
strain came from Great Britain, although
how and when is a matter of uncer-
tainty. Our best dogs I speak of the
classes about which 1 am writing) are
all either direct importations or but one
or two generations removed from such,
and nine out of ten persons who are de-
scribing to you the excellence of their
pets will say with pride that he, or his
sire or dam, was imported from the ken
nels of So-and-so. In a few years this
will be changed. We are importing the
best. and with careful mating there is no
doubt but that we shall equal or excel
the productions of our English cousins.
They are coming to us for their short
horns; we may yet send them dogs. A
gentleman who breaks St. Bernards told
me recently he could almost guarantee
that there would be fifty entries of these
dogs alone at the Westminster Kennel
Club show which occurs on the four
teenth of May, 1878.
Year: 1878

We can respect the feeling of the aged
prisoner Of the Bastile, who, after his
release, begged to be taken back to the
place where he had spent the most of
his life. But lazy fellows liking for
prison-life, because it puts him within
cheap reach of victuals, is different
thing. Says New York paper:


One of the most singular of the char
acters that haunt the Tombs is man
named Alexander Campbell, who is
briefly called Shorty" Campbell is a
painter by trade, and was committed
for ten days for intoxication about six
months ago. Before he had been con-
fued day he became SO charmed with
his new life that he determined never to
leave the prison if he could help it.. No
list is kept Of the terms of the prisoners
in the "ten-day house." it being sup
posed that theyakeep an account of their
imprisonment themselves. So every
morning one of the keepers goes into the
ten-day house and asks if any ones
term is up. Campbell never answered
to the call of the keeper, and conse.
quently was not discharged.
| III Une course OI Llno ne WIS Gill
ployed in the kitchen, which made him
more pleased than ever with prison
life. Unfortunately for him, it was
discovered one day that his term had
expired more than month previous
and he was forced to'leave.s His sorrow
was very great until he conceived The
idea of getting himself committed as {
vagrant, which he did, and thus recov
cred his old position in the kitchen.


Five months or SO after this, he wa
again obliged to leave the prison. TheI
he tried to get himself committed for ,
second term as a vagrant, but, to hi
horror, the magistrate refused to sent
him to prison. For some time he wa
very unhappy, but eventually obtainet
admittance by crawling in under tn
prison van, and cooked for the prisoner
in state of bliss until, for the thirt
time, he was forced to be freeman an,
a citizen.
Year: 1878

" - DOB New York Herald.I i'ls 3I


p The registers are placed, according to
the law, in the place where the liquor is
sold, exposed to. the public view. This
is sufficiently complied with by placing
them on the shelf behind the counter or
bar, distant several feet from the specta-
tor or customer, and it is impossible to
tell in ninety-nine cases out ofa hundred
whether the machine registers or not


Then the machine itself is defective.
The dials on it are about the size of a
half-dollar, which make the hands and
marks on livery small. and practically
invisible from the front of the bar. The
fraudulent dealer can have false bell
which he can ring, and it would be very
difficult to tell the sound of an ordinary
gong from the sound of the one in the
register. But the fact is that, as soon
as the novelty of the register wears of,
no one will pay the slightest attention
as to whether the bell is sounded or not.
Indeed, the great majority of tipplers
never think of the register unless they
are accidently reminded of it by the
sound of the bell. a. r. Tiifil ea7t t,a


The Mofet liquor law imposes a, fine
of not more than twenty dollars, nor
less than ten dollars for failing to regis
ter each and every drink sold, and gives
one-third to the informer, but such is
the prejudice in Virginia against in
formers that this inducement has been
found utterly imperative. Indeed, so
far has this prejudice gone that gentle
men who have informed on violators of
the law solely from patriotic motives and
from desire to, have the law enforced,
and who expressly refuse to have any
thing to do with the fine, have been SO
misunderstood and misrepresented and
set upon by public opinion that such
patriotic and disinterested attempts at
once ceased, so that there is absolutely
ne power to compel the fraudulent
liquor dealer to register his sales unless
he chooses to do so.
Year: 1878

Now comes the Portland Standard
and acknowledges the claim of Wash
ington Territory to be admitted into
the union. That paper takes yery
sound view Of tie situate on. it says:


IN our opinion, Washington Terri
tory, under an economical Constitu-
ton, would be much bette or than
under her present Government.
Washington Territcry is growing
very rapidly, and she reeds increased
representation N the councils cf the
Nation. \ State need not be much
more expensive than & Territorial
Government, if properly managed.
OF course, the Inauguration Of q State
Government is attenCed with some
expense, but after It is once estab-
hshed, the people WI rot necessarily
be taxed more thar to sustain . Ter
ritoriai Government. The increase
of wealth and population viii soon
add the difference and the increased
burden of expense will be divided
between a larger number o. reCDle.
Washington Territory needs State
Government, and should be admitted
into the sisterhood On the formation
of her Constitution.


The people Of that Territory IN Sc
lecting the Delegates to he Consti-
tutional Convention SHOULD be care
ful that their best and ablest men are
chosen for that purpose. They should
be men OF good practical sense, sound
Judgment and liberal minds. They
should not be reckless or e,,travagant
in their views, yet not penurioua and
narrow minded. They should form a
liberal Constitution, arc one calcu-
lated to meet the wants of the people
at future time as well as the present.
The people of Oregon adopted Con-
stitution which vas ample in its 9rovis-
ions for their wants at the tine it was
adopted, but Oregon's demands have
ousgrown the Constitution and the
instrument Is at the present date
worthless. The salaries of officers
should be liberal, yet not extrava-
giant, and sufficient offices should be
created so as to divide the duties in
proper manner to guard the public
interests. An honest State Govern
ment need not cost the people of the
Territory any more than it will cost
to govern the same number Of people
under a Territorial form Ct Govern
ment. But the interest of the peo-
pie depends entirely on the Constitu-
ton which shall be framed, and the
very best men in the Territory should
be selected to frame the document.
Year: 1878

Prof Tyndall thinks that the thought
ful and penetrating minds who, follow
ing the lead of physical science, are
trying to discover the laws of society
without the aid of the supernatural will
succeed, and that morality as social
duty will oblitsrate the strifes and
heai t-burnings which distigureourevery-
day life. So he puts honor above the
creed
Year: 1878

To those who clamor for paper mon
ey because "greenbacks carried us
through the war and saved the coun-
try" the National Baptist responds :
"As we'll say that the pustules and the
pits carried the patient through the
smallpox. 1t was gold that carried us
through the war; that is to say, it was
the hope and belief that greenbacks
would be paid in gold, which alone
gave them any value. Instead of the
greenbacks saving the Union, it wss
the Union that saved the greenhacks.
Instead of the greenbacks saving the
country, on the other hand, the country
endured the greenbacks for the sake OF
the war and the Union
Year: 1878

The NJ. E. Church held festival this week which netted them about ninety dollars. Few: churches areTmore successful in getting up fairs few are more busy and persevering and none are more deserving of success. In this church efforts are being made for a re- vival of interest and believe with,fair pros poets of success. sqab } a,9 We have very palpable instance of the of the violation of law in the abuse of ani- malls right before our eyes. A poor old horse with every appearance of having been faith full servant to his owner is turned out upon the green these cold nights to subsist upon the frozen ground with teeth SO poor and worn that sheir attempts to grind his scanty food can be heard half the length of the street. Iron is beginning to move from the valley furnace toward the railroad

 Christmas passed of quietly. Christmas eve at the Episcopal Church was celebrated by Christmas tree, and other exercises ap- -propriate to the occasion, Rev. Wm. Terrett is in town for short vacation, and visit to his parents s

 Jour physicians are kept pretty busy at present. o. P.
Year: 1878

.. Employees at the National Mint find that the coinage of the old silver dollar was suspended by Jefferson and Madison and that silver was practically demonetized for thirty years. In other words the double standard proved i'm practicable on trial and was soon given up.
Year: 1878

Dear SRI will be greatly oblig d if you will
inform me to what extent the yellow fever has
affected the school. public and private, includ-
ing the institutions for the deaf. dumb and
blind and orphans in your city.


What provision can be foreseen for the chill
Year: 1878

most living grave-Greer digging with
bis bayonet while Hill passed back the
dir with all the desperation Of despair.
They hear not, heed not the battle that is
raging above them, but toll on. Often
hope would spring up in their hearts to
give way only to despair. Hill has often
tod me how, when he awoke to q con


sciousness Of bis condition, the thoughts
that flashed through his brain like Il ght


ming how he thought if be could only
see one ray Of light o. breathe the fresh
air once again; that il be could only let
bis wife know how and where he died,
that death would be relief to him. Al


most suffocated for want Of fresh air, they
worked on at last It seemed 10 them that
something crushed them they had dug
shrough the loose bowldets and the light
burst upon them. They both-overcom
with the sudden transition from their suf


location and despair to light and hope
tainted. How long they remained there
they know not. When they awoke from
their swoon the first sound that broke on
their ears was the clash Of arms and the
quick rolling roar Of the battle as it ragged
around and above. Almost 10 stupor,
trying to realize that they could again see
the light Of heaven and hear the voice Of
living creature, they lay still until they
recovered their minds enough to know
what was going %. Hill has often told
me that when be knew and realized it was
battle, the sound was the sweetest music
that had ever greeted his ears. Al last
the cry Of victory rose big above every
thing else. They knew that somebody
was vanquished and that somebody was
victor, who they knew not. They emerg
ed from their awful retreat, weak, worn in
body, and with minds almost crazed.
They knew not how long sthey had been
there; they did not even know their old
comrades nor could they realize that it
was the same day that they were buried.


They we're brought back to me at the
tl~ld hospital more dead than alive, for.
strange As it may seem, they were the
most sadly changed men that ever be.
held. Both were fine looking soldiers he.
fore, now they were weak. with sunken
cheeks and eyes. Lieut.. Hill, whose hair
twenty four hours before was black, with
out single gray hair in it, (as be was
only thirty years o'd,) was now almost As
white ~ snow. Whether il turned from
horror 4. his condition, or the deatbly
heat Of the +subterranean bed. or both, |
do not pretend to say. simply give the
facts, not as heard them, but as | saw
them, and he still lives to verify that this
is no romance, bnt one Of my experiences
in war whose first gun heard fred. and
the last gun of which sounded the requiem
Of the Lost Cause when was at my post
Of duty. HUGH ToLASD. N. D.
Year: 1878

Ah love in cottage is all very fine,
And kisses are sweet when the loving ones


take 'em
But there's naught in this world, when you sit


down to dine,
Like the girl who knows well how to fry and


to bake 'em.
The dinners, mean, not the kisses of love,
Though they both are all right, if you right


ly have "took" 'em.
If you want to keep in with your darling, your


dove,


Be careful, oh wives, and be sure how you


cook 'em-
The doves now mean, not the loves or the


men.


But whisper this secret AS sure as we're


sinners,
The love will fly out of the windows just when
You fail to have ready acceptable dinners.
1t is well you should fondle, and tdear" and


caress,


For love in itself is bright household bless


ing.
1t is well for the husband who loves you to
But 'tis better by far if his dinner you're


dressing.
Call him "darling," and "lovey," and ''dear-


est" and 'sweet l''-
These things are all right, and by him will


be "took" in
But be sure, all the same, that you don't burn


his meat,


And serve up his meals in your best mode of


cooking.
For remember that love will go out of the door
If his stomach is empty-this sturdy bread


winner.
He may love you to-day; he will love you no


more


If you dry up his pudding and ruin his dinner.
There's sight of this nonsense of Glove all in


al;''
tell you endearment has no such handle!
The road to affection, in cottage or hall,
J Leads straight through the stomach, and
that you must dandle.
At the door, with a smile, when he comes unto


you,
Be ready enjoyment shall follow the meet
ing;
But be sure that the fumes of a roast, broil or


stew,


Shall rise to his nostrils and second the greet
ing.
And remember, dear girls who are lately made
wives,


Let this be lesson to each new beginner
You may fonde and love through the rest of
your lives,
But be sure that you second that love with
your dinner. E. N. G.
Year: 1878

tom DUFFAN'S cabinet pictures are
i charming bits of painting; but you
would cease to wonder how he caught
such delicate home touches if you saw
the room he painted in; for Tom had
habit of turning his wife's parlor into
studio, and both parlor and pictures are
the better for the habit.


One bright morning in the winter of
1872 he had got his easel into comforta-
ble light between the blazing fire and the
window, and was busily painting. His
CHEEKY little wife--pretty enough in spite
of her thirty-seven years = was reading
the interesting items in the morning pa
pers to him, and between them he sung
softly to himself the favorite tenor song
of his favorite opera. But the singing al
ways stopped when the reading began
and so politics and personals, murders
and music, dramas and divorces, kept
continually interrupting the musical
despair of g Ahl che la morte ognora."


But even morning paper is not uni
versally interesting, and in the middle
of an elaborate criticism on tragedy and
Edwin Booth, the parlor door, partially
opened, and a lovelier picture than any
ever Tom Duffan painted stood in the
Year: 1878

The lawyer leaned back in his easy chair.
His client stood nervously by,
And the man of law sang, till the Office walls


rang,


"All right in the sue it, bye and bye"
Cheerfully warbled the butcher,
Blood in his apron and eve:
Summer Is no time for puddings,


Wait for the suet bye and bye"
"Ahme, g-oaned the man with themeerschaum
. I'll color it yet, or Ill die;''
And he threw his cigar out of the window;
"Give me this weed bye and bye"
Whenever the sons of G,istayus


Labor and warble and cry.
Earning their bread by the sweat of their face,
You'll hear Swede bye and bye"
And the man who went out t. hunt lodgings
For a month and a day had to try,
Fill he found some rooms that Just suited his


wife,


We'll 90 in this suite bye and bye"
In the theater, minstrel, cathedral,
In the church and the beer garden nigh,
In the concert saloon and the circus,
They all sing '' the sweet bye and bye
Year: 1878




EDITOR STATESMAN The nomination of
Butler by democratic meeting-ei claiming
to be state conventional Worcester yes
teraay, was not unexpected. The people of
the whole country have expected such action
since the democrats OF Maine so generally
voted for the only candidates in the field
who could nope 10 defeat radical nominees.
The democratic party ought to be convinced
by this time that the chief desire of the
people is to get rid Of the radical party, and
the radicals may as well understand that fact,
too. If Butler can do IN that matter what
better men cannot do, then the people viii
vote for hiEi- There are numerous Instances,
even IN sacred history, where the wicked
were used to confound the wicked. Whether
the regular democratic convention nominateS
4 candidate or not, Ii Is now settled beyond
question that the bulk of the democratic
votes Will 60 for Butter 1t is more than
likely that he viii be elected. Indeed, the
overturning in Maine gave the republican
party a shock it will not soon recover from,
and it VIII be most severely felt IL Aiassa-
chuSetts


As l have before SAL, one inevitable and
happy result of these things is to attract the
attention of radical leaders to affairs in their
own states, and to compel them to cease the
sectional agitation which has been their stock
III trade for the past ten Years. Butler once
seated in the state house, the ruling classes
of Massachusetts would have enough to think
OF 1T home without troubling themselves
about the rights of southern negroes, or the
fiction of southern claims.


Wells and Anderson, Of the New Orleans
custom house, propose to manage the reDub
hcan party of Louisiana, and make no secret
OF 1t. The eminent unlitness of these men
for responsible employment should have
caused their dismissal from federal position
long ago. Bat not having had any effect it
may he t at Mr.. Hayes Will put In force his
civil service rule, and let these traders in
politics share the fate OF Iilley, of Missouri
and the New York custom house officers
Anderson proposes to run for congress Per-
haps Secretary Sherman Will permit him to
hold his place IL the custom house, even if
elected to congress. He held his place in
the custom house and place in jail at the
same time Great is reform, and great IS
the party Of high mora! ideas


In this district, III August, the annual
death rate among the whites was about
twenty-one per Thousand per annum
Among the coiored people 1t was about sixty
per thousand This is about the usual dis
crepancy, the negroes dying nearly three
times as fast as the whites The difference
is greatest among children.


This city is now contributing Sl5G0 pei
day in cash to the yellow fever sufferers, be
sides sending provisions 4 great quantities
Since responsIble p.,.-ies rk -harae of IT,,
rcrnts, ana system
was introduced in all matters pertaining t
the sabject, a marked increase IS noted.
REX.
Year: 1878

PLAIN TALK To 4 GIgL-Your every
day toilet is part of your character. \
girl who looks like 81 fury or slOven IN
the morning is not to be trusted, however
finely she may look in the evening No
matter how humble your home may be,
there are eight things it should contain,
viz: mirror, wash stand, soap, towel,
comb, hair, nail and tooth brushes. These
are Just as essential as your breakfast, be
fore which y,u should make good and free
use of them. Parents who fail to provide
their children with such appliances not
only make great mistake but commit the
sin Of omission Look tidy in the NOM
ine, and after dinner work is oyerimprove
vour toilet. Make it a rule Of your every
dav life to .'dress up" in the afternoon
Your dress may or may not be anything
better than calico, but with ribbon or
flowers, or some bit of ornament, You can
have an air of self-respect and satisfaction
that invariably comes with beng well
dressed.